It was just dawn, and Chen Yingliang, who was used to the routine of this era, had already opened his eyes, stretched lazily, and woke up the eldest grandson Xiaoluoli and Wang Xueji who were sleeping next to each other. The two daughters squirmed Moaning, while the pink arms and jade legs were moving, the blanket slipped off, and the house was full of spring.
"Husband, why did you wake up just after dawn?" the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli asked in a daze.
"I'm used to it, I wake up naturally at this time." Chen Sangliang yawned, hugged his eldest grandson Xiaoluoli with his left hand, and Wang Xueji with his right hand, and seized the time to enjoy the rare happy time of hugging left and right - he used to be the captain of the criminal police At that time, Chen Sangliang occasionally did some good things such as beating tigers and swatting flies. At that time, although Chen Sangliang severely condemned the corrupt and licentious life of flies and tigers, he was envious and yearning in his heart. Now he finally has such an opportunity , Chen Sangliang naturally said that he had to experience everything for himself.
"Just came back, if you have nothing to do, sleep more." Wang Xueji persuaded vaguely, grabbed Chen Sangliang's claws and pinched, saying: "Don't pinch, I have to nurse your son later."
"Sister Xueji, do you still have milk?" The eldest grandson Xiao Luoli giggled, and said, "Last night, your milk seems to have been stolen by someone, right?"
Wang Xueji's tender face turned red to the base of her neck, and she leaned over to caress her eldest grandson Xiao Luoli's itch. Xiao Luoli smiled coquettishly and hid in the bed. Chen Sangliang also took the opportunity to eat tofu on Wang Xueji's body. Wang Xueji couldn't take revenge on her eldest grandson, so she had no choice but to She vented her anger on her husband who got on the bus first and then bought the ticket, grabbed Chen Sangliang and pinched and pinched, while Chen Sangliang screamed like killing a pig, the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli also got out of bed to help Wang Xueji, severely punished for chaos Looking for the husband of Xiaosan, the room is full of harmony.
After tossing for a long time, when Chen Sangliang was about to punish Wang Xueji who dared to offend, Wang Xueji pretended to be breastfeeding her son, and even jumped out of the bed and ran away. Little Luoli held it down, and regardless of her pregnancy, she unleashed her savage nature until the eldest grandson, Xiao Luoli, covered her stomach and begged for mercy repeatedly, and then Chen Sangliang got up to wash in satisfaction.
The eldest grandson Xiao Luoli, who is well-known for her virtuousness, personally served Chen Sangliang to wash and change clothes, and when she was combing Chen Sangliang's hair, Xiao Luoli also took the initiative to mention Chen Sangliang's business affairs, and asked, "My lord, you said that your majesty asked me You put down the chaos in Yiyang before returning to Luan, and there is not much time left, why do you delay in Dongdu? Isn't this your usual style?"
"It's useless no matter how urgent I go." Chen Sangliang yawned and replied: "The terrain on Funiu Mountain is too complicated, and Uncle Xiao Guo and the others deliberately did not supply enough food and grass to the front line. It would be a waste of hard work if you don’t go to the decisive battle with the main force of the bandit army, rather than working hard in vain, it’s better to spend some time with you.”
"Then how do you explain to His Majesty?" the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, I have my own plan." Chen Sangliang smiled, and said: "Besides, His Majesty didn't force me to put down the rebellion before he returned to Luan. , won’t do anything to me.”
Little Luoli nodded with a vague understanding. At this time, someone came to the door to report that it was Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang who asked to see him. Chen Sangliang stopped dawdling and quickly changed his clothes with the help of Xiao Luoli. , while ordering the servants to deliver the breakfast to the living room, let myself have breakfast with Fang Xuanling and others.
After a while, the well-dressed Chen Sangliang came to the living room to meet Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang like a dog. As soon as they met, Fang Xuanling immediately said to Chen Sangliang: "My dear brother, the news from the imperial city The news is that Dr. Pei Renji returned to Dongdu last night, but today he immediately asked His Royal Highness Yue Wang for leave, saying that he caught a cold on the way back and unfortunately fell ill."
"Unexpectedly." Chen Sangliang smiled sarcastically, and said, "Of course you are sick, you will not be able to discuss the military situation with me in the Imperial City Palace. I will visit him again, and he will be ill again, with a high fever. If you don't retreat, if you don't follow the preamble, today's time will be over."
"Unexpectedly, Dr. Pei is also such a person." Yuan Tiangang sighed: "Usually, the general can be regarded as worthy of him, but this time he was able to be one of the four remaining guards in the Eastern Capital because of your strong recommendation, general. Thinking that at such a critical moment, he would drag you down like this."
"It's human nature, I knew something like this would happen a long time ago." Chen Sangliang sneered, then waved his hand and said: "Leave him alone, let's have breakfast first, after we finish eating, we will go to the imperial city to meet Yuan Liushou and Duan Liushou Stay with Xiao and see what tricks they can play."
"My dear brother, it's best to call Lu Chu and Lu Silang." Fang Xuanling blinked and said with a smile: "Lu Silang is a straight-tempered person who dares to speak up. Let him see the wonderful performances of the three left behind. Brother, you don't need to be a villain in front of His Majesty anymore."
Chen Sangliang laughed loudly, and praised Fang Xuanling for being shameless enough, so he had breakfast with Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang, and then led them straight to the imperial city, and first used the excuse of knowing the situation of the frontline food and equipment to meet Lu Chu. After getting on the line, he took Lu Chutong to contact the three left behinds, and asked the three left behinds to provide enough food, grass and weapons for the front line, as well as various necessary materials for fighting in the mountains.
As expected by Chen Sangliang, Fang Xuanling and others, the three left-behinds really played Taijiquan and played Cuju. Uncle Xiao Guo used the excuse that he was the Minister of Internal History in charge of edicts and government orders, and that the distribution of money and food was not under his control. Chen Sangliang was helpless, and Duan Da, who secretly controlled the Ministry of Civil Affairs, hid from Chen Sangliang. Yuan Wendu immediately met Chen Sangliang, but asked Chen Sangliang to enter the palace under the pretext of discussing such a big matter with the other two stay-behinds. Go to gather the three stay-at-homes to discuss the matter, and then Chen Sangliang went into the palace to find Yang Tong to issue the order. The three stay-behinds came to Miyagi to discuss important matters. It was already past noon, and it was more precious than gold The counter-insurgency time wasted most of the day.
For this situation, Chen Sangliang, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, remained calm, while Lu Chu, who was upright, was so angry that he vowed to impeach the three major left behinds who deliberately delayed political affairs, but fortunately, the three left behinds After finally getting together in front of Yang Tong, they readily agreed on the amount of food, fodder and supplies for Chen Sangliang—but it was getting late, and the distribution could not be completed within today, and Chen Sangliang's supplies would not be distributed until the next morning. The required military supplies were distributed in full.
At the end, Uncle Xiao Guo pretended to say to Chen Sangliang: "By the way, Chen Xiongqu, I don't know about Dr. Pei's situation, do you know? Dr. Pei worked hard in the army for days, and on the way back he caught wind and cold on the river, and was caught by the wind. I am forced to ask for leave and cannot enter the palace to meet you for the time being, what are you going to do?"
"I heard." Chen Sangliang nodded, and said with a helpless expression: "Since Uncle Pei is sick in bed, I can't force him to work in the imperial envoy. I will visit him in a while and see what he is doing now." I will also see if he can introduce the military situation on the front line to me, if it is not possible, I will go to the front line first, and command the battle while learning about the situation on the front line."
Uncle Xiao Guo nodded with a smile, and also praised Chen Sangliang for respecting his elders and being considerate of his colleagues, which was very rare. Then Chen Sangliang made an appointment with the three left-behinds to pick up the food, grass and supplies, and he really left and went to visit Pei Renji. Uncle Xiao Guo and the others sent Chen Sangliang away respectfully with smiles on their faces. At the same time, they naturally winked at each other, thankful for the trick.
Pei Renji's mansion is located in Fujiaofang in Beicheng, not too far from Lushunfang where Chen Sangliang lives, but due to various reasons, Chen Sangliang has never been here once, so that Chen Sangliang came to the gate of Pei's mansion When I asked to see him, none of the members of the old Pei family knew Chen Sangliang. But fortunately, Chen Sangliang's current prominent status is placed here. After declaring his status, the door immediately rushed in to report, and after a while, a middle-aged man rushed out to greet him. He nodded and bowed to make amends, and said: "Forgive me, General. My master is sick in bed, and the son went to the front line to suppress the thieves. He couldn't come to greet him, so he had to let the villain, the housekeeper, to greet him. The impoliteness, Wan Wang Forgive me, General."
Of course, Chen Yingliang didn't care about who came to welcome such a trivial matter, and he felt somewhat sympathetic to Pei Renji—he was so old, and there was only one son like Pei Xingyan, and his daughter refused to marry anyway. It's really pitiful to have to charge with your head tied to your trouser belt. So Chen Yingliang immediately said that it was okay, and asked the housekeeper of Pei's house to lead the way and lead him to meet Pei Renji.
All the way into the backyard of Pei's mansion, which is far less spacious and luxurious than his own, Chen Sangliang was led into a room full of medicine smell. Pei Renji was lying on a high couch with his eyes closed, and there were two women guarding beside the bed, one woman was about 40 years old and covered her body. Zhucui, presumably, must be Pei Renji's wife, and the other daughter is dressed as a daughter, and deliberately faces Pei Renji, refusing to look back at Chen Sangliang. Then, the middle-aged woman got up, saluted Chen Sangliang, and introduced herself as Pei Renji's wife. Chen Sangliang hurriedly saluted and said respectfully: "Auntie, please accept my nephew Chen Yingliang's respect." .”
"Nephew, please get up quickly." Wife Pei greeted Chen Sangliang to get up, and then said softly: "Nephew has been admiring his name for a long time, he is indeed a good-looking talent, nephew, you are so close to our Pei family, why have you never come here for a walk?" ?”
"Auntie, forgive me. My nephew wanted to visit me a long time ago, but I couldn't explain it all. All kinds of mistakes made it impossible." Chen Sangliang smiled wryly, then quickly changed the subject and asked, "Auntie, how is uncle's condition?" Have you taken any medicine?"
"The medicine has been used, and I just fell asleep not long ago." Mrs. Pei didn't know if she knew about it, and asked again: "Nephew, do you need to wake up your uncle immediately?"
Glancing at Pei Renji, who had his eyes closed, he smiled wryly in his heart and said that it would be great if he could wake up the person pretending to be asleep. Then Chen Sangliang cupped his hands and said, "Auntie, there's no need. Since uncle just fell asleep, let him sleep." It’s good to have a rest, I know best what it’s like to work hard in the army, it’s extremely hard work.”
After all, Chen Yingliang presented another gift to visit Pei Renji, and his wife thanked him for accepting it. When Chen Yingliang was asked about Chen Yingliang's intentions, Chen Yingliang truthfully told Pei Renji that he came to learn about the military situation on the front line. But this time, without waiting for Chen Yingliang to refuse, the girl who had always turned her back to Chen Sangliang suddenly spoke up, and said coldly: "Mother, dad is so tired, can you let him rest for a while? General Chen uses his troops like a god, If you are victorious in every battle, do you still need some superficial military information from Dad?"
"Sure enough, he still hates me." Chen Sangliang smiled wryly in his heart again, and then said to his wife, "Auntie, what Sister Cuiyun said is very true, and uncle should be given a good rest."
"Who is your virtuous sister? What does I have to do with you?" Pei Cuiyun took over the conversation angrily, and said, "The general has a noble status, and my little girl dare not climb high."
Of course Mrs. Pei knew about the confusion between her daughter and Chen Sangliang, and she was extremely embarrassed when she heard the words. It was said that Uncle Xiao Guo, Yuan Wendu and Duan Da came to visit Pei Renji's condition, and his wife hurriedly ordered the housekeeper to meet him again, and after a while, Uncle Xiao Guo and the three remaining guards came to the room together up.
Seeing Pei Renji sleeping on the bed with his eyes closed, Uncle Xiao Guo and the others, who were somewhat worried, breathed a sigh of relief. While hypocritically inquiring about Pei Renji's condition, they asked about the results of the conversation between Chen Sangliang and Pei Renji. Chen Sangliang answered with a wry smile. Said: "When the junior came, Uncle Pei had just fallen asleep, so he didn't dare to wake him up, so he didn't have time to understand the situation on the front line."
"Oh, how can that work?" Uncle Xiao Guo said hypocritically: "The military is on fire, if Chen Xiongqu is in a hurry, how about we wake up Brother Renji for you?"
"No need, no need." Chen Sangliang, who was willing to accept Xiao Guoshu's fake favor, waved his hand and refused, and said: "It's okay, I can wait until my uncle wakes up, if I can't wait, then I will talk about it at the front line, Fortunately, General Liu Changgong is there and can help me understand the enemy's situation."
Uncle Xiao Guo insisted on hypocrisy, but Chen Yingliang still politely refused, and Mrs. Pei invited everyone to sit in the living room, and everyone accepted the invitation. After Mrs. Pei sat down in the hall, when the servants served tea again, something strange happened. Uncle Xiao Guo, Duan Da and Yuan Wen all put tea in front of them, but Chen Yingliang's front was empty. Seeing this scene, Uncle Xiao Guo and others were of course secretly happy and gloated, but Mrs. Pei scolded the next person: "Blind? Why don't you serve tea to General Chen?"
"Forgive me, ma'am. It's the young lady who forbids us to serve tea to General Chen." The servant said with a sad face, "Miss said that General Chen only likes to drink the water from the Tongji Canal and doesn't like our tea, so we are not allowed to serve tea to General Chen." The general serves tea."
Hearing this, Chen Sangliang and Mrs. Pei's expressions were awkward again, and then Mrs. Pei hurried out to reprimand their daughter, but Uncle Xiao Guo, who knew the inside story, smiled so much that he even squinted his eyes, and then said in feigned surprise: "Chen Sang Xiong Qu only likes the water in Tongji Canal? What does niece Xian mean by this? Chen Xiongqu, is there any story between you and niece Pei and Tongji Canal?"
Seeing the smirk on Uncle Xiao Guo's face, although Yuan Wendu and Duan Da didn't know about it, they knew that there must be something unspeakable about Chen Sangliang, so they immediately followed up and asked. The ungrateful Chen Sangliang, out of guilt, He also honestly told about Pei Cuiyun saving his own life on the Tongji Canal, and he also told about his investigation and marriage with Pei Cuiyun. As a result, Yuan Wendu and Duan Da also finally understood why Pei Renji, who was born in Wenxi's Pei family, was so dissatisfied with Chen Sangliang, and Duan Da said, "Chen Xiongqu, my niece is so affectionate and righteous to you." , why don't you know how to repay niece Xian?"
"How can I repay?" Chen Sangliang said very depressed: "At that time, I had already re-engaged, so should I break the marriage again?"
"Who wants you to break the marriage?" Pei Cuiyun's angry voice suddenly came from outside the hall, "When you came back from Yanmen, what did I tell you? How did you answer me?"
Chen Sangliang completely shut up, while lamenting that it is a sin for a man to be too attractive, while refusing to answer any questions that Uncle Xiao Guo and others had malicious intentions. At this time, probably because he understood that the matter would not end, Pei Renji also came down to the living room with the help of his wife, and Pei Cuiyun hurried over to help him into the living room. When everyone greeted each other, Pei Renji said to Chen Yingliang with a very unfriendly expression: "General , Regarding the military situation on the front line, you can ask whatever you want, and the old man will try his best to answer."
Hearing the voice of dissatisfaction, and seeing Pei Cuiyun's cold and heartless face, Chen Sangliang, who was a little sorry for Pei Renji's father and daughter, didn't even take a breath, but Xiao Guoshu was jumping up and down beside him, trying to persuade Pei Renji to take care of his health , while persuading Chen Yingliang not to make Pei Renji too tired, making Chen Sangliang even more unable to speak. Seeing Chen Sangliang's delay in speaking, Pei Renji, who was already extremely dissatisfied with Chen Sangliang, became even more angry, so he said: "General, the military situation on the front line is actually very simple, as long as you can find the main force of the Yiyang bandit army , you can wipe out this bandit army immediately. But if you want to ask me how to find the main force of the bandit army, I can only apologize to you—if I can find the main force of the bandit army, I don’t have to bother the general to come back for help.”
Chen Sangliang turned his face away, feeling a little angry in his heart, saying that I am sorry for your daughter, but I am absolutely worthy of you. I have repaid you without going into the matter of Zuo Tunwei's bounty. My daughter's kindness, if you insist on making things difficult for me, don't blame me for being rude to you.
"General, do you have any questions?" Pei Cuiyun also opened his mouth, ignoring his wife's obstruction, and directly said viciously: "If there is no problem, let's walk slowly, my father still needs to rest."
Uncle Xiao Guo and the others became even more open-eyed, and when Chen Sangliang wanted to leave in a fit of anger, someone came from outside the door, saying that it was Xuanling, the Zuo Sijie from the residence of General Youwuwei, begging to see him by name. Chen Sangliang also said that there was an urgent military report. Chen Sangliang didn't hesitate after hearing this, and immediately shouted: "Please."
"This is your house?" Pei Cuiyun became even angrier when he heard that, and shouted, "This is my house, what right do you have to call people in?"
Fortunately, Pei Renji and his wife stopped Pei Cuiyun's madness in time, and ordered his servants to invite Fang Xuanling to come in. Pei Cuiyun's face became even more ugly. After a while, Fang Xuanling rushed into the living room under the guidance of his servants. Saluting to everyone, he said to Chen Yingliang: "General, it's done. The red flag is a victory. General Ma Sanbao captured Xun Lingjun alive last night!"
"What?!" Pei Renji, Uncle Xiao Guo and the other four guards screamed at the same time, and they exclaimed in disbelief: "What did you say? Xun Lingjun, the leader of the Yiyang thief, has been captured alive?"
Pei Cuiyun's small mouth was wide open enough to stuff two eggs in, while Chen Sangliang looked normal, and said with a smile, "That's right, the action is fast enough. I thought it might be possible tonight or tomorrow night."
"General Ma's luck is good." Fang Xuanling replied with a smile: "After he led his army into the mountainous area yesterday afternoon, he received our inside signal just at night, and immediately found the location of the main force of the bandit army. The leader of the bandits ate the steamed buns from our other team, and he was so messed up that he couldn’t even run, so he was captured alive by General Ma.”
Chen Yingliang laughed, but Pei Renji yelled in disbelief: "You installed an insider next to Xun Lingjun? When did you install it? Why didn't I know?"
"To tell you the truth, Uncle, I set it up eight or nine days ago." Chen Sangliang replied with a smile: "After my nephew received His Majesty's order, I immediately sent a letter to the secretary of the study, ordering him to send a few of my personal soldiers to the south. Disguise as a bandit and go deep into Funiu Mountain to find the main force of the bandit army in Yiyang, and take the opportunity to sneak up to the side of the bandit leader, Xun Lingjun."
"When I invited you back to Dongdu the day before yesterday, my nephew sent a secret order to General Liu Changgong, asking him to cooperate with Ma Sanbao, my former subordinate of Qiao Peng, and sent some soldiers disguised as bandits to sneak into the mountains to find Yiyang. The main force of the thieves is here, and they brought some steamed buns with crotons added, specially used to poison the thieves.”
"Yesterday afternoon, General Ma Sanbao acted according to my letter and led a thousand selected soldiers who were familiar with mountain warfare into the mountains, looking for the secret road signs left by the front and rear teams, and getting as close as possible to the main force of the bandit army. At night, General Ma Sanbao lit a fire first, and the insider I sent also used fireworks to signal the main force of the Yiyang bandit army. Ma Sanbao then led the army to make a surprise attack, and it was a lucky success. But I really didn’t expect it to be so Hurry up, you can get it smoothly last night."
After roughly explaining the course of the war, Chen Sangliang smiled at Pei Renji who was already stunned: "Uncle, my nephew is also thanks to you. If my nephew didn't transfer you away on purpose, the Yiyang bandits who are afraid of your reputation will come back again." How could you be so careless and negligent? If you hadn’t broken up the bandit army a few times before, causing the remnants of the bandit army to scatter all over the place, how could you have easily infiltrated the main force of the bandit army and lurked through the inside line planted by my nephew?”
"Why didn't the old man think of such a way before?" Pei Renji even forgot to pretend to be sick, and just yelled, "Why didn't the old man think of sending some soldiers to pretend to be bandit soldiers to sneak into the bandit army? Signal, marking the location of the thieves?"
"You can imagine it, but you can't do it." Chen Sangliang snorted coldly in his heart, "I sent those soldiers, but the rebel soldiers I selected before were all proficient in mountain warfare and familiar with the interior of the rebel army. The situation is cut with slang words, and it is perfect to disguise as a rebel soldier. Otherwise, do you think it is so easy for the main force of the rebel army to get in? Also, if there is no fireworks signal made by Yuan Tiangang himself, lighting a signal in the dark night, ordinary Isn’t the traitor courting death?”
After humming coldly in his heart, Chen Sangliang glanced at Uncle Xiao Guo and the others who were completely in a state of stupor, smiled, and then turned his gaze to Pei Cuiyun, seeing that the little girl was also tongue-tied, and then noticed himself inadvertently. He twisted his little face, full of dissatisfaction. Chen Yingliang couldn't help but smiled again, secretly said: "If you can get this girl to bed, and Wugou and Xueji too, how great would it be?"