Xi Dongye is nearly fifty years old, and he is a masterful figure, Mei Liting is still called Xuanang's husband in Yongyang, and he is still an inch shorter than him.

Before the battle of the East China Sea, he and Chen Ang and Mei Tiecao were one of the three statues of the East China Sea, seeing his beautiful hair hanging down, his hair was like bright lacquer, and he secretly thought that he had known self-cultivation in recent years, Xu Ruyu got up and stood up, and said: "I have admired Xi Valve for a long time, and I can only see it today." He saluted Liu Zhaoyu and said, "Ru Yu has seen Mr. Liu." ”

When Xu Ruyu was in Wanling, Liu Zhaoyu was Wanling, and he had a lot of support for him in the art of war and government affairs. Liu Zhaoyu said: "The general is the lord of the southeast, and Zhaoyu does not dare to be it." "Bow down, unwilling to be bowed.

Liu Zhaoyu is not a secular person, so naturally he will not be born for his own name. Xu Ruyu looked at his indifferent expression, and his heart sank, but he didn't know where something could have happened.

After Xi Dongye and Liu Zhaoyu left, Xu Ruyu pushed the window to see the snow all night, and then continued to go north. The snow is late, only listening to the sound of falling snow, and I am fascinated. When I arrived in Qichuan, it was already three days later.

Xu Ruyu fought Qichuan for the first time, and defeated the 20,000 Baishi Army with 600 elite cavalry, which not only alleviated the crisis of the war situation in the East China Sea, but also achieved Xu Ruyu's prestige.

The snow melted on the galloping road, Xu Ruyu made the cavalry embrace the car and gallop the horses, and the sound of iron hooves was in his ears to imagine the situation when he galloped to help Qichuan, and Xu Ruyu sighed in his heart. was thinking about it from afar, and suddenly felt that the carriage stopped, slowly stopped, lifted the curtain, and saw Chen Zifang and Fang Su standing in the middle of the road.

The horses on the gallop road were like dragons, Xu Ruyu was inconvenient to get out of the car to greet him, and chuckled: "Zifang, Zisu, you might as well go to the car to say goodbye." ”

Fang Su said with a smile: "Zeng Yixing led the Wanling officials to wait and discuss at the south gate, Zifang and I are idlers, but we are here to see old friends." ”

"The matter of peace discussion has its own Tingyi and Liting." Xu Ruyu looked at Mei Liting and said, "Liting, you go and ask Miss Yingxue what she wants." Before the words fell, Mei Yingxue had already swept away from the back carriage and said, "Chen Valve is my Southeast Martial Sect, how could Yingxue not ask for advice?" ”

Fang Su said: "I don't dare to say others, Miss Yingxue goes, the teacher will be very happy." ”

Mei Yingxue glanced at her and didn't understand what she meant.

Fang Su said with a smile: "The teacher also mentioned yesterday that Miss Yingxue had destroyed the Wanling house four years ago, and the Mei clan has not paid compensation for the damaged house, so I want to come to the teacher to worry about this." ”

Mei Yingxue glanced at Xu Ruyu sideways, and laughed out loud. Xu Ruyu shook his head and smiled: "It's just that Zisu dares to make fun of his godfather, since that's the case, let's go to the Houshan Thatched Cottage." Suddenly, he sighed again: "Ten years in an instant, the past has become dust." ”

When Xu Xing visited Chen Ang, he lived with Xu Ruyu in the thatched cottage in the back mountain.

Xu Ruyu played with Shuyu there for several months, secretly learned the magic trick, and then went north from the grass hall in the back mountain to seek medical treatment.

In the battle of the East China Sea, Xu Ruyu lived in Wanling City for ten months, and he didn't have the courage to go to the Houshan Thatched Cottage.

Chen Zifang sighed faintly and did not speak.

Fang Su smiled and said, "The past has become dust, and the old people have also become dust. There were also five children who escaped from Bayang City with Ru Yu, Ru Yu had already seen Chu Wenchang and Tian Wenguang, and the two of them are now leading the troops in Suining, but the other three have also been out of the division. I didn't see it four years ago, but now I can't see it? ”

Xu Ruyu smiled apologetically and said, "I'm afraid that the old man doesn't know him anymore." At that time, I only got together with them in the car for one night, and there was no news after that, and later I learned that they practiced martial arts in the grass hall in the back mountain, but they were confined to the old things and did not want to see each other. He also said: "I said more when I got together with Wen Chang and Wen Guang in Yongyang, and I heard that after Wen Chang came to Suining as a general, he had quite a good deed." ”

Chen Zifang said: "When Yi Hanwen and his brother were competing for the throne, there was still a gap in the East China Sea to take advantage of, and they captured the two cities of Bayang and Suining, but when Yi Hanwen eased up, the progress of the north was very slow, and the two sides won and lost each other, and Wen Chang couldn't compare with you in the end." ”

"I can't say that yet, the times are also strong, if you let Zisu come to my place, you will be able to do better than me."

Fang Su frowned and squeezed his eyes, and said, "Why are you bothering to tease me?" ”

Everyone laughed.

Xu Ruyu and Mei Yingxueju rode a carriage with Fang Su and Chen Zifang around the city to the Houshan Thatched Cottage in the north of the city, and Xu Tingyi and Mei Liting continued to move forward and joined Zeng Yixing and other Wanling officials waiting outside the south gate.

Thin cumulus clouds, mountains covered with snow, bright as a clear sun.

The cliff stone gives birth to a wild plum, and the yellow broken plum is the size of a grain of rice, and the dark fragrance strikes people. The snow on the bare branches kept falling, and the foraging birds flew in shock, buzzing like thousands of arrows.

The wind swept over the branches, the snow particles fell silently, Chen Ang stood under the branches with his hands, looking at the wild path under the mountain. Suddenly, I heard a human voice from the bottom of the mountain, and when I listened carefully, it was Fang Su's voice: "The teacher can't hold back the most, maybe he is already waiting in front of the mountain gate." "I didn't feel it, and I swept away, leaving only the sound of falling snow.

Xu Ruyu and the four of them parked their carriages and horses at the foot of the mountain and followed the wild path up the mountain. When it is suspected that there is no road, turn a clump of green bamboo, and there are stone steps embedded in the cliffs and rocks like ladders hanging down.

Chen Zifang said: "There are also times when Fang Su is wrong. ”

"Master, he is like a dragon disappearing, of course he can't guess."

When Chen Ang swept away, Xu Ruyu had already sensed it, and walked up the stairs with a chuckle.

Xiao Yuru stood at the end of the stone steps and said, "Ru Yu, why haven't you met Ziang?" Before the words fell, Chen Ang appeared behind him and said with a smile: "I'm here, how can they meet me?" ”

Fang Su laughed and said, "Master heard our voice and hid back first. ”

Let Fang Su pierce it, Chen Ang laughed, his expression was extremely free and easy, and he no longer had the majestic posture when he was the governor of the East China Sea.

Xu Ruyu knew that Chen Ang let go of his ambition, and his martial arts went to the next level, and said, "Congratulations to my godfather." ”

Mei Yingxue can also feel that Chen Ang's breath is always integrated with this mountain and this water, and his gestures are all in line with this natural rhythm, round and self-sufficient, allowing people to peek into his martial arts heart without gaps, and when he went up the mountain, he was eager to try, and he saluted, saying: "Yingxue has seen Master Chen." ”

Chen Ang took Xiao Yuru and pointed at Mei Yingxue and said: "The female doll of the Mei family, when she destroyed my house and ran away, we looked at her in the dust like a fairy in the moon. I can only see it today, it's really extraordinary, a young man from the southeast, I rated her first. ”

Fang Su said: "Why isn't it the first fool? What is the middle way compared to? ”

Chen Ang glanced at Xu Ruyu, smiled, and said: "Zhongdao holds a halberd to compete on the battlefield, it is difficult to have an opponent, and when it comes to martial arts, there is no Snow Maiden screen." He said to Mei Yingxue again: "Jinghu martial arts is really extraordinary, Ji Dazong can be fine." ”

Mei Yingxue knew that Chen Angqi meant that Xu Ruyu was already a poor person in the world, and she sighed in her heart and said: "Yingxue has left Jinghu, and Master Ji is now in Nanping, and I want to come to peace." ”

"The preaching of Jinghu is not confined to the common senses of the world, and it is desirable. A hundred years ago, Jinghu had an old rule and extinguished the disaster of Hulan's southern invasion, I don't know who will come out of Jinghu a hundred years later? ”

Mei Yingxue said respectfully: "Yingxue also has something to do." He also said: "The first snow in the back mountain, no traces of people, Yingxue is willing to walk between the mountains and wilderness." ”

"Okay, good, there are no constraints between the mountains and fields."

Xu Ruyu will follow Chen Ang into the same house to say goodbye, Mei Yingxue was very bored present, seeing her stepping on the snow and leaving, Fang and everyone walked towards the cottage.

Houshan is the land of the ancestors of the Chen family, Chen Ang stacked down the secular power, so he built a new place outside the villa to build a thatched cottage to live in seclusion.

After Fang Su and Chen Zifang were idle, they also moved in with their families, plus the young apprentices were waiting for them, and there were also thirty or forty people in the cottage. Shuyu will live in the cottage from the middle of the year to the summer to the cold season, and is also in Wanling at this time.

Except for Chen Ang and others, others didn't know that the person who came was Xu Ruyu, but they felt that Chen Ang and Xiao Yuru greeted them outside the mountain gate, and they felt strange in their hearts.

Everyone walked through the mezzanine road into the innermost courtyard, and the five or six maids in the inner house had been following Chen Ang and Xiao Yuru, all of whom knew Xu Ruyu and stepped forward to say goodbye. Xiao Yuru instructed not to spread the news, and everyone went to the hall to speak.

As soon as everyone sat down, a childish boy stumbled in, crawled into his arms along Fang Su's knees and writhed, reaching out to get his crown scarf, Fang Su smiled helplessly, and threw his back to his wife, who was still standing outside the door. Chen Zifang's children, a six-year-old and an eight-year-old, stood behind their mother in a restrained manner, carefully examining the strangers in the hall. Soyu stood behind everyone.

Xu Ruyu smiled, stood up and said, "I've seen my sister-in-law." He nodded to Shuyu again, turned around, and said to Chen Zifang: "Xiaochan and Xiaopan, they have seen me twice, and at this time I am still a human being, and it is not good to be as serious as you are Zifang, it is better to hand them over to Zisu for training." ”

Chen Zifang said: "When you were in the villa, you were also unapproachable. If there are a few more children like Fang Su's family in the thatched cottage, then the thatched cottage will not become a place of retreat. ”

Before the words fell, Fang Su's young son crawled in from outside the threshold again, sitting on Chen Ang's lap with dirty hands and feet.

Everyone laughed. Xu Ruyu said: "It's not in the way, if I have a son, I hope to send it to the cottage." Xiang Chen Ang said: "Youli is pregnant, but Jiang Ning's trivial affairs are pestering, so I can report the good news to my godfather today." ”

Chen Ang and Xiao Yuru looked at each other and smiled, and said: "When it is a joy, serve him to enlightenment, but tens of millions of favors are gathered, I look at the Jiangning political system, you intend to include the inner house under the framework of the three divisions, at that time, I am afraid that you will not be able to be the master of choosing a teacher for him." ”

Xu Ruyu shook his head helplessly and said: "There is no three-division diagram in my father's will, and the Jiangning political system is missing. ”

"Most of the sub-bank policies are checks and balances, and they are classified as "county policies", although there are still crude points in the administrative system you have in Jiangning, but it has been surpassed."

Soyu sat next to him, but he was impatient. Ten years ago, Xu Ruyu was just a weak young man with no long things, obedient and withdrawn in the villa, isolated from everyone. When he said goodbye, Xu Ruyu was already the commander of Yongyang, and at this time, he was the southeast male lord who was stronger than the Chen family. I thought: The reason why Xu Ruyu was able to rise was because of the Chen family, Xu Ruyu was proud to win Yongyang, it was already a betrayal, and this time he sneaked to Wanling, should he not just come for peace? Seeing that his father, Fang Su and the others were dissolving with him, the doubts in his heart were still difficult to dispel, and he sat indifferently and remained silent.

Shuyu's marriage to Zhang Jidao was unexpected.

Zhang Jidao is a descendant of the foreign surname, and his martial arts are not taught by Chen Ang himself, so he is not like Chu Wenchang, Tian Wenguang and others who can mix with Shuyu and become childhood sweethearts.

When Shuyu agreed, there was still a little panic, and after marrying Zhang Jidao, he felt that it was much better to choose him than Chu Wenchang and Tian Wenguang, both of whom were under Zhang Jidao. Only Zhang Jidao imitated the Jiangning political system in Yixing, which made her feel resentful, and when she saw them mention it at this time, she interjected: "Jiangning's political system is vulgar and violates the old system. ”

Xu Ru was foolishly surprised: "I have heard 'ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity', which is about the fortune of the emperor, but not the prince." It's just a miracle ordered by heaven such as the stone fish collection of books, but it's just a deception set up by the world, I can't deceive myself, how can I deceive the world? ”

Shuyu said: "This sentence is what Ji Dao said to me......"

Xu Ruyu and Chen Ang glanced at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

Chen Ang said: "If you don't learn, you can't do it. Stop Soyu from going on. He also said to Xu Ruyu: "Qinzhou is in turmoil, and the inner court of Xijing is in danger. I thought it would be after the fall of the Inner Court that the rumors of 'commanded by heaven' would arise. He sighed, and said no more.

The godfather has abandoned his power, and Xu Ruyu is reluctant to express his doubts in his heart, and thinks: With Fang Su here, he will not be unguarded, but Fang Su may not remind Chen Yu. So he put it aside, saw that the eldest uncle had not appeared for a long time, and asked, "Why is the old man not in the grass hall?" ”

Everyone was silent, and Fang Su said abruptly: "The old man and Xiao have talked, the old man is addicted to chess, and he will not return to the villa at this time." ”

Chen Ang sighed: "Uncle Lin has a problem with the matter of "County Policy", and you are stupid. ”

Thinking of Liu Zhaoyu's indifference when he was in Tairu, he couldn't help but feel gloomy, Xu Ruyu reluctantly said: "The overthrow of the inner court, the establishment of the princes, the restoration of the old clan, and the southern invasion of Hulan are all things that are not far away, and they are all caused by the intensification of the county policy, and I can't complain that the old man doesn't want to see me." ”

Fang Su said: "The world has accumulated so many evils to this point today, it is already difficult to return, and the decree of the inner court is still not eight hundred miles out of the Qin Pass, can you expect such an inner court to lead the families to resist the Hulan alien race?" If it weren't for Ruyu's planning in the past few years, the old clan of Nanping would have gone north to restore, and the world would be a mess at that time, and Hulan's invasion of the south would be even more unstoppable. The old man is a former official of the inner court, and he can't bend it for a while. ”

"It is a matter of time before the inner court overturns, and Suchuan has not implemented the "County Policy", but Gu Shida is gathering troops in Anding and preparing to invade Xijing along Jingshui." Chen Yu stepped in, looked at Xu Ruyu fixedly, and said, "After capturing Baishi, the two families will reduce their troops in the boundary to recuperate, is Ruyu willing?" ”

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