A firework rises in the night sky, not brilliant or dazzling, like a faint light fleeting.

The woman on the horse looked up at the night sky and waved behind her.

Behind her, there were five hundred iron horsemen, who came day and night, starry, just waiting for this firework to rise.

At the same time, the people who were ambushed in Chang'an City were also moving.

In the past six months, victims from Shanxi, Henan, and Anhui have flocked to Xi'an, especially this month, more people than usual have poured into Xi'an.

There are more vendors on the streets, there are more new people in the restaurants, and even there are many new homeless people in the soup kitchen.

In the mansion on Chang'an Street, Xie Honglin was wiping her big gun, and Mrs. Zhong said: "You are a kung fu immediately, but you can't compare to my double knives." ”

Xie Honglin sneered: "Are you saying that my leg is no longer good, so I can't use a big gun?" ”

Mrs. Zhong smiled: "What's the matter, you can sweep the three armies while sitting." ”

"Hee-hee." It may be that she saw her grandmother and grandmother laughing, and Ah Xiang, who had been refusing to sleep, also laughed.

Mrs. Zhong kissed her: "Grandmother's little heart, go to sleep, don't be scared for a while." ”

"Our Xie family's blood and bones will be scared? Ah Shang, wait a while for your grandmother to show you how to use the gun, lest you go to your mother's place and think that your mother's marksmanship is good, and she has only learned half of it. ”

However, Mrs. Zhong still asked the nurse to go behind the screen to coax Ah Shang to sleep, but today Ah Shang was very energetic and refused to sleep after blowing the lamp.

Mrs. Zhong was about to coax her granddaughter in person, but at this moment, Mama Ruoshui, who was watching outside, ran in: "Two old ladies, the wind is blowing!" ”

The wind is blowing, it's a code, and these days, those who have infiltrated the city have begun to act.

At this time, the maid led a woman in a small maid's clothes walked in, she saluted Xie Honglin and Mrs. Zhong, and said: "Subordinate Lan Ying, is the flying cavalry general under the command of the fifth lady, now listen to the second general's dispatch, the second general ordered his subordinates to protect the two old ladies and the little lady here, no matter what happens outside, please ask the two old ladies not to go out of this courtyard for the safety of the little lady." ”

Mrs. Zhong sighed, and looked at Xie Honglin with a smile, which means, look, your gun is wiped in vain.

Xie Honglin snorted and did not speak.

Lan Ying withdrew, and the room was quiet again, only the nurse hummed a little song quietly, coaxing Ah Shang to sleep.

There was another knock on the door outside, the maid opened the door, but it was Jin Douer and Xiao Liang who came in, a dog and a wolf wagged their tails, didn't look at the other people in the house, sniffed their noses, and went around behind the screen, and lay under Ah Xiang's bed.

After Huo Roufeng left, Zhanyu also wanted to take Jin Douer and Xiao Liang to him as companions, but every time he came to Chang'an Street, he would see Ah Sheng playing with them, it was rare that the little girl was still so young, but she was not afraid at all, so Zhanyu didn't want to fight with her niece, Jin Douer and Xiao Douer have always been with Ah Shang on Chang'an Street.

Although the nurse bombarded a few times, but every night, these two would sneak to Ah Xiang's house to sleep, and the nurse had no choice but to go with them, or Xie Honglin said: "Ah Shang came out of her mother's belly, and there was her mother's smell on her body, and these two guys felt the closest to her." ”

But in the same way, Jin Dou'er and Xiao Liang are not close to Xie Honglin, in the whole mansion, they only recognize Huo Roufeng and Ah Xiang, and even Zhanhuai, who thinks that he is an old acquaintance with Jin Dou'er, does not give face.

It's strange to say, Ah Shang, who refused to sleep no matter how much she coaxed, saw Jin Douer and Xiao Liang come in, and she quickly fell asleep.

The lights in the house are like beans, Xie Honglin and Mrs. Zhong are relatively speechless, they are not deep women, they have all experienced bloody rain, when they were young, they have fought side by side with their husbands, they have seen too many life and death, the death of relatives, the death of enemies, they never thought that one day, they would also be protected together with the babbling children.

After a long time, Mrs. Zhong lowered her voice and said, "Did you teach your marksmanship by Old Lady Xie?" ”

"My father was chased and killed by Jinyiwei, his legs were crippled, he passed the gun to the cousin of the Gao family, that is, my husband, when I was a child, I practiced with my cousin according to the gun score, my father pointed out on the side, he thought I was too squeamish, I couldn't practice this kind of kung fu immediately, so I pinned my hopes on my cousin, but my cousin felt that this was the Xie family's marksmanship, I was the most should learn, so from childhood to adulthood, I was urged by him to practice guns, I was very annoyed at that time, I didn't want him to control me, I read the book, the ladies in it are all in love with scholars, So I also wanted to marry a scholar, fantasizing that one day, a scholar with clear eyebrows would appear on the snowy mountain and take me to the Yanyu Jiangnan that I have always longed for. ”

Xie Honglin's voice was soft, tears were floating in her eyes, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she seemed to have returned to her youth.

Mrs. Zhong didn't want to disturb her, so she listened to her continue: "Later, I really met a scholar...... At that time, my mother was very sick, she had a damp and cold disease, but for the sake of my father, she could only stay in the bitter cold place outside the Guan, the doctor said that my body also followed my mother, there was nothing when I was young, and I would be as bad as my mother when I was old, so when the man appeared, my father changed his mind, he wanted that person to take me out of the Guanwai, you know that my cousin is a member of the Gao family, he can't go. I was so happy at that time that I stupidly told my cousin about my joy, alas, how stupid I was. ”

Mrs. Zhong laughed out: "When I was young, I was stupid, I was the same, my mother's family and the Zhan family are world friends, my brothers and Grandpa Guo are friends, once they tried to ride and shoot, the brothers lost to Grandpa Guo, I was not angry, arguing to compare with Grandpa Guo, Grandpa Guo was helpless, so I had to let me, but I felt that he looked down on me, so I hated him, and later when the Guogong Mansion came to propose, I refused to marry, ran out of the house, Grandpa Guo was all over Fujian to find me, and later found me, I still have to compete with him, but that time I lost very badly, and I couldn't beat him, so I had to follow him back honestly, halfway through the grandfather of the country saved a woman, the woman wanted to make a promise, I was so angry that I beat the woman, and when I finished fighting, I saw that the grandfather of the country was secretly laughing......"

Xie Honglin said with a smile: "It's not, so you see how good Xiaofeng and Ah Huai are, they have known each other since they were ten years old, childhood sweethearts grew up, and they were together naturally, when I was in the grassland, Xiaofeng led Ah Huai to me, I knew that they would definitely be able to succeed, the two were too compatible, and I was thinking at that time, I must live a few more years, watch them get married, and watch them have children." ”

"Yes, the first time I saw Xiao Jiu, I knew that this was a good match for the fifth child......" Before Mrs. Zhong's words were finished, she heard a loud noise outside, and Ah Shang behind the screen was awakened, and she cried out.

Mrs. Zhong rushed to the back of the screen and hugged Ah Xiang: "Obedient, don't be afraid, grandmother is here." ”

The maid who was guarding outside came in and said respectfully: "General Lan asked the slave maid to return to the two old ladies, and it is General Han's artillery." ”

Xie Honglin waved his hand to let the maid out, General Han was Han Shihu, after returning from Xuanfu, Zhanhuai asked him to take 10,000 people to Shangzhou, nominally to supervise the silver mines there, but in fact he was ready to increase troops in Xi'an at any time. It was only more than 200 miles from Shangzhou to Xi'an, and after learning that the imperial court had signed a shameless treaty with Tatar, Zhanhuai secretly ordered Han Shihu to stand by.

It happened that Mrs. Zhong received a letter from the Duke of Min, and Zhanhuai and Huo Roufeng knew that someone was about to move.

So Zhanhuai and Huo Roufeng took the opportunity to ask Mrs. Zhong to leave Xi'an with Ah Shang, Xie Honglin and Mrs. Zhong prepared for Ah Shang's trip with great fanfare, and even Mama Liu was kept in the dark.

Huo Roufeng flew the pigeon and passed the book, asking them to beware of the people in the mansion who should cooperate with each other, so Xie Honglin and Mrs. Zhong let out the news, saying that they would buy the accompanying maids and the people who followed them, and took the opportunity to pass the people in the house under the pretense of Mama Liu's hand.

On the one hand, Zhanyu pretended that the city's defense was lax and let large families open porridge sheds, attracting a large number of displaced people into Xi'an; On the other hand, Nameless prepared a batch of firearms for Han Shihu. These firearms are not available to the Tartars and the officers and soldiers, and even those purchased from the Western Regions with heavy money cannot be compared.

Today's arrival of Huo San surprised Xie Honglin, she really didn't expect that those people would go to such great lengths to find relatives who had a grudge against the Huo family sisters.

She really wanted to know what was the use of the other party asking Huo San to come over, after all, the people in the mansion would not trust Huo San, and they would not let Huo San get close to the inner house.

Fortunately, these people didn't let them wait longer, and on the way Huo San was sent away, the people in the house were replaced.

There were a few more cannons outside, and Mrs. Zhong covered Ah Xiang's ears with her hands, and muttered in her mouth: "This nameless is also true, can't you make a cannon that doesn't need to be fired?" ”

Xie Honglin was amused by her and said, "Okay, isn't the cannon on your family's warship in Fujian not sounding?" ”

Mrs. Zhong was speechless, she suddenly found that since she had a little granddaughter, she was no different from the old ladies of ordinary people.

The maid ran in again: "Two old ladies, the house is running out of water, and the fire is already being put out, don't worry." ”

Xie Honglin smiled: "As long as it hasn't burned to the back house, we are not in a hurry." ”

No need to ask, it must have been the people who came in to take the opportunity to set fire, and those people who pretended to be homeless people outside were just a pretense, and it was these people who really did the work.

Mrs. Zhong snorted coldly: "Are you here to steal my old woman?" ”

Xie Honglin smiled: "Why did you steal it?" Who doesn't know that the Duchess of the Kingdom is a son of the Lian family, and what people want to steal is our pearl in the palm of our hand, the woman of our Xie family. ”

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