Chapter 19: Choices
After leaving Longzhou and running wildly for half an hour, after confirming that no one was following him, Zhan Yun pulled the reins and stopped.
He looked at the three attendants behind him, Xin Yibo was sweating profusely but looked excited, like a bird that had just come out of the cage.
King Gu Yan poured water into his stomach with a clatter, it was strange to say, after leaving Baoji, Zhan Yun didn't see a trace of the heavy rain, it was the hot season, the weather was hot, and the land was cracked.
Shi Laosan was wearing a bamboo straw hat and was looking around, not knowing if it was because of vigilance or melancholy.
Zhan Yun found a shade of a tree and turned over and dismounted, and then continued to take out silver from his body, and King Gu Yan's eyes straightened when he saw it.
At the same time, Zhan Yun found that the TV series in later generations were all deceitful, so he casually put hundreds of taels of silver on his body, in fact, the three piles of silver in front of him were only six hundred taels in total, but they were fifty or sixty catties.
"It was my decision to leave the rebels, and the place I was going to was far away, dangerous, and possibly even fatal." Zhan Yun didn't shy away from his weird behavior at all, and said very cautiously.
"They are all brothers who have been born and died together, I don't force you, the ground is six hundred taels of silver, if you want to fend for yourself, you can take two hundred taels, from now on you and I are far away, on our own side." Zhan Yun said again.
Two hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, if it is placed in a peaceful year, one tael of silver can save enough for a family of three to use for a month.
Now that there are only four of them around, Zhan Yun no longer has to worry about someone threatening him, and this is also a test for Zhan Yun for them.
"Brother dog, since I came out of the village, we have sworn that we will never go back if we don't mix up our personal appearance, you are the one who wants to make a big deal, the knife comes and goes, and I will follow you in this life." Xin Yibo said without hesitation when he heard this.
This was from his heart, Zhan Yun nodded without any doubt, and then looked at Gu Yan King.
"Look at what I'm doing, you said that they were brothers who were born and died together, our family is dead, and we are left alone, and no one cares if the single one dies.
Zhan Yun, let's follow you in the future, if there is danger, we will carry it for you, but there is a little, if we die, you have to take care of the aftermath for us, there was no scenery when you lived, and you have to let us shine when you die. After Gu Yan finished speaking, he didn't even look at the silver on the ground, and knelt down on one knee in front of Zhan Yun.
Zhan Yun knew that King Gu Yan was also a straight man, so he immediately helped him up, and then looked at Shi Laosan.
This man is as timid as a mouse, but he can always turn danger into a disaster, and he has been struggling in the rebel army for two years and is alive and well, and Zhan Yun has always been a little unable to understand him.
"I'm timid, King Gu Yan has saved my life, Brother Zhanyun has also saved my life, I can be saved twice in my life, it's worth it.
I also want to follow you, if the next time I am in danger, don't worry about me, I don't complain to anyone. Shi Laosan stammered and expressed his thoughts.
Shi Laosan also seems to hate his cowardice, but this thing is like a fear of heights, it's not that you want to resist to succeed, even if you have worked hard.
After Shi Laosan finished speaking, he also bowed to Zhan Yun.
"Since you look up to me, I also swear here, the road ahead is long, as long as you live up to me, I promise you a magnificent life." Zhan Yun said very calmly and affirmatively.
He didn't say anything with fragrant food and spicy drinks, those are too vulgar, what he wants to do is too terrifying, for the people, for the heart of heaven and earth, it is not easy to cross a trip, if you want to live, you will live vigorously.
But he didn't dare to say to the three of them, now that the Great Wall has just taken the first step, it is useless to say too much, and it is the most practical to let them eat enough every day.
Zhan Yun put away the silver on the ground, and finally told some of his secrets to the three of them, of course, still in the way of dreams.
But unlike what he said to Xin Yibo at the time, he only said that the old Taoist taught him a Taoist technique, which could include items in the imaginary space and use them for his own use, and explained that he was using this Taoist technique by taking silver just now.
This couldn't help but be disbelievable by King Gu and Shi Laosan, Zhan Yun showed it to them on the spot, and told them that a lot of grain had been stored in the imaginary space, which was their capital in the future.
The reason why he told this part of the secret to the three of them was because he had revealed it before, and now he was just taking the initiative to answer their questions.
Besides, you will need the help of your own people when you pick up and put the supplies in the future, and telling them in advance now can be regarded as a reward for their loyalty.
Sure enough, when they learned that Zhan Yun had fifty stones of grain hidden on his body, the faces of King Gu Yan and Shi Laosan were happy.
In these years, silver is not worth much, and in the year of the catastrophe, you may not be able to buy food with silver, food is everything, as long as there is food, you can find someone to work for you, which is not an exaggeration.
Under the leadership of Zhan Yun, the four of them rode all the way east from Longzhou, and arrived in Baishui five days later, and planned to start from here and establish their own team.
The reason why Zhanyun chose this place is also after careful consideration, Baishui County is adjacent to Chengcheng, and among the many poverty-stricken counties in Shaanxi, these two cities are among the best, which can be said to be a microcosm of the entire north.
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse and the first year of Chongzhen, uprisings broke out in Chengcheng and Baishui, which also opened the prelude to the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Baishui Wang Er, Fugu Wang Jiayin, Ansai Gao Yingxiang, Yan'an Zhang Xianzhong, and Mizhi Li Zicheng are all like this, and it can be said that Baishui and Chengcheng are the starting point of all rebel armies.
To sum it up in one word, poor! It is not an exaggeration to say that the poor eat soil!
Grandma doesn't care about uncle or uncle, Zhang Xianzhong is too lazy to come, and the court officials are too lazy to care, after all, there is no oil and water.
But this is just as Zhan Yun intended, he needs such an extralegal place to complete the first conscription since the crossing.
The scorching sun scorched the long-dried land, and the gates of Whitewater City were empty, and looking through the hollow doorway, Zhanyun still didn't see a single pedestrian.
This is a forgotten county town.
When I got closer to Zhan Yun, I found that there were still people in a corner outside the city wall, and two scrawny men were mysterious, as if they were cooking something.
"What kind of game are you hunting? Can you give me a taste? I can pay for it. Zhan Yun got off his horse and smiled and went over, wanting to ask about the situation in Whitewater City.
But the two men looked extremely guarded, and at the same time watched several men come on horseback, waiting for the godless eyes to look terrified.
"You don't have to be afraid, I'm just passing by, you see I really have silver." Zhan Yun didn't believe it, so he directly took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the two.
The two didn't dare to take the silver, so they reluctantly took a broken bowl, scooped a bowl of soup and handed it to Zhan Yun.
"Ahh That's enough silver or two, why don't you get a piece of meat for my young master to eat? Let me! After Gu Yan finished speaking, he snatched the thin man and pushed him aside.
He was about to go to the pot to fish for meat with a bowl in his left hand and a broken spoon in his right hand, but only one bone was lifted in one spoon.
The bone was half a foot long, not as thick as the cow bone, but slightly longer than the sheep bone, the bone was white and sparkling only the tail was stained with some meat, Shi Laosan's eyes were sharp, and his eyes widened when he saw the bone.
"Young master, that's a child's bones!"
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