Broken Iron Clothes

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At night, the streets and alleys are deserted, and the birds stepped on the treetops to look at the moon, but were suddenly terrified by several shrill screams, and flapped their wings away.

Amidst the chaos, Zhang Ling stepped on the back wall of the Song Mansion, saw Lu Xiu standing outside the wall at a glance, and jumped right at the place where he was standing.

Lu Xiu also moved quickly, turned around to pick up the person, and then pulled his wrist to go elsewhere, but happened to meet Lu Tianrui who brought the forbidden army.Seeing this, he pulled back Zhang Ling who was walking forward, turned around and jumped onto the high wall, jumped to another path, and stopped after he reached the water bank of Xixia Street.

Zhang Ling dissatisfied: "Damn it, you have to run so fast, I'm afraid he will do something, so what about the general of the Dudu Mansion, if you want to kill it, it's still a matter of beheading."

Lu Xiu took Zhang Ling's hand involuntarily, brushed the river water to clean the blood stains on him, and even wiped the crevices of his fingers.

"Listen well, don't worry about the affairs of the Dudu Mansion from now on, and don't hurt the people inside."

"for……"

"Don't ask." Lu Xiu spread his palms to signal Zhang Ling to extend his other hand, and Zhang Ling obeyed obediently.

"I'm too lazy to ask." Zhang Ling rubbed his washed hand on his shirt before taking out a piece of silver from his pocket. Is it for your redemption?"

Lu Xiu glanced at it and refused, "I don't need to redeem myself."

"Is it because the two of you ran away together nine years ago, or because he gave you an idea to make you fall in love with Xu Bing and become a dead warrior?"

Lu Xiu said: "At that time, I was down and out, and I could find a way to survive if I became a dead man. Without him, I wouldn't be able to live now."

Zhang Ling sneered: "When you first came in, you didn't have much boxing and kicking skills. Why didn't you think of my help when you were bullied in the training ground."

The blood stained between the fingers was not easy to clean up. Lu Xiu dipped his head in water and wiped it for him, saying, "You shot because you thought they disturbed your cleanliness, not to help me."

"I don't care, it's considered a help anyway, and you have recognized the kindness yourself, otherwise why would you keep running behind my ass with a cold face all day long?"

Lu Xiu looked up at him: "Admit it, are you satisfied?"

But Zhang Ling said, "Give me back the money."

"What do you want to do?"

"I can buy you from the surname Xu. You like to work for others so much, so you will be my dead soldier in the future."

"Don't make trouble."

Zhang Ling shook his hand unhappily, and all the water splashed on Lu Xiu's face: "Who is making trouble with you? You died for me, didn't you die? If you have to go around a person surnamed Xu, I don't believe you do it for him My master Xu Bing is dead, I am a fucking free agent, and I am not willing to put my life here with you, if you want to die for him, you can do it, and leave a fart for others Think! I, Zhang Ling, have been stubborn and heartless since I was a child. It’s nothing for you to squeeze into me well. If you want to work for him for the rest of your life, why don’t you be so nice to me!”

He slammed the ingot of silver to the ground, got up and turned to leave, but his arm was pulled back.He didn't look back and knew that the person pulling him was Lu Xiu, because it was always like this in the past, he would leave when he was upset, and only Lu Xiu would tolerate his petty temper.

"Think I'm making trouble again?" Zhang Ling said.

Lu Xiu sighed: "Brother, I'll go with you, and I'll leave after finishing the matter at hand."

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The next day, the news that Song Bing was cut off his tendons and tendons quickly spread throughout the city, and there were always some rumors in the next few nights. Fortunately, there were helpers in the dark, so there were no more accidents.

For several days in a row, the warnings of Cen Yu and Jiang Shiqing echoed in his ears one after another. Song Bing also knew that at this time he had become Yan Youqian's abandoned son, and he was also an abandoned son who threatened Yan Youqian. He was chased and killed, but he was different from Cen Yu who could put his life on the line. He had Song Yun beside him, but if he broke his tendons and tendons, he would be like a useless person. How could Song Yun be safe and sound.

He thought of Jiang Shiqing, the only value he has now is a statement about the former crown prince's fall into the river, and the person who needs this statement most should be Jiang Shiqing, who is hostile to the Yan family.

Afterwards, Song Bing and Song Yun talked in the room in the middle of the night, and the next day Song Yun asked Wen Kaisen's help to go to Jiang's house secretly.

A few days had passed by the time the news of the northern border reached Jacheng. At this time, there was a curfew, and the night was sweltering hot. The Huimei Courtyard was transformed into a thick green, and occasionally a few strands of warm wind made the leaves tremble and rustle. The sound is accompanied by the sound of insects.

Jiang Shiqing held the door knocker and knocked a few times, then he heard footsteps approaching inside. When the door bolt was removed, the door opened a thin crack, and the person inside gradually revealed his body.

"Huaichuan is here." There was a sound of hope in the words, as if they were getting close but flinched.

Jiang Shiqing looked at him, bowed and said, "Master Jiang."

Jiang Yu's smile faltered, and he felt that the threshold between the two of them had become an insurmountable past and present. As he said on the day he left, Jiang Shiqing had already lived like himself, but he But stuck in the word "Sir", they couldn't be relieved during the nine years they spent together day and night.

Just like when the news of Xu Bing's death came, he sat in the Huimei courtyard and drank alone. Every time he drank a cup, he never felt relieved.

The wine that Xu Bing gave him was not poisonous.That day Xu Bing sat in the room and pondered for a long time, at the moment when he guessed Xu Yixu's betrayal, he had already decided who would die in the end.

It was only when Xu Bing left that Jiang Yu still thought that the wine was poisonous, and sat alone in the house until midnight and nothing happened, so she understood what Xu Bing said that day "too late".

Xu Bing is regretting, if he had no connection with Sand Snake, if he hadn't conspired with Feng Shi in the battle of Wei Ning nine years ago, if he hadn't resented Cheng Yuanjun, if he could have met Jiang Yu earlier, he would be persuaded The sentence "turning back is the shore", maybe he really turned back.

But it was too late.

Later, He Xiao found Jiang Yu in Aozhou, and after bringing him to Huimei Courtyard, Yuan Mucheng brought Jiang Shiqing to meet him.

But Jiang Shiqing never called him "Sir" again.

From parting to today.

Jiang Yu knew that there must still be some misunderstanding between him and Jiang Shiqing, and he always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to him, but he didn't know how to open the mouth, so he had to take him into the house first.

Gao Li and Wen Yao were sitting in the room, and after Jiang Yu closed the door, Wen Yao said first, "Huai Chuan, you invited us here today, but for tomorrow's business?"

Jiang Shiqing bowed his body and saluted: "My lords, Huai Chuan dared to invite you here today to ask for a favor for Miss Song Yun and for myself."

Wen Yao supported his arm and said, "Get up and talk."

Only then did Jiang Shiqing sit upright and said: "When tomorrow's affairs are completed, Song Yun's life may be difficult in the future, and please adults at least protect her life. This request is not only made by Song Bing when he agreed to cooperate. The condition is also the favor I owe Miss Song Yun."

Gao Li replied: "No matter what Song Bing has done, Miss Song Yun is innocent in the end, and the disaster is not as bad as others. If you can protect it, you must try your best to protect it."

Jiang Shiqing kowtowed in thanks.

"It's just that Huaichuan has one more request."

Wen Yao guessed a little: "Is it because of the Princess Jingping's Mansion?"

Jiang Shiqing nodded, and said: "There is an urgent shortage of food and grass in the northern border. Xu Yixu, the minister of the household department, threatened to transport the grain. Now Yan's power in the household department can be used by him. If there is a mistake in the food and grass, the Yuzhou camp will immediately It will be in danger, and even the whole northern border will be in danger, Xiao'an is concerned about the Yuzhou camp, and now that the princess has had an accident, I have to worry about the northern border and Xiao'an."

Yuan Muqing is Wen Yao's niece, and she always has some similarities with Wen Yu. When he heard the bad news, Wen Yao immediately threw his glass to express his grief and indignation. Now that he mentioned this matter again, he couldn't calm down: "What happened to Mu Qing The supply of grain and grass in the Yuzhou camp will definitely attract attention. It will take less than two days to transport grain by water. As for Xu Yixu, after tomorrow, I will immediately ask the Overwatch Council to send more people to supervise the grain and grass transportation. No more mistakes will be allowed.”

Gao Li also continued: "No matter how bad it is, as the servant of the household department, I can still go there to take over the grain and grass in person."

Seeing that Jiang Shiqing's frown was still unfurled, Jiang Yu guessed that he still had nothing to say, so he said: "General Lu has asked His Majesty for leave, and he will leave for Yuzhou in two days, Huaichuan, Do you also want to go to the Western Territory?"

"Yes." Jiang Shiqing said.

He wanted to see Yuan Mucheng, before the nightmare of the Western Territory swallowed him up, before he had time to promise.

Such urgency made him sleepless at night, and he could remember that Yuan Mucheng was in the western region when he touched the empty pillow by his side, but his parents and brothers all died there. In the grief of losing her elder sister.

"Go if you want." Wen Yao said.

Jiang Shiqing was moved, and he heard Gao Li say: "Could it be that you are the king's ministers on the shore of the land? Since we are the ministers of Dali, we must stick to this place and devote all our sincerity and blood. Even if we are old, we can only do our best. Although you don't have an official position, you have given your heart to the minister, so you don't need to worry about what you want to do."

Jiang Yu nodded, raised his hand to lightly cover Jiang Shiqing's head, and said, "Go Huaichuan, you've done enough. Next, leave the matter here to the sir and the adults."

Jiang Shiqing's eyes turned red, he slammed on the ground, and lay still for a long time.

-

When Jiang Shiqing returned to the Jiang residence, Yi Qinchen had already been waiting in the courtyard for a long time.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Jiang Shiqing stepped forward and asked.

Yi Qinchen turned to face him and said, "I heard from Xu Guo that you are leaving tomorrow?"

"He speaks fast enough," Jiang Shiqing said with a smile, "but thanks to your help these days, the safety of Jiang Taishi and Song Bing and Songyun's father and daughter will need to trouble you a lot."

"It's too polite," Yi Qinchen said, "Lin Song said he would keep it to join the secret guard, so he won't leave with you, and I'll be in a hurry tomorrow, so I won't send it away, so it can be regarded as a farewell."

Saying that, Yi Qinchen smiled and saluted him.

"Is there anything I can help bring?" Jiang Shiqing said.

Knowing that he was referring to Gu Nanxing, Yi Qinchen just shook his head lightly.

"No, just let him be safe," Yi Qinchen said, "You too."

Jiang Shiqing smiled lightly, and said in return: "Take care."

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In the morning, the sun was rising and the heat was rising intermittently from the ground. Before Liu Zhaoyu arrived, there were constant conversations in the Hall of Yingchen. All the ministers only heard that today was going to be the appointment of the Taiwei, but no one heard any leaks, but Liu Zhaoyu His thoughts are the most difficult to figure out, which has caused constant speculation in the palace.

Until the familiar face followed Liu Zhaoyu into the palace, all the ministers bowed their heads and kept silent, but all of them felt like thunder, and their eyes trembled in shock.

The Taiwei chosen by Liu Zhaoyu was Jiang Yu.

A "dead man" who died 11 years ago and even set up a tomb in Jaecheng.

Yan Youqian stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at the face he had not seen for 11 years. His throat kept sliding. What he saw was a corpse that should have been buried at the bottom of the river. momentum.

Jiang Taiwei.

Hearing this title from Liu Zhaoyu's mouth, he suddenly felt Feng Ruoping's resentment when he was let down by Liu Zhaobi.

This is a kind of betrayal, Liu Zhaoyu's betrayal.

Yan Youqian lowered his eyes and thought, hatred was overturned in his heart, and his hair sank.

At the same time, this kind of repression also circulated in Xu Yixu's heart for a long time, until after retreating from the court, Xu Yixu was walking on the corridor with a calm expression, but happened to bump into Jiang Yu head-on, so he had no choice but to salute respectfully.

"Xu Shangshu seemed a little disappointed when he saw the old man, didn't he expect the old man to be fatal?" Jiang Yu said indifferently.

Scenes of Jiang Shiqing's hypocrisy in the past few days were repeated in his mind, immersed in the resentment of being tricked and deceived, Xu Yixu had no time to flirt with him, and said directly: "It turns out that Xu Bing still kept this trick, he said to me I have prepared a big gift, wouldn't it be you?"

Jiang Yu said, "Xu Shangshu is admitting to a crime?"

Xu Yixu smirked and said: "Jiang Taiwei has clear ears and eyesight, which is enviable."

Before the two had a few rounds of sarcasm with each other, the messenger trotted all the way behind Xu Yixu and whispered a few words to him.

Jiang Yu took a few glances at him, saw Xu Yixu's expression was cold, and bowed to him: "I have something to resign, I hope the Taiwei will forgive me."

Just as he was about to turn around, Jiang Yu said, "Leaving your post before the end of the day will be a crime. Xu Shangshu thinks twice."

Compared with other things, the word guilty is really meaningless to Xu Yixu, but Jiang Yu's words made him hear the threat, and he felt a little uncomfortable, so his face darkened, and he replied coldly: "Thank you Jiang Taiwei reminded."

The person who sent the message to the palace man was the steward of Xu's mansion, and he was currently pacing outside the palace gate waiting for Xu Yixu, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down.

"What's going on?" Xu Yixu asked.

The steward replied: "Song Bing went to Jiangzhai this morning, and now the Jiangzhai is flooded and the fire is raging."

Xu Yixu immediately stepped on the carriage and asked, "Where are Song Bing and Jiang Shiqing?"

"I haven't seen anyone come out, but the Jiang mansion is on fire right now, so I don't know what's going on inside."

Xu Yixu said angrily: "If you don't know, go in and look for it, and find it for me even if it is burned to ashes!"

The carriage drove all the way to the outside of the Jiang residence, and the thick smoke could be seen rolling towards the sky from a distance, only the imperial guards were nearby to disperse the crowd, and used the human wall to carve out a road for carrying water and fighting the fire.

The car stopped not far away, Xu Yixu flung the curtain of the car and jumped out, and saw a few dead soldiers running towards him, Xu Shi had just rushed out of the fire, all of them were blackened face.

"How is it?" Xu Yixu asked.

A dead man replied: "When the fire started, Lu Xiu rushed in first. The brothers who went in later came out now, saying that they found a secret passage, but it was blocked from inside."

secretly.Xu Yixu gritted his teeth, he asked Jiang Shiqing how to find someone to assassinate when he was besieged in the Jiang mansion, he had already prepared a secret way for this!

Jiang Shiqing, you just have to run away, don't you?

Xu Yixu clenched his fists as he read the name, and followed his gaze to the side, but Lu Xiu was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Lu Xiu?" Xu Yixu asked.

"I haven't come out since I went in, I'm afraid it's already..."

"Look for someone, go in and find them!" Xu Yixu's eyes were so dark that it was daunting, "We will continue to send people to watch over here. In addition, call the dead soldiers. One team will keep an eye on Jiang Yu, and the other team will bring guys out of the city to catch me." people!"

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"The coast of the land, is it the king's minister" from "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Beishan"

Guiding the way: The foreshadowing of Yuan Mucheng bringing Jiang Shiqing to Jiang Yu is buried in Chapter 87