"What do you mean? Tsuneyama! You should know what I'm trying to say. ”

Lu Wende's expression became serious, and he stared at Lu Wenhuan deadly.

Seeing that her husband was so excited, Cheng Miaojing suddenly felt sad, put down the chopsticks in her hand, walked to Lu Wende's side, and pulled Lu Wende's shirt to the placket: "Husband, don't quarrel." Don't forget that the kids are here, and if it gets too big and someone else hears it, it won't be good. ”

And in the hall, the children of the many clans who were eating were also worried, for fear of being involved.

Before, they still remember the scene where Lu Shikui was scolded quite clearly.

"You think I want to make trouble? It's not the things he did, otherwise how would I be so passive today?"

Lu Wende saw sideways that the person who stopped him was his wife, even though there was boundless anger in his heart, he couldn't help but stop his arms, just looking at Lu Wenhuan with his eyes, he felt that Lu Wenhuan was completely hateful, and he was almost going to push himself into the fire pit.

"Hmph. ”

Lu Wenhuan snorted lightly, not feeling that he had done anything wrong again, he opened his mouth to explain: "Very good." Then tell me, what did I do to make you so disappointed?Jingxiu, even if you want to reprimand me, you have to tell me the reason. Otherwise, if I just reprimand like this, then what face do I have?"

"That's right. You two are also cousins, how can you make a fuss because of something? If others listen to it, they will think that we are having a conflict. Cheng Miaojing tried hard to persuade the two to calm down.

And at the bottom, Lu Shilong also opened his mouth to persuade: "Daddy, there must be a reason why my uncle did that." You two are cousins, can't you just calm down and talk about it?"

Since Lu Shikui, Lu Shilong, as the second son, is the biggest here, so he stood up and said.

"Little child, what do you know? Why don't you let me get down?" But Lu Wende didn't have the kindness to Cheng Miaojing, and scolded him directly.

Lu Shilong suddenly felt aggrieved, his eyes squeezed slightly, and a few tears were useful.

Cheng Miaojing shook her head lightly, looked sideways at Lu Wende, Lu Wende's face was red at this moment, and he was obviously losing his temper, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Lu Shilong's hand: "A few of you, let's go down with me first, don't disturb the two of them." As for the relationship between them, I think they will handle it themselves. With that, he left here with Lu Shilong and Yiying Children, leaving only Lu Wenhuan and Lu Wende.

The atmosphere became quiet again, and Lu Wende opened his mouth to ask, "Very good." I have investigated before this, you have set up a private shop in this field, and you have never paid taxes to the government, and in order to satisfy your own selfish desires, you smuggled food, cloth, steel, and other prohibited materials to Chang'an, are these things true?"

There is no way, these things are too shocking, all of them are contrary to the rules of the imperial court, if they are known by the imperial court, they will definitely be arrested.

Lu Wende was really afraid that his family would decline because of this.

"Alas. Is it really about the field?"

Lu Wenhuan said in his heart, and immediately raised his head and replied: "What you want to ask, is this it? But you should know, if it weren't for this field, how would we be able to get the machine tools and steam engines used to make guns from Chang'an? Do you think these things fell out of thin air?"

"You!"

Lu Wende said in his heart, and his face inevitably showed a trace of disappointment: "You really did this kind of thing?"

"What is it, what is it, what is it? Do you think I can choose?" Lu Wenhuan defended: "You have also seen that the strength of the Huaxia Army is growing day by day, and it is not something we can fight against at all." If we don't applaud them, how can we keep the peace until now?"

If it was Lin'an, it would be fine, but they are close to Junzhou, and the changes in Chang'an may not be known, but this Junzhou is the same every year, which is completely different from the small county town in the poor countryside eight years ago, and is a new city with a permanent population of 300,000.

Even because of the rapid development, many people who once lived in Xiangyang have also gone to Junzhou, where they have purchased property and started business, completely treating it as their second hometown.

Faced with these scenes, Lu Wende also knew it, but he still insisted on his opinion and shouted: "Then you shouldn't do this." Tell me, what's the difference between your behavior and that of a rebellious minister and a thief? And you don't know who Xiao Feng is, why did you get mixed up with them?"

"It's just business, why do you sound so ugly?"

The corners of Lu Wenhuan's mouth moved slightly, and he still didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him: "And you have also seen the 30,000 soldiers in Xiangyang, if I don't do this, how can I feed so many troops?"

"You! you ——"

Pointing at Lu Wenhuan, Lu Wende's fingers trembled, although he wanted to reprimand angrily, but when he thought of what Lu Wenhuan had done, he felt exhausted.

Because the previous Northern Expedition had already exhausted the national strength of the Song Dynasty, Lin'an had no spare financial resources to support the local armies, so it had to let the local armies raise their own salaries in order to maintain more than 600,000 soldiers.

Lu Wende, who was stationed in Xiangyang, had no choice but to pay out of his own pocket to feed his 30,000 horses.

And the salaries of these soldiers all depend on Lu Wenhuan to deal with them, and the income of the field accounts for most of them, which is also a headache for Lu Wende.

"Seriously, I really regret it now, and I regret why I agreed to open a field for Zhang Wei in the first place. Otherwise, you wouldn't be like this. His eyes were gloomy, and Lu Wende seemed to feel that the anger in his chest had burned out, and after the angry words finally came out of his mouth, he became so calm.

Lu Wenhuan showed a trace of helplessness in his eyes, and replied: "But there is no way, in order to live, I can only do this." ”

"That's right! You've changed because of this. It didn't look like the person I used to know. ”

Lu Wende stared at Lu Wenhuan deadly, compared with the brother who intersected with life and death before, Lu Wenhuan has changed now, he does not have the sharpness and strength of his youth, but there are many more middle-aged people who are fat and greasy, and most importantly, his eyes have become cloudy.

There is an indescribable anger in his heart, but the most is regret to himself, if he had found out earlier, maybe it would not have become like this.

Lu Wenhuan's heart fluctuated slightly, but he immediately calmed down: "But you have also changed, haven't you?"

"Me?"

Lu Wende's expression moved slightly, his eyes turned directionlessly, and then his tone became low: "Indeed, I have also changed, and even I can't recognize that self." That's right, everyone has changed. But—" After a pause, Lu Wende's gaze became firm again, although his tone was not as strong as before, but with a firm conviction: "But I don't want you to become something I don't even know." ”

"Jingxiu. What do you mean by this? Do you think I've been bought by the Huaxia Army?" Lu Wenhuan's eyes widened, and he obviously began to become angry.

Lu Wende stared at his brother and asked in a low voice: "Isn't it? Otherwise, why is the movements of our army clear at a glance? Because these people, how many secrets of our army are in the hands of the Huaxia army!"

In the past, Lu Wende didn't know about it, but as far as the current situation is concerned, he has no doubt that his every move is under the control of the Huaxia Army.

All this made Lu Wende begin to be afraid, afraid of Xiao Feng, who was far away in Chang'an, thinking that in this Xiangyang, he had completely fallen into the other party's strategy, and he was like a sparrow in the net, unable to escape.

Lu Wenhuan ignored it, and instead asked: "What about you? Why don't you look at your current appearance? Do you know how those people treat you in the government and the opposition?" Or do you want to be a loyal and righteous soldier now that you are an official and powerful? Or have you forgotten all the things you did when you climbed all the way? Don't forget that Gao Gao, Xiang Shibi, and Cao Shixiong all died because of you. ”

"Is that the same thing?"

With a "bang", Lu Wende suddenly shook his fist, and the huge dining table suddenly collapsed, and all the wine and food on the table were spilled on the ground.

"I'm asking about your relationship with Huaxia Army, don't get involved in other aspects. Got it?"

Lu Wenhuan was frightened and shouted in a low voice: "Jingxiu, what's wrong with you? Are you planning to deal with me? Don't forget, we two are brothers." Lu Wende in front of him was really strange, although he didn't have the previous anger, but his calm face made people more and more afraid.

In all fairness, Lu Wenhuan had never seen Lu Wende like this before.

"Of course I do, so I want to warn you not to go the wrong way. Got it?"

Lu Wende glanced at Lu Wenhuan deeply, then turned around, the door opened, and he had already stepped out of the door: "Otherwise, I will take action myself, so as not to lead you astray." Got it?"

A few voices lingered in my ears for a long time.

Lu Wenhuan's heart was surging, and he was also very scared, and only after a long time did he sigh and think to himself.

"Am I really doing something wrong?"

In the face of his cousin's advice, Lu Wenhuan couldn't turn a blind eye, after all, his cousin did what he said, if he really did something wrong, he was afraid that he would really use thunderbolt methods.

It's night, and it's as quiet as ever.

After dawn, Lu Wende still remembered the affairs of the court, and just came to the mansion, and saw that Qiu Zhenheng had already been waiting under the hall for a long time.

"What do you want to report today?"

As usual, after Lu Wende sat down in the hall, he began to flip through the file in front of him and began to deal with the official business in his hand.

Qiu Zhenheng complained: "Of course. It's about Zhang Wei, the governor of Junzhou. ”

He is Lu Wende's staff, and he has been following Lu Wende for more than 30 years, so it can be said that he is old and serious, and he has also paid a lot to stabilize the stability in Xiangyang City, for which Lu Wende even married his daughter to Qiu Zhenheng's son Qiu Tongfu, and since then he has concluded an in-law relationship.

"Zhang Wei?" Lu Wende stopped the brush in his hand, and his face was obviously stunned.

Qiu Zhenheng nodded and said, "That's right, it's Zhang Wei." He said that because he was about to leave his post, he wanted to meet with Chongguo Gong before leaving, and discussed the future, I don't know what the general thinks should be done?"

"Do you want to see me?"

Lu Wende secretly pondered: "It's just that I came to meet at this time, what kind of thoughts did I have?" raised his head, but looked at Qiu Zhenheng and asked, "Zhenheng, if it is according to your wishes, how should I deal with it?"

"General. Look at what you mean, don't you want to see him?" Qiu Zhenheng raised his eyebrows slightly and asked in a low voice.

Lu Wende nodded and said, "That's right. No matter what, after all, he is a member of the Huaxia Army, and I am the defender of Xiangyang. If that's the case, it's not good. ”

"But if it is not seen, it will inevitably affect the people in the city, thinking that there is a rift between Xiangyang and Junzhou, and if it causes the merchants in the city to flee, so that the tax is greatly reduced, it will inevitably affect the mood of the soldiers and reduce the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. Is it?" Before Lu Wende could speak, Qiu Zhenheng said the rest of the words.

"That's right. The Northern Mengyuan was about to move, and if he rashly clashed with the Huaxia Army at this time, it was really not the right time. ”

Lu Wende nodded, this is also the reason why he made Qiu Zhenheng his staff, he was able to guess his mind one step earlier and give corresponding suggestions, such a talent is really rare.

Qiu Zhenheng sighed, but said, "If that's the case, then you shouldn't have a conflict with Lu An. ”

"This. What happened last night, do you know about it?" Lu Wende's face showed a little embarrassment, although Qiu Zhenheng was not an outsider, but he was still ashamed to see his scandal being told by others.

Qiu Zhenheng closed his head and replied, "That's right. And there's no reason why I shouldn't know that something so big has happened. ”

"So, are you going to let Lu Wenhuan talk to that Zhang Wei?"

Even so, Lu Wende heard what Qiu Zhenheng meant, of course it is inconvenient for him to come forward because of his own sensitive identity, but Lu Wenhuan himself has an important position, and the most important thing is that he is a brother with himself, if Lu Wenhuan comes forward, he can naturally represent Lu Wende.

If Lin'an pursues it in this way, Lu Wende can also have some room for maneuver, so as not to anger Lin'an.

Qiu Zhenheng nodded and replied, "That's right. Lu Anfu has been dealing with Junzhou for a long time, and he has long known how to deal with them, if it is him, he will naturally be able to catch them and not get into trouble. ”

"Well, it looks like we have to rely on him. Although Lu Wende was helpless, he could only respond with his head closed.