"Leng Zi, are you afraid?"

Chen Ran, who was squatting on the shore of Taihu Lake, suddenly asked, did not look up, and looked at the moon reflected in the water.

"I'm afraid."

Shen Leng's answer was very simple.

Chen Ran picked up a small pebble and threw it into the lake: "I remember the last time I chatted with my father, I said that I have achieved the group rate at my age, and I can't find a few in Fish Scale Town..... Leng Zi, if you say you're afraid, I'll be afraid. ”

Shen Leng looked into the distance, as if muttering to himself: "Sensible since childhood...... There is nothing more cruel than these four words. ”

Chen Ran didn't understand.

"I have to be sensible, you still have your father."

Shen Leng kicked Chen Ran's ass: "Don't be so sad and pessimistic, I think it's good now, I didn't know what wanton was when I was a child, but now I suddenly have that feeling...... How good it is to be in the army, the current life is better than the original, it is also luck that we have fought for, so we will be afraid, and it is precisely because of fear that people can't casually rob this point of good that they have just experienced. ”

Chen Ran's hand was like a knife and chopped down: "Whoever robs him will kill him." ”

Shen Leng explained seriously: "Don't worry, no matter how big this matter is, it can't be as big as the emperor, we happened to be the backer this time is the emperor, General Zhuang said that Your Majesty's most distressed thing is always the soldiers who died and suffered in the battle of the Northern Xinjiang Fengyantai, they are working hard for Your Majesty but they have not been recognized as they should be, Your Majesty feels guilty...... Let's do the same this time, besides, the current Majesty is no longer the Majesty of that time. ”

Chen Ran said: "I don't understand what you say, just tell me which way to rush, and I'll rush." ”

Shen Leng stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "There is no way back, rush forward." ”

The winter here in Jiangnan Province has begun to get cold and people don't want to move, Shen Leng suddenly thought of what the winter in the northern Xinjiang will be like? Meng Changan doesn't have a friend like Chen Ran by his side, let alone someone like Mr. to guide him, and he doesn't have a girl like Cha Ye to love, he is destined to not have a few friends in his life, with such a character, no matter how many people want to warm his heart.

When is the next time we meet?

"Is there a big competition between the armies?"

Shen Leng suddenly muttered to himself, and Chen Ran turned around: "What did you say?" ”

Shen sneered and shook his head: "It's nothing, I'm distracted." ”

There is a pavilion not very far from where they are, the trestle bridge into the pavilion extends from the island, the pavilion is about thirty meters outside the island, this place is good because it is impossible to be overheard by someone to talk, Zhuang Yong and Dou Huainan are in this pavilion, the trestle is Zhuang Yong's personal soldiers, three steps and one post, the knife is out of the sheath, and the arrow is ready to fly.

"What do you think Your Majesty will do with this?"

Zhuang Yong asked Dou Huainan.

Dou Huainan pondered for a while and replied: "Actually, I have thought of countless possibilities, but I didn't expect it to be such an invincible situation, one Bai Shangnian and one Mu Xiaofeng died, and it was not without gain, but because of this, the voice in the court must be loud, whether it is Lord Admiral, or that General Shen Leng, you will not get anything from it, I am afraid that it will be bitten by others...... Undefeated and undefeated, the most boiling people. ”

"If you don't win or lose, you lose."

When Zhuang Yong said this, there was a bit of distressing sadness in his tone.

"Not really."

Dou Huainan suddenly laughed: "Maybe this is better, Your Majesty wants to solve the matter that should be solved before the Northern Expedition, anyway, even if the layout is a few years old, it still seems a little hasty, not safe enough, if it really involves people other than scholars, the Northern Expedition that Your Majesty is thinking about may not be able to happen." ”

"How do you know Your Majesty is going on a northern expedition?"

"Guess."

Dou Huainan said with some embarrassment: "Guessing about the holy will makes Lord Admiral laugh." ”

Where does Zhuang Yong dare to laugh?

This Dou Huainan is not a close person around His Majesty, he has been confined to supervising the construction of this Yanping Island for several years, how much can he get in touch with the wind direction in the court? said that His Majesty's purpose to clear the hidden dangers of the imperial court was for the Northern Expedition, and this person was really not simple.

"You will stay in the Sailor in the future, would you like to?"

"Humble, not very willing."

"Oh?"

Zhuang Yong didn't expect Dou Huainan to reject him directly, and couldn't help but be curious: "Then where do you want to go?" ”

"Advice to the monarch, for the people to seek peace, I am a literati after all, if you say that the place I want to go to the most is of course Chang'an City...... What the brave man wants is the general's armor and green blade, and what I want is to pretend to be in a purple robe and set up in the court, to be able to declare the holy will for His Majesty, open the heavens for all the people, and be a cornerstone of Da Ning for thousands of years, which is my wish. ”

Zhuang Yong sighed: "My sailor, after all, I can't keep you, I will make a statement to Your Majesty, but you also know what kind of place to listen to for Your Majesty's declaration of holy will and open the heavens for all people, that place is not easy to enter." ”

That's the Cabinet.

"So I can't go to Chang'an City for the time being."

"Why?"

"Because the cabinet can't be brought down from the inside, you have to start from the outside, and stay in the water division for three years, if the person in the cabinet falls in three years, you will go to Chang'an."

"Okay."

Zhuang Yong smiled: "Then you will stay by my side and do things." ”

"It's better to be humble or close to the battlefield, just now the general asked me what Your Majesty's plans are, the best way is to slow down and let go, the people in the court will force Your Majesty to give a so-called statement, the scholar died of his son, and a large number of people are like a dead father...... So if my expectations are not bad, Your Majesty will divert the water division to the south - Pingyue Road, Pingyue Road was established at the beginning of His Majesty's close people, and the tongues of those people in the court can not reach no matter how long they are, and the people of Tingwei Mansion are not from their own minds in Pingyue Road, as far as the humble officials know, Tingwei Mansion is the most watery place, those civil officials hate them, if you say that you are loyal to Your Majesty, the four frontiers and four libraries of the forbidden army Tiger Ben, a sailor, plus a Tingwei Mansion...... Besides, if the sailor fights a beautiful battle in southern Xinjiang and returns to the division in a beautiful way, who in the court will dare to say anything more depressing at that time? ”

"Since it is Jin-Pingyue Road, it is natural to fight to seek Liren, and the lowly position is more willing to go up close to see what the Qiuli person looks like, and see the blood of the sword and gun at close range, and it is not real to feel it when staying with Lord Admiral, it is better to go to the front...... Please go to Shen Leng's army. ”

"Why him?"

"Bet."

"Bet?"

Zhuang Yong was even more puzzled.

"Shen Leng is only eighteen years old, he is a five-grade brave general, although he killed Mu Xiaofeng and let him be on the cusp, but if His Majesty really goes south, it is not only Lord Admiral, if you protect Admiral, Shen Leng cut off his head, and he can still block the mouths of those people, if he is lucky enough to guess that the Holy Will Water Master is going south, then this young man will be interesting......"

Dou Huainan said: "For me, staying by the Admiral's side is naturally closer to the Holy Family, but I really want to see what that young man is like, so that His Majesty wants to protect him, if the bet is right, maybe I will get up faster than staying by the Admiral's side." ”

He looked at Zhuang Yong and said seriously: "The humble position is not very good at saying beautiful words, and he doesn't know how to communicate and deal with things, the general stands tall and sees far, what I say the general thinks about and thinks, Shen Leng looks at him as a straightforward person, and when he comes to him, maybe he listens more to what I say." ”

Zhuang Yong couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: "It's so straightforward and thorough, aren't you afraid that I'll be difficult for you?" There is not much of your praise for me. ”

"There are too many shackles on the Admiral."

Dou Huainan sighed: "Before entering the cabinet, I didn't want to be so hard and tired......

"Recharge your batteries and make it to the cabinet?"

Zhuang Yong couldn't help laughing: "If Shen Leng hears your words, I'm afraid he will think that you say he is stupid." ”

Dou Huainan was noncommittal, just smiled.

By the lake, Chen Ran asked Shen Leng: "You haven't said it yet, what will be the final consequence of this matter?" ”

Shen sneered: "There is no consequence, I want to think about it, it's just that Mu Zhaotong died of a son, and Your Majesty didn't get what he wanted, we should be transferred south to Pingyue Road soon, and there is a big screen where I enter Pingyue Road, and the sound in the court can't blow the screen." ”

"Screens? What is it? ”

"Futaba."

Ye Kaitai Ye Sedum, the old man in the palace, what wind can blow through this screen.

"It's actually going south."

Chen Ran stood up and moved his limbs: "It's okay to go south, it's more comfortable for the wind to blow on the seaside, and it's always much more refreshing to kill those black monkey-like seekers than to fight with your own people in this place." ”

"Chen Ran, have you thought about why Your Majesty cares so much about the southern sea frontier?"

"It's too arrogant to ask for a liren."

"It's not that the people who seek to stand up are arrogant, it's the arrogance of the black warriors."

"What's the matter with the Black Warriors?"

"Pingyue Dao, that is, the original Nanyue country is very rich, not only Pingyue Dao is rich, Hujian Dao, Xidong Dao, Dinghai Dao are very rich, Your Majesty wants to mobilize troops against the northern Xinjiang, relying on the treasury and the strength of the north is obviously not enough, with the naval division to stabilize the sea areas of southern Xinjiang, and the people who seek to establish the country dare not dare to Koubian or even destroy the country, the naval division will continue to transport the food and materials from the south to the north, which will save at least half of the time and half of the consumption than taking the land route."

Shen Leng let out a long breath: "The henchmen are in great trouble, it's Heiwu." ”

After all, Shen Leng didn't expect His Majesty's will to come so quickly, and His Majesty's will arrived three days after the incident on Yanping Island, because the southern Xinjiang maritime situation was tight, and the people were miserable.

It stands to reason that the news of the news box can't go so fast, not to mention Zhuang Yong's twists and turns, and the twists and turns of reporting to the emperor about Bai Shangnian's Mu Xiaofeng are still halfway there, why did Your Majesty suddenly order the sailor to go south? This will came down before Mu Zhaotong made a fuss, could His Majesty not be clairvoyant? If you can't report it, he already knows?

When Shen Leng was thinking about this, a person wearing a six-rank civilian official uniform walked into his military tent, looking a little elegant and a little upright, and after seeing Shen Leng, he bowed down slightly: "Dou Huainan, who is lowly and has come to the general's tent to listen to orders on the orders of Lord Admiral." ”

Shen Leng's eyes immediately narrowed: "I can't think of it." ”

Dou Huainan replied with a smile: "If you can't figure it out, don't think about the matter of humbling first, Your Majesty has already ordered the general to run quickly, doesn't the general understand?" I came from the Admiral's side, thinking that I couldn't come empty-handed when I first arrived at the General's tent, so I asked for a gift. ”

Shen Leng felt that this person was interesting.

"Gifts? What gift? ”

"Speed up for the general to run."

Dou Huainan smiled: "The pioneer officer of the sailor division going south, you don't have to wait for the preparation of the sailor materials, the vanguard officer led the army to the south to explore the way for the army, so the general really has to run, fortunately, the general's banner people are here, and the boats are also there." ”

Shen Leng's heart suddenly tightened.

The tea master hasn't come back yet, and the gentleman hasn't come back yet, what should I do?

This is the fourth day that the tea master has left, and I miss the tea master.

Dou Huainan thought to himself, this young general's brows were tightly locked, and his face changed, what was he thinking? Could it be that you can't understand Your Majesty's superficial and almost exposed partiality?

How did he know that the young general was only thinking about beauties.

Oh, by the way, think of the titular father of the beautiful woman.