Morning glimmer.

Zhang Chu sat alone on the top of Goutou Mountain, overlooking Taiping Town on the mountainside, drinking wine one by one.

Taiping Town in the early morning, quiet and peaceful.

A few hard-working peasants, carrying hoes, swayed out of the door, and said good morning to each other from a distance in the streets and alleys with neighbors who also got up early.

The morning breeze sent their voices with laughter and satisfaction to the top of the mountain and into Zhang Chu's ears.

He listened intently, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Is Taiping Town happy now?

No, it's actually very bitter.

The food problem in Taiping Town has not yet been resolved.

Although he has been vigorously promoting the cultivation of cultivated land and self-sufficiency, at this stage, the food consumption of Taiping Town and the surrounding four satellite towns is still completely dependent on the supply of caravans from Wuqianyuan.

Even the food money has always been owed to Wu Qianyuan.

Wu Qianyuan didn't mention the money.

Zhang Chu really can't afford to pay this money.

In such a difficult environment, he can only guarantee that the people in the town can have two thin meals a day, and no one will die of hunger.

They can still laugh.

It's just because they feel that there is hope for the future.

Zhang Chu restarted the rudder system, just for their hope.

He wants to use the power of the entire Beiyin County to support these seventy or eighty thousand people!

He had controlled the gang business in Wuding County, and he knew how lucrative those businesses were.

Instead of letting these money feed those Jianghu children too well and let them make things happen everywhere day by day, it is better to provide for these honest people for him.

Although the people of the town will not know what price he has paid to satisfy their little hope......

The sound of horses' hooves breaking the silence.

A group of knights in Xuanjia, numbering about 100 people, led the horses and slowly walked out of the town.

The leader, naturally, is the mule.

Zhang Chu looked at him.

Watch him walk down the long street.

Watch him walk through the town gates.

Look at him without looking back, all the way forward.

Zhang Chu knew that the mule had resentment in his heart.

What a smart person a mule is.

He didn't know that if the Taiping Society wanted to control the rivers and lakes of Beiyin County, the Zhenbei Army would not be able to bypass it no matter what?

But the mule still asked that question.

Zhang Chu knew that the mule hoped that he, a scheming and omnipotent big brother, could come up with a way to bypass the Zhenbei army.

Unfortunately, he let the mule down......

Because he is not omnipotent.

At least, he couldn't think of any way to deal with the problem of the Zhenbei Army.

Zhang Chu lifted the wine jar and poured a sip.

If it was possible, why didn't he want to bypass the Zhenbei Army?

But if you can't get around, you just can't get around!

Xuanbei Prefecture is the Xuanbei Prefecture of the Zhenbei Army.

A word from the Zhenbei Army can make the Taiping Society flourish.

A word from the Zhenbei Army can also make the Taiping Society go up in smoke.

The Taiping Society could rise without relying on the Zhenbei Army.

But it can't be that the Zhenbei Army doesn't exist!

That's not to give Huo Hongye face.

If you dare not give Huo Hongye face, then even if Huo Hongye himself does not have any ill will towards the Taiping Society, he will be forced to suppress the Taiping Society!

The face of the superior is often more important than the inside.

Because the face of the superior itself represents the lives and interests of many people.

This is a proposition that cannot be bypassed in any other way.

Even if there are some clever ways to bring this problem over for a short time, there is a huge risk.

The Zhenbei Army is too strong and too strong, and the Taiping Society can't afford to take the slightest risk.

Maybe when you are born, you think that the rights and wrongs in this world are absolute.

When he learned to compromise, he began to grow up......

Zhang Chu lifted the wine jar again and poured a big sip of wine.

......

Zhiqiu, who was dressed in a pale yellow Luo skirt, carried a food box up the stairs and went up the mountain, and when she saw her man's disheveled hair and stubble, she was distressed beyond words.

Outsiders only see how majestic and domineering he is, how he is in a high position, how he wants the wind to be windy, and how to get the rain.

Only she knew how many nights he tossed and turned to the light of day, and how many nights he sat up in midnight.

The men of other people's families, at his age, are still wandering the streets and alleys idly, relying on their father's shadow to live.

And he has already picked up the honor and disgrace of 70,000 or 80,000 people on his shoulders.

The things he worries about every day, just thinking about it, she feels like a big head.

"It's windy up the mountain, how did you come up. ”

When Zhang Chu saw her, he showed a smile and got up to greet her.

Seeing his smiling face, Zhiqiu's heart hurt even more.

Sometimes she really wishes that he would be like those unsuccessful men, when something unpleasant and unpleasant happens, he can go home and yell at them, even if he slaps them twice?

It's better than seeing them all smiles no matter what difficulties you encounter, right?

She panicked for him.

"When the concubine got up and saw that you were not in the mansion, she knew that you must be here......"

Zhiqiu opened the food box, took out a bowl of steaming lean porridge and presented it to Zhang Chu with both hands, "You have drunk all night, eat some porridge, warm up your stomach." ”

"Hmm. ”

Zhang Chu took the gruel and scooped it into his mouth with a spoon.

Zhiqiu followed his gaze, looked at the group of centaurs in the distance, and asked, "That's the mules, right?"

"Well, yes. “

"Why didn't he come to say goodbye to you?"

"Something, he didn't feel very happy. ”

"Well, don't take it to heart, one world and two brothers, he will understand you. ”

"Well, I didn't take it to heart...... Zhiqiu. “

"Huh?"

"Let's have another child. ”

When Zhiqiu heard the word "again", he was suddenly stunned.

It wasn't until this moment that she knew that he had been thinking about that child in his heart.

Her nose was sore, and tears welled up in her eyes.

There were many things that I couldn't see clearly at the time.

It won't be until a long, long time after that.

Just like now, she recalled that at that time, when that kind of thing happened, her mother was gone, the child was gone, and she was messing with him with tears all day long, and he had to do a funeral for his mother while comforting himself, while dealing with a lot of troublesome things in the gang and the county office...... And how many people know how sad he is in his heart?

Da Xiong and Li Zheng should know.

But Da Xiong and Li Zheng are also gone.

How did this man survive?

Zhang Chu didn't hear her reply, and as soon as he looked up, he saw her tearful appearance, and suddenly scolded himself in his heart, "Which pot is not opened, which pot is not opened".

He hurriedly stood up, hugged Zhiqiu gently, and said continuously: "Okay, okay, it's me who is wrong, I shouldn't mention this matter, you can't get over it in your heart, let's wait for two years, don't cry or cry." ”

Zhiqiu hugged him tightly, wanting to cry, but he didn't dare to cry.

Just hugged him like this.

Hold him tightly.

It's like holding her all over the world.

Zhang Chu also hugged her thin body hard, and the troubled thoughts in her heart slowly calmed down.

It's just a little wronged, as long as their lives can get a little better, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter at all.