Chapter 453

Liu Bai Tu smiled and nodded.

By this time, Duan Yu had wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked toward Tie Shitou.

Seeing this, Tie Shitou immediately let go of Liu Bai Tu.

"Shitou, Bai Tu is right. Go to such places less often." Duan Yu threw the silk cloth in his hand aside: "You guys are at the age to get married."

"It's time to settle down."

"After this busy period, think about it yourselves. If you have a girl you like, come tell me."

"But definitely not from a brothel. Find someone from a good family."

"If you don't have anyone in mind, I'll arrange it for you."

Duan Yu didn't give Tie Shitou a chance to explain.

Tie Shitou could only stand there awkwardly, rolling his eyes at Liu Bai Tu.

Wang Hunu, standing to the side, grinned at Tie Shitou, his face full of smiles.

"Have someone bring breakfast. We'll eat here. It's been a long time since we've eaten together."

Duan Yu sat down in a corner of the training ground: "Back in the village, we could eat together every day, but now there's less and less time."

"You've all grown more mature."

"Seeing you all able to stand on your own feet makes me very happy. At the very least, I haven't failed your parents' trust."

Duan Yu's words immediately stirred up memories of their time in the village.

Tie Shitou, Wang Hunu, and Liu Bai Tu were all stunned for a moment, as if they had returned to the past.

They saw the Big Brother Duan who used to take them hunting in the mountains, play in the forests, and teach them how to shoot.

After sitting down, Duan Yu beckoned to the three of them: "Come and sit. There are no outsiders here; I am still your Big Brother Duan."

Their eyes glistening, they nodded and sat in a small circle around Duan Yu, just like in the old days.

Once the food was brought out, the already ravenous Duan Yu began to eat heartily.

While eating, Liu Bai Tu took a bamboo slip from his sleeve.

"Big Brother Duan, this is the content of the conversation between Dong Huang and Niu Yaodi last night." Liu Bai Tu said.

Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu, who were shoveling rice into their mouths, were stunned.

Dong Huang?

Niu Yaodi?

Their conversation last night?

What kind of explosive content was this?

"Wait... Dong Huang and Niu Yaodi?" Tie Shitou blinked at Liu Bai Tu: "The two of them... last night?"

Liu Bai Tu nodded.

Duan Yu picked up the bamboo slip and read the recorded content.

In fact, he was the one who discovered there was a problem between Dong Huang and Niu Yaodi.

Not anyone else.

Niu Yaodi was the widow of Dong Yi's brother.

She had been a widow for many years.

But when Duan Yu first met Niu Yaodi, he felt something was wrong.

A woman who had been a widow for many years.

Without the nourishment of a man, how could a widow look like that?

Coupled with the way Dong Huang looked at Niu Yaodi, Duan Yu concluded that there might be something going on between them.

So, he deliberately arranged for them to stay in the same guest courtyard area.

After learning about Niu Yaodi's background and seeing Dong Huang's brainless personality,

Duan Yu inferred that Dong Huang coming to him to seek an official post was likely not Dong Huang's own idea.

It was highly likely that someone was guiding him from behind.

This person certainly couldn't be Dong Yi's grandmother.

Although Dong Yi's grandmother was still healthy, she was an eighty-year-old woman after all.

So, Duan Yu inferred that if Niu Yaodi really had a story with Dong Huang, then this person might be Niu Yaodi.

Niu Yaodi had originally tried to play matchmaker between Dong Yi and her brother, Niu Fu.

Having been cut off by him, would Niu Yaodi hold a grudge?

A woman's petty-mindedness is beyond doubt.

Looking at what Liu Bai Tu recorded, Duan Yu smiled slightly.

It seemed his inference was correct.

"Also, this morning, Niu Yaodi sent a close maid out of the city. I have already sent people to follow her secretly. The destination is not yet known."

Duan Yu put down his chopsticks and nodded.

Hopefully, this stupid woman would do something out of line.

That way, he would have an excuse to help clean up the internal affairs of Dong Zhuo's family.

And incidentally, solve the hidden threat of Niu Fu as well.

"Keep watching." Duan Yu said softly.

Time flew by, and several days passed.

In Jincheng Commandery, inside a luxurious mansion in Yunwu County.

It was noon, and the Liangzhou Inspector, Liang Hu, was sitting in the main hall of the study.

On the desk in front of him lay a blank sheet of white paper.

Holding a brush, Liang Hu's eyes were unfocused, and he didn't even notice the ink from the brush dripping onto the paper.

Just as Liang Hu was lost in thought, a man walked in from outside the hall.

The man was over six feet tall, wearing a black scholar's robe and a Jinxian crown. He had a small nose and small eyes, and he hunched his back as he walked into the hall.

It seemed he heard the footsteps outside the hall.

Liang Hu finally came to his senses.

"Fangbo."

The Liangzhou Administrator, Cheng Qiu, bowed and smiled at Liang Hu.

Liang Hu glanced at Cheng Qiu and put down his brush.

Seeing the black ink stains on the white paper in front of him, he angrily crumpled the paper into a ball.

It was as if he were venting his dissatisfaction.

Ever since Duan Yu convened a meeting of all the county magistrates and major clans of Hanyang Commandery and refuted Ren Tang until he fainted on the spot, Liang Hu had left Hanyang Commandery directly.

He came to Jincheng Commandery under the pretext of an inspection.

Hanyang Commandery was the seat of Liangzhou, and Jixian was the seat of Hanyang Commandery. Liang Hu's official residence and daily life were in Jixian.

If he hadn't been forced to, how could Liang Hu have been willing to leave?

And now, it wasn't that he wanted to leave.

It was that there was simply no place for him in Hanyang Commandery.

Gai Xun, Yang Fu, Jiang Xu, and the Yan clan had all turned to Duan Yu.

He, the Liangzhou Inspector, was just a figurehead in Hanyang Commandery.

Having lost to Duan Yu twice in their power struggles, he had no face left to stay in Hanyang Commandery.

Now Liang Hu only hoped to leave Liangzhou as soon as possible and leave when his term ended.

Whoever wanted to fight Duan Yu could go fight him.

"What brings you here, Administrator Cheng?" Liang Hu asked in a bad mood.

Cheng Qiu smiled and bowed: "Good news, Fangbo. I have come with a great piece of good news."

Hm?

Liang Hu frowned.

"I don't know what good news you speak of, Administrator Cheng?" Liang Hu asked with a frown.

Cheng Qiu stepped forward and bowed: "Fangbo, I heard that the Shaodang Qiang and several Qiang tribes in Jincheng Commandery are migrating and uniting."

"I suspect this is because Duan Yu is about to wage war against the Western Qiang." ===== CHAPTER 455 =====