"Do you know each other before?" Chen Xiaomu asked curiously.
Simon Noen nodded, "Brother Chen Xiao used to be my father's guard with a sword in front of the palace. He got along very well with my brother in the palace. The two of them often got together to dance with guns and sticks in their free time, and I followed them. I will be their little tail from now on! When I feel happy, I will also teach me a few tricks of Three-Legged Cat Kung Fu. Later, when the Chu people invaded, my father was afraid that these guards would be implicated, so he gave them a sum of money each to let them Traveling away from home anonymously.
"That's good," Du Fengxian said with a smile: "We are all together again to work on something big!"
Cheng Er looked embarrassed and hesitated, "What if we decide to start an uprising and everyone's family members are still in the hands of the Chu people?"
As soon as Cheng Er's words came out, everyone fell silent for a while. No one could come up with any good solution to his problem.
Chen Xiaomu thought for a while and said, "I have two ways to solve this problem!"
''What is this brother's surname? "Chen Xiaomu immediately attracted the attention of Xiao Cheng and Cheng Er as soon as he opened his mouth. Although Xiao Cheng was asking Chen Xiaomu with his hands raised, his eyes were looking at Ximen Ruoen.
Ximen Ruoen blushed, and then she remembered that she and Chen Xiaomu had been together for so long, and she didn't even know his name! "
Chen Xiaomu glanced at Ximen Ruoen, who was looking embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I'm placing an order with a surname of Chen, and my name is Xiaomu."
"Oh! Look, what a coincidence! We still have the same surname, and my surname is Chen. I just changed my first and last names later because I was afraid that the Chu people would find out." Xiao Chengye said with a smile. At the same time, he also asked with some suspicion, "When did you and the princess meet? Why doesn't the princess even know your name?"
Chen Xiaomu looked at Ximen Ruoen with a smile and said nothing. Ximen Ruoen introduced with a blushing face: "Brother Chen, he is from the Zheng State Army. We met in the Zheng State Army!"
Only then did several people suddenly realize it, and they secretly breathed a sigh of relief!
"I wonder what position this warrior holds in Zheng's army?" Zhang Yun asked Chen Xiaomu again.
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "I don't have any official position in the Zheng Army. I just help them with some ideas sometimes."
Hearing this, Zhang Yun turned to Du Fengxian and smiled, "Cousin, Mr. Chen and you are colleagues, and you are both someone else's staff!"
Chen Xiaomu quickly waved his hand, "General Zhang, thank you for the award. How can I compare with Mr. Du? I'm afraid I will never be able to learn Mr. Du's superb kung fu in this lifetime!"
Du Feng first glared at his cousin Zhang Yun, "Mr. Chen, don't listen to my cousin's nonsense. I am a staff man. I am just a monk halfway, just to make a living! But Mr. Chen, you just Can you tell me about the method that can save our family members?"
Chen Xiaomu nodded and turned to Zhang Yun, "General Zhang, I would like to know where the Chu State's scholar army of more than a thousand people stationed in Xinhe City you just mentioned is now and who is in charge of it?"
Zhang Yun sighed, "Forget about these guys. Relying on all kinds of nepotism in the Chu army, no one can control them. They are so lazy every day that they use the military camp as an academy. They shake their heads and recite poems during the day, and go to brothels to pick up prostitutes all day long. The people who came to complain were all the same people who complained. They either had sex with prostitutes without paying, or they molested women from good families, or they bought things from others without giving them money. In short, they did all the bad things you can think of! Bad things you can't think of. They all thought about it and did it. Wang Yun was so frustrated by these people that his head almost broke all day long, but he didn't dare to offend them. On the contrary, he had to cater to them everywhere! Later, considering that they had originally They were people from the Chu State. Wang Yun was going to put them under Zhong Tuo's account. Zhong Tuo was also willing to curry favor with the forces behind these scholars, so he agreed. Unexpectedly, Zhong Tuo specially prepared some after taking over this responsibility. Good wine and good food, when he was going to inspect this scholar camp for the first time, he also planned to find out who was behind these scholars so that he could use it in the future. But as soon as he arrived at the door, he was beaten by this group of scholars. Stopped him and asked him to match a pair before he could enter. Then Zhongtuo is a rude martial artist who has never even matched an ordinary pair, not to mention that these scholars are absolutely amazing!"
"Absolutely?" Chen Xiaomu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Don't you mean that those people are ignorant at home and fail in repeated tests? How can they still come up with absolutes?"
"Who knew these rotten guys were copying it, but that pair is really difficult!" Du Fengxian curled his lips and interjected.
"How do you know it's difficult?" Chen Xiaomu asked curiously.
"Hey, don't mention it! At that time, Zhongtuo didn't want these scholars to give him a blow, but he didn't dare to offend these scholars too much, so he took it on!" Zhang Yun continued: "Then he was there The whole city posted a reward of 500 taels of silver for the pair, but after waiting all morning, no one could take away the reward. Seeing that he was about to be captured by these scholars, Zhong Tuo became anxious! In the afternoon, he will When the silver reward reached one thousand taels, the city became lively. People from all walks of life came to watch the first couplet. Some people who were literate thought they would be inspired to write. In order to make a fortune, some people even invited a minister of Zheng State who retired from old age and returned to his hometown in Xinhe City to deal with it. In the end, even the scholars who wrote the questions began to rack their brains to earn fame and fortune, but in the end they still failed! "
At this time, Du Fengxian suddenly laughed, "It's funny, I was also obsessed with money at the time. I copied the first couplet back and did nothing. I thought about it for a whole day and I didn't have any clue!"
"Have you figured it out now?" Chen Xiaomu asked.
Du Feng shook his head first, "Later I finally thought about it clearly. This may be an absolute, and there is no second line at all!"
Chen Xiaomu became curious, "Mr. Du, can you tell me?"
Du Feng glanced at him first, "Actually, there are only a few words, but the idea of this couplet is so exquisite. Listen carefully, the first couplet is "Don't let the thieves come, let the Taoists come!" "
"Isn't that the second line of the couplet that says, "Idle people are not allowed to enter, but virtuous people are allowed to enter?" "As soon as Du Fengxian finished speaking, Chen Xiaomu blurted out.
Du Feng was stunned for a moment. The room was so quiet that he could hear the sound of a pin falling to the ground. Not only was the second couplet perfectly correct and fit the first couplet, but it was even better than the first couplet! Du Fengxian originally thought that this was an absolute statement without a second line, but now it was revealed casually. This really hurts his self-esteem!
"Mr. Du, what do you think of my second line?" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but ask him when he saw Du Fengxian dazed and silent.
Only then did Du Fengxian wake up and sighed: "Your second couplet and this first couplet are a perfect match!" He glanced at Zhong Tuo's head on the ground, "It's a pity that no one pays one thousand taels of silver for the pair now." Here you go!”
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said, "Let's talk about the Chu scholar army? How did Zhong Tuo fail to correct their first couplet?"
"What else can I do? I'll quit in disgrace!" Zhang Yun said with a smile.
"Then who is taking care of them now? We can't let it go, right?" Chen Xiaomu said.
Zhang Yun received: "Later, Wang Yun thought of a way to let them elect someone to control themselves. As a result, they compared poems in the camp, compared pairs, and finally fought hard. With my background connections, I finally selected a scholar named Lin Jin. Firstly, because he was the cousin of Han Fei, the governor of Xinyang Joint, and then he wrote two poems and two pairs. In the camp, there was a group of bragging supporters behind him, so Wang Yun followed suit and appointed him as the temporary commander of the scholar camp. After Lin Jin accepted the appointment, he selected several centurions from his own group. , and then reported the list to Wang Yun, and Wang Yun agreed without even reading it!"
"It seems that this bunch of scholar soldiers have quite a lot of background! Even Wang Yun, a fifth-grade garrison general, wants to act based on their looks!" Chen Xiaomu sighed. But he changed the topic and smiled again, "For us at present, the greater the power behind them in Chu State, the better it is for us."
Du Fengxian's heart moved, and he immediately understood what Chen Xiaomu meant. He stroked his beard and laughed and said: "Wonderful, the Chu people take our family members as hostages, so we will take their gang of rebellious sons into our hands. This is called tit for tat!”
Hearing what Du Fengxian said, everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "We can't wait to exchange hostages with them. This is just a last resort. If we can successfully rescue the family members, then the initiative will not be shared equally with the Chu people, but will be completely in our hands. We can use this army of scholars to force the Chu people to make greater concessions to us."
"What do you want to do, Mr. Chen? We all listen to you!" Du Fengxian said while looking at everyone, and several people in the room immediately nodded in agreement.
"Our first step is to immediately send people with more silver and capable soldiers to ride on fast horses to pick up the family members in Hubei before the news has spread. The second step is to mobilize troops and horses to defeat the Chu army before dawn. The scholar camp was surrounded, but it was just to besiege but not attack, to cut off all their contact with the outside world and prevent them from leaking information."
"Then they will definitely make trouble!" Zhang Yun said worriedly.
"Let them calm down and collect all their weapons. It's an order from the garrison master Wang Yun." Chen Xiaomu said firmly.
"With so many Zheng troops outside your city, do you want to camp in the city? Help us defend the city?" Ximen Ruoen looked at Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu waved his hands quickly, "This is definitely not possible. If they want to come in, even if we can restrain the Zheng army, there is no guarantee that the Zheng people in the city will rise up and rebel. After all, you are still the Chu army in name only. It is better to let them After replenishing some food and grass in the city, we will bypass Xinhe City and continue towards Xinjing, the capital of the Zheng Kingdom!"
"This is not possible!" As soon as Chen Xiaomu finished speaking, Ximen Ruoen and Du Fengxian immediately stood up to express their opposition. Du Fengxian said worriedly: "If you just slap your butt and leave, the Chu army stationed in other cities in Zheng State will unite to attack What about Xinhe County?”
"This is no longer possible. Under the strict orders of Chu Emperor Xiong Ze, Han Fei has almost mobilized all the troops stationed on the ground in the State of Zheng. Although the State of Chu is large, it has removed the territory of your State of E. In fact, I am afraid that his military resources have been exhausted long ago, otherwise he would not have allowed these scholars to serve as soldiers. Most of the people who are left to guard Zheng's city should be soldiers recruited from Hubei. They have suffered a lot in Hubei. After being brutally abused by the Chu people, I am destined not to sacrifice my life for Chu Emperor Xiong Ze."
