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Chapter 53: The Enemy Is Coming

"I'm really sorry for the county lord, the post station is full today, and there is only such an upper room left!" Yi Cheng said with a smile on his face: "This upper room has a bit of a bad view, and Ming'er will arrange for someone to change the upper room for the county lord......"

Li Daozhen was a little tired, waved his hand weakly and said, "Forget it, let's leave at dawn, don't be so troublesome!" ”

"What else does the county lord of Baicheng need, just directly order the post guards below to do it!" Yi Cheng bowed down and smiled.

"I'm almost hungry, hurry up and get some food!" Xiao Tao instructed Yi Cheng: "Hurry up, let people prepare hot water, our county is mainly bathing!" ”

"Okay, yes, right away!" Although Yi Cheng is a Jiupin official, this official is an internal official of the Tang Dynasty. However, a maid who has no job or power can point fingers at him, but Yicheng really has no choice.

In the face of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty, they must be careful at all times, and if they offend anyone, they can stretch out a finger like pinching an ant to death.

Yi Cheng walked out of the room with an indifferent face. After a while, the chef of the postman's stove was ready, just like the dishes for the upper room, and a servant woman brought it into Li Daozhen's room.

Looking at the dishes with both color and flavor, Xiao Tao's throat moved unconsciously.

However, Li Daozhen was still lazy and too lazy to move.

Although Li Daozhen and Xiao Tao are sisters, there is a difference between dignity and inferiority, but it is an insurmountable gap. Li Daozhen didn't finish eating, and Xiao Tao didn't dare to move the chopsticks.

Xiao Tao was already very hungry, looking at the table full of dishes, she was even more hungry at this time, in order to fill her stomach as soon as possible, she hurriedly stepped forward, picked up a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Li Daozhen, and then took another pair of chopsticks to hold Li Daozhen's favorite dishes: "County Lord, you eat quickly, we have been on the road every day for the past few days, and we have entered the boundary of Lingzhou, and we can arrive in Thin Bone Law City tomorrow afternoon at the latest." ”

Li Daozhen took the chopsticks, took a piece of mushu meat, and stuffed it into his mouth. Since the Tang Dynasty has not yet become popular for stir-frying, this mushu meat slice is not the kind of later generations, but a mutton slice boiled in white water with some fungus. When it comes to the taste, it's not really good.

Li Daozhen only took a bite, and her brows furrowed.

Xiao Tao asked timidly: "County Lord, it's hard to eat!" ”

"Vomit ......" Li Daozhen didn't speak, and spit directly into the spittoon.

After a while, after Li Daozhen rinsed her mouth, she picked up a piece of steamed chicken, but the chicken had not yet been eaten, Li Daozhen only smelled the smell of chicken, she quickly lowered her head and vomited again.

Xiao Tao couldn't help it, slapped the table, and said to the servant woman who was waiting beside her: "Call your post man!" ”

The servant woman ran out of the door without falling.

Hearing that the servant woman brought Li Daozhen to eat the food at the post station actually vomited, the post man was shocked. In case Li Daozhen really has anything to do, he will also come to an end.

The chef who was called by Yi Cheng was a stinking scolding, and the chef was also inexplicable, he secretly thought, the dishes were all made according to the usual, and the post station was not unattended by dignitaries, and others didn't say anything, why did the dishes go wrong when they arrived at Li Daozhen?

Without waiting for Yicheng to kneel down and ask for guilt, Li Daozhen waved his hand and said, "It's because I have no appetite and can't eat greasy things, is there any sour food?" ”

The chef said, "There's vinegar parsley in the kitchen!" ”

"Come on!"

Yi Cheng muttered, "This ......"

Xiao Tao said: "Let you take it, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Yi Cheng had no choice but to obey the arrangement.

Vinegar celery is a small dish in the Tang Dynasty, which was not easy to preserve in ancient times, especially green vegetables. Celery is not easy to preserve, so in order to prevent celery from spoiling, the common people invented a way, after fermentation, ordinary celery is like vinegar, sour, but because of vinegar, if you mix the soup made with five flavors, it is also very delicious. However, the dish was not expensive in the first place, and it belonged to the food that the poor people only ate in winter.

There is vinegar celery in the inn, but it is a side dish for porters and servants to accompany their meals. Don't say that the nobles don't eat it, in fact, this thing is not delicious, and it is a cold thing, and it is not very comfortable to eat in winter, and even Yicheng does not eat it. He almost threw up at the smell of sourness.

Not long after, the servant woman brought a plate of vinegar celery to Li Daozhen's table.

In the face of the strong sour taste, Li Daozhen didn't feel it, she picked up the chopsticks and picked up the cup under the surprised eyes of everyone, and ate it quickly, as if she didn't feel sour enough, Li Daozhen even poured the vegetable juice in the vinegar celery into the bowl of small rice. The vegetable juice of vinegar celery, in terms of sourness, is not less than the old vinegar, but Li Daozhen eats it happily. A glass full of vinegar celery, and in a moment it was already eaten.

Xiao Tao smelled the vinegar smell all over the room, and suddenly lost her appetite.

At this time, the servant woman inadvertently said: "The county lord is afraid that he is happy!" ”

Xiao Tao was like a lightning strike, stunned for a while.

She hurriedly pushed the servant away and let her go. Waiting for the servant woman to leave, Xiao Tao quickly rushed to Li Daozhen's side, gently pushed Li Daozhen and said, "County Lord, do you feel a little wrong?" ”

Li Daozhen patted his forehead and said softly: "I've been very lazy lately, maybe I'm a little tired from hurrying, just rest for a few days." ”

Xiao Tao was in a hurry, pointed to Li Daozhen's stomach and said, "Your belly!" ”

"What's wrong with your stomach?" Li Daozhen also said inexplicably at this time: "My stomach is nothing!" ”

"County Lord, do you have it?"

Li Daozhen's eyes opened a slit, gave Xiao Tao a blank look, walked to the bed, lay on the bed, pulled up the corners of the quilt, covered her face, and laughed non-stop. "Little Peach, this kind of thing...... How embarrassed to say. ”

"What's embarrassing." Xiao Tao said disappreciably: "The way of yin and yang, calculate the time, your menstrual affairs, it seems that there is no ......"

Lee Do-jung lowered the corners of the quilt and revealed a sly look. "It can't be, right? Just one night, how is that possible? ”

Xiao Tao said solemnly: "No, this matter must be clarified." If you had, you wouldn't be in such a hurry. ”

Saying that, Xiao Tao asked Yi Cheng to invite Lang Zhong, and in the middle of the night, Lang Zhong came over to diagnose Li Daozhen's pulse, and finally came to a conclusion: "Slippery pulse!" ”

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The clouds were like lead, and they were heavy overhead, and the cold wind whistled from the unobstructed plains of the Hetao, blowing like a knife on the face. In the open field, there was no living creature except for the hibernating snake, and occasionally an old crow stood on the branch and let out a dumb cry, piercing the gloomy and lonely sky.

At this time, snow particles have already fallen, and the first section of the road from Yanzhou is difficult.

Liang Luoren squinted at the vast snowfield in the north, and the tasseled ribbon beads on both sides of his cheeks were blown and scraped on his ears and hurt. Although the upcoming blizzard is extremely unfavorable for the march, this coming blizzard will make all the people near Lingzhou hide at home to avoid the snow, and the blizzard will become a favorable cover.

The blizzard was howling, and the snow particles were beating the hats, and a group of about 500 cavalry people came in a hurry. Brown armor, short clothes and narrow sleeves, with a bow and a crotch knife on his back, most of his face was hidden in his pocket to avoid the wind and snow, but he was a group of Turkic cavalry that roamed to the territory of Yanzhou.

This Turkic cavalry followed Liang Luoren to Lingzhou, but the purpose was not simple.

Liang Shidu lost most of Xiazhou at this time, leaving less than twenty counties of territory. Although the Liang division is not less than three feet of land for the army, how much oil and water can people scavenge in twenty poor counties?

When Chen Ying was stationed in Lingzhou, these Turks would rather drink the northwest wind than dare to come to Lingzhou. Now that they heard that Lingzhou was empty, they followed and looted some supplies for the winter.

Compared with Yanzhou in Liangshidu, Lingzhou is almost heaven. In order to settle the slaves who were rescued from the Turks, Chen should give them the privilege of tax exemption, and provide them with low-interest loans for them to buy family businesses and reclaim wasteland, although these wastelands have only been cultivated for a year, and the yield is not as good as the land produced by one stone, but it is not enough to support Lingzhou is that there are few people and many lands, although these Lingzhou people are still poor, but every family has surplus grain to repay the loan.

The army under Liang Luoren was not only poorly equipped, but also seriously undersupplied with winter clothing. The march was good, and dozens or hundreds of people would freeze to death every time they camped.

Before guarding the shadow of the Tang army, Liang Luoren reduced the number of five or six hundred people, and the morale at this time can be imagined.

Looking at the trilogy like a walking corpse, Liang Luoren roared: "Brothers, work hard, break through Lingzhou for three days without sealing the sword!" ”

If you don't seal the sword, it means that you can do whatever you want in the city. You can kill people, you can rob, you can get the money, women, food, and supplies they want.

The army, which originally had almost no morale to speak of, suddenly regained some morale when they heard Liang Luoren's order, and the eyes of these numb soldiers showed a wolf-like green light.

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The night was dark and visibility was extremely low under a blizzard. Fifth sister-in-law Song, the town general of Lingwu Eighteen Town Fort, felt her eyelids jump, and she could no longer sleep peacefully. So he put on his leather armor, took his harpoon, and went to the fort to make his rounds.

The original feeling of being a little tired was blown by the cold wind on the wall of the town fort, and there was no trace of it suddenly. Looking at the self-consolidating warriors who were still shivering with cold in the fire in the enemy building, Song Wusao's heart gave birth to a very ridiculous feeling.

How is it possible to send troops in such weather? I must have been under too much pressure and a little suspicious.

She was about to return to the enemy tower to sleep when suddenly a dull voice rang out.

"Knock knock!"

There was a strange sound at the head of the north of the town, and Song Wu's sister-in-law looked back, and she couldn't see anything in the night sky of the black hole. However, at this moment, Song Wu's sister-in-law saw the snow on the notch of the women's wall, and the snow particles jumped slightly.

Although Song Wu's sister-in-law is a Han Chinese, she has been in Turkia for more than ten years, and she already has a set of methods for judging the approach of cavalry. With a shock of this magnitude, at least a thousand cavalry were slowly approaching.

Song Wu's sister-in-law knew that Lingzhou, not to mention the cavalry of the formation, even if it was a mule, there were few horses, and they were all requisitioned and transferred by Li Daozong. The cavalry that appears in Lingzhou now must be friend or foe.

Song Zi's sister-in-law shouted in a low voice: "Liangzi, Xiao Wu, Zhuzi, go back and inform the fort chiefs that the enemy is coming!" ”