In the small yard behind the house, Xu Ming'er dug a hole with a small shovel, planted the cherry tree, picked up some stones, and placed them in a circle. Then she stood up and wiped her forehead.
Sweat, looked at it, and smiled with satisfaction.
This is a wild cherry tree. It was found halfway up the mountain. It was tightly entangled with many weeds and vines. It was half dead. Xu Ming'er saw a few pink flowers blooming messily on it. Xia Xun said it was a cherry tree.
, so she pestered him to transplant the tree into his backyard.
Xia Xun blurted out with a smile: "We can't live here for the rest of our lives. We might leave soon, so why bother..." Well, we'll stay in the courtyard, not far from Jinling City. If we think about it later, we can come back and have a look.
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Seeing the disappointed look in Ming'er's eyes, Xia Xun quickly changed his words, and Ming'er smiled sweetly.
A small tree does not require digging a deep hole, and the soil here is soft and fertile, so Ming'er rushed to do it and did not ask Xia Xun to dig it. However, after the tree was planted, she was sweating profusely.
"Well, what did you get?"
A smell wafted down the wind, Ming'er quickly pinched her nose, Xia Xun chuckled and said: "Manure, the crops are like a flower, all depends on manure. This cherry tree is half-dead with vines, add some manure."
, so that it can grow as quickly as possible, and maybe it will bear a lot of cherries by this time next year.”
As he said that, Xia Xun poured the manure spoon he borrowed from Granny Chen evenly into the stone fence that Ming'er had arranged, and poured some well water.
Xu Ming'er pinched her nose and said angrily and funny: "I just like these cherry blossoms, but you brought these things, it looks so disgusting!"
Xia Xun clapped his hands and said with a smile: "If you want to plant, then plant well. Flowering is the process of blooming, and the result is the process of bearing fruit. There are only gorgeous spring flowers, but no rich autumn fruits. When the time comes, there will inevitably be another kind of loss."
Heart."
Xu Ming'er smiled teasingly and said, "Hey! What the talented man said is so philosophical. How about you recite a poem?"
"Reciting poetry?"
Xia Xun thought for a while and said: "There are thousands of cherry blossoms in one branch or two. There are flower pickers standing on the tiles, and the tattered skirts are as red as fire."
Ming'er said coquettishly: "I asked you to write your own poems. Who told you to plagiarize ancient poems from the Tang Dynasty?" Thinking that she was wearing a red dress, Xia Xun was probably praising herself, and a shy blush crept onto her cheeks.
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"Write a poem by yourself? I don't have the ability to write a poem in seven steps. Why don't you ask the princess to write one?"
Xia Xun smiled and said that he only remembered two lines of the cherry poem. The other line was: "These two red cherries are for you to suck and bite. It would be better if you would rather teach me to swallow them." That was something he would never dare to say.
When he comes out, if the little girl turns her back on him and uses her soft white jade hands and green orchid fingers to splash ink on his face and paint a picture of "frost stains the forest and the mountains are red", then she will have to suffer for herself.
While they were talking and laughing, a person walked up the path outside the village. There were only a dozen or twenty households here. They lived scattered along the mountains and had a very broad view. From the official road, there were two miles of field paths. No matter who came, it was
Unable to hide his figure, Xia Xun couldn't help but shrink his eyes when he saw the man's appearance, and said to Ming'er: "Pour some more water and sprinkle a thin layer of soil to cover the smell. I'll go to the front."
Ming'er also saw the person coming and nodded.
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The person who came was Jiang Mengxiong. Unless it was an urgent matter, Jiang Mengxiong could not contact him directly. Moreover, Jiang Mengxiong did not know his whereabouts. It took several people to communicate with each other. He suddenly appeared here.
, the only possibility is that Ji Gang told him. In view of the strong timeliness of some important information, Xia Xun cannot strictly restrict Ji Gang's actions. He once said that only the first, most urgent and most important
The news needs to be dealt with immediately before he can make his own decision and arrange for others to contact him. At the moment, the most important news has appeared.
As expected, when he saw Xia Xun, Jiang Mengxiong said: "Sir, Ji Gang has left Jinling overnight and crossed the river to the north. I have come to meet you and report the news."
Xia Xun asked: "What's the big news?"
Jiang Mengxiong hurriedly told Xia Xun the news, and Xia Xun murmured: "No wonder..., as expected..."
The information Ji Gang told Jiang Mengxiong was that the Beijing camp was empty, and he could take the opportunity to go south and seize Jinling City before the troops of King Qin. It also mentioned that Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, Lian Zining, Jing Qing and others were all there.
Soldiers are being recruited from all over the country, and the empty garrison in Jinling will not last long. Maybe when a group of soldiers and horses arrive in Nanjing, the garrison capacity of Nanjing City will be greatly enhanced. The new soldiers may not be able to fight in the field, but it will always be much easier to defend the city.
Xia Xun finally cleared up his doubts. With such important news, Ji Gang made a decisive decision and immediately gave up other tasks. It was right to decisively go north. If he still clutched the note and ran to Ci Lao Mountain to ask for instructions, it would be a waste of time.
Death is inevitable. Xia Xun thought for a while and said, "This news is very important. Have you activated the backup transmission channel?"
Li Jinglong is an extremely important chess piece in the intelligence network developed by Xia Xun, but Mu En, who is ambushing him in the palace, is a more secretive line than Li Jinglong. He once ordered that unless there is such important news related to victory or defeat,
, otherwise Mu En will not pay attention to other news, and his most important task is to save himself.
Sure enough, this chess piece is easy to use and can be used once to change the world. Xu Zengshou was greatly guarded at home. He finally got a very important piece of news, but was reported by his brother who had a righteous intention to kill his relatives. However, he was caught in front of the emperor.
Mu En, who was waiting in front of the emperor, heard about it, and then passed it on to her brother, who worked as a waiter in the Zhangjia rice and grain store, through the young palace maid Dai Yixuan.
Xia Xun stipulated the transmission method of level A, B, and C intelligence for his intelligence network. Level A intelligence is the most important information. In order to ensure the transmission, three transmission lines must be activated at the same time. If any one of them is cut off, it can ensure that the message will not be transmitted.
This is the end of the world, hence this question.
Jiang Mengxiong nodded and said: "Yes, when Ji Gang contacted Beizi, he once said that this is the most important news. Multiple channels must be activated to pass the information to His Highness as soon as possible to prevent him from encountering an unexpected incident. He also told Beizi that as long as
You are allowed to send a verbal message, and you are not allowed to write just a few words on paper. Once you alert the enemy, the information may be invalid!"
Xia Xun nodded and showed a comforting smile. Ji Gang was thoughtful and a good candidate for intelligence work. But Jiang Mengxiong's next words made his smile freeze on his face.
"By the way, my lord, when I was out of the capital in a lowly position, I heard news that Xu Zengshou, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, was having an affair with King Yan. The emperor was furious when he heard the news, and he was arrested by the royal guards and wanted to chop off his head..."
The smile on Xia Xun's face froze, and a strange look appeared on his face: "How is that possible?"
Jiang Mengxiong said: "It's true, the news has spread throughout Jinling City."
Jiang Mengxiong glanced at Xia Xun secretly, and asked tentatively: "Sir, Governor Xu...is he really one of ours? Could it be that he was the one who spread this confidential information?"
Before Xia Xun could speak, a trembling girl's voice said: "My third brother...what's wrong with him?"
Xu Ming'er turned around from the gable wall and asked with a pale face.
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"Hey, have you heard that Governor Xu Zengshou is under house arrest? Fang Xueshi and other ministers of the court are writing a letter to the emperor, please kill Governor Xu and thank the world."
"I know, I know. I heard that it was because Governor Xu sent a message to King Yan that the imperial court suffered repeated defeats."
"That's nonsense. Don't you mean that the imperial court has been winning battles and the Yan army can't move even an inch?"
"Bah! Not long ago, the Yan army reached the Huaihe River. Mei Prince-in-law led 400,000 troops and stationed in Huaihe to resist the Yan army. Is this difficult to move?"
"Don't interrupt, don't interrupt. I heard that early that morning, the Jin Yiwei broke into the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion and took Governor Xu away. Mrs. Xu and several young ladies chased them to the door of the mansion and howled loudly. Everyone saw them.
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"Let me tell you, it is said that it was Wei Guogong who discovered that his brothers were having an affair with King Yan, and they killed their relatives out of righteousness, so he reported it to the emperor."
"Oh, it's really difficult for these two brothers of the Xu family. One wants to protect the emperor, and the other wants to protect his relatives..."
"It's not easy for Duke Wei. How can the head of the family, who has succeeded Zongyi and inherited for generations, destroy the entire Xu family for the sake of a brother? I heard that although Duke Wei reported Governor Xu, the emperor Long Yan was furious.
When Governor Xu was about to beheaded, Duke Wei still knelt down and begged for him, and asked for the iron certificate of the alchemy book given by Taizu. Therefore, the emperor pardoned Governor Xu's crime and ordered Duke Wei to put him under house arrest for meditation.
However, if you are not allowed to take a step out of the house, you can still be considered a brother."
"But Academician Fang won't do it. The last time the imperial army was defeated in Jiahe, thousands of ships of grain and grass in Pei County were burned. Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were demoted and exiled. Academician Fang is writing to the emperor, asking for the death of Governor Xu to thank the world.
, summoning the two masters Huang Qi to return to the capital!"
In the "Sanyou Pavilion", the drinkers were talking a lot. Xia Xun, who was pretending to be a businessman with a mandarin draped over his shoulders, stopped to listen to a few words, then glanced at Xu Ming, who was following him dressed as a waiter, and then walked to the third floor.
go.
The "Sanyou Pavilion" restaurant is on the west side of Zhongshan Prince's Mansion, with a distance of four to five feet. On the third floor, Xia Xun chose the easternmost private room, walked in and ordered a few drinks and dishes, and waited for the waiter to step back.
After closing the door, I opened a small door facing the window. Outside is a small balcony with a green waist-high guardrail and two thick pillars on both sides. This is a tall building built from Qinling trees.
There are forty-eight giant trees in total. This scale is only inferior to the sixteenth floor of Jinling built by the emperor.
Xia Xun held on to the guardrail, overlooking the scenery of Zhongshan Prince's Mansion, and felt excited: "If I remember correctly, the history books say that Xu Zengshou was exposed when King Yan crossed the river, and was killed by the furious Zhu Yunwen with a sword.
But something happened to him now! History has changed, and I really changed history!"
Xu Ming'er walked to him, looked at her home, tears filled her eyes, and cried softly: "Uncle, I want to go back, I want to...save my third brother!"
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