Seeing that the New Year is approaching, although Dezhou City is a military town, there is still some atmosphere of the New Year, and after the New Year, it is the second year of Jianwen, everyone thought at first that the imperial court would sweep the King of Yan like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, but who would have thought that this battle was not only fought in the first year of Jianwen, but there was a tendency to drag on for more and more time?

On the night of the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the restaurant closed relatively early, after all, there seemed to be something going on in the barracks, there were no guests today, the guys in the restaurant went to the counter in turn to receive their salaries, Gu Huai and Mang Chong were holding the account book and sending it down one by one, and the curtain leading to the backyard Gu Huai and a few spy rooms was raised, and Su Yu walked out of it with a large wooden basin, which was full of Gu Huai's change of clothes.

Since the last time Gu Huai allowed her to help only when she was busy every day, but she was paid all day, the little girl was grateful to him, and she didn't know how to report it, so she began to clean up his room and wash his clothes, except that she didn't recommend a pillow mat, it was no different from his wife.

In addition to Mangzhong's extreme disdain for this matter, people up and down the restaurant often make fun of the little girl about it, and the little girl blushed and didn't refute it, as if... was quite happy, and he didn't look at his brother-in-law Lao Jia's old face that was darker than the prince of the stove.

In fact, Gu Huai also understands her mind to some extent, the girl who has just grown up always attaches great importance to a little kindness to others, but he is not the restaurant shopkeeper that the little girl likes, but the strategist under King Yan, and the rebel thief wanted by the court, they are not people of the world, so it is better to pretend to be confused at this point.

"Shopkeeper, your clothes are all washed."

"Hmm, thank you Xiaoyu, this is your salary."

"Thank you shopkeeper," the monthly money in the restaurant is fifteen rounds, in order to avoid the guy receiving the silver and running away temporarily, he can't find anyone to top it temporarily, and often has to press it for half a month, Su Yu wiped his hands on the apron, took the monthly money but did not retract his hand, and a pair of big eyes glanced at Gu Huai with some hot taste: "Shopkeeper, you celebrate the New Year alone?" Isn't it too lonely? ”

"It's also a one-person pass..."Gu Huai was stunned, "But these guys are also going to spend time together in the restaurant, and some shops outside should not be closed during the New Year's Festival, so it's time to go out for a stroll." ”

"Oh..."I didn't hear what I wanted to hear from Gu Huai's mouth, Su Yu was a little disappointed, she opened her mouth and wanted to say something, Lao Jia, who had been teasing and looking at her for a long time by the rest of the guys, finally couldn't stand it anymore, and rushed over like a vicious dog and grabbed her wrist:

"There are still more than ten days before the New Year, why are you in a hurry to greet the New Year! Shopkeeper, let's go back. ”

"Okay, it's good to prepare early, remember to buy more New Year's goods and have a good New Year."

Gu Huai smiled and nodded, completely ignoring the resentment in Su Yu's eyes, as well as the inexplicable feeling of being on his back.

Lao Jia pulled his sister-in-law out of the door and complained: "You are a girl, what are you doing so close to a big man?" He's in his thirties, and he's still single, you're so close, aren't you afraid of others gossiping about you? ”

Su Yu glared at him, a little unconvinced: "What's wrong with thirty?" Didn't I see him alone for the New Year, and wanted to come over and cook him a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? ”

Lao Jia sneered: "Lonely fart, single man, if you drill in the green building, will it be deserted?" ”

"The shopkeeper is not that kind of person! There was a handsome girl in the restaurant, and he didn't even look at it, so I had been paying attention to it. ”

"A man in his thirties, and there is no woman around him, can he be such a gentleman? Most of them are sick! ”

"You're sick!"

Lao Jia was triumphant: "I'm sick? I've given birth to three big girls, what kind of illness can I have? ”

The two of them went away in the night like this, and when they reached the corner, the little girl was still chattering forward, and Lao Jia gently pinched a small paper bag in his arms, full of pride.

It took so many days, and finally I got this thing out while Xiao Man wasn't paying attention... It seems that there is no problem with eating, and the calculation of threatening the official to knock the restaurant at the beginning has failed, and improving the recipe without violating the king's law, but these days the restaurant business has become like this, which makes Lao Jia have some other thoughts.

Can you get this thing out of it yourself?

No, I'll have to study it when I go back!

……

The newly hired guys were all gone, Gu Huai put down the account book and looked at Mang Chong behind him: "Why did I have a chill behind me just now?" You're murderous to me? ”

Fortunately, Gu Yu Xiaoman and the others were not there, otherwise they would have changed their faces when they heard this.

Mangzhong lowered his head and continued to calculate: "No." ”

Gu Huai was a little helpless, the woman in front of her was really hard to manage, when she didn't want to speak, she couldn't ask anything.

Take the identity of the chief officer to press? Mang Chong is not afraid, after returning from Daning, Gu Huai has not been up to check her mind, but she is a person from the Secret Spy Division, and all the files about her in the Secret Spy Division's official office have disappeared as a matter of course, and she doesn't know how to learn that Gu Huai is investigating her, and she has been angry for several days.

The origin is a mystery, and her ability is outstanding, but just like Gu Huai asked her to go to Duoyan Sanwei, she has always done things as she wants, God knows how she fooled Duoyan Sanwei into standing still outside Daning City.

According to the original plan, they should go to fight the station of Daningwei!

Although the result is good, this feeling is inevitably too bad, if it weren't for the lack of competent people this time, Gu Huai really wouldn't be ready to take her to Texas City.

Gu Huai sighed: "There's nothing to say to me?" ”

"It's not time yet."

Again, this ambiguous answer ... Gu Huai didn't ask, just picked up the account book again and waited quietly.

The reason why Gu Yu Xiaoman is not here is because they want to recover the spy reports sent by other spies, in fact, these spy reports may have changed hands for several rounds, but no one can understand what is written in them without the ciphertext, and the most attentive thing Gu Huai did before going south was to teach these spies the ciphertext that absolutely no one in the world could recognize.

Chinese pinyin.

This thing is easy to learn quickly, especially for literate people, but it doesn't know the doorway, no matter how much you decipher it, you can't decipher it, not to mention that there is no cipher table in this world, and there is no way to know what the secret spy department is doing if it is intercepted by the imperial court.

Unless someone who understands the cipher betrays it... But when the time comes, Gu Huai can completely change to another one.

The sound of footsteps sounded, without Wei Laosan, the restaurant actually seemed a little deserted, and even the footsteps were too clear, Gu Huai took the spy report from the two of them, and looked at it one by one.

There is still not much useful information, from the transfer of officials to the firewood, rice, oil and salt, this information is too fragmented and complicated, and Gu Huai needs to integrate useful information from it and send it to Beiping.

Recently, the price of Texas food has risen a lot... It was useless, the imperial court was ready to recruit people to transport grain at first, but later changed it to go to Jinan before the soldiers went north, bringing their own dry food... However, there are capable officials in the DPRK and China, and with this move alone, tens of thousands of people can be saved from the consumption of grain transportation along the way, and there is no way to mention the logistics of raiding and harassing.

Wuding Marquis Guo Ying arrived in Texas, and the officials gathered for a banquet... Guo Ying? Some impressions, it seems that they are quite capable of fighting, so this is bad news again, could it be that Huang Zicheng is not worried that Li Jinglong sent to assist?

Gu Huai frowned, having some bad premonitions.

Sure enough, the next news made his hand holding the spy tighten slightly.

Li Jinglong ordered the construction of forts in various villages and towns on the periphery of Dezhou, from south to north, and it seemed that he was preparing to build twelve acropolises on the periphery of Dezhou to defend Dezhou.

The so-called acropolis, in fact, is not a real city, in short, it is a military fortress, everything is only for the military, the people do not have it, and there is no need to build a large number of buildings, after the defense of the military is built, the scattered and hoarded soldiers can quickly support other acropolis, and can attack at any time to cut off the enemy's rear road.

It's not easy to fight, and if you hit it, you have to pull a piece, and if you don't care about it, you have to be followed, which is really useful.

This is a very important piece of information, sent from the barracks of the Southern Army, which means that the overall strategy of the Southern Army has undergone a great change, and then thinking of the news that Guo Yinglai, the Marquis of Wuding, Gu Huai came over, and Li Jinglong, who had learned from the pain, was no longer so arrogant, maybe this suggestion was put forward by Guo Ying and he accepted it gladly, he no longer relied on the absolute superiority of troops, ended the war in a short time, and built the Twelve Acropolis here, obviously preparing for a long-term war.

No wonder there are no people in the restaurant today, it looks like the rotation of the soldiers has been canceled, it turns out that they all have to repair the Acropolis next... Gu Huai picked up the pen and marked a note on the intelligence to send it to Beiping urgently, thinking that tonight would be over, but Gu Yu took out a spy report from his arms.

The bad premonition became stronger and stronger, Gu Huai reached out to take it, only glanced at it, and stood up.

"Your Excellency?"

Gu Huai didn't speak, he read it again word by word, the paper was very thin, and there were few words, but the news mentioned above made him think that the peace that would last was broken so easily.

"Send a letter to Beiping, ask Chen Ping to take 5,000 cavalry out of Beiping, and tell the prince that I will deal with this matter."

Gu Huai pursed his lips, and then looked at Mang Chong, who raised his head: "I have taught everything that should be taught, I may have to leave for a while, the overall situation of Texas... Over to you. ”

"My lord, what the hell is going on?"

Gu Huai handed over the spy report, closed his eyes, and the smell of blood that lingered on the tip of his nose returned:

"Meng Yuan... Went south. ”