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Chapter 140 Warming
Li Xunchuan guessed that Wen Rongxi was almost outside Gaodu, and sure enough, he saw Xiong Zhenghao leading someone towards here at dusk.

He was still scratching the small piece of paper to express his vent, but Zhuo Ran wrote "Hi Hao, don't read" on the piece of paper lightly, but he looked at it very heavy, pressed on his chest for a long time and couldn't breathe.No matter what, he had to see Zhuo Ran again and beat and scold her severely, otherwise he wouldn't be able to vent his anger.

The note Zhuo Ran used was cut from the letterhead, and a bunch of pink flowers happened to be cut out, and Zhuo Ran's words were hidden in it, which actually played a role in making him happy.Zhuo Ran's cleverness was probably used in this matter, Li Xunchuan put the small note in his sleeve pocket, and followed Jiang Rulan and the others to meet him.

Wen Rongxi had driven for a few days, and now he looked extremely tired, but Li Yuchuan didn't intend to let him rest. At this time, no one deserves sympathy.Li Xunchuan nodded symbolically, and led Wen Rongxi to the tent.

The candlelight was dim, and it was impossible to see the appearance of the person sitting opposite directly from a little distance.Li Xunchuan waited for Wen Rongxi to finish drinking the water before he said, "Yan Shu, I won't make detours with you. Did you know in advance that Yan Chengxuan caused such a big disaster this time?"

Wen Rongxi shook his head and said: "No. I did give Er Shao a similar suggestion before, but I just wanted to communicate with the major families to open up the Yan family's business line. I did not expect……"

"You have been with Yan Chengxuan for a long time, what is his purpose?" Li Yanchuan looked at Wen Rongxi and said, "The throne of Jiangshan does not have much effect on him, but it is too bad to be such a rebellious minister and thief, you should also know him If he doesn't get what he wants this time, we will have no way out."

Wen Rongxi showed embarrassment and said, "I'm ashamed. Although I was brought here by my husband, I really don't know what the second young master is going to do. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here from Yidong."

Xiong Zhenghao was holding a few small stones in his hand. He knew that Li Xunchuan wanted to use other methods to enter Gaodu, but he didn't think so.It is not impossible to attack by force, it depends on who is entering by force.This is not self-importance, he thinks that the Imperial Army has become very powerful under Li Yuchuan, and compared to those garrison troops who do nothing to eat, he thinks that the Imperial Army is enough to take down Gaodu.Furthermore, a lot of forbidden soldiers were locked up in the city, if someone could cooperate inside and outside, why worry about not being able to attack?

But Li Xunchuan was definitely not willing.If such impulsive actions became natural, it would be easy to say, but if they were restrained, people like the Imperial Army would have sent their lives in vain.He also thought about it, and admitted that he was not as experienced and thoughtful as Li Yuchuan, but the situation was urgent and he had no better ideas, so he had to keep his head down and didn't dare to intervene.

Li Xunchuan knew what he was thinking, and didn't ask too much, but just denied the idea.He doesn't dare to believe Wen Rongxi's words now, the situation is unstable now, and he needs to think again.

Liu Yulin frowned, looked at the flickering and dim candlelight, sighed deeply, and said, "I never thought that one day I would become like this."

"That's because you didn't think too much." Jiang Rulan looked at him and said, "Sooner or later, this kind of thing will happen, but it's just that people are different. How many years ago it was Chu Lian and Li Chengru, but this time it's just Yan Ershao. "

Liu Yulin sneered: "You think this is normal?"

Jiang Rulan shook her head, "I didn't say anything."

Li Xunchuan stopped questioning Wen Rongxi, this person is Yan Yingzhen's disciple no matter what, and he has his own style of doing things, but this style has formed a protective shield over time, which Li Xunchuan can't see through.If you poke it rashly, you will only be controlled, and you will not really expose it to others, which is very dangerous.

He hadn't trusted Wen Rongxi very much since Yi Dong's incident.Zhuo Ran was right, Wen Rongxi was very surprised, he could use his talents to do more things, but he got involved with Yan Chengxuan.Yan Chengxuan is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He looks docile on the surface, but is actually ruthless.To Kang Sheng'an back then, he could have let this child go. From other aspects, even if Kang Sheng'an counted his younger brother, he was at least related by blood, but he didn't show mercy. Zhuo Ran couldn't forget that In one scene, the awe and fear of Yan Chengxuan also stopped here.Wen Rongxi has seen these things with his own eyes. He spent the longest time with Yan Chengxuan. People say that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black. He doesn't believe that Wen Rongxi can really get out of the mud without being stained.

After all, human nature is easily changed by temptation.

But looking at Wen Rongxi, his expression really didn't show any perverseness or cruelty.Li Xunchuan felt that he was very similar to Zhuo Ran, but only in that one thing.

Although Zhuo Ran has some madness in her bones, she is kind-hearted and understands how she should behave in the world.This kind of credit belongs to Li Yuchuan. After all, Han Congzhong and Zhou Yu are teachers, and they did it by precept and deed, but they didn't understand Zhuo Ran's heart.

Wen Rongxi could naturally see Li Yanchuan's suspicion, but he didn't say anything. This kind of suspicion was understandable. He didn't want to say anything to defend himself, because he didn't know how to face Yan Chengxuan.

He didn't say a word about these things in his letters.

He frowned slightly, and Li Yuchuan sighed deeply in his heart, what should he do, anyway, the suspicion has already arisen, and there is no need for too much explanation.

"Let's take a rest for the time being." Li Yanchuan stood up, bent over and walked out of the tent, saying: "It's a waste of energy to spend it. Xiong Zhenghao, come with me, I have something to talk to you."

Wen Rongxi huddled in Jiang Rulan and Liu Yulin's tent, the three of them didn't talk any more, they just put out the candles and went to sleep.

It was a little windy outside, and it looked like it was going to rain.Xiong Zhenghao carefully looked at the situation of the tent where he was walking, felt that it was very stable, so he didn't say anything.Li Xunchuan looked up at the night and said softly, "It won't rain."

"Oh..." Xiong Zheng replied indifferently.

Li Xunchuan stopped in front of a tree. Autumn in Gaodu came very early, and Luocheng hadn't finished drying. There were only these fallen leaves here, and the brown branches could slightly block the wind.

"Tian Wuruo and Fu Sisi are still in Gaodu, they must be thinking of a way to rush out. If we can get in touch with them, then the strong attack you mentioned can be carried out." Li Yanchuan looked at Xiong Zhenghao and said: " Your idea is good, it's just bad timing."

Xiong Zhenghao nodded heavily and said, "What the governor said is true."

Li Xunchuan smiled and said, "You are more talkative than Chang Yinyu. If he were standing here at this moment, he might grab my knife and execute the order for me."

"No." Xiong Zhenghao said: "The governor is a champion. Our imperial army will be able to feel proud one day following the governor. Besides, we are no worse than those garrison troops. If they are not afraid of us this time, they will have to do something sixty Will the people from Dacheng come to help?"

Li Xunchuan looked at him sideways: "I learned this from Chang Yinyu."

"This is all from the truth!" Xiong Zhenghao opened his eyes wide, and Li Xunchuan could see the light inside, so he couldn't help but bowed his head and smiled.

Xiong Zhenghao scratched his head and said, "But Governor, should we wait for General Ye Ji? Now that Mr. Wen has arrived, we can take a gamble."

Li Xunchuan stopped laughing when he heard the words, he turned his head to face Xiong Zhenghao, and said, "I didn't want to wait at first, but now..."

"The governor is worried that Wen Rongxi and Yan Chengxuan have been colluding...to get through?" Xiong Zhenghao raised his voice, realized something was wrong only halfway through his words, and hastily lowered his tone.

Li Xunchuan didn't blame him, his silence told Xiong Zhenghao his answer.Xiong Zheng didn't say anything else, Li Yuchuan pursed his lips, and said, "Forget it, don't think about it, if nothing happens, Fu Sisi will let Luo Ling hang around the city wall, pay more attention, there will always be a chance."

Xiong Zheng nodded slightly, then turned around to leave.

"Wait a minute." Li Yuchuan stopped him and said, "We only have doubts about Yan Shu, don't neglect him in anything, understand?"

Xiong Zhenghao nodded.

***
Marching to the side of Bixi, Ye Ji suddenly ordered the team to stop.

It's no different than it was a few years ago.Ye Ji tied her long hair up high, wore armor, and a machete pinned to her waist. She looked brighter and stronger, with awe-inspiring eyes.

"General, what's the matter?" Wan Ze asked Ye Ji after looking around vigilantly.

Wanze is also a woman, Ye Ji's lieutenant general.

Ye Ji frowned, and said, "This is Bixi, half a day's journey away from Gaodu, but I see why it's so strange."

"Your subordinate will take someone to have a look." Wan Ze raised the rein and was about to leave, but Ye Ji stretched out her arms to block her, and said softly, "No need. It's already dark, so it's not safe to stop here, slow down Continue to go!"

"Yes." Wan Ze nodded.

The sound of the wind blowing by my ears, and the rustling of the leftover leaves were neither strange nor normal.She held her breath for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes wide.

Before Ye Ji had time to think, she took a quick step. She turned her head to look behind her and shouted sharply, "Go!"

A group of people rode their horses and ran forward, followed by others. Ye Ji knew that Bixi was not safe here, but she didn't expect someone to ambush here.If I run a little further, I think I will be able to reach Gaodu soon, so I still have to thank this group of people.

"Wanze!" Ye Ji yelled, and said, "Take the people and go straight ahead! Don't wait for me!"

After saying that, he turned around and rode alone to the back of the team.Wan Ze knew what she was going to do, so he could only obey the order and run forward at a faster speed.

Ye Ji drew out the scimitar slung around her waist.In the past, she liked Ye Wei's ghost knife and thought it was heroic and domineering, but in the end she suddenly fell in love with the machete.She is good at siege, and the scimitar can always give full play to the greatest advantage when fighting immediately, and blood will be seen wherever she goes.Every time she returns to the camp victorious, the scimitar is soaked in blood, and it is extremely coquettish under the scorching sun, so her scimitar is named Yangyue.

She clenched the hilt of the knife, chased behind the team, and confronted those who were chasing up.Looking up at the moon and drinking blood, Ye Ji could clearly see those exposed weaknesses even in the dark night, but she couldn't really kill them, she had to know whether those people were sent by Gao Duli.

Ye Ji's move was just a provocation. She didn't hurt many people. Instead, she continued to catch up with the team after she was addicted, and she was relieved to see the people behind catch up.The journey that was supposed to take only half a day was forced to arrive at the twilight of the morning, and it was said that he ran in a panic, but this description is best used to describe the people behind.

The corners of Ye Ji's lips lifted slightly, she raised the rein and snorted lightly: "Trash!"

Wan Ze nodded slightly, and said, "General, someone set up a tent in the woods ahead to rest, and they just changed their posts."

Ye Ji seemed to think of something when she heard the words, she smiled undiminished, and said, "I understand. Anyway, since they are all sent to this place, let's meet for a while."

"Then those people?" Wan Ze looked back.

Ye Ji squeezed the horse's belly and said, "Let them breathe."

As soon as Li Xunchuan changed the medicine on his shoulders in the morning, he heard the sound of horseshoes coming towards this side. He had just put on his clothes and wanted to go out to have a look, when Xiong Zhenghao rushed in immediately and said anxiously: "Governor, yes General Ye Ji!"

Li Xunchuan smiled, got up and walked out of the tent.As soon as Ye Ji reined in her horse and stopped, she saw Li Yanchuan coming out. She couldn't help laughing, and shouted to Li Yanchuan: "I'm having a good day, I just got up now."

"General, come down and have a rest." Li Yanchuan raised his eyes and saw that the people behind Ye Ji were panting. He frowned slightly and said, "General Ye Ji is in such a hurry? He must have been on his way all night."

Ye Ji smiled and stepped down, Xiong Zhenghao helped hold the horse, and Wan Ze helped greet the people Ye Ji brought over, Jiang Rulan and Liu Yulin didn't dare to talk to Ye Ji, so they had to go to help Xiong Zhenghao , I just stood in the distance after I finished my work, listening to Ye Ji and Li Xunchuan talking.

"When we got to Bixi, there were people chasing us all the time." Ye Ji said: "Although it is said to be chasing, the purpose is to lure me to you. I can't let people's hard work be in vain. I can only follow their wishes. Running forward, I took three or five steps as one step, but I was exhausted from running!"

Li Xunchuan smiled and said, "Have you fought against those people before?"

"It always feels unreal if we don't fight each other." Leaning on the tree trunk, Ye Ji said, "They can retire after completing their mission. Instead, I'll take care of it."

Li Xunchuan nodded and said, "Are you from the Six Great Cities?"

"I haven't fought with anyone from the Six Great Cities, how do I know?" Ye Ji sighed, Li Yuchuan handed her the water bag, and Ye Ji quickly unscrewed it and took a sip.

"Anyway, they just want me to come to you." Ye Ji threw the water bag to Li Yuchuan and said, "I did it, now it depends on what you want."

"Me?" Li Yanchuan couldn't help laughing, and said, "What do you think I can mean? If I had a way, I would have rushed in before you came, so why should I wait here for you?"

Ye Ji looked at him with a very delicate expression: "Yo...you still talk like this after seeing you for a few years? It seems that Gaodu's feng shui is good, and it can cultivate people like this."

"That's called acclimatization." Li Xunchuan said.

Ye Ji stretched out her arms, and suddenly said seriously: "Your Majesty is trapped in the palace, did you come back to save him or simply to take the imperial army away?"

"Why do you suddenly ask like this?"

Ye Ji turned her head to look at the scenery in front of her, and said, "I also know about your situation. Anyway, if you go straight in, you won't get any advantage. Why do you take such risks? Isn't the purpose of such risks just to save His Majesty? But Your brotherhood has been separated a long time ago, was it when he made you a champion, or started to suppress you, or made you the governor of the imperial army?"

Li Xunchuan didn't speak.

"You don't have to hide it from me." Ye Ji looked back at a few people who were listening in the corner, stared them away and said, "You are very hesitant, the situation in Beili is also very tense now, Xiqi and Jun'an are more concerned Yes, so you have to think about it, how to do it?"

Li Xunchuan said in a deep voice, "Although you are here, I am still not sure that I can rescue His Majesty."

But he never thought of Chu Shiyu's death.From the beginning to the end, he was grateful to Chu Shiyu. Apart from treating Beili and Zhuo Ran, this was not a difficult task at first, but when it came time to make a choice, there was nothing he could do.

Ye Ji looked at Li Yuchuan and said, "Why don't you think about it for now. Do you have any border issues?"

Li Xunchuan raised his eyes and said, "Jun'an hasn't communicated with me for a long time, and I don't know his situation. It's hard to get through letters in Gaoduli. How about you and Jun'an? Did he ever talk about the military salary?"

Ye Ji shook her head and said: "Father and I have sent many messages to each other, but there has been no reply. I just think it should be because of the tense war. As for the issue of military pay, naturally there is no news."

Li Xunchuan bowed his head, Ye Ji frowned slightly, and said, "I heard that you came back from Yidong, did you hear something?"

Li Xunchuan said: "This... It's a long story. You may not know the situation in Gaodu in Xiqi. You first went to the border and Beili to deliver food and salaries, but something went wrong, and the food and salaries were transferred halfway Now that I have become a banker, I don’t even know whether the frontier and Beili have received those rations or not?”

"Didn't Gaodu send someone to supervise at that time?"

Li Xunchuan sighed, and said: "To be honest, some things in Gaodu and Luzhou were not dealt with in time before. When I went to Yidong, I also went to Luzhou to have a look. It was there that I got the news. It's just that there is no news. If anything is found out, the clues will be cut off, and Gao didn’t know about it, and he probably doesn’t even know about it now.”

Ye Ji said in a deep voice: "If something really happened, why is there no news from Beili and the border?"

"So I suspect that the news is fake, but there is another possibility." Li Yanchuan looked at Ye Ji and said, "The news has been completely cut off..."

He came back to Gaodu not only for Chu Shiyu and the forbidden army, if he returned to Beili alone, he would not be able to save everyone with supernatural powers, he had to go back with the forbidden army, he needed soldiers.

But the so-called friendship is there, he can't help it.

"Li Chengru escaped, and I don't know where he went." Li Yuchuan said: "We don't know whether he has any relationship with Yan Chengxuan, we are all kept in the dark..."

(End of this chapter)