It was two more days and nights, and Mrs. Wan was so anxious that she couldn't even eat, but Xiaoqi was surprisingly calm. For some reason, she just felt that he could come back safely.

One morning in early March, as usual, Xiaoqi got up from the bed before dawn. After washing up briefly, he carried a lot of cotton yarn and cloth strips to the big pot room. He pumped a few wooden strips from the pile of firewood that was half a person high and put them on the bottom of the pot. He dunked the rag on the tung oil and threw them into the pile of wooden strips. As the firewood burned, a few light "splash" sounds were heard vaguely from a distance. His eyes were fixed at the door, and his breathing was held in his chest for a while. He listened to the sound of the horse's hooves gradually approaching, and the corners of his mouth were quietly bent-

She threw away the firewood stick in her hand, lifted the corner of her skirt, and ran out with a whimper. When she ran to the door, the sound of the war horses also came closer. Seeing that they were a team of generals who were withdrawing troops, she was afraid of blocking the road, so she quickly let her go to the wall and looked for familiar figures along the wall from front to back. No, no, no...

A few whimpers sounded behind her. Some of them came to look for someone like her. Some of them found someone, some of them cried on the man's legs, some of them found a horse, some of them fell to the point of being at a loss with the reins of the horse, and some of them couldn't give up. Xiaoqi was the one who was unwilling to give up. After looking back and forth several times, he still couldn't see anyone.

With a whimpering sound, I stood in the dawn in a dawn, looking at the vast Gobi Desert in the distance, and remained silent for a long time.

When I returned to the pot room, the water had already started. Looking at the fireworks at the bottom of the pot for a long time, I reached out and lifted the lid of the pot and poured the gauze from the basket into the pot. I picked up the bamboo tube beside me and stirred it vigorously. Every time I stirred it, my heart would feel more comfortable.

After she finished cooking all the gauze and draining it, her mood calmed down a little. She put the gauze into the basket, held it in her arms and took it to the hemp rope outside the yard, and hung it thinly. The breeze hit, and the astringent smell of dry grass and fresh spring buds blew on the gauze, like a banner when the army went to war.

The neighing of war horses came again from the distance, and they ran closer and closer. This time, she was no longer so hurrying, carefully, step by step, and held the wooden stakes for hanging clothes, looking into the distance-

As the sound of horse hooves approached, the corners of the lips were raised little by little, and the highest and tallest one was Wu/er/qing.

She didn't move forward any further, just stood there and looked at him.

He seemed to have no time to pay attention to her, and he raised his whip and arranged something to the group of people.

I pressed my back against the wooden stake behind me. After so many days, I finally felt tired and almost couldn't stand my legs.

He seemed to be leaving again soon, but before leaving, he still pulled his horse over.

Looking at the blood stained gray-black brush on his forehead, she recognized that it was just made on the day she left. She used up her purple thread and chose a black silk thread to hit the thread.

He didn't talk to her, but just pulled the horse rein to look at her. She smiled at him, raised her hand slightly, gently stroked the mane on Wu Er/Qing's neck. This time it did not avoid her anymore, but rubbed her face intimately with her arm.

"When you come back, I will give you sweet radish." She said to Wu Erqing.

Then, he left.

Not long after he left, the lieutenant of the wounded military station came to her and said that the general wanted him to send her back to the city as soon as possible. She knew her physical limit and nodded in agreement.

I returned to Li's house and soaked in the bathtub for a long time before I got into the quilt. I slept for a day and night...

In mid-March of the year of Guihai, Yangcheng was victorious. The Northern Protectorate resisted the encirclement of the six troops of the Northern Qi Dynasty at the cost of losing one-third of the newly built troops. The main force took advantage of the victory and pursued the border city of Qi. In late March, the border city was broken and the Zhou army entered.

*******

During this battle, all the Wu brothers participated. Yuan Ren and Jia Ji served in logistics. Although they worked hard, there was no danger. Only Jia Yin participated in the battle in the main force. They suffered considerable injuries on their legs. After capturing the border city, they were sent back to Yangcheng to recuperate early.

Xiaoqi brought a lot of medicinal herbs to visit Wu's house in person. He learned from Jiayin that someone was also injured, but it was not too serious. In addition, the responsibility on his shoulders was too great, so he naturally could not come back to recuperate like him.

Xiaoqi remembered it in his heart. When he got home, he started to prepare for the people below, hoping to take good care of him after he came back.

After entering April, the weather gradually warmed up, and the garden in the backyard was slowly occupied by green. While I was free, Xiaoqi asked someone to expand the original small pond in the backyard, which could be used as a scenery and water storage.

One day in mid-April, after following Mrs. Wan to comfort several families who died in battle, Xiaoqi hurriedly took a car back - he asked someone to send a message saying that he could get home in the evening.

After hearing this news, Li Zhai was even happier than during the Chinese New Year. The male host finally came back and returned in triumph!

"Let Qinglian prepare the bath water first." Xiaoqi was dressing up in front of the mirror while explaining the red fu outside.

"It's ready, I'm cooking tea in the kitchen now." Hongfu was cooking dishes on the table.

"Don't cook the winter day today. The weather is hot and I'm so dry that I'm drinking. Didn't I just get two boxes of bamboo leaf green from Tongli (Wu's house) the day before yesterday? I asked Qinglian to cook some mountain spring water to soak it." After picking from the makeup box for a long time, I finally picked out a black hairpin with only a thumb-sized coral bead on the top. This is a gift from Li's house in the capital to celebrate his great military achievements. "Also, remember not to put wolfberry in the soup." While wearing hair in front of the mirror, I reminded the outside room. After saying that, I didn't hear the echo outside. I turned to look, but found that he was standing at the door of the inner room, stunned, "Didn't you say you want to go to the yamen first? You'll go back so soon?" I stood up and greeted him, but was hugged by him.

"Someone?" He pushed him, and his face was flushed.

He raised his hand to pull off the curtain, and now he can't see it, right? He thought of her on the way back, and when he entered the door, he saw her delicate and sweet look, and he couldn't help it.

"You're so dirty, wash it off first." The body smelled, and the face rubbed against her.

I took a look at my clothes and it was really dirty, "Go with me."

"..." He couldn't resist him and nodded in his arms with a red face.

He pulled open the screen and helped him take off his clothes. He didn't feel shy at first, and he had seen him naked before, but he kept staring at her, and he felt a little embarrassed as he looked - she was a little scheming in dressing today, but it was not that obvious. The main reason was that he didn't want him to feel that he was deliberately dressing up to welcome him. He felt very open-minded. The longer he stared at him, the more he felt more distressed. She really didn't want to make the relationship between the two so awkward.

For Li Chu, he didn't notice any difference in her dressing, but was just happy. Last time, when the wounded soldier saw her, he was really surprised. In the past, he despised his wives and concubines who came to visit her cry and cry. It was very annoying. When he saw her, he was not annoyed, but was surprised. He never thought that one day someone would stand in front of his horse and told him to wait for him to come back. When he went to the battlefield, he never liked to leave concerns. However, Wan Mujun said that having concerns is a good thing, and the chance of survival is higher. Now that I think about it, this is not entirely wrong.

When I was outside, I didn't think I was thinking about anyone until I saw the lantern on the gate of Yangcheng City. A picture suddenly appeared in front of me, which was the scene of her standing in front of the hanging flower gate when she was in the capital that year. From this scene, he thought about what she was doing, was she waiting for him at home? Sure enough, she was waiting for him.

He didn't have much experience with getting along with women, and the only way he thought was to do the things he had in bed seriously. It happened that he liked it too.

The sound of water clattering in the room gradually stopped.

Outer room—

Qinglian brought the teapot in and looked into the inner room. When she saw Hongfu covering the soup bowl, she didn't know why, "What should I do if I cover it?" Such a hot soup cannot be dried before I can eat it?

Hongfu quickly pulled her out, closed the door casually, walked straight into the kitchen, and said, "Look, there's still a while to wait for dinner."

Qinglian shrugged her eyebrows, and she knew what was going on. She would have been embarrassed when she ran into them before, but now she doesn’t blame her for seeing them too much. “This morning, Mother Lin asked me if she still took the medicine.” The lady said before that she had some shortcomings and often took pills.

Hongfu thought, "I haven't eaten it for a while. I've used almost all the things I brought from Beijing in front of me. What did she do?"

"What else can I do? Isn't the general back now? Maybe I'm afraid that if my wife is pregnant, taking medicine will hurt her fetal aura." Mother Lin was specially sent by the nanny to serve her. She must ask about such a big thing.

"It's said that after entering the door for so long, it should have it. If not, I'm afraid that the old house will ask about it." Hongfu sighed.

"The general has been out for several months. It is rare for a few days to be at home. My wife is still sick at that moment. She doesn't have a chance. This time, I finally have peace in the north. The general should be able to stay at home for more days." According to this struggle, I am afraid that I can't even think there is no news.

As the two were talking, Lin’s mother knocked on the door outside, “Where are the two girls talking?”

Hongfu quickly stood up and called her into the door, "Why is mom here?"

"Our servant asked me to ask when will the general be able to eat well? There is still something to ask him before." Mother Lin said.

Qinglian whispered to the main room, "I'm afraid some have waited." Unfortunately, the soup she had been boiled for an afternoon, and it would be savory when it was cold and hot again.

Mother Lin looked at the main room through the window. Xinming was about to be in trouble. She pursed her lips and smiled, "I hope they will have news earlier, which is our credit. It is also our best to explain to the nanny when I go back. You don't know that you have to ask about this when you send a letter to the capital in these two times." I don't know how to reply.

"Why are you so anxious over there?" Hongfu grabbed a handful of melon seeds and handed them to Lin's mother.

Lin's mother took the melon seeds, "Aunt Fan of the East Mansion gave birth to another brother. The Mei family was anxious and stared at Qin Chuan's eldest wife, wanting our general to marry his girl. Now that the general has made such a great contribution, are they not more anxious?" He ate a melon seed, spit the skin into his hand, and threw it into the bottom of the stove. "If my wife has a letter, she can also beat them up."

"No matter how many brothers Fan gave birth to, he was still a concubine. Why is the Mei family so anxious to do?" Hongfu couldn't understand this.

Lin's mother smiled, "You are not from this family, so naturally I don't know. Our Qinchuan Li family has ancestors from the illegitimate family. When there was Dayue Kingdom, the ancestor swept the vassal states, with only two sons under his knees, and the one who took over the throne was the illegitimate son. Later, he was defeated. The son of the illegitimate son was taken back to the Qinchuan position in the chaos army, so compared with the Mo family and the Wei family, the division of legitimate sons is not so strict."

"But the legitimate and illegitimate unclear, will the family be in chaos?" Qinglian said in surprise.

"Hey, the Li family in Qinchuan has always been in chaos, but their descendants are also motivated. Over the past hundred years, the Central Plains have been in chaos. Whenever it is out of control, our Qinchuan can always produce a big shot to deal with the troublemakers." Mother Lin said proudly.

"This Li family is really weird." Qinglian shook her head, then thought of Xiaoqi, "I heard from my mother that, if our wife has a male child in the future, wouldn't she have the chance to inherit the family business?"

Mother Lin didn't comment, because she couldn't be sure, "It's better than nothing."

The two girls nodded.

As they were talking, the door on the main house opened, and the three of them quickly packed up their things and did whatever they should do.

*******

When Lin's mother entered the door, Li Chu was the only one who was eating at the table. Xiao Qi was changing clothes in the inner room. His body was soaked by him. How could he see anyone else?

"General, Qin Chuan and Beijing have sent a lot of gifts in front of us. Please come and have time to take a look at the door of our family." Mother Lin rushed to the table and was slightly blessed.

"Nothing important, let him clean up and leave it to her." He signaled the direction of the inner room, obviously he wanted to leave it to Xiaoqi to keep it.

"It's easy to deal with anything else, but the courtesy in the Mei Mansion is too heavy, I don't know if it should be accepted." Mother Lin was quite embarrassed.

When Li Chu paused his chopsticks when he heard the word "Mei Mansion", he seemed unhappy, "I have nothing to do with the Mei family, let them take the things back." The eldest brother sold their face, there was nothing he could do, he had nothing to do with them.

"..." Lin's mother was a little embarrassed. The Mei family was not easy to bother. Her family had just become a manager. She said something lightly, but she couldn't ignore it.

"Mom, let's rest first, I'll let him go later." Xiaoqi picked up the curtain and came out of the inner room, helping Lin's mother to relieve the situation.

Seeing that the male owner did not refute, Lin's mother quickly retracted and asked in thought, how did this little lady change her sex today? She actually started to take the initiative to manage the matter.

Xiaoqi sat at the table with his skirt lifted up and reached out to serve soup for him, "Manager Lin just came up, so the Mei family was reluctant to listen to his assignment, for fear that he would make trouble in front of him again, so it would be bad for outsiders to see him." There were many people coming to give gifts in the front yard, and there were many people.

Li Chu chewed a few bites of the dishes, put down his chopsticks and took the soup in her hand, and said impatiently, "It's not enough to make a fuss in Qinchuan, so I ran to Yangcheng to look for me in a ugly way."

"The Mei family is so decent in Qinchuan, and the elder brother has to take care of it. Moreover, if you show such a big face again this time, it will definitely make people even more concerned. If you refuse in a hurry and turn around, they will complain to the uncle, which will make it difficult for the uncle to be a good person." Li He's father, his uncle, heard that he was in poor health and was not in charge of the matter, but he was Qin Chuan's future heir, and it was difficult to push the matter over and make it difficult for him to make it difficult.

"I want to be a sister to that Mei family?" Hearing her words, it seemed that he wanted to marry Mei's daughter.

"Didn't you say that you have the final say in this family? You can marry naturally if you want to." If you don't want to, don't marry.

When he raised his eyebrows, he always felt that this girl had suddenly changed, with a bit of cunning in his eyes, "I'll go over and take a look." Today is different. He is not the time when he married Wu Shaojun. What Qin Chuan wanted him to do, he had to discuss it. He couldn't just arrange it without saying a word.

"Didn't you just say that you will go to the yamen to talk to Lord Wan and the others later? You just happened to bring me a letter to Mrs. Wan." I just received a letter from the capital in the afternoon. The nanny had already found two mothers from the Imperial Village. More than ten heavenly people arrived, so I had to ask Wan Mansion to prepare in advance.

He drank all the soup from the bowl in one mouthful and spread his hands in front of her.

Xiaoqi quickly went to get the letter to him and tidy up his clothes by the way.

"You go to bed first at night, I may have to come back later." After the war was over, it was time to share military achievements and responsibilities, and the chat time would not be short.

Seeing the male owner leave the yard, Hongfu took a dry cloth towel to wipe Xiaoqi's hair - I don't know who was taking a shower, both of them were wet.

"If my wife can't eat it, I'll go and cook the porridge, right?" Seeing her holding the chopsticks but not picking up the food, Hongfu thought she thought the food was not good.

Xiaoqi was actually just thinking about it, "No, there are so many dishes, it would be a pity not to eat." He picked up a chopstick and sent it to the import, chewed it slowly, and said to the person behind him, "In a moment, you go to the warehouse to get the two pieces of jade that Lin Manager brought from the mine."

"Okay." Those two pieces of jade are rare and good materials. Didn't my wife say that she should not break it easily? Why did she take it out in a few days?

"..." Xiao Qi was eating the dishes without hesitation, but his mood was a little messy. He had already finished the medicine. With his energy, his stomach would probably be bulging sooner or later, and he had to start taking some things seriously.

Fortunately, they seemed to slowly let go of their guards.
Chapter completed!