Chapter 117

After the new year's Eve, most of the month will soon be spent in visiting relatives and friends to eat and drink, and in the twinkling of an eye, it is the day to add makeup.

Early in the morning, Lin Mu and leisurely past, a business should have a few women and servant girls to help handle. In less than an hour, the color is complete. Mrs. Liu has already made her best stewed pork and braised spareribs in soy sauce. The rest of them have been washed and cut, waiting for the guests to come together before firing.

Maybe I smell the fragrance, but at the beginning of the year, people have already crowded the main hall. The old lady of the patriarch's family began to make up when she saw people coming. Ordinary people are just a ruler or a piece of jewelry. They are not so brilliant. But tingran's aunt added a gold bracelet and a pair of silver hairpins. In private, Lin's mother had brought two pieces of fine silk and two pieces of fine cloth and fifty taels of silver. This meeting son adds makeup, Lin Mu adds a pair of red gold hairpins inlaid with red agate. It's very difficult for a village woman to wear a gold hairpin. Now, mother Lin's hairpin is inlaid with red agate. Although it is not as valuable as the one inlaid with gems, it is rare here. In contrast, a pair of wallet leisurely put into the box is not so eye-catching. Everyone just kept praising the beautiful embroidery of the patterns on it. They all thought that it would not be valuable even if something was put in the purse. Otherwise, how could it not be bright?

After waiting for the crowd to disperse at night, Ting ran opened her purse and was surprised to see what was inside. I saw a pair of red gold gourd Earrings inlaid with ruby the size of lotus seeds and a ring of the same texture in one purse. In the other purse is a pair of gold statues with auspicious patterns. This one gold ingot weighs two dollars, and the two small gold ingots are worth more than forty taels of silver. Looking at things, tingran can't help but red eyes.

But her marriage is just around the corner, and she has never had the chance to talk to her cousin again. When she came back three days later, leisurely mother and daughter went back to the capital with her packed things.

Before we had time to send greetings to the two prefectures, a very bad news came from the northwest frontier. Erha, the leader of Kashi ethnic group, who had been nomading outside Shanhaiguan, unified several large nomadic groups nearby, tangled with tens of thousands of troops, bypassed Shanhaiguan, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and took advantage of nianguan to invade Yumen pass, which is on the northwest frontier of China. A former general of the Yumen pass colluded with foreign enemies and plotted against several generals in charge of border defense. Fortunately, Tang Haicheng, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, was very brave. Although he was unfortunately seriously injured, he still led his subordinates to fight against and kept the Kashgar army out of fangpan city.

However, due to the delay, general Tang finally died in the battle. More than 80 members of his family, old and young, were killed by spies. Only a pair of grandsons and granddaughters who were filial to their dead mother in the mountain temple survived.

Although the emperor was in a bad mood after receiving the military information, he was still patient to deal with the follow-up matters. First of all, there is the problem of generals. It has been a long time since Chengping in the Dakang Dynasty. A group of Ministers who can fight in the court can be brought out, but there are only a few who can fight. Now they are all staying in the border defense. The only one who is idle at home and has war experience is Shen Mingchang.

In the early morning of that day, Shen Mingchang, still in his sleep, was invited to the Jinluan hall by the visitors from the palace. Although the Kashgar army was temporarily blocked outside fangpan City, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, fangpan city was an isolated city with limited food and grass. Without supplies, the soldiers in it could only support for more than a month at most. Therefore, it is urgent to send people to support and send supplies.

As soon as the emperor said the matter, Shen Mingchang knew what was going on. Without any orders, he volunteered and said, "I'm willing to lead my troops to Yumen pass and defend my Dakang Dynasty to the death."

The emperor is not a vague "well, I'll order you to be marshal of Dingxi and lead 50000 troops to Yumen as soon as possible. Food, grass and other things will come later. Time is pressing, so don't delay any more. It's already daybreak today. You'd better go tomorrow morning. "

Shen Mingchang bowed himself and said, "I will do my best to wipe out Kashgar as soon as possible." Then he went home.

Shen Mingchang was called away in the middle of the night. Where can Han sleep? I got up early and waited. As soon as it was light, I saw my husband coming back. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. But before Shen Mingchang could sit down, he said, "excuse me, madam. There are foreign invaders in the northwest frontier. I will lead the army to Yumen pass early tomorrow morning. Time is pressing, there's no time to say more, so I'll leave everything to my wife. I'll go to the front yard to discuss with Mr. Dong. " Then he went to the front yard. For a moment, the whole Houfu was surrounded by an extremely tense atmosphere. Originally leisurely, he had already sent a post to visit us today. After coming to see that Han's face is not right, naturally, it is necessary to ask in detail. This is not a secret event. Han naturally talked to her. Then Han hesitated and said, "just now your adoptive mother came and said that the fifth prince had offered to take over the position of grain and grass officer. He needed some capable young people to come to discuss with us. Zege'er volunteered to take the job. Originally, he was very likely to win in Chunwei, but now he wants to abandon the literature and join the martial arts. Don't have a knot in your heart. "

Leisurely biting his lips, he said, "don't worry, madam. It's a good thing for a good man to be ambitious and defend his country. I don't have anything to be reluctant to. Just looking forward to their safe return. In that case, there must be many things to do in the house. I won't make trouble here. Let's go back first. "

Han didn't take her as an outsider, nodded and said, "I really don't have any mind now, and I don't want to leave you. You go back first. Zegol doesn't have a mother at home, so you have to buy him a salute. It must be easy to carry. Tomorrow morning, the army will set out. "

Leisurely side promised while hurried home.

On the way, she had already thought about what to prepare, so she had a rough talk with her mother after going home. Then find out a piece of processed cowhide, draw the pattern, let the grass use the ox tendon quickly, take out a few thick soles, and then sew on the vamp. Time is urgent, but also do not care what kind of flowers, everything to solid and rapid as the primary goal.

Through the blessing of the predecessors, Huizi's military uniform has appeared in the rudiment of later generations. Leisurely then cut a few similar clothes according to that style, and find out the thickest cloth to let the servant girls sew. You don't need embroidery or anything. Clothes are made very fast.

Then there were some common pills, hemostatic drugs, fine cotton cloth and detoxification pills. In a word, everything she could think of was leisurely prepared.