Ning Gu

Also being the general's residence, the Lu family is obviously not as poetic as the Ye family.Apart from the garden, the entire General's Mansion is just a mansion.There are only a few rockery and Xiushi meaningfully stacked in the atrium.Before entering the court, set up a shadow wall, which is probably the only thing in the whole mansion that has the smell of Fufeng.

Passing the screen wall, we can see that the atrium is spacious and there are weapon racks on all sides.The wing behind the atrium is the main hall.The young man walked through the atrium and led Xianzhi to the main hall.

"Please."

Xian Zhi nodded, went up the steps, and was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, when someone opened it from inside.The man asked, but looked back over his shoulder, as if he didn't see the person Xianzhi mentioned before, the eyes of the person who opened the door couldn't help but darken, even his shoulders were slumped, and he sighed After taking a breath, he asked aloud:

"Lord Xinling?"

"Old General Lu, long time no see." Xian Zhixu saluted.

Lu Yan felt that he couldn't bear this place. In terms of rank, he is just an old man who is idle at home. Compared with the emperor's heir, especially the emperor's heir who will ascend the throne sooner or later, he would not be able to kneel down. Do not kneel.

But now the emperor's heir bowed to him, and he hurriedly supported Xianzhi.

"It can't be done."

He invited Xianzhi inside, and ordered the servants to prepare tea, but Xianzhi stopped him.

"There's no need to prepare tea. Xianzhi came to see Old General Lu for one thing only. Why bother wasting the time of half a cup of tea?"

Lu Yan looked at Xianzhi, saw Xianzhi's pointed eyes, waved his hand, said "That's all", closed the door of the main hall, and invited Xianzhi to sit down.

Xianzhi walks at a leisurely pace, pretending to be calm and relaxed, but in fact, his heart is like an ant on a hot pot, impatient, and dare not show a little anxiety in front of outsiders.He pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Old General, what happened back then..."

Lu Yan raised his hand, stopped Xian Zhi's words, smiled and said: "The master of Xinling can speak out. Our military generals don't like the way of Fufeng civil servants."

"Old General Lu, Xinling has a question, can you command the entire deer camp with half antlers?" Xian Zhi was sitting up, leaning slightly towards Lu Yan, looking at Lu Yan seriously and asking.

"Naturally, he can command the entire mountain deer camp. It's just that he can't dispatch the entire mountain deer camp at once." Hearing this, Xianzhi thought he could breathe a sigh of relief, but it turned out that Lu Yan's words made his heart rise in his throat Yan, "But if you want to, you can transfer them away in batches. The mountain antlers were divided into two in accordance with Emperor Hui's will. But..."

But for the generals, they must leave a way out for their own troops. Soldiers can die, but they cannot be eliminated.Once a person is extinct, the thousands of lives hidden under the banner, and the thousands of blood will be forgotten.As long as people keep going, someone will remember it.

So this is just a loophole that the Lu family took advantage of. Lu Yan didn't say it clearly, but Xianzhi could understand a thing or two.But what surprised Xianzhi even more was that Lu Yan was willing to explain this secret. Xianzhi frowned and thought for a while, then nodded, and lowered his head to untie the bag beside his waistband.

Envy said: "Old General Lu should know that there are not many soldiers left in Yanran, most of them..."

"Give it to my unsatisfactory young son?" Lu Yan took the words and laughed at himself, "I didn't expect his brother and I to be together for so long, but he was defeated all at once."

"Now it's not just him." Xianzhi took out a jade seal wrapped in the brocade bag in front of Lu Yan, and asked General Lu to ask for a piece of paper, and General Lu brought him to the case to continue. Said, "And Lu Qi."

"Lu Qi?"

"On the way I came, I heard that Lu Qi was holding the banner of Shanlu Camp and Liang Ce was guarding outside Fufeng City."

"How did Lu Qi order the Mountain Deer Camp?" Lu Yan frowned and asked, but before Xianzhi was about to speak, he figured it out, "Xie Wuling left it for him. The little gentleman should have his own way."

"That's right," Xianzhi listened, and put the jade seal on the paper, and then handed it to General Lu, "Will you take a look at this thing first?"

Old General Lu took the paper from Xianzhi, took it a little farther away, and looked at it carefully with his eyes closed.He had seen the shape of the lines before, but it was so long ago that he couldn't remember when he saw it.

"This……"

"It's the seal of Zhaoxing." Xianzhi took the jade seal back into the kit and tied it back around his waist again, "Master gave Lu Qi a bad move. It's just that Xinling doesn't want to see Lu Jiabai with black hair again. But Xinling can't make any other promises to the old general, only this promise from Zhaoxing."

For a moment, Lu Yan felt that the piece of paper in his hand was a little hot, and he doubted what Xian Zhi said, but it was only half of the letter that made his hand holding the paper tremble uncontrollably.In the early years, he had seen it in Fufeng, the bloody wind at the moment when the wind blew up in Fufeng, but he didn't expect that when the soil buried half of his neck, the wind would still blow from Fufeng to Saibei.

Xianzhi raised his eyes to see Lu Yan's hesitation in his eyes, and he said again: "I heard that the deal that old general Lu and his master made at the beginning was to exchange half of a mountain antler for Lu Weiming's life, so now I use This seal of Zhao Xing, in exchange for Lu Qi's life, the old general is not at a loss."

"Lu Qi is my grandson. I believe the Mausoleum Master's words, but do you want to deceive Lu Mou to be confused?"

Xianzhi curled his lips, but the smile disappeared from the corner of his eyes: "You, you are not confused."

"Since Lord Xinling said that Mr. Xiao has countermeasures for making bad decisions, how can he let a white-haired Lu send a black-haired man?" He paused, and then said, "Lu Qi is my grandson. Wouldn’t it be superfluous to exchange the Zhaoxing Seal?”

Is it because the people in front of him care about it and they are confused, or do they have other plans? Lu Yan is old and doesn't think he can see through such a person as envy.But he was more willing to believe that it was the former, after all, although Lu Qi had been raised under Xie Wuling's knees for several years, he still belonged to the Lu family in terms of blood.

Xianzhi faltered for a while, but he couldn't explain anything, but the old general Lu didn't continue to embarrass him, but asked bluntly: "What the master of Xinling wants to exchange is the other half of the mountain antler in Lu's hand?"

"Yes." Hearing his question, Xianzhi immediately said decisively, "As long as Lu Qi's soldiers can stop Chongque's outer palace, there is no need to use that life-saving talisman."

Lu Qi's status is special, Xie Wuling begged for Lu Qi's life-saving grace early in the morning, but Xianzhi dared not use it, he was afraid that when he came to the throne later, he would not be able to keep Lu Qi, just like Zhao Zuo back then, he knew he was Powerless to see the old days, every day and night, the people who were tied to me died in my arms.

Lu Yan looked down at the Fang Zhaoxing seal in his hand, and asked after a while, "Is it too late?"

"It depends on when the mountain deer camps scattered in Gyeonggi-do can gather." Xianzhi sighed, but his hands tightened under his sleeves, "According to Mr. Erlang's estimation, there are probably three days at most, if it is soon... ..."

Hearing this, Lu Yan and Xianzhi looked at each other, returned to the front of the case, picked up a pen and dropped it on another piece of paper on the case, and outlined the flag of Shanlu Camp with a few strokes.Fold the reply properly, and return it to him together with Xianzhi's seal of Zhaoxing.

"Shen Cheng was his fate back then, and Lu Qi was able to survive because of Mr. Xiao's efforts to turn the tide. Lu can clearly distinguish it. Now it is Lu's repayment." He paused, "All the generals of the Shanlu Camp know that The flag is like a commander, and if anyone disobeys and confuses the public, discuss the military law of the Shanlu Camp, and after the war, they will be punished."

Xianzhi raised his eyes to look at Lu Yan, with doubts in his eyes, but Lu Yan said very freely: "There are many things about Fufeng that cannot be told, what you saw before is not all true, at least the history books can't record the truth of a person. All my life, I have never heard of the myriad thoughts in that person's mind, so I envy that I will bring it to my little grandson in the future."

"Xianzhi will definitely convey it word for word." After saying that, Xianzhi's eyes were red, and he heard Lu Yan's earnest words. At that moment, he seemed to feel the relief that Xie Wuling had when he asked Zhao Zuo to give him death in the Changming Palace.

At that time, in the main hall of the Changming Palace, Xianzhi stood secretly behind the golden screen in the hall. He wanted to wait for the hall to be deserted so that he could plead with his father and ask him not to listen to the slander of those ministers, not to Cure Xie Wuling's crime.

But when he just stood still behind Jinping, he heard Zhao Zuo open the door, Xian Zhidang poked his head out, and saw Xie Wuling coming in on his heels.Xianzhi shrank back immediately, and he watched quietly through Jinping.

Zhao Zuo sat in the hall, and according to Xie Wuling's usual temperament, perhaps it was time to walk to Zhao Zuo's side, Zhao Zuo deliberately moved to the dragon chair, and also deliberately put away the memorial to impeach Xie Wuling on his table, and threw it casually elsewhere.

But Xie Wuling didn't go up the steps, instead he stood still on the hall and knelt down.Seeing Xie Wuling knelt down, Xianzhi opened his eyes, and he held his breath, always having a bad premonition.

Of course, Zhao Zuo also had such a premonition.

"Pingzhi, what are you?" Because Xie Wuling never kneels to Zhao Zuo in private, let alone there are only two of them in the hall today.Zhao Zuo was even accustomed to making room for him, but Xie Wuling did not expect this to happen suddenly.

"I have a request," Xie Wuling looked up at Zhao Zuo, his eyes seemed to be filled with moonlight in autumn, "Please draw up an order, Your Majesty."

Hearing this, Zhao Zuo looked over, and there were waves in the deep eyes. He heard Xie Wuling say each word: "Give, die, thank you, sycophant."

Then seeing Xie Wuling kowtow down, Zhao Zuo stood up in shock, and said sharply: "Xie Pingzhi, you are not allowed to talk nonsense, the widow allows you to speak standing up."

Xie Wuling didn't stand up, instead he knelt straight and asked again: "Your Majesty, please draw up an order..."

"Shut up." Zhao Zuo had no choice but to hastily stop him.

Xie Wuling did exactly what Zhao Zuo said, he didn't make any more noises, but his cold eyes never left Zhao Zuo, like an early warbler chasing the east wind, or like a fish swimming near the water's edge, showing a bit of restraint Unable to suppress, eager to have fun, even expressing lingering has become cautious.

Xianzhi raised his hand and squeezed the Jinping wood tightly, bit his lips tightly, not daring to make a sound.

But Zhao Zuo was furious, what he couldn't stand was Xie Wuling's eyes, which obviously had a purpose, but he pretended to be decisive.He raised his hand and flicked his sleeves, smashed down the notebooks piled up on the case, and asked the person in front of him: "Have you already calculated it? Yongguo public case, Binzhou epidemic situation, Zhaoxing Renzhi, Qiguo You committed suicide, Lu Shencheng died in Saibei, all these things were settled by you a long time ago, didn't you?"

Xie Wuling probably didn't expect Zhao Zuo to scold him so blatantly. He probably thought that as long as he asked, Zhao Zuo would respond as before.Now that he asked for it, Zhao Zuo didn't have to be embarrassed, and he didn't have to face pressure from all the officials.

What's more, after Qi Kingdom, there was a gap between him and Zhao Zuo. Usually, they quarreled because of political disagreement, or because of how to discipline the envious Lu Qi. The quarrel lasted for three or four days. Xie Wuling has become a moat here,

Compared with this, there will never be a time when he cannot turn back in the future. Xie Wuling is afraid that he will catch up with this time, so he might as well take the lead and leave first, and let his heart of Qingshan stay before it is worn out, let him His affection remained when it was still absurd.

"Yes." Xie Wuling averted his eyes and replied coldly, "So..."

"So?" Zhao Zuo hurried down the steps, and walked in front of Xie Wuling, "So others are going every step of the way, wanting high-ranking officials and generous salary, but you, Xie Pingzhi, are just going for the loess cold tomb?"

Xie Wuling didn't answer for a long time, and Zhao Zuo had nothing to do, but his anger was let go at that moment.He slowly knelt down in front of Xie Wuling, looked at Xie Wuling frowning, and before he could speak, he confirmed again in a low voice: "Is this really the case?"

"I've finished drawing those pictures. Let's go and have a look someday, before Xiaoqi'er's birthday, okay?" Xie Wuling frowned suddenly, and didn't answer Zhao Zuo's question directly, but made Zhao Zuo lose his strength Kneeling on the ground, "I have chosen the date, how about the day of Xiaoqi'er's birthday? You take him into the Chongque, and don't let him see my appearance. He is still young and will have nightmares. Envy it Don't come, he will suffer more in the future, I don't want that day to be the beginning of his suffering."

But Zhao Zuo was behind Xie Wuling's words, and pulled Xie Wuling into his arms, locking Xie Wuling so hard that Xie Wuling was almost out of breath, but he felt it was not enough.

He really couldn't keep it anymore, the voice in his heart kept circling.

"The widow...can also have nightmares." His voice lowered and he murmured.

Xie Wuling closed his eyes in his arms, a tear could not be hidden and slipped out from his eyes, but he still pretended to be light and said: "Then you must not see my appearance."

Zhao Zuo stretched out his hand to grab Xie Wuling's chin, he lowered his head and kissed it, it was an intense kiss that the two of them had never had before, their lips and teeth collided intentionally, they sucked and teased each other, like two swollen The hearts collided in one place, and some unspeakable emotions wanted to break through each other's chests and burst away.

Zhao Zuo thought that when Ping Zhi came from the mountain, he thought about it heartily.

Xie Wuling thought that the mountain would be flat, not because he wanted it, but because he needed it.

He longed for him, and he longed for him.

Outside Fufeng City, on Gyeonggi-do.

"Young Master." A man in military armor knelt in the tent.

"Any news about the Lord Xinling?" Lu Qi raised his eyes and asked casually

"I heard the news from Yanran that Lord Xinling appeared in the General's Mansion two days ago, but he didn't stay for long, and left after an hour."

Lu Qi's hand stroking the jade antlers suddenly paused, and he raised his eyes and asked, "He's back?"

"I heard that it was heading northwest, so it shouldn't be Guijing."

Lu Qi was able to catch his breath when he heard the words, and he asked again: "Then, is everyone here?"

"It's all set. According to the plan, Prime Minister Liang led a group of people to the foot of the mountain next to the north gate. General Song Xing and his deputy went to the south gate and west gate respectively, and you led the team to the east gate."

"I know, when night falls, let someone send a message. If he is willing to hand over Xie Ning, we..."

"But Prime Minister Liang said that sooner rather than later, should we send someone to deliver the message?"

"I've been waiting four or five days for Prime Minister Liang to assemble a team, so is he still afraid of delaying this night?" Lu Qi frowned, gouged out the man's eyes, and said solemnly, "Go send the message."

"Yes."

The man in armor left the big tent in a hurry, got on his horse, and went east of the city from the east straight road.

The fierce horse galloped on the straight road, and the person holding the reins only looked at the east gate, but ignored a person hiding in the bamboo forest beside the straight road. Another patted the shoulder.

He couldn't help shaking, he didn't expect that the words of praying mantis catching cicada and oriole behind were still reasonable, so he slowly turned around and looked back.

A smile suddenly rose from his eyes, and he called out: "Mr. Qi."