There was a hint of a smile in his hazy and delicate eyes, and the boy looked at the chubby child with a smile on his toes standing on the stool, twisting his butt towards the window.

There were a few holes in the dilapidated windows, and they were fastened with slender wooden strips to prevent the people inside from escaping. The child desperately looked out through those gaps, and then forcefully broke the wooden strips until he was sure. After my own strength really couldn't shake them even the slightest bit, my shoulders collapsed.

"Damn it!" Gu Xichao waved his fist unwillingly, and couldn't help complaining to Lu Chongming in his heart, asking him to stay in the city, if he was brought with him, he would not be arrested!It's alright now, he deserved it if he was threatened.

He tried not to think about whether the other party would compromise with the kidnapper for his son whom he had known for a few days. His life was his own, and he didn't want to die young.

Even if he could only see the back of the child, the boy could guess how resolute and cunning his eyes were, just like a beautiful little fox.

Just as he smiled, the cold wind coming in from the window made him tremble slightly, and he coughed uncontrollably.

Gu Xichao was startled by the sudden coughing sound, he tilted his body and almost fell off the stool with one leg crippled.

When he calmed down and turned around, he saw a sickly young man in white coughing against the corner of his lips, and a pair of overly delicate eyes with a little smile, looking straight at him.

"Who are you?" Gu Xichao secretly clenched his fists, instinctively on guard.

"Su Mengzhen, my name is Su Mengzhen." Although the young man is sick and weak, when he smiles, he is clear and bright, full of infinite vitality.

The battle to suppress the bandits came to a stalemate because of Gu Xichao's arrest, both sides felt a little afraid to act rashly, and then, another letter was sent from the mountain, inviting Master Zhizhou to go up the mountain.

Naturally, everyone was against it, even Bai Mingmo tried to persuade him, but Lu Chongming remained silent from the beginning to the end, his expressionless face made it impossible to see what he was thinking.

The person who was sent to deliver the letter was a small man with wicked eyebrows and mouse eyes. Although his appearance was a bit unflattering, making people feel that he was not a good person at first glance, he was surprisingly courageous. The man raised his chin and looked around. , Contemptuously said: "So they are all a bunch of cowards?! You dare to attack us like this, go home and hug your mother-in-law, save yourself from throwing your life here!"

Everyone was angry, looking at him almost spewing fire, burning him alive.

With a bang, Lu Chongming slapped the table and stood up, suppressing the anger of the crowd in a timely manner. His deep eyes shot at the man standing in the middle like sharp arrows. At the moment the pupils of the other party constricted, he said: "Go back and tell your family Leader, Gu Lanxi from Yanzhou will come to the appointment on time."

No one could object to what Lu Chongming had decided, but he didn't go there unprepared.

In the big tent, he carefully tied the sleeve arrows on his arms, and put down the wide sleeves to cover up the mechanism hidden inside.

Bai Mingmo watched him pick up another dagger, wipe it with a handkerchief, and then hesitantly called out: "My lord..."

"If it's persuasion, then there's no need to talk about it." Lu Chongming said without raising his head, "I will definitely go on this mountain trip."

"Forgive me for speaking bluntly." Bai Mingmo frowned and said, "I know that my lord has a deep love for my son and my son, but as the commander of an army, my lord put himself in danger because of his personal feelings before the war, and why did he put thousands of soldiers in danger?" Where do you place the responsibility on yourself?!" To be honest, he was really disappointed with the decision he made.

Lu Chongming stopped what he was doing, looked at him coldly and said, "Otherwise? Do you want me to watch my child get killed?!"

"No!" Bai Mingmo was silent for a moment, "It's just that adults shouldn't be so impulsive, maybe there are other ways! Even if, even if the young master is really in danger, adults should put the overall situation first."

The bigger picture?

He is indeed a person who puts the overall situation first, but his overall situation is not based on letting a cub be in danger, especially when this cub is still his training object, his current son.

Lu Chongming put the dagger into the sheath, and he asked an irrelevant question, "Since we entered the mountain to attack, we haven't gotten any cheap, don't you find it strange? It stands to reason that the plan you made has no flaws. Our army is well-organized and has an advantage in numbers, so even if we can't push it all together, we can't break into a stalemate."

Bai Mingmo lowered his eyes slightly, but did not speak.

Lu Chongming said indifferently: "It seems that you have also noticed something. There must be someone among the officers to inform the mountain again, so that the other party can seize the opportunity everywhere."

Bai Mingmo still didn't answer, there are some things that he can't say with his current status.

And Lu Chongming didn't want the other party to say anything, everyone knew it well, he touched the cold scabbard of the dagger, and said lightly: "I should have thought of it earlier, the bandit leader is not an ordinary person, he can be praised by Situ, General Wang's protection, naturally more former colleagues and subordinates will inform him, such a person, even if it is not for Xiao Gu, I will go to meet him."

"But the safety of adults..."

Lu Chongming stood up abruptly, "Of course I won't go alone, and if the other party is really smart, they will definitely be against me. These soldiers at the bottom of the mountain are not just playing around."

When Lu Chongming went up the mountain, the other party specially sent someone to pick him up. After all, he was a member of the party, but Bai Ming didn't follow his proposal to stay, but he and two hundred elite soldiers escorted Lu Chongming up. up the mountain.

Xiaoxiang Mountain is the only mountain near Xingfu County. No one has dared to come here since the group of bandits settled here. At this moment, under the leadership of the people sent by Zhu Muyang, Lu Chongming and the others are marching in great numbers. Swing up the mountain.

Lu Chongming rode on the horse, silently recording the scenes on the road in his heart along the way.When he got to the middle of the mountain, the mountain road was rugged and the snow was so thick that he couldn't ride the horse anymore, so he had to get down and walk with the others.

The person who led the way was originally watching the excitement with a gloating expression, but saw that the person who should have been pampered looked resolute and did not complain, and even walked the mountain road no slower than other people.

Gradually, he couldn't help but fell silent, looking at the other person with a strange look in his eyes.

Half an hour later, amidst the glistening white snow, a large black camp appeared in front of my eyes.

In front of the camp, a man with a figure like a javelin stood there. He had a vicissitudes of life and a stalwart figure. His left sleeve was empty and floating in the air, but there was a heroic spirit in his brow.

This is a real man!

Lu Chongming never judges people by their appearance, and he doesn't like to judge a person's good or bad by his appearance, but when he saw this person for the first time, he couldn't connect him with the bandit leader who murdered and set fire .This should be a real soldier, and the place where he should stand should be the battlefield!

"Lord Gu!" The man's voice was deep and powerful, not very loud, but it spread far away, as if it was ringing in people's ears. "Please!" He turned sideways, and with a vigorous wave of his remaining right arm, he stretched straight towards the cottage with the wooden door wide open.

Now that he has come, there is no reason to retreat, Lu Chongming flicked up his clothes, and followed steadily.

Rows of straight figures stood on both sides of the road, countless resentful, scrutinizing, or murderous eyes shot towards him, Bai Mingmo paused slightly, and took a step closer to Lu Chongming without any trace.

The face of the person involved was expressionless, and he didn't seem to notice the hateful eyes around him. Lu Chongming looked at it secretly, and felt that this place was not so much a bandit den as it was a military camp.

The rows of tents in the distance, the large training ground not far away, and the straight people standing on both sides.He glanced at the man walking in front of him, and thought to himself, maybe this man really trained these bandits as soldiers.

The hall in the cottage is a rare house made of wood. It is very large and spacious enough to accommodate a hundred people, but the interior layout is very shabby. There are only a few wooden tables and chairs, and some places are still leaky. The most valuable thing is probably the tiger skin with yellow stripes on the wide chair above.

Lu Chongming watched the man sit down on the tiger skin, waved his sleeves, and asked straightforwardly, "Where is my son?"

"Master Zhizhou really has a loving father's heart." Zhu Muyang said in a calm voice, "Don't worry, Young Master Ling is safe now, but I can't guarantee what will happen in the future."

Lu Chongming frowned, his impression of him was immediately discounted just now, no matter what, he looked down on those who used cubs to achieve their goals.

He said coldly: "I don't like wasting time by beating around the bush. If you have any conditions, just say it."

"Master Gu, please!" Zhu Muyang leaned forward slightly, stretched out two fingers, and said, "I don't want to make things difficult for a child, Mr. Gu only needs to promise me two things, and I will make the young master's hair less return it as it is.”

"First, my lord needs to withdraw all the troops down the mountain to let my brother survive; second, I want 1 taels of silver as a ransom for Young Master Ling."

The conditions offered by the other party were not much different from what he expected. Lu Chongming sneered and said, "Leave aside the second point, even if I agree to your withdrawal, how long can you live? Threatening court officials, attacking Xingfu County, disrupting people's livelihood , when you become thieves, you have already cut off your own way of life!"

"We are not thieves!" It was not Zhu Muyang who spoke, but a small man who went down the mountain twice to deliver letters. It was difficult for people not to recognize him just because of his appearance, and judging by the seat he was standing in, he was obviously regarded as a man in the cottage. A person who can talk.

"Fourth!" Zhu Muyang shouted sharply, making the other party hold back what he wanted to say.

Glancing at him warningly, Zhu Muyang's eyes returned to Lu Chongming, "What happens in the future is our own business, don't worry about it, my lord, I just ask you, whether you agree to these two conditions or not!"

"Agree! Why don't you agree!" The eyes of the two collided, Zhu Muyang couldn't see the emotion in each other's eyes, "But I want to meet Xiao Gu in person!"

This condition was quite reasonable, and the other party's promise was a relief to him, so Zhu Muyang immediately sent someone to bring the child over.

There was silence in the hall, and no one said a word. Time passed by, and when someone came back, he came back empty-handed. It was obviously the cold winter, but the man was sweating profusely, and then there was a plop, heavy fell to his knees.

Zhu Muyang stood up with a whoosh, and his eagle-like eyes instantly looked at the person standing quietly.

Lu Chongming's hand has slowly put on the hilt of the sword at his waist!

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