Pei Gonggui

It was night when the leaders of the various ethnic groups in the north arrived at the paddock camp with their own people. The defenders expanded dozens of camps to the outside, and set up a high tent ten feet square in the field.

During the banquet, it could be said that there was a lot of fun, and Pei Jun brought Feng Jiru to accompany him for two rounds of wine. The Honglu Temple took over the peace talks and other affairs. With no way out for him, he withdrew to greet Fang Mingjue and left the banquet, and went straight back. After setting up the tent, you don't know how energetic you are during the day, but you feel tired when you touch the bed, and it's just a dream when you sleep.

The scene in the dream was blurry, and there were hundreds of light spots dancing in front of me, like rows of candles.Colorful figures around the candles swayed and buzzed, as if someone was chanting scriptures and mantras, mixed with the rapid drumming of copper bells, which made his ears hurt.

——It’s that shaman’s strange dream!Pei Jun was taken aback. He was still struggling to wake up, but his eyes became clearer because of this.

This is a dark room. In the center of the dark room, hundreds of thousands of candles are lit in an array. Around them are nine blue-clothed shamans with ferocious faces. They are shaking their heads, beating drums and ringing bells. The back of a red and gold cloak is facing the stone wall farthest from Pei Jun, and there is a dead man wrapped in white cloth nailed to the stone wall——

A dead Pei Jun.

The severed head had been sewn onto the broken neck, making Pei Jun look like a rag puppet wrapped in a cicada pupae. At this moment, there was a terrible cry: "Pei Jun!" Suddenly he called Pei Jun. Jun felt severe pain all over his body, and for some reason, he was pulled to the opposite side by a strange force.

The cry came from the red-gold cloak, and it gradually became louder: "Pei Jun!——Pei Jun!" After two sounds, Pei Jun was pulled behind the cloak, and he couldn't help but was so frightened that he struggled back suddenly. However, this action caused the red-gold cloak to turn around suddenly as if aware of it, and in an instant, the blue ghost face with yellow hair and black horns and giant protruding eyes in the last dream was facing him right next to him again!

A pair of slender but pale hands with ten fingers were lifted out of the cloak and placed on the side of the ghost's face, as if to be uncovered, Pei Jun tried to concentrate on looking carefully, just wanting to know who the villain who has tortured him these times is.But at the moment when the man lifted the mask, Pei Jun felt that he was shaken violently, and his sanity suddenly lost. When the strength was shaken again, a faint cry suddenly poured into his ears, causing him to wake up suddenly.

The moment he opened his eyes, the force of pushing him suddenly turned into five fingers covering his mouth and nose. Pei Jun suddenly felt the danger, and he quickly took out the short knife under the pillow with his hand before he realized it, and stabbed into the void——

But at the moment when his wrist was blocked, he heard Jiang Yue's urgent and low voice:

"Pei Jun, it's me!"

This sound made Pei Jun finally wake up from his nightmare. In the candlelight in the tent that lit up in his eyes, he saw Jiang Yue, Prince Jin frowning and half kneeling beside his bed, and the tip of the knife in his hand was pointing directly at Jiang Yue's throat. , if it hadn't been blocked by quick eyesight and hands, it might have really plunged in.

Jiang Yue withdrew his hand covering his mouth and nose, Pei Jun immediately inhaled and retracted the knife, still in shock: "...Why is the prince here?"

Jiang Yue Shumei put down his blocking hand, exhaled and looked at Pei Jun: "The news from Fengzhou arrived suddenly, and Gu Te came to inform Mr. Pei, but he didn't want to but saw Mr. Pei trapped in a nightmare, that's why..."

Pei Jun suddenly felt that Jiang Yue, the traitor, looked at his sleeping face, and his face was burning, but if Jiang Yue hadn't pushed him, he might have been sucked into the body of his previous life and suffered severe pain of beheading , Thinking of this, I couldn't help feeling a little gratitude to Jiang Yuesheng that I couldn't express, so I could only say: "...Thank you, my lord."

"Why is Mr. Pei hiding the knife under the pillow? Could it be that he also met an assassin recently?" Jiang Yue also stood up with him, and walked out of the tent with him and said, "There are still two people with high martial arts skills by my side. Lord Pei—"

"No need, the lord is worried." Pei Jun finally calmed down a little, and turned to him with a smile, "I'm just a mere official, why would there be an assassin to kill me? I just sleep peacefully with a knife on my head, so don't worry about it too much, my lord." .”

Jiang Yue's brows tightened when he heard the words, and he glanced at Pei Jun again, but bowed his head and said nothing more.

The two walked towards the dense forest on the west side of the camp, the shadow of the moon was like a shadow, and when they reached a place inaccessible, the forest was sparsely covered with snow at night.

Jiang Yue said that the sequence of tattoos on the assassin's body had been found out, and it really belonged to the scout battalion under Pei's father, and the scout battalion was indeed dead in the court records, as Jiang Shilang of the Ministry of War said.

However, for soldiers who died when they return to their hometowns for burial, it is customary for their relatives to go to the government to report the funeral, but this assassin’s household registration in Toyosu did not indicate his death. Now that I don't know where the master book was at the time, I can't verify whether it was a mistake or the truth. Jiang Yue's people went to the countryside to look for this relative, and they were told by the neighbors that they had moved away for many years, as if they had hurriedly hid for some reason.

"I don't think so," Jiang Yue patted the snow on his shoulder, and stopped with Pei Jun, "There may be other reasons for General Pei's death, after all, the war that year—"

"I heard that my late father suffered a strange defeat." Pei Jun sighed in the cold wind, and stood in the snow in the forest to pick up his words, "In fact, Old General Xiao once said this, and the minister was once bitter about it." Yu Huai, but he and General Xiao didn't have any clues when they searched both sides. He said that the battle in northern Xinjiang was caused by the Luntu tribe's army going south, and his father and the court set a route to lead the army. Before the news came back, my father became suspicious, so he led the troops to change the route, set up camp and waited, but unexpectedly encountered a surprise attack by Luntu's cavalry at night, and they fought and retreated and were surrounded by the rear, although my father led the army Desperately wiped out the enemy army, but in the end there were only a few thousand left, the court was victorious, and my late father died on the battlefield."

"Did General Pei have political enemies during his lifetime?" Jiang Yue looked sideways, and Pei Jun's face was unpredictable in the sparse shadows in the forest.

"My late father was a rough man. He probably even dragged people to drink when he had political opponents. I didn't notice it, so I never heard him talk about it." Pei Jun smiled innocently, "Old General Xiao said that even the old Cai Yan Du and his late father are brothers and sisters. It is not good for Yushitai to impeach his late father. Cai Yan also speaks for his late father. I just don’t know what kind of medicine is sold in Cai Yan’s gourd...After all, Cai Yan also helped Taiping when he was begging for marriage. My lord, are you talking?"

"But in that battle, General Pei was the main one, while Cai Yan was the main one." Jiang Yue said in a deep voice.

"I have also thought about whether the Cai family and Lun Tuli Yingwai killed my late father. After all, my late father's military exploits shook the country back then, and the court had no reason to be afraid." Pei Jun smiled, "But I was in Jiang——in the emperor's palace. Like Zangshuge and Yushufang, I have looked through the documents of the year, and there is nothing to gain." In fact, in his previous life, in order to fight against the Cai family, he almost searched the Cai family to the bottom, but except for a few business routes of the Cai family, Guan Cai's family Several pawnshops have no evidence of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

At this time, Jiang Yue suddenly said: "Actually... Brother Gu Huang was trapped by the cabinet during his lifetime. He once asked several brothers who had nothing to do with the Cai family to discuss this matter in the secret room of the palace. Gu was present, General Pei and Master Zhang were also present. If you don’t even know today, it’s even more impossible for Master Pei and General Xiao to know, because the imperial brother issued the secret order of the Dragon Talisman back then.”

Pei Jun was shocked by this secret, and looked back at Jiang Yue, seeing Jiang Yue's solemn and solemn face, which was by no means a joking expression: "At that time, the emperor knew that if the family was big and the cabinet was bloated, the imperial power would be emptied and called Jiang Yue." The clan's dynasty has no longevity, so they want to unite with General Pei and the Zhang family of Boling, and tell the royal brothers who are trustworthy, that the three parties will fight against the Cai clan."

Speaking of this, Jiang Yue sighed, "But Cai's family is safe and sound now, Mr. Pei can know that this plan was not accomplished at all. At that time, the emperor ordered the Zhang family to amend the money in the law that would benefit Cai's exoneration, and then Pei The general's various ministries led people to strictly control the tyrants in various places who have intersected with the Cai family, and when the law was completed, they put away the net and wiped out the Cai family in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly, not long after this secret meeting, Luntu started to move south."

Pei Jun was keenly aware of Jiang Yue's pause, "Has the secret talk been leaked?"

"That's right." Jiang Yue nodded approvingly, "After Luntu's uprising was suppressed and General Pei died, does Mr. Pei remember any major events in the court?"

Pei Jun thought about it carefully, and frowned: "The East Palace lost its morality, witches cursed the father, tried to usurp the throne, and the crown prince was deposed."

"Master Pei has a good memory." Jiang Yue smiled at him, "In the Jiang family's habit, bad things must rot in the house. Although they told the court that way, in fact, it was because the emperor found out that the leaked news The prince, it was found out that the prince was hiding troops and horses, in order to prevent the court from knowing the existence of secret talks, he had no choice but to abolish the prince first, but he was about to continue the investigation..."

"The first emperor passed away." Pei Jun followed Jiang Yue's thoughts, "It was rumored that this coincided with the curse of the prince, so the prince was suspected of killing his father, so the cabinet banned the prince as a national crime. Stand Jiang Zhan——" He suddenly stopped talking, only to realize that he had called out the name of the Holy Spirit again, and this time he couldn't change his words, so he looked back cautiously at Jiang Yue, only to see Jiang Yue looking back calmly in the thin snow He sarcastically said with a habitual expression, "Master Pei is just out of habit, it doesn't matter."

Pei Jun put his hands on his hips helplessly, and stared at him while leaning on the tree trunk beside him: "My lord, how long are you going to laugh at me? You are familiar with most of the guards at the palace gate, how can you not know that I have been here for many days?" No longer going in and out of Chongning Hall—”

"Master Pei went to the emperor's car yesterday." Jiang Yue blurted out, and after a pause, he looked away a little, "How can I feel at ease to form an alliance with Mr. Pei?"

Pei Jun was about to explain, but these words flashed in his mind: "Wait a minute, I saw the folded newspaper in the emperor's car yesterday, and Sha Yan is about to borrow troops for civil strife..."

Jiang Yue looked at him because of his words: "Yes, I have heard about it. What's the matter?"

——Borrowing soldiers, Sha Yan, Taiping, marriage, Cai's...

Pei Jun's mind turned rapidly, and suddenly he remembered that in the third year of the marriage between Taiping and Jiang Zhan in the previous life, he raised troops across the sea to attack the newly built Shayan, but Shayan was not as easy to attack as they imagined, and Taiping was forced by the sea capital to attack the newly built Shayan. Replenishment of military supplies was too costly, and finally they ran out of money, so they had to withdraw their troops from Shayan.

Therefore, if Taiping and the imperial court make peace, it will not only focus on the interests of the imperial court's New Deal, but...

Jiang Yue didn't see Pei Jun speaking, and was about to ask again, but suddenly heard a faint human voice behind him, and subconsciously blocked Pei Jun behind a big tree, and looked extremely vigilantly at the place where the voice came from.

Pei Jun was slapped against a tree with his arm to hide, and his whole back was hit with pain, he was inexplicable: "...what's wrong?"

Jiang Yue retreated to Pei Jun, stood close to him and hid in the shadow of the tree together, but still stood in front of him, looking sharply at the not far away in the darkness: "Someone is coming." After a while, people His voice gradually increased, and he said in a lower voice: "Look, it's Cai Yang."

But he stood firmly in front of Pei Jun, Pei Jun couldn't poke his head to look at it, and was about to push him to the side, but his nose was almost stuck on the tip of Jiang Yue's hair, so he couldn't help stepping back quickly But even so, he could still smell the faint scent of grass and trees on Jiang Yue's body, which made it look cold and fresh against the ice and snow in the winter night.

He remembered that Jiang Yue had this taste in Gong Xue when he was a child.

At this time, he was not allowed to think too much, Jiang Yue suddenly pulled him to the other side of the tree trunk, before Pei Jun could ask, Cai Yang's voice really came from behind him:

"...The second prince won't think about King Rui any more? After all, when my Cai clan succeeded in the uprising and King Rui ascended the throne, then the concubine of your country will be able to be the mother of the world."