Record of ups and downs in troubled times

055 blaming

King Xiang's questioning was really thoughtless, and the anger that the general suppressed all the way also burst out.

Lu Guang subconsciously clenched the heavy iron saber at his waist: "What do you mean?!"

The two stared angrily.

Sighing that he had to be that unflattering peacemaker again, Lu Ling stepped forward to block the general from drawing his sword, and bowed to the two parties: "General, calm down, His Royal Highness Xiang also calm down... the soldiers in the army They are all pointing at you two pillars, if you draw your sabers to face each other, what will they think? The morale of the army is not stable, but it is a taboo to govern the army!"

The horses that the two ride are all tall and good horses.Although Lu Ling was not short, he had to look up at the two on horseback, which made his neck ache.

This pain may not be in vain—King Xiang still looks like a dog who "doesn't care what others are doing, I'm the biggest", but the old general understood the severity of the pain, retracted the hand holding the sword, and stroked it on his sparse one Put the white beard on.

Lu Ling asked again: "I don't know who is the one who offended His Highness and made His Highness angry just now? Today, my general is traveling with you all the way, and he has no time to take care of the affairs of the camp. I have dealt with it. Perhaps it was because of my improper control that the ignorant boy offended His Highness. I also ask the general and His Highness to punish him!"

"Punish you?" King Xiang looked him up and down a few times, and said coldly, "I'm afraid you will punish thousands of people to death, but you won't be able to compensate me for a traitor!"

Rebel?

Lu Ling and the immediate general looked at each other, both puzzled.

King Xiang scolded again: "Isn't this king pretending to be stupid? Do you know where is the child of the Fu family who is trapped in your camp?"

Lu Guang was ordered by the emperor to go to southern Xinjiang to suppress the rebellion. Although he later followed the old King Xiang, he can be regarded as a generation of veterans with high morals.In terms of seniority, he is of the same generation as the father of King Xiaoxiang today; in terms of age, he is also much older than King Xiaoxiang, calling himself an uncle is really not wronging him; and in terms of aptitude, no one knows that Lu Guang is an ordinary man. Nan Gongchen?In every inch of rivers and mountains in southern Xinjiang, where is there no place without his painstaking efforts?

But at the age when his beard and hair are completely white, he has come to the point of letting the kid shout!

The general was furious, he pushed Lu Ling aside, and the sword was drawn out by the length of a finger from his palm.

"Great General!" Lu Ling called out anxiously, pressing his hands on the hilt of his sword, and turned his head to persuade King Xiang to leave first: "Your Highness, it is not suitable to talk here, please move to the boat first. No matter what happens, What is it, before leaving the shore tonight, I will definitely give you a clear explanation!"

King Xiang snorted coldly, and refused to wait on the boat as Lu Ling said, but he looked at the general's big hand that hadn't let go from the hilt of his sword, and he was quite at ease.

Everyone waited with their own thoughts, and after a while, they escorted them to the camp and returned the message, reporting that there was indeed a loss in the camp.

The lost captives were Young Master Fu and his entourage named A De.

Now that it has been confirmed that the captives have escaped, the most urgent task is to put aside the dispute and search quickly.Lu Ling looked at the faces of the general and King Xiang, and knew that the matter had to be spread to him again, so he ordered soldiers to chase the lost prisoners in front of everyone. He didn't want to ask about the subordinates led by King Xiang, so he knew As soon as Wang learned of this, he sent people out to search for it, and searched the nearby mountains and forests.

"The terrain here is complex, and it's very easy to get lost in it. Mr. Fu escaped, and he must go back to Beijing. If he had a clear mind, he would definitely go all the way along the river... How long has he been escaping?"

The escort officer tremblingly said, "Mr. Zi, when the servant checked this morning, there were still people in the prison car. Just now, when I checked before boarding the ship, I found out that he was missing. The officer is stupid, and I don't know why he escaped... "

Lu Ling: "That's it. Before the second half of the month, I had a relationship with Mr. Fu's family. At that time, he was ill, and his movement was quite inconvenient. Now half a month has passed, and the escort camp is not a place to rest. He’s still seriously ill, so he won’t be able to go far. We’ll probably be able to catch him and bring him back if we search for it along the river!”

The escort officer nodded again and again: "Yes, yes! What Mr. Lu said is absolutely right!"

"Tsk, Mr. Lu's name of wisdom is probably not worthy of the name?" King Xiaoxiang sneered three times, was pushed by the cheek, and his eyes became smaller and smaller, "Fu Gou is used to slipping away, his son is not very famous , but he is not a fool. Boy, you just said that this ghostly place has many mountains and forests, and the terrain is complicated. Only the two sides of the river are open. If he walks along the river, wouldn’t he expose himself to the public, waiting for you to catch him? What!"

"Then what His Highness said is true, I am stupid."

Lu Ling didn't want to quarrel with him, so he just divided the people into two groups, half of them searched along the river valley, and the other half continued to search the forest on the bank.Seeing that his wish had been fulfilled, King Xiang finally walked away and sat on the boat.

"General?" Lu Ling saw King Xiang leading people aboard, and suddenly had an idea, and asked the general next to him in a low voice, "General, do you think this Fu Qichen has already hid on the ship? Why don't you let the brothers search the boat?"

The general looked gloomy and nodded slightly.

Lu Ling thought that the general was depressed and didn't want to say much, and when he was about to prepare his horse to look for it in person, he was stopped by the general again: "Ling'er, King Xiang is like this today, what do you think?"

Lu Ling thought about it carefully, frowned and replied, "Ling doesn't know what the general means by that."

"Hmph, you're just a drunken kid in Beijing. You don't understand how you can mobilize people like this? I have no children, and I always regard you as my father's son. What's your opinion? Let's just say it. Where did you learn it? Twist?!"

Lu Ling understood.

It is said that they are prisoners of war, but no matter how much Fu Xiyuan loves his son, he will never dare to cross Chengnan to deal with them.After all, Cheng Nan's son had already been taken to the south as a hostage by them. Cheng Nan was not in a hurry to bring his own son back, so how could he help the Fu family save his son?This child of the Fu family is actually a free eater, so it's really useless to keep him here.

King Xiang also knew this, that's why he took Cheng Xiao to his camp for custody, and left Fu Qichen with the general.

But since King Xiang knew it was useless to keep Fu Qichen, why did he get into trouble with the general in front of everyone because of this trivial matter?

"He wants to catch the old man's mistakes, so he can try to see who the generals in the army are loyal to." The old general stroked a few white beards, and said angrily: "If it weren't for the fact that many of the backbone of the army were the old King Xiang's retainers, they would have How difficult is it for the old man to stab him to death with a sword like that! The old man treats him kindly in the past, it is tantamount to raising a tiger into danger, and if he enters the southern border, there will probably be a fierce fight!"

At nightfall, lights were lit on the ships, and the soldiers who had not boarded the ships also camped on the shore and lit fires to cook.

The first team to search the river came back first, and reported that they had scooped up all the wild boats on the river and looked at them, but they did not find any trace of the Fu family along the way.

Another hour later, the team that searched the forest also returned to the camp.Although the group of people had scratches from branches and their descriptions were in a state of embarrassment, they got something: they found Fu Qichen's follower, A De.

The general frowned and looked at Ade, who was unconscious and bloodstained on the ground, and heard a small soldier beside him step forward and say: "His Royal Highness Xiang said that he would not come to see the Lord until he was caught. His Highness also said , such a young man is not worth working with the generals."

The general didn't say a word, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

It was already halfway through the night, and the bonfire in the camp was still on.

The men and horses who searched the camps and ships in the army finally gave up and went forward to report that, except the ship that King Xiang was on was not allowed to search, no trace of Fu Qichen was found anywhere else.I also looked at all the places on the side of the boat that are easy to fall into the water, and I didn't notice anything wrong.

The young general who came to report raised his head and glanced at everyone in the camp, and added: "You should die. The last general said that it is unknown if Fu Qichen might fall into the water and die, so he dispatched some good water-wilders from the army to dive into the water." Going to search. I don't know that the food operation has already been borrowed by General Feng this morning, and this time, Brother Feng is very active in finding people. He didn't pay attention. Send it to the medical officer on the ship, and I would like to be punished by the General and Commander Feng!"

"My son's life is cheap, so it's good if he doesn't die." Feng Shuxing, who had already heard the news, didn't care much. He bowed his hands to the general and looked worried, "The most urgent thing is to find the ancestor of the Fu family. Shadow. If you want to see people when you live, and if you want to see corpses when you die, if you can't hand them over to someone, I'm afraid King Xiang will not deal with us!"

"Humph!"

The general closed his eyes slightly and stood up.

"Drag this kid on the ground to King Xiang's boat. If he wants to find him, he can go to trial by himself! Linger! You go and order all the soldiers to board the boat overnight, leave this port tomorrow morning, and go back to our southern border!"

Lu Ling agreed, and took Ade to the boat with two soldiers.

But after a while, a group of people descended from King Xiang's ship, the leader was King Xiang, followed by several generals in the army, and ordered the two soldiers to take Ade back to the shore .

King Xiaoxiang was aggressive, and his tone was urgent:

"If you don't ask me to take a look, you will commit a capital crime. Do you know who this kid is? He is the apprentice of Huangmen and Zhou Zheng, who is next to the emperor! He is from the palace!"

Hearing this, everyone was astonished, and General Lu Guang stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"What Fu's family! You are all blind!" King Xiang became more and more annoyed, "It might be the emperor himself! After searching and searching, he was in our army! He even taught him to run away! This man in the army, Is it all paid for nothing?! Even a mere boy can’t look at it, how decent! I don’t believe that there are so many people coming and going in the army, but no one recognizes him! Uncle Feng! If I don’t remember Wrong, 'Fu's son' was captured by you, you can't recognize it, but your son has been in the palace, I don't believe he can't recognize it! Tell me! Are you harboring evil intentions!"

Uncle Feng was born as a ruffian in the army. He is usually cunning and sweet-talking, but he is not a character who can be bullied for nothing.King Xiang pointed his nose at him and scolded him, but he couldn't just let himself lose face in front of the generals, so he stood up and stood up: "I have seen the emperor from afar, but not only people, monkeys, chickens and dogs Pigs have one nose and two eyes, right? The emperor looks no different from other people, why should I recognize him!"

This statement is true.

Except for the court officials, ordinary people may not be able to find the opportunity to see Tianyan.

Feng Shuxing spit again: "My son has never fought a war. I was afraid that he would make a mistake, so I asked him to transport grain and send a message. The general knew about this, and so did the brothers who transported grain! Besides, I broke into Beijing and arrested people." , do we still have to send your Royal Highness Xiang’s picture book to you like the emperor chooses his concubine? Let’s take a step back, even if this kid is by the emperor’s side, so what, the concubine caught from the palace will also be sent to you In the tent? Locked in a cage with the man who served the emperor, you said he is the emperor himself; then you have sex with the women in the palace every day, and I have to call you 'Your Majesty'?!"

He used to be very good at swearing in the market place, but now he is getting stronger and stronger, King Xiang is not his opponent, so he can only blush with a fat face, pointing tremblingly with a plump index finger, he can't refute at all .

The whole world knew that the emperor had crossed the city and died, and it was a foregone conclusion under the eyes of everyone.Therefore, the so-called "Young Master Fu" he guessed just now was the emperor's words, and it was just a guess, and there was no evidence to support it.

There was a stalemate for a while.

The gentle breeze on the river blows past the silent people, and hides in the overlapping mountains and forests on the bank, making the sound of branches and trees colliding.

"Hey, that's not right." Li Lan, who was standing aside watching the excitement, said suddenly, "Little General Feng, didn't you go to see the one in the cage?"