Wife is General Ghost Face
Chapter 29 Let's wash together next time!
001
Seeing the pinkish person beside him, Xu Jun swallowed, and slowly leaned towards him.
Sensing Xu Jun's movements, General Ghost Face stiffened, and he leaned back slightly, trying to distance the two of them.
"General."
The ghost-faced general turned his head and looked stiffly at the spear thrown by Xu Jun on the ground in the distance. The spear that had been with him for nearly ten years was thrown far away by Xu Jun at this moment, lying alone on the ground .
"General, you are so pretty."
Xu Jun hugged the ghost-faced general's waist, and leaned in front of his mask.
The pink general looks very good-looking, and it always makes him feel like it is delicious. His throat is dry and itchy, making him want to bite the ghost-faced general.
General Ghost Face listened to the words that were close at hand, and felt the scorching breath, his body became more and more stiff, but the color on his body became a little darker.
He moved, put Xu Jun who was sitting on his lap on the bed, then moved back awkwardly, moved to a corner and sat down.
After walking away from Mr. Xu, General Ghost Face crumpled up the small book he was holding and threw it to the foot of the bed, "Don't read such messy things in the future."
After finishing speaking, he got out of bed without looking sideways, got up and tidied up his clothes.
Outside the door, the lieutenants who had been lying on the door and listening to the movement in the room from the very beginning felt that the sky was falling apart and the whole person was not well.
Seeing that the two people in the room seemed to have no intention of continuing, the lieutenants lying on the door tiptoed carefully away from the door, ready to sneak away.
As soon as they moved, there was a gust of wind in the house, and the next moment, a spear pierced out from in front of them, and penetrated deeply into the pillar in front of them.
Everyone was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bent over, avoiding the spear and running downstairs.
When the ghost-faced general came downstairs fully dressed, the lieutenants had already lined up downstairs in the inn pretending nothing happened.
The ghost-faced general went downstairs and stood in front of everyone. Xu Jun upstairs also opened the door and ran down happily.
Seeing Xu Jun, the lieutenants, who were still tense, couldn't bear it anymore. They all looked away from the ghost-faced general. Can't help showing a strange expression.
"What's going on with King Yi?" General Ghost Face said coldly.
"General Xu brought people into King Yi's mansion. Because he couldn't find Mr. Xu for a long time, he was furious in King Yi's mansion. He beat up King Yi with a bruised nose and a swollen face. When we left, other people were trying to persuade him to fight and save people." Speaking of this incident , Everyone's expressions suddenly became even more strange.
"The situation at Prince Yi's Mansion has basically been brought under control. The Prime Minister and Xu Shangshu are also there, so there shouldn't be any problem."
Just as he was talking, a group of soldiers ran over and surrounded the inn outside the door. After a while, there was a rush of horseshoes.
As soon as the sound of the horse's hooves stopped, Xu Ming's shout came from outside the door, "Brother!" Xu Ming had already found him.
"I'm here." Hearing this, Xu Jun ran out quickly.
Because he heard that his father was also here, Xu Jun craned his neck to look around after going out, and asked Xu Ming immediately after he didn't see Xu Lan.
The two brothers of the Xu family were talking outside, while inside the house, General Ghost-Mask's cold gaze swept over the crowd, and after telling everyone to put away the vague smiles on their faces, they also talked about serious business.
"General, King Jin's side has been controlled, but there may be changes in Xia Guo's side, please return to the camp as soon as possible, General."
"Please also order the general to send a message by flying pigeons, so that the heavy troops at the border will be on alert."
It would take at least ten days for them to return to the border. If Xia Guo launched an attack before the few of them returned, the army would definitely suffer heavy losses.
"Tao Chi sent a letter back to tell all the soldiers to be on alert. The rest of the people immediately packed up their things and prepared their horses, and set off as soon as possible."
"Yes!"
After confirming the itinerary, General Ghost Face went out to Prince Yi's Mansion, and found Prime Minister Lin Xu and Xu Lan.
Although he already knew roughly that Jin Yi had contacts with Xia Guo, he knew little about the specifics, and he had to figure it out because it was related to Xia Guo.
But after Jin Yi was captured, although he knew that the general situation was over, he was not prepared to submit at all, and the three of them asked for a long time there, but there was still no result.
In the evening, when the three of them came out from King Yi's Mansion and returned to the inn, the general situation in the city was basically settled.Most of King Yi's people have been arrested, and all the Jianghu sects that have colluded with him have also been controlled.
The matter in Jingshan City can be handed over to Lin Xu and Xu Lan, but the ghost-faced general must go back to sit in the border immediately.
In the afternoon, all the lieutenants bought dry food and prepared horses, and only waited to set off early the next morning.
At night, Xu's father and son gathered together. Xu Lan, who hadn't seen Xu Jun for a long time, called Xu Jun over, and looked carefully in front of him for a long time.
"Are you still used to life in the army?" Xu Lan asked softly, facing his youngest son, his eyes became more loving.
"I'm definitely not used to it. There's no place like home in the army that's comfortable." Xu Ming said for Xu Jun. He was in the barracks, so of course he knew what the army was like.
"If you're not used to it, tell Dad, and Dad will let them let you back."
"I won't go back." Xu Jun held Xu Lan's arm and shook his head. It took him a lot of effort to persuade the three of them to let him go out to seek work. How could he go back after only a few months?
"Don't be brave."
"correct."
"I didn't try to be brave, and the general just said today that I did a good job in the accountant." Xu Jun said in a soft voice.
"Really?" Xu Lan was pleased.
"Well. The general praised me today, saying that I am very good." Xu Jun nodded, thinking of this, he thought of the pink general, and his face became more rosy.
Xu Lan raised her hand and touched Xu Jun's head, her eyes were full of comfort and kindness.
On the other side of the inn, Lin Xu knocked on the door of General Ghost Face. After entering the door, he chatted with General Ghost Face.
"King Yi's side has already been setting up the net half a year ago, but King Yi has been very careful and has not left any big things behind. That's why the emperor thought of General Ghost Face."
Jin Qi is very clear about what kind of person Jin Yi is. During the chaos of seizing the palace, he immediately turned against him after his brother was killed and saw that the situation was out of control. He knelt down to Jin Qi and even killed his mother The National People's Congress of the concubine's family, the Li family, expressed their loyalty.
For such a person, what he can endure for more than ten years is already the limit.
Jin Qi has always been on guard against him, and has placed a lot of people around him.
A few months ago, seeing that Jin Yi was about to negotiate with Xia Guo and attracted many people in the world, the people he sent had not been able to get any conclusive evidence, so he made this bad move.
The appearance of General Ghost Face caused King Yi to be in chaos. With his chaos, it was much easier for the people on Jinqi's side to attack.
After hearing the whole story, General Ghost Face remained silent, very displeased, he didn't like the feeling of being used by others.What's more, Xu Jun was also involved in Jinyi's incident this time, and Xu Jun was almost injured.
Seeing that the man with the ghost mask was silent, he seemed displeased, and Prime Minister Lin Xu showed a little helplessness on his indifferent face.
Jin Qi had expected that this person would be angry long before the incident happened.
"The emperor asked me to tell the general that this matter is particularly important. He is also doing it for Dayu. If Xia Guo is not stopped and they join forces to send troops, many people in Dayu will definitely be implicated."
"Even if Xia's people cannot break through the border defense line guarded by the general, as long as there is a war, there will be casualties. If possible, the emperor hopes to win without fighting."
Jin Qi is a good emperor, no one in Dayu is different in this regard.
The ghost-faced general turned his head and looked at Lin Xu with cold eyes.
What Jin Qi thinks has nothing to do with him, it is a fact to use him, not to mention that Xu Jun is also affected.
Seeing that the general was like this, Lin Xu stopped talking and said directly: "The emperor said that if the general can't relieve his anger when I say this, it will be considered that he owes the general once."
Lin Xu looked unharmed. Based on his understanding of General Ghost Face, he actually felt that what he said before was nonsense.
"The emperor said that you can ask for anything you want."
In the corridor, Xu Jun sneaked back to his room on tiptoe.After entering the door, he immediately closed the door, and then ran nervously to the bed.
After removing the quilt and pillows and searching around on the bed but not finding what he wanted, he got down on his stomach again and searched under the bed again.
He didn't get up from the ground until he found the small book that was crumpled and thrown away by General Ghost Face at the foot of the bed.
Xu Jun carefully smoothed out the small book, checked the pages, and after making sure that it was not damaged, hid it in his arms with blushing cheeks.
This little book is a magic weapon, it's amazing!
It said that if it was stamped, it would be obedient, and the general would be obedient as expected, and it didn't say anything about letting him go back after that.
Xu Jun hid his treasure, felt his stomach where he hid his notebook, and happily went downstairs to find his father, while the lieutenants who were gathered downstairs to discuss tomorrow's departure saw him, but they didn't know what to do.
"Do you want to ask the general again?" one of the lieutenants asked.
They also probably knew that the ghost-faced general told Xu Jun not to go back to the barracks.
At this moment, Xu Jun's brother and father are all here, and they all want to take him away, and their generals haven't spoken anymore, so is Xu Jun going to follow them back?
"Who's going to ask?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one dared to provoke the ghost-faced general.
"Why don't you tell Xu Jun that we are leaving early tomorrow morning?" Tao Chi suggested.If Xu Jun wants to follow them, he can also find time to go to the general to clarify.
To be honest, they were all very reluctant to part with Xu Jun.
At the beginning when Xu Jun came to the barracks, they really looked down upon him, especially Tao Chi, who had repeatedly confronted Xu Jun, but now everyone was looking forward to him returning to the barracks with them.
Leaving aside the things between him and their generals, Xu Jun is quite interesting, and they all like it.
Suddenly Xu Jun will not go back to the barracks, they are quite reluctant.
"Are you going to tell me?"
"..." Tao Chi wilted.
If the general is determined not to let Xu Jun go back with them, wouldn't he be asking for trouble by doing so much?They are not Xu Jun, the general will not show mercy to them.
002
After the Xu family father and son met the day before, during breakfast the next day, Xu Lan and Xu Ming had a heated discussion about Xu Jun.
Xu Lan felt that Xu Jun had grown taller and thinner. Looking at Xu Jun who had become thinner, Xu Lan felt very distressed.
Although Xu Jun didn't say he was fat when he was at home, he always had enough to eat three meals a day, and looked extraordinarily energetic.Now it's only been nearly three months, and Xu Jun has lost a lot of weight.
Xu Ming felt that Xu Jun's biggest change was that he was dark. In his impression, Xu Jun was always fair and clean, but he was a good boy. Now that he hasn't seen him in the past few months, his whole person has become much darker. The skin is a little more wheat-colored.
Although she was still fairer than other people, it was really distressing to watch.
While talking, Xu Ming told Xu Lan that Xu Jun learned self-defense with several lieutenants and General Ghost Face.
When Xu Lan heard it, her heart ached even more.
Just like Xu Ming, he thought that the self-defense technique would be good for Xu Jun, so he didn't tell Xu Jun not to learn it, but the pain was written all over his face.
The two of you said each other one sentence at a time. When eating breakfast, the dishes in Xu Junfeng's bowl were never short.
Xu Jun refused twice at the beginning, but after seeing that the two of them ignored him and just kept adding vegetables to his bowl, Xu Jun simply ignored them and just immersed himself in eating hard.
As a result, until he ate his stomach until he couldn't eat any more, there was no shortage of food in his bowl.
"I heard that in your barracks, there was a man named Tao Zi who didn't want to see you before?" Xu Ming gritted his teeth.
"Is that the case?" Xu Lan turned cold. Xu Jun would not be wronged at home.
Tao Chi at the table next to him choked his nose with a mouthful of rice and almost died from coughing.
Xu Jun shook his head and danced his fists, "I bullied you back."
"I also heard that you were kidnapped by bandits?" Xu Ming asked again.
Xu Jun nodded honestly, "There are a lot of red mushrooms in the mountains, those bandits gave me a lot, and I even sent them to my mother."
Speaking of russula, Xu Lan had an opinion, "I also heard from your mother that you sent someone to send it home on purpose." Xu Lan added the accent on the word 'intentionally'.
Xu Jun nodded. The last time he got the red mushrooms from the bandits, he basically sent them to his mother, because his mother likes to eat them.
"Your mother made soup, but she didn't give it to me." Xu Lan was wronged, and her heart was even more sour.
The first time Xu Jun sent something home, it wasn't to him but to his mother.For this matter, his mother even specially wrote a letter to tell Xu Ming to show off, and she usually praises Xu Jun's filial piety when she sees everyone.
Seeing this, Xu Jun quickly comforted his father and promised to send him the next delivery.After he finished speaking, Xu Ming next to him looked at him sourly again.
At the dinner table, Xu Jun was extremely busy.On the other side, the ghost-faced general and the lieutenants got up silently after finishing their breakfast.
"Let's go." The ghost-faced general said by the manger next to the inn.
Glancing at the inn next to him, the people under the ghost's face felt very uncomfortable.
"General..."
General Ghost Face got on his horse, and the rest of them got on their horses one after another when they saw this.
In the inn, when Xu Jun comforted the two of them, there was only their table left downstairs.
"Where's the general?" After Xu Jun looked downstairs for a while, he ran upstairs to knock on the door. When he knocked on the first floor, he found that there was no one in the room, not only people, but even the luggage was gone.
Xu Jun thumped in his heart, and a bad premonition came.He hurried downstairs to look at the stable, but as expected, there were no horses in the stable.
There was no one in the inn, and the horse was gone. Knowing that the ghost-faced general must have left him and sneaked away, Xu Jun stared at him and flattened his mouth, and was about to get angry.
"Let's go." A deep and cold voice suddenly came from the front.
Xu Jun, who was about to get angry, looked up, and the man with the ghost mask was standing in front of the inn, leading his black horse.
"Not yet." Xu Jun sniffed and ran over quickly.
General Ghost Face stepped aside and signaled Xu Jun to get on his horse.
Seeing this, Xu Jun quickly lay down beside the horse's back, stretched out his hand to grab the saddle, and tried his best to climb up.
Seeing that Xu Jun was clumsy and failed to climb up after two attempts, the ghost-faced general stepped forward to support Xu Jun's waist, and with his hands, he easily lifted him onto the horse's back, "Grab it well."
Xu Jun grabbed the saddle obediently, and watched General Ghost Face lead the rein and lead him to the door of the inn.
When he arrived at the door, Xu Ming had already taken Xu Jun's luggage and the rabbit and was standing there waiting.Seeing Xu Jun coming, he handed the luggage and the rabbit over, "Be careful on the road."
Xu Jun nodded, looking at Xu Lan and Xu Ming who had just met and were about to part.Xu Jun's eyes were still red, but these two people had red eyes, which made Xu Jun feel a little sad.
"If you're not used to it or someone bullies you, tell us and we'll pick you up right away."
"it is good."
Xu Jun was sitting on the horseback waving his hands, General Ghost Face was walking aside, holding the rein of the horse, leading Xu Jun towards the outside of Jingshan City slowly facing the morning light.
After leaving the city gate, Xu Jun patted his face, put away the sadness on his face and looked at the ghost-faced general who was leading the horse away.
"General, why are you here?" He thought General Ghost Face and the others left him and left.
"...I forgot to take something."
"what?"
"rabbit."
Hearing this, Xu Jun was at a loss as he grabbed the rein of the horse. Didn't the ghost-faced general come back to pick him up?He really didn't want to take him away.
"And you." Seeing Xu Jun bowed his head and said nothing, the people under the ghost's face immediately guessed what he was thinking.
Although he really wanted to leave this person behind and leave like this at first, but he regretted it as soon as he left the city gate.
He has been stationed at the border all year round and rarely returns to Beijing.Xu Jun did not enter the court, and the Xu family protected him very well.If he left Xu Jun this time and left like this, he might never see this person again in his life.
The psychological construction he had done earlier was defeated as soon as he left the city gate.
Intellectually, he knew that his leaving would be a better choice for Xu Jun, but when he thought that it would be difficult for him to see this person again in this life, he panicked inexplicably, and his heart felt even tighter.
Those excuses that Xu Jun had originally thought about getting married and getting married turned into thorns in his heart at that moment, which made him feel heart-piercing.
As soon as the group of people left the city gate, he reined in the horse, turned the horse's head, and drove the horse back at a faster speed than when he came.
Back at the inn, when he was standing at the door, he also advised himself to leave quickly, before Xu Jun noticed him and left.
But his feet seemed to have taken root, and he didn't listen to him at all.
Xu Jun sat on the horseback and hugged the rabbit cage. He was so happy that he obediently let the general lead the horse away.
In Jingshan City, at the entrance of the inn.
Seeing Xu Jun being taken away, Xu Lan and Xu Ming, who had red eyes, looked from a distance for a long time, until the back of the two of them disappeared into the end of their sight, and then they looked away.
"Father, why did you let my younger brother go..." Xu Ming was very confused.
Others don't know what kind of person Xu Jun is, but the father and son know it all too well.What Xu Jun said was always after he thought it over. He said that he would marry that general, it was definitely not a joke.
Xu Ming struggled with this matter for a long time and told Xu Lan. He originally thought that Xu Lan would persuade Xu Jun not to mess around like him, but Xu Lan never said a word from the beginning to the end, and he didn't even stop him. Xu Jun followed back.
"It's not like you don't know his temper. When will we be able to control his decision?" Xu Lan looked at the angry Xu Ming with a wry smile.
These two children of his have really learned everything from him, their temperament has not changed at all, even the poor quality of wine has been imitated.
Xu Lan raised her hand and rubbed Xu Ming's head affectionately, "You have all grown up and have your own path to go. Father only hopes that you can walk the path you want to go and be happy for the rest of your life."
Xu Ming pursed his lips, still unwilling.
When he thought that his lovely brother might be kidnapped like this, he hated it.
If it weren't for the fear that Xu Jun would be angry with him if he found out and would not be nice to him, Xu Ming would have wished to just give that general Laoshizi the Ghost Face some medicine and make him disappear from this world.
"Okay, don't think about it, don't you still have to deal with the matter of King Yi?" Xu Lan patted Xu Ming's shoulder, "Don't hate that ghost-faced general too much, he is not as evil as rumored. "
Xu Ming raised his head with doubts on his face, "Father, do you know that guy?"
If so, it would be very strange.
Although their Xu family has been serving as officials since the emperor ascended the throne, he has never seen his father have anything to do with that ghost-faced general over the years.
And because the ghost-faced general has been guarding the border for more than ten years and rarely returned to the court, if his father had friendship with the ghost-faced general, it should have happened more than ten years ago.
Xu Lan rubbed his head again, smiled softly, but did not speak.
"Actually, he is also a poor child." Xu Lan smiled softly, but there was a faint killing intent deep in his eyes.
If he really dared to abduct his precious son, he would be dead!
In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that Xu Jun would get angry and abandon him this time if he found out, he would have already poisoned that guy's wine and made him disappear from this world!
003
Outside Jingshan City, in a ruined temple.
A group of bandits lay in disorder in the ruined temple and were sleeping soundly, when a loud shout came from outside the door, "It's not good, get up!"
The bandits lying in the room were so frightened that they all sat up from the ground. Seeing the man running into the room with his pants up from the door, everyone stared in a daze, "What's your ghost name early in the morning?"
"It's not good, get up, that guy ran away!" The bandit who went out to pee early in the morning quickly told the story of seeing the group of lieutenants leading horses at the gate of the city.
Hearing that Xu Jun and the others had set off to go back, the bandits, who were still soundly asleep, quickly got up.
"What should we do now?"
"What else can I do? Chase!"
Everyone quickly packed up their things, ran to the city to buy dozens of big steamed buns, and hurriedly chased them out.
After General Ghost Face led the horse and led Xu Jun to join the lieutenants waiting at the gate of the city, everyone immediately surrounded him.
They originally thought that the general would really leave Xu Jun alone, but now that it's all over, Xu Jun is back.
Tao Chi on the side pulled out a horse that had already been prepared, "Can you ride it?"
They went back this time and abandoned the carriage, and all of them rode horses instead, which was faster.They are alright, they have long been used to this kind of life, Xu Jun looks at the delicate skin and tender flesh, which makes people a little worried.
Xu Jun also understood that everyone was in a hurry to go back. He looked at the tall horse in front of him, looked at the horse seriously for a while, and nodded solemnly.
After arriving at the barracks, he also practiced riding horses from time to time, but this was not something that could be learned in a day or two.
Today, he can only say that he rides better than when he was at home.But compared with this group of people who live on horseback all year round, it is far behind.
There was no time to delay, everyone rode their horses and galloped towards the border immediately after getting on their horses.
Leaving Jingshan City and passing through Anqing, at noon on the tenth day when everyone stopped to rest, they learned from passersby on the side of the road that Yi Wang Jinyi was implicated by those who were afraid that he would confess to them when he returned to Beijing. The people in the martial arts were assassinated.
As soon as the news of Yi Wang Jinyi's murder spread in Dayu, everyone sighed.
Hearing this news, General Ghost Face and his party did not discuss it, and were not even surprised.
It was rumored that Jin Yi was killed by martial arts people to silence him, but in fact, everyone knew it in their hearts.Jin Yi was probably not killed by some martial artist, but by the emperor.
Jin Yi's status was inherently embarrassing, if he had been an idle prince all his life, the emperor might not touch him, but he was ambitious, so the emperor would naturally not let him have a chance to make a comeback.
So this time, even if those martial arts people didn't act, and the emperor didn't borrow a knife to kill people, he would still find other reasons to kill people.
After hearing the news, no one talked about it.
If the ghost-faced general was not here, the lieutenants might still say a few words in private, but when the ghost-faced general was here, they would not dare to speak again.
After Xu Jun heard the news, he looked around and looked at the crowd expectantly. Seeing that everyone was silent, he continued to eat dry food in silence.
At first, everyone was a little worried that Xu Jun would say the wrong thing, but Xu Jun saw that everyone was silent, so he didn't bring it up again.As a result, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
But when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Jun looked up at the ghost-faced general next to him.
"Is something wrong?"
"Jin Yi knows what you look like?"
The ghost-faced general didn't speak, which was his default.
"The emperor also knows what you look like." Xu Jun was sour.
Hearing Xu Jun bring up this matter again, General Ghost Face said helplessly, "It's not the same."
"Why is it different?" Xu Jun became more sour.
He lowered his head and touched the little rabbit on his lap. Because he needed to hurry back, the little rabbit was knocked out of spirit, and he felt distressed looking at it.
Seeing Xu Jun like this, the person under the ghostly face lowered his eyes to look at the dry food in his hand, and after a while, a cold and deep voice came, "You are different."
He didn't know how to say some words, and he couldn't say them because of his stupid mouth, but he wanted Xu Jun to know.
Xu Jun, who was feeling lost, suddenly raised his head when he heard the words. He looked at the person who was speaking next to him, his small face slowly turned red, and soon his whole body turned red.
"Why is it different?" Xu Jun asked softly.
Listening to this soft and sweet voice, the lieutenants who were eating dry food and drinking water felt their backs go soft for a while, and at the same time couldn't help shivering.
Shouldn't they be here?
The deputy generals silently lowered their heads and studied the rations in their hands. They thought that General Ghost Face would flicker past like before, but this time General Ghost Face was silent for a moment and said: "I have been wearing a mask since I was a child. Masks are important to me. Like a face."
Everyone was shocked, this was the first time General Ghost Face mentioned his past.
Xu Jun may not feel it, but those of them who have been in the camp for a long time and have been with the Ghost-faced General for at least two or three years are very clear that the Ghost-faced General has basically never mentioned his past in the past ten years.
Whether it is his origin, name, appearance or age, he has never mentioned it to anyone.
People in the army even called him just 'General Ghost Face'. After a long time, it seemed that these four words became his name.
Xu Junan sat quietly by the side, looking at him curiously with his back straight, and listening carefully like a good baby.
"At first, someone forced me to wear it when I was a child. The molten iron welded the edge and locked it, so I couldn't take it off. I gradually got used to it." General Ghost Face touched the mask on his face with his hands. Very bland, as if talking about other people's business.
Xu Jun looked at the person in front of him in surprise. He had forgotten to eat, and he didn't even know that the dry food was being gnawed by the rabbit on his lap.
"Why?" Xu Jun was puzzled, what kind of reason could he treat a child like this, and even welded the edges with molten iron, and he always thought that he voluntarily put on the mask of General Ghost Face.
The people under the ghost face were silent.
"Who is that?" Xu Jun asked again.
"My mother." After a short pause, General Ghost Face said again: "That's some bad things, some things are not as good as you think, it's better that you don't know." He also didn't want Xu Jun to know.
Xu Jun frowned slightly, he didn't understand what happened back then, but he felt distressed inexplicably.
Just thinking about it, it was just a little one that was about to be brought with such things, Xu Jun couldn't help shrinking his neck. Fortunately, his father, mother, and brother were all very kind to him.
If he was asked to wear such an iron mask, he would definitely not be able to bear it.
After listening to this speech, Xu Jun somewhat understood this person's stubbornness.However, what does this have to do with General Ghost Face not showing him but showing others?
"Because you are different from them, I don't want you to know those dirty things." The man under the ghost's face turned his head, and for the first time looked straight at the past, looking straight into Xu Jun's heart .
"Stingy." Xu Jun snatched back his dry food from the little rabbit.He looked down at the little rabbit on his lap, and said in a low voice, "You can't eat this, it will hurt your stomach."
Xu Jun curled his body slightly, enduring the loud "thump, bang, bang" in his chest. He didn't know what was wrong with him, but his heart kept making "thump, bang, bang" just because of those eyes looking at his heart.
Looking at the dry food in his hand that was covered with tooth marks, Xu Junzheng felt distressed, and half a piece of dry food was handed over to him.
The knuckles of the finger holding the dry food were slender and powerful. His master was wearing a mask, and in the other hand was holding a much smaller half of the dry food.
Xu Jun touched his inedible piece of dry food with his fingers, and took half of General Ghost-faced. After thinking about it, he moved his position, moved to the side of General Ghost-faced and sat next to him.
The ghost-faced general ignored the big rabbit next to him who was smiling gleefully, and thought of something else.
"General." Sure enough, the soft voice came again.
"Yeah." The ghost-faced general didn't change his face.
"Let's take a bath together next time!" Xu Jun flattered him.
He still remembered the last time he broke into this man's room and saw him taking a bath. General Ghost Face didn't wear a mask when he took a bath.
Xu Jun finished his flattering words, and the person beside him had already turned his head to cover his mouth and coughed in a muffled voice.
"What's wrong with you?" Xu Jun quickly raised his hand and patted him on the back. Why is this person so careless?Eating in such a hurry, I choked on it now!
Thousands of miles away, in the Dayu Palace.
After everything in Jingshan City was settled as planned, Lin Xu immediately turned back to the palace.
On the day of the return trip, Lin Xu went to the palace to report the situation.
In the palace, in the side hall where the memorials were reviewed, Jin Qi looked at the materials submitted by Lin Xu, and his face turned from sunny to cloudy.
He had already been on guard against Jin Yi, and probably knew that Jin Yi had contacts with Xia Guo, but he never thought that he could do this to such an extent, even at the expense of betraying the country.
"General Ghost Face over the dam recovered part of the accounts, but it was only the records of some foremen who built the dam last time. It is not very clear, and the people in the court who are related to Jinyi are still unable to find out." Lin Xudao.
Jin Yi kept a low profile for several years and secretly planned for several years. Although his brain had already exposed his ambitions, there were still many secret supporters who hid deeply.
After reading the materials sorted out by Lin Xu and Xu Lan, as well as the account book sent by General Ghost Face, when Jin Qi looked up again, his face had the half-smile look on his face again, making it impossible to guess what was going on in his heart. thought.
"In Jinyi's side, all the relevant people have been killed according to the plan." Lin Xu said the killing words without changing his face, and didn't care about the smiling eyes of the person in front of him.
"In addition, General Ghost Face asked the emperor to replenish the army's rations as soon as possible. If Xia Guo really wants to go to war, the army's rations will definitely not be enough."
He has learned from General Ghost Face that there is only more than a month's worth of rations left in the army, and it will definitely be affected if a war starts, so they must make up all the rations and grass within a month, lest they will not be able to fight for a long time. Let the soldiers go hungry.
Hearing Lin Xu mention General Ghost Face, the smile on Jin Qi's face deepened, "What did he say this time?"
He already knew that the man would be angry, but he really couldn't help it.
Under the circumstances at that time, unless he made an unannounced visit in person or that person went for him, Jin Yi would never show his feet easily.
Lin Xu didn't speak, but just handed over another account that he was carrying in his arms.This account is a record of all the rations and salaries used for this disaster relief, and a few other things.
Jin Qi took it and looked at it. After reading the accounts, his face darkened, "Why are there so many?"
The amount on this account far exceeded the amount he had temporarily replaced by Ghost-faced General, and there were two particularly large expenses in the end.
"The front of the account is the money for this disaster relief, and the back is the two months' food and salaries owed by the emperor to the frontier army." Lin Xu still didn't change his face.
"What?" Jin Qi stared, when did he owe the border army two months' pay?
"It seems that the ghost-faced general owes the army accountant a month's food."
The corner of Jin Qi's mouth twitched fiercely, Mr. accountant?Xu Jun?That guy owed Xu Jun food?
Not to mention why that guy owed so much food to Xu Jun, nor why he asked him to pay him back, but how much food does the Guan army have for a month here, does he know?
And this is obviously an extra month!
"That guy asked me to pay him, why? And he owes one month, why should I pay him back for two months?"
Lin Xu waved calmly, let the chief eunuch who was waiting next to him pass, and then handed over another account that had been prepared long ago, "From this month on, the emperor will deduct expenses according to this every month until it is paid off. "
"How dare you!" Jin Qi was furious.
"Or is the emperor going to raise taxes?" Lin Xu took out a small white jade abacus out of nowhere, and after shaking it 'kuang kuang', his white and slender fingers moved quickly on it.
"If the tax is increased, the tax increase in these areas in the next six months can make up for it." After a while, Lin Xu had the result.
Jin Qi gritted his teeth and looked at Lin Xu viciously. After a long while, he uttered two words, "No way." Unreasonable tax increases, it is the common people who suffer.
"Then how does the emperor plan to make up for this part of the food? The treasury provides disaster relief every year, and the emperor is unwilling to increase taxes. The household department has been crying for two years."
Thinking of the group of elders in the household department who wiped tears when they saw him, Jin Qi kept silent with a stinky face.
"This time, if the treasury pays for the food again, if we don't make up for it, it will be difficult for the Ministry of Accounts, or the emperor will kill people to get the food?" Lin Xu thought about the feasibility of replacing the Ministry of Accounts with fresh blood with a calm face.
"Let me shrink my clothes and go on a diet, why?"
"The soldiers are Dayu's soldiers, the emperor's soldiers."
"I mean the debt he owed to coax others to be happy, why should I ask him to pay him back?"
"The emperor is going to ask the general himself."
"Where's Xu Lan?" Jin Qi looked for someone, "Is his youngest son Xu Jun blackmailing him or not?"
"Xu Shangshu's words are still in Jingshan City. He asked for leave for a month, saying that he would stay in Anqing and wait for Xu Jun to send him a gift, and accompany his eldest son by the way." Lin Xu looked indifferently.
"..."
"If the emperor has nothing to do, then the minister will leave." Lin Xu turned and left.
"stop."
"Is there something else to do, Your Majesty?" Lin Xu stopped.
"Give me back the jade abacus I gave you. The abacus I gave you is not for you to plot against me and deduct my daily use." Jin Qi said fiercely.
Lin Xu lowered his head, glanced at the palm-sized jade abacus in his hand, put his hand in his pocket, turned around, and left without looking back.
Seeing the pinkish person beside him, Xu Jun swallowed, and slowly leaned towards him.
Sensing Xu Jun's movements, General Ghost Face stiffened, and he leaned back slightly, trying to distance the two of them.
"General."
The ghost-faced general turned his head and looked stiffly at the spear thrown by Xu Jun on the ground in the distance. The spear that had been with him for nearly ten years was thrown far away by Xu Jun at this moment, lying alone on the ground .
"General, you are so pretty."
Xu Jun hugged the ghost-faced general's waist, and leaned in front of his mask.
The pink general looks very good-looking, and it always makes him feel like it is delicious. His throat is dry and itchy, making him want to bite the ghost-faced general.
General Ghost Face listened to the words that were close at hand, and felt the scorching breath, his body became more and more stiff, but the color on his body became a little darker.
He moved, put Xu Jun who was sitting on his lap on the bed, then moved back awkwardly, moved to a corner and sat down.
After walking away from Mr. Xu, General Ghost Face crumpled up the small book he was holding and threw it to the foot of the bed, "Don't read such messy things in the future."
After finishing speaking, he got out of bed without looking sideways, got up and tidied up his clothes.
Outside the door, the lieutenants who had been lying on the door and listening to the movement in the room from the very beginning felt that the sky was falling apart and the whole person was not well.
Seeing that the two people in the room seemed to have no intention of continuing, the lieutenants lying on the door tiptoed carefully away from the door, ready to sneak away.
As soon as they moved, there was a gust of wind in the house, and the next moment, a spear pierced out from in front of them, and penetrated deeply into the pillar in front of them.
Everyone was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bent over, avoiding the spear and running downstairs.
When the ghost-faced general came downstairs fully dressed, the lieutenants had already lined up downstairs in the inn pretending nothing happened.
The ghost-faced general went downstairs and stood in front of everyone. Xu Jun upstairs also opened the door and ran down happily.
Seeing Xu Jun, the lieutenants, who were still tense, couldn't bear it anymore. They all looked away from the ghost-faced general. Can't help showing a strange expression.
"What's going on with King Yi?" General Ghost Face said coldly.
"General Xu brought people into King Yi's mansion. Because he couldn't find Mr. Xu for a long time, he was furious in King Yi's mansion. He beat up King Yi with a bruised nose and a swollen face. When we left, other people were trying to persuade him to fight and save people." Speaking of this incident , Everyone's expressions suddenly became even more strange.
"The situation at Prince Yi's Mansion has basically been brought under control. The Prime Minister and Xu Shangshu are also there, so there shouldn't be any problem."
Just as he was talking, a group of soldiers ran over and surrounded the inn outside the door. After a while, there was a rush of horseshoes.
As soon as the sound of the horse's hooves stopped, Xu Ming's shout came from outside the door, "Brother!" Xu Ming had already found him.
"I'm here." Hearing this, Xu Jun ran out quickly.
Because he heard that his father was also here, Xu Jun craned his neck to look around after going out, and asked Xu Ming immediately after he didn't see Xu Lan.
The two brothers of the Xu family were talking outside, while inside the house, General Ghost-Mask's cold gaze swept over the crowd, and after telling everyone to put away the vague smiles on their faces, they also talked about serious business.
"General, King Jin's side has been controlled, but there may be changes in Xia Guo's side, please return to the camp as soon as possible, General."
"Please also order the general to send a message by flying pigeons, so that the heavy troops at the border will be on alert."
It would take at least ten days for them to return to the border. If Xia Guo launched an attack before the few of them returned, the army would definitely suffer heavy losses.
"Tao Chi sent a letter back to tell all the soldiers to be on alert. The rest of the people immediately packed up their things and prepared their horses, and set off as soon as possible."
"Yes!"
After confirming the itinerary, General Ghost Face went out to Prince Yi's Mansion, and found Prime Minister Lin Xu and Xu Lan.
Although he already knew roughly that Jin Yi had contacts with Xia Guo, he knew little about the specifics, and he had to figure it out because it was related to Xia Guo.
But after Jin Yi was captured, although he knew that the general situation was over, he was not prepared to submit at all, and the three of them asked for a long time there, but there was still no result.
In the evening, when the three of them came out from King Yi's Mansion and returned to the inn, the general situation in the city was basically settled.Most of King Yi's people have been arrested, and all the Jianghu sects that have colluded with him have also been controlled.
The matter in Jingshan City can be handed over to Lin Xu and Xu Lan, but the ghost-faced general must go back to sit in the border immediately.
In the afternoon, all the lieutenants bought dry food and prepared horses, and only waited to set off early the next morning.
At night, Xu's father and son gathered together. Xu Lan, who hadn't seen Xu Jun for a long time, called Xu Jun over, and looked carefully in front of him for a long time.
"Are you still used to life in the army?" Xu Lan asked softly, facing his youngest son, his eyes became more loving.
"I'm definitely not used to it. There's no place like home in the army that's comfortable." Xu Ming said for Xu Jun. He was in the barracks, so of course he knew what the army was like.
"If you're not used to it, tell Dad, and Dad will let them let you back."
"I won't go back." Xu Jun held Xu Lan's arm and shook his head. It took him a lot of effort to persuade the three of them to let him go out to seek work. How could he go back after only a few months?
"Don't be brave."
"correct."
"I didn't try to be brave, and the general just said today that I did a good job in the accountant." Xu Jun said in a soft voice.
"Really?" Xu Lan was pleased.
"Well. The general praised me today, saying that I am very good." Xu Jun nodded, thinking of this, he thought of the pink general, and his face became more rosy.
Xu Lan raised her hand and touched Xu Jun's head, her eyes were full of comfort and kindness.
On the other side of the inn, Lin Xu knocked on the door of General Ghost Face. After entering the door, he chatted with General Ghost Face.
"King Yi's side has already been setting up the net half a year ago, but King Yi has been very careful and has not left any big things behind. That's why the emperor thought of General Ghost Face."
Jin Qi is very clear about what kind of person Jin Yi is. During the chaos of seizing the palace, he immediately turned against him after his brother was killed and saw that the situation was out of control. He knelt down to Jin Qi and even killed his mother The National People's Congress of the concubine's family, the Li family, expressed their loyalty.
For such a person, what he can endure for more than ten years is already the limit.
Jin Qi has always been on guard against him, and has placed a lot of people around him.
A few months ago, seeing that Jin Yi was about to negotiate with Xia Guo and attracted many people in the world, the people he sent had not been able to get any conclusive evidence, so he made this bad move.
The appearance of General Ghost Face caused King Yi to be in chaos. With his chaos, it was much easier for the people on Jinqi's side to attack.
After hearing the whole story, General Ghost Face remained silent, very displeased, he didn't like the feeling of being used by others.What's more, Xu Jun was also involved in Jinyi's incident this time, and Xu Jun was almost injured.
Seeing that the man with the ghost mask was silent, he seemed displeased, and Prime Minister Lin Xu showed a little helplessness on his indifferent face.
Jin Qi had expected that this person would be angry long before the incident happened.
"The emperor asked me to tell the general that this matter is particularly important. He is also doing it for Dayu. If Xia Guo is not stopped and they join forces to send troops, many people in Dayu will definitely be implicated."
"Even if Xia's people cannot break through the border defense line guarded by the general, as long as there is a war, there will be casualties. If possible, the emperor hopes to win without fighting."
Jin Qi is a good emperor, no one in Dayu is different in this regard.
The ghost-faced general turned his head and looked at Lin Xu with cold eyes.
What Jin Qi thinks has nothing to do with him, it is a fact to use him, not to mention that Xu Jun is also affected.
Seeing that the general was like this, Lin Xu stopped talking and said directly: "The emperor said that if the general can't relieve his anger when I say this, it will be considered that he owes the general once."
Lin Xu looked unharmed. Based on his understanding of General Ghost Face, he actually felt that what he said before was nonsense.
"The emperor said that you can ask for anything you want."
In the corridor, Xu Jun sneaked back to his room on tiptoe.After entering the door, he immediately closed the door, and then ran nervously to the bed.
After removing the quilt and pillows and searching around on the bed but not finding what he wanted, he got down on his stomach again and searched under the bed again.
He didn't get up from the ground until he found the small book that was crumpled and thrown away by General Ghost Face at the foot of the bed.
Xu Jun carefully smoothed out the small book, checked the pages, and after making sure that it was not damaged, hid it in his arms with blushing cheeks.
This little book is a magic weapon, it's amazing!
It said that if it was stamped, it would be obedient, and the general would be obedient as expected, and it didn't say anything about letting him go back after that.
Xu Jun hid his treasure, felt his stomach where he hid his notebook, and happily went downstairs to find his father, while the lieutenants who were gathered downstairs to discuss tomorrow's departure saw him, but they didn't know what to do.
"Do you want to ask the general again?" one of the lieutenants asked.
They also probably knew that the ghost-faced general told Xu Jun not to go back to the barracks.
At this moment, Xu Jun's brother and father are all here, and they all want to take him away, and their generals haven't spoken anymore, so is Xu Jun going to follow them back?
"Who's going to ask?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one dared to provoke the ghost-faced general.
"Why don't you tell Xu Jun that we are leaving early tomorrow morning?" Tao Chi suggested.If Xu Jun wants to follow them, he can also find time to go to the general to clarify.
To be honest, they were all very reluctant to part with Xu Jun.
At the beginning when Xu Jun came to the barracks, they really looked down upon him, especially Tao Chi, who had repeatedly confronted Xu Jun, but now everyone was looking forward to him returning to the barracks with them.
Leaving aside the things between him and their generals, Xu Jun is quite interesting, and they all like it.
Suddenly Xu Jun will not go back to the barracks, they are quite reluctant.
"Are you going to tell me?"
"..." Tao Chi wilted.
If the general is determined not to let Xu Jun go back with them, wouldn't he be asking for trouble by doing so much?They are not Xu Jun, the general will not show mercy to them.
002
After the Xu family father and son met the day before, during breakfast the next day, Xu Lan and Xu Ming had a heated discussion about Xu Jun.
Xu Lan felt that Xu Jun had grown taller and thinner. Looking at Xu Jun who had become thinner, Xu Lan felt very distressed.
Although Xu Jun didn't say he was fat when he was at home, he always had enough to eat three meals a day, and looked extraordinarily energetic.Now it's only been nearly three months, and Xu Jun has lost a lot of weight.
Xu Ming felt that Xu Jun's biggest change was that he was dark. In his impression, Xu Jun was always fair and clean, but he was a good boy. Now that he hasn't seen him in the past few months, his whole person has become much darker. The skin is a little more wheat-colored.
Although she was still fairer than other people, it was really distressing to watch.
While talking, Xu Ming told Xu Lan that Xu Jun learned self-defense with several lieutenants and General Ghost Face.
When Xu Lan heard it, her heart ached even more.
Just like Xu Ming, he thought that the self-defense technique would be good for Xu Jun, so he didn't tell Xu Jun not to learn it, but the pain was written all over his face.
The two of you said each other one sentence at a time. When eating breakfast, the dishes in Xu Junfeng's bowl were never short.
Xu Jun refused twice at the beginning, but after seeing that the two of them ignored him and just kept adding vegetables to his bowl, Xu Jun simply ignored them and just immersed himself in eating hard.
As a result, until he ate his stomach until he couldn't eat any more, there was no shortage of food in his bowl.
"I heard that in your barracks, there was a man named Tao Zi who didn't want to see you before?" Xu Ming gritted his teeth.
"Is that the case?" Xu Lan turned cold. Xu Jun would not be wronged at home.
Tao Chi at the table next to him choked his nose with a mouthful of rice and almost died from coughing.
Xu Jun shook his head and danced his fists, "I bullied you back."
"I also heard that you were kidnapped by bandits?" Xu Ming asked again.
Xu Jun nodded honestly, "There are a lot of red mushrooms in the mountains, those bandits gave me a lot, and I even sent them to my mother."
Speaking of russula, Xu Lan had an opinion, "I also heard from your mother that you sent someone to send it home on purpose." Xu Lan added the accent on the word 'intentionally'.
Xu Jun nodded. The last time he got the red mushrooms from the bandits, he basically sent them to his mother, because his mother likes to eat them.
"Your mother made soup, but she didn't give it to me." Xu Lan was wronged, and her heart was even more sour.
The first time Xu Jun sent something home, it wasn't to him but to his mother.For this matter, his mother even specially wrote a letter to tell Xu Ming to show off, and she usually praises Xu Jun's filial piety when she sees everyone.
Seeing this, Xu Jun quickly comforted his father and promised to send him the next delivery.After he finished speaking, Xu Ming next to him looked at him sourly again.
At the dinner table, Xu Jun was extremely busy.On the other side, the ghost-faced general and the lieutenants got up silently after finishing their breakfast.
"Let's go." The ghost-faced general said by the manger next to the inn.
Glancing at the inn next to him, the people under the ghost's face felt very uncomfortable.
"General..."
General Ghost Face got on his horse, and the rest of them got on their horses one after another when they saw this.
In the inn, when Xu Jun comforted the two of them, there was only their table left downstairs.
"Where's the general?" After Xu Jun looked downstairs for a while, he ran upstairs to knock on the door. When he knocked on the first floor, he found that there was no one in the room, not only people, but even the luggage was gone.
Xu Jun thumped in his heart, and a bad premonition came.He hurried downstairs to look at the stable, but as expected, there were no horses in the stable.
There was no one in the inn, and the horse was gone. Knowing that the ghost-faced general must have left him and sneaked away, Xu Jun stared at him and flattened his mouth, and was about to get angry.
"Let's go." A deep and cold voice suddenly came from the front.
Xu Jun, who was about to get angry, looked up, and the man with the ghost mask was standing in front of the inn, leading his black horse.
"Not yet." Xu Jun sniffed and ran over quickly.
General Ghost Face stepped aside and signaled Xu Jun to get on his horse.
Seeing this, Xu Jun quickly lay down beside the horse's back, stretched out his hand to grab the saddle, and tried his best to climb up.
Seeing that Xu Jun was clumsy and failed to climb up after two attempts, the ghost-faced general stepped forward to support Xu Jun's waist, and with his hands, he easily lifted him onto the horse's back, "Grab it well."
Xu Jun grabbed the saddle obediently, and watched General Ghost Face lead the rein and lead him to the door of the inn.
When he arrived at the door, Xu Ming had already taken Xu Jun's luggage and the rabbit and was standing there waiting.Seeing Xu Jun coming, he handed the luggage and the rabbit over, "Be careful on the road."
Xu Jun nodded, looking at Xu Lan and Xu Ming who had just met and were about to part.Xu Jun's eyes were still red, but these two people had red eyes, which made Xu Jun feel a little sad.
"If you're not used to it or someone bullies you, tell us and we'll pick you up right away."
"it is good."
Xu Jun was sitting on the horseback waving his hands, General Ghost Face was walking aside, holding the rein of the horse, leading Xu Jun towards the outside of Jingshan City slowly facing the morning light.
After leaving the city gate, Xu Jun patted his face, put away the sadness on his face and looked at the ghost-faced general who was leading the horse away.
"General, why are you here?" He thought General Ghost Face and the others left him and left.
"...I forgot to take something."
"what?"
"rabbit."
Hearing this, Xu Jun was at a loss as he grabbed the rein of the horse. Didn't the ghost-faced general come back to pick him up?He really didn't want to take him away.
"And you." Seeing Xu Jun bowed his head and said nothing, the people under the ghost's face immediately guessed what he was thinking.
Although he really wanted to leave this person behind and leave like this at first, but he regretted it as soon as he left the city gate.
He has been stationed at the border all year round and rarely returns to Beijing.Xu Jun did not enter the court, and the Xu family protected him very well.If he left Xu Jun this time and left like this, he might never see this person again in his life.
The psychological construction he had done earlier was defeated as soon as he left the city gate.
Intellectually, he knew that his leaving would be a better choice for Xu Jun, but when he thought that it would be difficult for him to see this person again in this life, he panicked inexplicably, and his heart felt even tighter.
Those excuses that Xu Jun had originally thought about getting married and getting married turned into thorns in his heart at that moment, which made him feel heart-piercing.
As soon as the group of people left the city gate, he reined in the horse, turned the horse's head, and drove the horse back at a faster speed than when he came.
Back at the inn, when he was standing at the door, he also advised himself to leave quickly, before Xu Jun noticed him and left.
But his feet seemed to have taken root, and he didn't listen to him at all.
Xu Jun sat on the horseback and hugged the rabbit cage. He was so happy that he obediently let the general lead the horse away.
In Jingshan City, at the entrance of the inn.
Seeing Xu Jun being taken away, Xu Lan and Xu Ming, who had red eyes, looked from a distance for a long time, until the back of the two of them disappeared into the end of their sight, and then they looked away.
"Father, why did you let my younger brother go..." Xu Ming was very confused.
Others don't know what kind of person Xu Jun is, but the father and son know it all too well.What Xu Jun said was always after he thought it over. He said that he would marry that general, it was definitely not a joke.
Xu Ming struggled with this matter for a long time and told Xu Lan. He originally thought that Xu Lan would persuade Xu Jun not to mess around like him, but Xu Lan never said a word from the beginning to the end, and he didn't even stop him. Xu Jun followed back.
"It's not like you don't know his temper. When will we be able to control his decision?" Xu Lan looked at the angry Xu Ming with a wry smile.
These two children of his have really learned everything from him, their temperament has not changed at all, even the poor quality of wine has been imitated.
Xu Lan raised her hand and rubbed Xu Ming's head affectionately, "You have all grown up and have your own path to go. Father only hopes that you can walk the path you want to go and be happy for the rest of your life."
Xu Ming pursed his lips, still unwilling.
When he thought that his lovely brother might be kidnapped like this, he hated it.
If it weren't for the fear that Xu Jun would be angry with him if he found out and would not be nice to him, Xu Ming would have wished to just give that general Laoshizi the Ghost Face some medicine and make him disappear from this world.
"Okay, don't think about it, don't you still have to deal with the matter of King Yi?" Xu Lan patted Xu Ming's shoulder, "Don't hate that ghost-faced general too much, he is not as evil as rumored. "
Xu Ming raised his head with doubts on his face, "Father, do you know that guy?"
If so, it would be very strange.
Although their Xu family has been serving as officials since the emperor ascended the throne, he has never seen his father have anything to do with that ghost-faced general over the years.
And because the ghost-faced general has been guarding the border for more than ten years and rarely returned to the court, if his father had friendship with the ghost-faced general, it should have happened more than ten years ago.
Xu Lan rubbed his head again, smiled softly, but did not speak.
"Actually, he is also a poor child." Xu Lan smiled softly, but there was a faint killing intent deep in his eyes.
If he really dared to abduct his precious son, he would be dead!
In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that Xu Jun would get angry and abandon him this time if he found out, he would have already poisoned that guy's wine and made him disappear from this world!
003
Outside Jingshan City, in a ruined temple.
A group of bandits lay in disorder in the ruined temple and were sleeping soundly, when a loud shout came from outside the door, "It's not good, get up!"
The bandits lying in the room were so frightened that they all sat up from the ground. Seeing the man running into the room with his pants up from the door, everyone stared in a daze, "What's your ghost name early in the morning?"
"It's not good, get up, that guy ran away!" The bandit who went out to pee early in the morning quickly told the story of seeing the group of lieutenants leading horses at the gate of the city.
Hearing that Xu Jun and the others had set off to go back, the bandits, who were still soundly asleep, quickly got up.
"What should we do now?"
"What else can I do? Chase!"
Everyone quickly packed up their things, ran to the city to buy dozens of big steamed buns, and hurriedly chased them out.
After General Ghost Face led the horse and led Xu Jun to join the lieutenants waiting at the gate of the city, everyone immediately surrounded him.
They originally thought that the general would really leave Xu Jun alone, but now that it's all over, Xu Jun is back.
Tao Chi on the side pulled out a horse that had already been prepared, "Can you ride it?"
They went back this time and abandoned the carriage, and all of them rode horses instead, which was faster.They are alright, they have long been used to this kind of life, Xu Jun looks at the delicate skin and tender flesh, which makes people a little worried.
Xu Jun also understood that everyone was in a hurry to go back. He looked at the tall horse in front of him, looked at the horse seriously for a while, and nodded solemnly.
After arriving at the barracks, he also practiced riding horses from time to time, but this was not something that could be learned in a day or two.
Today, he can only say that he rides better than when he was at home.But compared with this group of people who live on horseback all year round, it is far behind.
There was no time to delay, everyone rode their horses and galloped towards the border immediately after getting on their horses.
Leaving Jingshan City and passing through Anqing, at noon on the tenth day when everyone stopped to rest, they learned from passersby on the side of the road that Yi Wang Jinyi was implicated by those who were afraid that he would confess to them when he returned to Beijing. The people in the martial arts were assassinated.
As soon as the news of Yi Wang Jinyi's murder spread in Dayu, everyone sighed.
Hearing this news, General Ghost Face and his party did not discuss it, and were not even surprised.
It was rumored that Jin Yi was killed by martial arts people to silence him, but in fact, everyone knew it in their hearts.Jin Yi was probably not killed by some martial artist, but by the emperor.
Jin Yi's status was inherently embarrassing, if he had been an idle prince all his life, the emperor might not touch him, but he was ambitious, so the emperor would naturally not let him have a chance to make a comeback.
So this time, even if those martial arts people didn't act, and the emperor didn't borrow a knife to kill people, he would still find other reasons to kill people.
After hearing the news, no one talked about it.
If the ghost-faced general was not here, the lieutenants might still say a few words in private, but when the ghost-faced general was here, they would not dare to speak again.
After Xu Jun heard the news, he looked around and looked at the crowd expectantly. Seeing that everyone was silent, he continued to eat dry food in silence.
At first, everyone was a little worried that Xu Jun would say the wrong thing, but Xu Jun saw that everyone was silent, so he didn't bring it up again.As a result, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
But when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Jun looked up at the ghost-faced general next to him.
"Is something wrong?"
"Jin Yi knows what you look like?"
The ghost-faced general didn't speak, which was his default.
"The emperor also knows what you look like." Xu Jun was sour.
Hearing Xu Jun bring up this matter again, General Ghost Face said helplessly, "It's not the same."
"Why is it different?" Xu Jun became more sour.
He lowered his head and touched the little rabbit on his lap. Because he needed to hurry back, the little rabbit was knocked out of spirit, and he felt distressed looking at it.
Seeing Xu Jun like this, the person under the ghostly face lowered his eyes to look at the dry food in his hand, and after a while, a cold and deep voice came, "You are different."
He didn't know how to say some words, and he couldn't say them because of his stupid mouth, but he wanted Xu Jun to know.
Xu Jun, who was feeling lost, suddenly raised his head when he heard the words. He looked at the person who was speaking next to him, his small face slowly turned red, and soon his whole body turned red.
"Why is it different?" Xu Jun asked softly.
Listening to this soft and sweet voice, the lieutenants who were eating dry food and drinking water felt their backs go soft for a while, and at the same time couldn't help shivering.
Shouldn't they be here?
The deputy generals silently lowered their heads and studied the rations in their hands. They thought that General Ghost Face would flicker past like before, but this time General Ghost Face was silent for a moment and said: "I have been wearing a mask since I was a child. Masks are important to me. Like a face."
Everyone was shocked, this was the first time General Ghost Face mentioned his past.
Xu Jun may not feel it, but those of them who have been in the camp for a long time and have been with the Ghost-faced General for at least two or three years are very clear that the Ghost-faced General has basically never mentioned his past in the past ten years.
Whether it is his origin, name, appearance or age, he has never mentioned it to anyone.
People in the army even called him just 'General Ghost Face'. After a long time, it seemed that these four words became his name.
Xu Junan sat quietly by the side, looking at him curiously with his back straight, and listening carefully like a good baby.
"At first, someone forced me to wear it when I was a child. The molten iron welded the edge and locked it, so I couldn't take it off. I gradually got used to it." General Ghost Face touched the mask on his face with his hands. Very bland, as if talking about other people's business.
Xu Jun looked at the person in front of him in surprise. He had forgotten to eat, and he didn't even know that the dry food was being gnawed by the rabbit on his lap.
"Why?" Xu Jun was puzzled, what kind of reason could he treat a child like this, and even welded the edges with molten iron, and he always thought that he voluntarily put on the mask of General Ghost Face.
The people under the ghost face were silent.
"Who is that?" Xu Jun asked again.
"My mother." After a short pause, General Ghost Face said again: "That's some bad things, some things are not as good as you think, it's better that you don't know." He also didn't want Xu Jun to know.
Xu Jun frowned slightly, he didn't understand what happened back then, but he felt distressed inexplicably.
Just thinking about it, it was just a little one that was about to be brought with such things, Xu Jun couldn't help shrinking his neck. Fortunately, his father, mother, and brother were all very kind to him.
If he was asked to wear such an iron mask, he would definitely not be able to bear it.
After listening to this speech, Xu Jun somewhat understood this person's stubbornness.However, what does this have to do with General Ghost Face not showing him but showing others?
"Because you are different from them, I don't want you to know those dirty things." The man under the ghost's face turned his head, and for the first time looked straight at the past, looking straight into Xu Jun's heart .
"Stingy." Xu Jun snatched back his dry food from the little rabbit.He looked down at the little rabbit on his lap, and said in a low voice, "You can't eat this, it will hurt your stomach."
Xu Jun curled his body slightly, enduring the loud "thump, bang, bang" in his chest. He didn't know what was wrong with him, but his heart kept making "thump, bang, bang" just because of those eyes looking at his heart.
Looking at the dry food in his hand that was covered with tooth marks, Xu Junzheng felt distressed, and half a piece of dry food was handed over to him.
The knuckles of the finger holding the dry food were slender and powerful. His master was wearing a mask, and in the other hand was holding a much smaller half of the dry food.
Xu Jun touched his inedible piece of dry food with his fingers, and took half of General Ghost-faced. After thinking about it, he moved his position, moved to the side of General Ghost-faced and sat next to him.
The ghost-faced general ignored the big rabbit next to him who was smiling gleefully, and thought of something else.
"General." Sure enough, the soft voice came again.
"Yeah." The ghost-faced general didn't change his face.
"Let's take a bath together next time!" Xu Jun flattered him.
He still remembered the last time he broke into this man's room and saw him taking a bath. General Ghost Face didn't wear a mask when he took a bath.
Xu Jun finished his flattering words, and the person beside him had already turned his head to cover his mouth and coughed in a muffled voice.
"What's wrong with you?" Xu Jun quickly raised his hand and patted him on the back. Why is this person so careless?Eating in such a hurry, I choked on it now!
Thousands of miles away, in the Dayu Palace.
After everything in Jingshan City was settled as planned, Lin Xu immediately turned back to the palace.
On the day of the return trip, Lin Xu went to the palace to report the situation.
In the palace, in the side hall where the memorials were reviewed, Jin Qi looked at the materials submitted by Lin Xu, and his face turned from sunny to cloudy.
He had already been on guard against Jin Yi, and probably knew that Jin Yi had contacts with Xia Guo, but he never thought that he could do this to such an extent, even at the expense of betraying the country.
"General Ghost Face over the dam recovered part of the accounts, but it was only the records of some foremen who built the dam last time. It is not very clear, and the people in the court who are related to Jinyi are still unable to find out." Lin Xudao.
Jin Yi kept a low profile for several years and secretly planned for several years. Although his brain had already exposed his ambitions, there were still many secret supporters who hid deeply.
After reading the materials sorted out by Lin Xu and Xu Lan, as well as the account book sent by General Ghost Face, when Jin Qi looked up again, his face had the half-smile look on his face again, making it impossible to guess what was going on in his heart. thought.
"In Jinyi's side, all the relevant people have been killed according to the plan." Lin Xu said the killing words without changing his face, and didn't care about the smiling eyes of the person in front of him.
"In addition, General Ghost Face asked the emperor to replenish the army's rations as soon as possible. If Xia Guo really wants to go to war, the army's rations will definitely not be enough."
He has learned from General Ghost Face that there is only more than a month's worth of rations left in the army, and it will definitely be affected if a war starts, so they must make up all the rations and grass within a month, lest they will not be able to fight for a long time. Let the soldiers go hungry.
Hearing Lin Xu mention General Ghost Face, the smile on Jin Qi's face deepened, "What did he say this time?"
He already knew that the man would be angry, but he really couldn't help it.
Under the circumstances at that time, unless he made an unannounced visit in person or that person went for him, Jin Yi would never show his feet easily.
Lin Xu didn't speak, but just handed over another account that he was carrying in his arms.This account is a record of all the rations and salaries used for this disaster relief, and a few other things.
Jin Qi took it and looked at it. After reading the accounts, his face darkened, "Why are there so many?"
The amount on this account far exceeded the amount he had temporarily replaced by Ghost-faced General, and there were two particularly large expenses in the end.
"The front of the account is the money for this disaster relief, and the back is the two months' food and salaries owed by the emperor to the frontier army." Lin Xu still didn't change his face.
"What?" Jin Qi stared, when did he owe the border army two months' pay?
"It seems that the ghost-faced general owes the army accountant a month's food."
The corner of Jin Qi's mouth twitched fiercely, Mr. accountant?Xu Jun?That guy owed Xu Jun food?
Not to mention why that guy owed so much food to Xu Jun, nor why he asked him to pay him back, but how much food does the Guan army have for a month here, does he know?
And this is obviously an extra month!
"That guy asked me to pay him, why? And he owes one month, why should I pay him back for two months?"
Lin Xu waved calmly, let the chief eunuch who was waiting next to him pass, and then handed over another account that had been prepared long ago, "From this month on, the emperor will deduct expenses according to this every month until it is paid off. "
"How dare you!" Jin Qi was furious.
"Or is the emperor going to raise taxes?" Lin Xu took out a small white jade abacus out of nowhere, and after shaking it 'kuang kuang', his white and slender fingers moved quickly on it.
"If the tax is increased, the tax increase in these areas in the next six months can make up for it." After a while, Lin Xu had the result.
Jin Qi gritted his teeth and looked at Lin Xu viciously. After a long while, he uttered two words, "No way." Unreasonable tax increases, it is the common people who suffer.
"Then how does the emperor plan to make up for this part of the food? The treasury provides disaster relief every year, and the emperor is unwilling to increase taxes. The household department has been crying for two years."
Thinking of the group of elders in the household department who wiped tears when they saw him, Jin Qi kept silent with a stinky face.
"This time, if the treasury pays for the food again, if we don't make up for it, it will be difficult for the Ministry of Accounts, or the emperor will kill people to get the food?" Lin Xu thought about the feasibility of replacing the Ministry of Accounts with fresh blood with a calm face.
"Let me shrink my clothes and go on a diet, why?"
"The soldiers are Dayu's soldiers, the emperor's soldiers."
"I mean the debt he owed to coax others to be happy, why should I ask him to pay him back?"
"The emperor is going to ask the general himself."
"Where's Xu Lan?" Jin Qi looked for someone, "Is his youngest son Xu Jun blackmailing him or not?"
"Xu Shangshu's words are still in Jingshan City. He asked for leave for a month, saying that he would stay in Anqing and wait for Xu Jun to send him a gift, and accompany his eldest son by the way." Lin Xu looked indifferently.
"..."
"If the emperor has nothing to do, then the minister will leave." Lin Xu turned and left.
"stop."
"Is there something else to do, Your Majesty?" Lin Xu stopped.
"Give me back the jade abacus I gave you. The abacus I gave you is not for you to plot against me and deduct my daily use." Jin Qi said fiercely.
Lin Xu lowered his head, glanced at the palm-sized jade abacus in his hand, put his hand in his pocket, turned around, and left without looking back.
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