"Didn't I tell you when the food will arrive and when you can leave." Mr. Zeng said expressionlessly.
"You!" The master of the Sun family pointed angrily at Mr. Zeng, his anger hit Tianling Gai, and said angrily, "Then you just wait here!"
After that, he turned around and walked back to his yard.
Several servants of the Sun family hurriedly followed behind and returned to the yard.
The last concierge who retreated into the door closed the door smoothly.
"Damn it, a rich man is so big. General, they dare to close the door while you are still outside. Go over and kick the door open."
In order to please General Zeng, a soldier on the side walked towards the Sun's door and kicked open the Sun's door that had just been closed.
"Come back." Zeng called to the soldiers who were about to kick in the door.
Although the Sun family is just a wealthy family, the niece of the Sun family master is the concubine of Cheng Sui after all. For the sake of Cheng Sui's sake, it is not easy to kick in the door for no reason.
What's more, if the Sun family suddenly loses five hundred shi of food, no one can expect to feel good about it.
The soldiers who were about to kick down the door retreated sarcastically.
General Zeng said to the Xiao Qi who was following him: "You and your people stay here. The Sun family will collect the food in a while, and you and your people will escort you back to the ethics mansion."
We also need to discuss with He Caoshou how to resist the coming bandit army, so we should not stay here in the Sun family for too long.
"Yes." The little flag nodded in agreement.
General Zeng took two of his own soldiers and left on horseback from outside Sun's house, heading all the way along the street to the Chongshou Mansion.
The Chengshou Mansion is not far from the city gate and is brightly lit both inside and outside. It is also one of the few places with lights in Xi'an Fort at night.
The horse stopped outside the gate of Caoshou Mansion. President Zeng got off the horse and walked inside.
As soon as he entered the door, a soldier next to He Caoshou came up to him and said at the same time: "You are back, sir. If you don't come back, I will go to the Sun family to find you."
"Where's the conduct?" Mr. Zeng asked the soldier as he walked inside.
The other party replied: "The general is waiting for you in the room in the backyard, and the young one will lead the way for you."
The two people walked in tandem and soon arrived at a room in the backyard.
As soon as he entered the room, Mr. Zeng was stunned for a moment.
I found He Caoshou guarding a table of wine and food, drinking from a wine cup in his hand.
"Conduct." Mr. Zeng took the initiative to say hello to the other party.
He Caoshou opened his eyes in a drunken state and said, "You're here just in time. Hurry up and have a drink with me."
He reached out and picked up the other free wine glass on the table, lifted the jug and filled it with wine.
Mr. Zeng walked over, came to the seat at the table and sat down.
"Drink." He Caoshou pushed the wine glass in front of Mr. Zeng, and then said to other people in the room, "You all, go down!"
The servants and leaders in the room took the general soldiers out of the room, and the last person to leave the room closed the door.
"What happened to Cheng Shou? Why did you drink so much wine?" When Mr. Zeng got closer, he smelled the smell of alcohol all over his body.
It was obvious that the other party had drunk a lot before he came back.
"Huairen County has been lost, and the bandit army is coming to our Xi'an Fort soon." He Caoshou said with a wine glass in his hand.
After speaking, he raised his head and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Zeng put the wine glass in his hand to his lips and took a sip. After taking it away, he said, "I heard about it. Fortunately, the Zhu family and the Sun family have produced 800 shi of food. We can recruit more young men to defend the city." .”
"Defend the city? Haha, even Huairen County, which has taller walls and more troops than Xi'an Fort, couldn't defend it. It was captured by bandits in less than a day. Do you think our Xi'an Fort can defend it?" He Caoshou smiled bitterly. .
General Zeng said: "As long as the soldiers and people in the city work together to defend against the enemy, I believe we will be able to defend Xi'an Fort."
"This is easy to say, but not so easy to do. Even if a group of untrained young men pull up the city wall, it will be of no use. You and I actually know that using young men to defend the city is just wishful thinking." He Chanshou picked up the wine pot and refilled his glass.
General Zeng said: "We have no way out now. If we can't defend Xi'an Fort, neither you nor I will end well. It's better to fight the bandits and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty."
"Yes, who said there is no way out." He Caoshou's voice became sharp, and he dropped the wine glass in his hand heavily on the table, letting the wine inside spill out.
Zeng glanced at He Chengzheng, who sounded slightly excited, and did not answer. Instead, he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a mouthful of vegetables and put it into his mouth to chew slowly.
"You understand what I mean. It's still too late to leave now. When daybreak comes, I won't be able to leave even if I want to." He Caoshou said, looking closely at Zeng Ba.
Zeng always swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't hesitate. Xi'an Fort cannot be defended. You and I have been wasting here for many years. Do we really want to risk our lives for the imperial court?" He Caoshou advised.
At this time, he was not drunk at all, and his eyes were extremely clear.
Mr. Zeng asked hesitantly: "But where can we escape?"
"I haven't touched the more than one thousand taels of silver you got from the Zhu family and the Sun family during the day. We can add two to one and make five, each of us will have half. With the savings you and I have accumulated over the years, we will never be able to become a rich man. "He Caoshou looked at him and said.
General Zeng hesitated for a moment and said, "What should we do with the food? We just got eight hundred shi of food from the Zhu family and the Sun family. We can't lose so much food!"
"My idea is to leave the city overnight. Carrying so much food with us will be a drag on us. Let's just throw all the food to the young men. We can only bring our trusted subordinates and Xinrou." He Caoshou said.
Mr. Zeng looked thoughtful and said: "The matter is too big, let me think about it again."
For a moment he was a little undecided.
If they left like this, they would definitely have to remain anonymous in the future, otherwise even if they survived, the court would not let them go.
"Whether you leave or not, I will definitely leave tonight. I will not stay and be buried with Xi'an Fort." He Caoshou said.
Mr. Zeng said worriedly: "We are going out of the city. It is impossible to hide it from the eyes of the bandit cavalry outside the city. It is hard to say whether we will be able to leave by then, but we will definitely be watched by the other party."
"I've thought about what you're worried about. There are only a dozen or so cavalry left outside the city, and they are all blocked outside the west gate. We can definitely go through the east gate, even if we are unlucky enough to be discovered. , as long as we take a few more people out of the city, we may not be afraid of them." He Caoshou analyzed for him.
Zeng thought about it for a while and said: "Let's divide the money we got during the day now. We can't take away all the flag troops in the city. We need to keep some of them. Otherwise, as soon as we leave, chaos will immediately break out in the city, which can easily cause chaos." Attention from the rioters outside the city."
"I've prepared the money a long time ago. This is your share." He Caoshou took out a cloth bag from under the table and placed it on the table.
