After these few days of running-in, the friendship between Huang Xu and Yao Dahong has deepened, but Huang Xu has not yet made up his mind whether to tell Hong Dahong directly about his true intention to come to Dongwangfu. His hesitation does not mean that he does not believe Yao Dahong, but he wants to find the most haode time to tell Yao Dahong in the most appropriate way, so as not to make him too shocked and surprised, but also to let him understand the real reason why he did this, so as not to make him think that he is a two-faced person. In order to ensure that his good image in his mind is not destroyed.

At the same time, Huang Xu has a deeper understanding of Yao Dahong's financial management and management skills, and it is no exaggeration to say that Yao Dahong is a genius in these aspects, better than Huang Xu by more than a star and a half. In this way, Huang Xu has undoubtedly picked up a treasure, and he can rest assured that he will hand over the daily housekeeping work to Yao Dahong, while he focuses on doing some strategic things, such as establishing an intelligence network between himself and the Heavenly King as soon as possible, and eliminating the doubts of the Eastern King about himself as soon as possible.

Thinking of Dongwang's doubts about himself, Huang Xu found that the two hidden piles who were tracking him had been more frequent in the past few days, what was this weishenme, Huang Xu couldn't figure out the reason. In fact, he has thought of a lot of ways in recent times, and has put a lot of effort into doing a lot of superficial work to show his loyalty to these two dark piles, the purpose is to let these two people report their every move to the East King, so as to dispel the East King's suspicions about himself. It is said that Dongwang should have much less suspicion of himself, but looking at the current situation, not only has the suspicion not decreased, but it seems to be more serious. It's impossible, everything they do has been scrutinized repeatedly, and it's impossible for them to see through it. Huang Xu said a few impossibilities in his heart. This really can't blame Huang Xu, even if he wants to break his head, it is impossible to think that Dongwang is not more suspicious of him, but because their rebellion process has accelerated, they have increased the intensity of their investigation.

It seems that in the future, we must be more careful in doing things, so as not to expose any flaws and be taken advantage of by them, Huang Xu thought to himself.

Bang, bang, bang, a few soft knocks outside the door interrupted Huang Xu's train of thought.

"Who?" Huang Xu asked.

"It's me, Zezhong, is it convenient for Steward Huang to let Zezhong in?" Ning Zezhong's voice sounded outside the door.

"Yes, wait a minute, I'll open the door for you." Huang Xu quickly sorted out his somewhat messy thoughts, and then walked over to open the door.

After opening the door, I saw Ning Zezhong standing outside the door with a humble face. Immediately said enthusiastically: "Zezhong, come in." Huang Xu stretched out his hand and pulled Ning Zezhong in, pressed him on a Taishi chair, and asked the maid to make a pot of good tea, and then asked: "Zezhong, take a sip of tea first, this is Shanghaode Tieguanyin." ”

"Butler Xie" Ning Zezhong said, and stood up again, no wonder, at this time, people pay too much attention to the distinction between respect and inferiority, and subordinates don't dare to sit upright in front of their bosses.

Seeing Ning Zezhong take a sip of tea into his stomach, Huang Xu asked again, "Is there something wrong with me?" ”

"It's not me looking for you, it's the prince who sent someone over to ask the housekeeper to talk about the meritorious pavilion." Speaking of the word prince, Ning Zezhong immediately became extremely respectful.

"What about the prince's messenger?" Huang Xu said.

"Oh, that's the case, this morning the prince sent someone to deliver a message to you, but found that you were not there, and waited for a long time, and did not see you come back, as a last resort, the messenger was about to go back, and he happened to run into me, so I told him that I would convey it for him." Ning Ze is in the middle of the road.

"I see, in that case, do you know what the prince is looking for me?" Huang Xu was taken aback and asked.

"This subordinate doesn't know," Ning Zezhong said.

"Okay, I'll get ready, and I'll go see the prince." Huang Xu said, but turned his head and asked, "By the way, Zezhong, where is the Meritorious Pavilion?" I don't know, can you take me? ”

"No problem, then please prepare the housekeeper first, I'll wait for you outside." After speaking, Ning Zezhong got up and prepared to exit the door.

"No, no, our own brother, there is nothing that cannot be known, you sit here first and taste tea slowly, wait a while, this is to prepare first, and I will go with you to see the prince." Huang Xu said to Ning Zezhong with a smile.

"Yes." Ning Zezhong respectfully saluted Huang Xu and sat down again.

To say that among these cronies of the East King, Ning Ze is the most inconspicuous, he looks respectful to everyone he meets, giving people the feeling that he is undoubtedly a good person, and he can make people completely defenseless. But Huang Xu knew that this person was also not simple, as for how it was not simple, he couldn't say it for a while, but he had a faint feeling.

Huang Xu sorted out some paintings and poems he usually painted in his spare time in front of Ning Zezhong, and Ning Zezhong secretly glanced at them a few times, basically some things praising the king of the east and praising the palace.

Huang Xu finished cleaning up unhurriedly, and said to Ning Zezhong: "Zezhong, I'm done, can we go?" ”

"Yes, butler, please first." Ning Zezhong hurriedly got up, bowed his waist and asked Huang Xu to go first.

Huang Xu nodded, didn't push, and took the first step, while Ning Zezhong glanced at the things Huang Xu sorted out with a little deep meaning, and then, turned around to catch up with Huang Xu's footsteps, and then, walked a few steps quickly, ran to Huang Xu to lead the way.

After a while, the two of them arrived outside the gate of the Meritorious Pavilion.

Ning Zezhong said to Huang Xu: "Butler, the Meritorious Pavilion has arrived, and the subordinates have left first." ”

"Okay, thanks." Huang Xu said to Ning Zezhong with a smile.

"The housekeeper is not polite, his subordinates retire." After speaking, he bowed slightly to Huang Xu and turned to leave.

After seeing Ning Zezhong leave, Huang Xu took a deep breath, looked up at the gold-inlaid plaque, and saw a few big characters written on it, "Meritorious Pavilion." ”

"May I ask if it's Steward Huang in front, right? Steward Huang, the prince has an order, if you arrive, you don't have to pass it on, you can go directly to the Meritorious Pavilion to see him. The guard standing at the door of the Meritorious Pavilion said to Huang Xu, who was looking closely.

"Well, thank you." Huang Xu said to the guards guarding the door, and then pushed open the door and entered the Meritorious Pavilion.

The whole meritorious pavilion was full of smoke, Huang Xu walked on the passage in the pavilion, in broad daylight he had a gloomy feeling, couldn't help but look to both sides, only to see that the stone walls on both sides were carved with a portrait every other distance, these portraits are like life-size, lifelike, the two sides of the portrait are written on the person's origin, achievements, etc., each portrait is placed in front of fresh offerings, lit incense burner, Huang Xu carefully calculated, there are more than 30 in total. Huang Xu now understands a little, weishenme will be called the Heroes Pavilion here, probably because this is a place to worship those who have passed away. It's just that I don't know if it's the hero of the enshrined Heavenly Kingdom, or the hero of the East King himself, Weishenme, Yang Xiuqing will choose to see himself here?

Huang Xu walked while thinking about what the hell Yang Xiuqing was doing? When he walked to the end of the passage, he found that a super huge portrait occupied the entire wall at the end of the passage, the person in the painting was not very old, handsome and chic, and looked a little like Yang Xiuqing when he looked closely, especially those eyes, which were exactly the same as Yang Xiuqing's long, which made people shudder. Who is this person, is it Yang Xiuqing's son? But how have I never heard of it.

Yang Xiuqing stood quietly in front of the portrait, the whole person looked so gloomy, from Huang Xu's perspective, Yang Xiuqing was like an old man in his last years, a gust of wind could blow him down. In this situation, Huang Xu was a little sympathetic to Yang Xiuqing, although he was the king of the East under one person and above ten thousand people, he could not escape the torture of this illness, and he should have been heroic and extraordinary, but now he gives people the impression of a sick little old man.

"You're here?" Yang Xiuqing didn't turn around and asked.

"Yes, Lord Wang, Huang Xu is here by order." Huang Xu responded.

"Did you know that Weishenme called you here?" Yang Xiuqing asked again.

"I don't know." Huang Xu replied again.

"When you came in, you should have seen the portraits on these two walls, right?" Yang Xiuqing's voice was a little low.

"Yes, my subordinates saw it." Huang Xu said.

"Don't you have anything to ask?" Yang Xiuqing asked again.

"The subordinates don't dare to be abrupt." Huang Xu said again.

"Then you guess that Weishenme is called the Meritorious Pavilion here?" Yang Xiuqing did not immediately explain what the portraits on these two walls were, and asked another question.

"The subordinates are dull, please make it clear to the prince." Huang Xu didn't dare to guess.

"You're not stupid, you've already guessed it, but you don't dare to say it, do you?" Yang Xiuqing is not easy to fool.

"Lord Wang." Huang Xu didn't say yes, nor did he say no.

"Well, before I explain these portraits to you, I'll tell you a story." Yang Xiuqing paused when he said this, seemed to be a little excited, and after a while, he continued: "Once, there was an ordinary peasant boy, who lost his father at the age of 5 and his mother at the age of 9, and was raised by his uncle. Later, the Taiping army plotted to rebel, Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan listened to his name, and strongly invited him to participate, at that time he was also young and vigorous, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the corruption of the imperial court, so he took thirty-six people from the same township to join the Taiping Army, that year, he was only in his twenties, and he had a nephew, who was known as a prodigy in the local area, and was fifteen years old, and he had to follow him out to see the world, he did not allow it, his nephew sneaked out of the house, and participated in the Jintian Uprising with him, and later became his staff officer with the army. In this moment, many years have passed, and most of the thirty-six people who came out with him have died in the battle ahead, and his nephew was also killed by random arrows in the battle to cover him in the attack on Tianjing. Before he died, he still climbed his arm and said to him, calm the world. Speaking of this, Yang Xiuqing's voice was a little hard, calmed down, and he continued: "Later, there were 8 old brothers left who entered Tianjing with him, and these 8 people were finally knighted because of their outstanding merits, and they enjoyed the glory and wealth. Who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances in the sky, suddenly, one day, two of the 8 people came to tell him that the remaining 6 people didn't know what mistakes they had made, and they were suddenly arrested by the king of heaven and put into prison. But the king of heaven said, there is evidence, there is nothing to say, the grass is not rooted, the spring breeze blows and grows, there can be no kindness of a woman, and these 6 people must be cured of the death penalty, he begged to no avail, and the king of heaven still punished them with the death penalty. He had been depressed for a long time for this, and he really wished to go with them, but later, thanks to the two remaining good brothers, who persuaded him hard and took care of him day and night, for fear that he would have any accidents. Zuihou was touched by the sincerity of the two, so he broke off the idea of death, and vowed to take them to calm the world. ”

From his words, it was not difficult for Huang Xu to hear a trace of resentment towards the Heavenly King, and after a while, Yang Xiuqing's voice sounded in Huang Xu's ears again, "Speaking of which, Huang Xu, you should know, who is this person I am talking about, right?" Yang Xiuqing asked. Before Huang Xu could answer, he said to himself: "That's right, this person is this king, Yang Xiuqing, and the two old brothers who are still alive, one is Ning Zezhong, and the other is Fang Hu." And the purpose of this king's construction of this meritorious pavilion is to commemorate these good brothers who died, including the 6 people who died resentfully. Also, you must feel very strange, who is the young man in the biggest portrait in the middle, yes, he is my nephew, Yang Yitian, if he can live to this day, he will definitely be very promising, when he sees you, this king will think of him, there are too many similarities between you. I still remember his words before he died, to calm the world. ”

Listening to Yang Xiuqing's slightly sad words, Huang Xu was also speechless, but what else could he say at this time except to be silent, however, he was a little strange that since Yang Xiuqing had 6 brothers who were sentenced to death for the crime of rebellion, then he also blatantly put their portraits into the Meritorious Pavilion, could it be that he was already unscrupulous.

On the other hand, there is no way to verify how credible his words are, if his words are true, then this Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan is indeed an out-and-out ruthless character.

Huang Xu thought of this, and couldn't help but think of his current role, no matter what the real situation is, Hong Xiuquan is now also using his own hands to eradicate Yang Xiuqing, if this is the case, it is too terrible, Huang Xu thought of this, he couldn't help but shudder, he always thought how smart he was, but he was just a chess piece.

"The reason why I want you to come here today is because I want you to understand that this king has made you his own." Staring at the silent Huang Xu, Yang Xiuqing continued.

"I understand, the story of the prince moved me very much, it can be seen that the prince is a husband who values love and righteousness, I can follow the prince as I wish, that is also death without regrets, from today on, as long as the East King orders the point, I will be liver and brain, and I will never give up." Anyway, after listening to so many stories of people who don't want money, and saying a few words that are more acceptable, Huang Xu feels that it should be, but he is not stupid enough to sell himself with just a few words from him.

"Okay, what I want is what you say, I hope you will do what you say, and I will definitely not treat you badly." Dongwang patted Huang Xu's shoulder and said with great relief.

It's this sentence again, can you say something else fresh. It doesn't matter if you treat you badly or not, it's the most important thing for me to save my life first. From today on, I have to have a few more eyes, so as not to be calculated by the East King and the Heavenly King, these two old boys. As for how to do the rest of the thing, let's see first.