C211 Mu Chen Is Coming Back
C211 Mu Chen Is Coming Back
And on the third day after he left, King Jing led three hundred elite soldiers to meet up with Mu Chen at the base area thirty kilometers away from Jiang City.
"This is Jiang Changhua's letter to and from Long San and Vice General Liu." Mu Chen sat in his tent and handed a few letters to Yan Chenglee: "The other letter is from Beijing …"
After saying that, he stopped and looked at Yan Chenglee, and then formed a sneer, "Look for yourself."
The letter Long San wrote to Jiang Changhua mentioned his plan to rob the salt field. It could be used as evidence that Jiang Changhua had colluded with the bandits and committed crimes by keeping watch over the others. On the other hand, the letter that Vice General Liu exchanged with Jiang Changhua mentioned the location of the stolen money from the sale of salt, as well as how to dispose of the newly discovered salt fields.
Yan Chenglee read the letter a few times, and the more he read, the more his brow furrowed. He turned to look at Mu Chen, and the latter seemed to have expected his reaction after he had read the letter, as he leisurely drank his tea. Seeing that had looked over, he opened his mouth and said: "Yantian's location, I have already let Wei You find it. As for the Iron Gate Stronghold, it is located at the Five Rock Mountain. Wei Zuo also made a simple investigation on the situation of the guards inside. "
Mu Chen took out an attack and defense map, and pointed out all the places that he needed to pay attention to, and showed it to Yan Chenglee.
"You said this place is strange?" Yan Chenglee pointed to the triangle marked on the map and raised his head to look at Mu Chen.
Mu Chen nodded his head, "Wei Zuo said that there should be a path that leads downwards, and that is the important point of attack." There might be an ambush.
Yan Chenglee nodded his head, he looked at the map again, and then discussed the strategy of the attack with Mu Chen, the two of them discussed for the entire afternoon, and that night, they led 300 elite soldiers and sneakily entered the iron gate fortress.
Before dawn, it was already breached. Yan Chenglee and the others found a large amount of weapons in the underground secret room, as well as the blacksmiths who were caught crafting weapons in the nearby towns.
They had collected all the weapons, taken all the bandits and blacksmiths to the cell of the Jiang City Yamen, and met with the messenger sent by the imperial government to investigate the case. The messenger interrogated all the prisoners and witnesses, looked through the evidence, and sent Vice General Liu and Jiang Changhua to prison.
After everything was settled, Yan Chenglee prepared a imperial report and sent it to the capital anxiously. As for Mu Chen, on the second day of Jiang Changhua's confinement, he left Wei You to help with some matters, and then rushed to Jin Ling'er with Wei Zuo.
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"Sister-in-law, big brother sent a letter back saying that he's on his way back." Mu Jin held the letter in his hand and shouted happily before he even entered the room.
Shen Jingli was in the courtyard accompanying Xun Er, hearing his voice, his face revealed an excited expression. Fourteen was coming back, he happily hung up a smile, and then kicked away the kudu by his feet, hurriedly heading to the door.
Nanny Zhao just came over with a bowl of cheese. Seeing him jogging out, she immediately shouted: "Madam, walk slower, don't run too fast …"
The excited Shen Jingli simply could not hear her voice. He only thought that fourteen was about to return, and fourteen was about to return …
"What did your brother say in the letter?" He had not seen Mu Chen for nearly two months, and he truly missed him a lot.
Shen Jingli stopped in front of Mu Jin and took the letter from his hand. He could not wait and opened it.
"Mama, is father coming back?" Xun Er held Tun Ju, took a step forward with his short legs, and followed along behind Shen Jingli with a thump thump thump, his eyes shining with an excited light.
"Brother, are you coming back?" Shen Yue'er was drying his clothes in the courtyard. Hearing this news, his clothes no longer hung on the air, he ran over to confirm the news, "Can we return to the capital now?"
Shen Jingli was already three months pregnant, the Dr Sun said that he was in good health, the fetus was very healthy, the carriage was a little more comfortable, and if he walked slowly, he would have no problem entering the capital at all.
"Why do you want to go back to the capital?" Yang Ningxin rushed over upon hearing the voice, but upon hearing Shen Yue'er's words, she patted the back of her head, and immediately asked: "Sister-in-law, when will your cousin be home? Can you catch the afternoon? "
It was very lively. Yang Ningxin had been waiting for a long time, hoping that Mu Chen would rush back and accompany them to the Dragon God Sacrifice Trial, watch the Dragon Boat Competition, and participate in the dumpling eating competition.
Everyone gathered around Shen Jingli and looked at him with hope. Their eyes revealed their anticipation for the Dragon Boat Festival.
After Shen Jingli finished reading the letter, he smiled subtly and shook his head at them, "He will probably be home for another ten days or so. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for the Dragon Boat Festival."
"Ah …" What about her dragon boat race and glutinous rice dumplings? Yang Ningxin was lost and opened her mouth wide. Her cousin was too weak, not even at home at the most crucial moment.
Xun Er threw Da Ju, reached out and hugged Shen Jingli's leg, raising his head to look at him, "Mama, when will daddy be back? Xun Er missed him so much, Xun Er wanted to play horse riding with his father, and play running high … "
No matter how he thought about it, it was still a game. Shen Jingli rubbed his son's head and chuckled softly. In his son's heart, Mu Shisi's position was probably not much higher than a toy.
"Daddy will be back in a few days. When the time comes, he will bring Xun Er a lot of fun and delicious food." Shen Jingli said.
"Really?" Xun Er's eyes instantly lit up.
Shen Jingli nodded his head, his son was actually pretty easy to coax, as long as he could eat and play.
"Alright, alright …" Xun Er clapped his hands happily and jumped around the yard, "I want to tell daddy, that the Da Hui I raise and Er Hui know how to catch fish, and I can catch a lot of fish.
Son, when you compare your father to two sculptures, your father won't be very happy.
Shen Jingli looked at his son, who was happily dancing in joy, and slightly narrowed his eyes. It had been almost two months, it felt like several years.
Seeing their happy expressions, everyone started to laugh happily. Mu Jin leaned over and asked: "Sister-in-law, other than saying that he will be back, did my brother say anything else?"
Shen Jingli turned his head to look at him, and said: "You're still saying … I told you not to go around causing trouble. "
"Hahaha …"
Once Shen Jingli's words came out, everyone started to laugh unrestrainedly, especially Yang Ningtian, his laughter was even more exaggerated than before. He patted Mu Jin's shoulders and said: "Brother Jin, cousin brother really cares about you, hahaha …"
Mu Jin rolled his eyes, what care did he have for him? His big brother's words were obviously discrediting him, he curled his lips, reached out to push away Yang Ningtian's hand that was resting on his shoulder, and said to Xun Er: "Xun Er, come over. Little Uncle will take you out to play."
Shen Jingli quickly stopped him, "Brother Jin, if you have time, go into the city and buy all the things you need for the afternoon. We need to wrap the dumplings tomorrow, we can't leave."
"Alright, I'll take Xun Er out to play first. After Old Zhang is done with the carriage, I'll go." Mu Jin nodded in agreement before he carried Xun Er and left the place.
"Uncle, I also want to go play." Huaixin hurried to catch up with him, followed by his brother Chang Zai.
"Huaixin, come over here quickly. Someone is rowing a dragon boat in the river outside the village." Xun Er held Mu Jin's shoulder and stood on his arm, leaning on his shoulder, and waved at Huaixin.
When these words came out, Yang Ningxin, who was speaking with Shen Yue'er, immediately turned her head and said with pleasant surprise: "Really? There's already a dragon boat race? "
"It's not about the Dragon Boat Competition. It's about the team that's preparing to participate in the Dragon Boat Competition. They're practicing." Mu Xi explained, "Our village has two teams that have been training since half a month ago."
Jinling City held Dragon Boat Competition every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, and the prizes were very rich, and they were always different. Every year, there were many teams fighting with all their might, so Jinling City's Dragon Boat Competition was always very intense, and there were also a lot of spectators, and many gambling houses would open to see who would win, it was extremely lively.
Hearing that, Yang Ningxin immediately followed Mu Jin and the others out happily, and shouted: "Then I want to go too! Second Cousin Brother, wait for me."
"Miss Yang is really lively." Qing Sheng looked at Yang Ningxin who was bounding out of the door, and sighed emotionally as he said this.
Is it lively? It would be better to call him wild, like a runaway wild horse.
Shen Jingli laughed and changed the topic: Qing Sheng, Ai Ye, do you want to go to the city to buy more, or do you want to go to the mountains to gather more?
"What do you need Ai Ye for?" Qing Sheng looked at Shen Jingli strangely and asked puzzledly.
Hearing that, Shen Jingli was also confused, he scratched his head and asked: "Didn't you want to bathe in Ai Hui's water?" When he was young, he remembered that at noon, he would order wormwood sticks in front of his house and boil a big pot of water in the afternoon with leaves of wormwood, calamus, peach and other flowers. He would bathe the whole family, saying that they could expel evil spirits or something like that.
Qing Sheng looked at him for a while, then said: "Sister-in-law, is this a custom from your place?"
Shen Jingli suddenly realized that this custom really did not exist in this place.
"Then you don't need to hang wormwood and calamus at the door?" Shen Jingli asked again.
Qing Sheng shook his head again and said, "No, but we will hang red paper and pomegranate flowers at our doorstep."
Shen Jingli nodded his head, he had heard of the legend of the Dragon Boat Festival where pomegranate flowers were hung, but it was not common, everyone tended to hang wormwood flowers.
"Then it's okay, I'll just say it casually." Shen Jingli said, and turned back into the hall.
Qian mama was standing under the roof of the living room. Seeing Shen Jingli coming over, she said, "Congratulations, Madam.
Shen Jingli stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her. Honestly speaking, he did not like this Qian mama, especially when she laughed.
"Qian mama's words are really interesting." Congratulations? Why did it sound so awkward? After Mu Chen was done with his matters, he naturally came back. This was a very normal thing, why did he need to use the word congratulations?
He shot a glance at Qian mama before walking into the living room. He didn't notice that she had a dark expression on her face.