Chapter 16 Chat (Part 1)
I heard that I was about to meet the famous Duke Baoguo. Several Shandong people were very nervous. The two injured people were unwilling to rest, but decided to meet Deng Ming first with the injured. Only Wu Yue'er's identity was very embarrassing. As a female, although her senior brothers took good care of her, it was most likely that women would be annoying to enter the military camp.
However, Wu Yue'er also wanted to see if Duke Bao was three heads and six arms. After a fierce psychological struggle, she decided to test it at the risk of being scolded. Anyway, if you don't test it, you will definitely not be able to get in: "General Zhou, are you afraid of bad luck?"
"Shh!" Before Zhou Kaihuang could answer, Gao Yunxuan hurriedly reached out to instruct Wu Yue'er to silence. If he hadn't respected her father in particular, Gao Young Master would have to speak up and blame his junior sister first.
"Do you want to go to the military camp?" Zhou Kaihuang glanced at Wu Yue'er. Her expectation could not even cover up the thick black yellow and pink folds: "Yes, but you have to wash your face first, otherwise it will affect the impression of our soldiers of Shandong girls."
Seeing everyone being shocked, Zhou Kaihuang didn't explain much. After all, a large number of soldiers were thinking about buying a wife in Shandong, which was not a great achievement worth boasting: "Our military camp never has to be afraid of women coming in. Last time we returned from Zhejiang, we had more than 100,000 yuan."
There was a female camp during the march, but when couples were allowed to reunite in a safe area, the Sichuan Army never built an extra camp for taboo issues and let male soldiers move out of the camp, but used the ready-made camp. Of course, it was Deng Ming. He thought this was feudal superstition, and wasting physical strength for feudal superstition was not worth it. He pulled the Sichuan Army with one hand, and no one could correct it. In the end, it formed a tradition. Even if Deng Ming was not in charge of the troops, the officers were too lazy to do this.
Since Zhou Kaihuang said this, Wu Yue'er followed him into the gate of the central army with joy. It was almost evening when he returned to the military camp. All the friendly generals who came to the meeting in the morning were immediately there, and Zhao Tianba and Ren Tang also went to other camps to be on duty. After seeing Zhou Kaihuang return to the camp, the guards told him that the meal was about to start. Deng Ming, Mu Tan and several majors were waiting for the meal to be ready in the chess and card accounts.
"Let's come with it." Zhou Kaihuang invited five Shandong people to follow him closely.
Soon he arrived at Deng Ming's Central Army tent. Zhou Kaihuang walked in first. Soon he heard a burst of laughter from inside, as if someone was shouting: "There is not enough food."
Then another voice: "Do more, just keep your voice low and don't let the guests hear it."
Outside the tent, Gao Yunxuan said to Wu Yue'er: "Are you satisfied? You can go and rest first. We will tell you carefully when we go back tonight."
At this time, Zhou Kaihuang walked out and nodded to several Shandong people: "Duke Baoguo invites you to dinner, but please remove all the weapons on your body."
After the Shandong people took out all the hidden guys, the guards came over and searched them carefully, and in the end, only Wu Yue'er was left.
"Come on." Miss Wu raised her hands and signaled that the guards would rather be searched once than to get a chance to make a profit.
"The little girl is ignorant." Xing Zhisheng and Gao Yunxuan are both bigger than Zhou Kaihuang, but they always feel like they can't raise their heads in front of each other.
"It's okay." Zhou Kaihuang stared at Wu Yue'er who had just washed his face for a few seconds, nodded: "No need to search, come in."
After saying that, Zhou Kaihuang turned around and went in first. Gao Yunxuan scolded him angrily: "Why are you so ignorant?"
"General Zhou asked me to go in." Wu Yue'er had no intention of leaving obediently. He knew that he could not let the Duke Bao wait for a long time. Finally, Gao Yunxuan glared at Wu Yue'er fiercely and walked in helplessly.
Inside the house is a long oval table, facing the door of the tent, with people sitting on the left, and the right is empty.
After Shandong people entered the door, the people at the table turned their heads to look at them all at once. Zhou Kaihuang had already reached the innermost position, and while pulling a chair and sitting down, he introduced the names of the people coming in to others.
Originally, Gao Yunxuan thought that the Duke Bao would definitely sit in the middle, so after entering the door, he planned to bow and bow, but the front was empty, which made him at a loss.
"I am Deng Ming." said the person who was next to the tent door, and then quickly gave out two orders: "No gift, please sit!"
At the same time, Deng Ming stretched out and pointed at the opposite position, allowing Shandong people to sit down on their own.
"I was asked to look up at you, my neck was very tired." The other party stammered and refused to sit down. Deng Ming pointed to the empty chairs opposite the table again.
Gao Yunxuan thought for a while and sat carefully on the chair that was closest to the outside on the right. Xing Zhisheng thought for a while and did not dare to sit facing Deng Ming. Instead, he left the second hand on the right and sat on the third hand.
"Xing Young Master, right?" The person on the opposite side greeted him friendly: "My name is Mu Tan, Lieutenant Colonel Chuan Army."
"Prince Mu." Xing Zhisheng hurriedly spoke. He didn't know what official the officer was equivalent to, but he probably was similar to General Qian.
The other two walked to the back of Xing Zhisheng and sat down next to each other, while Wu Yue'er hid honestly in the farthest place, carefully observing the appearance of Duke Baoguo.
"The first time I saw such a gentlemanly person." Deng Ming suddenly laughed, looking at Wu Yue'er who was hunched by the tent, and said, "This female hero, your senior brother has left you a place."
Under Deng Ming's repeated urging, Wu Yue'er finally came over and sat between Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng. The next one was a series of conversations, saying that they were chatting, but in fact they were a kind of many-to-many interrogation. Not only Deng Ming was the only one who asked, but everyone around him was also involved. Only Zhou Kaihuang drank water. He had been interrogating in the store for a long time.
When answering the questions that kept coming, Gao Yunxuan was also looking at Deng Ming and the Ming army opposite. These people were about the same age as Zhou Kaihuang, and they were all in iron armor. All the people present had a murderous aura similar to Zhou Kaihuang, which could not be concealed. Even Deng Ming, who was trying to show kindness, sometimes a flash of light in his eyes would make Gao Yunxuan's heart suddenly tighten.
Ordinary people may not feel it, but for Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng, two people with rich experience in the world, the people on the other side are all people they cannot afford to offend. In the past, if they found such a person in the casino, they would definitely secretly tell the guys to be polite and never give him a thousand yuan. If the other party loses too much, they will give him some chips.
There were several times when Gao Yunxuan answered with a hesitation or difficulty expressing it, Deng Ming hid it well, but the smiles on the people around Deng Ming would suddenly become stiff, and cold suspicion and vigilance appeared in his eyes. At that time, Gao Yunxuan would feel a chill on his back - this was an instinctive reaction similar to the prairie wolf after smelling the smell of a lion.
As the question and answer continued, the eyes of the people on the other side became more and more constrained. They obviously believed their identities and narratives. After the pressure on his face subsided, Xing Zhisheng found that his palms were sweating and his neck was also cold: "General Zhou also asked about this matter that Captain Mu asked just now-"
This time, Mu Tan did not listen carefully, but interrupted and asked, "Why do you call me a captain but General Zhou?"
"Because they can tell at a glance that I am better than you." Zhou Kaihuang, who had not spoken just now, said. He obviously realized that the interrogation had ended and the real conversation had begun.
Sitting in Deng Ming's right hand was Wu Yuewang. He asked the soldiers to have dinner and warmly greeted the Shandong knights opposite him: "We are also very concerned about the battle situation in Shandong."
Seeing that everyone was about to have a meal, Wu Yue'er stood up tactfully and bid farewell to the present.
"Doesn't Wu Xia eat?" Deng Ming asked. In fact, he asked knowingly. He didn't know it at this time. Later, he soon discovered that men and women in the Ming Dynasty were different. When men were eating, women were watching from the side. Only when the laborers were full and all left the table after they left the table, would women come up to eat the remaining leftovers.
"Let's leave after eating," Deng Ming said seriously: "Our Sichuan habit is that men and women eat together and work together, and women have to support their families and earn money."
Deng Ming's subordinates were slandering when they heard this: This is not the rule in Sichuan. It is clearly determined by you. In order to collect taxes, women are forced to go out to work. Because the soldiers borrowed money from their wives, they would have to pay for not giving you a book they taught for a few years.
"I insist." Seeing that Wu Yue'er was still hesitating, Deng Ming said in a stronger tone.
When the food was delivered, Deng Ming smiled and said to Wu Yueer: "My position is very particular. I will pass in front of me first. If there are fewer dishes in the back, it will not be the turn to eat. Lieutenant Colonel Zhou came at the latest and had to sit in the innermost place; and the cold wind blew into the tent." Deng Ming patted Wu Yuewang's shoulder beside him: "There is someone blocking it. I may not be able to grab such a seat normally. Wu's position is as good as mine, but you should eat more and don't waste a good seat."
Without saying a few words, Shandong people mentioned Li Guoying's Shaanxi soldiers. Obviously, the bidding camp of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi left a deep and profound impression on Shandong heroes.
"Li Guoying's bidding camp is probably even more powerful than the ordinary Eight Banners," he heard Shandong people lament that even a governor's bidding camp was so difficult to deal with, and he didn't know how to fight the Eight Banners soldiers, Mu Tan immediately comforted: "Anyway, just my feeling, fighting Li Guoying's bidding camp is much more difficult than fighting the Eight Banners. Perhaps the Eight Banners in Beijing is more powerful, so it should be similar to Li Guoying's bidding camp."
"Have the Duke of the State and Li Zhe fought against the Bian camp?" Xing Zhisheng asked curiously, and was also full of expectations, hoping that the Sichuan Army would bring him some hope and courage.
Almost everyone looked at Deng Ming: "Only the Duke of Guo and Li Guoying's Bian Jian have fought head-on."
Although the battle process has entered the Sichuan Army's military training teaching books, and others can also describe it, but with Deng Ming, an eyewitness, others are embarrassed to steal his limelight.
"Yes, yes." Deng Ming said lightly while chewing food. He once led more than 200 cavalrymen to fight with two batches of the Bianbat Armored Cavalry of the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in one hour, with a total of five or six hundred people.
Xing Zhisheng applied for solemnity, and his palms were sweating slightly again. The number of people he encountered was several times that of Jiaodong Hero and others. In the bidding camp of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Shandong, there were usually a team of 100 people to carry out operations, and he had not yet encountered an opponent who needed them to come out with a larger structure. Since Deng Ming was still sitting opposite him, he should have won, but Xing Zhisheng couldn't help but feel nervous.
Chapter completed!