Chapter Sixteen: Mao Yi's Son

  Everyone was eating and chatting, when Chairman Mao suddenly spoke up and asked: "Maple brother, I'll ask you something honestly, are you willing to stay in my army and take a position? The position is yours to choose, with your skills, wanting to make achievements on the battlefield is only a matter of time! Now it just so happens that there is a vacant position on my side, I don't know if you...?"

  Lin Feng chewed on something, unclear what kind of meat it was, and replied vaguely: "General Mao, I'm a simple man with limited ambitions. I still have a family of over 20 people hiding in the mountains, so I won't waste words with you. If you're really grateful to me, just send me a few transport carts, some good horses, 500 stones (about 59 kg) each of rice and flour, and 900 sets of clothes. If you have silver, that's even better. I'm not interested in anything else... Come on, let's have a drink!"

  Lin Feng finished speaking and then picked up his bowl, devouring a large portion of food. He patted his belly, feeling that he had eaten enough. Then, with narrowed eyes, he said to General Mao, who was drinking wine on the side: "Of course, if you feel embarrassed, just pretend I didn't say anything. Anyway, this meal is already over! If it's embarrassing, then forget it, no big deal!"

  On the other side, Chairman Mao, who was deep in thought, suddenly finished his drink, put down his bowl, shook his head and replied: "It's not that I'm making things difficult for you, brother. The silver is easy to discuss, but this military rations... really can't be discussed easily. How about this? Ten horse-drawn carriages, twenty-five good horses, clothes and daily necessities, a thousand sets for you. As for rice and flour, three hundred stones each! And as for the silver, I'll give you three thousand taels from my own pocket!" After finishing speaking, he even made a "tsk, tsk" sound with his mouth, looking like an honest and simple peasant worker!

  Lin Feng listened and quickly thought for a moment, 600 stones of grain is about 36,000 kilograms, enough for 700,000 to 800,000 people to eat for one day. We are only 400 people, no matter how we calculate it, it's enough for us to eat for half a year! The horse cart and horses are okay, but the silver is not enough! Having made up his mind, Lin Feng directly said: "The grain is a bit too little, since you're also not very sufficient, then 5,000 taels of silver!"

  "Alright! I'll give you 10,000 taels of silver!" Unexpectedly, General Mao, who looked like a peasant worker, not only agreed but also promised to give me 10,000 taels! How could such a good thing happen?

  Then he spoke again: "However, you have to help me with something!" After finishing, he revealed a sly smile, which immediately reminded Lin Feng of the smiles of Old Zhao and Li on the mountain when they were deceiving him.

  Lin Feng suddenly shuddered and asked, "What's going on? As for things like robbery and harming innocent people, let's not even mention them. I'd rather have nothing at all!" After finishing speaking, Lin Feng vigorously shook his head!

  "It's not a big deal, I just have an 18-year-old son! I want to entrust him to you to take care of!" General Mao sighed and continued: "To be honest, this time the great decisive battle, our chances of winning are simply too small! But I am a general, born in the Tang Dynasty, died as a ghost of the Tang Dynasty! However, there is only one son in the five generations of the Mao family, I cannot let him be implicated!" After finishing speaking, he drank a large bowl of wine.

  "Oh, so that's what it is. This matter is easy to handle, I guarantee you that no one can harm him! But General Mao, you also can't be so pessimistic... You must have confidence in yourself and the Tang Dynasty! The battle hasn't even started yet, how can you lose your confidence first?" Lin Feng guaranteed while encouraging General Mao.

  General Mao turned his head and said to Wei Dayong: "Dayong, go and call Xiaohuang over, just say I have something to discuss with him!" After watching Wei Dayong get up and leave, General Mao said to Lin Feng: "Feng brother, I won't say anything else! I believe your character and ability will take good care of Xiaohuang, so I'll entrust him to you!"

  After finishing speaking, he got up and rummaged through a trunk beside him, then suddenly pulled out a small box with a flourish. "This contains my savings of so many years," he said. "A few days ago, I sent someone to bring it back. There are two thousand taels of gold inside, which is my personal gift to you. As for the rest, just give it as usual! Inside, there's also a jade pendant that has been passed down in my family, something even Little Hua hasn't seen before. If anything happens in the future, please pass it on to Little Hua for me! I only hope you can take care of Little Hua for me, please accept my bow!" After finishing speaking, he solemnly bowed to Lin Feng once more.

  Lin Feng quickly got up to support General Mao and pulled him down to sit, then made a strong guarantee: "General Mao, you can rest assured that from the moment I took away Little Hua, I have treated him as my own younger brother! Can you finally be at ease?"

  "Alright! With you saying that, I'm at ease now! Come on, let's have a drink!" General Mao looked quite pleased and said as he clinked his bowl with Lin Feng before downing the liquor in one gulp.

  At this time, Wei Da Yong brought a person in and said: "General, the person is here." After finishing, he went out again. The person who came in was about 1.8 meters tall, but very strong, like an ox, not looking like eighteen at all...

  He walked to the middle, clasped his fists with both hands, knelt on one knee and said loudly: "General Mao, what are your orders!" He was so tall and strong, and his voice was loud enough to make my ears ring!

  "Come, come, little Hua, get up, I'll introduce you to someone! Today there are no outsiders, we're discussing family matters! No need for so much etiquette!" General Mao hastily came down from his seat and pulled Little Hua over to Lin Feng's side. Lin Feng also quickly stood up, and General Mao introduced him, saying: "This is Lin Feng, from now on you can call him Brother Feng or Big Brother, it's all fine. It's that thing I told you about a few days ago, later you'll eat something too, then tonight you'll head out with Brother Feng!"

  "What? Father, why so sudden? Didn't you say we still have some time? How can it be so urgent all of a sudden? What will you do if I leave?" Xiao Hua asked anxiously. However, he didn't seem surprised, and judging from General Mao's words earlier, the two people should have already discussed this matter before.

  "Listen, this kind of thing can't be done without a good plan. It has to wait for the right moment, and now that it's here, we can't delay any longer. As for my side, don't worry about it! You're still the one who saved your father's life, after all! Absolutely trustworthy! Just remember what I told you before!"

  General Mao said, "Come on, come on, Little Hua. We've all been in the military camp for years and haven't had a drink together yet. Come on, let's have a few drinks tonight. Xiao Feng, Xiao Zhou, you guys join us too! Tonight, I'll send a team to escort you back to your place nearby, so you don't need to worry about it!" After that, he returned to his seat.