Chapter 403 403: Old Friend from the Homeland (Part 2) [2-in-1]
Silence!
Deathly silence!
The general just took a few breaths in confusion, and quickly reacted. He stepped forward in three steps and two steps at a time, confirming again and again that the face was small, and said excitedly: "Wu Hui! It's really you!"
He tried hard to digest the surprise in front of him, turned to the chief clerk and said: "Teacher, Wuhui is still alive!"
The tone of the words was one of unadulterated ecstasy.
The chief clerk wanted to grab this guy’s head and shake it.
Ecstasy what ecstasy?
Such a big living person is sitting here, can’t he see it? Do I need to be reminded again and again that this is a living Chu Wuhui? The key point now is, can Chu Wuhui deceive the corpse into being alive?
The point is not to worry about the head on your neck?
Thousands of words turned into silence and buried deep in my heart.
You can't say these words. Saying them will anger people.
Who is angered?
Infuriating creditors.
Who is the creditor?
Haha, of course it was Chu Wuhui.
Speaking of this sinful debt, Master Yu also wanted to scold his mother in his heart - this debt is not easy to sort out clearly.
Chu Yao was originally the son of a poor sharecropper. His father was lazy and his mother had lost her foundation during childbirth. With only one person, he was unable to raise the children in the family. In order to fill the vacancy caused by his husband, he had no choice but to be ruthless. He gritted his teeth and sold his children.
It happened that the eldest son of the Chu family wanted to select a book boy. The steward in charge of purchasing saw that Chu Yao was thin but had bright eyes and an intelligent look, so he bought him back.
The eldest son is naturally the commander-in-chief at this time.
This guy has been fond of martial arts since he was a child, but he doesn't like literature.
But he had to cope with his studies, so he found Chu Yao, a scholar, to take his place. Chu Yao had started his education together with his eldest son, and the two had the same academic progress. However, knowing a son is better than a father. How could the owner of the Chu Mansion not know the level of his own skinned monkey?
After listening to the enlightenment teacher saying that his son has excellent academic performance and has potential to govern the world, the master of the Chu family knew that his homework was fake.
Without much checking, it was revealed that Chu Yao helped Zhu Dao to write as a ghostwriter. However, the master of the Chu Mansion did not scold Chu Yao for this. Instead, after a teaching test, he admired Chu Yao very much, gave him the surname "Chu", and accepted him as a student. , the more I teach, the more I like it.
In the Chu Mansion, except for this status, Chu Yao's treatment is almost the same as that of the eldest son. He is even better in getting the attention of the master of the Chu Mansion, the teacher. It is hard to tell for a moment. Which of the two is his biological child?
But no matter what, Chu Yao, the son of a sharecropper, has completely risen through the ranks and become a literary scholar. From the day he was accepted as a disciple to the year before he was crowned, these years can only be described by the four words "high-spirited". The young man studied on the border of the Northern Desert and commanded the coalition forces of various countries to nearly destroy the Northern Desert dungeon. At the same time, he was also successfully awarded the title of "Three Heroes of Chu" by the outside world.
Three second-grade Chinese scribes.
He is the youngest one. At that time, the young man, dressed in an elegant long robe, wearing a hat and a jingle, walked side by side with a group of battle-hardened warriors. He raised his hands and waved his sleeves to point at the thousands of troops on the battlefield. How indulgent and wanton he was!
If God is unfair and favors someone, then Chu Yao will definitely be one of the favored ones. His reputation in the outside world even overshadowed the small Chu country. Master Yu saw all this with his own eyes, and watched him go from dazzling to dim.
He was also one of the promoters of this process.
"...I'm not blind, I saw it." Master Yu calmed down and said, "Didn't you see the look in his eyes that he wanted to draw his sword and chop you? He doesn't have a long memory after so many years..."
The general seemed to remember something and turned pale.
With a stern expression, he took back the hand he wanted to extend.
Lu Jue and Xu Quan are trying to understand this, but there is no narration to explain. They can only rely on their own thinking and understanding, and at the same time be prepared to support Chu Yao.
The guard frowned and said, "Does Wuhui want to kill me?"
Master Yu wanted to close his eyes and turned his head. Isn't this fool afraid that Chu Yao will take advantage of the situation and ask his father to pay his debt?
Chu Yao’s teacher was a very loyal person and a staunch princeling. The prince at that time was not liked by the king. The other princes had their own advantages. Among them, the most favored one was also favored. The mother-in-law helped blow the wind on the pillow...
The position of the prince is shaky.
At this time, the prince heard about Chu Yao's reputation and knew that Chu Yao was the favorite disciple of the prince's official, so he came up with an extremely bold idea. If he can get Chu Yao's second-grade Chinese heart, he will naturally gain more support from courtiers.
After all——
Aren’t those literary scholars proudly saying that the grade of a literary mind cannot determine the strength of a scribe? So, it shouldn’t matter whether Chu Yao is a second-grade Chinese character or a seventh-grade Chinese character, right? The final decision was made and the matter was discussed with close friends.
Teacher Chu Yao was a little embarrassed at first.
He is still somewhat sincere towards Chu Yao, otherwise he would not have regarded him as his own son for many years. Chu Yao is smart, humble and filial. He is a person who remembers his kindness and will be the greatest help to the Chu family and his eldest son in the future. The two of them are both civilized and military, and they have a friendship and tacit understanding that they have grown up with together since childhood. No matter what happened to the Chu State, they can always support each other, win a place, and shine.
But after the prince put pressure on him several times, he also wavered and comforted himself - after all, the prince just wanted to exchange literary minds and not outright plunder. Chu Yao was still a literary scholar, and he would be able to do it with a little effort in the future. Make a difference. Without his kindness of knowledge and cultivation, Chu Yao would have died of hunger and cold, without being able to speak or read Chinese characters. How could he have a chance to succeed?
He should learn to be satisfied and grateful.
So there was that banquet in the royal court.
Chu Yao was accidentally recruited and imprisoned.
The person who replaced the two literary hearts with his own hands was Yu Shizhong, who had the rare scribe's method of "substituting a beam for a pillar".
This Yu Shizhong came from another country to the Chu State when his country was in trouble. The Crown Prince was kind to him, and later he was favored to promote him and put him in a more important position. Privately, he had a very good relationship with Chu Yao, a teacher from the Prince's lineage, and he also gave him a favor. The latter's eldest son became a teacher.
After this incident, both Yu Shizhong and Teacher Chu Yao felt extremely guilty for the young man, and tried every means to make up for it. Chu Yao learned his tea art from Yu Shizhong, and his calligraphy was also carefully taught by the other party. It was just a relationship——
Anyway, Yu Shizhong hasn't seen through Chu Yao since then. His intuition tells him that Chu Yao is not a person who will accept the situation, but Chu Yao does not have any resentment in his actions. He even felt that if the prince hadn't played him to death and given Chu Yao enough time to save up, the young man would definitely come back with revenge.
Alas——
I had known that this prince would be so good. He was defeated by several other brothers and fell into the "disaster of victory". He also fell into the toilet in the middle of the night while in captivity. Drowning in the latrine... He's dead, and he's wasting his precious second-grade Chinese heart!
Yu Shizhong felt even more guilty about Chu Yao.
But he had no energy left to help Chu Yao.
Because the prince's party members were cut off, he was also affected here. He was forced into prison and imprisoned for two months. When he came out, he heard that Chu's house had been confiscated, and Chu Yao was among them.
He was confused, does this have anything to do with Chu Yao?
Check it out, good guy!
Teacher Chu Yao did not return the student to a good place at all, and he was still in the name of Chu Mansion, so Chu Yao was confiscated as "Chu Mansion Property", deposed to Dan Mansion, confiscated and sold.
If Chu Yao hadn't made many good friends, and during the period of confinement in Yu Shizhong, these friends worked to send him to Chu Ji's house as a retainer, I'm afraid his end would have been even worse.
Later, in order to please the leader of Xin State, the leader of Chu State sent his beloved daughter Chu Ji to the court of King Xin, and Chu Yao also left Chu State as a dowry as a retainer. After that, Shizhong Yu only knew that Chu Ji died suddenly and her dowry was disposed of.
In other words——
Chu Yao died just like that.
Many years later, this man committed suicide again.
Not only did he not die, he also recovered his Wenxin and felt the power of its aura. It was probably on par with the unlucky Wenxin back then, and it turned out to be a second-grade upper-middle-class one! Shizhong Yu didn't know whether to be grateful and relieved, or to scold her.
Because Chu Yao obviously came with bad intentions this time!
The leader, this fool, asked the other party if they were coming to kill him! Just when Shizhong Yu was going through a lot of things in his heart, Chu Yao quietly asked his former Fa Xiao: "What if I say yes?"
The general was startled.
I didn’t seem to expect this answer.
However, it is not difficult to answer: "Then you must have the ability to kill me. If not, please do it next time."
"Yao thought that because of your temperament, you would be killed at the slightest sign of your neck."
After Chu Yao finished speaking, he chuckled.
The general naturally heard the sarcasm in Chu Yao's words.
He softened his voice and said: "At this moment, at that moment, Yonggu Pass is what I promise to be guarded. If the door fails to close or I die in battle, the body will be left at your disposal. You can crush the bones and spread the ashes. , Hanging in the sun, it’s up to you!”
During the Chu Mansion disaster, he was still leading troops on the border. He was able to survive by relying on his status as the son-in-law of the king. After hurried back, he took his parents, who had despised common people, to his ancestral home to support him.
After the Chu Kingdom was destroyed, he was displaced several times... He always thought that Chu Yao was dead.
A tomb was built in his ancestral home.
Afterwards, he was rescued by the Sheriff of Longwu County by coincidence.
Chu Yao wanted his life, but he had nothing to say.
The father's debt is repaid by the son, as it should be.
But - time has changed, and in the more than ten years since they were separated, he has also experienced a lot of things, and he cannot indulge and do whatever he wants. To say where I am most gratified, it should be when I see Chu Yao again. Chu Yao regains Wenxin and walks out of the quagmire.
"Let's do this -" the general took out the dagger from his armor and handed it out, saying, "I make good use of my right hand in battle, and this left arm is my interest for you, Wuhui, how about this?"< br>
Chu Yao looked at the dagger silently.
The dagger looks familiar to him.
This was a crowning gift given to Fa Xiao when he was young.
Lü Jue and Xu Quan watched as their nerves became more and more tense. Especially when Chu Yao raised his hand to hold the dagger, the general breathed a rare sigh of relief. However, Chu Yao's next move was unexpected. He actually pushed the dagger back.
He said indifferently: "Yao doesn't want to mention what happened back then. No matter what, your father is right in what he said - without the Chu family's careful cultivation over the years, there would never be a person like 'Chu Yao' . That second-class Chinese heart , I made up my mind at that time and told myself that I would just repay this grudge for many years. I don’t owe you anything, and I don’t care about your arm.”
Chu Yao. Don’t you hate it?
Of course he hates it.
Since the year before he was crowned, he has spent more than ten years in hatred, burning his heart with flames. He can speak so lightly now just because he has regained everything now, so he can calmly reconcile all the grudges in the past.
He has a clear sense of grudges and will not deny the kindness of his mentor over the years because of what happened later. Neither the mentor nor Yu Shizhong can be regarded as purely good people, but they are not purely evil people either. They are just secular mediocrities who are forced to obey the oppression of the royal power.
In this world, he will not be the first or the last person to encounter someone like Chu Yao.
"The friendship between you and me ends here."
Chu Yao said this very calmly.
The general barely grasped the dagger in his hand, and his lips quivered for a moment: "...Ah, so, that's fine, that's fine... You have always been a magnanimous person, with a forlorn mind and an open mind... If my father knew you If you are still here, you may be able to rest your eyes..."
Chu Yao just frowned slightly, without any trouble.
Master Yu sighed at the side: "But..."
No more.
Chu Yao said: "Please tell me."
Chief Yu swallowed back his words and stopped talking.
Chu Yao can only restore Wen Xin by being loyal to Zheng Qiao, and Zheng Qiao is willing to die for this reason. The national border barrier is in danger, and Shiwu's ambitions have expanded to the point that he may send his troops south at any time. There is civil unrest in Zheng Qiao, and there are wolves coveting it outside, and its power is in danger of being overrun. Self-destruction is only a matter of time. And once Zheng Qiao dies, Chu Yao will also die...
Would the proud scribes really do this?
Is it really worth it?
It’s just that it’s hard for Master Yu to ask for an exit.
The general was stunned for a moment, and realized this belatedly.
The eyes suddenly became sharp.
Blurted out: "...Wuhui, you followed Zheng Qiao?"
Chu Yao: "..."
Lu Jue, who was eating melon: "??? ”
Xu Quan, who was eating melon: "???"
Ah, no -
Where do you start talking about this?
When did their Mr. Chu follow Zheng Qiao?
Xu Quan was so angry that his pigtails stood on end and cursed: "What are you talking nonsense about? Don't give people random registrations!"
The Lord lowered his gaze to Xu Quan. Although he did not speak, the power of that moment made Xu Quan extremely uncomfortable. He subconsciously avoided its sharp edge, and when he came to his senses, he became even more annoyed and embarrassed.
Emphasis: "Mr. Chu is my master's meritorious service!"
There is nothing to compare with Zheng Qiao.
"Your master?"
Chu Yao knew what he had misunderstood after thinking about it for a moment, and said: "My master, Shen Youli, the governor of Longwu County."
General: "...your lord?"
Chu Yao said: "Yes, my lord."
The general is another long ellipsis.
Why are there such coincidences in this world?
He felt as if he was being controlled.
Chu Yao saw Chu Xiao's entanglement and said: "Everyone is his own master and each performs his own duties. You don't need to be in trouble because of my relationship. I said that our friendship ends here. I am here to serve the Lord. I am ordered to inspect Yonggu Pass and arrange for follow-up supplies. Although you are the guard of Yonggu Pass, I am. The master is the governor of Longwu County, and has the power to dispatch military supplies——"
Chu Yao raised his eyes and looked at Fa Xiao, his eyes were so calm without any emotion, and his words were straightforward - According to Fa Xiao's urine before, he said To put it mildly, most of the time this guy just goes with the flow and just pretends to be dumbfounded and doesn't understand. He saw Master Yu's letter and recognized the other party's handwriting. He originally wanted to come over to collect the debt, but when he found Fa Xiao was there, he changed his mind temporarily.
Debts can be collected slowly at any time.
He wants to get the military power.
The general spoke first before Master Yu could speak.
He refused decisively.
The tone was firm and there was no room for negotiation.
“No!”
Chu Yao’s tone added a bit of danger: “No?”
The general changed his momentum, putting away Chu Yao’s shy side, and instead used As the commander of Yonggu Pass, he talked to Chu Yao. He took a seat at the camp leader's seat and said decisively: "Yes, it just won't work!"
Asked again -
"Your lord, does he have this ability?"
_(:3 ∠)_
Although, but, Mr. Chu Yao can From the son of a sharecropper who had no hope to the present, the favor of the Chu family cannot be erased. (After careful study, in fact, it is not just as simple as pouring in educational resources, but also the more difficult to repay the kindness of upbringing. A teacher is equivalent to an adoptive father. It’s just that this adoptive father has selfish motives), and the people at the bottom want to counterattack. The difficulty is even more unimaginable, and the probability is infinitely close to zero anyway.
【Reading the Preface to Dongyang Ma Sheng when you grow up is completely different from memorizing it blindly when you are still studying. 】
There are so many talented people in the world, but without opportunities they are nothing.
Refer to the previous Lu Jue.
Therefore, Mr. Chu Yao has actually let go of what happened back then, and the grudges have been evened out (it is also related to his age. As he gets older, he has a peaceful mind and likes peace). Apart from this relationship, he is the envoy of Tangmei, and Fa Xiao and Chief Yu are the people with military power in Longwu County. This is a public matter, and public and private affairs cannot be confused.
It is not easy for the other party to hand over more than 20,000 garrison troops.
Because you have to use your strength to convince the other party.
(End of this chapter)