Crispy little husband

Just when Su Yu and Zhang Sheng had settled down, the border had been stabilized for more than ten years, and suddenly there was an urgent report that the Northern Liang army was in charge and was preparing to cross the river and climb the mountain to attack Nanjing.

Luonan Province is located in the hinterland of Nanjing, and when the news got here, it was said that the border had already been fought.

For a time, everyone felt insecure and panicked, food prices soared, flour and white rice rose from about 60 yuan a catty to [-] yuan, and pork rose from [-] yuan to more than [-] yuan.

The autumn harvest has just started in various parts of Nanjing. At this time of turmoil, no matter how high the price of grain is, farmers dare not sell their grain casually. For this reason, there have been many cases of forced buying and selling in some places.

In addition to food, what farmers are most afraid of is conscription. For farmers, the men in the family are the main labor force. Who knows if this conscription will never return.

Fortunately, the imperial court took action soon, and no one should take advantage of this season to raise food prices, and to appease the common people that they will not conscript for the time being.

The Nanjing imperial court has never relaxed its defenses against Beiliang, and has been preparing for it early. The southward march of the Beiliang army is also expected by Nanjing.

Because there was a moderate-scale drought in Beiliang last summer, and a heavy snowstorm in winter, which affected their spring plowing in Beiliang this year. This year's harvest is less than half of that of previous years.

Two consecutive years of grain shortages, and the habits of the barbarians in Beiliang, Nanjing officials guessed that they might come to Nanjing for a fight during the autumn harvest.

This battle, one is to secure the hearts of the people of Beiliang, if it wins, it will definitely make the Beiliang court more popular, and the other is to divert the emotions of the people of Beiliang, and transfer their anger towards the Beiliang court to the Nanjing court .

Therefore, the Nanjing court has long been working on arranging the defense of the northern border, ensuring that the people of Beiliang will be able to fetch water from the bamboo basket in vain, and maybe they will be able to shoot themselves in the foot.

There has been chaos in Beiliang for a long time, but it was suppressed temporarily. A failed battle will not bring any good effects. After all, if it fails, the court will bear double the anger of the common people.

With the two natural dangers of Jihe and Tianling, it is not easy for Beiliang to break through Nanjing's solid border defense.

With the intervention of the imperial court, the internal turmoil in Nanjing caused by the war between Nanjing and Beiliang quickly calmed down.

Tang Ji's business has been greatly affected. Sugar is a luxury in this era, and people will only buy sugar after satisfying their basic needs for food and clothing.

Although the imperial court has suppressed the turmoil, the war has had a considerable impact on everyone. Many ordinary people have saved their money and stopped using it to prevent other situations in the future.

The house leak happened to be raining all night, and the villages that had promised to help Tang Dong plant peanuts and melon seeds had problems, because this year the prices of peanuts and melon seeds have also increased accordingly. Some people don't want to sell to Tang Dong, and want to keep it for later prices Raise some more before selling.

Tang Dong was very angry when he got the news. Those who grow peanuts don’t sell them to him. The sunflower seeds in the villages are all the sunflower seeds he gave at the beginning. The contract in black and white is still there. These people want to sit on the ground. Starting price, I really think that Tang Dong is easy to bully.

Tang Dong could see this matter clearly, these peasants dared to tease him like this, it was clear that someone was behind the scenes.

With a sneer, Tang Dong asked the villages that planted sunflower seeds to return the same amount of sunflower seeds to him. This matter was settled. As for other villages that were still willing to sell sunflower seeds, he would accept them at the current price. , Let's see who suffers in the end!

You know, peanuts are a little easier to preserve, just dry them, but melon seeds are a lot more troublesome, and everyone doesn’t grow them often, so they don’t know how to preserve them best, if they are not careful, they will go bad, and they will become worthless .

And now that there is a war on the border, the business of Tangji Snacks has deteriorated, so it is better to collect less melon seeds and peanuts.

The Xu family, who were behind the scenes, saw that Tang Dong was very proud of this secret loss, which made him feel bad. Before being hurt by Tang Ji, the business has suffered a lot, and it has not improved until now.

But the Xu family didn't expect that in winter, the impact of the war on their side gradually weakened. When the farmers who stored melon seeds found that the melon seeds had grown moldy and asked them to settle accounts, they made their Xu family a joke again.

Although Tangji's snack business has deteriorated, and many runners stopped coming to buy sugar, which caused Tangji's income to shrink by more than half, but Tangji Cloth Village is still doing well.

After all, Tangji Buzhuang sells the most common coarse cloth, which is used by ordinary people every day, so the cloth village has stabilized after the initial turmoil.

As for Mrs. Yao, who lives in Zhuangzi outside the city, since she heard the news that there was a fight on the border, she could no longer sit still at Yao's Zhuangzi, and returned to the provincial capital in a hurry. Worried about her second son at the border.

Because of Mrs. Yao's departure, there is no middleman for Su Xin's cakes, and she can't send them to Yao's village, let alone Liang Pingying. Su Xin feels a sense of loss. He didn't pay much attention when making cakes. Yes, I accidentally put salt as sugar once.

Just when Su Xin was trying to adapt to not having to make different pastries every day, the door of the third room of the Su family was knocked by a heavy horseshoe.

The person outside the door was Ning Wei. He was wearing heavy armor, only half of his face was exposed. When he got off the horse, the threshold of the third room of the Su family seemed to shake.

The door opened quickly, and it was Tang Xi who opened the door.

Tang Xi only met Ning Wei once in Yaojiazhuangzi, but he was very impressed with Ning Wei. Even with only half of his face, he recognized the person in front of him through those eyes.

Tang Xi blinked and didn't realize what he should say. He stared blankly at Ning Wei taking off his helmet before asking, "Ning Zuoling, why are you here..."

Ning Wei's time was limited, he didn't have time to talk to Tang Xi slowly, so he interrupted him directly: "Subom, I'm taking the liberty to bother you. If it's convenient, please invite Brother Xin out to see you."

"Brother Xin?" Tang Xi looked at the handsome, steady and reliable young general in front of him, and his mind became more and more confused.

The courtyard of the third bedroom of the Su family is just that big. Su Xin had noticed the movement at the door and came out after wiping her hands. When she walked out of the kitchen, she heard Ning Wei's voice.

Ning Wei's gaze focused on Su Xin in an instant. He saw that Su Xin was wearing a strange white cloth scarf around his waist, as if he was making a pastry, and his heart softened.

Seeing Ning Wei's outfit, Su Xin's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he felt like his legs were weakened by the other party. His mind was divided into two factions.

One party was saying that he was just looking at the other party with admiring eyes. His legs were weak because he had been standing for a long time and was a little tired. He didn't feel that the other party's momentum was too strong, which made him unable to hold his heart.

The other party retorted, no matter how handsome he is, he is handsome on someone else, what does it have to do with him, if his legs are weak, he should go to rest, and don't think about it.

Ignoring Tang Xi who was standing at the door, Ning Wei walked over in two or three steps, took out the jade pendant around his neck, put it in Su Xin's hand, and looked deeply at Su Xin: "Su Xin, wait for me to come back."

Su Xin pinched the jade pendant foolishly, and Ning Wei's slightly hot body temperature remained on it. He only felt that this temperature spread from the jade pendant all the way to his whole body, otherwise why would he feel that his whole body was steaming.

After giving the jade pendant, Ning Wei retreated to the door and bowed to Tang Xi: "Subom, time is urgent. This junior knows that you are so abrupt, brother Xin, but this junior is ordered to leave temporarily. That jade pendant is a family heirloom of this junior." , as a betrothal gift to Brother Xin, it can be as short as one or two years, and as long as three or four years, the younger generation will definitely come back to marry Brother Xin."

After a rough explanation, Ning Wei hurriedly put on his helmet and got on his horse to leave without waiting for Tang Xi to answer. Before leaving, he turned to look at Su Xin again, with tenderness and reluctance in his eyes.

Coming and going in a hurry, the sound of horseshoes from near to far, the door of the third room of the Su family opened and Su Xin's posture of holding the jade pendant remained unchanged for a long time.

After the neighbors cast curious glances, Tang Xi hurriedly closed the door. His mind was full of doubts, and he didn't know where to start asking.

"Ah Mu, don't ask me, I don't know anything." Su Xin blushed, holding the jade pendant whose temperature was gradually cooling, and left in a messy step.

Su Xin's problems at the moment are really not necessarily less than Tang Xi's. What does Ning Wei's words mean?

His brain is not bad, he can understand, but why Ning Wei made such a choice, he really doesn't know.

In his previous life, Su Xin had never been attracted to anyone, and he didn't know what it was like to be attracted or liked.

But when he met Ning Wei a few times, his heart was always pounding, accompanied by sore and weak fingertips. He didn't know what this feeling meant. Before, he had deceived himself into thinking that it was He is "jealous" of Ning Wei's looks.

But now, the beating heart is extremely fast, the corners of the mouth can't help but be raised, the flushed cheeks, and the joy that can't be suppressed are all telling him that he is inexplicably in love with a man he doesn't understand at all. , just because of looks.

The more she thought about it, the more Su Xin felt that she was a star-chasing family of later generations, racking her brains to make delicious pastries just to make Ning Wei eat comfortably, and always recalling Ning Wei repeatedly when she was free.

If he had to say something different, it would be that he got a response from his idol, so he was about to fly with joy.

Burying herself under the blanket, Su Xin repeatedly recalled what Ning Wei said before leaving, and suddenly realized something was wrong—Ning Wei was going to the border!

Where is the border, that is where the war is going on!

In an instant, Su Xin's brain calmed down. In this era of backward medical treatment, in case of being injured on the battlefield...

"Bah bah bah, Tongyan Wuji! Tongyan Wuji!" Su Xin jumped up from the bed, loudly poohed a few times, what is he thinking about now!

Outside the door, Tang Xi's worried voice sounded: "Brother Xin, are you alright? You open the door, and if you have anything to say to Eminem, don't hold it in your heart."