Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 126 The Wind and Snow Travel Together (1)
One thing, Bai Yutang really misunderstood Zhan Zhao, he really didn't go to Yanzhou for war.

The battle between Xixia soldiers and Song soldiers near Yanzhou has indeed been going on for a while, and Rusongtang tried his best to pass over the exact news several times, but due to the general’s hesitation and the battle of Sanchuankou, Yandu Supervisor Huang Dehe fled the battle, but Song Bing still suffered several defeats, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a defeated army.

Therefore, the situation in Yanzhou is only two words, stick to it.

As for Xixia, firstly, due to the heavy snowfall, the Xia army lacked warm clothes, the military discipline was loose, and they had no intention of fighting again; After besieging Yanzhou for seven days and nights, he finally ordered to return to the army.

Zhan Zhao was sent to Yanzhou after the court heard the news of Li Yuanhao's return to the army.

When he arrived in Yanzhou, he brought a handwritten letter from Prime Minister Wang to Yanzhou Zhizhou Fan Yong, waited for Fan Yong's reply, and then brought it back to the capital.

The reason for borrowing Zhan Zhaoyi from Lord Bao is because it is said that the content of the letter involves the attack and defense of Yanzhou, the mistakes in this battle and the next move. It's more appropriate.

Therefore, Zhan Zhao was selected.

When the letter was delivered, Fan Yong had a headache. He felt that the war was complicated and he couldn't reply in detail for a while, so he had to ask Zhan Zhao to stay for a few days, and he would reply this letter after careful consideration.

Zhan Zhao was arranged to live in the house of Vice Commander Li Xiaohan.

Li Xiaohan is around forty, a family of four, living in a small courtyard in the city, besides his wife Li Qinshi, he also has a daughter, Li Luoshui, and his youngest son, Li Luomin, is eight years old.

Li Luoshui has practiced martial arts with his father since he was a child, he has a good sword, and his appearance is even more outstanding. He is a great beauty praised by everyone in Yanzhou City.Zhan Zhao still remembers the first time he saw her, she was wearing a red fur cloak, standing under the sparse plum tree in the courtyard, with two or three plum blossoms at the top, she smiled at him.

Her smile was like her fiery red fur cloak, flamboyant and radiant, making her breath stagnant.

If it had been a few years earlier, her beautiful figure and radiance might have stayed in Zhan Zhao's eyes for a while longer, but now, in his eyes, all women are divided into two categories.

It's her or it's not her.

Instead of her daughter, in his opinion, they are all the same.

He smiled lightly, wearing a blue robe, simple and clean, obviously so ordinary, but seemed to have the power to darken all light.When her beauty came before him, he couldn't take a step closer.

Zhan Zhao nodded to her, and politely called her: "Miss Li."

So he stayed at Li Xiaohan's house, had three meals a day, and occasionally had dinner with Li's family, and the rest of the time, he would either stay in the room or go for a walk, or else he would spend time in the courtyard with the eight-year-old Xiao Luomin. Joke, teach him to read and write.

The days seemed to get lazy all of a sudden, and the days became very long, so long that he couldn't pass them.

In my impression, since I arrived in Yanzhou, the heavy snow has never stopped.

Whenever it snows, Zhan Zhao will be strangely silent, he doesn't talk much to others, and prefers to be alone.When night came, I slept even more restlessly.

It should be the second day in Yanzhou. Before dawn, he got up and went out. He didn't wear a cloak, but he didn't feel cold.

He stepped on the fine snow and walked out along the old alleyway at the door. When he was approaching the entrance of the alley, he suddenly heard someone talking, and subconsciously stopped.

"I don't want to go back."

"You're talking stupid again, you have to go back before dawn, otherwise your father will find out, what's the big deal?"

"I really like me, why don't you go to my house to propose marriage?"

"You also know that my father sent me to practice in the army. I have no future at all. Instead, I think about starting a family first. My father will break my leg."

"Then tonight, shall we still meet?"

"Let's talk tonight, I have to go."

After the soft comforting voice of the man, there was a series of footsteps walking away.

Zhan Zhao could hear the woman's voice clearly, it was Li Luoshui.

Li Luoshui was full of melancholy, and turned around the corner with his daughter's family in mind. He suddenly saw Zhan Zhao, and his face turned pale in an instant.

"You, you, you..." She stammered, "How could you..." Before she finished speaking, she turned around and hurried past Zhan Zhao.

It wasn't long before she ran back in a hurry.

"Master Zhan, please don't tell my father..."

Zhan Zhao didn't look back.

"Zhan is not a troublesome person."

Li Luoshui bit his lip, and mumbled, "Then, that's good..."

Zhan Zhao smiled lightly and walked away.

In fact, he didn't have any destination, he just walked around the streets and alleys of Yanzhou.

This day is just an ordinary day, except for the accidental incident of breaking into Li Luoshui in the morning, other things that happened are nothing more than normal: husband and wife quarrel, children play, neighbors call each other, vendors yell, the ordinary happiness of ordinary life is like flowing water. elbow flow.

Lunch is settled at a small noodle stall, an ordinary bowl of diced pork and three shredded noodles.He asked for another empty bowl, put all the diced meat into another bowl, and put half of the noodles in it, and then, he ate the plain bowl first.

The guy at the noodle stall wondered: is this customer a vegetarian?Since you are a vegetarian, why do you order diced pork noodles?
After finishing the vegetarian bowl, Zhan Zhao started to eat another bowl.

The buddy was even more puzzled: Since you are not a vegetarian, why do you have to eat them separately?
This question has been scratching in my heart like a cat's paw.When Zhan Zhao checked out and left, he couldn't help asking, "Guest officer, why do you want to eat separately?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and smiled slightly: "I'm used to it."

In fact, there is no special reason, and I don’t feel sad or painful when I do this, I just get used to it.

In the evening, he returned the same way, and when he crossed the street closest to Li Xiaohan's house, he suddenly found a small fortune-telling stall beside the street.

The fortune-teller has a goatee and a goatee, and sits behind the wooden case, bored, with flickering eyes, a pointed chin, and a mouse-like face, a typical street scammer.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhan Zhao's lips, and he walked straight over.

"Hey, guest officer, sit, sit!" There was a guest, and the fortune-teller was overjoyed, "Is the guest officer asking about the future and fame, or about the marriage?"

"Ask the old man to be safe."

"Wait for me to do the math..." The fortune teller put on a show, and suddenly let out a groan, and got a carrot on his head.

It was a big white radish, and the radish tassels were held in the hands of a woman with a round waist. She was aggressive and raised her hand to grab another radish.

"You charlatan, you said yesterday that my sister must have given birth to a boy, why is it a girl today? If you don't spit out all the gold, I won't be able to beat you to death today!"

"Hey, hey, you woman is so unreasonable. I said that your sister must have given birth to a boy, but I didn't say it was the first birth... Aw..."

The hexagram stall suddenly became chaotic.People who were still strolling on the street also gathered around, watching the excitement and adding firewood.Zhan Zhao sat quietly in front of the hexagram booth, and the fight behind him seemed to be a scene from another world.

I don't know how long it took before the crowd dispersed, and the fortune-teller groaned, with two bloody gashes on his face and a cut on his upper lip, before he sat back on his seat, his eyes widened: Hey, this man Why haven't you left yet?
"Ask the old man for his safety." Zhan Zhao reminded him.

"Oh, yes, my old friend is safe." The fortune-teller swallowed: This man is sick. After seeing the fight just now, everyone knows that this fortune-teller is a gangster, and he is still willing to be here. Waiting for his fortune-telling?

The fortune teller put on a show, and then pretended to be happy: "The guest officer is very happy. According to the villain's divination, the guest officer's old friend is not only safe, but also has a bright future. His future wife will be charming and his son will be filial..."

"She's a girl." Zhan Zhao reminded him again.

"Oh oh oh..." The fortune-teller was extremely embarrassed, "Slip of mouth, slip of the tongue. In short, this girl is very safe, guest officer don't need to worry..."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao showed a gratified smile on his face.

The fortune-teller gradually became less nervous, and he could see that this guest officer didn't intend to seek safety, he just wanted to hear good things.

And seeing people say good things is his strong point, and dead people can be called alive by him.

Sure enough, when Zhan Zhao left, he left him a large piece of broken silver.

The fortune-teller clutched the money and laughed from ear to ear, but his upper lip was scratched. He smiled and gasped in pain.

However, overall, I was lucky to slaughter a fat sheep today.

The fortune teller was very sweet in his heart.

When I returned to Li Xiaohan's house, it was the time when the twilight was all together.For a long time, the clouds in the sky were covered with a layer of black gold, and they were still sinking into the darkness. The smell of fried meat and vegetables came from the kitchen, Li Luoshui was reading a book under the eaves, and Xiao Luomin was pestering Li Xiaohan to tell stories.Seeing Zhan Zhao coming in, he rushed towards him: "Uncle Zhan, teach me how to read!"

Zhan Zhao knelt down and hugged him, Xiao Luomin's body was soft and fragrant, smelling very nice on his nose.

Li Xiaohan laughed: "Min'er, don't bother Uncle Zhan."

"It's okay." Zhan Zhao smiled gently, "What character does Min'er want to learn?"

"I'm going to get Dad's copybook!" Little Luomin twisted his body, broke free from Zhan Zhao's arms, and went to Li Xiaohan's study in a bouncing manner.

Li Luoshui still pretended to read a book, but he was in a panic: Will Mr. Zhan tell his father about himself?What will happen if dad finds out?
There was the sound of fluttering wings, and when Zhan Zhao raised his head, there was only the last strand of golden cloud left on the cloud layer. The twilight surrounded him, and a gray-white pigeon flew over with fluttering wings, as if it wanted to land on a plum branch.The trembling plum branches swayed a few times, and the layer of light snow accumulated on the branches fell on Zhan Zhao's shoulders.

A paper tube was tied to the pigeon's leg, Zhan Zhao reached out to take off the paper tube, and unfolded it.

When Xiao Luomin hopped and picked up Li Xiaohan's copybook and came out, he saw Zhan Zhao standing under the plum blossom tree, holding a note in his hand.

"Uncle Zhan, Uncle Zhan."

No one answered him, he curiously turned to Zhan Zhao's front, looked at Zhan Zhao's face, then stretched out his hand to break the note in his hand.

Zhan Zhao's hand seemed to have no strength, and Xiao Luomin pulled out the note without much effort.

He cleared his throat, and went to recognize the words on the note one by one: "...Ms. Mu has gone to...zhou to look for you, and we can return together. The word Ce."

Little Luomin scratched his head, and reached out to grab Zhan Zhao's lower skirt.

Zhan Zhao lowered his head.

"Uncle Zhan, what is this character?" He pointed to the word with complicated strokes at the beginning.

"Terminal."

"Oh, what about this one?" He pointed to the word in the middle again.

"Yanzi, Yanzhou's Yanzi."

Xiao Luomin was satisfied, this time, he finally recognized all the characters.

He cleared his throat and read it aloud again: "Miss Duanmu has gone to Yanzhou to find you, we can return together. Ce word."

He thought for a long time, then reached out to pull Zhan Zhao's clothes.Zhan Zhao knelt on one knee and slowly bent down.

"Uncle Zhan, who is this Duanmu girl?"

In the twilight, a gentle smile appeared on the corner of Zhan Zhao's lips: "Mr. Gongsun didn't write his name, and Uncle Zhan is also thinking about who this Duanmu girl is."

"Why do you know many Duanmu girls?" Xiao Luomin was surprised.

"No." Zhan Zhao said softly, "I only know one."

In the usual way, Gongsun Ce would never have left such a thoughtless, vague, and speculative note.

This note comes from Duanmucui's strong request.

In just a few words, Gongsun Ce stopped writing several times: "Write this way, do you want Zhan Huwei to die?"

"Why are you dying of anxiety?" Baba ran to Kaifeng Mansion but did not see Zhan Zhao, and Duanmucui was also full of displeasure.

"Otherwise, just write your name seriously. You insist on writing about Duanmu girl, Zhanwei that child... It's not like you don't know him. If you worry about gains and losses, he can live a stable life these days." day?"

"Why does he know many Duanmu girls?"

"That's not what you said." Gongsun Ce was so angry that he wanted to knock her on the head with a pen, "Of course his first reaction was you, but he must be afraid that it might be some unknown girl with the same surname as you, so he speculated like this, Mood ups and downs, not good for the body, you know?"

"I was afraid that if he saw me all of a sudden, he would be overjoyed and it would be bad for his health, so I asked you to write such a vague note, so that he could be mentally prepared first." Duanmucui felt that he was very reasonable.

"Guard Zhan has seen storms, how could he be overjoyed?" Gongsun Ce despised her, "I was not overjoyed when I saw you."

"You're not Zhan Zhao." Duanmu Cuibai said, "I'm not very happy to see you."

this damn girl...

Gongsun Ce gritted his teeth secretly, don't tell me, when he first saw Duanmucui, he was indeed overjoyed.For a moment, he turned his back and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

But after getting along with her for a short time, the specific mood when getting along with her came back: I was angry and wanted to beat her up.Also, the face of the scratching beauty that I have long forgotten and decided not to care about her...

In an instant, back to fourteen months ago, it was as familiar as if she had never left.

"You'd better leave early and get there quickly." Gongsun Ce glared at her, "Otherwise Guard Zhan won't be able to sleep well."

As he spoke, he sighed again: "Didn't you see that Zhan Huwei couldn't sleep all night long in those days, and his eyes were so bright that he could light a lamp for Mr. Bao at night. Fortunately, I forced him to drink to soothe his nerves every night." Soup."

"I know, I know." Duanmucui thought he was nagging, "I have nagged eight times."

Gongsun Ce couldn't restrain the urge to hit her with a pen again: "I want to tell you, treat Zhan Weiwei better in the future. I can see what he does every day. It's not easy for him."

"I already know." Duanmucui muttered.

Gongsun Ce was very angry, can't this dead girl be more sad?He began to recall the tender woman who had more or less contact with Zhan Zhao in the past.What a ladylike demeanor he is, his eyes turn red when he talks, and then he rolls up his sleeves to wipe away his tears; or he opens his mouth lightly and sings two heartbreaking poems, such as "I hope the king's heart is like mine!" "heart", such as "holding the hand of the son, and grow old together with the son", such as "there is no mausoleum in the mountains and the heaven and the earth are in harmony with the king." In this way, while deeply expressing the inner feelings, it can also cultivate the literary quality of the bystanders by the way, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. ...

"Okay, let Zhang Long prepare the horse for you. Go, go, go." Gongsun Ce kept waving his sleeves, as if chasing some annoying flying thing.

"I haven't seen Little Blue Flower yet..." Duanmucui muttered.

"I can assure you that Xiaoqinghua is in better condition than Zhanwei. It is almost becoming the God of Gamblers in Kaifeng Mansion, and its skill in playing flower cards is unmatched. Just ask Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and the others. , all lost under Xiao Qinghua's hands." Gongsun Ce also lost a lot of money under Xiao Qinghua's hands, and his teeth itch with hatred when he thinks about it, "I don't know what to do with saving that money...you come back I will tell it the news, it is serious for you to go to Zhanwei first."

Duanmucui pouted: "Then I'm leaving."

Outside the government office, Zhang Long was waiting for her with a horse, with a bundle on his right arm.

He helped Duanmucui onto the horse.

"Sister Duanmu, you take this with you." He handed the bundle to Duanmucui, "Both adults and husbands like Ziqin's steamed cakes, so Sister Duanmu will take this with you on the road."

Duanmucui took over the burden and was taken aback: "Ziqin?"

Zhang Long's face turned red: "It's...Miss Ke, she and her mother came to Kaifeng to file a complaint half a year ago, and then...then lived in Kaifeng..."

"Oh..." Duanmucui smiled understandingly, "Understood, please thank the passing girl for me."

"Duanmu...sister..." Zhang Long mumbled, "You won't be angry with me, will you?"

"Why are you angry?" Duanmu Cui laughed, "Because of Hongluan?"

Zhang Long stopped talking.

"What's there to be angry about? After all, you and Hong Luan haven't been together for a long time..." Duanmucui didn't know what to say, "Don't take it to heart."

Zhang Long was silent for a while, then nodded.

"Sister Duanmu, be careful on the road. Sir, you are no longer...a fairy."

"I'm not a god, I still have martial arts."

(End of this chapter)