Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 320
Yang Menglong slept for more than ten hours, only to be awakened by the tempting smell of food.He smacked his lips and muttered: "Chopped pickled fish head, hot and sour potato shreds, chicken stewed with chestnuts, five... five... five..."

A hand gently pinched his nose, and he couldn't even fart for a long time. The gentle and sweet voice of his future wife floated into his ears: "What are you talking about?"

Yang Menglong opened his eyes and saw her standing in front of the bed, pinching his nose with her hand, her eyes full of light and her smile so beautiful that he completely forgot about the north, south, east, west, and west.He said: "You pinched my nose, how can I smell it?"

Xiao Yufang let go of her hand and said, "It's time to get up and eat, you have slept for five or six hours."

Yang Menglong sat up, twisted his waist, and his bones and joints crackled.He yawned loudly, beat his waist, and said, "Oh, I've been riding a horse for too long, and my waist is sore." Looking at Xiao Yufang, he said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I'm riding a fast horse. I rushed back day and night to give you a surprise, but when I got back to the mansion, I was so tired that I fell asleep without seeing you."

Xiao Yufang was angry and funny, and said, "Forget it, I've seen such unreliable things a lot, and it's not bad. Put on your clothes and eat, or the food will be cold!"

Yang Menglong obediently put on his clothes and boots, and followed her to dinner.

Clothes and boots are clean.

There were several Yang Menglong's favorite dishes on the dining table. The two little ones, Xiao Jun and An Ning, had gone to play somewhere, and they couldn't even find a shadow. Liu Ziyan and Cheng Qi had been sitting there a long time ago. When they saw him come out, He got up and saluted.Yang Menglong waved his hand, saying that this kind of insincere etiquette is fine, and he slumped down, drooling and looking at the dishes on the table, wow, seven dishes and one soup!Without further ado, he picked up the bowl and quickly filled a bowl of sharp rice, picked up the chopsticks, and launched a sweeping attack on the food on the table, the sound of chewing and chewing sounded again in the living room, it was so familiar ...

Both Xiao Yufang and Liu Ziyan rested their chins on their hands, smiling and admiring this guy's hungry ghost reincarnation-style eating, while Cheng Qi looked contemptuous, hum, fortunately you are a big shot, this eating is so ugly!Seeing this guy eat one bowl after another, and finish off four bowls of rice in a row, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "My lord, how long has it been since you had a meal?"

Yang Menglong choked for a moment, rolled his eyes and said, "If you are like me and just eat a little dry food for a few days, you must eat it faster than me!"

Cheng Qi said: "It's never possible! I'm already full with just one bowl of rice!"

Yang Menglong said: "That's because you have a small appetite!"

Liu Ziyan asked: "It's been several months, why didn't you send a letter back?"

Yang Menglong said, "No time!"

Liu Ziyan was very dissatisfied: "No time? Are you so busy?"

Yang Menglong called: "Am I so busy? Hmph, my back doesn't hurt when I'm standing and talking. If I have time, I'll let you take thousands of people on a long trip. You will take care of all the eating, drinking, and messing around for those thousands of people. You will know me." Have you ever been so busy?”

Liu Ziyan pretended to be surprised: "Are you really so busy? Isn't it because someone's calligraphy is too ugly and he is too embarrassed to write back?"

Yang Menglong's face collapsed, and he muttered: "Which pot is not easy to open!" He lowered his head and continued to chop the rice.It's been two years, and his calligraphy still hasn't improved much. It's okay to ask him to sign a name or something, but asking him to write a letter in tiny characters will kill him, and he won't be able to write even if he is killed.

Xiao Yufang helped Yang Menglong pack a bowl of soup, and said to Liu Ziyan: "Sister Ziyan, stop teasing him, let him finish eating first."

Liu Ziyan said: "Okay, okay, I wanted to vent my anger on you for my sister, but you are fine, and you are completely against him. What else do I have to say? Let's not say anything."

Yang Menglong took the soup and drank it up in one gulp, belched, and was finally full.He put down the bowl and said: "Miss Liu, learn from my wife, this is the style of a lady!"

Liu Ziyan showed two rows of snow-white teeth at him, looking like she was going to bite someone, which made his scalp numb in fright!
Cheng Qi asked curiously: "You came back so soon? Didn't you fight?"

Yang Menglong's eyes widened: "How fast?"

Cheng Qi said: "That's right, the books say that many generals leave their hometowns to fight thousands of miles away, and often they don't come back for several years. You came back in just a few months..."

Yang Menglong shouted: "The battle is over, if I don't run back quickly, can I still celebrate the New Year in that bloody cold place in the northeast?"

Cheng Qi was extremely surprised: "Is the battle over?"

Yang Menglong said: "It's already over!"

Xiao Yufang asked: "Then did you go to the battlefield?" According to her mind, it would be best if Yang Menglong didn't have to go to the battlefield, Wuyangwei didn't have to go to the battlefield, and no one had to die, that would be the most perfect.

Yang Menglong widened his eyes again, and shouted: "How could it be possible that he didn't go to the battlefield? He did, and he fought fiercely with Jiannu, blood flowed like rivers!" Then, the bastard spit at the three A girl told how she rushed thousands of miles to help, how she flew to the west of Liaoxi, how she faced difficulties, led thousands of troops into battle, and fought bloody Jiannu... The story was vivid and vivid.The three girls were very nervous when they heard this, the iron cavalry coming like a tide, the cold and precise crossbowmen archers, the indomitable heavy infantry, the invincible cavalry...these were once enough for Houjin to eat. The elite soldiers who had suffered a lot seemed to have walked out of the battlefield where there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. They were covered in blood and stood in front of them, panting violently.This is a world that is completely unfamiliar to them, a world that only belongs to men. They can only yearn for it and fantasize about it, but they will never be able to truly come into contact with it.After hearing that Mingjun and Houjin were both wounded in the fight, each of them left more than 1 dead bodies and wounded on the banks of the Daling River, and was unable to fight any more, Xiao Yufang was a little sad: "Why did so many people die? A lot of people died too, right?”

Yang Menglong said: "That's right, 500 people went to the expedition, more than 700 were killed, more than 800 were injured, more than half of them were gone. Fortunately, most of the wounded soldiers were rescued, otherwise we would have really lost money this time." gone."

Cheng Qi said: "Kill seven thousand enemies, and lose ten thousand yourself!"

Liu Ziyan raised her eyebrows and said: "If we could really kill seven thousand enemies and lose ten thousand, Jiannu would have been wiped out more than ten times! There are only so many of them. If they fight like this in every battle, at most After three or five battles, they will be finished!" At this point, this charming beauty's eyes were as bright as lightning and her spirits were high.

Yang Menglong was a little surprised: "You also know the art of war?"

Liu Ziyan blushed, and said: "I don't really understand, I just read a few military books before... Obviously, the population of Jiannu is only so many, while the population of Daming is hundreds of millions. Can polish them!"

Yang Menglong gave a thumbs up: "It's amazing, it looks like I have to look at you with admiration." Then he covered his head and said with a sad face: "That's what I said, but there are too many soldiers who were killed or injured! Just the soldiers who died in battle For those two hundred Lancers, I have to pay 2 taels of pensions, and there are 40 acres of fertile land. Every ordinary soldier killed in battle will be paid 4000 taels of silver, and there will be corresponding fields... Oh my god, a rough calculation, I at least I have to pay a pension of [-] taels of silver, [-] mu of fertile land, a large bounty, and disability subsidies... Ah, I'm going crazy!"

Cheng Qi curled her lips: "You deserve it! Who told you to set the casualty compensation so high? Which general would lead troops like you! Lower the standard, and pay a few taels of silver for the dead one, and you'll be fine!?"

Yang Menglong said: "How much money do you pay for a dead man? Are my soldiers' lives so cheap? They are all elite soldiers who have been trained for two years, not cannon fodder!"

Cheng Qi didn't understand much about these things, so she didn't want to interrupt. Anyway, in her opinion, it was definitely not a good thing for Yang Menglong to set such a high compensation for casualties.

Xiao Yufang patted Yang Menglong's hand and said, "Don't worry, this year's autumn potato harvest is bumper again. We made a lot of money selling autumn potatoes, plus the dividends from various factories, we have accumulated a lot of property , there is no problem at all in paying casualty benefits.”

Yang Menglong smiled openly: "Really? Then how much money did our autumn potatoes make?"

Xiao Yufang said: "Autumn potatoes are grown on ripe land, and the phosphate fertilizer is sufficient, so the yield is very high. After digging out labor and fat money, there is at least a surplus of 25 taels of silver. The dividends of the factories have not yet been handed over. But according to the accounts they handed in, there must be six to seventy thousand taels of silver."

Yang Menglong smacked his lips and said, "Six to seventy thousand taels of silver... is a little less, but this year is the first year, and it is in the stage of paying back, which is understandable."

Cheng Qi said abruptly: "There is something strange in the accounts they handed over!"

Yang Menglong asked: "How do you know?"

Cheng Qi said: "I've seen it! They at least gave you dozens of taels of silver less!"

Yang Menglong was overjoyed. Dozens of large factories had lost dozens of taels of silver. If it was distributed equally to each factory, it would be less than a tael of silver. It can be forgiven, such a small mistake can't be hidden from her. Eyes, this girl is really a genius at checking accounts!He gave Cheng Qi a thumbs up: "Such a small mistake can't be hidden from you, amazing!"

Cheng Qi raised her chin triumphantly, and said: "Needless to say, I have been learning to make accounts from my father since I was seven years old. What accounts have I never seen? No matter how secretive they are, they can't hide it from my eyes. But they are wrong. His hands and feet are not clever, and the flaws are too obvious, um, it should be a miscalculation, unintentional mistakes, can be forgiven..."

Just as he was talking, the old servant walked in and said, "Sir, Master Zhang, Master Cheng and the two young masters are here!"

Hey, the news is really well-informed. I just had a full meal and talked to my future wife for a while, and they came to the door!Yang Menglong muttered in displeasure: "What a disappointment." He said to the three beauties: "I'll send them away first, and then I'll come back and tell you the story of my battle against Huang Taiji!" After speaking, he strode towards the living room.

Liu Ziyan yawned, and said: "There are so many distinguished guests coming to the door so soon. In my opinion, the threshold of the door will be stepped down!"

Xiao Yufang was helpless: "He's busy again... But, he's always been this busy all year round, isn't he?"

(End of this chapter)