Chu Fan didn't dare to look at the two heads, he forcibly suppressed the shock and confusion in his heart, turned his head and said in a low voice: "Thank you Lieutenant General Zhang for supporting justice, Skull City is willing to make peace with Wang Du forever." ”

"Eternal peace? En..."Zhang Gongbo nodded with a smile, his eyes showed a little depth, and he exclaimed, "Mr. Chu is really the righteous person of the country, and he knows that he must first settle the inside, and now the fierce beasts are rampant in the territory, and there is a federation in the southeast, you and I are the supreme executors of the two major forces in the north at present, if we can't get along in harmony, the north will be stormy." ”

Chu Fan humbly agreed: "What Lieutenant General Zhang said is extremely true, but I want to correct it a little bit, Chu is only temporarily in charge of the death row camp, and the actual person in charge is still Colonel Luowei. ”

"And do you want to replace him?" Very abruptly, Zhang Gongbo took advantage of the situation to say this sentence that made Chu Fan's heart tremble, Chu Fan raised his head in astonishment and saw Zhang Gongbo's smiling eyes, this is a trap that has been laid out a long time ago!

Zhang Gongbo didn't give Chu Fan a chance to breathe, he beat his chest with his fist, and said bitterly: "Who is Luo Wei? To put it nicely, Jiangnan Tigers. To put it mildly, a mongrel from the wilderness, born in a lowly civilian family, with a dirty background and a despicable bloodline, in the capital it was frowned upon. ”

Zhang Gongbo leaned forward slightly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Chu, are you a mongrel?" ”

Chu Fan swallowed his throat, looked at Zhang Gongbo with difficulty, and said dryly after a long time: "I'm not." ”

"Of course not! In my eyes, you are a real man, if it weren't for the villain's frame-up and your military academy background, if not on an equal footing with me, you would at least be an important minister of the country. Zhang Gongbo's fingers were beating regularly on the table, and he seemed to beat some kind of beat, and if you listened carefully, it was easy to see that this was a very popular "Power" among the officers of the capital, "You are not a mongrel, but now, you are riding on the head by a mongrel." Tell me, during the time when Luo Wei left and you took over the death row, did your subordinates obey you? ”

Chu Fan replaced his answer with silence.

Zhang Gongbo said slowly: "The answer must be no, because your name is not right, and your words are not good, Mr. Chu Fan, you might as well look at your shoulder." ”

Zhang Gongbo's words seemed to have some kind of magic, prompting Chu Fan to subconsciously look at his shoulder, he was wearing a grand military uniform today, but he did not have a military rank on his shoulder, which is not surprising, the death row camp is not subordinate to the regular army, except for the real manager, the soldiers below have no rank.

Zhang Gongbo continued: "In the eyes of your subordinates, you are no different from them, just a mud leg who has been relegated to a death row camp. Not only do your subordinates not admit it, but the officials don't admit it either, even if one day you die honorably on the battlefield, you won't even be buried as a martyr! But today..."

When Zhang Gongbo said this, his hand was raised slightly, and the four fingers except for the thumb jumped on the table, and as soon as the sound fell, a document was handed to Chu Fan by the waiter.

"According to the imperial military order, I have asked the Central Committee of Chang'an for instructions to rehabilitate Zhaoxue for the unjust case, and crowned Chu Fan, the honorary master of the Military Academy, as the colonel of the empire, promoted to the ranks of the Central Guard, and obituary to the world!"

Zhang Gongbo's every word, and even every word, was like thunder, all of which Chu Fan could only hear in a dream, he looked at the document in front of him blankly, which was covered with several heavyweight military seals, and lost his mind for a while.

At Zhang Gongbo's suggestion, a pen and a box of ink clay were placed in front of Chu Fan, and his voice also came: "The whole document is only your signature and handprint, sign it, press it, you are a death row prisoner in Skull City when you enter the door, and you are a colonel of the Central Garrison Army when you go out." ”

The unimaginable temptation has made Chu Fan subconsciously sign his name, which has nothing to do with his own wishes, it is completely an act in the subconscious of the brain.

Immediately after, Chu Fan pressed his finger on the red ink, and he didn't know if the cold touch from his finger brought him back to reality, and at the moment when he was about to draw it, his finger stopped at a position five centimeters away from the document.

Chu Fan put his trembling hand under the table, raised his head, and said with a cold sweat on his face, "What do I need to give you?" ”

"You don't have to give me anything, just do one thing for me." Zhang Gongbo gave the second document with a smile and said, "Luo Wei gave you the official military seal, stamp it on this document, it's as simple as that." ”

Chu Fan took the document and glanced at it, his consciousness was like five thunderbolts, this document is not long, but in the final analysis, the meaning is: the death row camp gave up the right to recruit troops in the north.

For a while, two different scenes unfolded in Chu Fan's mind, and even formed a hallucinatory picture in front of his eyes, so real and clear.

Both scenes describe Chu Fan's future, the first is that Chu Fan, who became a colonel, was full of spirit in the Central Garrison Army, became the mainstay of the Imperial Army, galloped across the battlefield to make meritorious contributions, reported to the country, and was in peace with the people.

In the second scene, when Chu Fan returned to his mansion to rest on the day he took office, a chill rushed through, and when he opened his eyes again, the room was full of scarlet substance surging like a tide, ceiling, floor, walls, bed, desk... The entire room was shrouded in scarlet matter, and hundreds of pairs of scarlet eyes opened on it, and Locho and Cethea stood by the bedside, one holding a red umbrella and the other holding a blood prison, looking at him with those dense eyes.

At this moment, Chu Fan only felt as if something had been defeated in his consciousness, and endless fear hit every cell in his body like a torrent, he hurriedly pushed the two documents out together, stood up and lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "I'm sorry... Lieutenant General Zhang, I can't betray the colonel. ”

"You're not loyal, you're fear." Zhang Gongbo rearranged the messed documents and looked at Chu Fan with a smile, his eyes seemed to see through his heart, "You are simply afraid of Luo Wei's revenge, not to be loyal to him." ”

Chu Fan lowered his head and did not speak.

Zhang Gongbo's words were tempting: "Think about it again? As long as you are willing to cooperate, we can not only take back the recruitment rights of the death row camp, but even find an opportunity to deprive Luo Wei of his military rank. Recently, the wilderness forces have risen, and the second wilderness purge has begun, as long as he is also included in the purge list, the scene that scared you in your mind just now will not happen. ”

Chu Fan gritted his teeth and worked so hard that he squeezed blood out of his gums, but after a while, he still shook his head firmly and said in a trembling voice: "Forgive me... Lieutenant General Zhang, it's not too early, it's time for the juniors to retire, and I won't say anything when I hear what I saw today. ”

"Wait a minute." Just as Chu Fan was about to leave the table with his deputy, Zhang Gongbo's call came, and the capital lieutenant general stood up from his seat, propped up the table with his hands, and his sharp look appeared in his eyes as always, and he smiled, "Gifts are still exchanged, I gave you two heads, don't you plan to give me two as a return gift?" ”

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