Chapter 361： Return to hometown

Xiao Mo walked over and said with a smile: "Yingbao, I can meet you everywhere. You are not at home. Why are you coming to Jingzhou again?"

“I came here with my second senior brother,” Ying Bao said.

Zhang Min echoed from the side: "Junior sister wants to help us defend Jingzhou, so she came with me."

Xiao Mo glanced at Zhang Min and said nothing. He turned around and spoke to Zhou Wuchang: "Master Zhou, Jingzhou is out of danger. It's time for us to go to Tokyo for assistance."

Master Zhou: "The city of Tokyo has become an empty city. Your Majesty has set off for Shu. It is meaningless for us to go to Tokyo at this time, wasting people and money."

"The Holy One did not go to Shu. The one who went to Shu was the king."

Xiao Mo: "That Pei Tianshi has gained a lot of attention in the capital. At this time, he actually gave the emperor an idea and asked the court to send troops to attack King Cheng, saying that King Cheng wanted to rebel."

Zhou Wuchang sneered: "Pei Shi didn't just say that. He also said that I, Zhou, am an accomplice of King Cheng."

Xiao Mo touched his nose and said, "The Holy One is not a stupid person, so how can I trust him completely?"

Zhou Wuchang smiled: "I can't tell for sure. Xiao Mo, if you want to go back to the capital, you can go back by yourself. I have no position or power. I am just a monk, so I better not interfere with your affairs."

This Xiao Mo is quite ambitious, and he probably wants to take this opportunity to do something big.

He has no intention of chairing, and he is a leisurely Yunye crane, where he is a leisurely Yunye crane, where he is not good for himself, he also has a way to protect himself.

Xiao Mo thought for a while and said, "Master Zhou, can you hand me over the personnel from the surrounding military camps? The Jurchens have surrounded Tokyo City, and the Grand Master has written a letter ordering me to go to the capital to **** them."

“The manpower of the military camp is not under my control. Commander Xiao should discuss this matter with Prefect Zhang.”

Before Zhou Wuchang came to Jingzhou, he did not bring any manpower with him. He only contacted the surrounding military camps when he arrived at the border of Jingzhou.

Many of the generals in these military camps were his former subordinates, so he was able to recruit one or two thousand people to come to the rescue in a short period of time.

Meeting the team of Xiao Mo and Chu Yan again on the way, they came together.

Thanks to their help, Jingzhou was saved.

Now Xiao Mo wants to borrow people to expand his team, Zhou Wuchang is not willing at first, but thinking that those military camps belong to the imperial court, he can't stop him.

Prefect Zhang actually had no control over those military camps. The imperial court valued literature over military affairs, but all military camps were mercenaries directly supervised by the imperial court. Whether the governor or the prefect, they had no right to mobilize the strength of the military camps, which also resulted in a shortage of soldiers to defend the city.

Now that Xiao Mo wants to use the people from these military camps, he must either have the imperial order of Hufu or have a personal relationship with the general and hire them at a high price.

He has neither and can only rely on Zhou Wuchang's influence.

But until the end of the discussion, Zhou Wuchang did not let up.

The reason is that these soldiers will stay in Jingzhou City to guard the city until the Jurchens return to their hometown.

Ying Bao didn't know what Master had to talk to Xiao Mo. After returning to the room, she started packing her things and prepared to go home with Master.

After this incident, Zhang Min decided to stay in Jingzhou with his parents.

But Mrs. Zhang firmly disagreed and asked him to leave with Zhou Wuchang.

Reluctantly, Zhang Min said goodbye to his parents and sisters in tears three days later.

Going home this time, Yingbao and his younger brother took a carriage, Master and Huzi took another, and the second senior brother and the eldest brother served as the coachmen of the two carriages respectively.

It was already July, and the weather was very hot. Yingbao and her brother were sweating profusely in the covered carriage.

So, Ying Bao took out an iced peach from the cave and handed it to her younger brother.

Peach is boiled with rock sugar and tastes sweet and sour.

The second senior brother who was sitting on the shaft of the carriage driving the carriage suddenly turned his head and asked, "What do you want to eat? I want it too."

Ying Bao had no choice but to take out a bowl of iced peaches and give it to him.

Zhang Min ate happily while holding an ice drink. He corrected the carriage from time to time and returned to its previous appearance.

Hu Zi, who was sitting in the previous carriage, was leaning against the small window behind the carriage shed. He stretched his head and saw this scene. He couldn't help shouting: "You are eating alone?" He turned to Zhou Wuchang, who had his eyes closed and was concentrating, and said, "Master, Stop the car quickly, the three of them are eating alone in the back.”

So, the two carriages stopped in an open area.

Huzi jumped out of the carriage and ran quickly to Yingbao: "Yingbao, what did you give them to eat? Neither the master nor I have any."

Ying Bao turned around and took out three bowls of iced peaches from the basket behind her, "Here, they are for you and my master and senior brother."

Hu Zi then smiled happily and headed to the carriage ahead with the ice bowl in hand.

Zhang Min and Zhou Hao got out of the car, fed and watered the horses, rested for a while, and then continued on their way.

When encountering county towns and market towns, two cars will go in for repairs.

But there are many refugees on this road, all of them bringing their families with them.

Sometimes Zhou Wichang would stop the car and chat with them for a few words.

When he learned that they had to flee due to drought in their hometown, Zhou Wuchang asked Ying Bao how to get them out of trouble.

How does Yingbao know?

In this northern region, we basically rely on the weather for food.

Even where they live, once floods occur, the harvest will be lost for half a year.

However, the taxes from the imperial court will not be less at all, and they still have to be paid.

Zhou Wujian's little apprentice was at a loss and didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and got in the car to leave.

They followed the official road, passed countless villages and several cities, and finally returned to Qinchuan County in July.

The county town is very lively now, and gorgeous carriages are often seen on the streets.

Ying Bao was very curious, so when he returned to the shop, he asked his cousin.

Jiang Cheng saw that his cousins ​​were back and he breathed a sigh of relief, "Those are all those who escaped from the capital. We can't provoke them."

He turned to ask: "What happened to you? Where have you gone? My third uncle and my second uncle are all very anxious."

Yingbao didn't dare to talk about what happened in Jingzhou, so she said easily: "Second Senior Brother wants to go home for a visit, so we will accompany him. Why don't you come back well now? Tell us how you are doing at home." "

Jiang Chengdao: "My family is all well. Wei Zhan and his mother have also come and live in our village. There is also Mrs. Wen and her son and daughter, who are also living in our village now."

In fact, these families are not the only ones living in Dongchen Village. Some aristocratic families also went to Nanpo and bought land at a high price to build houses, saying they wanted to build individual courtyards.

However, that was what the people of Xichen Village did. They sold their low-grade fields on the southern **** to outsiders at high prices and let those people build houses.

“Mrs. Wen is here too?” Yingbao was very happy to hear that Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen were both here.

He said to Jiang Wu and Hu Zi, "We will go back tomorrow."

Master and his two senior brothers will also return tomorrow. Master said that he will live in Dongchen Village for a while and learn to grow pepper and cotton from his father.

"You guys give it a few days, then Xiaojie will have a rest, and you can come together." Jiang Cheng said.

Yingbao: "Okay."

Jiang Cheng paused for a while and then quietly said to his little cousin: "Let me tell you something. My uncle is dead. The concubine came to my aunt to make trouble and asked her for money for burial."

Yingbao twitched her eyes: "Where's my aunt? Did she give you money?"

“I don’t know. Today, my aunt took Yuying Hongxiao and the others to keep a vigil. She probably won’t be back in the evening.”

Jiang Cheng peeled an apple with a knife and handed it to his little cousin, then continued peeling the second one: "Zhang Yukun is a **** enough. He actually thinks that his father is dead and his mother should give him burial money."