Li Yong is not good at leading troops, but he has some talent in investigating cases, coupled with his status as a veteran and noble of Ningguo Gong, not to mention the local officials, even some vassal kings have to respect him, and they dare not act rashly, not to mention that if he really moves, Li Yong's good martial arts are not so easy to deal with.

As for the North Side Crisis......

Cao Xun took the initiative to ask: "Please ask the emperor to allow the ministers to patrol the border." ”

From Liaodong to the northwest, no one is more familiar with the entire northern border than Cao Xun, and no one is more prestigious than him in the border guards.

Emperor Xining knew very well that Cao Xun was the most suitable candidate for border patrol, but he was just a little worried about letting his uncle leave the capital.

Cao Xun said with a smile: "The emperor has Li Xian accompanying him, and the civil and military officials are the talents carefully selected by the first emperor headed by Gu Shoufu. ”

Emperor Xining: "Yes, then I will hand over the task of patrolling the border to my uncle, and I will wait for my uncle's good news in the capital." ”

Cao Xun: "This time it is the minister's go, in a few years the emperor will be in power, the minister is willing to accompany the emperor to go to the border pass in person, so that the border soldiers can see the face of the sky and strengthen the army." ”

Emperor Xining: "Okay, I'm waiting for that day!" ”

Chapter 86 "I'll never say a word to you again in my life."

In the scorching summer, when Cao Xun came back from duty, the courtyard was still full of bright sunshine, which made people not want to go out.

There is an ice tripod in the room, Yun Zhu comfortably leans on the couch to read the book, this is the day before yesterday when she went to Xu Mansion as a guest Sun Yurong plugged her, the story is a little bit improper, the victory is twists and turns bizarre enough exciting, Yun Zhu watched it for two days in a row, and tomorrow I will be able to read it for half a day.

watched it with relish, and didn't even notice Cao Xun coming in, until he walked to the couch to come up, Yunzhu was startled, and quickly closed the book and stuffed it under the pillow.

Cao Xun smiled: "You obviously don't have three hundred taels of silver here." ”

Yun Zhu retorted: "It was given by a young lady, and it is inconvenient for you men to see it. ”

She said so, Cao Xun didn't go against the little lady's intention to grab the book to read, and sat down at the low table in the middle of the couch, looking at the plate of diced peaches and melon slices on the table.

Yunzhu said: "It's been put on for a while, it's not very fresh, I'll ask someone to cut it again for you." ”

Cao Xun: "It's okay to look at, so be it." ”

Yun Zhu saw him pick up the bamboo stick and eat the rest of her, without any disgust, how many rich sons and young ladies were more picky than him.

Cao Xun inserted the last piece of peach that had turned yellow in color, and said to Yunzhu: "Today's peaches taste good, compared to a local red peach I ate in Xuanzhou before. ”

Yunzhu was curious: "What hearts?" What is on this plate is Qingzhou peaches, this year's tribute, the Queen Mother gave it, how can you compare the Xuanzhou peaches you said? ”

Cao Xun glanced at her and said meaningfully: "The tribute may not be the best tasting fruit in various places. ”

Yun Zhu didn't believe it: "The magistrates all want to please the nobles in the palace, there are really more delicious varieties than tribute, and they will definitely be used to please the nobles." ”

Cao Xun: "Then they have to have the ability to do it, just like I said the kind of Xuanzhou red peach, the skin is thinner than paper, and the red is so red that it can't help but bump the road at all, but when it is green, it tastes not sweet enough, and sending it to the palace will only disappoint the nobles." ”

Yunzhu has such an identity condition, and he has never eaten a peach whose skin is thinner than paper!

Probably afraid that an example would not convince her, Cao Xun gave another example: "You love to eat river fresh seafood, river fresh is good, this area of the capital is easy to find, but the seafood is as squeamish as the red peach in Xuanzhou, the seafood you can eat in the capital are relatively durable, like I ate a kind of sea shrimp in Shanhaiguan back then, the meat is extremely delicious, according to the fishermen, after going to sea to live for a day at most, it is a delicacy that foreign dignitaries can't exchange for gold." This kind of treasure that can't be sent to Beijing at all, do you think the local officials dare to mention it to the nobles? ”

Yunzhu: "......"

Fools only mention it, what should the emperor do if he asks them to send them to Beijing? Send it, when you arrive in the capital, the shrimp are stinky, and if you don't send it, you will have to bear the resentment of the emperors.

At this moment, Yunzhu really believes that the so-called tribute may not be the most delicious.

Yunzhu has been very particular about her diet since she was a child, the clothes she uses are the best, and the rice, noodles, vegetables and fruits in the entrance are also the best ones that the nobles in the capital can enjoy.

Now that he learned that there were many foods outside that were more delicious than tribute, Yunzhu was both yearning and lost.

She glanced at Cao Xun resentfully: "You deliberately showed off with me, right?" ”

Cao Xun smiled: "How could it be, just mention these casually." ”

Yunzhu snorted, her appetite was stimulated, her stomach was hungry, and she asked the maids to set the meal.

The weather is hot, and two of the four dishes and one soup of the husband and wife are cold dishes, one of which is cold salad and three shreds.

Cao Xun looked at the little lady to pick out the thin cucumber shreds, and said nostalgically: "Speaking of cold dishes, I have eaten a cold noodle in Datong, the noodles are pulled out by the chef, according to the preferences of diners, they can be stretched as fine as they want, sometimes as thin as a hair, mixed with the secret sauce, and left a fragrance on their lips and teeth after eating. ”

Yunzhu: "......"

She couldn't help but glare at him: "Okay, I know that you have been to a lot of places, hurry up and eat." ”

What's the use of talking about that, it will only whet people's appetites.

After the meal, Cao Xun proposed to go for a walk in the garden as usual.

Yunzhu looked outside the door and said, "Wait a little longer, it's not completely cool down yet." ”

Cao Xun left the table, went to the door to hang around, and came back and said: "It's really hot, change to a few border cities, the hottest time in midsummer is about the same as now, and you have to wear spring clothes in the morning and evening." ”

Yun Zhu said enviously: "It's so cool? ”

Cao Xun nodded.

Yun Zhu looked at the fan in his hand again, and suddenly felt that the place in the capital didn't seem to be so good.

It was getting dark, so the two of them went to walk around the garden.

When he came back, he wiped it briefly, and when he entered the tent, Cao Xun hugged the little lady to his lap.

Yun Zhu liked and disliked it, and lowered his head to avoid his lips: "There's no way, why sweat." ”

Cao Xun whispered in her ear, "There is." ”

Yunzhu looked up suspiciously.

Cao Xun took out a small porcelain bottle from the cuff of his middle coat and opened the lid, which contained a pill the size of a red bean that exuded a faint bitter medicinal smell.

Yunzhu: "What is this?" ”

Cao Xun: "As long as I eat it, you won't conceive a child." ”

Yunzhu guessed, and she questioned the effect: "Does it work?" Will it be harmful to you? ”

Cao Xun shook the porcelain bottle, watched the pill roll in it a few times, and explained: "I have heard that there is a poison that can make a man lose his children and grandchildren for the rest of his life. ”

Yun Zhu's face changed drastically.

Before she thought about it, Cao Xun smiled and said: "Don't worry, this is different from that kind of poison, I asked a famous doctor to neutralize the effect, such a one can only make me 'poisoned' for about half a year, and after half a year, the poison will be exhausted, and I need to eat another one." ”

Yun Zhu still frowned: "Which famous doctor, is his medical skills reliable?" ”

Cao Xun: "Reliable, if I am terminally ill and can only choose a famous doctor for help, I will choose his kind of reliability." ”

Yunzhu glanced at him again, he didn't expect that there was such a person in the world that he trusted.

At this time, Cao Xun poured out the pill.

Yun Zhu subconsciously took his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then lowered his eyes and said, "Forget it, don't eat it, I'm afraid something will happen." ”

She just didn't want multiple children to influence the judgment they might make in two years, but she didn't want to accidentally cause him to lose his children and grandchildren.

Cao Xun looked at her fluttering eyelashes, took her into his arms with one hand, and pressed his chin against her and said, "I said, I only want a child that you are willing to give birth to for me, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't find someone else to do this." ”

"Yunzhu, I have already learned a lesson, and I will never say a word to you again in my life."

After saying that, he easily broke away from the little lady's hand and put the medicine into his mouth.

Yunzhu only had time to see his rolling Adam's apple.

She was in turmoil, a little anxious and a little annoyed: "What if something really happens?" At that time, even if you and I are still husband and wife, it is impossible to have children! ”

Cao Xun touched her face, his eyebrows gentle: "Having children may not necessarily be good, and not having children is not necessarily desolate, when the children grow up, they will each have a family, and in the end, the husband and wife will accompany each other." More than my children, I want a wife who is willing to be with me all the time. ”

Uncle Guo, who has been fighting at the border for more than ten years, has a pair of sharp and keen eyes.

Such eyes will increase his majesty and coldness when he is angry, and when he is gentle, it is like sending those words directly to people's hearts with his eyes.

Yunzhu was very unaccustomed to Cao Xun at this time, so she lowered her head.

Cao Xun lifted her chin, ready to continue what she had just done.

Yun Zhu smelled the smell of medicine in his breath, and the poison that might be contained in the medicine made her uninterested, so she stopped him and said: "No matter how neutralized it is, it is a poison, so let's observe it for a while, in case something is uncomfortable, I have to call the famous doctor over quickly." ”

Cao Xun said helplessly: "I'm not afraid, why are you so worried?" ”

Yunzhu glared at him: "You are not afraid now, if you really break off the heir in the future, you will definitely have to take this revenge on my head, can I not be afraid?" ”

Cao Xun thought for a while and said, "I'll write you another note?" ”

Yunzhu: "...... Write, put on the robe first, maybe you will be poisoned after writing, don't rush to get dressed. ”

Cao Xun smiled, touched her head, and really got out of the bed, dressing first and then writing notes.

When Yunzhu read the content of the note, Cao Xun poured a bowl of water to remove the smell of medicine in his mouth, and he took the little lady to the second bed to play chess.

This time it came down to the second watch, and an hour had passed since Cao Xun took the medicine.

Because Cao Xun didn't feel any discomfort, Yunzhu didn't bother to refuse him anymore.

And in the more than two months that the famous doctor dispensed medicine for Cao Xun, Cao Xun restrained himself no matter how much he thought about it, and once he restrained himself, Yunzhu softened his heart a little, and his heart softened until tonight, and it became a water-like cooperation.

Just like this, it seems that he can't vent the fire that Uncle Guo has banned for more than two months, he hugged the little lady who finally recovered the delicate posture of the newlywed period to the window, and then brought her back, back and forth I don't know how many laps.

I don't know how long later, the two fell on the bed together.

Yun Zhu lay on his chest weakly, and everything she had just experienced made her wonder that what he had eaten was not "poison" at all, but the kind of medicine that appeared in the script that could make men alive.

Cao Xun recovered before her, smoothed her hair one by one, and then picked her up again and kissed her when Yunzhu was so comfortable that she was about to fall asleep.

Yun Zhu didn't have the strength to accompany him anymore, so he brushed his face away and said sleepily: "Sleep." ”

Cao Xun grabbed the little lady's hand, kissed her ear, and asked: "Do you want to eat the sea shrimp of Shanhaiguan, the red peach with paper-thin skin in Xuanzhou, the cold noodles as thin as silk in Datong, and the whole roasted beach sheep in Ganzhou?" ”

Yunzhu: "......"

A string of delicacies that could not be played with the eight poles at this moment made her wake up from her sleepiness, looked at him and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Cao Xun smiled and said, "I'm going to patrol the border, I want to take you with me." ”

Chapter 87: Spending the night in the rain

Cao Xun's patrol of the border this time is basically along the Great Wall, from Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west, and every time he goes to a place, he has to supervise the army for three or five days, and he may not be able to rush back to the capital for the New Year.

Yunzhu not only wanted to follow him to appreciate the customs and customs of various places and taste the delicacies that can only be enjoyed locally, but also worried that the journey was too hard.