The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 163 Flying Tiger General
The yellowing autumn leaves were blown off the branches by the wind, and fell silently down the street, and then were picked up by the horseshoes, and floated to the street again.The sound of anxious horseshoes spread from a distant street, and several armored knights shouted around with weapons in hand.

"Chang'an returned, the thieves abandoned the city and left, the streets were restless, and the people were not allowed to go to the streets for the time being, and they were not allowed to take them in."

The sound spread through the messy neighborhood, the attic windows of the houses were hidden, many eyes looked at the street through the gaps, someone excitedly opened the window, cheered loudly for the imperial court to return to Chang'an, and was dragged back by his wife .

What's more, Yi Yi muttered about what was going on behind the door and window, and his tone was probably excited.

"Just say that the imperial court will not ignore us."

"A group of thieves, now they know how powerful they are."

"Those who voted for thieves, I think they should be killed together."

"When Your Majesty returns to Chang'an, there must be many criminals who have surrendered as thieves and will be beheaded at Caishikou. Some of them will watch it then!"

During the period when the Qi State court was in power, although the city of Chang'an was the same as usual, it experienced the looting after the bandit army broke through the city that day, and the subsequent tragedy of "killing the rich" and "killing the officials", and my heart was filled with anxiety every day. Panic.Even though I heard that Yu's son-in-law's student, a man named Geng Qing, later became Prime Minister of the Left, and tried his best to make Qi State pay more attention to the common people and restore business and farming, but it was still unavoidable. The characters in the ranks will secretly let the people below rely on their own merits to grab the results of the battle.

When the imperial army arrived at Chang'an and broke through the city gate, many people cheered when they heard that the biggest thief leader, the emperor of Qi, fled with his soldiers and horses, and stood under the eaves of their houses holding copper basins and "booming" Beat hard to welcome the imperial army entering the city.

"drive!"

A loud shout came from the attic where the pot was knocking, and a horse team of a hundred people passed through a nearby street. The leader was a man with a beast head and a silver armor, and a cloak behind him. He slowed down and dismounted. , shouting towards the nearest building: "Where is Yong'an Square?"

The half-covered window lattice was quiet for a while, then suddenly opened a little, stretched out a palm, pointed to the end of the street, a man's voice stammered in response.

"After passing this intersection, turn right at the next intersection, and you will be there after two more blocks."

"Hahaha thank you!"

On the horse's back, Li Cunxiao clasped his fists heavily, then clamped his horse's belly and galloped forward again, followed the direction that the man said, turned across the street, walked through two neighborhoods, and then grabbed a hurrying man The common people asked about Yong'an Square, and after finding out that this was the place, they patrolled along Fang Street.

When he saw the door plaque with the word 'Geng' on it, his green beard stretched out, he smiled and got off his horse, threw the long spear to the cavalry under his command, dragged his cloak and strode to the courtyard gate, shouting as he walked.

"Brother, Cunxiao is here!"

After going up the stone steps, he found that the courtyard door was ajar and not closed tightly. Li Cunxiao's heart skipped a beat, his thick eyebrows frowned, and he pushed open the door with his big hand. The inside was a mess, as if it had been searched, and there was no one there.

The elder brother is not here, and the family should be here.

Could it be that before the old man Huang Chao left, he took his elder brother away with him?

Thinking of this, he took people into the attic, only the heavy furniture was left, but his heart fell down instead, and he evacuated hastily, he would not take so many things with him
That's right, brother is so smart, how could he not have foreseen the troubles ahead.

Li Cunxiao shook his head with a smile, he felt much better when he walked out of the attic, he was about to return to his adoptive father when he left the courtyard, Chen Mingcheng's military situation, he took the reins from the soldiers, before he got on his horse, the direction he came from, A team of about 500 people is coming here.

The leading general, about [-] years old, has an elegant beard and beard, but has a rough and big face. Seeing the cavalry team of more than a hundred people here, his face is also a little surprised. I understand that I am from Shatuo.

After these barbarians entered the city, they wanted to plunder?
Thieves do not change!
The person who came was Zhu Zhen. He had Zhu Wen's order in his body, and the first thing he did when he entered the city was to find this workshop. After inquiring about the courtyard where Geng Qing lived, he went straight to find it.

He is also a decent person, he was one of the few generals who did not participate in the robbery when the rebel army invaded Chang'an in the past, and now seeing the Shatuo cavalry appear here, his face is somewhat ugly.

Over there, Li Cunxiao let go of the rein, his face was as usual, even a smile appeared on his face, but coldness flashed across his eyes, he reached out to take Yu Wang's spear from his subordinates, and leaned on the hard bluestone slab with a bang. It cracked a few cracks.

"Where are the soldiers and horses of the Jiedu envoy?"

"A subordinate of the Deputy Recruiter of the Hezhong Camp." Zhu Zhen clasped her fists on the horse's back, put down the weapon in her hand, got off the horse, and strode over, "What's the general's name?"

"My surname is Li."

With just two words, Zhu Zhen naturally understood that among the Jiedu envoys who besieged Chang'an, Shatuo was from Shatuo and their surname was Li, so only Yanmen Jiedu envoy Li Ke used the generals who besieged Chang'an. Following the order of the emperor of the Li family, he can be regarded as one of his own.

Zhu Zhen laughed immediately, and hurried over to clasp her fists again.Reaching out to not hit the smiling face, Li Cunxiao followed with clasped fists in return, and the two just stood in the middle of the street and chatted about some gossips like "Long admiration and long admiration."

Not far away, a closed courtyard door was quietly opened, with two heads overlapping, looking up and down at the two groups of confronting soldiers and horses outside.

"What is this doing outside?"

"Maybe some acquaintances chat about homework. I guess I will leave later."

"Hiss, the back is a bit familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere before."

"How do you say, I also feel a little familiar."

Dachun and Zhao Hongjun were lying at the door with their butts pouted and whispering, their two big round faces squinted their eyes and looked out, but it was a pity that the familiar back was always facing away, and they couldn't see clearly. At this moment, Yu In the light, a pair of walking hand in hand holding an oil-paper umbrella came into view.

"Dazhu is back." Dachun had sharp eyes, and he shouted quickly, but was covered by Zhao Hongjun, but when the voice came out, the two soldiers and horses who were not far from the courtyard gate here also heard it.

Zhu Zhen was puzzled by the word 'Dazhu'. When he turned his gaze to look at the gate of the courtyard where the words came out, Li Cunxiao on the opposite side hooked his lips and punched Zhu Zhen, "Someone The person the family was waiting for has already arrived."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and faced behind him, amidst the pattering rain, Geng Qing, who was in a blue robe, covered with a thin shirt, and tied a lun scarf, was slowly coming over with an oiled paper umbrella, and there was also a smile on his dark face, looking towards the The general nodded.

Then, they stood in the rain and raised their hands together.

"Cunxiao!"

"Brother—"

Li Cunxiao smiled with his teeth exposed on his lips. Laughing loudly, he quickly went over to hold Geng Qing's arched hand with both hands, "Where did brother go? I just entered your house and saw the mess in the house. I thought my brother was taken away by yellow thieves. Brother Wei almost took the cavalry out of the city to chase after him!"

"I made you worry." Geng Qing smiled and clenched his fist and knocked on the bronze mirror on his chest. Such a move stunned the more than a hundred Shatuo cavalry over there. Even the brave Shi Jingsi of the clan would not dare to be beaten to death by the general.

"Let's go, let me go home with my brother, and let my mother make you a delicious meal."

"it is good!"

Li Cunxiao nodded heavily, and followed Geng Qing to the slowly opened courtyard gate, Zhu Zhen, who was standing in the middle of the street there, suddenly said, "Your Excellency is Geng Qing?"

On the stone steps, the figure entering the hospital stopped, Geng Qing looked back at the man, nodded, "It's me, who are you?"

After the words fell, Xie Tong, a scholar who followed behind, quickly came over with a smile, and introduced to Geng Qing that the man was a general under Zhu Wen, and immediately raised his hands to Zhu Zhen: "General Zhu, why are you looking for Geng Qing?" ?”

"It turned out to be Military Division Xie."

Naturally, Zhu Zhen had met Xie Tong before, but she didn't take any post in the army, so she could only speak by this title. He looked at Geng Qing, and walked over quickly, pressing the handle of the knife on his waist with a solemn expression.

"At the end of the day, under the order of the envoy, go to the city to find Geng Qing, and settle in a house to protect his safety."

Still talking, Li Cunxiao, who was meeting with Dachun and Zhao Hongjun at the gate of the courtyard, narrowed his eyes suddenly. Before he could finish speaking, he lifted his cloak with a 'wow', turned around and lifted his feet, and kicked Zhu Zhen to the ground with a bang. Flew out and fell hard on the street.

"There is a certain family here, allowing your surname Zhu to threaten my brother?"

The long spear in his hand flew over, Zhu Zhen rolled a few times and stopped, the sight was not stable, the long spear was immediately nailed to his face, and the sound was as loud as a tiger roaring from the courtyard gate.

"If you dare to be presumptuous, a certain family will enter the barracks and cut off his head!"

(End of this chapter)