Taking advantage of the time to load the truck, Wu Sansheng also handed over 1,800 taels of silver notes to Chai Yan.
After Chai Yan happily accepted it, he took out a banknote and walked to the middle-aged hunter, handed it to him and said: "Uncle, this is what we promised before, take it."
"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"
The middle-aged hunter happily took it and was stunned after taking a look at it. He asked: "Mr....... Young Master, why is it... fifty taels?"
Chai Yan pretended not to know: "What, is there a problem? I promised you the day before yesterday that I will pay you another fifty taels when the matter is completed. What's wrong?"
The middle-aged hunter hurriedly said: "No, no, no, young master, you are talking about five taels of silver, not...not fifty taels!"
"Really? But I remember I said fifty taels..." Chai Yan laughed after finishing speaking, and said: "Uncle, you heard wrong! Haha...
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Afterwards, Chai Yan walked away, leaving the middle-aged hunter looking at the fifty taels of silver notes in his hand with surprise.
At this moment, the two hunters from the middle-aged hunter's village appeared driving a donkey cart. Upon seeing this, the middle-aged hunter ran towards the two men. It seemed that they were going to announce good news.
Sure enough, from a distance, I heard three hunters exclaiming with joy...
Chai Yan also said to himself: "Attention, everyone, pack your things and prepare to leave for Hukou Town!"
Everyone agreed in unison, and then began to pack their things and prepare for departure.
Not long after, Wu Sansheng came over, raised his hands and said to Chai Yan: "I take the liberty of asking you to help me with something..."
"You're welcome, Shopkeeper Wu, if you have anything to say, you can tell me!" Chai Yan still looked very happy.
Wu Sansheng explained his difficulty. It turned out that the dragon was too heavy and his carriage could not carry enough weight. Even if he used the hunters' donkey cart, he still needed Chai Yan's carriage to help carry one.
Chai Yan agreed without hesitation, and immediately called Cheng Jiu and three others, asking them to tie the largest dragon to the roof of his carriage. In this way, although the speed of the three vehicles would be slower, they would not reach Hukou.
The town should be destroyed.
After a stick of incense, under the command of Chai Yan, Cheng Jiu and the others successfully tied the largest and heaviest dragon to the top of the carriage. In order to avoid attracting the attention of others, the dragons on the three cars were covered with cloth.
Chai Yan nodded, and then said to Hang Baiqiu: "Sir Hang, you take Zhang Youde in the car, and Cheng Jiu and the others will take turns walking!"
Hang Baiqiu understood the situation and didn't say much at the moment. He turned around and urged Zhang Youde's three children to get into the car.
This is not only the case with Chai Yan, but also with Wu Sansheng, and the middle-aged hunter. The car is too heavy. If all the people sit on it, not only the horses will be unable to bear it, but also the driver will be killed in a short time.
Crushed!
Not long after, two carriages and a donkey cart were on their way to Hukou Town.
The dragon is very heavy, and the pulling power of the horses is limited, so the speed of the three cars is relatively slow. When encountering an uphill slope, everyone has to work together to push the cart up to a high place. When encountering a steep downhill slope,
Everyone also had to pull hard to prevent the horses from being frightened and losing control.
Chai Yan and Cheng Jiu took turns driving, joking and joking from time to time, which was quite pleasant. Hang Baiqiu occasionally looked at the people outside from the car window, but most of his eyes stayed on Chai Yan.
While Chai Yan was taking turns walking, Wu Sansheng came to Chai Yan with a smile and asked politely: "Excuse me, Mr. Chai, where are you from?"
Chai Yan smiled and replied: "Oh, my home is in the capital."
Wu Sansheng raised his hands and said: "It turns out that Mr. Chai is a nobleman in the capital. If I was rude just now, please forgive me!"
"No, no, shopkeeper Wu is worrying too much." Chai Yan waved his hand.
Wu Sansheng paused and then said: "I just heard from the young master that you are going to Lintai Mountain?"
"Ah, yes!" Chai Yan nodded cheerfully.
Wu Sansheng said seriously: "Sir, you don't know yet, Lintai Mountain is now occupied by Lu Dan and his group of bandits, and the Yaozhou Guard Camp is encircling and suppressing them!"
Chai Yan pretended to be surprised and asked, pretending not to know: "Ah? Lintai Mountain is occupied by rogue bandits...Is it so bad?"
Wu Sansheng nodded seriously and said: "Yes, sir, the soldiers of the Yaozhou Guard Camp have been besieging Lu Dan for many days, but Lu Dan is like a shrunken turtle, hiding in the mountains all day long. There is nothing that can be done to make the people of the guard camp stunned.
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Chai Yan thought for a while and asked: "Shopkeeper Wu, are the soldiers from the Yaozhou Guard Camp stationed in Hukou Town?"
Wu Sansheng replied: "Yes, as the young master said, the encirclement and suppression of Lu Dan and his gang of bandits was personally led by General Jiang from the North Camp of the Yaozhou Guard Camp, and the Chinese military tent was set up a few miles outside Hukou Town!
"
"General Jiang...is that General Jiang Yongshuang?" Chai Yan remembered that Liu Hongxuan had mentioned this General Jiang to him.
Wu Sansheng immediately said: "Yes, that's General Jiang Yong Shuangjiang!"
"So, shopkeeper Wu knows General Jiang?" Chai Yan put on an envious face.
Wu Sansheng smiled and waved his hands and said: "No, no, Mr. Chai misunderstood. In fact, it is because the officers and soldiers of the Yaozhou Guard Camp often come to our Huichun Hall to buy medicine, so we have some understanding of their situation. Speaking of which,
General Jiang, we haven’t even seen him, hehehe..."
"So that's it, haha..." Chai Yan also laughed.
When the laughter was over, Chai Yan asked: "Then shopkeeper Wu, Liu Hongxuan and Liu Xiaowei from the south camp of Yaozhou Guard Camp, are they also stationed in front of Hukou Town?"
"Liu Hongxuan...Liu Xiaowei?" Wu Sansheng thought hard for a while, shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this... Mr. Chai, do you know that Liu Xiaowei?"
"
Chai Yan looked back at the carriage and smiled: "When we came here, we passed Zhangmeng Village, but the village had been looted by rogue bandits. Unfortunately, one child's parents were killed. Later, he told me that he wanted to join the army.
, I happened to have some old friends with Captain Liu, so I wanted to help this child through him..."
"Master Chai is so kind, Mr. Wu is in awe of him!" Wu Sansheng immediately felt admiration, and looked at Chai Yan in a different way.
After thinking for a while, Wu Sansheng said: "Let's do this, Mr. Chai, when we arrive in Hukou Town, you can just settle in peacefully. I will ask the people in the store and friends around me to help find out about Liu Xiaowei."
, since he is a general of the South Camp, I think all the officers and soldiers should know about it, so it shouldn’t be difficult to find him!"
"Then thank shopkeeper Wu first!" Chai Yan was very pleased to hear that Wu Sansheng was willing to help.
"You can do it with a little effort, Mr. Chai, no need to be polite!" Wu Sansheng waved his hand humbly.