Chapter 173: The Zhuang Clan

After listening to what Shen Mo said, He Xinyin's face changed for a long time, and finally he said angrily: "I treat her so kindly, why do you still coax me?" As he spoke, he suddenly got up and said, "I'll go find her and ask for clarification!" What the hell are you going to do! ”

Shen Mo shook his head and said, "It's better not to go." ”

"But why?" He Xinyin glared and said: "I think she is eighty percent of the Japanese Kou's annihilation, and I don't know when, she will recruit a large team of Japanese Kou and wrap us in dumplings." ”

"That's impossible." Shen Mo still shook his head: "If the Japanese want to make us dumplings, they can do it in that inn, why take off their pants and fart more?" ”

"That's the fine work, trying to blend in with us." He Xin said with hatred: "I'm going to kill her." ”

Silent this sweat, the heart said that you are really turning your face faster than turning a book, and quickly grabbed him and said: "If she is a widow," he said with a smile: "Then we will be safe along the way." ”

He Xinyin thought about it, as long as the Japanese had a plan, they would not attack them, so he said in a deep voice: "What about Hangzhou?" ”

"As soon as she enters Hangzhou City, she can't count on any number of accomplices, and when the time comes, she will be arrested and tortured, if it is really a Japanese coward." Shen Mo clenched his fists and said: "Even if you put her in eighteen tricks, it will be up to you He Daxia." ”

He Xinyin gave up and said angrily: "Then keep her for a few more days." ”

Along the way, there was nothing to do, and on the fifth day of the lunar month, I arrived at the outskirts of Hangzhou.

Walking on the wide and flat official road, Tie Zhu said excitedly: "My lord, there are less than twenty miles, and you can enter the city this afternoon." ”

Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "When I entered Hangzhou City, I gave everyone a big fake and a double gift, so that the brothers could have a good rest." There was a howl of excitement, and the soldiers, who were already a little tired, became excited at once, and after thanking the adults in the most sincere language, they began to discuss warmly, the quality of the girls in the Hangzhou kiln, the average price of a night, etc., were obviously suffocated for several months.

Tie Zhu listened to the more they talked, the more unpleasant he became, his face sank, and he wanted to scold loudly, shook his head silently and smiled: "It's too tight along the way, let them loosen their strings." It attracted a burst of praise from the soldiers.

Tie Zhu scolded with a smile: "A group of rabbit cubs, when they get to the outside of the city, you have to show a personal appearance, don't lose the face of adults!" ”

"Do you still use your old instructions?" A northern soldier said with a smile: "I ran around Zhejiang, didn't we give the adults enough face every time?" ”

"Just your dirty?" Someone on the side laughed: "It's good not to embarrass adults." "When they came out of Qi Jiguang, most of the soldiers had never washed their faces, and their appearance can be imagined.

The old soldier's face turned red, of course, no one could see it, and he said, "I will find a ditch to scrub and scrub later, and I am sure that I am still a handsome guy." There was another round of laughter.

In the midst of bursts of laughter, someone suddenly shouted: "I see Hangzhou City." ”

Everyone looked into the distance, and sure enough, they could see the faint outline of a city in the distance, and they screamed.

Shen Mo was also relieved, and said softly: "I have traveled around Zhejiang for a hundred days, and today is finally over." ”

Before the words fell, He Xinyin whispered: "We are surrounded!" ”

The laughter stopped abruptly, and the soldiers had unconditional trust in He Daxia's eyes, and immediately hurriedly formed a formation, protecting the adults in the center, and at the same time drew their blades one after another, vigilantly looking at the waist-deep dry grass on both sides of the road.

There was a shortage of people here, but He Daxia said again: "They're gone." ”

Shen An couldn't help but say: "Hero, you won't be a 'soldier of all plants and trees', right?" "It seems that the scholar is indeed a very promising job, at least with the son, the ink in the belly is rising.

He Xinyin snorted coldly, pointed to the wavy grass and said, "See for yourself." ”

Shen An's eyes widened, and when he looked at it, he saw some faint blue-black figures in the yellow-green grass, and couldn't help but gasp and said, "It's really a ......."

He Xin glanced at him and said to Shen Mo: "We have to be careful." ”

Shen Mo asked softly, "Is it a wolf?" ”

"It's not." He Xinyin shook his head and said, "It looks like the Yi clan in Guangxi." ”

Shen An said strangely: "This is Zhejiang, even if they get lost in hunting, they can't run so far, right?" ”

"I don't know, it's better to be careful." He Xin said in a deep voice.

Shen Mo nodded and said, "Listen to Mr." ”

The soldiers swept away the relaxed and happy mood at first, and they were cautious and vigilant along the way, but there was no abnormality, until they reached the outside of Hangzhou, and finally saw ...... Eye-popping shacks and blue-black.

I saw that from here to the moat, nearly three miles away, countless bamboo shacks were erected. Between the shacks, there were countless men wearing blue cloth shirts with no collars on their backs, black cloth pants with slightly wider trousers underneath, straw sandals on their feet, and layers of black cloth wrapped around their heads, many of whom still held knives and forks in their hands...... Machete and two-strand fork.

Shen Mo finally saw clearly, it was clearly some ethnic minority compatriots! If it weren't for the clear word 'Hangzhou' on the head of the city, he really thought that he had traveled through time and space and ran to the southwest mountains. Looking at a flag hanging high in the open space, there are two lines of text written on it, one of which is incomprehensible, but the other line is in Chinese 'Ming Guangxi political envoy Sibu Zhuang Tusi Bing', and then finally put his mind at ease and said: "It seems that it is a guest soldier from Guangxi." ”

Surprised, he was not interested in asking what was going on. Seeing that the city gate was about to close, Shen Mo asked Tie Zhu to hold his official sticker and hurriedly went to stop the gate first.

The pillar galloped away, and at last the door was reopened a moment before closing.

The group sped up and entered the city of Hangzhou.

Listening to the sound of the city gate slowly closing behind him, the frightened hearts of Shen Mo and his guards finally fell back into their stomachs.

The city gate official came over to kowtow to him, then got up and said with a smile: "Your Excellency was shocked by the wolf soldiers outside the gate, right?" ”

"Wolves?" Only then did Shen Mo feel in the mood to ask, "Where is that troops?" ”

"In fact, the wolf soldiers are two troops, one is the wolf soldiers from Guangxi, and the other is the wolf soldiers from Xiangxi, because they are all Tusi soldiers, so everyone calls them 'wolf soldiers'." The city gate official smiled: "What is stationed outside our south gate is the Guangxi wolf soldiers." ”

"How can the Tusi army leave the territory?" He Xinyin interjected: "This is strictly forbidden by my Ming Dynasty. ”

The city gate official smiled proudly: "If you put it in someone else's place, you naturally can't do it." But these soldiers are what we Zhang Dashuai wants, so naturally it's another matter. "Only civil officials and high-ranking generals call the governor a minister, and these middle- and lower-ranking military attaches and ordinary soldiers are addressed as commanders. I only heard the city gate official smile with a proud smile: "Zhang Dashuai is the first important minister of our Ming Dynasty, long live the Lord and the adults in the court, they all have to rely on our marshal to guard this 10,000-mile sea frontier, what does his old man want, whether it is in line with the rules or not, it is not a matter of words?" ”

He smiled silently and listened to the chatter of the city gate official, and finally waited for him to breathe, and interjected with a smile: "May I ask this brother, how to get to the governor's mansion?" ”

Although the city gate official didn't see it, he had no choice but to stop and point out the direction to Shen Mo.

Looking at the backs of their group in the distance, the city gate official muttered in a low voice: "If you go to see the marshal so late, you will definitely eat the closed door." He was too impatient to listen to his nagging, so he hid this sentence in his anger.

Although Zhang Butang's governor's office was located in Nanjing, most of the time, he worked in the city of Hangzhou, which was closer to the front line, so the office space in Hangzhou could not be sloppy at all.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of mansions worthy of second-class officials in Hangzhou, and after racking his brains, Li Tianpet, the governor of Zhejiang, vacated the Lu Courtyard on the side of Huagang as the line of the top boss...... It is connected to the willow-lined Su Causeway in front, the West Mountain with mountains and verdant mountains in the north, and the sparkling Xiaonan Lake and Xili Lake, like two mirrors with jade frames embedded on the left and right. It is one of the best feng shui treasures in Hangzhou, and Governor Zhang liked it at first sight, and he has not moved his nest again.

But when he reached the governor's line on the west side of the southern section of the Su Causeway, he saw a butter lantern burning on the courtyard wall every few zhang, illuminating the city wall as bright as day, and patrolling soldiers came and went.

The officers and men on patrol saw Shen Mo's party from a distance, rushed up with a hula, stretched out their bows and arrows, drew their swords and raised their guns, and surrounded them with wings and unable to fly.

"Where are you troops, dare to trespass on the governor's actions and die?" Qianhu, who led the team, saw that these people were dressed as officials and soldiers, but they did not act rashly.

The silence made the guards dodge, showed off their official uniforms, and said loudly: "Xiaguan Qin ordered the Zhejiang Beiwa Inspector to be silent, and he came to meet the lord of the ministry and asked this lord to speak on his behalf." ”

The thousand households sneered: "Don't you know that the governor will not see guests in the future?" ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "It's the first time Xia Guan came, I really don't know. ”

The thousand households waved their hands and said, "Let's go to the post house to rest first, and come back tomorrow during the day." ”

Shen Mo smiled and said, "As a lower official, I must first come to visit Zhang Butang before I can go to the post house to stay." ”

Qianhu couldn't help but sneer: "Whether you are an inspector or an inspector, the handsome will not see you, let's go." ”

"It's a matter for the Lord to see it." Shen Mo said lightly: "Can this adult make the decision for the lord of the ministry?" ”

The thousand households were choked and said indignantly: "Then you go to worship the door and taste whether the closed door soup of the Governor's Mansion is a special taste!" ”

"Whether to worship or not is the official's business." Silently turned over and dismounted, straightened his clothes, and walked to the main entrance of the governor's palace in full view, grasped the wrought copper knocker, and knocked lightly on the closed door.

After a while, the gates of the Governor's Palace, the Second Gate, and the Yimen Gate were all opened to the Zhejiang Inspector.

(To be continued)