Chapter 86: The Mysterious Great Lake
Not long after, Lu Wei came out of the Command Mansion and got into the carriage, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and he still smelled of wine, seeing that there was a cup of herbal tea on the small table in front of Zhang Yuqing, and he drank it all in one gulp without thinking about it.
Zhang Yuqing couldn't stop it, and watched Lu Wei drink up the tea.
The tea was the one she had drunk......
Lu Wei looked at Zhang Yuqing with something to say, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Zhang Yuqing had to find a topic and said, "Congratulations! What kind of hammer did you win, you are really powerful! ”
Lu Wei put down the teacup, sighed, and said very sincerely: "His strength is really great, there have been a few times when I have to be lifted away by him, but I thought that if I lose, you have to lose the collar, I am now poor jingle, I can't redeem it, I can't afford to lose this fight anyway, I can only try my best to win him and keep your collar." ”
He knew that the collar was the only thought that the Zhang family left to Zhang Yuqing, and it must be very important to her, so he couldn't lose.
Zhang Yuqing laughed, she never expected that the noble son who was so beautiful when she first met would have a day when she was worried about money.
Lu Wei looked at her smile and was stunned.
This is the first time he has seen Zhang Yuqing's heartfelt smile, although it is only a short moment, but there is no perfunctory and sarcastic in the past, it is clear and beautiful, and the facial features are fresh and lovely, as if a bare hand has opened the dark clouds, revealing a clear sky, which is fascinating, so that people dare not look directly.
Fortunately, although the muscles of the whole body are still trembling unconsciously, as long as you don't live up to your trust, all this is worth it, Lu Wei thought in his heart.
"Lord Lu, don't worry, not only is the collar still there, but I also won a lot of money! Lord Lu's value in this fight is much better than being an official and making a fortune! Zhang Yuqing patted a full purse, which was converted into one or two thousand taels of silver, while Lu Wei's Yulu only had five stone of grain a month, which was equivalent to forty taels of silver.
Lu Wei smiled and said nothing.
Zhang Yuqing asked: "What did they tell you, how can you do it well, and suddenly there is a martial arts competition?" ”
Lu Wei was unwilling to let the pickled things in the officialdom stain Zhang Yuqing's ears, and said: "It's something I can't agree to, this time I should have offended Shen Shoushan." ”
When the carriage left Liangzhou City, Fang Qin quickly chased after him, and when everyone was resting at noon, he said to Lu Wei: "I have heard that the previous Baochuan Dusi Ming died in the attack of the Hu people on the surface, but in fact, there is something else. ”
"Go on." Lu Wei's eyes narrowed, and a cold light appeared.
Fang Qin said: "I'm afraid that my hands will not be clean all these years, Baochuan Duji and him have a good relationship a few years ago, but in the past year, it has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and finally died inexplicably. ”
Zhang Yuqing leaned on the carriage and listened, Shen Shoushan could not be a Qing official, and the Qing official could not afford to raise a huge control mansion, nor could he afford to support a noble lady like Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Xiao Shen.
Lu Wei tapped his fingers on the small table and muttered: "The corruption of the military generals is nothing more than deducting military salaries and materials, and materials ......."
There is also an important point in picking money from the imperial court - lying about the number of soldiers
"Smuggling." Zhang Yuqing added.
Lu Wei turned his head to look at her.
Zhang Yuqing snorted lightly, "What do you want me to do?" Liangzhou borders on the Hu people, and the Hu people lack more things, salt, iron, tea, what can you do with the border market alone? The silver of the white flowers is placed here, and Shen Shoushan occupies the right time and place, so it is strange if he does not smuggle! ”
Fang Qin nodded, "Although there is no conclusive evidence, there should be such a thing as controlling smuggling." ”
Seeing that Lu Wei was silent, Fang Qin couldn't help but say: "My lord, today is actually not supposed to conflict with them, Shen Shoushan has 300,000 troops, and he is your top boss, pinching Baochuan's money and food, you ......"
Zhang Yuqing sneered and unceremoniously interrupted Fang Qin's words, "Do you believe 300,000 too?" He blew it! I'll scare you to death! ”
Lu Wei asked her, "How do you know that this number is blown out?" ”
Zhang Yuqing shook the group fan, "One soldier and three husbands, this is the most basic configuration, Shen Shoushan's 300,000 army has to be matched with 900,000 people to support these soldiers, not counting the cost of armor and weapons." We also saw along the way in Liangzhou that the entire Liangzhou could not gather 900,000 strong people. ”
Fang Qin's face turned red and argued: "Even if Shen Shoushan doesn't have 300,000 people, his strength is far above Baochuan, not to mention that many military attaches in Baochuan are his people!" ”
Lu Wei said in a deep voice: "What he wants me to do, I will never do!" If you sin against him because of this, then sin again! ”
If he can even promise Shen Shoushan such a thing as killing good people and risking merit, can he still be considered a person? Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if he can kill Liang and take advantage of Shen Shoushan's instructions with a clear conscience, what if Shen Shoushan orders him to do something that has no bottom line in the future?
Does he do it or not?
Do it, then continue to fall into the bottomless abyss.
If you don't do it, Shen Shoushan can use his killing of good and risky merit as a handle at any time, denounce him, and escort him to the capital to wait for his fate.
"For the sake of today's plan, we can only train the soldiers well and urge the imperial court to allocate military salaries and materials as soon as possible." Lu Wei finally said.
After returning to Baochuan, Zhang Yuqing couldn't take care of the fatigue of the boat and car, so she asked Wang Chunniang to take her to see the strange big lake.
After Zhang Yuqing took the car to the end of the road, he walked with two feet, walked along the inaccessible path to the west of the sun, and then came to the edge of the big lake.
The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the big lake, and the golden and sparkling sparkling expanse is beautiful.
"It's huge!" Wang Chunniang looked at the endless lake and sighed.
Fang Mo reached out and scooped up some water, put it in his mouth and tasted it, spit it out, and said in shock: "It's really salty and astringent!" ”
The local man who led the way was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old free-range baby, black and thin, with a small leather whip pinned to his waist, and pointed to a few vigilant deer in the distance and said, "But many wild beasts have come here to drink water!" ”
"This water is terrible, what are they doing here to drink?" Fang Mo asked.
The free-range baby shook her head, "I don't know." ”
Zhang Yuqing saw the deer lower her head and stick out her tongue to lick the lake, and her heart became more and more sure of her previous conjecture, and ordered: "Go back!" ”
When the group returned to the Toshi Mansion in Baochuan, it was already dawn the next day. When I arrived at the door, I happened to meet Lu Wei dressed up and riding out on a horse.
The dawn was dim, and Lu Wei immediately flew off the horse after seeing the carriage, hurried to the carriage in a few steps, and opened the curtain to see Zhang Yuqing falling asleep on the cushion, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why are you coming back now?" Lu Wei was afraid of waking up Zhang Yuqing, so he shouted in a low voice.
Fang Mo whispered, "I couldn't see the road clearly in the middle of the night, and I took the wrong path...... Delayed some effort. ”
Lu Wei waved his hand and asked the coachman to drive the car into the Dusi Mansion, and he followed into the mansion.
"If you come back a little later, Childe will have to look for it himself!" Fang Qin stood at the door and complained to Fang Mo, "Madam, too, the lake is there, when can't you see it?" Let's go! ”
Fang Mo shook off Fang Qin's hand on his shoulder in displeasure, "How can you say that, madam?" Madame is not going to the mountains and rivers to have fun! ”
"Isn't she looking for fun? A married woman can't stay at home well, running around, if something happens, where will the child's face go? Fang Qin said angrily.
Fang Mo was short of words for a while, he didn't know what Zhang Yuqing had to go to that strange lake for, he took so much effort to get over, and after confirming that the lake was salty, he turned around and left, anyway, it was definitely not a mountain tour.
"With me here, I won't let Madame have an accident! Besides, Madame is our mistress, you speak politely! Fang Mo frowned and said.
There was a hint of ridicule at the corner of Fang Qin's mouth, what kind of housewife is Zhang Yuqing? It's just a country girl who was forcibly stuffed to Lu Wei by the emperor, it's a shame!
In the backyard of the Dusi Mansion, Wang Chunniang helped Zhang Yuqing, who couldn't open her sleepy eyes, and staggered out of the carriage, Lu Wei took Zhang Yuqing from her hand, picked it up horizontally, and put it on the bed.
Seeing Lu Wei's vigorous back, Wang Chunniang was completely sleepy, and watched Lu Wei carry Zhang Yuqing into the main room.
Zhang Yuqing felt in a daze that she rose into the air, leaned on a solid chest, and was then put on the soft bed. But she was so sleepy that she fell into a dark sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that she woke up.
Wang Chunniang brought in the steaming lunch and beckoned her to get up and eat quickly.
Zhang Yuqing recuperated her spirits, sat at home and thought about the lake, and couldn't make up her mind, so she finally called the guards to drive and took her to the barracks to find Lu Wei.
Lu Wei was training in the barracks.
Thanks to the previous Baochuan Metropolitan Division, and perhaps the merits of the former predecessors, the former former Metropolitan Division, the Baochuan Army is simply a bastard concentration camp.
This is the first line of the Hu people's attack, not to mention the danger, they are still poor, and they have some connections and have been transferred, and the rest are soldiers who eat and wait for death. Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling are commonplace in the Baochuan army, and military discipline is about equal to nothing.
After Lu Wei learned about the actual situation in the barracks, how could he bear it, and he came back from Liangzhou City to start his iron-blooded training plan.
When Zhang Yuqing came over, he was catching up with Lu Wei to train his troops.
She stood outside the fence of the barracks, looked at Lu Wei with a cold face, and asked the soldiers to start running along the school field in a team of twenty people.
The soldiers were hanging one by one, and they were divided into teams like headless flies, and began to run slowly on the school field as if they were walking, and from time to time you pushed me, I pushed you, and laughed.
Lu Wei turned over his horse, took the bow and arrow from Fang Qin's hand, took out an arrow and put it on the bow, pulled it away steadily, and aimed at the group of lazy and disorderly soldiers.
The noisy soldiers fell silent.
"Run!" Lu Wei shouted an order, and ran up with his legs between the horse's belly.
Before the last soldier of the group could react, a feathered arrow struck at his feet and plunged deep into the ground.
"Still not running?" Fang Qin scolded, "Waiting to be shot to death by an arrow!" ”
Over there, Lu Wei's arrows had already shot over like beads.
Sweetheart Theatre
Lu Wei: I hugged my wife... Have you arranged our children?
Night Rain: Lord Lu, hurry up and sleep! There's everything in your dreams!
(End of chapter)