Lu Wei was shocked and almost fell off the recliner.

He sat up straight and looked at Zhang Yuqing with wide eyes.

After realizing that Zhang Yuqing was not joking, his whole person was not good, and he couldn't say anything about it, "I, I, I, for, why do you think, miss her?" ”

Zhang Yuqing said understandingly: "There are no outsiders here, you don't have to be so afraid, no one hears it." ”

"Even if someone hears me, they won't miss her!" Lu Wei was shocked.

Zhang Yuqing pondered that the ending of the world should not change, so Lu Wei should have pressed his affection to the deepest part of his heart and hid it, and before he could figure out how to tell Lu Wei, Lu Wei said hurriedly: "She is married to the prince, what do I want her to do?" ”

Zhang Yuqing blinked, but the prince would die, and Zhang Yuying would be a widow!

"No, it's not!" Lu Wei was shocked into a cold sweat, and only after blurting out the words did he feel that he had answered wrongly, and hurriedly corrected, "My wife is you, you are much better than her, why should I think of someone I don't like?" ”

Zhang Yuqing felt that Lu Wei had misunderstood what he meant, and raised his hand to appease: "I just asked, there is no other meaning, don't worry." ”

Lu Wei stood up, he was not at ease, how could he be relieved?

Looking at Zhang Yuqing's dark and innocent eyes, Lu Wei had an idea, and suddenly figured it out, as if a hand had cleared the fog and displayed the truth in front of him.

Zhang Yuqing has always had reservations about him, is it because he minds that he was engaged to Zhang Yuying, thinking that he still has Zhang Yuying in his heart?

Thinking of this, Lu Wei was overjoyed, and looked at Zhang Yuqing with blazing eyes, "Do you think I'm ......?"

At this moment, Fang Qin shouted outside the courtyard: "My lord, His Royal Highness the King of the County has come down!" ”

Lu Wei was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to go out to greet him, Zhang Yuqing got up from the recliner and asked, "Do I have to go and see me too?" ”

"The king of the county is not an outsider, we have grown up together since childhood." Lu Wei smiled, his eyes were gentle as water, and he looked at Zhang Yuqing with a gentle gaze, "If you want to see it, go with me to see it, if you don't want to see it, just wait here for me to come back, I have something to tell you." ”

Zhang Yuqing was a little overwhelmed by Lu Wei's look, lowered her head with a red face, and said, "I'll go over and say hello!" ”

She didn't go over when the angel group announced the decree in the afternoon, and it was a bit rude to not go over at this time.

Lu Wei nodded and walked towards the front yard.

The palanquin of His Royal Highness the King of the County has arrived at the door of the post house.

The sedan chair fell to the ground, the accompanying guards lifted the sedan curtain, and the county king limped out of the sedan chair.

"You wouldn't mind bothering you so late, would you, General?" The county king laughed.

Lu Wei stepped forward and patted the prince on the shoulder, "Let's go, say it inside!" ”

By the light of the lantern at the door, Zhang Yuqing glanced at the king of the county, who was still emaciated, with a sickly white face, a warm smile, and amiable.

Zhang Yuqing saluted, "I've seen His Royal Highness the King of the County." ”

"Sister-in-law is well!" The county king smiled with a smile.

Zhang Yuqing retreated, and asked Fang Qin to order the post house to light a fire, make wine, and cook a few dishes, and ordered the guards to guard the courtyard, and no idle people were allowed to approach.

After the county king and Lu Wei sat down on the stone table in the courtyard, the county king sighed with emotion: "Now we are on different sides of the world, and it is rare to see each other. There were outsiders in the afternoon, and even though I had a stomach full of things I wanted to say to you, I couldn't say a word. ”

Lu Wei poured wine for the king of the county and said: "There are many people with mixed eyes, so you should be cautious in your words and deeds." ”

After the two of them touched a few glasses, the king of the county suddenly put down the wine glass, and said with red eyes: "Ah Wei, do you know that the prince instructed the officials to talk to the emperor again that the tax will be raised!" And it's a plus three percent in one go! ”

Lu Wei was taken aback, "Who is taxed on?" ”

No matter who is taxed, it is unbearable to add 30% in one go.

"To whom? Only to the people! The king of the county took a deep breath, and tears fell, "The country is in chaos like this, the southeast and the northwest are in chaos, but the father and son just want to enjoy themselves and be happy, and it is not that they can't resist the requests of the officials to raise taxes, so mediocre!" ”

The night breeze blows through the courtyard of the inn, and the branches of the trees sway.

Lu Wei silently patted the back of the county king.

"I'm afraid you can't imagine what they are raising taxes for, they are building a mausoleum for the emperor!" The king of the county could not hide his grief and indignation, "To build an imperial mausoleum, the budget alone will cost more than 20 years of taxes in Great Xia!" The inheritance of our ancestors will be destroyed in the hands of this father and son! ”

Lu Wei let out a deep breath and said softly: "You can just say this to me, and don't mention it to anyone after you go back." You can only be an idle clan in the capital, and don't listen to them or ask about them, and don't disobey them. Over the years, have there been fewer children of the clan who have been killed by the father and son? ”

"I can only tell you these words in my heart." The king of the county smiled miserably, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, "If they want to kill me, kill me!" has the ability, they killed all the surnamed Fang! ”

The king of the county pulled Lu Wei and said sadly: "I only hate myself for being a wasted person, and I can't be as capable as you!" If I had half your power, I would ......"

Lu Wei sighed, the king of the county is the son of the emperor's younger brother, and he can survive because he was born lame, which is not conducive to walking, if the king of the county is an intact arm and leg, before he learns the ability, he has already been killed by the emperor.

"You killed Prince Hu Ren this time, such a splashing credit, it was only for you to be promoted to a general! There is neither reward nor real power! Perfunctory like this, there is no sincerity, but it is just to block the mouth of Youyou! The king of the county said angrily, "They are so suspicious of the heroes of the border, do they want to be full of Jin Yongkang and others in the future of the Manchu Dynasty!" ”

Lu Wei said: "I didn't guard the border for them. ”

"When I set out from the capital, the envoys of the Hu people also arrived in the capital, and they were still the same as before, extremely arrogant, and even shouted that the monarchs and ministers of Great Xia were unkind and unjust, and killed their prince and so many soldiers!" The king said.

Lu Wei frowned and could kill flies, "This doesn't make sense." ”

The Hu people are a defeated country, not to say grovel to the victorious country of Great Xia, but also to clamp their tails, the Hu envoys are so postureful, they are not afraid of the dignity of the emperor of Great Xia, which is really incomprehensible.

"After the Hu envoys arrived in the capital, I went on the road, and I don't know how the emperor will deal with them." The county king sighed.

After sending off the drunken county king, Lu Wei hurried back to the backyard and was full of joy to go to Zhang Yuqing to talk, but found that Zhang Yuqing's room had been extinguished by candles.

Lu Wei looked up, and the moon had already risen to the middle of the sky. When he and the king of the county got together, they chatted until late at night.

Early the next morning, everyone set off for Baochuan.

Along the way, Lu Wei didn't find a chance to talk to Zhang Yuqing alone.

It wasn't until there were about 100 miles away from Baochuan City that it was already noon, and everyone stopped to light a fire and cook.

Suddenly, in the distance, there was the neighing of horses, as well as screams and cries.

Zhang Yuqing was shocked to look for prestige, but the trees were high and dense, and she couldn't see anything.

Fang Qin immediately rushed over on horseback with a dozen guards.

After a while, a guard hurried back to report that people from the nearby state and county were rushing to kill unarmed people.

"Are they crazy!" Zhang Yuqing said angrily.

Lu Wei asked coldly, "Why did you kill the people?" ”

The guards were also angry, "Those people were originally from their state and county, and they wanted to drag their families to our Baochuan, and those people chased them all the way, and would rather kill them than let them enter Baochuan!" ”

Since Lu Wei and Zhang Yuqing came to Baochuan, Baochuan has changed with each passing day, not only the officials are Qingming, but also many taxes have been exempted, and the people are living much better than before.

By word of mouth, more and more people came to Baochuan to join them.

But it was the first time that Zhang Yuqing had heard of such a cruel and inhumane thing as officials from other states and counties killing people.

Lu Wei asked, "What is the situation now?" ”

The guard said, "Lord Fang stopped them, saying that they would not be asked to kill another person, and let me come back to report the news." ”

"I'll go take a look." Lu Wei said, turning over the horse neatly.

Zhang Yuqing immediately said: "I will go over too." ”

Lu Weile stopped his horse and stretched out his hand towards Zhang Yuqing.

Zhang Yuqing hesitated for a moment, handed his hand to Lu Wei, who knew that Lu Wei did not play cards according to common sense, bent down and directly hugged Zhang Yuqing on the horse, put it in front of him, hugged Zhang Yuqing from behind, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and rushed out.

Under inertia, Zhang Yuqing leaned back directly into Lu Wei's arms, and Lu Wei's chin rested on Zhang Yuqing's shoulder.

Zhang Yuqing suspected that he did it on purpose, but the wind was blowing, the horse's back was bumpy, and her back was close to Lu Wei's chest.

Fortunately, it was soon there, Lu Wei turned over and dismounted, holding the reins in his hand, leaving her on the horse.

Zhang Yuqing looked around, hundreds of ragged people were cowering and squatting on the ground, and Fang Qin and a dozen guards were holding knives and confronting the officers and soldiers opposite.

There were still several corpses on the ground, as if they had just died, and the air was filled with blood.

A little baby who couldn't walk yet sat in a back basket, crying with his mouth open.

The young woman with him on her back was already on the ground, blood gushing from her chest, staining the dirt beneath her red.

Zhang Yuqing covered her face and took a few deep breaths before calming down her anger about wanting to kill.

"I want to come down." She said to Lu Wei.

Lu Wei stretched out his hand to help her get off the horse.

Zhang Yuqing walked over quickly, picked up the little baby in the basket, and gently shook and coaxed.

"What's going on?" Lu Wei asked with a cold face.

Fang Qin angrily pointed at the officers and soldiers opposite, "When we came, we saw them killing people!" ”

"Nosy! Believe it or not, I've slaughtered you with one sword! The leading officer and soldier on the opposite side glared and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

Lu Weirubing's gaze swept at him, "General Baochuan, Lu Wei." ”

The officers and soldiers on the opposite side didn't expect a big man to come, they were taken aback, put down the swords and guns in their hands, and snorted: "Lord Lu, we are also acting on orders!" ”

"Acting on orders? On whose orders? Lu Wei asked coldly.

(End of chapter)