After returning to the palace, Xu Mu rushed to the side room in the backyard without even changing his robe. He hesitated midway, hurriedly picked up two more jars of wine, practiced his smile, and then continued to move forward while calming his breath.
"Dad, I'm back!" Xu Mu put on a practiced smile as he walked to the side room.
"My son is not filial. He came back a little late. Today, I will stay drunk with you all."
"Get out!" Zhuge Lame cursed in the room.
In the end, it was the old scholar who called out "My son Li Poshan" and opened the door.
Xu Mutian smiled and walked carefully into the house. Before he could take a few steps, Chen Datie's ring-beating sword suddenly struck him.
Xu Mu's face was startled, and he looked up anxiously, only to find that the sword had been taken back by Chen Datie at some unknown time.
In the room, the infant Xu Qiao was probably frightened and began to cry loudly.
"I drank too much and my hand twitched." Chen Datie said expressionlessly.
"Old Tie, let's just chop him up. Anyway, we have a grandson, so we can make him the king of Shu. It's not a good thing here. It can't even be seen in Chengdu. If the puppy Fu is not stronger, I will go to hell.
Come on!" Zhuge Lai was still cursing.
Xu Mu understood that Jia Zhou had previously made a plan to surround and kill Sima Xiu, using Chengdu as bait... Although there was a near miss, he was eventually troubled.
"Dad, let me hug my son." Xu Mu smiled and stretched out his hand.
"Hold an egg, and I'll tell you, my grandson will be taught by the three of us from now on!"
"read!"
"Strike!"
"Be a hero!"
Xu Mu had a headache for a while, and he had high hopes for Xu Qiao, a son-in-law. According to his vision, if he conquered thirty states in the country in the future, then Xu Qiao would be the prince or even the emperor.
To take a step back, even if he cannot conquer the world in his lifetime, Xu Qiao is still the young master and the future prince of Shuzhou.
Xu Mu wanted to say a few more words, but then he realized that Zhuge Lai had already pursed his lips and returned his son to his arms.
"After all, you are a dad after all."
Xu Mu laughed, then lowered his head seriously and looked at the baby in his arms. His blood was connected, and a strange feeling began to spread in his chest, causing him to involuntarily reach out his hand and touch the child's fleshy face.
.
But he never thought that Xiao Xuqiao suddenly stretched out his hand and hooked him with his fat fingers.
Xu Mu was startled, his eyes a little red.
"I knew what happened in Chengdu earlier when the Xia'er Army appeared later. It must have been a set-up." Zhuge Lai's tone was a little dull.
"The little strategist is really powerful, and he deserves the name of Poisonous Osprey. But don't use this kind of game again in the future. If there is a problem in one of the links, you will lose all your money. You are very proud. You are betting nothing!"
"Dad is right." Xu Mu apologized. During this disaster, I heard that the three old men in front of him also showed their prowess and guarded the palace together with the puppy Fu.
"Work has resumed at the iron workshop." Chen Datie raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Mu.
The old scholar next to him had nothing to say, so he poured a glass of wine and held it in front of Xu Mu.
"Wei Chun, the new head of the Wei family, is ill and has been running around the city these days. He also came to see the three of us earlier and asked us to persuade him. I hope you will be more tolerant."
Xu Mu was silent for a moment.
Wei Qiu betrayed the family, and the head of the family, Wei Cheng, drank poison and died, leaving only the last frail and sick eldest son, Wei Chun.
"Whether you want to die or live depends on what you, the King of Shu, say." Chen Datie said from the side, "But I will only say one thing, if the eldest son Wei Chun had not been weak and sick, and had been bedridden for many years, he would be even more skilled than his father.
I asked, Wei Chun made a great contribution to your shield ship."
Xu Mu was startled.
"Watch me making eggs, don't watch. You are not my biological child, and I am not as ugly as you." Chen Datie cursed, "I know what you are thinking. If you want to find someone to blame, I can use it to appease the people."
.Go to Little Dog Fu and ask, your three fathers have helped capture seven or eight prisoners and tied them there."
"My son Li Poshan, it is not wrong for the entire clan to be executed for the fault of one person. This has been the case throughout the ages. But no matter how you put it, the style of a benevolent monarch is what the people support."
Xu Mu exhaled, stood up with Xu Qiao in his arms, and bowed to the three old men.
…
Wei Mansion is a sparsely populated house.
After the rebellion in Chengdu, no one came to visit me for a long time. Even the servants and maids in the mansion ran away a lot.
Dragging the sick body, a young man with a pale face sat in front of the desk with his body propped up, writing furiously, writing an indictment.
If there is a traitor in the Wei family, it would be enough to wipe out the nine clans in any dynasty.
Wei Chun stopped writing, closed his eyes and took a breath. After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes again and looked at the world outside the room absentmindedly.
"Cough, cough." After a violent cough, Wei Chun took out his handkerchief and covered his mouth with trembling hands. When he let go, there were already two or three blood plums on the handkerchief.
His wife came in with the medicine, and without speaking, she burst into tears.
"We will go to the palace and present the indictment to the King of Shu. If he refuses, I will seclude myself from the palace and follow my father's path to protect, protect the Wei family."
"If I didn't have tuberculosis, how could I want to be a sick man lying on the bed in this life?"
Wei Chun put away his handkerchief, drank the medicinal soup, slowly raised his pale face, and gave instructions to his wife before taking shaky steps and preparing to leave the house and enter the palace.
Unexpectedly, after walking only a few steps, he found a servant, leading several figures cautiously, walking towards him.
From a distance, Wei Chun heard the trembling shouts of his servants.
"Home, Master, the King of Shu is here!"
…
In the hall of the Wei family, Wei Chun knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
Xu Mu, who was sitting on the guest chair, silently looked at the sick young man in front of him, feeling a little sorry in his heart.
"Get up."
"Wei Chun, the sinner, wishes to die. I beg the King of Shu not to issue an order to kill him."
"Get up and talk first."
Wei Chun hesitated, then slowly sat down with the support of his servant.
"This king is not here just to ask questions." Xu Mu calmed down his expression and spoke seriously, "I heard that the eldest son's craftsmanship is unparalleled in Shuzhou. It was you who helped your father secretly build the shield ship earlier.
Made?"
Although he had the blueprints, Xu Mu was once surprised when Wei Cheng built it perfectly.
"Exactly...I beg the King of Shu——"
"Wei Chun, I will give you a chance."
Listening, Wei Chun's face was ecstatic, "Please tell me, Lord, I, Wei Chun, will not give up even if I die."
Xu Mu smiled and nodded, "Many people have told me that your craftsmanship, Wei Chun, is unparalleled. How about this? I am setting up a new dark workshop in Chengdu. You will be the owner of the workshop and hire more than ten master craftsmen. No matter what
Whether it's a chariot ladder or a chariot trebuchet, it's up to you to design and improve it. In addition, I also need you to think of some ways to create something."
"Probably they cut bamboo into magpies and used them to spy on enemy cities... wooden birds."
In fact, it is a glider from later generations. Under current circumstances, only this kind of gliding with the help of wind is possible. However, due to lack of knowledge, Xu Mu could only tell Wei Chun all his ideas one by one.
Of course, in ancient times, the ancients had the idea of a "glider". It was called Mulan, and it was an invention of Gongshuban, a war tool that could spy on enemy cities.