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Chapter 373 Xiu Niang?Embroiderer!

Send off Magistrate Diao and Master Shandao.

Ouyang Rong returned to Yinbingzhai.

I looked around and found that the study and bedroom were empty.

The white-haired girl was no longer in the yard.

Thinking of something, Ouyang Rong turned around, left Yinbingzhai, and walked to the kitchen.

He came back early tonight because he invited Master Shandao and Magistrate Diao to dinner.

I glanced at the hourglass and saw that it was exactly two o'clock in the evening, which was 08:30 in the evening.

On the corridor, Ouyang Rong thought again about Li Zhengyan and others leaving Longcheng and going boating in Yunmengze.

Because of his stay in Xunyang City, he paid special attention to the past traces of Li Zhengyan and others.

The reason is very simple. If Li Zhengyan, Wei Shaoqi and others started to move south from Yangzhou, they would have already unified their opinions and prepared to raise the flag for rebellion.

Then there should be important arrangements at every stop along the way south.

Going rafting in Yunmengze definitely has an impure purpose.

"The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring... The Picture of the Peach Blossom Spring... Are you looking for a peach garden, a peach garden in Yunmeng Ze?"

Ouyang Rong whispered to himself.

The wind chimes on the corridor woke him up.

Come to the kitchen.

There were a group of maids and cooks in the kitchen, and Ye Weila's little figure was among them.

The girls were chatting and joking around Ye Weilai, who was wearing an apron, her waist-length silver hair rolled up, and a green hairpin tied into her temples.

Ye Weilai smiled and washed the dishes. The girls asked curiously about the daily trivial matters of her male master Tan Lang, such as whether his special hobby was real. Ye Weilai lowered his head and kept it secret... the girls chatted.

The sound of Ouyang Rong walking into the kitchen attracted them to turn around, and the maids and cooks all left with blushing faces.

"Tan Lang."

Ye Weilai turned her head, wiped her apron with her little hands, and came forward happily.

"It's okay, you continue."

Ouyang Rong nodded, walked over and glanced at Ye Weilai who was washing dishes in front of the sink:
"Why so late."

"Sister Xie came here just now and had some food."

Ouyang Rong was stunned, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Ye Weilai's blue eyes rolled up and she whispered:
"Sister Xie saw that you were receiving guests and told Nuer not to disturb you. She happened to be busy too and sent a letter for Nuer to deliver.

"The eldest lady saw that Sister Xie was also hungry, so she took her to eat with her. The slave went to make some more. Sister Xie had a bowl of rice with the eldest lady, and then left."

Ouyang Rong looked at her: "The palace is really busy recently, so be busy."

Ye Weilai said seriously: "Sister Xie also asked Nu'er if Tan Lang went to bed on time recently."

Ouyang Rong smiled bitterly.

Seeing Ye Weilai's serious little face, a strand of silver hair fell from her forehead and swayed to scratch her nose, causing the girl to lower her head and sway. Ouyang Rong stretched out his hand to help his hair behind her ears.

His fingers touched her slightly hot ears,

Ye Weilai's hands were stained with water and oil, and she was immersed in washing the dishes.

"With the letter in my arms, I can't make a move." She said weakly.

Ouyang Rong nodded, reached into his arms, took out the envelope and looked at it. It was from the teacher Xie Xun.
He put away the letter but did not leave.

Quiet for a while.

Roll up your sleeves, step forward, and help her wash the dishes.

The technique is actually quite skillful.

Ye Weilai couldn't help but look at Ouyang Rong:

"Tan Lang can do this. Isn't this the Yang Chun Shui mentioned in the book? Scholars won't touch it."

"The book also talks about benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. Do all the scholars take it seriously?"

Ye Weilai was speechless.

Ouyang Rong suddenly asked: "What about Wei Laer? How come he is so skilled?"

"Slave is a woman, so it's natural for me to know these things. In fact, when I was in Longcheng before, I didn't know how to cook. To be honest, Tan Lang said that he went to the cook to please the eldest lady and to make Tan Lang care. Ask for advice and learn.”

Ouyang Rong nodded:

"It seems that I learned a lot from the cook."

Ye Weila's body stiffened slightly.

Ouyang Rong looked calm and kept washing the dishes. He even reached out to take the wet rag from Ye Weilai's paused palm and wiped away the oil stains in the bowl.

After a while, Ye Weilai turned around, with a complicated look on her face: "Tan Lang never asked. I thought Tan Lang had forgotten."

"I heard someone talk about Yun Mengze again today, and I remembered Rong Zhen's words."

After a pause, he asked, "Rong Zhen is right?"

Ye Weilai hesitated, nodded, and then shook his head:

"I know some sword moves, but I don't know the specific names. The person who taught me didn't tell me. I don't know the name of the moves of the virgin Pi Guan."

"The person who teaches you must be the cook."

"Yeah." Ye Weilai whispered: "I asked her for pastry advice before."

Ouyang Rong asked: "Is it the mute cook who cooked in Meiluyuan during the Dragon City period?"

Ye Weilai nodded: "Does Tan Lang know about her?"

Ouyang Rong smiled, how could he not know that when he woke up in Donglin Temple and came down the mountain, he was suspicious and went to check.

It was discovered that in the underground palace, the delicate and mute girl named "Xiu Niang" was her own cook. She could cook spicy dishes. She probably took care of Ouyang Rong under the pseudonym Zhao Xiao Niangzi when he was seriously ill. She might also have taken care of him. I was bullied by him in his sleep.

Ouyang Rong quietly discovered this very early, but...

“I know her, but I don’t know if she can teach people swordsmanship or Yunmeng Jianze’s swordsmanship.

"Looking now, I still know too little."

Ye Weilai buried her head in guilt.

Ouyang Rong asked: "Did she break a little finger?"

"Ah."

Ouyang Rong asked again: "Is she really a Yue girl? A female cultivator from Yunmeng Jianze?"

"should be……"

"When the water rose at Di Gong Gate, I was injured and fell into a coma. The Di Gong Gate was in danger. Was that the Yue girl who passed by and drew her sword?"

"Yes Yes."

"So she is also a powerful qigong practitioner? I understand. When I was in Meiluyuan, I slept deeply for a while. When I woke up in the morning, the spicy dogwood smell on my face was left by her. She came in the middle of the night. Have you ever had contact with me?"

"Ah."

Ouyang Rong's thoughts welled up, and all the doubts he had in his mind were connected. He silently clenched the edge of the bowl, and the bowl broke with a thud. Ye Weilai was so frightened that he quickly held his hand and checked carefully.

"Accidentally, sorry."

Ouyang Rong took out his hand, ignored the wound, and stared at Ye Weilae:
"Junior sister mentioned that there was a movement in my house in the middle of the night. Junior sister came to check and found that I was fast asleep but you were awake. Junior sister heard me talking in my sleep... and later misunderstood my hobby... Then Day, is she in the house?"

"Yes, it is."

"I understand, it turns out they are all the same person."

Ouyang Rong suddenly fell silent.

"I'm sorry Tanlang."

Ye Weilai lowered his head: "She didn't let the slave speak, and she even begged the slave."

"She... why didn't she let it go?" Ouyang Rong's voice was a bit loud, but after he realized it, he lowered his voice. He took a deep breath, turned his head, and carefully washed the dishes in his hands:

"Isn't she a Yue girl? Why does she have something to do with me? She keeps appearing by my side? Could it be that she is repaying her fate? But there is nothing unspeakable about this." Ye Weilai whispered: "Her name is Xiu Niang."

"I know her name is Xiuniang." Ouyang Rong frowned.

Ye Weilai was stunned.

Ouyang Rong was about to speak when suddenly an idea struck him and he realized something:
"You...you write it out."

Ye Weila wet her fingers with water and wrote the word "embroidery" on the kitchen counter.

Ouyang Rong stared at this boy and murmured:
"Is this the embroiderer...the embroiderer...it turned out to be this embroiderer, I remembered...it's sad why there is another word "show" on the roster of the Tianji nursing home, whether it is intentional or accidental."

Ye Weilai was curious: "What is the word show?"

Ouyang Rong stretched out his hand and wrote without squinting.

Ye Weilai frowned: "That's... about right."

"No, it's much worse..." Ouyang Rong raised his hand, pointed at himself, and laughed at himself: "I think too much, and I like to get into dead ends. Now, I know who she is..."

Ye Weilai nodded silently: "She mentioned that she was once a child bride and was later kicked out..."

Ouyang Rong suddenly smiled, put down the bowl, wiped his hands, turned around and walked out the door.
Ye Weilai stopped him worriedly and clarified for Xiu Niang:
"Tanlang, she said that the child bride incident was a misunderstanding. The reason is..."

Ouyang Rong waved his hand: "I know. If it wasn't a misunderstanding, why would she come back to take care of me? She might even have saved me..."

Ouyang Rong laughed at himself, walked a few steps, and then suddenly stopped:

"Is she good at medicine?"

Ye Weilai shook his head: "I don't know."

Ouyang Rong nodded and left.

Returning to Yinbingzhai, he wiped his face and calmed down.

What can be confirmed now is that this embroiderer was the child bride chosen for him by his mother, Zhao, from her natal family.

Later, she was sold to a wandering Taoist priest, and she got an unknown opportunity to become a female cultivator of Yunmeng Jianze. She may even be a member of the Female Monarch Hall, and she has a close relationship with the great female monarch.

Now that she comes back to see him, she seems to have no intention of paying anything in return, and she doesn't even care about the original misunderstanding and the harm she caused to her.

But to be honest, from Ouyang Rong's perspective in this life, it was clearly that he, his aunt, and Zhao's mother owed her.

He had a headache. This kind of giving without expecting anything in return was indeed touching, but it was also a burden that could easily be imposed on others.

But the mute embroiderer might know this very well, so she asked Ye Weila not to tell Ouyang Rong.

At the moment, Ouyang Rong is acting like a fool and wants to find out every strange detail.

In fact, it’s good to be a little confused sometimes in life. If you understand too well, you can’t continue to lie to yourself.

Ouyang Rong rubbed his face.

The only thing he is confused about now is that when he woke up from the underground palace twice, he saw Xiu Niang when he opened his eyes.

I thought it was a coincidence before, but now I see it as a complete set-up.

So the one who really saved him was Master Shandao, a passing miracle doctor, or was it the embroiderer or the external help she begged for?

Ouyang Rong is now very skeptical about Master Shandao.

Because when it comes to unreliability, Master Shandao is very reliable.

However, judging from Xiu Niang's behavior of doing good deeds without leaving her name, if she really saved her, Master Shandao and Xiufa probably didn't even know about her existence, and even thought it was because of their excellent medical skills at Donglin Temple.

No wonder I woke up in the underground palace twice, both in the middle of the night...

What is the truth? Ouyang Rong is a little troubled.

This is related to how much he owes this little girl.

If he just approached quietly in the middle of the night, cooked for him, and pretended to pass by Duke Di to draw a sword, then the favor owed would not be too big. At least Ouyang Rong would not have to risk his life to pay it back. As long as he met him in the future, he would repay it sincerely. Can.

Treat each other with kindness.

Although they can't be a couple, they can still be cared for like a family.

And if he saves his two lives in a row, or even pays more, Ouyang Rong feels that the favor he owes is huge, and Xiu Niang is not just repaying the favor, but love, and some love cannot be repaid even at the risk of life... …

Suddenly saddled with potentially heavy debt.

Ouyang Rong's eyes were complicated.

Tossed and turned all night.

The next day.

Ouyang Rong went on duty with dark circles under his eyes.

Yan Liulang and Chen Canjun couldn't help but take a second look, with strange expressions on their faces, and reminded:

"The Ming Dynasty is restrained..."

Ouyang Rong ignored him with a straight face.

Throughout the day, his face looked a little distracted, but it took two days for him to get better.

On this day, he looked around and stood at the top of the city, with the river breeze blowing in his face. Seeing the Xunyang city defenses that were gradually solidified and impregnable, he pursed his lips and looked at the bustling Xunyang Ferry in the past and the thousands of people moving in Xingzifang. Thousands of people.

Ouyang Rong suddenly remembered Li Zhengyan's behavior of recruiting surrender along the way and trying his best not to hurt the people.

To be honest, this plan of buying horse bones for a large sum of money does nothing to Jiang Chengqiu. It is really powerful, but it attacks the heart.

This man is a sensible man, and what he wants to kill is the heart of Zhou Dynasty, not the lives of the people.

Even if it's a good performance, I have to praise it.

Although Ouyang Rong expressed a little disappointment not long ago that Wang Junzhi's "unity" was just to fight for the throne.

But Ouyang Rong didn't have much enthusiasm for the current Zhou Dynasty.

In his eyes, the two parties have the same nature. The only reference standard in Ouyang Rong's heart is how to solve the problem with low intensity and not disturb the people.

Ouyang Rong would fulfill his duties as governor of Jiangzhou, but he was not a loyal minister of the Zhou Dynasty.

A question you have to ask yourself is whether he, Ouyang Lianghan, is loyal to the emperor or to the people and the country.

Li Zhengyan and the Zhou Dynasty were engaged in civil war, fighting for legal authority.

Rather than resisting foreigners.

Therefore, at this critical moment, should Ouyang Rong use the people of the city as weight to win over the honorable man who defends the city alone?It even led to the tragic scene of running out of ammunition and food, and people cannibalizing people. The Kuangfu army was so excited that they killed them red-bloodedly. After breaking the city, they did not seal the sword for ten days.

Ouyang Rong had a strong idea in his heart.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Rong went to the Jiangzhou lobby and met with Wang Lengran as usual to inquire about military affairs.

Jiangzhou Zhechong Prefecture's military strength was only nearly a thousand soldiers.

A Zhechong Mansion gathered a total of 400 serving soldiers. A thousand soldiers were sent to support Hongzhou before and returned in defeat. In addition to surrendering, there were [-] to [-] people who ran back and gathered again.

Therefore, Jiangzhou Zhechong Mansion could only provide more than 900 soldiers.

In the past few days, with the arrival of support from Yangzhou and other places, more than [-] new soldiers have joined.

Now, there are three thousand soldiers gathered in the camp outside Xunyang City, which is about the strength of two Zhechong Mansion.

Although it was not as good as the [-] victorious troops claimed by Cai Qinjun, only an expert would know that this was a false report.

The so-called victorious soldiers are soldiers who are capable of simple combat.

The soldiers in Zhe Chong Mansion were professional military households and were born into good families. They were not the kind of victorious soldiers recruited at short notice.

Therefore, the current main strength of Cai Qin's army, that is, the government soldiers, is only more than [-], estimated to be less than [-].Adding in the miscellaneous victorious soldiers, the number was only [-].

If it is a main force battle and the terrain is well controlled, it should be 3000 vs. [-]. The disadvantage lies with me. But if it is just to defend the city and wait for the subsequent imperial conquest of the army, [-] people are indeed enough.

Moreover, with King Xunyang here, as a pacifying ambassador, sitting in Xunyang City, the morale of the soldiers and civilians is not bad, and they are not pessimistic about reinforcements. The court cannot sell out King Xunyang.

This is what most people in Jiangzhou think, and the military morale has stabilized.

That morning, Jiangzhou Hall suddenly received news that Cai Qin's army was blocked in Jiangzhou. Jishui County Lieutenant Zhao Rushi killed the county magistrate and county magistrate who wanted to sacrifice the city, and organized the people to defend the city bravely and resist the rebels tenaciously.

When the news came back that Cai Qin's army had been blocked, Jishui County had been surrounded at all levels and came to ask for help.

Everyone in the Jiangzhou Hall was shocked. Wang Lengran looked overjoyed, Ouyang Rong frowned slightly, and the officials gathered in the Jiangzhou Hall to discuss matters...

　Scroll forward, there is another chapter "No. 80 Six", don't forget it, everyone, it was sent on time today, transferred here...

　　
　
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