At this time, the strength and ambition of the Chu State were no longer second-rate, and from time to time it had to attack the surrounding countries, including the big powers, or be manipulated by other countries.

Moreover, because there are many mountains in Baguo, which is not conducive to the operation of large corps, and its military strength does not belong to the same level as some small countries, the Chu people finally understood that it is very difficult to swallow the three major salt springs of Baguo in one bite, and the Ba people are more willing to fight a protracted war, so the Bachu war turned into a stalemate, and the fighting was stopped.

In the midst of the cessation of the Bachu war and the entanglement of Bashu, the brothers and sisters of the Menglong brothers and sisters also began to change quietly. Yu Menglong began to feel that the war might not be as terrible as people said, on the contrary, he hoped to grow up as soon as possible and return with honor like the kite and the Qing.

During this period, Menglong worshiped the kite the most.

Gu Mengyu began to know her privileges in the Hu'an Palace, such as supporting envoys and even insulting maids, and tried repeatedly, and at the same time developed friendships with the noble girls on Hu'an Mountain, the girls in the old village of the Hu family, and the maids who were often together.

To the maids, she was a tolerable and hateful little ancestor, or sometimes cute, sometimes hateful.

Time passed day by day, and before I knew it, it was the autumn of the third year after the battle of Zifang.

The veteran Jian Jian is forty-nine years old, and according to local customs, he will live fifty years. As a warrior of the Pakistani country who licked blood on the tip of the sword, it was obviously not enough to live to this age, but also to rely on superior skills, of course, they believed that it was the blessing of gods and ghosts. People from all walks of life went to the old village of the Gu family to celebrate their birthday.

After the birthday ceremony, Uncle Yu, Jian Jian, Zhen Rui, Zheng Zheng, Yu Chang and others chatted in Lao Zhai.

This Yu Chang is the descendant of Yu Ying and the son of Yu Yong, and the words are bright. In the 22nd year of King Hui of Zhou (655 B.C.), the Jin State borrowed the road from the Yu State to destroy the Yu State, and the Duke of the Kingdom of Yu fled.

The Yu family has read and heirlooms, and there has been a sage for the cultural and historical officials of Hu'an Palace in all dynasties, writing documents and collecting historical materials for the Zheng 28 classics of the Yu family.

Seeing that the Yu people have been eating empty meals in the Hu'an Palace for generations, the local Ba people can't figure out who they are going to show if they don't know Chinese characters?

But they didn't know that their ancestors were vassals and elegant, showing differences from other nobles in Pakistan everywhere, and they wanted to be like the princes and waiting historians of the Central Plains, hoping that their achievements would forever go down in history.

The only effect of Wuzi's whimsical ideas back then was to keep the Yu family from disappearing in Hu'an Mountain.

According to the idea of the previous generation of Hu Anbo, the Yu family, who is good at writing history books, should be extinct in Hu'an Mountain, but fortunately, the residual power of Wu Zi is too strong, and he farts to the point that future generations still stink.

The Hu'an Shanyu clan was persecuted during the period of the Hu'an Shanyu clan, and most of them moved back to their hometown or other places, and later moved several times, so the Hu'an Shanyu clan only had a small number of individual households.

The Yu family passed to Yu Chang, Hu'an Palace is still used as a civil official, Yu Chang was forty years old at the time, and his father Yu Yong had died of illness at this time.

It is inevitable to talk about the world's major events.

At that time, there was no independent intelligence agency, but there were also primitive ways of intelligence collection and transmission, officials, columnists, military workers, diners, merchants, and even prostitutes could all act as intelligence officers, it is said that Yi Yin was active in the Xia Dynasty, one of which was to collect information such as terrain for Shang Tang to destroy Xia, creating a precedent of "Shang Zhi as a room"; manpower, animals, beacons, etc. can all transmit information, and Yin Fu and Yin Shu are common top secret documents.

The slowness of the sources of information and the serious lack of information have led to hearsay in the discussion of the Uncles.

Yu Chang said: "The royal family has moved eastward, and the general trend of the world is even more confusing. Let's just say that recently, the only remaining office land in the Jin Kingdom has also been divided between the Han, Wei, and Zhao families, and the overlord of the year has no skin left. If Jin Wengong is here, I don't know how to feel. ”

Jian Jian said: "Exactly, how dare Zheng Guozhuang Gong did back then, and he was also destroyed by South Korea this year. ”

Yu Chang said again: "This year, the Zhongshan Kingdom finally recovered the country, and the Zhao State attacked it again, fighting in the land of Chinese people and houses. It seems that these two years have been eventful. ”

Uncle Yu sighed: "Now is an eventful world. ”

"The most regrettable thing is that this year, Wei and Chu are at war, Wei attacked the Yuguan of Chu, and some ministers advocated taking the opportunity to use troops to Chu to recover the salt water, but unfortunately the monarch refused to send troops on the grounds that the side was defeated, the vitality was greatly injured, and then the troops were added to avoid Tai Sui. ”

Qi Rui has always had few words, and said unhappily: "If you want to find an excuse, you should also find someone who can be convincing." Compared with the two masters of Chu and Ba, one is like the morning sun and the other is like the twilight sun, so why sigh more.

"Watching the sky at night, there will be big things happening in Danfushui. I also heard that some people said that they saw a wild beast in Huoba Mountain, with a body like a rabbit, a beak like a bird, and a tail like a snake, and pretended to be dead when he saw someone. I don't know if this beast is called an armadillo monster, or if it has a plague of insects. Providence is like this, what can people do, they can only do their best. ”

Several of them are confidants of Uncle Yu, so the cautious master can't help but complain.

Fast forward to the second year.

As expected, the Danfu River basin was first flooded, followed by insect plagues, followed by natural stems, and affected the Dajiang area. The major tribes of Hu'an Mountain were the hardest hit, and some of the sub-tribes had no harvest, and many slaves escaped and were recaptured.

Several sacrifices, a lot of fame, the disaster has not been significantly reduced, Hu'an Palace and the sub-tribes still have to use treasures to exchange food.

If there is a catastrophe, otherwise you must first report to Jiangzhou.

The level of productivity in Pakistan is low, day after day, month after month, year after year, can only make ends meet, there are few reserves, the ability to resist disasters is extremely weak, and all tribes have been affected by disasters to varying degrees, all of them are in but not out, so in addition to the help of the Hou Hou Fu quickly transported into Danfushui, a large number of relief grain, transfer grain can not be in place.

Far water does not quench the thirst of the near, the master of the mountain will be the sword to find out that Yu Hou, the richest man in Dan Fushui, used salt, Dan, and heavy money to buy a lot of food from Chu State, Yelang and other places, so he offered a plan, through the relationship of the sixth prince Ba Ping'an stationed in the Shicheng military camp, in the name of the king of Ba Guo, first borrowed more than 1,000 stone grain from Yu Hou, and returned it within a time limit, so as to barely get through the difficulties.

Hu'an Shan and Yu Shui Ba have had a son since the period of Hu Wuzi, and because of the accumulation of various interest problems, this time borrowed grain from Yu Hou, saying that when the relief of Jiangzhou and the grain raised from other places arrived, they would return it immediately, but the grain in small batches was always in and out, and the return period was nearly two months.

Paying back the debt, it is justified, there is food to be sent, there is no food to be sent, Hu'an Palace has to go to someone to give Yuhou an explanation, everyone understands that this is an errand that will never be pleased.

The civil official Yu Chang saw that everyone was extremely reluctant to go to Yushui, so he said: "I have some friendship with Yuhou, and I am willing to go to Yushui." ”

Said solemnly: "Yu Zi is the best choice. ”

Yu Chang took a few retinues and went to Yushui to ask to see Yuhou Bapeng.

The guest and the host sat down, and before Yu Chang could speak to get down to business, Yu Hou sneered: "Hu'an Palace sent you, did you say that there is no food to return?"

"Yu Hou Shen calculated, just for this matter. ”

This is a matter of self-explanatory knowledge, and does not require divine calculations. If you don't come in person, I will send you here, which can be described as a proper use of people. Whoever comes, I will reproach him severely!"

Yu Changping said calmly: "Yu Hou's words are just embarrassing the old age. ”

Yu Hou smiled: "No, I really respect you." ”

Yu Chang Shili: "I don't dare to be loved by Yuhou." ”

"That's it, you go back and tell Yu Yu and Zheng Zheng that I am not willing to borrow food, but the face of the king and the sixth prince is too big, otherwise, I would rather feed the birds than borrow each other. If you want to thank them, thank them!"

Yu Chang said: "That's natural." However, the good things that Yuhou did to save his life were remembered by everyone in Hu'anshan. I really don't dare to hide it, I came this time to ask Yuhou to relax the deadline for another two months. ”

Yu Hou sneered and said: "The food has already eaten in your stomachs, and it is impossible to spit it out, and I don't promise it, and I don't promise it." Well, that's the end of the food business. ”

Yu Chang accompanied his father Yu Yong to Yushui several times to inspect the historical sites of the Ba people such as the old salt spring and the old Dan mine, and Yu Hou was an old friend, Yu Hou let people send meat dishes such as sheep liver, pig shoulders, chicken belly, etc., as well as a few kinds of vegetarian dishes; and someone sent an urn of reed wine, also known as "smacking wine", which is the special wine of Yuhou Mansion.

The two chatted over a drink.

After chatting about inconsequential matters for a long time, Yu Hou said: "Yuzi, I heard that your father Yuyong was kidnapped, do you know who did it?"

Yu Chang thought to himself, he rambled around, and finally began to talk about the key thing, and said with a smile: "This matter is related to the return of grain?"

"No, when I saw Yuzi, I remembered this for a while. ”

"That was fifteen or sixteen years ago. In the summer of that year, my father returned to his hometown from Wuluo Zhongli Mountain, passing through the winds and forests of Hu'an Mountain, and was robbed by robbers. When asked what had happened, he said he had lost his way in the woods. ”

Yu Hou smiled: "Do you believe that your father is telling the truth?"

Yu Chang also smiled: "I believe everything my father said. If you don't believe it, you can ask your father. ”

Yu Hou smiled and said, "Master Yu Yong has been to Yushui several times to explore the ruins of the Yan tribe, and it is possible that he found the whereabouts of Zhen Bao, so he was hijacked.

"Moreover, I guess his captors are none other than the remnants of the Salt Tribe. The reason why he escaped unharmed must have been that he did not tell the whereabouts of the treasure, but also agreed to the request to keep the robbers secrets forever, including the whereabouts of the treasure and the hiding place of the salt tribe. ”

Yu Chang secretly thought, he guessed almost right, and said: "Yu Hou is rich and can rival the country, and he is also worried about that treasure?"

"It's an open secret. That treasure wasn't priceless in itself, but it was the key to a great treasure. Now that there are many wars, it is becoming more and more difficult for the country to support, and if we can find those priceless treasures and present them to the king, it is a great good thing, and perhaps our country can fight for many more years. ”

"Do you have to fight for many years?"

"It's not up to you and me to do it. ”

"I heard the legend that the Pu people and the salt tribe were beaten by your white tiger people and hid a large number of priceless treasures, as for where to hide, you must first find a treasure, that is, the legendary treasure. However, the father never mentioned the treasure, so he had nothing to say. ”

Yu Hou laughed and said, "Don't be careful, I'm just asking by the way and talking about the current snacks." ”

In the face of sumptuous wine and food, Yu Chang only picked vegetarian dishes to drink, and Yu Hou said: "Yu Zi doesn't eat meat?"

Yu Chang stopped and replied: "At this time, the people of Hu'an Mountain, not to mention meat, even coarse grains and wild vegetables can't eat half full, how can I eat meat?"

Yu Hou got up and sighed: "True gentleman!"

After a while, Yu Hou said again: "A gentleman like Yuzi, I really want to stay in Yushui, and I often ask for advice." ”

Yu Chang only cared about eating and drinking, and did not answer, and Yu Hou smiled in a self-deprecating tone: "I know that Yu Zi will not agree." But it must be said that the friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, and I am not for the sake of Zangbao!"

Yu Chang looked up at Yu Hou and smiled lightly.

Yu Chang did not disgrace his mission, returned to Hu'an Mountain, reported the situation, and Yu Bo gave a reward, but Yu Chang did not receive it.

Uncle said: "You can't go unrewarded." So if you sin, you will die, and you will not be killed. ”

Yu Chang smiled: "I have no intention of committing a capital crime, and I don't need to be exempted from death." If Yi Jun's grace allows me, I can go around freely and freely study the historical sites of the Danfu Shuiba people, and I am enough. ”

Bow smiled.