On the twenty-fourth day of March in the ninth year of Xianchu, Hou Tianjing was killed by the rebel army, and the Liang army recovered Yecheng, so far, the Liang State recovered all the land north of the Great River, and the Qin State perished.

When Murong Ling arrived in Fuyang, he took Zhu Xuehua out, and entrusted the affairs of the city to Lu Tianxing, a famous doctor in Fuyang, to Xiaoyu, and also followed Murong Ling back to Fanyang. Zhu Xuehua was not happy: "Uncle Xiang, our husband and wife rode back to Fanyang together, and you followed behind, what's the matter?"

Xiang Xiaoyu unscrewed the wine gourd and took a sip of wine: "I'm not that boring person, but if I don't leave today, I'm afraid I'll die in Fuyang, the officials sent by the imperial court to receive the city are about to arrive, we killed hundreds of rich families in Fuyang, and I'm afraid it will be more than lucky to stay." Besides, I'm only temporarily taking care of the city's affairs, so I have to get out of the way as soon as possible to make room for the new Taishou."

Zhu Xuehua was still smiling before, but she couldn't be happy anymore at the moment: "Uncle Xiang, a person like my brother who surrendered, will he have a good life in the future?" ”

Xiang Xiaoyu thought for a while: "There will be no danger for the time being, maybe it will be in the future." After all, we are all untouchable people, although we have made war achievements, this war merit also depends on whether the court recognizes it or not."

Murong Ling turned around and said, 'No official is lighter'

Xiang Xiaoyu smiled: "General Murong still sees it thoroughly, people who have the ability in this world are often burdened by fame, either fame through the ages, or ruined reputation." But I'm a pariah, but I still want to give it a fight, and we're no worse than them."

Zhu Xuehua stopped: "Uncle Xiang, my brother is also a person like you, and he always wants to get ahead, so I'm really worried about his future."

Xiang Xiaoyu looked at Zhu Xuehua: "If your brother has a good opportunity, maybe he can also achieve a career, but now that the world is about to settle down, I'm afraid there is no chance."

Murong Ling was not very interested in these, and picked a peach blossom from the side: "It's better to look at the flowers and drink, wouldn't it be more comfortable to have such a day."

Xiang Xiaoyu and Zhu Xuehua were afraid that he would be unhappy, so they nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, let's go to Fanyang, we have to drink well."

Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi waited at the gate of the city for a few days, and finally waited for Murong Ling and Zhu Xuehua, and the brothers and sisters of Zhu Yao were in tears when they saw each other, and Murong Ling coughed beside him: "If you don't go over to pick up someone, it will be like parting from life and death, as for it?" “

Li Xiaofei also pulled Xiang Xiaoyu to ask about the situation in Fuyang City, and snapped his fingers at Xiang Xiaoyu: "At this time, the new Taishou is afraid that he has already arrived, this time we don't ask the court for a reward, as long as we don't cure our crimes."

Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi were both surprised: "We chased out hundreds of miles, killed thousands of enemy troops, and recovered dozens of cities, how could we still punish us?" “

Xiang Xiaoyu shook his head: "Have you forgotten that we killed so many people in Fuyang, and two months after you left, news kept coming that it was the prime minister of Jinling, Situ, who was very annoyed and wanted to punish us." Otherwise, I wouldn't have come with Fan Yang."

Pharmacist Zhu looked into the distance: "I killed people with my brothers, if you want to punish crimes in the future, take me"

Li Xiaofei waved his hand: "Don't think things so badly, I am the main general, and if you want to punish the crime, you will also punish me, but I will not be arrested"

Murong Ling saw that the more they talked at the door, the heavier it became, so he picked up Li Xiao and flew to the city: "The two of them have just parted from life and death, and you big men have come again as if they are going to the execution ground, I am going to vomit out, is there good wine in this Fanyang City, you two are reluctant to take it out?" “

A few people laughed and drank again.

On April 18, Zhong Zhiming led the newly arrived Taishou Sima Bei to Fanyang, Li Xiaofei was very happy when he saw Zhong Zhiming coming, and took Murong Ling Zhu Yao Shi out of the city for ten miles to greet him, and Xiang Xiaoyu arranged a banquet in the city.

Zhong Zhiming waved his hand as soon as he saw Li Xiaofei on the horse: "Boy, I haven't seen you for a few months, you have even occupied tens of thousands of leaders in the city, good boy, it is worthy of General Chen's own hand."

Li Xiaofei came over to lead Zhong Zhiming's horse: "General Zhong don't make fun of me, General Zhong has recovered so many states and counties, and has made countless military exploits, I still have to learn more from General Zhong."

Zhong Zhiming laughed: "Good boy, can talk"

The red-clothed official beside Zhong Zhiming spoke in a weird manner: "You are Li Xiaofei?" What kind of job do you live in now? I heard that you don't listen to the dispatch of the imperial court, and you have the idea of rebelling against the states and counties, yes or no? “

Li Xiaofei was stunned, this was going to kill him, before Li Xiaofei could answer, Zhong Zhiming took over: "Xiaofei, this is Lord Xiaoming, the assassin of Youzhou appointed by the imperial court, and the others are all here together, don't drive Xie Li, Sima Wangding, don't you want to see your lords?" “

Li Xiaofei comprehended, so he took everyone to kneel down and worship Xiao Ming and the others, Zhong Zhiming didn't wait for Xiao Ming to continue to speak, and then preemptively said: "This Li Xiaofei is a partial general under the hussar general Chen Hongyi, and the guerrilla general Murong Ling, who was sealed by the emperor, went out to recover dozens of cities from Liyang to Fanyang, and has always fought according to General Chen's dispatch, and he has no military power, there is no separatist party, and he will not rebel against the imperial court. “

Xiao Ming squinted: "Such a person from a humble background, if you don't beat it, you will be embarrassed by the heavy responsibility, okay, go to the city"

Li Xiaofei got up and stopped talking, and Zhu Yaoshi lowered his head and welcomed Zhong Zhiming and Xiao Ming and his party into the palace, Xiao Ming sat straight up to the main hall, Zhong Zhiming read out the imperial court's will: His Majesty, the hussar general Chen Hongyi reported to Shen De, Chen Kuan, Murong Ling, Li Xiaofei and other more than 100 people the day before yesterday The list of meritorious service was checked by the imperial court, and there was a suspicion of false reporting and exaggeration。。。。。。 ”

Zhong Zhiming read it for a quarter of an hour before he finished reading, and at the end there were the names of Zhu Yaoshi and Xiang Xiaoyu, Zhu Yaoshi gave Fan Yang the title of commander of the horse army, and gave Xiao Yu the title of commander of the Fan Yang infantry army. Li Xiaofei and the others kowtowed and thanked him, and then Xiao Ming announced the second will: "Check Li Xiaofei, Murong Ling, Zhu Yaoshi, Xiang Xiaoyu and others to plunder and kill innocents, read the four of them to make war exploits, and the merits and demerits are offset by each other, exempt Murong Ling from the post of General Dangkou, exempt Li Xiaofei from the post of General Hengjiang, exempt Zhu Yaofan from the position of commander of the Yang Ma Army, and exempt Xiang Xiaoyu Fan Yang Bujun from the title of commander of the army"

Li Xiaofei and the four of them were stunned for a moment, and then kowtowed to thank them, Xiao Ming glanced at them: "I'm afraid that there are also things to kill good and take advantage of on the battlefield, after the official arrives, he can be strictly investigated, if it is verified, I should play the Ming court and wait for the court ruling"

Zhong Zhiming coughed, Li Xiaofei and the others continued to kowtow, Zhong Zhiming walked over: "Lord Xiao, it's not too late to investigate the case after the entire Youzhou settles down, Li Xiaofei and others have set up a banquet for several adults, and you adults should also take a good rest after they have been tired of saddle horses."

Xiao Ming and the others saw that Li Xiaofei and the others did not have a seizure, so they took it to the banquet when they saw that they were good. The banquet was extremely dull, and Li Xiaofei and the four of them just obeyed Zhong Zhiming's instructions, but fortunately, Xiao Ming and the others did not drink much, and it ended quickly.

That night, Li Xiaofei and the four of them visited Zhong Zhiming, since the imperial court had sent to assassinate Shi Sima Beijia, the four of them had to go to Li Xiaofei's military camp outside Fanyang City to wait for new instructions, but Zhong Zhiming smiled bitterly: "You can't stay in this military camp for a few days, and the imperial court will send troops and horses to garrison it immediately, and the tens of thousands of people you recruited will be dismissed."

Li Xiaofei suddenly thought of something, and patted his head: "Fortunately, I have been drinking and making mistakes recently, and there are dozens of carts of gold and silver property in the camp, so we will go and share them with the brothers overnight, so that they can settle in, otherwise they will become homeless again."

Zhong Zhiming smiled: "You kid fought a good battle, he even got so much property, it's good, this homeless person is fighting desperately, for a bite to eat, it is better to give them a way to live than to occupy the mountain as a king and become a thief in the future."

Li Xiaofei and the four of them said goodbye to Zhong Zhiming, took Zhu Xuehua and went to the military camp outside the city to distribute ten carts of gold and silver property to 8,000 people under his hands. The next day, there were only more than 2,000 people left in the barracks, Li Xiaofei looked at the more than 2,000 people, and decided to take them to Xiangguo and hand them over to Chen Hongyi.

The team was just about to set off, and a group of people came to the city, it was Xiao Ming's guards, and one of them pointed at Li Xiaofei first: "You are so bold that you dare to privately divide the treasury property, can you be guilty?" ”

Li Xiaofei was just about to speak, when Murong Ling threw a knife and pierced it through the man's chest. The rest of the guards were so frightened that they almost fell off their horses, and when they saw Xiao Yu, this was broken, and the guards who killed the assassin history of Youzhou were complicit. Before Xiang Xiaoyu could figure out how to deal with the aftermath, Murong Ling rushed over and drew his sword: "Kill!" “

Zhu Yaoshi was the first to react, and he shot a guard soldier who was about to go back with an arrow, and the others rushed up and killed all the dozen people. Murong Ling pointed to the dung pit in the barracks: "Buried!" The crowd threw all the bodies of the dozen or so people into the dung pit and buried them.

Li Xiaofei immediately reacted: "Let's continue to go back to Xiangguo, as for the property, it was Xiao Ming's guards who swallowed it and flew away, there are more than 2,000 of us, no matter how ruthless they are, they don't dare to kill us all!" “

When passing through Fuyang, he saw many heads hanging at the gate of the city, and Li Xiaofei inquired about it before he learned that Xie Ren, the Taishou from Fuyang, had convicted some of the homeless soldiers who had helped Li Xiaofei to defend the city guilty of indiscriminately killing innocents and looting people's property, and all of them were killed and displayed to the public. Xiang Xiaoyu couldn't help but regret: "I should have taken them with me a long time ago", a beggar next to him sneered: "How many have you saved?" Finally, a fool is too guarded to kill the rich and help the poor to divide the fields and houses, and now the relatives of the rich families have returned, and these untouchables have been hanged by lighting the sky lanterns and dipping the pig cage car, and the people who have died in the past few days have not been two thousand, but there must be one thousand seven or eight, alas, the foreigners were not so ruthless in the beginning, this is good, it is said that the lost land is unified, but it is ruthless to kill the natives."

Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi's eyes were red, and Murong Ling also pulled out his knife and rushed into the city. shouted to Xiaoyu: "You can't make a mistake again and again, if you kill again, you won't be able to turn back!" Murong Ling turned around: "Wait for me!" I'll go and come alone! “

After half an hour, Murong Ling rushed out of the city gate with his face covered, threw a few heads on the ground, and the people on the edge of the city came around to see that it was the heads of Taishou Xie Ren and Sima and several commanders. The people rushed to tell each other, and the soldiers and horses of the city searched for the Assassins everywhere in the city.

On the road in the distance, Murong Ling burned the black cloth that covered his face, and he and Li Xiaofei disappeared into the sunset with the team.