Efforts to kill the enemy is not as good as the full level of tea art

At noon the sun became brighter and brighter.The men in the courtyard swung their hammers and forged the fiery red pig iron.Several stoves and bellows were operating at the same time, making the dry and cold air in February feel like midsummer. The bellowers had already shaken off their coats, and a thin layer of sweat was covering their lean and strong copper-brown muscles. .

Almost all the people in the courtyard were from the Central Plains, except for one Zhagan soldier who was bored sitting on the horse and wiping his knife, as if he was supervising the work.

Zhuo Yue and Li Changxing were lying on the edge of the upturned roof, picking up the rubble and quietly observing the situation in the yard below.Zhuo Yue didn't know what to see, his brows were wrinkled, his face was solemn.

Li Changxing also looked carefully for a while, and said in a low voice: "These men walk powerfully, with broad arms and strong bodies. It is indeed possible that they are pretending to be defenders. But to be sure, we need to talk to some of them... "

"There's no need to talk." Zhuo Yue shook his head, "None of them have been soldiers."

Li Changxing was a little surprised, but Zhuo Yue said in a low voice: "Most of these people are thin and not tall, which is the characteristic of long-term physical work. And look at those who are working on the bellows. Rubbing the waist, it is an old injury left by leaning over for a long time in farming or carrying heavy objects. There are not many soldiers with waist injuries, and these people should be local blacksmiths or farmers."

Li Changxing said "Oh" with some understanding: "So that's the case. What should we do? Do we need to investigate again?"

Zhuo Yue shook his head, and suddenly saw a man in a brocade robe and a cap with melon skin coming in from the courtyard below.Holding a small cup in his hand, he trotted all the way to the front of the overseer Zha Ganren. After offering the small cup, he bowed and smiled and said something.

"This should be the rich man surnamed Zheng?" Li Changxing narrowed his eyes slightly, "Fawning, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattering, flattery, such a person should not hide the defenders..."

"Hush." ​​Zhuo Yue raised his hand, "Can you hear what he said?"

Li Changxing listened carefully, and said for a long time: "The Zhagan man asked him if the cotton coat was ready. The rich man said that his daughter was rushing to make it with his family members, and the Zhagan man was a little dissatisfied that they delayed It took too long, and the rich man apologized and said that it will be too soon, please wait a little longer..."

Zhuo Yue frowned, and slid down the eaves without a sound, Li Changxing followed him and asked, "Brother Zhuo, it seems that there is nothing to see here, why don't we go back and look for that Fu first—— "

"You man, why don't you ask for a deeper understanding?" Zhuo Yue scolded, "The Zheng family is so big, we haven't finished reading it yet."

Li Changxing looked at him: "...Brother Zhuo, you don't want to go to that girl Zheng's boudoir, do you?"

Zhuo Yue was a little embarrassed, and spat in a low voice: "Why did the words change when they got into your mouth? Am I that kind of person? I want to see how they make cotton clothes! My name is No detail was overlooked!"

Although the Zheng family is a wealthy household, they are still wealthy households in a small border town after all, and their house is nothing more than a three-entry courtyard.Zhuo Yue and Li Changxing went all the way in, but they hardly met anyone. It seemed that the whole yard had been emptied.

There was no one in the backyard, so Zhuo Yue pushed the doors one by one and went in, but there was nothing there.Enter the third room in the west wing, there is an extra canopy bed with Luo Hong bed curtains, and there are rouge, gouache, powder and snails on the mirror table under the bed, it seems that it is the room of the Zheng family girl.

Zhuo Yue strolled in, raised the curtain of the bed to have a look, stretched out his hand to shake off Jin Yun's quilt, and was about to go to open the suitcase.Li Changxing stood at the door, looked at him with a slight frown, and said for a while, "Brother Zhuo, I'm afraid this is inappropriate."

"There's nothing wrong. The other rooms are as empty as if they've been ransacked, but this room is worth searching." Zhuo Yue reached into the suitcase and fumbled, "Hurry up and help me see what's under the bed. without!"

Li Changxing walked over slowly and pressed on the suitcase: "Brother Zhuo, this is the boudoir of an ordinary girl's family. She is an unmarried female family member. I'm afraid the two of us rummaged through their things like this—"

"Did you grow up on the grassland? Don't all the people in your place live together with men and women?" Zhuo Yue stared at him strangely, "Our lives are like grasshoppers roasting on the fire. What do you care about men and women? Big defense?"

Li Changxing's emerald eyes gradually became darker, and no emotion could be seen.He was about to open his mouth to say something, but suddenly he heard footsteps outside the window accompanied by words and conversations coming from far and near from the corridor.

"... Zhagan asked about cotton clothes again. Miss, we have to hurry up."

"It's not finished until it's finished." The voice of the conversation was soft and soft, it should be the girl from Zheng's family, "This is all delicate work, you go and let Dad drag it on."

Zhuo Yue straightened up abruptly, and exchanged a glance with Li Changxing.

He subconsciously ran towards the window, but the window was facing the direction of the person coming.At a loss, Li Changxing grabbed him and pushed him to the bottom of the bed frame, squeezed and pushed him and rolled under the bed.Chen Nian Lao Hui covered the faces of the two of them, and Zhuo Yue subconsciously wanted to sneeze, but was covered back by Li Changxing.

As soon as the two of them hid their front feet, they heard the door of the room "creak" on their back feet, and Miss Zheng led someone in.In the conversation of several people, there was also the sound of wheels, as if a wheelbarrow had been pushed in.

"The master asked you to give a specific date. Otherwise, it would be bad to offend those Zhagan people."

"That's impossible." Miss Zheng slowly approached the bed, Zhuo Yue turned her head to look, and saw the hem of an autumn-colored printed jacket skirt and a pair of silk shoes through the gap between the hanging curtains of the bed. "Things that do not meet the standards are given up, but there is no way to explain them."

Suddenly there was another dust shaking on the top of the head, it turned out that the woman sat down on the bed.Zhuo Yue was caught off guard and almost lost his eyes. Li Changxing hurriedly turned over and covered Zhuo Yue, covering him from the dust falling on his head.

But in this way, the two are incredibly close.From their legs to their waists to their chests, they are all tightly fitted together, only slightly separated at the shoulders, breathing and audible.Zhuo Yue felt that the air around him became thinner in an instant, and he shrank back uncomfortably, but was fixed in place by Li Changxing's shoulders.

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy looked thin and thin, but his bones were not light, and it felt heavy and hot on Zhuo Yue's body.While breathing, Li Changxing's gaze lowered slightly, sliding inch by inch from top to bottom, and finally stopped at the point under Zhuo Yue's nose.If there was any substance in his eyes, Zhuo Yue instantly felt his face itch.

I don't know if it was an illusion, Zhuo Yue felt that the boy's breathing suddenly became a little heavy.

This feels so fucking weird!Zhuo Yue pushed his shoulder hard, but Li Changxing grabbed his wrist and pressed him to the ground.

Are you going to rebel!Zhuo Yue questioned him with angry eyes.

Li Changxing looked at him, his eyes finally clear.He raised his body slightly, made a silent expression, and pointed to the top of the bed.

At this time, the girl from the Zheng family said: "...Look at the stitches, the stitches are not tightly stitched, what should I do if the cotton leaks out?"

"The female relatives are too busy, these may have been sewn by the men."

"A man's house is not fine in handicrafts." Zheng's girl sighed, "You can leave this car in my house, and I will rush to mend it tonight."

Zhuo Yue couldn't help frowning under the bed.If this family were forced to work for the Zhagan people, they wouldn't have to bother so much, but there was no sense of reluctance in what the Zheng family girl said.

"Girl," someone called out again at this time, "Master is looking for you."

"Didn't I just sit down here?" The girl from the Zheng family muttered, and raised her voice to answer, "Here we are!"

The footsteps faded away, and the door was closed again.

Zhuo Yue and Li Changxing who were under the bed immediately crawled out and stood there shaking the ashes frantically.Li Changxing went over and carefully opened the door to make sure that no one was there, then turned his head to call Zhuo Yue, but saw him standing beside the cart of cotton clothes, frowning and twisting the corner of his clothes to check.

Cotton clothes to keep out the cold in winter are necessary materials for border guards.When the money was tight or someone deliberately withheld it, the frontier soldiers would not be able to wear solid cotton clothes, and some defective products were even made up of rotten wadding or shredded paper, which could not keep out the cold at all.

And the padded clothes in front of me are filled with solid cotton, thick and warm to the touch, and the stitches are finely stitched, which is many times better than those worn by the soldiers on the border in the Central Plains.

"Brother Zhuo..." Li Changxing called him at the door.

Zhuo Yue sighed inwardly, dropped the cotton coat in his hand and left in a hurry.

The two came out again from Zheng's house, and walked to the thatched cottage where the young man surnamed Fu had met.Zhuo Yue seemed a little silent along the way, as if immersed in some thoughts.

Li Changxing observed his expression, and said for a while, "Brother Zhuo, the Zheng family must have been forced to do so, don't mind."

"What do I mind?" Zhuo Yue sneered, "It's our soldiers who are incapable of protecting the common people, so blame yourself for being useless."

"After we recover Danji City, the common people will be happy too."

Zhuo Yue was silent for a while: "I hope so."

The two went back to the hut, and they saw that the young man surnamed Fu had returned to the house, sitting cross-legged and eating white steamed buns.Seeing them coming back, he raised his head and glanced at the two, as if a little impatient: "So long?"

Zhuo Yue hugged his shoulders and looked at him: "We searched the Zheng family's yard inside and out. You came back so quickly, didn't you find out anything?"

The young man broke off a small piece of steamed bun and put it in his mouth, chewing it gracefully: "Master, my efficiency is incomparable. I have already found the person who is hiding the defenders."

"You found it?" Zhuo Yue asked suspiciously, "Who is it? How did you find it?"

"There are only a few families in the city that have relatives with the defenders." The young man surnamed Fu lazily said, "When the city was just broken, the Zagan people almost killed Danji's garrison completely, and returned the relatives of the general family. They all gathered together and forced them to watch and behead them. The family members of the military households who were more aggressive wanted to resist on the spot, but a large number of them were hacked to death on the spot by the Zhagan people with knives.

Later, those who wanted to hide the defenders were also found out and hanged on the tower.More than 100 people died before and after, and that was a tragedy. There were crying and howling outside no matter day or night, and I was so scared that I dared not go out.Well, now there are only three or four households that are barely related to the defenders, but most of them only have old children, women and children, and there is only one Beicheng surnamed Ding left if there are any males.If you must say that there is someone in the city who helped hide the defenders, it can only be his family. "

"Beicheng's surname is Ding..." Zhuo Yue said slowly, "What connection does he have with Danji's defenders?"

The young man surnamed Fu said: "His younger sister used to marry a hundred households in the garrison, and she was quite beautiful. But his sister-in-law was fierce, and when the Zhagan people entered the city, they stuck to the garrison mansion and refused to let go, so they were tied up by the Zhagan people. I played with the stone lion at the gate of the garrison mansion as an archery target, and it took dozens of arrows to die. It was so miserable, the whole person was tied into a hedgehog, and the stone lion was dyed red. At that time, his wife couldn't bear the stimulation, so she rushed up Desperately, he was split into two by the Zhagan people."

This is indeed blood feud.Li Changxing said: "His younger sister and younger sister-in-law died so badly, and this surname Ding didn't react?"

"Why not." The young man surnamed Fu mumbled, chewing on steamed buns, "but he is just a commoner, what can he do? It seems that he also seeks revenge from Zhagan people. He was taught a lesson, and he has been honest since then."

Li Changxing listened, frowning slightly, but said nothing.

"I heard that this man surnamed Ding was originally a pottery maker. There is a pottery shop at home, so he is considered a local Tibetan. If the rich man surnamed Zheng is not the person you are looking for, he is the most likely person."

The young man surnamed Fu ate the dry head like a treasure, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corner of his mouth, and looked at the two of them: "What are your plans? Hurry up and find the defenders before you can unblock the pill Gee, young master, I don't have time to kill you guys."

"Now you are begging us. You have to wait honestly, don't ask too much." Zhuo Yue warned him.

The young man surnamed Fu sneered, and said unceremoniously: "If it wasn't for my help, you are still wandering around the city without a clue. At least be polite to me."

Zhuo Yue didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned his head and whispered to Li Changxing: "After sunset, you and I will go to Ding's house to have a look."

It was still a few hours before dark, and Zhuo Yue was lying on the haystack in his clothes to recharge his batteries.The young man surnamed Fu also sat cross-legged, dozing against the wall.However, after a while, he heard someone approaching, and when he opened his eyes, it was Li Chang walking over.

Li Changxing smiled at him and sat down beside him: "Brother, I still don't know how to call you by your full name?"

The young man glanced at him lazily: "Fu Wang."

"Listen to your accent, aren't you from the north?" Li Changxing said with a smile, "He came from the south for business?"

Fu Wang half-raised his slender eyes and looked around Li Changxing up and down, then suddenly twitched the corners of his mouth: "Don't worry about me? Your elder brother didn't ask this or that, you're in the fog What words?"

Li Changxing said with a slight smile, "I just think we met by chance and are not familiar with each other—"

"Oh, I see." Fu Wang raised his eyebrows, "It's because your elder brother trusts me too much, so you don't worry about it?"

Li Changxing's pupils tightened slightly and he did not speak.

"I don't think you look like a fool who doesn't understand human language, so don't get close to me." Fu Wang waved his hand and said lazily, "I don't know why your elder brother trusts me so much, but I asked myself if I did What's wrong with you, I don't bother to talk too much to make you feel at ease. Is it better to close your eyes and take a nap for a while?"

Li Changxing looked at him, his eyes seemed to float in the spring mountains with a drizzle in March, and there was a touch of coolness.But after all, he chose to hide all his emotions, didn't say anything, got up and walked away.

The author has something to say: Xiao Li: Tsk, this newcomer seems to have a bit of a brain.Difficult.

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