The sudden increase in the number of people in Xingzhou City has made the city crowded, and the various problems brought about have naturally disturbed the previous peace, because it is impossible to quickly and effectively arrange the subordinates who have swarmed in, Ma Zurong is considered to be in the city of sorrow, and the Wang and Cao families in the same city have naturally suffered from the disaster of pond fish.

The Wang family has a deep heritage, but the Cao family has the least number of personnel, and more than 1,000 old and young people have to take care of it, which makes the range of activities of more than 2,000 soldiers very limited - the Cao family is mostly hunting animal skins as their main business, and they will inevitably affect their income by defending themselves from outsiders all day long.

When the clouds of the Ma family's mansion did not disperse, the Cao family's residence was also uneasy.

Cao Yixing is a man who is not used to being stuffy in the house, because of the bad things caused by the Ma clan in Xingzhou City, he is a little unhappy, and he is practicing with his subordinates in the small school field at home to relieve boredom - this is his favorite thing to do.

There was a white circle in the center of the school field, and the four people in the white circle were fighting with each other, and suddenly one of them jumped out of the circle in embarrassment, and shouted in his mouth, "Boss, stop!" The bones are going to break......"

Before the words fell, two more escaped from the stoppage, one muttered, "Boss, who messed with you, your hands are so heavy today!" ”

The other sat down on the ground without saying a word, his hands kneading quickly on his legs.

Staying in the circle, Cao Yixing also went out of the circle, rubbing his shoulders as he walked, of course his mouth was not idle, "You bastards, I know that someone is messing with me, and I don't accompany Lao Tzu for pastime, all of them are sneaky and ......."

The guy who jumped out of the circle first blinked, "Or, Chief, who did you say messed with you, let's teach him a lesson......"

"Nonsense!" Cao Yixing glanced at his mouth, "The head wolf of the Nancheng Ma clan has provoked this leader, you go and cut off his head with three knives, and the leader will have no anger!" ”

The clever man called Sandao suddenly shrunk his neck, "This ...... I don't have that ability, I guess I didn't wait to cut off the head of the wolf, my head was cut off first, can you be willing to take the leader? ”

"You mouthpiece!" Cao Yixing's anger subsided a little, "You guy, wouldn't it be better to change your name to Sanzui!" ”

"Hey, I'm not a scholar, I'm still better at playing with knives...... was damaged by his own leader, and Sandao was not annoyed, but laughed at himself shamelessly.

Cao Yixing learned to sit down like a silent man sitting on the ground, and he didn't care about the witticisms of the three knives, but said with a big grin: "Over the years, you have been wronged by following me, nesting in this ghost place in Xingzhou, and being excluded by the Ma family, I am really depressed!" ”

The man, who had never said a word, spread out his hands and feet and spoke, "Why did Brother Cao say such frustrating words? Leaving Shazhou six years ago was not your idea alone! ”

"It's still Brother Hulu!" Sandao slapped his hands and applauded directly, "At the beginning, everyone didn't want to listen to those bald heads, what about the rotation hunters?" At least I didn't do anything bad to embarrass my grandmother! If the Ma family deceives people too much, we don't say kill them all, it's still okay to kill him and the Ma family will bleed like a river! ”

"Three knives, be cautious!" The one called Brother Hulu stopped his mouth with three knives and said in a low voice: "What if the Ma family is so powerful? That's it! Let alone...... They are delusional to deal with those strongmen in Lingzhou, hmph, they can defeat 80,000 strongmen with 30,000 troops with the old and young, what can Ma Zurong do after ten years? ? At the moment, the trivial facts are not worth the bothering of the eldest brother, the Ma family ...... I'm afraid it won't last long. ”

"Hulu said this......" Cao Yixing was a little stunned, "You are so optimistic about Lingzhou Naluo Kaixian?" It is necessary to know that the legends on the grassland are inevitably exaggerated......"

"Exaggeration may be there, we can't confirm things thousands ......of miles away," Hulu changed the topic, and then said: "But we have all seen the party members who went out at the beginning of the year, and it has been nearly a year, who has seen them return?" Recently, it has been rumored that Li Deming, the leader of the party, has returned to Xiazhou......"

After listening to it halfway through and then stopped, Cao Yixing couldn't help but urge: "You saw-mouthed gourd, don't sell it, say it quickly!" ”

"You bastards who don't bother to use your brains!" Hulu smiled, "It's all said that things are coincidental, but right now, any person in the city can tell the way of the strongman in Lingzhou, and he didn't notice that something was wrong?" Lingzhou is more than 100 miles away from here, and the small people in the city do not leave the city without leaving the city, how do they know? ”

"Smack!" Cao Yixing slapped his thigh, "There must be someone in the city who deliberately spreads rumors!" ”

"Rumors?" Hulu shook his head, "Brother Cao, if I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid this Ma family won't last many days......

Cao Yixing's previous thoughts were of course gone, and he asked with some surprise: "Hulu, can you see it, if something happens to the Ma family, how should we deal with it......

Hulu settled down, thought about it for a while, and then said: "How Luo Kaixian was in Polo City can't be confirmed, but recently the hearts of the people in the city have surged, and the Majia Mine outside the city has been completely damaged...... The mental strength of such people is by no means small......"

Cao Yixing looked carefully at his brother, who rarely lied, even he himself had never been evaluated like this, and he couldn't help but have great curiosity about Luo Mou, who had never been masked in Lingzhou, and was strongly dissatisfied......

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Xiazhou, Tongwancheng, Li Deming's Jiedu Embassy, oh, a few years ago, the Northern Liao canonized him as the king of Xiping, at the beginning of summer, Zhao Song appointed the envoy of the difficult army, and also gave Li Deming a title of the king of Xiping, at this moment, the door of the mansion erected a symbol of the king's big (hui) (1), as well as the town house of the stone lion and other large pile of rituals, with the left and right separate guards, can really be called majestic and solemn.

It's just that Li Deming in the mansion doesn't think so, and too many things have happened in the past ten months that dazzle him.

A few years ago, the Turks and Qarluqs came to the door to cooperate, and at the beginning of the year, they ambitiously and strongly led their troops to try to seek new interests, and then suddenly they were drawn by a stick and their cooperative allies, and they almost lost their lives, and then they became prisoners of the stairs, but they were almost free prisoners, and what they saw and heard on the way back was really shocking, and then finally returned to this mansion, and once felt that the mansion was magnificent enough to show his majesty, but now he had an indescribable sense of depression and restraint.

Throwing the piece in his hand on the table casually, Li Deming sighed lightly, "Bayang, are the people of the Yeli family quite honest?" ”

Wei Mu Bayang, the hostess of the inner house who was making tea on the side, gently fanned the charcoal fire of the small tandoor in front of her with a fan, glanced up at her man, and said softly: "Ah Yi, where do the people of the Yeli family dare to move now?" I really don't know what happened to those warriors you brought back, even if the armor is changed, the mount is changed, isn't it the soul of the human being? ”

Listening to the woman's complaints, Li Deming's heart was much less sullen, thinking back to the experience when he returned more than half a month ago, his subordinates were basically the original soldiers, but more than 200 Luo Kaixian's subordinates were added, but when the battle was about to fight, the tactics were too sophisticated, and the combat power was much stronger than the original, and the corpses that tried to sneak attack and died on the road proved this many times.

Returning from Lingzhou to Xiazhou, the total number of people who attacked along the way exceeded 10,000, except for a few who escaped, the rest were either killed on the spot or killed after being captured - Li Deming did not want to leave any alive.

Leave a certificate to accuse the wild ministry of misdeeds? He is not so naïve, after experiencing all kinds of changes after the death of his father Li Jiqian, he is no longer the little general who only knows how to lead the war.

Pointing evidence and then distinguishing right from wrong through the tongue may be useful to the common people, and it will not do him the leader the slightest benefit.

There is no other reason, the Tuoba family, the Yeli family, and the Wei Mu family, what can be the result of the battle of tongues of several big clans? It will definitely make outsiders think that civil strife has started on the side of the Dingyan Army! And then what? On the surface, Zhao Song, who is quiet and self-contained, really doesn't want to meddle in this place in Hexi? The tribes on the Tibetan Plateau in the south will not let go of this opportunity!

Just like General Luo who stopped in Lingzhou said, after all, strength is the most important!

Li Deming sighed in his heart and said to his woman: "Bayang, have you read the letter sent by your father?" ”

"Ah Yi, do you mean the letter from Abba yesterday?" Wei Mu Bayang stopped what he was doing.

"Hah! Does it scare you? Li Deming stood up, walked in front of the woman, and then sat down on the carpet very casually, "I also just read a report, Lingzhou, General Luo has built a camp within a radius of at least eight miles, and has been able to completely control everything in the surrounding hundred miles, and the report also said that the Xingzhou Ma clan is the family of Ma Zurong, who is very close to Yeli Jiaorong (2), and their life is not very easy. ”

Wei Mu Bayang was a little distracted, her man has become a little different since he came back from Polo City, as if he had lost the sharpness of the past, but there was something more, she didn't understand, and she didn't know if it was good or bad.

She doesn't care about the vanity of any princess, no matter how much glory there is on the grassland, it is difficult to last, just like the Han people often say, "its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden (3)", the only thing worth working hard to maintain is just a peaceful and happy companionship.

It's just that his man has become the leader of the entire tribe by mistake, and many things can be done without talking, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, after being the master of this land, can he easily retreat?

"Ah Yi...... After you came back, you often mentioned that General Luo, and he ...... Is it really that supernatural? Wei Mu Bayang's big eyes stared at the man who was sitting very casually in front of him, and after questioning, he noticed that it seemed that his man had not been so casual for a long time, and he had not been the big boss since he became a big boss - maybe it was really a good thing to retire?

Li Deming didn't know that in just a few words, the woman's heart had turned upside down a few times, "Rest assured, Bayang, my princess, there are too many things about General Luo, and I can't finish talking about them for a few months." You know? Yumuduo once told me that he felt that General Luo was more like the alien that the Han people said! ”

"Inhuman?" Wei Mu Bayang was a little puzzled, "It's what the Han people said about playing a hundred operas, right?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Bayang." After reproaching the woman, Li Deming continued: "Most of the people who play a hundred dramas are deceptive, and most of them are just fooling people's eyes and wisdom, and Naluo will be the master...... His skills are real, and I've seen them firsthand......"

Without the presence of servants, the husband and wife can comment on some things without any scruples, and it can be regarded as a kind of private meeting between the two, but how many variables does such a private council have for the future?

Maybe it's really not something that mortals can speculate.

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(1) Lu, the command flag in the army, the Song Dynasty inherited some of the rituals of the Tang Dynasty, and when the general of the unified army did not go out, he could set up a unique banner in front of his own house.

(2) Assuming the name of the person, I didn't find the name of Yeli Yuqi's father, so I had to make up one according to my feelings.

(3) Its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden, from "Zuo Biography. The eleventh year of Zhuang Gong", the original text "Yu, Tang sinned themselves, their prosperity is also perverse, and the death of sinners is also sudden." ”

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