after being kidnapped by the general

What is the picture?

Yuan Li instantly remembered the tragedy he had seen during the day.

The chaos of war, the blood, the cries of the people and the desperate eyes.

But Yuanli quickly came back to his senses. He barely wasted a few seconds, and immediately turned into an angry expression, and shouted in a low voice: "Chu Hechao, what do you mean!"

"I don't mean anything malicious, it's just that it's better to talk about this kind of thing cautiously, so I took this trick and took you to hide here," the man laughed silently, his handsome face was covered with wet marks, "Sister-in-law With such a great talent, if I have a plan, as long as I open my mouth, I, Chu Hechao, will definitely go through fire and water for my sister-in-law, and I will not say a word of 'no'."

Do you think I believe it?

Yuan Li sneered, "I've already said it once, I want to defend my family and the country! This is my greatest plot! Chu Hechao, you clearly know that my ambition is so, now you block me here and say so What are you trying to do to persuade me? Even if you are the great general of the northern border, the future king of Chu, and a famous prince all the way, you shouldn't humiliate others like this!"

While speaking, his voice became higher and higher, but he had to suppress his voice, his anger was clearly visible.Yuan Li was also a little bit over the top, and the irritability that had been suppressed by repeated temptations before was vented on Chu Hechao.

The man frowned, not knowing why he suddenly became so excited, "Sister-in-law, what you said is serious, I—"

"enough!"

Yuan Li interrupted him.

The always good-tempered man put away his smile, his face was tense and expressionless.Even the young man has a bit of panic-stricken majesty.Yuan Li was drenched all over, and his clothes clinged to his figure. Compared with Chu Hechao, he was a bit thin and slender as a young man, but his aura overwhelmed Chu Hechao.

His lips were pursed tightly, and his eyes were burning with blazing anger.

This Jiyue Qingfeng's face suddenly became vivid and vivid.

"Chu Hechao," Yuan Li raised his eyes. Even though the eyelashes were dripping with water, his eyes still looked at Chu Hechao fiercely, and said forcefully, "It was you who brought me to Youzhou, and you begged me to come for you." You stabilized the rear! But while you asked for me, you kept testing me, did I shoot the wrong arrow today?"

His face darkened, "I saved you from the death of many cavalry, so do you think it is not enough? Since you said we are a family, have you ever treated me as a family? Since you want me to change Youzhou , and I’m afraid that I’m plotting something wrong. Chu Hechao, ask yourself, have you done too much?”

Every sentence he asked was deafening.

Chu Hechao lowered his head, and the waves of water swayed on his back. Under the night, Yuan Li couldn't see his expression clearly, but Chu Hechao didn't speak.

Yuan Li pushed Chu Hechao away, and said coldly: "I didn't expect to be treated like this by the general after making meritorious deeds. If the general is really worried about me, you can say it outright. I will return to Luoyang. I just ask the general not to worry about me." You want to use this method to test me again, after all, the general doesn’t treat me as a family member, but I treat the general as a younger brother.”

After speaking, he snorted coldly, waved his sleeves and left refreshed.

After a while, in the river.

Chu Hechao stood alone in front of the stone.

"Ten people have said the words of defending the country, and it is a good thing for one person to do it. The rest of the people are using the excuse of defending the country to make profits for themselves." Chu Hechao suddenly whispered, as if explaining.

After a while, he muttered to himself again: "Even if it is Yang Zhongfa who has been with me for eight years, I will doubt him."

He turned his head and calmly looked at the direction Yuanli was leaving.

Chu Hechao has always been a loner, he knows that his temper is not pleasing, even his own parents don't like him, Chu Hechao is already used to this.

He grew up in a rough environment, and experienced many betrayals and deaths.The frontier defenses of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were on him, and outside the frontier defenses were the Huns and Xianbei who were staring at him.

Chu Hechao couldn't let go of his doubts about anyone, and if there was any trouble, he could immediately turn his face and be ruthless.

Chu Hechao turned to look at the torches and fire piles in the distance.

It is undeniable that he appreciates Yuanli, but deeply fears Yuanli.

The son of the county magistrate of Ruyang County, who appeared out of nowhere, entered the Chu family overnight. His parents treated him very well, and his elder brother also trusted him extremely.But Chu Mingfeng's trust in Yuanli does not mean that Chu Hechao also completely trusts Yuanli.

Chu Hechao and Chu Mingfeng are not the same kind of people.Chu Mingfeng is a pure scholar, but Chu Hechao is not.Chu Mingfeng dared to entrust the rear area and Chu Palace to Yuanli, but Chu Hechao could not.

It is not without reason that the King of Chu and the Yang family did not like the second son.

But the living people always have to bear more burdens, the family, the country, the world, and the heavy mountains of countless people's lives are on them, and they have to think more.

Chu Hechao withdrew his eyes, buried himself in the water, thinking about what Yuan Li had said, and trained himself over and over again.But practicing and practicing, he stood up from the water with a "crash", and strode ashore with a sullen face.

The team escorting the military pay did not waste time in Beixincheng County. After taking the prisoners and the surviving Beixincheng County people, they rushed all the way to Jixian County at a faster speed.

Ten days later, the group of them finally arrived at their destination.

In the past ten days, Yuan Li had never looked at Chu Hechao, nor had he said a word to Chu Hechao.When facing Chu Hechao, he always ignores him with a cold face. One second he can be cold to Chu Hechao, and the next second he can chat and laugh with others.

Chu Hechao originally thought that Yuanli would not be angry for a long time. He once took Yuanli away in public, but in the end he just begged Yuanli for a sentence and Yuanli forgave him. Seriously.

It was okay at the beginning, Chu Hechao was not in a hurry to ask Yuanli for forgiveness.But after Yuanli ignored him again and again, Chu Hechao couldn't help but pay more attention to him. His eyes swept over Yuanli several times a day, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

After being ignored for three days, Chu Hechao pursed his lips coldly, impatiently went to Yuan Li to apologize, but Yuan Li didn't want to see him.

Until today when he came to Ji County, Chu Hechao didn't get Yuanli's attention.

Even Yang Zhongfa noticed that something was wrong. He looked at Chu Hechao, who was expressionless and depressed, and Yuan Li, who was chatting and laughing with Liu Jixin in front of him, and carefully approached him and asked, "General, are you talking with Yuan Li?" Is the young master in trouble?"

Chu Hechao snorted, with a half-smile, "Arguing?"

Yang Zhongfa shuddered, turned his face away and covered his eyes and said, "General, don't laugh like that, the general is afraid."

Chu Hechao: "...get over here."

Yang Zhongfa approached and tried to persuade him: "General, such a good person as Mr. Yuan will not get angry easily. It is really powerful that you can get angry with Mr. Yuan. Count it, Mr. Yuan has ignored you for five or six days. Has it passed you?"

Chu Hechao pulled his lips and smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Ten days."

Yang Zhongfa gasped, "Ten days!"

His voice was a little loud, and the surrounding generals all turned their heads to look at him.

Chu Hechao was so cold that he paused every word in a low voice, "Shut up."

Yang Zhongfa coughed and cursed at the surroundings: "Go away, go away, the general and I have something important to talk about!"

When the others were far away, Yang Zhongfa lowered his voice and continued to ask: "General, what did you do to make such a fight with Mr. Yuan?!"

Chu Hechao looked at Yuanli's back, and the corners of his mouth were pressed down, too lazy to answer.

Yang Zhongfa couldn't figure out what he was thinking, he thought about it, and tentatively said: "How about I call Mr. Yuan over, and you and Mr. Yuan have a good talk?"

Chu Hechao glanced at him from the corner of his eye.

Yang Zhongfa understood instantly, turned around and shouted at Yuanli: "Young Master Yuan!"

Yuan Li heard the sound, looked back, and saw Yang Zhongfa smiling and leaning beside Chu Hechao, waving at him with a whip.

Chu Hechao looked straight at Yuanli with an unclear expression.

Yuan Li drove the horse over calmly, looked straight at Yang Zhongfa without looking sideways, completely ignoring Chu Hechao, "Master Yang, do you want to talk to me about something?"

Yang Zhongfa subconsciously glanced at Chu Hechao, "Young Master Yuan...it's like this."

He rubbed his hands, coughed his throat, "I have something I want to discuss with you and the general."

Yuan Li turned his head slightly, looking at Chu Hechao's hand holding the rein, "What's the matter?"

He was dressed in plain clothes and sat upright on the horse.With tall hair, holding the rein with one hand, and half-lidded eyes, even Yang Zhongfa could hear the coldness in his words.

Yang Zhongfa looked at Chu Hechao, "This...you have to ask the general."

Yuanli finally took a look at Chu Hechao.

This fluttering glance made Chu Hechao subconsciously laugh, and he said slowly, "Sister-in-law..."

After only two words in one sentence, Yuan Li had already pulled the horse around, leaving both of them a pile of horseshoe dust.

Chu Hechao's expression froze suddenly.

Yang Zhongfa wished he could slap both of them. He stayed away from Chu Hechao in embarrassment, for fear of being caught by that bastard Chu Hechao to vent his anger.

While speaking, they had already entered Ji County. Apart from the common people hiding on both sides of the road watching them, the officials in Guangyang County who had already received the news were also waiting respectfully in front of the gate of the city.

Jixian is the center of Youzhou, and the residence of King Chu in Youzhou is in Jixian.

The Prince Chu Mansion has not been inhabited for many years, and there are no servants in the mansion.Now it was the officials of Ji County who learned that there were people coming from Luoyang, so they hurriedly sent their servants to sweep the Chu Palace.

The long team of thousands of riders stopped in front of the Chu Palace, and the three hundred servants in Yuanli were well-trained to untie the ropes on the vehicles and unload things.

People come and go, very busy.Yuan Li stood in front of the mansion gate and told the servants where to put the things.

Not long after, Han Jin hurried over to look for him, "Young Master Yuan, we are discussing important matters in the study, so I sent you over."

Yuan Li took off the weapon on his body and handed it to Guo Lin, and followed Han Jin to the study.

In the study room sat officials at all levels in Guangyang County, including the sheriff, magistrate, captain, meritorious official and many other officials of Guangyang County.In addition to them, there are two generals, Yang Zhongfa and Yuan Congyun.

As soon as Yuan Li came in, Chu Hechao said to the official indifferently: "This is my eldest sister-in-law."

The officials of Guangyang County got up quickly and saluted Yuanli enthusiastically. Yuanli treated each other with the same enthusiasm, and finally sat in the first seat on the left side of Chu Hechao's lower head.

Seeing him sitting down, Chu Hechao went straight to the point, explaining in a concise manner how to calm down the rebel army in Youzhou.

Speaking of pacifying the rebel army, the officials in Youzhou naturally readily agreed.Cai Ji, the county guard who was over fifty years old, saluted and said: "The two rebel armies are now raging in Shanggu County and Liaoxi County. If the general is going to lead troops to attack these people, he does not know that the army's salary is transported from Guangyang County. Go, or should the county guards of these two places be in charge? This year because of these rebels, a lot of harvests have been ruined everywhere, but I think the general has brought a lot of military pay..."

Chu Hechao sneered a few times, then turned to look at Yuanli: "Sister-in-law, what do you think?"

Yuan Li smiled slightly, and changed the topic, "At the beginning of the year, Youzhou sent last year's account books to Luoyang. I saw that there was something wrong, so I brought them all back. I will stay in Youzhou Governor in the future. Of course, you have to go through the items in the account one by one, lest such a big Youzhou can’t provide the rations of 13 soldiers in the northern border, don’t you think, the county guard?”

The faces of all the officials changed suddenly, and they all lowered their heads.The sheriff Cai Ji was sweating on his forehead, and was about to say something in defense when Yuan Li clapped his hands and ordered someone to send the ledger.

The account books were wrapped in the bag, Yuan Li opened the bag slowly, revealing several thick account books.

No one thought that he would attack on the spot on the first day he arrived in Ji County, and he still attacked so sharply.Looking at the expressionless Chu Hechao above, beads of sweat on the heads of the officials had already slid to their temples.They raised their sleeves and wiped their faces, staring at these account books, with fear and fear intertwined.

The power to appoint and remove officials in Youzhou was controlled by the Chu Palace, and Chu Hechao was stationed outside with a thousand-man army.Force plus power is the right to speak in troubled times.

Previously, they dared to make trouble in Youzhou because there were no Chu family members in Youzhou, and they had to rely on them to manage it.But who would have thought that the new Mr. Yuan of the Chu family would directly come to Youzhou to sit in town!

And who would have expected that there would be insurgents appearing everywhere, and the world would be in chaos? !

In the troubled times, Chu Hechao had 13 troops at his side, and he was completely capable of conquering Youzhou.I'm afraid that if it is pursued, they officials are waiting for a dead word, and they have no power to resist.

Seeing their embarrassment, Yuan Congyun and Yang Zhongfa sneered again and again, feeling very happy.

After the 13 army had no food, they were the first to ask the guards of the counties in Youzhou for food, but the amount of food they asked for was extremely perfunctory, barely enough to last the 13 army until they returned to the frontier after asking for food from Luoyang.

But even so, although they were annoyed, they were helpless.Because no one is sitting in the rear, it is not easy for them to deal with these officials, lest they completely tear their faces and cause chaos in Youzhou.

But I didn't expect Mr. Yuan to be so brave when he came, directly embarrassing these people, they almost laughed out loud.

Chu Hechao also had a smile in his eyes, "I didn't expect my sister-in-law to even bring the account books. I don't know what is wrong with what my sister-in-law found out?"

As soon as these words came out, the officials lowered their heads even deeper.

They are afraid.

Of course they were afraid.There are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings, but the kings are back, so can they not tremble?

Yuan Li knew what they were thinking, which was why he deliberately used the account book to provoke trouble in front of Chu Hechao.

He picked up an account book from his luggage and stroked it, looked sideways at the officials, scanned the expressions on their faces one by one, and finally settled on the sheriff, suddenly the corners of his mouth curled up, and he smiled softly. "The lieutenant of Luoyang Sili's school is named Cai Yi, and he and the county guard belong to the same family?"

The sheriff, Cai Jiren, was old and mentally weak. His eyes were dizzy after being so frightened by Yuan Li. When he heard the familiar name, he nodded after a while, "Yes, yes, yes, Captain Sili and I are both Cai. family."

"The deceased husband had some friendship with Captain Sili. Before we left Luoyang, I also drank a few cups of tea with Captain Sili." Yuan Li smiled slightly and lied without changing his face. The members of Li Xiaowei's family must be lenient and take care of them."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to ask Lintian to bring a brazier.

Lin Tian left as he said, and put the brazier in front of Yuan Li.Yuan Li picked up the ledger with a smile, hung it over the brazier, and looked straight at the officials, "Since I just came to Youzhou, I won't go back to the past. Just burn these ledgers, it's not a big deal. But Afterwards, when the general puts down the rebel army, I believe that all the adults will pay the army in time without any delay, right?"

The officials gritted their teeth, immediately stood up and cupped their hands and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Yuan, we will definitely do our best."

"It's not enough to do our best," Yuan Li slowly threw an account book into the brazier, then picked up another book and fiddled with it in his hands, "All parties must be accurate."

The officials looked at each other in dismay. They looked at the unburned account books, took a deep breath, and bent down together, "I will definitely live up to your entrustment."

"it is good!"

Yuan Li praised, threw the remaining account books into the brazier, and helped the officials one by one.The sheriff took a breath, then saluted Yuanli tremblingly to thank him.

Cai Ji now understood that Yuanli should have been prepared to burn the account books in exchange for their promise to prepare military pay for the army, and deliberately mentioned Captain Sili, it was just unnecessary, and took the opportunity to rub Cai Ji openly Kindness.

Up to now, Cai Ji is also very confused, he regrets endlessly in his heart, why is he indebted to Yuanli for some reason?

This kindness must be repaid, otherwise it will be ungrateful. Once it is spread, Cai Ji's character is flawed, so he doesn't have to be a human being anymore!

After going out like this, the officials didn't dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly saluted and left.

Yuan Li put his hands behind his back and looked at their panicked backs, pursing his lips and showing a smile, a voice suddenly came from behind, "Are you happy?"

Yuan Li immediately stopped laughing, and strode out with a straight face.

Chu Hechao: "..."

His face was cloudy and uncertain, and he accidentally crushed the teacup in his hand.