Chapter 220 Entry
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Xue Su sent someone to the capital to deliver the letter, inquired about the rice merchant in Luoyang, and asked Steward Li to carefully palm his eyes and make sure that nothing would go wrong, before cooperating with the merchant and first ordering twenty carts of grain, which were escorted by the guards of the Hou Mansion and sent to the northwest.
Along the way, I also met bandits and bandits, but most of these bandits were ordinary people who had been warn, and they had no skills, and they were completely inferior to the guards who had been fighting in the barracks all year round, and they were quickly defeated.
Before the grain and grass were delivered to the barracks, there was a rumor in the city.
Some people say that Mrs. Fuguo Hou is cold-hearted and hard-hearted, obviously has a lot of wealth, and her food, clothing, housing and transportation are not worse than the ladies in the palace, but she is an iron rooster who is not willing to raise money for the soldiers at all, so narrow-minded, where is she worthy of the brave and warlike Hou Ye?
At the beginning, there weren't many gossips, after all, Xue Su gave birth to Xiao Ning'an, and she was still pregnant with a child in her belly, once something went wrong, wouldn't this add to the blockage for Hou Ye?
The people will be the savior of the auxiliary marquis, and they will be much more tolerant of Xue Su.
But as Ling Yuan and others released the news, they didn't know what was going on, so some people deliberately compared the two women. is also the wife of a military attachΓ©, an empathetic and kind-hearted one; The other is indulgent and cold-blooded.
Such a stark contrast made the people of the city more and more angry, like boiling oil sprinkled in the flames, igniting the raging anger.
Because there are guards guarding the door of the small courtyard, even if ordinary people are bold, they don't dare to break in, after all, the sword has no eyes, if the body is poked out of a hole by the sword, gun and halberd, the good luck can save his life and suffer some flesh and pain; If it's unlucky, I'm afraid I'll die.
Zhao Mansion.
Ling Yuan sat in the main hall, with a faint smile on her beautiful face, looking very gentle and harmless.
Although Zhao Lei is only a deputy general, his official position is far inferior to that of the auxiliary marquis who is not the commander-in-chief, but in the border city, Ling Yuan's reputation is a hundred times stronger than that of the Xue family.
"Kite, thanks to you for coming up with the idea of donating food, this made my man breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise if he was hungry and confronted the Huns outside the gate, this battle would definitely be very difficult." The handsome woman was full of praise.
"Isn't it? We kites have grown up in the border city since childhood, and we empathize with the suffering suffered by the soldiers, how can we spare those things outside the body? But Mrs. Chu is completely different, relying on the favor of the marquis, she doesn't care about the life or death of others, she doesn't think about it, if there are no soldiers guarding the city, how can she live a life of fine clothes and food? β
Hearing such words, although Ling Yuan's heart was comfortable, it couldn't be revealed on the surface.
She raised her eyebrows slightly, and persuaded, "Everyone has a different temperament, let's take the initiative to show ourselves, it's our business, since Mrs. Chu is unwilling, it's not easy to force her, it's just that no one in each family is doing business, and a total of two thousand taels of silver have been scraped together, and at most we can only buy seven or eight carts of grain, I'm afraid it's still not enough." β
As she spoke, the woman sighed lowly, her eyebrows revealing a heavy melancholy.
The surrounding ladies spoke to persuade one after another, and at this moment, a little maid rushed to the hall quickly, with a strange look on her face, and she muttered for a long time before saying:
"Master, someone sent twenty truckloads of grain to the barracks."
"Who sent it? What a big deal! The beautiful woman gasped, she didn't expect that such a wealthy merchant would take the initiative to help, which was really generous.
Ling Yuan took the embroidered handkerchief, and at this time she added some strength to her hands, kneading the soft fabric into a wrinkle, and an ominous premonition rose in her heart.
The little maid has been serving in the Zhao Mansion for a long time, and she also knows a little about her wife's temperament, so she can't help but be a little panicked, and snorted:
"I heard that Mrs. Fuguo Hou and Mrs. Ling bought it together."
Since she went back to the Chu family, Ling's mother has completely torn her face with Ling Yuan, obviously they are relatives, but they have made a lot of trouble, all because of the woman of the Xue family.
Ling Yuan didn't have a good impression of Xue Su in the first place, but at this time, the disgust was even stronger, and there was a trace of hatred in her eyes, and she asked in a slightly hurried tone:
"Mrs. Chu rejected us before, why did she send grain and grass to the barracks?"
The little maid shook her head again and again, "The slave doesn't know what's going on, but she only listened to the guards beside the master." β
Knowing that he couldn't ask anything from the minion's mouth, Ling Yuan took a deep breath and restrained the expression on his face, and then waved his hand and waved the person back.
The faces of the ladies in the hall turned red, and they really couldn't be called good, especially the handsome woman, just now she belittled the Xue family, and she said that people were worthless, and now when she heard such news, she was like being slapped by someone, she was ashamed to death, she covered her face with her hands, and she couldn't speak anymore.
"Sisters, since Mrs. Chu has already bought food, we can't fall too far behind, so I'll go find someone to ......"
As he spoke, Ling Yuan hurriedly stood up, but her legs were a little weak, and she almost didn't fall to the ground.
She sent the guests out of the house in a drowsy head, and then went to the merchants of the city and bought a lot of food.
But it's a pity that Xue Su and Ling's mother paid a lot of money, enough to make up 10,000 taels, plus these grains were bought from Luoyang, the price was even cheaper, these twenty carts of grain were only one-third of the total, and there were still two batches that would take some time to arrive.
When Ling Yuan bought all the food and walked to the front of the barracks with a sweat on his head, he saw many soldiers shirtless, two or three people gathered together, pushing a cart to send the bulging burlap bags in, one or two were full of smiles, obviously very happy.
Ling Yuan walked to the fence, arched his hand at the armored sergeant, and said with a smile:
"Although our women could not go to the battlefield, we also scraped together some silver, bought five carts of food, and sent them to the camp with labor."
The man was a rectum, and he couldn't help muttering at this time, "It's all women's dependents, why do you have to divide them into two batches?" β
Ling Yuan's smile was slightly stiff, and he didn't know how to explain it, so he could only stand silently in place, watching the military man push the grain and grass away.
"Mrs. Zhao, do you have a roster in hand?" The sergeant asked angrily.
Ling Yuan was a little puzzled: "Roster? What roster? β
Stretched out his hand and pointed to the notice posted on the wall, on which the names of Xue Su and Ling's mother were clearly written, and the amount of money they donated was also recorded below, as well as the cost of purchasing food, the cost of manpower and material resources, and so on.
"We only thought about helping the soldiers at the beginning, but it wasn't as detailed as Mrs. Chu thought about it, and we couldn't list specific items at this time, so let's forget it."
When she spoke, the woman's voice trembled a little, the general's salary was not much, even if there were more than ten female dependents who took out their own bodies, they only made up three thousand taels, and Ling Yuan himself also made up one thousand taels, if he really made the entry, how could these things still be carried out?
The sergeant grimaced and refused:
"How's that going to work? The people who donate money and food have done us a great favor and have done us a great favor, so great kindness must be firmly remembered in our hearts, if we don't understand it, what is the difference between them and ungrateful people? I also asked Mrs. Zhao to take out the accounts quickly, so that the sergeants could understand it. β
Ling Yuan answered in a hoarse voice, she nodded in a daze, turned around, and walked back with vague steps, thinking of the thousand taels of silver under her eyes, her head was like a needle prick, and she was unspeakably uncomfortable.
Two and a half of the silver were given to Zhao Lei, the man is not a thrifty man, he is lavish, and the money is pouring out like flowing water, and I don't know how much he spent.
When the sky was getting dark, after Zhao Lei, who was the deputy general, returned to the house, Ling Yuan hurriedly grabbed her husband's arm, closed the door tightly, and said:
"Quickly take out the money, the army has to donate food accounts, if we don't make up the shortfall, how can we have face at all?"
Seeing the woman's distorted face, Zhao Lei felt a surge of anger in his heart, and suddenly pulled out his hand, pushing the person to stagger, and scolding: "Stupid woman! What if you do the accounting? As long as the price of food is written higher and slightly changed, it will definitely not be noticed. β
Seeing that Zhao Lei is inconspicuous in the camp, but his nature is very greedy, let him spit out the fat that was sent to his mouth, it is better to kill him.
Ling Yuan shook her head, because her mood fluctuated too much, her eyes were red, and she choked up and said:
"You can't do this, you quickly hand over the rest of the silver to me, otherwise the flaw is too big, how can the accounts be filled?"
Zhao Lei was upset by the grinding, his big palm reached into his arms, took out the silver ticket and threw it on the ground, Ling Yuan didn't care about the humiliation, and hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and after she counted it, her face was extremely ugly, and she asked: "There are only three hundred taels of silver left, and in just a few days, you have spent a few hundred taels?" β
The woman's voice was sharp and thin, just like an old cat whose tail had been stepped on, Zhao Lei was not a good person in the first place, and couldn't help scolding:
"What do you do to me? Didn't you think crookedly first? I want to take the opportunity of donating food to gain fame and money, but I am to blame when the matter is revealed, which is really shameless! β
The husband and wife blamed each other and quarreled all night.
Ling Yuan held her breath in her stomach, and the next day she casually found an excuse and scolded the maid who was waiting by Zhao Lei's side, seeing that those beautiful little faces were red and swollen, and there were blood marks, she felt comfortable.
Xue Suzi was unaware of this.
She had already arranged the matter of grain and grass, and concocted the soothing ointment, as soon as the pale cyan grease was wiped on the skin, it brought a faint feeling of warmth, revealing a hint of medicinal fragrance, although bitter, the taste was very good.
Compared with the beginning, there are a few more stretch marks on her body, some of them grow on the lower abdomen, some grow between the buttocks and legs, the color is purple, uneven, and very sad.
Fortunately, within a few days of applying the stroking cream, those hideous and terrifying lines became a little shallower, and when the little hand covered it and touched it, it could be noticed that it had calmed down a lot, and the skin on his body became softer and more delicate, so that Xue Su couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and regarded the stroking cream as a baby, and he had to use it once every night after taking a bath.