Li Rui slept very deeply, and he seemed to see his grandfather and father in a daze. With very satisfied smiles, they watched him talk incessantly.

But he was too sleepy to hear anything.

Let me sleep a little longer, and when I'm asleep, I'll talk to you." ’

"Li Rui, Li Rui?" Zhang Zhi looked at Li Rui sleeping and didn't know what to do, and he couldn't bear to wake him up. But if he slept in a chair, he was afraid that he would wake up with a sore back.

Zhang Zhi pushed several times, but his nephew didn't blink his eyelids, he could only sigh, moved a few more chairs, laid him flat, and used the chair to temporarily build a bed out.

Zhang Zhi asked the little servant and the general to be optimistic about Li Rui, and returned to the study with the letter and the talisman.

On the other side, Jiang Jingyi, who returned to the Governor's Mansion, couldn't sleep at all, so he was pulled out to drink by his former brothers.

It's a pity that he came all the way from the capital, and he was tired of people turning over on their backs, but these bad friends had some schadenfreude.

"Oh, back then, you said that you went to the capital to seek a future, and by the way, you begged your daughter-in-law, did your daughter-in-law ask for it?" Lu Muxin poured a bowl of wine for Zhang Zhi, and glanced at him while drinking, "It looks much neater than before, I'm afraid there is a good match, right?" ”

Jiang Jingyi just got the promise of Mrs. Qiu a few years ago, saying that he would give him a holiday to go to his daughter-in-law in the coming year, and he would be a matchmaker himself, and he even wrapped up the bride price for the woman's family, so he was naturally full of pride.

"You don't know how to go, the girls of the princesses in the capital, all of them look as beautiful as fairies, and the waist swing when they walk is like the willow branches by the river. There are not a few real men in this mansion, they are all small servants and scholars, as soon as these girls see me, their eyes will shine, and I will be dazzled......" Jiang Jingyi bragged without frowning.

"No, Mrs. Qiu of the public mansion was afraid that the girls in the mansion would fight for me, so she specially allowed me to marry a good son from the capital as a wife, and she also wanted to be a matchmaker for me and give me gift money. I am grateful, and I always feel that I owe the government a great favor. So as soon as he heard that the eldest prince was coming to Liangzhou to find his uncle, he immediately protected him from this long trip. ”

"You're a good bastard. Unlike us, a Lang official has been mixed up for so many years, I'm afraid it will come to an end. Hu Dahu took a sip of stuffy wine, "It's good to go out, be a poor soldier and be a poor soldier, and you can't even afford to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Jiang Jingyi knew that these people were miserable, but their families were all in Liangzhou, unlike him, who went anywhere in the world, so he could only be trapped here and not allowed to perform. He had the heart to change the topic, holding the bowl and full of righteous indignation:

"Don't talk about that, you don't know how short-sighted the new goalkeeper is, I can't even enter the door when I come back this time. Even our eldest son was treated as a liar and was taken aback. ”

"Then you are wrong to blame those goalkeepers, two crooks who cheated money came in the morning, and I don't know where Lu Dao got a finger, saying that it was his relative's, so he came to our lieutenant to ask for money. We all captains don't usually go out of the house, and we asked the two liars what their relatives looked like, but they couldn't say it, so they slaughtered one of them in a fit of anger to set an example. "Lu Muxin speaks for the goalkeeper." There was a crook who wanted to run away and got us back. Kill it first. ”

"Hey, Du Wei has been very murderous in recent years, shouldn't the liar be handed over to the government?"

"Don't you know, these two liars look like horse thieves, and they hold other people's fingers in their hands, and they are afraid that they are full of evil. You also know that we are all captains, and they are the most jealous and hateful, and they really handed it over to those stupid officials, maybe they will be released in a few days, and they will harm people again. ”

Jiang Jingyi didn't think much about it at first, and continued to drink with an "oh". After a while, the more I drank, the more sober I became, and I suddenly remembered.

Horse thief, fingers, asking for ransom, cheating money......

Isn't it that the gang of horse thieves in the Liangzhou Grottoes took the things of the people to blackmail, and they were recognized by the lieutenant and killed as villains?

It's over, maybe it's still on them!

"What about the bodies of the two men?" Jiang Jingyi straightened his face and asked Hu Dahu urgently.

"Who knows, we only arrest people, and we don't care about burying people. Either they were thrown away from the mass grave, or they were buried and burned in a random place......" The two old drunken were dazed, and they spoke with big tongues.

It's a big deal!

Jiang Jingyi couldn't sit still, hurriedly threw some silver money to pay for the wine, turned around and went back to the Governor's Mansion.

When he returned to the Governor's Mansion, Li Rui had just woken up. It was already time for the sun to set, and he had slept for only an hour or two, but he was used to sleeping for two or three hours during the journey and then getting up to continue his journey, so he didn't feel that he had slept badly.

It's just that the chair is quite hard, and my neck and back hurt from sleeping.

While rubbing his neck, he pushed away the chair and stumbled about to go back to the room to sleep, when a big man suddenly came out of the door of the hall and walked straight towards him.

"Master Jiang, are you looking for me? Don't you want to eat? Li Rui said jokingly. He let go of the big things in his heart, and felt that everything was on the right track, and he had slightly returned to the way a young man should be.

"Eldest son, I have something important to discuss with you." Jiang Jingyi's face was very serious, "Go to my room first, and I'll talk to you in detail." ”

Li Rui nodded and followed Jiang Jingyi out of the hall.

Chiang Ching-yi's room.

"You say, the horse thief entered the house before us?" Li Rui's brows furrowed tightly, "But when we talk about horse thieves, my uncle doesn't have any strange expression. ”

"I probably didn't expect to go up here...... Jiang Jingyi also said uncertainly, "Now I'm afraid that these two horse thieves are horse thieves from the Liangzhou Grottoes, and they brought things to blackmail, and they couldn't say why, so they were killed directly." ”

"The eldest prince, the talisman is in the hands of these people!"

"I'll go find my uncle."

Zhang Zhi married his wife in Liangzhou and gave birth to a son. He didn't care much about Mendi and married the daughter of a wealthy local merchant. His wife, Dai, is shrewd and capable, has two sons, and usually helps him take care of some chores, which can be regarded as a female staff.

He also married three concubines, all of whom were gifts from colleagues, but they didn't give birth to sons, so they didn't become aunts.

Li Rui slept soundly, Zhang Zhi couldn't wake him up, originally thinking that he would come to see his aunt the next day. As a result, not long after he returned to the backyard, he was just about to have lunch, when someone suddenly reported to the young master asking to see him.

Zhang Zhi smiled and said to Dai: "I probably woke up and came to see you." Just right, let's have a meal with my nephew. ”

"Yes, sir." Dai stood up with a smile and instructed his subordinates to prepare more dishes and chopsticks and add a few more dishes.

While speaking, Li Rui had already arrived outside the house, and Zhang Zhi personally went out to greet him. Dai followed her husband and casually glanced at the eldest prince of the Xinguo Mansion.

Although her family is not a rich country, it is also considered a rich family, she was willing to marry Zhang Zhi at the beginning, first, she inquired about others who are very motivated, and there is no need to serve her in-laws, and secondly, his in-laws are Xinguo Mansion, and his brother-in-law is also a political envoy in Tongzhou, which can bring convenience to her family's commercial firm.

Zhang Zhi doesn't like to go back to Beijing, she is the daughter of a businessman, her status is not high, even if Zhang Zhi returns to Beijing, it is impossible for her to go to Beijing to walk around those wealthy ladies. But she is interested in these Zhong Ming Ding Food Families, and always wants to see how different she is from these wealthy merchant families.

This eldest prince is handsome, but his temperament is a little cold. There was no smile when he saluted her, but this junior's etiquette was not light. It seems that she is treated as a serious aunt.

Dai was happy in his heart, and liked the handsome appearance of this young man, so he took off a bracelet made of thousand-year-old agarwood from his hand and handed it to Li Rui as a meeting gift. Agarwood is originally rare, this bracelet has a refreshing light fragrance, and when you smell it, you feel calm, obviously not a vulgar thing.

Li Rui pushed it a few times, he didn't want to accept such a heavy gift from this uncle, not to mention that it was still removed from his hand, he was not young anymore, and it was not suitable to accept this kind of intimate thing.

Dai didn't know how to pay attention to it, she didn't bring anything for boys with her, so she gave it away. The two pushed a few times, Zhang Zhi looked dizzy, grabbed the bracelet and stuffed it into Li Rui's hand.

"It's just an object, you haven't seen anything, and you still shirk like this. If you don't like women's things, go back and give them to your grandmother for me, my inner man. This thing calms the nerves and can make people sleep soundly. "His wife's family is doing business in all directions, although there are many good things, but he has never been so generous, and it seems that his nephew is really popular.

Li Rui heard that this thing can make him sleep soundly, and thought that his grandmother didn't seem to sleep well at night, so he said "thank you, auntie" and took the bracelet.

"You're here just in time, since you've seen you, let's have dinner together." Zhang Zhi invited Li Rui to sit at the table.

Poor Li Rui had something in his heart, first he was watched by his aunt like a strange treasure, and then he was pulled down to eat. He came to order dinner, and it was not good to ask his uncle about it, so he had to eat with him.

Dai kept paying attention to Li Rui when he was eating, and found that he was nothing remarkable except that his eating movements were a little better than theirs. Neither asked for many girls to serve, nor did he even calculate how many times he had to chew a mouthful of food, as the legend says, and he felt that even the Guogong Mansion was nothing great.

Li Rui finally finished eating, and hurriedly said to Zhang Zhi: "Uncle, my nephew came here this time for an important matter......

"Oh, what's the matter?"

Li Rui glanced at Dai's, "Do you want your aunt to ......?"

Dai glanced at Zhang Zhi with a smile. Zhang Zhi rubbed his nose and said with a pale face: "Your aunt is not an outsider, if you have anything to say to me, you can say it to your aunt." ”

Dai's smile became more and more gentle.

Li Rui saw that the relationship between his uncle and his aunt was so good, so he did not force his aunt to leave. He said with a solemn face:

"It's about the two horse thieves my uncle killed in the morning......"

"Daughter-in-law, go back to the backyard and bring me a cloak. It's cold in Liangzhou, it's not as cold as the capital, what if our nephew goes back and freezes? ”

Li Rui: ......

Dai's: ......

Dai's smile suddenly put away. She glanced at Zhang Zhi, turned her back to Li Rui and made a "settle accounts at night" mouth shape for him, and stood up very simply and walked out of the hall.

Li Rui saw his aunt walking away obviously unhappy, and asked with some hesitation: "It's not that you can hear it, uncle, and my aunt also ......."

"Women's family, it's better not to listen to these fights and killings." Zhang Zhigan explained with a smile: "Your aunt is timid, I'm afraid she will have nightmares at night. ”

Since my aunt was not there, my nephew said it directly. I suspect that the two horse thieves who were killed by you, uncle, in the morning were the two who robbed the talisman brought by the Qiang people and extorted money from you. Uncle, they say they want to ransom people, but who are they ransome? ”

Zhang Zhi said "broken" in his heart! Where did this kid find out about this? Didn't he already tell the generals who caught the horse thief to keep their mouths shut and not mention this matter to outsiders!

"It was said that it was a great official who ransomed and was my relative, and I asked them to tell me what my relative looked like, and they said that he had a slender face, white skin, and a short beard. Where do I have such relatives! Immediately knew that these two people were liars. They brought a finger to scare me, and I thought that it would be a curse to keep such a person, so I simply killed him. "Liangzhou is not as good as other places, the military and politics are larger than the localities, and they often have to lead troops to suppress bandits, and it is really nothing to kill a horse thief.

Li Rui was suspicious after hearing this. If it's a liar, shouldn't it be taken down and interrogated? Kill it directly, it's like

- Kill people and kill people.

Li Rui was taken aback by his own speculation.

If my uncle wants to kill people and kill people, what kind of mouth is he destroying? Why should it be destroyed?

Could it be that my uncle got the talisman, but he didn't know who sent it, and what he wanted to do with the talisman privately, so he killed people and killed people?

But even if he said today that he would send someone to investigate the leader of the horse thieves and ask for a talisman......

Li Rui is used to hearing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he is no stranger to all kinds of conspiracies. He is not stupid by nature, and he is good at thinking, and once he becomes suspicious, all kinds of reasoning continue like a chain reaction.

Zhang Zhi saw that Li Rui didn't speak, just looked at him directly, and his heart was also uneasy.

Today, he was also a ghost, and he didn't know how Lu Dao left a talisman, and he always felt that it would be of great use in the future. When I saw Li Mao's handwriting today, I realized what Lu Dao was using this talisman for.

He wanted to delay it for a few days and then hypothetically found it from the horse thief, but by then Li Mao must have died completely, he was asking his nephew to lead the troops to quell the matter of the Fenzhou Horse Farm.

Li Rui thought about the worst speculation several times in his heart, and felt that he really couldn't watch his family kill themselves like this, so he couldn't help but say coldly:

"Uncle, it is a heinous crime to secretly possess military talismans as complicity in rebellion."

"Huh? How to talk about this. Zhang Zhi pretended to be surprised and looked at Li Rui with wide eyes.

"If my uncle didn't take it, everyone knows that the leader of the road took the token of the Xinguo Mansion to ask for ransom, and now a bunch of officers and soldiers are suppressing bandits in the Liangzhou Grottoes, and it is inevitable that there will be many people who spread the rumors. When the time comes, the talisman will be lost, and everyone will know that the road is gone after coming to your house to ask for ransom, I'm afraid you have to think about it more. Li Rui showed an expression of "It would be great if it wasn't like this". "If my uncle didn't take it, he would have gone and searched the bodies of the two horse thieves himself, and the talisman must be on them."

"Why are you so sure? What if the two horse thieves who came today weren't the same group of horse thieves? ”

"If not, it has to be. If the talisman is not found among the horse thieves, and the talisman is lost, someone must be held accountable. When the time comes, it is not your responsibility, but your responsibility must be brought out. Uncle, don't think about it, let's go find it first. Find it and talk about it. If the talisman is lost, my uncle really has a case, and the saint is afraid that he will take you to carry this black cauldron. Otherwise, the nobles will be chilled! ”

Li Rui realized that he had made the stakes very clear, and it depended on what Zhang Zhi did.

"Yes, I took the talisman." Zhang Zhi saw that Li Rui's words had been said so clearly, and he knew that Li Rui had guessed that he had taken the talisman, and he no longer talked nonsense. "You don't care what I do, you just remember that I'm for your good."

Yes. He's all for the good of his nephew. If he, the nephew, can inherit the title of Duke of Xinguo and receive an iron coupon, it will be better to enter the prime minister in the future than to slowly come out.

"Good for me?" Li Rui was very confused. What does his uncle's hiding of the talisman have to do with him? He was in a hurry to take the talisman to save his uncle who was being chased and killed by an unknown army!

Wrong! Did he want to......

Li Rui raised his head in disbelief and looked at his uncle. At this moment, his uncle's eyes were dark, with frightening ambition and ruthlessness.

Li Rui's heart was cold. He knew that his mother was very kind to this younger brother, and his uncle was very close to his mother, but he could not have imagined that he would maintain it to such a level......

It's just this "good for him", he doesn't want!

Li Rui glanced at Zhang Zhi and knelt down.

"If my uncle is really good for me, I will take the talisman to see General Lu and transfer the Western Army to Fenzhou." Li Rui's whole body was trembling, and he was terrified of the facts he had guessed. "My uncle can't be fine, and Fenzhou can't be fine. If there was civil strife in Dachu at this time, how innocent would the people be? ”

"Your father is the son of the world, and the position of the Duke of Xinguo should have been his. That Li Mao took advantage of your father's untimely death to steal the position of the Duke of the Kingdom, and now if he has a case, you can inherit the position of the Duke of the Kingdom. With your uncle and me behind you, even if the world is in chaos, why can't you make contributions? I think you're very good, a hundred times stronger than your uncle! ”

Zhang Zhiyi gritted his teeth and said all the calculations in his heart, he didn't believe that this great wealth was in front of him, and his nephew had been calculated by his uncle and aunt since he was a child, and he could still devote himself to them, and he didn't even want the title.

Li Rui listened to Zhang Zhi's words, and he couldn't wait to kill himself.

"Uncle! The title of the Duke of Xinguo has never been destined to be such a thing! Li Rui said sharply: "This position of the Duke of Xinguo was obtained by my grandfather in the battlefield for more than ten years and in the danger of life and death, and it was the emperor's trust in him, not my father's!" My grandfather can give this position to whatever he wants. My uncle was the grandfather who personally folded it, and he was justified in attacking the lord, where did he come from to steal it! ”

"It's just some Yongye Tian, it's just some Lu Mi Lu, it's just a false name that can get the general's seal, and everyone in the world is crazy about it! It's all crazy! Li Rui roared with red eyes: "This kind of thing, my father is not rare, and I am not rare!" Only a person who is incompetent in his own right would think of using this kind of thing to make a living! ”

"If I want to be the prince of the country, I will only earn it myself! I don't think my father was able to be the eldest son because he was the eldest son. If I had watched my uncle die for the sake of the knighthood, I would have been able to do something even more terrible for the sake of the throne, and this position of Duke of the Kingdom was not a tempting treasure, but a poison that would make people rot their stomachs! ”

Zhang Zhitie looked at Li Rui with a blushing face, "You are just a child's idea, when you become an adult, you have to leave the house or rely on your uncle's face to live, at that time, you will regret your current thoughts." You don't have to convince me to ......"

"I'm not trying to persuade you." Li Rui suddenly shook the machine spring in his sleeve robe and aimed the divine crossbow at Zhang Zhi. "Uncle, offended, nephew has to do this......"

Zhang Zhi watched his nephew turn his weapon at himself for that ungrateful and wolf-hearted hypocritical villain, and couldn't help but be furious, eager to slap him a few times to make him sober up.

"You actually treated that puppet like this......

Li Rui turned the direction of the Divine Crossbow and pointed it at his heart.

"If you want to plot this title for your nephew, your nephew should destroy your uncle first. My life and death alone are not important, if my uncle dies, there is no proof of the death of Fenzhou, and the rebels can no longer be caught, the country will be in chaos, I don't know how many families in Ludao want their wives to be separated......"

"If my grandfather and father worked hard for two generations, it would be in turmoil because of me, and I would still die to apologize for my sins......"

Li Rui pulled his finger on the trigger.

"Don't!"

The author has something to say: Li Rui and Li Mao will be able to meet smoothly tomorrow. Well, it's late today, Xie Lu Xie everyone has been waiting. Hurriedly sent it, there are no insects, and some insects will be eaten tomorrow!