Chapter 3 He Cao (Part 1) The air is filled with the strong smell of herbal medicine, mixed with a hint of sweetness. This is the fragrance of borneol and mint mixed together. Li Xu likes this medicinal fragrance very much. When he was in his hometown in Yixian County, he would eat it every day.
When he caught a cold, his mother asked the doctor in the county to buy some herbal medicine and boil it in a black old casserole that could not be seen for how many years. At the same time, Aunt Zhong would stew a pot of chicken soup on the stove.
After he drank the herbal medicine, he used it to increase the potency. In the end, I don't know whether it was the chicken soup or the effectiveness of the herbal medicine. Anyway, he always got better and went to school as energetic as before he fell ill.
Li Xu turned over on the bed, not wanting to move. After applying the medicine, he could no longer feel the burns on his hands and feet. The few blisters on the edge of his ears did not make him uncomfortable. He couldn't see anyone. He just missed this.
The warmth in the room made him unwilling to go out and accept those envious or admiring looks. Compared with the illusory hero with both wisdom and courage the night before yesterday, he preferred the slightly sunny boy from Yi County in his hometown.
"When you wake up, get up and take a spin. The brothers are all waiting to give you a drink to celebrate!" Liu Hongji poked his big head from the bed and said angrily that his nostrils were a little blocked, obviously from the fierce battle the night before.
It's windy and cold, but compared to the temptation of wine, this bit of windchill is really insignificant.
"Ah--" Li Xu stretched out for a long time and reached out to hold the edge of the bed, which was separated by a thick layer of linen. His hand covered with ointment was immediately hurt by the touch. He cracked his mouth and struggled to sit up straight.
He turned around and saw Liu Hongji standing next to his bed with a smile. Beside him, there was a beautiful girl with a faint smile.
"Second, Second Miss, why are you here!" Li Xu was startled and quickly stretched out his feet to find his boots. He didn't have the courage to be honest with his father, so it was too degrading to stretch and yawn in front of Tang Gong's daughter.
"My father went to the military camp to comfort the soldiers, so I followed him secretly." Li Waner stuck out her tongue and made a funny face. The dignified atmosphere she had always deliberately maintained disappeared and was replaced by the image of a naughty little girl.
Li Xu was stunned, and then he noticed that the other party was wearing a military uniform and a pair of ridiculously big boots. It was obvious that she had sneaked in disguised as a soldier.
"You'd better not run around. There's been a lot of chaos outside recently!" Li Xu thought for a while and whispered that something was lingering in his heart, but he didn't know whether he should tell Li Yuan that night when he led the team to fight the fire.
There was once a soldier who tried to prevent the Tiger Wing Brigade from approaching Tang Gong's mansion. If he hadn't listened to Li Liang's suggestion and rushed over, I'm afraid Tang Gong's family would not have been able to escape the murderous attackers.
"I'm not afraid, you will protect me anyway! There are rumors outside that you killed more than twenty men in black in one battle, defeated two thousand enemies with fifty cavalry, and killed the Koreans to death!" Li Waner!
He replied with a smile, his eyes roaming up and down Li Xu's body, as if he was thinking about how this silly boy in front of him seemed to have the ability to compete with ten.
"That's what they said!" Li Xu felt a little embarrassed when she saw him, and took advantage of the opportunity to put on his boots and lowered his head. The night before last, he had killed at most five men in black, but he was exaggerated to twenty and besieged.
The total number of men in black in Li Yuan's residence will not exceed three hundred, and it is impossible to reach two thousand. Otherwise, the only ones who will be defeated are the Tiger Wing Brigade. But it is useless for him to say these words. He has just experienced an attack. Huaiyuan
The town needs a great hero to calm people's hearts, and he is the one who has made great contributions to the Tang government.
"I don't care if you spread lies or not, you have to protect me anyway!" Li Waner looked at Li Xu with smiling eyes, emphasized loudly, then squatted down uneasily, looked up and stared into Li Xu's eyes and asked
Said: "Brother Zhongjian, you will protect me, right?"
Li Xu's body trembled slightly, and in an instant, he felt like something had stabbed his heart. It was painful, dull, and indescribably sad. There was once a girl who treated each other so tenderly, but in her final moments,
When I need protection, I have to choose to leave this pain. There is no need to recall it. As long as it is touched slightly, it will spread throughout the body in an instant.
"Brother Zhongjian, you will protect me, right?" Li Waner didn't know what was going on and was still asking persistently.
"Yes, yes, all of us will protect Miss Er!" Liu Hongji saw that Li Xu's neck was already red from being questioned, and he smiled and stepped forward to save his brother from trouble.
"Who needs you? I'm not a military ration!" Li Waner gave Liu Hongji an ungrateful look, stood up, and Shi Shiran walked out. The moment he opened the door, the cold wind blew in and thousands of rays of sunshine came in.
"You little girl, you are becoming more and more uneducated!" Liu Hongji pretended to be angry and cursed like a big brother. He looked at Li Waner's back and walked away. He turned his head and urged with a smile: "Have you finished wearing it? Don't wear it."
Ziying, who is dawdling, has set up a drink in the city, waiting to thank you for your life-saving grace!"
"Life-saving grace?" Li Xu asked confusedly. He didn't even remember when he had fought side by side with Qin Ziying, let alone saved the other party's life.
"It was your cavalry who saved him, so the credit goes to your brigade leader!" Liu Hongji patted Li Xu on the shoulder and explained in a low voice.
It turned out that after repelling the first wave of attacks on the grain depot by the men in black, Qin Ziying suddenly remembered the woman he had placed in the city, so he said hello to Liu Hongji and rushed out of the camp at all costs.
He met several men in black in front of the yard, and was chopped down in a hurry. Fortunately, Li Liang arrived in time with fifty cavalry, and he was able to snatch his life away from the men in black.
"Have our brothers suffered much loss?" After listening to Liu Hongji's words, Li Xu asked with a wry smile. Since repelling the man in black the night before yesterday, inexplicable achievements have hit him one after another. He was already dizzy from being hit.
, he doesn’t care about one or two more items
"You were right that day. The arsonist wanted to divert the tiger away from the mountain. After you left, five waves of people tried to attack the grain depot. The brothers tried their best to kill them back. We killed more than forty people and injured more than a hundred people.
"More than thirty corpses were left behind." Liu Hongji thought for a moment and concluded in a low voice, "The brothers you led were well trained. Only seven of them died in battle, but they overturned more than sixty of the enemy. When our food protection army suddenly encountered
In the case of an attack, a total of more than 100 enemies were wiped out, which can be considered an amazing victory."
"I met a soldier on the road. I don't know who his subordinate is!" Li Xu looked around and asked Liu Hongji in a low voice.
"I heard that a soldier surnamed Wang under Lord Yuwenshu died in battle, and his body was found outside the city." Liu Hongji looked around alertly and answered the question. "Last night, the Goguryeo people robbed food and assassinated Duke Tang. This has aroused my interest."
Fang Gong was angry that Zuo Tunwei General Xin Shixiong, Zuo Wuwei General Mai Tiezhang and Zuo Yiwei General Yu Wenshu had all sent troops to assist Xu Zi, we have survived this winter!"
His voice was very low, but he made the word Goguryeo very clear. Li Xu knew that no matter whether the men in black who besieged Li Yuan's mansion and the men in black who attacked the granary were the same group, this confusion would still be accounted for.
Goguryeo had been following Liu Hongji for such a long time, and he had gradually gained some understanding of human affairs. He smiled and cursed in a low voice: "Damn Goguryeo people, they actually got so many spies into the city!"
"Yeah, damn Goguryeo!" Liu Hongji scolded and shook his head, his words full of disdain for the enemy's insidious behavior.
Huaiyuan Town originally had a small native population, but after being so disturbed by the Goguryeo people, the market immediately became more depressed. It was almost the Chinese New Year, and there were no small businessmen selling window stickers and pop-up lanterns. Both sides of the streets were empty, with only a few shops.
The house was so burnt that it shivered in the cold wind. Whenever the wind was strong, the broken walls made a whining sound, expressing their protest against the arsonists in their own unique way.
The private house that Qin Ziying secretly purchased is located in the center of the city. Compared with the surrounding desolate environment, it can be regarded as a busy place.
All the brothers who can talk about it are here. Everyone has experienced a turmoil, and they all have the feeling of surviving the catastrophe. They are closer to each other, and they speak more unscrupulously.
"I didn't expect that Brother Ziying would be so brave. He could pick off seven or eight strong men with a horizontal sword. Zhao Zilong was no better than Zhao Zilong on the Changban Slope!" Wang Yuantong laughed loudly after three drinks.
"The person Zhao Zilong is holding is Adou, but he is not as energetic as our General Qin!" Captain Li Liang joked with a smile, "When we came, tsk tsk, you didn't see it. The two of them were leaning on each other, determined to live together.
Dead together!"
Qin Ziying's face turned red from the laughter of his companions, so he tried his best to persuade him to drink, but everyone refused to appreciate it. They coaxed together: "Since my brothers and sisters are not even afraid of the Goguryeo people, why don't we brothers come out and see each other so that we can criticize them for a while?
Baby’s eyes!”
"Brothers, brothers, Mei'er, she, she, she is afraid..." Qin Ziying is not usually very articulate, but after being coaxed by everyone, her speech became even less clear and she stuttered, and blood rushed to the root of her neck.
"If you don't care about the scimitar in front of you, how can you be afraid during the banquet?" Wang Yuantong wrote a poem that was not as good as the donkey's lip but not the horse's mouth, and said with a smile.
After hearing this, the crowd became more and more noisy. Qin Ziying was so troubled by the crowd that he had no choice but to go to the back hall to ask his fiancée for advice. However, the granddaughter of General He Ruobi was also generous and tidied up a little. She walked out with a pot of wine, gathered her skirt and gave him a gift.
, I would like to express my gratitude to all uncles for taking care of Ziying (note 1). The wine was poured into the cup, but the uncles and uncles who had just made a fuss more happily than the other blushed and drank the wine down one by one.
Blessing Qin Ziying and his wife incoherently
"You are the brothers of the son and the baby, and the brothers who have become concubines meet each other in a hurry, and there is no respect. You should help the wine with the sound of the harp to express your feelings!" Miss Hejia gathered her clothes, saluted again, and walked behind the screen.
, with a wave of his hand, the whole room was filled with the sound of fighting and fighting.
Although most of the people were born into wealth, Xun Yi gained some pride after more than half a year of experience in the military camp. After listening to the sonorous and powerful sound of the piano, everyone was so excited that they regarded the food and wine on the table as enemies and swallowed it in big gulps.
"Ziying has good eyesight!" Liu Hongji patted the case and praised him.
"Miss He is a strange woman!" Li Xu echoed in a low voice. This is the third woman he has seen up close. Compared with Tao Kuo's pure innocence and Ayun's gentleness, Miss He's family is more considerate and considerate.
Although he knew that this woman had fallen into the world, he could not feel any contempt in his heart. Instead, he was full of envy for Qin Ziying.
Liu Hongji was not the only one who had the same thoughts as Li Xu. Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others also felt admiration. They all raised their cups and blessed their friends with a smile again.
"Zi Ying, I wish you a long life together." Wang Yuantong said with a big tongue. As soon as he put down the cup, he immediately added in a low voice, "If you see such a strange woman again next time, I will tell you. You know, the one in my family is better than
Come here..."
"Brother Wang, do you know what it means to have a chance but not to ask for it?" Qi Poning teased with a smile.
"I couldn't get what I asked for, and I couldn't sleep!" Wang Yuantong was so drunk that he poured out all the crooked poems. Everyone laughed, and toasted to the host again. Qin Ziying also had a bit of drunkenness on his face, and he held up his cup and drank with everyone one by one.
If he gets a wife like this, it's not in vain for him to pick up a knife and fight with others, Tao Taoran, he thought as if he was in the clouds
"It would be great if there was no war!" Li Xu listened to the clanging sound of the piano, but what he thought in his heart was completely inconsistent with the artistic conception of the sound. Unconsciously, he found that he yearned for Qin Ziying's life. There is someone who knows how to appreciate you.
Woman, isn’t this kind of life more free and comfortable than having a man who is worthy of you to draw a sword for her?
Staring with confused drunken eyes, he saw Qin Ziying's happy figure swaying in front of the wine tables.
"Is Ziying better than his parents?" Zhou Wenyuan asked in a low voice while raising a glass to drink with the host. He was born in the Zhou family in Longyou. He was a close neighbor of Qin Ziying, so he had no scruples in asking.
"Write, I've written the letter and I haven't heard back yet. I'll take her home and get married after the fight." The happy Qin Ziying replied incoherently.
"Oh!" Zhou Wenyuan didn't say much and silently drank up the rice wine in his glass. Li Xu inadvertently turned his head and saw a bit of worry in his eyes.
Behind the screen, the sound of the piano becomes more urgent, and the big and small strings sound like a violent storm.
Note 1: Uncle, an ancient honorific title for women to their husbands and brothers
