Nine dragons wrap around the jade button in the middle. When the light shines on it, it seems that the jade seal is glowing.
Han Du looked at the jade seal carefully, paused for a moment, and then wiped his hands on his brocade robe again and again, fearing that a trace of sweat on his palm would get on the jade seal.
He reached out and carefully picked up the jade seal and turned it over.
The first thing Han Du saw was a corner filled with gold, and he felt relieved. At least from now on, this thing seemed to be real.
"What is this?" Han Du was the closest to Tang Ding, so he was the only one who saw the words on the jade seal. But Tang Ding didn't know what the hell these winding lines were. ??
After Han Du saw these crooked words, he felt even more relieved. He quickly put the jade seal back and closed the lid. He didn't even think about giving it to anyone else and just put it in his arms.
Without answering Tang Ding's words, Han Du said directly to him: "Get on the horse, we will return to Beijing immediately."
Seeing the gold box in Shouhou's hand, although the contents of this thing were taken away by him, just more than ten kilograms of gold is a huge fortune. Moreover, this thing is also a secret box.
The value is naturally greater.
Han Du pointed at the thin monkey and said, "Please give this thing to me for safekeeping first."
"Yes, Lord Marquis."
After hearing this, Xu Chengfei suddenly smiled at the thin monkey. Han Du said that as long as the thin monkey took out the things, he would be rewarded. Now that the thin monkey took out the things, Han Du did not say a reward, and even asked him to give him a reward.
He helped keep the gold box.
Obviously, Han Du did not forget to reward the monkey, but he had not yet figured out how to reward him, so he took the monkey with him on the pretext of keeping the gold box.
As long as you can stay with Han Du, won't you be short of glory and wealth in the future?
This is the reason why Xu Chengfei smiled at the thin monkey.
But Shouhou didn't understand Xu Chengfei's profound meaning. When he saw the aloof general smiling at him, he turned back and smiled at Xu Chengfei.
With a huge treasure in his possession, Han Du naturally did not dare to delay.
Along the way, the army was ordered to move with all its strength and to hide its traces as much as possible.
And here is already the edge of the grassland, the intersection with the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult for the Meng Yuan tribe to survive here. The only ones who can survive here are tribes that are inextricably related to the Ming Dynasty.
Such tribes would never attack rashly when facing the Ming army. As long as the Ming army did not take the initiative to attack them, they would usually choose to turn a blind eye and let the Ming army pass by.
Along the way, although Han Du encountered several tribes, he
There was not a single conflict. At the most tense time, the tribe sent hundreds of cavalry to follow Han Du until they saw the army leaving with their own eyes, then they turned around and went back to negotiate.
Eight days later, Han Du looked at Xifeng Pass in the distance, and his heart that had been hanging was finally half relieved. Once inside the pass, there was no need to worry about the Mengyuan people coming to rob him.
After all, he had Tuogu Si Timur, the Northern Yuan emperor, with him. Who knows if he had any means to secretly inform the Meng Yuan tribe?
Fortunately, from now on, at least everything is going smoothly.
After leading his army to stop in front of the city gate, Xu Chengfei immediately lifted his horse forward alone.
Seeing a large army approaching the pass, the soldiers on the wall of Xifeng Pass immediately raised their bowstrings and pointed them at Xu Chengfei, who was standing alone.
Although this army only has a few thousand people, and whether it is from the costumes or the flags, it is clear that this is the army of the Ming Dynasty.
But there are some things that you should be careful not to make a big mistake, and those that should be asked should still be questioned carefully. Moreover, although this Ming army is small in number, it has a lot of horses, which is very similar to the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry.
In the past, the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry pretended to be Ming troops and deceived the city gates into opening. This matter had to be guarded against.
"Who is coming!" A loud shout came from the city gate tower.
Xu Chengfei raised his head and did not see the speaker clearly, so he replied directly: "This general, Xu Chengfei, is the deputy general of Shanziying. The Marquis of Zhenhai of the Ming Dynasty led Shanziying into the pass!"
After saying that, Xu Chengfei sat on his horse and waited for the city gate to open.
After a while, the city gate did not open, but a voice came again.
"I wonder if I could ask Marquis Zhenhai to speak?"
Xu Chengfei was immediately surprised. Why was Xifeng Pass so cautious? They had already said that the Marquis of Zhenhai would lead his army into the pass, but they actually asked Han Du to come forward in person?
Although Xu Chengfei was a little strange, he still stepped back and took a look at Han Du.
When Han Du heard the sound coming from the city gate, he didn't think much about it. He directly picked up the reins and drove the horse forward.
Tang Ding frowned and felt something was wrong. He quickly followed Han Du on horseback and looked at the tower with some caution.
"I am Han Du, the Marquis of Zhenhai. Please open the city gate. I want to enter."
The guard of Xifeng Pass is Wu Si, who doesn’t know Han Du at all. But
Han Du couldn't see anything wrong with the brocade robe worn by the marquis behind him.
Wu Si suddenly felt embarrassed. He didn't know whether the Marquis of Zhenhai below was real. He grinned in confusion, and his injury suddenly hurt, and he felt a toothache.
Just when Wu Si was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw the man following Han Du and his eyes widened.
He murmured to himself: "Is it the young master?"
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked over again.
"What a young man!"
Wu Si did not hesitate, immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Give me the order, open the door!"
Seeing the city gate open, Han Du, who was a little impatient at first, suddenly disappeared. He waved his hand and asked the army to follow him through the gate. .??.
As the city gate opened, Wu Si led a group of generals out of the city to greet them.
"The last general, Wu Si, pays homage to the Marquis of Zhenhai. Please forgive me for keeping the Marquis waiting for so long."
Wu Si kept his posture very low, not only saluted respectfully, but also took the initiative to admit his mistake.
Now that Wu Si has reached this point, Han Du can't say anything more. He waved his hand lightly and said: "It doesn't matter, you are also responsible."
"Thank you, Lord Marquis!" Wu Si bowed to Han Du again.
Then he bowed to Tang Ding and said with a smile: "I will finally pay my respects to the young master. I wonder how he is doing lately? Please ask the young master to say hello to him on behalf of Wu Si after he returns to Beijing."
When he heard Wu Si asking about his father's physical condition with such concern, Tang Ding immediately understood that Wu Si was probably his father's former general. Although Tang Ding couldn't remember meeting Wu Si, since Wu Si knew him
He, that is probably the case.
"Okay~" Tang Ding nodded with a smile and replied.
Wu Si suddenly became happy, trembled all over, stretched out his hand to indicate, and shouted: "Please enter the gate of the Marquis of Zhenhai and the young master."
Han Du responded with a smile and nodded, then rode towards the city gate.
After the army entered the pass, Wu Si kindly wanted to stay with Han Du and Tang Ding for dinner.
Seeing that he was once a general under his father's command, Tang Ding nodded in agreement.
Wu Si, Han Du, and Tang Ding sat around a table filled with delicacies.
Wu Si smiled and took off his helmet, and said humbly: "In the wilderness of the border, there is nothing to entertain the Marquis and the Young Master. Please forgive me for any inconvenience!"
When Han Du saw Wu Si sitting down, he couldn't wait to pick up his chopsticks and sighed with a smile.
Xi said: "You are so humble after such a rich meal. In fact, I am satisfied now that I can eat hot dishes. During these days in the grassland, I couldn't even eat hot dishes. I basically lived on cold water and fried noodles.
"
Tang Ding was not polite. He nodded as a response and started to eat the food directly. He was also so greedy that he didn't even bother to say polite words.
Wu Si was very happy about the closeness in Han Du's words. He laughed quickly and said: "I can understand it. I can completely understand it. I have experienced the bitter cold of the grassland many times."
"Alas!" Wu Si sighed heavily and said with some dejection: "Looking back now, I really don't know how I got through it in the first place."
Han Du picked up a chopstick of mutton and put it into his mouth. The hot mutton mixed with the aroma danced in his mouth. He didn't have time to talk to Wu Si at all, so he just responded to him by nodding his head.
After swallowing the mutton with satisfaction, Han Du looked at the scars on Wu Si's face and asked with some confusion: "What's the matter with your injuries? When I entered the pass, I saw that some people at Chengguan had been attacked.
There are signs, could it be that Meng Yuan just harassed the city gate?"
Wu Sizheng was about to pick up a drink to toast Han Du, but when he heard Han Du's question, an embarrassed look suddenly appeared on his face. He put the wine glass back on the table, shook his head dejectedly, and said with a wry smile: "Xifeng Pass was indeed attacked just now.
, but they are not Mongolian."
"Who is that? Besides the Meng Yuan people, who else here can hold the customs?" Tang Ding also looked at Wu Si curiously and asked while eating mutton.
Wu Si saw that both of them wanted to ask clearly, so he explained: "It was Yongchang Hou's squadron returning to the court. Because they arrived here at night, the general couldn't see clearly and did not dare to open the switch. Yongchang Hou felt that the general was procrastinating, so he directly sent his troops
The city was attacked and the barrier was forcibly broken. The last general was whipped several times by the Marquis of Yongchang because he did not open the door."
Han Du's eyes widened immediately after hearing this, with an expression of complete disbelief. He was so shocked that he dropped the chopsticks in his hand, still unaware of it.
Tang Ding was not much better than Han Du. After hearing what Wu Si said, he couldn't even eat the mutton in his mouth.
Such an abnormal reaction from the two people immediately shocked Wu Si. After looking at him for a few times, he slowly put down his chopsticks and did not dare to speak.
Han Du took a deep breath, grabbed Wu Si's arm with one hand, and asked in disbelief: "Are you sure it's Marquis Yongchang, or Lan Yu who waved his army to break through?"
Wu Si nodded affirmatively to Han Du and said: "The general knows Yongchang Hou, and Yongchang Hou also called the general in front of him, so it is impossible for the general to admit his mistake."
After saying that, Wu Si pointed at the scars on his face.
Han Du immediately let go of Wu Si's arm, his expression full of confusion and solemnity.