Chapter 20: Night Talk

"Uncle Xiao, let's eat something after being busy for a long time, the fruit wine and food are already hot, and this is the right time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xuan Kui said as he took the food out of the pot and put it on the small table, his expression as indifferent as ever.

Wei Xuan couldn't help but smile when he heard this, although he was still a little tired, he was much better. I picked up the flask from the bowl filled with hot water and took a sip, only to feel the chill on my body disappear in an instant. is not hypocritical, smoked a small bench and sat at the small table, and moved the chopsticks with fruit wine.

The food is actually not good, the sauce meat in the cellar was provided by Wei Xuan to the old and young, women and children and the injured, the degree of fruit wine is not high, and some older people drink a little to help sleep, and in addition to these two only millet and some grains are left. The craftsmanship of the woman who escaped is very good, the multigrain cake is not dry or astringent, and the taste is naturally not as good as what Wei Xuan eats on weekdays, but in this situation, it is good to be able to fill her stomach.

I can't eat two palm-sized multigrain cakes, and I really lose my appetite. Also, anyone who watched the bloody scene all night would not have a good appetite, if it wasn't for the hunger, Wei Xuan was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to eat a bite. Leaning against the somewhat cold wall of the room, Wei Xuan took a small sip of fruit wine with a wine jug, this feeling of cold on the outside and hot on the inside made his mind very clear, and his thoughts were unprecedentedly clear.

"Xuan Kui, did the Zuo Shenwu Army send someone to escort you later?" Rubbing his somewhat sore head, Wei Xuan asked softly.

Xuan Kui shook his head, his face as calm as ever. Wei Xuan couldn't help but sigh secretly when he saw it, and said, "It seems that everything is still too simple......

"Uncle Xiao, it's no wonder to you about this, who would have expected that the army of Datang would wave the knife on the heads of the people of Datang." Xuan Kui filled the stove with two pieces of wood, and looked at the red stove in a daze.

"Actually, I should have thought of it a long time ago. The war in the Central Plains has not been peaceful for a long time, and there has been a big war in the middle of the year, and his Li family will not think too much about things for the sake of the stability of the country. For them, it is enough to have soldiers and generals in their hands, and where will they care what kind of people these soldiers will be? Wei Xuan said coldly, "Bandits and bandits can be used, and death row prisoners can also be used, as long as you are loyal and capable, nothing else matters." ”

"This ...... Uncle Xiao, please be cautious, be careful that the wall has ears. Xuan Kui was taken aback by Wei Xuan's words, and hurriedly admonished. Although strictly speaking, he and the old Taoist priest belong to outsiders, and the secular law does not have much constraint on them, but it also depends on what kind of law it is. Talking about the royal family is no different from committing the crime of defrauding the king, and the identity of an outsider cannot be protected.

"Hey......" Wei Xuan sighed, drank all the fruit wine in the pot in one gulp, and then casually threw the wine jug aside, leaning against the wall, holding his hand in his sleeve, lowering his head slightly, and shrinking into a ball. Xuan Kui saw that Wei Xuan's appearance was clear, and couldn't help but sigh slightly: "Little uncle, in fact, don't be too anxious. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, and it has been close in recent years, it seems that someone will take care of such things as Nanshan Village. Moreover, depending on your identity and my identity, there is no way to manage it, so it is better to ......"

"What's not as good as what? Wait and see? Wei Xuan interrupted Xuan Kui's words in a cold voice, and there was a suppressed anger in his tone, "That's not someone else, that's the Zuo Shenwu Army, the Imperial City Forbidden Army!" Originally, the Yushitai, who was in charge of the supervision of the division of civil and military affairs, couldn't control these people in the army, not to mention that Li Chang was leading the forbidden army! Since ancient times, it has been the norm for officials to protect each other, not to mention that this time is just a battle of 100 people, I am afraid that in the eyes of those people, it is nothing at all. As long as no one pokes it out, I'm afraid that no one else will know about it for the rest of my life. ”

"Uncle Xiao, aren't you...... Don't be impulsive! ”

"Impulsive? Hehe...... Am I like that impulsive person? Wei Xuan smiled coldly, waved his hand to make Xuan Kui not so excited, and then said, "This kind of thing is unspeakable, at least not something that a civilian like us can say, do you think that I will go to Beijing to sue the emperor because I can't get angry?" It's not realistic. ”

"Look at who is coming to this so-called counterinsurgency! Li Chang, a strong general, from the middle general of the fourth grade, can sit in this position at his age, if you say that he is a stupid person, who will believe it? I am afraid that he knows the consequences of slaughtering the people better than you and me. But that's it, he still dares to condone his soldiers to do it, how many of them are boring, have you ever thought about it? ”

Xuan Kui was stunned by Wei Xuan's words, he didn't have much impression of these things since he was a child, and he didn't think of this aspect. But in the end, he is smart, and now that he reacted when he heard Wei Xuan say this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead: "This...... Uncle Junior, isn't there a mistake? How...... How so? ”

"Don't make things too simple." Wei Xuan sighed, "That money is just reckless, but it's just a martial artist, Zhao Qi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he must know what the crime of slaughtering the people is." Sure, you can say he's a humble man, but do you think Chang Lee will be a fool? ”

Xuan Kui shook his head when he heard this, but he heard Wei Xuan continue: "In this incident in Nanshan Village, there are more than 300 rabbles on the Zhou family's side, and Li Changfang is leading a hundred elites of the Zuo Shenwu Army, and these people want to suppress the rebellion of only 300 people, but it can be said that it is effortless. Mo said that there are eccentricities in the village, and no matter how strange there are, on this flat terrain, a village can't try to block the hundred elites of the forbidden army. Besides, if you really want to only exterminate the rebellion, you should occupy the main road with a small number of people, and then concentrate your forces to attack Huanglong, instead of surrounding the three sides of the army like Li Chang, isn't this forcing others to jump over the wall in a hurry? Hmph, do you really think that such a simple cover-up will succeed? It's just self-deception. ”

"Uncle Xiao, if you say so, it's a forbidden army after all, what can we do." Xuan Kui sighed, his face full of helplessness.

"There are solutions, but we can't do it stupidly." Wei Xuan shook his head and said, "Anyway, he Li Chang also has a merit in suppressing the rebellion, and now that it is the New Year, the new emperor has changed the yuan, and it is the time to reward the heroes, and there is no possibility of disposing of the meritorious heroes." But in the future, I'll say something else......" Wei Xuan said with a frown, "But what does this have to do with you and me?" To be honest, if the Wu family can escape this catastrophe, Nanshan Village will no longer mean anything to me, and you are an outsider, so it has nothing to do with you. The way of heaven is to win without fighting, and to respond well when it should not be, the so-called sky net is magnificent, negligent but not lost, there will always be results. ”

Xuan Kui is not pedantic, listening to Wei Xuan say this, he knew that his little uncle had a calculation in his heart, and he was relieved at the moment. For him, it is the right thing to study the Taoist scriptures and inherit the mantle of his master Yuheng Zhenren in the future, if it is not for Wei Xuan's request, he will not even go down the mountain. Wei Xuan also knows this, so he is accustomed to Xuan Kui's perennial expressionless indifference. Of course, only Wei Xuan knew that compared with the old Taoist Yuheng Zhenren, Xuan Kui still thought everything too simply. In the current environment, it is not possible to practice behind closed doors.

After all, it is not an ordinary person who sits on the throne now.