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The old servant was cleaning the courtyard, occasionally stopping to listen to the voice in the general's mansion opposite, in fact, he couldn't hear anything, he could only imagine, imagine the traffic, the guests who gave gifts lined up from the front yard to the street, imagining that the money and silk were piled up as high as a mountain, and the guests and hosts all had big bellies and greasy smiles on their faces......

"It's the same biological son, what a big difference." The old servant sighed with emotion, and looked down at his coarse cloth clothes, "I'm also worrying about it, it's only right to go and play at night and win back the money I lost these days." ”

Bang, the courtyard door was pushed open, startling the old servant.

"Floors! Building Seventeen! The comer shouted loudly.

The old servant recognized that this was Lou Shuo, the seventh prince of the mansion, hurriedly threw away the broom, bowed forward, and said with a smile: "How can the seventh general be free......

It is the habit of the government to refer to the sons with higher status as "generals".

Lou Shuo ignored the old servant and shouted into the house: "Lou Ji, come out, you are in trouble!" ”

The old servant was startled again, and hurriedly said: "The seventeenth prince is not at home, so he went out to meet friends." ”

"Who will be?"

"Ma, Mahou Ye."

"Which Ma Hou Ye?"

"Yuefu Hou, that Ma Houye."

Lou Shuo thought for a while, "The Yuefu Hou left by the Liang Dynasty?" Is there anyone still alive in his family? How do you talk to him...... Hey, they're really a good match, a pair of former dynasty remnants. ”

Lou Shuo came on order, refused to go back to the house empty-handed, and said to the old servant: "You go and call Lou Ji back, immediately." Wait, you two go with you, and even if you tie him up, you will tie him back. ”

The old servant was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, how dare he ask more, and immediately took the two stewards and servants in the mansion to the Ma Mansion, and asked carefully on the way, the two of them were also confused, only knowing that the seventeenth prince had caused a lot of trouble this time, and it was the general himself who wanted to see him.

On the other side, Lou Ji and Ma Wei were drinking to the top of their heads, and Ma Wei was impassioned, "Si Chen, the woman is a scholar, and the article written by hundreds of students in the three university halls has to be evaluated by a group of women, and they will have to be elected as ministers in the future?" Such a court ......"

Lou Ji had to speak to dissuade him," Brother Ma said cautiously. ”

Ma Wei laughed, or shut his mouth, although this is his house, it is difficult to ensure that no one will talk much, "No need to ask, our lure hall is nothing more than a filler, it must be a guy from Taixue who is ranked first-class - maybe the princess is choosing a horse, what do you think?" ”

"Why care?"

"Haha, yes, a good man has ambitions in all directions, why bother with these trivial things in the fat powder pile? Come, drink, ...... later"

Before he finished speaking, the old servant of the building base, under the leadership of the Ma family's servant, ran in in a panic, "Childe, don't drink it, there's something wrong at home!" ”

Ma Wei was stunned, and Lou Ji first waved his hand to stop the old servant from talking, and then got up and said to the master: "Earlier than I expected, I originally said that I would see the general tomorrow, but now I have to go back." Say goodbye and don't work to send each other. ”

Ma Wei didn't understand what was going on, and the old servant at the door was surprised, "Hey, Childe knows...... How could Childe ......?"

Lou Ji left with the old servant, Ma Wei poured himself a drink, a few glasses of wine, and said to himself: "Brother Ji is young and vigorous, don't spoil my big things." ”

When I got home, it was already dark, Lou Shuo was waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and when he saw Lou Ji, he snorted, "Fortunately, I didn't believe your words, I was almost deceived by you, and I was charged with being inhuman." ”

Lou Ji arched his hand, "Please brother take me to see the general." ”

Lou Ji was too calm, Lou Shuo looked at him twice, snorted again, led the way, and led people back to the General's Mansion.

Recruiting his son was obviously not the most urgent thing for the general, and Lou Ji was sent to an empty room, with no tea, and no one asked, until the third watch in the middle of the night, and then he was called out again and went to the general selection hall to meet the general.

There are more children and grandchildren of the Lou family tonight, fifty or sixty people are divided into about them, all of them shrunk their shoulders and tied their hands, their eyes are lowered, although there are many people, there is no sound.

Lou Wen sat on the chair in the middle, his belly lying together.

Lou Ji walked in front of his father, and shook it to the ground, and suddenly saw that the gift he had sent to the house, the lid had been opened, revealing the half silk cloth rolled inside, and the candlelight was shining, and the big characters he had written on it were still there, and they were very clear, and everyone in the hall had seen it.

That's a word "lay".

The general personally led an army of 100,000 to quell the rebellion, and his relatives and friends came to celebrate and see him off, but his son sent mourning things.

The general didn't immediately thunder, stared at this unfamiliar son for a long time, and said, "You sent this?" ”

"That's right, it was sent by the child."

"You wrote the words too?"

"Exactly."

Many people peeked at the building, surprised by his boldness, even if they mourned, they dared to admit it generously, and there was no trace of fear between his words.

Next, it depends on how the general punishes, the Lou family has many descendants, and the general has never been soft on those who make mistakes, at least five or six people have been disabled over the years, and the mistakes made by those people are much smaller than this time.

The general was silent for a moment, his belly rising and falling more violently, and suddenly, he smiled.

With this smile, everyone in the hall looked at each other, both confused and frightened.

Lou Ji has a little respect for his father, all along, he looks down on the general a little, thinking that this is a lucky general with excellent luck, and the emperor is related, so he is on the rise, a very popular minister, undoubtedly belongs to the kind of person who is "too famous".

Now his judgment has not changed, but he feels that the gap between "fame" and "reality" is not so big.

"Do you think that the thieves in Qinzhou are powerful, and I will be defeated if I go, and I will die at the hands of the thieves?" The general softened even the tone of his questioning.

Lou Ji shook his head, "Qinzhou's thieves are not a big problem, I think the general has other difficulties." ”

The general didn't smile this time, stared at his son for a while, and said coldly: "When your mother committed suicide, I should have drowned you and let your mother and son accompany you." ”

The foundation of the building is profound, "The father is in trouble, the son has to speak, but he does not listen, and the son has no regrets." ”

"Lock him up in the West Corridor, if I die in Qinzhou, you release him, if I come back alive, kill him and martyr his mother."

The general didn't get angry in public, and everyone felt lucky for Lou Ji.

The building did not make many excuses, and bowed and withdrew from the election hall.

The area around the west corridor is a guest room, and the building is sent into the most humble room, with only a small bed, no bedding, tables, chairs, night pots, etc.

Lou Shuo said before leaving: "Don't say that I don't miss brotherhood, the general is really angry this time, it is possible to see you again before the expedition, think about how to speak, no matter how you do it today, the gods can't save you." ”

Lou Ji arched his hand and said: "The foolish brother will reflect on himself, and there is also Brother Lao who will speak well on his behalf." ”

"Hey, you made your own trouble, find a way to clean it up yourself, who dares to give you good words? As a cocoon and self-restraint, the building foundation, you are a cocoon and self-restraint. ”

The floor was covered and lay down, and fell into a deep sleep.

Not long after, he was jolted awake, sat up, and saw a stranger carrying a lantern.

"Follow me." The stranger said that he should be a servant in the house according to his attire.

"Hmm." Without asking much questions, he got up and dressed himself, followed the man out, and came to a room he had never entered.

The general changed into casual clothes, his sleeves rolled up high, and was sitting there sharpening his sword earnestly, which was a habit he did not retain much in the army, and his own knife must be sharpened by himself.

A sneer, a click, the piercing sound of sharpening knives went back and forth.

The servants withdrew, leaving their father and son to face each other.

The general tried the blade, sprinkled some water on the whetstone, and continued to sharpen it until he was satisfied, and said without turning his head: "This is called a thousand ox knife, the first emperor gathered the world's famous craftsmen thirty years ago, and it took several years to build, with a total of 300 mouths, 200 inferior mouths, 80 medium mouths, and 20 superior ones, half of which were hidden in the inner house, and half of which were rewarded to the generals." This is a first-class knife, and it is not too much, but you can see that the blade has no flaws. As far as I know, only this one of the ten thousand cattle knives given at the beginning is left, and the remaining nine have long since disappeared, do you know why? ”

"A famous sword must be matched with a famous minister, presumably the master is guilty, and the knife is lost."

"Hey, tell me about the origin of the Thousand Cow Knife, I can't remember it all the time."

"There is a saying in "Zhuangzi": Blistering solves thousands of bulls, and the blade of the knife is like a new hair."

"That's it, it's impossible to kill a thousand cows, and it's okay to cut off a few heads." The general got up and walked up to his son with a knife, "I'll cut off your head now and take it to Qinzhou, so that you can see with your own eyes that I have won a great victory." ”

"If the general goes to Qinzhou, he will definitely win, and I'm afraid that he won't be able to go to Qinzhou."

Lou Wen put the dangling knife on his son's shoulder, pressed against his neck, and with a little force, he saw that blood was oozing out, removed the knife, and said with a smile: "Haha, your courage is really big, and you are worthy of being a descendant of my Lou family." Well, give you a chance, say it well, spare your life, if you say it badly, it's not too late to kill. ”

Lou Ji breathed a heavy sigh of relief in his heart, and the clenched fist in his sleeve was finally able to loosen.

"There are rumors outside, all say that the general deliberately indulged the rebellion in Qinzhou, in order to be able to personally lead the troops to the west, called quelling the chaos, in fact, to avoid disaster, and there are even rumors that the general wants to merge with the state and Shen to divide one side."

"You just say I want to rebel. Hey, I think I've fought countless battles in my life, which one of them went out without slander? The result? Most of the Tiancheng Dynasty was defeated by me! ”

"At this time and that time, the first emperor and the general were like brothers, and the more slander, the more trusted the general became. Today, however, it may not be clear what is slanderous and what is true. ”

The knife in the general's hand slowly drooped, "Don't mention the rumors, what do you think?" ”

"I thought that the general would never rebel, so he went to Qinzhou, mainly to avoid trouble, and chose the opportunity to support Shen Bingzhou as the hegemon of one side, and then the general returned to the dynasty and Shen Mushou was the inside and outside of each other, so that the Son of Heaven did not want to move, and did not dare to move the Lou family."

"Hey, at such a young age, I think too much. You're not right, but you're not entirely wrong. Even if everything is as you say, what danger is there in me that deserves your mourning? ”

"The Son of Heaven has been jealous of the Lou family for a long time, and I am afraid that it is not so easy to deceive, and it may not magnify the general's departure from Beijing."

"What do you mean......"

"'If you want to take it, you will fix it', the Son of Heaven promised to send 100,000 troops, but it is 'with it', and if you don't wait for the general to lead the army to the west a month later, you may have to 'take it'."

Lou Wen was silent.

"General......" Lou Ji was about to continue, and Lou Wen said: "You can call me 'father'." ”