Born of Worry

Li Xian spent his 24th birthday.

On this birthday, there was no Mo Wen, and no elder brother. He was only accompanied by a low-grade fever for several days.

The body is already too tired, almost to the point of having to rest.

He fell asleep and coughed all day long, his chest was stuffy, and he felt uncomfortably depressed.

During the Chinese New Year...there should be no war.

I don't have the energy to manage information anymore.

The second year of Dayin calendar 240, the third year of Shenlong, the first day of the first lunar month.

Li Ye was drunk the night before and was in a daze. He slept until the sun was high before waking up.

Having a severe headache, I staggered to drink a glass of water to quench my thirst. When I saw the black dragon paperweight on the desk, I couldn't help picking it up, poking its tap with my finger, and said with a smile: "You stupid dragon, call you Don't go to rain, it's better now, and my lover can't keep it."

——I don't know whether I am laughing at Mo Wen, or at myself.

Dumplings were being boiled outside again, and the aroma was overflowing, but he felt sick and had no appetite, but obviously last night, he didn't eat a few bites.

Thinking back to that New Year's Eve five years ago, their family still had a reunion table and made dumplings. Although they were twisted and crooked, they looked horrible, but... they were happy.

What now?

He laughed at himself, he didn't know if Xiao Xian had any dumplings.

Maybe not.

Xiao Xian...

The information written is always so meticulous, but why, he refuses to say a word.I didn't see the familiar lower case script anymore, but the cold running script instead.

How are you after all?

When will I come back, I'm really... Tired of you.

It turns out that this throne is so difficult to sit on.

Nine Abyss Cold Pool.

Brother Molong was really angry.

Since that day when he wanted to break free from the chain like crazy, until today, he has not said a word.

The black snake was terrified to death, and had long been hiding far away, as far as he could.

Mo Wen remained motionless, as if he had turned into a statue.

Inside the body, the spiritual sea is churning.

Years later, the war resumed.

Li Xian grudgingly cheered up and continued with the boring intelligence gathering day after day.

Since the note was almost caught by Hu Lugu last time, the way Xuanyu conveyed information to him has become more secretive. Through various channels, sometimes even a look or a gesture, he can get information from it.

Thirty phoenix feathers, most of which have already been used.

The footsteps of spring are coming from the south and slowly approaching.

He has already copied the Tao Te Ching in his hand for the third time.

According to the intelligence of the past few days, Xie Yan and the others seemed to be discussing attacking the city again.

His spirit tensed up again, he was always vigilant, for fear of missing a little bit of news.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside the account:

"Khan! This is the battle report from the front line, ah, and this is... the next plan of the military division..."

Then came Hu Lugu's voice: "I told you to wait until I get the money back! What about the words of thanks? Why didn't he come to me in person?"

"Military advisor... He said that this time he would sit in the town himself, and he has already rushed to Xinzhou, but he couldn't find you, so he asked the last general to hand it over for him."

"Sit down in person? So, you must be sure to capture Jinyang City this time?"

"Uh, this... this last general doesn't know."

"Understood, you go."

sit in town...

Li Xian clenched his fists, are they really going to attack Jinyang...

I have to inform Shen Xin and the others as soon as possible.

He picked up the pen, but stopped when he was about to write, what if there was a fraud in it?No, you can't be so rash.

Let's wait for Qin Yu's information.

However, there was no more information throughout the day.

Li Xian was worried, wondering if something went wrong with Xuan Yu, or if the other party noticed something and hid the news.

This unease continued into the night.

Hu Lugu appeared drunk again for some reason, and appeared in front of Li Xian's camp. Several guards hurried up to support him, "Khan, Khan!"

"What's your name!" He staggered to and fro, his tone obviously a little drunk, "I-tell you, this king, I'm about to get Jinyang, Jinyang, you know? Jinyang! That's a, good place! When Jinyang is taken down, we will... have a lot of treasures, gold and silver treasures, and... um, and..."

"Khan, Khan! Khan, you are drunk, go back and rest!"

"Drunk? I'm not, I'm not! You're just drunk!" He paused for a few seconds, then said, "Where's Li Xian?"

"Uh... he, he..."

"What about him?! Xie Yan isn't here, so aren't Li and Li Xian here?!"

"Go back to Khan, he is here!"

"Then why are you talking nonsense! Get out of the way!" Hu Lugu waved him away and staggered into the tent. When Li Xian saw him, his whole body trembled and he shrank back subconsciously.

Hu Lugu, smelling of alcohol all over his body, rushed towards him, propping his arms on his desk: "Li Xian, how are you, do you miss me?"

Li Xian felt nauseous for a while, and wanted to grab something and hit him, but he glanced away and saw something in his arms.

It should be something like a letter or information. He was holding it in his arms, but because he was drunk, his clothes were disheveled and a corner was exposed.When he saw the thing, he immediately stopped the hand that was already on the teapot, and slowly retracted it.

Thinking of the conversations he heard during the day, he felt that this thing might be the battle plan for the letter of thanks.

What to do, what should he do now?

Hu Lu saw that he was ignoring him, so he slammed the table hard: "Li Xian! I'm talking to you!"

Li Xian was taken aback by him, his whole body trembled violently, and he gritted his teeth and said something that even he couldn't believe: "Think, think."

"Think about it?" Hu Lugu suddenly smiled, sat down on the desk, and raised his chin with his hand, "Did I hear you right? You actually said, miss me?"

"Hu Lugu, what on earth do you want to do?!"

"What do I want?" Hu Lugu stroked his face with his fingertips, "Aren't you asking knowingly? I won't do anything, only you!"

As he spoke, he pushed Li Xian to the ground. Li Xian felt pain all over his body. He turned his face away, closed his eyes, and his brows were full of pain.

However, this time, he didn't resist, not at all, and he didn't even dare to imagine himself, to actively cater to it.

The pain was unbearable.

He struggled out from under Hu Lu alone, the man had already fallen asleep, snoring loudly because of drunkenness.

His lower body was stained with blood, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it. He only put on a single shirt and found Xie Yan's battle plan from a pile of clothes thrown on the ground.

Li Xian propped himself up, moved to the desk, lit the oil lamp, covered his mouth suddenly, and bent down.

I feel nauseous in my stomach and want to vomit, but I can't vomit anything.

There is not much time for him to waste.

Before the ink was fully developed, he picked up the pen and quickly copied it on the paper. The handwriting was accompanied by his uncontrollable trembling, and it was so scribbled that he almost couldn't recognize it.

He finished copying the information, put Feng Yu on the paper, then quickly restored the original information and put it back in Hu Lugu's clothes.

After doing all this, he watched the handwriting on the paper slowly disappear along with Feng Yu, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. His whole body lost all strength, and he almost fainted.

But at this moment-

"Crack, crack, crack!"

Three rounds of applause sounded abruptly, the lights outside the tent were bright, Xie Yan walked in slowly, followed by a group of guards.He walked up to Li Xian and said, "Okay, it's really good! This play is really a treat for Xie."

Hu Lugu, who had fallen asleep, sat up slowly, calm and relaxed, without the slightest hint of drunkenness. He put on his clothes and said, "How about thanking the military teacher, my acting skills are not bad, right?"

The only trace of blood on Li Xian's face faded completely.

"Not bad, very good! This time, thanks to His Majesty Khan, we can see his true colors clearly."

Li Xian knelt down on the ground, slowly raised his face, and looked at Xie Yan in disbelief: "You, aren't you...in Xinzhou..."

"Xinzhou?" Xie Yan seemed to have heard some funny joke. He looked up to the sky and laughed three times. Having laughed enough, he said, "My lord, you don't really think that I'm in charge of Xinzhou, do you? Huh?"

He fell for it... It turned out that it was all fake...

It's over...it's all over...

Xie Yan squatted down in front of him, "My lord, do you really want to know what's going on now? Why did I suddenly appear in front of you in Xinzhou, a hundred miles away? Why did we drink His Majesty Khan, who was drunk, actually induced you to perform this good show?"

He suddenly stood up, folded the folding fan on the case and lightly lit it: "I'll tell you now, all of this was planned by Xie Yan myself." The folding fan tapped on his chest again, "How about it, my Isn’t this trick particularly clever? No, it’s actually not particularly clever, as long as you think about it carefully, you’ll find that it’s all fake. For example…”

"For example," Hu Lugu also got up, and continued his words, "Why did someone report the battle situation to me, it happened to be out of your account, and why did it happen to let you listen. Another example ..." He took out the information from his clothes, "This thing, how could I be so stupid that I kept it on my body all day, and it was not discovered by you until night, huh?"

Li Xian's whole body trembled like chaff.

Hu Lugu took two steps forward, "That's because, this was originally a bait, in order to lure you into the bait, and let you throw yourself into the trap, and deliberately made it for you to see." He set the information on fire Yes, smiling smugly, as if watching a clown, "This so-called battle plan itself is fake, and you didn't know it, and you pretended to be clever and passed it on, even at the expense of..." He nodded. Li Xian's chest, "Give me your body. Thinking about it now, don't you think it's ridiculous, Li Xian?"

Li Xian could no longer speak a word.

"Li Xian, you are really dizzy from your injuries." Xie Yan answered, "Aren't you stupid with a fever? Wasn't it very powerful when you plotted against us? Why is it so obvious today? Are you going to get into the trap?" He sneered, "However, there is one thing I still don't quite understand. How did you spread the information? I just read it for a long time and couldn't understand it. Why did the handwriting disappear out of thin air? Li Xian, I am very curious, if you are willing to tell me and grant me this wish, I may be able to ask His Majesty Khan to punish you less."

Blood slowly flowed down the root of the big retreat, but Li Xian felt no pain, and only had that information in his mind.He missed, this time, he passed a wrong information to Dayin.If this battle... Dayin is defeated, he may become a sinner through the ages.

"Li Xian, are you really not going to say it?" Xie Yan repeated.

"Don't think about it."

His throat was trembling, his teeth were chattering, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Okay," Xie Yan got up, "I won't force you if you don't tell me, but in fact, it doesn't matter if you know it or not, anyway, your wrong information has been passed on, tomorrow, you can just wait and see the good show. "

He walked towards the outside of the account, and said as he walked: "Come on! Show me the emperor, if you let him write another word tonight, all of you present... will be dealt with by military law!"

Shen Xin got the information from Jin Shang, she frowned the first time she saw the information.

She called Lin Ruxuan over, and the latter was surprised after reading the information: "To attack Jinyang City tomorrow? This..."

"What do you think is wrong?"

Lin Ruxuan sat across from him, "We now have a total of 20 troops stationed in Jinyang, and the Tenglin, Guangming, and Lin family armies are all here. With all due respect, if Tahan wants to capture Jinyang City, it will take at least 20 troops." Ten thousand soldiers, and they will definitely lose both sides. Let me ask, are they really willing to sacrifice [-] troops just to get a Jinyang?"

Shen Xin nodded, "You are right. Then according to what you said..."

"But..." Lin Ruxuan was puzzled again, "This information is from His Majesty, and it should be said that there will be no mistakes. Are they really going to attack Jinyang?"

"How do you know that there will be no mistakes in the information sent by His Majesty?"

"He passed on information to us no less than twenty times, which one made a mistake?"

"this time."

Shen Xin flattened the piece of paper on the table, pointed to the writing on it, and said: "Your Majesty usually uses regular script, but the writing speed of regular script is too slow, so after he entered Tower Han, he used Cursive script. But look at the current one, the handwriting on it is obviously cursive script. It can be said that among the three fonts, His Majesty is the worst at cursive script, but he wants to write in cursive script. What does this mean?"

Lin Ruxuan frowned and thought for a while, and seemed to understand something, "Cursive writing is the fastest, which means that when he wrote this information, the situation was very urgent, and he had to finish it as fast as possible, even without thinking about it. The words are clear."

"That's right. But you still missed one point. He didn't 'write' it, but 'copied' it."

"Copied?"

"According to common sense, when people write something, they have to think in advance before they can write. You said just now that His Majesty was in a very urgent situation when he wrote this information. Judging from the shaking of his handwriting, he must be very Nervous, when people are nervous, their thoughts tend to be broken. But when you look at the current information, there is almost no place to stop except for the pen and ink. Such a long text is actually completed in one go. Do you think this is reasonable? Is it?"

She paused for a while, and then continued: "In this way, he must have 'copied' this information, and it must not have been given to him by Xuan Yu. If it was given by Xuan Yu, he will pass it on to us directly But, there is no need to spend so much trouble. Therefore, he must have stolen this thing while the enemy was not prepared, and he had to return it before the enemy found out, so he wrote it so nervously and sloppily."

Lin Ruxuan nodded, "What you said makes sense. But what does this prove?"

Shen Xin put her arms on the desk, folded her hands and crossed her fingers to support her chin, blinked and said: "General Lin, it seems that His Majesty was right to send me here, if I'm not here today, you will lose the battle tomorrow And it will fail miserably."

"..."

"Do you think that such an important battle plan would be so easily stolen by His Majesty, who doesn't even understand martial arts? His Majesty will be able to get something that even Xuan Yu couldn't get his hands on?"

"You mean, the other party let us see this thing on purpose?"

Shen Xin smiled: "You have finally enlightened." But she sighed again, "If all my inferences just now are true, then the current situation of His Majesty is probably quite bad. The other party has obviously noticed his movements, so he will Set up such a trap for him to drill."

And... with his mind, he shouldn't be calculated by others, unless...

"What should I do? They won't take His Majesty..."

"Your Majesty's life should be safe for the time being, but... we should worry about ourselves first. Since this information is false, if they don't attack Jinyang, where will they attack?"

She stood up and took a few steps around the desk, "General Lin, if it were you, which city would you choose to attack? I mean...except Jinyang."

Lin Ruxuan thought about it seriously, and said: "Fenzhou. Fenzhou is the closest to Jinyang. If Fenzhou is captured and Xinzhou is added, one is in the north of Jinyang and the other is in the southwest. The momentum of pinching."

"Okay." She laughed, "Then let's go to...Xizhou tomorrow."

"……what?"