got the latest news from Pang Tong, and Li Sheng, who knew that Liu Biao was already suspicious of him, naturally couldn't continue to repair in Wuling. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After bidding farewell to Liu Qi, Li Sheng left Pang Tong to deal with the follow-up matters related to the relocation of Wuling Shanyue to Changsha, and then embarked on the journey back to Changsha with his team.

At this moment, it is August, and the sun in the sky is always very scorching the earth, for this scorching heat, Li Sheng gritted his teeth and could have endured it, but he was worried about the "safety" of the two female dependents in the army for fear that they would suffer from heat stroke, so he put a carriage and sent all the way to serve Shanyue. Due to the signing of the peace treaty with Shanyue, Shanyue, who was originally an enemy, became Li Sheng's own people, among which Li Sheng selected 1,000 strong soldiers to form an army, called "Broken Tomb", so far Li Sheng's army gradually increased the number of Shanyue people.

The journey back to Changsha was quite peaceful, although the terrain in Jingnan was complicated, the taxes were very heavy and chaotic, and many of the people went up to the mountains as thieves, but none of those thieves dared to rise up to the boldness to trouble Li Shengjun. In the face of this procession of up to 4,000 people swaggering past the foot of their own mountain, some of them were terrified, and some of them were quite moved - they were forced to go up the mountain to be thieves, and they tended to be extremely quiet, and some of them did not want to stay as thieves all the time, and they also wanted to return to the official army to obtain a place for themselves to live. After seeing the results of Li Sheng's battle against Shanyue, they all had a deeper understanding of Li Shengjun's ability, and all the luck that still existed in their hearts disappeared in front of the strength displayed on display. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know how Li Sheng would react to the bandits who came to land, I was afraid that they would be going down the mountain and kneeling down to beg Li Sheng to contain him.

The army drifted away without incident. Looking at the tail of the vanishing line, the people on the mountain breathed a sigh of relief and secretly regretted that their timidity had lost a good chance anyway. In the absence of any inability, almost all the people on the hill made a similar decision, that is, to send a large number of people to Changsha to inquire about the situation and see if this very capable Li Sheng Taishou could accommodate the belly of his group of brothers. So not long after Li Sheng returned to Changsha, there were many miscellaneous characters in Changsha.

When he returned to Changsha, Li Sheng first found Kong Ming and others and discussed with them the next step on his side. Although Li Sheng first learned about Lord Liu Biao's suspicions about himself from Pang Tong, and then learned more information related to it from Luo Zhao, Li Sheng still didn't know much about the beginning of this matter. At this moment, Li Sheng is anxious to find out what they have done, that is, to be able to understand the beginning and end of the matter more deeply. After all, Li Sheng's foundation is now in Changsha, and the information obtained in the four places is transmitted to Li Sheng after passing through Changsha, because Luo Zhao, who is in charge of intelligence, is following Li Sheng, so the information passed to Luo Zhao is handled by Changsha, and the important ones are selected and handed over to Luo Zhao in the order of the most urgent and first, and the whole detailed situation is left here in Changsha at this time. Li Sheng didn't know how much of the things that had shrunk to Luo Zhao's side, and now that he wanted to understand, he couldn't say that he had to look at the original backup first.

Of course, this is what Li Sheng did after returning to Taishou Mansion, although it is very important to Li Sheng, but it really has nothing to do with the ordinary people of Changsha. When the two heavy vermilion gates were closed, the news they could get was probably from the sign outside the gate of the Taishou Mansion.

Through that notice, they learned that Master Li was going to take a concubine with the auspicious day of the zodiac ten days later, and the bride was two, one was the sister of a general under Li Sheng, named Zhao Yun; One is the princess of Shanyue called Rose, who is said to be a great beauty. Lord Li Sheng prepared to feast the guests on the day of the concubine, and set up a banquet for 10,000 people in the Changsha City campus to enjoy with the people.

"Huh? Do you want to have fun with the people? This also ...... That's ridiculous, isn't it? The unexpected notice slammed into everyone's hearts like a sharp bolt of lightning, leaving them stunned. Soon, the news spread in the streets and alleys of Changsha City, and almost all the people of Changsha learned that Li Sheng was going to take Rose and Zhao Yun as concubines.

On the night of the news release, in the dilapidated courtyard that originally belonged to Zhang Xian in the south of Changsha City, a young man dressed in white was like a mad man drinking wildly at the bright moon in the night sky. Cup after cup of yellow soup was poured down by him, and from the twenty or thirty empty jars piled at his feet, it could be seen that he had drunk a lot at the moment. The night was already deep, and his mind was lost under the influence of alcohol. In his eyes, the round moon was no longer the original appearance, it gradually transformed into two people, one was a shy girl, and the other was a heroic young man. Looking at the smile on the faces of the two of them, his still handsome face suddenly became hideous: "Li Sheng...... Rose is mine, and I will not allow you to snatch her away...... Never...... He gritted his teeth and roared, and as the night wind grew stronger on the summer night, it turned into a terrible ghostly howl. As a result, the reputation of the ghost house in the south of the city has become more and more firmly added to the once glorious place.

"Alas...... He is still like this, why don't you persuade him? In the distant shadows behind the young man, several old men shook their heads at the young man's decadent appearance. As if he could not bear to bear the young man's continued self-harm, he opened his mouth to persuade the other of his companions. After all, the man was the young man's grandfather.

"When the child is older, he also has his own ideas. If he had heard, he would not have been like this. If he doesn't listen, how can we stop him from falling, no matter how much we say? The persuaded old man shook his head and said. To tell the truth, he had tried several times to persuade his grandson not to think of that woman, but his grandson still did his own way if he didn't listen to him, but it made his heart gradually cold. It's not that he doesn't care about his relatives at the moment, but after he cares about it again, he must pay more attention to the big things in front of him. This event was nominally to avenge the daughter and son-in-law's family, but in reality it blocked the lives of all of them. Because the matter was important, the old man naturally threw all his thoughts on it. For the grandson's heavy young man's temper, he didn't take it very seriously. He looked at the person who persuaded him, but there was a bit of bitterness and helplessness on his face: "If it is not my race, its heart will be different, but it is a pity that we have read this for a lifetime, but we fell off the chain at the most critical time, and we have forgotten the warning of this sentence."

"That's what I said." The persuaded old man nodded heavily: "I originally thought that those Shanyue people would be grateful." After all, the first lord treated them well when he was alive, and they would help us for the sake of the first lord no matter what. But I don't want them to hug the thighs of the new Taishou now. Hum! That Sha Siqi is even more of a thing, and he actually sent his daughter over. Who said that the people of Shanyue were sincere? I think they are more cunning than foxes in the mountains and forests. The old man said angrily, but he vented all the dissatisfaction in his heart.

"It's useless for you to whine here now. Here, from Ming scolding to black, and then from black scolding to Ming, can you scold the dead Shanyue people? I don't think so. Hehe, it's better to be serious. The third person, who had not spoken, spoke, and his words were always so cold and swishing that they always sounded like ghost words in the night.

After this ghostly statement, everyone fell silent for a while, perhaps they also thought that this man was right.

"Have you made any recent moves? Or has he been staying in the Taishou Mansion? After the silence, he said that it was right, and among the three was the young man's grandfather.

"There was no special move. It's just that I've become very fond of going out of town. Our Taishou is a beauty-loving character, and he goes out every day these days, but he has to bring his wife and concubine. It was the last person who spoke coldly to answer, and only to hear him say it was a burst of ghost words.

"Got a lot of fun going out of town? That's something that can be used. Although there are many celebrities below the Taishou in Changsha City, none of them can become the successors of the Taishou. As long as we give him the result while Taishou is out, I think this Changsha City will be in chaos for a while. It's good for us. The young man's grandfather was a decisive man, and his wit was good, and he quickly thought of what was most beneficial to him from this seemingly ordinary news.

In his opinion, Li Sheng and his subordinates are undoubtedly a small force with a self-contained system, and in this small force, Li Sheng is at the top of it, and he has not been a two-minded figure. Because Li Sheng is young and has only been married for two years and has no children, as long as he can get rid of Li Sheng on his side, Li Sheng's subordinates will naturally disperse. This is different from the assassination of Sun Ce a few years ago - after Sun Ce there was Sun Quan who could succeed him, but there was no one after Li Sheng.

Although Liu Biao, the lord of Jingzhou, is likely to reappoint Changsha Taishou after Li Sheng, no matter who the new Taishou is named, it is estimated that he is not as powerful as the current Taishou. In the eyes of the old man, the current Tai Shou is a first-class strong in terms of rule and martial arts, and there seems to be no other weakness except for a little playful personality of a young man. Even this playful weakness is fatal to the old man.

"In three days, can you find out when Taishou left the city, the number of attachés, and the status of the distance traveled?" The old man asked in a deep voice.

"No problem." The man who spoke first replied patting his chest.

"Then you can prepare the men we have trained. We need their strength. The old man commanded the third man again.

"Yes!" There were no extra words, the man just answered coldly, and then fell silent again.

Having said that, there are too many of them, and the three people in the shadows are all a little old after all, and they disperse after talking about business. In the huge mansion, in this courtyard full of strange atmosphere, only the white figure continued to drink and peck over there.

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The heavens are the best time of the day. For a city like Changsha in the south, the summer sun is always unusually hot, as long as it is past the afternoon, the day is as stuffy as a furnace. In such an environment, ordinary people will not easily leave their homes and go outside if they have nothing special. They try to do everything in the morning, especially when they go out, when it is cooler before and after midnight.

As usual, Li Sheng and his party left Nancheng at this moment. Although it is obviously a bit of a "mediocre" move to go out to play every day, but at the moment he is "mediocre" and not very powerful, and the group only goes out to Li Sheng himself, three wives and concubines, and six guards and ten people. Just like an ordinary family, it did not alarm too many people, and it did not have any impact on the people of Changsha. In addition, Li Sheng has already set up a complete set of administrative teams, and has handed over a lot of things to Kong Ming and Shi Yuan, so Li Sheng is "mediocre" at the moment, but it does not affect the administrative management of Changsha on weekdays.

Li Sheng, who went out of the city, undoubtedly took people out to relieve his boredom. Therefore, they did not go to a lively place, but to a remote place, and with the fast horses under them, they rode lightly for an hour, and they came to a bamboo forest in the southeast of the city.

Although it was almost noon, the sun was getting high, and the weather was getting hotter, but because the lush green connected to a sea that nearly blocked the scorching sun, it was a little cooler than the rest of the place.

The group walked along the path that stretched deep along the edge of the bamboo forest. The path was very new, and it seemed to have just been carved out, and when you walked in it, you could faintly see the bamboo roots that had just been cut off by the stubble.

After nearly two miles of winding between the newly opened paths, I saw a large newly opened space in front of me, about a mile square. This is the place that Li Sheng has predetermined, he wants to build a manor outside the city for summer pleasure, and he fell in love with this lush ownerless bamboo forest, so he bought the land outside the city for more than ten miles. At present, he has chosen the address of his future manor, and is waiting for the day he gets married.

"When this manor is built, we will lead the living water of Changsha City here, and there will be a small bridge and flowing water here to cover people." Thinking about what his future home would be, Li Sheng couldn't help but show a look of yearning.

"But this is a full fifty miles away from Changsha City, and it is not an extremely huge project to bring water from the moat? I'm afraid it will cost the people and money. I think it's better to find another way. Li Sheng's wife, Li Zhong, who was following Li Sheng, frowned slightly and said softly.

"Don't underestimate your husband. This can still be done with the power of my Taishou, but in fact, it will not take much effort - it is fifty miles from the city to here, but these fifty miles are all flat land, and after two years, the population of Changsha has increased, and this flat land will be given to those new arrivals. It was used as a field, and the waterway that was opened in advance could not only be used by us, but also used to irrigate the farmland, which was also very beneficial to the people of Changsha. Li Sheng explained with a smile that seemed to be true or false. He understood that his wives were very kind-hearted, so he didn't tell them the results of his discussion with Kong Ming.

As Li Zhong said, opening up a manor here and leading a new river channel is indeed a bit of a waste of money and labor. But this kind of labor and money is exactly what Li Sheng needs right now. He must ensure that his Changsha City develops in a good direction, and at the same time leave an appearance of greed for pleasure and no ambition in Liu Biao. The establishment of this new estate was the beginning of his greed for pleasure.

"I see. The husband is really thoughtful. Li Zhong didn't know anything about the things that Li Sheng and his subordinates had planned, and she naturally believed it very much when she heard Li Sheng's explanation, and a smile like a flower bloomed on her face in an instant, making the whole world seem to be a lot clearer.

"Huh!" Looking at his wife's smile, Li Sheng also smiled faintly, he glanced at the three women around him, and felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

This moment is undoubtedly beautiful for Li Sheng, Li Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Rose. After all four laughed, the four fiery hearts seemed to be leaning together. Although they didn't spend too much time with each other at the same time, and there should have been some contradictions between them, their forbearance and love for each other made them turn the contradictions away, and their care for each other turned into a feeling. This is family affection, and they both consider themselves family.

The wind blows the bamboo forest, the birds sing and the green leaves float, when the four of them have been in this natural beauty. A short whistling sound came from a short distance to the west. This whistling sound was sharp, which made Li Sheng startled when he heard it. Just as he wondered if something was going on over there, he noticed a black line rushing towards his door.

"It's a crossbow bolt......!" When Li Sheng saw this, he was horrified, and his body reacted quickly and leaned to the side. "Poof...... he didn't dodge the crossbow arrow after all, although he avoided the head point, but also let the sharp edge pierce deep into his shoulder. The force came from his right shoulder, like a heavy hammer striking him in the shoulder, and he flew off his horse and fell to the ground with a scream. For a moment, a sharp pain and a tingling sensation came from his shoulders and limbs. "Poisoned arrows? Someone tried to kill me. Before fainting, he finally confirmed it. He was still trying to shout something, but he fainted before he could make a sound.

A little unconscious, I only felt that there was chaos in my mind, everything in the past came like rushing water, how all kinds of things made Li Sheng seem to understand everything at once, and as if he didn't know anything. His consciousness hovered between wakefulness and confusion, occasionally feeling that someone was serving him, and he just wanted to cry out, but he couldn't break free from the restraint in the dark.

"Struggle is powerlessness, here there is only patience." Soon Li Sheng thought of this, and he finally gave up, just quietly silent there, relying on thinking to pass the time. I don't know how long it has been. Maybe it's a few moments, maybe it's hours, maybe it's days, maybe it's months. When Li Sheng's patience in this chaos became less and less, a ray of light suddenly flashed in the gray clouds, and it rushed towards Li Sheng like a meteor, and collided heavily with him when Li Sheng didn't have time to dodge. The ensuing pain made Li Sheng moan uncontrollably—he was finally awake.

Normally, the first thing he heard was the sounds around him. It was very faint, but his long-cultivated sense of hearing brought to his ears the chirping of distant insects, and he knew that it was night. The pain came from the wound on his right shoulder, and the pain like scraping flesh from the wrist bone carried the soreness and numbness all over his body, so that Li Sheng couldn't gather any strength. He was lying on a pillow, which was so thick and soft that it sunk his head deep into it, making him want to sink consciously. At the moment, he didn't have much strength in his body, but after listening to it for a while, feeling it for a while, he gradually felt powerless again. His consciousness was silent again, but unlike the original completely unconscious coma, he was now asleep from fatigue. When he closed his eyes and immersed himself in the silence of darkness, his breathing became long, as if he were in harmony with heaven and earth, and it made people feel very calm when they heard it. Unbeknownst to anyone, a faint breath ran across his body, repairing the wounds on his body bit by bit.

I don't know how long it will be when I have a feeling. Maybe it's daytime—Li Sheng clearly heard the eager call outside the house. Although he still didn't have the strength to open his eyes, Li Sheng could clearly feel that someone was by his side. A faint fragrance of lotus flowers gently poured into the tip of his nose, and Li Sheng understood that it was his wife Zhong'er sitting beside him.

If Li Sheng has any of the closest people in this world, it is undoubtedly his wife and brother. Li Zhong, Song De, Zhou Li, Zhou Rui, Kong Ming, and now maybe Zhao Yun and Rose will be added, thinking of this kind of knowing that makes him feel very cordial, his heart is full of all kinds of warm warmth. In an instant, he had an urge, an urge to open his eyes. The darkness was tired of him, and he didn't know how long it had passed, and he was eager to miss the familiar faces, and he wanted to open his eyes to see his wife who had been separated for a long time.

"Force...... ...... hard," Li Sheng said to himself in his heart. He never thought it would be so painful to open his eyes. The feeling of wanting to struggle and get up, but failing again and again under the pressure of external forces really made him suffocated. He became irritable, and used the strength of his life to open his eyes, and a dazzling light pierced through the darkness and pierced Li Sheng's eyes, which made Li Sheng feel severe pain. He never thought that the action of opening his eyes would make him so uncomfortable.

"Maybe this can be compared to the groundbreaking opening of the Pangu God. Li Sheng thought with a frown, and in his utter impatience, he let out a faint, hoarse moan.

"Husband, are you awake?" Li Sheng's moaning woke up Li Zhong, who was in a daze and didn't know what she was thinking, and her beautiful eyes suddenly flashed with joy: "Thank God!" She held Li Sheng's hand tightly.

"Huh...... Heh......" Seeing his wife so tight on himself, Li Sheng smiled with satisfaction, but he didn't have much strength at the moment, and when he laughed, he pulled the wound on his body slightly, and the severe pain made his smile a little bitter. He wanted to say something, but the dryness in his throat was so uncomfortable that he opened his mouth but could not utter a complete sentence, he could only utter a single word in a panting voice: "Water...... Water ......"

"Oh...... The water is coming. Hearing Li Sheng's sober request, Li Zhong happily agreed, but couldn't help but feel a little nervous because of the excitement in his heart. She raised the pillow under Li Sheng with trembling hands, let him stand up, and then with a smile on her face, she brought the half bowl of shaking water to Li Sheng's mouth, watched him grunt gently, and finally donated a silk scarf to gently wipe the corners of his mouth clean.

"How many days have I been asleep?" Smiling and enjoying his wife's service to him, feeling the hot dryness in his throat subside slightly, he asked.

"It's been six days, but we're scared to death." Li Zhong counted his fingers in fear and said coquettishly. Although she has been married to Li Sheng for more than two years, her personality still seems to have not changed, especially in front of Li Sheng, she is still the same as before, like a little girl.

"I'm sorry...... Makes you worried. I was really useless that day, I couldn't protect you......" Li Sheng apologized to Zhong'er, and his voice gradually deepened. After experiencing this accident, he felt that he was not yet able to relax, although he had to make a look of no ambition in order to paralyze Liu Biao, but it was a little too relaxing to do a fake show like some time ago.

"It's a lesson, a lesson to remember." Li Sheng gritted his teeth and thought, "I thought I had firmly controlled Changsha City, but I didn't want to...... There are still villains lurking. I'm afraid it's Yun'er's credit to be able to escape this time, it's really scary to think about. ”

The more Li Sheng thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, he cheered up, and he insisted on asking her to invite Kong Ming despite Zhong'er's stopping: "I must have a good understanding of the situation of this matter." This is a matter related to our safety, if we are careless, we will regret it.

"Alas......" Li Zhong thought about it, so he didn't insist anymore. Unlike Zhao Yun, who has experienced the real battle formation, Li Zhong and Rose generally belong to the kind of women who are beautiful in everyone, although on the surface, the lively and delicate Li Zhong is more atmospheric than the shy and lovely Rose, but for the assassination incident that happened a few days ago, she was as afraid and worried as Rose, and she was afraid that there would be a second time in that matter.

Kong Ming was quickly brought over, and after simply walking to Li Sheng who was lying on the couch, he sat beside Li Sheng with a calm face. Bell went out, and she naturally avoided suspicion. Although her personality is still as lively as a girl, she will not be like a girl who does everything by temperament. She knew what she should help and what she should avoid.

Li Zhong walked away, and the discussion between Li Sheng and Kong Ming began. First of all, I briefly talked about some of the current situation in government affairs these days, such as those decrees that have been issued, and which displaced people have been brought in, and so on. After all these things were finished, Kong Ming turned the topic to Li Sheng's assassination: "...... After the lord of the forest fell that day, General Zhao Yun was in charge of the matter, and she asked two guards to take care of the lord and the two lords and sent one to report to the city, while she took the other three guards to search the forest...... There were four of those murderers, who didn't seem to be professional, they didn't know how to run away when they committed something, they underestimated General Zhao Yun's force, and were killed by General Zhao Yun on the spot, and only two were captured. It's just that the two of them were very tough when they were caught, but they died of poison at the moment, and they never revealed even a little bit of news to us. …… Due to the new establishment of Changsha, I did not think it was suitable for a large-scale city-wide search and arrest, which would cause too much chaos, so I did not impose more martial law on Changsha except for instructing the city guards to carefully investigate the situation and let Yan Hu and Ye Tao investigate in the shadows in the city. As for the news in the mansion, I have strictly sealed the news, except for a few high-level officials, no one else knows the news in the hands of the lord. Kong Ming explained in detail what had happened in the past few days. Maybe it's because it's more comfortable to call Zhao Yun, the new hostess, a general, on weekdays, and he didn't change his title all at once.

Listening to all this explained by Kong Ming, Li Sheng nodded with satisfaction and praised happily: "Kong Ming is really methodical and steady. I am very satisfied and relieved to deal with this matter in this way. Now that they have failed, it is unlikely that there will be a second attack. Because they know that we will inevitably step up our precautions in this regard after suffering such a time, they will not come to be fools. That's the end of the assassination, and in addition to continuing to track down the murderer, we will use this matter to further put on a posture to dispel Lord Liu Biao's suspicions. This is the most important thing we have right now, even more so than the pursuit of the murderer. Li Sheng pointed out this seriously.

"So what does the lord want to do?" Kong Ming looked at Li Sheng and nodded, he seemed to have some understanding in his heart, but he still wanted to confirm it again.