Chapter 240 Lazy New Year
Because Pei Kang was in Tangliyuan, Shao Xun did not dare to be presumptuous. After talking about the business, he left unhappy.
Princess Lu of Fan Yang rode a carriage and walked with him for a while.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Shao Xun always felt that this woman was secretly looking at him.
When passing by the gate of Liuhuayuan, he asked his soldiers to help carry some household items inside.
There were also soldiers guarding Liuhuayuan. When they saw the famous Marquis of Luyang arriving, they all knelt on the ground with a huff.
A few people even trembled a little, as if they were afraid of something.
"What are you afraid of?" Shao Xun tapped one of them on the back with a riding crop and asked.
"Your Majesty..." This man seemed to be unable to handle the situation, his face turned pale.
Shao Xun glanced at Lu, who nodded slightly.
"Pull him down for torture." Shao Xun waved his hand, and the soldiers swarmed up and pulled the man down.
The other guards unsheathed their swords and strung their bows, staring intently at the other guards.
Some soldiers looked calm and fearless.
Some of the soldiers even looked happy and looked at the others hatefully.
Other people looked unnatural.
Shao Xun thought for a while, walked into the courtyard and sat for a while.
Ms. Lu was stunned for a while, and then quickly understood. After asking Shao Xun about his taste preferences, he personally cooked a pot of tea and poured it for him.
Shao Xun was not polite, picked up the tea bowl, and drank leisurely.
The servants in the mansion were silent and watched quietly.
After quietly drinking a bowl of tea, Tang Jian came over and reported something softly.
The matter is actually nothing, just a collusion between servants and soldiers in the mansion. For the time being, they don't have much courage and can only spend a little money, but who knows in the future?
"Make me water biscuits next time." Shao Xun stood up and left.
"Yes." Lu responded softly with a slightly red face.
The servants lowered their heads even more.
The large group of people left quickly, leaving with them more than ten guards and servants from Liuhuayuan.
Standing at the entrance of the courtyard, Mrs. Lu looked at Shao Xun's disappearing back and sighed silently.
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When passing by Guangcheng Palace, Shao Xun did not pause and went directly back to Green Willow Garden.
He is a little tired now.
It turns out that it is so tiring to deal with several women!
He simply couldn't imagine it if there were dozens of women or even three thousand beauties.
Perhaps, in the end, he will be like Sima Yan, riding a sheep cart. Wherever the sheep pulling the cart went, they would spend the night at the concubine's house that day, and the allusion of "sheep carts look good" was left behind.
Fortunately, he pulled back from the brink and did not provoke Lu again.
It was already the 25th when we returned to Green Willow Garden, and the Chinese New Year was only five days away.
When he sat comfortably on the recliner, listening to Lan Ji's soft voice, his mother's nagging with concern in her complaints, and her son's mouthful of "babble", he felt more relaxed.
If anyone calls him to go to war at this time, he will definitely fall out!
"Xiao Chong, how many months a year do you have to go on an expedition now?" Mother Liu asked while sewing clothes for her eldest grandson.
"It will always take three to five months, maybe half a year." Shao Xun closed his eyes and fell asleep, enjoying the massage of Song Yi's soft little hands, and said: "In the future, the days of the expedition will be longer and longer. More and more are coming."
Mr. Liu hesitated, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Can you tell Wang Situ that there is no second person in the court who can fight? One trip and not allowed to return home for half a year. If it is okay for one or two years, will the war be endless?"
Father Shao coughed on the side and began to make a speech: "Wang Situ? He is a famous person in the world. He summoned Xiaochong to go to war. If he disobeys him, it may be detrimental to Xiaochong's career. "
Le Lanji had a smile in her eyes, and she almost lost her rhythm when beating her legs for Shao Xun.
"Wang Situ?" Shao Xun stroked Song Yi's pretty face and said, "Mom, don't worry, Wang Situ doesn't have that much respect with me. In fact, when I lead my troops to go to war, It's voluntary. If the Huns attack Luoyang next year, even if the court does not issue an order, I will lead the troops north to resist the enemy without any benefit."
Shao's father was speechless.
Liu subconsciously ignored the previous words, focused on the key points, and asked: "The Huns are going south?"
"We are inseparable." Shao Xun said: "Liu Yuanhai and the others After Yue is working hard to reorganize Pingyang and Hedong counties, sort out the internal affairs, and save money and food, he will probably go south. There are always more than 100,000 troops and horses, and no less than 50,000 cavalry. "
Liu's army. I don't know what "50,000 cavalry" means, but there are just a lot of them anyway. When I heard my son's words, my heart was broken and my eyes were red.
Father Shao was also a little silent. After sighing, he went out to enjoy the cold wind.
He had participated in the Battle of Pingwu when he was young and knew what fifty thousand cavalry meant. Even if there is only 50,000 herdsmen Muzi, at least he can shoot arrows and kill people while riding on a horse, right? At least he runs fast, right? How do you respond if your food supply is intercepted?
This battle is very dangerous! There are tens of millions of elite soldiers. If one of them is not good, they may be drowned in these tides of barbarian soldiers.
"Liu Yuanhai is really..." Mrs. Liu put down her clothes, feeling a little annoyed.
"Liu Yuan, courtesy name Yuan Hai." Shao Xun corrected.
"Liu Haiyuan..." "Liu Yuan, whose courtesy name is Yuan Hai." Shao Xun corrected him again.
Ms. Liu glared at him and said angrily: "Have you had lunch?"
"Yes, gravy soup cake." Shao Xun replied casually. road.
"I must not be full." Ms. Liu went out and prepared snacks for her son.
Le Lanji's hand stopped and asked: "There are still soup cakes in the army?"
"When passing by Tangliyuan, Princess Donghai took pity on me as a general of the Yue family. The expedition was long and hard, so he made soup cakes with his own hands and invited me to enjoy them." Shao Xun looked into Le Lanji's eyes and said.
Lan Ji was a little surprised at first, and then realized that the man was lying to him. She smiled and said, "You are so beautiful!"
"Forget it if you don't believe it." Shao Xun said with a smile.
"Princess Donghai is dignified and elegant, and she is your mistress. How can a mistress cook for her subjects with her own hands?" Lan Ji rolled her eyes at him and continued to beat her legs.
Shao Xun smiled and stopped arguing.
Not only Princess Donghai, but also my sister-in-law and sister-in-law cook together. If it weren’t for Lao Pei’s light bulb, who knows if I would have gone home tonight.
No one believes the truth! In the next two days, I'll go to the Sheep Queen's place to drink japonica rice porridge to make up for my lost mood.
However, this is really tiring.
Riding horses, bending bows and fighting hundreds of times, fighting life and death, covered with wounds... In the end, they are not fighting for their lives for these women's children.
Live for X, die for X, and work hard for X all your life.
Oh, man!
Mother Liu brought a bowl of japonica rice porridge and sour and crisp pickles, which were very delicious together. Shao Xun finished them in a while.
Very good, you don’t have to go to Queen Sheep’s house.
After finishing his porridge, he strolled along the banks of Ru River.
It was almost New Year's Day, and the countryside was deserted.
Far and near, there are smoked villages and cottages everywhere.
The number of people in Liang County is increasing every year.
People's lives are not very wealthy, but they can at least survive and be reunited with their families, which is better than anything else.
Living for X and dying for X is just a joke. Even if this peaceful life is not broken by violence, it is worth it.
What am I here for? Of course it was to fuck Liu Yuanhai - no, Liu Haiyuan - neither, it was to bring peace to the world.
On the day before the Chinese New Year, Princess Lu of Fan Yang sent someone to send 500 coins and 1,000 pieces of silk as a "thank you gift".
Le Lanji accepted it calmly, and her eyes on Shao Xun became a little unpredictable.
Shao Xun was too lazy to explain and continued to lie at home.
This was his rare uninterrupted leisure time of the year.
Maybe even the Huns have to celebrate the New Year.
After these few days, it will be the third year of Yongjia (309), the time period in history when the Yongjia Rebellion really started.
From then on, the defense battles of Luoyang were fought one after another for nearly two years. In the end, Luoyang fell when the food road was cut off, internal fighting between the monarch and his ministers continued, and Sima Yue lost confidence and fled with his troops.
Can Luoyang really not be defended? not necessarily.
Will Luoyang be destroyed? inevitable.
This is a huge crisis, but also an excellent opportunity.
Whether it can rise depends on this wave.
A few days later, the New Year arrives.
Heavy snow falls in the sky, bringing a strong flavor of the New Year to Yongjia for the third year.
After spending the fifteenth day of the first lunar month with his family, Shao Xun went to the countryside with his soldiers, visited the families of the soldiers one by one, and gave them a gift.
This is an annual repertoire. The cost is not high and the effect is excellent.
I was busy like this until February, and I began to meet waves of people from Yingchuan and Henan counties to blend interests and was very busy.
In fact, as Pei Kang said, the Yingchuan family, including the Chen family, the Zhong family, the Yu family, and even the Xun family, all donated large sums of money and food, and their attitude was very obvious.
Shao Xun knew that this was a contract.
I will help you as an official and take care of the rear, provide you with money and food, and you will provide security and protection, mutual benefit and mutual cooperation.
This is the current situation in troubled times and the philosophy of survival in troubled times.
After all this work, mid-spring came unexpectedly in March. It was at this time that Chu Hui, a large farmer, came to report that the rain this spring seemed to be less than in previous years.
Shao Xun's heart skipped a beat, what was supposed to come finally came.
In the last years of the dynasty, how could we avoid floods, droughts, and locust bandits?
He immediately rushed to Guangchengze, his largest agricultural and animal husbandry base.
(End of this chapter)