Outside, snow was falling and the north wind was howling. After a lot of tossing and turning, the house had already fallen silent, and the rustle of snow on the roof outside could be heard clearly.

Han Yu led Pan Qing and the two officers to sit near the door, drinking wine relatively silently.

"What time is it?" Han Yu asked by wiping his mouth.

Pan Qing stared out the window for a long time before he said, "It's probably Shen Shi." ”

"It's been almost two hours...... Han Yu groaned for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the house.

"Han ......" Zhou Ning couldn't care about the snow, opened the curtain, and hurriedly walked into the house and asked, "Where is Han Li?" ”

"Lord Zhou!" Feng Wen saw that Zhou Ning was actually wearing an official uniform to enter, and suddenly realized that the matter was not simple, so he took the lead in trotting forward and flattered and said with a smile, "These little guys colluded with bandits to make trouble, and the lower officials have already controlled it, and they are still bothering the adults!" ”

Zhou Ning followed the direction of Feng Wen's finger, saw Han Yu smiling and nodding at him, immediately raised his hand, threw it on Feng Wen's face with a "snap", and scolded sharply, "You dare to ask for a bribe from him!" Tired of living?! ”

Feng Wen covered his face in pain and replied aggrievedly, "I didn't set this rule...... Who let this kid dare not give Uncle Feng Guo face, why can't he suffer a little? ”

Zhou Ningqi's chest panted one after another, and his face turned red and reprimanded angrily, "You...... You idiot! Feng Tai didn't dare to accept his copper coins, you were really tired! ”

"My lord, he is just a small master picture Ling Shi ......" Feng Wen felt a hot pain in his cheeks, and still asked unconvinced, "Why are you so jealous of him!" ”

"Lord Zhou!" Seeing that his identity had to be exposed if he continued like this, Han Yu hurriedly got up and interjected, "Borrow a step to speak......

Zhou Ning followed Han Yu out of the house, the wind was cold, the snowflakes were falling, and Zhou Ning was shivering under the eaves.

"The general is on business trips to Beijing this time?" Zhou Ning sighed, rubbed his hands and asked.

"Didn't His Majesty send me to Beijing by decree?" Han Yu wrapped his thick jacket tightly, and suddenly asked with a deep look in his eyes, "How could Lord Zhou not know?" ”

"Nope!" Zhou Ning replied with a firm face, "Although I am recuperating in this county, I know everything about the court every day. Your Majesty summoned you to Beijing for such a big thing, why have I never heard of it? ”

After hearing this, Han Yu chuckled in his heart, and then asked with a solemn expression, "Then, have you heard the news that Your Majesty has left the palace?" ”

"Shh

Zhou Ning hurriedly stopped Han Yu, turned his head to look inside the house, and saw that no one was eavesdropping, so he hurriedly pulled Han Yu to the corner of the eaves, and only then did he take advantage of the wind to whistle and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is in Dongying at the moment!" I'm afraid I'm going to get you to the southern camp in the near future! ”

Hearing this, Han Yu seemed to understand a lot in his heart, and it seemed that his previous inference and guess were not wrong, so he asked, "In that case, who is so bold that he dares to transfer me to Beijing under false divine decrees?" ”

"Didn't you knowingly ask?" Zhou Ning pursed his lips, and then secretly pointed into the house, and said, "Except for his uncle, who else is so bold?" ”

"Alas!" Han Yu let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile, "Then it seems that I am not guilty of resisting the decree!" ”

"Are you resisting again?" Zhou Ning smacked his lips and smiled, "It's not once or twice that you Han Xiaozhi resisted the decree, who have you been afraid of?" ”

"The will is for me to hand over my military power and go to Beijing to discuss matters, and Ouyang Han will temporarily take over the post of general ......," Han Yu explained.

"Oh......"

Zhou Ning clasped his arms, trembling uncontrollably, and said, "In this way, I think it's good to resist!" If I ......," he immediately leaned into Han Yu's ear and whispered, "If it were me, I would have resisted and disobeyed!" ”

"What do you mean?" Han Yu asked with an interesting smile.

"Isn't this nonsense!" Although Zhou Ning was not lightly frozen, he still patiently explained, "The four battalions are the foundation of my Great Xu Liguo, how many years has his uncle coveted this military power?" If it really falls into his hands, we Da Xu will not be able to finish the calf? What's more, besides you Han Xiaozhi, who else can take on this heavy responsibility? ”

"It is said that you Zhou Gongming is exquisite, and you really talk about people when you meet people, and you talk nonsense when you talk about ghosts." Han Yu laughed.

"Go, go, go! Don't tease me! Let's get down to business," Zhou Ning suddenly changed his smile and asked with a serious expression, "Do you really plan to go to Beijing?" Do you know that as a general, it is a felony to enter Beijing without His Majesty's will! ”

Han Yu couldn't help but smile, "You don't think Feng Tai would use such inferior and childish means to deal with me, right?" ”

"That's really ...... say" Zhou Ning glanced into the window again, and saw that Feng Wen was showing great hospitality in front of Gu Yuexi, and immediately sighed, "It is said that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of mice will make holes." I see that his nephew's IQ is like this, Feng Tai may really do it......"

Han Yu shook his head and said, "This time, Feng Tai sent me into Beijing under the false decree, I'm afraid he wanted to win me over......."

After hearing this, Zhou Ning suddenly flashed his gloomy eyes, staring at the snow-capped land in front of him, pondering for a while, and asked, "If this is really the case, what is your intention Han Xiaozhi?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Ning was suddenly so serious, Han Yu exhaled softly, "If there is no first emperor to favor him, where did I come from, Han Xiaozhi?" The only person I am loyal to in Nanying is Emperor Daxu! ”

"You ......" Zhou Ning's face suddenly sank, turned his face to stare at Han Yu, and said, "Do you really think that the first emperor is in love with you?" ”

"Of course!" Han Yu tilted his head in confusion and asked, "What, Lord Zhou has something to say?" ”

"No ......" Zhou Ning suddenly changed his words and sighed, "It would be nice if the other commanders of the three battalions were as loyal as you......"

"What do you mean?" Han Yu asked puzzledly, "Did you hear something!" ”

"The army is out all the year round, you have the power of the local military and government, and the power is above 10,000 people, and the temperament is afraid that it will be wild for a long time......" Zhou Ning lowered his head, stepped on the thick snow on the ground, and made the sound of lattice lattice.

"Lord Zhou, are you afraid that we will rebel?" Han Yu's face was gloomy and he asked in a low voice.

"Heh~" Zhou Ning chuckled and waved his hand noncommittally, "Don't talk about these unpleasant things." That guy in the house, what are you going to do with it? ”

Han Yu scratched his head, thought about it with a frown between his eyebrows, and said, "It's a court official, I don't have the right to interfere." I just hope that the adults can help me hide my identity, so that we can go to Beijing immediately. ”

"No problem!" Zhou Ning snapped his fingers and nodded, "Then let him continue to be the local official, after all, many rules are not set by him." ”

Han Yu nodded, after all, whoever the imperial court sends to serve as an official has no right to interfere, as for whether they are corrupt or evil, it is all a matter of the imperial court, and someone will be responsible for investigating and dealing with it.

"Since that's the case, then you can continue to be your main picture Ling Shi......" Zhou Ning bent down and stretched out a hand and smiled at Han Yu, "Lord Han Li, please." ”

As soon as he entered the house, Feng Wen approached him again with a flattery, covering his face and cautiously asking Zhou Ning, "What advice do you have?" ”

"Humph!" Zhou Ning reprimanded angrily with a cold eye, "Lord Han Li is going to Beijing to take up a post, let him go as soon as possible, and don't make things difficult!" ”

"......"

Feng Wengang was about to speak, but suddenly saw Zhou Ning glaring at him angrily, and immediately scolded the officers and soldiers who brought him, "What are you doing in a daze!" Don't let Lord Han go back! ”

After thanking Zhou Ning, Han Yu led everyone to gallop away against the wind and snow.

Seeing Han Yu and his entourage gradually disappearing into the snow, Zhou Ning muttered to himself, "The first emperor is sometimes confused......

The wind and snow are combined, the wind is biting, and the closer you get to Beijing, the colder the climate becomes. After two days of overland, I finally arrived at the foot of Jingzhou.

At the end of the day, the sky was dark, and the vast snow added a bit of desolation. Han Yu saw the inn in the distance, so he dismounted and went to stay overnight and enter the city tomorrow morning.

There were not many people in the store, so Han Yu chose an inner position, and after ordering a few glasses of wine and food, he said to everyone, "Rest early after you are full of wine and food today, and we will enter the city early tomorrow morning!" ”

Pan Qing said, "Dare to ask your lordship, how will our group enter Beijing tomorrow?" ”

"Come with me into the city."

Pan Qing shook his head, his fingers tapping on the tabletop, and said with a smile, "In this way, we can't enter!" ”

"Why?" Li Ping was puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "My family went to Beijing to take up a post, and you only said that it was a family member, how could you not enter the city?" ”

Pan Qing raised his eyes and glanced at Han Yu, and then said with a wry smile, "I originally saw that adults were dressed luxuriously, but I never thought that adults would be shy...... If you don't take care of the city gate, how can you get in? ”

"You!" Li Ping was not angry and replied, "In this case, do you have the money to do it?" ”

"This one naturally has ...... The three of us pretended to be escorted into Beijing, at most we only needed the usual copper coins, and presumably the doormen would not dare to stop them. It's an adult, who is going to take up his post, and he is a petty official who repairs books, how can those doormen easily let go of adults? ”

"Then you can help us pay for it, won't it be done?" Li Ping drank a bowl of wine and threw it heavily on the table.

"I ......" Pan Qing sighed a little embarrassedly, looked at each other with the two officers, and said with a wry smile, "We don't have enough money on us......

After hearing this, Li Ping's wine that had just entered his throat almost choked, "What! You are dignified in the northern camp, and you are so searching? ”

"Alas!" Pan Qing and the other three all lamented bitterly, "It's not that our general is stingy, it's just that the northern frontier is bitterly cold, and the imperial court has never paid military salaries, so we are self-sufficient." Over the years, it has been maintained by General Chu's sale of ancestral property...... Even then, it's a drop in the bucket, and the brothers are always hungry and at war! ”

After hearing this, Gu Yuexi immediately slapped the table angrily and scolded, "The soldiers in the front are fighting bloodily, but these officials and men in the rear are only busy collecting money, and the people are prey!" Everywhere there are harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and personnel filial piety! ”

Han Yu squinted his eyes, but secretly admired Chu Yan in his heart, thinking that Zhou Ning had suspected that they would rebel before, he immediately became a little angry.

"In that case, if you have official business, let's go into the city first!" Han Yu picked up the wine bowl and saluted Pan Qing.

"But my lord......" Pan Qing couldn't help lamenting in shame.

"Alas!" Han Yu immediately interrupted, "I will find a way to enter Beijing, and the general doesn't have to worry about us!" ”

Li Ping laughed secretly in his heart, it's a big deal to beat up those little officials, how can he dare to take the dignified Nanying general?

Immediately, he also picked up the wine bowl and said to Pan Qingdao, "Brother benevolence!" There are many offends along the way, just eat and drink at the moment, don't worry about us! We'll have our own way into the city tomorrow! ”

Seeing that the two of them were so resolute, Pan Qing picked up the wine bowl and said to the two, "Since this is the case, then we won't shirk it, we are waiting for the adults in the city!" ”

When the wine glasses were changed and everyone was drinking, Gu Yuexi, who had not spoken for a long time, pondered for a long time, and suddenly seemed to have made up some kind of determination, suddenly picked up the wine bowl, and laughed heartily at everyone, "Come on!" Drink and eat! ”

Only then did Han Yu and the others remember that there was Gu Yuexi with them, and they were shocked by her sudden hearty laughter, and after coming back to their senses, they immediately ate wine and laughed with her.