Cao Meng waved his hand and said in a long voice, "Hey." What are you going, you just came back, and let you run again, doesn't it seem that the lonely lord of the country is too unkind?"

Liu De said respectfully: "Share worries for the country, and don't dare to slack off." ”

"No, no, there are more important things that you have to do, since there is going to be a war, you have to help check the gates, how the army will go out, where to go from, how to transport grain and grass, iron and salt medicine should be a business, I don't think anyone can do better than you. Cao Meng smiled: "The previous incident of helping the Great Wall is enough to prove your talent." ”

"Lord Liao Zan. Liu De smiled, "It's just a stupid way to come up in a hurry, not talent." ”

"Isn't it good that so much grain and grass can be transported to the Great Wall with minimal loss? Sometimes, you don't have to be too humble. As he spoke, Cao Meng's eyes gradually softened, and he looked at the curtain of the big tent, as if he could penetrate the thick layer of animal skin.

He said, "Let the secretary go." ”

"Secretary?" Liu De was stunned and looked at Cao Meng in a daze.

In the official system of Canghai, the secretary and secretary are all officials who manage confidential files and draft documents, and they are regarded as three grades in terms of grade, but such civil officials have to be turned into envoys to the Tang State, Liu De feels very unreasonable. What's more, he remembered that the secretary was an old man over eighty years old, and with his body, could he afford the fatigue of this carriage and horses?

"Oh, yes. Cao Meng saw Liu De standing still, and immediately reacted, and said: "I haven't told you about this yet, when you sent an envoy to Jingwu, I issued an edict, and the secretary Cheng Peng was old and frail, and gave him to return to his hometown." Now, the secretary has been replaced. ”

"I see, I rushed back to China, and I didn't know this. Liu De nodded, and then he understood a little, "Then dare to ask the lord of the country, who is the new secretary...... Mr. Guo, or Mr. Cheng? Thinking about the ability and qualifications of the court, these two people are the most suitable. ”

"Neither. ”

Cao Meng's eyes were still staring directly at the direction of the tent door, as if there was a rain of flowers floating in front of him. He thought of the red dress like fire, and thought of the three thousand green silks, she sat in the courtyard, her eyes were as light as water, looking up at the blue sky, looking like a picture.

"It's a woman, named Luo Fengxiao, this person ...... You should remember, right?"

Liu De's eyes narrowed, almost dark, just as Dian Wei lifted the curtain and walked out, he followed Cao Meng's eyes to look out of the tent, stood in place, and couldn't make a sound for a long time.

The group thought about going down the mountain, talking and laughing in the breeze, although they failed to get the compass of the Five Elements Sinan on this trip, they could be regarded as getting new news, not without gain.

Knowing that the next stop was the Mo family, Cai Yan had infinite expectations in her heart, but she still had some other doubts in her heart, she looked at Gao Yishui and asked curiously: "So what?

She was a little more perceptive than Qin Ke and Abu, and she didn't seem to interject much, but secretly she also remembered their conversations by heart, and chewed them a few times.

Gao Yishui shook his head and pretended to be solemn: "The Tao is too deep, unfathomable. ”

"Then you have been talking about the Tao for a long time, can you distinguish between the superior and the inferior?" Cai Yan's two bright eyes blinked, "I underestimated you, I didn't expect Mr. Gao Shan to dabble in a wide range of things, and even the principles of heaven can be explained so thoroughly......"

Gao Yishui rarely boasted, but laughed and said: "It's a pity, I don't know how far his realm has reached, but if you think about it, it won't be too shallow." ”

Qin Ke looked at Gao Yishui and frowned, "What do you mean? Didn't you already say that it was unfathomable?"

"I just talked to him about a few Taoist classics, where can I judge his cultivation, I haven't really tried it, all of it is just speculation. Speaking of this, Gao Yishui smiled wickedly and said, "Do you think I was joking when I kept pleading you with Abu to go up and beat him up?" I really thought so, okay, but then I thought about it deeply and felt that the risk was too great, in case you were beaten into a pig's head by others, I am afraid that my good days will come to an end." ”

Qin Ke sneered: "You yourself have been about to smash the guqin several times, and if you want to beat us, you won't beat us first......"

He looked at Qin Ke with an expression of "too lazy to pay attention to you", laughed again, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't talk about this, I finally have the news of the Five Elements Sinan, I should find a place to celebrate, I will be the east, please eat roast chicken!"

Qin Ke pouted and said, "You want to drink yourself, don't pull me in." You don't have any money at all, and I'm not going to pay for it?"

"What's the difference? You are now a celebrity under Prime Minister Jing Wu, under one person, above 10,000 people, what is this money? I am your best friend, not to mention relatives, anyway, I don't feel blushing at all when I eat and drink yours. ”

Qin Ke squinted at him and pushed him hard: "Get out, die." ”

A few people quarreled and quarreled, and soon they were halfway up the mountain, and when they arrived at the teahouse, a few barbarians had not yet left, and seemed to be chatting with each other, and Batum saw a few people coming, and his face showed joy, and he shouted from afar.

"What is he shouting?" Qin Ke asked.

Gao Yishui listened to it and said with a smile: "He is asking, have we seen the divine envoy." ”

Several people walked over together and sat down at another table.

"When are you going to the Mo family?" Cai Yan was full of anticipation for the next journey, since leaving Ding'an City, she couldn't wait to step on every part of this new world, "I heard that after Jicheng took power from the Mo family, all kinds of tricks and tricks are almost all over the city, there are dozens of zhang high waterwheels day and night, wooden people who can help you serve tea and water with your fingers, and ox carts and carriages that can run by themselves without being pushed......

Qin Ke touched his chin, and he also showed a somewhat curious look about what Cai Yan said, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was more important to find the artifact and the master, so he asked instead: "Jinzhou's public loser...... Have you heard of it?"

Cai Yan blinked, looked at him in disbelief and said, "You are from the Mo family, don't you know?"

"How would I know...... I'm just a countryman out of the mountains. Abu, do you know?"

Abu was about to answer, Cai Yan had already spoken: "I heard that a few decades ago, the public loser was originally a famous family in Jicheng, and he was especially good at exquisite tricks, and he was also very important in the Mo family's court, but later, he ...... I don't know why, the Gongyi family was suppressed, the head of the family disappeared like Gongyi, and the family also moved to Jinzhou ......"

"I see. Abu nodded and said, "It's still Miss Cai who has more knowledge, I just heard Huang Jiaoxi mention some of it in class, and it's far from being so detailed." ”

Cai Yan laughed crisply, "These are not well-informed, I often entered the palace when I was a child, so I had the opportunity to see those classics in the palace...... The upper echelons of the Mo family seem to be very taboo about the surname Gongyi, so they have been deliberately downplaying their influence, and after the disappearance of the head of the family, the entire family has gradually declined, and after a few decades, there are not many people who can remember them. ”

"It's not missing. Gao Yishui walked over, took away the cup of tea in front of Qin Ke, drank it with a grunt, and wiped his mouth after sighing with satisfaction, "It's exile, it is said that at the beginning, Gong Yi was sentenced to exile to the border for the crime of rebellion, and it was a great luck in misfortune to be able to save the family from Zhulian." ”

"Rebellion?" Qin Ke took a breath, such a crime is indeed big enough.

Cai Yan's eyes flowed, and he nodded slowly: "If you plot rebellion...... It is no wonder that the upper echelons of the Mo family deliberately downplay the surname Gongyi, this kind of thing is an ugly thing no matter where it is placed. ”

"The Mo family court is a pot of porridge, and the incidents that have occurred are one after another, ugly things or something, I am not surprised. It's like the dispute between Confucianism and Law nowadays, which is known to the whole world, but the Mo family's own doctrine is declining more and more, and the Mo family giant, who has been in power for decades, is afraid that life will not be easy for many years. Gao Yishui said casually, whistled, and said, "Let's go, I'm already hungry, I can't eat roast chicken and Lao Baigan here, hurry up and go down the mountain." ”

"You know how to eat. Qin Ke said: "Then when will we leave for Jinzhou?"

"What's the hurry. Jinzhou will not suddenly grow two legs and run, it is impossible to go to the public loser to ask for things, it is not a simple thing, people are decaying, but they are also a big family, and they have to calculate. Gao Yishui stretched, "Eat first...... Hungry, I couldn't think of anything. ”

Said the Inspired One