Just turned the weeping flower door, head-on, Wu Chengshan's thin and tall body was covered with a clean bamboo cloth gown, his gray hair was tightly curled, his hands were behind his back, and his face was dark and gloomy. As he spoke, lying on the ground and kowtowing, Wu Chengshan stopped, squinted at the two of them, flashed half a step to the side, and reprimanded in a cold voice: "Get up!" Lose the land and insult the country, and die innocently! After speaking, he brushed his sleeves away, Qingcheng glanced at Wu Chengshan, Nunu gestured to the mother-in-law to help the two of them, took two steps forward, and persuaded in a low voice: "Let's go, the two of you have to go back to Taiping Mansion with him, you have to wait carefully along the way, this master can't tolerate sand in his eyes, if anything happens~~ Hey, your life is hard to protect!" The two of them listened to the face like earth, leaning on one side and almost standing unsteadily, Lord Wu had a high cliff, and there was indeed no room for sand in his eyes!

Wu Chengshan stood straight at the door with his hands behind his back, watching Shi Guozhu kicking, his toes twitching for a while, he sighed, turned around and picked up the wine glass in the Dongping tray, held it high, slowly sprinkled the wine at the door, turned around and went straight out, at the entrance of the yamen, Zhao and Qian had already gotten into the car, Wu Chengshan didn't look at the people standing next to him, walked straight to the front of the car, jumped to the coachman's position and sat down, took the reins from the little guy's hand, and was about to shake, Li Xiaoqi suddenly raised his voice and asked: "Mr. Wu, aren't you afraid of the bright moon shining on the ditch?" Wu Chengshan's arms stiffened for a moment, his eyes narrowed slightly, he looked straight ahead, shook the reins and rushed out.

Both sides of the road were full of people from Chuzhou, some of them were crying with their hands together, some were kneeling and kowtowing, some were shouting 'adults' in a dumb voice, and many people followed the car, trotting all the way out of the West City Gate, Su Zicheng and Li Xiaoqi went up to the city wall, looking at the horses and carts that were getting farther and farther, getting smaller and smaller, looking at the people of Chuzhou who were sent out more than ten miles away, Li Xiaoqi sighed for a long time, took the cup full of wine from Danyue's hand, and slowly sprinkled it under the city wall.

In the evening, Zhao Hongzhi's hair was not messy, he was dressed in a clean official uniform with hair at the corners, holding a full of dossiers, trotting into the back office, Qingcheng was bringing a plate of candied fruit over, looked him up and down in surprise, and hurriedly went in to pass it on, Zhao Hongzhi stepped into the wing, first put the dossier on the side, patted the long shirt, and looked up at the courtesy, Li Xiaoqi looked at Zhao Hongzhi with high eyebrows, Zhao Hongzhi touched his sleeves, hehe explained with a smile: "The fifth master loves to be clean, I'm afraid of disgusting the fifth master, I washed it last night, and there is a lot of oil, It's almost washed away, and when it's gone, I'll make a new one. Li Xiaoqi stroked his forehead and smiled for a long time before pointing to the file and asking, "Have you picked all the people?" What is it? ”

"Pick it out, just wait for the fifth master to look at it, this is the general account of the tax people in Chuzhou for the past two years, sort it out, take it to the fifth master, the fifth master, among the candidates of this person, there is a person named Li Bangshui, the resume is not good-looking, in fact, people are ••••••" Zhao Hongzhi looked at Li Xiaoqi and explained carefully and eagerly, Li Xiaoqi raised his hand to stop his words and asked with a smile: "According to the resume, I don't know the position of the county, do you?" Now is an extraordinary period, do extraordinary things, the prince has handed over this Chuzhou to you to take care of, that is, he can trust you, the so-called use of people is not suspicious, suspects do not use, you can take a good look at this person, if there is anything wrong, I only ask you to ask for guilt, as for whether it can be used, you can take the idea, this term is only three years, the next term, the court has its own charter. Zhao Hongzhi breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked deep to the end, only to feel that his heart was hot, straightened up, and went down again, Li Xiaoqi motioned to Qingcheng to take the account book, flipped it over and laughed: "Where can I read so many account books?" You can sort it out, just give me a few numbers: the number of households in Chuzhou today, the number of population, the increase in population compared with last year, how many acres of paddy fields, how many acres of dry land, how many acres of mulberry fields, how many rich households, how many acres of land each, how many merchants••••••" Li Xiaoqi said the number to see in one breath, Zhao Hongzhi listened attentively, bent his fingers and memorized them one by one, listened to Li Xiaoqi finish speaking, took a breath and smiled: "The numbers that the fifth master wants, the lower officials will send them over early tomorrow morning." Li Xiaoqi smiled, watched Zhao Hongzhi say goodbye, and turned his head and instructed Qingcheng to take all the resumes of the newly arrived officials.

Wu Chengshan rode all the way to the direction of Taiping Mansion, and the black-clothed soldiers in Beiping who met all the way saw the red token hanging on the car, and they didn't even ask. Wu Chengshan drove the car straight until it was dark, and then he leaned on the side of the road and stopped beside a dilapidated ancestral hall, stiffened his legs and feet, groped to find the lantern, lit the lantern with fire, as if he didn't see the Zhao and Qian who were paralyzed in the car, Gu Zi searched the carriage, the car should be complete, two leather bags filled with water, a large bag of fine snacks, a package of pickles and corned beef, and a green cloth bag, which contained fifty taels of broken silver and two hanging money, Wu Chengshan opened the leather bag and drank water for a while, and sat on the ground by the wheel, Break a piece of corned beef and chew it hard. Zhao and Qian leaned close together, looking at him in fear.

As soon as the sky was white, Wu Chengshan drove the carriage back on the road again, this was already in the territory of Wu, and after walking for a few hours, he met the patrolling Wu army team, and escorted the three of them to Haozhou to make General Qin travel. A general came out, politely let Wu Chengshan go to the lobby, a few rough envoys led the Zhao family and the Qian family into the second gate, and the car and horse were led to the gate by the soldiers to take a closer look.

Wu Chengshan sat down and drank two or three cups of tea, General Qin put his hands behind his back, followed by two brocade-clothed generals who turned in from behind, Wu Chengshan hurriedly stood up and saluted, General Qin stared at Wu Chengshan with gloomy eyes, and said with a smile for a while: "Lord Wu, don't come unharmed?" This trip is to be a lobbyist for King Liang of Beiping? What do you want the old man to do? Master Wu just said! Wu Chengshan raised his head violently, looked at General Qin in amazement and shouted, "General, what are you talking about?" ”

"What?! Do you really want to play with everybody? It's too much to underestimate the people of this world! General Qin pointed at Wu Chengshan and said sharply, Wu Chengshan stood still, looked at General Qin in a daze, watched him sit down with a golden sword, swallowed his saliva, and explained with difficulty: "General, Chuzhou is lost, General Shi Guozhu was hanged to death, I will fight to the death, King Liang will let me return, please General Mingjian!" ”

"That's a good point! The words are sincere, their ambitions are commendable, and their feelings are pitiful! It turns out that if you fight to the death, King Liang's killing god can release people? Good words! Good excuse! What an idiot! General Qin clapped his hands lightly and sneered, Wu Chengshan looked at General Qin sadly, for a while, raised his heavy arm and pointed to the back hall and said: "If the general doesn't believe it, you can ask General Shi's two concubines, both of them are pregnant, I just ••••••" Before the words were finished, the corners of General Qin's mouth almost reached his chin, and he sneered, and the two brocade generals standing next to him shook their heads while laughing, General Qin seemed too lazy to say more to Wu Chengshan, raised his hand and waved, the brocade general turned around and beckoned, and the curtain behind him was lifted, The Zhao family and the Qian family supported each other and cowered in, not daring to look at Wu Chengshan or General Qin, staring at the ground and moving all the way in and kneeling on the ground.

"How did General Shi die?" General Qin asked loudly,

"Hui~~ Hui General, yes~~ He killed him!" Zhao trembled, suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Wu Chengshan and screamed, Wu Chengshan was furious, and subconsciously took half a step back, General Qin squinted at him and said sarcastically: "Scared? Now that you know you're scared? ”

"You! You guys! Shameless! Shameless! Wu Chengshan's face was blue with anger, his fingers trembled and kept pointing at Zhao and Qian, Zhao and Qian went out, moved two steps forward, and kowtowed, crying: "It's him!" He and those people from Peking killed our master! We begged him, cried and begged him•••••• begged the general to avenge our master! He took a fancy to our sisters and forced the two of us to •••••• to beg the general to be the master! Saying that, crying and falling to the ground, Wu Chengshan looked at the two crying in a daze, and muttered and scolded: "Villain! Wicked woman! Shameless wicked woman! Shameless••••••"

"I didn't wronged you, did I?" General Qin asked angrily, Wu Chengshan stiffened his neck, slowly turned around, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the hall proudly, and said angrily: "Sure enough! Really! Villain! Shameless villain! The bright moon shines on the ditch! General Qin's eyes tightened a few times, he slowly waved his hand with his wrong teeth, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Drag it out, chop it!" ”

The two guards standing at the door stepped forward to drag Wu Chengshan, Wu Chengshan took half a step back, staring at the two guards with a dead face, and suddenly rushed forward, the guards were startled, raised their feet and kicked hard in Wu Chengshan's straddle, Wu Chengshan seemed to not know the pain, and pounced on the saber on the waist of the guard, General Qin's frightened upper body stiffened, and the two brocade generals hurriedly drew their knives to protect in front of General Qin, Wu Chengshan fell to the ground, his eyes were staring at the saber on the waist of the guard, and his voice shouted hoarsely: "Give me the knife!" I'm going to show you eyeless dogs my heart! This heart! ”

General Qin stood up violently, squeezed between his teeth and said, "Give it to him!" I want to see if his heart is dark! The guards untied the saber and threw it in front of Wu Chengshan, Wu Chengshan's fingers kept bending and stretching out to grab the saber, holding the knife in one hand, standing up on the ground with the other, staggering half a circle, smiling miserably at General Qin, raising the saber, and stabbing it into the chest.