They all watched their own generals do a happy and happy life, with the king of the Southern Courtyard of Xihe Prefecture and the old Tang Dynasty general An Dushan as the backer of his father-in-law, and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and strong generals deployed at will. But these are all things that outsiders see, if he can really do it, Huo Siyuan would like to be a pawn next to his father-in-law like he did more than ten years ago.

Do you really think that the general is so easy to be?

They followed their father-in-law to take root in Xihe Prefecture, and after more than 20 years of stable life, some people's minds were crooked elsewhere.

It's just turning a blind eye, they are all brothers who were born and died together on the battlefield, but some people have gone too far, even his notorious Huo Siyuan is ashamed of himself, and he doesn't know where his father-in-law got the patience to indulge this ordinary person like this.

Fortunately, those in charge of the soldiers still know how to converge, if it is really a mistake for his father-in-law, he Huo Siyuan will not mind cutting off a few heads for his father-in-law.

Before the half-moon patrol came back, he got the news, and his father-in-law accompanied An Chunqiu's kid to go south with the people of Jianyu Pavilion in plain clothes and went south to Qiyuan, and it was only more than half a month that he didn't look at An Chunqiu by his father-in-law's side, and that kid dared to take such a risk.

This made Huo Siyuan angry, his mother's son had only been out for half a month, and his father-in-law had a little mistake and didn't chop off An Chunqiu's head.

This matter was arranged by Mr. Lan, so you should go and ask Mr. Lan.

When Huo Siyuan found the house in a rage, the housekeeper pushed all the responsibilities to Mr. Lan according to Mr. Lan's words.

No one in the house knows how powerful Huo Siyuan is, even if he is extremely restrained in front of the general, but the evil things he did are also known to everyone.

"Mr. Lan, Mr. Lan!"

Lan Yuanting lived in the palace courtyard, and he heard Huo Siyuan's angry shout from afar, which Lan Yuanting was not surprised.

"Mr. Lan!"

When he arrived at the door, Huo Siyuan didn't push the door in casually like usual, and he was still very well-behaved in front of Lan Yuanting.

After knocking on the door and getting permission, Huo Siyuan entered the house, and did not forget to greet Lan Yuanting with a fist.

"Why is General Huo so anxious?"

Lan Yuanting was half-lying on the couch and wearing a big hat, with a chessboard in front of him, holding a chess book in one hand and pinching the sunspot in the other hand and watching the chess game.

Although the earth dragon in the house was hot, he was still tightly wrapped, Lan Yuanting's body was weak, afraid of cold and heat, and everyone around him knew it.

"Didn't you ask knowingly? ”

Huo Siyuan took out the teacup from the side, made tea and brought it to Lan Yuanting, and then sat down honestly.

"Knowingly, you mean General An?"

Lan Yuanting looked at Huo Siyuan pretending to be honest in front of him, and he took the tea and took a sip.

"Who else can there be? I just came back from patrol and my father-in-law is gone, my father-in-law is the general of Xihe Prefecture, don't you dare to make any mistakes, my Mr. Lan!"

"General Huo's biggest concern is probably not General An's safety. ”

Lan Yuanting put down the teacup, and then put the chess game aside.

"It depends on what you say, I don't worry about the safety of my stepfather. ”

Huo Siyuan smiled, Mr. Lan's invisible scheming was no secret to him, not to mention that Mr. Lan was still good at scheming.

"How about General Huo come and see this chess game?"

Lan Yuanting stopped talking in the middle of his sentence, and instead pulled Huo Siyuan to look at the game of chess in front of him.

"It's okay for me to lead the troops to fight, playing chess is like playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong. ”

Huo Siyuan humbled himself, and then looked at the chessboard in front of him.

Playing chess is a comparison of the pattern, whether there is the ability to be one step ahead or even ten steps ahead, and it is more about guessing each other's thoughts with the opponent, and the same is true for leading troops to fight. Without outstanding military exploits, even if it is Andushan's own son, I am afraid that it will not work.

"Mr. Lan, you don't have any way to survive in this chess game at all. ”

Huo Siyuan said with a twisted eyebrow after taking a closer look at the chess surface.

"White chess is already encircled, black chess has very limited room to maneuver, even if you can take a few more moves, you will inevitably be surrounded and killed by white chess in the end, isn't this obviously the winner and loser?"

"Yes, black is now weak and dead. ”

"Mr. Lan, you have always been well-founded, you can see what others can't see and think about what others can't think, what do you sell in this game of chess, you can tell me bluntly, my father-in-law has believed in you all my life, and I, Huo Siyuan, naturally believe in you. ”

I have known Lan Yuanting for decades, Huo Siyuan has never seen Mr. Lan say a few nonsense, and Mr. Lan's head is filled with things that are a few years or more than ten years later.

"Hahaha! I've always liked this about General Huo, and I don't hide it and say it directly. ”

"That is, I'm not the same as An Chunqiu's kid, I see that he usually pretends to be gentle and calm, and he has a lot of bad water in his stomach. But why did my father-in-law only take that kid with him when he went out this time?"

"Trick me?"

Lan Yuanting will not fall for Huo Siyuan.

"It was seen by the gentleman. ”

Huo Siyuan's little routine didn't succeed and he didn't feel embarrassed, anyway, Mr. Lan, who he should know, would tell him after all.

"General Huo and General Xiao An are both dragons and phoenixes among people, and they are both General An's right-hand men, you have a left-hand personality, so I don't ask you two to unite as one, but at least you must cooperate with each other and don't tear each other down. ”

"Mr. Lan, don't worry, I have always had a clear distinction between public and private, and I won't worry about that kid. ”

"In that game of chess, what does General Huo think of our Xihe Prefecture in this game?"

Lan Yuanting's conversation turned to Fang Cai's chess game again.

Speaking of this, Huo Siyuan restrained his expression, not long ago, he accompanied his father-in-law to the Golden Horde Royal Court, where the royal court responded to the treaty that the garrison of the northern defense line was reduced and the northern frontier was opened up to various departments, so that Xihe Prefecture was no longer the extralegal place that was independent of Northern Xinjiang and Qiyuan.

The father-in-law, the king of the Southern Courtyard in the northern frontier, was already controlled everywhere, but now it is more like he has been cut off a leg.

"As a general of the old Tang Dynasty, although the father-in-law was cast in northern Xinjiang, it was only a nominal belonging, and now that the northern defense line has been replaced, Xihe Prefecture will really become the Xihe Prefecture of northern Xinjiang. ”

"The people of Qiyuan hate their father-in-law even more, if he fights with the Northern Xinjiang in the future, our Xihe will bear the brunt, and it is really a place of four battles between Qiyuan in the Northern Xinjiang, and the situation is much more dangerous than the black chess on this chessboard. ”

"Exactly. ”

Lan Yuanting's face was tired, he was extremely poor all his life, but he could only protect General An's stability, and the world was the most suitable chessboard for a strategist.

"There will be a battle between Qiyuan and Northern Xinjiang, this day is not far away, the sunspots on the chessboard have no way to retreat, but we can jump out of the chessboard. ”

"Mr. Lan, what do you mean?"

"General An's trip to Qiyuan is a bait, and leaving General Huo here is the real chess move. ”