Chapter 466: Are You Okay?

"Did the man talk to you?"

When the army was resting halfway, Cui Zhongzhen found Fang Xie and sat down next to him and asked.

Fang Xie knew who the person he was talking about was, and shook his head with a smile.

"Is this the case?"

Cui Zhongzhen asked again.

"That's all"

Fang Xie nodded.

"He is the well-deserved commander of this team, and he should be in command after the prince leaves. You see the situation is good now...... The generals have no objection to the command of Master Mou, and it is an eternal truth that only when the team is united can the battle be won. The enemy can't win against us, but it's unwise for us to intrigue because of such a trivial matter. ”

Hearing Fang Xie say this, Cui Zhongzhen couldn't help but shake his head: "When I was a teenager, my husband who taught me told many allusions, which made me understand my deception. I didn't think much of it at the time, but it was because I was young and playful and didn't think about it at all. The more I got to it, the more I could understand the cold cruelty hidden behind these allusions. Behind which smiling man is not lying countless unjust bones? ”

Fang Xie snorted, but was speechless.

"The gentleman who taught me back then was a man who had a deep understanding of this kind of trickery. At that time, he was a staff member of a general in the imperial army. This general was born in a poor family, but he was extremely brave and smart, and when the army forced the Shang army to fight a decisive battle south of Mangdang Mountain, it was the method he came up with. But in the end, didn't this great credit fall on the head of the second prince? ”

Cui Zhongzhen pulled a yellowed hairy grass and put it in his mouth: "At that time, it was the most intense time for the princes to compete for favor, the second prince begged the queen mother to intercede, and the first emperor agreed, let the second prince be the head of the march, and accompany the generalissimo He Ruolan Mountain to the south. At that time, the other general was the person assigned to protect the second prince, and he told the second prince his thoughts, and the second prince praised him greatly, telling him that if he won this battle, he would definitely recommend him in front of the first emperor. ”

"This will be very happy, and feel that the day of his emergence is approaching. He didn't wait long for the news that his strategy had been adopted, and then he began to wait for the day when he was introduced to His Majesty by the Second Prince. This decisive battle was fierce, but because of proper planning, and the fact that the Great Sui army was far more elite than the merchant army, the 160,000 Great Sui army killed more than 200,000 merchant troops without leaving a piece of armor. ”

However, until Pingshang, this general did not wait for the second prince to fulfill his promise. Later, he heard that the generalissimo He Ruolan Mountain played a meritorious performance, listing the name of the second prince in the first place, and attributing all the credit for that battle to the second prince, and his name, maybe He Ruolan Mountain did not know at all. At that moment, the donkey realized how idiotic he was. ”

"Because of this battle, the second prince was even more appreciated by His Majesty. Later, the second prince was afraid that the matter of greed would be leaked, so he casually found an excuse to kill Na Beijiang. For the imperial court, the death of a general from the fifth grade will have no effect. Even this matter will not be taken seriously by those big shots, his death is unknown but no one cares at all. Sir is a smart man, from the time he knew that the second prince was greedy for merit, he was ready to leave, and after hearing that the other prince was going to be executed, he immediately took his luggage and went to the northwest to take refuge, and later came to my house. ”

Later, because He Ruolanshan supported the succession of the eldest prince, the second prince designed to get rid of the person who was known as the first general of the Great Sui at that time, and He Ruo's family now has no descendants. Dozens of officials jointly sued him for attempting rebellion, and the evidence was said to contain three baskets. ”

After listening to this story, Fang Jie's face became a little solemn.

"Isn't that the most poignant?"

He asked.

Cui Zhongzhen nodded: "No...... The most poignant thing is that in fact, the strategy was not the one who didn't come up with it, but the gentleman who taught me. The don't will keep telling Mr. that when he mentioned it to the second prince, he said the name of the gentleman, but in fact, the don't will never mention it from beginning to end, and kept saying that he came up with it. ”

Fang Xie nodded: "Even if you don't say it, I also guessed seven or eight times out of ten." ”

"It's inevitable that something like this will happen on the way."

Cui Zhongzhen sighed: "Therefore, the more I grow up, the more I have no intention of pursuing a career, but I am only willing to eat, drink and have fun with a group of friends, but I live a chic and happy life." Later, I had to go to the capital to take the exam of the Martial Arts Academy, and I was even sympathetic to you when I was halfway through. A soldier like you, who has no background and no background, will be drowned in that pool of deep water when he arrives in the capital. Unexpectedly, it was me who drowned. ”

Fang Xie smiled and shook his head, lit his pipe and took a puff: "The gentleman who taught you is only afraid that he has been teaching you since you were young, once you choose to join the company, then don't trust anyone." Only then will you not become a stepping stone for others to advance, right? ”

"You're wrong."

Cui Zhongzhen sighed: "Mr. often tells me in private that you must act according to your heart. He asked me whether I wanted to be happy or fame, and I asked, is it impossible to have both happiness and fame and fortune? At that time, in my opinion, fame and fortune naturally led to countless happiness. But Mr. said that when you are really mature, you will understand that happiness is actually very simple. So when I became an adult, I understood what my husband said, and I became more and more playful. ”

Fang Xie laughed: "He almost ruined you." ”

Cui Zhongzhen shook his head: "I want to thank him again, let me at least have a happy life." ”

Fang Xie exhaled a puff of smoke and said softly: "Maybe there will be a kind of person who will be unhappy if he is ordinary." Only the higher he climbs, the more satisfied he will be, and he will be really happy. ”

"Such a person ......"

Cui Zhongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "Either die of grievance, or go down in history." ”

Fang Xie nodded, thoughtful.

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When Fang Xie saw the Wolf Milk Mountain again, the taste in his heart was only understood by himself. Although there is still a distance of at least a hundred miles between Shanzhai and Fangu, it is difficult for Fang Xie to calm down after arriving here. I don't know if I have been psychic and feel the master's mind, the red horse looks a little different from usual, and keeps shaking his head and snorting, as if he is trying to persuade something.

Fang Xie patted the red horse's neck, and his gaze stayed in the northeast.

"Want to go back and see?"

Mu Xiaoxiao asked softly.

Fang Xie nodded and shook his head again.

There is some sadness between the eyebrows, a sadness that few people can understand, but Mu Xiaoxiao understands.

Fang Xie must have wanted to go back to Fangu, which was the place where Fang Xie lived for the most stable three years after fifteen years of fugitive. There are many memories, good and sad. Fang Xie nodded, because he couldn't let go of that place in his heart. Fang Xie shook his head, because the place was still there, but the people were gone.

"What else can I do when I go back? The city is still the same city, but the people are no longer those people. I heard that Li Yuanshan buried all the corpses after the massacre, and no one knows where they were buried now. When I killed Li Xiaozong, I was so anxious that I forgot to ask......"

Fang Xie withdrew his gaze: "Let's go to the cottage first, that's where we will stand in the future." ”

"If you want to go, go there."

Shen Tianfan said softly: "The people are not here, and the grave does not know where it is, but I always feel that they should be waiting for you to go back." Bring a pot of wine and sprinkle it in the land of Fan Gu City, and say that there is revenge, they should be able to hear it. ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while and then said: "Fan Gu is unmanned, the rebels don't look down on that small city, and the Mengyuan barbarians don't look down on it, the border city that was crucial at the beginning has been abandoned, and the iron gate of the country is now a broken place." The Mengyuan people went in and out unscrupulously, and the soul of the city was gone. If there's anything left, maybe it's just the lonely ghosts of that city. ”

Hearing this, Mu Xiaoxiao felt a chill on his body.

"Go and see, we'll be with you."

She said.

Fang Xie pondered for a while and nodded: "It's okay, it's time to go back and tell them." ”

He turned around to find Mou Liangbi and said that he wanted to go back to Fan Gu to have a look. Mou Liangbi told him to be careful, although Fan Gu was already deserted, there were horse thieves and bandits from time to time. He wanted to send people to protect him, but Fang Xie just refused. I don't know if it's because of embarrassment or because of guilt, Mou Liangbi's words are rarely and he doesn't take the initiative to explain anything. Fang Xie didn't care, and said thank you and said goodbye.

"Our people are stationed in place and waiting for me, don't follow the group of people to the mountain before I come back."

Fang Xie instructed Lu Fenghou to take the infantry of the Yangzi battalion to station in place, which was only a hundred miles away from Fangu, and it would not take long for fast horses and light horses to go back and forth. But if you take the whole team with you, the trip will be slow. He took 500 light cavalry, left 700 cavalry to hand over to Chen Yishan, and waited in place with Lu Fenghou.

With a team of more than 500 people, Fang Xie broke away from the brigade and headed in the direction of Fangu. Mou Liangbi is right, although Fan Gu is deserted, the city is still there, many bandits have chosen to settle here, and they have been cleaned up by the Sui army on the Wolf Milk Mountain several times, but no one dares to occupy this place as a lair anymore. However, it is still a temporary place for many horse thieves and bandits, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents without bringing people and horses.

In just one day, the light cavalry rushed to the outside of Fangu City.

When he arrived outside the city gate, Fang Xie restrained the red horse, and his face couldn't help but change.

The walls still look strong, but they exude desolation. The gates were gone, and the windswept grass was all over the gates. A man on the city wall showed his head and ran away as if he were looking at them, and in a short time there was a commotion in the city, and then a party of horse thieves of about seventy or eighty men rushed out of the gate on the other side and fled, without even daring to turn back.

Fang Xie didn't bother to pay attention to those horse thieves, and the desolation in his heart couldn't be increased.

Urging the horse slowly entered the city gate, he saw at a glance that about half of the houses had been burned down, and although the tallest building in the distance was still there, he knew that it was dilapidated from a distance. That was Jin Yuanfang, where Fang Xie used to be a big shopkeeper. The building not far from Jin Yuanfang is the Red Sleeve Building, and half of the façade has collapsed.

Fang Xie rode a red horse and walked slowly, constantly looking left and right.

The one on the left is Liu Sanhu, the one on the right is Aunt He, and further inside is Widow Sun's house. Walking around a street from Aunt He's house to the left, it was Li Xiaozong's other general's mansion.

Everywhere, Fang Xie remembers.

Mu Xiaoxiao saw Fang Xie dismount and jumped down, took the big package from Qilin's hand and opened it.

It was paper money, and Fang Xie bought all the paper money that could be bought in the towns he passed along the way. The shopkeeper saw that a group of armor-piercing people were coming, and he was too frightened to accept the money, but Fang Xie still put down a piece of gold and whispered that if I robbed the paper money and burned it to them, they would not accept it, and they would scold me in a dream.

These words startled the shopkeeper and did not dare to speak.

Fang Xie squatted at the corner of the street and lit a handful of paper money: "I've been poor for three years, I can't even get into the underworld if I don't have the money to pay the toll, are you still wandering here?" Fan Gu is cold in winter, no one burns a piece of clothing, and I don't know how you survived, hugging each other and squeezing, there are many people, not afraid...... It's hard for me to buy clothes, I'll burn more money, you can buy it yourself, and if there is a restaurant below, you can have a good meal. ”

Paper ash flew into the sky and hovered in mid-air.

"I originally thought, why do you have to be relieved when you burn paper, don't you want me to avenge your revenge? Don't worry, there's another surnamed Li, I'll kill him, but don't wait for me to report the news, just do whatever you want, it's enough for you to pester me for three years, you have to obey the rules to be a man and a ghost, right? If you miss me...... Bear with it. If I miss you...... Will come back. ”

He spilled the wine in the wine bag, then lifted his robe and knelt down: "Xiao Fang is back, you ...... Are you okay? ”