Xinyue took the two letters-like pieces of paper with some doubts, and Wang called her over, not because no one in the village was literate, but because the village chief himself was literate, and there was still the village teacher standing on the side.

Although she was puzzled, Xinyue unfolded the letter and looked at the words on it.

The first piece of paper is a letter to the family, very old, like some years, only one sentence is written on it: "Daddy, my son has arrived in Qingzhou, my son is in good health, the war has eased, and I will return home soon. ”

This is a letter from Li Dalang's family, and Wang Shi cried and said, "After this Dalang left from the conscription, he came to this letter, three years, I only thought he was dead, but this morning, I suddenly received it, the following letter, Xinyue, you take a look." ”

Xinyue picked up the letter below and looked at it, the letter paper was much thicker and newer than the letter above, it was a unique northern paper of Liang State, and the number of words was more.

The above is also a letter from Li Dalang's family, the family letter details these years, he was a soldier outside, saved a captain, and got the protection of the captain, the captain turned out to be the son of General Damu, the captain was promoted to a major general, and Li Dalang became a captain, ready to go home to save relatives in the near future, and met a local friend, said that his younger brother was going to get married, and the date was advanced, and he came back in a few days.

Xinyue thinks it's just two letters sent at different times, and there's nothing that needs to be read repeatedly.

So I was a little puzzled and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Xinyue, you know a lot of words, look at the handwriting on it, why is it different from Dalang's handwriting?" Wang Shi looked at the words on it very worriedly, and pointed to the end of the pen, the word "Da Lang", the first letter to the family, Da Lang, raised and clear, like a young man, because of the unsteady strength, but the hand is strong, and the words are written. And another family letter, Xinyue took a closer look, and it was really different, the handwriting on this letter seemed to be scribbled a lot, and the shape of the word was also round and wide, and the inch strength was very stable, especially when the name was signed at the end, it didn't look like it was written by a person at all.

Xinyue looked at everyone's worried expressions, and then asked Wang, "Madam, it should be a good thing to have the news of Da Lang, why do you all look embarrassed?" ”

"It's not that there's anything embarrassing, it's just that the handwriting is different." What Wang didn't say, Xinyue understood, and said, "Don't you dare to believe that there is such a thing?" ”

"Yes, yes" Wang Shi was a little embarrassed, looked at the paper handed over by Xinyue, and suddenly didn't take it, and quickly wiped his hands on his coarse cloth clothes before taking it.

Xinyue pointed to a few similar words, and said, "Madam, you look at these words, at first glance, they are written by Da Lang, and he may be injured, and the original feeling of writing can not be found, so it will change the handwriting, I was like this when I was a child, originally some small dependents, after the hand fell and injured, I couldn't find the feeling, I couldn't write the small dependents, and then I learned Xiaokai from the beginning, and now it is a pair of small Kai characters." ”

"Is his hand okay then? Isn't this going to be a big deal, this, what can I do? When Wang Shi heard this, he still held his breath there, and took Xinyue's hand, which was held tightly.

Xinyue smiled, pointed to a few words that were written very powerfully, and said, "Madam, look at these words, they are written so powerfully, it seems that there is nothing wrong." ”

"Yes, yes, this handwriting is the most powerful in the hand, seeing that Dalang writes so well, this hand, it must be good." This lady is right, and that's exactly what she said. Mr. Teaching also said the same, Wang Shi was relieved, Xinyue saw that everyone's attention was focused on the family letter and Li Dalang's return, Xinyue said, "Auntie, isn't your family going to marry a bride today?" ”

"The bride? Oh, yes, yes, what are you doing here, Erro, you guys, hurry up and pick up the bride. Wang suddenly realized, everyone was busy, Xinyue looked at everyone's faces, all full of smiles, Xinyue tied an apron around her waist and went to the back kitchen to help.

Because it was almost prepared yesterday, the chef was cooking in a pot, Xinyue squatted in one place to wash dishes, sorting out the candy and melon seeds, and half a day passed quickly, several women wanted to go to see the bride, calling Xinyue to pass, Xinyue shook his head, "Go ahead, I still have some dishes that have not been washed." ”

"Oh, then you've washed the dishes, come here" The group went to the new house, and Crescent washed the last few plates, put them on the table on the side, and then dried her hands with a cotton towel on the side, and looked around, not knowing what to do.

It's not that she doesn't want to go to the new house, but Xinyue remembers that the rule of the great sage is that if a widow or a person who is divorced from such a marriage is not in agreement, if she goes to the new house, it will attract bad luck to the newcomer, and she will not recruit such a thing.

As soon as he walked to the kitchen, the chef shouted, "Outside, come in and cut some vegetables." ”

The crescent moon happened to have nowhere to go, so she went into the hot kitchen and cut side dishes for the busy back kitchen.

It is said to be a kitchen, but it is just a makeshift tent, and after an earthen stove is built out of clay, a fire is burned in the stove, and food is stewed and fried.

The chef and his wife are busy in it, and there are two young men who are busy going around, and the vegetable chopping opposite the new moon is the older young man, the new moon heard the chef call him Ah Yi, and the younger one is called Ah Fei, this should be a family of four.

Xinyue didn't know much at chopping vegetables, but she looked at Ah Yi and learned his movements, and Xinyue will slowly get started.

"By the way, where are we going the day after tomorrow?" The chef's daughter-in-law, Zhou, asked a little worriedly.

"Go to the Yi family in Beicheng, the son of that family wants to marry and fill the house, hey, this Yi son is really hard, when he married the original wife, it was also a banquet for us, at that time, Ah Fei was only waist-high." The chef is also a talkative person, he will be bigger than a palm, fried grass carp, one by one in front of the braised soup, between the words, it is a pity.

Ah Fei asked, "What happened to the original wife?" ”

"It is said that after the two got married, they have been childless, and two years ago, they suddenly became pregnant, this Mrs. Yi, I felt that under the feet of Yanzhou, the Sanqing Palace was effective, and I went to repay the vows, and prayed for blessings by the way. Unexpectedly, I met a large group of officers and soldiers, coming out of the official road, and there were soldiers in front of them who specially drove the pedestrians on the road.

The lady was frightened, fell out of the carriage, and before she could get home, she died with the child in her belly. This Yi family has practiced medicine for generations, and I don't know how much blessing they have accumulated, but they are also good people who are not rewarded. This Young Master Yi has been depressed for two years, if it weren't for the fact that the old mother in the family was seriously ill and wanted to hold her grandson, so he continued the strings. ”

The new moon listened to it on the side, and only felt embarrassed, but when she heard it two years ago, she couldn't help but ask, "Two years ago, when?" ”

"It's like spring." Chef said.

"I remember, I heard my sister-in-law say that it was in the spring, at the beginning of April. The soldiers, all on tall horses, were very majestic and strong, and they had bows and crossbows in their hands. Clothes too..."Hearing this, Crescent narrowed her eyes.

At the beginning of April two years ago, it was not the time when he was plundered here, and Zhou also heard from his sister-in-law that those people were holding bows and crossbows, wearing black and white armor, and purple silk cloth in their sleeves, that was the Prince Yu's personal soldiers who chased and killed him and Liang Wei.

However, how could King Yu's personal soldiers come out of Yanzhou?

"Oops..."Ah Yi exclaimed, at this time, Xinyue, who was distracted, felt a pain in her fingertips, and looked down to see that her left index finger was cut by a sharp kitchen knife, and a piece of meat was about to be cut off.

Blood gushed out, and Zhou quickly grabbed Xinyue's hand and rinsed her with water to relieve pain and stop bleeding.

"Oh, what's the matter with you." Zhou looked at Xinyue very worriedly, and Xinyue smiled faintly, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just a little distracted." ”

"You're chopping vegetables, and you're still holding a knife in your hand, so you can't get distracted." Zhou had already prepared, took out a bottle of medicinal powder from the black blind man on one side, and poured it on Xinyue's wound, and almost in a moment, the speed of bleeding from the wound slowed down.

"This is our ancestral gold sore medicine, I thought that marrying a soldier would be useful, but I didn't expect to marry a cook, it also works, come, Xinyue, I'll bandage you." As he spoke, Zhou bandaged the crescent moon, and his fingers were no longer bleeding.

This time the work could not be done, Xinyue sat on the side, Ah Yi saw that Xinyue was in a little depressed, the chef gave him a look, Ah Yi picked up the bowl upside down, and gave Xinyue a big bowl of stew and a steamed bun that had just come out of the pot, "Madam, eat quickly." ”

"I, I'm not hungry." Xinyue shook her head and looked at the dishes that Ah Yi put on her side, but Zhou put the chopsticks in his hand, "Hot buns and stews, even a terminally ill old man can eat a big bowl." ”

Xinyue was really a little hungry, picked up the chopsticks, and looked at the big stewed vegetables in the bowl, this is a dish with a lot of ingredients, there are green vegetables, meatballs made of chicken puree, vermicelli made of sweet potato flour, as well as meat and other things, this smell makes people's taste surge, and it is as tempting as Zhou said.

Xinyue ate a complex of flavors, even delicious stewed dishes, and hot and soft buns, and began to wander again. Recalling that day, King Yu's personal soldiers numbered about 100 people. At first, the new moon was in the carriage, and he didn't know much about them, but he still dragged Xian off his horse, although he couldn't kill him, but he was a strong man trained in the dark guard camp, and it was no problem to fight ten with one, and he said that the guards on the side he led suffered heavy casualties.

Obviously, the strength of these soldiers of King Yu is very terrifying.

Cui Mian also brought more than 100 people there, which was Rong Zhao's personal guard, and King Yu was also afraid of it, but at the same time, he also had the meaning of hiding his strength.

These very powerful pro-soldiers came out of Yanzhou, who knows how many of these people there are and where they are hiding.

Liang Wei was increasing troops to Yanzhou, and King Yu placed his own soldiers who came out of nowhere here, and the Jiang family's army of the Jiang family father and son was also nearby, and the water in Yanzhou suddenly became muddy.

Crescent Moon felt pain in her forehead, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and hiccuped loudly.

Zhou, who was beside her, laughed heartily, "Xinyue, people in this village say that you are the eldest lady of a dignitary family at first glance, but looking at your big bite of food and hiccups, isn't it just like us." Come, drink some fish ball soup, this egg skin, you still have it. ”

Xinyue looked at the bowl that had bottomed out, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Really, it's really rude." ”

The fish ball soup is sour, with the spicy taste of pepper and the umami of the fish soup, and after drinking it, I feel comfortable in my stomach and warm in my body.

Xinyue said goodbye embarrassedly, her stomach was full, even if she was thinking a lot, she was really a little sleepy, her hands were injured, she couldn't work, and she was full, so naturally she couldn't help.

When she returned home, she sat down on the couch, but she couldn't sit still, so she went to the desk on one side, and looked at the ink that had never been opened since she bought it, and the paper that had fallen to dust, and she didn't know who she was writing to for a while.

Is it for Rong Ying, or Liang Wei.

If you give Rong Ying, King Yu's intentions, maybe Rong Ying will understand. Xinyue vaguely felt that the purpose of King Yu's training of these personal soldiers was not simple at all, and he had the intention of rebelling. She remembered that day in the Taoist temple of King Yu's mansion, King Yu's arrogant and uninhibited attitude, and Xinyue's heart was half cold.

King Yu is nearly seventy years old, and if he wants to rebel, it is not without a chance of victory.

Yanzhou and the eastern capital are interlocking with each other, and the general of the defenders of Yanzhou is the person of the king of Yu, so the king of Yu has not moved anything now, and Yanzhou and the eastern capital are already in the bag of the king of Yu.

General Hu Da, who used troops against the country in the east, was also a person of the king of Yu, he had more than 300,000 troops, and six states under his jurisdiction. And the only one who can defend them is the father and son of the Jiang family...

The crescent moon secretly said in her heart, no, no. She was frightened by her own fleeting thought, how could King Yu cooperate with Liang Wei, King Yu is a Liang person who has fought all his life, the first emperor of Liang State, Liang Wei's grandfather was cut off by King Yu's own hands, Liang people have a deep hatred against King Yu, how can they join forces.

But once they join forces...

King Yu gave a gift to Yanzhou, even if there was a deep hatred in the sea of blood, Liang Wei would definitely respond.

And when the time comes, King Yu only needs to move the capital back to the eastern capital, and the situation of the Great Sage and the Liang State will return to the situation when the Great Sage Emperor was still there.

Xinyue had a headache and could barely straighten her neck, she lay on the desk, King Yu, who was so old King Yu, actually played such a big game of chess.

And what about Rong Zhao? The new moon is out of strength, King Yu has calculated so much, will Rong Ying's ascendancy, and behind Rong Zhao's fall, there are also his calculations?

Xinyue thought about it, if Rong Zhao was able to ascend the throne, then King Yu would never come out again, at least the division would be unknown, and it would not be like now, holding the eastern capital, and the Jiang family's father and son, fighting against the Liang army.