Chapter 373: No treachery, no business
75_75600 "Why only rice!" We're working hard, too! Lu Naro took the case, "General Hua said that the commission was discussed with you!" ”
Yuan Fang still had that kind smile and nodded approvingly.
"You're talking to me, aren't you talking to me?"
"Then you still say that it is only rice!"
"Your Excellency, don't be impatient......"
Yuan Fang patted him on the shoulder and pressed him down.
"First of all, you entered the Tiger Ben Army as captives, in my Great Wei, not only do the captives have no commission, but they are also responsible for miscellaneous labor, and the most important thing is that a ransom is required to restore the body of freedom......" Yuan Fang saw that Lu Naluo was about to jump up again, and hurriedly added: "Of course, you are voluntarily taken prisoners, so there are some things that don't have to be so careful, and there are naturally no miscellaneous labors and ransoms, but ......"
He blinked.
"If you really fight with the Tiger Ben Army led by General Hua, do you think you can survive?"
"There's always something to live!" Bruises on Lunaro's neck, "Are you underestimating us?" ”
"No, I mean to say that no one will take you on your way after an attack, except for our generals. You may not even be able to fight with an army of 500 tigers, if something really happens, the army of 5,000 tigers will not be able to defeat it, so what's the use of having 1,000 more of you? The general brought you because he didn't want them to be displaced, and that's one of them......"
Yuan Fang took out the account book and continued.
"A thousand of you are adult men, and each of you needs to consume a pound of corn or a pound of wheat flour every day, and in addition, the forage and bean feed for horses are at least ten pounds a day, and a thousand people are sixteen stone of grain a day, and it will take us more than two months to go, and it will take six months to go back and forth, and we will consume about three thousand stones of grain, not to mention ...... forage."
"One pound of gold can be exchanged for ten stone of grain, no, the more you go to the west, the more tight the food, and the more expensive the price is, so the food that you have to eat for a thousand people back and forth is more than three hundred catties of gold......
The more meticulous Yuan Fang's calculations, the more dazed Lu Naluo's expression became, and in the end he could only stalk his neck and say, "You said you wanted to make rice!" ”
"Yes, I said I wanted to make rice. But in the past, when you were hired, you only took commissions, not responsible for grain and grass, and the grain and grass were all self-sufficient in local looting, but now you can't follow the Tiger Ben Army to loot on the spot, so I don't have a commission if I pack a meal, and I can't pack a meal if I have a commission. ”
Yuan Fang said bluntly, you used to help people work without food, as long as money, but now we either pack rice or give money, you can't ask for food and money.
"Who said we didn't want food and grass before...... Yes! I*(&*&)#! Lu Naluo came out with a large string of Lu Shui's swearful dialects, turned his head and glared angrily at Gai Wu: "Gai Wu, you little rabbit cub, you actually sold us!" ”
Gai Wu touched his nose weakly.
Who dares to offend Yuan Fang in the general's mansion, and if he offends, he won't even use the money.
He weakly explained: "When I told them about the old affairs of the Tiantai Army, you hadn't come yet, so you can't blame me now......
Lu Naluo was dressed roughly, and he didn't know whether it was better to beat up Wu or the fox in Tsing Yi in front of him.
“…… And according to your previous rules, following the mission is the easiest and least dangerous task, neither to conquer the city nor to help defend it, and the commission is the least. Even if it's because Gai Wu is your young master, for the sake of this level, the commission I can give this trip is only ......."
Yuan Fang stretched out two fingers and shook them.
"Two hundred gold."
The price was actually very fair, and Lunaro could only grit his teeth.
"One is two hundred catties of gold, the other is three hundred catties of gold, I actually prefer to give money directly (it's strange), and I'm afraid that your people will really be hungry halfway." Yuan Fang smiled even more kindly, "You must know that there are deserts and wastelands along the road, and you can't buy food in the wilderness, we have to prepare in advance, if we replace you, maybe we will go hungry......"
Yuan Fang looked at Lu Naluo, who seemed to be out of breath, and narrowed his eyes.
"Rice, or money? Pick one. ”
Lu Naluo and the Lu Shuihu people beside him glanced at each other unwillingly, and Lu Naro still shook his head with hope.
"I don't choose anything, let's go back to Xingcheng."
General Hua is okay, this kid in Tsing Yi is too bullying.
It's an iron rooster!
"That's fine. It will take you about ten days to return to Xingcheng from here, which is one hundred and sixty stones of grain, but it is only a dozen catties of gold. By the way, you left Xingcheng before, so there is no one in the household registration this time, so you can't get a piece of land when you go back, I'm afraid you will have to find a way to support yourself when you get to the place......"
Yuan Fang shook the account book.
"But it's different with our generals, you can't rush back to naturalize immediately because you helped the mission go to Beiliang, and when you come back with General Hua, it will be a great hero, don't say divide the land and give land, maybe there will be more rewards."
"Your general is not a king, and he can't say that he can't give the land!"
Lunaro scratched his head.
"We are all honest people, don't coax me!"
"The Taishou of Qinzhou is Gao Shen, the friend of our general, the capital of Qinzhou is Xue Andu, the friend of our general, and the general of our family is only the deputy commander of the Tiger Army, do you know who the commander is?"
Yuan Fang turned on the "real flicker" mode and smiled brightly.
"Who?"
Lunaro asked back in a daze.
Yuan Fang arched his hand to the sky.
"It's the Great Khan."
A group of Lu Shuihu people opened their mouths wide.
"So we're actually working for the Great Khan?"
"Yes, our general is doing things for the Great Khan, and if you work for our generals, that is indirectly serving the Great Khan, do you think the Great Khan will reward you?"
"It should ...... Would it? ”
"I think it will, there are so many places in Wei Guodi!"
"I can't say that I can still get an official ......"
The group of people discussed for a while, and Lunaro was pushed and nodded by his companions behind him.
"Okay, just pack rice, let's go to Beiliang with you. After Beiliang returns, if we don't want to, you have to help us return to our hometown. ”
"It's a deal." Yuan Fang took out a piece of contract, "Then we will sign the contract now, just press it here......"
"What contract? None of us are literate! Lu Naluo waved his hand boldly, "We Lu Shuihu people are the most trustworthy, so we don't need to do this." ”
Yuan Fang was stunned.
"It's better to sign a contract, so you don't have to worry about me cheating you?"
"We don't have this set of ......"
Lu Naluo took out a dagger from his boot and smiled at Yuan Fang.
A bad premonition rose in Yuan Fang's heart, and he took half a step back.
"What ...... to do with a knife drawn"
You won't see that I'm fooling them, and I'll vent my anger first, right?
Yuan Fang is a typical child of the ancient family, who is not afraid of other people's intrigues and tricks, but afraid of others. The so-called barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, this is the truth.
Not to mention that Lu Shuihu and the people are all rough people, although they are easy to fool, the ideas in their heads are not easy to guess......
Because they don't have anything in their heads, what they think of and do.
Yuan Fang was in a state of anxiety, and Gai Wu on the side was about to explain something, but thinking that Yuan Fang had indeed "slaughtered" Lu Shuihu too ruthlessly, he still bit his lip and retreated.
Yuan Fang originally expected Gai Wu to intervene, but Gai Wu didn't make a sound, but Lu Naluo approached him step by step with a dagger with a cold light.
Poor Yuan Fang thought that the dagger was already green enough when he was pulled out of his boots, and at this moment, he was forced into the corner by the wall knock, and hurriedly took the account book and bluffed: "What are you going to do!" ”
"We Lushuihu people don't sign contracts......"
Lu Naluo grabbed Yuan Fang's wrist with one hand, held it horizontally in front of him, raised the dagger with the other, and opened his mouth in a mysterious way.
"We are a blood alliance!"
"Don't! No! Yes!!!!! ”
***
He Mulan and Li Shun reported their findings, and focused on explaining the affairs of the Xialu Shuihu people, and then they returned to the account and began to write letters to Tuoba Tao, who was far away in Pingcheng.
As he was picking up his pen, the barbarian at the door suddenly reported that Yuan Fang was visiting, and He Mulan nodded and let him in, knowing that he had come to ask for money for the commission of the Tiantai Army.
Most of He Mulan's net worth was given to Yuan Fang to take care of, and he didn't care what price he offered, anyway, the money was not brought to life or death, as long as it could be used.
"Those Lu Shuihu people are simply too deceitful!"
Yuan Fang scolded and rushed into the camp tent, placing his hand in front of He Mulan.
"Look at it! Look! What a sacrifice I paid to bargain for you! ”
He Mulan was startled at first, and thought that Lu Shuihu had done something reckless, so he reached out and grabbed Yuan Fang's hand and hurriedly glanced at it.
"Didn't you let Gai Wu follow you? Are there any conflicts? ”
He Mulan swept left and right, but didn't see anything wrong, and looked up and asked, "What about sacrifice?" ”
Nothing!
Is it possible to sacrifice *?
That's too heavy-mouthed, isn't it?
Yuan Fang grimaced his face, put his hand under He Mulan's nose, and called viciously: "They released a lot of blood from me for the sake of blood alliance!" These barbarians! ”
"Hey, have I been lame lately?"
As soon as He Mulan heard that the blood was allied, he reflexively looked at Yuan Fang's wrist, and touched Yuan Fang until his face was swollen, and he didn't find any wounds.
Yuan Fang was probably a little ashamed by He Mulan's worried look, put away his somewhat fussy expression, and shyly stretched out his middle finger at He Mulan.
This time it was replaced by He Mulan, who was taken aback, and her first reaction was that Yuan Fang was wearing it, otherwise how could it be such a modern gesture!
Wait, did I do anything to get him to give him a middle finger?
I thought I had been walking in the cold wind......
He Mulan turned his head sideways inexplicably, looked at Yuan Fang's hand, and finally found a narrow opening on the tip of his middle finger.
The person who injured him was probably a good hand with a dagger, the hand was fast and steady, the knife was sharp and narrow but not very deep, such a wound was the easiest to heal and not easy to infect.
Yuan Fang's lack of blood near the wound now is proof of this.
Seeing that Yuan Fang stretched out his middle finger for this, He Mulan breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head.
"I knew that they made a covenant with blood, so let me go, anyway, there's no ...... to put some blood on me"
She casually rolled up her sleeves and let Yuan Fang see the wound on her arm.
"Your wound really isn't a big deal, look at me."
Knife wounds and arrow marks were visible almost everywhere on Hermulan's arms, some of them were barely noticeable light-colored marks of flesh, while others were uneven and unsightly.
It is often said that when a general's martial arts are strong to the extreme, there are no scars on his body, and Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong in the Three Kingdoms are a good skin, which makes his wife surprised.
But He Mulan got up little by little from a small soldier, and he has experienced all kinds of swords, guns and arrows, and when he doesn't have a shield, he can only use his arm as a shield to block the vital point.
What's more, she still has a lot of fire to protect, so she can't come and go without worry.
Yuan Fang originally wanted to use the blood that was "released" today to invite merit in front of He Mulan, ask for favors, and get some benefits in the future, but when he saw He Mulan's wound on only one of his left arms, he closed his mouth in shame.
He was pampered in Wubi, and was guarded by armored soldiers when he went in and out, and he couldn't understand the world of the people of He Mulan and Lu Shuihu......
Yuan Fang was suddenly stunned.
"What? Scared? ”
Hermulan shook his head with a smile as he amusedly gathered his sleeves.
"It's not that I'm boasting, my martial arts are rarely matched by my peers, and the wounds on the bodies of others are only more. You go and see Chen Jie, he is just a personal guard, and he doesn't know how many wounds on his body, big and small. ”
"Literati use their brains, and we sell our lives."
He Mulan's words exploded in Yuan Fang's ears like thunder, so startled that he staggered and almost fell at He Mulan's feet.
Maybe Yuan Fang's face was too bad, He Mulan stood up from the front of the case and helped him up.
"Suddenly feeling unwell? If you're too tired, take a break and don't push yourself. How much blood was squeezed out of the blood just now? ”
It's just a small incision, so it shouldn't cause anemia, right?
"It's just that I'm still complacent, thinking that I can do business......" Yuan Fang was sweating profusely, "I treat people insincerely, my words are disgusting, what kind of business in the world can be done by people like me for a long time, it's just bullying and bullying honest people......"
"Yuan Fang? Yuan Fang? ”
He Mulan shook Yuan Fang, who was completely distracted.
Yuan Fang grabbed He Mulan's arm to prop up his body, as if he had found strength from her, and said quickly and in detail:
"My lord, I made an alliance with the Tiantai Army, they escorted us to Beiliang, and we provided them with grain and grass, but no commission. When they return to Wei, you will be responsible for relocating the people they want to return to their hometowns and allowing them to receive land. ”
"This ......," He Mulan frowned, "Your Majesty's original intention was that all the people of Lu Shuihu could get open fields in Qinzhou, and there was no need for me to settle them!" What's more, it's too harsh not to pay! ”
"I, I'm ......" Yuan Fang covered his eyes in shame, "I bullied those Lu Shuihu people who couldn't know about the edict of the court, and deliberately deceived them." I think that you are not wealthy, and you can save a little, but I feel that their brains are stupid......"
Yuan Fang's expression suddenly froze.
For he saw Gaiwu, who was entering the big tent with the curtain lifted.
At this time, the latter's eyes widened, glaring at Yuan Fang with inexplicable resentment, and then glanced at He Mulan with an expression of disbelief.
Perhaps in his mind, it was almost a fantasy that the generous and benevolent master and this dog-headed military master actually calculated their own people like this, so Gai Wu, who couldn't accept this result at all, immediately threw the curtain and turned around and left.
The situation was developing so quickly that even Hermulan didn't understand how such a bloody affair had evolved to the present.
Is it that she is too casual on weekdays and does not have the prestige of a general, so everyone close to her is willing to enter and leave the camp at will?
Or did she take too much fancy to Yuan Fang, but she didn't think that this person was from a wealthy family after all, and there would always be a gap with others in terms of values?
But this is not the time to talk about these things anyway. He Mulan pushed Yuan Fang and pointed out of the tent.
"Whatever you thought before, now go and tell what you want to say. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, but knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and it is very good. ”
"Me!"
"Go!"
Hermulan almost roared.
"Don't wait for a big mistake, how many misunderstandings arise like this!"
Yuan Fang was yelled at by He Mulan, and he was so shocked that he stood up, raised his feet and went to chase Gai Wu who ran out.
Only Hemulan rubbed his forehead tiredly, and he had no intention of calming down to write a letter.
"In the final analysis, it's because I'm too poor and I don't communicate with them ......"
She muttered to herself.
"Since when did I barely talk to them? Yes, I thought I was carrying such a heavy burden and other people couldn't keep up with me, so I looked at everything with the mentality of a patron and never asked for their help......"
He Mullan laughed self-deprecatingly.
Yuan Fang said that he thought they were stupid, and why didn't she think that these companions of hers were not smart enough? She even said arrogant words like "You are walking too slowly, you can't keep up with me" directly to Di Yefei.
Yuan Fang thought that she had no money, so he felt that she valued money, maybe even Tuoba Tao thought so, so he sent Yuan Fang.
She is a woman who can't have children, she can't be crowned a king and worship the prime minister, and she can't benefit future generations, Tuoba Tao is afraid that she feels that if she is rich enough, she will enjoy her life.
And what she wants is just "the world is the same".
"The Great Harmony of the World" blinded her eyes, and she walked too fast and too quickly on this road, and began to gradually reveal signs of danger.
If the situation is not handled well this time, her team will face a situation of falling apart.
What about Tuobatao?
Tuoba Tao is even more anxious than her, has he already stepped into danger?
Maybe what Cui Hao said is true, it's not that he is too selfish, but that he has far-sighted vision and has seen what kind of danger Tuoba Tao is facing?
He Mulan was in a mess of self-reflection, angry at Yuan Fang's self-assertion on the one hand, and regretful for his self-righteousness on the other, and his forehead was almost bursting.
Her body is too different from before, and the yang energy she is full of always can't find an outlet to vent, and she will be irritable over time, and this is the case at this moment.
At this time, Chen Jie, who had not been seen for a long time, threw the bruised Zheng Zong into the tent like a chicken, and pointed at Zheng Zong and took a spit.
"General, this guy is going to do unsightly things with your dirty clothes and pants!"
A weak chicken like Zheng Zong was almost hanged and beaten in front of Chen Jie, not to mention that he had been beaten before, and when he heard his accusation, he immediately screamed.
"Nope! I didn't! I just smell dirty or not, do you want to wash it a few more times! ”
"How can anyone smell your clothes and show that disgusting look on your face! I think you can't wait to hold the general's feet and lick them! ”
Chen Jie gritted his teeth and crunched.
"You ...... You're ......."
He couldn't think of any words to describe him after thinking about it for a long time, so he could only kick the pillar in a huff.
He Mulan had been upset and irritable by the contradiction between Yuan Fang and Gai Wu, and she had thought about her many inappropriateness before, and then heard Chen Jie and Zheng Zong come to her because of such a trivial matter, and she faintly had the urge to kill.
She was originally a restrained and thoughtful person, and the more she did this, the more pressure she put on herself.
Others may do everything possible to blame the sin on others and think that it is someone else's fault, but she has been accustomed to reflecting on whether it is her own fault since she was a child. Such a character can naturally be called a role model, but after a long time, it will inevitably fall into the misunderstanding of "in fact, they are all right, only I am wrong".
He Mulan has been too tired in the past few decades, and I am afraid that it will be even more tired in the future, as there are more and more people of insight around her, her shortcomings of shallow foundation and insufficient precipitation have also been exposed little by little, and when she wants to have more subordinates in the future, more terrible contradictions will wait to erupt.
"I just adore General Hana! Because I can't be as strong as him in my life! I'm just cranky and sometimes stupid when I get confused, but I'm definitely not sick! ”
Zheng Zong was afraid that He Mulan would leave him halfway when he was a hysterical madman, and explained in a hurried and panicked tone: "I really haven't done anything hurtful!" ”
"Then you ever teased Helian Mingzhu? You've slandered your colleagues in front of Helian Mingzhu many times, haven't you? When he was still 'Zhao Ming', he used to tell me everything, but I just couldn't find a chance to teach you a lesson......"
He Mulan pinched the table with his hand, resisting his urge to go berserk.
Zheng Zong's face suddenly turned pale.
She ...... Did she say it? Did she talk to Her Majesty...... Not ......"
"No......" Zheng Zong shuddered and thought of an even more terrifying possibility. Could it be that the general also loves Princess Helian, so he wants to teach me a lesson for her......"
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
"That's not the point!"
Chen Jie and He Mulan yelled at Zheng Zong in unison, and he trembled and fell directly to the ground, not daring to speak again for a long time.
"General, since you know his true face, such a person must not be able to stay by your side. You are standing up to the sky like this......" Chen Jie said too slippery, and he felt like he bit his tongue and swallowed the "man", "...... How can you leave such a thief-headed villain! ”
"I ...... How am I a villain! I'm just whining! At that time, she was a eunuch, and it was common to laugh at the little eunuchs in the palace, I liked her appearance, sometimes I touched a few casually, and I didn't do it alone! I know she's a princess, do I dare to touch me! ”
Zheng Zong stiffened his neck and shouted.
"You're disgusting!"
"Stop arguing!"
He Mulan, who had a headache and was about to explode, stepped forward suddenly, lifted one with one hand, his forehead was flushed, and his eyes were even more selective.
"Get out of here, or ......"
She looked at Chen Jie and Zheng Zong, who were already frightened, and threw them out of the tent.
"I'll kill you!".