"How dare you have the third son of Lao to greet him? Cen will be restless all night tonight. ”

Cen Chi, who was closer, saw Shi Xin and casually threw off the donkey rope in his hand, walked to Shi Xin and stopped, he raised his arms and bowed deeply.

When Cen Chi straightened up, Shi Xin grabbed the forearm of one of his hands, and said with a smile while leading him into the house: "Why not?" I've always treated you as a friend, so don't be polite about it. If Brother Cen really can't sleep tonight because of this, we can talk together with candles. You don't know, I haven't been out of the house for months, and I'm suffocating. ”

"Who can hold you!" Cen Chi's courtesy was only a matter of a moment, and soon he relaxed and teased.

"Let's sit down first." Shi Xin smiled.

The donkey was cleverly led by a housekeeper to take a detour to the backyard, and after the remaining few housekeepers returned to the house and closed the door, except for the two who stayed behind to guard the door, the other five people dispersed. Only the round-faced housekeeper beckoned a few maids to busy cleaning up Cen Chi's lodging and the refreshments for the guests.

Cen Chi followed Shi Xin into a small courtyard, which was Shi Xin's residence.

Although there are many talented people who Shi Xin stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion as guests, the place where he usually makes tea and chats is in a courtyard set up in the mansion. Because of the special feature of Shi Xin's temporary position in the court, if he is not a person who is particularly close to each other, or has something important, he will not bring guests from the palace here under normal circumstances.

Sooner or later, Cen will be mentally prepared. When he first came out of the small temple next to the garbage mountain in the south of the city, he had inquired about the two family members sent by the prime minister who had been protecting him, but if anything important happened to the prime minister's family, it would not spread to everyone in the family.

Therefore, after a few words of greeting with Shi Xin, Cen Chi asked implicitly: "Shi Gongzi has a sad look between his eyebrows. If there is a need to help, please do not hesitate to ask. ”

"I didn't expect to be seen by you so quickly." Shi Xin's eyes moved, and he said with some embarrassment: "You just came back, rest first, and I'll tell you later." ”

"You look a little anxious." Cen hesitated for a moment and then asked, "I rode back on a donkey, but it didn't take much effort. Since last year's trip, he has been idle, and Shi Gong has sent people to send him from time to time. Nor do you have to work for your livelihood. Now when I come back, I see that my son is worried, and I don't do anything, and I always feel a little uneasy in my heart. ”

"Brother Cen, you always say this, but it makes people think that our historian's friendship with you is just a deal." Shi Xin was annoyed.

After a moment of silence, he glanced up at the height of the moon on the horizon, and then sighed softly. said, "Okay, please help me solve a problem first." But we've said okay, and it's just to appease the uneasiness you just said. I also wanted to solve the problem in front of me quickly, but it was too late today, and the drawings were all kept by my father, so I couldn't get them for a while. ”

"Drawings?" Cen Chi was puzzled.

"There's going to be war." Shi Xin frowned slightly and said, "The group of Yi people on the periphery of Qingchuan have long been threatening. Every ten years, we will fight our country until we are victorious, and this battle has not been interrupted since the previous dynasty. Seeing that the time of the war was approaching, my father sent additional spies lurking in the military and political affairs of the Qingchuan Yi clan, and sure enough, he intercepted a batch of drawings, and the charts constructed according to the terrain should be the battle sequence. However, the drawings seem to have been deliberately shuffled, and it is unknown if they are complete. ”

Cen Chi said indifferently: "It's incomplete." After splicing, there will be a natural result. ”

"Hmm. I'm much more relieved that you're up to you. Shi Xin smiled at Cen Chi, and after changing the topic, he continued: "Yi people often do things like drinking blood and eating raw meat, and they are so cruel and violent. It is difficult to train, and I am afraid that even if that place is taken back, the people of Yi will not be able to be obedient to the people. If you want to end this matter, I'm afraid there is only one way to kill. And imagine that if they want to win, they will be ruthless once and for all. ”

"Cen is not good at these things, of course, there will be people who are good at these things to analyze, and Cen will do his best to do what he is good at." Cen Chi stood up, arched his hand to Shi Xin, and then continued: "I have always believed that there must be a way to restore the disrupted order, unless it is disorderly, it can also be solved in another way. As for things like operational maps, because they are field-based, even if there are defects, there is an opportunity to fill in them according to the fixed geographical situation. ”

"Very good." Shi Xin's eyes lit up, and he praised: "I've always been confused about the method of restoring the drawings, but I haven't thought about this, Brother Cen has just come back, and just three or two words have solved a lot of confusion for Brother Fool." ”

"Childe exalted me." Cen Chi smiled and said: "When you encounter a problem and solve the problem, it is the same reason that you have to open the door first in the follow-up house, Gongzi is not wrong, what Cen said is just a remedy, similar to climbing the window and crossing the house." The root of the problem is to spell out that picture. ”

"Brother Cen is too humble." Shi Xin also stood up, arched his hand towards Cen Chi and said, "It's all up to you to do this." ”

……

At noon the next day, the spring was bright and sunny.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Shi's father and son stayed in the study for a long time and did not come out, and there was no sound coming from the study, which made several family members who were guarding the courtyard outside the study vaguely feel a trace of unease.

I don't know how long it took, but the sun in the center of the sky shifted slightly, but the light was a little more dazzling. At this moment, in the corridor opposite the study, a young man with a box came quickly, this young man was dressed the same as the family in the courtyard, but there was a significant difference, that is, he was equipped with a short knife at his waist.

This knife is a status symbol. Although he was still just a general servant to the prime minister, among all the ministers' servants, they could exercise the most power. Of course, there are not many such people in the prime minister's house, and they usually don't show up.

Therefore, when several of the housekeepers in the courtyard saw the saber young man coming, they immediately bowed their heads in respect, and the saber youth also nodded lightly in return, and then he went straight to the door of the study and knocked on the door panel. When the young man changed to hold the box with one hand, a reddish liquid spread out on the exposed side of the box, and it was bright and dazzling in the midday sun.

A family member standing in the warm spring light inadvertently raised his head, his eyes were just on the red, he was stunned for a moment, and then he only felt a chill crawling up his back ridge, spreading out in his body like a vine, and even the spring light that fell on his body seemed to be colder. The guy quickly turned his gaze away from the other person, and the look in his eyes was almost the same, so he had to purse his lips and then hang his head.

The door of the study was halfway open, and a deep voice said two words, and then the young man was closed into the study with the box and the slightly dim light in the room.

It was Shi Xin who opened the door, and his father Shi Jing was sitting behind the desk, and nodded when he saw the young man come in. The young man walked straight to the desk, gently put down the box, and then bowed respectfully to Shi Jing and stepped aside.

Shi Jing casually removed the lid of the box, his eyes fell into the box, and he froze for a moment before retracting it. He closed the lid of the box, then looked at the young man with the saber, and said slowly, "Are you sure it's him?" ”

Prime Minister Shi Jing is now in his early fifties, but he usually pays attention to taking care of his body, so he looks a few years younger than his actual age. However, as Xiangguo, he is the closest auxiliary minister to the emperor, and he usually needs to consume a lot of mental energy, and the pressure attached to power and responsibility is not small, so he can still capture some dry and dumb timbre caused by the attenuation of the body in his voice, but it is more of a natural majesty of the minister.

"Hui to the head of the family, it is indeed this person." The young man with the saber bowed down with an extremely respectful expression.

"Hmm." Shi Jing nodded and didn't ask anything more. There was a hint of praise in his eyes, but he didn't say a word of praise to the young man, but after a little silence, he pushed the box on the table forward slightly, and said calmly: "I don't need to cook the meat for the dog today, so let's take this instead!" ”

"Yes." The young man bowed his hand again, then went to his desk, picked up the box, and went out of the house.

After being silent for a long time, Shi Xin walked back after closing the door, and finally asked, "Father, is the person in the box who made trouble last night?" ”

Shi Jing nodded.

Shi Xin then asked, "Kill him like this?" ”

Shi Jing said with a smile: "You ask this, are you sorry, or do you think that this person is cheaper?" ”

Shi Xin didn't answer immediately, he lowered his head slightly, and only replied after a while: "I feel a little sudden." ”

"He's one of the guests." Shi Jing looked at the look on his youngest son's face, and hesitated slightly before continuing: "When I opened the lid of the box just now, you turned your gaze to the side, don't you want to know who that person is?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Xin suddenly raised his head and said, "Father, I have been like this since I was a child, I hate to see blood. ”

"I know." Mentioning this flaw of his son, Shi Jing couldn't help but sigh.

His third child is gentle and calm-hearted, and his intelligence is also in the other two sons. Most of the guests raised in the house are this son weaving, and he is also very popular among everyone. But he was born with the hypothesis of not being able to see blood, which made his great help have a lot of limitations.

In the middle of the court, Shi Jing assisted Shi Xin to serve in the Privy Council, but he only hung up the false title of deputy envoy, which can be regarded as digging a pit for the position of the chief envoy. However, Shi Xin didn't overcome this hypothesis for a day, and Shi Jing wouldn't push him to that position for a day. Shi Jing waited for a long time to control the Privy Council, but he didn't want to make Shi Xin have problems in the midst of compulsion...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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