The runaway general of the black-bellied book

There is a lot of traffic on the street, and pedestrians come and go, just like before.The flames of war in Shuobei did not seem to have affected the lives of the people in Zhuojing at all, and the streets and alleys were still peaceful and lively.

Fang Yimin moved out of the Fang Mansion when he became an adult, and bought another house elsewhere by himself, which is very close to Li Yuze's house.Li Yuze thought it was troublesome to park carriages and sedan chairs, so the distance was not too far, so he planned to walk with Jinbao.

I haven't come back for two years, whether it's long or not, or whether it's short or not.Li Yuze looked at the street scene, his eyes couldn't bear to look away, he looked at every scene and every thing carefully, as if he wanted to keep all these things in his heart.

"It's true that a lot has changed..."

I can't tell exactly what has changed, but Li Yuze feels that the streets have indeed become more orderly.The road is also clean, without any starvation, begging, or even a little bit of dirt.

These things should be neat and orderly, but Li Yuze felt an indescribable sense of disobedience.But where exactly, he couldn't explain why, so he just hid his discomfort in his heart.

As he said this, Jin Bao followed him not far behind and heard it, so he smiled and said: "Second young master doesn't know, Mr. Zhao has written a letter since last year saying that we will change the appearance of our capital city. After His Majesty agreed, he was very excited and worked hard for it."

It seems that a lot of effort has been put into it... Li Yuze pondered, did the money that could not be transferred to Xuan Tieqi come from these places? !

He and Jinbao walked along the street, Jinbao was still holding the gift he gave Fang Yimin in his hand, walking carefully everywhere.After walking a few steps, Li Yuze was stopped by a girl with a smile: "My lord, do you want to take a look at the excellent rouge powder?"

Li Yuze felt strange, and smiled helplessly: "I'm a man, why would you recommend these to me?"

The young girl was stumped, but she wasn't timid. She looked at Li Yuze with big eyes, and still argued: "Although you don't need it, you can give it to your sweetheart. This rouge powder is just right. What woman doesn't love beauty? Girl Look for someone who pleases you! If you don’t have a sweetheart, my rouge powder is also a good material, and it’s also very good for the old lady at home to dress up."

Seeing that she was a young girl, she didn't expect her to speak impeccably.Li Yuze took a little interest in this girl, but it wasn't love between a man and a woman.It's just that it's interesting to see how she speaks and acts like an adult at such a young age.

He reached out to pick up a box on the stall, unscrewed the lid, and a tangy aroma hit Li Yuze, making Li Yuze's nose itch again.

Sure enough, if you can't heal the scar, you will forget the pain.I'm used to the smell at home, I almost thought that everything outside smells so good...

Li Yuze rested his mind and put down the brocade box in his hand resentfully.Seeing that it was not easy for her to manage such a large stall by herself, she couldn't bear it after all, and asked Jinbao to take a few boxes to pay the bill.

Jin Bao took out his purse from his pocket to pay, and asked, "How much are these boxes?"

She replied: "The big box is fifteen Wen, and the small box is ten Wen, a total of sixty Wen."

Jinbao thought to himself, this price should be the lowest on this street.For things like rouge and gouache, they either have small profits but quick turnover, or they are branded as a famous shop. In short, they still have to grow to make money.With a scale like the little girl in front of me, if you sell it at this price, I'm afraid you won't make much money in a day.

He counted the copper coins and handed them over, and asked casually: "Your tone sounds like a girl from Zhuojing, doesn't she?"

"My mother and I came from Yaozhou. There was a flood over there, and many people died." The girl reached out to take the copper coin, held it in her hand, carefully counted it, and then put it in her side pocket.The pocket was obviously not made of good material, and even under sunlight, one could faintly see what was inside.And it has been patched a lot, so it looks tattered.

Jin Bao was a little stunned: "Didn't it mean that the people sent by the imperial court were very effective in controlling the water there? How could so many people die?"

The girl wrinkled her nose, and her face was full of disdain: "The adult who was sent last is good, what were those before!"

She spoke in a loud voice, Jin Bao hurriedly stopped her: "Girl, this is Zhuojing, so don't speak unscrupulously!"

When the girl heard this, her expression became tense.Seeing this, Li Yuze comforted him, "Don't be afraid, not many people paid attention to this place just now. Have you had breakfast? If you haven't eaten yet, let's go to the breakfast stand across the street? We treat you to eat."

He added in a low voice: "I am also an official... You tell me what they are doing wrong, and I will be able to say a few words for you when I am in front of the emperor later."

Li Yuze wanted to get some words from this girl, but the other party looked at them cautiously, seeing that Li Yuze was handsome and kind-hearted, unlike those officials who used to show off their power in Yaozhou, their resistance to him was a little less.

She still hesitated: "Then my stall..."

"It's simple, Jinbao is watching." Li Yuze patted him on the back and ordered, "Jinbao, you are here to help the girl guard, remember to greet the guests well."

Jinbao took the order and obediently watched the stall where he was.Li Yuze took the girl to sit at the breakfast stall across the street, and ordered some porridge and noodles.

The girl was obviously starved, she devoured her breakfast, and even finished the noodle soup.She drank the last sip of soup, put down the bowl contentedly, and saw Li Yuze across the way, and remembered that she left the benefactor who invited her to breakfast here and neglected her for a long time, and she couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

Li Yuze obviously didn't realize her twists and turns of a young girl's mind, he only felt that people had finally finished eating, and he could finally start asking questions.

He went straight to the point and said: "You said just now that none of the officials sent to Yaozhou to control the water were good officials?"

"Yeah!" the girl said angrily, "They couldn't think of a good way at all, and they just stayed in places where the disaster was not serious every day. My mother and I lived in the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River, and our house was washed away. Dad can't be found either...but they haven't been here once!"

When she said this, her mood suddenly became low: "Yaozhou is full of victims of disasters and homeless people. They went to the magistrate's house to beg for food, but they were all severely beaten and had to give them shelter. A crime of disturbing order and delaying water control... According to me, those adults from the capital who drink and have fun with the magistrates every day are really delaying water control!"

Li Yuze nodded, and asked again: "The one who was sent last..."

"Oh, the person who was sent last seems to be named Fang, Mr. Fang. Mr. Fang is fine. I knew he was a good official the first time I saw him."

The girl's words were firm, Li Yuze was curious, and couldn't help asking: "How do you say that?"

The other party began to say that Fang Yimin was good: "My lord came to see me and my mother's place on the first day in Yaozhou, and there are several other places. I heard from them that he refused to rest all day What! Later, I saw him a few times from a distance, and his clothes and trousers were often wet. It seemed that he was watching the scene, which was different from those who drank all day long..."

Li Yuze continued: "He is naturally different from those people."

The girl nodded, and said again: "However, the floods in Yaozhou are too serious. I think you can barely control the scene without sleep. When my mother and I went to Beijing, that is, about fifteen days ago, you were still busy. , it's really hard..."

Li Yuze was a little taken aback.Logically speaking, if the situation is really as serious as she said, then fifteen days is not enough for Fang Yimin to solve the problem.But the other party returned to Beijing just like that?

If Zilan could make his own decisions, he would definitely not go back to Beijing without handling the matter... Should it be His Majesty's order?But why did His Majesty let him come back early? ...It seems that the mess in Yaozhou is far more complicated than he thought.

Li Yuze was thinking ecstatically, but was suddenly disturbed by a voice next to him.

"Hey, isn't this the little lady who sells rouge on the street! What's the matter? I just rejected me a few days ago, and now I'm looking for another one?"

Li Yuze looked up and saw that the visitor was tall and tall with thick black eyebrows.It can be seen that he tried very hard to show a casual and coquettish taste, but because of the overly thick eyebrows, he added a sense of joy.

Seeing that it was this dude again, the girl was upset, she quickly put away the bowls and chopsticks, and wanted to say goodbye to Li Yuze.There is no way, with such a disparity in status, she has no other way but to act as the best policy, and most of the time she can't even escape.

When people came to see Li Yuze sitting there without moving, they knew their relationship in their hearts, and couldn't help being even more proud: "If you want me to tell you, little lady, you should stop wasting so much effort on such a pretty face. What's the use of having a good body? The master can give you more real money, real gold and silver, understand?! If you have the time, please smile at me, master, I will take you into my house today, and have a good time at night I hurt you!"

He reached out to the booth, trying to pull the girl who was packing up, but was waved away by Li Yuze who came over.

Zhao Xianrong didn't pay attention, and was pushed away by him. He got angry and pushed Jinbao who was standing in the booth, saying: "Midget your own business, you are sick!"

In order to take care of Li Yuze's gift to Fang Yimin, Jin Bao put it right beside him.Pushed by Zhao Xianrong at this moment, Jin Bao's small body couldn't stand up at all, and fell towards the gift.

With a snap, the gift shattered!

The top-quality white jade porcelain vase is cool in the hand and has a clear texture. It is a good thing that only Shuobei can have.At this moment, it was completely shattered, leaving only small porcelain pieces shining in the sun.

Cold sweat broke out on Jin Bao's forehead, and he quickly knelt down to plead guilty, muttering: "Second Young Master, spare your life, Second Young Master, forgive your sin..."

Li Yuze didn't know how to react.

The first is to be anxious, I promised Zilan when we parted yesterday, and I will definitely come to his house early this morning.It must be too late to make such a fuss now, and he broke the gift he gave to others. This is really... General Li, who kills people without blinking an eye, is rarely at a loss at this moment.It would be fine if Fang Yimin was willing to lose his temper with him, but Zilan has always had a style that doesn't matter what he is, and that would make it difficult for him.

The second is anger—the perpetrator was still standing still, and even looked at him provocatively, while Jin Bao was implicated innocently, but he wanted to kneel on the ground and beg him for forgiveness.

Li Yuze had never been a master who took his anger out on his slaves.The so-called injustice has its head and its debtors, whoever drops his bottle today will be thrown by him too.

As the saying goes, tit for tat.

Li Yuze spoke, his tone was calm before the storm: "Jinbao, it's none of your business, you should get up first."

"Second young master..." Jin Bao tugged on Li Yuze's clothes in a bit of embarrassment, and reminded him in a low voice, "This is the second young master of Mr. Zhao's family, Zhao Xianrong."

What he meant was to let Li Yuze punish him directly, one thing more is worse than one thing less.After all, the Zhao family had always been at loggerheads with their family, and Li Yuze had just returned to court. Now that he provoked Zhao Xianrong, he would definitely be more conspicuous in the court and the opposition.

But how could Li Yuze be the one willing to suffer the immediate loss?

He stared at Zhao Xianrong's hateful smile, then glanced at the broken porcelain vase, and said angrily, "He's the second son? I'm not?"

Haha, who is not the second child? !Who doesn't have a father and a big brother to cover him?I'm really afraid that you won't succeed?

He grabbed Zhao Xianrong's collar and lifted him up directly.Li Yuze has been immersed in the battlefield with real swords and guns all year round, and he is much more powerful than Zhao Xianrong's ostentation.What's more frightening is the killing aura on his body, although it is invisible, it makes people feel cold when you get close to it - it is the temperament that can only be possessed after killing people on the battlefield and seeing life and death.

Zhao Xianrong was so frightened that he almost wet his pants: "You...don't come here! Do you know who my father is? Who is my elder brother? Let me tell you... Well, there is no one in Zhuojing City. People dare to provoke me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuze had already punched him on the left side of the cheek: "Your father is Zhao Xiangming."

"You know you still—!"

"Your brother is Zhao Chengbi." Li Yuze punched him on the right side of the cheek again, Zhao Xianrong couldn't bear it, stepped back several steps, and sat down on the ground.He was pampered and pampered since he was a child, and even his parents rarely beat and scolded him, let alone being hammered on the ground by a stranger like this.

Moreover, Li Yuze was born with great strength, while Zhao Xianrong was very delicate and fleshy, and would turn into bruises after a dozen blows.

The servants next to him were already stupefied, Jin Bao did, and the group behind Zhao Xianrong was even more so.Zhao Xianrong was in severe pain. Li Yuze pressed him to the ground and beat him up. No one helped him. He felt wronged and couldn't help but sat on the ground and burst into tears.

If his attitude was a little more arrogant, Li Yuze might beat him up again, who would have thought that this coward would start wiping tears immediately.

Li Yuze said disgustedly: "Fortunately, I quite admire your brother, tsk tsk, both were born by the same father, how did you become such a thing?!"

A few years ago, Zhao Chengbi led the Linglan Riders to fight against bandits in Quezhou, and he had a good record. He was directly promoted from a third-rank military officer to the leader of the Linglan Riders.If it wasn't for the fact that he was unable to continue fighting due to his injuries and could only return to Zhuojing to be a military officer, Li Yuze's aura of "Youth Genius Commander" might not be able to wear it until a few years later.

Part of the reason why Li Yuze joined the army was because he was encouraged by the sons of officials like Zhao Chengbi to join the army.

They originally had a better background, and enjoyed benefits and resources that ordinary people could not enjoy from the very beginning.Li Yuze felt that he should contribute his own strength to the country when he was capable.

Zhao Xianrong was still sitting on the ground wiping tears.He had a thick voice himself, and crying so pitifully, he sounded like a whimpering bear.

Li Yuze was also a little guilty, after all, if he really broke him, it's okay?He squatted down and patted Zhao Xianrong's shoulder: "Hello?"

Xiong was still crying, crying so badly that he refused to give him a single look.Li Yuze clicked his tongue and said hesitantly, "I probably didn't break you..."

"Where's there!" This sentence stung a hornet's nest, Zhao Xianrong showed his swollen cheek to Li Yuze, "My face! It hurts like hell!"

"Who knew that your face looks so fleshy, but it turned out to be so irresistible..." Li Yuze muttered in a low voice, and when Zhao Xianrong heard it, the latter became even more angry: "What did you say?!"

There was also a small wound on his lip, with blood oozing out slightly, fortunately Zhao Xianrong didn't see the blood that flowed out, otherwise he didn't know what to do.

But just these two punches were enough to make him curse.Zhao Xianrong stood up abruptly, pointed at Li Yuze, trembling with anger, and finally went back to the residence without saying a word.

In fact, for simple-minded people like them, forbearance is more terrifying than venting, and it means more vicious revenge.

Jin Bao was worried that he would cause trouble for the young master, so he stood still and did not dare to make a sound.After struggling for a while, he called Li Yuze in a low voice: "Second Young Master, let's go today..."

"Go, why not? Zilan is still waiting for me! As for this Zhao Xianrong... Forget it, let him go."

Li Yuze knew that with Zhao Xianrong's character, today's matter must not be good.But he has nothing to do with it?We can only take one step at a time.

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Finally reaching the corner of Fang Yimin's house, Li Yuze raised his eyes and saw him standing at the gate of the house from a distance, looking around constantly, with an anxious expression on his face, as if he was waiting for someone.

It was cold spring, and he was wearing a white robe of snow fox.The robe was loose in style, covering Fang Yimin's whole body tightly.

Li Yuze frowned inwardly. He didn't know how much he had lost during the water treatment in Yaozhou. His face, which was not very big, was now even smaller, and could be directly buried in the same-colored fox fur scarf around his neck.

"Zi Lan!" He shouted from afar.

Fang Yimin looked this way, saw him coming, and quickly ran down the steps. "Congyi...your hand!"

When Zhao Xianrong was being cleaned up, Li Yuze's knuckles accidentally rubbed against his lips, who knew that his lips were broken, and even his hands were stained with blood.

He thought of the disaster he just caused, and felt that this kind of dandy should be dealt with properly.Under the entanglement between the two, he had no choice but to tell Zilan honestly: "Don't worry, it's not my blood, but Zhao Xiangming's second son Zhao Xianrong's... This matter is a bit complicated, I will explain it to you later." .”

As soon as Li Yuze said that it wasn't his blood, Fang Yimin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.As for whose blood belonged to him, he didn't really care - as long as Li Yuze was fine.

It wasn't really warm outside in the morning, Li Yuze took Fang Yimin's hand, trying to pull him in, but when he touched it, he found that the temperature of his palm was bitingly cold.

He realized that there was no delay, so he hurriedly led Fang Yimin to the door, while telling him: "Next time you will wait for me at the mansion, do you know? When I arrive, I will let the servants notify you. It is cold these days, if you see the wind If you catch a cold, you will definitely have a fever at night. Your body is weak, when will this disease recover..."

He seldom babbled like that.Li Yuze's personality has always been carefree, and he doesn't care much about these trivial matters.At this moment, the carefulness that was wiped out in the army returned to him, and it was all used on Fang Yimin.

"Congyi..." Fang Yimin suddenly stopped him, his tone extremely serious.Li Yuze was frightened by the seriousness of his words, so he couldn't help but also stopped in place.

His friend who was half a head shorter than him just looked up at him, with round eye ends and rolling eyes, Li Yuze couldn't help but miss a beat in his heart.

He asked, "What's wrong?"

Fang Yimin stared at him, with an unclear tone: "Don't let yourself get hurt again, okay?"

What he didn't dare to tell Li Yuze was that the scarlet on the other's finger was exactly the same color as the one in his countless nightmares.He was terrified day and night, afraid that Li Yuze would never come back in the distant Shuobei... Now that he was in good condition, Fang Yimin thought to himself, no matter what, he couldn't be hurt again.

Li Yuze muttered, could it be that hitting my fist with his face...is it considered my injury?

But at this moment, he subconsciously felt that he couldn't refute Zilan's words, otherwise he might end up worse than Zhao Xianrong, so he quickly nodded and seriously promised: "I know, it will never happen next time."