Xiaoguangong

Chapter 62 Buying some wood
Early in the morning, Chen Qun rode his horse to the river bank worriedly.

He didn't bring his guards this time, not even his most trusted personal entourage. It can be seen from his crooked cap that he was extremely anxious when he went out, and he didn't even comb his hair well, showing no trace of nobleman's demeanor.

When Cao Jun by the river saw him, they all bowed down and saluted. Chen Qun waved his hand, annoyed to excuse them.

"Where's Yunshan who came to deliver food yesterday?" He pulled a soldier and asked anxiously.

The soldier pointed to the distance inexplicably, Chen Qun followed his gaze, and saw Yun Shan holding a long knife on a large boat by the river, and was dismantling and practicing water combat with the soldiers.

Although Yunshan is young, he has solid martial arts skills. He patiently taught martial arts to the soldiers on the boat, and he did not shy away from other soldiers watching. The scene was quite lively.

Chen Qun breathed a sigh of relief, hurried over and sent someone to call Yun Shan over.

After a while, Guan Ping rushed over, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a sackcloth, and bowed solemnly.

Chen Qun quickly helped him up, and whispered:
"What did you do last night?"

Guan Ping said sincerely:

"Humble followed Mr. Ji Chang to meet Duke Kuai last night."

"Kuai Yue?"

Seeing Guan Ping nodded, the big stone in Chen Qun's heart finally fell to the ground.

He got the news today that the person who took Fu Xun away yesterday entered Fu Xun's house in the name of joining the army in the prime minister's mansion, and quickly killed the guards Cao Cao sent before.

You must know that there are only two soldiers in the Prime Minister's Mansion, one is Fu Xun, and the other is Chen Qun...

Regardless of whether Fu Xun left voluntarily or not, if he cooperated with Guan Ping in this way, he would definitely tell all about Jiangling's defense in the future.

Cao Cao was extremely angry, thinking that there was something wrong with the top ranks of the army, and now he is investigating—Chen Qun had been with Liu Bei for a long time before, and this time something like this happened again. With Cao Cao's suspicious nature, even if he didn't say it on the surface, he was still in his heart. Definitely very upset too.

It is easy to say that there is Kuai Yue to testify.

Hey, but even if Fu Xun can defect, Kuai Yue is hard to say.

Chen Qun hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice:

"If anyone asks again, just say, last night I ordered you to intercept Guan Ping, but Guan Ping had a lot of soldiers, and... Zhou Yu led the navy to come, so he returned without success."

"Ah..." Guan Ping was stunned on the spot, "This, can this work?"

"Why not?" Chen Qunhu said with a straight face, "Don't worry, I have my own opinions on other matters - I am flattering you, could it be that you don't listen to me?"

"Humble and dare not!"

"Then tell me, what did you do when you met Kuai Yue last night?"

Guan Ping said solemnly: "Last night, after parting with Kuai Gong, when I returned to the camp, I happened to hear that Guan Ping was making trouble, so I led my men to chase after him. I only hated Guan Ping's many soldiers, and Jiangdong had reinforcements claiming to be Zhou Yu. We couldn't resist it. Only then watched Guan Ping run away.

Chen Canjun personally dispatched me to kill the thief last night, did he forget to join the army? "

Chen Qun nodded with satisfaction:

"Okay, that's it. You worked hard last night, and your soldiers suffered a lot of injuries. Well, I'll ask someone to give you some compensation, so that your men... um, all, all..."

It can be seen that Chen Qun wanted Guan Ping to give meaning to his subordinates. Guan Ping nodded slowly to show that he understood what he meant. Chen Qun also said that Guan Ping was very interesting. The two looked at each other and smiled, just like best friends for many years generally.

After Guan Ping sent Fu Xun away at night, he naturally turned around and returned to Jiangling.

With great difficulty, he figured out the identity of Cao Jun's General Yun Shan, and the character design was almost complete. How could he expose his identity just to kidnap Fu Xun.

Everyone can testify that it was the Han general Guan Ping who took Fu Xun away yesterday, so what does it have to do with Cao Jun general Yunshan.

Cai Mao had been bragging loudly before, saying that God in Jingzhou Haotian had to call him God, and Guan Ping couldn’t call him uncle in vain, so Cai Mao had to share some of the pressure.

Besides, Cai Mao's money has not been received yet.

Seemingly worried that Guan Ping would sell himself, Cai Mao quickly sent Guan Ping the money to buy grain at noon.

A whole boatload of money was delivered to Guan Ping, and Guan Ping was quite moved by the attractive copper color.

The veteran who came to give the money said with a smile: "Boy, everyone else wants food. What are you doing with so much five baht?"

Guan Ping said humbly:

"Boy Meng Lang, you made the elder laugh."

"It's not a joke, I just want to know why.

Even if you want to buy something, you can just use grain to buy it. This copper coin is not easy to carry. "

He picked up a copper coin from the boat and weighed it in his hand: "This thing is not bad for normal use. It is not suitable to eat or drink when carrying it on the march and fighting. If it is lost, it will be too distressing."

Guan Ping said with a grin:
"Too."

Seeing that Guan Ping didn't want to tell him why, the old man frowned in displeasure:

"You little boy, why are you so unhappy? Are you still afraid that the old man will rob you of your good deeds?"

Guan Ping smiled without saying a word, and changed the subject casually:

"I haven't asked the elder's name yet."

"I can't talk about a big name. The old man Huang Zhong, whose name is Han Sheng, is an old man from Jingzhou. It is insulting to the little Guan Gongzun."

Huang Zhong? !
When Guan Ping got the ghost's "History Book" before, he searched slowly according to the part where Guan Yu appeared. He vaguely remembered that Huang Zhong had a certain connection with his father. This person... seems to be a general in our army in the future.

Guan Ping was at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to recruit this person, but Huang Zhong lowered his head mysteriously:

"I heard something."

"Uh."

"Mr. Cao is about to march. You are good at water warfare, and you are not under Degui. This time, you have the opportunity to make meritorious service."

"What about Uncle Huang?"

"Hahaha, what does it have to do with me? I beat Cao Hong hard before, but now everyone in the Cao family wants my life. I have already found an errand to go to Xiangyang on business."

He stretched out his big palm-like hand and patted Guan Ping's shoulder, "Tan Zhi, we still have many opportunities to meet in the future."

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After receiving the money, Guan Ping went to Cao Jun's riverside camp to hang out.

With Chen Qun as a guarantee, he was not the subject of investigation. Looking at the aggrieved and unwilling faces of a group of Cao Jun soldiers, Guan Ping was a little bit emotional, and switched to a strong northern dialect to talk to those soldiers.

To be honest, Cao Jun’s soldiers in the field were really miserable, they were like serfs. They wore the most ragged clothes, and they could only stuff some straw into their clothes to keep warm in the cold wind, not to mention any extra money.

Before Guan Ping sold grain, they really wanted to buy it, but they could only watch it because they were short of money—they couldn’t buy rations with rations so outrageous.

When Guan Ping talked with them, he mentioned that there was still food to be sold recently. These people looked forward to it, but then they were quite sad.

"Hey, what does the nobleman have to do with us selling grain? I just hope that this battle can be finished as soon as possible, and let us go home and farm."

Guan Ping smiled and said:
"I do have the money, how about buying some wood from everyone?"

"Wood?" Several soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, all a little surprised.

"With money?"

"Correct."

"Can I buy it with cloth?"

"No, no, I only use money to buy food. With the money, you can buy food in the future."

Although they didn't know why Shangguan wanted to take off his pants and fart, the soldiers still gritted their teeth:
"Come on, isn't it just wood? What kind of wood does Shangguan want?"

(End of this chapter)