Chapter 99: Open Your Eyes
The group crossed the checkpoint and moved forward slowly.
Linghu Zhishu turned around, only to find that Gu Xiaoman was also looking at him. When he turned around, Gu Xiaoman waved his hands enthusiastically. With such a smile on his face, those who didn’t know thought they were good friend.
The tense situation just now seemed not to exist at all.
“Can this person’s cultivation actually challenge you?” Linghu Zhishu asked.
Chang Jian shook his head and said: "I'm old, but this man is still young and only a step away from the ninth rank. Moreover, this kind of desperado's fighting experience is no worse than mine. What's more important is that he is alone. I am brave enough to risk my life, but I don’t have the courage anymore!”
Linghu Zhishu frowned.
"Of course, he is sure. I don't dare to do anything to him. I have a big family outside the customs! If I really do something to him, Li Dachui, Fang Mao Mao and others will take revenge. I can't do anything to him." It would be terrible."
"If he really breaks through to the ninth level, then Li Dachui, Xiao Changche and the others will be even stronger!" Linghu Zhishu said worriedly: "Li Dachui, Xiao Changche. After getting mixed up, my uncle already has a headache. Chang Lao, why is it as easy for them to reach the high level of Xuanyuan as eating and drinking? "Chang Jian!" He sighed and said: "This wild wolf is almost forty. It is not surprising that he has this level. There are several generals of this level under the commander-in-chief. But monsters like Li Dachui and Xiao Changche are the ones who are speechless. Remember. Room, this wild wolf is only one step away from the ninth rank, but this one step can sometimes trap people for a lifetime.”
"If you could step into Xiantian earlier, my uncle would be able to sit back and relax!"
"There are more people trapped on my front line!" Chang Jian seemed a little decadent: "Back then, Zhou Zhifang went outside the customs At that time, he was not as good as me. In twenty years, he and I were completely different, which is depressing to think about. ”
“Last time you went to see Zhou Zhi, didn’t he want to share his experience with you?”
“Zhou Zhi is not so stingy!” Chang Jian said: “He entertained me warmly. , but he couldn’t tell exactly how he made the breakthrough.”
“I’m afraid it was just perfunctory!”
"No." Chang Jian said seriously: "I can still tell this. People like Zhou Zhi are very proud. If he doesn't want to tell you, he will reject you outright. Chance is still chance after all. He is lucky I got my chance, but I still have to look for it hard. Zhou Zhi told me that there is no need to be too persistent. Sometimes, if you are too obsessed, you will become obsessed with it. The more you want it, the further away you will be from what you want. "
"That's it, but it's about your own personal interests, who can talk about it?" Linghu Zhishu said: "It really doesn't hurt to talk while standing."
"That's the truth." Chang Jian smiled bitterly: "But it's also true. Record Office, next year, I plan to go out and look for my opportunity."
Linghu Zhishu Nodding, the Chang family and the Linghu family are now tied together. There are many marriages between the two families. One will be prosperous and the other will suffer. Over the years, the Linghu family has also been hoping that Chang Jian can break through to the innate, so that his own strength can be improved. More powerful.
"The Commander-in-Chief has been practicing for many years on the ninth level of Xuanyuan. Maybe the Commander-in-Chief will be able to enlighten me before me!" Chang Jian said with a smile.
"My uncle has too many things to worry about, and the time he has to devote to martial arts will become less and less. And for my uncle, instead of spending a lot of time practicing these ten-man enemies or hundred-man enemies, it would be better to practice a thousand enemies There are ten thousand enemies." Linghu Zhishu said: "Martial arts are only auxiliary after all!"
"The changes in Baoping State are really nerve-wracking for the commander." Chang Jian said: "The situation outside the pass is serious. Changed. "
"Over the years, the commander has been trying to win over Tai'an City and appease Xiao Changche, but he made the mistake after all!" Linghu Zhishu gritted his teeth and said, "I should have known this. Destroy them before their wings are full."
Chang Jian was also speechless.
At this point, the options available to the commander are very limited.
Regardless, Xiao Changche's power will inevitably expand and become more difficult to control in the future. If one day the commander wants to go south, Xiao Changche will become a roadblock.
If you take care of it, you may fall out with Xiao Changche in advance. If you really do it, the price you pay will be very high. Now it's not just Xiao Changche's three thousand cavalry, but also Li Dachui and Tai'an City.
Had I known this, it would have been much easier to take down Xiao Changche’s men after taking them down in one fell swoop while Xiao Changche was still in Zhenwucheng. No matter how ferocious a wolf pack is, without the leader, the threat is greatly reduced.
But who would have thought that Xiao Changche would team up with Li Dachui to take over Aquarius State without any warning?
Linghu Zhishu touched his face,
It hurts a lot.
But he also knew that this slap was not unfair at all.
Thinking about the current situation, the group no longer had any interest in discussing it.
It seems that in the blink of an eye, a good situation has deteriorated, and the future has become a bit bleak.
If chaos really breaks out in the pass, and the Linghu family cannot seize the opportunity to enter the pass, when the overall situation in the pass is settled, the Linghu family who is alone outside the pass will have no choice but to submit to the throne honestly.
But when that time comes, people will let you go if you don't give in.
A piece of imperial edict, a change of generals, will you leave or not?
Leave, all efforts are in vain, and decades of hard work are in vain.
If you don’t leave, do you want to have a fight with the new master in Guan Nei?
That's basically courting death.
There is another way,
Surrender to Beiyuan!
Not even Linghu Zhishu is willing to talk about others!
He couldn't bear to surrender to the barbarians. This was really an attempt to humiliate his ancestors.
Aquarius City is close at hand. "Join the army, look!" Exclaims came from the team.
Everyone stopped their horses and looked up at Aquarius City not far away.
Rows of heads hang high on the city wall.
Due to the weather, the heads that have been chopped off for many days are still vivid, and the expressions of anger, fear, or despair before death are so clear.
Linghu Zhishu’s eyes were fixed on the two middle and highest heads.
Yan Sheng and Yan Dong are father and son.
Think about last year, the father and son went to pay New Year greetings to the commander-in-chief.
The marshal hosted a banquet for the two of them in his mansion, and he accompanied them.
The two of them were so high-spirited at that time.
Especially in the severe winter, when facing the commander-in-chief, he showed no fear, pointed the world, and scolded Fang Qiu.
Even the commander-in-chief admired this person very much.
But now, everything is over.
Linghu Zhishu felt a chill all over his body, and he felt as if all his hairs were standing on end.
Outside the customs, as long as you make the slightest mistake in your trip, the consequences will be the same as in the harsh winter.
No matter how prominent and talented you were,
Dead, that is, a cold corpse.
"Enter the city!" He withdrew his gaze, collected his mood, got off his horse, and walked towards the city gate, where soldiers were checking the flow of people entering the city.
With Gu Xiaoman’s experience of blocking roads, Linghu Zhishu knew that his identity would not be of any use here.
Xiao Dongwei’s wine has not yet fully sobered up.
He was staggering when he walked, smelling of alcohol all over his body, his hair was like a chicken coop, and his eyes were bloodshot.
After reluctantly greeting Linghu Zhishu, he sat down on the chair and panted. He didn't know how much he drank!
Xiao Changche has always been extremely strict in managing the army. Things like this may be common in other armies, but among Xiao Changche's subordinates, they are basically invisible.
It seems that after winning Aquarius State, even people like Xiao Changche finally lost control and got a little carried away.
Of course, Zhishu Linghu didn't bother to care about Xiao Dongwei.
He wished that Xiao Changche's subordinates were all drunkards, gamblers and perverts!
"Where is the general of chariots and cavalry?" Linghu Zhishu stared at Xiao Chewei, a little annoyed.
Xiao Changche is becoming more and more arrogant and domineering. He came here without even showing his face and let this drunkard deal with him. Looking at this scene, Linghu Zhishu knew that his mission was to fundamentally It can't be finished.
Because Xiao Changche has no sincerity at all.
Xiao Dongwei took a pot of water handed over by the guard next to him, drank half of the pot in one breath, raised his head and looked at the other person, "What the Linghu Ji Room, Mr. Xiao is not qualified to receive you. "Although you are the commander-in-chief's secretary, I am also a fourth-grade deputy general!" In terms of rank, I am higher than you. In terms of rank, he is really just a seventh-grade petty official, far behind Xiao Dongwei.
But is Linghu Zhishu’s status measured by his official rank?
"Then do you want me to pay homage to you, the fourth-grade deputy general?" Linghu Zhishu finally couldn't hold back and asked angrily.
“That’s not necessary!” Xiao Dongwei waved his hand in a pretentious manner. Damn, I thought you could always maintain the same demeanor even if the mountain collapsed! I hate the pretentiousness of you people the most. You are obviously in a hurry, but you still look so calm!
Hurry up!
"Xiao Cheqi has other important things to deal with and can't spare time. If there is something going on in Linghu Ji's room, it's the same with me. If you think I'm not worthy of hearing about it, then you can just I can wait and see you again when Xiao Cheqi is free!”
Linghu Zhishu took a deep breath.
Hold it!
Never have an attack!
"The commander-in-chief sent me to ask Xiao Cheqi, Yan Sheng is not guilty, why should he be punished?"
"Not guilty?" Xiao Dongwei stood up with a sneer, staggering. When he walked in front of Linghu Zhishu, the smell of wine spurted out from his big mouth made Linghu Zhishu take several steps back. "Linghu Ji Office, you are responsible for the intelligence work of our entire army outside the customs, but you didn't even know about the stubborn Yan Sheng who colluded with Bei Yuan to commit treason. If we hadn't found out in time, we would have dealt with this guy, etc. Next year, when the weather gets warmer and the two rivers freeze, the Beiyuan army is heading straight behind us and we are still unaware!”
"Nonsense!" Linghu Zhishu sneered. Who outside the Pass has not had some kind of contact with Bei Yuan? If you accuse others of treason because of these, then I'm afraid there won't be many people outside the Pass. After all, there is only one peer like Xiao Changche.
"Come here, bring everything up and open the eyes of Linghuji Room!"
Xiao Dongwei slapped the table and shouted.
(End of this chapter)