Chapter 44: Zhao Chen's Expectations

From Chang'an to Luoyang, the waterway is naturally much faster than the dry road, so when Zhao Chen arrived in Luoyang with more than 100 guards, the 1,000 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army were late.

Zhao Chen and the others were already anxious, so when all the 1,000 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army arrived, they immediately ordered them to abandon the horse and get on board.

The war horses of the Flying Tiger Army are all Hetao horses, which naturally cannot adapt to the high temperature in Lingnan, so all the 1,000 war horses are left in Luoyang and handed over to Hou Junji to take care of.

One thousand Flying Tiger Army, except for Dugumou's team, which got on the treasure ship, the rest of the Flying Tiger Army was all arranged by Zhao Chen on the five-tooth giant ship.

When all the people had boarded the ship, Zhao Chen then gave an order, and the eight or nine ships docked on Luoshui began to slowly leave Luoshui and enter the Grand Canal along the Caoyun.

This time to Lingnan, the route Zhao Chen chose was not from the road he came last time, through the canal into the Yangtze River, and then in Yangzhou to the sea, around a big circle, into the South China Sea.

The voyage chosen this time was to go directly east along the Grand Canal, all the way to the sea through Liaodong, from the Bohai Bay, to the South China Sea in a different direction.

Some thoughts are always shaking in my heart, and if I don't see them with my own eyes, I will always be suspicious!

Eight or nine ships sailed on the canal, because it was July, the wind and sun were beautiful all the way, and the more south they went, the temperature rose little by little.

couldn't stay in the cabin at all, Zhao Chen was still on the wide deck of the treasure ship, setting up a sun umbrella, lying there, drinking cold beer while looking at the group of Flying Tigers who were being abused by the wingmen.

They are all men in Guanzhong, put on land, all carrying knives, and dare to kill against the blind bear, but they waited until they got on the ship. One by one, like a drunken drunk.

Staggering, spitting out the sky and the earth, the miserable appearance is unbearable to witness!

I don't have time, so I will slowly teach the landlubbers how to learn water. Zhao Chen took advantage of the fact that the ship was still in the canal and did not need the wingers, and he always stuck to his post, so he asked the bureaucrats to divide into groups and take the landlubbers of the Flying Tiger Army to teach the art of learning water.

The method is very rough and the process is very tragic!

The bureaucrats are worried about the family in Lingnan and how much patience they can give to the landlubbers. Patient explanation!

It doesn't know water, does it?

Afraid of water, right?

You get dizzy when you see water, right?

Very good, a person has a rope tied to his waist, half floating in the water, and with the speed of the ship, he follows in the water behind him, ensuring that it will not take long, and the above symptoms will all disappear.

The killers of the Flying Tigers. Anyway, he crawled out of the pile of dead people, in the old days. He has ever been treated like this.

Especially Dugumou, this guy is still from the Guanlongmen valve, he has a high spirit, and he was a person who was obsessed with cleanliness at the beginning, but as a result, after arriving at the new military camp. It has become taboo now.

Therefore, being tossed so much by a group of bureaucrats, I must have saved a belly of anger in my heart!

Learn, a bunch of killers. Thrown into the water, gulping with water, and fluttering desperately with both hands, like a bird with broken wings, its shape is almost miserable.

Zhao Chen turned a blind eye to this, and waited until a group of guys who had been flooded enough were dragged onto the boat, and then took out glucose and salt water, and injected them all with one bottle per person.

The fifteen-year-old humanoid tower boy has followed the generals in the house since he was a child, practicing the art of sticks, and has endured many hardships.

It can be seen that the miserable appearance of a group of Flying Tiger soldiers being tortured, and the complexion on the young man's face can't help but turn a little whiter.

"Scared?" Zhao Chen squatted down, and when he was injecting glucose into Cao Zhenmao, he looked at Hou Yong, who was giving him a hand, and asked with a chuckle.

"Nope!" Hou Yong's face was originally a little pale, but when he heard Zhao Chen's words, he immediately shook his head firmly, and said to Zhao Chen: "Master Hou, this is for their good, I understand!" ”

"Don't call Hou Ye Hou in the future!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle, and after getting up, he squatted in front of Dugu Mou, and said to Hou Yong behind him without looking back: "In the future, I will call Brother Zhao!" ”

Hou Junji is the duke of the county, one rank higher than him, and moreover, Hou Junji and Lao Qin Cheng bite gold, they are both equals, so every time he hears Hou Yong call him Hou Ye, it always makes him a little weird.

Hou Yong's temperament is a bit biao, he usually looks a little wooden and taciturn, when he sees him, he looks stupid, and he looks like an honest child.

At this time, listening to Zhao Chen's words, Hou Yong suddenly stretched out his hand and scratched his head, opened his mouth, and smirked at the back of Zhao Chen's head. Brother Zhao! ”

"What a lucky guy!" When Zhao Chen and Hou Yong had left, Dugumou, who was lying where to infuse, suddenly looked up at the blue sky above his head, sighed and said.

"The instructor likes that kid!" Cao Zhenmao, who was also lying on the side for infusion, heard Dugumou's words, chuckled lightly and spoke.

"I know!" When Dugumou heard this, he sighed melancholy, and said with some disappointment in his tone: "It's a pity, I can't learn that!" ”

When these words fell, Dugu Mou raised his head slightly, looked at Cao Zhenmao on the side, saw a piece of green jade pendant exposed in Cao Zhenmao's open arms, and asked, "Cousin sent it?" ”

"What?" Cao Zhenmao, who was originally lying there, heard Dugumou's words, and didn't react for a while, and after following Dugumou's gaze and seeing the jade pendant in his arms, he suddenly smiled at Dugumou and said, "When I went to the house last time, Yun'er sent it!" ”

"Tsk, that's a real dear!" Hearing Cao Zhenmao's affectionate name, Dugu Mou's face suddenly showed a trace of disdain, pouted at Cao Zhenmao, and lay on the deck again.

Yun'er in Cao Zhenmao's mouth, her full name is Dugu Yun, she is Dugumou's cousin, and Cao Zhenmao is now just a marriage contract away.

In this, it is naturally the role of Dugu Mou matchmaking!

Eight or nine ships went down the canal almost all the way, and they went on day and night, and on this day, the fleet entered the Liao River.

Desolate, lonely, devastation!

Along the way, on both sides of the canal, you can always see many beautiful scenery, large wheat fields, green mountains, and ships on both sides of the canal, from time to time.

However, when their fleet entered the Liao River, what they saw was a barren scene, large barren fields, and abandoned houses on both sides of the canal.

Perhaps, many years ago, it was once prosperous for a while, but now, all that remains is the ruins that have been eroded by the wind and rain.

From the last years of the Great Cause, when the Great Sui Dynasty fell into the smoke, it experienced one war after another, and after several wars, it has become this devastated appearance.

In the Flying Tiger Army, there were people who participated in the war here, and when the fleet entered the Liao River and saw the inaccessible appearance on both sides of the river, these people fell silent.

From the moment Zhao Chen entered the Liao River, he held a telescope and kept looking at both sides of the canal, as if searching for something.

However, in fact, even Zhao Chen himself didn't know what he was searching for!

The traitor thing in the hidden door has always been like a thorn in his heart, and this made him involuntarily think of the bearded guest for the first time.

Now, the bearded guest is in Hebei, and more importantly, the reason why the bearded guest came to Hebei is to solve the mysterious people, because Zhao Chen has a suspicion in his heart, this time there is a traitor in the hidden door, and there is always an inextricable relationship with these mysterious people.

Perhaps, in Zhao Chen's subconscious, what he is looking forward to is to be able to meet the bearded guest or those mysterious people!

It's just that such a coincidence, Zhao Chen also knows that it is unlikely, unless, those people happen to be on the canal, and the bearded guests also happen to be on the canal.

However, the fleet marched all the way along the Liao River to the Bohai Bay, and until it was almost out of the Liao River, it did not see the people that Zhao Chen expected!

However, when he was about to leave the Liao River, he encountered a dilapidated fishing boat in the canal, on which there were two or three fisherwomen, who were fishing along the canal.

Seeing the eight or nine huge ships that suddenly appeared on the canal, three fisherwomen, they immediately operated the fishing boats in fright, and sailed to the shore in a panic.

It's just that the section of the river they are in at this time is the low level of the canal, and there are high dirt slopes on both banks, and when the small fishing boats reach the shore, there is no way to drag them ashore.

Seeing that eight or nine huge ships were about to rampage, the three fisherwomen, suddenly heartbroken, jumped off the fishing boat, and fled ashore in embarrassment.

"Throw more rice!" Zhao Chen was also very helpless about this kind of thing, at this time, the treasure boat was speeding up, and he couldn't stop at all, so he had to run over it directly from the small fishing boat.

When the bureaucrats heard Zhao Chen's words, they didn't say a word, so they carried more than a dozen bags of rice from the cabin, used all their strength, and threw them on the shore.

Axes and rice, all that Zhao Chen Jue could use, were thrown on the shore by the bureaucrats, these were poor women who had lost their husbands, not to mention, they were destroying the fishing boats they relied on for survival.

The three fisherwomen, who had just fled to the shore in embarrassment, looked a little surprised by Zhao Chen's throwing things at them, and stood there in a daze, as if they were scared stupid.

"Good Xuan!" The fleet continued to move, and when it was far away from the place where Fang Cai was, Hou Yong, who was beside Zhao Chen, breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhao Chen.

"What?" When Zhao Chen heard Hou Yong's words, he suddenly turned his head strangely, looked at Hou Yong and asked puzzled

"Among the three women just now, one of them is holding a flying knife in his hand..."Hou Yong has practiced the art of sticks since he was a child, and in other places, he seems to be ignorant, but in this regard, he is extremely alert.

"Get them down and get them on board!" Hearing Hou Yong's words, Zhao Chen was slightly stunned, then turned around suddenly, pointed to the direction he had just left, and ordered loudly. (To be continued.) )