In the northern desert night, the wind is cold and the sand is rolled. The mountains, the barracks; the ravines, the grass is sparse, hundreds of miles away, the mountains, the lights are connected.

A day, the earth, but three scenes, the difference is big, warm and cold, there are not many ravine valleys between the enemy and me, more than a hundred miles apart, but there are not many two armies confrontation, sword drawn n-ǔ Zhang meaning.

Short houses, the houses are very simple, but at this moment, it is quite meaningful for Zongwu who does not practice northern life.Outside the cold wind, sand and soil, if there is no place to block the wind and snow, freezing to death is inevitable.

From the northern county newspaper court to the five army governor's office and the military department planning personnel, when the advance team of 20 people from Zongwu arrived, it was nearly a month from the southern invasion of Tatar.

The people along the line in accordance with the deployment of the local county, retreat more than 100 miles, the local guard station has built a line of defense between the Tatar barracks and the people, but the soldiers and horses are limited, only more than 5,000 people, only waiting for the army of the court to come.

The Tartars have at least 50,000 troops, and the exact number has not yet been clearly understood, but one thing is certain: they did bring a lot of wives and children.

Originally thought that there was a court army to back, the local state and county can also go all out in the back, but when the commander of the garrison knew that the soldiers and horses sent by the court were only more than 5,000 guards, the original morale suddenly reduced a lot.

Fortunately, this news is only known by the local garrison commander, command and other heads know, out of the stability of the military heart, but also a stopgap.

The advance team of twenty-one people in Zongwu turned into a caravan, all the way to the horse whip, lightly loaded north, after going to the northern desert, he did not immediately go to the local command, to the nearby village to settle down, to find a family to live.

"Here ... is the old village Liu head of the house, as soon as I heard about the war, they all went to his daughter's house in Baoding Province", an old man of about 60 years old, is the patriarch of this area, and when he learned that Zongwu and his party wanted to stay in this village, they took them here.

The patriarch pushed open the dilapidated door, Zongwu rushed to help him, the weeds on the ground were too dense, and the old man pointed to the courtyard in front of him: "These two are newly built, those are the original ancestral houses, the broken point is broken, some firewood can be made of..."

The old man tidly babbled, but careful and abnormally, the reason why he received more than 20 "custsors" in the Zongwu line, in addition to the owner of the courtyard had been ordered to show hospitality, there was another reason: for the safety of his own village.

Since the war, the village has come to a lot of foreigners, a time to live, the local county will temporarily build a shed to build a house, although it is a little more simple, but always can block the wind and snow, do some food at will, burn some charcoal, the total wind is much stronger.

The villagers in the north, a hundred miles away, came here, but some local villagers left the village to go to the relatives to the south, so that the number of people in the village decreased.

And most of the rest, there are no relatives to go, or a small family, drag home with the mouth, can not travel far.In addition, the farmers have little money, even if the family moves south, it is difficult to find a place to settle down, perhaps have not yet fled to the south, the road to starve to death, frozen to death.

Finally, a few old people in the village discussed: walking is not going, anyway, this old bone, after all, there are more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in the court in the north, which can withstand for a while.And for the foreigners who came to their village, only the skin color of the Ming, the Ming blood, are accepted.

This is also to strengthen their own strength, the Tatar and the Great Ming people shape is very different, a look at it to know.Now it is to resist foreign enemies, Zongwu knows: it is a "friend" non-enemy, as long as the Daming people are "their own people."

In view of this, when Zongwu's party came here and claimed to be a fugitive, the patriarch and several elderly people immediately accepted them and did not take them apart.

"As for those heating things, there are also covers, pots and cookers, etc., to the village gate to be led, are all in the mouth of the gate, the old is old, but always without silver," the old man said deliberately: "Everyone can receive ten days of rations, which is already quite good."

“Well, pretty good?”Zong Wuxin lamented for a while: "Ten days of rations, left in this place more than a hundred miles away from the enemy, is still called good?". .

The old patriarch settled well and everyone was about to say goodbye, and Zongwu sent two brothers to take him home and take something at the village mouth.

When they left, they had eaten and dressed enough to feed and prepare, enough to be needed for three or five, and now they went to the village to take things, and nothing more than to make a shape.

As the saying goes: the soldiers did not move, the grain first.

In fact, first, and - spy.

The so-called confidant, this "other", depends to a large extent on the military and other major changes, such as: the attitude of the DPRK to the war.

The military situation, to a large extent, depends on the news that both sides have spied on.

This small village, with a great advance team, naturally will have an "advance army" of the Tatar.

Even though the Tatar and the Great Ming people are very different in appearance, the two armies have been fighting for many years, and it is difficult to ensure that there are not many "in Cao Yingxin in Han" Daming people around them.

"Brothers and sisters, according to your orders, brothers are scattered, each family of four or five people, clothing and accent are different, no one noticed", a young flag (official name, ten people) to Zong Wuxi: "What to do next?". .

Zong Wu looked at the remnant of the sky, mouth and nose are full of white air: "First eat and drink, pick three lightly good brothers at night, with the officer to go to the enemy camp to turn."

“What about the rest of you guys?”The little flag asked.

Zong Wu turned around and smiled at him: "Tell the brothers, send a few who can speak the way, turn around the village, and ask more about it, and as for how to do it, the road has explained to you."

"Follow the orders, subordinate this to do", the small flag immediately ordered to go.

Although this is to say, Zongwu's heart is bottomless: the situation here is far more complicated: the enemy army has been in the same place for nearly a month, but now it is not moving forward, from all indications, it seems that in the short term, will not send troops.

And their own situation is even more difficult to ponder, the local people only retreat more than a hundred miles, the local officials are only to appease the main, it seems that there is no long-term intention.

Now the real force in the field is only the local five thousand soldiers and horses already in place, even if the court's five thousand cavalry arrived, it is only 10,000 people and horses, facing tens of thousands of strong enemies...

Is it?Zong Wuxin wondered for a moment: "This time there is really no war between the two sides?"Is it just a test or a compromise?”. .

Of course, there are also real women who are also tigers and wolves in the north, and are they really related to the current situation?

If that’s the case, the brother’s eyes are too strong.

Arrow in the string had to be issued, Zong Wu clenched his fists: "It has come to this point, small-scale war is inevitable, must kill a certain."

Zongwu secretly calculated: "The command of his advance team made the army of Gengwujun leave three days early, and the marching speed of more than 5,000 people naturally did not more than 20 advance troops."But it is also a matter of six or seven days, once the command is here, the army is unified by him, and it is not so easy to do something on his own.”

Not much time...

Chicago, if a shop.

Luo Ying is on the second floor of the private room to rest, since the afternoon to watch the field transport of medicine carriage parked next door back to chu:n'ya0 shop, he went to Liu Xiaoji, and then sat Lang: "abdominal pain" problem and committed, open a way, and in the backyard casserole medicine.

After the pharmacy closed, Luo Ying directly took his partner Liu Xiaoyi to the restaurant, and after a bitter drink, the two people fainted and their tongues were not straight, so they said goodbye to each other and went home.

After a nap, he slowly came to the backyard of the pawnshop, where the backyard of the pharmacy was also a wall, and it was easy to cross the wall with the hand of one of his former officers.

“Huh?Why are these things again?”Luo Ying through the light, carefully opened the medicine box.

At this moment, the moonlight outside the window is a comfort and a cover.

It is also strange that these boxes are not locked.

This question, Luo Ying asked Liu Xiaoji when he drank, but did not expect this boy to say lightly: "What is this?They are all herbs, why should they be locked, and when they are robbed, they are too lazy to turn around for half a day, otherwise there will be no silver here.

In this way, it can also be said that in the past, gorgeous decoration, chass and horses mutual, and even invited the family, the daffor and the so on, even if the box is filled with scarecrows, I am afraid there are many people will take risks.

On the contrary, it is very different.

As the saying goes, during the Great Song Dynasty, the famous Yang Zhi escorted the birth of the project, if not leaking the news in advance, I am afraid that no one will start with these tattered carous carn companies.Medicine is worth some silver, but after all, different from gold and silver, can not be realized, can not be used as an antique, who will hit his idea?

But what does this explain?He is no longer a duty in the county of Lixian County, and the case has nothing to do with him, and finding what is in the medicine box is the focus.

Half a day, all of them were yellow and black dry herbs, and Luo Ying was disappointed: "The last box, if you don't find it again, Zhong Big Brother, don't blame me, trapped dead..."

“Painting?Why are there pictures here?”Luo Ying slowly opened the volume of white paper with some inexplicableness: "People's portraits?What is this painting?

The payer is Yan Liben, is this person, this person seems to be painted by this person?". .

Luo Ying slowly put the painting back into the box, after the restoration of the original, slowly left the room, but his mouth muttered: "This painting is not good at all, this painting is estimated to be more than one hundred and two silver."

When Luo Ying returned to the pawnshop with some disappointment and slept again, the door to the next door to the chu:n'ya0 shop was slowly opened, and a group of black people secretly came to the backyard...

And if a pawnshop is separated by a few streets of the wonderful hand-pharmaceutical shop also swept by, unlike Luo Ying, Zhongyi is only a little light, the walls and eaves in front of him are just a decoration.

According to Luo Ying before, Zhongyi a book student, naturally unable to participate in this night action, only to wait for the pawnshop to close before slowly slip out, here are mostly shops, no residence, after the evening store closed, the surrounding pedestrians naturally a lot less.

Luo Ying went to the next door to the back chu:n'ya0 shop, the remaining Lin Da and the knife of this wonderful hand medicine shop can only rely on the "guest".

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that if it is not next door to a pawnshop, Zhongyi can only enter when there is no one under the four, but in this case, it is often a step later to be imagined.

When the beautiful figure crossed the eaves and did not fall to the ground, it clearly felt the lights and the sound of speech in the room next to him...

Quickly moved against the side of the wall, and suddenly looked around, to determine that there was no one in the courtyard, and he slowly moved to the window again, trying to find out.

"The wheel of you, three people, the most old people drink, this time dry", under the light, a hard-faced man with a black and squealed wine bowl, blushing, through the window paper can smell the strong wine.

"Well, the brothers work together for Mr. Zhang, this time smoothly into Beijing, go back to wait for the reward," two other red-faced men quickly raised the wine bowl: "all in the wine, dry."

“The Lord?”He said, “What does this medicine have to do with the official?”. .

Inside the house, a burst of laughter came out, three people came in, and the wine bowl was dumped on the table: "This time, after we send things out, I believe it will not take long, it will certainly be upgraded again, and then the brothers will follow the development, haha."

The red-faced man put his face together: "Two brothers, have you heard?"According to my cousin who works in the city of Beijing, these things are passed by a book house person named Luo, and finally transferred to other people's hands, and finally estimated that they can all go to the hands of small cabinets."

"Don't say, we just send things, be careful with your tongue", the face is full of black and noodles, but can't help but laugh out: "But put more than 10,000 things in the medicine to Beijing, this trick is really powerful."

"Yes, it is sooner or later that filial piety to Jing officials in this way every year", the three people each filled their wine and raised a glass again: "Don't say, tomorrow morning, after the people over there come to hand over, we are also a relationship."

The truth of the full listening is really the same as the pawnshop: "The person who sends the money will change the value of tens of millions of things for a few or two or dozens of tickets through the pawnshop, and the pharmacy is more simple, and the things are directly put into the medicine box that transports the medicine..."

The drug shops and pawn shops in this matter are not Luolong's name, but they are controlled by him.

When the thing recorded in the ticket does not match the current situation, as for the medicine, it is simpler, the thing is in the hands of the drug dealer...

In short, as long as something happens, everything has nothing to do with his surname Luo, and it will not directly point to the stern.

"Hahaha, the last bowl, after drinking the flower wine, I heard that Cui Xianglou came to a new group of girls...", black face and a bad smile, through intoxication more intoxicated.

“Brother, it won’t be a mistake to go out and drink wine at this time?”One of the young men asked.

“Afraid of what?”Come back after the work, anyway, don't delay tomorrow's handover," blackfaced and smiled: "Here has arrived at the pharmacy, we are all the way to be fine, don't forget, this is whose pharmacy?"Don't worry . . .

Hahaha...

This reminds me that if there is someone in the backyard of the pharmacy next door to a pawnshop, is it not dangerous?