Time has passed, the territory of Yunzhou is no longer as tense as before, the culprits of the rebellion Liu Wu and his son absconded in fear of crime, the accomplice Li Mao did not know the life and death, and the four major families who participated in the mutiny were devastated, and now they are in a slump.

Ziqing returned to the hands of the Li family, Li Shidao was as wise and martial as his brother, a hero, and with the assistance of Gao Mu and Li Gongdu, the twelve states of Ziqing were well organized.

Li Mao carried his battered luggage and headed west.

One evening, passing by a mountain beam, I heard that there was a garrison at the bottom of the mountain to check the passers-by, and I was afraid that I would not be able to pass, so I turned into the deep mountain.

When he first entered the mountain, the moon was clear and the wind was clear, and as he walked, the sky was covered by dark clouds, and he could not see the stars and moon, and Li Mao lost his way.

The tiger howled in the mountains and forests, and Li Mao did not dare to move forward, so he climbed a big tree and stayed overnight.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Mao slipped down from the tree, found a waterhole, and was squatting at the water's edge to wash his face, when suddenly his scalp exploded: by the reflection in the water, he clearly saw a tiger approaching him.

"Ha, Li Maohua?!"

The tiger suddenly spoke, his front legs lifted off the ground, and the man stood up.

Li Mao felt that this person's voice was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"I, Liu Congji." The tiger reports to his home. Li Mao smiled, it turned out to be Liu Wu's son.

This mountain is called Daliang Mountain, the mountain is not high, but it is geographically remote, the forest is deep, the people are inaccessible, there was originally a mountain bandit entrenched on the mountain, by robbing passers-by, robbing the nearby villagers for a living, the life is bitter.

Three months ago, Liu Wu was defeated out of Yunzhou, and when he came to this place, the leaders saw that he was heroic and extraordinary, so they recommended him to be the top spot.

This is the statement of the Liu family's father and son, the truth is that the owner of the cottage led the crowd to kidnap Liu Wu and his son up the mountain, and forced Liu Wu to hand over the beautiful concubine to be the wife of the village, Liu Wu pretended to be obedient, but suddenly made trouble at the banquet, beheaded the leader of the cottage, occupied the cottage, and became independent.

Seeing Li Mao, Liu Wu sighed and sighed, and asked repeatedly: "Maohua, what did we do wrong to end up like this?" ”

Li Mao was also embarrassed: "We are worthy of the sky, worthy of the earth, worthy of the handsome in the middle, we are worthy of the heart." was calculated by the villain and fell to this point, which can only be regarded as a bad fate. Good thing we're all alive. ”

Liu Wudao: "That's right, we are all alive, and being alive is better than anything else." ”

invited Li Mao to enter the cottage Juyi Hall, and ordered the cattle to be slaughtered and the sheep to be slaughtered to set up a banquet for hospitality.

During the banquet, Liu Wu said: "Originally, it was said that the two of us colluded with the four surnames to make trouble, but some time ago my son went down the mountain to inquire about the news, and they changed their words again, saying that it was my Liu Wu father and son who made trouble. But he never mentioned you and the four surnames, brother, I thought that you had reconciled with them, brother, but I didn't know that you were also fleeing. ”

Li Mao said: "I have been hiding in the countryside these days to recuperate, and I was able to walk around the fields a few days ago. What are your brother's plans for the future? ”

Liu Wudao: "Don't talk about me, what about you?" You are still a Liaodong envoy now, and it is expected that they will not embarrass you again in the future, brother, after you clear your name, don't forget that my brother and I were also wronged. ”

Li Mao said: "My wife, daughter, and family are all in his hands, and there is no soldier in his hands, he chose me out, which is nothing more than isolating your brother." Liaodong is a strategic envoy, I am inappropriate. ”

"If you want to be, not only should you be, but also be worthy of the name, Ziqing we can't stay, it's better for my father and son to go to Liaodong with you to fight the world, get the country, you be the emperor, brother Feng and I will be a county king, I will be satisfied."

When Liu Wu said this, his son Liu Cong drank wine, took a sip of wine, took a small blade and put the meat slices in his mouth, closed his mouth and chewed, without saying a word.

Li Mao knew that Liu Wu's words were a temptation, so he said: "Liaodong is still a chaos, and the right wing is very powerful here, and it may not be safe to go, I intend to go to Weizhou, borrow the hand of Tian Shuai, recruit the old department, return to Ziqing as soon as possible, wash away the grievances, and return my innocence." ”

Hearing this, Liu Congjian stopped chewing the meat and raised his head, his eyes burning and full of anticipation.

Liu Wu groaned: "Will Wei Zhou help us?" ”

Li Mao said: "The first marshal sent troops to fight Dizhou, and Weizhou broke off contact with Ziqing, and now Ziqing has changed its commander, how can Weizhou not guard against it?" I think they'll be happy to see the infighting in Ziqing. ”

Liu Congzhi nodded and continued to chew his meat.

Liu Wudao: "This is reasonable, but we are not familiar with Weizhou, who can be recommended?" ”

Li Mao said: "This is not difficult, brother Dan Lebing is here, I will go to Weizhou to make a front station first." ”

Liu Wu was overjoyed, left Li Mao for three days, nourished his spirits, gave luggage and coiled on the fourth day, chose a good knife, a fast horse, and sent Li Mao to Weizhou.

His son Liu Congzhi looked at Li Mao's distant back and sighed: "This time, it's hard to guarantee that you can come back." ”

Liu Wu smiled: "You underestimate him too much, if you eat someone else's plot, he will take revenge." ”

Li Maoxiao stayed overnight, came to Lei Xiaze one day, hired a boat to launch the water, and walked on the white lake for a day before coming to the island he was going to. This small island in the middle of the lake resembles a peach pit, the peach pit is a hill in the center, and a cottage has been formed on the mountain, and the owner of the village is the veteran Xue.

General Xue was originally the Qing Navy's Gushan Town Zuo Jiu General, the commander of the Chinese military camp and the navy, after the meritorious service of suppressing bandits, he was awarded the town navy Laizhou Qingshan Recess patrol general, because he was dissatisfied with the boss's deduction of military salary, and said two complaining words, so he had a conflict with his boss, and beat his boss to serious injury.

At that time, Li Mao was gaining power, and a letter went to Laizhou, and General Xue changed from being in the army to being cut to the people. Xue Lao dealt with water for half his life, and moved to Lei Xia Ze as a fisherman after cutting his job for the people, and half a year later he came to Yunzhou to find Li Mao, and presented a map, saying that there is an isolated island in the depths of Lei Xia Ze, and a water village is set up here, which can control the entire Lei Xia Ze, and he hopes that Li Mao can ask for an official position for him and help him make a comeback.

At that time, Li Mao had been demoted to the shogunate, and he had more than enough strength to do so, so he funded him with some money, so that he could go to the island first to set up a village, and then take the road of recruiting An Congliang in the future.

General Xue was overjoyed, took Li Mao's money and happily went back to Lei Xiaze to be the king of the water village.

After Li Mao met Niu Baidan in Zhangjiazhuang, Leize County, he had a premonition that there would be a big change in Ziqing, which was different from the past, not only could he not lead, but even participated in it passively.

In Caozhou, Dong He's words just hit the weakness of Li Mao's heart, which is the most sensitive, fragile and inappropriate for outsiders, Li Shigu eats grass by the nest, this is not a secret, and the wives and concubines of the generals can rarely escape the palm of his hand.

This is the unspeakable reason why Li Mao was reluctant to take Su Qing to Yunzhou.

With the improvement of Li Mao's status, there are more and more opportunities to get close to Li Shigu, and finally one day he understands that although this rabbit with a different taste is greedy, he is not stupid, the grass on the edge of the nest can be eaten, and the grass on the edge of the nest can not be eaten, he is very clear, he is an ambitious and extremely self-disciplined person, and he will never gnaw the grass on the edge of the nest impulsively because of small mistakes.

Su Qing, Li Mao is absolutely trustworthy, the rabbit has not lost his mind, and he will not lose his mind and go crazy to destroy his future.

Li Mao's only worry is the Su family, Su Qing takes the interests of the family very seriously, and the Su family takes her very lightly, she can commit herself to marry herself for the sake of the family's interests, if someone threatens her family's interests, how dare she not obey her will?

The grass on the edge of the nest is delivered to the rabbit's mouth, and the greedy rabbit eats it or not?

Li Mao is still willing to believe that the rabbit and the grass on the edge of the nest are innocent, and he can laugh at all the rumors that come into his ears, but how to explain Aunt Meng's words and deeds? This nurse who watched Su Qing grow up would cooperate with Dong He to lie!

It seems that the copper tiger head has been deeply involved in the dispute between the Li brothers, and has reached out to him, the acting manager, who has taken the interests of the Su family as a threat, forcing the Meng family to agree to cooperate with them, keeping him in the dark, and treating him as a fool.

At that moment, Li Mao had a premonition that the building was about to collapse, and when he told Qingmo and Zhang Qi that he wanted to return to Caozhou quickly, he had already concluded that his family had completely fallen into the hands of the coup d'état, and all he could do was to avoid it.

But when Zhao Jinglai appeared, Li Mao realized that it was too late, and he had done his best, but he still stepped into the trap that others had dug a long time ago, and what was waiting for him was only a knife in the head.

So he hinted that Zhang Qi went to report to his family, and he could walk as much as he could, and one of them would be counted as one if he ran away.

Zhang Qi was still a step late in the end, except for Zhu Xiang's mother and son who went to the neighbor's house to chat after dinner, Hu Nanxiang was angry and drank alcohol after arguing with the people in the house, Chang Heqing happened to be not at home as a helper in Jiminsheng Hospital, Su Qing, Zhu Wan'er, Ling, Zheng Xiaozhang, Chang Mucang, Shi brothers, Zhang Qi's parents and others were all detained by the coup plotters.

A few fish escaped from Yunzhou City, slept in the open and came to Lei Xiaze, and settled in the water village of Veteran Xue.

Li Mao couldn't say all the words even now, so when everyone asked about the cause and end of this mutiny, he could only say vaguely: "I thought a lot afterwards, it was because I didn't notice the tricks of the traitors for a while, Su Qing is such a virtuous and polite person, how could he betray me, and the handsome treat me like a brother, how can he do such a thing that is contrary to human morality?" I was so dazed that I was suspicious of them, completely dazed. Zhao Jinglai instigated me to raise troops to save people, with two intentions: if I refuse to send troops, they can harm the commander without fear, and if I send troops, they will frame me for rebellion, and they can get rid of me left and right. ”

Qingmo said: "In the end, we shouldn't have come back in the first place, Ziqing is no longer our home." ”

Zhang Qi said: "Otherwise, let's go to Liaodong together, Brother Mao will also be a strategic envoy, and we will fight our own territory with real knives and guns." ”

"That's right, lay down our own turf and see who dares to underestimate us."

The more the two talked, the more excited they became, as if the territory of thousands of miles in Liaodong was already under control.

Li Mao groaned: "If I leave, I don't know how many people will be affected by me, and I have to continue to deal with them now." ”

Veteran Xue said: "Although my water village is small, but it is also quite able to garrison soldiers and horses, it is better to pull the flag here and recruit the heroes and heroes of the world, and now the people of Ziqing are not bored, they all hate the government, as long as the general ascends to the heights, the responders gather, don't want a year, let's kill Yunzhou, cut down these villains, and promote the general to be the marshal." (Dissertation College)