Chapter 186 Two Little Girls
Zhao Yulin came to the center of the courtyard of the inn with a confused look on his face. As expected, Liu Fengxian was standing in the courtyard with her little girl, smiling. He took two steps forward to greet her, and Liu Fengxian actually leaned over to whisper in his cheek...
Zhao Yulin was stunned at first, then he smiled and said, "No problem, no problem. Let Ruyan go with you to Jiading to see the Buddha. I will take good care of her."
He then ordered his guards to set off.
Geng Feihu immediately called for everyone to leave. Zhao Yulin rode in front on horseback, and Liu Fengxian's carriage was in the middle. They went all the way to the dock. Surrounded by the crowd, Liu Fengxian took her daughter onto the official ship. The woman was polite to Zhao Yulin, and after instructing her daughter to be obedient, she reluctantly got off the ship.
Zhao Yulin waved his hand and the official ship quickly cast off and left the shore.
He turned and entered the cabin, where two women, one big and one small, were already sitting upright.
The little girl Liu Ruyan stood up immediately and said with a blushing face, "Brother Yulin, Sister Qu is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. If you are bored, I can play the piano for you to relieve your boredom. You must save me."
Zhao Yulin burst out laughing. He patted the little girl on the shoulder and told her to sit tight, saying that they were on a boat and it was bound to sway from side to side. She should be careful not to fall.
The little girl stuck out her long tongue towards Miss Qu, and leaned over to sit next to Miss Qu, holding onto the wall of the cabin.
Before leaving, Liu Fengxian had whispered to Zhao Yulin that Miss Qu's name was Qu Tao, and she was the daughter of the largest jewelry merchant on Qintai Road. A few days ago, she suddenly got into trouble with the law, and the inspector arrested her father and a group of family members, and closed her family's shop. Even Lord Ding suspected that someone had done this maliciously for money and murder.
Miss Qu hid in Wenjun Restaurant. Liu Fengxian was at a loss. After secretly reporting to Lord Ding, she finally found a solution to the problem yesterday, which was to let Zhao Yulin take the girl away temporarily for protection.
Miss Qu saw Zhao Yulin's silly smile and thought he was peeping at her beauty and flirting with her. She immediately said with a frosty face: "Although I am a refugee, I must be wronged. Please don't worry about anything else, Lord Zhao."
Ouch, Miss Qu is exaggerating.
Zhao Yulin was disdainful, pointing at her hair and saying with a smile, "Cut it and change your clothes." He asked the captain of the guard to find her suitable clothes. Then he went to lie down in the next room to take a nap.
Liu Ruyan pulled Qu Tao aside and asked her sister why she was so angry. Brother Yulin never asked for anything in return for what he did, and he was not the kind of person she imagined.
While combing her hair, Qu Tao angrily said that all men are perverts. Didn't the inspector send people to propose marriage to her several times? It's better than her getting married. Her father also has several wives, so what? In the end, only her mother accompanied her to the prison cell.
Qu Tao threw down the comb, took the scissors handed to him by Liu Ruyan, and started cutting his hair. Strands of black hair fell to the ground, and soon only short hair was left.
The guard brought in a military uniform and saw that her hair was still long, so he told her to keep cutting it. The young master said that she was a woman dressed as a man and she must not be exposed.
Qu Tao touched his shoulder-length hair and asked reluctantly, "Do you want to cut it again? It's already short enough."
Liu Ruyan took out the bronze mirror and asked her to look at it. Does she look like a man?
Qu Tao muttered, I am originally a woman, how can I become a man?
That being said, I sighed and picked up the scissors...
In Chang'an in Guanzhong, Huo Fenghuang was also combing Shunzhidi's hair.
After Cao Youwen returned to Guanzhong from Chengdu, he gave some instructions to Miao Gui and withdrew all the troops of the Military Administration Office to Lizhou. Passing through Hanzhong, he also went to find Huo Fenghuang and asked her, the chief military officer, to go directly to Chang'an to take charge of the reorganization of the army.
Lao Cao was reminded by his wife that now the armies in Hanzhong and Guanzhong are all organized into the Shenwei Army, and Zhao Yulin is implementing a series of new policies. It would be better to move the Administration Office to Lizhou. Without those old bureaucrats holding them back, it would be easier for Brother Yulin to do his job.
Lao Cao thought it was a good idea to stay out of the matter and see it clearly. He could also help Zhao Yulin when it was critical. He completed the relocation of the Production and Construction Division in a hurry.
While combing the girl's hair, Fenghuang asked Shunzhidi: Don't you miss her brother Yulin?
Don't you even ask what your brother is doing?
Shunzhidi's face turned red and she said angrily, "Of course we were just sightseeing on the prairie and flirting with each other."
Fenghuang hit her with a small comb, and said with a smile that the little girl was really good at talking. My brother was injured in the rebellion of the Zamp in Hongyuan and almost died.
"Ah." Shunzhidi screamed and turned to look at Fenghuang hurriedly to ask for clarification, but Fenghuang grabbed her hair and was combing it, and both of them became flustered.
Fenghuang smiled and said, "Look, you still can't let it go. My brother is just slightly injured, it's okay, he will go to Chengdu after recuperating in Baoning Prefecture."
Then, Phoenix sighed again and said, "It was a close call. After the first battle, there were less than two hundred guards alive, and your brother had run out of bullets."
Yangjin is having a hard time in Baoning Prefecture, so why doesn't she come out to do some work?
Shunzhidi said that she was very wise and wanted to be the queen of Tubo. Didn’t my brother say that we should start from Baoning Prefecture, and the Shenwei Army would unify Tubo step by step.
Fenghuang asked her with a smile, "Are you jealous?" She was so young but she spoke sourly. "Our Shenwei Army wants to recover the territory of the Song Dynasty, and my brother wants to recreate the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties. We are not just a small Tubo."
Shunzhidi burst out laughing.
The old maid next to her comforted her, saying that Xiao Zhidi was thinking about her brother Yulin in her heart, but the brother didn't even look at her and didn't even give her a piece of paper. How could a girl in love not be angry?
Fenghuang revealed a secret which made Shunzhidi deeply curious.
She said that Ge'er clearly remembered that in his previous life he used mobile phones and WeChat to chat with Koukou. He didn't even need a brush to write letters. The two people could look at each other and talk on the phone even though they were thousands of miles apart.
Seeing that Zhidi was stunned, she spoke with great confidence, saying that Ge'er had promised her that if Zhidi still wanted to marry him when she turned sixteen, they would get married right away.
Shunzhidi blushed immediately.
The old lady said unhappily, "Sixteen? That means we have to wait for almost two years. Our Zhidi is already an old maid. Which girl doesn't get married early?"
Fenghuang smiled and said, "Didn't she get married when she was 18?" My brother said that it's bad for a woman to get married early, and she will be better at giving birth when she's older.
Shunzhidi had red apples on her face and ran out with a comb in her hand.
The old lady behind them laughed and said that it was difficult for this girl. Did they really want to let her go out to work on her own?
Fire Phoenix sighed and said that there were not enough people. Our Shenwei Army had expanded to dozens of columns at once, and she had only trained two of them. How long would it take to finish the training at this rate? Some corrupt generals knew that they were doomed and had already started to flee. They could not delay the important matter of their brother.
Therefore, she discussed with General Staff Miao and decided to send people from the Central Army Headquarters to conduct joint training with the Military Discipline Inspection Commission and to start the operation in groups.
On the tower of Chang'an, Luo Mingqiu was following Xiao Yan's buttocks and guarding the Qinling Mountains. I lay on the battlement and murmured, I don't know where the commander is, is he safe?
Xiao Yan often asked Luo Mingqiu to accompany her for horseback riding, and she would mutter to herself in the corner. Why did the commander disappear?
Why don't you come and see her?
Luo Mingqiu vaguely felt that the little princess had fallen in love with Zhao Qi'er, a capable general whom his father loved and hated and wanted to kill. He did not dare to report this important information to the Lin'an Palace, but only mechanically reported "Safe, safe, safe and sound" every half a month.
Alas, what an injustice, Luo Mingqiu sighed in his heart.
He had already received news that Zhao Yulin had nearly lost his life in a rebellion in Baoning Prefecture, but he did not dare to tell Xiao Yan, so he let the little princess tell it herself.
At the West Lake in Lin'an, Kuang Sisi received a lot of information. Xiao Yan didn't dare to write directly to her mother, so she always sent the letters to Hong Sheng's home, who came with her. Hong Sheng's mother then opened the letter and saw that the small envelope inside was from Kuang Sisi, so she secretly delivered it to him in the name of delivering vegetables.
Kuang Sisi has received two letters from Yan Zi: in the first letter, the little girl said that she had encountered a shipwreck, but was rescued by the commander of the Shenwei Army and arrived safely in Nanzheng, where she is studying in the government. The second letter said with great joy that she became the military discipline inspector of the Shenwei Army and put on military uniform to train the Shenwei Army.
Kuang Sisi read her daughter's joy and confidence from Yan Zi's thick stack of letters. The fear and anxiety in her heart had long been eliminated, replaced by a sense of peace of mind and tears in her eyes.
The emperor came once during this period. When he told her that Yan'er had been found, safe and sound in the Shenwei Army camp, and that he had sent Eunuch Luo to protect her, Sisi pretended to be surprised, with a thousand expressions of gratitude and endless excitement on her face. She served the man beside her with all her tenderness, making the emperor once again realize her boundless grace like a mighty river and her great and majestic manliness.
A night of spring is worth a thousand gold, but time passed too quickly. It was almost dawn, and the emperor kissed Sisi helplessly and went back stealthily.
Zhao Yulin returned to Jiading after two days of bumpy ride on the boat. Chen Chen happily welcomed him, but saw that his face was blue and he was coughing from time to time. He asked him with a smirk: Did you catch a cold in this hot weather?
He covered his mouth and coughed twice, then made a mumbling sound as a response.
Zhao Yulin looked at the capable woman jumping around. She didn't look like she was pregnant at all. It was obvious that she had been deceived by Wu Yuqi and the others again.
When they got home, Zhao Yulin felt surprisingly tired after his nerves relaxed. After a good night's rest, Chen Chen gave him a bath, only to find that the large bruises on his back had not yet disappeared. He cried out of heartache.
Zhao Yulin touched the woman's face, smiled and said, "You're still as vigorous as ever. It's okay."
Only then did the woman burst into laughter.
After they had breakfast, he met his sister.
Duan Xiaolin and his friends have already toured all over Jiazhou. If Zhao Yulin doesn't come back, he is afraid that they will have to go to Chengdu for sightseeing.
The family was having tea in the flower hall, while a group of children were running around in the yard.
Zhao Yulin told Duan Xiaolin directly that it was impossible to share taxes with them this year, and starting next year, they would follow the old rules. The financial pressure this year was great. There was already a shortage of money, and various places were increasing their investment to make money. Where would there be extra money?
