A few days later, Liangzhou City, too guarded in the house. Liangzhou Taishou Xu Kangan is anxious to deal with the affairs of Liuzhuang, if it is normal matters, it is okay, but it is Liuzhuang.

The fire in Liuzhuang burned for three days and three nights, the fire was so big that no one could extinguish it, the Liuzhuang of this hundred hectares of land was reduced to ashes, after the fire was extinguished, Xu Kang'an, the Taishou of Liangzhou, personally led people to Liuzhuang, searched for Liuzhuang, and finally no one in this village was spared.

"The fire in Liuzhuang, after the fire was extinguished, there were more than 100 corpses, and their faces were unrecognizable. Judging from the remaining costumes, the owner of the village, Liu Piaopiao, his wife Liu Gao, his son Liu Yi and hundreds of people in the village were killed. ”

Looking at the report in front of him, Xu Kangan's head was buzzing, if the usual fire situation can be dried in winter, this Liuzhuang can be used to accidentally cause a fire and many other reasons to pass it. And Mrs. Liu in Liuzhuang is the sister of Gao Lian, the governor of Yaozhou.

Others don't know, but they know that this Gao Lian is a celebrity in front of Qi Yunyoucheng Fan Mou today, and if he offends him, his career can be regarded as coming to an end. For many years, he has turned a blind eye to Liuzhuang's many evil deeds in Liangzhou, and even covered up more, in order to say a few good words for himself in front of Fan Xiang.

This is good, this cheap sister died in the fire, and that Liuzhuang was burned with the fire. Xu Kangan felt that his career was also extinguished with the fire in Liuzhuang.

Just when Xu Kangan was anxious, the small official outside the door came to report that a letter from Kochi Prefecture in Yaozhou had arrived. Hearing this, Xu Kangan picked up his official robe and trotted all the way to Taishou, personally greeting the messenger from Kochi Prefecture.

Seeing that the messenger ignored him, he went straight into the Taishou Mansion. was treated like this by a messenger, Xu Kangan was not angry, but only carried the official robe and followed the messenger into the mansion.

The messenger went to the main hall to stop at the big lama, and Xu Kangan stood aside and retreated. The messenger raised his head and said, "Lord Xu, my lord learned about Liuzhuang, and he was in pain. ”

When Xu Kangan heard this, he trembled, the more Gao Lian showed more pain, the greater the impact of this matter on himself, and hurriedly said: "The lower official has sent someone to investigate this matter strictly, and he will definitely give an explanation to Lord Gao." ”

When the messenger saw that the letter in his arms was taken out and handed to Xu Kangan, he said: "Lord Xu, my lord wrote a letter with his own hands and ordered me to hand it over to you in person, so you can take a look." ”

Xu Kangan hurriedly took the letter with both hands, hugged his fists towards the messenger and said: "The messenger has worked hard all the way, Xu has prepared wine and food to catch the wind for the messenger." ”

The messenger waved his hand and said, "No, I have to go back and report to the master." After speaking, he went straight out of the door and got on the horse regardless of Xu Kangan's retention, and walked away.

Xu Kangan was originally a person by nature, the hand holding the letter kept trembling, and he staggered to the chair and sat down, and after a long time, as if he had made up his mind, he opened the letter tremblingly.

"Brother Kang'an, this official has learned about my sister. Since I was young, I have been dependent on my sister for my life, and now my sister has died tragically, and my heart is broken. Today's brother only wishes that my sister will be buried as soon as possible. Brother, Lian, Minggan. ”

After reading the letter, Xu Kangan didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and sat on the Taishi chair with the letter in his hand. It wasn't until the next person came to report and there was official business in the government to report that Xu Kangan came back to his senses. couldn't believe his eyes, Xu Kangan read the letter back and forth several times, and carefully checked Gao Lian's seal, only then did he confirm that the letter was from Gao Lian's hand.

In this letter, there is no mention of the strict investigation of the death of the Liu couple. Xu Kangan has known Gao Lian's temperament for many years, and it is impossible to give up the murderer who burned Liuzhuang so easily, and Gao Lian's letter 'burying all the corpses in Liuzhuang as soon as possible' means that all the corpses in Liuzhuang should be buried as soon as possible, if you do this, it is impossible to investigate the case through the corpse in the future.

Xu Kangan fell into deep thought, why Gao Daren would give up the Liuzhuang case so easily. Even if Xu Kangan hastily baled, he also thought that he would not increase the order on this matter, and with the mentality that more things are better than less things, Xu Kangan paid attention to it and dealt with the matter according to the meaning of Gao Lian's letter.

"Someone, prepare a sedan chair." Xu Kangan commanded.

In the yamen, a majestic military general wearing armor is standing in the hall, this military general is wearing brass dragon scale armor, under the skirt armor, with brass cast tiger shape as the belly swallow, jade belt wrapped tiger skin to defend the waist, with two copper pieces stacked to make a cloud-like shoulder swallow attached to the cloak, wearing a tiger swallowing the sky red tassel hood, hanging a tiger swallowing mouth sword on the waistline.

The military general closed his eyes and was silent, as if waiting for Liangzhou Taishou.

After a while, Xu Kangan held the black yarn in his hand, trotted all the way into the yamen, saw the general, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Xiaguan Liangzhou is too guarded by Xu Kangan, and I have seen the deputy commander." ”

The military general opened his tiger eyes, and after seeing Xu Kangan, he immediately spoke: "The last general, under the command of General Wan Da of the Northern Territory, and the deputy commander Yang Huchen, have been ordered by General Wan and are hereby here to pass the order. ”

Wan Jun is the general of the Qiyun Northern Territory, commanding the soldiers and horses of the northern states. Qi Yun established the country by force, although for many years after the founding of the country, the court and the central government gradually became an official style of emphasizing literature and ignoring military force. However, Wan Jun is like a prince in the north, only under the emperor's order, and the civil and military generals of the northern counties are under his control.

Xu Kangan hurriedly kowtowed and saluted: "I don't know what military orders the general has, and the next official will do everything to undertake it." ”

Yang Huchen's majestic voice spread all over the Taishou Yamen: "The general has been stationed in Yanbei City for many years, and this time the Yuan Day is approaching. And recently, the general's mother sent a letter, missing the general's affection, so the general went to the court, and the saint also allowed the general to return to his hometown to visit relatives. ”

After a pause, Yang Huchen continued: "The general loves the people like a son, and he doesn't want to alarm the people, nor does he want the state capitals to be extravagant, so he ordered the official to pass the order first, and the state capitals must not be extravagant with the etiquette of receiving the wind, let alone let the people go out of the city to greet each other. ”

Xu Kangan hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Majesty will receive the order." ”

After getting up, Xu Kangan bowed down and saluted Yang Huchen and said, "Commander Yang, the general is my pillar of Qiyun, just don't want to alarm the people." But this wind, regardless of other states, we in Liangzhou are looking forward to the general's return to his hometown, and please ask the commander to return to the general, can my Liangzhou City wash the dust for the general? ”

Since Xu Kangan came to Liangzhou City as an official, he learned that Wan Jun was a person from Liangzhou, but he had never returned to his hometown to visit relatives because Wan Jun had guarded Yanbei City for many years. This time, he finally waited for Wan Jun to return to his hometown, if he could climb the thigh of Wan Jun, the general of the northern border, then he would have a career in the future, so he opened his mouth to test Yang Huchen whether to catch the wind.

Unexpectedly, Yang Huchen's eyes widened, he had been in the army for many years and only knew how to obey military orders, how could he know the officialdom's favors, and shouted: "A military order is a military order, Shicai has already said it, you must not be extravagant in etiquette, and you must not disturb the people to welcome each other, Lord Xu hasn't understood it yet." ”

was yelled at by Yang Huchen, the black yarn on his head was almost frightened, and after straightening the black yarn, Xu Kangan trembled and said: "The lower official understands, and the lower official receives the order." ”

Yang Huchen nodded slightly, and when he saw that this Liangzhou Taishou was commanded, he said: "Since Lord Xu already knows the meaning of the general, then the general will return to Yanbei City to resume his life." ”

Through Yang Huchen's gesture of heralding, Xu Kangan knew that the commander did not eat the officialdom, so he saluted: "Congratulations to the commander." ”

Xu Kangan accompanied Yang Huchen to the outside of the yamen, Yang Huchen took the horse whip from the hands of the yamen, got on the horse and bowed to Xu Kangan and said: "The last general will go back to resume his life, and ask Xu Taishou to keep in mind the general's military order." ”

Xu Kangan hurriedly returned the salute with a smiling face: "The lower official naturally remembers it, and please also command to reassure the adults." ”

Yang Huchen didn't stay any longer, grabbed the horse's belly, and headed out of the city.

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The people in the city had not seen a soldier in armor riding horses in the city for many years, and they were curious to see the smoke and dust of Yang Huchen leaving the city.

"Son, how many years have we not seen a soldier riding a horse in the city in Liangzhou?" An old man selling vegetables on the side of the road asked the old woman beside him.

"I don't remember, but thanks to the 'No Return General' back then, otherwise our Liangzhou would have been slaughtered by the Northern Jin Dynasty a long time ago." The old woman laughed.

"Speaking of this 'no-return general', boy and father, the 'immortal' under his seat also saved the people of our city back then." The old man laughed.

"Uncle and aunt, your second elder said that there were 'immortals' who saved the people of the city back then?" A girl in blue clothes passed by the vegetable stall where the two old men were selling vegetables, and heard the two old men talking about the 'immortals', and the girl in blue clothes who was attracted crouched down and inquired at the two old men.

The old woman saw that this girl was born with moon eyebrows and apricot eyes, her face was pretty, and she was very pretty. The wrinkles on the old woman's face piled up, and she smiled: "Little girl, you are a foreigner at first glance." Let's Liangzhou, there are a lot of stories to tell. At the time of the Qi and Jin Wars, the soldiers and horses of the Jin Kingdom fought all the way to the outside of our Liangzhou City. ”

The girl in blue heard the old woman talk about the past in Liangzhou. couldn't help but be interested, and didn't dislike the floating soil on the ground, so she hurriedly bent down and sat next to the old woman, and Qingling said: "Auntie, I love to listen to these stories, can you tell me more about them?" ”

The old woman saw that the girl looked cute, and did not dislike that her old husband and wife were vegetable sellers, and said to the girl with a smile: "You doll, looking at your clothes and words, it must be the daughter of a rich family who sneaked out to play, if you don't dislike it, then the old body will tell the girl." ”

Seeing that the old man also wanted to come over and listen to the story, the old woman patted the old man with her hand: "You haven't heard enough, go sell vegetables." ”

The old man was slapped by the old woman, and said with a smile: "Didn't I marry you because I loved to hear your stories back then, what's the matter, this old man is old, but he doesn't want to tell me, and I don't know who cried and wanted to tell me..."

The girl in blue clothes looked at the loving appearance of the old couple selling vegetables, smiled like a flower, and did not disturb the love scene of the old couple, just quietly held her cheeks, waiting for the old woman to tell her story.

The old woman saw that the girl was still waiting for her, so she didn't entangle with the old man anymore. said to the girl: "Girl, the old body will tell you carefully." That night, the 'immortal' who sat down with our 'General Without Return' and the 'immortal' of the Northern Jin Dynasty were in our Liangzhou City, and the 'immortal' of the Northern Jin Dynasty couldn't resist it, so they threw a boulder as big as a mountain and came to our Liangzhou City. ”

The girl in blue covered her mouth in surprise and asked, "Isn't there a lot of people in Liangzhou who want to die?" ”

The old woman said: "It's not, who knows, the immortal who sat down with the 'General Without Return' flew outside our Liangzhou City in an instant." With a single sword, he shattered the stone as big as a mountain and saved the whole city. ”

"Really? So where did the 'immortal' go? The girl in blue asked eagerly.

"Later, the 'immortal' fell from the sky, and later, the old body didn't know" The old woman finished the story and looked at the girl in blue clothes with a smile.

"It's a pity, I really want to meet the demeanor of that 'immortal'." The girl in blue clothes looked disappointed, pondered for a moment, and then said angrily: "But if that 'immortal' is still alive, it is also for the tiger to usurp the Zhao family's world for the Qi family." ”

When the old woman heard the words of the girl in blue clothes, she put away her smiling face, and got up angrily and said: "You doll, the old man sees that you like to listen to stories, so I have been chatting with you for a long time, if you speak for the Zhao family and slander our life-saving benefactor in Liangzhou, the old man doesn't want to talk to you anymore, please take care of yourself." ”