Tang Tiande and Jin Longquan covered themselves up with one hand and poured tea with the other hand and wrote numbers on the table. Then they released their hands at the same time and looked at what the other party had written. One wrote "Go back to Huaiyuan" and the other wrote "Go back to Huaiyuan". The two of them "
Haha" laughed.
"I can't see many things clearly, but one thing is clear: Not to mention the people who were in this room just now, I'm afraid even the entire Biyang City people couldn't play with the Yacha Fox if they were brought together." Jin Longquan said with emotion.
"Yes, the news about Xu Huai being a yaksha fox has long been reported back from Shuozhou, but Tian Xiong and the others kept shouting about 'reckless fool', but no one thought about whether Xu Huai acted like this just after returning to Huaiyuan.
There is a profound meaning. This man’s brain is so deep that sometimes he just can’t get around the corner! Your old man from the Jin family was such a shrewd person in the past, but he still can’t get around this corner,” Tang Tiande said.
"The old man has never had any contact with Xu Huai, and Xu Huai's most impressive impression on people in Tongbai Mountain is this 'wild tiger'. Now that Huaiyuan has been established as a county and has been added to Caizhou, every family has lost its sense of proportion.
To think about other things?" Jin Longquan frowned and said, "Logically speaking, we should protect ourselves wisely and not provoke anyone. After all, in the normal world, we may not get good results if we provoke anyone, but Bianliang
Be alarmed, King Qin’s edict has been issued to all places, I’m afraid the world is going to change!”
"I heard the news and have been thinking about it, and I feel confused. The north has been defeated, but there are still one or two thousand miles from Yanji, Yunshuo to Bianliang. Why is Bianliang in a hurry?" Tang Tiande was confused.
Xie asked.
"You haven't seen through whether officers and soldiers can fight in the past two years?" Jin Longquan asked rhetorically.
"That's right. The border troops were beaten to a pulp. There seem to be a lot of troops stationed in Hedong and Hebei. I'm afraid they are just like the Imperial Guards in Xiangyang Prefecture. Their hands are very sparse. Maybe they can ask the soldiers to fight through them all the way, but why not just go straight to them?
Bianliang City has fallen?" Tang Tiande said.
During the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain, the clans of the big surnames either clung to their respective villages or fled to Xinyang, Biyang City, or Jinlongquan. Tang Tiande stayed in Huaiyuan. Although he did not directly lead the troops to fight, he was responsible for the tedious and miscellaneous affairs.
I also experienced that catastrophe from beginning to end.
Even at the last critical moment when the bandit rebellion subsided, Tang Tiande once persuaded Xu Wufu and wavered in his determination to embrace the Cai clan, but his horizons had expanded a lot; and the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain asked them to ban the local army.
They also have a fairly thorough understanding of combat effectiveness, which makes them understand the strength and weakness of the army better than most state and county officials who sit in a well and watch the sky.
At this time, he also agreed with Jin Longquan's idea. If there was peace and prosperity, they could stay in Biyang City and ignore them. They could even join forces with Mr. Jin, Tian Xiong and others to suppress others with power, but the world is about to change again.
, he has to weigh and weigh who is the real thigh worth hugging.
Jin Longquan added: "We are in Biyang, and there are some things that we can't figure out even if we think about it carefully. Someone should go to Huaiyuan quickly and meet Xu Huai, then everything will be clear. At the same time, we also need to bring Biyang City to the city.
Let Xu Huai know what's going on here, so that he can be on guard against some overt and covert attacks. As for me, I can't leave openly, and I'm more or less an errand in Biyang. It's convenient to get information, so I'll write
A letter for you to take to Huaiyuan."
"That's what I mean too!" Tang Tiande said.
Jin Longquan was in Biyang at this time and was a military official affiliated with the County Weisi. He participated in commanding the county archers under the County Weisi Zhu Tong. It was indeed inappropriate for him to leave without saying goodbye.
Although after the banditry in Tongbai Mountain, Xu Huai took advantage of Tang Tiande and asked him to sell off the land and house under Tang Wenzhong's name at a low price in the name of mourning, and then allowed him to preside over the Tang family, Tang Tiande still did not think that Xu Huai could become powerful.
, I felt uncomfortable staying in Shibali, so I ran to Biyang City to find a job, and from then on I stayed away from Xu Huai and the others.
Tang Tiande did not find any official vacancies in Biyang City, and he did not know how to run other businesses. The whole family followed him and had nothing to do.
Even if he doesn't consider the changes in the world this time, joining Xu Huai is still a choice for him.
"I'll go back to Huaiyuan right now, without delay..." Tang Tiande said.
"I'll take you out of the city." Jin Longquan said.
Jin Longquan, as the general of swordsmen and archers in Biyang County, does not have much power, but when he is responsible for the Dongcheng area, it is convenient to let one or two people go out of the city at night.
"Deng Gui and Deng Langjun are also smart people. He should be able to see through the situation better than us. Do you want to go to the post house to see him before I leave?" Tang Tiande and Jin Longquan asked again before leaving.
"Deng Langjun is different from you and me," Jin Longquan shook his head and said, "Deng Langjun is the deputy envoy of the regiment training, and he is also a military prince at this time. He is smarter and more capable than us, but sometimes this may
Restrict him—besides, it’s not something we can lobby for as to where Deng Langjun will go..."
Tang Tiande nodded and said with a smile: "There are many gentlemen in the government office, and none of them is smart. There are too many things blocking my eyes to see through it - I was really stupid again just now!"
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With the help of Jin Longquan, Tang Tiande led his horse out of the city overnight.
Although the stars and moon were in the sky, the weather was freezing and the roads were slippery. Tang Tiande rushed to the Baijian River Crossing at three o'clock in the sun on the 120 to 30 miles of mountain road. He also suffered a black nose and swollen eyes along the way.
"Hey, isn't this Mr. Tang Wu? Where did he escape from trouble and why does he look like this?" The boatman took the bamboo pole and pushed the ferry to the west bank ferry, joking with Tang Tiande who was leading the horse across the river.
"Gu Laojiu, what a lot of nonsense."
There are many small towns in Tongbai Mountain, and there are more than a thousand households in Huaiyuan Town. But in the past, in Huaiyuan, Tang Tiande would take a trip to Baijian River Crossing every day, and he was familiar with several boatmen. He asked,
"Xu Huai is back. Is there any disturbance in the town?"
"What kind of disturbance can there be? When the wild tiger comes back, it's too late for everyone to applaud! But I heard that a big battle is going to happen. Two crossing bridges will be built on the Baijian River side and at the east end of the city. We are on the Baijian River
I have been working on ferries all my life, but I don’t know where to go to make a living!” said the boatman.
"A crossing bridge is going to be built here? This should be a confidential matter. How did you know?" Tang Tiande asked in surprise.
"What a secret. Just now, Xu Huai, together with Su Laochang from Lutai Village and Zheng Tuzi from Zheng's Butcher Shop, came to the ferry and asked us how to build a crossing bridge here? They also asked about the water conditions of Baijian River.
——We are just talking nonsense based on our feelings." The boatman asked Tang Tiande to get on the boat and hold the horse, and said, "Your horse is very tired. It came back from Biyang at night? What happened in Biyang?
"
"If you talk too much, aren't you afraid that one day your tongue will be pulled out?" Tang Tiande said with a smile.
"The fifth master used to be an errand in the patrol department, and he asked me to keep an eye on the passing merchants every day and ask more questions. But now that the fifth master has gone to the county, he thinks they talk too much? Alas, the world is about to change!" The boatman sighed with emotion,
They shouted a melodious chant, pushed the ferry across the shore, and sent Tang Tiande to lead the horse ashore.
Although Tang Tiande was driven out of the rural camp by Xu Huai after the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain was settled, it was rare for the patrol soldiers to not recognize him, and there was no obstruction from entering the city gate to the patrol hall.
Xu Huai wanted to straighten everything out as much as possible in the shortest possible time. He had no time to rest at night and would only find time to take a nap from time to time.
When Tang Tiande walked into the yamen hall, he happened to catch up with Xu Huai resting in the side hall of the yamen hall.
At this time, Zheng Tu grabbed Su Laochang, and Xu Wujiang was talking in the government hall. When he saw Tang Tiande walking in, he said: "What kind of wind is blowing today? How could the fifth master be willing to come out of the gentle village of Biyang to visit?"
We are country bumpkins, don't you think it would be insulting to you, Fifth Master, to get to know local leopards like us?"
Although Zheng Tu delayed returning to Huaiyuan with Xu Huai until the end, due to the batch evacuation, Su Laochang and Xu Wukun separately led the women and children of the Hu tribe and the people from the labor camp to evacuate to Huaiyuan first. Naturally,
There is also concern about the movements of old people in Huaiyuan.
Although Tang Tiande had lived in Biyang before, he would go back to Huaiyuan every three or five times. However, after Su Laochang, Xu Wukun and others returned to Huaiyuan in advance, Tang Tiande never returned to Biyang.
Zheng Tu came back yesterday and heard about this. He thought that Tang Tiande was being naughty and didn't want to have anything to do with them anymore. However, he didn't expect to see Tang Tiande walk into the government hall today with a blue nose and swollen eyes. Looking at him in such a mess, he might have been rushing all night.
road.
"Big——" Tang Tiande almost asked directly where the "thigh" was. He held back the word "leg" and asked, "Xu... where is the other Junhou? I have a letter from the head of the capital of Jin to send to him!"
"
At this moment, Xu Huai walked straight in and said, "I just heard someone walking into the Yamen Courtyard!" He sat in front of the hall, motioned to Tang Tiande and others to sit down and talk, and took the letter Tang Tiande sent for Jin Longquan.
Joking with Su Laochang, Xu Wujiang and the others, "I'll just say that I have more face than you. There will always be one or two old friends who remember me!"
"...Master Su and Master Kun returned to Huaiyuan, and I was slacking off. I always felt that with my little abilities, I couldn't catch up with Master Su and Master Kun, and I would just spend the rest of my life eating in Biyang City and waiting to die.
But the news about King Qin yesterday has spread in Biyang City. Lord Jin and I thought that the world was about to change, so we came to see the military lord."
Tang Tiande had suffered too much at the hands of Xu Huai, and even when he saw that Xu Huai wanted to say a few decent words, he felt dissatisfied. At this moment, he simply told all his thoughts and calculations.
"Yes, the world is about to change. I don't know how many lives will be taken away from this catastrophe. I don't know how long I will be able to survive," Xu Huai read Jin Longquan's letter and placed it.
On the table beside him, he said with emotion, "If the Fifth Master thinks that there is a big hug here, or that it is easy to take advantage of the shade under the big tree, then you are wrong. Of course, the Fifth Master wants to return to Huaiyuan and live peacefully, but there is no way
People will stop you, but whether you can live peacefully in Tongbai Mountain in the end depends on the sky. I can't give you an answer at this time. Even if most people just want to live peacefully, they are destined to not live peacefully. And Wu Ye
If you want to have a place in Tongbai Mountain, or want to have a place on this big tree that protects Tongbai Mountain, you have to work hard with us to make these branches and leaves to block the storm..."
