Chapter 375: The Past Is Like a Cloud of Smoke
Cursed by Xiao Sanduo at the execution ground, Li Yuan, who was hateful, was furious and ordered his subordinates to hunt and kill Xiao Miao, and Xiao Miao's only daughter Xiao Yuexian was also among them. Li Yuan did this, it was a bit excessive.
A few months later, the Tang Dynasty army fought with Dou Jiande, who saved Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande was defeated by Li Shimin and became a prisoner of war. People raised their hands and surrendered, and Lao Li (Yuan) also took the same measures to treat Dou Jiande in order to prevent future troubles, and brutally beheaded Dou Jiande in Chang'an on July 11 of the same year (August 2, 621 AD).
After all, Xiao Mo is different, he took the initiative to go out of the city and surrender in order to save the people of Jiangling from the war. If he insisted on resisting to the end in order to keep the throne of the monarch, he would hold on until a large number of Xiao Liang's rescuers came. I'm afraid that Li Xiaogong will not be able to take Jiangling City so smoothly if he can fight again, and even if he wins, he will have at least tens of thousands of casualties.
After Xiao Mo was beheaded, the Xiao family was panicked for a while, and after a meeting with the clan, it was decided to expel Xiao Xu, and Xiao Yu petitioned again......
In the winter of that year, all Shaozhou was returned to the Tang Dynasty, and Wuyou County was renamed Wugang County (Yejin Chengbu Rulin Town). After Xiao Mo was killed, the large-scale reclamation and land conversion project of Niu Dong was forced to stop. People here say that these thousands of acres of terraced fields are Xiao Liang Emperor Xiao Milling edict, led the soldiers and the common people to open up together, the merit is in the future, Xiao surnamed Miao people should be Xiao Milling descendants or clansmen Yunyun.
The Liang Kingdom is over, and the three emperors Xiao Milling have broken Chang'an, and they are all gone. But Liniang, who was ordered by him to marry the bachelor Xiao Sigou, didn't know that such a big change had happened in the outside world.
Li Niang often looks forward to returning at the door of the house by the mountains and rivers, looking forward to her Xiao Lang coming back to see their mother and son, waiting day after day, year after year, but I didn't see half of Xiao Miao's figure, and the years of the past came to my heart again-
There has always been a secret hidden in Liniang's heart, and she didn't share it with Xiao Sigou, because this secret can't be said, otherwise it will be annoying. God knows, Xiao Milling knows, Li Niang knows, but Xiao Sigou doesn't know.
The day after Li Niang sat on the big buffalo and followed the four dogs' house to Katian, she got up to make breakfast, and kept vomiting, even throwing up yellow bile water.
After a little rest, Li Niang found out that she was pregnant with Xiao Miao's flesh and blood, she was surprised and delighted, she had been with Xiao Mi for so long, and her stomach did not move. Li Niang thought about it for a long time and decided not to tell her second husband Xiao Sigou, and to marry a chicken and a dog and a dog.
A month later, life in the village was too hard, and Li Niang finally couldn't help but miss Xiao Mo again, she quietly asked the little sisters in the village to send a letter to Xiao Miao, hoping that Xiao Mi could take her back.
At that time, Xiao Miao, the commander-in-chief of the large-scale organization of reclamation in the Lingbiao area, was stationed in Tucheng in Zhusitong, and after receiving Liniang's letter, he rewarded the young lady who delivered the letter. When I opened it, I saw a few lines of beautiful small Kai coming into view-
Xiao Lang: Okay? The people like oil tea, three meals a day, indispensable, the concubine is very helpless, no intention of tea and rice, and is getting thinner and thinner. However, the concubine is already pregnant with Liujia, which is Xiao Lang's bloodline. Today's family is surrounded by walls, and it is difficult to continue. Wang Xiaolang remembered the old feelings and sent people to leave money and food and concubines. Recently, the concubine is particularly sour, and the fetus in the womb is also ......
After reading the letter, Xiao Mo was overjoyed, slapped the table, and almost shouted: "My Xiao Mo has a son again, great!" ”
The Chinese scholar Lang Cen Wenwen happened to come in to get the paperwork, and when he saw Xiao Miao's face flushed, he asked, "Your Majesty, why are you so happy?" ”
"Text, you see, I did a very foolish thing, I'm a real bastard!" Xiao Mo stuffed the letter paper into the envelope, spread it on the table, and slapped himself.
Cen Wenwen stepped forward, picked up the letter and looked at it, and couldn't help frowning: "Your Majesty, didn't Liniang give it to which Miao Min Xiao Sigou as an aunt?" ”
"That's right, I rewarded him." Xiao Mo nodded slightly.
"What is the interpretation of this letter?" Cen Wenwen asked.
"You just have to look at the content, I don't bother to explain it to you." Xiao Mo tapped the table with his right hand, unable to hide the joy in his heart.
Cen Wenwen is so smart, proficient in the subset of scriptures and history, and knows a lot about those strange things, the idiom "strange goods can live" passed through Cen Wenwen's mind......
As early as the pre-Qin period, the big businessman Lü Buwei set his sights on Yiren, the son of Qin, who was a proton in Handan, Zhao State, and felt that there would be a high return on investing money in this person, so he gave his concubine Zhao Ji to Yiren and made a big political deal.
In fact, it was also a high-risk speculation, because Zhao Ji was pregnant, and as for whether the fetus in the womb was male or female, Lü Buwei had no bottom in his heart, but he won the bet, Zhao Ji gave birth to a baby boy, that is, the later King Yingzheng of Qin. Later, with the help of the alien Lü Buwei, he became the monarch of Qin, and Lü Buwei also became the prime minister......
"Your Majesty, your situation is different from that of Lu Buwei. gave Concubine Li to a subordinate, and Concubine Li asked someone to bring you a letter, there must be something you need help with, is the minister right? Cen Wenwen put the letter down.
"Yes, you go on." Xiao Mo raised his hand and motioned for Cen Wenwen to sit down.
"Concubine Li married a poor family, and broke off the connection with you, so the minister speculated that Concubine Li must be happy, and this joy ...... It has something to do with Your Majesty. Cen Wenwen pushed Xiao Mo and smiled, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to ......"
"Shhhh ”
"Your Majesty, Concubine Jinli is in trouble, so she should do her best to help." Cen couldn't stop.
"Yes. I will immediately send you as an envoy to stop the cow with money and food. Xiao Mo stood up and hurriedly gave an order.
"The minister commands." Cen Wenwen hugged his fists and said, "How much money, how much food?" ”
"A thousand quintals of money, five hundred quintals of grain." Xiao Mo blurted out.
At this time, Liang was fighting a fierce battle with the Tang Dynasty army in the north in Xiazhou, the battle ahead was tight, and the inner treasury was empty. At this point, Cen Wenwen was much more thoughtful than Xiao Miao.
Because Cen Wenwen immediately retorted: "Your Majesty, there must be a reason for the reward." There was no merit, and the minister thought that the amount of money was 500 guan and 50 taels of grain was enough. ”
"The grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring. Xiao Sigou saved my life, and he didn't repay me much. If I give so little, isn't it an ungrateful stream? ”
"That's enough, repay the favor, wait until I have laid down all the ground."
"Well, according to you. 500 taels of money and 50 taels of grain. ”
"Your Majesty." Cen Wenwen received the order and left the camp......
And since Xiao Sigou married Liniang, it was like a different person, looking at Liniang, who was as beautiful as a flower, happy all day long, and full of inexhaustible energy. Xiao Sigou used the ten taels of silver given by Xiao Milling as the capital to do a little business, leaving early and returning late.
Since Li Niang sent the letter, she has been looking forward to Xiao Mo coming to pick her up. A few days have passed, and there is still no news. She found the little sister who delivered the letter in the vegetable garden and inquired about the situation.
The little sister told her, Sister Liniang, if you are anxious to eat tofu that is not hot, your Xiao Langhui will send someone to pick you up.
Hearing the little sister say this, Liniang's heart calmed down a little, left the sister's vegetable garden, and returned home, and it was about to get dark.
It just so happened that Xiao Sigou came back with the load, sitting by the fire pond and counting the copper, while counting the copper coins, he chattered and said: "Damn, I ran for a day today, and I only earned 200 Wen, and this business is still a hairy ......."
"Four dogs, it's good to make a little money, it's not easy to do anything in these years." Li Niang put the vegetable basket on the table and sat down next to Xiao Sigou.
"Liniang, I'm hungry, make me something to eat." Xiao Sigou didn't even lift his eyelids.
"I don't have rice at home, what can I do?" Li Niang said.
"Huh? Didn't I just buy rice the day before yesterday? It's gone, what's going on? The four dogs looked up, stunned.
Liniang was also born in a poor family since she was a child, because her mother died early, her father couldn't support a bunch of children, so she was sold to a big family as a girl, suffered a lot, and was very sympathetic to those poor families. Because the big family was hiding from the war, they dismissed all the servants and did not pay a penny to Liniang.
Liniang had nowhere to return, begged all the way, and lived in Luochuan County, where she happened to be met by Xiao Mill, brought into the house as a maid, taught her to read and write, and became Xiao Mill's concubine over time. After Xiao Milling raised the army, Li Niang was with him, but he has not given birth, since Xiao Milling was in distress in Guanyin Mountain, he ruthlessly gave Li Niang to Xiao Sigou, a bachelor, although Li Niang was unwilling.
The day before yesterday, Aunt Luo Cuihua in Dongzhai couldn't open the pot at home, and Liniang gave half of the rice at home to Aunt Luo, and she didn't tell Xiao Sigou. If you don't go home, you don't know how expensive oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are. If you don't have rice, what are you going to cook?
"Four dogs, I forgot to say it in the morning, let you buy some rice and come back." Li Niang replied in a roundabout way.
"I'm asking you, where is Mi?" The hungry Xiao Sigou roared.
"If you say no, you won't have it. What are you yelling about! Liniang's temper was raised.
"Oh, you stinky bitch, you're still arguing with me." Xiao Sigou stood up angrily, threw the copper in his hand to the ground, and then raised his black and thick palm, and slammed it into Liniang's face.
Smack - the slap was so loud that the corners of Liniang's mouth were bleeding.
"You are looking for death, dare to hit this palace!" Li Niang grabbed a torch casually, shone at the wrist of the four dogs and smashed it down.
"Hey, hey—" the four dogs cried out in pain.
He never thought that this mother-in-law, who seemed to be weak and weak, had no temper on weekdays, but today she was so fierce. The anger of the four dogs also came up, carrying a piece of firewood more than ten centimeters thick, rushed to Li Niang, pointed at Li Niang, and gritted his teeth: "You are a cheap person, Lao Tzu raised you and gave you food, you dare to do it to me, isn't it against the sky?" ”