Chapter 127: Not a day's work
The will of the Battle of Hefei was sent to the military camp outside Hefei.
In the evening, Li Sangrou carried only two or three catties of wine jars and entered Hefei City.
Hou Yi, the shopkeeper of Hefei City's delivery shop, had just closed the door of the shop, and when he returned home, he heard a knock on the door, saw Li Sangrou, and hurriedly let him in.
"Just it, let our mother cook, you go make a bowl of tea! The big boss is coming! Just now! Go burn the fire! Shopkeeper Hou asked Li Sangrou to go inside, raised his voice, and commanded a series of times.
"Brother writes, I'll go burn the fire!" The daughter of the shopkeeper Hou raised her voice and ran out of the wing.
"The big shopkeeper is here!" Aunt Zhao, the daughter-in-law of the shopkeeper Hou, is a cool person with a loud voice, and she stuck her head out of the kitchen and responded first, "I will write that word later!" Hurry up and go to your Uncle Xing's house to see what else is there, and tell him that our family has a distinguished guest, and let him pick a few good ones.
A few more pounds of wine......"
"No need to drink, I brought good wine." Li Sangrou handed the wine jar in his hand to the shopkeeper Hou.
"The big boss still brings something! Whoever is in charge, hurry up and burn the charcoal basin! Aunt Zhao said politely, and saw her eldest son Hou Gang standing there, looking at Li Sangrou with wide eyes, and slapped it violently, "Don't go quickly!" Hurry up! ”
"Hey!" Hou just answered, turned around and ran, ran a few steps, jumped up and spun, and then ran out.
Li Sangrou smiled when she saw it, the happiness of children is the most pleasant.
Li Sangrou stood at the door of the kitchen, smiling and watching the family shouting and busy.
Shopkeeper Hou hurriedly made a charcoal basin and let Li Sangrou into the hall.
Aunt Zhao scalded and scalded a copper kettle that she obviously didn't usually use, and now she brought water from the well, put the copper kettle on the charcoal basin shelf and burned it, touched a bowl from the top of the cabinet in the hall, and hurriedly went to wash the bowl and burn the bowl.
Shopkeeper Hou was busy setting up a table of fried sweet fruits, red bean rice cakes, hemp slices and so on.
Li Sangrou stretched out her head to take a look, took a piece of hemp and bit it, and said with a smile: "This year is good." ”
"Very good! This hemp chip was made by my mother, when she was at her mother's house, she liked to eat this the most, she hadn't made it for decades, and it took two or three pots to make it. Shopkeeper Hou watched Li Sangrou bite the hemp tablets, which was very honorable.
"It's delicious, in addition to sesame seeds, you also put crushed peanuts?" Li Sangrou took another slice of it.
"Yes, yes, yes! I also cut some fresh orange peel, chopped and chopped, my grandmother's secret recipe. Shopkeeper Hou's smiling eyes narrowed.
Aunt Zhao washed and scalded the cup, rushed in like a gust of wind, touched half a piece of tea cake from the top of the cabinet, and looked around but didn't find a tea needle, so she simply broke a large piece with her hand.
"No need to crush it, just take it like that, I'll make it, and bring a few more cups." Li Sangrou looked at Aunt Zhao who was looking for tea in a circle, beckoned and smiled.
Aunt Zhao handed the tea cake to Li Sangrou, and hurriedly went to wash the cup and burn the cup.
Li Sangrou broke the tea cake slightly, put it in the bowl, watched the water in the teapot boil, used the bowl as a pot, washed the tea first, and then poured the clear tea soup into the cup, signaling to the shopkeeper Hou and Aunt Zhao.
"You taste it, I think making tea like this is better than grinding it into powder and brewing it into a mushy tea soup."
Aunt Zhao picked it up, took a sip, smashed her mouth, tasted it carefully and seriously, and nodded, "It's delicious, it's not bitter at all." But if you drink it like this, what about the tea? How to eat? ”
"If you don't eat the tea, you will pour it out if it tastes bad." Li Sangrou said with a smile.
"What a shame that is!" Aunt Zhao immediately objected, "It's better to crush the tea soup!" Don't throw anything! ”
Shopkeeper Hou nodded, indicating that his daughter-in-law was right.
Li Sangrou smiled and nodded, "For the New Year, my aunt will let me throw it this time." ”
"The big boss can throw as much as he wants!" Aunt Zhao was just about to speak again, when her son Hou Gang's voice came in, "Auntie! I bought it back, it's hot! ”
"You drink tea!" Aunt Zhao confessed and hurriedly ran out.
Li Sangrou sipped her tea and smiled as she went in and out like a gust of wind.
Soon, Aunt Zhao brought the braised pork and braised chicken she had just bought, the freshly fried cabbage, the dried vegetables stewed with crispy pork, the scrambled eggs of Qingyou, the mutton flour skin, and the salted fish, and set a full table.
The shopkeeper Hou asked Li Sangrou to sit on the head, and Li Sangrou helped the old lady of the shopkeeper to the top, sat down next to the old lady, and had dinner with the shopkeeper Hou's family.
After eating and cleaning up, Li Sangrou re-brewed tea, saw that there was no one else in the house, looked at the Hou Shopkeeper and asked with a smile: "Did you tell your family about the incident that happened in Chinese New Year's Eve?" ”
"I told my mother, but I didn't say anything else." Shopkeeper Hou replied, and quickly explained: "Just now his mother is a person who knows in his heart, I have been with her for so many years, and I have never hidden anything from her. ”
Li Sangrou told him that when he met the Southern Liang soldiers in Chinese New Year's Eve, don't talk about it first.
"Well, then call Aunt Zhao in too." Li Sangrou said with a smile.
Shopkeeper Hou answered, went out and called Aunt Zhao into the house.
Li Sangrou made a cup of tea and pushed it to Aunt Zhao.
"I'm here to report the news of the Chinese New Year's Eve." Li Sangrou lowered her voice, looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Thanks to the shopkeeper Hou, the imperial court knew about this matter two or three days earlier."
In the past two or three days, the stakes are very high, and this trip, the shopkeeper Hou has made a great contribution. ”
Li Sangrou looked at the shopkeeper Hou and bowed slightly.
"It's all part of the business." Shopkeeper Hou hurriedly bowed.
"The will of the imperial court has come out, originally, it was supposed to beat gongs and drums in the past two days and send them to your home, but I stopped it."
Li Sangrou looked at Aunt Zhao from the shopkeeper Hou.
"Our war with Nanliang, this battle is just the beginning, from then on, one battle after another, until either we destroy Nanliang and dominate the world, or, Nanliang destroys us, and they dominate the world."
Li Sangrou's expression was serious, and Shopkeeper Hou and Aunt Zhao stared at each other as they listened.
That's a little scary.
"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Southern Liang seized Hefei City, and within a few days, we took it back, perhaps, next month, next month, I don't know when, the Southern Liang Army will make a comeback and take Hefei City again.
If you take me for the sake of this, it may be better to go back, and this Hefei City will change hands back and forth, and it will be better to go back.
If this watch is handed down, you will not be able to hide why you have received it.
If the Southern Liang army really occupies Hefei City again, I am afraid that this table will become a life-threatening thing for you.
So, I'll stop it for you. ”
Aunt Zhao listened and nodded.
"It's still the thoughtfulness of the big boss." Shopkeeper Hou nodded.
"This watch, that is, to delay it, and when the overall situation is decided, I will personally send you this watch." Li Sangrou's words paused slightly, and then smiled: "In case I have a case, I will also send it over lively, that is, I can't come." ”
"What if the big boss is there! Phew! Big New Year's Day, Bah Bah! Aunt Zhao hurriedly stomped on it.
"There is no case for the big boss! Don't talk nonsense!
If you don't make a statement, this matter is up to the big boss.
We didn't go to the watch, or we happened to see it, and if we saw it, we had to say it. Shopkeeper Hou simply said.
"Good. One more thing.
First, the emperor asked me to thank you, as well as the handsome, and let me thank you in person first. Li Sangrou then laughed.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" Hearing a sentence of the emperor thanking them, Shopkeeper Hou almost jumped up in fright.
Emperor! Alas!
"The second thing, the marshal is very worried about you, afraid that if Nanliang occupies Hefei City again, it will be unfavorable to you, and the marshal will ask you if you would like to move to Jianle City, and he will buy a house and land for you, so that you can have no worries about food and clothing." Li Sangrou looked at the shopkeeper Hou and his wife, and asked with a smile.
Aunt Zhao stared at the shopkeeper Hou with wide eyes, and the shopkeeper Hou looked at her with the same big eyes.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Aunt Zhao shook her head first.
Shopkeeper Hou breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Li Sangrou, "Me and his mother, the ancestral society has been here for generations, my two sisters have a younger sister, and my mother has six brothers and sisters.
Our two families, cousins, cousins, aunts and uncles, are all here.
The ancestral tomb of the Hou family is here, and the ancestral tomb of the Zhao family is also here.
Our ancestors have been raised here for generations, and if they are pulled out, they will be broken.
We're not going anywhere. ”
Li Sangrou nodded.
"In my opinion, the river side is not a problem! In our Hefei City, he just took advantage of the Chinese New Year, and everyone was defenseless and took advantage of this time.
If you take advantage of this time, if you think about it next time, he will definitely not come! "Aunt Zhao is extremely confident and determined.
Li Sangrou burst out laughing, nodding while laughing, "I think so too!" ”
"Don't laugh at me, I really think so!" Aunt Zhao laughed along.
"I'm not laughing at you, I really think so." Li Sangrou laughed and stood up, "Since that's the case, that's it."
When I left, if there was anything wrong or any difficulty, I would send a letter to the shopkeeper Zou Da or the shopkeeper Nie.
Don't look for me, I'm in the army, it's not easy to find me. ”
"Where is the big boss going? The city gate must be closed, or ......" Shopkeeper Hou and Aunt Zhao stood up together.
"Go out of the city and go back, it's okay, there's a crack for me at the city gate." I'm gone, no need to send. ”
Li Sangrou said goodbye to the Hou shopkeeper's family, went straight to the south gate of the city, came out of the crack in the city gate left for her, watched the city gate slowly push up, and got on the horse and went back to the camp.
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At noon the next day, Li Sangrou was at the door of the tent, pointing to Da Chang to roast a big herring of more than ten catties, and trotted over with a wishful thought.
The handsome invited her, there was something urgent.
Li Sangrou hurriedly followed Ruyi into the handsome tent.
In the handsome tent, Wen Shunzhi and Yun Mengwei Commander Qiao An were there, Gu Xi was pointing his finger at the sand table, and Wen Cheng was talking in a low voice.
Seeing Li Sangrou coming in, Gu Xi raised his head and beckoned Li Sangrou to come over.
Li Sangrou stood beside the sand table and looked at the small dots marked with Jiangdu City that Gu Xi's finger pointed.
"I just received an urgent delivery, and I'm afraid that the Eastern Route Army will not be very good." Wen Cheng looked at Li Sangrou and said simply and directly.
Li Sangrou blinked when she heard this, which route army is the Eastern Route Army?
"Before we meet the army of Wu Huaiyi, I asked Yangzhou and Runzhou to rush directly to Jiangning without going to Hefei, and after meeting the Huaiyang army, cross the river to capture Jiangdu City, and then capture Chizhou from Jiangdu City.
I count their troops, with one blow, I will definitely be able to capture Jiangdu City, and then rush to Chizhou, take Chizhou City, the next day, if it is fast, I can rest for two days, just meet the remnants of Wu Huaiyi who retreated from Hefei, just intercept it, it is not easy, even if it can not completely annihilate the remnants of Wu Huaiyi, it can also be given a heavy blow.
Unexpectedly, the pioneer Chu Xing was in a hurry to cross the river, and did not wait for the Huaiyang army to arrive, he crossed the river first, and the Yangzhou Runzhou Department only had less than 10,000 people, lacked equipment, and failed to capture Jiangdu City, but was blocked by the defenders of Jiangdu City and dragged on the boat, and Jiangdu City to the narrow line of the river.
When Huang Yanming of the Huainan Army arrived, the troops were sufficient, but the ships in Jiangning City were insufficient, and General Huang immediately reported to me.
Right now. Gu Xi frowned tightly, looking annoyed, "The fighter plane has been mistaken, Wu Huaiyi's remnants are only afraid that they have finished resting, and if Chu Xing and Huang Yanming's troops can't withdraw in time, I'm afraid that the whole army will be wiped out, and the two divisions have a total of more than 36,000 people, all of whom are elite." ”
Gu Xi explained extremely carefully, Li Sangrou nodded, indicating that she understood, and motioned to Gu Xi, "You go on." ”
"The three armies of Yangzhou, Runzhou, and Huaiyang were originally going to be transferred to Hefei, and the light cavalry they belonged to, ahead of the foot soldiers, had all rushed to Hefei.
Now, they are all foot soldiers, and they are not resourceful.
I plan to let Yun Mengwei rush over, listen to General Huang's dispatch, lead the army, and withdraw to Jiangbei as soon as possible.
Yun Mengwei had to cross the river first and rush from Jiangnan to Jiangdu City, and on the way, he couldn't alarm anyone along the way.
Yun Mengwei has never been to Jiangnan. Gu Xi looked at Li Sangrou.
"I'll go with them." Li Sangrou simply said directly.
"Okay, let Zhihe help you prepare, set off in a while, rush to the river before dark, and after that, let Commander Qiao listen to your dispatch."
"How to listen to me, I can't do anything else, I still have to be the leader of Qiao." Li Sangrou smiled in response, said goodbye to Gu Xi and Wen Cheng, and came out with Wen Shunzhi and Qiao An.
Li Sangrou returned to the tent and motioned to Dachang, "Give the fish to Xiao Huang and them, everyone come in, we have an errand." ”
Da Chang responded, carried the freshly pickled herring to the next team, rushed back, and entered the tent.
"Let's cross the river from here with Yun Mengwei and quietly rush to Jiangdu City, Yun Mengwei has five hundred people and more than a thousand horses.
How to cross the river, how to rush over, think about it now, and then discuss it on the road.
Now let's go and prepare, and then we'll be gone. Li Sangrou's instructions were simple and clear.
Several people happily responded, each rushing to their side and packing their luggage.
"Big boss." Wen Shunzhi's voice sounded outside the tent.
Li Sangrou hurriedly came out.
Wen Shunzhi arched his hand and pointed to the cloth bag held by the two guards, "You bring these dry foods, and after crossing the river, I'm afraid you can only rely on these." ”
"What dry food?" Li Sangrou took a pack and pressed it.
"Fried noodles in oil, fried noodles in dry, fried noodles made with wine, fried noodles made with vinegar." Wen Shunzhi replied quickly.
Li Sangrou smiled, in short, it was all fried noodles.
"Liang Jun's dry food is also fried noodles?" Li Sangrou suddenly thought that those box soldiers threw the corpses of the Southern Liang Army into the big pit, and what they felt out of them was such a boxy cloth bag, and the bags were thrown on the cart.
"They mainly use fried rice, fried rice flour, fried broken rice, fried rice made with wine, and fried rice made with vinegar." Wen Shunzhi said with a smile.
"Nanliang's dry food package, we have a lot, right? Give us Nanliang's dry food packets. Li Sangrou smiled.
Wen Shunzhi's eyebrows raised, and then he smiled: "The big boss is thoughtful, I'll go and get it, Yun Mengwei them, it's best to take a package of Nanliang's dry food." ”
Wen Shunzhi went back and sent more than a dozen packages of Nanliang's dry food over in a moment.
Li Sangrou and the others packed up, and just took two steps, Gu Xi came over, walked in front of Li Sangrou, and looked at her with his hands behind his back.
Li Sangrou stood still, looked up at him, and saw that he couldn't speak, so he couldn't help but ask, "What's the difference, it's hard to say?" Just say it. ”
"No, be careful." Gu Xi confessed, and wanted to say something more, but swallowed it back, "It's okay, it's early...... In short, be careful on the road. ”
Li Sangrou glanced at Gu Xi obliquely.
This person is also pleasing to the eye when he kills people.