palm river mountain

Chapter 160
Cui Zi looked up to the sky and remained silent.

Duan Yi watched, then raised her head to look at the sky suspiciously, "The sky is blue and cloudless, what are you waiting for? Waiting for the birds to fly by and the droppings to drip down?"

As Duan Yi said, she gave herself a thumbs up, she rhymed really well this time!
"Wait for the gold to fall from the sky, and see if you will ask the sky for marriage." Cui Zi lowered his head even more hastily.There are many mountains and forests in Jiannan, and there are countless birds. Duan Yi said so, he always felt that the birds here might have eaten their stomachs, and all of them were born strangely.

Duan Yi stuffed the ingot of gold back, carefully tied it up again, and fixed it firmly on her body.

Hearing Cui Zigeng's words, she raised a finger and laughed loudly, "You tell him to throw one first, and see if the sound of thunder this year will no longer be rumbling, but idiot... "

As she spoke, she patted the horse forward and galloped away.

Cui Zi came back to his senses, shook his head amusedly, and chased after him.

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Qianzhong Road governs fifteen prefectures and is adjacent to Jiannan. Not to mention the complex terrain here, it is the same as Jiannan. There are also a few ethnic minorities in the mountains. Self-led prefectures and counties, forming an army of their own, nominally under the jurisdiction of the state capital.

In the tea shop on the official road in central Guizhou, an old scholar was holding a folding fan, shaking the folding fan in early winter, and rubbing the goosebumps on his neck, talking eloquently, "Although they are all Jiedu envoys, princes and kings. But there is a huge difference between people."

"The Jiannan Road is a frontier, and the number of garrison troops is three points higher than that of other roads. In addition, Mr. Gu is a local, and he has made great achievements in battle. It is naturally well-received."

"Being a hero," said the old scholar, stroking his beard, "You have to be able to bend and stretch. Gu Shigong married mountain people as his wives, so Gu Mingrui invited mountain people to be reinforcements. But it's different in central Guizhou..."

"The first wife of the envoy Huang in central Guizhou is the elder sister of Cao Sang, the most favored eunuch by the emperor's side; as the saying goes, one person can ascend to the heaven. Six years ago, the world named Cao Sang as the secret envoy of the inner privy. In the same year, envoy Huang As the governor of Guizhou Province..."

"It can't be allowed, it can't be allowed!" The owner of the tea shed listened, holding a kettle, with beads of sweat on his forehead, he rushed out, "Don't talk, don't talk! You can't talk, you can't talk..."

The boss said, looked around, and lowered his voice, "I'm afraid you don't know that you are from other places. There is a big event in Guizhou, and it's messed up. Where is there any Huang envoy? Now it's all The king's envoy..."

The old scholar who was shaking the fan was stunned, he put the fan away, and asked curiously, "What's the matter? Didn't the emissary, Huang Cheng, lead the army to attack Jiannan, and he hasn't come back yet? Why? Once he went on, his father changed his surname and changed his ancestors?"

"Sir, Mopi," Cui Zigeng put the long sword on the table and said coldly.

Mr. Yan chuckled and waved his fan again.

Duan Yi, who was sitting across from him, watched and moved away speechlessly. The cool wind from the fan in this winter really gave people goosebumps.

"Old man, what's the matter? We just entered Guizhou. When we came here, we passed a village. It seemed that the doors were closed. We wanted to ask what happened?"

The old man in the tea shed relaxed a little when he heard that Duan Yi was familiar with the southwestern accent.

Earlier, this group of people all carried knives, and there were so many people that he couldn't even cook tea. This old gentleman even talked in official language, and it seemed like a lot of trouble. As expected, he actually talked about being an official.

"The matter of the official, how can people like us Dousheng hear about it? If you pass by, you should leave quickly. My husband, I have sold this wave of tea, and I am going to hide."

"The whole world is in chaos!" He said, craned his neck to look around, and found that there were indeed only Duan Yi and his party, so he said, "Since you are Jian Nandi, you should know that the son of the envoy Huang is in Jincheng. After losing the battle, nine out of ten will never come back."

"The barbarians didn't listen to Mr. Huang, and the state army took him away. The news came back, that night, Mr. Huang's adoptive son, Wang Tao, cut off his head and stood on his own."

"That Wang Tao's mother-in-law is the daughter of Ningyi County Sheriff. That Ningyi is a mountain people, very tough, I heard that he can eat children, how to do it! Scared to death!"

The old man in the tea shed, although he said he was afraid, became more and more excited as he talked, and he still didn't forget to bring boiling water to make tea.

Duan Yi listened with gusto and said, "We just came from Jiannan, and the envoy Gu was so upright that he released Huang Cheng and the Qianzhong army back. We rode horses, and there were fewer people, so we ran faster than them."

When the old man heard it, he put the kettle on the table with a slap, and said in surprise, "The rumors turned out to be true. The king of Jiannan really has a bag on his head, and the person who caught him let him go!"

Hearing this, the tea in the mouth of Qi Lang spouted out, and he looked at the old man as if seeing his relatives, "That's a pretty big bag!"

The old man nodded, "The news came, I thought I would rather believe it than believe it, and I was about to hide. Huang Cheng is such a father, if he is killed, he will be fine? Wang Tao was beaten to the point of bleeding!"

"Nowadays, people in and out of the city are arresting strong men everywhere, preparing to fight! Fellow villagers, drink your tea quickly and leave quickly! Otherwise, you will all be arrested and exiled into the army, and you will all be miserable!"

Duan Yi was a little ashamed, who was born from two fathers?

Seeing that Duan Yi listened seriously, the old man was very appreciative, and he couldn't help talking endlessly, "I didn't say it, no matter if it's Huang or Wang, it's not a good thing! That Huang, when collecting grain I can't wait to scratch the bottom of the rice tank with a layer."

"This year's harvest is not good, and the autumn harvest is a lot of shriveled shells, and he has to increase taxes. This winter, I'm afraid I can only eat soil, and many people will starve to death. I went to Jiannan to fight a while ago, and I have already caught them." Once in the army, even the baby will not be spared..."

"The one whose surname was changed to Wang has intensified. It's only been a few days. They first caught pretty girls, and then started to catch soldiers. They didn't even keep a single male. This is to make people go extinct! Old man, I want half of my body. I'm buried in the ground, and I'm afraid they will catch me and fight!"

When he said this, he became depressed all of a sudden. Holding the pitch-black kettle, he shook his head and walked towards the fire room, shouting, "Old lady, old lady, do you hear me? It's really going to war, we Hurry up and pack your bags, hurry up and hide in the mountains."

Duan Yi looked at the tea in front of her.

It's not a good tea, just a few old tree leaves boiled in ordinary water.

They were few in number and they didn't want to run into Huang Cheng, so they specially waited for them to rest at night, overtook them and entered Qianzhong first.

But this time, she finally understood what Cui Zigeng said, Jiannan is like a paradise.

Duan Yi's eyes moved, and she thought about Cui Zigeng, "I have a bold idea..."

(End of this chapter)