incense as a medium

Chapter 27
Not long after Qi Peiyun and Kang Yibang left, Xiang Bo and Liu Zifeng came back covered in blood.Liu Zifeng, who had always been somewhat introverted and even said to be shy and timid, was actually full of excitement. After the Bai family looked at him several times to make sure that he was not injured, he knelt down in front of Liu Su's: "Mother! I'm going to join the army!"

"Join the army?" Bai was taken aback, and opened her mouth to ask regardless of her dignity: "What do you want? Why do you want to join the army? Swords have no eyes, and your body is so thin, and you have such a temperament. How do you communicate with people in the military?"

Bai Shi was anxious because her eyes were red, but Liu Zifeng knew that the key to joining the army lay in Liu Su Shi, so she ignored her biological mother and only looked up at Liu Su Shi, with a rare determination in her eyes, There was even a bit of fanaticism: "Mother, my son is not weak! My son killed three Tatars today. The Tatars have plundered our borders and killed our people for many years. Now my son is capable of defending his home and country." , begging mother to allow her son to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy for the country!"

It can be said that Liu Zifeng was brought up by Liu Sushi, so how could he not know his temper?But in the end it is not her own son, she sighed, and said: "Your parents are your parents. I am your aunt, but not your biological mother. For such an important matter, it is up to your biological mother, Aunt Bai, and the master." That's right. As long as they agree, I have nothing to say. There is only one thing. If you don't agree to join the army, you can't sneak away and worry your family. And if you join the army, the master and I will definitely not go for you Relationship, Tuomen Road will allow you to rise to the top, not to mention that we are the family of criminals, your promotion will inevitably be much more bumpy than others, if you make contributions in the future, if you don’t get the rewards you deserve, you shouldn’t harbor resentment.”

Liu Su's words were very clear, and Liu Zifeng hesitated for a moment, obviously feeling aggrieved for not getting what he deserved.But he quickly figured it out, he was from the Liu family, he had enjoyed the glory brought by the Liu family before, and now he had to accept everything that this identity gave him, and use his own efforts to regain the former honor for the Liu family.

The sons of criminal ministers are not allowed to be official within three generations, but this means that they are not allowed to take the imperial examination.There is nothing in the court law that says that military merits cannot be used to seek fame.This is also a method for the resurgence of the family of criminals that the emperor tacitly and even acquiesced to.

Although this method has disadvantages, it is very likely that someone has a grudge against the court and uses the power in their hands to retaliate after they have power in their hands. However, because the emperor has made a lot of rules and regulations on it, so far no Just any trouble.

After thinking through all this, Liu Zifeng's eyes became more determined, and he said decisively: "My son goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy, not to make meritorious deeds! The son doesn't care if he gets promoted or not! The son doesn't care if he is wronged or not!"

Liu Su's eye circles were red, and she turned her head to wipe away her tears.

Bai's hugged Liu Zifeng and started to cry.

Seeing that none of these people could speak, Liu Bailu went forward and asked Liu Zifeng in a low voice to help Bai Shi back to his room to talk about himself.As soon as they left over there, Liu Su grabbed Liu Bailu's hand and sighed repeatedly: "It's really hard for you. If the Liu family is still here, why are you here?"

Liu Bailu knew that Liu Su was thinking about the Zhou family's resignation, she smiled relaxedly and said, "Look at what my mother said, especially the fact that we can control the political parties in this dynasty? What's more, what's the matter in the capital?" Okay? It’s uncomfortable to be surrounded by rules and regulations. Now here, although the place to live in is a little smaller and going out is not cheap, it’s much easier than inside the capital.”

Liu Bailu's words were very true. Liu Sushi was very heartbroken by Liu Bailu's thoughtfulness and understanding. She patted Liu Bailu's hand and said, "My good boy. You were frightened today, go and rest quickly."

"Yes. Mother, let's rest for a while too." Liu Bailu got up and saluted, then retreated, turned around and entered the kitchen.

Today the Tatars came here for food. Although Kang Yibang led people to arrest those Tatars later, the food was lost a lot because of the fighting.When Liu Bailu entered the kitchen, Shuangjiang and Yuniang had already finished counting the stored food, and seeing Liu Bailu coming in, Shuangjiang stepped forward and said, "Half bags of rice and millet are left, but all the flour is useless, and there are still some vegetables left. Pickled bacon and other things can't be eaten either."

Liu Bailu nodded slightly, and asked, "How many more meals can I have?"

Yu Niang said: "The rice can be eaten for half a month, and the vegetables are only for one day."

Liu Bailu thought for a while, and said: "The loss in the store has not been counted yet, but it should be a heavy loss. Let's forget about today. Tomorrow Yuniang will go to Yongkang Pass with Xiang Bo to buy some rice and come back. Wait for the loss in the store. After counting, go to Kangding Pass to transport some rice back."

The Liu family's rice, grain and groceries shop usually imports goods from Kangding Pass, because there are fewer wars in Kangding Pass than Yongkang Pass, so the price of food is relatively stable.

Yuniang agreed, remembering that Liu Su said before that she would sell Han, she asked, "Miss, what should Aunt Han do?"

Liu Bailu lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "After all, she belongs to the father, and she also gave birth to a son for the Liu family. After all, it is not good for the mother to dispose of him beyond the father. It is necessary to explain it anyway. I think we should wait." Let's talk about it when Dad comes back."

That night, Liu Junge hurried back from the barracks, knowing that Liu Bailu was injured because of covering Liu Su and others, so he gave her a good reprimand, and immediately asked Xiang Bo to knock on the door of the grandmother's house in Xiongtang County, and sent Han He sold it directly to the matchmaker at the price of ten taels of silver, and ordered the matchmaker to sell him far away as quickly as possible.

When he knew that Liu Bailu was rescued by Qi Peiyun, Liu Junge was quite surprised. He had met Qi Peiyun several times in the Yongding Army, but only from a distance, and he didn't know him well, and he didn't know that he was Qi. Pei Yun, when he heard that he was Qi Zhen's son Qi Peiyun, he was very surprised: "I remember that the Qi family boy was very clever when he was young, why is he like that now? I also heard people say that the Qi family boy was in Yongkang Pass He is a well-known gangster, a local ruffian, not to mention the brothel Chu Guan all day long, and he also provoked a rich lady to pester him every day, and bought a food delivery brand just for him. Yongding Army, she must follow."

Liu Sushi sighed: "A good boy, if he stays in the capital, he might be a son of Guijie, a young talent."

Liu Bailu murmured disapprovingly, "Maybe he's a dude."

Liu Sushi turned her head and glared at her, and said to Liu Junge: "Zi Feng is going to join the army. The court's attitude towards the son of a criminal minister joining the army, the master is very clear. Although there is no express prohibition, he will suffer a lot of grievances after all. .”

Liu Junge was quite surprised that Liu Zifeng was going to join the army, but a man's vision is different from a woman's, and his thinking is far-reaching: "If he wants to, let him go. A man has to experience on the battlefield before he can grow. Zifeng This kind of temper can't be better if you experience it in the army."

Since Liu Junge agreed, Liu Su no longer objected, and waited for Liu Zifeng to convince Bai Shi to nod and help pack.

Before dinner, Liu Zixuan brought Liu Zimo back from the academy, but did not see his aunt, Liu Zimo made a fuss, and was finally put in confinement by Liu Junge, so the family had a good meal.

After listening to Qin's talk about the day's events, Liu Zixuan was terribly afraid. He almost reprimanded Liu Bailu according to Liu Junge's original words, and then looked at Liu Bailu's tightly bandaged neck and asked Asked: "Will there be scars?"

Mrs. Qin glanced at Liu Bailu, and said sourly in her mouth: "How can there be scars? Mr. Qi asked General Kang for a box of high-quality wound medicine given by Concubine Kang. Needless to say, the medicine, the medicine The box is priceless."

"When did your eyelids become so shallow?" Liu Zixuan glared at Qin Shi.

Qin lowered her head aggrieved, but she also knew that she couldn't refute her husband in front of her parents-in-law, and make her husband ashamed.If in the past, no matter how much she and Liu Bailu quarreled, they always disliked each other, but it was the first time that they were so shallow-sighted today. Who made life worse now?I have a son under my knees, and there will be sons and daughters in the future, so how can I not plan for my children?So Qin's became more and more cautious.

Liu Bailu rubbed his neck, said with a light smile, "Brother don't worry, sister's injury is fine."

Seeing that Liu Bailu was really fine, Liu Zixuan talked to Liu Junge: "I told Uncle what happened today. Why did General Kang bring someone back by such a coincidence?"

Speaking of this, Liu Junge's eyes were filled with admiration and admiration: "General Kang is worthy of being a young talent. It turns out that what happened today was caused by General Kang. Some time ago, the army received a tip that the Tatars were going to send troops to Yongkang Pass to plunder. However, General Kang felt that something was wrong, so he pretended to go to Yongkang Pass to fight against the enemy yesterday, but stopped to rest on the way. In the middle of the night, he saw that Xiongtang County was attacked by Tatars. General Kang came back to help, by the way Unearthed the secret work of the Tatars buried in Xiongtang County."

Liu Bailu frowned, disapproving of Kang Yibang's approach: "So, General Kang took all the people in Xiongtang County as bait? In his eyes, tens of thousands of lives Is it not life?"

After the battle in the early hours of this morning, not to mention how many garrison troops in Xiongtang County died, or how many innocent people died in Xiongtang County, five people from more than twenty families in Lihua Lane alone died.

Liu Zixuan glared at Liu Bailu, and shouted: "Sister, don't go out so much. On the battlefield, there are many things like taking human life as bait. If my sister said so, this battle would not have been fought."

Liu Zifeng didn't know what he said to persuade Bai Shi to let him join the army. After that, he spent most of the day looking through all the military books and history books at home. Hearing this, he continued: "Big brother is right, big sister, you don't know, sometimes a war In order to confuse the enemy, tens of thousands of soldiers were used as bait. There are even some who took the initiative to use as bait to lure the pursuers away in order to cover the retreat of the army."

(End of this chapter)