Chapter 22 of the next volume

Wang Xiu listened to Chen Song for a long time, but he didn't speak.

This person has always been known as a person as his name among the Beifu soldiers, not only because of self-cultivation, but also because of extreme cultivation. People say that when he goes out, he goes out like a bride, and he always has to spend a lot of time in front of the mirror. When there is no war, the crown must be upright, the robe must be fitted, the belt must be pure, and the boots must be spotless. When he arrived in the war zone, he was busy with military affairs, and he didn't have so much time to do this, and it was even impossible to comb his hair every day, so he had to make sure that his beard was cut and shiny—he had an agate comb that he put in his sleeve, and from time to time he took it out to comb his beard. It is rumored in the army that the main book is called heroic, and it all depends on two handfuls of hair. A pinch of hair is a brush, praise the king to repair a thousand words, leaning on the horse; Another handful of hair is naturally his strict and neat beard. Liu Yu came from a humble background, he was sloppy and unkempt, and at first he couldn't get used to Wang Xiu's style of "everyone is dirty, only I am clean". If you want to change someone, since Shangguan is under pressure, sooner or later you will change your course. However, Wang Xiu is not an ordinary person, let your tongue be like the wind, and I will not fall down. In turn, he also persuaded Liu Yu, general, you are a person with a great future, you must face the holy recital, you must lead the ten thousand armies, you must follow the example of the generals inside, and you must deter the four Yi outside, it is not okay to be so rough. The two of them went back and forth like this, and in the end, Liu Yu was persuaded and became more and more exquisite.

But the Wang Xiu that Chen Song saw today did not look like a newly minted shining gold ingot at all, but like a copper coin that had been rusted for many years.

From top to bottom: stains on the crown and unkempt hair. Bloodshot eyes, two large dark circles. The beard is apparently uncombed. There are a few white ones in between. The belt was unknotted and hung loosely. Revealing the tired breasts of the literati without steel. The fingernails were also not trimmed and had ink stains inside.

His position in the Assassin's House. It's really going down.

After Mao Xiuzhi succeeded Wang Zhen as Sima, he didn't take him seriously at all, there were important documents in the army, find a pen, he dictated, and others just polished it. He knows how to coax children, and he will never resist Liu Yizhen, the second is to sit upright, and the third is to look for beautiful women to please him. Compared to these. Wang Xiu's kind of tutor and elders, who will be brought to justice at every turn, can only look hateful in the eyes of naughty children.

The real disagreement is over the strategy of unification of the military. Wang Xiuzhi and Mao Xiuzhi are both old men of Beifu soldiers who have followed Liu Yu for many years, and they both know the truth that Ci does not lead soldiers. But the premise of not leading troops and strict punishment is that the coach is self-disciplined and strict, and if he is sick, he will not think of adding swords and axes to others. The nose of the soldier is very smart, and once they sniff out that the upper peak is not a good person, they will go up and down. And in his bones, he despised him, and finally led him to sweep the floor majestically, and ordered that he could not stop forbidding. After Liu Yu left, Liu Yizhen was quickly taken away by the people around him. Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling were done in everything, thousands of military affairs were abandoned, and the discipline of the whole army gradually deteriorated. In this case. Wang Xiu felt more and more that he had to tighten the reins in order to control the wild horse of Beifu Bing. And although Mao Xiuzhi agreed with Wang Xiu in his heart. But he blindly obeyed Liu Yizhen and did not advocate being too strict with the army. He calculated it very clearly. Once Liu Yu ascended the throne, although Liu Yizhen could not be the crown prince, he must be the most sacred-hearted among the kings. The idea he gave Liu Yizhen was that the three armies were going on an expedition and working hard, so he should not hesitate to reward him. Liu Yizhen doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, like a child playing at home, he often rewards more than 10,000 yuan, and the soldiers may not be able to get much, but the generals at all levels are happy, and they have touted Liu Yizhen's love for soldiers like a son, the art of war, the true biography of Song Gong, and the style of ancient famous generals. Liu Yizhen got carried away, and the reward was even more extravagant. He was having a good time, but Wang Xiu was in pain. As a long history, the money and food are in his charge. When it comes to war, laymen talk about the art of war, and insiders worry about money and food. "A teacher of 100,000 yuan, a thousand dollars a day", grandson him. The old man is not talking nonsense. Since Wang Xiu is responsible for the belly of the three armies, he can't always remind Liu Yizhen not to be too profligate, at first the latter can still take "the next is not an example", but later he was purely impatient. The villains in the Assassin Mansion were afraid that Wang Xiuhui would cut off their financial routes, and they also seized the opportunity to pour evil wind into Liu Yizhen's ears, and Mao Xiuzhi naturally did not hesitate to slander. After a long time, Liu Yizhen was first indifferent to Wang Xiu, then found faults, and in the end he simply didn't bother to see him. The rewards from Jiangdong are all available in the palace, but they have "forgotten" such a long history. Now in the Assassin's Mansion, even a person like a madman who came from behind is like a brother to Mao Xiuzhi, and he is a hot celebrity around Liu Yizhen, and the favored Cheng Dù is much higher than Wang Xiu.

Chen Song had heard of these for a long time, but he never thought that Wang Xiu would be so committed. I didn't know how to comfort him, and said that Wang Changshi should be cherished, and immediately felt that this was light.

Wang Xiu smiled bitterly:

"I'm not a treasure, I can't be valuable! It's just that my personal gains and losses are nothing, and the future of the Northern Expedition is about to be ruined in the hands of the widows, and it hurts when I think about it! ”

Chen Song felt that this was an excellent mouth, and took a sip of tea:

"Changshi never thought of asking Jiangdong for help?"

Wang Xiu raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Song. In fact, he also thought about writing a letter to Liu Yu and stating the situation in Guanzhong to him one by one, but after thinking about it, "inseparable relatives", saying bad things about his son in front of his father, although the father is angry with his son, he will never have a good impression of the informant. Besides, if the official documents go back and forth, this letter will not be hidden from Liu Yizhen, at least it will not be hidden from the pens in the house who deal with the documents, and they are now all fattened by Mao Xiuzhi, and they will not have the same heart as themselves. If you send a secret message, is there a reliable sender around you? Looking at this newly promoted young military deputy now, it seems that he has the same thoughts. Nai pushed the tea bowl over, gently knocked Chen Song's tea bowl, and let them do side by side:

"General Chen asked me this, do you already have an idea?"

Chen Song got up and walked outside the door, and saw that no one was eavesdropping, so he closed the door and came back to tell the original idea of asking the fourth child to drift and send a letter.

Wang Xiu was born and raised in Jiangdong, and in the past he always regarded northerners as all landlubbers. I never dreamed that there would be such a group of fierce Yellow River dragons as Lao Si. After listening to Chen Song, he stood up excitedly. Pacing back and forth in the room, striking his left palm with his right fist:

"Good way. Good way, no leakage! ”

Seeing him like this, Chen Song forcibly suppressed the joy in his heart, and arched his hand at Wang Xiu:

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and now I need to borrow a pen from Wang Changshi."

Wang Xiulian said that this is an unshirkable responsibility.

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and strode towards the bookcase. When I got to the side of the case, I chose a small block pen. I was about to grind the ink, but suddenly stopped again. Stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, and slowly walked back:

"But in whose name are we writing this letter?"

Chen Song instantly understood what Wang Xiu meant. If you write in the name of Wang Xiu but don't take the official document, and hand it over in this way of secretly Chen Cang, it is an out-and-out whistleblower, which is tantamount to publicly announcing that Wang Xiu and Liu Yizhen have broken up. As a long history and from the outside of the history of thorns, he was a little shorter first. Secretly telling the history of the black state, people will easily think that it is a personal vendetta. But if you don't use the name of Wang Xiu or any leading figure, a little-known water ghost. Suddenly ran to see Liu Yu with a letter accusing the highest governor of Guanzhong, who must have thought that this was a fictitious thing like Feishu, and maybe he would take down the fourth child and torture him. Pull out Wang Xiu, Chen Song and Du Chongguang and the others.

Chen Song gritted his teeth and said that since I found someone to come up with this idea, then this letter will be sent in my name. Wang Changshi doesn't have to be signed, what we want is your literary style. You know I don't have a big pen around me.

Wang Xiu knew that Chen Song was brave and brave on the battlefield, but he didn't expect him to have such courage to worry about the country when he went off the battlefield. Thinking of Chang'an now, there are only a handful of such generals, and I can't help but feel sad. Nodding at Chen Song, he asked slowly:

"Aren't you afraid of offending Yizhen and even offending Song Gong?"

Chen Song didn't think about this, but every time he thought about the end, a scene would float in front of him like a shadow puppet play: Helian Bo made a comeback, the Huns broke Chang'an, and the jade in the city was burned. Guo Xu, Xu Zhihao, and Hu Luzheng were killed in battle, Mei Hong and Xiao Qiao trembled in front of the enemies with lewd smiles on their faces, and the children were lifted into the air by the tip of the lance, and their little hands were waving helplessly......

Compared with such a coming day, offending Liu Yizhen or even offending Liu Yu is a fart!

Since Wang Xiu asked, let me tell you the truth:

"Wang Changshi, I, Chen Song, don't do this, I still be an official and lead the troops, but I am afraid that in the long run, Guanzhong will inevitably fall into the hands of a strong enemy. If I am willing to give up my Chen Song's one hundred and ten catties of meat, I can exchange it for peace in Guanzhong, the people are worry-free, and Chen Song's family is intact, then even if I cut the oil pot with thousands of knives, Chen Song will see the king of Hades with a smile! ”

Wang Xiu looked at Chen Song in a daze, feeling that although this person's body was not tall, he was like King Kong; Although the sound is not loud, it is like thunder passing through the sky. In contrast, his own small abacus and only care about his wealth are too trivial. Thinking of this, he was excited by his loyalty, bowed deeply to Chen Song, turned around and sat in front of the desk, grinding ink while beating the draft, and began to write. Chen Song waited quietly, only to see the brush shaft swaying in Wang Xiu's hand, and the tip of the brush was like rain on the paper.

After about a meal, Wang Xiu threw away the brush, picked up the paper and read it himself, and said to Chen Song that he could take it. Chen Song was surprised:

"Isn't this a draft?"

Wang Xiu smiled a little proudly:

"Since I started the private school, I have never written the manuscript of the article!"

Wang Xiu read it to Chen Song from beginning to end, and most of the first part described the chaos in Guanzhong, but Wang Xiu was merciful, not directly reprimanding Liu Yizhen, but pointing directly at the group of officials, saying that they had no way to assist, formed a party for personal gain, and took advantage of Liu Yizhen's youth and inexperience to get up and down, causing a miasma in the house, low morale in the army, and folk rumors. The particularly urgent one is that Daxia is about to move, and it is inevitable that there will be a big war in Guanzhong, if you meet the enemy with this kind of weather, I am afraid that there will be those who can't bear to go against the expectations. After saying this qiē, he finally revealed his heart to Liu Yu:

"Give the weak crown a pen, follow the driver, go through a bloody battle for a long time, and live and die regardless of it. At the beginning of his appointment, he was grateful, and he sighed all night, fearing that he would fall. The former Shen Tianzi was crazy, Wang Zhen lost his yuan, he didn't notice it, failed to stop the disaster, had a heavy trust, and died of grief. Today, the secret road is passed on, and I know that it is very good, and I don't know that I don't know it. However, those who are in the middle of the Guanzhong, won by bloody battles, have thousands of dry bones, are the important towns on the back of the open frontier, and win through the shape of the Central Plains, and the people's hearts are both oriented, how can the morale fall lightly, and they will not be at risk, and the Northern Expedition will fall short, and the army will cover the nest and break the eggs, and the reputation of the public will inevitably have losses. Wang Xiu can be punished or run, the clan can be slaughtered or destroyed, and the public honor cannot be endangered. If the powder of the cultivation is repaired, there is a supplement in case of the public's base, and the catastrophe will not be recovered, and it will be as sweet as food! ”

Wang Xiu explained to Chen Song while reading, and Chen Song heard the last few sentences and stepped forward to hold Wang Xiu's hand:

"Didn't you say that you would write in my name, why did it become you?"

Wang Xiu smiled faintly and shook the piece of paper lightly:

"Wang Xiu is a scholar, the Lord is willing to use it, and he also copies and writes, doing his best, if he refuses to use it, he is a wasted person. General, you are different, there will be a battle in Guanzhong, you young Zhuang generals, are about to fight hard. If this letter wants to offend the above and set himself on fire, then it is better to sacrifice a waste person like Wang Xiu than to break a pillar like the general, and the general hurriedly took the letter to find the fourth child and told him to leave quickly. ”

After speaking, he walked to the corner of the wall, took out a jade pendant in a box and handed it to Chen Song:

"This jade pendant is my family heirloom, there are four in total, one for each of our four brothers. You asked the fourth child to take this piece to find Wang Shen, the general of the Zuotun Guard of the Forbidden Army, who is my second brother and a friend of Song Gong for many years. When he saw this piece of jade, he would hand over the letter from the fourth child directly to Song Gong, so as not to be intercepted by anyone. ”

At this point, Chen Song had nothing to say, but put away the jade pendant and the secret letter, threw off the front of the robe and knelt down, kowtowed to Wang Xiu, got up and strode out, and rode his horse and whip to find Du Chongguang.

That night, Chen Song brought more than a dozen confidants and soldiers, claiming to escort the spies, took the fourth child through the Jin army checkpoint, and sent him to the Weihe crossing. The officers and soldiers guarding the ferry had already been spotted, and when they saw Chen Song coming in person, they tacitly let them go to the shore. The fourth child whistled, and the water ghost brothers who were hiding in the reeds rowed over on a sheepskin raft, and they would take the fourth child from the Wei River into the Yellow River, and then they would resign themselves to fate, and let the fourth child start an unpredictable long drift. He had to float down the Yellow River, and when he reached the middle reaches, he would change to the Huai River, and from there he would take a fast boat into the Yangtze River and reach Jiankang by light boat. Wang Xiu's secret letter had been sealed in a wax pill and fixed to the inner thigh of the old man with a small purse. The jade pendant is fixed under the armpit with the same purse. If God does not open his eyes, people, letters and tokens will disappear in an unknowable place, as if this qiē had never happened.

After seeing the raft go, Chen Song muttered for a long time by the Weishui before turning the horse's head and slowly returning to the city. The soldiers followed him, all silent. When he was two or three miles away from the barracks, he told his own soldiers that he would let Hu Lu take care of the camp tonight, and he would go home to have a look.

knocked on the door a few times, the little maid came to open the door, and as soon as she opened the door, she heard Mei Hong's hypnotic rumor coaxing the child:

Baby baby sleep

A tiger and a leopard ran away

Baby baby sleep

Fleas and mosquitoes do not bite

Baby baby sleep

Knowing that frogs don't bark

Baby baby sleep

Daddy and Grandma hug

Gesturing to the maid to go to sleep by herself, he stood outside the window and listened to Mei Hong sing in a lazy and sweet voice, enjoying this simple pleasure that had nothing to do with war, infighting, and all kinds of worries.

For this moment of happiness, it is worth all the hardships and dangers! (To be continued......)

PS: Sacrifice yourself for the husband