Iron Armored Emperor

Facts have proved that honest people are not without temper.

I wish Beihe didn't make excuses for Di Qiye this time, and just sent the message back to Jingzhou in a hurry, and didn't make up any documents. That means he didn't care about it, and let the lord figure it out.

He can't control it either, the lord's military order was to let Di Qiye fight Qingzhou, but after Qingzhou was defeated, he was not satisfied, so he went to fight Zhongzhou. This is a violation of the order at a small scale, and it is an arbitrariness at large. , how could he manage Beihe?

When the urgent report entered the conference hall, Jiang Yang happened to be there.

Di Qiye defeated Qingzhou in three battles, and the name of this general was recited throughout Jingchu.The Gu family of Zhongzhou took the opportunity to invite the lord, saying that to welcome Di Qiye back to the city, they were willing to bear the expenses and hold a grand party in the garden of the Chu Palace, where the monarch and his ministers had fun.

The lord probably had some plans, so he actually approved this memorandum.Jiang Yang was very curious, but the master seemed unwilling to talk about it in detail, and it was inconvenient for him to ask, full of doubts.

As soon as the urgent report came, Jiang Yang saw Gu Lie standing by the desk and opened the letter. After reading it, he frowned slightly and closed his eyes. patted on the desk.

Jiang Yang called the Lord, and stepped forward tentatively, Gu Lie withdrew his hand, Jiang Yang took the crumpled urgent report over and looked at it, his veins twitched.

"Qingzhou has been settled. I will take troops to Zhongzhou to support it. Let's take a step first. Please wish the general guarding Qingzhou and work hard."

Jiang Yang has lived for 33 years, and he has never seen such a courageous master.

On the surface, this matter is that Di Qiye is greedy for the battlefield without orders to transfer troops. If the civil servants know about it, then he will go straight to support the soldiers!

In the past, Jiang Yang decided to speak to the lord immediately, and he must not allow Di Qiye to act recklessly like this, he must rub his spirits.

But Jiang Yang's thoughts have been on the lord recently. When the news of Qingzhou's victory came that day, the lord immediately ordered and gave Di Qiye a very generous reward.Although Di Qiye's military achievements are well-deserved and there is nothing to criticize, the special thing is that the reward list for the lord has been drawn up long ago, which shows that the lord not only trusts Di Qiye's combat power, but also has already planned how to reward him .The lord has never had such a preference for any general, which is a bit shocking.

Yan Fagu figured out a different feeling from it. He approached Jiang Yang and asked if the lord raised Brother Di as his son?

When Jiang Yang heard it for the first time, he felt it was ridiculous.The lord is 28 years old, and Di Qiye is only seven years younger than the lord. Although Di Qiye is young and energetic, why can't he be raised as a son?

Yan Fagu smiled inscrutablely, and analyzed it for him:

Since ancient times, fathers tend to prefer the son who is most like themselves, especially fathers who have suffered when they were young and developed later, are more likely to be doted on. What they did not enjoy back then, they will all be compensated to this son.

You see, Di Qiye looks like he is eighteen or nineteen, and he is a genius.Although they don't have the same personality as the protagonist, they are both talented and ambitious teenagers.Back then, the lord was carrying the hatred of his family and family, and he couldn't relax at all. On the contrary, Brother Di was chic and reckless.

The lord has never been impartial, so why did he indulge in every possible way to Brother Di?Didn't he unconsciously raise Brother Di as himself back then, is he still interested in Brother Di?

The more Jiang Yang listened, the more reasonable he became. When he heard the last sentence, he stuck the feather fan in his belt and beat him up.

Although Yan Fagu, a fake Taoist priest, has never been reliable, glib, and inaccurate in fortune-telling, Jiang Yang's words really make sense after much deliberation.

So Jiang Yang thought about this message, racked his brains to find out the bright spots, and comforted the lord: "Look, Brother Di added the sentence 'Thank you' this time."

Gu Lie laughed angrily: "Then Bei He has to thank him? He is really capable, even Bei He lost his temper at him."

Jiang Yang persuaded again: "Brother Di is leading the army for the first time, and he has just joined the Chu army, so he is naturally not familiar with military regulations. His subordinates are all greedy boys who want to fight, don't they hit it off? They are all young and energetic. It’s not that he has any other thoughts, just punish him properly later on.”

As he said that, Jiang Yang remembered that his cousin was Di Qiye's Zuo Dudu. What he said seemed to be trying to excuse Di Qiye to make amends for his family. Ashamed.

"Do it recklessly." Gu Lie rubbed his forehead and shook his head, "Tell him to be careful, he will go straight to the dangerous place, just like his horse."

My lord, what you care most about is not Brother Di's arbitrarily dispatched troops, but his lack of safety?

Jiang Yang took the feather fan out of his belt, shook it, covered his face and rolled his eyes at the felt on the ground, and let go of the shame in his heart.

There is a saying that the emperor is not in a hurry, so why is he in a hurry?

Gu Lie asked Jiang Yang to write a letter to talk about Di Qiye, and he himself wrote a letter to appease Zhu Beihe.

Jiang Yang took the order, and he didn't know why he said with emotion: "It's really not easy, my lord."

"Here, why did you say that?" Gu Lie was puzzled.

After all, Di Qiye is an outsider with unknown background, Jiang Yang understands the lord again, as a retainer and loyal general, he should remind him a thing or two.

Jiang Yang shook his feather fan and smiled kindly: "It's just that brother Di's words and deeds are wanton, but the lord can sympathize with him when he is young. I think about the time when the lord used to study civil and martial arts every day, and the adoptive father was strict with him. He didn't even allow the lord to adopt kittens. Don't take it easy. That's why I sigh."

Gu Lie was taken aback, raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "You are really becoming more and more loving. No wonder Yan Fagu called you 'Jiang Ma' behind his back."

"My lord, I have something urgent to do, so I will leave first." Jiang Yang flicked up his sleeves, saluted and ran away, as if he was in a hurry to settle accounts with someone.

kitten.

Gu Lie wondered why Jiang Yang suddenly mentioned the little black cat that he couldn't remember clearly.

Gu Lie never cared about things that had nothing to do with Da Chu, once they passed, he forgot about them.

It was brought up suddenly, and then I remembered it from the depths of my memory.

It was really a cute and well-behaved black cat, not as big as Gu Lie's palm. It was abandoned in the valley. It just opened its eyes, and its fur was wet by the rain. .

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, Gu Lie took advantage of the heavy rain without the attention of the villagers, secretly picked up the black cat hiding under the stone, warmed it with his body all night, always felt that it would not survive.

Unexpectedly, this kitten was tough, not only survived, but also very close to Gu Lie.Gu Lie couldn't keep it at home, so he went out early in the morning, arranged it in a dry tree hole, covered it with straw, and went to get some leftover fish and rice to feed it. He thought that the kitten would not eat, but it He ate with gusto, and didn't dislike Gu Lie. He could only provide it with these things, as if he knew that he could only live if he was full.

It is really well-behaved and very spiritual. It would not come out of the tree hole at will on weekdays. Only when Gu Lie called it would it meow affectionately, climb up on Gu Lie, and use its tender tongue _He head licked Gu Lie's palm.

Gu Lie seemed to have been infected with childishness by it. Sometimes he would be curious, and he would play with the yellow peaches at the beginning of autumn, which are a specialty of the village. Seeing him grinding his teeth with a big peach, he couldn't even bite the skin of the peach. Tao Zi stepped aside.Gu Lie couldn't help laughing, threw the peach away, and wrapped a ball of twine around it.

Thinking back like this, those scenes made Gu Lie slightly twitch his lips.

But he couldn't keep it.

The little black cat was found by the adoptive father, and the kitten was carried in the hands of the adoptive father, which was no different from carrying a rag bag.

The adoptive father asked him to kneel down and asked him why he wasted his mind on playing with pets.

Gu Lie admits his mistake and is willing to go to a village where black cats are not taboo to find someone to entrust.

Hearing that Gu Lie had to travel across mountains and mountains to find a home for the kitten, the adoptive father looked at Gu Lie, apart from anger, there was also great disappointment.

No matter how calm Gu Lie was, this kind of disappointment, which was so strong that it was almost artificial, would still hurt his heart, as if the Chu Gu people who were wronged to death were really disappointed in him.

The black cat was held up in front of Gu Lie, and the adoptive father's voice was very cold, and he ordered: "Kill it. If you still remember the blood debt you carried, kill it, remember that it died because of you!"

Gu Lie woke up from his emotions, and firmly refused: "No."

"How did you grow up like this." The adoptive father said through gritted teeth, "You don't even dare to kill a cat, you are not worthy to be the king and grandson of Chu."

Gu Lie stood up, and he looked at his adoptive father calmly: "Is killing an innocent kitten something that Chu Wangsun 'dare' to do? Give me the cat, and I will send it away."

The adoptive father never expected that Gu Lie would resist.

He looked at the 17-year-old boy in front of him, thinking that if his son was still alive, how could he be worse than this disobedient thing?

Gu Lie didn't expect his adoptive father to suddenly become hysterical, and threw the kitten on the ground in front of Gu Lie: "I'll let you kill it!"

Gu Lie quickly knelt down and touched its neck, but it was too late, the little black cat's head lay limply in Gu Lie's hands, and it couldn't even bark, its beautiful green eyes were lifeless, and it couldn't even look at Gu Lie for the last time , remember who killed it.

"It's dead." Gu Lie held the kitten in his palm and stood up again. He looked at his adoptive father calmly, "It's weaker than a child. If it's not taken care of carefully, it will die."

The adoptive father realized that Gu Lie was no longer the little boy he rescued back then, he was taller than himself, and his upright posture in martial arts was even stronger than him, so he couldn't help but back away in front of such a Gu Lie.

Gu Lie looked at him, but his eyes were completely out of focus on him: "It's like your son, if you don't look at him and let him swim in the water, he will drown."

"He died for you! If it wasn't for you, if it wasn't for you!" the adoptive father shouted after being touched.

Gu Lie nodded, "He died for me, and your wife also died for me. You were originally the guard of the palace, with your wife and children around your knees. Your life was completely changed because of me. I remember it all."

"There is another pair of mother and son who died because of me, I remember both."

Gu Lie took a deep breath, and said calmly, "But I also know that you hate me, just like I know that I am not born afraid of water like you said to Jiang Yang, but that the river reminded me of that day. To the mother and child who were burned to death."

The man's figure was hunched, like a mountain falling down, and hot tears fell silently from his eyes.

Gu Lie once again knelt down in front of his adoptive father: "Gu Lie will never repay a life-saving grace. You are a strict father. For nine years, you have urged Gu Lie to work hard for the restoration of Chu. Gu Lie cannot repay the deep kindness of nurturing."

Then he stood up again.

"But the person standing in front of you is not only Gu Lie, but also the king and grandson of Chu. I don't mind if you persecute me, because I have a blood feud and I don't deserve to live easily. But I will not be forced by you to hurt innocent people."

"Father, if you still call yourself a servant of Chu and Gu's family, and talk about revenge for the extermination of the clan, don't forget——I am your young master."

Gu Lie didn't look at the tired man, he walked out with the black cat and buried it in the bamboo forest.

He took it from Gu Lie's heart and carried it on Chu Wangsun's back.

For a long time, Gu Lie's heart was empty, and blood flowed like a river on Chu Wangsun's back.

The author has something to say:

*Jiang Yang: Shall we give the lord a cat

Yan Fagu: Isn't raising Brother Di more fun than raising a cat?

Jiang Yang: Although what you said makes sense, I always feel that something is not right