At night, the official leader Pan Jia, who had finished his busy day, dragged his tired body back to his house.

The villagers lacked funds, so naturally there would be no consumption of lamps, oil, candles and waxes. The house was pitch black. When the woman heard the sound in the courtyard, she stood behind the door with a vigilant staff. When she heard the familiar footsteps and low voices, she breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door bolt to welcome her husband into the room.

"I'm not returning at night again, I don't know what I'm busy with?"

When the woman touched her husband's thick arms, she felt more at ease and couldn't help but complain a few times.

"If I don't run around, how can you old and young survive!"

The husband laughed softly and took two hands into the woman's arms. When he heard the woman's hidden shy breathing and reprimanding, his fatigue disappeared a little. When he touched the wooden stick that the woman was clamped under his armpit, he smiled again: "The woman is always small-hearted. Now there are patrols in the city day and night. Who dares to offend the villagers without knowing how to live or die, let alone my family!"

Speaking of this, there is no lack of pride in the tone of men. A real man must have power. Now he is in charge of the township Boxer training nearly a hundred strong soldiers. Except for the young, a little overly young, county magistrate and extremely tough generals of the royal army, no one in the city dares to offend him now.

While speaking, he stuffed a piece of bacon to the woman, whispered to half of it and half of it to be put away properly. The woman acted as she said, smeared her into the stove and then took back the hot meat soup. Pan Jia found a few crude earthen jars and poured out about one-third of the meat soup. When the woman saw this, she felt a little distressed and pouted and complained: "That's not a blood relative, why is it necessary..."

"shut up!"

Pan Jia frowned when he heard this: "All three uncles in his household have died. I am his relative's son. If you dare to cherish things and be unfilial, and you will talk more about right and wrong, I will expel you from the household!"

When the woman heard this, she was silent and did not dare to say anything more.

Pan Jia turned into the inner room with a hot meat soup. He heard an old cough. He smeared and helped the old man lying on the meadow up, and whispered: "Grandma, I've eaten."

The old man pouted, drank for a few sips before waved his hand and said, "I'm full, I'm full, leave it to the little slave."

"I have enough food at home, and I am being polite to Gong Ming. Grandpa, don't worry too much."

Pan Jia ignored the old man's refusal and poured half a pot of meat soup down, then patted the old man's skinny chest: "Grandma, rest with peace of mind. I will have to do something early tomorrow morning, so I won't come to greet you."

After returning to the front house, Pan Jia saw that the woman was still smearing and rubbing numbness, and stepped forward and patted her and said, "Go and wake up the little slave."

"He's gone to bed long ago..."

"Go quickly and go quickly, eat before going to bed."

Pan Jia sat back next to the meal table and heard the woman talking again: "I play around all day, what's the use of eating more!"

"You woman is really stupid. How can you live a life long and never grow old? There is no hope of being a young man in the door. You don't know where to die after the next year."

He remembered another incident: "I ask you to teach the little slave how to read. How can you do this? Don't slacket off. If your husband was not lucky enough to have this superficial ability, how could you be valued by Ming Gong? Huan Wei said that when the thief is settled, the county will still have to start learning. My little boy, Youhui, can you learn a little, and in the future, you will definitely be able to lead the family!"

"How can the thief be so easy to settle? The day before yesterday, you didn't return all night, and there was so riot outside the city, and it was definitely a Hu soldiers who came to disturb him. That was a tiger and wolf that can eat people. Why should we be provoked by the cold family? If a disaster really comes, the county magistrate Ming Gong may not be able to survive. How can we plan for a long time..."

The woman was a little unhappy, but she still got up to call her own slave.

"What a foolish woman. What a cruel person like Jie Lord, he was driven away by the king's army like a pig or a dog. Those evil soldiers outside the city couldn't last long..."

Pan Jia picked up the meat piece from the clay pot and threw it into his mouth and chewed it. There was no lack of joy and expectation between his eyebrows and eyes. He hugged his sleepy son in his arms and said with a low smile: "I eat more. When I go to the county to start a school, my grandfather will send you to school. In the future, I will be like that Huan Wei, and be a dignified prince and shine in my family!"

The next morning, Pan Jia left his home and went to the county office to stand by. On the way, he met the village eunuchs whom he worked with, and greeted each other enthusiastically. The county has not been in the control for a long time. Although the food situation of the people has not improved significantly, with the local brave men inspecting day and night, there is no strong man who dares to be rampant, at least he has gained some peace of mind.

Huan Yi, the county office, also got up early. When Pan Jia joined the office, he called him in. He did not arrange new tasks. He just asked about daily trivial matters. After a while, his expression became solemn: "I have an important thing here to tell Mr. Pan, but this matter is very dangerous and may not be able to return after leaving. But if it can be done, I will guarantee you a prominent future!"

When Pan Jia heard this, his face became solemn, and he did not dare to agree easily for a while. Although he was quite convinced of Huan Yi shortly afterwards, and he also saw that the families of the lost village heroes were properly supported, but after all, the days were short, so he did not dare to believe them.

Huan Yi also knew that not everyone had the heroic spirit of dying to sacrifice his life. For a moment, it was a bit difficult for someone to make such an important decision. After a moment of pondering, he said again: "Mr. Pan has been in the affairs for many days, and the situation of the enemy and us must have been clear. The Jie thieves seem to be rampant, but it is difficult for a long time. The King's army seems to be trapped here, but it has been continuously repeated. Quzhou City is not a place that must be defended. Jie thieves have harassed several times but dare not take it. It shows that their power is strong on the outside and weak on the inside. The thieves are about to destroy them, and all the achievements are waiting to be picked up. If you have the responsibility to make progress, how can you be safe and safe?"

"Before entering Quzhou, I was also a prosperous idle person in Luozhong. My family was full of wealth. Even if I didn't take any dangerous tasks, I would be happy and prosperous for the rest of my life. But in this great life, a mere man could still be famous in the north and south. How could my Chinese husband be content with a dog? Every man can accept it. The many dead bones on the left may not be harmful to others during his lifetime, and those who regret it cannot die. The major events of life and death have their own severity. I do not want to die in peace, but only seek to entrust my life to great things. Although the thief is cruel, if I can't die by chance, I will be rewarded with great achievements and praise the world..."

When Pan Jia heard this, his expression was a little moved. Although he was not a wise man with great talent, he also saw many life and death events, so he naturally had the awareness of dying at any time. But as Huan Yi said, every man's life also has a difference of severity. If he really had a great wish to win, what's the pity of his life?

Not to mention anything else, at least the lives of these fellow villagers are much more precious than ordinary villagers. At least as seen during this period, the families of those fellow villagers who were unfortunately lost outside have been offered. If it were the past, they would die, and who would care about their families?

"I am not jealous of my life, I am only afraid that my talent is weak and I cannot be competent for the entrusted by Ming Gong..."

After a while, Pan Jia said in a deep voice.

Seeing that Pan Jia was already a little moved, Huan Yi said again: "Since I chose Mr. Pan to do this, it is because you have the possibility of success. If you force it out of no way, it is to accumulate sins for myself. Besides, I am the only life I am like duckweed. Only by sending things to you can you be safe."

Huan Yi cannot be sure whether Pan Jia can accomplish anything. In fact, there are differences between Jin Xuangong and Huan Yi on whether to send Pan Jia out.

Jin Xuangong believed that since he knew where the Jie army was distributed around Quzhou, he could directly send troops to capture him without hesitation, and he could interrogate the enemy's military information as much as possible. For a villager like Pan Jia, no matter whether he is capable or loyal, he should not trust him too much. It is very likely that he would not only not know how much the enemy situation is, but he might leak his own intelligence.

Huan Yi did not disagree with Jin Xuangong's views. However, Jin Xuangong belonged to the commander of the Wang Division, while Huan Yi was an official of the Quzhou County Office. The different positions of the two sides determined that when Huan Yi was considering the problem, he could not only focus on the current military, but also had to consider the governance after the Quzhou War.

According to the standards of the Xingtai rules and regulations, Quzhou currently does not have the conditions to set up a county. Putting aside anything else, the number of people alone is far from meeting the requirements. The population was not born out of thin air. In addition to helping the current military affairs of the king, Huan Yi must also consider the requisition of the people in this area after the war.

Of course, in addition to this, once the Quzhou war is over, the king will definitely need to continue to advance northwards, and Huan Yi must also have trustworthy arms and help the manpower to handle county affairs more calmly.

It is precisely based on this consideration that Huan Yi decided to take certain risks and give Pan Jia an opportunity and test. If this person can accomplish this time, putting aside the gains from it, at least it can ensure that this person is trustworthy and can trust with great things.

If it cannot, there are only two consequences. One is that Pan Jia died, but Qu Zhou can be punished. The man was killed because of Huan Yi's dispatch. Huan Yi will definitely properly resettle his family, which is not a difficult task for him. The other is that Pan Jia surrendered to the enemy and attracted the Jie army to attack in advance, making the situation in Qu Zhou even more dangerous.

But even if Pan Jia is not sent, this danger still exists. Jie general Shi Min is cunning and ferocious. Although there are frequent attacks from the royal army in Dongwu City to attract his attention and give the Yanzhou army time to raise funds to arrange counterattacks, it is still uncertain how long it can be delayed. Quzhou is located at the forefront of the two armies' battle. The intensity of the battle will definitely be very strong at that time, and Huan Yi dare not have the luxury of being completely unsuccessful.

Of course, no matter what situation develops later, Pan Jia's trip will definitely be very dangerous. Who can get full of comprehensiveness if you seek progress? Huan Yi is naturally taking risks. Even Shi Min, the general opposite, who is responsible for his fierce cavalry, is he trapped in his respective strongholds, and isn't he playing with fire?

When Pan Jia learned that Huan Yi was going to arrange for him to do something, he breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this was not a direct death, but then he became nervous: "I am really a humble position, I have never... I just ask Mr. Ming, do you need to be careful when doing things?"

After all, he is just an ordinary local righteousness. Even if he has made up his mind to participate in such a major event, he is really lacking in confidence.

"Just do ordinary things, remember your experiences in detail, think more and less."

In Pan Jia's situation, Huan Yi could not have given him too complicated instructions. He would mainly remind him to maintain his true nature.

Although Jin Xuangong disagreed with Huan Yi's approach, when Pan Jia was really preparing to travel, he still came out to meet Pan Jia and explained some details about military affairs.

"This Pan Jia is not very knowledgeable, but he is not loyal. Hebei is so generous, and sincerity is not false."

Standing at the gate of the county town, watching Pan Jia and the two escorts gradually drift away, Huan Yi couldn't help but sigh. These Hebei villagers are different from those who have lived in Luoyang for a long time and who have been in Luoyang. They are willing to undertake such a dangerous task and will definitely suffer even more. After all, it is difficult for them to determine whether they can get rewards.

"Yan Zhao is so heroic, but even more valuable is tenacity."

Jin Xuangong still holds some reservations, and generous people are prone to being excited but difficult to keep things. In his opinion, these people may be eager to take on risks in a short period of time, but once the situation does not develop smoothly or is subject to strong oppression, they are also very likely to give up their original position.

After all, it is related to his personal experience. He was betrayed by his close relatives one after another. He did not dare to hold too many good expectations for human nature.

But since everyone has already spread it, it is useless to say that these are not useful. The most urgent task is to enhance Quzhou's self-protection ability. Once the counterattack officially begins, they can persist for a moment and increase their chances of survival.

After Pan Jia and several others left the county town, they went straight to a place they had found out before as the target of the Jie Kingdom's villagers.

The journey has been smooth. Recently, they have been out frequently and have summarized the increasingly rare rules of the Jie army's cycling activities. This is also one of the reasons why Pan Jia dared to take the risk of leaving the city. The Jie army scout was unreasonable. Once he encountered it, he was just thinking about the good and bad luck. However, if he only negotiated with the villagers, he was still somewhat sure.

Walking forward carefully in the countryside, after nearly three hours of trekking, they finally arrived at a meadow. Looking around, there were all the weeds and branches that were tall and deserted, as if they were rarely visited.

However, when Pan Jia and others deliberately made some noises in the vicinity, they quickly reacted in the surrounding wilderness. Pan Jia and others seemed to be unaware of it. Suddenly, seven or eight figures rushed out of the wilderness, each of whom surrounded them with handmade bamboo and wood equipment.

"You, who are you..."

Although they had already known the other party's background, Pan Jia still showed a panic look. As for the other two followers, they did not need to act at all. They were not sure about the purpose of the trip, but only revealed their whereabouts and were so shocked that they were not possessed.

"Ha, it turns out it's from the Pan family!"

After a few people on the other side looked at each other, they immediately showed a sarcastic smile on their faces. Originally, the news between the countryside was blocked and there was not much exchange. It was difficult to see it in their lifetime when they were separated by a river. However, most of the villagers around Quzhou were expelled to Quzhou County earlier, and then the township struggle for the city for several months was naturally familiar with Pan Jia, a fierce local fighter.

When the enemy met, they were very jealous. Many of the other people rushed forward and pressed Pan Jia and others into the grass and punched. After being beaten, the two village heroes could not help but shouted loudly: "We have been incorporated by the royal army, and my brother is even a guest on the Ming throne of the county office. The unruly people dare to harm them, and they are not afraid of causing trouble..."

These words finally worked. The fists and feet of those people finally restrained. After venting their anger, they tied up the three of them again. At the same time, they couldn't help but laugh and scold: "The Southern King's Division itself will not be safe and will not be the support of you Pan's evil thieves!"

While beating and scolding, several people were sent to the depths of the meadow. The river was dry here, with a flat land of several hectares, and some simple shacks were built. Naturally, the villagers who lived in the village who had lost their battle in Quzhou Township earlier. Seeing that the Pan family was caught here, the emotions were surging for a while, women, children, young and old came forward to scold and fight. Pan Jia and others were covered in blood for a moment.

These villagers did not hate the Jie army that drove them away from their homes like cattle and sheep, nor did they dare to provoke the royal army who now occupy the county of Quzhou. They seemed to have different hatreds for the Pan clan, who had a miserable life experience and a little better than the situation. Some women even piked up and slashed their teeth.

Pan Jia had a plan in his mind before leaving, but when he really got here, his situation was still very different from what he imagined. Seeing that there was no turning point in the situation, they might be beaten to death by these angry people of the countryside and hatred. For a moment, he no longer cared about anything else and shouted loudly: "Meng family, don't think that no one knows what you did when you hide in the meadow! You are willing to be humble, act as the minions of the Jie thief, and leak the military information of the King of the King of the Army to report the Hu thief. The crime was discovered by the King of the King of the King of the King of the Inn, and you will be killed completely soon!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the old and women said, but the faces of the strong men who were originally watching the show with their arms folded outside suddenly changed. Several decent clothes rushed out of the shack and quickly ran here to push the people who were still beating Pan Jia and others: "Get down, don't get mad here!"

After a while, Pan Jia and three others who had been out of their clothes were escorted into a rather spacious shack. Two middle-aged men sat upright, staring at Pan Jia wide-eyed and roared: "What did you shout just now? Say it again!"

Seeing the other party reacting like this, Pan Jia felt confident again and spitted blood and phlegm in front of the middle-aged man: "I am already the official of the King of Jin State's King of Jin. You guys are hurting me today, and you dare to imagine how to protect me? Not to mention that you have already proved guilty. My trip is to investigate your whereabouts. The next day, the king's army will come to kill you thieves!"

"The dog thief dares to be stubborn, and he will answer whatever he asks you!"

Several young men from the Meng family outside the door heard Pan Jia's insults, raised their legs and kicked him to the ground. They were about to come forward and continue to fight, but were scolded by a middle-aged man in the hall.

The middle-aged man stepped forward, helped Pan Jia up, patted his grass scraps, and looked heavy: "Are you Pan Jia? Do you still recognize me? In the past year, your Silang got married, and I went to your hometown to congratulate him. If the family of harmonious fellows for generations had not been strong in the crossing of the countryside, how could they have formed a deep blood feud? What rumors have you heard? Even if my Meng family is not a high-profile portal of Kuazhou County, he still keeps his hometown feelings, how could he have an affair with the Jie thief who harmed my countryside!"

"You don't have to tell me what you say. There is so much homesickness, and there was no bloody battle in the city earlier. Even if I still remember the friendship between the countryside in the past year, your family's crime has been uploaded in the Wangshiji. Wang Wei's elimination of traitors is not something I can interrupt and stop..."

When Pan Jia spoke this, a slightly ferocious smile appeared on his bloody face: "I'm here, I'll beat you and kill you at will. I'm going to die for the king, which is better than the thief of the village. There are too many wives and children in the family, and the family has both support..."

When the middle-aged man heard this, his face became even more serious, and his anger swelled for a long time. After a while, he paused and said, "Who injured the Pan family's virtuous relative?"

When hearing the message revealed by Pan Jia, middle-aged people were not nervous. The power of Jie Kingdom is declining, which is an indisputable fact. After all, when the Jie Lord moved the capital, he ordered the people of the Hezhong County and County to accompany the capital, and had already exposed the decline of Jie Kingdom to the people in the countryside without any concealment.

Even if we don’t consider the Jin Dynasty, who is the orthodox country of Jie, the elderly people in Hebei still have memories. Decades ago, during Yongjia, a large clan fled south in a hurry, and then there were chaos and disasters. In the end, Jie Kingdom became the new master of this land.

Now the old things are repeated, but the direction of escape has changed from south to north. The familiar old things have come to my mind. It is natural that who will be the new owner of Hebei in the future will be self-evident.

What's more, the Jie master Shi Hu only uses tyranny to maintain the system of governance, and he has no kindness to the people of Hebei. Once he shows a little weak attitude, he will naturally lose his heart. Therefore, even the people in the suburbs of these counties are really not optimistic about the future of Jie Kingdom.

As for secretly connecting with the Jie army, it was a helpless thing. Although the king's army conquered Quzhou, it did not cover the countryside. The people who lost their villages still had no power to protect themselves under the iron hoof of the Jie army.

Instead of killing and damaging them, the Jie army allowed them to survive in the wilderness, and only ordered them to spread some letters and reports. If they did well, they could even get some rewards.

What is the general trend? It has nothing to do with the villagers, and it is the most urgent thing to survive. What's more, they have never received any favors from the Jin army's royal army so far, and they can't even betray them, let alone rewards.

In their opinion, even if the Jin army's royal army takes revenge, they should go to Bai's Jie army, and they may not notice them. Even if the Jie army is defeated in the future and Jin State completely occupy this place, after the passage of time, their affair with the Jie army may not be discovered. Then, you can be a follower of Jin State.

But now Pan Jia said that the Jin army had already known about their informing the Jie army and was even ready to retaliate. How could they be calm?

Out of fear of the royal army of the Jin army, the Meng clan members in this camp were arrogant at first and respectful at the same time. They asked someone to help Pan Jia and others deal with their injuries, and then they were very respectful, hoping to learn more details from them.

Pan Jia may be cautious and less talkative, but the other two followers have been somewhat obsessed with completely different treatments before and after, and the words mostly reveal the current situation of Quzhou County.

After hearing all the things, the people of the Meng clan present were very complicated. Regardless of the forces fighting between the two countries, at least in terms of their attitude towards ordinary villagers, the king's army was indeed much better than the Jie army. It's a pity that the Pan family had a lot of power and occupied the county town, so that they had to wander around the country and became the eyes and ears of the Jie army.

That night, several people in the camp were sleepless and gathered together to discuss how to deal with it. It was not that they did not want to defect to the King's Army, but the situation in Quzhou Si is still weak in the south and strong in the north. What's more, their crimes have been discovered by the King's Army, and it is possible that they will not blame them before?

So the debate was fierce this night, and many people strongly advocated handing over Pan Jia and others to the Jie army, and even reported the news to the Jie army. When the Wang Division troops left the city to attack, they would use the power of the Jie army to attack!

The left and right were confused, and there was no result in the final battle. After all, no matter how you choose, it was unpredictable. The hundreds of people seemed to be quite a few, but compared with the two powerful armies of thousands of troops, it was just a matter of being the only one step, and you could stomp it to pieces. This is the sorrow of living in troubled times!

"It's better to have breakfast before discussing."

The middle-aged man who recognized Pan Jia at first waved his hand, stopped the argument temporarily, then got up and walked into the morning light to instruct the camp to prepare meals.

Before the middle-aged man left, a dozen strong men rushed in and pressed all five or six elders on the table. Then the middle-aged man stepped back and looked at the tribe members with a sharp change in expression and apologized: "You don't need to look at me like this. Since there is no result in the theory, I might as well make a decision. If I can overcome this disaster, I will apologize to my elders. If I can't, I will beat and scold them when I go to the underworld together!"
Chapter completed!