Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 256 Shortcuts
"Cough, puff!"

"Cough cough, poof, cough cough!"

Suddenly, two coughs came from the quiet valley.

Guo Cheng, who was digging a hole, stopped sobbing and looked back at the big rock, and immediately jumped up.

"Mom! What's wrong with you?"

Zhu Changyuan looked at the scene in front of him, smiled, and gradually calmed down with a hanging heart in his stomach.

The old woman sat up tremblingly from the stone, saw Guo Cheng and said, "My son, I'm thirsty, bring me some water to drink!"

"Hey, hey!" Tears flowed down Guo Cheng's eyes, he touched his old lady's hand, and asked, "Mother, haven't you been poisoned, why do you look better now?"

"I don't know, maybe it's not time to die yet?" The old woman urged, "Go quickly and get me some water."

Zhu Changyuan asked his subordinates to bring a cup of hot boiled water, and said: "Old man, I have boiled water here, you can drink it!"

The old woman looked up at Zhu Changyuan, and asked, "My son, who is this?"

Guo Cheng finally came to his senses, looked at Zhu Changyuan for a long time, and asked, "Who are you? It was your acupuncture that saved my mother just now?"

Zhu Changyuan nodded.

"Thank you, my lord!" Guo Cheng knelt down and kowtowed, his head touched the ground, and there was a bang bang.

"Get up, this general is just doing it conveniently!"

The old woman also wanted to kneel down, Zhu Changyuan hurriedly stopped her and said, "You don't have to, old man. I am your son's friend. When I see your old man in trouble, I naturally have to save her."

friend?

Guo Cheng looked at Zhu Changyuan suspiciously.

Zhu Changyuan asked with a smile: "So, the ten taels of silver that Zhang Xianzhong gave you will be useless?"

Guo Cheng smiled honestly and said, "It's no longer needed, it's no longer needed, wait a minute, I'll go and return it to him."

"Give it to me, and I'll help you return it to him!" Zhu Changyuan took the ten taels of silver from Guo Cheng's hand, looked at him again, and said, "Your mother and son live in such a poor life in this mountain, and you have to beware of snakes all the time." Insect plague, how about going out with me as a soldier, and gaining fame with your power, how about it?"

"This, this?" Guo Cheng looked at his old mother, and didn't dare to agree rashly. As the saying goes, his parents are not far away, so he really couldn't bear to leave his old mother alone in the mountains.

"You are?" Guo Cheng's old mother didn't think so, who wouldn't want their son to earn a job in the future?
"Old man, I am an officer and soldier, a general of the imperial court, and a garrison of Xiangyang City." After speaking to Guo Cheng, he said, "The guy you let go before is called Zhang Xianzhong, and he is a traitor. You have good talent and are good at fighting, why don't you go outside with me to fight for your future!"

There was a flash of hope in Guo Cheng's eyes for a moment, but unfortunately, after seeing the old mother, he hesitated again.

"My son, you go and follow the general. I can take care of myself here. Anyway, your mother and I have picked up this life." Although Guo Cheng's mother was reluctant, she still hoped that her son would have a happy life in the future. good future.

"No!" Guo Cheng pondered for a long time, but finally couldn't let go of his old lady, and rejected Zhu Changyuan's invitation with guilt on his face.

"Hahaha!" Zhu Changyuan laughed and said, "This matter is easy to settle. If I take your mother to Xiangyang, are you willing to follow me?"

"Ah? Really?" Guo Cheng suddenly became excited.

"Of course it's true." A horse was specially exchanged from the system for Guo Cheng, and he said, "Let's go." Then he asked the old woman, "Old man, do you just take a horse-drawn carriage?"

Unexpectedly, the old woman waved her hand and said, "I can also ride a horse!"

Good guy.

Sure enough, the tiger father has no dogs, no, no, it should be said that the tiger mother has no dogs.

Zhu Changyuan exchanged another horse for the old woman to ride alone. Unexpectedly, she walked like flying on the horse, without any disharmony.

"General!" Guo Cheng looked ashamed, with tears in his eyes, and said, "General, I'm afraid I don't know. My mother usually climbs mountains and wades like walking on flat ground. I am born dull, and when I arrive, I will still be ignorant like a child, and I will eat a lot. It’s also thanks to my mother’s ability, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to support a disappointing child like me.”

"What a good mother!" Zhu Changyuan praised, thinking: Is there any mother in the world who is not a good mother?

After traveling more than ten miles, Zhang Xianzhong disappeared without a trace.

But Zhu Changyuan is not worried, and the secret path can never escape from my palm.

At noon, everyone was asked to find an open space to stop. Since it was the first day of the new year, all the soldiers had a meal of dumplings as usual, and a special plate of guns was set off. After the staple food, there were fruits, which can be described as extremely rich.

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Zhu Changyuan led the troops to celebrate the new year happily, but Zhang Xianzhong was in a miserable situation.

Nowhere to go, no roads to go, nothing to eat.

"Damn it, I don't believe it anymore. There is not even a single house in such a big mountain nest. Is this going to starve me, Zhang Xianzhong?"

Zhang Xianzhong's chest was pressed against his back, and he wanted to die.

"Marshal, look." A school captain pointed to the fuzzy smoke in the distance, and said, "There seems to be someone over there, let's go and have a look."

"Huh? It seems so, let's go, let's go!"

After Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, he waved his hand and led 50 people towards the distant valley.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, I saw a hunter.

"Is anyone there? Hey, uncle, brother, hello!"

When you arrive at a house, first say hello in a low voice, and then rob after asking about the way, this is Zhang Xianzhong's usual trick!
Otherwise, if you go up and grab it, not only will they not tell you the way, but sometimes they will deliberately point you to the wrong way, which will cause you a lot of trouble.

"Who are you?" A father and son in the courtyard were looking at wood with a knife, apparently making hunting tools.

"Hey, it's hard to explain in a single word." Zhang Xianzhong opened the door and went in familiarly, "We are officers and soldiers. We lost our way in the mountains to suppress bandits. We came to this place without knowing it. We came to ask our fellow villagers for directions."

"Ask for directions?" The young man put down the knife and fork in his hand, stood up and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Eh!" Zhang Xianzhong looked at the young man and said with a smile: "I want to lead my brothers to cross the Shennong Mountain to the Yangtze River. Does my brother know the way to the Yangtze River?"

"I know!" the young man said unpreparedly, "It's just a little far away, and I can't go out in ten days and half a month."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you know the way, little brother." Zhang Xianzhong's stomach growled several times while he was speaking, and he said with some embarrassment: "We have been hungry all the way, little brother, do you have food here?" some with me?"

"No?" The old man shook his head and refused: "The place is remote, we father and son hunt here, and we only go home once a month, and the food we bring each time is just enough for the two of us. Can't afford it either!"

"Hehe, it's okay." Zhang Xianzhong took out an ingot of shiny yellow-orange-orange gold from his pocket, and said, "I don't want your food for nothing, as long as you share the food with us, you can take the gold and go home to buy it." That's it!"

The young man looked at the ingot of gold, swallowed his saliva, and thought to himself: such a large ingot of gold, I'm afraid there must be 50 taels. If you can get it, what kind of hunting can you do?

"No, the food here is not worth the money at all. I'll show you the way, you better go!" The old man refused again. He couldn't believe that the seemingly loyal man in front of him would really use this gold to buy his own food. food.

"Father!" The young man called out with some complaints.

"Horse, don't be rude!" The old man walked into the house, took out some dried meat and handed it to Zhang Xianzhong, and said, "I just want to share some with you, but I don't dare to take gold."

Zhang Xianzhong took the meat in his hands with a smile, and ordered his men to cook the soup, then stuffed the gold in his hand into the young man's pocket, and said, "It's for you, take it, I gave you this gold along the way." A lot of people, they don’t want them in the end, alas!”

Said, shook his head.

Many people on the road were greedy for his gold and gave them food. After Zhang Xianzhong finished eating, he immediately repented and robbed others of their belongings. If he resisted, he would be killed on the spot. Of course, in the end, he would continue to take the gold away.

How can ordinary people afford Zhang Xianzhong's money.

But this time, he was moved by the sincerity of the old man Yamato, and decided that no matter what, after robbing the grain and food, the gold would be left to them.

The young man was overjoyed and said, "My lord, you are so generous."

"It's your luck!" Zhang Xianzhong said.

"My lord!" The young man took a deep breath, hesitated for a while, and said, "The horse knows a secret road that can pass through the Shennong Mountain. If you walk along the secret road I mentioned, it will take less than ten days. , you can go out within three days, Dangyang City is outside!"

"what?"

Zhang Xianzhong was stunned and fell to the ground. He suddenly hugged the young man named Ma'er, and asked: "Is what you said true, you can become Yangcheng in three days? Three days? Three days?"

This news is the most precious to County Magistrate Zhang. Don't look at him dizzy with hunger, but this sudden news is simply better than the ten catties of delicious beef in front of him.

What the young man said was naturally true. The father and son were originally from Dangyang, and it was because they accidentally discovered this secret road shortcut that they were able to run from Dangyang to hunt here in three days.

The prey here is not only plentiful, but also stupid, and is easy to be hunted, so the young father and son have come here all year round, and now they are well-known wealthy households in the village.

If it weren't for this gold, he would naturally not say anything about the road.

It's a pity that a life that was originally alive was completely ruined precisely because of this secret.

"Yes, General, you can reach Dangyang in three days!" Ma'er repeated.

"Happy three days, three days!"

Zhang Xianzhong's eyes were bright, and he was so happy that he couldn't express it. He let out a long sigh of relief to the sky, "Hahahahaha, Zhu Changyuan, Zhu Changyuan, so what if you are invincible? What can you do to me? There is no limit to the sky. ah!"

In the days since being chased by Zhu Changyuan, Zhang Xianzhong saw the hope of life for the first time: if he can go out of this deep mountain before Zhu Changyuan, he will first replenish his supplies in Dangyang, and then go up the Yangtze River Go straight to Xichuan, and then the whole Shu land will be mine. No matter how awesome you are, Zhu Changyuan, you don’t dare to cross the border to chase me.

(End of this chapter)