stubborn thief

Chapter 223 Sending the God of Plague

Noon on the third day of the Lion's Camp expedition.

At Shilipu in the east of Pingliang City, King Han digs watermelon with a spoon and eats it happily.

While eating, he frowned and looked at the melon farmer beside him: "This king eats melons, you keep watching, have you never eaten melons?"

Standing by the side, the melon farmer was very hungry, nodded and said: "My lord, I really haven't eaten it."

King Han stared and said, "Have you ever eaten melons as a melon grower?"

How did that happen?

King Han didn't eat so well, he looked at Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun looked at him, and said: "Your Highness, be virtuous, and you have to pay for food."

"Who says it's not? This king doesn't know that he hasn't eaten melons."

After all, King Han looked at half of the watermelon in front of him, pushed it over and said to the melon farmer, "Come on, try this half, it's okay, Eunuch Cao will give you the money later."

Cao Huachun stood aside, his eyes widened when he heard the words: "Your Highness, who do you see coming out of the palace to bring money?"

"Hey, it's my father-in-law who doesn't even have any money."

Han Wang rolled his eyes at Cao Huachun, buried his head and continued to eat, looked up at the melon farmer after two bites, and said, "Then... let's credit the melon, and see if the front line wins or loses."

The melon farmer refused to eat, but still looked at King Han pitifully.

"No, it's useless for you to look at me like this. If you win a battle at the front, I will lend you a few taels of silver; if you lose the battle, whoosh..." Accompanied by the pronunciation, Han Wang raised his hand and pointed to the north: "The defeated soldiers tied the king to a tree."

"When Eunuch Cao will be with me, who can give you money?"

Cao Huachun rolled his eyes: "Your Highness, the slaves are still returning to the palace to serve the emperor, and they will not be with you!"

King Han glanced at him unhappily, and said in his heart that you are not even good at flattery and deception, so you have been honored by the great companion of Xin Wangfu, otherwise you will not be able to become a person in this life.

Zhou Riqiang, the magistrate of Ningzhou, stood aside, seeing King Han eating melons and making jokes so easily, his heart beat with anxiety, and he stood at the door of the express shop, looking east.

There are more people standing outside the shop, a bunch of generals and lieutenants, dragging their families and looking eastward.

Everyone is waiting for news of the outcome.

On Sunday Qiang listened to the two people chattering in the shop and got really annoyed. He turned his head and took out melon money from the money bag embroidered with Ruyi on his waist, put it in the hand of the melon farmer, and said, "Your Majesty told you to eat, you can eat it, don't be afraid."

Seeing the money, the melon farmer was grateful, but he didn't hold the melon and eat it. He just looked at King Han cautiously and said, "Xiaomin wants to give the melon to the baby, my lord..."

King Han waved his hand, and the melon farmer backed away with half of the melon in his arms. Then he said to Sunday with an unhappy face, "Zhou Zhizhou, you are wrong. If you have money, you should first lend the money to me, and then I will give it to you." Melon money!"

Sunday Qiang didn't even think about buying a melon with more than a dozen pennies, so he waved his hand and said, "I don't have much money, so I can borrow or not."

"What do you call borrowing or not, you know what a fart!"

Han Wang was still in a hurry: "I gave him the melon money. In the future when Pingliang rebelled, he would think of me eating melons for money and staying at home! What's the matter with you giving me the money, pat your ass and go away. It's useless!"

Cao Huachun and Zhou Riqiang looked at each other and were stunned for a long time before Cao Huachun shook his head and said, "If His Royal Highness King Han puts his mind to the right place, he will become a wise king of Ming Dynasty."

"whispering sound!"

Han Wang rolled his eyes and thought that Xiao Wang knew nothing, Xiao Wang didn't even know that he had to pay for eating melons, and it was all taught by the king.

He raised his finger to the sky and said: "With a knife hanging above the head, everyone is wise."

Cao Huachun was noncommittal about this, as far as he knew, sometimes even with a knife hanging above their heads, many people would not be wise.

King Han ate his melon again, spitting it out like a pea shooter.

After vomiting, he looked at Sunday Qiang with an uneasy expression, like a playboy: "Hey, we don't have any money, how do you have money?"

"Earned at the Lion's Camp."

Sunday Qiang said as it should be: "I didn't bring any money. Chief Cao said that the commander-in-chief's son should be enlightened in two years, so I asked me to write a small article."

"Son, son, even his mother-in-law and aunt don't have a son?"

Han Wang gritted his chin with a look of surprise, what could be the reason?
"Where is it, why haven't I heard him say it?"

"The doll I picked up is in Zhenyuan."

King Han shook his head regretfully, it was too far away.

Don't expect to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day.

Not only can he be the big brother, but he can also prolong his life directly in metaphysics, which is the best of both worlds.

Han Wang even wanted to dance a section. For him, the happiest thing in the world is to leave Pingliang.

If you leave Pingliang, you can live for more than ten years.

If you stay in Pingliang, you can live for decades.

These two things have to be combined in this life, right?If you want to build one, the easiest solution at present is to ask the eldest son of Liu Chengzong's family for help.

This way, he might be able to leave Pingliang, and he would definitely live a few more years.

Lumi is [-] shi every year, and there is no need to do anything, not to mention the chaos in the seniority, and he will happily change his father.

But on Sunday, a pot of cold water was poured down: "The dam in King Qin's village was cut off. The general heard the baby crying in the ruins, and then rescued the baby from its mother's arms. This child grows up, and I'm afraid it will never end with the clan."

Cao Huachun, on the other hand, looked at Han Wang and Zhou Riqiang, wondering what he was thinking.

Suddenly, he bowed his hands to Sunday and asked: "Zhou Zhizhou, I heard from Governor Yang that he recruited General Liu and recommended a fourth grade for you. Congratulations to Mr. Zhou first."

"Thank you very much."

Sunday Qiang clasped his fists with a smile, then shook his head and said: "To tell the truth, after staying in Liu Shuai's camp for a long time, Zhou felt a lot of emotion in his heart. He has no intention of going into an official career again, and plans to resign and return home."

"Wait a minute, there is actually a good place to go."

Cao Huachun said strongly to Sunday: "The emperor said that Liu Chengzong can be good, and someone needs to persuade him carefully... Qinghai Xuanwei envoy Si Tongzhi is a fourth grade."

"Don't you?"

"Don't!"

The previous sentence was said by Zhou Qiang. He finally felt that he was out of the sea of ​​suffering, and he was going to be thrown to Qinghai at once.

Yu Si went back to Zhili in the north to study, and he could eat fresh perch from Nanjing every day through the Caohe River. What kind of fairy days are those, isn't it much more beautiful than being worried about Liu Chengzong?
Although walking around with Liu Chengzong, seeing different things from the perspective of a different and traditional literati, especially now that he is not a traitor, it is like a very attractive adventure.

But Zhou Riqiang was not sure of fulfilling the emperor's entrustment. When Liu Chengzong rebelled, the emperor in Beijing couldn't reach Liu Chengzong, and couldn't he strangle his son in Baoding?

Let's say goodbye next, it's King Han.

Cao Huachun just forced a smile at Sunday, Quandang didn't hear his rejection, but asked King Han, "Your Highness thinks something is wrong?"

King Han didn't think it was wrong, he just felt that he had neglected Sunday Qiang during this time, fearing that Sunday Qiang would go to Qinghai and wear small shoes for himself with Liu Chengzong.

But can this be said to others?
He thought for a while, looked at Zhou Riqiang, shook his head, and said, "I'm not hindering Mr. Zhou's official career, but it's just too hard. How about it? I heard that merchants from the Tea Horse Road used to bring bowls of candy from Yunnan when they went to Uszang. , Every time I go to the mountains to get sugar and eat it."

After all, he said strongly to Sunday: "This king will send a letter to Lanzhou, and ask them to prepare more, so as to relieve the suffering of the husband."

Sunday Qiang's face was covered in circles, when did I promise to go to Qinghai!

You just arranged for me?

As he said that, Han Wang's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand and pointed upwards beside his head: "Yes, I have to prepare some for the king."

He added in his heart, maybe the commander-in-chief will forgive the king's debts when he is happy!

Seeing that Cao Huachun was very worried, why did the descendants of Emperor Taizu become like this?
At this moment, the young man in front of the palace ran very fast, shouting as he ran, "Come back, come back!"

King Han couldn't sit still anymore, he put half a melon on the table, and almost choked on his mouth vaguely: "Win the battle or lose the battle?"

"Victory, big victory!"

King Han got up and spit out a bunch of watermelon seeds, wiped his mouth from his sleeve, ran out of the delivery shop, jumped high, and shouted to the generals and lieutenants: "I can't die!"

"Hide all the paper money for this king... Pave the road with loess, and pour clean water on the street!"

All of a sudden, there was a great chaos, the Tibetan paper money was hidden, the flower wreath was hidden, and the couplet writer picked up the suona snare drum, threw the mourning stick into the emergency delivery shop, and picked up the water basin on the spot.

When Liu Chengzong led the lion camp back, everything was in order.

Several county kings and concubines of the Han Fan went out of the city for ten miles under the leadership of the King Han. They held two large banners on the left and right, beat the gongs and drums to make a loud noise, the Zuoshu Weifan went out, and the Right Shubanner was victorious. Wine lined the road to greet each other.

Han Wang was so happy that his face was blooming, he grabbed the rein before him, and kept saying: "Xiao Wang knows that the king will win the battle!"

Liu Chengzong searched for Yang Dingrui on horseback, and asked, "Sir, does His Highness King Han really know that I can win?"

Yang Dingrui nodded with a smile: "I know half of it."

Liu Chengzong thanked the clan of the vassal state for their kindness, and was not in a hurry to return to the city, and discussed with King Han about buying a cemetery.

After returning to the city, Cao Yao went into battle with injuries and made a meal of authentic Shaanxi Henan donkey meat.

This may be the most expensive donkey meat fire he has ever made in his life. Four donkey meat fires were exchanged for the [-] mu of King Han's cemetery.

Originally, one hundred mu was enough, but Han Wang said that he must give two hundred mu because he was afraid that the fallen soldiers would fall asleep and squeeze them.

It was only later that Liu Chengzong discovered that this Lord Han Wang actually didn't even know how big a hundred acres of land was.

Because he was afraid that there would be another rebellion in the future, others would dig up the graves of his fallen soldiers, so King Han chose a place where they would never be digged.

On the Nine Peaks Plum Blossom Mountain to the east of Pingliang City, where two Han kings and one emperor from two dynasties are buried, it is considered a geomantic treasure.

The two Kings of Han are King Han Gong of the Ming Dynasty Han Fan, and King Wan Yanheng of the Kingdom of Jin, who is number one in polo in the world, and his son Wanyan Yangti.

There is also the emperor who reigned for the shortest time in Chinese history, Wanyan Chenglin, the last emperor of the Jin Kingdom.

Wan Yanheng was originally King Rui, who died in the rebellion of King Hailing, and his family took his and Yang's bones to Anding where there was the old Jin Wushu department for burial. Seven years later, he was rehabilitated and became the King of Han.

Seventy years later, in Caizhou City, the Mongolian and Song allied forces approached the city. The emperor Wanyan Shouxu did not want to be the king of subjugation, and passed the throne to Wanyanheng's grandson Wanyan Chenglin. Before the enthronement ceremony was completed, the city was broken.

The broken soldiers fled to Anding with Wanyan Chenglin's bones, and they were also buried here.

Liu Chengzong thinks this place is very good and lively. If there is an emperor, there is an emperor, and if there is a prince, there is a prince. If you have nothing to do, you can play polo, and you will not be lonely.

At the funeral, he asked Han Wang: "You will also be buried here later, right? It's a very nice place, lively."

"I'm not going to bury it, who the hell am I going to beat?" Han Wang said that if his life was safe, he would not have a good face: "You will be bullied."

The funeral ceremony for the fallen soldiers was being held here, and the Tang soldiers in the east sent a message, and another army came to Jingchuan, and they came from Ningzhou, only three to five hundred people.

This army was much more well-behaved, stationed at the foot of Jingchuan City, it stopped moving, and asked the local people to come and pass a message to Tangqi, saying that they were the people of Yang He, the governor of the three sides, and they were not here to fight, so don't do anything.

Later, the general came by himself, and he signed up and said his name was Zuo Guangxian.

Liu Chengzong knew this person, so he called him over.

The year they left Yuhebao, Zuo Guangxian was still an officer in the Xuanfu, and was asked by Governor Yue Hesheng to work as a firearms instructor in Yansui Town.

But before it was his turn to teach Yuhebao, Liu Chengzong and his brother were released.

Zuo Guang was so embarrassed when he came here first, he saw the funeral was going on here from a distance, and secretly thought that he came at the wrong time.

Whoever brings money with him, does he follow the ceremony or not?
Anyway, I came here with a thick skin, and I couldn't stand up straight when I came here.

The funeral scene was too frightening, not to mention the army, a lot of princes had to stand at the back, Zuo Guang first stood at the end of the line with self-knowledge, and followed the funeral.

He followed for a long time, Liu Chengzong was puzzled at the front, and asked the left and right: "Didn't you say that Zuo Guang came here first? It's been so long, and he hasn't come yet?"

Han Wangdao: "It's early, a few lieutenants of Fengguo bowed at the front just now, and there is an unknown person in the middle, it should be him."

Liu Chengzong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Go and find it, I don't know Lieutenant Feng Guo either."

Sure enough, this matter still needs to be done by those who know how to do it. King Han went over and looked around without asking any questions, so he accurately picked out Zuo Guang who was mixed in the team first.

In the past, even if He Renlong was in front of him, Zuo Guang would not lower his posture when speaking first, but now the form is different, he saluted first, and then asked: "General Liu, do you have the official seal?"

"Yes, my elder brother hasn't come here yet, what's the matter?"

Zuo Guang first said: "After the governor sent me to clear the way for the general, if you have nothing else to do, you should leave as soon as possible. The general's brother's official position, if you can't do it, you can reassign him on the way, hurry up and take up the post."

Cao Huachun was not happy: "Why do you call it on the road? Is it possible that you still want our men to go to Xining?"

"Oh, father-in-law." Zuo Guangxian didn't dare to offend anyone, and said with a smile: "Your general doesn't mean that, Governor Yang wants General Liu to take office as soon as possible, so as not to cause too many local affairs."

In fact, the meaning is very clear, that is, tell Liu Chengzong to get out of here quickly, and stop fighting in other places.

Cao Huachun snorted: "Just wait, wait for Brother General Liu to come over and set off after he is conferred an official position."

"You guys, you don't know how to talk to generals properly, do you, General Zuo?"

Liu Chengzong thought that Yang He had a good idea. Taking the emperor's companions to Xining would be good for them to intimidate the officials of Xining Wei and local officials.

He smiled and asked Zuo Guang first, then turned his head and said, "Then let's go, Eunuch Cao, let's go to Xining for a walk together, will King Han go?"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)