A month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the brick walls on both sides of the Taiping City wall have been built to a height of more than a zhang.

Zhang Chu's hair has also grown from a little stubble to a black and hard inch!

On this day, Zhang Chu was still busy working under the brick wall, when he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves.

He casually threw the six bluestone strips he was carrying on his shoulders to the ground, and turned to look at the entrance to the mountain in confusion.

After a short time, I saw two brothers in the gang who had entered the mountain pass, leading a group of men and horses through the bridge of the dog's nose and marching up the mountain.

The man at the head was wearing a hat and a mask, and he couldn't see his face.

However, his long gray hair floating in the wind made Zhang Chu recognize the person at a glance.

He clapped his hands and greeted him with a laugh: "Hahaha, boss, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

When the visitor heard Zhang Chu's laughter, he took off his hat and scarf, revealing a simple face like an old farmer.

It's not Wu Qianyuan, who is it!

He turned over and dismounted, strode towards Zhang Chu with a smile, and shouted from afar: "Second child, long time no see!"

The two hugged warmly and patted each other on the back.

After the hug, the two looked at each other, and they both felt like they were separated from each other.

In the past, the two got acquainted in Buyefang.

A BMW brocade robe, humble as jade.

A majestic and domineering side leak.

After a few years, we will meet again.

A Ge Yi Hua hair, shaped like an old peasant.

A mud-stained coat is like a coolie.

is obviously still in the prime of life, but the eyebrows are full of vicissitudes that do not match the grade.

"Let's go, I've already prepared wine for you to come!"

Zhang Chu turned around and made a "please" gesture to Wu Qianyuan.

Wu Qianyuan smiled slightly, "I've quit drinking for a long time. ”

Zhang Chu shook his head regretfully: "The tea here is very inferior." ”

Wu Qianyuan: "For your face, even if you cook me a cup of chaff, I can drink it." ”

Zhang Chu: "Why has no one ever told me that I have such a big face?"

Wu Qianyuan: "Hundred cavalry robbery camp Zhangjun Cao, Xuanyan Erzhou, who doesn't know, who doesn't know?"

......

The edge of the barnyard outside the Gathering Hall.

Zhang Chu and Wu Qianyuan sat opposite each other across a coffee table.

Wu Qianyuan held the tea bowl, looked down at the mountain city below, and asked with great interest, "How did you find this place?"

"Won't you?"

Zhang Chu leaned lazily on the chair and said with a smile: "This was a bandit village before, at the beginning of the year when I arranged for my subordinates to move south, the bandits here were blind and hit my people on the head with the ghost idea, so I asked Li Zheng to lead people to hack all the bandits entrenched here to death, and later learned that Xiliang Prefecture blocked the border of Xuanbei Prefecture, and we couldn't get through, so we could only settle here." ”

Wu Qianyuan nodded: "It's a good place, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the mountain is gentle, and the space is spacious...... It's just that the location is a little remote, and the nearest Wuqu County has to walk all day. ”

Zhang Chu: "Please come over just for this matter." ”

Wu Qianyuan casually put the tea bowl in his hand on the coffee table, and said with a smile: "I know that you definitely didn't invite me to drink, if you need my help, let's just say it, you and I don't have to be polite." ”

Zhang Chu also smiled: "I'm not ready to be polite to you." ”

"Please come here, there are two things. ”

"The first thing, I need food, a lot of food, there are many people on this mountain, you can also see, the fields that have been reclaimed at this stage can't support such people eating horses, I know that you have a wide road, help me get a batch of grain, hold on until the autumn harvest, Yinliang or something, you give me a cushion first, I got the money, and I will send someone to you immediately. ”

"The second thing, I remember that you have a team of mules and horses from the Wu clan, right? Pull a few lines to me, I will take care of food and drink, and I will also be responsible for the safety of their people and goods within a radius of fifty miles, just ask them to regularly send me some necessary daily necessities, such as salt and iron, and of course, they will not have to lose a lot of money for the silver they earn. ”

Wu Qianyuan listened carefully to what he said, and responded without hesitation: "Small problems, leave them to me!"

Zhang Chu listened to his tone and asked with interest: "With such a big breath, how many percent of the industry left by the Wu clan did you take over?"

Wu Qianyuan turned the tea bowl on the table and said lightly: "Except for those that were confiscated by the state government, the rest are in my hands...... There are people in the north who are secretly helping me to master these properties. ”

Zhang Chu frowned.

Someone up north?

Who else can help him accept the inheritance left by the Wu clan, except for the Wu clan who rebelled into the Northern Barbarians?

Wu Qianyuan didn't seem to notice the change in his expression, and sneered to himself: "When I fled back to Jintian Mansion from Yanqi County, I also said that it was their lax vigilance that allowed me to seize the opportunity, but now it seems that they deliberately let me back!"

"What a calculation!"

"Bet on both ends, and the bloodline of the small Wu clan will never be broken!"

Zhang Chu didn't speak, but the frowning brows he had just raised slowly dispersed.

In other words, it was impossible for the humble gentleman Wu Qianyuan to see these ghost calculations clearly.

"What are you going to do?"

Zhang Chu Q&A.

"What else can I do, the big cleansing. ”

Wu Qianyuan said casually: "You can't help them save their family business, so that they can be traitors again, right?"

He said it lightly.

But Zhang Chu clearly smelled a strong smell of blood from his words.

He was silent.

Compared with this Wu Qianyuan, who can say such murderous words in a calm tone, Zhang Chu is actually more willing to see the Wu Qianyuan who helped his mother sift through Xiaomi for a while.

But growth itself is irreversible.

If there is a choice, I will take my wife several months in advance, bring Zhiqiu, Xia Tao, Big Bear, Li Zheng, and Mules, and go far away, and definitely not participate in this war of "if you don't die, you won't die".

After a long time, he spoke softly: "If you need help, speak for yourself." ”

"You said it yourself. ”

Wu Qianyuan suddenly laughed very thiefly, like a fox stealing an old hen, "I have a matter now, I need your help...... Only you can help!"

Zhang Chu glanced at him angrily, "He, you've been waiting for me here?"

Wu Qianyuan shook his head: "For such a thing as killing, you don't need to dirty your hands for the time being." ”

Zhang Chu spread his hands: "But I can only slash people with a knife!"

Wu Qianyuan continued to shake his head: "Don't talk about yourself, your ability is much stronger than you think!"

"At this time, I have secretly gathered a group of displaced people and scattered them around Beiyin County, and neither I nor my people can come forward to settle them, for fear of attracting the attention of the state capital and harming them, and the secret relief will have to be quietly touched. ”

"A while ago, I went to see two gathering points, which homeless people's lives are really not very human, I see that your space here is quite spacious, and I want to move them to you together, and you will settle them. ”

Wu Qianyuan gathered the displaced people.

Zhang Chu understands that Wu Qianyuan's junior high school of reorganizing mountains and rivers is to atone for Wu's sins.

Wu Qianyuan and his men could not come forward to settle the displaced people.

Zhang Chu also understood that the state government's wanted documents for the Wu clan had already been seen when he was in the Jintianfu County Office.

Wu Qianyuan is on the list, with a reward of 5,000 taels of silver, which is several times higher than the reward of the number one Jiangyang thief on the wanted list of Wuding County.

But settle the homeless......

Zhang Chu's brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan" and asked, "How many?"

Wu Qianyuan said with a smile: "It's not much, it's only thirty or forty thousand in total!"

Zhang Chu was so shocked that he almost jumped up from his chair, "Big brother, you're not joking with me, are you? 30,000 or 40,000? Just 20,000 or so people, I don't know how to feed them, except for those who sell their bodies, and 30,000 or 40,000?

"You don't have to worry about food. ”

Wu Qianyuan said domineeringly: "I'll carry it with you, the family business that the Wu family has saved for several generations, tens of thousands of people can't eat enough!"

Zhang Chu believed this.

The title of "Wulian City" was not given for nothing.

But this matter really made him very difficult.

He has never had any great feelings for the country and the people.

He didn't want to nest in this corner of the mountain and be a soil overlord.

He just wants to take his share of responsibility, such as taking these people in Taiping City to struggle to survive in this troubled world.

There are very few people he can give to more than 20,000 people in Taiping City now.

If another 30,000 or 40,000 people come, he will be able to give less to more than 20,000 people.

He didn't want to carry a burden that he shouldn't have to.

But he really didn't know how to refuse Wu Qianyuan's request.

First, it is impossible to refuse Wu Qianyuan.

The two favors he asked Wu Qianyuan to help were not trivial, but Wu Qianyuan didn't hesitate to do it.

The second is that it is impossible to refuse those 30,000 or 40,000 people

They really have nothing to do with Zhang Chu, and Zhang Chu can indeed ignore their life and death.

But after all, that's 30,000 or 40,000 lives, not 30,000 or 40,000 chickens and ducks, or 30,000 or 40,000 pigs!

Beiyin County is not as good as Wuding County.

The reason why AllHeavens was able to gather so many displaced people from the three counties was because a small half of the people who originally lived in AllHeavens had fled south, and many houses were vacated in AllHeavens.

And the people of Beiyin County are still ...... Xiliang Prefecture has blocked the border of Xuanbei Prefecture, how can the people of Beiyin County escape?

There is nowhere to run!

The fact that people have not left means that houses, land, and businesses of all walks of life are owned by their owners.

In this environment, it is difficult for those displaced people who have fled from the four northern counties to survive in Beiyin County.

Wu Qianyuan would not understand that this request was difficult for him.

But Wu Qianyuan still mentioned it, which means that he really has no choice.

It also means that those homeless people are really about to die.

Zhang Chu struggled for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly, and said weakly: "Okay, move over!"

He never wanted to be a big hero, but when he didn't come forward to take the lead, there might be a lot of people who would die, and when it was in front of him, he still couldn't harden his heart and refuse.

Wu Qianyuan heard him agree, and was so excited that he exclaimed: "I know that you are a good person. ”

Drop, good guy card!

Zhang Chuzhen wanted to pay tribute to him by saying, "You are a good person, your whole family is a good person."

But considering the bad things that Wu Shi did to anger and resent, he still swallowed this complaint into his stomach.

Wu Shi does not deserve the word 'good guy'.

Even if it is a "good person" who scolds people, Wu Shi is not worthy of it.

"Sure enough, it's a business, it's a good hand to kill familiar, I treat you as a good friend, and you actually take it as a big wrong?"

Zhang Chu complained depressedly.

"Hahaha!"

Wu Qianyuan laughed and said: "I definitely didn't mean this, I can't pit anyone to pit you!"

Zhang Chu sighed angrily: "You go away, next time you come back, I will definitely cook a bowl of bran water for you to drink!"

"It's okay!"

Wu Qianyuan said magnificently: "You have helped me so much, don't say give me chaff water, even give me boiling water, I don't have a word!"

"Think beautifully!"

Zhang Chu sneered: "I burned you, you are a hundred, I still have to go to cattle and horses to earn money to feed those thirty or forty thousand people!"

"Hahaha. ”

Wu Qianyuan was overjoyed, "Your abacus is no worse than those big shopkeepers under me!"

He had almost forgotten how long it had been since he had been so carefree and happy.

Only when he came to Zhang Chu could he temporarily let go of all the burdens of the outside world.

Seeing that he was happy too early, Zhang Chu couldn't help but pat the coffee table, raised his voice and said, "Don't laugh yet, listen to me!"

Wu Qianyuan looked at him with a serious expression of "I'm talking about business", and held back a smile: "Okay, good, you say it!"

Zhang Chu: "For your sake, these 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, I will reluctantly take it over, but you can't go back and send me tens of thousands of people to come over, our brothers are mud bodhisattvas who cross the river and it is difficult to protect themselves, so don't go around and do it, you have to get me tens of thousands of people to come over, don't blame me for picking directly!"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, I see!"

Wu Qianyuan nodded nonsense.

But as soon as Zhang Chu looked at his face, he knew that he definitely didn't listen.

It seems that Wu Qianyuan is also determined, and it is impossible for Zhang Chu to pick a son with him.

Friends are too familiar with each other, and it is really difficult to deceive each other.

Zhang Chu didn't bother to talk to him anymore, got up and said: "Okay, let's not talk about business, come home with me, I'll let Zhiqiu cook it himself and cook something delicious for you, it just so happened that I sent a muntjac to my family yesterday from the mule, it tastes really good." ”

"That's a good idea!"

Wu Qianyuan nodded with a smile and said, "I haven't had a good meal in a few days." ”

These words made Zhang Chu's heart inexplicably sour.

Thinking about what kind of scenery the Wu family was at the beginning, how could you ever have thought that one day, they would end up like a lost dog?

Life, it's really a trick......

"Or, I'll get you a house next to my house in the back, and you can come and stay for a while if you have time." ”

"Forget it, the state government has been biting me tightly, this time in order to come to see you, I spent a little half a month to arrange the obstacles, but at most I can confuse them for three or five days, within three or five days, if I don't show up elsewhere, they will definitely track it down here, next time you want to ask me for help with something, just hand me the news directly, I will reply to you if I can help or not." ”

"Then we'll talk about it later. ”

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