Make the first move

Author: Braised Egg Expert

Early the next morning, Xie Jiuxiao set off with Qing Feng, and the five of them went straight to the refugee gathering place without any delay.

Around this time, someone from the Lu Mansion came. Zhuo San listened to the guards' message, thought for a moment, and then turned back to Lu Chengfeng.

Lu Chengfeng was writing a petition, and while he was considering his words, he heard Zhuo San's words. Without raising his head, he said in a cold tone: "Just say I'm busy with work."

Zhuo San received the order and went to reply: "Go and report back to General Wu. My master is busy. If there is anything, let him come to the door in person."

The Lu family's mansion was not small, and there was no one around. Liu Xiaoxin made a kite and was testing it in the yard. Lu Chengfeng shouted from inside the house: "Stop playing, go call Zhuo San."

Liu Xiaoxiao immediately put down the kite and called Zhuo San over.

Lu Chengfeng handed the written note to someone and said: "Stamped it with my seal, and sent it to the Ministry of Finance as a matter of urgency. As soon as there is any news, you will report back to me immediately."

Zhuo San took it and went to do it immediately.

After noon, Wu Ju came to the door, and Lu Chengfeng was not idle. After the news came here last time, Qingcheng and Jiuyuan immediately cooperated with the garrison to carry out patrols. The second city reported the patrol results to Lu Chengfeng.

Cai Nongning asked Lu Chengfeng for instructions on how to deal with the bandits in Heishui Village. Several prisons in Jiuyuan City could not accommodate the hundreds of people kidnapped from Heishui Village.

The guard reported the visitor.

Lu Chengfeng pretended not to hear it. After reading Cai Nonning's book, he said, "This is a problem."

Zhuo San asked the guards who were coming back to retreat first, and said to Lu Chengfeng: "Killing them all seems too cruel. These people have some humanity. They are not on the same road as Liu Xi after all, and the effect of killing chickens to scare monkeys has been achieved. If we pursue them again,

It’s not appropriate to go down there.”

Lu Chengfeng closed the book and said, "But they have committed a crime after all, so it would be hard to convince the public if they were let go like this."

The two thought silently for a while, then Lu Chengfeng said: "What do you think about handing these people over to Jiuxiao?"

Zhuo San pondered and said, "Master, do you want to send them to work as coolies?"

Lu Chengfeng said: "The crime is not punishable by death. Moreover, the refugee issue does require manpower. Although there are local officials, their manpower is limited and they have their own things to do. If these manpower are added to the resettlement of the refugees, in the end it will be difficult."

It can give everyone in Blackwater Village a way out of their prisons."

Zhuo Sanyi thought: "This method is feasible."

She seemed to be completely focused on this matter, as if she didn't care about Wu Ju's visit, and sat down to write a reply to Cai Nongning.

Until half an hour later, there was a noise outside the courtyard, and the guards hurriedly came to report: "Master, General Wu got angry at the door and said he insisted on seeing the master."

Lu Chengfeng put the written letter into an envelope, handed it to Zhuo San, and said calmly: "Please invite someone in."

She stepped out of the house and quickly put on a smile. She saw a man striding towards him in the garden with an angry look on his face. She went up to him and smiled slightly: "Uncle Wu."

This was the first time Zhuo San saw her changing her face so quickly. He lowered his head unnaturally and coughed, then followed behind him calmly.

Wu Ju smiled when he saw her smile. Thinking about the frustration of not being able to see anyone these days, his tone couldn't help but become serious: "You still know how to call me Uncle Wu, I just think you don't recognize me."

Woolen cloth!"

Lu Chengfeng smiled and said: "Uncle Wu said nothing, it's really because I have official duties and I can't get away from it for a while."

Wu Ju's face was slightly stunned: "You mean you blame me for disturbing you?"

"Of course Chengfeng doesn't mean this. Why is Uncle Wu still arguing with a junior like me?"

Wu Ju's expression softened slightly and he sat down aside. Soon the guards brought tea. Wu Ju picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Then he said calmly: "I heard that you came back and became the military governor of the five cities. Why don't you go to the military camp when you come back? Why do you stay in this house all day?"

Lu Chengfeng held the tea: "I just came back not long ago and dealt with some things, so I was delayed."

Wu Ju pondered for a moment and looked at her: "I heard that you suppressed the bandits in Jiuyuan and Qingcheng. This was a good job. However, in the case of Wei Hongran, was it handled too hastily? He was killed without trial. It’s a bit of a joke.”

Lu Chengfeng lowered his eyes and smiled. The tea in the cup was fragrant and the water was green. Lu Chengfeng took a sip and said: "The evidence for Wei Hongran's collusion with Qingcheng gangsters is conclusive. There are both personal and material evidence. He is the governor of the garrison." , I have the right to deal with it, does Uncle Wu think what I did is wrong?"

Wu Ju said: "It's not that you did something wrong, it's just that Wei Hongran really deserves to die, but he should inform us."

Good for us.

Lu Chengfeng looked at the person with a smile: "Next time something like this happens again, I will definitely inform you in advance."

Wu Ju nodded with satisfaction: "I have nothing else to do today. The main thing is to hear your news and come here to have a look. You should also go to the military camp to have a look."

Lu Chengfeng said: "I feel reassured by the presence of several uncles in the military camp. It won't be too late for me to leave after I finish the things at hand."

Wu Ju hesitated to say something else, and Lu Chengfeng showed concern: "I heard that Uncle Wu was unwell when he came here, but has he seen a doctor? What are the symptoms of this disease? How can he get better so quickly? Is the doctor at home so skilled in medicine?”

Wu Ju felt half guilty for her serious concern, and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "It's just a small problem——"

Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly turned pale and his body became crooked. Lu Chengfeng looked sincere and hurriedly helped him up: "What's wrong with Uncle Wu?"

Wu Ju only felt a sudden pain in his temple, thinking that his old habit had returned, and waved his hands to speak: "I-I-"

Lu Chengfeng interrupted him urgently: "Zhuo San, why don't you send someone to call the doctor!"

After saying that, he turned to Wu Ju and said, "Uncle Wu, I have sent for the doctor. You can live peacefully in my house."

Immediately, he ordered people to prepare a side room and asked people to help Wu Ju to rest.

The doctor came soon. Wu Ju insisted that he was not sick and just needed a rest because he was tired for a while. Lu Chengfeng naturally refused to comply. The doctor said in a serious tone that he had lost both qi and blood and needed to rest and not to worry. If so, Wu Ju was given a prescription and medicine, and Wu Ju was given a decoction in a daze and fell asleep directly.

When Zhuo San sent the doctor away, Lu Chengfeng was playing with a kite with Liu Xiaoxiao in the yard. She had never played with this thing since she was a child, and she looked a little curious. Zhuo San stepped forward and said, "Master."

Lu Chengfeng handed the thread to Liu Xiaoxiao and said, "Are you honest?"

Zhuo San said: "Honestly."

Lu Chengfeng clasped his left hand behind his back and walked towards a newly sprouted pear branch in the courtyard: "Let him have a good rest for a few days. When the military camp comes, let him recover."

There was a careless coldness in her words. She pushed the green branches with her hands and slowly showed a meaningful smile: "I'm just an early bird, there is no need to fight."

As a result, Wu Ju woke up at night feeling weak, with cold sweats all over his body, and could not bring up his appetite. At first, he thought that Lu Chengfeng had secretly poisoned him, so he asked Gao En, the bodyguard who followed him, to secretly hire a doctor. , but the new doctor took a pulse and diagnosed that it was indeed a deficiency of Qi and blood caused by overwork, and he needed to rest, otherwise he would not have much time left.

Wu Ju was frightened by this sentence that he didn't have much time left. He didn't bother to doubt Lu Chengfeng, so he immediately took medicine on time and rested.

The night is quiet.

The guard escorted the doctor out of the small garden. The two of them had just walked a few steps when Zhuo San and Liu Xiaoxiao were waiting in the corridor. Liu Xiaoxiao was nibbling a bunch of corn in one hand and holding a lamp in the other, looking this way.

Gao En led the doctor forward, cupped his hands and said, "Guard Zhuo."

The doctor nodded accordingly.

Zhuo San's expression was cold and his tone was indifferent: "You didn't reveal any flaws, did you?"

Gao En lowered his eyes: "I have said it as you said, and General Wu has not raised any suspicion."

Zhuo San said: "Okay, go down. Your brother will naturally go home in a few days."

Gao En and the doctor retreated. Zhuo San watched the two of them go away. When he turned around, Liu Xiaoxiao handed the lamp to him and said, "Uncle Zhuo, tell me, what will Sister Lu do when others arrive?"

Zhuo San smiled and walked back: "Are you asking your sister Lu what she wants to do, or do you want to ask me something."

Liu Xiaoxiao said: "I don't understand."

Zhuo San raised the lamp forward, and the candlelight illuminated the road in front of him. The night breeze was gentle, and it also brought the chill of the spring night: "Qing Feng returned to Subei in advance to find out a lot of things, and most of them were naturally military camp affairs. Su

After the death of Lu Feng in the north, they fought a battle with the Hohu and were defeated miserably. The northern border defense line was pushed back. At that time, there was spring chaos, and epidemics broke out at the border. Both the Homo and Subei suffered heavy casualties, so they had to stop the war and fight.

Over the past year, the Yihu royal family has been preoccupied with internal strife. There have been small-scale frictions at the border. After winter, civil strife broke out in the Yihu kingdom. It was so frustrating that they couldn't even worry about Subei. This battle in Subei should have been bulldozed.

I have been putting it off until now."

Turning around the corridor and walking down the steps, Zhuo San continued: "Speaking of the death of Lu Feng and the return of the master to Beijing, the four largest remaining members of the Subei Army are General Wu Juwu, General Li Zhaozhong Li, General Zou Xianwei, and Sun Muquan.

General Sun, the four famous battalions in Subei refer to them. These four people are all experienced in the battlefield and are not ordinary people. They all have names and naturally they are not willing to be inferior to others. It is naturally difficult to reach a unified opinion.

In the past year, they have not obeyed anyone, but no one thought that the master would come back, and he would still take the title of Commander of the Five Cities' Troops and Horses. What does this mean?"

The two of them had walked to the archway and saw lights on inside the house from a distance. She had been running very fast during this period and was already on Zhuo San's shoulders. Liu Xiaoxiao raised her head slightly and looked at him with questioning eyes.

"It means that the 90,000 soldiers and horses in the Subei Army and the 12,000 soldiers and horses in the five-city garrison are all at the command of the master."

Liu Xiaoxiao was surprised and said: "So majestic?"

Zhuo San's eyes darkened and he said: "Girl, this is not majestic. This is a very heavy burden. You may not be able to understand the feeling of being attached to one person. Then you might as well try to imagine a family of old and young.

, all relying on one person’s feelings.”

This metaphor was quite vivid. Liu Xiaoxiao thought about it for a moment and suddenly woke up.

Zhuo San sighed: "That's enough for the old and the young. The old ones are disobedient and the young ones like to get into trouble. Isn't this bad?"

Liu Xiaoxiao murmured: "This is indeed bad."

"Now that the master has commanded the army of the governor-general with troops from five cities, the four people who have been fighting for more than a year will definitely not be able to sit still. The master has been in Subei for more than half a month and has not yet gone to the army. They must come to explore the situation.

And this Wu Ju is the easiest to deal with among the four people. To put it simply, he is a weakling. When someone teases him, he eagerly becomes the leader. He relies on his master to call him uncle and actually accuses Wei Hongran. He

Who will suffer if he doesn’t suffer?”

Zhuo San put out the lantern, hung it aside, and said, "Now that he is here, he has been ill for the past few days. Do you think the other people will be anxious? I'm afraid they will suspect that Wu Ju is on the same side as his master, and they will be even more worried."

I can’t sit still anymore.”
Chapter completed!