Uncle Guo

Li Mingtang woke up in the morning, still sleepy and staring, and in a daze, he saw that in a dark corner, there seemed to be a person sitting on the teacher's chair, with his legs crossed, reaching out to pour tea from a hot teapot.

Normally there is a sound when pouring tea, but for some reason, that person can do everything silently.

Holding the teacup and blowing gently, the man drank the tea again silently.

Li Mingtang's eyes widened, he was so frightened that he almost rolled off the bed, he pushed his side, a little anxious and irritable, as if he was caught and raped and turned into anger, but also unwilling, why?Where am I sorry for him?

"Get up! Let's go, I have business to do here."

The person pushed awake by him went inside before he knew it. Li Mingtang picked up the clothes for him and stuffed them into his arms, and then pushed the person out of the door like a plague god until the door was fastened. .

Li Mingtang suppressed the shock and surprise that almost jumped out of his chest, opened the window and looked around, and found that everything in the corridor outside the house was as usual, without any abnormalities.

"Why are you here? How long have you been here?" Li Mingtang turned his back to the visitor, his face flushed, and he hurriedly put on his clothes.

Chang Qinghe didn't mean to make fun of or ridicule at all, he pretended he didn't see anything anyway, "It's only a few days from the capital to Liaodong, day and night, fast horse whip. I've only been here for an hour. Take a sip of tea and see someone in the room, so I don't want to disturb you."

After getting dressed, Li Mingtang casually picked up a chair and sat down next to Chang Qinghe, "If you didn't know what kind of thing you are, you would really scare me to death like this."

"No, if I wanted to wipe your neck, ten Lord Li would be gone." Chang Qinghe said this in a tone that made it hard to tell whether he was joking or telling the truth.

Li Mingtang touched his neck, "Stop talking nonsense, you didn't come here to see what the people in my room look like, right?"

"It's pretty good-looking. It looks a bit like me."

Li Mingtang blushed, sat down and poured a cup of tea, pretending to be drinking, afraid that if he didn't wash up in the morning, he would have a bad taste in his mouth, which would suffocate the Changqing River. "You won't let me sleep, and you won't let me sleep with someone else?"

"I advised you to find another one a long time ago. It's because you admit death. If you really want me not to be by your side, you look like you. You think you've had a good time these years."

Li Mingtang said: "You have changed."

"Oh?"

"I used to talk straight to the point, but now I like to talk in a twist and turn. Did you learn from scholars?"

Chang Qinghe smiled. Seeing this smile, Li Mingtang still felt a little bit of resentment and hatred in his heart, but so what, after a long time, he chewed and got used to it, so he swallowed it.Chang Qinghe has indeed changed. In the past, he didn't care about these things. He didn't care whether Li Mingtang liked him or not. If this person can be used, he will stay by his side. If he can't be used, he will be an abandoned child. It is high-ranking officials and generous salary. There are not many honest men and gentlemen around him, and high-ranking officials and generous salary are the most real.He doesn't deal with honest gentlemen, but because rewards and punishments are clearly defined, honest gentlemen think that Chang Qinghe is an upright general. The fat of the people and the anointing of the people are all used to reward the soldiers under their hands, and there is nothing that cannot be criticized in terms of personal morality.When he was the commander-in-chief of Sanguan at that time, there were officials who participated in him in the court, and most of them said that it was not good for him to control his subordinates. It was his subordinates who committed crimes, and he was not impeached because of his own problems.

Chang Qinghe was dressed in normal clothes, his face was the same as before except his hands were as rough as before, Li Mingtang looked at him with a lot of emotion, but in the end he didn't say anything.He found that Chang Qinghe didn't seem to have changed at all, and everything had changed. The brows were not as cold and stern as before, but more gentle and kind, which he didn't dare to think of before.

Chang Qinghe rolled up his sleeves, and said slowly: "You know, I was sick and returned to my hometown at that time, and I was going to take care of my health. Now that I have recovered, I want to be reinstated as an official."

Li Mingtang snorted coldly, "If you want to be reinstated as an official, you can go to the imperial court and ask for it. I'm not the emperor."

Chang Qinghe was not angry, and he didn't feel that Li Mingtang had neglected him. Many years ago, when he was begging for nothing but felt resentful, Li Mingtang often satirized Chang Qinghe. angry.Of course, he was not polite when talking to Li Mingtang, the two of them were used to holding guns and sticks together, not like ordinary subordinates, just like ordinary friends. "The current situation is a bit complicated. You are in Liaodong, how much do you know about the capital's movements?"

Li Mingtang shook his head.

"The dragon's body is not in good condition today, I'm afraid it will be soon, and the new king will soon take the throne."

Li Mingtang was surprised, "What? So fast? I really haven't been back to the capital for a long time, so I don't know. Then you come this time..."

"Empress Liang has been abolished, which has a lot of ramifications. Now that the new king is taking the throne, the Liang family naturally wants to make a comeback, so I came back to borrow some soldiers from you. How many people are there under you?"

"The general army of Sanguan has 10,000+ people under its jurisdiction, but I can mobilize less than one-tenth of them. I can give you 1, no, [-] people."

"That's enough." Chang Qinghe nodded, "Let's talk about it first, this is an errand that will kill your head. I see that you are here to eat and drink spicy food, and there are warm quilts on the kang. If you don't want to mix this I will never force you."

Li Mingtang knew about him, of course Chang Qinghe would not force him, he directly killed him and replaced him.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"I brought a soldier talisman, it's a fake. You will be the host. I will meet with the General Soldier of Sanguan at dinner today. It's good that he is willing to obey the dispatch. If he doesn't, he will kill him. Tomorrow, we will transfer [-] pioneer battalion oathmen, and immediately head west to the capital. .Others stay in the barracks, waiting for dispatch."

Li Mingtang swallowed his saliva, "Sanguan Commander has a lot of guards under him, after you are sure that he sees through that the soldier talisman is fake, can you kill him?"

Chang Qinghe flew over with a sharp eye: "So I said, this is an errand that will kill your head."

"This matter has to be considered in the long run... in the long run..."

"Are all the people I left for you still there?" Chang Qinghe reported a few names.

Li Mingtang said: "Yes, but they are on duty everywhere, separated by hundreds of miles."

Chang Qinghedao said, "The few people in the current camp will be called over immediately. I will send errands to them, and the other few will also recruit them back to the camp. It will be done within three days. No, I will give you two days."

Chang Qinghe's commanding tone made Li Mingtang shiver, "Yes."

"A gentleman uses righteousness, and a villain uses profit. You and I are not gentlemen. I won't tell you false words. Once things are done, you and I will be the big men who are forbidden to be directly descended and who will have power in the future."

Li Mingtang straightened his chest and raised his head, "There is no righteousness between me and you, let alone profit. Do you know what it is?"

Chang Qinghe looked disgusted, "Stop being so nasty, love and hate, love and hatred, in the end it all comes down to a word of hatred, if you say that, I really don't feel relieved to leave everything to you."

"I have no enmity with you, but you are kind to me. If you let me go up the knife mountain and down the oil pan, I will go too."

Chang Qinghe sighed, and suddenly changed the topic, "How long has the one in your room been with you?"

"..."

"Treat me well." Chang Qinghe put down the teacup, shook his cloak, and then turned around and walked outside the door, "Go and work, I'll go around and see those old men subordinate."

"Wait!" Li Mingtang called to stop him, "You haven't slept for a few days, and your eyes are about to bleed. You lie down here with me, and I'll let them know that you're here, they must be happy, Everyone happened to have a dinner together at night, and the commander-in-chief of the Three Passes had not been transferred to Beijing for long, and the military order was out of the account, so he was rushing to curry favor with me."

Chang Qinghe looked at the messy bed, "Lie here with you? I'd rather squeeze with the soldiers."

Li Mingtang gave a "tsk", "It's this time, and you still dislike it? When did you become a fastidious person?" After saying that, he walked over and rolled up the mattress and quilt together, "Forget it, I really owe you. The box There is also a tiger skin to keep out the cold, you took it out as a cushion, I will go out to organize a dinner right now."

When Li Mingtang went out, Chang Qinghe couldn't help yawning. He lifted the lid of the box in the corner of the room to have a look. He didn't smell anything bad, so he pulled some warm clothes like tiger fur and quilt and spread them out on the bed. Without taking a shower, I almost fell asleep.

I don't know how long he slept, but when he woke up, Chang Qinghe cut him with a knife, almost killing Li Mingtang who was slapping him in the face.

Li Mingtang took three steps back in fright, swallowed his saliva and said, "It's me, it's me!"

Chang Qinghe regained his composure, and laughed at himself, "I've been out of the army for many years, people have become dull, even if you shoot me, I can't wake up."

Li Mingtang sat down beside him, and comforted him: "Compared to when you and I first met, your martial arts are naturally not as good as before, but now you are not a hawk and dog killed in someone else's mansion, and you don't rely on fighting with your life to make a living. The decline is inevitable. You probably don’t remember it. At that time, you were still my subordinate. I thought you were just a military household with good skills. In the years when the wars were turbulent and the seven kings were fighting each other, it is not that I have never seen the scene of killing the enemy before the battle. However, the living people were wounded by swords and guns, their heads and faces were covered with blood, and their mouths and noses were covered with blood bubbles and saliva. Mules and horses. Only when you make a move is different from others. You use a knife with your hands cleanly. You don’t cut off heads, let alone people’s hands and feet. You always kill people with one move. You are the only one who regards killing as a handicraft, just like other craftsmen carving and engraving."

Chang Qinghe looked back and found that Li Mingtang still had a little nostalgia for the past, he himself didn't miss that time at all, it can be described as unbearable.In order to return to life, or even sometimes just to survive, one must maintain one's energy and energy to a meticulous level, and cannot relax at all, half awake in sleep.

"Go and find me a set of official uniforms. I have already lost my original one. Call some unfamiliar people to show me off, and go and report to the general soldier of the third pass, Mr. Yang, and tell him that I have arrived, and let him Come pick me up yourself."

Li Mingtang was already prepared, he didn't call his servants to help, he shook off the burden himself, inside was the official uniform of the Commander, with gold embroidered and silver decorations on it, Chang Qinghe was already majestic and majestic, once he wore this clothes Suddenly, the whole person seemed to be the door god and general who came out of the painting.

Li Mingtang has been used to being served by others for many years, and suddenly he became the servant again. For some reason, his tired bones suddenly vibrated.

The size of the waist seal was just right, Li Mingtang couldn't help but said: "I'm afraid I won't see you grow fat like a general for many years."

Chang Qinghe's waist and abdomen were evaluated by others, and he would blush if someone else did, but he couldn't help but feel a little complacent, so it's hard to say that Liang Xuanchen can't let himself grow fat.

After getting ready, Chang Qinghe went downstairs with his saber, met face to face with the new guards who had been sent to his side, and made some arrangements for the men, horses, food and grass to set off tomorrow.

He came here in the name of changing defenses and training troops. The commander-in-chief of the three passes, Mr. Yang, still bears the name of the commander-in-chief of the three passes, but he was completely emptied. Chang Qinghe's soldiers only listen to Chang Qinghe's orders. Order, the ability to guard Liaodong against foreign enemies for so many years is not due to Li Mingtang, but to the bloodiness cultivated by Changqinghe over the years leading troops in battle.It would be fine if this Master Yang was an obedient and obedient Master Yang who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, but if he intervened in the toast and refused to eat or drink fine wine, then it would be a situation where he wanted to be poor and show up with a dagger.

Li Mingtang followed Chang Qinghe closely, but saw that the scabbard of the knife on his waist was shiny, from the tip to the handle of the knife seemed to exude a bloodthirsty aura, for a moment he felt a dark tide in his heart, ups and downs, and surging.