Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 218 The poem bracelet in the handkerchief, the beauty

Beauty Tan's mouth was slightly opened, and her teeth bit her pink lips to leave a pale white mark. She then lifted up her teeth with a bit of gloss, and her lips were filled with blood, just like the bloody rose.

She looked up at the young man, her jade eyes were red and full of anger: "You bastard, you actually let me..."

She was really embarrassed to say the next words.

"Cough cough."

Chen Mo, who had finished tidying up, coughed twice, hurriedly brought the tea, handed it to Xia Zhining, and said: "Zhining, rinse your mouth."

"I'll settle the score with you later." Xia Zhining took the tea and muttered, then came to the bronze mirror, arranged her clothes and hair, walked out of the study, spit out the tea in her mouth, and raised her hand to wipe it At the corner of his mouth, he was really angry, so he turned around and cursed "bastard" before leaving.

……

Xia Zhining took a deep breath, and then forced out a smile. At this time, she felt more calm. She pushed the door and walked into the wing.

Xia Zhiqing sat in front of a strip of sandalwood table. On the table was an open book of novels. She held a copper hand stove in her arms. The hand stove was wrapped in a blue brocade bag. When she heard the movement, she looked up. He glanced at him and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Seeing her sister's face shining brightly, like a spring flower, like a newly blooming stamen, Xia Zhiqing's beautiful eyes paused and asked: "Zhining, where have you been?"

"Didn't you tell me to go to the toilet?"

"Why did it take so long?" Xia Zhiqing had already noticed that something was wrong with her sister, because she went to the latrine specifically and called out a few times, but she didn't hear a response. Then she looked inside and saw that there was no one there at all.

"Diarrhoea." Xia Zhining said without blushing, then called Chunhong and asked her to prepare hot water for a bath.

Showering and changing clothes after going to the toilet is a very common thing for nobles.

Xia Zhiqing did not reveal it yet.

……

Xia Lin.

As winter approaches, temperatures plummet.

People generally believe that today's winter is colder than the previous two years.

Due to the unusually high temperatures and severe droughts in summer in the past two years, people in the North have an illusion that there is no autumn and that they have suddenly transitioned from summer to winter.

The Tianshi sergeant under Yang Minggui breathed in the mist, rubbed his hands, and opened the stainless steel lock outside the resettlement camp door. Then he instinctively covered his nose and pushed the door open. Suddenly, the smell of feces and urine filled the air.

Due to the fluctuations of the civilians some time ago, when the civilians were resting at night, when the civilians returned to the resettlement camp, the Tianshi Army would lock the outside.

This means that once someone wakes up at night, they can only be dealt with in the resettlement camp.

The soldier covered his nose, picked up the iron bar on the side, and beat the door while saying: "Don't sleep, don't sleep, it's time to get up and work!"

In the resettlement camp, the peasants, like pigs, huddled together, the straw under their bodies was already damp. When they heard the soldiers' shouts, they opened their sleepy eyes and stepped onto the leaky straw sandals like zombies. , endured the hunger and cold, and walked outside.

The howling cold wind swept in from outside, making them hug their arms and shiver.

A middle-aged man saw that his companion didn't get up, so he raised his hand and patted him, saying, "Fu Sheng, get up. If you're late, you'll be whipped again."

After saying that, he put on his straw sandals.

But when he finished putting on his straw sandals, the man he called Fu Sheng didn't respond, so he turned Fu Sheng's body lying on his side and said: "Still asleep, wake up."

Soon, a scream sounded in the resettlement camp.

"What's your name?" The Tianshi sergeant came over dissatisfiedly holding an iron rod.

"Fu Sheng, he is dead." The middle-aged man pointed at the man who was Fu Sheng and said with a sad look on his face.

After the Tianshi sergeant approached, he knelt down to check, and immediately frowned. Knowing that he was freezing to death again, he stood up and cursed: "Death is death, have you never seen a dead person? What a fuss." "

After saying that, he walked towards the outside of the resettlement camp, intending to report to the superiors.

Recently, more and more people have frozen to death in Xia Lin. Among the people who froze to death were not only civilians in the resettlement camp, but also Tianshi soldiers.

Of course, more civilians froze to death.

Yang Minggui is accelerating the construction of the Heavenly King's Palace, consuming a lot of manpower and material resources. He is not rich at all, and is extremely deprived of the people below, let alone the civilian workers who work.

Many people cannot wear winter clothes, and those who wear winter clothes are sent by their families.

And this kind of thing is not resistant to freezing at all.

In temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero, many people wore only two single clothes made of coarse linen. They ate little and worked too hard. Dozens or hundreds of people died every day.

Under such high pressure, Yang Minggui did not care about whether these civilians would rebel. He only cared about the increasing amount of work.

Xu Mu noticed it and reminded him, but Yang Minggui ignored it in order to meet the deadline.

The reason why the Tianshi Army was able to succeed was not because they had the support of thousands of working people. They couldn't stand the oppression of the imperial court, so they rebelled.

And now, they couldn't bear the oppression by Yang Minggui.

At noon, the peasants who had finished their work saw that their lunch was porridge with wild vegetables, and the rice grains in it were very sparse. Some people expressed their dissatisfaction.

But because his voice was slightly louder when he expressed his dissatisfaction, he was immediately whipped mercilessly by the supervisor.

But no one expected that the man who was beaten was armed with a sharp weapon and used a sharp short wooden thorn to kill the supervisor.

This man's name was Li Youwen. His parents wanted him to become an educated person, but they didn't expect that he would become a pig butcher in a slaughterhouse when he grew up.

Li Youwen was a very loyal person. After being forcibly recruited as a civilian husband, he often helped his companions, so he had a certain reputation among the civilian husbands. As a result, a riot broke out in the Heavenly King's Palace.

But this was an unprepared riot.

It ended in a disastrous defeat.

The furious Yang Minggui beheaded Li Youwen with his own sword, and some of the leaders were also ruthlessly killed.

In order to frighten this group of refugees, Yang Minggui used the heads of these people to build a Beijing temple in the open space in front of the Tianwang Palace.

Xu Mu was afraid that something would happen, so he proposed to reward the three armies and all the civilians with food, hinted at reducing the workload, improved the accommodation environment in the resettlement camp, and explained the dangers of not doing so.

Yang Minggui gritted his teeth and agreed. This time he was bleeding heavily, so he wanted to find someone to share the burden.

It's definitely not possible to look up, we can only look down.

Further down, there is only Chen Mo from Pingting County.

He went to Xu Mu to discuss.

"Shuai Qu, I'm afraid Chen Mo won't agree this time. The Heavenly Master has appointed him as one of the thirty-six Fang Qushuai to take over Song Niu's position. Although he is only a small Fang Qushuai, in terms of level, he is on the same level as you, Qushuai." I no longer need to take orders from you." Xu Mu said.

Hearing this, Yang Minggui frowned and said immediately: "I have promoted him favorably. In Yuzhou, if I hadn't made him one of the deputy generals in the five armies, he would have had the opportunity to become Qu Commander." ?He is where he is today because of my commander-in-chief's contribution.

Moreover, I gave Qingting County to him. Qingting County is rich in resources and has salt lakes. He took advantage of it. He should remember my kindness. Now that I want something from him, how could he act so ruthlessly and unjustly? Act of.

Besides, although he and I are on the same level, after all, he is just Xiao Fang, a sixth-grade warrior, while I am a fourth-grade warrior. How dare he disagree? "

Hearing this, Xu Mu frowned and said immediately: "That being said, we have already asked him to speak a few times. If there is no justifiable reason, it will not sound good to say it out."

"So, shouldn't I discuss this with the military advisor?" Yang Minggui said with a smile.

Xu Mu was walking back and forth when he suddenly had an idea and said: "Qushuai, yes, this year will be over soon. After all, both Qingting and Pingting County are your territory, Qushuai. When you nodded, , he can occupy Pingting, so Qu Shuai can collect next year's tax from him.

In this way, it is justified and even if it causes trouble with the Heavenly Master, there will be no fault. "

"Shan." Yang Minggui put his arms around Xu Mu's shoulders and said with joy, "I knew the military advisor had an idea."

……

December 16th.

In Pingting County, the sky is clear and the wind is gentle.

Chen Mo finally ushered in the clear sky, greedily absorbing the purple energy of the sun that had not been seen for many days.

After absorbing the purple energy of the sun and shooting arrows for most of the morning, he slowly arrived at the Yamen.

But who knew that not long after he sat down, Xia Zhining came over and asked him why he still didn't act.

It turned out that he was anxious.

After all, Xia Zhining took a lot of courage when she agreed to Chen Mo's method.

Now every day that passes is a great torture for Xia Zhining.

Xia Zhining was wearing a blue coat skirt, her lush hair was tied up with a jade hairpin, and her face was beautiful. Chen Mo also saw that she had a light makeup on her face. Apparently, she was also wearing it when she came to see him. Specially prepared.

Chen Mo pulled her into his arms and sat on his lap. Of course, he didn't forget to travel around the mountains and rivers. He pecked the corner of her lips and said, "Don't worry, mountain people have their own tricks."

……

On the other side, Xia Zhiqing looked at the snowy scene outside the window, and suddenly she felt inspired. When she wanted to compose a poem, there was a sudden knock on the door: "Madam."

It's spring red.

"Come in." Being interrupted, Xia Zhiqing frowned slightly, but unlike her sister, she didn't have the slightest thought of irritating others.

Chunhong walked in slowly, holding a brochure bag in her hand, bowed and handed it to Xia Zhiqing, saying: "Madam, this is what I asked me to hand over to you."

The master Chun Hong talks about is Chen Mo.

Xia Zhiqing's delicate body trembled, and she asked subconsciously: "What is inside?"

"This is from the master to the eldest lady, how could I know this?" Chunhong said.

Xia Zhiqing took it and was about to open it when she thought of something and said, "You go down first."

After the spring red faded, Xia Zhiqing took out a folded handkerchief from her brocade bag. She opened the handkerchief and found a snow-white jade bracelet inside, just like her skin.

She picked up the bracelet and was wondering what Chen Mo wanted to do by giving it to her.

Suddenly I saw a poem on the handkerchief.

There is a beautiful woman in the snow, her beauty is beyond compare.

The spirit is like spring lake water, and the eyebrows are as beautiful as Chundai Mountain.

The water lotus is overwhelmed by the wind, and my heart feels pity for it.

Lovesickness has become a disease, but I still don’t hear it.

(End of this chapter)