When a passerby becomes a princess

When the time came, the guard of honor was spread out, and Liang Xi and Lin Qiu went to Lin Mansion in palace sedan chairs.

There were many people waiting to watch on both sides of the road. They talked about everything, but most of them talked about Lin's family.

"Speaking of which, General Lin's family has this." The man who spoke had a long scar on his face that ran across almost his entire face. He stretched out his thumb and said, "I was in the army back then. , saw with my own eyes that Madam Lin chopped off five bearded generals with a long knife, and one of them was the bearded son-in-law."

"Tell us quickly." The people on the side quickly gathered around. Although the war has passed for more than ten years, the war was too tragic. It still makes the speaker cry and the listener's expression changes.

"That was 15 years ago. I had just joined the frontier army. Beard would come here to provoke me every now and then. The general asked us to step up our drills and said that there would be a big battle sooner or later." The man with the scarred face couldn't help but talk about what happened many years ago. He clenched his fist tightly. "It's really confirmed for the General's Mansion. After three years, Huzi will mobilize 80 troops to attack. Hey, we don't have that many soldiers in Daliang, and we have to defend the south and west. The whole northern border is not half of others. troops."

The people around nodded repeatedly. When talking about the neighbors of Daliang Kingdom, none of them stopped, not to mention the Hu Kingdom in the north, the Zangu Kingdom in the west, and even the two small countries in the south, Yue Kingdom and Wo Kingdom, also eyeing Daliang Kingdom covetously. , From time to time, some border conflicts come out.

The man went on to say: "At the beginning of May, the vanguard troops arrived at the foot of Songcheng City. I heard that the vanguard general was Huzi's number one master, and his two lieutenants were his two younger brothers. The little general chopped off one. I heard that after the enemy retreated, little general Lin cut off the head of the bearded lieutenant general, held it in his hand and tore it hard, and shouted at the vanguard general, "Hey, your subordinate!" The meat tastes good, send another one up!', the vanguard general screamed out of anger, but he couldn't get up to the city wall."

The man's eloquence was good, and the people around him were both nervous and excited, and they didn't hold back the slightest bit when they heard that Lin Bai ate that general's flesh raw.The Hu State is a nomadic people, and Daliang State has many mountains and hills. They don't need it. What they want is the food and women of Daliang State.Every time they conquered a city, they would loot it, and then kill all the men, and take the women and children.If there is a Hu countryman here, even the most timid Daliang people will rush to eat a piece of meat.

"But it didn't take long for the bearded army to arrive. There are 80 people. Just standing there with people and horses is a mass of darkness... I'm not afraid of your jokes. I was trembling when I saw my calves. I can sit directly on the ground." Even after such a long time, the scar-faced man still felt his heart beat when he thought of the scene at that time.

No one laughed at him. There were no cowards who survived that war. Cowards are often the first to die on the battlefield.

"But the general said that behind us is Liang Guo, with our parents, wives, children, and brothers. If we lose, we will push them all under the machete of Beard, so we must win."

The simplest words are also the most touching. Whether it is the man who spoke or the people next to him, his eyes widened for this passage more than ten years ago. In his eyes, he looked at the man who had been guarding the border for nearly twenty years. respect.

"For more than 20 days in a row, Beard continued to attack, almost non-stop. We took turns to go up the city wall, and even the wounded soldiers had to go up the back. But at that time, there were no one who was not injured. Even the general was injured by arrows. , Beard’s arrows are all poisonous, if you are wounded by an arrow, you must dig out that piece of meat.”

The people around shuddered when they heard it, digging out a piece of meat, their legs felt weak just thinking about it.What they don't know is that the arrows of the Hu people are not quenched with poison. Otherwise, after a big battle, how much poison would be used for millions of arrows?In fact, they chopped up the rotting carcasses, mixed them with horse feces, and dipped the arrowheads in it before going to the battlefield. Don't look at it as simple, if you get shot, you won't grow well if you don't dig out the flesh. As a result, amputations and even death are not uncommon.

"Beard has attacked the city several times, but we were beaten out again. I only saw the generals killed by Mrs. Lin from a distance, but the last one was chopped in front of me. I was hurt at that time. Injury... I was lying on the side of the street, and I saw Baiduo charging over with a beard, so I picked up a broken gun head from the side, squinted my eyes and pretended to be dead on the ground, thinking that when they passed by, I would shoot Pierce into the horse's stomach, the man will fall off the horse, and I will chop him again..."

The scar-faced man clenched his teeth, and the people around him also clenched their fists.If he had been pretending to be dead, it might be possible to survive, but this man would rather die than kill the enemy... The blood surged in everyone's heart.

"At this moment, a red shadow jumped out from the nearby yard, and there was a flash of cold light. A bearded head flew out and landed right next to me. Look at the fur hat that man was wearing, it was covered with gold and It must be a high-ranking official. The beards shouted, I couldn't understand what they were shouting, but they were all cut off from their horses after a few shouts. Only then did I see that the red shadow was Lin Madam Lin, the bearded official that Mrs. Lin chopped off is the vanguard general, Huzi's number one expert. Hearing that the number one expert was killed by a woman, Huzi was so frightened that he ran away with his tail between his legs."

The scar-faced man finished speaking, but no one spoke for a long time. After a long time, an old man sighed, "A hero among women".

"At that time, Mrs. Lin was still pregnant with the young master of the Lin family."

"Now you can't call him the young master of the Lin family, but the princess."

"..."

The topic gradually turned to Lin Qiu. Most people talked about his poor health and taking medicine all year round. Some even knew exactly what medicine Lin Qiu was taking.

Someone asked curiously: "Listen to what you said, this princess spends hundreds of taels of silver every month just for medicine. How can the general's mansion be so rich?"

"Yi, you are from out of town." Someone glanced at him and said, "The medicine the Crown Princess takes doesn't cost money at all."

"No money?" The man opened his mouth wide in surprise. Most of the medicinal materials that the man reported just now are precious medicinal materials that ordinary people can't afford.

"You, go to Jingci Temple in the south of the city to see if you have time." Others don't want to say more, and what's more, what this person asked is wrong, and no one is a fool.

The man wanted to ask again, when he heard gongs beating to clear the way in the distance, the gongs and drums were blaring, and the team of the princess returning to the door came.

The sedan chair that Lin Qiu was riding was behind Liang Xi, and several nuns followed on both sides of the sedan chair, holding some dried fruits in their hands, and threw them to the children on both sides of the road from time to time.Originally, according to the customs of the Liang Kingdom, the ones to be held should be red dates, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds, but because Lin Qiu is a man, he had to temporarily change it to other dried fruits.

Some greedy children followed all the way, and even went to a few nuns to ask for it.The nuns were very happy, because of the customs of Daliang, the more children begging for dried fruits, the more harmonious the couple will be.

But more and more children followed, but there were only four nuns who distributed dried fruits, and the distribution was uneven. Several children got into a fight, they pushed each other, and finally wrestled together.A few nuns wanted to stop it, but there were too many children, and they couldn't manage it at all.

The passers-by were happy to watch the jokes at first, but the scene became more and more chaotic. Some passers-by began to help Mammy separate some children who were fighting too much.Probably because they were afraid of being scolded by their parents, the children ran away screaming. A boy who was only five or six years old slammed into the leg of a bearer. Falling to the ground, the sedan chair that Lin Qiu was sitting on leaned forward. Fortunately, the rest of the bearers saved up in time and did not fall down.

Just when everyone was still in shock, a small figure rolled out of the sedan chair and fell to the ground motionless.The people next to him screamed, and saw that Lin Qiu's eyes were closed tightly, his face was blue, and there was still dark blood gushing from the corner of his mouth.