a pillow in autumn

During the Qingming Festival, the light rain falls, with a bit of melancholy, moistening the ancient city gate.Eight riders and twelve guards escorted Zhou Mubai and Shen Youtang back to Ruijing, dusk fell, and the city was full of smoke.The common people have not been affected by the war in the western frontier at all, and the emperor's feet are wanton and prosperous.

Outside the door of Shangshu's room, Li Pei warned his disciples in a low voice: "Long live Lord has not been resting his pillow these days, you all pay attention to me. Has the soothing tea been delivered?" The little servant nodded quickly: "I know. The soothing tea Just arrived, will your old man send it in?"

Suddenly hearing footsteps approaching, Li Pei raised his head and looked around the corner, with a slight smile on his face: "Prince Rui is back. This servant greets Prince Rui."

"Eunuch Li, long time no see." Zhou Mubai smiled softly, "Is Father in the study?"

"Yes. Lord Long Live has been talking about His Highness for several days. Your Highness will wait a moment for the servant to report back." Li Pei said, carrying soothing tea into the study.

But after a while, Zhou Lin's voice came from Shang's study, Zhou Mubai stepped into the study, the drizzle blocked the window, Zhou Lin sat in front of the large desk, behind him was a beautiful landscape with splashed ink.Mubai Zhanpao knelt down and kowtowed respectfully, "My son greets the father, the father is blessed and safe, and the happiness is endless." Li Pei helped her up on Zhou Lin's behalf, saluted again, and bowed out of the study .

Zhou Lin called her to her side, looked at her carefully, and sighed unconsciously: "San'er has grown taller."

Mu Bai was relieved to hear his words, but his heart was sour.After more than a year's absence, my father's temples were stained with hoarfrost at some point.Running all the way back, I never thought that the first sentence my father said when he saw her was not about the prince, nor about Xifeng, but just such a plain sentence, Saner grew taller.

"Father, my son is back, I am sorry for my father." Mu Bai's eyes were slightly red, and he was about to kneel down again.

"It's good to come back." Zhou Lin supported her shoulder, patted her with the opportunity, and led her to a gilt screen. On the screen, there were beautiful mountains and rivers, and the boundaries of the city were well marked.Zhou Mubai looked at it intently, and it turned out to be a map of the whole territory of Ruiguo with embroidery.

"One hundred thousand cavalry from the Tu tribe invaded our frontier army. You must have heard about it." Zhou Lin pointed to a piece of hinterland and said, "The prince should be here. After about a month, the army can reach the Gunzhou."

"Before the emperor's expedition, he left a letter to his ministers, saying that the Tu people have been outside the Great Wall for a long time, galloping on the grasslands, and relying on excellent horses, they can cover more than [-] miles in an hour. They have been in constant disputes with our dynasty for decades. Nian has repeatedly violated the border, which is actually the biggest problem for our Rui country. This time, half of the country's power is used to send troops to the western frontier, and it is bound to drive out the evil bandits and exterminate the Tu clan."

Zhou Lin waited for her to finish speaking, and said slowly: "What is the most important thing when the two countries are at war?"

Zhou Mubai was startled, and immediately replied: "Food and grass go first."

Zhou Lin shook his head: "It's the enemy's situation. In the past years of plundering, the Tu people never slaughtered caravans, because there are many things they need in the caravan trade. Salt, iron, and cotton brocade are all in short supply on the grassland. The team was slaughtered, presumably because the news was blocked. There are so many visions, something unusual must have happened."

"Scholar Shen also left a letter to Shen Youtang, saying that in the past, the Tu clan always had no food at the end of the year, and came to attack when they were short of firewood and rice. This time, at the beginning of spring, they assembled a cavalry team to attack our frontier army. The momentum is huge. I'm afraid not only It's for grabbing food."

Zhou Lin suddenly smiled, with a deep meaning: "Scholar Shen?"

"It's my son-in-law's father-in-law." Mu Bai blushed, "I dare not call you my son-in-law in front of the emperor."

"How are you and the princess?" Zhou Lin smiled lightly: "Your mother sent Imperial Physician Pei to Hezhou early to diagnose your happy pulse, but there was no reply. I still pointed at you to spread the branches and leaves for the royal family."

Mubai's face turned even redder, and he said: "My son... my son..."

"Natural principles and human relations, what's there to be shy about?" Zhou Lin laughed loudly, and his mind was a little more relaxed: "You go to the west to help your brother, and when you return to the court after victory, you will work hard to add to the royal family. Give your grandson a name yourself!"

"Yes!" Zhou Mubai knelt down on one knee, feeling bold and embarrassed, and only lowered his eyebrows in agreement.

"The Tu clan is tyrannical, and there are complaints everywhere. The two states and nine counties in the west have a total force of 12. Since I ascended the throne, there have been dozens of wars with them, and there have been wins and losses. , relying on the boundless outside the territory." Zhou Lin pointed to the counties in the western region on the screen, and said coldly: "This time the crown prince leads 20 elite soldiers, and I will give you another [-] cavalry! Since it dares to offend my king's subjects , I will break its reliance, it has no borders outside the territory, and I will take this outside the territory into the territory of Rui!"

"My son, take orders!"

Outside the hall, Shen Youtang and several staff members greeted him. Zhou Mu raised his eyebrows lightly and nodded slightly: "Three days later, the time will be right!" Xu Youci and Zhang Minzhi slapped each other lightly, their eyes lit up with anticipation look.

The drizzle weaves obliquely and falls on everyone. It is expected to be cold in spring, so why not scream and go west!

The war was ruthless, Zhou Mubai was still young, and it was his first time fighting, Zhou Lin specially appointed Wei Jinpeng to be her lieutenant general.Wei Jinpeng is the second son of the Duke of Wei and the elder brother of the Crown Princess. He has fought several times with the Tu Clan. He once killed the second general of the Tu Clan in the First Battle of the Xu Clan. He became famous as a young man. Not long ago, he was promoted to Captain Fengche , this trip will be added to the guerrilla side general, it is the time to be full of ambition.

The army traveled quickly for more than ten days, and arrived at Wuyang County, Yizhou before the rain, which was only [-] days away from the western border of Zhangzhou.Li Youmu's deputy lieutenant Qiu Shude came back on horseback, and had a low-key chat with Wei Jinpeng. Wei Jinpeng then went forward to report to Zhou Mubai that Wuyang County is the center of Yizhou, and most of the merchants who come from south to north stay here. Gradually, it developed into a large-scale market, and the outskirts of the county have a wide range of pastoral forests, which can be used for people and horses to camp.

The army rested for half a day in Wuyang County. Wei Jinpeng took a few assistants to the state animal husbandry department to buy food and grass. Relevant people will hand over and complete it.Wei Jinpeng saw that it was still early, and went out to the most prosperous place in the city.

Several lieutenants followed General Wei for a long time. They had fought with the Tu tribe and marched through this place several times. The deputy lieutenant Qiu Shude was even more familiar with it. He arrived at the Changle Gate first, and the two gatekeepers greeted them. The storytelling and singing songs are lively one by one.

Qiu Shude rewarded Mending with a piece of silver, and Mending smiled and led them to find a good place, and another waiter came up to boil two pots of hot wine, and cut several plates of beef and mutton.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl sang a local ditty in a drawn out voice. Wei Jinpeng drank a cup of hot wine, and the few of them talked and talked, feeling that the sun was getting thinner.

"General Wei!" Someone called out.

Wei Jinpeng looked sideways sleepily, and saw a young man in his twenties standing in front of him in a fine attire.

"General, long time no see. But I still remember."

Wei Jinpeng thought for a while, it was Liu Xun, the Second Prince's attendant, and the Deputy Dianjun of Prince Min's Mansion.He immediately woke up, but his eyes were still blurred, "Why is Master Liu here?"

"I will accompany Zhuo Jing to visit relatives." Liu Xun smiled and said, "I don't want to meet old friends in other places. Can I ask for a glass of water and wine with the general."

"Hahaha! Master Liu has such a good mood, how dare we not accompany him?" Wei Jinpeng raised his hand as he spoke, and several lieutenants got up and left the game together.Then he called Xiaoer to take away the leftovers, and brought up some new dishes.

After drinking a few more cups, Liu Xun casually said: "I heard that the general is going to the west, is he the deputy general of the Red Wing Army?"

Wei Jinpeng said, "Exactly."

"I wish the general the victory." Liu Xun toasted a cup, and said, "The conquests have been difficult in ancient times, and hundreds of battles have been accomplished on the battlefield. It's just that the general will go here, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to make military achievements."

"Why did your lord say that?"

"Prince Rui has never been on the battlefield, but this trip is the chief general of the Second Army. He may not even dare to see the blood on the battlefield, and the general is called a deputy general, but he is actually bathed in blood and swords. In the end, the military merits may be attributed to him Let the name of the young prince be on it."

"Lord Liu!" Wei Jinpeng sneered, "Master Liu, why do you use such words. Whoever His Majesty orders as the chief general will be the chief general of Wei. Wei only knows to be loyal to my emperor and to expand the land for me. Kaijiang."

Liu Xun put down his wine glass, before we could talk again, Wei Jinpeng had already stood up, and several lieutenants immediately approached him, only to see him squint at Liu Xun, and said coldly: "Wei is a martial artist, and Mr. Liu If you don’t want to speculate, just leave it alone, please.”

Back outside the camp, he met two men walking towards the camp, Deputy General Qiu said with a smile: "These two are scholars at first glance, why did they come to our camp?"

Wei Jinpeng looked intently, and the man in front looked familiar, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Where are you two gentlemen from?"

"General Wei!" The man clapped his palms and said with a smile, "I'm waiting for you."

"you are?"

"I'm here, Pei Dongcheng. I'm walking in the imperial hospital." Pei Dongcheng looked at the man on the horse and said, "I had a relationship with General Wei at Prince Rui's wedding."

"Oh! That's right!" Wei Jinpeng also laughed: "Master Pei is here to find Prince Rui?"

"Exactly. The officer has been waiting in Wuyang County for a long time. Today I heard that the army is passing through the border, so I hurriedly brought my little boy to pay a visit."

While the two were talking, they had already entered the camp, Wei Jinpeng led the deputy to lead Pei Dongcheng to see Zhou Mubai, then he went back to the tent and fell asleep.

At this time, it was already dusk, and Zhou Mubai was alone in the tent holding on to a volume of books, just as he saw that "the reason why a general is powerful is because of his orders. The reason why a war is completely victorious is because of military affairs. The reason why a soldier is light in combat is because he uses his life." "He heard someone's voice outside, and then the guards returned to Daotai Hospital to visit Dr. Pei.Mubai said hurriedly, please.

"Greet your highness."

Mu Bai supported him with one hand and said: "You don't need to be too polite when you are out in the army. Why is Mr. Pei here?"

Pei Dongcheng looked at her with a smile and said: "Prince Rui ordered the minister to rush to Wuyang County to meet His Highness."

"Slim net?"

"Yes." Pei Dongcheng said, "Your Highness said goodbye to us in Qiongzhou, and hurried back to Beijing. Two days later, Princess Rui caught a cold and called for a pulse check. She suddenly remembered that His Highness might be going to the west, and was away on an expedition. If there is any inconvenience, even if I order the minister to take the nearest road, I will rush here first, and then try to meet up with His Highness. I have been waiting for more than three days in Wuyang County."

"So that's how it is." Zhou Mubai's heart suddenly warmed up, and he wanted to be serious, but finally he couldn't help asking: "Her... the princess's cold is really important?"

It was rare for Pei Dongcheng to see her so concerned about someone alone, so he couldn't help being startled, then smiled and said: "My concubine is only a little ill, I have left a prescription and decoction, Your Highness can rest assured."

Zhou Mubai blushed, and said embarrassingly, "That's it, that's good."

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