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"We're rushing to the front, so we can't be considered deserters. Just to raise supplies for the country, I took an extra detour and delayed the trip for a few days! Liu Hongji pointed to the city gate in front of him with a horsewhip, and said with a smile the reason why he didn't take Li Xu to Huaiyuan Town.

If you follow Zhang Liang to the south, even if Zhang Liang's owner has his hands and eyes in the sky, he has washed the name of deserters for the two. The fact that they were at odds with the great army was also to be dismissed. And driving the war horse to Liaodong can only be regarded as the two of them delaying the gathering period. For the sake of the face of more than a hundred war horses, even if Liu Hongji's uncle didn't speak, no one was embarrassed to delve into the matter.

"Brother Liu is so thoughtful!" Li Xu responded with a smile on horseback. After all, I came to Liaodong, and from last autumn to now, it took a whole year to just go around in a big circle, and I still haven't escaped the fate of being a soldier. Thinking about the distance between this place and the Hazebe, he felt a pain in his heart for no reason. From Liucheng straight west, you can reach Ruoluoshui in three days. Turn north, and not far away is Crescent Lake......

He smiled bitterly, and his chest was suffocated as if he had been punched in the chest. was feeling sorry for himself, when he suddenly heard a mess at the city gate, and several people dressed as officials rushed out with gongs.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the county guard has an order, and the Jiangyang thieves Li Fuli and Xu Dayan are wanted, and those who have seen the two of them should report to the government as soon as possible, and reward five times and ten horses of silk!" With that, he held up several large notices and pasted them high on the walls, trees, and dilapidated buildings near the city gates.

"Li Fuli?" Li Xu felt that this name was familiar, and instigated the war horse to take a few steps towards the nearest notice, and two monster heads with fleshy faces and huge teeth and fangs immediately rushed into his eyes. Under the avatar, there is a well-polished wanted poster. The county keeper convicted the two monsters of colluding with horse thieves and attacking Turkic tribes. More than 300 miles of pastures and thousands of cattle and sheep were set on fire, resulting in the displacement of countless Turkic people......

"These two monsters are capable enough, and they actually set fire to the Turkic tribe!" In the crowd, someone shouted excitedly.

"Look at that look, it's not an ordinary person at first glance!" Someone pointed to the monster head on the notice and commented, his eyes full of admiration.

People laughed and whispered cheers for what had happened thousands of miles away. The Turks were friends of the emperor, and they didn't pay for dinner when they came to the Central Plains, and they grabbed things when they left. Someone taught them a lesson, and it was too late for everyone to be happy, who had the interest to help the government take the thief. Besides, how could someone with such a peculiar appearance appear in broad daylight?

Thousands of miles away, Ashina angrily slapped the table, tearing a stack of account books to pieces and flying papers.

"If you don't catch these two boys lighting the sky lantern, Lao Tzu will not be a man!" He shouted angrily. 200,000 stone military rations, every time he thinks about it, his flesh hurts so much that he shiveres. How could this fire burn so skillfully and burn down the grain depot that he had carefully hidden? It was the military money he bought with a lot of money, and he was waiting to take advantage of the opportunity of the Great Sui army rushing to Liaodong and the country was empty, and he killed the Great Wall in one fell swoop. In order to grasp the fighter plane, the Ashina family specially drove the Suotouxi people away and built this wooden city.......

Everything was in vain, and without enough military rations, the wolf riders could not go south. If the wolf rider can't go south to make contributions, he won't have a chance to take over the Khan's throne.......

"wild boy!" Ashina cursed hatefully. He has already sent out the protest documents to Da Sui, Yang Guang has made friends with the Turks, and he will never offend his 'friends' for the sake of the two hairy children. As for those border officials, they would not use their black gauze hats to intercede for the two deserters.

At the south gate of Liucheng, Liu Hongji patted Li Xu's back and commented with a smile: "These two robbers are really ugly!" ”

"It's ugly, it's ugly!" Li Xu shook his head and drove the horses around the east of the city.

Note 1: The three counties of Liaodong, the first front line of Yang Guang's attack on Goryeo, were divided into Liaodong, Yanjun and Liucheng, corresponding to the area of the present-day western Shenyang, western Liaoxi and Chaoyang Jinzhou respectively.

Two days later, the two arrived in Liaodong County. I first found a big local household, gave half a penny, and put the horses down. Then I asked the host to borrow a room and a basin, and brought cold water to tidy up my clothes.

At present, the war is imminent, and Liaodong County is passing troops day by day. Ordinary soldiers caught the people and herded horses, and it would be good if they didn't take the opportunity to blackmail, so they were willing to give half a benefit. The master of the house touched five hundred pieces of meat, and he didn't accept it, and he didn't dare to accept it. Standing at the door until the two of them had cleaned up, they tiptoed forward and prayed in a low voice: "Two generals, please take back the reward, Xiao Lao'er was born in Dasui and contributed to the country, originally, it should have been." This money is tens of thousands, and I dare not accept it. ”

"Take it, and the two of us are going to the city on business. These hundred horses are all taken care of by your family, and they are taken care of, and there is money to give. If someone steals the horse...... "Liu Hongji dusted off the leather on his head, and said with a straight face. (Note 2)

"Little old man doesn't dare, little old man doesn't dare!" The owners shouted assurances.

Liu Hongji was already rich and noble, but at this moment, he changed into a brocade coat and a leather crown, which made him even more extraordinary. How could this kind of official children dare to offend ordinary people, for a while, the head of the household was so frightened that he didn't dare to say that he didn't dare, and half of the string of money trembled like a rosary.

"Uncle, you can collect the money. We're not bad people, and we won't deliberately trouble you! Li Xu saw that the master's family was really pitiful, so he stepped forward to make a big bow with the gift of the younger generation, and comforted him in a low voice. (Note 3)

"Kill the little old man, kill the little old man!" When the head of the household saw a young man in a brocade robe and a crown making such a big gift to himself, he trembled more and more, put down half a string of copper coins, put his hands together and raised his eyebrows, and bent his knees to bow back. Liu Hongji was really impatient, rushed forward and grabbed his arm, and shouted: "If you want to accept it, you will accept it, it will only take half a day, can the two of us still lie to you!" ”

"Little old man doesn't dare, little old man doesn't dare!" The head of the household replied in a trembling voice, but the ceremony still could not be returned. Liu Hongji refused to delay any longer, pulled Li Xu out, picked out two Turkic military horses that looked the same color and looked more majestic from the herd, and rode all the way to Huaiyuan Town.

That Huaiyuan Town is a place to store grain, and the security is naturally a few points stricter than that of Liucheng and other places. Dozens of soldiers stood at the door, armed with knives and guns, inspecting passers-by one by one. From the face, body to the calluses on the hands, there is not a single suspicious place.

Li Xu has been practicing martial arts with the coppersmith master for more than half a year, and the cocoons on his hands are all sharpened by holding weapons. was worried about how to pass, but Liu Hongji lifted the reins of the horse and rushed towards the city gate at a faster speed.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, Uncle has urgent business!" Liu Hongji took the lead and shouted fiercely. The people who were waiting by the door to inspect heard the sound of horses' hooves and quickly turned sideways and flashed to the side. The soldier guarding the door wanted to stop him, look at the tall horse, and then look at the brocade robe on the horse's back, but his heart immediately became timid, and he raised his sword and gun and stood solemnly in the doorway.

The figures of the two flashed by the door, and they ran out for more than half a mile before the city gate official came back to his senses. wiped the dust on his head with his sleeve, and smacked heavily on the ground: "What's it, isn't it just a good old man." If grandpa I was born with a golden spoon in my mouth, hum, all stand up, say you, come one by one, squeeze what, grandma's, busy buying a coffin! ”

Huaiyuan Town is a small town, and the streets are not complicated. Liu Hongji casually asked someone, and then asked where the yamen of the chief official of this place was. But he didn't enter the yamen, took Li Xu straight to the corner gate in the north of the courtyard, got off the horse ten steps away from the corner gate, and walked slowly with the reins.

Before they reached the door, a servant came up to meet them. Liu Hongji took out a jade plaque from his bag, handed it to the servant, and said loudly: "This place is the Tang Apartment, and the annoying little brother said that the son of the old man, the eldest man of the Liu family, came to visit the elders!" ”

"It's the back house of Duke Tang's family, if you don't wait, I'll pass the word for you!" When the servant heard that he was the son of the deceased, he quickly took the jade plaque and threw it to the ground.

Liu Hongji stretched out his hand to hug each other, and when the other party got up, he stuffed a small half string of copper coins into his sleeve. The servant was accustomed to welcoming guests on weekdays, and he knew from the sudden increase in the weight of his sleeve that the boy in front of him had given a lot of money, so he thanked him and ran in in a hurry.