southern Yanzhou,

The wind was fierce, and Gu Pingyu led a column of cavalry to fight with a group of black-clothed people.

For a while, puffs of dust flew on the ground, making it difficult for people outside the battlefield to see the battle situation clearly.

And not far behind Gu Pingyu, in a very badly damaged luxury carriage, King Dongfang Tai of Wei was sitting in the center.

There was no indication that he had just been assassinated.

The knife wound on his left arm made him feel like he was unconscious, and he only pricked up his ears and listened intently to the movement of the fighting outside.

From time to time, he lowered his eyes and looked at the staring inner prison lying at his feet, and a strange smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Ignoring his bloody arm, he raised his hand to open the curtain.

At this moment, the battle is nearing its end.

The wind and sand gradually fell, and he saw that Gu Pingyu was still standing in the center, with spears fluttering, and there were only a few assassins left on the opposite side, and neither side dared to make a move for a while.

But in the next second, Gu Pingyu took the initiative to attack, and several people fought again.

Dongfang Tai lowered the curtain and closed his eyes with peace of mind, and put one hand on his knee and tapped it, as if forming a beat with the sound of fighting outside.

"His Royal Highness King Wei, are you okay?"

Hearing this, Dongfang Tai opened his eyes and saw Gu Pingyu's face still hanging with the blood of the enemy coming into his eyes.

Looking at the concern in the young man's clear eyes, Dongfang Tai smiled......

went out to patrol the city, and finally became the escort of the king of Wei to escort the other party back to the city, Gu Yan just sighed when he listened to the advice of his subordinates.

Then, the ravine between Gu Yan's eyebrows became deeper and deeper.

Not long after His Majesty died, something happened when King Wei returned to the fiefdom.

He couldn't help but think about it.

Gu Yan looked up at an edict from the imperial capital on the side of his desk, which actually took the initiative to mention the winter salary, which was much richer than before.

When the first emperor was in power, he was very strict with the generals in the frontier, but now that the new emperor has ascended the throne and the queen mother is regent, he suddenly treats them preferentially for the border soldiers, which is not a kind of wooing?

And is this kind of co-optation out of the government and state policy or out of that person's selfishness?

Gu Yan covered his face and sighed, why did Emperor Yan Qing die, and their family was still walking on thin ice like this?

***

The plum berries and the family set off again.

Mei You's family and Mei Berry's family took Xue Lao's father and son by the way.

Because of Jiubaoxuan's escort, a few carriages were brought along the way, and the mules and cubs were also liberated for a while.

Mei Berry sat in the carriage and lifted the curtain, looking at the mules and cubs who were light and light, carrying fat tigers and fighting chickens on the grassland, and couldn't help but show envy.

"I want to ride a horse."

Mei Berry stopped by and looked at Mei You, who was riding a horse outside the carriage.

Mei You noticed Mei Berry's gaze, slowed down the horse, leveled with the carriage, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Envy you can ride a horse, when will you?"

"I learned it when I left."

Plum Berry: ?

Mei You means that before they left today, she asked people how to ride horses, and then they learned?

"Is this something that can be learned with legs?"

Looking at Mei Berry's skeptical appearance, Mei You was in a good mood.

"When you get to Yueliao, I'll teach you."

"Whew~"

Mei Berry lowered the curtain of the car, and only herself sat in the carriage, and her father sat outside, chatting with the people from Jiubaoxuan who were driving.

Her mother was talking to the third aunt in the car next door.

For a while, Plum Berry also felt quite bored.

She lowered her head and reached out to rub the jade whistle around her neck.

Before leaving, Mei Berry plucked up the courage to ask Xie Changchen if she could write to them directly in the future.

For this reason, Mei Berry was also afraid that Xie Changchen would misunderstand, and explained that they Jiubaoxuan went to Xianyao to develop, and they were far away in Yanzhou.

The distance between them is too far, and if there is any business idea to make a fortune, it is too slow to rely on manual delivery.

This distance is not the distance from Jinshui Village to Jinbai County in one day.

Xie Changchen is afraid that he is also the person who speaks of Jiubaoxuan.

This is what Meiyu told Meiberry.

Xie Changchen, who heard him say so much, didn't say anything at that time, and only handed her the jade whistle.

"Blow it, nothing else is needed, the messenger will arrive."

There was still the man's voice in his ears, and Plum Berry lowered her head and stared at the whistle in distraction.

At that time, just when the other party handed her the whistle, her long-lost punch-in system actually sounded-

[Congratulations to the host for checking in the famous scene "Gift Token" and rewarding the "Cotton Planting Manual.] 】

Startled by the system's coldness, Plum Berry stretched out her hand and took the whistle tightly.

At that moment, the fingertips and fingertips, the warm touch of cold made each other startled.

Mei Berry's eyelashes twitched fiercely, and she didn't even dare to look up at Xie Changchen.

I was afraid that the other party would misunderstand me as a pervert who ate beautiful men's tofu, so I took the whistle plum berry and turned around and ran away.

Thinking about her behavior at that time, Mei Berry couldn't help but cover her face again.

Yes!

This run, it looks even more empty, what was she doing at the time?

Plum Berry fell backwards with a wail, and with a bang, she knocked her head in the carriage, and she screamed in pain.

But because of the outside, her father said that the laughter was quite loud, and he directly covered the movement of the plum berry.

Good news: no one knows about the shame.

Bad news: It hurts so much that no one cares.

Plum berries just lay down like this.

She took out a small cotton flower from the space, played with it in her hand, and looked at it for a while.

After that, she took out the reward for the sudden punch in Xie Changchen incident and the cotton planting manual.

It records in detail the planting of cotton, as well as a series of processes such as subsequent cotton picking and cotton processing.

Mei Berry remembered that before she came to Li, she had heard that the customs market on the border of Yanzhou had a trade market for 20 days every spring and autumn.

According to their current itinerary, they may not be able to meet an autumn market closure after arriving in Yueliao.

At that time, she asked the system to arrange the origin of cotton.

At least, their family will arrange quilts first this winter, right?

At the beginning of spring, she took out the cotton seeds and planted them, and within three years, cotton would become the most popular thing in the homes of the people in the north besides grain.

The boundary of Yanzhou, as Xie Changchen said, is very calm.

There was no movement on the road for more than ten days, and occasionally Tian Qi was taken by Xue Lao to carry the prescription in the next carriage, and the plum berries who listened to it slept well in the bumpy carriage.

But on this day, less than thirty miles from Yueliao County, Mei Berry met a handful of ragged refugees.

At first, Mei Berry thought it was a refugee from Yunzhou, but when she talked about it with the people in the team, the shopkeeper listened to it and told her that these people were also people in Yanzhou.

After all, part of the southern part of Yanzhou is also on the Jinlan River.

Those refugees will only go north when they are homeless due to the floods.

"The people of Yunzhou can't get by, even if they do, they can't go deep into Yanzhou without a road guide."

The shopkeeper told a very cruel truth.

"In Yanzhou, there are not only ordinary people, but also soldiers who resist the grassland, and almost every year most of them will fight with the Tartars of the grassland.

Although the Tartars have not been able to please in recent years, neither Zhizhou nor Gu Hou have ever relaxed their vigilance, let alone allowed a situation that would damage the army.

Even if the people of Yunzhou couldn't survive because of the flood and the plague, and rushed to Yanzhou, they would not allow the people of Yunzhou to enter.

At most, it is just a few more pairs of white bones on the border of Yanzhou. ”

It sounded ruthless, but Plum Berry felt a deep sense of powerlessness behind her.

"Is it because of the pandemic?"

"No, because Yanzhou doesn't have any extra food ......"

There's really nothing they can do.

In fact, what is said at the end of this chapter is the reason why Gu Pingyu appeared in the south at the beginning.

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