Liang Yong's army of 30,000 repeatedly confirmed the great victory of the Shanxi and Guanning armies led by Lu Yan before ordering the army to pull out the camp and go to the front line of the great victory.

Lu Yan and others have already chased the Tartar army, some soldiers in Liang Yong's army are eager to try, and it is recommended to pursue together, everyone has so many soldiers and horses, and then take advantage of the momentum of Lu Yan's army, maybe they can kill the thief and prisoner again or something, but Liang Yong is steady and careful to plan and strategize, and when he was about to make a decision, the news came that the Tartars had all left the country.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the news.

The emperor ordered the armies to turn back, and the imperial court also began to deal with the aftermath of meritorious rewards and punishments, but these things were no longer concerned about the people in Shanxi.

This time, more than half of the Shanxi soldiers were killed or wounded, and almost half of Shanxi fell into the grief of losing their relatives, and the specific casualty list of ordinary soldiers has not yet been supplied, and those high-ranking officers have let their relatives know through various channels.

The daughter-in-law of Zhang Sihai, a guerrilla general at Beiloukou, had been lowered from the beam of the house in time and was lying on the bed without dripping water.

Liu Meibao grabbed Zhang Sihai's two children, who were lying in the arms of her grandparents and crying in horror and didn't know what was going on, and pushed them to her bed.

"If you really want to do it for him, you shouldn't seek death." She said in a deep voice, "General Zhang is no longer here, the children have no father, and they are loyal, but what should they do?" ”

Zhang Sihai's daughter-in-law burst into tears, and the servant woman behind Liu Meibao pushed the two already frightened children in time, and whispered a word of crying, and the two children really cried, kneeling in front of the bed and holding their mother's legs.

"My mother died in righteousness. People who have a mother will never know the suffering of not having a mother, yes, General Zhang is dead, the court is dead, whether it is Shanxi or Shanxi, he will support his parents and children, but no matter how much he eats and drinks, he will make up for the pain of not having parents..."Liu Meibao said, her voice choked up. The pain of losing his parents when he was a child is a pain that is difficult to make up for the lack of a corner of his heart in his life, "If you really want to live for him, you should live well and live for him like Xie Siniang..."

Zhang Sihai's daughter-in-law finally sat up from the bed, hugged the two children and cried loudly.

walked out of Zhang Sihai's house and got into the carriage, and the servant woman hurriedly took a hot handkerchief and put it on Liu Meibao's eyes.

"....Mrs. Fu is okay?" She asked, her voice has become hoarse these days because of too much crying and internal fire.

"It's okay, Mrs. Fu said to reassure Mrs. Fu. She must take good care of Mrs. Fu's parents and raise the children. The concubines in the family also ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing, and will never be sold. The servant woman hurriedly said.

Liu Meibao nodded and exhaled.

“… Also, the little ladies who committed suicide a few days ago have already recovered, saying that they will not seek death again, and they will definitely live well and observe the festival for their husbands. The servant woman said again.

Many of the women who committed suicide were young women who had only been married for a long time, and the youngest had just turned eighteen. How long is a lifetime....

Liu Meibao only felt that her eyes were sore, and the tears that had just stopped couldn't help but fall, and she was busy blocking them with a handkerchief.

"Some women said they could also learn from Siniang. Serve the husband for the adults." The servant woman hurriedly said in order to dispel her sadness.

Xie Siniang's words slipped by, and Liu Meibao took down the handkerchief.

"Pack my things, I'm going back to Salt Pond Beach." She said.

The old yard where Guiziniang lives has already been repaired, next to Lu Yan's old house, Guiziniang lives here alone for most of the year, although Lu Yan and Liu Meibao repeatedly asked her to go to Taiyuan to live for a long time, but Guiziniang refused.

"There is no one in this family, I'm afraid that your son will be uneasy." She said.

Lu Yan and Liu Meibao had no choice but to call more people, but Guiziniang didn't ask for it, leaving only the two little girls, and the others retreated back.

She said that she was a lonely old woman who could move her hands and feet, and that she didn't need to be served, and that there were so many women in the village that they rushed to take care of her, and she lacked nothing.

What is lacking can never be filled.

Liu Meibao has been sitting in the hall for a long time, and since Guiziniang knew her intention, she entered the inner room without saying a word, closed the door and never saw her again.

"Madam, look. This man is like a child when he is old, and he is unreasonable." The women in the village said to Liu Meibao embarrassedly.

"Isn't that unreasonable?" The door in the house opened, and Guizi Niang stood holding on to the door, her wrinkled face trembling slightly, "This woman wants to enter my family's grave, this is the feng shui that is going to harm my Zhao family..."

"Auntie." Liu Meibao shouted violently, interrupting Guiziniang's words.

Since marrying in Yanchitan, she has always been smiling and welcoming, and she has never said a heavy word, let alone spoken to Guiziniang like this.

Everyone was stunned, and Guiziniang stopped talking.

"I know that you are a mother, but at this moment, can you just be a woman." Liu Meibao looked at her with tears in her eyes, "You are also a woman, why should a woman be embarrassed by a woman, she has already repaid her death, and all she asks for is to die and be in the same hole, why can't you agree?" She has a hard life, a bad life, a broom star, she created sin in her previous life, and she is so bitter in this life, she has already suffered to this extent, it's enough, why should we force her like God anymore! The sky will not stop her, and people will kill her! ”

Guizi Niang looked at her in a daze, two lines of tears slowly flowed down, she moved her lips and finally didn't say anything, but put down her hand in despair.

Liu Meibao returned to Taiyuan and was about to write to Lu Yan to tell him that Guiziniang had agreed to let Guizi and Xie Siniang be together, when she received a letter from Lu Yan.

“… After resting, I took the rest of my sister-in-law's people to Gu'an, and my sister-in-law's Cao Yanzhuang had a total of 760 people, and this time she brought 700 people to rescue me....."

Xie Siniang's stockade was almost hollowed out.

"The only ones left are women, children, old and young." A sturdy man who followed behind Lu Yan said.

Xie Siniang brought seven hundred people, and there were only forty people left after the battle that day, Lu Yan looked back at this man and the men like him.

After the war that day, Lu Yan asked them what their plans were, led by a man surnamed Chang Mingchun, he said that Xie Siniang had already said that although they were bandits, they were mainly Lord Lu of Shanxi. Everything but with the arrangement of adults.

"You are all good men, but when you join our army, it is very different from when you were a bandit, and you have to obey the supremacy of military law, what can you accept?" Lu Yan asked after a moment of silence.

These men who can survive in the Tartars are very capable, and they can mix well anywhere, but it is not necessarily the case in the army, Lu Yan's army has never been a prominent personal hero.

"The boss often says that it is not in vain to follow the adults to be vigorous. We hear you. Chang Chun said loudly, looking back at the other brothers beside him, and touching his head with a smile, "Actually, the boss is already very good at us..."

At the mention of the boss, his smile dimmed again.

Lu Yan nodded, and handed them over to the military magistrate to arrange, and they also participated in the ambush of the Tartars.

At this time, these forty men were all wearing the most ordinary sergeant clothes in Lu Yan's army, but the unruly aura of horse thieves and bandits had not yet dissipated, and they could be seen at a glance that they were different from the other soldiers.

A group of people soon came to Cao Yanzhuang, this village was built extremely well, and a big flagpole was erected. There is a flag fluttering on the word Zhao.

Xie Siniang took Zhao Gui as the name, and Lu Yan looked at the banner silently.

Two arrows burst through the air. Steady shot into the feet of one of the soldiers standing at the front.

"Hurry away! Otherwise, there will be no mercy! "There is a crisp voice in the walled door, slightly hoarse with the voice change period, which sounds very weird.

Lu Yan looked and saw a row of bows and arrows exposed on the side of the walled gate, and the bright arrows were aimed at them.

Judging from the number of bows and arrows, there were no less than a hundred, and then there was a heavy sound of footsteps. There seems to be a lot of people rally.

This kind of trick can deal with ordinary horse thieves and even officers and soldiers, but for Lu Yan and others, let alone fake. Even if there are really 100 people gathered, what is there?

Lu Yan looked at Chang Chun.

"It's a trick played by King Kong.." Chang Chun said, with a slight smile on his face.

Before he could finish his words, the village shouted again.

"Where are you officers and soldiers? We are under the command of Lord Lu of Shanxi, and we have been ordered to garrison this place, so you had better leave quickly, otherwise you will be ruthless with your sword and arrows..."The hoarse voice shouted loudly.

These words made Lu Yan's subordinates and generals couldn't help laughing.

"King Kong, get down, don't be ashamed!" A big man shouted over there.

Suddenly, a head poked out of the gate to look this way.

"I actually know my grandfather's name, where is you..."The man said in a hoarse voice, and halfway through his words, he turned into an exclamation, "Uncle Tian! It's Uncle Lao Tian! And Uncle Chang! ”

He shouted and shouted that he was already crying.

"Mother is back! Mother is back! He shouted loudly, waving his arms behind him, and the next moment the whole person suddenly disappeared from the gate of the wall, as if he had fallen with a foot.

Soon the gate was opened, and a thin man rushed over, and seven or eight children of different sizes poured out behind him, screaming and shouting chaotically, and the rest were some women and old men staggering and rushing over, crying with joy one by one.

Chang Chun and the others also looked sad and their eyes were red.

But when the men were halfway through the race, a boy who was following the man at the front suddenly stopped.

"Brother King Kong, no, why are these people all officers and soldiers?" He said, his voice a little soft.

The person who was called King Kong stopped, looked at Chang Chun and the others who were rushing over in a daze, and then looked at Lu Yan and the others who were following them.

"Stop." He stretched out his arm to stop the others who were still rushing over, "Stop." ”

Everyone was in a mess, but they all stopped.

"Go back, go back, close the gate." King Kong shouted loudly, waving his hand quickly behind him.

Everyone didn't know what was happening, but the old women immediately turned and ran.

"Uncle Chang, why did you put on the clothes of the officers and soldiers?" He shouted loudly, his face guarded, "Where is my mother? What about others? ”

These smart children are the eldest of the ten orphans adopted by Xie Siniang, named King Kong, fourteen years old this year, Lu Yan said in detail in the letter, after Chang Chun's patient explanation, they were able to enter the walled gate, when they heard that Xie Siniang and others had died in battle, everyone cried bitterly.

“… The youngest child was as old as Rou'er, and when we entered, women and children were armed with weapons in their hands, and the youngest child was no exception... Mei Bao, these children know us, even the three-year-old children know that they call Uncle Erlang and Aunt Mei Bao, it is the sister-in-law who tells them that we are their relatives to rely on..."

Liu Meibao closed the letter and couldn't calm down for a long time, and half a month later, she saw with her own eyes these people left by Xie Siniang, who had never seen them, but respected them.

Lu Yan led the Shanxi soldiers to turn around.