Entering Changli's Taishou Mansion, this old lady Shou worked hard to use a broom to clean the lobby of the Taishou Mansion full of garbage, and then asked Lu Peng to sit high, trembling in the three stones to support it, a broken clay pot poured into the cold water just raised, this old lady Shou personally lay in front of those stones, puffing out his cheeks and blowing the fire hard, for a while the smoke was billowing out, which made the old man cry in tears.

Lu Peng immediately stopped the old lady's hospitality, ordered his own soldiers to follow, and set up a marching pot in this hall and began to prepare lunch.

Seeing the snow-white rice and pieces of jerky thrown into the pot, the old lady couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Taking advantage of this time, Lu Peng took a closer look at this Taishou Mansion.

Judging from the overall pattern, this Taishou Mansion was quite splendid back then, but now it is quite dilapidated.

The original magnificent lobby has decayed and collapsed a corner, rotten rafters, falling tiles, and dry thatch inside, revealing huge holes, with gusts of wind blowing in, still shrinking and falling.

The original majestic and quiet plaque representing the majesty of the imperial court is also crooked, and then look at the original tall unicorn screen behind him, which represents the Taishou, it has already been full of holes, and a plaque hanging high in the mirror is also crooked there, with the wind blowing in from outside the lobby, it is shaking, making people feel that it will fall down at any time.

Lu Peng hurriedly avoided this place, for fear that it would fall and hit him.

"Taishou-sama doesn't have to be busy anymore, sit down and talk about the situation." Holding the old lady who was already covered with black and gray faces, Lu Peng was very eager to understand the current situation in Liaoxi.

The old lady sat down with Lu Peng.

"What about the people in the Taishou Mansion?" Lu Peng first asked suspiciously.

The old lady smiled bitterly: "Since Zhang Ju took the Wuhuan people to occupy Changli, the people have suffered, hundreds of officials have been martyred, those officials who have the backbone to be loyal to the court have been killed by those who have rebelled and slashed, and some other officials and subordinates have also fled, and now I am left alone, struggling to support here." ”

Lu Peng sighed, and then asked casually, "Then why didn't the old man run away?" ”

As a result, the old lady stiffened her neck: "I am the shepherd of this place, these people, as long as there is one alive, I will take care of them for the imperial court, and when those barbarians are raging, I can fight for these people is a little, and it is my responsibility to survive the next one." ”

Looking at this resolute old man, looking at the scars on his face, Lu Peng's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and in this scar, Lu Peng could feel how much humiliation this old man had suffered for the people under his rule and for the big man he firmly believed in in his heart.

Lu Peng couldn't help but be respectful, and bowed his hand to the old man from the bottom of his heart: "The old lady has suffered." ”

After receiving this comfort, the old man immediately burst into tears, like a child without a mother, when he saw his father, he tightly grabbed Lu Peng's hand and choked and cried: "Although I have the heart to serve the country, but I don't have the power to serve the country, Lord Captain, are you still leaving this time?" ”

Lu Peng said to him firmly: "Don't go, from now on, as long as I Lu Peng is here, this is the land of the Han Dynasty and the home of the Han people." ”

After receiving Lu Peng's assurance, the old man's face was full of relief.

"In that case, I handed over this Changli County to the Captain."

Lu Peng was taken aback: "What does this mean, boss?" ”

The old man said sadly: "Changli County has returned to the Han Dynasty, and my perseverance has completed the task." Then he solemnly took out a copper seal from his belt, and held it to Lu Peng with both hands: "I will now hand over the Taishou seal letter to the school captain, and then return to my hometown with the coffin of the corpse of my old wife and children." ”

Lu Peng didn't stretch out his hand to take the Taishou seal, but asked solemnly worriedly: "Then what will the boss do next?" ”

Taishou sighed: "As a parent, I watched the people under my rule die tragically under the butcher's knife of a foreign race, I am ashamed, and after burying my wife, son and daughter in my hometown, I went to the ground to accompany these unjustly killed people." When he said this, his expression was indifferent and resolute, and then he let out a long breath, a decision that comforted his conscience and liberated him.

Lu Peng looked at the old lady guard carefully, his body flashed back, and said with a slight smile: "The old lady is too irresponsible." ”

The old lady sighed, full of shame, but did not speak, just looked down at the seal letter in his hand.

"Changli has returned to the Han Dynasty, the people need to be raised, as a local parent, you are familiar with the local situation, so you have to ask the old lady to keep it difficult and not shirk your responsibility." Lu Peng sincerely retained.

The old lady pondered for a while, and couldn't help but sigh: "Since this is the case, then I will work here for another year or two, and when the captain is stable, he will allow me to return to my hometown." ”

The soldiers brought a pot of rice, and Lu Peng, Su Shuang, Pan Feng, and the commander Guan Min and Wu Jian invited Mrs. Wang Zhi to have dinner together.

Seeing a pot of rice, the old lady shou threw away the scribe's Sven, and ate it with a wolf, even if it was a grain of rice stuck to his beard, he had to carefully pick it up and fill it in his mouth.

Seeing such a situation, Lu Peng's eyes were slightly red, and the local Taishou had reached such a point, which showed the miserable situation in the local area.

After the meal was over, everyone began to plan for the future of Changli.

Su Shuang frowned and said: "Now the population of Changli County is only 30,000, and all of them are poor and sick, and all of them need relief, so in this way, in order for their survival and to feed our own two thousand troops, we must transport all the materials from our Luxian base to here, so the cost is very great, and the gains outweigh the losses, so for the proposal, third brother, simply give up Changli, or simply give up Liaoxi, and retreat to Youbeiping with the people." Seeing that Lu Peng was noncommittal, Su Shuang said again: "There is another advantage to giving up Liaoxi, that is, to take advantage of the emptiness here to form a buffer zone between us and Gongsun Du, so as to avoid the premature conflict between us and him." ”

Tactically speaking, Su Shuang's proposal is the most appropriate way, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone. However, looking at the disappointed Wang Zhi and Mrs. Shou, Lu Peng shook his head firmly.

If nothing else, just for the old lady who has always adhered to it, he must not give up here, here, from now on, is an inseparable part of the Han Dynasty, and it is a basis that he cannot discard.

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