The dignified high-ranking official from the third grade was confiscated because he lost the game, no matter whether others believe it or not, Li Mao believed it anyway.

Li Chun asked him to escort and pacify Pei Du to the Hebei front line to comfort the sergeants on behalf of the Son of Heaven.

Pei Du's current imperial history Zhongcheng, like Wu Yuanheng, is also a staunch main battle faction, advocating tough measures against the feudal town to restore the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the difference is that Pei Du acts more tactfully, not as aggressive as Wu Yuanheng 'forced' people, and because of his lower status than Wu Yuanheng, the light is all covered by Wu Yuanheng.

When Wu Yuanheng was assassinated, there were also assassins who attacked Pei Du, and Pei Du had good luck, as soon as the three assassins appeared, they were spotted by the guards patrolling the streets, and hurriedly 'shot' an arrow at his mount, and then fled.

In order to avoid the spread of panic, Li Chun ordered the news of Pei Du's assassination to be blocked.

After Wu Yuanheng's death, Li Chun intended to be the prime minister of Pei Du, and the book had already been prepared, but it was not announced for the time being before he was to send him to the Hebei army.

Li Mao and Pei Du were not familiar with him, but he had heard of his name for a long time and knew that he was about to become prime minister, so he seemed very close and took the initiative to go to the 'door' to ask Pei Du for advice. Although Pei Du didn't look down on an upstart like Li Mao, he didn't dare to slack off.

Coming from Pei Du's mansion, Qin Mo whispered: "Pei Yan is looking for you." ”

Li Mao was taken aback, got on the horse silently, and walked for a while, Fang asked Qin Mo: "Where do you invite me to go?" ”

Qin Mo replied that he was going to a wine shop in the east of the city, Li Mao dismissed his entourage, and only took Qin Mo and Hu Chuan to go.

"Lu Congshi brought Wang Yiyuan to the capital, and he moved around as Lu Congshi's running official, and he wanted to seek a phase."

Li Mao saw Wang Yiyuan's activities in Beijing for Lu Congshi, and he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but he only felt that Lu Congshi was a little ridiculous. Before an inch of merit is made in front of him, he dares to seek a phase.

"I had a deep talk with him, and he wrote about it."

Pei Yan took out a stack of hemp paper from his wide sleeve pocket and pushed it in front of Li Mao, Li Mao hurriedly read it, and returned the thing to Pei Yan, but Pei Yan didn't accept it, and said: "Lu Congshi's anti-heart has appeared, you have to know it in your heart." ”

Li Mao put away his things and saluted.

Back to Jing'anfang, when I entered the 'door', I heard a burst of crying, but I saw Qin Niang and Lan'er supporting Su Ying, who was dressed in plain clothes, and walked out, her husband Zhang Pi unfortunately died, Su Ying was widowed at a young age, and in just over a month, people lost their shape, and now they are crying with red eyes, Chu Chu and pitiful appearance, and anyone who sees it will have pity.

"It's ......"

Li Mao wanted to ask what was going on, but was pulled aside by Qin Niang, Qin Niang said: "Without your consent, I will take her to live at home without permission, if you want to blame me, it has nothing to do with Lan'er and them." ”

Li Mao said: "What are you talking about, I blame you for what you do, I heard that Zhang Pi has been living in the martial arts, and he has not purchased any property and has no savings. By the way, does she have children? ”

Qin Niang shook her head and sighed: "Just like me, your knees are empty." ”

Li Mao said: "The four major monks are empty, I don't care about anything. She got married from here, this is her maiden family, people are in trouble, others can ignore it, and her mother's family can't ignore it, you should persuade her and let her live. ”

Zhang Pi is grateful for Wu Yuanheng's kindness, he has been living in the martial family, and has never purchased an industry, and he is a free body, and he is not a slave of the martial arts family. After Qin Niang and Lan'er discussed, they took Su Ying over, but Su Ying thought that she was an ominous person and insisted on refusing to stay.

"It's rare for you to be so forgiving."

Qin Niang had something to say in her words, glanced at Li Mao, and went back to continue persuading Su Ying.

Li Mao didn't care about these things, and in the living room in front of his study, there was still an important guest waiting for him.

The person who came is called Wang Shize, is the brother of Wang Shizhen, who made Wang Shizhen of Chengde Festival, and entered Beijing as an official because of discord with Wang Shizhen, and now Zuo Shence is a general in the army, and Wang Chengxian, the judge of Chengde stationed in Shangdu Jinjuan, is his distant nephew. He asked someone to bring a message to Li Mao and asked to see him, but Li Mao was afraid of leaking the news and took him to his home.

Introducing the study, Li Mao ordered that no one should enter and disturb unless summoned by the Son of Heaven.

Wang Shi was dressed in Taoist robes, and although he was a general, he did not have the slightest murderous aura on his body, but he looked like a cynical scribe. After meeting and recounting the ceremony, Wang Shi said a few words, and Wang Shi said: "I only entered the court as an official because my brother Wang Shizhen was not in harmony, and I have not met Wang Chengzong a few times, so I have a bad influence on him, and I don't have any 'friendship'." I'm not here to say anything about him, I'm here to tell General Lee a big secret. ”

Li Mao said: "Mao Xi's ears are listening. ”

According to Wang Shi, about a month ago, one of his favorite sons went out on the street with his favorite concubine and was kidnapped, and the kidnapper did not want his money, as long as he helped with one thing.

"They 'forced' me to write a letter to Wang Chengxian, asking him to admit that the people living in the post house were from Chengde."

Li Mao frowned: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"I didn't understand what I meant that day, but they threatened my son's 'life' and couldn't tolerate me not complying."

"Although Cheng Xian is a child of the Wang family, he is a side branch, and he is very unsatisfactory when he first comes to the Academy, I have a favor for him, and he is a person who knows how to repay his kindness." Wang Shi sighed silently, "Now we understand, they are framing Wang Chengzong, who are they?" ”

Wang Shi asked Li Mao.

In fact, you don't need to ask to know that whoever is most beneficial to frame Wang Chengyuan is most likely to be the culprit behind the scenes.

If this was said a month earlier, it would have had the effect of breaking the earth, but now saying it is a dispensable afterthought.

Li Mao told Wang Shi to keep his mouth shut before the truth was revealed, and this matter should have never happened.

Sending Wang Shize away, Li Mao's heart was heavy, a bad breath was blocked in his throat, he couldn't get out, he couldn't swallow it, and he was uncomfortable and helpless.

'Handed' over the public and 'private' affairs, and appeased his family, Li Mao embarked on a journey to the east as a deputy envoy to appease.

When passing through Shaanzhou, it was suddenly rumored that Du Huangshang died of illness in Yuzhou, Li Mao was shocked, and told Pei Du to take leave to go to Hezhong Mansion to mourn, Pei Du persuaded: "Zun Su Gong Xue is in Yuzhou, Du is also very sad, but without an edict, how can the minister of the Qin Mission leave his post without permission?" ”

Li Mao said: "Du Xiang is for the country and the people, he has become ill through hard work, and he has not sacrificed, is it the old friendship?" He added: "Yuzhou is not far from here, I will come and go quickly, but one day and one night, will not delay the trip." After working hard all the way, Zhongcheng just took the opportunity to take a break. ”

After that, despite Pei Du's dissuasion, he went to Yuzhou. Pei Du said to the left and right: "Don't forget the grace of carrying it, don't be afraid of gossip, Li Maohua has the style of an ancient gentleman, my generation is too sophisticated, not as good as him." ”

Li Mao went back for only one day, and did not delay the trip, but when he came back, he found that there was one more person in his team, a man dressed as a 'woman' - Tian Qing.

Tian Qian became a monk near Anshanfang, I thought I could see Li Mao often, but I didn't want her to come, but Li Mao left, Tian Mao was an arrogant 'sex', Li Mao left, didn't take the initiative to see her, she didn't go to see Li Mao, and the relationship between the two gradually became estranged.

It is said that she was going to take a hitchhike back to her hometown and province, but Hu Chuan, who stayed behind, was worried that the impact would not be good, so he persuaded her to disguise herself as a man and hid her in the camp.

Li Mao praised Hu Chuan three times for this, Hu Chuan was triumphant, Qin Mo couldn't help but kick Hu Chuan angrily, although the latter dodged and avoided it, he still had a little mud on his body, and asked Qin Mo why aggrievedly for a while.

Qin Mo said: "Pei Zhongli is such a 'fine', you think you can deceive him, you are 'desire' to cover up and pour dirty water on Brother Mao." If she wants to come, she will come, you treat each other politely, why hide it, it is as if it is uncommon to do it. ”

Only then did Hu Chuan realize that he might be in trouble, so he hurriedly went to admit his mistake to Li Mao, walked to the front of the small courtyard and glanced at the crack of the 'door', was shocked, and looked at it again, his face 'color' turned from 'yin' to sunny, and he retreated triumphantly, seeing that Qin Mo didn't speak, he only snorted, put his hands behind his back, and walked away with square steps.

Qin Mo felt that there was a reason for the incident, so he went over and looked inside through the crack of the 'door', quickly covered his eyes, and shouted repeatedly: "Amitabha, good, good." When he opened his eyes and looked at it again, he muttered, "What a good person, how can a monk do such a thing, it hurts the morals and customs, and it hurts the heavens and reason." ”

Qin Mo shook his head and left heartbrokenly.

In the yard, Tian Qian knelt on the ground, kneeling for a long time, his legs were numb, so he stood up from the ground, lovingly stroked the nestling nestled in the palm of his hand, and said to Li Mao: "The 'hair' has not grown, I don't know if I can raise it." ”

Li Mao said with confidence: "This bird is called a house sparrow, also called a sparrow, Huo Bird, Wa Bird, Liuque, Old Thief, Only, Guest, Zhaoye, Magu, South Sparrow, He Bird, Bin Bird. A bird of the genus Finches. Distributed in most states and counties of the country, this bird seems to be weak, but in fact its 'temperament' is very strong. Once it falls into human hands and is contaminated with human body odor, the mother bird will no longer be fed and left to fend for itself, and the slightly older chicks will not eat the food of the human body, and would rather starve to death than eat it. ”

"Would you rather starve to death than eat?" Tian Qian listened with great interest to Li Mao's knowledge of 'making', and tilted his head to ask.

Li Mao nodded seriously: "I have raised several, but I haven't raised any of them." ”

Tian Qian 'touched' and 'touched' the little head of the chick nested in the palm of his hand, and the slightly closed eyes of the chick suddenly opened, opened its big mouth, and chirped for food.

Tian Qi giggled and asked the bird, "Some people say that you would rather starve to death than eat food fed by people, is it true or false?" ”

The chicks ignored her, closing their eyes and screaming for feeding.

Tian Qi snorted defiantly at Li Mao, walked under an elm tree, and found a piece of festering bark with a nest of yellow-brown 'colored' worms coiled on the bark. Tian Qi plucked a thorn and picked up a worm to feed to the chicks, who swallowed it in one bite and opened its mouth and screamed. Tian Qian giggled, fed seven or eight worms in a row, and then ...... The chicks died.

"This insect is poisonous, and birds will die if they eat it." Li Mao deeply regretted it.

"I know it, why didn't I say it earlier." Tian Qian held the dead bird in a daze, and her words were dissatisfied.

"I said it wouldn't survive. You don't believe it. ”

"I just don't believe it, I don't believe it." Tian Qi bit her lip, took out a Supa, wrapped the dead chicks, and dug a hole in the soft ground under the tree with her hands to bury the bird.

"There are so many insects on the trees, if they could eat them, they would have been eaten by the birds. They are poisonous. Li Mao half-knelt down and looked at the newly raised bird mound and said.

Tian Qian patted the dirt on his hands and said to Li Mao: "No matter what, I have to go back and give it a try, your words can't scare me." ”

Li Mao looked helplessly at Tian Qi's departing figure, and looked lonely at the newly raised bird mound under the tree. When he looked out again, he saw Qin Mo's ill-intentioned smiling face.

Ahem, cough, Qin Mo cleared his throat and said, "There are many people in this place, you should also pay attention." ”

Li Mao said: "What? ”

"Ahem, this kind of thing is done, although it is a bit ridiculous, but it is also a romantic affair, why don't you admit it. Just now...... Haha, you're standing, she's kneeling...... Haha, that ...... You're blushing......"

Li Mao smiled and said: "I'm really sorry for you, I can think about anything." She wants to go back to her hometown to do a big thing, and I can't persuade her, that's all. ”

At this time, Qin Mo also saw the new bird mound under the tree, and the dilapidated bird nest that fell to the ground, and knew that he had misunderstood Li Mao and Tian Qi, so he 'smacked' himself in the mouth, scolded the 'bastard', and then caught up and asked Li Mao: "She wants to go back and do something big, is it possible that she wants to help Tian Xing rebel and seize power?" Seeing that Li Mao didn't speak, he sighed again: "This 'woman' is so powerful, I have to say that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Li Mao said: "You and I can see it, Tian Ji'an can't see it?" I'm just afraid she's too smart......"