Rivers and Lakes Survival Guide

It was already summer when Lin Tao first arrived in Duling County. The summer in Duling County was very short, and it passed in the blink of an eye. It was already autumn when Chen County King's troops arrived, and the ginkgo leaves had begun to turn yellow.

There are many kinds of trees in Duling County, and many ginkgo trees are planted in the city of Duling County. In autumn, it looks like a golden city. In autumn, people who harvest ginkgo can be seen everywhere. Almost everyone in Duling County can use ginkgo for cooking. Ginkgo tea.

This season when the golden leaves dyed the branches, a group of troops marched into the city of Duling County. The uniform soldiers moved up and down in unison, with a shiny black scabbard around their waists, and a black stain that could not be washed off in the deep groove of the tiger pattern handle. At first glance, it looks like a soldier who has seen blood on the battlefield, not a random soldier raised in those places.

Four black horses pulled the carriage into the city. The bells on the horses' necks made a crisp sound. The carriage didn't have many patterns, not even the family emblem of the royal family. However, the wheels were more than twice the size of ordinary carriage wheels. , a carriage with four wheels increases steadily, but the speed doubles.

The people of Duling County were curious and stretched their heads to see the people in the carriage. However, the soldiers with knives were in front, and there were guards blocking them on both sides, and the desperate man dared to push forward.

When the carriage arrived in front of the county prince's mansion, the chief executive came out with a group of stewards and knelt down in front of the carriage.

"Slave waits on his knees to welcome the master back home."

The voice rang three times, but there was no movement in the carriage. The chief executive waited until he knelt down, did not raise his head, and spoke quietly, and the carriage door opened for a moment.

A girl in a light yellow dress came out and saluted the chief manager, "Uncle Cheng, please get up first, the master fell asleep in the car after getting off the boat. The boat was bumpy these days, and the master has been sleeping lightly. It's hard to fall asleep." Familiar, I don't want to disturb the dream of the master, please forgive me, Uncle Cheng." As she spoke, she saluted again.

Lin Tao looked at the girl in the goose-yellow dress not far away. She looked like she was sixteen or seventeen. He could see what most people couldn't. The girl didn't make a sound when she landed from the car. She was obviously Lian Jiazi and a master.

"Qiu Tong, master, is there any discomfort along the way?" Cheng Da manager immediately got up and asked.

Qiutong sighed softly, "My master has never been comfortable all the way by water, and I have changed boats three times. I didn't like it. If I knew this, I might as well go by land. It would take more time for Ding Ye. How could I let my master suffer so much?" bitter."

"It will be fine when our boat passes through." The manager of Chengda comforted him. He also knew that if he went by land, the time would not be a week and a half later. It's a short offense and Ding Ye's long offense. He waved his hand, "Open the gate." Immediately, a servant opened the gate completely, and he called the chief guard again, "Be gentle."

"Don't worry, Uncle Cheng." The chief guard responded and gave instructions. Twenty tall and strong guards took off their shirts and shirtless, and stood beside the carriage. Look red face.

The horses were dismounted and pulled aside, three-inch-wide wooden planks were pulled out from the bottom of the carriage, and inserted into the slots on the body of the carriage.

"One, two, three, get up!" The voice was neither slow nor urgent, neither soft nor loud, just right.

Twenty shirtless guards worked hard together, their muscles tensed, and lifted the carriage. Immediately, someone pulled the wheels aside. The guards listened to the chant, and walked together, carrying the carriage into the county palace like a sedan chair.

At the moment when the carriage was carried into the Prince's Mansion, Duke Chen, whom everyone thought was invisible, suddenly made a sound from the carriage.

"Qiutong... where is it?" With a hoarseness that hadn't woken up, when he heard it suddenly, it made people unable to distinguish between men and women.

The manager of Chengda immediately waved his hand and told the guards to stop. Qiutong quickly walked outside the carriage and said respectfully, "I haven't arrived yet, the master will continue to sleep, and I will be there when I wake up."

There was an inaudible sound from inside, "Hmm..."

Everyone waited for a while when there was no movement, and then continued to carry the carriage into the mansion. The movement was lighter than before. Soon the gate of the county prince's mansion was closed, and the people dispersed one after another. The guards and others also returned from the side door. their respective residences.

Lin Tao went back to the house, lay on the bed, thoughtful, although he didn't see the Chen County King, but from the ladies around him, to the guards, he could tell that he was not just waiting for someone, or the royal family used it for surveillance The use of King Chen is either the private soldier raised by the king of the county. He has heard of some private soldiers Lin Tao. The general royal family only raises a hundred private soldiers to protect themselves, and King Chen obviously has a lot of private soldiers. , has exceeded the specification, if it is not for other purposes, then it is used by all parties to restrain him!

It seems that this matter still needs to be explored at night.

Lin Tao thought about the route of the county prince's mansion that he had figured out in the past two months, thought about starting from there, considered the pros and cons, and finally decided to hold off on the move, but he didn't know that it was this thought that allowed him to escape.

In the middle of the night, the alarm bell sounded suddenly. Before the servants of the outer courtyard understood what was going on, the guard rushed into the outer courtyard with a knife, and everyone was kicked out of the house. Lin Tao was already awake when someone rushed into the outer courtyard, but when the other party entered the house, , he pretended to be awakened, and there were two people in the same room as well, but, the other two disappeared, and he suddenly understood a little bit.

The people from the outer courtyard were gathered in front of the gate of the inner courtyard. Six people who were tied up knelt on the ground. Two of them were the guards who shared the room with Lin Tao. The makeup of her dress was already spent at this time, and her thin dress was stained with dust, revealing her pink-tender belly pocket in embarrassment, and she knew what she wanted to do at a glance.

The manager of Chengda stood on the steps with luck, "Since you have already entered the mansion, I don't care who sent you from, if you use dirty tricks, don't blame the mansion for not allowing you!"

"I am wronged! Chief Manager, I am wronged!" People kneeling on the ground shouted their injustice.

"Injustice?" A pleasant voice came from the inner gate, "Weihou's Mansion, Deyiguo's Mansion, Zhao Zuoxiang's Mansion, and Fang Youxiang's Mansion are all considered first-rank ministers. Send people to the Prince's Mansion of this county and send them directly Just come, why sneak in like this? Isn't it plotting something wrong?" Following the voice, the young man in fox fur walked out of the inner courtyard slowly.

Lin Tao raised his eyes and saw that he had just entered autumn, but the young man was wearing snow-white fox fur. His thin face made his eyes look particularly big, his face was pale and sickly, even his lips were light pink, and his stature was not like that. He is a 15-year-old boy, or he is only twelve or three, and Lin Tao will believe it. He looks at the boy in a daze, and has an indescribable feeling in his heart, as if the same thing happened before, but he I don't remember seeing this person at all, and I stared at the boy in a daze.

In the dark night, the young man in snow-white fox fur is particularly eye-catching. His dark eyes are not as agile as a young man should be, and they do not have the brilliance he should have for life. They are as black as dark clouds, gathering lightning flashes. These are not the eyes he should have. , Lin Tao came up with such a sentence, as if he knew what kind of eyes he should have, inexplicably, it was not until many years later that Lin Tao knew that the thick and persistent dark clouds in the eyes of King Chen were hatred!

"My lord! Why did you come out?" The manager of Chengda immediately turned around and helped King Chen tighten the fox fur, "Is it cold? Do you want to build a brazier?"

"No need, I'll take a look and I'll be back in a while." Prince Chen shook his head.

That's what he said, but the director of Chengda still had someone move the chair and the brazier, Qiutong brought hot tea, and he warmed his hands without drinking it.

"Master, what should we do with these people?" Once he came out, the manager of Chengda could no longer make decisions privately.

"Send them back wherever they come from, remember to cripple them first." Prince Chen sipped his tea without lifting his eyelids.

"Yes." The manager of Chengda University responded, and when he was about to ask someone to do it, there was a sudden change.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" The gorgeous woman suddenly stood up and rushed towards Duke Chen, "I am willing to serve the Duke of Chen, I don't need a status, as long as I can stay with the King of the County, I am willing to do anything! Ah!"

She didn't jump in front of King Chen at all, and was kicked away by Qiutong. She was bound here, and this kick made her face scratched on the ground. shocking!

"What are you! You're such a scumbag! How dare you climb up on your master!" Qiu Tong withdrew her foot, coldly.

"Qiu Tong." Prince Chen raised his eyelids, but looked at Qiu Tong, "She doesn't have to send her back, she follows the rules of the mansion."

"Yes." Qiutong saluted, and with a wave of her hand, a guard immediately stepped forward, and she pointed at the woman, "Drag it down." The guard saluted, dragged her with her hand, and dragged her out of the yard. After a while, a woman's screams were heard, After a while, there was no sound, which made many people tremble in their hearts. Qiutong glanced at them, "Listen up, I'll say this again. Any girl in the mansion who climbs on the bed will be beaten to death with a stick!"

There were tall, pretty women in the yard who turned pale when they heard the words, and it must be said that they had some ideas in this regard.

King Chen yawned lightly, put the teacup aside, a lady took the teacup with half salute, he got up, "I'm back." The sedan chair was brought up, he boarded the sedan chair and yawned again, squinting his eyes.

"Master, go back to sleep and freeze carefully." Qiutong said so, but took a thin brocade quilt from the lady's hand to cover him, and told the porter, "Stand steady on your feet, and startle the master. Beware that I peel your skin."

"Sister Qiutong, don't worry, you little ones must be careful." The bearer responded cautiously.

"Well, let's go." Qiutong ordered, and turned around to salute the manager of Chengda, "Uncle Cheng, I will trouble you here."

"Okay, if you have me, you just need to take care of the master." The manager of Chengda smiled and waved his hands. She saluted again, got up and followed the sedan chair to the main courtyard.

The manager of Chengda turned around, put away the smile on his face, and looked at the people in the outer courtyard with cold eyes.

That night, Lin Tao and the others in the outer court were set up with a one-night rule, and since that night, the people in the outer court have obviously become a lot more "honest".

Lin Tao was also glad that he didn't go to visit that night, otherwise it would be hard to say what would happen.

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Mother's birthday today!I'm in a great mood!