Lanling Ji

Summer Palace

Empress Dowager Hu was sitting by the tea table, looking at the scroll in her hand leisurely. After the father-in-law beside her whispered something in her ear, she nodded slowly and said, "Send him in."

"Tell Gao Changgong to enter the palace."

Ye Lanling walked into the hall, and was a little surprised to find that no one else was in sight. He raised his hand and saluted, "Meet the Queen Mother."

"Get up and take your seat." Empress Dowager Hu did not raise her head, her eyes were still fixed on the scroll.

Ye Lanling froze for a moment, then sat down in a chair beside her.

"General Gao is truly a rare talent with both wisdom and courage. Even the people in Yecheng talked about the battle a few days ago." Empress Dowager Hu put down the book in her hand, and looked at Ye Lanling with a different gaze from before, " I don't know if General Gao is willing to continue to lead the ten thousand lieutenants to keep Qi and Taiping?"

Ye Lanling frowned, hearing the implication behind the words.Vice-General Wan is the Empress Dowager's man. If he agrees to her request, he will become the Empress Dowager's man.

"how?"

"Thank you Queen Mother for your kindness. I think I still say the same thing. I only lead the army to fight for Qi."

"Okay... okay." The Queen Mother Hu stood up staggeringly, and her father-in-law hurriedly stepped forward to help her, "The Ai family knew that General Gao was an upright person, so he would definitely say so. Since General Gao understands righteousness so well, then, at this moment, there is a A war that threatens the country of Qi requires General Gao to personally lead it again."

Ye Lanling looked at the sinister and vicious Empress Dowager Hu, stood up, and said in a daze, "Please make an order from the Empress Dowager, I will never refuse to die."

"General Gao listens to the order, the Ai family ordered you to lead [-] soldiers and horses, and set off for Zhoukou today to repel Zhou's attack."

"The minister leads the decree." Ye Lanling frowned after listening, "It's Zhou again?"

"What is the difficulty of General Gao?" Empress Dowager Hu glanced at Ye Lanling who was puzzled, "Zhou has long been eyeing our country, and it is not a day or two to annex our country. Since General Gao can defeat them once, Aijia believes that you can too." Beat him two or three times."

Ye Lanling put aside his miscellaneous thoughts, raised his hand in salute, "Yes, I will take my leave first, and prepare to leave for Zhoukou."

"En." Empress Dowager Hu picked up the teacup on the case table, took a sip, looked at Ye Lanling's leaving back, and smiled coldly, "Hmph, ten thousand deaths? What a ignorant thing."

Palace of Yonggong

"Ning'er, Bai Ze." Ye Lanling called the two of them as soon as he entered the door, "We are leaving again."

"What's the matter? Where are you going?" Shen Ning walked out from the inner hall and saw Ye Lanling pick up the package that hadn't been unpacked in the future, "Brother Ye, we just came back."

"The Empress Dowager ordered me to go to Zhoukou and continue to lead the army to fight." Ye Lanling picked up his bags and looked at the lazy Bai Ze, "That's fine, I have to deal with Gao Wei while staying in the palace."

"Brother Ye, swords and guns have no eyes, and the war is chaotic. Rather than leading troops to fight, I would rather Brother Ye deal with Gao Wei. After all, Bai Ze can protect you well." Shen Ning looked worried.

"Hmph! Is it useful to think about me this time?" Bai Ze jumped onto the table, looked up at Ye Lanling who was still calm, and said slowly, "No matter where you are, I will protect you from any harm. "

"Hehe." Ye Lanling smiled and hugged Bai Ze, "I know that Bai Ze has great powers."

"I'm also amazing." Shen Ning glanced at Bai Ze, whose eye sockets were in Ye Lanling's arms, and punched him down. Looking at the beasts that quickly dodged the attack, he grinned, "You lustful fairy, you will be killed in the future." You are not allowed to approach Brother Ye."

Bai Ze scratched his ear.

"Okay, okay. Let's go, soldiers and horses are already waiting outside the imperial city." Ye Lanling pulled the angry Shen Ning up, saw that Bai Ze had already run to the gate of the palace, and smiled helplessly, "Why are you here?" Only then can we live in harmony.”

"There is no such day!" Shen Ning stared at Bai Ze in the distance, and said viciously.

"There will be." Ye Lanling smiled, "There will always be that day."

Yecheng

"Everyone, come and see, that's the rumored General Gao." A peddler left his shop and ran to the horse team, exclaiming, "It's really better to see once than to hear a hundred times."

"You're going to die!" The aunt next to him tugged at the peddler's sleeve, "Shouting so loudly at the general, aren't you afraid of being beheaded? Hurry up and kneel down to salute."

"No, Auntie. General Gao is not an ordinary general. He loves the people like a son, is kind, loyal, brave and good at fighting. He is a good general for our common people."

"You are really going to die! Shut up! You dare to say that you love the people like a son! If the people in the palace hear it, do you want to be punished by the nine clans? Idiot!" The aunt hurriedly pulled the hawker aside, "General They are good people, those in the palace are not good people."

"Hush..." The peddler made a silent gesture, then looked around for a while, and then went to look for the general again, but unfortunately he was gone.He shook his head and sighed softly, "Why is such a person not the current Holy One, hey..."

There was a familiar figure standing in the alley. He watched Ye Lanling's receding figure and heard the support of the people around him. Yu Wenxian grabbed a letter in his hand and frowned silently.Brother, in your letter, you asked me to use the name of Gao Changgong being admired by all people to intensify Queen Mother Hu's defense against him, and you also asked me to speak up and let him go to Zhoukou to lead troops to fight.In your letter you warned me not to go with me.But, brother, this time I will resist the decree.Because you said you were going to get him back yourself.But, have you ever thought, if you meet each other, on the battlefield, in the barracks, will he accept it?Can he accept our deception?Brother, I am going to help him, to help him forgive us.

Zhoukou is a small city on the other side of Qi State and Zhou State. It is flat and without hills on all sides. It is a place where it is not easy to hide and ambush.The soldiers of Qi have resisted the attack of the soldiers of Zhou for three months. Recently, the morale of the soldiers of Zhou suddenly increased, and they fought frequently. The main general was killed by the soldiers of Zhou the day before yesterday. Still at stake.

"General Gao, you are finally here."

Before Ye Lanling arrived at the Qi Bing barracks, he saw a man throwing himself in front of the horse with a look of pain on his face.Ye Lanling got off his horse and hurriedly helped up the disheveled soldier with tattered armor, "What happened?"

"Reporting to the general, the despicable soldiers of Zhou sneaked into the barracks in the middle of the night yesterday and poisoned them. Today, most of the soldiers in the camp were poisoned after eating dry food and foaming at the mouth." The soldier wiped his eyes, "Please save us, General Gao."

"Where's the marching doctor?"

"Last night, Zhou Bing killed the Imperial Physician, and learned that General Gao will arrive at the barracks today, so he came here to report everything."

"Then let's go to the camp and see how the other soldiers are doing." Ye Lanling became uneasy. There is no military doctor among the [-] elite soldiers led this time, so what should we do?

"Follow the order! The barracks is not far ahead, and I will trot to lead the way." After speaking, the soldiers ran forward, and Ye Lanling stepped on his horse and ran towards the place covered by the haze.

Before entering the barracks, there was a disgusting sour smell.Ye Lanling frowned, and when he entered the barracks, he saw soldiers who were poisoned and comatose lying here and there, and occasionally a few sober people were struggling.Ye Lanling got off his horse and wanted to step forward to check carefully, but was pulled back by Shen Ning.

"Brother Ye, don't go, I'm afraid it will be contagious."

"I want to save them."

"You're not a doctor, you don't know how to treat diseases and detoxify." Shen Ning firmly grasped Ye Lanling's arm, "You can't go."

"I……"

Just as the two were arguing, a hearty voice came from behind, "It seems that I came at the right time."

Everyone looked back, only to see Yu Wenxian walking over with a smile waving a paper fan.

"Lord Yu? You...you are here again." Ye Lanling looked at the savior at the moment, unexpectedly a little excited.

"Why 'again'? Don't you welcome me?"

"No, no. I really..."

"I said Master Yu, Shen Ning really admires you for being able to talk and laugh without any influence in such a disgusting place."

"It's easy to say, I have ginger slices in my mouth and peppermint under my nose, so it won't be too embarrassing to practice medicine."

"Master Yu, come and take a look, they are poisoned." Regardless of the words in it, Ye Lanling pulled Yu Wenxian up and walked towards the poisoned soldiers, "Please save them."

"Yu knows, and will do his best." Yu Wenxian suddenly stopped, broke Ye Lanling's chin, quickly put a layer of coolness on his nose, and took out a piece of turmeric, "Open your mouth, Hold on."

"Ah! Thank you!" Ye Lanling followed Yu Wenxian's method, and immediately dispelled the foul air around him, and the nauseating feeling disappeared.

Yu Wenxian walked up to the unconscious general, knelt down, and checked his pulse.After a while, he stood up and curled the corners of his mouth to the worried Ye Lanling, "It's okay, the poison is not strong, it's easy to remove, but you can't eat any more poisonous things."

"Then how to detoxify?"

Yu Wenxian took out a pack of white things from her long sleeve, opened it and found a green pill inside, "Crush this medicine, put it in water and take it to detoxify."

"I'm going to get water here." The soldier who had jumped in front of the horse just now ran towards the camp when he heard that Yu Wenxian wanted water.

Ye Lanling frowned as he looked at the young soldier walking swiftly, "This man..."

"You can see it too." Yu Wenxian also looked at the figure who disappeared after a while, and said with a smile, "He has a problem."

"No one in the whole battalion was spared, why was he able to avoid the poison?" Ye Lanling turned sideways and continued, "And the most important point, why can he recognize me at a glance. This reinforcement is a temporary selection by the Queen Mother. , Even if you hurry up, it is impossible to come to report. The general is dead, and he is the only one in the battalion."

"Brother Ye." Shen Ning, who was behind him, suddenly came to Ye Lanling and said in a low voice, "Be careful with that man, there is a circular pattern on his wrist, which is the symbol of low-level magicians of the Rouran tribe."

"So, he is not Qi Bing. Could it be... he is the one who poisoned this time?" Ye Lanling looked at the little soldier who was staggering over with a bucket.

"Just ask him in a while and you'll know everything." Yu Wenxian stepped forward and greeted the sweaty soldier with a smile, "Little brother is working so hard, it seems that he must be hungry."

"Hey, there is no way." Xiao Bing wiped his forehead, "I haven't eaten for a day."

"Then you should try this." Yu Wenxian made a sudden move and stuffed a pill into the soldier's mouth, forcing him to swallow it.

"Ahem, you... what did you give me?" Xiao Bing pinched his throat, trying to spit out the medicine, but it was already in his stomach.

"It's nothing, it's just Zuixiang Wan." Yu Wenxian smiled and narrowed her eyes.

"Zuixiangwan? You...you actually gave me a poisonous substance." Xiao Bing's face turned pale, and he stared coldly at Yu Wenxian, who was still used to smiling, "Give me the antidote!"

"The antidote can be given to you, but you must answer my three questions."

Xiaobing thought for a while, "Okay, tell me."

Yu Wenxian put away her smile, looked gloomy, and looked at Xiao Bing with sharp eyes, "First, your identity."

"I'm Zhou Bing."

"Purpose."

"Poisoned."

"Chou's current strength."

"Hahaha..." Hearing the last question, Xiao Bing actually laughed out loud, "Zhou Bing now has [-] troops, but that's not important, the important thing is..."

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