After the defeat of the Jin army on the first day, the siege of Zaoyang had essentially been relieved by the Song army, which opened the west gate and south gate of Zaoyang County, and transferred a large amount of grain and straw hoarded in Qifang Town to Zaoyang County, which greatly alleviated the difficulties of the defenders of Zaoyang County and the people in the city.

And the head coach of the Jin Army, Wanyan Sai, did not go through this defeat, knowing that Zaoyang County was hopeless for him to break through in a short period of time, and now the morale of the Song army was like a rainbow, and the morale of his army was low after the new defeat, and after more than half a year of campaigning, the generals under his command were also exhausted, so they hung their cards high and refused to fight for many days.

And Meng Zongzheng has led the army to attack the Jin army camp many times in the past few days, but he also failed to break through the Jin army camp because Wanyan Match was not well defended, so the two sides temporarily formed a state of confrontation in Zaoyang.

Seeing that the days were getting colder day by day, the army also needed to replenish supplies again, Gao Huaiyuan could only go back to his old job, take his baggage battalion, bid farewell to Meng Zongzheng and others, and return to Xiangyang to transfer various wintering materials used in the army.

This time, because the Song and Jin armies confronted each other in Zaoyang, and after the Jin army suffered defeats, they gathered back the scattered Youyi army, so it was easy to go along the way, and nothing happened, Gao Huaiyuan easily arrived in Xiangyang City with this group of township troops.

The news of the battle of Zaoyang has been transmitted to the Xiangyang camp by the fast horses in the army, for this victory in Qifang Town, it is a shock to the morale of the army, and the people of Xiangyang are even more cheerful, at least Xiangyang will not be disturbed by the Jin army for a short time.

As for Meng Zongzheng, who commanded well in this battle, the imperial court naturally expressed something, and immediately promoted Meng Zongzheng to Zaoyang military envoy, and the other generals had their own rewards, but what puzzled Gao Huaiyuan was that this time, as the first general of the first battle of Qifang Town, he did not receive any awards, which made him really depressed.

But he didn't have a place to complain about this matter, anyway, he didn't seek promotion now, and it was enough to achieve the purpose of the training, so he didn't care about this matter, but the villagers who were in the heavy battalion under him were not happy, in their opinion, Gao Huaiyuan's battle could be said to be a great achievement, but he didn't get any awards, it was really unreasonable, so he muttered in private, very unhappy.

Fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan did not get the award, these people, including Huang Yan and others, have received some rewards to varying degrees, so that these talents are somewhat psychologically balanced, and they secretly want to follow Gao and work far, and they can really get benefits! At least when they returned home after this battle, the reward alone was enough for them to buy a few acres of land to survive.

As for this matter, Gao Huaiyuan didn't care, and he didn't go to the depths, anyway, if he didn't reward it, he didn't care, during the period of resting and shipping materials in Xiangyang, he unexpectedly received a letter from Xue Yan, an old house in Daye County, and also received a car of things from Crouching Tiger Village, and even received a handwritten letter from Gao Jian, the father of ShaoxingThis time, after Gao Huaiyuan led the team back, they immediately came to the door.

Gao Huanyuan was a little overjoyed, and arranged for them to wait for a while, so he couldn't wait to take out Xue Yan's letter to watch it first, he was still a little worried about Crouching Tiger Village and Daye's old mansion after being away from home for so long!

Although Xue Yan was a rough man and couldn't read a few big characters, he was very smart, so he found Zhou Yi, who was in charge of the accounts, and asked him to write and inform Gao Huaiyuan of the situation at home.

Gao Huaiyuan learned from the letter that this year's fields on the old house had a bumper harvest this year, and he had collected all the tenant rents in accordance with Gao Huaiyuan's original instructions and stored them in the granary of Crouching Tiger Village.

As for the money sent to Shaoxing, it was not less, and with the increase in food prices, he paid a few more percent more to the Gao family in Shaoxing, please Gao Huaiyuan don't have to worry about the old house, and then there is Xue Yanxin who informed Gao Huaiyuan that he left home without permission to take his hometown to help the war, and the old man Gao Jian has already learned that he sent someone to the old house to inquire about this matter, and was sent away by him, so that Gao Huaiyuan can find a way to deal with this matter.

And Zhou Yi, who wrote the pen, also made a brief report on the affairs of Crouching Tiger Village, judging from the situation he described, under the care of him and Jiang Peng and others, the affairs of Crouching Tiger Village went very smoothly, and even Huang Zhen, who was a little uneasy about Gao Huaiyuan, was also very conscientious and conscientious, without any mistakes, and did not do anything in the accounts! Liulifang and soap workshop are very prosperous, especially the soap workshop, with Jiang Peng's efforts, the output has doubled continuously, and in the expanded backyard, a few cauldrons have been added in a row, making a lot of money, even so, the Wang family still urged the goods again and again, a little unable to keep up with sales.

As for the teenagers who stayed in Crouching Tiger Village, they were also more obedient, and they trained and worked every day step by step, even if some people were not very obedient, under the lessons of a few of the earliest teenagers, they were all honest, and the mountain road leading to the mountain was also gradually advancing, and it should be possible to open up the whole line after the year.

It's that Sister Liu'er is in a bad mood during this time, secretly crying all day long, missing Gao Huaiyuan very much, and worrying about Gao Huaiyuan's safety.

After reading these, Gao Huaiyuan remembered that since he left home in May, it has been more than half a year now, and it is now more than half a year, and it is about to be the New Year again.

After putting away the letter, Gao Huaiyuan opened the letter from his father Gao Jian again, before reading this letter, he was really a little uneasy, after all, Gao Jian was his father, and he did such a big thing, and he didn't even say hello to him, which was really a bit unreasonable.

After unfolding the letter, Gao Jian's beautiful thin gold words jumped in his eyes, Gao Huaiyuan looked down, Gao Jian first reprimanded him in the letter, scolding him for not knowing the severity, such a big thing actually made the decision without authorization, but in the back, he became a lot warmer, and repeatedly told him, don't be brave for a while, pay attention to your body, take care of yourself, etc., by the way, he also told Gao Huaiyuan that he would be with Liu Zhixian and the county lieutenant Wang in this matter, they actually dared to let Gao Huaiyuan travel on the top cylinder, Say anything, you have to give these two a dismount!

There is also Gao Jian ordered Gao Huaiyuan to find a way to end the matter at hand as soon as possible, find an opportunity to hurry back to Daye's old mansion, and stay at home with An Ansheng, don't have any more trouble! On the old mansion, he will not arrange for someone to replace Gao Huaiyuan in the past, even if it is a place where Gao Huaiyuan will live in peace in the future! And he has already privately ordered some people in the army to take care of Gao Huaiyuan Yunyun.

Gao Huaiyuan felt a little happy, but also a little ridiculous, happy that now he can experience a trace of warmth from Gao Jian's letter, at least feel Gao Jian's care for him, and finally look like a father!

And the irony is that this time he came out, not because he was used as a gunman by Liu Zhixian, but because he was willing to do something, as for that Wang County Lieutenant, it was indeed a bit unauthentic, but it also happened to give him more opportunities to exercise, in fact, Gao Huaiyuan was not angry, but now it's good, Dad is angry on these two people, this time I'm afraid Gao Jian will find a way to make a big embarrassment for Liu Zhixian or Wang County!

After reading the letter, Gao Huaiyuan thought for a while, ordered someone to take a pen and paper, and personally replied to Gao Jian with a letter, in which he asked Gao Jian to rest assured that everything was fine in Xiangyang, and he would take care of himself, please don't worry about it, and persuade him to be a court official, this matter is no wonder Liu Zhixian and others, please don't have to go to them for trouble, as for the matter of going home, I'm afraid I can't make the trip in a short time, but I will be careful, and the letter also has to ask Gao Jian to pay attention to his body.

After writing, Gao Huaiyuan looked at his handwriting, and then compared it with Gao Jian's handwriting, he was immediately very depressed, speaking of which he has also come to this world for a long time, everything has grown, that is, there is no growth in this calligraphy, after a few pieces of letter paper are written, there are ink pigs everywhere, black and ugly, how to look at how ugly, let Gao Huaiyuan be embarrassed, and his heart said that he seems to be in calligraphy, he really has no talent, if he writes pen words, it is estimated that the situation is much better, so he has no choice, I took out a homemade quill and copied it again, which made the letter look much better, at least much cleaner and tidy.

After passing the servant from Shaoxing, Gao Huaiyuan rewarded him with two pieces of money, asked him to collect the letter, leave Xiangyang quickly, and rush back to Shaoxing.

Then he called over the teenagers who were making love with Huang Yan and others, and asked them to unload the cart of things, and saw that there were more than 50 sets of brand-new winter clothes neatly stacked inside, and his heart suddenly felt a little angry, and more than 50 people were brought out from Crouching Tiger Village this time, and in half a year, nearly half of them were killed in battle, which made him think of things and people, and remembered those dead subordinates.

After seeing these winter clothes, Huang Yan, Zhou Hao, Zhou Jun, Fei Wenlong and others immediately put away their smiling faces and fell silent.

"Young Master! These clothes were all made by Sister Liu Er and the sisters in the Zhuangzi, and she specially instructed the little ones to send them over quickly, so that the young master and the brothers could not be frozen! This set is a set of cotton clothes sewn by Sister Liu Er herself for the young master, Sister Liu Er repeatedly told the young master to take care of his body, and said...... Also said...... If only the young master had ...... If anything, she will never live alone in the world! A young man took out a set of cotton clothes placed separately from the car, walked up to Gao Huaiyuan, handed it to Gao Huaiyuan, and whispered to Gao Huaiyuan what Liu Er had entrusted him to bring.

Gao Huaiyuan took this set of cotton clothes, rubbed the soft fabric, felt the comfortable feeling from his fingertips, and couldn't help but appear in front of his eyes Liu Er's pretty face, and the scene of Liu Er sitting alone under the lamp, sewing cotton clothes for himself with a needle and thread, in this world, if you say who is the closest person to him, then Liu Er is this person!

The teenagers who rushed over from Crouching Tiger Village to deliver the goods saw that Huang Yan and the others had bad faces, so they asked them in a low voice: "They were all fine just now, why are everyone suddenly unhappy?" ”

There are young people with rich feelings, looking at these winter clothes, their hearts are uncomfortable, they turned around and wiped their tears, and couldn't help choking and crying.

"What's wrong?" The new boy didn't understand, so he asked.

"Don't ask! Now we don't need so many winter clothes, and there are many brothers among us, and they are no more! Huang Yan endured it and whispered to the young people who had just arrived.

"Ah......?" Several people were stunned!

So after asking clearly, several teenagers also shed tears, they are a group of people who get along day and night, and suddenly, they will never see those brothers who died in battle, and anyone will be sad.

After Gao Huaiyuan stood silently for a while, he said to them: "Put away your tears, the big husband doesn't flick his tears, come out to fight, anything can happen, a good man died in front of the battle, this is their glory, you are crying and crying like this, how will you lead the troops in the future?" Stand up straight! ”

After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's reprimand, everyone instinctively put away their sorrows, and immediately stood up and straightened their waists.

Gao Huaiyuan asked everyone to receive two sets of winter clothes each, and then checked the rest of the things, and saw that the car was also loaded with some preserved meat, medicine powder and other things, thinking very thoughtfully, this time everyone can satisfy their hunger, and also replenish their medicines, what is lacking in the army is this thing, in a huge baggage camp, there is not even a person who knows medical skills, this is also a problem, it seems that it will be solved in the future!

When the goods were unloaded, Gao Huaiyuan found that there was a hidden compartment under the car, a teenager jumped into the car, and after prying open the hidden compartment, a box was revealed, which neatly stacked fifteen Zhuangzi Zhou Botong's newly made Liuyun scimitar, as well as more than 20 short daggers with sheaths, all of which were personally built by Zhou Botong and Lu Laoshi, and sent them to Gao Huaiyuan for personal self-defense weapons.

Gao Huaiyuan was naturally overjoyed, took out a Liuyun scimitar, looked at it carefully, and found that these newly cast scimitars were more exquisite in workmanship, although the decoration was still as simple as in the past, but the blade was built more meticulously, indicating that after this period of time, Zhou Botong and Lu Laoshi had also thoroughly mastered such knife casting techniques, and their skills were much more proficient.

It just so happens that now he also needs these things, at least he can do it to his own teenagers, this is a sharp weapon to kill people and save their lives when they are in close combat, as for those daggers, they are not small, at least there is an extra layer of protection, they are all good things.

So Gao Huaiyuan immediately distributed these guys, and this time it was a one-of-a-kind hand, which made them all happy, and diluted the sad atmosphere that just remembered the brothers who died in battle.

"After you go back, tell Liu Er and Zhou Yi that they should properly handle the affairs in Zhuangzi, and if there is any trouble, you can ask Xing Zhutou and them for help, as for the news of some brothers here who died in battle, don't tell them anymore, they are worried.

As for Liu'er, you can tell her, I will be careful, please rest assured, just take care of the affairs of the house for me! If you're okay, you can go back! We still have things to do, so we won't send you away! After Gao Huaiyuan accepted these things, he instructed these teenagers.

When these people heard this, they immediately knelt down with a hula, and a young man named Lu Fang at the head came forward and said, "Young master! Please don't drive us back, when we came this time, the little ones didn't plan to go back to Crouching Tiger Village, the little ones are not stupid, although they are not as good as the brothers who came before, but they are not too bad, I implore the young master to leave me here, we are willing to follow the young master to the battlefield together! ”

Gao Huaiyuan paused for a moment, he didn't expect that his subordinates were really a little bloody, it seems that he didn't educate them in vain during this time, they are really a little bloody!

"You've all seen it, it's not a joke to go into battle, and if you don't get it right, you'll lose your life, aren't you really afraid?" Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but remind them that a few of them had arrived.

"The little ones are not afraid! I hope the young master will stay with us! Lu Fang looked up and replied, his eyes flashing with eagerness.

Gao Huaiyuan was really a little embarrassed, glanced at them, and finally fixed his gaze on the youngest boy, and sighed: "In this case, it's okay for you to stay, but someone always has to go back to deliver the letter, so you can run!" ”

The youngest boy's face collapsed suddenly, although he was full of reluctance, but he didn't dare not agree, so he accepted Gao Huaiyuan's order with a sad face, and the other teenagers immediately showed joy and thanked Gao Huaiyuan repeatedly.

After Gao Huaiyuan wrote another letter, he handed it to the young man, gave him some entanglement, and asked him to return to Daye County as soon as possible, and hand it over to Liu Er and others.

Then Gao Huaiyuan was busy again, and after a few days in Xiangyang Mansion, he loaded a large number of supplies and transported them in the direction of Zaoyang again, this time he thought to himself, should he not meet Jin Bing again! If he does, he's really lucky!

On the way, Gao Huaiyuan also learned from the mouths of the new teenagers that this time they came over the road was not very peaceful, encountered several robbers, and encountered a few routs to obstruct them, trying to rob them of the car, but in the end they were all beaten away, and finally safely transported the carload to Xiangyang, after arriving in Xiangyang, they were almost forced to take these things by the army, and then they took out the road strip issued by Liu Zhixian County, Daye County, and bribed the military school, so that they could be regarded as keeping things. As soon as there is a war in this world, there will be a lot of chaos!

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan was reviewing the list of goods escorted with the car, and was quickly attracted by several of them......

(Monday is here again!) Brothers, support a few red tickets! Otherwise, it won't look good on the face! Hehe! How about giving the cold wind some power? ）