Chapter 303: Delivering the Letter
Zhu Mingrui's men and horses selected to Jiang Hong are really easy to use, and Commander Sun, who commands the army, will do Jiang Hong's orders immediately, without even saying more than half a sentence, as for why the inspection of grain and grass actually patrolled into the abdomen of Beiting, Commander Sun seems to take it for granted more than Jiang Hong.
Chu Long didn't get a few useful words from his younger brother Chu Hu's mouth, firstly, Chu Hu was unwilling to inquire about this and that for his brother at all, and secondly, he really didn't listen to Yue Niang talk about anything useful, Yue Niang was reluctant to talk more, of course, the reason why she didn't want to talk more was that she didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Jiang Hong's gourd, so she really didn't dare to talk nonsense. After entering the North Garden, Jiang Hong summoned Chu Long, Chu Hu and Hao Shopkeeper at the same time for a few days to instruct the envoys, Chu Long cautiously decided to give this head to Hao Shopkeeper, but three or four days later, Chu Long found that he was too cautious, and the opportunity to fly up in Flying Eagle Castle was about to flutter his wings and fly away!
Hao shopkeeper after his father old Hao shopkeeper lesson, before the departure of a heart, this trip out, dad is right, like them, those nobles in the capital, can climb which is a great blessing, but they do not pick and choose! Even if he can't climb the Shou Wangye this trip, at least his son can worship under the Zhuangyuan Gongmen, then the Jiang family is also one of the top high-ranking families in this dynasty, but it is not comparable to an upstart like the Huang family, and this one is not too much of a loss.
With such a plan, Shopkeeper Hao spared no effort to Jiang Hong's instructions, compared with Chu Da, who was blindly cautious and wanted to wait and see, even Yue Niang could see the difference.
Jiang Hong's face did not have a trace of strangeness, but the camp tent of Flying Eagle Fort was getting farther and farther away from his Chinese military tent, Chu Long did not pay attention to it on the first day, Chu Hu did not pay attention to it the next day, Chu Long faintly felt that something was wrong, and on the third day, Chu Long suddenly realized that if this continued, their Flying Eagle Fort would be left by Jiang Hong in this north courtyard in a few days. Chu Long didn't sleep all night, and waited outside Jiang Hong's tent in the middle of the night the next day, grabbed the messenger in front of Hao's shopkeeper, and personally brought the elite out with all his strength.
From this day on, Jiang Hong breathed a long sigh of relief, with Flying Eagle Castle and Shopkeeper Hao, they were at least free to come and go in Beiting.
Flying Eagle Fort and the Huang family are both big businessmen who have been doing business with Beiting for decades and more than ten years, and this time they are almost all elite, to the tenth day, Hao shopkeeper first heard the news of King Shou from the mouth of a group of horse thieves, Jiang Hong hurriedly ordered Commander Sun to chase along the direction of the horse thief, and the next evening, the Sentinel of Eagle Fort who ran in the front encountered the outpost of King Shou.
Hong Da was stunned and looked at the silver mold in Sun Liu's hand, he had sold cakes for half his life, and had never used such a delicate mold, Sun Liu handed him the silver mold, Hong Da according to Sun Liu's instructions, scalded the silver mold with boiling water four or five times, and then carefully pressed out a pot of cake with the silver mold, Sun Liu dragged a chair and sat against the wall, watched the cake steamed out of the pot, hurriedly stood up, waved the steam on the newly steamed hot cake with his hand, carefully looked at the patterns on the cake surface, looked at it carefully piece by piece, breathed a long sigh of relief, and signaled to Hong Dadao: "Okay, Tomorrow, the first pot cake will be steamed like this, and my grandson will thank you for this great kindness! ”
"The sixth master is too polite! The matter of raising his hand, how can he be worthy of the words of the sixth master. Sun Liu's words were not seen when he laughed, Sun Liuye is now a well-known figure in the capital, with his words, his own pastry shop will be better in the future. It's true to say, I really can't believe this thing, how depressed was this Sun Liu, hungry all day long, hungry for a while, hungry for a while, hungry for a lot, almost no when full, at that time, he, a wealthy family, how could he put this broken and splashed skin in his eyes? But now thirty years later, Hedong has turned to Hexi, and this Sun Liu has now become a big man who can't climb even if he looks up and shakes his feet, and I heard that even Fu Yin is talking to him on an equal footing!
"Today's incident, if you leak out a little, don't blame me for erasing your surname Hong!" Sun Liu picked up a piece of cake and threw it in his mouth, swallowed it in a few mouthfuls, and said it in a flat voice, but it made Hong Da's frightened cleverness several times in a row, Sun Liu's words were not a threat, but the truth.
Qingzhi opened the chestnut cake box, carefully took out the pastry and put it in front of Li Tian, just turned half of his body to pour tea, suddenly twisted back, looked down at the chestnut cake carefully, Yinhua hurriedly came over and asked, "What's wrong?" Dirty cake? Broken again? ”
"No," Qingzhi's eyes widened the more he looked, and he didn't care about answering Yinhua's words, he swallowed his saliva heavily, and subconsciously glanced at the deaf and dumb maids around the room who were standing with low eyebrows and lowered their hands respectfully, and pushed the cake in front of Li Tian, without saying a word, just looking straight at her, Yinhua lifted his toes and went up to look at the plate cake, Li Tian stretched out his hand and turned the chestnut cake plate, stretched out his fingers, and after reading a piece, he pressed the cake noodles with his fingers, and flattened the number words hidden in the Chunlan Qiu Chrysanthemum pattern with the flowers on it, and pressed them one by one. Li Tian picked up the handkerchief and wiped his hands, pointed to the chestnut cake and instructed indifferently: "Isn't it just that the steaming heat is not good, what can be a big deal, tell the Huang Steward, today's cake is not steamed well, take it to reward people." Qingzhi held his breath, agreed, picked up the plate and went out to hand it to Huang Ming.
It wasn't until the afternoon that there were only Li Tian, Qingzhi and Yinhua left in the room, and Qingzhi said in a low voice excitedly: "Girl, it's our people!" ”
"Well," Li Tian replied a little absent-mindedly, counting the days, Zhu Mingyan's due date should be at this time, is it because the king of Jian'an County is busy with Zhu Mingyan's childbirth, so that people can find clues? Or is it just a coincidence that this pastry thing is noticed? What is the current situation in the capital? Li Tian looked at the somewhat gray window attentively, there was not much he could do, but there was one thing he had to try......
"Girl, we've got to get a letter out." Qingzhi was nervous and excited, and Yinhua glanced at her: "How to hand it over?" Not even a fly can fly out of this yard! ”
"Yinhua is right," Li Tian came back to his senses, took Yinhua's words and said: "There is no need to hand the letter out, since you have found this cake, sooner or later you will find it here, Qingzhi will go to the kitchen and pick two mustard vegetables." ”
"Girl!" Yinhua was stunned, and Qingzhi was also anxious: "The girl can't be sick anymore, since the fifth master has found us, maybe he will come to save us tonight, the girl is sick, how will I go then?" And what if there's a bad one...... That's not going to work! ”
"Go quickly," Li Tian waved his hand: "Don't worry, first, it won't come so fast, and second, this matter is more important than us going back, go quickly." Qingzhi and Yinhua glanced at each other, the two of them have been used to listening to orders since they were children, and besides, their girls have never made mistakes in major matters! Qingzhi lifted the curtain and went out the door, and went to the back kitchen to order dinner.
At night, the palace of Jianning County was brightly lit, and Mrs. Zhou sat under the corridor of the main courtyard, muttering in her mouth, and the rosary in her hand turned quickly. Zhu Mingyan began to have seizures in the afternoon, and the labor pains were one after another, but it was not good, Mrs. Zhou was worried about turning over the river and the sea, the firstborn son was a ghost gate, and her eldest girl just failed to pass this pass, and a mother and son died, Ming'er was brought up by herself, saying that she was a granddaughter, but what is the difference between her and her daughter? This ghost door has to get through it!
Next to Mrs. Zhou, the princess of Dongyang County, Liu's half of the chair, from time to time stood up and looked at it and then sat down, sat down and stood up and looked at it, Mrs. Sun was sick and inconvenient to come, so she had to pick up the beam, alas, this is the first child of the fourth master, it is good to have a safe and sound, it is best to give birth to a girl in peace, she also discussed with the prince before, in the future, the Ye family still has to pick a few sensible and gentle girls to send into the palace, first, to be filial piety in front of the concubine, and second, the next generation of officials, It is best to have the bloodline of the Ye family, this is the way for the family to prosper in the long run......
Princess Liu Jun was stretching her neck to look around, while thinking wildly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the Hanging Flower Gate, Princess Liu Jun and Mrs. Zhou turned their heads to look at the Hanging Flower Gate at the same time: the four princes were wearing a sable cloak, and strode into the Hanging Flower Gate, because they were too fast, and the cloak was raised very high.
"How's it going? It's not that it happened in the afternoon, why hasn't it come out yet? The four princes asked sharply against the imperial doctors who were standing under the corridor, and the imperial physician Zheng Huang Yizheng, who was the leader, stepped forward and explained: "Back to the prince of the county, the princess is the first child, it is still early from the afternoon to this time, according to common sense, it is common sense to give birth for twelve to twenty-four hours......"
"Twelve hours?" The fourth prince's eyebrows were twisted, and when Mrs. Zhou saw that he was so worried and anxious, her heart was slightly wide, and a trace of relief swelled up, and she hurriedly stood up with the armrest of the chair and said: "Fourth brother, don't worry, women give birth to children like this, the first child is slow, just now Wen Po came out and said, everything is fine, Sister Ming has been strong since she was a child, you can rest assured, it will be smooth, and the mother and son are safe!" Mrs. Zhou said the last sentence heavily, reassuring the hearts of the four princes and her own. Princess Liu Jun also hurriedly followed behind and said auspicious words with laughter, and even comforted the four princes.
The impatience on the face of the fourth prince eased slightly, and he went down the steps, stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, staring straight at the heavy red felt curtain hanging on the door of the upper room, his eyes were dazed.
Tian Tian is sick again! The four princes only felt that they had been cut by a thousand knives in their hearts, and this time they were sick more urgently than the last time, it had been three days, and they were getting worse and worse day by day! The fourth prince raised his hand and clenched it into a fist, pounding his forehead heavily, since he took her to that courtyard, she was sick when she was too much more sick than when she was good, she had never been so sick before! Is it true that he has no chance with her to come to this? The fourth prince put down his fist and looked straight at the curtain in the upper room, how could he have no chance with her? He and she have a fate! It must have been that she was in a depressed mood, and there were a few shallow wrinkles between her eyebrows...... The fourth prince was in turmoil, and Huang Ming said that she had been crying since the morning...... No, he had to go see her! He couldn't help but see her!
"I have something important to do, and I'll bother the old lady here." The fourth prince went up the steps, walked to four or five steps in front of Mrs. Zhou, and said with her eyelids drooping, Mrs. Zhou looked at the four princes in amazement, and before she could agree, the four princes had already turned away.
Old Madam Zhou's back was as straight as a gun, and she suddenly stood up with the crutches in her hand, walked to the door of the hanging flowers, raised her hand and called the old family to give a few low orders.