"Brother Shen Hong?"

Lin Piao raised his head and looked down from the railing, the man met his gaze and bowed slightly: "Sister-in-law." ”

It's Han Xiu!

Sure enough, if you want to know someone, you will come to know someone.

Lin Piao looked sideways at Shen Hong, but he didn't know if he was not familiar with Han Xiu now.

Shen Hong didn't say anything, but just took them upstairs.

When I got upstairs, I found that Han Xiu was the only one sitting in a booth, followed by a small servant, and ordered a plate of snacks, a plate of side dishes, and a pot of good wine on the table.

He sat here, either because he had reserved a seat in advance, or because the palace had ended, and he didn't go anywhere else, he just came here to sit.

I don't know why, but he looked at them with a feeling of loneliness, and smiled when he saw them.

"Sit, I didn't expect to meet Brother Shen and sister-in-law here."

"Brother Han didn't come home?" Shen Hong asked lightly.

"The family has already gathered in advance, and when we disperse tonight, there will be nothing else to do, but it will be leisurely."

Chapter 143

Lin Piao looked at him, because he had a friendship in the county government, and they had the same affection as old friends, which was not the same as other ordinary sons and daughters in Shangjing.

"That's a good coincidence, you came here, and we just happened to have a place to stay, so that we don't have to step on our shoes if we continue to walk around the streets."

Han Xiu smiled: "Then I did a good deed, just so you came to sit down and did a good deed to me, so that I don't have to drink here alone." ”

Lin Piao saw that his expression was a little lonely, and there was a difference between him and his once youthful appearance, so he asked, "You drink alone with the moon today, but you miss Chang'e." ”

"Not really." Han Xiu changed the topic and talked about the fairy Chang'e at today's Mid-Autumn Palace banquet, and was quite admirable: "I heard that the clothes are made by my sister-in-law, and the dance is also what my sister-in-law thinks." ”

"I don't do it, I just put forward ideas, and then they see how they can do it, and the same is true of dance, and I'm a person who doesn't know how to dance, so I'm just thinking about it."

Shen Hong sat aside, glanced at Han Xiu, and then looked at Lin Piao lightly, did not interrupt their conversation, poured himself a cup of tea, and added a little more to Lin Piao, he naturally moved Lin Piao's teacup in front of him, filled it with tea and put it back casually, as if he was used to it.

Han Xiu saw his movements, praised Lin Piao a few words, and then looked at Juan'er and Xiaoyue, greeting how they were doing in Shangjing.

Han Xiu was not a fool, if Wen Shuo was here, he would naturally feel that Shen Hong had always been used to doing these things, and serving his sister-in-law like this was his most common action.

But he knew better than Wen Shuo what kind of person Shen Hong was in the end, and the more he was such a cautious person, the more he had an uncle-sister-in-law relationship with Lin Piao, the more he would avoid suspicion, and he would be an innocent gentleman who would not be subject to a trace of slander.

He didn't know what Shen Hong thought in the end, but he could vaguely feel it in his heart, after all, he was a brother who had been by his side for so many years, and Shen Hong had a special possessive desire for Lin Piao.

Because Lin Piao and Juan'er Xiaoyue were present, Shen Hong and Han Xiu could not talk too much about the affairs of the court, so they only exchanged a few words about Xiang's family and asked about the situation.

Han Xiu said: "Your Majesty may not want to deal with this matter. ”

Shen Hong said: "The golden autumn is August, and it will be September soon." ”

Lin Piao listened a little on the side, and asked in a puzzled whisper: "Your Majesty values the autumn reunion so much?" Do not dispose of relatives in the fall? ”

Wouldn't it be too weak to be an emperor in this way?

Han Xiu couldn't help but laugh when he heard him ask like this, and Shen Hong couldn't help but laugh and shook his head at him.

"There are a lot of border battles in the autumn, and we have to use Xiangjia."

Shen Hong explained a few words to him in a whisper, and Lin Piao quickly got what they meant.

It is the harvest season, and the industries that need to be busy in August and September are almost over, and everyone is ready for wintering, which is the time of the year when the reserves are the fullest, and the nomads have to prepare for the winter.

Their biggest procurement activity for the winter every year is to come to the border for 0 yuan purchase, the usual 0 yuan purchase is relatively random, there is no organization to organize out to rob, autumn is a fixed activity project, there is no big war, but the small war continues.

"It wouldn't work without them, but it's really unreliable." Han Xiu sighed with emotion.

People who were born in the prosperous era, especially people like Han Xiu, have an unsatisfying emptiness in their hearts, they have stood in such a high position as soon as they were born, such a prosperous world, there is nothing that needs him to continue to forge ahead and build, Daning is already the best appearance.

However, in the gorgeous prosperous world, countless lice crawled in it, and it was not something he could brush away, and it seemed that all this did not have much impact on the whole Daning, and Daning did not need drastic reforms, and he was not satisfied with all this, and felt that his ambition was difficult to reward.

Lin Piao thought about it, it was indeed unreliable, and such a big thing as deducting military salaries was finally lightly revealed, as if nothing had happened after the big punishment and the small commandments.

Han Xiu sighed: "Now there are a few people in the army who can be relied on, and everyone is afraid of the power from above, so they only know that they blindly greet each other, the upper beam is not right, and the lower beam is crooked. ”

Lin Piao, it turned out that the handsome guy Han was worried about the country and the people, and felt that there was no one available in this great country.

Lin Piao looked at Shen Hong and gave Shen Hong a hint of a look, Shen Hong received his gaze, and there was a hint of doubt, Lin Piao raised his eyebrows: "You said that these two pillars are idle at home all day, don't get sick." ”

Shen Hong shook his head and refused directly: "He is reckless and upright, so he can't go to the army." ”

When Han Xiu heard them say this, he immediately asked, "But in your family, that martial artist named Erzhu?" ”

Shen Hong nodded: "Sister-in-law mentioned him, but I think it's inappropriate, he was originally in the forbidden army, he was recommended by the appreciation of the young master Qi, he offended the Ruan family before, and offended the prince of Anhou, and later annoyed the commanders above, so he resigned from the forbidden army and returned home." ”

When Han Xiu heard this, he had only been in Beijing for a few days, and such a small position had offended so many people in a short period of time?

"What did he do?"

Shen Hong carefully explained the things that Erzhu had done, so that the more Han Xiu listened, the more satisfied he became, and the more he listened, the more surprised he became.

He has been in Beijing for so many years, and he has never seen such a figure as Erzhu, but he has seen such a prince and nobleman as Prince Anhou wantonly riding horses on the street, and he dares to stand up and say a word of no yes, but in fact there are too few of them, and there has always been only flattery and no refutation.

Such a person can be said to be arrogant and proud, and he does not bend his waist for the powerful at all.

"It is precisely this kind of character in the army who is not flattering or flattering, so that the atmosphere in the army can be upright."

"It's just that this kind of person never lives long." Shen Hong said lightly.

"He only does his work in the army, and if he can make meritorious deeds, you and I will always find a way to protect him together, and we will always get by."

"I'm afraid that the sky is high and the emperor is far away."

Han Xiu looked at Shen Hong's expression, knew that he was doing it on purpose, and knew that he was thinking far, so he thought for a while: "I will find him a favor in the army, and I will protect him nearby." ”

Lin Piao listened to the conversation between the two of them, and Shen Hong packaged Erzhu for sale in a few words, which found a suitable backer for Erzhu.

After returning home, Lin Piao told Erzhu about this, and Erzhu was naturally happy, he didn't want to stay in Shangjing, but because Lin Piao's side was not completely unemployed, nor was he wronged him, he didn't bother to think about it, and now suddenly a great opportunity fell from the sky, so he naturally quickly got ready to go.

The second aunt couldn't help but mourn for two days: "After all, he has come to this point, and it is inevitable that he will go to the battlefield when he practices martial arts, but I always think that it is good that he can be by his side, but he is not used to living in Beijing, he is very rough, maybe he will be comfortable when he goes to the border pass." ”

The second aunt was sad and self-explanatory, and she didn't need Lin Piao's persuasion, so she said that she had said it well, and began to prepare to pack her luggage for Erzhu.

Erzhu didn't have anything to bring, so he put on a new set of clothes, brought a change of clothes, and stuffed them into his black cloth schoolbag, which looked no different from those newcomers who straddled their shoulders with their burdens, and they all looked unintelligent.

Shen Hong and Han Xiu pulled the strings and got him into the Qi family's army, Shen Hong felt that it was better to find a big guy as a backer than to grasp the superiors, so Han Xiu went to ask for a circle of favors, arranged him under a deputy general, and asked the deputy general to take care of him a little more.

Lin Piao also instructed Erzhu to simply pretend to be stupid when he didn't know, and not to be a hero, after all, he is indeed a bit stupid, it is better to pretend to be stupid completely, so as not to cause trouble in some people's affairs.

With the heart of an old mother, they finally sent Erzhu out of Beijing in a new personnel transfer.

Seeing him wearing the simplest sergeant armor, with a cloth scarf wrapped in a bun, and a tall and strong one walking in the crowd, following behind the tall horse, Lin Piao arrived at the city gate, almost crying.

I still feel a little sad in my heart.

In the future, this cub will not have a carriage to sit in, and I don't know if he will feel hard.

What they want to go to is still the city that was under the jurisdiction of the Xiang family before, and now it has become the troops sent by the Qi family and the Xiang family, and the second pillar is transferred with the second group of personnel, and the time is so long, it is impossible to see where his future is.

This was the last time in Lin Piao's life that he worried about Erzhu's future, and after that he only sweated.

Erzhu went out for just over a month, and the border came to report, saying that the golden autumn 0 yuan purchase began, many tribes came to the border one after another to harass, including a city, when the two pillars they went to support, the other party had already purchased 0 yuan, it was enough to expel the army and protect the city.

But Erzhu took out the momentum of the sidewalk when he dragged Anhou Gongzi off the horse when he went to Beijing, and said that you can't build it, this is the momentum of the sidewalk.

roared at the savages of the tribe, do you know that you can't buy it for 0 yuan here? Do you know that you have to return what we have taken!

Erzhu angrily hooked up with his brothers, took a small group of men and horses, and secretly chased them out in disobey the orders of his superiors, pursued them all the way and ambushed them to the ground, beat the other party to the ground, and hung their heads on both sides of the horses with more than a dozen enemy soldiers, and returned with most of the looted goods.

Then he was whipped ten times for disobeying the orders of his superiors.

Although the merits and demerits are offset, there is no demerit and no military merits, but Lin Piao saw the news and knew that the soil was suitable for him, Shangjing was too constrained for him, the yellow sand and wilderness on the border, the fierce horses and the long wind were his freedom, whether it was good or bad for the time being, but at least it was suitable.

The second aunt heard the news and scolded her at home for two days, and Lin Piao couldn't tell whether she was dissatisfied or showing off.

"Piao'er, do you listen to this? Got eleven people hanging on the horse, what is he doing, it's so unbelievable, eleven, dirty, not dirty, not disgusting! Eleven! ”

Lin Piao felt that the second aunt was going to tattoo Eleven on her face, and she couldn't wait to publicize the heroic exploits of Erzhu to everyone she met, and the highlight moment when he held eleven blood in his hand.

Everything in Shangjing is changing rapidly, everything on the border is also changing rapidly, the border war suddenly broke out, and it was about the same for a while, but I didn't expect it to last for a long time, whether it was intermittent harassment, or the plundering of the pursuit of victory, in short, it did not stop from September to October.

After the frost falls, the weather begins to get cold, and the sky gets darker and darker, especially in the evening, when the gray and bare colors spread all over the sky, lining the bustling Uekyo with desolation, and the whole Uekyo seems to fall into a dark night.

At this time, Lin Piao was playing hot pot around the stove.

"Come, it's a good time to stick to autumn fat, take advantage of the cold weather to eat more and take more supplements, so that you can get less sick in winter."

Anyway, Lin Piao is talking nonsense, no matter what is good for the body.

Everyone sat around and had a full meal, and then they went out to do their own things, Lin Piao and Juan'er Xiaoyue went to Yuemingfang, now everything in Yuemingfang has entered the right track, and there is no need to pay special attention to it, as long as nothing goes wrong on weekdays.

Juan'er and Xiaoyue have the titles of Chanjuan and Hanyue, holding Yueminglou in their hands, both in terms of value and force, and there are many young men who are quite fond of them, especially those who have a relationship with each other, cloth shops and sellers of rough jewelry, and they are very attentive to Juan'er and Xiaoyue.

Lin Piao doesn't care about them anymore, they all turn a blind eye, after all, they are all older, they have more money in their hands, and it is nothing to seek emotional sustenance, Lin Piao only told them that they should choose people well, make plans first when they are selected, and screen character well, and character must be the first element.

Xiao Yue and Juan'er naturally responded, announcing that they would not easily look down on those Meng Lang men.

And at the same time approaching was Shen Hong's marriage contract.

Now in October, they have set a date for December, and there are only two months before the wedding, and the Huang family has already come to the door to discuss the wedding, wondering what they plan to do and how they plan to handle it.

What can Lin Piao say, he can't say that he didn't plan to do it at all, right? He didn't prepare at all, he didn't have a clue at all, he had a headache about this matter, and he didn't know what method Shen Hong planned to use to put off the marriage, so he could only consume it first.

Lin Piao was even thinking that if Shen Hong really got married, he would immediately run away, and then he would receive money from various branches every month.

Lin Piao waited like this for a few days, and didn't dare to let Shen Hong know what he thought, but secretly chatted with Ergou about this issue first, Lin Piao naturally didn't say anything about what he was going to do, but just talked to Ergou about where was the best place to live in his heart if he didn't go to Beijing to make a living, and used this as an argument.

"The county government, although everyone says that Jiangnan is good, but I have never been to Jiangnan, only lived in the county government on Ludong Mountain, I feel that it should be much worse than Jiangnan, the scenery is very good all year round, and it is close to our hometown."

Ergou looked a little nostalgic when he said this, although he had suffered a lot on Ludong Mountain and suffered a lot of white eyes, but for him, he had been in Shangjing for so long, Shangjing was indeed very good, and it was the fairy palace in his heart, but it was impossible to say that he didn't want to go home at all.

He was a little homesick.

Although he sent a lot of money to his home in the past two months, he didn't know if he had eaten well and lived well, and after Erzhu went to the border recently, he sometimes had a cold thought in his mind, what if something happened to Erzhu, what if he couldn't come back.

This thought made him realize the impermanence of life, and his heart, which had no warmth, was a little stunned, and when he thought of his parents at home, relatives and friends around him, he couldn't help but sigh that he was fortunate to have all this.

Lin Piao nodded: "The county government is indeed good, but it is too small, if I live, I still want to live in the state capital, although it is not as good as Shangjing, but to say that the land is big and rich, there are still some new things." ”

"Where does the little sister-in-law want to go? The house of the previous residence is still there, and there is a ready-made residence. Ergou looked at Lin Piao, carefully observing his expression, although he was not sure, or Shen Hong now has a marriage on him, and there is no intention of preparing for marriage up and down the house, and the sister-in-law said that she wanted to leave.