The briquettes did fly in.

Yan Lao Er and Xue Zongqi had just entered the county office, and they didn't take two steps before they faced the officials of the soap class.

The people on both sides were looking at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and they listened to the two sounds of "bang" outside the wall.

A bag containing briquettes was thrown against the wall.

Two more "呲呲".

Another bag.

"呲呲" "呲呲" ......

The pattern is very well summarized.

Speaking of which, the people who sent briquettes to the county government were not outsiders, but a few errand boys in the quarry.

They were also the officers of the county government, and because they were on duty in the quarry, they were not surrounded inside.

The people in the county government can't go out, and the coal consumption for heating stoves is large, and they can't send it for a few days, and they can't take too much dry food from the border troops surrounding the county government outside, so they rush to deliver it in the middle of the night, and send more at a time.

"Yan ......" The official reacted too quickly, swallowed half of the words directly, and said excitedly: "I'm back!" ”

The fastest Ma slipped into the backyard to deliver a letter to the eldest master.

The remaining few surrounded Yan Lao Er, as if they had endless words.

They didn't dare to be too loud yet.

Xue Zongqi was excluded and followed behind, and he couldn't hear what these people said at all, so he saw a group of big men surrounding Yan Lao Er and talking silly.

……

"Teacher!" As soon as Yan Lao Er saw Master Tian, he threw himself over and knelt down.

hugged his waist, just about to speak, savored the feeling, and swallowed the words "you lost weight" with difficulty.

It is impossible to say such unconscionable words.

He raised his head affectionately, "You're haggard!" ”

Who was pulled out of the bed in the middle of the night to refresh himself?

"It's okay to be a teacher, it's fine, but it's you, why did you come back?" Master Tian really can't get enough of his students.

"I heard that the county government is besieged, and I'm worried about you."

"As a teacher, the official of the imperial court, the surname Wei can only surround me, I dare not do anything, the official office has the protection of the son, but people can't get out, everything else is as usual." Master Tian looked at it for a while, his student was black and thin, the corners of his mouth were white, and there was a red fire bubble under his nose, and his heart was sour: "God bless, you have suffered." ”

He took Yan Laoer's hands and looked at them carefully, and the two hands were rough as if they had been polished with sandpaper.

I couldn't help but feel distressed, turned my head away, and tears stained my clothes.

Master Tian ordered someone to fetch hot water, pulled Yan Laoer, washed his hands and wiped his face, without pretending to be others.

Yan Lao's face was flushed.

His teacher clenched him tightly, and the old man's hand trembled not too obviously, but obviously the whole body was tense, especially the pair of tearful eyes, which made him uncomfortable, and seemed to be soaked in a hot pot and gurgling, cooking him thoroughly from the outside to the inside, numb and warm.

"You have to abandon your pen and follow Rong, because the teacher can't stop you." Master Tian smeared paste on Yan Laoer's face and hands.

Impato.

Yan Lao Er is honest.

"Remember, the hardships you are enduring now are the steps of your and his progress, God bless, once you have made up your mind, don't look back, move forward, and the road ahead is at your feet."

"Teacher, I didn't suffer much outside, really, the big guys took care of me, and Xue Zongqi also had a discussion with me, and the remnants of Beirong made us scream......"

The two masters and apprentices, one said that he acted in various ways outside, and the other said that he was fed in the county office.

Yan Lao Er fell asleep in a daze as he spoke.

Master Tian put him in a correct sleeping position, blew out the candles, and returned the room to silence.

……

Early morning.

Yan Lao Er got up, and it was already bright daylight.

He got dressed, washed up, and rushed to the kitchen as soon as possible.

I saw his teacher standing there, waiting for the freshly cooked millet porridge to be put into a bowl and packed into a food box.

Seeing him coming, Master Tian smiled and wrinkled the lines at the corners of his eyes.

"Teacher, I'll get it." Yan Lao Er greeted him.

Master Tian snorted, and the food box that didn't let others move changed hands.

Yan Lao Er saw that the pickles at home were still in stock, so he poured out a plate, and the master and apprentice ate the millet porridge fragrantly.

Master Tian suddenly knocked an extra egg on the table in his hand, rolled in a circle, and then carefully removed the broken shell, and put the white and tender boiled egg into Yan Laoer's porridge bowl.

looked at him with a smile: "Eat more, the porridge is not enough." ”

"Teacher, why don't you eat?" Yan Lao Er reacted, "Just an egg?" ”

"The chickens are all sent by the palace, it is not easy to get at this time, the prince is sympathetic, and eats one a day for the teacher, what is there to eat one less day."

Yan Lao Er thought about it and swallowed it in one gulp.

This is not an egg, this is the teacher's deep love for him.

"Xue Zongqi went to see the prince, your affairs are not good and ambiguous, wait for dinner, and accompany you for the teacher." Master Tian said.

"Teacher, let's not go, I and Lao Xue have said okay, the prince said to go, in the end, it is the cousin of the prince, the family who closes the door, there is something to say.

What we are doing outside, if the prince doesn't ask him face-to-face, don't mention it, teacher, you shouldn't know about it. ”

Although it was very clear in Xiao Er's letter that his eldest brother had made it clear to him that he had done this, the county government had not been relieved of the siege for a day, so he could not take it lightly.

Master Tian pondered for a moment and nodded.

"Teacher, you are safe here, I am relieved, this time I come back, there is another thing, I ask you to help settle the things, I don't know where, there is no account, I want to settle a part of it, and divide it among the brothers of the militia." Yan Lao Er said.

This so-called thing is the cattle and sheepskins and other things, which are the trophies of Xue Zongqi's border army and militia group.

Master Tian: "That's the settling-in fee you said?" ”

"Yes." Yan Lao Er nodded and said: "Beirong has won the war, but it is not good for us, and others have taken the majority of the head."

The rest are enough for us to make up for the holes we prepared for the war before. ”

Yan Lao Erxin said that his brother is no longer an immortal, he can't turn into silver, and the current situation of the tiger is still not optimistic, and the big hat with two words has never been taken off - lack of money.

"The teacher knows best, many people's crops have been eaten up, and there are no seeds, what do they plant in the spring? If we don't know how to be flexible and miss the spring sowing, what will happen to this year's harvest?! ”

In just half a year, I have experienced too much, and Master Tian is no longer the original Master Tian.

He barely hesitated, and said, "Take out your account, and we'll be right." ”

Yan Lao Er took out his account book.

Pure straw paper, charcoal small characters, written on both sides, each one was neatly folded, he opened them one by one, and spread half of the kang.

Yan Lao Er took the accounts recorded here and compared them with those he recorded.

The cattle and sheep transported over were slightly damaged, after all, they were not professionals, and it was normal to lose a few of them halfway.

There is nothing wrong with things, and although the people who are in the official office can't get out, they do the same work that should be done.

Temporarily recruited the people of the city, guarded the city gates, patrolled the streets, fought guards, and so on.

The tiger did not stop because the official office was besieged.

It's really as Master Tian said: everything is as usual. (End of chapter)