Chapter Seventy-Three: Three Scholars
"If you want to enter the city, you can leave your weapons behind!"
Wang Hao didn't know if he was in conflict with the town guards and just entered the town, but he always encountered such and such problems.
"You said stay and stay? Okay, I'm not going in. "The army is on the side, even with Wang Hao's heart, he has to take a step back and speak.
"Huh? Can you walk if you want? I suspect you are a spy of the rebels, stop me! ”
"I don't understand, I have the ability to bark here, why don't you go to Zhongwan City and call it?"
Thinking of the injustice he encountered in Pingwang Town, Wang Hao was angry, and his temper finally came to the verge of exploding after enduring it for a long time.
"Village Chief Wang, such a coincidence!"
A familiar voice sounded in Wang Hao's ears, and Wang Hao stopped the idea of doing it.
"Hello General!" When the guards saw the comer, they stood respectfully and gave a military salute.
Wang Hao looked back and saw that the person who came was actually Bu Qingzheng, and to his surprise, Bu Qingzheng was accompanied by a man dressed as an officer.
"Huh? Official, why are you here? Wang Hao was very surprised to see Bu Qingzheng, it had been more than a month since he said goodbye last time.
"Haha, where food is needed, I am there! By the way, let me introduce, this is General Chang Shuangchang! General Chang, this is the village chief of Taoyuan Village! Bu Qingzheng introduced the two sides with a haha.
Given that the other party was a general, Wang Hao symbolically arched his hand, but he didn't expect that the other party was more arrogant than him, and he even saved the effort of greeting.
Bu Qingzheng knew that General Chang didn't look down on a village chief, but he knew that Wang Hao was not a simple village chief, and he knew that Wang Hao's temper was very bad, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to resolve the embarrassment and said, "Village Chief Wang, have you just come to Meilin Town?" ”
"Exactly, just got here."
"I don't know what Village Chief Wang is doing here? It's not a good time to come to Merlin! ”
Bu Qingzheng took Wang Hao into the town as he spoke, and the guards didn't dare to interject a word.
"What do you mean by that?" Wang Hao pretended to be confused, but he couldn't say that he was here to listen to the news, and he was really arrested as a rebel spy if he didn't make it good, he didn't think that in this official army base camp, he had the ability to come and go freely.
Bu Qingzheng didn't say anything more, just snorted, sometimes smart people talk to each other, and it really doesn't have to be too thorough.
The atmosphere in Meilin Town is also relatively tense, officers and soldiers can be seen everywhere, either to purchase food utensils, or to be ordered to do not know what to do, although it is not counted as three steps, one sentry, five steps and one post, but if outsiders walk here, it is also common to be interrogated.
But with Bu Qingzheng's company, everything seems to be much simpler.
"Village Chief Wang, you can live here for the time being! There is martial law at night, so don't go out and walk around if you're fine. Bu Qingzheng said after settling Wang Hao down.
"There's a big official of Laub." Wang Hao arched his hand.
Meilin Town is like this now, Wang Hao is really entangled, the original plan obviously needs to be adjusted, now let alone investigate the situation in the villages of Meilin Town, even if you walk a few more steps on the street, you will be interrogated by the officials and soldiers.
Wang Hao even began to consider whether he should return to Taoyuan Village for the time being, and wait for the war to end before continuing the plan.
There is a lobby in the inn, there are a few tables of eight immortals, usually there is no one at this point, tired to sleep, fun-loving will also go to the place where the wine is spent, but now the street is under martial law and can't get out, and the lobby is lively.
Wang Hao, who couldn't sleep, slipped into the lobby alone, and wanted to find a place to sit for a while, but found that all the tables were full of people.
The shopkeeper said apologetically: "I'm sorry guest officer, it's already full, why don't you come tomorrow?" ”
Wang Hao just wandered around, it didn't matter whether he sat or not, he nodded and planned to go back to the room to continue trying to sleep.
"Brother, if you don't dislike it, why don't you sit down and have two drinks together?"
Wang Hao turned his head to look, and it was a man dressed as a scholar who spoke, and there were two other people at the same table, all dressed in the same way.
Usually, Wang Hao doesn't like to deal with strangers, this is a habit, but now there is nothing to do, and he is rushing to find out the news, so it is not indispensable to sit down and chat.
"In Xia Ma Luo, these two are Li Qing and Guo Da, the three of us are scholars who are studying tours, dare to ask the brothers their names?" Marlowe introduced the three of them in a few words.
"Don't have your surname Wang, a single name and a Hao character, come here to see if there is anything to do here in Meilin." Wang Hao thought to himself, I don't know if it is a business if I want someone to go back.
"Brother Wang is young, and he started trading alone, he is really young and promising!"
"Where! There are also two companions, who are resting in the backyard at the moment, I don't know how many brothers are from Merlin Town? ”
"We are not from Yamato County, we are from Qishui County in the south."
"I see, Qishui County is a good place." As soon as he heard that the other party was not from Merlin, Wang Hao suddenly lacked interest, and praised it without saltiness, so he didn't have much interest in talking.
However, Ma Luo and the three of them were very interested in talking, saying that they were scholars, but they did not talk about poetry and elegance, they preferred to talk about current affairs, and broke up the things that sounded and came along the way and talked about them in detail.
"I heard that the war in Yamato County is about to end, I wonder what Brother Guo thinks?" Among the three, Wang Hao felt that the man named Guo Da was the most knowledgeable, and his analysis of problems was also reasonable, and he happened to talk about the war, so he wanted to ask his opinion.
"Oh? How can such a thing be said? Guo Da was surprised.
Ordinary people only saw the assembly of the army, but if it is said that the war is over, few people really have this certainty, that is, Wang Hao heard a little news from Dubo Zhang Xin combined with his own experience to reach the conclusion.
Guo Da thought for a while and said slowly: "I don't think so." ”
"What do you mean by that?" It was Li Qing who spoke, he didn't express his opinions much, but he always acted as a thread in the conversation, just like a compliment in cross talk.
"Although there is no war in Qishui County, judging from the news heard along the way, there is not much difference in the strength of the warring parties, although the official army has a slight advantage, but it is not easy to defeat the rebels in a short period of time."
"However, the army of Merlin Town has begun to assemble, and most of the other directions are also the same, and it can be seen that the intention of the officers and troops to fall in one fell swoop is obvious." Marlowe expressed some different ideas.
"Didn't the army of the magistrates gather to resist the attack of the rebels?" Guo Dayu was not shocked, and threw out a question that surprised the three people at the same table.