The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

As it got dark, the wind got stronger and the snow started to fall.Chunyu Xuan confronted Bai Yu helplessly in front of the gate of the Chinese military tent.

Finally, he sent Bai Yu back on the pretext that it was going to snow, but he didn't explain why, Bai Yu just didn't want to let him go.

Chunyu Yu finally spoke, but gave a very perfunctory and unreliable answer, "I guess."

At this moment, two "cuckoo" sounds suddenly came from the sky, and the two looked up, and saw a pigeon with its wings covered in residual snow, circling twice in the sky, and landed precisely on Chunyu's outstretched arm.

It was a homing pigeon with a silver gray head, white wings and black tail, with a post box tied to one of its paws.

As if Chunyu was granted amnesty, he was about to run away with the pigeon, "I have to see the general first, and we can talk about other things later, is that okay?"

Bai Yu nodded, watching Chunyu Xuan's figure slowly disappear into the night.

Today Yan Xun led his army to fight again and drove back the Boteng army for forty miles, and was exhausted when he returned.

"The general is too tired, I will patrol the city defense for you at the end of tonight." Chunyu Jing said.

It was Yan Xun's habit to inspect the city defense every night, and he would not let the lieutenant go instead because he was tired.Chunyujing knew it in her heart, and she was only trying to persuade him symbolically.

Yan Xunqi's Jiuhuaqiu is a world-renowned horse bestowed by the emperor. Its forehead is nine inches high, its hair is like a lin's fist, its head, neck and temples are covered with nine flowers, so it is named Jiuhuaqiu.

This horse has been with Yan Xun for eight years, and he understands human nature quite well.

As soon as he came out of Luzhai, Jiuhua Qiu suddenly let out a long neigh, raised his front hooves high, and almost stood upright, almost throwing Yan Xun off the horse's back.

Yan Xun didn't panic, and tightened the reins.

Jiuhuaqiu has always been smart and docile, and has never acted like this in eight years. For a while, no one knew what happened. The guards in front of Luzhai ran over and didn't know what to do except to hold the reins.

No one dared to go up and stab the imperial gifted BMW.

Jiuhuaqiu went crazy, several people couldn't hold him back, it shook its head frantically and neighed, its hind hoof kicked non-stop.

"General, jump down!"

Yan Xun turned a deaf ear, his eyes sank, he clenched the reins tightly with both hands, and with a sudden push, Jiuhuaqiu let out a long hiss, his front legs flew into the air, and he stood up almost vertically again.

The surrounding sergeants all backed away in a hurry, for fear of being kicked on the head by Jiu Huaqiu's hoof.

Yan Xun sat firmly on the horse, pulling the rein with his right hand, controlling the horse's head up and down, and patting the horse's neck with his left hand.

Jiu Huaqiu thumped a few times, then slowly stopped, and the heavy breathing in his nose gradually calmed down.

Yan Xun patted the horse's neck and said "good boy" before jumping off the horse.

"Give it a good meal and a bath tonight, it has been wronged." Yan Xun said.

Chun Yujing heard the news on the way back to the camp, and hurried over here, bumped into Yan Xun on the way, and he let out a sigh of relief, "I'm scared to death! Fortunately, the general is not injured."

"Let Gao Yi go and find out who has approached the stables in the past two days." Yan Xun ordered, with no emotion in his voice.

The camp of the Chinese Army was occupied, and Yan Xun temporarily stayed with Chunyu brothers.As soon as he came back, Chunyu Ping handed over the carrier pigeon to him for inspection.

"General, this is the pigeon that flew onto my arm just now. There is still a post box tied to my leg. I don't know who sent it."

Yan Xun opened the mailbox, but found that it was empty.

Yan Xun looked at the note and the pigeon over and over again, and said, "Since the carrier pigeon was released, why didn't there be a letter?"

Chun Yujing said from the side: "Carrier pigeons need long-term training to accurately convey messages, and we are in the military camp. Except for the carrier pigeons in the camp, other pigeons should not fly. This thing is strange."

Chunyu Xuan said: "What brother said is true. But I just went to see it. There is not a single homing pigeon missing in our military camp. This one is indeed an extra..."

As soon as the words fell, Chunyu Yu met Yan Xun's gaze.There was no special emotion on Yan Xun's face, but Chunyu Xuan shut his mouth instantly at a glance, and almost bit his tongue.

This strange silence made Chunyujing a little overwhelmed. He was about to speak when Yan Xun stuffed the pigeon into his hand, "Take it out and lock it up alone."

After Chunyujing went out, Yan Xun smiled gently and motioned Chunyuzhen to sit down, "Don't be so restrained."

The moment Chunyu was seated, Yan Xun said quietly, "Chunyu, how many years have you been with me?"

Chunyujing went out with the pigeon, went to the cage of the carrier pigeons in the army, took another empty cage, and put the pigeon in it.

Just when the lock was locked, he suddenly heard a voice behind him saying: "General Chunyu."

Chunyu Jing looked back, and saw that it was the very pretty little beauty that Yan Xun had brought back.

Bai Yu's eyes fell on the carrier pigeon that had just been put into the cage, and he frowned slightly, and asked, "General, did General Chunyu Jue give you this pigeon just now?"

Chunyu Jing said: "Yes. How do you know?"

Bai Yu didn't answer right away, his gaze was fixed on the pigeon with an inquiring look.After a while, he said with a smile: "Ah, I just said it casually. I have disturbed the general, and I will take my leave."

He remembered clearly that the pigeon that flew into Chunyu's hands had a silver-gray head, white wings and black tail, but now Chunyujing was locked in a cage with gray wings.

What the carrier pigeons in the army deliver must be related to the barracks.But since it was a business, why was the carrier pigeon secretly replaced?Who changed it?Is it Chunyu?Why?

Homing pigeons travel between the two places, relying on the pigeon's instinct and long-term training. Pigeons are not as smart as dogs, and they know how to obey their master's orders.If it is a carrier pigeon nourished by the military, it is fair to fly back, and there is no reason to replace it.But it would be very strange if a strange carrier pigeon would fly into the barracks and into Chunyu's hands.

Bai Yu carefully recalled Chunyu's expression when he received the carrier pigeon.He looked at the pigeon at that time, without showing any strange expression, he didn't even open the letter box to look at it, he took the pigeon directly to find Yan Xun...

Wait, didn't even open the letterbox?

When most people receive a carrier pigeon, their first reaction is to open the letter box.

Why doesn't he look?

He is Yan Xun's most capable lieutenant, directly in charge of the training and breeding of pigeons, is there any secret that he cannot know?

still is……

Bai Yu was in deep thought when Chun Yujing, who was still counting pigeons just now, came over and said, "General, please come over."

In fact, Yan Xun didn't have much of the rough and heroic spirit that people would have in a battlefield. On the contrary, his brows and eyes were warm, and he looked very peaceful.If you hadn't seen him take the head of an enemy general in a crowd of thousands of troops, you probably wouldn't have imagined how murderous he looked when he was wearing a sword.

Today, Yan Xun is not as indifferent as when we first met, and his tone is gentle, but the tone has a cold feeling of iron armor, which is very pleasant to blend together.

"sit down."

Chunyujing led Bai Yu over, but he himself withdrew immediately with no expression on his face.At this moment, there are only three people in the tent, Bai Yu, Yan Xun and Chun Yuxuan.

Bai Yu panicked for no reason, and subconsciously glanced at Chunyu Xuan.

Chunyu Xuan sat calmly, with his eyes lowered, looking at the ground like a pool of stagnant water.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yu asked.

Yan Xun sat up straight, and put his elbows on the table in front of him, "It's nothing serious, I just came to ask you. I heard from Chunyu Yu that you were right there when the carrier pigeon flew into his hand?"

Bai Yu nodded: "Yes."

"Oh." Yan Xun looked at him, "This happened not long ago, don't you forget what that pigeon looked like? What color is it?"

Bai Yu was already mentally prepared, when she heard Yan Xun's question, she didn't show anything on her face.His thoughts changed sharply, he immediately made a decision, pretended to think for a while, and said: "Well...it was dark at the time, I didn't see it very clearly, I only vaguely remembered..."

Chunyu's eyebrows moved slightly, and his fingers subconsciously curled up.

Bai Yu said, "That's a pigeon with gray wings."

Chunyu Xuan seemed to be in a daze, raised his eyes to glance at Bai Yu quickly, and then quickly looked away.

After hearing Bai Yu's words, Yan Xun silently leaned back on the back of the chair, wrapping his arms around his chest.

It was a defensive posture, and there seemed to be a trace of darkness in his eyes, but when Bai Yu looked at him, he had that expressionless face again, "Really."

Bai Yu keenly noticed that Yan Xun's ending sound was deep, it was not a question asking for confirmation, but more like a warning with doubts.

Bai Yu didn't know how to react for a moment.

Yan Xun said slowly: "There are fifty carrier pigeons in the army. Eighteen were sent back to Shangjing before, and there are 32 left. It is related to the transmission of military information, so Chunyu Zhen usually raises it himself. Chunyu Jing just left After counting, all the 32 pigeons are in the cage now, and there is not one more. And in order to prevent being intercepted and used by villains, I have made an agreement with the emperor that the pigeons released from the military camp will not be released again."

"There are marks on the wings of carrier pigeons in the army that I personally made, but the one in Chunyu's hand didn't. But you saw a pigeon fly into his hands from outside the barracks."

Bai Yu vaguely understood the meaning of Yan Xun's words, and her heart skipped a beat.

"Now I want to ask you, Chunyu said that the time when the carrier pigeons came was when it just snowed, so it was at Shenshi. Isn't it?"

Bai Yu said: "Yes."

Yan Xun then asked: "Okay. As soon as Chunyu Zhen received the carrier pigeon, he immediately told you that he was coming to find me, right?"

"Yes."

Yan Xun smiled, pointed at the inscription on the side, and said: "I am also returning to the camp at Shen Shi, and now the unitary time has passed, there is a full hour in between. It has been such a long time, Chunyu Yu, what have you been doing? "

Yan Xun had been speaking calmly, but when the end of this sentence suddenly rose, Chunyu Xuan's face immediately changed, his eyes flickered, and he looked very flustered.

Bai Yu secretly took a deep breath.He told a lie just now, originally he just wanted to cover it up for Chun Yuzheng, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating, and was exposed by Yan Xun on the spot.If there is really something wrong with Chunyu Zhen, I'm afraid he will jump into the Yellow River to clean it up.

He completely understood now.

Yan Xun made an agreement with the emperor not to release the pigeons that were released back to Shangjing.So now there are three possibilities:

The first is that the people who went to Beijing did not take good care of the pigeons; the second is that something happened on the way, which caused the pigeons to turn back before arriving in Beijing.

If it is these two possibilities, then it has nothing to do with Chun Yuzheng, he just needs to give the pigeon to Yan Xun as it is.

But Chunyu Ping secretly changed another pigeon, which shows that it can only be the third possibility—Chun Yu Ping secretly released that pigeon, but the recipient of the letter was not the emperor of Shangjing.So the pigeon flew back naturally after completing the task, and flew back to the owner in the public.

The carrier pigeons in the army have always been fed by Chunyu himself, so he naturally has the opportunity to train a few of his own carrier pigeons, and release them secretly when he needs them. Yan Xun will not check the number of pigeons every day.It's just that the time when the pigeon came back was not coincidental, so many people saw it.

So he had to tell Yan Xun about this. In order to prevent Yan Xun from knowing that he had secretly let go of a pigeon, he went outside to find another unmarked pigeon to replace it, and put the pigeon that had just flown back back into the cage. inside.

It's strange to have an extra pigeon for no reason, but it's not a big deal. Chun Yuzhen had no choice but to make such a bad move, probably thinking that Yan Xun would not care very much.

But he miscalculated, Yan Xun was very concerned.