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The pods (note) on the Xuanhe Estuary once again slowly knotted to a full fifteen pods, and the yamen’s accountant once again ushered in a good time for bloodletting—the doubled wages of the laborers should be paid today.

Du Heng set the abacus all morning, and he was very angry. When he finally finished the monthly salary of [-] laborers and a total of [-], he had no time to catch his breath when he was stimulated by another order. Nosebleeds——Liu Changzhou He was asked to remove the change from the remaining silver in the feudal secretary, and send all the rest to Zhenxi General Gu Yao.

He didn't know why and ran to the signing room to ask what happened, but when he opened the door, he saw Su Yu lying on the ground with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and there was a person from the Western Region beside him.Both of them were covered in blood.

Liu Changzhou, on the other hand, went against the usual style of acting like a street hooligan. He pretended to hold a cup of tea in his hand, and sat on the only chair with no missing legs in the signing room. His expression was very interesting.

Du Heng didn't know what happened before, but he only heard Liu Changzhou say without beginning and end: "What else do you have to say?"

In the past, Su Yu, who always had a coffin face and had no expression other than "wood", had an expression of resentment, spat out the blood in his mouth with a "bah", and sneered, "I'm so sorry for you guys! Daqing is a poor bastard who works like a dog."

Liu Changzhou twitched imperceptibly at the end of his eyes, took a sip of his tea, and calmed down and said, "So? You don't want to be Daqing's 'poor guy', so you go to Xiyan to hug Fei Ruzi's thigh?"

Su Yu struggled to straighten his upper body: "A scholar dies for a confidant. If he is alone, he can even put aside the hatred of killing his father and mother, and he can still be loyal to his sworn enemy. That's the saddest thing. Look at today's Daqing, where is there any reason for you to continue to stick to it? The natural disaster when the first emperor died was already an early warning, and today's Daqing is like a precarious wall. How many people continue to smash to the top?"

The corners of Liu Changzhou's mouth were flattened, and the corners of his slightly upturned eyes became more and more curved after hearing this sentence, and the curved lines could almost tie a cow up without any effort.These three words basically made Su Yu's life clear and clear - both parents died, and he held a grudge against the court.

He suddenly got into trouble, raised his hand and slapped Su Yu's face hard, and then said unhurriedly: "I would like to ask your Excellency, since Daqing is so chaotic, why didn't you see your Excellency come to help it to make things right? Running back and forth to help outsiders fight against your own home?"

Su Yu turned his beaten face to the side, and said forcefully: "If you know you can't do it, there is no one in ten who do such foolish things. I'm afraid I will spend my whole life, and I won't even be able to get in through the gate of the Golden Horse Court." ? Aren’t they all taken over by your bullshit nobles? Daqing blames me, I have to be hostile to it.”

Liu Changzhou hummed unceremoniously, and said, "Golden Horse Chaomen, you mean... Daqing has no Bole? Can't accommodate you?"

Su Yu pursed his lips tightly, with a haughty expression on his face, without saying a word, as if he had a sense of superiority from the sky.

Liu Changzhou slammed the cup on the ground very abruptly, stood up with his hands behind his back, his voice was full of coldness, and he froze Su Yu in place in an instant: "You have such a great memory! Who did I entrust the task of Xuanhekou last time? And in whose hands did I lose 400 people? You despise the world without Bole, first see how much capital you have to be appreciated by Bole."

Su Yu's eyes widened all of a sudden, his clenched lips moved slightly, and his upright body swayed slightly imperceptibly.

Liu Changzhou took a step forward, bent down, and was at the same height as Su Yu who was kneeling on the ground, looked intently into his eyes, and said word by word: "Who is it, who doesn't even have the ability to be a qualified spy? How did it fall into my hands so quickly?"

These words hit the ground at the corner of the nail, Su Yu's breathing quickened instantly, his face burned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his lower lip was also whitened by the upper row of teeth.Liu Changzhou's words were like a heavy hammer hitting his heart—he negated almost all of his value in a few words. Liu Changzhou implied that he couldn't lead a team of 500 people, and even became an ungrateful one. abilities are doubtful.

Liu Changzhou stretched out his hand and poked him on the shoulder, biting his back molars and said, "Don't push all your incompetence and uselessness to Daqing. Who is the most ridiculous person? I don't know how much I am, I don't know how tall the sky is, I don’t know how much I can eat in one meal, and I think I can change the world.”

He raised his eyes, glanced at Du Heng who had stood on the threshold for a long time, his eyes wide open, and his expression was incredible, and he said casually: "Su Yu, you are one of the ancestors' hundreds of surnames." The surname 'Su', your parents gave you the word 'Yu', not to ask you to carry shoes for Fei Ruzi."

"The current Daqing has many disadvantages and injustices, but if there are no disadvantages and injustices, what do you and I need to do? Only with its many disadvantages and injustices does it need you and me more."

"What do you mean that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, a gentleman does not come to stand, why, do you want a villain to stand?"

Su Yu's original inexplicable sense of superiority disappeared in an instant, and he said in a daze, "What, what? Is that so? No... Daqing betrayed me. He wants me to bow my head and be a humble ruler over others for the rest of my life." Or, I am not reconciled, why do I have to bow my head to be a slave to a man of wine and meat in a high position, I am not convinced, no..."

Then his pupils dilated suddenly, and he lowered his head slowly, looking at the white blade pierced in his heart, feeling the coldness of the whole body caused by the blood draining inch by inch from his heart.

Afterwards, the resentment against underappreciated talents accumulated in the bottom of my heart for many years, flowed out of the body with the gurgling blood little by little.The enthusiasm for serving the country that had been tightly suppressed by resentment for a long time in my heart once again occupied the whole chest, but it was too late.

Before he died, he finally realized his stupidity, and said one last sentence as if to make amends: "Fei Ruzi...plans...to attack...in the next, month, month...to fight...the source..." He hadn't finished speaking yet. , the whole person kept kneeling and died.

Liu Changzhou let go of the knife, and clapped his hands lightly up and down, as if he was brushing away the stains that didn't exist on his hands.Then he straightened up, raised the end of his eyes, and glanced at Du Heng who was still in a daze with a half-smile, and said lightly, "What? Stay here and wait for his body to be collected?"

Du Heng was completely dumbfounded.

In the past, he often committed crimes in front of Liu Changzhou, saying some very stupid jokes, and behind his back, he often compiled Liu Changzhou, who was stingy and often flipped, into a certain storybook for fun.It was this person who usually didn't have a lot of airs and was very funny, without blinking his eyes, he raised a knife in front of him and ended up killing someone in front of him.Obviously he was still standing there sloppily as usual, but today he suddenly had a chilling aura.

But his whole body was shrouded in a very obvious contradiction——

It was as if he was walking slowly on the three-thousand-mile battlefield with a sharp knife in his hand, and his spirit of killing and decisiveness had never ceased, and he had a little more recklessness in looking down on the world, but it was not for the purpose of conquering and killing, but more like a kind of guarding and protection.

There are assassins and assassinations in the storybook, but there is no such straightforward blood; there are betrayals and secret operations, but more of it is forgiveness.Du Heng, who couldn't accept this kind of drama of "disagreeing with each other and drawing swords against each other", said tremblingly: "Can't, can we keep him? He, later, later obviously regretted it..."

Liu Changzhou raised his hand, and said in a flat tone: "Impossible. No talent, treason, so what if you repent? So what if you stay? He is also a waste. The treason alone is enough for me to kill him thousands of times."

Du Heng said "ah" in a flat voice for a while, the more "ah", the lower the tone, and then he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.As if he knew how to deal with the following things for the first time, the little daughter-in-law said tremblingly: "Look, I, am I talented?"

Liu Changzhou thought it was funny, and he knew exactly what Du Heng was thinking, but he felt that this person seemed very suitable to warm up the scene. Wherever he stood, there was a comedy without rehearsal.So he held his thumbs in the palm of his hand, deliberately "quacked" a very crisp sound of dislocation of bones, and slantedly raised one eyebrow: "It's okay, continue to carry forward. What do you want from me?"

Du Heng suddenly had no problems at all, probably because he was shocked, and even turned his head faster than usual, and suddenly realized the reason why he wanted to send the money to the border defense—to pay the soldiers, motivate the soldiers, Prepare to fight.

He shook his head quickly: "No more." Then he turned around and ran away with small steps.

Liu Changzhou: "..." Come back from death, you don't have it, can I?

Since Xi Nian and Gu Yaolai were going to have a dog-eat-dog fight, and both sides would be hurt, he sent someone to send an anonymous letter to Gu Yao's barracks according to the date, with the purpose of telling Gu Yao to leave the army, but due to improper preparation, it was not good for him to leave the army.It is estimated that it will not be long before the Shangyu who kicked Gu Yao down will come at a critical moment.

Then, a plan began to emerge in his mind - he could use the method of transporting grain and grass to the front line, mix 1 horses and some grain and grass, and transport them quietly to Yuanhe.

In a blink of an eye, the rainy Ching Ming Festival is approaching.

That day, a very ornate cart appeared in front of the Hengmen teahouse. Xie Qingyun arranged food and clothing in the cabinet. After the last one boarded the cart, he lowered the door curtain, and the groom drove the cart all the way east. go.

A very thin figure appeared behind the carriage, holding a bow abnormally in his hand, standing in front of the row of doors with only one door panel removed from the weighing gate, watching the carriage turn around, then turned back and walked into the house.

It's clear, even if he doesn't want to see the old man anymore, he still has to go to visit the grave.

He was just about to close the row door when a figure flashed through the gap, and Liu Changzhou jumped in right away.

Lu Hanzhang: "..."

Without saying hello, he pushed the heavy door panel to Liu Changzhou, took the bow and went straight to the backyard by himself.

Liu Changzhou closed the door without complaint, and followed behind step by step.

When he was seated in the back hall, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over. Daoming said simply and rudely: "There is a kind of unicycle specially used for climbing mountain roads. Can Boss Lu make it lighter?"

Lu Hanzhang took the crumpled piece of paper, and joked, "Who am I, I insist on giving you an idea. You haven't paid me for the hanging river estuary, have you?"

Liu Changzhou spread his hands generously, and complimented: "You are the first brother of Qinghe, you are the boss of Qinghe. Can you be my military adviser? What do you want at the mouth of the Xuanhe River? Flying in the sky and swimming in the water, as long as you give it to me." a word."

Lu Hanzhang flattened the paper, and said sarcastically, "I don't want anything, just take out your heart for me, and when the water gate is completed, just put it on it to worship the sky. By the way, you will be around me in the future Let's go, I get a headache when I see you."

Liu Changzhou thought to himself, "I'm blind when I see you", and agreed with all his mouth: "Don't dare to obey."

On the paper was drawn a very simple schematic diagram with a yellow paint that had never been seen before: a wheelbarrow.The car looks quite light, and the floor is as big as an ordinary two-wheeled vehicle. In the center of the car floor, a wooden plank at the height of an adult man's calf is erected, and there are two wooden poles protruding vertically from the handle of the car. .

Lu Hanzhang understood at a glance: "Yuanhe is here, the place to the west is mountainous, isn't it?"

Liu Changzhou nodded: "Boss Lu has good eyesight, it belongs to Yuanhe."

Why not leave it to the carpenter?

Lu Hanzhang kept his expression on his face, and a doubt slipped in his heart.Wheelbarrows, mountain roads, this kind of vehicle is light and light, and it looks like it is used to transport grain if it has a lot of load.

Before the three armies arrive, food and grass go first.Is it possible... to transport grain by mountain road?

Sitting across from him, Liu Changzhou tapped his fingertips on the surface of the short table, his eyes were clear, he looked at it intently, and said solemnly like never before: "I hope Boss Lu can keep this matter a secret." Then he stretched out a finger , wrote a few words on the desktop: two thousand.

Those eyes were full of trust and respect that would not raise any doubts, they were clear and clean, looking at them without avoiding them, they somehow made people feel tight in their chests and a little out of breath.

Lu Hanzhang's fingertips trembled slightly, and another thin stream of warmth gushed out of his heart.Then he lowered his eyelids as if nothing had happened, the feeling of tightness in the chest disappeared without a trace, and his mind, which was a little slow just now, was on the line: walking the mountain road, transporting food, keeping secrets.

It must not be shipped to border guards.

He settled down, and then, as if mustering up his courage, he took a long and slight breath before meeting his eyes straightly, and calmly said, "Do you believe me?"

Liu Changzhou didn't expect him to ask this question, and he couldn't react immediately, and then he realized sensitively that he seemed to have never doubted the person in front of him.This discovery made him break out in a cold sweat belatedly - if the person in front of him is really untrustworthy, then he will undoubtedly cause more harm than Su Yu.

He thought about it carefully for a while, but he really couldn't find any reason to explain this discovery, and his innately accurate and outrageous intuition told him that this person was trustworthy, so he said very simply and rudely. : "You look more reliable, I can believe it unconditionally."

Lu Hanzhang: "..." Why doesn't this sound like a compliment to him? !

He picked up the bow that had just been placed on the ground, and unabashedly slapped the man on the shoulder across from him: "You're smart, when will you want it?"

Liu Changzhou just laughed. He changed his squatting position to a kneeling position, so that his upper body could lean forward, and he leaned over with his eyes bent, expressing very vaguely the meaning of "I knew you were the best", and said succinctly: " As soon as possible, preferably within a month, I will give it to you, don't worry."

Lu Hanzhang was taken aback for a moment, and felt a humanoid Jin Dou appearing in front of him.

He leaned back a little with no expression on his face, picked up his bow, stood up and turned his back, and smiled shamefully, and his opinion of "this man is a real treasure" became more firm.

Liu Changzhou from behind asked suspiciously: "Are you learning archery?"

Then a gust of wind blew in, and a foot involuntarily stretched in from behind between his slightly juxtaposed feet, and kicked him left and right, and then a well-articulated hand braced the back of the bow in his left hand, and straightened the bow very straight. He picked it up, and at the same time kicked his knees with one foot, forcing him into a horse stance.

The man behind said: "You are the sickest man I've ever seen. I bet you must have been a medicine jar when you were young. Your bow posture is not right. It's embarrassing to us men."

Suddenly, there was a very cold smell of pear blossom rain in the Qingming Festival, which made Lu Hanzhang feel a little bit at a loss for a while.He found that he seemed to be following this person recently, living more and more backwards - because now he really wanted to push him to the ground and beat him up, and almost every time, he really wanted to see his face that deserved to be beaten Give me a hard pinch.

He suddenly withdrew his hand and turned around suddenly. Because the distance was too close, this turn was like crashing into his arms. Due to the limited geographical conditions, he couldn't even stretch his limbs, so he could only use his forehead as a weapon and slam into him aggressively He walked over and blurted out a dirty word: "Fuck you! You fucking pot of medicine!"

But Lu Hanzhang ignored a problem - length.

Although he has a sickly crooked body, his knuckles are higher than Liu Changzhou, who is as thin as a broom handle, which is usually not noticeable, but now that he's getting closer, he suddenly becomes taller and taller.This weird height difference caused him to misposition the deadly impact. It just so happened that Liu Changzhou lowered his head slightly at that time, and the impact hit his nose on the forehead of that person all at once.

And so the bloodshed ensued—he got a nosebleed!

Liu Changzhou and Lu Hanzhang: "..."

This collision suddenly turned the Qingming Festival, which was supposed to shed tears, into a bloody Qingming Festival at the speed of a wild horse.

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The pods, it produces a pod every day from the first day to the fifteenth of each month; from the sixteenth to the end of the month, it sheds a pod every day.So from the number of pods, you can know what day it is. --Baidu Encyclopedia