55 Again Gaiwu
All memories of Chen Jie are only for a moment, so when He Mullan fell into his memory and couldn't extricate himself, only the cell boss gave her a strange look.
The dirty man in the blanket who couldn't see his face clearly twisted his head as hard as he could, and his stiff movements knew at a glance that he couldn't move.
He Mullan suddenly came to his senses and glared at the cell boss with a murderous gaze:
"You're going to punish him? You're going to torture him?"
"…… The little one, the little one is just a cell boss...... "The cell boss cried and mourned, and he didn't understand how this Xianbei Lord made it seem like he was about to suddenly burst out and kill someone.
She knew what he had been in prison for a few months!
"Will ...... General?" A rough sound like sandpaper grinding came from the cell.
"Open the door for me!"
Hermulan patted the railing.
The cell boss had already been instructed, and quickly removed the key from his waist, and opened the door with a shudder.
When He Mullan entered the cell, the cell boss slammed the door shut and locked it again, as if he had seen a tiger in the cage.
He Mulan walked to the side of the bunk and squatted down amid Chen Jie's grinning expression. Because underground, only the straw-covered cell was wet everywhere, and in this cold weather, Hermulan could feel a cold and grim breath in his neck, in his sleeve, and in every place where there were gaps.
The thought of Chen Jie's months in such a damp cell made He Mullan feel the urge to destroy the cell and escape with Chen Jie.
Chen Jie's expression was as if he was still dreaming, and He Mulan endured the sourness in his nose and reached out to touch his injury.
Although she is a forensic doctor, she is more familiar with the structure of the human body than most doctors. Someone had said he had broken ribs and she had to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she stretched out her hand, Chen Jie reacted violently and raised her arm to block forward, and then was involved in the wound by her sudden conditioned reflex action, and screamed in pain.
"Chen Jie, don't panic ......"
Hemmulan's tears fell at once.
"I'm not trying to lose you."
Chen Jie's ribs were indeed wounded, but according to him, the criminal officer did not know why he was very light, and He Mullan touched it, but there were some cracked bones, but the ribs were broken but not broken.
However, if the bone crack is left untreated, it is likely to cause the bone crack to expand, or there will be pneumothorax and hemoptysis.
He Mulan took off his fur and wrapped Chen Jie directly.
The warmth of the fur with human body temperature covered his body, making his cold body finally regain a trace of warmth.
"…… Because I suddenly stopped sending you letters, and there was news from Yucheng that I was waiting to be married at home, so you didn't come?" Listening to Chen Jie's answer, He Mulan's heart seemed to be pressed against a big stone.
Chen Jie and Xianbei people are still different. When the sons and daughters of Xianbei heard that Mulan was going to marry, they all came to ask for marriage. And Chen Jie, who is a Han Chinese, heard that Hua Mulan was going to be married, so he no longer took the initiative to come to the door in order to avoid suspicion.
"Do you think that if Mulan wants to marry, she must cut off the past before marrying? Even if you don't come, will I have eaten and lived with the men for 12 years? I've never felt like it's a shame to do! "
"Mulan is frank, why do you hide these in order to get married! If you mind this, should I marry back? Will I be able to watch it?"
He Mullan and Chen Jie spoke in the tone of their own people. The sudden familiarity seemed to come back with her memories.
"It's me who is confused...... "Chen Jie never dared to disobey Mulan's words." At that time, as soon as I entered Yucheng, I heard them pointing behind your back, and they said that you used to be a general, and there must be a lot of personal soldiers under your hands, and the personal soldiers are all for personal protection......"
He didn't go on, but he didn't have to go on, and He knew it wasn't a good thing.
Maybe there's something similar to a country glamorous encounter.
"At that time, I thought that I would visit you when the marriage was decided, but I never waited for you to get engaged, and you never wrote to me......"
He Mulan wiped his face helplessly, not knowing what to say.
Mulan loves to write!
The problem is, she didn't even see a reply when she walked through!
I haven't seen a single one!
It stands to reason that when Mulan writes letters to others, there is always a reply, right? Even if you can't write, you can always bring some souvenirs along with something, right? But when she came through, she found no letters, except for the pile of belongings.
If Shan Zhuo didn't come over, she didn't know that Mulan had silently funded this child's family for so many years.
If Di Yefei hadn't come over, she thought that Hua Mulan hadn't contacted him since she shared the account with him.
Now there are two people, Ah Danzhuo and Di Yefei, who came to Hua's house to see what happened because they didn't receive the letter, and I don't know how many people will worry about Hua Mulan and come to have a look.
How many colleagues and their families does Mulan support and maintain?
"Don't you tell me that you have smuggled food so many times in the past, and it was all for me to give it to those people?" He Mulan suddenly remembered the words of the county officer.
"I ......," he said ashamedly, "I am incompetent, I used to take all the grain from the treasury and send it first, and then use the silk cloth you gave to buy food from the merchants of Liu Song to make up for it. We are relatively close to Liu Song here, and the grain is easier to buy than other places, and it is much cheaper. But they buy grain from those merchants. [,! ], which takes much longer than buying locally.
"I ...... I wanted to save you some money and get more food."
"I'm the one who bothered you."
He didn't blame him for why he didn't just send the money to those people's homes, and he didn't wonder if he was making a personal gain.
Chen Jie is not such a person at all.
She already knew from Shan Zhuo that if she sent these things directly, it would make the most vicious people have bad intentions. If a woman or a child, old or young, goes out to buy something with silk cloth and gold or silver, they will be targeted.
Buying the grain that the Song people in the south came to sell was much cheaper than that in the north. In the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, commerce withered, and there was no money circulation, and the exchange rules of the people were very chaotic, often one foot in the east and one zhang in the west. Large transactions are also almost non-existent in the private sector.
He is a military captain who trains the troops, and he can't leave his post for too long. It is more efficient to buy "smuggled grain" and send it to someone than to personally go to the local area to buy it and deliver it to one family.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" He Mulan sighed. If I had said earlier, I would have worked harder, and every colleague would have gone to help their families buy fields in their hometowns.".
"General...... What's wrong with you?" Chen Jie looked at it with some surprise. Those are slaves and untouchables, and they can only do some lowly labor under your name, where can they have fields to cultivate?"
"Huh......" He Mullan carefully flipped through the memories in his head.
Where are there slaves?
Is Mulan still a slave keeper?
"…… Actually, I didn't write to you, not because I wanted to get married." Hermulan blushed.
She has told the same lie too many times and is ashamed.
"I had an illness this year, and when I woke up, my mind was muddy, and I didn't remember a lot of things from the past. You have to see those people and those things to remember.
Chen Jie clenched his fists.
Because of the gossip of the villagers, the damage is too great, so do you have heart disease?
Such a majestic general in the army, after leaving the countryside, he also had to be pointed at behind his back by ignorant idlers and rough women, and the pressure was so great that he fell ill?
How sad should she be to forget all about the past?!
For a while, Chen Jie's anger against this world followed.
Isn't it because she's a woman?!
Isn't it because she did something that even men might not be able to do well?!
Isn't it because she can't have children?!
What's wrong with that!
It's the way of the world that's wrong!.
He Mulan looked at Chen Jie's face and turned red for a while, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
In that past memory, Chen Jie's brain replenishment ability simply amazed her, a modern person, and the triumphant frivolity of his youth also caused Mulan a lot of trouble.
What kua can run a horse, a big stone on the chest and the like, all spread from the mouth of this pro-soldier.
The thought that Chen Jie might have imagined Mulan as a delicate Lin Daiyu lying on a hospital bed, He Mullan felt obligated to correct his terrible thoughts.
So she hurriedly corrected: "You don't think too much, it's just a wind chill, maybe the wind evil is in the brain, that's why you have this problem."
The more He Mullan explained, the more Chen Jie felt that the truth was what he thought.
This general of his is so good at hiding the truth, he has been with him for 12 years, and he doesn't know that she is a woman!
She must have wanted to endure the pain alone.
"Don't talk about that. These are things you should discuss when you get out of prison." He Mulan looked at Mulan's old subordinates with some guilt.
"Where did those truckloads of grain go? What's the matter with those military slaves?"
"It's you who rescued those slaves from the Rouran Death Rescue." Chen Jie's eyes widened. Can't you remember the group of children and the elderly? Back then, everyone from top to bottom was against you raising those people, so you let them learn from hundreds of crafts in Montenegrin City, and gave the fields given to those craftsmen as academic qualifications......"
"There is a big drought outside the border this year, and the food in Montenegro can't afford it. They still have old people and children to support, and I think about a few truckloads of food, and I can't afford to scrape together the money at home and get some things to exchange, so I don't want to bother you."
"As for the grain ......," Chen Jie smoked when he thought of the whereabouts of the grain.
"Kidnapped!"
"Since it was robbed by someone, you just said it truthfully, why bother to endure the torture and grit your teeth and not let go." He Mullan frowned. There are thieves in Chen County?"
"I can't say, once I do, it will involve you and me smuggling military rations. I am the food that was robbed on the way, and if the whereabouts of those slaves are revealed, your reputation will be ruined." Chen Jie shook his head.
"It's different from the family members who were in the same army before the relief. This is to be used to keep slaves with military rations. It's better to let them think that I transported military rations and sold them, anyway, they are all the same crimes, so why bother to involve you again."
"How many people did you use to escort that batch of food? How many people have robbed the grain? What dress, what accent, do you remember?" He Mulan laughed cruelly: "I came this time, and I also brought a few 'big shots'.
"I brought a dozen or so subordinates to escort them personally. It shouldn't be from this county, and the accent doesn't look like a Han and Xianbei people. They all rode horses and rarely spoke, like rogues or horse thieves. The thief is not weak, and I only supported him under him. [,! In a quarter of an hour, he was slashed in the arm by his double knives. If I hadn't run fast, I'd have lost my arms."
"Wait, what did you say?" Hermulan blinked. Twin knives?"
She suddenly remembered someone.
"Is the head of the thief very young, with a Buddha earring, and full of curly hair?"
"Exactly!"
"Gai Wu!" He Mullan slapped the wall hatefully.
The walls of the cell shook, and masonry dust fell in a pumble. Chen Jie didn't know why his master general showed such an expression.
"I didn't know that in addition to kidnapping, he would also rob the road! Three or four months ago, I don't know what he did when he came to Chen County! "
This group of Lu Shuihu people don't stay in Xingcheng and the west, what are they running around in the southeast, northwest?
"The general knows who the thief is?" Chen Jie showed an expression of admiration. The general is really well-informed."
"You're thinking too much." He Mulan said amusedly.
"He also went to my house to steal things. Stealing doesn't make robbing. I also tied up a rich boy, and I was so tired that I ran all the way to fight him."
"Then the general must have won." Chen Jie's face was full of pride.
"It's nature." He Mulan nodded. I avenged you, and I broke his ribs in that battle and forced him to swear not to harm civilians."
Thinking that Gai Wu also broke his ribs by himself, He Mulan felt that this God had eyes, and Gai Wu planted her in a circle, and it was indeed a cycle of cause and effect.
It should have been knocked harder!
"I'll go back and talk to a few friends about what to do with your case. Those truckloads of grain are easy to do, I have enough money here, buy it to make up or directly compensate. I just don't know how you're going to be sentenced for this crime. If the sentence is too heavy, you will have to make a point or two."
He Mulan sighed. It started because of me. If you really can't, I'll bear your guilt, and you will do it alone."
"General, no!" Chen Jie shook his head. If so, all the sins I have suffered before will be in vain."
"You recuperate with peace of mind first, I said that you are so old, why don't you have a family. But if there is a family here, at least someone will take care of the food and clothing."
He Mullan gently pulled up the blanket and covered his legs and feet.
Chen Jie smiled bitterly.
If he wants to smuggle grain and grass, he often has to leave for a while from time to time to find those private businessmen of Liu Song, how dare he marry a daughter-in-law.
Isn't that a nuisance to other girls?
His words of "moral exercise" are about to be humiliated by himself.
"I'm fine, anyway, I'm single, and my widowed mother is gone." Chen Jie said nonchalantly. It's just that the gang of thieves is obviously wandering here, and you say that he is gone, where are you going to find him?"
"Don't worry about it." He Mulan smiled.
"I've got a flock of egrets."