The person who stood behind Chu Tianya was none other than the old military servant in his family, Uncle He.

Seeing him standing less than five steps behind him on crutches as usual, Chu Tianya was secretly frightened: When did he come to such an empty riverbank? I've always been very vigilant, but I didn't even notice it?

"Master, it's me." He Bo staggered closer on crutches, his voice as hoarse and deep as ever. He walked in front of Chu Tianya and stood still, the old eyes that were faint and cloudy in the past were shining brightly at the moment, looking at Chu Tianya.

Chu Tianya also looked at him and said in surprise: "Uncle He, you...... How did you get here? ”

"Naturally, I followed the young master all the way." He Bodao.

Chu Tianya became more and more surprised, not to mention anything else, Taiyuan Mansion was going to close the city gate at night, and he and Bai Xu and others relied on the military token given by Ma Kuo to open the city gate, and they walked out all the way in a thrilling way - how did he, an old man on crutches, "follow" out?

"Uncle He, what are you doing with me?" Chu Tianya asked suspiciously, "How did you get out of the city?" ”

He Bo smiled, but said, "Young Master, I'm afraid that they will plant you, or you will encounter any trouble and accidents. The master treated me well during his lifetime, and never treated me as an outsider or a subordinate; When he died, you were left alone. I'm not going to let anything happen to you anyway. ”

"Anything", these four words came out of the mouth of this gray-haired and disabled rickety old man, although the tone was flat and understated, but there was a faint and irrefutable domineering atmosphere!

"Uncle He, you...... Got it all? Chu Tianya asked suspiciously.

He Bo didn't answer, but just took out a small wooden box containing caramel sweets and gave it to Chu Tianya.

Chu Tianya opened it and was taken aback!

A bloody human ear!

"Uncle Ho, you! …… What is this for? ”

"Young Master, don't panic." He Bo was still as steady and silent as a 10,000-year-old pine, and said in his hoarse voice, "Have you ever thought that Tong Guan and his eunuchs can sit in today's position, on what basis? ”

Chu Tianya wrinkled his brows and said, "Opportunity, talent." ”

"That's right." He Bo nodded and said, "Everyone in the world only thinks that Tong Guan is a traitor to the country, in fact, if it weren't for his outstanding features, just by boasting about his sycophancy, how could he stand out as a eunuch and achieve today's status?" He was in charge of the military for more than 20 years, and fought against the Western Xia all the year round to defend the Western Xia and tried his best to protect the Guanshan, and successively suppressed the rebellions of the southern part of the Yangtze River, and then led the army to the Northern Expedition to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun...... Regardless of this person's mental skills, there is no doubt about his ability. ”

"What does Uncle want to say?" The suspicion in Chu Tianya's heart became deeper and deeper.

"I just want to remind you that Hugh is going to underestimate Tong Guan." He Bo said unhurriedly, "This little trick you use can hide from officials and generals, but it is difficult to hide from Tong Guan." This person has been in the court for 20 years, has experienced countless ups and downs, and intrigue and conspiracy calculations are like commonplace. You say, can he be easily deceived by your hand of 'stealing the day'? ”

Chu Tianya took a deep breath and looked at Uncle He again, "Then Uncle He wants to use this ear to win Tong Guan's trust?" ”

He Bo nodded, "That's right." As the saying goes, if you want to see people in life, you have to see corpses when you die, but you only take care of a comprehensive plan, but you miss the aftermath. Tong Guan asked you to kill people, but you didn't have a single piece of physical evidence to give back, how could he believe you? ”

"Then who can prove that this is Xue Yu's ears?" Chu Tianya wondered.

He Bo grinned, "Ears are not faces, there are tens of millions of people in the world, but there are only those kinds of ears." If you say yes, then it must be. As long as you don't be a thief and show your stuffing, they will naturally think that this is Xue Yu's ears. ”

Chu Tianya suddenly said: That's right! According to normal thinking logic, this is indeed the case! …… This Uncle He is really an old man, it's not simple!

But Chu Tianya immediately thought of another question and asked, "Then where did He Bo get this ear?" ”

He Bo laughed, and smiled a little coldly, and said: "Not only did I cut off his ears, but also cut off his head and threw it into the Fen River to wash away, and buried his body in a mass grave. When the time comes, if Tong Guan asks, you can show him the new tomb. But don't worry, the old man won't kill innocents. In the grave was a damned man, and now he was able to enter the earth for peace, which was the creation of his previous life. ”

"Who did you kill?" Chu Tianya is a criminal policeman, and when he heard Uncle He say that killing people is as common as killing chickens, no matter who he kills, his heart is already full of flavors.

"A damned person who is full of evil, a damned person, a damned person, a man who walks through the wall and a beam, who specializes in rape and adultery, harms countless people, and is full of evil, ...... damned person" He Bo muttered this sentence, turned around, and walked away with the cane.

Chu Tianya was full of suspicion and shock, looking at the ears in the candy box in his hand, he felt more and more dazzling with blood. When I looked up again, Uncle He was gone!

"This old man, what a strange skill! …… Could it be that in the Great Song Dynasty, there was really the kind of light skill that flew off the wall as mentioned in film and television novels? Chu Tianya looked at the series of footprints and crutch prints left on the sand by the river, and suddenly disappeared out of thin air after meandering forward for more than ten steps, and his heart became more and more surprised.

Seeing that the sky was already dawning, Chu Tianya didn't have time to think about it for a while, so he had to go back to the prison city to see if Jiang Laosan had properly dealt with the aftermath, and when the time came, he would have to go to Ma Kuo.

When I returned to the prison city, it was breakfast time. Jiang Laosan left a hearty breakfast for Chu Tianya, and he had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Chu Tianya coming back, he hurriedly asked, "Taibao, how is it?" ”

"I went out in person, can I still be wrong?" Chu Tianya took out the box and showed it to Jiang Laosan, Jiang Laosan was stunned at first, and then immediately smiled again, and said, "With this, you can go to Master Tong to receive the reward!" ”

"Of course." Chu Tianya also smiled, and said while eating breakfast, "But you kid is very important, and you are not allowed to reveal the slightest bit of information to any outsiders." This night business is different than ever, if it is spread everywhere, watch your head! ”

"Yes, yes, the villain naturally wakes up and doesn't dare to say nonsense." Jiang Laosan smacked his lips and agreed, his eyes shining, as if he had seen a large pile of gold and silver falling from the sky.

After breakfast, Chu Tianya personally checked in the cell again, and found that there were indeed no flaws, so he took a nap in the ear room of the prison city. It was noon when I woke up, and it was time to make an appointment with Ma Kuo.

After careful consideration, Chu Tianya came to the county king's mansion. Ma Kuo was very punctual, and when Chu Tianya came, he also happened to arrive.

This kind of thing is the most taboo to talk a lot, so Chu Tianya didn't say much, and directly presented the iron token and the box with the ears.

Ma Kuo opened the box expressionlessly and only glanced at it, then quickly covered it and put it aside, and said, "How many people are involved?" ”

"Including me, there are four of them." Chu Tianya saw that Ma Kuo was not suspicious, and sighed secretly in his heart, and replied at this time, "One of them is my henchman, and the other two are idle men on the streets that I paid for. After the incident, I sent them away from Taiyuan; Moreover, they didn't know anything inside, but they just ran the coolies for me. ”

"So, you're pretty thorough." Ma Kuo said silently and expressionlessly, "I see that you are still clever and know a little bit about the general situation, so you will continue to be buried in the prison city." Recently, one of my subordinates, a military envoy of the Ma Army, died of cold and fever. In this case, you will follow me from now on, and fill his vacancy as a military envoy. ”

"General Shema!" Chu Tianya was suddenly secretly happy: I didn't expect it to be so smooth! Originally, I wanted to put a lot of effort into it, and even did not hesitate to bribe Ma Kuo heavily in order to join the Shengjie army!

"I'm going to be the overseer."

"Yes! - Shema Metropolitan Eunuch! ”

Ma Kuo still didn't have any expression, and said, "The little prison that you did with you will also be brought." ”

"Yes!" Chu Tianya agreed, thinking that they didn't want us to stay in Taiyuan, and they chewed their tongues in the future. That's right, the big guys have always done things like this. Charity to a petty officer, which is very precious to the common people, is nothing to them to mention.

Although the Shengjie Army is Tong Guan's personal guard and horse, it also belongs to the establishment of the imperial forbidden army. Every soldier in the army is a recruit supported by the state. There is a Song generation, and there are a lot of soldiers. Among them, the best treatment is the forbidden army under the direct command of the central court, followed by the local box army, township soldiers, and so on.

In the army's ranks, the "capital" is the smallest grass-roots organization, with 100 people each. The military governor of the capital is called the capital head, and the capital head who commands the horse army is called the "military envoy".

In other words, since then, Chu Tianya has also become a military attaché. Although it is an official position that cannot be smaller, compared with the previous prison officials, from "official" to "official", his status has made a qualitative leap.

"Someone." Ma Kuo called, and two pawns came out to promise. Ma Kuo said: "Lead the Chu military envoy to the military camp in the backyard of the county king's mansion, what should you do, what should you do." ”

"Yes!" The two pawns agreed to the promise, and then hugged Chu Tianya, "Chu military envoy, please!" ”

Chu Tianya thanked Ma Kuo and followed the two sergeants all the way to the barracks in the backyard of the county king's mansion. There were tens of thousands of Shengjie troops under Tong Guan's command, most of whom were stationed in the military cantonments outside the city, and another 3,000 henchmen and guards were stationed in the mansion by his side, as personal guards to open the way.

Until now, Chu Tianya had still not been able to see Tong Guan once, and the capital eunuch Ma Kuo had also received him twice with a cold face on a completely routine matter. It can be seen that this matter is just a "trivial" for Tong Guan, and it is not worth his personal attention at all.

The two soldiers took Chu Tianya all the way forward, first went to the Changshi Yatang, handled the "military registration file" for Chu Tianya, and then received military robes, leather boots, swords, guns and sticks and other items, and then went to the Ma Jundu camp where Chu Tianya was located.

There is a shortage of horses in the Song Dynasty, and the infantry has always been the main combat force, and the horse army is a more precious type of troops. It is also thanks to Tong Guan, who has been in charge of the military for many years, is a member of the Great Song Dynasty, and in order to resist the Western Xia and conquer the Liao State against their cavalry, Tong Guan's horse army is a little more.

The two pawns passed on the order, saying that the new military envoy appointed by Ma Dujian was coming to take office, so they gathered all the 100 sergeants from all over the capital and arranged a queue to meet the new military envoy.

At this time, Chu Tianya couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: Ma Jun's military envoy? …… I'm fine with a two-wheeled motorcycle, a three-wheeled pedal, or a four-wheeled car, but I've never ridden a four-legged horse!

"A horse army envoy who can't ride a horse? Why didn't Ma Kuo ask me if I could ride a horse in advance, and let me serve as the envoy of the Ma army? ”

But after only a while, Chu Tianya understood Ma Kuo's intentions.

It turned out that the horse army that Chu Tianya served as the head of the capital was only called the Ma Army, which was actually the logistics army in charge of logistics transportation and the supply of houses. There was not a single horse in the stables of the capital camp, only thirty or fifty mules, which were only used as the foot power to carry the baggage when marching, and to roll and grind flour and drive to buy food when the garrison was stationed.

The only difference between such a horse army and the infantry is that they have a little more "oil and water" - they can deduct corruption from the army's food expenses and livestock food money!

"Damn!"

Chu Tianya couldn't help but be a little annoyed: The dog's eyes look down on people! He actually gave me such an errand that only eats idle meals and specializes in corruption!