Chu Huan let out an "oh" and asked, "It turns out that you still have a brother, so do you know where he is now?" ”

A wry smile appeared on Ling Shuangqiao's face, and her voice was very soft: "The slave doesn't know either...... The slave didn't even know if he was alive or dead. I was only six or seven years old at the time, and I remember that he was the one who took me around, but one day I ......! She seemed to think of something terrible, and her eyes showed a look of horror, and she quickly closed them.

Chu Huan knew that it was an unbearable past, it seemed that the depression in Ling Shuang's heart had been planted since he was a child, and he said softly: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it." You're too tired, take a good rest, and when the medicine is decoctioned, I'll feed you the medicine! ”

Chu Huan got up, but Ling Shuang suddenly opened his eyes and said in a lost voice: "Master, you...... You don't go! ”

Chu Huan was stunned, then sat down, shook his head and said, "I'm not leaving, I'm here to accompany you." ”

Seeing Chu Huan like this, Ling Shuang's heart was even warmer, and seeing Chu Huan sitting next to him, he didn't speak for a while, and couldn't help but ask softly: "Master, ...... you Will you kick me away one day? ”

Chu Huan was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Why do you ask like this?" Of course not. ”

Ling Shuang bit her red lip lightly and groaned slightly before saying, "If you hate me one day, or think I'm not good enough, will you keep me?" When she said this, her voice trembled slightly.

Chu Huan stared at Ling Shuang's eyes, seeing that she was pitiful, her eyes were full of fear, but she also forgot about Yingren's existence for a while, and said softly: "How can I hate you?" As long as you want, you can stay with me all the time, maybe it won't be taken care of properly, but it will also try not to let you be wronged. ”

Ling Shuang showed a happy expression and said, "Master, you must be a good word when you speak." I...... I'm so happy, you know, there's a ...... around you! Then she blushed and did not continue.

Chu Huan asked, "What is there?" ”

Ling Shuang closed her eyes and plucked up the courage to say, "Following the master, there is a feeling of home!" ”

"How does it feel like home?" Chu Huan was puzzled for a while.

Ling Shuang opened her eyes, looked at Chu Huan, and said seriously: "The slave maid has always felt that she is a leaf drifting in the wind, and when the wind blows, she can't grasp where she wants to float...... There is no root, it has been floating, and there is no ...... life! Her eyes began to become hazy, and unconsciously, she said dreamily: "I don't know where it will end up, I thought that this life was like that leaf, it kept drifting, and it never felt anything, but when I came to the master, I suddenly felt that I seemed to have roots again, as if I didn't have to float like that leaf in the future...... I don't want to make leaves, so I want to let the lord know that I can do a lot of things...... In this way, I will not leave this home, and I will be able to follow my lord and enjoy the feeling of home that I haven't felt for many, many years......! ”

Chu Huan couldn't help but smile when he saw her expression, obviously immersed in his imagination, for some reason, it seemed that a needle suddenly pierced his heart, and it hurt.

He didn't know how much suffering Ling Shuang had been through, but he knew that it must have been a time when Ling Shuang didn't want to think about it.

Ling Shuang's voice was very soft, and slowly, perhaps because she was too tired, she unconsciously closed her eyes, smiled at the corner of her mouth, and quietly fell asleep.

Chu Huan stared at Ling Shuang's pretty face, and after a long time, he shook his head and sighed.

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In the next few days, Chu Huan came back very early every day, not to do anything else, but to accompany Ling Shuang on the sickbed to talk, usually Chu Huan was talking, Ling Shuang was listening, and most of the content was Chu Huan telling some stories or jokes to make Ling Shuang happy, Chu Huan never regarded Ling Shuang as a slave, in his heart, Chu Huan regarded her more as one of his sisters.

Doctor Xu said that Ling Shuang's heart was depressed, and Chu Huan wanted to use these jokes to keep Ling Shuang happy, which would naturally be good for her condition.

In fact, the golden needle Shi Liao is certainly able to treat many diseases, but the golden needle moves the acupoint, which is already related to the human body's veins, and it affects the whole body, and Dr. Xu's golden needle passes through the blood qi in Ling Shuang's body, but it also makes Ling Shuang unable to recover his normal strength within a few days, and even staying is a problem.

Fortunately, the white blind man and his grandson came by chance, Chu Huan didn't have to delay the affairs of the yamen, the white blind man was temporarily in the house as a nursing home, and if he had a future, he would arrange it for him when Chu Huan found the opportunity, but Sun Zikong became a housekeeper for a while, whether it was laundry, cooking or cleaning, he let his grandson empty, this was not that Chu Huan and the white blind man deliberately bullied him, but in order to give Chu Huan a good impression, Sun Zikong rushed to do everything.

In fact, he was also born in a poor family, but he can also bear hardships and stand hard work, Chu Huan is now in charge of the Sipin Household Department, in the eyes of Sun Zikong, that is, a god-like character, who can stay in the main mansion and follow Chu Huan, he has always thought that he is still dreaming, and thinking about himself in bed at night A ninth-rate character on the street is now hugging such thick thighs, dreaming and laughing, usually working harder, but a few days of hard work, where is the surrounding generation a grocery store, where is the vegetable market, where is the pharmacy, He already knew very well where a pawnshop was, and he was even more familiar with it than Chu Huan.

There are two more people in the mansion, and there is more anger, but the household yamen is not as peaceful as the Chu mansion, and the biggest news Chu Huan got is that the book province has decided that the method of purchasing grain by Jianghuai Dao IOU can be used, and the general dignitaries of the subordinate province headed by Nayan Zhou Ting unexpectedly agreed to this decision.

The words passed down from the book province are said that after the emperor knew this method, he praised Lang Wufu who proposed this bill, and Hu Bufan, the secretary of the household department, naturally had to be commended.

Chu Huan knew that it was not too late to know the news, because the situation in Jianghuai was urgent, in addition to the military department, Dali Temple, the Ministry of Industry and other yamen were busy planning the transfer of troops, the household department also wanted to quickly implement the bill of IOU to purchase grain.

Hu Bufan obviously attached great importance to this matter, personally planned this matter, and couldn't take care of Chu Huan's side for a while, so he even sent people to Jianghuai to go over, and ordered Cao of the household department of Jianghuai Prefecture to cooperate with the household department to implement the proposal of purchasing grain by IOU, and the grain in Jianghuai states must be controlled in the hands of the government as soon as possible, and the military department also made a quick response. surrounded Huizhou, where the Tianmen Dao was the most powerful.

However, the main force of Tianmen Dao is temporarily in Huizhou, but there are believers of Tianmen Dao in the entire five states of Jianghuai, and the Tianmen bandits have formed several combat forces in Jianghuai alone, according to Chu Huan's latest news, after the Tianmen Daoists were driven out of Huizhou City, they quickly occupied several county towns around Huizhou City, at first they only thought that the strength of Tianmen Dao was not good, and they could not occupy the state city to occupy the county seat, but now the situation over there is that after Tianmen Dao occupies several county seats, they immediately began to build fortifications, Fortify the defense of the county seat, and the county seat surrounding Huizhou City instantly turned into several hungry wolves coveting Huizhou City.

Jianghuai has now formed an extremely strange strategic pattern.

With Huizhou as the heart, Huizhou City is in the most central position, where there are 3,000 Huizhou troops and 3,000 Jianghuai Janissaries who drove the Tianmen Dao people out of the state city before, plus the strong men recruited by the city, the current strength in Huizhou City is about 15,000 or more, but only the Huizhou army and the Praetorian Guard with a total strength of 6,000 have been trained.

Originally, after tens of thousands of Tianmen Daoists were driven out of Huizhou City, the government thought that the danger of Huizhou City had been lifted, but the soldiers of the city had not been repaired, and soon got the help of several surrounding counties. The surrounding main roads were sealed by the Heavenly Gate Daoists, and in an instant, it had become a lonely city that was caught in between.

There are more and more Tianmen Daoists gathered in several county seats, and several county towns form an encirclement, but in the more periphery, it is a bandit circle composed of the state army, the Praetorian Guard and the guard army, and so on, if the Tianmen Dao people who occupy several county towns are surrounded, when the heavy troops are gathered in Huizhou, the Tianmen Daoists in other states in Jianghuai seem to be ready to move, and there are already many Tianmen Daoists gathering on the periphery of Huizhou, it seems that they want to form another encirclement in the outer periphery to put pressure on the officers and soldiers. To alleviate the military pressure of the besieged Tianmen Dao people, Jianghuai now seems to have become a ring game, layer by layer, the officers and soldiers took the initiative to attack several times, although the results were not small, killing many enemies, but the Tianmen Dao forces were not reduced because of this, but more and more.

The officers and troops fought a few battles, it seems that the results are good, but the strategy has not made the slightest progress at all, Tianmen Dao occupies several counties, the officers and troops have made great efforts to attack, but the Tianmen Dao people are crazy, countless casualties, several county towns were actually saved by them, not a single loss, the casualties of the officers and soldiers are also extremely heavy, the supply has been cut off, so if it continues, it is very likely that it will be self-defeating.

The war in Jianghuai, there are not many people in Beijing who know, people just know that there is chaos in Jianghuai, the imperial court is transferring troops to quell the chaos, and the war in the far southeast does not seem to have much impact on the lives of people in the capital, it is still Cheshuimenlong is extremely prosperous, and people in Beijing also believe that the so-called Tianmen Road, a group of rabble, since the imperial court has taken action, it is only a matter of time before the Jianghuai rebellion subsides.

As the head of the household department, Chu was quite clear about the battle situation in Jianghuai.

When he figured out the battle situation in Jianghuai, the first judgment he made was that Tianmen Dao may not be the rabble that many people think, when the official army drove the Tianmen Dao people out of Huizhou City, the wording of the battle report was "Tianmen bandits fled from the wind", Chu Huan hoped that this wording was not true at this time, if the situation at that time was really "fleeing from the wind", Chu Huan faintly felt that it might not really be Tianmen Dao vulnerable, it was very likely that Tianmen Dao was pretending to be a gesture.

From the subsequent conspiracy of the Tianmen Daoists to link the surrounding counties of Huizhou City and besiege Huizhou City, it can be seen that it has a great mystery, and it seems to have strong strategic considerations, not a group of rabble.

Chu Huan still described the Jianghuai military situation he knew on the paper in his free time, but he keenly saw from the paper that Tianmen Dao occupied several county towns to besiege Huizhou City, but it was for the imperial court to transfer heavy troops to besiege Tianmen Dao and rescue the lonely city of Huizhou. However, it was discovered that the officers and men had regarded the 20,000 or 30,000 Tianmen Daoists in those county towns as the absolute main force of the bandits, and at least more than 60 percent of the troops in Jianghuai had already formed an encirclement to suppress bandits and hoarded them on the front line around Huizhou.

Chu Huan was very worried, and now there are already signs that other states have not suddenly appeared as large as Huizhou. However, from other states, there have been Tianmen Dao people scattered to the edge of Huizhou, and although the number of people has not yet reached a terrifying level, it has been quite a lot, and the number of people is constantly increasing.

Chu Huan was worried that this was Tianmendao's plan to attack the west, Tianmendao made a big move in Huizhou, making a fuss, and it was very likely that it was deliberately used to attract the attention of the imperial court, so the main force of Tianmendao was positioned in Huizhou, but other places were empty, when the imperial court focused its attention on Huizhou and transferred heavy troops to encircle and suppress, the real main force of Tianmendao was formed in the periphery.

If the situation was really as he expected, Chu Huan only felt that the Tianmen Dao people were not only not a rabble, but also that there must be extremely terrifying military talents among them, and even said that the Tianmen Dao people, who seemed to be chaotic and looked like a rabble, actually had a strict mobilization and command system.

Buying grain with IOUs must be endless, Chu Huan couldn't figure out why so many ministers in the imperial court couldn't understand this, could it be that they really couldn't understand it, or did they have other ideas? His Majesty the Emperor conquered the south and the north, and his martial arts were impressive, such a person is really old and confused, and he doesn't know what method to use to quell the Jianghuai Rebellion?

Chu Huan knows better that the Jianghuai Rebellion is very likely to not end in a short period of time, and may even become more and more ferocious, and the entire southeast of the empire will not be at peace in the future, he doesn't know what kind of situation the spark of the Jianghuai Rebellion will bring the Great Qin Empire to in the future, will it finally be wiped out under the strong suppression of the imperial court, or will it slowly drag the empire into a more sinister crisis because of the chaos in a corner?