Chapter 173: Get on board
Zhang Jiedao: The store also wants horses?
Shopkeeper said: It's not a secret, Jingzhou lacks horses, and the brother-in-law is below. It's a horse dealer. So I want to take these horses for him.
Zhang Jie said: Good! Since the store is interested, it will be sold to the store. Shopkeeper said: Generally, a good horse is twenty gold, and four horses are eighty gold. But now the war is in chaos. Copper coins are worthless. It is also difficult for the guest officer to sell for a good price. In this way, I will give the guest officer seventy gold for the four horses. How about all horseshoe nuggets?
Zhang Jiedao: Since the store can afford the brothers, then sell it to the store. Seventy gold is seventy gold.
The shopkeeper smiled from ear to ear. Dao: Wait a while, I will withdraw the money immediately.
Zhou Cangdao: It's too cheap. There is a shortage of horses in the south, and generally a good horse can be sold for thirty or fifty gold in Jingzhou, and these four horses are at least more than one hundred gold! Zhang Jiedao: As long as it's gold, not copper money, it's okay. We're not horses.
Originally, I was going to throw the horses away. But when I thought about it, I didn't bring any money with me, and it was good to sell some money.
With these seventy gold, we can also beat those little ghosts on the road.
After a while, the shopkeeper came over with a small cloth bag and said, "Please count it." Zhang Jie said: No need, I can trust the store and say goodbye.
After taking the money and leaving, Zhang Jie said: It's very fortunate to be in a hurry all the way, let's find a guest village first. How about a night's rest or heading straight to the pier?
Zhao Yundao: Yun is worried that the city will always be unsafe, let's go to the dock, rent a boat, and rest on the boat.
Zhang Jie said: Okay, then let's go to the dock.
Fancheng Wharf is very large, because there is no bridge in Hanshui, and the river is crossed by ferry. Zhang Jie and his entourage came to the dock, and many boatmen were soliciting customers, which was beyond Zhang Jie's expectations.
Zhang Jie found a relatively large ship. The boat family is a middle-aged man in his fifties, which was considered an old man in ancient times. Zhou Cang wanted to open his mouth to go to Hanzhong, but Zhang Jie hurriedly grabbed him. Rush Dao: Boatman, can you go to Xiakou?
Chuanjia said: Yes, but the guest officer has to wait, because it will take several days to go back and forth to Xiakou, I have to buy some food, and I have to call two apprentices. Because coming back is a boat against the current. One person can't walk.
Zhang Jie said: Good! Then we'll wait for you here, you can buy more food. My brother has a big belly. It will be counted to you in due time.
After the boatman left, Zhou Cang said: The lord goes to the south of Yixiakou, and he goes to the west of Hanzhong, so he goes farther and farther!
Zhang Jie said with a smile: The heart of defense is indispensable. You're still learning.
Zhang Jie and the four of them waited on the boat for half an hour, when the two apprentices of the boat family also got on the boat with a few bags, and the boat drove south for less than three miles. Zhang Jie said: Stop!
Boatman, just now I suddenly remembered to go to Hanzhong. Let's turn around and go to Hanzhong now!
Chuanjia Dao: Guest officer, Hanzhong is much farther than Xiakou and is sailing against the current. It's not the same price.
Zhang Jie gestured to Dian Wei. Dian Wei took out a few horseshoe gold cakes and handed them to the boatman. Zhang Jiedao: Boatman, is it enough?
Chuanjia said: Enough is enough, when I see a few of you, you are not ordinary people, and you are generous. Xiao Lao'er thanked the guest officer first.
Then the boat turned around and went upstream. Because it was against the current, in ancient times when there was no power, the boat traveled very slowly. Zhou Cang thought to himself, it turned out that it was a lie to say that he went to Xiakou first, these literati really have a lot of eyes.
Zhang Jie slept on the boat. And Dian Wei kept looking at him. Two hours later, Zhang Jie woke up and said to Dian Wei: Brother, will you sleep if you don't sleep?
Dian Weidao: I'm used to it, and I can't sleep on this ship.
At this time, the boatman came over and said: The guest officer should eat something. Xiao Lao'er prepared meals for the guest officers on the boat, and Zhang Jie said: There is a labor boat home.
Then everyone was ready to eat, Dian Wei said: I have a large amount of food, eat first, you can rest first! In fact, Dian Wei was afraid that this boat would be poisoned. Don't look at Dian Wei who looks like a big old man, in fact, he is very careful sometimes.
Zhang Jie nodded. The boat family is a little strange, Zhang Jie is obviously the head, why do you eat it later? How can there be a reason that the next person eats first, and the master eats later? It's weird. But I didn't say it.
And Cao Renyu forbade them to enter Funiu Mountain in Zhang Jie, and surrounded the foot of the mountain the next day. It's just that Funiu Mountain is too big, and he doesn't know where Zhang Jie is.
And when Zhang Jie and the four of them walked in the direction of Runan, Cao Cao took Guo Jia to Funiu Mountain.
Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan first pleaded guilty. Cao Cao said: What did you find? Cao Rendao: This road is all horseshoe prints. Zhang Jie should have gone up the mountain from here
Cao Cao said: Let's go into the mountain!
Then Cao Cao also entered the mountain. Not much, the scout reported that there were traces left by Zhang Jie's overnight stay in front.
Cao Cao and the others came to the side of the broken house, and there were many burning fires on the ground. Cao Rendao: Zhang Jie spent the night here, and he should still be on the mountain.
Cao Cao said: You go to the road to look for any traces, or any signals that someone deliberately left.
After a while, Yu Ban came over and said: The lord found this, and he felt a little strange, so he picked it up and took a look, it should have been left on purpose. Cao Cao picked it up and looked at it, and sure enough, he saw an arrow engraved on a wooden stick.
And the direction of the arrow is towards the mountains. Cao Cao said: Pay attention to these wooden sticks and tree fingers in the future. Promise!
Then Cao's army began to enter the mountain, and because of the arrows left by the ghosts, Cao Cao has been following the route taken by Zhang Jie.
And Jia Xu of the cottage and Pei Yuanshao rested in the cottage. After a while, someone reported, saying: There is a large group of people and horses coming up the mountain at the foot of the mountain, and it is less than ten miles to the cottage.
Jia Xu smiled and said: Does General Pei want to make great contributions? Pei Yuanshao was somewhat afraid of Cao Jun. Dao: How can a military advisor make meritorious service?
Jia Xu said: What is the most on the mountain? Pei Yuanshao said: Stones, trees.
Jia Xu said with a smile: In this early winter season, everything is dry, what if we lead Cao Jun to a place where firewood and grass are luxuriant, and then set fire to Cao Jun everywhere?
Pei Yuanshao said: If the wind starts again, even the million army will be burned down. Strategist's clever plan.
It's just not easy to let Cao Cao be fooled.
Jia Xu said: In this way, General Pei, where is the best place to set fire from here and Cao Jun can't escape?
Pei Yuanshao thought for a while: Herb Valley.
Jia Xudao: Tell me about the situation in the Herb Valley?
Pei Yuanshao said: I didn't have this name before, because that place is lush with grass and trees, and there are many herbs, and there is only one valley. The brothers often went there to collect medicines, so they named it the Valley of Herbs.
Jia Xu said: God help me. General Pei, you immediately take your brothers to ride their horses to the Herb Valley, and bring more fire-inducing things.
Pei Yuanshao said: How to ride a horse? It's hard to walk with a horse there. Jia Xu said: Without horseshoe prints, Cao Cao will not be fooled. Because the lord is a cavalryman, he will not leave the warhorse.
Pei Yuanshao said: I see, the military advisor is high.
Jia Xu said again: Take the arrow made by the inner ghost and put it on the road, but don't put too much, just put a few, too much will make people suspicious.
Promise!
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