Bandit Reborn

She glanced at her, and the little girl said timidly, "I also have a cat like it. It ran away halfway the day before yesterday."

"Maybe it will catch up. The cat's nose is also very good." Li Huaixi comforted the little girl with a smile.

"But I'm leaving tomorrow, and my dad said I'm on my way. If it comes here, can you feed it? It can't catch mice." The little girl pleaded, blinking her big eyes.

"Yes, my cat can't catch mice." Li Huaixi said with a smile.

"Meow!" The fat cat yelled reluctantly as it lay on Li Huaixi's lap. Li Huaixi remembered it and corrected it with a smile, "I forgot, it caught a mouse two years ago. It's time to eat, so you don't have to worry, your cat will catch mice if you are very hungry."

The little girl was a little happier when she heard this. At this time, a panicked woman came to her. She didn't dare to treat the wealthy Li Huaixi as a kidnapper, and she took the little girl away after pleading guilty. Some days, he would go to the dental shop, and if there was a war, not only would he lose some cats and dogs, but he might also find two young maids who would be suitable for his sister as a dowry.

After all, Cheng An heard that Li Huaixi bought an empty shop again, so he came over in time for lunch. His shop opened today, but the business is not good, and people don't want to spend money outside at this time. money, so all morning, he did not sell a few feet of good silk.

Li Huaixi was waiting for Liu Quan to prepare lunch in his room. Seeing that his old god was there, Cheng An didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point, "Huaixi, cousin, I beg you to do something. Your shop is also closed now." If you don’t rent it out, let me use it.”

Li Huaixi glanced at him, knowingly asked, "What's the use?"

"In case of a fight, I'll hide the goods in your backyard, be more careful."

"Be more down-to-earth?" Li Huaixi raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes and glanced at Cheng An, "That's what I said in advance, if anything happens, don't look for me, I won't take your responsibility, otherwise you can be down-to-earth I can't sleep anymore!"

Cheng An smiled, "I know you have this in mind, your cousin Yan Li is right! I can't blame you if something goes wrong, it's so chaotic, you can't even put it under your pillow, what happened? No wonder you, you are not often in the city, give me the key, and I will arrange it myself when the time comes."

With empty hands, Li Huaixi told Cheng An, "It's at the third grandpa's place. I'll tell him later, come and get it when you need it."

There was still time to get it again, so Cheng An calmed down and sat down to chat with this cousin who was full of small plans.

The kitchen was too busy. Liu Quan went there for a long time and didn't come back. Li Huaixi was cautious to a certain extent. After thinking about it, he told Cheng An, "When it comes to that time, don't use the guys you just hired to move. If you don’t know the root, it’s better to use Yan Li’s, and he’s used long-term ones.”

Cheng An agreed, when Liu Quan finally came in with food, Li Huaixi asked him to add another pair of bowls and chopsticks, Cheng An went after lunch.

In the afternoon, a few more people came to Li Huaixi's inn to stay. There were really no vacant rooms in the inn, so the old shopkeeper could only send people out.

Looking at Yin Zi who was going further and further away, Li Huaixi thought for a moment to give up his own room, but thinking of the stingy Fu Yin, Li Huaixi still gave up this idea of ​​seeing money.

During the three-day rest during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Huaixi only saw Lin Yichen a few times, roughly speaking, usually during breakfast and in the middle of the night. His Excellency Fu Yin was busy with "clearing the walls and clearing the wilderness", so he put aside his personal feelings up.

On the afternoon of August [-]th, Li Huaixi was sitting in the carriage going back to the academy. The sun was shining brightly outside the car, but Li Xiucai's face inside the car was cloudy. Lin Yichen was too busy to see him off, and felt unable to express his apology , unexpectedly came up with an incomparably weird idea, and gave him a cart full of flowers!Yuchuan is located in the north, what kind of flowers can there be in autumn?chrysanthemum!

People here don't pay much attention to giving chrysanthemums when sweeping. Li Huaixi couldn't find a suitable reason to throw the car full of chrysanthemums back in the face of Mr. Fu Yin, but he felt uncomfortable when he was placed in the yard. Li Xiucai has a hundred claws I wanted to throw these flowers away, but I recited the "Pure Heart Mantra" ten times silently, but I still endured it.

There has been no news of the truce, and there are no newspapers at this time, and all the news comes from the notices in front of the government office. Every day, the people of Yuchuan gather around to have a look, and beg those who can read and write to read aloud.

The news in the academy was slower than in the city, and the students couldn't wait, so they often sent their schoolboys down the mountain to read the announcements, and He Chongwen even asked his family's servants to go up the mountain every day to give him news.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Huaixi did not go down the mountain again. He was relieved that the inn had a third grandfather to take care of him. Lin Yichen was too busy, so he was worried that if he went down the mountain again, he would collect a bunch of chrysanthemums.

In mid-November, the first snow fell in Yuchuan. The snow was not heavy, but the weather was extremely cold. Li Huaixi was wearing a fiery red fox fur cloak and stood at the gate of the academy looking down the mountain. Set up camp, while General Weiyuan himself just came up the mountain to personally assure all sentient beings that he would never harm the scholars in the world.

Standing among the students, Li Huaixi observed General Weiyuan carefully and closely. This was the first time he saw a serious ancient general. Although he was a traitor, he was still very interesting.

General Weiyuan had just arrived in Yuchuan, his armor was not removed, and he was carrying a sword. He was about 40 years old. He had regular features and sharp edges and corners. This made Li Huaixi, who had always admired the masters of the inner family, very excited for 3 minutes. He heard that the weapon he was good at using was a long knife.

After General Weiyuan left, He Chongwen panicked. His family members were all in the city, and he could get there in half an hour's journey, but now the road down the mountain has become a place where the two armies confront each other. Can not go back.

After Li Huaixi came back from the door, he glanced at Young Master He who was on the hot pot, and scolded with a smile, "You are cheap! You won't go back when you can, but now you can't go back and pretend to be so family-friendly."

He Dashao made a bitter face, "How can you understand my thoughts at such a young age!"

Both Li Huaixi and Duan Zhengchun laughed, none of them thought that Young Master He really understood.

The weather was cold, and no matter how hardworking the scholar was, he couldn't last long. At first watch, the academy was dark and silent. Li Huaixi put on a black cloak, dressed like a god of death, and sneaked down the mountain.

Li Huaixi returned to Yuchuan City through the secret road. Lin Yichen implemented the curfew policy during the war. There were no civilians on the street, only teams of patrolling soldiers.

Li Huaixi showed the badge that Lin Yichen gave him, and was escorted back to the government office by two government soldiers. Lin Yichen and all the officials in Yuchuan City were studying the strategy against the enemy. Let the servant girl fix the charcoal fire and go to sleep by herself.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yichen came back, and when he saw the little fox on the bed, he was very happy, and after holding him for a few mouthfuls, he asked, "Why are you here at night?"

Li Huaixi sat up, embraced the quilt and said, "I don't trust you, come and have a look. General Weiyuan went to the academy today, this man has some brains, you have to be careful."

Lin Yichen was even happier when he heard the words. He turned on the lamp beside the bed, held Li Huaixi's small face and looked at it vigorously, "If I have something wrong, what will you do?"

"Get out! Thinking about burying them together again?! Let me tell you, if you die, I will go to Wanju Tower the next day after you die!"

Lin Yichen smiled, "With your small appearance, you will be courting death if you go there, and you have to be buried together. Maybe I will still hate you by then, so go reincarnate first."

"How dare you!" Li Huaixi's eyes stood up.

Lin Yichen took off his clothes with a smile, and got into bed naked, "I'm not dead, no one can kill me except you!"

In the middle of the night, Mr. Fu Yin willingly "died" once. Li Huaixi didn't dare to make it too much, for fear that Lin Yichen would lose energy in the fight the next day.

After the incident, Lin Yichen put his arms around the little fox that he had already been emotionally stroking, and said with a smile, "Little fox, I can guess what General Weiyuan said when he came to your academy, do you believe it or not?"

"Letter." Li Huaixi didn't have to guess at all.

"You are always like this!" Lin Yichen lightly pinched Li Huaixi's small face, and continued with a smile, "He must have said, 'For the sake of the people of the world, it was a last resort to raise troops and cause chaos. With Yu Chuan Mansion's decision, our Weiyuan Ministry will never harm the common people!', right?"

Li Huaixi recalled the heroic appearance of General Weiyuan, and said with a smile, "The meaning is similar. He also said that although he is a rough man, he admires the scholars of the world and the pillars of the country, so the Dangbao Academy is intact and will never be affected by the war. "

"Sure enough, the hypocrisy is extreme!" Lin Yichen snorted.

Li Huaixi knew that Lin Yichen had sent out a lot of spies in the past six months, so he asked quickly, "How do you say that?"

"Do you still remember the team of 2000 people who gave him his military salary during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 2000th? I have been sending people to follow behind, just eighty miles away from the border. All these people were killed by ambushes." [-] people, none left alive, do you know who did it?"

"General Weiyuan?!" Li Huaixi was really surprised.

"That's him. He led people to do it himself. He used the scimitars of the Datan people outside the pass, and the bows and arrows also belonged to the Datan people!" Chen couldn't believe it either.

Li Huaixi is so smart, after thinking about it for a while, he understood the whole story, even though he regarded human life as nothing in his previous life, now he couldn't help being a little angry, and said bitterly, "His heart is damnable!"

"More than that, the secret envoy sent by the emperor said that the agreement between King Zhennan and Weiyuan is to raise troops together and attack from the north and the south. Do you know why he is here now?"

Reminiscent of General Weiyuan's behavior style, Li Huaixi snorted coldly, "Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and enjoy the benefits of being a fisherman!"

"Smart!" Lin Yichen kissed his little fox happily, and continued, "He just wants to wait for the war in the south to be stalemate, the hatchback will be worn out, and the interior will be empty, so he can take the opportunity to go south and capture the capital in one fell swoop. General Weiyuan himself thinks Be the emperor!"

"He has an agreement with Datan Khan?"

"According to the emperor's secret envoy, so what we are facing is not [-] or [-], but [-] more tank cavalry!" After Lin Yichen finished speaking, he looked down at his little fox, wanting to continue Look at Li Huaixi's cute little expression worried for him.

It's a pity that the people around me just yawned, shrank their bodies under the quilt, and said casually, "Don't say it so tragically, you said it all, it was said by the secret envoy sent by the emperor, so the emperor will naturally arrange it." Alright, tell me, when will the emperor's army arrive?"

"It will be there in three days." Lin Yichen supported the limp Li Huaixi on his body, and suddenly remembered the business, "Little fox, I can defend it for only three days, and I can defend it without those machine crossbows. Do you think we should use it or not? "

"Use it, of course you have to use it, and you need to use it a lot, so that the next [-] soldiers will have nothing to fight!" Li Huaixi regained his energy, and suddenly he sat up and clenched his fists.

"Then……"

"Then we will do some business with the emperor!" Li Huaixi smiled and winked at Lin Yichen who was condescending.

The two are a natural couple, Lin Yichen understood, and turned off the light. The two chattered and discussed in the bed for most of the night, and the next morning they recuperated several times by relying on the health regimen taught by the abbot of Jingtan Temple. Only then did Shengxi go out the door in good spirits.

General Weiyuan got up early, and had already set up his formation at dawn. Relying on his strong martial arts, he drove forward and used his internal strength to shout to the defenders on the tower. His words were sincere, as if he was a national liberation hero who took the lead.

The 'martial arts' is about the garrison general, and the 'literary drama' belongs to Lin Yichen. Mr. Fu Yin climbed up the tower wearing a red official uniform, like a moving target, but this 'target' is not worried, because he didn't tear it up Before putting on General Weiyuan's mask, he didn't have to worry that Weiyuan underneath would throw his saber at him.

Li Huaixi made an original sound amplifier for Lin Yichen. Lin Yichen was more at ease hiding behind the huge copper speaker, and slowly threw out the evidence he had, bit by bit, refuting General Weiyuan to the point of utterly crippling, and meticulously depicting the story of many years. The mask was torn off by Lin Yichen in a blink of an eye, and the big copper horn magnified the sound countless times, and even the Weiyuan army camp in the distance had a little commotion.

Li Huaixi didn't pretend to be a god of death in broad daylight, and he didn't go back to the academy. He wrapped himself in Lin Yichen's velvet cloak, hid behind the wall and looked down secretly. It was even colder on the tower in winter. He squinted his eyes for a while and then retreated. back.

In his previous life, Li Huaixi had seen many descriptions of ancient wars, but no matter what the descriptions were, they were not as thrilling as the [-] troops placed under his feet. Of course, when [-] of the [-] were hostile , the scene was even more thrilling.

From top to bottom, the lineups of the two sides can be seen at a glance. General Weiyuan’s formation is nothing special. The front is shield soldiers, followed by archers, crossbowmen, cavalry, and infantry. This lineup is the most common The lineup, even Yu Chuan, who knows nothing about the formation, will also put up the defense like this, but the same way, the power is different. The defense can at most have 5000 archers and crossbowmen, but General Weiyuan has a full [-]. Archers and crossbowmen, most of the rest are light and heavy cavalry, and infantry only account for a small part.

Such a lineup is indeed terrifying. 20 cavalry are equivalent to [-] infantry. No wonder Weiyuan wants to be emperor. To be able to speak eloquently to a powerful enemy so far is really worthy of his reputation as the first governor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Although General Weiyuan was insidious and cunning, he couldn't speak to Lin Yichen in the end, and the energy consumed to shout with internal force was different from that with a loudspeaker, so he didn't speak if he couldn't speak, turned his horse and returned to the camp angrily, and ordered the soldiers around him to beat the drums , The long knife that Li Huaixi didn't see yesterday also came out.

The blade was sharp, and Lin Yichen felt that his neck was getting cold, so he stopped talking, threw a command flag from the tower, and shouted one last sentence into the loudspeaker, "Blood battle to the end!"

Li Huaixi secretly rolled his eyes with the soldiers around him. This "bloody battle to the end" is pure nonsense. People usually shout that just before they die in battle. Lin Yichen has never fought before, so it's too early to shout.

The two armies shot an arrow at each other in front of the formation. The so-called point of arrow was there, but in fact, the point of arrow of the government soldiers was not there. Any known crossbows, moreover, there are thousands of machine crossbows carried by two people hidden behind them. This kind of machine crossbow is also modified, and it can shoot three iron crossbows at a time, and the range is twice that of the opponent's hand. The machine crossbow is so powerful that it can pierce even thinner shields. With such advanced equipment, the chances of a "bloody battle" for the government soldiers are very small. Lin Yichen just shouted with a strong and mighty voice.

General Weiyuan didn't know the layout of Lin Yichen's side. He was ready to attack the city before, but who would have thought that just as he left the camp in the morning, the other party also came out of the city gate in a strange formation.

General Weiyuan's surname is Jia Mingzhengjing, who came from a prominent family. He has been in the army for more than [-] years, and he has never seen such a dirty formation. From the beginning to the end, the soldiers who came out of the city gate hid their heads behind heavy shields. After coming out, they huddled together like a nest of quails, and it took a long time to form a long line under the city.

There are only 2 people, but they line up in a long line!General Weiyuan has been wanting to laugh for a long time. Before he dispatched troops, he also inspected Yuchuan's garrison. It's really impossible to understand the art of war to the extreme.

He raised his head and looked at Lin Yichen who was still standing on the top of the city tower, the first governor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, General Weiyuan sneered, so what if he used his tongue quickly, when you bowed your head and bowed your head to become a minister, you will be rewarded with both kindness and power.

With a wave of the long knife, the battle drums became more urgent. The [-] troops lined up in a neat formation and pressed forward. ’ They were so shocked that they almost couldn’t hold the weapons in their hands, because the government soldiers heard the drums, but instead of advancing, they retreated tens of meters at once, holding their weapons and running faster than rabbits!

General Weiyuan was also stunned, since he wanted to run, why bother going out of the city to fight?Wouldn't it be better to stick to the city?Is it because of lax military governance?But no matter how serious he was, he had never seen a group fleeing... He was suspicious, but he was not allowed to think about it on the battlefield. Behind the soldiers receding like a tide, rows of machine crossbows and trebuchets suddenly appeared.

General Weiyuan understood everything, secretly yelled that it was not good, and quickly ordered the shield soldiers to deploy.

But no formation can stop the roaring boulders from all over the sky, the battlefield is filled with a heart-pounding sound, that is hard, skull-sized pebbles smashing shields, bones, and bones. The voice of the heart.

Weiyuan wanted to give the order to retreat, but the messenger around him was crushed to death, he grabbed one of them holding his head and went to Mingjin to retreat, only to find that even the golden gong had been crooked.

If he could not withdraw, he would not withdraw. Weiyuan's eyes were red from being smashed, and he shouted back with internal force, "Where's our trebuchet?! Smash it for me!".

A few stones fell on the front of the formation, tens of meters away from the opponent's camp, a lieutenant who had lost his horse ran over and said with a mournful face, "General, our trebuchet can't throw that far."

"Then charge me!" Weiyuan yelled angrily!

After the stone passed, all the arrows from the machine crossbow on the opposite side were fired, all the cavalry who had just rushed up were nailed to the ground, and even the horses could not escape. The blood flowed like rivers on the battlefield, without the cover of the shield soldiers, and the archers did not The whole army was wiped out when they rushed into the range.

Weiyuan never imagined that he would be able to achieve such a disastrous defeat in the small Yuchuan, and his side had not fired a single arrow, and it was already more than half worn out. At this time, the government soldiers who were like quails were slowly pressing up, and these government soldiers were also like those on the tower. He was as annoying as the governor's governor, walking forward step by step, shouting slogans, "Son of the Great Zhou, surrender and not kill! Brother of the Great Zhou, surrender and not kill!"

Looking up at Lin Yichen on the tower again, Weiyuan's eyes were red with anger, and he yelled with all his strength, "Retreat!"

General Weiyuan withdrew for fifty miles, Lin Yichen didn't chase after him, and ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield. In winter, the corpses would not be frozen, so keep them and pack them up slowly, first remove all the stones and arrows shot I got it back.

The big and small foxes won the first battle, and returned to the government office shivering with cold.

Both their small trebuchets and portable crossbows became famous in the first battle, how much they cost and how much they sell for, before they had time to calculate last night, the two of them gathered around the brazier, drinking ginger soup, and doing calculations. They looked at each other and smiled, "We made a fortune!".

59. War disaster

General Weiyuan retreated fifty li, but he was still at the boundary of Yuchuan, which made people feel uneasy. Yuchuan city continued to implement various wartime policies and closed the city gate early.

In the evening of the same day, after the statistics of the battle situation were completed, the troops of Yuchuan Mansion had zero casualties, 6000, 18, and 1 people were wiped out, and 820 yuan of cobblestones were thrown, and not one piece was missing. Back to 170 ones, [-] nines missing.

The crossbows designed by Li Huaixi are expensive, and the lack of more than 2000 bolts made the two feel distressed, but the distress is better than the pain of General Weiyuan. The missing 170 crossbows, two of which were nailed to General Weiyuan Well, this kind of cheap people didn't take advantage of it on purpose, the two of them felt sorry for a while and let it go.

Although scholars pay attention to 'keep your ears off the outside world, and only read the books of sages and sages', only nerds can really do this. The official career figures of the emperor's family, the throne of the emperor is now in jeopardy, and these scholars naturally cannot sit peacefully like a mountain. Therefore, the students and professors of the academy were all watching from the mountain when there was a big battle yesterday.

When Li Huaixi returned to the academy, he found that many of the students were sick, and their illnesses were similar. They were all pale and had no appetite. The medical administrators of the academy were too busy to move from one hospital to another. Li Huaixi thought that there was a flu in the winter , so I made a simple mask and planned to wear it, but was torn off by Liu Quan who entered the door.

"They were smothered with blood yesterday, and they were frightened, why are you joining in the fun?!"

Li Huaixi blinked his big eyes, a little confused, "What blood?" He was on the tower yesterday, but he didn't smell anything.

"Yesterday, the wind blew all the blood from the battlefield below the mountain. It was smoked. I asked you to leave and said you were sick, so don't go out today. Just pretend for another day. Anyway, you won't have class today."

"Why don't you have class today?" Li Huaixi was very reconciled. He would not have come back if he had known that there would be no class. Lin Yichen was done with work, and the two of them could just hang out for a few days.

Liu Quan had an insight into his thoughts, looked at him with contempt, and said, "I didn't have class yesterday. I watched the war. Today, the professors are all sick and I can't go to class. You should lie on the bed. You look like a sick person anyway." Put it on for a day, so that the supervisor will not deduct your conduct points in the future."

Li Huaixi couldn't lie down, and didn't care about those character scores. He changed his clothes and took Liu Quan outside to watch the government soldiers clean up the battlefield. The wind direction is good today, the bloody smell can't blow over, and the weather has warmed up a little. The two of them stood outside I watched for a while.

Liu Quan knew that those horrible things were designed by Li Huaixi, and complained in a muffled voice, "I have never done anything bad, and I have to go to hell with you when I die. I died unjustly!"

"Why should I go to hell?!" Hearing what Liu Quan said, Li Huaixi felt that he was wronged too.

"Those people! More than 3! It's not enough to fry your skin and cramps ten times!" Liu Quan said with a chubby finger pointing down the mountain.

Li Huaixi looked at Fatty Liu who was "loyal and loyal" and accompanied him even when he went to hell. He couldn't hold back for a while, but slapped him hard. He refused to admit that he was frightened, and sternly quoted scriptures and strong words, saying After all, I don’t know if Liu Quan agrees or not. In the end, he comforted himself, and he was not afraid anymore. He didn’t start the war. Why should he let Li Huaixi go to hell? !

Besides, even if you go to hell, then there will not only be such a fat man by your side, but also that scruffy governor, who lives in the same bed and dies in the same hole, and will not be able to escape the [-]th floor of hell!

The government soldiers cleaned the battlefield very slowly. Since Jia Zhengjing's camp was fifty miles away, the garrison only sent [-] government soldiers to clean the battlefield, and the rest were still in a state of preparation.

Using 2000 people to carry more than 3 corpses will naturally not be fast. The blood freezes and the corpses are frozen together. It often takes a lot of effort for the government soldiers to separate a corpse and carry it onto the carriage.

Although those who died were all rebels, Lin Yichen said that these people were also the children of Dazhou raised by their parents, and they had to find their identity plates one by one and register them in the register to deal with them. When the government soldiers clean the battlefield, they are more respectful to the dead, which can be regarded as accumulating some evil virtues.

On the third day after the war, the imperial army arrived, and there was still a sea of ​​corpses outside Yuchuan City, and there was no place to set up camp. It was not easy to dig a hole to bury, so Lin Yichen sent people to build ten incinerators at one go, and this was considered a place for these people who died meaninglessly.

The smoke from the cremated corpses continued to rise day and night for several days. The smell made everyone lose their appetite. General Shenwu did not take advantage of the victory to pursue him. They sent someone to send a letter to Li Huaixi, and their business was completed.

The emperor ordered a total of 15 machine crossbows and [-] small trebuchets. Each machine crossbow was priced at [-] taels, and the small trebuchets were [-] taels. The treasury was empty.

The business was done by Lin Yichen under the guise of his grandfather, and the IOU was naturally sent to the old man of the Lin family. The old man was frightened when he received the first IOU in ancient and modern times with a jade seal on it, and immediately called the two culprits who suffered from the plague. home.

"You two have taken the courage of your ambitions?! Internal troubles and foreign troubles, you just hand over the blueprints, why did you get the idea of ​​blackmailing and bargaining with the current emperor! You two are short of money, so you can ask me for it, if you want it I'll give you as much as you want, why bother to covet this terrible money?!"

Lin Yichen sat idle, raised his eyelids when he heard the words, and said, "You are not the only grandson of me, to put it lightly, whenever I ask you for money, you don't say a word about me. Besides, money is money, How can it be fatal?"

"Confused!" The old man was so angry that his beard was raised, and he slapped the table heavily and said, "The emperor's silver is also easy to earn? If you make a mistake later, the whole family will suffer, and you still have to return the silver and pay for it." Take your life!"

Li Huaixi didn't speak, and pinched Lin Yichen's waist hard, who was about to fall asleep. Lin Yichen let out a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Grandpa, he needs to be able to find my fault, you It's too early to worry. Let's talk about the future. The world is not only a small place like Dazhou. It's not a good day to have money. You have collected the IOU. It's the cost. The remaining 40 It belongs to the two of us, once this battle is over we have to buy some property in the capital, Huaixi is not young, once Enke opens, we have to go to Beijing."

Old Mrs. Lin was even more angry. The cost of co-authoring 40 yuan was just this piece of torn paper in his hand. If there is no silver in the future, the torn paper covered with the jade seal will still be torn paper. Small treasury!

However, the old man was angry and angry, and did not ignore the second half of Lin Yichen's sentence. He glanced at the two of them, and the old man suddenly felt that things were a little difficult, "You want to buy property together?"

"That's right, pointing to the little salary of the imperial court, it can't even support the maid." Lin Yichen took a sip from the Doucai tea bowl on the table. Such a tea bowl costs five or six taels of silver, and he is dignified. Yin's salary is only so much, not enough to buy a few bowls.

"Including the mansion?"

"Of course, although the imperial court will divide the mansions, they are all old houses, which are not in the habit of the two of us, so it is more comfortable to buy them by ourselves. It is more convenient if you have money." Lin Yichen held Li Huaixi's little hand and said openly. .

"You guys plan to merge into one government?! What do you let your colleagues in the officialdom think of you! Where else do I put my old face? Are you worthy of your ancestors?!" Old Mrs. Lin was so angry that he threw a piece worth five or six taels. The Doucai tea bowl fell to the ground, with a loud bang, the hot tea spilled all over the floor, and the two troublemakers at the bottom raised their feet in unison, without even a single drop of tea powder being splashed, Bai Blind This is a valuable bowl.

Lin Yichen smiled, "Colleagues in the officialdom? What does it matter to them that the two of us get married?! Don't those wives and concubines who raise children in groups and prostitutes not be ministers and censors?! One day, my two extremely human ministers, they can only curry favor For the sake of flattery, how dare you look at us differently. As for the ancestors, I remember that there seems to be an infatuated seed in our family who has never married, is it your younger brother?"

The old man was speechless. It is not accidental to have such a living ancestor in the family. Perhaps there are some genetic factors in it. His youngest brother also had a private life with a man back then. After beating mandarin ducks with a stick, he died of depression before the age of 40. He was really never married.

But if he said that his grandson would die from depression, Mrs. Lin wouldn't believe anything. Seeing this posture, he was going to fight him to the end. The little fox next to him who didn't say a word was not a fuel-efficient lamp either. The old man couldn't think of an idea for a while, and was so angry that his liver hurt, so he quickly let the two go out. The emperor's money is earned, and the day is when he is happy. Out of sight is pure!

In a blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the academy was on holiday. Li Huaixi, who was in a good mood, packed up his things and was about to go down the mountain. At this time, Zhengchun walked in with a sad face, sat down on a chair, pointed out the door and said, "Huaixi, what is left of you?" Can you sell me some of your charcoal?"

"Charcoal? You go get it yourself, and what are you talking about whether you sell it or not? My silver frost charcoal is the best silver frost charcoal. My senior brother specially asked someone to bring it up from the bottom of the mountain. It costs dozens of taels per car. If you let it You don’t want to spend money. By the way, the masters in this dining hall are also on vacation, what are you going to do with your meals?”

"What can I do? Do it yourself, anyway, it's just a matter of adding some firewood, and you can always get used to it." Duan Zhengchun was sullen.

Li Huaixi thought it was a bit funny. It turns out that at Prince Duan's place, the standard of cooking is to cook well, but this is other people's business, and he can't care about it. He gave Duan Zhengchun all the rice and noodles left in the small kitchen, and cleaned up by himself. After he got his things, he took Liu Quan with him and went down the mountain.

The number of carriages at the gate is much less than in previous years, and the remaining 4 people of General Weiyuan are still lingering in a place called Luomazhuang, fifty miles away, which is the only way to go north, and many students who live in the north of Yuchuan are leaving. No, Duan Zhengchun, who was homesick, was particularly depressed. Originally, their family planned to marry him and his fiancée after the year after year, but now it was all delayed.

Li Huaixi can't go down the mountain, and General Shenwu is here, and the war has nothing to do with Lin Yichen. It's his business to stand still and wait for Jia Zhengjing to recover from his injuries. He can manage his own governor, but he can't. A general who can't hit the pole, so he can only wait after dealing with some trivial matters of the New Year.

After being bored in the government office for two days, Li Huaixi got a little impatient waiting. He couldn't receive any letters from his family these days. Although he knew that Lijiazhuang set up a township protection team when General Weiyuan passed Jin County, he was still worried. , I really want to go home and have a look.

"What is that General Shenwu waiting for? Waiting for Jia Zhengjing to heal his injuries and have a fair duel with him?! I'm still waiting to go home for the New Year!" Li Huaixi said, climbing onto Lin Yichen's lap, angrily He snatched the book from Mr. Fu Yin's hand and threw it aside.

Lin Yichen is also very helpless, he is a local official, he is only in charge of reception, and does not care about the rest. After General Shenwu came, he only met him once. , Lin Yichen analyzed the two possibilities fairly clearly, "Maybe it's because we took down [-] enemy heads without hurting a single soldier. .”

"It's not easy?" Li Huaixi rolled his eyes and felt that this guess was more reliable. He whispered a few words in Lin Yichen's ear, and Li Huaixi asked with a smile, "What's the idea? Give him a credit for nothing."

Lin Yichen thought about it for a while, and also felt that this method was good, so he took a pen and paper and wrote a letter, and sent the yamen servants in the mansion to send it to the camp outside the city that day.

Two days later, Duan Zhengchun suddenly came to the back office to look for Li Huaixi. When the boy came in to report, Li Huaixi was drinking tea. When he saw Prince Duan who was following behind, he spit out the tea and coughed for a long time before shaking his fingers. Say something, "What's wrong with you?!"

Duan Zhengchun didn't speak, just looked around