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Chu Huan let out an "oh" and asked, "So you still have an older brother, so do you know where he is now?"

There was a wry smile on Ling Shuangqiao's face, and her voice was very soft: "I don't know... I don't even know whether he is dead or alive. At that time, I was only seven years old. I remember that he took me to wander around, but One day...!" She seemed to have thought of something terrible, her eyes showed fear, and she quickly closed her eyes.

Chu Huan knew that it was an unbearable past, and it seemed that Ling Shuang's depression had been planted since she was a child, so she said softly: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it. You are too tired, take a good rest, and I will feed you after the medicine is cooked. You drink medicine!"

Chu Huan got up, but Ling Shuang suddenly opened her eyes and said in a broken voice, "Master, you...don't go!"

Chu Huan was startled, then sat down, shook his head and said, "I won't go, I'll stay with you here."

Seeing Chu Huan like this, Ling Shuang's heart warmed even more. Seeing Chu Huan sitting next to her, she didn't speak for a while, she couldn't help asking softly: "Master, you...will you drive me away one day?"

Chu Huan was taken aback, and wondered, "Why do you ask that? Of course not."

Ling Shuang bit her red lips lightly, before pondering for a moment, she said, "If one day you hate me, or think that I'm not good enough, will you still keep me?" When she said this, her voice trembled slightly.

Chu Huan stared into Ling Shuang's eyes, saw that she was pitiful, her eyes were full of fear, but for a moment, she also forgot the existence of Ying Ren, and said softly, "How can I hate you? As long as you want, you can always stay by my side , maybe it won't be taken care of properly, but I will try my best not to let you be wronged."

Ling Shuang showed a joyful expression, and said: "Master, you must mean what you say. I... I am very happy, you know, there is a kind of...!" Then she blushed, and did not continue.

Chu Huan asked, "Is there a kind of what?"

Ling Shuang closed her eyes, summoned up her courage and said, "Being by Master's side makes me feel like I'm at home!"

"The feeling of home?" Chu Huan was puzzled for a while.

Ling Shuang opened her eyes, looked at Chu Huan, and said earnestly, "I have always felt that I am just a leaf blown by the wind. When the wind blows, I can't control where I want to go... I have no roots, I keep floating, and I lose my life." ...!" Her eyes began to become hazy, unconsciously, she said in a sleepy voice: "I don't know where I will float in the end, I thought this life was like that leaf, floating forever, never Any feeling, but when I came to the master, I suddenly felt that I seemed to have roots again, as if I don’t need to be like that leaf in the future... I don’t want to be a leaf, so I want to let the master know that I can do many things... like this I will not leave this home, and I will be able to follow the master, enjoying the feeling of home that I have not felt for many, many years...!"

Seeing her expression, Chu Huan couldn't help showing a smile, obviously immersed in his own imagination, for some reason, a needle suddenly pierced his heart, and it hurt very much.

He didn't know how many hardships Ling Shuang had experienced, but he knew that it must be a day that Ling Shuang didn't want to recall.

Ling Shuang's voice was very soft, and slowly, perhaps because she was too tired, she closed her eyes unknowingly, with a smile on her lips, and quietly fell asleep.

Chu Huan stared at Ling Shuang's pretty face, and after a long time, shook his head and sighed.

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In the next few days, Chu Huan came back very early every day, not doing anything else, but talking with Ling Shuang on the sick bed. Usually, Chu Huan was talking and Ling Shuang was listening, and most of the content It was Chu Huan who told some stories or jokes to make Ling Shuang happy. Chu Huan never treated Ling Shuang as a slave. In all honesty, Chu Huan treated her more as a younger sister of his own.

Dr. Xu said that Ling Shuang was depressed, so Chu Huan wanted to use these jokes to keep Ling Shuang happy, which would be good for her condition.

In fact, although the golden needle Shi Liao can treat many diseases, but the golden needle moves the acupoints, which is already related to the veins of the human body, and it affects the whole body. It is impossible to restore normal strength within a few days, and even staying in the bed is also a problem.

Fortunately, Bai Xiazi and his grandson came by chance, so Chu Huan didn't have to delay the affairs of the yamen. Bai Xiazi was working as a nurse in the mansion for the time being. Kong has become the head of the house for a while now, whether it is washing, cooking or cleaning, his grandson is empty. This is not because Chu Huan and Bai Xiazi deliberately bullied him, but to give Chu Huan a good impression. They are rushing to do it.

In fact, he also came from a poor family, but he can bear hardships and stand hard work. Chu Huan is now the head of the fourth-rank household department. In the eyes of Sun Zikong, he is like a god. He can stay in the head office and follow Chu Huan. I always thought I was still dreaming, and at night on the bed, I thought about myself, a dirty person on the street, now hugging such thick thighs, hugging and laughing in my dreams, and working harder at ordinary times, but after a few days of work, what kind of people around me Where is a grocery store, where is a vegetable market, where is a pharmacy, and where is a pawn shop, he already knows very well, even more familiar than Chu Huan.

There are two more people in the mansion, which makes them more angry. However, the yamen of the household department is not as peaceful as the Chu mansion. The biggest news Chu Huan got is that the Ministry of Education has decided that Jianghuai Road can use the method of borrowing money to buy grain. General officials headed by Na Yan Zhou Ting also unexpectedly agreed to this decision.

Shu and the next two provinces passed this resolution, and the specific affairs were handed over to the Ministry of Households. According to the word passed down from the Ministry of Shu Hu Bufan naturally had to be commended.

It was not too late for Chu Huan to know the news, because the situation in Jianghuai was urgent. In addition to the Ministry of War, Dali Temple, Ministry of Industry and other government offices busy planning to deploy troops, the Ministry of Households also had to quickly implement the proposal to buy grain with loans.

Hu Bufan obviously attached great importance to this matter. He planned this matter himself, and for a while, he ignored Chu Huan's side. He even sent people to Jianghuai, and ordered the household departments of Jianghuai states to cooperate with the household department departments to implement the loan purchase of grain. The proposal must control the food of the Jianghuai states as soon as possible in the hands of the government. The Ministry of War also responded quickly. In addition to the guards, the state army, and the servants stopped by the squires in Jianghuai, tens of thousands of guards in the Jianghuai states It also began to mobilize frequently, forming an arc-shaped military deployment, enclosing Huizhou, the most powerful Tianmen Daoist.

However, the main force of Tianmen Dao is temporarily in Huizhou, but there are believers of Tianmen Daoists in the entire Jianghuai five states. The Tianmen rebels have formed several forces in Jianghuai alone. After Huizhou City was kicked out, it quickly occupied several counties around Huizhou City. At first, they only thought that the Tianmen Daoists were not strong enough to occupy the county, but now the situation there is that Tianmen Daoist After occupying several counties, they immediately began to build fortifications to strengthen the defense of the county. The counties surrounding Huizhou City instantly turned into several hungry wolves coveting Huizhou City.

Jianghuai has now formed a very weird strategic pattern.

Taking Huizhou as the heart, Huizhou City is in the most central position. There are 5000 Huizhou Army and [-] Jianghuai Imperial Guards who previously drove the Tianmen Daoists out of the state. In addition to the strong men recruited by the city, the current strength of Huizhou City is about There are more than [-] people, but only the Huizhou Army and the Imperial Guard with a total strength of [-] have been trained.

Originally, after expelling tens of thousands of Taoists from Huizhou City, the government thought that the danger of Huizhou City had been lifted, but the soldiers in the city had not finished repairing, and soon received help from several surrounding counties. The sects did not continue to attack Huizhou City, but successively captured the surrounding counties. Those counties were all located in the important areas of Huizhou City’s outward traffic. Several counties fell one after another. However, it was located in the center of several lost counties, and the main roads around were sealed off by the Taoists of Tianmen. In a blink of an eye, it has become an isolated city caught in the middle.

There are more and more Tianmen Daoists gathering in several counties, forming an encirclement circle in several counties. On the outer periphery, there is a bandit suppression circle composed of other prefectures, state troops, imperial guards and guards. The Tianmen Taoists in a county surrounded them. When the heavy troops gathered in Huizhou, the Tianmen Taoists in other states in the Jianghuai River seemed to be moving around. Many Tianmen Taoists were gathering around the periphery of Huizhou. It is to form another encirclement circle on the outer periphery, to put pressure on the officers and soldiers, and to reduce the military pressure of the besieged Tianmen Taoists. Jianghuai now seems to have become a trap game, layer by layer, and the officers and soldiers took the initiative to attack several times. It's not small, and they killed a lot of enemies, but instead of reducing the strength of the Tianmen Taoists, they are increasing.

After several battles, the officers and soldiers seem to have achieved good results, but they have not made the slightest progress in strategy. The officers and soldiers have made great efforts to attack the several counties occupied by Tianmen Taoism, but the Tianmen Taoists have gone crazy. , There were countless casualties, and several counties were actually kept by them. One was not lost, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers were extremely heavy, and the supply of supplies had been cut off.

Not many people in Beijing know about the war in the Jianghuai area. People only know that there is a riot in the Jianghuai area, and the imperial court is mobilizing troops to quell the chaos. Cheshuimenlong is extremely prosperous, and people in Beijing also believe that the so-called Tianmen Dao is a group of mobs. Since the imperial court takes action, it will only be a matter of time before the Jianghuai chaos subsides.

As the head of the household department, Chu is quite clear about the situation in Jianghuai.

When he figured out the battle situation in Jianghuai, the first judgment he made was that Tianmen Taoist may not be the mob that many people think. When the officers and soldiers drove Tianmen Taoists out of Huizhou City, the wording in the battle report was "Tianmen Taoists fled on the watchful wind." ", Chu Huan hoped that this wording was not true at this time. If the situation at that time was really "fleeing", Chu Huan had a faint feeling that it might not be that Tianmendao was really vulnerable, and it was very likely that Tianmendao was pretending.

From the fact that Tianmen Daoists conspired to conquer the surrounding counties of Huizhou City and formed a siege of Huizhou City, it can be seen that they have a lot of mystery and seem to have strong strategic considerations, and they are not a group of mobs.

For this reason, Chu Huan drew on the paper what he knew about the Jianghuai military situation in his spare time. From the paper, he could see keenly that Tianmen Dao occupied several counties and besieged Huizhou City, but it made the imperial court decide to deploy heavy troops to besiege Tianmeng. Although the Tianmen Taoists who were caught in the middle were under tremendous military pressure, they seemed to have moved all the heavy troops of the imperial court to the Huizhou area, and the Tianmen Taoists who occupied the county became more stubborn and transferred from other places. The more officers and soldiers there were, the more troops Chu Huan made on Huizhou's drawings, but he found that the officers and soldiers had already regarded the [-] to [-] Tianmen Taoists in those counties as the absolute main force of the bandits, and Jianghuai at least surpassed Cheng The troops have formed a bandit encirclement and hoarded in the front line around Huizhou. The consequence of this is that there are huge emptiness and loopholes in the troops of the other four states of Jianghuai.

Chu Huanxin is very worried. Now there are signs that although Huizhou's large number of riots did not appear all at once in other states, Tianmen Daoists from other states have gathered scattered to the edge of Huizhou. It has not yet reached a terrifying level, but it is already quite a few, and the number of people continues to increase.

Chu Huan was worried that this was Tianmen Dao's plan to attack the west. Tianmen Dao made a big fuss in Huizhou, and there was a lot of trouble. It was very likely that they deliberately used this to attract the attention of the court, so they positioned the main force of Tianmen Dao in Huizhou, but other The place is empty. When the imperial court focused its attention on Huizhou and mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress it, the real main force of Tianmen Dao was formed in the periphery.

If the situation is really as he expected, Chu Huan only feels that the Tianmen Taoists are not only mobs, but there must be extremely terrifying military talents among them. Has a strict mobilization and command system.

There must be endless troubles to buy grain on loan. Chu Huan couldn't figure out why so many ministers in the court couldn't understand this. Could it be that they really couldn't understand, or did they have other ideas?His Majesty the Emperor fought south and north, and his martial arts are outstanding. Such a person is really old and confused. He doesn't know how to put down the Jianghuai chaos?

Chu Huan is more aware that the Jianghuai Rebellion may not be able to end in a short time, and may even become more violent. The entire southeast of the empire will not be peaceful in the future. What kind of situation will the Great Qin Empire be brought to? Will it finally be wiped out under the strong suppression of the court, or will the empire be slowly dragged into a more dangerous crisis because of the chaos in one corner?