Chapter 278: Borrowing the Situation

As soon as the words fell, a soldier dressed in armor and a sentry rode in from outside the door, but after seeing this room full of people, he realized that he seemed to be a little reckless, and couldn't help bending one leg and bowing to the ground: "Humble and eyeless!" I don't know that the prince is holding a banquet here, please forgive the prince! ”

Gao Ciyi didn't want to attack, still holding the wine cup in front of him, and raised his eyebrows at the kneeling sergeant outside the door,

The sergeant raised his head and met Gao Ciyi's gaze, and immediately stopped speaking, arched his hand towards him, turned around and walked out of the tent again.

Then Gao Ciyi didn't mean to stop looking, she looked at An Yi again, and blinked lightly twice,

An Yi didn't speak, nodded at him without a trace, the smile on his face was as if nothing had happened, and he took the wine cup in his hand again, "Come, let's drink this cup together!" ”

"Let's drink this cup!"

After everyone drank the wine cup in their hands, they all sat down, but they looked a little apologetic and said to the people at the table present: "Everyone, I'm very sorry, there are suddenly some urgent things to deal with in the camp, everyone drink slowly, I will retire first." ”

After speaking, he arched his hand towards Liu Can and the others, then turned his head and followed Gao Ciyi's gaze, and walked out of the camp without looking back.

Although An Yi and Gao Ciyi didn't say a word, this eye contact fell exactly in Mrs. Liu's eyes, which made Mrs. Liu's eyes suddenly flash a trace of essence,

"Can'er~"

She tugged at the sleeve of Liu Chan beside her,

"What's wrong, mother?"

Liu Can didn't seem to notice An Yi and Gao Ciyi's abnormality, but felt that the sergeant who had just suddenly broken in was abrupt enough, although he wanted to inquire about what the Yongwang urgent edict was talking about, but with their current situation, they felt that they should not open this mouth of looking for trouble.

But this matter is not so easy to pass with his mother, Mrs. Liu said to him in a low voice, "Did you see General Yi go out?" Find a reason to go and see. ”

Her voice was very low, so low that the little extra volume drowned out by the sound of bargaining on the wine table did not leak out,

"Mother, this ...... Didn't you hear that? King Yong's urgent edict, how can I see it? Obviously, Liu Can felt that it was better not to be so curious about this kind of thing, after all, he had just come in line.

"If you want to go, you will go, why are you talking so much?"

Mrs. Liu frowned a little impatiently, not very agreeing with her son's idea.

"Okay, okay, I'll go and see."

At least in the Liu family, Mrs. Liu's words were holy decrees for her three sons, and Liu Can couldn't resist it, so he could only stand up obediently, and smiled reluctantly at the two brothers around him: "You guys have two drinks with King Huai, I'll go and pay a tribute, and I'll be in a moment." ”

"Let it go...... Rest assured, greatly ...... Big brother go. Liu Laoer's tongue was big, and while promising Liu Can, he picked up the wine cup and toasted Gao Ciyi Yao, who was sitting on it,

Gao Ciyi smiled and touched the cup with him in the void, and then took a symbolic sip, but two afterglows appeared from the corners of his eyes, sticking to the back of Liu Can, who turned away, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly......

Off-the-books

When Liu Can walked out of the camp tent, he happened to see An Yi with the sergeant who had just rushed in recklessly, and hid in a very inconspicuous small tent next to him.

The small tent was not very big, but the lights inside were bright enough that Liu Can didn't dare to get too close, just hid in the shadows from afar, listening to some vague conversations inside.

"Get up, what is the edict of King Yong?"

"King Yong's 800 miles of urgency from Wang Jing's order, King Gao Cixun has converged with King Zhao's soldiers and horses to send troops to the two lakes, and the official army confronted the banks of the Wuchang River.

"Once the important land of the two lakes is lost, the land of fish and rice in the south half of the south of the Great Xia Dynasty will be taken and demanded, and there is no danger to defend, Wuchang must not be lost!"

"Yes, Lord Yong said the same thing, so he planned to transfer the Yangtze River sailor Zheng Yuan to go upriver and help the war along the river, but ......"

"But what?" Liu Can seemed to be a little anxious when he heard An Yi's voice, but the sergeant's words seemed to be extremely secretive, and his voice suddenly lowered,

"It has been three days since King Yong's edict was issued, but General Zheng Yuan turned a deaf ear and still did not move."

Then he heard An Yi take a deep breath of cold air,

"I understand, I will return to His Highness after the trouble, and we will enter the customs as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

As soon as the words fell, Liu Can saw the candle flame in the tent, presumably An Yi was about to come out with the sentry after speaking, so he hid back and escaped into the darkness......

After Liu Can returned to the tent, the banquet dispersed not long after, and he took his two younger brothers and his mother back to the big tent that was temporarily placed for them.

As soon as he entered the tent, Liu Can hurriedly told Mrs. Liu everything he had heard at night about An Yi and what the sentry had said.

Although sometimes, Liu Can still feels that his mother is a little suspicious, but countless things have proved that sometimes what Mrs. Liu said is always correct.

"Can you hear me clearly?" Mrs. Liu sat on the Taishi chair, rubbing a piece of crystal clear nephrite with her hand, and asked Liu Can, who was sitting opposite.

Liu Can nodded with certainty and responded: "That's right, mother, now it seems that King De has already started to do it." ”

"If this is the case, maybe Zheng Yuan, the commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division, has already begun to waver in his heart, and even said that he has fallen to King De."

After Mrs. Liu finished speaking, she pondered in her heart again before asking: "Can'er, you have the most contact with this General Zheng, what conflicts did he have when he interacted with Prince Yong on weekdays?" ”

Liu Can thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said: "I don't think about it, I and that Zheng Yuan are ordinary officials, if there is any conflict, I will definitely not let me know." ”

"Didn't you say that you and Zheng Yuan are good friends?" Mrs. Liu snorted coldly and glanced at him,

Liu Can, who was glancing, touched his nose very embarrassedly, "That........ Isn't this trying to show off in front of my mother and younger brothers? But I do know that this Zheng Yuan is related to the current queen, I remember it....... Yes, it's his nephew. ”

After listening to this, Mrs. Liu frowned slightly, if there is such a relationship here, then the information that Liu Can got is obviously a little unbelievable.

"Since it's two aunts and nephews, isn't King Yong his own uncle? With this level of kinship here, he doesn't help his uncle, can he turn his elbow out to help King De? Even if he really went, King De wouldn't dare to believe it. Or ......"

Mrs. Liu suddenly stared at Liu Can's face and said, "Or, what is the clue between this Yongwang and the queen?" ”

Originally, what she said just now made Liu Can mutter, trying to recall whether she had missed any details of what she heard, but the mention of the latter sentence made Liu Can open his big mouth as if he suddenly realized, and the fingers of his right hand kept shaking in the air.

"I remember! When he was patrolling in Nanzhili before, a scout-like person came to send a letter to Zheng Yuan! At that time, Zheng Yuan happened to be out of the cabin, let me command on his behalf, and when he was commanding, he hurriedly ran from behind a scout-like person, I guess he took me as Zheng Yuan, and handed over a secret letter that said it was the queen's mother, and then the man saw that I turned his head and was not Zheng Yuan, so he hurriedly took his hand back and turned his head away. ”

Mrs. Liu hummed slowly, and then nodded lightly, "It stands to reason that the Admiral of the Yangtze River Navy should be directly under the emperor, and the empress can give him instructions through King Yong, how can there be a secret letter to him?" In other words, this shows that the queen mother has something that she doesn't want King Yong to know, so she adopts this way. ”

Speaking of which, Mrs. Liu was like a shrewd businessman who suddenly sensed a business opportunity, and her round face was filled with a smile for a while.

"It seems that this King Yong and the queen are not monolithic."

Liu Can heard his mother say this, like a lost little lamb, he was a little overwhelmed, and asked: "Mother, I know, the forces behind this Yongwang are all on the queen's side, if the two of them really have their own thoughts, which side should we follow?" ”

What he was more worried about was that if in the end, this King Yong was held by the queen to death, then wouldn't those of them who planned to follow King Huai and King Yong Gao Zhi'er become wings to be cut off?

"I usually think you have an idea, why are you always a mess at this critical time?"

Obviously, Mrs. Liu was quite dissatisfied with her son's reaction.

Liu Can lowered his head and said, "That'...... Then mother, you say, what should we do? ”

"Let me ask you, apart from Zheng Yuan, is there anyone else on your side with the Yangtze River Sailor?"

This time, Liu Can nodded proudly, "No!" The Yangtze River Sailor is a thousand presidents of me, and the above is the governor, and there is no one else. ”

Between her son's big words before, Mrs. Liu was still uneasy and conclusive, "I want to listen to the truth." ”

"That's right, mother, this time my son said that it was indeed the case."

Mrs. Liu nodded, and then added a lot of ruthlessness to her eyes, and then asked, "If Zheng Yuan dies, how sure are you that you will be able to hold the Yangtze River Water Division?" ”

"Dead ....... He's dead? ”

Liu Can didn't expect his mother to suddenly ask such a sentence, and when he raised his head and saw Mrs. Liu's eyes, he was obviously also stabbed by that gaze.

Maybe as a son, he really hasn't seen Mrs. Liu who has entered the "combat state".

"The current situation is already obvious, King Yong and the Empress attach great importance to the only water division in the Great Xia Dynasty, but because of Zheng Yuan, the actual command of the water division is still in the hands of the queen. And it's not just King Yong's side, I'm afraid King De has also coveted this water division for a long time, but he has no way. ”

As she spoke, Mrs. Liu cast her gaze along the square window of the tent to the void in the night sky in the east, and paused word by word: "So, whoever has mastered the Yangtze River Water Division, King Yong, Queen, King De, no matter who they are, they have to turn upside down and beg us!" ”

"Then when the time comes, who of them wins, who will we help!" Liu Can seemed to be ordered tofu by his mother's brine, and suddenly opened his mind, and answered with some joy on his face.

Mrs. Liu nodded noncommittally,

"But now I don't know the situation of the water master, how sure are you?"

Liu Can, who had a hint of joy on his face just now, suddenly wilted back when he heard this, and explained hesitantly: "That...... Mother, you don't know, now the transfer of the sailor is all military talismans, my ......"

Mrs. Liu didn't finish listening, so she waved her hand to interrupt him, and frowned displeased: "I really don't know what you always do to eat, you can't even hold your heart!" ”

scolded is scolded, and you still have to ask what you should ask, "Mother, then you see ...... we are now"

Mrs. Liu lowered her head and pondered for a while before she spoke: "Since you don't have this diamond diamond, then let's borrow him from King Huai's fire." ”

"You mean ......?"

Mrs. Liu beckoned to her son, motioned for him to lean his head over, then leaned slightly and whispered in Liu Can's ear,

"Good!"

After hearing this, Liu Can stood up suddenly, "Okay!" Tomorrow I will go to General Yi and ask for help! ”

Mrs. Liu didn't have so much excitement on her face, stared at Liu Can and said, "Be careful, the wealth of the Liu family is here, don't mess it up for me." ”

"Don't worry, mother."