Chapter 302: The human heart is unpredictable
Most of the Hu people have a straightforward temperament, and they don't have too many flowery intestines, like the frustrated herd Qian, because they have lived in a very complicated court since childhood, and they have gradually become impregnated.
Most of the Hu people He Mulan came into contact with were straightforward in nature, although Gai Wu, whom she knew in her previous life, was the leader of the Lu Shuihu people in Xingcheng, but he was also a little stupid, but he still had some principles and attached importance to affection, so he was able to become friends with He Mulan later, and he even frankly told her the secret of the Yuan family's Wubi.
Gai Wu, whom He Mullan met, is Gai Wu, who is nearly thirty years old, and now this little Gai Wu is only eighteen years old, in He Mulan's opinion, just like his own "son and nephew", not only did he show mercy, but also reprimanded him in a tone like an elder treating a junior.
However, people who practice martial arts are originally "the strong are the longest", and the Lu Shuihu people are even more weak and strong, which is not worth being surprised by Gai Wu.
What surprised him was the strength that Hermulan had transmitted from that finger, and the eyesight that had found the weakness of his sword technique in the blink of an eye!
If everyone has such a terrible ability, what else can they fight? As long as you drag it for a while, you can find the opponent's weakness and attack the weak with the strong, where is it possible to win?
There are many people in this world who can see through the enemy's weaknesses, but they can't take advantage of others' weaknesses, but Hua Mulan can see through the shortcomings of his sword skills and break his sword skills!
This has reached the realm of the top martial artist! Where is he able to show off?!
Lu Shuihu's philosophy of life is "don't anger the strong", otherwise there is no rule that leaders and people will retreat if they fail in the competition.
Gai Wu is not a leader now, at least he is a strong contender for the leader, otherwise he would not say "I still have a family to support", his knife technique, it is enough to go to a nobleman's house to be a thug and a guest to support a family, but he has to fight for this three taels of gold for a month, and there are many people who want to support.
He Mulan really wanted to help him, but he didn't want to get involved in the dispute between Lu Shuihu's people, and he didn't want to involve the matter of the envoy to Beiliang with Lu Shuihu's Tiantai army, so although he was happy to see his acquaintance, he was already mentally prepared to exclude Gai Wu.
Who expected that Gai Wu was startled and bowed his head.
"Your Excellency's martial arts are amazing, please accept my worship!"
No matter how cheeky He Mulan is, she can't stand this worship, she is the one who really opened the cheat, more than 30 years of experience and accumulation, coupled with Mulan's natural divine power, and her familiarity with him many times, this can stop his attack with one move, which is not an amazing martial art.
She took a step back slightly, and made a posture of holding up.
"You get up first, I'm older than you, and it's common for martial arts to be higher than you."
Gai Wu didn't believe this, he didn't know how many masters older than him had been defeated in the past, and he had even killed a lot of people, but he had never suffered such a setback.
Lu Shuihuren's fanaticism for the strong made him resolutely bow three times, and then he stood up.
"Although I am young, I respect heroes the most, if the general is willing to accept me to learn martial arts by my side, not only will I follow the work of dogs and horses, I have three hundred families, all of whom are Lu Shuihu people, and they are all driven by the general at will."
After he said this, he bit his lip as if he was annoyed, and said with a red face: "However, the general had better ...... Rice ......"
The last two words were so light and low that only He Mullan in front of her heard them, which made her almost burst out laughing.
The Lushuihu people have been struggling with extreme poverty, and they can't imagine that it was the same ten years ago!
He Mulan appeased the people, ordered Chen Jie to send these "recommended" people out of the house, and said that he would give them an answer in three days. Although these translators were not hired on the spot, everyone had speculations in their hearts, and some of them knew that they were not good to use, and they were already dragging their feet out of the house.
Chen Jie seemed to be very satisfied with Gai Wu's knowledge of current affairs, and when he sent him out, he crutched his arm with his arm, and said with his eyebrows: "Wu Gai, you were frightened by the ability of our general, right?" His ability is not only that, our generals know astronomy, geography, can arrange troops, and can also take the rank of general among the ten thousand troops. The ghost party knows, right? Our general was captured alive! Does Da Tan know? Our general killed it! Hu Xia's Plains Gonghe Lianding has also suffered the loss of my general, you kid has vision! ”
He squeezed his eyes and asked, "You said you have three hundred subordinates, but is it true?" ”
Oops, what is the most lacking in the General's Mansion right now?!
O man!
There's not even a sweeper!
Isn't this a labor force sent to your door!
"It's not a subordinate." Gai Wu frowned, "It's family." ”
"Huh, what's the difference?"
Chen Jie was stunned.
Many aristocrats directly call their servants or family members "family", which is actually a subordinate and a decent person. Chen Jie thought that the "family" mentioned by Gai Wu was the house slaves who had no country and the family was ruined, and he felt that this young master was so poor that he came to eat for a month's offering of three taels of gold, and the figure of three hundred families was really exaggerated.
"It's all subsections. Are there really 300 people? ”
Chen Jie asked with concern.
Gai Wu's subordinates were not limited to 300, but Pingcheng was not easy to enter, and after it was broken into zero, only his father's core of 300 people entered Pingcheng and worked everywhere in Pingcheng, supporting himself and his family in Xingcheng at the same time.
If he really wanted to summon, he would be able to gather them all in one day.
So the young master nodded.
"Some are my elders, and some are my father's close friends, and there are indeed three hundred."
Chen Jiemei smiled, "It turns out that you are still a person with a great background!" Our generals have a good temper and good skills, you chose the right path, follow our generals, and the martial arts will advance by leaps and bounds! Look at me, I was a little centurion before, and after following our general, the lieutenant general couldn't beat me! I feed our generals every morning, and I don't know how many knives and guns are destroyed, although your knife technique is good, but in my opinion, it is not perfect enough, and my generals have more to learn, maybe it will not be far from Dacheng! ”
Chen Jie then flickered, blowing Hemulan's ability to the sky and the earth, and the foolish Gai Wu was eager to follow him to break into the general's mansion again.
"And you see, our general's mansion is very big, but no one, right? Your 300 families don't have a place to live, right? Our general's palace is empty! As far as my general and the two of us live in, even if it is a corner room, it is enough for you to live! There is a roof, an eaves and a kitchen, what a good place to stay! ”
Chen Jie grinned and patted Gai Wu's shoulder.
"You work hard, I'm optimistic about you!"
When Gai Wu heard Chen Jie's words, he thought of the people of the Lu Shuihu tribe who lived in the bridge cave, in the ruined temple, in the stable firewood house of the temple, and in all kinds of dark places, and then turned his head to look at the empty and open front yard of the General's Mansion, and thought of entering the front hall all the way to see many empty houses, nodded heavily, and said to Chen Jie gratefully:
"Thank you so much! I'll try to get General Hua to agree with me! ”
It was as if he had found his future goal in life, and he strode away with his head held high.
He must make General Hua identify with him!
Certain!
"Boy, the ability is very good, but the brain is not very bright...... Chen Jie flickered away from Gai Wu, standing at the door and muttering to himself: "It's so easy to fool, no wonder Xia Guo can't stay as soon as he is destroyed, and he runs to Pingcheng to make a living......"
He pinched his chin.
"I don't know if the general will take him in, three hundred laborers, don't want money, where to find it......"
"What are you muttering to yourself?" Seeing that Chen Jie hadn't gone in for a long time, Mangu slapped his head suddenly, "Stupid? ”
"Who is stupid!"
Chen Jie came back to his senses and bared his teeth at the barbarian ancients.
"Let's go, go back to the general."
The two closed the door and went back to the front hall, and found that He Mulan was holding the recommendation of four people and reading it repeatedly, and there were three on the desk next to him, probably not wanted.
Chen Jie and Mangu didn't dare to take a look at what was in He Mulan's hand, they only looked at the other three, and the one that was placed directly above was Gai Wu's, obviously He Mulan had excluded him.
"General, that kid named Wu Gai looks very good, why don't you use him? He was so impressed by you that he didn't even want his monthly money! ”
Chen Jie looked at the recommendation letter painfully.
"There are three hundred more subordinates for you!"
Save three taels of gold!
Their general gave him three pieces of cloth a month to make pocket flowers!
It's really more popular than a person, he can also speak Xianbei and Chinese, and he can write!
"Can you use 300 subordinates, are they ordinary people?" He Mulan lightly reminded him, "I have a shallow foundation now, and I have been noticed by many parties, so it is best to keep a low profile." Suddenly, there were 300 more subordinates, and I don't know how many people were going to be jealous. That kid may have a special identity, and I can't get in with it. ”
Chen Jie originally wanted to persuade him, but when he heard He Mulan's explanation, he couldn't help but be convinced, so he had to look at the recommendation letter distressedly.
I knew I wasn't fooling that kid. ’
Chen Jie regretted it in his heart.
I don't know how he's going to do it...... Don't pester the general. ’
He didn't dare to say that he had done something he shouldn't have done again, and he was afraid that He Mullan would whip him again because he was good at it, so he kept silent about the pinch at the door just now, and just looked curiously at the four letters of recommendation in He Mulan's hand.
"Who does the general like?"
"I want to keep the Master of Compassion, but I don't know if it will make people think that I am biased towards Buddhism." He Mulan rubbed his brow and spoke with a headache.
This shows the disadvantage that she does not have a counselor's staff. She is famous for her martial arts, and naturally attracts those who are in the army or worship heroes and want to fight with her, and those wise ministers and scribes will not be loyal to a rootless duckweed like her.
Her every qiē comes from that majesty, and she doesn't have any bad intentions, and her promotion is all based on fighting, maybe some people think that she can only fight, and people who are really politically minded will not follow her.
One qiē still has to rely on himself.
Mangu was ten years older than He Mulan, and he had seen a lot, so he said disapplausively: "I don't know how many monks there are in Wei Kingdom, not to mention just being an interpreter, being a guest and an official. There are still many monks in Beiliang who have become officials and govern the country, so what's wrong with the general and a wandering monk! ”
Chen Jie had a different opinion.
"Outside now, it is said that our general is friendly with Buddhist monks, and he has a relationship with Kou Tianshi of Taoism, and he is a person who is left and right, so don't get into such a reputation, so as not to pour dirty water on yourself."
He thought for a moment, "Why don't you use that scribe, he doesn't want gold, isn't it good?" ”
"This man is from a noble family, why did he go out with the mission? I don't dare to use it. He Mulan sighed, "Can you only use that honest little official?" Or the one who is familiar with the rules of Beiliang? Forget it, I'll think about it again, and I'll think about it tomorrow. ”
Her mind had been dizzy by the sudden appearance of the Master of Compassion and Gai Wu, and she only felt that Providence was deliberately playing tricks on her, and she didn't know what it meant for these people to appear in front of her early.
Fortunately, Master Compassion was originally a monk who traveled everywhere, but he could cover Wu......
How many 300 people are behind Gai Wu?
She didn't want to be an "enemy" if she wasn't careful.
The current Gai Wu hasn't become the leader yet, right? She doesn't wade into this troubled water.
If a man crosses over to the identity of Mulan, I am afraid that he must think of taking in Gai Wu's little brother, but He Mulan is a calm person, and he has the accumulation left by Mulan, so he knows that his foundation is too weak, and he has no bargaining chips to be able to control Lu Shuihu's people, and there is no smart enough person to always remind her that she is wrong, and there is only a bunch of trouble for accepting this little brother.
But there are some things, but she can't avoid them if she's afraid of trouble.
Early the next morning, He Mullan was about to go out of the city to see how the big camp in the suburbs was doing, and as soon as he went out, he found a young man sitting outside the door, with his arms on his knees and his chin resting on his knees.
He didn't speak, he only stubbornly insisted on the disciple ceremony and followed in front of He Mulan, and wanted to take the reins of Yue Ying from Chen Jie's hand and lead the horse for He Mulan, but Yue Ying, who was not close to his acquaintances, sprayed a snot on his face.
This young man is the guy who went back yesterday.
When Chen Jie saw that Gai Wu had really appeared, he couldn't wait to stuff his head into Yue Ying's horsehair. And Gai Wu just calmly wiped off the snot on his face, and said with a reverent face: "General Hua, in order to show my respect, I have decided to ......"
Swish!
He Mulan turned over on the horse cleanly, and with a clip of the horse's belly, he disappeared in an instant.
Only the embarrassed Chen Jie was left, and the lively Mangu looked at the embarrassed teenager sympathetically.
Gai Wu's heart seemed to be torn apart one after another, and he only heard the sound of "hehe" from Yueying in the distance, and he only felt that the horse was laughing at him.
"Uh...... That one...... Sincerity is such a thing, you have to take your time...... Take it easy...... My general is in a hurry in the morning......"
Chen Jie wiped a cold sweat.
In a hurry, I actually pulled them all down in order to avoid this person called "Wu Gai"!
Gai Wu looked at the two soldiers who had also been left behind, stroked his chest, and continued to sit back at the gate, leaning against the door and closing his eyes, as if he wanted to wait until He Mulan returned home.
Chen Jie was really dumbfounded now.
***
Cui Mansion.
Di Yefei has been doing his homework well recently, and he has even been praised by Cui Hao for his calligraphy, and he has even more admiration for Cui Hao, and he respects him like a heavenly man.
In addition, since He Mulan's fame, the Cui family still has a very kind attitude towards Di Yefei, and even some of the doormen who looked down on people in the past have been driven away, and Di Yefei comes and goes freely, which can be described as a spring breeze.
Today, he was going to ask Cui Hao about some things in the Gaoche Tiger Army, so he went to Cui Hao's courtyard to ask for a meeting, and when he passed by a small pavilion in the garden, he vaguely heard Cui Hao's voice, so he excitedly boarded the small pavilion, but found that there was no one in the pavilion.
Hey? Still having a voice?
Di Yefei looked around inexplicably, only to find that the sound did not come from the pavilion, but from under the pavilion.
The pavilion was built on a high earth slope, with a path in the middle and a cliff on the other side, and a bamboo forest below.
The bamboo forest is very remote, and now it is winter, and there is no scenery to speak of, so Cui Hao actually talked to people in the bamboo forest, which made him a little surprised in his heart.
"I can't stay anymore. He actually told His Majesty about the Shanshan Kingdom of the Western Regions, and used the exam to make people officials? It's just hilarious! Then any cat or dog can come out! What to test? Can governing the country be tested by the school? ”
Cui Hao's suppressed anger came into Di Yefei's ears, causing him to freeze suddenly.
Examination?
Out of office?
Di Yefei knew that he should not look at indecent manners and not smell indecent manners, so he quietly lowered his body and prepared to return the same way, not wanting to listen to it again.
But the name of one man stopped him.
"That Mulan, now her reputation is too loud."
Di Yefei couldn't hear the voice of the person who spoke, and he didn't dare to look down at the edge of the pavilion, so he could only pause and listen carefully.
"Although I don't show any intention of leaning towards the Han tribe now, the Han tribe in the army now takes him as a model......
"He can't move! He is the 'Thousand Golden Horse Bone' set up by His Majesty! We don't care how to use people in the army, anyway, the Han clan has been fighting so well since ancient times, and he is protected by the He Lai family, so we don't have to tear our faces with these big clans now. They have the same position as us in the matter of going out, but in the army they are not something we can stretch out our hands to. ”
Cui Hao wants to protect the only remaining voice of the northern scholars, and he can't let a large number of Han clans in the court come out, and thin out the power of the gate valve and the scholar clan.
Di Yefei breathed a sigh of relief, and was happy that his beloved husband would not do anything that would turn him against his purpose, and he retreated little by little.
"Except for Tan Wuyu, Buddhism has repeatedly wanted to meddle in the government, and this person almost became the national teacher of Beiliang, who knows what ulterior motives there are...... Isn't it suspicious that he actually sent it to the door himself and said that he killed Mulan? Lust is also a trick often played by Buddhism......"
Di Yefei fled down the hill with vague steps, trembling and frightened for occasionally glimpsing the other side of Cui Hao, almost to the point of restlessness.
'What does it mean?' ’
He ran out of the garden almost in a panic, his heart beating like a drum.
Does Master want to kill someone?