Chapter 8: The Human Heart (5)

"This, this ......" Wang's temperament was already soft, and when he heard her husband's voice, she was wheezing and didn't dare to contradict it. After hesitating for a long time, he poured a cup of hot tea for Gao Xingzhou with his own hands, and watched him drink it with a blank eye, while carefully reminding, "Words, although I said that, I can't directly offend His Royal Highness the Prince! After all, after all, the emperor only has one son!"

"It's dry, it's not a kiss!" Gao Xingzhou directly poured the tea into his mouth, chewing it, and explained loudly, "Besides, I can't offend, Guo Rong has a magnificent bearing, even if he guesses that the old man deliberately wants to alienate Zangyong from him, he will only hate the old man and will not implicate others." And the old man, how long can the old man live? In the future, our Gao family, yet, won't we all have to rely on Tibetan support?"

"You, what are you talking about?" Wang was startled, and tears immediately rolled all over his face. "You, you are only sixty-nine this year, in the spring, you are still crowned, and the champion Hou has taken the pulse by himself. He, he said you can, you can at least live, live for fifteen years! He, he's the world's first miracle doctor. You, you can't curse yourself, you, if you have a ...... of three long and two short"

"What are you crying about? That's all I said. Don't cry, I shouldn't die so soon!Alas, but after all, people are rare in their seventies!" Gao Xingzhou is used to seeing life and death, and he doesn't care about any lip color or not, "Zangyong and Zangwei are so reckless, they are really dead, I don't worry about closing my eyes!"

After saying that, he sighed faintly again, and his teeth moved up and down, as if he had a grudge against the tea leaves in his mouth.

Although it is a concocted tea ball, the taste is still a little bitter. Soon, his brows were wrinkled with bitterness, and his stomach felt astringent, and it was not a taste of life.

He knows that if the situation is good, he can last for a while, and if it is not good, he may go west by crane, just now and next year. And the current court situation, because Wang Yin married his daughter to Li Chongjin, suddenly became turbulent.

"You, you can't say that! The children are not angry, you, you beat them. Why bother, why do you have to, you have to use these words to scare people. I, I ......" Wang didn't understand the pain in his heart, so he just cried and cried.

"Alas, the old man's strategy is not as good as Du Chongwei's, and his strategy is not as good as Zhang Yanze and Li Shouzhen, but after so many years, they have all died and their clans have been wiped out, but the old man is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more soldiers and horses in his hands, why?" Seeing that the old wife was so frightened by himself, Gao Xingzhou's heart was soft again, sighed, and explained quietly. "Without him, the old man never stands in line, never gets too close to any party. Now in the DPRK, the crown prince, champion Hou and others are one faction, Wang Jun, Wang Yin, and Li Chongjin are one faction, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat, our Gao family, it is better to keep a distance from both parties!"

"You, you do things, do things carefully, and you should. Fearing that Gao Xingzhou would say anything unlucky again, Wang had no choice but to follow his tone and continue to read the words, whether he agreed or disagreed in his heart.

"The prince is a man with a heart, I hate him, and he won't hate them to hide them. In the future, when the crown prince becomes the emperor, my son will not be able to run for a lifetime of glory and wealth. And if the old man doesn't get the hidden use back today, in case Wang Jun really sends Li Chongjin to the throne in the future, we, our Gao family, are about to come to a catastrophe!" Gao Xingzhou squinted, looked at the somewhat dark sky outside the lobby, and sighed and added.

"Oh!" Hearing that her husband said that Chai Rong would not hold a grudge against Gao Huaide, Wang's heart finally became more steady, and he nodded with tears in his eyes.

"Hiding that child, on the surface, is arrogant and arrogant, and no one looks down on him. But in fact, it is extremely old-fashioned. Once you look at the right one, you will be friends for life. Gao Xingzhou really wanted to find someone to talk to him tonight, and he didn't care if his wife was a proper listener, so he swallowed his bitter saliva and added in a low voice. "If I persuade him to seek good fortune and avoid evil, even if he obeys on the surface, behind his back, he will do against me. So, it's better for the old man to be this wicked man!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that Gao Huaide hadn't come home to "plead guilty" to him. Hurriedly turned his head to the door and shouted loudly, "Gao Fu, where is the hidden use? Could he still be poking on the school grounds?" Go, you go and get him back for the old man!"

"Yes!" the butler Gao Fu agreed loudly, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited for a while, until he heard Gao Xingzhou's gasp quietly, and then he rubbed into the room with a smile on his face, "Lord Wang, reply to your words." The son, the son of the world, he ......"

"What, where is the little rabbit cub? If you have something to say, don't hide it!" Gao Xingzhou immediately felt a little wrong, his brows jumped, and anger gushed out from his eyes again.

"Lord Wang, just now, someone just came to report. Shizi, Shizi seems, as if he was leading the horse out of the city from the north gate again!" the butler Gao Fu quickly took a few steps back and responded in a hoarse voice.

"What?" Gao Xingzhou was stunned at first, and then became furious.

North Gate, out of the city from the North Gate, of course, there is only one destination, that is, the Yellow River Embankment.

Thinking that all his hard work had fallen into the void, he couldn't bear it anymore. With a wave of his arm, he threw the tea bowl in his hand directly on the ground and smashed it. Immediately, regardless of the frightened pale old wife, she raised her hand and took out a treasure knife from the wall, and strode out of the house, "Come on, follow me to the Yellow River embankment, go, go and catch that disobedient and unfilial beast!"

"Yes!" the guards were so frightened that everyone's hairs stood on end, and they agreed, and quickly went to lead the mount. In a short time, a cavalry squad of 100 people was formed, surrounded by Gao Xingzhou, who was thundering, and went straight to the embankment of the Yellow River.

In the past two years, Gao Huaide has been stationed at the border, and in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the cavalry under his command, he has collected good horses from Liaodong. Therefore, Gao Xingzhou's guards were close to the water and the moon first, and they had already changed their mounts up and down. This emergency trip, the advantages of Liaodong horses immediately appeared. In less than an hour, the Yellow River was already in sight.

ran out of a stinky sweat, and the anger in Gao Xingzhou's heart was not as strong as when he heard that his son had sneaked away just now. In order not to directly clash with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he raised his hands high and slowly slowed down his mount.

"Huh-" The guards were well-trained, and immediately tightened the reins of their horses one after another. In the blink of an eye, the speed of the entire team changed from running wild to slow, and the movements were so neat that the connoisseurs were amazed.

"Gao Yuan, Gao Peng, you two follow the old man to find that rebel!" Gao Xingzhou didn't have the heart to appreciate the riding skills of his team, so he turned around and first ordered the two best martial arts henchmen, and then whispered to the rest of the guards, "Others, this is waiting here." Don't reveal your whereabouts without the old man's greeting!"

"No!" the guards whispered, and then they all grabbed the horse's head.

Gao Xingzhou bowed his head to everyone with satisfaction, turned over and jumped off the war horse, held the treasure knife in his hand, and walked to the brightly lit river embankment. Gao Yuan and Gao Peng followed closely behind, carefully protecting the sides of Gao Xingzhou's body, while turning their heads and quickly looking around.

The embankment of the Yellow River is filled with torches stained with whale oil, illuminating the entire construction site as bright as day.

Chai Rong and Zheng Ziming walked slowly back and forth on the newly reinforced embankment, carefully inspecting the construction quality everywhere. Pan Mei and Fan Wenchang, on the other hand, followed the script and loudly emphasized the precautions for the next stage of construction to the surrounding river workers. Each river foreman listened very carefully, lest he miss a word and delay the construction progress tomorrow. According to the rules set by the champion Hou, the team that completes the project ahead of schedule with quality and quantity will be rewarded twice as much on the same day. And the team that dragged on until dark and was still grinding can only receive eighty percent of the remuneration that day, not to mention, the whole team has to wear yellow hats the next day, and are pointed at by the people on the entire embankment.

On the flat ground a little farther away from the river embankment stood Tao Dachun, Li Shun and several other Cangzhou generals whose names Gao Xingzhou could not name. I saw that they were each leading a river patrol team of about 100 people, and they were practicing in full swing. In the team, every soldier was carefully selected from the river workers, and all of them were born with a tiger's back, and the oily muscles on their arms were clearly visible.

Farther away, there are several young scholars, facing a wide mahogany board, teaching basic herbal identification skills to the families of river workers who have nothing to do. Champion Hou said that the more barren and remote the place, the more colorful the herbs grow, and the better the effect. In addition to washing clothes and cooking for men, family members can learn to collect medicine, which undoubtedly has another stable income. With a pouch on his waist, he has enough confidence in his heart, and he has the courage to raise his head when he speaks. Even when he washes his man's feet at night, he is no longer as careful as before.

Gao Xingzhou has seen these scenes countless times in the past few months. But never before has I taken it so seriously as I do today. Sometimes it is hard to be stubborn, and it may not be able to produce a good result. Therefore, he must carefully examine these commonplace scenes in front of him in order to make a better judgment, in order to decide what kind of attitude he will adopt tonight to bring his son home.

"Who?" a few soldiers on duty, alertly aware of someone approaching, stepped forward with their weapons and whispered.

"Old man, King Qi Gao Xingzhou!" Gao Xingzhou raised the treasure knife in his hand and responded in a very low voice.

From the gem set in the scabbard, the soldier on duty immediately knew that the identity of the person who came was not low. Immediately, I saw the waist cards shown by the two guards of the Qi Palace. hurriedly saluted and asked loudly: "I have seen the prince, please wait for the prince, I will report to His Royal Highness the crown prince when I go immediately!"

"No need, it's hot, the old man goes to the river embankment to see his son, so he doesn't need to alarm His Royal Highness the Prince!" Gao Xingzhou waved his hand quickly and ordered in a lower voice. "What should you do, what should you do! The old man is not an outsider, and in terms of martial arts, three of them can't be worthy of the champion Hou one, let alone your prince!"

"Yes, Lord Wang!" the soldier on duty turned red when he was said, and hurriedly gave Gao Xingzhou another salute and retreated.

They all knew that Gao Xingzhou was Gao Huailiang's father, so they didn't dare to openly disobey the old man's orders. But for the sake of prudence, he still quietly formed a half-arc around more than twenty paces away, so as not to have any unforeseen happening.

This kind of behavior with an obvious sense of precaution, of course, can't hide from the eyes of the old Xingwu Gao Xingzhou. But the latter, as the king of Qi, can't pull his face to compare with a few small soldiers. Just smiled, and continued to walk slowly along the river embankment, while walking, he continued to inspect the "capital" of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

There are not many soldiers near the river embankment, and there are still only one battalion of guards from the prince himself and the three thousand elites led by Zheng Ziming. But there are no less than 20 large and small river workers. Each of them had its own camp, which was scattered around the embankment. From a high vantage point, it looks like a plum blossom in full bloom. Each camp was extremely neatly packed, and the large and small tents were lined up horizontally and vertically, like a team of soldiers, who were holding their backs out and being reviewed by the commander.

"Even if it is the pro-army under the old man's command, the camp will not be so tightly tied!" Looking at it, looking at it, Gao Xingzhou couldn't help but brush his beard and praise in a low voice.

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the liveliness, and the connoisseur looks at the doorway. He has led troops for decades, and his eyes have long been trained to be as bright as lightning. After a little sweeping, I saw that the river workers under the prince's command were different from those who served as servants and soldiers in the past.

No one has ever given Minzhuang such a good treatment. No one has ever organized the people so neatly. There is no one who will roll together with the people all day long, eat and live together, carry a sandbag together, and nail a pillar together!

Where is this to bring the people to rule the river, this, this is simply taking the opportunity to train the troops!

In the past, Wu Qi and the soldiers ate the same retort, slept in the same ridge, and went in and out of the same column. Three years later, with 50,000 recruits, 500 chariots, and 3,000 light cavalry, the Qin army was defeated by 500,000. In the past, Wei Qingxing did not ride horses, sat on a mat, and carried arrows and stones in battle, and three years later, the army smashed the court, broke the enemy 100,000, and captured the wives and concubines of the Hun king. Now, with the assistance of the champion Hou Zheng Ziming, the crown prince Chai Rong has lived and eaten with tens of thousands of river workers for more than two years......

"Lord Wang, the prince is over there!" Gao Ming quietly leaned over, pulled Gao Xingzhou's sleeve, and reminded with a pout.

Gao Xingzhou quickly turned his head over, only to see his own son Gao Huaide carrying a huge wooden barrel in one hand, walking steadily towards Chai Rong and the others, not noticing that his father was nearby. As he walked, he shouted happily, "Come, come, Your Highness, Ziming, hurry up and call everyone to come and have a taste." Taste the old wine from our Gao family's secret collection! It has been stored for more than ten years, and my father Wang Pingsu is reluctant to drink it at all. Today, I have all served it to the pot, come, taste, relax the muscles and bones, invigorate the blood and dispel blood stasis!"

"Phew, when did Lao Tzu hide wine and still be reluctant to drink it?" Gao Xingzhou frowned, and lowered his voice to defend himself. However, he didn't have the courage to rush out and expose his son's lies. Just step by step, he walked backwards down the embankment, lest he not hide in time and destroy the drinking pleasure of the group of young people on the embankment.

"Lord Wang, why don't you inform the prince of the past?" Gao Peng was not sure what his proprietor thought, so he held Gao Xingzhou's waist and cautiously lost his temper.

"Forget it, it's not up to you, let him go!" Gao Xingzhou grinned and shook his head slightly.

A gentle breeze blows, sending a strong aroma of wine. Although I didn't drink it in person, it was refreshing.

"Let's go!" Glancing at the silent pro-soldier, Gao Xingzhou turned around with a smile. "It's time to go home and go to sleep, people are old and their spirits are not good, so they won't join in the fun!"

"Alas, alas!" Gao Yuan and Gao Peng's hearts suddenly lightened, and they hurriedly stepped forward and held Gao Xingzhou's arm again.

"No, the old man is in a strong body, and I don't need you to carry it! The boy surnamed Zheng said that the old man will have no problem living for another fifteen years!" Gao Xingzhou's face was full of reassuring smiles. Shaking off the two pro-soldiers, he strode towards the place where the war horse had been hidden.

The hot blood of his youth, as if unconsciously, returned to his body, making his whole body full of vitality at this moment.

It's nice to be young.