When they arrived at the school kitchen, Chu Qing poured water into the vat, while Zhang Mingyu squatted on the ground and drew pictures with firewood sticks.

When Chu Qing looked at it, he was depressed. Zhang Mingyu made his drawing very clear, but Chu Qing couldn't understand it! When you draw a picture, why do you draw another line among the parallel lines that represent the road? Is this one road or two?

A road or a wall?

It took a long time for Chu Qing to figure out the general route.

"Well...can I not go?" Chu Qing tried. It felt very dangerous.

"This is a mission!" Zhang Mingyu didn't understand why this woman was so...awkward!

"But Xiaobao..."

"Put it at my sister's place."

Early the next morning, the genius was bright, and Chu Qing and Zhang Mingyu were already on the road. It would be good to have horses. They modified the ox cart and hitched it to the horses. It was much faster than walking! But even with the carriage, when they arrived at Li Zong

I had to come down when I was on Bingfu Street, for fear of exposing my secret.

Chu Qing tied the sweat towel around her neck to cover the pinch marks on her neck. It would probably take a few days for those finger prints to disappear. She picked up two baskets of vegetables and followed Zhang Mingyu to the back door.

The back entrance of the General Military Mansion was located in the northeast corner. Two soldiers were guarding the entrance, and there was a woman not far away. Chu Qing and the others were intercepted and searched as soon as they arrived at the entrance.

A soldier carefully touched Zhang Mingyu's body and then rummaged through the vegetable basket; the woman was responsible for searching Chu Qing's body.

Chu Qing's back was patted a few times by the woman. It wasn't heavy, but the stick wounds on her back made her sweat break out.

Chu Qing didn't show anything on his face. He just imitated the way women in the village lower their heads and be careful when seeing outsiders.

I thought I got through it this way, but unexpectedly, the soldier who was standing still asked: "Why is it so late today?" He glanced at Zhang Mingyu again: "Who are you?"

Zhang Mingyu quickly nodded and bowed to express that his eldest brother had lost his waist in the morning and could not even turn over, so his sister-in-law had no choice but to stay at home and wait on him while he and his wife came.

"But don't worry, Master Jun. My wife likes to eat the hand-shred scallion pancakes made by my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law made the noodles before dawn today. She made a lot of them and they are still hot. She asked me to bring them!"

Zhang Mingyu quickly bumped Chu Qing's arm with his elbow, and Chu Qing opened the baggage on the vegetable basket. In fact, the baggage had been turned over just now.

With the matter of scallion pancakes, and the fact that in the past, the food delivery people would sometimes ask family members to help deliver the food, so the two gatekeepers still let it go. Chu Qingxin said that Zhang Mingyu was very quick to adapt to changes.

After entering the yard through the back door, you pass the stables and then pass through a small door to reach the yard where the kitchen is located. The yard is not big, and there is nothing except a pile of firewood drying under the kitchen window.

The inside of the kitchen is not small, much larger than the school kitchen. The oil tank is several steps away from the operating table, unlike Chu Qing who kicks the oil tank every time he turns around. The oil in others is filled in a tank, which is almost full; the oil in the school is filled with oil.

When packed in earthenware jars, they only have one bottom.

The two of them carried the vegetable basket and went in. There was no one in the kitchen. They probably left after breakfast. According to Zhang Mingyu, the kitchen should be separated from the inner courtyard where the general soldier lived by only a courtyard wall.

Chu Qing looked around and found a small door next to the kitchen, which should lead to the inner courtyard.

Zhang Mingyu pretended to find a place to place the vegetables in the basket into categories according to the way the vegetables were placed on the workbench. After dawdling there, Chu Qing left the kitchen and prepared to find an opportunity to sneak into the main yard.

"What are you doing!" a voice asked, making Chu Qing tremble with fright. Two soldiers came over from the stable, "Are you done? Leave as soon as you're done!" The soldiers wanted to drive Chu Qing away.

"I'm sorry, Master Jun. I was in a hurry to deliver food this morning. I left the house in such a hurry that I didn't even go to the hut. Now, right now, it's really... it's really..." Chu Qing didn't breathe when he spoke.

He suppressed his face until it turned red, which made his anxious expression of his bladder about to explode very realistic.

"What's going on?" the soldier said impatiently. "Then you can't walk around!" he shouted again. At this moment, a maid walked into the kitchen yard and said to the soldier: "Madam has a stomachache.

No, even if you let me make a bowl of rice soup!"

"I can't make the decision in this matter, and it's useless for you to tell me!" the soldier said.

"You!" the maid said angrily: "You are all soldiers under the master, but now you dare to treat the master and his wife like this! Is this counterargument?!"

The soldier wanted to draw a knife and rebel, but another soldier whispered: "Don't be impulsive! We can't understand what happened between Master Cao and Master Hong! We can do whatever we are told, and we can't get angry with this girl.

.In case... she is the lady's personal maid!" Then he said to the maid: "Go back! We are just soldiers, we will do whatever the superiors tell us, and we don't dare to disobey."

The maid still wanted to fight for it, but Chu Qing said at this time: "Um...junye, can I go to the latrine? I really can't hold it in anymore..."

"What a trouble!" The grumpy soldier pointed at the maid and said, "Who is that? Take her to the latrine and don't let her run around. If something happens, you two will die together!"

The maid ignored her and wanted to argue a few more words. Chu Qing secretly bumped her with his arm and said, "I'm sorry to bother you." He also winked at the maid. Madam's personal maid has her own way!

The maid was suspicious, but she still led Chu Qing toward the inner courtyard. There was a room in the northwest corner of the inner courtyard. It was the closest hut, and it was also used by the maids in the inner courtyard.

When passing through the corridor, Chu Qing fell behind the maid and lowered her voice and said, "I want to see Mr. Hong. I have something important to report." The maid was startled and stopped in her tracks.

Don't stop at this time! This is too obvious. What will you do if people find out?

Chu Qing nodded, bowed and begged loudly: "Girl, I'm really sorry. I went out in a hurry and didn't bring any toilet chips."

The poor at this time couldn't afford toilet paper, so they would bring toilet chips, which were bamboo or wood chips, when they went out, otherwise they would have to "scrape" them with a stick. Chu Qing sometimes wondered whether the ancients would be bored squatting

, take a toilet chip and write some toilet quotes on the edge of the pit?

These words were equivalent to explaining the reason why the maid stopped. The soldiers who were watching at the entrance of the inner courtyard had no doubts.

The maid reacted quickly. She said in an impatient tone, "Follow me," and then walked forward. She also pretended to say, "Follow me, don't wander around and look around! Don't be implicated in your own death."

I!"

Chu Qing nodded and followed behind, covering her waist and abdomen with her hands from time to time.

After the maid took Chu Qing to the door of a main room and asked Chu Qing to wait outside, she turned around and entered the door next to the main room. That was a compartment set up for the personal maid to take care of the master nearby.

There was a door in the compartment that could lead to the master's bedroom. Chu Qing grabbed the maid's sleeve and secretly stuffed something inside, begging: "Please hurry up, girl, I, I really can't hold it in anymore."

The maid turned around and entered the house. After entering the house, she rushed straight into the master's bedroom: "Madam!" The maid lowered her voice and said urgently: "Look at this!" and handed the things in her hand to the madam.

Commander-in-Chief Hong Liang was also in the bedroom at this time. Years of fighting and a life of irregular meals had seriously damaged his intestines and stomach. At this time, he was huddled in bed with stomachache, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

As the leader of an army, his health condition will affect his prestige in the army. In fact, no matter in ancient or modern times, as long as he has a certain authority, he is always sick and cannot reveal it to others. Therefore, the personal maid can only say that the wife is sick.

The general's wife wiped her husband's sweat with a handkerchief, and wiped her own tears from time to time. Her heart was filled with distress for her husband and worries about the current situation, and she had no intention of looking at what the maid handed over.

"Madam, Master, someone said they want to see Master, please take a look at this." The maid was extremely anxious.

Hong Liang endured the pain in his stomach and reluctantly reached out and took the thing. It was a coarse cloth handkerchief. He opened it and found an ebony waistband with the word "secret" engraved on it, as well as a small folded note.

Opening the note, there was a line of small words on it: "Give the military talisman to the incoming person, evacuate at any time, and be prepared." The signature was Song Tingshan, and Song Tingshan's private seal was printed on it.

Hong Liang and his wife looked at each other, then turned to the maid: "What's going on?" The maid spoke very quickly and briefly explained what had just happened.

The general's wife worriedly said: "Master, can you believe it?"

"It's Song Tingshan's handwriting, and the seal is correct. It shouldn't be wrong. Let's just believe it. There is no other way." After all, he is the general in charge of the army, and he can make decisions quickly. The lady nodded cautiously to the maid. The maid grabbed a few

He turned around with a piece of tissue paper and went out.

"Come with me!" After coming out, the maid motioned for Chu Qing to follow her. The soldier watching at the entrance of the courtyard shouted: "Why are you so lazy!" The maid rolled her eyes and said bitterly: "You won't give me anything to eat."

Drink, I didn’t even give you toilet paper to ask you to buy some. The masters are almost out of use! I still have to dig through it for a long time!”

She really deserves to be the girl who is close to her master! Chu Qing commented in her heart. As soon as she entered the latrine, the maid immediately closed the door. She quickly walked to the toilet stool, pulled out the hairpin on her head, and used the tip to open the hairpin on it.

The cushion looks very thick, but it is actually a circle of cotton laid on the U-shaped wood, and then a cover is put on the outside, so that it is soft and firm. The cushion will not fall out of position when sitting.

In the toilet.

He opened the jacket of the mat and grabbed some cotton from it, revealing a U-shaped piece of wood with a hole dug in it. A rectangular brass token half the size of a palm was embedded inside, with "order" engraved on the front.

, "General Soldier Waist Tag" is engraved on the back. This is the military symbol, Chu Qing looked at it with wide eyes.

The maid quickly pried out the military talisman with a hairpin and handed it to Chu Qing. Then she pulled out a needle from her breast, stuffed the cotton inside, and started threading the needle with her fingers flying.

Chu Qing didn't have time to appreciate the maid's needlework skills. She took the soldier talisman and stuffed it into her bun. This was what she had thought about early in the morning. After stuffing it in, she covered it with her hair and pinned it with a wooden hairpin. Then she wrapped the turban in her hair.

good.

After all this was done, it only took a few minutes. The two of them walked out of the hut, and Chu Qing humbly bowed and thanked her. His face no longer had the anxious look just now, but instead had a happy and relaxed smile after emptying his stomach.

The maid raised her chin towards the door of the courtyard and said in an impatient tone: "Hurry up, hurry up." Then she turned around and went back to her room.

Chu Qing walked out of the hospital briskly, and kept thanking the guarding soldiers, making a peasant woman who had never seen the world come alive. Her performance on the spot was good.

When she left the yard, she saw another yard to the west, and there was a man's voice inside. Chu Qing held her breath and listened, and intermittently she heard someone reporting that a food delivery person was looking for a hut or something.

According to the schematic diagram Zhang Mingyu drew last night, that courtyard should be where the concubines of the Chief Soldier live, but the concubines of the Chief Soldier stayed in Beijing to serve their mother, and only his wife was with them. So the courtyard should be empty.

But now there is someone inside, probably Deputy Commander-in-Chief Cao Wang, who has moved in to keep an eye on Hong Liang and look for military talismans.

Because the soldiers around him were watching, Chu Qing couldn't check the yard, so he had to go back to the kitchen and followed Zhang Mingyu out of the general military mansion. When he left the mansion, he was searched again. Fortunately, the military talisman was stuffed in his hair.

Here, don’t turn over here.

After leaving the house without any danger, the two of them left quickly carrying the empty basket. It is estimated that these vegetables and scallion pancakes got into Cao Wang's stomach. Chu Qing thought about it as he returned to the park two streets away.

In the carriage, they drove the carriage in a big circle and entered the Jizhou Yamen.

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Chapter completed!