Chapter 181: Gossip
All the words turned into a hug, and the red clothes in the room were very festive.
"I'll be back." Jiang Yiling raised his hand to press her head and said in a deep voice.
Zhang Youtao broke free from his arms and raised a smile, "It's not early, you can change your clothes!" β
The package had already been prepared, Zhang Youtao turned out from under the bed, and she took out a set of dark clothes in the dusty bag, and handed it to him.
After a while, the red dress lay on the bed, Jiang Yiling changed into a dark clothes, his eyes were dark, and he listened to the still lively courtyard outside the window and twisted his eyebrows slightly.
They had planned to leave directly after saluting, but the current situation did not allow them to leave, but the current situation of the battle did not allow them to delay too much.
"Don't worry, they'll leave after noon, and they'll have to go down in the afternoon." Zhang Youtao said calmly that the countrymen regard the things in the field as more important than their lives, and no matter how important things are, they will not delay going to the ground.
Isn't it more important than life? After the year, they will have to hand over food to the government, and if they don't eat more, they won't have enough to eat, and they won't have to wait for death.
As Zhang Youtao expected, just after lunch, the lively yard gradually quieted down, and there were only a few children who were begging for candy, and they were still guarding unremittingly.
Zhang Youtao grabbed a few candy seeds and handed them to them, then sent the people away, looked at the sun unconsciously, moved the room, and said to the people behind her: "Let's go!" β
Jiang Yiling took two steps and looked back at her, that look seemed to contain a lot of things, but in the end he left. The tall back is getting farther and farther away, and finally disappears.
Zhang Youtao held the wooden door and hid the whole person behind, afraid of being discovered by him, but he had no consequences from beginning to end, she raised her hand and touched her cheek, and she cried at some point.
Ji Yu didn't know when he appeared, "Xiliang has already prepared horses outside the village, and he should be able to Lingzhou City today." β
According to the footsteps of the three of them, it is indeed not difficult to leave Lingzhou City today.
"Aren't you going along?" Zhang Youtao asked.
Ji Yu wiped the corners of her mouth, she has always been wanton and chic, "Didn't you go too?" β
In fact, Zhang Youtao didn't understand why she was so stubborn, it was also good for her to follow, at least she knew medicine and could help treat the wounded. But she was blocked in her heart, so she was reluctant to take that step, and even if she did, she hesitated in the air and finally missed it.
When Daddy Zhang found out that Jiang Yiling was missing, it was already the second day, it was the autumn harvest, and the Zhang family went to the field after the banquet, and when they came back, it was already late at night, and they knew that the person was missing when they had breakfast the next day.
This made Daddy Zhang angry.
The hall that was full of joy yesterday is clouded today.
"You say!" Daddy Zhang roared.
Zhang Youtao stood aside and was silent for a long time, "The border is urgent, he can't help but go." β
"Ahem!" These words made Daddy Zhang half angry, coughed and blushed, and only then pointed at her and asked, "What kind of place is that battlefield, can you come back with your life if you go?" How can you be so confused! β
Zhang Youtao, who originally wanted to explain a sentence or two, suddenly didn't want to speak when she heard this, if Daddy Zhang knew that the person in her family was the prince of the day, I was afraid that it would be more troublesome, so it would be better not to say it.
"Hey!" Daddy Zhang saw that no matter what he said, she looked like she didn't eat oil and salt, and her face became even darker.
After the popular returned to the house, Zhang Boning took a glass of water and handed it to her, "Dad also cares about you." β
Of course, Zhang Youtao knows that Daddy Zhang cares about her, if others are so chattering, whether they care about her or not, they don't have the patience to listen, so she is already very face-saving, okay?
This matter can't be concealed in the end, but in the third day, the villagers of the entire Zhangjia Village knew that the newly married groom of Zhang's father's family had gone to the battlefield.
It changed its flavor as it was passed on, and finally it evolved into the groom official of Zhang's father's family who abandoned Zhang Youtao and ran away!
After listening to several versions of Zhang Youtao, she laughed angrily, smiled and smiled, and her eyes were red, people are really monsters with overflowing feelings, and they can only see their hearts clearly after they lose.
These days, Daddy Zhang doesn't allow her to go out, so as not to listen to some gossip and be upset.
Following.
Daddy Zhang came back from the field, his face was so black that he could drip ink, looking at her eyes were not eyes, his nose was not his nose, and he pointed and scolded, "Bastard, I shouldn't have listened to you in the first place, and now the whole village is laughing at our Zhang family!" β
As usual, Zhang Youtao pretended not to hear, but this time Daddy Zhang didn't seem to give up with a few casual scoldings.
"You scourge, why do you always bring these troubles to the family." Daddy Zhang clutched his chest and roared.
This refers to the criticism of the whole village that she refused to marry a few years ago, and now she finally got married, and she disappeared on the second day of her wedding.
It is difficult for a Qing official to interrupt family affairs, Ji Yu twisted his eyebrows, and several impulsives were suppressed by Zhang Youtao's eyes.
"Daddy!" Zhang Boning ran from the backyard, his hurried pace was mixed with a little embarrassment, and his eyes were full of anger mixed with a little fear.
Father Zhang snorted lightly, then gave up and turned around and entered the house.
Zhang Baining looked at her, squirmed his lips a few times, and finally said nothing.
The relationship between their sister and brother has obviously weakened a lot, and once the estrangement is generated, it cannot be eliminated in one or two sentences.
What's more, Zhang Youtao doesn't care about these, she always believes that some things are predestined in the dark, and it is useless to force them.
"I'll go out." After Zhang Youtao finished speaking, she walked towards the door, but others stopped her to no avail.
Sure enough, the eyes of the village aunt looked at her like the pork belly at the wedding banquet that day, with light. What is even more certain is that she is more talkative than pork belly.
A few aunts gathered together, whispering, glancing at her from time to time, thinking that they were secretive, but they didn't know that the appearance was more noticeable.
"She is Zhang Youtao, who was abandoned as soon as she got married, she is so pitiful."
The other aunt didn't think so, and pouted, "Isn't this Zhang girl the one who refused to marry back then!" If she had listened to her father, she wouldn't have come this far. β
"The person who married her looked like a dog, who knew he would be a negative man."
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In the end, in a village, there are more sympathizers than schadenfreude, but these are not the point, the point is how idle these people are? Zhang Youtao remembered that she said that Jiang Yiling had gone to the battlefield, why did it spread like this?
She secretly approached the chatting aunt, "You really misunderstood, he just went to the battlefield and didn't abandon me." β
These words were like mud and unstained in a bunch of clichΓ©s, making these aunts stare at her like hell, and there were many wrinkles on her face that had been poisoned by the sun all year round, and she pursed her lips to make those wrinkles move a few times.
knew that it would be useless at that time, but Zhang Youtao couldn't help but clarify, seeing that they looked like this, she didn't have the heart to continue to settle the matter, and turned around.
"Look at that girl's heartbroken back, it's pitiful!"
I don't know who said it, Zhang Youtao stumbled, and the taste of not making sense was really uncomfortable.
If she was Daddy Zhang, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat the food that she would be angry when she heard this, not to mention that Daddy Zhang's thinking was such a pedantic person, she had to hurry home to appease the old man once, so as not to get angry.
Zhang Youtao was exhausted by the mother-in-law in the same village, thousands of miles away at the border pass, the war is tense at the moment, the war has to happen once a day, and the roars are mixed with screams in an endless stream.
Jiang Yueting arrived at the border three days ago, and when he saw the situation, he secretly regretted it in his heart, he knew that it would be so difficult that he would definitely not come, but now that it is difficult to ride a tiger, he has no way out.
In Wuyang Pass, there are wounded soldiers everywhere, and the number of troops that can be dispatched is only 3,000, and the soldiers brought by Jiang Yueting are only 20,000, which is obviously too unlikely compared to the opponent's 100,000 army.
General Guo, the general defending the city, stood beside Jiang Yueting and reported on the recent battles, all of them were defeats, "Now that the food in the city is tight, and the available medicine is also in short supply, if it goes on like this for a long time, Xiliang can take this city without attacking at all." β
Although this is a bit of a gamble, it is all true. General Guo defended the city, but he never thought that the emperor would send an inexperienced prince with only 20,000 troops, isn't this clearly about giving up on them?
Jiang Yueting's face darkened, her eyes darkened as she looked at the combat deployment in front of her, and she rubbed her eyebrows, "The reinforcements are behind, just hold on and wait for them." β
When he came, he had a pure heart, thinking that with his bravery, he could help Dayuan regain the lost city, but now the situation is that he is about to be unable to withstand even a city, and this blow makes him unwilling to accept it.
When General Guo heard that there were still reinforcements, he was a little comforted in his heart, but he immediately sighed again, "There is no food and grass, no medicine, but the pass will be broken in seven days." β
Lifting the curtain and walking out, the smell of blood filled the air, very pungent, there were only a few military doctors left in the city who could not treat so many wounded soldiers, the wailing continued, and the hideous faces could be met from time to time.
"General Guo, I've done it, can you make the military doctor faster?" One of the wounded men had half-squinted eyes, his face was pale, and he was in more pain without saying a word.
General Guo held back his anger and roared, "Military doctor, treat the seriously injured first." β
"Yes." The military doctor came with a medicine box.
The flames of war burned, and the soldiers in the city had no intention of fighting in their eyes, and they were silent like a pool of stagnant water, even if they had just arrived.
Looking at everything in front of him, General Guo's forehead jumped suddenly, and he couldn't wait to go out and fight, but he knew that it wouldn't work, and it was useless except to give the city to others faster.
He was furious and returned to the tent, "Does the third prince have a good plan?" β
Jiang Yueting sat in the main seat, one hand on his face, "No." β
The opponent's 100,000-strong army has surrounded the entire city, as if counting when the reinforcements will arrive, they just entered the city, the opposite commander Yale Mountain ordered to surround the city, and for the past three days every day to provoke war, and do not do their best, hanging them to play.
But no matter what, they are the ones who suffer.