The path in the village is sparsely populated with people and horses, looking at the dress, a dark round-necked gown, a calf wrapped around the hemp shoes, wearing a cross-legged head. The leader rode a thin horse with a crooked neck, and more than a dozen trotters followed, dozens of kilometers of long-distance running, and when they arrived here, they were out of breath, so it seemed even more dusty. Wang Shouyi was distressed and cleaned up the broken tables and chairs in the shop, but looking at the one or two silver on the table, he turned his worries into joy, and the tables, chairs and benches added up to a few copper coins, and he made a fortune in vain.

But what really made it difficult for him was the more than 20 corpses neatly lined up outside, and the village chief said that there would be an official to come and examine the autopsy, so the corpses could only be temporarily placed at the door first, and then pulled into the mountains and buried alive when everything was in order. These beasts who have exterminated humanity to the point of even killing children are naturally not qualified to enter the cemetery in the village, and it is already a great kindness to be able to bury them in the wilderness to avoid violent corpses and invite hungry wolves to the village.

However, Wang Shouyi still felt unlucky, and he suffered such a blow as soon as the business started, could it be that he really had no chance with the God of Wealth, and he gave people the life of helping long-term workers all his life. Also, even the carpenter in the village said that he had a pimple in his elm head, and he couldn't read a few big characters, let alone the cashier's account, and it seemed that he wanted to marry Xiu'er earlier. I heard that Xiu'er not only did a good job of being a good girl, but also went to private school for a few years before she left the cabinet, and I don't know how the matchmaker said about it, and I was thinking about beautiful things, and on the dirt road in front, there was suddenly the sound of horses' hooves.

I thought it was another group of bandits and bandits, and I heard that the front line was losing and retreating, losing several cities in a row, and stragglers in groups were wandering in the rear. Dongzhao decreed, anyone who escaped from the battle and harassed the villagers was guilty of death, so these ghosts are more and more extinct of humanity, both horizontal and vertical, before death, burning, killing and looting a good Leyile, and it is not in vain to come to the world, because the surrounding three counties have been affected to varying degrees, and the most unfortunate is their small village in the suburbs. There are no guards in the town, and there are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the village, and if they encounter a team of more than a dozen people, they have no ability to resist, and now it has spread to Qingjun.

When this gang approached and saw their outfits, Wang Shouyi's heart was finally put down, the officials of Wumei County, who had not met them when the boat helpers went to the shore to purchase, felt that these guys were arrogant in collecting taxes from small merchants and hawkers on weekdays, but when they met at first sight in this situation, they felt a little cordial in their hearts. No matter how arrogant they are, they all live on the land of Qingjun, and there is always a bit of incense in the world, so they hurriedly brewed a large bowl of tea with five pots and put it on the desk to greet them.

"Several CEOs have worked hard along the way, so they sat down and drank tea to moisten their throats. Wang Shouyi put a towel on his shoulder, bent over and greeted with a smile on his face.

Seven or eight officials walked for half a day, and there was smoke in their throats early, and they didn't even have time to sit down to drink their two big bowls of tea first, and the leader then wiped his mouth and asked: "Mother, someone in your village went to the county to report, but let the brothers walk their legs carefully, what the man said was general, and the car and the words were repeated over and over again, you tell the brothers about it, what is going on." ”

Wang Shouyi had to talk about the matter again stupidly, in fact, he also knew a lot, Wu Muxin even instructed him not to make a noise before leaving, and the silver also had the meaning of hush money. Fortunately, those soldiers and bandits had tooth tags on their identities, and the officials turned them out and identified them, which was enough to determine the identities of these people.

The foreman looked at the tooth card and said to the brothers behind: "It is a small unit under Zuowei, which was broken up on the front line, and gathered together when he retreated to the rear, for fear of being caught by the government, he was doing murder and arson along the way. Fortunately, I met a master, otherwise these twenty or so people would really not be able to take it down with a few of us. ”

"By the way, where did the master of your mouth go? ”

Wang Shouyi casually pointed to the direction of the deep mountains and dense forests behind the village, and said: "How do I know, they are all immortals who can go to the sky and enter the earth, and when they raise their legs, they jump higher than the birds in the sky." At that time, I was frightened, and when I came back to my senses, except for a vague back, I didn't even see whether it was a man or a woman, but I remembered that it was roughly in this direction. ”

Seeing that the forest on the mountain is deep and dense, it is impossible for a few people to go inside to inspect it again, and ask for a few pots of tea to moisten their throats, so they ordered the village chief to rush to see the lively village, pull these corpses to be buried elsewhere, and then put them here, the smell alone is enough to make half of the village vomit and diarrhea, and said, the leader was ready to go home, but threw down a hanging copper coin.

Wang Shouyi weighed these coppers, more than ten coppers can only be considered an approximate, I don't know how much more, but it must be a lot more, so he hurriedly caught up and said: "Boss, these teas add up to only ten coppers, and you give too much money." ”

The foreman had already got on the horse, listened to his words, turned his head slowly, lazily glanced at the spring sun floating in the sloppy sunlight under the poplar tree at dusk, and said, "The one who sells tea, give it to you." The conscription ahead, Lao Tzu has already decided, and there are still ten days to go to the front line, this time, it is estimated that he will not be able to come back, and even the complete corpse capital may not be able to be kept. ”

But then he smiled and said: "Your tea is good, it's much better than the rice wine mixed with water sold by those pit traffickers on the street, if Lao Tzu is really glorious, don't forget to pour a pot on the side of the road during the Qingming Festival in the first two years, and also, Lao Tzu's name is Li Huchao, shout when you pour it, don't let other lonely souls and wild ghosts drink it, you know." ”

"Don't say it's troublesome, just pour two years, and wait for the third year, maybe Lao Tzu will be reincarnated early. ”

Looking at the new smile on Li Huchao's face, Wang Shouyi's nose was sour, he straightened up, and stood at the door of the shop and shouted loudly: "Boss, even if you go to the battlefield, you may definitely die, if you can come back alive, I will let you drink tea for free for a lifetime in this teahouse." ”

Li Huchao smiled, didn't speak, just waved the whip in his hand, the horse was in pain, snorted, and the official behind also wiped his mouth, and threw all the eldest sons in his pocket on the table, and at the end, one of the youngest patted Wang Shouyi's shoulder and said: " Hehe, look at your face is an honest person, I won't tell you, a few of us follow Brother Li, the next batch is all going to the front line, if you really can't come back, give us a cup when you are clear, don't say remember the name, just shout Li Huchao and his deflated calves. ”

Wang Shouyi raised his head, glanced at the young man who had just grown a beard, and said in a low voice: "It's already so difficult ahead? Even a doll like you has to go up." ”

A servant who had already followed shouted in front, "Tiedan, hurry up, if you can't go back before dark, you won't be able to grab dinner again." ”

"It's coming. Tie Dan waved his hand, quickly took a step, splashed a cloud of smoke, and turned back to Wang Shouyi and shouted: "You people, don't worry, as long as a few of us are still alive, the war will not burn our Qingjun border, remember, give me that cup of almost some foam, I can't get used to it." Then he smiled childishly, and hurried two steps to catch up with the front.

Looking at the long backs of a few of them on the dirt road, Wang Shouyi suddenly felt sad, perhaps, this was the last time he met them.

Su Qinghuang had nothing to do for many days, not to mention that Wu Muxin suddenly became busy, locking himself in an airtight room every day and not knowing what he was busy with, even the few remaining old people in the family like Li Yan all went out early and returned late together, as if the family belonged to him, and the head of the family was the biggest idler.

The order of the government office, after the injury healed, went to the barracks to report, saying that it was a barracks, rather a place to train recruits. Xu Xiao was caught in the Qingjun political army, in the previous life, this was an impossible situation, so he could almost rebel and become the king, but Xu Xiao and Lord Xu really did it.

The front is tight, the rear is naturally tight, Qingjun is not to the point of going to the countryside to catch strong men, but the conscription notices have been issued one after another, not to mention that the treatment is good, it is not bad. You can get one tael of silver a month, and if someone in the family is farming, you can be exempted from paying taxes on the acreage, and if you are unlucky enough to die in battle, your parents, wives and children can get a pension of twenty taels. Therefore, many people either have nowhere to spill their blood in their chests, or they really can't survive and want to go to the camp to eat, this month has really recruited a lot of recruits, all of whom are placed in the recruit camp, and the basic training is done first, and then the unified arrangements will be made in the future.

As for the quality of the soldiers, the good and the bad are uneven, and the treasure of the veteran is said to be lacking everywhere, so the temporary appointment to Su Qinghuang and the three of them is to be a school officer in the barracks, which sounds good, but in fact, there are more than 100 recruits under one person, an officer the size of a sesame mung bean. said that it would start with a simple one, and the three of them would train these hundreds or so well, and then there would be further arrangements. If you are lucky, you can set up in the barracks to be responsible for training recruits, and if you are unlucky, you may go directly to the front line with the general trend. Not to mention anything else, Wumei County alone has sent six waves to the front, and there are even more in other counties, but the front is still stretched. There are those who negotiate peace in the court, saying that if they continue to fight like this, the Zhao family's foundation for nearly a thousand years will really be destroyed, but the meaning of the dragon chair is always unpredictable, and the two factions in the DPRK and China are arguing endlessly. The generals with big swords said that these literati who pondered the pen every day were just in their hands, and they had to be the ones who were desperate with their heads on the battlefield, so no one could help anyone for a while, and the court spent most of the time discussing this matter every day, and they didn't see them fighting for ugliness.

However, the height of the temple is not something that Su Qinghuang should worry about at this time, and even the training of recruits in the past few days of recuperation is not too bothering, this thing has always been a car to the mountain, there must be a road, a mule is a horse, and you can know it by walking in the barracks. Don't care about the slippery billets on weekdays, he really carries dozens of pounds of weight on his back and crosses the country for ten kilometers, ensuring that he cries and calls his mother, but now he really has other plans.

"The first emperor of Xishu is very infatuated, which other emperor is not the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courts, even the son of today, who is called a not very good woman, there are still more than ten mothers in the harem, and this is already worth boasting about in the history books, not to mention the ancient emperor Lao'er. Su Qinghuang closed the book and said to Xiao Yun with a smile.

"Since ancient times, there is only one queen in the harem, and there are no other concubines, flipping through the history books of the four kingdoms, this is the only one that opens the world, so it is written down by people in thick ink and color, according to legend, the first emperor left a qin life Sauvignon Blanc during his lifetime, a flute for the long time, take the meaning of the world for a long time. ”

Xiao Cumin listened to the story, yearning for it, tilted her head and asked: "What is the origin of the queen, is it not the tigress that makes the emperor so afraid of concubines, you must know that men are cats who love to steal, and their promises are unreliable." ”

Su Qinghuang helplessly put his hand on his forehead, "Where did you see so many Taos, do you still want to read and listen to stories, if you want to say less, listen more." ”

Xiao Wei nodded, and Su Qinghuang continued: "The queen's background is also extraordinary, she is the only granddaughter of the old prime minister of the three dynasties, the pearl in her hand, she met at a young age, fell in love at first sight, and since then she has spent the ups and downs together, until she ascended the throne, she was directly canonized as the queen, and said that she would not accept concubines in this life, and this person did do it, no matter how many ministers wrote to let them choose concubines, thinking that the royal family was scattered, the emperor was not allowed." It's a pity that such infatuated people don't live long, just reign for 12 years and then drive the crane to the west, the new emperor succeeded to the throne, has been the queen mother of the woman invited out of the palace, with the hair practice, just depressed all day long, lovesick into a disease, but two years have been depressed and ended, before death there is a will, to be buried with the emperor together, there is no gold, silver, jewelry and jade with the funeral things, the only two things, is Sauvignon Blanc and long-term stay, later generations to be a model of infatuation in the world. Su Qinghuang closed the book and said lightly.

"So it's not easy to be Sauvignon Blanc, and it's even more difficult to keep a man and a woman together. Those who look at the people at a glance, a thought becomes lovesickness, and they want to stay together all their lives, and what they get in the end is just the autumn water looking through, the lovesickness is empty, and they can't stay together. ”

"It is blessed to be able to stay together for a lifetime, and there are a few people who do not get tired of seeing each other, most of them will always be tired of each other than fragrant, the more they love their appearance, the more they mourn their tolerance, so that they give birth to all kinds of greed, hatred and other thoughts, Buddhism calls it karma, Taoism says it is the demon of the heart. Su Qinghuang said eloquently.

"Actually, I prefer the Taoist saying, the heart demon is also the heart grinding, the law is in yin and yang, and in the number of techniques, eating and drinking modestly, living a regular life, not working in vain, so it can form with the gods, and end its days, live a hundred years is gone. Everything pays attention to going with the flow, such as the moon is cloudy and sunny, the sky is cold and summer, and the rotation is endless. ”

Speaking of this, Su Qinghuang shook his head slightly, chuckled and said to the two little girls who didn't understand well: "It's a bit too much, it was just to tell you two little girls a story, and it was pulled elsewhere, these things are really early for you, let's take it as a joke, don't tell it to others." ”

There was a cooing sound overhead, and Xiao Cumin hurriedly raised her head, it seemed that for her, the big truths that seemed to be understood just now were far less attractive than these fat pigeons in the sky, Su Qinghuang couldn't help but smile, went back to the house and took out the pigeon whistle, and came to the courtyard to blow hard, not to mention how loud the sound was, but it was enough for the dozens of people raised on the mountain behind the house to hear.

Xiao Yun listened to the sharp whistle, and quickly blocked her ears with her thumb, Xiao Yun was steady and regular, just looked up at the back mountain, without saying a word, and soon there were other cooing sounds, getting closer and closer. Then I looked at the flocks of white pigeons, scattered in turn in a small yard, walking around, but also touching each other, more than thirty pigeons, not to mention that they could cover the entire yard, in front of these three people alone, it was indeed like a ground of snow.

Xiao Cumin has been holding the two fattest ones in her arms and stroking constantly, this pigeon is not afraid of people, honestly lying in her arms, occasionally pecking twice the silk thread of the little girl's clothes, remembering that the young master said that the heavy snow covered the three-mile long street, even Xiao Yun yearns for it.

Occasionally, the southern country wants snow, mostly mixed with drizzle, and as soon as it falls to the ground, it is a piece of mud, and you can never see the whiteness of this place. Xiao Yun picked up a bunch of pigeons, Su Qinghuang reached out and took a few of them, gently removed the thin papyrus paper on the pigeon's calf, and then carefully spread it out, this kind of paper is light, the texture is too brittle and thin, one is not handled well, and it is easy to break.

"What's written on it?" Xiao Wei leaned over curiously, but was pressed on the shoulder by Xiao Yun, who has a steady temperament.

I saw Su Qinghuang take down six pieces of letter paper in a row, and returned to the house by himself, the door was closed, I don't know what he was doing, and when he pushed the door out again after a while, he had already tied the letter paper to the pigeon's calf again, and then threw a few fat pigeons into the sky again and took off. Looking at the six pigeons quickly scattered and flew away, Su Qinghuang grinned, seeing that Xiao Cun didn't know why, but he didn't ask again, since the young master didn't say it, there was always his reason, he was bored and fed the pigeons, and after he got tired of it, he released them one by one, watching them form a team and circle in mid-air, and finally flew to the pigeon cage on the back mountain.

"It has been verified that the Li family took advantage of the Bai family's transportation business to purchase large batches of medicinal materials at a low price, ready to send them to the front line, and has collected more than ten confessions from pharmaceutical dealers. ”

Then it was a regular fly-headed Xiaokai, "dormant standby, find out the time of departure of the medicinal materials, the dock." ”

"It has been verified that when the son fell into the river, there was a big boat in the heart of the river that stayed for a long time, the old style, it should be the Bai family passenger boat, and the Bai family was born as a water ghost, and there were many lives on his hands. ”

"It's okay, please investigate the confluence of the Li River to the Xiang River, and the many shipwrecks over the years are man-made or natural disasters. ”

Recently, the head of the Li family has had frequent contacts with Wang Lianying's son, but the two of them are too cautious. ”

The whereabouts of the two were summarized in detail and put into the Qingjun Mansion in an anonymous manner. ”

Su Qinghuang stretched her waist and looked at the little girl who was playing. A few strands of hair hung on the white cheeks of cumin, and the wind blew, like the flying willows in the south of the Yangtze River in March, and she was even more relaxed, muttering to herself: "Su Qinghuang, Su Qinghuang, since you are in front of the pearl and jade, then I can only borrow your legacy, and Mu Chun is behind." ”