【Lotus Cake】Brother, please respect yourself

In July of that year, Li Jing, who was stationed at the Donglai Navy camp, received a letter from Yin Shiniang's family.

The content of the family letter is not long, just a few strokes, explaining that everything in Chentangguan is fine, please don’t worry about it when you are outside, and then mentioning that the rainy season in the north is coming, this year there is a lot of rain, and the team of the Eastern Expedition passed through Chentangguan All the way to the east, the road was very muddy. She had gone out of the city to meet Han Wang Yang Liang, but he was determined to win the Eastern Expedition and did not listen to Yin Shiniang's advice too much.

Closing the family letter in his hand, Li Jing touched his forehead and sighed, looking very anxious and tired, so that Nezha who was sitting beside him couldn't understand.

"Father, did mother mention anything in her family letter?"

"I remember that you suspected before that the crown prince recommended me to join the army in Donglai. In fact, I fell into the scheme of the king of Jin. Now I think that your consideration may be correct."

"He really does everything he can to save a seat."

"No, King Jin's sending me here is actually killing two birds with one stone."

Han Wang Yang Liang is the fifth child of Sui Emperor Yang Jian. His real name is Yang Jie, and his courtesy name is Dezhang. The status and favor in Yang Jian's heart.

Princes will be granted titles when they become adults. Yang Liang was granted the title of Yongzhou Shepherd as soon as he came, and he has wealth and military power.

A brother who is favored by the emperor and holds military power in his own hands, can Jin Wang Yang Guang not be afraid of his existence.

"Rainy season?" After reading Yin Shiniang's family letter, Nezha frowned and was still a little confused. Although he was born in Chentangguan, he had studied martial arts in Kunshan for many years, so he didn't know much about his family's military affairs.

"Now you are all focused on Donglai and Ao's family, and you don't pay much attention to the other east expedition line, but think about it, Chentangguan is located adjacent to the East China Sea, and it is only ten days away from Donglai by boat, but the army of the King of Han is Passing through Chentang Pass, heading east all the way out of Linyu Pass, crossing the Bailang River and then stationed in Liucheng, and the distance from Liucheng to Liaodong City is almost the distance from Chentangguan to Donglai.”

He opened his mouth and drew a map in his head. The biggest problem with this land route is that the supply of food and grass is too long, because the winter in the north comes early, Yang Jian only made a decision on the Eastern Expedition in the court hall in February, and Han Wang Yang Liang The trip with Wang Shiji coincided with the rainy season in the north, and within a month after the rainy season, the north will enter winter. This battle must not be delayed past winter, otherwise the army's food and grass would not be able to keep up. .

"Although Yang Liang, king of Han, is talented and intelligent, he is young after all. He doesn't know much about the terrain and weather in the north. King Shiji of Shangzhu is also a guy who is addicted to alcohol. Although he can suppress the battle, he can't give advice. At Chentang Pass, if I were still there, I would definitely invite the King of Han to station temporarily. After all, after leaving Linyu Pass, the road was full of mud and swamps. When it rained, the horseshoes fell and it was difficult to move. Together with Zhou Luohou, he invaded Pyongyang."

Li Jing didn't dare to judge the result, but it would not make a big difference if he thought about it.

"I'm afraid this plan was not finalized by Yang Guang." Only Nezha knows that in fact, choosing Li Jing should kill three birds with one stone. Knowing the relationship between Li Jing and himself, and knowing that he is going to Donglai, he can let Yang Yong open in advance. In [-], the court elected Li Jing as the supervisor of the army. Such a careful plan must have been proposed by Shen Gongbao.

After Li Jing came to Donglai, Han Wang Yang Liang lost a general who could persuade him. Prince Yang Yong sent a handle to Jin Wang, and Li Jing's life was threatened. Naturally, Ao Bing couldn't just sit idly by. And moving the whole body is nothing more than that.

Thinking of what Ao Bing said before, it was inconvenient for them to transmit information when they were on the ship for a long time, and the words he once threatened Shen Gongbao now seem to have become a joke.The other party didn't mind Nezha's delay, as long as they came by boat, Shen Gongbao would have thousands of ways to keep Nezha from hearing any news. Out of this astray.

"At this time, you don't have to blame yourself too much. If you are in the Jianghu, you will plan the affairs of the Jianghu. Like the counselors under King Jin, they are mostly treacherous and unknown people. What they have in mind is not the overall situation, but themselves, so compared with them , after all, you are still a little bit worse."

"I know, dad, I'm just not reconciled." He didn't understand Shen Gongbao's plan, nor did he want to understand the other party's revenge, but Shen Gongbao walked all the way, stepping on the blood of the people, and finally he could really sit in the position of the national teacher. Can you feel at ease?

"This matter still needs to be discussed in the long run. Now that the building and ship are about to be completed, and after they are launched into the water for trial use, Zhou Luohou will send troops soon."

Before dispatching troops, Li Jing finally recovered from his "serious illness", and after some evasion with the other party, he took over some affairs in the navy camp again, while Nezha drew a portrait of Li Jing based on his memory.

For some reason, he always felt that the woman he saw in the dock that day should be the key to this incident.

When Nezha returned to Li Jing's side to take care, Ao Bing was also frightened by Ao Guang's sickness and vomiting blood. When he ran back to the Ao family's mansion, the whole mansion was quiet, even the servants walking back and forth were silent without any footsteps. , The moment he entered the door, Ao Bing found that the number of soldiers at the gate of the Ao family's mansion had increased.

He walked all the way to the inner courtyard, and saw Ao Thuang sitting beside Ao Guang's bed in his clothes. It has disappeared without a trace, and the whole person looks a lot more peaceful.

"Brother is back."

"Ah... well, I'm back."

Ao Bing suddenly yelled Big Brother, and Ao Bing froze unaccustomed to it. When he walked forward again, Ao Shuang put his finger on his mouth, hissed softly, and then waved his hand to signal Ao Bing to come out with him. .

"But what happened?"

After stepping out, Ao Twin carefully closed the door. The black hair hanging on the side of his face made him look limp. Ao Bing frowned, and stretched out his hand to grab the other's wrist. Tune, the five viscera Yin deficiencies like.

"Who poisoned you?"

"I'm not too sure about this, but the doctor said it should be when Ao Yan and I were still on the boat."

Ao Yan and Ao Yan traveled to the sea for more than a month before Ao Bing came back. When they got home, they heard that Ao Bing had returned. If the other party poisoned Ao Bing to make Ao Bing target him, then this person must have He knew when Ao Bing would arrive in Donglai.

After thinking about this matter for a while, Ao Bing's first suspicion was Shen Gongbao. After all, the other party wholeheartedly wanted to inherit the Ao family. In his opinion, the biggest obstacle in this plan should be Ao who was raised as the eldest son. Twin.

"Do you have any doubts?"

"My father locked up everyone around me, and burned the clothes I was wearing, the handkerchiefs I used, etc."

"Then the father's body was also caused by poisoning?"

"Father was infected with some toxins when he forced me to be poisoned, and Manager Zhou came here earlier."

"Zhou Luohou? What is he here for?" Ao Bing had already heard what Nezha said about the shipbuilding in the dock. Taking advantage of Li Jing's "poisoning", Zhou Luohou deliberately released bait and killed 76 spies and killers of Goguryeo in the dock. Afterwards, a large-scale search of the city was also carried out, but it was really unreasonable to visit Ao Guang again at this meeting.

"He wants the keel stored in the inner courtyard of the Ao family."

The growth of trees is never a one-time effort, and the driftwood that can be launched into the water grows slowly. Many years ago, when the ancestors of the Ao family settled in Donglai, they spent a lot of money to buy keels and big trees. One of the keels was still from the Ao family. It was taken from the big ship that I had been on. At that time, Donglai was still in the territory of Wei State, and the Lord of Wei State had ordered Ao's family to build a large ship.

This ship must be bigger and stronger than any ship the world has ever seen. After the Ao family took the order, it took many years. When the ship was about to be built, Wei Guo changed the king, and the ship was also dismantled by the ancestors of the Ao family. The keel is stored in the cemetery in the house, named Qingtian, which can be regarded as a symbol of the guard family.

"Didn't the keel of a large ship be dismantled in that building before?" Ao Bing had also heard about this. Zhou Luohu damaged a large ship of the Ao family's high seas, took out the keel, and used it to build the building.

"But that keel was later cut open by a Goguryeo spy with a glass wire."

Although it was not broken, and the craftsmen repeatedly promised to strengthen and repair it, Zhou Luohu felt that the cracked keel was just unusable, so he went to the door in person and asked Ao Guang to hand over the keel of Ao's inner courtyard as the center of the building boat.

"He can do such things as the bad guy's ancestors?"

Ao Bing didn't know about Ao Guang's entanglement in family secrets before. After listening to his son's words, coupled with years of forbearance, Ao Guang was determined to let go of the Ao family and start over. Let Ao Guang be furious.

That keel would break because Zhou Luohu used it as a bait, and now he asked Ao's family to make up for something broken. Does this person really think that others have no temper? !

"Father has not agreed to this matter, so Zhou Luohu surrounded the mansion and forbade the people in the house to enter and leave. Father has been restless for the past few days, and because he took poison for me, he fell ill in a fit of rage."

It is said that the illness is still mild, the Ao family members can only enter but not exit, they can't even find a doctor, if it is not for hearing that Ao Bing has studied medicine, at this time Ao Twin definitely does not want the other party to come back and suffer, after all, he entered After this gate, it will be difficult to leave.

"This matter must be promised, but it must not be promised like this."

"Brother, what do you mean?"

"Zhou Luohu now occupies the position of righteousness. He is going to fight for the country. If the Ao family does not allow it, it will be against the well-being of all people in the world. No matter whether they win or lose after the Eastern Expedition, the Ao family will be charged with this crime."

"Then shall we..."

"I can't." Seeing Ao Twin's hesitation, Ao Bing sighed in his heart, knowing that he had to cut the mess quickly, and because he didn't have deep feelings for the ancestors of the Ao family, it might be the most suitable for him to do this.

"What should I do about my father's illness?" Ao Twin didn't know anything about the effect of this poison. Since her mother also died of this poison, so many years have passed, but my father has no clue at all. Great, if something happens to Ao Guang because of this, the real building of the Ao family will collapse.

"I have my own way of doing this, but now we must send the keel, and send it with great fanfare."

Zhou Luohu wanted the credit for the Eastern Expedition, and Ao Bing gave it to him, and since this keel came from the Ao family, he couldn't let the other party take advantage of it for nothing.

Sending away the keel was a matter of great importance. Ao Guang was still unconscious, so Ao Bing and Ao Shuang couldn't move it.

Asked Chao Bo to call some of the housekeepers, one or twenty people came in one after another. When they saw Ao Bing in the hall, many people were stunned for a moment. After all, the other party looked too much like Ao Guang. The demeanor after shaving off the beard is quiet and far away, like long waves on the sea, which makes people feel a sense of unattainable distance at a glance.

When everyone arrived, Ao Bing told the story of transporting the keel.

Sure enough, nine out of ten people in the room disagreed, and the remaining one said that this matter still needs to be decided by Ao Guang.

Expecting that these stewards would not nod easily, Ao Bing knocked on the table, picked up the teacup and got up and said.

"Bing has been abroad for many years, and has never had the opportunity to meet with the managers. Now that the Dongzheng incident has occurred, my Ao family has been implicated in it. My father has been involved because of this matter. As a son of man, B can't help him share his worries. It is C's fault. I will serve this cup of tea first Thank you for your dedication to my Ao family over the years."

After Ao Bing drank a cup of tea, the faces of the stewards improved a lot, and some people even said that the young master didn't need to be so polite.

"However, the Eastern Expedition is related to the fate of the country. Your Majesty is willing to hand over the warships for the Eastern Expedition to my Ao family to manufacture. This is because I believe in my Ao family's technology and the heart of serving the country with every fist. Now the keel of the building ship is broken. I want my Ao family to make it. If the family lends an ancestral item, we will give it away. That is the righteousness. We will not give it away... Afterwards, the Eastern Expedition fleet failed due to the lack of a flagship. This responsibility, everyone here, are you willing to share with me? "

Facing these guys, Ao Bing didn't say that he would hide, and he didn't threaten them. He just told these people the truth that if the Ao family was convicted because of this, then their current status and money would be completely lost.

"Eldest Young Master is right. I was fooled by the old man before."

The emperor was furious and laid down millions of corpses, and besides, although the Ao family is powerful, they are not noble families. If something happens, Ao Guang at the top may be able to survive, but the people below will probably be buried with him for this.

"Since everyone thinks so, then Bing would like to thank everyone for your understanding. I will recruit people today, beat gongs and drums, and send this keel to the camp of the Chinese army."

Instead of taking it to the dock, it was sent to the camp of the Chinese army. Sitting behind the screen, Ao Shuang figured it out by flipping the lid of the cup.

Everyone in the world knows that Ao Bing wants to win. This keel is the performance of the loyalty of the Ao family, and this building boat is the painstaking efforts of the Ao family. Everyone has also achieved a clear conscience and pointed to the sky.

In addition, Ao Guang now wholeheartedly wants to let go of everything, this publicity can be regarded as leaving a good impression on Sui Emperor.

Now that the matter is finalized, Ao Bing will not delay for a moment. If there is still someone who is afraid of getting into trouble and does not want to stand on the top, Ao Bing taps with his finger, and a corner of the pitch-black pine tabletop falls off neatly, as smooth as if it was cut by a sharp knife. generally.

Looking at the horrified stewards, Ao Bing smiled softly, his eye sockets were watery, and his veins were full of affection. If he underestimated him because of his appearance and age, then it would be the other party who suffered in the end.

Nezha soon found out that the Ao family sent the keel with great fanfare. After all, he was still staying in the Chinese army camp with Li Jing at this time.

When receiving the keel, Zhou Luohu's face was gloomy, showing no joy of being supported.

Seeing the other party's appearance, Nezha guessed what this guy was thinking, but this keel was an ancestral treasure of the Ao family, so sending it like this would definitely be more uncomfortable for Ao Guang than cutting out his heart.

But the team carrying the keel went around the city, beating gongs and drums and wearing red silk. At this time, everyone knew about the good deeds of the Ao family. No matter how dissatisfied Zhou Luohou was, he couldn't refuse it.

After pushing back with the team leader's steward for a while, Zhou Luohui took the keel "with tears in his eyes", and then ordered someone to send it to the dock quickly - at this moment he didn't want to see it for a moment.

After the keel was sent away, Ao Bing could also concentrate on treating Ao Guang. This time, he was still in a coma. Ao Bing used a silver needle to prick Ao Guang's finger and the middle of his body. The color of the silver needle turned into a rich dark green. Throwing away the needle, he prescribed some universal antidote first, and after brewing a bowl of thick black medicinal soup, he pricked his finger and dripped a few drops of blood into the medicinal soup.

Putting the blood into the medicine soup, Ao Bing helped Ao Guang, who was half asleep, to sit up, and fed the medicine into his mouth little by little.

Half an hour after drinking the medicine, Ao Bing took the other person's pulse again, but found little effect.

Ao Guang has been poisoned for many years, and the new poison that entered his body is actually not difficult to solve. The problem is that the previous poison has invaded the other party's internal organs and roots. Otherwise, the poison will definitely not be removed cleanly.

Because the keel had already been obtained, within a few days, Zhou Luohu withdrew the additional soldiers to his side.

Seeing that Ao's house was finally not only able to enter but not exit, after nightfall, Nezha once again climbed over the wall and went straight to the small courtyard where Ao Bing was. When he saw the senior brother he was thinking of, he was holding his head and staring at the The pen and paper were in a daze, and the pimple on the center of his brow was undulating like a mountain. After Nezha got in, he stretched out his hand to poke it, but Ao Bing, who was one step ahead of him, patted it off.

"What's the matter? Are you frowning?"

"I can't figure out one thing."

"What's the matter, let's hear it."

"Who poisoned Ao Twin?" At first, Ao Bing suspected Shen Gongbao, but he dispelled this suspicion quickly, because Shen Gongbao had no reason to keep Ao Twin alive. If it was for the Ao family As the heir, wouldn't it be more convenient for him to poison Ao Twin to death before he returned home, and then pretend to be a shipwreck?

"Ao Twin said that the poison in her body was the same as the poison in her mother's back then. The poison in her mother was poisoned by Ao Ming, but now Ao Twin's detoxification has harmed Ao Guang, which means that the other party's goal is not me, but On Ao Guang."

After hearing Ao Bing's words, Nezha felt that the other party had actually locked the target, but why did this guy still say that he couldn't figure out who poisoned him?

"I said I didn't know who poisoned it, because after this incident, the biggest beneficiary was me."

Ao Yan was poisoned and killed Ao Guang. All this happened after Ao Bing came back. If Ao Yan and Ao Guang had an accident together, Ao Yan is too young, and he is the most likely to inherit the family business, and the poison is actually Not fatal, but very excruciating.

Ao Bing has been detoxifying Ao Guang for the past few days, and the number of times has become a burden on Ao Bing's body, not to mention Ao Guang who vomits non-stop, he is almost out of shape.

"Actually, you already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"

Holding his cheek, he looked at Ao Bing with a smile. Nezha's eyes were firm and clean, like a ball of flame, slowly burning into smoke.

Ao Bing looked at the other party, his pupils twitched, and the heat from the bottom of his heart made him raise his hand to cover his eyes.

"I know, I know it must be him, but I can't be sure, I really..."

This was too cruel for Ao Guang and Ao Twin.

Even if Shen Gongbao, who had been with him for three years, left Ao Bing sad for such a long time, what's more, this person has always stayed by Ao Guang's side.

"Some things are worse than short-term pain for a long time. Only when the wound is cut open can the pus drain away."

"Just like when you watched Fu Que commit suicide?" Ao Bing knew that Nezha was actually the person who had the least suspicion at the beginning, but Fu Que was the person who was the least likely to be behind some things.

"I don't understand why she would do this." Since she was sent to the Demon Gate since she was a child, what reason does she have to obey the Turkic court? She and Jiang Tao have sacrificed so much. Nezha might not mind being a trained and brainwashed killer, but the two of them were not.

"Yeah, why did she do this?" Ao Bing knocked on the table vigorously with his eyes lowered, took a deep breath, stood up suddenly with his hands on the table, and said, "Since you don't understand, then go ask him." .”

"Call your brother, too."

"Why?"

"After you leave with me, this home belongs to him. He will have to go through this kind of thing sooner or later. You can't protect him forever."

Standing up with Ao Bing, Nezha raised his little finger and hooked the other's fingertips, and the two looked at each other with comforting expressions in their eyes.

Just after coaxing Ao Yan who was having a temper at night, when Ao Twin went out, Chao Bo called to stop him, who said that the young master was waiting for him in the study.

Frowning, he walked over inexplicably. When Ao Twin stepped into the door, Nezha, who was sitting next to Ao Bing, turned his head and gave him a sinister smile.

At a glance, the other party was recognized as the man who kissed Ao Bing at the beach that night. Ao Xing was standing at the door, neither entering nor retreating for a while.

"Since everyone is here, let's talk openly and honestly."

He waved his hands to signal Ao Ting to come to his side, seeing how the other party ran around Nezha, Ao Bing wrinkled his nose and looked at Nezha, the meaning of that look was--did you scare him.

Nezha shrugged and spread his hands, shaking his head in an unbelievable way.

"Since Eldest Young Master has something to say, I will step back first."

"No rush, I just want to ask Chao Bo about this matter."

"ask me?"

"Yes." Ao Bing pressed the back of Ao Twin's hand lightly with his eyebrows closed, Ao Bing raised the corners of his lips, and said with a normal expression.

"I really want to know what is the reason that made you betray your father and the Ao family, and poison Ao Twin so heavily."

——To be continued——