Longgang Post Station is located on the outskirts of a small town, surrounded by barren mountains on both sides and no houses nearby. There are only two ghost-like lanterns hanging on the dilapidated gate of the post station.
Longgang Post Station was about 50 to 60 miles away from Shili Pavilion in the suburbs of Beijing. In total, it was less than 100 miles away from the capital. When officials set out on official business, they would ride horses or carriages and would directly pass Longgang and stop at another large post station 30 miles away to rest.
Therefore, Longgang Post Station mainly received exiled prisoners in recent years. After all, it was seven or eight miles to get here after a day's walking, which was the limit of the exiled prisoners' walking distance.
Therefore, the Longgang Post Station had a large courtyard, few rooms, broken kangs, and poor food.
"Captain Zhou, you are here. Please sit upstairs. Tea is ready for you."
The postmen at Longgang Post were a father and son named Qian Laosheng and Qian Xiaosheng, and an old woman was in charge of cooking and washing.
Qian Laosheng and Zhou Fuan have known each other for more than ten years. Looking at the sky and counting the days, he asked his wife to boil hot water early and prepare food and rooms for the officials.
They only care about the officials, and the officials will take care of the prisoners.
[Little sister, the officers will arrange a house for you later. You have to go out tonight and cannot live with the other prisoners.]
After entering the yard, the prisoners were lying on the ground, waiting for the officers to assign them accommodation.
Steward Su was an experienced escort and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he asked Nanny Su to drive the donkey cart to the corner of the courtyard. The people from the second branch of the Su family surrounded the donkey cart, blocking the prisoners' sight.
[Big brother, how about we let mom buy two single rooms? ]
Su Mibao has a special job, and her missions are long and irregular. Television and video have sound and pictures, which is not convenient for her at many times. So during these years of missions, she has only developed one hobby, which is reading online novels.
I read all kinds of novels, mainly to kill time.
She had read a lot of exile novels. She remembered that prisoners in those novels could also pay to stay in a room. As long as they paid more silver and gave the officials a little more bribes, there would be no problem. If they had more money, they could also give more money to the people in the post station and use their kitchen to cook some hot meals.
[Not possible today. We have more than 40 escorting officers, plus Zhao Wei's escorting officers, there are also more than 40. With so many officers, there are not enough rooms in the post station.]
Su Zhenbei expressed his feelings to Su Mibao.
[We just need to find a secluded place to separate the criminals. If they start fighting, it will be more convenient for you to go out at night.]
Yes, Sumibao’s little head nodded like a little duck drinking water.
If they quarreled on both sides, it would be more beneficial to the prisoners.
[However, little sister, when you go out, you must be especially careful to watch out for those prisoners in the prison. It is best for us to live far away from them.]
Although Su Zhenbei believed in his little sister's abilities very much, he was still worried about her being a little baby and going out alone.
[Among those people, there are many extraordinary people. ]
Su Zhenbei didn't say anything else, Su Mibao understood it immediately.
The elder brother is afraid that someone will see her special abilities.
After all, the world is so big that nothing is impossible. She can travel through a book, so it is not impossible for her to meet someone who has been reincarnated or traveled through time.
Is there such a person in this book?
Su Mibao thought about it and didn't know. Anyway, all the male protagonists in this book are paper men. Are there such people among their confidantes and counselors? She really didn't know. She didn't pay attention to it when reading the book.
The original book is a male-oriented power-seeking novel, the main theme is revenge, conquering the country, and achieving hegemony. The three male protagonists are more arrogant than each other. All the women and counselors are cannon fodder, and are side dishes prepared for the three men. Of course, she is the smallest cannon fodder in the original book, and the most miserable little cannon fodder who carries a basket to dig wild vegetables and rushes to stick to the books.
"What a shabby house! Drive my carriage to the hall. I'm going to sleep in the carriage tonight."
Zhou Fuan had just come in with a few officials, and he and Qian Laosheng were looking at the post station token and going through the accommodation procedures.
Chu Mingyang shouted and asked people to quickly get tools and cut down the wooden threshold of the hall so that his carriage could enter.
Ouch, Zhou Fu comforted his forehead. He was so irritated by that group of Zhaowei along the way that how could he forget this third-generation ancestor?
"Sir, who are you? Today our post station received an official, so there is no room. Besides, you are such a precious person, it may not be good for you to live with the prisoners. Sir, look--"
Qian Laosheng didn't know Chu Mingyang, so when he saw the young man in fancy clothes who had lifted the carriage curtain, crossed his legs, and didn't even get out of the carriage, he thought he was a young man driving a carriage passing by, so he hurried over to persuade him to leave.
"Steward Chu, Longgang Post Station has always been in this condition. There is a Tianzi room on the third floor. I'll ask Postman Qian to clean it up for you. Would you like to live there?"
Zhou Fuan suppressed all his temper and hurried forward to comfort Chu Mingyang.
He just said, escort the prisoners if you want to, old Right Prime Minister, this is asking him to bring his ancestors along.
But,
What can a small warden like him do? This ancestor is a third-generation ancestor who dares to pull the beard of the right prime minister.
Secretary Chu? Although Longgang Post Station was a bit far away, it was not far after all. Qian Laosheng didn't know, but his son Qian Xiaosheng often went to Beijing and naturally heard of Secretary Chu's name, although he had never seen him in person.
"Steward Chu, you want to stay in the Tianzi room, so I will go and pack it. You want to drive the carriage into the hall, so I will go and get the tools."
Qian Xiaosheng secretly pushed his father to the back and quickly smiled brightly at Chu Mingyang.
"Otherwise, you won't like it. I'm getting married in three days, and I've prepared a new house. Why don't you go in and take a look first, and see if it's to your liking?"
Before Chu Mingyang could reply, the gate of the post station was knocked open, and a group of horses drove straight into the courtyard, trampling the prisoners scattered around the courtyard, causing them to roll and crawl, howling like ghosts.
"We want all the rooms, including your new one."
A 30-year-old sturdy man with a round face, big ears, a straight nose, a square mouth and a full beard, wearing the uniform of the deputy commander of the imperial guards, dismounted and entered the hall, followed closely by more than 20 imperial guards cavalry captains.
"Jitao, your Imperial Guards are so impressive wherever you go!"
Chu Mingyang glanced at the person who came and thought, wow, how many people will be worried if the Su and Wang families are exiled.
Gu Tai was worried, so he brought 200 Zhaowei prisoners with him, and asked Zhaowei Deputy Commander Lu Jin to personally lead more than 20 Zhaowei to escort them.
The old emperor was really worried, so he got more than 20 cavalry captains of the Imperial Guards, and asked Ji Tai, the younger brother of Ji Wei, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards and the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards, to escort him personally.
[Big brother, there are not only Zhaowei, but also Imperial Guards? ]
Su Mibao was shocked and complained in his heart.
She had always believed that the more than 40 officers escorting the 200 prisoners were all Zhaowei?
Half of them are imperial guards?