As the night fell, Guo Sheng walked leisurely and familiarly with his hands behind his back to the corner door of the back garden of Lu Mansion. He stretched out his hand and pushed open the corner door. He nodded and smiled at Cheng Ying behind the corner door. He kept walking and walked unhurriedly.

Zizizi passed through the shadows of a few trees and entered the empty small courtyard.

Lu Yi had probably just come out of the shower. He was wrapped in a cloak. The cloak was wrapped casually, and half of his silver-white silk clothes were exposed. He was barefoot and with his hair loose. He was sitting on his large armchair.

Sipping a cup of tea.

Guo Sheng stopped two or three steps away from Lu Yi, looking him up and down, tut-tutting repeatedly as he looked, "Fifth Master said that Jiang Yanshi makes tea so that people don't smell the tea. General Lu doesn't have to make tea. He just sits like this, even me."

This way, let alone the smell of tea, you can no longer smell the smell of water."

Lu Yi didn't know whether it was because of the tea or Guo Sheng's words, but she choked and coughed, "How does the water smell? Mr. Guo is in such a good mood today?"

"Water has a smell, and the smell of water is stronger than that of tea." Guo Sheng smiled, sat down on his small bamboo chair, and shook it hard a few times. Well, it made a little noise.

"I escaped from a disaster when I was a child. General Lu knew that if you are traveling at night, you will know whether it is a road or a river by smelling it. When you see water and smell it, you will know whether the water is drinkable. The water has a strong smell."

As he spoke, Guo Sheng moved around, poured himself a cup of tea, drank it first, then picked up the peanut basket and put peanuts on the side of the stove.

"If it's summer, sir, would you be so unable to talk without peanuts?" Lu Yi asked, looking at Guo Sheng who was scattering peanuts carefully.

"Why eat peanuts in the summer? You can't even hide from mosquitoes." Guo Sheng scattered the peanuts, put down the small bamboo basket, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "It's just these peanuts. It's a habit I've only had in the past few years. Speaking of which, this is

Thanks to his uncle, Fifth Master, he first watched his uncle from the Xu family eat peanuts, and then ate them with him a few times before he became addicted."

"Uncle Xu is also hiding from mosquitoes in summer, why can't he?" Lu Yi put down the cup.

"Of course, he has many tricks to avoid mosquitoes and survive the summer, but none of them work." Guo Sheng poured another cup of tea.

"Isn't the Xu family very rich? Just build a roof in the summer, but do you need so many tricks?" Lu Yi asked slowly.

"The general is asking knowingly." Guo Sheng responded politely, "I'm afraid there is nothing General Lu doesn't know about the Xu family in Mingzhou. Let's chat like this in such a courtyard. If you have anything to say, just ask

, don’t go around in circles, you won’t feel tired even after going around all day.”

Lu Yi burst out laughing, "Sir, is it really... that the Xu family's sudden wealth is all that old lady's money?"

"I asked this carefully, and it's really true.

However, it depends on how you say it. After Huo Er became the head of Huo Er, the old lady sold all her share of the dowry, which was not a small amount, for money, built a sea ship, and started a maritime business. Huo Er

The spice shop opened by the old lady in Mingzhou sells goods shipped from her own ship.

You also know that her business is easy to do, and whatever she earns is her own. Within two years, one boat became two boats. It is said that by the end of last year, she had more than 20 boats in her hands. Last year she ordered

When we got off the boat and were about to go to Beijing, the old lady asked people to quietly transfer more than 20 boats. They are probably still changing hands now, and the money hasn't been transferred over yet."

Guo Sheng said it very frankly.

Lu Yi stretched out one leg, stepped on the footrest freely, looked at Guo Sheng and asked: "What is the old lady's plan?"

"You didn't ask Xu Huan what he planned." Guo Sheng laughed.

Lu Yi laughed and said, "Xu Huan listens to his mother-in-law."

"The really extraordinary ones are all women!" Guo Sheng sighed first. Lu Yi's eyebrows jumped sharply and she stared at Guo Sheng without saying a word, just waiting for him to continue.

"I haven't asked the old lady in person, it's not easy to ask in person. I asked Lao Xu, and Lao Xu said that his wife said that she used to work hard to make money, but now it's time to spend money hard. Just this sentence, are you short of money?

Use?" Guo Sheng straightened his upper body and looked at Lu Yi with an extremely serious expression.

"There is no shortage at the moment, but if I want to use it, it won't be 100,000 or 80,000." Lu Yi looked at Guo Sheng equally seriously.

Guo Sheng leaned back and said, "It looks like you are having a hard time."

"Well, the most difficult one is probably me." Lu Yi's face darkened, they were the most difficult team.

"Think about the big leader in the north, isn't it..." Guo Sheng sniffed, rushed forward, hurriedly took a few peanuts, and threw them back and forth several times with both hands.

He threw it onto his brocade gown. Just as he threw it on, he realized what he was doing and hurriedly went to get it again. The burrs on the peanut hooked up and a thread on the brocade floated up.

"Oh my new clothes!" Guo Sheng cried out in pain, and Lu Yi burst into laughter.

Guo Sheng carefully picked up the remaining two or three peanuts, put them on the table, peeled them open and tasted them, and breathed a sigh of relief. It was okay, it was a bit too much, but not burnt.

"Speaking of the big leader in the north," Guo Sheng ate a few peanuts and then said, "Have you ordered this general?"

"Not yet, General Guan has submitted the invitation to fight, Su Shangshu has recommended Bai Shuai, and the Jiang family has recommended General He, but it has not been agreed yet." Lu Yi changed the cup, poured half a cup of tea and sipped it.

"Boshuai definitely can't. There has just been a situation in the south. However," Guo Sheng paused, "God's will is unpredictable and the holy will is profound. It's possible that Baishuai's true tune will go from south to north."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, most of this matter will be left to the Minister of Finance." Lu Yi said vaguely. The Emperor hates hearing the word war, and also hates seeing the mountains of money and food, dispatching troops, carriages and horses, etc.

Zhezi.

"That's General Guan?" Guo Sheng stared at Lu Yi closely.

Lu Yi spread out a hand, "You don't know what Jin Xiang is like. He is dedicated to the country and has no personal agenda. This is recognized by the world. Although General Guan is idle in Hangzhou, he has never been in command.

After such a war, secondly, he spent more time in the south than in the north. General He is a veteran, and has been stationed at the border. He has fought with the barbarians in the north for half his life. If he is familiar with the barbarians in the north, no one is more familiar with them than him.

He is more suitable than General Guan."

"In my opinion, General He is too familiar, so he is not suitable." Guo Sheng thought about what his girl said, and Guan Quan was the nemesis of the big boss couple in the north.

"Huh?" Lu Yi motioned to Guo Sheng to speak carefully.

"That big leader was born out of nowhere. This one is different. It was determined. She is different from the barbarians that General He is familiar with. General He has too much experience and is old. Old people tend to be stubborn, but instead

It was General Guan who suffered a big loss, but he didn't have much experience. General Guan is a stable person, and at least he couldn't suffer a big loss. After fighting a few battles, and getting familiar with it, with General Guan's talents, it is destined to be a big victory."
Chapter completed!