Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

At noon on the fifth day after the fire, I received an anonymous brocade box, which contained the five traditional Chinese medicines of Malian'an, Mianyinchen, iron sand, glutinous rice, and Tiannanxing. For exquisiteness.Ah Xiang checked for a long time and found no hint about the identity of the giver in the brocade box. She frowned and suspected that it was a wrong delivery, but I took it with confidence, threw it into the trash dump and ignored it.

——Now you think of me, why did you go there before?I don't care for afterthoughts!

Everyone in the liquor store can feel the low air pressure around me.

Ah Xiang is a considerate little girl, she thought I was still sad about Kong Ming's death, so she deliberately didn't mention this sad matter, and talked about other topics to divert my attention: "Nan Shuang, don't be impatient. , Although the level in Xinye has not yet been opened, but it takes a long time, let's ask Xiaoer Cha to find out, maybe there will be good news tomorrow?"

The situation of the Three Kingdoms War is changing rapidly.Last month, Cao Cao had just mobilized his army to prepare to attack Xinye in the south. In the past few days, news came that the former general Ma Teng rejected Cao Cao's invitation to serve as an official in the court and embraced his own self-respect in Huaili.This goes against the original history.According to the knowledge of the Three Kingdoms that Liu Xi popularized to me, this year Ma Teng should have followed Zhang Ji’s suggestion and moved his family to Yecheng with his sons Ma Xiu and Ma Tie. It was not until three years later that his eldest son Ma Chao rebelled against Cao Cao that Cao Cao ordered him to surrender. Destroy the three tribes.But in this life, because of Ma Teng's non-cooperation, Cao Cao was furious and ordered to block the Ma family in advance. Ma Teng went to Xiliang.

The biggest impact of this incident on me is that the agreement between Liu Biao and Liu Xi to jointly fight against Cao was abandoned, and the business of Xinye Switch was also dropped.

Ah Xiang cheerfully comforted me: "It's not all a bad thing if you don't switch it on or off, you see, God is keeping you in my wedding wine!"

Being distracted by Kong Ming's funeral, time passed very quickly, as if he had just taken off his cotton-padded jacket, and the branches were covered with mulberries in a blink of an eye.Ah Xiang's big day is scheduled for the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, less than a month ago, she has already quit her job in the wine shop, and she will go home to get married in peace.

Axiang took my hand: "Since you won't leave for the time being, how about you come to be my bridesmaid? Originally I chose my second sister, but she is younger and not as knowledgeable as you." Wearing a hijab, you need someone to support and guide you to move easily.The daughter of a rich family is married, and there are a lot of maids and wives in the family. Naturally, the errands are handled by the confidantes. The small family can't afford the maids, so they can only find a good sister to play guest roles, commonly known as "bridesmaids" .

The bridesmaids have to accompany the bride through a series of procedures such as welcoming the bride and worshiping at the church. It is inevitable that outside men will peek at her appearance. Therefore, any sophisticated family is not willing to let their daughters be bridesmaids.A very well-known local squire once said: "Although the bridesmaids have excusable circumstances, they will finally show their faces."

Axiang's younger sister, Axiu, was also unwilling.According to the shopkeeper's wife, she has had five or six scenes, which almost wiped out the sisterhood of more than ten years.Ah Xiang had no choice but to entrust me instead, fearing that I would regret it, she went to the pawn shop to borrow a whole set of bridesmaid outfits, and kept praising me for being beautiful.

The shopkeeper's lady smiled and saw her teeth but couldn't see her eyes: "Well, Ah Xiang's husband and elder, there are many unmarried brothers and cousins, no matter which one, as long as there is one who likes Nanshuang, Ah Xiang will accumulate great merit. !"

I couldn't laugh or cry: "Niu Dalang and Ah Xiang are the same age, only sixteen this year, and the oldest of his younger brothers is only thirteen, he is ten years younger than me, how can we kiss?"

"Then he still has uncles and nephews." The shopkeeper's wife was so enthusiastic about messing up the mandarin ducks, she made another plan if she failed, "Sister-in-law, brother-in-law, the Niu family has a large population, and the generations are chaotic, and the nephew who is older than Niu Dalang is also a big brother." It’s not that there is no one, after I help you to inquire carefully, there may be a suitable one!”

What I am most afraid of is the enthusiastic aunt who does bad things with good intentions!I didn't dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly sacrificed Liu Xi, as if I was facing a big enemy: "It's fine that I didn't find my brother before, but now that I know his whereabouts, he must always settle the marriage. How can I make a private decision with others?" The truth of life?" If Liu Xi knows that you sold me at a discount like selling unsalable goods, no matter whether you succeed or not in the end, he will credit all the people I lost to your account.

"That's true, but you have to grow up yourself!" The shopkeeper lady frowned like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and yelled loudly as she pulled my ear, "Your brother is a soldier, right? Let me tell you, If you let him decide your marriage, ten times out of ten you will have to marry a big soldier! People in the army are traveling around, living in no fixed place, and there are very few girls who are willing to commit themselves to marrying. Many soldiers survived until their early thirties She was still an old bachelor, and gradually formed the custom of marrying sisters in the same robe. Although a girl like you is a bit older, it is probably cheaper to come to your brother..." She revealed a "you Got it" expression.

"No." You're overthinking it!I covered my ears with tears in my eyes, "My brother loves me very much, even if he marries a sergeant, he will definitely choose a good one for me." Once my identity was exposed, Cao Pi had to come out and jump around.He is not weak in force and intelligence, even if it is just to withstand Wei Gaozu's hatred of taking his wife, Liu Xi has to find me someone who is brave and capable, otherwise he will be tortured to death by Cao Cao and Cao Pi's father and son. You have to discuss a second marriage under the title of widow.

The reasoning is very simple, but unfortunately the shopkeeper's wife didn't know it, and insisted that I had to settle the marriage in Nanyang before I went to Xinye, otherwise I would be a sheep.She has a lot of experience in this matter: "Military households get married late, and your brother may not even marry you a sister-in-law, let alone help you. Take two pairs of candles from the dorm, put the two quilts together and you will be married, so careless, are you willing?"

According to her thinking, the only way out for me is to kill first and play later. When the raw rice is cooked, even if my parents crawl out from the ground, they will have nothing to do with me.

This is really - simple violence.

"There may be a war in Xinye at any time." Ah Xiang also looked worried, "Although King Pingan is the youngest son of the late emperor, he is very powerful, but I heard that he has [-] soldiers under his command. How can he defeat the Cao family's army? If he loses , your brother and his robes will suffer accordingly."

Serving as a soldier in troubled times is not only the quickest way to advance, but also the easiest way to die as cannon fodder.The sergeants followed the army to fight in the north and south, life and death were on the line, and only a few were able to succeed in the end. Most of them lacked both ability and luck. They could only struggle to survive, and rarely returned home. , and it is very likely that he lost his life in a daze.Therefore, there has long been a jingle among the people that "marry a man, don't marry a military man, marry a military man and keep an empty house.", admonishing women to cherish their youth and stay away from military households.

The lady in charge of the shopkeeper taught me earnestly in the tone of a person who has experienced it: "The married man must marry an honest and good man, or farm, or run some small business, that is the foundation of a good life." Her marriage to the shopkeeper is quite I am happy, so I compare my heart to my heart, and hope that I can obtain happiness by following her model.

But she forgot that in troubled times, there are not only military disasters, but bandits as well.When encountering unreasonable robbers and soldiers, they can still take out their swords to protect themselves, but civilians who have no power to restrain chickens can only be slaughtered.

On the seventh day of May, just the day before Ah Xiang was happily waiting to become a bride, the shopkeeper and He Dacheng went to a neighboring county to sell alcohol. On the way back, they were robbed by bandits.

The shopkeeper's wife's sky has collapsed.