Chapter 26 What the Fuck Is Funny?

Of course, Yunchu had no determination to live and die with Qiuci City. Not to mention Qiuci City, even if it was Chang'an City, he had no intention of living and dying together.

This was a situation where a hero was about to emerge.

The place where a hero led the mob of Qiuci City with eight hundred minds to defeat the Turkic army and finally returned victorious.

Yunchu felt that he might not be able to become this hero. There was no possibility that he could become a young hero of the Tang Dynasty in this situation, and finally soar into the sky and ascend to the Lingyan Pavilion.

The probability of death was too high, too high.

It was just a job, there was no need to sacrifice his life, right?

Therefore, after returning to the mulberry forest, he led his bay horse back from the stable, fed some concentrated feed, and carefully washed the horse. In a few days, how far he could run depended on this horse.

The Daguanling Yamen was not short of beef and mutton, so Yunchu spent the whole day making beef jerky, mutton jerky, and fried noodles with butter.

Add crushed walnuts, almonds, chickpeas, and dried yellow radish and spinach powder to the butter fried noodles. Just eating this fried noodles can satisfy all the nutrients a person needs.

On the third day, Fang Zheng was indeed sent to Xizhou to recuperate, but the reason for the injury changed a little. The document said that he fell off his horse when he was recruiting civilians. There was no good doctor in Qiuci, so he needed to be sent to Xizhou to recuperate.

It was a very normal process. It was only mentioned in the document. After Fang Zheng left, the Daguanling Yamen was led by Huzheng He Yuanshan, and Liu Xiong became the new Huzheng. Oh, Yunchu also took a step forward and became a well-known document holder in the Daguanling Yamen.

Fang Zheng was still a very loyal person. Before leaving, he gave Yunchu a golden teapot and six golden teacups.

Both the golden pot and the golden cups were gilded with a thick layer of tin. The craftsmanship was beautiful. At first glance, it was the work of the best goldsmith in Qiuci City.

People from the Western Regions are not so good at other things, but when it comes to goldsmithing, it is indeed worth mentioning.

Just making a set of beautiful gold pots and cups into tin has a bit of the flavor of "walking at night in brocade clothes".

Yun Chu got a set of tea sets, so He Yuanshan should have gotten more things. It can be seen that Yun Chu's statement that Fang Zheng only collected 4,000 strings of cash a month was true. He really only handed over 4,000 strings of cash and kept more things for himself.

The job of the clerk Zhang Gu is to manage the document warehouse! This is a very pure civilian position, and there is no need to go out to fight. It is said that this is the result of Fang Zheng's careful entrustment to He Yuanshan before he left.

Not following Fang Zheng to leave Qiuci was not Yun Chu's choice, but Lao Yangpi's choice, or rather, Lao Yangpi himself had no choice. He was trapped in Qiuci City by the people of the Ninth Zhechong Mansion of the Tang Dynasty.

Today, the city of Qiuci is a huge construction site, crowded everywhere. The dilapidated city walls of the past have been completely rebuilt, at least on the surface. The dilapidated city gates of the past have also been sealed up by Western craftsmen with iron bars and thick wood.

He Yuanshan has been patrolling the city walls day and night these days. The heads of people chopped off by his order are hung on the city gates, staring at the Hu people who want to slack off.

Yun Chu is no longer surprised by such things. In the Western Regions, almost all Tang Dynasty government offices have the power to kill people without being held accountable.

All the food in the city is sent to a special granary, and the livestock are driven into a special large fence to be slaughtered.

The Qiuci market, which was more or less prosperous in the past, is now so crowded that there are few ghosts. He Yuanshan is so angry this time that even the Hu girls dancing in the market have to go up to the city wall to carry wood and stones.

Old Sheepskin was lying on a Hu bed, dozing off, with two beautiful Hu girls fanning him to keep him cool.

Hearing the sound of Yun Chu's boots, Old Sheepskin slightly opened his eyes and smiled at him, "Why, do you think of me?"

"You knew there was going to be a war, didn't you?"

"Of course I knew it. In the past year and a half, Ashina Helu bought so many young people from me. If he wasn't sure that these extra people would be consumed by him, he would be crazy to buy more young people than his tribe could accept.

You know, the population of each tribe is actually constant, so that it can match the pasture and the number of cattle and sheep.

I'm not the only one who knows Ashina Helu's rebellious intentions. The Tang emperor also knew it a long time ago. I know, now I am waiting for Ashina Helu to come to Qiuci for a decisive battle."

"Aren't you going to run away?"

"Of course I have to run away. I want to wait until these people in the Tang Dynasty Zhechongfu can't hold on anymore and then we can run away together. In this way, we can take care of each other on the road."

"You are so old and can't run fast. You will be caught up and killed by the Turks."

"Fool, the Turks will only drive away a group of people who have been defeated by them, and will never kill them on the way. They need this group of people to spread fear and spread the bravery of the Turks. This is more valuable than killing them."

"Where is your secret passage?" Yun Chu waited for Lao Yangpi to finish his chattering, and then asked directly.

"What secret passage? There is no secret passage here."

Yun Chu pointed to the clear canal in the yard: "Do you think I will believe it?"

"That is the water flowing out of the karez. If you think the karez is also a tunnel, it is."

"Give me a definite answer. This is related to whether I can survive. I don't want to make any mistakes in this matter."

Old Sheepskin rolled his eyes and lazily left the Hu bed. Hu Ji pushed the Hu bed away with force. Yun Chu tucked the hem of his robe into his belt and went down the tunnel step by step.

When Yun Chu came out again, he had come to a high slope two miles away from Qiuci City. Not far away was a poplar forest.

In autumn, when the Tarim River was flooding, the water less than one foot deep flooded the entire poplar forest. The green poplar forest was reflected on the calm water surface, forming a beautiful picture with white clouds and blue sky.

The Tarim River is called "unbridled wild horse", which means that this river has no definite river channel at all. Where it wants to flow depends entirely on whether the water volume is sufficient this year.

This year, the water volume looks good and has flowed from Yutian to Qiuci.

When Yun Chu looked at the poplar forest and the Tarim River again, there were some people standing not far away, also looking at the poplar forest and the Tarim River.

Some people looked familiar, they should be the merchants in Qiuci City.

Qiuci City has a thick layer of loess, the soil is tough and fine, it is a good place to dig caves and karez.

In other words, the secret passage leading out of Qiuci City is definitely not only owned by Lao Yangpi, but all merchants with a little strength have this thing.

Yun Chu, a Tang person, stood at the exit of the secret passage and soon attracted the hatred of those merchants, so a group of people waving scimitars rushed towards Yun Chu in a mess.

Yun Chu squatted by the water to wash his hands, and after drying his body, he went back into the secret passage and closed the door of the secret passage.

Once again, I returned to the courtyard where Lao Yangpi lived and was surprised to find that Lao Yangpi had disappeared, and Hu Ji had also disappeared. Just now, the Hu bed where Lao Yangpi was lying was now covered with a layer of dust, as if it had been vacant for a long, long time.

Yun Chu was a little panicked. The reason why he dared to stay was because of Lao Yangpi. He was sure that Lao Yangpi would leave a way out, but he didn't expect that Lao Yangpi's retreat was so rough and so ordinary.

Coming to the crowded city wall and looking at the Zhechongfu barracks, it was also quiet there. Even the big flag with Tang characters was drooping weakly on the flagpole. There were no guards on the military camp, and no sentries holding spears were seen at the gate of the military camp. A group of birds landed in the military camp from time to time, and then flew away in a hurry.

Yun Chu's uneasy mood became more and more intense.

Although He Yuanshan waved the whip and kept whipping the civilians, and Liu Xiong's roaring voice kept ringing on the city wall, it could not bring Yun Chu any sense of security.

At this moment, Yun Chu felt that the expressions of the Hu people around him were extremely strange, and there was a fierce light in their eyes.

Yun Chu wanted to run... but Qiuci City was located on a plain, and he didn't know which direction to run to. After all, Ashina Helu's army would appear from anywhere.

Yun Chu hurried back to the mulberry forest. Fortunately, Hou San was still there, but this guy was asleep and drooling.

The red horse was still there, Fang Zheng gave him a golden pot with tin on the surface, and the golden cup was also there. There was also a bow hanging on the wall, and there were thirty-six feather arrows in the quiver.

Old Sheepskin sat with his back against the wall, like a painting.

"Are you scared?" Old Sheepskin threw Yun Chu's newly obtained Tang sword to him.

"You will find courage from this thing."

Yun Chu shook his head, slowly pulled the Tang sword out of the scabbard, and angrily swung a knife at Old Sheepskin.

"Don't think about controlling me!"

The Tang sword was blocked by a scimitar, and the clear eyes of Old Sheepskin were behind the blade, full of appreciation and praise.

"You are becoming more and more interesting."

A powerful force suddenly broke out from Old Sheepskin's small and thin body, pushing Yun Chu out.

Yun Chu staggered back a few steps before he stood firm. Old Sheepskin put on his black sheepskin cloak, slowly walked past Yun Chu, and whispered to him: "You can't leave, Ashina Tru's cavalry has come from all directions, you will see them soon."

"If I don't want to go to the battlefield, no one can force me to go to the battlefield."

"Child, that's not a battlefield, it's just a place to test you. By the way, I'll tell you one thing, Ashina Tru chose Qiuci City as the target of this battle because he listened to me."

Hu people are Hu people. Yun Chu has lived in the Sai tribe for thirteen years. How could he not know how they view the Tang people.

It's not surprising that Old Sheepskin has an affair with Ashina Tru.

"If I fail the test and get killed, will you save me?"

"No, people who are interesting to Buddha will never die. If you die, it means you are not that interesting!"