Chapter 709: Joining Forces (I)
The fat man is Lu Mingyu, who has not appeared for a long time, and this green building is not in Chang'an, but in Fanyang.
A year ago, Li Shimin held a civil and military competition after his meritorious service in Chang'an City, and after that day, Zhou Daowu was sent to Fanyang because of his outstanding performance.
Yes, that's right, Zhou Daowu was sent to Fan Yang because of his good performance, unlike Chen Fei, who went to the Western Regions completely because he made a mistake and was passed by.
Because Zhou Daowu's father died very early, he only left one title for him, and nothing else, and everything else needs to be worked hard by himself in the future.
Li Shimin wanted to train him, and Xue Yantuo was restless at that time, so he assigned him to Fanyang and asked him to guard the frontier and make contributions on his own.
Who knew that Xue Yantuo would kill himself a year later, which was also an ending that no one expected.
Yesterday, Zhou Daowu received a letter from Chang'an City, informing him that he was going to be transferred back to Chang'an, and in addition, Chang'an Cheng and some of his good friends sent some news together.
Two of them stung him deeply.
First, Chen Fei made great contributions in the Western Regions, and Xue Yantuo died because of the thunderbolt fire, which was equivalent to an indirect defeat in the hands of Chen Fei. This made his teeth itch with hatred, and he was ended by Chen Fei in such a vague way before his achievements began, which really annoyed him.
The second news is that it makes him almost crazy! The assassination of Chen Fei and Linchuan in the tryst of Huichang Temple has become known to everyone in Chang'an City. Zhou Daowu's friend knew that Zhou Daowu loved Princess Linchuan, and informed him of what happened at that time and Li Shimin's attitude towards the matter through letters.
When he saw the news, Zhou Daowu almost went crazy and ate people, and his mood was extremely bad, and after a day, not only did he not get better, but became more and more depressed.
Lu Mingyu was a friend that Zhou Daowu made when he first arrived in Fanyang, and he valued the relationship between Zhou Daowu and the imperial court and intended to make friends. Now seeing Zhou Daowu's appearance, he pushed away the Qinglou woman beside him, sat down next to Zhou Daowu, poured a glass of wine for him and himself, touched a glass, and said with a smile: "Zhou Xiaojiang has something unhappy, even if he says it, if he can help, my brother will definitely not refuse!" ”
Several other gentlemen also coaxed, clamoring to stand up for Zhou Daowu, and one of them probably drank too much, patted the table and said that he would go into battle in person and vent his anger for Zhou Daowu.
Zhou Daowu glanced at the gentlemen who were giggling and playing inappropriately, put down the wine glass, and said with a drunken smile: "Help me?" You can't help me, no one can help me... No one can help me...... Hehehe......"
Lu Mingyu's small eyes narrowed into a slit, and he intimately hooked up on Zhou Daowu's shoulder. Now the life of the Lu family is not very good, after Zhou Daowu is a meritorious service, he has been brought up by Li Shimin since he was a child, for Lu Mingyu, such a person must maintain a good relationship, and he must help when he should help, so that he can remember his goodness, and it will be a resource that he Lu Mingyu can use in the future.
"Hehe, Brother Zhou laughed, who are we with whom, even if there is anything to say, how uncomfortable is it to hold it in your stomach and drink alcohol? We people, although we don't have any official titles, but we can use a lot of resources, don't worry, as long as you say it, there are no people who can't be messed with in Fanyang's one-third of an acre, the brothers say yes! ”
"Yes!" A group of gentlemen toasted each other in celebration, with a smug look on their faces.
Just like Lu Mingyu said, who of them is involved in officialdom, but after they are all famous families, they have resources that outsiders can't imagine, not to mention that they also know how to hold together, they have a lot of contacts with each other, and when they are united, they can almost go sideways in Fanyang, and there is almost nothing that cannot be settled.
Zhou Daowu glanced at them, then shook his head and said in a low voice: "You can't help me, the person I hate is not here, in Chang'an." ”
"This...", the gentleman who happened to be triumphant suddenly deflated, looked at each other, and shrugged helplessly. They can do anything wrong on the Fanyang territory, but Chang'an ....... I'm afraid even their fathers have to be careful when they go there.
It is not only at the foot of the Son of Heaven, but also a place where famous families gather, and it is really insignificant to move bricks and smash them on Chang'an Street with bricks like them.
Lu Mingyu is not worried, but happy, because he still has some connections in Chang'an, maybe he can help, and he can help with so many people, and Zhou Daowu will definitely remember him well in the future.
"Chang'an?" Lu Mingyu touched his fat chin, pretended to be deep, thought for a while and said, "Brother Zhou, I still have some connections in Chang'an, maybe I can help." ”
Zhou Daowu glanced at him drunkenly, poured a sip of wine into his mouth, wiped his mouth and said decadently: "Chen Fei, have you heard of it?" Can you deal with him? ”
"Uh..." Hearing Chen Fei's name, Lu Mingyu felt like he was choked by the neck, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Chen Fei... How could it be this guy? Brother Zhou, what contradiction do you have with him? How can you have a grudge against him? ”
Zhou Daowu smiled and didn't say the reason, but asked rhetorically: "Brother Lu seems to be very familiar with him?" ”
How could he not be familiar with it, his brother sent someone to assassinate him in the first place! Lu Mingyu secretly complained in his heart, and then the fat on his face smiled.
"Familiar, there have been conflicts with him before, hehe, this is our common enemy, maybe we can join forces and find a way to get rid of him together!"
"Oh?" Zhou Daowu glanced at Lu Mingyu unexpectedly, "I didn't expect you to really have a conflict with him, how hateful is this person?" There are enemies everywhere! ”
Lu Mingyu sneered, "At the beginning, he won me a lot of silver by tricks, which made me ugly, hum!" I'm going to have to get this field back sooner or later, I don't know if Brother Zhou is ......"
"He robbed the woman I love!" Zhou Daowu slapped the table hard, and the wine splashed and scattered all over the ground.
Lu Mingyu's eyes lit up, he also heard some rumors in Chang'an City, and had a vague guess in his heart, but he didn't say it thoroughly, so as not to sprinkle salt on Zhou Daowu's wounds, now what he has to do is to take this opportunity to tie Zhou Daowu to his chariot, so as to gain more bargaining chips for himself to compete for power in the family in the future, and besides, he really wants to get rid of Chen Fei.
"Hehe, since that's the case, it's easy to do, he is our common enemy, Brother Zhou, we can join forces, one bright and one dark, and eliminate the enemy together!"
Zhou Daowu was silent and did not answer Lu Mingyu. He was not in a hurry, he looked at Zhou Daowu with a smile, waiting for him to give an answer.
After a long time, Zhou Daowu squeezed a few words out of his mouth. "How do you join forces?"
(End of chapter)