Chapter 685: Returning Home
After Chen Xu and his party walked away, at this time, several soldiers escorted a carriage creaky and squeaked quickly and stopped at the door of the foothouse, and an official wearing a six-grade official uniform couldn't wait to jump out of the car and rush into the foothouse, grabbed Mo Kai, who was about to leave from the foothouse, asked anxiously: "Where is the Marquis of Qinghe?" ”
"Lord Prefectural Order!" Mo Kai hurriedly bowed his hand, and then said with a confused expression, "The Marquis of Qinghe has never been here, only Lord Dianniu and a young man in Qinghe Town have come, and I have never seen the Marquis of Qinghe!" ”
"You are blind, that young man is the Marquis of Qinghe!" The county magistrate jumped up and shouted.
"Huh?" Mo Kai was stunned and stammered, "It turns out that the young man is the Marquis of Qinghe, no wonder he ......is so arrogant."
"What? Did you still take his money? ”
"Hehe, the Marquis of Qinghe rewarded his subordinates with two taels of gold!"
"Confused!" The county magistrate scolded angrily, and then asked, "What happened to the family who originally lived here?" ”
"Back to my lord, the family of four was picked up by Qinghe Hou, but ...... Somebody heard the Marquis of Qinghe call that man his father......"
"What?" The county commander grabbed Mo Kai's clothes and stared at him, "Did you hear me right?" ”
"No, absolutely not?" Mo Kai quickly shook his head like a rattle.
"How so? I have long heard that the father of the Marquis of Qinghe died in the battle of Qin and Chu seven years ago, how could the Marquis of Qinghe suddenly appear out of thin air, didn't he die? ”
Mo Kai finally came back to his senses at this time, and after a little thought, his face turned pale and said: "County Zun, if the father of the Marquis of Qinghe is not dead, then he must have issued a death obituary before, and this matter must be quickly returned to check the records of seven years ago and quickly confirm his name, otherwise when the Marquis of Qinghe stabs in front of the emperor, I and the people who did errands before will all have to suffer the crime......"
"Yes, yes, I have to go back and check it out!" The county commander also shuddered slightly, turned around and walked out, and after a few steps, he turned back and told viciously: "This matter is rotten in the belly, don't make a noise, once someone rumors that Qinghehou's father is a battlefield deserter, he is only afraid that someone will destroy the door, so you take the money well, and you must have a life to spend!" ”
"Yes, yes, don't worry, your subordinates will never dare to leak half a word!" Mo Kai instantly felt a cold sweat break out, and his whole body felt as if he was immersed in ice water.
There are only three outcomes of being a soldier, one is death, one is living, and the other is missing.
Naturally, the deceased will be counted and reported by the military officials who accompanied the army, and an obituary will be issued to inform the family after the war.
As long as the living people do not lose their breath, they must return to the barracks to wait for the unified dispatch, and those who are indeed seriously injured and can not continue to participate in the war will let the people send them home, as long as they can still pick up the sword, they must go to the battlefield to fight, and the spirit of both sides is consumed in the evenly matched war, and whichever side cannot hold on first will collapse.
And the missing are not easy to say, either captured or deserters.
Since Chen Hu has been notified that he has died before, it is to admit that he has died on the battlefield and died in battle, but now that Chen Hu has appeared alive again, it means that the previous death notice was wrong, and Chen Hu either became a deserter or became a prisoner to survive.
But in the great war seven years ago, the Qin State had already wiped out the Chu State, and the Qin troops who were captured by the Chu army must have been released and returned home, so there is no such thing as a prisoner, so it is speculated that Chen Hu must have escaped from the battlefield and became a deserter in the war.
If the news that Qinghehou's father is a deserter spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Now the county magistrate of Pheasant County is the original county Cheng Liu Tong, and he also knows the relationship between Jiangbei Pavilion and Chen Xu, and he is very clear about the series of things that happened in Jiangbei Pavilion later, and the Jiang family was able to not weaken his power in the involvement of Zhao Gaomou's rebellion, but became bigger and bigger, and the main messenger behind all this is Chen Xu.
The identity of the disciple of Chen Xu's immortal family is now in the boiling of the Great Qin Biography, and the lord of the double marquis has never been seen for a long time, and now he is married to the daughter of the fifth princess and Shangqing Meng Yi, with the support of these two, Chen Xu's status can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai, so Chen Xu's body is not allowed to have any flaws, so Chen Hu's identity must not be a deserter.
Liu Tong returned to the county government and immediately instructed the county lieutenant Fang Kuan and the officials in charge of household registration to find out all the information about Chen Hu seven years ago.
Fortunately, Daqin's household registration system is very complete, and the various records about the recruitment of civilian husbands and soldiers are also relatively detailed, and it took nearly an hour to finally find out all the information about Chen Hu's recruitment and transfer to death
"Liu County Order, who is this Chen Hu? It's been dead for seven years, why do you still bother looking for his information? The county lieutenant Fang Kuan was very puzzled, looked at the bamboo and wood slips piled up on the table, and asked suspiciously.
"You all get out!" Liu Tong looked at the rolls of bamboo and wood slips spread out on the desk, frowned, and drove away a group of scribes, leaving only Fang Kuan.
"County Lieutenant Fang, Marquis Qinghe has been to the county seat today, he just left, and he picked up a person, this person is called Chen Hu!" Liu Tong said with a serious face.
"So what...... Ah, could it be that this Chen Hu picked up by Qinghe is the one on the record? They...... What are they close to...... Relationship? ”
Fang Kuan's heart was pounding and his mouth was dry, and he already had a very bad guess in his heart, both of them were surnamed Chen, and the relationship must be very close, and both of them knew that there was only one mother in the Qinghe Marquis's family, his father died in the Qin and Chu War, and there was no father's relatives in the family, so this relationship simply did not need to be speculated carefully, especially the records showed that Chen Hu was a native of Xiaohe Village, Qinghe Town, and had a wife Jiang and a son and a daughter......
"Do you still need me to talk about relationships? This Chen Hu must be the father of Qinghe Hou! Liu Tong twitched a few times and said.
"That'...... So what to do? "The six gods of the house wide said without a master.
"What else can I do, hurry up and find an unrelated person to modify this record, make a new dossier, and change Chen Hu to a missing person!"
"Okay, I'll go find someone!" Fang Kuan nodded.
"Also, give Chen Hu a few military merits, not too low and not too high, these records are old, so what needs to be done looks old, by the way, you also need to go to the county city and county governor's mansion to check whether there is a record of Chen Hu's death in the volume seven years ago, if there is, it must also be properly revised together!"
"The sooner this matter is done, the better, there are too many business trips in Qinghe Town, and the matter of Chen Hu's return to his home will inevitably be spread soon, maybe the emperor will arrange for officials to come to investigate this matter, if the slightest hint of inappropriateness is revealed, it may bring us trouble, you and I have served in the county government seven years ago, and you and I are both involved in this matter......"
"Don't worry, I will go to the county governor's mansion in person!" Fang Kuan wiped the sweat on his forehead and clenched his fists before leaving in a hurry.
Fang Kuan and Chen Xu knew each other very early, and Fang Kuan was involved in it because of Zhao Zhe's matter, and he was frightened for a long time, but in Jiangbei Pavilion, the big man from Xianyang, threaded the needle and threaded the needle, and a group of officials in Wancheng joined forces to suppress Zhao Zhe's robbery of summer grain, and later both Jiangbei Pavilion and the officials involved in Zhao Zhe's incident were almost all implicated, but Chen Xu and Shangqing Meng Yi teamed up in Xianyang to directly crush Zhao Gao to death, and this matter was finally settled. Fang Kuan, as an almost negligible little person involved, although he was not retaliated against by Zhao Gao.
But that kind of life of worrying all day still frightened Fang Kuan, until he heard that Zhao Gao was arrested and imprisoned by the emperor and wanted to split the three clans, Fang Kuan's heart fell completely.
It can be said that Fang Kuan watched Chen Xu rise step by step from a mountain boy like a rocket to his current powerful position.
At the beginning, he looked at Chen Xu and could still give orders with command, but now, he could only look up at Chen Xu's existence like looking up at the sky.
Chen Xu naturally didn't know Liu Tong and Fang Kuan's arrangements and plans.
Chen Xu didn't pay too much attention to his father's desertion, people who have really fought on the battlefield know that there are not too many deserters, tens of thousands of people escaped after a defeat, and then they either became homeless, or ran incognito to other countries to continue living, and even secretly ran home, and there were many people who bought the villagers with money, but Chen Xu's identity was too special, so Chen Hu's identity was also sensitive.
On the way home, not only Chen Hu and Han Tian were nervous, but even Chen Xu felt a little worried, not knowing what kind of reaction his mother would have when he suddenly brought his father home.
"Yu~~" A group of people braved the wind and snow through Qinghe Town, and returned to a position two or three miles away from Xiaohe Village, Chen Xu suddenly pulled the reins.
"Brother Xu, why did you stop suddenly?" Niu Dashi also stopped and looked at Chen Xu and asked suspiciously.
At this time, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, the sky is cold and the wind is howling, the snowflakes are rolling, and the ground has begun to white, the sky and the earth are white, and everyone is wrapped in a layer of snowflakes.
"I'll go home first, you guys take a slow step, I want to tell my mother in advance!" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he spurred his horse and galloped away with three escorts.
"Huzi, you are also confused, you have been hiding outside silently for so many years, Xiao Xu is now a Hou Ye, our Xiaohe Village and the entire Qinghe Town follow him to curry favor, do not pay food or taxes, you can also work in the workshop in the town, the annual income is more than the past ten years, every household has endless surplus food and clothes, you also saw it, Qinghe Town is more lively than the county seat of Pheasant County, and it is a blessing to come back, and don't be stubborn after going home, everything is arranged by Xu'er......"
A group of people continued to walk slowly towards Xiaohe Village, and Uncle Ma nagged Chen Hu all the way.
Chen Hu's expression was apprehensive and excited, and he hugged Han Tian and Xiaomi tightly and didn't know what to say.
"Soon, Master Hou is home!"
Listening to the sound of hurried horses' hooves outside, Chen Xu had just arrived at the door of the house, and Chen Jiang had already greeted him outside the door with Ying Shiyan Mengwan and a group of maids and maids.
"Xu'er, why did you come back alone? With such a big snow, what about your fur jacket? What about Uncle Ma and Dashi? After a group of people welcomed Chen Xu, who was covered in wind and snow, into the house, Chen Jiang asked while helping him pat the snowflakes on his body.
"Mother, wait a minute, I have something to say to you!" Chen Xu grabbed Chen Jiang's sleeve and said.
Looking at Chen Xu's solemn and serious expression, Chen Jiang stopped.
"Mother, I found out about my father's whereabouts!" When the matter is in front of him, Chen Xu can't continue to hide it. (https:)
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