Chapter 218: The Return of the King (2)
Yang Xiu hurriedly finished speaking a few words, but he didn't see any action from the generals, they all stood in place, and there was a strange light in their eyes. Yang Xiu was shocked that something was wrong, his back was faintly cold, and when he looked back, he saw that Lu Bu had come back at some point, just behind him, his eyes were radiant, just like the howling north wind in early winter, which made people shudder.
It turned out that Lu Bu walked a few steps, and he didn't see Yang Xiu coming, but he was pointing at several soldiers in the courtyard of the private house, and he immediately knew what he wanted to do.
Lu Bu has always reused Yang Xiu, making him responsible for intelligence gathering and the aftermath of many things, it can be said that Lu Bu's eyes and third hand are basically completed by him. This made Yang Xiu slowly develop the character of unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, and the experience over the years made him gradually become inferior, and in many things, he would naturally cut off the troubles for him without even consulting Lu Bu, because he knew that if he asked Lu Bu, with Lu Bu's character, he would definitely not allow it, and many things would leave a tail and become a shackle in the future.
In Yang Xiu's mind, Lu Bu is good at everything, but his heart is too soft, and he says that he should be informal. If it is not a decisive person to kill, there will be no one who can compete for the world. It is unpleasant to say that it is the benevolence of a woman, Xiang Yuxiong is better than the prince, and it is not the end of a tiger that is a trouble?
Therefore, Yang Xiu positioned himself as a scavenger behind Lu Bu, clearing all the obstacles on the road for him, even if he lost Lu Bu's trust because of this, he would never compromise.
"Is there still me in Dezu's eyes, where do you want to put me in such an act?"
Seeing that the angry light in Lu Bu's eyes was like substance, Yang Xiu secretly smiled bitterly, the prince agreed to the two requests of this resentful people, with his person, if the people asked for something, he would do his best. But listening to the words of the people's husband, it seems that he hates the prince to the bone, if he has evil intentions and makes some demands that are not conducive to everyone, isn't he asking for trouble?
At this time, seeing that Lu Bu was angry, Yang Xiu could only give up, and could only retreat to the second.
"The prince misunderstood, I see that this peasant family is fortunate to save the life of the prince, the old and the young are lonely, and they are only afraid that it will be difficult to survive in this troubled world, since they are kind to the prince and the prince, that is to me and the state soldiers are kind, Hugh is willing to take them over the house, take care of the rest of their lives, in order to repay their kindness today."
The light in Lu Bu's eyes finally eased, Yang Xiu was anxious, and it was rare to come up with such a countermeasure, besides, it was not easy for Xiaodou's family, if he could be taken care of by Yang Xiu, he would be able to make a wish.
"You'd better match your words with your deeds, and if they make any mistakes in your hands, I won't spare you."
Raising a few idlers is not a difficult thing for Yang Xiu, his family is a family of eunuchs, and he has been high-ranking officials for several generations, how can he care about these mouths, but this time he moved a stone but smashed his own feet, which inevitably made him unhappy. But at this point, since he could not have both of them, it was better for him to take some pains to keep this unstable scourge with him than to put it in a place where he could not grasp it.
Lu Bu knew that with Hu Laohan's temperament, he might not follow him, but Yang Xiu had always been unpredictable, and as for what method he used, he would go, and he didn't dare to use too drastic methods.
After Lu Bu left, Yang Xiu and several soldiers stared at each other, at a loss for a while.
"Strategist, do you still want to kill or not?" General Zhao Lei asked.
"Kill a fart, since the prince has paid attention to this time, he will never allow you to come nonsense, and I want to kill you to kill, I didn't say it."
Zhao Lei sneered and laughed, he is not stupid, how can he carry this black cauldron by himself, he has a good life, he has not yet married, and he is born with a bewitching and colorful charm of thousands of girls, although martial arts are common, but there is a cousin Zhao Yun with strong martial arts, which is enough to protect his future, calling for wind and rain on the streets of Anyi, how can he be ignorant and fearless to touch the mold of the prince.
"So what to do?"
"What else can I do, you go and ask them to go back to Anyi with me."
"Please?"
"Or else?"
Looking at the old man Hu who was glaring at everyone in the courtyard, Zhao Lei smiled bitterly: "This old man looks at us like enemies, how can he go with us, please don't move." ”
Yang Xiu's intention was blocked, and he was also angry, but he said coldly: "Since the prince has an order, you have to do it well no matter what, otherwise you will live here and don't go back." ”
After speaking, he went straight to the direction of the army, and rode his horse away, leaving only Zhao Lei and a dozen soldiers stunned in place.
"Shameless! I have a lot of everything, but let me clean up the mess, what a thing! ”
But this hot potato still fell into the hands of Zhao Lei after all, this family is kind to the prince, and the prince has special care, he can't be beaten or scolded, Yang Xiu can still shirk responsibility when he is there, but now only he is left, and it is not easy to invite this resentful person.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Lei ordered the soldiers to wait outside the door and walked into the farmhouse alone. Ignoring the angry eyes of Hu Laohan holding farm tools, he took care of himself and circled around the thick apricot tree in the courtyard, and was surprised: "The tree is very big, blocking the yang energy in the courtyard, opening the door to look at the tree, looking at the wood in the south, it is a catastrophe of luck, no wonder your family is connected to the dead, this feng shui you can still live, it is also amazing." ”
Hu Laohan was upset, first his wife died of middle-aged illness, and then lost his son one after another, he was in awe of fate, and then he heard Zhao Lei's casual nonsense, and couldn't help but be shocked, is it really the feng shui at home that has damaged the lives of his family?
"You go, you're not welcome here." Although surprised, Hu Laohan didn't know what Lu Bu's purpose was for keeping this person, lest he would be detrimental to his family.
"I see that your family's feng shui is a sign of extinction, and if you continue to be here, your family will be ruined, and the prime minister has good thoughts, thinking that you are kind to him, and I specially ordered me to take you to Anyi to enjoy happiness, how about it? Think about it. Zhao Lei said as he walked into the house by himself, passed by Xu's side, and saw that her face was full of horror, and he just held Xiaodou in his arms, for fear that others would take it away, and couldn't help but wink at her.
"My family doesn't need you to worry about life and death, if you go back and reply to Lu Bu, just say that the little old man doesn't know how to lift up, and he swears to die." When Hu Laohan saw him enter the house, he was even more worried about Xiaodou's safety, and protected her mother and daughter with farm tools.
Zhao Lei sat on the couch by himself, saw that there was still a lot of wine and meat on the table, filled a bowl by himself, tasted it and praised: "Good wine, since you want to leave, it is better to drink it and leave, it is a pity to waste it." ”
Hu Laohan is also powerless, although the person in front of him looks delicate, but the long sword and big bow on his waist are by no means ornaments, he does not dare to provoke and humiliate himself, he can only watch Zhao Lei do whatever he wants, as long as he does not hurt his family.
Zhao Lei made a few bowls in a row, the wine jar had bottomed out, and he said with wine: "Cool, I didn't expect the countryside to be able to drink such a mellow wine, it's really worth the trip." ”
He pointed at the Qi family and said, "You, go and give me a bowl of porridge to suppress the wine." ”
The Chen family had no choice but to leave the beans to Hu Laohan to take care of, and went to the kitchen to serve porridge by himself.
Hu Laohan naturally didn't dare to slack off, holding a farm tool tightly behind him, lest Zhao Lei suddenly attack, even if he knew that he was not an opponent, but he would fight to the death to protect his family.
Zhao Lei picked up a piece of rabbit meat and put it in his mouth, suddenly his expression changed drastically, looked at the courtyard, and exclaimed, "Lu Bu! ”
Hu Laohan turned his back to the courtyard gate, and his whole body was shocked when he heard this, thinking that Lu Bu had gone and returned, could it be that he had come to take the lives of his family? I hurriedly turned around and looked into the courtyard, but saw that the courtyard was empty and there was no half a figure.
At this time, the strong wind around his body suddenly rose, and he felt like a whirlwind passing by, and he immediately felt that it was not good, and hurriedly grabbed the little bean behind him, but he grabbed a void.
Xiaodou's crying sounded immediately, and Hu Laohan watched Zhao Lei holding Xiaodou and running out of the hospital in a few steps like a rabbit.
"If you want your granddaughter, come with me." Zhao Lei ignored Xiaodou's crying and shouted inside the courtyard.
A bowl of porridge in Chen's hand fell to the ground, shattered, and cried and threw himself at the courtyard gate: "Give me back." ”
A soldier stopped her with a knife, and Zhao Lei said: "I'm going to take the little girl away, will you go with her?" ”
The Chen family and Hu Laohan were helpless, Xiaodou was held hostage, seeing that she couldn't bear to cry, how could she still harden her heart, and immediately agreed to follow Zhao Lei to Anyi.
Zhao Lei scolded in his heart: "Toasting without eating and punishing wine, it's really cheap." ”
During this period, the Chen family and Hu Laohan could not ride horses, so Zhao Lei could only wronged himself to ride with the Chen family, and let the soldiers camel Hu Laohan and chase the army away.
Let's say that on the way back to Shouchun, all the soldiers and officials in the city went out to greet him, and he traveled for ten miles in a row.
On the way here, Lu Bu had already learned about the current situation from Zhao Yun.
Just the day before yesterday, Zhang Liao received an edict from the secretary of the prime minister's wife, Lingyan, to raise 50,000 troops to King Qinwang of Anyi, and his colleagues were ordered by Gao Shun, the governor of Jizhou, Shuofang Taishou and others, to join more than 100,000 troops, raise Anyi, and gather in the east of the river in the name of the Qing monarch.
Although Lu Bu doesn't know what kind of thrilling event happened in Anyi, it will be a earth-shaking change for his wife and military advisors to mobilize the Quartet army to return to Beijing.
And he was injured this time, missing for many days, his family will be tormented, and I don't know how many young people take the opportunity to make trouble, and they are worried about the changes in their families, and they are waiting for the army and do not enter, and they wish Zhao Yun and Yang Xiu to guard Shouchun tightly in case of Xuzhou Cao Jun, and they led their relatives to rush back to Hedong with dozens of people.
Lu Bu didn't know what had happened in Anyi, how could Yan Xiuli know about Lu Bu's current situation, if she knew that her husband was rushing to Anyi, I'm afraid she wouldn't be so anxious.
The emperor intensified his efforts after learning the false news that Lu Bu was about to return to the court, and sent assassins to attack the prime minister's mansion at night, but in the end it fell short, and none of the hundreds of assassins survived, and they were all lost in the prime minister's mansion, but they angered everyone in the prime minister's mansion, and learned that the Yan family had ordered the foreign generals to return to Anyi Qinwang.
The emperor was even more afraid, so he sent someone to secretly contact the princes of the Quartet and ask the princes to discuss Lu Bu together. But among the princes in the world, there are very few people who can compete with Lu Bu, and now only Liu Bei in Jingzhou and Liu Zhang in Yizhou can rely on them, so he ordered people to go to Jingzhou and Yizhou, contact the princes to form an alliance, and then attack Lu Bu.
The close attendant Huang Guan secretly said to the emperor: "After all, the foreign ministers can't rely on it, even if the Liu clan relatives have their own ghosts, and they are all defeated generals under Lu Bu, how dare they raise troops to attack." Now the plan should be a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, while Lu Bu has not yet returned and the rebellious army has not yet entered Beijing, he will first take down the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion and hold them in his hands as hostages. That is His Majesty can exchange benefits with Lu Bu, and he can return to Chang'an with the hostages, and Chang'an Ma Chao has been looking forward to His Majesty for a long time, and he will wait for him. ”
The emperor hesitated, the Anyi troops he now mastered were only between the prime minister and the prime minister, but the prime minister's mansion had the general Wei Yue in charge, and there were Guo Yan, Ding Xu and others who came to the army to help, it can be said that the generals gathered, and the emperor's soldiers and generals were much more embarrassed, they were all eunuchs and servants, speaking of combat power, I was afraid that even I was not as good as myself, how to march and fight!
Moreover, the Nanyuan Guards are only the guards of the Imperial City, although they are all elite people selected by the people, they are not as elite as the Prime Minister's Mansion, and they are all veterans who have survived for the rest of their lives. If you really fight, I'm afraid you may not be able to win.
Not to mention Wei Xu, who was stationed outside the city, and Hou Cheng, who seemed to have been out of the way, they were all Lu Bu's former confidants, and now that they learned of Lu Bu's news, I am afraid that there is no hope of taking the opportunity to subdue them.
And even if he wins and wins the Prime Minister's Mansion, the strength of the emperor and Lu Bu cannot be reversed at all, where can he go? Changan? The emperor escaped from Chang'an back then, in the hands of Ma Chao, it was even far worse than in Anyi, at least in Anyi, he didn't have to worry about three meals a day, Lu Bu could also maintain his superficial respect, and it was impossible for him to re-enter Chang'an.
"Lu Bu's soldiers will be strong, and it is better not to hand over the troops until the last resort."
"Your Majesty, now that you have no way out, the failure of the Xiangfu's assassination is already equivalent to fire and water, once Lu Bu returns, Your Majesty will have no day to turn over."
"But in a duel between the great armies, we have no chance of winning, and rushing into battle only increases casualties."
Huang Guan said: "Nature is invincible, tomorrow is the day when it is rumored that Lu Bu will return to the city, when the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion will pour out, Your Majesty can order people to set up an ambush on the way, the army marches on a long line, Your Majesty only needs to attack the family of the children of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and take down Lu Bu's children in one fell swoop. ”
The emperor's eyes lit up, and he ordered Huang Guan to follow the plan.
When the queen arrived, she asked anxiously, "Can your father reply?" ”
Zhang Yingying shook her head with a bad face and handed the letter to the emperor.
The emperor read the letter, in which Zhang Liao said some nonsense without pain, and asked the empress to persuade the emperor not to go against the prime minister, and did not say a word about sending troops to help, and his position was self-evident.
A few days ago, when he learned that Yan's edict ordered Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others to return to Beijing, the emperor consulted with the empress, or he could persuade Zhang Liao to become the right-hand man who overthrew the prime minister's mansion. The empress is his own daughter, and Zhang Liao has always been loyal, and the emperor only feels that there is great hope, so he is excited about it for several days.
Unexpectedly, after sending someone to contact, it turned out to be such a result. The emperor didn't want to fight, but he still had a glimmer of hope for Zhang Liao, and now he learned that Zhang Liao had no hope of fighting, so he made up his mind to ambush everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
But what the emperor didn't expect was that the official document of Lu Bu's return tomorrow was just fake news, and the fake news from the forged official document was deliberately released by Yan Xiuli to him.
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