As the big boy spoke, he struggled to sit up and faced Chen Xiaomu with his hands that were tightly tied with ropes. The big boy's wrists were already turning purple because they were tied too tightly.
Chen Xiaomu untied the big boy's tied hands three times. The big boy didn't bother to move his muscles. He grabbed the silver in Chen Xiaomu's hand and quickly put it into his arms, as if he was afraid that Chen Xiaomu would regret it again.
"Okay, you've already taken the money, so I'm going to start asking you questions now! Okay?"
"Okay, then you can ask!" The big boy nodded.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Hou Kun."
"How old are you this year?"
"Hey, no, why do you even ask how old you are!" Hou Kun immediately protested.
"Did you set the scope of questioning when you were collecting cash?" Chen Xiaomu immediately retorted.
"Okay, I'm eighteen years old this year." Hou Kun was silent for a moment before telling his age.
''What's your boss's name? "
"You asked for that boss's name?"
"How many bosses do you have?" Chen Xiaomu asked in surprise.
"Of course, my centurion in the garrison department is named Jiang Shang, and the postmaster who was later loaned to the posthouse is named He Fu."
"Where are you going to deliver the letter this time?"
"Of course it's Xinhe County in front of me, otherwise why would I be caught and tied up by you guys!" Hou Kun said bitterly.
"Who asked you to send this letter? And who are you going to give it to?"
"It was Yanliang, the postmaster of our posthouse, who asked me to deliver it to the garrison king of Xinhe County."
"Didn't you say that your boss at the post house is called Mr. He? Why did Yan Liang appear again?" Chen Xiaomu asked strangely.
Hou Kun rolled his eyes, "Didn't Mr. He drown? If he died, his postmaster Yan Liang would naturally be responsible. What's there to ask?"
"How many people have you drowned?" Chen Xiaomu finally asked the question he was most concerned about.
"I don't know that there are corpses floating everywhere within a radius of dozens of miles, and I can't count them one by one!" Hou Kun looked nonchalant.
Hou Kun's answer was far from Chen Xiaomu's original expectation. To be honest, what he wanted to know most at this time was how many people the Chu army had lost due to this flooding plan, and whether it could still form an effective combat effectiveness. , it’s a pity that what he caught was only a small pawn, and he didn’t know much about the real situation. Moreover, Hou Kun’s attitude towards his comrades made him confused. It stands to reason that he drowned so many Chu soldiers, and he was the same as Chu State. Not only does the human Hou Kun not look sad at all, but there is a faint sense of schadenfreude in him!
"Then how did you escape? And who asked Yan Liang to send this letter?"
"I escaped this disaster because I went out to deliver the letter. As for who asked Yan Liang to deliver the letter, I don't know! If our postmen are caught peeking at the delivered letter, they will be beheaded on the spot!"
"What about the letter you sent?"
"Of course the letter I sent is hidden somewhere you can't find it." Hou Kun smiled slyly.
"Can you take it out for us to take a look at?" Chen Xiaomu asked Hou Kun in a discussion tone.
"Haha" Hou Kun sneered, "I only promised to answer your questions just now, but I didn't promise to let you read the letter I sent!"
"It's okay if you don't show it to me. We will kill you later. By then, all the money and letters on your body will not be ours!" Chen Xiaomu said with a smile.
Hou Kun glared at Chen Xiaomu angrily and scolded, "It is not the behavior of a gentleman to break your promise!"
"But I only promised to give you money to buy you, and I didn't promise to let you go?" Chen Xiaomu looked at Hou Kun with a wicked smile.
Only then did Hou Kun realize that he had been fooled, "Humph, even if you kill me, you still won't be able to find the letter that I hid."
"Okay, I'll kill you, and I'll find a few people to skin you and cramp you to see if you can find the letter!" Chen Xiaomu said lightly.
Goosebumps suddenly appeared on Hou Kun's body, and he couldn't help but cursed, "You are so shameless!"
"Oh, you are right. Shamelessness is one of my great strengths!" Chen Xiaomu looked at Hou Kun sitting in front of him with unscrupulous eyes.
Hou Kun blushed, lowered his head, and said softly: "Promise me two conditions, and I will give you the letter."
Chen Xiaomu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "You should have said it earlier, which made me waste so much time!"
"The first condition is that after I give you the letter, you must let me go. The second condition is, how do you know so many things about me?" Hou Kun raised two white fingers in front of Chen Xiaomu's eyes. .
"Okay." Chen Xiaomu nodded and agreed to Hou Kun's two conditions without thinking.
"First of all, when I entered the tent, I saw your horse tied in front of the tent, so I went over and took a closer look. I heard they said that your horse was not the kind of snow horse that the black armored army of Chu State rode, so I felt like it at that time. First of all, I have ruled out your identity as the Black Armored Army. Han Fei, the commander in chief of your attack on Zheng State, is also the military governor of Xinyang Pass in Chu State. Most of the troops attacking Zheng State this time must have been stationed in Xinyang Pass. The soldiers and horses of Guan, so I was confused in general terms! Fortunately, you didn’t ask in detail, otherwise the secret would have been revealed!”
Hou Kun was startled, this must be too simple, he actually took the bait, but he still refused to give up, "Then how do you know that I have relatives who are being used as hostages?"
"This is even simpler. I just saw the way you wanted to die but didn't want to die. Li Gui's short knife was put on your neck. You would rather die than dare to speak to us, so I concluded that you have someone very close to you. Your relatives are in the hands of others, and you are afraid that your relatives will die if the news gets out! But they don’t take it seriously, so in the end you asked us for fifty taels of silver, and prepared to sneak back and run away with your relatives. Road, right?" Chen Xiaomu looked at Hou Kun with a smile.
''How did you know my last name in the first place? "Hou Kun expressed his biggest doubt.
Chen Xiaomu grabbed his hand. Hou Kun was shocked and quickly retracted. Chen Xiaomu did not force him, pointing to the inside of his sleeves and said: "Just now, your hands were tied tightly with the rope, and the sleeves were turned over." Outside, I saw the word "Hou" embroidered on the inside of the sleeve, so I guessed that your surname was Hou."
Hou Kun was speechless for a moment, he actually betrayed himself.
"There is another biggest secret, do you want to hear it?" Chen Xiaomu approached Hou Kun. Hou Kun moved his body involuntarily and looked at Chen Xiaomu with surprise on his face, "What's the biggest secret?"
Chen Xiaomu leaned forward again, "Don't let others hear this secret, otherwise it will be very bad for you!"
"I don't understand what you said." Hou Kun pretended to be confused, but his body couldn't help but tremble!
"Then I'm going to tell others?" Chen Xiaomu said while looking at Hou Kun's reaction.
Upon hearing this, Hou Kun suddenly became anxious and stammered: "Don't tell others, please!"
"What did I say to others? You begged me like this!" Chen Xiaomu laughed.
Yes, what did he say to others? When I begged him like this, Hou Kun was really at a loss.
"Okay, okay, I won't joke with you anymore. Can you take out the letter?" Chen Xiaomu suddenly turned serious.
Hou Kun blushed, lowered his head and whispered, "You go out first, and I will get the letter for you!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "Okay, I'll go out first. Call me to get the letter." Chen Xiaomu stood up and walked out of the tent. Passing by Hou Kun, he suddenly leaned into his ear and smiled: "You might as well Just be my wife!"
"You're a bastard," Hou Kun blurted out, his face suddenly turned red. He looked up and saw Chen Xiaomu had opened the tent's rolling shutter door and walked out.
When Chen Xiaomu heard Hou Kun's greeting and walked into the tent, Hou Kun was sitting on the grass in the middle of the tent with his head lowered. A folded light yellow linen cloth was placed on the withered grass next to her. Chen Xiaomu glanced at Hou Kun and reached out to take the linen cloth. Open before your eyes.
This is a letter with a commanding tone written by Zhu Ping, deputy envoy of Jiedu under Han Fei, to Wang Yun, the garrison of Xinhe County. It may be that he could not find rice paper at the moment, so he wrote it with linen torn from his clothes. The general idea is this The first siege of Tianquan County failed due to the sudden eruption of the Daling River. Almost all the troops and horses were lost. Even Marshal Han Fei's whereabouts were unknown. Now the few remaining troops and horses can no longer form much combat effectiveness, especially the elite black men of Chu State. Army A, because the soldiers and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and because of the cold weather and being in the water for too long, they could not stand up at all. Therefore, almost no one in the Black Army could escape alive. He ordered Wang Yun to guard Xinhe County. Immediately led the Xinhe County garrison of 12,000 people, and brought more grain, thick bamboo, and planks to Tianquan County to facilitate their evacuation.
After reading the letter, Chen Xiaomu was half relieved. The terrain of Tianquan County was relatively low. Judging from the content of the letter, the plan to flood the Chu army was successful. But what worried him was that Tianquan County was estimated to be Although there were moats and city walls as buffers, the damage was estimated to far exceed previous expectations.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu staring blankly at the sackcloth letter in his hand, without saying anything for a long time, Hou Kun beside him mustered up the courage to say, "Hey, can I talk to you?"
Chen Xiaomu turned to look at her and said, "You can leave. I've already said hello to the people outside and they won't stop you."
Hou Kun said nothing, biting his red lower lip with his snow-white teeth, tears rolling back and forth in his two big eyes.
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said, "What? You can't bear to leave me at this time?"
Hou Kun raised his hand to wipe his tears, pouted, turned around and faced Chen Xiaomu with his back, his shoulders shaking up and down because of sobbing.
Chen Xiaomu's heart softened, and he walked around to Hou Kun and said gently: "I'm kidding you! But I did say hello to the people outside. You can leave at any time."
Hou Kun opened his teary eyes, "You know what? I didn't cry because you were joking, I cried because I was happy!"
"Are you crying because you are happy?" Chen Xiaomu, no matter how smart he is, is at a loss. "Hey, Hou Kun, aren't you overly sad and crazy when you gain or lose? So many people in your Chu country died this time. Man, are you still happy? You can’t even believe it!"
Hou Kun glared at Chen Xiaomu, "You are so crazy! What does it have to do with me if the Chu people die? I hope they die as often as possible!"
"Hey, don't you see that you are still a traitor?" Chen Xiaomu was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Who do you think is the Chu traitor? I am from the E country! I am not from the Chu country!" Hou Kun glared at Chen Xiaomu, as if he wanted to eat him in one bite!
