These days, there aren't many young men in high positions who still don't act like cowards.
While looking back at the pottery merchant, Guo Jia got on his horse and reluctantly said goodbye to the pottery merchant.
Seeing Guo Jia's figure gradually leaving, Xu Huang said to Tao Shang in confusion: "Master, are you just going to let him go?"
The potter smiled and shook his head, saying: 'Of course not, just watch, Mr. Guo will turn his horse around and come back within ten seconds."
"Oh?" Xu Huang said in surprise: "Why is this?"
On the right side of the pottery merchant, Han Hao was stroking his beard. The old god explained to Xu Huang: "The master's move is to play hard to get. First, he shows his great righteousness, then he gives horses, and then he gives travel expenses.
He also moved his heart with his words. The young man was originally a descendant of the branch. How had he ever been treated so kindly by the nobles? Don't look at Guo Jia who is planning to leave now. According to the young master, he will be there within ten numbers.
Turn the horse's head around and return to the young master!"
Xu Huang looked at the inscrutable smiles of Tao Shang and Han Hao and said, "Is what you said true?"
Han Hao looked at Xu Huang's questioning look and laughed loudly: "Of course it's true, Gong Ming, if you don't believe it, let's make a bet. It's not much, so let's bet a hundred dollars!"
Xu Huang seemed quite unconvinced and said: "Let's just bet. I'm afraid of you! Then I'll count."
"one two three four……"
"Nine, ten!... Come back! Come back!"
"Look, aren't they coming back? Then let me count a few more."
"Eleven, twelve, thirteen..."
"Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine... people are all gone, do I have to continue counting?"
The potter's confident smile now turned angry.
"Gongming..."
Xu Huang stepped forward and said, "What are your orders, Master?"
"Send the crossbowmen and rush forward quickly...shoot back for me!"
Xu Huang grinned after hearing this.
Shoot over, shoot down, shoot to death, even if it is shot into a sieve, it is easy to understand.
What is ejaculation?
But at this moment, Xu Huang couldn't help but think too much. He immediately arranged for more than ten soldiers, holding short crossbows and riding horses, to quickly chase Guo Jia in the direction where he disappeared.
As soon as the shadows of the crossbowmen disappeared, Xu Huang turned around and walked up to Han Hao with a smile, stretched out his hand towards him and said: "Take the money!"
Han Hao looked like he was about to cry.
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After a while, with the sound of hoofbeats, one could see that the crossbowmen were already riding back, and one of them, holding under his arm, was Guo Jia who had been captured alive.
Guo Jia was pinched under the arm by the soldier, looking extremely embarrassed. There was also a short crossbow tied in his bun. It was obvious that he had been baptized by crossbow arrows just now.
As soon as they arrived at the place, the soldier relaxed his arms and put Guo Jia on the ground from his armpits.
With a frosty look on his face, Guo Jia dusted off the dust on his body, then stretched out his hand to pull out the crossbow arrow from his bun, put it in front of him for a look, turned around and asked the crossbowmen: "What a great arrow!
…Which calf shot it?”
The soldier who brought Guo Jia back turned over and dismounted, and said nonchalantly: "I let him go."
Guo Jia raised his hand and touched the bun on the top of his head that was pierced by an arrow. His face was pale and showed no emotion, but he seemed to be quite cautious. He said, "It's quite accurate. I aimed and shot it specifically, right?"
The soldier shook his head and said: "No, I originally aimed at the back of your head, but my hand was a little too high..."
Guo Jia: "..."
When I was young, I saw Guo Jia suddenly turned around, looked at the pottery merchant angrily, and said, "What a shame, potter, you actually sent a crossbowman behind me to plot against me?"
The pottery merchant reluctantly held up his hands and said with a smile: "Mr. Guo, we meet again, what a coincidence..."
"Bah!" Guo Jia spat fiercely, waved the arrow stuck in his hair in front of the pottery merchant, and said: "Don't do this, what a coincidence? What do you mean?
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Tao Shang looked at the arrow in Guo Jia's hand and the angry look on his face. He sighed helplessly and said, "Tao sincerely invited Mr. Tao to become an official, but Mr. Tao refused to stay thousands of miles away. Tao had no choice but to come here."
It’s a bad idea, but I hope you will forgive me.”
Guo Jia's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, and he said hoarsely: "But just now you gave Guo a horse, and you gave Guo a lot of money to let me go? What's the point?"
The potter lowered his head and was silent for a while, and then he spoke quietly after a long while.
"The problem is, are you really going to leave..."
Guo Jia almost spit out a mouthful of blood when he heard this.
Looking around at the surrounding environment and the Taishan Army who was eyeing him, Guo Jia couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
"I have just escaped from the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den again... Dear brother, look at your attitude, are you going to kidnap me back to Xuzhou?"
The potter's face turned a little red, and he saluted Guo Jia respectfully: "Brother is indeed a genius in this world. I can't hide anything from you."
Guo Jia's face turned a little dark. He squinted his eyes and looked at the pottery merchant carefully for a while, then suddenly said: "What if Guo doesn't agree?"
The potter smiled, stretched out his hand to greet the soldier who had just shot the crossbow arrow into Guo Jia's hair, and then held him back with his elbow, and asked: "Is your boy a member of the Taishan Army? What's your name?"
The soldier bowed respectfully to the pottery merchant and said, "Sir, my name is You Donkey!"
The pottery merchant frowned when he heard this and said, "Why do you call me such a strange name?"
The Taishan Army crossbowman replied respectfully: "To return to the young master, the villain was originally called You Gouzi. One time, Wang Fujun personally clicked Mao and thought that the villain's name was not grand enough, so he asked me to change his name, so the villain was named You.
Donkey!
When the pottery merchant heard this, he couldn't help but raise his hands to wipe his sweat.
The changes are quite big.
Wang Kuang was also a weirdo when he was alive.
"You Luzi, when you shot Mr. Guo just now, did you aim at the back of the head?"
You Luzi said respectfully: "Yes, but the villain always misses the target when shooting crossbows, and his hand always goes up and down."
"You have a good problem. You will have a bright future in the future. From now on, you are responsible for following Mr. Guo until we return to Xuzhou. If Mr. Guo doesn't want to go to Xuzhou, or wants to escape secretly, you can shoot him with your crossbow.
He, remember, don't aim at the back of the head this time, just aim directly at the bun. As for whether your hand is high or low, whether it is floating or not, it depends on Mr. Guo's fate."
Hearing this, Guo Jia almost burst into tears.
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After taking Guo Jia hostage, the pottery merchant felt good, with a burst of joy in his chest that seemed to soar into the sky, and an indescribable sense of joy all over his body.
He could pick up Guo Jia in just one meal with the bandit leader. A genius could capture it in minutes. Which person who returned to the late Han Dynasty could have the luck to be as powerful as a dragon or a tiger?
It feels so good to be a time traveler.
The group of people turned back to the ferry of the Yellow River, looked for their own large group of people, and continued to arrange for people to cross the river.
At this time, Xu Rong, Hu Cai, Xu Chu, Mi Fang and others had moved many remnants of the Baibo Army to the south bank on both sides of the strait, and things were going relatively smoothly.
Seeing that Tao Shang and others returned safely, Xu Rong and others could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The next thing was on track. After a group of Xuzhou people crossed the Yellow River, they followed Jiyin, passed Juancheng, to Shanyang, and crossed the border of Yanzhou.
Along the way, the territory basically belongs to Bao Xin and Wang Gong of Dongjun. Needless to say, Bao Xin and Wang Gong also obeyed Yuan Shao through Liu Dai. The pottery merchants straddled the border between the two counties and basically would not encounter any obstruction.
On the contrary, I also received generous arrangements and hospitality from the magistrates of the counties I passed through.
In this way, after stumbling along the way, although there were surprises, there was no danger. After a year, the pottery merchant and the others finally returned to Xuzhou in the deep spring of the second year of Chuping.
When the pottery merchant was in Dongjun, he had already sent people back to Pengcheng to report the news.
After Tao Qian got the news, he was overjoyed. His eldest son had been away on an expedition for nearly a year. Although there were good news from time to time, as an old father, he still missed and worried about his son very much. Tao Qian was there almost every day.
Spending time in trepidation.
At the end of the alliance to conquer Dong, Tao Qian's heart had already settled, but he received a message from Tao Shang, saying that he would lead his troops north to conquer the Baibo Army.
After receiving this news, Tao Qian almost fainted out of breath. Unexpectedly, the general's military orders abroad were not accepted in thousands of mountains and rivers. Even if Tao Qian wanted to grab his son and slap him twice, he was beyond his reach and could only let him go.
go.
As winter turned to spring, the old man thought about it day and night, finally hoping to bring back his eldest son who was in the rebellious period of youth.
Hearing that his son's troops had arrived in Surabaya, old man Tao Qian immediately sent envoys to all the counties near where the pottery merchants were currently stationed, asking the magistrates of each county to be waiting to receive them at any time for dispatch.
The ancient Si River was originally one of the main tributaries of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River. It was a mountain torrent river. The river water was mainly supplied by precipitation. Floods were concentrated during the flood season, often causing flood disasters. However, when the water was calm and shallow, the scenery on its tributaries was quite lyrical and pleasant.
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The returning army of the pottery merchants was now stationed on the edge of Surabaya.
The pottery merchant had nothing to do, so he came to the river to look at the scenery on both sides.
The dusk was deep, the smoke was vast, and the scenery by the water made a young man who was eager to return home feel quite happy.
When the pottery merchant came to the river, not only himself, but also Guo Jia was dragged along.
Guo Jia is really suffering now and can't express it.
He regretted a little now, why he was so high-spirited, instead of doing a good job as a planner in Wei County, Hebei Province, he had to rush back to Yingchuan to wait for the wise master in his mind.
As a result, Mingzhu did not wait, but instead waited for a evil star, a smiling tiger, a shameless hypocrite!
Having lived for twenty-one years, Guo Jia has never heard of a monarch using force when recruiting his staff.
But Mr. Tao, who recruited him and refused to follow his lead, pretended to be generous at first and let him go by giving him horses and money. Guo Jia thought he had met an open-minded and open-minded person, but he didn't expect that he had not even walked out of the two miles.
, and was pinched back by the uncle's men with their elbows.
Not only was the horse confiscated and the money gone, but he was also forced by Tao Shang to follow him to Xuzhou.m.