Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 803

Yinshan County is one of the five counties under the rule of Yinzhou. It is the first county town in Yinzhou to fall after Daxiaguan. Because of the sudden incident, a large amount of grain and grass in the official warehouses in the city could not be transferred or destroyed in the future.

According to the provisions of the Xiangfu State's combat readiness regulations, the grain and grass in the county-level official warehouse can feed [-] infantry and [-] cavalry for a month.In addition, the Liao army looted all the food and grass from the people in the city, and all of them were stored here. The food and grass were twice as much as the official warehouse, which means that the food and grass here could feed [-] troops for three months.

Therefore, this place has become the largest grain and grass supply station of the Liao army in Yinzhou.For the same reason, this is also the number one target of the special brigade.For this reason, Bai Canghai personally led a group of master elites under his command to sneak into Yinshan County.

This grain and grass supply station was extremely tightly protected by a thousand elites of the Liao army. There were as many as a hundred sentries roaming at night. In addition, the official warehouse of Xiangfu State was built extremely solidly. The doors were all iron doors, which were difficult to break open after being locked.Even if Bai Canghai did it himself and broke through the iron gate with a single sword, it would inevitably alarm the guarding Liao army, and it would be difficult to carry out subsequent destruction.

However, in addition to the iron gate, the official warehouse also has iron windows, but when designing the official warehouse at that time, it was considered that someone would sneak in. The window is not only four or five feet high, but also very small. Let alone whether you can climb it, at most seven or eight Toddlers can pass through it, but adults cannot enter.

However, there was a master in the special brigade who practiced bone shrinking skills. He carried a large bag of special fuel, climbed up the window with the help of the grappling hook, and got in.

Immediately to the southwest of Yinzhou is Longzhou.In the fertile fields of Longzhou, there is a village.

There is a stream beside the village, and there is a stone mill beside the stream. Opposite the mill is a raised meadow, covered with winter frost and dust, it looks very inconspicuous.

This is a beautiful village, but it is not much different from other villages in Xiangfu Country. It looks as inconspicuous as a bunch of grass in a raised meadow.

There is a farmer named Zhong Sanhe in the village. Although he never admits that he is special, in the eyes of the villagers, this fat guy who makes a good pitchfork and feeds pigs is definitely not an ordinary farmer. Once, a dozen wolves broke into the village at night, and Zhong Sanhe killed them all by himself.

Since ancient times, the northwest has been a place of hundreds of battles, so the people in the northwest are martial arts, and there are many people practicing martial arts among the people.In addition, there is very little production in the farmland, so many men in the northwest countryside have hunted and fought desperately with bandits and robbers.He even fought with Dangxiang, Tubo, Qiang and other foreign races in Caogu in the past few years.Only after the founding of the Xiangfu Kingdom, in the past year, has it gradually stabilized, and there are almost no bandits and foreigners who dare to rob things.

When Zhong Sanhe was hunting in the mountains when he was young, he carried an injured Taoist back home, and he took care of the wounded for half a year. The Taoist thanked Zhong Sanhe, taught Zhong Sanhe advanced martial arts, and took Zhong Sanhe to wander outside for a year. many.Three years ago, Zhong Sanhe was young and frivolous, and wiped out his entire family for a woman. His master was furious. He wanted to abolish his martial arts, but in the end he didn't give up. use force.

In these years, Zhong Sanhe has never neglected his martial arts, and even in the dead of night, he thought about breaking his oath.But in the end, they got married and had children, earned money to support their families, and lived a peaceful and happy life. Apart from some common quarrels in every household, there was nothing to worry about.In the end, he did not break his oath.

But Zhong Sanhe sometimes misses those days when Chi Qijianghu killed people.

One day, he went shopping in the city, drank in a tavern, and heard people talking about how the Liao people took advantage of the Song Dynasty to fight to Yinzhou.

A flame ignited in Zhong Sanhe's heart, isn't this a matter of great kindness and righteousness?He dragged the man who read the newspaper, carefully consulted the content of the reward order, hurried back home, drank with half a pot of pig's trotters and a basket of pickled vegetables, the more he drank, the fire in his heart burned. The more prosperous.

The wife was squatting outside the threshold, picking grape skins and pomace out of the wooden barrel, preparing to brew the wine that many ordinary people in the northwest would make, when she suddenly found that she hadn't heard the man speak for a long time, and asked, "Why? gone?"

Zhong Sanhe said, "It's okay."

The wife said, "Eat something too. Drinking on an empty stomach is nothing."

Zhong Sanhe hummed and continued to drink. The more he drank, the more silent he became, but his eyes became brighter and brighter, as if a flame was burning in his eyes.

Suddenly, he said to his wife, "I'm going on a long trip."

The wife raised her head and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

"Go around Yinzhou."

Zhong Sanhe recounted the content of the imperial court's reward order, and said: "The reward order is very clear. After the war, you can get into the top ten benefactors with points for killing Liao dogs. In the past, try to see if you can win a fortune. Even if you can't make it into the top ten, it would be good to earn a few hundred taels of silver and buy a few hundred acres of land for our family. What's more, His Majesty the Emperor of the Xiangfu Kingdom is really good. Once they are beaten by Liao dogs, the peaceful life in our village will probably be gone.”

The wife was stunned for a while, then laughed, the grape juice in her hand was flying everywhere, and said mockingly: "I heard that when I went to visit today, His Majesty the Emperor has already gone to Yinzhou in person, how big waves can Liaogou make?" Come out. After you go, maybe Liaogou has already escaped."

Zhong Sanhe didn't regard His Majesty the Emperor as a god like ordinary people. He shook his head and said, "This is an opportunity, and maybe there will be no such opportunity in the future!"

His wife didn't take his words seriously, thinking that he was playing drunk, she lowered her head and continued to work, muttering, "Every time I drink a little wine, I like to talk nonsense."

After a moment of silence, Zhong Sanhe said in a buzzing voice: "I didn't talk about drinking, this matter is settled like this."

Only then did the wife realize that what the man was talking about was really not drinking. She took her hands out of the barrel, wiped her clothes casually, and said nervously: "I heard that the Liao people killed people like hemp, and more than a hundred thousand people came here. , How dangerous it is for you to go."

"What's the danger? There are more than [-] of them, and I'm not the only one in our Xiangfu country."

The more the wife listened, the more disturbed she became, and she screamed to the room next door: "Father, come quickly!"

Zhong Sanhe slapped the table hard, and the pickles and leftover pig's trotters all fell to the ground.

He said angrily, "What are you shouting for? You are usually asked to call your father over for dinner, why is your voice not so loud!"

The courtyard door was pushed open with a creak, and an old man with a stooped back walked in.

Zhong Sanhe stood up and said, "Father, have you eaten yet?"

The old man looked at the messy place, tapped his lips, and said, "No."

Zhong Sanhe said: "So let your daughter-in-law chop up the bacon and pork legs?"

The wife looked at her father-in-law with tears in her eyes, thinking that I have not been short of your old man's food on weekdays, and I didn't call you for the stewed pork leg last time. You can't blame it because of this. If you can put this The drunken guy stays at home, don't talk about cured pork leg, I'll chop off my leg to honor you.

The old man didn't speak for a while.

Zhong Sanhe was a little nervous.

"You guys are making such a loud noise, there's only a wall across, how can I not hear you?"

said the old man.

Zhong Sanhe was very strong and tall, but at this time he lowered his head obediently, just like when he made a mistake when he was a child, he said in a low voice: "It would be a pity if I don't seize this opportunity with my martial arts skills."

Before he finished speaking, the old man stared at him and shouted sharply: "Is it great to know martial arts? When your father and I were young, we served as soldiers and killed Liao people. What are you showing off here?"

The wife stopped crying when she heard the words, and looked forward to her father-in-law full of hope.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly said: "If you want to go, then go. If I am not sixty or forty, I will go with you."

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Zhong Sanhe took out a well-maintained treasure knife from the cabinet.With tears in his eyes, his wife hung the packed bundle on Zhong Sanhe's shoulder, and asked again, "Do you want to tie another jug ​​of wine?"

Daughters-in-law in the northwest countryside usually have this kind of temperament. Seeing that they can't change, they accept it silently, and then start to take care of their men seriously.

Zhong Sanhe said: "This is going to fight and kill people, so it's a mistake to drink."

The wife put down the newly brewed wine, blaming herself for almost killing her man.

The two children ran back home at this time, the younger brother ran out of breath, his face was flushed, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't. The older sister looked at Zhong Sanhe and said angrily: "Father, Cheng The Meng School inside has already been built, and the school will start in the spring of next year. Registration has started in the past few days, and I have already found out that girls can also sign up. At home, you only prepared tuition fees for my younger brother, and I also want to go to school. "

If it was normal, listening to his daughter talking like this, Zhong Sanhe, who was as patriarchal as everyone else in this era, would definitely lose his temper, but today he just smiled in a spirited manner.

"Don't worry, daddy will earn tuition for you right now. Dad promises you that he will let you go to school too."

Zhong Sanhe looked at his father again and said, "Father, I'm leaving."

The old man nodded and said, "Be careful on the road."

Zhong Sanhe gave his wife a firm hug.

The two children didn't have time to be surprised by the fact that their father was holding their mother, they were just curious about other things.

The son opened his eyes wide and asked, "Father, where are you going?"

Zhong Sanhe said, "Go to Yinzhou."

The daughter asked, "Father, what are you going to do?"

Zhong Sanhe said: "Go and earn enough tuition for the two of you to be admitted to Xiangfu College."

The daughter said excitedly: "Father, then you must earn more. If you don't earn enough money, you and mother will only let your younger brother go to school, not me."

"Don't worry, Yaya, Daddy will definitely earn enough for your school fees."

Zhong Sanhe smiled, carried a long knife, and carried a bow and arrow for hunting, and went out.

(End of this chapter)