Li Xiu sat upright by the river, his eyes were staring at the carriage on the other side, and the guards around him were waiting for him. In the secret, countless crossbows aimed at the car windows on the opposite side. As long as the opponent had a slight movement, thousands of arrows would be fired at once. After all, the yellow canal was not very wide, and the opponent's carriage was within the range of the bow and arrow.

The two sides were so close that the people in the carriage could not know their situation, but the other party was still indifferent, and even the driver who drove the carriage did not move at all, which surprised Li Xiu. Just from this driver alone, he could see that the person sitting in the carriage was definitely not an ordinary person.

After a while, the door of the carriage opposite was finally pushed open, and the steady driver in front immediately turned around and helped the owner of the carriage down. When Li Xiu saw the other party, he couldn't help but be stunned, because the person who got off the carriage turned out to be a gray-haired man, thin figure and wide robe seemed to be hanging on a pair of clothes hangers, and a little wind might blow him down. Moreover, the man had a gray face, and he could tell at a glance that he was a person who was about to die of serious illness, and he couldn't even stand, so he could only be supported by the coachman and not fall down.

Seeing such a patient walking down from the car opposite, Li Xiu was stunned. Then he felt that the person looked familiar again. He couldn't help but look at him carefully. After a while, he was shocked and said, "You... are you Chai Shao?"

Li Xiu never expected that Chai Shao, who had not seen him for many years, even when the other party got off the carriage, he did not recognize him. After all, Chai Shao's change was too great. Although Chai Shao was not good at the time, he was indeed tall and burly. He was also a famous general in the army. But now he has become a sick man who needs to be supported by others when walking. He seems to be only fifty years old, but looking at his gray hair and wrinkles on his face, I am afraid that someone will believe that he is 60 or 70 years old.

"Haha, I didn't expect that the famous Duke Yan would recognize me as a useless person!" The river surface was only two feet wide, and Chai Shao on the opposite side could naturally hear Li Xiu's words. At that moment, he saw a somewhat self-deprecating smile on his old and haggard face.

After the initial shock, Li Xiu calmed down at this time. No wonder the person he sent to follow the other party was dumped. Although Chai Shao lost his official position for his own reasons, Li Shimin ignored him later, which made Chai Shao's reputation plummet, but the Chai family was a very influential family after all. In addition, Chai Shao had some connection with the big families such as the Five Clans and Qiwang, so the energy he could use in Chang'an City was quite small. It was normal that the people sent by Li Xiu could not find the other party's background.

"You... are you sick?" Li Xiu looked at Chai Shao's face again. Although he was not a miracle doctor like Sun Simiao, he could judge the other person's approximate condition by his complexion, Chai Shao's face was really scary, with a little darkness in his paleness. If it weren't for the fact that he had a little bit of spirit in his eyes, he would probably be no different from a dead person.

"Haha, you are also a famous miracle doctor. Can't you see it? I... I... cough cough cough." Before Chai Shao finished speaking, he began to make a violent cough. His thin body hunched over. He kept coughing for a while, then stopped coughing and stood up and continued weakly, "I am not only sick now, but also a terminal illness. I haven't had a few days of survival."

Li Xiu believed that what Chai Shao said should be the truth. After all, the other party was not pretending, but he still asked in confusion: "Then why have you been staring at me for a while, and why have you come to meet today?"

Hearing Li Xiu's question, Chai Shao on the opposite side also showed a calm smile, but did not answer Li Xiu immediately. Instead, he asked the coachman to take a mat from the car and put it by the river, then helped him sit on it and then said, "Li Xiu, maybe you won't believe me if I say it, but I still want to say that I am not deliberately trying to follow you."

"Didn't you follow me deliberately? Do you think I would believe it?" Li Xiu sneered at this time. Although Chai Shao was seriously ill and dying, Li Xiu did not relax any vigilance at all. After all, the other party hated him to the core. The two had clashed several times. If Li Xiuqi had not had a better move, he would probably have fallen into Chai Shao's hands.

"You really don't believe it!" Chai Shao shook his head weakly at this time. After a while, he turned his head and gave a few instructions to the driver beside him. As a result, the driver immediately turned around and drove away, leaving only the seriously ill Chai Shao sitting alone on the other side of the river, which made Li Xiu confused for a while.

"Li Xiu, in fact, the reason I followed you was because I wanted to talk to you about something. But every time I saw you, I couldn't make up my mind. In the end, I was afraid that you would misunderstand me if you found out that it was me, so I had to use some means to make you unable to find me for the time being." Chai Shao said to Li Xiu again at this time.

Although Chai Shao was weak when he spoke, the expression on his face did not seem to be lying, which made Li Xiu ask in a half-believing and half-doubted question: "What do you have to talk to me?"

Seeing that Li Xiu's face was still a little suspicious, Chai Shao smiled again, but did not explain anything. Instead, he looked up at the guards behind Li Xiu, and then said: "Some words are only suitable for us to talk alone. I don't want anyone to know about it, so I only brought a coachman this time, and now I'm back. And we are separated by a river. With my current physical condition, you should be able to let the guards around you retreat with confidence, right?"

"Master, this is absolutely not allowed. The princess has instructed us to be indecisive to you!" Before Li Xiu could speak, the guards next to him immediately took the lead. The guards at home were all under the control of Princess Pingyang, and Li Xiu's safety is the most important task for these guards, especially since Li Xiu had been in danger several times before, so they naturally refused to leave easily.

Li Xiu really wanted to know what Chai Shao came to find him for the sake of his purpose, but Chai Shao came to find him this time, and he was seriously ill now. With his hatred for him, he could really kill him. When he thought of this, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a little alert.

"You should have sent someone on the other side. Have you noticed anything unusual?" Li Xiu did not answer Chai Shao immediately, but asked the guard leader in a low voice.

Although it was separated by a river, there was a wooden bridge nearby, and the guards around him had always performed their duties. As soon as Chai Shao's carriage appeared, they must have sent people immediately, so whether there was an ambush on the other side of the river should not be hidden from the guards' eyes.

"This... there is no abnormality. The other party did have only one carriage, and he had just walked away. Even the Huangqu River is so narrow that even the bow and arrow can be shot. If you have no one to protect you, it will be hard for me to rest assured!" The guard leader hesitated and replied. This was originally Li Xiu's territory, and there was an open field across the river. Now it was winter. There were only low wheat seedlings in the fields, so it was impossible to hide any manpower.

"Since there is only one person on the other side and he is seriously ill, with his current appearance, it is difficult for him to stand up, let alone any threat to me, so you should retreat for the time being. Of course, you don't have to retreat too far, as long as you can't hear us talking!" Li Xiu immediately ordered that Chai Shao dared to see him alone even if he was seriously ill. If he did not dare to let the guards around him retreat, it would be a bit embarrassing.

"But the master..."

When the guard leader heard Li Xiu ask him to take his people back, he wanted to say something else. However, as soon as he spoke, he interrupted Li Xiu and continued, "I will explain the princess, don't worry!"

This guard leader was also the old man of the Detachment of Women. It was because of his strict work that he was appointed as the guard leader by Princess Pingyang. If something happened to Li Xiu, he would not have the shame to see Princess Pingyang. Li Xiu naturally knew what the guard leader was thinking, so he took all the responsibility on himself.

Hearing Li Xiu say this, the guard leader had no choice but to say helplessly: "Okay, then I will take people out of the hundred steps away. At that time, I will send several sharpshooters to aim the bow and arrow at Chai Shao. As long as he dares to make any abnormal movements, I will immediately make someone shoot him!"

After the guard leader finished speaking, he turned around and ordered the guards to retreat. After a while, only Li Xiu and Chai Shao were left on both sides of the Huangqu River across the river. Both of them sat cross-legged on the cushion. At this time, Li Xiu said, "You can talk now!"

Chai Shao looked at Li Xiu carefully again, then sighed and said, "I remember the last time we met, when His Majesty had just ascended the throne. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. Although you have become more mature than before, you are not old at all. Instead, I have become a bad old man now."

"Chai Shao, you came to me and I just wanted to say this nonsense, right?" Li Xiu said coldly. The reason why he promised to see Chai Shao alone was not to reminisce with Chai Shao, and there was nothing they had to say about.

Seeing Li Xiu's impatient expression, Chai Shao smiled calmly again and said, "It seems that your hostility towards me has not diminished at all, but it is not surprising that you took my wife away and I have taken revenge on you. Unfortunately, I ended up being ruined later. At that time, I really hated you to the core. You should also feel that if I were you, I would probably eradicate the roots and completely eliminate me, so as not to leave any future troubles. Unfortunately, you did not do this."

"What do you want to say?" Li Xiu frowned again at this time. Chai Shao didn't talk about the key points at all, which made him even more impatient. If Chai Shao didn't say the real malice, he would have to turn around and leave. After all, he didn't have time to talk about these things with Chai Shao.
Chapter completed!