Chapter Seventy-Three

Led by Xu Hui, the Xu clan set off from Yangzhai and the other tribes, and it took more than a month to hurry up and finally arrive at Huguan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"We don't go to the county seat." When he was fifteen miles away from the county seat, Xu Hui suddenly reined in his horse and instructed Ah Yuan on the side, "Go directly to the Huguan military camp." ”

Hearing this order, Ah Yuan immediately understood Xu Hui, or Xu Ze's attitude.

Huguan is also a large county with a population of more than 10,000, and naturally needs a person to govern, in this era when the clan is prosperous and lossy, there is nothing more reliable than his own family, and the Xu family of the party is naturally not exempt from vulgarity. Therefore, Huguan County's great-grandfather Xu Li's great-grandfather and Xu Ze's grandfather are the same person, and according to generation, they happen to be among Xu Hui's five suits, and Xu Hui should be called his cousin.

When Xu Hui came to Huguan, he did not go to meet the magistrate of a county first, but first went to see Li Zhun, the lieutenant of Huguan County.

Huguan Military Camp is located at the foot of Baigu Mountain, a place where the terrain is open, and it is extremely difficult for people who are not familiar with the terrain to find. If it weren't for the two troops transferred from the Huguan barracks to lead the way, even if Xu Hui, who knew the specific location of the barracks, would have spent a lot of time and taken many detours.

Under the guidance of the trilogy, everyone came to the Huguan military camp, only to see the guns and halberds like a forest, the bowstrings like rain, and the soldiers were all dressed in strong and stubborn clothes, and under the command of the commander, they practiced unremittingly. Seeing them coming, the sergeant guarding the gate raised his spear and said solemnly: "The barracks are heavy, and the idle people are waiting to stop!" ”

Xu Hui took out a token from his arms and handed it to Ah Yuan, who solemnly took it, took a few steps forward, and handed it to the sergeant who had just spoken. I saw that the sergeant hesitated for a moment, and then he said: "I don't know the token of the lowly position, please wait for a while, and wait for the lowly post to report to the senior officer, and then make a decision." ”

When Ah Yuan heard this, he just wanted to say something, but he heard Xu Hui say slowly: "That's it, it's very good." ”

In the past month or so, the subordinates who followed Xu Hui did not necessarily understand her as a person, but they all saw her resilience and admired her a little. It can be seen that Xu Hui has no opinions, and they gradually quieted down and waited patiently for the results.

After about two cups of tea, I saw a lean man in his thirties, dressed in armor and with an ordinary appearance, leading a white-clothed scribe and four people dressed as soldiers, and walked quickly to the gate. When the sergeant guarding the gate saw the visitor, he saluted neatly: "I've seen my lord!" ”

Li Zhun bowed his head slightly, and then walked in front of Xu Hui, intending to salute. Xu Hui didn't dare to really accept his salute, so he hurriedly supported him, and grabbed a junior salute, and said with a smile: "Uncle Ji Yun, it's good to see, you are still so rigorous." No wonder your grandfather has been talking to you, always telling you to remember to take care of yourself, don't tire yourself out! ”

"Fujun Ende, the lower officials are toothless and unforgettable!" Li Zhun spoke word by word, very slowly, and his voice was very low, with a hoarse taste, but every word came from the bottom of his heart.

Knowing that this general was not good at words, the white-clothed scribe behind him shook his feather fan and said: "The girl has come from afar, and if you miss the welcome, please move the military tent, believe in yourself as a jar of wine, and be congratulated." ”

Hearing him say this, Li Zhun frowned and said unhappily: "Alcohol is forbidden in the army. ”

The white-clothed scribe shook his feather fan gracefully, and quibbled: "Faith is not a person in the army, and the prohibition in the army is invalid for faith." ”

Li Zhun knew that he couldn't refute him, so he didn't say much, but the soldiers were already familiar with the way and planned to slip away, and threw away the wine brought by the white-clothed scribe. Seeing this, the white-clothed scribe raised his right hand, stopped the other party, and said with a smile: "The girl is in front, how can she throw away the wine I brought as usual?" ”

Seeing that the topic was on him, Xu Hui smiled and said: "Hui is not good at drinking, and he is even more reluctant to break the military precepts, making it difficult for Uncle Ji Yun, and also provoking his grandfather to scold, so ...... I'm really sorry Uncle Ji Cheng! ”

She said that she was afraid of scolding, but her face was full of smiles, and there was no fear at all. When Lin Xin heard this, he couldn't help but smile, and everyone walked towards the main tent together. Before entering the main account, he even withdrew from everyone, leaving absolutely credible elite soldiers and dead soldiers to guard the door, sitting on the lower left of Li Zhun, and Xu Huicai, who was facing Lin Xin, asked: "Uncle Ji Yun, what happened to Huguan?" ”

Li Zhun pondered his words for a while before he spit out a sentence: "The matter ...... It's tricky. ”

If people hear Li Zhun's voice at this time, they will be surprised, because compared with Fang Cai's hoarse and low tone, the tone in which he said this sentence unconsciously brought the unique tactfulness of Wu Di, and the hard work to learn the official language, but he couldn't get rid of the ambiguity caused by the imprint of Wu language in the depths of his life for many years.

As everyone in the world knows, Li Zhun is good at words, and when others say ten sentences, he may respond to one word. People who are familiar with him naturally think that his nature is like this, and those who are not familiar with him will only say that he is lonely and self-professed, but only a few people know that the reason why Li Zhun rarely speaks is not anything else, or to cover up this authentic Wu language - he is an authentic southerner.

The northerners moved south, which is very easy to understand; There must be a reason for southerners to flee north, and most of them offend the family, and Li Zhun is naturally no exception.

He was originally from Wuxing County, and his family had 20 acres of paddy fields and 30 acres of dry fields, and he produced a lot of output. The parents are extremely industrious and simple, the male farmer and the female weaver, and there are a lot of taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, but after their family has paid taxes and rents, there is still a little surplus, and the family lives a slightly hard, but harmonious and beautiful life. Unexpectedly, the concubine of the first family took a fancy to their family's fertile land, and after failing to buy it, he beat his father to serious injury. The mother and eldest brother went to sue the official, but they were beaten with a stick, not to mention, and later they were picked up by the government for a crime, and the whole family's fertile land belonged to the other party.

His second brother was angry, so he left the firewood knife with his two younger brothers and told them to escape quickly. He carried a shovel and opened the head of the family's concubine. Li Zhun and his third brother fled all the way, slept in the wild, contracted an outdated epidemic, and were almost caught and eaten...... Li Zhun had a great life and struggled to survive, but his only relative was gone from him forever. For Li Zhun, Xu Ze, who led the troops to dig him out of the pile of the dead, and promoted him all the way, said that he had the grace of recreation, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was his reborn parents.

In order to prevent others from finding out his identity from his Wu language and ordering him to return to his hometown, Li Zhun followed Xu Ze's instructions and spoke as little as possible. Even if he said it, he would deliberately lower his voice and not show too obvious traces, and over time, he would become a lonely height in the impression of others.

Seeing that Li Zhun said that things were a little tricky, Xu Hui would be skeptical, because she knew that Li Zhun could become the guard of the Huguan, the general was one, and loyalty was the second, but he had no achievements in internal affairs and struggles. So she made a worried look and looked at Lin Xin, who was sitting opposite her: "Even Uncle Ji Cheng feels tricky and has no choice?" ”

She wanted to come to Huguan, so she naturally did her homework and understood that the most important thing in Huguan was that there were only three people - the county commander Xu Li, the county lieutenant Li Zhun, and Bai Ding Lin Xin.

Lin Xin was originally just an ordinary Taoist temple fire-burning Taoist boy, and like many lucky children, he lived a hard life of getting up early and working as a coolie all day long. Unlike others, he is highly motivated and has an excellent memory. After a few years of Taoist temples, piecemeal and patchwork, I actually learned several important Taoist scriptures, as well as the feng shui skills of fur.

When the Hu people invaded, the rich Taoist temple was naturally the target of the other party's attack, and when everyone was panicking, he secretly went to the library pavilion, rolled a few books and silks, and escaped while the chaos was taking advantage of the chaos, and walked all the way to the southeast. At the same time, he set up a fortune-telling stall, relying on his own ability to observe words and emotions and talk nonsense, and sometimes he also served as an unreliable You Fang Langzhong. In this way, while walking, mixing, and learning, slowly after many years, Lin Xin actually has some slight achievements in feng shui, although he is a wild man, but he is not inferior to the "master" of family learning.

Of course, if you walk a lot at night, you will always meet ghosts. If Xu Ze hadn't thought this person was useful and put him in prison, Lin Xin would have prescribed a prescription for himself and paid for his life.

Xu Ze refused Lin Xin any official position, and put him in Huguan, because he valued Lin Xin's understanding of astronomy and geography, especially geography, as well as the ability to mix the three religions and nine streams, observe words and colors, and see the subtle knowledge, as well as the face as thick as the wall and the three-inch tongue.

Lin Xin, Li Zhun and Xu Li vaguely restrained each other, and inadvertently worked together to make the pot close like an iron bucket. Therefore, if you want to ask about some private things, even if Xu Heng, the commander of Huguan County, does not have Lin Xin, Bai Ding, who understands it clearly.

Lin Xin restrained his frivolous expression, and said with a straight face: "Faith is just a little clever, far less far-sighted than Lord Lang's foresight. Since the lord of the husband said that the girl can solve the matter, the letter will not make a judgment and affect the judgment of the girl, but first explain the cause and effect and let the girl decide for herself, how about it? ”

Xu Hui weighed for a moment and bowed his head lightly: "Uncle Ji Cheng, please speak." ”

"The cause of the incident is due to last year's drought and locust plague." Lin Xin said slowly, "The girl should also know that the locust plague in the north is everywhere, and the people are struggling to make a living, and they have fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and there are also many displaced people who have rushed to my party." The government is benevolent and shelters the displaced people, so that they can survive. ”

Xu Ze and Xu Hui discussed specific methods in this matter, and Xu Hui was naturally no stranger to it, so she quickly answered: "But my grandfather also said that among the counties, Gaodu, Yang'a, Guyuan, Niexian and other places located on the border, it is okay to accommodate more displaced people. The eldest son, Hyun, Xiangyuan and other places located in the hinterland, should be cautious and prefer shortage to abundance. Huguan is an important military town, and I remember that my three uncles were also instructed by my grandfather not to rashly take in the displaced people, even if they were forced to do so, not more than half of the number of people in the county. What's more, the northwest side of Huguan is blocked by the counties, and the east is the rich Qingxu Prefecture, and there is no reason for a large number of displaced people to come from there. (To be continued.) )