21. Discernment (3)

"I know you've been waiting for a long time, I'm sorry!" Xiao Hu smiled with relief, fortunately Wang Youling was still there, "It's okay at all, don't delay wrong." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info come, come, sit down and talk. ”

Wang Youling didn't know what he meant by this? Silently followed him to a pedestal set under the cupboard and made two bowls of tea. Xiao Hu was a little distracted, watching the passers-by, and clutching the handkerchief bag tightly in his hand.

"Xiaohu!" Wang Youling couldn't help but ask: "You said you had something to ask me, tell me quickly!" ”

"Open it and see it, and don't let anyone see it." He said in a low voice and handed the handkerchief bag to Wang Youling. He avoided pedestrians and quietly opened his gaze, and inside was a stack of silver tickets, and some broken silver, about a dozen taels.

"What's going on?"

"This is what you are doing as an official."

Wang Youling was stunned, his heart was sour, his eyes were hot, he tried his best to hold back his tears, and put the handkerchief on the table, but he didn't know how to say it.

"You'd better count a little. Among them, there is a ticket of 300 taels, which is the ticket of 'Da Deheng' in the capital, and you have to be careful of losing it. In addition, I changed some fragmentary tickets for you, all of which are famous 'trade names', and there is no obstacle along the way. Xiaohu said again: "If it weren't for the exchange of tickets, I would have come a long time ago." ”

Here Wang Youling came up with a sentence: "Xiaohu, why do you treat me so well?" ”

"Friends!" Xiao Hu replied, "I think you are like a tiger falling into Pingyang, the end of a hero, I can't say how sad I feel in my heart, I must pull you to sleep." ”

"Alas!" Wang Youling couldn't help it after all, two lines of tears, implicated.

"Why bother, why bother? This is not a big man! ”

This sentence is a very good comfort, but also a good encouragement, Wang Youling cleaned up his tears, fixed his mind, and then remembered one thing, so far, he has received great favors, but it is his name and life experience. Isn't it ridiculous to know nothing?

So he asked with a slight embarrassment: "Xiaohu, haven't you asked Taifu yet?" ”

"My name is Hu Guangyong, and my name is Xueyan. What about you, what's your tuba called? ”

"My name is Xue Xuan."

"Xue Xuan, Xue Yan!" Hu Xueyan read it twice, stroked his palm and smiled: "Great, the voice is very close." It's like a person. You call me Xueyan, and I call you Xuexuan. ”

"Yes, yes! Xue Yan, I still have to ask you, Fushang"

This is to ask about his family background, Hu Xueyan smiled and refused to say more: "It's a little bit of a small production, and there is nothing to talk about." Xue Xuan, let me ask you, when will you leave? ”

"I don't dare to delay. Arrange the room slightly, and always leave within three or five days. If all goes well. You can come back at the end of the year. Xueyan, I must walk and distribute to Zhejiang, you and my brothers are together. ”

"Excellent." Hu Xueyan's "great" has become a mantra, "We will still meet here the day after tomorrow, and I will give you a meal." ”

"I'll come."

On the third day, just after lunch, Wang Youling came to the appointment. He wore a straight robe and a gauze gown that he bought from the clothing shop. Holding a famous "Hangzhou fan" of "Shulian Ji" in his hand, brewing tea, etc., he waited until it was dark and saw no trace of Hu Xueyan, and there was nowhere to find it. I had to wait.

The weather is hot, and there is an endless stream of people coming up to taste tea and enjoy the cool on Chenghuang Mountain. Wang Youling greeted every pedestrian, and his neck was sore, but he couldn't look forward to Hu Xueyan.

In the middle of the night, the tea shop closes the stalls. Only then did Wang Youling get rid of him. He had already hired a boat, and he couldn't be sure, and he got on the boat at five o'clock the next day, but he couldn't meet Hu Xueyan to say goodbye.

He Chun and Rong Lu sat down as the guest of honor, the new Jiangning general with a yellow flag is also considered to be born in Rongma, from Guangxi began to follow the late Jiangsu Governor, Qin Messenger Minister Xiang Rong all the way to Jiangning City, and helped Xiang Rong to establish the Jiangnan camp, the last time the Taiping army broke through the Jiangnan camp, he was stationed in Jintan and Qin Rigang confronted, but there was less punishment for the camp to be destroyed, but after Xiang Rong's death, he took over as the Jiangnan commander of the Jiangnan military affairs, and Chun Yuan was succeeded by the fierce general Zhang Guoliang, At present, these two people are the two main generals in the Jiangnan battalion, and the newly arrived Liangjiang Governor He Guiqing is still raising grain and grass in Suzhou Mansion and has not yet reached the front line.

The people outside are in full swing to build a deep trench to besiege Tianjing City, and the two people in the handsome tent are also talking enthusiastically, although Hechun is a military general, but after all, he is also a banner person, and the two have not met in Beijing, but speaking of which, Rong Lu has a cousin who has not come out of five suits is the third chief granddaughter-in-law of the Hechun clan, and when it comes to relatives, they are more enthusiastic with each other, Rong Lu is originally a long-sleeved and good dancing character of an eight-sided visitor, and Chun does not put up a shelf as his own minister, the two of them have full etiquette, and they talked in the tent.

The two drank tea, and He Chun glanced at the heroic and handsome man in front of him, thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "The chief soldier has now arrived at the Jiangnan camp, but it is really a big savior, and he will not hide it from the chief soldier, the Jiangnan camp is really dangerous now." He Chun shook his head and shook his head in surprise, "The camp in Jiangbei has been broken, this rebellion is entrenched in Jiangning, there is no army in the north to resist, and the area from Zhenjiang to Pukou has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the rebellious grain road is worry-free!" This is why the emperor ordered the Jiangnan camp to be defended, but Zhang Guoliang still sent troops to harass the Yanziji and Shibu Bridge areas.

"Originally, one south and one north, echoing each other, supporting the situation in Jiangsu, the old year was a good weather, the rebellious grain road was in danger, and there was often famine in Jiangning City, and now this Jiangbei camp has been broken for the second time, and the Jiangnan camp of this official is originally close to Jiangning City, and now it is even more important!"

"Xiaguan came all the way, looking at the rebellion is quite sluggish in the morale of the army, this Xiaguan is also playing a child's temper, shelling Jiangning City, the rebellion in this city is in chaos, but no one goes out of the city to meet the enemy for a while," Rong Lu bowed and said, "It can be seen that the rebellion and cannibalism in the old years are indeed extremely damaging." ”

"Exactly," He Chun also frowned when he said this, looking at no one in the tent, he approached Rong Lu and muttered, "Brother, brother and tell you, then Yang Xiuqing's younger brother fled from the elder brother, what do you guess he brought here?" ”

"Oh? What is it about the baby that makes adults look so good? Rong Lu was also a little curious.

"You definitely don't believe it, it's our emperor's letter of rebellion!" He Chun quietly told this secret that poured into the sky, Rong Lu was really shocked, and listened quietly to He Chun continue to show off, "I carefully read the content of the national book, it is really incredible, it actually said that it is a country of brothers and a country of brothers, and the north and the south are divided!" He Chun thought that at that time, when he saw this tricky fire coal, which was life-threatening, he almost wanted to kill Yang Xiuqing's younger brother on the spot and kill people. I still remember the sweaty feeling of that time and the spring now. (To be continued.) )

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