Brother Wanfu

Chapter 88

"Thank you, Princess, for your kindness and virtue! The grass people will repay the princess for their kindness in the next life!"

The young cook knelt down and kowtowed, the panic on her face was not fake, Qin Tian asked her in a low voice.

"Get up now. What's the matter?"

The cook told the story in a trembling voice.

She is the cook in charge of the pastry on the stove. After finishing her work on the stove in the evening, she prepares the dough for tomorrow, but the dough needs to be sprinkled with water several times before going to bed at night. She has already sprinkled water on both sides. Thinking of sprinkling it again, it will be just right for tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, when she came to sprinkle water on the stove for the third time, she suddenly heard strange movements outside. She thought that someone was coming to the stove to do things like her, so she went to the door to look.

Suddenly, someone rushed out from the darkness, covered her mouth, dragged her to the dark place.

The cook screamed again and again, but was held tightly by someone. She struggled hard, but the other party was a man, and she had no possibility of breaking free.

It wasn't until the princess sent someone over to check, that she heard footsteps making non-stop movements again, and the person covering her saw that the situation was not good, let her go and ran away.

It was late at night, the moonlight was not very clear, and the little lights on the side of the road were dim and bright.

Qin Tian couldn't help feeling a little chilly.

"Who is who? What are you going to drag?"

When she asked this question, she saw that the cook was a little disgusted and unspeakable.

"I heard from one of them, let me cooperate honestly and serve you well tonight, and you won't treat me badly"

Looking at the whole villa, apart from the princess, there are only women in the kitchen.

But Qin Tian was stunned for a moment, "You mean one of them?"

Wei You obviously also grasped this point, and asked the cook, "How many people are dragging you? Who are they, and who do you want to serve?"

The cook said that there were only two people who dragged her at first, but she also faintly heard a third person watching the wind not far away. It was because of someone watching the wind that she detected it in advance and fled when the princess sent someone over.

As for the rest, the cook didn't know.

Qin Tian and Wei You met each other's eyes.

The latter bowed his head next to Qin Tian's ear, "The princess should go back to the room first."

The person who wanted to arrest the cook to serve him might not have a low status, but it was unknown what status he would be able to do on such a night of secret talks between the three parties.

The other party obviously didn't want to make a fuss, so they ran away upon hearing the news. If the people of the Suzheng Army still go to the bottom of the matter at this time, they are looking for a secret conversation with a delicate balance point, which may be overturned at any time, and everything everyone has done will be in vain. .

Qin Tian pursed his lips and gave an order.

"Allocate some manpower to patrol the quarters of the cooks, don't slack off."

"Yes." Wei You immediately took the order and sent a small team over.

As for the cook, Qin Tian wanted the guards to send her back, but seeing her trembling fingertips and pale face, he called Tian Dong.

"Take her back with me."

Qin Tian turned around after finishing his orders.

Just before turning around, his gaze swept across the dark night outside the back door.

It seemed that the place as far as the eye could see was covered by a thick black fog, except for the slight light reflected by the wind lamp on the door, nothing could be seen in the distance.

If one step accidentally steps into it, it is unknown whether it will be able to come out in one piece.

Qin Tian didn't stay any longer, walked away from the back door, and returned to his courtyard.

Wei You ordered people to inspect the nearby Suzheng Army's territory, gave a few orders, and returned.

In the dense black mist-like night, someone looked back from the latticed window through the wall.

He looked at the person kneeling at his feet who dared not get up, and suddenly sighed.

"Suddenly I am not interested in that pretty cook."

The three kneeling on the ground were secretly relieved when they heard this.

But then, I heard another smooth voice floating above my head.

"It's the princess, who has a good figure and a good voice, but it's a pity that she can't see her face."

The owner of that voice paused for a while as he spoke, as if he took a breath of the imaginary breath from the air, and then clicked his lips.

"I don't know what it's like to be a princess"

Bright and clean room, with a faint soothing medicinal fragrance floating in the room.

The cook heard the princess's maid ask her who is her name, what is going on at home, and why.

She clenched her hands tightly, trying to calm down the shaking of her fingertips.

"The woman's maiden name is Tang, and her first name is Juanzi. She is a native of Yanzhou. It's just that when there was a flood in the middle of the year, my family was in the village under the dam. When the flood came, the whole village was gone. The woman wanted to save My child, but the child was also washed away by the flood, and in the blink of an eye, he was, he was gone.”

Qin Tian heard Juanzi recall what happened not long ago, and following her words, Qin Tian seemed to be trapped in that flood.

Juanzi lost her son when the flood came. Her mother-in-law did not die immediately, but she died of the epidemic after the flood. If Mr. Sun of the Suzheng Army had not foreseen it, he would spread medicine everywhere and burn the body. The disease after the flood failed to spread, and Juanzi might have died at that time.

On the day of the flood, Juanzi's husband, uncle and father-in-law went to the city to find some odd jobs to do. Later, Juanzi who survived thought of going to Yanzhou City to find them.

However, the Suzheng army in Yanzhou City revolted, the imperial court and the Suzheng army clashed head-on, people in the city rebelled, and those who ran away ran away. Of course, many people died in the streets and alleys.

Juanzi went to the city to find someone, but only found her two natal brothers, her husband, father-in-law and the others had no news at all.

If it weren't for the imperial court's delay in appropriating funds to build the dam, Juanzi's originally reunited family would have been destroyed.

The brothers from her natal family all joined the Suzheng army, and Juanzi followed them into the Suzheng army. While cooking for the Suzheng army in the camp, she was looking for her husband everywhere.

Although the Suzheng army was only a local rebel army, the rules governing the army were stricter than those of the imperial army.

The silver-faced general is skillful in using troops and running the army coldly, and the rules and regulations of the army are not for display at all.

In Yanzhou, where the world is in chaos, the situation of women who have lost their husbands and children can be imagined, but Juanzi has never encountered a soldier harassing a woman in the past six months in the Suzheng Army.

It was precisely because of this that she relaxed her vigilance.

First, she did not find her husband in the Suzheng army, but only met a fellow villager who said that she had seen her husband after the flood, but she did not know where she went.

During the war at that time, many people ran away from Yanzhou. Juanzi was very happy to hear that her husband might be still very happy. She couldn't find anyone in the Suzheng army, so she thought about going out to find someone.

But she is a woman, how to find people in troubled times and places of war. Later, when she heard that Su Zhengjun was going to take some skilled cooks out to do errands, Juanzi immediately followed.

But she never expected that she would be targeted by someone and almost fell into the jaws of a tiger.

Thinking back to being suddenly dragged along with his mouth and nose covered, Juanzi was still terrified.

Qin Tian listened and was silent for a long while before asking her again.

"There are about twenty cooks on the stove, why are they staring at you?"

Qin Tian explained, "I don't mean to question what you mean, but can you recall, did you do anything during the day so that anyone could see it?"

Even if the matter cannot be uncovered immediately to find out, Qin Tian hopes to roughly guess who dares to act recklessly here and now.

It's a pity that Juanzi is so focused on cooking cakes during the day, if it wasn't for the cakes, she wouldn't go to work in the kitchen at night.

She thought about it for a while and shook her head.

"I don't know, I don't know."

It seemed that from her mouth, she couldn't ask any useful information for a while.

The master who was trying to drag the cuckoo away in the dark, just like the master with sticky eyes through the bead curtain, appeared strangely and then hid in a timely manner, walking under the thick black mist.

Qin Tian could only call Juanzi, "You can stay in my courtyard today, if you can think of anything else, it will not be too late to report to me."

After saying this, Juanzi kowtowed again in gratitude, tears could not stop falling down.

"Thank you princess, thank you princess!"

The cuckoo went down, and the night was getting late, Qin Tian still didn't feel sleepy, but he didn't go out or read a book, but returned to the bed, silently looking forward to the successful conclusion of this secret talk, and going back early.

She suddenly felt that the Suzheng military camp in Yanzhou was not so strange anymore, at least there was one person there, accompanying her.

What would she be without him.
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The next day, before noon, Mr. He sent the good news.

The three armies not only reached an agreement on the establishment of a coalition to jointly deal with the imperial court's suppression, but also had a plan of action.

Originally, Qin Tian had to learn about such secrets from the students, but now, she knew the inside situation beforehand.

If the three armies want to join forces against the imperial court this time, it will not be of great benefit if they only communicate with each other in terms of news, and if they cannot help each other geographically, it will be easy for the imperial court to take the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

Then there is a most direct way to solve this problem,
That is to take down the triangle-shaped middle zone formed by the three armies. Even if only a part of it is taken down, the dilemma that the three armies cannot really join forces can be resolved a lot.

The Suzheng Army is in the north, the Guangsu Army is in the west, and the Nancheng Army is in the south. In the middle of the three armies, there happens to be a place where military strategists of all dynasties must contend, Xuzhou Mansion.

If Xuzhou Mansion can be won, the matter will be half completed.

And the closest to Xuzhou Mansion is the Suzheng Army in Yanzhou.

The leaders of the three armies agreed here that the Suzheng Army would send troops to attack the Xuzhou area, and the Guangsu Army and Nancheng Army would put pressure on the imperial army in the west and south to help the Suzheng Army capture Xuzhou as soon as possible.

Among them, the Guangsu Army, which is relatively close, is also very important.

It's just that although the secret policy agreed by the three parties at this time is useful, if anyone does not follow the agreement at that time, it will cause the coalition forces to work together to deal with the court's cooperation and fall into an embarrassing situation.

In order to ensure that the three armies will abide by the agreement, before the war, each of the three armies sent a hostage to the villa where the secret talks were held, and controlled and supervised each other.

Jiang Shan of the Nancheng Army has already decided to send his youngest son here, while the Suzheng Army sent Sun Wenjing's wife-in-law Mr. He Lao here, and Zhang Daochang will also come here at the same time. Reluctantly agreed to send his only son Zhu Hanchun.

The secret conversation ended smoothly like this, and there was no need for the princess to show up again. After noon, when Qin Tian and Su Zhengjun left, they still felt unreal.

The carriage left here at high speed, the farther away, the more relieved Qin Tian's mood became, and when she arrived at the territory occupied by the Suzheng Army, she saw the Suzheng Army flag flying high on the road from the window of the carriage from a distance, unexpectedly There is a feeling of coming home.

She looked up and watched the military flag getting closer, and suddenly saw a figure riding a horse from the military flag.

The silver mask reflected the white light of the sun, Qin Tian's heart skipped a beat, seeing the man approaching her face, he almost couldn't help calling out "Big Brother".

Her mouth was wide open, and she realized something was wrong when the first word reached the edge of her throat, and she quickly retracted it.

But the expression is in place, but the voice is stuck, making her look very strange and a little funny.

Qin Shen's eyes softened in an instant, his eyes fell softly on the eyes of the little girl's veil, and he whispered at the window of her carriage.

"Go back and call again."

The little girl's eyes were bent into crescent moons, and her sweet voice was very pleasant under the high autumn sky.

"it is good!"

Qin Shen greeted him here early, and Mr. Sun was both surprised and happy. He stopped at the nearby camp and told Qin Shen about the secret conversation.

Zhang Shouyuan also said, "The battle of Xuzhou must be taken by surprise and resolved quickly."

He asked Qin Shen, "Are you sure?"

Qin Shen thought for a while, "If the two armies really fulfilled the contract and held back the court's forces, the Suzheng army is still very sure to take those Xuzhou cities in one fell swoop."

He asked a special question, "Is this really possible?"

Sun Wenjing expressed that it was feasible, and he also talked about the "hostages" of the various factions in the tripartite agreement to hold each other back.

"The two chiefs both sent their sons here. I only invited my uncle to go here. I feel that it is not appropriate. Zhang Daochang also said that he is willing to go, and the two parties did not say much."

Qin Shen listened and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the princess, and he calmed down a little, and asked some specific things about the three armies' joint discussions, talked with everyone for a long time, and then left.

The little girl was resting in the tent he prepared for her. Qin Shen went to the door and cleared everyone out.

He walked in, and saw her standing in the middle of the tent, who had changed out of the princess's brocade dress long ago, and put on the water-green jacket and pea-green pleated skirt that she used to wear in the academy. It looks like a rare green peony.

As soon as she saw him, she called him softly and crisply.

"Big brother!"

Qin Shen's eyes were stained with warmth, he let her call someone to serve tea, and sat at the coffee table with her.

He didn't have time to see her off when she left, so he was waiting here early today, and he was relieved to see that she was safe and sound.

"Is there anything wrong with this journey?"

Everything basically went according to the process that Sun Wenjing and the others had told Qin Tian before. Qin Tian did it meticulously, and even a few unexpected responses exceeded Sun Wenjing's expectations. Just now, Qin Shen had already listened to Sun Wenjing's praise. After that, Mr. He also said that the princess was extremely intelligent, and even the strict temperament of the master Zhang Shouyuan nodded to the princess's behavior.

Right now, Qin Shen looked at the little girl, and he heard that she was fine.

"The leaders of the two armies are respectful, and there is no overstepping. I sit inside the bead curtain, and I don't have to meet them directly."

Sure enough, it all went according to the previous prediction, Qin Shen asked her some more things, and heard that although she was sitting inside the bead curtain, she was carefully distinguishing the words of the people outside, and she could faintly hear some tricks, so she temporarily It is very appropriate to deal with it.

Listening to what she said, Qin Shen finally let go of his hanging heart.

While she was talking, she was drinking tea, while Qin Shen quietly looked at her while she was drinking tea with her head down.

It's just that I haven't seen her for two or three days, but for some reason, she seems to be quietly blooming like a bud.

　good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)