Seeing Li Hao's ill-intentioned smiling face, Li Ping instinctively shook his head: "Forget it, I still don't watch it, my stomach is almost hungry, and I want to eat." ”

"Look, I almost forgot." Li Hao patted his head, walked to the door and called outside, "Someone!" ”

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid hurriedly ran over and saluted: "Young master, what do you command?" ”

Li Hao said: "Bring the porridge prepared for Miss Li." ”

"Yes." When the maidservant heard this, she withdrew.

It didn't take long for Li Hao to bring a bowl of hot corn porridge to Li Ping, who frowned when he saw this: "I don't want to eat porridge, I want to eat something delicious." ”

Li Hao said patiently: "You have been hungry for too long, you can't eat anything else for the time being, otherwise it will hurt your stomach, you can only drink porridge, and you can't drink too much every time, drink once every hour, drink three or four times, it's almost fine." ”

"Ahh Li Ping was deflated when he heard this, so he was about to reach out and take the porridge.

Li Hao dodged her hand and said with a smile: "You are weak now, you may not be able to hold the bowl steadily, it doesn't matter if you sprinkle it on your body, if it is sprinkled all over the quilt, then what can I do, it is not easy to wash the quilt on this cold day." ”

"What did you say!" Li Ping glared angrily when he heard this.

Li Hao grinned, and gently blew a spoonful of porridge twice, as if coaxing a child: "Good, I'll feed you, open your mouth, ah-"

Li Ping rolled her eyes, opened her mouth obediently, Li Hao fed a spoonful of porridge to her mouth, hot, warm, very comfortable, very satisfied, she secretly escaped from home, came all the way to Tingzhou, suffered so much, when she ate the hot porridge made by Li Hao himself, she felt that everything was worth it.

In the blink of an eye, a bowl of porridge was drunk, Li Hao put down the bowl and chatted with her, Li Ping and him shared his hard experience all the way, although Li Hao personally walked through that part of the road, but was also tightly tied by the heartstrings she said, excited, she really suffered too much along the way, wolves and horse thieves were met by her, if it weren't for the five loyal servants who swore to protect them, it would be impossible to get to Tingzhou, just by virtue of this, Li Hao secretly decided that he must save Zhang Bao and them.

After listening to Li Ping's story, it was Li Hao's turn to tell his experience along the way, Li Hao's experience was wonderful, and his mouth was very good at talking, adding all kinds of oil and vinegar, infinitely exaggerating his own merits, when it came to the night attack on Loulan City, he was almost ready to say that he used a palm thunder to destroy all the horse thieves at a critical moment, but fortunately, he felt that this was too nonsense, and stopped it in time.

The two chatted all night, although they talked a lot, but they didn't mention Li Daozong very tacitly, why, I was afraid that I would be disinterested.

The inner courtyard is generally where the female dependents live, but now there are only four rooms in the inner courtyard, Li Hao asked Gu Lina and the Elena sisters to live together, and made a room for Li Ping, the two sisters were very obedient and immediately complied, and Li Ping lived in the inner courtyard.

In the blink of an eye, it is the New Year, due to Li Hao's efforts in the past few months, most of the people in Tingzhou have become rich, and this year is happier than ever, seeing the smiles on the faces of the people, Li Hao suddenly feels so satisfied, at least, he has personally proved his worth, there are five beauties around him, and he does not have a sense of loneliness far away, this year is still very sufficient.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Najie came back with a caravan, and brought more than 1,000 catties of pig iron and 30 logs.

Looking at this more than 1,000 catties of pig iron, Li Hao nodded with satisfaction, if you want to build knives and guns, this 1,000 catties of pig iron is definitely not enough, but Li Hao is using these pig iron to make arrows, an arrow is only how heavy, more than 1,000 catties of pig iron, you can create nearly 100,000 arrowheads, or even more.

Shi Najie felt guilty about only buying 1,000 catties of pig iron, but Li Hao didn't care, and even took the initiative to comfort him, after all, pig iron is a controlled item and is strictly forbidden to trade.

Before Li Hao bought iron and wood in the city, he had built more than 30,000 arrows, and now he had pig iron and wood, and immediately asked the craftsmen to continue processing, and the special fast crossbow arrows were given to the special combat team, and the ordinary arrows were moved into the arsenal.

In February of the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin mentioned the matter of conquest of Xue Yantuo again, or that sentence, the royal driving pro-conquest, it happened that Wei Zheng was infected with the wind and cold, the illness was not light, and he was sick in bed, Li Shimin personally went to visit, and also brought the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat it, after returning to the Taiji Palace, he stepped up his deliberations and gave the matter of the imperial conquest, and felt that His Majesty the Great Heavenly Khan was a complete duplicitous, one in front of one and one behind the other.

On February 25, the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin led an army of 150,000 to conquer Xue Yantuo.

On the same day, the shopkeeper Li of the Longchang grain shop in Tingzhou went to the Thorn Shi Mansion to meet Li Hao and expressed his worries that the Li family's grain delivery team had been overdue for ten days and had not yet arrived.

Li Hao frowned after hearing this, after a winter of consumption, there is not much grain in the homes of the people of Tingzhou, and the rice grain in the Longchang grain shop is about to be sold out, at this time, the 10,000 stone grain of the Longyou Li family is urgently needed, but the two teams of the Li family are overdue for ten days, which can't help but make him feel a trace of crisis.

Li Hao remained silent on the surface, and asked Shopkeeper Li to go back and wait patiently, but he began to think about it in his heart.

After thinking for a morning, Li Hao ordered to start planting corn, although the weather is still very cold, but it has returned to a state of minus two or three degrees, and it should be able to reach above zero in a few days, he can only pray that the corn seedlings can withstand the current cold temperature, as long as they can survive for two months, they can harvest more than 1,000 stone of corn, there is so much corn, it will not make the people hungry, but the taste is a little worse, and the taste is also poor.

Li Hao was lucky, the temperature warmed up to zero the next day, which made him excited, he tried it in Chang'an, and his corn could grow in a zero degree environment.

From the corn planting to maturity, no more, no less, exactly sixty days, there are still more than 100 stones of corn in his warehouse, and he will not make wine for the time being, but those wineries will be closed because of this, and the merchants are afraid that they will be in a mood, and the key is that Li Hao can't tell them about the food crisis, so he can only rely on official authority to suppress them.

After another seven days, Li Hao personally went to check the corn field, and found that the corn seedlings were all broken and four inches tall.

Li Hao didn't say anything, just asked him to go back and wait for two more days, but Shopkeeper Li had no choice but to hang his head and return. Sent away the shopkeeper Li, Li Hao sat in the yazhong and pondered for a long time, cleaned up the clue of the matter, and also had a plan in his heart, this matter, nine times out of ten, is related to Cao Tian, and...... Cao Tian is very likely to be desperate, and he has to prepare well.

Sure enough, three days later, in the evening, there was a sudden noise in the city, and the sound of horses' hooves was everywhere on the street, Li Hao had been sitting in the yazhong, and after hearing the sound, he walked out of the yatang, looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and sighed leisurely: "This moment has finally come." ”

As soon as the words fell, the flying eagle suddenly rushed in and knelt down on one knee to report: "Master, there are a large number of people and horses with weapons in hand, rushing towards the side of the Assassin's Mansion. ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you see where the other party came from?" ”

Feiying said: "I can see clearly, two thousand soldiers, and one thousand five hundred horse thieves." ”

"Fifteen hundred horse thieves?" Li Hao frowned, and then sneered, "I'm afraid that there are fewer real horse thieves and more fake horse thieves." ”

His meaning was obvious, the fake horse thieves naturally referred to Gao Chang's army, after all, they often pretended to be horse thieves.

"How did they get into the city?" Li Hao asked.

Feiying said: "It is said that it was put in by Wang Yuantai, the commander of Youguo Yi, and the people of the Wei Mansion were also led by Wang Yuantai. ”

"Wang Yuantai." Li Hao murmured softly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light seemed to burst out of his eyes.

Li Hao was silent for a moment, and said, "Let the brothers of the special combat team and the right guards stop guarding outside, and come to the mansion." ”

"Yes!" The flying eagle led the order to retreat, and within a moment, five hundred right guards and more than twenty special forces all came to the courtyard.

Then I heard the voices of people and horses outside the courtyard, and the sound of people shouting, gradually, the sound gradually condensed, and the night returned to calm, although it was separated by the courtyard wall, Li Hao seemed to have seen more than 3,000 people waiting outside.

At this time, a loud voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Humble Cao Tian, meet Li Tingshi." ”

Li Hao grinned and waved his hand, "Open the door." ”

The two right guards stepped forward to open the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, only to see a large number of torches outside, illuminating the person who would be the leader, it was Cao Tian.

Li Hao took a few steps forward and smiled indifferently: "Cao Beijia visited the official late at night, I don't know what happened?" ”

Cao Beijia laughed twice and said, "Master Li, you have committed a crime." ”

"Oh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "What did this official do?" ”

Cao Tian sneered: "Lord Li, you have privately made weapons with the intention of rebellion, and the 70,000 arrows in the arsenal are the evidence. ”

Li Hao lowered his hand and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Cao Tian raised his head and said proudly: "One crime of treason is enough to make you die ten times, and I don't need to talk about some other crimes." ”

"Oh? yes. Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't want to convict me of rebellion, I don't know who gave you courage, but there is an emperor's decree or an official document from the Criminal Department?" ”

Cao Tian said calmly: "I have reported your crime to the imperial court, but Tingzhou is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and it will take several months for the documents to come and go. ”

"Good, good, good." Li Hao clapped his hands slowly, and said with a smile, "I admire your ability to talk nonsense, but ...... Cao Tian, I just want to ask you, there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses in the Tingzhou Wei Mansion, but you brought more than 3,500 people here, I want to ask you, what is the origin of these more than 1,500 people, can you explain? ”

Cao Tian frowned when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Hao to notice that he had brought 1,500 more people under such circumstances, it seemed that he had already known about bringing people into the city, but he didn't expect Li Hao's ears and eyes to be so well-informed.

But he was only slightly surprised, and then smiled: "These are my friends in the rivers and lakes, and I specially invited them to deal with you, a thief." ”

"Huh." Li Hao sneered, "Friends on the rivers and lakes? Fifteen hundred people, do you know that even the Duke of Lu Guogong in Chang'an and the Duke of Zhao Guogong would not dare to make friends with so many people privately, even if these are all people in the rivers and lakes, you can be regarded as raising private soldiers, but it is a great crime of rebellion, Cao Tian, the person who wants to rebel...... It's you. ”