Wu Jiu's letter to Du Shiyi was written briefly, only mentioning that Wang Maozhong, his sons and henchmen were all degraded, and then briefly described the various reactions in Chang'an City, but Wu Tianqi's eloquence was excellent, and the person sent by his father Wu Jiu to deliver the letter was familiar to him, and he was soft and hard enough to let people talk for half an hour, and then he relayed to Du Shiyi what had happened, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. If it weren't for Du Shiyi to know, it would never be possible for Wu Jiu to find out so clearly about the Son of Heaven's meeting with the prime minister, and he thought that this kid was telling the truth.

But Du Shiyi had a big stone in his heart at this moment. It is said that he has been a foreign official for several years in the blink of an eye, and an enemy like Wang Maozhong is far away in Chang'an, and his ties to him are limited, but he is still not happy to have such a person rooted there to calculate himself all the time, and from time to time he will have some open guns and hidden arrows. So, he relaxed his mood and listened to Wu Tianqi talking about the miserable situation of Wang Maozhong and the Wang family in a hurry, and suddenly found a map on a whim, and it took a long time to find the location of Yongzhou. Looking at the place that was already far away in Guangxi in the later world, almost bordering with the bandits, he couldn't help but sneer.

When the Son of Heaven deals with people, he really banishes people to such a distant place every time. remembers that Yu Wenrong served as a county lieutenant in Pingle, Zhaozhou, and it was as remote as Yaozhou.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a sharp knock on the door outside, followed by Liu Mo pushing the door in, and seeing Wu Tianqi on the side, he said bluntly: "Lord Lang, I just got the news that Chang'an sent it urgently." During the period when Sinong Shaoqing Jiang Cen played Yuwenrong in Bianzhou, he hid tens of millions of official money, including money for shipbuilding, and Feng Shaolie proved that the evidence of this matter was conclusive, and Bixia was furious, and ordered Yuwenrong to flow Yanzhou. ”

Just got the news that Wang Maozhong was demoted outside the mountains, and in the blink of an eye, Yu Wenrong's old case was brought up again, and Du Shiyi couldn't help but smile. Yu Wenrong presided over various affairs such as dredging rivers, consolidating embankments, and disaster relief in Bianzhou, and there was a lot of money in his hands, but if he was not mistaken, even if the other party wanted to make money, he would do it extremely secretively, and a large part of the tens of millions of money was likely to be obtained from suppressing grain prices like him, but it was all put into his own pocket. In officialdom, when no one is held accountable, once someone investigates, a greedy word is the biggest hidden danger

"Send someone to send a letter to Yunzhou, and report to Mrs. Yuwen, alas."

Liu Mo agreed, but did not retreat, but asked with some concern: "Bixia was furious and ordered to continue the investigation, will there be anyone in the court who wants to recover the stolen money, and then use their brains on Mrs. Yuwen and them?"

"Don't worry, since I am willing to accept them to migrate to Yunzhou, I have prepared for the worst. Mrs. Yuwen They have already discarded all the properties in Chang'an, and they only brought a little soft with them, if someone really goes to Yunzhou to investigate, Wang Ziyu will block it. You must know that when Prime Minister Zhang Cheng suffered, his running was a great achievement, and since Jiang Cen and Prime Minister Zhang Cheng had a close relationship, he should not blindly chase and fight. However, Feng Shaolie is the person Pei Xiangguo thinks is in the matter, and he should be his confidant. ”

"Yes, Chang'an Daily said that Prime Minister Zhang Cheng is now seriously ill, but he is still sick to write a Shinto tablet for Feng Shaolie's father Feng Zhaotai, whose inscription is more than 1,400 words. You must know that Prime Minister Zhang Cheng is said to be very sick, and he plans to write such a Shinto monument while he is sick, and the relationship between Prime Minister Zhang Cheng and Feng Shaolie is definitely not trivial. ”

"I think so, but they should also know that Yu Wenrong's two sons are not yet in the climate, so they don't have to worry about their retaliation. If you have to provoke me, I don't have Yu Wenrong's handle to catch me, it touched my head, and I want to come to the true meaning of the four words, I will let people understand it

Since Du Shiyi said so, Liu Mo had nothing to say, and promised to go down. However, as soon as he arrived at the door, Du Shiyi suddenly remembered an equally important matter, and hurriedly opened his mouth to stop him, and after a while, he asked with a smile: "Liu Mo, my wife and I will marry Bai Jiang to you, how about it?" ”

"Ah" Liu Mo was caught off guard for a while, however, seeing that although Du Shiyi's face was full of smiles, he didn't mean to joke, he suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly turned over and bowed down, "Thank you Lord Lang and Mrs., thank you Lord Lang and Mrs., I will definitely ...... We will definitely live up to the two of them."

"Okay, you go down, I'll let people prepare for you when I turn around, which is also a rare happy event recently"

Du Shiyi smiled and withdrew Liu Mo, caught a glimpse of Wu Tianqi on the side snickering, and when he found that he saw him just sit up straight immediately, he smiled dumbly: "You kid go down too, tomorrow I will go to the state to learn to teach the Analects, you might as well go and listen together." By the way, in the future, if I don't have anything important to tell you here, you can go to Daizhou State School to take a class anytime and anywhere, and others will know that you are my servant, and they will definitely think that I sent you to inspect, and they will definitely not drive you away. ”

This time, Wu Tianqi jumped three feet high with joy. After thanking him repeatedly, he got up and ran out of the house. In a few moments, his heartless cheers were heard outside.

The two things were just a gesture for themselves, but they made Liu Mo and Wu Tianqi very happy, and Du Shiyi couldn't help but feel a little better. However, thinking that Chibi followed Yu Wenrong to Zhaozhou Pingle, this trip was more than a year. Now that he is facing Yu Wenrong's exile again, he can't help but sigh secretly

I only hope that Yu Wenrong and Chibi, two people with completely different identities and circumstances, can be safe and sound

Although Zhaozhou is far away in Lingnan, it is only a hundred miles away from Guizhou, where the Guizhou Governor's Mansion is located, and even if this is not an official road, it can only be reached by turning to Lipu, which is much stronger than other prefectures and counties that are so remote that Guizhou is difficult to reach. And Yanzhou is the two years of the analysis of Yulin, Heng, Gui, prison, Bai five prefectures, the state of Zhile County, the miasma, the state officials have always been few willing to serve, Anle County has only one light pole county order. When Yu Wenrong got the edict of exile, he was already a little numb when he expected that others would chase and beat him.

It is said that it is the county lieutenant, but Pingle County is the county of Zhaozhou, and the county party is finally a sparrow, although it is small, and it has all the organs. However, everyone knows that Yu Wenrong was degraded for sin, and since he took office for more than a year, others have been hiding far away, and no one has anything to do with him from beginning to end. At this moment, Yu Wenrong silently watched the old servant pack his luggage, dragged himself out of the house with heavy steps, and saw that the sturdy figure was lowering his head to chop wood, he suddenly asked in a low voice.

"I'm about to transfer to Yanzhou, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and you still want to follow me?"

Chibi glanced back at Yuwen Rong, and then said succinctly: "Lord Lang has already commanded, wherever Yuwen Shaofu goes, I will follow him." I will go from Yuwen Shaofu to Yanzhou. ”

Yu Wenrong brought five servants from home to Zhaozhou Pingle, but now there are only two old servants left, and the other three prime men have fled without a trace, although he has fallen to this point, there will be no one to covet his life by violent means, but he still remembers that when he first took office, the mountain people made trouble, and he did not dare to attack the assassination history department, but he came to attack the county party, he was forced to go out to calm down because he was not welcomed, but he couldn't understand the local language of those mountain people. If it weren't for Chibi's sudden appearance and his superb martial arts to shock the mountain people, I'm afraid he would have died a long time ago.

Afterwards, he learned that Chibi was ordered by Du Shiyi to go to Pingle in Zhaozhou to protect him. Now that Dao has broken his identity, Chibi has been staying by his side. But he didn't expect that such a strong martial artist would be able to guard him in Zhaozhou for more than a year

"Du Junli is noble, I naturally feel guilty, I don't mean to delay ......"

Without waiting for Yu Wenrong to finish speaking, Chibi interrupted: "The reason why I truthfully informed Yuwen Shaofu of my intention as soon as I came was that I would never get something and immediately disappear without a trace." Yuwen Shaofu has doubts, so there is no need to explain. Along the way, I will do my duty. ”

Chibi said this, and Yu Wenrong felt more and more guilty in his heart. However, the ants are still greedy, let alone him? He still has a wife and children waiting in the distance, and if he dies like this, won't it make the enemy even more proud? Moreover, he still retains one in ten thousand hopes, hoping that the Son of Heaven will forgive his negligence when he finds that the country's financial plans cannot be done without him, so that he can recover and return to the court. Because of this, he couldn't help but hesitate to give away what Chibi asked for. Of course, subconsciously, he was even more afraid that without such a reliable escort, he would not be able to survive in Lingnan at all.

However, it wasn't until he set off from Zhaozhou to Yanzhou that he realized how difficult the road was. Although it is said that it is only a few hundred miles of road, there are basically no official roads along the way, only those mountain and forest paths, which are impossible for vehicles to pass through. And the soldiers who escorted him to Yanzhou were so fierce that they forced him to travel more than fifty miles every day. An old servant who had followed him for many years was sick and sick ten days after his departure, and finally died early the next morning after a night of high fever. After silently burying the old servant, Yu Wenrong's mood became heavier and heavier, and after walking for two days, he also fell ill all of a sudden because of excessive anxiety and deep miasma.

Faced with such a situation, the junior officer led by him was greatly annoyed, and he was going to force it again, but Chibi finally couldn't stand it anymore. If he hadn't brought the miasma avoidance pill and took it for himself and Yu Wenrong earlier, I'm afraid that they wouldn't be able to support it long ago, as they were not used to the southern climate. Even if he is iron-clad, he can't carry Yuwenrong to a remote place like Yanzhou. Therefore, he instructed another old servant to take care of Yu Wenrong first, and then called the small officer led by him to the side, and asked to return to Zhaozhou or neighboring states and counties to temporarily recuperate on the grounds that Yu Wenrong was infected with miasma.

"Time is so tight, there is no grace at all, let alone recuperation"

"According to the law of Yonghui, if a wanderer is sick on the road, he should be given false treatment, not within the limit of fifty miles a day" Chibi directly stiffened back, seeing that the other party showed a fierce light, and his hand was even pressed on the hilt of the knife, he smiled and said, "I am not a servant of Yuwen Shaofu, but a friend sent by his friends in the capital to accompany him." If you don't agree, I will go to Lingnan, the governor of Guizhou, to interview Zhang Zhijun to complain, if Zhang Zhijun doesn't pay attention, I will go to Chang'an to sue the emperor."

Speaking of this, Chibi stretched out his hand and pressed on a thick bamboo on the side, and immediately punched it, and the huge bamboo broke and fell to the ground in an instant. Seeing that the little officer was shrunk by it, he returned to Yu Wenrong peacefully, and while several soldiers were discussing, he told him about asking for leave for Yu Wenrong.

"Thank you, thank you" Yu Wenrong showed an irrepressible look of gratitude for a while, but his eyes revealed a deep sense of defeat.

"Yuwen Shaofu doesn't need to thank me." Although Yu Wenrong is not even a county lieutenant now, Chibi has been with people in Lingnan for more than a year, and he has long been accustomed to this title, and he can't change it for a while, "I could have spent money to buy them." But these people have been in Lingnan for a long time, and if they really have bad intentions, it will be difficult for me to resist alone, after all, they know the way better. Instead of this, they can only temporarily threaten to force them to obey orders. ”

Yu Wenrong has been through ups and downs for half his life, and has experienced everything, so of course he understands what Chibi is worried about. He nodded slightly, but then said in a low voice: "However, don't send me to this place under the command of Guizhou to recuperate, the governor of Guizhou, Zhang Jiuling, was demoted from the post of Zhongshu Sheren to a foreign official because of my impeachment of Zhang Shuo, and he must hate me to the bone, and it is not an exaggeration to want me to die." Go to Guangzhou"

Trying his best to spit out these few words, Yu Wenrong was out of breath for a while, and only after a long time did he whisper: "Guangzhou is not as humid and hot as the climate here, and there are good doctors. ”

Zhang Jiuling is a person, but Chibi still knows a rough idea. Although he has a reputation for being upright, the most important thing for him at the moment is to protect the safety of Yu Wenrong, who is determined to go to Guangzhou, and he almost didn't think about it and agreed: "Leave this matter to me"

The road back to Pingle and then back to Guangzhou is an official road. Through Linhe and Fengyang in Hezhou, and then to the east, it is the boundary of Guangzhou. Although the soldiers in charge of the escort were reluctant at first, when Chibi passed through Pingle in Zhaozhou, they had a much better look on their faces after they were paid twenty yuan in a cabinet shop. And when they entered the city of Guangzhou, they were also curious to look around, and when Chibi opened a hostel and settled everyone down, several people didn't even care about the duty of escorting, and they all went out to see the prosperity and wealth of the largest city in Lingnan.

Hengzhu Yu Wenrong didn't dare to run at all

He has a total of two old servants, and now there is only one person left, so when Chibi said that he wanted to buy two more servants to serve outside, Yu Wenrong did not refuse. Although he has already learned the hard work along the way, he knows that Chibi, an outsider, has also worked hard for himself, and as for a little money, it is a trivial matter in comparison.

However, seeing that he was about to go out, he suddenly remembered something, immediately stopped Chibi, hesitated for a moment and said: "After all, I am a rogue person, and now I am temporarily recuperating in Guangzhou due to illness. I beg you to ask someone to go to the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion to report a letter. ”

People have to bow their heads under the eaves, not to mention that the governor of Guangzhou is also the envoy of the five prefectures of Lingnan, and governs the entire Lingnan Road, and Yu Wenrong has now been swept to the end, it is difficult to say that there is any hope of recovery, so Chibi naturally agreed. When he instructed the only remaining old servant to take care of Yu Wenrong, he first went to the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion to send a letter to the Guangzhou Governor Geng Renzhong, and went to the market to select two sturdy servants who looked honest and returned to the hostel, but found that the soldiers who went shopping had not returned, but several officers had already come out of the hostel and left in front of him.

Suddenly, he hurriedly led people into the hostel, and when he arrived at the yard he rented, he saw that the damp clothes that had just been dried in the yard were thrown all over the ground. Knowing that the servants were not good just now, he couldn't care about the two newly bought servants, and when he walked into the house quickly, he found that Yuwen Rong was sitting there with his eyes blank, and the old servant kneeling beside him was weeping.

"What's going on?"

"Chi Lang is back" The old servant saw Chi Bi as if he had seen the heart of the Lord, and hurriedly got up to meet him, and said with a crying voice, "Just now those people from the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion said that Ah Lang was conclusively accused of embezzling ink, and he was sentenced to exile for Bixia's anger. Those officers spoke extremely ugly, Ah Lang couldn't help but reprimand a few words for a while, they... When they got out, they smashed all the hangers outside. He also said that Geng Dudu had an order, and within three days, Ah Lang must go on the road immediately."

Hearing this, Chi Bi Deng's brows furrowed. Although he didn't have any respect for Yu Wenrong or anything else in the past, during the period when Yu Wenrong was demoted to Pingle Wei of Zhaozhou, in addition to the miscellaneous affairs of the county party, he also silently sorted out all kinds of manuscripts about rivers, salt and iron, and Duzhi, and he was quite shocked by the wide range of financial schemes involved in this person. Even if he always felt that Yu Wenrong deserved to blame himself this time, but he had been degraded and degraded, and now he was still in exile, and it was indeed difficult to really fall ill, and some people didn't even have the least pity?

Thinking of this, he immediately said angrily: "I'm going to ask to see Geng Dudu."

"Don't go" Yu Wenrong almost burst out three words from his throat, and seeing Chibi turn around, he tried his best to grasp the edge of the couch with his thin hand, and shouted tiredly, "In what capacity are you going to ask to see Geng Dudu?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Chi Bi Deng was speechless. yes, in what capacity did he go? If he goes to Geng Renzhong as a confidant of Acting Governor Shi Du Shiyi, the other party will not only question it, but also use it to play the problem. And if he went to ask for a meeting as Yu Wenrong's servant, the probability of being turned away was almost 100 percent. However, if a person falls ill on the way, he can be given false treatment, which is clearly stipulated in the laws of the imperial court, and as a result, in the hands of some people, it becomes a tool to fight political opponents, which is simply shameless

Seeing that Chi Bi turned slowly with a blue face, Yu Wenrong showed a miserable smile, and then said in a low voice: "So far, I have something to say to Chi Lang." Liu Jia, you go out and guard the door, don't let people who don't agree with you come in. ”

The old servant at the couch nodded, and staggered out the door. At this time, Yuwen Rong laboriously pulled over a heavy burden beside his pillow, and saw that Chibi had already sat down on the couch, so he pushed it in front of the other party: "You have followed me in Lingnan for a year, this is the manuscript you watched me sort out, not only the income of the households, but also the rules of water and land transportation, and the tax of the household, the abolition of rent, as for other miscellaneous things, Du Junli will naturally take a closer look at it at that time." Of course, there are also the things that Du Junli originally wanted, I have been dragging it out and not giving it to you, all of them are in it. ”

Although these were the purposes of traveling more than 6,000 miles from Chang'an to Lingnan, Chibi's heart was full of heaviness when he received the heavy package at this time. He nodded silently, thought for a while, and finally whispered: "I will go to the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion again in the evening, hoping to persuade Geng Governor by luck." In any case, I hope that Yuwen Shaofu can take advantage of these three days to recuperate. ”

"I know." Yuwen Rong nodded effortlessly, with a hint of determination on his face, "Until Zuihou is a moment, I don't want to die so quickly as others wish."

At night, the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion is exceptionally quiet. There are only a few metropolitan governors in the world, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Youzhou, which are exactly four places in the east, west, north and south, and among the remaining central governors, Guangzhou has always been regarded as moving to the left because it is located in Lingnan, but there are many famous ministers who are officials here, such as Song Jing, who was recalled to Beijing to worship the prime minister in Guangzhou.

And the current governor of Guangzhou, Geng Renzhong, although not as famous as Song Jing, is also quite famous in Guangzhou. Now that it has reached the lunar month, if it is in the north, it is naturally a cold weather, but in Guangzhou it is still like a spring night. Geng Renzhong, who was serving wine in the pavilion, personally poured a full glass for the middle-aged man in front of him, and then said with a smile: "Thanks to Brother Zhou Xian in Guangzhou today, otherwise he might have been avoided by Yu Wenrong."

"These rats relied on the grace of God to run rampant for a while, trapping Yan Guogong in prison, so that Zhang Dudu had to move to the left, and now he deserves it, but he has to use his illness to delay the trip in Guangzhou, which is really an unforgivable sin"

The one who spoke was Zhou Ziliang, the judge of Lingnan's envoy Zhang Jiuling, because of Zhang Jiuling's recommendation, he would soon return to the dynasty and be promoted to supervise the imperial history. He and Zhang Jiuling have the righteousness of master and subordinate, but they also have a good relationship with Geng Renzhong, and after reprimanding Yu Wenrong contemptuously at this moment, he said solemnly: "Therefore, Yu Wenrong's matter, please also ask Geng Dudu to pay attention, don't let the traitor escape the punishment he deserves." ”

"That's natural, I will definitely let people urge Yu Wenrong to forgive Yu Wenrong for a crime, and don't dare to blindly delay in Guangzhou." Geng Renzhong didn't have a good impression of Yuwen Rongben, since Zhou Ziliang said so, even if he gave Zhang Shuo in the middle of the court and Zhang Jiuling, the governor of Guizhou, a face, he would naturally have a choice. At this moment, he smiled and gave Zhou Ziliang a toast, because he wished, "As soon as Brother Zhou enters the Yushi Stage, he will definitely have a bright future, and I congratulate him in advance."

In the shadows of the corner, Chi Bi, who had worked hard to infiltrate the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion, was silent, and when he hid in the darkness, he first revealed a fierce murderous aura, but finally relented.

This is the case with party struggle, and this is not the first time he has seen it