On the bluestone of the quiet alley and small courtyard, the mudflats after the heavy rain shimmered with brilliant luster, the mulberry trees swayed gently with the wind, the light spots on the shade and clothes swayed more than once, laughter came out, and a colorful butterfly parked on the mulberry tree was startled away, and then someone spoke, "Good water?" It seems that your heart is hidden in the sea, because your brother has underestimated you in the past. You are also good at hiding...... No, you're a shadow! Hahaha......"

"But what is the difference between you and being a brother? You have to control the water, and you also need to control the water to cross the river for your brother to go over and see the beautiful scenery. It's for you, how about crossing the river more slowly? I can still hold the boat with you, and if you are tired of swimming, I will let you lean against the side of the boat and rest for a while. Why didn't you talk to your brother before? Do you want your brother and I to misunderstand each other, so that the teacher's family and Brother Bo Jue will see the joke? ”

After a moment of silence, Liu Zheng's laughter rang out, "It seems that I guessed correctly. Do you think that I am in trouble, and you want to know it with emotion and reason, so that in the future, you and I will support each other, help each other in the same boat, and then work together for our lineage, and let me help you ascend to the throne of princes? ”

Liu Bei shook his head, "You and my brother, why do you have the difference between you helping me and me helping you?" You can also be crowned king, you and I are relatives of the Han family, and we are both qualified to be kings. With the current reputation and prestige of you and me, we will join forces, and he wants to be crowned king and marquis together in the future, is it difficult? ”

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult." Liu Zheng put the porcelain bowl back on the tray, took another apricot and put it in his mouth, and then his eyes met Liu Bei's eyes for the first time, and the corners of his mouth still said with a smile: "Can you go back?" Can you really go back? Phew......"

Looking at Liu Zheng spitting out an apricot pit, Liu Bei's expression froze when he heard this, and he frowned slightly: "You...... Still hate me? ”

"Not really."

In the words of some emotion, Liu Zheng suddenly sighed, then smiled with relief, and also leaned on the mulberry tree.

He raised his hand and patted Liu Bei's right shoulder, and after Liu Bei got up slightly in confusion, his left hand hooked Liu Bei's shoulder.

Liu Bei was stunned, looked at Liu Zheng and tilted his head towards the mulberry tree, then continued to lean on the mulberry tree, and chuckled: "You are not too hot." ”

"This is the first time you and my brother have talked like this. If you have a rare opportunity, you will let me indulge once. ”

Liu Zheng smiled, feeling the stickiness on Liu Bei's neck on his arm, and secretly guessed that Liu Bei didn't know whether it was heat or scared sweat, "What do you say...... Don't hate. Actually, I regret it. ”

Liu Bei got up, glared at Liu Zheng's "tsk", then put the tray on one of the legs of each of them, and leaned on the mulberry tree with his shoulders against Liu Zheng's left arm, and picked up the pear soup, "You said yours." As he spoke, he took a mulberry fruit and stuffed it into Liu Zheng's mouth.

"Can you not be so disgusting? Feed me ......" Liu Zheng looked disgusted, biting the mulberry fruit in his mouth, resting his head against the mulberry tree, looking up and saying with bright eyes: "I really couldn't tell you what happened at the beginning." It was a mess in those days. I really can't look past your initial recovery from a serious illness, my mother-in-law is not married, and you are idle. You also know that if you can't get angry, the more you think about it, the more angry you become, especially when you are at ease every day, and you still brag to me every day which girl from Qinglou Yashe is beautiful and has a figure...... Well, people can't afford to compare, right? ”

"Not true. Phew...... Good sour. Liu Bei took a bite of the apricot, spit out the apricot flesh again, pursed his lips, frowned, and said, "Your bird's kung fu is really well hidden." If you want to compare, that's why are you powerful? It's a grudge, you and I still have things that we can't talk about? Can't you say it in person? Such a good martial art, I can't tell if it's over with a fight? ”

The tone became more and more casual, and Liu Zheng smiled, "I'm too lazy to fight, and I really can't say it in person." How so...... A few days after I recovered from my illness, I had my own thoughts, and I didn't want to tell you, and you didn't understand it...... Don't test where I got my martial arts, anyway, I was thinking about killing you for the past few days...... What kind of eyes, didn't I make it? As soon as you woke up, I was also afraid, and then I regretted it in my heart, and it happened that the teacher asked me to be a military advisor, and I thought that it would be better for you to go, out of sight and out of mind...... Tsk, take your eyes back for me. Yide and they look at it, if they think that you and I are the good of Longyang, and they love and kill each other so much because of love and hatred, you wait to be beaten. ”

Liu Bei maintained a strange look for a moment, and then laughed in Liu Zheng's disgusted expression, "Isn't it strange? You and my brother have been together for more than twenty years, sharing a bed for years, and at the end of the day, sitting here and discussing why you want to kill me, but I'm not angry — really not angry. ”

"Heh, now me, do you dare to show it when you are angry?" Liu Zheng shook his legs, and the five fingers of his left hand gently patted Liu Bei's left shoulder, with a smug expression, and then seemed to think of something, and his expression was also narrow, "But you don't know, that night, my father would wait outside the door, also because I told him that I was going to kill you, and then he also took out the teacher's wooden stump...... Originally, he wanted me to go, and I wanted to honor my father, so I persuaded my father to let you go...... Oh, you know that. It's just that later, he kept remembering the things about you and me, and his heart was depressed. This is ...... I never saw it. ”

"So, my uncle is angry with you......"

Liu Bei frowned and looked at Liu Zheng, then smiled, "Forget it, it's all over." In this way, you and I are both unfilial people. ”

"Hmm. Great unfilial piety. Liu Zheng nodded calmly, "After that, when I saw you in the Guangzong camp that day, I was actually weak-hearted...... When it really fell out, I was relieved. And in the past few years, you know all the you did to my brothers, right? And Zide...... Do you think you can go back? I'm going to kill you, don't you think about it? Will you not be prepared in the future? ”

Seeing that Liu Bei opened his mouth, Liu Zheng nodded involuntarily, "Okay, good, just let me treat others with myself." I may not be able to control the people who take revenge on you...... Oh, don't be mistaken, I said I can't go back, not that I must not have a chance. But it's certainly not here and now – there's always a process to everything, right? ”

He thought for a while, "You just treat me as a businessman, waiting for the price to sell, anyway, at this time, you talk to me about this, I don't agree." And it didn't work. I'm just a little person who sees the wind and rudder and accidentally makes some big movements, you are Yuan Benchu's next knife, what are you doing so far? Everyone knows where the goal is, and there is a thought in their hearts, so that's fine, and ...... in the future Leave it to chance, who knows what the future holds, what if it dies, right? ”

"Nonsense!"

Liu Bei picked up the porcelain bowl for a moment, his eyes contained a touch of deep meaning, and then knocked the porcelain bowl on the tray, frowned, and said, "You don't agree?" Do you know how many people in this city want your life right now? Some people want to protect Dun, want Youzhou to be stable, and some people want Kebi to die and provoke a civil war in Xianbei...... These words are helped to reach Liu Zixiang's ears every day, do you really think that he is as soft-hearted as Liu Zhijun? He has been a servant, a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and it is because of his identity as the son of Liu Yuanjun that he got the position, and after these years of training, it is enough for him to have the bloody nature to use the knife. ”

Liu Zheng smiled disappreciatively: "Isn't there still Brother Bo Jue and Teacher, as well as Brother Ji Kuang and Brother Wen Ruo, so many people can help me......

Seeing that Liu Bei's expression was a little gloomy, Liu Zheng suddenly said: "It seems that I guessed wrong, you don't want to take advantage of me, or you think that Brother Bo Jue doesn't seem to be the kind of person who comes nonsense, but at this time, he doesn't associate with you, and the teacher doesn't have a heart to heart with you, so you want to probe from me, and you can deal with the teacher and them, thinking about getting a piece of the pie in this matter?" ”

"If I say no, if I really care about your safety, do you believe it?"

Liu Bei shook his head, exhaled a long breath from his nose, listened to Liu Zheng laugh instead of answering, looked at the treetops and was silent for a long time, the wind blew the tips of his hair, he sighed and chuckled: "Can you tell Brother Wei how you persuaded Brother Boju?" ”

"It's nothing, the generals, it's nothing more than grain and grass, armed men, and reputation...... By the way, didn't Zuo Yuanfang mention it to you about cavalry equipment? This is one of the reasons why Brother Bo and I cooperated, and I gave him 10,000 sets. ”

"Big...... Zuo Yuan put it up. Badun also sent a few horseshoes to the tail guard, and the tail guard sent someone to bring it from the upper valley, I saw it in the state governor's mansion, and it was very good...... Those people in Jixian County want to kill you, and you also privately cast weapons, which makes them jealous, and they feel that you have the intention to seek the position of Liu Yuanjun. This is why I was ordered to come to Han Wenjie and Yuan Benchu, and I was also friendly with them in the past, but I was ridiculed and lost a lot of face. ”

Liu Zheng didn't know what he thought, he glanced at Liu Bei a few more times, and nodded, "Well, I heard it." But I won't remember it. ”

Liu Bei looked over and smiled helplessly: "As for today's incident, it is Zuo Yuanfang who said that you are soft-hearted and asked me to come to you alone, I think that you are so benevolent to your subordinates, and you can still open up to Zuo Yuanfang, and in the matter of you and me, you may not be able to see it." I never thought that I had let go as the victim party, what bullshit did you tell me...... It's like I owe you. Do you want to be shameless? Annoyed me, the name of killing your brother will make you never turn over. ”

"Then someone has to believe it."

Liu Zheng pouted, "Still talking about me, do you want face?" You don't owe enough to our family? You think I'm Kong Rong's idiot? For the sake of fame, he knew that he was hypocritical, and in the end, he didn't know the law and broke the law, and killed his brother. I'm not that kind of person, I'm very pragmatic. It's okay if you don't pay it back if you owe it to our family, just don't trouble me. If you really promote my notoriety, I will not let you turn over. The fish is dead and the net is broken. ”

"Heh, I'll write it down and tell Kong Rong when the time comes. As for the fish dead and the net is broken, are you sure your fish is big enough? ”

"Are you sure you're strong enough for this net?"

Liu Zheng asked rhetorically, then glanced at Liu Bei and laughed.

Not long after, Liu Bei drank the pear soup and said with a deep smile: "It seems that there is no need to talk about it?" ”

"There are still people who want to talk. It's the things you want to talk about, so you don't need to talk about it for the time being. are all the people who are in charge, where can they consider it so simple. If you show sincerity, I will also show sincerity, and we will see later. ”

"Okay." Liu Bei nodded, paused, and said with a smile: "That...... Let's talk about Sun Gongyou and Guozini? How did they follow the two siblings? Be a stable woman...... Hiss! ”

Liu Zheng patted Liu Bei's shoulder hard, and said with a straight face: "You bird is too much!" Is this a threat or what? It's all said that there is no need to talk about business, guess it yourself. ”

"If you don't say it, I also know that Uncle Zheng has always recommended his disciples and protégés to be county officials, and a few of them came over unusually, it was nothing more than the war in Qingzhou, so they went to Liaodong to seek refuge in Uncle Guan, or followed the teacher, or even one of you and Brother Boqi. Am I right? ”

"Guess whatever. What about my mother-in-law? Liu Zheng asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Liu Bei shook his head, looked at Liu Zheng's increasingly solemn face, and said with a smile: "It seems that you do like women." I have a six-year-old girl here, do you want to raise it for you? It looks very smart, and maybe it will be of great use in the future. ”

Liu Zheng was stunned and said in a deep voice: "Are you ridiculing me, or do you really want to fulfill it...... Bah! What about my mother-in-law? What the hell is going on? ”

"I don't know. The two younger siblings are very smart, and there are Wen Chou, Sun Gongyou, Guozini, and these people to protect them left and right, and Zuo Yuan is lost. ”

Liu Bei said, and said: "The young daughter of Zhongshan's friend's family. Hasn't his father been dead for more than two years, washing his face with tears every day, Yuan Ben first saw that this girl was quite stable at a young age, and thought that after ten or eight years, he would accept that girl as his daughter-in-law...... If you want it, I'll find a way to send it to you, and I'll make amends for my brother. In the future, you will also raise it for ten or eight years, and raise it with that Xiaoxue, and when you grow up, you will always be ......"

"No more talking. The three sentences are inseparable from flattery, and it is an emotional card and a woman's ...... The official tone is really heavy. ”

Liu Zheng moved the tray and stood up, and then beckoned to Zhang Fei inside, Liu Bei said, "Leave after dinner?" ”

"Eat what you eat. To me, this Jixian County is the Longtan Tiger's Den, so I won't trouble you. ”

Liu Zheng picked a mulberry fruit and stuffed it into Liu Bei's mouth, and then arched his hand, "Brother, you can do it yourself." Oh, the bast shoes are kept for you, sew and mend them another day, and leave a thought. ”

Liu Bei didn't get up to return the salute, and smiled helplessly: "What do you want to think about, come often when you are free." ”

"Not coming. Don't go there, and don't go to them. Anyway, don't mess with me, everyone is doing well. ”

Liu Zheng said, and after Zhang Fei bowed to Liu Bei, he walked out of the door.

When the two arrived outside the door, they saw off Li Ding and the two young people who came out to see them off, Zhang Fei glanced at one of the young people, and when he led the horse out of the alley, he looked into the alley again, frowning slightly, "Big brother, this place is a bit evil." When I see that Zhang Da, I always feel a little uncomfortable. ”

"Zhang Da?"

"Hmm. One of the two is named Zhang Da, and my own family is said to have some martial arts, so I think he is Liu Bei's guard. The other person is named Zhen Yu Zhen Guoning, listen to him talk...... It seems to be from a similar background...... Or a Zhongshan person, you say, could it be the Zhongshan Zhen family who repeatedly rejected Brother Wen Ruo before? ”

Zhang Fei nodded, couldn't help but look at the alley again, then wiped his arm, with a puzzled expression, "It's strange, that Zhang Da's appearance is not so special, I just think this person is a little ruthless...... This has never been done before. ”

"Is it a sense of danger? This is the reaction of the grandmaster, it seems that your martial arts have become great. ”

Liu Zheng said perfunctorily, looked at the alley with a strange face, and Zhang Da ......

His eyes suddenly became firm when he looked at Zhang Fei, Liu Zheng jumped on Qingyun, looked into the alley again, and watched Liu Bei also come out and wave outside the door...... Zhen Yu? Zhen Yi died a few days ago two years ago, and it seems that he is keeping the filial piety of the twenty-seventh month......

Is the Zhen family a young daughter?

Tsk, brother, hello violent thoughts......

"Let's go. Go and see the eldest daughter of Yun, Xun and them. ”

In the words, Qingyun walked quickly, Zhang Fei looked at the alley, looked at the four people outside the door of the house and watched them, couldn't help but tremble again, and then got on the horse to follow Liu Zheng.