see the gentleman

The news of Duan Pihuan sending people to sue for peace spread to the capital in Qiaozhou's great victory, and the whole country was shaken.

From a distance, Ji Yun could hear the continuous sound of fireworks and firecrackers in the palace.

He was sitting in the chair, while the people below were still reporting to him the achievements of Qiaozhou. They said that Bai Chen had a clever plan, planned before moving, and forced Hou Liang's army into Fushan, killing tens of thousands of enemies. This battle can be said to have been won beautifully.

Ji Yun propped his chin, and after listening to the extravagant boasting about Bai Chen in the battle report, he frowned slightly, and only asked, "How is Bai Chen doing now?"

The announcer also had a joyful expression on his face: "General Bai is very good! General Bai has done a great service for me this time!"

It was another sincere compliment, and at the end, he cautiously looked at Ji Yun who was expressionless.

Ji Yun's expression didn't look impatient, as if he really wanted to ask something more, but in the end he waved his hand: "Okay, let's go down."

There was no one in the hall, so Ji Yun pressed his frowning eyebrows.

This time Bai Chen was finally... safe and sound.

At that moment, he was obviously relieved, but immediately afterwards, a feeling of uneasiness, which could not be called doubt, came up like a shadow, lingering in his chest.

During this period of time, he was always dreaming, and most of the time when he woke up, he couldn't remember what he dreamed, but very occasionally, the afterimages in the dream haunted him when he was awake.

He dreamed that Bai Chen was stabbing him with a sword, and there was undisguised, deep-seated hatred in his eyes.

He also dreamed that Bai Chen's face was pale and his body was still wounded. He was standing at the door, and for some reason, there was a look of sadness on his face.

What's even more strange is that he even dreamed that through the window, he saw Bai Chen's face was clearly still young, but his temples were already gray. He had never seen such a Bai Chen before, and he almost doubted whether this person was actually a young man. Who is it.He wanted to take a closer look at the other party, but the other party was also walking towards him, but his footsteps were staggering, and he looked a little panicked. He seemed to want to open the window, but when a gust of wind blew, this endless dream ended up.

Ji Yun let out a breath from his abdomen, and then suppressed his ups and downs.

There were many letters piled up on the case, the top one arrived together with the one he had just heard, it was a battle report written by Bai Chen himself, and he hadn't had time to read it yet.

Ji Yun opened the letter, and Bai Chen picked up the pen himself. Of course, he wouldn't brag about himself too much. He even felt that Bai Chen was a little too cautious and modest, and almost gave all the credit to Ji Heng.

Ji Yun shook his head, completely unable to imagine the image of his stupid son who is wise and martial. He continued to look down, and was caught off guard when he saw the last sentence: "Bie Qing for several months, thinking about returning day and night."

Bai Chen clearly distinguishes between public and private matters, and usually never discusses personal matters in official documents, and the two of them communicate through the private messenger channel, which is slower than the urgent official newspaper.

It's just that sometimes I'm in a hurry and can't wait for another moment to procrastinate.

When he picked up the pen, he actually had thousands of words in his heart, but after hesitating again and again, he finally only dropped two words: come back.

Sometimes people may not be unexpected about many things, but they can't resist their desires, and they always think that they may be lucky.

Before the truth comes out, if you always want to deceive yourself for a while, you can fight to have that person for a little longer.

Bai Chen set off from Qiaozhou, and within half a month, he has already arrived in the area around Gyeonggi.

The journey went smoothly, but something happened before entering Beijing.

There have been frequent wars in the past two years, and the bandits and bandits have the intention of taking advantage of the wind, but they are busy fighting in the court, and have no time to distract themselves from these small fights, so the situation of bandits is even worse.

Bai Chen was robbed by a gang of road bandits.

There were a lot of people on the other side, and they didn't look like rogues who were pulling their banners and showing their teeth and claws. There were a few of them who were obviously practicing family members, and they used their killer moves. They were said to be road bandits and they were somewhat belittled.

However, Bai Chen was eager to return, and the army's journey was slow, so he only brought a few people and rushed back to Beijing first.

This time it happened to hit me.

Under the cover of the guards, Bai Chen narrowly escaped the encirclement, but was still injured, his left shoulder was slashed, so he could only hide in a small county not far from Beijing to recuperate for the time being.

After Ji Yun heard the news, he was furious.Then he dispatched three thousand soldiers, went out of the city to pick up the people himself, and encircled and suppressed the bandits along the way.

I don't know if I don't suppress it, it turns out that the emperor's feet are already so rampant.Just out of the city and on the way to the neighboring counties, Ji Yun killed several crops like leeks.Most of them are composed of prodigal sons who wander around all day, have nothing to do, and simply become bandits. Then they absorb farmers from nearby villages or lack of land, no land to cultivate, or poor harvests, and they have nowhere to go. Gradually grow up.But even so, the scale of such bandits with the village as the dividing line is not that big, not as good as Jiang Chong's riot on Jinxiu Street. They still have at least a dilapidated cannon.

It's just that the hammer on the left and the stick on the right are causing disasters in the village, and it's hard to catch, which is really annoying.

Ji Yun didn't understand why the dynasty had passed into his hands, and how it had become so rotten, so he became even more angry.

In addition to most of these people who fish in troubled waters, there are also a few ruthless characters who occupy mountains and become kings and build a stronghold, specializing in raping and plundering, and their brutality and viciousness are simply sensational.

Ji Yun reunited with Shu in such a place.

In fact, Ji Yun didn't recognize him at first, after all, the person in front of him was very different from the one in his memory.

His hair was disheveled, he was naked, his hands and feet were in shackles, and his body was covered with various scars.

Together with several others, he was dragged out of a dark and damp cave by the officers and soldiers. In the cave, he could not stretch his limbs, and all of them were curled up in a ball, like pigs and dogs in a cage, not daring to see the light.

There are men and women among them, and some of them don't know if they are ten years old. All of them have wounds on their bodies, some have been beaten out, and some have traces of pornography. But the belly is round, and she is still pregnant.

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gritted their teeth in resentment, and some even pulled out their swords and stabbed a few more holes in the dead man.

Ji Yun just walked in at this time, he looked around, his face was like a cloud that was about to drip, after a while, he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Burn this village for me, don't even think about keeping a corpse!"

No longer able to bear the second glance at this disgusting place, he turned around with an ugly face and was about to leave.

"……His Majesty……"

But behind him, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, the weak voice hoarse like a broken gong made Ji Yun stop immediately, unable to walk anymore.

He turned his head and saw Shu, disheveled and bruised, kneeling among the group of people. His upper body was stiff and slightly leaning forward, his five fingers twisted and jagged like chicken claws, and he pinched his knee tightly.

There is no longer a trace of the cold and arrogant look on his face, there is only a trace of dimness and grayness in his eyes, and Ji Yun's unbelievable face is reflected in the pupils full of ashes, as if bringing a A trace of extremely repressed, extremely timid longing and anticipation.

He shouted again: "...Your Majesty."