Chapter 166: Dark Chess
A few brothers, when they returned to the Xu Mansion, the subordinates of the entire Xu Mansion suddenly began to get busy, giving Xu Luo the wind.
During the banquet, Huangfu Chongzhi asked Xu Luodao: "Third child, father and emperor, do you really want you to go to the fiefdom?"
Xu Luo nodded, and then said, "What?"
Huangfu Chongzhi said with some worry: "Your fief is on the northern border, if there is no war, it is indeed a good place, I have heard that the place is rich in products, the soil is fertile, and there is a big river, which has a lot of precious fish, it can be said that it is an excellent fief, the six princes still asked their father to pass that place, but the father used the excuse that the place was too bad, and refused to ......"
"Bandits?" Xu Jie stared at each other and said in a deep voice: "Does the emperor want to send the third child to suppress the bandits?"
"I think that's what it means!" said the little fat man on the side, "Especially now that the war in the north is tight, if bandits break out again, the people living in the north must be very difficult." ”
"But the suppression of bandits should also be the business of the military department! We are bare-handed, the emperor will not give us soldiers, and the second will not give money, so what will we do to suppress the bandits?" the little fat man said, frowning slightly, and muttered: "The emperor is too dark, isn't it......?"
Xu Luo shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't talk nonsense, that is my fiefdom, even if Your Majesty has the intention of letting me suppress bandits, it is really normal." ”
Xu Luo said, he couldn't help but think of the game he had laid out a long time ago, and secretly said in his heart: How many things have they done now?"
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In a small town in the north of the Firmament Country.
Tang Yong, Li Yu, and Yuan Ren and Yuan Yi were sitting in a tavern drinking wine.
Looking at the gloomy weather outside, Tang Yong picked up the big bowl in front of him, took a sip of wine, and muttered: "This ghost weather makes me not in the mood at all." ”
"Boss Tang, will your mood be affected by the weather?" Li Yu took a sip of wine on the side and laughed.
"Nonsense! I can't have the weather I don't like?" Tang Yong glared at Li Yu, and then said: "Li Xiaoyu, speaking of which, you said that the young master will return to the imperial capital this time, can he be made a bigger official?
"Who knows Lu Dao, the young master has made great contributions in the south, it is said that the emperor should reward him heavily, but in the past two days, I heard that the young master destroyed a branch of the Wei clan in Hongcheng in the south, and I don't know if it is true or not, if it is true, it is really happy, but for the young master himself, I am afraid it is not good. ”
Yuan Ren said on the side: "The young master still has a sense of proportion, and he must have his own ideas when he does this." ”
Li Yu nodded: "That's natural, except for the young master, I have never seen a second person as smart as him." ”
"It's also very benevolent. Tang Yong took a big sip of wine and muttered: "If it weren't for the young master's big ** amount, I'm afraid my body would be rotten, where can I sit here and drink with you?"
"What happened back then, now it is basically certain that we blamed General Xu for being wrong, if it weren't for the young master, I'm afraid we would all do foolish things. Yuan Yi said on the side.
"Hey, it's okay to do foolish things, and I'm most afraid of becoming a fool, and I can't explain to those brothers when I die. Li Yu said, and then glanced outside, and there were already raindrops beginning to drip down.
"Almost?" Yuan Ren also glanced outside.
As a blinding flash of lightning flashed, a thunderclap followed.
Click!
It was as if the heavens and the earth trembled violently.
Yuan Ren stood up, grabbed a long knife on the table, took a hat with a wide brim, and walked out of the gang first.
Then, it was Yuan Yi, Tang Yong and Li Yu, almost dressed up in the same costume, and walked out together.
The richest man in the town, surnamed Zhang, is called Rich Zhang by the people in the town.
Few people know how rich Zhang Caizhu is, but he is kind and charitable on weekdays, repairing bridges and paving roads, and doing a lot of good things, so everyone in the town has a very high evaluation of Zhang Caizhu.
The town is located on the border of the sky, adjacent to the northern mountains, and is rich in resources, and often has adventurers coming and going, so the living conditions of the town's residents are not bad.
Rich Zhang is very low-key, rarely appears in front of everyone, in fact, few people know that this rich man Zhang who lives here all the year round is actually the son-in-law of Wei Feng, the prime minister of the empire!
Zhang Danian's name is Zhang Danian, when he was young, he studied at the Zhenwu Academy in the imperial capital, and made a private agreement with a concubine of the Wei family for life.
Originally, Zhang Danian, who was from an ordinary and even somewhat humble background, had no chance to marry the Wei family's little sister, even if this little sister was a concubine, he didn't have this qualification.
But he accidentally met Prime Minister Wei Feng, was called over, and after a deep talk, the young Zhang Danian became the son-in-law of the Wei family.
Of course, there are very few people who know about this matter, except for a few people from the Wei family, no one else knows that there is such a number one person in Lu Dao, and as for the whereabouts of a concubine of the Wei family, no one cares.
After graduating from Zhenwu Academy, Zhang Danian returned to this northern town and began to run a business, and in just a few years, the business became very large, and most of the adventurers who came and went to the town had various connections with the Zhang family.
Recently, Zhang Danian has been in a bad mood, and what affected his mood was a letter he received some time ago.
The content of the letter, only he himself knows, after reading it, Zhang Danian burned the letter. It was also from that day on, the smile on his face became less and less, and many times he locked himself in the study alone, and no one was seen.
Including his most beloved and respected lady on weekdays...... That Wei family's concubine is a little sister.
Zhang Danian walked around in the study, restless, he couldn't imagine that his most respected father-in-law, the prime minister of the dynasty, would let him do such a thing.
That's right, over the years, he has done a lot of things for his father-in-law in private, including amassing money through various means, including spying on some intelligence in the Northern Army, and he has done it all.
Although he knew that these things should not be done, he was already the son-in-law of the Wei family, and he had already been branded with the Wei family, which was a fact that could not be changed. And he privately thinks that doing these things is not a big deal, and he has also heard about the relationship between his father-in-law's family and the military, and it is really reasonable to help his father-in-law do something and suppress the military's power.
But this time, on the letter from his father-in-law, he was asked to complete a task now, and this task made Zhang Danian unable to sleep, and even a little panicked to the point of being at a loss!
This is no longer embarrassing, but not daring!
To put it simply, this matter is a struggle between the top leaders, and to put it seriously, this is tantamount to tantamount to betraying the country!
He Zhang Danian asked himself if he was not a good person, although he had built bridges and paved roads to accumulate virtue and do good deeds over the years, he had done dirty and dirty things in private, but these did not exceed his bottom limit in the end.
But this thing ...... It's really too serious!
"Could it be that my father-in-law is in the court, and he has been pressed to the point of being out of breath?" Zhang Danian thought in his heart, he knew very little about the things in the court, and most of what he heard on weekdays were some rumors.
On the contrary, he couldn't go to anyone to consult, not even the lady he respected the most.
This is also the father-in-law's own **.
"Either you disappear into this world quietly, or you do things for me, and I marry my daughter to you!"
This was the first thing Wei said to him when Zhang Danian met the powerful Wei Xiang.
Zhang Danian almost did not hesitate and directly agreed to do things for Wei Xiang. He doesn't want to die, he wants to marry the little sister of the Wei family, he loves her very much!
This reason is sufficient.
In the past few years, although he did not have any noble titles or a prominent reputation, he really became the number one person in this radius of hundreds of miles.
His life was rich, his family rose because of him, and in the eyes of his neighbors, he was still a rich young man who was kind and generous!
"What should I do?" muttered Zhang Danian.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and a gentle female voice sounded: "Master, are you there?"
Zhang Danian came back to his senses and replied, "It's Madame, come in." ”
The door was pushed open, and in came a beautiful young woman, holding an umbrella, and the rain was dripping from the umbrella.
The young woman put the umbrella aside, walked over, looked at Zhang Danian with a gentle face, and said softly: "Master, why have you been restless for a while now, is there something that makes you embarrassed?"
Zhang Danian walked around the desk, walked over, and took his wife's soft and tender little hand, although he had been a husband and wife for several years, he had never been tired of this lady.
The young woman's face flushed slightly, and she said softly, "This is in the study!"
"Huh. Zhang Danian went over and closed the door, then hugged his wife in his arms, smelled the fragrance of his wife's hair, and murmured: "Madam, if I do something that everyone is angry with and will inevitably be spurned by the world, you ...... Will you stop loving me?"
"Good and dignified, why did you suddenly say such things? What did you do that everyone and God are angry about? Why are you spurned by the world?" The young woman hugged Zhang Danian's waist and said softly: "I only know that my husband is a good person who is kind and charitable!"
"Is it a good person?" Zhang Danian smiled bitterly, and said secretly in his heart: Your father ...... He won't give me a chance to be a good person!
"Okay madam, there's nothing to do, don't worry, I'll always be by your side. Zhang Da Young sighed, said slowly, and then grabbed a handful of the young woman's plump ass.
The young woman Xia Fei cheeks, as if she had run away, snorted, and ran out.
Zhang Danian looked at his wife's slender back, laughed silently, and then sat back on the chair, opened the drawer of the table, there, there was a large package, and looked at the package in a daze for a long time, Zhang Danian sighed and muttered: "Tens of thousands of lives!