Chapter 263: Battle Clouds

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Li Chongjiu heard Qu Yanran ask this, and asked rhetorically: "Qu everyone asks so much, aren't you very concerned about this issue?" ”

Qu Yanran shook her head, and said with a somewhat coquettish expression: "Even if Yanran cares about this issue very much, please ask Brother Li to answer me seriously." ”

It is said that men are most afraid of women being coquettish, so should they be divided into beautiful women or ugly women, Li Chongjiu smiled and groaned, and said: "Okay, Qu everyone asks me this question, if I change to usual, I can say a hundred reasons and answers." But today I don't want to prevaricate with you. ”

Qu Yanran asked: "Could it be that Brother Li wants to say that he doesn't know the answer, if so, it is very disappointing." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled: "Qu everyone, do you know? There are three issues that I never talk to people about. ”

"What questions, are they relevant to your answers?"

Li Chongjiu said: "The three questions that I never discuss with others are, why does one live, what is the second love, and whether the three powers and wealth can be exchanged for one qiē." ”

Qu Yanran's eyes showed an interested look, obviously very interested, and asked at the moment, "Why is this?" ”

Li Chongjiu said: "There is no answer to the first question, there are many answers to the second question, and there is obviously a clear answer to the third question, but you say that in this turbid world, which person do you say believes?" ”

Qu Yanran's eyes lit up when she heard this, as if she was like a little girl, she slapped her palm and said, "Brother Li, what you said is really interesting, but you haven't answered my question yet?" ”

Li Chongjiu took a sip of tea and said: "The beauty of the country, as I said just now, can power and wealth be exchanged for a qiē? Some things are missed and missed, how can they be bought. If one day, I will achieve what I want, if I lose my family and relatives who were born and died with me, then this is also a lifelong regret that cannot be repaired. That's the answer in my mind. ”

Qu Yanran nodded and praised: "Brother Li, not only does it make Yanran fascinated, but I haven't heard such a wonderful talk for a long time, I think if Brother Li talks about the Tao, maybe he will be more famous than now?" ”

Li Chongjiu laughed and said, "Then I don't want to accept your words one day." ”

At that moment, Qu Yanran showed a little bit of affection, got up and said: "Yanran has the habit of taking a nap every day, so I won't talk to Brother Li, and Brother Li will also take care of himself." ”

Li Chongjiu nodded, and when the two were chatting to the fullest, they abruptly stopped, which is a good chatter who knows the way to advance and retreat.

At that moment, Li Chongjiu also got up and said: "Qu, everyone please take care of yourself." ”

So Qu Yanran went upstairs to rest, Li Chongjiu was alone downstairs, thought about it and asked Chunxi to take the pen and ink, and wrote letters to Li Hu, Su Su, Tu Diji, and Wen Yanbo on the table.

After writing it, it was already night, when the lights were on, Mingyue Tower opened the door to welcome guests, and it was the most lively time of the day, with the gentle sound of pipa, soft singing, and the faint smell of rouge.

Li Chongjiu wrote for an afternoon and finally finished writing the letter, and no one disturbed him in the afternoon, but when it was time for dinner, Chunxi served Li Chongjiu a bowl of broken golden rice.

Chunxi explained to Li Chongjiu: "The rules in the Mingyue Building, the big stove will not be opened until after the hour, our young lady said that she will not eat when she is in time, and she is afraid that Uncle Li will not be used to it, so she prepared some more broken golden rice at noon, and asked Uncle Li not to blame us for being slow." ”

Li Chongjiu said: "I'm used to it, when I was a bandit in the past, I only had two meals for breakfast and lunch, but now I can eat three meals, of course I have to cherish it." ”

Chunxi was stunned when she heard this, and asked, "Uncle Li, have you ever been a bandit?" ”

Li Chongjiu saw that the other party looked a little scared, and said with a smile: "Yes, it is still an ancestral business, a business without capital." ”

After Chunxi listened, her teeth chattered slightly, how could Miss Xindao know such a person. Li Chongjiu saw her expression and said: "This broken golden rice, I heard that it was loved by Yang Su, the prince of Yueguo back then, and it sounds good, but it is actually egg fried rice." ”

"Chunxi, do you know Yue Guogong?"

Chunxi nodded with a slight complexion, and said: "I have heard that the Duke of Yue Guo was Pingnan Chen back then, broke the Turks, and killed tens of thousands of people. ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Yes, speaking of which, Yue Guogong should be a very ruthless person, but have you ever heard the story of the reunion of the broken mirror? ”

"Not really."

Li Chongjiu said: "When Nan Chen Guopo was about to break, an official Xu Deyan and his wife Princess Lechang were afraid that the two would not be able to protect each other after the country was broken, so they broke a bronze mirror, each holding half of it, and made an appointment to sell the broken mirror in the city on the first day of his year, hoping to meet in the future." After Chen's death, the princess did not enter the family of Yang Su, the prince of Yueguo, as a concubine. Xu Deyan went to Kyoto as scheduled, and saw someone selling half mirrors, and he was half compatible. Xu Deyan inscribed the poem cloud, the mirror is gone with the people, and the mirror returns to the people; There is no shadow of Chang'e, and the bright moon is left in the sky. The princess got poetry, and she wept and couldn't eat. ”

When Chunxi heard this, her eyes turned red, and she said sadly: "This is a tragic thing in the world. But Yue Guogong is rich and powerful, how can Xu Yande get his wife back? ”

Li Chongjiu continued: "Later, Yang Suzhi, the Duke of Yueguo, recruited Xu Deyan, returned the princess to Xu Yande, and gave the two of them adult money, so that they could return to their hometown as travel expenses. This is the story of the reunion of the broken mirror. ”

Chunxi listened to it and praised: "Yue Guogong is really generous, not only giving away concubines, but also the beauty of adults, so that lovers can eventually become dependents, what a good person." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled when he heard this, so he didn't speak and continued to eat, and Qu Yanran upstairs also heard it clearly, couldn't help but smile, and said softly: "Chunxi, this stupid girl." ”

After a while, Yun Niang came to knock on the door and said, "Shopkeeper Lin has arrived at Mingyue Tower, and now I am waiting in my room." ”

Li Chongjiu went out immediately and came to Yun Niang's room. Lin Dangfeng was already waiting there, and when he saw it, he stepped forward and said: "Envoy, after knowing about the incident, I was worried about it for a whole day yesterday, and I will definitely try to get you out of the city." ”

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "It's okay, this Mingyue Tower is a safe place for the time being, now there are a lot of eyeliner outside the building, if I go out lightly now, this is the danger, I will wait for a few days." ”

Speaking of this, Li Chongjiu handed over the four letters written in the afternoon to Lin Dangfeng and said: "You try to pass on the four letters, otherwise my father, if Fourth Uncle Su knows that I am trapped in Zhuo County now, I will definitely mobilize a large army to attack the city, and it will be bad at that time. ”

Lin Dangfeng said immediately: "Yes." ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Among the county soldiers, how are we connected? ”

Lin Dangfeng said: "Now there are defenders from Huairong, Gu'an, and Changping counties for us, and roughly calculated that at least 5,000 county soldiers can be mastered for us. The other six counties also have our people. ”

Li Chongjiu's heart said that in the past few years, the trade route in Huaihuang Town has been cut off, and the trade route smuggled from Zhuojun to Yuyi Town has become the only trade road, and it has become a huge profit for each monopoly, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie. The Lin Family Business Association was originally the head snake of Youzhou, but it has been suppressed because of its identity as a businessman, but its private interests are all intertwined, and both black and white are very open.

And the generals who guarded this trade road have collected the money in the past two years, and they are also full of oil and water, with a handle in hand, and a lot of money to buy, many of these people have already taken refuge in the Lin Family Business Association.

Li Chongjiu said: "Very good, I heard that Xue Shixiong issued another order to let the Lu family and others recruit their own township soldiers, I think the generals among the township soldiers, in addition to the Qu Department of the various scholars, must send more generals among the county soldiers, as the commander of the township soldiers, you have to fortify and insert our people into it." Both of these are urgent matters at hand, and you need to hurry up. If it is peaceful, it will not be too late for me to go out of the city. ”

Lin Dangfeng promised at the moment and said: "It's just that you are alone in Zhuo County, so that your subordinates can hardly rest assured." ”

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said: "I said that the pacification of Zhuo County is not about using large soldiers to suppress it, but about whether it can obtain the support of several great scholars such as the Lu family of Zhuo County, as well as the county soldiers. I seem to be in danger here, maybe I can help in other ways, and there is one more thing that is also very imminent, the movement of Beiping County must be close, I am worried that the Lu family is likely to have secretly contacted Luo Yi. ”

The news of Yang Yichen's southward movement has not yet come, when Zhuo County, all counties have posted notices and began to recruit township soldiers.

The family business of these families is very large, and even as soon as the recruitment notice was posted, it immediately attracted countless Yan Zhao heroes to watch the list. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhongshan businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, sold horses in Zhuo County, and funded Liu Bei, a native of Zhuo County, with gold.

Zhuojun is known for its martial arts, and the extraordinary people of Liu Bei among the heroes of the list are enterprising, and they have joined the army one after another, and it does not take a few days for 20,000 township soldiers to be recruited.

However, the recruitment of 20,000 township soldiers was only three days, and Yang Yichen personally led 30,000 left imperial guard troops, divided into water and land, set off along the Tongji Canal, and went south to attack Dou Jiande.

When the news of Yang Yichen's army marching south came out, it was adjacent to Zhuo County from east to west, Shanggu County, Huaihuang Town, Yuyi Town, and Liaoxi County were fighting hard at the moment.

The autumn wind is slaughtering, Shanggu County, and the grain and grass in Huaihuang Town have been harvested, and the war horse is also the fattest time for autumn.

In Huaihuang Town, because Li Chongjiu was not there, Li Hu, as the backbone, had already taken over a qiē, and the generals heard that Li Chongjiu was in Zhuo County, and they were all anxious, and they wanted to send troops to attack Zhuo County and rescue Li Chongjiu.

As a father, Li Hu inevitably cared a little about it, but he was still more serious and asked Wen Yanbo what he meant.

How do you know that Wen Yanbo is vigorously opposed, and he urgently persuades not to attack Zhuojun at this time, otherwise Luo Yi will inevitably take advantage of the situation to enter Youzhou.

After hearing this, all the generals did not believe it, thinking that Wen Yanbo was derelict in his duty to pull Li Chongjiu in Youzhou.