Chapter ninety-ninth open the journey
The team going north traveled lightly and simply, even if they had to slow down to take care of the Yan Qin family, they were still faster than the team heading south behind to escort relief supplies.
Although Meng Shulan was asked to go to Jicheng to collect relief supplies, Jicheng's supplies were limited, so they originally had to bring some relief supplies south from Kangdu on this trip.
Coupled with the supplies of the two carriages contributed by Yan Qing, in order to prevent being robbed on the road, they must not be too tired to march on the road.
After Yan Qing arrived, about half an hour later, Meng Shulan, the person in charge of this march, arrived belatedly.
When Zeng Chengwen saw Meng Shulan, he wanted to say something derogatory to Yan Qing about how Meng Shulan made so many of them wait for him, but when he saw the motorcade following Meng Shulan, his jaw almost dropped.
He thought that Yan Qing's family just took out two carriages of gold, silver, and cloth, which was an exaggeration, until he saw the motorcade brought by Meng Shulan.
Not to mention what was pulled in those carriages with sheds, let's talk about the big sacks pulled by the four or five ox carts.
After serving in the army for so many years, Zeng Chengwen felt that with his eyes, he would never mistake the grain bag for anything else!
He has been pledging food so many times. If he doesn't have any eyesight, it would be embarrassing to tell anyone!
Zeng Chengwen made some estimates and found that the four or five carts of rice and grain added up to about a hundred shi.
Under normal circumstances, one kilo of rice is enough to feed a family of three for a month, and one hundred kilo of rice is enough to feed 300 people for a month.
This is calculated as a meal of rice. If it is made into porridge or the like, it will last longer.
There are only a thousand people in Yuhuai County, and these hundred shi of rice are enough for half a month's expenses at least.
This is only what Meng Shulan paid for personally, not counting the disaster relief food distributed by the imperial court!
"Military advisor, let me ask, is this... the imperial court distributing disaster relief food again?"
Intuition told Zeng Chengwen that it could not be the imperial court. If the imperial court issued it, Baishi would be a bit short.
But if he was asked to admit that this was Meng Shulan's personal donation, he couldn't believe it.
Meng Shulan glanced at him, a little confused, obviously not hearing clearly.
Taking a look at the dark green eyes and bloodshot eyes, Zeng Chengwen estimated that he had not slept all night, so he was still not awake at this moment!
But even if he didn't get Meng Shulan's answer, Zeng Chengwen still knew it, but he just couldn't believe it.
In his impression, although this wronged military advisor was relatively generous, his monthly expenses were only ten taels of silver.
Although these ten taels of silver are enough to feed a family of six for half a month.
But as the nephew of the emperor, the expense of the unfaithful military advisor was relatively small, and most wealthy families could reach his level.
But now suddenly, this person who was not that rich suddenly took out a hundred shi of rice. Especially now that Zhanghuai was hit by the disaster and the domestic rice harvest was poor. A pound of rice costs half a tael of silver, and a hundred shi is thousands.
Two silver coins.
Not to mention that he was followed by several carriages with their roofs sealed and loaded with these and other things.
Because of the example of Yan Qing, Zeng Chengwen had the intuition that there should be gold and silver in the carriage.
Although they were merciless when Meng Shulan received the reward and gave them some money, but...
He suddenly remembered that the military advisor in front of him, whom he had deceived for four years, was not the nephew of the emperor, but the only son of King Rongjin!
How rich was King Rongjin back then?
It is probably the money that the imperial court has moved out of the treasury for disaster relief. In fact, most of it was donated by King Rongjin back then.
If King Rongjin hadn't donated all his money to the treasury, how could he, a businessman with a foreign surname without any official background, be granted the title of king as an exception?
This thought immediately made Zeng Chengwen retract his previous decision to donate half of the money.
When gods fight, it's better not to be too ugly for a little shrimp like him.
Now that Meng Shulan has arrived, the team is ready to set off.
Zeng Chengwen first went to arrange the carriages and horses brought by Meng Shulan neatly in the team, and then came back to ask Meng Shulan for instructions. He saw the man riding a horse alongside Yan Qing, but he kept nodding his head and talking to Yan Qing sentence by sentence.
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Seeing the way Meng Shulan's eyelids were fighting, Zeng Chengwen was afraid that he would fall off his horse!
Sure enough, as soon as he finished this thought, he saw Meng Shulan tilting and rolling to the ground.
He was so frightened that he almost rushed forward, but before he could urge his horse, Meng Shulan had already been fished back.
A normal person will sway a lot from left to right, and no matter how trapped he is, he will wake up a little bit.
Meng Shulan was unconscious and even fell onto Yan Qing's horse.
If Yan Qing hadn't moved quickly, his head would have been banged firmly on the saddle!
But the two of them were riding two horses. Meng Shulan was not awake and the horse under him was a little out of control. In order to prevent the parallel horses from separating, Yan Qing had to free up one hand to hold him.
His horse's reins.
With his hands full, Yan Qing could only let Meng Shulan lean on his shoulder to prevent him from falling off the horse.
Zeng Chengwen was furious when he saw it.
Bah! Shameless!
They are all in the forward camp. It is certain that they will be sleepy after not sleeping for a day or two. If they are so sleepy and unconscious, what is wrong with them?!
On weekdays, he looks well-dressed and elegant, but behind his back, he is just a fucking beast who takes advantage of the little general!
He scolded Meng Shulan in his heart, and Zeng Chengwen was confused.
To be honest, this well-dressed beast was not so bold in the past. Is he taking the wrong medicine recently?
Zeng Chengwen thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that since the day after the battle with Li Dingshan, everyone was exhausted. This beast used his hurried march to make the young general sympathize and feel guilty, and let him lean on his shoulder. After that, he became more and more courageous.
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Bah! Hypocrite!
However, Zeng Chengwen continued to scold him, but when he approached Yan Qing, he had no intention of helping him. He just asked: "Young general, the team has been organized and can set off at any time."
"Um."
Yan Qing responded and said, "Come here and help me."
Zeng Chengwen looked at Meng Shulan's eyelids that quietly opened and hesitated for a moment, but then he saw Meng Shulan sitting up and shaking her head, as if she had just woken up and didn't know what she had done.
However, when Yan Qing looked at him, Meng Shulan turned away his eyes seemingly inadvertently, yawned, and looked back again in confusion. He opened his sleepy and tearful black eyes and looked at Yan with a tired look on his face.
Qing said: "Ah Qing, please lead the team first. I have to go to the carriage to relax for a while."
As he spoke, he yawned again, and then he was about to dismount in a daze, as if he didn't even notice that the horse was still walking.
"Eh!"
Yan Qing stopped his horse, frowned and scolded, "Be careful."
Meng Shulan bent her lower lip, then quickly retracted it, nodded blankly, and then staggered towards the carriage.
Chapter completed!