Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 366 Linyuan City Seeks Help

Song Chunlin asked Fang Chen to recommend several varieties to Cheng Qiao that have few diseases and pests, are easy to care for and have high yields. Cheng Qiao said he would try planting one acre of land first.

"This thing has always been delicate in my impression. I'm afraid if I plant too much at one time, I won't be able to take good care of it. People don't have that much time to take care of it on weekdays."

Song Chunlin expressed his understanding, and then secretly watered the newly transplanted seedlings with spiritual spring water to ensure their survival rate.

After being busy for several days in a row, Liang Bin had been looking for an opportunity to get close to Song Chunlin. However, Song Chunlin ran faster than a rabbit. He was still in the vineyard in the morning, returned to Bai Ta City at noon, and slipped into the military camp at night. Liang Bin had never caught up with him. He thought to himself that this young master Song might have been a thousand-mile horse in his previous life to be able to run so fast.

Of course Song Chunlin knew that Liang Bin came to him just to ask him to say a few good words for him in front of Gu Fengyue. He was not stupid. Mrs. Liang had been making up stories about him outside. Mrs. Lu had learned to restrain herself recently and had not gone out much during this period. I wonder if she was embarrassed to go out because her lies were exposed.

After returning home, the ladies who had attended the flower-viewing banquet often told others about the joke that Madam Liang had made. On the surface, these people were laughing at Madam Liang, but secretly they were saying that Miss Lu's behavior of offering herself to be his wife was vile. Families with daughters and sons also used Miss Lu's behavior as a negative example, and those daughters of officials who were close to Miss Lu were ordered by their families not to get too close to her, for fear that she would lead their children astray.

Miss Lu has been staying at home recently, so she doesn't know about the rumors outside. Mrs. Lu doesn't dare let her know these words. She knows her daughter's temper very well. If she hears a word of this, she will probably make a big fuss.

She kept it a secret from her daughter, but Lord Lu couldn't stop it. On the second day after the flower-viewing banquet, Mrs. Liang's words had spread throughout the officials of Bai Ta City. Every colleague Lord Lu met would give him an intriguing smile, and some even congratulated Lord Lu in a sarcastic manner.

Lord Lu was puzzled: "Where does the joy come from?"

The other party didn't answer, and Lord Lu suddenly felt a chill on his back and had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, when he pulled over a colleague who was on good terms with him, he learned from the colleague about the ridiculous scene at the flower-viewing banquet.

That colleague also tried to persuade Lord Lu earnestly: "You and I have worked together for many years. Listen to what I said, it is not easy to climb high branches. Look at that young master Song. He has not even married yet, but he can use the name of Gu Sima to give you a blow. What does this mean? It means that he did all this with the tacit approval of Gu Sima! You are so confused. Hurry up and discuss with your wife how to apologize to him."

Lord Lu was so angry that his face turned blue. He even forgot about his official duties and hurried back to the mansion from the yamen. As soon as he entered the house, he called Mrs. Lu to the study. The couple quarreled in the study with the door closed for nearly two hours. In the end, they both got angry with each other and only maintained superficial peace in front of Miss Lu.

Like Liang Bin, Lord Lu has also been looking for an opportunity to meet Gu Fengyue recently. However, Gu Fengyue deliberately avoided him, so Lord Lu always came up empty-handed.

On this day, Song Chunlin had just stepped into Bai Ta City. After scanning the area with his mental power, he discovered that Lord Liang was guarding the government office and Lord Lu was guarding the door of his home. Neither place was safe, so he turned around and changed direction, heading straight for the military camp to find Gu Fengyue.

When the two men came back under the moonlight, the other two had gone home to sleep early and did not stay with them stubbornly.

"Will they not come to block us for the next two days?"

Gu Fengyue was not sure: "No way, how are your arrangements going? When will you leave?"

Speaking of parting, both of them were not in a good mood. Song Chunlin counted on his fingers gloomily and replied: "Three days... four days later, um, or I can go back later, just in time for the spring plowing to be over, and I can find an excuse to stay in the barracks. Hehe, my father won't be able to beat me."

Gu Fengyue touched his head helplessly: "Well, you must not beat him silly."

Song Chunlin was not convinced, so he hit him hard on the chest and then went back to his room angrily.

In the following time, Song Chunlin dealt with all the things in advance, including the crops to be planted in the fields, the expansion of the vineyards, the winery that had been dug before, and many large wooden barrels that had been placed in the wine cellar, waiting for the Fang brothers to brew the wine. Song Chunlin also put a few barrels of wine brewed by the two brothers last year into the space, intending to give them to his family to taste.

In addition to wine, Fang Siyi prepared many local specialties for Song Chunlin as usual, such as cotton cloth woven by themselves and dried dates. The date tree was planted by Song Chunlin in the past and planted in the yard. It produces a lot of dates every year. Last year was a bumper harvest. They couldn't finish eating them, so they dried them and stored them in the warehouse. This time they took them all out for Song Chunlin to take away.

Fang Siyi seemed to have vaguely sensed that Song Chunlin was unusual, so he put all his effort into preparing various things for Song Chunlin, and didn't care whether the carriage could accommodate them or not.

During this period, Luo Shaokun, who was kicked out of his home, wanted to return to his home countless times and threatened to take back the shop and land. But this time, Fang Siyi directly asked Gu Fengyue to send someone to take over his shop and house, and the land was also handed over to Gu Jiajun to cultivate. At the end of the year when the harvest came, he could just give him some food as a token of his appreciation. Anyway, he was not short of food.

But Luo Shaokun's life was not so good. He could not go home, he could not get his shop back, and his land did not belong to him anymore. He soon squandered most of the little money he had. Scared, Luo Amuo immediately held the remaining silver tightly in her hand and refused to let go no matter what Luo Shaokun said. She only paid for the daily expenses.

Fortunately, the Luo family still has an old house, which can be lived in if Luo Amao cleans it up. Luo Shaokun doesn't want to live there, but he has no money, so he can only live in the old house in frustration. He curses and swears at the sky every day, which annoys the neighbors around him.

As for Lan'er and Luo Yao, mother and son, Luo Amao was not so cruel. After all, Luo Yao was always his grandson. He had often asked people privately about the news about the mother and son. But there had been no news from the two of them, and no one knew where they had gone. Thinking that Lan'er still had the other half of the money in her hands, Luo Amao couldn't help but feel fortunate. Lan'er was Luo Yao's biological mother, and she would never treat her own son badly. As long as the mother and son had money in their hands, they would not be afraid of starving to death. As long as they didn't squander it like Luo Shaokun, it would be enough for Lan'er to raise Luo Yao.

In fact, Lan'er did as Luo Amuo thought. She moved to the other side of Bai Ta City with her son. The people living here were mainly military households. Given Luo Shaokun's arrogance in the past, he would never set foot in such a place. It was because of this that Lan'er decided to bring her child to live here temporarily.

The most important thing is that the houses here are very cheap. The mother and son rented a small courtyard that looked relatively clean. The annual rent was only two taels of silver, which was very cost-effective. Lan'er also took on some sewing jobs for others, and when there was no work, she made some embroidered handkerchiefs. At the end of the month, it was just enough to cover the food expenses of the mother and son, and they could make ends meet.

Luo Shaokun also wanted to go and cause trouble for Fang Siyi or Lan'er, but he couldn't afford to offend Fang Siyi now, and he couldn't find Lan'er, so he could only stay at home in frustration and rage. Looking at her increasingly decadent son, Luo Amuo cried all day long, regretting all day long why she had agreed to her son's attempt to seize the Fang family's property. Now, retribution has come.

Song Chunlin spent the last three days collecting the things, and when others asked about it, he said that he had arranged for someone to transport them back first. Gu Fengyue set aside the last day, intending to have a good reunion with Song Chunlin, just like last time.

Early in the morning on the last day, Gu Fengyue wanted to send Song Chunlin outside before leaving, just like last time. Song Chunlin's feeling of parting was not as strong this time, probably because he felt that the round trip was not that far away, so before leaving this time, what Song Chunlin thought about most was not Gu Fengyue, but: when will the proposal to repair the road be proposed? If the road is repaired, wouldn't he be able to go back and forth faster?

Song Chunlin had just returned the horse to the carriage and livery shop and had not walked far when he saw a horse carrying a person running past him quickly. The dust it raised splashed on his face. He spat a few times on the spot, and when he wanted to curse, he found that the horse had already galloped away, leaving him only able to stand there in frustration and rage.

"You'd better not let me catch you, otherwise I will definitely throw dust in your face! Bah bah bah~~"

The people around laughed at him: "You are so funny, you even threw dust in his face. You are running so fast, I am afraid you will tire your horse to death and still not be able to catch up."

Song Chunlin was puzzled: "Why?"

"Why? Because the horse he rides is better than all the horses here combined. Its speed and endurance are so great. If I could own such a magical horse, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."

Is it so powerful?

Song Chunlin looked in the direction where the man left. At this time, the horse had completely disappeared at the end of the road. In terms of speed, it seemed that he really could not catch up. Perhaps, he could ride a bike.

Song Chunlin didn't hesitate for long, he started to walk out of the city. He had walked this road many times, until he found a place that was most suitable for riding a motorcycle. He trotted all the way there, and finally when there was no one around, he quickly took out his motorcycle, and then the roar of the motorcycle resounded throughout the road, and he whizzed towards the front.

On the other side, the horse carrying the people on it headed straight for the military camp with a clear goal. Gu Fengyue had just seen Song Chunlin off and had not had time to extricate himself from the melancholy of parting when he heard one of his men come to report that Linyuan City had sent people to ask for help.

When Gu Fengyue heard the words "Linyuan City", he immediately stood up and asked his subordinates in disbelief: "Linyuan City? Are you sure you heard it right? Are people from Linyuan City really coming here to ask for help?"

"I heard it right. This is the blood letter in the man's arms. He came with a child. The child seemed frightened. No matter how I asked him, he would not speak. He also did not allow anyone to approach. I am incompetent. I can only ask the Grand Marshal to go to the gate of the military camp and take a look."

There is actually another child?

A bad idea came to Gu Fengyue's mind, so he took two steps at a time and came to the gate of the military camp as fast as he could. When he arrived at the gate, he saw that the young child sitting on the ground was actually King Linyuan's youngest child, whom Gu Fengyue had held in his arms.

The child seemed to recognize Gu Fengyue. He stared at Gu Fengyue blankly, blinked, tears as big as beans fell, and then he burst into tears.

Gu Fengyue hurriedly walked over and picked up the child. The child actually remembered Gu Fengyue and was not averse to Gu Fengyue's contact. He obediently lay in his arms and cried loudly.

The man lying on the ground seemed to be breathing out more than breathing in. He was wrapped in a thick layer of cloth, which should have been cut from his cloak. The military doctors came over to check his wounds. The deep scars that could be seen to the bone made everyone's heart skip a beat, and the military doctors also shook their heads.

"Great Sima, this man has lost too much blood. Even if we use the best medicine, I'm afraid it will be difficult to save his life."

"Unless there is that thing Young Master Song once gave me, ah, the life-extending medicine."

Life-extending medicine? Space spiritual spring water!

"You guys, go to my room and get the white porcelain bottle on the table."

Everyone didn't understand what was going on, but they still did as they were told. Soon the white porcelain bottle was brought over, and Gu Fengyue signaled the military doctor to feed the man.

The military doctor looked at the huge white porcelain bottle, his eyes lit up, and he quickly asked someone to bring something to pour the medicine into, and fed the man a big gulp of life-saving medicine.

I don’t know if it was everyone’s illusion, but after feeding the so-called life-saving potion, the man’s breathing actually became much steadier. The military doctor was overjoyed and quickly asked someone to carry him to the back to continue treating him. He himself followed with the white porcelain bottle, fearing that Gu Fengyue would ask him to go back.

Gu Fengyue had no time to take care of all these at the moment. He held the child in his arms while carefully looking at the blood letter in his hand. The blood letter consisted of only a few sentences, and only the first few sentences were asking for help, while the rest were all entrusting the child to others. I'm afraid King Linyuan himself knew that they could not hold on any longer.

Gu Fengyue's fingers holding the paper gradually turned white, and the people around him saw for the first time a panicked expression on Gu Fengyue's face.

"Da Sima, what's the matter? Are we leaving now?"

It took Gu Fengyue a long time to find his voice again: "Yes, hurry up, Linyuan City is under siege, let's gather everyone back and don't worry about the things on the ground for now. We will set out immediately in an hour to rescue Linyuan City."

After Gu Fengyue finished giving the instructions, the little boy in his arms stopped crying, but he made uncomfortable groaning sounds. Gu Fengyue then realized that he seemed to have used too much force and the little boy was hurt by him.

"I'm sorry, I hurt you. Okay, stop crying. I'm going to hand you over to an aunt first. Can you promise me to be good and stop crying?"