Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 377: Who would die in namelessness? !

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Chapter 377 Who, would you like to die in namelessness? !

The wind and rain are about to come and the black clouds are rolling, and the yellow sand is tumbling between the sky and the earth, and there is a roar.

Liangzhou is more desolate than Lanzhou. There is more windy sand, less vegetation, hot summer and harsh winter.

Above the female wall at the head of the city, the neat red flag is hunting and flying.

Qin Mubai and Xue Wanche stood side by side at the head of the city and looked out, all of their armor rustled by the sand in the wind.

"The sky is full of sand and clouds, and the demons are dancing. The storm is coming. Liangzhou is a poor mountain and bad water. Even good weather is difficult." Xue Wanche looked at the rolling yellow sand and rushing black clouds, if he felt touched.

Qin Mubai's mouth lightly raised, and smiled: "I think it's picturesque."

Xue Wanche was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "The young marshal has a broad mind, and he wants to be inside."

"It's just optimism." Qin Mubai smiled and asked, "Have you not found Hou Junji yet?"

"Hey!..." Xue Wanche shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "He came to Liangzhou alone, with neither the house nor the family members. Sometimes he huddled with the clerks in the penthouse of the yamen, and sometimes stayed overnight. Drunk restaurants or incense gardens, or even sleeping directly on the streets, bridges, and being dragged out of the horse pens. His behavior is grotesque and he has no fixed place, and because of his former official residence, his temper is fierce and he is cold. The state is also one of the top official ranks, so no one dared to ask him. I, the governor of Liangzhou, used to be his subordinate generals, let alone him. Now a dozen people are sent to find him in Manzhou City, but I can't find it."

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Don't worry. Anyway, we still have many other things to do. Maybe he will come back by himself when he is. Go, let's go to Juntun to see how to move and change defenses. How is it going."

"Also."

Not long after, a heavy rain poured down and enveloped the entire Liangzhou. There was thunder and heavy rain, and the barracks were muddy. The baggage and other items are inconvenient to unload, so people have to rest temporarily. Qin Mubai and Xue Wanche inspected the barracks once, and the people in the barracks never held umbrellas for them, so they got soaked.

In the evening, Xue Wanche said that the army’s diet was poor, and the young marshal was caught in the rain for fear of the cold, so he should find a warm bath in a better wine shop and drink a little wine to drive away the cold.

Although Liangzhou is desolate as a whole, it has become a transit station for business travel since Lanzhou's "Great Development". Therefore, there are many restaurants and hotels, and most of them are merchants.

Xue Wanche asked Qin Mubai to have a drink in a Qingyuan building in the city, saying that the Sanlejiang and moxibustion lamb legs are more famous, although they are not comparable to the famous dishes of Qinxian wine and Chang'an, they also have a unique flavor. Qin Mubai naturally did not refuse to accept the guest.

The two took three or five entourages, changed their casual clothes, and went to Qingyuan Building in the city. Qin Mubai asked his subordinates and said that he still hadn't found Hou Junji and had to give up temporarily.

If there is a big Liangzhou city, most of them are bungalows with mud-tile walls. Only a few neat brick buildings have been built on the central street of the city. These are the wine shops where business travelers settled. . On weekdays, here is also considered lively, and business travelers are constantly hawking and shouting. Because of the recent wars in Liangzhou, many stores have closed due to panic. There are also some business travelers who are anxiously forced to stay here and are not allowed to leave for the time being.

Several people walked for a while and entered the shopping street, looking quite deserted all around.

Xue Wanche sighed: "In the past, this was the busiest and most prosperous place in Zhoucheng. It was always the crowds of Xixi. After months of fighting, Liangzhou has become a lot of desolation!"

Qin Mubai twisted his brows and said, "It will be fine after this period of time. The frontier defense expands to protect the enemy from the wild, and Lanzhou can be peaceful. This is why I ask you to switch to Yumen Pass and Yang Pass. 1. After repeated fierce battles, although we can always win without losing the city, the people will be afraid, and business travel will be cut off. In the final analysis, we will always suffer more if we fight against the Hu people and live in the city. The casualties on the battlefield and the losses suffered by the city and the people as a result of this spread are difficult to estimate."

"The marshal said very much." Xue Wanche said with deep feeling, "Since last winter, Liangzhou has been suffering from military disasters. Since then, taxation has gone to nine, and the people's floating business trip has been cut off, and the whole city will never go back to the past. The prosperous weather, the sky is filled with panic and tension, and there are even more criminals. I only hope that this battle will be over soon, otherwise Liangzhou will always be so lifeless, it's really not a place for people to stay."

Qin Mubai nodded, smiled and said: "Remember not long ago, two years ago, Lanzhou is almost like Liangzhou now. Don’t be anxious, it's man-made. As long as you quickly expand the defense line and stabilize it From Yu, Yang to Puchanghai, when my father-in-chief builds the Anxi Duhu Mansion in Gaochang, the Helong area will gradually become as stable as a rock. From then on, Datang has expanded its territory for thousands of miles, and General Xue has made great contributions!"

Xue Wanche was slapped up with neither light nor seriousness, and a little bit in full bloom, he said: "If the humble position can achieve the smallest feats, it depends on following the marshals and fathers and sons to pick up some cheap. And the marshal must go down in history!"

"Haha!" Qin Mubai laughed, and the group also laughed very cooperatively.

While everyone was chatting and passing by a small green building, the originally closed wooden door was suddenly opened. Several sturdy men came out carrying a drunk man and brought him to the ground in the street. They clapped their hands, the big guys didn't say much, they just gave the drunk a few glances with resentment and disgust, then went back and closed the door.

The drunk man was thrown into the street, which immediately attracted some onlookers. Several people who had come closer glanced at them and walked around quickly, frowning and frowning. The man lay motionless on the ground as if he was dead, and occasionally twitched a few times, but he spit out piles of filth from his mouth.

Qin Mubai raised his head and glanced at the small green building, knowing it was a prostitute. So he didn't care, ready to go around. At this time, Xue Wanche exclaimed in a low voice: "Hou Junji?"

Qin Mubai couldn't help but stared at him suspiciously: "No?"

"Really!" Xue Wanche suddenly looked embarrassed, and made a lip at the two pawns next to him, motioning them to carry Hou Junji away, and don't let him lie on the street ashamed.

"Wait." Qin Mubai stopped his entourage, walked over and squatted beside the drunk man, reached out his hand to turn him over, and saw that it was not Hou Junji?

Although he didn't have much contact with him, but in the past when he was in Chang'an, he didn't look up and he was always recognized.

Hou Junji, originated in Rongwu, was famous for his bravery when he was young. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he was introduced to the shogunate by Li Shimin. Because of his heroic combat, he was entrusted with important tasks and promoted step by step. When the Xuanwu Gate changed, he also provided advice and support for Li Shimin. From then on, he was deeply dependent on Li Shimin and became one of his confidants. Its limelight is not lost to one of the "Four Great Kaiyuan Heroes", Yuchi Jingde, and even far better than the former generals of the Qin Palace, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, Hou Junji successively served as the central position of the military headquarters of General Zuowei and General Youwei, and he was named Lord Lu Guo. As a military commander, he also transferred to school of civil affairs, and successively held the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. These are actually just the second. The most important thing is that he was ordered by the emperor to learn the art of war from Li Jing, followed Li Jingnan in the Northern War, and made great achievements, and became the most active Mesozoic general in the military since Li Shimin became the throne. , Can go hand in hand with Li Ji. When he became the official secretary, he also took care of the affairs of the Hongwenguan, that is, he has the real power to participate in and discuss politics!

Before the Prince Incident, Hou Junji even had to surpass Li Ji, who acted low-key and stationed outside. He was the most popular military representative in the court. But it was this sudden political turmoil that dragged the momentous Hou Junji from the clouds into the mud and crashed to Sri Lanka.

At that time, when the grandson Wuji tried the prince’s conspiracy case, there were no small exceptions, and Hou Junji was one of the biggest names. It was only because Hou Junji was prominent in the past that he had made great contributions in the past, and Changsun Wuji did not (or "failed") to completely wipe out Hou Junji, but he was relegated to Liangzhou for an "accomplice treason" crime. .

Hou Junji, who was in his early forties, was just at the pinnacle of his life, but he was kicked over forever. I am afraid that only he can experience the feeling. As for whether he really participated in the rebellion, Qin Mubai did not know, but Changsun Wuji "needed" Hou Jun to conspire, so he had to be "rebelled".

At this moment, Hou Junji, with a muddy face and filthy face, is facing the sky with drunken eyes and dimly looking at Qin Mubai who is aloft, still spitting out alcohol in his mouth.

"Quickly, carry it away!" Xue Wanche waved his hand in annoyance, and motioned to his entourage to quickly get the person back and don't be embarrassed here.

"Take him to the Qingyuan Building, arrange a bath and change clothes, and let him sober up and rest." Qin Mubai said lightly, but there is no room for rebuttal and doubt.

"Marshal, isn't this okay?" Xue Wanche said in disgust, "Such a filthy description of homelessness might disturb the marshal's drinking."

"Everyone has a moment of frustration." Qin Mubai stood up and said lightly, "My brother, can you dislike it?"

"Okay!" Xue Wanche sighed, curled his eyebrows and looked at Hou Junji, and said, "Hey, it's very pitiful, but it's also very exasperating. Young handsome mind, I can't make it—you are still stunned , Resist people, go!"

A group of people was about to leave, the door of the prostitute opened again, and a tortoise slave rushed out of it, and he nodded and bowed to everyone, and said flatly: "Several of them must be this master My friend is also a distinguished figure. The villain didn't dare to disturb, but the owner had the order, so he had to covet and beg you for one thing."

"Just let it out if you have a fart!" Xue Wanche was angry and had nowhere to spread it, shouting.

"Yes, yes." The turtle slave whispered, "This Lord Hou...had been in the shop for more than ten days, and the money he brought was all sold out, and it was all on credit. I dare not ask for it, much less dare to deceive him. It’s just that the small shop is really small and profitable, and it can’t be underwritten. For the past few days, this Hou master is full of requests, eight girls every day. Accompanying to eat, drink and have fun, get drunk and beat others to smash tables and chairs...so...so!..."

Qin Mubai gritted his teeth a little annoyed, took a purse from his waist and squeezed it in his hand, and said: "How many girls are there in your store, how much is the whole store worth? "

"Huh?" Turtle slave was startled, not knowing how to answer.

"I want to ask you something!" Xue Wanche shouted, "The answer is yes!"

"Uh...The shop has a total of ten girls, and the population is only 20 people. The storehouse is rented by the landlord. We can't be the master..." Guinu said timidly.

Qin Mubai threw the money bag to him and said: "It's yours. You got this brothel down for me. From now on, you will be the shopkeeper here, and this Lord Hou will come to spend money again. You don’t have to charge pennies, you have to serve him like your ancestors. As for how to negotiate with your boss and how to operate, it’s all your business. Do you understand?"

The tortoise slave stood on the spot, at a loss.

Xue Wanche grabbed the money bag in his hand anxiously, pulled the rope open and flicked it, and a pile of golden bumps fell out of it, dazzling the turtle slave's eyes.

"Dead tortoise slave, are you stupid or stupid?" Xue Wanche said annoyedly, "these gold is enough to buy three small broken shops like you. You are lucky, stupid boy! Still stupid, unhappy Go away?"

"Ah! Yes, yes!" The tortoise slave came back to his senses, holding the pile of golden lumps like a treasure, and ran back to the prostitute like a rolling tail, like a tail chopped off Dog.

Xue Wanche sighed, dull and funny: "Marshal, you don't have to be so used to Hou Junji, right?"

"How is this called?" Qin Mubai smiled and said faintly, "If I am frustrated and lonely, I will want to drink and get drunk. At this time, even the beauty of Jinshan Yinshan Qingcheng, it seems to me. Mud is not as good. At this time, if someone can buy a large urn of wine to accompany me to drink, that person must be my best confidant."

"I see..." Xue Wanche nodded, sighed, and said, "Young handsome, I didn't think about it, you are still a careful person and very loyal."

"Could it be that you used to think that I was loyal?" Qin Mubai smiled.

"Uh...humble job doesn't mean that!... Humble job means that it is a great blessing to have friends like the marshal!"

Everyone came to Qingyuan Building, and a few of them came to the store to give them a drink, and Hou Junji took a bath and changed clothes and poured sober soup. Qin Mubai and Xue Wanche sat in an accordion, and there were some silk and bamboo zheng sounds in the pavilion behind the bead curtain. The drinks were decent, at least in Liangzhou, it was considered a "high-standard" treatment.

"The young marshal laughed." Xue Wanche smiled bitterly, "Liangzhou is broken, and there is no decent hospitality. The governor's mansion and the governor's mansion are being relocated for several days, and it is even more useless. I had to wrong the marshal general. Just some."

"It's okay. I'm not particular about these." Qin Mubai replied with a faint smile, not focusing on these things.

He has been thinking about how to "handle" Hou Junji.

To deal with this word, it appeared in Qin Mubai's mind, really a bit strange.

In his impression, Hou Junji is a strong personality and arrogant master. Leaving it is the past, even if it was Qin Mubai, a captain, the royal celebrity, or the young master of the Qin family, the new master of Lanzhou, Hou Jun Ji Tongtong would not put it in the corner of his eye.

Everyone who has been in the court knows that Hou Junji was respectful and convinced only one person in his life, and that was Emperor Li Shimin. In addition, Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling, even his mentor Li Jing, didn't take him seriously.

Therefore, although Hou Junji and Li Jing have the name of mentoring and apprenticeship, they did not have a harmonious relationship with each other. Later, they did not even interact with each other. According to reports, at the beginning Hou Junji wanted to learn the art of war from Li Jing, but Li Jing was unwilling to teach it because Hou Junji was rebellious and unruly. If he learned the art of war, he would be a disaster in the future. So Hou Junji found the emperor and asked the emperor to issue an order for Li Jing to accept the disciple of Hou Junji.

In desperation, Li Jing had to do it. But when he taught Hou Jun the art of war, he naturally had reservations. For this reason, Hou Junji was very angry, and even sued Li Shimin, saying that Li Jing hadn't done his best to teach the imperial decree and teach the art of war. Li Jing gave an explanation to Li Shimin, saying that if the art of war I taught him is well-learned, it would be no problem to defend against the enemy before the battle. No matter how much he has to learn, he is not righteous.

Li Shimin is naturally hard to blame Li Jing, he also understands Li Jing's intentions. If Hou Junji was allowed to inherit all his Li Jing's skills, in the future, when the older generations like Li Shimin and Li Jing passed away, who would be able to survive Hou Junji?

Because of this incident, Hou Junji and Li Jing turned their faces against each other.

Qin Mubai wondered, if he used the status of "teaching out of the same door" to get close to Hou Jun, it is estimated that there will be no good things, but bad things.

Hou Junji, this is a fierce and fierce horse. Of course, if it is used well, it will naturally be a peerless horse. How to control is one-minded.

The two of them drank for a long time, and it was dark after the meeting, Hou Junji was still in the bath. Xue Wanche became impatient, and said, "Marshal, it's better to go back and rest first. When Hou Junji wakes up from the wine, I will tell him to go and pay respects."

"We are all military and military, why bother Luo Yu. He doesn't come, I'll go and see." After saying that, Qin Mubai got up and took up a new hot plate. Lamb shank carried a pot of wine and smiled, "Forget it, he is also my senior. It's okay to serve him once as a junior."

Xue Wanche was sniffing coldly in his nose, which was really annoying. The dignified master of the Lanzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, who administers thousands of armies under the command of the people, is so embarrassed to treat a degraded official who has lost power in such a low voice!

Hou Jun gathered all his gangs and soaked them in the tub. Next to him, there were two grieving entourages, wiping their backs and shoulders patiently. Hou Junji poured his hands on the rim of the barrel and covered his face with a steamed towel, shaking his fingers, and instructing the two soldiers to rub and press them. It was very enjoyable.

Qin Mubai walked in, puffed up his mouth, and motioned the two soldiers to go out. As if they were forgiven, they let go and ran away. Xue Wanche couldn't stand it, so he closed the door gently and left.

"Don't stop, continue squeezing. Here is the shoulder, sore." Hou Junji still groaned under the towel.

Qin Mubai smiled, put down the mutton and the hip flask, and really walked behind Hou Junji, put his hands on his shoulders, and pressed both hands.

Perhaps there is still alcohol strength, Hou Junji's reaction is a little slow, and there is no strange reaction. The hot towel covered his face was a little rough, as if he was still dozing off.

Qin Mubai didn't call him either, and really gave him a massage for at least one stick of incense. Hou Junji lay in the barrel like a dead person, motionless.

After a long time, Hou Junji reached out to his face and touched the towel, soaked in the bucket, without looking back, said lightly: "The water is cold."

"I'll call Xiao Er to change." Qin Mubai said.

"No need." Hou Junji paused, turned his head, looked at Qin Mubai with a smile, and said, "The craftsmanship is good, the chief governor."

Qin Mubai smiled relaxedly, handed over the meat plate and the hip flask, and said, "Your stomach is empty, come, eat. You were drunk just now, we didn't wait for you to eat it first. ."

Hou Junji is not polite. He stretched out his arms from the bucket, grabbed the lamb with his hands drippingly and stuffed it into his mouth, picked up the hip flask in the other hand, and poured his neck back into his throat.

Qin Mubai stood aside like a small servant, holding a meat plate, still smiling.

Hou Junji is like a prisoner who came out of a hungry jail. He ate and chewed without the slightest gentry style. He ate the meat and drank the wine. He gave a long tut and put the hip flask into the empty meat. There was a big hiccup on the plate, and he said coldly: "If you don't have anything to show your love, you will steal if you don't want to be rape. Let's talk, what is the matter with this trash, Qin Dadu. Oh, they all call you, marshal ."

"You are really right, I did find something to do with you." Qin Mubai didn't care, and threw the plate and flask aside, clapped his hands, and said, "I know you are not reconciled, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to escape an unjust death. So now I am living a painful life every day, and I can only use the wandering skeleton to numb myself."

"How I live, it's none of your business." Hou Junji turned his back to Qin Mubai, wiped his body with a towel slowly, and said coldly, "Tell me what you are here. Although I Hou Junji I have been a civil official for a few years, but he is a martial artist with a bow and arrow. I don’t like that set of sloppy and silly things."

"Okay, refreshing enough!" Qin Mubai stroked his palm and said, "Since we are people on a boat..."

"Wait!" Hou Junji suddenly interrupted Qin Mubai's words loudly, "Who is in the same boat as you?"

"We have a common enemy, so they are people on the same boat. Isn't that right?" Qin Mubai said.

Hou Junji's action was stagnant, and he continued: "Even if we have a common enemy, then we are not friends. I Hou Junji never had friends."

"But you have had colleagues and comrades in arms." Qin Mubai said, "Who has accompany you on the battlefield for life and death in these years? How can you, Hou Junji alone, be brave and good at fighting, and can kill a thousand troops? Wanma? My colleagues are in battle. How many people are friends who know each other and know each other? But it is necessary for the same enemy to work together. I don’t need to tell you this simple truth in the future, right?"

"You make some sense." Hou Junji seemed to be a little disdainful, but also a little desperate. "But you are such a big figure who has come to the top of the limelight, come to me, a downcast and ominous person, what is the point? Are you not afraid of getting into my bad luck and being washed by Changsun Wuji?"

"Heh! If someone from Qin is afraid of his grandson Wuji, he won't set foot in Lanzhou again today." Qin Mubai smiled, "I came to you, and the intention is very simple. I will rule one hundred thousand in Lanzhou. Xiongbing, I can’t control it. But this is your good job. Come and help me."

Hou Junji's whole body stagnated, turning his head to look at Qin Mubai incredulously: "What did you say?"

Qin Mubai smiled and smiled sincerely, and said: "Lanzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion still lacks a marching Sima, and my fellow Yi Mansion also has a middle-ranking general in Yi Mansion. If you don't dislike it, please come and help. I can help."

"What do you call me?"

"Brother."

"..." Hou Junji turned his head and fell into a long silence.

Qin Mubai was not in a hurry, and stood aside patiently, waiting for his reply.

The room is quiet, not listening to any sound.

After a long time, Hou Junji said--

"In my life, Hou Junji, I have tasted all the ups and downs. Right now, my life is nothing but wine and beauty. I don't want to try the absurd feeling of big ups and downs. You go, Don't come to me again in the future."

Qin Mubai is not in a hurry. If Hou Junji was so easily persuaded and subdued, then he would not be the Hou Junji who was so powerful and proud of the battlefield. He nodded and said, "I'm not pushing you, and I'm not in a hurry. For one year or two, ten or twenty years, as long as Qin Mubai is still in Lanzhou, the gate of the Metropolitan Government will remain open for you. Before that, you can just enjoy your life in Liangzhou. As long as you don’t kill or commit crimes, there will be no more half-person to bother you."

"You want to catch it, don't you?" Hou Junji sneered, "It seems that you have won the true teachings of Li Yaoshi, not only the art of war, but also learned how to deal with people."

"Brother, if you doubt my sincerity, you can let time prove it." Qin Mubai said, "It's useless to say, I will stop here. You can rest, I will not bother."

After that, Qin Mubai walked towards the door.

Just opened the door to go out, Hou Junji behind him suddenly jumped out: "Qin Mubai, what are you doing up and down tossing and tossing? In the end, it is nothing but nothing. What fame, wealth, wealth and merit , Are all emptiness and ethereal things. After all, you are still young, and you only know that you are doing these silly things with passion. When you have experienced what you should experience, you will be as discouraged as I am. Instead of going around like this Circle, I advise you not to waste your energy. In this life, people should enjoy the enjoyment and let go. This is life."

"Maybe what you said is right." Qin Mubai turned his head, smiled at him, and said, "As you said, I'm still young. When I was young, I didn't do a few stupid things and waited for the old. The memory of that time is blank, isn’t it a greater sorrow? In this life, people should enjoy the enjoyment that should be put down, and the contention that should be grabbed and the important, and none of them can be let go. This is my Qin Mu The life Bai wants. Who wants to die in the nameless? You Hou Junji, really willingly?"

"Who...wish to die in namelessness?!...Me, Hou Junji?"

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[The seven thousand words in this chapter, I am gradually getting back to my state...]