Xiaoqi

"During the Chang'an Rebellion, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew tried to take advantage of the chaos to make a profit, and wantonly instigated Xiliang's generals to fight among themselves, thus provoking a full-scale civil strife in the Xiliang Army, which eventually triggered a war in the southern suburbs. During the war, I wanted to stay with Xiliang. Reconcile Guo Si and others, turn hostility into friendship, eliminate estrangement, and prevent hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the two armies from fighting. Unexpectedly, when I was negotiating in front of the battle, Zhang Xiu suddenly launched a sneak attack, causing the war that had originally hoped to reach a settlement to take a turn for the worse. All the previous efforts suddenly came to naught. In a fit of rage, I beheaded Zhang Xiu before the battle, and in the ensuing battle, I killed Zhang Ji, thereby killing Zhang's uncle and nephew.

It's just that I didn't expect that Zhang Xiu and Master Zilong were from the same school. It can be seen that the two of you seemed to have a very good personal relationship in the past.But the deceased is gone, and I cherished Zhang Xiu's talent in the past, but this man is ambitious and has no choice but to punish him. "

Speaking of Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, although Li Li deliberately concealed some unknown secrets, he can still be called telling the truth.In the meantime, he didn't have too many personal likes and dislikes, just discussed the matter, told the whole story, and at the end of the day, he said that Zhang Xiu was indeed a talent, but it was a pity that he couldn't be used by me, so he was punished.Between the lines, it all shows Li Li's decisive way of dealing with affairs, and also has the majesty of a domineering commander.

"Eh?" Seeing Li Li revealing the secrets of Xiliang without any concealment, Zhao Yun was very surprised. He felt sorry for his brother Zhang Xiu's death and was shocked by Li Li's decisive means.

At this moment, Zhao Yun suddenly found that Li Li sitting next to him was completely inconsistent with the rumored image of being as cunning as a fox.

Before that, when he was under the tent of Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, he often heard Sima Liu Bei from other tribes complain about Li Li's many bad deeds in Xiliang.For example: Li Li was warlike, and he took the initiative to conquer Ma Teng and other loyal officials of the Han Dynasty in Xiliang; he was cruel by nature, and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Qiang people around Xiliang, which aroused many barbarians to rise up to resist; Unfaithful and unrighteous, wantonly embezzled the Xiliang army left by Dong Zhuo; unfilial and unkind, confronted his uncle Li Jue who raised him, causing hundreds of thousands of Xiliang soldiers to fight in blood and so on.

In Liu Bei's mouth, Xiliang Li Li is full of bad deeds and heinous crimes. His evil deeds are too numerous to enumerate.

Compared with Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan, the commander in chief of the army, did not make any negative comments about Li Li.On the contrary, Gongsun Zan admired Li Li from Xiliang very much, and spoke highly of him, calling him the "Tiger of the Northwest".Because he and Li Li are both generals guarding the border, one is stationed at the northeast border and the other is occupying the northwest border. The situation faced by the two sides is quite similar.It's just that Gongsun Zan seldom directly refuted Liu Bei's words of slandering Xiliang Li Li because of his classmates' friendship and the fact that the matter had nothing to do with him.However, Marquis Zhao Yun saw all this, but he didn't know which of Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei was right and which was wrong, and he was very confused.

Until now, when he had a close contact with Li Li, listening to his words and watching his actions, Zhao Yun knew the true meaning of hearing is deception and seeing is believing.Just an hour of getting along gave him a preliminary understanding and personal experience of Li Li.In his opinion, Li Li from Xiliang is by no means the insidious and cunning person that Liu Bei said. On the contrary, Li Li is upright, kind to others, and sunny and handsome. majesty.Li Li's confident and sunny positive attitude is in stark contrast to Liu Bei's depressed and frustrated.

At the same time, Zhao Yun also knew that he had only spent a short time with Li Li. He knew people and faces but did not know his heart. It is too early to draw conclusions.What's more, when he returned from Gongsun Zan's tent this time, he had to do something urgent, and he had no intention of voting for another master.

In addition, regarding the death of the second senior brother Zhang Xiu under Li Li's sword, although Zhao Yun understood the truth that each was the master, he still had a grudge in his heart.Especially when facing Li Li, he would think of Zhang Xiu, so he couldn't let go of it.This is because he and Zhang Xiu both studied under Tong Yuan's school in the past, and they got along day and night for several years, while Zhang Xiu was older than him and took good care of him, so the friendship between the teachers and brothers was deep.

It's just that Zhang Xiu has a strong heart for utilitarianism. After he was successful in his studies, he was eager to go down the mountain and joined Zhang Ji's army.Unexpectedly, five years ago, a farewell ended up being a forever farewell, but now Zhang Xiu has been dead for a long time, and the person who killed his senior brother is sitting in front of him at this moment, Zhao Yun.How can he face such a situation, how embarrassing it is?

To avenge senior brother Zhang Xiu?

Two years ago, Zhao Yun did have this kind of thought, and he once hated Xiliang Li Li extremely, and felt revengeful in his heart.However, since he joined the army to fight with Gongsun Zan, this hatred gradually faded away.Fighting on the battlefield has been the fate of life and death since ancient times; as a general, death on the battlefield is fate, not personal vendetta.If all the relatives of the soldiers who died in the battle held grudges for this, and sought revenge deliberately, and when the retribution of grievances would end, I am afraid that people in the world would have died in vendettas long ago.

Chapter 423 Walking with the Dragon

Chapter 423 Walking with the Dragon

Zhao Yun is obviously not an ignorant person, so his hatred for Xiliang Li Li has long faded away.

But people have feelings, giving up revenge does not mean that he can completely let go, and there is no more grievance in his heart, and it does not mean that he will respect the emperor's edict and cast himself under Li Li's command.

Therefore, more than a year ago, when Zhao Yun saw the emperor's recruitment edict that Gongsun Zan handed over to him, he immediately vetoed it, unwilling to go to Chang'an to serve under Li Li's command.

However, the world is unpredictable, and some things are really unavoidable.

Zhao Yun, who received the letter from his home, asked Gongsun Zan to resign, and hurriedly set off alone, and rushed to Chang Shan's home day and night.Unexpectedly, there was a sudden heavy rain on the way, which prompted him to meet Li Li and his party unexpectedly.

The wonders of the world's chance encounters are really unpredictable and extremely wonderful.

"I don't know why Zilong is in such a hurry this time? Could there be a change at home, something urgent, that made Zilong travel so fast in the rain and starry night?" Li Li asked softly when Zhao Yun's thoughts were chaotic.

"Uh, this,,,,,," his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and Zhao Yun murmured in astonishment, wondering whether he should tell the truth or not.After all, this is completely a private matter at home, and it is not a happy event, so it is not good to tell others casually.But since Li Li asked, he had to answer, otherwise he would be rude to others.

"To be honest, I received a letter from my family a few days ago. My brother passed away due to illness. Right now, my little sister is the only one left in the family to handle the funeral. And she is still young, so I am very anxious. I have been running non-stop for days. Going home, I can't bear to think that my vision was blurred in the heavy rain, and I accidentally disturbed the general and his party driving. After the rain stopped for a while, I had to rush home overnight; but today the weather is getting warmer. My brother has passed away for several days, so I really can't delay I hope the general will be more considerate of my disrespect!"

"You really are going back to the funeral!" Zhao Yun hadn't finished speaking, only to hear the sound of surprise from outside the door, and then a very tall and strong man walked into the tent with his head held high.After this person stood still, he saw that it was Huan Fei who had just fought fiercely with Mr. Zhao.

"The last general will see the lord!" Huan Fei said respectfully, and then greeted Zhao Yun: "I have met Brother Zilong."

Li Li said in a deep voice with displeasure: "Feihu, look at the good deeds you have done! Zilong is indeed in an emergency at home, and his brother's body is not yet cold, and he is waiting to be buried in the coffin. But he was stopped by you halfway, and the son The dragon was seriously injured! How can such a matter of filial piety stand in the way? You reckless man, wanton and reckless, ruined Zilong's great event!"

really.Li Li's reprimand was by no means a pretentious act, an excuse.Deliberately denigrating Huan Fei.Rather.The Han people are extremely filial, and filial piety is directly related to a person's character and morality, and it is also the benchmark for the imperial court to promote virtuous and capable people, and this is where filial piety comes from.According to what Zhao Yun said, apart from his deceased elder brother, there is only one younger sister who has not yet left the court; it can be seen from this.His parents died early, and his elder brother took care of the family.Now that the elder brother is dead again, Zhao Yun must respect the elder brother as his father and hold the ceremony of a filial son.Arranging funerals, guarding spirits and being filial, with full filial piety and ethics.

But right now, it is such an important matter of filial piety, but the filial son's funeral was blocked by Li Li and his party, and they even injured people.If this matter spreads out, not only Zhao Yun will be branded as unfilial, but even Li Li and others will be implicated, they will be accused and criticized by the world, and their reputation will be greatly damaged.For Li Li, it doesn't matter if other things come true; however, if he gives someone a handle on filial piety, that's a big deal!

Don't you see that Gongsun Zan didn't dare to evade when faced with this kind of thing, and immediately allowed Zhao Yun to resign; and Liu Bei, who was always good at poaching people, even though he didn't want to give up Zhao Yun's talent, he didn't dare to speak out to stop him, so he had to let him go .It can be seen from this that filial piety and morality are always such an important event, who dares to risk the disapproval of the world and obstruct it?

It's a pity that Huan Fei is arrogant by nature, he fought violently without asking the reason beforehand, and ended up causing such difficult things.This is definitely a big trouble, if you are not careful, you will be in trouble, and your reputation will be ruined.

This makes Li Li, who knows what happened at this time, how can he not be angry, in fact, this is also a helpless move he avoided.Knowing this, he should have spoken to stop it earlier, but unfortunately he just stood by and didn't stop it in time.Therefore, in this matter, Li Li is also hard to escape. It can even be said that he is the mastermind, because he is the only person who can stop Huan Fei.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Li Li naturally cannot admit his mistake, so he needs to find someone to take care of the matter. It happened that Huan Fei came here uninvited just in time for the meeting.So Huan Fei wanted to take the burden on behalf of the master, so that Li Li could get out, and reprimanded him sternly, in order to comfort Zhao Yun who was sitting by the side.

But this kind of thing can be big or small, the key depends on how the person concerned Zhao Yun views this matter.If he insists on this matter, Li Li and others will be in trouble; if he doesn't care about this matter and understands the reason, then the matter will be simple.

In fact, Li Li naturally knew that Zhao Yun was a general and sensible person, but he had to make clear his position and attitude.Therefore, it is necessary to sharply reprimand Huan Fei, even if it is a bluff, it is necessary to do so.The reason is still the same sentence, human relations and filial piety are not trivial matters; especially in the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty where filial piety is extremely important, this matter must not be underestimated, otherwise his character and morality will be questioned by the world, and then he will be questioned by the world cast aside.

Under Li Li's extremely stern eyes, Huan Fei wanted to defend himself at first, but when he saw that the lord Li Li's expression did not seem to be fake, he immediately came to his senses.So he cupped his hands and said to Zhao Yun: "Brother Zilong, brother Yu really didn't know that brother had such an urgent matter just now. If he had known earlier, he would definitely not have blocked it. Now that he knows the reason, brother Yu feels deeply guilty. He was rude earlier. I hope that my brother will be generous and tolerant, and understand Haihan!"

It is rare for Huan Fei to apologize to someone so formally, and his expression is sincere and his voice is eloquent, which shows his sincerity.

"Brother Huan doesn't have to be like this. What happened just now is not brother's fault, but my younger brother's recklessness and rudeness first. If I want to say an apology, I should apologize to Brother Huan. Brother Huan, please sit down and talk." Zhao Yun deserved He is a broad-minded person. Facing Huan Fei who hurt him, instead of harboring resentment, he respected him very much.

Just relying on such a magnanimous mind is enough to make Huan Fei feel good about him and let him go.However, whether Huan Fei could sit down and talk was not entirely based on Zhao Yun's words.It depends on whether Li Li nods in agreement.

Sure enough, after seeing Li Li nodding his head slightly, Huan Fei grinned and sat down beside Zhao Yun unceremoniously. "Brother Zilong said just now that he had to drive all night. I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate. Not to mention the rain outside, it's just a lot of inconvenience to drive in the dark. Although this is an official road, it's far inferior to our Xiliang official road. It is so spacious and flat, and there is no day and night post station along the way. If you drive in such a dark night, even if you have a fast horse under your seat, it will be futile if you can’t see the road clearly. In Brother Fool’s opinion, brother should rest here for the night and wait for the next morning. It's not too late to continue on the road. I don't know what brother wants?"

Seeing the hesitant expression on Zhao Yun's face, Li Li nodded and said: "What Feihu said is absolutely true. Zilong has been on the road for several days, and his body is exhausted. The horses under his seat are also overwhelmed, otherwise there would be no slight collision. He fell down on his side. Now it is in Changshan. Under the galloping horse, he can go home within a day. In this case, Zilong will rest here for a night. I will be with you in the morning tomorrow. Go to Zhending County."

"Ah! The general wants to go with me, why?" Zhao Yun asked in shock.

Li Li said sincerely: "Zilong has an injury, and it won't heal within a day or two. But this matter happened because of me. If I had stopped Feihu from making a move just now, Zilong would not have been seriously injured. Tomorrow, Zilong will be alone on the road, I am really worried, if you encounter a large group of thieves, you are afraid that you will not be able to do it, and you will fall into the hands of Xiaoxiao. Therefore, I decided to personally escort Zilong home, and I will send someone to help Handle brother Ling's funeral. I've made up my mind on this matter, so Zilong doesn't need to say more. That's it, it's late at night, Zilong should rest as soon as possible. Feihu, let's go, and you will go with me tomorrow!"

While speaking, Li Li stood up and called Huan Fei to go with him, waved his hands to signal Zhao Yun not to get up and see him off, and then strode away.

Watching Li Li, Huan Fei and Li Zhi leave, Zhao Yun stared at Li Li's tall back in a daze, feeling both grateful and helpless in his heart, his eyes were very confused, and he seemed uneasy.

In the tent, Li Likui came at night, and Ma Yunluo took the young Zhen Mi away after receiving the signal, leaving him and Zhen Shi alone to talk.

Sitting by the bonfire, Zhen's face blushed inexplicably, she lowered her head and did not dare to look at Li Li.

Before that, the two had been together day and night for five days.In the meantime, although the two parties have never talked face to face, they can feel the subtle affection through each other's eyes and greetings.This unspeakable feeling seems insipid, but it is real.

What's more, both Li Li and Zhen's are not innocent boys and girls, but people who already have families, and they are well versed in the relationship between men and women.Therefore, a meaningful glance between each other can convey a lot of inhuman feelings, and a simple greeting can make the other party sensitively perceive a lot of information, and then let the imagination run wild.It's just that neither of the two parties broke through this delicate relationship. They had a tacit understanding, but they were relatively silent, waiting for the other party to speak first.

As a mature woman and the head of the Zhen family, Zhen has a lot of worries, and she has to consider all aspects, and her thoughts are under great pressure.

First of all, she is no longer a young girl in love, but a widow who is nearly 30 years old, and she independently supports the lintel of the Wuji Zhen family in Zhongshan, and controls the extensive contacts and wealth of the Zhen family accumulated by generations.Secondly, her husband Zhen Yi died of illness for many years. Although the male line of the Zhen family is thin, there are many collateral clansmen. She absolutely cannot tolerate the remarriage of the Zhen family, let alone let her take away the huge wealth accumulated by the Zhen family for hundreds of years.In the end, Mrs. Zhen still doesn't know Li Li's true identity, nor does she know how his character is, nor does she know how he views herself, and whether it is worthwhile to commit herself to him without scruples.

Women often need to carefully consider the matters of men and women, and they must be mentally prepared for many things in advance, so as not to entrust inhumane people, not to mention bad reputation, and regret it for the rest of their lives.

"Tomorrow I will go to Zhending County with Zhao Yun, and I may have to stay in Zhending County for a while, so I can't personally escort Madam back to Wuji Zhen's house. I hope Madam forgive me for my rudeness."

In the silence, Li Li said softly: "However, I have already made arrangements for this matter. He Man will lead [-] followers and [-] guards to escort the wife, mother and daughter back home. After arriving at Zhen's residence, they will stay at Zhen's house. I am responsible for protecting the safety of my wife, mother and daughter, and I will rush to the Wuji Zhen Mansion in Zhongshan as soon as I finish my trip and pay a visit."

"Oh, the young master is going to Zhending County, I don't know why?" As soon as the words came out, Zhen felt that she had slipped her words.

So she explained softly with a blushing face: "My lord, don't think too much. The concubine is just asking casually, and has no other intentions. This reunion, thanks to the young master's many times of care, the concubine and several daughters were able to be preserved." Life. This kind of kindness, I will never forget it, but if you can do anything that the Zhen family can do, you can open your mouth, my Zhen family will definitely do my best, and I will definitely not let you down!"

Chapter 424 A Woman's Heart, a Sea Needle

Chapter 424 A Woman's Heart, a Sea Needle

Seeing Zhen's shy and charming expression, Li Li's heart was agitated, and he lost his mind for a moment.