Five years later, in the spring of the sixteenth year of Tai'an. Yingzhou.

"Steamed buns, hot steamed buns just out of the cage."

"Flatbread, two pennies a flatbread."

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In a small town in Yingzhou, there are people who sell food, vegetables, and fabrics...... The cries of selling came and went, and it was so lively. Ah Rui checked the broken silver in the money bag, decisively bought a bunch of vegetables, a basket of eggs, and a chicken, and brought them back to replenish his master's body.

Ari walked more than ten miles and returned to a small courtyard they had bought in the countryside. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, rich and simple, and very quiet, which is an excellent place to recuperate.

Pushing open the door, Ah Rui saw Liu Ruqing boiling medicine in the kitchen. It is said that Liu Ruqing can come to live in seclusion with them, which is really unexpected by Ah Rui. Back then, when Shao An quietly left Beijing, he did not inform Liu Ruqing. When Liu Ruqing found that the gate of Shao Mansion was locked, he rode a horse and chased him along the road without saying a word. He chased for a day and a night, and finally caught up with Shao An's footsteps.

Shao An looked at Liu Ruqing inexplicably and joked, "Are you here to send me?" You don't have to send it so far. ”

"Who said I was here to send you." Liu Ruqing was very angry at Shao An's refusal to say goodbye, and said in a hard voice, "Didn't you say that you recognized me as a younger brother?" I'm going to go with you. ”

"You still have an official position."

"Resigned." Liu Ruqing hung up the crown and went directly. He won't be nostalgic for his official position, and without Shao An, why should he stay in Zhongshu Province? His attitude was very resolute, "Even if you ignore me and get rid of me, I must find you and follow you." ”

Shao An was speechless, how could young people nowadays be so willful.

In the next few days, Shao An ignored Liu Ruqing, but Liu Ruqing insisted on following him all the way to Yingzhou. Later, Shao An met Xu Ce in Yingzhou, at this time Xu Ce had already been admitted to Xiucai, and when he was proud of the spring breeze, he saw his old friend again, so he naturally felt very cordial.

Fortunately, Feng Che did not tell Xu Ce about Shao An's true identity back then. At this time, Xu Ce only regarded him as a noble man with a backstage, and pulled Shao An to look back on the days when he was handling cases with Lord Feng in Yingzhou.

"Lord Feng is really the Great Master of the Blue Sky. I heard that he is now an official in the Criminal Department, and I am really happy for him. Xu Ce took a sip of wine and said with a smile.

"You're not bad, if it weren't for you back then, Lord Feng was afraid that he wouldn't be able to bring down those corrupt officials."

"I can't. I will point out the crooked ways of the evil sect, the serious Four Books and Five Classics, read and forget, forget and read, and I can't remember them at all. ”

"If you can be admitted to Xiucai, it means that your qualifications are not bad. If you study well, there is still hope. Shao An didn't expect to find his own kind, and he didn't love the Four Books and Five Classics when he was young. However, these must be examined in the imperial examination, which is difficult for a number of scholars.

"Seeing that Brother Liu talks extraordinary, when the time comes, I will ask you about academic matters."

The two had a very happy conversation, and Xu Ce learned from the conversation that Shao An had come to the south to recuperate. Coincidentally, Xu Ce's relatives in the countryside happened to have empty houses, so Shao An bought a house to live in, never thinking that Liu Ruqing would also run to the wing room with a shy face. Shao An thought that he was young and would leave in a few days, but he didn't expect that he would live for five years.

Now, Ah Rui has really regarded Liu Ruqing as Shao An's younger brother, he carried the vegetable basket into the kitchen and said hello to Liu Ruqing: "Second master, what about boiling medicine?" ”

"Hmm." Liu Ruqing answered, and seeing that the medicine was almost boiled, she got up and found a bowl to pour it out, and took it to the study.

When Liu Ruqing entered the house, he found that Shao An was writing something on the desk again, and he was immediately angry. He put down the bowl with a "Teng" sound, and immediately stepped forward to remove the pen in his hand, "Brother, I said that you can't bother, you still write?" ”

"Ahem, write and draw casually, where are you bothered." was caught by Liu Ruqing, Shao An said quite unnaturally.

"It's obviously written about Qimen Dunjia or something, and the mechanism formation is the most draining, do you think I can't understand it?" Liu Ruqing confiscated the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table, and handed the medicine to Shao An, "Brother, it's time to drink the medicine." ”

"This time it's not Qimen Dunjia, this time it's just a record of a formation, Li Hongyi and I broke this formation back then, and now it's just a silent memorization." Shao An held the medicine bowl and said proudly, "It's not exhausting at all, you have to believe in my memory." ”

"Drink the medicine first." Liu Ruqing stared at the bowl in Shao An's hand, and did not plan to leave without seeing the bottom.

Under Liu Ruqing's supervision, Shao An had to drink the medicine in one go. He sadly found that the more familiar he got along with Liu Ruqing, the bolder Liu Ruqing became. The little scholar who would only follow him back then completely disappeared.

After drinking the medicine, Shao An wanted to continue writing, but Liu Ruqing didn't give him a brush, and said angrily: "Isn't it just the memory of the formation, you say, I'll remember it." ”

"Will you?" Shao An looked at Liu Ruqing in surprise, he had never touched a book on the art of war.

"I can learn." Liu Ruqing's face was pulled, and he said unconvinced, "At least, I'm much smarter than your stupid brother." He could learn it back then, and so could I. ”

At this time, Liu Ruqing already knew the relationship between Shao An and Li Hongyi. When he was still running errands under Shao An, it was very strange, why did Cheng show mercy to General Li every time, and even wanted to return the holy decree to help Li Hongyi? Shouldn't it be a life-and-death situation between political enemies above officialdom and between political enemies?

Liu Ruqing is not as shrewd as Uncle Qin, even if Uncle Qin senses that something is wrong, he is happy to pretend to be stupid, and he will never ask Shao An more. However, Liu Ruqing asked vigorously, until Shao An, who asked, became impatient and finally told him this secret.

When Liu Ruqing learned that Li Hongyi was Shao An's elder brother, and the emperor tried every means to break them up, his anger was almost skyrocketing. He remembered the rivalry between the prime party and the cardinal party, Li Hongyi's cold words to Shao An, and the emperor's unfathomable profundity. He finally learned the truth of everything, and yet the truth was so sad and shocking.

Since then, Liu Ruqing has begun to complain for Shao An. He hated the emperor's imperial tricks even more, and he also hated Li Hongyi's stupidity. So he called Li Hongyi a stupid brother, and Shao An let it go.

Shao An smiled when he heard this, and he said: "You really think highly of my brother, in fact, he didn't learn this formation back then. ”

"Huh?" Liu Ruqing said curiously, "Can you break the formation without learning?" So what is the name of this array, is it difficult to crack? ”

Shao An recalled that at the beginning, his gaze gradually became profound, and he slowly said: "This array is called the Nine Songs Ecstasy Array, which is the transformation of the Bagua Array, with seventy-seven and forty-nine changes. Back then, it really bothered a lot of people......"

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The summer of the nineteenth year of Yongkang.

At that time, they had just entered the military camp with King An, and in the eyes of Gao Wei and others, they were the children of a family who came with King An and did not learn or have no skills.

In order to show that he did not engage in privileges, King An asked the guards who came with him to train with the soldiers of the military camp. This time I can cry An'er, he is thin and weak, he has no talent in martial arts, and he is the last in every competition.

Naturally, An'er was often bullied, beaten and scolded by those soldiers and ruffians. When Li Hongyi found out, he immediately rushed up to fight with those people. Fortunately, An'er was sober-minded and knew that the military camp was not allowed to fight in private, so she persuaded her brother to temporarily press this tone and wait for the monthly martial arts competition to meet them again.

Sure enough, the first time Li Hongyi participated in the martial arts competition, he knocked these soldiers down. Later, he became more and more courageous, and fought against several captains and major generals, but he still did not fall behind. Later, as expected, Li Hongyi won the first place.

An'er has been standing under the ring, silently looking up at her brother's demeanor. He knew that his brother's future was in the barracks, on the battlefield.

The crowd erupted in bursts of applause, and Li Hongyi enjoyed the glory of victory amid the attention of all the people. Suddenly, he remembered something, rushed off the stage with an arrow, grabbed An'er, and pulled him up together.

What kind of madness is this? An'er couldn't break free from her brother, so she had to go on stage with him. Li Hongyi stopped An'er's shoulders and said to everyone: "This is my younger brother, whoever dares to bully him in the future, don't blame my fist for being rude." ”

An'er: "......"

Everyone said in their hearts, it's good to have a powerful brother.

has a powerful brother to cover, and An'er has lived a happy life of eating and waiting for death since then. No one dared to laugh at and dislike him anymore, and some people even came to make friends with him in order to get to know Li Hongyi. Li Hongyi, on the other hand, was hardworking and resentful of An'er, busy with him every day to fetch food and water, for fear that his younger brother would not be able to adapt to staying in the barracks.

So An'er was a second ancestor who was blessed by his brother in the eyes of everyone, and An'er didn't bother to explain, so he directly begged King An to transfer him to the military doctor to stay away from the dispute. Later, An'er broke the enemy's nine-song ecstasy array, which showed his might in the army and won the approval of most people. Since then, An'er and his brother have broken the enemy together, and no one can stop them.

Speaking of the Nine Songs Lost Soul Array, it is said that it was created by the master Nuosha military division invited by Xiou. Ouyang Zhenyu, who was still the third prince at that time, invited a master of the art of war, who had lived in seclusion for many years, to set up this formation. Several generals once led tens of thousands of cavalry to break through, but they were all trapped in the formation and lost their way.

"Where did you come from such a tricky formation?" Gao Wei looked at the dense small flags on the sand table, his eyes were glazed, "It's all messy, I have a headache to look at." ”

King An also studied for a long time, and noticed that this array has eight doors of "rest, life, injury, Du, death, shock, and opening", and has the principle of five elements of life, and it feels like the nine-palace gossip array invented by Zhuge Liang. However, how to combine and how to deform, King An couldn't figure it out.

"Does General Gao have a person who knows Qimen Dunjia and gossip about the five elements?" If King An wants to break this formation, he must know this.

Gao Wei is a rough person, and the reader who looks down on dance and ink the most, how can he know those geniuses? Seeing Gao Wei shaking his head in frustration, King An had no choice but to say: "I know that there is a genius boy who has a great talent for arranging troops. The general might as well let him try it? ”

The young man King An said was An'er, and Gao Wei couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous when he saw that he was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy. If it weren't for the sake of giving King An face, Gao Wei asked him to break the formation in vague words.

King An set up the formation, An Er looked at it for a long time, and analyzed: "Nine Palace Bagua Array." ”

"Are you sure?" King An asked.

"It's definitely a deformation of the Bagua Array." An Er said firmly, "Enter from the east 'Shengmen', go to the southwest 'Humen' to kill, and then enter from the north 'open the door', this formation can be broken." ”

"The changes in the Nine Songs Ecstasy Array are extremely complicated, you can break it in just a few words?" Gao Wei didn't believe it in his heart.

An'er naturally heard his dissatisfaction from Gao Wei's tone, and he smiled faintly, "It is precisely because of its complex changes that it is called the 'Nine Songs Ecstasy Array'. And so, they were trapped. ”

King An immediately understood, and sighed: "I didn't expect that there would be such a master in Xiou Barbarian, it seems that this array is an unfixed way to crack it." It's better to calculate a few and see how much has changed. ”

King An and An Er held small chess with black and red eyes, planted flags on the sand table to fight, and evolved the formation. The two discussed from the afternoon until late at night, before they came up with thirty-two variations. However, Gao Wei on the side was already dumbfounded, barely able to keep up with the rhythm of their discussion.

In the end, King An saw that it was getting late, so he let An'er out. Gao Wei sighed, he is really old, he is really a hero. However, what he didn't expect was that this teenager would become his biggest political enemy in the future.