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Chapter 18 Return
This really froze Chen Mu and didn't know what to say. He didn't have the heart to care about his cousin's expenses. The money was earned by either stealing or robbing his life. Shao Tingda could spend it as he wanted, and the king and I couldn't care.He was just worried that Shao Tingda would be coaxed to spend five taels of silver for two hours of chatting, and would be treated as a fool by the women in the brothel.

But now it doesn't sound like he was fooled, not to mention buying rouge for his wife and looking for a brothel female consultant. Chen Mu really didn't expect that his silly cousin is really... so romantic!

Seeing that Shao Tingda was a little embarrassed, Chen Mu waved forward and asked, "What did the storyteller talk about in the tavern you mentioned? Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

He wanted to ask a long time ago, are the storytellers in the tavern these days talking about the Three Kingdoms or the Water Margin?In his impression, Journey to the West is a Ming Dynasty novel, but he doesn't know if it exists now.

"Three Kingdoms? How old is that!" Shao Tingda was a careless person, and when he brought up this matter, he was elated, and walked to the front with his teeth and claws on his back, and said to Chen Mu: "Yesterday, I listened to a passage about General Qi. , The story of General Yu fighting against Japanese pirates in Fujian! The two generals are so majestic, they beat the shit out of the son-of-a-bitch Japanese pirates..."

As he said that, Shao Tingda's mood suddenly sank, and he licked his lips and said in a bored way: "Brother Mu, Guangzhou is so nice, I don't want to go back to the guard. I spend all day farming or doing chores for Shangguan. How can I be so comfortable here? , want to drink alcohol, want to eat meat and meat."

When Shao Tingda said this, Fu Yuan showed yearning and kept nodding; Shi Qi's eyes lit up, but he remained silent; Wei Balang's small body stepped forward from Chen Mu's side, pinching his own neck and making a funny face , and said in a strange voice: "Brother Tinda, don't go back, we will see you hanged!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shao Tingda slapped his face, covered his head and hid behind Chen Mu, screaming strangely.

"If you want to live a comfortable life in Guangzhou, you have to have money to spend. With the money in our hands, is it enough to spend ten days and a half months?" Chen Mu smiled, patted Shao Tingda and said, "I'll think about it when I go back to the guard house." The method is to see how to earn some money, I will eat a bite, and you will not be hungry."

Shao Tingda raised his smiling face. In his eyes, his brother is capable, not to mention that he will not be hungry in the future, but he has never been hungry before.Fu Yuan has a flexible mind. Although his relationship with Chen Mu is far from being very close, he is the one who really tasted the sweetness. He almost knocked Chen Mu down in the street with his fists in his arms. He patted his chest and said, "Little one!" We must only follow Xiaoqi's lead!"

I can also speak idioms!

Someone behind him pulled the corner of Chen Mu's clothes, and when he turned his head, Wei Balang raised his face and opened his bright eyes wide, and said, "Xiao Qi, I don't want to eat, can you, can you also give me a blunderbuss... Firearms are fine too!"

Return the firecracker, I am afraid that you, a fool, will blow yourself up to death!

"Okay, I have a gun in my room, I'll give it to you when I go back." To be honest, although Chen Mu wanted to get Wei Balang a more secure fine-made bird gun, he liked this child quite a bit, but Wei Balang's stature is just right now. It is a little taller than the bird's gun, and he has to tiptoe when holding the gunpowder to press the bomb. It is difficult for him to aim with the bird's gun. Instead, a three-foot-long fire door gun is more suitable. "You should be careful when using it, don't shoot it to people."

"It's okay, it's okay!" The dead child raised his face and smiled like a fool, with four small radish fingers on his body, "I beat someone and cut off his head and came to Guangzhou, four taels of silver!"

"Fucking four taels of silver!" Chen Mu raised his hand and slapped him again. They hoped to grow some kind of good boy from this group of people, so they simply pressed Wei Balang's shoulder and walked forward, "I'll teach you how to shoot guns when I go back. , Just practice your head, and when you grow taller, I will give you the best bird gun!"

Such a fuss, but the depressive atmosphere of returning to the Guangzhou mansion earlier was eliminated invisible.

After eating at the restaurant at noon, several military households listened to stories told by the storyteller and drank until evening. Fu Yuan went to the gambling stall to play a few games. At dusk, Chen Mu returned to the inn with a few idlers. After squinting and resting on the bed for a while, he heard the commotion in the inn. When he opened the door, it was Bai Yuanjie's family soldiers, informing them that they should go back to Qingyuan after finishing their work.

Chen Mu was a little puzzled, "Didn't you say that you will come back tomorrow, now?"

Now go back, walk out of the city for two hours and it will be night, why not start again tomorrow morning?

It seems that after the Battle of Heiling, the attitude of the Bai family soldiers towards Chen Xiaoqi has improved a little, but it is not much better. The soldiers nodded and did not say much, just said: "Military Order of Hundred Households, Xiaoqi, please prepare to leave. .”

Bai's family soldiers are just messengers, so it's useless to say anything.Chen Xiaoqi can think of the reason why it is difficult to travel at night, and Bai Yuanjie also knows in his heart that he has his own reasons for starting the journey.Chen Mu didn't go into the details, he thanked the Bai family soldiers, and sent Xiao Balang to gather the people. Shao Tingda and Fu Yuan picked up old man Zheng, packed their bags and set off on the road.

Most of the people under the banner came empty-handed, at most they had knives, guns, spears and rations, and they all saluted when they left.Chen Mu rode on a horse and wore satin leather boots, Shao Tingda had several boxes of rouge powder in his backpack, and the rest also bought some small things. Wei Balang secretly wrapped the rock candy red fruit in oil paper and put it in his arms, not forgetting to go to the pain The grunting old man stuffed one into his mouth.

"Sweet and sour, it doesn't hurt!"

If it is said that they went through a bloody battle when they came to Guangzhou Mansion, they were more or less murderous, and had a slight military atmosphere. **Refugees robbed things and fled famine.

Chen Mu wobbled on his horse, followed the Bai family soldiers for four or five miles, and then came out of the densely populated intersection. From a distance, he could see Bai Yuanjie flicking the half-person-high poncho on the side of the road with a whip, bored. Grass, a few soldiers of the Bai family stood aside and opened their guard. Under the tree farther away, Zhang Yongshou cursed and hacked on the tree with a knife and bullshit.

"coming?"

Chen Mu got off his horse and held his fists in salute. Bai Yuanjie beckoned him to go. He opened the horse's mouth and took a look. There was not much smile on his face, and he said, "Northern horses are stronger than southern horses, but they are older. Five or six taels of silver, how about you?" I'm willing!"

Bai Yuanjie knew the goods, and he guessed the price of the horse at a glance. Chen Mu nodded in apologetics, and then glanced at Zhang Yongshou, just in time to see the man who slashed the knife on the tree, broke it, and threw it angrily. Opening the handle of the knife, he raised his head and cursed something.

"I will kill them sooner or later!"

Chen Mu pouted, and asked Bai Yuanjie, "What happened?"

"What could happen? I was pissed off by the civil servants, and I was left alone for a day and a night by the petty officials." Bai Yuanjie glanced in Zhang Yongshou's direction indifferently, sneered and shook his head softly: "If you want to run outside the law, don't Blame others for being angry—you remember!"

(End of this chapter)