Abuse reformation

"Duke, here is the defense map you want."

After handing over the things in her hands, Feng Shuyao quietly looked at the person in front of her, fearful in her heart, for fear that the other person would find out the problem with the map.

She pursed her lips, lowered her eyes and said, "Since you have already got the things, then my father..."

"rest assured."

The person in front of him smiled and said: "Our family always counts. Since you successfully stole the map, your father is naturally safe and sound."

Hearing this, Feng Shuyao breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's very good. If there is nothing else, the little girl will leave." She didn't want to stay here for a long time, for fear that the people in front of her would see through the secret hidden in her heart if she stayed for a while.

Just when she stood up and was about to leave, she heard a sentence in her ear——

"Wait a moment."

Feng Shuyao's heart skipped a beat for an instant, she suppressed her panic and pretended to turn her head calmly, "Duke, do you have any other orders?"

"Our family suddenly thought of something."

Looking at the face of the person in front of her who couldn't see the real emotion clearly, Feng Shuyao's thumping heart almost rose to her throat, and her voice trembled slightly: "What advice do you have, Duke Du?"

"Ms. Feng is really a noble person who forgets things a lot." Ye Huai smiled for a moment, and put away the map in his hand calmly, "Our family promised you before that once everything is done, we will send you back to Liangjing. Mrs. Feng is afraid Do you not remember?"

She swallowed, tried her best to calm her emotions, and nodded: "I remember."

At this time, Feng Shuyao was completely relieved.It seems that Ye Hongfu did not doubt her, nor did he doubt the authenticity of this defense map.That being the case, she has nothing to worry about.

Thinking about it, she smiled and said, "Duke Gong's kindness is appreciated. It's just that the defense map disappeared after the fire. If I leave again, Situ Xiuyun will definitely suspect it."

After she finished speaking, she paused, and added as if she was afraid of Ye Huai's disapproval: "My little girl doesn't care whether she stays or stays, but she is afraid of missing the Duke's important business."

These words are of course excuses.Whether she wants to or not, she cannot return to Liang Jing now.

If she walked halfway and Ye Hongfu found out that the defense plan she gave him was a fake, would she still survive?Although she has never seen the horror of Dongchang Fanzi, she has heard of it more or less.

Now that the betrayal has been done, it's better to stay with Situ Xiuyun, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.Her father is also the chief minister of the cabinet after all, no matter how much he dislikes her, even for her father's sake, he probably won't kill her.

Thinking of her father, Feng Shuyao's heart twitched.I don't know what happened to him.

Ye Huai looked at the person in front of him calmly, and listened to Feng Shuyao's words that seemed to be for his sake, with a smile still on the corner of his mouth: "If that's the case, then I will wrong Mrs. Feng."

Here it comes again, the feeling of unpredictability comes again.

Feng Shuyao tried her best to ignore this unusual feeling, straightened her body, and picked up the air of a noble girl that had been lost for a long time, "If the Duke feels guilty, then keep his promise and let my father go earlier."

"That's natural."

Feng Shuyao nodded slightly to greet Quan Dang, and then left in a hurry.

Watching the back of the other party's departure, the smile on Ye Huai's lips gradually faded.

001 said: "She seems a little afraid of you, host."

"If you don't do something bad, you won't be afraid of ghosts calling the door. It would be strange if she didn't fear me if she did something bad."

"What do you mean?"

Ye Huai sipped his tea calmly and said, "This picture is fake."

001:? ? ? ! ! !

"fake?!"

Ye Huai happily admired 001's astonished expression, and said in a villainous boss tone: "You don't think this is a real picture, do you?"

"You can still laugh?" 001 choked speechlessly: "Since the picture is fake, it shows two points. Either Feng Shuyao was discovered by Situ Xiuyun when he stole the picture, and this fake picture was sent over by the other party as a trick. .Or Feng Shuyao retreated before the battle, and made a fake picture to fool you."

Whichever the truth is, it's not a good thing.

The host worked so hard to do so many things, but it turned out to be a waste of time.Simply!

Hearing 001 say in hindsight: "I have long felt that your plan is unreliable. Let Feng Shuyao, a rich lady who knows nothing, steal the defense map, host, your brain is flooded!"

Following Ye Huai these days, 001 didn't learn anything else, but the time for making complaints and cursing was getting longer.

Hearing this, Ye Huai gave it a squinting look, "Who are you talking about being out of their minds?"

001:! ! !

With just one glance, 001, who had been so complacent before, suddenly became frightened.It almost forgot that the host is the host after all, and if it makes him unhappy, it will have to close its little black room.

Thinking about it, it hurriedly doggedly said: "It's me."

Seeing that Ye Huai wasn't really angry, it climbed up the pole again and asked, "Host, are you really not worried at all?"

"What are you worried about? What I want is a fake picture."

"???"

001 was stunned.

It can't figure out whether the host is mad or has some amazing plan that it doesn't know about.After all, human thinking is inherently complicated, and no matter how high-tech an artificial intelligence system is, it cannot analyze a person like Ye Huai who is as ordinary as sesame dumplings.

Ye Huai didn't want to explain more to 001, he looked at the fake map carefully arranged by Situ Xiuyun in his hand, and showed a satisfied smile on his face.

Sure enough, he was hooked.

It was not in vain that he arranged all this painstakingly, and he even did not hesitate to let the granary be set on fire in the middle of the night to make the play more realistic.

Situ Xiuyun thought to himself that "the mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind", but he never thought that all this was just an illusion deliberately made by someone with a heart.

Thinking about it, he immediately recruited the shopkeeper of Zuixianlou, put the picture in a box and handed it to him along with a letter: "Please be sure to send these two items to Ningzhou as soon as possible."

The shopkeeper already knew the identity of the person in front of him, so he didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly took it solemnly: "Please rest assured. The villain will arrange it immediately."

"I guessed that you really did it on purpose."

001 coughed lightly, as if those questioning words just now were not what he said.Ye Huai is also used to the fact that his own system is obviously not personal but still has a good face, so he didn't expose it.

"It's just that I don't quite understand one thing. You spent a long time trying to make a fake defense map. Why?"

Ye Huai raised his eyebrows and didn't answer right away, he just asked a question——

"What do you think? Why would I go to such lengths to get him to give me a fake defense map?"

001 was startled.He began to think seriously about the question Ye Huai asked.

After a while, it reacted abruptly.

Situ Xiuyun wanted to use the fake defense map to catch them off guard, but what about the other way around?

Now that they already knew that there was a problem with the map, wouldn't Dai Wang and the others be able to deduce the location of Situ Xiuyun's soldiers and horses through this fake map?

This is the real trick!

The host is brilliant!

Thinking about it, 001 couldn't help but look at Ye Huai, who was drinking tea leisurely, and secretly sighed.What did this guy eat to grow up?This brain is twisted and turned, and his mind is more than lotus root!

Looking at Feng Shuyao, who was treated as a tool downstairs and didn't know it, 001 couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic for a while.

……

After leaving the teahouse, Feng Shuyao walked two streets in a row, and after making sure that no one was following her, she was relieved and turned into a small alley.

A carriage was parked firmly in the alley.

After getting into the car, Situ Xiuyun stared intently at the scroll in his hand, "How is it?"

"He has no doubts."

"Oh?" Hearing this, he put down the scroll in his hand, "Really?"

"really."

He just let out a soft snort, showing a smug smile, "You did a good job."

Although she was praised, Feng Shuyao was not overjoyed and only asked, "Where is my father..."

"Don't worry. The people I sent have already set off, and they should be able to arrive at Liang Jing soon. Besides, Feng Xiangji has his own personality, so he should be fine." Situ Xiuyun smiled warmly, just like she did when she first saw him. fall.

However, Feng Shuyao is no longer the ignorant Huaichun girl she was back then.Seeing the behavior of the person in front of her, instead of feeling happy, she felt even more terrified.

But even so, she could only bite the bullet and raise a smile, pretending nothing happened: "Okay."

On this boat, she has no other choice.

Ningzhou, General Military Mansion.

"Your Highness, there is news from Jiangzhou."

Tang Jun walked over quickly and presented a wooden box and a letter.

Hearing this, Situ Xiuze put down the pen in his hand and opened the letter paper.I saw eight large characters written on it——

"The fish has already bit the bait, and only owes the east wind."

Opening the box on the side, I saw a map lying squarely inside.

Seeing this, Situ Xiuze blinked and then laughed.

"Ye Hongfu is indeed Ye Hongfu. He actually did it."

On the side, Tang Jun showed hesitation: "His Royal Highness, do you think Ye Dugong's trick is really reliable? Will this scare the snake?"

"What you want is to scare the snake away."

Seeing that Situ Xiuze suppressed his insolent smile, a dark color flashed in his long and narrow eyes, "If you don't startle the snake, how can you lure it out of its hole?"

Situ Xiuyun didn't know what kind of trap he fell into.At this time, he was still very proud of the "exquisite trap" he had set.

The ninth day of September is the Double Ninth Festival.He led his army towards Ningzhou City, and finally ushered in the first confrontation with the "rebel" Situ Xiuze.

Approaching Chenjiagou, Situ Xiuyun called to stop the marching team.And sent two sentinels to inquire about intelligence.

Not long after, the two soldiers came back and reported with surprise that there was indeed a large army stationed ahead, and judging by the number of tents, there seemed to be quite a few of them.

The vanguard general Xu Yan couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the words, "Your Majesty's plan is very clever, that generation of kings really took the bait!"

Situ Xiuyun narrowed his eyes, his eyes were full of complacency.I heard him say in a deep voice: "Let the order go on, whoever can replace the king's head will come back later, I will make him the champion!"

As soon as the words fell, Xu Yan's eyes widened suddenly.

This name...

"Champion" means "champion of the whole army". Counting down several generations of previous dynasties for hundreds of years, the generals who can be worthy of being called champions are not even enough to count for one slap. If they can get this title, it will be true What a great thing for Guangzong Yaozu!

Xu Yan's eyes were instantly filled with desire and longing.No matter what, he must replace the king's head this time, and no one can even try to snatch it from him!

……

On the high slope in the distance, beside the bushes that no one had noticed, Ye Huai held up the diorama binoculars and looked at the group of people below with a faint smile on his lips.

Cheng Le looked at his grandfather holding a black lacquered wooden tube and looked into the distance for a long time since just now, and couldn't help but feel strange.

Isn't it just a small black cylinder? What's so good about it that Grandpa can look at it with such relish.

Under extreme curiosity, he finally couldn't help but open his mouth: "Master, what are you looking at?"

Ye Huai turned his head when he heard the words, "Are you curious?"

Cheng Li nodded hurriedly.

"Then you'll know if you come over and have a look by yourself?" Ye Huai simply handed over the telescope.

Seeing this, Cheng Le was stunned, took the binoculars suspiciously, and looked straight down the mountain, his eyes widened after a while.Immediately afterwards, he heard excited exclamations from him.

"Master! I saw it! This is too clear!"

Seeing him like this, the rest of the people were aroused for a while, clamoring to see him.

Cheng Le became anxious when he saw this, and hurriedly said: "Don't grab it. Be careful, don't fall."

Ye Huai didn't stop watching the little eunuchs under him playing around.He turned his back and was about to pace back to the tent when, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Qu Lanyue leaning against a tree with arms folded not far away.

As the battle approached, Qu Lanyue also became more and more silent.Although she previously said that she would come out of the shadow of the past, it seems that it is not so easy to actually do this now.

In order to get revenge, she reincarnated countless times, but she has never been able to achieve her wish.Her hatred for Situ Xiuyun and the feeling of self-blame towards her clan had always been buried in her heart.

For Yu Qu Lanyue, Situ Xiuyun was her enemy, her evil fate, and her catastrophe.

If you can't get over it, you will fall into the endless hell because of your demons.But if she crosses over, she can be reborn.

Now, it's time for her to get over this hurdle.

Thinking about it, Ye Huai turned his face and walked towards the person in front of him: "Aren't you going to take a look?"

Qu Lanyue raised her head in a daze when she heard the words, and after seeing the person coming, she shook her head and said, "No."

"why?"

"I'm restraining myself."

She let go of her tightly clenched fist, her voice trembling slightly, "...I'm afraid that if I see him, I won't be able to resist cutting him into pieces."

"..."

Seeing the hatred flickering in Qu Lanyue's eyes: Ye Huai suddenly fell silent.

No matter how much she wanted to kill Situ Xiuyun, Qu Lanyue finally controlled herself with reason.

It seems that his worries are unnecessary.

Thinking of this, he smiled again: "Soon you won't have to restrain yourself."

Situ Xiuyun led the army and rushed all the way towards Chenjiagou.

This is the "loophole" he deliberately left for Situ Xiuze on the fake defense map.Even if Situ Xiuze died, he never thought that the defense map he received was fake.

Situ Xiuze transferred all his troops to Chenjiagou to make a surprise attack on his troops at Baijiaqiao, but who would have thought that his troops were not at Baijiaqiao at all, but behind them.

Now, their back road is blocked by him, and there are many mountains on all sides, even if he has the ability to reach the sky, it is difficult to fly.

Thinking about it, a sneer smirked on his lips.

In the previous life, you couldn't beat me.In this life, you too!

Situ Xiuze, you and your army will die in this wilderness!

The sound of horseshoes shook the flying birds.Seeing the opposite camp from a distance, Xu Yan immediately swung his spear and rushed forward.Seeing this, the other generals and soldiers below were not to be outdone.His Majesty has already spoken, whoever can take the head of the rebel will be the champion.Isn't it just for such a day that a man makes great achievements.

Ever since, a group of people waved their weapons and rushed towards the opposite side like crazy.

However, when they rushed to the other side's camp, they were suddenly stunned.

I saw the tents in front of me lined up in an orderly manner on the open space, the number was really large.But the strange thing is that there is no one in the entire camp.

Seeing the unusual scene in front of him, Situ Xiuyun, who came from behind, couldn't help but frowned.

"The agreed number of people is not old or young? Where are the people? Where have they all gone?"

Just as the soldiers were discussing, there was only a loud explosion——

"boom!"

Before they figured out what happened, a group of people only felt the earthquake under their feet.

I don't know who was the first to mutter in the crowd: "What's going on? Could it be an earthquake?"

As soon as the voice hit the scene, the pot exploded.

"quiet!"

Seeing that the army's morale was shaken, Xu Yan frowned loudly.Under the pressure of the general, the soldiers below were apprehensive, but they dared not continue talking.

"Your Majesty, this..."

On the side, Xu Yan drove his horse to Situ Xiuyun and was about to speak when the ground began to shake violently.Then, the second, third and fourth explosions followed.

This time, they can be regarded as seeing clearly.This is not an earthquake at all, but someone buried explosives and firearms in the ground!

Accompanied by a violent roar, rocks flew and mud splashed, and the tents in front of them were instantly shattered into pieces.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the soldier couldn't care about anything else, and ran away in shock.There is no such thing as the bravery of the previous charge.

As early as when he saw the empty tent in front of him, Situ Xiuyun knew he had hit the trick.However, by the time he realized this, it was already too late, and the other party didn't give him time to breathe.The crackling sound was like thunder from the sky, and it was like the king of hell urging people to panic.

He didn't have time to think about what went wrong, so he could only retreat quickly with his subordinates.

However, what he didn't know was that all this was just the beginning.

Situ Xiuze planted a lot of gunpowder on the only way they escaped from the camp.When a group of people flee in a panic, if they accidentally step on the mechanism, the fuse will be ignited, and the gunpowder will explode at that time.

The enemy naturally didn't know this.Soon, they received this "big gift package".

There were screams all of a sudden, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Xu Yan had been in the army for half his life, and he had never felt so startled.Before they came, they never thought that Dai Wang would have so many firearms and explosives in his hands.They thought that his rebellion was just a desperate struggle, who would have thought...

It seems that he underestimated the enemy.

Looking at the gloomy new emperor beside him, Xu Yan couldn't help feeling a little anxious: "Your Majesty, what should we do now? This... This road is full of explosives, we can't get through!"

Today, he no longer thinks about the position of the champion.No matter how good this champion is, he must be destined for it!More than anything else, right now he just wants to get out of here quickly.

Compared with Xu Yan's anxiety, Situ Xiuyun appeared very calm.Without much thought, he casually grabbed a soldier beside him and pushed it forward, saying coldly, "Go and find the way."

The soldier was naturally afraid.He is not a fool, His Majesty is obviously trying to use himself as a backer. If he goes, what if he is killed by the bomb?

Because of the fear in his heart, his actions were naturally procrastinated and hesitant.

Just then, a long gun was pointed at his throat.But at a distance of half an inch, the sharp tip of the gun can take his own life.

Under pressure, the little soldier had no choice but to grit his teeth and step forward.

Fortunately, the gunpowder on this road had almost exploded, and he didn't step on the trap while walking along the corpses.

Situ Xiuyun and Xu Yan left here without any danger with some surviving combat power.

Just when they planned to return to the base camp for a while to discuss again, the accident happened again.

At some point, a large number of figures suddenly appeared on the surrounding hills and high ground.And this group of people were holding firecrackers or stones in their hands.

"Not good! It's an ambush!"

As soon as Xu Yan finished speaking, he saw rocks of all sizes falling on the head like raindrops, accompanied by several gunshots.

The army below hurriedly avoided, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

Looking at the hail of bullets outside, Situ Xiuyun has never felt so useless and aggrieved.What he gave was obviously a fake picture. According to Feng Shuyao's confession, Ye Hongfu should have no doubts, but why...

He frowned, trying to calmly recall everything that happened during this period.

From Feng Shuyao's sudden appearance, to the day when the granary was on fire, he found out that she had stolen the defense plan and voluntarily revealed the truth about being threatened...

On the surface, it is just that Feng Shuyao is a stupid woman, and she has done more than failed.But if you think about it carefully, why did Situ Xiuze and Ye Hongfu ask her to steal the defense map?Obviously there was a better candidate, but she was still chosen.

They are on purpose!

All of this is just a trap!

Feng Shuyao's failure was also expected by the other party.They deliberately exposed the so-called "weaknesses" as bait for him to bite, just to make him think that he had mastered the other party's secret, and then do the opposite...

Situ Xiuyun thumped the ground bitterly, why didn't he see it?

But it is too late to regret and regret at this time. Now they can't advance, and they can't retreat.

Xu Yan asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do now, do we want to forcefully break through?"

You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime.If you have been hiding here, it is tantamount to handing over the initiative to the opponent and making yourself passive.

Situ Xiuyun naturally knew this too.

But right now is really not the best time to break through.The enemy occupies a high place, and with so many firecrackers, he will risk death if he heads up.

Thinking about it, he raised his eyes to look at the surrounding environment. There were many trees and dense grass, suitable for hiding.

After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Send the order, let the army stand by and rest. After sunset, we will take action."

……

The mountains in the distance—

"What about the Duke? They're hiding."

Cheng Shi looked at the disappearing army at the foot of the mountain, and couldn't help asking worried questions.

The duke's surprise attack was for a quick solution, and the longer it dragged on, the worse it would be for them.In addition, the surrounding terrain is complex and suitable for concealment. If they keep hiding and don't show up, they don't know what will happen when it gets dark.

"do not worry."

Seeing Ye Huai put away the binoculars in his hand, he said confidently: "We still have a secret weapon that we haven't brought out yet."

Cheng Shi was stunned.

Secret weapon?What secret weapon?Cannon?

Before he could ask, his Duke Du patted him on the shoulder and grinned down the mountain: "Look."

Hearing this, Cheng Shi blinked, feeling a little inexplicable.Before he could figure it out, he heard a familiar male voice from below——

"Situ Xiuyun! Your woman is in our hands. If you are sensible, come out quickly!"