Qingzhou trip

Cao Zhiwei, the coach of the Deshun Army, was about to pinch his beard in front of the battle report recently.Suici was harassed by the Northern Xia cavalry before the delivery of the border village. After he sent troops to follow him all the way, he hesitated before reaching Jiyingzhai: it is not a big deal to beat two or three horse thieves, but to attack Li Jiyan's Jiyingzhai.He can memorize the secret letter of the Privy Council, "Don't send troops to attack the trouble with no invitation."

Zhao Yifang's letter was sent almost at the same time when the Northern Xia Iron Cavalry was approaching the sandy sea.It was the first time he saw such a strange situation in the decades of guarding the border: Sui Ci could not be handed over, but was beaten to the door of the house instead.The reinforcements could not be moved out because the Privy Council had reminded them.

There are only two paths before the granddaughter of the Shang king: stick to it or get married.

Cao Zhiwei was originally promoted by the King of Shang, and after being dispatched from the border of Western Liao to Longshan, he gradually became separated from the King of Shang.He had a unique courage, and it took more than ten years to build the Longshan Four Villages before he was favored by the imperial court. After all, from these four villages into the Northern Xia Dynasty, it was a flat river, and when he entered the Hua Dynasty, it was a ditch.Cao Zhiwei himself has also achieved "peace with Zhongshu's family" from Duqian. The more popular he is, the more low-key and cautious he is.

King Jin really chose to stick to it.The children raised by King Shang will only be tigresses, not raccoon cats.On the third day, when a blizzard fell from the sky in Shahai Sea, Cao Zhiwei felt relieved: Even if he couldn't send troops, he couldn't see King Jin's defeat and negotiate a peace.Once Shahai falls, his four villages will be threatened by enemies from both front and rear.

The latest battle report at hand said that the Baosheng Army wandered across the border and attacked several Beixia border villages, including Jiying Village.It was burned for a day and a night by a big fire, and now it is estimated to be a piece of scorched ruins.

What kind of Baosheng army still has such courage and fighting power?Cao Zhiwei became more and more unable to understand the current situation in the Northwest.At this time, the guard came to report that a woman was looking for him, and the word "Lu" on the letter solved most of his doubts.

But Lu Jinhua didn't see him, and the letter only said plainly, "Xia bandits harassed the Four Villages, how can we sit and watch? Losing the sea of ​​sand once will get twice the result with half the effort."

When Cao Zhiwei couldn't sit still because of this letter, Lu Jinhua was already on his way back.Li Suyue, who was accompanying her, didn't understand, "Why didn't master persuade him face to face?"

Lu Jinhua smiled, "If it weren't for the sound of the drum, the king of Shang would not have secretly sent him to the northwest. I passed the steps, and how to get down is his business." Lu Jinhua actually made it clear that he didn't want to let Cao Zhiwei sent troops to Shahai, but suppressed the border in the name of driving bandits, interrupting Beixia's reinforcements.

"Yue Niang, when dealing with this old child, you can't speak clearly, and you can't do anything absolutely. He wants to save King Jin, but he doesn't dare to offend the court openly. He wants to calm the border troubles, but he is afraid that the noise will make the higher-ups suspicious. He has to leave five He was relieved when he was saved. We first sent people pretending to be Xia soldiers to harass him, which gave him an excuse to send troops. Not everyone has a temper like yours. Just let the horse rush to the front, and don't think about the sister who is going to get married in Shahai , and don’t even think about that little beast.” Moreover, Lu Jinhua really assuredly handed over the Zhenrong Army Station to Yun Bailu.

Li Suyue smiled embarrassedly, "I joined the Baosheng Army to kill the enemy." She doesn't understand the tricks in it, and probably only Axie and the others understand.

Ye Puti, Hui Zhongfu, and Lu Zimu all led their troops to fight and disturb the border. The three of them together have more than 150 people. It is okay to tear down their old bones, but I am afraid that there will be no tender bones to make up for them.Lu Jinhua glanced at the innocent apprentice, "How interested in that little bastard? Really interesting, I saved this matchmaker for you."

Li Suyue grabbed the rein and shrank her shoulders suddenly, "Master... I am a widow."

"Then Wu Zhao'an's head was cut off by your master and hung on the city wall. I made you a widow." Lu Jinhua glanced at his apprentice, "I knew that you didn't want to get married at that time. Fortunately, that kid I didn't take you seriously even if I was so focused on my own business."

"Most of the girls in the craftsman camp get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. I...I just think that having multiple widow names is also good. It stops many people from proposing marriage." Li Suyue suddenly noticed that Lu Jinhua was wearing a big cloak. There was already a lot of snow, so I came close to her and dusted it off for her, "Ah Lu and I are not the same way." She lowered her head, "Although she was naughty before, she's up to the task now." Besides, Yun Bailu, Xie Penglai and the others all understand that kind of awkwardness Li Suyue, who can't even write well, can only smile, "Just like a master, he's pretty good alone."

Hui Zhongfu, an old thousand household in Baosheng Village, became married three times and had three children with different husbands. Li Suyue always saw her belly bulge for a few years, and then it didn't stop for a few days, and then slowly bulged again.Li Suyue asked herself that this was not the life she had imagined: with her belly upright, she gave birth to one child after another.But if he married Wu Zhaoan, such a day would probably be waiting for him.

"Senior Hui is a good man. He is very skilled immediately, and he is not afraid of death when he marches and fights. But the first husband drank and gambled, so it is up to you to reconcile. The second husband is also a lecher. He always misses the girl next door. After the beating, they also divorced. The third term didn't find any faults right now, but I remember you said that Senior Hui is old, so don't go to that ghost gate to have children again. She didn't listen..." Li Suyue frowned and murmured , "Master, I think it's too bad for a woman to get married. Even Shancui, I don't want her to marry Junior Brother Yan, but she is willing."

In Li Suyue's view, marrying a man is a disadvantage. Although marrying a woman does not require children, there are also various temper disputes.And she has also seen many women form bonds and divorce.In addition, her and Yun Bailu's identities are also very different, and she doesn't understand the worldly relationships in the officialdom, and she is not a noble girl.She was just a blacksmith who watched her parents die under the iron kite and horse's hoof, full of blood and hatred.

So don't talk about Fengyue, just bury your head in the iron and kill the enemy wholeheartedly.

The two of them drove outside Shahai City for a day and a night. When Zhenrong Army Field was standing in front of them, Lu Jinhua suddenly pointed to the southwest of Shahai, "I'll go there first."

"There is a mountain there, and the Beixia garrison is guarding the mountain, so I'm afraid it's easy to be discovered." Li Suyue thought for a while, "What's wrong there?" They left for a few days before the snow stopped, and the situation must have changed.

Lu Jinhua pointed to the north side with his whip, "When we left, we could still see the soldiers and horses of Beixia from a distance, but there are no ghosts at this moment." Then he pointed to the patrol horses outside the Zhenrong Military Field Station, "there are too many people Four times, the little beast might succeed, and we have to guard against Beixia's anger and counterattack." Lu Jinhua looked at his disciple with a smile, "You go back first, you don't want the little beast, but she misses you."

Li Suyue blushed, "I... and A Lu are just ordinary friends."

The wine bag at the waist was suddenly taken off by Lu Jinhua, "This is for me, yes, it's normal. Then you go back first and bring the letter to the little beast. I'll be back in an hour."

After saying that, he turned his head and rode away.Li Suyue prepared for a moment, but still followed Lu Jinhua resolutely.

The horse couldn't climb the mountain, so Lu Jinhua took a detour to the steep south path and crawled up the mountain.A rustling sound came from behind, she looked down and could only curse, "Why do you want to follow?"

"Don't worry, master." Li Suyue is a stubborn person.

"Are you worried about me? I'm still afraid that you'll hold me back." Lu Jinhua's fingers sank into the grass roots in the slush, and the fragrance of the soil spread to her frozen red nose. She buried her face in the snow, Use the cold to suppress the anxiety in my heart.

Li Suyue climbed to her side and stretched out her hand to Lu Jinhua, "Master, there are still ten feet left, work harder."

Lu Jinhua's tall nose sank into the snowflakes, "Wait a minute." She just wanted to hear if there was any movement in this mountain.When I was young, I heard the old man say "mountain ghost", saying that there are such ghosts in every mountain, and they come out to harm people when the mountains are closed by heavy snow.

"When you think about me, I can't be free, and when you think about me, I doubt it." Lu Jinhua was later taught the song "Nine Songs·Mountain Ghost" and changed his view on mountain ghosts, but he only remembers two sentences until today.After she read it, her heart suddenly felt a heavy pain, and it was like a block of ice that had only seen the sun for a long time, and the cold air that radiated went straight to her throat.

Lu Jinhua grabbed Li Suyue's hand, "Yue Niang, take me up." Her strength was obviously exhausted.

Li Suyue put her arms around Lu Jinhua's waist with one hand, and grabbed the grass and vines with the other, "Master, it's okay, I'll be there soon." When she was about to reach the top, Lu Jinhua also recovered her strength, and the two of them jumped out of the narrow wall to the top of the mountain hand in hand.

The snow fell from the top of his head, and Lu Jinhua looked at the quiet path in the mountains, and could only hear a few crows from time to time.She looked around blankly, "I remember it was in the southwest corner." But at this time, the southwest corner was also covered with snow.

"Her...'s tomb." Lu Jinhua tried his best to smile at Li Suyue, "Do you recognize it? You can lead the way."

It was only then that Li Suyue knew that her purpose of coming here was to worship Bai Zhi, she had come here several times so she naturally remembered it.After bypassing a small catalpa forest, the two of them stepped on the deep snow for a while and finally arrived.

Bai Zhi's cemetery was chosen to be on the high side, but it was also buried by snow for a foot.The "Bai's Tomb" below the tombstone was covered, leaving only the "Xianci Yunmen" above it.

Lu Jinhua's eyes seemed to be empty. She put her hands on the graveyard and walked around the graveyard twice before raising her head in disbelief and asking Li Suyue, "It's really her?"

Li Suyue nodded, "The Shinto Monument was delayed for several years before it was installed, and then we were defeated by Sha Hai."

"Oh." Lu Jinhua's hands were already numb, she went to the tombstone and used her sleeve to sweep the snow, Li Suyue also wanted to help but was blocked by her, "I'll do it."

She waited until the word "Bai Shi" was revealed before she sat in front of the stele. After a while, she took out the wine bag she had brought from her apprentice and opened it.

Standing behind her, Li Suyue suddenly understood that the master, who seemed to be mean to Bai Zhi from time to time, seemed to be absorbed by this tomb, but Bai Zhi was what she cared most about.She lowered her head and stroked the tombstone, her tone was weak, "The writing on this tombstone is not good. What about Xianci, what about Yunmen, it's all nonsense. It's enough that she is Baizhi."

After sitting there for an unknown amount of time, Lu Jinhua suddenly went to the other side of the grave and lay down next to him, turned over and listened to the ground again, raised her pretty eyebrows and murmured, "Nothing at all." Then she got up and called Li Suyue, " let's go."

After walking a few steps, crows screamed across the sky, and the snowflakes began to boil again.Lu Jinhua turned her head back, "Are you blaming me?" Her gentle tone was about to melt the snow, "Can I come and accompany you when I have time?"

Li Suyue accompanied Lu Jinhua down the mountain, the two of them slipped down the slope in silence, led the horse, got on the horse and walked for a mile, Lu Jinhua seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, seeing her hesitate to speak.

"At the beginning, I didn't believe that she died of illness. I didn't believe it all these years. I always felt that she was hiding somewhere. She ran for dozens of miles at night and fought for two days without closing her eyes. How could such a person get sick?" Lu Jinhua's icy cheeks were frozen by a stream of heat, she raised her head and took a breath, "If I don't come to see her at the grave, then she is not dead, but she just wanted to fool herself." She looked back at her apprentice, "Today But I don’t want to lie to myself anymore. After all these years of fooling around, I want to make it clear to me and her.”

She paused, and said the truth that had been in her heart for several years, "I, Lu Jinhua, have liked Bai Zhi in my whole life."

Only now did Li Suyue understand why she didn't like to take medicine to treat illnesses, and why she didn't take her body seriously.She has long been determined to give up and keep her will to live.Maybe the master thought about being able to be with the mountain ghost after death.

The two walked for a while, she exhaled, her lungs were churning and hot, before she could finish speaking, she limp and fell off the horse's back.

"Little thief, I think you have some skills. I will bury you by looting your house. Follow my sister, and I will teach you how to march, assess the situation, and teach you how to shoot snow." Bai Zhi's voice seemed to linger in her ears, and Lu Jinhua Turning over in the snow, he sighed to the thousands of miles of yellow clouds in the sky and the rapid snow, "Teach me to be a ghost."

She closed her eyes and wanted to rest for a while, but Li Suyue anxiously held her in her arms and called her.

Lu Jinhua opened his eyes and patted Li Suyue's head, "It's okay, I'm just tired. Master is worthless, and he won't miss at this critical moment. Help me up."

She struggled to get back on the horse, but Li Suyue didn't dare to let her ride fast, the master and the apprentice walked slowly between the boundless sky and the earth.

A team of war horses roared forward, and the two of them fixed their eyes, only to see that the leader was Yun Bailu.She burned most of Li Jiyan's food and supplies, and yesterday attacked the right wing of the enemy who was in chaos.After hearing people's report seeing Lu Jinhua and Li Suyue outside the station and turning around to the southwest, they became worried, and they ran into them when they led the troops.

The flirtatious aura of the past was swept away from her face, and the unrestrained appearance of galloping and riding a horse, with a bow and arrow hanging on her waist, made her look like a daughter who was born in a frontier fortress.

Li Suyue and Lu Jinhua reined in their horses at the same time, Yun Bailu immediately waved, "Hua Niang, Yue Niang—"

When there were more than ten steps left, Yun Bailu also stopped, and after scanning Li Suyue deeply, he looked at Lu Jinhua, pointed to the sandy sea in the south, "King Jin killed Li Jiyan, and his head is hanging on the tower. To defend against the enemy Qi Xing raided and retaliated, and tonight I will go to the battle to disturb his rear."

Lu Jinhua looked at her and smiled gratifiedly, "Okay, okay."

Yun Bailu looked back at Li Suyue again, "Yue Niang...has she returned?" Countless greetings can only be turned into a useless politeness.

Li Suyue had no choice but to "hmm".

Yun Bailu had already driven her horse to her side, and when she saw her expectant and joyful face, Li Suyue's heart softened again.She doesn't like the feeling that her heart is hot and her forehead is cold at the moment.With a hot copper soup woman stuffed into his hand, Yun Bailu leaned over, his eyes sparkling, and his tone was sticky and shy, "I think it's time for you in these two days, don't catch the cold outside."

Li Suyue blushed up to her ears, and quietly took Tang Pozi to her belly.Thinking of what the master said, "give me a clear explanation", she gritted her teeth and made up her mind to make it clear, but her heart was numb again.

Being a widow can be justifiable and confident, but the daughter's affair is so painful.No wonder the master took almost ten years to make up his mind to break the Yin and Yang.Li Suyue could only hurry up and stay away from some clouds and egrets.