In the New Year of Yongzhen's third year, Lu Yan, the newly promoted Taiyuan Left Counselor, did not stay in Taiyuan Mansion to familiarize himself with the new environment as everyone expected, but returned to the old mansion in Yanchitan County with his wife and children, saying that it was to worship the ancestors, but in fact, the real purpose was to avoid too much entertainment to accompany his wife and children.

"But no matter what, there must be some entertainment, and I am young so as not to be called frivolous." Liu Meibao sat on the big kang, grabbed melon seeds and peanuts from the kang table and peeled them, and then stuffed them into the mouth of Lu Yan, who was lying on the side.

Lu Yan deliberately chewed out a crunching sound.

"I was already frivolous in their eyes, and I love to think whatever I want." He smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Liu Meibao.

I just wanted to have a little intimacy between husband and wife, and I heard the sound of footsteps outside the door.

"Daddy, Daddy, the snow has stopped, catch the birds." Lu Fang ran in, pounced on Lu Yan's legs, and said.

Lu Yan didn't get up either, stretched out his legs and shook his son up.

Lu Fang giggled and threw himself on his father's chest.

The child is not afraid of the cold, running sweaty, his face is becoming more and more white and red, and there is still a light red between his eyebrows, which is when the village woman steamed the flower bun, Lu Fang was curious to look around there, and was ordered by the noble son, and when he came back, Liu Meibao saw it and laughed that he could be a girl if he combed his pigtails.

"Eggs, eggs, it's time to eat."

Outside, the shouts of the noble lady sounded.

Lu Fang immediately got off Lu Yan, shouted that grandma was going to eat hair cakes, and ran out.

Guiziniang's nickname for Lu Fang always made Liu Meibao laugh.

"What's this in your stomach, braised pork?" She grabbed Lu Yan's arm and smiled.

Lu Yan kissed her on the forehead and reached out to touch his wife's lower abdomen.

"Whether it's meat or liver." He smiled, "It's all our treasure." ”

After eating at Guiziniang's house, watching the children play with Guiziniang while having a homely meal, Liu Meibao couldn't see Lu Yan by mistake.

"My lord said to go out." The servant woman whispered.

Liu Meibao nodded and stopped asking, and was eating melon seeds, when she saw a woman in the village hurrying in, and saw Liu Meibao greeting her with a bit of restraint. Beckoning to the noble son.

Guiziniang walked over, and she whispered a few words in her ear.

"This cheap..."Guiziniang suddenly changed color, and she was about to blurt out a scolding, but Lu Fang and Liu Meibao, who were afraid of the house, swallowed it back.

When Guiziniang hurriedly walked out, Liu Meibao noticed it, hesitated for a moment, and followed out.

Guizi's grave is at the entrance of the village, and when you walk out of the village, you will see the dirt bag covered with heavy snow. At this time, a man sat in front of the earthen bag, holding a wine glass and drinking with his head up, and behind him, a slender woman stood.

"Who told you to come! Who told you to come over! ”

Seeing this woman from afar, Guiziniang scolded like crazy, she picked up the branch on the side, held it and rushed there.

"Auntie." Lu Yan hurriedly got up, a little helpless to dissuade him.

Guizi Niang was crazy and hit the branch towards Xie Siniang.

Xie Siniang didn't dodge or dodge, and let the withered branches smash on her body and slash across her face. The original bloodstained face suddenly had two more cuts.

"Auntie." Lu Yan grabbed Guizi Niang's branch and blocked in front of Xie Siniang. "Don't be like this, sister-in-law just wants to see Brother Guizi...."

"You call her sister-in-law!" Guiziniang was even more excited, sitting cross-legged on the ground clapping her hands and crying.

What kind of evil, broom star, harm people, not only harm the noble son, but also harm them in the village.....

"Why don't you die!" She pointed to Xie Siniang, who was standing in a daze, and cried. There was more despair in the anger, "Why don't you die!" ”

Xie Siniang looked at her and slowly lowered her head.

"I'm going to die. When you damn it, you're going to die. For the first time, she spoke in front of Guizi Niang, and her voice was soft.

Then he turned and walked away.

"She's unlucky, I've been looking for a blind man to see it, this woman is a celestial star, whoever is next to her is unlucky, you don't listen, you don't listen, you call his sister-in-law, you call her sister-in-law to hurt you, hurt Mei Bao and Dan'er!" Guiziniang looked at Lu Yan and cried again.

Seeing that Lu Yan was crying and didn't know what to do, Liu Meibao hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded Guiziniang with him, and repeatedly assured her to calm down.

"I want to talk to your son about this big holiday." Lying on the bed at night, Lu Yan hugged Liu Meibao and said, his voice was a little heavy.

This time Pingyang defended the city and supported the defense of the eastern front of Shanxi, the salt patrol of the Hedong Army was mobilized, more than half of the dead and wounded, and many of the generals were also killed.

Liu Meibao reached out and hugged him, snuggling tightly on his chest, as if this would squeeze his grief away.

"Sister-in-law, she is very powerful this time, Wu Daqun wants to declare a merit reward for her." Lu Yan didn't want his wife to worry, so he changed the topic and smiled.

Since embarking on this path, everyone has understood in their hearts that there will come a day when people die, and the living will have to continue to live, not only for themselves, but also for the lives of the dead brothers, for the families of the dead brothers.

"Can you approve it from above?" Liu Meibao followed his words and asked, it is rare for women to join the army, let alone raise the reward.

"What's not to do." Lu Yan didn't care.

"That's for the best." Liu Meibao said with a smile, "Maybe there will be a female general so that we women can fight for face." ”

When it comes to women fighting for face, Liu Meibao thinks of the Zheng lady who is a soldier, after the victory of the city defense, although the manpower is tight, Lu Yan still sends someone to escort Miss Zheng home.

Afterwards, Zheng Bingbei personally wrote to Lu Yan to thank him, and Mrs. Zheng also wrote a letter and sent a generous gift to Liu Meibao, in which she was very grateful for the health of her daughter.

"I heard from the woman of the Zheng family who sent the letter that Miss Zheng would no longer use a knife to rob, and she actually listened to her mother's words and began to learn from female popularity." Liu Meibao said, sighing, "It can be seen that she was scared a lot this time." ”

Lu Yan was not interested in this person, said something else, and the two fell asleep, and slept until midnight, Liu Meibao suddenly woke up with abdominal pain, and found that his lower body was bleeding, and he panicked that the entire salt pond beach was turned on his back. Fortunately, I asked the doctor to boil the medicine and take it, and it stopped at dawn.

"It's this worry that is overworked, but fortunately, my wife is in good health and has a good foundation, and after three months of good recuperation, it will be fine."

After dawn, more famous doctors were pulled by Lu Yan's people one after another, and Liu Meibao was diagnosed one by one, and finally came to this unified statement, and Lu Yan was a little relieved.

Guiziniang sat aside and cried. Determined that it was the bad luck brought by Xie Siniang, he scolded Lu Yan fiercely, and led people to knock down Xie Siniang's shack outside the village, Lu Yan and Liu Meibao were persuading, and some villagers said that Xie Siniang's shack was on fire.

"She burned it herself." The villager said tremblingly, looking at Lu Yan's somewhat frightened expression, "Then, then she left." ”

Hearing the news, the people in the room were silent, and Guiziniang stopped crying and scolding.

"It's good to go, it's long overdue." It was a long time before she burst into tears.

Until mid-February. Liu Meibao's body can be considered completely recovered, and after being confirmed by many doctors to act as usual. Lu Yan finally agreed to take a car back to Taiyuan Mansion after she had been recuperating at her home in Yanchitan.

When the carriage passed by the entrance of the village, Liu Meibao lifted the curtain to see that there were only a few burned black stones left in Xie Siniang's shack.

I don't know where this woman is.

Everyone thought that Xie Siniang had left Yanchitan to return to Pingyangwei, but when Lu Yan returned from his vacation, he learned from the magistrate of Pingyangwei that Xie Siniang had not returned to the team, and there was no news.

It is a great sin for a soldier to flee without telling him. wanted to be dealt with by military law, only to feel that the long-faced Wu Daqun suddenly became angry again, and it was even rumored that it was because he had a bad plot against Xie Siniang that he forced this woman away. For this reason, Wu Daqun was made a good fuss by his wife and concubine at home, and the angry Wu Daqun was furious, and sent soldiers to arrest the deserter Xie Siniang.

Until now, Xie Siniang has evaporated like others, there is no news at all, and her experience has spread, everyone thinks that this woman may have found a place to cut herself off, and Pingyangwei gave up looking.

Located in the southeast of Taiyuan Prefecture, the housekeeper took a group of servants to greet the wife and young master, all of them in high spirits and smiling.

Liu Meibao still came here a year ago, and after packing up and arranging, she followed Lu Yan back to Yanchi Beach, which was still very strange to her, but because Lu Yan lived here these days, it was full of the smell of this man, so everything was so familiar to their mother and son.

"Mrs. slow down, young master slow down." The servant woman rushed to support Liu Meibao, and Lu Fang couldn't wait to jump out of the carriage by herself, so everyone was so panicked that everyone hurriedly shouted.

"Daddy." Lu Fang ran home with his calves.

Behind him, the housekeeper personally went to follow and protect him, shouting to the little ancestor to slow down.

"It's okay, he's used to it." Liu Meibao smiled and stood on the ground carefully.

Before he finished speaking, he heard an oops, and Lu Fang and the person collided together.

"You don't have long eyes." The butler hugged Lu Fang, who fell into his arms, and angrily scolded the person who came out of his face.

This is a group of three people, all dressed as soldiers, but at this time, they don't have the momentum of Lu Yan's soldiers, but they are dejected and discouraged.

They obviously knew the housekeeper, and they had also seen Lu Fang, who was often taken by Lu Yan's side, so they hurriedly knelt down to make amends.

"Hurry up, what's the matter." Liu Meibao said later.

Lu Fang rubbed his forehead, broke away from the housekeeper, and ran in again.

"Ma'am, ma'am." When the three soldiers saw Liu Meibao, they raised their heads and called out with a bit of hope.

Before he could say anything, he was stopped by the soldiers behind him shouting in unison.

"Military law is intolerable, so don't waste your efforts." One of them said coldly, with a bit of warning in his eyes.

When the three of them heard this, they immediately lowered their heads again, kowtowed to Liu Meibao, got up and left, raising their hands to wipe their tears as they walked.

"What's going on?" Liu Meibao couldn't help asking.

"Madam, these are the three guards who followed the adult, so they made a mistake, so the adult ordered the expulsion." The leader of the soldiers, who had just spoken, bowed down and said.

Lu Yan's rewards in the army are rich, but at the same time, the punishment is also extremely severe, and the expulsion is not only the expulsion of the parties, but all his family members must be expelled together, for the soldiers, this punishment is simply heavier than killing the head.

Out of the first month, the weather is still very cold, and the three families are expelled at this time, for fear of a great sin.

But the military law is strict, and Liu Meibao will not talk too much.

"Go to your house and get some silver and rice for them." She whispered to the butler, "It's good to last a while." ”

The housekeeper answered yes and went, and Liu Meibao led someone into the door.

Seeing her enter, the leader of the soldiers exhaled with relief.

"Shut my mouth shut about this, and no one is allowed to mention it again until now." He turned and whispered to the other soldiers behind him, his expression serious.

"Yes." The crowd was busy receiving their orders.