Without waiting for Long Xiang to react, Tang Yu at the door suddenly tensed up, and his right hand unconsciously pressed on the hilt of the sword, they were in Cao Cao's control area at this time, and the slightest mistake would be doomed.

Long Xiang in the room was relatively calm, he looked at Xu Ding, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes on the other side, and asked suspiciously:

"Why did Xu Zhuangshi say this?"

"If you are Cao Cao's soldiers, aren't there Lang Zhong in the army? Even if you look for a doctor in a nearby town, you won't walk for a few days, so that you will drag the wound to fester.

In addition, the hot summer has passed, and it is not too late to bury the mortuary for a few months, what is the busy military business, and the main general is not sent back to his hometown..."

"No more..."

Long Xiang stretched out his hand to interrupt Xu Ding, and said in his heart that there were illiterates everywhere in ancient times, looking at your five big and three coarse appearances, I thought it was relatively simple, but I didn't expect to meet a 'Di Renjie'.

Tang Yu was worried that Long Xiang was in danger, so he rushed quickly to the house.

"Uncle Yu, don't be impatient."

While Long Xiang stopped Tang Yu, he turned to Xu Ding and hugged his fist, and generously admitted: "Xu Zhuangshi is right, we are indeed not Cao Bing, are you going to sue the official?" ”

"Haha, sue the official? When it comes to receiving food, no one cares about life and death when the yellow turbans are in turmoil, and our village began to be self-sufficient a few years ago..."

Xu Ding smiled and shook his head, and then asked, "I heard that Cao Cao is fighting against Yuan Shu, do you know what kind of realm this is?" ”

When Long Xiang heard Xu Ding say this, he frowned and stretched slightly, he shook his head lightly and replied tentatively: "It should be the northern part of Peiguo?" ”

"This is the junction of the southeast of Qiao County and Yu County, and Cao Cao's hometown is also our Qiao County, are you people planning to attack Cao's family?"

When Xu Ding spoke, he looked Long Xiang up and down, and said in his heart that if he really had such a plan, it would undoubtedly be the way to seek death.

After hearing this, Long Xiang turned his head to look at Tang Yu, and the nerves of both of them looked extremely surprised.

I didn't expect to avoid the main road in the past few days, and I ran into the 'thief's den' for some reason.

Qian County is not only the hometown of Cao Cao's family, but also the hometown of Xiahou's family.

Tang Yu has a pair of dark eyes, and the word 'finished' seems to be written in them.

"No, we lost the battle in Qi County, lost our way when we broke through, and we arrived here in a daze, in fact, we planned to go back to Huainan..."

Xu Ding thought for a moment after listening, and suddenly said solemnly:

"Now that you have arrived here, it is not easy to return to Huainan safely, and I appreciate General Long's loyalty;

The soldiers under the command of the general are also good soldiers who abide by military discipline, so instead of fleeing back to Huainan with nine deaths, why don't they stay in our village? ”

Long Xiang immediately refused: "The families of the soldiers are all in Huainan, how can they hide here in order to survive?" Besides, you were there last night, and General Qiao's children still need to be taken care of, so I have a reason to stay here..."

"Family? When this war is over, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to secretly go to Huainan to pick it up?

I heard that Yuan Shu has long been disobedient, and I am afraid that he will not be compatible with the princes of the world, and General Long will have no future with him..."

Xu Ding continued to persuade with both rigidity and softness.

In the troubled times, the news spread slowly, and Xu Ding didn't know that it was normal for Yuan Shu to be called the emperor, but his disobedience had been spread to the people, and it seemed that Yuan Shu's reputation in the Central Plains was too bad.

Long Xiang still shook his head after hearing this, he first turned his head and glanced at Tang Yu, and then explained: "General Qiao is kind to us, and now that he died in battle, we have no meaning of being loyal to Yuan Shu..."

"That's not right..."

"Xu Zhuangshi doesn't know the specific situation, we have one or two thousand family members in Huainan, and there are one or two hundred comrades and brothers waiting, and thousands of people are afraid that they will not be able to move easily."

Xu Ding originally wanted to keep Long Xiang, thinking that adding more than 100 young people to the village would make the village more powerful to gain a foothold in troubled times.

Now that Long Xiang said that thousands of family members were coming, his heart immediately beat a drum.

It is barely enough to feed more than 100 people, but if you want to add thousands of families and children, Xu Ding really can't make decisions for all the villagers.

"General Long doesn't intend to be loyal to Yuan Shu, that's because he wants..."

Long Xiang replied: "Although Yuan Shu is not the master of Ming, Cao Cao, who slaughtered Xuzhou, is not a good person, so when we return to Huainan, we plan to live in seclusion." ”

"Well said."

Xu Ding was deeply touched when he heard this, and echoed: "The princes fight each other, and it is always the people who suffer, so our village is self-reliant, but the whole world is not the king's land, unless you go to the barren mountains and mountains to avoid trouble, but what kind of land is barren and can support so many people?" ”

Long Xiang nodded affirmatively: "I found an empty city in Huainan, there is a lot of fertile soil around the empty city, we will take our families to move over when we go back, and learn from Xu Village to be self-reliant, in short, how long can we avoid it..."

"Huainan still has such a good place..."Xu Ding scratched his sideburns.

Tang Yu was worried that Long Xiang would leak his mouth, so he hurriedly interrupted:

"Ahem, Yunqi, since we have arrived in Qian County by mistake, you have to talk to the soldiers about the plan, and you have to travel far tomorrow morning..."

"That's what Uncle said."

Long Xiang reacted immediately, he clasped his fists and saluted Xu Ding and asked:

"I don't know if your village has a map of the county? I'd like to borrow it for directions home. ”

Xu Ding smiled and said: "You really asked the right person, Xu Mou's family happens to have a map of Zhang Qian County, but he just called you Yunqi, is it your cousin?" ”

"Yes."

"It sounds good, Xu Mou's word Bo'an, since everyone is friends, you shouldn't regain points, I will call you Yunqi in the future, don't call me a strong man, I'll go and get the map."

"Thank you, Bo'an."

"Yunqi doesn't have to be polite, in fact, I also want to know how you can get out of the tiger's mouth."

After Xu Ding finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the back hall, and quickly took a sheepskin map.

Looking at the old appearance of the sheepskin surface, Long Xiang knew that this map had gone through vicissitudes.

In ancient times, there was no technology to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and there would hardly be major changes in geography and landforms.

Xu Ding spread out the map on the table, which clearly marked the towns, villages, and roads, and also outlined the direction of mountains and rivers.

"Yunqi, have you thought of a way?" Tang Yu also came up.

Long Xiang frowned and pondered bitterly, in order to avoid encountering Cao Cao's army, he could only give up the wide main road, but he opened up thorns and walked the path without supplies, even if he ate up the twelve horses, he was afraid that it would be difficult to get out of the encirclement.

What to do?

Long Xiang's eyes suddenly fell on the river next to Qian County, so he pointed to the river and asked Xu Ding:

"Bo'an, where does this river lead? Is there a pier to take a boat? ”

Xu Ding explained while gesturing: "This river is called Guoshui, it is connected to the Langtang Canal of Chen Guofule, and it will pass through Runan County in the southeast downstream, and finally merge into Huaishui. ”

"Haha, God help me."

Long Xiang was overjoyed to hear this, and had also crossed the water (now Anhui Vortex River) on the way to Qi County by Cao Jun.

Since there is a wide waterway directly to Huaishui, why do you have to throw ham bitterly?