Zhu Nao

Gu Qi is nine years old, his parents died early, and he has been begging for two years in Chengdu.

He was begging on the side of the road holding a pottery bowl as usual, when he suddenly saw a young man approaching not far away.The young man looked demented, and he stopped the person on the side of the road for questioning after he couldn't walk a few steps.Most of the people caught by him thought he was a lunatic and avoided vigilantly.Someone also stopped to talk with him, but after a few words, the young man's already pale face became even paler.

Not long after, the young man who had finished chatting with someone walked over in a nonchalant manner.

It's not a good time right now. Ordinary people will avoid beggars when they see them. Those who seek beggars have to be cheeky and pester them. Only by pestering people unbearably can they get something.

Gu Qi saw that the young man was not too poorly dressed, so he quickly moved over with the bowl in his hands, shaking the bowl while reaching out to grab the corner of the young man's clothes.

"Young master, please give me some money and some food."

There were two men not far from the young man. Those two men were not far or close at first, and they didn't seem to have any connection with the young man.But after seeing Gu Qi's movements, those two men rushed over fiercely.

Gu Qi was startled, and hurriedly let go and stepped back.Fortunately, the two men were stopped by the young man raising his hand before they rushed up.The young man said coldly, "What did I tell you?"

The two men retreated awkwardly.

Only then did Gu Qi realize that those two were the young man's attendants.This young man is a bit secretive.

The young man took some money out of his pocket and put it into Gu Qi's tattered pottery bowl.Seeing the amount of money, Gu Qi's eyes lit up: this person must be a rich man who travels low-key.It's just that I don't know why this rich man is so thin. Could it be that he was lucky enough to be born in a rich family but he doesn't like to eat?

Gu Qi hurriedly bowed: "Thank you son, thank you son!"

The rich man gave the money but didn't leave, he bent down to look at Gu Qi.The man himself was handsome, but he was so thin that his cheeks were sunken, coupled with his serious expression, Gu Qiqing couldn't help shivering.

He asked, "Beggar, do you know Junao?"

Gu Qi was taken aback: "Huh?"

Beggars hang out on the streets all day long, but they are actually better informed than ordinary people.He didn't know what this man's intention was, so he replied cautiously, "You mean Zhunao, the shepherd of Langzhou?"

The young man nodded and asked again, "What do you think of him?"

Gu Qi was taken aback again.This young man from a rich family is probably a little abnormal, why would he manage people to ask these questions on the road?

However, the young man looked at him fixedly, as if he wanted to hear his answer.

Gu Qi hesitated for a moment, and hugged the bowl tighter, afraid that if he said something wrong, this person would take back the reward just now: "What do you mean by what do you think of him?"

The young man said: "He has become an official of the Chengdu government, do you think it is good or not?"

Although Gu Qi is young, after two years of begging life, he is already a young man.He wanted to judge the young man's position first, and then follow him to say something that would make him feel at ease, but the young man's eyes were empty and blank, making it unclear what he knew.

Gu Qi could only pick up neutral words and said: "Zhuzhou Mu has just entered the city, and he hasn't done anything yet. I don't know if he is good. What officials say is different from what they do, so we have to wait two years to look at it." .”

After a pause, he added in a low voice: "I hope he is a good official."

The young man's eyes flashed.

After a while, the young man asked again: "Then what do you think of the officials in Chengdu Mansion in the past?"

Gu Qi was slightly taken aback.He started begging at the age of seven, he had seen too much of the harsh world, heard too much of the deteriorating world, and was chased and humiliated by officials countless times.

After a while, he couldn't help asking sarcastically: "The rebellious army entered the city, are those dog officials still dead?"

He was young, and there was a kind of naive cruelty when he said this.

The young man froze.

He was in a daze for a while, and Gu Qi gradually realized that something was wrong, and backed away worryingly holding the pottery bowl, fearing that if he said something wrong, someone would take the money back.

The young man suddenly started laughing.He laughed silently, but his shoulders were shaking, making it hard to tell whether he was laughing or crying.After a while, his whole body trembled, his mouth was wide open, and Gu Qi realized that he was indeed smiling.

But this smile was very creepy, the corners of the young man's mouth grinned ferociously, and tears came out of his smile.

Gu Qi kept backing away in fear, and when he looked up, he found that the two young men's attendants were staring at him viciously, as if they wanted to peel off his skin.He wanted to escape, but the road was blocked by the young man's entourage, and he couldn't escape.

After a while, the young man wiped his face with his hands, wiped away the tears of laughter, shook his head and stood up.

He turned around to leave, but before taking two steps, he remembered something and returned to Gu Qi.Gu Qi didn't dare to breathe, because he was afraid that he would get into some trouble.

However, the young man just took off the money bag and poured all the remaining money into Gu Qi's small broken bowl.Gu Qi was stunned, and quickly raised his head to see the young man's expression, but the young man had lowered his head, turned around, and walked away slowly.

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When Lu Qinghui returned to his residence, as soon as he closed the door, his two attendants immediately spoke impatiently. "Shao Yin, those fools don't understand anything at all, don't..."

Before they finished speaking, Lu Qinghui calmly raised his hand to stop the words: "I want to go back to my room and sleep for a while." After speaking, he went in and closed the door.

The two attendants looked at each other.

"Is Shaoyin okay?"

"I don't know...I hope he sleeps better."

"Hey... what do those ordinary people know? They can't read big characters and they are talking nonsense! What's going on with Shao Yin today, why did he think of talking to those people?"

"Yeah, I don't understand either. Has Shaoyin been bored recently? It's so abnormal..."

The two attendants went back to guard the door. After a while, they vaguely heard movement coming from Lu Qinghui's room.

"what sound?"

"Something seems to have fallen..."

The two were worried, and went back to Lu Qinghui's door, knocked on the door and called softly, "Young Yin?"

After waiting for a while, there was no sound from inside.Push the door, but the door is locked from the inside.

The two suddenly had a bad premonition, knocked on the door and yelled a few more times, but they still couldn't respond, so they didn't care much, and hurriedly knocked on the door together.

Not long after, the thin wooden door was knocked open by two attendants, and the scene inside the house made them gasp——

Lu Qinghui tied several clothes into a long rope, hung himself on the beam of the house, and hanged himself.

"Shao Yin!!!"

The two rushed up to hug Lu Qinghui off the noose, but Lu Qinghui's face was pale and he had already lost consciousness.

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Lu Qinghui was always in chaos, and after an unknown amount of time, he had to struggle to wake up because he felt his throat hurt from thirst.He sat up with his head supported, and found himself in a strange room.There is a table in the room, and a young man is sitting at the table, reading a book.

Hearing his movements, the man put down his book and said with a smile, "I'm awake."

Lu Qinghui was not fully awake yet, he couldn't remember the past, and stared at the man in a daze.I saw that the man was in his twenties, with fair skin, delicate and kind appearance, a face that easily attracted people's liking.

He said blankly, "You are..."

The man rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Guess?"

Lu Qinghui: "..."

He waited for a while, and the man looked at him with a smile, as if he was really waiting for him to guess.He laughed and said, "What kind of place is this?"

The man tilted his head: "You guess again?"

Lu Qinghui: "..." What's wrong!

He had been hung for a long time before, and his head was a little confused.At this moment, the blood flowed smoothly all over the body, and the past events were slowly recalled.His eyes suddenly darkened.

But when he came to an inexplicable place and met an inexplicable person, he could no longer immerse himself in the emotion just now.He looked at the man for a while, and saw that the man was really kind, and he didn't think there was any malice.Presumably his attendants rescued him and sent him to a hospital or something.

He was really thirsty, and seeing a teapot on the table, he walked over to the chair and sat down opposite the man.He drank a cup of tea to feel better, then raised his head and asked the man, "Who are you?"

The man asked with great interest, "Who do you think I look like?"

Lu Qinghui has always been serious, he doesn't like to joke with people, and he doesn't know why this person is so interested in trying to trick him, so he said coldly: "We have never met before, why do you have to let me guess you. So what if you guess right, but if you don't guess right so what?"

The man said leisurely: "If you guess wrong, it means that your vision of seeing people is not accurate."

Lu Qinghui frowned.When he first opened his eyes, he actually had a good impression of this person, but the frivolity of this person has already reduced his favorability a lot.He said coldly: "I can see if someone is right, what are you doing? I don't look at you!"

The man smiled more enthusiastically: "But after I came to Chengdu, I heard many people say that you hate me."

Lu Qinghui: "..."

Lu Qinghui: "???"

If it wasn't for the real headache, he would have wondered if he was having a strange dream right now.

Usually, if he saw someone who was not used to him, he would reprimand him face to face, even Yuan Jilu was no exception.How come he hates someone, but wants to gossip behind his back?He thought about it again and again, but still had no clue, but his eyes caught a glimpse of the book the man was reading just now.

He took a closer look, and it turned out that it was not a book, but a dossier.The dossier was very familiar to him, it was clearly an official document from the Chengdu mansion—this person is actually from the government mansion?

He froze for a moment, then remembered what that person said just now: "But after I come to Chengdu"... He suddenly raised his head and looked at the person opposite!

Zhu Nao smiled happily: "I am shepherding Zhu Nao in Xialangzhou. Lu Shaoyin, I have admired him for a long time."

Lu Qinghui: "!!!!!!"

He fell back as if he had seen a ghost, and fell off the chair, falling on his back.He got up in embarrassment, Zhu Nao was still sitting on the seat, and said leisurely: "Lu Shaoyin is not even afraid of death, why is he so afraid when he sees me?"

Lu Qinghui: "~!#￥%...&*"

He has always been sharp-tongued, and has never been so poor at words. He pointed at Zhu Nao and was speechless for a long time.

Junao? ? ?Is this Junao? ? ?What are you kidding? ? ? ?

It's not that Lu Qinghui made a fuss.Anyone who wakes up from a coma would be terrified of something like this.

A few hours ago, Lu Qinghui's own hanging had frightened his attendants enough.Several of his attendants are not capable people, and now the city is in such a mess, they don't know who to turn to for help, and they are afraid that Lu Qinghui is determined to die, if they can save their lives this time, they won't be able to save them next time.So they asked Lu Qinghui for medical treatment, and at the same time they went to Xu Yu, hoping that Xu Yu could give Lu Qinghui a helping hand because of their old relationship, and send Lu Qinghui out of the city.

Xu Yu has always been a good person. He had conflicts with Lu Qinghui, but he also had friendship.The attendants thought that Xu Yu would definitely help out for the Lu family's sake, but they didn't expect Xu Yu to tell Zhu Nao as soon as he turned his head.Hence the present play.

Zhu Nao was not in a hurry, poured himself a cup of tea and sipped slowly, waiting for Lu Qinghui to recover himself.

After a long time, Lu Qinghui went back to the bed and sat down, looking at him vigilantly, apparently accepting this fact.

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "The difference between you and Yuan Jilu is really big."

Lu Qinghui was slightly taken aback, although he didn't speak, his eyes were fixed on Zhu Nao, apparently wanting to hear what he had to say.

Zhu Nao said: "After Yuan Jilu was imprisoned by me, he cried and insisted to see me before he died, otherwise he would die unwillingly. Why didn't you come to see me, don't you feel regretful?"

Lu Qinghui: "..."

This is the difference between him and Yuan Jilu? ?Something is wrong! !

Being disturbed by Zhu Nao, Lu Qinghui's mood was completely messed up, neither crying, nor laughing, nor happy, nor angry, it was really a mess.

Zhu Nao rested his chin on one hand, and asked with a smile, "Is there any difference between what you thought and me?"

Lu Qinghui stared at him angrily, his eyebrows were knit into a ball.

Seeing him like this, Junao laughed amusedly.

Lu Qinghui: "..."

A moment later, when Lu Qinghui was torn between self-doubt and rage, Zhu Nao spoke again: "Lu Shaoyin, you must know that I have been looking for you all these days. Why don't you guess again?" , why am I looking for you?"

Lu Qinghui: "... guess what!"

If Zhu Nao had known Lu Qinghui a few years earlier, he would probably have applauded for his words.You must know that even Yuan Jilu has never forced Lu Qinghui to swear when he went too far.

Zhu Nao shrugged and said, "Lu Shaoyin's temper is not very good. Then I'll tell you straight, I'm looking for Lu Shaoyin, hoping that Lu Shaoyin can hand over Shaoyin's power."

Lu Qinghui froze, frowned and said, "What?"

Zhu Nao said: "Right now I am sorting out the files in the government. Some were burned when the rebel army entered the city. If you have a copy here, bring it to me. If you don't have a copy, if you still remember something, copy it down and give it to me." Me. Otherwise, many civil lawsuits are pending, and it is really difficult to judge."

Lu Qinghui's complexion was complicated.

To be honest, he has not yet digested that this person is Jun Nao, and Jun Nao has already talked about business with him.Talking so naturally, it seems that he is the one who is wrong.

Zhu Nao confirmed to him: "Do you have a copy of the industrial and commercial files? Those cases are pending, and the officials and the people are very anxious."

Lu Qinghui was silent, and said: "There is a part."

Zhu Nao said happily: "That's good. Xu Shaoyin said that your memory is excellent, and the more you can recover, the better."

Lu Qinghui's expression changed a few more times.For some reason, he followed Zhu Nao's words.

After he learned the news that Jun Nao had entered the city that day, he also thought about what would happen to him if he fell into Jun Nao's hands.Nothing more than two.One is that Zhu Nao killed him, just like Yuan Jilu.In the past two years, his hostility towards Junao has never been concealed.The second is that Zhu Nao will persuade him to surrender, after all, he is the Shaoyin of Chengdu Mansion, and he can still be useful.

Right now, it seems that Zhu Nao chose the second option.

He also thought that day, what should he do if he falls into these two endings.First, he didn't want to die at Jun Nao's hands, it was an insult to him; second, he didn't want to work for Jun Nao, he would rather die than die.So there was only one way out.

He said coldly, "I won't do anything for you."

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "I know."

Lu Qinghui's eyes moved.

The two looked at each other for a moment, Zhu Nao's eyes were gentle, while Lu Qinghui's eyes were cold.After a while, Zhu Nao said: "Although I hope you can assist me, I know you won't be willing. That's why I just said that I just want you to hand over your power when I come back to you. After all, you are an official, so you should do your best." You have to fulfill your responsibilities. You can only leave when your term of office is over and the handover is over."

Lu Qinghui was confused again by what he said.

Handover?Term expired?According to this meaning, is it possible that Zhu Nao will let him go after he has handed over?

Junao smiled and said, "As you think."

Lu Qinghui: "..."

He was silent for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Zhu Nao also knew that he needed time to digest, so he stood up holding the file: "Lu Shaoyin should rest well, I still have a lot of business to do, so I'm going back first."

Lu Qinghui looked at each other.

After leaving the room and closing the door, Jing Zhe was waiting outside.The two walked back together.

Jing Zhe asked: "My lord, will he stay and help you?"

Zhu Nao sighed: "I've committed suicide, I think I won't."

When mentioning the matter of committing suicide, Jing Zhe couldn't help frowning.He didn't know Lu Qinghui well, but just because of this matter, he looked down on him: "What's the solution? I don't think he has much ability."

Zhu Nao smiled, and said, "Looking for death is not a solution, it's a solution that doesn't have to think about it anymore."

Jing Zhe was taken aback.The words were a bit convoluted, and he thought for a while before he understood.

Zhu Nao said indifferently: "A person like him, since he was a child, has been going smoothly. I'm afraid he hasn't even stumbled. Someone will always take care of him. Whether the general situation of the world or the Chengdu Mansion is good in the past two years, every time he thinks about it, Things, everything he did, everything backfired, he will inevitably get into a dead end. It is his fate not to get out, but it is rare to get out."

Jing Zhe blinked her eyes, seeming to understand.

Zhu Nao no longer commented on Lu Qinghui's behavior too much, but walked back quickly with Jing Zhe.

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The next day, just as Lu Qinghui woke up, there was a knock on the door.

He said, "Who?"

Xu Yu's voice came from outside: "It's me."

Lu Qinghui frowned.After a while, he said, "Come in."

Xu Yu pushed the door open and walked into the room with a smile on her face, but she was a little bit ashamed.Lu Qinghui's men came to look for him yesterday, after all he was the one who told Zhu Nao about Lu Qinghui, so he would naturally feel ashamed.But only three points, no more.It wasn't that he betrayed Lu Qinghui on purpose, it was just that he heard the news that Lu Qinghui had committed suicide, so he thought over and over again, thinking that telling Jun Nao about this matter might be more fortunate for Lu Qinghui than not telling Jun Nao.

Xu Yu sat down opposite Lu Qinghui and asked, "Qinghui, are you alright?"

Lu Qinghui calmly replied: "It's much better."

Xu Yu was silent for a moment, then said: "I hope you don't blame me, I will weigh your matter, if you are willing to listen, I will tell you."

Lu Qinghui was also silent for a moment, and said, "No need."

Xu Yu gave him a slightly surprised look.He didn't know whether Lu Qinghui blamed him or not, but he had met Zhu Nao yesterday, so Lu Qinghui must understand his trade-off to some extent.

The two sat opposite each other for a long time. Today, things changed and people changed, and the atmosphere was inevitably a little dull.

Lu Qinghui said: "What are you looking for me for?"

Xu Yu said, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Lu Qinghui's eyes flickered.His lips moved slightly, trying to say something, but he didn't say it.Finally said: "I don't want to know."

It's not that there is nothing to ask, but that I don't want to know.All kinds of entanglements and conflicts in his heart are not humane.

Xu Yu can understand.Lu Qinghui was not a very well-mannered person, but he was never a frank person either.But that doesn't mean he hasn't changed.

Today's Lu Qinghui is completely different from when he first came to Chengdu Mansion, or even just compared with his appearance a year ago.Xu Yu used to look down on his arrogance of a family member, but when it really disappeared, it was really regrettable.Arrogance is something that only naive people are qualified to possess.

After a long time, Xu Yu said: "It's nothing, I just wanted to see how you are today. You really lost a lot of weight. In fact... well, forget it. You have a good rest, and if you need anything, you can come to me. I have to go back Finished file."

Lu Qinghui was a little surprised that he was leaving like this.He asked, "You came to see me today, didn't Jun Nao ask you to come?"

Xu Yu froze for a moment.He understood what Lu Qinghui meant, and waved his hands funny: "No, really not. I came to see because I cared about you. You don't know Zhu Nao, he... I don't know what to say, but he won't let I'm here to be a lobbyist."

The corner of Lu Qinghui's mouth twitched.He still really doesn't understand Junao, since yesterday, there are accidents everywhere.

Xu Yu said: "I'm leaving. I've been really busy these days. There are a lot of messes to clean up, and ordinary people come to the door every day to press the lawsuit. Don't say anything, I'm really leaving."

On the one hand, he had already retreated to the door, and he did not look back.

Lu Qinghui stared at the closed door and was absent-minded for a long time.

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A few days later, Lu Qinghui sorted out all the files he had backed up in the past and what he could remember, and handed them over to the government.

Zhu Nao asked him to stay and do some handover work with the officials. Although he was reluctant, he still spent a few days in the government office to complete the handover.

On the day after the handover, he returned to his residence and was packing his bags when he heard someone knocking on the door.

"Shao Yin, the government has sent a carriage. Do you want to accept it?"

Lu Qinghui was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly went out to check.

Sure enough, there was a carriage parked in the courtyard, and the two horses pulling the carriage were both strong and long-legged horses. There was no luxurious decoration on the carriage, but the sideboards were thick and firm.Such a car is very suitable for long-distance travel, durable and not easy to attract thieves.

Lu Qinghui shook his head with a broken smile, and nodded to the official who came to deliver the carriage a moment later, and said, "I accept it. Thank you to Zhuzhou Mudao for me. I am interested."

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At noon the next day, Zhu Nao was sorting out the files with Xu Yu and others, when an official came to report: "The governor, Lu Shaoyin sent a letter. His carriage has just left the city."

Zhu Nao raised his eyebrows, and did not express any opinion on Lu Qinghui's departure, he just stretched out his hand and said, "Bring me the letter."

The officials hurriedly delivered the envelope.

Junao opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside.There are two sheets of paper inside, one of which is crumpled, as if it has been soaked in water and dried up.He read a few lines and was a little surprised.

After a while, Xu Yu asked, "What did he write?"

Zhu Nao said: "This is not a letter for me." He handed over two pieces of paper and motioned Xu Yu to read it for himself.

Xu Yu hurriedly took it with both hands, and after reading a few lines, she was also taken aback.

What Lu Qinghui left behind was not a letter, but two articles.One is "A Call to Discuss Yuan Jilu", in which he lamented more than a dozen major crimes committed by Yuan Jilu, saying that the Chengdu government beheaded and killed Yuan Jilu to help the country and do justice for the heavens.The other is Lu Qinghui's "Book of Guilt", in which he detailed his many crimes of dereliction of duty, voluntarily dismissed from office, and left Shuzhong.Two articles put the responsibility for the turmoil in central Shu on Yuan Jilu and himself.

Now that Zhu Nao is stationed in Chengdu, although he has not ascended the throne of Chengdu Yin, he beheaded Yuan Jilu, and Lu Qinghui resigned and left. Even if he has the ability to calm down the chaos, it is inevitable that he will keep his tongue and suffer verbal criticism.And once Lu Qinghui's two articles were announced to the world, although it would not be possible to make Zhu Nao justified, he did some work to make the name justified, and then there were some excuses to ward off some criticism.

After reading it, Xu Yu couldn't help but look up at Zhu Nao with a lot of emotions.

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "This is really what Lu Shaoyin would do." After a pause, he instructed the officials, "Take these two articles and publish them."

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In two more days it will be the end of the month.It's time to kill Yuan Jilu.

At around noon, the prison van that imprisoned Yuan Jilu drove out of the government building, and the people who heard the news had already crowded both sides of the street.

The prison car drove around the city, and the stones and mud thrown by the people on the car almost didn't fill up the prison car.Yuan Jilu was also heavily bruised.If it weren't for the officers and soldiers to stop Yuan Jilu, ordinary people would have been smashed to death seventeen or eight times before the prison cart reached the execution point.

When they arrived at the execution point, the crowds of onlookers once again blocked the road, which was almost empty.

Lu Qinghui squeezed in the crowd wearing a straw hat. There were too many people. Even with the protection of his attendants, he was still pushed to the ground.

His attendant eagerly asked, "My lord, shall we squeeze in to see?"

Although this kind of thing is disgraceful, but thinking about the time when Yuan Jilu tormented Lu Qinghui in the past, I felt that watching Yuan Jilu be beheaded was a great thing that made people very happy and enjoyable.

Lu Qinghui said: "Forget it, let's go out, it's too crowded."

His attendants could only protect him from the crowd.

He let the carriage go out of the city to wait two days ago, just to make people think that he had already left, so as not to entangle him with other affairs.In fact, he still stayed in Chengdu, but he didn't want to miss this day.When they finally squeezed out of the crowd, they only heard cheers from the crowd, spreading from the inside to the outside, and everyone cheered.

Lu Qinghui was also affected by this emotion, and smiled along with him.

After a while, he came to the gate of the city, and someone was already waiting for him with a horse outside the city.He got on his horse, and finally looked back at the city where he had been staying for several years. Many faces flashed through his mind, and the last one made him twist his facial features into a ball in annoyance.

After a while, he kicked the horse's belly and said, "Let's go!"

The horse neighed and hooved away.