Twenty-three copper coins strung together with red thread, Liu Ye took apart the red thread, threw a handful of copper coins into the beggar's broken bowl, and then untied the red thread on the wrist of his left hand. Ma Hong watched quietly and didn't say anything. Some men will not regret making decisions even if their hearts hurt.

When Le received Liu Ye's news, he was first shocked, and then overjoyed, and personally took the soldiers to the ferry to transport grain. When they arrived at the ferry, Le and his deputy Chen Ji smiled from ear to ear.

Chen Ji looked at the mountains of grain and said, "Liu Ziyang, I can give Brother Le the most beautiful concubine, and I can also give Brother Le so much food." ”

Le stroked his short beard and said with a smile: "Well, this Liu Ye helped me get rid of Xu Gan, I have to thank him, it seems that we have to secretly send three thousand stones of grain to Liu Ye's house at night." ”

Chen Ji nodded and said, "Three thousand stone grain is not as good as one Liu Ziyang. Brother Le might as well say a few words for Liu Ye's father, so that Liu Ye will also be grateful to you, and maybe he can help Brother Le a lot in the future. ”

"This Liu Ye flattered me like this, just to let me help him, the Liu family has a great influence in Jianghuai, if we can have a good relationship with the Liu family, it will be easier to do things in the future."

Le said to Chen Ji with a smile, Chen Ji is Le Zhu's deputy general and Le Ji's friend.

Sometimes you do something for someone, and then that person comes to you to do more. From the beginning when Ma Hong helped Liu Ye, he already knew that Liu Ye planned to continue to help Le and do things, because helping Le to do things was to help Yuan Shu do things, so that Yuan Shu could see his value, then Yuan Shu would reconsider whether to move the Liu family. Yuan Shu is not stupid, he didn't expect the Liu family to help him, he just hoped that when he was the emperor, the Liu family would not rise up against him, so he invited Liu Pu to live in Shouchun. Now Le has news that Liu Ye has helped a lot, and he has to intercede for Liu Pu and let Liu Pu go back to Chengde, which makes Yuan Shu a little entangled.

When Yuan Shu was entangled before, he liked to pull out his sword and play, but now when he is entangled, he will look at the dragon chair, but he never sits. The dragon chair is placed in Yuan Shu's bedroom, and it will soon be able to move into the newly built palace, Yuan Shu looked at the dragon chair and said secretly.

"Many people know that I have the heart to be the emperor, so I'll let them see the dragon chair first." Yuan Shu thought to himself.

Then Yuan Shu asked the house slave to invite Liu Pu to come to his room to talk. When Liu Pu opened the door, Yuan Shu was sitting in the middle of the bedroom, looking at him with a smile.

Liu Pu's gaze passed through Yuan Shu and saw the dragon chair behind Yuan Shu, at this time Liu Pu panicked, his feet were crooked, and he almost twisted his feet, and then he saw Yuan Shu's eyes, Yuan Shu looked at him, and his eyes were full of smiles. At this moment, Liu Pu felt as if he had reacquainted himself with Yuan Shu again, the middle-aged man in front of him, his waist was very upright, his face was slightly raised to look at him, and the corner of his right mouth was slightly grinning to the right, driving the crow's feet at the corner of his right eye. Ambition kept flowing out of his eyes, impacting Liu Pu's heart, Liu Pu's legs were sore, and he was about to bend down to salute Yuan Shu, but he knelt on the ground when he bent over, and when he realized that he had made a bow to Yuan Shu, his body couldn't help but tremble, and the man in front of him was a natural king.

After Yuan Shu finished Liu Pu's salute, he looked at Liu Pu and said, "Sit for a long time, your legs are numb, help me, get up." ”

Liu Pu hurriedly helped Yuan Shu to get up, and after Yuan Shu stood up, he slapped Liu Pu's arm twice with one hand very casually, and then walked towards the dragon chair, and said as he walked: "There, sit down." ”

Liu Pu's arm trembled slightly, Yuan Shu asked Liu Pu to help him sit on the dragon chair, which was obviously testing Liu Pu. If Liu Pu doesn't help, his family may be implicated, if he does, then Liu Pu clearly denies the Han family, so where will he put his identity as a descendant of the royal family?

Liu Pu hesitated, but his footsteps did not stop, he didn't dare to stop or forgot to stop, Liu Pu didn't know. Liu Pu is fifty-two years old this year, and he can be regarded as well-informed, but today he is as nervous as a child, nervously forgetting to think, and when his brain wants to turn, he has already helped Yuan Shu to sit on the dragon chair. At this time, Liu Pu suddenly remembered what his son Liu Ye said: "If you instinctively obey the fearful person at the beginning, don't think about resisting the fear." ”

Yuan Shu sat on the dragon chair for the first time, and he was still helped to sit on it, and the person who helped him was unhappy, but Yuan Shu was very happy. Yuan Shu is very comfortable, whether the waist is comfortable or the buttocks are comfortable, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the heart is comfortable.

"Liu Pu, go ahead! Yes, go home. ”

Yuan Shu looked at Liu Pu's eyes and said, Yuan Shu has a habit of talking to people with a lower status than him, he is used to saying two words at a time, even if it is a four-word word, he is also used to saying it separately.

Time flows between the branches and leaves, turning them yellow; Time flows in the heart, and patience decays. Ma Hong is a very patient person, but now he feels that his patience has begun to mold, and it has been nearly a month since he came to Chengde. In the past month, he has helped Liu Ye solve one troublesome thing after another, but there seem to be a lot of things to deal with, and he now understands that no matter how he helps Liu Ye, Liu Ye is unlikely to return to Shuijing Villa with him. Because the current Liu family is like the dead leaves of a branch, as long as the autumn wind blows, it is likely to break away from the branches, fall to the ground, and be trampled into the dirt by Yuan Shu's feet.

Next to the chrysanthemum pond, Ma Hong stretched out his hand and lit some chrysanthemums, his heart was a little shaken, he wanted to try his best to catch Liu Ye. Just like the so-called Three Kingdoms novels that I used to read, as long as I told those famous generals and strategists how great their ideals were, those people would say to themselves with admiration: "My lord, I am willing to serve you."

Hehe, how ridiculous this is, Liu Ye is a big family behind him, and he can't recognize the master at will like some characters in the Three Kingdoms novels, not to mention that the current Ma Hong has not reached the part that makes Liu Ye recognize the master. Now the relationship between Ma Hong and Liu Ye is at most a close friend to the relationship between senior brothers, they are just friends, and Ma Hong originally wanted Liu Ye to be his friend, and he didn't think much about the rest. Now the reason why Ma Hong's patience is gradually disappearing is because he still has many things to deal with in Jingzhou, and he has to pave the way for Liu Qi in secret, which is also for Ma Hong's own future.

Liu Ye walked out with two bowls of tea, watched Ma Hong sitting in front of the chrysanthemum pond in a daze, walked over with a smile, handed a bowl of tea to Ma Hong, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, do you want to make a bowl of chrysanthemums and try it?" ”

Ma Hong took the tea bowl, looked at the pattern on the bowl, his fingers caressed the bowl, the slightly hot texture from the fingertips calmed Ma Hong's heart, the tea bowl is boiling water, but holding the tea bowl is not so hot, this is definitely the best tea bowl. Ma Hong picked two chrysanthemums, threw one in his tea bowl, and the other into Liu Ye's tea bowl. After the temperature of the tea dropped slightly, the two chatted while drinking tea.

Liu Ye said humorous words seriously, Ma Hong smiled and said serious words, slowly the sun set, the wall blocked the light from the setting sun, Liu Ye's face was half bright and half dark.

Ma Hong suddenly put down the tea bowl, stopped smiling, and said seriously to Liu Ye: "Senior brother, I want Liu Qi to be the successor, there are many obstacles ahead, does senior brother have any good plans?" ”

Liu Ye put down the tea bowl, looked carefully at Ma Hong's eyes, crossed his thumb between his upper and lower lips, and then stretched out his tongue and licked his upper lip, and then said slowly: "The best way is to slowly cut off your opponent's fingers before he notices you." ”

Ma Hong snorted and said, "Senior brother's thoughts coincide with mine. ”

Liu Ye stretched out his tongue again and licked his lower lip and said, "The Cai family's strength in Jingzhou is much stronger than your family, even if your family and the Xi family join forces, it is not enough to deal with Cai Mao." ”

Ma Hong snorted and said, "Then I'll make my strength stronger." ”

Liu Ye nodded, stretched out his tongue and licked his upper lips and said, "Another way is to find a family and tie him to your wheels, and the most direct way is to marry." ”

Ma Hong sighed and asked, "Then senior brother, which family do you think I should marry well?" ”

Liu Ye was shocked in his heart, but his face remained unchanged and said: "The strength of the Huang family is good, but I heard Senior Brother Pang say that the daughter of the Huang family is not as good as Senior Brother You." ”

Ma Hong smiled and did not speak.

Liu Ye looked at Ma Hong's eyes, and said secretly in his heart: The marriage I mentioned just now is to let Liu Qi marry another family, but the junior brother directly asked me which family he should find to marry, the junior brother is not just helping Liu Qi, is it ...... Hehe, interesting! ”

"Senior brother, how do you say senior brother should support my family?"

"Never let Yuan Shu feel the need to deal with the Liu family."

"Senior brother, your thoughts coincide with mine."