Chapter Seventy-Two: Overnight Excitement
"Phew!" Xian Ke was anxious, "Master Sima is going to say such frustrating words. ”
After thinking about it, he was not so taboo: "Everything is foreseen, and if it is not prepared, it will be wasted." Jing Sheng was very worried. Well, tomorrow when the widow leaves the city, everyone's attention will surely be on me. You quietly find Situ and ask him to come forward to ask Rui Bo for help. If the 'Holy Sixth Division' dares to be unfavorable to the widow, he should immediately ask him to uphold justice, mobilize Rui Shi to surround the Weiguo Post House, and take Weihou as a hostage. ”
"Is Rui Bo willing to do this?" Xianke asked.
"Rui Bo has mediated several times, and he has long been dissatisfied with Wei Hou's refusal to withdraw from the army, so he must be willing to sell Situ to help the widow."
"But does he dare?" Xian Ke was still not at ease, "Although there are only Rui Bo soldiers in Rui City, the powerful 'Holy Sixth Division' is close at hand, and once it is killed, it will be tantamount to destroying the withering and decaying." ”
"Rui Bo can rely on the support of the Marquis of Jin! If the soldiers of the Marquis of Jin descend from the sky, whether they can give him courage depends on your incorruptible tongue. "In fact, for this trick, I am not completely sure of it. Throwing pressure on his courtiers was to gag their mouths, and he himself made up his mind to gamble anyway.
When Xian Ke and Jing Sheng heard this, they really didn't want to say anything. So after digging and explaining the various arrangements, he planned to find Ji Jiang to prepare as soon as possible. However, as soon as he returned to the backyard, he felt a little strange. In the past few days, the newlyweds, the two who have tasted the forbidden fruit can be described as glue, and Ji Jiang usually welcomes them early. But he searched for a few rooms, but there was still no trace of his wife.
"Your Majesty." When the attendant saw him looking for Ji Jiang, he took the initiative to say, "Madam went out just now, let the slave tell me, please don't worry, she will definitely rush back before dawn." ”
"What? It's getting dark, where is she going? ”
"The slave doesn't know."
"Why did she go out at night all of a sudden?"
"The slave doesn't know."
"Is there anyone in a hurry to see this?"
"The slave doesn't know."
Digging Tu Tu's face was black: "Then you say, what do you know?" I don't see her inexplicably, and she goes out without warning, right? ”
"Madame went to the front hall just now, and when she came back, she was in a hurry to call the carriage out."
"The Frontroom?" Digging his eyebrows furrowed, isn't this where he and Si Jian and Sima discussed just now? Could it be that Ji Jiang heard their conversation? Could it be that this move has something to do with this? But what could she do?
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, he had to give up. He lay on the couch, his heart was uneasy, and he hardly slept all night. When the morning star was lit up, there was a sudden uproar in the courtyard. He hurriedly turned over and ran out, and sure enough, Ji Jiang came back.
"You, what are you doing here?"
Ji Jiang's outfit is the same as the one when the night meeting was dug up. While taking off her veil, she said coquettishly: "Don't worry, your lord, let's set off to worship our ancestors, and the concubine will tell you on the way." He wanted to ask again, but he was dragged to wash and change clothes. Then, one on horseback and one on a car, he never found a chance to ask questions.
Along the way, digging out the breakthrough is incomprehensible. What kind of medicine is sold in Ji Jiang's gourd? Do you want to comfort your father and mother? At worst, is it to ventilate political opponents? What you don't see is what you like to play like modern people to surprise your husband, right? He turned his head and glanced at Ji Jiang's carriage, still thinking that these speculations were unreliable. However, the poplar branches along the way were full of magpies, and this chirping gave him some faint intuition - Ji Jiang should be doing a good thing.
Sure enough, when the convoy just marched into the two cities of Zheng and Rui, the spies in front rode over and began to shout from afar: "Retreat and pull!" Retreat to pull! ”
When he heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and took the initiative to ride his horse to Xian Ke to listen to the report.
"Lord Yujun, Lord Sijian, Wei Gongzi Ji Yang arrived in Zhengcheng this morning and forcibly ordered the 'Holy Sixth Division' to go back to Haojing with him."
"What?" "Was he premeditated?" Did you notice any signs before? ”
"After Ji Yang left the inn, he kept moving at a normal speed. At midnight last night, the camp was suddenly canceled, and the whole team was ordered to rush overnight, and as soon as they arrived in Zhengcheng, they asked Zhou Zhao's Shengsi to withdraw from the army. ”
"Saint Sima is so obedient?"
"I don't know this very well, it is said that Ji Yang roared as soon as he went, and he could hear it from a long distance outside the military tent."
"With Ji Yang's usual arrogant and domineering status in the country, I'm afraid that Saint Sima won't dare not listen, right?" Xian Ke smiled, "It's just that his slow and then rapid rhythm is a bit strange." ”
Digging suddenly remembered Ji Jiang's actions last night, and immediately guessed seven, seven, eight, eight or eight in his heart. He immediately turned his horse's head and jumped into his wife's carriage: "Ji Jiang, did you go to meet Ji Yang last night?" ”
Ji Jiang lowered his eyebrows and smiled, and asked rhetorically, "Is it that the Holy Sixth Division has withdrawn?" ”
"Yes. Don't sell it, tell me what you did? ”
The concubine just provoked him and scolded him for being careful. I didn't expect this guy to take the bait as soon as he caught the fish, and he reacted so quickly. ”
"You, what a talent!" Di Tu pointed at Ji Jiang and praised repeatedly, "But next time, you can't cut it first and then play it like this." You are a woman's family, and you are alone in the den of the thief, and you are not afraid of Ji Yang's hooligan! ”
"With your words, it seems that the love for the concubine is sincere." Ji Jiang giggled while selling cuteness.
"I'm not kidding."
"Got it, got it. I'm in such a hurry, mainly to catch up with Ji Yang. If he had walked through Zhengcheng, it would have been too late. As soon as the concubine saw him, she said that she thought that the prince was acting above board, but now she found out that he was a person with a rat's belly and chicken intestines. Ji Yang immediately blew up, and repeatedly explained to me that this was not his intention. I insisted on not believing it anyway, saying that I only recognized the result, which made him very faceless. When this guy saw me unexpectedly, he was originally frivolous, but by this time he was completely out of the mood, and he swore vigorously that he would retire to show me. When the concubine saw that this matter had come to fruition, she said, 'Listen to his words and watch his deeds,' and quickly came back. ”
"It's still madame!" Seeing that his wife was so capable, he kissed him happily.
Ji Jiang said shyly: "Oh, it's still daytime, there are so many people outside." ”
"Haha, don't you claim to be not afraid of attendants?" Dutu was interested, and he simply stopped riding horses. He leaned out and beckoned the brigade to speed up, and then got back into the car and went.
In the middle of the night, the ancestor worship team finally came to Zhengcheng. Digging to inspect the camp left by the Holy Sixth Division, looking at the stove pits that still had residual warmth, the stone in his heart completely fell to the ground. In the following days, while pretending to set up a platform to worship his ancestors, he asked Xian Ke to keep an eye on Ruicheng's movements, and waited for the heavenly soldiers and generals of the Marquis of Jin.
After Wei Hou got the news, he was naturally furious again, and scolded the rebel on the left and the rebel on the right. The old man's health is really good, the eighty-year-old man has been angry again and again, but he hasn't collapsed yet.
Despite this, Wei Neizai still felt hung in his heart when he saw his master's trembling appearance. He hurriedly reassured: "The king is angry, the king is angry." Childe, let him go, anyway, it doesn't matter if the Holy Sixth Master is in Zhengcheng or not. ”
Wei Hou stared at Nei Zai viciously with a pair of old eyes, obviously unwilling.
Zheng Bo has promised to discuss it again next year in front of everyone. By then, the guards had recovered a lot, and our backs were harder. I think the time is even better than now! ”
"Do you believe that Uncle Zheng will sit still?"
"The minister also knows that Uncle Zheng has always been cunning, according to the current situation, what can he do to turn things around?"
Wei Hou's anger calmed down a little, but he still had a blue face, and it was obviously difficult to make a judgment.
"In today's situation, our country dominates the land of Wangji in Guannei, and Zheng Guo dominates the side of the eastern capital of the Central Plains, except for the Jin State that has the opportunity to intervene, the others are either weak and powerless like Song and Cao, or they are like Qi and Lu and other distant places." Wei Neizai analyzed endlessly, "For the Jin Kingdom, the ministers have also been closely monitored. The spy report that just arrived this morning also said that the Marquis of Jin had been living in the palace all along, and there was nothing abnormal in the army except for the daily training. ”
"If there's an anomaly, it's too late." Wei Hou sighed.
"What are you worried about?" Nei Zai was quite puzzled, "You know that the Jin army is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers in Taihang, how can it be faster than the Holy Sixth Division?" ”
"Intuition!" Wei Hou leaned on his crutches and said in an unquestionable tone.
"Unless~" Nei Zai glanced at Jun Shang secretly and added cautiously, "Unless they are heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals flying over." ”
"Humph!" Wei Hou sneered, "Anyway, while keeping an eye on the Jin Kingdom, you sent someone to tell the Holy Sima to be on call at any time." ”
"Whoa." Wei Neizai retreated. The old man looked at his distant figure, and his heart was always up and down. The experience of struggle for most of his life seems to have become a little man lurking in his head, constantly beating him - the calmer the water, the easier it is to hide the surging undercurrent.
The next few days were spent in an eerie atmosphere.
Zheng Bo worshiped his ancestors in his hometown, but Wei Hou was restless in the post house. Shenhou, Rui Bo, Ji Yijiu, Ji Yuchen, these supporting roles, seeing that the two big guys stopped fighting, they didn't know what to do, so they had to play soy sauce in Ruicheng every day.
It wasn't until three days later that this brief balance was broken again by the hustle and bustle of the Yellow River.