Zhou Xiuying has been following Li Xuanji to complete the entire worship ceremony, although she does not believe in religion, but more than 500 people in the women's camp are sincerely lined up to worship, she is also embarrassed to stand aside, thinking that one more foreign Bodhisattva will be blessed. It's strange to say, originally she couldn't understand the hymns and songs sung by the officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but after listening to it, her heart was quiet, and when Zuihou listened to everyone shouting together to kill all the demons, Zhou Xiuying's blood also surged, and she shouted together.

After the ceremony, the women's battalion had its own female guards to bring back, Zhou Xiuying and Li Xuanji and other female soldiers and guards of Xiwangniang stayed, and saw that Xiwang and his wife were surrounded by a group of foreign monks, Zhou Xiuying hurriedly said: "Sister Xuanji, those foreign monks won't do anything to Xiwang and Xiwangniang." ”

Li Xuanji smiled and said: "No, those missionaries are all messengers who came to negotiate peace, and the male soldiers have already searched before entering the camp, and they didn't bring any weapons, and they don't dare to do it with the skills of the king of the west and the mother of the king." ”

Zhou Xiuying sighed, only to see King Xi and Queen Xi standing together, one looking rude, the other beautiful as a fairy, and couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "King Xi is so ugly and not worthy of being so haode as Queen Xi." ”

Li Xuanji heard Zhou Xiuying's muttering, and smiled sideways: "Miss Zhou, what did you say?" ”

Zhou Xiuying realized that she was speechless, and hurriedly smiled: "I didn't say anything, I mean that King Xi and Queen Xi are really a natural pair." ”

Li Xuanji covered her mouth and smiled: "It's the first time I've heard someone say this, when I just voted for Taiping last year, when I saw Xiwang and Xiwangniang for the first time, I felt that from the appearance, Xiwang was rude and couldn't be worthy of Xiwangniang, but then I slowly got along, and I realized that I was wrong." ”

Zhou Xiuying was originally a little troubled by Xiao Yungui beating her with thirty military sticks in her heart. So when she saw Xiwang and Xiwangniang standing together, she couldn't help but be sarcastic, not wanting to be heard by Li Xuanji, but listening to Li Xuanji's words, she seemed to think that Xiwang was not worthy of the flower-like Xiwangniang, and later she said that she was wrong, and asked strangely at the moment: "Why did you see it wrong?" ”

Li Xuanji smiled slightly and said: "There are six princes in our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, except for the king of the south, who died early, among the other five princes, only the king of the west has not accepted other princes. Aren't there a few or a dozen princes among the other princes? Even the heroic and extraordinary Wing King has three princesses, only the West King is dedicated, and now he has attacked countless cities and plundered countless lands, and there is only one West Queen Niang by his side. ”

Zhou Xiuying sighed and said: "Many men in our village have concubines, not to mention the corrupt officials and powerful officials in the government. Qingpu County ordered that dog official to have five wives, and the king of the West was such a powerful person. There is only one lady in the West? It's a rarity. ”

Xiao Yungui if he heard the conversation between the two women. will definitely cry and laugh, it's not that my brother doesn't want to accept the princess, it's really the four-eyed sister who looks at it too closely.

Li Xuanji nodded and said: "Yes, the king of the west is still a little good, he can share weal and woe with the soldiers, and we are marching to fight now." The whole army is divided into male and female battalions, and even if they are originally husband and wife, they are also divided into male and female battalions to live. Originally, there were rules in heaven, and the prince could live with the princess. But the King of the West can be the same as everyone, even if he does not live with the Queen of the West in the city of Nanjing, the soldiers and generals in the West Palace admire the King of the West. ”

Zhou Xiuyingqi said: "Men's and women's separate camps? So how will you get married in the future? ”

Li Xuanji said with a smile: "King Xi and Queen Xi said, now we are still fighting, and when we have a stable territory, we will live a stable life again, and then we can get married. ”

Zhou Xiuying sighed, and Li Xuanji continued: "Don't look at the King of the West as rude, but he is well-informed, and every time he fights, he is the first to charge, as long as the whole army sees the banner of the King of the West in front, no one will lag behind, everyone must be brave to move forward, from Yuezhou to Nanjing, thousands of miles of journey, we only took less than two months of effort, do you say that the King of the West is not powerful?" Only people like King Xi are worthy of our beautiful Queen of the West, and her appearance is secondary. ”

The two girls muttered in a low voice, Xiao Yungui had already left first, ordered the troops and horses to prepare to leave the team, and Xi Wangniang finally calmed down those missionaries and followed Li Xuanji and Zhou Xiuying.

Zhou Xiuying saw that King Xi began to order troops, the horns of the men's battalion soldiers and horses and the banners of various armies were erected one after another, and her heart began to get excited. ”

Hong Yun'er shook her head and said: "We don't want the West King to go out, the Jinxiu Battalion and the Qingpu New Army stay in the camp to wait for the military order, if the West King can sweep the Qing Demon Camp in the south of the city today, we will pull out the camp to keep up." Miss Zhou, Xuanji, you arrange for the sisters to wash the clothes for the brothers in the male camp, and then prepare the water, if the war is tight later, make haode meals and let the Qingpu Righteous Army send someone to send them, prepare more wraps, knife wound medicine, and be prepared to take care of the seriously injured brothers, in short, everyone guards the camp and prepares to receive the king of the west. ”

Since Hu Damei and other female soldiers died in battle, Xiao Yungui rarely arranged for the female soldiers of the Jinxiu Battalion to go out to serve as combat missions, and the female battalion and female soldiers were all responsible for preparing water, pulp and laundry, taking care of the wounded, carrying grain and grass and other errands in the back. In Xiao Yungui's words, unless all the male soldiers are dead, it will be the turn of the women's battalion to go into battle. When attacking Wuchang, Nanjing and other places, the women's battalion was in the rear to keep boiling water and rice, sending water to the front line, and the male soldiers took turns to storm the bombed city wall, whenever the replaced male soldiers returned to the starting position, there was always a hot meal to eat, and the injured brothers were also immediately carried down for treatment, so that the Taiping army had maintained strong morale and physical strength when attacking the city, which were the merits of the women's battalion and the people's battalion.

Zhou Xiuying sighed, she still thought that she could go out to fight with this female soldier in the women's camp, but she didn't expect to do these things, and was about to open her mouth to ask for war, Hong Yun'er suddenly called out to Li Xuanji and said: "Xuanji, there is one more thing, I and the female soldiers and guards are going to take the foreigners to the north gate, and I bother you to clean up in the big tent of the King of the West, and if you have any clothes to help me wash them first." ”

Xiwang's clothes have always been washed by Xiwangniang for him, and sometimes Xiwangniang is really too busy to ask Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing to help, Li Xuanji has also done it a few times, and he responded immediately.

After Hong Yun'er finished explaining, Zhou Xiuying hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Queen Xi, can I follow King West out to kill the demon?" ”

Hong Yun'er smiled and said, "Miss Zhou." You have only been beaten with thirty military sticks, and your injuries have not healed, so you and Xuanji will stay, and later the military commander will also preach the military discipline of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Qingpu Righteous Army, and I will ask you to help you a lot. After saying that, Hong Yun'er took Zhou Xiuying's hand to show encouragement, and then left with the female guards.

When Zhou Xiuying saw Hong Yun'er leaving, she originally wanted to secretly follow Xiwang out of the team, but she was afraid that she would be beaten again after being discovered, so she had to follow Li Xuanji angrily to arrange for the sisters in the women's battalion to prepare meals.

The two girls were busy for half an hour, and finally arranged it. Li Xuanji turned around to go to the Xiwang tent to clean up, Zhou Xiuying and the other female soldiers in the women's camp were not very familiar, so she had to follow Li Xuanji to the Xiwang tent.

Entering the tent, after Li Xuanji cleaned up the bed, she put away the clothes on the bed and looked back at Zhou Xiuying and said with a smile: "Miss Zhou." Do you want to follow me to the river to do laundry? ”

Zhou Xiuying nodded, followed behind Li Xuanji and asked, "Sister Xuanji." When do you think our women's battalion will be able to go into battle to kill the enemy? ”

Li Xuanji smiled slightly and said, "King Xi said a word. Unless all the male soldiers died, he would never send female soldiers into battle again. ”

Zhou Xiuying sighed and said, "Could it be that I can only do dry laundry and cooking after menstruation?" ”

Li Xuanji comforted as he walked: "King Xi, this is for our good, if those pure demons who are not as good as pigs and dogs catch our female soldiers, the means used are a hundred times more despicable and vicious than the means of dealing with ordinary male soldiers, and the King of the West is protecting us." Besides, doing these jobs is also so that the army can fight with peace of mind. You'll be happy when you see the men come back from the battle and gobble up the food you've cooked. And those injured brothers also need someone to take care of, don't they? In addition to doing these. I also helped Xi Wang Niang to issue an announce, and helped my brothers write family letters, I don't have to go into battle to kill the enemy to be heroic, I think what I do is also very meaningful. ”

Looking at Li Xuanji's satisfied look, Zhou Xiuying exclaimed: "Sister Xuanji, you still know words, I'm stupid, I only know my own name." ”

Li Xuanji smiled slightly: "Why don't I teach you to write in my spare time, I heard that your martial arts are very good, originally Xi Wang Niang also taught me some martial arts, but she is very busy and has no time to teach us, or Miss Zhou, can you teach me martial arts?" ”

Zhou Xiuying hurriedly nodded in agreement, and the two women laughed and came to the river, there were already female soldiers from the women's battalion pulping laundry, most of them were pulping and washing for the male soldiers of the men's battalion.

Li Xuanji took out Xiwang's clothes, but found that the pants were sticky, and wondered what this was. An older female soldier on the side saw it, and said with a smile: "Sister Li, this is the dirt under the man, we have washed so many clothes, we have seen a lot." Then he explained it in detail.

Li Xuanji and Zhou Xiuying's faces were flushed with shame, Li Xuanji didn't know whether to wash it or not, the old female soldier smiled: "Sister Li, you are still a big girl, if it's inconvenient, let's wash it." ”

Li Xuanji bit her silver teeth and said, "It's okay, you can wash it, and I can wash it too." After that, she blushed and began to scrub, and Zhou Xiuying also took some clothes with a red face and began to wash the clothes with a mallet.

The female soldiers sang the mountain songs of Guangxi while washing, and the river was full of laughter and laughter for a while. While he was cleaning, in the reeds on the other side of the river, more than a dozen men with swords suddenly came out. The female soldiers were very alert, seeing that someone was about to cross the river, they hurriedly opened their throats to warn, dozens of female soldiers dropped their clothes, pulled out their waists with knives and stood together, Li Xuanji also pulled out the long knife on his waist and shouted: "zhanzhu! Who are you?! ”

The more than ten men were also startled when they saw the female soldiers on the other side pull out their long knives and stand in a row, they didn't seem to expect that these big-footed barbarians were still carrying blades when washing clothes, and the first man hurriedly said loudly: "You are the soldiers and horses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Don't get me wrong, we are the members of the Little Knife Society who escaped from the city, and I am Liu Lichuan, the chief helmsman of the Little Knife Society, and I want to meet the chief general of your heavenly kingdom. (To be continued.) )