In the afternoon of the same day, a good story was circulating in Yongping Mansion, and a skilled chief flag officer threatened to let Zheng go to his house to celebrate the New Year with his family.

For the sake of this honor and love, he will take the initiative to attack the Houjin Army and kill at least twenty level true slaves.

The rumors were not credible, many people laughed it off, and later some good people found the family who had just come back from following Zheng Guochang to inquire about it, and it was officially confirmed.

How can so many people talk about this? This is not surprising, Huang Han sent a full forty people to Yongping Mansion City to purchase supplies, and let them say that Lord Zheng Guochang was going to Jiulitai Village for the New Year.

Huang Han knew that the most important thing was food and clothing in times of chaos, so he took out the silver and sent people to Yongping Mansion to buy a large number of poultry eggs, cured meat, cloth, cotton, salt, sugar, etc.

The forty people who came to purchase were all villagers from Jiulitai, and an official of Zheng Guochang's size was able to go to Jiulitai Village for the New Year, and they all felt honored, and they began to brag when they bought things with money, telling the shopkeepers and the surrounding people that Jiulitai Village bought these things in order to receive Zheng Jicha and prepared in advance.

The speed of the spread of gossip is incomparable no matter what era it is, and soon the prefect Zhang Fengqi and the official Lu Chenggong knew about it, and they had to visit Zheng Guochang at night to find out.

The first time to drink a high degree of wine, even if Zheng Guochang has been tested for a long time, he is very uncomfortable, he went home in the afternoon and went to sleep, at this time, he just got up not long ago, Zhang Futai and Lu Tuiguan came to the door together, of course he wanted to receive him, and the three of them chatted with tea and soon talked about Huang Han.

Zhang Fengqi wasted no time in asking Zheng Guochang if he really agreed to take the family to the remote mountain village for the New Year.

Zhang Fengqi mentioned this, Zheng Guochang remembered the matter of agreeing to Huang Han at noon today, and admitted it with a smile, he also said that the New Year is about to close, and he will go to Jiulitai Village early in the morning the day after tomorrow, and temporarily return to the city on the second day of the first month.

Jiulitai Village is only a dozen miles away from Fucheng, although there are several miles of mountain roads that are not easy to walk, but it doesn't take two hours to ride back and forth.

Since Zheng Guochang had already promised Huang Han, Governor Zhang didn't say anything, saying that in case of an emergency, he would send his family to Jiulitai Village to deliver a letter.

Zheng Guochang is not a big corrupt official, there is not much pomp, and the population in the official residence of Yongping Mansion is not very large, he said that he took his old wife and a pair of children by his side, as well as five maids, two mothers-in-law, a concubine, and six family members and set off in three carriages.

Although there are eighteen people, including the coachman, in this era, Zheng Guochang's identity is definitely a light car.

Zheng Guochang knew that the Huang family's family was average, so he didn't want to bother too much, so he prepared a lot of food, and brought a whole pig and four sheep that had been killed.

This time it was a private trip, and Zheng Guochang did not bring a guard of honor. Of course, the six family members are all riding horses, among which four of them have a helmet and armor, a knife, and an arrow on their backs, which is equivalent to a bodyguard, and two of them are not wearing armor, which should be two errand boys.

In order to prevent accidents, all the villagers in Jiulitai must go up the mountain to celebrate the New Year, and even all the livestock must be taken away.

Huang Han had no intention of receiving Zheng Guochang in Jiulitai Village, and instructed Huang Yong to prepare several relatively spacious and clean places in the shelter for reception.

There are also four or five hundred people in Jiulitai Village, except for the elderly, sick and young children who can't move in this era, everyone has to work, the Huang family has money and food, and the people basically belong to the idle winter to give money and food and hire villagers to help work for their own benefit.

For more than a month, the cave shelter used to escape the war was completely renewed, with warehouses, residential areas, large canteens, small canteens, etc. in order, and even a few latrines were managed by a few old women.

The Huang family originally had some grain in stock, but now they have stored nearly 600 stone of grain and 200 stone of horse material on the mountain, and the common people did not go up the mountain empty-handed, bringing all the food and valuable things with them.

There is water in the shelter, and there are enough supplies to stockpile, even if a thousand people hide here for a year and a half, they will not be hungry.

Huang Han was familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty and knew that the Later Jin army would not occupy Yongping Mansion for more than half a year, and the worst plan was to hide in a shelter until the summer.

At noon in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zheng Zhaocha arrived with his family as promised, and Huang Han was very satisfied with his attitude, knowing that he was determined to save his life.

There is no one in the court to be an official, and connections are extremely important for a fledgling little person who comes to mix with officialdom.

Huang Han's foundation in Daming is too shallow, and he is planning to find a few backers, but how can high-ranking officials and nobles look down on a small family like the Huang family, and they can't even find a way to spend money and give gifts.

Zheng Guochang was a member of the imperial court, a feudal official and the highest official of the Yamen in Yongping Mansion, in history, he died bravely and generously when the Houjin army captured the city, and his old wife and family committed suicide.

Such a high-ranking official full of loyalty is worthy of admiration, and it is worth using some tricks to let him escape. Since he came to Jiulitai, of course, it is impossible to let him go back to Fucheng on the second day of the first lunar month.

Huang Han's first sentence after seeing Zheng Guochang salute made the adult cloud and mountain fog, "The fact that the adult can come to the wilderness mountain village to celebrate the New Year is enough to show that your lucky star shines, and you must be able to avoid a catastrophe." ”

Zheng Guochang was about to speak, Huang Han immediately waved his hand with a serious face to stop, he said mysteriously: "Some things can only be experienced but not said, adults must be prepared to endure hardships, you only need to live in the mountain for five days, during which you can listen to the arrangement of the second brother Huang Yong, don't ask anything, and the mystery will be revealed after five days." ”

Which play is this? Still going to the mountains? Kicking your nose in the face?

Zheng Guochang was furious and was about to play official power, but he saw that more than a dozen strong men behind Huang Han were holding weapons in their hands, and their eyes were round.

He and Huang Han only have a one-sided relationship, and he doesn't know the purpose of Huang Han's trick to come here, Zheng Guochang is quite a city government, and although he is so angry that he snorts angrily, he still can't bear it, and wants to wait and see what happens.

Fortunately, the people here respect him quite a lot, and when he climbs the mountain, there are strong men to help, and even a few difficult mountain roads are carried by Huang Yong on his back to Zheng Guochang.

Huang Han did not go up the mountain, and handed over the work of protecting the villagers and accompanying Zheng Guochang to Huang Yizhou, this time Huang Yizhou did not ask for the father and son soldiers, because there is Zheng Guochang on the mountain, in case there is a mistake, it is very likely that the Huang family will be raided and exterminated.

Huang Yizhou led eleven families with poor equestrian skills, plus Yang Danian and seventy infantry battalion soldiers stationed on the mountain, the task was to hold the danger, and the mountain could also mobilize one or two hundred people to participate in the guard.