Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1004 Long time no see

The wedding day is set for mid-May.

At the beginning of the month, the second brother, the third brother and the fourth brother returned to Beijing one after another. In these days, when my parents are still alive, the restrictions on the vassal king returning to the capital are not so strict. As long as there is a valid reason, he can come back.

The second and third children had just joined the feudal clan, and within a few months they came back to celebrate their parents' birthdays and even celebrate the New Year. After a year of doing nothing, they were all wasted on the road. Later, Boss Zhu couldn't stand it any longer, so he ordered them not to return to Beijing. They had to report the situation before returning to Beijing, and they were allowed to come back only after he approved it. Only then did the brothers settle down and take root in the fiefdom.

But this time, the sixth brother was getting married, and the brothers had to come back no matter what, and Boss Zhu didn't stop them. After not seeing each other for several years, he missed these eldest sons.

The second and third children came back together. They made an appointment to meet in Zhengzhou, and then returned to Beijing with their families.

On the day King Qin and King Jin arrived in Beijing, Lao Liu personally went to the riverside ferry to greet him. The three brothers were particularly excited when they met.

"Second brother and third brother!"

"old……"

"Sixth!"

"six……"

The three of them shouted from a distance, stepped forward on Pegasus, dismounted, and hugged each other.

"Good guy!" The third child hit the sixth brother's exaggerated pecs and saw that he was already half a head taller than her: "We haven't seen each other for a few years, and you are as tall as the second brother!"

"Camel meat nourishes people." Lao Liu smiled and puffed out his chest, rolled up his sleeves, and compared arm circumference with his second brother.

"Show...Show gestures." Seeing the thick arms of the sixth child, the second child was so happy that he was about to take a stance and wrestle him.

"No, no, I have dead muscles, useless." Lao Liu was startled and hurriedly tried to jump away, but he couldn't get rid of the second brother's hand.

He has no problem bullying ordinary people based on his size, but no matter how strong the second brother is, he can only be bullied.

"Forget it, Lao Liu is going to be the groom's official, and he has to enter the bridal chamber three times in one night." The third brother still loved Lao Liu and came to his rescue: "Second brother, if you fight this with him, he won't be able to perform well on the bridal night. Okay, I must tell my siblings that you hurt his back."

"Well, that won't work..." The second child heard this and quickly let go of the sixth child.

"That's right, your hands are itching. Wait for the fourth brother to come back in two days and beat him." The third brother patted the second brother on the shoulder and said, "That guy can't stand a beating, and he also deserves a beating."

"Good... good idea." The second child nodded and followed suit.

The sixth uncle came forward to pay homage to the second and third sisters-in-law. Zhu Jixi, Zhu Shangkang and a bunch of nephews also kowtowed to the sixth uncle. The family chatted for a long time before getting back on the road.

The three brothers rode in front, leaving the large army far behind, as if they had returned to the unfettered days before they got married.

They walked and talked, telling each other about their respective situations over the years.

After hearing about Lao Liu's experience of fighting against the Heavenly Master in Nanchang, studying as a civil servant in Guozi, going to Japan to fight Japanese pirates, and conquering Yunnan to destroy the King of Liang, the second and third brothers were all envious.

"Oh, this is what life is!" The third child pointed at the second child depressedly and said, "The sixth child is now the third prince, so we are miserable. We have been a vassal for so many years without any achievements." "Yeah." The second child said. Nod heavily.

"Didn't the second brother and the third brother go to the fortress to fight?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Don't mention it." The third child became even more depressed and sighed: "In the past few years, we have gone out to the fortress twice, and each time we mobilized troops and mobilized troops. We were there for half a year. But the results of the battle were lost. We ran out of food and grass in both times and returned empty-handed. . The soldiers complained so much that I couldn’t hold my head up."

"I...me too." The second brother lowered his head.

"What's the reason?"

"Mobei is too far away." Zhu Fan looked up at the endless sky and murmured: "Now on the grasslands of Monan, the Mongols have disappeared. If you want to find their traces, you have to cross the desert thousands of miles away. Go to the Mobei grassland to find them."

"But only when we arrived in Mobei did we realize how vast and boundless the world is." Lao San said with eyes full of awe of the Mobei grassland: "No matter if we walk for a month, two months or three months, we will never reach it. The end.”

"Too, too big..." The second brother's tone became intense.

"The Mongols are not afraid of us at all there. They hid women, children and livestock in advance, and then deliberately leaked their whereabouts and followed us." Lao San said bitterly: "We followed the traces they left and found it with great difficulty. They But they had already continued heading north. They knew that the food we brought was limited and we could not pursue endlessly, so they deliberately teased us and made us chase. Unknowingly, we were getting further and further away from the Ming Dynasty."

"At that time, some people wanted to continue chasing, while others were worried about running out of food and wanted to withdraw. Every time there would be conflicts, which directly affected the combat effectiveness. In the end, we had to take the tired army with us, and the Mongols would suddenly appear again, far away. They saw us off. But no matter how we tempted them, they did not come forward to fight us."

"By doing this, they are telling us that Mobei is their nomadic world. No matter how good we Han people are at fighting, we can't touch their hair there." Lao San gritted his teeth and said:

"But we can't just wait for them to reproduce and restore the population! Otherwise, in a decade or so, a new batch of cubs will grow up, and the Mongols will have hundreds of thousands more troops. By then it will be time for them to go south."

Zhu Zhen couldn't help but sigh when he saw the painful expression on his third brother's face. Going out again and again in vain is indeed too demoralizing and torturous.

He remembered that it was not until seven or eight years later that Lan Yu and Wang Bi caught Wang Ting of Beiyuan in Yuerhai.

Before that, the Ming army had been searching hard for more than ten years.

"Isn't there any progress on Fourth Brother's side?" he asked again.

"Don't mention that bastard, I get angry when I mention him!" Lao San said with a face: "They are not like us, they have a good husband! Oh yes, he will soon be your father-in-law..."

"Isn't that enough?" Lao Liu smiled and said, "Third brother can still say whatever he wants."

"Oh, it's human nature. If the wealth does not go to other people's fields, of course they have to help their son-in-law." Zhu Fan said sourly: "But the general loves his son-in-law very much, and every year he arranges a chance for the fourth son to show his face. . This year, he even asked him to recruit and surrender Bei Yuan’s right prime minister Nai’er Buhua!”

"Nai'er Buhua came because of the reputation of the general. The general refused to let others go, so he asked Lao Si to take Chang Mao to surrender. As a result, he successfully brought back more than 10,000 people and 20,000 livestock. He was called Lao Si The Fourth Brother showed his face. Father also said that with the Fourth Brother here, there will be no worries in Northern Xinjiang from now on."

"Is that the credit of the fourth child? Bah, it was all given to him by his father-in-law!" the third child said angrily.

"What's the point of the general giving credit to the fourth brother?" Lao Liu asked his soul: "Other than asking my father to praise the fourth brother, it is of no use to the fourth brother."

"Why is it useless? It can make him more popular than me." Zhu Fan muttered, but he didn't believe it himself.

(End of this chapter)