Liu Chenglin and Sun Zhi sat opposite each other and drank.

He was happy. Liu Changfeng came back, and also brought back the news of the Liu family's old mansion that he was most concerned about.

Cao Xin was the matchmaker, and with a large number of gifts, he proposed to Liu Ruyan, and the two officially became in-laws, and Liu Chenglin was very satisfied with Li Ze's approach.

"Wasn't you angry earlier? Why are you so happy now?" Sun Zhi looked at Liu Chenglin, who was full of spring breeze, and asked jokingly.

"Li Ze, this kid, is very insidious, he deliberately spread the relationship with my Liu family, but he just wants to separate the relationship between me and Zhu Shou, to put it bluntly, he just wants to force me to rebel, how can I not be angry?" Liu Chenglin drank a glass of wine and said.

"Now didn't Li Ze also achieve his goal? Whether it's the process or the result, it hasn't changed, why are you going against the norm?" Sun Zhi was a little puzzled.

"Because Qiao'er has found a good home." Liu Chenglin smiled and said: "I'm just such a sister, I've been cared for like a baby since I was a child, and now I see her find Ruyi Langjun, how can I not like it?"

"Are you sure Li Ze is Ruyi Langjun?"

"You didn't have any contact with that kid." Liu Chenglin smiled: "That's a sinister guy, in his hands, I suffered a big loss."

Sun Zhi laughed: "I haven't seen it, you still have a tendency to be abused, you have been rectified, but you appreciate others!"

Liu Chenglin put down his wine glass and said seriously: "In this world, honest people don't have a good life. Brother Sun, look at me, I used to be honest enough, I worked hard for Zhu Shou wholeheartedly, just looking forward to earning a future for myself with my martial arts, and seeking a place to assassinate history to repay the loss, but what was the result? Hah, that's true. If Zhu Shou has some real trust in me, he won't kill me without asking, right?"

"Zhu Shou is not the master of the Ming Dynasty in the first place." Sun Zhi nodded.

"So, a guy like Li Ze is the most suitable for this world! In such a troubled world, people like him will live like a fish in water." Liu Chenglin poured a glass of wine for Sun Zhi, "In the past, I wanted to find an honest brother-in-law so that my sister could live her life safely and worry-free, because at that time, I confirmed that I could protect my Liu family. But once or twice in a row, I have no heart for my Liu clan calamity. So now I've changed my mind and I'm looking for a great brother-in-law to make my sister worry-free for the rest of her life."

Listening to Liu Chenglin's words of self-destruction, Sun Zhi was overjoyed, the previous Liu Chenglin was a heart higher than the sky, and most people looked down from above, it seems that he has really suffered a lot of blows in the past two years, and he can face up to his own shortcomings.

"You see Qiao'er as if she was fate, and you are not afraid that Li Ze will bully her? Let me tell you, if you find a weaker brother-in-law, if Qiao'er is bullied, you can find the door and beat your brother-in-law, but if you find someone like Li Ze, you won't be able to vent your anger for Qiao'er." Sun Zhi leaned back with a smile, "If you really want to find the door, it is estimated that you will be beaten."

Liu Chenglin smiled: "I had a contact with that kid, although I don't know much about it, but people like him don't seem to bully women. Moreover, Liu Changfeng came back and told me that Li Ze's mother, Mrs. Wang, loves Qiao'er very much, and this marriage was originally proposed by Mrs. Wang at the beginning. Mrs. Wang was born in everyone, believes in Bodhisattvas, and has a peaceful temperament, and Qiao'er also said that she gets along very well."

"In this way, even if you get married, you won't stand in front of your mother-in-law and be bullied!" Sun Zhi nodded again and again: "It's a good way to have a good relationship with your mother-in-law first."

"These are secondary, I want Li Ze to always be good to Qiao'er, and the most important thing is of course still with me. As long as I get stronger and stronger, he won't dare to be rude to Qiao'er, otherwise if I move, he will hurt his muscles and bones." Liu Chenglin said proudly.

Sun Zhi put down his wine glass and said, "So, have you decided to defect to Li Ze and do things for him, and give up your own family?"

Liu Chenglin sighed, raised his wine glass, and drank it all: "Brother Sun, everyone has an upward heart, and I naturally have an upward heart, and I have also wanted to be proud of the world, but too many things have happened in the past two years, and I have to re-examine myself, and in the end, I have come to a fact that although I don't want to admit it, I can't admit it."

Facing Sun Zhi's gaze, he smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not this material!"

Sun Zhi didn't expect that Liu Chenglin, who had always been arrogant, would admit defeat by himself.

"The red cherry spear in my hand can help me to do whatever I want on the battlefield, for so many years, that is, Li Ze's subordinate has made me helpless, and the rest, I really haven't met an opponent, but the red cherry spear can only kill the enemy on the surface, not the enemy in the dark." Liu Chenglin pointed to the iron gun inserted in the weapon rack next to the wall and sighed.

"Eat a trench, grow a wisdom, how can you be sure that you will not grow?" SUN Zhidao.

"I'm afraid that before I can figure out some things, I will be eaten to the point that I don't even have bones left." Liu Chenglin shook his head and said: "Brother Sun, I can be proud of the world on the battlefield, but that's it, my temperament is destined to be not a person who can be the lord. Especially after seeing how Li Ze operated, I died even more of this heart. Like him, a fire burned a fairly prosperous Texas to a white ground, without the slightest nostalgic way of doing things, and I have no heart to compete for the world."

"So you decided to go with him." SUN Zhidao.

"Yes, since I can't do it myself, then I naturally have to find a good boss, and now it seems that this person who will become my brother-in-law is a very great person." Liu Chenglin nodded.

"That's right." Sun Zhi also nodded, but then sighed again: "Speaking of which, it is because this person's starting point is much higher than ours, just having a father who is a virtuous envoy, so that he can stand on top of our heads and look down on us as soon as he is born, even if we struggle all our lives, we may not reach his current height!"

"It's just a stage for him." Liu Chenglin shook his head and said: "He has the current situation, and it really has nothing to do with him having a Lao Tzu who is regarded as a virtuous envoy. That's exactly what I admire about him. The world will be in chaos, there must be heroes, Li Ze in my opinion, has the potential to become a hero, besides, he is still my brother-in-law, if you don't go to him, who else can you go to?"

Sun Zhi laughed: "That's right. But Brother Liu, next, we still have a difficult time to overcome, a friend from Cangzhou sent me a message, Zhu Shou has already assembled an army and is coming to clean us up."

"Expected." Liu Chenglin said coldly: "When Changfeng came back, he had already brought back the warning that Li Ze gave me."

"Li Ze also saw this?" Sun Zhi was a little surprised.

Liu Chenglin nodded: "On the Yizhou side, I am going to use troops against Henghai after the autumn to retaliate for Henghai's rebellion in the three alliances this time and Zhu Bin's attack on Yizhou, of course Zhu Shou also saw this, so he will definitely defeat me before the autumn harvest, so as not to be attacked by both sides when Yizhou comes."

"Zhu Shou has gathered 5,000 armor soldiers and 30,000 government soldiers, this is Zhu Shou's old book at the bottom of the box." When Sun Zhi said this, his face turned a little pale, "With our own strength, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

"Not only that, maybe there will be Lu Long's army in the direction of Yingzhou to attack us." Liu Chenglin played with the wine glass and said lightly: "I have already sent someone to inquire in the direction of Zhang Wu to find out the news, to see if Shi Yi will come to take advantage of the fire to rob?"

Sun Zhi's face turned a little paler: "If we are attacked on both sides, what should we do?" Over there in Yizhou, will there be reinforcements coming?"

Liu Chenglin smiled: "No, this time, we have to rely on ourselves. Li Ze fought continuously, and his soldiers and horses were all tired, and the autumn harvest was about to begin, so he couldn't draw manpower at all. So in this battle, we have no reinforcements."

"Then how to fight this battle? This time, Zhu Shou personally led the army to attack!"

"What's so scary, now I also have 2,000 armor soldiers and 10,000 government soldiers." Liu Chenglin disagreed: "Your policies such as opening a warehouse to release grain, giving relief to the people, and exempting taxes have made us strongly supported by the people in Jingzhou, and no one wants to go back to the old days, so in terms of people's hearts, we have it. Otherwise, this time the recruitment of government soldiers would have been so smooth. Jingzhou is not short of food now, there is no shortage of military equipment, as for the decisive victory on the battlefield, Liu Chenglin has not been afraid of anyone. Zhu Shou used to be very powerful, but now, he is old."

Seeing that Liu Chenglin was so confident, Sun Zhi had a hanging heart, so he let it go.

"Cheng Lin, this battle, don't be too aggressive, it's July now, as long as we drag it out for one to two months, Zhu Shou will inevitably return in vain, the autumn harvest is coming, he also wants the autumn harvest, otherwise his subordinates will fight a famine next year. In this battle, we should stand on a stable footing."

"It's better to defend than to attack, I want to attack instead of defending!" Liu Chenglin laughed, "Brother Sun, and relax, I'm already planning how to fight this battle, when the time comes, you just need to sit in Jingzhou City and guard the nest for me."

Sun Zhi raised his glass, "Since Brother Liu is confident, I am relieved, come, I will toast Brother Liu, and I wish Brother Liu a victory."

"!" Two cups, slammed into each other.

Although Sun Zhi was worried, but now there is no way out, his guys were finally released by Zhu Shou and exchanged them for Lu Jin and Feng Song's families, at this point, Zhu Shou had no choice, no matter what, Lu Jin and Feng Song are important people in Henghai, even if it is to keep other subordinates from chilling, he can only do this.

But it made him even angrier. Cleaning up Liu Chenglin is already something he has to do.

And in Cangzhou, when Jingzhou began to mobilize on a large scale to prepare for war, in Wuyi, a cavalry of nearly 2,000 people also began to assemble.

At this point, Liu Chenglin didn't tell Sun Zhi the truth, and there were reinforcements coming from Yizhou.