Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 66
Qushi boiled the fermented glutinous rice, cracked eggs, and added sucrose.

He's specially baked more than 100 sweet pies filled with sugar, sesame seeds, dried osmanthus, and walnuts. Each pie is only as big as Li Jingjing's palm, small and delicate.

In Qujia Village, only the He family can make pasta. People in the village can only go to the town to buy it if they want to eat it. During the Chinese New Year, all they buy are dim sum. The Li family only has the hot and delicious sweet pies just out of the pan.

Li Jingjing and Li Yunxiao took the lead to greet Qu Kuaishou and the old patriarch's family with two portions of sweet pies. They were happy to get the lucky money, and they went back quickly.The Li family wore new clothes for breakfast, and the atmosphere was warm and festive.

According to the custom, you can't take out the garbage on the first day of the new year, which means you will lose your money, and you can't take a bath, because taking a bath is equivalent to washing your money.

The Li family lives according to the custom every year, and it is the same today.Garbage piled in baskets outside the kitchen door to be emptied tomorrow.

Guessing that it was almost time, the Li family locked the door, and the whole family went to Qu Kuaishou's house to celebrate the New Year.

A few years ago, Qu Jiujiu and Qu Duo's family came back from the county academy. With the sound of babies crying, the Qu family seemed to be full of life and busier than in previous years.

"What a babe, I want to see my grandson!" Lin was locked in the iron room and was not allowed to eat the reunion dinner on the New Year's Eve. At this time, she heard the Li family coming to pay New Year's greetings, screaming desperately, Slam the iron door loudly.

Lin's cry sounded like a deadly ghost, and the faces of the Qu family and the Li family were not good-looking.

Qu Kuaishou has a high seniority in the clan, and the juniors of the Huiqu clan will come to the house to pay New Year's greetings. The Lin family will not stop until they achieve their goals, and will scream when they hear anyone coming. Not only Qu Duo, but the entire Qu family is ashamed.

Little Deng hugged the baby in her arms tightly, thinking of the dead face when Lin stood at the door and saw the baby a few days ago, the two deeply sunken eyes gleamed strangely, and rushed forward like a wolf to snatch the baby. She was so frightened that she backed away and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Qu Duo stepped forward to stop Lin Shi, so that the baby did not get infected with Lin Shi's sickness.

Little Deng shook his head towards Qu Duo.Being a mother is strong, she learned to reject her mother-in-law.

Qu Kuai gave Deng a wink, and Deng took the key to open the iron house, and the two went in together.

Lin's most frightened was Qu Kuaishou, who was too scared to fart.

Qu Kuai pointed at the wall behind Lin, Lin turned his head to look over, and fell to the ground fainted after being hit by Qu Kuai's hand on the back of his neck.

According to what Qu Kuaishou said, Mrs. Deng tied up Mrs. Lin with a rope and threw her on the bed, with a cloth gagged in her mouth, so that even if Mrs. Lin woke up, she would not be able to cry out.

The Li family worshiped for almost an hour, and Qu's wearing a new satin dress and gold hairpin, was envied by the family's sister-in-law, and the smile on his face never disappeared.

When the Li family returned home, it was the other family's turn to pay New Year's greetings.

People in the clan were grateful to the Li family for giving free medicine during the crisis last year, and most of them brought gifts to pay New Year's greetings, and they respected the Qu family and the He family very much.

Li Jingjing's little friends came one after another. In the name of elders, Mrs. He gave a set of the Four Treasures of the Study to each of the little girls who went to school, a nine-link ring and a folding kite to each of the little girls who didn't go to school, and every little girl A silk purse with silk flowers.

After lunch, Li Jingjing stood outside the door looking at the clear sky and no wind, and whispered in Li Laoshi's ear: "Tell Qu Zheng's father to go dig snake holes in the mountains and catch some hibernating live snakes. It is necessary to make a medicine for the purpose."

So Qu Zheng's father called a few cousins, changed into coarse clothes and carried a hoe into the mountain.

Let’s say that Chang’an, the capital of the new dynasty, had a heavy snowfall hundreds of miles before the new year.

On the second day of the new year, a group of thirty or so soldiers wearing gray leather caps, navy blue winter velvet uniforms, and animal leather boots rode horses from the official road in front of the north gate of Chang'an City.

The oldest soldier in this team is in his 40s, and the youngest is in his teens. All of them carry iron bows with animal heads, long swords and waist knives.

Walking in the front was a young male officer with a horse face. He flew off his horse and raised a black iron plate engraved with the word "tiger" high in his right hand.

"It turns out that the generals are the heroes of the Huben Army from the North, please enter the city quickly." A line of soldiers guarding the city gate saw the iron plate, immediately shot their eyes in respect, and let them pass.

There were twelve generations of emperors in the old dynasty, and the last emperor was so stupid that he ceded ten cities in the north to the Xiongnu when the country was in civil strife more than ten years ago.

The founding emperor of the new Ding Dynasty, He Dong, invaded the capital Chang'an more than ten years ago.The last emperor of the Kai Dynasty fled to the north with his favorite concubine and prince, and offered ten cities to the Xiongnu for protection.

The Xiongnu let the last emperor of the Kai Dynasty write an edict to pass the throne to the Xiongnu emperor, and bowed his head and professed himself as a godson.

The last emperor followed suit one by one, losing his power and humiliating the country. Since then, all 22 cities in the north have been returned to the Xiongnu.

After He Dong came to the throne, he feared that the people in the north would be domesticated by the Xiongnu, so he sent a large army northward to seize the city the next year.

The most powerful troops of the Ding Dynasty, the Dragon Teng Army, the Tiger Ben Army, the Lion Roaring Army, and the Wolf Killing Army, were dispatched in full force.

These four armies were established decades ago. Each army has [-] soldiers, half of them are martial arts masters from Taoism.

The first general is He Dong, the current founding emperor, and the second general is He Xia, He Dong's eldest brother, King Xia.

Two years ago, He Xia died in battle in the Northland.He Dong handed over the four armies to his three sons and nephews.

The Dragon Teng Army and the Lion Roaring Army are commanded by Prince He Yixuan.

The Wolf Killing Army is commanded by King Xia He Jinghai, the eldest son of King Xia.

He Jingyan, the eldest son of Prince Qing, General of the Tiger Ben Army.

King Qing is He Qing, He Dong's younger brother.He Jingyan is the eldest son of King Qing. He was crowned heir at the age of three, became a monk at the age of four, became a monk at the age of eight, became a monk at the age of eight, and became a general of the Tiger Ben Army at the age of 12.

In the spring of the previous year, He Jingyan led the Tiger Ben Army, which was good at long-distance raids, to penetrate into the mountainous grasslands at the border between the Huns and the north, massacre the nomadic tribes and scattered troops of the Huns, and distract the main army of the Huns.

When the Huben Army first entered the grassland, they only appeared at the border and did not make any major moves. Until the fall, He Jingyan commanded the Huben Army to enter the hinterland of the Huns two thousand miles north, attacked the grassland assembly camp at night, and killed a prince uncle of the Xiongnu Emperor. a prince.

The Emperor of the Huns was furious, and personally ordered the general of the Huns to send [-] cavalry to chase and wipe out the Huben army.Unexpectedly, the [-] Xiongnu cavalry were dispersed into five armies by He Jingyan's tricks, and then the tiger-running troops were slaughtered one by one.

The Huben army returned safely. Last summer, they went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu again. They swept across thousands of miles and killed five members of the Huns royal family, eleven officials of the third rank and above, and 49 officials of the seventh rank and above.

So far, the Tiger Running Army has become famous all over the world, and its reputation has surpassed that of the Dragon Teng Army, Lion Roaring Army, and Wolf Killing Army.

Everyone in Chang'an City knows the name of the Tiger Ben Army, and the soldiers guarding the city worship this divine army extremely.

(End of this chapter)