Luo (Waiguo) City, Guangzhou, near the Great East Gate.

"It's out of the water."

Mr. Hugh was suddenly awakened by a faint noise from his bed, and saw a faint red light emerging from the courtyard wall in the distance. Then his neck was suddenly wrapped around from behind by a fleshy lotus arm, and there was a mature and lazy female voice.

"Hurou, what's wrong...

"It's okay Wei Niang, you just continue to rest."

Mr. Hugh looked at each other with pity.

"I'll just get up and breathe."

Although this woman was born from a humble background and suffered misery in her early years and was already in her prime, she has always been considerate and intellectual, and she can dye people's hearts and minds, and it is also the only place where she can get psychological comfort and sleep peacefully in the countless tossing and turning of her dreams after being a thief.

"The night dew is cold and wet, please take care of Hulang, this useful body is."

The sleepy-eyed woman gently draped a tie over him and tied it carefully before lying down again.

Then, in the chilling coolness of the night wind hammer, Mr. Hugh looked at the distant firelight accompanied by the noise, but felt that it was getting closer and closer, and he could even smell the smell of smoke; At this moment, he suddenly felt a little faint throbbing and uneasy in his heart.

Just like when he was still the imperial court Jinshi and Dr. Taichang, he served as a military judge and deputy envoy of Biling under the curtain of Cui Pu, the assassin of Suzhou; Because he was lucky, he did not leave the dangerous city in time, but wanted to go back to his residence and bring some rare books he had collected;

As a result, he met Neiying Kaicheng, and fell into the thief situation with those colleagues, and because of his own false name and popularity, he was involuntarily forced to become the next counselor of the so-called "Cupola General's Mansion" with the crown of Mu Monkey.

Although the Yellow Thief has always been respectful to the scholar and has been quite kind and hospitable to him, even if he has been unwilling to openly contribute to the grass thief, he will let it go; But such generous means of tenderness did not shake much of his secret yearning for the imperial court; It wasn't until he met this "demon monk" who behaved far from being abnormal in Guangfu that he felt a lot of frustration and powerlessness for the first time.

But the current turn of events in the night had clearly awakened him again. Now to continue to stay in this Guangfu Pan forever, it has become a kind of tasteless food and a pity to abandon it. Perhaps only by returning to the yellow thief, or getting out of the fallen thief realm, is there a more promising place.

"Although Liang Yuan is good, it is not his hometown after all."

He sighed to himself, turned around and reawakened the woman on the couch.

"Wei Niang, maybe it's time for us to leave."

"Is it time to leave again?"

The woman sighed to herself but got up without hesitation, put on her clothes amid the sound of the ropes, collected a small burden and stood beside him, looking at him gently like water.

"Where Hurou goes, where the slave goes."

"As long as Hulang doesn't give up, the slave will turn into a bauhinia in this life, and he will be with you."

"Okay."

Mr. Hugh did not have much affection for children, but looked at the woman with appreciation, and took her by the hand and walked towards the side door of the courtyard on the other side. And he also secretly made up his mind, only after he got out again, he would definitely try to give her a name and an explanation that he had never abandoned.

You must know that at the beginning, among the women who were constantly sent by the military government to take care of their daily lives, he fell in love with this Wei Niangzi who was not outstanding at a glance, and was already past the age of Israel to entertain people, and looked calm and tranquil but had some vicissitudes of life; It can be regarded as the only inextricable relationship to talk about after sinking into the thief's power.

Then he quickly cleaned up the room of the superfluous traces, and there were manuscripts and letters that he might have left clues and troubles, wrapped in curtains, piled up in the lampstand, and set them on fire; At this time, Mr. Hugh's heart became more and more uneasy, and he saw that the fire by the wall was growing louder and more noisy, and no one in the garden came to inquire or report it.

"Go this way."

He quickly turned the woman to the edge of a rockery, and after passing through a bare plum grove, he found a small, mottled and almost unrecognizable little ruined door covered with rotten wood and branches; This may be where they will survive tonight.

It was only when they were about to go out and step into a quiet wall that suddenly there was a fire in the dark alley, and the person who was shining on it suddenly couldn't open their eyes, and then in the wind lamp raised above the wall, a rather frivolous voice shouted.

"Look, why did you bump into a pair of eloped mandarin ducks?"

"Still a half-old man and a woman ... It's really strange. ”

"Don't be rude, it's a military counselor. This is a certain card and a pass."

Mr. Hugh forced his composure to take out something, but the woman quietly clenched his arm and did not speak.

"Don't hurry up and give a certain quick retreat. And escorted to the pavilion. ”

"What a majesty."

The flirtatious voice laughed loudly.

"As everyone knows, what we're waiting for is you. It's hard to go, but the Castle Patrol Division is a big welcome visit."

Subsequently, in the street escort of an open fire,

"It was Heaven that finally opened his eyes and sent the slave to Hurou's side,"

Wei Niang leaned over and whispered in despair.

"After these days, the slave feels satisfied, and he doesn't dare to ask for more, and he asks Lang Jun not to be read by the slave anymore."

"Don't do anything stupid."

Mr. Hugh shook the housewife's palm and said urgently.

"No matter what happens, you have to live well. Even if it is for me to go to the trouble with peace of mind. ”

"Seeing that I fell into the calculations of these thieves, I may expect you to give me a funeral."

Then the wall of the car they were riding in was knocked several times with great dissatisfaction.

"What the hell are you talking about? The rebels never kill people casually. ”

The flirtatious voice was dissatisfied.

"Even if you are a dog of the government for the tiger, you will only be killed after a public punishment."

By the time the sky had turned white, the fire in the nearby house had been extinguished; It's just that on the ruined ruins, those nearby residents who have been busy for most of the night, while marveling at the exquisite luxury displayed in the courtyard walls, do not notice and notice some people and things that have disappeared in this large garden.

And among the patrol divisions (former patrol yamen) where the patrol team is stationed,

"You're Mr. Kamon. Pi Ri Hugh..? ”

Zhou Huai'an looked at it with some surprise, this man in his early forties was a little old-looking, although he looked a little lame and disheveled, but he still raised his eyebrows and pulled out his own elegant temperament of the scribe, and said in his heart This is a big fish.

"Why should you behave in a coy manner?"

The other party sneered at his neck without appreciation.

"Now that a certain person has fallen into the hands of your generation, there is no reason to survive, and I just hate to see with my own eyes the day when the thief will be destroyed."

looked at the righteous words and suddenly became righteous and ordinary opponents; Zhou Huai'an is more and more emotional and complicated in his heart. Because of the damaged manuscripts and letters that were snatched out of the other party's burning room and not yet burned out, he was the ghost and spy who lurked in the high-level of the military government and kept sending news to the outside world.

In his capacity as a counselor, although he does not have specific responsibilities and responsibilities, it is also very convenient to take advantage of the familiarity and courtesy of the people around him to obtain all kinds of news and information that the upper echelons know. It's no wonder that from the beginning of the investigation to the end, I always found the wrong suspect without knowing the essentials, or cut off the clues.

What's more, as a result of the root overnight assault on others with kidney deficiency, he also used his identity to provoke relations within the rebel army, and even plotted several invasions and calculations against himself; Therefore, in the next follow-up disposal, Zhou Huaian will inevitably make some difficulties.

After all, this is in this chaotic era at the end of the Tang Dynasty with Tortoise Meng, known as the only two literary leaders Pi Rixiu, he was originally a native of Xiangyang Jingling (now belonging to Tianmen, Hubei). Julumen Mountain, road number Lumenzi; It is also called the air cloth clothes, Mr. Drunken Yin, Drunken Gentleman, etc

It was praised by Lu Xun as "the brilliance and edge in the muddy pond" at the end of the Tang Dynasty. He is one of the few famous literary figures in the late Tang Dynasty who has deep insight and thinking about society and people's livelihood. In the Chinese textbooks of primary schools in later generations, there is "Guizi on the 15th Day of August in Tianzhu Temple" selected from his "Pizi Wenxu".

Then Zhou Huai'an remembered a detail in this history. According to the course of normal history, he should be coerced by Huang Chao in the tent as an assistant, and after fighting all the way to most of the world, he finally became a new dynasty Hanlin scholar after Huang Chao entered Chang'an; Then he disappeared in the rebellion after the defeat of the rebels;

But he didn't expect that this time he would be left in Guangfu, and he was still a suspect among the high-ranking members of the rebel army that he had been pursuing; This is obviously the second celebrity who changed his fate by mistake after Meng Wei.

But even if it is a celebrity who has been admired by later generations; If there is no benefit to oneself but long-term hostility and harm, then under normal circumstances, it can only be eliminated and then quickly eliminated. And he was clearly a die-hard loyal to the court, and after all this time, he showed no signs of being impressed or had any intention of changing.

But simply let him die, and follow what he wants to achieve for the country's martyrdom reputation and unyielding thief's righteousness, that is too cheap. At the very least, he should make full use of his past identity and reputation to compensate for what he has done.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an suddenly felt in his heart and seemed to have a plan, and extinguished his desire to talk to him more or fight in person.

"Take it down, take a good look at it, and don't let him have the slightest chance of self-harm."

Zhou Huai'an waved his hand and called up to be on duty.

"I want him to live well and see with my own eyes what kind of life is under the rule of the rebels."

"It doesn't take too much precision to find someone who resembles him; As long as there are seven or eight points like it, I have my own extra use. ”

Later, Zhou Huai'an said to Ge Congzhou, who came to return to his life

"Then send someone else to pay attention to the various subtleties of his words and deeds."

Huang Chao's Great General's Mansion will certainly have illusions about the renaming of love, and will tolerate and connive at him; But for Zhou Huai'an, only by completely severing and destroying the bond and origin between him and his past identity can it be possible to obtain a contemporary "Pi Rixiu" who can be truly used.

Anyway, in the next preliminary plan, Zhou Huaian only needs to maintain a Pi Rixiu who makes frequent appearances in public, but cannot have more contact and communication; and a "Pi Rixiu" who openly stood up for the rebels and promoted their reputation, and even explained the principles and policies to the general public.

If he succeeds in this way, he really can't turn back; Even if he knew the details in the future, he would be looking for death and life, but the reputation and signboard of "Pi Rixiu" were bound to the banner of the righteous army.

After all, who can compare to the successful methods of modern people to play a combination of trade-offs and edit part of the truth of public opinion, and completely make a celebrity stink, or even mislead and reverse to a diametrically opposed position, or even let rumors force the truth.

(End of chapter)