"If someone suddenly said that there is a gold mine next to Shepherd City, would you believe it?"

Chu Ning asked back with a smile, Huo Wanqing listened, bowed and bowed, and left in silence.

Huo Wanqing felt that she was really too young, and intrigue was really not suitable for her, so she had better learn how to calculate, so that she could calculate the result no matter what, instead of giving such ambiguous answers.

Seeing that it was too late, she expected that Bai Su had already rested, so Chuning went back to the sheriff's backyard, ready to rest there, but unexpectedly, lying on the bed after washing, she did not feel sleepy.

Liang Qiuyue slept in the outer room on duty, and soon fell into a deep sleep. When she was dreaming, she was awakened by Chu Ning, who was tossing and turning, and the two of them changed their clothes. Regardless of the cold wind outside, they rushed to the sky in the dark world.

The light in Bai Su's room was still on slightly, and he didn't know if it had stopped. Chuning hesitated and knocked on the door twice, only to see Bai Su push the door and stand there.

Chu Ning was slightly startled: "Ah Su hasn't rested yet?"

"I heard from your messenger that if you stay at the Sheriff's Mansion tonight, you have already rested."

With that said, Bai Su turned and went back to the house, and Chuning followed behind and closed the door.

The lights in the house have been turned down, which is the brightness Chu Ningping is used to when sleeping.

There was some warmth in the quilt, but it wasn't warm enough. Chuning guessed that Bai Su might not have rested for long, and it was about an hour ago that she sent someone to deliver the message.

"Not asleep?" Chuning asked.

Bai Su nodded and said, "I don't know why, but I can't find sleep tonight."

"Me too!"

Chu Ning lay down, stretched out his arms, and looked at Bai Su expectantly, waiting for her to sleep on the pillow.

Unexpectedly, Bai Su seemed to make a mistake, leaned over and looked at her without saying a word, his eyes were soft and warm.

Bai Su looked at Chuning carefully.She knew that in terms of the beauties she had seen, Chuning was indeed not one of the most beautiful among them, but it was such a not-so-outstanding person who won her heart.

When you can't see her, you will be distracted; when you see her, you want to hug her and get close to her...

When there is no her, it may not be that the heart has nothing to rely on, but when there is her, it must be peace of mind.

Slicking away a few strands of hair blocking her forehead, her fingertips landed on the soft lips, gently, as if frightened by a rush of water, and gently wiped.

Chuning opened her lips obediently, and put the slightly cool fingertips into her tongue, and lightly licked the thin calluses left by sword practice with the soft tip of her tongue. It took almost only a few breaths, and she heard Bai Su's slight weight loss as she wished. breath.

Letting go of his fingertips and holding the back of his neck, Chuning hugged Bai Su closer.

She didn't kiss her deeply as Bai Su expected, but used her soft and wet lips to move down the fair neck.

Rubbing the slightly open skirt of Mr. Bai's house with his nose, Mr. Chu quickly opened up a large new territory, and decided to plant a vast expanse of strawberries here...

……

The two kissed for a while, and quickly warmed up. After embracing each other for a long time, they fell asleep one after another.

When he woke up in the morning, Mr. Chu inspected his newly planted strawberry garden, but Mr. Bai pressed him on the bed, even biting and gnawing, and planted a piece back.

"A Su... If you gnaw like this, you will lose your envoy, do you know?" The envoy Chu lay in the arms of Master Bai, and decided to brainwash his girlfriend: "As a girlfriend, your responsibility It’s for this envoy’s relatives, for this envoy’s hug, for this envoy’s lord..."

It was so dangerous, the word "up" almost blurted out, under the gentle but still fiery eyes of Mr. Bai, Mr. Chu remembered that under the gnawing of the chaos just now, his two little ones who had just grown up and almost lost hills.

Mr. Chu has no doubt that there will be thousands of possibilities of being "upped" in the near future after he finished saying this word.

As an old driver, there is a risk of being driven while driving. Mr. Chu decided to continue to sleep in bed while his girlfriend was in his arms and the bed was warm.

This time I didn't stay for too long, but soon Feng Jiuqing woke up with Bai Su's faint smile, because Eunuch An received an urgent letter this morning and decided to leave this morning.

"Yo!" Chuning finished a bowl of corn porridge, sighed contentedly, and said with a smile, "This old man is finally willing to leave!"

"Can you not leave?" Feng Jiuqing said displeased: "If we don't see Qian again, who in the palace can still have a good New Year's Eve?"

Hearing this, Chuning couldn't help but wondered, "What happened?"

"Although the fighting in Youzhou has ceased, the caravan brought news this morning that it was Zhangye County. General Wei Chuyan and the Xiongnu have not yet ceased fighting. A few days ago, he rushed eight hundred miles to send the news of victory to the emperor, and please give him winter clothes. " Bai Su explained in a warm voice: "The envoy who sent the letter to Mr. An came to Muyang City on a merchant ship of the Bai family. I saw that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you up."

"En!" Chu Ning responded softly, and then said in a daze, "It's already December, and General Wei is still asking for...winter clothes?"

Although the two people in front of them did not behave rudely, Feng Jiuqing just felt suffocated, put down the bowl, and said coldly: "Not everyone is like you, Chu Wenhe, who started sewing for soldiers in July and August. Winter coat."

Chu Ning was surprised: "But General Wei is only asking the court for it now, and when it is finished sewing, it will be sent to Zhangye County... Isn't winter already over?"

"This is a good news, and General Wei dared to ask for winter clothes." Feng Jiuqing sighed: "If it was in the past, who would dare to speak to the court?"

While the two were talking, Eunuch An led someone over.

"The villain has met the envoy of Chu."

"Eunuch An is being polite." Chuning returned the courtesy with a smile, and asked again: "Eunuch An is leaving now?"

"Yes!" An Rui saluted again, "I would like to bid farewell to the envoy."

Chu Ning thought about the meaning of Eunuch An's second salute, and heard Eunuch An say again: "The emperor entrusted the villain with a word, and the villain must tell the envoy."

Chu Ning hurriedly saluted: "The emperor's oracle, I will remember it in my heart for a long time!"

"Woods are beautiful and easy to break, this is the eternal truth." Eunuch An sighed: "Although the emperor is far away in Chang'an, he still cares about the safety of the emperor. I hope that the emperor will take care of it and don't let the past happen again."

As Eunuch An spoke, he immediately changed the subject: "General Wei wrote to the imperial court, intending to ask for winter clothes for his soldiers. Now that the New Year is approaching, the autumn tax has passed, and the spring tax has not yet been paid. The treasury..."

"The national treasury is empty!" Chu Ning cut off the conversation with a wry smile, "Elder-in-law, but you have also seen that my Liaodong County Mansion is so empty that even mice don't want to go there!"

"These days, if you want to read the documents, you can read the documents; if you want to talk to the soldiers, you can talk; if you want to see the weapons and armor, you can go to the arsenal to look at the weapons and armor." Chuning was not afraid of offending anyone, so he said directly: "We The magistrate's mansion is so dignified, just save such a small amount of money, you say... If you don't keep the money at the bottom of the warehouse, what is the emperor doing with me as the governor of Liaodong?"

Eunuch An did go to the money bank of the Liaodong County Mansion. Although he didn't believe that Chuning really put all the money there, he also saw the expenses of Muyang City with his own eyes, and he also took ten thousand taels of gold from his hands. It is one hundred thousand copper coins... Thinking about it this way, even if Chuning, the new governor of Liaodong County, can make money, it is impossible to get hundreds of thousands of coins in just one year.

"But this is something the emperor told me." Even though he was clear in his heart, Eunuch An did not let go: "Master, you can't let the villain go back. It's not a bad thing, is it?"

"Yes! If you say that to Eunuch, I, Chu Wenhe, will bleed again!" Chu Ning sighed, "You say what you say, if it can be done, it can be done, if it can't be done... there is nothing we can do about it."

"This..." Eunuch An hesitated immediately. He was afraid that if he said too much, Chuning would turn his face, but if he said too little, he would not be able to please him when he went back, so he had to think carefully: "The villain went to your quarantine area the day before yesterday. , I saw that there were a lot of sackcloth prepared there, it seems that there are thousands of them..."

"Success! Just sackcloth!" Chuning said decisively, "A thousand pieces!"

Eunuch An moved his lips, ready to increase the price again, but he heard Chu Ning say, "This sackcloth, I sent you to General Wei by yourself, so I won't bother Eunuch to send it back to Chang'an."

"...Mr. Chu, you have prepared several thousand pieces..." Eunuch An wondered, "General Wei has tens of thousands of people, and if you send one thousand pieces over, I'm afraid it's not enough..."

"Aha?!" Chu Ning was really angry this time, and laughed extremely angrily: "Co-author, are you taking advantage of me, Chu Wenhe? Could it be that I, Chu Wenhe, the governor of Liaodong, have to help the court?" To support the tens of thousands of frontier troops in Zhangye County? Is the imperial court planning to entrust Zhangye to me as well?"

Eunuch An was immediately choked by Chuning, his old face flushed, and he was speechless for a while.

"My Chu Wenhe's loyalty to the emperor and my sincerity to my father-in-law can be learned from heaven and earth!" Now that he has offended someone, Chu Ning is not afraid to speak up: "However, we shouldn't wait for trivial matters such as military pay and military supplies." Soldiers come to ask for it... Losing the city and sinking the ground is the responsibility of the soldiers; the treasury is empty, it is the prime minister's fault!"

After finishing speaking, Chuning didn't care how Eunuch An reacted, and left with his personal guards, instead of seeing Eunuch An off in person.

Bai Su and Feng Jiuqing looked at each other, then staggered away, and followed to hide.

Mr. An's complexion was blue and white, red and black, and he had no choice but to board the boat and leave.

When Huo Yunshu heard about this time, he quickly found Chu Ning who was patrolling in the workshop, sent Suicong away, and persuaded him, "Master, what you said this morning..."

"It's too impulsive, isn't it?" Chuning sighed, "But if I'm not impulsive, the soldiers under my command will have to settle accounts with me in the future."

"You are not afraid of the court..."

"The imperial court has already been troubled by Li Qingci, what can I do?" Speaking of this, Chuning couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion. By the way, Uncle Huo, Muxiu is easy to break, old things are heavy Now... what does this mean?"

Huo Yun's expression changed slightly, and he restrained himself again, pretending to be relaxed and asked: "Why are you talking about this?"

"Today, Eunuch An said that the emperor asked him to convey a word." Chuning said, "That's it."

"Although Uncle Huo has never met the current emperor, but..." Huo Yunshu thought for a while, then changed his words: "Perhaps, this sentence is alluding to the old affairs of the Yan family."

"What about General Yan Bufan?" Chu Ning was slightly startled: "Isn't it because of General Yan..."

"Because the military achievements are too strong, does it cause the fear in the palace?" Huo Yunshu shook his head and said: "If he is, will he still allow you to recruit Fengming Iron Cavalry?"

Chuning wondered, "But if it wasn't him, who else?"

Although Mrs. Yan and Yan Lingge didn't mention it explicitly, Chuning always felt that these two mothers and daughters didn't seem to be very friendly to the one in the palace?

"It's been more than 35 years since I ascended the throne today." Huo Yunshu replied: "At the beginning of my ascension to the throne, there were three great clans of King Huo Yan in the court. The Huo family, who has a family of three phases; the Yan family, who has been in the army for generations and has produced many famous generals; The Wang family of the emperor and empress family who has been married to the royal family since the time of the Tai/Zu; and the family of Yuan Xie, Lu Gu, Xiao Zhu and Zhang Zheng in the current court... These eight families all rose after Huo Yan."

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