At the beginning of May, Wang Rui returned to Beijing, with a group of veterans and centurions who would be the backbone of the Hexi Army, many of whom fled to Hexi. At the same time, he also brought news from Beiyuan and Lao Ling's letter. Liu Maosheng, on the other hand, took more than 5,000 auxiliaries and their families to Hexi.

Division of labor and cooperation, orderly, after all, the old man who has been by Neiwei and Zhou Zhe for a long time has some shadows of Zhou Zhe in the way of doing things.

Lao Ling's letter has no other content, it is still so simple and pragmatic, and there is no short nonsense from parents. Star City has begun to expand again, and the goal is to directly target the big city where millions of people live, and what it wants is materials, a large amount of spiritual grass ash, a large amount of coal, and a large amount of everything. Zhou Zhe looked at his pocket, there was only a large pile of grain warehouses, as well as blood corals and blood clotting pills, it was time to put them on the agenda.

"Today it was osmanthus candy, yesterday it was glutinous rice cake, and the day before yesterday it was candied fruit. Zhou Zhe, what do you want to do?" Chen Zui tasted a piece of osmanthus candy, and began to doubt Zhou Zhe's motives, always feeling that he had some intentions.

Zhou Zhe smiled very honestly: "Senior sister, the blood condensation pill you said last time." ”

Chen Zui didn't know what blood clotting pills? What blood clotting pills? I want to eat baked rice cakes. ”

Okay! Zhou Zhe did it.

"That blood clotting pill last time?"

"I want to eat sesame-stuffed meatballs. ”

"Okay, senior sister!"

It's really a report and a report, when he was injured, the matter of calling Chen drunk when he was injured is now returned one by one, Zhou Zhe has begun to miss the days when he had a takeaway brother, he didn't have to do anything for a day, just ran errands. In the end, Miao Xiaomeng, who followed Chen Zui to learn medical skills, was jealous, and all this naturally couldn't escape Xin Chai's eyes.

In the end, Zhou Zhe began to stage his miserable life of one servant and three masters.

After buying three days of osmanthus candy for Miao Xiaomeng, Zhou Zhe finally couldn't help but go crazy: "Miao Xiaomeng, you are only two steps, take the forbidden spirit ring, and run five laps around the yard, no, ten laps, otherwise I won't give you food tonight." Tonight, your Uncle Lin roasted dragon spider meat, as well as chicken wings. ”

Chen Zui looked disdainful: "I will bully children, senior sister, I am very bored today, why don't you dance a sword for me to help the fun!"

Miao Xiaomeng just ran a few steps before she stopped, clapping her hands and applauding: "Okay! Master's sword dance is very handsome!"

Zhou Zhe glanced at the little traitor he raised, and for the sake of the blood clotting pill, he let it go.

This kind of envoy lasted until Li Bing returned to Beijing, which was considered to be over, and at this time, it was already mid-May. The first furnace of blood condensation pills was baked in the drunken medicine room of Tianshu Pavilion with red light, and Liu Maosheng, who had completed his mission, also returned to Beijing smoothly.

After going back and forth for half a year, Li Bing went from being ousted from the position of commander of the Royal Forest Army in embarrassment, and now returning triumphantly is really like riding a roller coaster version of life.

The reward for the title also came down, Wang Rui, Liu Maosheng, Ma Dabao, the three people who initially stabilized the defense of Hexi were all named barons, and after Zhou Zhe resigned from the title of emperor and rewarded, he pushed Su Daosan, an honest man, to the front of the stage, a baron, and the deputy commander of the Imperial Forest Army.

The reason why Su Daosan was able to be lifted to this position was because Li Chi's imperial heart problem was committed again.

A young man who wants to restore the glory of his ancestors, longs for glory and titles, is still a filial son, and his ancestors have titles but made mistakes, and now the emperor's grace is vast, so that you can stand among the relatives again and return to the Imperial Forest Army, what an inspirational story. The emperor needs such a person, the ministers need it, and the relatives need it even more.

It is not so much Su Daosan's ability, but that all parties need a decent façade, and the inspirational and honest filial son Su Daosan appeared.

And Li Bing, who also had the same idea, was named the Marquis, the Marquis of Anxi. It seems to be very consistent with his merits, but in fact, he Li Bing is far from the merits of the marquis. Li Bing himself knew it, because in addition to playing some role in defending the city at the beginning, all the later things were cleaned up by Zhou Zhe, and his beheading was not even as good as that of Guan Xihai.

But he just became a marquis.

At the celebration banquet, Li Bing, who had originally come triumphantly, was very depressed, and after three glasses of wine, he had trouble again, and he had difficulty speaking.

Zhou Zhe knew what he was thinking, and reminded: "Everyone knows inside and out, Your Majesty is preparing, you think, my master is old." There are only a few of the younger generation who take the shot, Xingtiandu, Tianxingguan, and Longquanguan have to block one side of the general. My senior brother Qu Hui is not as thorough as you, if he becomes the commander of the forbidden army in the future, it will be a little worse to be alone. ”

Li Bing was a little surprised to see that Zhou Zhe actually commented like this.

Zhou Zhe smiled: "It's all my master's words." Lao Guan was miserable by me, and now he is training alone in Hexi, and he doesn't even have a title. In the future, if you have difficulties, find the emperor more, if it is not a brother, I will not help you, the more I help, the worse it will be for you. ”

Li Bing sighed, understood what Zhou Zhe meant, and said hesitantly: "Actually, you are more suitable than anyone else." ”

Zhou Zhe scolded with a smile: "I'm a half-ass, your sycophant is not suitable." ”

"Half-. When this joke is said, people in the world can't hang it on their faces. Li Bing muttered to himself.

On the wine field, the really depressed are Suo E and Duan Xiangsi, these two Zhou Zhe's subordinates have indeed made great contributions in Hexi, if they didn't fight to the death, I'm afraid that Wang Rui and the three of them would have already become the souls of Tianyu Pavilion. But I don't know if it was intentional or for some other reason, these two people were not even mentioned by name.

Zhou Zhe winked at Liu Maosheng and signaled, and he understood what to do.

The three of them each had a small wine jug, and they found a corner to drink and chat. In just a moment, hearty laughter came out.

Liu Maosheng almost began to describe and talked about Hexi from the beginning of meeting Zhou Zhe, and even said: "Our Hou Ye is a god, you see, we followed Hou Ye from the captain to the current baron." But the days are still long! Don't look at Su Daosan's kid who is now knighted. But if he stays in the Imperial Guards all the time, in a few years, you will see?"

Hearing this, Suo E heard the sound, and Duan Xiangsi asked stupidly, "What do you see?"

Suo E stepped on Duan Xiangsi's words: "Listen to what Liu Ye said." ”

Liu Maosheng said mysteriously: "I won't tell you anything, we have no hope for this Shandong Road for the time being, after all, General Yang and those hand-picked gladiatorial masters have gone, but this battle is still early! Shandong is over, and there are Hedong, Henan, and Beiyuan. How do you say this, soldiers, either fighting or preparing for war。。。。。 You just need to do the errand that the Hou Ye gave you。。。。。 Use your brain。。。。。 Do you want to 。。。。。 ”

Liu Maosheng was completely let go of the stomach after three glasses of wine, Suo E was a little better, and Duan Xiangsi was completely convinced of such a Liu Ye. Otherwise, one thing descends one thing, and Yu Deshui Liang Yu stayed in the ward for a month, and he didn't take Duan Xiangsi, but as soon as Liu Maosheng came out, although there was no logic in his words, Duan Xiangsi was obedient.

On the second day of the celebration banquet, Zhou Zhe invited the matchmaker to the princess's mansion, and at the same time, he also organized the guards who did not solve the lifelong affairs together, nominally to decorate Wang Rui and Liu Maosheng's house, but in fact, he pulled all the women who his sister Pan Yifeng had gathered to meet. And then there's the mandarin duck spectrum.

Although it's a little unscientific, there's no way, it's all people with their heads on the waistband of their pants, saying no, one day it's suddenly gone, if there is no queen, then there is no thought.

It's just that the only fly in the ointment is Wang Rui, who still hesitated and only made the first appointment at Zhou Zhe's mandatory request. After all, the Tan family is a marquis, and the three media and six hires are indispensable, and they must also be separated at a good time and choose a good day and auspicious day, which is more troublesome, but Wang Rui insisted, and Zhou Zhe could only follow his wishes.

In the end, as Zhou Zhe said, the fastest progress is Liu Maosheng, and the wedding date has been set, just after the New Year, Li Jiuyang gave birth to the child for a full moon.

And the rest of the people are all sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, not so particular, the second day of the meeting, all the formalities are completed, and on the fifth day, the collective banquet will be on the kang. Only when Yu Deshui and Liang Yu want to marry Ding Bo's Dinghai Pavilion, the marriage date has not been confirmed for a long time, but the letter is over, at least say hello to Ding Bo, and the twin sisters will lose a lot of money when they are the first to get there.

Just when Zhou Zhe drank the collective wedding wine of the guards and returned to the Blood Moon Hall in Xin Chai to get ready to fall in love, a person came uninvited, and even brought a piece of news, which cast a shadow on Zhou Zhe's heart.

"Zhou Zhe, do you still have the leisure to hold a wedding banquet for your mud-legged people, do you know that the people from Hedong Yipintang have also gone to Shandong?" Cheng Luoluo sat on the side of the coffee table in the courtyard of the Blood Moon Hall, still dressed in gorgeous clothes and shining brightly.

Zhou Zhezou frowned, and after thinking about it, he didn't understand why this Hedong Yipintang went to Shandong for, but subconsciously asked, "What are they going to Hedong for?"

Cheng Luoluo said in a tone like an idiot: "Of course it's profitable! I'm not a roundworm in their stomachs." ”

Xin Chai on the side was suddenly unhappy when he heard this tone, and he finally coaxed Miao Xiaomeng to sleep and prepared to have a candlelight supper, but now that the atmosphere is all disturbed, how can he be annoyed: "If you don't say it, it's equivalent to saying it in vain." Be all abroad. ”

Cheng Luoluo ignored Xin Chai at all, and instead said to Zhou Zhe: "The news has already told you, you can check what they want to do yourself! I almost forgot that you are the deputy commander of the internal guard." Also, you really don't have a good eye. After speaking, he also glanced at Xin Chai, and the corner of his eye was full of contempt.

"You!"

If it weren't for Zhou Zhe holding Xin Chai's hand, it is estimated that he would go up to fight immediately, the first time he came to the door, Cheng Luoluo demolished her door, and the second time, he despised her in front of her man, she was a clay man and had three points of anger, not to mention Xin Chai.

People have gone far, but the fire in Xin Chai's heart has not disappeared.

"Don't stop me, I'm going to kill this stinking shameless thing. ”

It is said that women want to coax, and Xin Chai is no exception, Zhou Zhe pulled her into his arms: "Just talk about it, and she will be stubborn." But I didn't understand what she meant by running here in the middle of the night to say this. ”

After a long time, Xin Chai relieved his breath: "Hedong Yipintang, let's pass by the one stolen in Hedong." But they're not a sect, they're a gang alliance. ”

Zhou Zhe remembered that he had been busy with the marriages of his cronies for a while, and he almost forgot about this sect that had been in his heart, although Cheng Luoluo woke up, but he always felt that the meaning of her words was not only referring to Hedong Yipintang. Holding Xin chasing Zhou Zhe and speaking: "You know them very well? Could it be that they have offended you before?"

Xin Chai struggled for a while and then gave up: "I have offended a lot, and the reason why this Hedong Yipintang is impressive is actually because they are special." ”

"Special?"

"They were originally a group of loose gangs, just like the Shandong Horse Gang, but they didn't just run by land, they also traveled by water. Subsequently, with the efforts of several generations, they annexed the large and small sects in Hedong, or entered Yipintang to become a member, or were suppressed and destroyed. ”

Zhou Zhe was cheerful after listening to a lot of things, and finally remembered why Ling Xiaoge said that the trade route in Hedong had been negotiated with Hedong Yipintang, and everything would be worry-free, such a sect alliance had exceeded Zhou Zhe's expectations, he thought it was a sect, but now it seems that it is really not that simple.

Zhou Zhe had already put down Xin Chai, sat down and began to think carefully. Xin Chai was depressed, just now the two of them were still grinding their ears and temples, and the next moment Zhou Zhe gave up like a shoe, flicked his sleeves, and went back to the room.

Yang Jue is in Shandong, and now that all forces in Shandong are competing, why did this person from Hedong Yipintang go to Shandong? Cheng Luoluo's words sounded in his ears, of course, it was profitable. If this is true, what is the benefit? Will they help the Sword Sect? Or will the Shandong Sect Alliance, or will the Hexi Sect send them to invite them? Or will they simply want to take advantage of the chaos to loot?

Suddenly, a bad thought suddenly exploded in his mind, why did Cheng Luoluo know the news before me, the deputy commander of the internal guard?