A light rain shrouded the sky over Longxing Mansion, rendering the entire air moist and refreshing. The bluestone streets were hazy because of the wind and rain, and the houses with white walls and black tiles seemed to be intoxicated by them. This is the style that belongs to Jiangnan and the taste that belongs to Jiangnan.

It's just that at this time, Wang Yao, the elders of the court, were no longer in the mood to enjoy the picturesque scenery, and they were all sitting in the meeting hall of Wang Yao's mansion, and their faces were gloomy.

"It's been raining for a few days?" Ye Mengding was originally a resolute character, and it seemed that he couldn't stand this silence anymore, so he gently tapped the armrest of the chair with his hand and was the first to speak. This low-voice inquiry was like a thunderbolt piercing the darkness, making Wang Yao and the others, who had been silent, couldn't help but shake their bodies.

Zhang Jian stroked his beard, and said helplessly: "There are not four days but three days, in this way, not only the food and grass of the Tianwu army have to continue to delay on the road, even its military salary may have to be delayed, now everywhere because of the heavy rain a few days ago and the road is blocked, the news can not be transmitted, I dare not be sure whether there is a disaster, so the rest must keep enough silver taels and grain and grass, just in case." ”

Guo Huai, who was promoting Changping affairs on Jiangnan West Road, saw a group of respected old men all looking at him in unison, his eyes were full of doubt and distrust, and he couldn't help but straighten his body at the moment, and reluctantly said: "Your Excellency can also see that this matter is indeed not the fault of the lower officials······ It rained heavily that day, and the road collapsed······ What God wants is not up to the lower officials to decide. ”

"Well, I'm afraid it's just the same as Lord Guo." Wang Yao waved his hand and said lightly, "But please be sure to worry about it, after all, the Tianwu Army is the essence of Jiangnan West Road, and the people who hold important positions in the army are all the children of everyone here, and the key points must be clear to Lord Guo." If something happens to the Tianwu Army, all the princes here are afraid that they will not be able to eat and will go around. ”

Guo Huai was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed a panicked look. Presumably, the saint is not in a good mood to give the former upper four army numbers to a newly established local Xiang army, there must be Jia Yidao's hands and feet, since the name is "Tianwu", it is a symbol of the majesty of the Great Song Dynasty, if the Tianwu army has a disturbance or even a rebellion, its impact is self-evident, and one of the princes in charge of Jiangnan West Road does not want to escape the guilt. As the former Jia Nidao party, Guo Huai can be said to have an absolute "criminal record", and Jia Nidao is very likely to control the food and salary of the Tianwu Army through him, and then achieve the goal of completely demoting Wang Yao and them back to their hometowns.

Suddenly, I figured out this festival, it was always a light rain outside, and it was extremely refreshing, and Guo Huai was still in a cold sweat behind his back.

After more than 200 years of evolution, the party struggle in the Great Song Dynasty has reached its peak, and the struggle between the two parties of Jiang Wanli and Jia Rudao has also risen to the point where it is life and death as soon as a shot is made. It turned out that Guo Huai was on Jiangnan West Road, but he thought that he should hug a thigh, and it didn't make a difference which one to hold, but now that he was there, he felt the ferocity of the life-and-death struggle between different thighs.

"Lord Guo?" Ye Mengding took a sip of tea and shouted.

Guo Huai was so frightened that he almost jumped up, and hurriedly coughed lightly twice to hide the embarrassment of his distraction. Seeing this fat loach who has been crawling in the officialdom for I don't know how many years, his old face turned red for the first time, and everyone present understood that this guy was shocked by the party fighting and killing machine that Wang Yao's words inadvertently revealed just now, and he was distracted.

At this moment, one of the ten generals in the costume of the city defenders walked quickly to the front of the hall, knelt on one knee, and bowed his hand to report: "Your Excellency, Lord Guo, the deputy envoy of the Tianwu Army, has just entered the city on a flying horse and went straight to Lord Guo's mansion. The last general will not dare to slack off, and he will also go here to report, and I hope that you will make a decision as soon as possible. ”

Guo Huai, who hadn't come back to his senses just now, was the first to jump up: "This official is going to go, all the ministers, offended." ”

Before the words fell, this Lord Guo didn't care about anything, waved his sleeves and turned to leave, leaving the ten generals and Wang Yao and others staring at each other with big eyes.

With a wry smile, Wang Yao waved his hand: "I know, it's hard work, you step down, go to the left wing room to find the housekeeper, and receive ten copper coins as a reward." ”

When the ten generals left with a happy face, Zhang Jian Fang smiled slightly and said, "This time, I'm afraid we don't have to worry about food and salary, that Lord Guo must be more concerned than everyone here." ”

Jiang Wanli, who had not spoken, nodded slowly, pointed at Ye Mengding, who had a smug face, and said with a smile: "This has to be regarded as the 'discerning talent' in the second yamen of the town family, such an arrangement can be said to hold the lifeblood of Lord Guo." ”

Just when Zhang Jian and Wang Jian looked at each other and smiled, a muddy messenger strode up, saluted these people separately, and hurriedly handed the fire-painted letter from his arms to the table on Wang Yao's side, only then did he breathe a long sigh of relief, his body was already a little swaying, obviously the long time had exhausted most of his physical strength.

For this messenger who suddenly broke in, everyone present was surprised and jumped up like Guo Huai just now, and while beckoning the servants to come and support the messenger who was so tired that he couldn't speak, he carefully removed the fire paint from the letter.

The letter paper that still exudes a faint fragrance of ink is spread out, and within a few hundred words, the stakes of Guo Chang's return to Longxing Mansion have been clarified, and Ma Tingyou and Wen Tianxiang and Xie Fangde, who came after hearing the news, have also added the worries of Ye Yingwu about Ye Yingwu's rash northward departure.

Several old men were silent for a moment, then looked at each other and smiled.

"These little bunnies are thoughtful." Jiang Wanli put down the letter with a smile, "And just now it was really not Yu Kua who went to Haikou, the one from the town's family, it's really not simple, you have all seen it, the signature behind this, and the Xie Junzhi who has disappeared from the court, you must know that this Lord Xie was much tougher than our old bones." ”

Ye Mengding smiled and waved his hand, taking this factual compliment.

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The three horses galloped in the rain, and although the three knights were wearing hats and robes, the appearance of the mud had proved that the coats and hats were no longer of much use.

As a person who knows how to protect himself, Guo Huai will not blatantly build his mansion magnificently, that Guo Mansion may be considered a big family in ordinary alleys, but if it is put together with the Wang family mansion and the Zhang family mansion, it will already be lost to everyone. However, how many secret rooms there are in the small Guo Mansion, and how much money is placed in the secret room, even Guo Huai's biological son Guo Chang is honestly unclear.

But no matter what, Guo Yanei firmly believes that Tianwu Jun's salary, his already fat and oily father will definitely be able to get it.

Approaching Guo's mansion, the two attendants suddenly reined in the reins of the horse, and the horse man stood up, neighing twice, taking advantage of this opportunity, these two guards who seemed to be good at kung fu immediately stretched out their hands left and right, and easily controlled the reins of Guo Yanei beside him, Guo Yanei, who was already a little blue and unconscious, subconsciously screamed, if it wasn't for the two of them, he would have slid off the horse's back with a grunt.

There was already a butler waiting outside Guo's mansion, waiting for his lord to come back, but now he saw the three knights who suddenly rushed out of the wind and rain, and they were so rude, and at that moment, the shelf of the wealthy and evil servants that the butler had cultivated over the years trembled, and he stood under the eaves and shouted coldly: "Where did you come from, do you know that this is Lord Guo's mansion?" How dare you run rampant here! ”

Although the faces of the two guards were obscured by the lily hats, judging from their slightly trembling shoulders and the hands that silently rested on the hilts of their swords, their faces must have been extremely gloomy. Guo Chang finally breathed a sigh of relief, the immediate bumps in the past few days almost exhausted the last physical strength of this Yanei, if it weren't for the two guards who knew the importance of it, they tried their best to take care of it all the way, and they could be regarded as having undergone several trainings at home and had good physical strength, otherwise this Yanai would really not be able to hold out Longxing Mansion and return to the world.

When he arrived at Longxing Mansion, it was his Guo Yan's territory, and at that moment, Guo Chang waved his hand fiercely to break free from the support of the two guards, staggered two steps in the wind and rain, and almost fell, but when the face of the hat without a trace of blood but gritted his teeth was revealed, the face of the invincible housekeeper who was arrogant just now turned pale in an instant.

"Xiao Yanai! Oh my God, why are you here! The housekeeper didn't care about Guo Chang's murderous gaze and the murderous aura emitted by the two guards, and almost rushed into the rain to support Guo Chang with a cry. The Guo family in the back also came back to their senses and swarmed up, but it made the two tired guards cry and laugh.

"Quick, go to the back house to inform Mrs., and prepare ginger syrup for the two officials in the little ya, you have to warm up your body if you say anything, hurry!" The housekeeper saw that the little yamen in the Longxing Mansion was embarrassed like this, and he couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain on his face, and when several family members helped Guo Chang in, the housekeeper breathed a long sigh of relief, as if the wind and rain were not bleak on his body, and he arched his hand at the two guards, "The two officials, it's troublesome along the way, if you don't dislike it, please go to the wing room of the mansion to rest for a while, and then go and order the next person to serve the two officials to bathe." ”

The two guards returned the salute with a smile, and said: "There is no need to take a bath, just give us some food to eat, and when Guo Yanei reports to you Lord Guo, I need to go back as soon as possible." ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves outside sounded suddenly, and the housekeeper subconsciously hit a spirit, and hurriedly looked up, the first goal was very obvious, it was his own official, but I don't know why this official who has always been in the car is so heroic and takes the lead, and although it is only a short distance, his body is almost soaked by the rain.

Guo Huai hurriedly rolled off the horse, maybe he hadn't ridden a horse for a long time, this white and fat adult almost fell into a very unsightly dog gnawing mud, so frightened that the housekeeper flew up and hugged his own officials, I don't know what kind of bad luck came today, and the old and young in this family don't know which one is making trouble.

Unexpectedly, Guo Chang still had some perseverance, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, he knew that his father had rushed back, and he was about to turn back to the gate with those few family members. The family members naturally knew the status of this little yaman in the minds of their own officials, and if they dared to oppose it, they could only come back like this. Seeing his embarrassed father, Guo Chang didn't care that the two of them were soaking wet, so he directly threw himself over and knelt on the ground and begged:

"Daddy, you want food, you want salary, otherwise the Tianwu Army will be finished!"

Guo Huai was stunned, he didn't expect his son Pegasus to run back for this, and thought that the most beloved youngest son had suffered something in the Tianwu Army, and while he was relieved at the moment, he couldn't help but feel a dilemma in his heart. His own kid actually braved the rain and flew for hundreds of miles for the matter of food, and he was finally like a man, and he had a chance, so he had to agree to this request if he said anything, but once the food and salary required by the Tianwu Army were delivered, then it meant that he clearly said that he had broken off with Jia Nidao and the party, and instead threw himself into the arms of Jiang Wanli and the party.

But the crux of the problem is that now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Jia Yidao has covered the sky with one hand, and Jiang Wanli and these people have to temporarily avoid the edge, hiding in Jiangnan West Road, which may be destroyed by war at any time, and waiting for the resurgence of Dongshan. But who can grasp that Jiang Wanli, an old man in his old age, has a chance to turn over?

His grandmother's, where is this sacred, to be able to come up with such a strategy, and to easily force Lao Tzu to choose a side? Could it be that the sharpness of the party struggle revealed in Wang Yao's words just now, intentionally or unintentionally, was also to force himself to clarify his position as soon as possible? One link after the other······ Thinking of this, Guo Huai couldn't help but shudder.

"Daddy ······" Guo Chang couldn't hold it anymore, and his eyelids finally closed heavily. After many days of immediate bumps, he really needed to get a good night's sleep to make up for his already insignificant physical strength.

Guo Huai looked at the little fox who was asleep in his arms, and couldn't help but sigh, no matter what, even if Jiang Wanli and Wang Yao can't survive when these old foxes can't turn over, Ye Yingwu and Wen Tianxiang, the little foxes who have already emerged, should always be able to survive, and it is already God's blessing that he can get to this point in his life, and now I wish the younger son can be successful under Ye Yingwu.

"Sir! Chang'er! Mrs. Guo ran over from the backyard with a crying voice, and the anxious maid behind chased after her with an umbrella. The two guards who had been standing quietly at the door couldn't help but glance at each other, and they didn't know how exaggerated the tragic situation in Guo Yanei was by the family who went to report the news, and how scared Mrs. Guo like this.

Guo Huai smiled helplessly, it may be a life-and-death step in life, and it is finally over.

And Ye Yingwu, who was hundreds of miles away, didn't know that things didn't think of the worst direction, but instead brightened up another village.

As for the old foxes across the wall, they were still smiling at this time, based on their mastery of people's hearts for so many years, they had already expected the result, and all they needed to do was to cooperate with the work.

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