In the Central Plains at the end of March, warblers are flying and grass is growing, the wilderness is like the sea, the wind is blowing up the blue waves, and the flowers are flying thousands of miles away, and they are wild and bold.
The ancient road outside the south city gate on the left was sparsely populated. Near dusk, a horse team of twenty people came running.
Zuohang County is located in the southeast of Fengyuan and north of Mouye. During the Battle of Mouye that started last year, Zuohang suffered the most. It was successively swept away by the soldiers and horses of Tian Dayao and Yun Bozhong. Jiao Jinhu dared not speak out in anger, and even wished he could kill Zuohang himself.
Send it out to them.
Now there are only a few sporadic guards at each city gate, who fish and eat all day long, turning a blind eye to the people coming and going in and out of the city gate.
Now that he saw the visitor, the yawning guard regained his spirits.
The young man at the head of the cavalry team was dressed in black, arrow-sleeved clothes. He had handsome features and cold brows, showing no sign of fatigue from the journey. As they approached, he raised his eyes and glanced at them, then looked away with an expressionless expression.
As a large city in the Central Plains with connections in all directions, Zuoxing is often used as a transit point. However, recent wars have occurred frequently. The battle of Mouye was inconclusive, and Jiao Jinhu turned a blind eye to it. It has been a long time since there has been such a nobleman here.
There are not many people in the city, but they all gather together in small groups. Some play chess, brag, and gamble. Women mostly gather in the alleys, sewing and chatting.
After the cavalry entered the city, they did not gallop again, but the speed was still not slow. They did not take the main road in the city and tried to open up places where there were many people.
The front door of Yuyun Restaurant was extremely clean today, everyone had been driven away. The young man leaning on the railing upstairs was playing with the folding fan in his hand, looking bored.
He caught sight of the horse team coming over there, and after seeing the man on the horse clearly, he almost didn't drop the folding fan in his hand.
He quickly turned around and ran towards the private room behind him. Several people in the same room complained that they had stomachaches and immediately opened the door and ran downstairs.
Standing downstairs and watching the cavalry approach, he stepped forward angrily: "Brother Shen, why are you here? How hard I tried to persuade you in the letter! Why didn't you listen!"
Shen Lie jumped off the horse and said, "How many people are upstairs?"
The young man held his forehead, looking like he had a headache.
The young man's name is Ji Xiahe, he is in his early twenties. The Ji family and the Guo family live together in Zuilu, and the two families have a good relationship. Ji Xiahe is the third son of the Ji family, and he and Shen Lie grew up together.
"Five people," Ji Xiahe said, "I don't know the other two. One is my second uncle, the other is the captain of the Han Shen camp, and the cousin who likes to stir up shit everywhere."
"Guo Yu?"
"Haha," Ji Xia and Su'er said happily, "Look, I think he is causing trouble everywhere!"
"What's going on now?"
"I think what they mean is to encourage him to die," Ji Xiahe said. "I really don't want to come over. Anyway, listen to me. No matter what happens in the end, don't worry about this matter. Song Zhiyi is not a fool. If he had ten pairs of eyes,
, at least Qishuang is staring at our Guo family. After waiting to go up, don't say anything, pretend to be stupid if you can, and look as anxious as possible, as anxious as you can. Just treat it as a formality.
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Five years ago, when Song Zhiyi raised the flag of rebellion, the Ji family was one of the first families to support Song Zhiyi. However, the Ji family was severely dragged down by the successive expeditions from east to west. The losses in both financial and human resources were extremely heavy.
Recently, Song Zhiyi has repeatedly recruited cabinet members into the palace to formulate new policies. Although they have not been promulgated, there are already rumors that Song Zhiyi wants to completely embezzle the aristocratic family that can no longer contribute much.
The Ji family, who originally wanted to leave Song Zhiyi and cut their losses in time, made up their mind to flee after confirming that the news was correct. However, most of the Ji family's property was already in Song Zhiyi's territory. If they completely gave up, it would not be a painful end, but a painful end.
I heard that the Guo family on the other side of the drunken deer in their hometown had recently chosen someone to choose from, so the Ji family immediately contacted the Guo family and wanted to join the Guo family in defecting to the new owner. At the same time, they also wanted the Guo family to help them bring them together. How much of the industry can be transferred out?
The Guo family had different opinions on this. The fourth family strongly advocated helping the Ji family. Guo Liulang and Guo Yu set off first. At the same time, they sent people to contact Ji Xiahe and asked him to write a letter to Shen Lie.
Of course Ji Xiahe didn't want Shen Lie to get involved in this dispute. He didn't want to write, but he was afraid that other people would write to Shen Lie and ask Shen Lie to come over, so Ji Xiahe still wrote. The letters he wrote were all If you want Shen Lie, don't worry and don't come.
Ji Xiahe first sent someone upstairs to say that Shen Lie was here, and then took Shen Lie slowly upstairs.
Halfway up the stairs, Ji Xiahe still wanted to ask: "Why did you come here?"
"More than one person wrote to me," Shen Lie said.
"Then you're coming?" Ji Xiahe said angrily, "If they want to come, they will come. If I don't want to come, why don't you listen to me?"
"I came here for my own reasons," Shen Lie replied, "I'll find out later."
"It won't be so easy," Ji Xiahe said. "For what the Guo family has done to the pair over the years, if we really agree to go this time, even if Song Zhiyi can't be killed, the Guo family can still do a hundred things secretly." A way to kill someone."
Shen Lie smiled faintly and raised his hand to pat his shoulder.
There is no one in the lobby. There are five men sitting in the private room upstairs. One is tall, with bushy eyebrows and big eyes. He is a military commander and is about forty years old. The other has a handsome face and is Ji Zhongchuan, Ji Xiahe's second uncle. Ji Xiahe has a handsome face. Five points like him. The young man next to him, Eguan Bodai and elegant in white, is Shen Lie's seventh cousin Guo Yu. There are also two others who look like a pair of brothers. They are not very tall and talk very little. not much.
Went to the private room, exchanged some pleasantries, and sat down quietly.
Guo Yu said with a smile: "Time flies really fast. I just calculated it carefully and found that my cousin and I haven't seen each other for a year. During this year, my cousin traveled all over the world, and all his hard work and hard work were taken away. He even got drunk. The deer never came back."
"I heard from the Fourth Brother that my nephew was going to Hengxiang." Ji Zhongchuan said, his eyes falling on the young man and looking at him carefully.
The son, who has not yet reached his twenties, has an excellent appearance, sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and an aloof temperament. He has the disdain of being pure and pure like an immortal, but also has the youthful and energetic demeanor of a young man.
He hadn't seen him for many years, and he was very different from the boy in his memory who was withdrawn, didn't like to talk to others, and was occasionally a bit eccentric. It was also different from what his wife Lin said. The young men who were both unhappy were far from each other.
"Well," Shen Lie responded, "I was going to Hengxiang."
"I don't know what to do when I go to Hengxiang?" Ji Zhongchuan asked again.
"Some personal matters."
Ji Zhongchuan smiled: "When it comes to Hengxiang, I always think of Dongping Academy. I wonder if this private matter is related to Dongping Academy?"
