Chapter 68: The Prime Minister's Order
Chen Cao and Zheng Yu hurriedly saluted again, and Chen Yu said: "It turned out to be Zhang's sister-in-law, the villain has lost his eyes, please forgive Zhang Gongzi." ”
Zhang Bai didn't mind, and immediately returned the gift.
Chen Cao asked again: "The villain is brave, may I ask Zhang Gongzi why he deigns to such a remote place? Why do you build a ship for others? Could it be that the robbers lost their entanglements when they encountered them on the road?"
Zhang Bai laughed in his heart, feeling that this Chen Cao had a big brain, and replied with a smile: "There is entanglement, Brother Chen doesn't need to worry about it." I left home to study art with Master when I was a child, and Master came here to do something, so I followed. ”
"Your master, I don't know who it is?"
"This ......?" "This is a difficulty, you can't say that the master is an old immortal of Nanhua, doesn't this mean that you admit that you are Zhang Jiao's junior brother......!" Shizun is an immortal, and there are many titles, and the name of the Central Plains does not dare to mention it at will, please forgive me. Here, Shizun is the national teacher, and is revered by the emperor as the god of Sharama, the god of healing. ”
"Venerable Master turned out to be the god of medicine, so when are the two of you going to return home?"
"I think in a year or two...... But no one can say for sure, right?" Zhang Bai made a grimace, Chen Yu and Zheng Sui were a little surprised, so they had to laugh together, thinking that they were a child after all.
"Don't always ask me, what kind of business are you two doing?" Zhang Bai felt that the conversation was becoming more and more dangerous, and then changed the subject.
"What we are doing is the business of trafficking Shu brocade, going back and forth between Shu and poison. Now that Nanzhong is in rebellion, the road is difficult, and we all hope to earn more money by running once. But the poison direction of the sugar cane people rose, and the Andaro tribe was at war, the Andaro country was defeated, the country was occupied, and the whole country was in chaos and almost collapsed. It was a great mess in the world, and we couldn't even find anyone to do business with, so we had to go further north. Fortunately, when he heard that the Kushan Empire was fine, he came to Peshawar, the capital of the country. ”
The Nanzhong Rebellion, that is to say, Yonghong and Meng Shu have already started an incident, I remember that Zhuge Liang seems to have sent troops to Nanzhong after two or three years, and it is still in the dormant period!
This is a new situation due to the poison accident, and Zhang Bai originally knew that there was a Magadha country, so it doesn't seem right?
"Excuse me, I remember that there should be a Magadha country in the direction of the body poison, is it still there?" Zhang Bai asked.
"Magadha?" this time it was Zheng Xuan who was surprised, "If you want to talk about this Magadha, I know, it collapsed three hundred years ago, and now it has become a large number of small countries, and it is long gone, how can you ask about it?"
"Ahh Ahem... I'm just asking, hearsay, haha... Haha!"
Zhang Bai hurriedly changed the topic again, "I heard that Prime Minister Zhuge is organizing people to produce Shu brocade, and specially sent people to sell it through the poisonous channel, but is there such a thing?"
"Huh, how do you know?" Zheng Xuan was startled and shouted out without holding back, and Chen Cao hurriedly stopped him.
Chen Cao was also extremely surprised in his heart, this matter was still a secret in Shu Kingdom. Liu Bei, the monarch of Shu State, was newly mourned, and the country was empty at this time, and Wei and Wu could not be allowed to touch the old bottom and take the opportunity to attack. Unexpectedly, thousands of miles away, he was broken by a child.
The reason why Zhang Bai knew this secret was because he had read online articles in his previous life. I know that Zhuge Liang once said: "Today, the people are poor and the country is empty, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to rely on Jin'er." This sentence is not that he knows any news, so he blurted it out without thinking. Looking at the faces of the two of them now, they knew that something was wrong.
"I also heard from the vendors along the road, I probably heard it wrong, right? Haha!" Zhang Bai casually argued, and the three of them twitched the corners of their mouths and smiled awkwardly, and the atmosphere was awkward.
Zhang Bai's eyes and bones rolled, and he thought to himself what kind of thing is this? So he said: "The two brothers have come from thousands of miles away, and I don't know if they have found a place to live? If you don't dislike it, there is a house in my city where you can rest for the night." Wouldn't it be nice for me to prepare some wine and dinner, and let's talk about our hometown!"
Chen Cao and Zheng Xuan glanced at each other again, nodded to each other, and Chen Cao arched his hand and said: "This is very good, I am not familiar with the situation here, and I am about to ask Gongzi for advice on how to sell Shu brocade, so I am welcome, haha!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome! I've been away from my hometown for a long time, and I just want to inquire about the personnel of the Central Plains, and the two of you came just in time. Zhang Bai really wanted to know more about the situation in the Central Plains, so he was very happy. Immediately ordered someone to prepare the carriage, and Chen Cao Zheng Sui called his companions, led the horse and mule and prepared to leave.
Taking advantage of the fact that the two of them were not paying attention, Zhang Bai secretly said a few words to Mu Jing, Mu Jing nodded and immediately became invisible.
Zhang Bai asked Mu Jing to rush to the head, reported to Qingchi in the house, asked him to prepare meals for seven or eight people, and specially ordered to prepare more wine and food.
That night, Chen Cao and Zheng Sui and his entourage were in Zhang Bai's house, chatting, eating and drinking.
They left home for several months, wandering all the way, and finally met a Han man, who had wine and meat, so they naturally relaxed greatly, and even Chen Cao, a shrewd person, drank high. Zhang Bai pretended to be drunk after only one drink, causing everyone to laugh.
By the time the moon rose in the middle of the sky, the group had fallen asleep drunk. Zhang Bai and Mu Jing came to the room where they were sleeping and did not enter the door. The two of them blocked the front and back doors of the house one after the other, and began to perform the Moon Realm technique.
Chen Cao didn't actually fall asleep tonight, and he felt his eyelids jump and his heart was uneasy since the beginning of the afternoon. He always felt that this Zhang Bai and Zhang Enpei, although he looked like a child, was a little indescribably weird. It seems to know everything in the big things, and it seems to understand nothing in the small things that are well known. I don't think I've ever encountered this feeling anywhere, but I can't remember it. But when I think about it, I feel terrified.
He couldn't sleep, and during today's banquet, he was also vigilant and didn't drink high. When he saw Zhang Bai wake up from drunkenness and go out with his head shaking, he sat up and saw that his companion was only drunk and fine, and his heart was a little relieved. Soon after, the remaining drunken companions also fell drunk, and a servant cleaned up the dishes and cups for them, and helped them to sleep one by one.
Chen Cao felt that the moon was particularly bright tonight.
And it was so big, he didn't know why? He didn't sleep by the window, but he could see it.
The huge moon, which used to be the size of a gong, is now as big as a house. There seems to be a face in the moon, somewhat familiar, but not real.
He rubbed his eyes to make himself see. What else was in the man's hand in the moon? I gradually saw clearly, it was a goose feather fan. This shows that the face is... Prime Minister Zhuge !
Suddenly remembering something, he felt that this face was a bit like Zhang Bai. The person in the middle of the moon opened his mouth and seemed to be saying something to himself, but he couldn't hear it at all. He asked urgently, but found that he could not speak.
The prime minister seemed to be angry, talking something, as if he was reprimanding him.
He wanted to confess that he had not failed his mission, and now that he had traveled thousands of miles to the Otsuki Clan, if it went well, he would be able to leave and return in a few days, but he couldn't make a sound. He was so uncomfortable that he couldn't breathe, so he had to breathe desperately, and Prime Minister Zhuge on the other side was still saying something to him.
Suddenly, a fresh breeze blew.
Chen Cao felt that his breathing was suddenly smooth. He was about to speak, when suddenly Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's words sounded like thunder.
"On this trip, you must find out the situation of the poison path, if you can contact the Great Moon Clan, try your best to borrow troops from it, and launch an attack behind Yonghong and Meng Huo. Chen Zheng two generals, the safety of Shu depends on you and others......"