When she said this suddenly, Lu Yan was obviously a little surprised.

"How do you know .." He asked.

Liu Meibao stretched out her hand to poke him.

"I can't see what you're hiding when you're stupid." She laughed.

Lu Yan smiled, took her in his arms, and smelled the fragrance after taking a bath.

"Li Changsan surrounded the capital.." He said, "The army mobilized Shanxi soldiers and horses into Beijing and ordered me to send troops to Hedong." ”

Liu Meibao sat up suddenly and glared at him.

"Who else is going but you?" She asked in a low voice.

Lu Yan looked at his wife with his head resting on his arms and smiled, but did not speak.

This was a tacit acquiescence to his guess, Liu Meibao looked at him, and slowly leaned up to his chest again.

"You have to promise me that you will come back safely," she said, her voice choked up.

From the moment of dawn, the rapid drums and gongs of Hedong Fort continued to sound, and the soldiers of the Hedong Fort were neatly dressed and led by their respective officers to run and converge on the school field outside the city.

The thieves besieged the city, the Son of Heaven was trapped, the northeast soldiers and horses were held back by the Tartars who entered the winter hunt, the southeast soldiers and horses were cut off by Li Changsan's anti-thieves, and the Shanxi soldiers and horses entered Beijing to relieve the siege and kill the thieves.

The news spread throughout the east of the river early in the morning, and the streets above the city gate were crowded with dense people, watching a pair of soldiers solemnly pass by.

I don't know if I can return safely.

The young woman in the crowd who saw her off, the ninja squeezed out a smile of grief and told her man to be careful outside.

The children were carried by adults and waved their little hands and shouted Daddy.

"Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, Lord Ethics provides for my whole family, gives the fields and cattle, you do a good job, don't lose the face of Lord Ethics." The older father instructed his son.

At this moment, no matter how reluctant and worried everyone was about their loved ones, they still smiled and waved goodbye to their relatives, and the soldiers in the marching procession, although they were reluctant to leave home, were worried about the unknown future of life and death. But it's more exciting, the excitement of the tiger who has been trapped for a long time to get out of the cage, for Hedong soldiers, having a war means that they can be promoted to become rich, and it means that they can live a good life for themselves and their families.

On the school ground, Lu Yan stood solemnly, lined up with neatly draped generals beside him, and looked at the ranks in front of him row after row. Soon, as the sound of war drums fell, the five thousand soldiers were assembled, and there was silence on the school field where the black pressure was full of heads.

Lu Yan stepped forward and glanced at everyone.

"What are we fighting for?" He raised his voice and shouted.

"Defend the country!"

"Protect the family!"

The shouts in the teaching field rang out.

"What are we fighting for?" After the shouting was over, Lu Yan raised his voice again and shouted.

"Defend the country!"

"Protect the family!"

Everyone on the school field craned their necks and shouted hoarsely, accompanied by this shout. Wielding the spear weapon in your hand.

This wave of sound resounded in Hedong Fort.

Liu Meibao stood on the city gate, holding the child, and couldn't help but burst into tears as she looked at the team in the distance.

A few days after Lu Yan left, Hedong ushered in a heavy snowfall.

Although most people in Hedong Fort can eat, heating is still a big problem, Liu Meibao raised some firewood, and asked Liu Niangzi to sort out the particularly poor military households, door to door.

Looking at the honest wife who wore a half-worn jacket and stepped into her humble shack, the poor people were moved to kneel and kowtow. Liu Meibao's eye sockets are shallow, and she also cries when people cry, so that every time she visits a house, she can end up crying.

"Our life is a little hard, but God is hungry and blind, as long as we get through it, we will definitely have a good life." Liu Meibao took an old woman's hand and said.

"With such living bodhisattvas as adults and wives, you will definitely be able to live a good life." The old woman said with tears in her eyes, "We are all crippled people, and we can't contribute to the worries of adults." But the adults and their wives don't dislike us..."

"Who doesn't get old. How can it be possible to write off the credit of being young because you are old. Liu Meibao shook her head and said.

"This is the old man to rely on, the old man to rely on...", some literati heard the words of Mrs. Integrity. sighed one after another, "Hedong Fort is like this, how can it not make people smeared." ”

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Ning Baohua, the master who presided over the affairs in the fort, announced the start of annual leave in rotation, and issued New Year's goods in accordance with the rules.

Because of the successive major events in Hedong this year, the economy is tight, fortunately, the women organized by Liu Meibao have set up a farm vegetable garden and fish pond to support some of them, and the New Year's goods are finally reduced to two buckets of rice and grain, ensuring that there is still a pound of meat, and the whole castle is jubilant.

In a joyful mood, Liu Meibao visited the homes of those soldiers who went to war, and sent wine, meat and cloth.

"This is what my wife bought at her own expense." The master said to those people on the side.

Let these people be grateful.

In the future, Liu Meibao was called a loving mother in the Hedongbao military household, which made her embarrassed.

"Madam, this is not a small cost." The master was a little dissatisfied with her action, and said nonchalantly afterwards.

"It didn't cost you any money." Liu Meibao was unceremonious to him.

In front of the master, she does not have the dignified and kind wife of the integrity, but she has special requirements for etiquette, and every time she has to meet with the master, she will patiently let the master give all the etiquette.

"Madam, your most important thing is to bring the little master, don't give up the basics." Master snorted and said.

In order to make more money, Liu Meibao began to take on the work concocted by Ejiao again, because she had to visit and condolence during the day and was busy with some chores, and the concocted work could only be done at night, and these things would definitely not be hidden from the master.

"That's my son." Liu Meibao snorted and said, then took the son from the nurse on the side, and kissed him on his round face, "Xiaozhou, have you slept enough today?" Is it okay for my mother to take you to play? ”

During the 100-day banquet, Lu Yan invited Xuezheng Daru from Taiyuan Mansion to name his son, called Lu Fang, and Liu Meibao laughed and gave his son a nickname, called Xiaozhou.

Lu Xiaozhou, who is about to be four months old, doesn't like to cry or laugh, and looks quiet and a little wooden.

"People say that the son Xiao mother, the daughter Xiao father, the boat you look like your mother, but this character is the same as your father..." Liu Meibao looked at her son and sighed, "Stupid and stupid.."

"Erlang is not stupid, that's... Be.. Steady momentum.." When Guiziniang heard this, she immediately rehabilitated Lu Yan.

was kissed by his mother, he grinned, made a babbling sound, and waved his hands and feet slightly, which was already a rare reaction of the steady and powerful Lu Xiaozhou.

The master shook his head and looked at the child's eyes with love in his eyes.

Liu Meibao took the child and the servant woman to the inner house.

"Is there any new news?" The master beckoned the scribe and asked.

The scribe shook his head and said not for the time being.

"Three days ago, I said that I had already met Li Thief..."The master frowned and sighed and said to himself.

I don't know if it's a victory or a defeat, it stands to reason that this Li Changsan's tangled subordinates are not powerful, and the imperial army has also defeated its subordinates several times, but it always doesn't take long for it to resurge, and it is rumored that Li Changsan has been blessed by the gods and passed on the secret method of the King Kong body, so the soldiers and generals under him are also so unkillable.

Of course, these words were preached among the people.

"I'll report it as soon as there's news." The master instructed, thought about it and said, "Send a copy to my wife immediately, there is no need to hide it, just present it to her in its original form." ”

The scribe responded.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the soldiers and horses of Shanxi defeated the Li thief, and the Li thief retreated to the Wuli Bridge in the capital of fifty miles.

Liu Meibao put down the newspaper in her hand and took out the letter written by Lu Yan.

"Madam, it's not too early." The servant woman came in lightly and said, while holding a bowl of soup, "This is ginseng and chicken soup boiled in the kitchen..."

Liu Meibao put down the letter and took it with a smile.

"You're on duty today?" She laughed and looked at the snowflakes on the servant's shoulder, "It's snowing again?" ”

"Yes, it's been a long time." The servant woman laughed.

Liu Meibao looked out the window, there were lanterns hanging in the yard, shining on the falling snowflakes, a layer had accumulated on the ground, and the atmosphere of the year was stronger under the reflection of red lanterns.

However, this year is destined to be a year of not peace, everyone is panicking, rumors are spreading everywhere that the sky is going to change, prices have risen ridiculously high, coupled with the imperial court soldiers and horses and Li Changsan's war, the people in the vicinity have suffered and fled the disaster The number of people fleeing the disaster has increased sharply.

Lu Yan's military advisor Wang Mo never forgot to fish for the population, he specially gave orders to the sentinel strikers in the Hedong soldiers, etc., and went around to promote the good place of Hedong Fort, attracting countless victims to Hedong, which surprised the accompanying Shanxi soldiers, one more person consumes more food, how is this Hedong Fort different from ordinary people?

These victims who came one after another were all left behind by Hedong Fort, and the annual leave of the generals and officials at all levels who stayed behind could not rest, but everyone had no complaints.

Lord Ethics led people to fight with thieves in front, life and death are in danger, and I will wait for the back to be hard and tired, at least there is no danger to my life.

"I don't know if I can't get down in the capital." She couldn't help but say to herself, "If it snows, this battle will be even more bitter." ”

On the first day of the first month, Shandong Li Thief troops reinforced, outside to resist Shanxi soldiers and horses, the capital was trapped for a long time, and there was a riot in the city.

This is the day of the New Year's Festival, Liu Meibao returned to Yanchitan on behalf of Lu Yan to pay New Year's greetings to the villagers, and condolences to the Salt Patrol Division.

The salt patrol is still in the hands of Lu Yan, and it is the largest source of income, supplying the military expenses of Hedong Fort.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the king of Jin personally marched to the front line and proposed a plan to encircle and suppress Li thieves.

Liu Meibao went to Pingyang Weidai Lu Yan to pay New Year's greetings to the garrison and officials at all levels, and went to the Martyrs' Shrine with the garrison's wife to offer to the heroic souls.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Yushan led the army to break through the defense line of Li Thief.

Liu Meibao accepted New Year's greetings from the officers under the jurisdiction of the fort in the Conduct Hall, and called on the Son of Heaven to abstain from meat and vegetarianism for 100 days.

On the tenth day of the first month, the prince of Jin led his soldiers and horses to fight fiercely with Li Changsanwuli Bridge.

Eight days later, the battle of Li Thief was unfavorable, the company and the camp were defeated, and more than 1,200 were beheaded, and the siege of the capital was relieved.