Chapter 268: Thanksgiving
April light rain, you reward me too much, pro!! You can read a lot of books with this money!! I don't want to go
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On the thirteenth day of August in the third year of Yongzhen, Liu Meibao gave birth to a daughter, and Zhao Niangzi weighed it with a plate that weighed vegetables, five catties and three taels.
Thin as a cat, Iron Spoon said curiously.
Lu Fang, who was sitting on the side and guarding the child like an old hen, gave him a roll of his eyes.
The iron spoon is a little sneering.
"Do you still eat pomegranates?" He asked in a low voice when he had no words.
Lu Fang lowered his head and looked intently at his sleeping sister and ignored him.
The iron spoon touched the tip of his nose, feeling bored.
"Little girl." He snorted, "I'm going to play war, I really have nothing to say to you."
He tiptoed out.
Lu Fang carefully reached out and put the little quilt corner on the baby's head, and Grandma Zhao said that the child's family can't let the top of the head eat the wind.
The child who was only three days old was basically sleeping, and there was nothing to see, but Lu Fang still looked at her with interest, and after looking at it for a while, he sat up straight and took out a small object from his arms.
This is a small man made of wood, holding a knife in his hand, but because of bumping or squeezing or something, the knife has fallen, leaving only the shape of holding the knife, the workmanship is rough, and it can be vaguely seen that it is the dress of an officer and soldier.
Lu Fang held the villain in his hand and couldn't help but wave it gently.
"Kill, kill." He muttered under his breath, a small smile on his lips.
He played intently until the sound of Liu Meibao turning over came from behind him.
He hurriedly shoved the wooden figure into his arms and turned around.
Liu Meibao was facing this side and smiled at him.
"Mother. You're awake. Lu Fang raised his feet and ran over, lying on the edge of the bed close to Liu Meibao.
Liu Meibao's face was still a little pale, and her voice was weak, but she was in good spirits.
"It's hard for you to look at your sister, my mother slept well, and I had strength all of a sudden." She said, stroking her son's head.
Lu Fang wore two small braids, combed the hair curtains, and made his chin more and more pointed.
Because I gave birth to a younger sister, I was happy. When Mrs. Zhao combed his hair, she picked an osmanthus flower from the yard and put it in, it was pink and fragrant, Liu Meibao looked at her son's dress and wanted to laugh and was a little sad.
Liu Meibao sat up, and Lu Fang hurriedly and carefully supported her.
Moving her daughter's small basket to the bedside, Liu Meibao lay down again.
"Mother, do you drink water?" Lu Fang asked in a low voice again.
Liu Meibao looked at her son's caring face, her heart was sour and happy, and she nodded.
Lu Fang had a smile on his face, with a little pride in my ability. stepped on a small stool and carefully poured a glass of water for Liu Meibao and brought it over.
Liu Meibao drank it all in one gulp, and licked her mouth unsatisfied.
"Thanks to Dandan you." She hugged Lu Fang and kissed him on the face.
Lu Fang also hugged her. Smelling the good smell of milk on my mother's body.
"Mother, was it the same when I was born?" He snuggled up to Liu Meibao, looked sideways at the baby in the cradle and asked.
"yes, but you're a little older and longer than your sister." Liu Meibao looked at the baby and said with some memories.
Lu Fang laughed. Looking at my sister more seriously, I want to see my former self from her, this feeling is very strange.
The corners of the sleeping baby's mouth twitched, revealing a smile.
"Mother. My sister smiled. Lu Fang shook Liu Meibao's arm in surprise and unconsciously raised his voice.
Liu Meibao also smiled.
"Did she hear me and laugh?" Lu Fang asked with great interest.
Where can a child who has only been born for a few days hear it, Liu Meibao pursed her lips and smiled.
"yes." She smiled, "She knows there's a brother... You watch her and care about her, so you are so happy that you laugh in your dreams. ”
Lu Fang's excited eyes lit up, eager to stick it to the baby's face, muttering in his mouth that he didn't know what to whisper to her.
Liu Meibao looked at it, and couldn't help but think, if Lu Yan was there, she must be happy and stupid, this thought flashed her tears and suddenly poured out, but in an instant, she hurriedly raised her hand to wipe it off, took a few deep breaths, she had to maintain a happy mood, so as to ensure that the milk, there was no nurse, and there was no rich diet, she had to raise herself strong and well, so that the child could be well.
Mrs. Zhao came in with a bowl of noodle soup.
"Awake? Come, have a bite to eat. She said.
Liu Meibao looked at her and wanted to cry again.
"Don't do this, I said, my mother shed a tear, and the child drinks hot and sour milk." Zhao Niangzi hurriedly lowered her face and said.
Liu Meibao couldn't help but laugh again.
"It's that powerful." She smiled, reached out to take the rice bowl, and drank it without saying any more politeness.
It is said that it is noodle soup, but in fact, there are not many noodles, only a faint layer of oil, but for this moment, it is not easy to eat additional meals.
On the night when Liu Meibao gave birth, the officers and soldiers and Li Changsan's men and horses fought again, and the battlefield was fifty miles outside the city.
The front hall of the Zhao family's hotel has been burned, but fortunately it was extinguished in time and did not affect the backyard, the couple plus the iron spoon and Lu Fang used it together for a day and a night to block the backyard, there is well water in the yard, do not worry about drinking, but there is almost nothing to eat.
They didn't dare to go out, and they didn't know what was going on outside.
"Auntie, don't cook for me alone, I don't know how long it will take." Liu Meibao finished drinking and said.
Zhao Niangzi sighed, and her eyes fell on the sleeping baby on the side.
"You said that you little girl, at this time of birth, you are going to suffer." She smiled and shook her head, gently shaking the cradle.
"Auntie, the lives of our mother and daughter are given by you, if you don't dislike it, you and your uncle will be sent to the end after a hundred years." Liu Meibao said with plastic surgery.
Zhao Niangzi was a little surprised, but more happy, when her man suddenly fell ill in the wild, there was no way to enter the sky, this woman who escaped from the famine passed by and stopped, I don't know how to make her man vomit, and then dug some grass roots for herself to chew and feed. I actually picked up a life.
The reason why she was willing to help this fleeing woman was on the one hand, and on the other hand, she was watching her as a woman with a child, but she was not as desperate and confused as the other fleeing people.
Mrs. Zhao has never seen much of the world, she is illiterate, and she can't say anything, but when the woman with the child stood in front of her, she gave her a different feeling. Her instinctive instinct made her invite this woman to her house to rest, and then she got along later, and after getting along, this rest has been resting until now, and now it is very likely to become a lifetime.
Or maybe I think that after I and the old man suddenly closed our eyes, this single seedling of the Zhao family could keep the woman and live a few more years in this troubled world.
This woman is full of the aura of living and being able to live.
"Okay, good, old woman, I'm really a cultivator. The fortune teller said that I have three sons and four daughters in my life, and you are in harmony." Zhao Niangzi wiped her tears and said. "Although those six didn't survive..."
She quickly suppressed her sadness and told the news to her man, and Zhao Laohan was also very happy, so he simply held a ceremony to recognize his relatives.
"Iron spoon, I'm going to call my aunt in the future.." Zhao Niangzi pulled the iron spoon and said, and pointed to Lu Fang, who had been quietly guarding the cradle, "This is really my sister." As for the two younger sisters, you as an elder brother should take good care of them..."
The iron spoon was a little proud and a little shy, and he didn't know what to say, so he simply ran out. Not long after he ran out, there was a knock running back, bringing up dust in the house.
"Slow down!" Lu Fang stood up and glared at him, and opened his hand to protect the cradle.
Zhao Niangzi pulled him over to fight.
"Grandma, grandma, the officers and soldiers are in!" He shouted.
The people in the room were taken aback, and Mrs. Zhao and his wife immediately rushed out of the door, looking out through the closed gaps such as tables, chairs, benches, etc., and heard the faint sound of neat footsteps on the street, and the louder and louder announcements echoed.
"The barbarian army entered the city..."
"The king enters the city ....."
"The thief is destroyed..."
"There is no crime in autumn, and the people in the city do not need to panic"
In the middle of August of the third year of Yongzhen, the Pingban army won a great victory, and the Huguang Liukou anti-thieves were annihilated.
Although he failed to kill Li Changsan and others, and failed to capture the prisoners, this news was still good news for the emperor who was in trouble at home and abroad.
On September 20, before dawn on this day, outside the military camp outside the capital, a group of men and horses was assembling.
They moved quickly, forming several neat phalanxes almost in a moment, and then stood motionless.
"Where is this soldier?" A passing idler asked curiously.
"It's the barbarian generals, didn't Your Majesty summon them to reward them personally," someone replied.
As they spoke, there was a sound of people gathering behind them, and everyone turned around in amazement.
This side is also assembled into a phalanx, but because of the comparison of this side, the speed is good, and the military appearance is good, no matter how they look at it, they are a little worse.
"Hey, where is this? It's impossible for General Pingban to bring so many people into Beijing? Everyone was amazed, and looked at the phalanx on both sides, and the flags in the phalanx were erected one after another, and finally the literate people saw clearly.
Lu Zi Banner.
"That's Shanxi Bing!"
"It's King Luyan's soldiers!"
Hearing this, everyone roared, and couldn't help but subconsciously avoid some distance.
It is said that there was a king of Lu Yan in Shanxi, and those Tartars who used to be like evil ghosts were so frightened that they fled when they saw the flag, so it can be seen that he must be a terrible person who eats human flesh and drinks human blood.
Chen Qing had been watching from a short distance for a while, and his eyes were also moving back and forth on the military formations on both sides, it seemed to be the same, but in fact, the difference was still obvious, especially as the time went on, the changes in the team became bigger and bigger.
His team began to be a little scattered, and the soldiers were inadvertently soothing their limbs, and some people began to speak in a low voice in the middle of the line, and then looked at the Shanxi soldiers, who were still motionless, as if everyone was carved from stone, cold-blooded and cold-faced and unconscious.
Chen Qing exhaled, turned around, and saw a man with red tasseled phoenix wings, dressed in silver and white iron armor and a big red cloak, on his horse, surrounded by many generals, like stars holding the moon.
Chen Qing squinted his eyes, in fact, he and Lu Yan hadn't seen each other for a long time, and I had to say that the little Guan Tun official who used to stand behind people was inconspicuous, and he had already revealed a bright light that people couldn't look at through the tempering of the battle.