On this day, Yu Wenxin came out of the barracks and met Sima Liu Dewei. Liu Dewei said: "General Yuwen, the wine worm in my stomach is greedy, can you accompany me to have a drink?" ”

"Wow! I'm just going to take a few sips. ”

The two found a restaurant, went up to the second floor, and entered a private seat. After a while, the shopkeeper sent wine and food. After Liu Dewei poured a full amount of wine, he picked up the wine and said, "Dry!" He took a big sip, put down the wine vessel, and said, "General Yuwen, the last general has been frowning lately, do you have anything on your mind?" ”

Yu Wenxin sighed and said, "The emperor sent me to assist King Qi, but you don't know what kind of virtue our prince is?" Not only did he hunt and play every day, but he also repeatedly corrupted military discipline and oppressed the people. I heard that he killed all his wet nurses a few days ago. …… Liu Wuzhou in the north is sharpening his knife and eyeing the tiger. If this continues, how will Jinyang City be defended? ”

"Isn't there another King of Chu?"

"Hey, you don't know, this King of Chu is also unintentionally in the military. He either followed his fourth brother on a tour of the mountains and rivers, or wandered on the streets. I heard that he opened many pavilions and money houses in Chang'an. You say, a prince who doesn't do serious things, but goes to do those businessmen's business, what is it like? ”

"General Yuwen, you are wrong about this." Liu Dewei said, "As the saying goes, 'Huang He starts with a horse, and he starts with money.'" 'Who in this world doesn't know that money is a good thing?' I heard that the princesses' families also opened pavilions and money houses, and made a lot of money. ”

Yu Wenxin shook his head, "If it were ordinary people, it would be fine, but he is the king of Chu, he has laid down the country, and the whole world is their family, will he still be short of money?" I see, he just doesn't have big ambitions! ”

"Hey, a teenager, how ambitious can he be? However, compared to his fourth brother, he is still much stronger. That Hades, no one can take care of it. ”

Yu Wenxin took a sip of the wine, put it down and said, "I see, the Li family only depends on Li Shimin." ”

"You're right." Liu Dewei said, "General Yuwen, don't be upset. According to me, you will write down the situation here in the memo and report it to the imperial court. If something happens in the future, you can mitigate the blame, right? ”

Yu Wenxin sighed again, nodded and said, "It seems that it can only be like this......"

In order to resist Liu Wuzhou's possible attack, Yu Wenxin proposed to the two governors to conduct an inspection of the defense situation of each prefecture and county. The fourth brother was not in a good mood and didn't want to go, so he asked Li Zhiyun to do it for him.

Li Zhiyun has been in Jinyang for almost a month, and he was a little bored, thinking that it would be good to go out for an inspection, first, to relax, and second, to inspect the market situation in various states and counties by the way to see if there are any business opportunities, so he agreed.

Li Zhiyun asked Scarface to bring two hundred soldiers to escort him, and then took Yinggu and two subordinate officers to follow Yu Wenxin and set off.

After inspecting several states and counties, the group moved on to the next stop. In the afternoon of that day, they walked on an official road. The sun was scorching, the weather was hot, and everyone was hot and thirsty. Li Zhiyun saw that there was a tea shed next to the road, so he said to Scarface: "Let the brothers take a break and drink a bowl of tea." ”

So, the team stopped at the side of the road. When the stall owner saw so many customers, he immediately smiled and was busy greeting business. Li Zhiyun also got off the horse and walked into the pergola.

After he sat at the table and drank a bowl of herbal tea, he was squeezing the wind with his hand, when he suddenly saw Scarface, who was sitting not far away, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, looked at it a few times, folded it up and prepared to put it back, and asked casually: "Wang Baoqiang, what is written on your paper?" Why are you sneaky? Scarface hesitated for a moment, and said a little embarrassed: "King Chu, this is the poem I wrote......"

"What? Can you also write poetry? Bring it and I'll take a look! ”

Li Zhiyun asked for the piece of paper, and when he unfolded it, there were several poems, but the words were written crookedly, comparable to his lame words. Li Zhiyun almost laughed out loud when he saw the content. He couldn't help laughing and said loudly, "I'll read it to everyone." Then he cleared his throat and said:

Wing Tai Shan From a distance, Mount Tai is black, the top is thin and the bottom is thick;

If Mount Tai is turned upside down, the bottom is thin and the top is thick.

Lightning in the sky

Suddenly there was a chain of fire in the sky, as if the gods were going to smoke;

If the gods don't smoke, why is it a chain of fire?

Laugh Liu Bang

I heard that Xiang Yu pulled out the mountain, and Liu Bang was so scared that he was about to flee;

It's not my little Zhang Liang, the kid has already returned to Pei County.

Li Zhiyun read a song, and everyone laughed for a while. After he finished reading it all, Yinggu said, "Brother Wang, your poem is really good!" If it were me, I wouldn't be able to write it! Scarface smiled and said, "I think the king of Chu is a poem, and I want to learn more elegance from him, don't you?" Yu Wenxin smiled and said: "General Wang, as a military general, it is not easy for you to write such a poem!" ……”

After everyone laughed for a while, they left the tea shed and set off again. They walked for about a stick of incense, and a city outline appeared in front of them, and Li Zhiyun pointed with a horsewhip: "General Yuwen, where is the front?" Yu Wenxin said: "Back to the king of Chu asked, the front is Xia County." Xia County is a large county in the south of Jinjin, located in the water and land of Jin, convenient transportation, densely populated, and abundant products. There are quite a lot of wealthy households in the city, which can be said to be the jade of Jingshan and the pearl of the spirit snake in every household. ”

"Oh? So powerful? ”

When the procession reached a distance of two or three miles from the county seat, a few people ran over in a panic on the official road, and some people shouted as they ran: "A dead man has been found in front ......

When Li Zhiyun heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Where did you find the dead man?" An old farmer paused, turned around and pointed to his finger and said, "It's on that hillside." With that, he ran away with a few other villagers.

Li Zhiyun and the others walked more than ten zhang away, and sure enough, they saw a corpse lying head-down on the hillside next to the road. They dismounted and walked over to find that the body had been in a sack, presumably opened by the villagers. It is estimated that the villagers did not know what was in the sack at first, but when they opened it, they found that it was a dead person, so they were scared away.

Li Zhiyun carefully observed the surroundings and said, "This corpse has not yet decomposed, and it must have been buried on the mountain recently." Last night, it rained heavily and there was a landslide, and the body was exposed. Scarface said: "It may be buried in the mountains by ordinary people, and there is nothing strange about it." ”

Li Zhiyun shook his head and said, "Look, this corpse is wearing an official uniform, and it must have been working in the yamen before his death. If it is an ordinary person, because the family is poor, he can't afford to buy a coffin, and put it in a sack to be buried, it is understandable. But if an official dies normally, he won't even be able to afford a thin coffin, right? Besides, from the side, it can be seen that the back of the corpse's head collapsed slightly, presumably caused by a blunt object. After Li Zhiyun finished speaking, he turned to Cai Hu on the side and said, "You ride to the county seat, inform the county officials of the situation here, and let them send someone to investigate." Cai Hu agreed, turned around and walked down the hill, got on his horse and left.

Li Zhiyun asked Zhang Zheng to search the body. With the help of two soldiers, Zhang Zheng took off the sack containing the corpse, felt in the pocket of the corpse for a while, found something, and handed it to him.

Li Zhiyun took it and took a look, this is a wood carving, about the size of a baby's palm, with a Buddha statue carved on the front, and the words "Buddha's light shines" written on the back, which is about a souvenir sold on the stall next to the temple. He put the wood carving into his sleeve.

Li Zhiyun and the others returned to the official road, and waited for about a stick of incense, only to see more than a dozen people coming from the direction of the county seat, and the first few people carried an official sedan chair, and there was a person riding a horse next to the official sedan chair. The team of men and horses came to him, the official sedan chair landed, and a person got out of the sedan chair, and the rider next to him also dismounted.

Li Zhiyun looked intently, and the official sitting in the sedan chair was about thirty years old, with fair skin and a black beard under his chin. And the man on horseback, dressed as a military attaché, has dark skin and a strong body.

As soon as Yu Wenxin saw them, he hurriedly stepped forward and said to the person sitting in the sedan chair: "Brother Tiecheng, I haven't been here for many years, and I don't want to meet here, it's very rare!" When the man saw it, he hurriedly returned the salute in surprise: "Brother Yuwen, it turned out to be you?" Fortunately! Fortunately! ”

"Come, I'll introduce you." Yu Wenxin said that he pulled the man to Li Zhiyun and said, "This is the King of Chu." When the official heard this, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Xiaguan Xia County Commander Xu Tiecheng, knock on His Royal Highness the King of Chu." The military attache next to him also knelt down.

Li Zhiyun hurriedly pulled them up and said with a smile: "Xu County Order, no courtesy, no courtesy." After that, he turned his gaze to the military attache and said, "Who is this?" ......" Xu County Ling hurriedly introduced: "He is the county lieutenant Wang Xingben of this county."

Li Zhiyun nodded and said, "Xu County Order, County Lieutenant Wang, this King and General Yuwen inspected the military affairs of the state and county, and when they came here, several villagers found a corpse on the hillside, and the corpse was dressed in official uniforms. Come and see, do you know this person? With that, he led the two to the corpse.

Xu Tiecheng stared at it, couldn't help but gasp, and exclaimed, "Ah, isn't this Zhou Shen?" ”

"Why, you know this guy?"

Xu Tiecheng didn't answer yet, and Wang Xingben next to him preemptively said: "Back to the King of Chu, he is Cao Zhoushen of this county, who disappeared the night before yesterday, and he died here if he didn't want to, which is very sad." Xu Tiecheng pondered for a moment and said loudly: "County Lieutenant Wang, you quickly let the person come over for an inquest, and you must find out the cause of death!" Wang Xingben agreed, called the accompanying resentment, and began to inspect the scene.

Li Zhiyun and Xu Tiecheng went down the hill and came to the side of the official road. Xu Tiecheng smiled and arched his hand: "The King of Chu has worked hard all the way, so let's hurry up and follow the lower officials into the county seat." ”

"Alright, then let's go into town."