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Chapter 384: It turns out that it was the craftsmanship of Fang's mother [Thank you! Goodbye! ]

Chapter 384: It turns out that it was the craftsmanship of Fang's mother [Thank you! Goodbye! ]

Great Zhou Bianjing
The first quarter of the evening (after 7pm)
The night is like water, with stars dotted

Quyuan Street

Yong Yi Hou Mansion
In a courtyard in the palace,

The lanterns hanging under the eaves illuminate the nearby ground, walls and eaves, and one can vaguely see the word "ancestral hall" on the plaque at the door.

A little further away, where the lanterns could not reach, autumn insects were chirping.

The chirping of insects made the yard seem even quieter.

The house in the middle of the yard,
A bright candlelight spread out from the house, illuminating the ground outside the threshold.

In the night not far from the door,
Two lanterns with the word "Xu" on them were being carried and moved towards the door.

When I came to the bright door,

They were two well-dressed mothers, carrying bamboo baskets in their hands, following a woman in light-colored fancy clothes, and walked over the threshold.

About half a quarter of an hour passed.

A small piece of paper ash was blown into the air by the green smoke and floated out of the door.

Looking into the house, there were rows of bright candles lit in the ancestral hall.
This made the candlelight in the room quite sufficient, illuminating the forest of tablets behind the drawn curtains.

In front of the tablet is an offering table.

There are fruits and incense burners on the altar.

In front of the altar,
The eldest lady of the Marquis's mansion, Madam Sun, and her two personal nurses, Zhu and Dan, were kneeling on the futon.

Sun was holding a thin fire stick in her hand and fiddling with the yellow paper in the brazier in front of her.

Looking at the bright flames in the brazier, Sun whispered, "Today is Double Ninth Festival. Grandfather-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, grandmother, and all the ancestors. Now that the husband and the children are away at the battle, I beg for your protection."

"The battlefield is dangerous and the swords are merciless. If anyone can send a message to the master and the children in their dreams, please help my wife give them more instructions."

"Now An'er, who is married, is pregnant. May she give birth to a boy."

Looking at the paper ashes flying everywhere in the green smoke, Zhu Mama behind Sun said, "Madam, look! The ancestors are happy."

Mother Dan, who was standing by, echoed, "Yes! Look how high the ash is flying."

Sun nodded happily.

Sun continued to talk a lot, and when she wanted to stand up after bowing her head, her knees were already numb.

Only with the help of the two close mothers behind him did he finally stand up.

After bowing once more towards the tablet in the ancestral hall, Sun led his people out of the hall.

Out of the yard,

Sun looked up at the starry sky and walked towards her yard.

The Matriarch's House,
Sun had just taken a sip of throat-moistening soup on the Luohan bed.

A maid called out from outside the door, "Madam, there's a letter from the gatekeeper in the front yard."

Saying,

The little maid came in holding something.

"How come there is a letter so late?"

Listening to Sun's words, the maid said, "I heard from the concierge that this letter came with the letter entering the palace."

Sun nodded, took a sealed wooden box from Zhu Mama and quickly opened it.

After a while, Sun said, "Go, call Dalang's family."

"Yes, madam."

Half an hour later,

Xie and Hualan came to the hall together.

Hua Lan looked at her mother-in-law and smiled, "Mother-in-law, I think Xiaowu's homework has probably been sent, so I came here with my sister-in-law."

"Give it to the master tonight and ask him to bring it to the school tomorrow."

Madam Sun smiled and nodded, "Come, sit down first. Is Zai Zhang still in the study?"

Hualan nodded with some heartache and emotion.

Madam Sun: "That's not bad, at least you work harder than before."

As she spoke, Madam Sun took the envelope from the wooden box and handed it to Mrs. Xie: "Dalang's family, this is the letter sent back by your husband."

Xie took the envelope somewhat embarrassedly, opened it and read it carefully.

Madam Sun took out a thick envelope with the word "homework" written on it, and handed it to Hualan: "Hualan, come here, just like before, take a look at it first, and then give me your comments."

finished,

Madam Sun took out the letter written to her by her husband and began to read it.

"Snapped!"

Madam Sun slammed the letter on the table.

Hua Lan, who was watching Xu Zaijing's homework, raised her head and looked at her mother-in-law who was a little angry.

Xie also put down the letter with some surprise on her face.

"Mother-in-law, what's wrong?"

Madam Sun exhaled a breath and waved her hand to indicate that everything was fine. After taking a sip of soup, she looked at her two daughters-in-law and said, "The Marquis told me that Xu Zaijing is going to the scout team!"

"Ah? This is too dangerous!"

Xie said with a frown.

Madam Sun shook her head and said, "I am really worried! Now that we have received the letter, maybe Xu Zaijing has already followed his cousin to investigate several times! The Marquis will not stop him!"

Hearing this, Hualan and Xie looked at each other.

Seeing Xie's eyes looking at the letter in her hand for several times, Hua Lan glanced at the letter and said with inspiration: "Mother-in-law, look at what Xiaowu wrote in this homework. It has some exciting meaning on the battlefield!"

Madam Sun: "Really? Let me see."

Hualan quickly said yes and started talking about Xu Zaijing's homework.

Listening to Hualan's comments, Madam Sun nodded continuously.

After saying this, Hualan winked at her sister-in-law again.

Xie understood, picked up the porcelain bowl of soup and came to Madam Sun and said, "Mother-in-law, there are many ladies with their daughters in front of us at the polo field today. Which girl do you think is better?"

Madam Sun took the porcelain bowl, drank a sip, thought for a moment and said, "Speaking of which, the most outstanding ones are the two girls from the Chai family and the Rong family! They are really good-looking and have good tempers."

Xie and Hualan nodded in approval.

Xie said again: "Mother-in-law, when I got home today, I was so angry with Dai Ge'er that I forgot to ask you."

"Why do Miss Feiyan from the Rong family and the eldest daughter of the Dou family seem to be getting close? Are their two families related in some way?"

Madam Sun raised her eyebrows and said, "I heard from Madam Wu that the Dou family, the Duke of Fuguo, is interested in marrying into the Rong family."

Xie and Hualan pretended to have just learned about it, with a look of panic on their faces.

Subsequently,

Madam Sun was enthusiastically telling her wives the gossip she had heard from Madam Wu.

After talking for a while, Mrs. Sun used the excuse that she was tired and asked the wives to go back to the courtyard.

After leaving the Matron's Courtyard,

Hualan and Xie walked side by side.

"Sister-in-law, do you think our mother-in-law should have been distracted by us?"

Mrs. Xie nodded: "Seeing my mother-in-law gossiping, I am not so angry anymore." Hua Lan: "Father-in-law is really something, how can he write everything in the letter! He is so far away, and he doesn't even know how to lie!"

Xie nodded in agreement.

The two daughters-in-law of the Xu family left the hall.
Madam Sun turned her head to look at the letter on the table which said Xu Zaijing wanted to be a scout, and sighed heavily.

Under the same starry sky,

The garrison of the Yongyi Marquis' army.
In the camp,
A candle was lit in a tent.

Qingyun walked in carrying a food box in one hand and a bundle in the other.

"Sir, here are some rice cakes and pomegranates sent by the Marquis' personal soldiers! This package was sent to you by the eldest son, who said it was something sent from the capital."

Behind the simple wooden table,

Xu Zaijing, who was sitting on a chair holding a brush, hummed without even raising his head and continued to write attentively.

Qingyun placed the food box under the wooden table, walked aside and put away his bag, then began to help Xu Zaijing make the bed.

About half a quarter of an hour later,
Xu Zaijing put down his brush and looked over his homework carefully again. After checking that everything was correct, he folded it and put it aside.

Xu Zaijing pinched a piece of rice cake from the food box and ate it while saying, "How about we recruit the Baigao scouts we captured?"

Qingyun nodded: "He confessed! But this scout's mouth is really hard. If it weren't for Doctor Yu's help, it might not be possible to pry it open."

Glancing at Xu Zaijing who was chewing rice cakes and motioning him to continue, Qingyun said, "Sir, the one you are asking about is not buried. He is from Xingqing Mansion in Baigao State."

"The scout knew nothing about this man except that he was an excellent archer."

"And their mission these days is to eliminate our scouts in that area."

Xu Zaijing swallowed what he had in his mouth: "Why? Just to poke out the army's eyes?"

Qingyun shook his head: "He doesn't know the specific reason."

Xu Zaijing nodded, pinched out another piece of rice cake and put it in his mouth, then threw the pomegranate in the food box to Qingyun.

Qingyun took the pomegranate and peeled it while hesitatingly saying, "Sir, I want to go play with the eagle breeder."

"The falcons we raise are so amazing! In the past few days, we have seen that they can actually distinguish the flags of the Baigao Kingdom and our Great Zhou!"

"Go ahead. When you come back, remember to call back He Guan, Alan, and Xun Shu as well."

"Yes, son!"

As he spoke, Qingyun placed the peeled pomegranate on the table, then happily opened the curtain and walked out.

Xu Zaijing gently used his fingers to pick out a few pomegranate seeds and put them into his mouth, feeling the sweetness in his mouth and nodded in appreciation.

Looking sideways at the bundle on the bed, Xu Zaijing stood up and walked over.

After Xu Zaijing opened the bundle,
I saw several silk purses on top of the bundle;
Under the purse was a letter that was thicker than the envelope containing his own schoolwork;
Below the letter was a close-fitting chain mail that looked even more exquisite than the one worn by his father, Marquis Yongyi.

Xu Zaijing put a few purses and envelopes aside, picked up the chain mail with one hand, and after taking a closer look, he confirmed that it was better than the one his father wore.

Such an extremely delicate and fine chain mail armor is not necessarily available even if you have a high status.

"Who sent this?"

Xu Zaijing put the things on the bed and scratched his head in confusion.

Then he picked up the envelope beside him, opened it and took a look.

The letter was sent at the end of August.

The most written works by Zhuang Xuejiu were all about the academic guidance that Xu Zaijing sent to Bian Jing on his way.

Put aside the scholar's letter,
Xu Zaijing read the letters from Gu Tingye, Qi Heng, Changbai and Changfeng with a smile on his face.

What surprised Xu Zaijing was that the three Lans of the Sheng family also wrote, but it was more like a few words from each person than a letter.

Looking at the handwriting on the paper, which was either elegant, careful, or unique, Xu Zaijing felt as if he was seeing the person in person.

Finally, Xu Zaijing picked up a few purses from the bag and looked at them.

Some of the purses contained a pair of thick gloves, some contained headbands, and some contained scarves.

There are two purses for the headbands. Although Xu Zaijing does not do needlework, the three maids in his yard are all good at it.

Looking at the two different headbands, he could tell that they were embroidered by two different people, and neither of them was a maid in his courtyard.

Thinking of this, Xu Zaijing picked up a headband with cotton wool mixed in it and took a look at it in front of the candle.

There was a small word "Jing" embroidered on the cotton-lined headband. Xu Zaijing looked at the word and felt that the handwriting was somewhat familiar. After a long recollection, his eyes lit up: "The word "Jing" on the colorful rope I got from Sheng's academy during the Dragon Boat Festival was also written in this handwriting!"

"So it's Fang's mother's craftsmanship."

Xu Zaijing said to himself.

After figuring out this headband, Xu Zaijing picked up another one.

The craftsmanship of this headband is a little worse.

Xu Zaijing has seen a lot of good things since he was a child.

Looking at the printed pattern on the material and feeling the texture of the material, the material of this headband is much better than the one with cotton wool! It is comparable to the materials given by the Empress in the Marquis's Mansion.

Xu Zaijing could tell at a glance that the gloves and scarves were the work of his three little maids.

I tried the gloves on and they fit my hand very well.

Another two quarters of an hour passed,

Qingyun and He Guan returned to Xu Zaijing's tent together.

The candle in the tent flickered on and off.

quickly,

The camp under the starry sky fell silent.
Listening to the footsteps of patrolling soldiers and the occasional sound of striking the clock, Xu Zaijing quickly fell asleep.

On the second day,
September 10th,

Xu Zaijing got up to eat before dawn.

While eating, they also received a military order from Zhu Qinghu, instructing them to guard the southwest direction of the camp and kill enemy scouts on the spot if they saw them.

After dinner,

Xu Zaijing puts on the armor with Qingyun's help.

"Qingyun, we have to stay outside for at least six hours today. We never know when a fight might break out. We must pack the dried meat we brought from Bianjing."

"Don't worry, sir!"

The two of them were talking.
When preparing to put a helmet on Xu Zaijing, a headband should be put under it.

Qingyun looked at the headbands beside the pillow on Xu Zaijing's bed and asked, "Sir, which one do you want to wear?"

Xu Zaijing pointed at the headband made of very fine material and said, "This one, the one with cotton wadding is a bit hot to wear right now."

After putting on their armor, Xu Zaijing and Qingyun walked out of the tent.

Looking at He Guan, Alan and others who were also fully equipped and leading their horses outside the tent, Xu Zaijing waved his hand and everyone got on their horses.

Subsequently,

Together with several other veteran scouts sent by his cousin Zhu Qinghu, they all rode two horses and galloped out along the road out of the camp.

Three quarters of an hour later,

Everyone arrived at the 'mission area' several dozen miles southwest of the camp.

Looking at the top of the mountain in the distance, the flag of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which the scouts used to send warnings to the rear, was waving non-stop.

Xu Zaijing, who knew Qigu, took the lead and ran over there, ready to rescue his comrades who were in danger.

As a result, when he was halfway there, Xu Zaijing saw the flag of the Great Zhou on the top of the mountain shake a few times and then disappear from everyone's sight.

There is only one reason for this to happen.
The comrades over there were completely wiped out by the enemy!
(End of this chapter)

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