He Cheng hurried to the county government office in Chaiyang and saw Lu Ze standing by the window with a gloomy look on his face.
Perhaps because of the poisoning just now, Lu Ze's face was still a little gray.
"County Magistrate Lu doesn't look good. What's the matter? Is his body still not healed?"
He Cheng had a smile on his face, but the look he looked at Lu Ze was really not friendly.
Lu Ze didn't give He Cheng a good look at first, he just snorted softly, his voice a little hoarse: "I heard that you went to see Shao Peichen?"
He Cheng was unwilling to say anything more to Lu Ze, but he did not deny what Lu Ze said: "Brother, as the saying goes, good birds choose trees to roost in."
The smile on He Cheng's face was still there, but his eyes were like ice glass from nine cold days, both cold and piercing.
Lu Ze laughed twice: "After all, it was me who blocked Junior Brother's path."
He Cheng didn't speak, he just lowered his head and looked out the window along Lu Ze's line of sight.
Lu Ze thought to himself and said: "Shao Peichen does have hands and eyes, but I don't believe how someone like him could escape unscathed under the pressure from above."
He Cheng remained silent, obviously not taking what Lu Ze said to heart.
"I know you hate Yan Er. He is obviously worse than you and me, but he is the one with the highest position now. If you are not willing to give in, neither will I."
There were mottled cracks on Lu Ze's lips, and the pallor revealed a striking blood redness.
He Cheng sighed: "So what if you don't want to give in? After all, it's just bad luck. I'm lucky to be the county magistrate."
"County magistrate?" Lu Ze snorted coldly, "Don't you know? In small counties in the southwest, you only need one hundred thousand snowflakes to become a county magistrate. One hundred thousand, Chen Jinjun spent millions on making movies before.
ah."
After saying that, Lu Ze shook his head helplessly: "I don't know what you are thinking, but after I was poisoned this time, I thought a lot. After all, I am not the one who eats that bowl of rice. It is the kingly way to stay safe and orderly. Otherwise, I
I don’t know when my life will be gone.”
Lu Ze slowly walked to the sofa on the side and sat down with difficulty.
This poisoning had already damaged Lu Ze's internal organs. Lu Ze knew very well that this was Shao Peichen's retribution for himself.
But so what?
Don’t you still have nothing you can do?
Lu Ze saw He Cheng's tightly clenched fist out of the corner of his eye, and knew that He Cheng still had no intention of giving up.
He heard He Cheng say unwillingly: "Back then when we were in the military academy, when we graduated, almost all the gentlemen said that you and I would become great talents in the future. But those gentlemen never thought that in officialdom, it was not just the military academy that relied on it.
Just the knowledge you learned there will do.”
After Lu Ze heard what He Cheng said, he sighed deeply with emotion: "So what? Shao Peichen is obviously going to dominate the Northwest family now, I can't just watch him do it like this
Already."
He Cheng suddenly turned his head and looked at He Cheng: "So, the telegram a few days ago was your idea?"
The telegram from a few days ago was exactly the news about disarmament in the northwest.
Such a thing is indeed harmless to Yucheng and Chaiyang, but to Yongzhou, it means breaking an arm.
Lu Ze picked up his water glass, took a sip of water to moisten his dry mouth, and said to He Cheng with a smile: "Yes, let's vote for the certificate."
He had no intention of hiding this matter from He Cheng. No matter what happened to the two of them, they were still good brothers in Tiannan Military Academy.
After all, I won't end up falling out because of this little thing.
Even if they really don't go the same way, at least they won't fight each other.
He Cheng shook his head in disbelief: "How can you vote for a certificate? If Yongzhou doesn't exist, the entire northwest will be over."
Lu Ze waved his hand: "I don't care about this anymore. It's not your turn or my turn to worry about things in the northwest."
He Cheng clenched his fists and couldn't help but shook his head again.
Lu Ze seemed to have read He Cheng's thoughts: "You can't help it even if you hate me. After a while, Shao Peichen will be a polished commander like you and me. It's better to stop your little thoughts as soon as possible."
"If Shao Peichen finds out, it was poisoning last time, what about this time?"
He Cheng looked at Lu Ze's gray face and couldn't understand why Lu Ze hated Shao Peichen so much.
Good birds choose trees to roost in.
However, Lu Ze insisted on confronting Shao Peichen to the end.
"It doesn't matter, it's just a life. Even if I die, I won't make it easy for him."
After finishing speaking, Lu Ze drank all the water in the cup and looked at He Cheng quite happily: "What about you? What are you going to do?"
He Cheng stared straight at Lu Ze, said nothing, just shook his head with an expression of embarrassment, and stepped back step by step.
Lu Ze frowned, as if he didn't understand He Cheng's intention.
But when he saw He Cheng shaking his head, he smiled in relief.
He understood what He Cheng meant.
Lu Ze raised his head and laughed heartily, but his esophagus and trachea had been damaged by poison and he was not allowed to laugh like this.
He coughed violently, as if he had to cough out all the leaves in his lungs before he was done.
He Cheng had already left Lu Ze's office and was walking on the road expressionlessly.
Unconsciously, the time when they were at Tiannan Military Academy came to mind.
Even if we don’t understand the foreign language, we learn it together, and we also go in and out of the mountains together for difficult tactical training.
But what about now?
When we graduated that year, everyone swore together that they would definitely help each other.
But since they came under Zhu Hong's command, they still went their separate ways.
He and Lu Ze, who had always been favored back then, are now about to turn against each other because of their ideas, while Yan Er, who has always been undervalued, is sitting in Zhu Hong's position back then.
What an irony!
He Cheng gritted his teeth, and Lu Ze's pale and bloodless face just now seemed to be still in front of him.
What is a classmate? What is a comrade?
It’s just that they are each other’s stumbling blocks and stepping stones on each other’s path.
He Cheng pressed his lips tightly, his face was livid, but the tense muscles at the corners of his mouth revealed his uneasy mood.
He slowly turned back and took one last look at the Chaiyang County government office where Lu Ze was located.
Sorry.
He Cheng exhaled slowly, and the teeth marks on his lips from the force of his bite were particularly scarlet and dazzling.
Then, in a deserted corner, he looked at Lu Ze who was standing by the window, and then, slowly and solemnly, he bowed to Lu Ze.
The adjutant beside Lu Ze came up and wanted to persuade Lu Ze to have a good rest.
But Lu Ze raised his hand to block the adjutant's words.
"We are all going to leave, why do we care so much?"
Lu Ze remained motionless, watching He Cheng slowly get up and get into the car, then absentmindedly walked back to the sofa, picked up the kettle and poured half a cup of water.
Just as he was about to take a sip, he spit out blood clots uncontrollably and melted into the water in the cup. It turned scarlet red and stung his eyes.
"County magistrate!" the adjutant on the side shouted in panic.
But Lu Ze stopped him again and shook his head in disapproval.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the slowly setting sun, which was fiery red but not dazzling at all.
"Junior brother..."
Lu Ze whispered softly, but no one could hear clearly what he said next.