The sky and the earth are white, the wind is like a knife, blowing on the face and cutting painfully, and sometimes a gust of wind rises, rolling the snow on the ground high, and the head of the pocket blows in the face, just like the stormy waves on the sea.

The obedient officer sat on the horse-drawn sleigh, and Bellery and Bao Yiman wrapped him in the middle, and the sleigh was padded with tiger skin, wearing a fox fur, and holding the stove in his arms, but after walking in the snow for so long, the stove was no longer hot, and although the two maids were close to him, they still couldn't withstand the cold, and their little faces were white.

On the other sled, Li Rubai looked at the appearance of the obedient official, his face was full of apologies, they changed the sleigh in Huludao to Guangning City, that is, Liaodong Town, one of the important towns on the nine sides, the snow did not stop along the way, a team of hundreds of people, plus a lot of things brought by the obedient official, walked hard in the ice and snow.

Horses are not even as good as dogs in the snow, so the speed of horse-drawn sleds is actually not fast, and the good officials complained at first, but there was no post station, and then they didn't have the energy to complain, it was too cold. That Song Xiaole looked at the pride of the obedient official Jiangnan Gongzi, and couldn't help but defend his little uncle, saying that the post station is not nothing, but the salary and silver allocated by the imperial court every year are insufficient, and the maintenance is naturally insufficient.

The so-called son is not ugly, although Liaodong is a bitter cold place, Song Xiaole naturally has to distinguish, we Liaodong is also a good place, your uncle is lucky, and the time is not right.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, extravagance prevailed, such as Yanjing City in winter, the princes and uncles and high-ranking officials and dignitaries of various families, went out to have a warm sedan chair, before Zhang Juzheng Zhang Ge old that time, it was even more extravagant, twenty-four people carried the warm sedan chair warm like spring, but also planted with flowers that are not thanked at four o'clock, as the son of Li Chengliang, the actual king of Liaodong, Li Rubai and the prince What is the difference? Can't you afford it? No, Li Chengliang is also a famous general in the world, and he has very strict requirements for his children and subordinates, such as warm sedan chairs, all of which are not allowed to ride, so under the fame, there is no luck, from this point of view, Li Chengliang does have a hand.

For Song Xiaole's so-called silver allocated by the imperial court is not enough, the obedient officials are too cold to complain, lying down, Li Chengliang's family can afford to raise 3,000 girls, and the house is built continuously.

This was the current situation in the northwest at that time, and the Northwest Jiangmen was not a feudal town, but in fact it was equivalent to a feudal town.

"Fengzhang, it's all my carelessness." Li Rubai said loudly: "I will soon arrive in Guangning City, and I will make amends to you when the time comes, and I will have a few drinks with you." ”

Li Rubai's surname is quite bold, his strength is also large, and his vision is also good, which can be seen from the first time he saw the good official and immediately said that the governor of Dadu sent a few boxes of Dongzhu.

Among Li Chengliang's nine sons, the eldest Li Rusong is resolute and resolute, skilled in archers and horses, has the style of a father, is very good at military training, and has the style of a famous general in ancient times, but Li Rusong has a great problem, his eyes are above the top.

Li Rubai is good at drinking, fresh clothes and angry horses, and has been through several disasters because of drinking, but not only Li Chengliang likes this second son the most, but the generals under his command are also the most supportive, from the perspective of a good official, this guy is like Ling Hu Chong in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", a stinky problem, but people are very fresh, in a later sentence, it is like the big brother next door, it is that feeling, so among Li Chengliang's nine sons, Li Rubai has the position of the hereditary commander of the Li family, which is not unreasonable.

The obedient official opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a cold wind mixed with snow powder entered from his mouth and nose, so cold that he suddenly hit a spirit, and Song Xiaole on the sleigh next to him took a look, and laughed happily, in Liaodong, you should avoid the wind when speaking, this is common sense, if you walk away from the wind, you must turn your head or cover your face with your hands when you speak, but the obedient official does not understand, and suddenly suffers.

Li Rubai saw it, so he had to smile bitterly, "Fengzhang, don't speak, it's almost there, it's almost there." When the obedient official heard this, he shrank into Bao Yiman's arms, buried his face in the fox fur, and refused to look up again.

A group of hundreds of people walked in the wind and snow for a few more hours, and suddenly more than a dozen fast horses galloped towards them, the first of which was a young man, about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a fox fur hat on his head, a puff of nails on his body, a belt around his waist tightly, a very thin waist, a horse chopping knife on his back, and a straight spine in the cold wind, looking extremely strong.

"Second brother." The young man shouted all the way, and the jujube red horse under his crotch suddenly splashed to the front, and with the reins in both hands, he stopped next to Li Rubai's sleigh, and the jujube red horse neighed, shaking its huge head and snorting, and the white mist sprayed out of the nasal cavity like a sword, and it was strong and strong when he looked at it.

"Runan, how many times have you said that you still don't care about horsepower so much." Li Rubai couldn't help but glared at his younger brother Li Runan, the young Li Runan smiled, bent down and patted the head of the red horse under his crotch, and said indifferently: "It's okay, I'll just wipe it when I go back, and the men and horses outside our gate are ......."

"Okay, good, I know how you look." Li Rubai is really helpless about this younger brother, but Li Runan is the eldest of the nine brothers, and he is usually not willing to scold his younger brother too much. The obedient officer who was shrunk in Bao Yiman's arms looked at it, and said in his heart that this is obviously a young man who is in the rebellious period! All day long in front of others to show that you have grown up.

As he was talking, another fast horse came to him, and immediately a young man took the reins and shouted at Li Rubai: "Second brother." ”

"Fifth brother, let's talk about it, whoever follows the second brother first will lose the big girl ring in the room to the other party." Li Runan bared her snow-white teeth and smiled, Li Rumei said angrily: "Okay, good, Lao Jiu, you are amazing, you lost to you, I will let Xiang Liu'er go to your room when I turn around." ”

Li Rubai was a little embarrassed, turned his head to the obedient official and said, "Fengzhang, this is my fifth brother Li Rumei and ninth brother Li Runan." He introduced the two to the good official, and then turned his head and asked the two younger brothers to turn the horse's head, and then talk about it when they go back, Li Rumei and Li Runan were a little surprised, who is the guy who buried his face?

Although the two were curious, but the second brother spoke, the two were obedient, and together with their subordinates, a group of people went to Guangning City, the obedient official shrunk his neck, and watched coldly, and looked at Li Chengliang a few points, governing the family is like governing the army, and the military orders for the sons to be trained are like mountains, which is really not easy.

After about an hour, a group of people finally entered Guangning City, this Guangning City is also called Guangning Wei, is one of the nine important towns, but under the management of Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang for many years, Guangning City is already one of the largest cities in Liaodong, after everyone entered the city, the military camps and houses in the city are integrated, regardless of each other, and the north side of the whole city is Ning Yuanbo's mansion, which is connected with the roof, as the people of the time say, Li Mansion is like a city.

The avenue in the middle of the city is extremely wide, can accommodate sixteen horses in parallel, there is a stone memorial arch on the road, it is the imperial court built for Li Chengliang in the eighth year of Wanli, the book [the chief military officer of Liaodong and the prince Taibao Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang], not far from the stone memorial arch, it is the Li family, as the chief military officer of Liaodong, Li Chengliang built the entrance of the mansion with the military camp exercise field, enough to parade.

As soon as he entered the city, Li Rubai changed the warm sedan chair for the good official, and the children of the Li family were not allowed to sit in the warm sedan chair, but there was no reason to let the good official not do it, for the Li family, the good official was an unscrupulous guest, Li Rumei and Li Runan saw that the guest invited by their second brother was actually a young man with red lips and white teeth, and couldn't help but be surprised, but the Li family governed the family like the army, but it was not easy to speak at this time.

After the sedan chair stopped in the Li Mansion, Risa Sugatani and Okuzhen Nami ran over to open the curtain of the sedan chair for His Royal Highness, and the obedient official eased the warmth at this time, and when he got out of the sedan chair, he breathed in the cool air in the air, and suddenly felt two clear snots flowing out.

The obedient official took the handkerchief handed by Bei Horui and wiped his nose, and then said to Li Rubai apologetically: "Brother Rubai, you are smiling." Turning his head and looking at the warm sedan chairs in the back, this time he went to Liaodong Town with him, Yan Qingwei is the female secretary, that is, the female secretary, Yan Dazhang personally asked, since people are willing to suffer this hardship, the good official doesn't mind taking it, not to mention that Yan Qingwei and Li Rubai Li Rusong are senior brothers and sisters, all of whom are disciples of Xu Wenchang, in the words of this era, it can be called a good friend or a good family, and then, he also took Mao Lilan.

Originally, he took a few princesses of Fusang, which was going to Yanjing, and they should be separated at sea, but Mao Lilan stubbornly asked to follow him, which made the good officials very unhappy, you said that you are an ignorant princess, why don't you have a surname at all! As a result, Mao Lilan said that Kudo Shinichi-kun must have been buried in the sea! It's true that I'm the princess of the Maori family, but I also have the right to pursue happiness, and since Kudo Shinichi-kun is dead, please give me a chance to fall in love with His Highness!

The obedient official is a little embarrassed, and his posture is still very low, please give me a chance to fall in love with you! How sensational, not to mention that Mao Lilan is not like a Tokugawa turtle, this is a girl known as [the wild rose of the western country], in the words of the Ming Dynasty, it is a skilled bow horse, and it is not a burden, so I agreed to her.

Mao Lilan got down from the warm sedan chair, followed by the personal maid Aso Sanae, she combed the most typical Fusang princess's hairstyle, took broken steps behind the good official, bowed slightly to Li Rubai, did not speak, stood quietly, Li Rubai and the good official came all the way, naturally also knew the identity of this person, although it was said, but a princess of Fusang, but, one is the concubine of the good official, and the other is the princess of Fanbang, she is also a princess, and the etiquette should not be less, so I hurriedly returned to the half salute.

In the back is Yan Qingwei, dressed in a snow-white fox fur cloak, although Xiaoqian's legs are good, but the good official feels sorry for her, so he refuses to take her to a bitter cold place like Liaodong, so Miss Yan is not served, besides, Miss Yan's current identity is the female secretary of the good official.

Then there is Li Baoer, who is proficient in abacus, Li Baoer has also suffered a lot along the way, but in the end, he is young and has good recovery ability, but he is in good spirits, and his body is covered with a fiery red fox fur, which is like a fire burning, and his little face is very delicate.

Li Runan, who was following behind Li Rubai, couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: "Not old, there are many women......" Li Rubai heard it, turned his face and glared at him, then smiled and went over to ask the junior sister first, the road was hard, Yan Qingwei was very silent all the way, and at this time he gave a salute to the senior brother, but he didn't speak.

At this time, the Li family opened the middle door, and there was a middle-aged man with a short beard standing at the door, with a Chinese face, resolute eyes, wearing a fox fur hat and a round-necked jacket, and walked over slowly.

"Big brother." Li Rubai went up and saluted first, and then introduced: "Zheng Guofan, the governor of the Nanjing Five Armies. ”

This guy must be Li Rusong, a generation of famous generals! The obedient official pondered in his heart, and went up with a smile on his face, "Junior brother Zheng Guofan, I have seen Brother Rusong, my brother can call me the word, my word Fengzhang." ”

"Zheng Dudu and I hit it off at first sight and became brothers." Li Rubai explained.

Li Rusong's face was calm, and he said lightly: "Feng Zhang is coming from afar, if you miss the distance, please come inside." ”

Everyone walked inside together, and the obedient official pondered as he walked, no wonder they all said that Li Rusong was arrogant, and it was really so.

The Li family's house is huge, and a huge garden of hundreds of people was arranged for the obedient official and his party to settle down, and the obedient official took a bath first, which was refreshed, and at this time Li Rusong came in person and invited him to a banquet in the evening.

Li Chengliang was not at home at this time, according to Li Rusong, his father led the troops to the expedition a month ago, and presumably these two days should have triumphed.

The obedient official took Risa Sugatani and Okuzhen Nami to the banquet, and without detail, he stayed in Li's house for two days, and Li Chengliang's army returned.

Listening to the eldest son's preface and afterwords, Li Chengliang sat on the tiger skin chair and thought about it.

He attacked Gule Village this time and beheaded hundreds, it stands to reason that he is going to ask the imperial court to report a great victory, but at this time, Zheng Guofan came, he had to have one more mind, what does this Uncle Zheng Guo mean by choosing this time? Is it to investigate me privately?

"Rusong, you can tell me." Li Chengliang has always pursued both listening and listening, so let the eldest son talk about it, Li Rusong sorted out his words, and said: "Father ......"

Li Rusong has also had a little contact with the obedient officials in the past two days, and feels that Zheng Guofan has come to make friends, what is the situation of the imperial court now, and the discerning people know very well that the emperor is pro-government, but he can't get those old foxes in the cabinet, so it is the primary task to win over the local civil and military.

Li Chengliang listened to his son's words, thought about it again, and smiled, the imperial court is not without secret agents in Liaodong Town, and there are many people who have participated in me over the years, but as long as there are threats from various tribes in Liaodong, then I can't leave my Li family, and immediately said: "You go, just say that your father will invite him to a banquet in the evening." ”

In the evening, when the obedient official walked into the courtyard with Risa Sugatani and Okuzhen Nami, he was greeted by a tall young man with a Shenzi-shaped face, thin eyes and thin lips, and a huge nose. ”

The obedient official was stunned, it shouldn't be an outsider who can walk around the Li family's house, but he has seen the Li family brothers in the past two days, but he hasn't seen this one!

The young man obviously saw the doubts of the good official, bent down slightly and smiled and said, "In Xia Nuer Hachi, please say hello to the governor of the capital." ”

Lying trough mud Male Gobi, wild boar skin?

The obedient officer subconsciously touched the hilt of the sword on his waist.

(To be continued)