This year's winter in Quanzhou is also colder than usual, and the sea water is becoming clearer. The sea area east of Xunpu Shrimp Island in Quanzhou, in the faint morning light of dawn, seems to be carved from dark blue gemstones.

Shrimp Island is a small island in the east of Quanzhou City, after the closure of Huaidong, the fishermen on the island were forced to withdraw, leaving only the lonely island mountain standing in the cold water.

Song Bo was wearing a green robe, standing at the bow of the boat, his face was a little blue from the cold sea breeze, and he looked at the southwest direction, if a ship came, it would also appear from that direction first.

No one has ever been Ding Taixiang's shopkeeper turned out to be Huaidong's secret pile in Quanzhou City, three days ago he brought Song Jia's handwritten letter to the door to ask to see, saying that he would go back to his mother's house today - Quanzhou City is not completely controlled by the Song family, and Song Jia's whereabouts must not be leaked out. When Song Bo was in Chongzhou, he met his sister and knew that the handwritten letter would not be faked, so he personally took someone to the sea to pick up his sister into Quanzhou before dawn.

Even on this ship, only three or five people knew the purpose of this voyage, and the other shipwrights were all old men loyal to Song Valve, and after this incident, they would be closely monitored to prevent news from leaking.

The sky jumped out of the initial glow, and the three cloud-class warships in Huaidong sailed towards this side, Song Bo'an Ruosu, and Song Yi, who went to sea with Song Bo, was sweating in his palms - Song Jia's news in Chongzhou, Song Bo and his father never revealed it to a third person, it was a luxury family, and they would never admit that Song Jia and Aunt Mingyue were captured in Chongzhou, and ordinary Song valve children thought that the eldest lady was drowned on the way back to Jiangning.

Suddenly, a handwritten letter came from Huaidong, and Song Bo did not explain the matter clearly, Song Yi naturally suspected that the so-called "handwritten letter" was a trap set by Huaidong, looking at the three Huaidong warships sailing like off-string arrows, the palms of his hands naturally pinched a handful of sweat, and subconsciously pressed his hand on the saber on his waist.

Song Bo motioned to everyone to be calm and patiently wait for Huaidong's warship to approach.

"You're here to welcome your guests when you go to sea." A warship came in front of him, and a member of the deck asked the colonel.

"Song Bo has been waiting here for a long time." Song Bo said loudly.

The warship did not respond, but after flagging the rear ship, it slid to the left flank, and the warship behind lowered a small boat, and four boatmen rowed it to this side, and at the bow stood a Confucian in a green robe. Even if it was far away, Song Bo could recognize that it was his sister who was dressed as a man, and when he remembered everything after Chongzhou's separation, his eyes were covered with tears.

Song Jia didn't think that she could climb the land of Mindong so early, and she was very excited to climb the rope ladder, and when she saw her cousin Song Yi stretching out her hand, she smiled and said: "Xiaoyi has grown up!" ”

Several Song valve disciples on the boat must have returned to the eldest sister, and they all suppressed their excitement. Although it is also taboo to let the luxury family know that the Song family is in contact with Huaidong in private, it is definitely better than letting the luxury family know that Song Jia has returned from Chongzhou.

"Sister, after so many years, everything is okay in Chongzhou?" Song Bo welcomed his sister into the cabin, and only then did he open the conversation to describe his parting feelings.

"Everything is alright, is my father okay?" Song Jia spoke, her voice was a little choked, everything was good in Chongzhou, but she always thought about her family.

"It's okay, it's okay, although there are a lot of things to worry about, but after all, it's more leisurely than before," Song Bo paused slightly, talking about his parents' shortcomings, and didn't ask Song Jia why he chose to go back to Quanzhou at this time.

The boat went ashore at Xunpu Wharf, the carriage and horses had already been prepared on the shore, Song Bo accompanied his sister to sit in the carriage, surrounded by the children of the Song valve, in the morning light, rode the horse to the direction of Quanzhou City.

In addition to the government house in Quanzhou City, the Song family built a fort in Qingyuan Mountain in the north of Quanzhou City, and drove along the mountain road to Qingyuan Fort.

Qingyuan Mountain is only seven or eight miles away from Quanzhou City, one hundred and fifty or sixty zhang high, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack in the terrain, and Quanzhou City is a horn to each other.

Although Quanzhou is cold, but the climate is always much warmer than Xu Si, although it is the late winter season, the mountains are still full of green, Song Jia opened the curtains, looked at the familiar scenery of eastern Fujian outside the window, and occasionally saw the peripheral sentinels between the mountains and forests, a heavily guarded look, and asked Song Bo: "In the past two years, my father has worked hard in Quanzhou?" ”

"What else can I do, Huaidong is closed to the sea, and the thirty miles off the coast of Quanzhou are crippled, how can it not be hard?" Song Bo said bitterly.

War has always been cruel, and it will not be because of the tacit understanding with the Song clan that the soldiers and horses of the southeast line of Huainan will give up the attack on the coastal area of Quanzhou and the scorched earth strategy. The so-called tacit understanding is that the soldiers and horses of Quanzhou withdraw within 30 miles of the coast, and the Huaidong attack controls the depth of 30 miles - only in this way can the luxury family be accountable to the past.

Quanzhou has a rare offshore plain in eastern Fujian, but it itself is also a mountain with many fields and few fields, with the five counties under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou, the mountainous area is nearly 10 million acres, but the flat fields under its jurisdiction are only more than 100,000 acres.

Pingtian is easy to carry water conservancy, the cultivation value is the largest, coupled with the warm climate of Quanzhou, more than 100,000 acres of flat fields near the sea, is the core grain production area of Quanzhou. As the war deepened, the 30 miles of land near the sea became a buffer zone for war, and there was not much left of the flat fields that could be used for farming.

Seeing that Song Bo, as the son-in-law of the Song family, was wearing homespun robes, Song Jia sighed softly and said, "I hope the war can end sooner and the people can be restored to peace!" ”

"How easy can it be?" Song Bo smiled bitterly and said, "General Yuzhang has surrendered to the Extravagant Flying Bear!" ”

"Ahh Song Jia was slightly stunned, she took a boat directly from Shanyin to the south, and after arriving in Yizhou, she contacted the Song family through the secret pile, and she didn't know the news of Yuzhang's loss on Yizhou Island. Of course, when the luxury family captured Yuzhang, the news could be transmitted from Shanguan Road to eastern Fujian, which was much faster than from Jiangzhou, Jiangning, and then from Chongzhou to Yizhou.

When boarding the ship from Shanyang, at that time, it was a matter of time before Yuzhang fell, and more than half a month had passed, at this time, hearing the news of Yuzhang's loss, Song Jia was only slightly stunned, and his face returned to normal after a while, looking at Song Bo, and said with a smile: "So, my father doesn't welcome my daughter back to her parents' house?" ”

"Father didn't say anything, the day before yesterday, your handwritten letter was passed to Quanzhou City, and his old man lived in this mountain." Song Bo said.

"The third elder is still healthy, but the uncle and the fourth uncle are all in Quanzhou?" Song Jia asked, the next thing to talk about will determine the life and death of the Song family, and it will also determine the number of Qi of the Song family for hundreds of years in the future, obviously not her family can decide.

"My father lived in the mountains and didn't meet anyone." Song Bo said.

Song Jia glanced at her younger brother and asked, "Do you think I shouldn't come back at this time?" ”

Song Bo sighed lightly and said, "Everything has to be decided by my father." ”

Song Jia sighed softly, although the luxury family suffered setbacks one after another in eastern Zhejiang, the war in Jiangxi was unusually smooth, and the luxury family didn't look like it was about to run out, and it was indeed a difficult choice for ordinary people.

Qingyuan Fort is built by sealing the valley, hidden between the mountains and forests, going up along the mountain road, you can't see how big the scale of Qingyuan Fort is, but with the slow opening of the heavy copper-clad gate "squeak", it slowly reveals the internal pattern of the depth and width of the inside.

The carriage drove in quietly, and Song Yi and his soldiers stopped outside the fort gate, only to see the steep fort gate, that is, the soldiers returned to Quanzhou City.

Song Bo led Song Jia through the hall, stopped in front of a house in the inner house, and said: "Building Qingyuan Fort, my father still insists on preparing this small courtyard for my sister in the house, saying that my sister will come back to live one day, and I will prepare a set of clothes for my sister to wear every New Year......

Song Jia walked into the small courtyard alone, there was a bunch of green bamboo planted in the corner of the courtyard, pushed the door into the house, opened the wardrobe, and there were several sets of seasonal clothes neatly stacked inside. For many years, I only felt like an abandoned child, and today I touched these clothes with my hands, Song Jia's tears couldn't help but fall, and after a long time, I changed out of my Confucian shirt and walked out.

Song Bo had been guarding outside the courtyard gate, leading Song Jia to the back garden in the northwest corner.

The people on the left and right courtyards were temporarily dismissed, and the empty garden was particularly cold and lonely in the cold morning, and the sound of every step could be clearly heard, seeing the familiar background of her father in the corner pavilion of the garden, Song Jia knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes, and called: "The unfilial daughter has seen her father!" ”

"What an unfilial girl! With King Qin as the plank road and eastern Zhejiang as Chencang, it is really from your handwriting. There are women like this, and I, who is a father, also feel like a waste! Song Fu turned around slowly, there was no joy or sorrow on his face, and directly focused on the war in eastern Zhejiang.

Before Huaidong's strategy of attacking Mingzhou, the extravagant flying bear was like a bamboo in Fuyang, and was about to invade Hanghu and directly threaten Jiangning, but in the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang-Fujian army seemed to be castrated on the eastern front, and the whole situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

It can be said that eastern Zhejiang is the most critical battle for the Zhejiang-Fujian army from prosperity to decline.

Song Jia didn't feel that the bricks were cold, knelt on the ground, and said: "Where the situation is, under the so-called firewood stove, the strategy is not just the icing on the cake, Huaidong has long had the ability to transport 100,000 soldiers and horses to land and fight by sea, even if the daughter doesn't say anything, how can the war in eastern Zhejiang be avoided?" ”

"You haven't changed at all," Song Fu flicked the sleeves of his wide robe and said, "You stand up and talk, now the Song family still dares to embarrass you, a daughter with stiff wings?" ”

"My daughter came back this time, and she really didn't want to force her father to do anything," Song Jia still knelt on the ground and said, "It's true that the luxury family is gaining power in Jiangxi today, but Huaidong has the intention of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and the father won't be unable to understand it." ”

Song Bo gasped beside him and asked, "Huaidong had long expected that the luxury family would break through from the western front, and he deliberately indulged it?" ”

"It's not intentional indulgence," Song Jia said with a bitter smile, "Huaidong was indeed pinned down by troops at that time and couldn't get out on the northern front, but Huaidong was not afraid of losing both, and he had the ability to storm Dongyang when the luxury family was advancing west......"