At the beginning of February of the third year of Daping, the Taiyuan Dingguo General's Mansion, there was a sudden burst of chickens and dogs jumping in front of the originally quiet door.

A boy of about ten years old ran by with a wooden stick in his hand, and when he saw him coming, the people who had been standing in the porter were busy coming over and respectfully saluting.

"Young Master Tie.." They shouted in unison.

Iron Spoon ignored them, staring and shaking his head to look around.

"What about the boat? See the boat? Ran over there? He asked aloud.

Honesty and trustworthiness, this question is too difficult for the porter to answer, but given that everyone has gone through countless tests and experience, they all shook their heads silently.

This can mean not knowing or not being able to say.

The iron spoon staggered out the door.

"Young master, my wife has instructed you not to go out to play, and someone must follow you when you go out." The porter said busily.

Before the iron spoon could speak, he heard a chaotic sound of horses' hooves outside the gate.

"The general is back." The porters immediately ran out in unison, and the half-covered door was pushed open, revealing the figure of Lu Yan, who had just reined in his horse in front of the door.

Lu Yan wore a big cloak, a waist knife hanging from his waist, and dismounted neatly with military boots, and the porter had already respectfully gone over to take the reins.

"Uncle." The iron spoon shouted loudly, and the one who jumped three times and two jumped rushed over.

Lu Yan grabbed him and lifted him up.

"The iron spoon has grown again!" He laughed.

The iron spoon grinned, and as soon as Lu Yan put it on the ground, he heard the sound of breaking through the air, and a stone hit his back accurately, although he was separated by a thick winter coat, he could also feel a faint pain.

Before Lu Yan and the iron spoon came back to their senses, Lu Fang showed half of his face from the wall.

"You lost, you died." He first shouted loudly, a sly flash in his bright eyes, and then waved his hand at Lu Yan, "Dad, you're back." I'll tell my mother. ”

After saying this, the man slipped out and disappeared.

"Stinky boy." Lu Yan said with a smile.

Iron Spoon had already shouted not to run and chased after him.

"Your Excellency." The housekeeper who got the news took it out respectfully.

Lu Yan nodded, looked at the familiar door and exhaled, unloading the exhaustion of his body.

"Why did you come back at this time?"

He strode into the house, heard Liu Meibao's voice from a distance, and then saw a somewhat pot-bellied figure turn down the corridor.

Mabel said, with surprise on her face.

"Slow down." Lu Yan hurriedly walked a few steps to support her.

Liu Meibao is six months pregnant and a little bulky. He smiled and accepted his service with peace of mind.

"If you want to come back, you'll come back." Lu Yan replied, holding her arm and walking towards the courtyard.

When I walked in the door, I saw a small head with a red flower poking out of the window, revealing a pair of big eyes, and immediately shrank back after Lu Yan stepped in.

"Dad, Dad, Rou'er is hiding again, I'll take her out." Lu Fang shouted loudly inside, and then heard Rou'er's shrill protest.

"Don't mess with my sister." Liu Meibao hurriedly shouted. I can't help but speed up my pace.

Lu Yan hurriedly followed and walked a few steps.

Lu Fang had already come out with Rou'er, and Rou'er, who was more than three years old, was held in her brother's arms. Legs stumbling against legs, looking like cats and mice, very funny.

"Brother is bad!" Rou'er waved her hand and shouted sharply.

The iron spoon also jumped out from the side to stop Lu Fang.

"Put Rou'er down."

The three of them pulled together, and the room suddenly became noisy.

"Look, there are only three of them, and they can lift the roof every day, and this one is out, and I don't know how to make it lively." Liu Meibao smiled and stroked her stomach helplessly.

"The more lively, the better." Lu Yan said with a smile. "I'm not at home, so it's better to be lively."

When he said this, he went into the house. Stretched out his hand and hugged Rou'er, who was pressing on Lu Fang's body with the iron spoon.

Rou'er is not as bold as her brother, she has stayed away from games such as throwing high and high since she was a child, and she was so frightened that she hugged Lu Yan's arm tightly.

"Do you miss your father?" Lu Yan held her in his arms and asked with a smile, deliberately rubbing her with his stubble face.

Rou'er frowned, her little hand blocked the big head in front of her, and she pouted and called her mother.

"Okay, don't tease her, this girl is a stuffy gourd, and she doesn't say anything in her heart." Liu Meibao smiled, sat down on the side, and shouted to the two who were still rolling around on the ground.

"How old! What a fuss! Have you finished writing? Have you memorized the book? ”

Before she finished shouting, Lu Fang gave the iron spoon a look, and the two ran out by making trouble, and Liu Meibao, who was angry, shouted that she was not allowed to eat at night.

"Don't you see, I can't control these two, I'm getting more and more skinny, and I'm getting more and more slippery." She said.

Lu Yan smiled disappreciatively.

"Don't laugh, your son is very ghostly." Liu Meibao glared, stretched out three fingers at him and waved, "Last month, Mr. left another one, this is already the third one, I think no one in Taiyuan Mansion dares to come to our house to be a teacher, what should you do as a father." ”

Lu Yan put Rou'er down, and Rou'er immediately ran to Liu Meibao's side, climbed onto the kang and hid behind her mother, and secretly looked at Lu Yan.

"I'll take him away." Lu Yan said.

"To Xuanfu?" Liu Meibao was stunned.

Before she could speak, the laughter of the iron spoon and Lu Fang outside the window rang out.

"Go to Xuanfu, go to Xuanfu!" The two children screamed at the top of their voices.

"You're so busy there, how did you bring the child here?" Liu Meibao scolded them to calm down, turned her head and said to Lu Yan.

"What do children have to bring, they are so old that they know that they are hot and cold, hungry and full, and they are very good to bring." Lu Yan said with a smile, "It's no problem to read, there are a lot of scribes." ”

Liu Meibao was a little tempted, thinking that she was now heavy, and these two children really couldn't manage it, and it was not a way for Aunt Zhao and his wife and Guizi to blindly spoil like this.

"Mother, mother, I'll be obedient there, and I won't mess around." Lu Fang couldn't help but jump in from outside the door and promise loudly.

"It's not as comfortable there as it is at home." Liu Meibao said.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not afraid of hardship, I've come through hard times." Lu Fang said loudly with his small chest straight.

In fact, he doesn't know exactly what it means to have a hard life, anyway, Aunt Zhao and Guizi Niang always sigh like this.

"Go, go, go." Liu Meibao pursed her lips and smiled.

I didn't expect my mother to agree so quickly, Lu Fang cheered and rushed over and shouted that my mother was so good.

Lu Yan was afraid that he would hit Liu Meibao lightly or heavily, so he hurriedly reached out and grabbed it.

"Dad, teach me how to ride a horse and shoot arrows when the time comes." Lu Fang grabbed Lu Yan's hand and said with bright eyes.

Lu Yan nodded and smiled and said okay.

"I'm going to learn too." The iron spoon was afraid that he would leak himself, so he stood over and said hurriedly.

"Good. Learn them all, and you have a lot of great skills, so I'm afraid you won't be able to finish learning. Lu Yan smiled and reached out to pat them on the head.

Seeing that the three of them were so lively here, Rou'er Sifu, who had been hiding behind Liu Meibao, came out again and again and pulled the corner of Lu Yan's clothes.

Lu Yan looked back at her and was a little surprised.

Rou'er just looked at him with wide eyes and didn't speak.

"Rou'er is going too?" Lu Yan rarely understood what his daughter meant and asked.

Rou'er nodded.

"You're still young. Wait a little bigger, and then go. Liu Meibao hurriedly beckoned her daughter to come over.

Rou'er just stood still, pulling the corner of Lu Yan's clothes, and Lu Yanxin, who was big at it, melted.

"Okay, let's go." He said loudly, picking up his daughter and announcing.

Liu Meibao smiled helplessly.

At night, Zhao Niangzi and his wife all said goodbye to rest, and Lu Fang and Rou'er were also taken to sleep by the wet nurse, so that the husband and wife had the opportunity to face each other alone.

"What a smirk." After Liu Meibao finished cleaning up the bed, she saw Lu Yan lying on the big kang and looking at herself and grinning.

Lu Yan beckoned to her. Liu Meibao smiled and leaned on his arms.

"I have to keep this child by my side when this child is born." Lu Yan sighed. While gently touching Liu Meibao's belly.

"Hey, that's hard to say." Liu Meibao hurriedly slapped him.

Lu Yan smiled, smiling and smiling with a slightly somber expression.

"Isn't it? Am I right again? Liu Meibao said, got up to look at him, "I heard that this Tartar is going south again?" ”

Lu Yan didn't answer directly, but remembered something.

"By the way, I found Xie Siniang." He said.

Liu Meibao was very surprised.

"Where is she?" She hurriedly asked, surprised and delighted.

Gu'an, Jizhou. A team of centaurs galloped along the side of the mountain at great speed, and gradually saw a team of centaurs appear in front of them.

"Boss, this group of officers and soldiers is chasing after you again." The team saw it. Suddenly a little panicked, and shouted one after another.

These people were dressed in shabby, and each one was described as fierce and rude, obviously dressed as horse thieves and bandits.

Now the horse thieves and bandits in Shanxi and near Xuanfu are almost extinct, and there are sporadic survivors, and they can't escape when they see the officers and soldiers, but these people don't seem to be frightened except for a little panic, and what is even more surprising is that there are seven or eight women in this team of twenty people, and with the call of the boss, everyone's eyes fell on a woman.

"They're coming, boss, let's fight." Someone shouted again.

The woman turned slowly, her face and hair were wrapped in cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed in the cold wind, looking at the approaching officers and soldiers flickering slightly, still did not speak.

"This is the sentinel of the Xuanfu." Looking at the officers and soldiers who had been approaching, these people recognized the iconic dress and well-ordered weapons, and their faces became even more ugly.

The sentinels of Xuanfu are all masters who have seen the Tartars with one enemy and three enemies.

"The brothers in the village are too late to call, boss, you go, we are in the way." A large man standing beside the woman grabbed the two axes in his hand and shouted loudly.

Everyone urged one after another, including a few women, but the woman at the head just rode still, looking close enough to be able to see the faces of the officers and soldiers.

Just as the group of people was about to resist to the death, the group of officers and soldiers suddenly stopped, and the first one of them urged the horse out and went around in a circle, looking at them with cold eyes.

"Official, we are from Cao Yanzhuang..."Someone here gritted his teeth and shouted.

Although they Cao Yanzhuang is a bandit, but in this area is known as a good name, never disturb the people to rob the house, but will help the displaced refugees, food and drink, are also snatched from the hands of the evil thieves and horse thieves, these days with the continuous appearance of sporadic Tartars, they also went to fight the Tartars, the news reached the ears of the government, the governor of Fangzhou still intends to appease them, with this premise, maybe let these terrible sentinels be merciful.

"Xie Siniang." The officer and soldier at the head did not pay attention to this man's words, but interrupted him and shouted.

The voice shouted out, which made these people a little inexplicable, but the woman's eyes were alternating between light and dark, obviously emotional.

"My lord said, if you dare to do evil, you will be killed!" The leader continued.

After that, he didn't look at this side again, and with a wave of his hand, the crowd immediately turned their horses' heads and walked away.

The bandits who were ready to sacrifice their lives to face the battle were hung in place, and one by one they had not come back to their senses.

"Boss, what are they talking about?" A big man couldn't help but turn his head to look at the woman and stammered as he asked.

Xie Siniang ignored him, and galloped forward with a clamp on the horse's belly.

"Do you mean the boss?" A man couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"Impossible, the boss is obviously called Zhao Gui." The other immediately denied.

"Zhao Gui is obviously a man's name, the boss must be using a fake name, do you really believe it?" The first speaker looked at him with contempt.

"What's the fake name, who said that you can only be called by men?" The man was not convinced, shouted with a red face, stretched out his hand and pointed at a man on the side, "The fourth child is still called Fangni, he is a woman?" ”

Before he could finish his words, the man next to him scolded and threw a shoe at him.

"The surname is Quan, you are tired of being crooked.." He blushed and yelled.

But that's when everyone laughed.

"It turns out that the sixth brother's real name is Fang Ni, oops, hey, disrespectful." Everyone laughed.

There was a sudden chaos here, laughter, scolding, and drumming.

"Don't go yet." Xie Siniang turned around and shouted, the cold wind blew through and lifted her cloth, revealing a face that was no longer beautiful.

Everyone stopped fighting and shouted and urged the horses to come.

Xie Siniang glanced back at the place where the group of officers and soldiers had left, and urged the horses and the others to leave.