Chapter 4420: Pulling Down
Luo Fengtang smiled and nodded, then looked at Vice General Xie, "General Xie, you are worthy of being my most capable subordinate, military advisor, this analysis makes perfect sense. "
Vice General Xie clasped his fists, with a respectful look on his face: "How can I succeed today? The day is entirely dependent on your support, general. My subordinates will do their best to serve the general. "
Luo Fengtang smiled with satisfaction, "Okay, I understand your loyalty. I will leave the sobering soup and you can retreat. Get off!”
Vice General Xie took one look at the post and hesitated.
"General..."
Luo Fengtang waved his hand: "I've been drinking too much tonight, and I'm a little dizzy. We'll talk about the post tomorrow. Please step aside!"
Vice General Xie said, 'I follow my order. ', bowed and exited the house.
As Lieutenant General Xie stepped away, Luo Fengtang glanced sideways into the shadows.
There was a fluctuation in the shadow, and a dark figure flashed out, chasing the direction where Vice General Xie left.
Vice General Xie left the courtyard where Luo Fengtang was staying and walked straight out.
He is very vigilant. He looks back as he walks, always on guard to see if there is a follower behind him.
After leaving the gate of the courtyard and coming to the street, he deliberately detoured through two streets and finally came to the back door of a teahouse.
Two long and three short. After patting the door five times, the door to the backyard opened. It was opened by an old man with a hunchback.
"My master has been waiting for you for a long time." The hunchbacked old man said in a hoarse voice and stepped aside to make way.
Vice General Xie nodded to the hunchbacked old man and ducked into the yard.
The hunchbacked old man stuck his head out and looked outside a few more times. It was already nightfall, there were no pedestrians on the street, and there were only a few wisps of night wind blowing up fallen leaves on the empty street.
The hunchbacked old man retracted his body and immediately closed the courtyard door tightly.
In an elegant room on the second floor of the tea house, the fragrance of tea overflows. Behind the bead curtain sits a beauty, holding a pipa in her hand and playing softly, singing softly.
There are two men sitting and standing on this side of the curtain. The man sitting is about forty years old. He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, high cheekbones, and a faint word "Chuan" between his eyebrows.
He sipped the fragrant tea in the bowl and looked across the beaded jade curtain to the beauty behind the curtain. In front of the beauty, his eyes were clear.
Obviously, this is a person who likes to think and work hard, and will not give up until he achieves his goal.
There was a noise outside the door, and another man dressed as a butler standing behind him moved his feet and walked towards the door.
After a while, the housekeeper came back, taking Vice General Xie behind him.
"Master, General Xie is here." The housekeeper leaned over and said.
The middle-aged man sitting there turned around and saw Vice General Xie who was following the housekeeper with a embarrassed look on his face. The middle-aged man put down the tea bowl in his hand, gave Vice General Xie a friendly smile, raised his hand and made a gesture. 'Sit' gesture.
Vice General Xie glanced at the low-key but luxurious decoration in the room, as well as the looming beauty and lingering voice behind the curtain, and he felt uncomfortable all over.
He stood there and said to the middle-aged man: "Master Hang, I have handed over the post you asked me to give to General Luo."
"It's time. I've already said what I said, I've tried my best, and I won't get involved in this next matter. , the tea here is good, Mr. Hang, please take your time, Xie will take his leave first!"
"General Xie, you are here, why are you leaving in such a hurry? It's not too late to listen to a little tune before leaving." Mr. Hang said with a smile and stood up.
Lieutenant General Xie looked embarrassed and said: "Master Hang, you are an officer and I am a soldier. It is a special period now. It is best for us to have as little contact as possible to avoid rumors." Master Hang stood there with a hand in his hand. Teapot, pouring tea.
Hearing this, his movements paused slightly.
"Rumors?" He raised his eyelids and glanced at Vice General Xie, then chuckled and shook his head.
The sound of the silk and bamboo strings did not stop. On the side, an official said: "General Xie, please forgive me for being so presumptuous. What you said is wrong."
"General Xie, you are a soldier, and we, my lords, are officers. Since ancient times, officers and soldiers have been serving the emperor as one family."
"General Xie, you are majestic, upright, clean and self-sufficient, and protect your family and country. Where are we, lords? As a local official, you bring benefits to the people in the village. The gathering of your officials and soldiers is a blessing to the people of Tianhai County!" Guan Jia said.
Lieutenant General Xie smiled awkwardly and stood there, neither leaving nor staying.
Master Hang has already walked over, holding a cup of fragrant tea in his hand.
"Thank you, General. Please sit down and have tea together. I have heard about the reputation of the General for a long time and have wanted to make friends with heroes like the General for a long time. Please sit down, please sit down. ! ”
The fragrant tea was stuffed into his hands, and Mr. Hang personally put his arm around his shoulders. His words were all flattering. The dignified governor of a county had such a low profile that Vice General Xie could no longer refuse.
Just like that, with half a push, Lieutenant General Xie sat down...
Bie Yuan.
Secret guard Ye Yi and Luo Fengtang whispered a few words, and then stood aside, waiting for the next instruction.
After Luo Fengtang listened, he leaned back on the chair, his eyes slightly narrowed, and his dark and cold pupils were filled with despair!
"I suddenly remembered what my wife said."
After a long time, Luo Fengtang said to himself.
Ye Yi looked at Luo Fengtang.
Luo Fengtang said: "In this world, there are very few people who don't back up. They only care about whether the chips for betrayal are enough."
"Vice General Xie has been with me for nearly ten years. Together with Deputy General Zhou, I was the one who cultivated him, but I didn’t expect that he would do something like a seller seeking glory.”
Yoruichi also frowned, expressing confusion about this.
"Master, you have so much trust in Vice General Xie and entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility. In the past two years, the collection and dispatch of the army's food and salary have been left to Vice General Xie. My subordinates really can't figure it out. Why are you colluding with Hang Zhenxing, a bad official?"
Luo Fengtang raised his eyebrows, "People die for money, and birds die for food. Everyone has desires, and so does Lieutenant General Xie. Xing just identified what Vice General Xie lacked, and then gave him what he lacked."
"This can easily explain why I have been keeping the matter of food and salary a secret for the past two years. In fact, it turns out that something happened to the most trusted person around me!"
Ye Yiyi nodded, with a murderous look in his eyes: "Master, what should we do next?"
"Obviously, Hang Zhenxing made an appointment with Vice General Xie to go to the teahouse tonight to talk. He wanted to use Vice General Xie to lure you, the master, into the water again. That post was the bait..."
Luo Fengtang raised his hand to interrupt Ye Yi.
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cub? Since these people are so 'sincere' in wanting to win me over, if they are really just for the support of a mere citizen of Tianhai County, then their appetite is too small."< br>
“I want to see what is the real purpose of all their troubles!”
(End of this chapter)