after being kidnapped by the general

Zhang Liangdong hadn't seen Yuanli for a long time, and the two talked a lot.As he talked, he talked about Zhan Qibo.

Whenever Zhan Qibo was mentioned, it would be Zhan Shaoning who had escaped.Zhang Liangdong sighed with a complicated expression on his face, "Shaoning fled Luoyang at that time, and he didn't know where he was going. I was very worried, but I couldn't help him at that time. Now that the world is in chaos again, the late emperor has long forgotten Zhan Qibo In this family, I just hope that he can live in peace."

Because of Zhan Shaoning's special status, Yuan Li didn't state in the letter that he took Zhan Shaoning in. He was worried that the letter would be intercepted by others after it was sent to Luoyang. Therefore, Zhang Liangdong still didn't know that Zhan Shaoning was in Youzhou.

Yuanli heard the words and asked someone to whisper a few words.

Zhang Liangdong thought he had something to order, but he didn't expect that after a while, he heard someone behind him say: "Le Jun? I'm here!"

This sound!

Zhang Liangdong stared sharply, he got up and looked back in disbelief, and saw Zhan Shaoning looking at him in the same shock.

"Master Zhang..." Zhan Shaoning murmured.

Zhang Liangdong didn't expect to see Zhan Shaoning here. After his astonishment passed, his eyes were already wet, and he waved to Zhan Shaoning tremblingly, "Shaoning, come quickly, come and let me see you."

Zhan Shaoning glanced at Yuan Li blankly, and after Yuan Li nodded to him with a smile, Zhan Shaoning walked in front of Zhang Liangdong with some hesitation.

Zhang Liangdong looked at his face carefully, Zhan Shaoning was much more mature than a year ago, and in a year and a half, neither Zhan Shaoning nor Yuanli were carefree teenagers anymore.

Zhang Liangdong seemed to see the appearance of his friend Zhan Qibo from Zhan Shaoning's face. His heart was full of grief, and he choked up and said, "Okay, good boy. I didn't expect you to come to Youzhou. Uncle saw that you are safe now, and finally he was able to let go." heart."

Zhan Shaoning's eyes were slightly wet, but he restrained himself quickly, and his emotions were still manageable, "I also want to thank Le Jun for taking me in, so I can meet you here properly."

"Okay, you are all good boys," Zhang Liangdong turned around and took Yuan Li back, crying and laughing, "You are not allowed to leave tonight! Stay here and have dinner with me, and have a good talk with me!"

Zhan Shaoning nodded in agreement, but Yuan Li hesitated for a while.

He thought of Chu Hechao, but he still nodded in response to Zhang Liangdong's expectant eyes.He just sent someone to tell Chu Hechao when Zhan Shaoning was joking with Zhang Liangdong afterwards.

Yuan Li didn't get involved in the reminiscence of the two, but started chatting with Xiang Hongyun who was at the side.

If you don't talk, you don't know. If you talk, you will be shocked.Yuan Li and Xiang Hongyun had some similarities in many concepts and thoughts, and they felt like they had met each other before chatting.

Yuanli was very surprised.

His soul comes from later generations, so it should be novel.But Xiang Hongyun is a native of ancient times. Some of his ideas are too advanced and difficult for contemporary people to understand, such as markets, trade, water conservancy, etc. He has a complete set of ideas from agriculture to handicrafts and commerce. planning.

This set of plans is like Shang Yang's reform, with advanced thinking and even a little radical.However, Yuanli saw many shining points in his thinking. Although it was a little immature and flawed, it was indeed a good method.

It can be said that if Xiang Hongyun's set of reforms is applied to the poor and weak Bei Zhou, at least Bei Zhou can barely persist for another 20 years.

Yuan Li lavishly praised his ideas, and praised Xiang Hongyun as a "capable minister who governs the world", but Xiang Hongyun humbly dared not even say so.

Usually, no one can understand Xiang Hongyun's thoughts, and he is used to keeping it in his heart and not talking to outsiders.At this moment, Yuanli suddenly appeared. He didn't want to talk much at first, but under Yuanli's guidance and praise, Xiang Hongyun unknowingly talked more and more. All said and done.

It wasn't until this moment that he reacted abruptly, and immediately shut his mouth tightly, refusing to say another word.

After Zhang Liangdong saw this scene, he couldn't help laughing, and said to Yuan Li: "My disciple usually talks less, but what I said to you today is more than what I said to me all the way."

Yuan Li laughed, "Sir, is this a taste?"

Zhang Liangdong scolded with a smile: "What do I want to eat! Mr. Yuan Le, I can tell you that my disciple's favorite is Wu Shanshi in Yizhou, and he wants to be Wu Shanshi's aide!"

Xiang Hongyun smiled without saying a word, wanting to see how Yuanli behaved.

Yuan Li frowned, and said calmly: "Wu Shanshi is indeed a hero, and Mr. Xiang is not humiliating himself by defecting to him."

Xiang Hongyun felt amused, "Is that the only thing the governor wants to say?"

Yuan Li smiled slightly, and said again: "If Mr. Xiang wants to hear more from me, I will naturally not stop at this one sentence, but only talk about the disadvantages of Mr. Xiang who defected to Wu Shanshi. I have three points to tell you."

Xiang Hongyun bowed and listened attentively.

"First, Wu Shanshi is the governor of a state, and there are countless counselors under his command. For example, Wei Ji, Mitai, Wang Yun and other Runan gentry have occupied the main positions among the counselors. They and Wu Shanshi are both from Runan, and they will naturally Reject scholars from other places like you," Yuan Li said succinctly, "Secondly, Wu Shanshi himself does not like changes, and his personality is conservative and old-fashioned, which is extremely inconsistent with your ideas."

Xiang Hongyun listened intently, revealing a pensive expression.

"The third..." Yuan Li smiled slightly, "You have worshiped Mr. Zhang as your teacher, and you entered Youzhou together with Mr. Zhang. Your teacher stayed in Youzhou, but you went to Wu Shanshi. You said that he and his subordinates Do the counselors believe you?"

Xiang Hongyun said without changing his face: "I don't believe it."

Yuan Li smiled, and changed his voice: "But these three points are not the most important. The most important thing is only one thing, and that is your own thoughts. If you really want to go, who else can stop you? "

These words stunned Xiang Hongyun for a while, and then he said sincerely: "Your Excellency, you are generous."

Yuanli now has a lot of people under his command. Although he is short of people, he is not as short as before. There is no need to force people to stay in Youzhou for this matter.He shook his head with a smile, and said with a smile: "Sending away a talent, I feel like a piece is missing in my heart, just looking at the atmosphere."

After the laughter, it was not too early, and everyone moved to the dining hall to eat.

manor.

Chu Hechao returned home with a whole body of sawdust and branches, and threw a white python caught on the mountain to his servant, "Send it to a cage and lock it up properly."

The servant was frightened, grabbed the snake tremblingly and said: "General, general, there is no cage for snakes in the village!"

"Then put it in the barrel and close it." Chu Hechao swept his eyes, his power was terrifying, "Do you still need me to teach you?"

The servant stepped back quickly.

Eunuch Yang, who came to serve him, said "Ouch" and said with a bitter face, "General, why did you bring these things back again?"

The general's habit of catching wild beasts at home still hasn't changed.

Chu Hechao pretended not to hear, and strode towards the room in a big stride.Among the soldiers behind him, six or seven carried a huge blood-stained black bear.Chu Hechao asked them to carry the black bear to Yuanli's gate and put it there, and knocked on the door, "Le Jun?"

No one answered.

Chu Hechao frowned, turned his head and asked, "Where is Lord Inspector?"

The servant replied: "Lord Inspector has gone to Mr. Zhang's residence for dinner, so please don't wait for him tonight."

"Mr. Zhang?" Chu Hechao narrowed his eyes, "Which Mr. Zhang?"

"It's Zhang Liangdong, a great Confucian."

Zhang Liangdong is here?

Chu Hechao thought for a moment, went back to his room, changed his clothes, and asked someone to lead the way to Zhang Liangdong's house.

When Yuan Li was drinking with Zhang Liangdong and the others, someone came to report that the general had come.

Zhang Liangdong was surprised and delighted, "Hurry up, hurry up, please. Hahaha, I, an old guy, have earned enough face. When I first arrived in Youzhou, the governor personally greeted me, and the general came to visit me. I really don't want to die." Sorry."

"Who's dead?" There was a voice from outside, and a tall man strode in, his robes flying, and after looking around the dining room, he looked at Zhang Liangdong, his handsome face twitching, "I just came here On the first day in Youzhou, why did you say such disappointing words?"

Zhang Liangdong was helped up and looked at Chu Hechao up and down.After a while, he said in amazement: "The general is getting more and more powerful."

Chu Hechao nodded slightly towards him, then looked at Yuanli again, and said without changing his expression, "I heard from the servant at home that you came to visit Mr. Zhang. After I heard that Mr. Zhang came to Youzhou, I also came to visit."

When Zhang Liangdong heard this, he couldn't help being extremely moved and ashamed, "When you came to Beijing to ask for food, I hid from you everywhere. I never thought that you would come to visit me in person when you heard that I was coming. Say goodbye, sit down quickly, and have a drink with the old man." .”

The servant brought the low table and meals, Chu Hechao lifted his robe and sat down beside Yuanli.

Yuan Li saw the sawdust in his hair, and said in a low voice, "Did you rush over after returning home?"

Chu Hechao responded, and asked curiously, "How do you know?"

Yuan Li smiled mysteriously, "I figured it out."

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Liangdong said: "Where did the general come from? Why are there sawdust on his head?"

The corner of Yuanli's mouth twitched: "..."

Chu Hechao glanced at Yuanli with a half-smile, and replied, "I went up the mountain and just came back."

The meal was a joy for both the host and the host, Zhan Shaoning and Zhang Liangdong finally cried together, Yuan Li watched with a lot of emotion, and after drinking a cup of bitter wine, he couldn't help drinking too much.

Chu Hechao didn't say much, and occasionally took a few mouthfuls of food with his chopsticks.

After dinner, it was already dark.Yuan Li and Chu Hechao bid farewell to Zhang Liangdong and returned. On the way, Yuan Li belatedly felt a little dizzy.

Not really.

He rubbed his temples with a headache, his consciousness gradually blurred, can this ancient low-alcohol drink make him drunk?

But after thinking about it, his body has never been in contact with a few glasses of wine since he was a child, which seems to be excusable.

Chu Hechao keenly sensed that something was wrong with Yuanli, and he called out, "Yuanli?"

Yuan Li raised his head, looked at him in a daze, his face was flushed, "Huh?"

Chu Hechao looked at his itchy palms, "Drunk?"

Yuan Li subconsciously said, "I'm not drunk."

Chu Hechao said to himself, "This is really drunk."

He looked left and right, then squatted down with his back to Yuanli, "Come up."

Yuan Li looked drowsily at the squatting person in front of him.

The back is wide and thick, and the clothes are tight with strong thighs, which looks familiar and reliable.He looked at it for a long time before he lay down on Chu Hechao's back.

Chu Hechao got up with his back on his back, turned his head to let the soldiers follow him a little farther away, and led him to the manor step by step.

Yuan Li frowned and said, "This wine is not good."

Chu Hechao sneered, "You still drink if it's not good?"

Yuan Li sighed, "You don't understand the sophistication of the world among adults."

"Boy, pay attention to what you say," Chu Hechao said in a dangerous tone, "Look at who is in front of you."

Yuan Li said vaguely, "It's my boyfriend."

Chu Hechao didn't understand what the word meant, "What does boyfriend mean?"

Yuan Li frowned, thinking to himself why you don't even know this, "I don't want to talk to you."

Chu He laughed timidly, stopped walking, and threatened, "Please explain clearly to me."

What responded to him was the sound of Yuanli's sleeping breathing.

Chu Hechao had no choice but to move forward again.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and after an unknown amount of time, Yuan Li woke up suddenly and found that he was still on Chu Hechao's back.

"Why haven't you arrived yet?" He probed into the darkness ahead and rubbed Chu Hechao's neck.

Chu Hechao said quickly.

Yuan Li let out an "oh" and suddenly said, "Brother, don't feel bad."

Chu Hechao was taken aback, and said in a hoarse voice, "How do you know I'm uncomfortable?"

"You haven't kissed me for several days." Yuan Li said bluntly.

Chu Hechao couldn't help but laugh, "I'll kiss you when I get back. I killed a black bear on the mountain today and caught a rare white snake. I'll take you to see it when you wake up tomorrow."

"Okay," Yuan Li suddenly said excitedly, "Is it the white lady?"

Chu Hechao had already regarded the words he didn't understand as nonsense that a drunk would say, and casually said twice, "Yes, yes, yes, it's the white lady."

Yuan Li's eyes sank, he strangled his neck suddenly, his face was murderous, "How can you save the white lady, what if the white lady asks you to repay her kindness?"

Chu Hechao coughed twice and coaxed him, "Then kill him?"

Yuan Li was worried, "Then what if she comes to seek revenge from us?"

The veins on Chu Hechao's forehead twitched, wondering why his drunken wife was so difficult to take care of.It's impossible to kill, and it's impossible not to kill, so what should he do? "Then what do you say?"

Yuan Li wrinkled his face and thought for a while, then suddenly felt a little nauseated, he said slowly: "I want to vomit."

Chu Hechao's expression changed slightly, "Don't vomit on me."

He immediately put Yuanli down and helped him to the corner to vomit, but Yuanli squatted for a while, then raised his head pitifully, "I don't want to vomit anymore."

Chu Hechao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he sighed, and picked up Yuanli again, "I've never been so accommodating to anyone in my life."

Yuan Li chuckled twice, put his arms around his neck, feeling drowsy again, and soon fell asleep again.

Chu Hechao turned the person on his back upside down, and carried Yuanli back to the manor steadily.