Chapter Thirty-Six: Charcoal in the Snow
"This is indeed the Mu family's thing, I was rude, sir, can you let me take a look at the things on the carriage, after all, this is a fortress place, and I really can't afford to wait for something to happen."
The man said that it was understandable: "Please, but you have to send your entourage, I haven't seen Mu Gongzi himself before it is inconvenient to reveal the contents of these cars to others, please forgive me!" ”
"Yes!" Long Baiyu nodded and gladly accepted his proposal.
I'd really like to see what's going on under the black cloth.
Long Baiyu waved his hand to let the other people stay in place, followed behind the man, and walked to the middle of the car, the man picked up a rope that tied the carriage, untied it and lifted the black linen cloth spread on it, a dazzling light reflected in the sun, Long Baiyu subconsciously raised his hand to block in front of him, and then immediately realized that this was inappropriate, so he immediately pretended to be idle and put down his hand to observe what was revealed under the black cloth.
It has a snow-white body and sharp edges and corners, as well as a smooth and slightly cool touch.
Long Baiyu couldn't control himself and took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in surprise: "This whole car is full of long tassel guns? ”
The man smiled and bowed his head, Long Baiyu's fiery gaze seemed to burn all the contents of this cart, and he begged the man to lead him to look at the other covered carriages.
After looking around, Long Baiyu felt more and more that he had lost his luck, and he was worried that he had no new weapons, and he didn't know where Mu Zichu met such a powerful friend, but although these things were really good, they were not to the point of getting carried away.
Long Baiyu said to this person with a pleasant face: "These things are really good, but I must regret to say that Mu Gongzi is not in the barracks now, I can't bring all of you in, it is estimated that only he will come to bring you in, by the way, I haven't asked Mr. Daming yet." ”
"I don't dare to be a big name, my surname is Shen, and I have a single word Kun."
He smiled, lowered his head slightly, lowered his eyes, and paid tribute to Long Baiyu.
"Actually, I also have something to do, and I also want to go back after finishing these things quickly, but if I can't see Mu Gongzi, it's really a pity, can you allow Shen to go into the camp with these things alone?"
"You're alone?" Long Baiyu raised his eyes and looked at these carriages, he silently counted them carefully, there were eight carriages.
"I just want to wait in the barracks until Mu Gongzi comes back, and then I can meet him, and I will leave on my own without you opening my mouth, and I will definitely not wander around in the barracks."
Shen Kun's size is the same as that of Long Baiyu, he said sincerely, and it is not a forced request for Long Baiyu, but only a suggestion.
Well, it's not a requirement, and it shouldn't matter if you're alone. Long Baiyu's fingers on the saber tapped on the hilt, his eyes stared at Shen Kun, and then he pretended not to observe him and swept his gaze, Long Baiyu hesitated again and again before deciding.
"Okay...... There's a standing over there! Here's a couple of people, pull these things back to the warehouse for me! Long Baiyu stood beside Shen Kun and shouted, and the people standing in place heard his shout and hurriedly ran over, not daring to delay pulling the horse at all, but there was not enough manpower, Long Baiyu personally stepped forward to pull a horse.
Shen Kun lowered his head and smiled, and also waved his hand to let those who came with him go back first, and then go to them later.
"Let's all go back first."
"Yes!"
Shen Kun himself also went up to pull a horse, and when Long Baiyu saw this, he left a person here to continue guarding.
On the way to the warehouse, Long Baiyu called a few people to hand over all the things to them, and he himself led Shen Kun to Mu Zichu's tent to wait for people to come back, and the two began to chat on the way, and somehow, the topic turned to the not-so-good-looking ring that Long Baiyu was wearing.
"I just think this ring is ugly, why would the general choose to wear such an object by his side? This is contrary to the general's all-round style. ”
Shen Kun couldn't understand his taste, so he quickly spoke and questioned.
This Shen Kun really dares to say anything, without any scruples, he is not afraid of getting angry? This was Long Baiyu's first reaction.
He raised his right hand along Shen Kun's line of sight, there was a black and simple ring on his index finger, Long Baiyu looked at the ring and turned around, but he didn't blame Shen Kun for his disrespectful words.
Long Baiyu raised his eyebrows and said lightly: "Mr. Shen knows Mu Gongzi. ”
Shen Kun Muran nodded, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "This is nature, haven't you talked about it below?" If he wasn't here, he would definitely not choose to stay and trouble the general. ”
Long Baiyu suddenly smiled and waved his hand, and didn't say anything for a while.
Shen Kun immediately withdrew his smile and stared at Long Baiyu's right hand with deep eyes. Is he showing off to himself that the ring was given to him by Mu Zichu?
"You think this thing is ugly, don't you? I think so too! I can't even figure out how Mu Zichu could give me such an ugly thing at that time. ”
Long Baiyu shook his hand, and couldn't help but think in his heart, it was really hard to meet a friend of Mu Zichu, or a person he hadn't even met, how could he let go of the opportunity to tell Mu Zichu's black history!
God help me, it just so happens that guy is not in the barracks!
Shen Kun looked at the look on this person's face when he talked about Mu Zichu, and couldn't help but think that he had asked Mu Zichu about the whereabouts of this ring not long ago, what did that person say? Accidentally lost it? What a lost one! It's good to lose!
An unspeakable anger and a feeling of slashing his heart were tearing Shen Kun's entire body.
He tensed the anger that was about to explode, and tried his best to suppress his anger and asked Long Baiyu: "Speaking of which, you seem to be very familiar with Mu Gongzi, but why have I never seen a general when I was in Kyoto?" ”
Long Baiyu looked away from his smiling face suspiciously, and then said with a smile: "This is natural, this general went to the battlefield with his father before he reached the crown, and it is rare to stay in Kyoto, it is inevitable that you will not have a relationship with me, but you don't know, sometimes even if I go home, I think that Mu Zichu is my father's son, and I am an outsider, tsk." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Shen Kun lowered his head, the two of them did not fall behind, Long Baiyu looked at the vicinity and calculated how long it would take to reach Mu Zichu's place of residence.
"Actually, the relationship between my family and the Mu family was not bad before, Mu Zichu was forced by my mother to recognize a godmother, and then Mu Zichu's mother was seriously ill, Mu Zichu didn't often live in the Mu family, and then I didn't know much about things for a while, during that time I was locked in the room by my mother and not allowed to go out, and I couldn't contact the outside world, I didn't see him again for more than a month, I don't know what happened during that period, Mu Zichu suddenly lived in the palace and was accompanied by the national teacher."
Long Baiyu paused and said: "The number of times I see him has gradually decreased, only on the occasion of the New Year's holiday, I have more contact with him, but I have known him since childhood, even if I haven't seen each other for a long time, I met it is no different from before, and then after a year or two I went to the battlefield with my father, this ugly thing is I asked him to go to the battlefield, although ugly is ugly, but it is quite practical, at that time he also told me that it was his own most beloved thing, but it is right to think about it, At that time, he was still the same existence as the little entourage beside the national teacher, such a thing is definitely not something he can take out casually, if you don't mention this matter, I will forget that this ring has been with me for so many years! ”
"It turns out that there is such a reason for this, it seems that the relationship between your two brothers is not ordinarily deep." After Shen Kun narrowed his eyes and praised the relationship between Long Baiyu and Mu Zichu, he was relieved at this time, and breathed a sigh of relief quietly, the gloomy feeling disappeared from him in an instant, and his emotions came and went quickly.
"Haha, by the way, Mu Zichu and they don't know when they will come back, you wait in his tent for a while, maybe when they will come back." Long Baiyu suddenly stopped and said to him, and pointed to the tent not far away.
"Okay." Shen Kun did not refuse his proposal, and after Long Baiyu saw the people entering, he added two more soldiers to the tent as guards.
In any case, there should still be precautions.
Not having an umbrella is a troublesome thing, but fortunately, there is a small vendor selling umbrellas in the city, and it is an elderly woman who guards the stall in front of the shelf.
"Is Childe looking for someone?"
Mu Zichu looked around looking around, and the sight that came from the vicinity was like a knife, which made him feel a sense of rejection from the bottom of his heart.
The grandmother who bought the umbrella handed over two umbrellas kindly, Mu Zichu hurriedly borrowed them and thanked them, originally he didn't want to explain the reason when he heard the grandmother's question, but the gods sent the ghosts, maybe it was the result of even asking questions, and Mu Zichu told the grandmother that there were no soldiers like people coming into the city recently.
"I haven't seen it, but yesterday there was a person who was respectfully invited away by the guards of the door, I heard people nearby say this kind of thing for a day, I am old, and my ears are sometimes very back, but they have been talking, and I will remember it." Grandma smiled, folds piled up at the corners of her eyes, and when Grandma's eyes smiled, there was only a thin slit left, and there were only a few teeth left.
"Then why did I ask the other vendors, but no one answered?" Mu Zichu took out a piece of broken silver and put it in Grandma's hand, and asked about what made him wonder.
"Oh, they can't be counted on, they are very afraid of the masters who guard the door, and they want to guard them to make money, but they don't dare to tell others about these people under their noses!" Grandma took the broken silver and put it in the small box in front of her, and took a lot of copper plates from it for Mu Zichu to hurry up and continue: "They are afraid of those people!" I'm not afraid of this old woman! Hmph, it's not a good thing! ”
Grandma raised her head and snorted at the middle-aged uncle who was serving the city gate guards on the other side, showing her disdain for her expression, and the uncle waited to send away the city gate guards who came to pass the time with things, and finally turned her face and said menacingly: "You old woman! Just rely on your son to be an official in the barracks! If you don't have your son, you're not going to be scared! ”
"My wife just has a good son, and you don't have it here!" This grandma is also a stubborn temper, and her eyes were narrowed with a smile, because the uncle immediately stared at her round appearance after a few words. Mu Zichu saw that the momentum of the two had to quarrel, and hurriedly asked the national teacher to reconcile with him.
Speaking of this grandma's son in the barracks, it seems that there is a small official position, casually mentioned, and learned that it was the mother of Ma Youma's adjutant general, and immediately disbelieved, General Ma seems to be loyal and honest, this grandma quarrels with a tiger, but it is a tiger, and I really dare not let people look down on it.
Grandma heard him say his son's name, and hurriedly asked Vice General Ma how his condition was recently, if it was really a mother who was worried about the child, even if the two were not thousands of miles away, in the case that Vice General Ma was a person who had passed the well-known years, the relationship between mother and son should not be underestimated.
Mu Zichu learned from Grandma that Vice Admiral Ma has a son and a daughter, and they are now brushing sauce and repairing umbrellas in the backyard, giving the easiest things to Grandma to do, it seems that Vice General Ma should marry a good daughter-in-law who is virtuous and virtuous.
While they were chatting, Adjutant General Ma's son came out of the house with three or five umbrellas in his arms, and after hearing the topic of conversation between several people, he paused in front of the shelf and pointed out a clear way to Mu Zichu - he guessed that the person might be taken to a place.
This was a surprise for the National Teacher, but the National Teacher and Mu Zichu both thanked each other and left for the place he said.
The place that Adjutant Ma's son pointed to was also in Yancheng, and if you walked along this street to the intersection and turned left, you could see a large plaque that said Fenglai Inn.
"The son of this adjutant general Ma knows how to be flexible than Adjutant Ma himself." The National Teacher said with a smile as he squeezed his eyes at Mu Zichu on the road in a brisk tone. He talked with the adjutant general for a long time at the previous banquet, and in the eyes of the national teacher, Ma You is mostly enthusiastic and full of loyalty, although this person is available, but there are very few changes, can only be used for the defender, for the retreat of the battle is quite a lot, if it is not appropriate to let such a person lead the troops to attack the enemy.
"People are different, how can they be the same, but how do I feel a little familiar with the name of the Fenglai Inn that kid talked about?"
It seems that he has heard it somewhere, Mu Zichu frowned and thought about it, a pair of frivolous peach blossom eyes looked unique at this time.
"I feel familiar, well, I want to see, what is it?" When the National Teacher heard him say this, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
It wasn't until the two of them walked to their destination that they suddenly realized that this place was clearly the place where the two of them had stayed and collapsed.
"I didn't expect it to be here, no wonder I think the name would be so familiar." Mu Zhichu looked up at the plaque with a few big characters written on the Fenglai Inn and began to sigh. When he first arrived here, his own mind fell on how to contact Long Baiyu in the military camp, but he ignored the understanding of the surrounding environment, but he didn't expect that this place turned out to be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and he really looked away.