"Zhining, you're back, what did he say?" Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xia Zhiqing, who was reading the music score, glanced up and asked, but soon found that her sister's face was a little wrong, and she frowned: "Zhining, did he bully you?" ”

"No, no." Xia Zhining replied absentmindedly, and then said: "He said that he has been a little busy recently, and it will be good when he is done." ”

One thing she herself had forgotten was that she forgot to ask when the other person would be busy.

"I heard that there is a bumper harvest outside the city now, so I guess I am busy with this." Hearing this, Xia Zhiqing's heart suddenly changed, and she said again: "By the way, Zhining, why did you only come back now?" Where did it go? ”

"Went out of town." Xia Zhining said, came to the bedside, bent over and touched under the pillow, and immediately sighed in her heart.

Because the gold ring she put under the pillow was missing, she immediately turned around and asked her sister: "Sister, where is the ring I put under the pillow?" ”

"What's the matter, don't you want it?" Xia Zhiqing was stunned.

Xia Zhining was also stunned.

yes, don't you want it, what's the hurry?

But when I thought of what the bastard said, "That ring is beautiful, remember to wear it next time." ”

She was a little concerned again.

Suppressing the complicated emotions in his heart, he said in a low voice: "I mean, we don't have much gold and silver in our hands at the moment, and the gold ring is still worth some money, and it can be used as a coil when we leave, if we lose it, it's a pity." ”

Xia Zhiqing didn't notice her sister's weirdness, and said, "When you weren't there just now, Chunhong brought someone over to clean up the room, and the ring was placed on the dresser, you can take a look." ”

Xia Zhining walked over to take a look, and sure enough, she found that the ring was placed on the dresser, and she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly put it away.

"Zhining, what are you holding in your hand?" Suddenly, Xia Zhiqing smelled a fragrant fragrance emanating from her sister's body, swept her eyes away, and saw the small porcelain bottle in her sister's hand.

"This is the perfume that the bastard gave me." Xia Zhining brought the perfume to her sister.

"He sent it?" Xia Zhiqing looked surprised, put down the book in her hand, took the perfume and looked at it, and said, "Good and decent, why did he give you something, shouldn't there be anything weird?" ”

In her opinion, her sister and Chen Mo had a quarrel to that point last time, and the two already had conflicts, so there was no reason why the other party would send something to her sister at this time.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

Xia Zhiqing opened the cork and poured out some perfume to check, but soon exclaimed: "It's so fragrant, it's different from the perfumes I've seen before." ”

But Xia Zhining felt a little uncomfortable hearing this for some reason, why did she give me something in a good way.

Why can I only send you, but not me?

Seeing that her sister poured out some more and smeared it on her hands, Xia Zhining snatched the porcelain vase over, and in Xia Zhiqing's surprised gaze, she said, "Sister, I think you're right, that bastard may have added something harmful here, and you can't use it indiscriminately." ”

After speaking, plug the porcelain bottle with a cork.

This bottle of perfume is not much.

Xia Zhiqing didn't doubt it, but closed her eyes and sniffed it carefully, then felt it, and said, "It's not bad, it smells good, it's the fragrance of roses, where did he get this thing?" ”

"He set up a workshop in a village outside the city, and the perfume was made by the workers in the workshop." Xia Zhining put away the perfume.

"He got it himself?" Xia Zhiqing was shocked, he still makes perfume?

"How could that bastard do this, it must have been his master." Xia Zhining couldn't help but belittle Chen Mo.

"That's right." After all, perfume is something for women, and he is a big man, how can he understand this.

The two sisters didn't say a word.

Suddenly, Xia Zhi stared at the jasper hairpin on Xia Zhiqing's head, the more she looked at it, the more uncomfortable it became, and she still used the wooden hairpin, she said: "Sister, the hairpin sent by the bastard, why did you really plug it in, it's ugly." ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but take off the hairpin on Xia Zhiqing's head.

Without waiting for Xia Zhiqing to speak, Xia Zhining said: "Sister, that bastard already likes you, if you wear what he sent, it may make him have some thoughts that he shouldn't have, in case after paying off the bill, it won't be good for him to force your sister to stay." ”

The hairpin was taken off, Xia Zhiqing's three thousand green silk was draped over her shoulders, she frowned slightly, and said, "There is no hairpin, how can I pull up my hair, he took my wooden hairpin away." ”

"Use mine first." Xia Zhining took off the wooden hairpin on her head and handed it to Xia Zhiqing.

Xia Zhiqing was stunned: "What about Zhining?" ”

"I'll just use this hosta."

Xia Zhiqing: "......"

Xia Zhining's face was not red and her heart was not beating, and she said, "Isn't that bastard disgusted with me?" If he saw that the hosta that he had given to my sister was put on my head, he would be very angry, just to dispel the idea that he shouldn't have. ”

After speaking, Xia Zhining skillfully pulled up her long hair and inserted a hairpin.

At the same time, a voice sounded in her heart.

Since the bastard likes himself, then this jasper hairpin is his own.

Seeing that her sister said this, Xia Zhiqing didn't say anything more.

However, seeing that the hairpin that was originally inserted in her hair was inserted on her sister's head, Xia Zhiqing felt a little surprised inexplicably.

This night, Xia Zhining didn't sleep all night, and spent the whole night pondering what Chen Mo said to herself during the day.

She seemed to be poisoned, and kept tossing and turning between the truth and falsehood of what she said.

……

July 12th.

The paddy fields outside Pingting County have all been ploughed, and they are currently sprinkling manure and urine, and then by the end of July, the late rice seedlings will be planted.

There are more late rice seedlings than early rice seedlings, because when cultivating late rice seedlings, Chen Mo had already occupied Pingting County, and there were enough rice seeds to plant all the 350,000 acres of fields.

But at this moment, an urgent letter from Xia Lin disrupted Chen Mo's rhythm.

The main hall of the Yamen.

In addition to Lu Yuan, Zhang He, Hu Qiang, Wei Qing, Su Wen and others who went out on a mission, Shen Yongwei, Shen Wuwei, and the leaders of the reserve team all gathered here.

Chen Mo sat at the top, and the first place on the left and right were Geng Songfu and Sun Meng.

Looking around at the crowd, Chen Mo went straight to the point and said: "This is an urgent report sent by Yang Minggui, which says, let me start to reorganize the army, cooperate with Yuan Youchun's Hujie army, and on August 1, send troops on time to attack Quanyang County." ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire lobby was shocked.

Sun Meng got up and said, "Cooperate with Yuan Youchun's Hujie army? In this way, don't we have to listen to Yuan Youchun's orders. ”

"Not bad." Chen Mo nodded and said, "Although the emergency report didn't say it explicitly, it only said cooperation, but that's pretty much what it meant." ”

Chen Mo's face is not very good-looking, he and Yuan Youchun have contradictions, now let yourself cooperate with him, maybe when the time comes, the other party will give him some kind of moth.

"County magistrate, can you let the old man read the emergency report?" Geng Songfu said.

Chen Mo reported the urgency to Geng Songfu.

After reading it, Geng Songfu sighed: "It seems that the Heavenly Master. The army is about to go south, and the war is rising again, and I don't know how many people will be displaced.

Since this Yang Minggui asked them to attack Quanyang County with their whole army, why didn't they give us grain and grass? ”

"I gave it, but it was Yuan Youchun who gave it." Chen Mo sneered: "According to the reports from the spies we have planted in the surrounding areas, Qingting County, Guangyou County, and Tianshui Town have all appeared grain and grass from Xialin, and the grain and grass transported to Qingting County is more than that of other counties.

Obviously, the cooperation in this urgent report, the meaning expressed, and our grain and grass were given by Yuan Youchun. ”

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. In this way, the above does not trust us and wants to drive us through food and grass. Geng Songfu said after a deep sigh.

Chen Mo's brows furrowed.

It seems that what happened last time did not shake the foundation of Yuan Youchun in Yang Minggui's heart.

A righteous son is a righteous son, and he must be more trustworthy than himself, an outsider.

"County magistrate, in my opinion, we just pretend that we don't know, just stay in the city and let them fight, anyway, our current food is enough for us to be self-sufficient." Han Wu said loudly.

The Liangzi between them and Yuan Youchun is not small, if they listen to Yuan Youchun, when the war starts, the other party will give them 100% small shoes.

"No." Geng Songfu said loudly: "Since Guangyou County, Tianshui Town and other counties have grain and grass transported to it, it means that the Tianshi Army under Yang Minggui is about to invade Yuzhou in an all-round way, and the army of the county magistrate and Yuan Youchun is just one of these teams." If the county magistrate does not comply, I am afraid that the generals of these counties will unite to attack Pingting County first. ”

"Geng Xiancheng is right, we must send this soldier, but we have the final say on how many troops to send." Chen Mo looked at Geng Songfu and said:

"What is the solution for Geng Xiancheng?"

Geng Songfu pondered for a while, and slowly spit out a sentence: "Listen to the tune and don't listen to the announcement." ”

I obeyed your mobilization and sent troops to attack Quanyang County, but I maintained my independence and was not driven by Yuan Youchun at will.

In other words, I obey normal and reasonable orders, but if it is unreasonable, for example, if you ask me to be cannon fodder and send me to death, then sorry, no way.

"But the disadvantage of this is that Yuan Youchun will not allocate grain and grass to us, and we have to solve the problem of grain and grass by ourselves." Geng Songfu said.

"We currently have grain and grass, as long as we can avoid reducing losses under the command of Yuan Youchun." Chen Mo's fingers tapped lightly on the table, deciding to use Geng Songfu's method.

Of course, surface work is also to be done.

"Han Wu." Chen Mo said.

"The subordinates are here."

"You take a team of people to Qingting County, and ask Yuan Youchun for food, see what he says." Chen Mo said.

If you don't give it, Chen Mo will send someone to Xia Lin to sue Yuan Youchun, although there is a high probability that Yang Minggui will not care, but at least it can show that I was angry with you before, and then acted according to Geng Songfu's method, causing Yuan Youchun to sue him, and he also has an excuse to explain.

(End of chapter)