Chapter Eighty-Eight: Bad News
Meng Qi said: "There are no rare items. There are several boxes of things seized at the back, all of which are gold, silver and jewelry."
Zhao Yan nodded, he had no interest in those gold and silver items.
"General, I found this in a small tent at the back." As he spoke, Meng Qi handed a notebook to Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan flipped through it casually, and the words inside were all like chicken intestines. He looked left and right but couldn't figure out what was going on.
"What does this say?"
Meng Qi shook his head: "I don't know, but I can be sure that these characters do not belong to Donghu or any of the surrounding nomadic peoples."
"The other party didn't take it with them even after they withdrew. It's probably not an important item." Zhao Yan didn't take it to heart and casually handed the note back to Meng Qi.
Meng Qi looked at the strange words on it. Although he couldn't understand these words, each stroke seemed to have its own rules. Maybe there was some secret hidden in it. He couldn't help but keep an eye on it.
The notes were put away.
The two of them were discussing the next plan in the military tent. At this moment, a deputy led a servant of Prince Sheng's palace inside and handed over a letter from home.
Seeing that Zhao Yan had no intention of reaching out to take it, Meng Qi took it and looked at it. His face became even more happy, and he quickly congratulated the man in front of him:
"General, the crown prince's wife has given birth to a son for you, and the princess has asked you to name the child."
As soon as he finished speaking, a postman from behind came to report in a panic: "Report, the general was hit by an arrow on the front line and is in danger!"
Zhao Yan was horrified when he heard this, and stood up to see what was going on. Upon seeing this, the servant of the palace who was responsible for delivering the letter hurriedly knelt down in front of him and begged:
"Your Majesty, at least leave a word and a half so that I can have an explanation when I go back."
Zhao Yan turned around, turned the letter to the back, picked up a pen from the case and scrawled a word on the top, then threw it on the ground. In the blink of an eye, he had strode out of the military tent.
The servant gingerly picked up the letter from home and took a closer look. There was a large cursive script written on the back of the letter: "Translation"
In the seventeenth year of Fengqing, bad news came from the northern border. General Fang was hit by a poisonous arrow and fell on the battlefield. The right general was ordered to take over General Fang's position and was promoted to the second rank Zhenbei General to command the Zhenbei Army.
In the next four years, the Zhenbei general used his troops like a god, the Zhenbei army was extremely brave, and he reported many good news. No one expected that the prince of Gui, who was not optimistic at the beginning, would repeatedly make great military exploits in the northern frontier.
As the news of victory spread to Kyoto again and again, Prince Sheng's waist gradually became harder...
Xu Weiqiu was arranging dried herbs in the backyard of Pingshitang when a bamboo dragonfly flew over her head and landed on the woven basket in front of her.
Before he could turn around, Zeng Fengyuan's hearty laughter came from behind: "Doctor Shen, everyone is having a big dinner inside, why are you here alone?"
Xu Weiqiu said without looking back: "I'll be here in a minute." As she spoke, she picked up the bamboo dragonfly on the basket. This little thing was folded quite delicately.
At this time, Zeng Fengyuan had already come up to her, and she asked: "Did you do this? It's quite beautiful."
Zeng Fengyuan nodded: "It's funny, I used to do it for fun when I was a kid. Let's go, if we don't go there, all the things will be eaten by those people."
While talking, Zeng Fengyuan put his arm around her shoulders and led her towards the inner room.
Xu Weiqiu has a carefree personality. Even in the Dacheng Dynasty, she has no concept of guarding between men and women and purely regards him as her good friend.
But Doctor Ruan, who was in the back room, couldn't help but frown when he saw the two brothers walking in, arm in arm.
"Come on, Xiao Zeng, Doctor Shen, sit here!"
Upon seeing this, a doctor sitting in the hall politely made room for the two of them, and they walked over and sat down.
The food at Pingshitang is good. Today, everyone ate hot-boiled mutton. Zeng Fengyuan took a piece of freshly-boiled mutton and put it in his dipping saucer, then put it into Xu Weiqiu's bowl.
Xu Weiqiu was stunned for a moment when she saw this. The piece of meat was dipped in peanut paste. She took the piece of meat back to the other party and said, "Sorry, I don't like peanuts."
"You kid still dislikes me..." Zeng Fengyuan reached out and pinched her cheek dissatisfied.
In his previous life, he had a lot of fights with his brothers. Xu Weiqiu didn't think it was anything, but Doctor Ruan on the side looked a little ugly when he saw it, and he couldn't help but cough lightly as a warning.
Only then did Xu Weiqiu remember that in this Dacheng Dynasty, such behavior between men and women was excessive. He couldn't help but reach out and hit Zeng Fengyuan, warning him: "Be less handsy and less footy."
Zeng Fengyuan had good medical skills, but he was careless and did not take her words seriously. He picked up a wine bottle next to him and said, "It's okay if you don't eat. You have to drink one drink as a penalty."
As he spoke, he poured wine into the small cup in front of her.
As soon as the wine was filled, there was a noise outside. Then Little Niba ran in in a panic.
"What's wrong?" Doctor Ruan asked puzzledly.
"Doctor...doctor, outside..." Little Niba stuttered when he spoke nervously: "There are many...many injured outside."
"I'll go take a look." Zeng Fengyuan put down his chopsticks first and ran out.
As expected, there were bursts of crying and shouting outside, and everyone left the table and went out to see what the New Year was going to be like.
As expected, many injured people came outside. After asking, they found out that an old building that had been in disrepair suddenly collapsed during repairs. The injured were all the craftsmen responsible for the repairs.
The doctors quickly treated the wounds of these people. One person suddenly rushed up and grabbed Zeng Fengyuan's hand. He said anxiously: "Doctor, there is another person in the main room who is seriously injured and bleeding a lot."
"Where are the people?"
"We dare not touch him while he is still on the construction site."
When Xu Weiqiu heard this, she quickly said: "I'll go take a look, I'll leave this place to you." As she spoke, she picked up her medicine box and followed the man out of Pingshi Hall...
The main hall in the south of the city belongs to the Gao family. Over the years, Gao Jijing has been taking care of the property of Prince Sheng, but his own property has been abandoned.
Zhang Bo, the person in charge of the caretaker, reported to him that the roofs of two main rooms had collapsed. He thought that this was the property left by his ancestors after all, so he sent someone to repair it. Unexpectedly, the house was not repaired, but an accident occurred.
Life was at stake. After receiving the news, Gao Jijing dropped what he was doing and hurried over.
When Uncle Zhang saw him, he hurriedly greeted him and greeted him. Gao Jijing flicked his sleeves and said, "Don't be too polite. Where is he?"
"Except for one injured person, everyone else was sent to Heishitang."
Chapter completed!