So I play chess

Chapter 145
"What guarantor?" The young man asked with a frown.

The visitor lowered his head and bowed his back, and wanted to get closer to the young master again. Seeing this, the two attendants stepped forward to stop him, but the young master stopped him.

The visitor didn't look around, just smiled and said: "It must be difficult for the few of you to enter the city, right?"

"How do you know?" The young master's voice was also a little lower.

"Let me see, how many are from the army? Is that right?"

At this time, another group of people were released in front of the public inspection hut at the gate of the city, and the people behind naturally followed a few steps forward. The young man just took a step, but didn't answer his words.

The person who came didn't care, and said again: "It doesn't matter if you are deserters or what other identities. If you want to enter the city, I will let you enter the city, and I will not ask anything else."

The young man now understands what this man does for a living, and the people who stopped the soldier just now must be part of his group.

It is said that Liu Zhu in Tongcheng has some skills, and he has the courage to come up with such a thing as a public inspection. He thought he was a good official, but he didn't want the public inspection to be established, so he also had such a loophole.

It's just that he didn't know whether it was his own instigation or the actions of the officials under his rule.

Thinking of this, the young prince asked knowingly, "What do you want us to do?"

The visitor saw that he was interested, so he said: "I don't need a few people to do anything. Now Tongcheng is more stable than other places. If you stand here, you will not only have no worries about your life, but you can also earn some money."

The person who came was not in a hurry to answer, but started a few words.But the young man remained calm, and he didn't see boredom, let alone fascination.

The person who came continued to say: "I've helped a few of you to manage things up and down, and I always have some money in hand."

The young son finally asked: "How much?"

"One person, 50 taels."

After quoting the price, the visitor raised his head and glanced at the three people respectively. Seeing that there was no surprise on their faces, he probably had a clear understanding in his heart, so he lowered his head again.

The young man pondered for a while, but the man didn't urge him, and waited for a group of people to pass the public inspection, before the young man said: "We have traveled through mountains and rivers, and we really don't have these numbers, forget it."

When the visitor heard about it, he didn't say much, he bowed and went to the side again.

"My lord." Seeing the man walking away, a follower behind him hastily stepped forward, "The inside of Tongcheng is actually not clean."

The young master snorted coldly: "The current situation, where is it clean? I thought too well of Liu Zhuo before, but I was naive."

There is no more gossip here, and after waiting for more than a moment, it was finally the turn of these three people to register for public inspection.

The three of them didn't do anything else, they just wrote down the origins of their names honestly, but the refugees had no way to guide them, so these two items alone could be enough for the time being.Afterwards, if there are fellow villagers in the city, they can ask and check again to confirm whether the information is true, and then they can move around the city with peace of mind.

Then there was a full-time public inspection chief who delineated the scope of temporary residence activities for them on the spot until their identities were confirmed.

However, at this time, the city gate officials finally discovered something was wrong.

"Tang is obvious, right?" The city gate official came up with the registration information of several people.

Of course, this young son is Tang Mingyi, whose alias is "Tang Mingming".

Tang Mingyi saluted, and said nicely, "Next is Tang Mingming."

"Come this way." The city gate official didn't say much, and led the three of them to another place with a few soldiers.

"Where are we going?" a follower asked.

The city gate official replied calmly: "I still need to make some records here, just wait for a while."

"But didn't they enter the city after registration?" The attendant pointed to the crowd behind him, and many of them also looked at them curiously.

The gatekeeper simply stopped answering and led the three of them to another squatter room. Although there was no one inside, there were at least twenty soldiers guarding the outside, which was obviously a more tense place.

After being treated like this, Tang Mingyi heaved a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that he finally had someone who was dedicated to his duty.

The city gate officials withdrew them after they were attracted, and were about to go around the tower to report to Zhou Tong, but they were stopped by the man who had just talked to Tang Mingyi.

The man whispered a few words to the city gate official, who was quite displeased and scolded him a few words, then went straight to Qiaolou.

The man didn't say anything, just waited where he was.

At this time, the two principals of the Wang family and the Shi family had been invited up for a while, and they were being dragged by Zhou Tong to have a drink together.

The city gate official came up and saw that the head of the Wang family was there, so he wanted to persuade Zhou Tong to come out temporarily and report something, but he was reprimanded quite a bit.

What are they all about? "Don't you know the relationship between the historian of the Wang family and the prefect?" "The prefect's family has something to do, and these two masters have contributed a lot, and they have been accommodating if they can." "Who is not close or distant to whom?" and so on.

When the city gate official was reprimanded by Zhou Tong, Tang Mingyi felt much more at ease in the dormitory.

"My lord, are they really going to arrest me?" the attendant asked in a low voice.

"It seems that it should be so. Liu Zhu was able to regain Tongcheng under the hands of the Liangzhou army, and to restore the stability of Tongcheng so quickly. He must have the courage and cunning to do so well, but he succumbed here." Tang Mingyi mused, "It's just I don't know why he helped me."

"The young master is looking for an opportunity to ask him. Since he has such means, he must have ambitions in his heart."

Tang Mingyi nodded and said: "What is more important at this time is my... elder brother. We can't find him, and the entrance and exit gates in Tongcheng are so strict. We can't easily enter the city, and they naturally can't easily enter. The one just now Those who want to be guarantors will be able to see that we are from the army, and the city gate officials must also be able to see that, whether my elder brother came here by himself or not, the skills of his subordinates are at best like this."

The subordinates are still worried: "In case they take us into custody..."

Tang Mingyi shook his head in response: "Since we were born in the army, we must have a background. Before confirming our specific identity, they would not dare to take us into custody easily. They could only place us in another custody. As long as there is one person between us and them placed One place, it will be easy to act later.”

As soon as Tang Mingyi finished speaking, he saw the city gate officials approaching from a distance.The three hurriedly put on their own gestures, and Tang Mingyi's face also showed a lot of dissatisfaction.

"What is your lord's intention of locking me here?" Tang Mingyi asked the city gate official as soon as he entered the squatter room.

The expression on the city gate official's face was obviously very unhappy, but Tang Mingyi thought that he was going to take the three of them to another place to resettle, but he was very happy in his heart.

The city gate official didn't answer, but handed the three documents to the three people respectively.Tang Mingyi took a look, and saw that his name and other information were written on it.

Tang Mingyi was puzzled: "What is this?"

"You can enter the city now," said the city gate official.

(End of this chapter)