silence!
Deathly silence!
The commander was stunned for a few breaths, then quickly reacted. He took two steps forward and confirmed again and again that the face belonged to his childhood friend. He said excitedly, "Wu Hui! It's really you!"
He tried hard to digest the surprise in front of him, turned his head and said to the chief clerk: "Teacher, Wuhui is still alive!"
The tone of his words was one of unadulterated ecstasy.
The chief clerk wanted to grab the guy's head and shake it.
Ecstasy what ecstasy
Such a living person is sitting here, can't he see it with his eyes? Does he need to be reminded again and again that this is a living Chu Wuhui? The key point now is whether Chu Wuhui can fake his corpse and live
Isn't the point to worry about the head on your neck
Thousands of words turned into silence and buried deep in my heart.
These words cannot be said, as saying them will only anger people.
Who is pissed off
Anger creditors.
Who is the creditor
Haha, it’s naturally Chu Wuhui.
Speaking of this sinful debt, Yu Zhubu also wanted to curse in his heart - this account is not easy to sort out.
Chu Yao was the son of a poor tenant farmer. His father was lazy and his mother's family was damaged during childbirth. She was unable to raise all the children on her own and in order to fill the gap left by her husband, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and sell her children.
It happened that the eldest son of the Chu family wanted to select a servant. The manager in charge of purchasing saw that Chu Yao was thin, but had bright eyes and a smart look, so he bought him.
This eldest son is naturally the commander-in-chief at this time.
This guy has been fond of martial arts and not literature since he was young.
But he still needed to deal with his studies, so he asked his bookboy Chu Yao to take his place. Chu Yao was initiated at the same time as his eldest son, and the two had the same progress. However, no one knows a son better than his father. How could the master of the Chu Mansion not know the level of his own boy
When Mr. Chu heard his teacher talk about his son's excellent academic performance and his potential for success in society, he knew that the homework was fake.
There was no need to check it; the fact that Chu Yao helped to ghostwrite was leaked. However, the owner of the Chu Mansion did not scold Chu Yao for it. Instead, after some teaching and testing, he admired him very much, gave him the surname "Chu", accepted him as a student, and liked him more and more the more he taught him.
In the Chu Mansion, except for this identity, Chu Yao's treatment was almost the same as that of the eldest son. He even received more attention from the master of the Chu Mansion, who was also the teacher. For a while, it was difficult to tell which of the two was his biological son.
But no matter what, Chu Yao, the son of a tenant farmer, has completely risen to prominence and become a scholar of literature. From the day he was accepted as a disciple to the year before his coming-of-age ceremony, these years can only be described as "high-spirited and vigorous". The young man traveled to the border of the Northern Desert to study, and while commanding the coalition forces of various countries to almost blow up the Northern Desert dungeon, he was also successfully given the reputation of "Three Heroes of Chu State" by the outside world.
Three second-rank upper-level scholars of literary talent.
He was the youngest one. The young man at that time, dressed in an elegant long gown, a hat, and rings and pendants, rode side by side with a group of experienced warriors, raising his hands and waving his sleeves to point out the thousands of troops on the battlefield, how unrestrained and wanton!
If God is unfair and has some favoritism, then Chu Yao is definitely one of the favored ones. His fame in the outside world even overshadowed the small Chu State. Yu Zhubu saw all of this with his own eyes, and also saw him go from dazzling to dim.
He was one of the driving forces behind this process.
"… I am not blind, I saw it." Yu Zhubu calmed down and said, "Didn't you see the look in his eyes when he wanted to draw his sword and chop you down? It's been so many years, but he still hasn't learned his lesson…"
The commander seemed to remember something and his face turned pale.
He withdrew his outstretched hand with an embarrassed look.
Lu Jue and Xu Quan tried to understand this story, but there was no narration to explain it. They could only rely on their own thinking and understanding, while being prepared to support Chu Yao.
The guard frowned and asked, "Wu Hui wants to kill me?"
Yu Zhubu wanted to close his eyes and turn his head away at this moment. Isn’t this idiot afraid that Chu Yao will take the opportunity to ask him to pay for his father’s debt
Chu Yao's teacher was a very loyal person and a staunch supporter of the prince's party. However, the crown prince at that time was not liked by the king, and the other princes had their own advantages. The most favored one even had a favored mother to help him...
The position of the crown prince is shaky.
At this time, the crown prince heard of Chu Yao's fame and knew that Chu Yao was a favorite student of the officials in the Crown Prince's Mansion, so he had an extremely bold idea. If he could obtain Chu Yao's second-rank upper-level Wenxin, he would naturally be able to gain more support from court officials.
after all-
Wouldn't those scholars of literary mind be so arrogant as to say that the rank of literary mind cannot determine the strength of a scholar? Then, whether Chu Yao has a second-grade upper literary mind or a seventh-grade lower literary mind, it shouldn't matter, right? It was decided, and he called in his confidants to discuss it.
Teacher Chu Yao was a little embarrassed at first.
He still has some sincerity towards Chu Yao, otherwise he would not have treated him like his own son for so many years. Chu Yao is intelligent, humble and filial, a man who will remember favors, and will be the greatest help to the Chu family and the eldest son in the future. The two of them, one is a scholar and the other is a warrior, and they have grown up together since childhood. They have a good relationship and tacit understanding. No matter what happens to the Chu Kingdom, they can always support each other, gain a place to stand, and bring honor to the family.
But after several pressures from the crown prince, he wavered and consoled himself - after all, the crown prince only wanted to exchange his literary talent rather than completely plunder him. Chu Yao was still a scholar with literary talent and would be able to achieve something with a little effort in the future. Without his kindness in recognizing and cultivating him, Chu Yao would not only be illiterate, but would have died of hunger and cold, and how could he have made a name for himself
He should learn to be content and grateful.
So there was that royal banquet.
Chu Yao was careless and was imprisoned.
The one who personally replaced the two literary hearts was Yu Shizhong, who possessed the rare literary talent of "substituting one thing for another".
This Yu Shizhong came to the State of Chu when his country fell into trouble. The crown prince gave him a meal and later promoted him to an important position. He also had a good private relationship with Teacher Chu Yao, who was from the crown prince's lineage, and even became a teacher to the latter's eldest son.
After this incident, Yu Shizhong and Chu Yao felt extremely guilty towards this young man and tried every means to make amends. Chu Yao learned tea art from Yu Shizhong and his calligraphy was also carefully taught by him. It was just a relationship—
Anyway, Yu Shizhong has never seen through Chu Yao since then. His intuition tells him that Chu Yao is not a person who will accept things passively, but Chu Yao's actions do not show any resentment. He even thinks that if the crown prince had not played him to death, giving Chu Yao enough time to accumulate, the young man would definitely take revenge.
well-
If I had known that this crown prince would be so incompetent, not only would he be defeated by the other brothers and fall into the 'disaster of victory', but he would also fall into the toilet and drown in the middle of the night while in captivity... So what if he died, but he also wasted the precious second-grade upper cultural heart!
Minister Yu felt even more guilty about Chu Yao.
But he didn't have the energy to help Chu Yao.
Because the crown prince's followers were eliminated, he was also affected and was thrown into prison for two months. When he came out, he heard that the Chu family had been confiscated and the people had been exiled, and Chu Yao was among them.
He was puzzled. What did this have to do with Chu Yao
Upon checking, wow!
Teacher Chu Yao did not return this student to good status at all, and still registered him under the name of the Chu family, so Chu Yao was confiscated as "Chu family property", the Dan Mansion was abolished, and his property was confiscated and sold.
If Chu Yao had not made many good friends, and if these friends had not arranged for him to become a retainer of Chu Ji during the period when Minister Yu was in solitary confinement, his fate would have been even more miserable.
Later, in order to please the King of Xin, the King of Chu sent his beloved daughter, Chu Ji, to the court of Xin, and Chu Yao also left Chu as a retainer. Afterwards, Yu Shizhong only knew that Chu Ji had died suddenly and the dowry had been disposed of.
That is to say—
Chu Yao died just like that.
Many years later, this man reappeared.
Not only did he not die, but he also recovered his Wenxin. Feeling the power of his aura, he was afraid that it was comparable to the unlucky Wenxin back then. He was actually also a second-grade upper middle! Yu Shizhong didn't know whether to be thankful, comforted, or cursed.
Because Chu Yao obviously came with bad intentions this time!
But the commander, this fool, asked if the other party was here to kill him! Just when Yu Shizhong was in a state of confusion, Chu Yao asked his former childhood friend calmly, "What if I say yes?"
The commander was stunned for a moment.
It seems that he didn't expect this answer.
However, it is not difficult to answer: "Then you must have the ability to kill me. If you don't have the ability, please come back next time."
"Yao thought that with your temper, you would wait for death."
Chu Yao finished speaking and sneered.
The commander naturally heard the sarcasm in Chu Yao's words.
He slowed down his voice and said, "This is a different time. I promised to defend Yonggu Pass. If I fail to close the gate or I die in battle, you can do with my body. You can grind my bones to dust or hang me in the sun. It's up to you!"
When the Chu family was in trouble, he was still leading troops on the border. He was able to escape the disaster because of his status as the king's son-in-law. After rushing back, he brought his parents, who had been demoted to commoners, back to their ancestral home to take care of them.
After that, the Chu State was destroyed and the country was displaced for several years...
He always thought Chu Yao was dead.
A cenotaph was built for him in his ancestral hometown.
Afterwards, he was rescued by the prefect of Longwu County by coincidence.
Chu Yao wanted to kill him, and he had nothing to say.
A son should pay for his father's debts. That's how it should be.
But times have changed. During the more than ten years of separation, he has also experienced many things and can no longer indulge himself and do whatever he wants. If there is anything that makes him feel most relieved, it should be when he saw Chu Yao again. Chu Yao regained his literary talent and walked out of the quagmire.
"How about this -" the commander took out the dagger from his armor and handed it to him, saying, "I am good at using my right hand in battle, so this left arm is a bonus for you, Wuhui, how about this?"
Chu Yao looked at the dagger silently.
He was very familiar with the appearance of the dagger.
This was a coming-of-age gift he gave to his childhood friend when he was young.
Lu Jue and Xu Quan were getting more nervous, especially when Chu Yao raised his hand to hold the dagger, the commander heaved a sigh of relief. However, Chu Yao's next move was beyond everyone's expectations. He actually pushed the dagger back.
He said in a cold voice, "Yao doesn't want to talk about what happened back then. No matter what, your father was right - without the careful cultivation of the Chu family over the years, there would be no 'Chu Yao'. I made up my mind to get that second-class upper-class Chinese Heart back then, and told myself that it was just to repay the kindness of many years. Putting aside this grudge, I owe you nothing, and I don't care about your arm either."
Doesn’t Chu Yao hate it
Of course he hated it.
Since the year before he was crowned, he had spent more than ten years in hatred, with flames burning his heart. He could say it so lightly now only because he had regained everything now, so he could easily reconcile all the grudges in the past.
He clearly distinguished between gratitude and resentment, and would not deny the kindness of his mentor over the years because of what happened later. Whether it was his mentor or Yu Shizhong, neither of them could be considered pure good people, but they were not pure evil people either, they were just worldly mediocre people who had to obey the oppression of the royal power.
In this world, Chu Yao is not the first person to encounter the same situation as him, nor will he be the last.
"Our friendship ends here."
Chu Yao said this very calmly.
The commander almost lost his grip on the dagger, and for a long while his lips moved: "... Ah, so, that's fine, that's fine... You have always been a magnanimous person, with broad-mindedness and an open mind... If my father knew that you were still alive, he might be able to rest in peace..."
Chu Yao just frowned slightly, without any ripples.
Yu Zhubu sighed: "But..."
No further information.
Chu Yao said: "Please speak."
Yu Zhubu swallowed his words and hesitated to speak.
Chu Yao can only regain his literary spirit by being loyal to Zheng Qiao, but Zheng Qiao has gone to such a level that the national border barrier is in jeopardy. The ambitions of the Ten Crows have expanded to the point where they may march south at any time. Zheng Qiao is facing civil unrest at home and wolves coveting outside. His power is in danger. It is only a matter of time before he will destroy himself. Once Zheng Qiao dies, Chu Yao will also die...
Would the proud scholars of the time really do this
Is it really worth it
However, Yu Zhubu was embarrassed to ask.
The commander was stunned for a moment, then realized this belatedly.
His eyes suddenly became sharp.
He blurted out: "... Wuhui, are you following Zheng Qiao?"
Chu Yao: “…”
Lü Jue, who was eating melons, said: “???”
Xu Quan, who was eating melons, said: “???”
Oh, no—
Where did this come from
When did Mr. Chu from their family follow Zheng Qiao
Xu Quan was so angry that his braids stood up. He cursed, "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't register people blindly!"
The commander's eyes fell on Xu Quan. Although he did not speak, his power at that moment made Xu Quan extremely uncomfortable. He subconsciously avoided his sharp edge, and after coming to his senses, he became even more annoyed and embarrassed.
Emphasized: "Mr. Chu is a subordinate of my master!"
It has nothing to do with Zheng Qiao.
"Your Lord?"
Chu Yao thought about it for a moment and realized what his childhood friend had misunderstood. He said, "My Lord, this is Longwu County Magistrate Shen Youli."
Commander: "...your lord?"
Chu Yao said: "Yes, my Lord."
The main general is another long ellipsis.
Why are there such coincidences in this world
He felt as if he was being held.
Seeing Fa Xiao's entanglement, Chu Yao said, "Everyone serves his master and performs his duties. You don't need to be embarrassed because of our relationship. I said that our friendship ends here. I am here on the orders of my lord to inspect Yonggu Pass and arrange for subsequent supplies. Although you are the commander of Yonggu Pass, my lord is the governor of Longwu County, and the authority to dispatch military supplies-"
Chu Yao looked up at his childhood friend, his eyes were calm and emotionless, and he spoke directly - according to his childhood friend's previous character, if he spoke in a tactful way, he would probably just go with the flow and pretend to be stupid and ignorant. He saw the letter from Yu Zhubu and recognized the other party's handwriting. He wanted to kill him to collect the debt, but when he found his childhood friend was there, he changed his mind temporarily.
Debts can be collected at any time.
He wants to get the military power.
Before Yu Zhubu could speak, the commander spoke first.
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 commander changed his demeanor and stopped being Chu Yao's childhood friend. Instead, he spoke to Chu Yao as the commander of Yonggu Pass. He sat down in the main seat of the tent and said decisively, "Yes, that's not possible!"
Ask again—
"Does your lord have this ability?"
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