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Chapter 240
Eighth night of the eighth month of August.

Southeast of Yingzhou, Duoji Ridge.

Duoji Ridge got its name because of its shape. The north, south, and west sides are all gentle slopes, and the east side is backed by the Ying River. Crossing the river is the boundary of Shouzhou.

Last night, the officers and soldiers "frantically chased" for dozens of miles. When the bandit leaders Jin Taiping and Li Kui fled here together with hundreds of remnants, there was Ying River in front and pursuers behind them. They had to run up the ridge.

This morning, the infantry of the army's rear arrived, and the [-]-strong army surrounded Duji Ridge, which was only three miles wide.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Dust Ji Ridge has become a place of death, and it will only be a matter of time before these thieves are beheaded.

But Chen Dutong ordered the siege but not the attack, saying only: To avoid unnecessary casualties.
Zhang Chunxiao, who was staying in Yingzhou, seemed to have sensed something, and hurried over today, and it was already midnight when he entered the camp.

Under the dustpan ridge.

It was windy last night, and it was gloomy all day today, and at night at Haishi, misty rain fell in the sky.

The temperature has dropped sharply, and the atmosphere of autumn is suddenly strong.

A gust of autumn wind wrapped around the rain and blew obliquely into the tent, Xin Qiji tugged at his collar.

Last night, after Fanjiawei Minzhuang and the official army defeated the rebel army, they pursued the rebel army together to this point.

Seeing that the thieves who have poisoned Huaibei for several months are about to be destroyed, Xiao Xin naturally does not want to miss this big show.

This morning, he and his two brothers and sisters went to visit Chen Dutong specially, hoping to stay and serve him temporarily.

Unexpectedly, that Chen Dutong was not much older than himself, and when he heard his name, he showed obvious excitement and excitement, and said: "In front of you, it's 'drunk to look at the sword, dreaming back to blowing the horn. Mr. Xin from camp!"

Am I so famous that Xiao Xin was taken aback for a while?

But Chen Dutong, you can’t boast like this. You are a few months older than me, how can you call me Mr.Furthermore, who made that "Looking at the sword with the lamp on while drunk, and dreaming back to the company blowing the horn"?
Although this word is imposing at the first hearing, it is not written by me, so you can't force it on me.
In short, when the two met for the first time, he called him 'Mr. Xin' and he called him 'Mr. Chen'.

I don't know whose Mr.
However, when Xiao Xin saw Chen Chu, he was already wearing an idol filter, and after meeting Chen Dutong, he was very respectful to him, a white-bodied scholar with no fame, which finally made him feel that his reputation was "well-deserved".

But the two brothers-in-law next to him had reservations about this.

"The soldiers from Caizhou fought bravely yesterday, but their pursuit at night was too sloppy! With an army of more than a thousand cavalry, the thieves escaped for dozens of miles, and finally ran up the Dust Ji Ridge! Let's let go of our horse power. Go after it, and the thief has already been taken down!"

During the pursuit last night, Fan Jiawei Minzhuang was put in the rear team and took charge of taking prisoners. Fan Rushan was particularly upset when talking about this matter.The Erlang of the Fan family, Fan Ruhai, looked at the dark Dupan Ridge in front of him, thinking.

Xiao Xin was aware of the strangeness last night, the horse army pursued the chaotic army with mixed infantry and cavalry, it should have been effortless.

But last night, the officers and soldiers fell behind the defeated army, as if deliberately trying to drive this group of thieves to the border between Ying and Shou.

And just now the appeasement envoy of the Henan Road Economic Strategy came in a hurry, Xiao Xin had probably guessed Chen Dutong's plan, he didn't want to tell the truth, but he heard his wife and brother complain, the young man finally couldn't hold back, and defended Chen Dutong in a low voice Said: "Brother! This matter is by no means as simple as you think."

"What do you mean?"

"I think Chen Dutong intends to drive the thieves to Shouzhou on purpose."

"Why?" Fan Rushan asked in surprise.

"Because of the Taining Army!"

"Taining Army?"

"Yes! The Taining army on Shandong Road didn't do much to suppress the bandits this time. When the bandits came, he retreated to Guoyang, Bozhou. When the bandits left, he re-entered Shouzhou. After the bandits came west at the beginning of the month, he occupied Shouzhou again. Empty city, and organized soldiers to repair the city, seems to have the intention of staying for a long time."

"you mean"

"Tan Fu said." Fan Ruhai, who was still looking at Duoji Ridge, explained for his brother-in-law: "Chen Dutong's duty is to suppress thieves, if all the thieves are wiped out in Yingzhou, Chen Dutong will have no reason to go to Shouzhou! If Chen Dutong doesn't go to Shouzhou, will Li Qiong, the Taining Army, go back to his Shandong Road obediently?"

"He's trying to grab the territory! Stay with the bandits and respect yourself!" Fan Rushan couldn't help but let out a low voice.

"How can this be regarded as raising the bandits' self-respect!" Xiao Xin glanced at his wife and brother displeasedly, and said again: "If you have to say that this is the army leader grabbing the territory, it is also Li Qiong who wants to grab it! He is a Jiedu of Shandong Road If the envoy stays on Henan Road and doesn't leave Shouzhou, doesn't it count as grabbing territory? Furthermore, all the officials in Shouzhou, big and small, have been slaughtered. If he stays here, he will pretend to be Qi next."

"Tanfu, be careful!" Fan Ruhai quickly reminded in a low voice.

Xiao Xin, who slipped his tongue for a while, looked around, and changed his words with a smile, "If Li Qiong doesn't leave, when the Daqi court re-appoints the civil and military officials of Shouzhou, even if he is unwilling, he can only take his opinion as the basis." Serious. The Taining army has a bad military discipline, and it is definitely not a blessing for the local people to stay in Shouzhou!"

"I see."

Today's people have a strong sense of locality. Soldiers from Shandong Road occupy our land on Henan Road, and they are not happy to hear that. Fan Rushan's mentality is naturally more inclined to the Caizhou Army who has a common fighting friendship.

But in the end, he couldn't hold back his sigh, and said: "In this way, Chen Dutong is not an upright man. If you want to drive away the Taining army, you can go to Shouzhou to argue with Li Qiong. Why use it again?" These little thieves who have killed countless people make a big fuss."

"Brother, why do you say this?"

Xiao Xin was actually a little angry, "If everything in the world can be theorized, then there will be all kinds of bad things? I think Chen Dutong is very upright! He does things with his heart but not his track. If you fight against evil people, you will naturally be more evil than evil people! What’s the point of using a few means? Anyone who only kills heroes is a reckless man."

"I can't say no to you." Fan Rushan said embarrassingly after being scolded by his brother-in-law.

The ninth day of August.

Caizhou City.

A gust of autumn wind brought a sense of desolation to the city.

At Maoshi, the sky was not bright.

In the editorial office of "Caizhou Five Days Talk", brother and sister Chen Yingjun, who had stayed up all night, couldn't help but smile at each other as they looked at the piles of urgent calls.

"Ayu, go home and rest, it's good for brother to watch alone here."

"Brother, you should also take care of yourself and don't work too hard."

Chen Jinyu looked at his elder brother who had Aomori stubble on his chin, and persuaded him.

Recently, Chen Yingjun has changed a lot, and the origin of the change came from the flood in May.

At that time, Chen Yingjun went deep into the Pan-Area with the army. After obtaining first-hand information, he published a series of live reports on the flood in the "Caizhou Five-Day Talk".

It described various tragedies in the pan-region, which made people cry.

But he doesn't just give in to misfortune. He turns to exciting disaster relief work, in which there are also many touching and tragic cases.

For example, the young and strong in Tongshan rushed to help Caizhou to fight against the difficulties.
Another example is the fundraising organized by the Guan family in the city, and the Sitong Passenger Transport transporting materials to the disaster area free of charge.
Zhao asked people to bring the whole family, women and children, and then mobilized all the women in the city to make pancakes for the victims
One after another, one after another inspiring cases were publicized, which made Caizhou gradually feel a kind of compatriot feeling that "flowing water has the same origin, and Cong Lan has the same root".

Before the publication of Five Days Talk, Chen Chu personally told Chen Yingjun that when running a newspaper, we should pay attention to cultivating the public's "ethnic consciousness".

Although Chen Yingjun has not yet fully understood what is "ethnic consciousness", he is fascinated by this wonderful atmosphere of united hearts and universal unity.
After the flood, Chen Yingjun went to war with Caizhou Army and worked as a war reporter for a period of time.

The reporting style of the Huaibei Rebellion is in the same line as that of the flood.

Using documentary techniques to describe the encounters of the people in Shou and Ying after encountering thieves, a single piece of "Shouzhou City Massacre in Seven Days" caused a sensation in Caizhou.

'To snatch a woman's ear, cut off her ear, to snatch a child's neck and behead her head', 'Corpse stuck in the long street, with no place to stay', 'No one is spared from the old to the child', 'It lasted seven days , slaughtered the whole city'.
After the victims of Shou and Ying fled to the boundary of Caizhou, they told the tragic rumors they had seen or heard, which confirmed the ferocity of the rebel army from the side.

All of a sudden, the people of Caizhou had a dark cloud over their hearts, fearing that the rebel army would continue to come to the west.

In late June, the army of Caizhou's left-behind division went east to the prefectural border to prevent the entry of disorderly troops.

The hearts of the people in the whole government were lifted up. Compared with Shouzhou, which was allowed to be ravaged by thieves, Caizhou had soldiers resisting anyway, so everyone felt more at ease.

But it is unavoidable to worry about the victory or defeat of the army. If Chen Du is defeated, the whole Caizhou will be like a girl who has been stripped of her clothes. The fate of the people may not be better than that of the people of Shouzhou.
The battle in Huaibei affected the hearts of the whole government.

However, at this time, the haze in the hearts of the Chen Yingjun brothers and sisters has long been swept away.

At noon last night, a sergeant came from the front line and entered the city in a basket, bringing news that made Zuo Guoen and Chen Jingyan very excited.

Chen Yingjun has a relationship with his father, so he naturally knew the good news earlier than ordinary people, so there was an 'extra issue' that was urgently published overnight.

At the end of Mao.

The sky is dimly bright.

The steps outside the newspaper office were crowded with newsboys waiting to receive today's issue.

Chen Jinyu, whose eyes were red, walked out and took a deep breath of fresh air. Although her head was a little dizzy, her heart was full of excitement and joy.

She wanted to share with others that she originally planned to go home, but Chen Jinyu suddenly ordered the bearer to turn around and go to Sajin Alley.

After a while, the first batch of newsboys who got the newspapers scattered all over the city.

Caizhou City, who hadn't fully woken up at first, became agitated because of the yelling.

"Outside~Outside"

"Great victory! Great victory! According to the exclusive news from this newspaper, Chen, the governor of Caizhou's left-behind division, led my soldiers from Caizhou to a decisive battle with the main force of the rebel army in the south of Shangying County, Yingzhou, on the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month. Li. Three thousand officers and soldiers were killed, nearly ten thousand were captured, and only a few hundred of the rebel army were besieged on Duoji Ridge in the southeast of Ying. In this battle, Huaibei will be safe, and Caizhou will be safe!"

At the beginning of the hour.

In the directly-operated store of Sihai Commercial Bank on Shanzi Street, Caizhou, it was not yet time for the store to open. Liu Siliang's mother-in-law, Mrs. Zheng, cooked the meal in the back room of the store, and sat at the dining table in a daze after serving a bowl of rice.

The six-year-old son Liu En sat obediently across from him, seeing his mother not moving his chopsticks, he put down the chopsticks in Dong Li's way, and said softly, "Mother, but I miss my father again."

"Pfft~"

The son who was sitting upright looked like a little grown-up, which made Mrs. Zheng, who was originally worried, couldn't help but smile and said: "You little brat, you don't know what to think."

"Mother, En'er is not a child anymore! The teacher in the school said that when Dad is away from home, En'er is the only man in the family and needs to protect Mother!"

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Looking at her serious son, Mrs. Zheng felt mixed feelings in her heart. My son is really sensible, thanks to the teachers in the school who taught him well.
If it was a few years ago, how would she have dared to think about educating her children.

Today's son is not only well-educated, but she has also become the only female shopkeeper in the Caizhou direct-operated store of Sihai Trading Company. Her monthly salary alone can easily support a middle-class family.

All of this is due to the gift of the boss and the eldest lady, and naturally it is also due to the success of my own man!

Liu Siliang performed well in the Wuwei Army in Kou Shizhong's era last year. Outsiders said that the club will reuse him in the future.

But Mrs. Zheng can't forget the scene when her man's back was beaten to pieces last year when his brothers in the army sent him home to recover from his injuries.

After finally recovering from his injuries, he went to Linfu with his master on an expedition
Last night, Mrs. Zheng had a nightmare. She dreamed that her man was captured by thieves, disembowelled and thrown into an iron pot.

After Zheng woke up from crying in her dream, she never fell asleep again.

"Hey"

I couldn't help but sighed, just like what the hostess said, since the man has gone this way, we women will live in fear in the future.

These days, she is not the only one who worries about her every day. Baishun's wife, Peng's second sister-in-law, and Zhou's sister... all of them, who is not worried all day long?
With the same worries, they wanted to find support and comfort in each other. Recently, everyone ran to Sajin Lane whenever they had time.

Let's take a look at Yunong, the little life that is being conceived can make people feel happy and relieve anxiety.

Secondly, I can also talk to the lady of the host family. Every time I chat with the lady for a while, it always makes people feel a lot more relaxed.

Mrs. Zheng could see that although the lady of the host family was very good at enlightening them, the eldest lady was no less worried than the others, and her complexion had turned sour recently.
While thinking about it, I suddenly heard the sound of the door of the shop in front of me being knocked down.

Even in the back house, I could hear it clearly.

Zheng couldn't help being curious, and told her son to continue eating, then got up and went to the front.

The clerk living in the shop at the front was already tearing down the door panels. Just after removing two pieces, only one person could enter sideways, and the customer outside couldn't wait to squeeze in.

Looking through the crack of the door, good guy, there are a lot of people outside.

Mrs. Zheng was taken aback. If it wasn't for the extraordinary power of her boss, she would have thought that someone had come to make trouble early in the morning.

Before Mrs. Zheng came to Caizhou, she was the manager of the Luliuwei Canteen. She was no stranger to supporting customers, so she hurriedly greeted her, "Guest officer, what do you want to buy?"

"Firecrackers! Hurry up, let me hang up a thousand big firecrackers."

Mrs. Zheng hurriedly asked the staff to go to the basement to pick up the goods.

The firecrackers were produced by a workshop run by Huang Huihong, a subsidiary of Luliuwei Farming Reclamation. The price was not cheap. I didn't expect that the customer would not bring a counter-offer, so he happily squeezed out after meeting the bill.

Without waiting for Zheng Shi to be puzzled, the customers who flooded in later surrounded her behind the counter, and all of them came to buy firecrackers.
After being busy for a quarter of an hour, Mrs. Zheng finally found a space to ask, "Sir, it's not a festival today, why are you all here to buy firecrackers?"

Before the person who was asked could reply, another customer next to him happened to be a nearby neighbor. He seemed to know something about the Zheng family and couldn't help shouting: "Madam, I remember that your official is Yu, who is under Chen Dutong. Hou, did I remember correctly?"

The noisy store fell silent, and everyone looked at Mrs. Zheng.

Mrs. Zheng was very uncomfortable being stared at, but she also replied: "My virtuous neighbor, you remember correctly, but my family's officials are serving under the command of the capital."

When everyone heard this, Qi Qi took a step back, as if they felt that they were too close to Mrs. Zheng just now, as if they were abrupt.

"Ah! I didn't expect it to be Mrs. Yuhou!" The person who squeezed in the front just now bowed and raised his hand as a salute.

Mrs. Zheng hurriedly returned the gift, but she was even more confused, and couldn't help asking: "Dear guests, what happened?"

"Hahaha, madam, don't you know? My soldiers from Caizhou defeated the rebel army in Yingzhou the day before yesterday. Huaibei is safe, and Caizhou is safe! Thanks to the life of the frontline soldiers and the three armies, Caizhou is protected from indiscriminate disasters! Ma'am, please accept my obeisance."

The man opened his mouth, solemnly tidied up his appearance, and bowed his hands.

With him taking the lead, several people in the front row saluted in unison.

Mrs. Zheng stood there blankly, feeling her scalp numb and trembling all over her body.
She couldn't tell what it felt like, but it was a feeling she had never experienced before.

The two of us, husband and wife, were originally just tenants who struggled to survive because of stuttering, how can we be so respected by others?
For some reason, the Zheng family hadn't reacted yet, but tears fell down.

At this moment, she felt that the hardships and injuries her man had suffered and the injuries she had suffered were all worth it;
Zheng Shi suddenly wanted to talk to Mao'er.

In the middle of the day, the sound of firecrackers that only appear in festivals and celebrations suddenly sounded sporadically in Caizhou City.

Subsequently, the festive sounds spread from the courtyard of the inner house to the shops on the street, and then to restaurants, brothels, and government offices.

By that time, the sound of firecrackers was overwhelming and deafening.

The quiet morning suddenly became lively.

Under the gusts of autumn wind, the wind and thunder agitated, and the city was full of joy!
(End of this chapter)