After Yue Fei defeated Wang Shan, he ordered Wang Gui to lead a large army to clean up the battlefield, and he and Ji Qianhua rode like jade to respond to Tianfu. He wanted to rush back to congratulate Li Bashao on his birthday.

Yue Fei was grateful to Li Bashao from the bottom of his heart, not only because Li Bashao had always fully supported the Protector Army, but also because Li Bashao was a huge rich, but unlike other families, when he saw that the country was in trouble, he thought of taking refuge in the enemy country and betraying the country to seek glory.

If the families of the Emperor and Song Dynasty could be like Li Bashao, why would the Central Plains fall to this point.

On the way back to the city, I rode through one village after another. Except for the village near Yucheng that fled to Dazhai to protect itself in order to avoid Wang Shan's thieves, the village seemed a little quiet and desolate. The closer you get to Ying Tianfu, the more intoxicating the village scene becomes.

On the flat fields, the lush crops are growing well, and a good harvest is imminent. The village in the shade of the green poplars is filled with smoke, yellow dogs lie under the trees to cool off, naked children play under the trees at the head of the village, and old people sit on crutches and chat in front of their houses.

Yue Fei and his entourage had a total of forty or fifty fast horses. Running at the front was the big horse pouch Guo Jin, who held high the banner of the Protector Army. The banner hunted in the wind.

The banner of the Protector Army was designed by Yue Fei himself. He didn't draw dragons, tigers or anything on the banner, but drew a round of rising sun shining on the Great Wall, with four big characters written on it, "Return my rivers and mountains." ”

Yue Fei still remembers that when he wrote about returning my rivers and mountains, a deep sadness welled up in his heart for no reason. If he hadn't accepted Yue Xiaofei's memory, returning my rivers and mountains would only become a vain hope for the Song people. Even in the end, the whole world was occupied by more barbaric and ferocious barbarians, and the Chinese civilization directly returned to the slave era. When Huang Zong saw the military flag designed by Yue Fei, he didn't say anything else, just clasped his fists in his chest and said to Yue Fei very sincerely, "I, Huang Zong, am willing to be a pawn for Peng, recover Yanyun as soon as possible, and let the military flag of my Han people flutter on the Great Wall as soon as possible." ”

Li Bashao touched the rivers and mountains with his hands, burst into tears, and said to Yue Fei, "I hope I can see Pengju really finish writing these four big characters in my lifetime." ”

With the vigorous propaganda of Huang Zong and the village elders in various places, as well as the battles of the Protector Army in every corner of Yingtianfu for more than a month, the military flag of the Protector Army has long been remembered clearly by the adults and children of Yingtianfu.

This is also the reason why Yue Fei and his party couldn't cause a little panic when they passed through the village quickly. Because all the villages will send people with good eyes to build pergolas to watch the movement when they see fast horses from afar. When I saw the crescent moon on the banner and the four big characters of returning my rivers and mountains, I had already put my heart in my stomach.

The young man who was assigned to watch the fast horse would even say to the villager unhappily, "If you don't look at it, you know it's the Protector Army." There is a Yue Tuan training envoy in my Yingtian, and what thief dares to come to Yingtian to make trouble. ”

The villager touched his beard and nodded repeatedly, "It's me who is too careful." Yue Tuan training envoy is the god of heaven descending to earth, I should be the people of heaven for a hundred years, in order to obtain the protection of Yue Tuan training envoy. ”

Then he would stare at the young man who was speaking, and say, "You boys should be angry too." Strive to join the Protector Army as soon as possible. ”

The young man's eyes have been chasing the distant banner, and his eyes are full of envy and yearning. After the Protector Army was born in the sky, the local people no longer regarded soldiers as cheap jobs. The old slogan was that good men don't serve soldiers. Now the slogan is that a good man should be a soldier. Many young people are beginning to work hard and practice martial arts, preparing to join the Protector Army when it expands next time.

Although Yue Fei couldn't hear the villagers' conversations, he was proud of the scenery he saw along the way. When passing through a larger village, several seven or eight-year-old children stood on the side of the road holding large watermelons, shouting to Yue Fei and the others at the top of their voices, "Master Jun, eat some watermelons." ”

The villager who sent these children out was very attentive, and the reason why he let these children stand on the side of the road was because if the Protector Army had an emergency military situation, he would definitely not get off the horse and eat melons. And these little children won't stand in the way of the Protectors.

Of course, Yue Fei and the others didn't come down to eat melons. Just right away, he said to a few children, "Thank you, little officials." ”

Although the children were a little disappointed that Yue Fei didn't eat their watermelons, they were immediately excited when they heard Yue Fei call them petty officials. One by one, he showed off to the villagers, "The Protectors have called us petty officials." In the future, when we grow up, we will definitely become big officials. ”

After Yue Fei waved goodbye to these children, he said to Ji Qian with emotion, "Seeing these villages so peaceful, I realized that we have done something in the past month or so. ”

Before Ji Qian could speak, Hua Ruyu took over, "Now the villagers have long regarded Brother Yue as a god." If it weren't for Brother Yue's Protector Army, it is estimated that the entire Yingtianfu would have been in ruins long ago, just like our Mulan Village. ”

Mulan Village was burned to the ground by Amitabha Buddhism, and Hua Ruyu hated it. Now the villagers of Mulan Village are rebuilding Mulan Village on the original site, but before it is repaired, the villagers can only sleep in the wilderness.

If it weren't for Hua Ruyuhua Chaoxi's brother and sister who joined the Protector Army with hundreds of villagers from Mulan Village and subsidized the village with the military salary they earned, it is estimated that the villagers of Mulan Village would have become homeless people in starvation.

Therefore, in addition to liking to beat Ji Qian, Hua Ruyu is really grateful to the Protector Army, just like those villagers who are protected by the Protector Army.

Yue Fei didn't accept Hua Ruyu's compliment, he pointed to the soldiers behind him, and said with a smile, "Without you and Ji Qian, without these Protector Army soldiers, how many people can I, Yue Fei, save alone." If I am an immortal, then these soldiers are also heavenly soldiers. ”

Dozens of cavalry soldiers immediately burst into laughter, and one by one they posed as wrestlers on their horses, trying to perform the majesty of heavenly soldiers and generals. While babbling to Hua Ruyu, he said, "Sister-in-law Ji, our brothers are all singles." Can't you introduce us to a daughter-in-law?"

Hua Ruyu said grinningly, "Do you dare to ask for the daughter-in-law I am looking for?" If you dare to ask for it, I'll pick a few for you. Seeing that these soldiers stopped talking, Hua Ruyu took a sip and continued, "I didn't plant you when I saw you. In this case, when you return to the city, you will go to Hua Xiaoqi's ready-to-wear workshop to find it, and the girls there are all ingenious and skilled in embroidery. ”

Dozens of soldiers immediately cheered, praising Hua Ruyu's wise suggestion.

It turned out that Hua Xiaoqi did not return to Mulan Village, although she was not skilled in martial arts and did not join the People's Protector Army, but opened a ready-to-wear workshop with the support of Xu Qing. Hua Xiaoqi is ingenious, what kind of clothes she wants to wear, tell her, and she can make it.

After the opening of the garment workshop, the business was booming. Later, because she went to Li's house, Hua Xiaoqi somehow moved Li Xiao'e and asked Li Xiao'e to invest in her, and soon expanded the ready-to-wear workshop tenfold. Then he did the business to the Protector Army, and discussed with Yue Fei and Xu Qing to supply military uniforms for the Protector Army. In order to complete the task as soon as possible, Hua Xiaoqi recruited hundreds of ingenious girls in the city to work day and night.

As Hua Ruyu said, the girls in the ready-to-wear workshop are all ingenious, diligent and capable, and it is perfect to marry back as a daughter-in-law. These guys, who were still on horseback, had already begun to imagine how they would find time to go to the ready-to-wear workshop and talk to the girls they liked when they returned to the city.

When he was approaching Yingtian, Yue Fei found that there were more people rushing to Yingtian on the official road. There are merchants with picks, melon and fruit vendors with carts, but more are some old people who are full of energy. Some of these old men wore silk and some cloth, but no matter what they worn, they were very neat.

Yue Fei was looking at these old men, but he heard a familiar voice calling out to him, "Yue Tuan Lian, the little old man Wang Er is polite." ”

Yue Fei fixed his eyes and found that there was a villager Wang Er, who had a relationship with Amitabha Buddhism when he broke Amitabha, on the side of the road. Dressed in a patched but cleanly washed blue robe, he was smiling at himself on the side of the road.

Yue Fei hurriedly clenched his fists in return.

Wang Er asked cautiously, "Just now on the road, I heard that the Yue Tuan training envoy went to meet the thief Wang Shan a few days ago, why did he come back today?" ”

Yue Fei said lightly, "Wang Shan has been broken. I deliberately hurried back to congratulate Mr. Li on his birthday. ”

Wang Er's face suddenly turned happy, and he rushed to the dozen or so old men who stopped on the side of the road to look at Yue Fei and said, "This is Yue Tuan's training envoy." I've told everyone a long time ago that you don't have to worry about anything. As long as Yue Tuan Lian makes a horse, ten more Wang Shan will be finished. ”

A dozen other old men clasped their fists in salute. Yue Fei hurriedly jumped off the horse and saluted one by one. Yue Fei's move made more than a dozen old men dare not even say it. Wang Er said with a smile, "Yue Tuan Lian, these are the villagers of our neighboring villages, some of them you have seen, and some of them you have not seen. They didn't believe what I said before. I have to say that Yue Tuanlian is two feet four tall. I told them at the time that when Yue Tuan Lian was in the sky, he was two feet four tall, and now that he is in the sky, his height is the same as that of mortals. They didn't believe it. Now it's time for them to believe. ”

Yue Fei was so crying and laughing by Wang Er's words that he hurriedly said to the other villagers, "Ladies and gentlemen, don't listen to people's rumors. We, the Protectors, do not practice Amitabha Buddhism, and do not engage in personal superstition. I, Yue Fei, am the same person as you. One head and two hands. It's not a three-headed and six-armed thing, and it has nothing to do with the gods at all. ”

Some villagers agreed with Yue Fei's words. But there are also some villagers who think that Yue Fei just doesn't want to leak the heavenly secrets, so he humbs himself that he is not a god.

Yue Fei also knew that it would be difficult to reverse the superstitious thoughts of these people for a while, so he didn't say more, turned his face to Wang Er and asked, "You are also going to congratulate Boss Li on his birthday." ”

The villagers nodded their heads. Wang Er said loudly, "Master Li Ba is kind to us. He has a birthday, and of course we have to congratulate him. I hope that his old man will live a hundred years. ”

Yue Fei's heart warmed up. He knew that Li Bashao was squandering money, but he didn't expect Li Bashao to help so many people. On the way back, he saw at least a few hundred village elders like Wang Er who were rushing to Yingtian, and it seemed that they were all here to celebrate Li Bashao's birthday. Although the people in the countryside don't understand any big truths, they are simple, they know how to repay their kindness, and they never play any ungrateful flowers.

Even Ji Qian was moved by these villagers who came to congratulate Li Bashao on his birthday by traveling dozens of miles, and immediately sighed, "Be a man as Li Bashao." If I can be as rich as Li Lao, I will definitely do as well as Li Lao. In this way, after a hundred years, my Ji Qian's name will not be forgotten. ”

This time, Ji Qian's emotion was unprecedented, and it did not cause Hua Ruyu's rebuttal. Hua Ruyu nodded immediately, saying that she would work together with Ji Qian to become as rich as Li Bashao.

Yue Fei bowed his hand to Wang Er and the others, and said with a smile, "Fellow villagers, Ying Tianfu is right in front of you, let's go into the city together." ”