Gao Fei left the army with Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, Liao Hua and other fifty relatives, and walked slowly to the west for less than thirty miles, when he heard more than ten horsemen rushing behind him, and Gao Fei, the first person, looked very familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that he was actually Lu Zhi's personal captain.

Lu Zhi's personal captain quickly caught up, and Gao Fei asked people to stop on the side of the road, and exchanged a few words of greeting, only to know that their intention was to send gold to Gao Fei. When Lu Zhizhi was escorted away from the prisoner's car, he instructed his personal captain to return the 1,000 catties of gold that the imperial court had rewarded Gao Fei for, what a good person.

After the captain of the pro-soldier finished delivering the gold, he took his leave, and Gao Fei handed over the gold to Lu Heng to take care of, and continued to lead people on the road.

That night, the group came to Neihuang and rested for the night at the post station in the city. It's already mid-August weather, the weather is gradually getting cooler, and the autumn nights are also cool. Gao Fei asked Lu Heng to buy some autumn clothes in the clothing store in the city with the money and put them on to his subordinates, but the clothes of the official army were still not thrown away, but were put on the outside.

After a brief night's rest, after breakfast the next day, they continued their journey to the west, preparing to first reach Hanoi County, cross the Yellow River south of Hanoi, and then turn west into Sanfu, which was the route drawn up by Lu Heng, who was well versed in geography.

A group of people walked on the empty plains of Hebei, everywhere you can see barren land, deserted villages, seeing the desolate scene on the road, Gao Fei can't help but feel a little pity for the people of this era. The Yellow Turban Rebellion in Hebei was seriously harmed, and the population of each county dropped sharply, and even if the Yellow Turban was pacified, it would be difficult to restore its former prosperity within two or three years.

When it was almost noon, Gao Fei ordered people to stop on the side of the road to rest, and then distributed the dry food they bought last night to everyone to eat, and the group leaned on the roadside grove to rest briefly.

"Master Hou, I bought this for Master Hou last night, please taste it!" Fei An's nose was no longer bleeding, but the black scars could still be clearly seen on his nose, and he held a jar of wine and handed it to Gao Fei, smiling and groaning.

Wine was a good thing in ancient times, and in that era when the alcohol content was not very high, it was equivalent to modern drinks, and it was the most common and thirst-quenching thing. Gao Fei took the jar of wine and said to Fei An, "Is your nose okay?" ”

Fei Anxi said: "Thank you Lord Hou for worrying, there is no big problem anymore." ”

Gao Fei said: "In the future, you must learn from Lu Heng when you talk and do things, don't always be frizzy, if you continue like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to trust you anymore." ”

Fei An bowed and said: "Hou Ye's subordinates have remembered, and their subordinates will not have such similar things in the future." ”

Goofy looked around and saw that everyone else had a jar of wine in their hands, and the carriage parked on the side of the road was loaded with dry food and wine, as well as all his household belongings. He smiled, pointed to the wine in everyone's hands and said to Fei An: "You did a good job this time, everyone has wine in their hands, nothing special, you have to use your brains more in the future." ”

"No!"

"Okay, you can go get some drinks, too."

Gao Fei was afraid that everyone would be greedy and drunk, so he shouted loudly: "Drinking one or two sips is a meaning, don't be greedy for a cup, in case you get drunk, Lao Tzu will throw it down and feed the wolf!" ”

After hearing this, everyone laughed out loud, and they all understood what Gao Fei meant, so they just drank a few sips casually, ate some dry food, and started on the road.

After repeating this for several days, the group came to Hanoi County, reached the Yellow River, crossed the Yellow River by boat, and then galloped west through Hongnong County into the Sanfu Land of Guanzhong.

Towering Guanzhong, 800 miles of Qinchuan, the Quartet Pass blocks its way, Gao Fei took everyone all the way to the west, enjoying the beautiful scenery of Guanzhong along the way, and silently kept the terrain and landforms of the place secretly in mind, for him, although he does not like to stay in Guanzhong, but sooner or later one day he will still bring the army back, at that time, his travel experience, will bring him great convenience. Being a Chen Cang Order is not necessarily a bad thing, Gao Fei thought silently in his heart again.

On the first day of the ninth lunar month, Gao Fei's journey finally came to an end, and he arrived at Chencang with his fifty relatives. Chen Cang belongs to one of the three auxiliary right Fu Feng jurisdiction, in ancient times there was Han Xinming plank road, secretly crossing Chen Cang said, Chen Cang is also the east into the three auxiliary portal, the geographical location is very important.

Outside the city of Chencang, Gao Fei led fifty horsemen to stop on the road outside the city gate, looking up at the towers and walls of Chencang, and everyone's hearts were clouded. Along the way, in order to comfort himself, Gao Fei vigorously advocated the benefits of Chen Cang, and often told his subordinates allusions about Chen Cang, but when he really saw this city that everyone had been fascinated for a long time, everyone had a gloomy face and couldn't say a word.

"Haha, it's a little better than I expected." Goofy comforted himself with the spirit of Ah Q and laughed silly.

Lu Heng's face was unhappy, he rode his horse to Gao Fei's side and asked softly, "Master Hou, is this Chen Cang?" It was very different from what I expected. ”

In front of everyone's eyes, there is a ruined city, the city tower is in disrepair, the black paint on the pillars has fallen off, the city wall is even more dilapidated, the potholes that can be seen are like a hornet's nest, and the wall is piled up with broken bricks and tiles, which is no different from the war that has just been experienced.

"Don't you know how to read? Isn't it written on the head of the city? Gao Fei pointed to the words that had fallen off half of the city head, and he could vaguely see the words "Chen Cangcheng".

Lu Heng didn't speak again, seeing the city in front of him, and then thinking about the impregnable Chen Cang that Gao Fei boasted about along the way, it was simply two concepts.

"If you come, you will be safe, let's enter the city!" Gao Fei smiled bitterly twice, thinking about the upcoming Liangzhou rebellion, he originally wanted to use Chen Cang's strong city defense to resist, so as to gain a certain amount of credit, but now seeing such a city, his heart is also three points confident.

The gate of Chencang City was open, there were no standing city gate guards at the city gate, and a few people slowly drove out of the city, and when they passed Gao Fei and the others, they all looked at them with a strange gaze, everything was so strange.

When they entered the city, they saw that it was deserted, and there were many collapsed houses near the gates, and a thick layer of rubble piled up near the broken walls, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. There is only one very straight street in the city, and at a glance you can see the city gate on the west side, and the few people enter and exit the Chen Cang through the west gate.

Gao Fei led the people along the road to the not very wide street, and walked less than two miles to see a few intact but old houses inhabited by people. The sudden visit of Gao Fei and the others immediately attracted the onlookers of the people, and dozens of people poured out from both sides of the street, most of them were thin and elderly people, who faltered, competing to watch the group of strangers coming.

When walking for almost five miles, there was a crossroads in front of everyone, Gao Fei looked around, and saw that there was a relatively wide road in the north direction, and a county government office also came into view, the door of the county government was wide open, and there was no guard at the door.

"Master Hou, this city is really small, the total length from east to west is only ten miles, and this fork in the road is only six or seven miles from north to south, how can there be a thousand families living in this place?" Zhao Yun was not very satisfied with Chen Cang, so he couldn't help but say it.

Gao Fei said "um", and then there was no follow-up, and drove his horse to the county office.

When he arrived at the gate of the county office, Gao Fei turned over and dismounted, glanced inside, and didn't see anyone, he didn't care, so he said to the entourage behind him: "Get off the horse, move all the things in, and this will be our temporary home in the future." ”

After finishing speaking, Gao Fei strode into the county office, and after walking inside, he heard a noisy sound coming from a room with closed doors and windows on the east side. He turned around, walked straight over, pushed open the door first, and saw more than a dozen officials in official uniforms sitting around a straw mat in the room, shouting loudly words such as "big and small", and they were actually gathering people to gamble.

"Who's the head here?" Goofy pushed the door open, but he didn't attract anyone's attention, and he shouted.

The noisy sound in the room stopped abruptly, and more than a dozen disheveled servants turned their heads in the same direction, and saw a stranger wearing armor standing outside the door, looked at it from top to bottom, and hurriedly tidied up their clothes, all stood up, and said in unison: "I've seen my lord!" ”

"Who's the head here?" Goofy repeated it again, with a bit of sternness in his words.

A small man with yellow muscles took a step forward, squinted at Gao Fei, and replied, "Lord Qiyu, I'm ...... I'm ......."

"You're a county lieutenant?"

The little man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I'm not a county lieutenant, and the county lieutenant doesn't live in the city!" ”

"This is our family's Hou Ye, the newly sealed Duxiang Hou and Chen Cang Ling of the imperial court, why don't you hurry up and meet the Hou Ye?" Lu Heng walked over from behind Gao Fei, glanced at everything in the room, and said aloud.

The servants in the house hurriedly bowed their hands and said, "Meet the Hou Ye!" ”

Gao Fei said: "What about your county lieutenant? ”

The little servant replied, "The county lieutenant married a concubine today and didn't come." ”

"Didn't come? Then you can come with me, I want to know more about the situation in Chen Cang. After Goofy finished speaking, he turned and left.

Gao Fei took the little man to the county hall and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Back to Master Hou's words, villain Ma Jiu."

"Ma Jiu, let me ask you, how many households are there in Chencang?"

"Back to Hou Ye's words, there are a total of 1,000 households within a radius of 80 miles from Chen Cang, and the imperial court has sent an edict that Chen Cang will be Hou Ye's food in the future, and a thousand households will also be Hou Ye's people."

After hearing this, Gao Fei pondered: "Damn, this broken place, it's still Sanfu, it's better to let me go to Liaodong, at least there are abundant mineral resources." It seems that my Hou Ye's Mansion can only be settled in this county office. ”

He continued to inquire about the situation of Chen Cang, Ma Jiu also answered one by one, after listening, he knew that Chen Cang was often attacked by the Qiang people before, and each time the county order was transferred to stay for less than a month, there was no silver in the treasury, and no one repaired the city wall, and the people also fled to the east.

After asking, Gao Fei sent Ma Jiu away, he was tired for so many days, he was very tired, and immediately asked his entourage and officials to help clean the backyard and some rooms of the county government, and then instructed Pei Yuanshao to make a fire to cook, and he passed through it calmly when he took office.