Reunited after a long absence, Xue Shao and Xue Chuyu were like a pair of big children, laughing and shouting in front of everyone, completely forgetful.

Xuan Yunzi said faintly, "If I were born a man, how good it would be." ”

"What?" The moon slave sitting in front of her saddle asked curiously.

"Nothing." Xuan Yunzi smiled and said, "It seems that Childe's itinerary has to be changed somewhat." ”

"Will you?" Yue Nu blinked his eyes in confusion, "You mean to say that Gongzi will take Xue Chuyu's vote to kill Wu Yougui and turn it over?" ”

Xuan Yunzi giggled happily, "This kind of thing is only possible for you." Childe won't! ”

"......" the moon slave glared at Xuan Yunzi angrily, "Hmph! ”

Xue Shao and Xue Chuyu stood in front of their horses and chatted for a while, and learned that Li Xiaoyi's army, which had originally headed for Yangzhou to quell the rebellion, was in the squad and was stationed thirty miles to the south, not far from here. The people of the Black Tooth Changzhi Department were nominally sent by the imperial court to help Li Xiaoyi, and the two sides needed to communicate and negotiate, so Li Xiaoyi's troops temporarily paused. Soon Li Xiaoyi learned of the movements on Xue Shao's side and the conflict that broke out between the two sides. In order to avoid the escalation of the contradiction and causing trouble, Li Xiaoyi asked Xue Chuyu to find Xue Shao first and invite him to stop.

"If Li Xiaoyi knew the hidden truth, he would not interfere." Xue Shao said to Xue Chuyu, "He must have thought that this was the result of my personal conflict with Hei Zhi Changzhi and Wu Yougui, right?" ”

"Li Shuai guessed a little, but Hei Tooth Chang Zhi and Wu Yougui deliberately concealed the truth and did not say it, so Li Shuai could pretend not to know the inside story." Xue Chuyu said, "Second brother, according to the humble opinion of the younger brother, no matter what, let's not fight with our own people." Now there is a pretending confused Li Shuai who is willing to come forward to mediate, maybe it is a turning point? ”

After hearing this, Xue Shao pondered for a moment and nodded, "It makes sense." ”

"If the second brother is willing, how about the younger brother report back to Li Shuai and ask him to mediate?" Xue Chuyu said, "Anyway, if the second brother is unwilling to do this, just one sentence, the younger brother will turn over and ride the horse to accompany you to kill the general, tear a bloody path and give him a good color!" ”

"Good brother, with your words, I will be content in my heart." Xue Shao patted Xue Chuyu's shoulder with a smile, "Actually, I didn't plan to start a war with Heizhi Changzhi at all, otherwise why bother waiting until now?" Now that Li Shuai is willing to mediate, he can give it a try. If he doesn't work, I'll do it my own way! ”

"Okay, then the little brother will take a step back to repay Li Shuai first!" Xue Chuyu clenched his fists and bowed, "I also want to ask the second brother to wait on the south bank for a while." ”

"Good. I'll just wait three days. Xue Shao said, "You leave two people to go with me, so that you can know where I am staying." ”

"Yes!"

Xue Chuyu left two henchmen to recognize the way, and left with the rest of the people. Come fast and go fast.

Li Xianyuan stepped forward in a sneering voice and whispered, "Young marshal, will things take a turn for the better?" ”

"Who knows?" Xue Shao replied casually.

"Li Xiaoyi was born a little timid and afraid, if he knows the inside of this matter, it is actually the will of the Queen Mother. He was afraid that it would be too late to flee for his life. Li Xianyuan whispered, "Now he dares to take the initiative to mediate, which is really strange." ”

Xue Shao smiled and said, "You know Li Xiaoyi quite well. But don't forget, he is now the commander of the rebellion, and Blacktooth Changzhi is also nominally his commander. If his men had clashed with me and sparked an unprecedented civil war, he could never afford it. Now he is pretending to mediate with a clear pretense of confusion, and he is fulfilling the duties of the coach, and it is not an exaggeration to say anything. Even if there is a little bit against the wishes of the Queen Mother, it is excusable after all, and the sin will not lead to death. What would you do if you weighed the two phases? ”

Li Xianyuan's eyes suddenly lit up, "Reasonable, reasonable!" If I were Li Xiaoyi, I wouldn't let you fight now. Whatever is going on, I will bring you back to Chang'an and hand it over to the Queen Mother to deal with herself, so that he can choose his own life - yes, this is like what Li Xiaoyi did! ”

There is no free lunch in the world, and Li Xiaoyi is not a living Lei Feng - Xue Shao thought to himself in his heart, and then said: "It is difficult for Hei Tooth Changzhi to ride a tiger now, and he will definitely be willing to accept Li Xiaoyi's mediation." I don't mind selling Li Xiaoyi a face. Now the key depends on what kind of attitude Wu Yougui has. He finally seized an opportunity to force me, and I guess I wouldn't give up so easily. ”

"yes, the point is that that the despicable villain is getting in the way!" Li Xianyuan snorted in righteous indignation, and said hatefully, "I heard that he once shouted 'Xue Shao's rebellion' in the camp, so it can be seen that he just wanted to use this incident to force the young marshal or overthrow the young marshal." The ancients were right, it is really better to offend the gentleman than the villain! ”

Xue Shao smiled, "The loaches in the gutter can't make big waves after all-let's go, go back to the village!" ”

The group returned to the village courtyard and settled down again.

Two days later, Xue Chuyu came to the village and said that Li Xiaoyi had invited Xue Shao to his camp to "make peace". Black Tooth Changzhi and Wu Yougui will also go together.

"Okay, let's go!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "Whether peace can succeed is another matter, I still have to give Li Xiaoyi's face!" ”

"Second brother, the younger brother has also thought clearly!" Xue Chuyu said extremely firmly, "If Li Shuai can successfully mediate and make peace, it will be the best." If it doesn't work, the younger brother will take this group of cavalry brothers who were originally from the right guard back to the second brother, go to heaven and earth, blood, fire, rivers and mountains, and follow the second brother like this! ”

"Good brother!" Xue Shao got up suddenly, "Let's go, go to Li Xiaoyi's camp!" ”

Xue Shao only took Guo An and a few scouts as his entourage, and went to Li Xiaoyi's camp with Xue Chuyu.

This is a triumphant army to counterbalance the rebellion, and the overall morale is high and the atmosphere is harmonious. Among them, many soldiers and horses were drawn from the Weishui camp of the right guard, and they were extremely polite and happy when they saw Xue Shao. Before the camp, Xue Shao first ran into his old acquaintance Wei Yuanzhong and stopped him.

It can be seen that it is not so much a bump in as Wei Yuanzhong who is waiting for Xue Shao here.

"Congratulations to Brother Wei, this trip has made a great contribution." Xue Shao said hello first.

"I have something else to tell you about this matter." Wei Yuanzhong looked left and right, and pulled Xue Shao into a nearby tent.

"What is it that deserves to be so nervous about Brother Wei?" Xue Shao said with a smile.

"I inquired and learned that Wu Yu returned to the military camp in the middle of the night last night to see Li Shuai secretly." Wei Yuanzhong said, "Wu Yougui moved out of the Queen Mother and threatened Li Xiaoyi and told him to take a break from the affairs here. ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Then what is Li Xiaoyi's attitude?" ”

"What attitude can he have?" Wei Yuanzhong smiled coldly, revealing some contempt, and said in a low voice, "The matter involves the Queen Mother, Li Xiaoyi is extremely frightened and at a loss. ”

"That means that today's peace talks, I'm afraid there will be no good results?" Xue Shao said.

Wei Yuanzhong sighed lightly and said: "Li Xiaoyi is under pressure, and he may be the echo worm of Wu Yougui, and persuade the young marshal to hand over Cheng Wuting, and then the two sides will make peace with their previous suspicions and return to Beijing together." ”

"Then I still want him to persuade a fart and?" Xue Shao sneered.

Wei Yuanzhong's eyebrows were furrowed, and his face was embarrassed, "Does the young marshal have any other good ways to solve the previous crisis?" ”

Xue Shao smiled: "I thought that Brother Wei stopped me because he had wisdom to teach me. ”

"This ......" Wei Yuanzhong smiled bitterly and said, "I don't dare to teach him, but I have a bad idea." ”

"Tell me about it?"

"Everything here is up to Cheng Wu." Wei Yuanzhong whispered, "If Cheng Wuting dies, won't it be a hundred?" ”

Xue Shao stared at Wei Yuanzhong with a slight frown, and said, "You mean, let Cheng Wuting fake his death and get out?" ”

"Yes!" Wei Yuanzhong said, "Cheng Wuting is a person with a temperament, and if he dies because he doesn't want to involve the young marshal in self-immolation, it is somewhat reasonable." At that time, Wei selected one of the most heinous prisoners from the counterinsurgency and burned him into a pile of coke, and then he could make a difference. ”

"......" Xue Shao pondered for a moment and said, "The way may work." But did Brother Wei ever think that there are still dozens or hundreds of Cheng Wuting's family in Chang'an? If I do this, Cheng Wuting can only be a living dead who can't see the light in his life. His family is small and his fate is unpredictable. Cheng Wuting will not accept such a result, and I don't want to see it. ”

"Young marshal, you are the one who leads the troops, you should understand - when it comes to life and death, there is no way to abandon the pawn and protect the commander!" Wei Yuanzhong persuaded.

"Alas......" Xue Shao let out a long sigh and said, "Brother Wei, you may not know yet. This time, I want to save more than just Cheng Wuting's life. ”

"Then what else can the young marshal do?" Wei Yuanzhong asked puzzled.

"I am for the fate of all the martial artists in the Tang Dynasty." Xue Shao said, "We, the men who shed blood and sacrificed our lives for the country, do not ask for the glory of the lintel of our wives and sons, but for generosity and life and death. It's an eventful time now, and a single case of killing will never be opened. If such a bad head is opened to self-destruct the Great Wall, everyone in the army of the Tang Dynasty will be in danger, and it will eventually threaten the safety of the entire country. ”

"In this way, what the young marshal wants to save is not to protect Cheng Wuting's head, but to protect the vitality of the entire Tang army?" Wei Yuanzhong felt a little enlightened.

Xue Shao nodded lightly, "People like me and Cheng Wuting should die on the battlefield instead of unjustly dying under the knife of their own people." ”

"Wei understands......" Wei Yuanzhong took a deep breath, suddenly raised his head as if he had made up his mind, and said: "In this way, Wei has a second way!" ”

Xue Shao smiled, "It seems that if I don't tell you the truth, you won't tell me and you." Brother Wei, when did you see me like this? ”

Wei Yuanzhong smiled awkwardly and bowed his hand to apologize, then leaned closer and whispered: "Actually, the Queen Mother sent Hei Zhi Chang Zhi and Wu Yougui to intercept them halfway, and their intentions were nothing more than two things. One is to prevent Hebei rebellion, and the other is to not want Cheng Wuting to return to Chang'an alive. ”

"Yes." Xue Shao said, "Actually, I want to take Cheng Wuting back, and Wu Yougui also wants to take Cheng Wuting back." It's just that I'm bringing the work, and he just wants to take the head back to ask for credit! ”

"Isn't there a solution?" Wei Yuanzhong said, "The tens of thousands of troops under the command of the young marshal couldn't cross the river for a while, but it must not be difficult for a few people to cross the river at night in a small boat, bypass the checkpoint and take the path straight to Chang'an." The young marshal returned to Chang'an, and directly took Cheng Wuting to meet the Queen Mother, and told him everything that should be said in person. When the time comes, Cheng Wuting will be dead or alive, and it will be another kind of creation. After all, Cheng Wuting did not really rebel, and the Queen Mother was hindered by all kinds of circumstances and public eyes, so she might really let Cheng Wuting live. No matter how you say it, it is better than more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on both sides facing each other here. ”

"Haha!" Xue Shao suddenly laughed.

Wei Yuanzhong was stunned, "Why is the young marshal laughing?" Could it be that Wei said this method is really quite stupid and ridiculous? ”

"Definitely." Xue Shao said with a smile, "I'm going to pat the two of us on the back of the ass, the world is high-minded, and most of them make peace!" ”

Wei Yuanzhong's eyes suddenly lit up, "The young marshal has already planned to do this?" ”

Xue Shao smiled mysteriously, beckoned Wei Yuanzhong to approach, and whispered to him-

"At this moment, Cheng Wu is afraid that he should arrive in the suburbs of Chang'an!"