In a show pavilion under the lantern, the baby on the small bed was sleeping soundly, and Huang Wen, who had just returned to the room, gently pulled her little finger out of the child's mouth, and said softly: "Biting your fingers, I'm afraid that the little girl's teeth will be crooked, and she won't be able to marry when she grows up." Zhou Hou snorted in a low voice: "My sister is such a virtuous person, that person is so ruthless that he will leave your mother and daughter in this dangerous place." ”

After Wu Yingying attacked Hexi, he originally had the opportunity to take Huang Wen and others to Hexi, but he was worried that the dependents of the sergeants were all in Lanzhou, and there were no less than thousands of people, so if Huang Wen's mother and daughter were taken away, what would happen to the dependents of Xin Gu, Yu Furen, and other officers? If the dependents of the officers were taken to Hexi, what would happen to the dependents of the grassroots sergeants? At the critical time when the Uighur soldiers were assimilated into the system, once the sergeants became resentful, they were afraid that they would not wait for the enemy to fight, and their own military spirit would be dispersed. And escorting thousands of sergeants and their dependents to the west, it is necessary to have nearly 10,000 troops, and the land of the four battles in Hexi, and for a while there are not so many soldiers and horses to come back to help, so they have to make a decision, attack Lingzhou, and negotiate peace with the Song State. These ins and outs, Wu Yingying explained in detail to Xiao Jiu, who stayed in Lanzhou, in the military letter, and Xiao Jiu also reported to Huang Wen in the house.

"Let my sister also stay in Lanzhou, and my sister will not compensate my sister on behalf of her husband here. Huang Wen smiled lightly, and did not help Wu Yingying defend anything, but it was difficult for Zhou Hou to continue talking for a while. Since the Song army besieged the city and the two armies fought, more and more wounded sergeants and strong men were killed, and Huang Wen vacated most of the commanding envoy's rooms to accept the wounded soldiers, so that she and Zhou Hou could only squeeze into one room. Not only that, but with the respect of the master's mother, she personally led many officers, officers, dependents, and women in the city to wrap up these wounds and change dressings, and asked for various medicinal materials from the craftsman battalion. Injuries that groaned in pain because of lack of medical care would grit their teeth and endure it as she walked by. The situation that was originally panicked because of the siege of the city by the army has become orderly because of the existence of this "master mother". This situation made Xiao Jiu, who stayed in Lanzhou, have a delusion, as if it was not himself but his wife who stayed in Lanzhou, and she often reported on the situation of the military and civilians inside and outside.

Even after the previous high-minded week, these days, I feel more and more that Huang Wen has a temperament that makes people feel friendly and dare not violate, "Perhaps, this is the reason why the whole of Lanzhou is willing to follow her and stay here." Zhou Hou used to be a proud woman, but now she feels a little ashamed.

Compared with Lanzhou, which has been attacked and killed, the outside of Lingzhou is much more peaceful. Under the atmosphere of peace talks, whether it was the Song army sparsely on the city wall or the Han army under the city wall that went out to exercise every day, there seemed to be no intention of fighting. Every day, I heard the golden drums practiced in the Han military camp, which was when the Song army changed the guard, "Don't look at the barbarians in Hedong, the ranks are quite neat!" The bored Hujie soldiers on the city wall watched the Han army go out and joked with each other.

"You don't understand this, how much money is paid, how much effort is paid, their military salary is twice as much as ours, and there are dozens of households waiting below, waiting for the surnamed Wu to sit in the Dragon Court, and the bottom is a chicken and dog ascending to heaven. He Ping, the commander of the Hujie Army, said while lazily wiping the crossbow machine, looking at the city with envy.

The soldier who spoke at first was named Su Ling, and when he heard this, he couldn't help asking: "Lao He, I heard that Lord Dong went to the table to promote the person surnamed Wu to be the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, if we are also under his command, the treatment should at least be on an equal footing with those Hedong barbarians under the city." ”

He Ping thought seriously for a while, shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, the first to come, if you want half of them, I will be content with Luo." ”

Although the reserves in the city of Lingzhou are quite sufficient, but there is always a lack of materials, Lin Zhong proposed to Dong Zunzhi, asking the Han army to allow the Song army to send 300 people out of the city every day during the peace talks, to purchase chickens, ducks, vegetables, fruits, medicinal materials and other materials from nearby villages, Wu Yingying willingly let them go, and the number of Song troops out of the city to 500 people per day took the initiative to expand. Not only did the Song army in the city not want to fight to the death with the Han army, but many of the families of the soldiers in the Han army were also in Lanzhou, hoping that the two families could negotiate peace, so the Song army and the Han army, who took turns to go out of the city, also had a lot of dealings with each other, and understood some of their respective situations. As a result, the Longwei Army, the Hujie Army, and the Tongyuan Army, which were genuinely forbidden soldiers, were envious of the treatment of the Han army under Wu Yingying.

According to Wu Yingying's instructions, the Han army began to check the household registration in various villages, and methodically carried out the preliminary preparations for organizing the loose Han people outside the city into shade households.

A ride on the red dust shattered the tranquility of the early morning, and the tacit peace inside and outside Lingzhou City was broken by the express post coming from Bianliang. At the suggestion of Lin Zhong, the judge of the Tongyuan Army, Dong Zunzhi asked Wu Yingying to meet at the south gate of Liangzhou, but he did not directly hand over the will of the official family to enter the court, but in front of thousands of soldiers on both sides, he announced in public, so that Wu Yingxing's army knew that the safety of the soldiers and their families in Lanzhou City depended on whether Wu Yingying was ordered to enter the court.

Back in the camp, all the generals were silent.

After a while, Chase broke the silence and said: "The land of thousands of miles west of the river, the emperor's foundation, the new army, the tribe rebellion, the adults should not leave lightly." The jealousy of the court is obvious, and going to Bianliang is like sacrificing one's life to feed a tiger, and adults think twice. "Although he is single, he is not too clear about the intention of preventing Wu Yingying from entering the court, considering that all the generals are in Lanzhou City. After finishing speaking, he still took a look at the faces of Yu Furen and Xin Gu next to him.

Yu Furen saw Chase looking at him, his face became more and more ugly, and he said with difficulty: "The intention of the Bianliang Imperial Court to cut the feudal domain is the heart of Sima Zhao, and everyone knows it, and he is willing to take out the title of Shuo Fang Jiedu Envoy to solicit it, his intentions are very sinister, and the safety of my lord is tied to the life and death of tens of thousands ......of my soldiers. The image of the virtuous wife and young son came to mind uncontrollably, and although Yu Fu Renliang tried his best to suppress the emotions in his heart, it was difficult to continue the persuasive words.

The generals saw that Yu Renliang and Chase, who were very high-ranking people, took the lead in expressing their positions, and also spoke out against Wu Yingying's edict to enter the court, but senior officers like Shi Gongda, Pu Hangu and other senior officers whose families were in Lanzhou were somewhat insincere, and there was a sense of frustration in their words.

"General Xin, what do you think?" Wu Yingying took the initiative to ask when he saw Xin Gu sitting aside without saying a word.

Xin Gu was stunned, he was born as the emperor of Liao, he was used to seeing the viciousness in the court, and he was not optimistic about Wu Yingying's entry into the court, but he wanted to stay in the graceful and poor Zhu family in Lanzhou, and dissuaded Wu Yingying from entering the court, but he couldn't say it anyway, he was hesitating, seeing Wu Yingying insisting on him to make a statement, Xin Gu raised his head, his eyes revealed a fierceness, and said in a deep voice: "Give me 10,000 rides, Lao Xin fought for his life, and he also wanted to save Lanzhou." The voice was like the howl of a wolf king who had been cornered.