Adviser should be self-improvement

The wheels were rolling, accompanied by several gusts of cold wind, crushing the dead grass on the ground.

After looking at it for a few more times, Chu Huaiqing put down the curtains, and said to the outside, "Let's rest for a while."

Zeng Ping immediately tightened the reins, responded, called the rest of the people back, and announced to rest where they were, without Zhao Shijie's instructions, the soldiers in plain clothes went to collect firewood in a well-organized manner.

Seeing Chu Huaiqing come out, Zhao Shijie was surprised, and quickly stepped forward to help him get off the car: "Why did Mr. Chu come out?"

"It's stuffy in the car, come out to get some air."

Chu Huaiqing smiled, took a breath of warm air towards the palm, and rubbed it carefully: "Can you see the difference along the way?"

"What's the difference?" Zeng Ping thought for a moment after hearing the words, and replied, "It seems to be a little more barren than Pingzhou."

Chu Huaiqing said: "It should not be barren, but the vegetation is indeed less, and there are still a lot of root systems that have not been removed on the ground. Maybe there are people nearby. Brothers, please be careful."

Zhao Shijie dug half of the withered grass from the ground, looked carefully, and found that there were traces of pulling it out, so he persuaded Chu Huaiqing: "Mr. Chu should go back to the car first, and if something happens later, that's fine..."

Before the words were finished, a group of black shadows suddenly appeared in front of them. They were all skinny and out of breath, looking at Chu Huaiqing and his group with fierce wolves in their eyes.

"Protect Mr. Chu!" Zeng Ping yelled at the surrounding soldiers, and said anxiously to Chu Huaiqing, "Mr. Chu, get back in the car!"

Chu Huaiqing was full of emotions, knowing the severity, and Chu Huaiqing's movements were not ambiguous. He quickly got into the car, glanced at the hands of the hungry people, and suddenly had a thought, and said in a low voice: "Zeng Ping, don't fight now, let the soldiers Everyone got on their horses and exposed their weapons. Zhao Shijie, how much food do we have left?"

"There are two bags left for each."

"Tell them to take out a bag and open it, Zeng Ping, and ordered to rush towards the group of people, and when I made a sound, he threw the grain bag in his hand to the sides."

Zhao Shijie firmly believed in Chu Huaiqing's words, and spread the order without any hesitation.This conversation did not reach the ears of the hungry people. Seeing that the soldiers mounted their horses one after another, they seemed to be retreating. The hungry people who were about to move could not wait any longer. They rushed straight towards them, all of them looked panic-stricken. In such a split second, the convoy had already broken through their encirclement.

The hungry people also reacted quickly, angrily wanting to chase after him. At this moment, Chu Huaiqing, who had been watching out the window, shouted, "Throw!"

A dozen heavy grain sacks were thrown head-on at the hungry people. The hungry people dodged quickly and suddenly saw the grain scattered on the ground. He didn't care about chasing Chu Huaiqing and the others, rushing to the ground to grab food.

After walking for a while, Zhao Shijie glanced back, told the soldiers to slow down, and rode to the side of the carriage: "Mr. Chu, they didn't catch up."

Chu Huaiqing breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the hand that was holding on to the car seat calmly, and said, "Yes."

Zeng Ping was also very happy to have passed the crisis, but he still wondered: "Mr. Chu, since we can beat them, why did we run away? And we wasted so much food."

"It can be seen that those people have been forced hard. Since it was just an accidental struggle, there is no need to fight them with their lives." Then he opened the book he had just closed, and Chu Huaiqing replied without raising his head. , "The food can be replenished at the border city along the way. If there are no people, I will feel distressed for a long time."

The soldiers guarding on both sides listened to these words. Although they didn't show anything on their faces, their ears gradually turned red. Zhao Shijie coughed lightly and explained awkwardly: "Mr. Chu, you underestimate us too much. After all, he was trained by His Highness himself, so how could he stumble in the hands of this group of people."

Chu Huaiqing shook his head and smiled: "There are places where you can show your abilities on the battlefield... By the way, how long is it until you arrive in Huai'an?"

Zeng Ping said: "According to the map, just turn three more turns."

Zhao Shijie said casually: "I just hope there will be no more accidents."

Coincidentally, a row of dust was raised from the road ahead, but the curtain of the car was blown by the wind, making Chu Huaiqing, who was looking up, see him right.

Chu Huaiqing didn't know how to slander Zhao Shijie's crow's mouth ability.

"Protect Mr. Chu!"

Zeng Ping was the first to react, and drew out his blade to block Chu Huaiqing's carriage. The soldiers surrounded the carriage and looked ahead in anticipation.

The dust cleared, and a group of people dressed as officers and soldiers appeared in front of Zhao Shijie and others. Chu Huaiqing lifted the curtain of the car, frowned slightly, and asked in a loud voice, "Are you all officers and soldiers from Huai'an?"

The leader stepped forward, bowed respectfully and replied, "Exactly, is Mr. Chu Huaiqing Chu in front?"

Chu Huaiqing nodded: "It's me."

"Master Zhou received a letter from Mr. Chu this morning. He is afraid that Mr. Chu will be disturbed on the way, and his special subordinates will wait here for a long time." Speaking of this, the leader looked at the people on Chu Huaiqing's side, and saw that they were neatly dressed. Unlike the appearance of fighting with others, he breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to signal, "Please, Mr. Chu."

The leader's behavior did not seem to be fake, Chu Huaiqing smiled and said: "Thank you." Nodded at Zeng Ping.

Zeng Ping waved his hand, and the group moved again, walking closely behind the officers and soldiers.Chu Huaiqing hinted that the driver and the leader should get closer, and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Master Zhou knew we would be attacked?"

"Mr. Chu was really attacked just now?"

The leader opened his mouth in surprise, seemed both annoyed and grateful, and replied: "Recently, a lot of hungry people came from somewhere outside Huai'an, and many people were injured when they left the city. Mr. Zhou is afraid that Mr. Chu will meet with you." killed them."

Zeng Ping interjected, "Those people are not far away, why let them go?"

The leader smiled bitterly and said: "It's not about letting it go, because Huai'an's current ability can't control it at all. The other party said that there are hundreds of people, and Huai'an has no food relief, let alone soldiers and horses to suppress it, so we have to close the city gate temporarily to prevent the people from suffering. .”

Zhao Shijie noticed that Chu Huaiqing was a little distracted, so he asked in a low voice. Chu Huaiqing shook his head when he came back from his thoughts, indicating that nothing happened, but he didn't ask the leader any more.

After entering Huai'an City, the situation was worse than what Chu Huaiqing and the others thought. Zhao Shijie's eyes wandered back and forth on the emaciated people's bodies for a while, and when he thought of the hungry people he met just now, he couldn't help feeling a little sad and sad.

But even so, the city of Huai'an was still in good order and there was no chaos. They just looked at Chu Huaiqing and his group who appeared suddenly.

All the way to the Zhou Mansion, Chu Huaiqing got out of the carriage, and his eyes stopped for a moment on the stone tablet at the door. The four characters of "people-oriented" are marked vertically in cursive script. They don't follow the rules and look coquettish. Everyone ignored this stele, but Chu Huaiqing's eyes were clear and contained something else.

Entering the mansion, standing in front of the hall door, Zeng Ping was about to stretch out his hand to push it away, but the leader suddenly stepped forward to stop him, looked at him and Zhao Shijie meaningfully, and said: "Mr. Zhou has arranged a resting place for you two. , I hope you two..."

Just now the leader ordered the soldiers to be taken away, but Zeng Ping didn't feel anything at all. Seeing that the leader wanted to screen him and Zhao Shijie away, leaving Chu Huaiqing alone, he immediately became vigilant: "What are you, Mr. Zhou? mean?"

"Master Zhou is nothing interesting, it's just..."

"Zeng Ping." Chu Huaiqing patted Zeng Ping's hand clenched on the handle of the knife, signaling him to relax, "You and Zhao Shijie go down and rest first."

Zhao Shijie looked at Chu Huaiqing disapprovingly: "But Mr. Chu..."

"Listen to me, it's okay." Chu Huaiqing still had a calm expression on his face, and said with a smile, "Go down."

Zhao Shijie and Zhao Shijie looked at each other and bowed to accept the order: "Yes, Mr. Chu."

The leader also went down, and there was not even a sweeper in the entire yard. Chu Huaiqing looked at the door in front of him, and was about to reach out, when the door made a soft "squeak" and was pulled open. .

The man standing in front of Chu Huaiqing glanced at him, as if he had completed the initial visit, and smiled slightly: "Mr. Chu's attendant is also loyal."

"They are not servants." Chu Huaiqing withdrew the same gaze as the man just now, and smiled decently, "Master Zhou."

Compared with Ji Sheng's family, Zhou Huaimin's mansion is more like an ordinary merchant's house. There is neither deliberate elegance nor extremely eye-catching aura of wealth. To get to the point: "Is the three carts of food and grass that were sent to His Highness the Third Highness that day still there?"

Chu Huaiqing's eyelids twitched.

Although Zhou Huaimin never thought that Zhou Huaimin would be so direct, it was not enough to surprise Chu Huaiqing. Realizing that this was a condition for negotiation, he calmly replied after a while: "When I left Border City with Your Highness, there was still one car left. , I just don’t know how much is left.”

As if he didn't care about Chu Huaiqing's pretending to be stupid, Zhou Huaimin smiled and said: "It's easy to handle. When Mr. Chu leaves, I will send a team of people to follow Mr. Chu to have a look. Take it back together."

Xu Shi talked too much when negotiating with outsiders, and Chu Huaiqing felt that he was not used to Zhou Huaimin's direct way of talking like a robber: "If Chu remembers correctly, Mr. Zhou sent the three carts of grain and grass back then. When talking about giving, not borrowing.”

"Is there?" Zhou Huaimin blinked, his ordinary face was stained with a particularly vivid innocent color, "I clearly wrote in the letter, if Mr. Chu doesn't believe it, you can take out the envelope and give it a try." look."

Most people would not keep letters as early as a year ago, and Chu Huaiqing was just a special case. However, although he did keep them, they were shelved in Border City.

Chu Huaiqing is also meaningful: "The letter is in the border city, and Chu can't take it out now."

I thought that when Zhou Huaimin heard that the letter was still there, he would cleverly avoid this topic, but the other party still did not change his face: "Why is it difficult, I will send a team to Border City to help Mr. Chu get the letter. If you don't believe me, sir, you can ask your people to fetch a letter."

Chu Huaiqing: "..."

Although Bianguan City and Huai'an are in the same Changzhou, the distance between Bianguan City and Qingzhou is farther than Bianguan City and Qingzhou. It takes at least two days to go back and forth.

Chu Huaiqing understood.

This week Huai Min made it clear that he wanted to play a scoundrel.

The author has something to say: I don’t know how much I can write _(:з)∠)_

35w-40w, no special circumstances, will not exceed this range

The plot is here, it’s time for Xiaogong and Xiaoshou to meet each other honestly~?o(*￣▽￣*)ブ