In the cold winter, the business of restaurants in Anlu County was bleak, and the shopkeeper sat by the warm stove and dozed off, but a person came over and threw a bag of money on the desk, which scared the shopkeeper a lot.

"Shopkeeper, let's rest and eat here, and please cook a dog leg and make a few good meals."

The store's dream was disturbed, and when he opened his eyes, he was about to scold, but he found that what he was looking at was an acquaintance, wasn't it Ji Ying who had a meal at his place two years ago?

Ji Ying has had a lot of opportunities to go back and forth to the county since he became a postman in Huyang Pavilion, and he is a frequent visitor to this restaurant, but he has not been heard from since he escorted the prisoners north to serve with the head of Huyang Pavilion Heifu a year ago, when did he come back?

The shopkeeper showed a smile and exchanged a few words with Ji Ying, and a few people outside walked into the restaurant one after another, all of them were An Lu soldiers who went north with Heifu to serve, except for Dongmen Leopard, the nine people who were still alive were here, all of them were dusty, but their faces were full of joy.

Heifu and his brother walked at the back of the room while talking, and when they entered, they bowed to the shopkeeper:

"Shopkeeper, we have just returned from service, and we are going to report to the official temple, submit their respective inspection certificates, and end the service, but the official temple has been closed, and I am afraid that we will have to stay in this restaurant for one night, and we will be bothered by the store to prepare a house and hot water for us."

The shopkeeper only agreed, because he found that Heifu was no longer the little pavilion chief when he went to service, he was now wearing a majestic bearskin coat and a double-board chief on his head, which was the sign of the officer, right?

How many officials and doctors are there in Anlu County? You can count on one hand! Take a closer look, except for Heifu, the rest of the people are all dressed in brocade, it seems that they have returned with a full load in this service, I don't know what wealth they have encountered.

The shopkeeper did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly invited everyone to sit, and called out to his wife, son, and the subordinate concubines who helped to prepare hot soup quickly, kill chickens and dogs, and wash rice and cook rice......

Everyone put together a few cases and put them into a long case, and sat opposite each other, Heifu sat on the most honorable throne as a matter of course, and although he was the youngest, he was also pressed to the side by everyone.

"The brother of the five hundred lords is our brother."

Shocked to hear this, he was shocked, and he was already a little afraid to carry out the title of official doctor when his brother got it, so he said happily: "Brother Zhong, you have achieved five hundred masters in the army?" ”

As soon as he shouted like this, the shopkeeper who was pouring water on the side couldn't help but prick up his ears, five hundred lords, if the county lieutenant of this county enters the army, it will only be at this level, right?

"Fake."

Heifu said with a smile: "I have only been a fake five hundred lord for a short time, and now that the war is over, and everyone's military positions have been relieved, it is enough to be commensurate with their names or titles." ”

"Yui." Everyone bowed their hands to Heifu: "Doctor Guan! ”

Although the war has ended and everyone has returned home smoothly, Heifu's words are still like military orders. Like Ji Ying, Dongmen Leopard and other close partners called "Heifu" before, but there is no more.

After staying in the county for a year, I became a lot more careful, and when I noticed this subtle change, my heart was even more itchy, there must be a story in it!

But no matter how he asked Brother Zhong, Brother Zhong avoided talking about it on the grounds that "it is difficult to explain everything". He could only find another way, knowing that Ji Ying talked a lot, and after the hot soup was served, he replaced the wine with water, and almost set up with Ji Ying who was sitting on the side, and asked him to tell him what had happened in the past year?

"This year, it's really hard to describe!"

Ji Ying took a sip of hot soup to warm his stomach, and then started what he did best, bragging.

Since October last year, everyone escorted the prisoners to the north, and some prisoners escaped, causing Heifu to ask the merchants to use the "fish belly book" plan, so that the prisoners began to talk with peace of mind. Speaking of the Battle of Waihuang, everyone bravely ascended the city, and Heifu personally wrapped up everyone's wounds to stop the bleeding. He also said that they governed Humu Township, deliberately lured the enemy with grain, and killed the old soldiers of the Wei State. Subsequently, everyone witnessed the collapse of the Great Liang City, the collapse of the Wei Kingdom overnight, and the century-old Xiongcheng City turned into ruins......

Speaking of this in one breath, he was shocked to hear it, this is an unimaginable wonder in his boring daily life in a small county.

And Ji Ying took a sip of water and said: "This is nothing, the most exciting thing is what happened in the Battle of Chu!" ”

He started from Heifu leading everyone to train, relying on the quilt to be strict and disciplined, and writing a letter to boost morale, and in the middle, he passed the defeat of Li Xin and Meng Tian, and only brought out the battle of Liyang and talked about it!

Hearing this, Jing had already clenched his fists and sweated for his middle brother.

Trapped in the lonely city, the lord will be injured, and he dares to enter the enemy camp in person! This is not something that ordinary people can do. And Gongao, Lixian and others decisively quelled Xu Yang's rebellion, which was also thrilling. As for the fierce battle when everyone went out of the city, Huaimu and other soldiers who fell into battle died bravely, and let the anger rush to the crown, and I felt that those soldiers who had never met were really praiseworthy.

When Ji Ying said that Xiao Tao flew away with an arrow to prevent the enemy general from committing suicide, and everyone pretended to be the Chu army, and finally returned to Qin after fighting for three hundred miles in the territory of Chu, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Huh."

Unexpectedly, someone behind him sighed.

Looking back, I found that the owner of the store was holding a plate of dog meat, and he was also listening in a daze, the two businessmen who walked into the store and planned to eat, and the subordinate concubines who helped to help, all listened attentively, and when Ji Ying finally finished speaking, they all clapped their hands and praised.

"All of you are strong men to do such a feat!"

However, they didn't feel too strange, because when Heifu left Anlu, he was a celebrity, and he was famous for his benevolence and righteousness in the case of one person who caught three thieves, caught tomb robbers on a snowy night, broke the deed with gifts, and the case in the blind mountain, which refused to accept horses from others.

But this time, his deeds can be crowned as a "hero"!

Ji Ying was even more proud now, and said loudly: "At the beginning of this month, the army was disbanded, and when we stopped in Nanyang, we received a commendation from Xianyang. Of the seven or eight hundred people who are still alive, each of them has to be promoted to the first level, and the war dead are the second class. The king also rewarded them with three million denarii. I think that in the near future, the government's commendation for us will also be transmitted to Anlu County! “

"All of this, it's Heifu...... It's the credit of the official doctor! ”

Everyone applauded again, surprised and triumphant, feeling honored, turned their heads to look at their brother, and said admiringly: "Brother Zhong, I never thought you were so powerful!" ”

"That's my credit."

Heifu hurriedly asked Ji Ying to sit down and instructed everyone: "Those schemes of surrendering, arraying, and attacking the enemy, including the retreat route, are all decided by Captain Li Youdu, and I just catch a knife for him." How dare Heifu be greedy for his own merits and boast about himself? These boastful words, the second and third sons must not say ......"

The crowd next to them had just dispersed, but they had taken Heifu's words as a sign of humility, and the two businessmen who had left the restaurant would probably become the best medium to tell everyone they knew about what they had heard today. In a few days, Heifu is afraid that he will become famous in Anlu County, or even in Nanjun.

Ji Ying boasted about another thing at this time, that is, the relationship between Heifu and Li You.

"Surprised." Ji Ying smiled: "Who is the biggest official you have ever seen?" ”

"It should be the county order, and when he inspected the school, I saw it from afar."

"What is a prefectural order?"

Ji Ying waved his hand in disgust: "It's just a six-hundred-stone official, do you know what the county order is?" ”

exclaimed: "It's the county official, the county guard, the county officer, the county lieutenant ......."

"And up further?"

"Then it has to be a high-ranking official in Xianyang, a ...... like Doctor Yushi," muttered in surprise, a height he couldn't imagine in his life.

"Yes, Xianyang's official is the biggest, you are a disciple in the school room, learning the law, do you know who is in charge of the prison of this Qin State?"

"It's in the hands of Captain Ting." Scratching his head, he remembered that his master had said in class that difficult cases that the county court could not decide could be handed over to the county court, and cases that the county court could not handle could be submitted to the court and tried by the court captain.

Tingwei's duty is to manage the world's prisons, and the total number of prisons in counties and counties each year must be summarized to Tingwei. There was also a decree on the formulation of the law, which was also revised by the court lieutenant and the imperial historian in cooperation with the king's order.

"That's right, Li Youduwei, who commands us, is the son of Tingwei, and the official doctor is a close confidant of Li Duwei's cronies."

Ji Ying folded his fingers and said, "Li Duwei's injury was bandaged by Brother Ru Zhong, and Brother Li Duwei's life was also saved by Brother Ru Zhong." In this battle, General Li Xin and General Meng Tian were all severely punished, cut off their titles, and exiled to the border counties as generals, and the rest of the generals were also punished and degraded, and seven captains were even worse, and they died directly in battle! ”

"Only this Li Duwei, relying on the military exploits of Liyang, in the end, did not fall but rose, and now he is the head of the left, and he has returned to Xianyang to be rewarded. The king's edict also said that Qin Mugong still has difficulties in Kunshan, and defeat is nothing, but if everyone has ......"

Speaking of this season's baby, he smiled at Li Xian: "Li hairpin, what do you say later?" ”

Li Xian couldn't cry or laugh, and said on his behalf: "The king said in the edict that if everyone has the ambition of the three generals of Meng, Xi, and Bai, and everyone can emulate the courage of Li Duwei to fight even though he was defeated, and he did not give up for 300 miles behind the enemy, then this battle would not be like ......this."

As Heifu expected, the King of Qin really needed a fig leaf to cover up this rare defeat of the Qin army, because of Li You's status, their army was really regarded as a model and received additional praise.

"That's right."

Ji Ying slapped his palm: "Brother Ru Zhong said that he was just the one who caught the knife by Li Duwei, but if he changed to someone else, how could he have this courage and ability?" Therefore, Li Duwei attaches great importance to him, did he see this bearskin fur? Something worth 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, Li Duwei waved his hand and said that he would send it! It is also said that this thing is used as a gift to keep out the cold! ”

Shocked to hear his mouth wide open, when he went home to complain about the isolation in the school, he told him that the Zuo Wei Yun clan was powerful and had a grudge against Heifu, so let Zuo Wei act in a low-key manner in the county. For this reason, he has been sullen, because he is isolated in the school, that is, there is a child of the Zuo Lieutenant family who makes it bad.

But now, Brother Zhong has become a confidant of Tingwei's son, the county left lieutenant and Tingwei? In this comparison, is it necessary for their family to be afraid of the Yun family!

"Alright, stop bragging."

Heifu interrupted Ji Ying and scolded: "You can't stop your mouth with so much food, you are also a hairpin now, if you want to keep your title and continue to rise, you must learn to be cautious in your words and deeds." ”

"Anyway, the people of the county will know sooner or later......"

Ji Ying muttered, and then deliberately said loudly: "Spread it out early, and let some despicable villains weigh it!" ”

Heifu shook his head helplessly, and everyone followed the topic and talked about their rewards and titles.

The official government of the Qin State was very generous in terms of money, and rewarded Li You with a huge sum of three million yuan in one go! The number of those who died in the battle was a little more, five thousand dollars per man, and the number of ordinary soldiers alive was slightly fewer, but there were also two or three thousand. The military officials can take more, the most such as Heifu, he alone will get 70,000 yuan!

In order to make it easier to carry, Heifu exchanged all this money for gold, plus all kinds of bounties saved in the previous battle against Wei, Heifu has hidden thirty taels of gold in his clothes, a huge sum of nearly 200,000 yuan......

Therefore, everyone can afford to buy a fur fur that was too expensive in the past, this is still Ji Ying clamoring for everyone to pick it up in Wancheng, everyone thinks that after living in nine deaths, they have got so much reward, if they don't dress well and go home to show off, they are simply sorry for themselves!

Heifu wanted to save the money and do more meaningful things, so except for the bearskin fur on his body, which was given by Li You, he really couldn't shirk it, and he didn't buy too many things to show off his wealth.

In terms of titles, the Qin State Mansion is not so generous, basically, those who died in battle can be promoted to two levels, and those who are alive can be promoted by one to two levels according to their merits. Those above the doctor can only be promoted to one level, because Heifu gave Li You the credit for the decision and command of the Battle of Kuiyang, so he was only promoted to the official doctor.

But Heifu was already very satisfied, and only spent this small price to get on the big ship of Lis, without any loss.

Ji Ying and Lixian, the two guys who were still soldiers when they left Anlu, were promoted to hairpins, and Gongao, who was separated from them in Yancheng, was also hairpins. Bu Cheng is now Shangzao, and the rest of the Anlu people who followed Heifu on the road are also Shangzao.

"We are not as capable as the official doctor, just follow the light, but Xiao Tao, now it is no more, and there is no need to serve in the future." Ji Ying said enviously.

Xiao Tao has been silent at the dinner table, and the bun on his head has not been replaced with a small crown, which is easy to be used as a background board.

"There's another one who didn't come."

Heifu laughed: "As soon as he entered the city, he was busy going home to see his son. ”

The crowd also laughed, and they were talking about the Dongmen Leopard.

As he was talking, he saw a big man in a deerskin fur walking into the restaurant, sitting cross-legged next to Ji Ying, picking up the cup in front of him and drinking!

After finding out that it was hot water, he scolded a bad word, patted the case and shouted: "Where's the wine? Shop, can you blanch some wine? ”

Heifu reprimanded him: "This is not in Wei and Chu, what kind of wine are you looking for to drink?" The restaurant is opened by the government, where does the wine come from? Don't make noise! ”

Dongmen Leopard obediently closed his mouth, but he was still angry, as if he had been greatly wronged.

"Ah Leopard, what's wrong?" Everyone looked at each other, didn't he just go home to see his son with a lot of specialties bought in Nanyang County?

Could it be ......

Everyone was silent, this year, the probability of newborn death is very high, and many mothers also unfortunately die together, could it be ......

As soon as Dongmen Leopard looked up, and saw that everyone was looking at him sympathetically, Heifu sighed even more, patted him on the shoulder, and was about to say comfort, even more angry, and hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, my wife is safe!" I also gave birth to two of them! Now they're almost turning old! ”

Everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled again: "This is a good thing, why are you sad?" ”

"Because it's not a son, it's a daughter!"

Dongmen Leopard got up indignantly, stretched out two fingers and emphasized: "It's still two!" Naigong has been thinking about the male name for more than a year, and he has thought about it in vain! ”