Empress Chu

Lieutenant Zhong laughed, and chased after the victory: "Did I hit it? Zhou Sima, don't let it go, we all understand that you are from the capital, and you are a person who does big things. You come to our small place in Bianjun, and you can't do anything wrong." Let's go, let's go back early."

"Bold!" "What nonsense are you talking about!"

The guards around Sima Zhou immediately scolded, and the guards around Vice General Zhong naturally did not show weakness, and stepped forward one after another.

"What are you doing?" "If you can't solve your own family's affairs, you want to solve ours?"

The people in front of the city gate immediately gave up a large open space, only Ah Jiu wanted to approach with excitement, but was stopped by Zhang Gu stubbornly, and could only let out a clamor of "hit" from behind.

Fortunately, the city gate guards are very familiar with this kind of scene, so they greeted them quickly.

"Zhou Sima is here." They shouted loudly, "Hurry up, Captain Captain is waiting for you."

A group of people interposed between Vice-General Zhong and Zhou Sima's team. Several young generals saluted Vice-General Zhong and smiled wryly: "If Vice-General Zhong has anything to say, come in and say it."

Zhou Sima didn't embarrass the city gate guards, he signaled the guards to return to the team, and then looked at Lieutenant Zhong again.

"That's right, there are bandits in our territory. We can't compare with General Chu." He said coldly, "General Chu is a good man in the eyes of the bandits, and he is the Daluo God who was confessed by the bandits. Safe and secure."

After finishing speaking, he flicked his horsewhip and went inward, surrounded by soldiers and guards and galloped past.

The scar on Deputy Zhong's face jumped a few times, his eyes changed, and finally he spat heavily.

The city gate guard breathed a sigh of relief, and then invited Deputy General Zhong to enter the city.

Deputy General Zhong said coldly: "I'm not going to the city, I'm done with my work, I'll go back."

The city gate guard didn't dare to ask any more questions, and immediately withdrew, and the city gate side went out of the city and entered the city to recover.

Ah Jiu patted Zhang Gu on the shoulder and asked curiously: "Listen, what does that person mean when he said that General Chu is the God of Da Luo in the eyes of bandits?"

What do you mean? Didn't it mean that when Chu Ling released the bandits privately, Zhang Gu patted his hand and scolded: "Don't talk too much!"

Here, Deputy General Zhong turned around and looked at them with a gloomy expression. Zhang Gu and the others forced a smile at him: "Deputy General Zhong, go do your own work."

Deputy General Zhong didn't say a word and turned to leave, but Ah Jiu squeezed over, handed him the reins as if courting him, and when he approached, said in a low voice, "There's someone staring at you from the opposite side."

Lieutenant Zhong was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't turn his head immediately. He only looked towards the opposite side out of the corner of his eye. There were crowds of people of all kinds over there, and there were quite a few people looking this way.

His expression was gloomy, and he didn't look good at Ah Jiu's reminder.

"There are too many people staring at me." He said, grabbed the rein from Ah Jiu, and got on the horse, "Are I afraid of them staring?"

Turning the horse's head and flicking the whip, the people hurriedly made way to watch the group of soldiers and horses gallop away.

Ah Jiu looked at their backs, curled her lips and sneered: "It seems that they are not popular."

Zhang Gu scolded him: "You don't talk too much, don't care about our business."

Ah Jiu laughed: "I know it's none of our business, just watch the fun, the more lively the better."

Zhang Gu stuffed him a pair of cattail shoes: "Take your thank you gift and stop talking."

Thank you, Ah Jiu shook the cattail shoes and snorted, cattail shoes, what do you mean?Can he make cattail grass as tough as silk?

Really, don't worry about it, it seems that the father and daughter have offended a lot of people, take care of yourselves!

He slung sandalwood sandals on his shoulder, and out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the opposite side, and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old peddler in the crowd carrying a windmill pole and turned to go out of the city gate——

Nothing to do with him.

Ah Jiu put the shoulders of the two post soldiers, and asked with joy, "What else is there to do in the city? Is there any cock and dog fighting and cricket fighting?"

"Be safe." Zhang Gu scolded, "If you lose yourself, we won't redeem you."

A few people talked and laughed and mixed into the crowd and went to the city.

The market in the city is lively, and the roadside outside the city is not deserted. Tea stalls, food stalls, and livestock sellers are crowded on the roadside, and many cars and horses are parked chaotically.

The peddler carrying the windmill walked to a carriage parked inside in one breath.

"I'm dying of thirst." He said, looking at the girl sitting on the carriage dangling her legs and making grasshoppers out of hay, "Xiaoman, give me some water."

The girl called Xiaoman didn't even lift her eyelids: "No."

The peddler was angry, and before he said anything, a hand in the compartment handed out a water bag.

"Drink." A female voice said softly.

The peddler hurriedly reached out his hand, but Xiaoman had already taken it first.

"Auntie." She complained, "You take care of him, third brother is like this, if you ask him to do something, he will order others around."

The hand was withdrawn, and the female voice said softly through the curtain, "That's what it should be."

Xiaoman curled her lips, stuffed the water bag into the peddler, stared and asked, "How is the matter going?"

The peddler took a sip of water first and wiped his mouth.

"I saw Lieutenant Zhong." He said in a low voice, "but there is no Miss Azhao beside him."

Xiaoman stopped the grasshopper she was making up in her hand: "This is the annual fair in the county, and she comes here every year."

There was silence behind the curtain.

The silence seemed to silence the surroundings.

Xiaoman stopped talking, and the peddler also stopped drinking water and looked at the curtain of the car.

A moment later, a female voice sounded from behind the car curtain: "Go back."

Chapter 34 Itinerary

The peddler was sitting in the car, holding the windmill in his hand, whirling and spinning against the wind.

Xiaoman shook her whip and listened to the carriage from time to time, but there was no sound in the carriage, and the worry on her face became more and more serious.

"Auntie." She couldn't help but say, "Why don't we go to Luocheng to see—"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by a female voice behind the car curtain: "Stop talking nonsense, we won't go there."

Xiaoman opened his mouth and bit his lower lip: "Don't go in, just outside Luocheng, take a look."

A soft smile sounded from behind the curtain.

"Okay." The female voice said, "Let's go back, she should not be in Bianjun, but go to the capital."

Xiaoman said ah, and looked at the peddler, who flattened his mouth.

"I knew that sooner or later I had to leave." He snorted, "She loves vanity, and she has long looked down on the county town. Last year, she robbed a lady in the city for fabrics, and angrily scolded him, saying that she was from the capital. Just go back, this kind of old and defective fabric is not rare."

Xiaoman glared at him and warned him to shut up.

"Auntie, she should be visiting relatives." She said to the person behind the car curtain, "I'll be back in a while."

The female voice behind the car curtain was silent for a moment, and said softly: "It's good to leave, it's time to leave long ago, this county is not a good place."

The peddler couldn't help but said, "Yeah, every time I see her, she complains about the bad side of the county. She is happy and satisfied when she goes to the capital."

Xiaoman poked him with a whip, told him to shut up, and nodded to the curtain: "Yeah, it's definitely better than living here, the capital city, that's the best place in the world."

The female voice behind the car curtain answered, repeating: "Yes, that is the best place in the world."

There was a smile in her voice, but for some reason, neither Xiaoman nor the vendor could laugh, nor did they say a few happy words.

"It's already March, why is this damn wind still so cold." The peddler complained, wrapped his robe tightly, and urged the girl beside him, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and go home."

Xiaoman didn't stare at him this time, he slammed the whip in his hand, and the skinny horse took two quick steps to pull the cart.

There are beggars staggering on the road, there are shopkeepers pushing carts, and there are also merchants riding horses to escort their goods. They seem to be irrelevant, but they all gradually gather behind this cart, seeming to follow or escort them, and go away in the cold wind of the border county.

……

……

The wind in the Central Plains is no longer cold.

A gust of wind blew by, and the apricot blossoms on the roadside flew like rain, falling on Chu Zhao's head and body.

A Le stretched out his hand to pat her gently, which also brought Chu Zhao who was in a daze back to his senses.

"Ready to go?" she asked.

Before Ah Le could speak, Deng Yi, who was standing beside him, heard it and said, "Miss Chu is very close to her heart."

Are you laughing at why she did it in the first place?Chu Zhao said: "It's all like this, go back early and end early."

Deng Yi smiled and wanted to say something, but when he saw Chu Zhao turned and walked away, he turned his head and saw Xiao Xun and Chu Ke walking over talking.

Xiao Xun also saw it. Ever since he said that he would escort them that night, Chu Zhao has treated him like this. He doesn't speak or make contact. He is only in the car every day, but it is inevitable that his colleagues will encounter each other. The girl lowered her gaze and turned around. go away.

He smiled, not annoyed, and stopped.

Chu Ke also saw this scene, and was angry and apprehensive.

"Damn girl." He gritted his teeth and cursed, and apologized to Xiao Xun, "My son, my cousin, was spoiled by my uncle. She has no mother since she was a child, and she has been raised in the military camp. She doesn't understand any rules. You Don't get acquainted with her."

Xiao Xun said: "Young Master Chu, don't think too much."

He only comforted Chu Ke, but he didn't say to forgive Chu Zhao. He didn't care about other people's rudeness, but that didn't mean he wanted to forgive.

Chu Ke also heard it, and what else to say, Xiao Xun had already talked to Deng Yi: "If you continue on the road tonight, you can reach the town tomorrow, and the carriages and horses can be replaced with new ones."

Deng Yi nodded: "I also have that intention."

The two of them went to discuss the journey, Chu Ke could only walk away in embarrassment, and when he saw Chu Zhao getting into the car, he rushed over angrily.

"Why are you always disrespecting the prince of Zhongshan!" He grabbed Chu Zhao and yelled at him in a low voice.

Chu Zhao grabbed him with his backhand and berated him in a low voice, "Why are you bowing down to him?"

The word groveling is a bit humiliating to scholars, and Chu Ke blushed: "He is the prince, he has the grace of saving your life, and the grace of escorting us. Of course, we must pay respect to him."

Chu Zhao said coldly: "I didn't ask him to save me, and I wasn't in any danger at all. Ah Jiu will save me. As for the escort, we don't need it. He insisted on it. He can go to Beijing, but thank you very much." We, otherwise he, the son of a vassal prince, would not be able to leave the fief so easily."

Regarding Xiao Xun, Deng Yi sent a letter to Fei Ge of the imperial court to ask for instructions. The prince—now that the prince is in power, already knows, and asked Xiao Xun to escort him all the way to the capital.

So Xiao Xun not only escorted them out of Zhongshan King's territory, but also entered Beijing together.

Chu Ke was startled and angry at the same time, thinking that Chu Zhao was really unreasonable, what kind of thoughts were these!

"You're really crazy." He cursed in a low voice, "That's the prince, a relative of the emperor."

Chu Zhao knew what he meant: "That has nothing to do with us, if you make friends with him, I will—"

"Just break my leg?" Chu Ke sneered, grabbed Chu Zhao's hand and pointed at his leg, "Come on, hit me, let everyone see you doing such unfaithful, unfilial and unethical things .”

At first, when Chu Zhao said that he broke his leg, he was really scared. First, it was Chu Zhao’s father who insulted him at that time. After all, he was an elder, so he felt a little guilty. Second, Chu Zhao was really too scary at that time.

After the incident, he regained his composure. He didn't believe that Chu Zhao could break his leg. What's more, there are Xiao Xun and his party walking together now. There are so many people in front of everyone. How can a girl who is four or five years younger than him Can break his legs!

"Master Chu, Miss Chu." Deng Yi's voice came from the side.

Chu Ke Chu Zhao hurriedly turned his head to look.

Deng Yi asked with a smile: "Have you brothers and sisters finished talking? After finishing talking, let's set off."

Chu Ke shook off Chu Zhao's arm, and said to Deng Yi with a smile, "Let's go." He didn't get in the car after that, and went to ride the horse.

Since his eldest son traveled with him, Chu Ke also regained his youthful heroic spirit and changed to riding a horse, so that he could often follow Xiao Xun and talk about poetry and Taoism.

Chu Zhao didn't call Chu Ke back, but bowed his head to Deng Yi, lowered his eyes and got into the car.

The girl only behaved well-behaved towards him, of course Deng Yi didn't think it was because she had a lot of respect for him, it was just because he had no conflict of interest with her for the time being.

Of course, she has no conflict of interest with him, so he treats her very well.

Deng Yi smiled slightly and got on his horse.

"Miss Chu and Mr. Chu have been fighting like this." He also explained to Xiao Xun.

Xiao Xun smiled and didn't care.

Tie Ying frowned at the side, Mr. Deng said too politely, Miss Chu was not playing around, she clearly had a bad attitude towards Young Master Chu.

This Ms. Chu's behavior is really outrageous. En will repay her disrespect to her son, and she will beat and scold her cousin.

But Miss Chu's next worst situation was beyond Tie Ying's expectation.

Miss Chu gave Young Master Chu medicine, and Young Master Chu had diarrhea and almost collapsed.

Chapter 35 on the way

Chu Ke originally shared a carriage with Miss Chu, but after Xiao Xun joined the team, Xiao Xun rode horses most of the time, and Chu Ke followed suit.