Somewhere in Youzhou, there is a small courtyard where a lot of verdant green plants are planted on the ground, and the overall style is very exquisite.

Luo Jingyun, who is still temporarily leading the position of the right general of the Zhenjun Army, but has been alone from the Yuyang Army for a long time, sits cross-legged on a futon made of tough pampas grass for calming the mind and calms the nerves, and meditates quietly.

The season is about to leave summer and autumn, as the northwestern part of the Great Cool territory, Youzhou, has gradually become colder, most of the people have taken the initiative to add clothes, in order to resist the discomfort of the change of seasons, especially in the early morning of the first appearance of the morning glow, the slightest wisps of cool breeze blowing from the north, is consuming the bone marrow of all things, but it can hit his body, but it can't shake this old man who is very good at self-cultivation.

Most of the veterans have a body of problems, which have been accumulated since they were young, and they are not very terrible at the beginning, but once they reach the old age of exhaustion, it is the most test of people's will, and many veterans are slowly boiled to death in this pain, so it is really an extremely important thing to maintain the body.

In contrast, the left general Pei Zhengyang likes to play slow boxing in the morning in the morning, while the right general Luo Jingyun prefers to learn from the hermit in the mountains, eating and drinking dew, facing the distant morning glow purple gas in the early morning, closing his eyes and concentrating, emptying his mind, his eyes are between closed and unclosed, and the slightest wisp of glow is faintly visible.

Although the two are colleagues and brothers who have intersected with each other for most of their lives, their styles of dealing with the world are completely different, and they are reflected in all aspects, to say that the only thing the two have in common is that they are bound and hindered by the kindness of the old days, and they can't let go of the little love in their hearts, and they ignore the righteousness of their family and the country, and this is the biggest reliance that Xu Jintang can rely on to the two of them.

The so-called is to go to the army to fight and strategize, if you want to fully grasp a person, attacking the heart is the most powerful means, knowing the opponent's bottom line, clamping the opponent's state of mind, you can handle it at will.

The Great Zhou Tian was finally completed, and the morning glow purple qi that appeared briefly in the sky had completely retreated, but the old man did not get up immediately, but meditated silently for a while, and then finally opened his eyes slowly.

"Whew!"

He opened his mouth, spit out a mouthful of turbidity that had accumulated in the night, and still carried the waste of his body, and was about to get up from the ground, the corner of his cold eyes twitched, and the whole person quickly turned over and bounced up, at this moment, it gave people the feeling that he was not at all an old man with silver hair and was already in his twilight years, but was as agile as a leopard in the wild, and the whole person's momentum suddenly rose, and he looked nervously at the arched gate of the courtyard.

At the door, I don't know when, there were two strangers, both wearing weird grimace masks on their faces, and both wearing a set of black tights like the night, from the body shape can not tell them or their gender and age, the two stood at the door left and right, motionless, like two black sculpture door gods, but this did not prevent these two people from giving the old man a huge sense of threat.

This long-lost, even some strange sense of fear, so that some of the memories he has almost forgotten suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind, this picture, reminded him of when he was young, when he just entered the scout camp, once ran alone to the mountains and forests of Shudi, only to be targeted by a hungry black bear on the way, that feeling, is the great horror between life and death, in retrospect, still makes him like a man, and the picture in front of him, somehow, actually and the terrible picture of the year slowly coincided, let him trance, and became the young man who was at a loss in the jungle again.

The next moment when he could barely hold on and screamed, this extremely terrible feeling disappeared, because a young man he had never seen before walked in so generously.

This strange young man was slender and handsome, and if he was placed in normal times, he would definitely be a beautiful man who would make the women of the whole city crazy, and he was draped in a thick silver fox fur, and the thick fluff wrapped around his neck, but it gave people a contrasting sense of coldness.

This kind of costume that must be seen in the cold winter, in the current weather, naturally looks very peculiar, I think this should be a very cold person, the cloak is not tied, you can see that he is a specially thickened, embroidered with gold-rimmed white gown, elegant, and with a sense of nobility.

His face is very pale, it can be said that there is no blood, in Luo Jingyun's eyes, this is simply a terminally ill, poor man who is about to die, but what makes the old man care the most is his eyes, it is so bright, dazzling, just like the morning glow that the old man just visualized, warm, powerful, as if to illuminate the four seas and eight wildernesses, ten directions of heaven and earth.

What a strange three people, no matter who watched from the side, they knew that these three people must not be ordinary people.

The old man slowly straightened up, put away the fist that had been gathering momentum, stared at the other three of them, frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

The old man didn't think to ask extremely stupid questions such as "where are the guards, where are the guards", nor did he directly scold the other party, and after weighing it a little, he didn't choose to take the initiative, because he knew that since he came, he must have something to say to him, if he wanted to kill him, he was meditating in the middle of the courtyard just now, and when his mind was most relaxed, it was the best opportunity, and he didn't have to wait until now.

The young man put his hands on his sleeves, smiled slightly, and his attitude was kind, making people feel like a spring breeze, and he spoke, his voice was not loud or small, giving people a comfortable feeling of drinking a cup of hot tea in winter.

"When we first met, my surname was Gu, and my single name was a Cangzi. ”

When the old man heard this, a pair of eyelids subconsciously fell, and after a slight reaction, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened suddenly, his breathing suddenly became short, and he asked tremblingly, "Too, prince?"

Gu Cang kept squinting his eyes, his smile was undiminished, and he nodded slightly at the moment, acknowledging his identity, and then stretched out his right hand with the slender cyan meridians, and said in a mocking tone: "Since the old general knows, why don't you invite me to sit down?"

The old man's body trembled, and after the expression on his face changed several times, he knelt directly towards Gu Cang, hugged his fists, and sighed: "Prince, the old minister is guilty!"

The expression on Gu Cang's face did not change at all, but his voice was a little cold.

"If the old general knows what is wrong, why should he make mistakes again and again?"

Naturally, the old man couldn't answer this question, he just hung his head and said almost pleadingly: "Prince, this place is dangerous, you better follow the old minister into the house first." ”

The small courtyard where he lives now is actually not far from Liangzhou, and it has always been under Xu Jintang's close surveillance, after all, his potential influence on the Youzhou Army is too great, and once he gets into trouble, the damage he can cause is too great, Xu Jintang can remember the old love and not kill him, but it is impossible to let him run around, so he can only put him under house arrest, of course, all this is almost considered his willingness.

Gu Cang smiled, as if the whole courtyard was a little warmer, he turned his head sideways and said to the two people behind him: "You see, this old general is actually still thinking about our great coolness, just by virtue of your sentence, I know that I am not wrong this time." ”

Gu Cang said that, he didn't delay, and he didn't worry that the other party would harm him, so he walked into the back room slowly, and deliberately let these two Luo Yu stay outside to watch the door for one of the six days, the top assassins and bodyguards in the world today, in fact, he was obviously more afraid of the cold than whether he would be discovered or plotted by others.

After the old man walked into the house, while saying the words "Please wait a moment, the prince", he first buried his head in the fun for a while, lit the charcoal stove in the house that had not been used for a long time, and then respectfully lifted it and moved it in front of Gu Cang, then rubbed his hands, lowered his breathing, and stood opposite him with some anxiety.

Gu Cang stretched out his hand and greeted the old man warmly, as if he had seen his elders.

"The old general should sit down, whether it is talking about age or seniority, you don't have to be so polite. ”

Luo Jingyun kept his head down, his hands were twisted together, and he was very uneasy and slowly rubbing, looking like that, like a child who had been taught by a teacher in the school with a board and had done something wrong, he suppressed his voice and said: "Sinner, don't dare to sit down." ”

The corners of Gu Cang's mouth curled, and he said with a smile: "The fault was all made by him Xu Jintang himself, and the sin was the foreshadowing laid by the ancestors who began several generations ago, so what does it have to do with you?"

Luo Jingyun hurriedly said: "Seeing that someone is doing something wrong, he has the ability to stop it, but he stands by and watches, and the mistake he makes is the same as it." ”

Gu Cang bowed his head slightly while listening, but in an instant, the whole person's expression became serious, and his tone was a little more reproachful.

"Well, what you said is very good, in the Great Liang Law, you are guilty of harboring and sitting, if the world turns a blind eye like you, then the good world that the saints have spent thousands of years building for everyone will collapse!"

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed: "The old minister is guilty, and he also asks the prince to point out a remedy for the sinner!"

Although Luo Jingyun said that he had never seen Gu Cang's true face, he had also heard that the other party was in line with the image, and it was impossible for Xu Jintang to test him in such a boring way, so the other party had already believed seven or eight points since he signed up for the number, coupled with this person's unique temperament, ordinary people would never be able to imitate it, especially in front of an old man like him who had seen all kinds of people, if he changed it to a fake one, it was really a ghost to be able to bluff him, after all, he was with the old general Xu Qianzhong, and he had seen His Majesty the Emperor who came to Youzhou when he was young, that kind of royal nobility, majesty, where can ordinary people have。

The prince of a country is already the foundation of the country, he is the prince, and he is also the hope of the country's future, such an extremely important person to Da Liang, dare to come to Youzhou like this in this situation, you dare to say that he has no support at hand?

The son of a daughter, he can't sit down, even if he himself is a brainless, arrogant, and empty-eyed fool, will His Majesty the Emperor allow him to run over and die like this?

How could it be!

In fact, since the coup d'état in Youzhou, the old man has been secretly thinking, it is impossible for the imperial court to be defenseless against a feudal official like Xu Jintang, and there is no means of countermeasures, you know, this is not the helpless era in history when the lord is weak and the minister is strong, if you want to Daliang for three generations, all of them are rare Ming Jun, all of them are really ruthless people with great eloquence and strategy, can you let a courtier ride on his head and and can't do anything?

The prince in front of him came today, and in the old man's opinion, it was the most direct signal that the court was going to make a move, so he had always behaved very respectfully and never thought about anything else.

Gu Cang baked his hands, in his eyes, the fire jumped, and he said softly: "Actually, old general, you all know that Xu Jintang will not succeed at all, not to mention whether he can enter the capital with the little people at hand, let's just say that once the superior forces are contained in Liangzhou, the Shu Kingdom will fight behind, what can he do? So he is just looking for death, and he is dragging your entire Youzhou army to find death together, you shouldn't be unable to see clearly." ”

The old man knelt on the ground, speechless, only silent.

He doesn't understand anything, it's just that what can he do, it's just that he hopes that Xu Jintang can really take care of all aspects, to put it bluntly, since the left and right are not right, it is better to take a break from the matter and watch it just like now, but he didn't expect that one day, he would be personally approached by the prince to question him.