Tang Meiren said curiously: "What's wrong with this Zhang Fan, how good is it, I really don't recognize me, I was fine just now, why did my face change all of a sudden when I talked about things when I was a child, but what is going on." ”

Zhang Fan returned to the inn with Xie Yu, and instructed Xiao Er to prepare a change of clothes for Xie Yu, Xie Yu naturally went to take a bath first, but Zhang Fan ordered a jar of wine, sat alone at the inn window, and drank alone.

Zhang Fan muttered: "I am no different from Wu Mingxun and others, I also stole other things, he is also a robbery, what is so great about me, it's funny to think about, but what qualifications do I have to say others, okay, between me and my junior sister, after all, it is a misunderstanding, but the husband acts, above board, this matter, how can I say it to my junior sister, I said that my junior sister will not believe it, so but what, when my junior sister is well, I will say goodbye to my junior sister." ”

At that moment, he drank a glass of wine, threw away the wine glass, cleaned up the full mouthful of wine, turned to the outside of the rain room, and said in a low voice: "Senior sister, you have already rested, I will send you back to the master, and I will also rest." Xie Yu opened the door, but his hair was still wet, and said, "Senior brother, what's wrong with you, why are you so unhappy, don't worry, that Wu Mingxun didn't do anything to me." Zhang Fan smiled: "Don't worry, don't worry, you haven't rested well these days, just let you have a good rest." ”

Xie Yu said: "Senior brother, you tell me the truth, why do you always seem to want to love me every time over the years, but you don't dare to love, every time I think you are really close to me, but you immediately run away, what the hell is going on." Speaking of this, Xie Yu's words in the first few years were spoken, and tears appeared in his eyes.

Zhang Fan stretched out his hand to wipe the tears on Xie Yu's face, and chuckled: "Don't cry, don't cry, junior sister, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I'm a person who can't be pleased by my wife, and I'm crazy with joy when I get your favor, but I know that I just stole something else." ”

Xie Yu said: "Senior brother, are you still thinking about Sect Master Lan? Do you know that my heart with you is no worse than that of Sect Master Lan. ”

Zhang Fan smiled: "No, really not, if I tell you that I am not the person you have loved since childhood, will you still love me?"

Xie Yu was puzzled: "Senior brother, what are you talking about, the more you say, the more I don't understand." ”

Zhang Fan touched Xie Yu's head and said: "Once upon a time, there was a pair of men and women, they were very affectionate, the two had no guesses, and they were determined to love for life, but later another person who looked exactly the same as this man replaced this man, and he also wanted to marry this woman, Yu'er, you said that this impostor is not hateful, is it very despicable and shameless." ”

Xie Yu said: "That's nature. ”

Zhang Fan said: "I think so too, this impostor is not qualified to get this woman's heart." ”

Xie Yu hugged Zhang Fan and said: "Senior brother, I can see that you want to love me and marry me, in order to give me a stable home, you gave up your face to be a petty official, you assassinated the old thing of the Yan family for me, you quarreled with the second senior brother several times for me, but, why, why did I get close to you, but you flew away, why?"

Zhang Fan chuckled: "Because I don't deserve it." ”

At dawn, Zhang Fan woke up from his meditation and saw a blank piece of paper left on the table, which read "I'm leaving"

Zhang Fan was in a hurry, turned over, he really couldn't remember that Xie Yu had any other acquaintances in this divine capital, thinking about it, it seemed that only the Tang beauty in Wu Mingxun's mansion and Xie Yu had been old acquaintances since childhood.

Zhang Fan didn't care about the shocking world, he immediately got up, performed light skills, allocated dozens of feet of land, and flew to Wu Mingxun's mansion.

Although there are masters in the Wuming Training Mansion, and there are many of them, but there are no such exaggerated characters, Zhang Fan flew through the gate of the Wufu Mansion and landed in the courtyard where he saw Tang Meiren yesterday.

But I only saw a few people cleaning, this is already a person to go to the empty building, and the bluestone slab that I stepped on last night is still on the ground.

Zhang Fan flew into the crowd, grabbed a person, and shouted: "Where is Tang Meiren?"

After a while, a large group of guards surrounded him, and there were many masters mixed in it, there were many second-rate figures, and there were many first-class masters, and they surrounded Zhang Fan layer by layer, and a guard shouted: "Fanatics, you actually came to the palace of the martial prince to make trouble, and you are impatient." Zhang Fan smiled and said: "Heaven and hell are not afraid, let alone Yiwu Mansion." As soon as he stretched out his hand, the guard let Zhang Fan hold it in his hand, and Zhang Fan shouted: "Tang Meiren lives there in your house, and I have something urgent to find her." The guards below were willing to answer, and a group of people came up with knives and guns, and Zhang Fan said: "If you want to see people, you won't be angry." "Grabbed with both hands, the guard master was like a child, so Zhang Fan grabbed it and threw it around.

For a while, there was chaos in the backyard of the Wufu, and more and more people surrounded him, and Zhang Fan shouted: "Tang Yiyi, you come out." These words were transmitted with internal force, and the entire Martial Mansion could hear them.

Zhang Fan walked while fighting, there were more and more guards around him, and there were more than a dozen first-class masters on the rivers and lakes, but Zhang Fan was a figure who had broken through the main altar of the Tianshan Demon Sect, and he was not afraid of these people.

After a while, he saw Wu Mingxun accompanying Tang Yiyi to the back of the guards, Tang Yiyi shouted: "Zhang Fan, why don't you keep your promises, why did you come to the door when you said that you would not come to trouble the prince again." Zhang Fan said: "I'm not here to find Wu Mingxun, I'm here to find you." Wu Mingxun's face was a little gloomy above, and with a wave of his hand, the guards who surrounded Zhang Fan dispersed.

Zhang Fan spoke first: "Last night, my junior sister stole away, I couldn't find her, I thought that my junior sister only had one acquaintance in Shendu, so I came to ask." ”

Tang Yiyi said angrily: "Why are you getting older and more confused, did you say something that made her angry." Zhang Fan said: "I said a lot of things, but it wasn't what you thought." Tang Yiyi shouted: "I guarantee that the prince has not touched a finger of the rain, why don't you believe it." Zhang Fan hurriedly said: "It's not this, it's not this, you just say you saw her?" Tang Yiyi said angrily: "Even if you see it, I won't tell you." ”

Wu Ming said: "Zhang Fan, you are also a hero, how can you treat your own woman like this, it really makes Gu look away." Zhang Fan said: "The matter between me and my junior sister, I don't have to worry about the prince, and the prince doesn't have to worry, I am not Wu Zhangzhang's dog, so naturally I won't listen to him, and the prince is at ease." Wu Ming said: "It turns out that he is not a person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade. Zhang Fanlang smiled: "If I don't have jade, how can I humiliate it." As he spoke, he turned away.

Zhang Fan returned to the inn, the little second saw Zhang Fan coming and going, frightened and gone, saw Zhang Fan come back, and did not dare to come forward to him to ask for store money, Zhang Fan packed up his long sword, grabbed a piece of silver, threw it on the counter, and said in his heart: "I am going there now, it is important to find my sister first, but where to look? Even if I find my sister, what can I do?"

Seeing the flow of people to the east, he beat his horse and went east, and said in his heart: "I will find my sister first, I won't believe it, there is no way to make my sister fall in love with me, and fall in love with me later, one day, he will forget the previous Zhang Fan, like the current Zhang Fan, and on that day, I will officially marry her." ”

Zhang Fan rode his horse to the east, rode on the dust, and went east.

In Licheng, Cui Guiyuan looked at the little officials who came to report the news, although his face remained calm, but his hands under the copywriter had already begun to tremble.

Seeing the rows of generals standing on both sides, Cui Guiyuan said indifferently: "Everyone, this matter is not a big deal, now the militia is coming to attack, I have experienced the high city walls and deep cities, and there is no need to worry, the generals will go back to their own barracks, there must be no mistake." The rows of generals below looked at each other, and Zu Tingnian said with a smile: "It's just my lord, the soldiers in the army have been making trouble again in the past few days, and my lord also knows that if the soldiers' salaries can't be helped, these Qiu Ba will make trouble, but it will be a troublesome thing." As soon as Zu Tingnian spoke, the generals below also picked up the mouth in a weird way, and for a while the governor yamen only heard the noise of a group of Qiu Ba, and all the generals knew that Cui Guiyuan and the staff of the Ministry of War were drinking and drifting, and they got the kickbacks and got their hands soft, and the following generals got sixty percent of the money, originally these Qiu Ba did not have ten guts and they did not dare to make trouble, but now there are more than 100,000 militiamen, surging over, attacking the city and dialing the village along the way, and the big and small posts are passed on, The fort was attacked countless times, the defenders on the way from Feicheng to Licheng fled from the wind, the rout coaxed the militia to be unstoppable, the news came, Cui Guiyuan, who didn't want to fight, also had to fight, as soon as the battle began, these Qiu Ba, who nodded their heads on weekdays, suddenly became much more important, Zu Tingnian spoke first, and the generals and generals in the back also coaxed together, just to force Cui Guiyuan to spit out some of what he ate.

Cui Guiyuan couldn't see anger on his face, and suddenly arched his hand in the direction of the divine capital, knelt on the ground, and said: "The saint appointed the ministers to shepherd one side, the ministers are incompetent, if the city is broken, the ministers should die for the country, and they will not survive. Cui Guiyuan's words really looked like that, and Zu Tingnian sneered in his heart: "You didn't drink the blood of the soldiers, then where did you come from in the big mansion in Shendu, you didn't drink the blood of the soldiers and eat it, your family's minions are better dressed than ordinary official gentry, you didn't work with the household department to deduct the quality of the fire rations, so why did you see your store reselling military rations in Qidi." "It's just that these words can't be said, the people who follow Cui Guiyuan to do these things are the eunuchs in the palace, and there are also the officials of the Ministry of Affairs, this is a large group of people to take benefits together, if Zu Tingnian doesn't know the current affairs and says it with his mouth, it is an enemy of a large group of people, Zu Tingnian doesn't dare to do this if he dares to do it, but he just hopes that Cui Guiyuan will take less.

The generals below saw Cui Guiyuan's appearance, and the deep-seated fear of civilian officials came up again, several generals showed hesitant looks, Cui Guiyuan stood up, and a general named Long Shizhong said: "If the adults have difficulties, it is not impossible for us to wait for a few days, but the adults must send it down, and the soldiers are quite complaining." Zu Tingnian secretly screamed, as soon as Long Shizhong spoke, several officers flinched, and they were all afraid of being settled by Cui Guiyuanqiu, and this time, more and more people retreated.

Cui Guiyuan said coldly: "What do you say? General Zu." "The reason why Zu Tingnian is more tough is because he is a guest soldier, and he will return to Liaodong in the future anyway, and Cui Guiyuan will not be able to control himself in the future. Seeing the appearance of a group of officers now, Zu Tingnian knew that he couldn't do anything, so he lowered his head and said with a smile: "What the adults said there, the small ones are just martial arts, this kind of military affairs, the small ones have a place to speak, and please decide for yourself." Cui Guiyuan sneered: "I see that General Zu is loyal to the country, such a general, it is rare today, this official is on the court, and General Zu will be transferred to the Shandong territory, and General Zu will be under the command of this official in the future?"

Now Cui Guiyuan is also waiting for Zu Tingnian to beg for mercy, Zu Tingnian frowned, he is also a person who has made great contributions to the country and immediately won fame, civil officials have a quirk, that is, to humiliate the prestige and capable generals, to show the military generals below, so that the soldiers understand that they are people, and now Cui Guiyuan just wants to humiliate Zu Tingnian, let the military generals below take a look, and understand who is in charge in Licheng and Shandong.

Cui Guiyuan said with a smile: "My lord said that it was funny, the junior general and the soldiers under the junior general, parents, wives and children are all in Liaodong, if the junior general is to be moved here, the court will get at least 800,000 taels of silver to settle down in silver, so expensive, I don't know if the court agrees." "The officers who are transferred to military positions in the court are often transferred together with their elite families, if there is really such a transfer, it will indeed take a lot of money to settle down, and it is impossible for the emperor to make this comparison of silver, Cui Guiyuan suddenly hit a soft nail.

Cui Guiyuan said with a smile: "It's a pity that this is true, it's just that the days of quelling the chaos are still long, and I think General Zu will have to stay in Licheng for a long time, and the time under the official account is also long." "It is implied that during this time, the ancestral court year will be killed. Zu Tingnian said: "Just now, a letter came from the old man of the Wen Pavilion in the middle of the court, saying that it will not take long for everyone of Lord Wu to arrive, and if you want to come there, you will definitely be able to quell the chaos, and the young general there can return to Liaodong with the officers and soldiers under the account." ”

Several generals have strange faces, Wen Ge is always Wu Mingxun's party, Wen Ge Lao sent a letter to Zu Tingnian, what does it mean, everyone can see it at a glance, it is to imply Cui Guiyuan, Zu Tingnian has a backstage, although the background is not a big tree, but it can be regarded as someone supporting, and Xia Zu Tingnian did not violate the interests of the entire civilian group, but hugged the thigh of a civilian official but dealt with another civil official, in the bureaucratic group, it is not considered a public enemy, at most it is speculation, so it will not cause a rective attack on the civilian group.

Cui Guiyuan said with a smile: "I think that's exactly the case, that's exactly the case, generals, you should step back for the time being, and the official should consider the strategy of using troops." "Cui Guiyuan fights a war, he doesn't want the generals to participate in the formulation of the strategy at all, most of his strategies are thought out in the study, and no one dares to open his mouth to the generals below, so he retreats in turn, understanding that the formulation of the so-called strategy is not allowed to be interesting to the generals, and the generals are only allowed to go into battle to kill the enemy, and the heads are counted.

After seeing the many generals below, with only a few close family members around him, Cui Guiyuan suddenly scolded: "You Qiu Ba, you are all pigs, you are all dogs, you are just a group of filthy goods with feet, and you dare to be presum......ptuous in front of this official" scolding, throwing the teacup in his hand to the ground, the tea flew to the side of the subordinates, these subordinates all trembled, and did not dare to make a sound.

After scolding half of the salary, Cui Guiyuan summoned his hand, and a subordinate knelt quietly in front of the copywriter, and did not make a sound, Cui Guiyuan said: "You immediately sent a governor's order to Tai'an, asking Zhang to take all the Liao soldiers back to Licheng, and let him bring all the village soldiers of Fang Yuanhua." The little official below whispered: "My lord, we haven't provided a grain of grain for Tai'an for more than four months, and I'm afraid they won't come." Cui Guiyuan scolded: "Do you use what you say? Of course I know, if they come, let them be cannon fodder, if they don't come, the official will go to the table to teach Zhang and kill him. The petty officials below kowtowed again and again, and whispered: "Fang Yuanhua is the minister of military training appointed by the court, and the soldiers under him, if they don't go to Licheng, they won't be able to participate in his head." Cui Guiyuan sighed for a while, but what this little official said was the truth, nominally the officers and soldiers of Qi were subject to the control of military preparation, governor and strategy, this is the system of the court to control the military with literature, although Zhang Shuijiao is a guest soldier, but he is also hung in this system, and he is managed by Cui Guiyuan. However, Sun Yuan's position as the Minister of Military Training took another route, and the Minister of Military Training in various places chose the ministers of the court who retired at home. Raised people and other literati, they trained the soldiers and salaries for self-sufficiency, some of them in the court of the well-connected can get the court's assistance, his cooperation with the court soldiers and horses to fight, listen to the transfer of the magistrate, to see the training minister's own choice, when Cui Guiyuan gave an order, Fang Yuanhua casually pulled a little bit and did not come, Cui Guiyuan could not find a reason to participate in Fang Yuanhua, then Fang Yuanhua can say arrogantly, "This minister does not agree with Lord Cui's strategy, I don't want to send troops." "Cui Guiyuan has no way to do it, and although Fang Yuanhua is considered a clear stream orthodoxy, but Fang Yuanhua lost ground in the last orthodox infighting, and his seat teacher was also dismissed and returned to his hometown, and now the seat master of Xia Yuanhua also wants to take advantage of Fang Yuanhua's momentum to regain power, and he will not come to help Cui Guiyuan, if Licheng is lost, but Tai'an has nothing to do, then Fang Yuanhua will be extraordinarily meritorious, and Fang Yuanhua's seat master is very likely to recover.