These days are not suitable for traveling.

During the rainy season in Gangnam Province, the air is humid and muggy, rainy and cloudy.

It's like a wet towel twisted to the extreme, but still sweating, draped over your back.

However, there is the seal of Khufu, the personal envoy of the Son of Heaven, and the sage's handwritten edict that he carries closely,

Cai Qin and other soldiers returning to the north were unimpeded along the way, and they got the bonus of ships and other means of transportation, so they could hurry up in rainy days.

Although as they get closer and closer to Hongzhou and Jiangzhou, they still have to face checkpoints guarded by strict soldiers.

After the night when Cai Qin asked a strange question.

Khufu, who was restless, began to quit drinking.

is no longer an attempt to use this thing to get close to the soldiers and generals, and brush up on goodwill.

He began to stay awake day and night.

It was also on the afternoon of the third day after seeing the figure of the strange young man in the felt hat in the middle of the night, Khufu met Captain Du in Cai Qin's mouth.

This is a plain-looking, sturdy young man with sun-tanned skin, and he is indeed the appearance of a military attache in the border army.

Wearing a felt hat, quite low-key.

At the moment, they are already sensitive, and Cai Qin and other soldiers returning to the north are the objects of attention from all parties, and Khufu is naturally curious about this so-called Captain Du who returned halfway.

It's just that Captain Du is a bit like the Captain Su in Jiangzhou Zhichong Mansion, Mu Ne is dull, and Khufu didn't find much opportunity to talk.

It seems that he found that Khufu began to drink without drinking, and Cai Qin and other generals stopped calling him when they drank at night.

Khufu didn't feel anything at first, but gradually found that Cai Qin and the others discussed things and stopped calling him.

Although he was still respectful and respectful, he was no longer consulted on the location and length of stay on the way back to the north, but made his own decisions, and just sent someone to report afterwards.

Khufu was naturally dissatisfied and negotiated several times, but he was prevaricated on the grounds that military affairs needed professional generals and envoys to rest at ease.

When it comes to the back, Cai Qin and others will only look for him when they need to clear the customs documents or come forward to overcome the difficulties of the local officials.

However, none of this worries Khufu the most.

What made him a little angry was that in recent days, he had found that there were more swords, armor and other things in the ranks of the soldiers.

The garrison corps, which had been disarmed in Tanzhou Prefecture, gradually rearmed.

On this day, looking at the sporadic appearance of swordsmen and leather armor in the team's camp, Khufu found Cai Qin and other generals at the front of the team with a dissatisfied face:

"General Cai, what's the matter with these swords and armor, didn't you promise the envoy and the imperial court to lay down their weapons and return home lightly."

Cai Qin exchanged glances with his companions around him, turned his head and said:

"The lieutenant envoy has misunderstood, this matter has nothing to do with the last general and other officers, it is the armor carried by the brothers in private, and the brothers have no malicious intent."

After a pause, he added:

"Some of them were hidden by them before, and some of them were bought at their own expense along the way......"

Khufu panted and glared: "It's a good private collection again, and why do you buy armor." ”

Cai Qin did not have the slightest weakness on his face, but explained very patiently:

"The envoy still doesn't stay in the barracks much, I don't know the details, hey, the swords and armor are the old guys who eat for the soldiers, and most of them are brought to the army by themselves as military households.

"Some are still heirlooms in the family, and they are naturally regarded as treasures.

"But there are also brothers who feel sorry for their family wealth and hide one or two things, which is normal, and it is not easy for everyone at the moment, and I hope that the adults will understand."

Khufu calmed down and asked in a low voice:

"What's going on with halfway purchases, where does this kind of thing controlled by the imperial court come from?"

When Cai Qin heard this, he and the generals looked at Khufu with strange eyes, and tried to ask:

"The envoy should come from the south."

"What does it have to do with how little this miscellaneous family has to do with the south?"

Cai Qin patiently explained:

"The south is not as good as the north, it has been peaceful for a long time, and the control is not so strict.

"In some remote places where banditry is serious, the government also encourages people to defend themselves with weapons, and even in places where there are poor mountains and bad waters, there is a fight for water between the two villages, and they can still beat their heads with weapons and break their blood."

After a pause, he smiled and said:

"In short, there are a lot of weapons hidden in the people of the south, in the town we just passed by, the last general also saw that there were hunters selling strong bows privately, and at a glance, it exceeded the number of bow power stones strictly controlled by the imperial court."

"This ......"

Hu Fu was stunned, he was a northerner, and he really didn't know much about the customs and customs of Jiangnan and Lingnan.

Isn't it in my impression that the northerners are skilled in arching horses, brave and aggressive, and the south should not be a small bridge and flowing water?

Cai Qin looked at his face that kept changing in just a few breaths, opened his hand, and sighed:

"Lieutenant Envoy, please rest assured, it's just that a few brothers are not sensible, and the last generals and captains will never do such a thing knowingly, and they will not hide their armor privately."

When Khufu saw it, Cai Qin in front of him opened his hand and motioned for him to check.

Behind Cai Qin, the generals, including Captain Du and Captain Su, were also dressed in regular clothes with round necks and soap suits, and there were no armor and swords on their bodies.

"No, it can't be like this."

Khufu frowned, and said sternly: "All the swords and armor on the soldiers' bodies must be collected. ”

There is a captain with an embarrassed face:

"The envoy is accommodating, and the brothers have unspeakable secrets, and they haven't committed any crimes, so it's not easy for us to say anything."

Khufu shook his head: "No, this is agreed in Tanzhou Mansion, how can it change." ”

The air was silent for a while, and Khufu saw the silent Cai Qin suddenly raise his head:

"When I was in Tanzhou Mansion, Lord Hu didn't seem to say that there would be strict guards along the way, just like thieves to us.

"Master Hu, may I ask, is there such a treatment of unarmed returnees?"

Khufu wanted to speak, Cai Qin looked like a chill, and his voice became colder and asked:

"Lord Hu, may I ask whether the princes of the imperial court and the local governors are really pardoning and letting them go, or are they worried about some accidents, and they are afraid that the soldiers on the road will be scattered, so they will send their lords here to delay the army."

Khufu choked.

In front of everyone's eyes, he stubbornly said:

"General Cai definitely misunderstood, the saints and the princes had no such intention, and the soldiers guarding the pass along the way were just the arbitrary ideas of the local Cuoer officials, and they had no intention of targeting the soldiers.

"Excuse me...... Let's ask, if there is really any conspiracy, are the miscellaneous family fools, who have been following you, aren't they standing under the dangerous wall? ”

Suddenly there was a lieutenant in the rear, and he replied in a muffled voice:

"The soldiers also have no intention of harming the place, plotting against each other, and wearing heavy armor is self-preservation, human nature,

"Let's ask with bare hands, but being stared at by the strict soldiers at the checkpoint every day like a thief, which hero can keep calm forever?"

Khufu discovered that the person who spoke was none other than the new Lieutenant Du.

"That's right, that's right."

"Brother Du is right."

Cai Qin and other generals responded to support.

Khufu shut up,

Silence.

After a short time, the team moved on.

Soldiers who did not hide their armor were punished.

Khufu forgot how he returned in a daze.

I only remember that at that time, under the pressure of Cai Qin and the others' gradually cold gazes, he had to nod.

However, he soon felt the backlash brought by this insignificant nod.

In the ranks, there are more and more self-defense soldiers who are rearmed, and they are visible to the naked eye.

Sure enough, once this opening is loosened, it will only get bigger and bigger.

Khufu's mood became anxious.

On that day and night, the garrison was stationed on the outskirts of a state town.

As usual, he received military food supplies and condolences from the state government, but he was tacitly rejected from the city gate, and no one was allowed to enter the city except for the envoy.

The two sides maintain a tacit understanding of a distance that is not broken, which is also the norm between the Beigui soldiers and the local states and counties along the way.

In the temporary barracks, in a certain tent, a tall figure of a bearded eunuch was pacing and wandering.

Khufu frowned, lingered in the tent for a while, and turned his head to look outside the tent, the faintly lit state city in the distance.

"No, the atmosphere is a little wrong, I have to report it to the imperial court ......"

Hu Fu muttered to himself, and in the next moment, he turned his head to pack up the identity documents and the seal of the Son of Heaven's personal envoy, and caught a glimpse of the waist knife given by Ouyang Lianghan hanging on the shelf, and took it off and pinned it to his waist.

He prepared to go out to find his subordinates.

"Where is Lord Hu going?"

There was a group of people in the shadows not far from the door.

"General Cai?" Khufu stammered a little: "You, why are you here, you don't eat and drink...... What did you all come from? ”

As soon as he walked out of the tent, he bumped into Cai Qin and his generals head-on.

"You can drink wine at any time, everyone just discussed it, and I asked Lord Hu for something, I hope it didn't disturb Lord Hu's sleep."

Cai Qin paused, as if he had discovered something, and asked:

"Where are you going in the middle of the night?"

Sensing that they were also walking towards his tent, and that they happened to run into him, instead of waiting for him at the door like a ghost, Khufu was slightly relieved.

He hid his panic and weakness, and his voice was still full of anger: "The miscellaneous family also has something to discuss with General Cai." ”

"What do you do with the saber?"

It was Captain Du who asked in a muffled voice.

"This ...... Get used to it haha. ”

Khufu unsheathed his waist knife and said with a smile.

Cai Qin's gaze moved away from the waist knife, looked at him, and stretched out his hand:

"Master Hu will speak first."

Khufu does not squint and answers:

"It's just a little suggestion for the route to the north, don't worry, if General Cai has something important, you can talk about it first."

"Okay."

Cai Qin was also not polite and nodded.

The tent behind Khufu was not lit, and most of the generals of Cai Qin and his party stood in the dark where the halo of the nearest torches could not shine.

As a result, Khufu couldn't see the faces of Cai Qin and the others clearly for a while, and could only hear the calm voice of the leader elected by the Guizhou mutiny:

"The last general has compiled a petition, Lord Hu, please take a look."

"What...... What a pleading. ”

"That's the case, I'm almost in Hongzhou, and I'm afraid to go to the hometown, and the brothers below have been spreading some gossip recently."

Cai Qin didn't stop and said:

"The last generals were worried that something would happen if this continued, so they discussed it tonight and sorted out some small requests, hoping that Lord Hu could report to the court on his behalf."

"This ......"

Khufu was a little nervous and took the paper that Cai Qin silently handed over.

In front of the generals, he walked quickly to the torch not far away and bowed his head closer.

If you look closely, there are roughly two statements written on the paper:

First, he demanded the dismissal of the commanders, instructors, and commanders of the three Zhichong prefectures in Jiangzhou and Hongzhou, the three generals who were hated by the soldiers who directly led to the postponement of the garrison.

Second, the soldiers of the northern return were required to set up a separate Zhechong Mansion and become a total of one general in order to maintain independence.

After reading it, Khufu trembled with fear.

raised his head and wanted to speak, but he ran straight into the cold gaze of a group of martial artists in the darkness in front of him.

“…… Good. ”

He swallowed his words back, forced a smile and nodded, promising that it was impossible.

"The miscellaneous family will write a letter for the generals tomorrow to convey it."

"Then there's Lord Rahu."

Cai Qin seemed to be the head of the jaw.

Behind him, a lieutenant said bluntly:

"Please write it immediately, the last general will send the adult to the city now, and the official post will be sent out tomorrow."

Khufu's body stiffened slightly, and he nodded obediently, "Okay." ”

Under the supervision of Cai Qin and others, he wrote a document according to the petition, sealed it, and handed it over.

The lieutenant took the paperwork and left, and entered the city overnight.

Hu Fu, who was faintly surrounded by Cai Qin and others and pretended to be calm, at a certain moment, glanced at the brightly lit state city in the distance.

It's so close, but it's hard to get through......

Khufu's petition was submitted, but the man could not leave.

After a short rest, the Beigui soldiers left this small state and continued on the road, heading towards the two states of Hong and Jiangzhou at the southeast gateway.

However, the marching routes of the soldiers returning to the north became slightly different.

Khufu found that one day, the large army turned into the deep mountains and old forests, far away from the strict soldier checkpoint, as if they were taking a long detour.

He didn't know exactly where he was going.

Khufu had asked Cai Qin and others, but after the petition was submitted and he turned into a strange road, the attitude of these generals towards him became visibly cold.

To ask is to return to the hometown as usual, and I can't ask about anything specific.

Khufu couldn't help but recall the smooth sailing when he set off with the soldiers in Tanzhou Mansion before.

He began to reflect, or review, when did Cai Qin and others change their attitudes.

It seems to be the night when "Captain Du" returned to the team and Cai Qin chatted and asked strange questions.

Khufu fell silent.

Right now, he is faintly coerced, and he can only accompany him.

This day, late at night.

The barracks in the valley suddenly became noisy.

Khufu, who was sleeping in his clothes, suddenly opened his eyes.

This time it was no longer a frightened bird, and when I listened to it, the soldiers outside were gathering rapidly.

"This, this is what to do!"

Khufugan glared and looked around, wanting to get out of bed and run away.

But just then a group of soldiers outside ran towards his tent, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer.

"It's over." Khufu, who had just lifted the bedding, cried out in his heart.

But he didn't expect that in the next moment, the footsteps stopped suddenly, and the group of soldiers seemed to stop at the door, leaving only the sound of rough soldiers' breathing.

Sweating, Khufu saw the curtain open and a man walked in.

"You ......"

When I looked closely, it was Captain Su who had never spoken to him.

He walked in alone, without a guard behind him.

Su Qian did not draw his knife and raised his right hand.

Khufu was stunned for only half a beat and immediately shut up.

Su Qian tilted his head, Khufu's round eyes widened, and he nodded hurriedly, as if to imply, he hurriedly got out of bed, pouted his ass and got under the bed.

Hidden.

Su Qian went out again.

Khufu, who was lying at the bottom of the bed, vaguely saw Su Qian re-entering the house, followed by a group of soldiers, who made a rough search of the tent.

I didn't check the position of the bed where Su Qian was standing.

"People have run, chase."

It seemed to be Su Qian's voice.

The soldiers of the third regiment did not squint, nodded obediently, and went out to chase people.

Su Qian sent.

Khufu timidly came out and said in a trembling voice: "General Su, this is ...... tonight"

Su Qian glanced at Hu Fu, who was only wearing thin pajamas, and did not answer, taking him out to bypass the guard.

The two came to a river, and Su Qian finally spoke.

"Don't look back."

The voice was hoarse as the soles of shoes rubbing against stones.

Khufu nodded busily.

Just after walking a few steps, he was stopped by a hand, Khufu looked down, and Su Qian handed over a familiar waist knife.

He must have taken it when he searched the tent just now.

Khufu thought for a moment.

He silently took the life-saving waist knife and put it on his waist.

"Thank you, General." Whispered.

Khufu floated across the river and ran at night.

Su Qian watched the back of the tall eunuch with a beard on his mouth fall off because of the soaking in the water, and suddenly turned around and returned to the barracks.

He returned to his tent.

The captain of the 3rd Regiment of Jiangzhou Zhichong Prefecture bent down to pick up the seal of the lieutenant envoy and the sage's handwritten edict that Khufu had forgotten to take in a hurry, and silently followed the road that ran away from Khufu and returned to the hot assembly point in the center of the barracks......

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