Chapter 424: Dowry

The Chinese New Year's Eve is a beautiful and wonderful night, people eat dumplings and set off fireworks, keep the year, and spend this happy New Year.

Far away in the far northwest, people are in dire straits.

Chinese New Year, don't think about it, I don't know if I can live tomorrow.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Achena led his troops to attack Mochizuki City, and that night outside the city gate was thunder and thunder, feathers and arrows were like forests, the sound of tearing and killing shook the sky, and blood fell into the dust with cold rain and snowflakes.

When fighting in the court, there is nothing more bitter than the people. They are better in the deep inland, they can't experience the immersive killing, and they can also have a fairly good New Year's Festival, drinking wine and eating meat, setting off fireworks, and singing small songs for entertainment, but unfortunately the god of luck did not come to the northwest, and the people in the northwest who are in the war dare not come out, kneeling and begging their lovely good men of the northwest army to be stronger, braver, and resist the enemy's attack, or hope that the city wall can be a little higher and thicker.

That way they can live a little longer and run away a little farther.

There are many people who burn incense and worship the Buddha temporarily.

In the New Year, at the juncture of life and death, who still has the heart to celebrate the New Year, either dragging their families and fleeing for their lives or asking God and Buddha.

The drums of war outside the castle rang out all night and finally stopped, the enemy retreated, and Mochizuki Castle was defended.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, they suddenly cried again.

Because the general who defended the city was killed in battle.

On the gate of Mochizuki City, a group of surviving old men still had blood on their faces, standing on the city gate and crying, their hearts were cooler than the cold wind.

I don't know which of the unvirtuous and conscienceless Tartars fired arrows indiscriminately, and coincidentally sealed the throat of the general standing between the first three layers and the last three floors.

This archery, God is special~~ with eyes.

Damn!

The defenders of a city, the commanders of the three armies are actually cold, how miserable it must be.

The boss is gone, the second brother quickly stood up to stabilize the army's heart, and urgently reported to the court, after all, the death of the commander of the three armies is not a joke, what if the foreign clan takes advantage of this time to attack again.

Unfortunately, people are really here.

This is the rhythm of Cao Cao's arrival...

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the temporary general of the army looked at the black and oppressive heads outside the city, and slapped himself a few times, calling you cheap, calling you cheap.

The guards stood on the city gate and cried, you are here again, you don't go home to eat and rest, and sleep with a sleeping mother! Their general's bones are not cold, and the 800 miles to the capital are still on the way!

You have a hammer!

The lieutenant who was about to cool down was sad in his heart.

An even more tragic war is raging in Mochizuki City.

The battles at the border pass also came through various channels, so that the people in Pingcheng had a better understanding of the war. The 100,000 stone of grain and grass that was transported to the northwest for disaster relief a few years ago was burned to the ground, and there is still no clue to it, but Hu Jingzhi, the general of the northwest guard, was detained and returned to Beijing at a critical time. The court also gave a strong force, and immediately replaced the northwest with an experienced and battle-hardened general in the northwest.

From the news brought back by Jiang Sihai, Xiao Ming learned that the new general was not surnamed Shi, nor was he in the lineage of the Dingbian Hou Shi family like Hu Jingzhi, and the discerning people also knew that the Shi family army in the northwest had changed hands.

Xiao Ming didn't know the joints in this, nor did she understand the struggle for various political powers, nor did she understand whether it was intentional by the court, the Shi family's merits were high, and the power was reduced or something.

But she knows that a little change of battle will be a taboo for soldiers, and she is afraid that the army's morale will be unstable~~

She is a woman, she doesn't understand, in Jiang Sihai's disappointed look, she can understand to some extent, the court sees the war too much, and at the critical moment, it is still playing the game of fighting for me.

It is difficult to fight undefeated wars.

Because of Jiang Sihai's relationship, Xiao Ming knew more about the war situation in the northwest than others, and after learning the name of the new general, Xiao Ming was silent.

The war did not have much impact on Heicheng, and what about the war, this day still has to be lived. All kinds of shops in Pingcheng are open as usual, all kinds of stalls are still on display, those who eat flower wine continue to eat flower wine, those who do buddy continue to be buddy, and all kinds of idlers continue to be idle.

If the court's call for reinforcements had not reached Heijo, people might have forgotten that war was going on in a distant land.

After the year, the order to increase the number of troops came as scheduled, and those who had money contributed money and powerful contributions, and the result was naturally a few happy and a few worried.

The increase order did not have much impact on the Xiao family, because the eldest brother of the Xiao family had already died, Xiao Han had not yet reached the weak crown, and was not in the case of increasing troops.

Of course, such an increase in troops is only limited to the beginning of the war, under a certain premise, if it really comes to life and death, when the country is broken, Xiao Han will also want to go.

The Xiao family returned to Liujia Village after the Lantern Festival, and when they returned home, Xiao Han kept reading books day and night to prepare for the children's exam in the near future, even if Mr. Lu had not come back, he kept looking at the books day and night.

The village is also busy and nervous about the imperial examination, because the future son-in-law of the Dawang family will also participate in this examination, he is different from Xiao Han who is a child, and others are Xiucai.

Once in high school, people will be the master of Xiucai, and Liu Yu will also change from a peasant girl to a talented lady.

Xiucai lady, this famous person is well-known.

This is a qualitative leap from the proletariat to the threshold of high society.

The people in the village said that they were not envious and jealous, and every time they saw it, Wang either said a few words of sourness to express their inner envy.

Therefore, the Dawang family is more nervous than anyone else, taking advantage of the time when Qingshan Yuan has not yet started, three days and two ends of the in-laws' house, every time I go not empty-handed, the family's local chickens and ducks and local specialties do not need money to live in the future Xiucai son-in-law's house to send, so that the family can make up for their brains more, so that they can go to high school in one fell swoop.

even begged a lot of vegetables at Xiao Ming's house, and begged Xiao Ming to prescribe a few pairs of medicines to nourish his body.

Watching every time the Dawang family sent a large bag to his in-laws' house, but came back empty-handed, Xiao Ming remained silent, hoping that this was not the Dawang's shaving head.

Liu Yu, this girl is really good, generous and upright, Xiao Ming sincerely hopes that she will have a marriage of her and be happy for life. Xiao Ming of the Dawang family did not pay too much attention, the Xiao family was also busy, preparing for Yueniang's family affairs, under the discussion of the Qin family and Song and the two, Jiang Sihai and Yueniang's good day was finally set on the eighth day of the fifth month, it is said that that day is a good day, and it is appropriate to marry.

Xiao Ming expressed her incomprehension of the Chinese compatriots who have liked to turn the book and watch the days for 5,000 years.

Yueniang can have a good home, as a mother, where will the Song family be unhappy, she is so excited that she can't meet her eyes for a few nights, and when she returns home, she rummages through the cabinets and finds out all the silver coins given by Xiao Ming these days, and there are more than 4,000 taels of silver in a rough count.

As her only daughter, of course the Song family wanted to buy a decent and decent dowry for Yueniang, but then she thought of Yueniang's past, and put it down stupidly, and her mood was depressed.

Alas! Song sighed, Yueniang is remarried, if it is too beautiful, people will not have to arrange it.

Song was worried about this for several days, and his hair turned several white.

"Godmother, are you in the house?" Xiao Ming held a silver ticket in his hand and stood in the Song family's Qingshuang Garden.

"Sister Ming'er is here, come in and sit." Song opened the door and looked at Xiao Ming, barely cheering up to welcome people into the house.

"I saw that my godmother didn't move for lunch, but she was not feeling well." Xiao Ming asked with concern, Guan Song's complexion was indeed not very good, could it be that the night was cold and cold.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Song said busily.

"These days, my godmother is preparing for the eldest sister's marriage, and I think I'm very busy, if you lack anything short, you can let Yi's mother do it, don't be tired of yourself, otherwise we will be worried, you keep these for the eldest sister to press the bottom of the box." Xiao Ming said and put the silver in Song's hand.

Yueniang's temperament follows the Song family, her temperament is easy-going, and she cares about them very much, she and Xiao Han really treat her as an eldest sister, this time Yueniang wants to get married, of course they have to show something.

The Jiang family that Yueniang wants to marry is not an ordinary family, the Jiang family's wealth is stronger than the Xiao family, and the strength is more favored, she can't let Yueniang be taken lightly, although Jiang Sihai loves Yueniang deeply, but who can guarantee how long the shelf life of this love is.

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