Chapter 430: Shadows

Chen Ci was a general who had been suppressed for many years when Luo Kuan was in charge of the military department. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the contradiction between him and Luo Kuan, everyone in the court knows about it, and no one knows it, but because of this, no matter what Luo Kuan thinks of to take him down, there is always a group of people standing behind him to support him from falling, among these people, the most important is of course the emperor.

But even so, Chen Ci still had to stay aggrievedly on the Qin-Yue border as a commander in the Luokuan era, although there were more than 30,000 soldiers under his command, but both combat effectiveness and equipment were relatively weak. At that time, the relationship between Qin and Vietnam had always been very good, and there was no war on the border, so these soldiers were naturally some decorations.

Chen Kuan has been stationed on the Qin-Yue border for many years, and he is familiar with the mountains and rivers here, so he will be reused immediately, and his troops and horses have increased rapidly, and all kinds of latest equipment and weapons have been continuously transported to the army, becoming the main force to resist the invasion of Qin.

With such a person on the front line, and with the largest number of troops on the front line, Deng Zhong naturally doubted the possibility of Luo Yishui's success. Even Luo Yishui's own subordinate Pan Hong made it clear that he would not follow him.

Chen Ci had been on the Qin-Yue border for more than ten years, and his prestige among his subordinates was extremely high, and Deng Zhongzhong couldn't think of any way for Luo Yishui to make Chen Ci's army on the right flank completely give up resistance and cede Kaiping County to them.

But I don't understand it, but the conditions given by Luo Yishui are extremely attractive, basically Kaiping County can get it for nothing, and in the first battle, Luo Yishui waved his army back to attack the capital of Yue, and the Taiping army of Shayang County will not let go of this great opportunity, and it will inevitably take the opportunity to make trouble, and the chaos in the country of Yue is certain. After the Qin people took Kaiping County, they could also sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, waiting for the opportunity to grab greater benefits. For the Qin people in the bitter cold region of the west, the land of the Yue people is much more fertile than theirs, and the Qin people have a strong army, but they are trapped in the country's economy is really unsustainable, and they often have to spit out the meat in their mouths, which makes everyone hold their breath in their hearts. If they have the opportunity to obtain large pieces of fertile land without any sequelae, then with the cohesion of the Qin people, it will not be long before they can make up for their biggest shortcomings.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the weather is fine, but it seems colder, because of the war, there are hardly many people here, but all those who have a little way and a little wealth have fled to the interior, and those who stay are really no way, people who have nowhere to go, and most of the people who come and go in the city are soldiers in military uniforms.

In the whole city, because of the existence of these soldiers, there is more of a solemn atmosphere, and there is less of the festive atmosphere of the New Year's Festival, even if some streets are hung with red lanterns, and some people are also sticking Spring Festival couplets by the doors.

The crisp sound of horses' hooves shattered the silence of the city, and dozens of fast horses entered the city as if the wind was blowing, and until they reached the outside of the general's mansion, a general about fifty years old turned over and dismounted, threw the reins of the horse to the guards behind him, and strode towards the palace.

"The general is back?" The guards bowed and saluted, pushing open the vermilion door, Chen Ci frowned, did not make a sound, and walked quickly into the house.

There were a lot of people sitting in the hall, and the dishes on the table of the Eight Immortals were no longer hot, and when they saw Chen Ci walk in the door, all the people in the room stood up.

Mrs. Chen, who was still charming, came over, took off the cloak behind him, and looked at him with disgust: "I don't stay at home for a few days during the Chinese New Year, look at this family, they are all waiting for you to eat, this dish has been heated several times." The little dolls are starving. ”

The two tightly wrapped little dolls staggered towards Chen Ci, opened their hands, grandpa and grandfather screamed, Chen Ci showed some smiles on his face, bent down and held the two grandchildren in his arms, walked to the top of the big table, sat down, and waved his hand: "All sit, all sit!" ”

The two sons Chen Zhihua, Chen Jinhua and their respective wives sat down, but Mrs. Chen was busy directing the maids and servants to remove the dishes and reheat them again, but Chen Ci smiled and dipped the chopsticks in the wine, fed them to the mouths of the two children, and let them suck.

"Children are so young, don't let them get drunk." Mrs. Chen reached out to grab the chopsticks, but Chen Ci laughed and said, "My grandson Chen Ci is going to dominate the territory in the future, can this little wine make them drunk?" Come on, try it again. ”

Mrs. Chen looked at Chen Ci helplessly, but the two little guys smiled, licked it, and waved their hands unsatisfied, even wanting to ask for it again.

"Father, what did Xiao Dashuai say?" The eldest son, Chen Zhihua, asked.

"What else can I say? Be on your guard. In addition, Pan Hong's army was transferred to Fang County. Chen Ci glanced at him and said.

Chen Zhihua smiled, "This is to guard against Pan Hong, they have just withdrawn a few days ago, pushing them to the front, this is also afraid that Luo Yishui will come and cause chaos." ”

Chen Ci rolled his eyes, "Can you prevent it?" Since you don't trust Pan Hong, why do you want to reuse him? Since you want to use him, you can't be so suspicious, don't be suspicious when you use people, don't use suspicious people, Xiao Dashuai is still a little worse after all. ”

"No wonder Xiao Dashuai, that army must have been led by Luo Yishui for many years." Chen Jinhua said.

While talking, the reheated meal was already served, and the two daughters-in-law hurriedly took the child from Chen Ci's hands and hugged themselves to the side to coax, while Chen Ci stopped talking, bowed his head and gulped down to eat and drink.

Although he was at home, Chen Ci was still like being in the army, three or two were already a few big bowls of rice, a pound of wine in his stomach, patted his belly and stood up, looked at his wife who hadn't even finished a small bowl of rice, and said, "You eat slowly!" I went back to my study to read the Military Intelligence Bulletin. ”

"What's there to see about the New Year? Could it be that if you don't become a Qin person, you won't be a year? Mrs. Chen raised her head a little dissatisfied: "Can't the family sit down and talk for a while?" ”

"It would be good if the Qin people also wanted you to think so, I'm afraid they wouldn't think so. As soon as we let up, they might come at us. Chen Ci said: "It's wartime, we are here on the front line, and we can't relax at all." ”

Listening to Chen Ci's words, Mrs. Chen sighed, lowered her head and picked up the rice grains wordlessly, Chen Ci walked a few steps, and then turned back to look at her two sons: "You two, you will also go back to the army for me tomorrow." ”

"Yes, Father!" Chen Zhihua and Chen Jinhua stood up and said respectfully.

For this family, Chen Ci is their heaven, and if they say it, they naturally cannot be disobeyed, so even Mrs. Chen can only complain and cannot change the final result, looking at the sad looks of the two daughters-in-law on the side, Mrs. Chen sighed heavily. Since the start of the Qin-Yue war, in the past two years, the time for the two sons to return home has become less and less.

Back in the back study, Chen Ci sat in a chair, not reading the military intelligence report as he told his wife. This study is a forbidden area of Chen's house, and even his wife and two sons are not allowed to enter this study.

After sitting for a long time, Chen Ci stood up, walked to the bookshelf, put his hands on the frame of the bookshelf, and with a slight force, the two bookshelves that seemed to be nailed to the wall suddenly opened to both sides, revealing a shrine inside.

If someone is around, their eye beads will definitely fall off, because what is offered in this shrine is not a god and Buddha, but a spirit card, and there is only one name on the spirit card, which is called Luo Kuan.

Up and down the Yue court, no one knew that Luo Kuan had suppressed Chen Ci for more than ten years, if it weren't for the support of the emperor and others, Chen Ci would have been digging the ground with a hoe at home, how could he have the prestige of leading tens of thousands of people to fight with the Qin State today.

Take out the three pillars of incense from under the shrine, light it, Chen Ci raised his hands above his head, and after making three strokes, he inserted the three pillars of incense into the incense burner.

"Luo Gong, Luo Yishui is still alive, this makes me overjoyed. He suddenly appeared in the midst of the Qi Chu War, and then disappeared again, and if I'm not mistaken, he should be coming to me soon. What you said to me at the beginning, I really didn't expect it to become a reality, and I laughed at you for doing this too much, but I didn't expect it to become true. Chen Ci sat cross-legged on the ground, looked at the spirit card, and said slowly.

"Luo Gong, since you have already taken precautions, why did you have no power to resist in the Yuejing Incident? It happened so fast that I had to endure it. I thought that there was no one left in the Luo family, and I forced myself to forget about you, but I didn't expect that Luo Yishui was still alive. It was so nice that we could do it all over again. ”

Chen Ci had a sad look on his face.

Outside the window, a long sigh was heard. Chen Ci's face changed suddenly, his wrist flicked, and a knife came out of the window like lightning, but it was like a mud cow entering the sea, silent.

Stretching out his hand, the saber next to the bookcase had already flown into Chen Ci's hand, and with a choking sound, the horizontal knife was unsheathed, and he walked to the window step by step.

The window was pulled open from the outside, revealing a familiar and yet unfamiliar face.

"Luo Yishui!" With a bang, the saber in his hand fell to the ground.

"Now I'm afraid that in the whole of Dayue, the only one who can put a pillar of incense on my father is General Chen." Luo Yishui floated into the house, gently put the knife in his hand on the table, walked to the shrine, and knelt down.

"Dad, I'm back!" He bowed his head heavily, thumping and whimpering.

Chen Ci walked over and picked up Luo Yishui from the ground: "If Luo Gong knew that you were still alive, Jiuquan would also be happy." ”

Luo Yishui looked at Chen Ci and suddenly bent down deeply: "General Chen, thank you, thank you!" ”

"What is there to thank for, if it wasn't for Luo Gong back then, where would Chen Ci come from!" Chen Ci smiled and said, "It's good if you're back." (To be continued.) )