Chapter 14: Late Arrival and Snow (3)
Liu Xuan was originally worried that the enemy in Wancheng would find him, and he was also a little worried about the safety of his uncle and younger brother, but after the misunderstanding was cleared, he didn't bother to pay attention to their secret conversation late at night, and walked towards the wing room where his younger brother lived.
Since arriving in Chungling, he has been living in the same room with his younger brother. Now I have been staying in Wancheng for a long time, and I only come back once in a while, so naturally there is no need to live alone. Anyway, my brother is used to sleeping with him.
Pushing open the door, Liu Xuan walked to his younger brother's bed in the dark, sat down on the edge of the bed, and gently patted his younger brother in the bed: "Ah Xiu, Ah Xiu?" ”
"Brother! You're back! You've been gone for a long time this time! Liu Xiu was sleeping soundly, and heard his brother's voice in a daze, opened his sleepy eyes, and saw that it was indeed his brother in front of him, so he immediately cheered, sat up and pounced.
"Hmm...... There was something going on in the city, and it was delayed for two or three days. Liu Xuan smiled and patted his brother's head: "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you miss me?" ”
"You're drinking again!" Liu Xiu smelled the smell of wine on Liu Xiu's body, and frowned slightly: "Did you fight before you went home?" ”
"Nope! My brother promises that there will be no fight before he goes home today! Liu Xuan hurriedly shook his head and denied it.
Anyway...... The fight just now was fought after returning home, so it's not a lie.
"Before my father died, he said that you should take care of me...... As a result, you just drink and fight all day long, neither playing with me nor teaching me to read......" Liu Xiu pouted and patted the quilt gently.
In three years, Liu Xiu has grown into an eleven-year-old child. Although his words are still a little childish, his parents died early and the days under the fence have made him mature a lot. At least, the word "Ah Xiu" is no longer used as a self-title.
Even though the uncle was very good to the two brothers and almost regarded them as his own, in Liu Xiu's heart, it was still different after all.
"Ah Xiu has already read more than his brother, where can he use his brother to teach?" Liu Xuan laughed and diverted the topic: "What have you been reading these two days?" ”
"It's still the Analects...... Liu Xiu sighed: "Uncle taught me very hard, but it was too boring to study with him......"......
"Okay, my brother has to make money in the city, we can't always have my uncle keep it......" Seeing that Liu Xiu was about to complain again, Liu Xiu hurriedly took off the shirt wrapped around his waist, took out a small bag from his pocket, and handed it to his younger brother: "Oh, I bought it for you!" ”
Liu Xiuhuan screamed and opened the small bag. He knew that every time his brother came back from Wancheng, he would bring him a bunch of toys and delicious food.
Sure enough, this time, inside the small bag was a pile of sugar cubes, a pile of preserved fruits, and a small puppet carved out of wood.
"Hey, hey, hey...... It's so sweet! Liu Xiu smiled and stuffed a piece of candy in her mouth, Fang Cai's complaint had disappeared, and she hugged her brother and kissed her on the face.
"Look, if you don't go out and work hard to make money, how can you buy delicious food for Ah Xiu?" Liu Xuan smiled and rubbed his brother's head, and suddenly heard a knock on the door outside.
"Who?"
The rare time of chatting with his younger brother was interrupted, and Liu Xuan frowned and asked unhappily.
"Can you tell me about it? In the next, Wancheng Liu Chong. ”
The voice outside the door was the middle-aged man sitting opposite his uncle, gentle and generous.
Liu Xuan thought about it, patted his brother gently, asked him to eat two less pieces of sugar, and walked out of the door.
Outside the door, sure enough, it was the middle-aged man, standing alone at the door of the wing, and the seven or eight guards were ordered in the courtyard behind him from afar.
Liu ...... Evil spirit? An Zhonghou? ”
Liu Xuan glanced up and down at the man named Liu Chong, not understanding why he was coming to him.
Although he has indeed become the master of one-third of the underground forces in Wancheng now, even if he wants to arrest himself, it should be the county lieutenant who comes to find him, not the Hou Ye in front of him who only eats in Anzhong Township, right?
"Exactly down there." Liu Chong did not have the slightest condescending momentum, but smiled: "Liu Chong, right?" When Ling Zun was alive, he and I had a relationship. It's just that at that time, you were just a babbling child, and you didn't expect to grow so big in the blink of an eye. For a while, I didn't even recognize it. ”
"What's the matter with me?" Liu Xuan nodded, looking at this man who should be called his uncle, and wondered about his intentions.
His actions are always strange.
It's just a matter of visiting my uncle late at night, but he still has so many guards with swords, and it was because of this that he thought he was an enemy who came to seek revenge.
But at this moment, the world is peaceful, and there are no robbers in the area of Chungling, so why should he be so cautious?
Moreover, judging from the nervous appearance of his guards and his uncle, the matter they discussed was obviously unusual. Liu Xuan was reluctant to participate in it and had already taken the initiative to leave, but he took the initiative to find himself again......
Thinking of this, Liu Jiu had a headache.
"Do you know that now Wang Mang is in power, serving the Son of Heaven in vain, but he wants to do things that are self-reliant on behalf of the Han Dynasty?" Liu Chong got straight to the point and asked directly.
"I don't know." Liu Xuan shook his head dryly: "What's more, what does that have to do with me?" ”
"You and I are both clansmen, so how can we have nothing to do with it?" Liu Chong said solemnly: "As a descendant of Emperor Taizu Gao, seeing that the Han Dynasty is about to fall, I should stand up and defend the Han family!" ”
Seeing that Liu Xuan didn't seem to be interested, he didn't talk nonsense, and got straight to the point: "I heard in Anzhong that a new force has recently risen in the underground of Wancheng. In just a few years, it has occupied a place in the city. The leader is nothing more than a young man in his early twenties, named Liu Xuan. It's just that I didn't expect that it would be you, and I didn't expect to meet you here. ”
"I have spoken to your uncle and invited him to join him in the army against Wang Mang. But alas, he refused. Perhaps he was too old to take such a risk. But I hope you don't reject me. You have power in Wancheng, and you are a member of the Liu clan from Chungling, if I raise an army to attack Wancheng in a month, you can also help me in the city. When the time comes, not to mention Wancheng, even the entire Nanyang County will definitely fall into our hands. At that time, with Nanyang as the foundation, together with the clans of the world, they will be able to expel Wang Mang and restore the Han Dynasty! ”
"And then?"
Liu Xuan listened impatiently to Liu Chong's tirade, looked at him with eagerness, stretched out his hand and plucked his ears: "Then what?" ”
And then ...... Then the Han Dynasty will be restored......" Liu Chong was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer.
The Great Han is dying! I'm going to die! He thought that the young man in front of him just didn't understand the general trend of the world. But what he didn't expect was that even though he was already so powerful, Liu Xuan still looked like he didn't care.
"Revive the Han Dynasty, what's the use?" Liu Xuan sneered disdainfully: "Is this good for me, half a copper plate?" ”
"This is righteousness!" Liu Chong was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he couldn't even lower his voice: "This world, this big man, was founded by Emperor Taizu Gao, how can he let Wang Mang do whatever he wants and steal the throne!" ”
"If you open your mouth and shut up, you are Emperor Taizu Gao, Emperor Taizu Gao. But I don't understand, where did this Emperor Taizu Gao's world come from? Liu Xuan sneered: "I don't like to read since I was a child, but I also know the story of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fighting for the world." Before that, the world was Qin II, Qin Shi Huang's. Before the Qin Dynasty, there were Zhou, Shang, Xia, and three emperors and five emperors...... In this world, is it difficult to achieve it, it is destined to be surnamed Liu? ”
"You...... What kind of gibberish are you! When Liu Chong heard half of it, his whole body trembled. After Liu Xuan finished speaking, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and point at his nose: "I dare to call Emperor Taizu Gao's name!" The foundation he laid single-handedly, do you want to watch Wang Mang take it away! ”
"I have no hope, but I also don't have hope. It's just that this matter has nothing to do with me. Liu Xuan snorted coldly and looked at Liu Chong: "Although I am just a cloth cloth, my days in Wancheng may not be much worse than you, the marquis." I am afraid that there are more knights under me than the guards in the Hou Mansion. I'm afraid I have slept with more women than the concubines in the Hou Mansion. As long as I want to, what I eat for three meals a day may not be worse than that in Houfuli. I'm already very satisfied with my life. As for this world, whether it is surnamed Liu, or surnamed Wang, or even surnamed Zhang and surnamed Li, what does it have to do with me? ”
"You...... You...... Shame on your father! No, Xiao Zi! ”