Wang Fulin didn't know what the result of Qi Jiguang's discussion with Shen Maoxue was, and he had no interest in asking.☆→, but what he knew was that no matter how Chen Maoxue praised Qi Jiguang, a famous general in the Southeast, and no matter how Qi Jiguang admired Chen Maoxue, a famous scholar in the Southeast, it was only a private matter. It would be impossible for Qi Jiguang to recommend Chen Maoxue to the court or Zhang Juzheng to openly. Until now, civil servants could recommend military personnel, but military generals recommended literati...that was equivalent to placing that literati on the opposite side of most civil servants.

When Wang Fulin and Xiaobei and his group, along with their uncles and nephews from the Shen family, were traveling from Xifengkou, it was already the third day after Qi Jiguang left the place and returned to Santun Camp.

Because it was a mid-winter trip, everyone was fully prepared. From spare mounts, mules with camel luggage, linoleums for camping in bad weather, and more than ten personal soldiers, including Zhong Nanfeng and the other two, they were most familiar with the three guides on this section of the road, a versatile veterinarian who was known as a skill of human and animal medicine and cloud watching. The total number was nearly thirty, and there were 50 horses and mules, which could be said to be a very large team.

Even so, three senior guides who are very familiar with the terrain still reminded everyone in advance. If they do not encounter heavy snow, there will be no danger along the way, but if the weather changes suddenly, it will slow down the itinerary, but there will be no problem in staying in the house.

The Jizhen Great Wall, which goes east to Santunying in Jizhen, is much slower in overall repair than the west. The reason is very simple. The passes in the west are closer to Changping and Miyun, and the northwest gateway of the capital is the northwest gateway. Once something goes wrong, it will endanger the capital. Therefore, it naturally has the highest priority in the construction of the side walls. Even so, Wang Fulin has a deep understanding along the way that the so-called Great Wall is not just a weak side wall. With less than a hundred meters or even eighty meters behind it, it is the gateway, the city, the fortress, the camp, and the whole radial defense system guarding by stars.

He can truly see it. What does it mean that there is a city in less than thirty or forty miles!

However, not all the castles related to the villages were rebuilt as Xifengkou because they were guarding the tribute road. From Xifengkou to Liujiakou on the Qinglong River, everyone traveled for eight days and never stayed in the open. However, some of them had completed the Qingshankou, Taiping Village and Lengkou where they passed by, and some had been repaired more than half. Therefore, the accommodation conditions for everyone were also good and bad. Sometimes they could only boil the snow water to quench their thirst, and cook the fried rice and dried meat and vegetables they brought into chowder porridge to satisfy their hunger. For such conditions, the children of aristocratic families, such as the uncle and nephew of the Shen family, and Wang Fulin, and the women dressed as Xiaobei and Bizhu, did not say a word.

After all, this journey is something they are willing to go, and others are just accompanying them to travel in this cold winter!

When we arrived at Liujiakou Pass City, we refer to the situation when we were cold, because the guide did not specifically remind us on the road. Everyone thought we could take a hot bath and drink some hot soup and eat some good food, but when we arrived at the ground, with Chen Duan's handwritten letter and the road guide issued by Wang Fulin's Shuntian Prefecture, the group passed through the old Zhushuiguan Building and saw many houses that had not yet been rebuilt in the city. In addition to the few guides who often came to these places, even the personal soldiers of Chen Duan's mouth twitched.

How could it be so bleak and broken! It is even more broken than the simplest fort on the road!

Chen Maoxue, who had been reading thousands of books, even whispered: "I remember that Emperor Chengzu avoided Xifengkou, went from Liujiakou to the gate, went north from Xingye to Daning to capture King Ning alive. Those who conquered Duoyan's three guards always wanted to pay homage to this gate city, but they didn't expect it to be like this..."

"Behind Liujiakou Pass City, there is Liujiaying Castle, which has stationed troops and farms to support this place. It has always been good. It was probably a month ago that the blizzard collapsed the house, because it was only roughly organized in the middle of winter. Fortunately, General Qi had already reported to the court that when repairing the border walls, it would be rebuilt with Liujiakou Pass City. Next time Mr. Chen and Mr. Wang came together, he would definitely see the scene of the pass." Old Huang, one of the guides, was very good at observing the words and expressions. While explaining that the place was dilapidated, he also put gold on the head coach's face. But at the same time, he realized that accommodation in Liujiakou City tonight was obviously a problem.

Because of Wang Fulin's request, Qi Jiguang cleverly entrusts Wang Fulin and his party and his uncle and nephew of the Shen family to the east to the Shanhaiguan General Chen Duan, and picked himself out so as not to be too alarmed. However, the consequence is that although Chen Duan's grade is second only to the general and the deputy general of the coordinator, he has many military achievements, but his prestige is lacking. It is difficult to make all relevant cities along the way take care of this group in every possible way. For example, at this time, Ye Sizhong, the general manager of Qianjiakou Pass, stationed in Liujiakou Pass, did not even have a shadow.

However, Ye Sizhong was an old subordinate of Qi Jiguang when he was fighting against the Japanese. His father Ye Dazheng was a student of the throne and followed Qi Jiguang to pacify the Japanese. He made great achievements in fighting, but eventually died of a recurrence of arrow sores. Ye Sizhong was one of the few officers in the Qi family army who followed Qi Jiguang to Ji Town north. Even though Lao Huang had heard of Wang Fulin's family background from Chen Duan, he did not dare to give Ye Sizhong a casual eyedrop. He asked the other two guides to take care of the group, but he hurried to find the old relationship and used all the coercion and inducement methods. Finally, he hurried back and told everyone that he had gotten four rooms in total.

Wang Fulin and Xiaobei have long been used to the fact that they were sleeping in a wardrobe. However, because many houses collapsed in Liujiakou Pass, accommodation was particularly tense. In addition, the Qiangma Ye Sizhong avoided them, so everyone had to squeeze in to live in a room. Wang Fulin's four followers were all old soldiers of Zhejiang Army who knew the identity of the couple. They knew that they wanted to squeeze in a room, and they were all very nervous. Not to mention the awkwardness, what made them even more unacceptable was that the air leaked from all sides of the house and even the stove had to be solved by themselves. If Wang Fulin had not held it down, they wouldn't help but want to rush to find someone to judge.

"Save it, the name of General Chen, the general of Xifengkou, is not easy to use. Is it still a name for Marshal Qi? Isn't it just a temporary stove? I haven't done this before!"

"That's right, I just stay for one night, so why are you worried about it?" Xiaobei said this, and suddenly looked at Wang Fulin with a smile and said, "I always eat chowder porridge along the way. Do you want to show off your skills? Just now, Lao Huang was only getting these few houses. He probably didn't feel sorry for it. He just sent a piece of bacon, and I don't know where I got it."

For Wang Fulin, it is hard to bear to live a poor life. After all, even if he was ordered by Wang Daokun to go to Liaodong, he asked himself to find it. But the food was so simple and rough all day long. As a foodie, he could not hold back. Therefore, when he saw what Bizhu took out, he immediately rolled up his sleeves without saying a word and said, "Well, find the pepper powder for me, you guys, build a temporary stove, and pick off the fat meat from the bacon, otherwise he would have to find a place to make oil, and also find a wooden shovel to get the dried vegetables and use water to spread them..."

Wang Fulin was like a general dispatcher, and sent everyone to do this and that. When the stove was set up outside the door, the fire was started. The iron pot was already carried on the road. After washing it, he put it on the stove, and he started to do it himself. Seeing this scene, Chen Yourong, who happened to leave the house, couldn't help but be stunned. After a moment, he got into his own room and dragged his uncle Chen Maoxue out. The uncle and nephew saw Wang Fulin jumping up and down next to the stove, and they didn't know what to say. But Chen Maoxue was in his thirties and just shook his head.

"A gentleman stays away from the kitchen, but that is a metaphor for a saint. It does not mean that a gentleman cannot cook. The virtuous brother of Shiqing is a real person, so he probably only wants to be fun."

Seeing his uncle smiled, he went into the house, but Chen Yourong was not convinced. He had been so sincere before to ask Wang Fulin for the sake of joining the army, but Wang Fulin didn't say he agreed or refused, but instead went over it. This made him feel very unhappy. At this moment, he simply decided to stay and see what was in the pot. He didn't know how long he had been waiting. With his sharp ears, he heard Wang Fulin's order: "Madam, add chili!"

Madam? Where did you come from? Wait, that person is... Wang Fulin claimed to be his younger brother before? Chen Yourong suddenly thought that Wang Daokun had been the governor of Fujian, and he heard from Chen Maoxue that customs such as Qidi were extremely popular in Fujian. Does Wang Fulin have that habit? But just when he felt goosebumps all over the floor, an extremely choking smell suddenly drifted with the wind. He was caught off guard and coughed repeatedly. This immediately alarmed the people in the other side. He almost had no time to react, and found that Wang Fulin's four followers surrounded him with bad expressions.

At this moment, he heard Wang Fulin shouting again: "What are you doing around Shi Hong? He must have smelled the delicious food of Xiangzhi and wanted to come over to have a free meal. He took the people into the house and asked everyone to share the good things."

Chen Yourong was about to say that he was not interested in this choking dish, but he couldn't help but push and shoved four guys with cold faces, but they couldn't use force, so he could not help but be pushed into Wang Fulin and his house. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled the strong pungent smell again. However, what attracted his attention was Xiaobei beside Wang Fulin. Seeing him reaching out to wash his face in the basin of the waterside, when he straightened up, the dust on his face was washed away, and it was a uniform and clean bare face. After removing the fox fur scarf, he obviously had no Adam's apple. He immediately took a breath and realized that he had seen something extremely amazing.

"I think you have heard it just now. Let me introduce it. This is the Ye family of Neizi."

Neizi Ye? Neizi can only be used to describe his wife, but he still remembers that Wang Fulin's "righteous brother" on the way seemed to have shot a hare with a flying knife... Is it really Wang Fulin's wife?

Chen Yourong opened her mouth and saw that the four followers around him had no strange expressions, he couldn't help but ask them to prove, "Is what Mr. Wang said true?"

He got almost the same look from the four people, and saw Wang Fulin starting to distribute the dried vegetables and spicy fried bacon in the pot. Chen Yourong was divided into a portion before he could say anything. After eating some in a daze, he immediately felt the difference. Because the peppers were limited, this time it was real and only for seasoning, without too heavy taste. He got used to it all at once. But after just taking a few bites of the roasted steamed buns, he suddenly shouted: "There was a Huizhou restaurant in Ningguofucheng. I remember many people said that the dishes fried with peppers were delicious. Could it be that this is it?"

"Well, if I remember correctly, that restaurant still has 30% of my stocks." Seeing Chen Yourong's face full of incredibleness, Wang Fulin said with a smile, "Young Master Chen, you told me your secret before. Today, I have made a secret for you, and it's even better. So you asked me to help you, let's talk about it later."

This guy Chen Yourong is quite interesting, why didn’t you realize that Chen Maoxue actually doesn’t object?
Chapter completed!