Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 160

Chapter 160

Liu Buwang’s body has just been taken home, and it hasn’t had time to discuss the burial. Someone came to inform Xiao Jue: The person sent by Her Royal Highness has found Chai Anxi.

Xiao Jue took Lin Shuanghe to the palace immediately.

When he arrived at the palace hall of the palace, Mu Hongjin was talking to his subordinates, and when he saw the two of Xiao Jue, he shook his head slightly, and said, “He is going to die.”

When the two entered the house, they saw one person lying on the collapsed house. There was an arrow in the man’s heart, and he was bleeding out, and a doctor-like person was pressing the wound for him. Lin Shuanghe let the man go out, sat on the side of the collapse, felt his pulse, and shook his head at Xiao Jue: “It’s no help.”

He is just a doctor, and it depends on a little luck to fight for his life with Hades. It is impossible to save alive if injured in this way. Lin Shuanghe took a medicine bottle from his arms, poured a pill out of it, and fed it into Chai Anxi’s mouth.

Not long after, the people who collapsed opened their eyes laboriously.

Lin Shuanghe got up and said, “There is not much time. If you have any questions, ask as soon as possible. I can only hang out.” He patted Xiao Jue on the shoulder and went out by himself.

Chai Anxi raised his head in a daze. When he saw Xiao Jue’s face, his dim eyes suddenly burst into light. He took a breath: “…Second Young Master?”

Xiao Jue stared at him indifferently.

“…Second Young Master,” Chai Anxi was a little excited, but as soon as he spoke, he vomited a large mouthful of blood. He asked, “Why are you here?”

“I’m here to find you.” Xiao Jue sat down on the chair before the collapse, his voice calm, “It has been five years, and now I should be able to know what happened in the Mingshui Battle.”

Chai Anxi was taken aback, and did not speak for a while.

In fact, when Xiao Jue was a teenager, he often saw Chai Anxi. Chai Anxi was Xiao Zhongwu’s deputy. He was not the best, but he was the most loyal and honest, like a black bear, and his body shape was similar to Shen Han. When he was young, Chai Anxi occasionally worked for Xiao Zhongwu at the mansion. When he saw Xiao Jue, he always smiled honestly and called him: “Second Young Master!”

But now Chai Anxi, who is lying on the ground, and Xiao Jue in memory are different. Chai Anxi is about the same age as Xiao Zhongwu and is now in his prime of life, but he looks like an old man. His hair was white, and there was a burn mark on his face. He doesn’t know if his figure is shriveled or something, it has become extremely small, almost like a child who has not grown up. And he looked at Xiao Jue’s gaze, there was no longer the love of the past, with regret, guilty conscience, pain, or anything else.

The complexity is shocking.

He gave a wry smile: “Second Young Master, you actually know it.”

Xiao Jue did not speak.

“The general was killed by someone, this person…including me.”

Xiao Jue raised his eyes suddenly, his fingers in his sleeves suddenly clenched into fists.

“You also know,” Chai Anxi said very hard, “The general has always been dissatisfied with Xu Xiang’s excessive private power, but His Majesty has always trusted Xu Xiang. The general reminded his Majesty to be more careful about Xu Xiang’s evil intentions. Xu Xiang has already secreted the general. I hate it.”

“Today’s prince is tyrannical and cowardly, and he is in the same position as Xu Xiang. They have long been unable to understand the general, and the two of them are afraid of the general’s military power. They wanted to blame and slander. However, the general is innocent for his whole life, and there is no loophole. The prince and Xu Xiang are convenient. Together, they secretly planned the battle of Mingshui with the Nanbans. In the battle of Mingshui, the Nanfu soldiers had an internal traitor, and the general suffered from the enemy before… and died.”

Xiao Jue looked at him, his eyes like autumn water fluttered with mockery, “Is it you that the traitor is referring to?”

Chai Anxi’s expression became painful: “I’m sorry, the second son… I’m sorry, they threatened me with my mother. My mother is already seventy years old. I… I promised them and copied a copy of the general’s defense plan. They…I’m not the only one. In the Nanfu soldiers at the time, among the general’s cronies, there were other people who rebelled. They used their wives and children to coerce each other. I was… I was blinded by lard at the time, and I agreed.”

“Why did you go to Jiyang later?”

“Xu Sang…How can Xu Sang allow people who know the truth to live in the world? The few who rebelled at the time were later killed in the Battle of Mingshui. I got away by luck, and I wanted to go back and take my mother away. Who knows that when I returned home, my mother had passed away… Xu Xiang’s people were searching for my whereabouts. I once heard the general say that Jiyang City is easy to get out and difficult to enter, and the easiest to hide, so I used some methods to hide my name. Hidden in Jiyang.”

“Second Young Master… Over the years, in fact, I have always wanted to stand up and explain what happened back then. But even if I was in Jiyang, the news that I could hear was that Xu Xiang’s power was getting bigger and bigger, even if I stood up and talked, at that time Everyone in is dead, there is no evidence, no one will believe. I want to go to find you, but when I leave Jiyang City, my news will spread, Xu Xiang will not let me see you alive. So I can only Wait, I know that if the second son is still alive, he will find me one day.”

Tears gradually ooze from the corners of his eyes, “You found it, great…Second son, you have grown up, if the general is still there, you will be very relieved to see what you are now.”

Xiao Jue looked at his tears, his face was not half moved, only said: “Who killed you?”

“…I don’t know.” Chai Anxi said blankly, “As early as 20 days ago, when I was in Cuiwei Pavilion, someone wanted to kill me. There was a big fire at night and I escaped. There was a face on my face. The injury was left at that time. Later, I kept hiding until…until the Utuo came to Jiyang, I knew the news of the second son, wanted to come to you, and was chased and killed on the way…”

He is no longer the strong man under Xiao Zhongwu’s back then. For so many years, his age and skill can’t be compared with those of the past, and because of the fire, he was easily ambushed by his old wounds. I still have a breath, I can see Xiao Jue alive, I can take a look at the appearance of the young man when he grew up, and I can tell the guilt and regret in my heart one by one.

“I… I have nothing that can help the second son. To say this is just to ask for peace of mind. I owe the general, the wife, the eldest son, the second son, and the brothers. I will not owe anything in this life. Qing.” He seemed to be crying and smiling, “When I get underground, I will personally kowtow to the general…” His voice stopped abruptly, his eyes were still open, but there was no light anymore.

he died.

Xiao Jue sat quietly, casting his eyes down without saying a word. After a while, he stood up and walked out of the door.

Chai Anxi is dead, and there are no insiders in the last Mingshui battle. He could not bring a dead person back to Shuojing as a witness, and Chai Anxi did not leave anything that could be used as evidence.

Coming this time only confirmed some of the things he had guessed at the beginning.

Mu Hongjin and Lin Shuanghe were waiting for him. Seeing Xiao Jue coming out, Mu Hongjin said: “When the Utuo came, the situation was complicated. I couldn’t send someone to find him. After the incident, someone found out the whereabouts of Chai Anxi. , When my men found him, he was being chased and killed, and he was already seriously injured when he was rescued. I asked the doctor in the city to temporarily help him stop the bleeding…” Mu Hongjin looked at Xiao Jue’s expression slightly. A frown: “Is he dead?”

Xiao Jue: “Dead.”

She sighed and did not speak.

After searching for so long, it was a pity that the person was found but died, just a little bit short.

Lin Shuanghe asked: “Huaijin, what are you going to do next?”

Xiao Jue was silent for a while before he said, “Chai Anxi is dead, and Jiyang’s military affairs have been settled. We will leave for Liangzhou in a few days.”

“Are you going to leave?” Mu Hongjin was a little bit disappointed. “You haven’t stayed here long. Why don’t you leave after Xiaolou comes back?”

Xiao Jue said: “I have other things to do.”

In this way, Mu Hongjin is not easy to stay. He smiled and said: “Anyway, this time Jiyang City can be kept, thanks to Governor Xiao. The hall will write memorials and listen to the heavens, and your majesty will reward you.”

“No need.” Xiao Jue turned and walked forward. He seemed to be not interested in these things, and was a little impatient. Lin Shuanghe scratched his head and explained: “Huaijin is in a bad mood at the moment, so your Highness should not be in the same sense as him.”

Mu Hongjin shook his head. As the hero of Jiyang City, she is grateful anyway.

“That’s right,” Xiao Jue paused slightly as if thinking of something, without turning his head, his voice was low, “His Royal Highness knows that Mr. Liu is gone.”

Mu Hongjin’s expression froze.

…

In Cui Mansion, in the room, Chu Zhao was cooking tea in the small stove.

He looked calm and moved patiently, Ying Xiang handed him the veil, he held the handle of the pot, and put the teapot on the table.

“Chai Anxi should be dead.” Ying Xiang said softly.

“It took five years to find a place like Jiyang before he died. Chai Anxi is considered a talent.” Chu Zhao smiled slightly.

“But Fourth Young Master,” Ying Xiang was puzzled. “Why didn’t you just kill him directly, instead of deliberately keeping him in a sigh, let him see Dudu Xiao and tell the truth, wouldn’t it expose the grandfather?”

“Even if he didn’t say it, Xiao Huaijin would have guessed who the person behind the scenes is.” Chu Zhao smiled indifferently. “Speaking it out is just to make him more at ease. Chai Anxi will lose his breath in front of him, and he will do it too. I hate my grandfather even more. The more Xiao Huaijin threatens my grandfather, the grandfather will value me more. After all, no one understands better than my grandfather, what is the way of checks and balances.”

“Furthermore, this is Jiyang. Since no one is around, how to do it is our own business.” He said indifferently, “It is our own business to reduce the fire or increase the fire.”

Ying Xiang nodded: “The slave servant knows. The fourth son, now Chai Anxi is dead, and the grandfather’s confession has been done for us. Are we going back to Shuojing afterwards?”

“No,” Chu Zhao said, “I’m very curious about one thing, so I decided to go to Liangzhouwei first.”

“Liangzhou Guard?” Ying Xiang was surprised, “That’s the territory of Governor Xiao.” Chu Zhao and Xiao Jue have never dealt with them. In Liangzhou Guard, Chu Zhao absolutely can’t help.

“So robbing people on Xiao Huaijin’s site would be very interesting.”

The tea in the teacup floated up and down, he looked at it, and slowly chuckled.

…

The time to return was set two days later. After Liu Buwang was buried, He Yan and Xiao Jue set off for Liangzhouwei.

When I came to Jiyang this time, there were many happy places and many sad sorrows. The most regrettable thing is that I have just reunited with the deceased and have to say goodbye forever.

He Yan became silent uncharacteristically, and slowly packed his luggage in the house. In fact, there were not a few pieces of luggage. He Yan couldn’t bring back the women’s clothes that Lin Shuanghe paid for her at Xiuluofang in Jiyang. She is a “big man” with women’s clothing, and she will probably be looked at with strange eyes.

Therefore, He Yan kept all the clothes with jewelry and shoes, and gave them to Cui Yuezhi’s four aunts. It’s just that when packing and unpacking, looking at it, it will be a little bit reluctant. I have been working as a woman for a long time, but at first I am a little uncomfortable with being a man.

There was a faceless man under the pillow. The dough is not as bright as it was when it was first made, and it was a little bleak, and the dough gradually dried out, and even showed signs of cracking. He Yan picked it up and looked at it carefully.

This is the time of the Water God Festival. Xiao Jue and her took a firefly boat on the way to Luoyingquan. I saw a vendor on the water with a dough maker and pinched one like her. The long hair was braided on the forehead and dropped down the back of his head. The red skirt and black boots, Yan Yan, looked strange, and she looked like her.

I knew early in the morning that if I bought this thing, I couldn’t bring it back to Liangzhouwei. But he really wanted to stay here, and He Yan was reluctant. It seems that the place where the face person exists is the place where the memory exists. If you leave it here, you will abandon Jiyang’s memory.

But she is not willing to give up the sad or happy memories.

“Don’t want to take it back?” Xiao Jue sat at the table and glanced at her.

He Yan sighed, “Bring it back for fear of being spotted by Liangzhouwei’s people. It won’t be good if you show your feet.”

Xiao Jue twitched the corners of his mouth: “You are not very deceptive, why can’t you even find an excuse?”

He Yan said in his heart, nothing else, but when it comes to concealing identity, she has really been cautious from her past life to this life. After all, the Dike of Thousand Miles was destroyed by an ant’s nest. Still be careful.

“Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years.” She said, but she squeezed the Face Man’s wooden stick in her hand, reluctant to let it go.

Xiao Jue sneered: “You can say, buy it back and give it to your fiancee.”

He Yan was startled, and looked at him: “This is fine too?”

“You are not Yu Jie and Bing Qing, guarding yourself like a jade for your fiancée, so infatuated, you will naturally think about it wherever you go. Why not buy a souvenir face person and send it back?”

This remark reminded He Yan, too, she seemed to still have a “fiancee”, and for a while, she felt that Xiao Jue’s reason was very reasonable. He picked up the face men, put them into the baggage, and praised Xiao Jue: “The Governor, I now find that you are the real master when it comes to deceiving people.”

Xiao Jue put down the army book in his hand, looked at her, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

“I just said casually, don’t take it to heart.” He Yan sighed, “It’s just that I’ve stayed in Jiyang for a long time and want to go back to Liangzhou Wei, and I still feel a little reluctant.”

Such a gentle water town, simple people, will naturally give birth to nostalgia when they come. I don’t know if there is a chance to come again in this life, but even if I come here again, I don’t know how many years later.

“Do you want to stay?” Xiao Jue asked.

He Yan nodded, then shook his head again: “No. I like it here, but there are more important things to do.”

If she didn’t have the grievances of her previous life, she would not want to be able to live here as long as she was purely as “He Yan”. But she still has a grudge, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, she can’t stay, she has to keep moving forward.

“You mean making meritorious deeds?” His voice was slightly mocking.

He Yan smiled and said, “That’s right. But the governor, you promised me before that as long as you come to Jiyang City to do business, you will let me enter the Nanfu soldiers, but I still have the words to say.”

Xiao Jue: “Counting.”

He Yan was happy, at least she was a little closer to the goal she wanted.

Xiao Jue lowered his eyes, concealed the deep meaning in his eyes, and when he raised his head again, his expression had returned to calm. Just about to speak, someone knocked on the door outside, Cuijiao’s voice: “Madam.”

“Come in.”

Cuijiao walked in, holding a neat stack of clothes in her hand, first glanced at Xiao Jue, looking a little embarrassed.

“What’s wrong?” He Yan asked.

“The fourth son of Chu next door… asked the slave maid to return this piece of clothing to you, saying that thanks to the protection of the lady’s dress, he was able to retreat all over, and I am grateful.”

He Yan remembered that when Chu Zhao gave her Mu Hongjin’s clothes, He Yan once gave him the “impenetrable, impenetrable, water and fire” silk gauze skirt, and asked him to put it on as an armor. Had it not been for him to ask Cuijiao to send it back, He Yan would have forgotten it.

He Yan took the silk gauze, thought for a while, put it on the table, and returned to Liangzhou Wei. She is also a daughter. This dress is not needed anymore, and it will be reserved for Cui Yuezhi’s concubines. .

As soon as he put it down, Xiao Jue’s cool eyes were right on him.

The youth turned his head to look at her, and calmly said, “You gave Chu Zilan the clothes I bought?”

“You didn’t buy it either,” He Yan told the truth: “Isn’t this the money that Brother Lin paid?”

Xiao Jue looked indifferent.

He Yan realized that this person was angry, thinking about it, he and Chu Zilan were rivals, but he would give Chu Zilan the things he chose, and he would naturally feel unhappy in his heart.

She thought for a while and took the initiative to explain, “At that time, I asked Cuijiao to give me the clothes of Her Royal Highness. Brother Chu was afraid that Cuijiao would have something wrong with a little girl, so he came to give it to him. I think he is a big man who has no power to restrain him. On the side of the canal again, if you meet a Utuo, you can hack to death with two swords. Didn’t the guy at Embroidery say that this skirt is not immersed in water or fire. I am not afraid of armor, so I will use this skirt as armor. Give it to him.”

At that time, the situation was so chaotic that He Yan had forgotten that the clothes were women’s clothing, and she gave them to Chu Zilan, even though Chu Zilan would not wear them.

“Brother Chu?” Xiao Jue asked slowly.

He Yan stepped back, knowing that he was wrong again, “Fourth Master Chu, Fourth Master Chu.”

He sneered: “I think you know Chu Zilan very well.”

“No, it’s not too familiar.” He Yan said sternly: “It’s just a meeting in the water, and I won’t see it again in the future.”

“Let me remind you again,” the young man felt impatient between his eyebrows, and his voice was cold, “you can like anyone. If you like Chu Zilan, you just don’t know how to live or die.”