It was rainy. The drizzle and the north wind danced together, falling and falling, knocking down the yellow leaves and soaking the dry road, urging the pedestrians in detention to speed up their pace and reunite with their relatives and friends as soon as possible.

Yizhou, in Ba County.

On the official road in the southwest of Fuling County, a caravan of more than 300 people moved forward quickly against the oblique wind and drizzle, and went all the way west along the not wide plank road.

On the surface, this caravan was no different from ordinary caravans, the scale was not small, and each carriage carrying goods was full of goods, which were covered with linoleum in order to protect the goods from rain, showing that these goods were valuable and valuable. However, if someone deliberately pays attention, it is not difficult to find that this caravan is extraordinary, and it is definitely not an escort team that ordinary merchants or gentlemen can have, and there are many things that are different from ordinary caravans.

For one, the caravan consisted of five large and luxurious high-canopy carriages, all of which were two-horse carriages. Among them, the carriage in the center is particularly conspicuous, and the ruts are extremely wide, which is obviously inconsistent with the current law of merchants riding carriages. If it is a horse herd who drives the carriage for the official eunuch clan all the year round, it can be seen at a glance that the carriage itself is not a two-horse car, but a prince who needs four war horses to drive side by side.

Second, the horses used in the caravans were extremely special. Not only are there quite a lot of them, but they are all fine horses with smooth and shiny manes, each of which is a high-grade war horse worth a hundred gold, and it is extremely rare to have a price. And there were more than 300 horses in this caravan, one for each caravan. There was also a surplus, which was unique among other caravans, except for caravans selling horses.

Third. It is also the most eye-catching phenomenon, which is that the team of servants escorting the caravan is very large. There were only more than 30 wagons carrying goods and five luxury cars in the entire caravan, but more than 300 people escorted them along the way. On average, each carriage was escorted by as many as ten servants, and all of them were burly and strong. And equipped with a long-handled broadsword and an iron sword, the eyebrows naturally exude a fierce and violent atmosphere, and two horse teams on the left and right are formed on the way. Consistent and methodical.

This is too terrifying!

Because of this, no one along the way dared to take a second look at this caravan, lest they be targeted by these big men with tall horses and fierce eyes. so as not to get into trouble. Asking for trouble.

Not only did the pedestrians on the road not dare to approach the caravan, but even the guards at the checkpoints and city gates along the way did not dare to provoke this imposing caravan, because they held the customs clearance guide issued by Shi Zhaowei, the governor of Yizhou, and the entourage team escorting the caravan claimed to be the personal army of General Wu Yi, the general of Fenwei Zhonglang, and held Wu Yi's famous assassination. Since then, no one dares to stop this caravan in Yizhou, and it has traveled unhindered all the way, and the post stations along the way are also warmly received. Be respectful.

It goes without saying that this large caravan was the Xiliang caravan that entered Yizhou from Hanzhong. Sitting in the princes' car was the current general Li Li, and the military advisor who came to Yizhou with him, Zhuge Kongming.

The people sitting in the other four luxury carriages were Li Li's four beautiful wives and concubines and their personal maids. They are: Ren Hongchang, the fourth-ranked wife, He Ying, the eighth-ranked concubine, Ma Yunluo, the twelfth-ranked and the thirteenth-ranked concubine Xiao Qiao. In addition, Zhuge Liang's wife Mihuan also followed, she was Xiao Qiao's best friend, and she was sitting in the same carriage with Xiao Qiao at the moment.

It is worth mentioning that the four wives and concubines who came to Yizhou with Li Li this time were all unanimously elected by Li Li's many wives and concubines. In fact, they elected a total of five sisters to follow their husbands to Yizhou, and the top of the list was Dian Wufang, whom they called "enchanting stunners". However, Dian Wufang couldn't help but secretly run to Luoyang before, when Li Li's army was defeated in Jizhou and returned to Luoyang from Bingzhou, so the husband and wife were newly married, and they were in love with each other. It wasn't until Li Li's army went to Xuzhou that Dian Wuflaw reluctantly returned to Chang'an, not admitting that by the time Li Liban's division returned to Chang'an, Dian Wufang was already two months pregnant.

Due to the inconvenience of Dian Wufang's health, there were vacancies in the five places that followed Li Li to Yizhou this time. For a while, the other sisters were very excited about this place, and at this moment, Li Xin, the eldest lady in the main room, spoke: "It is not suitable for long-distance bumps if you are pregnant, and the children of the other sisters are still young and cannot do without their mothers, so they can be accompanied by the four of Hongchang." ”

Having said that, all the sisters knew that there was something in Li Xin's words, and this hidden meaning was also their unanimous voice: "Select the sister with the best appearance and posture to accompany her husband, and let her take a good look at our sisters, who are not inferior to her in terms of appearance and figure!" ”

This "she" is the purpose of Li Li's hidden identity and quietly infiltrating Yizhou.

She is Li Li's woman like Li Xin, Dian Wuflawless and many other sisters, but she is a special shave, she is not by Li Li's side all the year round, she is unwilling to live in the General's Mansion, she does not want any title, and she has never even met Li Xin and others. In other words, she and Li Li have been privately married for many years, except for Ma Yunluo, Li Xin, Dian Wuflawless and other more than a dozen sisters have never seen her, and they have never appeared in public, as if the dragon has seen the beginning and the end.

However, all the women know that this mysterious woman occupies an extremely important position in the hearts of their men, and she is already a special existence that cannot be replaced. The reason why Li Xin, Dong Wan and Dian Wuflawless and other sisters are sure that this woman is very important to Li Li is because as far as the women know, this woman has only been together with Li Li twice in the past three years, and each time they have only been together for ten days or half a month, but she is already the mother of two children. What does this mean?

There were only two reunions, and they got along for just half a month, but she didn't go empty every time, and gave birth to a son and a daughter one after another. It is not difficult to imagine that the intimacy after every time she meets Li Li is really affectionate and blending. This situation is not unfamiliar to sisters such as Li Xin, Dian Wufeng and Cai Yan, because they have all experienced the same situation, and they are deeply infatuated with their man and give birth to an heir for him.

And the reason why Li Li decided to go to Yizhou in person this time is because this woman gave birth to her second child in mid-June this year, which is a girl. Li Li had promised her before, saying that if she could not make it to the appointment this year, he would rush to Yizhou to find her in person. I don't think about it, what Li Li said last year is a prophecy. Just when Li Li's army was defeated in Jizhou, he received a secret letter from the Chang'an General's Mansion, and Dian Wuflaw handed over the secret letter to him personally. And Dian Wuflawless also took this opportunity to eat aggressively, but he ate too hard and held on, so that he missed the opportunity to accompany Li Li to Yizhou to visit the mountains and rivers and make up for a "honeymoon".

It was this letter of the safety of the mother and daughter that made Li Li, who had suffered a big defeat, sweep away his decadence, regain his fighting spirit, and be proud. From the defeat of Yecheng in late April to the expedition to Xuzhou in early June, Li Li only spent a month resting and recuperating the army, and then set off again, fought continuously, and captured Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

In late August, Li Lijun returned to Chang'an, and for nearly two months he stayed with his wife, concubines, and children. During this period, he handed over all the military affairs to Li Xuan, Jia Xu, Li Ru and Zhuge Liang, while he himself took his wife and children to play around and enjoy the joy of family. Until the cold winter approached, Li Xin, Cai Yan, Dian Wufin and others urged him to go, and there was a woman in Yizhou who was raising a pair of children alone and was still waiting for him.

In fact, Li Li has always been thinking about Mengxin and a pair of children who are far away in the mountains of Yizhou, looking forward to his arrival day and night, but the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, which is really difficult to choose. Therefore, if Li Xin and Cai Yan did not take the initiative to mention this matter, he would really be difficult to talk about, and it would be impossible for him to leave the wives and concubines and children in Chang'an and rush to Yizhou thousands of miles away.

Fortunately, Li Xin, Dong Wan, and Cai Yan are all women who love him wholeheartedly, they are ice and snow, and they are very good-natured, and they can be described as good women who pay equal attention to beauty and wisdom. They all know that Li Li and Mengxin have an agreement to have a tryst once a year, and they also know that Mengxin has been raising her and Li Li's son alone, and now she has given birth to a daughter for Li Li.

Both mothers and women who love Li Li can understand Mengxin's loneliness in an empty house all year round and the hard work of raising a pair of children alone. Therefore, although they have a lot of complaints about Mengxin's maverick personality and self-style, they do not reject her existence, and they know how difficult it is for her. So, after the women discussed privately, they resolutely decided to let Li Li set off as much as possible, so as not to wait for Mengxin in Yizhou, but he never waited for Li Li's arrival.

However, more than a dozen sisters such as Li Xin, Cai Yan and Chen Yu were quite dissatisfied with Mengxin's behavior of not seeing the sisters for so many years, but seducing their own men and refusing to let go. So they secretly discussed and decided to select sisters with good looks, figures, and temperament, as well as gentleness, thoughtfulness, and strong martial arts among the sisters to accompany Li Li to Yizhou. Obviously, they wanted to give Mengxin a little color, so that she would know that the sisters in the Chang'an General's Mansion were not vulgar fans, nor were they greedy for wealth and nobility, whether it was appearance, intelligence, or body martial arts, they were not inferior to her.

Of course, this qiē can only be carried out in secret, just let Mengxin know this, but it can't be placed in the open, in case Li Li detects it, he thinks they are jealous. It is Ren Hongchang, He Ying, Xiao Qiao and Ma Yunluo who shoulder the high hopes of the sisters, but nominally take care of the food and clothing of her husband Li Li along the way, and make a special trip to invite Mengxin to go to Chang'an one day to reunite with the sisters.

It was a battle between outnumbered women, and it was also a silent war.

There is a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, and they fight without declaring it, fighting both glamorous and witful, regardless of victory or defeat, just to win the hearts of men.

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