Chapter Eighty-Eight: Still Water Undercurrent

King Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, watching the figures of Cheng Ao and Fang Shan slowly blur, his brows furrowed, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after a while, he suddenly sighed, looked at Song Xunwen, and said:

"Do you think the two of you can get the job done?"

Song Xunwen was bowing his head and pondering, and when he heard King Wei's sudden question, he was taken aback, pondered for a while, shook his head, and replied:

"The two have a deep grudge, and the minister is afraid that they will not be able to get along and miss a big thing."

When King Wei heard his rebuttal, he rarely didn't care, turned his head and glanced at Liu Xun, only to see his son, who was only eight years old, bowing his head and being silent at the moment, as if he was thinking about something.

He suddenly sighed in his heart, what made this young man who should be carefree become so calm, is it because he is in the emperor's family, and the country is pressing?

He sighed in his heart and suppressed the faintly rising thought: That's because he has disturbed the world!

At this moment, Liu Xun suddenly smiled and said to Song Xunwen:

"Uncle Song."

When Song Xunwen heard this title, his body trembled, and his eyes were instantly covered with a layer of fog, as if going back in time, back to the past, when Liu Xun was just born, he secretly escorted him to the field, at that time King Wei was still an ambitious king of a country, and behind him, there were two good generals of the country - Cheng Ao and Fang Shan.

When did the three heroic people become like this?

However, as if there was infinite hope in his heart, Liu Xun's "Uncle Song" shocked him, and his hands were clenched into fists, with a domineering fist.

Liu Xun, it's hope!

It's just that a trace of uneasiness suddenly flashed in his heart, and a black shadow suddenly flashed in his mind, gradually expanding, as if it was spreading all the way, covering Dongping, covering the palace, and covering Liu Xun's head.

He subconsciously turned back in the direction that Cheng Ao left.

There is the palace of the Han royal family.

He frowned, and before he could speak, he saw a faint smile on Liu Xun's face, and he didn't seem to have the slightest impatience because of his trance, he turned his eyes to look at Song Xunwen's visual direction, and called out politely again:

"Uncle Song?"

Song Xunwen hurriedly turned around and responded:

"Your Highness."

Liu Xun didn't care, smiled slightly, and said:

"Uncle Song, in fact, although it is risky to find the two of them, they are also the best candidates"

After speaking, he paused, took a sip of the teacup slowly, glanced at Song Xunwen with a smile, and didn't speak.

Song Xunwen groaned slightly, nodded and smiled:

"His Royal Highness is very intelligent, and the old minister is ashamed of himself, but"

Before the words fell, the king of the guard couldn't help but speak:

"Okay, now that the assassination of Liu Xiu is unavailable, there is no one to use, who can clear the king, and who has martial arts, now there are only these two people, I came to you to discuss with you the selection of the prime minister and the new recruits."

Song Xunwen straightened up and sat up straight in an instant, his eyes were sharp, and he looked at King Wei and said:

"Lord Wang, please speak."

King Wei nodded and said two candidates.

Hearing the names of these two people, Song Xunwen's body trembled-

The country is mountainous, hundreds of miles southeast of Dongping City, and there are many mountains and mountains.

Yunzhou City is located in the mountains, whenever the sun is shining, when the sky is clear, standing on the wall of Yunzhou, looking around, looking into the distance, only to see the mountains and rivers in the distance, the mountains are reflected, and the mind is open and open-minded.

Yunzhou is a great city of patriotism, although the scale and prosperity are far from Dongping, Pingyan, Pingliang and other important towns, but in terms of defense capabilities, it is enough to compare with the major famous cities, and it is on par with it.

Only because a hundred years ago, Murong Ping, the British lord of Yan State, went south, and even broke the Han Wei coalition army, which was like a bamboo, broke countless cities, and even hit the city of Dongping, King Wei was forced to move the capital that year, and went south to Yunzhou.

Yunzhou was also relied on by the king of Wei, and after a hundred years of repair, it finally became a military town.

But because it is deep in the mountains, it is not a traffic artery, only for transporting troops. The grain road used to transport grain, as if split from the mountain, runs through Yunzhou, leads to all places, many business travelers are unwilling to detour, choose the mountain road to trek, and because the grain road is stored zài, there are also many traders who come from afar, collect herbs, sell goods.

Although Yunzhou is not a prosperous place, the center of money, but because of its special status, it can be regarded as a person coming and going, whenever the medicine season, the road is full of pedestrians, and the road is endless.

Coming out of the high wall, stepping on the mountain road, and walking into the mountain, it is like entering another world, with high mountains on both sides, and trees are flourishing, layered on top of each other, blocking the sun and making the already cold weather even more shaded.

There are many mountains, grain routes, and business travel, and the rest are bandits.

Yunzhou is full of mountain bandits, known all over the world, almost all the major mountains have the so-called green forest heroes sitting in town, robbing houses and houses, it has become a custom, and even some villages are scattered in the depths of the mountains, the whole village is bandits, planting some terraces on weekdays, and other times will occupy the mountains as kings, and make a living by plundering.

The government has also suppressed it several times, but the mountain is too big, and the bandits are too mobile, so it is difficult to exterminate, especially the mountain people who are farmers during the day and become bandits at night, and they can't help it, and they are slowly put aside.

However, the grain route is accessible, and business travelers cannot but go for business.

At the same time, although Yunzhou is mountainous, but there are many basins, the land is fertile, and the wind and rain have been smooth for many years, so most of the people have a lot of grain in their homes, and it is a big city that guards the country and receives grain, so there is a saying that Yunzhou has enough grain and the world is prosperous.

It's just that before the start of the Pingyan War, there were many "peasants" from other places, a large number of people entered the Yunzhou mountain basin, reclamation and farming, and still did not leave, the people had initial concerns, but saw that although they were many people, they lived in the mountains on weekdays, and rarely went out, and the two did not intersect, so they did not take it to heart.

The simplicity of the mountain people can be seen.

In the middle of the Yunzhou Mountains, there is the largest basin in the whole city, there is a village in the basin, called Xianjing Village, the land here is fertile, it has always been smooth and rainy, the periphery has its own defense, it is difficult for the general mountain bandits to break the defense, attack in, so for many years, the people have been living and working in peace and contentment, after paying the official grain, there is still a lot of surplus, so it has always been self-sufficient.

Although it is not the same as the rich family in Yunzhou, at least it has no worries about survival, and the village has always been very peaceful.

The old man Zhang in the village was a drunkard, he was drunk every day, and when he came home at night, he shouted and screamed all the way, making the whole village uneasy.

Uncle Wang and his wife in the village quarrel every day because of the trivial matters of the blacksmith shop, and every day before dawn, they can hear the two of them scolding each other on the street, the voice is loud, and the sound is ten miles.

The villagers have a headache and scold more than once, but there is only one blacksmith shop in the village, and there are two people who do some farm tools and housework on weekdays, so they dare not speak out, and after a long time, they will slowly get used to it.

The quarrel between the two is just some trivial things, such as whether to hit a sickle or a hammer today, the two disagreed, so they spat out evil words, quarreled for a long time, in the scolding, the two began to clank and began to strike iron, of course, the quarrel during the iron is naturally essential.

The old man Li in the village, every time at this time, will go to the grassy place in the mountains to graze cattle, when passing by the blacksmith shop, he will smoke a bag of cigarettes, and then squat there and spit out smoke rings, smiling and watching the two quarrel, only when they are about to finish, he stands up slowly, hehe, and said:

"Okay, okay, you two put out the fire, the family and everything is prosperous, don't quarrel anymore, you see, in order to persuade the fight, I have been delayed to herd the cattle, hey"

Then with a long sigh, a look of intoxication, and slowly walked away.

Children are active by nature, they get up early, even if the weather is cold and cold, but when the sun first appears, the children in the village will play in the village under the leadership of the "child king" wood.

They don't have a fixed place to play, and the village is so big, they soon get tired of playing, and the adults don't allow them to make trouble in the village, because a few days ago, Grandma Wang finally raised an old hen that had just laid eggs, but one of them was caught by the wood and roasted and eaten.

For this matter, Grandma Wang has been standing at the door of the wooden house for seven days in a row, crying and scolding the street.

Mu Niang had no choice but to compensate her for the only three chickens in the family, only hoping that she would raise her noble mouth and spare his family, but Grandma Wang still cried endlessly, and finally saw that she really couldn't find anything, so she accepted the crying and went home quietly, and it is said that she killed one and ate it for a few days that day.

This kind of country life is too familiar to everyone, and no one wants to change, although they work hard every day, but when they return home in the evening, the family gets together and chats with each other, and the casual happiness is real, soaked in it.

Sometimes, happiness is just the little things in life, it has nothing to do with money, it has nothing to do with pleasure, it only lies in the heart.

However, this peace was finally broken.

On the top of a hill, there are camps all around, although simple but very neat, unlike ordinary bandits, they are chaotic and disorderly, and even live directly in caves.

If you look closely, you can even see the traces of the army.

Inside the camp of the Chinese army.

"General Liang is not agreeing? That's going to be hard. Zheng Youliang, the special envoy of King Wei, put down the teacup in his hand, shook his head, and said lightly:

"Then how do I give an account to the prince? How did the Hidden Army survive this difficulty? ”

"The prince's mind, the last general will naturally understand!" Liang Jian, the chief officer of the Yunzhou Hidden Army, looked up at the young envoy of the King of Wei in front of him, bowed his hand, and said:

"It's just that the last general has the intention to refuse, it's just that the reason is really complicated, and it is difficult to explain it to the envoy for a while, so it's better for the envoy to stay for a few days, and the last general will send someone thousands of miles to Beijing to explain clearly to the prince, the matter is big, and it is definitely not the wishful thinking of the king."

Before he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly shut up, but Zheng Youliang had already heard it, and he was furious at the moment, and slammed the cup in his hand, only to hear the sound of "choking", the cup was shattered, and most of the tea splashed on Liang Jian's legs.

Liang Jian didn't avoid it, he stood straight, and he didn't even blink, as if he felt that this was a natural thing, or he had expected this to happen.

Instead, Zheng Youliang stood up, frowned, walked up to Liang Jian, threw the secret letter of King Wei Gai on Liang Jian, and sneered:

"Open your eyes and see, thousands of miles to Beijing, where is there so much time? Now the hidden army is short of food and clothing, and the soldiers will starve to death before you can come back! If there is anything, you tell me, I will report to the prince, you first do what the prince tells you to do, without delay! ”

Liang Jian's body did not move, and he bowed his head and replied:

"I'm afraid that this matter can't be solved by you, Lord Zheng, alone." ――

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