Cheng Zhichen got into Duan Fengxiao's car, and saw Tao Xiang's figure disappear from the left rearview mirror, and turned his head to see Duan Fengxiao dressed in a gray and colorful uniform, with a slightly crooked hat.

Duan Fengxiao saw him looking at himself and said, "You white-eyed wolf, you finally know that you have gone home!" ”

"Do you talk like that?" Cheng Zhichen looked at Duan Fengxiao. Bonghyo lost a lot of weight. The face is not good. I know that his life is not easy these days. "How's it going?"

Duan Fengxiao said: "If it weren't for the second brother of the Tao family who was entrusted by his father to help me, I'm afraid you would have to go and incense me when you come back this time." ”

Cheng Zhichen nodded.

After Duan Guixiang's accident, Tao Si temporarily took over the military power, quickly dispatched troops to stabilize the morale of the army, controlled the situation well, and helped Duan Fengxiao neatly get rid of the old courtiers who wanted to seize power in the name of the eldest prince Fengxian, and even Fengxian, who came back to mourn, was forced to disappear. He'd heard all of this.

Thinking about it this way, the Tao family is really talented. Tao Shengchuan has been in the northwest for many years, and has been fighting with the Ma family for decades, although they have won and lost each other, but they have never fallen. During this time, Tao Xiang was in Nanjing, although he deliberately acted in a low-key manner, he also won praise from all over the world.

If it weren't for his other priorities, he might have been able to meet Tao Xiang at the governor's residence...... On the plane, the co-pilot was right, Tao Xiang, the seventh son of the Tao family, and Bai Wenmo, the third son of the Bai family, were all guests of the Suo family. Especially Bai Wenmo, the news of the change of banner in Beiping is not as sensational as his pursuit of the chief's only daughter and his desire to exchange his daughter for a smile.

Duan Fengxiao saw that he was silent and said: "Tao Si has been idle in Beiping for a few years, and even I treat him as the master of eating, drinking and having fun. With him, those people outside the gate did not dare to act rashly for a while, and I had a chance to breathe. ”

Of course, Cheng Zhichen knew the mystery here, and he asked: "How long do you plan to act as this acting commander?" ”

"I'm already yelling that I'm tired, and I'm saying that I'll be able to do it until the end of the year at most." Duan Fengxiao said. Of course, Tao Si understands the truth of retiring after success. He had to get involved in the Duan family's family affairs, so he didn't want to get too deep here.

Cheng Zhichen nodded.

As soon as the government of Beiping was dispersed, although all the prosperity here did not disappear instantly, whether it was the southward shift of the political or economic center of gravity, it was a foregone conclusion. Naturally, the Tao family will not regard this place as a key point anymore. Tao Si's departure is a matter of time.

"Tao Xiang's actions are very secretive." Cheng Zhichen said. With the vastness of his intelligence network, Tao Xiang was planning such a big thing, but he didn't know about it. I don't know if Tao Xiang is too secretive, or if he has made a big omission here.

"It's not very secretive, is it? Why, do you think this is inappropriate? Duan Fengxiao heard Cheng Zhichen's words and glanced at him.

Cheng Zhichen didn't answer.

"Tao Xiang is going to bring these planes back this time. The instructors at the flight training school were uneven, and the trainer aircraft was too old to meet his requirements. He had been planning this before he returned to China, and he had hired the faculty directly from the United States. Of course, this is probably because he is preparing for the cultivation of air power for the Tao Department in the future. Duan Fengxiao explained, "You didn't see him in Nanjing? He's been gone for a while. ”

Cheng Zhichen shook his head. Feng Xiao revealed these things to him, but taught him to be more interested in Tao Xiang. Air Power ...... It seems that his intuition is right, Tao Xiang's ambition is not small.

He couldn't help but frown.

"Yes. He's a bit of a guy, and he usually gets things done quietly. Duan Fengxiao said, seeing Zhizhi pondering, "I'll talk about this later." I said, if you don't come back, I'm afraid you'll forget where the door of your house opens. ”

Duan Fengxiao drove the car very fast. The road from the military airfield to the city was well repaired, but he drove fast, and the dust and sand rolled up and hit the front windshield, and the rain fell sharply.

Zhichen smiled, thinking to himself, he really didn't know where the door of the house was opening now......

"Isn't this coming back?" He said.

"There is no big thing that will not turn around! Let's talk about it? Duan Fengxiao grinned.

Cheng Zhichen's heart moved, and he asked with a smile: "What's the big deal?" ”

"Grandma's! You're still hiding it from me! You think you don't know all the good things you did if I wasn't in Nanjing? The secret messages of the intelligence bureau are one after another, and they give me a little bit of news lace news, isn't that a simple matter? Duan Fengxiao said.

Cheng Zhichen smiled.

Local factions are intrigued, and it is inevitable that they will wrestle fiercely with the upper echelons, and they are all planting eyeliner everywhere. What kind of intelligence is that? The whole thing is a public message center. If you really want to believe those things in the Intelligence Bureau, you have to put a lot of effort into keeping the truth from the false.

So he smiled and said, "If you know, you know." ”

"If you know, you know, right?" Duan Fengxiao screamed strangely, "You bastard actually attacked the second miss unknowingly!" ”

Cheng Zhichen took the cigarette handed by Duan Fengxiao and did not respond.

Duan Fengxiao said: "I don't mean anything else. But you and me, the friendship in open crotch pants, such a big thing, should you reveal a thing or two to me, right? Do you want me to hear from outsiders? It's not like that. ”

"What's the story?" Cheng Zhichen lit a cigarette and asked.

"You're trying to trick me." Duan Fengxiao, "That second lady refused to go back to the United States for your sake, but it's true." That time, our third child came back and said that the second lady was like a fairy, and the people who pursued her could go from Shanghai to Washington......"

"Who doesn't know that I have a large Chinese population?"

"you! Not long after she returned home, I never had a chance to see her. I've only seen it once in the newspaper, it's a little blurry, standing behind the chief, there is a shadow, and it looks very delicate. But what is it like in the newspaper, I dare not say...... Is it really that beautiful? Duan Fengxiao asked with a smile.

Cheng Zhichen saw a mark in front of him. Didn't pay attention to Duan Fengxiao.

Duan Fengxiao didn't delve into it, but said meaningfully: "The Suo family, a rose soaked in the European wind and rain, is not so easy to get. Even if it is a ...... Brother persuaded you more, with you, why bother to suffer that constraint? The chief has no children under his knees, so of course he must take a long-term view when choosing a son-in-law. It's just that don't look at the current scene, the northeast is watching, the northwest and southwest are uncertain, and behind him, I'm afraid there will be another mess. ”

Cheng Zhichen stroked his chin with his fingertips and didn't say anything.

Duan Fengxiao smiled, "I know you have ideals and ambitions. It's just that now that there are internal and external troubles, and the Chinese people are scattered, it is not easy to make a difference! ”

Cheng Zhichen turned his head and looked out the car window, the withered yellow ground was empty.

"So, haven't you written the eight characters yet? It's not like you. You are not sure that you will never let the wind run out for half a point. Duan Fengxiao shook his head as he spoke. I knew in my heart that this matter might not be able to come according to Zhichen's wishes. He then changed his words and said, "You are not in a hurry to get married as an elder brother, the tenth sister is the youngest, and she is going to get married." ”

Cheng Zhichen frowned.

"Tao Xiang's marriage with his tenth sister should have been agreed." Duan Fengxiao looked at Zhichen and said slowly, and Zhichen may not know very well about the affairs of his family. "It was a while ago. Tao Laoshuai entered Beijing in a low-key manner and did several things, including this one. You know that, right? ”

Cheng Zhichen looked at the outline of the city in the distance ahead, and said in a deep voice: "Specifically, wait for me to ask carefully when I get home." ”

"I heard that my uncle admires Tao Xiang very much." Duan Fengxiao said.

Cheng Zhichen did not express his position.

Tao Xiang, Tao Xiang...... This is a name that has frequently appeared in confidential telegrams in the attendant's room in the past two years. Now he has been on the ground for less than an hour, and his ears are all around.

He also received a letter from Cautious, saying that he wanted him to help persuade his father. The tenth sister has another crush, and she is unwilling to fulfill the marriage contract and marry Tao Xiang. He planned to learn more about it when he returned. Although he also knew that according to what his father had decided, there was very little room for manoeuvre. There is even less room for him to put his beak.

Cheng Zhichen was silent.

The father insisted on fulfilling the marriage contract, and I wonder if there were other considerations besides keeping the agreement...... But from his point of view, he was not very much in favor of this marriage.

Duan Fengxiao had already driven the car into the city. He slammed his horn. Cars, mules, bicycles, and pedestrians all got out of the way.

Cheng Zhichen said: "No wonder people say that your Duan Gongzi's car is on the road, just like a crab parade through the street, rampant and domineering." ”

"How do you listen to the legends of those bastards? They also say that I will run over someone three times when I hit someone, and then drop my name and let people just sue me in the yamen! Duan Fengxiao said angrily, "Then fucking me?" Isn't that the Lu family's rabbit cub? ”

Cheng Zhichen smiled and said, "The Lu family." ”

"Sooner or later, I'll scrap the bastard thing of the Lu family. I heard that the kid was drunk again before, and he asked for a little drunk red wet shop in Drunken Hongxuan, but he actually let people surround Drunken Hongxuan! In the early years, the Eight Banners made trouble in the Eight Hutongs, and they didn't say that they should be surrounded by the family, right? It's fucking shameless to bully a dusty woman. Duan Fengxiao couldn't help but scold.

Cheng Zhichen has also heard of the Lu family's domineering. He said lightly: "You are angry with him." ”

"I'm in Rexiao, and I can't go to these places. Don't let him fall into my hands in the future. Duan Fengxiao said fiercely. turned to a smile and said, "Don't say it, earlier, the price of the whole day was those places and those individuals, I think there will always be a time to bump into it, right?" Hey, that kid took a detour when he saw me. He's never cleaned him up for me, wicked. ”

Cheng Zhichen smiled, "Aren't you afraid of Sihua thinking too much?" ”

"Who am I, she doesn't know yet?"

Cheng Zhichen nodded. Laughed.

"Sihua knew that I was coming to pick you up today, and specially instructed me to send you home well. In two days, you will be invited to come to your house for dinner. Sihua said that she cooked herself...... "Bong Hyo spoke very slowly, and her voice was lowered.

Zhichen listened silently and said, "Okay." ”

Fengxiao's wife, He Sihua, is a very dignified and virtuous wife.

Zhichen thought, Sihua cooks herself, I don't know if she will make her best scallion roasted sea cucumber...... Precious is not called precious, but for him, it has a special meaning.

Duan Fengxiao's car drove along the avenue.

Zhichen's heart gradually sank, and he only looked at the familiar street scene - he had entered the realm of the Cheng family. Further on, it is filial piety street, there will be one after another filial piety archway, chastity archway...... It shows the strong and solid roots and history of this family. There are also locust trees on both sides of the streets, all of which are tall and stout, and some of them continue to grow even if they fall down, and their vitality is tenacious. Compared to when he left home three years ago, everything here seemed to be no different, and they were all silently greeting him......

"Every time I come, I'm a little scared." Duan Fengxiao said, looking at Cheng Zhichen, asked: "Are you scared of your hometown?" ”

Zhichen said: "A little. ”

"Don't be scared for two days. I really can't take you to get drunk Hongxuan to pick up the wind......"

"You know that, too? Excuse me! ”

"Free? Could it be that the ten-zhang red dust of our Beiping City is still lost to the ten-mile ocean field of Shanghai Beach and the moonlit night of Qinhuai in Nanjing City? There is no such thing. Duan Fengxiao joked, "Don't pretend to be garlic." Earlier, when we were studying, we were not less drunk and dreamed of death. I can't go with you, you just have to go by yourself. ”

"Bastard." Cheng Zhichen frowned.

"Brother, now brother, I am a duck on the shelf, and I have to pretend to be a score if I don't have a score. In the future, I'll have to be a bastard here with you. With this sigh, Duan Fengxiao really accepted his hippie smile.

Zhichen didn't know what to say, so he didn't say anything.

Just drive through the old house of the Cheng family and come to Qingyuan.

Soon after, the car stopped in front of the gate of Chengfu. The servant on duty at the gate recognized the license plate and hurriedly came out, and when he saw that it was his third young master who got out of the car, he hurriedly stepped forward to say goodbye.

Cumbersome and respectful, batch after batch, Cheng Zhichen has long been accustomed to the simplicity of the order, and when he first returns, he can't get used to the many rules in the mansion.

Seeing this, Duan Fengxiao said that he had to leave in advance and come back another day to greet his aunt.

Zhichen knew that he was busy now, and he didn't keep him.

When he was gone, Zhichen looked up at the black-lacquered gate, the magnificent gatehouse, and the plaque with gold edges on a blue background...... Obviously, after my father took over, it should have been renovated and deliberately simpler, but the former royal style of this mansion can still be seen.

His luggage had been hurriedly carried in by the servants, and only a stack of announcements could be heard in his ears: "The third young master is back...... The third young master is back......"

He slowly climbed the stairs.