Qin Ke didn't understand this, but he could hear the severity of it, thought about it, and said, "Then don't use these people from the Shi clan?"

Zhuge Wanling smiled and said, "The scholars of the poor family who have studied hard for ten years have entered the temple, but how many of them really cherish the world? It is only a matter of time before such a person colludes with the scholars. Moreover, if I don't need to use the people of the Shi clan, who should I use? Jing Wu needs people to govern from top to bottom, from one county to one county to one state and one country, a large number of people are needed.

"I don't have to look at the names on it, but I know who they are. But it's not time yet. Zhuge Wanling lowered his head and spoke softly, as if talking to himself, "It's not time." ”

Qin Ke sat dumbfounded, opened his mouth, and wanted to refute, but found that he couldn't say anything different at all. In the final analysis, he only has the words in the book that say less and more and not much in the book, and there is a saying that "if you are not in his position, you will not seek his government", which is also true, he is just an outsider, how can he know the truth of Zhuge Wanling's work?

He laughed at himself in his heart, lowered his head, and didn't speak, so he looked like a child who was making trouble.

Zhuge Wanling looked at him, but there was a bit of tenderness in his eyes, like an elder caring for his son and nephew: "When you came to Jingwu, you must have suffered a lot on the way, and it should be my fault to enter Jingwu and experience these things that should not have been experienced." ”

He looked up and said to Abu, who was desperately trying to hear something outside the temple gate, "Abu." Come on in. ”

Abu was scratching his ears and cheeks, the sound insulation effect of this temple door is really good, although it is said that the partition wall has ears, but his ears are really not as sensitive as Qin Ke, let alone hearing the words inside.

And Zhuge Wanling raised his voice, he finally heard such a sentence clearly, and knew that his eavesdropping had been completely discovered by Zhuge Wanling, and suddenly, he pushed the door helplessly, and suddenly fell in from outside the temple door.

"Ouch. Abu exhaled lowly, but he didn't care about the pain of this fall, and hurriedly got up from the high threshold, trotted all the way to Zhuge Wanling, and said with a red face, "Mr. call me?"

"Take Qin...... Ah Ke went to the school to wash up, told Mr. Wu, and let him arrange accommodation. ”

Abu's eyes lit up: "Abu wants to study with me in the future?"

Qin Ke raised his head and looked at Zhuge Wanling in a daze, he didn't say anything.

"It's just that he was arranged to live with you. Zhuge Wanling smiled, "As for studying or something else, it's up to him to choose." He looked at Qin Ke and said softly, "You go first, no matter what, you are my brother's disciple, come to Jingwu, there will always be a place." ”

Qin Ke hesitated, felt Abu tugging at the corners of his clothes, slowly got up and nodded, followed Abu who said goodbye slowly left the hall, and at the moment when he closed the door of the hall, he saw Zhuge Wanling holding the pen again, writing slowly under the light alone.

This image will remain in his mind for a long, long time.

Not long after Qin Ke and Abu left the palace, the palace in the middle of the night did not fall into complete silence because of the departure of these two young people.

Zhuge Wanling heard the sound of the temple door being opened again, he raised his head, Gao Changgong was standing in front of the hall door, holding a pot of wine in his hand, and walked in very idlely.

"I heard that you were scolded?" Gao Changgong said lazily, as the general of Jing Wu, and the right and left hand of Zhuge Wanling when he was in the Jianghu gang, he was naturally free from entering and leaving the palace.

Zhuge Wanling kept his hands in his hand and asked softly, "Why are you here?" ”

Gao Changgong smiled and waved his hand, and sat in front of him with a butt, leaning on the desk, looking like he wanted to do whatever he wanted, "This is so interesting, in the huge palace, the prime minister above 10,000 people under your dignified Jing Wu was actually scolded, this face is a big loss." ”

Opening the wine jug, he took a sip of his own drink, wiped his mouth and smiled: "It's a pity that I didn't catch up with that good show, but I'm worried that your self-esteem will be frustrated, and I will be sluggish from then on, so I came to comfort you." Tsk, but it's also interesting, Qin Ke's kid has done what I've always wanted to do but couldn't, I'll have to ask him for advice in the future, and see how I can scold you for blood. ”

"It's not unusual for me to be scolded. I think at the beginning, those people in the gang didn't complain to me less, didn't they?" Zhuge Wanling put down the brush, and both of them seriously seemed to have a look of reminiscence, "Let's say, although I know that you are very nonsense, it shouldn't be just for such a thing to enter the palace late at night." What do you want to tell me?"

"Of course, you have an eyebrow about what you want to know. Gao Changgong took out a bamboo slip from his arms, and it was still in front of Zhuge Wanling very casually, "This incident of destroying the embankment and flooding the fields is very involved, and even the brainless uncle of the lord of the country is involved, among them, the Sun family, the Xie family, and the Wang family are all involved. ”

"It's not unusual. Zhuge Wanling nodded, and then asked, "Let you send troops to escort Gong Jin to disaster relief, how is it now?"

"It's ok. Gongjin went in person, and those people didn't dare to reach out easily, and these grains could still be sent to the people. ”

"Food can't be given so simply, tell Gongjin that those people should build dikes, and women and children can help Zhuang Ding cook food. If the levees can be rebuilt within two months, there will still be a season of grain to be harvested in those fertile soils. ”

"Yes. After Gao Changgong took a sip of wine, he sighed with satisfaction, and leaned his shoulders and back on Zhuge Wanling's case, "Gong Jin is not a fool, whether it is leading troops or disaster relief, he is a person with a lot of ideas." He had already thought of yours. ”

Zhuge Wanling nodded and smiled: "That's right. When he first joined the gang, he was only thirteen years old, but he was already a well-known ghost in the gang. ”

"yes. Gao Changgong laughed a few times, but after laughing, he inexplicably turned sideways, supported his arm, and asked, "Eh, I've always been curious, did he tell you these memories, or did you inherit them directly?"

Zhuge Wanling didn't speak, but there seemed to be some strange light flickering in his eyes, obviously he was a person with a weak physique and couldn't cultivate, but no matter who it was, seeing his eyes at the moment, he would feel that there seemed to be a terrible thing hidden in it, and he might pounce out at any time.

Gao Changgong snorted, didn't ask this anymore, took another sip of wine, and said, "What are you going to do about them?"

Naturally, they refer to the nobles and the officials.

Zhuge Wanling looked at the candle flame and said, "You can't go too far, and you can't touch the bottom line of those scholars now." But this can't really be the end of the day. He tapped his fingers lightly on the wooden desk and said, "That...... Just kill someone. ”

When these words came out, the hall seemed to overflow with a bit of blood, and the silver moonlight spilled to the ground through the cracks in the window, like a small and sharp steel knife.

"How many people did you kill?" Gao Changgong asked.

"From the county officials involved in the case to kill, Jianye City can't be silent here, the uncle of the lord of the country...... You don't have to stay. With this momentum, by the way, those insignificant small families have also been leveled. Zhuge Wanling's faint words had already decided the life and death of nearly a hundred people, but he still did not waver.

"Moving the family, will you touch the bottom of those scholars?"

Zhuge Wanling replied lightly: "They are not fools, when things get to such an extent, someone should always bear the consequences." Compared with those families who are already unstable, their own fundamental interests are everything. In that case, what does the life and death of these families have to do with them?"

Gao Changgong raised the wine jug and laughed: "It sounds good, it deserves my pot of wine." The clear liquid drew a silver line, and with a burning heat poured into his throat, and he drank freely, as if the liquor was as light as water, and after a while, he threw away the flask, and after a cracking sound, he struck the table hard: "Then ...... Kill!"