PS: Chen Song reached out and pulled the woman up, took off his cloak, and draped it on her. The woman wanted to push away at first, but Chen Song's movements were gentle and firm, and she soon wrapped the woman tightly with a warmth with a man's scent. The woman lowered her head and sobbed, waiting for Chen Song to help her finish the strap of the cloak, and after taking a step back, she slowly raised her head, and with her clumsy body, she saluted the strange man, and then raised her head, untied her scarf, and looked at Chen Song with tears in her eyes. Chen Song was stunned in an instant! Although pregnancy makes a woman's face change, this pregnant woman still has a face that is suffocatingly beautiful, as if the light is not enough to illuminate it, but it makes the light dim. And in front of this woman, there was a young officer in a daze, he was not the kind of white-faced noble son she was used to seeing in her life, but he had an angular face that was set off by a helmet and more handsome. The helmet pressed his eyebrows low, and the eyes that showed showed a stunned light at the moment. Not because it is difficult to attack and defend, but because of the appearance of the country and the city.

Almost everyone was blinded by the beauty that fell on the side of Chang'an Street.

Only Guo Xu spoke for a while:

"You're Miss Mei."

Wang Zhenwei's state funeral was finally held, and at this time, another ten days had passed since Chen Song and Guo Xu spoke to Wang Xiu. In other words, Wang Xiu fought several times with the opposition in the Fuzhong army in front of Liu Yizhen for this reason.

Although Wang Zhenwei is less than three dukes, and the lord is not a prince, but his military rank is very high, and his military exploits are even more outstanding, if his funeral is held in Jiankang, the emperor will send a messenger to pay tribute, and this messenger. If Wen is a Lang official, Wu is at least a Zhonglang general. Now since it is buried in Chang'an. And he made a temporary decision, and he couldn't wait for the imperial court envoy to come for a long time. Then who represents the court is a question. The final result of the discussion was that since Mao Xiuzhi had just come from Jiangdong, it was logical to cut first and then play, and serve as the envoy of the emperor's majesty.

Another question is, where are they buried? Wang Zhenxi's brothers with him have all been killed, and there is a younger brother named Wang Kang, who was also going to follow to the front, but he left Chang'an two days late. As a result, he escaped life and death as if he had been helped by God. After receiving the news of his brother's murder, he fled to Pengcheng halfway, and was named Xiang Guoxing by Liu Yu to join the army, and then returned to Luoyang to serve his mother. Since there are no relatives, the cemetery has to be officially designated. The best local feng shui gentleman has not yet been invited, Guo Xu spoke, and he advocated that Wang Zhen be buried in the Liuhou Temple. After listening to Guo Xu's talk about Wang Zhenxi's prayer in the Liuhou Temple before his death, Liu Yizhen sighed and said that this is the case. Then allocate a large amount of money to rebuild the Liuhou Temple, give Zhang Liang a golden body, and General Wang's tomb will be built in the courtyard. The ministers of the Han Dynasty and the good generals of this dynasty will be sacrificed as one and complement each other.

The funeral ceremony was quite smooth, but a group of local people were killed halfway. Stop the funeral procession and remove the heavy Nanmu coffin from the ox cart. changed people all the way, and carried it on his shoulders to the Liuhou Temple. Wang Zhenxi's old department was originally following behind the car. Now they have also joined the ranks of carrying the coffin, listening to the mourning music all the way, and shedding tears all the way. When Wang Xiu recited the eulogy on behalf of the imperial court, only soldiers were left in the Liuhou Temple, and the common people withdrew far away from the temple, as if they wanted to dissociate themselves from this army. Guo Xu looked at this scene, and his heart was covered with a layer of ash.

After the tombstone was erected, a small cart was pushed out of the crowd, and an old man sat on it.

Li Fang.

Many people in the army knew him, because when Liu Yu entered the Chang'an Night Banquet as a meritorious soldier, he was one of the five people who received the honor of sitting on the stage. People know that Wang Zhen used to live in his house when he was a young man. After Wang Zhenwei arrived in Guanzhong, he searched in many ways, and finally found him, he was already a broken old blind man. Wang Zhen was grateful for the illustration and bought a child servant for him to build a house and land, so that he could rely on him in his old age. He also spared no effort to support the Northern Expeditionary Army, ran around Hongnong to advise, mobilized the gentry and people to pay grain and labor the army, and sent charcoal in the snow when the Northern Expedition was most short of food, which was regarded as a major contributor to the Northern Expedition. He had been blind in both eyes for many years, and now he knelt in front of the tombstone, carefully rubbing every word on the tombstone, although there were no tears in his dry eyes, his shoulders were trembling all the time. After a long time, he turned around and groped his knees to Wang Xiu's feet:

"You were the one who read the eulogy?"

Wang Xiu hurriedly helped him to the car and carefully dusted off the soil on his knees:

"Mr. Li, the late born Wang Xiu, is only able to read the eulogy on behalf of the imperial court."

Li Fang tilted his head:

"Then your official is not small."

"Late life is now a long history under the command of Yizhen Taishou."

Li Fang nodded:

"Then you are in Chang'an, and you are under one person and above ten thousand. The old man only asked Lord Wang one thing, and he wanted to tell him bluntly. ”

Wang Xiu already sensed that Li Fang's question would be very tricky:

"The old gentleman just asks, and he must know everything in his later life."

Li Fang fumbled, holding Wang Xiu's hand tightly with both hands:

"Lord Wang, don't tell me about the clichés in the army that has become ill and died violently. How did the evil die is already very clear. It's not the common people guessing, it's coming from your army. Suppressing evil is the hero of the Great Jin Dynasty, and he is also our son of Guanzhong, he was innocently killed by Shen Tianzi, this matter cannot be just confused. The evil town should be buried, should Shen Tianzi's sins also be announced to the world, and should his head also be hung out for public display? ”

Sure enough, Wang Xiu couldn't answer.

In fact, this question has not been raised unquestioned. Wang Zhenwei's old ministry found Liu Yizhen and asked for Taiwei Ming, asking the imperial court to issue an edict condemning Shen Tianzi and hanging his head out. But including Wang Xiu, the people around him advised him not to hit the wall. Since Liu Yu didn't do this in the first place, he was clearly unwilling to do so. Although today's court is talking like a fart, if this fart blows in Guanzhong, it will also be a gust of wind, which will blow away the dust that originally covered the whole matter, and that is exactly what Liu Yu does not want to see. Besides, although Shen Tianzi is dead, Shen Linzi is still Liu Yu's henchman, and Shen Tianzi's subordinates are still serving the Taiwei, although killing the tiger makes some people happy, but what should I do if the other part of the people are in pain?

Seeing that Wang Xiu didn't speak for a long time, Li Fang smiled dryly:

The old man knew that he would laugh when he said this, and the reason why he couldn't help but say it was not just to suppress the evil. It is also for the future of your army. The soldiers of Beifu rejuvenated the Northern Expedition, and the people of Guanzhong were originally very supportive. But when the captain returned south halfway, the hearts of Guanzhong were shaken. Death to suppress evil. It made the local people even more confused, and the rumors said that the southerners were wary of the northerners and were unwilling to suppress the evil and gain power, so killing him was not just Shen Tianzi's plan. If your army can't use the thick burial to suppress evil to clarify right and wrong, punish evil and promote good, I am afraid that people's hearts will be even more alienated. To tell the truth, I am not alone in this today, I also came out to speak on behalf of the gentry, and asked Lord Wang to clarify the righteousness and true history. Don't let the Guanzhong fathers chill again. ”

Wang Xiu was sweating profusely, but he knew that he couldn't make any promises here, so he could only talk about him left and right. Nai lowered his body, half-knelt in front of Li Fang, and rubbed the back of his hand:

"The old gentleman can rest assured, the history of righteousness and truth has its own opinions. It's cold, so let's go back and rest. ”

Li Fang smiled coldly and shook off Wang Xiu's hand. Head back:

"It seems that the old decay said this in vain!"

Sit on the cart for a while, listening to the spring breeze whistling in the sky. For a long time, beckoning:

"Push me to the Evil Monument and let me say a few more thoughtful words to him."

He pressed his wrinkled face to the tombstone. muttered to himself for a long time, and suddenly his whole body leaned back, and his forehead slammed against the tombstone. A stream of blood splattered on the stele, instantly painting several inscriptions red. Li Fang then fell off the car in despair. He collapsed to the ground, his legs twitching.

It started in a hurry. Wang Xiu was in a daze, and there was a dead silence in the Liuhou Temple.

Guo Xu jumped over with a brisk step, helped Li Fang up, and saw that his face was already flushed, and blood was gushing out of a hole in his forehead. He picked up the old man and ran out, but was stopped by the people who rushed up halfway, and several people couldn't help but say, snatched Li Fang from his arms, and pushed him hard. He staggered a few steps, stood firm, and watched the people crying, scolding, and cursing, turning around and leaving away like a great river, leaving behind the Beifu soldiers inside and outside the Liuhou Temple.

For a long time, a hand was placed on his shoulder. Looking back, it's Chen Song. Xu Zhihao and Hu Luzheng followed behind.

The funeral ended hastily. Liu Yizhen originally arranged for a small group of veterans to be stationed at the Liuhou Temple, which was regarded as guarding the tomb for Wang Zhen, but several households near the Liuhou Temple took brooms and scolded their mothers while sweeping the floor, so they drove the soldiers away, and several of them took on the responsibility of guarding the tomb from then on. The veterans were happy to escape from this dull and boring errand, and they withdrew from the situation. Wang Zhenxi, who was Liu Yu's most appreciated general during his lifetime, was the pillar stone of the Beifu soldiers and the great hero of the Northern Expedition, but after his death, he seemed to have nothing to do with the Beifu soldiers.

Yes, heaven and earth are like a reverse journey, life is a passerby, there are new acquaintances along the way, and some people live and die. Parents and children still have a day of farewell; There are times when husband and wife are in love, not to mention the colleagues and friends of the monarch and ministers. If a king dies and suppresses evil, the pit left behind will soon be filled with another radish, and the radish tassels are still verdant and tender. Of course, radishes are not the same as radishes, some porcelain is real and some are chaff, but before the real crisis comes, who will have the sigh of "hearing the drum and thinking of the good general"? sighed and repented, didn't you still heal the scars and forget the pain, and kill those who shouldn't be killed?

Even those who respect the king and fight for his death are three glasses of wine, and after being dissipated with resentment, they have to do what they should do. Guo Xu found a restaurant, gave the boss some more money, and asked him to help inquire about Li Fang's whereabouts, and the four brothers drank each other. Guo Xu asked his soldiers to go to the Assassin Mansion to find the madman to see if he had time to come over and get together. The soldiers came back and said that Master Feng was accompanying Shi to fight cocks, and he didn't have time to come. Guo Xu sighed and said that the madman was ruined, and he was the king of children all day long. Chen Song smiled slightly, and said that he knew that it was ruined, don't look at you and I are both military deputies, older than him, but I think he has the most future among the few of us. During this time, I saw that he was not only not uncomfortable, but very useful.

After saying that, he told one thing.

A few days ago, he went to Liu Yizhen's house to report an incident, and sat in the front hall for a long time, but Liu Yizhen never came out. Later, the madman came out and opened his mouth instead of calling Big Brother as before, but General Chen. Lord Thorn Shi is handling important business in the back hall, please calm down and wait a while. Chen Song felt that he was now a military deputy, and the occasion was the assassination of the Shifu, and the madman was a particular person, so it was nothing. After the official business, I always want the brothers to warm up a few words, but the madman turned around and went to the back hall.

When Chen Song said this, Xu Zhihao snorted first, saying that he could lose flesh or hair with his eldest brother for a while.

Guo Xu didn't think there was anything wrong, after all, there were different military camps in the Assassin Mansion. The rules in the army have always been that brotherhood is higher than the friendship between superiors and subordinates. If the eldest brother is promoted. can also put on an official show on the scene; As a brother, he also has to carry a sedan chair for the eldest brother to give face on the scene. But in private, brothers are still brothers: guess the punch lost. The wine that should be drunk must be drunk, and the brother does not need to tremble with fear when he vomits the eldest brother's robe; If you lose the gambling, the gambling debts that should be repaid have to be repaid, and it is reasonable for the brother to buckle the eldest brother's wrench. Several of them, Chen Song, Guo Xu, and Hu Luzheng are now all military deputies and are already in the general class; Xu Zhihao and the madman are both owners, and they are still schools. But as long as it's not on the school field, it's not in the handsome tent, no one has seen anyone as an official. Everyone knew in their hearts: they were on the battlefield. The sword and lance don't know the rank, the cold arrow doesn't avoid the officer, and when the dead climb out, everyone is a little life, where do you remember who has a thousand bells? But the assassination of Shifu is not a battlefield, since the madman was really targeted by Liu Yizhen, he is a person in the office, and he can't do things like he used to be.

But then he listened to it, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

Chen Song sat in the front hall for about an hour. Restless, he finally got up and walked around, and when he walked out the door, he saw two magpies parked on the book. The two birds first talked. Later, he chased and frolicked, and finally fell to the ground. Chen Song looked at them pacing majestically with their tails cocked, and suddenly remembered the first time they were inspected by the officials after joining the army. The generals held their swords in their hands, and the scabbard stood behind their cloaks. It seems to have a stiff tail, and now it looks like a magpie. He couldn't help but laugh. The two magpies were frightened, fluttered and flew to the eaves, nodded their tails, and flew somewhere.

At this moment, the madman came out of the house and said that Thorn Shi received the general, and the general should wait in the house, how can you walk around, and you have to let Thorn Shi wait for you in turn.

Chen Song hurriedly entered the house to do something. Looking at Liu Yizhen again, his hair was a little messy, his face was flushed, and there was a lip print on his neck. Chen Song suddenly realized. This kid was playing with a woman in the back hall, so he didn't come out for a long time. After the matter was finished, Liu Yizhen said I understand, you go back, I will tell Wang Xiu and let him see what to do. After saying that, he jumped off the bed and walked back, Chen Song didn't control his mouth for a while, knelt on the ground, and said something that made him regret it for several days:

"Lord Thorn Shi is young, and his blood is not yet full, so don't indulge in women!"

Liu Yizhen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled uncharacteristically:

"You're amazing! How do you know? ”

Chen Song embarrassedly gestured with his hand on his neck. Although Liu Yizhen is a child, he is the supreme commander of Guanzhong and his own immediate boss after all. The boss made a mistake and did not say anything, and it was not the style of the Beifu soldiers. But the thing I want to say is so fragrant, I really don't know what to say so that it doesn't look dirty.

Liu Yizhen threw himself down in front of a mirror and looked at it, laughed, and said Look how I clean up this dead girl when I go back!

After speaking, he grimaced at Chen Song and ran to the back hall happily.

The madman followed, but Chen Song stood up and grabbed him:

"Crazy, Yizhen is young and ignorant, and you won't stop him!"

The madman still had a smile on his face, but his voice was calm:

"The general thinks that Feng Zizhang is a small building owner, can he stop Taiwei Aizi? The general himself does not practice etiquette in front of the officials, it is because there is a captain covering you, Zizhang is a small sesame seed, how dare you suffer this? ”

After speaking, he broke away from Chen Song and hurriedly chased after Liu Yizhen.

Chen Song's side, when he heard the madman calling himself "Feng Zizhang", he already understood that this madman was not another madman, and Shibei should be impressed for three days, and he could no longer be held up in front of this person who carefully served his boss.

After Chen Song finished speaking, he exhaled, tilted his neck and dried up a small bowl of wine, which was obviously very uncomfortable.

Guo Xu and the others were a little blind, and they didn't understand how a madman could become so fast.

Chen Song turned the wine bowl faintly, saying that the Thorn Mansion was a big dye vat, how many feet of cloth could the madman clean for a few days? Then he smiled self-deprecatingly:

"You can't call yourself a madman to your face anymore!"

Hu Luzheng was not disappointed, he said that among the few of you, the madman can be regarded as having read a book. Scholars, unlike us rough people, they have a lively mind and many ideas, just like the animals on our Xianbei grassland. Wild horses have the appearance of wild horses, domestic horses have the appearance of domestic horses, and horses trained by officials dare not bark when they stand in the stable.

Everyone laughed, and then felt that the madman was so pitiful, like a horse that did not dare to neigh without permission in the stable of the Assassin's Mansion. In the end, Chen Song said that Rao is like this, he is still our brother, I hope he can understand as soon as possible. The government is as deep as the sea, how can it be as simple as in our army.

A few people change the subject. Gradually I drank and became happy. When he was about to stop drinking, the guy who had been sent to inquire about the news returned. said that Li Fang's injury was not light, but fortunately, he did not worry about his life, and he would not be paralyzed, lie down for a while, take some decoction, and he will gradually get better. The brothers made an appointment to visit the old man in a few days, and then went out to pay the bill.

After walking a few steps along the side of the street, a group of men and horses came running in front of them, with the help of torches at the beginning. Chen Song could see at a glance that he was a personal soldier of the Assassin's Mansion. In the middle of the pro-soldiers, there was a man with his face covered. As the group of people galloped by, Guo Xu recognized the madman next to the masked man. The madman should have recognized a few of them, but he pretended not to squint, and swept over with a gust of wind.

Everyone looked at the backs of this group of people, glanced at each other a few times, and understood that the masked person should be Liu Yizhen. The question is, what is he going to do when he runs out of the house so late? And a face cover!

Chen Song said faintly, it seems that the rumors are true.

As long as it is not in wartime, the Beifu military regulations do not prohibit prostitution. The brethren in the army were in a hurry. will squander the money in a few brothels in Chang'an. Recently, they heard about Liu Yizhen's assassination in the brothel, and they often secretly patronized it. The top brands of several brothels in Chang'an have been sealed, and it is strictly forbidden to receive ordinary guests. Either Liu Yizhen comes to have fun at night, or he changes the girls into men's clothes during the day. Send it to the Assassin's Mansion. In the flower and willow world of Chang'an, this is already an open secret.

The crowd was dumbfounded.

Guo Xu suddenly remembered that when he and the madman rode into Chang'an, the madman revealed his incomparable yearning for the brothel. Maybe Liu Yi really has this new fetish. It was the madman who introduced him.

The corpses of the generals Wang Zhenwei and Shen Tianzi are not cold, and the ghosts of the fallen soldiers in Chiyang are still there. The highest military and political governor in Guanzhong has been indulged in the clouds and rain in Wushan and has fallen into the Qinglou fat powder array.

A chill welled up in my heart. Unstoppable.

Several people walked all the way in silence, not knowing what to say.

Turning the corner, I was about to get on my horse and return to the camp, when I saw a figure kneeling faintly on the side of the road, with an oil lamp beside him, and in the dark shadow behind the lamp, there was still a person lying on the ground.

Walking over, the man knelt on a felt mat, covered his head and face with a long scarf, and spread out a large white cloth in front of him, on which was written:

"Sell yourself to bury your father".

Chen Song touched his sleeve and found that there was no money, and then looked back at those people, and they all shook their heads. They had just eaten and drunk, and all the money left on them was scraped together, and they couldn't even afford a shroud, let alone a coffin.

Chen Song was unwilling to leave, squatted on the ground and asked:

"Where are you from? How did it come to this? ”

The man opened his mouth and said in a sweet voice.

Woman.

She said that my family was originally in Chang'an, but then my husband died, and the war was in chaos, so I lived in Zhong Nanshan's mother's house. When Yao Qin was defeated, the stragglers plundered everywhere, and my father took me east to live in a village around Qingni. A few days ago, the Great Xia soldiers lost the battle in Chiyang, and before the Xia soldiers of Qingni withdrew, they robbed grain, livestock and women everywhere. My father was worried that I would be ruined, so he took me back to Chang'an, but I had a heart attack on the way, and I was gone. I was alone and pregnant, and I couldn't find a job that could make money, so I had to sell myself, and when the baby was born, I would work as a cow and a horse for the buyer.

Chen Song was excited by this tragic story, and said that you don't have to sell yourself, you wait here, a few of us will go back to the barracks to raise money to find someone, find a temple tonight to settle your father, and bury him tomorrow. After speaking, he asked his soldiers to go to the restaurant just now and asked the boss to bring a hot meal to this woman. He was about to pull a few brothers back, but was held down by Guo Xu. The story I heard just now was vaguely told by someone in the first half. After thinking about it for a long time, when I took Xiaoqiao back to Chang'an, Xiaoqiao talked about the life experience of the Mei girl who lived in the same room with her.

Holding the lamp, he lifted the cloth covering the deceased's face, and saw a face with white hair and half-open eyes, which was the old man he saw in the inn that day, only thinner and more withered than then, and it was obvious that he was wandering, and he had not lived a peaceful life for a long time, and in poverty and sorrow, with all kinds of resentment and reluctance, he left this messy world.

Chen Song stretched out his hand to pull the woman up, untied his cloak, and draped it over her. The woman wanted to push away at first, but Chen Song's movements were gentle and firm, and she soon wrapped the woman tightly with a warmth with a man's scent. The woman lowered her head and sobbed, waiting for Chen Song to help her finish the strap of the cloak, and after taking a step back, she slowly raised her head, and with her clumsy body, she saluted the strange man, and then raised her head, untied her scarf, and looked at Chen Song with tears in her eyes. Chen Song was stunned in an instant! Although pregnancy makes a woman's face change, this pregnant woman still has a face that is suffocatingly beautiful, as if the light is not enough to illuminate it, but it makes the light dim. And in front of this woman, there was a young officer in a daze, he was not the kind of white-faced noble son she was used to seeing in her life, but he had an angular face that was set off by a helmet and more handsome. The helmet pressed his eyebrows low, and the eyes that showed showed a stunned light at the moment. Not because it is difficult to attack and defend, but because of the appearance of the country and the city.

Almost everyone was blinded by the beauty that fell on the side of Chang'an Street.

Only Guo Xu spoke for a while:

"You're Miss Mei." (To be continued......)