【Maple Cherry】

24 - 1 man-made battles

The thin morning fog hadn't cleared away, so he let go of his hands and mercifully pushed open the courtyard door. The door was unlocked. Through the morning light, he could see that the lights in the side study room were still on. He sighed and walked over to the door and knocked lightly, "Shi Yin , I'm back." The person inside didn't speak, let go of mercy and directly pushed the door open.

Wuyi raised his head from a thick stack of paperwork, half a cup of cold tea and a candle on the table made him slightly stunned, "Why is it already daylight?"

Sa Shouci sighed compassionately, reached out and took the teacup on the table to one side to re-brew, "Yan Yun just doesn't know how to take care of others, can't he even prepare hot tea for you when I go out to do errands?"

"Yun'er is still young, don't be too harsh on you as a senior brother. He was also guarding me at night, seeing that he is too sleepy at night, let him go to sleep." Wuyi smiled and took the tea handed over by Sashou Mercy , "Have you settled the Huainan taxation?"

"Well, the commercial tax has been increased by [-]%, and the farmland tax has been reduced by [-]%. The common people don't have much complaints." Sashou nodded compassionately, "In addition...the banditry that worried you last time was also solved by someone, and it was still a sword. The death method of sealing the throat."

"En." Wuyi put the tea on the table, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes.

Sashou Mercy looked at Wuyi's tired face and sighed, "Shi Yin, go to sleep for a while, the imperial doctor asked you to rest more."

"Don't sleep anymore. I have something to meet with the World Lord after breakfast. You must have been exhausted after rushing back all night. Go and rest. I'll just close my eyes for a while." Wuyi rubbed his forehead and waved his hand.

"Then... come back from the World Lord, Shi Yin should rest earlier?" Sashou Mercy was very unwilling, and still persuaded.

Wuyi opened his eyes and glanced at him, "Today is the fifteenth day, you have enough rest, let someone prepare the car, and prepare two jugs of good wine, I will go to see him." Seeing Sashou Merci, his expression turned ugly when he heard this. He couldn't help laughing and said: "Why are you so angry, he kindly helped me get rid of the banditry, I should also say thank you logically."

"I don't know what's good or bad. For more than a year, you have been looking for him every fifteenth day of every month, but he didn't even open the door, and didn't say a word. Shi Yin treated him sincerely. He... "Sashou Mercy couldn't help but make a loud voice.

"Sa'er." Wuyi interrupted Sashou's benevolent words with a cold voice, "I have made arrangements for his affairs, you have exceeded the rules."

Sashou Mercy choked on a word, looked at Wuyi for a moment, and finally lowered his head in a slump, "I see, I'll make arrangements, Shi Yin, don't get angry." After saying that, he turned and left.

The door was closed, and the candles on the table finally burned to the end. Wuyi sighed, and slowly closed his eyes with one hand propped on his forehead. Half an hour later, an eight or nine-year-old child was carrying a hot Shui slammed into the door, and the childish voice woke up the light sleeper, "Master Yin, Yun'er has prepared breakfast."

Wuyi opened his eyes and looked at the child who came in. Yan Yun was eight years old this year. When he saw this fleeing child in Huainan a year ago, his heart softened at the sight of his bright black eyes, and he decided to accept the child as a child. Entering disciples.For more than a year, Yan Yun has grown by more than a head than when we first met him. He is never mischievous, and his well-behaved demeanor makes Wuyi very worry-free.Seeing Yan Yun pouring the water from the pot into the copper basin on tiptoe, Wuyi smiled and stood up, "Okay, you go and bring it, let's eat together."

Letting go of mercy and returning to his room, the glorious degenerate in battle armor was waiting for him. When he saw him coming back, he stood up and looked at him expectantly, "Did you tell Shi Yin?"

"I didn't say..." Sashou frowned and sat down on the chair irritatedly, "Shi Yin stayed up all night again, and the imperial physician told him a year ago that Shi Yin must not be tired or angry, otherwise his life is in danger. Erjie's hosting is not appropriate, you and I can suppress it as much as we can."

"But... the Lord of the World forced conscription on the southern border of Huainan. Although the scale is not large, the local people have already complained to the sky. Shi Yin is working day and night but can't appease the people. This matter is going against the trend. I..." Brilliant Fallen World frowned It became a deadlock, "There is also Lingnan who does not know what kind of expert is planning behind it, their power is gradually expanding, and those places that no one cares about are gradually becoming their territory. You must not let Shi Yin do these things. Know?"

Sasuke waved his hand compassionately and impatiently, "Since there is no war, people's hearts, land, tax laws, the floods in Huainan last year, the drought in the Central Plains, and the selection of the world's masters, everything is not done by Yin Zhuangzhuang himself. Now the world's masters sent Jun Yin concealed Shi Yin from recruiting soldiers, and letting him know about it will only increase your annoyance. However, you have the military power in your hands, so you can stop the conscription if you can."

"But..." Brilliant Falling into the World wanted to say something more, but Sashou Merci stood up and interrupted him, "You can't just let me watch Master Yin exhausted, we can deal with these things first, so let's deal with them first let's go."

Brilliant Falling into the World opened his mouth, but didn't say anything after all, he stood with his head down for a while, shook his head, turned around and went out, let go of mercy and didn't stop him and didn't speak again, just sat on the chair so slumped, and didn't move for a long time.

……

Mobei, the residence of the Marquis of Triumph.

Fuying raised her hand and lifted the table in front of her, the pile of paperwork on her left and the pile of military newspapers on her right scattered all over the floor, and the person sitting on the chair stood up with a fierce look in her eyes and shouted angrily, "Feng Shibai ghost, come in for me!"

The two guards at the door and the person standing there shuddered at the same time. Feng Shibai took a deep breath and walked in cautiously, "Master Hou..."

"Go back and tell Wu Zhixiang that the seven towns in the south of the Yangtze River are rich, and Qian Mi Wuyou is right, but if his subordinates write such useless praises to waste my time, don't blame me for going to the south of the Yangtze River to beat them up. Him." A thick booklet with a letter was thrown directly in front of Feng Shibai by Fu Ying, "If they have nothing to do, it's better to go to the fields to help the people farm than to write these things!"

"Yes..." Feng Shibai nodded quickly.

"In addition, there are some places on the southeast coast that have reported the drought. You ask Wu Zhixiang to send someone to verify the situation. How much money will be needed to appease the people? Directly transfer from him in the south of the Yangtze River, so you don't need to come and ask me again. The banditry in Lingnan is not overwhelming. You don’t need to ask me if you send troops directly. Don’t you feel tired from running back and forth from Jiangnan to Mobei every day? When you run back and forth, you don’t know how many people affected by the disaster will starve to death.” Fu Ying snorted coldly and sat back Going to the chair, he glanced at the desk that was turned over on the floor.

Bai Chenzi watched from the side and quickly asked two soldiers to help the desk up, and rearranged the things.

Feng Shibai nodded repeatedly, and Fuying looked at his black eyes, and softened his tone, "Okay, it's hard work for you to be busy on the road, and the news has to be sent back by Red Fox Nine Tails first, since your family is in the desert. North, go home and reunite with your family for a few days, rest for two days before leaving."

"Yes." Feng Shibai heaved a sigh of relief and turned around, just in time for him to bump into Bai Xingji and hurried in.

"Hou Ye, I have found out that the king of the Lingnan Army is indeed the former Wang Xietian Yuwu who survived the catastrophe, and the person next to him who made a plan is named Fengxiu." come out.

Feng Shibai only heard a "pop" behind him, and then there was a dead silence.After a while, Bai Chenzi came out shaking his head and ordered, "You two come here and tell the carpenter on West Street to build another table for Lord Hou."

"My lord... Lord Hou has smashed six tables from last year to now, you see... do you want to find a blacksmith to make one directly..." the soldier asked in a low voice.

"...You're right..." Bai Chenzi looked at the soldier in front of him and thought for a moment, but then shook his head, "Master Hou has been so busy that he didn't sleep a wink for two nights, smashing a table to vent to him The body is good, so let’s make wood normally.”

Hearing the words, Feng Shiba ghost leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Bai Chenzi... Our Lord... are you so tired?"

Bai Chenzi glanced at him, hesitated for a while and thought, "It's more tiring than when we were fighting. If he can be chosen, he will definitely change positions with General Hou Jialing, the guardian of the border." He patted Feng Shibai on the shoulder explain.

……

In Lingnan, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, which is the most pleasant.

Fengxiu held a fat vole tail in his hand, the vole struggled hard, Fengxiu reached out and tore off a piece of silk cloth glued to the vole's fat belly, and pulled the fur on the little thing's stomach, the vole squeaked , Fengxiu let go in disgust, seeing that fat mouse disappeared in an instant, she leaned on the rocking chair and shook her head, "Even a mouse can send a letter, Shang Fengyue, Shang Fengyue, you have the ability to tame dragons and beasts , really improved again.”

He unfolded the silk cloth and looked at it for a while, then put the piece of silk cloth on the table casually, picked up the teacup and poured it on, the handwriting on the silk cloth disappeared after a while.

"Sir." Footsteps sounded behind her, and Jun Mansui stepped into the yard wearing a pink dress. Another year passed, and the little girl had grown up to be slim. When she came in, she saw Fengxiu with her eyes closed and a lazy look. There is a silk handkerchief next to it.Jun Mansui came over, reached out his hand to touch the flint and fire sickle from his bosom, and lighted the handkerchief without any hesitation.

"Ghostly and clever." Fengxiu didn't even bother to look at her, she covered her lips with a feather fan, and just closed her eyes and stretched out her hand.

Jun Manshou shrugged, and handed the teacup not far from Fengxiu's handbook to Fengxiu, "Sir, the king asked you to marry Aunt Ziying, you knew that the king wanted to tie you up, why did you agree?" Or, do you really like Aunt Ziying?"

"Do you like your Aunt Zi Ying?" Feng Xiu asked without answering.

"Aunt Zi Ying wasn't like this a few years ago. In the past few years, she was bought by the king and monitored her everywhere. Man Lu didn't like it." Jun Mansui watched Fengxiu take a sip of tea and then handed back the teacup, reaching out to take it back and whispering.

"Yeah, she's watching me. So I know she's watching me, but I can't stop it. At this time, should I let her get closer to me, or should I put on a defensive posture to make her guard? "Fengxiu asked again.

Jun Mansui blinked, and then nodded after a long time, "Man Lu understands, sir, this trick is called luring the enemy deep."

"Smart." Fengxiu opened her eyes, and nodded the little girl's head with her fan, "The cherry blossoms are blooming again in this courtyard, you can ask the kitchen to prepare some refreshments in the evening, and I invite Aunt Ziying to come and enjoy the flowers and drink tea."

"Yes." Jun Mansui agreed and turned around.

Fengxiu looked up at the luxuriant cherry blossoms and couldn't help but sighed, "It's really tiring to fight alone..." He covered his face with a feather fan, and a few cherry blossoms were blown off by the wind and fell on the ground. His hands and body were slightly itchy.

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——to be continued