Two Hundred and Twenty-Six: Losing the Son and Breaking the Grain (2)

226: Lost Son and Lost Grain (2)

The food team transporting the food was very large, and there were more than 200 soldiers dressed as officers guarding it on both sides. Each soldier held a gun with a cold light in his hand. Weigh yourself.

The hauler was so tired that he was covered in sweat, his face had turned a reddish-red color, and his clothes had already been soaked with sweat.

Seeing a tea shop next to the post station ahead, I was overjoyed.

"Master Jun, you guys are tired after transporting food for so long, why don't you rest at the front for a while, and then go on the road?"

The chief cook came forward with a smile, and communicated with the chief of the soldiers guarding the food.

They are all made of flesh and blood, and they are not made of steel. After transporting so much food from Meng County to here, the body and spirit of the cooks are exhausted, but these soldiers on horseback are still blind. Whoever walks slowly is a whip.

Fortunately, Hejian County is already in sight, and it will be there in half a day's journey.

Otherwise, if this continues, sooner or later someone will be exhausted to death.

The leader of the soldiers who was in charge of escorting the food was the subordinate whom Jiang Pengji deliberately spared his life before.

He was eager to take the crime and make meritorious deeds, so he repented his merits. After receiving the task of escorting the grain, he squeezed the physical strength of the grain haulers all the time, urging them to go on the road day and night, hoping to rescue Meng Ting as soon as possible... As the days passed, he became more and more uneasy. He always felt that it was too late to change. Coupled with his eagerness for work, he naturally couldn't see the tiredness on the face of the grain carrier.

Even if he saw it, he wouldn't care.

Just a few cooks, can they be compared with Mr. Erlang of the Meng family?

If something happened to Meng Ting because these people were too slow to catch up, who would take the responsibility?

However, now that Hejian County is only half a day away, the anxiety in his heart has eased a lot, and he also feels a little tired, so he simply waved his hand and let the entire grain team rest temporarily half an hour.

When he got the answer, the head cook hurriedly shouted to the cooks behind the team as if he had received an amnesty.

"Be quicker with your hands and feet. There is a tea shop in front of you. Go there to rest and drink a bowl of tea."

As soon as everyone heard this, motivation came instantly, and the long food team was like a wriggling worm.

Slowly move closer to the tea shop.

The tea shop here often receives caravans traveling from south to north, and has also seen big scenes.

The proprietress quickly put on a smiling face and greeted a few soldiers who had entered the teahouse, while the other soldiers found a place to sit outside.

Seeing that the proprietress was busy running around, Jiang Pengji got up from Qi Guanrang's eyes, with a kind and honest smile on her face.

"Miss Boss, why don't I help you... Hey, I'm in a hurry to go out, I forgot to bring my copper coins."

The proprietress looked her up and down, smiled, and seemed very enthusiastic, "It's just that I'm busy here, so I'm going to serve some bowls of tea to the military master outside... Do it well, if you are clumsy, you will have to double the compensation..."

Jiang Pengji smiled and said, "Don't worry about that, I go to the ground every day at home, and my hands and feet are gone."

If it was changed to a slightly meaner one, it would be time to settle the score. You can't even afford tea for a penny, so why come here?

But Jiang Pengji could tell at a glance that although the proprietress had a mean face, she had a sharp mouth and a bean-hearted heart, and she was very warm and thoughtful. Sometimes travelers do not have money to pay for tea, and she will generously waive it.

In cold windy weather, even ginger soup will be cooked to drive people away from the cold.

Qi Guanrang was dumbfounded, watching Jiang Pengji leave the tea shop with a big bowl of tea, and easily sneaked into the grain team, under the pretense of delivering tea, secretly observing the things on the grain truck, with a passionate smile on his face, It's like a different person.

Is this... the son of Liu Junshou he knew——Liu Xi?

It is said that she is a wild boy from a farm, and some people believe her, okay?

On this side, Qi Guanrang opened his eyes, but on the other side, Jiang Pengji gained a lot.

Relying on the opportunity of delivering a big bowl of tea, she seemed to complain and chat, and slowly obtained important information from several cooks.

Of course, the cooks who leaked the news did not realize this, after all, there were soldiers escorting food by their side.

"Hey, I said you are a wild doll, why are you so curious?" A soldier raised his head and drank a bowl of tea, but he still felt thirsty at the end, so he asked Jiang Pengji to bring him another bowl, "Give me another bowl of tea." Here comes the bowl, I'm thirsty to death..."

Another soldier smiled and said, "Isn't this a new experience in the world? It doesn't matter if you ask a few questions out of curiosity."

Anyway, I didn't ask any important questions, so I just answered them.

Jiang Pengji responded kindly, "Two bowls of tea, please wait a moment."

Qi Guanrang looked at Jiang Pengji's figure and was busy moving around quickly. If he didn't know that this person had other purposes, he might have misunderstood... However, it is also a struggle for a noble son of a noble family to do this in order to obtain information.

He couldn't help laughing. After half an hour, Jiang Pengji, who didn't stop for a moment, had a chance to sit down, and the grain team had already set off again.

"You really...why bother..." Qi Guanrang said dumbfounded.

"Don't do this, it's not easy to get close." Jiang Pengji has been busy for so long, and her mouth is a little parched. After drinking a bowl of tea, she feels refreshed. She whispered to Qi Guanrang, "There is no food in the food team. The problem, and it's not two thousand shi, but more than three thousand shi! The Meng family is really generous, but I don't know...whether they will be able to laugh in two days."

Qi Guanrang raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise, "I only saw you bustling around, busy talking to people, and never really got close to the grain carts being guarded by the soldiers. How could you know that the grains are all right... You didn't even know the specific amount?" It's all clear..."

Jiang Pengji said, "This is not easy. Look at the depth of the wheels. The same bag of rice and sand has different weights. I also went to get the words of those cooks, and I can roughly calculate the total amount of food in their food team... ..."

Don't look at Jiang Pengji being busy, she is actually multitasking.

She added in a low voice, "Of course, I took the opportunity to approach the food team, not to see the food..."

Qi Guan made him suspicious for a moment, the main purpose of approaching the food team was not to look at the food?

What is that for?

He frowned slightly, and began to recall Jiang Pengji's actions during this time, hoping to guess her real intentions.

"Don't keep thinking about it, I just want to send something there. If you don't take this opportunity to send it, it will be inconvenient to do it at other times, and it will easily arouse suspicion..." Jiang Pengji was drinking tea with a smile, and she looked very contented, as if her scheme had succeeded. fox.

Send something... something?