It turned out that this big man was actually the famous Wei Chigong in history, Zhang Xuan had seen a lot of historical celebrities, and he was already mentally prepared, he was not shocked by Wei Chigong's prestige, and there was a trace of doubt in his heart. ∑ top novel,

This Wei Chi Gong obviously showed the temperament of a fierce general just now, did he really bend his waist for a few small money?

And he actually knows himself, this is obviously not because of his fame, who is behind him to point out?

At this time, Zhang Xuan was no longer ignorant when he first entered the Sui Dynasty, and his insight into people's hearts and understanding of human feelings and sophistication had made his thinking very sharp.

However, Wei Chigong's martial arts are very attractive to Zhang Xuan, if it is not for the last resort, he will not easily let go of this historical general, in his memory, Yu Chigong did not come out at this time, and was buried in the people.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly: "It turned out to be Wei Chi Zhuangshi, listening to the accent, you don't seem to be a local!" ”

Wei Chi Gong saluted and said: "I am indeed from Mayi County, but I spent my youth in Taiyuan Mansion, so I have a little Taiyuan accent, I was originally a blacksmith in this county, because the imperial court banned the pig iron trade in Mayi County, I had to close the door, but I had to support my wife and children, so I wanted to make a living." ”

Zhang Xuan heard him say very sincerely, unlike people with ulterior motives, he couldn't help but have a good impression of him, and asked with a smile: "Then how did you find me?" ”

Wei Chigong scratched his head, a little embarrassed and said: "Actually, someone introduced me here, saying that Zhang Gongzi is recruiting Turkic guards here, and I just meet the conditions, and I heard that Zhang Gongzi's journey is relatively long, so I can earn a little more money, so I came." ”

"Who introduced you?"

"It's hard for me to say."

"Okay!"

Zhang Xuan didn't ask him any more, and said: "Let's make a decision, according to the price of five a day, if you perform well, I will reward you with another five yuan every month, what do you think?" ”

Wei Chigong smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, calculated that he could earn fifty yuan a month, which was ten times more than the blacksmith he earned five yuan a month, where could he find such a good thing?

He nodded hurriedly, "I agree, but can you advance half of it to me first, and I want to settle my wife and children first." ”

Zhang Xuan said to Cheng Yanjin: "Give him fifty yuan!" ”

Cheng Yanjin grinned in distress, he had never seen such a wronged owner, and he gave fifty yuan to others before he worked, and he kindly reminded Zhang Xuan, "Childe, do you sign a contract first, and then let him find someone to vouch for it, in case he takes the money and runs away."

Zhang Xuan said angrily: "Where is so much nonsense, just give it to him." ”

Cheng Yanjin unwillingly took out five taels of gold and slammed it into Wei Chigong's hand, "Give you gold, now gold is more valuable, and one tael of gold in the black market will be exchanged for twelve yuan, so that you can make money." ”

Wei Chigong took the gold and bowed to Zhang Xuan, "Thank you Gongzi for your trust, I will go home and settle my wife and children, and I will be there early tomorrow morning!" ”

Yu Chigong nodded to Cheng Yanjin again, turned around and left quickly, looking at Yu Chigong walking away, Cheng Yanjin smiled and said: "Son, this black man is good, it is more in line with my old Cheng's taste." ”

Zhang Xuan was too lazy to talk to him, and instructed him: "You go and ask Mr. Chai, when will we leave?" ”

The reason why Cheng Yanjin didn't ask Zhang Xuan for the same treatment as Wei Chigong was because in the past two days, many people came to the door to send money, and Zhang Xuan didn't bother to ask, so he really made a lot of money, at least fifty taels of gold oil and water, plus Zhang Xuan promised him two components, Cheng Yanjin began to dream that he could let his wife live a rich life in the future, where would he care about Wei Chigong's little money.

In fact, Zhang Xuan also knew very well in his heart, for example, Zhao Dan left a letter, in which he said that he was grateful for fifty taels of gold, but he only saw forty taels, and the other ten taels were obviously greedy by Cheng Jin.

However, for the sake of Cheng Biting Jin being more obedient and willing to fight hard, Zhang Xuan didn't care about Cheng Biting Jin's advantage of taking advantage of it.

"Hey! I'm just going. ”

Cheng bit the golden fart and ran to find Chai Shao, Zhang Xuan saw that it was getting late, so he asked the shopkeeper to prepare a meal for him, and he went back to the room first.

The next morning, Wei Chigong came to report on time that his weapon was a hundred-pound wrought iron rod, which he personally made, eight feet long, with a thin wrist, shiny light, and a single whip on his back.

At noon, everyone packed up their belongings, Wei Chigong loaded the goods onto the camel, and a group of more than ten people left the Longhu Inn and headed for the city gate.

When he was about to reach the city gate, Zhang Xuan saw a man in a green robe, wearing a gauze hat and a long sword at his waist, leading a horse, waving to Chai Shao.

Zhang Xuan recognized this person, it was the official who secretly connected with Chai Shao in the alley next to the county office, and saw that he was about thirty years old, with bright eyes, a slender face, and a long beard under his chin, and he looked quite elegant, but judging from his slender and powerful hands, this person seemed to have practiced martial arts.

Chai Shao stepped forward to greet him, and then took him forward to introduce Zhang Xuan: "Zhang Gongzi, this is my friend, named Li Jing, is a soldier of this county, Cao Shenjun, and he also went to Julun Lake with us. ”

Chai Shao knew that Zhang Xuan had seen through himself, so he didn't explain the reason, believing that Zhang Xuan knew it.

Zhang Xuan suddenly woke up, no wonder Chai Shao felt so familiar when he called him pharmacist, at that time he thought it was because of the pharmacist of the king of Yanwangfu, but now he remembered that pharmacist is not Li Jing's word?

It turned out that this person was Li Jing, he thought about it, glanced back at Wei Chigong, and saw that Wei Chigong's face was unnatural, and he immediately understood that Wei Chigong must have been introduced by Li Jing.

Zhang Xuan laughed, "It seems that I have already dealt with Li Senjun." ”

Li Jing smiled slightly, "Zhang Gongzi's chivalrous name Li Jing has been like thunder, and it is Li Jing's luck to be able to walk with Zhang Gongzi!" ”

"It's been awarded, welcome Li to join the army!"

Zhang Xuan looked back at Li Shentong, looked at Chai Shao, and couldn't help laughing: "Since the three of them are all members of Wuchuan Mansion, let's call them Wuchuan Team!" ”

Li Shentong and Chai Shao glanced at each other, both of them were stunned, how did Zhang Xuan know that they were from Wuchuan Mansion, but Li Jing smiled and said nothing, it seemed that Zhang Xuan was more shrewd than he imagined.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Xuan urged the horse to run outside the city, and everyone followed, out of the city gate, and the group went east

Julun Lake is also called Julun Lake, that is, today's Hulun Lake, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, this lake area is very large, it is more than twice the size of today's Hulun Lake, the waves are vast, magnificent as the sea, the surrounding pasture is abundant, there are large grasslands and endless forests.

The northwest of Kulun Lake is the Outer Khing'an Mountains, the southeast is the Great Khing'an Mountains, it is between two huge mountain ranges, fertile fields for thousands of miles, rich in products, here live more than a dozen fishing and hunting and nomadic peoples such as Murowei, Xia, Khitan, Jian, Hui, Bayegu, Servant Gu, etc., both superficially subordinate to the Turks, but in fact they are independent, fighting for the territory openly and secretly, the relationship is very complicated.

That night, in the south of about a thousand miles away from Kulun Lake, in a small town called Mokou, the arrival of a cavalry team of more than 100 people made the town lively, Mokou is located at the junction of the Great Sui and the Turks, and the south is the boundary of Youzhou of the Great Sui, but the town has gone out of Yanshan and entered the edge of the grassland.

The population of the town is not much, just fifty or sixty families, the Han and the Turks live together, here is the only way for the caravan to go north to the Turks, there are two inns opened by the Han people in the town, the business is usually relatively light, a hundred cavalry arrived, suddenly crowded with two inns, the inn became lively.

Three bonfires were lit in the lobby of the inn, and dozens of big men gathered together to drink and eat meat, laughing and scolding, almost tearing down the roof.

The innkeeper surnamed Jin, is a Han man in his fifties, lived here for more than 30 years, married a Turkic woman as his wife, gave birth to two sons and a daughter, two sons riding horses, archery, and Turkic people are no different, but there is a Han face, and can speak a few words of Chinese, in this area is not bad.

The golden shopkeeper muttered in his heart, although this group of people carried cavalry equipment, but obviously not the Sui army, but like a group of bandits, he was well-informed, and his heart immediately became vigilant, he asked his daughter and wife not to come out, he himself came to serve this group of big men.

"Shopkeeper, five more bags of mare's milk wine!"

"It's coming!"

The golden shopkeeper took out five bags of mare's milk wine from the wine cabinet and sent them to the crowd with great difficulty, and the group of people hunted a boar and a few fat deer by themselves, and they roasted and ate their own meat, but they asked the inn to provide mare's milk wine, and the amount of wine was amazing, and the inn was almost full of wine.

At this time, a man in his forties said to everyone: "I have to hurry tomorrow, so don't drink wine!" ”

His voice was not loud, but it was very majestic, and everyone did not dare to disobey the order, so they hurriedly waved their hands to the golden shopkeeper, and the wine was gone, and the golden shopkeeper secretly thought, "It turns out that this person is their leader." ’

The man smiled softly at the golden shopkeeper again: "Shopkeeper, can you ask a few words?" ”

"What do guests want to ask?"

"I wonder how far this is from Kulun Lake?"

"Lake Kulun?"

The golden shopkeeper laughed, "It's not far away, go northeast from here, and you will arrive in about ten days, but there is no official road, you have to watch the stars yourself." ”

Someone next to him said, "Can the shopkeeper help us find a guide, we will hire it at a high price." ”

Only then did the golden shopkeeper notice that there was a scribe in his thirties sitting next to him, he was weak and thin, and he was covered by burly men, and it was difficult to detect his existence.

The leader saw the hesitation in the shopkeeper's eyes, so he smiled and said: "Under the surname Dou, from Qinghe County, these are my brothers, all of them are bold and true men, please rest assured." ”

He took out a large ingot of gold, as much as a hundred taels, and he put the gold on the table, "In addition to the wine money, the rest is the guide's fee, the shopkeeper can help!" ”

I don't know if it was the sincerity of this middle-aged man, or the temptation of the ingot of gold, the gold shopkeeper was finally moved, he thought for a while and said: "My second son has been to Julun Lake a few times, if Brother Tai doesn't dislike it, let him be the guide!" ”