General

Everyone looked up at the same time, and saw Chen Yulong's bodyguard walking forward with Ling Feng in big strides.

"Second leader." The guard cupped his fists and saluted Chen Yulong respectfully and loudly, "The silver has been checked and sent to the carriage."

Ling Feng also knelt down on the ground, and nodded slightly to Lan Jing's probing eyes.

"In that case, we won't bother the Second Leader anymore. If we delay for a long time, I'm afraid the master will worry~" Lan Jing winked at Chen Yulong in a coquettish voice, and walked to the center of the hall without hesitation. He saluted slightly.

"Uh... oh well..."

Chen Yulong's face was already drunk, his eyes were blurred for a long time before he realized, he raised his hand to Lan Jing, "Sister-in-law... hiccup...sister-in-law, go slowly..."

Several other cottage stewards who were accompanying also stood up one after another, bowing their hands to Lanjing.

Lan Jing got into the carriage slowly, although her face was slightly drunk, her steps were more leisurely than when she came.Sitting in the car, the moment the curtain was lowered, the smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly cooled down, and was replaced by mockery.

A bandit is a bandit...

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After quickly descending the mountain, the group of people found a secluded place, abandoned the car, and sneaked into the street again without anyone noticing.When he returned to the small courtyard, Qiu Yang had already prepared a table full of food, and was sitting alone on the threshold in a daze.

Although he didn't know the specific situation, but he knew that they were going to do dangerous things but they were still powerless to stop them. Whenever this happened, he would feel inexplicable fear.He looked at the warm sun in the clear sky which was almost noon and sighed deeply, the pain of losing a loved one...he really didn't want to taste it again!

With the sound of hurried footsteps, the wooden door of the small courtyard was pushed open forcefully.Ling Feng walked in the front and saw Qiu Yang basking in the sun pitifully at the door at a glance, he couldn't help laughing and teasing: "Hey, this is today's kung fu practiced? Have you learned to be lazy?"

Qiu Yang, who was still in a daze just now, stood up immediately, looked at Lan Jing who was safe and sound beside him, grinned shyly and said: "Master is back, I have prepared food, do you want to eat first?"

"No need." Lan Jing had just had a big meal in the cottage, how could she still have appetite at this moment?What's more, since the early morning tossing with fear until now, now that I return to my own territory, I feel a little tired immediately, and I just want to sleep down for a day and a night.

Seeing Lan Jing showing impatience, Qiu Yang's heart throbbed a little. Seeing Lan Jing returning to the bedroom alone without even looking at him, he froze in silence, lowered his eyes and could no longer speak. .

Ning Yu had already turned around and left the door, Li Xuan was already suffocating in the cottage, and now he went into the side hall alone with a cold face.Ling Feng looked at Qiu Yang standing at the door stupidly, with an expression of about to cry, and really didn't know how to comfort him, so he scratched his head, went to him and patted his shoulder, and finally choked out a sentence:

"It's okay, I'll eat..."

The lord came back to sleep full of wine and food, but I was hungry all day!

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Lan Jing slept until dark, and when she woke up, she heard Ling Feng and Li Xuan talking in low voices in the outer hall.

"These letters must be kept well. With these physical evidences, we can not only get rid of Li Shouhong, the regent's purse, but also eat many of his important chess pieces along the way..." Li Xuan sat in front of the table and put a piece of paper on the table. The stack of letters was pushed back in front of Ling Feng, and he ordered in a low voice.

Ling Feng nodded solemnly, pointed to one of the letters and said seriously: "That's true. For example, the King of Zhennan holds most of the military power in the south of the Yangtze River. If it can be exchanged now, it may be a good thing."

"Is there any news from Ningyu?" Li Xuan's dark eyes slowly looked out of the window, and he narrowed his eyes intently, as if he could see through the night.

"Not for the time being, I just confirmed that the young prince of Fengyu Kingdom was indeed captured by the Xuanming people in Mingde Temple." Ling Feng sighed slightly, gritted his teeth as if unwilling, "If it wasn't for meeting Shuilongzhai on the river This gang of bandits won’t be able to be preempted by those Xuanming people on our territory!”

"Not necessarily." Li Xuan sneered lightly, "Now the regent is always on guard against us, I'm afraid it's more convenient for them to act than us..."

"We killed so many people in the Li family, and captured his concubine and robbed him of his silver. Now Changxing County is no longer a place to stay for a long time." Ling Feng nodded to Li Xuan as if confirming, and raised his eyes. Looking into the inner room, I saw Lan Jing still lying quietly on the couch between the gaps in the wooden screen, "At three o'clock tonight, Ning Yu will arrange a car and horse to pick us up out of the city, first detour to Chang'an County, and then back capital."

"Chang'an County?" Li Xuan frowned, he had been far away in the northwest all year round, and he really knew very little about the affairs of the court. At this moment, he really couldn't figure out the difference between running so far to Chang'an County and leaving Changxing County the same way.

"Changxing County is directly under Li Shouhong's territory. Let's try not to stay any longer. The sheriffs of Changsheng and Changping are all Li Shouhong's henchmen, and even the commander-in-chief of Changping is his brother-in-law. Naturally, it is better to avoid it." Ling Feng poured some tea on the table, drew the outlines of the four counties, and then used his fingertips to slowly draw a route among them, "Let's set off overnight and enter the border of Chang'an early tomorrow morning. He is an upright person, and has always been at odds with Li Shouhong and others, the regent wanted to punish him a few years ago, but he still couldn't get a handle on him, so he reluctantly stayed in office until now."

"Zhongzheng? I'm afraid you have misunderstood Zhao Jianyong, that thousand-year-old fox~"

A mocking whisper suddenly came from the inner room behind him, and Ling Feng hurriedly looked back, only to see Lan Jing wearing a robe, standing beside the screen with her head tilted, sizing up the two of them with curled lips "If he was just Zhongzheng, he would have been persecuted to death by those people long ago, and he can still live to this day? But... Having said that, it is true that he does everything well. Although he can't say that he loves the people like a son, he is still a good person Parents are in charge."

"Does he have the military power in his hands?" As a general, Li Xuan really had different concerns from theirs.

"How can you save your life without military power?" Lan Jing smiled slightly, "I don't know what method he used, the Chang'an commander-in-chief is now being eaten to death by him, and even all the soldiers under his command are at his command!"

"Oh?!" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows with interest, and said with a serious expression on his lips, "Could it be that the way you treat me... the imperial husband has the right way?"

"You...cough...cough..."

Lan Jing just woke up thirsty, picked up the herbal tea on the table and just took a sip, her face was flushed by his words, and she bowed and coughed for a long time before she recovered her breath.

"Master...Master..." Ling Feng looked awkwardly at the two people who suddenly went off topic, and said with an innocent look on his face, "I'll go and pack my luggage first, Ning Yu will arrive soon."

"Go." Lan Jing waved her hand without hesitation.

"Oh..." Ling Feng took the letter on the table back into his arms with a dark face, bowed and retreated hastily, Lan Jing then leaned against Li Xuan's side, lowered her head and whispered in his ear, "Although It is not impossible for the general to guess, but...you should actually call your beloved wife Youfang~"

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In the cloudless night sky, a round of bright moon softly sprinkled the clear light all over the place, like a layer of gorgeous silver gauze covering the ground where the wheels retreated in a hurry, and the clear and cold light bloomed everywhere.

Ning Yu was driving, Li Xuan and Lan Jing were sitting in the car, Qiu Yang and Ling Feng rode their horses and followed behind the car, quietly guarding them.

Although it is not an official road, it is not as difficult as imagined. There is a sparse woodland around the mountain road. In the cold winter wind, there are only bare tree forks interlacing on the top of the head, breaking the mottled moonlight all over the ground.

Leaning on Li Xuan's shoulder, Lan Jing fell asleep in a daze for an unknown amount of time, and when she opened her eyes again, she saw the faint morning light quietly pouring into the window of the car.

"It's almost there." Seeing him looking up and looking around in a daze, Li Xuan slightly moved his shoulders that were numb from his pillow, lifted the coarse cloth curtain beside the car window and looked out intently.

Not far away is a clear small river. Because of the cold weather, a thin layer of ice has formed near the shore, but the fast-moving water in the center is still gurgling.

A simple stone bridge spans the two banks of the river, and the rough stone surface with potholes shows its age.Crossing this small bridge is the boundary of Chang'an County, which means that they are about to leave Li Shouhong's clutches. The hearts of everyone hanging tightly along the way quietly fell back to their chests with the sound of the "rolling" wheels.

The border area was sparsely populated, and it took about half a day to see a few pedestrians one after another. Along the dirty and chaotic streets, a piece of low and simple houses quietly came into view in the bright sunshine.

In the court, there was a rumor that Zhao Jian, the prefect of Chang'an, governed the land well and was loved by the people.He thought that he would be greeted by a bustling scene, but what he saw now made him unable to believe his eyes.

Dilapidated houses, messy streets, shops that are almost unmanned, ragged civilians sitting in a corner that can shelter from the wind, their bodies are thin and their faces are yellow...

"Why is this happening?!" Lan Jing put down the curtains in the window with a face full of astonishment, and looked sideways at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan also looked at this situation and felt extremely heavy. He stared at the street scene motionlessly, and said in a low voice with a stern expression: "I don't know."

From this point of view, this legendary place where the people live and work in peace and contentment is actually much worse than Li Shouhong's Changxing County? !

The more people walked towards the middle of the town, the more people there were. Under a temporary long shed, groups of hungry people gathered in groups, standing in the street and consciously lined up in two long lines, feeling the cold wind. Hu Xiao, but there was no shelter around him, so they hugged each other's shoulders, shivering from the cold.