After Shen Shenbi's trouble, Ji Qingwen and his entourage were delayed for a lot of time to go out of the city, and it was already sunset when they arrived in Hangzhou.

In order not to miss the beautiful scenery of the West Lake in the evening, everyone rented a few upper rooms near the lake in an inn next to the West Lake at a high price.

Early the next morning, everyone didn't have time to enjoy the scenery of the West Lake, so they went out of the city to the south and went to Yiwu, where the descendants of the Qi family army were located.

Yiwu is on the edge of the hills in the south of the Yangtze River, the mountain road is undulating up and down, and the continuous hills are traversing, so that Ji Qingwen and others, who were not expected to be on the road, were delayed for a few hours, and they did not arrive in Yiwu City until the evening.

Although Yiwu is also a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, it is engaged in mining, compared with other small cities in the south of the Yangtze River, it naturally lacks a quiet and elegant temperament, and the air is full of dusty and gunpowder-filled strong temperament.

After finding an inn to live in for one night, and staying until the early morning of the next day, Ji Qingwen and the others got up and went to look for the descendant of Qi Jiajun called "Chen Wenzhao".

These people are the first time to come back to Yiwu, just in response to the words "unfamiliar with life".

However, Li Yuanyin, the commander of Jinyiwei, had already explored the situation in advance, and while walking and asking, he led Ji Qingwen, Li Yan, and Huang Degong into the mountain along a small road outside Yiwu City.

After walking for an hour or two on the mountain path, the group finally stopped in front of a mine.

Ji Qingwen was a little curious, so he asked Li Yuanyin: "Commander Li, could it be that Chen Wenzhao is in this mine?" ”

Li Yuanyin replied: "Yes, according to the intelligence, this mine is Chen Wenzhao's industry, and if it is not bad, he should be in this place now." ”

Ji Qingwen nodded, and saw two miners guarding the entrance of the mine, so he stepped forward and arched his hand, and asked, "May I ask if Chen Wenzhao is the owner of the mine here?" I would like to ask for a meeting under something. ”

One of them looked Ji Qingwen up and down vigilantly, and asked rhetorically, "What are you looking for the mine owner?" ”

Ji Qingwen was about to open his mouth to answer, but Li Yuanyin preemptively said: "This matter is very confidential, and I ask this person to go in and report it." ”

When the miner saw the flying fish suit Li Yuanyin was wearing and the embroidered spring knife on his waist, his expression immediately became nervous, and he whispered a few words to his companions around him, and said: "Okay, please be a few people and wait here, and the villain will come when he goes." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and ran into the mine without a trace.

Seeing this, Li Yan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Brother Ji, you are the Weaving Admiral of Suzhou; Lord Li is the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Both of them are well-known figures in Jiangnan, and they can't even enter a mine the size of this projectile, which can be described as an aggressive thing. ”

Li Yuanyin said: "The last general was born in Wuju, and he was a soldier for a few days before joining Jinyiwei. Looking at the strict defense of this mine, there is a bit of an army atmosphere, and it seems that we are not looking for the wrong place. ”

As he spoke, the miner hurried back and said to the others, "You've been waiting for a long time. The mine owner please. ”

As he spoke, he bent down, made a "please" gesture, and let a few people into the mine gate.

Ji Qingwen walked and looked at it, and saw that although the mine was not big, the road was repaired very flat, all kinds of tools were stacked in an orderly manner, and the slag was also neatly piled up in a pile - up and down, inside and out, it looked orderly.

Ji Qingwen was curious when he saw this, so he talked with the miners who led the way.

Only then did I know that this mine mainly produces silver, and it is accompanied by some coal, and the silver and coal produced in a year can be worth about 4,000 taels of silver. Most of the people working in the mine were children from the neighborhood, numbering about 100 people. The owner of the mine is indeed named Chen Wenzhao, who opened the mine here in the third year of the Apocalypse, and has been in business for almost ten years now.

These messages are both useful and useless, Ji Qingwen has heard and calculated, but he has not taken them to heart.

After walking for a cup of tea, the miner led Ji Qingwen and the others to a tent outside a mine, invited the three of them to sit down and served tea again, and said: "The mine owner is in the pit, wait a minute, he will be there soon." ”

This is strange, it has always been the mine owner who hires people to mine, how can there be a reason for the mine owner to go down to the pit himself? It's like Ji Qingwen is a weaving admiral, and there are more than 300 first-class craftsmen under his command, and the silk he weaves is sold for six hundred taels of silver, but he himself has never been on the loom for a minute.

With a full stomach full of suspicion, Ji Qingwen sat down in the tent, but after a while, he saw a team of people crawling out of the mine, all with oil lamps in their mouths, and a basket of ore behind their backs, all of them unkempt and unkempt at all.

After these people dumped the newly mined ore together, one of the leaders evacuated his muscles and bones, slowly walked to the tent where Ji Qingwen and the others were sitting, took clean water and towels, and scrubbed the dust on his face, and then said to everyone: "You have been waiting for a long time, Chen Wenzhao is below, I don't know what you are looking for me?" ”

Ji Qingwen saw that this person was in his forties, not tall, heroic, muscular, although he also had a bit of a martial temperament, he still couldn't believe that he was the descendant of the Qi family army that once shocked the southeast.

So Ji Qingwen asked Li Yuanyin in a low voice with some suspicion: "Commander Li, this person's name is Chen Wenzhao." Don't be a character with the same name and surname, not a descendant of the Qi family......"

Li Yuanyin was asked by him like this, his confidence couldn't help but be a little shaken, pondered for a while, and said to Chen Wenzhao: "May I ask Your Excellency, have you ever been a Ming guerrilla general?" ”

Chen Wenzhao raised his eyes and looked at Li Yuanyin, and said, "Look at this dress, he is a senior official in the brocade guard. What is the ability of Jinyiwei, I know, and wanting to lie to his face is tantamount to an axe. But I'm going to talk about it here today, it turns out that Chen Wenzhao Chen Guerrilla is dead, and the person who lives here is Chen Wenzhao, the owner of this small silver mine. ”

Ji Qingwen heard this and said, "Since you have admitted that you have been a guerrilla general, and you keep saying that you are dead, are we talking to ghosts now?" ”

Chen Wenzhao looked at Ji Qingwen with a deep and bottomless look, but the expression on his face was so calm that it was frightening, and he said quietly: "I am a deserter, and I abandon my colleagues on the battlefield, what is such a person who is not a dead person?" If you want me to see, this is called life is better than death, it is better to die! ”

Ji Qingwen saw that he looked dull, slapped the table angrily, and scolded: "! I came here to find the descendants of the Qi family army, the Qi family army was formed by the old general Qi Jiguang, there has always been only a decapitated general on the bloody battlefield, when has there ever been a running general who is greedy for life and afraid of death. Looks like I'm running for nothing! ”

After scolding, Ji Qingwen beckoned everyone and was about to get up and leave.

But he had not taken two steps before he was surrounded by the miners around him.

Among them, a few miners with a hot temper pointed at Ji Qingwen's nose and scolded: "Don't leave first, make it clear, who is greedy for life and afraid of death?" Who is the runaway general? ”

Seeing that he was about to argue, he heard Chen Wenzhao sigh in a deep voice: "Alas! Qi Jiajun...... Qi Jiajun, I haven't heard of this name for many years, but I didn't expect anyone in the world to remember it...... This master, please go slowly, please inform your name before leaving. ”

Ji Qingwen turned around and came back, but he didn't sit down, arched his hand towards Chen Wenzhao and said, "This official is Ji Qingwen, the commander of Suzhou Weaving, and he is polite." ”

Chen Wenzhao's eyes flashed, and he said: "It turned out to be Lord Ji, I have been looking up for a long time, I have been looking up for a long time." I heard that Lord Ji has done a lot of good things in Suzhou City and is a good official. ”

Ji Qingwen was still angry, and said: "Whether it's a good official or a stolen official, what does it have to do with you?" ”

Chen Wenzhao didn't answer, and asked again: "I've been incognito for a long time, I don't know why Lord Ji came to this poor country to look for me?" And what? ”

Ji Qingwen replied: "It was the old supervisor Sun Chengzong who asked me to come to find the descendants of the Qi family's army, in order to form another township warrior regiment to train and use it to protect the food and salary sent to Beijing. ”

As soon as he heard Sun Chengzong's name, Chen Wenzhao immediately stood up from his seat and said deeply to Ji Qingwen: "It turned out to be the tall feet of Old Inspector Sun, who was disrespectful and disrespectful. Please sit down, and we will talk slowly. ”