Just after the first month, Liu Ce and his entourage passed through the majestic Wuliang Town and rushed to the vicinity of Caizhou City. From a distance, the city wall of Caizhou, the capital of Heyuan, is faintly visible, and many pedestrians pull all kinds of goods packages in and out of the city, compared with the Ganzhou Plain separated by a river in the north, it is simply two worlds.

Liu Ce sat on the horse and grabbed the reins, and said to the people around him: "Caizhou City is close at hand, after entering the city, you must be strict with yourself, and after the imperial court Zhao'an document comes down, return to Gaoyang City immediately, understand?" ”

Everyone said in unison: "Understood! ”

Liu Ce nodded and said to Xue Peng: "General Xue, after entering Caizhou City, you and I will part ways. ”

Xue Peng smiled at Liu Ce and the others: "Brother Liu is serious, I should be grateful to Xue, thanks to the care of the Jingwei camp for many days, otherwise Xue and his soldiers will not be able to live to this day, he will get together and have a drink with Brother Liu, and he will not return if he is not drunk!" ”

Liu Ce and the generals of the Jingwei Battalion agreed together, and slowly rode towards the gate of Caizhou. After getting along for many days, the Jingwei Battalion and Xue Peng's department also established a good friendship, Xue Peng and others were secretly happy that the Jingwei Battalion could become an official army, and they couldn't help but be a little reluctant to separate, but there is no feast in the world, and what should go is still to go after all......

Walking to the gate of Caizhou City, Liu Ce showed the documents that came to canonize Zhao'an, and ordered Xu Hui to take out twenty taels of silver and give it to the chief officer who guarded the city. The general guarding the city took the small bag containing the silver and put it on the pad, his face was happy, this is a lot of income, he only sighed and was very enthusiastic about Liu Ce and others, and soon covered the entry and exit documents, and instructed Liu Ce and others to pay attention to on the road.

After Liu Ce thanked the city guard, he led everyone into the city, and then solemnly said goodbye to Xue Peng and his soldiers, and walked directly in the direction of the governor's palace......

In the governor's palace, Wei Yi, Zhao Yuanji and other local scholars stood in the hall, waiting for Liu Ce and others to come to accept Zhao'an.

Since Li Suwen killed his second son Zhao Mengxi, Zhao Yuanji hated the Li family to the core, of course, the real mastermind behind the scenes was Wei Yi in front of him, but he didn't dare to be angry with him, so he could only squander this resentment on Li Suwen, but unfortunately Li Suwen is not in Caizhou now, otherwise he will be good-looking.

Wei Yi sat upright in the main hall, secretly glanced at Zhao Yuanji, smiled imperceptibly, and then said, "Lord Zhao, are you still resentful of Ling Lang's matter?" ”

Zhao Yuanji said in a deep voice: "How dare you, the unfilial dog dares to commit a crime, and he will die innocently, and the subordinate officials should also be grateful to the commander of the guard for not pursuing the grace of my Zhao family." ”

Wei Yi sneered secretly after hearing this, and then said: "Lord Zhao, I know that you have grievances, but you also know that you can't complain about Li Xiuwen, many people have witnessed the situation at that time, Zhao Mengxi did make the first move on Li Xiuwen." ”

Zhao Yuanji said secretly: "Hmph, now that the local army of the Two Banners Regiment has been wiped out, there is no evidence of death at all, isn't it just that you Wei Yi and Li Suwen are allowed to open the river with one mouth?" ”

Thinking of this, Zhao Yuan arched his hand angrily and said: "...... the lower officials know"

Seeing his expression, Wei Yi knew that he was very unhappy in his heart, so he said: "Lord Zhao, I heard that the eldest prince can now serve in Liyang Province?"

Zhao Yuanji said: "It's just that he is the head of the management department under Governor Yue Xinwen, and he can't be on the table." Zhao Yuanji said that when he talked about his eldest son, he was proud, and the head of the management department was not an ordinary official position, but was in charge of strategic materials such as grain, grass, ordnance, minerals, and salt in a province. Needless to say, the oil and water in it, and more importantly, it has a very high gilded effect on the future of the career, if one day you can live in the court, the promotion speed of the management department is far away from others, even if you don't enter the court, you can go back to the provinces in the future to serve with ease.

Wei said: "The eldest prince has been in Liyang for five or six years? In this spring official assessment, this king deliberately won a place for the eldest prince, if there is no accident, when the imperial court assessment is completed, the eldest prince will be able to enter the Hanlin Academy, what do you think, Lord Zhao? ”

When Zhao Yuanji heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately knelt on the ground and said excitedly: "Thank you General Wei, the lower official is willing to saddle the horse and swear allegiance to the Great Zhou royal family to repay the favor of the saint and the general!" After that, he knocked his head three times, and secretly said that it was worth it......

Zhao Yuanji knew that after he served as the governor of Heyuan, the court would have no chance with him, and he was over fifty years old, so he didn't have any other thoughts, so he thought that his sons could have a career, so as not to let the Zhao family decline. Now that Wei Yi finally gave himself such a big cake, of course, he must be grateful to Dade for seizing the opportunity, and Zhao Yuanji did not show due pain to Zhao Mengxi's death, some were just resentful, hating Li Suwen and Wei Yi for being too domineering, anyway, it doesn't matter if he dies, he still has eight sons......

Wei Yi hurriedly picked up Zhao Yuanji and invited him to take a seat: "Lord Zhao doesn't have to be like this, let the eldest prince fulfill his duties during his tenure as the chief director, but he can make a pillar, and this king is also a matter of choosing talents for the country." ”

Zhu Song and Zong Sheng in the mansion were full of envy and jealousy, why didn't such a good thing fall on their heads, is this the gap between ordinary scholars and wang clans?

"Report~" At this moment, the sound of the soldiers reporting came from outside the door, "Liu Ce, the leader of the righteous army, is already waiting outside the door." ”

After everyone heard this, they straightened their clothes, and suddenly there was a solemn and solemn atmosphere in the governor's palace, and Wei Yi said in a deep voice: "Let him come in." ”

After a while, Liu Ce appeared in the governor's mansion, and he didn't panic in the face of the prospect, he knelt down in the middle of the mansion and arched his hand: "Humble Liu Ce, I've seen the commander of the guard, I've seen Governor Zhao, I've seen all my lords!" ”

Wei Yi looked at Liu Ce, but saw that the young man kneeling in the hall was in place and calm, and there was no anxiety and panic of those ordinary generals at all.

Before Wei Yi could speak, Zong Sheng on the side sneered disdainfully: "Despicable? Hmph, the Holy Zhao'an documents haven't arrived yet, so I can't wait to call myself a colleague and a subordinate? ”

Wei Yi nodded when he heard this, and secretly said that it seems that the young man in front of him is still too eager for public profit.

But seeing that Liu Ce was neither humble nor arrogant, he said: "The deputy commander of the sect made this difference, and he was a member of the Deng Zi battalion under the command of the head of Zhu Qi, so what is wrong with the title of 'humble position'?"

Zong Sheng snorted coldly: "Are you under the command of Zhu Qituan, do you have a certificate?" You and I are the Thunder Army is a place of three religions and nine streams, do you accept anyone? ”

Zhu Song on the side nodded, satisfied with Zong Sheng's words.

Liu Ce's heart was cold, and then a smile flashed on his face, and he took out a wooden waist card with copper trim from his arms and put it flat in the palm of his hand, and said: "If the deputy commander of the sect does not believe it, this waist card can be used as proof." ”

Wei Yi glanced at the soldiers around him, and the soldiers stepped forward to take the waist card held by Liu Ce and handed it to Wei Yi with both hands, Wei Yi took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, only to see a line of small characters engraved on it, "Deng Zi Battalion of the Fourth Banner Regiment of the Thunder Army's Subordinate Legion", and the big word "Liu Ce" in the middle was impossible to fake, and Zhu Song and Zong Sheng on the side snorted lightly when they saw this.

Wei Yi smiled, dragged the waist card in his hand, and stared at Liu Ce, Zhao Yuanji, who was sitting on the side, only glanced at Liu Ce, and then took the tea bowl and drank water by himself.

After a long time, Wei Yi saw that Liu Ce was still kneeling on the ground calmly, with no expression on his face, and nodded slightly and said: "Very good, the soldiers who came out of my Thunder Army are really extraordinary, worthy of the word trump!" In two days, the Zhao'an document will come down, and as a member of the official army, you must remember not to insult the prestige of my Thunder Army, do you know?"

Liu Ce said: "Humblely follow the teachings of the military commander!" ”

Wei Yi observed a few more breaths, and then said: "In this case, you can retreat, find a place to live and wait for the day when the documents are issued." ”

Liu Ce said lightly: "Retire from your humble position." After finishing speaking, Liu Ce got up and walked out of the door, without any nostalgia for the governor's mansion.

Wei Yi said secretly: This son is unruly and quick to adapt, no wonder Su Wen admires him in every way, if Li Suwen is invincible with a domineering long knife, then Liu Ce is an unfathomable sword. But so what? What kind of storm can a Shu general set off, and what can he Liu Ce do during his trip to the Far East? Quelling the bandits and rectifying order, can he? Expelling Hu Nu and recovering Jizhou, can he do it? Just those thousands of elite guard soldiers? It's not enough for Jiang Xun and Hu Ren to stuff their teeth......

Thinking of this, Wei Yi smiled softly, it seems that Li Suwen overestimated him, maybe this Liu Ce has the ability, but unfortunately he is not from the scholar family, and he is destined to achieve nothing without a background.

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Liu Ce came out of the governor's mansion, didn't say a word about the snub in the mansion, and Xu Hui said hello to a few people and led the horse to find a place to stay.

"General...... Hey...... Where ......" Sun Biao suddenly whispered beside Liu Ce, interrupting his contemplation, Liu Ce looked in the direction he pointed, and found that it was a green building, with the book "Liji Pavilion", and many dusty women on the archway were standing in front of the window on the second floor, and the warblers and warblers greeted passing men at the door.

"Hmm." Liu Cemu nodded and glanced back at Sun Biao, and found that his throat had been rolling up and down, his eyes were staring at the direction of the Qinglou, and then he looked at Yang Kaishan on the side who was also looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, and immediately understood.

"That's it, it's been so long for them." Liu Ce shook his head, and when he thought of this, he said to them: "We will settle down at the inn in front of us." ”

Then he took out a whole bag of silver from the return and handed it to Sun Biao, and said to him and Yang Kaishan: "It's been a hard time, go ahead, remember to find the best and cleanest girl, don't come back sick." ”

Sun Biao and Yang Kaishan smiled, thanked them repeatedly, and pulled Yang Youhuai in by the way. Seeing them enter, Liu Ce asked Xu Hui, Chu Zijun, Wu Zhenying, Fang Jing and Feng Chounian, "What about you?" If you want to go in, just go, I have a ...... in my place for silver."

Chu Zijun immediately blushed and said, "General, don't laugh at us......"

Fang Jing also said: "Mr. Yang Qi and the others must have not had anything for a long time, after all, there is a world of difference between not having a family and starting a family......

Wu Zhenying nodded and said, "Fang Jing's words are right, but I didn't expect Sun Baichang and Yang Qi to be so hateful and bring Yang Qi to the bottom ......"

Feng Chou Nian shouted: "Fart! Lao Tzu didn't have a mother-in-law to start a family, why is his concentration so strong? ”

Xu Hui held back a smile and said: "Brother Feng knows how to drink and kill enemies every day, so naturally he doesn't know the mystery......

When Wu Zhenying heard this, his eyes immediately narrowed: "So it is that Xu Qi has already had this experience......

Xu Hui's face turned red all of a sudden: "No, no, no, I just heard people talk about it, don't make fun of it." ”

Fang Jing snickered: "It turns out that Xu Qi is also good at this scenery of the wind and moon......

"Hahaha......" Everyone immediately burst into laughter on the street, and Xu Hui's face turned even redder.

Liu Ce stopped everyone with a smile and said, "The inn has arrived in front, let's go in and eat something, and wait for Yang Kaishan and Sun Biao and the three of them by the way." ”

After entering the inn, the inner stables led Liu Ce and his party to the backyard to feed the forage, and the shopkeeper hurriedly beckoned Xiao Er to bring Liu Ce and his party to a square table.

"Guest, what do you want to eat? Although our inn is small, we have everything we need for delicious food......" Xiao Er asked respectfully.

"Do you have a room?" Liu Ce asked.

"Yes, yes, how many do you want?" Xiao Er couldn't help but be more enthusiastic when he heard that the five people in front of him were going to live in the hotel, which meant that he could get a lot of rewards.

Liu Ce said to the shopkeeper: "Eight upper rooms, if there is anything delicious, just come up, I'll reward you." Saying that, a piece of five taels of silver was thrown in his hand, and the little two smiled when he saw this, and he couldn't close his mouth happily, and went to the back hall to prepare wine and food with great gratitude.

"The dish is here!" After a while, Xiao Er brought a large plate of plates, which contained all kinds of fish, meat, chicken, duck and eggs, and by the way, he asked for a small jar of wine to relieve Feng Chounian's hunger.

Liu Ce and the five of them were chatting and eating, and they were talking happily, when they suddenly heard a loud shout at the door of the inn: "You are a rebel!" I've finally found you! ”

Everyone looked up and saw a lean man in his fifties running towards Liu Ce's table with a few short-shirted servants!

"What's going on?" Liu Ce's eyes flashed, and he pressed his hand on the handle of the hanging knife on his waist, and the rest of the people were also solemn.

"Daddy......" Just when the wailang rushed over, Liu Ce and the others were about to make a move, but when they heard Xu Hui shuddering, they shouted, and suddenly Liu Ce and Feng Chounian froze in place with a confused face, what is the situation with Nima? Father? Didn't Xu Hui's whole family be beheaded?

"Get out of the way." The wailang pushed away the stunned Wu Zhenying on Xu Hui's side, and reached out to grab Xu Hui, but Xu Hui was excited and quickly hid behind Liu Ce.

"You rebel! See if I don't kill you today! The wailang saw that Xu Hui was in a violent state at this moment, and snatched the wooden stick from the servant's hand and waved it at him.

Liu Ce caught the wooden stick that was about to fall on his head with one hand, and said slowly: "Old man, don't do it first, if you have something to say, what the hell is going on?" ”

"Humph! Who are you? What do I have to do with you teaching this unfilial son?" The foreigner saw that the wooden stick in his hand did not move at all no matter how hard he tried, and his eyes widened angrily at Liu Ce.

Liu Ce met his gaze and said, "Xu Hui is now a general in my army, and I am his boss, do you say it has anything to do with me?" ”

"What kind of general...... Well? Generals?" The foreigner suddenly sobered up a little, and the stick in his hand weakened its strength, and slowly put it down.

Liu Ce said: "Old man, tell me, what's going on?" ”

The foreigner saw that the young man in front of him was Xu Hui's boss, so he told Liu Ce the reason for the incident.

It turned out that the foreigner in front of him was really Xu Hui's father's name Xu Yan, and he was a person from the declining Shi family, only because Xu Hui was unwilling to marry the daughter of his best friend that he ran away from home.

Liu Ce's face sank after hearing this, and he turned around and asked, "Xu Hui, are these facts?"

Xu Hui nodded in agreement, not only Liu Ce, but also Feng Chounian, Wu Zhenying, Chu Zijun, and Fang Jing all had black lines on their faces, and secretly said that this Xu Hui looks honest and honest, but it is not a good thing, this kind of lie against the sky can be made up, and it is also made up......

Liu ...... Brother Liu...... I...... I didn't mean to lie to you...... It's just because my father's best friend's daughter is too fat, and the whole child is so heavy as the two of me, so I ......" Xu Hui explained sweating profusely when he saw everyone looking at him with ill intentions.

"What's so bad about being fat? It's easy to be fat, isn't it good to give birth to seven or eight babies for my Xu family? I want my Xu family to give birth to six daughters in my generation, I and your mother prayed to God and Buddha to give birth to you, you should start a family as soon as possible to give birth to my Xu family! Come back with me! After Xu Yan listened to what Xu Hui said, he was angry and blew his nose and stared.

"I'm not going back, I'm ...... Brother Liu ...... "Xu Hui was so anxious that he grabbed Liu Ce's hand, swaying and begging like a girl.

Liu Ce and the other three glanced at each other, only to see that each person's eyes narrowed into a thin line, and then turned to Xu Hui seriously, straightened his collar with his hand and said, "Needless to say, I understand." ”

However, the next moment, Liu Ce and the four of them sat down together very tacitly and began to push the cups and ask for the cup.

"Crazy, this meat is good, eat more."

"General, I'll pour you wine."

"This fish is good, Yingzi eat more supplements, go back and pack a copy for your daughter-in-law and son to taste."

"Fang Jing, this green onion egg is good, go back and let my sister-in-law learn too."

Everyone collectively ignored Xu Hui......

"Rebel, you're done!" Seeing that Liu Ce and the others no longer cared about their own family affairs, Xu Yan suddenly showed a triumphant smile and slowly walked towards Xu Hui.

"No, Daddy! Stop it! General, help me! Brother Feng! Xu Hui was being beaten by his father on the ground at this time, and he couldn't stop begging loudly.

"Xu Hui's father's temper is hot enough, hahaha......" Feng Chou Nian laughed for a while, and everyone also had different expressions, a look of watching a play.