Chu Huan said "Oh" and asked, "So you have an older brother, do you know where he is now?"

Ling Shuang smiled bitterly on her pretty face, and her voice was very soft: "I don't know... I don't even know whether he is dead or alive now. I was only six or seven years old at that time. I remember that he was taking me around at that time, but one day...!" She seemed to have thought of something terrible, and she showed a look of fear in her eyes, and quickly closed her eyes.

Chu Huan knew that it was a past that was unbearable to look back on. It seemed that Ling Shuang's depression had been planted since she was a child. She said softly: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it. You are too tired. Have a good rest. When the medicine is ready, I will feed you the medicine!"

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

Chu Huan was stunned, then sat down, shook his head and said, "I won't leave, I'll be here to accompany you."

Ling Shuang felt even warmer when she saw Chu Huan like this. Seeing Chu Huan sitting next to her, she didn't say anything for a moment and couldn't help but ask softly: "Master, you...will you rush me away one day?"

Chu Huan was stunned and said strangely: "Why do you ask this? Of course not."

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

Chu Huan stared at Ling Shuang's eyes and saw that she was pitiful, her eyes were full of fear, but for a moment she forgot about Yingren's existence and whispered: "How can I hate you? As long as you are willing, you can stay by my side. Maybe you will not take good care of it, but you will try not to let you suffer any grievances as much as possible."

Ling Shuang showed a joyful expression and said, "Master, you must keep your word. I...I'm very happy. Do you know that there is a kind of... by your side..." Then her pretty face turned red and she didn't continue talking.

Chu Huan asked, "What kind of thing is there?"

Ling Shuang closed her eyes and plucked up the courage to say, "Follow the master, I feel like home!"

"What does home feel like?" Chu Huan was puzzled for a moment.

Ling Shuang opened her eyes, looked at Chu Huan, and said seriously: "I have always felt that I was the leaves floating in the wind. When the wind blows, I can't control where I want to float... Without roots, I keep floating, no life...!" Her eyes began to become hazy, and before I knew it, she said in a dream: "I don't know where I will float in the end. I thought this life was like that leaf, which kept floating, and I never felt anything. But when I came to the master, I suddenly felt that I had roots again, as if I don't have to float like that leaf in the future... I don't want to be a leaf, so I want the master to know that I can do a lot of things... In this way, I will not leave this home, and can follow the master and enjoy the feeling of home that I haven't felt for many years...!"

Chu Huan couldn't help but smile when she saw her expression, obviously immersed in her imagination. For some reason, there seemed to be a needle in her heart that suddenly hurt.

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

Ling Shuang's voice was very soft. Slowly, perhaps because she was too tired, she unknowingly closed her eyes, smiled at the corner of her mouth, and fell asleep quietly.

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

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In the next few days, Chu Huan came back very early every day, and she didn't do anything else, just talked with Ling Shuang on the sickbed. Usually Chu Huan was talking and Ling Shuang was listening, and most of the content was Chu Huan's stories or jokes to make Ling Shuang happy. Chu Huan never regarded Ling Shuang as a slave. To be honest, Chu Huan treated her more as one of her sisters.

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

In fact, whether the golden needle Shi Liao can treat many diseases, but the golden needle acupoint is already related to the human body's veins, which moves the whole body with one stroke. Dr. Xu's golden needle unblocks Ling Shuang's blood and energy, but it also makes Ling Shuang unable to recover his normal strength within a few days, and even staying at home has become a problem.

Fortunately, Bai Xiaozi and Sun Zikong came by coincidence, so Chu Huan didn't have to delay the affairs of the yamen. Bai Xiaozi was temporarily working as a guard in the mansion. As long as the future is ahead, he would make arrangements for him when Chu Huan finds the opportunity. However, Sun Zikong has become the head of the family for a while. Whether it is washing clothes, cooking or cleaning, Sun Zikong has let Sun Zikong pack up. This is not that Chu Huan and Bai Xiaozi deliberately bullied him, but to give Chu Huan a good impression, Sun Zikong rushes to do everything.

He was actually from a poor family, but he was able to endure hardships. Chu Huan is now the head of the fourth-rank Ministry of Revenue. In Sun Zikong's eyes, he was a god-like figure who could stay in the steward's house and follow Chu Huan. He always thought that he was still in his dream. He was thinking about his poor character on the bed at night, now he was holding such thick thighs and laughing in his dreams. He worked harder in his daily life. In just a few days, he knew exactly where the surrounding generation was a grocery store, a vegetable market, a pharmacy, and a pawn shop, and he was even more familiar with Chu Huan.

The more two people in the mansion, it will make people angry. However, the Ministry of Revenue is not as peaceful as the Chu Mansion. Chu Huan received the biggest news that the Secretariat had decided that the method of purchasing grain from the IOU on the Jianghuai Road could be used. The general important personnel led by Nayan Zhou Ting of the Menxia Province also unexpectedly agreed to the decision.

The Secretariat and the two lower provinces passed this resolution, and the specific affairs were handed over to the Ministry of Revenue. The words passed down from the Secretariat were said to have praised Lang Wuxu who proposed this proposal after the emperor knew this method, and Hu Bufan, the Minister of Revenue, was naturally not rewarded.

Chu Huan learned the news, because the situation in Jianghuai was urgent. In addition to the Ministry of War, Dali Temple, Ministry of Works and other yamen busy dispatching troops to plan, the Ministry of Revenue also wanted to quickly implement the proposal to purchase grain from IOU.

Hu Bufan obviously attached great importance to this matter. He personally planned it, and for a while, he didn't care about Chu Huan's side. He even sent people to Jianghuai and ordered Cao from the Ministry of Revenue of the Jianghuai Prefectures to cooperate with the Ministry of Revenue to implement the proposal to purchase grain by IOU. The grain of the Jianghuai prefectures must be controlled by the government as soon as possible. The other end of the Ministry of War also made a quick response. In addition to the imperial guards, the state army and the gentry stopped the servants to suppress bandits, tens of thousands of guard troops in Jianghuai prefectures also began to frequently mobilize, forming an arc-shaped military deployment, surrounding Huizhou, the most powerful forces in Tianmendao.

However, the main force of Tianmendao is temporarily in Huizhou, but there are believers of Tianmendao people in the five prefectures of Jianghuai. The Tianmendao bandits only have several combat forces in Jianghuai. According to the latest news from Chu Huan, after the Tianmendao people were driven out of Huizhou City, they soon occupied several county towns around Huizhou City. At first, they thought that Tianmendao people were not strong enough and could not occupy the prefecture city, but the situation there is now that after Tianmendao occupied several county towns, they immediately began to build fortifications to strengthen the defense of the county town. The county town surrounding Huizhou City instantly became several hungry wolves coveting Huizhou City.

JAC has now formed an extremely strange strategic pattern.

With Huizhou as the center, Huizhou City is in the most central position, where there are three thousand Huizhou troops and three thousand Jianghuai Imperial Guards who had driven out of the city of Tianmen Road. In addition to the strong men recruited in the city, the current force of troops in Huizhou City is about 15,000, but after training, there are only the Huizhou troops and the Imperial Guards with a total force of 6,000.

Originally, after driving tens of thousands of Tianmen Dao people out of Huizhou City, the government thought that the danger of Huizhou City had been lifted, but the soldiers in the city had not yet been repaired, and soon received help from several surrounding counties. The more and more Tianmen Dao people gathered, they did not continue to attack Huizhou City, but successively captured the surrounding county towns. Those county towns were all located in important places for Huizhou City to transport external transportation, and several county towns were lost one after another. Huizhou City, which had just been lifted, seemed not to have been attacked, but was in the center of several lost county towns. The surrounding important roads were blocked by Tianmen Dao people. In an instant, they had become an isolated city sandwiched in the middle.

There are more and more Tianmen Dao people gathering towards several county towns. Several county towns form an encirclement. On the outer side, there are bandit suppression circles formed by other states, state troops, imperial guards and guards. If the Tianmen Dao people occupying several county towns are surrounded, when the heavy troops are concentrated in Huizhou, the Tianmen Dao people in other states of Jianghuai seem to be ready to move. Many Tianmen Dao people are gathering towards the outer side of Huizhou. It seems that they want to form another encirclement circle on the outer side, put pressure on the officers and soldiers and reduce the military pressure of being surrounded by Tianmen Dao people. Jianghuai now seems to have become a game of circles, layer by layer, and the official army takes the initiative several times. Although the results of the battle are quite good and many enemies are killed, the Tianmen Dao people's military strength has not been reduced because of this, but it is becoming more and more.

The government army fought several battles, but it seemed that the results of the battle were good, but there was no strategic progress at all. The government army made great efforts to attack several county towns occupied by Tianmen Road, but the people of Tianmen Road were crazy, with countless casualties. Several county towns were saved by them, and none of them were lost. The casualties of the government army were extremely heavy, and the supply had been cut off. If this continues, it is very likely that they will be defeated without attacking.

There are not many people in the capital who know about the war situation in the Jianghuai River. People only know that there is a chaos in the Jianghuai River. The court is dispatching troops to quell the chaos. The wars that took place far southeast seem to have no impact on the lives of the people in the capital. It is still very prosperous. Moreover, people in the capital also believe that the so-called Tianmen Dao is a group of mobs. Since the court takes action, it will only be a matter of time before the quelling of the Jianghuai River.

As the head of the Ministry of Revenue, Chu is quite clear about the battle situation in Jianghuai.

When he figured out the situation in Jianghuai, the first judgment he made was that Tianmen Dao might not be the mob that many people thought. When the official army drove Tianmen Dao out of Huizhou City, the wording in the war report was "Tianmen chaotic bandits fled when they saw the wind." Chu Huan hoped that the wording was not true at this time. If the situation at that time was really "flee when they saw the wind", Chu Huan vaguely felt that it might not be that Tianmen Dao was vulnerable, and it was very likely that Tianmen Dao pretended to behave.

From the subsequent plot of Tianmen Dao people conquering the county towns around Huizhou City and forming a siege of Huizhou City, we can see that there are many secrets and seem to have strong strategic considerations, not a group of mobs.

Chu Huan described the military situation of Jianghuai on paper when he was still free. However, he could see keenly that Tianmen Road occupied several county towns to siege Huizhou City, which made the court certain to siege Tianmen Road to rescue the lonely city of Huizhou. Although the Tianmen Road people were under tremendous military pressure, they seemed to move all the heavy troops of the court to the Huizhou area. Moreover, the more stubborn the Tianmen Road people occupying the county town, the more the military forces transferred from other officials. On the drawings of Huizhou, Chu Huan discovered that the officers and soldiers had regarded the 20,000 to 30,000 Tianmen Road people from those counties as the absolute main force of the chaotic bandits. At least 60,000 of the troops in Jianghuai had formed a bandit suppression and hoarded them on the front line around Huizhou. The consequence of this was that the troops in the other four prefectures of Jianghuai had huge empty loopholes.

Chu Huan was very worried. Now there were signs that although other states did not suddenly experience a large number of people like Huizhou, there were already Tianmen Dao scattered from other states to gather along the edge of Huizhou. Although the number of people has not reached a terrifying level, it has been quite large, and the number of people has been increasing continuously.

Chu Huan was worried that this was the Tianmen Dao's plan to attack the west. Tianmen Dao made great wars in Huizhou, which caused a lot of controversy. It is very likely that it was deliberately used to attract the attention of the court, so it positioned the main force of Tianmen Dao in Huizhou, but other places were empty. When the court focused its attention on Huizhou and dispatched heavy troops to encircle and suppress it, the real main force of Tianmen Dao was formed on the periphery.

If the situation was really as he expected, Chu Huan only felt that the Tianmen Taoist people were not mobs, but there must be extremely terrifying military talents among them. Even the Tianmen Taoist people, who seemed to be chaotic and mobs, actually had a strict mobilization and command system.

When buying grain from IOU, there must be endless troubles. Chu Huan can't figure out why so many ministers in the court didn't understand this. Could it be that they really can't understand it or have other thoughts? His Majesty the Emperor fought in the south and north, had great martial arts skills, and such a person is really old and confused. I don't know how to use to quell the Jianghuai Rebellion?

Chu Huan knew better that the Jianghuai Rebellion may not end in a short period of time, and may even become more and more violent. The entire southeast of the empire will be in peace in the future. He did not know what kind of situation the current Jianghuai Rebellion would bring the Qin Empire to in the future. Will it eventually be destroyed under the strong suppression of the imperial court, or will it be that the chaos in a corner slowly drag the empire into a more sinister crisis?

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