On the second day, Pei Zhou and Li Xuandu and their entourage left Linzao Pass. When passing through the city gate, the guerrilla generals and garrisons stationed in Linzao Pass were all guarding in front of the city gate, but the two powerful generals only brought a few personal soldiers, not like they were going to block the road, which made many Pei family guards breathe a sigh of relief, after all, it is one thing to kill the rivers and lakes, and it is another thing to be hostile to the defenders of a city.

As soon as the garrison of the two generals raised his arm, a soldier immediately held a box in both hands and stepped forward to send it to Pei Zhou, and the general smiled: "According to the usual practice, this is six hundred taels of silver, of which two hundred taels of silver are for food and forage, and four hundred taels are for respect." ”

Pei Zhoujiu has been an official in the court for a long time, so he naturally knows these unwritten rules, it stands to reason that he returned to his hometown this time, not after a very good minister, but some of the meaning of losing power and despair, the local officials along the way are not embarrassed, how can they send a respect, in the final analysis, this time is not because of Li Gongzi, who taught Qingluanwei a hard lesson, and now Fang Shisan's body is parked in the barracks of Linzao Pass, so these two military attachés who are not high in rank but have real power are willing to send a tribute.

Pei Zhou is not a corrupt official, but he is not a moral saint, for many unwritten rules, whether he is willing or not, he still has to abide by them, otherwise he is the enemy of the entire officialdom, so he nodded, and immediately an entourage stepped forward to take the box,

Pei Zhou arched his hand and said, "Thank you two for that." ”

When the two saw Pei Zhou take the box, their faces were obviously much soothed, and they also returned the courtesy.

The two sides were not all the way, but after a few words of greeting, the two generals walked away.

Pei Zhou opened the box and took a look, I have to say that although the two generals are coarse, they are still thick and fine, only to see that the box is neatly stacked with fifty taels of snowflake silver, and five golden Taiping coins were placed in the corner of the box, and the remaining four hundred taels were exchanged for silver tickets, which were pressed under the silver and Taiping money.

Pei Zhou sighed lightly.

This is the specification of the second grade.

According to the rules, a county is 600 taels of silver, a prefecture of more than a dozen counties, a prefecture of a dozen prefectures, even if you can't all go down, except for a few prefectures and counties that are not on the route, only according to ten, that is, 60,000 taels of silver, two states are 120,000 taels of silver, this silver is too easy to come.

What's more, the territory of the Great Wei is two capitals and 19 states.

After the previous series of fierce battles and pursuits, Pei Zhou's entourage still has more than 60 people left, more than 60 people are familiar with bows and horses, so all of them ride horses, and some of the old servants who returned to their hometowns with Pei Zhou are riding in a carriage, originally Pei Zhou, Pei Zhu and Pei Yu are also in the same carriage, but now with Li Xuandu, Pei Yu no longer rides in a carriage, but rides in parallel with Li Xuandu.

Pei Yu asked softly: "Brother Li, have you seen the people of the Qingyang Sect, do those people know the demon law, can confuse people's minds and confuse people's hearts?"

Li Xuandu shook his head and smiled: "There must be a monk in the Qingyang Sect who can use magic, but it is nonsense that everyone knows what demon magic is, as for the demagogy, it is true, but it is not with spells, but with deception." When we walk for a while, you may be able to meet the people in the Qingyang Sect, they are not so scary, and many times they are not much different from ordinary people in the rivers and lakes. ”

Pei Yu then asked, "What does an ordinary person in the rivers and lakes look like?"

Li Xuandu was slightly stunned, and after thinking about it, he asked rhetorically: "Then have you ever seen the little officials in the officialdom?"

Pei Zhou nodded.

Li Xuandu said: "Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes are similar to these little officials to a certain extent, they must know how to observe words and looks, and when they see the heroes and strong in the rivers and lakes, they must be careful to serve, and when they encounter something that is not as good as their own, they will be domineering and flattering. Of course, you can't overturn a boatload of people with a rod, there are also conscientious people among the small officials, and among the reckless people at the bottom of these rivers and lakes, there are also people who are righteous and thin, it is not easy to generalize, but this is generally the case. ”

Pei Yu nodded seriously, and kept these words in his heart, that posture was much more attentive than reading the book of saints.

Compared with Pei Yu's admiration for Li Xuandu, she can't wait to perform the disciple ceremony, Pei Yu's sister Pei Zhu, has a rather complicated perception of Li Xuandu, both gratitude and awe, gratitude to Li Xuandu's repeated rescues, and awe of Li Xuandu's former Xuanhe identity, but deep in his heart, there is still a little indescribable subtle psychology, the unconvincing of some people of similar age, coupled with the reserved nature of women, so he rarely talks to Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu said that he was not old, he said that he was not small, but he had experienced a lot of world, he was used to life and death, and he was also used to seeing joys and sorrows, and his mentality was inevitably old, whether he looked at Pei Zhu or Pei Yu, he had some seniors looking at the younger generations of young people, he was not tired of Pei Yu's stickiness, and he didn't care about Pei Zhu's estrangement.

Along the way, after continuing to the east, after entering the territory of Lanling Mansion, the situation became even more chaotic.

Because of Lanling Mansion and Langya Mansion, plus the previous Dongchang Mansion, these three prefectures are the places where the Qingyang Sect is most ravaged. Originally, Tang Qin, the general of the Digong Dynasty, and only one Hongyang General Altar, could not set off such a big momentum in any case, but Tang Zhou, who was sitting in the Qingyang General Altar, sent the three Bai brothers under his command to help Tang Qin, which made Tang Qin's momentum great, and now the eldest brother Bai Jue of the three Bai brothers is in Dongchang Mansion, and the third brother Bai Huan is in Lanling Mansion.

On this day, the group came to Guantao County, and the local county magistrate seemed to be a student of an important minister of the imperial party, and naturally respected Pei Zhou, the predecessor of the imperial party, and set up a banquet for Pei Zhou to catch the wind and wash the dust. Li Xuan didn't go to join in the excitement, he wanted to follow the old rules and take a walk around the county alone to take a look at the local people, and happened to meet Pei Yu and Pei Zhu, who were also going out for a walk.

Pei Yu ignored her sister's stiff face, and insisted that the three of them go together, so the three of them came to the most prosperous downtown in the county.

Pei Zhu wore a plain hat, and with the two men, Li Xuandu and Pei Yu, ordinary green-skinned scoundrels did not dare to rush forward to provoke.

Li Xuandu wanted to buy two books, came to a study, the shopkeeper was a poor and sour talent, at first glance it was the kind of poor management that led to the fall of the family, spent half a copper coin, and bought a travelogue from the shopkeeper who is said to be an ancestral travelogue, recording the mountains and rivers of the nineteen states of the Great Wei, I don't know if it is true or not, Li Xuandu will have fun.

Since they arrived at the study, the two sisters and brothers also bought a few books, Pei Yu bought a book of Jianghu dialect dressed in the coat of a military book, and Pei Zhu, after hesitating for a while, bought a book of talented and beautiful women who are very popular nowadays.

After all, what girl doesn't have a spring?