After the dawn of the beginning of summer, Gu Shi accompanied his daughter Xiaocicada and came to the merchant Zhuangzi to visit Shang Cheng, who was punished and confined at home.

said that he was accompanying his daughter, but in fact, Gu Shi was upset. Since that night's Hanyuan Hall meeting, his mood has been very irritable. As one of the initiators of the Dongwei strategy, he didn't get anything in the end, only a "hard" evaluation. Yesterday was the first day of the fourth lunar month, he went to the military department to order Mao, and happened to meet Zhen Qian and Zhai Cuo, seeing that they were so busy that they even walked with the wind, he couldn't help but feel an indescribable feeling. He had already agreed with the secretary of the military department, and went over to talk after ordering it, but he was so distraught that he forgot about it completely. After ordering the lot, he went back, and when he returned home to eat, everyone sat in the Shangshan Pavilion to drink tea and rest, and then he remembered such a thing......

And that's not all he worries. Yesterday evening, Yan Xuan brought two colleagues from the "Gu Family Army" to visit him at home. They complained to him that they would soon be sent to a foreign state capital to make assassinations, and that they might not have the opportunity to lead troops again in the future. At first glance, he was amazed. Yan Xuan has the ability and qualifications, his hometown is in Qingzhou, which is adjacent to Dengzhou Capital, he is very familiar with the local situation, and now he is waiting in the Ministry of War, he is the natural candidate for the northern branch of the Eastern Widow Strategy, how could he not be selected by the Ministry of War? What's more, a general like Yan Xuan is being released to make a history of assassination when he is in his prime, which actually means idleness; Is there any meaning to this? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the more he pondered, the more he felt panicked. This matter is the same as Emperor Dongyuan's "hard work", the meaning of which is really unfathomable. As soon as Emperor Dongyuan vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with him in public, the military department immediately began to confiscate the military power of the "Gu Family Army", could it be said that those people were ready to make a move against him?

With these questions, he didn't sleep soundly last night, and finally squinted and dozed past, and the weird and weird demon dreams were made one after another, and his underwear and pants were soaked in cold sweat. When I woke up in a trance, it was already more than half of the time.

He didn't sleep well all night, and of course his face was very bad, and his wife cared about his health, so she ignored his opposition and recruited a doctor hired by the family. This is a heart disease, and the doctor has no clue at all, so he can only deal with a prescription to clear the fire and calm the mind. Just when the doctor cut his pulse and asked about his symptoms, the two of them somehow talked about the doctor's own problem. This doctor himself has the old root cause of heart palpitations and night sweats, and from time to time he has to find others to prescribe medicine, and the sentence "can heal people but cannot heal himself" suddenly woke up Gu Shi. He is now in the game, surrounded by thousands of disputes, looking like a mess and looking like basil, how can he break the game? If you want to get out of trouble, you can only ask for help. Now the only people he can ask for help and are willing to help are Yang Du and Shangcheng. But Yang Du can only protect the Gu family for a while at most, and cannot save the first life; For the sake of the descendants of the Gu family, he decided to pull down this old face and go to ask Shang Cheng......

Now, he and Xiao Cicada have entered the merchant Zhuangzi, and they are not yet a stone's throw away from the county uncle's mansion. The porter by the Yimen had already seen him, and he nodded to him with a smile and greeted him. Just like Shang Cheng was so casual when he went to Gujiazhuang, he was also very comfortable in Shangzhuang, so the porter didn't go to tell Shang Cheng.

Their father and daughter followed each other into the Shang Mansion, turned a corner gate, and bumped into Li Feng accompanying an official wearing a five-rank military attache uniform. This man is of medium height, white and clean, with a short mustache and half a mustache on his round face, whether it is the mustache on his upper lip or the beard on his chin, they are all neatly trimmed, and he looks like a shrewd look. Gu Shi knew this man. This is Shang Cheng's elder, the founding son of the country, Huo Shiqi, a guerrilla general with the rank of honor, who is currently working in the military department.

Although Huo Shiqi was born in a man, he has been in the military for more than a year, and he has been dealing with officers and soldiers all day long.

In the past, no matter where he was, as long as someone gave Gu a military salute, he would have returned it with a military salute. But since he saw the manners of the guards in the Shang Mansion, and listened to Shang Cheng explain all kinds of truths in the military salute, he gradually changed. He was now wearing a very ordinary home-style casual clothes, and he was stepping on a pair of thousand-layer low round old man cloth shoes, so he arched his hand towards Huo Shiqi, stopped and asked, "Uncle Seventeen, why are you here?" He saw that the whole Shang Mansion, from Shang Cheng to the servants, respected Huo Shiqi as the seventeenth uncle, so he shouted angrily.

Hearing him call himself like this, Huo Shiqi's face suddenly showed an expression of crying and laughing. He thinks that Gu Poyang is actually a good person, but sometimes what he says and does is very instructive to teach people to get off the stage. For example, in front of him, Gu Shi called himself Uncle Seventeen, and Xiao Cicada was also calling Uncle, making him so troubled that he didn't know whether to agree or not. There was no way, he had to reluctantly squeeze out a smile, and he didn't take care of Gu Shi's father and daughter, and said to Gu Shi: "There is some trouble over there in the military department." I was ordered by Lord Zhenqian to come and report to the Governor of Shang. There were still Li Feng and Xiao Cicada standing next to him, so he didn't say it too clearly.

Hearing that Huo Shiqi was sent by the True Xiang Tribe, Gu Shi understood what was going on. It seems that the military department's plan for the East is not smooth, and Zhenqian has no feasible way, so he can't leave himself, so he has to let Huo Shiqi come to ask Shang Cheng for advice. He speculated in his heart about the problem that Zhenqian encountered, and said, "Zida, what did he say? ”

"Back to the general, the merchant governor didn't say anything." Huo Shiqi said.

Gu Shi paused for a moment, and then reacted. Zhenqian presided over the strategy of the Eastern War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry all have capable officials involved, so many people can't think of a difficult problem of countermeasures, no need to ask, it must be extremely tricky. It is estimated that Shang Cheng is also having a headache now.

Huo Shiqi said: "The merchant governor now has guests. ”

"Guest?" Gu Shi was a little confused. He immediately understood and asked, "Chang Wenshi is here again?" "It won't be Zhenxiang, Zhenxiang is busy in the military department; Then it can only be Chang Xiu.

"It's the New Year's Greeting Lord of the Ministry of Rites, and the first three great monks of the Eastern Wa Kingdom."

Gu Shi nodded. It seems that the problem encountered by Zhenqian is a bit big, and it is so big that it is likely to affect the dispatch of troops, so the first three who just had a little hope couldn't hold it back, so they ran to seek Shang Cheng's help. Another question immediately occurred to him. If Dongwei Fang is in trouble, will there be a new change in his affairs...... Alas, he is now deaf and blind, and no one has come to inform him of what is happening in the six departments, so he doesn't know what the problems of the military department are. He was thinking wildly in his head, and asked casually, "Is that Zida in the outer study?" ”

"Yes." Huo Shiqi said.

"Then I'll go see him." After Gu Shi finished speaking, he pulled his feet and left, leading the little cicada to find Shang Cheng by himself. Huo Shiqi was a little stunned, and he shook his head with a laugh for a long time, and Li Feng accompanied him all the way out of the county uncle's mansion, and got on the horse outside the Yimen without question......