Horses' hooves clatter.

A group of five people left the palace and hurried on Jingzhong Avenue, and when they got out of Beijing, they could go straight to the boundary of Qingzhou Mansion along the official road.

It was the inner servant sent by the emperor, and the leader was the inner servant Zhao Sihu. Zhao Sihu's backpack was wrapped in a holy decree written in bright yellow soft satin stamped by His Majesty.

All the attendants in the palace of Dongliang Kingdom have a wisp of red clothes and white pants, but they are special when they go out to do business, and everyone has already changed their outfits. Dressed in black clothes and black pants, the place where he passed was like an ominous cloud drifting by, and those who are familiar with Ouchi in Beijing know that such an inner servant brings either good news that has ascended to the sky in one step, or it is a disaster that has been wiped out by the whole family, so as long as the black-clothed messenger gallops by, ordinary people can hide as far as they can.

Look at the horses about to finish Jingzhong Street East Street, a figure suddenly appeared at the intersection.

"Dad, someone is blocking the way. The little chamberlain saw it first and reported back to Zhao Sihu.

Zhao Sihu glanced at it from afar and laughed silently, "This is normal, I am about to walk out of Beijing, if there is no one to stand in the way, your father and I will not suffer some bumps in this long journey in vain!"

As he spoke, the horses did not stop at all, and they were already close to the eyes.

A flower child, dressed in a brown ragged robe and carrying a broken bowl, stumbled and stried, but it seemed that hunger and poverty could not pull out a step.

"Get out of the way—dare to block the way of the official and grandpa—" shouted the chamberlain at the front, waving the whip in his hand.

"Ouch-" Hanako panicked and hurriedly dodged, but she stumbled and fell to the ground, seeing that the bowl of big horses' hooves was about to trample on her body and crumble into pulp.

"Phew—don't hurt anyone—" Zhao Sihu suddenly crossed the crowd and drank his subordinates.

He personally dismounted and went to support Hanako, who was lying on the ground and shouting for his mother.

Hanako grabbed Zhao Sihu's arm tightly with her backhand and whispered: "Xiangye explains, only defeat, not success-this trip must be muddyed to have a good show-"

Zhao Sihu was stunned for an instant, and returned to his original state like lightning.

"The pay is the same, this number—" Hanako's fingers swaying rapidly from her tattered sleeve.

Zhao Sihu laughed, "What a flower, hungry and crazy, he doesn't choose to eat, and he even dares to block the way of the official errand-someone is coming, he carries it to the side of the road and throws it, where are the wild dogs thrown away-"

Suddenly, the little waiter behind him echoed, three or two dismounted, really lifted Hanako's dirty body and threw it to the side of the road, then got on the horse and whipped it, and dropped a sentence: "If it weren't for our good heart, your kid would have been trampled into meat and mud——"

The horses galloped away.

Behind him, the lively people were scattered.

Zhao Sihu worked non-stop, day and night, through the state and county, and finally arrived at the ground of Qingzhou Mansion, did not go to the state office, did not alarm the state officials along the way, and went straight to Baifu.

In the White Mansion, the days are still the same.

The autumn breeze is cool, and on this day, Bai Feng and everyone are drinking under a laurel tree to enjoy the osmanthus flowers.

Jars of aged wine are opened out of the cellar one by one, filling a small table, and the dishes are also exquisite, which are carefully fired by the chefs of the Bai family for many years.

"Drink-" Bai Feng raised the wine cup in his hand and greeted Lao Yun and Hei He on the other side.

Ling'er stood up suddenly, "Grandpa Bai, the injury on your arm hasn't healed yet, you can't drink, you will hurt your body if you drink too much, and the old bones are already healing very slowly-"

"Hahaha-" Bai Feng laughed, "Hao Ling'er, I'm getting more and more interested in your Grandpa Bai, and I'm going to take care of your Grandpa Bai." I don't drink much, just a small cup?"

Lao Yun glared at his grandson, "Big brother, don't pay attention to this kid, how old is he, he really thinks of himself as an adult-he doesn't know the taste of wine, what does he know-" After speaking, Lao Yun drank a cup by himself.

"Wine into the bowels of sorrow, turn into lovesick tears! Drink a thousand cups, and you will taste a thousand cups—" The black crane sighed, and then poured wine into his mouth again and again.

Ling'er glared at Lao Yun and Hei He angrily, the two old men were really getting worse and worse, they had nothing to do and plucked Grandpa Bai to drink, and after drinking too many people, they would get drunk, and when they were drunk, Grandpa Bai would sleep and shed tears, a big man's family, first-class tears were in the middle of the night, and he could soak a pillow towel, he saw these with his own eyes, and he didn't dare to tell others, even Grandpa He didn't dare to say it, Grandpa warned him not to talk nonsense as long as he opened his mouth, this is not Jiumao Mountain, but he can talk nonsense casually.

If you say it's so horrible here, why do you drink so much of your own? Especially lately, when you get drunk, the whole house smells drunk.

"Thirty merits, fame, dust and earth, three thousand miles of clouds and moons-whatever, drink, get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows-" Grandpa Black Crane raised the wine cup again, and was toasting Grandpa Bai again, so angry that Xiao Lingzi rolled his eyes, Grandpa Black Crane hated it more than his grandfather, and when he drank, his mouth was full of words, and it was all bullshit that Xiao Lingzi didn't understand.

"The sword is always ringing in the box, and the hairpin is waiting to be sold in the coffin—" Grandpa Black Crane shook his head and chanted poetry again.

At this time, a servant hurriedly came and interrupted the second half of Heihe's sentence: "Master, it's not good, someone is coming at the gate, and he is menacing, like an official errand-"

The wine table suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at each other.

Xiao Lingzi was clever, and immediately stood up and looked at Grandpa Bai Feng, meaning that the full wine cup and the wine jar should be removed and hidden?

Bai Feng shook his head.

"So, here?" muttered Old Cloud.

Kurotsuru nodded, "Unhurried, the time is just right." ”

Bai Feng's face did not change, and he instructed his subordinates: "Open the door and greet you." ”

The people of the Bai family's mansion greeted the attendants of the decree in the compound.

Ling'er noticed that Grandpa Black Crane and his grandfather had long since retreated, mixed with the Bai family's subordinates.

Bai Yulin supported Grandpa Bai, Grandpa Bai's arm hurt, but he still had to kowtow, he knelt on the ground, kowtowing with both hands, Ling'er looked at it and was only anxious, afraid that Grandpa Bai's arm would hurt again.

The waiter recited a long list of words, and his mouth was full of poems, Ling'er couldn't understand half of the sentence, and finally Bai Yulin accepted the holy decree on behalf of Bai Feng.

The old man who read the holy decree looked as white as a girl, with a feminine air, and his voice was so strange, as ugly as a male duck, when he read the holy decree, it was a strange tone, and after reading it, after handing the holy decree to Bai Yulin, he still spoke in that strange tone: "Old General Bai, Marshal Bai, pick up and pick up, come with us - the emperor and ministers are still waiting for you!"

Ling'er saw that Grandpa Bai couldn't kneel, looked into the distance and kowtowed respectfully, and shouted: "Your Majesty's love, the grass people will die and will not repay the deep kindness, but Zhao's father-in-law, you have also seen it, the old man I am injured, coupled with old age and weakness, dizzy, I have long been incompetent for the position of marshal, so please return to His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of the grass people, the grass people are guilty and have a negative grace." ”

After saying that, continue to kowtow.

A yard of people followed and kowtowed.

Ling'er looked at the matter between the adults with cold eyes, he saw the eyes of the surnamed Zhao purring and looking at Grandpa Bai, a smile appeared on Bai's face, and he personally stepped forward to help Grandpa Bai up, he must have tested Grandpa Bai's injury, and he didn't let go of that hand, but grabbed a handful of Grandpa Bai's injured arm. was so anxious that Ling'er almost shouted. But no one shouted, everyone watched quietly. Grandpa Bai himself didn't say anything, but everyone saw it, Grandpa Bai's face suddenly turned pale, the sweat on his forehead flowed, and what was even more hateful was that a layer of red blood quickly oozed from Grandpa Bai's snow-white coat, and the blood stains became bigger and bigger, wetting the right sleeve for a long time. Ling'er's heart hurt so much, he knew that it must be that the bad guy surnamed Zhao had too much strength and re-broke Grandpa Bai's wounds, maybe even the bones were broken. Ling'er's eyes were full of tears, he really hated that he didn't have the courage to rush up and beat the bastard surnamed Zhao hard.

The surnamed Zhao observed Grandpa Bai's face, looked at it for a while, and finally believed that Grandpa Bai's injury was real, he let go of Grandpa Bai's arm and said, "Okay, the general is sick, let's go back and tell Your Majesty the truth." ”

After saying that, he took his leave and left.

The rest of the courtyard watched the five men in black leave.

The black crane stepped forward to help Grandpa Bai, and everyone hurried to Grandpa Bai's bedroom.

Ling'er was curious and followed away.

As soon as she entered the door, Ling'er saw Grandpa Heihe let go of Grandpa Bai and said, "Why do you want to refuse?

Grandpa Bai picked up the tea and drank it slowly. But he was not in a hurry to bandage the wound.

Ling'er was also anxious and didn't understand, even if he didn't know much about adults, but he already vaguely understood that the eunuch surnamed Zhao was here to announce the decree on behalf of the emperor, and asked Grandpa Bai to go out of the mountain again to take command of the war.

Why did Grandpa Bai do this? This is not his original intention, when the three grandfathers are together, they especially like to talk about national affairs, and recently they are very concerned about the war situation in the southwest, almost every night they have to play chess under the lamp, drink tea, talk about the war situation, and in the end, Grandpa Bai has to be indignant, either scolding, or wiping tears, saying that the world is good, the country is good, and watching it be encroached on step by step, the lives are ruined, and the people are not happy, which is the shame of the Dongliang men and the shame of the Dongliang soldiers. Ling'er knew that Grandpa Bai and Grandpa Heihe also had their own grandfather, these three old comrades-in-arms were actually old horses who were ambushed for thousands of miles, and they patted their chests one by one and said, just when the time comes, they will go out of the mountain again, wave their arms, and fight back a Qingming and peaceful world for the people of Dongliang Kingdom.

But now Ling'er doesn't understand, since the emperor has sent someone to invite Grandpa Bai to be the generalissimo and lead the troops to fight the invading Moro country, then why does Grandpa Bai still find a way to refuse?

Ling'er took bandages and gauze, as well as gold sore medicine, and came forward to heal Grandpa Bai's injuries.

Grandpa Bai didn't refuse, took off his clothes, exposed his arms, and was surprised to see the wound, he found that the bleeding was not the bone stubble that had been broken, but the right arm was slightly lower, the bones here were intact, but the flesh was broken, and now the blood flow coagulated, leaving only a wound with blurred flesh and blood.

Ling'er cleans the wound.

"They really bullied her, why did you break Grandpa Bai's arm?" Ling'er muttered.

Unexpectedly, Grandpa Bai smiled and pointed at Grandpa, "Old Yun, this kid is getting better and better for me, look, it's more uncomfortable than you are injured-"

Lao Yun also smiled, "It shows that he does have a fate with the eldest brother, and I will really hand over this child to the eldest brother in the future." ”

Ling'er was curious, these adults are just strange, Grandpa Bai's blood has dyed half of the sleeve red, why do you still care so much?

Grandpa looked at Grandpa Bai and asked, "Will Zhao Sihu be a bad thing?" He is the most skilled person in the inner servant, and he will not fail to see the matter of the eldest brother's self-harm and bleeding. ”

Is Grandpa White self-harming?

Ling'er felt that her brain was not enough.

Bai Feng shook his head: "Don't worry. I understand Zhao Sihu. The city government is not deep, but it is too greedy for money. He was sent on this errand, and he was sure to take the opportunity to make a fortune. And the reason why I temporarily self-mutilated and bleed, it is really a choice that has no way out, first, it is just to test Zhao Sihu's reality and reality, and secondly, this trip out is not only Zhao Sihu alone, I don't know whose eyeliner is ambushed, so under this blue sky and white sun, I am indeed disabled, and everyone can see it, and it has become a fact that is difficult to erase. Whether it is for myself or for Zhao Sihu, it is ironclad evidence that is very telling. ”

Ling'er was confused.

Grandpa Heihe obviously didn't understand, only Grandpa Bai understood, he nodded to Grandpa Bai with a smile, and said: "It can be seen that there are still people in the court who are not of the same mind as Zhengxi, and they are changing their ways to obstruct the eldest brother from going out of the mountain." ”

Bai Feng groaned: "We were originally military generals, and we are good at fighting in the army outside, and when it comes to fighting with these civil officials, ten of us are not worth one of them." But I only had one idea, until the last moment when Zhengxi was facing a dead end and sincerely asked me to go out of the mountain, I dragged it out, tried my best not to get out of the mountain, not to be fooled by them, and not to get involved in their open and secret fights. ”

The black crane finally became impatient, "What are you selling, the more I listen, the more confused I become." ”

Lao Yun, like Bai Feng, also drank tea slowly, looking at the black crane: "Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang out of the mountain, and there is a three-way thatched house, since he wants to use people in Zhengxi, as long as he uses the eldest brother solidly, he is not afraid of him running a few more times." ”

Hei Tsuru understood this time, thoughtfully, after thinking about it, his heart was not steady, "Then, what if he angers Zhengxi, isn't he the most moody? ”

Bai Feng slowly sipped the fine tea, his expression was not arrogant or impatient, "It is precisely because he is moody, so we can't be too anxious to rush up, we are too anxious, don't we tell him that I have been waiting for this day for a long time? Then all my Taoguang cultivation is not in vain? It is also equivalent to telling him that I have never lived in peace, but are waiting for the day when I leave the mountain?"

Hei He doesn't like to use his brain, and he doesn't bend his intestines so much, he looked at Lao Yun in distress: "You can tell me what your plans are, you know that I am a straight person." ”

Lao Yun smiled: "You just drink tea slowly, anyway, big brother here is other general, but this Ming Qian tea is the best in the whole Dongliang country, and when you and I taste tea and raise it almost well, the time will come." ”

Ling'er was extremely distressed when he heard this, and felt that he didn't understand, he stood on tiptoe and looked at his grandfather's tea bowl, where the tea was clear and clear, what does drinking tea have to do with going out of the mountain?

He secretly scratched the back of his head, hating himself for not being able to grow up quickly.