On June 25, Shen De and his entourage finally returned to Huaiyang City, and had been gone for 21 days since they left the Lishui camp on the fourth day of June. The grain and grass were just enough to return to Huaiyang City, and thanks to Shen De who let everyone gnaw on the horse meat with bones for five days halfway, they came back in this way.

Shen De first went to meet Xie Qian, the assassin of Xuzhou stationed in Huaiyang, and Bingming's request to return to the city to collect grain, Xie Qian shook his fan and sighed: "Huaiyang has been occupied by the rebels for a long time, and there are countless collaborators in the city, and the grain and grass have long been transported away by the rebels, and now our army is also short of food, I have sent someone to Jinling to ask for grain and grass a few days ago", Shen De was a little surprised, but he didn't dare to ask more in front of Xie Qian, so he replied: "Since Lord Xie is also short of food here, I won't bother, I will also go to Jinling to ask for grain and grass", got up and exited the door.

Xie Qian saw Shen De walking away, so he took away the fan, fanned his nose with his hand, sneezed, and waved his hand to the servant: "Take the brick he knelt on and change it, these people stink", after speaking, he took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his nose and threw it away.

Li Xiaofei and the others were waiting for Shen De outside the north gate, and when they saw a cart of corn and wheat beans being transported from the north gate, they thought it was grain and grass for Chen Jiajun, so they couldn't help but go up. The cavalry escorting raised his hand and whipped over: "The idle people will retreat, and those who dare to loot the military rations will be killed!" ”。 Li Xiaofei dodged the whip, but found that this cavalryman was a little familiar, he remembered that the cavalryman was also there on the day of the slaughter of the village, so Li Xiaofei shouted: "He is a rebel, he is a spy, he has mixed into the grain team", the cavalryman immediately drew his knife and slashed at Li Xiaofei, and was blocked by several foot soldiers next to Li Xiaofei waving spears. The other soldiers who were carrying the grain also rushed over and confronted Chen Jiajun. The grain officer raised the order flag: "I am ordered to go to Xiangyang with grain, but if you want to rebel and rob the grain?" As soon as the words fell, Shen De had already ridden back: "Our Chen family army has always been loyal and patriotic, why do you want to rebel and rob the grain, everyone disperses and let them take the grain out of the city!" ”

Chen Jiajun scattered in two rows, and the grain officer took the grain cart and everyone to the north. Li Xiaofei looked at the grain transport team with red eyes, put the bow and arrow on it, and Shen De lifted him over: "Are you crazy?" Come on, keep him in charge, don't let him make trouble! After speaking, he threw Li Xiaofei on the ground, and then two soldiers came over to hold him. At this time, a large number of people rushed from the city in the direction of the grain transport team, almost scattering the Chen family's army.

Shen De stopped an old man: "Robbing the imperial court grain team is a capital crime, you can't go over", the old man glanced at Shen De: "You are from outside, we are going to grab grain, no, rush to buy grain, I can't buy it today, I'm afraid that it will double again tomorrow, don't stop me, if I can't buy food, my family will all starve to death", Shen De let go of the old man, and looked at Chen Jiajun and the others, Li Xiaofei asked with red eyes: "Lord Shen, isn't this the military food for us?" How did you become a grain seller? Others also asked: "The grain officer said that he was going to Xiangyang, why did he sell it out in the city?" "There's something strange about this, let's go ahead and take a look", Shen De took Chen Jiajun and chased after the crowd.

When Shen De and the others arrived, the crowd had already surrounded a black press, and they saw the grain officer standing on the grain cart waving the order flag: "Don't rob or squeeze, today is 5,000 yuan a bucket of corn, each person can only buy two buckets of corn, and wheat beans are 8,000 yuan a bucket, each person can only buy one bucket", Shen De yelled outside: "What crime should a trafficker who steals military food without authorization be guilty of?" The crowd suddenly quieted down, and the grain officer smiled: "I am acting on orders, you are a small pawn, and you dare to take care of the affairs of the court, I really don't know whether to live or die, I don't sell grain, the whole city will starve to death, I won't sell it today, you see if they agree", the crowd immediately boiled again: "This is our life-saving benefactor, whoever doesn't let me buy grain, I will fight with him" "Whoever doesn't let me sell grain, I will die here today" "Please adults hurry up and drive this troublemaker away, my children are dying of hunger".

Shen De never was soft on killing people on the battlefield, but now he was facing the people with green light in his eyes, so he had to take a few steps back, and pointed a knife at the grain officer: "I will go to find out about this matter, and let you go for the time being today", the grain officer sneered: "Don't say that you are a pawn, even if Chen Hongyi comes in person, he doesn't dare to make a mistake, you still lead your people to get out."

Shen De couldn't swing his sword to cut the past after all, so he led the Chen family army to Jinling. Along the way, everyone was silent, and Li Xiaofei began to complain again: "Lord Shen, what are we fighting so desperately for, those adults in the court look down on us, and even the people we want to protect are against us, what's wrong?" Shen De glanced at him, originally raised his hand and raised the horsewhip but put it down: "You kid just say a few words, our Lord Chen suffers more than us, Lord Chen never says grievances, what do we say?" ”