As she spoke, the little girl hurriedly ran towards the village, Chu Nian stood in place, and behind her was Mu Qing, who was full of doubts.

"What do you want to do with grain and grass?"

Chu Nian smiled indifferently, "Otherwise? What do we want? ”

Mu Qing wrinkled his brows and thought deeply, as if he was very entangled, seeing her stupid appearance, Chu Nian laughed lightly again, and said incomprehensibly: "You don't need to think about it, when you really see Wu Sanniang later, you will naturally know." ”

Seeing this, Mu Qing wrinkled his brows and said, "Okay." ”

Not long after, the little girl from the past came back with a woman of twenty-seven or eighteen - dressed as an ordinary village woman, with a handsome face, and no powder, but she also showed a bit of bright beauty in that ordinary clothes.

It's just that there is still a little hostility on her face, Chu Nian raised her eyebrows, and then bowed her head very politely, "Woman, little girl, etc. are from the border barracks, and this trip is to borrow some food-because the border is too far, the military salary distributed by the imperial court earlier has not yet arrived, and when the military salary issued by the imperial court arrives......"

"Borrow again?" The woman was obviously a little angry, and her eyebrows were almost twisted into a small mountain, "We feel that the hard work of being a soldier and our blood and sweat to defend the border pass are borrowed, and we will borrow it, but what about you?" I came seven or eight times a month, but I didn't pay it back once. ”

Chu Nian was stunned for a moment, then a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he secretly sighed helplessly at his brother's stupid way to please his sister, and said with a little embarrassment while pretending not to know: "It turns out that our people have already been here in this village......"

Saying that, she leaned over slightly with a little regret and saluted: "It's the little girl who is abrupt, and I hope my sister doesn't want to be angry with the little girl, but I don't know what is wrong with the capital, and the grain and grass have not been delivered, and now the barbarians have been harassing the border pass If it continues, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the border pass are afraid that they will be so hungry that they will not have the strength to train their troops, even if the barbarians attack again, we don't know how many soldiers we will lose......

When these words fell, Chu Nian's eyes seemed to be a little lonely, Mu Qing behind Chu Nian reacted for a while, and quickly lowered his head with Chu Nian, the two white and pure girls stood in place and hung their heads, but they were really a little miserable about not being able to eat.

The woman's face suddenly softened, and she sighed again and said: "Okay, but this time I can't ask the villagers for help, there is not much food in the village, and we have to live, but I still have a few stones in my house, you can take it, and go back to other villages to make up, it's the same." ”

This Fang Chu Nian suddenly showed a look of joy, "This is really a great help, we will report to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to pardon a pennant for the god countryside!" ”

The beautiful woman sneered, "That's not necessary, what is the use of a pennant, you can pay more when you pay back the grain." ”

As she spoke, the beautiful woman turned around and walked towards the village, Chu Nian twisted her brows slightly, which made it easy to see the two of them follow.

The little girl beside the beautiful woman walked with the beautiful woman for a while, while looking at Chu Nian and the others with innocent faces, and in the blink of an eye, she turned around and left with two long braids.

I don't know when a lot of villagers gathered on the side of the road, and the little girl jumped into the crowd and took the hand of a very haggard woman, who hid at the end of her head and looked at her with a blank eye

The eyes of the crowd focused on Chu Nian and Mu Qing who passed by.

Seeing this scene, Chu Nian silently withdrew his gaze, and turned to look at the back in front of him, at this moment, the beautiful woman was holding her head high and walking very briskly, obviously it was the face that didn't look very comfortable, but somehow, Chu Nian actually noticed a little bit of joy in it.

She silently followed behind the beautiful woman with half-lowered eyes, and did not speak for a long time, but at this time, the beautiful woman suddenly looked back at her: "Why are you two female dolls coming today?" Didn't all those five big and three rough men come over in the past? You two female dolls came here today, but what happened to your general during the war? ”

The corners of Chu Nian's mouth rose a little without a trace, but he pretended to hesitate and said: "We are just slaves and maids under the general, and the military salary is actually gone for a long time, the general was injured on the battlefield a few days ago, and now he can only drag the sick body and take our soldiers to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables to satisfy hunger, we slaves and maids really can't bear to see the general suffer so much, so we came out to try if we can borrow some food to go back, so as to share the general's worries." ”

Sure enough, when Chu Nian said "the general is injured", the beautiful woman's figure trembled, but it was only for a moment, and she continued to walk forward as if nothing happened, while grasping the wrong point defenselessly.

"You border passes, I remember that there are still quite a few generals coming, right? Which general was wounded? ”

Chu Nian hesitated for a while, and sighed slightly as if he was distressed, "It's General Chen Yue, the other generals were all slightly injured, and General Chen, I heard that he was distracted when he went to the battlefield, it was originally just a guerrilla war of the barbarians, but he didn't expect to call someone to ambush, in order to protect his own soldiers, the general was alone with thousands of chasing soldiers, and the name of the undefeated god of war was not lost, but it was ......"

The beautiful woman didn't speak, as if waiting for Chu Nian to continue, but Chu Nian didn't say anything, she stared with interest at the woman's slightly vicissitudes of hand curled up in the cuffs but still showing half of it.

At this time, the figure of the beautiful woman finally stopped in front of a house, she glanced at the pig in the pigsty humming wildly, hesitated for a while, and then said: "You should rest and wait for a while, anyway, there is too much food, and it is difficult for you two weak women to take it back, it is a long way to the barracks, I am afraid that my pigs will be hungry and thin, and after I finish feeding the pigs, I will send the food back with you." ”

Chu Nian raised his eyebrows slightly, and saw that the beautiful woman couldn't help but turn around and walk towards the small warehouse on the side.

That Mu Qing looked around and saw such a dilapidated yard, and a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, "Why is this yard so dilapidated, isn't it possible that there are no two people in her family who can help repair the fence?" ”

Chu Nian's eyes flashed slightly, and at this stall, the beautiful woman came out with two stones of grain, and seemed to say with melancholy eyebrows: "Although there is only one person in my family to eat, there is not much left, and I don't eat meat left or right, you take these two stones of grain back, and bring this pig back in addition, and I will save feeding it in the future, and I can also save a sum of food." ”

Chu Nian wrinkled his brows and looked at the two stones of grain on the ground with pity, "If we take all the food from your house, then what will you eat?" ”

"I'll dig up the roots of wild vegetables and eat them, and those things will be boiled well, but they are much more delicious than these fine grains, ah, by the way, I still have a little white flour and rice wine brewed earlier, and I should drink it now, and you can take it back to make your general happy."

Glad. ”

Chu Nian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded again and again: "This is very good, if there is medicine, it will be even better." ”

The beautiful woman hesitated for a moment, "Don't worry about the medicine, let's send these things back first, and later, I will find some good medicinal materials for your general to send over." ”

Chu Nian's eyes flashed slightly, and he looked at the beautiful woman with a smile, but somehow, the beautiful woman's face suddenly turned red, and she opened her mouth slightly, "I just see that the general leads the troops to fight very hard, if I haven't seen it, but the last time I saw him, the general was still a kind person, and I can't see a kind person suffer like this." ”

Chu Nian nodded, then withdrew his gaze, looked down at the grain on the ground slightly, and said: "If it's just these grains, the two of us can also take them back, Madame, just wait, in a few days, we should exchange thousands of stones of grain for you." ”

"Come on." The beautiful woman could open her mouth and object: "I don't have to pay it back, look at this picture, your court doesn't take you to heart at all, the unequaled county lord of that Laoshizi also said that it is General Chen's cousin, and now General Chen is hungry and thin, and she has to send a military salary so slowly." ”

Chu Nian listened to the beautiful woman complaining about herself with tears and laughter, and a complicated thought suddenly rose in her heart, but for now, she had to quickly save her image, otherwise, her sister's image would be completely ruined in the eyes of her sister-in-law.

Mu Qing on the side finally seemed to understand something, and this stall couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up to Chu Nian, Chu Nian glanced at the sluggish person helplessly, then withdrew his gaze, and whispered to the beautiful woman and thanked her: "Then thank you madam, if my general wakes up, I will definitely ask him to come to the door as soon as possible to thank you." ”

When these words fell, the beautiful woman blushed again, waved her hand again and again, and when she opened her mouth, she fell into deep thought, and after a while, she looked up at Chu Nian and said: "Please also ask you to return to your family, General Chen, if he really wants to come to see me, ask him to hide his eyes, and don't make a big fuss, otherwise I will be spurned by the villagers." ”

Chu Nian's eyes flashed slightly, and he nodded slowly, and the other party and Mu Qing brought two stones of rice together, tied a pig and caught a chicken according to the woman's request, and went on the road.

When Chu Nian came back from Shenxiang Village, Chen Yue was standing in his tent and pacing back and forth, until Chu Nian approached him, then he saw his slightly sideways eyes, his gaze was sharp, but when he saw that it was Chu Nian, he quickly withdrew his gaze, and hurriedly greeted Chu Nian and said, "How is it?" How did you come back so quickly? But things are not going well? ”

Looking at Chen Yue, who was anxious in front of her, Chu Nian suddenly felt a little teasing, her face was gloomy and she said with a little regret: "I didn't even find Wu Sanniang, as soon as I passed, I originally planned to use the method of borrowing grain to secretly get close to Wu Sanniang, but I didn't expect that they wouldn't even ask me to step further at the entrance of the village, saying that we borrowed too much grain......"

Seeing Chu Nian's dejected appearance, Chen Yue's face became more and more unsightly, and he frowned slightly, "You haven't even seen her?" Then I'm ......."

Chen Yue, who is not surprised on weekdays, can show such an anxious and lovely side, which makes Chu Nian can't help but chuckle, but at this time, Chen Yue is slightly sideways and said, "It's really a brother who got married...... What about the water that was spilled! ”

"What do you mean by that?"

(End of chapter)