Wang Dani finally managed to persuade Huo Xiaolong to let her talk to the other side at the front lines first, just in case fewer people died. The girl in red armor, standing at the back of the crowd, watched the dark-skinned girl in armor negotiating with the other side, nodding occasionally.
It has to be Da Ni'er, she speaks so well in the grassland dialect, look at her, she's getting all worked up.
Da Ni'er said something and shouted a few times. Then she drew her scimitar from her waist, tugged at the reins, spurred her horse forward, grabbed the enemy's clothes, and slashed the scimitar straight across his throat.
Huo Xiaolong sighed, rolled his eyes upwards, and waved the red flag down.
Speechless as they were, the war couldn't be neglected. Seeing that the Central Plains people lacked martial ethics and had killed their leaders, the Xiongnu also charged forward with their swords drawn.
"No, where's your second brother?"
After returning from the battle, Huo Xiaolong and Wang Dani sat in the commander's tent. The girl in red armor spoke first.
“My fourth brother is dead, and my second brother went back to the Imperial Court. He probably won’t be back for a while,” Wang Dani’er replied.
"So, you've been chatting all day, why are you actually doing this?" Huo Xiaolong continued to ask.
"Oh my, don't even mention that bastard. His sister was my second brother's third concubine. Back then, my dad gave my mother the best things every day, and she was so jealous."
"After my mother ran away, she instigated my second brother to badmouth my father."
"And then?" Huo Xiaolong asked.
"And then my mom picked me up," Da Ni'er said, taking a sip of water.
"I originally wanted to have a good talk with him. War is a matter of life and death, but do you know what that bastard said?"
"What did you say?"
"He called me a little bastard and even insulted my parents. Shouldn't I kill him?"
The girl in red nodded. There was no other way now. The best person in the army who spoke the grassland dialect was Da Ni'er. Even if someone else went, they might not be able to understand her.
"Then don't be like that next time. It's not good. We went there with the intention of negotiating, hoping to minimize casualties and get their leaders to surrender directly."
Da Ni'er nodded and patted her chest to Huo Xiaolong assuring him.
"Don't worry, I guarantee there won't be any problems. I'll help you close the deal with the next high-low sister."
After saying that, the dark-skinned girl took out a jade pendant from her bosom, put it around her neck, patted her chest, and said to Huo Xiaolong...
"Do you know the Fifth Princess of the Grasslands?"
"Did you grab that 'wanleng' from your brother's neck?" Huo Xiaolong asked, frowning.
“Yeah, I took it off when they chopped his head off that day. I had one before, but my dad took it away,” Wang Dani’er replied.
Watching the dark-skinned girl walk out of the command tent with ease and joy, Huo Xiaolong felt a pang of heartache. "Sun Zixi, come quick, help!"
When two countries are at war, envoys are not to be killed.
My envoy killed the enemy envoy outright and even flaunted the enemy prince's belongings in front of them.
Who's going to talk to you? What are you going to talk to?
Is it really that stupid of me to take two cents a pound from a middle school girl?
"Should we still let Da Ni'er go and negotiate?" Jiang Tianxin walked in and asked Huo Xiaolong, who was sitting at the desk with a blank look in his eyes.
"Why don't you go and have her translate?"
Jiang Tianxin shook her head faster than anything else. The girl realized that this group of people were addicted to killing Xiongnu. Now, the soldiers under Huo's father and son were looking forward to Wang Dani'er going to negotiate every day.
"This battle was truly exhilarating."
"Absolutely right, it's even more enjoyable than when our marshal leads the troops."
"That little girl, she spoke the grassland language so well, and she got into an argument with someone right away. She grabbed the person and slit their throat, and then she did it."
"What are you saying? Women from our border town are just fierce."
"Is this why everyone in your border town is henpecked?"
A broken accent suddenly emerged from a group of people speaking in the local dialect.
"You can't even speak properly, yet you're telling us henpecked husbands what to do?"
"You'd better practice your Mandarin; we have to listen to what you're saying."
"That's right, do you even know what proper Mandarin is? Look at us, you have to learn it for us."
"What should I study?" the person with the broken accent continued.
What are you looking at!
"This thing needs to be tilted upwards."
He learned the way from the soldiers next to him with a bad accent.
What are you looking at?
"What! No way!"
"What!"
"Hey! Right! Look at the standard for taking away, that's how we'll say it from now on, okay?"
"Yeah."
—Sharp sword, seeing this letter is like seeing the person. Use every means to bring the Sun siblings over, as soon as possible.
Huo Panli took the carrier pigeon, glanced at the words in the bamboo tube, nodded, and began to prepare.
Xiao Lanyi was pulled by Fan Er to the entrance of the military camp, where he was stunned by the rows of carts loaded with refined flour, rice, and fat pigs. More importantly, there was also hot pot broth, all sealed in airtight containers.
There were also vegetables and fruits on top, including a whole truckload of frozen pears, which should be the last batch this winter.
"Boss, when will we get this kind of food?"
"First, you have to be sold once when you are four years old. Second, you have to have two mothers who are extremely good at making money, and a group of sisters who are extremely good at accounting."
"That's probably not going to work."
Xiao Lanyi raised his hand and smacked him on the head, saying...
"You're already in trouble, why are you asking me?"
"It's only because my sister-in-law is leading the troops that I've seen anyone else. In all the years I've fought, I've never seen a single soldier's rations have frozen pears. When do they ever run out of fruit, they have to go to the nearby villages to buy some?"
Fan Er pointed to the very end of the carriage road.
"Look, there are still some unripe winter melons."
"Why bring us unripe ones?" Xiao Lanyi asked.
"It will be ripe when it arrives."
The scout was somewhat envious. Even someone as high-ranking as him would sometimes have to eat a few bites of spoiled vegetables, because these things were hard to preserve, especially in the border town, where many vegetables would freeze in winter.
The vegetables were covered with several layers of cotton blankets, with only a small opening for ventilation, to prevent them from rotting.
These vegetables weren't prepared by the ladies of Fengyuelou; they were spontaneously delivered to Fengyuelou by villagers near Pingyang County. Everyone has children in Miss Huo's army, and they hoped their own children could benefit from them.
He Yi had someone settle the bill. You can come and deliver the goods. As long as the items are good, I'll take as many as you want.
As a result, the villagers refused to accept the money no matter what they did. It was only after the new maid in the building chased them all the way to the city gate that she managed to stuff the money into the villager's donkey cart.
"Honey, have the groceries been delivered?"
“It was delivered, but the owner of the brothel still insists on paying me.”
“No, we don’t want that. Our little grass is in there too. Besides, the child earns fifteen taels a month and gives seven taels to the family. We’re not short of money now.”
"Don't worry, I know."
When the woman was moving things, she saw a purse in the corner of the donkey cart, opened it to check, and saw that it was full of copper coins. She knew that the brothel had paid for it.
It's alright, we've already given it this time. Next time we'll pack more vegetables for her. Her little grass loves the first batch of bok choy in spring, so we'll grow more and send it to her then.
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