"Lord Xi, tell me, your life is really golden, 100,000 taels of silver, and the official's salary this year is only 200 taels!"

Xue Luping was also like Xi Yuanxiu, putting his hands behind his back and teasing the other party.

After he said this, he happened to catch a glimpse of Xi Yuanxiu's cell, and the sewage seeping into the outside wall walked slowly in front of Xi Yuanxiu, stretched out his hand behind his back, and pointed to the place full of sewage.

"Lord Xi, if the official uses the money to buy your life to repair this broken prison, as well as the broken bricks and tiles in my office, I don't know what you think!"

Xi Yuanxiu said with a smile: "If the adults use it to repair the mansion, it will naturally be excellent!" ”

"It's just..."

Xi Yuanxiu said the word "just" next, but there was no follow-up, as if he was waiting for Xue Luping to ask.

Xue Luping was indeed very obedient to Xi Yuanxiu's wishes, he wanted to know what Xi Yuanxiu was going to say next, he squinted at Xi Yuanxiu and asked, "Just what?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu shook his head and sighed: "It's just that adults are doing so much business in Yangzhou, if you come to live in this prison for ten and a half years in the future, it will be a pity!" ”

Xue Luping, who rubbed his hands against each other, couldn't help but think of his now, these businesses in Yangzhou, as long as anyone finds out, he can retire here.

However, he didn't think that he would fall into the same situation as the young man in front of him, because he was the first prefect of Yangzhou, and no one from Jingguo was more familiar with this place than him.

"Lord Xi doesn't have to care so much about this official, no matter what, this is my Yangzhou, after so many years, you still don't understand?"

Xue Luping calmly looked at Xi Yuanxiu standing in the cell at this moment, just like when Xi Yuanxiu first came to Yangzhou that year, the two of them looked at each other like this.

However, what separated the two in the middle of the day was not the cold prison door, but the desk that was full of twists and turns from all over Yangzhou.

Xue Luping felt a little tired, and like last night, he pulled over a bench, sat on it, and continued: "When you were in the past year, I didn't like you very much, you, like your father, like your father, like to show face in public, but Lord Hou's orders, I naturally want to do a good job, so in order to arrange a place for you to go, I can only send my uncle to another place and get you there!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu only learned today why he was able to go to Huangcheng to become the magistrate of the county when he first arrived, and it turned out to be like this!

Li Yuanhuan also came back to his senses from the sad past at this moment, and couldn't help asking: "Don't the dispatches of officials under Yangzhou need to be reported to the DPRK?" ”

Xue Luping heard His Royal Highness Xianwang speak, and he didn't look back, and replied directly with his back: "This is my Yangzhou, naturally I have the final say!" ”

At this time, Li Yuanhuan does not look as elegant as usual, and can be called embarrassed.

After Li Yuanhuan raised his slightly lowered head, the two sword eyebrows, which were originally charming, were no longer charming, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a thick layer of gray, coupled with his current miserable face, I am afraid that even His Majesty the Emperor, who is usually not close to people, will squeeze out some tears when he sees it.

"Is it your Yangzhou, or my Li family's Yangzhou, is Lord Xue confused!"

Li Yuanhuan pinned the messy sideburns hanging on his face behind his ears with his hand, looked at Xue Luping with his back to him and said.

After Xue Luping heard the Li family, the expression on his face changed significantly in Xi Yuanxiu's eyes, but it was not the fear that Xi Yuanxiu imagined, but anger!

Not angry, angry!

Xue Luping also came to this prison today, and for the first time he looked at Li Yuanhuan, he saw Li Yuanhuan like this, and he felt a kind of indescribable satisfaction.

"His Royal Highness Xianwang, my poor fourth prince, don't you really think that this Yangzhou belongs to your Li family!"

Xue Luping's attitude and tone of speech at this time were completely different from before, as if they were two people, but they were indeed one person!

Li Yuanhuan and Bian Ying supported each other and slowly stood up, and then Li Yuanhuan leaned on the railing and said in a thin tone: "Why is this Yangzhou not my Li family, what you are wearing now, what you eat on weekdays, even what you slept last night, which one is not my Dajing, Dajing is my Li family, how dare you say that this Yangzhou is not my Dajing, how dare you say that this Yangzhou is not my Li family!" ”

Xue Luping replied indifferently: "His Royal Highness the erudite and talented Xianwang, when he refutes others, he is so pale and powerless, it sounds more like he is talking about tongue twisters!" ”

Li Yuanhuan said softly: "Since you can't answer the words of this king, then what this king said is enough as long as he is right, this is Yangzhou that my eldest brother exchanged for his life, Lord Xue should not salivate here!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu saw Xue Luping's hand on the bench at this time, and trembled obviously, only to see him slowly stand up and put his face directly in front of Li Yuanhuan.

"Your eldest brother is dead, His Majesty the Emperor keeps the palace for him, and sets up the archway, my Xue Luping's brother is gone, so he can only sleep with the corpses of those Dongyue thieves in the wilderness of Yangzhou, just because his surname is Li, and my brother's surname is Xue?"

After the four people in the prison heard Xue Luping's words, they didn't know how to reply to him for a while.

There were too many Jingguo soldiers buried here that year, except for the famous generals and the eldest son of the emperor, who can remember the other people, except for their relatives and friends, and neighbors!

Xue Luping saw that these people were silent, so he snorted coldly a few times, and continued: "The official's hometown is in Liangzhou, and he was called into the army that year, and he didn't have the heart to make contributions, he just wanted to get food and clothing, and it was not only the official's brother who went with the official, but also most of the men in our entire village, except for those who couldn't pick up on their shoulders and couldn't lift their hands, almost all of them joined the Eastern Expeditionary Army!" ”

That year, the war at the front was tight, not only the food and grass, but also those soldiers who could go into battle to kill the enemy, so the Eastern Expeditionary Army could only recruit troops in various places, and Xue Luping was the second batch of Jingguo people who enlisted.

"This official took more than 20 people along with his younger brother, followed the vanguard officer under your eldest brother, and came to his command."

Xue Luping's words shocked Li Yuanhuan's heart even more, he couldn't have imagined that Xue Luping, who couldn't see the slightest loyalty, had served under his eldest brother.

"Did you two also mention just now that Prince Anping's death, this official was not in Prince Anping's team that day because he passed on military information for Prince Anping's father Xi Fang, so he picked up a life and came back!"

When Xue Luping talked about Xi Fang, he also turned his head to look at Xi Yuanxiu, at this time, he finally said the words that had been suppressed for more than ten years in front of these people who died unexpectedly in his eyes.

Xue Luping's expression suddenly became excited, grabbed Li Yuanhuan's collar with his hand, and shouted loudly: "I picked up a life, but they didn't, my brother, I brought out more than 20 people from Liangzhou, they all died here because of your eldest brother, and they never returned to Liangzhou!! ”

Li Yuanhuan's face had been wet with Xue Luping's saliva in some places, but he didn't try to wipe it, he calmly looked at the somewhat irritable Xue Luping in front of him and said: "On the march to fight, who can ensure that nothing goes wrong, my eldest brother is not the same as those from your hometown who died here, what do you have to complain about!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu also nodded over there and said, "No one wants your brother, and those people you brought out, to die on the battlefield in vain, you want to..."

Xi Yuanxiu's words were interrupted by the sound of Xue Luping kicking down the bench.

Xue Luping pointed back and forth at the noses of these two people with his hand, and then said angrily: "What do you two bunched haired children who were still eating, drinking and enjoying themselves in Chang'an know something, if it weren't for your self-proclaimed father and your greedy imperial brother, how could they be buried here!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu and Li Yuanhuan glanced at each other, completely unaware of what Xue Luping was talking about, because in that battle back then, the two had just talked, all because the encounter with the East Vietnamese Army was too sudden.

Xue Luping dusted off his hand, and the official uniform that had just been stained with dust from kicking down the bench, continued: "I just arrived at the commander's tent that day, and I was about to leave after handing over the military information, but as soon as I left the tent, I heard a conversation inside about our advance army!" ”

Li Yuanhuan hurriedly asked, "What's the matter!" ”

Xue Luping was not as raised his eyebrows as before at the moment, and he said slowly: "Our advance army is not going to Qingzhou, but to block the reinforcements from East Vietnam!" ”

Xue Luping looked at Li Yuanhuan indifferently, and then said: "After Xi Fang decided on this matter, the second prince of the year wanted to go with his own team, but was stopped by your stupid imperial elder brother, and then he took all the soldiers except me and went to die in vain!" ”

The current Xi Yuanxiu and Li Yuanhuan were completely stunned, and Li Yuanhuan even dispelled the idea of asking again!

Because almost all of the officers under Li Anping back then were surnamed Xue, and they were all people brought out by Xue Luping from the small village in Liangzhou!

Xue Luping no longer looked at any of them, but looked at the bench underground, and muttered to himself: "Pity my brother, those who came out with me, without their death, how could he Li Wei take this monolithic Yangzhou, so is this your Li family's Yangzhou, or my Xue family's cemetery!" ”

At this moment, Li Yuanhuan heard Xue Luping call his father by his name, but he didn't say anything to stop it.

Xue Luping also felt that he had said a little too much today, and was about to leave with his sleeves up, only to hear Xi Yuanxiu ask.

"Lord Xue, can you tell who gave the 100,000 taels of silver?"

Xue Luping didn't look back, and said as he walked: "Naturally, people who don't like you!" ”