Chengdu Royal Palace, lights flickering.
At this time, not only Xu Mu and Yin Hu were sitting in the palace, but also the puppy Fu.
Xu Mu didn't need to speak. Xiaoxiao Fu put down the file and thought about it for a while before speaking slowly.
"My lord should have guessed that Zhou Fu's entry into Shu was nothing but a mystery. If you pay attention to the changes in the situation next, you should be able to discover something."
"Indeed, I have sent people to keep an eye on Zhou Fu's guards for the past seven or eight days, but no problems were found." Yin Hu also spoke beside him.
Xu Mu frowned a little. Things happened so fast, and his old friend was taken advantage of, which made him a little unhappy. You know, he still has a lot of things waiting to be dealt with, including the warehousing of early rice, the sowing of late rice, Shangguan Shu is about to enter Chengdu and take over as the leader of the night snack, and the construction of sea ships in Wuzhou...
He found that the little military advisor in Beiyu was already a little crazy.
"My lord, my lord!" At this moment, Sun Xun, who was outside, suddenly ran in.
"What? So impatient!" Xu Mu glared.
Sun Xun hurriedly slowed down his movements, "My lord, there is another letter from General Fan, saying that it was sent by the envoy from Beiyu."
"Fetched."
Opening the letter, Xu Mu glanced at it for a few times, and his eyes suddenly became silent. Outside Chengdu, there is another old friend who is preparing to enter Shu.
"Which one?"
"Chang Wei." Xu Mu put down the letter, his face full of confusion. When Chang Wei entered Shu, he meant that according to Chang Laosi's wishes, he sent some kind of mourning gift, and by the way, he also sent Zhou Fu's family in.
"Another ecstasy soup?" Yin Hu said in a cold voice. He doesn't care whether he is an old friend or not. If it is not good for Xishu, he will block it.
"Lord, if we just send condolences, the time will be very short——"
Xu Mu shook his head and interrupted Little Dog Fu's words, "Chang Wei was shot and wounded as soon as he arrived in Bailu County, and he is unconscious at the moment."
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire palace suddenly became weird.
…
A few days later, Chang Wei, who entered Shu, slowly recovered after being treated by Chen Que. The first thing he said was to curse. Si Hu, who was on the side, even raised his ax and shouted to kill him back.
"Chang Wei, do you see clearly?"
"Little boss, if I could see clearly, I would have slapped him long ago!" Chang Wei was still cursing.
Xu Mu paused and then spoke hesitantly, "What else did your young master say when you entered Shu this time?"
"Just let me deliver the funeral and pick up Zhou's family. The rest is gone. If my little boss doesn't welcome me, I will go back."
"Chang Wei, don't be anxious." Xu Mu smiled, "Don't forget that you were recuperating in Chengdu before. Besides, I have known you for nearly ten years, what else can I do? I, Xu Mu, am also yours brothers."
"That arrow..." Xu Mu sighed, but ultimately did not say any more.
That arrow was most likely a trick by Beiyu's little military advisor to make Chang Wei injured and stay in Chengdu. Chang Wei is a fool, but now, he has been used as a trick without even realizing it.
Xu Mu even believed that Chang Laosi knew all this. Otherwise, Chang Wei would not have been sent from the front line to Chengdu to pay his respects.
"Chang Wei, how is the war in the north?"
With this sentence, Chang Wei's eyes widened, "Little boss, don't ask me, I don't dare to tell you. If the young master finds out, he will beat me to death."
"Let's not talk about war. Did the ever-victorious little strategist from Changyang send a letter to your young master?"
Chang Wei pursed his lips but did not speak.
Xu Mu laughed dryly and had to give up. He has many ways to deal with Chang Wei. For example, Si Hu in front of me can occasionally be smart as long as the money is in place.
…
Sure enough, the next day, Si Hu ran into the palace in a hurry and asked for three hundred taels of silver before speaking.
"Brother Mu, I asked."
"Ask what?"
"Let's fight in the north. The rice sellers are very powerful. They penetrated all the way into the grassland and killed many rebels and Rouran dogs."
Xu Mu was a little speechless. He already knew such larger information as this.
"anything else?"
"Chang Laosi once went out at night and seemed to have not shaved cleanly. Chang Wei said he smelled it and couldn't sleep all night."
"Anymore……"
"In three months in Yanzhou, Chang Wei secretly went to clean up the palace eight times."
Xu Mu rubbed his forehead, feeling that the three hundred taels were wasted, and he even helped Bai prepare a banquet.
"By the way, Brother Mu, there is another one. Many border residents in Yanzhou formed a volunteer group in order to prevent rebels from killing people. However, Chang Laosi thought they were rebels and sent people to break them up. That volunteer group The leader fled south to Hebei."
"Volunteer group?" Xu Mu was startled.
"The enemy, Chang Wei, said that the leader of the volunteer group, with only more than two thousand people, blocked several attacks by the Black Armored Army. Chang Laosi also posted a wanted order to capture this person alive. .”
"Do you know the name?"
Si Hu's eyes moved and he shook his head hastily, "Brother Mu, add another two hundred taels, and I'll help you find out."
"You know..." Xu Mu scolded his mother and had to ask Sun Xun to get an extra two hundred taels.
After taking the silver, Si Hu bit it hard and was rewarded with two chestnuts by Xu Mu before he was so frightened that he hurriedly spoke.
"I don't know the name... Chang Wei said he seemed to recognize it, but couldn't remember it clearly. The leader couldn't escape Hebei and had to die there."
Si Hu kept talking, but he never got to the point.
"Brother Mu, the price is five hundred taels. I'll ask about it later!"
"If you can't ask, you'll be fined six hundred taels?"
Si Hu turned around quickly and ran out without looking back.
Xu Mu sat down and began to sort out the information Si Hu had obtained.
…
At the junction of the two states of Yanyou, there is a deserted village.
At this time, a young man wrapped in a cloak, riding a horse, frowned and looked at the sky in the distance.
The rebels in Yanzhou are powerful and the people are miserable. Even if Yuzhou sent troops to quell the rebellion, the people were still miserable. For this reason, early on, he had to lead the border residents to form a volunteer group to resist deserters and rebels.
But I never thought that because of the too many rebel forces in Hebei and Yanzhou in the past two or three years, the people in Beiyu no longer trust them.
He said at the beginning that he would no longer participate in worldly affairs.
The cloaked man closed his eyes. In the past few years, he had been redeeming himself, teaching in a private school in a small town outside the border, begging horse bandits, and helping people's livelihood. But in the end, he slowly stepped in step by step.
But I have to step on it.
He had just returned from Changyang and met the young military advisor. The little strategist said that with just one order, the small border town would become a city of rebels and there would be massacres.
The man in the cloak lowered his head, his eyes extremely complicated.
At this time, beside him, a border warrior came up and spoke in a joyful voice.
"Mr. Taishu, you can now cross the Guangrong Pass in Youzhou!"
