Chapter 350: Terminally Ill
Yuan Jiawu Bi.
"It's not Tuoba Tao who came, nor is it any of the Tuoba family's generals?" When Yuan Zhe heard the news from the north, his face suddenly turned pale: "Didn't you say that once this Xianbei dog fights, it will definitely be a royal expedition?" Liu Yuanjing's news has not been leaked?"
"With Liu Yuanjing's caution, it must have been leaked out, maybe he even used the secret things as bait." Song Er was also puzzled, "It stands to reason that there is no war outside now, no worries about trouble inside, and even the rebellion in the summer land has been calmed. Even if he didn't go on a personal expedition, he must have sent a trustworthy clan general, but now he has sent two young generals who haven't even dried their hairs......"
Song Er paused, "Could it be that Liu Yuanjing was not cautious enough to let Tuoba Tao or Cui Hao show it?"
"How could it be! This plan even made Liu Yuanjing a chess piece, and the king of Pengcheng was under such great pressure, and he would definitely create all kinds of illusions to make Tuoba Tao pay attention to the south. I originally thought that if Tuoba Tao didn't come, it would be enough for them to lose tens of thousands of troops and drink a pot......"
Yuan Zhe smiled predictively: "Hehe, now that there are not tens of thousands of troops, it is the same to destroy the vanguard first."
"When the Duke wanted to do this, I warned you that this strategy is too damaging, and if it is not at a critical juncture, ......you must not abuse the 'patient'.
Yuan Zhe was afraid of Liu Yikang, the king of Pengcheng, but he was not afraid of this messenger called "Song Er", and he was just casually perfunctory when he heard the words: "If you don't throw out a few people, I don't know how powerful it is, I also tried it early, and I also had a preparation in my heart. As for King Pengcheng, this place is going to die, and I think my sincerity is obvious enough. When we move our family to the Song Kingdom, we still have to rely on King Pengcheng to take care of him, how can we pull him back?! "
Song Er sighed, and was very opposed to Yuan Zhe's plan to persuade Liu Yikang to do this, but he was just a messenger and a think tank, if the two of them didn't listen to him, he would have no way at all, but repeatedly warned the army that if there was no abnormal movement, he could not rashly release the "patient" and so on, so he left with a worried face.
Yuan Zhe watched him walk away from upstairs, and then he slipped against the wall and fell to the ground, coughing up two balls of blood.
His destiny is not long in coming. The Yuan family was used as a chess piece by Liu Song, and the Wei State was pressing forward step by step, and in the blink of an eye, the entire Wubi was about to come to naught, Yuan Zhe was originally angry and hateful in his heart, and suddenly he had choking diaphragm, no matter what he ate, he would vomit out, and his esophagus was like a block, and he couldn't eat, so he relied on taking decoction to survive.
When this disease is obtained, the person gradually becomes unable to eat, and is as thin as dry wood. In order to cover up his illness, Yuan Zhe rarely set foot in other places except for the secret passage and Yan Feilou, and although he seemed to eat as usual every day, most of them fell into the lake behind Yan Feilou.
Yuan Zhe originally pinned all his hopes on Yuan Hua, instructed him to secretly hoard grain and grass, buy medicinal materials, and finally take a handful of gold and silver and retreat Liu Song, but this son was obsessed with orchids, and even reached the point of abandoning his wife and children, not only disobeying his opinion, but also repeatedly trying to release those people in the secret passage and the mountain col outside the city, so that he had to give up his useless eldest son.
He hates Hu people the most, when he was in Liu Song, he had already taken the door of the new emperor Liu Yifu, and spent a huge amount of money to buy a throne, on the way to Jiankang, the new emperor was killed by the Xie family, and Liu Yilong was established on the throne, and the throne became a bubble.
Not long after, Tuoba took advantage of the death of the first emperor and waved his troops south when the country was in turmoil, and captured three states in a row, and the Chen County where the Yuan family was located was captured, and the Yuan family and Liu Song were separated by many checkpoints from then on.
Since then, the huge amount of money originally spent by the Yuan family has been wasted, and the expedition of the Tuoba heir army to Sanzhou has caused huge losses, and the Yuan family has almost collapsed.
Who knew that just when he was ready to live in peace, Song Guo refused to let go of the Yuan family. They didn't bring the evidence of their own buying of officials back then, first coerced and then lured, forcibly coerced him to help Song Guo loosen up spies and spies, and even requisitioned the Yuan family's business routes as a channel for transporting materials.
As more and more spies entered the Wei State, Yuan Zhe realized that it was a matter of time before the Yuan family was discovered by the Wei State, and the Pengcheng King of the Wei State pressed Mingli step by step to let him return to the Song State as an official, but secretly united with the Yuzhou suzeraint to isolate the Yuan family, and forced Yuan Zhe into madness.
The Hu people of Wei were as dirty as dogs, and the powerful ministers of Liu and Song were almost disgusting. Except for the Wu wall of the Yuan family, there is no place in the world that is a paradise on earth, since this is the case......
Then he will destroy them.
Let them know that although the Yuan family is small, it is not a persimmon that is easy to pinch!
Anyway, his life is short, even if he fights for his son Yuan Fang, who is the most like him, and gives him more than ten years, maybe he will have found a way to get out by then.
As for whether there will be chaos outside?
He's dead, and he can't care so much.
Just when Yuan Zhe was clutching his chest and dreaming of revenge on the world, Yuan Fang knocked on the door of Yuan Zhe's room in a panic.
"Grandpa! Grandpa! You're not there! "
Yuan Zhe wiped the remaining blood from his mouth, stood up and straightened his clothes, and then opened the door for his son.
The guards guarding the door all looked at Yuan Fang with curiosity on their faces, this little boy has always been loved by Yuan Zhe, and he does things neatly, he will never be so panicked. ]
"Grandpa, my brother has a fever, and the fever is very bad!"
Yuan Fang gasped.
Yuan Zhe was just about to put his father's shelf and lecture him a few frizzy words, but Yuan Fang's words directly pulled him into the house.
"What the hell is going on, what are you brothers hiding from me, say!"
Yuan Zhe's eyes widened, and his eyes shot over like lightning.
"…… Brother wanted to let go of the county lord, probably because she touched ......" Yuan Fang lowered his head, "I went in time and pulled Brother back......"
"I knew it was a curse for the woman to keep it! I knew what her identity was, and I killed her directly! Yuan Zhe gritted his teeth, "What about the woman?" You didn't kill him?"
Yuan Fang is not an ignorant child, and he is not verbose when he really wants to do it, which is why Yuan Zhe thinks that he has more potential to be the head of the house than Yuan Hua.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Fang lowered his head and was silent.
"Hmph, could it be that you are also fascinated by her? With the way she looks now, who else can she confuse, I want to see! "
"Brother forced him to die, and I was in a hurry to get him out of the sick cell, so I didn't pull him and hurried out. Who would have thought that my brother would still be sick......"
Yuan Fang looked up and saw his father looking at him with a terrifying gaze, and took a few steps back in shock.
"You brought Hua'er out, how can you guarantee that you're okay?"
Yuan Zhe's voice was gloomy and terrifying.
"Child, the child went in with his mouth and nose covered, and he also pushed the brother away with the back of the knife, and he didn't touch the two of them......"
Yuan was more and more scared and hurriedly explained.
"I'm sure I'm not sick, but my brother ......"
"What else can be cured, throw it out and fend for yourself." Yuan Zhe snorted coldly, "He can't be a big deal, rather than being gnawed clean by the Xianbei and Song people, it's better to die now." If you don't throw him out, I will find an opportunity to kill him with a sword, lest he harm my grandson and you."
"Aren't there a lot of people who still haven't died? The Helian family is not in danger of life so far, and her past illness may not be so bad? Brother is just having a fever now, find a doctor to treat it, maybe it can be cured, I beg you, Grandpa! "
Yuan Fang knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Yuan Zhe only felt that the suffocation in his chest was getting heavier and heavier, almost to the point of fainting, so he immediately stretched out his hand and waved it, called a few guards to come in, and dragged Yuan Fang out.
"If you don't deal with this matter, I'll deal with it myself, you can do it yourself, don't let me down!"
Chenjun border.
It's rare for Yue Ying to run like this with his hooves, and since He Mulan received the Tiger Ben, the march speed can't be too fast, which often makes Yue Ying nostalgic for the old days. So once you get the opportunity to run wildly, the horse that immediately runs steps on the meteor, arousing the displeasure of another war horse.
The two horses chased and chased forward, but they suffered from the subordinates who were chasing Hermulan. It wasn't until He Mulan let Yue Ying run around and turned back that he joined the people behind him.
But there is no man who does not love horses. After more than a year of running-in with He Mulan, Yue Ying has grown clear and handsome, it can be said that he is sharp and skinny, the wind is light into the four hooves, Xue Andu's eyes are green all the way, but unfortunately Yue Ying is not even allowed to let him approach.
"It is rumored that General Hua's horse and His Majesty's horse are the same mother's compatriot's Dawan good horse, and now seeing it galloping like this, I can already imagine the horse roaring in the battlefield...... "Xue An kept admiring, "It's just a pity that we have tired the general, if you ride away alone, I'm afraid you will already arrive in Chen County tomorrow."
"After all, it can't be delayed for half a day, and it's nothing." He Mulan didn't get off the horse, he whistled straight away, and Da Hong immediately approached Yue Ying obediently.
He Mullan immediately changed horses, and the speed was lightning fast.
This is also one of the proudest riding skills of the Montenegrin knights, which can be used to change horses on bumpy horses to save time on the march.
Xue Andu has always thought that he is the best among the young generals, and now Mo Shuo and He Mulanbi, Di Yefei next to her, Na Luo Hun, and even Chen Jie have the ability to change horses. Although Gai Wu doesn't have this ability, his knife skills are not under him, and he still has the appearance of sneaking past him, which makes him feel in his heart that there are many talents around Mulan, which can be described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Thinking about it this way, the proverb that "the elite of the cavalry comes out of the Great Wei, and the elite of the Great Wei comes out of the Black Mountain" is not false at all, if the people of the Black Mountain have such riding skills, then the ability to control the strings immediately is only stronger.
In contrast, his subordinates are really only small minions who can only defend the place.
Now their group is changing their disguises and following Xue Andu to Chenjun.
The edict of the central government has been delayed until now, and there are frequent patients with epidemics in the north of Chenjun who have been discovered, although they have been dealt with in a timely manner, but they have still caused a lot of panic.
Many of the towns in the south of Chen County were closed, and the army could not pass through Guò, so He Mulan and Xue Andu and others discussed, so they simply turned the light into darkness and went to Chen County to carefully investigate the news.
Xue Andu also has a lot of ranger friends in Chen County, and Yuzhou is the base camp of the Kou family, among the so many sect masters in Chen County, except for some who believe in Buddhism, most of them actually believe in the Tao of Heavenly Masters, and some are "Taoists" who have changed their names.
This is very helpful for them to find out the news, if it is really found out that it is the ghost of the Yuan family, it is easy to sneak into the Yuan family's Wubi even if they change their identities.
He Mulan hadn't told them that she knew the path of the Yuan family's Wubi, and even knew that there was a secret passage outside Yan Fei's Mansion leading to the Windward Pavilion, and that His Excellency Windward had a secret passage that connected the entire land. [,! The entrance of the road.
Thanks to the crossing, she not only went to Yuan's Wubi, but was also led by Yuan Fang to run through the whole Wu Fort, lived in Yanfeilou, and followed Gai Wu to see the secret passage, with her sense of direction and memory, if she really entered Yuan's house, she would not even go wrong.
Daomen has also been looking around for news of the missing person, Chen County, as a large county in Yuzhou, has many Taoist temples and Taoist people from Youfang, which can be used by Kou Yizhi.
He Mulan was pressed for time, and he was no longer willing to just stay in Runan and passively wait for the enemy to amplify his moves, so as soon as Kou Yizhi and Xue An said that they wanted to go to Chen County to investigate, they followed south together.
Di Yefei's appearance was too prominent to be suitable for infiltrating Chen County, and the same was true for Gai Wu, who was a native of Lu Shuihu. In addition, he was the deputy commander of the crusade army, and Gai Wu did not have any official position, so the two of them and Mangu stayed in the camp and waited for He Mulan's dispatch at any time.
Chen Jie is a Han man, although Na Luo Hun is a Xianbei person, but there is not much abnormality in his appearance, He Mulan is not even more inconspicuous in the crowd without speaking, and he is not conspicuous in the crowd with his head down, and a group of people follow Xue Andu to dress up as a ranger, and also dyed Yue Ying into flowers, and instantly became a group of unruly people who traveled south and north.
Kou Yizhi set off early to prepare for a few people in the Taoist temple in Xiangcheng. When He Mulan came, he had obtained a token from Su Hejun, who could mobilize the egret officials near Chen County, and also brought them to Kou Yiyi, as long as he arrived at the local post station, loosened the token, and his own egret officials would come to the door.
A group of people walked to the Songnian Temple outside Xiangcheng City, and a few small Taoist priests had already come out and introduced a group of people from He Mulan into the quiet room.
In the quiet room, Kou Yizhi sat opposite each other with several men in different dresses, and there was tea on the small table, and the tea was fragrant, but these men probably didn't like to drink tea, and the tea barely moved.
Seeing He Mulan and the others enter the house, several men suddenly seemed to be amnestied, and immediately saluted He Mulan and Xue An, and said happily: "You are finally here!" We are the Egret Officials of Chen County, and we have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of the Marquis! "
Kou Yizhi took a sip of tea and shook his head when he heard the words: "Several officials probably don't like the tea in our view, and they have been watching the door more than 20 times since an hour ago."
The crowd laughed, and a group of mermaids rushed in and sat down in the ashram.
He Mulan and several egret officials finished politely, and asked them directly: "I asked you to monitor the Yuan family before, but what's wrong?"
Several egret officials immediately nodded, and the square-faced man led by him spoke: "The most valuable thing in the Yuan family is the grain store, since last year, the Yuan family has purchased grain on a large scale, sometimes even hoarding it at a price higher than the market, causing several big grain merchants in Yuzhou to also hoard a lot, but they are not as powerful as the Yuan family's hoarding."
There was no money in the Wei State, the copper and silver coins used in the Song State were not in circulation, and the south also used grain and silk as currency, so "grain" was money.
As soon as He Mulan heard this, he knew that there must be a ghost in the Yuan family, and his face became solemn. Anything else?"
"There is also the caravan of the Yuan family, since a year ago, it has increased from a dozen to dozens, and they are all out at four o'clock a year, except for the taxes paid to the local government, I haven't seen them bring any strange goods back, and what they bring out is all ordinary things......
A few egret officials have been investigating for a short time, and they haven't found much.
"I heard that the eldest of the Yuan family began to be disliked by the head of the Yuan family, but the second son of the Yuan family was favored. Some people say that the boss of the Yuan family wants to seize power, so the Yuan family has only started to act frequently this year."
He Mulan pondered intently, but heard Kou Yi say quietly: "Not only that, the Yuan family has purchased a lot of medicinal materials from Xiangcheng, and the surrounding herb pickers also say that the Yuan family has taken all their medicinal materials......
"What?"
Hemulan's eyes widened.
It's really the Yuan family!
"Sacrificial wine! Sacrificial wine! "
A small Taoist priest called softly outside the door, "Lord Guan, please come over."
"Ah, don't accompany me, my senior brother is not a casual person, there must be something."
Kou Yizhi stood up, nodded apologetically to He Mulan and the others, and left the table.
He Mulan and the others discussed with the Egret Officer how to sneak into Yuan's house to investigate, and when they were almost clueless, Kou Yizhi entered the house with a smile and handed out a letter to He Mulan.
"Providence!"
He Mullan took the letter and glanced at it in confusion.
"Yuan Fang, the second son of the Yuan family, secretly invited a famous doctor in Chen County, and the master of this view was a disciple of my Heavenly Master Taoist Medical Department. My senior brother's medical skills are not as good as mine, and he has received so much gold and silver to make tricks, and he is afraid that he will not be able to cure the disease, so he wants to invite me out of the mountain......"
Kou Yizhi looked at He Mulan, whose eyes lit up, and smiled at Ji Yue.
"I wonder if General Hua is free to accompany me on this trip? Be a guard for the poor road?"