Efforts to kill the enemy is not as good as the full level of tea art

In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.Zhuo Yue and Li Changxing finished hanging the peach charms, set off firecrackers, and set up a banquet in the room.Although he didn't hold much hope, Zhuo Yue still sent a few servants to invite other people.

Sure enough, the boy returned.Fu Wang said that there were official documents to be entered in the evening, so he couldn't come; Xiao Ga also had to be on duty, so he couldn't find time; Zhang Laohei didn't even open the door; only Guan Ximing said to come later.

Zhuo Yue smiled wryly at the table of wine and food.

Li Changxing helped Zhuo Yue serve a bowl of hot soup, and comforted him, "Don't be sad. Now that they're here, the atmosphere is likely to be tense."

Zhuo Yue sighed, and took a sip of his wine depressedly: "I'm not sad, it's just... Damn, I now feel a little bit like a widowed old man. None of the children under my knees are filial, so it's fine to quarrel with each other , I don’t want to get together after Chinese New Year.”

Li Changxing let out a "puchi" laugh, and touched Zhuo Yue's lower abdomen ambiguously: "When did I conceive the child, why don't I know?"

Zhuo Yue's eyes jumped over the wine glass melancholy, and said quietly: "It's not yours, of course you don't know."

Li Changxing paused, then pressed Zhuo Yue hard, buried his head down, and took a bite viciously.

The two frolicked for a while, and Guan Ximing finally rushed over in a snowstorm.

"Oh, I'm freezing to death." He leaned on the brazier with his teeth bared, his cheeks were bright red from the cold, "It's snowing outside, and the north wind blows so hard that the seams of people's bones hurt."

Zhuo Yue poured him a glass of wine: "Drink to warm up your body, and then eat quickly, the food is getting cold."

Guan Ximing was very hungry, so he stuffed a chopstick of marinated meat into his mouth, and said vaguely, "So many dishes? Is there anyone else?"

Zhuo Yue didn't say a word.

Guan Ximing immediately realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, he paused with his chopsticks in the air and said in embarrassment: "Brother Zhuo, I—"

"Eat yours." Zhuo Yue breathed a sigh of relief, "We three big men can't even finish this little food?"

Taking advantage of the atmosphere of the New Year, Zhuo Yue and Guan Ximing drank one cup after another. Li Changxing poured wine for the two of them and served them with a smile. Although there were only three of them, the atmosphere was still very happy.

When it was almost midnight, there was a continuous sound of firecrackers outside, one after another was deafening, and the three people in the room had to raise their voices.And Zhuo Yue and Guan Ximing's faces were already flushed from drinking, and they were a little stupefied.

Guan Ximing was muttering and complaining about Fu Wang at this time: "This time Brother Hei and Brother Wang had an awkward dispute, I am really in a dilemma. Brother Wang is a nice person, but he is a bit stubborn, and his words are harsh, which makes people misunderstand him. I'm too lazy to refute. Hey, sometimes, I feel wronged for him..."

"Misunderstanding?" Zhuo Yue frowned, "What misunderstanding?"

"Hi!" Guan Ximing slapped his thigh with a look of displeasure, "Brother Zhuo, have you ever heard someone say that Brother Wang is in the ordnance shop, selling military rations privately?"

Zhuo Yue was stunned, and the discussion of the clerks behind his back sounded that day.

"Yes." Zhuo Yue frowned, "Could it be—"

Guan Ximing slapped the table vigorously, and scolded: "Fuck the shit! Brother Wang didn't do it at all, it was the one who joined the army!"

Zhuo Yue was stunned for a moment.

Guan Ximing was still complaining endlessly: "That stinky joined the army. As soon as the war ceased, he began to privately sell grain to grain merchants, and then these grain merchants resold it to nearby prefectures. These prefectures in northern Xinjiang have suffered from wars. I hate that these grain merchants use the military grain they bought to drive up the price of civilian grain, forcing everyone to have no way out!"

He smashed his wine glass angrily, with sad eyes: "Brother Wang is a good hand at accounting, and he guessed it from the clues when checking the accounts."

Zhuo Yue's voice was tense: "So the soldier who joined the army knew that Fu Wang had discovered it?"

"Oh, yes." Guan Ximing sighed angrily, "So it's just a cover to talk about Brother Hei. The real reason is that he was afraid of Brother Wang and was afraid that he would speak out, so he quickly transferred him away, another basin of dirty water. It splashed on him. Brother Zhuo, fortunately you are back, if you hadn’t gone to beg General Lou, Brother Wang, I don’t know how much you would have suffered.”

Zhuo Yue sat stiffly, his mind was in a mess.

So it was actually him—who had been wrongly blaming Fu Wang all this time?

He remembered that day when he and Fu Wang were sitting opposite each other in the restaurant, Fu Wang had a sneering expression and angry words, the corners of his thin and tightly pursed mouth were like a knife.At that time, he asked Zhuo Yue almost sarcastically, can you transfer me back to the armory?

Seeing Zhuo Yue's hesitation, he immediately sneered and said, "I don't think so."

So if there are really these secrets... Why didn't Fu Wang tell?

Why do you stubbornly maintain that sarcastic face, as if you don't like everyone, and let others misunderstand you with a look that I don't bother to explain?

Even after Zhuo Yue helped him get back his position in the Ordnance Institute that day, Fu Wang heard that he just responded indifferently, as if he didn't care much.

He pretended to be indifferent, pretending to be invulnerable, and almost even deceived Zhuo Yue.

But if he really didn't care, where did the resentment against Zhuo Yue come from that day?

Zhuo Yue's chest was tightly pressed against a big stone, and it was almost difficult to breathe.Li Changxing patted him on the back reassuringly, and asked Guan Ximing, "Since there are so many secrets, why don't you report them to General Lou?"

Guan Ximing smiled wryly: "Little Brother Li, now you are the prince of the grassland, and Brother Zhuo is also the Martial God of the famous border town, so you naturally think that if you have anything to do, you can just go to General Lou. But we...we are just a few little bastards." Bing, we still have generals, generals, deputy generals, and countless civil servants on our heads, how can we go to General Lou to complain about small things?"

"Besides, the military smuggler who joins the army is not easy to provoke. He is the distant brother-in-law of the former governor of Yingzhou. No matter how domineering our Lou family army is, we are outsiders, and they are not as good as their bosses. Even if we sue General Lou, General Lou may not be able to make the decision for us, and it will cause a mess for nothing."

Guan Ximing's voice gradually lowered at the end, barely audible amidst the sound of firecrackers, and finally turned into a long sigh.

Ironically, it seems that after the truce, he sighed more often.

There were obviously not so many troubles and worries when we were fighting back then.

What a good time it was to seek a feudal lord from thousands of miles away, and a horse Rong Liangzhou.But now I can only sigh and ask Guan Hemeng where is it?Dusty old mink fur.

Although those years of fighting in the cold, rain and wind and frost were difficult, as long as we look back, we will always shine brightly.Because at that time they will always go forward bravely, always high-spirited, young people's fresh clothes and angry horses are like fiery red banners, as if they will never dim.

During those days, as long as they had swords, guns, bows and arrows in their hands, they were not afraid of the enemies in front of them, let alone the villains around them.Because what the country needs are hot-blooded men, no one can use rumors and tricks to bring down these steel bodies.

However, the days of these "horse horses in Liangzhou" have finally passed, and those young soldiers who returned with songs returned to their busy lives again.Illness, poverty, jealousy, and fame wrapped them up again, and those boiling blood gradually cooled, and they still broke their hearts with a few taels of worry about silver.

Guan Ximing stared blankly at the white eyes steaming from the brazier, his eyes gradually blurred.The firecrackers outside the window boiled the night, like a battlefield full of artillery fire, which made him almost dream back to those turbulent years.

During that time, there was nothing to worry about except life and death.

Suddenly his arms tightened, Guan Ximing raised his head in a daze, but saw Zhuo Yue looking at him with heavy eyes.

He looked up at those bright and firm black pupils since he was a child.Look at it when you are afraid, look at it when you are anxious, look at it when you are happy, and love to look at it when you are proud.Guan Ximing has seen countless emotions in those pupils, some flying wantonly, some bloodthirsty and fearless, and more comforting and encouraging.

But this is just a mention, Guan Ximing saw unprecedented anger and sadness in Zhuo Yue's eyes.

Yes.The seemingly fearless elder brother who had made him follow for more than ten years was just an ordinary person.

"Xiaoguan..." Zhuo Yue's black eyes were smoldering, and he said with difficulty, "It's me... I'm sorry brothers."

As a reborn person, he clearly knew the direction of fate, but he still didn't let them live the best life.

Guan Ximing's heart felt sour, and he forced a smile and said, "Brother Zhuo, don't be like this, how can I blame you for this? I just said it casually, and it's not for complaining."

He hurriedly helped Zhuo Yueman serve the wine again: "Drink and drink, let's not talk about it."

But Zhuo Yue pressed Guan Ximing's hand pouring the wine: "No, tell me, I want to know. Apart from this, what else do you know? What else is in your heart?"

Zhang Laohei is, Fu Wang is, and even Guan Ximing is.Why would you rather keep it in your heart than tell him when something happened?Is it outside?Still proud?

Was Zhuo Yue so unreliable in their hearts?

Zhuo Yue held Guan Ximing's hand and stared at his stiff expression: "Xiao Guan, no matter what you find or what you are in trouble with, you can tell me. I can only help you when I know. It's good for us."

What Zhuo Yue was thinking about was Guan Ximing's secret visit to Zhang Laohei.

Li Changxing on the side seemed to understand the meaning of Zhuo Yue's words, and also fixedly stared at Guan Ximing.

In the eyes of the two, Guan Ximing was sitting in a daze, his face turned pale.He seemed to be hesitating, and after a long while, he finally spoke with difficulty: "Brother Zhuo, will the ownership of all the supplies in the army, such as firecrackers, be recorded?"

Zhuo Yue frowned: "...it's natural."

"What about the letter bird?"

"The letter bird?" Zhuo Yue thought for a while, "Of course there are."

This kind of small thing for communication is very useful, and it is expensive to make. Whoever gave it to it and who is using it must be clearly recorded in the account.For example, when he left Yulin Pass before, Lou Changfeng ordered someone to register and then fetched the letter bird, and now he returned it intact after he came back.

Why did Guan Ximing ask Xinniao?

Guan Ximing clenched his fists and stammered almost helplessly: "Then, that day, Brother Zhuo, after you told me to strictly prevent the blunderbuss from being stolen, I went through the details of all the ordnance registrations by the way. There are no other problems, only trust One bird is missing."

"Yes... Brother Hei borrowed it. And it was after the truce."

Zhuo Yue's heart suddenly tightened.

Messenger bird is a special communication tool in wartime. It can fly according to the direction of the magnet without error. It is also smaller than carrier pigeon and can avoid people's eyes and ears.However, now that the truce has been reached, ordinary communication can be carried out through messengers. If it is impossible, carrier pigeons can also be used. Why use messenger birds?

Seeing that Zhuo Yue's face was tense and silent, Guan Ximing hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I, I just guessed, maybe Brother Hei just thought it was fun? So I borrowed one to play with? There is no specific use? So I have never Say, this trivial matter..."

But this rhetoric, even he himself could not convince.

Zhuo Yue asked in a tense voice: "You found out that Lao Hei borrowed the letter bird, and then what?"

Based on this alone, it is indeed difficult to determine Zhang Laohei's purpose of borrowing the letter bird.He felt that Guan Ximing should have done his own investigation.

Sure enough, Guan Ximing blinked his eyes, and finally said dejectedly: "The letter bird also has a magnet embedded in its body, so it can fly in the direction of the magnet. I borrowed a compass and guarded the city every day. I finally got it a few days ago." That letter bird. Look at the direction of the compass...it is flying to the grassland."

I see.All kinds of evidence have shown that Zhang Laohei has been secretly contacting the grassland.

But what he used was a military letter bird, and I don't know if he didn't understand the structure of the letter bird, or he just didn't care about it.

Zhuo Yue clenched his fists and shouted in a low voice: "Xiaoguan, you are just messing around! You took so long to tell me!"

If he hadn't asked today □□□, how long would Guan Ximing have to help Zhang Laohei hide it?

Guan Ximing grabbed Zhuo Yue with his backhand, and begged: "Brother Zhuo, don't worry, there are still many unclear points about this matter. Brother Hei has shared weal and woe with us for so long, he is really not that kind of person, say There may be some difficulties, so don't blame him."

Li Changxing on the side stopped Guan Ximing calmly, and said with a soft smile: "Brother Hei naturally has difficulties. Don't forget, brother Guan, his wife and children are seriously ill, and the grassland has the most serious illness." Good witch doctor."

Guan Ximing was stunned: "But, but—"

Zhuo Yue said in a low voice: "Of course I won't wrong him! But if you keep it from me, if any serious consequences happen, can you afford it yourself? Can you bear the torment in your heart?"

Didn't Guan Ximing in the previous life just discovered something, but didn't know whether to say it, hesitated until the last moment, and couldn't help but say it.But it was too late, and he took his own life.

Zhuo Yue will never let Guan Ximing go through that kind of suffering again!

Guan Ximing's eyes were reddish, looking at Zhuo Yue who was about to say something, but suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, Xiao Ga pushed the door open and stepped in.

His face was pale from the cold, but his eyes were extremely clear.His gaze passed over the three people with different faces, and then landed on Li Changxing's face. He said in a deep voice, "A dozen or so unidentified prairie people have entered the city together."

The author has something to say: Poor Guan Guan, I have broken my heart for my brothers, rua you are out of your mind~

There is an important exam tomorrow, God bless me to pass it, rub your hands, rub your hands, please take a day off.

"In those days, I was looking for the Marquis thousands of miles away, and a horse was in Rongliang Prefecture...Where did the dream of Guanhe end? The dust is dark and the old sable fur." ​​Lu You