Chapter 402 402: Old Friend from the Homeland (Part 1) [Two in One]
Maybe, maybe, probably...
Mr. Chu is really different from usual...
Before arriving at Yonggu Pass, Lu Jue did not put Xu Quan's doubts to rest at all. He even felt that this young man was more noisy than Xian Yujian - are all the young men nowadays so talkative? But after arriving at Yonggu Pass...
Lu Jue looked at Chu Yao, whose aura suddenly changed, and whispered to Xu Quan when no one was paying attention.
"...Wen Shi, you are not alone."
Xu Quan's heart and eyes were filled with the majestic and dangerous Yonggu Pass. How could he still remember the content of his complaints two or three days ago?
Hearing this suddenly, his eyes were confused.
He asked: "What is not a person?"
Lu Jue said: "Mr. Gongcao seems to be here to collect debts."
Look at Mr. Chu Yao’s tall and arrogant back full of murderous intent! Even Yonggu Pass, one of the three most dangerous passes in the Northwest Continent, couldn't suppress his momentum, and even made his momentum stand out! Lu Jue has no doubt that if there is a blind enemy blocking the way ahead, Mr. Chu Yao will also unsheath his sword! Kill one person in ten steps and leave no trace behind in a thousand miles!
Xu Quan was speechless: "???"
Is Brother Lu Shousheng's reaction so slow?
He swallowed his complaints silently.
Said: "We lose the enemy but not the formation. The meritorious officer probably wants to be more powerful and give power to the garrison!"
Chu Yao was originally a meritorious officer of Heyin. He was transferred to Longwu County along with Shen Tang. He still held this position, as did everyone else, but the prefix changed from "Heyin" to "Longwu".
This time I am on a mission on behalf of my lord, and I cannot lose the momentum!
Lv Jue looked at Chu Yao’s back and then at Xu Quan.
He always felt that it was not as simple as "losing the enemy but not losing the battle", but now he had no better explanation, so he blinked and accepted Xu Quan's reason. Lu Jue thought about it and transformed into half a pair of martial arts armor. He held a machete in his hand and walked two feet tall, one meter at a time!
Xu Quan saw it and followed suit.
One guard on the left and one on the right, a fierce and evil combination.
Chu Yao, who felt the fluctuation of martial energy behind him: "..."
The nervous messenger: "..."
Is this, are you really here to fight? ? ?
Fortunately, except for these two, the other soldiers did not move, and the messenger's tense nerves gradually relaxed, but he still did not forget to send a letter to the chief secretary and the others, so be on guard!
In short, the group maintained such a weird atmosphere and were introduced to the Yonguguan Military Camp. The soldiers on the sentry tower received the news and went over early to report the news. The messenger welcomed Chu Yao and others into the tent where the guests were entertained, and ordered people to bring hot tea.
Chu Yao’s attention is not here.
He asked the messenger: "I just saw the flag on the city wall. The writing is strong and powerful, the pines are tall and straight, and it is quite elegant. I guess it is not the work of a famous artist, but it is not far from it. I don't know who mentioned it? I also like it in my life. This way makes you happy when you see it.”
The messenger felt quite proud when he heard this.
“The words on the flag? That was written by the military chief.”
Chu Yao asked again: "The chief clerk? I don't know your surname?"
The messenger said: "The chief clerk's surname is Yu."
Chu Yao said "oh".
There was no expectation or joy on the face that he was about to see a master calligrapher, but there were more complicated emotions in his eyes that Lu Jue and others could not understand. These emotions made Chu Yao's eyes even deeper, as if they could swallow up all the light.
He asked again: "The general's surname is 'Chu'?"
The messenger nodded: "Yes."
He was wondering that this question was asked knowingly.
Isn’t the “Chu” on the flag obvious?
Chu Yao said "oh" lightly again.
He took a sip of the misty tea, then closed his eyes to rest, as if he was prepared to wait. The result was just as he expected, several people were left hanging out in the tent, waiting for more than an hour, which made both Lu Jue and Xu Quan feel angry.
The messenger had no choice but to keep smiling, and kept ordering people to come in and refill the tea. Drinking pot after pot seems to add fuel to the fire.
Lu Jue could still bear not to speak.
Xu Quan is not a patient person.
He is the precious cousin of the head of the Xu family.
Even if you don’t go out to work hard, you can still live comfortably as a rich playboy in this life, the kind who doesn’t have to worry about food and drink.
He said: "What kind of hospitality is this?"
He then complained: "We, on behalf of the lord, have been traveling all the way for two or three days, and you are not prepared at all? There are intensive surveillance towers along the way. , I don’t believe that I have to find someone to receive me at the end of the day! Even if the general is not here, the chief secretary who can handle the matter should be here, right? Is it because he is sincerely looking down on me?”
The right hand is already on the waist. The hilt of the knife, eyes wide open.
Although the blade was not unsheathed, it revealed a trace of the murderous aura of a courageous warrior, enough to make the messenger break into a cold sweat.
The messenger had to rack his brains to find excuses.
"Young general, please calm down. It's not because we are being lazy, but because the Ten Black Horse Bandits have been rampant in recent days. They often take advantage of the lack of patrol troops to dig through the city wall and sneak into the pass. In order to protect the people in the pass, the general and the others will go out on patrol from time to time..."< br>
“Oh? Seriously?"
The messenger nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it must be an accident this time. The general and the others are out on inspection again. In the past, it would take two or three hours to come back."
What he said is not a lie.
However, as a defender, his own general rarely leaves, and needs to stay at Yonggu Pass for a long time to prevent Shiwu from gathering troops to attack suddenly. Small tasks such as inspecting the city walls and the holes dug by horse-catching bandits were usually left to the soldiers below.
Although the messenger didn't know why the guard general didn't come, he had some guesses - he probably was deliberately keeping the people in the dark, trying to weaken the group's momentum and give them authority - but he didn't know how long he would have to keep the people in the dark, so he could only Talk about a longer time.
Xu Quan hummed heavily.
Obviously he didn’t believe the messenger’s lies.
But there was nothing wrong with this excuse on the face of it, so I could only endure it, and I was already scolding it in my heart.
The only person present who was not in a hurry——
It was Chu Yao.
Not only was he not in a hurry, he also asked people to continue refilling the tea.
The messenger secretly observed his behavior and secretly thought that this man was very calm. Just watching, he felt that Chu Yao's tea-making skills were very familiar, and even some of his small movements were familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere. ...
Chu Yao noticed the messenger's thinking gaze.
Smiled: "How can it be possible?"
The messenger said: "Sir, he is very good at making tea."
In fact, he didn't know much about it. I just think that Chu Yao's flowing movements are very interesting to watch. Just looking at him gives people the feeling of "the tea this guy makes is definitely expensive". Just brag blindly with your eyes open. People like to hear good things anyway.
Xu Quan’s attention was also attracted.
Only Lu was not interested in this.
Isn’t it just throwing some green leaves into the hot water?
Is there anything you can tell me about?
Compared with this strange way of drinking, he preferred the tea that his wife had made for him in the boudoir. It could also be said to be tea porridge. All kinds of colorful materials can be thrown in.
The taste is fragrant and you will feel full after just two cups.
Unlike Mr. Chu who likes to drink leaf tea.
"Tea porridge" is the authentic "tea"!
Xu Quan said: "This kind of tea art is rare."
The most popular one at the moment is the "tea porridge" mentioned by Lu Jue, with auxiliary ingredients such as onions, ginger, garlic, orange peel, dogwood... etc., the more and more popular it becomes. The richer the family is, the more ingredients they add to it. Frying tea leaves to make tea is generally popular among small countries or common people, probably because the materials are relatively simple to obtain.
What Xu Quan drinks more is "tea porridge"...
Emmm...
In fact, he doesn't like either kind of tea.
He still likes to drink.
Tea, that is what his cousin, an old fox who is always calculating, likes. A brave warrior and strong liquor are a perfect match! But I have to say that watching Mr. make tea is a kind of enjoyment, as if even anxiety can be soothed.
"I learned it when I was young. I haven't practiced it for many years, so I am a lot rusty." Chu Yao was obviously smiling, but when he mentioned the word "young age", his eyes seemed to become colder.
The messenger suddenly thought about it.
He said with a smile: "No, no, no, how can it be considered unfamiliar? In my opinion, the master is almost the same as the chief clerk!"
The smile on Chu Yao's lips was a little brighter.
Xu Quan noticed the words of the messenger and did not expect that the interests of the chief clerk who had never met him overlapped so much with his own meritorious Mr. Cao. If the other party hadn’t deliberately not shown up and left them alone, Xu Quan would have been interested in the chief clerk. The favorability level could be higher.
“Seriously?”
The messenger smiled: “Of course it is true.”
In order to take care of the master’s hobby, several cold-resistant tea trees were specially planted near the military camp. . Although the brewed tea is a bit bitter, the master is just like this sip, and he is very fond of the tea tree. How far is the baby?
At first, the few tea trees were not adapted to the environment of Yongguguan, and the chief clerk was so anxious that his mouth bubbled with anxiety. By chance, a group of horse bandits hit the muzzle, and after being caught, they were slaughtered and made into artificial fertilizer to nourish the soil near the tea trees. The tree actually came to life!
Since then——
Some veterans like to use this story to intimidate rookies, such as "if they don't train hard, they will be arrested and used as tea trees for the master to fatten people." A group of uninformed rookies thought that the main bookkeeper relied on human fertilizer to maintain his beauty.
Xu Quaandao: "He is also an elegant person."
An elegant person raised at the Iron Blood Pass?
He had some expectations for that person.
The chief accountant, who was expected by Xu Quan, was playing against their master in the accountant at this moment. The two are equally good at chess, the chief is good at planning and the general is good at using offense as defense. However, the latter's chess skills were taught by the former. After all, it was a strange move. The general had to throw in his pieces and admit defeat. He said with a helpless smile: "I can't win, I can't win. The sandbox battlefield is more enjoyable..." In the game between black and white, he Eyes hurt.
The so-called "sandbox battlefield" is a kind of "game game" that can only be played by literary and courageous people - gathering the strength of both sides of the game to build a relatively stable one, created by literary and military spirit The "different space" where both sides lead an army and defend a city.
The chess game between soldiers and horses is transformed into a grand and exciting scene.
It’s just that one cannot coexist with one’s culture and one’s military.
→_→
It is equivalent to two servers, but the data does not communicate with each other.
To put it simply, the channels are different.
If he wants to play "Sandbox Battlefield", he can only play with subordinate officials. If the chief administrator wants to play, he can only play with other literary scholars.
The chief clerk glanced at the sun.
He said: "How long can that group of people hang out for two hours?"
The general said: "Absolutely."
The chief secretary: "It's time to go take a look. "
The general didn't want to see the new governor of Longwu County, so he sent the chief secretary to go on his behalf, so that he could be lazy.
The chief clerk had to go alone.
On the way there, he secretly guessed the psychology of Chu Yao and his party at the moment - after being left out for two hours, he was definitely not a little angry. He had a job in his heart, which was also the time when his mood was unstable. , I can take the opportunity to use the way of a scribe... Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the messenger running out of the tent to get some fresh air.
"Why don't you accompany me inside?"
The messenger said with a grimace: "I'm afraid of being chopped down."
The chief clerk said with a smile: "The person here is so kind Fierce? ”
The messenger thought for a while and said: "If we say fierce, then the two young warriors can't keep their composure and want to show off their family background to suppress others. This kind of is just fierce from outside. But the meritorious master is not simple, sitting next to him , I always feel uncomfortable.”
"How uncomfortable is it?"
The messenger said honestly: "It's like being watched by a master. One moment you won't be watching, and the next breath you will be caught and used to make people fat."
The chief clerk was amused by his confidant's words.
“Then, I would like to meet this person.”
The messenger followed the chief clerk like a dog-legger.
The result - the momentum of his master's book came to an abrupt end the moment he opened the heavy curtain! Very abrupt!
As if someone had tapped his acupoints, all the muscles in his body were stiff and fixed, unable to move at all while maintaining a single movement!
The messenger wondered, what happened?
Being struck by thunder and lightning on a sunny day and making your whole body numb?
At this time, a sneer from the meritorious officer surnamed Chu came from inside the tent, and he successfully stopped the chief clerk who was trying to retract his right foot: "What's wrong? Are you afraid to come in? Shizhong Yu might as well give it a try!"
< br>The messenger was confused: "???"
Xu Quan in the tent was confused: "???"
Lu Jue in the tent wondered: "???"
The messenger could not see the expression of the chief clerk in front of him, but Lu Jue and Xu Quan in the tent could see it clearly. The head clerk's face turned pale instantly. When his eyes fell on Chu Yao inside the tent, his pupils trembled and his brows twitched.
Just when they couldn't figure out what was happening, Mr. Chu Yao, who had been making tea gracefully just now, actually drew his sword out of its sheath.
Hearing the commotion, the messenger hurriedly stepped forward to protect his master's book, regardless of what happened.
Lu Jue and the other two also made some moves.
Three people confront two people.
The atmosphere inside and outside the tent was subtle and chilling.
The principal and Chu Yao looked past the guards in front of them and met in the void. There seemed to be no sound but thunder exploded. This was clearly a sign that the two of them competed with each other with their sincerity. Is there really going to be a fight? But, it turned out not to be.
The chief clerk pushed aside the messenger and stepped forward, his eyes falling on Chu Yao's waist: "When did your Wen Xin return?"
As we all know, Wen Xin, a scribe who had been punished by breaking the government, wanted to There is one and only one way to regain Wen Xin, and consider that Chu Yao came as the new county governor's envoy, and the new county governor was the lackey of the country's leader Zheng Qiao.
So——
Is Chu Yao loyal to Zheng Qiao now?
The chief clerk's expression was particularly wonderful.
Chu Yao said: "Is this important?"
The chief secretary recalled Wen Xin's momentum that had completely suppressed him. There were countless complicated things brewing in his mind, but none of them were suitable to say. He let out a breath.
"I never thought... the person coming would be you!"
If I knew——
He received a patrol mission today and went to stay overnight in Chengdong.
Leave the task of facing Chu Yao to the general.
If his upbringing allowed it, the chief clerk would have been scolding his mother right now. Seeing the two people's reactions, Lu Jue just kept his curiosity in his heart while Xu Quan asked directly: "Mr. Gong Cao, are you and this chief clerk... old acquaintances? Do you know each other?"
Master Book: "...Haha."
It's more than just acquaintance.
This TN is an evil debt, and Chu Yao is the creditor.
Xu·Curious Baby·Quan asked again: "Why did Mr. Gong Cao call this Lord Yu...Yu Shizhong?"
Although in different countries, the position of Shizhong has real power. They vary in size and status, but they all hold serious royal court positions and are qualified to discuss matters in the court. Could this chief clerk in front of him be Xin Guo's former servant?
He was not impressed.
There seems to be no servant named "Yu" in King Xin's court.
"He was once the minister of the Chu State." Chu Yao did not sell out the secrets and directly revealed the former identity of Master Yu.
"Chu Guo?" Xu Quan didn't know Chu Yao's identity, but he also vaguely guessed that Feifan, a second-grade Chinese heart, was not a street cabbage, and its owners were generally not ordinary.
Chu Gongcao's name collided with that of a man of great influence many years ago, which made Xu Quan suspicious for a while, but there was no evidence. He tried and asked: "Chu Guo seems to be Mr.'s hometown?"
"Yes." Chu Yao admitted.
Xu Quan: "..."
His intuition told him that there was a story here.
To be precise, it is Chu Yao, the guard surnamed Chu and the chief secretary Yu, three people, and the bad debts of more than ten years ago.
Master Yu: "...go and invite the general."
The messenger looked at Chu Yao and the others worriedly.
“Yes, but...”
Chief Yu said angrily: "Who in this military camp can hurt me? Just invite the general over quickly."
The messenger had no choice but to suppress his worries and follow the order.
This time it became three against one.
Master Yu suddenly felt the pressure doubled.
He picked a mat not far away and sat down.
Said: "I didn't expect that Wu Hui is still alive..."
Except for this hair, his appearance is the same as before.
Chu Yao said: "Yu Shizhong is the same."
Hearing this title, Chief Secretary Yu felt uncomfortable and said: "There is no such thing as Shizhong Yu now, he is just a small chief secretary. Just spend the rest of my life here."
After that, there was another round of silence.
Until the sound of armor joints rubbing and hitting metal was heard outside the house, a force of momentum came towards the tent, and then the thick tent curtain was opened with great force.
"Who is causing trouble here!"
The voice of this person is like thunder, shaking the sky.
Chu Yao raised his eyes.
General Chu looked down.
Then——
Quiet.
Deadly quiet.
General Chu: "..."
Urgent!
What should I do if Fa Xiao, who has been dead for many years, suddenly turns up dead?
(へ╬)
I haven’t been very well lately, I’ve been feeling lethargic and sleepy, and I feel like I can’t get enough sleep.
Shiitake these days can only try to write each chapter as long as possible.
I will update it after a few days when the situation is better.
PS: Mr. Chu Yao came to fight with his sword this time ()
(End of this chapter)
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