Embroidered color and fragrance

Chapter 207
"Can I walk from here?" Nearly Chinese New Year, the night was as thick as ink, and a group of people dismounted and tied the horse under a tree with a crooked neck on the side of the road. The girl was very excited, "I haven't done such a thing for a long time, it shows that I am too open-minded on weekdays."

She was in front, and there were seven people following behind, sometimes running, sometimes crawling on the ground, crawling like a gecko, the woman was slower but still able to keep up, and rushed all the way to the front of the barracks.

There were guards all around the camp, walking back and forth, the butter lamps were beating on all sides, and the flames were bright red.

The seven people winked and crawled in places where the light could not be reached. As they got closer, they saw six of them in six different positions. They suddenly got up, like a leopard pounced on its prey, and moved silently. The camp guards wiped their necks.

The six people kept one direction, which they had determined before coming.

One of the tall people pointed to the middle position, and then the petite person who was lying on the ground ran over, cut open the tarpaulin that separated the camp from the wind, and got in like seven mice.

Mice indeed, for they followed the smell to find the granary.

"This way." Someone pointed to the side, "I'm familiar with the smell of the granary."

The figure was dancing, and after a quarter of an hour, a horn sounded in the camp, and someone shouted: "The spies are here to burn food and grass, catch the spies!"

Dressing, drawing a knife, running, shouting, and the pawing and neighing of frightened horses.

The night that was supposed to be quiet suddenly became lively.

Seeing the hole in the tarpaulin that was cut open by the knife just now, someone came out, one, two...the people ran away without looking back.

Seven people, one quite a few, ran wildly on the road where they couldn't see the road. These rats actually burned our food and grass."

"Shen Zhan, the son of a bitch, does such a shameless thing."

And behind them, the raging fire mixed with the sound of crackling, leaped into the sky, dry firewood was poured with tung oil, and the thick smoke drifted away, making the unclear sight even more blurred, and all the places where the eyes were used, It's all about intuition.And the strong smell is even more choking, people's tears and nose are flowing.

The barracks shouted loudly, "Fire, put out the fire!"

This is their ration for the next ten days.

The seven or six people running in front were extremely fast, and the petite figure was obviously unable to do what he wanted, and the one who followed shouted, "Princess, hurry up after I die."

"No, we go out together and go back together." Su Wanru said, an arrow dinged, and was blocked by her side, she was startled and walked even faster.

She has always been running very fast.

The people behind were still scolding, they didn't look back, Su Wanru felt that she couldn't run anymore, but the horse hadn't seen it yet.

At this moment, a tall figure ran towards her, rushed over in three or two steps, grabbed her collar, put it on her shoulder, and ran away, shouting, "Run!"

The rest of the people didn't stay any longer, and ran with all their strength, only leaving a dark shadow for the people behind.

And the petite figure hanging on the tall figure's shoulder shouted excitedly: "Shen Zhan, why are you here? Did you see it? It's burning, it's over, haha."

"Be honest." Shen Zhan raised his hand, patted her butt, and warned angrily, "Go back and deal with you."

Su Wanru smiled coquettishly, and grabbed Shen Zhan's belt to prevent herself from being too embarrassed, "With you, I'm not afraid."

Shen Zhan snorted, with resentment.

The horse was right in front, and the eight people got on the horse and continued to run wildly.

Countless arrows swished down from the city wall, blocking the footsteps of the pursuers. They had to stop fifty steps away from the city wall and scolded, "Shen Zhan, you are so shameless. You are so honorable in war. How dare you burn yourself?" Our food."

With a bang, a huge boulder fell from the city wall, rubbing against the man's toes and hitting the ground. The man's legs softened from fright, and he sat on the ground with a plop.

"Simply, to use a trebuchet, despicable." A group of people went back cursing, and when they returned, the entire army's food and grass were left with ashes all over the ground.

Marquis Deqing was leaning on crutches, and the faces of Zhou Feng and Zhou Feng were clearly reflected by the flames, and their faces were much darker than black ash.

"Master Hou, what should we do?" Xu Feng sighed, not knowing what to do.

It's almost New Year's Eve, and the food and grass were burned by the other party.

"It's no wonder that a few days ago they went around grabbing people's food in our name." Marquis Deqing threw his crutches on the ground and said angrily, "We were careless."

Xu Feng looked back at the city tower, those people were laughing triumphantly, the laughter was extremely piercing.

"Your Majesty, how do you go back?" Marquis Deqing's lieutenant came over, "There will be no food at noon tomorrow."

Marquis Deqing pursed his lips and did not speak. After a while, he said: "I'll think about it again." Then he said: "Clean up this place first, don't let sparks burn other army tents."

The lieutenant should be.

Xu Feng helped Marquis Deqing go to the barracks, looking at the opposite tower, the two hated each other.

The south gate was open, seven horses rushed in, the gate was quickly closed, they reined in the horses and stopped at the gate.

Seven people, you look at me, I look at you, Yan Chong's face is covered with plaster, and the clothes on his body are still torn. Su Wanru's hair was loose, her pale face turned into a stained face, and she smiled happily, but only a row of teeth could be seen.

"Haha." Someone laughed loudly, and then everyone couldn't help laughing, Su Wanru said: "It's so fun!"

Shen Zhan gave her an annoyed look, didn't even arrange for a clear investigation, so he recklessly followed her and ran away, just to die!

"Princess." Yan Chong cupped his hands at Su Wanru, "A hero among women."

Su Wanru smiled heartily, feeling that she must be full of heroism at this moment, "Dang Yan and everyone are also full of chivalry."

"The wine and meat are ready." Shen Zhan looked at Yan Chong, "Go and eat before going to rest, and we have to hurry tomorrow morning." He said, kicking Su Wanru's horse, "Go home."

Su Wanru and Yan Chong winked and raised their eyebrows, then followed Shen Zhan away.

Yan Chong patted Zhen Quan and his brothers on the shoulders, and said, "Go and drink!" As he walked in, the brothers guarding the city along the way all joined hands with them and shouted, "Brother, good job."

Everyone laughed, really happy.

"Brother." Zhen Quan said, "The princess and third brother Su really look alike."

When Su Ji went to Liujiazhuang in the middle of the night, he took a silver ingot from the government to buy water with them. He will never forget the appearance at that time.

"Hush! Don't let the princess hear it, she will hold grudges." He said, lowering his voice, and said, "It's a family! However, Zhennan Hou seems very angry, the princess won't..."

Zhen Quan was right when he thought about it, he waved his hands again, and said, "Husband and wife fight, it's not serious. Besides, I heard that Lord Hou is afraid of guilt, so he will be fine if he doesn't get beaten."

Several people snickered for a while, and went to find the brothers who were waiting for them to celebrate.

There was a burst of yelling from the top of the city tower, and they laughed loudly, saying: "You are born as a dog, starve to death!"

The people below are also scolding.

Su Wanru was slipped back by Shen Zhan. He came back with hot water, sat her on a chair, twisted the veil and wiped her face, and muttered: "I told you not to go, you have to go, look at this face." , where did you rub it?"

"The ground is full of stones." Su Wanru touched her face, gasping for air hissingly, "I rubbed it when I was crawling forward."

Shen Zhan gave her a white look, then washed and twisted the veil and came over to wipe her neck, "You are still crawling forward, you think you are playing with August. I told you not to go, but secretly followed."

"I know I was wrong." Su Wanru muttered, "It happened on a whim."

Shen Zhan knocked on her head and said, "This is the last time. Also, don't go to Fengyang tomorrow, I'll let Lu Cheng go."

"Don't." Su Wanru promised, "I won't do things that drag you down, really!"

Shen Zhan wiped her hands as well, and only then did he see something human, but there was a very fine red mark on his tender left cheek, the more he looked at it, the more distressed he became, and he became angrier, and said angrily: " Just stay here, if you leave, I will break your leg."

"I was wrong." Su Wanru threw herself on his chest and hugged him, hung on his body, raised her head and blinked her eyes at him, "Really, I will tell you what I will do in the future."

As he spoke, he grinned at him with his teeth bared. Shen Zhan was about to speak when she suddenly held his face in her arms and kissed his lips. His heart sank and what he was about to say just disappeared. When Su Wanru let him go, although he was still stiff face, but just now he looked angry and displeased, but he couldn't support it at all.

Su Wanru said: "Though it was a thrilling night, I came back safely, right. Besides, there is still you here, right?"

Shen Zhan knocked her on the head and hugged her in his arms. As soon as his hands felt cold, he grabbed the clothes on the chair quilt and wrapped her in his arms, "Don't tell me no matter what you think, Make up your own mind, and be cautious on weekdays."

On the small bed, August Gulu turned over, sleeping soundly with his small face facing the outside, probably dreaming of something delicious to eat, and sucking his mouth.

"I came on a whim, and when I saw Yan Chong and the others were leaving, I hurried to go with them." Su Wanru said with a smile, "It's so thrilling, a bit like the last time the two of us went to burn the bandits' lair."

Every time the two of them were in a particularly embarrassing situation, and almost left their lives in Songjiang.

"This is the last time." Shen Zhan said in a low voice, "No nonsense in the future." When he came back, he saw his son asleep, but Su Wanru was not there. He asked all the way to the south gate to find out that she had gone out. If he went later, Seven of them had to die outside.

"Sir." Su Wanru raised her eyebrows, "What did you say last time, there is a pavilion by the lake? Let's take advantage of the night to go shopping?"

Shen Zhan narrowed his eyes, and then sternly said, "Don't bribe me with beauty."

"I really want to." Su Wanru rubbed against his face and yelled, "I really want to..."

Shen Zhan coughed, stared into her eyes, and asked, "Do you really want to bribe?"

"Yes, I really want to bribe you." Su Wanru said, and kissed him on the corner of his mouth, "Is that pavilion beautiful?"

Shen Zhan hummed, "beautiful," as he said, he took her hand and walked outside. Lu Cheng was bringing hot water, and when he bumped into him, he asked, "Master, do you still want to go out?"

"You stay in August first, my wife and I have something important to discuss." Shen Zhan said: "Come back later."

Lu Cheng groaned, then remembered something and asked: "Master, are you going to go up to the tower? Are you afraid that Marquis Deqing will attack the city in the middle of the night? It's okay, Qiu Rong is guarding it."

"Well, Qiu Rong has been attached for several days, let's change him." Shen Zhan said.

Lu Cheng wanted to speak again, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Shen Zhan looking at him expressionlessly, he was startled, and said, "I... I will guard August."

"En." Shen Zhan took Su Wanru's hand and left. Lu Chen scratched his head, looked at the hot water in his hand, and thought about using his own washbasin and footbasin.

The two led the horse at the door, Shen Zhan wrapped Su Wanru in his arms, and walked along the street. After walking a few steps, he met the patrolling brother, "Master Hou, are you going to do something, or tell me , I'll do it for you, you and the princess go back and rest."

"You can't do this." Shen Zhan replied, "I'll just go by myself."

The man wanted to show his expression, and kept saying: "I can, do you want to go out of the city, burn food and grass or sneak attack, this subordinate will go to greet everyone."

"Get out of here." Shen Zhan lost his patience, "They're drinking, so get out and drink after the tour."

The man was dumbfounded by the scolding, looked at the horse flying away in aggrieved way, and muttered: "Did I say something wrong?" The people around him said: "Master Hou said that he would do it himself, what are you trying to do? Blind performance."

The man let out a sigh, and then went to patrol the city.

The lake is not far away, and it will arrive after a short run. Su Wanru leaned on his chest and laughed heartily, hugged him and said, "Is there anyone guarding the pavilion?"

"In the middle of the night, don't sleep in the tent, what are you doing here." Shen Zhan took her down and carried her away, as if he would kill anyone if he saw her in a while.

Su Wanru held back her laughter and trembled in his arms, Shen Zhan snorted and entered the pavilion.

The pavilion is in the woods, surrounded by water on one side and trees on three sides. As the Chinese New Year approached, the wind blew in all directions with howls and roars. Su Wanru shuddered. Thinking about it, if she took off her clothes here, she might not feel what she felt. , and was fainted from the cold.

"It's not cold when you move." Shen Zhan said, seeing no one around, his eyes turned red immediately, like a wolf, "There's no light yet, it's very safe."

Su Wanru hummed twice, before she could speak, her lips were blocked by him...

There is no moonlight, and in the deep winter, she was cold, but she was hugged by someone like a stove, and her whole body was warmed up immediately. She sat on his lap, her clothes were faded on her chest, and the looming gully scenery was beautiful, sinking Zhan hugged her sweaty head, feeling happy and comfortable all over.

Su Wanru gasped and looked up at the sky, her heavy breathing sounded in her ears, it was just like what he said, it was not cold, but like a burning stick.

"It feels different." He kissed her. "No wonder those army ruffians say that a woman is only a woman if she has a child."

This is not about giving birth to a child, but after giving birth, a woman's body will become more sensitive, like a flower that is always in full bloom, beautiful and fragrant.

"You rascal, follow those people and learn dirty words." Su Wanru said intermittently, "You can't learn something good."

Shen Zhan got up, hugged her against the pillar, and said in a low voice: "In the army, you should be able to recite poems and fight against each other. You are so tired, and all you can think about is these things."

"Bah!" Su Wanru spat at him, and said, "Look at my second brother, he also grew up in the army, so he doesn't have the slightest bit of ruffian."

Shen Zhan snorted twice, meaningfully, "That's because he is your brother. When he gets married, you can ask your sister-in-law."

"Ahem..." Su Wanru was so tormented by him that she lost the strength to speak, and she was placed on the ground again, holding on to the railing. There were some ripples on the surface of the lake, and when the wind blew, the ripples expanded and became more and more urgent, as if still On the way back, while churning, huge waves rushed over, submerging her.

Tingzi is a good pavilion, but people are not good people. Su Wanru was wrapped in Shen Zhan's clothes and leaned in his arms drowsily. The two of them rode back and went straight to the gate of the military tent. Lu Cheng came out when he heard the voice. Seeing Su Wanru fell into Shen Zhan's arms, her expression changed slightly, "Master, is Madam injured?"

"No." Shen Zhan looked down at Su Wanru, and said in a deep voice, "She may be tired."

Lu Cheng was full of surprises, what did the master take his wife to do instead of going up the tower, and when he came back, his wife was tired?

Did he go out of the city to the barracks again?
He blocked the door, Shen Zhan couldn't carry Su Wanru down, so he said: "Go and rest, you have to hurry early in the morning, don't get tired."

"Ah!" Shen Zhan's tone was so warm that Lu Cheng suspected that someone had disguised him as him. He couldn't help but look at Su Wanru again. Her eyes were closed and her cheeks were flushed, as if she was ill. He frowned and said, "Do you want to invite the doctor?"

"Get out!" Shen Zhan said angrily, "Where did all this nonsense come from in the middle of the night, go back to sleep with you."

Lu Cheng was so shocked by the scolding that he shrank his neck and ran away.

Shen Zhan hugged Su Wanru and came down to put her on the bed. She muttered something, opened her eyes and looked at him, and said, "Well, get up tomorrow morning and wash up, and you should go to bed early too." Then she fell into a deep sleep next to her son.

Shen Zhan grinned, hummed a little song refreshedly, fetched hot water, sat on the edge of the bed and wiped her face, hands and feet...

Early the next morning, when Su Wanru woke up, there was already fighting outside the city. Marquis Deqing stayed awake all night, so Maozheng attacked the city without even beating the drum, and attacked in three directions secretly.

Su Wanru brought someone up to deliver breakfast, Shen Zhan saw that she had changed and washed, her expression was fine, so she said: "If you want to leave, try to go out as early as possible, it is likely to snow today."

"I'll leave it to you in August." Su Wanru said, "The road is too cold, it's not good to take him with you."

Shen Zhan paused, nodded his head and said, "Well, don't worry, that kid won't starve to death."

"Nonsense." Su Wanru said: "I also told Wu Ping that she will come to take care of August every day, you just need to let him go to bed on time at night."

Shen Zhan nodded, personally sent her out of the city, and said as he walked: "If the rebels get aggressive, they will kill them in the middle of the night. These people are black sheep, and it is useless to keep them." .” He was not afraid that she might not handle it well, but he was afraid that she would be in danger.

Su Wanru nodded, "Understood, I will see the situation."

"Go early and return early." After Shen Zhan finished speaking, she took Lu Cheng, Yan Chong, and fifteen people from Liujiazhuang, and led five hundred soldiers from Nancheng, all the way south to Fengyang.

Lin Zhengping ran out from an alley, saw Shen Zhan and looked outside the city gate, and sighed: "It's still a step late, it's almost New Year's Eve, my cousin is on the road alone, it's really worrying."

Shen Zhan glanced at Lin Zhengping and said nothing.

"Shen Zhan." Lin Zhengping and Shen Zhan walked towards the north gate together, "There may have been secret work in the city last night."

Shen Zhan frowned slightly, "How do you know?"

"There is a pavilion next to Yunlong Lake, you know, the corridor inside is broken. I went to see it just now, and it seems to have been photographed. You said that if you are a good person in the city, who goes to photograph the corridor in the middle of the night, you have to do it carefully. .” Lin Zhengping thought for a while, and said, “You’d better send someone to investigate.”

"Understood." Shen Zhan nodded, "I will send someone to investigate. Cousin, let's go and see the school. The holiday starts today. You need to arrange things again, gentlemen."

Lin Zhengping nodded and was about to speak when Shen Zhan had already brushed off his robe and strode away.

He shook his head, turned around and went to the newly built school in the Town God's Temple, where he took in 30 students, most of whom were unenlightened and of different ages, ranging from three or four years old to two or [-] years old.

They were divided into classes according to their age, and everything went well except for the younger ones who were a little noisy during class.

"Second Master Lin." A woman called him, and politely stuffed him with a basket of eggs, "Please give these eggs to the gentlemen, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so add some vegetables to the gentlemen."

It's hard to buy any food now.

"Then thank you, auntie." Lin Zhengping said with a smile, "I'll send it to the gentlemen right now."

The aunt went on to ask: "Did the princess leave today? I even prepared food for her. Did she leave alone? It's so cold to ride a horse..."

As she spoke, more and more people picked up the children on both sides, and they all gathered around Lin Zhengping and asked about Su Wanru.

"Some things I'm too embarrassed to say to the princess, but please ask Erye Lin to tell the princess, we...we all believe in her. Let's stop doing stupid things and listen to other people's bewitching."

Lin Zhengping nodded, remembering Su Wanru standing on the tower talking, he laughed and said: "If she heard what you said, she would definitely jump up for joy." He added: "Don't worry, I will definitely bring the words to you."

Everyone should be happy.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, but there is no celebration in Fengyang City. There are no soldiers guarding the gate of the city. deadbolt.

Walking along the main street for a while, you can see that several houses in a row have been burnt into ruins, the desolate ones are covered with snow, dyed black and white, showing decadence.

Suddenly, a woman's scream came from nowhere, "Forgive me, forgive me..."

Accompanied by the lascivious laughter of several men, the woman's cries were even louder, not far away, in a wedding shop on the side of the main street, there are many beautiful little embroiderers here, but at this moment At that time, the owner fell into a pool of blood, five or six embroiderers were pinned to the ground, their clothes were disheveled, and their faces were full of tears.

The neighbor next door heard it, but he didn't dare to come out. He secretly opened the door to take a look, and said, "Do evil!" Then he closed it in fear.

At this moment, there were footsteps on the street, followed by the sound of fighting, the woman's crying stopped, and only the man's cursing remained, "Min, who do you think you are? We, we can’t benefit from following your rebellion, why should we listen to you.”

With a bang, the man didn't speak again.

"Min is over there, he appeared." Footsteps came from the street again, and a group of people ran towards this side, "Kill that thief, Fengyang will be ours."

In the shop, Min Wang said to the woman on the ground, "Hurry up." As he said that, he pulled a nearby woman and pushed her to the backyard. The girls fearfully grabbed their clothes and hid in the backyard.

Min Wang stood at the door, looked at the dozens of people rushing over, and sneered, "It's up to you, thinking that if you turn against the court and turn against Second Brother Su, you can lose your chicken feathers and become a phoenix. You are looking for death."

"If we kill you, we will be the kings of Fengyang." The leader's surname is Long, and here he is a local snake, known as Gundilong. He didn't join the rebel army. He thought Su Ji didn't accept him at that time, so when Su Ji left, When Min Wang and the others were busy doing things to appease him, he led his subordinates to make trouble, instigated the rebel army to rebel, rushed into Dingguo's mansion, killed Dingguo, and arrested all the people in the mansion. circle.

Min Wang's two fists are no match for four hands, and he has been hiding in the city for the past two days, but he has not been idle.

"Then give it a try." Min Wang wiped the knife in his hand on the dead man, and then he swung the knife and beat a dozen people. Nearly a hundred people besieged him in the middle.

The people on all sides peeped from the windows or the cracks in the door, pressing down on their curious children, and said in a low voice: "None of them are good things, let them fight among themselves, and if one dies, one less disaster will be lost."

While talking, someone saw a dozen horses rushing into the city from the gate of the city in the dim twilight, and the gatekeeper shouted, "Who are you?"

"Your grandma." A female voice spat and shouted, "Kill him!"

An arrow hit the man's throat with a puff, and the man fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.

"Find Min Wang first." Su Wanru said: "Kill that guy named Gundilong." As for the traitorous rebels, she can say that the biggest problem is the people if others can instigate rebellion.

People can no longer trust them.

"Someone is coming." Someone yelled, followed by the sound of closing doors on both sides of the street, "They are all bandits, close the door tightly."

"Father, this bandit is a woman, and there are actually women working as bandits." Tong Yan Wuji was interrupted by his father, "You want to die, don't you, close the door quickly."

The child was dragged back, and the door was closed immediately.

As Su Wanru walked all the way, she couldn't help but be speechless, this group of people were damned, they actually burned and killed the people.

A rebel army is a rebel army, like a pan of loose sand, completely unreliable.

"Princess." Yan Chong pointed to the front of the main street, "There seems to be a fight over there."

Su Wanru nodded, and said: "Go and have a look first." She said, and rushed over with everyone, nearly a hundred people beat one person, she saw Min Wang at a glance, couldn't help but gasped, and said to Yan Chong: "There is no chance of winning." ?”

"No." Yan Chong said, "There are too many of them."

Su Wanru nodded. They also brought people here, but they won't arrive until tomorrow morning. After all, not everyone has horses. They came quickly, but most of the soldiers still had to use their legs to walk.

"Save Min Wang first." Su Wanru said, "Find a place to hide for a while, and we'll talk about it later."

Yan Chong nodded, and suddenly shouted, "Master Min, we are here!" As he spoke, there were shouts of killing everywhere, "Come on, brothers, kill these bastards."

The shouts were loud, and Gundilong thought they had many people coming, so he shrank back in fright and rushed to fight. Min Wang saw the situation, and rushed out of the encirclement immediately. Seeing Su Wanru stopped at the corner of the street, he shouted: "Ma'am, first!" Go to Dingguo Mansion."

"Okay." She thought Dingguo's mansion was not safe, but Min Wang must have a reason for saying this, she shouted, and said, "Yan Chong, bring your brothers to kill such a mob."

She shouted full of anger, Gundilong and the others looked at me and I looked at you, winked at each other, and yelled: "Get out!"

In a blink of an eye, people scattered and fled.

"Go to Duke Dingguo's mansion first." Min Wang was injured, but it didn't get in the way. He got on Yan Chong's horse, "They will find out that there are only a dozen of us in a while."

Everyone should be, and rushed to Dingguo's mansion.

Immediately behind him, the group of people shouted: "There are only a dozen of them who lied to us, don't be afraid, kill them."

Like ants, those people rushed out from all directions and rushed to catch up.

The door of Duke Dingguo's mansion was wide open, and all the valuables inside were emptied. Those people would live here at night, but now it's daytime, and there are only seven or eight people staying here to guard.

"Close the door." Min Wang closed the door, and after Yan Chong broke it, he quickly dealt with the people who rushed over and stayed behind.

There was a banging sound outside the door.

"Why did you come, madam?" Min Wang found the door bolt and pushed it against it, Su Wanru said, "Everyone has a place to guard except me, it's most suitable for me to come."

Min Wang didn't speak any more, and pressed against the door firmly.

"This won't work." Su Wanru called Yan Chong, "Find someone to resist, and they will turn over the yard and come in after a while."

While talking, he saw a man climbing up the wall, and Lu Cheng shot the man down with an arrow.

Immediately afterwards, another person popped up, staring at them like a hungry wolf.

(End of this chapter)