PS: Strange people have strange looks

Chapter 21 of the next volume

If Liu Yu knew that his baby son Liu Yizhen was just thirteen years old, he would have become a well-known flower Tai Sui in Chang'an City, and the officials in the palace did not care about anything except intrigue and slap horses, and the soldiers of Beifu had been made gloomy and detached from morality by this supreme commander, and the people of Guanzhong were already poking their backbones and scolding their mothers, and they would definitely be angry and crooked. The problem is that he won't hear these things, because there will never be a word that mentions or even hints at the unbearableness of Lord Assassin Shi in the official correspondence between Guanzhong and Jiangdong. It's no wonder that the official documents were drafted by those cunning officials who deceived their superiors and subordinates, and Liu Yizhen sent them after seeing and stamping them, how could he confide in his father a little bit of his achievements on the Chang'an Fengyue field?

Since the main road is impassable, I have to take the small road. At the beginning, Chen Song wanted to ask Liu Yizhen for advice, and said that some of his subordinates wanted to go back to visit his elderly mother. But first, it seems abrupt, and secondly, the assassin Shifu has a roster of soldiers, and there are records of anyone in anyone's family, and those who really have an old mother may not be reliable, and those who are reliable may not have an old mother, once they make a mistake, they will be exposed instantly. He wanted to find a henchman to go to Jiangdong with his henchmen dressed up as people, but after thinking about it, now there are policemen in the pass, scouts, rangers, spies, and secret sentinels are everywhere, and if they are caught by patrol officers and soldiers, they will definitely be sent directly to the Assassin's Mansion.

Guo Xu proposed that he go to Liu Yizhen, and said that he would go back to Jiangdong to move the bones of his grandfather and parents back to Guanzhong. Chen Song shook his head when he heard this, and said that such a thing as moving the grave should be done when it is stopped, and under the current situation, it is impossible for Liu Yizhen to agree to a military deputy to leave the army to do private affairs, and you will seem to be too ignorant when you open your mouth. Besides, it was originally going to be quietly reported to Song Gong. You go so swaggeringly, and in the blink of an eye, Song Gong scolded his son with a piece of paper. Then you will not become lice on the bald head?

Thinking about it, there is no solution. One day I went out in casual clothes. Walking around the Chang'an Street Market, listening to the Northwest accent of a few Longshang refugees, I suddenly remembered a person, and suddenly had an idea.

Du Chongguang!

Lao Du is not difficult to find, and his shop pù has a large façade.

Chen Song didn't wear armor, Du Chongguang didn't recognize it at first sight, and besides, he didn't expect General Chen to come to visit. After recognizing it, while enthusiastically greeting fragrant tea, he muttered to himself. He thought Chen Song was here. Either to find a big merchant like him to raise military salaries, or to fight the autumn breeze in private, and when he heard Chen Song quietly lead the conversation to Guanzhongxing, he knew that he didn't have to break the bank, and he also saw that Chen Song had something on his mind, so he interrupted the conversation, led Chen Song to the inner room, closed the door and asked him why he was here.

Even so, Chen Song doesn't have to go too far. He went straight to the point, told Du Chongguang of his thoughts, and asked him to find a reliable person to send a letter to Jiangdong. Du Chongguang pondered for a moment and shook his head, saying that this is an internal matter of your Beifu soldiers. I'm an outsider, why do I wade into these troubled waters? Chen Song said that if it can be solved internally, it will naturally not work for you. Besides, this is not just a matter of Beifu soldiers. If Guanzhong falls, whether it is the Huns or the Xianbei people, they will come in. You're not going to have a good day. You Longshang refugees have finally settled in Guanzhong, and no one wants to be displaced again.

Speaking of this layer. Du Chongguang really couldn't refute it. Although he was angry about Liu Yu's refusal to recover Longshang in one go, he still had a good impression of Beifu Bing, especially Chen Song and Guo Xu. Besides, he doesn't want to fight the new family business that he has worked so hard to praise in Guanzhong. He has chivalry in his bones, but whenever there is a chance, the blood on the roots will rush to the leaves. Seeing that Chen Song had a request, the righteousness brought by the womb could not be suppressed, so he agreed to do it for him.

But from Guanzhong to Jiangdong, the long journey is the first difficult thing. It is faster to take the water route than the land route, but if you use the boats, you will be checked by the Beifu soldiers and naval forces: in order to avoid the enemy, it is no problem for civilian ships to transport goods from the south to the north, but they are never allowed to transport goods out of the customs. Even so, if a full ship cannot move, an empty ship is even more suspicious. When Chen Song heard this, he couldn't help but sigh. Seeing him like this, Du Chongguang couldn't help laughing:

"Brother, you are invincible on the battlefield, why do you have this virtue when you hear that there is trouble?"

Chen Song said that if the waterway is not passable, even if someone is willing to go, it is strictly forbidden for cars and horses to go out on all sides of Guanzhong, and it will definitely make a mistake on foot, which sounds like a loss.

Du Chongguang smiled. People say that the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, and the general can run a horse on his forehead, brother, you are so promising, I really don't know how your Song Gong cultivated you!

Chen Song also smiled. You don't have a good way to make fun of me.

Du Chongguang turned the tea bowl and drew circles on the desk, while looking up at the roof. Chen Song didn't bother him, and walked in front of a large painting to take a closer look. The painting shows an old man sitting on the bridge, a young man kneeling to put on his shoes, and a few ghosts peeping in the grass next to him, with a look of surprise on their faces. After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that this was the story of Zhang Liang and Huang Shigong. Think about Zhang Liang is really a strange person, he was hot-blooded when he was young, looking for a strong man to fly a hammer to stab Qin, and he is also a ranger. As for following Liu Bang, strategizing, and scheming, it is another old and successful country. When the world has been decided, the merit is high, and the master is shocked, immediately withdraw from the power center, pretend to learn the Tao to avoid the killing machine, that kind of free and easy with decisiveness, and Han is definitely not a believer, Xiao He can do it. With such a vast sea and sky pattern, how many people can there be in ancient times? At this moment, if there is a character like Liuhou in Guanzhong, maybe the Beifu soldiers will be able to turn evil into good fortune. sighed softly, and as soon as he turned around, he heard Du Chongguang pat his thigh:

"There it is!"

Chen Song was surprised and delighted, and urged him to speak quickly. Du Chongguang ignored him, got up and called the guy, and asked him to hurry up and invite a person named Lao Si to come, and tell him that Boss Du invited him to drink today, and gave him a big business to do, and asked him to meet directly at the Yuhu Spring Restaurant.

After the guy went, Du Chen and the others moved to the jade pot spring, called the wine and food and waited for the fourth child to come. When the restaurant guy started to serve the food, the fourth child came.

At first glance, Chen Song was almost rude. This fourth child is too scary, if you bump into it at night, you must think that the king of Hades sent his men to ask for his life. It is not tall, lean and lean, and walks silently like a cat. I don't know what color the body covered by the clothes is, but the exposed face, neck, hands and feet are as black as ebony chopsticks, and the whites of the eyes are especially white. But the teeth are black and yellow. If you look closely at the face, the eyes are not only small. And triangular, but the eyes are exposed. The flickering moment is like a yaksha on an ancient painting. The bridge of the nose is collapsed, and the nostrils are facing the sky. The mouth is large, and the corners of the mouth are sharply pruned. As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he spoke in an authentic Guanzhong dialect, but his voice was sharp, like a eunuch.

After the greetings were over, Du Chongguang beckoned the fourth child to eat, and the fourth child bowed his hand to Chen Song, which means that I am not welcome. Chen Song thought that this was a common etiquette on the wine table. This is the meaning of salute first and then soldier. As soon as the fourth child shook his big teeth, Chen Song was stunned.

Where is eating, it's just sweeping the floor!

The fourth child's chopsticks shuttled between his mouth and the plate like lightning, and each chopstick was eager to take away the dishes on the plate. From the side, the fourth's cheeks rose and fell rapidly, like a guillotine disposing of grass efficiently, and the sound of chirping was mixed with the sound of vegetables, meat and crispy bones being cut off, and this sound had not completely subsided, and the jingle of chopsticks falling on the plate sounded again. Except for the large rod bones. The fourth child doesn't spit out anything, the roast chicken is chewed and swallowed with meat and bones, and the fish head is not crushed at all, like fried beans.

Here's how it looks. Chen Song and Du Chongguang couldn't eat enough at all. But Du Chongguang obviously knew the fourth child's gluttony very well, so he ordered three times the amount of dishes for an ordinary three-person meal. In the place where the fourth chopsticks did not kill, Chen Song avoided the real and attacked the false, and took the detour as the straight. It's also considered to fill your stomach. By the time he put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, the fourth child's chirping did not mean to stop at all. Du Chongguang said, "Fourth, do you eat rice or noodles?" The fourth said with a mouth stuffed with food. Du Chongguang said that the roast pork noodles in the jade pot spring are a must, let's try them. Du and Chen each have a bowl. The taste is really extraordinary, but the fourth child is a pot. Compared to eating vegetables, this is another kind of spectacle. Between the mouth of the fourth child and the soup basin, there is a long noodle waterfall flowing backwards, the sound of the waves is deafening, the soup is splashing, and the wind and clouds are endless. Chen Song knew that it was rude to stare at other people's eating appearances like this, but he still couldn't help but look at it directly, wondering if the noodles went directly to the stomach of the fourth child without a knife and axe.

Du Chongguang looked at Chen Song's expression and said with a smile that the fourth child is a well-known thin Maitreya in Chang'an. The belly can hold the four seas, but it doesn't grow meat.

At this time, the fourth child finally drank the last mouthful of soup in the basin, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a small piece of garlic from the vegetable plate, carefully put it in his mouth, wiped his lips with the back of his hand, burped contentedly, and bowed his hand to Chen Song again:

"The food looks ugly, General Chen smiled."

Chen Song vaguely felt that the fourth child was not only able to eat, but he didn't know what he could help himself, so he returned the salute while saying that he didn't know what to call it.

The fourth child smiled and said that my surname was Wu, and I was the fourth among the brothers in the Tao. The eldest brothers all call me the fourth, the peers call me the fourth brother, and the subordinates call me the fourth master, as for the official family, if you are happy, you call me Wu Laosi, if you are unhappy, you call me Wu Sigou, and some call me Wu Dead Dog. General Chen likes whichever one he likes, he can choose whatever he wants, and I will use it all.

These words were said lightly, but they were neither humble nor arrogant, Chen Song was immediately impressed by this foodie:

"Then you are my fourth brother."

The warmth in the eyes of the fourth child flashed, and he turned his face and asked Du Chongguang:

"Brother Du is here for General Chen to call me."

Du Chongguang asked the men to clean the table and bring a big pot of tea, so that they would not tell them not to come. closed the door of the private room and revealed Chen Song's intentions. After chewing on the tea stalks, the fourth child said that General Chen's matter is easy to handle, but it is a matter of life, and the price is not low. Chen Song said that as long as it can be done, you can only make a price. The fourth said that my rule has always been to see the living do not sit on the ground to raise the price, and never discount acquaintances, this number!

Stick out a finger.

Chen Song was a little dazed. A finger can be either a copper plate or a string of copper plates; It can be one tael of silver, or it can be ten thousand taels of silver. Since it is said that life is at stake, then we can only guess more. You can't open your mouth rashly, otherwise you will speculate too much about people's greed for money, and if you say less, it seems that people's lives are not worth anything.

Du Chongguang came out to relieve the siege and said that the fourth child meant that it was a gold ingot.

Chen Song was taken aback. The Guanzhong generation, not to mention ordinary people, is a big family, and three or five years of firewood, rice, oil and salt can't use half a gold ingot.

The fourth child saw Chen Song's surprise, smiled and said I'll tell you what I'm going to do, and after you listen, let's talk about whether a gold ingot is worth it.

What Chen Song has heard has never heard of in this life.

The Yellow River passes through Guanlong and enters the Central Plains, the riverbed flattens abruptly, the river surface widens, and the water flow slows down. In the area of Yuzhou, the embankment must be raised to prevent trouble. In the event of a major flood. Levees often burst, and villages and towns are turned into floods. The people fed the fish and turtles. From Guanlong to Yuzhou, Hongfeng can be reached day and night. But the manpower called the police, and it was too late for a fast horse or a light boat. After the unification of the Jin Dynasty, the Hequ Yousi consulted the folk masters and found a way to warn.

Generally speaking, the upstream rises by one inch, and the downstream rises by one zhang. After entering the rainy season, the upstream is in the middle of the river with a ruler, and people are sent to stare at the water surface day and night, once they find that the water surface rises suddenly. Send out the Water Ghost immediately.

The so-called water ghost is a person who has excellent water nature. They don't operate boats, but drift alone, which is the fastest. The water ghost was tied to a few blowing cow urine bubbles, and went with the flow and drove downstream. During the rainy season, there are also people downstream who keep an eye on the river day and night, and once they find water ghosts, they are immediately scooped up. To save time. Water spirits are never allowed to go ashore halfway. They could not sleep, nor could they eat, so each of them swallowed three or five "hunger pills" before setting off and relied on them until they came ashore. Warning served. The water ghost returns by land.

After the Jin Dynasty moved south, the world fell apart, and no one cared about water politics. The water ghosts under the original official control were scattered among the people. Fu Jian unified the north, and Wang Meng revitalized the water policy. Summoning the water ghosts, resuming the alarm and drifting. Since then, although the north has been divided again, the water ghost system has been maintained by the folk elders, and it has not been interrupted since then. Wang Meng once personally went to Dayu Temple to worship, and agreed with the water ghosts: the water ghosts bear the life and death of millions of people up and down the river, and the country will not kill them, but the water ghosts must also restrain themselves, and they cannot be traitors because of this. The Water Ghost Gang is grateful to Wang Meng's kindness, the gang rules are very strict, and there has never been a black sheep, and it is very popular in the Guanzhong generation.

The fourth is the person in the Water Ghost Gang, although he is known as the fourth, but the first three either died of illness or died in the water, and now he is a veritable boss. He attaches great importance to affection and righteousness, misses several big brothers, and refuses to trespass because of the death of his predecessors, so the officials and the people call him the fourth.

After Chen Song heard this story, he looked at the fourth child again, and suddenly felt that although he was good-looking, he was heroic. But he called his fellow men and asked him to pour wine. This time it was no longer purely out of courtesy, he got up and bowed respectfully, raised the wine glass above his head with both hands, and asked the fourth child to help him go.

The two parties agreed that after Chen Song found someone to write the secret letter, the fourth child would seal it in a wax pill and immediately get up and go south.

Seeing off the fourth child, Chen Song and Du Chongguang walked back, and couldn't help but ask him:

"Why is this fourth child so edible?"

Du Chongguang walked silently for a while, saying that he was afraid of being hungry.

The fourth ancestor is actually not a dry water ghost, and he doesn't even live by the river at all. His ancestor was originally Cao Wei's Tuntian official, because of his excellent work, he got the false title of a general before Zhishi, and his children and grandchildren also followed suit, although he did not have much success, but he was also safe and rich. After the Yongjia Rebellion, the family was scattered, and there was not one out of ten. The great-grandfather of the fourth child ran all the way to Jiangnan, and after the north calmed down a little, he returned to the north and settled in Yuzhou. Not long after, he met Ran Min to purge the Hu people and was besieged by Xianbei. After Ran Min was killed, hundreds of thousands of Han people who had defected to him fled south to Jiangdong, and the great-grandfather of the fourth child had to follow, but the Jin army that Jiangdong came to meet was one step late, and hundreds of thousands of Han people were slaughtered by the Xianbei people. My great-grandfather hid in a half-collapsed grave and picked up his life. When he arrived in Fu Jian, the grandfather of the fourth child already had a small family fortune and was able to support the father of the fourth child to study. Originally, I thought that Fu Qin would live a long life, but after the war of Weishui, Fu Jian could not die, and the north was in chaos again. Lao Si's father was forcibly conscripted into the army by Yao Chang's Qiang army and became a groom, and later died in the chaos. The fourth's mother took the fourth child to escape the military disaster and died of the plague when the fourth child was five years old. The fourth child has been wandering since he was a child, 365 days a year, and he can eat less than a fraction of a full stomach. When he was seven years old, he fainted in Xianyang and was picked up by an old water ghost who returned from Yuzhou and raised in the water ghost gang. A hard-working person, he suffered so much hunger, and in the end, he still relied on the "no hunger pill" to soak in cold water, so as long as he had the opportunity to eat, he would definitely eat ravines and hills.

After hearing this, Chen Song sighed. In a hundred years of troubled times, how many fourths.

I couldn't help but ask again:

"What the hell is that Hunger Pill? If there is this in the army, wouldn't there be a shortage of food!"

Du Chongguang shook his head and said that you are not the only one who is curious, countless people rack their brains to get the formula. However, the Hunger Pill is the lifeblood of the Water Ghost Gang, and the third rule of the gang rules is that the gang would rather die than reveal the formula. In fact, only a few people at the highest level in the gang know, and it has been passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and there is no piece of paper, and there is nowhere to steal if you want to. When Yao Xing was in power, he once politely invited the previous boss to the palace, and lured him with high-ranking officials to buy a formula for the Qin army, but he was refused. The emperor was annoyed and angry, and said that if he didn't give it, he would lose his head. The boss stretched his neck and said that if His Majesty wants this head, just take it, but the formula can only follow me to the grave. The people around Yao Xing said that the immortality of water ghosts was the rule of the previous dynasty, and it was also the opinion of millions of people up and down the river, and His Majesty had to think twice. Yao Xing was helpless and politely sent them away.

Chen Song smiled, feeling that the words "if you want to steal, there is nowhere to steal" sounded like Du Chongguang had used his brain to steal, but his mind quickly turned to another matter.

Someone sends a letter, but who will write it?

How do you write it so that you can say that you are in the shape of the customs clearance, and it doesn't seem to be black in the form of suing Liu Yizhen?

It seems that only that person is up to the task. (To be continued......)