"There should be all of them, I haven't raised this thing myself, and I don't know very well."

Being asked by Liu Qingxin, the coachman Lao Wang suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly took two steps back, turned around in embarrassment, and cleaned up the wooden shelf used by Xinying to stand, "When I was in the barracks before, I heard people talk about the origin of domesticating these things, specifically, I can't really remember it, Mrs. might as well ask Lao Zhang, he has a good memory." ”

"You old king! But if you have revenge, you will be avenged! I'm just squeezing you two sentences, and it doesn't hurt or itch, you, you're still in front of your wife's eyes, burying me! ”

Carpenter Zhang was busy adding oats to the horses, and he didn't look back at what the coachman Lao Wang was doing, but only listened to him explain the source of the letter eagle to Liu Qingxin, and pushed it to himself, so he protested with him dissatisfied, "Usually, you are the adjutant, and you have a close relationship with those people who manage the letter eagle, and those of us who are guards, no matter how good our memory is, we can grow clairvoyance, ears to the wind, and mind reading, and pull all the things you talk about with others into your own mind?" Madame asked you, she could afford you, you didn't answer honestly, and you picked you up! ”

I wanted to divert Liu Qingxin's attention to Carpenter Zhang, but Carpenter Zhang didn't open his eyes, and pushed himself back, and the coachman Lao Wang was even more embarrassed, taking advantage of the cool breeze blowing, he coughed twice more vigorously before continuing to speak, and told Liu Qingxin about what he knew.

More than ten years ago, the Central Plains still used pigeons to deliver letters, and in the barracks, dozens of carrier pigeons were usually raised, and every time a letter was sent, several pigeons were used to deliver it at the same time. Just in case, the delivery of military information was delayed.

Later, the Ming Dynasty went to war with the grassland tribes in the northwest. The careful old general discovered a strange thing, but all the letters of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it's a call for help or good news, or how many carrier pigeons are released each time...... It's all without exception, and it's like a stone sinking into the sea!

In order to avoid the delay in reporting, the old general changed the way of sending letters to the imperial court, replacing the carrier pigeons with fast horses, and at the same time specially arranged manpower to let the pigeons without letters go out and secretly observe the whereabouts of the pigeons.

After more than ten days of observation. Thirty-four pigeons were thrown out, and finally, the scout, who was in charge of the covert observation, discovered the reason for the mysterious disappearance of the carrier pigeons!

Hawk.

Every time, they let the carrier pigeons out, and in the camp opposite, there would be a few to dozens of eagles flying out, and after flying with the carrier pigeons for a while, they began to surround the carrier pigeons and carry out hunting.

The carrier pigeon was surrounded by an eagle. It must be a panicked hasty escape, and this escape will scatter in all directions. Completely forgot that you could come back to the camp and take refuge, and then ...... Naturally, one of them will not fall, and they will be captured by those eagles one by one!

At that time, the old general had not guessed that the eagle that surrounded the carrier pigeons could actually be used to deliver letters, so he selected a few good archers from the camp and asked them to shoot those eagles. A carrier pigeon goes out and is unlucky. You can shoot down two or three, when you're lucky. I can shoot five or six of them.

In that way, after shooting for seven or eight days in a row and throwing out more than 20 carrier pigeons, the generals on the side finally couldn't help but be angry and launched an attack on the side of the Ming army.

Of course, the night attack of the steppe tribe did not get the victory they hoped for, on the contrary, under the foresight of the old general, they only ended up with a feather and returned home, and most of the soldiers and horses were lost.

It was also a coincidence, the general of the grassland tribe was a more serious person, he was not convinced of defeat, when he disarmed and surrendered, and when he saw the old general, he didn't want to ask the old general: Which is your military advisor? How did he come up with a way to shoot our letter eagle to cut off our calls for help and supplies!

How smart a person the old general is, in the face of the general's inquiry, how could he damage the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and admit to him that the shooting of their letter eagle by his side was the result of a crooked attack?

Immediately moved out a lot of the principles of the art of war that he had learned when he was a child, and put the other side of the general who became the commander by accumulating experience in actual combat, and said that he was a five-body thrower, sighing to himself, and offered to learn the way of leading troops from him.

With the addition of some grassland tribes' generals, the letter eagle, which is far more practical than the carrier pigeon's means of communication, has also been popularized in the major military camps of the Ming Dynasty, but most of the soldiers of the grassland tribes are not able to speak with the soldiers on the Central Plains, even if they can speak a few words of Chinese, it is only enough for daily communication, so the method of domesticating the letter eagle has always been in the hands of those grassland soldiers, and the Han soldiers have no way of knowing at all.

"I only know that the skill of domesticating the letter eagle is a skill passed down from generation to generation by the tribes on the northwest grassland."

Speaking of this, the coachman Lao Wang took a deep breath, bent down, and strengthened the bottom of the shelf where the letter eagle was standing, before continuing, "The grassland is not like the Central Plains, they are strictly hierarchical, and the children of civilian families are not qualified to read and write...... Therefore, skills such as horse taming and falconry can only be passed down by the elders of the family...... If Madame is really interested in how to domesticate the letter eagle, you might as well ask the master, he knows a lot of people in the imperial capital, and he is well-informed, and if he can't say it well, he can know the good grassland people in Chinese, and he can explain this to Madame......"

"I just think it's funny, just ask casually, I'm a woman, even if I can really know how to tame, I can still tame it myself."

Liu smiled lightly and agreed, then he no longer stubbornly entangled in this matter, left the "pretending to be busy" coachman Lao Wang and the really busy Zhang carpenter, turned around and walked outside the courtyard, "I'll go see the old general and the old lady first, you two don't just care about these livestock, talk more with the second elder, and keep your mood happy, but it is very beneficial to their condition." ”

……

Xinying took the letter written by Liu Qingxin to Ling Jun and went to the imperial capital, and in the early morning of the next day, a man of medium stature and a Chinese face was placed on his shoulder and sent back.

The man looked a little similar to the old general, around forty years old, knocked on the door of the backyard of the Good Doctor's Workshop, and after seeing Sister-in-law Jiang who opened the door for him, his whole body instinctively tightened.

The man with the national character face opened his mouth and wanted to call Sister-in-law Jiang's name, but his throat moved, and he couldn't call it out, so he smiled at her with some embarrassment, and said hello to her with all his strength, "Sister, you are also here." ”

"Sir...... I mean, the man of this house, sent you? ”

The appearance of the man made Sister-in-law Jiang a little surprised, raised her head, looked at the letter eagle standing on his shoulder, and confirmed that it was indeed the same one yesterday, instinctively, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Although she has never regarded Ling Jun as a simple character, she ...... But he never dreamed that he would be able to be her half-brother, the one born to the old general and the old lady, the second young master of the Jiang family, is also familiar with it!

The second young master of the Jiang family, Jiang Rusong, at the age of fourteen, won the first place in martial arts, and became the second in the history of the Ming Dynasty after her father...... is not a general from a noble background, and now, he is in the Daming Palace, serving as a royal guard, a red man in front of the emperor...... What kind of powerful background does Ling Jun have to have in order to have a relationship with him?

"The man of this house?"

Sister-in-law Jiang's words made Jiang Rusong slightly stunned, looked into the courtyard, twisted her eyebrows, and gave Sister-in-law Jiang a negative answer, "I don't know the male owner of this house, it was the third master who found me and asked me to come here to see my father's mother, and said it was ...... My father and mother are sick, it's quite serious, I need to come over as a son and decide something, the eldest brother is at the border, the distance is far away, and it is inconvenient to contact, you also know this......"

"Third master? Which family's third master? ”

Listening to Jiang Rusong, it wasn't the male owner of this house who asked him to come, but Sister-in-law Jiang's hanging heart was a little relaxed, stood to the side, and gave him the door, "I can see you, the leader of the imperial guards, and I also talked to you, I want to come, I can't be an ordinary person!" ”

"Sister doesn't dare to talk nonsense!"

Sister-in-law Jiang's question made Jiang Rusong's face stiffen slightly, and she walked into the courtyard in a hurry, and while helping her close the door, she carefully made her thumb compare the direction of the sky, "If it weren't for some old relationships with our father, how could a person with such a noble status as the third master disdain to talk to someone like me...... Things in the court, you are a woman, don't dare to inquire indiscriminately! By the way, you just called the man of this house...... Master? ”

"I am a maid in this house, and the lady in this family is a doctor with a very good heart, and she is the one who is helping our father and mother to heal their diseases."

After thinking about it for a while, to be exact, it was hesitation, but Sister-in-law Jiang still stopped, stretched out her hand, and pulled Jiang Rusong's sleeve, asking him to stop first, and she had something to say to him, "There are some things that my father and mother didn't let me tell you, since you are here now...... I'll tell you in advance, just in case you see your father and mother later, and you'll be frightened by their current situation......"

"What's the matter? Parents...... What's wrong with them? ”

Sister-in-law Jiang's words made Jiang Rusong's eyes widen in surprise, her face changed slightly, and she didn't know that she knew that the next moment, she was going to rush into the old general's and the old general's wife's residence, and see what it meant, "You, you should say it quickly!" (To be continued)