In the city of Jiaozhou, the capital protects and makes the Ya Nei.

Zeng Gon looked at Fan Xuan standing in front of him, and only felt that there was indescribable greasy and disgust in his heart, but he had to pinch his nose to listen to him.

"Are the grass thieves willing to quit the war and retreat, is this because they are afraid of our army's might."

"No, but it's the one who is willing to put aside the old suspicions and join hands with the capital to fight against foreign insults."

Fan Xuan couldn't help but explain softly.

"And let the servant pass on a word, 'Rather with the Han family, not with the barbarians'. Under the premise of unanimous united front with the outside world, anything can be negotiated. ”

"How is this possible, do you expect the court of my time to be loyal and good and join hands with thieves."

Zeng Gon sneered disdainfully.

"Even if I dare to admit it, my thousands of sons and daughters will definitely not be."

"Then there's a matter of retreating."

Fan Xuan continued unhurriedly.

"The troops outside the city will go to Fengzhou to fight the Xiyuan Barbarians who have entered the Kou. Please also ask the city not to be suspicious and suffer casualties. ”

"Is this true, do you dare to believe in thieves."

Zeng Gon couldn't help but be angry and took the case

"These grass thieves have always been greedy and forgetful, and they don't know what righteousness is... A certain An dared to pay for the safety of the city. . . ”

"I'm afraid that this is a false sign of weakness, and I want our army not to act recklessly and miss the fighter, or it is just a trick to make money in secret."

"Now that Komeito has been returned, let's take a good rest and don't worry about these things that I'm not good at."

Hearing this, Fan Zhuo couldn't help clenching his fists, and was secretly angry and anxious, could it be that the safety and survival of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Annan could not squeeze out the personal gains and disgraces of the superiors; Even if it's a symbolic display of a false high posture, it will allow him to continue to deceive himself.

This is simply the same as his sincere and sincere persuasion and enlisting local support one by one when he first took office, and his vow to spare his life for the people of the thirteen prefectures of Annan. However, he said gloomily in his heart: almost all of them are accurate to eight or nine from ten. Then he let go of his fist and let the sergeant take him down, so that he would have to choose another way and find another way.

Then when he returned to his lodgings, he found that he was already guarded by a sergeant sent by Zenggon; He couldn't help but sigh again, and said that the other party was also guarding against the abnormal moves he might make in private; It was only after a few moments of reunion with my family that I received a notification that a visitor had visited. I couldn't help but be amazed that I was a person who had returned from the thief camp, how could there be someone who did not shy away from being suspicious of him.

Then he saw the other party, but it was a house slave from the mansion of the High Thorn; I sent him some daily necessities on the grounds of condolences, and then hurriedly resigned after a few words. Then at the bottom of the food box, he found an unnamed piece of paper, but in a familiar handwriting to explain some of the subsequent events and notices in the city.

When night had fallen, he got up from his bed again, lit the lamp in his study, and revisited and revised his manuscript; After half a ring, there was another knock on the outer door, and someone asked softly:

"Is Fan Changshi okay?"

Then Fan Xuan walked out, but he saw the Gaofu slave who had come to visit during the day, waiting in the corner; Then he changed into an ordinary scholar's uniform according to the explanation on the piece of paper, and under the leadership of the other party, except for the back door of the house, the two soldiers who were supposed to be there had long disappeared.

Then he made a hitch (pole), lowered the curtain, and was carried up in a swaying manner, and the slave with the lantern led the way down the street to a certain part of the city; On this short and short journey, his companion met at least four patrolmen. But their attitudes and reactions are much more casual and slack.

There are two groups of people who directly ignore the wrong person; One of them stopped to make way for them, as if they had a tacit understanding beforehand. The last wave was stopped and interrogated after encountering in the inner city, and as soon as he heard that it was the guests who were rushing to the banquet in the city, he let them go, and he also had an attitude of not wanting to be troubled; This made Fan Jue feel that the situation was a little interesting.

And the final destination is not in the Thorn Mansion in the middle of the city, but in a mansion in the city that occupies the city; This surprised him a little, but after entering the room and seeing the guests present, he did not feel any surprise at all; Because almost all of them are representatives of various families in the city after being dressed up, they have not dealt with each other in the early years.

Immediately, under the cover of a singing and dancing music, they began to greet and salute one by one.

"Under the pretense of the name of the mansion, I have invited the long history to this point, and my generation really has a last resort. Please forgive me. ”

One of the older men said with apologetic and helpless faces.

"But I don't know what the noble official passed on in the ya, about the statement of 'Ning with the Han family, not let the outside barbarians' outside the city, there is a bit of truth or falsehood."

"That's exactly what it says."

Fan Xuan Zhengse nodded and praised, but his heart was slightly awe-inspiring, this is what he said when he met alone in the mansion during the day, and they already knew it.

"It's just a matter of asking for an order to come.,It's just a matter of making some efforts.。。 It's a pity. ”

"There is still one thing in the future, please don't hesitate to clarify the doubts,。。"

Another voice said, but it was a middle-aged man with a sad face.

"I heard that outside the city. Grass... The division has passed, and the local wealthy families have hardly been spared, and the children of the clansmen are all enslaved in the army. ”

"But that's not the case, where did this lie come from?"

Fan Zuo shook his head helplessly.

“。 What they did was to drive out the barbarians and bandits, and the people were preserved. ”

"I've seen the strong men of the four towns vying to be attached to it. And there are still more than a dozen soil groups attached to it. Among them, there are several old acquaintances that you are waiting for."

As the topic and questions and answers unfolded, the people who hid in the pavilion behind the hall and watched all this couldn't help but feel a little anxious; He was most concerned about the treatment and conditions he could get from the other party, but he had not been able to talk about it; So he couldn't help but make a gesture secretly.

"But I don't know how my generation should deal with itself after the changes in the city."

Subsequently, someone still asked this sentence.

"I can't think it's exactly what it used to be."

Then Fan Xuan sighed without thinking, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little stagnant and silent.

"Those who aid in the abuse should be liquidated, and those who sit and wait must be compensated, and the others can be preserved or rewarded according to the amount of effort, but they need to be carefully calculated."

At this moment, there was an uproar and noise in the hall, some people showed relieved expressions, some people were full of sorrow and fear, some people were full of calculations and calculations, and some people meditated hard and their faces were cloudy

"How should the officials of the Yazhong and the government be good ,。。?"

The reporters have been talking about this topic one after another, and some people have raised this issue that is of greatest concern to the people.

"As long as there are no great sins and faults, they are allowed to stay and take care of themselves."

Fan Xuan took the trouble to explain at this moment.

"If you have the heart to go, you won't be hindered, but you can't wrap up the roll and bring anything other than your family."

"If you want to keep it, you have to follow the new rules and regulations."

Hearing the conditions here, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and he secretly resented him, who was quite powerful in the past but secretly had a tendency to be a thief. Why can't we look at the past and get more conditions and benefits for ourselves? Maybe it would be nice to put a drag and change the situation, he said to himself in his heart.

.......

After the sky turned white again, it had become quiet in the camp outside the city.

"I think anyone who is hungry can eat an elephant."

Zhou Huai'an said to the fire chef who was only serving food left and right, but the other party smiled shyly

"Although the head of the pipe is relieved, let alone a mere elephant, even if it is three or five, it will be concocted for you."

His name is Gao Bu Fat, fat Lao Gao, a butcher and cooked cook with big shoulders and a round waist, especially good dog meat; After a while, he looks mighty in appearance, but he is quite cautious; However, what he is cooking for Zhou Huai'an now is elephant meat, which is one of the ten treasures of Guangfu.

However, he is not boasting, in fact, throughout the era from Lingnan to Annam, there are often news of wild elephants breaking into the homes of the villagers and being expelled or killed. Therefore, when the rebels were collecting and purchasing goods from the other side, they easily got a whole section of fresh elephant trunk meat.

Then the elephant trunk water scalding to remove the epidermis attachment, the iron jack hole is poured into plural sauces and covered with honey, marinated for a period of time sprinkled with lemongrass, coriander and other ingredients for fine fire, and finally sliced and divided into plates with the width of the fingers, between the crispy epidermis and the inner muscle, the fat between the golden, red and white, like a natural color of the artwork, and eat crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, refreshing and juicy.

In addition, there are taro soup, boiled beef head, five-flavor crab, rice noodle fish, jellyfish (now called jellyfish) raw, etc., as well as lean meat, pork belly pickled, with oysters, preserved eggs and rice boiled together with the fire porridge as the staple food, in the open air there are always a large table, and people drool.

Among them, the more distinctive is to hold taro soup, which is to boil a pot of taro and then put it half cool, then put the washed and cleaned live frog into it, and then add fire to heat and have to hold the taro in the sinking soup to slowly become ripe, the freshness of the frog man and the glutinous fragrance of the taro are mixed into one in the thick soup of the juice, which is a kind of "boiled frog in warm water" type of gluttonous eating method.

It's just that Zhou Huai'an is not sensitive to the natural affection for frogs and parasites, so he switched to stone frogs that can only be caught in streams. Then, in the midst of a curious, eager, or oblivious gaze on the left, he alternated his hands like wind and rain, and swept away the several large pots of dishes that had been laid down, along with a small bucket of rice porridge.

After all, it is indeed a very tiring thing to keep changing vehicles, turning around several times along the city wall of Daluo City in Jiaozhou, and repeatedly using his ability to explore the reality and some details inside and outside these city walls, and even the energy bar in the field of vision has been emptied several times. However, after this hard work, it is not completely without harvest and discovery.

At this time, as a matter of interests, the dozen or so long tables placed in front of other subordinates, plates of roasted elephant meat and stewed soup were only chewed and swallowed, and only about half of them were eaten.

In fact, the great man who was always the leader had an excellent appetite, and was the first of the usual legends and speculations in the army; Although it was forbidden to gamble in the army, it was still impossible to stop the soldiers from using some rations to bet on the probability of guessing the probabilities of the monk's appetite; Especially for those who have not been in for a long time, this is more of a way to deter and educate.

As a result, there have been some rumors such as "He is the gluttonous incarnation of a divine beast reincarnated in Buddhism, but he is no longer able to provide for his needs as an ordinary Buddhist practice, so he has to be born to receive the world's food and drink as a method of cultivation".

At this time, a swift soldier who hurriedly squeezed in brought him bad news again.

"What, Jiaozhou Dagang was attacked by the pirates. I've lost my voice. ”

Zhou Huai'an suddenly realized:

"This may be the other party's backhand."

(End of chapter)