The boat glided unrestrained on the Tonghui River, and it rained lightly last night, and the air was very humid, so Xiulan's sister-in-law took her gang and went to the Bali Bridge.

The Bali Bridge has been damaged by the imperial army twice, and it has been repaired twice, and each repair will become more durable and more beautiful.

In recent years, Hebei has been quite smooth, many people have built new brick houses, people are very leisurely and wealthy, unlike the history of just survived the war, and then large-scale requisition to participate in the construction of the Forbidden City in Beiping, did not wait for a sigh of relief 100,000 troops died in Mobei, the angry Zhu Di personally commanded the 400,000 army of the Northern Expedition, which seemed to be vigorous, and the people of the whole world had to suffer. One time is not over, it is a total of five times, and the last time Zhu Di also sent his life on the journey.

Later generations saw the history of this period and deeply revered the Yongle Emperor, but who would care about the suffering of the common people? It's just the most insignificant ant in history.

War is certainly the only way for a nation-state to rise and become strong, but it is also the cause of a nation's decline.

What Xu Hao has to do is to control the necessary war within a bearable range, and there is no need to rest and recuperate.

Today's Ming Dynasty is thriving and full of vitality, and people born in this era are very blessed.

Even the widow who should have been unjustly killed was rescued from underwater by the people brought by Xu Hao, and in order to avoid any trouble, she will be arranged with Blacksmith Li in other provinces, and live by changing her name and surname from now on.

The river was filled with mist, and the chickens and ducks in the villages along the river kept calling, and the sound of squeaky oars was very brisk.

The canal divides the city of Tongzhou into two cities, north and south, and the tributaries of the Tonghui River surround the city, and the water of the tributaries flows into the ditches in the city from the water eyes of the city wall, and the boats march along the main stream under the city to the north pass.

Tongzhou's status is equivalent to that of Beiping's first assistant, which manages the eight eastern counties, and Beiping's status is too special. Whoever guards it is not appropriate. For example, the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun was simply set up in Tongzhou, so the pattern of the city was equivalent to the provincial capital, tall and strong, and the weather was strict.

Seeing that he was about to arrive outside the north gate, suddenly the city gate roared open, and I saw a group of men and horses running out in a queue, stretching along the river bank.

"Stop!" With a loud shout, the soldiers raised their spears.

Xiulan's sister-in-law's body shook, and the boat trembled with it, and hurriedly fixed the oars. Liu Er whispered: "Listen to the voice, it seems to be my eldest brother." ”

"Stop, who are you?" There was another sound in the mist.

"We are the boat gang of Liujia Village." Xiulan's sister-in-law lit up her clear voice, and transmitted through the sound of water, "I want to sell vegetables at Dongguan Wharf." ”

"It's my sister-in-law, don't move." The man screamed and ran over, "Come to the shore, I have something to say." ”

Xiulan's sister-in-law moored the boat to the shore. Liu Da also ran down the river slope. He was dressed in a new-style soldier's uniform, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, long hands and long feet, a dark rectangular face, and a fishskin waist knife on his shoulder. Armed with a musket with a bayonet on it.

Liu Da is not ungrateful, and has always called Xiulan's sister-in-law a sister-in-law, and treats her as a mother-in-law.

Xiulan's sister-in-law asked, "What the hell is going on?" Could it be another exercise? ”

Liu Da said: "I don't know, the top suddenly ordered martial law in the four cities. Arrest the misbehaving scoundrels on the spot, especially those who eat black rice. Sister-in-law, the military order is rather to be caught by mistake than let go. Go back quickly. ”

Xiulan's sister-in-law moved in her heart and said, "It's really a strange thing, then let's go back." ”

At this time, a soldier on the shore urgently shouted: "Liuzi, get in the queue quickly, the boss is here." ”

Liu Da quickly took out three taels of treasure money from his pocket, put it in Xiulan's sister-in-law's hand, and said, "Go back quickly, you will be fine in a few days." ”

The boat turned around and returned along the same route, but unexpectedly, the shore in this area was blocked by officers and soldiers, and they began to strictly inspect the passing ships.

A small flag wearing a military hat sat at the head of the bridge to rest his legs, shouting: "Stop, what are you doing?" ”

Xiulan's sister-in-law replied: "We are fishermen from Liujia Village, and there is a strict martial law outside the north gate, so we can't fish, so we have to go back to the village." ”

"Oh." Xiaoqi looked at the old and young people on the boat, and said: "Boat lady, you help us send us an iron pot of food, cage drawers and bellows, we have to bury the pot to cook at noon." ”

is obviously catching Zhuang Ding Bai to work, and in the end he won't give a penny, so Xiulan's sister-in-law shouted angrily: "I still have to go home to feed the child." ”

Xiaoqi stood up and bared his teeth, and said with a hippie smile: "Boat lady, you are obviously lying, Lao Tzu has read countless people, look at your willow waist, you have never given birth to a child at all." ”

Xiulan's sister-in-law was annoyed and scolded: "I want you to take care of it, now that the military camp has been ordered not to disturb the people, I am not happy to be on the errand, okay?" ”

"Grandma's." Xiaoqi was also angry, blowing his beard and glaring, "Is this a military order?" Dare to disobey the military order, watch me strip you naked and tie you to a tree for others to watch. ”

A pair of galloping cavalry also came to the bridgehead, led by a young man of twenty-six or seventeen years old, handsome and straight, with a stern expression, sat on a Mongolian war horse, grabbed the reins and shouted: "What's the matter?" ”

Xiaoqi and the other soldiers hurriedly stood up and saluted, and shouted: "Report to the hundred households, the little lady rowing under the bridge refuses to help haul the military rations, and looks down on people arrogantly." ”

The young and handsome Baihu frowned, and looked at Xiulan's sister-in-law with some annoyance.

Seeing this, Xiulan's sister-in-law shouted, "My lord, this bastard of your subordinates is molesting the people's daughters. ”

Baihu glared at his subordinates fiercely, and ordered: "Send them home first, and the ship will be requisitioned for you to use." ”

"No way!" Xiulan's sister-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp, "Why are you requisitioning civilian boats?" There was no war. ”

"Hughnut." Baihu didn't ink with her at all, his expression was very depressed, and he said impatiently: "The ship price is doubled, and you will be sent back after sending military rations." ”

"You!" Xiulan's sister-in-law was smoking, and she also glared at the hundred households fiercely, but Xiucai met the soldiers, and she had no choice but to carry the smiling flag to transport food, and she had to endure his rumors along the way.

In fact, she knows the guy on the horse, isn't it the husband and his brother who are in trouble, pretending not to know anyone, hum!

On the way, Xiaoqi chatted with Uncle Wang, saying that his boss's brother had also been arrested. So she was not very happy, Xiulan's sister-in-law remembered her husband before she splashed her skin, and pursed her lips disdainfully, saying that she deserved it.

In Liujia Village, Zhu Zhanji sat in the house in a daze, repeatedly recalling the scene when the widow fell into the water, and he couldn't let go of it for a long time. Xie Jin sat with him and took the opportunity to explain some truths.

Xu Hao wandered around Tongzhou Academy, and heard the gentleman in the Enlightenment School shaking his head and reciting: "The young man left home and the eldest returned." ”

Four or five children followed suit: "The youngest left home and the eldest returned." ”

"I don't know when I sleep in spring, and I smell birds everywhere; The sound of wind and rain at night. How much do you know about the flowers? ”

"Stacked on top of each other, I can't sweep it away several times."

"Last year, in this door today, the peach blossoms on the human face were red; The face of the person does not know where to go, and the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze. ”

Listening to the thousands of poems recited by Tong Yin, some older students were picking mushrooms on the rooftop, as if they were going up the mountain to pick mushrooms, picking a lot. It is really rare to see a roof that can grow mushrooms, not to mention that Xu Hao feels very fresh, and even others are envious.

A greedy student said, "This mushroom is fresh. It's not as good as the dried mushrooms, if you kill a chicken and stew it, it's delicious. ”

The student above smiled: "Stir-fried tofu with mushrooms is delicious, the freshest." ”

The student below was unconvinced: "What do you know?" The mushrooms after the rain are too tender for the chickens. ”

Another student said, "As the old saying goes, under the mushrooms, you eat soup and forget the noodles." ”

"It's strange to eat this mushroom and forget your surname."

"Steamed mushrooms with shredded ginger can eat eight bowls of millet rice."

Students, you say everything I say. Xu Hao was so hungry that he reminded: "You find an old man to take a look, mushrooms are not eaten blindly." Beware of poisonous. ”

Afraid that these children didn't care, he specially found an adult to come and identify them, but sure enough, they couldn't eat them.

Returning to Liu's house, the walls around the backyard were planted with plants such as gourds and cucumbers that could climb the vines, and the gourds climbed up the wall and bloomed, and one of them stretched out beyond the wall and opened a fiery yellow yellow flower towards the canal.

Even the kitchen window was covered with small cucumber vines, as thin as silver threads.

When the sun came, the little vines were shining brightly, and the tips of the vines were as clean as silk drawn from yellow wax, and countless such threads stretched out from a cucumber seedling, and the spires of the silk vines were each turned and curled back.

Because of the sun's rays, the silk vines that were cold at night became warm. So they moved forward faster, as if the vines were getting longer.

Cucumber seedlings, often planted under the root of the mill window, climbed on the window sill one day, climbed the window lattice in two days, and bloomed on the window lattice on the third day.

The black tiger came out of nowhere, Xu Hao leaned down and stroked the short hair on its neck, and glanced at the black shadow in the woods on the opposite bank intentionally or unintentionally, because the black tiger was baring its teeth in that direction, and its eyes were shining fiercely.

Mu Yun said that the whole city of Tongzhou was under martial law because there was a group of robbers hiding in this area, specializing in robbing the big ships that traveled from south to north on the 300-mile canal.

Being able to mix in this area of Beiping for so many years has been safe and sound, naturally under the slogan of doing the right thing for the sky, robbing the rich and helping the poor, and indeed helping the poor fishermen on the nearby rivers, so there have always been people secretly ventilating the news, and even the local people admire these heroes and are proud to meet them.

Xu Hao wanted to incorporate them, but this group of people hated King Yan very much, and even hated the current government, and repeatedly refused to recruit Anti.

If the text can't work, then come to the martial arts, it is impossible to let it go on like this, Xu Hao couldn't help but hit Zhu Zhanji with his idea, is there a bigger bait than the dignified prince?

Of course, this matter must not be said, he is just improvised, after all, everyone can't stand idly by when they arrive in Tongzhou.

Why did the sneaky figure on the other side peep into the Liu family? Zhu Zhanji's identity has not been leaked.

Xu Hao lowered his head and observed the reaction of the black tiger again, and suddenly said, "Isn't Xiulan's sister-in-law's family just poor people?" Still a beautiful single woman. (To be continued......)