Humane Yongchang

Chapter 94 What's Wrong
Chenjiazhuang.

Chen Shou, who was sitting barefoot on the edge of the field ridge with his trouser legs rolled up, looked at Chen Sheng with a very splendid expression after listening to Chen Hu's remarks.

Chen Sheng looked at him calmly, and said sternly: "Why, Dad, do you think there is something wrong with your son's decision?"

Chen Shou opened his mouth and closed it again.

After a long while, he said in a murmur, "My son is born with great ambitions, I am not as far away as my son!"

Chen Sheng smiled: "Father doesn't blame his son for being self-willed, it's good for dragging our family down!"

Chen Shou shook his head vigorously and said one sentence at a time: "A man stands between the heavens and the earth, and he does what he does and what he does not do. My son can have this heart and this thought, and our ancestors and sects are under the Jiuquan, and it should be smooth. Congrats!"

He was very touched.

When he heard Chen Hu say that the various aristocratic families in the county would divide up [-] stone grains, and his merchant Chen family would also get [-] stone, he felt happy and excited!
Chen Sheng is worried about food.

He, the serious businessman of the Chen family, is of course also worried about food.

Now that three hundred stone grains of grain have fallen out of thin air, his family of two thousand people can live a little more comfortably, how could he not be happy?
He didn't think there was anything wrong with it!
Until Chen Hu relayed what Chen Sheng had said earlier to him.

He suddenly woke up...

This is not right!

But this result was told to him by Chen Sheng's son!

This made him really have a kind of age of his own, and he lived on the dog!
"In addition to returning to the county to show up, what else can Dad do?"

He said sternly, "Why don't you go here, let me and Daozi and the others go, and you stay at home?"

"No way!"

Chen Sheng shook his head slightly: "You are the backbone of our family. As long as you don't show up in the county, our family can't get rid of this suspicion, and the follow-up finishing matters will be very troublesome!"

After a pause, he continued: "After you return to the county, go to the Zhang family, the Tian family, the Liu family, and the Huai'an Tang from house to house, and ask them to buy food!"

"It doesn't matter if they sell it or not, the important thing is that you let them know that you are in the county!"

Chen Shou opened his mouth and was about to speak, when Chen Hu had already taken the lead and said, "This trip, let's go with Dalang!"

Chen Sheng looked at him, and before he opened his mouth, he saw Chen Huchong shaking his head, breathing out smoke and said slowly: "Don't be stubborn with Er Bo, if you don't have a familiar way to lead the way, do you know which path to take? Where can you get water, Where can I set up camp, and where are the big families?"

He took a sip of leeks, and suddenly smiled: "Speaking of which, our arm was lost on this road, and now I'm going to make a fool of you, it's also our arm, it's not lost in vain. On the way..."

Chen Shou: "Second brother..."

Chen Hu shook his head again: "Fourth, don't persuade you. You are what you say all these years. The second brother has never spoken to you, but this time, the second brother wants to make up his own mind."

Chen Shouyi gritted his teeth, looked at Chen Sheng, and said solemnly, "If you want to do something big, Dad won't stop you!"

"You told Dad earlier that when you leave the house, Dad has to take care of the lives and deaths of these brothers and uncles in our family. Whoever hurts or dies, Dad is responsible!"

"Today, Dad will return your words to you, remember, the ones you brought out are all good men who are alive and kicking, can walk and carry, you take them out whole, and you must take them whole. return!"

Chen Sheng smiled slightly, "Aren't you worried that your son won't come back by himself?"

Chen Shou made a mocking "ha" and said disdainfully, "You are better than monkeys, and you cherish your life, who can keep you?"

"Hahaha, you really know the son Moruofu!"

Chen Sheng got on his horse, grabbed the reins with one hand, and held down the sharp sword hanging on the horse's back with the other: "Father, my son is gone!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and ran towards Panlong Village.

When Chen Hu and several Youzhou army veterans saw this, they all went on horseback to catch up with Chen Sheng.

Chen Dao has already rushed to Panlong Village to rectify the manpower, and only when they arrive at Panlong Village, they can set off for Tuoxian County.

Chen Shou stood on the field ridge and watched them go away.

In the spacious field, he stood alone in the ridge of the field, and there was a sense of desolation in the fractal alone.

Dressed in tattered clothes and hunched over pretending to be weeding in the field, Chen Qi, who was actually listening to their conversation, shrank his head and leaned over to Chen Shou, and whispered, "Fourth Brother, You just let this bastard go?"

Chen Shou smiled helplessly, "I can't help my mother... Okay, let the brothers stop their madness, go back to the village to change clothes, and go back to the county!"

……

is the day.

Chen Sheng divided the hundred and fifty people under his command into two groups.

There were only ten people along the way, led by Chen Sheng and Chen Dao, who covered their faces with cloaks, rode down the road on horseback, and went straight to Tuo County.

The large army, led by Chen Hu, took a little-known secret path, over the mountains and mountains, and rushed to Tuoxian in the starry night.

The two parties agreed to converge on the west of Mogou Road.

……

The star river hangs high.

Chen Sheng and others spent the night in an abandoned inn.

In the wilderness, the night was freezing cold, and the surroundings were so silent that even the chirping of insects could not be heard.

After tossing and turning for a long time and still unable to fall asleep, Chen Sheng simply stood up, sat by the bonfire and re-examined the whole thing, looking for details that he might have overlooked.

Suddenly, Chen Dao, who was holding the night, walked in with a torch, saw Chen Sheng sitting by the bonfire, and whispered, "Dalang, something is not right!"

Chen Sheng raised his head to look at him: "What's wrong?"

Chen Dao walked quickly to him, took out an object from his arms and handed it to him, "I was outside and found this object."

Chen Sheng took it and looked at it, but it was a piece of palm-sized, black and dry, like a piece of dry cow dung, but it felt like a coarse cloth.

"what is this?"

he asked.

Chen Dao: "Vinegar cloth."

Chen Sheng: "Huh?"

Chen Dao explained: "When the army is out on the march, it is inconvenient to carry oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so it is often used as a condiment. This thing has been soaked in salt and vinegar, and it is eaten. Just tear off a piece and throw it into the kettle. Mix dry food and cook."

After a pause, he continued: "The production process of this thing is complicated, and the taste is very bad. It tastes like a foot-binding cloth. Apart from being easy to carry and easy to store, it has few advantages. I have never been anywhere other than the military. I have seen this thing, not even in our caravan!"

The implication is that the person who uses this thing is [-]% of the military.

Chen Sheng frowned, put the black rag in his hand under his nose and sniffed gently, but he could still smell the faint acetic acid smell mixed with the taste of complex food.

"Where did you find it?"

He realized the seriousness of the problem, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

Chen Dao: "Looking at the traces behind the small hill opposite the post station, the number of people should be around 300, and it won't take more than a day to leave this place!"

"Last night? That's not the people from the state capital!"

Chen Sheng stood up, lingered on the spot with the dry vinegar cloth for two laps, and said, "It's better to camp in the field, so why bother to camp around the post station... Is there only this water source nearby?"

After recalling the surrounding environment for a while, Chen Dao nodded and said, "It should be so."

"coincide?"

Chen Sheng frowned and carefully recalled what he saw on the map this morning, and determined this road, and even the county road from Chen County in Chen County to Shangqiu in Liang County, with only Tuoxian County in the middle.

In other words.

Either soldiers and horses from other states and counties passed through Chen County to the counties in the northeast of Chen County.

Or the soldiers and horses of Chen County went to Tuoxian, Shangqiu and other places.

At this juncture...

Could it be a coincidence?
After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Can you tell whether this group is up or down?"

Chen Dao shook his head and said, "There are experts in this group of people who are good at sweeping away the traces of the march. If you want to tell the difference, you have to go farther!"

Chen Sheng looked at him curiously: "Did you find any traces on the way here?"

Chen Dao smiled: "The good teacher knows that there are scouts in the army who specialize in investigations. I have been with the uncle since the day of the army.

Chen Sheng nodded clearly: "It's the little nephew who took the liberty!"

"Since you can't tell whether this group of people is up or down, then treat it as not a coincidence!"

He went on to say: "When you go northwest tomorrow, be more cautious, and don't run into someone else's trap."

Chen Dao nodded: "I'll save it!"

……

The next day.

It's not yet dawn.

Chen Sheng and his party had already turned over and continued on their way by the twilight of the morning light.

When the sun hit three strokes, Chen Dao, who was riding at the front of the team, suddenly raised his right hand and made a stop gesture.

Everyone Qi Qi Lema.

Chen Dao turned over and dismounted, walked to the center of the road in front of the team, squatted down and looked at a piece of horse dung scattered in a line, and picked up a wooden stick to spread it out.

Chen Sheng also jumped off his horse and walked to his side: "Uncle Dao, what did you find?"

Chen Dao stood up, "This is the feces of the war horse. It's the group of people who camped in the wild the night before. They were traveling from Chen County to Shangqiu."

The direction is not difficult to judge.

The horse manure on the ground is distributed from more to less in the direction of Shangqiu, and the direction can be judged.

But just based on a pile of horse manure, how can you tell that it is a war horse?
Chen Sheng asked Chen Dao.

Chen Dao pointed to the horse dung on the ground with the small wooden stick in his hand, and explained: "The horse is mainly forage, supplemented by fine grain; the war horse is mainly composed of fine grain, supplemented by forage."

Chen Sheng glanced at it.

No, there are still a lot of undigested beans in the horse manure.

"Did you play so much?"

He emptied his eyes, already made a judgment in his heart, raised his head and asked, "Uncle Dao, do you know how far away is the road from the moat that the second uncle said?"

Chen Dao thought for a while and replied, "If what the second brother said is correct, there should only be more than twenty miles left!"

Chen Sheng turned and walked towards the horses: "Get on the horse, we must get there before the second uncle and the others arrive!"

The reason why they had to divide their troops in two directions was to avoid missing the grain transport team from the state capital.

They are on the main road, and they have horses to travel, so they have time to sleep all night and don't have to rush the night road.

As for Chen Hu and the others, because they had to make a detour, according to the plan, they hurried through the night to reach the ditch with their front and back feet.

　People are not very comfortable today, so there is only this chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)