The return of the son-in-law

At midnight, when everyone was resting, a lot of Tatars gathered outside Shen County.The leader of these people was a young man with a long scar on his left cheek, looking more and more menacing.

Holding the knife in his hand, he walked up to the night guard soldiers on the boundary of Shen County, performed a strange courtesy, and said in a not-so-fluent official language: "Tada Ning Guhan wants to see your leader."

The soldiers looked at each other, and they didn't dare to be careless towards the tall and burly Ning Guhan. One of them raised his voice, "Hand over your knife first."

Ning Guhan's face froze, and the muscles on the arm holding the knife swelled, obviously angry.After a long time, he said: "The knife is the symbol of our warriors, and it cannot be handed over."

Several soldiers laughed loudly: "We can't trust you Tatars, if you don't hand over your sword, then get out of here!" Then they all laughed again.

Ning Guhan's face looked scary at first, but now he was even more angry, as if he was about to draw his sword and cut someone down in the next moment.With his hand on the hilt of the knife, he glared at the soldiers, squinting his eyes and wondering what he was thinking.

Seeing this, the soldiers became alert and drew their weapons to face Ning Guhan. As long as Ning Guhan dared to rush over, the weapons in their hands would be pierced into his body.

When the Tatars behind saw them, several young men drew their knives and rushed over.Seeing that a fight was inevitable, Ning Guhan roared, said a few words, shouted back his companions, and said to the soldiers: "Please also convey to your leader for me, I would rather Guhan is willing to make a deal with your leader."

The soldiers discussed for a while, one of them explained a few words to his colleagues, and then rode away, while the remaining three watched the group of Tatars warily.

Ning Guhan had no choice but to go back to his tribe, some of them asked about the situation impatiently.Ning Guhan shook his head solemnly. He glanced at the knife in his hand. He was angry, but he couldn't get angry, so he could only say in a muffled voice, "Now we are begging others, please restrain yourself."

They waited for a while, and the soldier finally came back.Ning Guhan and the others nervously watched the movement not far away, and saw the soldier get off his horse and discuss with his colleagues for a while, one of them turned around and took a few steps in the direction of Ning Guhan, shouting loudly: "You! Ning Guhan, come here alone!"

Everyone in Tatar was angry because of the rudeness of the soldiers, but Ning Guhan stopped them and walked towards the soldiers with a knife in his hand.

After a distance of three steps, Ning Guhan stopped, and heard the soldier say again: "Your Majesty has an order, if you want to see him, you have to go alone."

Ning Guhan naturally agreed, but he still didn't forget to add: "I'm going to meet your leader with a knife."

This time the soldiers didn't insist, two soldiers led Ning Guhan to see Guo Zhan'an, and then a dozen soldiers came, and the two remaining guards guarded the boundary of Shen County.

Shen County at midnight is very quiet. There are dark houses on both sides of the road, and occasionally you can hear dogs barking and cats coming from inside, or children crying at night, and parents scolding loudly.Other than that, the entire Shen county was dead silent.

Ning Guhan was walking between the two soldiers. Hearing the sounds of the soldiers walking on the left and right and his own heavy breathing, he couldn't help becoming nervous.

He couldn't help but put his hand on the hilt of the knife, but he heard the soldier on the right say: "Ning Guhan, Lord Tongsan let you carry the knife because he respects you, if you dare to be presumptuous, you don't have to go to see Lord Tongsan. "

Ning Guhan was living under the fence, so he could only take his hands away, took a few deep breaths, and then managed to suppress the anger in his heart, and continued to move forward with the two soldiers.

When they came to the gate of the county yamen, the two soldiers stopped, while a group of soldiers guarding the gate of the county yamen walked up to them with lanterns. The soldier on Han's right said, "This man is Tatar who asked to see the judge?"

The soldier nodded and said, "It's him, with a knife. Be careful, don't let him hurt Lord Tongju."

The man nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, leave him to us."

The soldier on the right heard this, and said to Ning Guhan: "Master Tong San is inside, you follow them in, and you can see Master Tong San if you are obedient."

Ning Guhan's face turned blue and then black, but the two soldiers didn't care what his reaction was, they turned and left.

Guo Zhan'an was waiting inside, drinking tea contentedly, when he saw Ning Guhan coming, he stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down, and asked, "Are you Ning Guhan?"

Ning Guhan refused to sit down, stood in front of Guo Zhanan, and said in a rough voice: "Master Shen County leader, please return my people to me."

Guo Zhan'an corrected him with a smile: "I'm not some kind of leader, I'm just Xuzhou's general judge. As for your people, they came to the boundary of Shen County to smash up stalls and injured people. law, we cannot give it back to you."

Ning Guhan argued: "That's also because there are unscrupulous businessmen in Shen County who sold us spoiled jerky! Several of my people had red bumps all over their bodies after eating jerky and had a high fever. Using our herbal medicine It can’t be cured at all, it’s clearly the mistake you made first!”

Guo Zhanan spread his hands and asked, "Where is the evidence? Where is the jerky? Where is the person who sold your jerky?"

Ning Guhan became anxious, and said: "I still have jerky. My people are still running a high fever. If you don't believe me, I will send someone to fetch them! Also, those who sell my jerky are Those who were beaten by my people today, you send people to find them, you can find them! The jerky they sell to us is the same as the jerky they sell to other people. Would you allow your own people to be beaten? Are these black-hearted businessmen cheating!"

Guo Zhan'an changed his mind about Ning Guhan. Originally, in his plan, Ning Guhan took them to see those who ate jerky with added things, so that he could take advantage of the opportunity to know where the Tatars were hiding. where.Unexpectedly, at this juncture, Ning Guhan was still stubbornly unwilling to expose.

At this moment, Guo Zhan'an could already conclude that this Ning Guhan in front of him was probably the one who led so many Tatars to escape the soldiers' patrol all the way to Shen County.

However, the initiative is still in Guo Zhanan's hands, so he is not in a hurry, and continued: "Even if your clansman has a fever and pimples, must it be because of the jerky?"

Ning Guhan asked back: "Other foods are the same, only people who eat jerky start to have a high fever, what else could be the reason besides jerky?"

Guo Zhan'an looked at Ning Guhan, and didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so he had to explain a little more: "Even if it's because of jerky, will I help you if you ask me?"

Now, Ning Guhan understood: "You don't intend to help me at all?"

Guo Zhanan was noncommittal: "Tatars have invaded the border of our dynasty for many years and hurt our people. Why should I help Tatars?"

This question made Ning Guhan speechless. He frowned and thought for a long time, then suddenly reacted and said, "Since you don't want to help me, why do you want to see me? Come on, what are your conditions?"

Guo Zhanan lightly tapped the table with his fingers, and said, "You have to hand over those government servants in Shen County. Also, you have to leave Shen County immediately and go where you should go."

Ning Guhan didn't agree immediately, but bargained: "It's fine to let him go, but you have to guarantee that we can live here for a while."

Guo Zhan'an naturally did not agree: "You are a Tatar, we did not kill you immediately, we have already let you live, don't go too far, when the time comes, you will harm your own people."

"No! I can't take them back to die!" Ning Guhan roared, "Going back is sending them to die! There is no home for us anymore!"

Guo Zhanan's heart was shocked. Firstly, Ning Guhan's tone was too bleak, and secondly, the information revealed in his words was something they had never heard of before.

Could it be that something happened inside Tatar?

Guo Zhan'an realized that this was a rare opportunity—although the dynasty had never stopped sending spies to Tatar for decades, there were many tribes, large and small, in Tatar, and the news was so complicated that it was difficult to tell whether it was true or not. It is difficult to obtain timely and useful information; and because of the difference in physical appearance between the Tatars and the Central Plains, the spies of this dynasty are rarely able to gain the trust of the Tatars.Therefore, the information they can get about Tatar is pitiful.

Therefore, Guo Zhanan decided to temporarily change the plan. Instead of forcefully forcing Ning Guhan to lead his people to leave Shen County immediately, he asked him, "Why can't you go back?"

Ning Guhan looked at Guo Zhanan warily, and said, "It's no big deal. Since you don't welcome us, we'll leave immediately. As for the people you sent to follow us, we didn't abuse them, nor forced them Eat those jerky, I hope you can look at this matter and don’t embarrass my people.”

Guo Zhanan asked him back: "Where are you going when you leave here? You don't have a home anymore."

Ning Guhan was really touched. He looked at Guo Zhanan with a little hope in his eyes: "Will you help us?"

Tatar and the Central Plains are in dire straits. Being able to make a leader of the Tatar tribe pray to the officials of the Central Plains for help is enough to show how desperate the tribe is.

Naturally, Guo Zhan'an wouldn't immediately boast. He just said, "Send the yamen servant back unharmed first, and I'll give you the antidote. As for the others, stay the same, show your sincerity."

When Ning Guhan heard the joke, he hurriedly said: "I swear by the gods, I will send someone to send your people back immediately, please wait. Can you give me the antidote first?"

Guo Zhan'an was not so easy to believe a Tatar man who had only met for less than half an hour: "Don't worry, if you send people back within an hour, they will not die or suffer from the root cause of the disease. If the sunrise I haven't met anyone yet, so I can't guarantee that."

Ning Guhan had no choice but to go outside Shen County to discuss countermeasures with his clansmen under the supervision of soldiers.

Guo Zhan'an did what he said, and after confirming that the missing servants came back unharmed, he asked Hao Yun to take out the antidote and give it to Ning Guhan.

At the moment when Hao Yun appeared, some Tatars were very excited and yelled at Hao Yun with red eyes.If it wasn't for Ning Guhan's order in advance, they would have rushed up and tore Hao Yun to pieces!

One of them was furious and complained to Ning Guhan: "Boss, that person is the one who sold our jerky! They are in the same gang!"

Ning Guhan glared at him: "Shut up!"

He was bitter in his heart, and when Guo Zhan'an talked about the terms of exchange, he already knew that all of this was a trick set up by Guo Zhan'an - if Guo Zhan'an was not involved in it, how could he come up with the antidote so easily?

This is clearly calculated by these cunning Central Plains people, the purpose is to force them to show up!