It's hard to say two words with one mouth, on the same day that Kang Mazi vomited blood and passed out, after initially consolidating the control of the newly occupied city, Lu Fatzi and Wu Yingqi, two unlucky guys, left Wang Jing, Wang Xu and Liu Zhifu to guard the two cities of Hanyang and Wuchang, escorted the more unlucky Prince Gong Changning, led a large group of followers, and took the waterway from Wuchang back to Yuezhou, an important town on the shore of Dongting Lake, and came here to participate in the Wu Army Conference presided over by Wu Lao Hanjian himself - can let Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi throw the new land to the deputy who left his post without permission, There is only an order issued by Wu Lao Hanjian himself.

Fortunately, Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi, the two unlucky guys, still have difficult brothers and brothers, who were also urgently summoned to Yuezhou by Wu Laohan to attend the meeting, as well as Fang Guangchen, the governor of Wu Jun's Biyuan, and Wu Guogui, one of Lu Fatzi's fathers-in-law, and many important generals of the Wu army in the south of Biyuan. And the purpose of Wu Lao Han Jian's convening of this meeting is also very simple, that is, to discuss and decide on the next strategic offensive direction of the Wu army after the successful crossing of the river, as well as the next political direction of the Pingxi Palace-that is, whether to continue to call himself a mite Qing courtier, or to play the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, or whether to simply let Wu Lao Han Jian establish himself as the emperor and compete with Kang Xiaomazi for the world with a clear banner?

The key is that some time ago, the internal and military affairs of the Wu army were too tense, and the crucial battle of crossing the river was not ten out of ten, and the manpower and material resources of the Wu army were concentrated in the preparations for launching the battle of crossing the river. So it has been delayed until now.

Fortunately, the Qing army around the Wu army was either transferred away or severely damaged, and it was still difficult for the remaining forces to protect themselves, not to mention the formation of a fatal threat to the various departments of the Wu army in a short period of time, and at the same time, even if the Northern Expedition was launched, it would take a period of preparation time.

"Yifeng, you are clever, you tell your uncle." When the warship was about to dock at Yuezhou, Wu Yingqi stood on the bow of the boat, and asked Lu Fatzi next to him with his eyebrows: "Do you think that this conference, your grandfather and my father, are planning to raise the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty?" Or do you just call me the emperor and make me the crown prince? ”

"Shhhhhh Fat Lu hurriedly made a silent gesture, lowered his voice and said: "Uncle, it's not that your nephew is disobedient to you, you have to be humble in some things, even if your grandfather has this meaning again, you must be humble, let alone shout out." It is necessary to learn from the three emperors and five emperors to accept Zen and three words, and to stop the world, otherwise, the people of the world will laugh at your uncle, you covet the throne, and there is no city. ”

Lu Fatzi's words really exposed the essence of his lack of learning and unskill-accepting Zen and resigning, is that the matter of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors? However, Wu Yingqi couldn't hear it, just looked around nervously, and then lowered his voice and said: "What the virtuous nephew said is extremely true, the uncle is a little anxious, and if the uncle makes such a mistake again in the future, the virtuous nephew, you can advise him a lot." Also, you haven't answered the question your uncle just asked. ”

Lu Fatzi was a little hesitant, originally for the ambitious Fat Lu Man, it didn't matter whether Wu Laohan played the banner of restoring vision or playing the banner of being the emperor - anyway, Lu Fatzi was full of bad intentions and wanted Wu Laohan to make a wedding dress for him. But the problem is that this banner issue involves two more important issues, one is the support of the Han people in the world for Wu Lao Han Annihilation, and the other is whether it can cater to Wu Lao Han Annihilation's thoughts, and slap Wu Lao Han Jian's sycophants again, so as to get the opportunity to read and lead the troops in the next step of the Wu army's marching strategy.

On the one hand, it is the hearts of the people in the world, and on the other hand, it is the personal selfishness of Wu Lao Han, even in front of Wu Yingqi, who personally promoted his benefactor, he did not dare to express his attitude easily, so he could only say in a low voice: "Back to uncle, from the nephew's heart, of course, I hope that my grandfather will be the emperor and make you the crown prince." But the nephew is now worried that his grandfather wants to learn from Ming Taizu, King Wen of Zhou and Tang Gaozu, and accumulate grain to slow down the king, and he doesn't want to rush to play the banner of being the emperor, and wants to wait until the overall situation is set before considering the issue of being the emperor, so the nephew really doesn't dare to speculate on his grandfather's thoughts, and he can't provide a reference for you, uncle. ”

"Really? You can't guess either? Wu Yingqi's expression was a little disappointed.

"I can't guess." Fat Lu shook his head and said in a low voice: "But uncle, don't worry, no matter whether your grandfather is directly called the emperor or postponed the emperor, when the overall situation is certain, it is just a matter of time for your grandfather to become the emperor." At that time, even if the grandfather is not the emperor, the nephew will learn from Shi and keep his promises, pull the civil and military generals of our Pingxi Palace, put the emperor's dragon robe on his grandfather, and put the prince's flat dragon robe on your uncle! ”

"Then it's decided!" Wu Yingqi was overjoyed, patted Fat Lu on the shoulder, and whispered: "When my uncle has that day, I will definitely make you a scholar and enter the cabinet as the first assistant!" All your life is under one person, above ten thousand! ”

"Uncle Xie, my nephew swears allegiance to my uncle, for my uncle, you charge into battle, command hundreds of officials, do your best, and die." Fat Lu thanked him like honey on his mouth, but he snorted coldly in his heart, "All your life is under one person and above ten thousand?" With my brother's talent and ability, when you ascend the throne, even if you don't have the heart to hide it, I'm afraid that countless people will instigate you to give me a cup of poison bar at the first time? ”

During the whispered conversation, Lu Fatzi and Wu Yingqi's boat had docked at the Yuezhou wharf, and Wang Tianzhong, the Licao palm print of Pingxi Palace, led a group of Licao officials to wait here for a long time, after meeting and saluting, Wu Yingqi casually asked who was coming, Wang Tianzhong replied respectfully: "Back to the second prince, the civil and military officials summoned by the prince have arrived, the second prince and Prince Lu, the two of you are the last batch, the prince is now in Yueyang Tower to meet the generals and adults, there is an explanation that the second prince and Lord Lu have arrived, and they can go directly." ”

Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi didn't dare to slack off when they heard this, and hurriedly asked the entourage to escort Chang Ning to the city to be detained, and only brought a few personal soldiers and Wang Tianzhong rushed to Yueyang Tower to meet Wu Lao Han Jian, who never thought that Lu Fatzi came to Yuezhou with Lu Fatzi, and he also said confidently that Lu Fatzi had been reinstated and promoted, but his innocent victim had not yet arranged a new envoy, and this time he had to ask Wu Lao Hanjian to rearrange a new official position for himself. Fat Lu couldn't fight her, and he couldn't beat her, so he had to obediently agree, and rushed to Yueyang Tower with Yu'er to meet her.

Yueyang Tower, one of China's three famous buildings, is located on the shore of Dongting Lake, not far from Yuezhou Wharf, Lu Fatzi and his entourage did not take much time to come downstairs, and at this moment Yueyang Tower has already been surrounded by Wu soldiers, strictly guarded, upstairs and downstairs are full of Wu Lao Han's accomplice lackeys, there are talking and laughing is very lively. Seeing the arrival of Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi and others, the scene suddenly became more active, and countless civil and military officials of Pingxi Wangfu hurriedly came up to salute and say goodbye to Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi.

"Ouch, isn't this the third general?" The most reckless joke is the fierce general Ma Bao, who came up and stretched out his hand to pull Yu'er, and said with a smile: "Brother Lian, we didn't decide the winner in our competition last time, how about trying again today?" Today is not a sword, empty-handed hand-to-hand combat, Brother Ma, I don't use my feet, only use my hands only you? ”

"General Liusan, don't compare with the old horse, compare with my brother." Gao Dejie is not a good bird, he also stretched out his hand to pull Yu'er, and said with a smile: "For Brother Lu's sake, I will let you add a hand to your feet, if you win, I will invite Brother Lu to drink flower wine tonight!" ”

The generals of the Wu army laughed together, but Yu Yu'er was so ashamed that her face was red to the base of her neck, and she shouted: "Get out, who is competing with you?" It's better than a bow and arrow, and the old lady blinds you with an arrow! ”

"If you don't need to shoot, we'll be blind for a long time!" Several generals of the Wu army shouted, "Such a big beauty, why haven't we found it before, if we found it earlier, when we were marching and camping, hehe." ”

"Say!" Not to be outdone, Fat Lu retorted: "Even if you find out earlier, what? Yu'er sleeps with me every night, can you still rob it? ”

The generals of the Wu army smiled again, and Lu Yu'er was so ashamed that he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, hiding behind Lu Fatzi and pinching the fat on Lu Fatman's back, Lu Fatman couldn't help but smirk, but halfway through the laughter, Lu Fatzi couldn't laugh anymore - because Wu Guogui, Lu Fatzi's future father-in-law, was standing at the entrance of the first floor of Yueyang Building with a very majestic Chinese face. Lu Fatzi didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly pulled up Yu Yu'er over, curtsied to Wu Guogui, and said, "Son-in-law Lu Yifeng, knock to see your father-in-law." ”

"Niece Yu Yu'er, I have seen Uncle Wu, please say hello to my uncle." The authentic little three Yu'er also saluted tremblingly, and nervously asked Wu Guogui for peace.

Wu Guogui didn't speak, just looked up and down at Yu Yu'er's appearance, how ugly and ugly her face was - but it's not surprising that before her daughter was officially married, her son-in-law first had a beautiful second wife, and she could be happy with that old father-in-law? Wu Yingqi over there saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly came up and said haha: "Brother Yi, don't be angry, don't be angry, haha, man, Brother Yi, don't you have a few concubines, Yifeng is the best of the third generation of our Pingxi Palace, and it is natural to find more, it is natural." ”

"Brother Guogui, the second prince is right." Gao Dejie was also afraid that he would hurt his anger, so he stepped forward to grab Wu Guogui and said with a smile: "Miss Line is a great filial daughter, she and the Yifeng brothers are in love, and it is also your blessing, in the future, I dare to guarantee that Miss Line will be as filial to you as the old general." ”

Wu Guogui's face was still so ugly, and he didn't answer Wu Yingqi and Gao Dejie's words, but just said lightly: "Niece, please get up, it's been hard all the way." Yu Yu'er thanked him and got up cautiously, but Wu Guogui kicked Lu Fatzi again, and shouted: "Get up, the prince is waiting for you on the third floor, go up and greet him." Lu Fatzi trembled and got up, nodding to Wu Guogui like a mouse seeing a cat, Wu Guogui didn't bother to pay attention to the unfilial son-in-law, just casually motioned to Lu Fatzi to follow, turned around and walked in, Lu Fatzi pulled Yu'er to follow quickly, leaving a roaring sound behind him.

Along the way, on the third floor of the parade building of Lu Su, the general of Wu in the Three Kingdoms era, Wu Lao Han Jian was really leaning on the window in the building to drink tea and enjoy the scenery, Hu Guozhu, Wang Shirong and Fang Guangchen and other important ministers of the Wu army were also all present, and what surprised Lu Fatzi was that his teacher Liu Xuanchu did not know when he came to Yuezhou City, and also stood by Wu Lao Hanjian's side. Lu Fatzi was overjoyed and hurriedly saluted Wu Laohan with Wu Yingqi and others, and then pulled Yu Yu'er over and knelt down at Liu Xuanchu, kowtowed: "Student Lu Yifeng, meet your teacher." ”

"Yu'er, meet Mr. Maoyao." Lu Yu'er also knew that Fat Lu respected Liu Xuanchu, and he also kowtowed very respectfully.

"Hurry up, hurry up, there's no need to make such a big gift." Liu Xuanchu hurriedly picked up Lu Fatzi and Lu Yu'er. Wu Laohan next to him said in a weird manner: "Yifeng, niece, if you have a teacher, you will forget the prince?" Seeing that the teacher of your young couple is kowtowing, when you meet this king, you will give a thousand, just perfunctory? ”

Hu Guozhu and Fang Guangchen and the others laughed together, but Lu Fatzi was embarrassed, and hurriedly pulled Yu Yu'er to salute again, Wu Lao Han waved his hand and smiled: "That's it, you teachers and students will meet again after a long absence, let's go outside to catch up with the old days first, and talk about other things later." The niece stayed, and the old man had something to say to you. Lu Fatzi and Lu Yu'er agreed, Lu Fatzi and Liu Xuanchu went out to the viewing corridor on the second floor to talk secretly, while Lu Yu'er stayed on the third floor to talk with Wu Lao Hanjian and others.

"I arrived in Yuezhou two days ago." Finding a quiet place to stand still, Liu Xuanchu whispered to Lu Fatzi about his situation, "The prince sent a letter back to Kunming two months ago, asking the division to lead Guo Zhuangtu's son and several important members of the Pingxi Royal Mansion to arrive in Changsha before October 18, and after arriving in Yuezhou on time, the division knew that you had started a battle to cross the river, and hurried to Yuezhou. ”

"October 18?" Fat Lu raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice: "In this way, more than two months ago, the prince had already decided to convene this conference. ”

"That's the only explanation." Liu Xuanchu nodded, and said in a low voice: "Your civil affairs deputy Chen Dou in Qujing Mansion was also named by the prince and called by me, but he didn't come to Yueyang Tower today, and when you return to the city, I believe you will be able to meet him again." Fat Lu nodded, but he was a little puzzled in his heart, Chen Dou was just an acting prefect, why did Wu Lao Hanjian ask him to participate in this important meeting?

"There is another person who is also here, as for who is the teacher, I won't say, you will know when you return to the city in a while." Liu Xuanchu added with a smile, sold a pass, and said in a low voice: "Yifeng, with your cleverness, I believe you have already guessed the purpose of the prince to convene this conference, you say, we should suggest the prince how to choose?" ”

"It's impossible to continue to be a subservient to the dogs, and it's certain to cut braids and grow hair from now on." Lu Fatzi replied: "As for the remaining two choices, the key is to depend on the prince himself, if the prince has already made up his mind in his heart, no matter how much we persuade him, it will not be useful." ”

"That's what I'm most worried about now." Liu Xuanchu sighed and said in a low voice: "The prince is called the emperor, although the reputation is immediately good, but the people of the world can be convinced?" If you can play the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, even if it is to respect a fake third prince of Zhu as the emperor, it can also immediately win over the hearts of a large number of people and scholars, which will be of great help to our recovery of the Central Plains. What the teacher is most worried about now is that the prince lost the watermelon and chose the sesame seeds in order to covet a false name. ”

Lu Fatzi didn't dare to talk, because Lu Fatzi still couldn't figure out what Wu Laohanjian was thinking, for fear that making the wrong note would anger Wu Laohanjian, and let him lose the opportunity to fight for the leadership of reading. But Liu Xuanchu was not like a student who was a fat loach coated with oil, and said in a low voice: "But it can be seen that the prince is also hesitant now, not only wanting to be the emperor, but also worried that the people will not be convinced, and even more afraid of losing the support of allies, so the teacher wants you to stand with the teacher at this conference, and clearly support the prince to play the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, don't let the prince be confused and do wrong things!" ”

"Students do their best." Fat Lu agreed with a sad face, but he was wailing in his heart, how did he end up with such a teacher who loves to solve problems? Last time, he succeeded in forcing Geng Jingzhong to rebel, and this time he wanted to oppose Wu Lao Han and immediately proclaim himself emperor, if the bet was right, it would be fine, but if it was wrong, the loyal and obedient impression of his hard work in front of Wu Lao Han was completely abandoned.

"Yifeng, the teacher knows that you are sleek, and I know that you don't want to anger the prince." Liu Xuanchu saw Lu Fatzi's hesitation, and said uneasily: "But this matter has too much to do with it, and it is related to the ambition of our master and apprentice to expel the Tartars, so I would like to emphasize it again for the teacher, if you are still your teacher, you will no longer be a wall-riding faction and step on two boats, you must stand resolutely with the teacher!" ”

"Students obey the teacher's orders." Fat Lu respectfully agreed, and pondered in his heart, "In my last life, should I owe this teacher eight dollars and not pay it back, so I have to pay it back twice in this life?" ”

After discussing a few words with Liu Xuanchu, and after understanding the specific situation in the rear of Yungui University, Lu Fatzi and Liu Xuanchu returned to the third floor of Yueyang Tower again, but after entering the building, Lu Fatzi was surprised to see that Lu Yu'er was kneeling in front of Wu Lao Han, her eyes were red, and there were tears on her cheeks, obviously she had just cried, Lu Fatzi couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Yu'er, what's wrong with you?" How do you cry like this? ”

Yu Xuan glanced back at Fat Lu, his red lips moved slightly, but he couldn't help but shed two lines of tears in his beautiful eyes. In the end, it was Wu Laohan who explained to Yu'er: "Yifeng, comfort her more, my grandfather just told her a bad news, and she just received the news yesterday that her father, General Lian Guoan, has died of serious illness in Nanning." ”

"Ahh Fat Lu exclaimed, "The old general has passed away? ”

Wu Laohan nodded heavily, but Lu Yu'er couldn't help crying, Lu Fatzi hurriedly stepped forward to pick her up, took her little hand and stroked it gently, thinking about how to comfort her. Wu Laohan sighed and said: "The old general of the line Guo'an is also the only old general that this king can afford in Guangxi, and his passing, this king is also very distressed, so Yifeng, my grandfather has just accepted the line girl as a righteous granddaughter, and let her younger brother Lu Qiyu take over his father's position, and then take office when he becomes an adult, and then they will entrust the two sisters and brothers, and the grandfather will entrust it to you." ”

"Grandfather, please rest assured, my son-in-law will definitely try his best to take care of Miss Lian and Brother Qiyu." Fat Lu hurriedly saluted and agreed, and he was also quite grateful to Wu Laohan for his thoughtful consideration for Lu Yu'er.

"That's fine." Wu Lao Han nodded, and then ordered: "You go back and wait for the notice of other things, you first send the king's granddaughter back to Yuezhou City, and by the way, build a mourning hall for the old general in Yuezhou, and the king will take time to go to the spirit to offer incense." Also, although you and the line girl have not officially married, you can't help but report the line girl's deep affection for you, so you have to dress the old general in linen and wear filial piety, and do filial piety. The unlucky son-in-law Lu Fatzi obediently agreed, took Lu Yu'er downstairs and returned to the city, and went to the house arranged by the officials of Licao to build a mourning hall for the security of the country.

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Cheap son-in-law is not so easy to be, the cost of building a mourning hall for the security of the country must be paid by Lu Fatzi out of his own pocket, not to mention, and then Fat Lu has to put on filial piety clothes and hat to kneel in front of the spirit to welcome the guests, it just so happens that Fat Lu is very popular in the Pingxi Palace, after hearing about this, most of the civil and military officials of the Pingxi Royal Mansion have gone to the mourning hall to kowtow, forcing the fat man to kowtow constantly, almost knocking off the fat head, and finally at the end, the fat man Lu has to pay out of his pocket to set up a white wine banquet to entertain these guests, almost eating the fat man Lu poor.

It's good to spend silver kowtowing, and it's more troublesome to take care of Yu Er, Lu Fatzi's little three is a rare filial daughter, this time Lu Guo'an passed away Lu Yu'er and Qi Yu actually couldn't wait for the decoction at the bedside, let alone see the last face, whenever I thought of this, Lu Yu'er immediately burst into tears, crying to death, Lu Fatzi can only always accompany the soft voice to comfort, take care of it carefully, and as a result, he returned to Yuezhou at noon until it was dark, Lu Fatzi was unable to rest for a minute, and was almost paralyzed with exhaustion.

"Dad, my daughter is not filial——!" No, Yu Yu'er suddenly rushed to the spiritual position and cried, crying out for grief, Lu Fatzi had to hurry up and comfort him, "Yu'er, my father-in-law has already gone to his family, so don't be so sad." He has been sick for many years, and now that he is gone, you should be happy for him, at least, his father-in-law will no longer have to be tormented by illness. Yu'er, don't cry, take care of your body, take care of your body. ”

Lu Yu'er didn't listen at all, just struggled and cried, at this time, a white and tender little hand suddenly reached out with an intoxicating fragrance, and Lu Fatzi hugged Lu Yu'er together, and the crisp and beautiful voice like a silver bell choked and said: "Sister Yu, you can't be so sad anymore, if Uncle Lin's spirit in the sky sees you like this, it will be difficult to look at you." ”

"Hey, how do you seem to have heard this voice?" Lu Fatzi was stunned, and when he turned his head in surprise, he saw a girl standing next to him, with a melon seed face and willow eyebrows, skin like condensation, bright eyes and bright teeth, moving and extraordinary, and it was his fiancée who he rarely met - Eight-sided Guanyin Wu Xiaosu!

"Xiao Su, why did you come to Yuezhou too?" Surprised, Fat Lu couldn't help but blurt out.

"It was my grandfather who sent me a letter and asked me to come to Yuezhou with Mr. Maoyao." I haven't seen him for many years, and Wu Xiaosuo, who is already in his early twenties, is still so dignified and polite, but when explaining the reason for coming to Yuezhou, Wu Xiaosuo's face is a little redder than that of Yu Yu'er, and he whispered shyly: "Grandfather said in his letter that I will soon reach twenty-one, and if I don't ...... it, it will be too much delay." ”

"If you don't marry me soon, you'll be too old, right?" Lu Fatzi's heart was full of joy, and he finished speaking for Wu Xiaosu in his heart. But at this moment, the fat on Lu Fatzi's waist suddenly had a sharp pain, and when he turned his head to look again, he saw that Yu Yu'er had stopped crying for some time, and was staring at himself viciously with his eyebrows upside down.

(To be continued)