Chang Suining breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and looked at Chang Sui'an who was walking towards him.
He Wuhu followed in, clasped his fists and saluted Chang Suining, saying in a loud voice: "General, we have brought Mr. Chang here safely!"
Hey, He Wuhu did a great job in completing the first task assigned to him by the general!
He Wuhu said, turning to look at the person who came in: "And this... and this young man, he was also brought in safely!"
He knew that this was a girl. Although she dressed like a man, her appearance was no better than his general's. He saw through it on the first day, but since she was dressed like that, he didn't want to expose her.
"...Sister Chang!" When the man saw Chang Suining, his deliberately suppressed voice was no longer concealed. He rushed over happily, squeezed open the red-eyed Chang Sui'an, and hugged Chang Suining with relief after surviving the disaster: "Sister Chang, I finally see you!"
"Sister Tongtong." Chang Suining patted her back twice to comfort her, then gently straightened her shoulders and said with great relief, "I'm glad that sister is safe."
Before this, she had written a letter to Grand Princess Xuan'an, saying that she wanted to retrieve Fan Ou, who had been deposited in the Grand Princess's residence. Unexpectedly, her brother insisted on coming, and brought along Li Tong, who claimed that he wanted to go out and broaden his horizons.
But no one expected that they would encounter a flood on the way... Fortunately, no one was hurt, which is a blessing in disguise.
"Thanks to General He!" Li Tong looked at He Wuhu: "Fortunately, General He led his men to find me, Sui'an and others in time."
In order to protect himself, Chang Sui'an had become accustomed to calling her "sister" during these times, so she no longer politely called Chang Sui'an "Mr. Chang".
Hearing Li Tong calling himself "General He" in front of his own general, He Wuhu's face turned red. What kind of shitty general was he? That was just a name given to him by his brothers along the way out of vanity!
And he...out of vanity, did not correct it.
At this moment, in front of Chang Suining, He Wuhu felt quite regretful and embarrassed. He laughed dryly twice and said quickly: "...I am just a small soldier under the general. This time I am just following orders! This is all my job!"
After saying this, he quietly paid attention to his general's reaction.
Chang Suining smiled and looked at him and Liu Hu and others behind him, saying, "Thank you for your hard work this time. You have been running around for many days. Go back and rest first."
He Wuhu grinned with relief, answered "yes" loudly, and retreated with his brothers.
"...Brother, we brought the general's brother back safely. Judging from what the general said just now, he will definitely give us something in return, right?"
"What are you dividing? You're a pervert. You're thinking of dividing the spoils at Wuhu Mountain!" He Wuhu kicked him.
"It's a reward, it's a reward... I was wrong!"
"Don't even think about rewarding me. Rewarding me is wrong!" He Wuhu glared at him, "It is only natural for subordinates to work for their lords. Do you understand what is only natural?"
These shit-eating things might become stumbling blocks on his road to whitewashing himself!
Qi Hu was about to cry: "...I don't mean anything else. Brothers, I just saw that many people in the barracks were wearing copper coins blessed by the general. Even Commander Xiao has one hanging around the neck of his horse..."
"We brothers are all bald, and being stared at like this makes us feel uncomfortable! So we thought, can we take this opportunity to ask the general for a few to wear? Otherwise, we will feel unworthy and uneasy!"
Hearing this, He Wuhu frowned.
Seeing that the other brothers were also looking at him with pitiful and eager eyes, He Wuhu frowned and said, "...Okay, I'll find a chance to mention this to the general later!"
…
A Che led his men to guard outside the hall. Inside the hall, Chang Suining, Chang Sui'an and Li Tong were talking alone.
Chang Sui'an said that He Wuhu took him and Li Tong back to the Bianzhou camp yesterday. When he learned that his sister was still in Xingyang, Chang Sui'an didn't want to wait for a day and didn't even drink a bowl of tea. He rushed to Xingyang to meet her.
When asked why the journey was delayed for more than twenty days, Chang Sui'an had more to say.
At the beginning of the flood, their group was blocked by the flood and encountered many victims. Chang Sui'an was sympathetic to the weak, and Li Tong also lacked experience in going out. The people below could not persuade Li Tong to stop, and they could only watch her distribute most of the dry food she brought to the victims.
This was done with good intentions, but human nature is unpredictable, and the group was too generous in feeding the victims along the way - if the reputation of being a fool with a lot of money that was forged in the capital in the past had dimmed a little after experiencing a prison calamity... then, with Li Tong by his side now, this light bloomed again and even reached a higher level.
This light even hurt Chang Sui'an, and he began to persuade Li Tong to be more restrained. When he started to persuade, the severity of the situation could be imagined.
However, Li Tong did not take it seriously. Along the way, she accepted the gratitude of the victims and felt like a living Bodhisattva.
But this wonderful feeling did not last long. One night, they were robbed and all their luggage and money were taken away.
Even though the guards reacted in time and rushed to chase, they were all veterans and they and the victims provided cover for each other. In the end, they only recovered one thing -
As for what this thing is, Chang Sui'an said with some guilt that he would explain it in detail later.
After being robbed, Li Tong felt very frustrated and self-blaming, but the guards, on the contrary, were optimistic and comforted her, which was also a kind of experience.
The Grand Princess had specifically instructed them that they were only to follow orders along the way, and if the girl wanted to act silly, she could do as she pleased. They were only responsible for ensuring the safety of the girl, Mr. Chang, and the goods.
And we all have to share the consequences of making stupid mistakes.
One day, He Wuhu found a group of disaster victims who were receiving porridge, and asked a young man who looked respectable and easy to talk to if he had seen such a person -
He Wuhu described the man's age, build, appearance, and accent.
The young man listened for a while, looked down at the reflection in the bowl of porridge in his hand, and asked He Wuhu if the person he was looking for was named Chang.
He Wuhu was overjoyed, nodded repeatedly, and asked hurriedly: "Have you seen it?"
"..."The young man raised his head and looked at him.
After staring at each other for a moment, the smile on He Wuhu's face froze, and then his body shook, followed by ecstasy, looking for it everywhere but finding it! This young man is Chang Sui'an.
They went from sympathizing with the victims, to rescuing them, and eventually becoming victims themselves.
At first, he thought about revealing the title of Princess Xuan'an or General Ningyuan to seek help from the government. But firstly, at this time, the local governments were already in a state of panic. Li Tong had a strong sense of self-esteem and thought that he still had his hands and feet, so he didn't want to cause trouble to others. Secondly, after experiencing the conspiracy of the victims, Chang Sui'an was extremely vigilant. He thought that there were all kinds of people around at the moment, and he had heard about the experience of the Luoyang gentry. There were wanted gentry fugitives lurking everywhere, and the light and dark forces in various places were complicated. It was still a long way to go to Bianzhou. As the brother of General Ningyuan who had just killed the thief Xu, it might not be a good thing for him to reveal his identity to others.
After meeting up with He Wuhu and others, Chang Sui'an and his group finally ended their lives as disaster victims.
Throughout the rest of the trip, they continued to help the victims who were truly in need to the best of their ability, but incidents like being robbed of money never happened again.
It's not that all the people they met were good people, but He Wuhu and his gangster spirit was obvious. When mountain bandits faced petty thieves in the market, the former gave the latter a blood suppression of "don't even think about robbing them, you should be thankful if you are not robbed by them".
The first lesson Li Tong learned from this trip was that kindness also needs sharpness and edges.
Chang Suining affirmed her thoughts and comforted the two of them before he was able to interrupt and ask, "What about the person I want? Is he still here?"
Her tone was calm, without any hint of blame.
No one knew how many people were lost or killed in this flood. She was already thankful that these two people were able to come to her safely.
"It's still there!" Chang Sui'an smiled shyly: "The thing I just mentioned that was stolen and then found was him..."
Chang Suining: “…”
Fan Ou's trip was also full of misfortunes.
Fan Ou himself feels the same way.
Since Chang Suining left Xuanzhou last year, he has been locked up alone in a secret room in the residence of Princess Xuan'an for half a year, but he doesn't know where he is. During the past six months, he has been in darkness from which he cannot escape.
Every two days or so, someone would come and bring him enough water and food to survive, but not enough to fill his stomach.
At first, whenever he heard footsteps approaching, Fan Ou would be on guard, determined not to utter a word no matter how the other party tortured him.
But it turned out that the one who never uttered a word was the visitor. The visitor was only responsible for delivering the food and was much more tight-lipped than him. No matter what he asked, the other party didn't answer a word, just left the food and left...
As the days passed, Fan Ou could no longer tell how long he had been locked up. Long-term lack of food made him thin and weak, and his mental state began to weaken. He could not hear any sound all day and no one communicated with him. He even felt that he was going crazy, and he wanted to cry and beg someone to torture him, interrogate him, and talk to him to make him sober up.
Just when he was about to go crazy, this day of darkness and despair suddenly ended without any warning.
He was stuffed into the familiar sack and left the secret room.
Then, there was a long period of bumpy ride. He was drowsy most of the time and didn't know where he was being taken.
On the night he was stolen as luggage, someone untied his sack and was shocked to see a half-dead person.
He used up all his strength to pull his upper body out of the sack and cried for help: "Save me..."
Li Tong's guards quickly caught up with him, but no one came to rescue him, so he was put back into the sack and carried away.
Next, he experienced starvation to the point of dizziness and was accidentally washed away by the flood in a sack. When Chang Sui'an fished him out for the third time, a tear of despair finally rolled down his eye.
He was wrong.
The night he was stolen, he shouldn't have said "save me", but "kill me".
"Kill me." He said numbly when Chang Sui'an took him out of the sack one night.
Chang Sui'an sighed: "How can this be possible? Stop saying such angry words."
Fan Ou: “…”
Does he look like he's speaking in anger?
Chang Sui'an handed the bowl of porridge to his mouth and explained to him seriously: "There were too many victims yesterday, so I didn't get any porridge. I didn't mean to starve you... There is porridge today, drink it quickly, I'll feed you!"
Fan Ou lowered his eyes and looked at the bowl of white porridge.
Damn it, after so many years and several life-and-death experiences, he actually felt a little moved when facing this ordinary bowl of white porridge.
The boy's natural sincerity and kindness were, to him, nothing less vicious, and far better than any torture.
He was not clean! He actually had such an inappropriate emotion towards his enemy!
Your Majesty, he feels guilty towards you...
He wanted to refuse firmly, but his will had been ground down by an experience that was unimaginable to ordinary people. The aroma of the porridge tempted his weak body, and the instinct for survival made him open his mouth tremblingly.
He closed his eyes, held back tears, and drank the bowl of porridge in a state of collapse.
Chang Sui'an had never noticed these details, and Chang Suining had no way of knowing them.
She only knew that Fan Ou was still alive, so she praised Chang Sui'an and praised him for doing a good job.
You must know that this flood is of great significance. Even if a convoy agency were to come, it is not certain that the goods would be delivered to her safely.
Chang Sui'an was very happy to see that his sister not only did not blame him for his rash behavior, but praised him instead. He quickly asked, "Ningning, do you want to go meet him?"
"Don't worry, let him rest for two days."
As Chang Suining spoke, he called someone in and arranged a mission - to return to the Bianzhou camp and bring to Xingyang the traitor who had assassinated Jin's deputy general and covered Xu Zhengye's escape during the previous battle of Bian River.
Bianzhou is adjacent to Xingyang, and the round trip only takes two days.
Once the traitor, no, two traitors are brought to Xingyang, together with the survivor who assassinated Cui Jing, and "tried" them together with Fan Ou, it should be possible to verify whether her guess is right or wrong.
Fan Ou is Prince Rong's man, which is a fact out in the open. What she wants to verify is whether this big hand that has been stirring up trouble behind the scenes for a long time, fanning the flames behind Xu Zhengye and Li Yi, assassinating Cui Jing several times, etc., is the little uncle prince who she trusted before and was not interested in worldly affairs.
…
The next day, an imperial edict commending Chang Suining for his contributions in disaster relief and prayer was delivered to him.
Naturally, those who came along to announce the decree included the young people surrounding Minister Zhan.
After receiving the order, Chang Suining met several familiar eyes.
Tan Li's eyes were filled with smiles of reunion. Song Xianmo seemed different from before.
However, the purpose of this trip was official business, and with Minister Zhan by his side, it was inconvenient for Tan Li and others to reminisce with Chang Suining. After Minister Zhan said, "I have other official business to attend to, so I'll take my leave first," Tan Li and others followed suit and bowed to Chang Suining and said goodbye.
As Chang Suining was watching them leave, she saw Tan Li, who was walking at the end, smiling and waving goodbye to her.
Chang Suining smiled back at him and nodded.
After a moment, Song Xian turned back hesitantly and nodded to her slightly with a respectful look.
Chang Suining was slightly surprised, and then nodded slightly in response.
After the group left, Chang Suining told A Che to go out and keep an eye out for news.
She thought that the "other official business" mentioned by Minister Zhan must be the punishment for Zheng. All this was finally coming to an end.
(3[▓▓]Good night, thank you everyone
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