Here, Xiao Feng and Li Yanfeng quickly found the trace of Peng Lin and the salary.
Li Yanfeng first sent a message to his father, Li Wei, the governor of Liangzhou, who was at the front line, and then recalled Chang Jian, who was still searching in the area from Feiyingkou to Mangshan. He gave Xiao Feng a day to rest, and set off early in the morning of the third day with his men transporting pay and food.
Li Yanfeng temporarily left Xia Feng in Gu'a Town, giving him time to recuperate and make arrangements.
Before Xiao Feng led his men to leave, he discussed and made arrangements with everyone regarding specific matters in the village.
Before Wan Jinlan returned, Wei Xian was fully responsible for the military training and construction of the back mountain in the village, assisted by Wang Shu. Internal affairs and expenses were managed by Xia Feng's mother, Song. Yu Liang was responsible for continuing to recruit refugees, and Li Fugui was responsible for continuing to treat them.
Xia Feng's mother, Song, was born into a noble family. Although she was a little weak in character, her vision and means were incomparable to other women and children.
Before Wan Jinlan left, the village already had its own system of operation, and Xiao Feng made detailed arrangements, so nothing would go wrong within a month or two.
As for the nephew Xiao Feng mentioned, it was Fan Jing's elder brother Fan Rui. Of course, he later changed his name to Song Rui.
Li Yanfeng was arrogant. Although he sent people to the mountain stronghold to investigate the situation there, he never thought that the weakness that Xiao Feng offered on his own initiative was a deception. He even thought that Xiao Feng sent his nephew to him just to find a future for his nephew.
The village was a mixed crowd with refugees coming in waves. Fan Jing followed Wan Jinlan on a daily basis, and many people knew her, but only a few knew Song Rui.
Song Rui will follow Xia Feng in the future, and Xia Feng will naturally take good care of him, and will not neglect his teaching or martial arts training.
Xiao Feng sought the opinions of the brother and sister, and Song Rui was willing.
The half-grown children who had lost their parents were not fools. The fact that Xiao Feng and Wan Jinlan could occupy the bandit's lair proved that they were capable people. They took in the refugees, treated their illnesses, and gave them a place to stay. Even if it was for the sake of reward, Song Rui had no choice but to agree.
Six days later, Xiao Feng, his brothers in the village, and Li Bocheng's subordinate Chang Jian and other soldiers delivered the pay to Yongcheng.
Li Yanfeng blamed the death of Lieutenant Gao on Peng Lin and his gang of bandits. After the pay was found, when Chang Jian arrived, Peng Lin had already died of his injuries.
Yongcheng is the northernmost border town of Chiwu County and the closest city to the barbarians in the north.
In the south, the weather has started to warm up in this season, but in Yongcheng, the cold wind is still biting.
Because some refugees were employed as barbers and entered the army, causing the soldiers to catch a cold, the governor ordered the checkpoints leading to Liangzhou to be blocked, forbidding refugees from entering Liangzhou.
But even if the blockade was carried out, it was too late. The army treated the soldiers with symptoms in a centralized lockdown, only providing them with food and ignoring anything else. Although the precautions seemed to be extremely strict, the cold was still spreading rapidly.
Therefore, the garrison troops scattered in various counties and towns were all summoned to the front line.
Li Yanfeng did not expect the cold at the front line to be so severe, and immediately recommended Doctor Liu, who had traveled with the convoy, to his father Li Wei.
Xiao Feng and the other men who had been "recruited" to serve as barbers were not qualified to face Li Wei directly. Hidden in the crowd, he watched Li Wei, dressed in military uniform, ride his horse from outside the camp to approach.
As the governor of a state, Li Wei was the highest official in the border area. He held both military and political power. He was very majestic, strong and sturdy, and his every move exuded a spirit of bravery.
Li Wei went to Beijing to report on his work three years ago, but he did not meet Xiao Feng.
Xiao Feng's face was disguised; anyone who saw him would now mistake him for a dark-faced man in his thirties, a far cry from his former elegant and imposing demeanor. Even his former aristocratic air had been deliberately restrained. Liangzhou and Kyoto were over a thousand miles apart, so he wasn't worried about anyone recognizing him.
Xiao Feng did not look directly at Li Wei. After all, people who had been in high positions for a long time and had profound martial arts skills would be particularly sensitive to gazes.
At Li Yanfeng's recommendation, Doctor Liu entered the tent and shared his experience in curing colds.
In Li Yanfeng's words, Doctor Liu was a local doctor who was abducted by horse bandits and taken to the mountains. He had some skills in treating colds.
Li Wei's eyes were as fast as lightning, and just one glance made Doctor Liu's calves tremble, but he forced himself to hold on and finally finished his words steadily.
No matter how good the words are, they are not as good as real results. After listening to it, Li Wei asked Doctor Liu and the military doctors to take action.
However, within seven days, the epidemic stabilized. The number of soldiers dying from colds every day decreased significantly, and the number of people infected dropped sharply.
With the experience of treating colds among refugees in the mountain village, Li Fugui and Liu Langzhong developed a complete set of methods to combat colds, including prevention, treatment of mild and severe cases, and disposal of corpses.
The war between the two sides has been stalemate for one and a half months. Due to the sudden cold snap in Liangzhou, the Liangzhou army has suffered a lot recently.
The Helan and Basha tribes north of Liangzhou and the Beirong tribe north of Bingzhou and Youzhou were separated by the Gula Mountains, but they were all nomadic peoples of the grassland and their habits were almost identical.
They fought, robbed, and fled. Their physiques were inherently strong, accustomed to the cold winters, and their experience surviving on the grasslands was several times greater than that of the Liangzhou army. Li Wei intended to use the cold to severely injure these barbarians, but he found that the disease did not spread as quickly as it did within the Liangzhou army. Moreover, if they penetrated deep into the grasslands, they could easily lose track of these barbarians.
Li Wei was angry at the Helan and Basha tribes for their inconsistency and taking advantage of the situation. After the epidemic was under control, he wanted to teach these two tribes a bloody lesson.
In order to stabilize Liangzhou, the imperial court provided sufficient food and money, so the Liangzhou army had no worries.
Li Wei submitted a letter of apology regarding the fact that the Third Prince's military pay was robbed by bandits and that he nearly lost his life in Liangzhou. He also said that there was an epidemic in Liangzhou and that the soldiers on the frontline had suffered heavy casualties, and the situation was not optimistic.
Li Wei knew the current situation in the court. With Prince Su in the lead, he would at most be condemned, and the emperor would not easily touch him.
When Li Wei's letter of apology reached the court, Xiao Minghuan and the remnants of the imperial guards had not yet returned to the capital, but he had already written a memorial that exaggerated what he had suffered in Liangzhou and sent it back to the capital at full speed.
He knew how much face he had lost this time, so he naturally wanted to find ways to reduce the damage caused by this incident.
Wu Dangjia would rather send out the military pay than let him go into the mountain to investigate. In addition, based on what the dying man he met on the way to escape said, and the fact that the magistrate of Qingyuan County was so rebellious as to command the county soldiers to attack the imperial army, Xiao Minghuan firmly believed that there was an iron mine in Mang Mountain.
In the memorial, he naturally revealed the matter of the Mangshan Iron Mine, and hinted that the Governor of Liangzhou had rebellious intentions.
In this case, why would his father and the court officials still dwell on this little bit of his embarrassment?
Wan Jinlan and Yu Song rode at full speed all the way, sleeping in the open air, and arrived at Wei County, less than a hundred miles away from Kyoto.
The Wan family's ancestral home is in Wei County, and her father's coffin will be buried here if nothing unexpected happens.
The closer they got to the cemetery, the more difficult it was for Wan Jinlan to control his depressed mood.
She still had some sense left in her, and she hid in the dark and carefully investigated for two days. However, after seeing the person hiding in the dark not far from the cemetery, her heart sank.
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