On the water

"Hello General." The butler stood in front of the door and waited.

"Where's Li Chu?" Meng Sanqian asked as he took off his cloak and entered the mansion.

"According to your orders, the general, the meal was delivered to the room of the Li staff. He must be eating at this point. The housekeeper took the cloak, followed Meng Sanqian's pace, and entered the mansion.

"I know, you prepare another pair of dishes and chopsticks and send them to Li Chuna, and I will eat with him later." Meng Sanqian strode to the door of Li Chu's room. But after knocking several times, no one spoke, and I was a little anxious for a while, and my strength was a little bigger, so I found that the door was not locked, and I pushed the door directly.

"Li Chu." Meng Sanqian shouted, and in a blink of an eye, he found that Li Chu was asleep on the bed.

Meng Sanqian cautiously approached the bed, watching Li Chu sleep so soundly, he couldn't help but sit on the edge of the bed, and looked at Li Chu's sleeping face carefully, his eyebrows and eyes were like stars, the bridge of his nose was high, his face was angular, and he didn't have a straight face as usual when he fell asleep, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, which was very exciting. Just stared at him for a long time.

Suddenly remembering that he fainted yesterday, Meng Sanqian couldn't help but reach out and touch his forehead to see if the body temperature returned to normal today, fortunately, his head was not hot, and he was still sleeping because of the medicine he drank.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hanging heart was put down, his wrist was firmly grasped by Li Chu, and he instinctively wanted to resist, but Li Chu was woken up by Meng Sanqian from his sleep, and his spirit had not come back, and he had not even opened his eyes, so under the instigation of survival instinct, he got up and pressed Meng Sanqian on the bed, and he sat on Meng Sanqian's body, and the two were close to each other. It was only at this time that Li Chu opened his eyes and saw Meng Sanqian under him, and realized that he might be in trouble again.

"General." Just when the two of them were embarrassed and didn't know what to say to break this embarrassing situation, the housekeeper rushed over with the dishes, chopsticks and food, afraid that the food he brought was not enough, the housekeeper specially ordered the kitchen to make some more, delayed some time, never expected, this time to see such a lively scene, a little overwhelmed for a while.

"That, oh, general, what's that, put down the meal, I'll go right away, you go on, go on..." The housekeeper put the food on the table in a slippery way, twisting his head, for fear that if Meng Sanqian accidentally gouged out all his eyeballs, he would really pick the time.

"You're mistaken." Li Chu hurriedly climbed down from Meng Sanqian's body, tidied up his clothes, he was not wearing a shirt, but when he tossed just now, even half of his shirt fell off, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

"Alright, you go out." However, Meng Sanqian was very calm, sat up slowly, and looked at Li Chu's face a little flushed, and the whole person was in a very good mood.

"Why didn't you just wake me up?" Li Chu got up in a panic, his eyes didn't dare to look directly at Meng Sanqian, the whole thing was like a delicate little daughter-in-law, Meng Sanqian really couldn't see enough of his shy look.

"Then I have to be able to wake you up, my young master Li." Meng Sanqian fell in love with this kind of ridicule.

Li Chu stopped talking, and if he continued to speak, he felt that his face had nowhere to rest, and sure enough, his intuition was right, and it was indeed debatable whether it was good or bad when he followed Meng Sanqian.

While they were eating, there was another knock on the door.

"Enter." This time it was Adjutant Guo who pushed the door in.

"General, I just received an urgent secret letter." Adjutant Guo presented the letter in his hand. Li Chu pretended not to hear anything, and continued to eat his own food, no matter what, he was the prince of Chu State, and Meng Sanqi was the general of Qi State, and they could only be enemies when they met in such an capacity.

Meng Sanqian took the letter, didn't care about Li Chu's presence at all, and opened it directly. I wanted to ask for the support of the royal family, but the queen mother has not replied, and it is clear that she wants to give up the people on the water and let them fend for themselves, but as a thorn history, it is difficult to see his people suffering from this, so he asked Meng Sanqian to help these people survive this catastrophe.

"Alright, you go out first." Meng Sanqian walked to the desk, lit a fire and burned the letter, and he was in a dilemma for a while. Seeing Meng Sanqian's entanglement, Li Chu still didn't speak.

"Don't you ask me what's the matter?" It was Meng Sanqian who took the initiative to throw out the topic.

"If you want to say it, you will say it." Li Chu can think about it.

"There is about to be a big flood on the water, and now there is a flood, but the Queen Mother is unwilling to support, and now she asks me for help, do you say I will help or not help this favor?" Meng Sanqian sat back at the dinner table and took the initiative to explain the matter and the plate, he believed Li Chu.

"It's better that I don't participate in this kind of state affairs." Li Chu continued to eat his own food, although he already had his own opinion in his heart and made up his mind, it was always good to take a step back.

"You're my staff, and it's your job to give advice, isn't it?" The two anxious people are like this, and the rhythm has slowed down a lot.

"The key is that with your Meng Mansion, even if you put all of your Meng Mansion on it, it will be just a drop in the bucket." Li Chu pretended not to understand.

"Don't ask me knowingly." Meng Sanqian said as he sandwiched a piece of meat and put it in Li Chu's bowl.

"Since the flood has not yet come, it is better to move the people to their original addresses first, in general, it is better to help if you can, after all, if you really catch up with the disaster, it is the people who really suffer." Some of Li Chu's memories have been pulled back to many years ago, he also experienced such a disaster, and almost lost his life, the pain is really heart-wrenching just to think about, and even the memory is only a fragment left, and I vaguely remember that there is another teenager in that fragment.

"It is necessary to move to their original addresses, but there is also a question of whether there is a place willing to accept these refugees. There is also food and rice, the weather is not good this year, the grain harvest is not enough, and there is a war all year round, and it is estimated that the treasury is also tight, and the Queen Mother will not be willing to provide relief. Meng Sanqian spoke out about the difficulties.

"Use the Wu family." Li Chu continued to eat his own food, and said lightly. In the past few days that Meng Sanqian has not arrived, he also learned that Wu Tingting's infatuation with Meng Sanqian has not changed, and that Meng Sanqian and Wu Tingting were given marriage by the Queen Mother, the Wu family is so powerful, even the most favored imperial concubine today is a member of the Wu family, if Meng Sanqian asks for help from the Wu family, and then let the Wu Imperial Concubine come forward, if this blows the wind in the emperor's ears again, and the emperor sends a message for disaster relief, this is a sign of opposing the queen mother, and the civil strife in the Wu country is just around the corner, which is beneficial to himself and harmless. Li Chu thought about this series of chain reactions, and the more he thought about it, the more proud he became.

"The Wu family can't, change your mind." Meng Sanqian really didn't want to have anything to do with the Wu family, of course, the series of chain reactions that Li Chu could think of was also within his consideration. All things considered, using the Wu family is tantamount to wanting to break the current peaceful situation, and he has no plans to do so at present.

"Then you can start with the prince of Qi State, Qi State has just returned to obedience, and at this time it is showing loyalty, which will only be beneficial to Wu State, and the Queen Mother has no reason to object." Li Chu's mind was spinning rapidly.

"This can be tried, but we must clear up the relationship between us, the Queen Mother is suspicious, and there is no need to cause trouble." Meng Sanqian weighed the pros and cons. On the battlefield, he is an informal, brave and resourceful man, but the deceit in the officialdom makes him have to be cautious and cautious.

"If you think about it, there should be a few days before the flood anyway. There is no hurry. "Li Chu has come up with enough ideas, he has been used to being used to by Meng Sanqian in the past few days, and he is about to become a waste, and he doesn't even bother to use his brain.

"By the way, you can eat by yourself in the evening, the Queen Mother has a banquet for Qi Siyuan, the prince of Qi State, in the harem, I have to go." Before Li Chu could ask the reason, Meng Sanqian took the initiative to say everything, which once made Li Chu wonder who was inferior to him?

"Don't I have to go?" Stay in this Meng Mansion every day, in case Meng Sanqian suddenly returns to his hometown one day, what can he do, he can't just sit still, and use the big tree of Meng Sanqi to help him soar as soon as possible.

"Do you want to go?" Meng Sanqian really didn't plan to take him with him at first, he knew Li Chu's details, and he was afraid that the group of hungry wolves outside would hurt him, but Li Chu's question also brought him back to his senses, Li Chu never wanted stability, he was determined to be in all directions, and he imposed his will on him, is it really good?

"Of course I want to go, in case you go into seclusion one day, I will continue to beg for a life in this dungeon, and now I will see more and socialize more, which is equivalent to paving a way for myself in the future." Li Chu still looked like he was calm and breezy, but Meng Sanqian knew what he was thinking, and he also recalled what Li Chu had said to him in the barracks before.

"I respect your ideas, if you want to do anything in the future, you can tell me, tonight's banquet, let's go together." After thinking about it for a while, Meng Sanqian still decided to respect his ideas, he had grown so old and had the ability to decide the path he wanted to take.

Hearing Meng Sanqian's words, Li Chu was a little surprised, and his hand to eat also stopped. Staring at Meng Sanqian with straight eyes.

"Are you sure? I'm just your staff. Li Chu asked his doubts, he really couldn't understand what Meng Sanqian was so good to him?

"I leave the choice in your hands, and you can do what you want, as long as you promise me peace." Meng Sanqian lowered his head to eat, and did not look at Li Chu, he was afraid that he would regret it and regret pushing Li Chu into this troubled world.

For the rest of the day, both of them ate with their heads down, thinking about their doubts in their minds, but they both knew that their relationship was obviously different from that between ordinary masters and staff.