Chapter 6: The Young Emperor Ascends the Throne
Li sighed when he heard this, and before he could say anything, the carriage drove quickly, and they arrived at the place in a short time.
She looked at the small courtyard of the farmhouse through the cracks of her mother's arms, and an old woman of about fifty years old led them into the house warmly, and helped them carry their things.
"Everyone can call me Aunt Ma, this is my second son's house, they have bought a house in the city, this house they live in when they come back from the New Year's Festival, and now they can rent it out to add some family, you can rest assured to live, you can live for a long time if you want to."
Li Tong hurriedly stepped forward with a smile, "Aunt Ma sit down, we can clean up by ourselves in a while, we rely on washing and washing for others to get by, Aunt Ma has anything to sew up, just bring it." ”
Aunt Ma responded with a smile.
By the time a few people finished talking, Mu Chengjie had already placed everything.
After sending Aunt Ma away, Li and Tong's mother began to clean, and Shen Xue stayed by Ling Yue's side.
The house is much bigger than the melon farmer's house, one is a bedroom, the other is a kitchen, and although the bed is only a double bed, fortunately, Mu Bingyue and Shen Xue are small, so they will not be too crowded. The house was also very bright, the environment was clean, and Li settled down after cleaning up a little.
The leave approved by Mu Chengjie had already passed, and when he saw that their mother and daughter were safe, he didn't dare to delay, and after settling them down, he went back to the barracks the next day.
Li couldn't cry, she knew that every time they separated, they might not see each other again, but they couldn't do anything, the court punished deserters very severely, and they were executed on the spot if they were caught, this time her husband had violated military regulations, and he would definitely be punished when he returned to the barracks, Li could only force the reluctance and pain in his heart, staring at her husband's distant back, and crying silently.
Since Mu Chengjie left, the Li family has been depressed and unhappy, and often is in a daze by the door.
Mu Bingyue knew that her mother was worried about her father, but she couldn't comfort her.
She has never seen the outside world, but from her father's words, she can guess that in this dynasty that has been fighting all the time, she is afraid that her father's life will be in danger at any time!
She really wants to grow up quickly and take care of her parents as much as she can, in order to repay their kindness.
Panxing Panyue, she was only four years old this year, but her father never came back, but asked someone to bring back a few letters from home. That time, my father violated military rules and returned late, but fortunately, the garrison was a reasonable person and did not punish him much, and indeed canceled my father's three-year family leave.
Ling Yue watched her mother silently hold the furry family letter again, and knew that her mother was thinking about her father again, so she walked into the house lightly, and on the small stool on the side, fiddling with the duck down that had just been plucked from her duck.
She heard her mother tell her mother that the temperature difference between day and night in the frontier is very large, and it is hot during the day, but it is like a cold day at night, and these duck downs are also what she is going to make down jackets.
Strange to say, she has been here for four years, but she has never seen snow, and there is no excessive cold, and the four seasons are like summer.
This country is called Red Flame, and there is something strange about the geography!
What Mu Bingyue didn't know was that from the Red Flame Frontier to the Flame Capital, there were several steaming 'volcanoes' that stretched for hundreds of kilometers during the period, and the smallest mountain was more than 200 kilometers long.
Whenever it is noon, the red sun is in the sky, the russet mountain is under the scorching sun, the sandstone is scorching and flashing, the blazing heat flow rolls up, the flame is blazing, and the tongue of fire is burning the sky, so it is named the red flame country.
Of course, the Red Flame Country is not full of volcanoes, under the belly of those 'volcanoes', there are many valleys, but the valleys are covered with greenery, beautiful scenery, gurgling water, and fragrant melons and fruits. And the place close to the flame capital within a radius of a thousand miles is a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers. It is the heart of the Red Flame Country, and the lake is as clear and crystal clear as jade. Surrounded by mountains, green grass and wildflowers. The weather is not as hot as it is here, and it is very cool most of the time.
As for the fact that she often plucked the fluff on the dozen ducks, her mother only treated her as young and naughty, and did not control it.
Mu Bingyue began to collect down feathers since she was more than a year old and could walk, and in the past two years, she has collected a lot of feathers, and she has also made up enough for a shirt and knee pads.
Although Mu Bingyue had never made clothes, she often watched her mother sew clothes, and she understood a little. She used the leftover rags from her mother's clothes for experiments, and after doing it herself, she had a lot of experience, but if she asked a fourteen-year-old child to do it herself, and took the expensive material that cost more than 20 yuan a foot to tailor, I am afraid that her mother would never agree.
Now that it's the New Year's Festival again, she saw that her mother began to sew clothes for her father again, so she began to pester her mother every day. She has enough duck down, and she has also steamed, disinfected, and dried, so she is just a mother.
For her precociousness, her mother did not doubt it, but she just pointed at her forehead every day and scolded her for being clever, and she couldn't bear her daily obsession, and her mother finally agreed.
Mu Bingyue asked Tong's mother to buy back the fabric with slightly better sealing, and asked her mother to use this cloth to pack duck down, sew it into a lining, and made a cotton coat slightly larger than it to cover it outside, and asked her mother to sew some buttons and button the two clothes together, so that it is easy to disassemble and wash. She also told her mother about some things that needed attention, so that her mother would remember to write in her reply to her father.
She has been studying for more than ten years, this time back to become illiterate, although she can understand what people say here, the strange thing is that she does not know the words of this era, fortunately, her father is a private school, and some knowledge has taught her mother to write, otherwise they have to find someone to help write letters.
Li's skillful hands made the cotton clothes according to Mu Bingyue's requirements in a few days.
Mu Bingyue took the simple down jacket and looked left and right, and threw herself to the ground in her heart for the five bodies that her mother admired, if her mother was put aside in her time, she would be a well-known designer!
The fly in the ointment is that the seal of this dress is not very ideal, and it is not bulging. But according to the conditions of this era, it can only be done like this.
My father is middle-aged, although his physique is okay, but he must also prevent it early, and the simple knee pads she made should have some effect.
For the strange ideas that often pop up from time to time, her mother has never questioned anything, thus creating conditions for her, and every time her mother takes over the work of tailoring, she will go to get involved.
Although Mu Bingyue is not a costume designer, what she saw every day in the crew in that life was the essence of ancient costumes.
My mother can put her ideas into practice every time, and the clothes she makes every time are chic and novel, which is very popular with those live-in daughters-in-law.
More and more people paid Li to make clothes, and later Li specialized in tailoring clothes for others, while Li Tong weaved cloth by himself.
As business improved, they became more and more busy, and the teenage Shen Xue was responsible for three meals a day.
After getting busy, time also feels much faster, and it is almost the New Year's Day in a flash.
On this day, Mu Bingyue saw that her mother's face was very bad, but she didn't know what happened, and she didn't know until she heard Tong's mother persuade her mother at night that the old emperor of Chiyan had died, and her mother was worried about her father, afraid of war at the border pass, so she was in a trance.
On the first two family visits, because there was no big war at the border, Mu Chengjie spent some money to return home. Now although he has resumed his family leave, Emperor Chiyan has died, and martial law has been imposed at the border. A little money is difficult to dredge, so I have to ask someone to bring back the family letter and some silver.
Li handed over the clothes that had been prepared long ago, because the holiday was short, the little soldier did not stay to eat, Li quickly went into the house to wrap some pastries, and gave him some money, at first the little soldier refused to accept it, but he couldn't bear Li's insistence, and took it and left.
Mu Bingyue listened to her mother's letter to Tong's mother, and learned that her father was in good health, but this year, because the new emperor of Chiyan first ascended the throne and was a ten-year-old child, the court was afraid that there would be changes in the frontier, so he ordered martial law in the border city, and rarely allowed people to go home to visit relatives, so he couldn't guess the return date, just told them to take care and wait for him to come back.
Since Li received the letter from her husband, she has never slept and often wakes up in the middle of the night.
Mu Bingyue sighed, no wonder her mother was worried, a ten-year-old child sat on the dragon chair, and it was strange that those militants were not ready to move. Her father, because he could read and write, was assigned to the warehouse to manage equipment records, although he was not on the front line, but there was still danger.
Emperor Chiyan died, and the ten-year-old crown prince Nangong Chen ascended the throne, with the country name Tianyou.
As soon as the New Year passed, the Xuanyuan Kingdom, which relied on war wealth to dominate, took the lead in launching an attack on Chiyan, and Heiyi and the sky also joined the war successively, forming a three-sided attack, which made Chiyan tired to deal with.
Licheng.
Rain cats and dogs.
The soldiers defending the city had been fighting fiercely for two days and one night in a row, all of them unkempt and their armor was torn. The arrows are running out.
The sound of the heavy rushing carts slamming against the city gates was like muffled thunder, and in the heavy rain, the shouts of the invading enemy soldiers made them even more frightened. In the face of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops outside the city, the sergeants have lost their fighting spirit, and many unfavorable conditions make Li Zhizhi, who is guarding the border pass, frown, Licheng is in danger!
"Report ......," shouted a soaking herald with all his might, rolled off his horse, staggered to the general standing by the tent, knelt down and handed over a lacquered bamboo tube.
General Li Zhi hurriedly took it and opened it, his tiger eyes were hurriedly swept away, and he looked up to the sky and laughed: "The emperor personally came with 100,000 reinforcements, and Licheng was saved." After speaking, he summoned several lieutenants to enter the military tent to discuss the battle strategy.
The Three Kingdoms attacked Licheng, a battle related to the life and death of Chiyan, and after Emperor Yan arrived with reinforcements, the Four Kingdoms began a fierce melee.
Xuanyuan did not slow down the offensive due to Chiyan's tens of thousands of reinforcements, but instead transferred tens of thousands of soldiers.
The war heated up, the refugees were displaced for a while, and they rushed to the capital to catch up, rumors spread, people's hearts were turbulent, the court was unstable, and Emperor Yan had no choice but to abandon the battlefield in full swing and return to the imperial capital