Chapter 81: The Lazy New Year
Because Pei Kang was in Tangli Courtyard, Shao Xun didn't dare to be presumptuous, and after talking about business, he left unhappily.
Princess Lu of Fanyang rode in a carriage and walked with him for a while.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Shao Xun always feels that this woman is quietly looking at him.
When he passed by the gate of Liuhua Temple, he asked his soldiers to help carry some household belongings.
There were also family guards in Liuhua Courtyard, and when he saw the arrival of the famous Luyang Hou, Hulala knelt on the ground.
A few of them even trembled a little, as if they were afraid of something.
"What are you afraid of?" Shao Xun tapped one of them on the back with a horsewhip and asked.
"Junhou ......" This person seems to be unable to bear the matter, and his face is like earth.
Shao Xun glanced at Lu, and Lu nodded slightly.
"Pull down and torture." Shao Xun waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed up and pulled this person down.
The other pro-soldiers unsheathed their swords and wound their bows, staring at the other guards.
Some of the soldiers were calm and fearless.
Some of the soldiers even looked happy and glanced at the other people with hatred.
Others have unnatural faces.
Shao Xun thought about it and walked into the courtyard and sat for a while.
Lu Shi was stunned for a while, and then quickly came to his senses, and after asking Shao Xun's taste preferences, he made a pot of tea with his own hands and poured it for him.
Shao Xun was not polite, picked up the tea bowl, and drank it leisurely.
The servants and maids of the Manchu Mansion were silent and watched quietly.
After quietly drinking a bowl of tea, Tang Jian walked over and whispered a little bit.
It's actually nothing, it's just a bit of about the collusion between the servants and the family soldiers in the house. For the time being, they don't have much courage to do anything, they only dare to make some money, but who knows in the future?
"Next time, make me water cakes to eat." Shao Xun got up and said goodbye.
"Hmm." Lu's face was slightly red, and he replied softly.
The servants bowed their heads even more.
The team left quickly, and with them left more than a dozen guards and servants of Liuhua Academy.
Lu Shi stood at the gate of the courtyard, looked at Shao Xun's disappearing back, and sighed silently.
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When passing through Guangcheng Palace, Shao Xun did not pause and went back to the Green Willow Garden directly.
He's a little tired now.
Circling between several women, it turns out that I am so tired!
If it was dozens of women or even three thousand beauties, he couldn't imagine it.
Perhaps, in the end, just like Sima Yan, he took a sheep cart. Where did the sheep pull the cart go, which concubine did they spend the night there that day, and left an allusion to "the sheep cart is lucky".
Fortunately, he reined in the precipice and did not provoke the Lu family again.
When I returned to Green Willow Garden, it was already the 25th, and there were still five days left for the New Year.
Not to mention relaxing as he sat comfortably on the recliner and listened to Arahime's submissive voice, his mother's complaining nagging with concern, and his son's mouthful "babbling".
At this time, if someone still calls him to go on the expedition, he will definitely turn his face!
"Little worm, how many months of a year are you going to go now?" Mother Liu asked while sewing clothes for her eldest grandson.
"It's always three or five months, maybe half a year." Shao Xun closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, enjoying the massage of Song Yi's tender little hands, and said in his mouth: "In the future, there will be more and more days of expeditions." β
Liu wanted to speak again and again, and finally couldn't help asking: "Can you talk to Wang Situ, there is no second person in the court who can fight?" My son will not be able to return home for half a year if he goes on an expedition, but if it is okay for a year or two, and it is like this every year, will the battle not be finished? β
Shao's father coughed on the side and began to make a lofty statement: "Wang Situ is a famous man in the world, and he summoned small insects to go out to fight, but he deliberately cultivated. If you disobey him, it may be detrimental to the career of the little worm. What do you know as a woman? β
Le Lanji had a smile in her eyes, and the rhythm of beating her legs for Shao Xun was almost messed up.
"Wang Situ?" Shao Xun stroked Song Yi's pretty face and said, "Auntie, don't worry, Wang Situ's face in me is not so big." The son led the army to the battle, in fact, it was voluntary. If the Xiongnu come to Luoyang next year, even if the court does not issue an order, they will lead the troops north to resist the enemy, and do not benefit from anything. β
Shao's father was dumbfounded.
Liu subconsciously ignored the previous words, paid attention to the key points, and asked, "The Xiongnu want to go south?" β
"Eight or nine is not far from ten." Shao Xun said: "In the past few months, Liu Yuanhai has been stepping up the rectification of Pingyang and Hedong counties, sorting out the interior, and accumulating money and grain, most of them will go south, and there are always more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and no less than 50,000 cavalry. β
Liu didn't know what the concept of "50,000 cavalry" was, but there were a lot of them anyway, and when he heard his son's words at this time, his heart was broken, and his eyes were red.
Shao's father was also a little silent, and after sighing, he went out to blow the cold wind.
He had participated in the Battle of Pingwu when he was young and knew what 50,000 cavalry meant. Even if it's just 50,000 herdsmen, at least he can shoot arrows and cut people on horses, right? At least he's fast, right? How do you deal with intercepting your grain?
This battle is very dangerous! Tens of millions of elite soldiers, if one is not good, maybe they will be drowned in these tidal Hu soldiers.
"Liu Yuanhai is really ......" Liu put down his clothes, a little annoyed.
"Liu Yuan, Zi Yuanhai." Shao Xun corrected.
"Liu Haiyuan is ......"
"Liu Yuan, Zi Yuanhai." Shao Xun corrected again.
Liu glared at him, and said angrily: "Have you eaten lunch?" β
"I've eaten it, gravy cakes." Shao Xun replied casually.
"Definitely not full." Liu went out in a chatter and prepared snacks for his son.
Le Lanji's hand stopped and asked, "There are still soup cakes in the army?" β
"When passing through Tangli Courtyard, the princess of the East China Sea took pity on me as a general of the Yuefu family, and she went on a long journey and worked hard, so she made soup cakes with her own hands and invited me to enjoy them." Shao Xun looked at Le Lanji's eyes and said.
Lan Ji was a little surprised at first, and then realized that the man was lying to him, sneered, and said, "It's beautiful! β
"If you don't believe it, forget it." Shao Xun said with a smile.
"The princess of the East China Sea is dignified and magnificent, and she is your housewife, how can there be a reason for the housewife to cook for the courtiers?" Lan Ji gave him a blank look and continued to beat his legs.
Shao Xun smiled and stopped arguing.
It's not just the princess of the East China Sea who cooks together, if it weren't for Lao Pei's light bulb, the ghost knows if I won't be able to go home tonight.
To be honest, no one believes me! In two days, I will go to the Queen of Sheep to drink japonica rice porridge to make up for the loss.
However, it's really tiring.
Horses galloped, bows and battles, fought to the death, and were full of gold...... In the end, it's not for the sake of these women's children.
Live for x, die for x, work hard for x for a lifetime.
Oh, man!
Mother Liu brought a bowl of japonica rice porridge and crispy pickles, which were very delicious to match, and Shao Xun ate them in a while.
Very good, the sheep queen doesn't have to go.
After drinking the porridge, he strolled along the banks of the Ru Water.
It was approaching New Year's Day, and there was no one in the four fields.
Between far and near, there are smoke villages everywhere.
The number of people in Liang County is increasing every year.
The lives of the common people are not very rich, but at least they can barely live and be able to reunite with their families, which is better than anything else.
It's just a joke to live for x and die for x, even if it is for this peaceful life not to be broken by violence, it is worth it to be full of gold creation.
What am I here for? Of course, it's to do Liu Yuanhai - no, Liu Haiyuan - no, it's not, in order to return the world to a bright future.
Approaching the day before the Chinese New Year, Princess Lu of Fanyang sent someone to send 500 yuan and 1,000 pieces of silk, saying that it was a "thank you gift".
Le Lanji accepted it quietly, and Shao Xun's eyes became a little unfathomable.
Shao Xun didn't bother to explain and continued to lie at home.
It's one of his rare uninterrupted moments of the year.
Perhaps, even the Huns have to celebrate the New Year.
After these few days, it is the third year of Yongjia (309), the time period when the Yongjia Rebellion in history really opened.
From then on, the defense of Luoyang was fought one after another, fighting for nearly two years, and finally Luoyang fell when the grain road was cut off, the monarchs and ministers continued to fight, and Sima Yue lost confidence and fled with his troops.
Is Luoyang really unstoppable? Not necessarily.
Will Luoyang be broken? Inevitable.
This is a huge crisis, but it is also a great opportunity.
Whether it can rise or not depends on this wave.
A few days later, the New Year arrived.
Heavy snow drifted in the sky, bringing a strong New Year's flavor to the new year of Yongjia's three years.
After accompanying his family to celebrate the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shao Xun took his soldiers to the countryside to visit the families of the soldiers one by one and gave them a gift.
This is an annual repertoire, and the cost is not large, but the effect is excellent.
In this way, he was busy until February, and began to meet with waves of scholars from Yingchuan and Henan counties, colluding with interests, and was very busy.
In fact, as Pei Kang said, the Yingchuan Chen family, the Zhong family, the Yu family, and even the Xun family, including the Xun family, have all offered a lot of money and food, and their attitude is very obvious.
Shao Xun knew that this was a contract.
I will help you take care of the rear as an official, provide you with money and food, and you provide security protection, mutual benefit, and mutual cooperation.
This is the status quo of troubled times, the philosophy of survival in troubled times.
After all this, the mid-spring of March came unexpectedly. It was at this time that Chu Yu, who was a big farmer, came to report that the rain this spring seemed to be less than in previous years.
Shao Xun sighed in his heart, the time to come has finally come.
In the last years of the dynasty, how could there be fewer water and drought locust bandits?
He rushed to Guangchengze, his largest agricultural and animal husbandry base, as soon as possible.