Invincible son

Chapter 186 185 [Bone Stealing]

Kaiping four years, September sixteenth.

The sun is shining brightly and the autumn is crisp.

A group of knights started from Green Willow Manor, passed the straight road and then went to the wild forest in the southeast.Pei Yue took the lead, dressed in strong attire, with a single sword hanging from his waist, his hair tied into a bun and pierced with white jade hairpins.

Pei Yue, who just celebrated his birthday, is actually fifteen years old. According to the unique customs of a certain place in Daliang, he is seventeen years old this year.Compared with a year and a half ago, his appearance has changed a lot.Now his height is very close to the standard of an adult, and because of practicing martial arts every day, he looks more and more vigorous, and there are thick calluses on the palms of his hands.

In the past nine months or so, apart from continuing to stabilize and expand the briquette business, he rarely left Green Willow Manor, renovating the manor while practicing martial arts and studying.The buildings and roads in the village were re-planned, and more than a dozen light and dark sentries were added on the periphery. Especially with Mr. Xi's guidance, it has a faint taste of a military village.

Behind the main house is a courtyard with heaven and earth inside. It looks normal from the outside, but inside the towering courtyard walls are a dozen or so simple but extremely sturdy houses next to each other.The walls of these houses are all made of concrete made by Pei Yue. Except for the extremely narrow skylights for ventilation, there is not even a single window.

Except for Ye Qi and Mr. Xi, no one else was allowed to approach the back yard without Pei Yue's permission.

No one knew what Pei Yue wanted to do inside.

The horse rides the autumn wind, and it's here in a blink of an eye.

Everyone stopped in the deserted forest. Except for Pei Yue, there were twelve riders in total. Among them, there were only three old faces, Deng Zai, Feng Yi and Qi Jun, and the rest were all newcomers.Besides, Pei Yue began to form his own soldiers after the year, and all the farmers in Luliuzhuang were enthusiastic, and whenever there was a boy of the right age in the family, he would send it to the head of the family.Finally, after some selection, Pei Yue picked out 18 teenagers to form his own personal army team with the previous [-] people.

According to the Daliang etiquette system, the baron can recruit 50 soldiers, the viscount can recruit a hundred people, and then add up by hundreds, that is, the duke can have 500 soldiers.This amount seems a bit too high, but the problem is that the imperial court will not take care of these soldiers, which means that Xungui must spend a lot of money to support them.

Therefore, from the founding of the country to the present, there has never been a nobleman who has recruited a full quota of soldiers.

On the one hand, they do not want to be feared by others, on the other hand, they cannot afford to support them, and the latter accounts for a greater proportion.

Salary, horses, weapons, quilts, food, plus all kinds of daily expenses, an elite soldier will cost at least a hundred taels of silver a year. Unbearable expense.

Although Pei Yue could afford to support a hundred soldiers at the moment, he would not do so.

Dormant in Luliuzhuang, he was going to act in a low-key manner, so how could he be so high-profile and provoke criticism?What's more, the young people in the village are limited, and there are not so many good seedlings for him to choose from.In addition to these personal soldiers, Pei Yue also divided the men in the village into two shifts, and they would go to the coal yard every seven days to work as errands, which could earn money without too much impact on the farming affairs in the village.

Pei Yue jumped off his horse and came to the side of a clearing in the wild forest. Looking at the several empty pits dug on the ground, he frowned slightly.

Deng Zai arranged for Feng Yi and Qi Jun to lead a few people to disperse the vigilance, then walked to Pei Yue and said, "Young master, the young master of the Qin family brought people from the Beijing camp to verify the results of the battle, and cut off the heads of those bandits. Come down and take them away, so the headless bodies of those thieves are buried here. The only exception is the head of the thieves, after the young master executed him, Wang Yong and I buried him here."

Pei Yue squatted down by the pit, touched the dry soil with his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure this is also where Fang Rui's bones are buried?"

Deng Zai nodded very positively and said, "I'm not mistaken, it's here."

Pei Yue got up and walked around several big pits, and then asked, "When were these pits discovered?"

Deng Zai looked ashamed and bowed his head and said, "Young master, our daily security is mainly around Zhuangzi. Because it is a barren forest, we rarely pay special attention to it. These pits are the ones I heard from Mr. Chen in Dongtou today, and then I came here. It was only discovered after checking, but I guess the incident should have happened earlier, but I can't determine the exact time."

Pei Yue said gently: "You're right. Judging from the soil around these big pits, it wasn't dug out in the past few days. By the way, you don't have to take this matter to heart, it's not a big deal."

Deng Zai breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in response.

Pei Yue turned and walked towards his mount. The precious horse that Pei Cheng gave him at the beginning had grown into a steed now.After getting on the horse, he said to Deng Zai: "After you go back, you call a few people and bring tools to fill these holes."

"Yes!"

Thirteen riders quickly returned to Lvliuzhuang.

After Pei Yue returned to the main house, he went straight to his study, not allowing anyone to approach, and closed the door to think about the problem.

After an unknown amount of time, a cold voice sounded outside the door: "Pei Yue?"

Pei Yue woke up from his contemplation, with a smile on his face, got up and opened the door, looked at the slim Ye Qi outside the door and said, "Heroine Ye is here, what advice can I give?"

"Stop talking." Ye Qi said angrily, and then walked into the study with a tray.

Today she is wearing a moon-blue satin skirt with white butterflies wearing flowers, which makes her figure more and more slender, and when she walks, it is like a fragrant wind blowing on her face.

Pei Yue looked at the plate in her hand, feeling uncontrollably uneasy.

Ye Qi put the tray on the table, turned to look at Pei Yue, and said with a smile, "I've just learned the white fungus and lotus seed soup, come and taste it."

"Learn it again?" Pei Yue smiled wryly.

If it is said that his most painful memory in the past nine months is the various "delicious dishes" made by Ye Qi who suddenly became interested in cooking.God is very fair, he gave Ye Qi a beautiful face, a free and easy personality, and a talent for martial arts that even Mr. Xi admired, but he didn't give her a reasonable sense of taste.

Her cooks, Mrs. Qi and Tao Hua, follow the traditional food style and don't make messy dark dishes, but the taste of these food is really hard to describe.

However, in the entire Green Willow Village, only Pei Yue can enjoy this blessing.

"I just drank a teapot of water, why don't you put it away first, and I'll eat it later?" Pei Yue moved to him and said cautiously.

Ye Qi didn't urge him, but just walked over and lifted the full teapot on the table, weighed it, and then looked at him with a half-smile.

Pei Yue sighed softly, picked up the exquisite porcelain bowl as if death was at home, and took a closer look, the white fungus was white and moist, the lotus seeds were full, and the soup looked normal.

Did she finally learn it?

Pei Yue plucked up the courage to take a bite with a spoon.

Ye Qi stared at him expectantly, and asked, "How is it?"

Pei Yue's eyes lit up, he didn't speak, he started to eat, and responded with practical actions, and quickly finished the small amount of lotus seed soup.

"I learned another dish!" Ye Qi exclaimed happily.

Pei Yue put down the porcelain bowl, wanting to praise her a few words, but after enduring it, his face finally twisted, and he said hesitantly: "You are great, but can you stop doing it next time."

Ye Qi frowned and said, "Don't you think it's delicious?"

"Indeed." Pei Yue paused, and said in embarrassment: "If you don't consider that the lotus seeds are very bitter, this bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup is really delicious."

"..."

Ye Qi froze in place.

(End of this chapter)