Chapter 76 seventy-five

eleven residual red Hou Junji returned home with a heavy heart, Haitang had already heard the news, and wanted to comfort his father.Hou Junji pretended to be calm, waved his big hand and said nonchalantly: "Daughter, just put your heart in your stomach, you don't know who your father is?" Haitang looked at her father like that, with a hanging heart letting go. After getting down, he went back to his room to embroider his own wedding dress. In the evening, Hou Junji asked Chi Deli and the housekeeper Hou Gui to set up a table of food and wine in the living room.Hou Junji usually saves food and clothing, has no special affairs, and never holds a banquet at home, which makes Chi Deli very panicky.After drinking a few cups of wine, Hou Junji said to Chi Deli: "Deli, there are only eleven people left in the Flying Tiger Army in the Battle of Benqiao, and now they are all governors and generals. You, don't go to any official position, just follow me all the time, I feel that I owe you in my heart as a foster father." Chi Deli said naively: "The foster father treats me as much as a mountain, I just want to be with you for the rest of my life The horse falls into the stirrup and is satisfied."

Hou Junji said: "But I can't delay your future any longer! This is the seal and ribbon of the Sima of Shanzhou. I have asked the emperor for you for a long time. I originally thought that I would give it to you after the Northern Expedition. But , Now someone wants to plot against me and wants to put me to death, I think it's better to hand it over to you first." While speaking, he took out a brocade box and pushed it in front of Chi Deli.Hou Junji's sudden arrangement made Chi Deli very surprised, his face changed drastically, he fell to his knees with a plop and said loudly: "Father, don't drive me away!"

Hou Junji shook his head: "You'd better go, there is no permanent banquet in the world, I have made up my mind, so don't be stubborn anymore, stand up." After speaking, he poured a glass of wine for Chi Deli, holding it with both hands Passed it over, and continued: "I toast you a glass of wine, I just want to ask you one thing, you have to tell the truth." His expression was extremely unusual, and Chi Deli took the wine with both hands in a panic and asked, "What's the matter?" Son?" Hou Junji said, "Do you still remember Cheng Yunliang? Did he really drown?"

Everyone in the Hou family knew that Cheng Yunliang's death was related to Chi Deli.Last winter, Chi Deli's men intercepted a suspicious person on the official road going north, and found a memorial from Cheng Yunliang accusing Hou Junji of corruption from him, and Chi Deli hurriedly presented this memorial to him. Hou Junji.At that time, the battle on the front line was tense, so in order not to affect the battle situation, Hou Junji ordered Chi Deli to put Cheng Yunliang under house arrest, and everything would be discussed after the battle was over.Unexpectedly, Cheng Yunliang was a stubborn master. He wrote another memorial in the cell and tried to bribe the guards to send him away.After Chi Deli found out, he had no choice but to escort him to a boat of the Navy, so that he could not communicate with the outside world.Unexpectedly, in spring, there was a sudden heavy rain, and the river flooded. The boat he was sitting in was swallowed by huge waves.Seven days later, a corpse was found downstream, but it was not clear what it looked like. The only official certificate found on the corpse was Cheng Yunliang.Hou Junji taught Chi Deli a lesson, but the matter had come to this point, so he had no choice but to make a mistake and report to the court that Cheng Yunliang drowned in a flood while transporting grain.Fortunately, there were very few people who knew about it, and Jingxiang was scattered all over Hou Junji's former headquarters, so the truth of Cheng Yunliang's death was concealed.

Chi Deli didn't know why Hou Junji suddenly brought up this old matter again, and was speechless for a long time.Hou Junji urged: "I'm asking you something, have you lied?" Chi Deli regained consciousness and replied: "I'm telling the truth." Hou Junji then asked Cheng Yunliang to write in the cell Where is the memorial?Chi Deli replied that it had been burned long ago, Hou Junji was relieved and did not pursue this matter any more.The banquet continued, and Hou Junji insisted that Chi Deli go to the post as soon as possible, but Chi Deli couldn't resist, so he had to agree. He was unhappy, and drank five or six liters of wine in one go, showing a drunken face. .

After the banquet was over, the three of them left the living room with their own concerns, and went back to bed.As the night was getting dark, Chi Deli stumbled along the corridor towards his bedroom, walked through the door of the moon, and saw a ray of light in Haitang's room, he hesitated for a moment, then walked over absent-mindedly.Like a thief, he approached the light step by step along the corridor under the eaves, looked in through the crack of the door, and caught a glimpse of a white jade-like naked back, his heart skipped a beat, hot blood rushed to his forehead come up.Haitang finished her bath and was walking out of a wooden barrel. Linger handed her a piece of clothing, and she took it and put it on.Chi Deli closed his eyes hard, but soon couldn't help opening them again.That perfect back made his breathing quicken.He was a little unsteady, and moved his foot back a step. Unexpectedly, there was a copper basin behind him, and this foot just stepped on the basin, and there was a clear and crisp sound.

Ling'er exclaimed in surprise: "Someone is peeping!" Haitang also exclaimed, and shouted loudly: "Daddy!" Hou Junji's burly figure rushed in from the moon gate and appeared in the courtyard. Chi De stood in the corner of the wall with an earthy face, with an overturned copper basin behind his feet. He frowned and looked into the room. s eyes. Hou Junji already understood what happened. He turned his lightning-like eyes to Chi Deli, and shouted sharply: "You wolf-hearted thing, do you know what you are doing? She is the future princess and will become a queen one day Where's your lady!" He said, pulling out a big knife from the weapon rack in the corner of the yard, and slashing at Chi Deli.Chi Deli woke up halfway from the wine, his martial arts skills are very good, he lowered his head, and the blade slashed against his scalp with the sound of the wind.

This knife also woke up Haitang, she shouted: "Brother Chi, run away!" Chi Deli was taken aback, he didn't expect Haitang to say such a sentence, he couldn't help feeling hot, and turned to look at her After one glance, he twisted his body and jumped out of the moon gate, disappearing into the night.Hou Junji waved his hand, and shouted to the family members who rushed over: "Hurry up and catch up with him!" non-stop.Haitang came out and came to his side, he stretched out his big hand and lovingly stroked his daughter's hair: "Don't be afraid, it's okay, I never thought that Chi Deli was such a bastard."

At this time, a gust of wind blew up, and the dust rolled up almost blinded people. Haitang seemed to have remembered something, and said in surprise: "Could it be Chi Deli who recited the dead and sued Daddy?" Hou Junji was surprised Looking at her daughter, as if pondering her words, Haitang went on to say: "Cheng Yunliang has written two memorials to sue you, the first one was handed over to you, but the second one was not. He must have written that memorial. Hidden away." Hou Junji nodded first, then shook his head and said, "Even if he hid that memorial, why would he treat me like this? I'm his adoptive father." Haitang said, "Don't tell me, Daddy? Didn’t you see what he was thinking? It’s all because of your daughter! If the father is no longer a high-ranking general, or even a criminal, the royal family will no longer be able to come to the Hou family to choose the princess.”

Hou Junji looked at his daughter and stomped his feet and said, "I understand, I finally understand, why he didn't want to leave this family for so many years." It turns out that Chi Deli has been secretly in love with Haitang! After escaping from the Hou's mansion, Chi Deli had nowhere to go, so he temporarily stayed in an inn, and then found a fellow villager who was working as a guard in the Shu king's mansion, and asked him to introduce him, intending to join the Shu king's family.