The general's wife is sick

Before the [-]-mile army from the northwest reached the east coast after trekking thousands of miles, the inspecting officials from the capital arrived in the northwest first.

Emperor Xuande saw the power of the gunpowder bomb described by Xiong Jinghai in the secret book, and he was very curious about the gunpowder bomb. The urgency to find out made him order the officials who had been to Yuzhou before to set off again despite the severe winter and heavy snow.

The heavy snow along the way affected the speed of the carriage. Even if they didn’t want to travel in the cold winter months, but the sacred order was hard to violate. Zhang Shilang and Zhou Shilang wished they could ball themselves in the carriage. I'm afraid that even the quilt will have to be draped over my body for my own face.

Just because the two were lucky enough to know Yuzhou personally before, although there was no silence in the carriage at this time, the two of them had no hope for Yuzhou from the bottom of their hearts, and there was a trace of sarcasm in their words.

"Going this time, maybe Yuzhou will have a different scene."

"After the heavy snowfall, there should be no mud in the streets that the carriages can't get out of."

"Have a full meal?"

"I'm afraid that if we meet someone who freezes to death, the two of us will have to help."

Zhang Shilang and Zhou Shilang looked at each other, let's go this time and have fun!

The two chatted about other things, but they never mentioned the emperor's secret decree.

Before leaving, Emperor Xuande announced the two into the Shangqing Pavilion. Among the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, these two servants were deeply hidden. They appeared to be Zhao Yongnian's people, but they were secretly loyal to Emperor Xuande.

Emperor Xuande informed about the gunpowder bomb, and ordered the two servants to witness with their own eyes whether the gunpowder bomb was as powerful as Xiong Jinghai described.

When the carriage drove to the boundary of Yuzhou, what caught the eye was the sky full of white snow and hemp trees everywhere. The red paint on the boundary marker was still conspicuous in the snow. Zhang Shilang lifted the curtain of the car, "We have arrived in Yuzhou."

"Go to the posthouse to rest!" Zhou Shilang also came over.

Half a month's journey had caused their bones to fall apart. The conditions of the post on the Northwest Road became worse and worse, and no meals were provided. At this time, they no longer cared about whether the post was moldy or whether there were rats biting at night. Shoes, the two just want to rest in bed for the whole night.

The carriage entered the main city of Yuzhou, and the groom sat in front of the carriage and asked, "My lord, we are only less than a day away from Fuzhou. Should we go there today or rest in Yuzhou overnight?"

Zhang Shilang was a little surprised, they had already made up their minds to rest in Yuzhou for a night, why did the coachman ask again.

"What happened?"

When the groom saw that Zhang Shilang opened the car door and bowed to appear beside him, he hastily tightened the reins, fearing that if he let go, the speed of the horse would make the lord stumble.

"Master Zhang, look!"

The groom pointed his horsewhip at the bluestone slabs on the road and the snowdrifts that had been swept at one corner, "The road here is a stone slab road, and the snow on the road has also been swept away. If the road ahead has always been like this, even if you walk slowly, you must be fine." When it’s time to hold the lanterns, you can also reach Yingkou in Fuzhou.”

"Master Zhou, what do you think?"

"Go, hurry up, get to General Xiong's territory earlier and feel at ease earlier."

The carriage in front moved, and the carriage carrying luggage behind followed suit, and several carriages headed towards Qinzhou.

Sure enough, the two adults arrived at the Fuzhou post house before lighting the lamps, got off the carriage, and plunged into the room of the post house, and asked for hot water when they heard that there was hot water in the shop.

Xiong Jinghai came down from the barracks on duty, and then someone went to the barracks to report the arrival of the two servants, but they couldn't be found, so the messengers turned around and went back to the mansion.

Hei Yun stopped, and the concierge welcomed Xiong Jinghai into the mansion, and the reporter followed closely behind Xiong Jinghai, watching him enter the courtyard.

"General Bear!"

The messenger shouted, Xiong Jinghai stopped in his tracks and turned around to ask, "What's the matter?"

"The two servants of the capital have arrived!" In the cold winter months, the messenger's head was full of heat, and his breath was filled with white mist. It was obvious that he had traveled all the way.

Xiong Jinghai saw that someone in the mansion had started to light the lamps, he waved his hands indifferently, "The two adults have traveled hard, and now it is freezing cold, let them rest for a night, and the general will go to the posthouse to meet them tomorrow morning!"

The messenger who was sent away was shocked. The adults came from thousands of miles away. Shouldn't they meet with their superiors first to show that they are well-mannered?

The concierge saw his doubts, and he persuaded, "Our general explained that tomorrow is tomorrow. The adults must have come from a long distance, and they must be cold and tired. You should go back and take care of them. You two adults will rest early tomorrow morning and see you later." Not too late."

Since the opening of Young Madam's "Eight Treasures Residence", we General Xiong haven't had a meal in the barracks for a day, and we always come back by ourselves when it's time for dinner.

Today, unless the emperor came to Yingkou in person, no one could stop Xiong Jinghai from returning home for dinner.

In the post house, Zhang Shilang and Zhou Shilang were relieved when they heard the arrangement. Xiong Jinghai didn't want to see them at this time, and they also didn't want to see Xiong Jinghai at this time.

Stretching their feet into the hot water, the two adults looked relaxed and enjoying, and sighed in unison, "It's so comfortable!"

Early the next morning, Ji Liu got up early to dress Xiong Jinghai.

When he first arrived in Fuzhou, it was Xiong Jinghai who took care of him. Later, Ji Liu found out that Xiong Jinghai's service came at a price. Originally, it would not take a cup of tea to dress and tie his hair, but Xiong Jinghai intervened, and the two of them would be together He ran amok on the bed until Xiong Jinghai couldn't even eat, so he rode his horse and went to the barracks.

After coming down several times, Ji Liu's heart ached. Even if the food was prepared and sent to the barracks, it would have lost its original taste, so he took over the work of getting up and dressing in the morning.

Xiong Jinghai opened his hands to watch Ji Liu circle around him, his heart was full at this moment, he stretched out his hand to tease Ji Liu, but was slapped open.

"Don't make trouble, Zhang Shilang and Zhou Shilang are probably already waiting for you at the post house at this time, you go earlier and take them to eat something casually in the breakfast shop first."

"I don't want to go!"

"If you don't want to go, you have to go!" Ji Liu rolled his eyes at him, "You've been fooling around all day, so be careful when they go back and read a book for you."

"What about me?" Xiong Jinghai became serious again, "Participating in my intoxication with gentleness? Participating in loving my wife like life, and making mistakes due to love?"

Before Ji Liu could speak, Xiong Jinghai took Ji Liu's hand and fastened his buckle with one hand, "I have such a beautiful wife and three lovely children. Even if I am disarmed and return to the countryside, it is reasonable to go back to the countryside , if you provoke me, I will take you to find a mountain and build a house to live in!"

Ji Liu suppressed a smile, her peach blossom eyes were shining brightly, full of affection, "Then, don't I have to carry water for cooking, laundry and chopping firewood every day?"

Unexpectedly, Xiong Jinghai really thought about it for a while, "How about this, let's carry out this plan after the three of them grow up, so that one of the three brothers will carry water, one split firewood, and the other does laundry!"

"Then who's going to cook?"

Xiong Jinghai put his arms around Ji Liu's slender waist as always and said, "Then let Liu'er have another baby, no matter male or female, I will leave the cooking to him!"

Ji Liu was about to laugh like crazy, and thumped him playfully, "Which parent doesn't expect their children to become dragons and phoenixes, but come to you to arrange for the children to wash and cook early, doing nothing!"

"I don't think it's doing nothing. Well, it's getting late, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for dinner today."

"Let's go to Bazhen House at noon. I'll draw up the menu in advance and let Xiao Er serve the dishes."

"It's settled like this. I'll go first. The little fat guys are still awake at this hour. Go back to sleep again." Xiong Jinghai kissed Ji Liu, left a wet saliva mark, and turned to leave the room.

But Ji Liu had no intention of going back to bed, they all knew why Zhang Shilang and Zhou Shilang came here, Ji Liu went to the kitchen, he made some snacks for Mrs Ji and Master Sima.

Because he has been busy with gunpowder and ammunition, he just said hello to the two old people on a daily basis. It was still early today, and he happened to have time to bake a cake.

The oven is made of mud, and the charcoal is fired to raise the temperature inside, and then the small cakes and biscuits that need to be baked are put in. Except that the fire is a little difficult to control, the cakes baked in this way are still very delicious.

The sky was bright, and the candles in the room of the two servants had already been lit. They came in the name of inspection, and the surface work still needed to be done, so the two adults packed up early in the morning, and only waited for Xiong Jinghai to come home.

Xiong Jinghai was followed by Dai Mengyun. He was the emperor's hand-picked master bookkeeper and had the right to report directly to the emperor. The two servants were also the best of the best, and no one was so stupid as to look down on him.

"General Xiong, Master Dai!"

"Master Zhang, Master Zhou!"

The four greeted each other, and the surrounding sky gradually brightened.

"The two adults came from afar, did you rest well last night?"

"The post house is very good, and the bedding is warm. This is something that Mr. Zhou and I didn't think about. I thought I had to prepare Mrs. Tang again." Zhang Shilang said with a smile.

In the early morning, the air in the northwest was dry and cold, Zhou Shilang shivered a little, "General Xiong, are we going to the barracks first today?"

Xiong Jinghai said, "I got up early and haven't eaten breakfast yet, the two adults can have breakfast, why don't we go together?"

The two servants are not smiling, there is no food in the post house in Fuzhou, and you came so early, do you expect them to get up in the middle of the night and have breakfast before meeting again?

Dai Mengyun smiled and said, "The general just likes to joke, two adults, let's go to the barracks after breakfast."

While the four of them were talking, the early morning breakfast stalls in Yingkou arrived at the street one after another. Those who boiled water, cooked noodles, and fried noodles, the whole street was steaming for a while.

"Huh?" Zhang Shilang looked at the whole street curiously, surprised in his heart, the street is so busy in the early morning, is this really Chizhou?

Zhou Shilang was also puzzled. He was even more puzzled than Zhang Shilang. The streets, which are so prosperous, really don't look like a poor place. On the contrary, they are comparable to the capital.

They were at a loss, but they didn't know that since many workshops were built in the outer city of Yingkou, the main street in the inner city, the only way for everyone, has become a place for workers to have breakfast.

Children in private schools basically don't need adults to worry about them, and those with husbands working in the military camp need to take care of themselves.

Because the outer city expanded outwards and was a little farther away from the inner city, the female workers working in the workshop found that eating breakfast on the street was much less worrying and labor-intensive than getting up before the rooster crowed.

And the copper coins for a day's work are really nothing compared to having a breakfast outside.