Rui Hegui

"The Tang family in Hezhou in the south of the Yangtze River, the Li Tieguai and Huang families in Ningzhou, and the rich ghosts in Huandu. These people's families have been traced back for many years." Chu Bandit tapped his finger on the table and said, "Only the two-headed leopard in Xiangyuan City, The name has only appeared in the southwestern border for three years."

"But in just three years, they can sit on an equal footing with those families and together secretly control the black market." Zhao Liangyue said, "It seems that this person really has a problem."

Chu bandit said: "I just don't know who the real identity of the Two-Headed Leopard is, and who is behind him."

"Tomorrow's black market is the best time for us to get close to him." Zhao Liangyue thought for a while, and then asked, "Xing Shuo has been in Ningzhou for half a year, but has he contacted the Fan family army back then?"

Hearing this, Bandit Chu frowned slightly, remained silent, and said: "It stands to reason that we can get in touch, but after Senior Xue went south to find Fan's Army, the group rarely contacted Ningzhou Prefecture, and even came directly at the end of the year. I wrote a letter, saying that there is no need to contact me in the future.”

Zhao Liangyue thought for a moment and asked, "But what happened?"

Bandit Chu nodded and said, "There must be something difficult happening, and it is very dangerous and needs to be resolved urgently."

Chi Tingyu, a general who was once single-handedly promoted by Emperor Jianning, used his own strength to protect the safety of the emperor during several palace changes. He was the most trusted military general of Emperor Jianning in the early years. Later, because of the appearance of the Fan family army, Emperor Jianning became suspicious of the generals. All the generals were charged with inexplicable crimes, demoted and killed. I took a job.

Since then, Chi Tingyu fell to the bottom of the valley from the top of ten thousand people, not to mention being squeezed out everywhere, and many people even fell into trouble.

If it were any other official in the court, his heart would have been chilled and his arrogance would have been exhausted—but he was different. He was the only friend Fan Qiguang recognized, and he was the only one who was able to turn the tide during the ten years when Daxu lacked the talents of generals. Chi Tingyu, who commanded the three armies, never wanted a high official and generous salary.

During the years when he was in idle positions in Beijing, Fan Qiguang and Chi Tingyu often talked at night by candlelight. Fan Qiguang never shy away from him, and never concealed the military and political secrets of the DPRK and China.

Later, Mobei was in turmoil, and the generals of the northern camp suffered heavy casualties. Xiang Chang was transferred from Jiangnan to the northern camp, and sent an urgent letter to Fan Qiguang, expressing the need to strengthen the Jiangnan navy.

At that time, Emperor Jianning and the entire military department only saw the surface calm in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Jiangnan navy had been ignored. If they sent others to guard the south of the Yangtze River, they would definitely not pay attention to the navy.

Therefore, Chi Tingyu went to see Fan Qiguang overnight and asked him to recommend him to be the governor of Jiangnan.

Fan Qiguang hesitated.

Chi Tingyu was not unqualified, on the contrary, at that time Fan Qiguang was about to go north to join Xiang Chang to quell the chaos in Mobei. Looking at the remaining generals in the court, it was the best choice for Chi Tingyu to be the Governor of Jiangnan.

However, the emperor was too suspicious, and even though he had retired from his idle position, he walked on thin ice in the court, not to mention resuming a high position. Both he and Fan Qiguang knew what it meant.

That night, when bandit Chu entered the courtyard of Marquis Wu'an's mansion to deliver a secret letter under the order of Wang Yu, what he saw was Fan Qiguang and Chi Tingyu standing opposite each other, holding their swords at each other.

Chi Ting turned his head to see Chu Bandit, lifted his chin towards him, and said with a smile: "It's just in time, let me be a witness to Master, if I win today, I will go to Jiangnan to make a decision!"

As soon as the words fell, before Bandit Chu had time to say anything, Chi Tingyu swung his sword and rushed towards Fan Qiguang.

Soon, there was the sound of soldiers colliding in the silent courtyard, and the swords shone like water under the moonlight.

At that time, Bandit Chu watched the two fight without mercy. He didn't know what happened, but only vaguely felt that it had something to do with Mobei and Jiangnan.

I don't know how long it took, but the oil on the stone lamp was burned out, and the boy who usually held the lamp didn't dare to go forward.

Suddenly, Chi Tingyu frowned and covered his heart. Fan Qiguang hurriedly withdrew the stabbed sword, thinking that Chi Tingyu's old injury had relapsed. It reached Fan Qiguang's neck.

Chi Tingyu raised his eyebrows and smiled at Fan Qiguang, and said, "Min Hui, I won."

Fan Qiguang frowned and said, "You are cheating."

"Soldiers never tire of cheating, it's just that you forgot, Min Hui." Chi Tingyu put the sword back into its sheath sharply, turned around and walked out, and said as usual, "Don't forget to recommend me tomorrow, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War I've already agreed, I'll wait for you, Marshal Fan, to take the lead."

"Ji Yu."

When Chi Tingyu walked to the door, Fan Qiguang called out.

Chi Tingyu stopped, didn't look back, just smiled and said: "Why, it's not the first time I, Chi Tingyu, have been out of Beijing to play a leading role, so can we still make things worse?"

Fan Qiguang said: "You know I didn't mean that."

Chi Tingyu waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, we are both people who have eaten a lot of sand on the battlefield, can you stop being so hypocritical? If you are really free, help me take care of Xing Shuo, that brat and I'm the same as when I was young, lonely and honest, don't let people bully you."

Fan Qiguang was silent, and said: "Forget it, I can't stop you, I will pay more attention to Jin Luanwei, and don't let them bully your precious apprentice."

Only then did Chi Tingyu turn around, grinned at Fan Qiguang, and said, "That's right."

After saying that, Chi Tingyu walked out leisurely.

Fan Qiguang didn't chase it out, it was Chu Bandit who handed over the secret letter and ran out to deliver it himself.

Chu bandit has been sent to the end of the long street.

Chi Tingyu said with a smile: "You go back, there is no need to send more."

Bandit Chu hurriedly asked: "Master, are you going to be transferred to the governor of Jiangnan?"

Chi Tingyu clicked his tongue when he heard the words, and said, "Fan Qiguang just fucking stopped me, why, you want to come out too?"

Bandit Chu cupped his hands towards Chi Tingyu, and said, "I don't dare, I just..."

"Okay, okay, don't hurt my ears anymore." Chi Tingyu glanced at the sword in his hand, then at Chu Bandit, handed the sword to him, and said, "Being your master, I haven't given it to you yet." You have sent decent things, this is for you."

Chu Bandit knew that the saber in front of him had followed Chi Tingyu for many years and was extremely cherished by him, so he didn't take it immediately.

"Why are you so sloppy now? I let you be a student of the emperor's teacher, not to learn how to be a student." Chi Tingyu forced the sword to Chu Bandit, and said, "Take it! And , don’t give it away, it’s like the last one.”

After finishing speaking, Chi Tingyu turned around, hummed a folk song from Mobei, turned the corner and left.

The next day, Fan Qiguang took the lead in proposing to transfer Chi Tingyu as the governor of Jiangnan, and then the emperor, Wang Yu, and the soldiers and officials reconsidered. Although the late emperor was unwilling, he could only nod.

Later, Chi Tingyu's subordinates wanted to follow Chi Tingyu to the south, but Chi Tingyu refused.

Chi Tingyu knew that he was walking on a road with no good ending, so he would not involve the people around him unless he had to. His last resort meant that even if he sacrificed himself, he would not be able to guard a side of the country.

"Senior Chi has been in the southwestern border for 14 years, and he knows far more about the situation than we do. He chose not to contact us because he encountered some trouble." Chu Bandit withdrew his thoughts from the memory and repeated it again. , "There must be something difficult happening, and it is very dangerous and needs to be resolved urgently."

Chu Bandit knows that those old friends who have been let down by the court may be full of disappointment, and their faces may be completely changed, but some things will never change.

Zhao Liangyue knew that Chu Biao remembered the past, so he asked him to be quiet, and casually changed a new cup and poured tea to Chu Biao, trying to exchange his own cup - for some reason, Chu Biao has been drinking tea for the past two days. Take the wrong cup.

But Chu Shangshu didn't seem to buy it. He glanced at Zhao Liangyue who was suddenly offering tea so courteously. He reached out to take the teapot, filled the cup in his hand, and drank it down in one gulp.

Zhao Liangyue was stunned for a moment, and didn't want to say much, took back the tea he handed over, and drank it silently.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Liangyue just got up to get a pen and ink. When he turned around and came back, Chu Bandit took the cup of tea he had just drank, and there was still unfinished tea in it.

Zhao Liangyue hurriedly stopped: "Brother, don't drink!"

But Chu Bandit had already drank it in one gulp first, and with a puzzled look on his face, he asked, "Why can't you drink this tea?"

Zhao Liangyue couldn't find a reason for a while, he smiled lightly, coughed a few times, his eyes were dodging.

Seeing Zhao Liangyue's embarrassment, Chu Bandit really found it cute, and also really felt puzzled, so he didn't interrupt, and even held his cheek to observe carefully.

It wasn't until Zhao Liang was so embarrassing that the tip of his ears turned red that Chu Gui couldn't hold back, and asked, "Xi Lin, you seem to be hiding something important from me. What is it?"

"That cup of tea is cold, so don't drink it, I..." Zhao Liangyue is still trying to find an excuse, but probably in terms of feelings, he really doesn't have the talent for lying, so he falters when he speaks.

The two were relatively speechless for a moment.

One wants to find the answer, the other wants to hide the answer, and each is at a stalemate.

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, breaking the stalemate.

The voices of two children sounded outside:

"Young Master He, Young Master He, we are here to explain the black market process tomorrow."

After a while, Zhao Liangyue opened the door and said to the two children with a smile: "Then I'll have to work."

"Young Master He, you are being polite." The little boy said with a smile, "Should."

The two children entered the room and explained the black market process and rules in detail.

During the whole process, the two children felt that there was a gloomy look looking at them, but when they looked around, except for Mr. He who was always smiling kindly, only He who was lazily leaning on the recliner and drinking tea Uncle.

How weird.

After the two children had finished explaining and exited, Zhao Liangyue turned around, met Chu Bandit's eyes, was stunned for a moment, immediately lowered his head, and said, "I still have something to explain next door, I..."

Zhao Liangyue didn't finish talking, Chu Bandit came over and closed the door, blocking people between the door and himself.

Chu bandit leaned down and said, "Xi Lin, I know you have nothing to explain, you are just looking for an excuse to leave."