Chapter 273: Flying arrow conveys the message and holds the food theory
Chapter 273 Flying Arrows to Send Letters and Keeping Food Theory
Pei Xingjian turned his head and looked at the ball of paper in surprise, thought for a moment, and suddenly laughed, "What a person who treats others with their own medicine!"
Qu Chongyu raised his eyebrows with disdain, "Ms. Zhang dared to bribe people around me to find out what I was doing. Although I am too lazy to care about a woman too much, I can't let her continue to cause mischief! The maidservant who came today It’s just Piao Piao’s handwriting that is very clever. I never thought it could be put to such a use.”
Pei Xingjian nodded and smiled, "It's really useful!"
Qu Chongyu sighed, "It's not as good as my sister-in-law's bow left and right!" Last time, if it weren't for this Nana, how would he have known that Zhang Minniang was going to say such vicious words? I don't know what she will think when she learns that Yunyi doesn't understand at all, but in detail, he is still more willing to appreciate her appearance at this time.
Turning around and lighting the candle on the candlestick, Qu Chongyu unfolded the ordinary-looking piece of white linen paper in his hand. There were only two accounts scrawled on the paper, but after roasting it twice on the fire, the blank spaces were A few lines of writing and a simple map slowly appeared. Qu Chongyu only glanced at it, and his expression suddenly changed. After a while, he slowly put down the piece of paper, turned to look at Pei Xingjian, and said in a slightly bitter voice, "Su Haizheng may have killed the Xingxide Khan."
Pei Xingjian's face froze, he took a step forward, looked at it carefully, and recognized it was Liuli's handwriting. He first explained a few sentences on how to find out the matter, and then briefly described the situation outside the mansion. The map marked the current The troop deployment and location of Xizhou City. He couldn't help but look at the first line of handwriting again and again, and his face became more and more serious.
Qu Chongyu cursed in a low voice, "This crazy old man! If this happens, even if my family invades Xizhou City tomorrow, they will definitely not give up, at least until the battle is calmed down... But what about my father's health? Can you afford it?”
Pei Xingjian turned his head and looked at the candlelight, his voice full of sorrow, "I am too big. Su Haizheng must be chasing the Wudu land tribe at this time and taking the opportunity to plunder. No matter the victory or defeat in this battle, the West The chaos in Xinjiang has been decided!”
Qu Chongyu snorted coldly, "Who could have predicted that Su Haizheng could be so crazy and rebellious? In the final analysis, the Holy Emperor was still too confused. The civil servants fought to seize power. He could kill the heads of the tribes and the military officers defeated and massacred the city. In just a few years, everything would be over. It’s because he was saved from death that he raised such an arrogant and vicious **** general! If he had wiped out Wang Wendu’s whole family that day and captured these scum that massacred the city, how could he have been in trouble like this?”
Pei Xingjian was silent for a long time before speaking, "It's useless to say anything now. It's more important for us to think about how to break the situation."
Qu Chongyu looked down at the simple map and frowned, "I'm afraid our previous arrangements won't have much effect. Now that they have done this, they will definitely defend the government offices and city gates and block the generals of Xizhou. The news is transmitted to the court. They have thousands of people. It is not easy to break the situation! My father is relying on medicine to survive for three to five days. If he is not allowed to rest for ten or eight days, I am afraid that he will not be able to survive. Don’t stop!”
Pei Xingjian took a long breath and closed his eyes. When he opened them again after a while, his eyes had returned to clarity and calmness. He took the map and looked at it for a few times, then suddenly pointed to the area outside the house, "For Su Haizheng's sake." There are now less than five hundred soldiers. He is on the battlefield and it is impossible to send them all to Xizhou. Outside the mansion and at the city gate should be the border troops from Yizhou or Tingzhou. They are just ordinary soldiers stationed in the western border. , most of them don’t know why they came to Xizhou this time, so-called dividing and transforming..."
Qu Chongyu's eyes suddenly lit up, "I know what to do!" He glanced at Pei Xingjian and smiled mockingly, "But aren't you afraid of damaging the reputation of Datang?"
Pei Xingjian looked calm, "You are right, some things are already big mistakes. To hide them and protect them is to add mistakes to mistakes. The reason why the Tang Dynasty is a great Tang Dynasty is that it is virtuous and open to all rivers, and it is tolerant that it is great. , Wrong can be corrected. If we have to protect people like Su Haizheng and make loyal people unjust, then we can preserve the reputation of the Tang Dynasty. It’s okay not to have such a reputation! "
Qu Chongyu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then laughed, "With you, Pei Shouyue, Datang's reputation in Western Xinjiang will probably not be bad."
Pei Xingjian shook his head mockingly, pondered for a moment and then said, "There are just a few things that need to be arranged immediately. One is to guard all the roads to Xizhou, spread the news that needs to be spread, and stop the things that need to be taken. The people who live there must also be stopped and arrested. Secondly, there are those high-ranking families in Xizhou. Now each family has children being detained in the governor's mansion..." He suddenly smiled, "I am worrying too much. This matter will not be resolved for another two days. There’s no need to worry about it! But how can we spread our news now?”
Qu Chongyu tapped the map, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "What's so difficult about this!"
More than two quarters of an hour later, they saw that the sun was already setting in the west. The soldiers of the Su family who had been standing in the courtyard for an hour or two outside the door felt that the west wind was getting colder. They were muttering to themselves when they saw the door curtain lifted. Chongyu strode out, glanced down the bridge of his nose, and said coldly, "Which of you is in charge? Go find your Director Lu and tell him that the food in this government office is too unpalatable today. For dinner, I want to eat vegetarian food from Puzhao Temple and ask him to order a table and bring it in!"
The soldiers were a little stunned at first, but then they became angry and amused. The leader of the team laughed, "Your Majesty, I'm very sorry. Master Lu is busy with official duties and has no time to pay attention to these details. If you feel that the government's meals are difficult, Your Majesty, If you want to eat it, you might as well stop for a couple of meals, it will be much sweeter when you want to eat it again!”
Qu Chongyu looked at him indifferently, his eyes full of contempt, "Aren't you going to send a message?"
The team was looking at him with arms folded without saying a word, with undisguised sarcasm on their faces.
Several of Qu Chongyu's followers were immediately furious. They pointed their halberds at each other and shouted, "Who are you? How dare you take advantage of the crown prince asking you to pass a message?"
Qu Chongyu waved his hands in disgust, "Why bother with this kind of person? Is it possible that if he doesn't pass on the message, I won't be able to eat this vegetarian meal?" After saying that, he turned around and entered the house. After a while, he appeared at the door again, with something in his hand. Holding a strong bow.
The soldiers of the Su family were all startled. They all drew their swords out of their scabbards, only to see Qu Chongyu slowly take out a piece of white linen paper with a few large ink words written on it, "Mrs. Kudi, please give me a picture." "Si Zhai Cai to the Dudu's Mansion", threaded the paper on a long, edgeless arrow with a bone whistle, stretched his bow and nocked the arrow, and shot into the sky. The arrow disappeared high above the Dudu's Mansion with a sharp sound. outside the wall.
The soldiers of the Su family looked at each other for a moment, and the soldier couldn't help shouting, "What are you doing?" But Qu Chongyu didn't bother to look at him anymore. He threw his bow into the hand of the attendant and dusted his sleeves, " If you don’t think it’s sunset, someone will bring you vegetarian food!”
The noisy arrow passed through the long street and landed on a roof in the square across the street. The Xizhou people who were originally guarding the high wall ran to get it and handed it over to Mrs. Chang Shi who sent her to guard it. In the hands of several slaves at the gate. And an hour later, when the novice monk from Puzhao Temple appeared at the door of the Dudu Mansion holding several food boxes, a shocking news spread like wildfire among the Xizhou soldiers outside the mansion.
It was dinner time, and every household in Xizhou cooked the best meals. Food boxes were delivered to the soldiers in a flowing manner. As the aroma of hot meals spread around, the news also dissipated. go out.
On the other side of the long street, the Yizhou frontier soldiers drank cold water and chewed dry food. They smelled the strong aroma of the home-cooked fish and meat, and watched these Xizhou soldiers like heroes being greeted by their hometown elders, with dried biscuits in their mouths. It was even more difficult to swallow immediately.
Not long after, Lieutenant Zhou was called into the mansion. Several officers from the Yizhou Frontier Army also gathered together. One of the captains sighed in a low voice, "The Colonel must have gone in to have a meal. That mansion People probably have hot water and soup to eat, but we don’t know how long we’ll have to eat dry food!”
Another brigade officer snorted coldly, "How can we compare with them? They are all the confidants of the Great Protector. We are just coolies. We are not as good as those who follow the Protector on the battlefield and can still fight. As a military reward, the most we can do on this trip is to get some cold air! Those people from Xizhou look at us as if we are thieves!"
While several people were sighing, they heard someone not far away saying, "Are you guys here?"
Several officers hurriedly turned around to look, only to see the regiment from the Xizhou Prefecture Soldiers walking over with a smile. There was no sword in his hand, but he was carrying a large food box. They couldn't help but look at each other in astonishment.
Xizhou Tuanzheng walked up to a few people, put down the food boxes, smiled and hugged his hands, "Have you had dinner? Speaking of which, we are all soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but we each act according to the orders of the peak. , the people on the peak don’t seem to be shouting for death now, so why should we continue to attack? Guo just took offense. We now have a few more boxes of food here, and this one is still clean. If you don’t dislike it, , How about we just apologize as brothers?"
Several Yizhou officers looked at each other and were a little confused. They heard what he said was reasonable. Although they felt a little itchy in their hearts, they were too embarrassed to take it. The oldest brigade officer held his hands and smiled and said, "Brother Guo I appreciate your kindness, but we have already eaten our meals today, so I don’t want to bother you anymore!”
Guo Tuanzheng smiled and said, "This is not rice noodles, but some good broth. You can just return the food box to me tomorrow." He looked at them again and said, "I guess you are not the soldiers of Su Dadu. I don't know. Are you from Yizhou or Tingzhou?”
The brigade officer smiled calmly and said, "Brother Guo has a good eye. We are all Yizhou frontier troops."
Guo Tuanzheng laughed "hehe" twice, "I don't have any insight, but more than half of Su Dadu's personal soldiers have been beheaded as horse thieves. Now there are at most more than 400 people around you. The soldiers and horses you lead are so many." There are so many, how can they be the guards’ personal soldiers? Several of them are also coming from the military camp. Could it be that they haven’t noticed that there are surprisingly few tents around the main tent of the guards?”
Several Yizhou officers were stunned for a moment. This was too unbelievable, but... in retrospect, there were indeed too few tents around the Chinese army's tent this time!
Guo Tuanzheng glanced at them and said with a smile, "Why, haven't you heard that a few days ago, Pei Changshi, Prince Qu and the generals of the Xingxide Khan joined forces to annihilate a group of horse thieves with more than a thousand people? We people How many years have I been living in Western Xinjiang, but I have never heard of an army of thousands of thieves who dared to openly rob the army of food? That's okay! It happened to be at this moment, but the guards' soldiers disappeared inexplicably. Can't you tell? Besides, who are the rebels that the Protector wants to take down now? It's Xingxide Khan and Qu Dudu! A man like Xingxide Khan just accidentally wiped out a group of horse thieves, and that's what happened. The end was really... Well, who couldn't see it? If he really had any objections, how could he be killed on his own land? "
Several Yizhou officers were even more astonished. They had been repeatedly warned before coming here that Xingxi's dead Khan had rebelled and been executed, and they were strictly forbidden to say a word in Xizhou. How could this person in front of them know? But what he said makes some sense - it's a bit weird for the Xingxi-Dead Khan to rebel all the time, and it's even more unreasonable to say he wants to rebel and to be unsuspectingly blamed. It's reasonable, and there are thousands of thieves who appeared out of thin air and hundreds of soldiers who disappeared out of thin air... Why didn't I think about it before?
One brigade suppressed the panic in his heart and his face darkened, "Brother Guo is joking. It's better to talk less about these ridiculous words!"
Guo Tuanzheng glanced at them in surprise, "Is it ridiculous? If you don't believe me, you should believe Captain Zhou and Director Lu. Mrs. Chang Shi is arguing with them today. They are not talking about horse thieves and the rise and fall of the Khan. The two men immediately laughed and surrendered. This always happened in public, could it be that Guo made it up? "
He looked at a few people with some sympathy in his eyes, "Well, actually you don't know something. Not all the horse thieves were wiped out. Chang Shi still left a few alive. Counting the days, I'm afraid we have already arrived in Chang'an! Protector Su tried his best to conceal this matter, but in this world, how can there be any paper that can contain fire? When the Holy Will came, he added these serious crimes, and he didn't know what would happen. The retribution has come to an end, no matter how he is dealt with, it will not be unjust. Even Captain Zhou and Director Lu may have noticed this, so not only do they not dare to argue with Mrs. Chang Shi anymore, but everyone in the house will also be affected. The best vegetarian food in Xizhou! Is it possible to be an accomplice of such a person to honor one’s ancestors? Who doesn’t want to leave a way out for himself?”
Seeing Captain Zhou walking out quickly from the gate of the Governor's Mansion, Guo Tuanzheng's smile became more and more enthusiastic. He picked up the food box and stuffed it into the brigade's hand, "You don't know how to keep guard in this windy land." How long have they been eating hot soup? Why do you have to suffer? Is it possible that taking a bite can be considered a violation of the military order? Just remember to return the dishes and food boxes to me tomorrow!" After that, he turned around and left with a smile.
The brigade just said "Ah", and then heard someone behind him sternly said, "What are you doing?"
Several people turned around and saw Colonel Zhou, and they were all shocked. Before they could explain, Guo Tuanzheng turned around with a smile, "I have seen Colonel Zhou, and it was me chatting with all my colleagues. After a few words, they discussed the thousands of horse thieves who were wiped out by the Xingxi Death Khan, Chang Shi, and the Crown Prince last time. I heard that the horse thieves were very strict, and they were probably no worse than the soldiers around Dadu. !”
It's a little late, I wrote a thousand words more. Sorry, it should still be considered evening? hey-hey. The next update will be around 8pm. Thank you for praising my classmates with pink and tips...
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