Dai Yuxin says

The next day, because the team had to rest here for a few days and didn't need to get up early to hurry, Daiyu took a late night's sleep.

When Daiyu opened her eyes, she realized that the sun was already high, she smiled and complained: "It's this time, and I don't know how to wake me up."

"I used to have to hurry, so I had to get up early. I don't want to hurry these two days. The girl just needs to rest well." Zijuan smiled and put down the things in her hand, ready to serve Daiyu.

Xueyan opened the curtain and came in, and whispered back: "Miss, those two children who were rescued yesterday are the children of the Xiang clan. Ah Shan asked me to report to the girl that the father of these two children is the younger brother of the leader of the Xiang clan, and he is considered a traitor. The second head of the army. Because the rebel army was quickly defeated by our prince, they retreated suddenly, and all the family members of the generals had no time to take them away. Now they are hiding in the valleys and caves of Helan Mountain. According to the two children, they hid There are more than 100 elderly, weak, women and children who have been out of food for many days, and the surrounding weeds and bark have been eaten up. Yesterday, the child wanted to go down to the river to find some fish and shrimp to satisfy his hunger, but was swept away by the river. The older child I tried to save him, but they were drowned together, and the river brought them here."

Daiyu knew that the largest tribe in the Northwest was the Xiang Clan, which accounted for three-quarters of the total population in the Northwest.

This ethnic group is half-cultivating and half-herding, with a rough nature. For the past hundred years, they have often had constant friction with the imperial court. Due to their relatively large population, they often have the heart of rebelling against the imperial court.

Because they are located in the borderlands, the imperial court sent fewer troops to suppress them, and could not defeat them. The troops they sent were too large, and the people were burdened heavily, so they often adopted strategies to appease them.

After such a long time, it is easy to breed their arrogance.

Therefore, the imperial court and them are fighting and fighting, and fighting and fighting.

There have always been few big battles here, but constant small battles.

In the continuous war, the Xiang clan fought more and more, and became stronger and stronger. They developed from encroachment to siege, from harming border residents to massacring court officials.

They didn't expect that the nemesis of the Xiang clan, Shui Rong, would return to court.

Shui Rong led an army of 20, and beat them to pieces like a storm, leaving behind their wives, children, and parents, and fled in a panic.

Zijuan looked at Daiyu who was bowing her head in thought, and asked, "Girl, do you think we told General Li Hu to send people to encircle and suppress the rebels' relatives?"

Daiyu frowned, and silently asked Zijuan to serve her.

After breakfast, he ordered Ah Shan to bring the two children over.

Daiyu saw that although the two children were sallow and thin, their expressions and manners were dignified and graceful, unlike ordinary children who were obsequious and obedient.

Standing in front of Daiyu, the two boys were obviously in better health than yesterday.

The two of them kept their heads down, looked at their own toes, stood there silently, looking like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water and resigned to fate, which made Daiyu feel sad.

Daiyu smiled and asked Xueyan to give them some fruit to eat, and comforted them: "Don't be afraid, eat the fruit."

The younger child, about ten years old, couldn't help reaching out to take the fruit, only ate one, tilted his head to take a peek at Xueyan, and stuffed it into his arms quietly.

The older child was about fourteen or fifteen years old. He took the fruit in a long-winded manner, raised his head to look at Daiyu, and asked, "Sister Fairy, were you the one who saved us last evening?"

Daiyu nodded with a smile, and said softly, "Yes, I went for a walk by the river yesterday evening and saw you guys. Eat it, don't worry, there are still a lot of fruits here."

The older child pulled the younger child, knelt down with a plop, kowtowed to Daiyu a few times, and begged with infinite expectations: "Sister Fairy, please save our mother and people too, don't let us die again." There's a war."

Daiyu signaled Xueyan Zijuan to pull up the two children, and said kindly: "Get up, we are full, let's discuss slowly, let's find a way to stop the war and achieve peace. Okay?"

The two children nodded solemnly in agreement.

Through the narratives of these two children, Daiyu knew that the older boy was named Li Honghao, the younger boy was named Li Hongjie, and their father was named Li Yuanba, the leader of the Xiang clan, King Dabaigao, and the younger brother of the leader of the rebel army.

The two children said that their father Li Yuanba retreated with his elder brother, King Dabaigao, the leader of the rebel army, and all his family members stayed in Helan Mountain.

Now their food has long been eaten, and the weather is getting colder and colder. At present, they are suffering from hunger and cold, and are on the verge of death.

Daiyu comforted the two little brothers and asked them to live in peace.Tell them that as long as their tribesmen stop burning, killing and looting, and submit to the imperial court, they will not be frozen to death.

Although the little brothers are young, they act like little adults. They nodded cautiously and said: "Sister Fairy, don't worry, we must tell the people in the tribe that if we submit to the court, we will have a way of life. Many people in our tribe regret it very much. , I can often hear people complaining that the big leader became the king of Dabaigao, killing the good tribesmen, killing them, hurting them, and unable to return home. The land is desolate, and the cattle and sheep are gone. Seeing that winter is coming, Everyone can only wait to die in the valley, in the cave."

Daiyu felt that this was an opportunity for peace.

She asked Ah Shan to discuss with General Li Hu, taking advantage of the rest of the army transporting supplies in the past few days, organize people to take all the family members of the senior leader of the rebel army Li Yuanba out of Helan Mountain, and treat them as VIPs.

At first, General Li Hu didn't quite understand, and he told me that Li Yuanba was the number two figure in the rebel army, and his behavior was very abominable. Over the years, he often brought troops to harass our border, killed many of our guards and innocent people, and robbed women and others. Cattle and sheep property.He has done a lot of evil, and if he can catch his family members, they will all be buried alive.

According to Daiyu's wishes, Ah Shan patiently did the work of General Li Hu.

Tell him that if he wants to maintain long-term stability at the border, he must be soft with one hand and tough with the other.

The soft thing is to appease them more, open a door for them to survive, and let them not make desperate resistance.

The hard part is to mercilessly and resolutely eliminate those who are stubborn, and let them understand that trying to resist and not submit to the court will only lead to death and will not end well.

War is not an end, but a means of last resort to achieve peace.

If we want to end the war as soon as possible and achieve long-term peace, we must use both hard and soft hands.

Regaining people's hearts is the best policy.

General Li Hu heard Daiyu's remarks conveyed by Ah Shan, and asked with wide eyes in surprise, "Is this really what Miss Lin said?"

Ah Shan said with a smile: "Of course it was our girl who said it. The girl wants you to do what she says. The credit is yours, and she will take care of it. If something happens, she will explain it to the emperor and the assistant prince. It will not implicate the general."

Li Hu laughed loudly and said: "Brother Ah Shan! Before I left Beijing, the emperor issued an order saying that as long as Miss Lin proposes this journey, it must be carried out to the letter. At that time, I agreed with my mouth, but I was still thinking How could the emperor value a little girl so much? Now, I understand. Miss Lin is simply not human, she is the incarnation of a fairy. Otherwise, how could she have such an unfathomable mind at such a young age? Eyes? If you don’t speak clearly to me, I can’t even understand, hear, or see through.”

Li Hu resolutely assured Ah Shan: "Brother Shan, please tell Miss Lin, I, Li Hu, promise to complete the task."

Ah Shan heard this, patted Li Hu on the shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "Our girl still has something to say, and I want General Li Hu to send some people to go around and visit the people whose family members have been hurt by the rebels, and ask them to pick them up as well." Come here. At that time, let the ordinary people who were victimized come to tell their own stories, and let the family members of the rebels understand that the reason why our army wants to attack the rebels hard is because they were forced into the unbearable by the rebels. As long as the rebels can understand After seeing the crimes they committed, they are willing to lay down their arms and submit to the court. They are still the people of the court, and we can still let them live. Otherwise, there is only one way to die."

After hearing this, Li Hu admired Daiyu from the bottom of his heart, smiled all over his face, completely obeyed Daiyu's plan, and resolutely implemented it.

Under the guidance of brothers Li Honghao and Li Hongjie, General Li Hu quickly picked up more than 100 family members left behind by the rebel leader Li Yuanba.

With the help of Li Yuanba's family members, it took only one day to find out the family members of other hidden rebel generals.

Ah Shan made a rough count, and there were more than 3000 family members left behind by the generals and generals of the rebel army, men, women and children.

Daiyu asked the sergeants to set up a large iron pot for marching, cooked rice, and stewed mutton vermicelli soup for the enemy's family members to eat freely.

In the evening, General Li Hu was asked to take out some tents and give them to these family members to keep out the cold at night.

In the morning of the next day, Ah Shan asked General Li Hu to gather the family members of the rebel leaders, big and small, and sit with the soldiers of the food delivery team, listening to the people at the border tell their stories of their families being killed and looted by the rebels.Speaking of sadness, everyone on and off the stage burst into tears.

The relatives of the leaders and leaders of the rebel army were ashamed to do such a thing that was inferior to livestock for their relatives, and they also regretted that they had not persuaded their relatives not to do those immoral things early.

The sergeants listened to the people's painful complaints, and they were furious. They raised their arms and shouted to avenge the dead compatriots.

Because the people at the border are talking about their own personal experience, which is so real and touching that people can't help crying.

The family members of those rebel leaders were not immune to shock, and they couldn't help crying together.

On the third day, General Li Hu sent people to take the family members of the rebel leader to visit the villages burned by the rebels and the cemeteries of the murdered people.

Facing the facts, all the family members of the rebels knelt in front of the victim's grave involuntarily, kowtowing and apologizing for the crimes committed by their relatives.

In the evening, when they returned to their residence, the family members of these rebel leaders knew that, except for a very small number of rebel leaders who committed heinous crimes, as long as the coerced followers put down their weapons and returned to the imperial court, the imperial court would be lenient and let them live, and continue to let them Go home, reunite with your wife and children, and be a citizen of the court again.

The perpetrators who participated in the murder of border guards and border residents, including Li Yuanba, the deputy leader of the rebel army, as long as they can make meritorious service for the imperial court and the border peace, the imperial court will let them atone for their sins and forget the past. Let them continue to work for the court.

On the morning of the fourth day, General Li Hu's grain transport army was rested and ready to go.

In fact, General Li Hu rested his team mainly to find out the terrain of the march and the surrounding enemy situation.

The team transporting the supplies, with their relatives who received them or those who voluntarily surrendered to the rebel generals, had a total of nearly 5000 old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant people, and set off for the station of the water-soluble army.

That day, Shui Rong took a small group of cavalry and searched for the main force of the rebel army. After running for a long time, they found nothing.

He returned to the station dejectedly, and just sat down, before taking a sip of water, when he heard Daiyu coming with the army of food and grass.

Surprised and joyful in his heart, he ran out of the marshal's tent with disheveled hair and disheveled hair, and went to meet Daiyu ecstatically.

Shui Rong saw Daiyu's car at a glance, and rushed towards it excitedly, reaching out to open Daiyu's car door.

Suddenly, a driving whip stopped him.

Shui Rong didn't care about anything, reached out for a whip, and roared angrily: "Bold! How dare you stop me!"

Ah Shan smiled and blocked it with the whip in his hand, and whispered teasingly: "Please pay attention to the image of the Generalissimo."

Only then did Shui Rong realize that it was Ah Shan's voice, looked up in a daze, and said with a smile, "Good guy! I knew it was you." Then, he jumped onto the carriage, sat down side by side with Ah Shan, and lightly thumped Ah Shan. With a punch, he turned his head and was about to open the door.

Ah Shan reached out and grabbed Shui Rong's hand, and whispered into his ear, "Look at the soldiers in front of you are watching, are you not afraid of the girl getting angry?"

Shui Rong's heart skipped a beat, and he muttered to Daiyu in the car: "I don't think you care about this for a while."

He turned his head and saw General Li Hu and the soldiers behind him, and saw everyone looking at him and smiling.

Shui Rong blushed, jumped out of the carriage with an arrow, walked up to General Li Hu, and exchanged some embarrassed greetings.

Li Hu was over 40 years old, smiled very comprehensibly, and said loudly to Shui Rong: "I am humbled by the emperor's order to send winter food to the Generalissimo."

Immediately, he lowered his voice again, and said with a smile: "The humble position has lived up to the emperor's entrustment, and Miss Lin has been sent to your side safely. The arrival of Miss Lin is equivalent to sending the key to the door of victory to the Generalissimo. Arrival Here, I am familiar with the road, and I don't need the Generalissimo to bother, please take the Generalissimo to take Miss Lin quickly."

Shui Rong smiled redly and said a few words to Li Hu, clasped his fists and smiled.

Turning around, he couldn't wait to get into Daiyu's car, ignoring Zijuan Xueyan in front of him, hugged Daiyu, hugged her tightly, pressed her face to Daiyu's hair, and sniffed her desperately. The unique fragrance of jade.

He closed his eyes tightly and murmured tremblingly: "Yu'er, Yu'er, isn't this a dream?"

At this moment, Daiyu's soft heart is full of sweetness.

But the girl's reserved instinct made her involuntarily push Shui Rong hard, and reprimanded in a low voice: "You are dead! Let go, let me go!"

"No!, Yu'er, do you know? I miss you day and night." Shui Rong was immersed in happiness, talking dreamily, holding Daiyu tightly with both hands, afraid that if he let go, he would wake up from the dream, Daiyu seems to have disappeared.

Originally, Zijuan Xueyan saw Shui Rong rushing in, a little at a loss and didn't know what to do.

Now, Xueyan hugged Zijuan tightly with both hands, and murmured: "Sister Zijuan, I am so moved that I want to cry."

Zijuan also put her arms around the snow goose, and whispered emotionally: "I'm so moved that I want to cry too."

Ah Shan was sitting in front of the shaft of the carriage. Although he didn't see the situation inside the carriage, he could imagine it from the words of the people inside the carriage.

He stared blankly at the sky, whether his expression was bitter or sweet, no one could tell, not even Ah Shan himself.

His big round eyes were wet, and a drop of crystal water rolled out of the corners of his small narrow eyes, glowing colorfully under the northwest sun.

Not long after, the car stopped in front of the Marshal's big tent under the guidance of Shui Rong's bodyguard, Yuyuan's servant, Shi Jian.

Zijuan tugged on Daiyu's skirt and called out in a low voice, "Girl, we're here."

Daiyu squeezed Shui Rong's hand vigorously, seeing him intoxicated, she clenched her hands tightly.

She couldn't help but feel shy and anxious. The Confucian education she received since she was a child has played a role at this time.

Daiyu thought calmly: "If Shui Rong continues to be so obsessed, and people find out, I will definitely be called a beauty."

In desperation, she opened her mouth and lowered her head to bite Shui Rong's arm. Seeing Shui Rong's pain, she was startled, opened her eyes, and looked at Daiyu puzzled.

Seeing the grievance and affection in Shui Rong's eyes, Daiyu's heart trembled uncontrollably.

Daiyu was forced to be excited, pouted her mouth, pretended to be angry and said: "If you don't let go, I will really be angry and I will never talk to you."

It seems that men are very strong, but sometimes they appear weaker than women in the face of unforgettable love.

Shui Rong heard Daiyu say that he was really going to be angry, so he let go of his hand in fright, and begged: "Don't, don't, I'll just listen to you, I really can't bear it."

Zijuan opened the door of the car and helped Daiyu get out of the car, only to see Ah Shan, as if sick, pale, hunched over, leaning on the handlebar, hanging his head listlessly, staring at the ground.

Xueyan yelled heartlessly: "Ah Shan, quickly ask someone to set up the girl's tent."

Hearing these words, Ah Shan looked like Feng Lun, and took a deep look at Daiyu, seeing that Daiyu's face was like a peach blossom, and she was looking at him with a smile.

He immediately forgot all the jealousy and unhappiness in his heart, and smiled happily: "Got it."

Immediately, with one long and one short calf, he ran over, carefully commanding the sergeant to set up Daiyu's tent next to the marshal's tent, and set up himself and Xueyan Zi on the left and right sides of Daiyu's tent. cuckoo tent.

Daiyu saw that he was very busy, and stood there watching quietly.

Seeing Daiyu standing still, Shui Rong hurried over to pull Ah Shan, and said with a smile, "Do you need to worry about this job? Let's go, follow Yu'er to have tea and rest, I happen to have a few melons here, and Jujube, try this Northwest specialty in the past."

A few people walked into his marshal's big tent with water, only to see that there was nothing inside the tent except for a large combat sand table that was conspicuous.

Against the wall is a marshal's throne covered with colorful tiger skins, and in front of the throne is a small table that is placed on his marshal's stuff.

If you ask what else is there, there are more than a dozen wooden blocks on the ground and several military maps hanging on the wall.

The water-soluble bedroom is behind his marshal's throne, separated by a cowhide curtain.

In the bedroom, there was a very narrow camp bed covered with large furs, and the quilt was not folded, and it was messily crumpled up.

Zijuan looked at it, reprimanded Shi Jian Shi Mo and said: "Ashan asked you two to be the prince's personal servants. Is this how you two serve the prince?"

Shi Jian Shi Mo smiled and said: "Sister Zijuan, you don't know, our prince doesn't want us to make a bed for him, he said that after the bed is done, we still have to pull it out to sleep, there is no need to waste time."

Shui Rong saw that Daiyu looked around, but didn't say a word.

He seemed to realize that his marshal's tent was really simple.

He scratched his head embarrassingly, and said with a smile: "Actually, here, it can't be compared with home."

Pulling Daiyu to his throne, he smiled flatteringly and said, "Is Yu'er tired from the bumpy journey? Come on, sit here to rest and eat some fruit, it's very sweet." Shui Rong pointed at the marshal's throne laughed.

Daiyu smiled slightly and said, "That's your special seat, how can I sit there? After a while my tent is set up, I'll go back and say that my own place is more suitable and convenient."

Ah Shan looked around the water-soluble big tent, walked to his big battle sand table, looked at it for a while, and looked at Shui Rong again, his eyes softened a lot.

Xueyan turned around in the large water-soluble tent, saw Daiyu and the others coming out of it, and asked in puzzlement: "My lord, this chair is very big, could it be that you sleep here?"

Shui Rong giggled, pointed to the large tiger-skin chair, and said patiently: "This chair of mine is specially made. It can be used as a chair during the day, and it can also be disassembled and used as a bed at night. It is also suitable for marching and fighting. very convenient."

While talking, outsiders said that Miss Lin's tent had been set up.

Ashan Zijuan and Snow Geese filed out without saying a word.

Ah Shan commanded the sergeant to take out the necessary things from the car, and moved them to the tent to put them away.

Zijuan was in charge of arranging things, while Xueyan was busy boiling water and cooking.

Daiyu is about to leave the big tent, Shui Rong grabs her and hugs her again.

In terms of relationships, men may not be naturally calm and calm than women.

This may be caused by women's natural reserve, or it may be that women have been treated unfairly too much, or it may be that women have been imprisoned too much by the rules and regulations, and they have developed a cautious personality in dealing with things.

"It can't be like this!" Daiyu pushed Shui Rong away, looked at Shui Rong seriously, and said seriously: "This is the army, and I brought Zijuan and Snow Geese here, which is already breaking the rules. I am not even good to the emperor."

Looking at Shui Rong's expression, Daiyu seemed to be very disappointed, she hurriedly smiled and comforted her: "If the relationship between the two lasts for a long time, how can it be day and night?"

Shui Rong's eyes radiated scorching heat, even though he tried his best to restrain his emotions, he was still passionate, burning hot.

He held Daiyu's little hand tightly, and said sincerely: "Yu'er, I understand what you said, I just listen to you. It's just..."