Chapter 8 Human Heart (Five)

"This, this..." Wang was originally soft-hearted, and hesitated with breathing in his husband's voice, and he was even more afraid to contradict him. After he hesitating for a long time, he poured a cup of hot tea for Gao Xingzhou. While watching him drink it, he carefully reminded, "When I say that, even if I say that, I can't offend His Highness the Crown Prince directly! After all, the emperor only has him, the only son!"

"It's not a kiss!" Gao Xingzhou poured the tea into his mouth and explained loudly while chewing it, "Besides, I can't offend you. Guo Rong is so magnificent. Even if he guessed that I deliberately wanted Zangyong to be alienated from him, he would only hate me and would not implicate others. And I, how long can I live? In the future, our Gao family will still rely on Zangyong to support me?"

"You, what are you talking about?" Wang was startled and tears immediately rolled up. "You, you are only sixty-nine years old this year. In spring, you are still crowned. The champion Hou took his pulse with his own hands. He said you can still live at least fifteen years! He is the world's number one miracle doctor. You, you can't curse yourself, if you have a few long and two shorts..."

"Why did I cry? I just said that. Don't cry, I shouldn't die so fast! Alas, but after all, it's rare to be seventy years old!" Gao Xingzhou was used to life and death, and didn't care about anything or not. "The two bastards, Zang Yong and Zang Wei, are so reckless, and I'm really dead, but I'm still worried about closing my eyes!"

After saying that, he sighed again, his teeth chewed up and down, as if he had an irreconcilable hatred with the tea leaves in his mouth.

Although it was a made-up tea ball, the taste was still a little bitter. Soon, his brows were frowned in bitterness, and his stomach felt astringent and uncomfortable.

He knew that if the situation was good, he could still hold on for a while. If it was bad, he might go there. It was only two years before next. However, the current court situation suddenly became undercurrent because Wang Yin married his daughter to Li Chongjin.

"You, you can't say that! The child is not good at doing well, you just hit them. Why bother, why bother, use these words to scare people. I, I..." Wang did not understand the pain in his heart, and just cried and scolded him.

"Oh! I am not as good as Du Chongwei, nor as good as Zhang Yanze and Li Shouzhen. But over the years, they have been killed and destroyed. Only I am becoming bigger and bigger, and there are more and more soldiers in my hands. Why?" Seeing that my wife was frightened by her, Gao Xingzhou felt soft again, and sighed and explained quietly. "There is nothing else, I never stand in a line, never get too close to either side. Now in the court, the prince, the champion Hou and others are a faction, Wang Jun, Wang Yin, and Li Chongjin are a faction, and the victory is difficult to distinguish. Our Gao family should keep a distance from both sides!"

"You, you should be more cautious in doing things." In a hurry, Gao Xingzhou said something unlucky, so Wang had to follow his words and continue to talk down the verb, regardless of whether he agreed or not.

"The prince is a mindful person. If I hate him, he will not hate him. If the prince becomes the emperor in the future, my son will still not be able to escape the glory and wealth for the rest of his life. If I don't find Tibetan today, if Wang Jun really sends Li Chongjin to the throne in the future, we, our Gao family, will be in a disaster!" Gao Xingzhou narrowed his eyes, looked at the dark sky outside the lobby, and sighed and added.

"Oh!" After hearing her husband say that Chai Rong would not hold a grudge against Gao Huaide, Wang's heart finally felt more at ease and nodded with tears in his eyes.

"I hid that child, on the surface, is arrogant and looks down upon anyone. But in fact, he is extremely warm-hearted. Once he sees someone right, he will be a friend for life." Gao Xingzhou wanted to find someone to talk to him about his thoughts tonight. He didn't care whether his wife was a proper listener or not, and swallowed his bitter saliva and whispered. "If I advise him to avoid misfortune, even if he listened on the surface, he would fight against me behind his back. So, it would be better for me to be this evil man!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that Gao Huaide had not returned home to "appoint" him. He quickly turned his head to the door and shouted loudly, "Gao Fu, where did Zang Yong go? Could he still poke on the school ground? Go, go and find him back for me!"

"Yes!" The butler Gao Fu agreed loudly, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited for a while until he heard Gao Xingzhou's breathing less, and then he rubbed into the room with a smile on his face, "Prince, reply to your words. Prince, he..."

"Why, where is the little bastard? If you have something to do, please tell me quickly, don't hide it!" Gao Xingzhou immediately felt something was wrong, his eyebrows jumped, and anger gushed out of his eyes again.

"Prince, I just now, someone came to report. Prince, the prince seemed to be leading a horse out of the city from the north gate again!" The housekeeper Gao Fu quickly took a few steps back and responded in a hoarse voice.

"What?" Gao Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, then furious.

The north gate, from the north gate, there is only one destination, that is the Yellow River embankment.

Thinking that all his hard work fell into the empty space, he could no longer bear it. He waved his arm and threw the tea bowl in his hand directly to the ground and smashed it. Immediately, regardless of the scared old wife, she raised her hand and took a treasure knife from the wall, and rushed out of the house with great strides, "Come on, come with me to the Yellow River embankment, go and catch the disobedient and unfilial beast back!"

"Yes!" The guards were so scared that everyone's hair stood up. They agreed and quickly led their mounts. Soon, they formed a cavalry team of hundreds of people, surrounded Gao Xingzhou, who was furious and thunderous, and headed straight for the Yellow River embankment.

In the past two years, Gao Huaide was stationed on the border. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of his cavalry, he has collected many good horses from Liaodong. Therefore, Gao Xingzhou's guards were first near the water tower and had already changed all the mounts from up and down. During this emergency trip, the advantages of Liaodong horses immediately appeared. In less than an hour, the Yellow River was already far away.

After running out of sweat, Gao Xingzhou's anger was not as strong as he heard his son sneaking away just now. With the intention of not having a direct conflict with His Royal Highness, he raised his hand high and slowly slowed down his mount.

"Wow——" The guards were well trained and immediately tightened the reins of the war horses one after another. In a blink of an eye, the speed of the entire team's advance changed from running wildly to slow walking, and the movements were so neat that it was amazing to the experts.

"Gao Yuan, Gao Pang, you two follow me to find that foul boy!" Gao Xingzhou had no intention of appreciating the riding skills of his team. He turned around and clicked two confidants with the best martial arts skills, and then whispered to the remaining guards, "Others, wait here. Don't expose your whereabouts!"

"No!" The guards agreed in a low voice, and then they all grabbed the horse's head.

Gao Xingzhou nodded to everyone with satisfaction, turned over and jumped off the war horse, held the sword in his hand, and walked towards the brightly lit river bank. Gao Yuan and Gao Peng followed closely behind, carefully protecting Gao Xingzhou's sides, while turning their heads and quickly watching.

The Yellow River embankment was filled with torches stained with whale oil, illuminating the entire construction site as bright as daytime.

Chai Rong and Zheng Ziming walked slowly back and forth on the newly reinforced embankment, carefully checking the quality of construction in various places. Pan Mei and Fan Wenchang followed the script and loudly emphasized the precautions for the next stage of construction. Each river worker leader listened very seriously, fearing that he would miss a word and drag down tomorrow's construction progress. According to the rules set by the champion Hou, the team that completed the work in advance with quality and quantity will double the reward on that day. The team that was dragged until dark and was still slow to get 80% of the rewards on that day. The whole team had to wear yellow hats the next day and were pointed at by the people on the entire embankment.

On the flat ground a little far from the river embankment were Tao Dachun, Li Shun and several other Cangzhou generals who could not name Gao Xingzhou. They each led a river patrol team of hundreds of people, and were training in full swing. In the team, every soldier was carefully selected from the river workers, all of whom were born with a tiger's back and bear's waist, and the oily muscle mass was clearly visible on their arms.

Further away, there were several young scholars who taught basic herbal identification skills to the river workers' families who had nothing to do to do. The more deserted and remote the place, the more the herbs they grew, the better the effect. In addition to washing clothes and cooking for men, the family members could learn to collect herbs, and undoubtedly had a stable entry. With a purse around their waists, they had enough confidence in their hearts and had the courage to look up when they spoke. Even when serving their men's feet at night, they were no longer as careful as before.

Gao Xingzhou has seen these scenes countless times in recent months, but never once, he has seen them as seriously as today. He can't help but sometimes he can't help but make a good result. Therefore, he must carefully examine these common scenes in front of him to make a better judgment and decide what attitude he should take tonight and take his son home.

"Who?" Several soldiers on duty were alert to find someone approaching, holding their weapons and whispering to him.

"I, King Qi Gao Xingzhou!" Gao Xingzhou raised the sword in his hand and responded in an extremely low voice.

On duty, the soldiers immediately knew from the gems inlaid with the scabbard that the visitor was not low. Then, they saw the waist signs displayed by the two personal guards of the Qi Palace. They quickly saluted and asked loudly: "I have seen the prince, please wait for the prince. I will report to the prince immediately!"

"No need, it's hot, I go to the river bank to see my son, so I don't have to alarm the prince!" Gao Xingzhou waved his hand quickly and ordered in a lower voice. "Go what to do! I am not an outsider. In terms of martial arts, three of them can't beat the champion Hou and one, and they won't harm your prince!"

"Yes, Prince!" The soldier on duty turned red when he was said, and quickly saluted Gao Xingzhou again and retreated awkwardly.

They all knew that Gao Xingzhou was Gao Huailiang's father, so they did not dare to publicly violate the old man's orders. But for the sake of caution, they quietly formed a half-arc shape over twenty steps to avoid any unexpected events.

Of course, this behavior with obvious precautions cannot be hidden from the eyes of the old Xingwu Gao Xingzhou. However, as the King of Qi, the latter could not bear to be serious with the soldiers. He just smiled and continued to walk slowly along the river bank, while walking, while continuing to inspect the "capital" of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

There were not many soldiers near the river embankment, but there were only one of the prince's own battalions and the three thousand elite soldiers led by Zheng Ziming. However, there were no less than twenty river workers of all sizes. Each of them had a single battalion, scattered near the dam. From a high point, it looked like blooming plum blossoms. Each battalion was very neatly packed, with tents of all sizes and rows in rows, like a group of soldiers, raising their chests and backs, receiving the proofreading of the commander.

"Even my personal army under my command, the camp will not be so tight!" Looking at him, Gao Xingzhou couldn't help but stroke his beard and exclaimed in a low voice.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, experts watch the tricks. He led troops for decades, and his eyes had been trained as bright as lightning. After a few sweeps, he saw the difference between the river workers under the prince's command and the people who were in charge of labor service in the past.

No one has ever given such good treatment to Minzhuang. No one has ever organized Minzhuang so neatly. No one will roll with Minzhuang all day long, eat and live with Minzhuang, carry a sandbag, and nail a pillar!

This is not a place to lead the people to strengthen the rivers, this is simply taking the opportunity to train troops!

In the past, Wu Qi and his soldiers were eating and drinking, sleeping on the same ridge, and entering and leaving the same line. Three years later, they defeated the Qin army with 500,000 new recruits, 500 chariots, and 3,000 light cavalry. In the past, Wei Qing did not ride a horse or sit on a mat, and was carrying arrows and stones in front of the battle. Three years later, the army directly attacked the prison court, defeated 100,000 enemies, and captured all the wives, concubines and children of the Huns. Now, with the assistance of the champion Hou Zheng Ziming, the crown prince Chai Rong has eaten and lived with tens of thousands of river workers for more than two years...

"Prince, the prince is there!" Gao Ming came over quietly, pulled Gao Xingzhou's sleeve, and reminded him with his mouth.

Gao Xingzhou quickly turned his head over and saw his eldest son Gao Huaide walking steadily towards Chai Rong and others with a huge barrel in one hand, without noticing that his father was nearby. While walking, he shouted happily, "Come on, come on, your highness, Ziming, hurry up and ask everyone to come and taste it. Try the old wine secretly stored in our Gao family! It has been stored for more than ten years, and my father is not willing to drink it. Today I took it all, come on, try it, relax the muscles and nourish the bones, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis!"

"Bah! When did I hide my wine? I can't bear to drink it?" Gao Xingzhou frowned and lowered his voice to defend himself. However, he did not have the courage to rush out and expose his son's lies. He just stepped back and walked down the river bank step by step, for fear that he would not hide in time enough and destroy the drinking fun of the young people on the river bank.

"Prince, why don't you go over and tell the prince?" Gaopeng was not sure about his boss's thoughts, so he held Gao Xingzhou's waist and carefully lost his composure.

"Forget it, I can't help but let him go!" Gao Xingzhou grinned and shook his head gently.

A breeze blew, bringing a strong aroma of wine. Although it was not eaten by myself, it was refreshing.

"Let's go!" After a glance at the silent personal soldier, Gao Xingzhou turned around with a smile. "It's time to go home to sleep. When you are old and have poor energy, you won't join in the fun!"

"Oh, ah!" Gao Yuan and Gao Peng felt relieved, and they quickly followed and held Gao Xingzhou's arm again.

"No, I am strong, I can't help you! The boy surnamed Zheng said that it's okay for me to live for another fifteen years!" Gao Xingzhou's face was filled with a reassuring smile. He shook off the two personal soldiers and strided away to the place where the war horses were hidden before.

The passionate blood of his youth seemed to have returned to his body without realizing it, making him full of vitality at this moment.
Chapter completed!