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Chapter 246 Night Terror
Outside the gate, Li Qiong sat on horseback, condescendingly looking down at the young general not far away.

Chen Chu put his hands behind his back and looked at Li Qiong.

"Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, Yin of Bozhou, Jiedu envoy of the Taining Army, and General Li are here, who is here, why don't you pay homage!"

Li Qiong's own soldiers reported a large list of official positions and said in a questioning tone.

Mao Dan was not slow to respond, and immediately shouted with a louder voice: "My lord is the military commander of the four states of Cai, Ying, Shou and Su. Why don't you worship me!"

Even if the two parties do not introduce themselves, they also know who the other party is.

Li Qiong just wanted to use his official position to coerce Chen Chu, but when they met, they became tense. Zhang Chunxiao quickly came out to smooth things over and said, "Li Jieshuai, please come into the camp and talk."

Li Qiong glanced at Zhang Chunxiao, then looked at Chen Chu, and said slowly: "There is no hurry in talking. Today, the Japanese commander is here to please people."

Naturally, the one who wants to please people is Xu Ping.

Seeing this, Zhang Chunxiao hurriedly walked back to Chen Chu from Li Qiong and whispered a word of advice, but Chen Chu said in a normal voice: "It just so happens that I also have someone to beg."

The voice was enough for Li Qiong to hear clearly, but he pretended not to hear it, and looked at Zhang Chunxiao vaguely.

Lao Zhang had no choice but to return to Li Qiong again to send a message.

"The person he found is not in our camp, and I don't know him either." A brother from the Ma family approached Xu Ping to ask for Jin Taiping the day before yesterday, so Li Qiong naturally knew about it.

Lao Zhang continued to shuttle between the two.
"We are all warriors, but do we dare to do it or not?"

After Chen Chu said this this time, Li Qiong finally stopped tormenting Zhang Chunxiao, and immediately replied in a sullen tone: "If you have it, you have it, if you don't have it, you don't have it! Why wouldn't you take it?"

"Hahaha, does General Li think I am a child? If our army didn't have conclusive evidence, how could our army identify the thief in your Taining military camp out of thin air? I would like to advise the general, the thief has no father above him and no people below him. Don't know loyalty, don't know benevolence and filial piety. The general puts this kind of people in the camp, be careful to backfire!"

Even if Chen Chu revealed a flower, Li Qiong still confiscated Jin Taiping and entered the camp!

Li Qiong, who had suffered an unjust injustice, narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Chunxiao, and said with a worried look on his face: "Master Zhang, our army has worked tirelessly to come all the way to Henan Road to help you fight against the bandits. Are we still going to be unjustly accused?"

But Zhang Chunxiao sighed softly and persuaded in a low voice: "Li Jieshuai, this Jin Taiping is not an ordinary thief. His thieves killed Ma Maoxing, the commander of the Ningjiang Army, and they have become mortal enemies with the Caizhou Remaining Division. Jieshuai is still Hand him over."

Along the way, the information obtained everywhere corroborated that Jin Taiping came to vote for the Taining Army.

Nowadays, it is not uncommon for military leaders to privately recruit some capable bandits to join the army.

But Jin Taiping had already become enemies with the Caizhou Left-Behind Division. If the Taining Army was determined to protect him, how could the Caizhou Left-Behind Division be able to swallow this sigh of relief.

No, Li Qiong said angrily after hearing this: "That's how you repay our army on Henan Road! Do you want to pour sewage on me?"

He was so angry that Zhang Chunxiao was confused. Could it be that Jin Taiping was really not here with him?But more than one village along the way said they saw the thieves coming towards the Taining Army with their own eyes.
While he was thinking about it, he heard Chen Chu say: "If there are no thieves in General Li's camp, do you dare to let our army search the camp?"

"presumptuous!"

Li Qiong was so angry that he laughed and searched the camp, that would be trampling on the majesty of the whole army.

If Li Qiong agrees, the Taining Army will become a joke in the Daqi military circles from now on.

Furthermore, what if the other party makes some small moves while searching the camp, such as taking the opportunity to find some letters linking the thieves or the Southern Dynasty, or finding some illegal items?
When the time comes, Li Qiong won't be able to escape by jumping into the Huai River, so he must not agree to the search for the camp.

Next to him, Xin Feng, who had been silent all this time, saw that the two sides had been arguing for a long time without getting to the point, and finally whispered: "Li Shuai, it's important to save Commander Xu."

After Xin Feng reminded him, Li Qiong said: "I won't argue with you, Commander. I only ask you, your army captured Xu Ping, the commander of the Taining Army, in the morning. Why?"

"Why did you say 'capture'? We just invited Commander Xu to come to our camp for questioning."

"Then it's time to finish asking. After asking, I will take the person back."

"Uh, well, Commander Xu, please come out."

Chen Chu turned his head and ordered.

Li Qiong originally thought that the young and energetic Chen Dutong would have to push him harder, but he didn't expect that he would be so straightforward and his face looked a little better.

After a cup of tea, Xu Ping was supported by two sergeants and walked outside the gate.

There were still fifty or sixty steps away, and Xu Ping had already seen Li Qiong sitting high on the horse. He only heard him howl miserably, crying: "Li Shuai! Revenge for your subordinates! The Ma family is in trouble." General’s legs are broken.”

Hearing the sound, everyone looked at Xu Ping.

I saw that his left foot could still maintain a normal gait with the toes forward, but his right foot turned 180 degrees, with the heel forward and the toes backward.
It's spooky and hilarious.

As a military commander, he is useless.
Seeing this, Li Qiong became furious.

It’s not that I feel sorry for Xu Ping, it’s just that the former, as the commander of the Taining Army, was privately tortured into such a state by the Caizhou Remaining Secretary. Where should I put the Taining Army’s face!

Zhang Chunxiao was also shocked.
"Chen Dutong! You Caizhou Remaining Secretary are so brave! Xu Ping is the commander appointed by the imperial court, but you dare to use lynching!"

Li Qiong naturally wanted to stand up for his subordinates. Chen Chu seemed to be surprised. After a little panic, he explained: "General Li, Commander Ma Maoxing has recently lost his life. The Ma brothers were eager to find Jin Taiping to avenge their uncle, so they asked Commander Xu At that time, my tone was a bit harsh, which is excusable.”

"The tone is too harsh???"

Well, the tone was a bit more serious. Could it be that Xu Ping's leg was said to be broken?

"Chen Dutong, I don't want to talk nonsense with you, quickly hand over the Ma family brothers to me!"

If today's incident is not avenged for Xu Ping, the Taining army will be disgraced.

But if Chen Churuo handed over the Ma family brothers, Caizhou Left Behind Division would lose face.

In short, one of the two parties needs to give in.

He didn't want to, but Chen Chu said: "I will deal with my people myself. But we have to find out about this matter. In the end, wasn't it because the Taining Army was bent on shielding Jin Taiping that led to today's bad results? If If your army didn't accept the traitor, or if you handed Jin Taiping over to our army the day before yesterday, how could it happen today?"

Li Qiong didn't know why Caizhou was so crazy, but he insisted that he was the one who hid Jin Taiping. But at this time, he was too lazy to argue, and just said one word at a time: "Chen Dutong, do you want to make friends with him or not?"

"Hand it over, yes! Hand over Jin Taiping first!" Chen Chu insisted.

"I'll say it again, that bastard Jin Taiping is not in our army!"

"I don't believe it, unless our army searches the camp"

"Good! Good! Good! What a Caizhou left-behind secretary!"

Li Qiong had never felt so wronged since she was a child, and she couldn't separate herself from Chen Xiao'er.

Xin Feng on the side winked, and his own sergeant stepped forward to pick up Xu Ping and return to his side.

Xu Ping still kept wailing, "Li Shuai, don't spare them lightly. I will cut the Ma family into pieces with a thousand knives. Li Shuai, don't spare them."

Li Qiong looked at Xu Ping with a gloomy face, then looked at Chen Chu, and threatened: "Chen Dutong, aren't you afraid that I will give you a copy?"

"General Li, I also want to come to the table to intervene in your case of harboring a thief!"

The fact that the military head can say "Participate in impeachment" has shown that those who play horizontally can't play with others.

After all, the Taining Army was originally a guest army, and there were not as many people as Caizhou Left Behind Division.

If there is a real conflict, regardless of how the court will react, the key point is that it cannot be defeated.

Seeing that Chen Chu had played a rogue, the stern Li Qiong smiled and said, "Okay, Chen Dutong, we will have a long life in the future."

"Haha, who is Fang Chang?"

In the big tent of the Chinese army, there are only Chen Chu and Zhang Chunxiao.

"Yuanzhang, is it true that Jin Taiping is not in the Taining Army?"

Zhang Chunxiao saw the reaction of Li Qiong and others today, and his original belief that Jin Taiping was here was shaken.

"Where could he be if he wasn't in the Taining Army? Could it be that the people we met along the way all told us to deceive us?"

Chen Chu said dissatisfied.

Zhang Chunxiao thought about this and couldn't help but sigh, then said: "What about the Ma family brothers?"

"What do you mean, Master Zhang?" Chen Chu asked.

"Speaking of which, they are indeed too reckless! Then Xu Ping is the commander of the army, how can we break his legs and feet! We were originally reasonable about this matter, but it has become unreasonable!" Zhang Chunxiao pointed out.

"Master Zhang, if you have anything to say, speak directly."

"What I mean is that we should hand over the culprit in exchange for the Taining Army retreating to Shandong Road?"

In the military, you can be right or wrong, but you must always be close and distant.

Chen Chu was not very close to the Ma brothers, but compared with Tai Ningjun, the Ma brothers were undoubtedly their own.

Leaving your own people to be dealt with by others will not only damage the morale of the entire army, but also damage the general's prestige.

Zhang Chunxiao was only concerned about how to invite the Taining Army away, and other matters were not within his scope of consideration.

Outside the Chinese army's tent, the Ma brothers stood beside the tent door.
Just now, Maodan invited several of them to the big tent to meet Chen Chu, and after learning that Zhang Chunxiao was there, he waited here.

If they said they were not nervous, they would be lying. In order to press Jin Taiping's whereabouts in the morning, several people acted harder.

But after breaking Xu Ping's legs and feet, they were still afraid.At this time, I happened to hear Zhang Chunxiao's proposal to hand them over to the Taining Army, and I couldn't help but feel angry and scared.

The daring Masaburo even secretly tightened his grip on the handle of the knife.

Unexpectedly, Chen Chu in the tent sighed and said: "Brother Maoxing has sacrificed his life for the country, I will never send his nephews and nephews into the tiger's mouth of the Taining Army! The Taining Army has whatever means, just use them, I will continue. That’s it!”

"Yuanzhang"

"Master Zhang, don't try to persuade him, no matter what, he must protect the lives of his descendants!"

"Hey"

After a while, Zhang Chunxiao said goodbye. As soon as he left the tent, he saw the Ma brothers standing outside the tent, each looking at him with very unfriendly eyes.

Zhang Chunxiao couldn't help but feel embarrassed and looked back at Chen Chu.

Chen Chu didn't seem to expect that the Ma brothers were already waiting outside, so he couldn't help but said angrily: "Maodan, why don't you wait until I finish talking to Master Zhang before inviting Ma Yuhou and the others over!"

"Uh, sir, you didn't tell me to wait until the conversation was over before bringing Marquis Ma Yu over."

Mao Dan pretended to be stupid and touched his head.

"." Zhang Chunxiao looked at Mao Dan and then at Chen Chu.

Regardless of whether the young soldier was really stupid or the two of them were playing a double act, in short, he became a villain for nothing.

Watching Zhang Chunxiao leave, Ma Sanlang and others looked at each other silently after entering the tent, and suddenly they all knelt on the ground on one knee, "Thank you for protecting me."

Chen Chu stepped forward to help him up, was silent for a moment, and finally sighed and said: "Sanlang, you are reckless this time. After all, Xu Ping is the commander of the army, and I am trying my best to be hated by Li Qiong. , Being impeached by hundreds of officials will also protect your lives. But, in this army, you brothers may not be spared."

"uncle!"

"Don't worry, I will arrange a place for you first. After a year or two, when this matter has subsided, I can recruit you back."

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Unity time.

It was getting late, and it was a little dark inside the big tent.

Yang Dalang sat at the bottom and looked at Chen Chu who was sitting on the general seat. Due to the lighting problem, the latter's head and face were just shrouded in shadow.

It looks a little mysterious and a little strange.

"Brother Chu, it's a lot of trouble to go around in such a big circle to uproot the Ma family from the Ningjiang army. Firstly, they don't have as many people as we do, and secondly, since you are a Shangguan, you might as well just seize the military power. The Ma family Do you still dare to rebel?"

"It's easy for you to say, but you can directly grab the military power of your subordinates. Who will dare to mess with us in the future?"

"What about the Taining Army?"

"If you want to drive them away, you still need to spend a lot of time with them. Guo Liang has already gone to Shandong Road to contact the Guiyi Army. If he doesn't leave, his old nest will be thrown away."

"Haha, now that he's gone, we can go home."

"Does Dalang miss his beloved wife?"

"Why don't you think about it? Rong'er has been pregnant for more than seven months."

"Yes. Yunong is also six months old. Every time she writes, she always asks me when I will be back. Even with Mao'er and Hua'er at home with her, she is a little scared."

Each of the two brothers has a pregnant woman at home, so they are naturally worried about her.

Nowadays, when women give birth, the saying "giving birth to a child is like going to hell" is not an exaggeration at all.

It just so happened that when Chen Chu needed to give her a sense of security and companionship, she was away on the battlefield for several months without being around.

As the month drew closer, Yunong's initial excitement turned into nervousness.

After a while of silence, Chen Chu suddenly said: "Shouzhou probably won't really fight with the Taining Army. If you can rest assured that my sister-in-law will not be left behind, just go back and take a look. It will put your mind at ease."

"You are talking nonsense. How can I leave at this time. There is nothing to worry about. Rong'er has his sister-in-law to take care of him in Caizhou, and Zhen'er is now much more sensible."

"Oh?"

Chen Chu looked at Dalang with amusement. The incident between him and Xu Zhen'er was not a good one. He thought Xu Zhen'er was a little angry when she entered the Yang family as a concubine.

Yang Dalang could understand the meaning of Chen Chu's expression, and explained with a smile: "Now that Rong'er is too stupid to take care of things, Zhen'er has taken care of the house in order. Not only did she invite a doctor to live at home to take care of Rong'er, but she also hired a doctor from our hometown in Tongshan. We recruited more than ten strong women and trained them using military methods."

Speaking of this matter, Yang Dalang only found it interesting. Xu Zhen'er explained to him when he used this method, "If you are a general, your family must have a brave spirit."

For this reason, when Xu Zhen'er asked Yang Dalang how to train soldiers, the latter received a lot of admiration. This made Dalang feel very comfortable, and his attitude towards Xu Zhen'er changed greatly.

Chen Chu subconsciously thought of the strong woman from Tongshan who had trained with her own hands. Wasn't this her 'soldier'?

Da Lang has been away from home for a long time. If Nie Ronger has no one in his hands, will Xu Zhen'er have the final say in the back house?
Then he laughed at himself, laughing at himself for being too sensitive. In the back house, it wasn't like fighting in the court or fighting on the battlefield, right?
August [-]th, late at night.

Caizhou Xinghua Lane.

Commander Yang is in the envoy's house, and the master's house is in the back.

Nie Rong'er, the senior lady of the Yang family, was covered with fine beads of sweat, lying on the bed like a dying fish, panting rapidly with her mouth open.

Yuezhu, the maid who had come as a dowry, hurried into the house with a basin of warm water, but she heard Auntie Li, who had also come as a dowry, exclaimed, "No! She's red!"

With a clang, the copper basin fell to the ground. Yuezhu hurriedly ran to the bedside, glanced at Nie Ronger, and burst into tears as soon as she opened her mouth, "Grandma Li, I'll go ask Doctor Xu again."

"Yuezhu! Go outside and ask for a doctor!"

After all, Li Aina was more knowledgeable than the younger Yuezhu, and she had already noticed something was wrong.

The doctor who lives at home was invited by Aunt Xu a few months ago.

The past few months have been no different.

However, after having lunch today, Nie Ronger felt a little uncomfortable and lay down to rest for a while.

In the evening, the discomfort became more and more intense. I hurriedly called Dr. Xu for consultation, but he said: "Madam, you have excessive liver fire. Just drink some decoction to purge the fire and rest."

But after drinking the medicine, Nie Ronger felt even worse, suffering from diarrhea and stomachache.

Just now when Dr. Xu was called again, it was still the same set of angry rhetoric.

When she saw Hong at this time, Madam Li suddenly became suspicious and dared not ask Dr. Xu to make a diagnosis.

Yuezhu took some silver and hurried out, but was blocked by several healthy women.

Madam Huang from Tongshan opened her mouth and put on a big hat, "Going out in the middle of the night, Miss Yuezhu is going to have a private meeting with a foreign boy?"

"You crazy woman who talks nonsense! How dare you slander others? My wife is not feeling well. I'll go get a doctor!"

In the past, although these aunties mostly listened to Aunt Xu, they were quite polite to the maids and ladies on the aunt's side, so Yuezhu was not afraid of them.

Unexpectedly, Huang Ainai seemed to have suddenly changed tonight. She heard the sound and slapped Yuezhu on the face.

"Search! Leaving the house in the middle of the night is bound to be bad!"

Huang Aina gave an order, and a group of strong women rushed up and began to search him.

Yuezhu was naturally dissatisfied and made a fuss, but she couldn't resist the strong women with more people and strength.

A few moments later, Xu Zhen'er came belatedly wearing a plain white lining, and seemed to have been awakened by the movement here.

"What's going on? How can you be so rude to the lady's personal maid?"

As soon as Xu Zhen'er finished speaking, the old lady Huang gave a flattering smile and said, "Miss Xu, we caught this little brat who went out of the house in the middle of the night to meet outsiders."

"You fart! Old witch, don't spit on anyone!" Yuezhu, who had both arms captured, was trembling with anger.

Xu Zhen'er also glanced at Huang Aima with dissatisfaction and said: "This matter is not a trivial matter. Without evidence, we don't dare to accuse someone of being innocent. After all, Miss Yuezhu is the person close to the eldest lady."

"Ms. Xu! I really didn't do her wrong this time. Ma'am, please see, what did we find on this coquettish hooves?"

After Huang Aimai said this, she stretched her hands forward and spread her palms. In her palms was a dried fish maw.
Most married women can guess what this thing is for.

Yuezhu took a look at it under the moonlight, and was confused for a moment before he understood what it was. She couldn't help but said in horror: "Mr. Huang, you are harming me! This thing is not mine!"

Until then, Xu Zhen'er glanced at Yuezhu and said calmly in a cold voice: "Now that the master is away fighting and the wife is inconvenienced, do you think that no one can control you?"

"Aunt Xu Xu, you really are not mine." Yuezhu stammered in explanation.

"You've got the stolen goods, and you still dare to speak harshly. Auntie Huang, I'll beat you!"

"Wait a minute! Aunt Xu wants to beat the slave, and the slave is willing to be punished! But my eldest lady is suffering from an emergency now, and she is waiting for the slave to call the doctor for treatment! Please Aunt Xu, please beat the slave later!"

"Hey, you are such a cheap servant, but you are very clever with your tongue! There is a doctor at home, why do you need to go outside to invite him? I'm afraid you will run away after you leave the house! What are you doing, Huang Auntie, in a daze? Beat him!"

(End of this chapter)