The water of the Jingnan Canal flowed quietly from west to east, and Mu Chenmo followed the gray-clothed soldier into the tent.

A low table was placed in the middle of the tent, and a marching bed was placed in the corner on the left, Lu Xiucai invited Mu Chenmo to sit on the wooden bench next to the low table, and he sat opposite, and raised his hand to bring a cup of tea to each of them.

"The environment here is shabby, so take care of it." The hand rubbed the rough earthy yellow clay cup, and hesitated to speak.

Mu Chenmo picked up the teacup, glanced at the dark yellow tea soup, and blew the floating tea foam, she was waiting, waiting for Lu Xiu to speak.

Negotiating with others is the most important thing, not to mention that when Lu Xiucai invited her to come, she had already lost her qualification to negotiate.

"Second Brother Mu, that friend of yours can really deliver a message to General Mu." Lu Xiucai finally spoke, and his expression changed from hesitation to ruin.

Mu Chenmo nodded his head in reply to Lu Xiucai's words, and took another sip of tea with a stoneware teacup, the bitterness spread throughout the taste buds, and the strange thing was that the tea soup flowed through his throat with a hint of sweetness.

Lu Xiucai put down the cup in his hand and walked to the side of the marching bed, turned out a small wooden box from under the bed, held it and returned to the low table.

Opened the lid of the box and pushed the box in front of Mu Chenmo: "This is the silver I saved, you see if it is enough for the activity, if it is not enough, I am thinking of a way, as long as I can rescue Boss Lu and spend as much silver as I want." ”

Mu Chenmo flipped through the silver tickets on the upper floor of the box, his expression was a little distorted, not counting the broken silver below, the silver tickets alone were 10,000 taels.

"Is it worth it? Take this money home enough for you to eat and drink for the rest of your life, but you have to buy back the life of a man who is bent on the dead, and he is on top of it, and no one will find out about you. ”

After speaking, Mu Chenmo put the silver ticket in his hand back into the box and stared at Lu Xiucai.

I saw that the expression on his face did not show any nostalgia and reluctance, but showed a trace of relief: "I have read the books of sages for more than 20 years, and I don't seek to be a person of great virtue, but I have a clear conscience when I want to die." ”

Mu Chenmo showed a hint of sarcasm on his face: "Have a clear conscience? ”

"At least one of the principles of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith." Lu Xiucai pulled the corners of his mouth self-deprecatingly and looked at his hands.

He doesn't know how many sins he has been involved in, if he fulfills the righteousness of Boss Lu, he is afraid that he will be condemned by his conscience day and night, and no amount of good deeds can make up for the uneasiness in his heart.

Mu Chenmo closed the small wooden box containing the silver: "I accepted this silver, but I don't guarantee that I will be able to rescue Boss Lu." ”

"Do your best and let it be the fate of heaven." Lu Xiucai let out a long sigh, his expression and body obviously relaxed.

Mu Chenmo said playfully: "You are not afraid of losing both personal and wealth." ”

"Everything is fate, and if so, I have no choice but to do so."

Lu Xiucai is very appointed, or he has long known that the chance is slim, and he wants to send the silver out to buy himself a peace of mind, and it doesn't matter whether he saves Boss Lu or not.

The two of them sat quietly in the tent, the small wooden box was placed between them, and Mu Chenmo was still tasting the tea with sweetness after the bitterness.

The sudden silence made Lu Xiucai inexplicably flustered, shouldn't he leave with the silver at this time, right, why is this Mu Er still drinking tea leisurely.

Raised her eyes to look at Mu Chenmo, and saw that her expression seemed to be tasting the delicious food in the world, a copper plate and a pack of coarse tea foam, it was really so delicious, and she took a sip of the teacup, and it was still the bitter and astringent smell of tobacco oil.

After drinking a cup of tea and a pot of tea, Lu Xiucai's urine came out, but the person opposite was still as steady as Mount Tai.

Lu Xiucai finally couldn't hold back his mouth: "Second Brother Mu, but you are dissatisfied with the amount of silver, why don't I go out and make up for it?" ”

Mu Chenmo rolled her eyes countless times in her heart, she found that this Xiucai was an elm pimple, she drank a pot of tea, and she hadn't figured out what she wanted to know.

"Brother Lu, don't you think that the people under General Mu are also like the fat county order, you don't need to say anything as soon as the money is handed over, just release the people."

After listening to Mu Chenmo's words, Lu Xiucai was a little dumbfounded, isn't it like this when you are an official? Back then, it was just because he handed over too little money that he didn't buy an official position.

Mu Chenmo had no choice but to enlighten: "Brother Lu, think about what the Seventh Prince and General Mu are doing in the south, if you don't find out something, how to explain it to the emperor." ”

"This?" Lu Xiucai began to hesitate again, and no one knew how deep the water behind the fat county order was.

Should he say it, if he said that he would be thrown into the river to feed Wang Ba, but he didn't want to die if he didn't rescue Boss Lu.

Mu Chenmo stretched out his hand and pushed the box in his direction: "Don't hide it, our brother was sent out by General Mu to investigate the truth." ”

She decided to give Lu Xiucai a dose of reassurance, otherwise Lu Xiucai would not dare to say it.

Lu Xiucai's body trembled, and he didn't dare to look at Mu Chenmo directly nervously, for fear that he would be the next one to be imprisoned, but the money was all on the table, and the words he said could not be taken back.

The expression on his face changed uncertainly, one moment he was desperate to gnash his teeth, and the next he was hunched over with his head in his hands.

Mu Chenmo didn't urge him, she believed that Lu Xiu would tell her everything, and the conscience in her heart was not extinguished without blinking an eye and taking out tens of thousands of taels of silver to help her brother buy his life.

Lu Xiucai, who had been silent for a long time, put down his hands holding his head, rubbed his face, sat up straight and spoke.

"I bought all the money I had at home, but I didn't know that the money was too small, and I stood on the embankment and was about to jump down......"

Mu Chenmo listened to him patiently, Boss Lu saved him, and returned the silver he had spent to him, so that he could return to his hometown and live a good life.

Lu Xiucai rushed home to find that the village had been washed away by the flood, and his parents had also died in the flood.

I wanted to follow my parents to the ground to honor them, and the ropes were tied to the tree, but somehow I remembered Boss Lu's words, and thought that there was still a kindness that had not been repaid, so I rushed back and became a soldier under Boss Lu.

When Master Li looked for it, they refused at that time, but they couldn't stand the threat of their family's lives, so they dug up the embankment and took the money to do a lack of morality.

Lu Xiucai wiped his face with his hand: "Brother, you use this silver to dredge my life in exchange for Boss Lu's life." ”

"Has that Master Li always been by the side of the fat county order?" Mu Chenmo stared at him and asked.

"When I bought the official, the master next to the county order was surnamed Zhang, and I don't know when this Master Li came, he came to us to dig a dam to release water to Luxi Town."

After listening to Lu Xiucai's words, Mu Chenmo felt a bad feeling in his heart, and clamped the small wooden box under his armpit.

"Tomorrow at the earliest, the day after tomorrow at the latest, Boss Lu will come back, you write down everything you have done, spit out the silver that should be spit out, and finally reduce the sentence."

Lu Xiucai looked at the person who left in a hurry, and hope was burning in his eyes, as long as he could save Boss Lu and take his life.

Mu Chenmo rushed all the way back to the courtyard of Mrs. Zhang's house, and found that Qi Yu had not come back, handed over the small wooden box to Luo Youning, who was following behind, turned around and ran to the county government prison, and only put it down after seeing Qi Yu with the heart he was carrying all the way.

Qi Yu pulled her to a hidden corner, made a silent movement, and pointed to the person in front of him, and saw Master Li anxiously wandering around the door of the county jail, as if he was waiting for someone.

Mu Chenmo leaned into Qi Yu's ear and told him what he had inquired about from Lu Xiucai, and the warm breath crossed Qi Yu's heart like a feather.

"Qi Yu, we may have a plan to leave the mountain, Luxi Town, including this Master Li, are all smoke bombs thrown by them, and all this is just to attract our attention."

As soon as the words fell, I saw Master Li stomp his right foot and clapped his hands, and the person hurriedly walked in the direction of the county office, Qi Yu grabbed Mu Chenmo's hand and quickly followed.

Master Li sneaked in through the back door, and after a while, he walked out with a burden and a probe on his back.

"Looks like he's going to run away." Qi Yu rubbed his chin and said.

Mu Chenmo nodded, his figure flashed in front of Master Li, and he shot at his acupoint, Qi Yu didn't know where to find a rope and directly tied the person up.

Master Li's eyes kept rolling, looking at Mu Chenmo to see the burden, and then there was a look of begging for mercy.

Mu Chenmo opened the bag and revealed the silver ticket wrapped in his clothes, and Master Li winked at Mu Chenmo vigorously.