Seeing off Xue Rong, Li Mao left Beijing for a trip to the northwest, he regarded Fengzhou as his backyard, and it was necessary to take some precautions for the stability of the backyard. In the middle, two inconspicuous things happened in Chang'an City, one was that Xue Fang, the governor of Huayin County, was called to Beijing to serve as the chief examiner, and the other was that Su Jingwai, the chief secretary of Zhongshu Province, was released to Xinzhou Sima.

The two things are not big, but they are both related to Li Mao, Xue Fang is Xue Rong's brother, Su Jing is Li Mao's brother-in-law, whether the transfer of these two people is done according to the rules, or whether there is another deep meaning, it is not known for the time being, but it is by no means unprovoked.

Li Mao ordered Youji to pay close attention to the movements of the two.

One day there was a light snow in the sky, Qin Niang stewed a little venison and invited Li Mao home to drink soup, Li Mao was dressed in plain clothes and took a shortcut back to the city from a horse, and saw a few people sitting on the corner of the street from a distance, all wearing gray and abrupt linen rags, one by one with their necks and hands together, listening to a slender man explaining something.

That slender man, Li Mao looked a little familiar, Li Mao glanced at him, and he also stared at Li Mao.

Li Mao was contemplating his eyebrows and thinking about where he had seen this person, when the man suddenly became excited and shouted: "Hey, you still want to run!" "An arrow rushed over, and he was going to grab Li Mao.

Hu Chuan, who was guarding Li Mao's side, whipped it without saying a word, and there was a crisp sound on the ground, and a bloody mark appeared on the man's forehead. Hu Chuan pulled out his saber, pointed at the man and shouted, "Squat down for me." ”

A row of homeless people squatting in the corner of the wall suddenly exploded and surrounded the ground with a bang.

The slender man who was beaten saw that there were many people and was a little bolder, he covered his head with one hand, pointed at Li Mao with the other, and cried: "It's him, it's this negative man, it's he who made my sister's belly bigger, come and see, come and see the negative man." ”

This man blocked the road and shouted for no reason, which immediately attracted the attention of a large number of people, Li Mao was dressed in civilian clothes that day, and there were few entourages around him, and people didn't know that he was an official.

Hu Chuan returned the knife to the sheath and silently picked up the bow and crossbow.

"Take him back."

Before the crowd could close, Li Mao rushed out.

Qin Mo whistled, reached over the man who stopped the horse, put the person on the horse's back, clamped the horse's belly with both knees, and rushed out of the crowd with the people.

Entering the Gushan Marquis's Mansion, Qin Mo threw the person on the blue brick floor, and the man who fell hummed and chirped, unable to get up for a long time, seeing that Li Mao's people were all around, he also knew that he was afraid, and he didn't dare to say anything.

Hu Chuan stepped forward with a horsewhip in his hand and shouted: "Dare to stop General Sanpin's horse, do you know that this is a capital crime?" ”

The man's face turned pale, and he hurriedly shouted: "Is it not guilty of the general to make my sister's belly bigger?" ”

Qin Mo glanced at Li Mao, squatted in front of the man with a smile, and asked: "You keep saying that the general has made your sister's belly bigger, who is your sister, and who are you, if you can tell that you are ugly, I will ask the general to recognize your family business." If you can't say it, I'll send you to Jingzhao Mansion to go to jail. Do you understand? ”

The man's eyes rolled for a while, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, glared at Li Mao, and asked timidly, "What can you do to his master?" ”

Qin Mo nodded and said: "This place is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and it is the most reasonable place in the Tang Dynasty, but it doesn't hurt for you to say it." ”

Nahan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll say it, you ask him if he slept with a sixteen-year-old girl named Qixin in Qijia Village outside Yunzhou City two years ago." ”

Qin Mo's eyes lit up, but when he turned around, he saw Li Mao's face solemn, his eyes faintly full of remorse, and he was shocked that he knew that this matter was true. But he deliberately said: "No, we have been inseparable for the past few years, oh no, there was indeed a period of time two years ago...... Hey, did you really do this unreasonable thing? ”

Li Mao bowed his head.

The man got up and said, "You ask him if he patted his ass and walked away after he made his belly bigger, and he walked away and never came back?" ”

Qin Mo glanced at Li Mao, but he put his arms around the slender man and asked in a low voice, "Who are you?" ”

The man snorted: "I, I am his eldest brother, my surname is Qi Minghao, and the word is Sanshui." ”

Qin Mo glanced at Li Mao again, and when he faced Qi Hao again, he was already full of smiles, he personally helped Qi Hao up, patted the dust off his body for him, and said with a smile: "This is really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't know the family." The one surnamed Hu, you are still stunned, come over and accompany your eldest brother, apologize, oops, eldest brother, what about this Hu Chuan, he is a good person, but he is a little reckless. He said to Hu Chuan again: "You don't know what you look at, you don't know your own family, your uncle who was almost hurt broke his face, what a handsome face, what a pity it was damaged." ”

He whispered to Qi Hao again: "You don't know, he was originally the general of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven gave him a bow, and whoever dared to block General Mao's way could be killed with one arrow." With this bow, this guy has been happy from now on, and no one cares about it. I can only scold him for you, I was in a hurry, he shot an arrow, and died in vain. ”

Qi Hao was shocked when he heard this, although he was born in the countryside, he loves to mix in the city, and he can be regarded as well-informed, and there are many powerful people in the city, and it is really not a big deal to kill someone on the street, at least this is the case in Yunzhou City.

He touched the blood on his forehead, thinking that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and when I recognize this family in the future, I will see that I don't kill you.

Under Qin Mo's repeated instructions, Hu Chuan's attitude softened slightly, and he lost two soft words, squeezed out a smile on his face, and was busy entertaining the future uncle of the Marquis's Mansion with Qin Mo.

After a few glasses of wine, Qi Hao's body warmed up, his heart was alive, and it was ironclad to recognize this family by looking at this posture.

The following is to fight for more benefits and face for his sister, it is good to have one more point, and he can also see that Qin Mo is a person with weight in his speech in this mansion, and to a certain extent, he can be Li Mao's family.

"Actually, don't blame me, it's not easy for him all these years, you see that he is a marquis today, this is also in exchange for nine deaths, how many times he almost lost his life. This is not Jiangnan Zhenhai has just been pacified, Fengzhou is in chaos again, he has just returned from Fengzhou, and he planned to be busy for a while. As soon as spring begins next year, I will send our brothers and sisters to Yunzhou for a visit, and take the girl and the little boy over together, you see, you will come. ”

"I can't come." Qi Hao's mouth was stuffed with chicken, and his speech was a little slurred.

"Yes, of course I can, family, haha. Alas, try this fish, the carp in the Yellow River, which was sent by the fast horse this morning, is still alive. Uncle, you eat slowly, no one robs you. Hey, that's my hand, don't gnaw on it. ”

After eating and drinking, Qi Hao picked his teeth with satisfaction, now in his opinion, his status can be on a par with Qin Mo, of course, it is a little lower than the Suiluan General of the Son of Heaven, but it is not much lower, at least he doesn't have to be careful when he speaks, worrying about his heart.

"Miss Qixin has suffered a lot of sins in the past two years, right?"

"Then it goes without saying, a sixteen-year-old girl, who is not married, is it easy for a big fat boy?"

"Yes, yes, who is too much, it's just inhuman."

"I don't blame him, he must have unspeakable hardships." When Qi Hao said this, he also sighed, and he didn't feel that his eyes were a little ****, thinking about the sins suffered by these two sisters together, let him have no heart or lungs, and his heart was sour.

Two years ago, his father and eldest brother rescued a man who was seriously injured and unconscious from the river outside the village, and hid at home to recuperate for him. The wound healed, and the person left, not only robbed his sister's virginity before leaving, but also took away her heart.

The heart is gone, the person is gone, leaving his sister to live like a year, a sixteen-year-old girl, unmarried and pregnant, and I don't know who her husband's family is, in a closed and conservative village, a mouthful of saliva can kill her!

In the past two years, his sister-in-law has cried night and night, people are haggard into a handful of bones, the year before the drought in his hometown, there was no harvest, his sister-in-law who never spoke heartfelt was cold-spoken, and the angry sister ran away from home with the child.

People walked overnight, and they couldn't find her mother and son at dawn, and the whole family panicked, and the eldest brother Qi Zheng beat his sister-in-law violently, and forced the mother-in-law to go to the well again, but fortunately there was no water in the dry well, so she miraculously picked up a life.

At the time of crisis, the old man lived steadily, invited relatives, friends and family, and went separately to find Qixin's mother and son.

According to Qi Hao's meaning, such a shameful girl doesn't want to die, love to death where to die, he symbolically went to the neighboring Zhuangzi to ask, tricked his cousin to go home, he turned around and entered the city, Yunzhou is in a drought, there are many people fleeing the famine, he plans to go to the brothers of the Goose Lake Gang, to see if there is any business to do.

It was a coincidence, so that he met the sister Qixin in the city and asked her to go home, she refused, refused to beat, scolded and refused, this Nizi seemed to be weak, once the strength came up, the eight mules couldn't pull back, she said that she had inquired, there was no official named Li Mao in Yunzhou, he should be in Chang'an.

She said that he was going to take the child to Chang'an to find him, Qi Hao was simply mad, the world is so big, why is his man not in Yunzhou but in Chang'an, what ******kind of bullshit is this.

He pointed to his sister's face and scolded: If you want to die, you should die far away, our family's face will be lost to you anyway.

In his impression, his sister, who had always been weak, left without saying a word, holding her child, and carrying her to Chang'an with the twenty yuan she had saved from frugality.

Qi Hao drank a jar of wine that day, and finally told his friends that he had admitted it, so he borrowed two hangs of money and a pair of bast shoes to follow his sister on the road.

Qi Xin only knew Li Mao's name, but he didn't know anything about his origin, background, official position, etc. She didn't know if Li Mao was in Chang'an at the moment, but she had inquired that Li Mao was not in Yunzhou, she hadn't been far away, except for Yunzhou, she only knew that there was such a place as Chang'an, since Yunzhou found him, then he should be in Chang'an, so she came.

The people in the capital may not know what the specific responsibilities of Zuo Longxiangjun are, but they are not unfamiliar with this thunderous name, Li Mao is the general who actually presides over military affairs, and there are not a few people who know it from the high-ranking officials of the third rank.

Knowing that Li Mao had become a senior official, Qi Hao was surprised and delighted, and climbed the big tree of this lesson, and the glory and wealth of the second half of his life were just around the corner, but he was as worried as Qi Xin, and Li Mao, who had been a high-ranking official, still recognized her as an old friend.

Qi Hao has been mixed up on the road, Lu Ziye, and he has asked him to inquire about some of Li Mao's situation, knowing that he is a person with a wife, and a decent wife is now in Yunzhou, so it is impossible to see his sister as a wife. It's okay, if you are a small family, people will really promote you as a wife, and you can't afford it.

can't be a wife, it's not bad to be a favored concubine, his sister is like a flower, even compared with the girls in the city, she is not inferior at all, not to mention that she helped him give birth to a big fat son.

As long as he treats his sister well, he is still fragrant and spicy, take a step back and say, even if he looks down on his sister is a country woman who is illiterate, does not understand etiquette, and looks down on himself as an idle gangster, then he can't look down on his own flesh and blood, this kid has a fat head and big ears, and he is also shrewd, he is really loved by everyone, and the flowers bloom, as long as he is not blind, there is no reason not to like it.

What's more, it is said that although there are many wives and concubines of this lonely mountain marquis, he is very lonely under his knees, and the decent lady of Yunzhou only gave birth to a daughter, and the concubines in several rooms are like flowers and jades without saving any blood and blood for him, no matter how bad his sister is, the credit for continuing the incense cannot be erased.

Thinking about this, Qi Hao had all the confidence and courage, and when he heard where the Gushan Hou Mansion went, he brought his sister here, first walked around the house, and judged the strength of his brother-in-law, this house is big, new and magnificent, Qi Hao has the bottom in his heart, and his brother-in-law is enough for him to eat for the rest of his life.

When Qi Hao's wishful thinking crackled, his sister-in-law was not angry, no matter how he coaxed or scolded, he just refused to come to the door to recognize his relatives. Her thoughts, Qi Hao understood, she wanted that negative man - of course, this is no wonder he, people in officialdom can't help themselves - personally welcomed her into the house.

This stupid girl, he is a dignified three-grade general, the Marquis of Gushan, how can you, even if you renew the incense for him...... You can't hurt his face like this, people live a skin...... Even if you really think so, you have to at least let people know that you're here first, people don't know where you are, and where do they want to pick them up?

Although the idea was decided, Qi Hao had a little more heart, he kept a hand, first settled the sister and the baby nephew, and went to find the baby brother-in-law by himself, he wanted to say it well, let's just say it well, what kind of heart eye he wants to play, then we will take his baby son away and fly away, when he figured it out, let's meet again and sit down and talk.

Although you are powerful, I hold on to your life, who is afraid of whom.