What Zhang Yanjin did this time brought back hundreds of tons of grain, which greatly filled the treasury of the Great Wei Dynasty. This credit is comparable to that of a general who returned in triumph.

After the palace and the emperor reported the big and small things they encountered along the way to Nanyang, the emperor asked Zhang Yanjin to hand over the statistics of champagne rice to the household department, and asked him to go home and have a good rest.

However, he didn't say that Liu Junyi wanted to kill him and snatch the boat. He already planned to keep this matter in his heart. After all, he will cooperate with Liu Junyi in the future. .

Zhang Yanjin has been exposed to the wind and the sun along the way, and his skin has long been slightly darker than his white skin. He seems to have grown a little taller, and his body has become much stronger than before. His waist is narrow and his hips are tight, straight like a green pine .

The immaturity between his eyebrows due to his age has also faded after this experience, leaving only the calmness and calmness in his eyes, people can't help but praise in their hearts at a glance: what a calm and heroic young man!

After Zhang Yanjin arrived in Chang'an City, he realized that his uncle Zhang Zhongqian had led his troops to the north and hadn't returned yet. However, because of his courage to go to Nanyang, the emperor alone withstood the pressure exerted by Zhou Qin and the others, and urged Chen De, the Ministry of household affairs, to let everything go to the front line. In any case, the food and grass and other materials of the soldiers in the Northern Expedition cannot be short.

After returning home, although Zhang Bowen and Zhang Xiuwu had already received the family letter from Zhang Yanjin, knowing that Zhang Yanjin had returned safely, he still couldn't hold back the surprise in his heart when he saw Zhang Yanjin himself. Mrs. Zhang wept with joy, and held Zhang Yanjin's hand, Rambling on and on.

After Mrs. Zhang fell asleep at night, Zhang Bowen, Zhang Xiuwu, and the three brothers Zhang Yanjin gathered in the room to listen to Zhang Yanjin's various situations on the road, and they reported what happened in the court when Zhang Yanjin was not in Chang'an City. Tell Zhang Yanjin.

"After my father led the army to go out, there was no food to harvest in winter, and a lot of food was needed to resettle the victims. The food in the front line was a bit tight. Duke Rui, Duke Chen, and Duke Han made a memorial saying that it was not appropriate to send troops in a year of natural disasters. At first, the court agreed. They still have few people. In order to let my father fight at the front line with peace of mind, the emperor specially asked Uncle Chen to be responsible for the deployment of food and supplies on the front line, so as not to let the food on the front line be short." Zhang Bowen took a sip of amber wine and narrated the recent events. Come on.

Zhang Yanjin felt a little comforted in his heart. As long as there was no shortage of food, his uncle Zhang Zhongqian would not take any risks. After he had figured out the terrain, with the help of stirrups and saddles, he would definitely win the battle.

"Brother, why don't you say something important? It's useless to talk about it!" Zhang Xiuwu was impatient, and when he heard that Zhang Bowen hadn't said what he wanted to say for a long time, he became anxious.

He yelled: "Second brother, you don't know that Zhang Chunze, the Taibaoling, is not a thing. Not a few days after you went to Nanyang, your uncle went to war. He said that he observed the sky, and there was a shining comet, which was a sign." I want you to go and never return, so that the emperor will not give you any hope. Especially this winter, when the winter thunders sounded all over the south, he even vowed that going to Nanyang is against the law of heaven, saying that the second brother You definitely won't be able to come back."

Zhang Yanjin was furious when he heard that, he still dared to curse him to die early before he found trouble with that magic stick who only knew how to deceive and deceive under the guise of a banner?It is simply unreasonable!

As two lanterns exploded on the candle, the lights flickered for a while, and became more and more shining, making Zhang Xiuwu's face darker and ruddy.

"However, second brother, you came back triumphantly this time, and you brought back so much food, it really disgraced Zhang Shengun. I see how he will act like a monster in the court in the future!" Zhang Xiuwu said excitedly.

Zhang Bowen sighed heavily and said, "It's because of Zhang Chunze's words and Dong Lei's frightening incident that everyone thought you had an accident at sea. The remarks that have been buried in the sea have put the pressure on the emperor to the extreme."

"However, at this time, your memorial was delivered from Ningzhou in a hurry, which did not make the emperor change his mind under pressure. Now that there is food, father does not have to worry about it. The Turks are cornered, set up a pocket formation, and catch the turtle in the urn." Zhang Xiuwu took Zhang Bowen's words with joy in his eyes.

After hearing the many incidents that happened in the court recently, Zhang Yanjin felt more and more in his heart that Zhou Qin, as well as those old foxes Chen Guogong and Han Hangong, were vicious. With such equipment as stirrups, saddles, and horseshoes, victory in the Northern Expedition was a matter of time. It just depends on the length of time, or it depends on the luck of the Turkic family, when will they escape before they are caught and beaten by Zhang Zhongqian.

Because the Hexi Corridor starts from Wushaoling in the east, reaches Yumenguan in the west, and Longshou Mountain, Heli Mountain, and Mazong Mountain in the north. It belongs to the depression on the edge of the Qilian Mountain trough. The terrain is long and narrow, surrounded by many mountains.The Turkic family has lived for generations, and it is really easy to hide in it.

Therefore, the army led by Zhou Qin can only wait for the opportunity to move.

That's why Zhang Yanjin was sure that Zhou Qin's old foxes were deliberately putting pressure on the emperor.

After Zhang Bowen and Zhang Xiuwu finished talking, they saw that Zhang Yanjin was also sleepy, so they left one after another to let Zhang Yanjin take a good rest.

The exhaustion of traveling in the past few days has really made Zhang Yanjin extremely sleepy.After he took a hot bath, he fell asleep early and didn't wake up until the next afternoon.

"Erlang, Mr. Li Ying and Mr. Chen Su are here, and they have been waiting outside." Zhang Yanjin just woke up, and Lu Qi, who was guarding the bed, said.

Zhang Yanjin looked at Luqi in a daze, and asked casually, "When did they come?"

"It came at noon." Luqi explained: "They said that Erlang has been working too hard these days, so let me not wake Erlang up, they just wait outside."

Zhang Yanjin nodded. Chen Su and Li Ying came here often, and coupled with his close relationship, it wasn't out of the ordinary for Luqi not to wake him up.

After being served by Lu Qi, Zhang Yanjin hurriedly washed up, and then went to see Li Ying and Chen Su, two good buddies who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

After a hundred days of injury, Li Ying fell from his horse and broke his leg. He has been resting at home, but this ancient time is not as severe as modern medical conditions. He rested at home for a year. His father Li Lian After finding many famous doctors to treat him, it was completely easy.

"Erlang is really rich and handsome, and he is much more energetic than before going to Nanyang!" Chen Su heard the voice, looked back, and was amazed at Zhang Yanjin's transformation in the past six months.

From the time Zhang Yanjin left Chang'an City at the end of summer to the beginning of spring this year, he hadn't seen Zhang Yanjin for almost half a year.

Li Ying also nodded in agreement.

Zhang Yanjin smiled and said, "What do you two think I went to Nanyang for? I have to come back in tatters to meet your imagination?"

Li Ying and Chen Su laughed loudly.

After the three of them exchanged cups and cups, Li Ying saw that there were no servants around, and suddenly lowered his voice, "I heard from my father that Wang Jianting's father, Wang Lige, suddenly asked for leave."

Both Li Ying's father and Wang Jianting's father were advising doctors in the province, so it was not surprising that Zhang Yanjin got the news first.

He almost guessed what happened in his heart, but he still pretended to be puzzled and asked with Chen Su: "Why is this?"

"After I heard about this incident, I immediately went down and had someone check it out. Guess what I found?" The last time Li Ying fell off his horse, although Zhou Qihui took the lead, Wang Jianting was absolutely behind the scenes. Mischief, that's why he paid so much attention to Wang Jianting.

Chen Su was anxious when he heard that, he pushed Li Ying and said, "If you want to speak, speak quickly, what exactly did you find?"

Li Ying clapped his hands and said, "I heard from their servant that Wang Jianting suddenly disappeared."

Chen Su casually picked up a peanut and threw it into his mouth, "What do I think is the matter? You speak mysteriously. Where can the kid go if he's not at home?"

Just as he was talking, Chen Su suddenly laughed sinisterly and said, "Could it be that she died in the belly of some woman?"

Li Ying waved his chopsticks angrily and said, "Go, go, I'm here to talk about business."

"Then tell me, how did he disappear?" Chen Su smiled disdainfully and said, "That kid has always used tricks, and it is absolutely impossible for anything to happen."

Li Ying shook his head and said, "How do I know? I only know that his father has sent people to search for him for four or five days, but the servants have not been found, so he couldn't sit still anymore, so he asked for leave and took people to find his precious son. .”

Zhang Yanjin didn't speak when she heard the words, but just smiled and listened to Li Ying and Chen Su.

Chen Su thought for a while, and suddenly became interested and said: "Hey, you think it's because the kid played tricks this time, but he played himself into it?"

After all, he raised his wine glass and said: "This is a great thing for us. I have long since disliked that rabbit master who can only play dirty tricks. Not to mention hurting Li Ying's leg on purpose. Last time He and Zhou Qihui deliberately made Erlang look bad on Chang'an Street, not only that, but also deliberately bought land to make things difficult for Erlang. I have long disliked him, but now it's good, evil people have their own evil, and we don't need to deal with it. Come on. Celebrate!"

Without thinking, Zhang Yanjin raised his wine glass and clinked glasses with Chen Su. He did not intend to tell the story of Wang Jianting traveling all the way to Ningzhou to instigate Liu Junyi to kill him.

"I just don't know who was so decisive. He said he would clean up that boy Wang Jianting. There was no news before." Li Ying sighed with a smile.

It is impossible to say that he does not hate Wang Jianting and Zhou Qihui in his heart. The pain of falling from the horse, and the pain that still occurs from time to time, all remind Wang Jianting and Zhou Qihui how hateful they are.

Every time when the weather is cloudy, his legs start to ache for no reason. Fortunately, Zhang Yanjin's amber wine and Ruitan in winter make it easier for him to suffer.

"Anyway, we are idle recently, how about helping Wang Lige find his precious son?" Chen Su looked at Zhang Yanjin and Chen Su meaningfully.

Li Ying had this intention, they finally saw Wang Jianting capsized in the gutter, how could they not go to watch and join in the fun?

Zhang Yanjin smiled, picked up the wine glass and said, "Okay, then let's help Wang Lige find his precious son."

As soon as the three of them made such a decision, they immediately mobilized their servants to find out where Wang Jianting was.

Because there were too many people looking for Wang Jianting, within a day, Chen Su found out where Wang Jianting was.

"My servant found out that Wang Jianting met a man with a foreign accent that day ten days ago, and he followed that man to Mount Zhongnan." Chen Su said very proudly.

Li Ying couldn't help but laughed and said, "You have found out about him, and everyone knows about him."

"If Wang Lige's method of inquiring secretly is followed, I don't know when he will be able to find out. However, why do you say he went to Zhongnan Mountain? Could it be that he knew that he had committed a serious crime and went to Zhongnan Mountain to shave his hair and atone for his sins? Is it right to turn around?" Chen Su pinched his chin and analyzed solemnly.

Zhang Yanjin looked at him with some distaste and said, "Mt. Zhongnan is a place for cultivating Taoism. Why do you shave your hair? But the weather is getting warmer and Zhongling is very handsome. Why don't we go up the mountain to have a look and find out about Wang Jianting by the way?"

Chen Su and Li Ying agreed immediately.

Early the next morning, the three of them gathered together and rode to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.

Zhongnan Mountain belongs to a section of mountains in the middle of Qinling Mountains. It is majestic in the south of Chang'an City. It starts from Qinlong in the west and reaches Lantian in the east. It is [-] miles apart. There are five large valleys and hundreds of small valleys. People call it the danger of Kyushu.

Such a beautiful place naturally breeds an excellent culture.Zhongnan Mountain can be said to be the gathering place and birthplace of Taoist culture, longevity culture, God of Wealth culture, Zhongkui culture, etc. It was once called the crown of the cave and the most blessed place in the world.

After Zhang Yanjin, Li Ying, and Chen Su entered the mountain, they felt a breeze accompanied by the fragrance of bamboo leaves, which made people feel very relaxed.

The faint rustling sound is like a embroidered painting screen, which can be described as picturesque and makes people linger and forget to return.

Looking from a distance, the mountain spring in the Guanyin Terrace in Nanwutaizhong in the south is like a piece of naturally inlaid precious jade, which is too beautiful to behold.

"Let's not talk about Wang Jianting, if there are fragrant tea and amber wine here every day, I don't want to go back here forever." Chen Su thought heartlessly, until now he thought that Wang Jianting was just temporarily reclusive for some reason In Zhongnan Mountain.

The three of them came all the way to the Louguan Terrace, and found that there were rust-red temples on it.

Even though the current temple is slightly small and simple, it is still difficult to conceal the spirit of the building.

After appreciating it intently, Zhang Yanjin couldn't help but said: "There are hundreds of rivers and mountains in Guanzhong, and Zhongnan is the best, and there are thousands of miles of verdure in the south, and Louguan is the best." This is actually an evaluation of Zhongnan Mountain and Louguantai by later generations. , he was looking at the beautiful scenery in the distance, indulging in the far and near, and subconsciously said it.

"Erlang, when did you become so talented?" Li Ying teased as he walked, "I don't remember that you used to have such a mind to evaluate the beauty."

Zhang Yanjin patted his chest pretending to sigh and said: "You can't understand the feelings of people who have seen the magnificent beauty of the sea. The natural scenery is like a miracle, and our generation is just a drop in the ocean. This is the style, the style Do you understand?"

"Cut!" Chen Su and Li Ying sighed.

Zhang Yanjin clapped her hands and laughed.

The three of them climbed all the way to the Louguan Terrace, and only then did they inquire about Wang Jianting's whereabouts from the Taoists who came and went. After asking dozens of Taoists, they learned of Wang Jianting's whereabouts.

"That day he came up with a few men and went deep into the mountain." A Taoist said with some uncertainty: "This Zhongnan Mountain is more than 200 miles away, and I don't know where they went."

Zhongnan Mountain in the Great Wei Dynasty was still sparsely populated, so it was not as fully developed as later generations.It can even be said that there are many places that no one has been to, and some places have only been visited by hunters and woodcutters.

When the population gradually increased, it was still in the heyday of cultural development. The great poets Su Shi and Li Bai both lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain and studied the Taoist culture of Zhongnan Mountain. These people left many inscriptions here. It has added beautiful flowers to the cultural prosperity here.

In the Song Dynasty, there was also a great calligrapher Zhao Mengfu who carved the inscriptions of "Tao Te Ching", which shared the prosperity with the Taoist culture here.

"Going further inside is the deep mountains and old forests. Should we go in?" Chen Su hesitated as he looked at the endless mountains and deep valleys.

Zhang Yanjin teased with a smile: "Who would say that he wants to live in seclusion here like Wang Jianting? Why can't he persist after such a long time?"

Li Ying even patted Chen Su's fat belly and said, "Look at you panting like a cow. How fat have you become in one winter?"

"Isn't it too cold to go out in winter?" Chen Su picked up the skin bag on his waist and took a big sip of water, then said, "When I go back, I will ask you to go out to race horses and practice martial arts. I don't believe I'm still like this!"

Zhang Yanjin was also a little puzzled. Could it be that Liu Junyi and the others were really so responsible and left Wang Jianting deep in the mountain, right?If this was the case, wouldn't the kid be picked up by wild beasts?

After all, the current Zhongnan Mountain is not like the Zhongnan Mountain of later generations, there are monsters here now.

Seeing that Li Ying and Zhang Yanjin were unmoved, Chen Su continued to persuade, "Why are you so stubborn? Do you really think that we can find that kid with our two legs? Besides, then What the little Taoist said may not be true, what if the three of us didn't find it, but put ourselves in instead?"

Li Ying and Zhang Yanjin looked at each other, Zhang Yanjin smiled and said, "That's right, why should we do it ourselves? Why don't we mobilize the hunters and woodcutters here to find him?"

"I have a solution. I released the news that there is a treasure in Zhongnan Mountain. How about letting everyone come in and look for it?" Before Zhang Yanjin came to Dawei, Li Ying, the dog-headed military commander among them, said: " In this way, won't it be easy to find Wang Jianting?"

When Chen Su heard it, he said happily, "As long as you have a lot of tricks, I think this is the way to do it!"

Zhang Yanjin originally wanted to make this matter a big deal, to disgrace Wang Lige and Wang Jianting, and see how they would mess around in the court in the future. He naturally agreed with Li Ying and Chen Su's ideas.

Seeing that Zhang Yanjin also agreed, Li Ying smiled and said: "In this case, then follow my advice, I don't believe it, so many people have come to look for Wang Jianting, but they still can't find him."

"That's right, dig three feet into the ground, and dig him out!" Chen Su excitedly said.

The three of them went down the mountain talking and laughing, leaving behind the gradually setting sun to coat Zhongnan Mountain with a beautiful brilliance.

From the next day, a rumor began to circulate in Chang'an City: A farmer once saw a jade-like beautiful woman walking into Zhongnan Mountain holding a piece of precious jade in the middle of the night. The farmer had never seen it before. Such a beautiful woman, coupled with being attracted by the radiant jade in her hand, followed her into Zhongnan Mountain.

After seeing the woman doing some weird etiquette, he gently put the precious jade in the wooden box that appeared on the ground, buried it in the ground, and sprinkled many petals on it.

After finishing all this, the woman looked back at the farmer who had already looked foolishly and said: "This is the holy treasure left by the heavens. It is reserved for those who are destined. Those who get it can fly to the sky. If you want it, you can do it tomorrow." Let’s dig again. However, remember that there are many ghosts in Zhongnan Mountain at night, so you can only look for them during the day, not at night.”

After all, the woman's figure as white as jade disappeared into the forest.

The farmer didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up the next day, he found himself on the wooden bed at home, but what happened last night was so real that he couldn't forget it.

In this way, after breakfast, he followed the route in his memory to look for the precious jade left by the heaven, but he couldn't find the precious jade left by the woman last night.

On the second day, he still did not give up, and continued to search in Zhongnan Mountain, but it was still the same as the first day, with no results.

After many days passed, he gradually understood what the woman meant by the predestined person. He felt that he was not the predestined person, so he told his own experience, hoping to let the predestined person find the woman buried as soon as possible. Baoyu can attain Taoism and ascend to immortality.

Immediately, the news spread more and more fiercely, and immediately a large number of people in Chang'an City entered Zhongnan Mountain to look for the precious jade buried by the woman. Zhang Yanjin, Chen Su, and Li Ying were naturally one of these people.

In less than a day, everyone did not find the precious jade buried by the woman, but they found Wang Jianting, the son of the admonishing doctor Wang Lige's family.

When someone said that they had found someone, Zhang Yanjin, Li Ying, and Chen Su immediately rushed over.

After seeing the miserable Wang Jianting, the three of them laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up.

Wang Jianting, who had been pampered and raised since he was a child, was naked, his wrists were tied with ropes, and he was hung on the sacrifice platform at the southernmost end of Nanwutai.

Suddenly being surrounded by so many people stunned, Wang Jianting almost slammed his head on the cliff to death without shame and indignation.

"Prince, I didn't expect you to have such a hobby? Since you want to jump off the platform, why do you have to tie yourself with a rope?" After finally laughing enough, Chen Su began to make fun of it mercilessly. Wang Jianting.

Wang Jianting gritted his back molars angrily, so angry that he couldn't speak a word.

Zhang Yanjin saw that Wang Jianting's eye circles were slowly turning red, and when he was about to say whether Wang Jianting would cry, he saw two lines of resentful tears flowing from Wang Jianting's eyes.

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