Chapter 4: New Friends

There are not too many problems with the Taiping Sect on Dangli's side, but I heard that in the entire Qingzhou, the Taiping Sect has been flooded, and there are often Taiping Sect thieves who come across the border to disturb them.

In the next few days, Chen Mo spent most of his time by the teacher's side, watching the teacher handle official business.

Compared with Quyang, Zang Hong obviously has a lot less scruples in his home field, plus there are people in his hands, and the gentry in the county are also willing to help, in order to avoid the destruction of spring ploughing by Taiping thieves, Zang Hong sent out the three hundred elites he brought, inspected the townships, and at the same time took the virtuous people to the townships to help and encourage the people of the townships under the rule of Dangli to establish their own defenses.

In addition, Zang Hong also asked people to build beacon towers in various townships, and divided the county guards of the county seat and the three hundred elites he brought with him into ten teams, and once the beacon fire was found, he immediately rushed to help.

In addition to defense, Zang Hong also personally went to Huang County, that is, the seat of Donglai County, and persuaded the Taishou to coordinate the counties and absorb the displaced people, that is, those who were coerced by the Taiping Sect.

However, in March, not only when the people's livelihood recovered, the entire Donglai was gradually pacified, and began to absorb displaced people from all over the country, by June, although there were still thieves and bandits in the area of Donglai County, there was basically no large-scale Taiping Sect running here, but judging from the news from all over the country, the Taiping Sect was still rampant in Qingzhou, nearly half of the city fell, and the situation was still not very good.

However, for Chen Mo, the troubled times seem to have begun to become more distant, and his life has become regular, practicing martial arts every day, reading, and following Zang Hong to deal with various official affairs or participate in various banquets.

In the past, Chen Mo felt that a meal of brown rice was the best food, and the three yuan peach in Li Zheng Aweng's house at the beginning, although it is not common now, it can be eaten from time to time, and life is many times better than before.

Nowadays, he no longer needs to be busy with farm work, all his time is spent on studying, and he has strong memory skills...... Well, this is indeed a skill, a way to exercise memory, in three months, it has risen to level six, and now Chen Mo does not forget it, but a book of ten thousand words like the Analects and Mencius can be memorized in about three days, which is a great skill for readers.

In the past three months, Chen Mo has gradually figured out the law of luck recovery, generally after using it once, it will recover a little the next day, and then it will recover a little in January, and it has not yet recovered to 25 points, Chen Mo is not sure whether it can be recovered, as for the method of improving luck, the first time is Ah Weng borrowed books, and the second time is to apprentice to Zang Hong, as for other times, there is no increase or sudden decrease.

It's the number of lives, Chen Mo found that as he continued to learn, his life count was increasing little by little, although it was not much, but now, the number of lives has reached 17 points.

Chen Mo had a guess that the growth of his knowledge and skills might be able to improve his life, but the manure and farming skills he automatically learned at the beginning did not seem to bring him an increase in his life.

As for the meaning of the number of lives, Chen Mo is not very clear at present, so he can only continue to explore.

"Brother Chen." A young man of the same age as Chen Mo came in, first saluted Zang Hong, and then looked at Chen Mo outside the spirit.

"It's Brother Tang." Chen Mo came back to his senses and saluted the young man, in the past three months, he had gradually become accustomed to the life of a scholar, and he had also begun to make friends with some of the gentry of the Dangli County under the encouragement of Zang Hong.

This young man surnamed Tang is named Tang Yuan, eleven years old, the Tang family has a lot of status in Dangli, Tang Yuan is the eldest grandson, cheerful, sociable, although young, but he is already the leader of the children of the scholar clan in Dangli, Chen Mo can integrate into this circle, but also dragged Tang Yuan's help.

However, Tang Yuan's personality is actually a little different from Chen Mo's, Chen Mo also likes to make friends now, but he rarely cares about the other party's background, the gentry of the scholar family, he can talk about it, the three religions and nine streams, the peddlers and pawns, Chen Mo does not mind making friends, in March, Chen Mo is also quite popular among the people of Dangli County, compared with Tang Yuan, although he is cheerful, but he has his own arrogance in his bones, and he disdains to make friends with these three religions and nine streams.

However, both of them are talented figures in the younger generation, although the concepts are different, but without talking about this, the two are the best to talk about.

"Teacher......" Chen Mo turned his head to look at Zang Hong.

"Today's political affairs are over, go ahead." Zang Hong waved his hand and said with a smile, Chen Mo was able to quickly integrate into this young circle, he was very satisfied, the war did not make his disciple lose his humanity, which is very good.

After the two bowed down to say goodbye to Zang Hong, they left side by side.

"Mr. Ziyuan has already asked you to handle the copywriting?" Out of the government office, Tang Yuan looked at Chen Mo and said with some envy.

Although there are also people in the Tang family, they are not in the right place, Tang Yuan also wants to go to the government office and show what he has learned in his chest, but unfortunately because of his age, the family will not let him mess around.

"Just to help fill in the gaps." Chen Mo shook his head, the copywriter was not his turn to deal with it, Zang Hong just asked him to follow Zang Hong to observe, as for what he could learn, Zang Hong didn't care.

"Hey, you Chen Mo is also a person with hills and valleys in his chest now, but because of his age, he can't interfere in politics, it's really ...... Alas...... Is age so important? Tang Yuan shook his head regretfully and said, he also wanted to use Chen Mo's example to persuade the elders in the family to let him go to the government office to do things, even if he was an official, but now it seems that there is no play.

Chen Mo thought for a while and said, "Most people can't do things alone at this age, and government affairs are not as easy as you think. ”

"I don't say that I am rich and rich, but it is better than those people in the government, they can read and write, how can they compare with us?" Tang Yuan was a little unconvinced.

"There are some things that have nothing to do with learning." Chen Mo shook his head, this is what he has experienced the most with Zang Hong, those scribes or gongcao in the government office, naturally there is not much knowledge, but they are extremely capable in handling things, Chen Mo has tried secretly, the same thing, he hasn't figured it out yet, people have already given methods, and most of them are effective.

This may be the experience that the teacher said, which is also the reason why Chen Mo can calm down, talent may be very important to do learning, but many things need years of precipitation.

"Haven't you said what you're looking for me?"

"When I went hunting, I heard that Brother Chen's archery skills are unparalleled, and everyone wants to see it."

"Okay, I'll go get a bow and arrows." Chen Mo was a little moved when he heard this, in the end, he was only a half-grown child, although he was studious on weekdays, but after a long time, he would also want to go out to play.

"No need, it just so happens that Xue Yu has prepared a good bow for you, which is much stronger than your soft bow."

"This ...... It's not right! ”

"I will return the gift to him in the future, let's go!"