Chapter 190(1/2)
One or two hundred miles away, in the signing room in a corner of the county government office, County Magistrate Gao and Master Zhou were sitting opposite each other in a sad mood.
In the past six months, he and Master Zhou were both guests and guests. Their mood was from earth to heaven, and from heaven to earth. I don’t know how many round trips he flew back and forth.
After the Chinese New Year, I heard that there was really going to fight there, but he didn't think too much about it. In the past ten years, there have been no major events on both sides, and no trivial matters have been stopped. They are all on the line on Jinghu South Road. He thought that if he wanted to fight, he would definitely fight from Jinghu South Road.
Unexpectedly, the army over there was stationed in the opposite Jinxian County. This battlefield was so close to him, Yao County!
When the army opposite was stationed in Jinxian, he was so anxious that he was filled with fumes.
Master Zhou comforted him and said that General Qi was extremely powerful. The people in Shu were rich and the soldiers were strong. If this battle was fought, it would not be certain where to fight. Maybe they would fight it.
He was in a better mood, but he didn't expect that as soon as the fight started, he came to the An family army to lead the troops in front. He felt that it was over. Sure enough, the letters sent by him all said that the masters of the An family were brave and mighty, and they used their troops like gods...
He didn't dare to wait any longer, so he quickly sent his family away. He sat opposite Master Zhou Tiantian, drinking strong tea every day, discussing how many days they could fight to Yao County there. If they fought to Yao County, then will they guard this city or not? If they guard, how can they guard it? How can they guard it?
A few days later, when his hair was about to turn white, he heard that the two families were going to discuss peace and that Shu and the other side were going to join together. He couldn't believe it at the time.
Later, more and more letters came. I heard that the emperor there spoke. All the officials in Shu, except the officials under the Prime Minister's Office, were originally appointed as the Ministry of Personnel, and were transferred to the Ministry of Personnel. They were treated equally like the officials there!
This is really good, it can't be better!
But the day before yesterday, he suddenly learned that the girl, her famous handsome husband, and an An family man were going to Chengdu Prefecture through his Yao County.
This is simply a bolt from the blue!
For this peace talk, he took the effort to inquire. From his second cousin who stayed in Chengdu Prefecture to being sent to Jingzhou City, Licheng, and even to Jinxian’s managers, all kinds of true and false news were constantly coming.
After he and Master Zhou repeatedly pondered, analyzed, weighed and speculated, the matter of peace talks was first proposed by the other side, and the two things that were very willing to do so should be true. It would take no effort to bring back Shu land without a single shot. Who would not want to do it!
But it is hard to say that their Shu area is not clear. It is said that the Prime Minister was very unhappy and had a big prince attack in public for two or three times.
However, the eldest son rushed back to Chengdu City, which was said to be the purpose of presiding over the peace talks.
But five days ago, he received another message from Senator Huang, and there was a second young master's words in the middle, saying that the peace talks were caused by someone who was not a bad intention to spread rumors, saying that although the girl had a trace of Renzong's blood, she was a daughter of the surname Li and married an enemy, and was an enemy, not a friend, so he had to regard him as an enemy, otherwise what would happen?
Huang Sen is the eldest brother of the second prince's daughter-in-law Huang's elder brother, and the eldest son of the second prince. Over the years, he has been speaking for the old man as his uncle and husband.
It’s fine if the second prince is gone. After the prime minister, the eldest prince must be in charge of politics, but the eldest prince has not gotten married, and there is no son or half of his daughter. After the eldest prince, the eldest prince must be in charge of politics...
County Magistrate Gao slapped his head in pain, "Old Zhou, you have to take out a one-way trip quickly. No matter what, tomorrow will be here. What should we do? Is the city gate open or not? Should we welcome it or not?"
"Dongweng, this matter is not something that cannot be opened or welcomed.
Before this, I have to think about it first. First, you said, can this peace talk be settled?
If you think the agreement can be completed, but I heard that the emperor over there would take care of our Shu area for ten or eight years in the hands of the general. You said, will the city gate be opened? Do you want to welcome it? That is not just welcome it, it is to welcome it as enthusiastically as possible! You have to go out of the city to welcome it now!"
County Magistrate Gao heard the bitter look on his face. He just didn't know if he could make the decision. After all, the Prime Minister was very unhappy, but he was just very unhappy.
"If the agreement cannot be concluded, it will be difficult. The eldest and second young masters do not mean the same thing. If you cannot open the door and welcome it out, you will offend people. Either offend this one or the other."
"What should I do?" County Magistrate Gao was anxious. "How can I agree? Who knows? But this person will be here tomorrow!"
"How about this!"
Master Zhou was yelled by County Magistrate Gao, and suddenly yelled at him to make a brilliant plan.
"Or, County Master, you will go out of the city tomorrow... No, no, no, now, this is autumn? It's time for farming, right? You have to go inspect the farming business, right?
Anyway, no one has told us, at least no one has told us officially, will anyone come to our Yao County tomorrow? You must not know, right?"
County Magistrate Gao stared at his eyes and slapped the table for a moment, "Good idea! Let's go now! No, the city gate is closed. Tomorrow morning, as soon as the city gate opens, I will go out of the city to inspect the farming. If you stay in the county government, you can take the lead. If you can't take the lead, you will push it on me. Anyway, I am not here, and I will definitely not be able to come back, there is no way!"
"Yes, yes! It's amazing!" Master Zhou clapped his hands and praised. He was so anxious and wise!
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The next day, before dawn, the team set off for Yao County.
When it was dawn, An Xiaorui pulled his horse to approach Xie Ze, followed their team of light horses not far behind and nowhere near, "What should I do? Let them follow?"
"Well, this is also a matter of course. Go and ask who is the leader, tell him about our itinerary today, and tell him that at noon today, the princess and I will go to Yao County for lunch."
Xie Ze gave indifferent instructions.
An Xiaorui agreed, turned the horse's head and went straight back.
The leader behind the team was a middle-aged commander in his forties. When he saw An Xiaorui coming towards him, he became nervous.
An Xiaorui rushed to the middle-aged commander's horse, pulled his head and turned his head, and stood side by side with the middle-aged commander. He looked at the middle-aged commander and said with a smile:
"In the lower house, Xiaorui, Xingwu, may I ask the general's surname?"
"I dare not be a lie!" The middle-aged commander hurriedly bowed and returned the favor, "I am just a commander, and I am not allowed to be the general, and I am not allowed to be the noble surname. I am not allowed to be the noble surname Qiu, and Qiu Shusheng."
"Commander Qiu." An Xiaorui immediately owed his body, and his smile became brighter. "Is Commander Qiu the team leader in this trip?"
An Xiaorui drew half a circle behind him.
"Yes." Commander Qiu answered the word "Yes" with extreme caution.
"It's a blessing for Commander Qiu." An Xiaorui bowed again, "My prince asked me to inform Commander Qiu about our itinerary today.
We arrived in Yao County before noon. The prince and the princess were going to have lunch in Yao County.
The prince and the princess were both considered people in the army. They only had an hour to eat and rest at noon, and then continued on their way.
Before dark, I rushed to Baliji to see if I could stay in the inn. If there was an inn, I would stay in the inn. If there was nothing, then camp out in the wild.
Commander Qiu see if this itinerary is appropriate?"
Commander Qiu wanted to nod but stopped, "I dare not, I dare not, the young man was ordered... Prince, follow the prince, and do everything he does, and dare not take it."
"Captain Qiu is polite." An Xiaorui smiled like a flower, bowed to Commander Qiu halfway, and suddenly looked at a middle-aged general who was pricking his ears and listening to him talking to Commander Qiu and asked with a smile: "Is this general's surname?"
"Hou Qing." The middle-aged general who was obedient with his ears was suddenly asked by An Xiaorui, and he was panicked and even forgot about polite words.
"This trip, thanks to Commander Qiu and General Hu. If you have any questions, Commander Qiu just sends someone to order me." An Xiaorui smiled at Commander Qiu again.
"I dare not take it, I dare not take it." Commander Qiu bowed repeatedly, and watched An Xiaorui urge his horse to rush forward and then slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"I heard that General An is handsome and handsome, but it seems that there is no false news." General Hu Shen looked at An Xiaorui who was leaving and sighed while exhaling.
"After all, it's the An family, how humble." Commander Qiu's feelings were obviously not the same as General Hu Shen's feelings.
"You heard him say it just now? It was their prince who asked him to come here. The prince is so beautiful!" General Hu Shen said.
"Look at what you said. That person was famous for being good-looking about ten years ago. He is the best in the world. How can he not look good? You are nonsense."
Commander Qiu was also a little off the stern, but he realized it immediately.
"Don't talk nonsense! He just said that the prince and the princess were going to Yao County for lunch? Is this an accident? It shouldn't be?"
"Of course not counting. Who is not like this when crossing the county and going to the city to have dinner?" Hu Shen answered very quickly.
"Well, I feel so too, but if something happens to happen after entering the city..."
Commander Qiu is a careless and meticulous person.
"That's the matter of the magistrate of Yao County, what's up to us?" General Hu Shen answered faster.
"Extremely!" Commander Qiu breathed a sigh of relief again.
"Old Qiu, what do we think about our great general? Let's go with this trip, and that's unclear, that's what we said... tsk, this is a matter of not discussing peace, you said, that, ahha?"
General Hu Shen approached Commander Qiu and muttered.
"That's not obvious. People said that the Shu army was handed over to several General An to fight north. There is nothing wrong with General Qi. Is this man, who doesn't think of himself first?"
Commander Qiu smiled dryly.
"That's right. If we all belong to the hands of General An, then we will be the An family army?"
Hu Shen slipped his eyes around, his face tense, but his eyebrows flew.
"I tell you, the An Family Army is not An Family Army, and they all say it privately, but everyone thinks that the reputation of the An Family Army is achieved through many battles. It will definitely not be that easy for us to be the An Family Army.
I don’t know how to divide it at that time. Our Shu army is hundreds of thousands, and there are only five generals An in total. We definitely can’t take them personally. At that time, I don’t know how to pick people.”
"Where do you want to go? You haven't even glanced at the eight characters yet!" Commander Qiu also glanced around and lowered his voice to scold General Hu Shen.
"There is no sign, that's not," Hu Shen raised his chin and pointed in front, "Skip it in!"
"This matter cannot be said nonsense, it's a fatal matter." Commander Qiu's voice lowered.
"We're just talking about something in private." General Hu Shen laughed a few times and stopped talking.
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Just before noon, the team arrived outside the gate of Yao County.
Xie Ze and Li Ran took An Xiaorui, Huo Wencan, Wang Shi, Tao Nong and others to get off the car and go into the city. Zhou E and Li Qingning stayed outside the city and arranged for people to bury the stove and cook, and go to the city to buy.
Commander Qiu, General Hu Shen and Zhou E who were following behind were about one meter away, and they were also burying a stove outside the city to cook.
Master Zhou sat in a small teahouse near the city gate. He saw Xie Ze and Li Ran coming out of the shadow under the city gate from afar. He took a sudden sigh, vomited out again, stood up, went out from the back door of the teahouse, and hurried back to the county government.
He had to guard the county government. Maybe the prince and the princess were going to the county government to check in, so he had to wait in the county government government for a while and he didn't know what to do.
Li Ran and Xie Ze side by side. From the time they entered the city gate, they slowed down and looked at the shops and people on both sides as they walked.
She looked at the shops and people on both sides, and the people on both sides were looking at Xie Ze beside her with their eyes straight, and forgot to walk and do things.
Li Ran looked at Xie Ze calmly and couldn't help laughing. Xie Ze looked down at her, reached out to hold her hand, and held her slowly forward.
Xie Ze's grip brought Li Ran into everyone's sight.
There was a buzzing sound everywhere, and there were shrill voices coming out of nowhere in the middle.
"That's the princess, right? He's so noble!"
"Can the princess not be noble? A true nobleman!"
"Bless the princess!"
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Li Ran wanted to laugh when she heard this, but she felt a little embarrassed.
This was the first time she heard the praise of nobleness. Maybe she could praise her nobleness when she was with Xie Ze.
But how did this princess call it out? She has a princess, but what kind of princess is she?
To be continued...