He Mulan, who finally came back from walking his horse, frowned strangely when he saw that the three of them did not talk to each other.

When she saw He Guang's whole person riding a horse almost unrelentingly, she felt even more curious.

The little brother of the Hua family, she knows that he is a good old man who will never conflict with others. Shan Zhuo's personality is very honest, and he is also a stuffy gourd who can't talk nonsense.

What happened after she was gone to make the atmosphere look like this?

She rode up to Ardan Zhuo and asked him softly:

"What happened?"

"Nothing...... "Edan Zhuo is even more inexplicable than He Mulan." Uncle Hua just talked about cabbage and turnips, and that's it. Uncle Hua saw that he couldn't even raise his head, and he didn't dare to speak."

Why is it sad to hear about turnip cabbage?

Is he homesick? Want the cabbage radish that his mother made for him?

It's better to run away from home or something.

He Mulan didn't know why the well-behaved He Guang suddenly became overcast, but she firmly believed that such a rich boy would get better when he arrived at the market, so she didn't worry too much.

Maybe it was because a few people didn't know what to do except hurry, and soon they arrived at the place where they were rushing to the market, the Majiao Bridge.

Majiaoqiao is a place where the three towns gather, and the surrounding people will take out their family's produce to buy here. Because the population of Shili and Eight Townships near Yucheng is not large, the market of Majiaoqiao is not as complete as the market of Yucheng, but it is better to be close to home and the location is good, so it maintains the frequency of a small set on five days and a large set on seven days.

As He Mulan said, no matter what He Guang was frustrated about, when he arrived at this place, he looked around curiously after all. On the contrary, it was Ah Danzhuo, who probably went to the market a lot of times, so he didn't look curious, but skillfully helped Hua Mutuo park the carriage and took the initiative to take care of the carriage and horses here.

"Uncle Hua, you didn't bring a burden? Didn't you carry a little wheelbarrow or something?" Seeing that Hua Mutuo didn't take out the wheelbarrow from the carriage and didn't bring a burden, Shan Zhuo's eyes were wide open.

"Huh." Hua Mutuo glanced at her sister, who was standing not far away and talking to He Guang. You'll find out later......"

"When you go out with my sister, just take someone with you."

The other side.

"Since your cousin wants you to come out to practice, I can't spoil you." He Mulan took out a few pearls from his bosom, which were in the bag that You Ke had given her.

"I'll give you these beads, and you can exchange them for ten catties of salt."

"It can't be." He Guang is not the easy to deceive three-year-old child." Who would dare to sell salt without salt introduction? This place is just a small bazaar, and it is not a shop with salt in Yucheng, where can you buy so much salt! "

"I can't see it, you know so much...... He Mulan put on a frightening expression, lowered his head and said to him with a smile: "Haven't you heard that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom?"

"What?"

"If everyone goes to Yucheng Mansion to buy salt, what do you think so many people use to pickle goods in winter?"

"Huh?"

Hermulan shoved him forward.

"I'll tell you that you can buy ten pounds of salt in this bazaar. But they won't sell it openly."

She looked at He Guang with a blank look on her face and continued to scare him viciously.

"Thy beads, though they are precious, are not tale here. You'd better hurry up and ask around, and when it's getting late, the salt sellers will go home. If you can't buy it, you won't have any paper to use tonight, so you'll have to use Shan Zhuo's toilet to raise ......."

When He Guang heard the last sentence, he immediately grabbed the beads and ran into the market.

"Got one." He Mulan breathed a sigh of relief, and said a few words to his little brother who ran over with a small basket of cloth and silk wool on his back.

"Shan Zhuo and He Guang both live in our house, and He Guang is from that background, I'm afraid he is not used to our family's toilet. You go buy them a new bucket, I'm embarrassed to carry this ......."

"I know Sister, I'll go!" Hua Mutuo nodded, glanced left and right, and pointed strangely not far away. Then why is the He family's Xiaolangjun talking to the lady who sells pickles?"

"This kid is really smart...... "He Mulan praised and patted his brother on the shoulder. I asked him to go buy something. If you have time, take care of him."

"Sister, are you going?"

"Where to go, you go and work on your ......"

He Mullan clenched his fist.

"I'm going to catch a few mice.".

He Mullan noticed that from the moment they got to the Horse Foot Bridge, there were a few people who were not quite right.

She often comes here with Hua Mutuo to buy things, so she naturally knows what the bazaar of Majiaoqiao is like. It is said to be a bazaar, but in fact, the surrounding villagers set up a stall in this kind of place with bridges and roads, or set up donkey carts and carts, and sell some daily necessities and household products.

Before they arrived, she noticed that there were a few horses in front of them that were very slow, and had been moving in front of them in the direction of the horse foot bridge, as if by coincidence, and when they reached some junctions, they would occasionally stop as if to rest.

Later, she took the opportunity of walking her horse to pass them, and after passing by, she looked carefully and finally determined that they were not Han Chinese.

The Hu and Han people have many habits that are different, whether it is riding horses or controlling strings. Ordinary people naturally can't see it, but Hua Mulan has been in the army for twelve years, and Hu people of any race have seen it, and He Mulan saw them. [,！ The posture of riding the horse and the pattern on the saddle made it clear from Mulan's memory that they must not be Han people from the Central Plains.

In fact, she also noticed that there were some places where He Guang didn't look like a Han Chinese. But his temperament is too elegant, and at first glance he is a child who has learned words and has good learning. Thinking that it was common for the Han Gaomen and Xianbei people in the north to intermarry, He Mulan didn't think too much.

In this place of Yucheng, especially in the countryside of Yucheng, it may not be a matter of seeing Xianbei people, but it is very suspicious to see such Xianbei people or other people of the Hu nationality wearing Han clothes. In addition, when she passed by them, these knights all looked down and did not look at her, which made her even more suspicious.

Is it the revenge of the Lu Shuihu people?

Or is it as Cui Lin said, Tuoba Tao has always sent people to stare at her to see if she is "good"?

Either way, Mullan didn't want to put up with it.

So after she walked her brother and He Guangzhi over, she pretended to buy needlework and gouache and stopped at a stall, and looked at the back with the small bronze mirror on the rouge stall.

When she was sure that the men were just wandering around the market, He Mullan dropped the bronze mirror and rushed quickly towards the suspicious people.

It's really punched.

In just an instant, He Mulan approached them, stretched out his fist in the surprised eyes of these people, and swung it over!

Boom!

The sound of fists hitting flesh was heard.

The man who was hit by Hermulan bowed his □ in pain on the spot and cried out in pain.

He Mulan restrained the man, squeezed his arm with one hand, and stuck another hand in his neck.

The rest of the people looked at He Mulan nervously, and the "hostage" who was sweating in pain didn't even dare to move.

"Who are you! Follow what we do! "

She asked in a tone of extreme disgust, and because she suspected that they were Xianbei people, she even said it once in Chinese and once in Xianbei.

As soon as the words fell, those people showed surprised expressions.

He had expected that these people might act inexplicably and pretend to be stupid, they might shout to attract the attention of others, and they might attack her despite the hostages in her hands, but he didn't expect this kind of ......

These men actually performed a standard military etiquette, and reported their origins very happily in Xianbei language.

"General Hua, we are the 'egrets' on the side of His Majesty's □, and we are here to monitor the movements of the Lu Shuihu people. It's a coincidence that I met you, please raise your hand! "

He Mullan's hostility did decrease a little when he heard their words, but he did not let go of his hand, frowned and did not speak.

The men glanced at each other helplessly, and took out a bronze medal engraved with the pattern of the egret from their arms, only to see that it was engraved with the words "Waiting for the official Cao Moumou, do not avoid the strong emperor, and the hundred bureaucrats are solemn", which is indeed the waiting official with the same role as the imperial history of the Han people.

Seeing that he was not a villain, He Mulan withdrew his hand, clenched his fists and said "offended".

At this time, it was the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and many institutions had two sets of systems of Xianbei and Han, and the local policy was also this way, that is, there were both Han and Xianbei thorn histories in the locality, and they governed together together.

During the reign of several emperors in the early days of the Northern Wei Dynasty, although the outer dynasties also had the imperial history platform, it was the "waiting officials" who belonged to the inner dynasty who really played a supervisory role.

Waiting for an official is an official position established by a Han courtier when he determines the name of an official. Originally, this official was the scout eyes and ears of several emperors of Wei when they were marching, and the Xianbei language was called "White Egret", which was taken from the meaning of "extending the neck and looking far away, alert and pure", and later became a first-class spy official, and he was selected to be a Xianbei person with a strong personality and a smart temperament.

Since Xianbei only has language and no writing, when the hundred officials are established, it is inevitably indecent to directly translate it into "white egret", and the Chinese character is written as "Hou Guan", and the yamen of the Hou Guan is called "Hou Guan Cao".

There are too many ethnic groups in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there are disputes between Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, all kinds of contradictions are intricate, to the time of Tuoba Tao, the number of waiting officials has increased sharply, almost distributed in the state capitals and counties, they are messy and chaotic in the countryside, as long as they hear that there are changes in the local area, and hundreds of officials are rampant and illegal, they can ask the edict to act.

Although the rank of the candidate is not high, his status is not low, and He Mullan does not want to make enemies with them.

These waiting officials obviously didn't want to have any disputes with Mulan, and when they saw that someone around them had already noticed and started to approach this side, they lowered their voices and kindly reminded He Mulan:

"According to our report, the people of Gai Wu have returned, please be careful of the Lu Shuihu people recently!"

After they finished saying this, they didn't linger long, and left in a hurry.

Only the inexplicable Hermulan and the curious villagers were left behind.

"This strong man, are you catching a thief?" An old lady who was talking to her smiled and complimented her." I lost five eggs here last time and my son said I miscalculated! I said, how could I have miscalculated, it must have been stolen by that thief. Why did you let them go, what did they steal from you?"

"......" He Mulan looked at the old woman, and didn't know how to answer for a while, so he said perfunctorily: "Ah, it's a misunderstanding, they didn't steal."

"Didn't steal anything, what are you doing to beat them!" The old lady said that if she changed her face, she would change her face." is also an unreasonable offspring! I don't know if you want to catch a thief! How can you hit people indiscriminately! "

"That's it!"

The number of vassals in the surrounding area has also increased.

He Mulan was speechless and bowed his head and left, and he really couldn't tell any facts and made no sense with these people. [,！ It can be said.

When the villagers saw that He Mullan had fled in the wilderness, they were even more energetic.

"I just saw that he didn't look like a serious person, he didn't buy anything, and he made a mess of Li Lang's rouge gouache!"

"It looks like he's in his thirties, and I'm actually going to find trouble with a few young men, but fortunately, people don't care, if I change a few fierce ones, even if he is a Xianbei person, I'm afraid he will be beaten!"

When He Mullan heard "a man in his thirties", his feet slipped and he almost burst into tears.

What an egret, it's a cheat!

What are you doing dangling next to her!

Call you suspicious!

Tomorrow, the new rumors in Yucheng will become "middle-aged men beating innocent guys"!