lady, please calm down

Chapter 359: The clouds and clouds are soothing, I am neither crazy nor stupid, just listen to the sound

"I have seen immortals come and go like the wind!"

"Bah~ I even sat on a flying iron bird. Have you ever seen me telling people about it everywhere?"

As long as the dispute is started, there is no need to talk about logic. The first priority is to overwhelm the other party.

But while Chen Chu and Chen Bokang were arguing, they were also secretly trying to figure out each other's identity.

From Chen Chu's point of view, Chen Bokang has the calm and confident demeanor of a scholar, but he is frivolous and talkative. This is very different from the officials Chen Chu has seen in the past, so this person should not be an official, but more like a arrogant person who relies on his talents and does not like to be restrained. Linquan hermit.

Chen Bokang also felt that there was a faint air of self-reflection in Chen Chu. Although this young man dressed up as a farmer, his neat and white teeth could not deceive anyone.

Good teeth represent a careful diet.

It is not easy to keep teeth clean. Farmers cannot afford the expensive green salt to clean teeth.

Chen Bokang guessed that the young man in front of him was most likely the son of a wealthy family in Huaibei.

As for what the two people just said, 'I am the envoy of the Huainan West Road Manager' and 'I am the King of Chu in Huaibei.', each of them just thought that the other was farting.

After feeling that he had guessed Chen Chu's identity, Chen Bokang turned slightly to the side, brought the big sword into the corner of his eye, and continued to say in the tone of an old scholar lecturing his juniors: "A flying iron bird? Hahaha, I said You young man, I advise you to be less quick-tongued when you are away from home! So as not to offend noble people you cannot afford to offend, just like the minister of Dali Temple, Mr. Wan Qi and Wan Qi~"

Chen Bokang paused deliberately, and sure enough, the cold-faced man suddenly stopped carving and looked up. Chen Bokang seemed unaware, and continued: "My relatives are in Luojiadian, Huoqiu County. If the young man offends others, he is not as easy to talk to as I am! Hahaha, let's go."

Chen Bokang came suddenly and walked quickly. He stood up, patted the dust on his butt and walked towards the main road.

Chen Chu, who was still sitting where he was, smiled and shouted at his back: "Old sir, are you leaving now? Since we are destined to meet each other, why don't you leave your name behind?"

Chen Bokang, who had walked a few steps, turned around, smiled sarcastically, and said seriously: "I, Lu Renjia, teach in Luzhou, how about you, little friend?"

"Hahaha" At this time, the old man was still hiding his head and tail. Chen Chu couldn't help but laugh and said: "It just so happens that my surname is also Lu. There is only one character difference between my name and my husband's name. I call him Lu Renyi."

You call me Passerby A and I call Passenger B. Is that fair?

Chen Bokang could certainly hear the hint inside, so he smiled, cupped his hands and said, "If there is a chance, we will see you again. Farewell."

"Good to go."

After Chen Bokang's figure disappeared from sight, Chen Chucai said to himself: "This old man is interesting."

When he turned around, he saw Dabaojian sitting on a tree stump in a daze. He couldn't help but joked: "Dabaojian, do you miss your wife?"

This 'daughter-in-law' is talking about Liu Lanzhi, who worked as a logistics manager at Luliuwei Farm Reclamation in Fuchang seven years ago. After Liu Lanzhi rescued Dabaojian under the big locust tree on the cross slope, she became one of the few people with Dabaojian. Can be considered a close person.

In recent years, not only have all the salaries and rewards obtained from the big sword been handed over to Liu Lanzhi for safekeeping, but this man with a cold aura all over his body has not been able to kiss Liu Lanzhi's only daughter, Daya!

Every time I take a vacation, I don't do anything. I spend all my time with Daya, pampering her to the extreme.

The black face that never smiled for ten thousand years would only occasionally show an ugly smile when he was with Da Ya.

Da Ya lost her father when she was young. After spending several years together, she became very dependent on Da Bao Sword and became like a family.

That's why Chen Chu joked that he missed his wife. Usually when Dabaojian heard such jokes, he would always hide his shyness with a colder expression, but this time, after being silent for a long time, he continued to carve a female doll puppet with his knife.

Chen Chu had long been accustomed to the word "Cherishing the Dabao Sword Like Gold", but at a casual glance, he saw that the Dabao Sword had cut his finger somehow, and the bright red blood stained the puppet's body. The Dabao Sword didn't notice it at all.

Chen Chu couldn't help but be surprised that a man in the army could not bear to mention minor injuries. What surprised him was that with the precise control of the blade of a big sword, he could still make such a low-level mistake as slicing his hand?

"The big sword, my skills are rusty."

Chen Chu said, Da Bao Jian didn't respond. After a long while, he suddenly said: "My boss, my baby girl's name is Zhu'er."

Pearl?

Name the puppet? When did Dabaojian have the romantic feelings of a little girl? Chen Chu couldn't help but look at Dabaojian twice. Although the latter's tone was still the same as before, Chen Chu could faintly hear an extremely restrained and reserved feeling of sadness. .

I have known Dabaojian for many years, but this taciturn man has always been secretive about his past and never mentioned a word.

Chen Chu pondered for a moment, patted Dabaojian's shoulder, and said: "Brother, if you have something on your mind, you might as well speak out."

The big sword rubbed the puppet in his hand with his fingertips. After a few breaths of silence, he said: "Master, I have nothing to do."

At this time, the caravan manager Cao came forward with a young man dressed as a farmer.

Chen Chu put aside the matter of the big sword for the time being. A young farmer was also a member of the spraying team. His name was Su Shengye. He was originally a farmer in Huainan. After the flood the year before last, natural disasters and the oppression of his big family, he had no way of living. Together with more than ten young men in the village, they swam to Caizhou by soaking in pig urine.

After being screened by Li Mulezi, he joined the army.

In the past, people from the north fled south, but in the past two years, the situation has reversed.

The Ningjiang Army in Huaibei takes in at least a hundred refugees fleeing from the north every month. But this number of refugees is only well-documented. The Huai River stretches for two thousand miles. It is unrealistic to build defenses along the river into an iron wall that no bird can pass.

Regardless of Qi Zhou, they could only send naval troops to occupy some ferries that could accommodate large ships. As for those wild crossing shallow bays, they could not defend them at all.

This has resulted in many smuggled refugees that cannot be officially counted.

Among them, careful work is indispensable.

Huaibei has the fine work of the Zhou State, and naturally there is the fine work of the Qi State in Huainan.

This is something that both parties know very well but have nothing to do about it. However, due to identity and household registration issues, these details have no access to the senior leaders of both parties and can only hang out in villages and towns.

But compared to Huainan, Xizuo's activities in Huaibei are very difficult.

Take Caizhou, which has basically completed grassroots reconstruction, as an example. There are workers' guards in the workshops and farmers' joint defense teams in the villages. If you don't do anything to cause damage, even if you approach the village and factory and ask a few words, you will be targeted. .

Without legal status, it is almost impossible to move.

In some market towns, a group of old men and women were organized, with their arms wrapped in sleeve bands, to guard the intersections where people come and go, or to wander around the streets and alleys, responsible for preventing people from littering and spitting. Trivial matters.

If anything suspicious happens, it will be reported to the government.

In the twelfth lunar month of last year, an old lady in Binhuai County, Caizhou discovered that a family bought far more food from the street every day than a normal family. She immediately reported the matter to the military, and the military commander took over the matter.

After several days of tracking, the thirteen spies and contacts of the Zhou Kingdom who were hiding in the household were captured in one fell swoop.

After interrogation, it was learned that the Machine Speed ​​Room of the Privy Council of the State of Zhou heard somewhere that the Huaibei Army had used a lethal weapon called the Sky Thunder Cannon on Hebei Road a few months ago, and sent a special agent to the north to find out more.

Binhuai is in the southeasternmost part of Caizhou, close to Huainan West Road of Zhou Dynasty. It is still more than a hundred miles away from Caizhou. Unexpectedly, just a few days after landing, it was surrounded by people.

When Chen Chu came to Huainan this time, there were also more than a dozen agents in the team, scattered among the spraying teams. They were responsible for memorizing information such as roads, checkpoints, and barracks, and at the same time, they were also responsible for encouraging people to flee north.

Nowadays, the labor force in Huaibei has become increasingly tight, especially in Shouzhou. After experiencing the chaos that year, You Shiguang and Dalang tried their best, but they still have not been able to develop the fertile land in the whole province.     There is no other reason than the lack of people.

But the activities of military commanders in Huainan are much more convenient. After years of intensive cultivation by Sihai Trading Company, there are countless businessmen and middle-level and lower-level officers in Huainan who rely on trading houses for their livelihood. These people naturally take great care of the people in the trading houses.

Last month, a businessman who was known to be an accountant but was actually a military commander was arrested by the government officials for acting suspiciously when he was operating in Huoqiu County. On the same day, Huoqiu smuggling tycoon Wang Yuanwai, who has now been cleared, led his people to the government office. .

Money should be used to make money, and suppression should be suppressed. In short, the accountant returned to the caravan in full form that night.

Afterwards, Mr. Wang also gave a gift of ten taels of silver to calm the accountant, hoping not to affect the good cooperation between the two parties.

Compared with the small amount of money spent on work, the [-] shares of Sihai Trading Company that Wang Yuanwai secretly held were the bulk. A small increase was the profit from the previous risk-taking smuggling trip.

Here, Su Shengye has already talked about the reason for coming here, "Lu Dayan of Lugezhuang defected to Huaibei two years ago, and sneaked back to his village in Huainan last year. Under his narration all day long, all the people in the village had a heart." Beitou! But there are many women and children among them, so we can’t float across the river the way we used to do with pig urine. If it’s feasible, can we send a boat to pick them up at night?”

After saying that, Su Shengye added in a low voice, "The whole village coming to vote is of great political significance to Huaibei."

In addition to the necessary combat skills training, military commanders also have local dialect training, intelligence analysis, ideological education and political situation analysis.

Sometimes, Chen Jingan would give a few classes at the Juntong Night School when he had free time. Su Shengye was already a top-achieving student, so he could grasp the key points at once.

It is not surprising that hundreds of people from Huainan fled to Huaibei, but it is of great significance for a whole village with their wives and children to come to Huaibei.

If Huaibei uses this propaganda, it can encourage more people along the river to go north. Moreover, it is of great symbolic significance that the people of Qi State fled south to Zhou State in the past. This represents the aspirations of the people and the orthodox status of Zhou State in the hearts of the Han people.

Now that people from Quenan are moving to Beitou, doesn't it mean that people's hearts are gradually turning to Qi State, or that people's hearts are turning to Huaibei?

This is definitely a psychological shock to the people of the world who still regard the Zhou Kingdom as orthodox.

Chen Chu thought for a while and made arrangements.

At the beginning of Shen Shi, Su Shengye accepted the order and left. Chen Chu turned around but the big sword was missing. When he looked up, he saw him standing alone on a hillock, looking south.

The sun was setting, the spring breeze was gentle, but there was an indescribable feeling of loneliness on the big sword.

Chen Chu watched for a while, then suddenly called the white-haired rat and whispered a few words in a low voice.

It's three quarters.

Chen Bokang rode a little donkey and continued towards Shouchun County. From time to time he recited a few poems praising spring, leisurely and contentedly.

Ever since he had just observed the suspected He Huanfeng at close range, he had looked like this.

Guard Ma Chao held it in for a while, but couldn't bear it anymore. He took two steps forward and asked in a low voice: "Sir, is that man just now He Huanfeng?"

"Ah?" Chen Bokang, who seemed to have put the matter behind him, was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said easily: "No, no, Ma Dalang, you admitted your mistake. I tested it several times and concluded that the person was not He Huanfeng. .”

"Well, I'm blind." Ma Chao replied, but at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief. A master who dared to assassinate the emperor and was able to escape from Lin'an City in the midst of heavy troops was quite oppressive.

But Tian Qinghou, who was leading the donkey, looked back at the teacher in surprise. He had not said a word the whole time, but he could stand by and observe everyone from a God's perspective.

The young man who brags and says that he is the King of Chu in Huaibei is nothing to be afraid of. He is probably a young man who has not been beaten by the world, but he is suspected of being He Huanfeng, but he should not be cleared of suspicion!

He saw with his own eyes that when the teacher talked about Dali Temple Qing Wan Qixi, the man's calm and calm carving dagger visibly paused, and he even pricked his finger without noticing.

According to Tian Qinghou's observation, not to mention that this person should not be cleared of suspicion, he is probably even He Huanfeng.

After all, Huaidong Lulin and his family were hunted down by Wan Qixi himself with his sergeants, and He Huanfeng had a mortal enemy with him!

Tian Qinghou didn't believe that the teacher couldn't tell.

While he was looking at him with confusion, Chen Bokang suddenly stroked his beard and sighed, looked at the clouds on the horizon, smiled and recited half of a poem, "The clouds roll in and the clouds relax into my eyes. I am neither crazy nor stupid, listening quietly to the music."

"Sir, what a poem, why is it only half a poem?" Ma Chao complimented.

"I only think about Half Que. Hahaha."

Chen Bokang smiled heartily, but Tian Qinghou suddenly tasted something. "Look into the eyes and listen quietly to the sound." How could the teacher's poem mean to pretend to be deaf and stupid, waiting to watch the show?

The fourth day of March is the end of Zishi.

Moonlight high

The big sword quietly left the village and headed towards Luo's store according to the direction he found out in the evening.

A person who practices martial arts can travel more than twenty miles quickly and can reach it in less than half an hour.

Standing in a sparse forest outside Luojiadian Village, Da Baojian frowned slightly.

Luojiadian Village is quite large. As you climb up, you can see the vast deep house in the middle. If nothing else happens, it should be the home of Luo Jinyi, the father-in-law of Wanqixi Village.

But what surprised him was that there was a military camp two miles away. Judging from its size, there was at least one battalion of soldiers stationed there.

It is not easy to find Naluo Jinyi's residence in the deep courtyard of the house, and the military camp is so close. Once the servants and guards are alerted after entering the house, the soldiers in the camp will be there in a moment.

It's a bit more difficult to break in alone.

While hesitating, Da Bao Jian suddenly felt alarmed in his heart and turned his head slightly to glance sideways.

A dozen feet away, the white-haired rat with the best footwork and lightness among the Huai Army was clinging to the tree trunk.

After following him all the way, he saw the big sword turning back in the faint light of the sky, and hurriedly hid his figure behind the tree.

After a few breaths, he carefully poked his head out to observe. However, he saw that the place where the big sword was standing was empty. The white-haired mouse remembered his master's instructions and couldn't help but get anxious and wanted to get out.

The next moment, he felt a chill on his neck, and the white-haired mouse's scalp instantly became numb. Even if he didn't dare to turn around, he knew who had the ability to touch behind him quietly.

"Mr. Big, don't do anything! I am the white-haired rat, Lao Bai! The prince's scouts are on duty!"

The white-haired rat hurriedly whispered.

He and Da Baojian are not close, it's not that they don't want to get close, it's just that the big gentleman is too difficult to get close to, like a piece of ice that cannot be melted.

In the entire Huaibei, except for his boss and his eldest son, Wu Kui and other old brothers, Mr. Da didn't talk to others much.

So he quickly moved out of his identity as 'Prince's Ying Zheng', because he felt that even the identity of the white-haired rat was not enough to make Da Bao Jian put away his murderous intention.

As he guessed, although the big sword did not kill him on the spot, it did not remove the sharp blade from the white-haired rat's neck. He only asked calmly, "Why are you following me?"

The white-haired rat carefully adjusted his breathing to avoid making any slight movements that would provoke the big sword, "My boss asked me to follow you!"

After saying this, he quickly added: "My boss saw that you were not in a good mood today and was worried about something unexpected, so he gave me a few special instructions."

"What else does the boss say?"

"Mr. Big, can you remove the knife first?"

The white-haired rat raised its hands and froze for a moment. The cold blade left its neck. The white-haired rat let out a long breath and returned its soul.

Turning around, Dabaojian's face was as dark as water, his eyes were deep, and he quietly waited for the white-haired rat's explanation.

However, the white-haired rat glanced at the Luo Family Store under the night through the sparse forest, clasped his fists and saluted, and whispered: "Mr. Da, my boss told me in the daytime. Back then, when my boss was in trouble, it was Mr. Da who accompanied him. He made a big deal of genocide. Therefore, his boss repeatedly told him that if Mr. Da encounters difficulties, don’t be afraid of injuring his brothers.

This is what my boss actually said, if the big sword dares to pierce the sky of Qi with me, I will not be afraid to pierce the sky of Zhou again for him."

(End of this chapter)