It was gray and very cold. The branches of the green pines that were transplanted were drooping, and they looked very unenergetic.

After Yuxi finished punching, he came out of the house while wiping his sweat, looked at the day and asked, "Did the general bring an umbrella when he went out?" Yunqing went to the barracks, and the Dingbei Army was now expanded to 50,000, and Yunqing spent half of his time in the barracks every day.

Zi Jin shook her head and said, "Yu Cong took the cloak and hat. "It's not realistic to ride a horse and hold an umbrella, but it's better to use a cloak and a hat. I didn't expect her wife to make such a common-sense mistake, and Zi Jin didn't tell Yuxi, so she was secretly happy in her heart.

Yuxi entered the house, waited for the sweat to dry, and then called for water to wash up, and then had breakfast. Seeing Yuxi drinking goat's milk sweetly, Zao Zao grabbed Yuxi's hand and said that she would drink it too.

Mother Lan watched Yuxi scoop a spoonful with a spoon and wanted to feed the jujubes to drink, and hurriedly said, "Madam, the eldest girl can't drink goat's milk yet." ”

As soon as these words fell, the goat's milk, which was originally intended to be sent to the mouth of the jujube, entered his mouth. After drinking this mouthful of goat's milk, Yuxi asked: "Jujube can drink rice cereal, why can't you drink goat's milk?"

Lan's mother said: "The child is too young, the stomach is delicate, and many things that are not easy to digest cannot be eaten. Things like rice cereal and vegetable juice are easy to digest, but goat's milk and cow's milk are not. This goat's milk or cow's milk is best drunk after the child reaches the age of three. ”

Yuxi nodded modestly and said, "This raising a child is really a profound knowledge. "It was also Mother Lan who took good care of the jujubes, which made Yuxi worry a lot.

Not long after, Xu Wu came in and said to Yuxi: "Madam, someone has brought it, just wait outside." ”

Yuxi asked Mother Lan to take the child out, and all the people in the house were sent out, leaving only Zi Jin, and then said, "Bring him in!"

After the others walked in, Yuxi glanced at the other party, the other party was very short, but his eyes were unusually fierce, and it made people scared when he saw it. Yuxi was secretly surprised in his heart and asked, "You used to look like this in the Xu family?"

The man shook his head and said, "No, it's easy to look like now, just like I am now, no one will know me even if I stand in front of the Xu family." "You can't change your height, but your appearance is different.

Yuxi has reservations about this answer, no matter how powerful the disguise technique is, it is only a partial change, where can it really change a person. But this question, it's better to ask Yunqing later: "What's your name?"

The man said: "When I was in the Xu family, the code name was Yingshanhong. When he heard Yuxi ask him his real name, the man shook his head and said, "In the eyes of the world, I have long been a dead man." ”

Yuxi did not express an opinion on this issue, but asked: "The general should have told you that he is going to sell a batch of supplies outside the customs in exchange for what we need." ”

Ying Shanhong asked, "What is Madam going to exchange for?"

Yuxi said, "Horses." There were only 5,000 horses in the 100,000-strong army of Yucheng, and these horse breeds were not very good. It would be great if you could get some good breeds of horses back. "The 5,000 horses that Yuxi said also include those horses that are too old to go to battle

Ying Shanhong shook her head and said, "You can exchange polished rice white flour or silk for fine horses, but the number will not be large. Too many words will arouse their suspicions. "Not to mention that it is impossible to change a lot of good horses, even ordinary horses cannot be changed a lot.

Yuxi frowned and said, "You can exchange as many as you can, if you can't exchange horses, try to change some things unique to the northern captives, such as sable fur and other things that are relatively rare in the interior." After these things are exchanged, they can be sold in prosperous places such as Jiangnan to sell them at a good price. ”

Ying Shanhong shook her head and said, "Madam, this is difficult. Even if there were valuable things like sables, they were all in the hands of those nobles. And the people who traded with us were ordinary herdsmen, and these people only had ordinary things such as cattle, sheep, horses, etc., and rare things were in the hands of the nobles. ”

Seeing that Yingshanhong was so familiar with the things in the northern captivity, she took the opportunity to ask a lot of questions. After chatting for a morning, Yuxi only learned a small part. Yuxi said: "You go back and write down everything you remember, and then give it to me to read, do you think it is feasible?" Let Yingshanhong write down what she knows, which is more conducive to her understanding of the northern captives. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

Ying Shanhong had no objection to this, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll write down what I've seen and heard over the years and give it to Mrs. when I go back." ”

Yuxi rubbed her shoulders and wanted to enter the study, but was stopped by Qu's mother. Mother Qu said, "Madam, no matter how busy you are, you have to finish your lunch and be busy." "Madame has no time to think when she is busy, and at this time, she has to be reminded by the people around her.

After lunch, Yuxi fed the dates and then walked into the study. Everyone thought that Yuxi would stay in the study for a long time, but they didn't expect her to come out a quarter of an hour later. Come out not to do anything else, but to prepare for a nap.

Mother Qu said: "Madame, this habit is very good. "Under normal circumstances, Yuxi sleeps for two quarters of an hour at noon every day.

After taking a nap, Yuxi didn't do anything else, but played with jujubes. This made Qu's mother a little incomprehensible, but Qu's mother also knew the rules, and this was not something she should ask.

Zi Jin hurriedly ran in, looked at Yuxi, who was amusing the jujubes, and said, "Madam, it's not good, Qin Cha was killed on the way back to Beijing." ”

Yuxi held Zaojube's hand for a pause, and then asked, "Who killed him, and where was he killed?" Qin Cha has been away for more than ten days, and according to the distance, it is only seven or eight hundred miles away from Xinping City.

Zi Jin said: "Madam, I was killed by a horse thief, and the place where I was killed was only two hundred miles away from Lancheng. Madam, I really didn't expect that these horse thieves would dare to kill them? Aren't they afraid that the imperial court will send troops to exterminate them?"

Yu Xixin said that this is the result she wants. However, the less people know about this, the better, Yuxi asked, "Except for Cao De, has everyone else escaped?" Of course, if you have a big life, you can still escape.

Zi Jin said: "There are more than a dozen escapes, but those who escape are all subordinates. All of those officials died, and none of them survived. After a pause, Zi Jin said, "Madam, I heard that these horse thieves hate officials the most, and most of them have been persecuted by officials. "However, even if he was persecuted, even Qin Cha dared to kill him, which was really an ambitious leopard.

Yuxi reacted very indifferently and said: "Qin Cha was killed by a horse thief, this is not something we should worry about, it is the prefect of Lancheng City that we should worry about." "Qin Cha had an accident in Lanzhou, and the first person to be held accountable by the imperial court must be the prefect of Lanzhou.

Zi Jin looked at Yuxi, who was affected at all, and felt as if she was too excited, and when she said it, she really couldn't hold her breath.

Yuxi said: "In a few days, the Qingming Hall should be opened, and the children in the Zhuangzi should also come back." Tomorrow you go on a trip to Zhuangzi and bring back girls over the age of eight. was also frightened by Mr. Xia's matter, and Yuxi decided to pick a group of people from these orphan girls to use. bought from outside or sent by Hanfu, Yuxi is not at ease.

Knowing Yuxi's concerns, Zi Jin said, "Madam, you don't have to choose all orphan girls. The other children, like Jingbai, are good. There are also two other girls who are very good, and if Madame does not object, I would like to take them as apprentices. ”

Yuxi laughed and said, "You really have a big appetite? After a pause, Yuxi said: "I have no objection to you accepting apprentices, but this matter has to be agreed by your Master Yang." "These children are all good children. It's just that she is a layman in martial arts, and Master Yang is a master in this area, Yuxi feels that she should listen to Master Yang's opinion. After all, accepting apprentices is not a trivial matter, and you have to be cautious.

Speaking of Master Yang and Yu Zhi, Zi Jin was unhappy: "Now that he is busy in the mansion, he still has the leisure to take Yu Zhi to visit friends." I haven't seen anyone for more than ten days, and I don't know when I'll come back. ”

Yuxi smiled: "When it's time to come back, I'll naturally come back." By the way, you can go to the Salesian Home and bring back the child named Wei Meiyun when the time comes, and the child is also very good. Yuxi was particularly impressed by the child, so he wanted to bring the child into the mansion to cultivate him.

In the evening, Yunqing came back from outside, his face was very ugly. Yuxi stepped forward, took the cloak that Yunqing had untied, put it on the hanger, and asked, "Why is your face so ugly?

Yun Qing was extremely annoyed and said, "These bandits and horse thieves are becoming more and more rampant, and they even dare to kill Qin Cha?" He didn't have a good impression of Cao De, but the horse thieves were so arrogant that it really annoyed him.

Yuxi said: "I heard that there are a lot of horse thieves and bandits in Lanzhou, and the Lanzhou prefect is not good for suppressing bandits, and bandits have become a pity." "In fact, the bandits in Shanxi, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces are particularly powerful.

Yun Qing said with a cold face: "Not only Lanzhou, but the entire northwest is rampant with bandits. "What makes Yunqing the most angry is that the imperial court does not order him to suppress the bandits. If he is ordered to send troops, it will not take half a year, and he will definitely be able to kill the bandits and horse thieves in the northwest without leaving a piece of armor.

Yuxi shook his head and said, "These bandits and horse thieves, you can't kill them cleanly." Seeing Yunqing's big eyes, Yuxi said: "Among these bandits and horse thieves, there are many extremely vicious, but most of them are forced to go up the mountain to be coughts. If you can eat and dress warmly, and live a peaceful life with your wife, who wants to be a bandit and horse thief. Speaking of which, the court is still incompetent, and the officials are corrupt, so that the people have no way to live. "If you fall into the grass, you can still live, otherwise there is only one way to die.

Yun Qing was silent for a moment and then said, "But you still have to kill." What this means is that if the court asks him to send troops, he will not show mercy.

Yuxi said: "The bandits and horse thieves who kill innocents indiscriminately must naturally be exterminated, but if you encounter those bandits who have principles and do not kill innocents indiscriminately, you can let one horse go!"

Yunqing did not promise Yuxi. Regardless of whether these people were forced or not, since they chose to fall into the grass, they should bear the consequences of being exterminated.

Yuxi didn't argue with Yun Qing either, and said, "Wait until the imperial court gives you an order!" Even if the imperial court is determined to suppress the bandits, it will definitely be Ji Xuan who will take the lead. Only when Ji Xuan was ineffective in suppressing bandits could it be possible to call in the Northwest Army.

Yunqing immediately had nothing to say. R1148