Day and night, change horses without changing people.

Jia Hui's recitals and letters were finally sent to the Shendu City in an expedited manner for 800 miles.

Approaching dusk, the people who had worked hard all day walked out of the city gate with the tail of the curfew drumbeat talking and laughing.

There were small traders who came in with their burdens to buy some things, there were men hired by the various trading houses, and stewards and men who went out of the city to buy fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat. There are also peasant children who take advantage of nothing to go into the city to hang out...

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and the crowd that had been laughing quickly moved out of the way, and a man in armor who looked tired rushed over on horseback.

After scolding the last old acquaintance who left the city, the general banner of the city gate was about to order someone to close the city gate.

It's going to be early tomorrow morning when it's turned on again.

"Don't close the door, don't close the door!"

The sound of horses' hooves and shouting attracted the attention of the general banner of the city gate.

Who, so ignorant of the rules, didn't know that the curfew had begun?

"Stop!"

The gatekeepers quickly assembled into a defensive formation to guard against the knights' charge.

Bows and arrows were also spread out on the towers of the city gates, ready to shoot those who broke through into hedgehogs.

"Phew!"

The knight hurriedly stopped his horse, jumped down and stumbled and almost fell.

"Huh, I am the governor of the Left Army, the personal soldier of the Duke of Dunhuang County, this is my waist card and the waist card of my general, I have something urgent to convey!"

Governor of the Left Army!

The general flag of the city gate immediately remembered who it was. In their line of work, ability comes second, and vision is the most important.

On weekdays, it's just a matter of eating and taking cards from the peddlers, but eating and taking some will make these people feel at ease, and they feel that they are on their side. On weekdays, if there is a small dispute, I will not find the head of the line first, but let myself be judged first during the time when I wait to leave the city before the daily curfew.

He loved the feeling of being trusted.

But some people have to deal with it with the spirit of 12 points.

In order to do this errand well, he deliberately wrote down the names and corresponding official positions of the nobles and civil and military officials in the city, so that he could react quickly.

"It turned out to be a warrior brother under the command of the general, atoning for his sins."

The general banner of the city gate hurriedly walked over.

"This... Big brother, please take a look at the waist card!

It's not that the younger brother wants to embarrass you, it's really your duty, you are also a mixed army, and you know how strict this military regulation is. You take care of it, you take care of it! ”

The general flag of the city gate bent down, took the two waist cards with both hands, only glanced at it, and saw clearly that it was indeed the style of the Dunhuang County Mansion, so he hurriedly returned it to the knight who was looking at the city gate with an anxious face.

"Come big brother, the waist card will be returned to you. It's curfew now, but don't run, brisk is the most.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division has recently changed its chief officer, and I heard that it is still a marquis, and the three fires of this new official have not been lit yet!

If you have a lantern with you, it's better to make it, it will save you a lot of trouble..."

The general banner of the city gate tirelessly talked about the unspoken rules of walking around the city during the curfew now. The little soldier who had been following the general flag also reacted, and hurriedly took out a wooden stool and put it next to the horse. The tired Lai Xu didn't say much, stepped on the stool and got on the horse, and the general flag of the city gate hurriedly grabbed the reins and led him into the city gate.

Lai Xu also patiently listened to the chatter of the general flag of the city gate, and he never had malicious intentions for this kind reminder.

Lai Xu, the eleventh in the family, was born in the Jia family, and was one of the pro-soldiers who followed Jia Hui to the Western Regions. The son of the Wang family came to the family and was of the same clan, and the five suits that came out after the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty.

After the general flag of the city gate sent Lai Xu into the door, he let go of the reins, and Lai Xu took out a lantern stacked together from the saddle bag, grabbed the bottom with one hand, and pulled it apart with the other hand, and took a few bamboo strips and put them on the corresponding interface inside, and propped up the lantern.

Seeing this, the general flag of the city gate was about to go to the duty room to get candles, but was stopped by Lai Xu. He took a brand new candle from his saddle bag and placed it on the base of the lantern.

"Borrow a fire."

The general banner of the city gate took out the fire fold and printed the candles.

"Thank you, brother, brother's surname?"

"The younger brother's surname is Zhang, the fifth in the family, and he is the general banner of the city gate of our five cities."

"Fifth Brother Zhang, I wrote it down, I still have important things to do today, I invite you to drink another day!"

"Hey, the little brother will be on call!"

Captain Zhang was overjoyed in his heart, and he had a relationship with a powerful family again!

The errand of the city gate general banner is his main job, and he has the capital to settle down, but his own income is not much.

It's not too little, it's just that it's too difficult to support them with a family of ten.

In fact, it is the bulk of his income to connect various suppliers to each other, or to help others ask questions.

It's just that there are teeth in the city, and he doesn't dare to get involved in it, it's just that whoever urgently needs something, what rare melons and fruits, it's right to come to him. Almost all those who entered and exited the city gates had to be inspected by them, and he knew better than he knew who had what had and what had been new to them.

Even if he didn't, he could ask the other gates.

For Lai Xu, it is not a loss to make friends with a city gate general banner, and he also has a border army who has tried a hundred households, which is half a level behind. What's more, as a city gate official, there are many people who come into contact with the three sects and nine streams, and there is always a time when it comes in handy.

Lai Xu did not immediately return to the county mansion, but took the lead in coming to the northwest of Chunfeng Fang, where the county mansion is located, the palace of Prince Yiyong in Mingyi Fang.

Along the way, he also encountered several waves of martial marquis patrolling the city, but when the marquis saw the lantern with the inscription Dunhuang County Mansion, they ignored Lai Xu, who was wandering on the street during the curfew.

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Prince Yiyong's Palace.

Main Hall.

"Humble to the king!"

"Excuse me, on the ninth day, Jinyu asked you to come here, but what happened?" Chen Jingyuan, who was wearing only a middle coat and a gauze weaving coat, entered the main hall and sat directly on the main seat.

He even came to Lai Xu with him when he first arrived in the Western Regions, and he also gave Lai Xu the nickname of Nine Days.

"My lord, I want you to hand it over directly to the two saints. This is the letter of the Lord to you. ”

Lai Xu ignored Chen Jingyuan's address to him and went straight to the topic.

"Oh, I'll see."

After receiving the letter, the personal eunuch took out the letter opener and handed it to Chen Jingyuan.

"Hmm... , his mother! ”

Seeing the news on the letter, even Chen Jingyuan, who had experienced strong winds and waves, stood up suddenly, his face full of disbelief.

"Hiss-no, can't be tomorrow, I'll go and detain Que now!"

"No, my lord! The Lord said, "Now the enemy is clear and we are secret, and we know the news that they are going to start an incident, but they don't know that we know that they are going to cause an incident!"

Since you are going to rebel, you must send spies in Beijing, and it is possible to alarm them if you do anything, let alone if you detain them in the middle of the night.

Clear-eyed people know the relationship between you and my lord, and those people will definitely think, is it because of the matter of my lord's family that you will detain it? Now that the general is in Jiangnan, what if they think that my general has found out something and rebelled in advance?

Why don't you take a closer look at the Lord's plan? But don't disrupt the general's plan for half a day! ”

Lai Xu grabbed Chen Jingyuan's arm and stopped him from continuing to go out, and when the personal eunuch saw this, he hurriedly picked up the letter on the table and took it to Chen Jingyuan's eyes and showed it to him.

Chen Jingyuan calmed down at this time. Lai Xu also hurriedly let go of him.

Chen Jingyuan sat back in his chair and looked at the letter.

"yes, I see. It is for me to impeach the old man Wu of Juguo and the godson of Jianning Bo Qin Hong. There are also officers of the Jiangnan battalion headed by Deng Yuan who resell ordnance... That's a good idea...

Okay, I see, stay for a meal? ”

"It's... No need, there is still a letter to be sent home, so I won't bother you, the king..."

Lai Xu caught a glimpse of the screen, a white-faced bearded old eunuch looked at him expressionlessly, as if to say, "If you don't leave, I'll kill you", and saw that he still glanced at the king from time to time, and thought for a while, Lai Xu also knew who he was.

The old eunuch sent by the emperor to urge the king to have a child...

You can't spoil the king's good deeds!

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Out of the palace, Lai Xu went to Rongguo Mansion again.

Before going to the palace, he had already handed over Jia Hui's letter to Jia Yu and Jia Zheng to the porter, and after coming to Rongguo Mansion to briefly explain to Jia Yu and Jia Zhen, Laiwang returned to the county mansion.

Li Kun also received a summons from the two eastern provinces, and did not immediately meet Laiwang, but prepared a table for him to eat, and only after he was full of wine and food did he meet Laiwang in Yingtaitang.

Li Kun, who was dressed as a pregnant woman, sat a little haggard on the Taishi chair on the right side of the main hall, and reluctantly smiled at Lai Wang.

Her pregnancy reaction is a little big, nausea is terrible, she can't eat a little light in the past few days, she feels a fishy smell when she eats, and she will vomit out.

Now I can eat a little spice enough to cover the taste of the ingredients, but because I have no appetite for vomiting, I can only force myself to eat a little more. Then drink some white porridge and millet porridge, and you can't eat anything else.

Therefore, as the heart and soul of the entire Jia family today, no matter which house there is, there will always be two pots of porridge in the kitchen, but whenever Li Kun has the slightest sign of wanting to eat, he will serve it to her as quickly as possible.

Eat small, frequent meals.

Unfortunately, when Lai Xu came to the main hall, Li Kun had just vomited once.

"Little Laixu, see the master mother!"

Lai Xu knelt on the ground with his robe and kowtowed solemnly to Li Kun.

"No need to be polite, quick... Vomit... Hurry up. ”

Li Kun endured his nausea and said to Lai Xu.

"Thank you, Mistress." Lai Xu stood up and took out Jia Hui's letter from his arms.

It's better to talk to your wife as little as possible, in case your wife vomits while talking, then it's okay!

"Madam, this is a letter from the Lord to the house."

Lai Xu held the letter in both hands and said to Li Kun.

"Well, hard work." Li Kun tried to be as concise as possible.

It's still our own family to be sensible, every time I go to Rongguo Mansion to ask for peace these days, I have to be surrounded by a group of people to talk, and they are all elders, so I can't do it if I don't reply, so I can only endure my nausea and smile and be polite to them.

Li Kun's eldest maid Suyun stepped forward, took the letter from Lai Xu's hand, looked through it at Laihui, and then handed it to Li Kun with peace of mind.

Jia Li's (crossed out) child is his mother's mother

Looking at the few flamboyant words on the front of the envelope, Li Kun smiled knowingly.

He used this when he wrote to me as a kid!

"Laixu, sit down first and serve tea." Li Kun is still concise and to the point.

"Mrs. Xie!"

Lai Xu found a seat far away from Li Kun and sat down.

"it, Zhan Xinjia

More than a month ......"

Jia Hui's letter was as few words as ever.

There are no quotations, nothing to show off. It's just like sitting face to face, like an ordinary couple chatting about family things.

wrote a few words thanking her for everything she had done to this family, thanking her for giving birth to a little life, and writing about the expectations and confusion of becoming a father...

Wrote a lot of things, chattering, completely missing the usual neatness in front of outsiders, vigorous and resolute.

Probably, he would only be like this in front of me, right?

Li Kun happily buried his face on the letterhead, smelling the fragrance of ink, as if...

Well?

It doesn't taste right!

Li Kun frowned and re-edited the stationery.

No, this taste is definitely not just old!

This rouge is definitely that the master has a vixen around him when he writes a letter!

Thinking of this, Li Kun looked sharply at Lai Xu, who was drinking herbal tea.

Lai Xu suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and hurriedly put down the teacup and looked around vigilantly.

Then he met the sharp eyes of his wife.

Hiss –

Oh no!

"Mrs., Mrs...."Lai Xu cautiously looked at Li Kun, whose eyebrows were raised.

"Lai Xu, say, next to the master, Aunt Tian?"

Although he was asking, Li Kun had already decided in his heart that Jia Hui had added a girl to his side.

"It's... Madam, will Lord him..."

"The letter smells of rouge."

"This..."Lai Xu fell into the battle between heaven and man.

"Boldly say, I am the master mother, and I can't tolerate a concubine?"

Also to the...

Come to Xu Xin. I'm sorry general, my wife already knows about it, and the little one has to say it!

"Yes, madam, the lord has indeed added a concubine room, and on the day he arrived in Jinling, he carried three of the lord home from the painting boat..."

"Wait, several... What? ”

Li Kun's eyes widened suddenly.

"Madam, three thin horses..."

Lai Xu looked at Li Kun cautiously, for fear that something would happen to her.

Li Kun gasped for a while, and then regained his composure.

It's okay, Jia Da, it's out, three, or carry it back!

"How much did it take?"

The three lowly skinny horses she Li Kun doesn't pay attention to it, buy it back, buy it back, there are a few playthings on the left and right, and it can't threaten herself, not to mention that it's still clean, clean.

Putting it at home also saves the old man from running out to get flowers and grass, and getting together with those dirty and smelly ones, in case he gets sick, it will be troublesome.

What matters is, exactly how much money was spent!

Not long after the county government was established, in addition to the expenses of the prefecture, the other four Kyotos had just purchased real estate and spent a lot of money!

In addition, I have purchased various shops and industries, and spent another sum of money, and I haven't made a profit yet, so I really need money everywhere! Even if the old man got a lot of loot back, he can't spend money indiscriminately, right?

"Oh, it's not much, it cost less than three taels of silver in total..."

"Three or two? What's going on? Li Kun was a little incredulous.

Even a young lady who doesn't go out much knows that a thin horse costs at least 1,500 taels of silver, what the hell is going on with these three taels?

"When I returned to my wife, I originally wanted to give three thousand taels to one, but those few who came to ask for accounts didn't want to do it, saying that it must be four thousand five hundred taels, and not a penny less!

Then they were broken by Hu Jiu, and they casually threw some silver and sent away..."

I see, I thought it was a bribe from someone, but since it was bought, there was nothing to worry about.

Well, Hu Jiu is so good, he really saves money for the family!

Since it cost less than three taels of silver, which is equivalent to getting three beauties for nothing, there is nothing to worry about.

Li Kun had already accepted that Jia Hui would go to the house to receive people.

The eldest husband should have three wives and four concubines, and his own husband is the eldest husband among the big husbands. But in this year, a bad reputation for jealousy and not giving concubines to her husband fell on her head.

The husband may also be ridiculed for whether there is something wrong with his body, or whether he is afraid of guilt or something.

In that case, let's take it. Help the master to take care of it yourself, without the nod of his wife, no one wants to marry in!

Li Kun's heart was determined.

"Vomit..." Li Kun hurriedly covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and felt nauseous.

After covering it for a while, Li Kun put down the handkerchief.

"Okay, Laixu, it's not too early, so let's go back quickly... Gross...," Li Kun covered his mouth again, unable to say the remaining words.

Lai Xu understood and quickly stood up.

"Madam, the little one retires!" Lai Xu stood up, saluted Li Kun and left.

"Whew..."

The nausea disappeared, and Li Kun put down the handkerchief covering his mouth.

Call... Child, child, why haven't you come out yet, your mother is really uncomfortable!

Chapter 1, 4,600 words.

The next chapter will be about twelve o'clock

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