"Uncle, you're back."

Seeing Xi Zhong, Zhou Feng hurriedly stood up and said with low eyebrows.

In this era, once a woman marries, she is a relative, even if her mother and his nephew are no longer considered to be dramatists.

Therefore, Zhou Feng and his mother can only be regarded as sending people under the fence, and sometimes they have to look at the faces of the opera family, especially when they see the head of the family, they must be more careful and dare not mess around.

"Hmmm......"

Xi Zhong only glanced at him lightly, and then walked towards the inner courtyard without hesitation.

He has no opinion on Zhou Feng and his mother, so he is also his own sister, and now that he is in trouble, he has no problem raising them.

He just can't look down on Zhou Feng.

Especially last time, at the strong request of his mother, he was forced to cheekily recommend Zhou Feng to Boss Cao as the capital of the Yuanren Army.

As a result, he only went out to do one thing, and when he came back, he got the news that Zhou Feng was temporarily sent home, which made him feel that he had lost face in front of Boss Cao, and he looked down on Zhou Feng even more.

Although Boss Cao kept saying that it was not because Zhou Feng's ability was not good or that he had made any mistakes, but because of his physical reasons, he was not suitable to continue to serve in the Gongren Army, and he would still arrange a suitable official position in the future, but Xi Zhong still felt that he had lost a lot of face, and he didn't want to mention this unsuccessful nephew again.

What are the physical causes?

It's nothing more than lazy and spineless, everyone else can go to the grave, why can't you?

Even for the sake of me brazenly recommending you to the envoy, and taking into account the face of me and the dramatist, you must fight for me.

Something that doesn't make it!

This is good, I'm afraid that you will not only look down on you, but even the children of the drama will also look down on you, which is extremely annoying!

Thus came to the inner court.

Long before this, there were already servants rushing in to deliver the message, and at this moment, the whole family ran out to greet them, and they all saw Xi Zhong with a happy face, as if they were celebrating the New Year.

"Mother."

After a brief greeting with everyone, Xi Zhong immediately came to an old lady over sixty years old, held her hand and called out respectfully.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back safely."

Although the old lady is old, her eyes are not cloudy, and while looking up and down Xi Zhong to sort out his clothes, she nodded again and again with red eyes and said, "Zhicai, I heard that you followed the envoy to win the battle in Xuzhou, and this time you have made a great contribution to give us the face of the drama family, your father will be very relieved if you know it, okay, okay!" ”

"Mother, my son spurs himself all day long, not seeking to be meritorious, but begging not to embarrass the ancestors of the opera."

Xi Zhong bowed his head slightly, but there was arrogance on his face.

"Good! All right! ”

The old lady looked at her son happily, and after a while, she raised her head to look at the rest of the family members and servants gathered here, but frowned slightly and reprimanded, "What are you still doing here, why don't you go and get ready to eat and drink and serve Zhicai, he has been out for a few months and is now tanned and hungry, and finally returned home Do you want him to continue to suffer?" ”

"Yes!"

The family members and servants hurriedly retreated.

At this time, the old lady looked at Xi Zhong in distress and said: "Zhicai, it's late autumn now, why are you still wearing only a pair of single pants, come, come with me into the house to warm up, fortunately, I have asked someone to prepare winter clothes for you in advance, and I will order someone to send them to you in a while." ”

"Thank you, Mother."

Xi Zhong just let his mother pull him into the house, always with a gentle smile on his face, and the seriousness and caution when he went out.

When she came to the house, the old lady asked him many things.

However, it mainly focuses on the trivial matters of life such as food, rest, warmth, and treatment when going out on the expedition, and does not ask about the military.

Xi Zhong occasionally answered the last two sentences, and the rest of the time he smiled and held his mother's hand and listened quietly.

What a warm picture of mother and son's filial piety.

But as she spoke, for some reason, my mother finally talked about the person who didn't want to mention the drama at all, and even felt ashamed when she heard it.

"Zhicai, you already know about Qiwen (Zhou Feng's words), right?"

The old lady asked.

"Yes."

Xi Zhong nodded, undisguised his resentment, gritted his teeth and scolded, "This son is not in the right place, I listened to my mother's words and cheekily recommended him to the envoy, but he couldn't support the wall so much, not only was he looked down upon, but also the reputation of the actor was damaged, if it weren't for the face of my mother and sister, I would definitely kick him out of the dramatist, I don't care if I starve to death or be beaten to death, I won't even look at him!" ”

"Zhicai is not angry, I have carefully inquired about this matter, but I can't complain about Qiwen."

The old lady smiled and patted the hand of the filmmaker, and said while comforting him.

"How can you complain about him, is someone tying him up and not letting him do things......"

Xi Zhong said angrily.

No matter how much I say, it's inconvenient to say more.

However, after saying this, Xi Zhong has realized that there seems to be some information gap between him and his mother, so that although he said the same thing, the content of what he said was slightly not the same thing.

"Mother, is there something else going on in this matter?"

Xi Zhong immediately paused, frowned slightly and looked at the old lady and asked.

"Exactly, Qiwen was shallow when he first entered the military camp, and he wanted to show his strength conscientiously, but he didn't want to be framed and calculated if he was careless, so he ended up in such a field."

The old lady said hatefully, "The real hateful person is the one who framed Qiwen!" ”

"Originally, Qiwen had made great contributions to the affairs of the envoy with the army, and he could be rewarded by the envoy when he came back, how did he know that there was a shameless slave in the army, and he was designed to frame him in order to climb up, but the soldier was also a confused person at that time, and he easily believed the words of enslavement, but imprisoned Qiwen, a meritorious person, and sent it to the envoy for disposal."

"Qiwen also pinned his hopes on personally meeting the envoy to confront him, and asked the envoy to make decisions for him, but the envoy never saw him, so he dismissed him and sent him home, but reused the shameless slavery ......"

"Alas, people's hearts are not ancient, they are really not ancient."

"This ......"

Hearing his mother's words, Xi Zhong was immediately stunned.

When the Qiangren Army returned, he had never seen Zhou Feng, but he only heard Boss Cao tell him that Zhou Feng claimed that he could not enter the cold place due to physical reasons, so he was not suitable to continue to serve in the Qiangren Army, and he had been temporarily sent home.

At that time, he only hated Zhou Feng for not becoming a climate, but he never thought that there would be such a secret in this matter.

However, his mother's remarks are obviously the words of Zhou Feng's family, and they cannot be trusted.

In case Zhou Feng was afraid that he would be punished by the actor when he returned home, he made up such a story with nonsense, and it would be humiliating to act rashly.

I thought about it for a moment.

Xi Zhong finally looked at the old lady and said: "Mother, although my opera family rarely has bad relations with people, it is by no means something that anyone can bully if they want to, if what Qiwen said is true, then what the slave did is not as simple as harming Qiwen alone, it is tantamount to slandering the reputation of the opera, I will definitely ask the envoy for an explanation in this matter, and correct the name of the operat!" ”

"Since this is the case, my family will not be humiliated like this!"

The old lady nodded.

"Mother sat down for a while, this matter still needs to be verified, I will first call Qiwen to listen to him talk about what happened at that time in person, and then it is not too late to make a judgment!"

Xi Zhong got up and said.

……

Zhou Feng was naturally lying.

When he was dismissed and sent home, he was terrified.

He knows the temper of Xi Zhicai, if he teaches Xi Zhicai or the opera family what he has done in the Wanren Army, even if he is light, he will be kicked out of the opera family, and he will never get along with each other from old age to death.

If so, his good days will come to an end......

If he left the protection of the actor, he would have to return to the life of having no fixed place to live and sleep in the open at that time.

So, he had to find a way to save himself.

So on the way back, he made up a story about being framed.

In this story, Wu Liang and Zhou Feng's positions are reversed.

Wu Liang became the villain who instigated others to steal gold and frame Zhou Feng, and Zhou Feng became an innocent victim who was framed and robbed of his credit.

As for the details in it.

As the mastermind of that incident, Zhou Feng only needs to make slight changes to adapt the entire story seamlessly, and it sounds the same as the real thing.

So after returning home, he cried to his eldest mother (Xi Zhicai's mother, equivalent to his grandmother's grandmother) after making up the story.

My grandmother believed it.

While comforting him, the old lady kept saying that when her uncle returned, she would definitely seek justice for him.

Originally, before Xi Zhicai came back, Zhou Feng was still a little flustered, and he was always ready to punish him as long as Xi Zhicai came back, and he immediately used this set of rhetoric to exonerate himself.

As a result, he didn't expect Xi Zhicai to enter the door just now, but he just glared at him.

Don't...... Uncle still doesn't know about the Qiangren Army?

It's impossible, my uncle is the most trusted military advisor of the envoy, and the envoy has almost nothing to say to him, so how can he hide this matter?

How did he know.

Because Boss Cao relied on Xi Zhicai, he didn't want to hurt Xi Zhicai's face because of this trivial matter, so he had already concealed the matter for him...... It's a bit too much for him to want to cover up like this, and it's completely a thief.

Just when Zhou Feng was uneasy.

A servant searched around the courtyard, walked quickly to his side and saluted, "Son, the head of the house has told you to go to the eldest mother's room." ”

"Got it."

Zhou Feng's heart tightened, knowing that he couldn't avoid this matter, so he had to go hard.

……

A moment later.

"Hmmm......"

After listening carefully to Zhou Feng's narration that he had already passed in his heart thousands of times, Xi Zhong did not find any suspicious loopholes in it, and finally let out a deep nasal voice.

And so he groaned for a moment.

"You said that this person's name is Wu Liang, and now he is the Sima of the Wanren Army?"

The Qiangren Army is Boss Cao's secret, so Xi Zhong usually doesn't ask much, but he only knows that it is Boss Cao's nephew Cao Yu who is currently in charge of the Qiangren Army.

"Exactly."

Zhou Feng replied.

"Do you dare to confront him in front of the envoy?"

Xi Zhong asked again.

“……”

Zhou Feng felt a void in his heart, if this matter was confronted in person, it would definitely be exposed, and if it was made big, it would be a "death" word, but in this situation, he couldn't agree to it, so he had to nod his head and straighten his chest and said: "Naturally, dare!" ”

"Okay, let's write this down for the time being, and I'll get justice for you!"

Xi Zhong's face was like ice, and his tone was deep.

"Uncle, in fact, it doesn't have to be like this, after this time, I already understand that officialdom is sinister, and this official doesn't do it."

Zhou Feng hurriedly said again.

"This matter is no longer a matter of whether you are an official or not, but about the face and reputation of the entire dramatist, how can you give up easily!"

Xi Zhong frowned.

"That's what Uncle said."

Zhou Feng already had a bad premonition, and there was a slight imperceptible trill at the end of his words.

……

Two days later.

Xi Zhong came to Juancheng to report to Boss Cao, and soon heard some deeds about Wu Liang.

Among them, what people talk about the most is Wu Liang's early warning, teaching Boss Cao's family to escape from the tiger's mouth in time, and skillfully using magic methods to save Cao Shuo's life.

As for other things, they are all related to military affairs, and not many people know the inside story, let alone talk nonsense everywhere.

This time, Xi Zhong did not take Zhou Feng with him.

Anyway, Juancheng and Yuncheng are not far away, and they can go back and forth in a few hours, and they can send someone to call him when they need to.

This time, Xi Zhong came to Juancheng, and the primary purpose was to rehabilitate Zhou Feng, so as to teach Boss Cao what the slavery called "Wu Liang" was, and to justify the family style of the opera!

However, before this, Xi Zhong did not act arbitrarily.

He wanted to know more about Wu Liang first, not only to know himself and his opponent, but also to have a more accurate judgment of what Zhou Feng said, so as not to make a fuss.

And then.

He met Cao Ni, who had just returned from Wuliang's mansion and was scolding at the gate of Cao's mansion: "I obviously saw through the crack in the door that I was hiding in the backyard, but I dared to ask the servant to claim that he was not turning me away...... Okay, you Wu Youcai, who has suffered a thousand cuts, I can't spare you! ”

"Son-in-law."

Xi Zhong bowed his hand and said.

"It's Uncle Zhicai, I haven't seen you for a few days."

Cao Ni came back to his senses and saw Xi Zhong, and changed his well-behaved appearance to a sweet way.

"Thank you for your concern."

Xi Zhong smiled, and then said, "Son-in-law, I just heard you talk about Wu Youcai, this Wu Youcai is Sima Wu Liang of the Wanren Army?" ”

"How does Uncle Zhicai know? That's him! ”

Cao Ni's well-behaved appearance disappeared in an instant, and he gritted his teeth and scolded, "This person is not a good person!" Both despicable and shameless, both scheming, and insidious and cunning, never hear a word of truth from his mouth, if Uncle Zhicai sees this person, he must guard against him, don't be deceived by him! ”

"This ......"

Xi Zhong was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Could it be that the son-in-law has some misunderstanding, I heard that he was clever and clever as soon as I entered the city, and he also saved the life of the second son, how could he be such a person?" ”

"Uncle Zhicai, why were you deceived by these appearances?"

Cao Ni then scolded, "This person knows people and knows his face, I thought he was a good person at first, but after meeting him a few times, I found out that he did this completely to show in front of my father, and to do whatever it took to make meritorious contributions and promotions, how could he have a trace of respect for our family members!" ”