The oath of rebirth not to be a concubine

Chapter 95
After the rainstorm, the next day the sky was clear.

After a night of light sleep, the horses had a short rest. They galloped like arrows leaving the string. The castles and pavilions on both sides drifted past vaguely, and the wind was blowing in their ears. After two days and one night, they passed through nearly ten cities and ran a hundred miles away. many.

Although it is a city that is more than two days away from the frontier, refugees in ragged clothes, pushing carts with sacks on their backs, and dragging their families along with them have begun to appear in the places they pass by.For convenience, I also changed into men's clothes made of coarse cloth.

After traveling for three days, the news stopped for three days, and the situation in the frontier changed every day. Fortunately, there were people like me in this city, so I rode my horse to the biggest restaurant in the city.

"Hey, young master, please..." Xiao Er enthusiastically greeted him, I smiled slightly and said, "Little Brother, do you have a seat?"

Xiaoer nodded and said yes, and led the two of us up to the third floor, first served a pot of tea, and then brought vegetables.I pretended to look at the menu, and finally pointed to the last column and asked, "Little brother, what does the last 'what do you want to eat' mean?"

Xiao Er smiled and replied, "Returning to the guest officer, although our store is large, the tastes of customers from all over the world are different, so we set this up. Whatever the customers want to eat, the chef in our store will do what they want."

I nodded and said, "That's interesting, okay, let me have two of your signature dishes first, then give me a Tianshan deer foot, a dolphin fish, a sotong meat, a lotus root mixed with lotus root, and finally a Let's stew white fungus with Xueyan."

Xiaoer immediately nodded and said, "Guest officer, please wait a moment, then turned around and went to the back kitchen, and came back after a while and said, "Young master, the master chef of the dish you want can make it taste good, but this pork Fish, maybe it’s called differently in different places, we don’t know what it is, there are dozens of fish in our fish room, please ask the guest officer Nozun to take a look, so we can know which one is porcupine fish.”

"Alright." I nodded, got up and went to the back room with him, turned left and went upstairs, opened the door and saw a man about 30 years old, wearing a brocade shirt, standing in the room, Xiao Er bowed and gave him a hand Dali, he closed the door and guarded the door.

"Chen Ke sees the master."

The man raised his hand and saluted.

I nodded, and asked straight to the point, "What news have you received in the past three days?"

Chen Ke took out two thin bamboo tubes and a letter from his repair tape and handed them over, "Master, this is a letter passed by Feige these days. Chen Ke has never opened it before, and I just wait for the master to open it when he comes." Woolen cloth."

I nodded, and first peeled off the wax layer on the outside of the two thin bamboo tubes. The two notes inside said respectively, the fish moves slightly, and the fish dives.

The back of this paper was stained with white phosphorus, and after reading it, it ignited a flame and burned the note to ashes.

I tore off the sealant on the envelope again, took out the recipe inside and threw it away, gently tore the envelope into a flat piece of paper, took out the special ash foam from the sleeve pocket, poured some on my hand, and put it on the paper. With one swipe, in a short while, many words appeared on the page.

General Su was still awake, Rong Xianfeng seriously injured his left arm, the enemy army was victorious and successful, the soldiers were depressed, food and grass were insufficient, and Maicheng was worrying.

My eyes were dark, I took out a small bottle from my sleeve pocket, poured some powder on something, and after a while, the envelope was also reduced to ashes.

General Su is in a coma, Rong Ziyang is seriously injured, and the sale of the city is worrying.

None of this is good news.

However, after the fish dives, there will be big movements...

I smile slightly.

After explaining some things to Chen Ke, he turned and left the room. Xiao Er was waiting at the door. Seeing me go out, he saluted first, and then led me back to my seat with a normal expression.

At this time, the dishes I ordered have already been prepared, delicately placed on the table, Xuanyuan Chen has already drank half a cup of tea, seeing me come back, he said, "Why did you come back, eat quickly, it will be cold in a while."

I nodded, and glanced at him while picking up the vegetables. Seeing that his expression was normal and he was not suspicious, I was a little relieved.

This news network is widely distributed, and it can be regarded as relatively secret, but if one more person knows, the risk of exposure will increase. No matter who it is, I can't take the risk.

"Here, eat a piece of duck leg." He rolled a large piece of duck leg with shredded green onion sauce and put it on my plate.

I responded, picked it up and put it in my mouth, the skin was crispy and the meat was tender, the chef in the shop is really good.

"Come on, have some soup Shun Shun." He used a spoon to hold a small bowl of soup and handed it over, and I also took it.

He dipped a piece of deer's foot meat in seasoning oil a few more times, stood up, handed it to my lips, and said softly, "Eat a piece of venison, I just tasted it, and it took a lot of effort."

Feeling a little wrong, I quickly sat down on the back of the chair, "What are you doing..."

He didn't take it seriously, with tenderness in Taohua's eyes, he picked up a juan handkerchief, and moved his arm forward, stretching towards the corner of my lips.

"Look at you, you eat in such a hurry that the corners of your mouth are covered with sauce. I've come here to wipe it off for you, good boy..."

"vomit……"

Before I could wait, several retching sounds suddenly sounded around me.I just remembered that for convenience, both of us are dressed in men's clothes at this time, especially him, who has disguised himself as a bearded uncle.

Xiqi folk customs are mellow, but they treat Junyang well, and they are still a little repulsive. I clearly saw a row of contempt in the eyes of the people around me. ...

I guess, he must be suffering in his heart, how could his master be such a person...

My face burned, I snatched the handkerchief from his hand, wiped it a few times and put it on the table, he smiled slightly, sat down and went back.

"Guest officer, your fish is ready." Xiaoer trotted to put the dishes on the table, said "use it slowly", and ran away in two steps. The speed seemed to be that he was afraid of taking another look, and his eyes were on the table. blind……

"Come, eat..." He picked up the chopsticks, as if he wanted to pick up the fish for me again, so I quickly brought the plate to my side, and stared at him coldly.

He bent his lips and smiled, and finally stopped moving, and began to eat with peace of mind.

After a stick of incense, the two of us left the restaurant. I jumped on the horse's back first, hit the horse's buttocks hard, and rushed forward quickly.

It's the same Xiqi, but the weather is different even though it's a city apart.Along the way, the sun was shining brightly just a while ago, and there was a slanting wind and drizzle when I was drinking tea, but I was in a hurry, and the light wind and drizzle did not stop. Two days later, there was a city not far away. As you get closer, you will see the word Jicheng on the city wall.

It is only one city away from Maicheng.

I took a deep breath, rode my horse into the city, and saw a mess.

The streets that should have been bustling are all closed, the streets are full of rags and rotten leaves, and occasionally people cross the street, but also in a hurry, the big city of Nuo is a scene of depression.

Along the way, the closer to the battlefield, the more people escaped.Believe it or not, it is said that Maicheng is short of food and grass, and the supply city in the rear is already like this, so the battlefield ahead must be even more panic.

I frowned slightly, and walked through the center of the city, wanting to go directly to Maicheng by horse, but I didn't know until I got to the gate of the city that the city had been sealed off as early as seven days ago.Xuanyuan Chen went up to ask why, but was immediately driven down by the city guards.

There was no way, the two of us retreated and came back. I saw a shop selling shroud paper horses in front of me, so I stuffed five taels of silver to inquire about the situation.

The shop owner is an old man in his seventies. The business is not good because he is bored. Seeing that I sell it for a dollar, his wrinkled face immediately became happy, and he explained the situation to us in detail.

He said that Jicheng was originally a prosperous city, and it could still maintain its prosperity despite the war, but the front was suddenly defeated, and a large number of refugees fleeing into the city poured in.For some reason, these refugees came and robbed the people in the city of their belongings. First they robbed rice and food, and then they started to rob money and smash storefronts, which made people in the city panic and dare not go out.

A few days ago, I heard that another city was lost ahead, and spies came to report that tens of thousands of refugees had already poured in. The county guard ordered the gates of the city to be closed to prevent looting of food and goods.

He also said that his shop is closer to the city gate, and a lot of refugees have gathered outside the city gate these days, knocking on the wall and hammering on the city gate. Gotta smash it.

Xu wanted to verify his words, but after a while, he heard a noise from the direction of the city gate, and it turned out that the refugees began to smash the gate with wooden stakes.

That wooden stake was probably very big, and when it hit the city gate with a bang, it sounded no different from a siege stake.

I narrowed my eyes slightly, and actually thought of a bold guess in my heart.

The refugees are fierce, and they are just ordinary people. It is possible to grab rice when they are hungry, smashing shops and things...

It seems unlikely.

Could it be that there are barbarians from southern Xinjiang wearing Xiqi people's clothes and mixing with the refugees, creating a false appearance of the refugees' cruelty, which makes people think...

Jicheng did not open the city gates. Although it prevented the refugees from entering the city, it also prevented the grain and grass in the city from being transported to the battlefield.

Soldiers and horses have no food and grass supplies, even Xiao Yong, I am afraid they will not be able to last long...

It won't take long, I'm afraid I will lose another city.

Such an insidious drastic move!

(End of this chapter)