When Zhao Ning planned to leave Yunzhou, it was the third day after Xiaohan.

It was also on this day that he received a letter from Zhao Xuanji.

Through this letter, Zhao Ning learned about the Chen family.

Zhao Xuanji also said in the letter that late at night when Xiaohan was drunk, Chen Anzhi, who was very drunk, went to the vicinity of the Zhenguo Mansion. However, he tried not to enter the house, but sat on the corner for an hour, and then left in the cold wind.

Closing the letter, Zhao Ning fell into silence and contemplation.

When he left Yanping City, Chen Anzhi knew that the latter did not enter the Zhenguo Mansion that night in Xiaohan, probably because of this.

Chen Anzhi, who has a fiery temperament, is simple-minded, and in the face of the current situation, he is likely to be at a loss and at a loss, and he urgently needs someone to explain his thoughts and discuss with him what to do in the future.

It's a pity that when he needed his friends the most, his friends were no longer in Yanping, whether it was Zhao Ning or Wei Wuxian.

When he left the street corner, he should have been extremely lonely, clever, and helpless.

However, the difficulties of life always need to be faced by themselves, no matter how unbearable they are. This is especially true for people who want to make a difference. At the moment, all Zhao Ning can do is write a letter and send someone to him, telling the other party that no matter what the situation is, their brotherhood will not change.

Zhao Ning wrote a total of three letters, in addition to Chen Anzhi, Zhao Xuanji and Zhao Qiyue.

In the past few years, the emperor will be in full swing to gather the authority of the family, no matter which family it is, if there is a slight mistake, it will be grabbed by the magistrate and make a big fuss, and the Zhao family is no exception.

However, Zhao's core pursuit at the moment is to secretly strengthen its own strength, and the main part of this is the long river boat. The matter of Cao Yun was personally presided over by Zhao Ning, so the Zhao clan's strength in Yanping only needed to be stabilized for the time being.

In addition, the expansion of Zhao's other industries will be taken care of by Wang Rouhua returning to Yanping, before Zhao Ning left Yanping, Wang Rouhua was already ready to leave, and now she should have returned to the Zhenguo Mansion. There is Zhao Xun to assist Zhao Beiwang at Yanmen Pass, and even if Wang Rouhua is not there in the short term, there will be no problem.

Who the new concubine "Wu Meiniang" is, Zhao Ning does not know.

He hadn't seen it either.

However, since the other party is from the Prime Minister's Mansion and has the identity of Xu Minglang's righteous daughter, Zhao Ning has to consider the possibility that the other party is Zhao Yujie. It is also very simple to preliminarily verify, you only need to buy the subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion in Yipinlou, and inquire a little if Zhao Yujie is still in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Zhao Ning finished writing these three letters and sent the cultivators of Yipinlou to send them, Zhou Ying and Huang Yuandai came together.

The three of them sat down and exchanged two words, and Zhao Ning got straight to the point: "In recent years, it was the time for family reunions, and Zhao should not have mentioned this question, but this time Zhao left Beijing and traveled south, and there were many miscellaneous things in him, so he couldn't stay in one place for more, so he could only take the liberty of asking: Are you willing to travel south with Zhao and travel the world together?"

After asking this question, Zhao Ning stared at the two of them intently, quietly waiting for the other party to answer.

This time when he came to Yunzhou, Zhao Ning saw Zhou Ying and Huang Yuandai as he wished, and the two sides also destroyed the Fang family together.

In the previous life, Huang Yuandai died the earliest, and the battle of Jingzhou was fought hard for several years, and the defense line of the Qi army was broken in the later period, and the army suffered heavy losses, and the rest had to retreat to Chu. In order to allow the soldiers of Zhao Ning's department and the officials of Zhou Ying's department to get out of the battlefield, Huang Yuandai volunteered to stay behind.

It was also a cold winter.

It is rare for Jingzhou to have heavy snowfall, and at the ancient road entrance with barren grass, Zhao Ning and Zhou Ying, who were escorting many wounded soldiers with a group of remnants of the defeated generals, said goodbye to Huang Yuandai in the howling west wind. The Beihu army was close behind them, and they didn't even have time to drink a glass of parting wine, but simply clenched their fists on horseback.

Since then, Zhao Ning has never seen Huang Yuandai again, but he and Zhou Ying's troops have successfully withdrawn to Yuezhou. More than a month later, Zhao Ning learned that Huang Yuandai, who used his body as a bait to play the Northern Hu army, was finally outnumbered and surrounded by the Northern Hu army in Yiling.

After a bloody battle, with only more than 100 soldiers left, Huang Yuandai opened the city gate, took the lead, and led the soldiers out of the city on horseback, rushing into the Beihu army group all over the mountains.

The year after Huang Yuandai's death, the Qi army lost Jianghuai and was forced to retreat to Lingnan. When Zhao Ning was training new recruits in Guangzhou, Zhou Ying was ordered to go

Fuzhou formed a right-wing defense line, but was later betrayed by his colleagues and captured on the bank of the Wujiang River.

The Northern Hu Army knew the name of Zhou Ying, and tried all kinds of means to try to make him surrender, from the high-ranking officials to the glory and wealth, to the torture and persecution, Zhou Ying was always unmoved. After suffering all the hardships, he wrote in his blood in prison: "The imperial road should be cleared, containing and spitting the Ming Court;

The events of his previous life have become a thing of the past, and Zhao Ning has no intention of thinking too much.

What he wants now is for Zhou Ying and Huang Yuandai to follow him, get through the difficulties with each other again, show what they have learned for the things of the world, and work side by side. If they can help, Zhao Ning can get twice the result with half the effort no matter what he does, and when the national war breaks out in the future, he can logically take them to the battlefield and entrust them with important tasks.

But they had to agree.

Destroy the Fang family, the two sides are equal and cooperative, even if Zhao Ning is kind to them, they have also repaid the Yun family's affairs, and now that Yunzhou is over, if they are unwilling to follow Zhao Ning, Zhao Ning has no way to force it.

After all, Zhao Ning is just the son of a family, not an emperor or a court, Zhou Ying and Huang Yuandai are willing to sacrifice their lives to serve the country, but they are not necessarily willing to follow Zhao Ning.

In addition, both of them are talented and high-spirited, and now that there is no Fang family to get in the way, they choose to stay in Yunzhou to study, seek to be a member of the imperial examination, and be a serious official of the dynasty, which is a very good path for them.

After listening to Zhao Ning's words, Zhou Ying and Huang Yuandai glanced at each other.

None of them answered immediately.

The atmosphere in the hall was a little awkward for a while.

Zhao Ning's heart was gloomy for a while.

Compared with the orthodoxy of the dynasty, his identity as the son of a family is still light in the eyes of scholars and scholars.

Just when he was about to make a haha and peel off this stubble, so as not to make everyone lose face, Huang Yuandai smiled and said to Zhao Ning not very seriously:

"Huang has nothing to pursue in his life, the only thing he misses in the world, except for the ugly woman at home, there is only fine wine. If Brother Ning has enough wine on the boat, and Huang can take his mother-in-law to make a home on the boat, then why not follow Brother Ning to travel the world?"

Zhao Ning was overjoyed, and immediately laughed and said: "I am also a good wine person, and the same is true of General Yang, when Brother Huang arrives here, not only is there enough wine and meat, but there is absolutely no shortage of drinking friends!"

"Then it's settled. ”

Huang Yuandai patted his thigh and made up his mind, without dragging his feet at all, and glanced at Zhou Ying, who was still thinking, "Nerd, what do you say? Brother Ning is a bright person, you are a lot older, and you want to go back to your daughter-in-law and children to warm the kang head, that is human nature, Brother Ning will not be unhappy. ”

Huang Yuandai's words were actually given to Zhou Ying, so that the other party didn't have to have any psychological burden because he planned to follow Zhao Ning, and his friend did this part, which can be regarded as very intimate.

Zhou Ying's consideration had a result, he arched his hand towards Zhao Ning, and said with a straight face: "If there is no Brother Ning to help this time, Zhou is already a dead man, where can there be a big revenge today, raise eyebrows, and return to his wife and son?"

"Brother Ning'er is a young hero, righteous and heroic, in Yanping, he can find out the enemy's country, eradicate the black-hearted family, and fight on the battlefield at the age of seventeen, he can defeat the three armies and defend the country, and now he has arrived in Yunzhou, and he is even more righteous to get rid of the local powerful bullies, regardless of character or mental talent, Zhou is admired!

"This time, if you can travel the world with Brother Ning, while seeing the great rivers and mountains, while seeing the great rivers and mountains, it is really a great blessing and happiness in life, how can Zhou refuse?"

His words were serious and reasonable, in stark contrast to Huang Yuandai's words of opening and closing his mouth and drinking beautifully.

No matter what he said, as long as he agreed to follow him, Zhao Ning was very happy.

"Brother Zhou is full of righteousness, and it is also a blessing for Zhao to be able to sit and talk with Brother Zhou on this trip, listen to Brother Zhou's guidance, and see Brother Zhou's poetry and romance. Zhao Ning also responded with a straight face.

The conversation between the two of them was as big as a bucket, and Huang Yuandai waved his hand again and again: "You two don't drop your bookbag, have a good time playing and collecting, what a relaxing and pleasant thing, being said by the two of you is lifeless, it's really a bad scenery!"

"Brother Ning, let people serve wine quickly, Lao Huang is already too hungry. Since I drank your Jiannan Burning Spring, the old Zhou's brush pot water is me

I can't drink it anymore, I didn't fall asleep last night, and I cheapened the ugly woman at home for nothing. ”

"Okay, don't get drunk today!" Zhao Ning was not hypocritical, and automatically ignored the other party's affair with his daughter-in-law at night, and immediately let people drink.

In fact, Huang Yuandai and Zhou Ying's attitudes are different.

Huang Yuandai promised to go with him on the condition of fine wine, this is an exchange, since it is an exchange, then he is equivalent to selling himself to Zhao Ning. The rhetoric of bringing his mother-in-law to settle down on the ship also proves this.

But Zhou Ying is different, he did not mention conditions, and the reason for agreeing to go with him is also to admire Zhao Ning, which shows that his definition of the relationship between them is equal fellowship, so he is traveling the world with Zhao Ning as a friend, not under Zhao Ning's command.

Zhao Ning knew the attitude of the two, Huang Yuandai threw it cleanly, he was very happy, Zhou Ying remained independent for the time being, and he definitely didn't mind. In the final analysis, what Zhao Ning wants is for the three of them to fight side by side again, and it doesn't necessarily have to be Zhou Ying to become his vassal.

Moreover, Zhou Ying's attitude will not change, this time they walked all over the world together, and under getting along day and night, Zhao Ning believed that Zhou Ying would not let him down in the end.

......

Two months after Zhao Ning left Yunzhou.

The discussion in the market brought about by the collapse of the Fang family has gradually dissipated, and Jia Su, the assassin of Yunzhou, thought that after the disappearance of the Fang family, a dominant family, without the constraints of local tyrants, he would be able to speak in Yunzhou, but the facts were not as he expected.

The Yun family suddenly rose strongly, although it could not be compared with the Fang family's strength, but its prestige among the Yunzhou clans was more than equal, and all the clans were only looking at their horses. This makes Jia Su's power still limited from time to time.

What gave Jia Su a headache was that the Yun family was very different from the Fang family, although the head of the Yun family was also polite to him, he was only polite, and he had no intention of colluding with him at all and doing whatever he wanted in Yunzhou. The results of Jia Su's several attempts were not good, which made him lose a huge source of money, and he gradually became extremely dissatisfied with the Yun family.

And the most unbearable thing for him was that the Yun family, relying on their good reputation and existing prestige in Yunzhou, began to point fingers at the government.

This is concentrated in the fact that when the officials extort and extort the merchants of Yunzhou as usual, and take away the common people, the Yun family will stand up and uphold justice, and every time the situation will be expanded, the whole city will know, in just two months, Jia Su was forced to deal with several officials who beat the people and blackmailed the merchants.

Jia Su gradually realized that the Yun family, relying on its own influence, had greatly restricted the power of the Assassin's Mansion.

And the other party's most relied on weapon is public opinion, between the Assassin Mansion and the Yun family, the people of Yunzhou are not more willing to believe in the Assassin Mansion, and in specific matters, because the Yun family is always standable, they can often get the support of the people.

In this case, the officials of the Assassin's Mansion were forced to restrain their words and deeds, and they did not dare to easily run rampant in the Qinglou, restaurant, and market, nor did they dare to fish the people casually, which led to the direct result of the decline in the authority of the officials and the loss of a lot of interest income.

The pockets were deflated, and the officials were complaining and complaining, hoping that Jia Su could turn the situation around and get everything back on track.

The first thing that came to Jia Su's mind was "Flying Fish Guard".

Before, the "Flying Fish Guard" helped him uproot the Fang family, and now he hopes that the other party will take action again, suppress the Yun family, and continue to maintain the status of the Assassin Mansion.

This night, Jia Su wrote a secret fold and planned to submit it directly to the emperor, hoping that the other party could let Feiyuwei come to Yunzhou again. The reason is very clear, the Yun family has risen too fast, and it is about to become the second Fang family, and it is very likely to become a family in the future, so it must be dealt with as soon as possible.

Feiyuwei asked him to deal with the Fang family before, using this reason, Jia Su felt that after he sent this performance to the emperor, he would definitely be able to make Feiyuwei appear for the second time.

After the secret fold was written and sealed, Jia Su yawned, feeling that his head was really dizzy, so he planned to squint first, and then send someone to send the secret fold out after dawn tomorrow.

He closed his eyes.

Never opened again.

It will never be opened again.

In the middle of the night, a man in black appeared in his room quietly, picked up the secret fold, opened it, looked at it, and took it away. After checking Jia Su's pulse, after confirming that Jia Su was dead, the man in black turned around and left, disappearing into the vast darkness.

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