Chapter 15: Winter Style

Secluded on the outskirts of Gaizhou City, an abandoned house revealed a firelight. The fat courtyard of the decadent wall is scattered with a few strong and fierce villains, who are outlaws at a glance.

There was a faint sound of broken footsteps in the distance, and several strong men immediately became vigilant. Draw an arrow from the quiver and place it on the soft bow. Da Zhao is very strict about the control of shooting weapons such as bows and arrows and firearms, and the people can only use bows and crossbows that do not exceed seven buckets, and once they are caught by the government, they will be punished for treason, and the control of bows and crossbows is still so, not to mention firearms.

"What people?! Hold it! The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and several figures were stopped at the gate of the walled courtyard with such a drink. A few clusters of glittering arrows were already aimed at their vital point.

"That's how you rat master treats guests?" The head of the man asked rhetorically, and the light of the fire shining through the courtyard reflected on the young face.

"It turned out to be Gongzi He, I was offended, please come inside." Several wicked men put away the crossbows, hugged their fists at He Shizhong to confess, and invited He Shizhong into the hospital.

Since no one has lived in it for a long time, the grass on the ground has grown up to the knees. The courtyard was very small, and He Shizhong walked to the hall after walking a few steps.

The big man sitting on the fire in the hall saw He Shizhong walk into the hall, and the big man got up to greet him, "He Gongzi! ”

This big man is Li Shu, the rat master said by a few evil men at the door, Li Shu is the leader of a gang of horse bandits in Liaodong.

"The people of the rat master are so capable, they almost scared me." He Shizhong smiled, "This is the hospitality of Lord Rat?!" ”

"Hahaha." Li Shu laughed and said, "In Gaizhou, Gongzi He is the master, and we rats are guests, how dare we take the lead." ”

"Lord Rat is a happy person, and I, He Shizhong, am also a happy person." He Shizhong said.

He Gongzi sat down and said. Li Shu asked people to bring a chair, and after He Shizhong sat down, Li Shu poured He Shizhong a glass of hot wine and handed it over. "He Gongzi has any orders, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Create unrest among the refugees in Pingshanbao, the more chaotic the better." He Shizhong grabbed the wine glass and gave the price code, "After the matter is completed, five strong bows of more than one stone, one hundred stones of grain, one hundred pieces of cloth, and three hundred taels of silver." ”

After the end of the First World War in Gaizhou, in order to strengthen the deployment of troops in the Gaizhou area, the He family transferred a large number of troops from other places to Gaizhou to strengthen the defense force of Gaizhou. He Shizhong was originally with his father He Shibao to defend Jinzhou, after the Gaizhou war, He Shibao sent He Shizhong a group of men and horses to aid Gaizhou, and He Shizhong stayed in Gaizhou after the Liao army retreated.

He Shizhong had long coveted the more than 6,000 acres of fertile land in Pingshan Fort, but when he asked He Fangxiong for the land of Pingshan Fort, he learned that He Tengxiao succeeded the thousand households of Pingshan Fort, and these fields naturally came under the jurisdiction of He Tengxiao. What's even more hateful is that He Tengxiao kicked his saber flying past him before leaving the General's Mansion, and He Shizhong was jealous and hateful of He Tengxiao.

He Tengxiao was first appointed as a thousand households in Pingshan Fort, although He Fangxiong, an officer below the general of the Liaodong Battalion, could decide for himself, but he still had to go through a formality, report to the Ministry of War, and wait for the Ministry of War to issue a document before he could be regarded as officially taking office. As long as the documents of the Ministry of War are handed down, the refugees and civil unrest in Pingshan Fort will be created, and the high-level of the He family will question He Tengxiao's ability to govern Pingshan Fort well, and the He family will order the candidates for the thousand households in Pingshan Fort. What He Shizhong has to do now is to buy the horse bandits, create civil chaos in Pingshan Fort, and add chaos to He Tengxiao.

"Refugees from Pingshan Fort?" Li Shu frowned, "The new Pingshan Fort Thousand Households is He Tengxiao?" ”

Li Shu was the gang of horse bandits who attacked He Tengxiao in the Land Temple when He Tengxiao fled south, and Li Shu wandered around Gaizhou all the year round and was very well informed about what was happening in Gaizhou.

"I'm not afraid of He Gongzi's jokes, a few days ago, we attacked a group of refugees in the Land Temple on the official road of the camp, and the leader of the rout at that time was He Tengxiao, and we lost more than a dozen brothers in He Tengxiao's hands." Speaking of the past, Li Shu poured a glass of stuffy wine, "These brothers are all brothers who have been born and died with us for several years, and they are all good brothers. ”

"I didn't expect that the rat master would already recognize He Tengxiao's house." He Shizhong said.

"He Tengxiao is not an idle person, we will not let our brother die in vain, He Gongzi, please go back." Li Shu still remembers everything that happened that day, and with the lessons of the past, Li Shu does not want to take this risk.

"Slow!" Seeing that Li Shu was about to send off the guests, He Shizhong drank all the wine in the cup, gritted his teeth, and said, "If you have revenge, how can it be done by the eldest husband if you don't take revenge?!" ”

He Shizhong untied his saber and threw it on the ground, and instructed a few followers to throw all the weapons they carried on the ground, "These are greeting gifts, after the deed is completed, ten strong bows, three hundred stone grain, three hundred steps, and eight hundred taels of silver." ”

He Shizhong is the son of He Shibao, and the weapons he wears are of course the most sophisticated weapons in Liaodong Town. These weapons are things they can't buy with money. Looking at the five or six strong bows on the ground, and seven or eight fine simple knives made of iron, He Shizhong more than doubled the price, and untied his saber as a gift.

"Gongzi He is waiting for our good news!" Li Shu happily took this matter over.

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The wind was bitterly cold, and although the snow had stopped in the afternoon, it was unusually dry and cold at night. He Tengxiao and Ling Feng returned to the fort after inspecting the situation in the refugee shed. In the past two days, the heavy snow has collapsed more than a dozen grass sheds, but fortunately, no one has been crushed to death, and only a dozen people have been injured.

The shacks of the refugees were all temporary shacks that had not been hastily built for a period of time, and the structure was very fragile, He Tengxiao was not relieved, worried that the same thing would happen again, so he took the soldiers of Pingshan Fort to inspect and strengthen the shacks of the refugees, and then moved back to the fort after patrolling around the refugee shed.

He Tengxiao walked on the snow, and Zhang Yuyang was waiting for He Tengxiao at the gate of Pingshan Fort after finishing his work. After Ling Feng sent He Tengxiao to the gate of the fort, he hurried back to the shacks of the refugees. With a small number of people and a large number of refugees, Pingshan Fort is too busy. Ling Feng knew that He Tengxiao was not worried about others being on duty, so he took the initiative to ask for night duty tonight, He Tengxiao looked at Ling Feng with red and swollen eyes and felt a little unbearable. In his memory, since he came to this time and space, Ling Feng had not slept a single peaceful sleep.

He Tengxiao wanted to open his mouth and say to Ling Feng that there was another person on duty tonight, and Ling Feng had already gone away. He Tengxiao shook his head helplessly.

"Having such an adjutant is really a blessing for the Lord of a Thousand Households." Zhang Yuyang's words are not a sycophant of He Tengxiao, this is what he said in his heart. In the past, I have seen a lot of intrigues between the chief officer and the adjutant, and Zhang Yuyang felt rare to see the relationship between He Tengxiao and Ling Feng so harmonious.

"The timber I asked for in Gaizhou the day before yesterday, and there was an echo from Gaizhou?" It was the middle of winter, and it was impossible for the refugees to spend the winter in simple shacks, otherwise it would be unknown how many people would freeze to death in a winter.

"Gaizhou has a reply." Zhang Yuyang replied, "However, the reply did not mention anything about the timber, but the cloth cover state promised to allocate 500 cotton cloths to protect the refugees from the cold." ”

"How did you divide five hundred pieces of cotton cloth and four or five thousand people?" He Tengxiao sighed, He Tengxiao took off all the clothes on the corpse of the Liao army to keep the refugees warm, and the refugees barely survived until now, "When will the cotton cloth arrive?" ”

"I'll be here tomorrow morning, and I'll be here with the bounty."

"With the cloth in Pingshan Fort's stockpile, we can make up 1,200 or 300 pieces of cloth, and all of these cloths will be sent out tomorrow, as for how to send them, you can make your own decisions." A gust of cold wind poured into He Tengxiao's chest, and He Tengxiao couldn't help but sneeze, "This god, I don't know how many people will freeze to death if it's a day late." ”

"It's already a miracle that only four people have frozen to death in the past two days." Zhang Yuyang said, "Three years ago, when it snowed heavily in Zhili, more than 50,000 refugees poured into Hejian Province, and more than 2,000 people froze to death overnight. The prefect of Hejian was also praised as a capable minister. The Lord of Qianhu took in more than 4,000 refugees in the bitter cold land outside the Saiwai, and only four of them froze to death in two nights......"

There is no shortage of generals in the world, but there are very few talents who can fight on the horse and settle the people on the horse. If a person like He Tengxiao meets the right time, it is not a thing in the pool. Zhang Yuyang was so cranky.

"It's all a living human life." He Tengxiao was surprised that the resettlement of refugees who froze to death of 2,000 people in one night was still called a capable minister, which was placed in another time and space, and it was not enough for government officials to catch them and shoot them a hundred times.

"In the afternoon a merchant approached me and said he could provide us with wood." Zhang Yuyang remembered that a businessman was looking for him in the afternoon.

"Then meet the merchant tomorrow." He Tengxiao said.

He Tengxiao returned to Qianhu Mansion after explaining the matter to Zhang Yuyang. When I arrived at Sennofu, I remembered that today was the deadline for registering those scholars with refugee registers. I went straight to the side room, and saw that there was a side room with the light on, and the door was not latched, so I gently pushed the door in.

The moment he pushed the door and entered the wing, He Tengxiao's nosebleed almost didn't spurt out. The day before yesterday, the scholar who was dressed as a man was only wearing obscene (clothes) and obscene (pants) and wiped his body with a wooden basin.

The woman's back was to He Tengxiao, and when He Tengxiao pushed the door, there was almost no sound, and the woman did not notice the existence of another person in the room.

The woman's slender and delicate figure is revealed (exposed) in the light, and her crow-like hair is poured on the back, which still can't hide the (thin) waist that can be held like a close. If you look down along the (waist), you will have a round (round) buttocks. Although I didn't see the straight face, this back, this figure is enough to hook (soul). He Tengxiao knew that there was a scholar who was dressed as a woman, and he was so busy in the past two days that he didn't have the heart to care about this matter. I didn't expect the scholar dressed as a man to be a beauty. In this era, it is rare to see a literate woman, and the Liao army entered the hinterland of eastern Liao, and there were not a few wealthy families who broke their families and destroyed their clans. This woman may be the (little) sister of a wealthy family who fled and was separated, right?

He Tengxiao was thinking about this woman's life experience and forgot to close the door. The cold wind poured into the room unscrupulously, and the woman felt that something was wrong. Looking at the door, I saw He Tengxiao looking at him in a daze.

The woman screamed loudly in fright, and in a panic, she picked up (wiped) the basin of water that wiped (body) and splashed it on He Tengxiao.

Before He Tengxiao came back to his senses, a basin of half-lukewarm water splashed his noodles. impartially, it happened to be splashed on He Tengxiao's face, and the front half of his clothes were wet (drenched) (drenched) ......