Qingzhou trip

After autumn, the sand sea seems to be unable to see the desolation of the northern country.The sound of punching and selling wine in the wine alley continued all night long. Compared with Huaxiang, although Huaxiang was a lot colder, after the rectification by the new county magistrate, the atmosphere of those fireworks and willow alleys disappeared.Red gardenia lanterns are hung in front of the entrances of the two alleys, stretching to the end of the alleys, illuminating a dark sky festively and lively.

The sea of ​​sand where there is no war is full of the smell of wine and meat, clappers are ringing in the streets, and the peaceful days that count as one day end another day in the wine glass.

Xie Penglai handed over all the affairs in the yamen to the newly appointed Wang Dianbo.Xie Gui Wang Sui, the sand sea is considered peaceful when she goes out these days.The Shahai people are paying attention to three things: first, whether the transfer envoy sent by the imperial court is a good hand at collecting money.This determines the future tax cut of Shahai people.The transshipment envoys who took office in the past even ransacked in famine years and disaster years, and even sent them to the court to flatter the emperor in the name of "envy money".

The second is whether the appeasement envoys of the three states will be sent to make peace or to fight.If it is a combative warrior or civil servant, the days of peace in the three states may come to an end.

What attracts the most attention is that Yueniang of the Li family's blacksmith shop has really become a widow. Who will she marry in the future?

She definitely wouldn't marry that young lady from the Yun family who was already so dark-skinned.

Yun Bailu couldn't help smiling wryly when he heard these words while drinking in the "Purple Sparrow".Although the wounds on his body haven't healed, his alcohol addiction has gotten worse.She helped Yueniang pull the bellows every day before going back to take a bath and apply medicine. When she couldn't bear it, she would drink and study under the jujube tree, and she still read strange powers and legends.But Yun Bailu still has something in her heart that she can't let go of. When she drinks wine, she sometimes takes a detour through another road, passing by other blacksmith shops in the Jiangying camp to see what's going on, or just listening to the news of the Jiangying camp in the restaurant.There are almost no male artisans in Shahai who do not love wine.

She had to pay attention, because the day of "delivery" was only a day or two away.

The Wu family is the most suspected in the craftsman camp.Wu Zhaoli said that he lost his craftsmanship and became a merchant, but no one could tell what kind of business he was doing.Some talk about brick tea trading, and others talk about silk business.Yun Bailu didn't look for him in the flower alley, but saw him eating and drinking with people in the restaurant all day long.

"Just drink too much today, and we can't delay things tomorrow." Wu Zhaoli's words made Yun Bailu prick up his ears, "I'm going to buy tea from Yanzhou tea merchants in the south."

"Isn't Manguan closed? Where can you sell your newly arrived brick tea?" asked someone else.

Wu Zhaoli patted the table, "It doesn't matter if you don't mention Manguan. My elder brother, that is the magistrate of Manguan. Although he voted for Beixia, he is also the first hope of many generations of our Wu family." He was drunk and started crying about him again. The elder brother whose head was shown to the public.Chatting turned into mourning again, and Yun Bailu quietly walked out from the side door, unable to find out anything.

When she passed by the alley where Yanniang's silk shop was located, she happened to see Yueniang looking in front of the door.Just as she was about to say hello happily, Yueniang smiled sideways at the person in front of her.That smile was a cheerful one that Yun Bailu hadn't seen in several years.

The visitor seemed to be a tall-nosed, fair-skinned foreign woman, dressed in a black riding suit, and she nodded at Yueniang after throwing the horse rope to the silk shop clerk casually.The two talked a few words from a distance, although they frowned, they couldn't resist Yueniang being dragged into the silk shop.Yan Niang had been waiting inside, and took out a measuring ruler to measure the woman.

In fact, even the old clothes of the woman in front of her could not hide her heroic vigor.In particular, her thick eyelashes danced like flames, and her deep eyes were like a knife tempered in Li Suyue's furnace.Just these eyes are not of Hu people, but of Han people.

Yun Bailu followed up to the outside of the shop, saw Yueniang, although her stature was comparable to that woman's, but she seemed to soften a little in front of her, and said softly, "I know you don't like it. But there is no difference in your birthday." Wearing new clothes?" Yueniang scolded her.This anger made the woman loose, and also angered Yun Bailu.

She turned around and went back the other way.Yueniang doesn't like women, but she treats a woman so tenderly.who is she?

It is a senior in the craftsman camp, or a relative from afar, or a friend who has not seen for many years.Yun Bailu guessed several times.The only worry is that Teacher Xie hasn't returned to Shahai yet, and she doesn't have anyone to drink with and chatter with now.

At night, the house next door seemed to be entertaining guests, so Yueniang didn't call Yun Bailu for dinner.The drunkard fell asleep on the kang alone.

When the white moon was in the sky, the sound of pushing the door scared away the birds on the tree.Holding an oil lamp, Li Suyue entered Yun Bailu's room with the woman who tore cloth to make clothes in the evening.

The two looked at the nine-edged shotgun on the wall at the same time.The woman's arm trembled, she clenched her fist hard and walked over to take down the gun.After taking out the veil from his arms, he carefully wiped the head of the gun, and wiped the barrel of the gun several times before hanging it back to its original place reluctantly.

Looking down at Yun Bailu who was fast asleep, Li Suyue said, "When she went out this afternoon, I put some medicine in the water ladle. It's okay, she can't hear anyone talking at all right now."

"Lend me the lamp." The woman took the oil lamp and moved closer to Yun Bailu's face, then took a step back, "It's not because of this little bastard..." She stopped suddenly, "It's been 20 years, what's the use of saying that?"

Li Suyue accompanied her to go home, when she was about to enter the door, she asked, "Aren't you going to see her?"

"What are you looking at? It's all a pile of bones." The woman pushed open the door, her head held up stubbornly, "I didn't even ask me to look at it before I died, and I wouldn't even look at it if I died. Lu Jinhua has never betrayed Bai Zhi, why sacrifice her?"

Li Suyue looked at her with comprehension, "Not only has she never failed, who heard that her daughter was trapped in the barbarian pass, and rushed to personally lead people to rob the city?"

"I'm looking at Ah Xie's face. Half a tael, she has never been so generous." Xie Penglai's signal to contact her is generally divided into ten coins and half a tael, and half a tael means that the matter is urgent.The letter secretly entrusted to convey is also full of weeping.Lu Jinhua snorted, "I got angry just looking at that rescued thing. How does she look like Ah Zhi? The nose is not the nose, the eyes are not the eyes. Opening the mouth looks like a dude, and she was adopted by her father." .”

Li Suyue poured a cup of tea for Lu Jinhua, "You slapped her four times the moment you saw her?" With the strength of the hands of the second female general of the Baosheng Army, it's no wonder that Yun Bailu's face was swollen for several days.

"Don't tell the difference between male and female, disrespect the elders, inherit the responsibility on behalf of the father, and teach Ah Zhi a lesson, those four palms are all famous." Lu Jinhua was unwilling for Bai Zhi, and even more for herself, "If Ah Zhi hadn't conceived that little beast back then. , we will go far away together." She drank the tea in front of her, her eyes dimmed suddenly, "Not really. If Ah Zhi is willing to go with me, she won't honor her father's order to get married. How can I have that ability? ?” Said that he didn’t want to look at the bones, but when he mentioned Baizhi, Lu Jinhua still had tears in his eyes.

"You little bastard, is he making trouble for you again?" Lu Jinhua had heard about Yun Bailu's marriage proposal for a long time, and didn't want to talk about Bai Zhi anymore, so she asked Li Suyue instead.

Li Suyue shook her head, "She... also had her own difficulties. She didn't act absurdly as she pleases." After explaining Yun Bailu's considerations at that time, Lu Jinhua's face softened a little, "She has as much heart as her mother .”

She remembered that Yun Bailu had served hard labor on the border of Xiliao for two years, and her tone became softer, "I was born rich and well-clothed, and I came back after suffering for two years. Axie worked hard for her, but now how to deal with her is difficult." People have headaches."

Should she be drawn into her gang of horse thieves, or should she be thrown into the hospital to die?Bai Zhi's vigorous spirit was not seen in this child.No ambition, no talent, full of playfulness. "You can't... push her and Ah Xie, right?" She glanced at Li Suyue, and saw that her brows were frowning.

"Sister Xie?" Li Suyue categorically denied, "She couldn't have meant that." Back then when Yun Bailu was taught by Xie Penglai at home, she went to the room every day to uncover tiles, teasing teacher Xie made her miserable.In addition, Xie Penglai and Yun Bailu had a teacher-student relationship separated, as rigid as she was, she would never play tricks on her apprentice.

Lu Jinhua looked at Li Suyue's eyes gradually lovingly, and only then could people see her approximate age, "Yue Niang, you are the most honest child." She stretched her waist, "Ah Xie is not you It's so unreasonable to think. Go to bed early, I'll be busy tomorrow."