Oriole Line

, Wen Tao was taken aback for a moment, and then stopped laughing.Pu Chen was silent for a long time, and finally said, "If Mr. Wei is still here, if my father is still here, will they be disappointed with me? The Wuchang Army is in my hands... gone."

In the past few days, Pu Chen's heart has been shrouded in depression, if Wen Tao didn't ask him today, he would not know how to speak to Wen Tao.In the past few years, he has relied on his solitary courage to guard the 10,000+ troops left by his father to this day. It is not that he disagrees with Zhou Yu's arrangement for the frontier army. The diversion of the government army and the frontier army is very far-sighted.However, he is not an outsider after all, not only is he not an outsider, he is also the most central person in this bureau.The most difficult thing to face in his heart is not the current Wuchang Army, nor himself, but his father and Mr. Wei who are no longer alive.In the past, when his father passed away and Mr. Wei passed away, although he felt sad, guarding the Wuchang Army in his hand was like guarding a part of his father and Mr. Wei.Now, if the Wuchang Army is gone, will everything about my father and Mr. Wei cease to exist in this world?

Wen Tao walked over silently from behind, put his hand on his shoulder and said, "Did Mr. Wei teach you the way of a gentleman? The way of being a minister?"

Puchen nodded.

"Did your father teach you how to be a general?"

Pu Chen nodded again.

"Then, have they taught you even a little bit of the way of the king?"

Pu Chen carefully recalled that since he was a child, he was taught Wen Dao by Mr. Wei, and martial arts and military strategy by his father. They taught him the way of a gentleman, the way of a general, and the way of a minister, but they did not teach him the way of a king.

Pu Chen shook his head.

Wen Tao said: "That being the case, they will not be disappointed in you. You said that you never wanted to be a thief. This is the imprint left on you by your father and Mr. Wei. Since you think so, That's what they must have taught you."

If you think so, they must have taught you so...

Wen Tao's words echoed in Puchen's ears, and the faces of his father and Mr. Wei emerged before his eyes. What was there in his thoughts that did not bear their imprints?They will never perish, because every choice he makes now is actually a manifestation of their will, and since he has made a choice, he must be responsible for every choice he makes.

Pu Chen stood up, let out a deep breath, silently pulled Wen Tao up, like soldiers fighting side by side on the battlefield, patted Wen Tao on the back, and said solemnly: "Thank you."

At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes, and Pu Chen took a closer look, and the person on the horse was not Tang Yu, but Xiang Hu!Seeing two figures from a distance, Xiang Hu galloped away, got off his horse, offered a bag of clothes and said, "Tang Yu hasn't healed from the cold for the past two days, and he will come here at the end of the day. The Patriarch has been waiting for a long time!" Pu Chen and Wen Tao were barely clothed, he said in shock, "Patriarch...you..."

At this moment, Pu Chen could only force himself to be calm and said: "Because it was raining on the road, I found a temple to shelter from the rain to dry clothes. I didn't want something to go wrong, and the clothes were lost by the monks in the temple."

Xiang Hu is also impatient, seeing his Patriarch and Master Book waiting here pitifully for several hours, it turned out that it was because the monks in the temple were careless, he said in a hurry: "Which bald donkey doesn't have eyes? Lost the Patriarch I won’t even pay for any of my clothes!”

Wen Tao's expression became colorful all of a sudden, and the suppressed smile almost didn't hold back when there was a loud thunder in the sky, Wen Tao coughed as if, and giggled deep in his throat.

"Okay, it's going to rain again, hurry back!" Pu Chen put on a straight face, put on some clothes with Wen Tao, and went straight to Luoyang.

When the few people rode away, no one noticed the black figures not far away, staring at them from the beginning to the end...

98, 98.

Half a month later, Zhou Yu issued an order to withdraw the prefectures and the Wuchang Army.The original 15 Wuchang Army was divided into three, all of which were changed to frontier troops, stationed in Youzhou, Ningzhou, and Liangzhou, and were dispatched by Da Sima Puchen.Due to the remoteness of the three places, each of the three frontier armies set up a commander. Lei Xiong, who had been stationed in Liangzhou, continued to lead the Liangzhou army. Ningzhou, which is located in the southwest, was handed over to Tang Yu, and Puchen himself Sitting in Youzhou in person, he continued to face his old rival, Beiyan.

After Pu Chen walked out of the Mingzheng Hall, Qi Dai turned out from the side hall, Zhou Yu looked very tired, his eyes were black and blue, and his eyes were bloodshot.Qi Dai remained calm, walked to Zhou Yu's side, and quietly studied ink for him.

Zhou Yu raised his eyes, and the servants in the hall retreated consciously.

After a long time, Zhou Yu said, "Isn't it too cruel for me to treat the Wuchang Army like this?"

"Your Majesty is not being cruel now, but in the future, will he be controlled by others?" Qi Dai said.

"He is none other than Brother Yi Xing." Zhou Yu's voice was tired.

"His Majesty……"

"Don't call me Your Majesty!" Zhou Yu seemed to lose his patience at this moment, grabbing Qi Dai's arm and said, "I'll just ask you, can I trust you forever?" Zhou Yu stared at Qi Dai.

Looking at Zhou Yu's red eyes, Qi Dai felt no better than him.However, he has experienced this feeling a long time ago. In the days when he was alone in Guangling Academy after his family was destroyed, he couldn't sleep all night, watching the sun rise and moon set from the window, and the cycle repeated, his eyes were sore to nearly blind.He held Zhou Yu's hand behind his back, nodded and said, "You can always trust me."

"Since I can trust you, why can't I trust him?" Zhou Yu's voice was hoarse.

"Of course you can trust him now. But what about ten years later? What about 20 years later? When you all have children..." Qi Dai stopped suddenly, feeling a pain in his heart, and continued after a while, "Wait You both have kids, can your kids trust each other forever?"

"Then we can also wait ten years, twenty years before launching the Wuchang Army..." Zhou Yu said bitterly.

"It will be too late then!" Qi Dai rarely raised his voice, "When you still trust each other, there will inevitably be estrangement in your heart. After ten or twenty years, if you want to use the Wuchang Army again, what will happen? Have you ever thought about it? Is that the Wuchang Army, 20 people, going north to take Luoyang, and going east to take Jiankang, which capable emperor can tolerate it?"

Zhou Yuchang sighed: "To be the emperor, is it doomed to be lonely and lose your best friends?"

"Jun Wei! Is the important weapon of a country tied to the best friend?" Qi Dai drank, and said as if mocking himself, "I once believed that Wen Tao and I were close friends, but what happened? Became the personal guard of Da Sima, leaving me to die alone. It’s not that I don’t believe in people’s hearts, but I just don’t want you to put all the price on the two words of people’s hearts. Let me ask you, Pu Chen holds an army of 15 , can you sit opposite him with the dignity of the Son of Heaven, can you really have nothing to worry about and only talk about deep friendship?"

Zhou Yu scratched his head in pain.

"Or is he far away in Youzhou, with only 5 horses in his hands, and when he returns to Beijing to report on his work, your friendship will be deeper?"

Zhou Yu really wanted Qi Dai to shut up, he didn't want to hear these words, but he knew very well that what Qi Dai said was right.

Qi Dai carefully smoothed Zhou Yu's messy hair with his hands: "Your Majesty, you don't have to suffer. At this time, the Wuchang army is withdrawn. Da Sima may be sad for a few days, but after a while, he figured it out, maybe he still We can be close friends with His Majesty. If we really can't figure it out, we still have Wen Tao in our hands."

"Are you going to move Wen Tao?" Zhou Yu was alert.

Qi Dai nodded: "In just a few days, I have almost finished the trial of Zheng Yong's list of 26 people except him. It's Wen Tao's turn."

Zhou Yu waved his hand wearily, and Qi Dai disappeared in Mingzheng Palace like a ghost.

At this moment, the Pu Mansion in Luoyang has already exploded.Pu Chen stroked his forehead in the study, Tang Yu had been kneeling for a quarter of an hour.Xiang Hu was still waiting outside the door.

"Patriarch, I swear to the death that I will never leave the Patriarch!" Tang Yu kowtowed several times, his eyes were swollen before he cried.

Pu Chen smiled wryly: "You can't stay by my side forever. It's time to be alone. There are no generals in the Wuchang Army who are familiar with the Southwest. You have a good brain and will be flexible. I will leave it to you. I am at ease."

"I'll go to Youzhou with the Patriarch. I can do whatever the Patriarch asks me to do!" Tang Yu was crying, lying on the ground without getting up.

Pu Chen touched Tang Yu's head and said: "You have been with me since childhood. In terms of experience and knowledge, the Wuchang Army may not be as good as you. When you go to Ningzhou, everything has to start from scratch. How to garrison the army? How to organize the army, terrain, water sources, and rations are all for you to coordinate. I have said long ago that you will become the state shepherd of a state sooner or later. Although His Majesty has withdrawn the state shepherd, the post of commander of the Ningzhou army is even more important. The most important thing is that you are now in the prime of life, and it is time to make contributions, so it is not a problem to be by my side all the time."

Tang Yu sobbed softly, and of course he understood that what Pu Chen said was right. Pu Chen had told him earlier that he would be the state shepherd of a state, but he always thought that day was too early, and even if he was a state shepherd, he would not Not far from the owner.Unexpectedly, he was supposed to be stationed in the southwest, and from then on, he would be separated from the Patriarch who was stationed in the northeast.Tang Yu blew his nose and said intermittently: "I'm going to Ningzhou, and the Patriarch is... there is no one around."

He said with a heartbeat: "I don't need you to stay by my side all the time! It's true that you think about how to be the commander of the Ningzhou Army. If you can't do well, you will really be sorry for me, sorry for Pu Shi, I'm sorry for the Wuchang army who once made a fuss!"

On Tang Yu's side, Pu Chen was half appeasing and half deterring, and finally persuaded him. Just as he was sent off, Xiang Hu came in like a gust of wind and shouted: "What does the withdrawal of the Wuchang army mean?" He glared, " Patriarch, this is a clear split