A month passed, the weather gradually got hotter, Li Mao was too lazy to run at both ends, if he had nothing to do, he would always live in the small pine forest. One day at noon, it was very hot, Li Mao took a bath, took a nap in the shade of the small pine forest, the surrounding Zen was terrible, the noisy people could not sleep, and was about to call a small school to catch silkworms, but heard a rumbling sound, the ground trembled, and saw more than 20 horsemen rushing through the village gate and crashing over. Li Mao was startled, grabbed the knife in his hand, and was about to take the bow but saw that the person who came was the hero of Duzhu Yaxue.

Xue Yingying's heart was burning in a hurry, his face was sweating profusely, but his face was gloomy and could be condensed into ice.

He glanced at Li Mao'an's hammock in the woods and the cold drink of melons and fruits placed at the bedside, and then heaved: "You are comfortable, the festival commander is going to hunt in the afternoon, are you ready?" ”

This is really inexplicable, Li Shigu is going to hunt and no one has come to inform him, where does Li Mao know? He didn't care when he saw that Xue Yingying's face was not good. Xue Yingying observed his words and looks, and saw that Li Mao didn't know, but he was relieved in his heart, Li Shigu woke up and suddenly said that he wanted to come to the small pine forest to hunt, which was very unreasonable. In the late summer and early autumn of the twentieth year of Zhenyuan, Li Shigu accidentally fell off his horse while hunting in the small pine forest, broke a leg, and the news caused a big storm, and Li Shigu has never been here since then.

Such a fierce land, why did Li Shigu come for Li Mao?

Xue Yingying felt that his scalp was fried, and if that was the case, it was very unfavorable to him, recently he handed over the canopy, first the two most powerful subordinates were released by Li Shigu to the state and county as officials, on the surface, it seemed that the official was promoted to a level, but in fact it was derogatory, Xue Yingying suspected at first that Yan Kun was playing ghost behind his back, and sure enough, there was no need to worry, he and Yan Kun were at odds with each other, and they played tricks on each other, and sometimes the fight was very strong, but the two of them knew it in their hearts, and the small fights between the staff would reassure the mansion master Li Shigu, But the wounds of the fight are not good for anyone, it will not be Yan Kun who is behind the scenes, who else will be besides Yan Kun, and who else will have this ability? Gao Mu, he has the ability to turn the clouds and rain, the question is why he did this, it will only be more beneficial for him to stay in the position of the capital ya.

In addition to Gao Mu, the only one who can remove his right-hand man at once is Li Shigu, Xue Yingying introspected, carefully reviewed his speech and demeanor, and what he did, but he still couldn't figure out which link went wrong.

He comforted himself and said that it was just an accident, but then an incident happened that alerted him, his half-brother, who was a county lieutenant in Yuncheng County, was sued to the Yunzhou Prefecture Government for accepting bribes and disregarding people's lives, and the bitter master was just the owner of an ordinary shop in Yunzhou, and he had no outstanding background, and it was already a miracle that he had the courage to sue the Yunzhou Prefecture Government, and what was even more incredible was that Shi Zhu Yong, the chief Shi who presided over the state affairs, actually took his case and hid the person.

Even his dignified military government couldn't find out where anyone was, and Xue Yingying, who had been rolling in the officialdom for a long time, smelled a dangerous breath, and he lost sleep for several nights because of this. After it was confirmed that Li Shigu was indeed going to Xiaosong Forest, he tentatively had a quarrel with Gao Mu, and he asked Gao Mu face to face why he wanted to hide such an important matter from him, and what was his intention.

Gao Mu is the judge of the festival, the government assistant of the festival envoy, he may not be able to know about such trivial matters as going out to hunt, he can completely say that he doesn't know, but Gao Mu didn't shirk and said that he didn't know, he laughed and said: "Look at your eyes, it's not a young man who is twenty years old, don't be so desperate at night, you will suffer for the rest of your life." ”

Gao Mu's expression when he was joking with him was indescribably weird, which made Xue Yingying even more uneasy, he didn't have the heart to fight with Gao Mu, so he got on his horse and hurried to the small pine forest. He thought a lot along the way, what he did, and sure enough, Li Shigu would definitely be able to escape if he wanted to pursue it, but then again, these people in the shogunate have a little status, which one is clean, and anyone who wants to check it will not escape, is Jia Zhiyan, who is favored by Li Shigu, clean, Li Fang's pawn Yan Yan, or Gao Mu, who is known as a long-sleeved dancer, is as clean as water and as holy as a white lotus?

The four shogunates of Ziqing are four huge dye vats, and people who are too clean will not stay long.

Now it seems that Li Mao doesn't know, Xue Yingying believes in his eyes, he secretly breathes a sigh of relief, he has been the capital of the Jiedu Embassy for so many years, and the big and small Hongmen banquets have been held more than a dozen times, and he knows the joints well, if there is no Li Mao's cooperation, even the most powerful person in Ziqing will not want to take him down casually.

Xue Yingying wiped the sweat from his face, raised his head and looked at the hot sun, he couldn't understand what kind of hunting Li Shigu came to hunt on this hot day. Pushing away the sweat towel sent by the attendant, he climbed the branches of the trees and waded down the towering riverbed, squatting laboriously by the river to wash his face, and when the heat was gone, his head was much clearer.

"Maybe it's just his whim, on this hot day, yin and yang gymnastics can't be done, and the idea of hitting the beasts as soon as the belly is on fire and nowhere to go, hehe, most of the time."

Thinking of this, Xue Yingying smiled self-deprecatingly, he was like this, he suddenly became so timid, although the Jiedu Envoy Mansion is the Longtan Tiger's Den, but he is not a little shrimp, is there still little blood in the half of the life of Rong Ma, has he not been in the Yin and the Yin in the Yin all these years, and which of the backers behind him is not a powerful character who calls for wind and rain, can he be so scared? As for his younger brother Xue Shifen, he only blamed him for going too far, but he crashed into the hands of Zhu Yong, who was in a hurry to climb up, and it was not a bad thing for young people to suffer a little loss.

Xue Yingying washed his face, climbed up the slope with great difficulty, and said to Li Mao, "You go back to the house with me." ”

The festival marshal is going to hunt, and as a steward, it is also a ceremony to greet him, Li Mao didn't ask much, straightened his robe, and got on the horse with Xue Yingying. There are more than 20 good horses in the small pine forest, and these horses are theoretically enjoyed by Li Shigu alone, of course, it doesn't hurt to take them to ride in ordinary times, and it is okay to walk the horses.

Today, Li Mao deliberately chose an ordinary Hebei green horse, Xue Yingying glanced at it, and there was a burst of joy in his heart. Li Shigu doesn't like Hebei Ma, this is almost an open secret in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, Li Mao doesn't know, doesn't this just show that Li Mao is not Li Shigu's cronies? Then Li Shigu suddenly came here to hunt, it is likely that it was really just a whim.

Li Mao later rode a Turkic horse to the Jiedu Embassy, about Li Shigu's dislike of Hebei horses allusion was revealed to him by Xue Yingying, Li Mao just arrived, I don't know Li Shigu's taboo can only be understood as carelessness, see danger and do not tell it, but it seems that Xue Yingying has a small belly, how can Xue Yingying bear this notoriety?

Came to Yunzhou for more than a month, Li Mao this is the eighth time to come back to the Jiedu Embassy, the first seven times he came here are routine, according to the regulations in the government to listen to the call of the government every three days to the house to point Mao, except when there is a dispatch, Li Mao every time after the order is left outside the door to listen to the tune, where to build two slip of the reed mat shed, below the Hu table and stool, put the tea and fruit points, all those who listen to the tune in the house are gathered here to wait for the summons of the inner house, but most people often wait for a day, tea and drink a stomach, but do not see the summons from the inner hall.

The Jiedu embassy implements two meals a day, and does not care about meals at noon, which makes Li Mao, who is accustomed to three meals a day, feel very difficult.

Now it's different, it's only been a month since he was in charge of Zhuangzi, and the little pine forest has returned to Li Shigu's vision from the forgotten corner, and Li Mao has a hunch in his heart that Li Shigu's future will greatly change his life and destiny.