Broken Iron Clothes

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Ever since he followed Lu Tianrui all the way northward, Zhang Ling also arrived at Yuzhou Camp, but after Lu Tianrui went to the front line, he suffered from serious and minor illnesses in turn, and every time he became ill, Ji Dong gave him medicine. The two gradually became acquainted.Now seeing the girl sitting alone under the moon, her lonely shadow was gloomy, Zhang Ling casually picked up a few stones, intentionally or unintentionally, knocked them to the side, but disturbed the birds resting on the side, startled a few times with fluttering wings.

As soon as Ji Dong saw the boulders falling from the ground, he knew it was Zhang Ling. He only took a few glances, and saw the man strolling in the courtyard, walked to her side and squatted down.

"You feel sorry for you, I just want to find a place where there are people to wait." Zhang Ling finished throwing the stone in his hand, and put his hands on his lap when he was bored.

Ji Dong said: "I saved a roasted sweet potato for you, put it in the brazier in your tent to simmer, don't take it with your hands when you take it by yourself, let it dry for a while before eating, if there is a crack in it, I will take it for you The military doctor asks for medicine."

Zhang Ling had never tasted sweet potatoes before, but the sweet potatoes that Ji Dong picked for him were all sweet. After tasting one bite, every time he gnawed half of them, he was still hungry, but the most scarce thing in the camp was food. , The extra portion he ate was basically saved from Ji Dong's mouth.

"Sister Ji Dong is still caring." Zhang Ling thought of the sweet smell and winked at him.

Ji Dong chuckled: "I think it's appropriate for you to call me elder sister."

"My younger sister is in her early twenties."

"Twenty?"

Zhang Ling thought about it with his fingers, but he couldn't think of any tricks: "I can't remember."

Ji Dong turned his head away and stopped looking at him, but Zhang Ling took advantage of the situation and threw two ingots of silver into her arms: "I'll give you an extra ingot today, just to sell you a smiling face."

Zhang Ling always handed her money for no reason like this. Ji Dong told him about it a few times, but he didn't see him remembering it. Looking at the two ingots of silver, Ji Dong couldn't laugh or cry, and said helplessly: "I see you just like her." It's not like he grew up."

The money was stuffed back into Zhang Ling's arms, Ji Dong folded his arms and hid his hands, saying: "I know you have money, but it's your brother's left you, don't waste it easily, that's not how you coax people. "

Zhang Ling tossed the silver up and caught it playfully, and said, "He doesn't need it anymore. I won't squander it. Who will I keep it for?"

"The days are still long, and there are plenty of places where you want to use your money."

The silver that fell from the heights came into his palm again. Zhang Ling was silent for a moment, then asked suddenly: "I heard that when a woman gets married, she has to accompany the dowry?"

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

"It's nothing. I'm worried that there's nowhere to spend my money, and I'm worried that you won't be able to find a master, and you won't have a mother's family. It's not a loss to have a sister."

When the matter of concern was brought up again, Ji Dong remained silent, and replied after a long time: "I will find him. Besides, we have only known each other for a long time, and you have to recognize me as your younger sister. Do you know that once there is a relationship between people, Without friendship, there will be more things to worry about in the future, as long as life, old age, sickness and death cannot be escaped, someone will be sad."

Zhang Ling said with a smile: "Then I can't control that much, I only know that I have never seen a few sincere hearts, and now I feel strange when I meet them, so whoever treats me well, I will treat them well, it's as simple as that, as for being sad , if you are willing to squeeze two teardrops for me, then it’s fine, if you don’t like it, I have no objection to playing drums and gongs.”

Ji Dong said: "You may not be the one who dies first."

Zhang Ling smiled disapprovingly, lying on his back on the ground, playing with the pillow in one hand and fiddling with the silver in the other, having a great time.

Ji Dong asked again: "After a while, General Lu will be returning to the city, and I won't stay here anymore, where are you going?"

Looking across the gap between the fingers, I drilled into the night sky. Tonight, the wind is light and the clouds are light, and the sky is filled with broken stars. It looks a bit like...

Like Lu Xiu.

Where does it look like?Thinking about it, Zhang Ling unconsciously mocked.

But he always felt that it should be similar, maybe it was the shape drawn by the stars, or what Lu Xiu had talked about with him about the stars, or why he thought of Lu Xiu for no reason, maybe it was just because he wanted to him?

Yes, he misses Lu Xiu, but now he is the only one left, where will he go in the future?

"Go find my brother." Zhang Ling sat up suddenly, turned his head and walked away.

"What?" Ji Dong looked bewildered.

Zhang Ling raised his voice without turning his head: "Go find my brother—"

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The steaming orange-red melon flesh was brought to his lips, Lu Tianrui opened his mouth and bit it, and grabbed the hand in front of him back to the original place to apply the medicine.

"Isn't it sweet?" Zhang Ling tasted the sweetness, not feeling the pain from the burn on his palm, and still peeled the skin of the sweet potato restlessly.

Lu Tianrui simply took the sweet potato, peeled it and stuffed it directly into his mouth, then wiped his hands and continued to apply medicine to him.

"No matter how sweet it is, you shouldn't just reach for it with your hands on the brazier. Old wounds are not healed, and new wounds are added. I think your hands will be useless sooner or later."

Zhang Ling had his mouth full, and while chewing he said vaguely, "Fuck, it's useless for me to have these hands."

Lu Tianrui held back the urge to teach and glanced at him, and then said: "For a young man, talking about these frustrations is enough. You look like you have practiced kung fu. From now on, you only need to walk on the right path, no matter where you go .”

where to.Zhang Ling muttered silently, and after wrapping the gauze a few times, he hurriedly bit off the gauze, stood up and ran outside.

"What are you running—"

Lu Tianrui looked at the figure and shouted from afar, and after a while, he heard the man poking his head into the tent and saying, "Wait."

After nearly half of the medicine jars on the table were packed, Zhang Ling came in again with a bundle in his arms. He only opened the heavy object on the table, and the gold, silver and copper plates overflowed his eyes.

"I want to go to Yancheng, brother kindly give me a ride."

Lu Tianrui picked up an ingot of silver that had fallen on the edge of the table and put it back into his bag, and asked, "It's easy to talk about it, but what does it mean?"

Zhang Ling said: "You pay for travel expenses, food expenses, lodging expenses, and medical expenses yourself."

Lu Tianrui shook his head and sighed: "Just tell me, I won't leave you with me, do you think I'm just trying to get the money?"

That's right, there is no shortage of gold or silver for the dignified general of the Governor's Mansion. What's more, these are all silvers that have been stained with human blood, and none of them are clean. If Lu Tianrui knew, how could he accept it.

Thinking about it, Zhang Ling's face was full of joy and anger. He wrapped up the corner of the cloth wearily, and murmured: "Forget it, you won't want my things if they are given to you."

Seeing him like this, Lu Tianrui smiled again: "You're so naughty, sometimes you don't even know what you're talking about."

As he spoke, he picked out a copper coin from the pile of money, put it in his palm, and said, "One copper coin is enough. For the rest, taking care of yourself is saving me money. Since you followed, I This medicine fee has to catch up with the usual three-month amount in one month, I really doubt that you did it on purpose."

Zhang Ling was much lighter: "I did it on purpose."

He used to trick Lu Xiu to coax him before, and when Lu Tianrui was about to go to the front line, he still wanted to trick that person back to take care of him, but Lu Tianrui was not Lu Xiu, and never was.But he still wants to continue to abuse himself. He knows that he can at least wait until Lu Tianrui comes back, and he seems to have some hope for living like this.

Lu Tianrui didn't expect Zhang Ling to recognize him so quickly, he swung his palms angrily and scolded him, "Boy, how can you make fun of your body!"

Zhang Ling raised his arms to block it, with a smile on his face, and only after shaking off the muslin in his palm, he confidently passed his hand to Lu Tianrui's eyes.

"Look, the bandages are all loose for you."

Lu Tianrui immediately lost his temper, took the hand and rewrapped the gauze for him: "I really picked up a debt collector, probably my cousin entrusted you here, and asked me to make up for what I haven't done all these years. Brotherhood."

"Who isn't?"

Thinking of what Zhang Ling said about his brother's death, Lu Tianrui sighed secretly in his heart, and his hands softened a lot: "If you have nowhere to go in the future and you don't think it's hard here, call 'Brother', I will make room for you." You can't keep your wealth and wealth, but it can still protect you from the wind and rain."

After being quiet for a while, he felt the man's eyes fixed on his face. Lu Tianrui raised his head but unintentionally met his gaze, but saw that the man had already suppressed his smile.

Zhang Ling seldom puts on such a serious face. At first glance, he can really feel a little cold.

"Do you know where I come from?" Zhang Ling still had a cold face, "Who did you learn kung fu from, how did you earn your money, and how did my brother die? Treat me so well?"

But Lu Tianrui only said: "I have nothing to gain here, you have plenty of money, I only have one life, do you want it?"

"No."

"That's it."

Lu Tianrui bowed his head and tied the knot for him, probably remembering that he wanted to be pretty, so he tied the knot in a more beautiful way.Zhang Ling blinked a few times, and he didn't know where there was some heat, so he just sat there and stared blankly.

Lu Tianrui didn't pay much attention to it, and turned his head to clean up the table. When he heard the sound behind him, Zhang Ling had already turned over to his bed, and lay down on the pillow by himself.

"You didn't even take off your shoes, what are you doing on my couch, get off."

Zhang Ling glanced at him, and said leisurely: "At first I didn't like the dark, I couldn't sleep alone, and I always endured the night with half-open eyes. Later, my brother often accompanied me. Only with him can I sleep soundly. Let me call you." 'Brother', just do me a favor and squeeze with me."

"You have a lot of things to do," Lu Tianrui sighed, "You can lie down, and come here with the quilt on your own."

"Good to say."

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The agreement reached in the peace talks was due to be implemented, but Rao Shunhe was poisoned and killed halfway, and He Xiao led his troops back to Yingzhou from the territory of Damei.

On the other side, Zhong Dingshan was waiting in Ningzhou, and came straight to Yingzhou when he heard about Gu Nanxing, only to see the silver bracelet in Yi Qinchen's hand, filled with grief, and couldn't sleep for days and nights.Not long after Yingzhou was taken back, the military affairs were busy, and Yuan Mucheng was busy until midnight. Sometimes he even put on a cloak and slept in the main tent for fear of disturbing Jiang Shiqing.

Hearing that Zhong Dingshan didn't fall asleep last night and only picked up He Xiao today, Yuan Mucheng temporarily put aside his business and wanted to visit him, so he went outside the tent and met Jiang Shiqing head-on.

The weather was suddenly cold, and without sunlight, it was chilly even at noon. Jiang Shiqing was still nursing his body, and he had war-damaged scars that had not healed. Once the cold wind blew, his hands could not see a trace of blood.

Seeing that Jiang Shiqing didn't know how to keep warm, Yuan Mucheng took off his cloak and wrapped him up first, pulling him into his arms.

"What's the matter, do you want me to go in and have a look again?" Yuan Mucheng's hand was still warm, and when he rubbed Jiang Shiqing's face, he coaxed the man to come closer to him.

The wind made his eyes sore, Jiang Shiqing opened his cloak, wrapped the heat of the person in front of him around his chest, and said, "I've already fallen asleep after drinking some medicine to soothe the nerves and help sleep."

"Alright, I'm afraid I'll get sick again if I continue to suffer."

There wasn't even a ray of sunshine today, Yuan Mucheng knew that it's not suitable to stay outside for a long time, so he led people into the tent first.The tent could withstand a lot of wind, and as soon as Fang stepped in, Jiang Shiqing warmed up a lot, and a little blood color slowly formed on his face.

"He Xiao arrived at the barracks?" Jiang Shiqing asked.

"arrive."

He hadn't slept all night, and not long after he entered the slightly warm tent, Yuan Mucheng gradually lost his energy after being blown up. Seeing that his pillow was still upright on the bed, he knew that Jiang Shiqing slept with his arms around that pillow last night. .

But the quilts have been arranged neatly, only the square pillow has not returned to its place, Jiang Shiqing's playfulness is undoubtedly revealed.Yuan Mucheng naturally understood, so he smiled knowingly, and said, "It's better to hug me than a pillow, come here."

When Jiang Shiqing approached, Yuan Mucheng stretched out his arms to grab the waist, and closed his eyes to lean over.

"Miss me?" Yuan Mucheng said.

Jiang Shiqing smiled slightly: "I didn't think so, I just had a nightmare and couldn't touch you."

He knew that Jiang Shiqing would seek some comfort when he had a nightmare, but Yuan Mucheng was absent last night, so he felt guilty and hugged him even tighter.

"Rao Shun and his poor soldiers are extremely martial, oppressing the people to support the army, but he has been in power for many years, and he has carried half of the country. Wu Zhen will not allow such a veteran who has equal merits and demerits to be sent to the army as a prisoner of war. In Li's hands, he wanted to keep his prestige and face as much as possible, but he didn't dare to break the contract easily. He could only try to let Rao Shunhe die before he was sent to He Xiao's hands. The good win-win situation is just that the soldiers who died and the souls who died in vain were wronged, and it was too easy for him to die."

Jiang Shiqing rubbed his fingertips to warm them up, rubbed his acupoints lightly, and said, "That's enough. Although the merits and demerits are judged by future generations, the infamy of Rao Shun and today is far more than the praise. Now that he is dead, But it’s not a worthy death, even if he lives, he will not be able to live a generation of heroes, and letting him watch his pride be broken before he dies is considered revenge.”

Being pressed comfortably, Yuan Mucheng felt even more sleepy, so he forcibly woke up and withdrew his hand to pat his side, motioning Jiang Shiqing to sit next to him, but the man didn't move for a long time, just stood where he was and looked at him.

"Why, you don't want to sit next to me?"

"You have been tired for several days dealing with military affairs, don't you want to rely on me anymore?"

Yuan Mucheng smiled lightly, and slapped his face again: "In the past two days, I will hand over the military affairs of the Western Territory, and I will set off to return to the office in a few days. Lao Gu, I will send people to continue searching. If I find someone, I'll figure out a way."

"Yeah." Jiang Shiqing massaged him with his hands, and the strength gradually eased.

Yuan Mucheng closed his eyes and continued to say: "You will definitely be taken away by me, but the weather here is too cold, and Mr. Lin Meng is not acclimatized, it is more suitable to go with us. As for Yi Qinchen, He still holds the position of the leader of the hidden guards, so he probably won't be able to stay here."

After Yi Qinchen was rescued, he went to the riverside to look for Gu Nanxing for several days. When he was rescued when he was young, he almost lived on the obsession with finding Gu Nanxing.He and Gu Nanxing originated from the water, but now that person is missing by the river, or the accident happened in front of his eyes, he certainly cannot accept it.

Jiang Shiqing knew that no one else could comfort him in this matter, so he could only insinuate Gu Nanxing's obsession with rehabilitating his father in front of Yi Qinchen. At least before he defended Gu Qinghe, Yi Qinchen could still have the idea of ​​sustaining .

Jiang Shiqing said: "During the peace talks with Wu Zhen, the owner of the villa frequently showed up. Before we return to the city, the news that the crown prince is still alive must first spread throughout the court, and the one that will be brought up will definitely be the fall of the year. In the Jiang case, the time to reverse the case is imminent. As long as the Yan family is convicted, Chief Gu will be able to redress his grievances, so Qin Chen will definitely return to the city, but I heard that His Majesty has been ill recently, and Concubine Chun is pregnant with the emperor's heir again. Hey, I'm afraid we are facing yet another chaotic situation."

Yuan Mucheng breathed a sigh of relief slowly: "Yes, it would be great if the chores in the city can be settled before the end of the year."

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Zhang Ling used to give Lu Xiu money all the time because he wanted to save money for Lu Xiu to redeem himself, but now that Lu Xiu is dead, the money is the last thought Lu Xiu left for him, and he always loves to give it to Ji Dong Sending money to Lu Tianrui is because this is his usual way of being kind to people, and secondly, he intends to find a place to end himself when the money is exhausted.

He is a person with this kind of personality, he doesn't want to live that much when he is alive, sometimes he is like a cat that brings a mouse to the door as a thank you gift, he is willing to be nice to people, but he also knows that he is dirty, and the way home can only be done. He is a vagabond, so he doesn't expect anyone to take him home to raise him, so when he heard that Lu Tianrui said he was willing to take him in, he was pleasantly surprised.He and Lu Xiu belonged to cats and dogs who wandered outside and licked each other's fur. If he had never met Lu Xiu, he probably didn't even know how to treat people well.