Cangzhou beacon fire

Chapter 10 Zhong Yao as Father
There were many good things in Dianzhou City. First, there was a great victory in Jinxi, and then the palace announced that Concubine Li gave birth to a prince.

For Zhong Yao, he has one more good thing than others. He is also going to be a father. He has been married for three years, and he has been waiting for this day for a long time.

Zhong Yao was walking back and forth nervously in the hall, and there were several generals from the new battalion beside him who followed Zhong Yao, wherever Zhong Yao went, they followed, as strict as followers.

"Why are you following me around? Sit down!" Nervously, Zhong Yao looked behind him, angry and funny at the same time.

Zhong's home city Yunshui City is not far from the capital Dianzhou City, only about ten miles. Although the Zhong family's home city is Yunshui, all his family members are in the capital city.

As the commander of the first battalion of the new battalion, Xiang Zheng looked nervously at Lan Tian, ​​the general of the second battalion, and asked, "Is giving birth to a baby more dangerous than going to the battlefield? Look, brother Yao is nervous."

Lan Tian shook his head blankly: "I don't know, maybe it is." The two battalion commanders, one seventeen and one eighteen, seem to be young children to ordinary people. The scene has changed.

When the maid next to her heard this, she covered her mouth and snickered.

Zhong Yao glared at the maid: "Go down." Then Zhong Yao looked back at the group of new generals, the biggest one was Zeng Wan, the 21-year-old commander of the third battalion.

He pretended to be displeased and said, "I told you not to come, but if you insist on coming, can you help me if you come?"

Xiang Zheng said with a smile on his face: "No one in the camp knows what it means to have a baby. I heard that he was close to death and his sister-in-law is in danger. Can we not come?" The other generals nodded in agreement.

Zhong Yao has a headache, these idiots...

"Young master! The young mistress gave birth, both big and small!" The door of the side room in the hall was opened a little, a maid poked her head out and said, Zhong Yao and a group of new camp generals all stood up nervously.

"Big and small are safe! Great, haha, the baby is born." Excited, Zhong Yao and a group of generals cheered and hugged each other.

"Master, you don't care if it's a boy or a girl?" The maid pouted and looked at the group of elders outside the door with disgust. It was the first time she saw a group of men so excited about having a baby.

Only then did Zhong Yao react: "Yes! Go away, go away, go away! Make trouble." He hurriedly pushed away all the generals.

Zhong Yao looked at the maid and asked, "Is it a girl? Or a boy?"

The maid just smiled and kept quiet on purpose, while Zhong Yao and a group of generals behind him just waited eagerly for a reply.

"You said it, I'm so anxious, don't say I'll beat you." Xiang Zheng couldn't help it, and cursed.

The maid stuck out her tongue towards the card: "Okay, okay, I won't tempt you anymore. It's a boy! A fat boy!" The maid smiled and closed the door.

At this time, Zhong Yao was in the same mood as a believer meeting Qiangong by chance. He jumped up excitedly and shouted: "It's a boy! The Zhong family has a son!!"

Instead, several new battalion generals whispered to each other.

"This is going to happen? Is it dangerous?"

"There doesn't seem to be any danger, does it?"

"Hey, it's a boy, then I can teach the young master how to ride."

"Then I'll teach the little master how to cut off a person's head with one blow."

"No, no, cavalry, spear skills are the most important, like stabbing a bunch of people with a single shot, like skewers of human flesh."

All the young generals looked at each other and smiled in satisfaction.

Zhong Yao turned his head and stared at them: "Hurry up and go back to training, don't be an eyesore here, just roll around."

After being chased away by Zhong Yao, everyone could only leave in frustration. Before leaving, they still complained that they didn't even see the young master.

Zhong Yao looked at their leaving backs, and his expression suddenly became serious. These children, the matter of finding a teacher in the school can't be delayed any longer...

After a long time, the midwife came out with a baby in her arms, and said with a smile all over her face, "Congratulations to Young Master Zhong for becoming a father. He will be a big and strong boy in the future!"

Zhong Yao took the baby, and stared at him with staring eyes, unwilling to move away. The baby's eyes were closed tightly, and he fell asleep peacefully in Zhong Yao's arms, moving his small mouth from time to time.

"This is my baby, hehe." It was the first time Zhong Yao felt this way. He felt that his responsibility was heavier and there were more things to protect. This was the future of the Zhong family. His body trembled involuntarily when he was so excited. stand up.

"Can...?" Zhong Yao looked at the midwife suspiciously.

"Yes." The midwife understood and nodded with a smile.

Zhong Yao looked at his son sleeping peacefully in his arms with loving eyes, and then kissed him on the forehead.

An hour later, White Night City and a handsome 28-year-old man came to congratulate him.

As soon as he entered the door, the handsome man cupped his fists and said in congratulations, "Yao! You've become a father too, congratulations."

"Hai Changping! Why are you here?" Zhong Yao looked at the handsome man and asked in surprise.Marquis of Changping Zhao Yue, the half-brother of the monarch Zhao Yan, the former monarch once wanted to abolish the elder and establish the younger and pass the throne to Zhao Yue, but the ministers objected to give up the idea.

After Zhao Yan ascended the throne, he granted Zhao Yue the title of Marquis of Changping. Zhao Yue knew that his elder brother was afraid of him, and since then he rarely stepped out of the house. Today, Zhong Yao was really surprised when he went out.

Zhao Yue pretended to be displeased, waved his hands and said: "Call me Yue, Chang Ping Hou sounds weird, and it's only half a year since we haven't seen each other, so it's so strange?"

Bai Yecheng put his shoulders on the shoulders of the two, shook the wine bottle in his hand and said: "It's a rare double happiness today. Yao became a father and jumped out of the house. I have brought the wine. Today, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

"Okay, if you don't get drunk, you won't go home!"

Inside the Xixu Hall.

"What?! Zhong Yao has become a father too. Zhao Yue went to congratulate him? It's unlucky that Zhong Yao has a son, and he has to rush to the same day as my prince. It's really unlucky!" Hearing Zhao Kong's words, Zhao Yan became slightly upset.

Zhao Kong frowned, shook his head and said, "Oh, brother Wang, that's not the point. The point is that Zhao Yue went to congratulate Zhong Yao."

"Oh, Zhao Yue hasn't gone out for half a year, right?" Zhao Yan responded.

"Brother Wang and Zhong Yao gave birth on the same day, Zhao Yue didn't come to celebrate Brother Wang first, but went to Zhong Yao's first. This is disrespectful."

Zhao Yan rubbed his chin: "Well, how about punishing him?"

At this moment, the servant of the outer door came in, presenting a gift in his hand.

"Just put the presents outside, why bring them in?" As soon as the news of Concubine Li's birth of a prince spread, civil servants and military officials came to congratulate one after another, and the gate of Xixu Hall had already been piled up densely, full of gifts.

"My lord, Changping is waiting for the trustee to send a congratulatory gift to the king, and I must present it to the king."

Hearing this, Zhao Yan went up to the bed and opened it to see a palm-sized golden tribute statue, exquisitely handcrafted and very gorgeous.

"The golden statue made by Bai Xiaoming's workshop is beautiful! This Zhao Yue still has a heart." Zhao Yan saw that the gift was heavy enough, and his displeasure disappeared in an instant.

Zhao Kong didn't seem to be willing to go like this, he continued: "But if he doesn't come to congratulate the king, he is contemptuous of the king!"

Zhao Yan looked at the golden statue in his hand, waved his hands and said, "Forget it, I don't want to see him either."

Fifty miles outside Fengshui City.

The night was dark and the wind was high, and on the hidden forest path, the sound of wooden carts rolling over the ground kept coming and going, and a convoy of grain transport was slowly advancing under the moonlight.

Li Tong rode his horse on one side of the team, directing the team to move forward.

"Keep up! Come on!"

At this time, a scout from the front came back, Li Tong went to ask, "How is it, is the front safe?"

"General, the front is safe."

Li Tong could not help but relax a little, and said with a sigh of relief: "Okay, continue to explore." The food and grass were allocated from the Zhong family's territory, and Li Tong did not dare to neglect.

"Yes" the detective agreed, reined in his horse and disappeared into the night.

For several miles ahead, everything was safe and sound. Li Tong, who was vigilant, couldn't help but look to the forest on the left. It was dark and quiet.

Something is wrong!Li Tong looked up at the sky suspiciously, and faintly saw forest birds flying up, his pupils constricted immediately, the forest birds, flies and insects were silent, there were people inside!

He raised his gun and shouted: "There is an enemy situation! Be alert! Formation!"

However, it was too late, "咻—咻—咻咻咻" countless sharp arrows in the dark forest shot towards the convoy with the sound of piercing the air.

The enemy attacked suddenly, and before the Yue army could respond, sharp arrows rushed towards them. Countless Yue army soldiers fell to the ground with arrows and howled everywhere.

After Li Tong managed to fend off several sharp arrows, he hurriedly blew the warning whistle. A long and sharp sound pierced the night sky, startling the forest birds into flight.

Accompanied by the thunderous killing cries, the densely packed Sanyuan army rushed out of the forest and headed straight for the Yue army ration convoy.

The Yue army, which was still active, pulled out a machete from the grain cart, and faced the Sanyuan army, and the hand-to-hand battle began.

"Don't stop the driver, hurry up!" Li Tong knocked over a Sanyuan soldier who was approaching, and yelled at the convoy. There were [-] grain guard teams at the front and back, and they would gather here as soon as the guard whistle sounded.

A deputy general drove his horse to Li Tong's side and said in a panic, "General, no, there are too many enemy troops, you should go first."

"I'm leaving, and my morale will be lost. Before the front and rear food protection teams arrive, hold me back!"

At this time, Lin Nei walked out of another three-yuan bow and arrow team, and the leader was Qi Sheng, the left general of the three-yuan army.

With a gloomy face, he pointed at Yuejun's grain transport lane: "Light it on! Aim at the grain truck! Don't let me let one go."

The archery team behind Qi Sheng took out the torches they had prepared earlier, wiped the fire and ignited the tarpaulin tied to the sharp arrow head.

A row of rockets passed over Li Tong's head. Li Tong's desperate eyes followed the movement of the rockets, watching the rockets land on the grain cart one after another, and the sudden fire burned his heart to the bottom of the valley.

At this time, the grain guard cavalry at the head of the convoy arrived first, and Li Tong yelled at the grain guard cavalry: "One team! Attack the archers over there, hurry up!"

The food guard cavalry was ordered to speed up towards Qi Sheng and the bow and arrow team with their guns in hand.

Qi Sheng sneered, waved his hands and said, "Block them."

As soon as the command came out, an infantry team with shields and spears on both sides marched forward, blocking the front of Qi Sheng and the bow and arrow team. The shields were set up with spears on the ground, and the tip of the spears pointed directly at the roaring Yue army cavalry.

An hour later, the battle was over. Among the corpses strewn all over the battlefield were those from Sanyuan and some from Yueguo. More than a dozen grain trucks were still burning, and the smell of ripe wheat permeated the entire forest path.

Qi Sheng stepped over the corpses and looked at the messy battlefield. He smiled. Since the fall of Fengshui City, he hasn't felt so comfortable for a long time.

　No one seems to watch it... It would be a lie to say that I won't lose, but I won't give up.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)