Chapter 578

The ice and snow on the ground creaked under the rolling of the wheels.

Last night's cold wind, the snow on the ground has already become ice, after countless vehicles rolling, gradually become muddy.

In the morning, there were no pedestrians on the streets of the imperial capital, but the early traders had to walk back and forth in the cold wind, pushing cars. Teams of soldiers in the security office, wearing leather boots and white breath in their mouths, walked back and forth with their heads down.

This year's winter is particularly cold, some elderly people can't help sighing, as if in memory, the emperor has never been so cold.

The snow covered the city again and again, and even the Lancang canal was frozen. At the wharf, a fleet of naval ships stationed in the imperial capital had already sent out icebreakers with pointed wood in the bow to patrol the river to break the ice and ensure the smooth flow of the river.

The river transport workers are busy almost every day. Although the financial department has paid off a lot of money and food, and also sent out chills to the workers of the river transport department, many people are still suffering from frostbite these days.

This day, it's too cold.

In the past, the coldest time in winter was just a little snow or two. This year's continuous heavy snow has never been seen for generations.

The owners of the shops of the major families in the imperial capital are worried day by day. Because the road is blocked by snow, the caravans of many chambers of commerce are blocked on the road. For a moment, many things in the city are going up in price.

Fortunately, the river is still struggling to support. But the cargo ships are still less and less day by day. It is said that the river course in the East was frozen again yesterday. Two icebreakers of the river transport department were frozen on the river course. The ice on the river is hard enough to run horses!

With an order from the commander-in-chief, Lord camisillo, two divisions were deployed from the garrison of the imperial city near the imperial capital, together with the local garrison of the nearby towns. A total of about 100000 troops were deployed.

In this cold weather, these soldiers dropped their weapons, took off their armor, wore cotton padded clothes and carried shovels. It's turned into a labor force cleaning snow roads.

When it was the first day of snow, we didn't pay much attention to it. The rare heavy snow made many people feel fresh, but with the continuous snow, life became a little sad.

In the imperial capital and several nearby Acropolis, the price of grain land rose by 30% in three days, and by the fifth day. Even the price of vegetables has doubled. As for meat, let alone meat.

Evil door! What a hell of an evil family!

The residents of every imperial capital have this idea.

In the Imperial Palace, the wise Regent issued a series of decrees. This year, several batches of money and grain from the southern provinces were transferred to the imperial capital, and the garrison troops from all over the country were sent out to clear the roads.

This day. Just like this year's National Games, people can't help but feel uneasy.

In front of the war, although there have been intermittent small wins, but those monster races. But he never retreated. After a few months of fighting, he was still fighting. Gradually, some people with more flexible minds began to think: this battle is not small. Maybe a year? two years?

Some old people began to recall the great battle between the Empire and the northwest grassland twenty years ago. It was the largest and most protracted war in decades.

The bad weather, coupled with the shortage of supplies. Let people's hearts, but also a little floating.

I heard that this year's new year's ceremony, even the usual fireworks celebration in previous years, has been cancelled.

This news is true. In previous years, the Empire would purchase a large number of fireworks from the tulip family industry by means of official procurement. But this year, there was a clear message from the palace that the Regent himself said: the war ahead is urgent. This is the time of the festival. It's not suitable for the atmosphere. This year, it's not.

Such an order made little Zach, the chief commercial manager of tulip family, scowl and watch the income on the account book lose more than 100000 gold coins.

That's all right... Anyway, all the big businesses in the imperial capital are living with their belts. The roads are blocked and the supply of goods from all over the country can't get in. Everyone is making compensation. It's nothing more than more compensation and less compensation. Tulip family is rich and powerful, so throwing a little money doesn't hurt the imprisonment. Even the fur doesn't count.

But let small Zach helpless is his boss!

Our Duke of tulip, it seems that his mind has been more and more difficult to guess since he got sick.

In the past, little Zach was convinced of duvet's decision, because it turned out that the young Duchess was a money collector. When he came up with an idea or something, he was rolling in gold coins.

But in the second half of this year... The money is only spent but not earned... This is not quite right.

The Duchess seems to have little interest in making money, and no more ideas or new inventions can be found. Seeing the suspicion of losing money, his little Zach is the emperor. He is not in a hurry to be a eunuch (OK, there is no Eunuch in the world). But he is a worker who is in a hurry all day long. He is a boss but he is leisurely. He seems to be a carefree man. Is that a bit strange?

The year-end liquidation of this year's harvest, if not in the first half of the year to do what the martial arts contest, relying on gambling and ticket revenue to earn a lot, I'm afraid this year's revenue will become a deficit.

Little Zach had already gone to see Dewey several times. Every time the Duchess heard his own nagging, he was full of words and impatient: "money, what do you want so much for. Can't I afford to pay for it? "

It's affordable to pay for it. With the wealth of the boss, even if he has paid for it for ten years, he may not be bankrupt. But as the chief manager of business, if you always pay for it, where do you put your face?

Every year, everyone would arrange a term in private to calculate this year's harvest among the rich chambers of Commerce in the imperial capital. Dewey knew it a long time ago. At that time, the Duchess said with a smile: is this the Forbes rich list?

In previous years, there was little Zac, the elite of the tulip family. Since its rise, the tulip family has been at the top of the list every year. Little Zach was also regarded as the God of wealth by the people of the imperial capital.

But this year, with the war, the tulip family has also been involved in this weapon business in recent years. But after all, it's not as solid as that guy in Delan mountain. The Empire expanded its army and ordered weapons and equipment on a large scale. As a result, at the end of this year, the fat man of Mt. Delan finally turned over. This year's income finally pushed the tulip family down to the top.

Naturally, the fat man was proud, and he deliberately set up a banquet at home to treat the guests to dinner. Although there is a good relationship between the tulip family and mount Delan Warcraft. But this kind of face also cares. Let little Zach see, I can't help feeling a little weak.

In my heart, I have some complaints about Dewey's "not doing his job".

These days, Du Wei is not doing his job properly.

Especially... After the two "Duchess" came to the imperial capital.

"To the left... To the right... Well, a little more to the left... Ouch, down! A little more down! Ah... Yes. Here it is. Use some strength... "

Dewey didn't sit in a wheelchair, but he was lying on a soft sheet and his clothes were rolled up. Show a bare back.

In this room, in the fireplace, it's burning. All the carpets on the floor were scorched. The wall is a sandwich wall designed by Dewey himself, which imitates the thermal insulation wall he knew before. And the foundation under the house is also covered with a layer of interlayer.

As soon as the fireplace burned, the heat penetrated into the interlayer, making the whole house warm as spring. It's snowy outside, but it's so warm inside that it only needs to wear small clothes.

Now the Duchess was lying on the soft floor, smiling and squinting. Groaning in the mouth.

Next to him, Joe, with a worried face, put his hand on Dewey's back and tickled his man with his slender fingers.

Hate this guy "up and down left and right" barking, but finally made Miss Qiao annoyed. Leng buting suddenly raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "I think you are deliberately sending me to play!"

Let's go. He kicked it up.

Dewey grinned. He leaned over and reached for Joe's ankle. Gently a pull, Qiao Qiao immediately based on instability, the whole person fell into the arms of Du Wei. Du Wei moved to the soft collapse, and then he took Joe in his arms, gave her a kiss on the face, and said with a smile, "good Joe, is it so impatient to scratch your husband's back?"

The fire made Joe blush. He didn't know whether he was shy or steaming. He gave Du Wei a watery look with his eyes and said: "you guy, you just don't have a good heart..."

Just said half, but immediately exclaimed, eyebrow between show a bit of shame anger. It turned out that while she was talking, Dewey had already gone in with one hand along her skirt.

Qiao Qiao twisted his body, frowned, and his voice took some small gasps. He said bitterly, "are you well? Tease me again

This made duverton's mind fade. He gave a wry smile, drew back his hand, held Joe's waist, sighed, and his face was full of annoyance. He said: "Damn, I can't live this day!"

It's impossible. It's impossible!

Two beautiful little wives, or sisters, come to see themselves from a long distance. The so-called long absence is better than newlyweds. But these days, they have been recuperating day by day, night by night, and back and forth, but their damned health is still not getting better.

He's tired of sitting in a wheelchair. That's all. But looking at the two little wives around, but can't eat this crime, which man can stand it?

Although it's good to take advantage of the hand and foot once in a while, it's much cheaper than the hand and foot, but on the contrary, it makes the whole body fire

"I feel the pain of eunuch at last." Dewey sighed.

Just then, the door opened and a pretty shadow came in slowly.

Vivian has a snow-white fox fur robe on her body. The soft and white fox fur hides her small face inside. The original delicate face is even more moving against the snow-white fox fur.

As soon as Vivian entered the door, she saw Dewey and Joe rolling on the ground. Can't help but face a red, standing at the door on Leng for a while, as if some at a loss.

As soon as Du Wei saw Vivian, he immediately received an amnesty and called out: "come here, my little silly girl, your sister bullied me, the disabled!"

Joe blushed and kicked Dewey. Sneer: "how to bully you!" Then he kicked again: "how can I bully you?"

Vivian looked at it with a puff of a smile. Although her face was still red, she finally came over and said in a soft voice, "sister, don't, don't kick him."

It's a little stuttering though. But the soft voice is still beautiful.

Vivian came, although Qiao Qiao's temperament was strong, he was embarrassed to stay in Duwei's arms again and jumped up quickly. He turned around the room twice and frowned: "this snow is so boring. There is no interesting place in the imperial capital... Well, if I had known, I might as well have stayed in the northwest. "

Look back. But can't help but anger to bump up, originally she just got up, Du Wei pulled Wei Wei An to the bosom. But he saw the little villain looking at himself and said leisurely, "why is it no fun to snow? Make a snowman, have a snowball fight, and make ice sculptures... "

"Children's stuff." Qiao Qiao some disdain: "what's the meaning of snowball fights... Alas, if only someone would accompany me.". But in the imperial capital, you can't even find a good opponent. "

Dewey couldn't help laughing.

Qiao Qiao is "notorious" in Northwest China. This violent woman was born with a restless disposition.

When I was in the northwest, I liked two things most: one, of course, was to practice the Decepticon team that Dewey had given her.

The second is to find someone to fight.

What's more, Miss Qiao, though active, is not a fool. She knows her own skills. Although it's level eight up. But in the group of people around Dewey, that is not enough. It's better than that.

Hussein Rodriguez, JOJO can't fight. She knows she's famous, and she doesn't want to compete with those two people. But the people below are just in bad luck.

In the northwest, Joe's favorite sandbag was fat lombarton. Longbutton's martial arts skills are about level 7, not much worse than Qiao Qiao, and he is the most comfortable to fight.

When the poor fat man was in the northwest, he would be hit by Miss Qiao every three or five days. Many times, even the fat man was so annoyed that he simply hid everywhere. Even developed to, far see Qiao Qiao, this fat man immediately lose face to run away.

This time, the fat man was sent to the front line by Du Wei to take the mob of civilian mercenaries. Although there was a meaning of punishment, the fat man himself was willing to leave the northwest and avoid Miss Qiao.

When I came to the imperial capital, my husband and wife were reunited. Originally, Qiao Qiao was full of anger and wanted to scatter the ground on Du Wei: this bastard, coming to the imperial capital from the northwest, has been walking for a year! Last new year, I didn't see anyone! It's really hateful.

Can come, see Du Wei "serious illness", Qiao Qiao can't care to get angry. Besides, there is Vivian who is soft hearted at the sight of Du Wei. Even if Qiao wants to get angry with Du Wei, Vivian will never let her.

After so many days in the imperial capital, I gradually became a little irritable. Duwei's body is not easy to move, and he can't accompany the two people around. Qiao Qiao's temperament is always at leisure. These days, although he's with Du Wei, you're strong and I'm strong, he has a good time. What's more... Dewey's current situation has reached a certain degree, but he can't be really ecstatic. On the contrary, it has become torture.

Miss Qiao always thinks that she can find something to do.

Originally, Duwei built a griffin farm in another yard of Brokeback Mountain. It was a new thing, which must be in Qiao Qiao's mind. But Dewey knew in his heart that his little wife was very noisy. The Griffin farm is still a secret now. If the young lady who is afraid that the world will not be in chaos comes and tosses about, I'm afraid there will be something wrong.

So, Dewey didn't say anything about it, even when little Zach came to report it on weekdays. And try to avoid Joe.

In addition to Joe, there is another thing that bothers Dewey

"If you don't believe it, let's make a bet!"

"Well! Bet on it! If you lose, what will you compensate me for? "

"Joke! Why must I lose? It's you. What if you lose? "

There was a lot of noise outside the door, and Dewey's head was like a fight.

Sure enough, the door was pushed open, and muse, a tomboy of the Liszt family, came in. She found a chair and sat down. The girl was angry and said, "Dewey! You don't care about your brother! "

Just then, Gabriel came in from the outside, crossed his hands and said with a faint smile, "Oh, have you come to complain again?"

The Muse blushed and jumped up in anger. He drew out his sword and glared at Gabriel: "don't be too arrogant! I thought my muse was afraid of you! Hum

Gabriel's face was full of mockery, with a faint smile in his eyes, but he stretched out his finger and flicked it gently on the Muse's sword. With a buzzing sound, Muse dejianfen was swung away.

Although Muse had practiced martial arts since she was a child, she was a girl after all, and there was no master to teach her unique skills. But Gabriel has been the number one training object of the Rowling family since he was born. Martial arts is a family skill of the Rowling family. It has been practiced since childhood. Now, martial arts is outstanding among people of the same age. With such a play, the Muse's sword can't be grasped immediately.

Du Wei sighed and looked at his brother and Muse: "what are you doing for?"

It turned out that this time, with the two sisters, Qiao and Wei'an, they returned to the imperial capital together. Even the three sisters of the Liszt family came together. Mrs. Liszt was the focus of the imperial capital at that time. When she returned to the imperial capital this time, she immediately aroused a lot of repercussions and became a distinguished guest of all kinds of banquets in the aristocratic circle. Her Liszt family had not returned to the emperor for a long time. As the leader of the family, Mrs. Liszt had to work hard to deal with it. In this circle.

And the angel who had been in love with Dewey since childhood. Over the past two years, with the growth of some. Maybe it's also gradually talked about, rarely to pester Du Wei again, but his temperament is no longer so lively and lovely. A lovely little sister has gradually become a person like Lin Daiyu. She likes to shut herself up in the room to read all day, and her words are gradually less and less.

But it was this muse, just as he was then, who seemed to be a impetuous and arrogant tomboy.

This just came back a few days, in the Duke house, but unexpectedly, and Gabriel this guy, two people don't know how, on the match.

For a moment, the Duke's mansion was full of flying chickens and dogs. The Muse is impatient. In the northwest, even Dewey dares to challenge. How can he be obedient to Dewey's brother? They like to fight together all day long, and they don't know how many fights they have had.

Muse, in particular, seems to have been unhappy with Dewey since she was a child. However, with Dewey's increasing authority and power, Muse gradually did not dare to make trouble with Dewey.

But now, when I meet Dewey's brother... I can't provoke the big one, can't I provoke the small one?! Hum!

It was as if they had made a feud in a previous life. As soon as they met, they started the war. Big and small, trivial things, can also be used to quarrel, quarrel. Two days ago, they even had a fight in the yard, forcing the muse to fight. It turned out Gabriel slapped his sword down.

Later, the reason for the fight was that they went out and came back together. At the door, Gabriel laughed at the two Muses' riding skills.

As a result, after the fight, the flowers and plants in the yard were lifted by half. In the evening, Dewey got angry, and they stopped.

As a result, today... It started again.

enemy! What a friend!

"Brother, she laughed that my way of leading the army was wrong. Hum! What does this girl know! That's what we learned in the military academy! "

"Hum, how to lead soldiers in the academy?" Muse was even more disdainful: "I am the commander of general Ruolin's cavalry in the northwest, and I also take hundreds of cavalry! You say I don't know how to lead soldiers? How many people have you really taken with you? "

"What do women know?"

"What do children know?"

"You..."

"You..."

Two people chirp and quarrel in the room. Du Wei has a strange smile on his face and looks at the two people bickering. Later, Du Wei suddenly turns pale and slaps on the soft collapse.

There was a slap. Both of them were shocked at the same time, and turned to Duwei, both of whom looked a little uneasy.

"Cough!" Du Wei tried to be a bit of a parent's dignity, coughed, thought and thought, but finally squeezed out such a sentence from his mouth: "what's the noise! It's time! time to eat! If anyone says anything more, don't eat today! "

The Muse snorted. Seeing Du Wei, he said angrily, "you are brothers. Naturally, you are helping him!"

Then he stamped his foot and rushed out.

Gabriel's eyebrows seemed to have a smile, and he was about to chase out. Now Dewey really sank his face: "Gabriel!"

"Er... Er? Brother

Du Wei sighed and sat up straight on the soft floor, staring at his brother. Looking at the boy's strange face, he suddenly spoke directly and said coldly, "do you like this tomboy?"

Gabriel grinned twice, but with a straight neck: "that's right!"

Dewey frowned again, but this time Gabriel got Dewey wrong. He quickly explained: "I didn't mean to bully her, but a girl of this temperament is stubborn and wants to enter her heart. You must be tough. She may be hating me now, but I promise that I'm the one she dreams of these days when she sleeps at night. "

Du Wei stares at his younger brother and suddenly laughs bitterly. He sighs in his heart: my younger brother is actually an expert in picking up girls.

"Do you really like muses?" Dewey had a straight face“ That's right. " Gabriel stared at his brother for a while. Suddenly his face changed and he blurted out: "brother, is she your woman? I don't know! "“ Bullshit When duviton scolded, Joe's face was a little strange. Duviton quickly said, "what nonsense!" Gabriel shrunk: "it's not your woman."“ But... Where's your fiancee? " Du Wei sighed: "after the new year, your rite of passage will not last." Gabriel looked at Dewey strangely: "so what? It's not like I can only marry one. " This choked duvet straight back. Good boy! Your brother, I have two women since I came of age. This kid, he's under age. But you're ready to marry two? Gabriel's face was straight at the moment. "Brother, you don't have to worry about it. in my opinion. Mrs. Liszt, I don't seem to object. When she saw me two days ago, she asked me in a low voice for a long time what I like to eat and wear, and asked me to take care of her tomboy sister in DIDU. It seems that the marquis will not object. " Dewey continued to sigh. This winter hasn't passed yet. How can these little ones start to spring one by one? In the palace, a court ceremonial officer walked into the palace lightly. This palace is the residence of the present emperor, little Charlie. The little emperor had just finished today's lesson and sent away a royal swordsmanship teacher. Only then did the etiquette officer dare to come up“ What's the matter? " Charlie threw the sword to the attendant beside him. He took a hot towel and wiped the sweat from his naked upper body. Then two pretty maids put a cotton padded gown on him“ Your majesty, this is the dinner list for this year's new year's celebration. " The ceremonial officer bowed respectfully and held it in both hands: "the Regent means that this year's dinner, I don't know if your majesty has any special guests to invite." Charlie sneered at the guest list? This kind of small thing, just let me do? But on his face, he took it and looked at it carefully. It was almost the same as in previous years. Just one more Name: Mrs. Liszt. Mrs. Liszt's dead husband was a royal aristocrat, who was also a relative of the royal family. When she returned to the imperial capital this time, her new year's dinner was a must. Charlie pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes showed some eagerness. He could not help but think of the beautiful girl he saw that day at Dewey's house. Well, that girl... My staff found out that her name was muse, Mrs. Liszt's sister. Thinking about it, he picked up his pen and added a few more words to the list.