At this time, Yang Yuanwai and the others also came back, and several people carried two old boxes and put them in front of Chen Lu. The dumb man opened the lid, and one of them contained the usual pocket things, and the other contained silver coins, more than half of which were copper coins of the Celestial Empire, with a few ingots of silver, plus a few horseshoe gold. Chen Lu roughly calculated, there were enough 1,000 taels of silver.

Chen Lu called the mute over and asked, "What are your plans for the future?"

The mute gestured his head with his hands, then folded his hands and closed his eyes slightly. Chen Lu sighed in his heart and said, "It's okay, old man Yang, is there a temple near here?"

"Yes, there are many monasteries within a radius of 100 miles, including Han temples, lama temples, and Huihui temples. ”

Chen Lu said: "You take out a part of the gold and silver here and give it to the temple, remember that it is the Han Temple, and then leave some pocket money for the dumb, you can do it." After a while, the two of us will go to Tian Weng's house to deal with some things, and you will personally send the mute to the temple. ”

After Yang Yuanwai knelt on the ground and listened, he was about to stand up. Chen Lu said, "What are you going to do? Did I tell you to stand up? Kneel. After saying that, he pulled the dumb man and walked inside.

When he arrived in the room, Chen Lu said: "You are dedicated to the Buddha, and you may have some cultivation in the future, so go and practice well." Before leaving, take out the things in the basement, I went to Sizhou, Tian Weng said the address, I can find it. Send all the money back and carry the civil registration for your lord's family. That courtyard has also been sold to the Yang family, bring the money back with you, do you think this is good?"

The dumb nodded, and then gestured, saying that he had no face to go back, and he would be a waste person when he went back, thank you for being thoughtful, kneeling down and kowtowing again and again, knocking and knocking. Chen Lu hurriedly pulled him, and blood was already visible on his forehead.

Chen Lu walked out with him and said, "Yang Yuanwai, there are still a few things you need to do. It's still the old saying, if you do it well, you will make the merit into a crime, and if you don't do it well, the old accounts and the new accounts will be counted together. ”

Yang Yuanwai nodded. Chen Lu said: "You send these people to the government as the pavilion chief, and the other is Tian Weng's house, my old man is a middle-aged person, and I sold it to you, and the price is set by you." There is also Tian Weng's set of tea sets, I was too lazy to get it back, so you can also discount it. ”

Yang Yuanwai knelt there and was stunned for a long time, but it was the person next to him who pulled him that he woke up and said yes again and again.

Chen Lu said: "I explained a few things, you dare to discount the water, you can be careful." Let me tell you, my old man went from here to Turpan the day before yesterday to deal with a day's official business, and today I am here again. ”

This sentence shocked everyone in the room, this is indeed an immortal cultivator. Yang Yuanwai didn't even dare to say it. Chen Lu said, "Go ahead and do it." ”

Yang Yuanwai sent two people to the official mansion, walked to the back house by himself, and walked in with a person after a while, and put two small boxes on the coffee table. Yang Yuanwai opened it with his own hands. Chen Lu saw that one box contained eight fifty taels of ingots, and the other was eight ten-tael horseshoe gold.

Yang Yuanwai said: "Tian Weng's house is four hundred taels of silver, and the tea set is eighty taels of gold, is it okay for the lord to look at this price?"

Chen Lu didn't know anything about this, and he didn't know how much this tea set was worth, and he was shocked when he heard that it was eighty taels of gold. This house was also unexpected by Chen Lu, he thought it was only a few dozen taels of silver. understood that Yang Yuanwai wanted to sacrifice his wealth to save his life.

Chen Lu deliberately said: "You can love as much as you want, my old man still can't bargain with you? You can do it now, after the dumb man and I get the things, he will come back immediately, you can find a horse for the dumb man now." You arrange it. ”

After speaking, he looked around at everyone, snorted, walked to the gate, whistled, the big green horse ran over, and Chen Lu put the gold and silver in the blanket.

At this time, someone had already brought a horse to the dumb man, and the two returned to Tian Weng's house, packed the gold and silver utensils, put them in the blanket, and said, "Dumb man, you go, I will go to Sizhou." ”

After saying that, he rode away. The dumb knelt down, and didn't get on the horse and leave until he couldn't see Chen Lu's shadow.

Chen Lu saw that it was not early, it was sparsely populated, and muttered a few words to the big green horse, and the big green horse rose into the air and ran towards Sizhou.

When I arrived in Sizhou, I learned that Tian Weng's family lived in the countryside, and the village name was Sanfengtong, which was closer to Sinan. Chen Lu arrived here, the sun was about to set, so he hurriedly inquired. Fortunately, everyone knows Tian Weng and doesn't know what his name is, someone brought Chen Lu to Tian's house.

Tian Weng's house is on a hillside, there is a big platform, surrounded by towering trees, there is a small yard, there are two houses, there are side rooms, the so-called mountain is not a cave, but lives by the mountain, is the name of a village.

Chen Lu knocked on the door, and an old woman of about sixty greeted a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old and let him into the living room. It looks like the family is pretty good. It's really a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, today Chen Lu can be regarded as insightful.

But what made Chen Lu strange was that the guests were actually a mother-in-law and a child, women and children.

Chen Lu said: "Old man, I am a friend of Tian Weng, called Chen Zicheng, from Wenla Mountain, Dalu River. ”

The old woman had seen the world and saw that Chen Lu was an official, and when she heard him say that he came from Wenla Mountain, she was a little puzzled. Chen Lu asked: "The old lady is ......?"

"A poor woman is a daughter-in-law. ”

"Ao, please meet the monk, my son has something to say. ”

"The old woman Tian Dou is the head of the family. Seeing Chen Lu's face full of doubts, he continued: "The chief smiled, the family is unfortunate, and there was chaos a few years ago, so I guess the adults also know it." ”

Chen Lu nodded, and Tian Dou said: "After that, we were forcibly put into the military by the lord here, and the three poor women (husbands) followed the expedition to Annan, and none of them came back. In the year of the Longyan Mountain riot, the sons and nephews followed the official army to quell the rebellion, and two were killed in the battle. A few years ago, when 800 daughters-in-law were recruited, Liu Dashuai's soldiers deserted and arrested several of our sons and nephews to fill the number, only one survived, and one of them was left behind. ”

Chen Lu also heard about this situation, this is forced into the army, mainly military salary, false reports in peacetime, and fear of revealing stuffing in wartime, so he uses these people to fill the number. In fact, in the fish scale atlas, these people are all nationals. They don't know anything about military aircraft at all, they can't fight, they can't even shoot bows and arrows, and few of them survive.

Chen Lu asked: "This is ......?"

"This is my nephew Tian Xiuwen, the grandson of my second brother, the name given by my father-in-law, is the eldest grandson, and he is fourteen years old this year. The two masters have already sent someone to tell them that this child has been filed, and he is ready to enter the barracks at the age of fifteen, so what else can he do?"

Chen Lu felt sad and understood why Tian Weng was so desperate to make money. This time, for the sake of silver, but also for my son's sincerity, I gave my old life. Although my Zicheng did not kill Beren, Beren died because of me, and this matter must be managed to the end.

Thinking of this, Chen Lu said: "Old lady, I have a reluctant invitation to see my family. ”

Dou said with a smile: "That's right, don't need to say it, the family also has to come to visit, please my grandfather." ”