Since the death of King Ding Ling, Tuoba Aoba first killed a group of rebels, and then pacified the people of the old ministry with actual gold, silver, cattle and sheep, etc., and appointed the elders of the ministry with high morality to take important positions. Later, he applied to Tuoba City to open all kinds of trade with Ding Lingbu, and spent a lot of money to purchase the goods in the hands of Ding Lingbu.

After a few months, everyone in the Ding Ling Department was very profitable, and gradually, the voices of resistance became less and less, and they were replaced by a group of Ding Ling people who were scrambling to go to Tuoba City to do business.

When the people who had been here came to Ding Lingbu again, they were almost unrecognizable: the big tents that used to be everywhere had been gradually replaced by brick houses, and the sheep flock was much larger than the one they saw when they first came, and many Ding Ling people had changed into spring jackets woven of silk and cotton cloth, and although they had dark skin and strange accents, they looked like they were already somewhat similar to the people in Tuoba City.

King Tuoba praised Tuoba Qingye's behavior, and just when the grass was growing taller, Tuoba Qingye finally forced Zha He to make a will: Ding Lingbu was completely handed over to Tuoba to take over, and the name of King Ding Ling could continue to be retained, but from then on, Ding Lingbu was renamed Ding Ling Border City.

This also means that Ding Lingbu has ceased to exist.

When the old men in the ministry heard about this, they all wiped tears from their eyes. And most people are supposed to graze and graze, and they should do business, and their lives don't seem to be affected.

In a steamed bun shop owned by a Tuoba man, a man in a sheepskin jacket is sipping and drinking mutton soup. This shop is very simple, probably because the construction of this city is too hasty, and the planning is not perfect, so many brick houses are not so elegant.

The man had drunk the mutton soup, and took out a few copper coins from the leather bag around his waist and put them on the table. When he raised his head, a weather-beaten Ding Lingren's face appeared in front of everyone.

There are so many such faces that they won't attract attention at all if they fall in this part of the city. The shopkeeper politely sent him out of the store, and the man waved his hand and left without looking back.

This person is none other than Zhuoya, the princess of the original Ding Lingbu.

In the past few months, she has been hiding in the wilderness, surviving by eating voles and grassroots. She wanted to hide for a while and let herself recuperate for a while, but the news of Ding Lingbu's annexation still made her sad and angry.

She put on her disguise, changed her appearance, and made a special trip back here to explore the circle. Unexpectedly, Ding Lingbu's original appearance had long since ceased to exist, and was replaced by a small city that had just begun to take shape.

She had been wandering here for three days, and finally found out the current address of the former Dongshan general Zhuotu. Now he has been stripped of all his military powers, all his men have been dismissed, and he has been appointed as the chief secretary of the border city, with a special charge of pacifying the people. To put it bluntly, it is an idle job, but the salary is really not low.

Zhuo Ya looked at the unfinished mansion and sighed.

Such a general who galloped on the battlefield was abandoned like this, and he went home early to retire, and he felt a little unfair in his heart, right?

Thinking so, Zhuoya stepped forward and knocked on the door of Zhuotu's house.

The one who opened the door was a Ding Lingren with a crippled leg, and Zhuo Ya recognized it at a glance, one of his capable men under Zhuo Tu in the city, who was injured in the leg two years ago, and has been staying on the plain to herd sheep.

I can't imagine that Zhuotu has raised him so far.

Zhuo Ya had a score in her heart, and she asked in Ding Lingyu, "Is Lord Bookkeeper at home?"

The janitor replied, "Who are you?"

Zhuoya said hoarsely, "I am an old friend of the adults. ”

The janitor asked, "Tell me your name, and I'll go and get back to the adults." ”

Zoya thought for a moment, "Haji. ”

The janitor closed the door. After a while, he opened a crack in the door and poked his head out, "I'm sorry, but I don't know a man named Haji." With that, he was going to close the door.

"Wait a minute!" Zoya hurriedly grabbed him and handed him a rumbling package, "Please show this to your lordship." With that, he left.

The janitor looked at Zhuoya's back suspiciously, and walked into the room again. At this time, Zhuo Tu was drinking and having fun with a Tuoba woman in his arms, and when he saw the janitor walking in, he asked in stiff Chinese, "That person hasn't left yet?"

The janitor handed over the package: "My lord, this person wants me to give this to you." ”

"Oh?"

Zhuotu sat up. The Tuoba woman said coquettishly: "My lord, let's see what this is!"

"Good, good!" Zhuo Tu shook off the small package with a smile, and suddenly, the horns of an eighth-order mangox were revealed. Zhuo Tu was immediately startled, and his hand trembled involuntarily.

The Tuoba woman didn't know what she meant, she smiled and held the horn: "Isn't this a bull's horn!

Zhuo Tu smiled absentmindedly: "I didn't expect it to be this thing." Thrush, you go down first, I have something to do. ”

"Hey!"

The woman walked down with a smile. Leaving Zhuo Tu to look at the horns of the bull, his face cloudy.

He knew this thing, it was Zhuoya's fifteenth birthday, and he specially hunted an eighth-order mangbull and dedicated it to her. The Mangniu Demon Crystal was worn around Zhuoya's neck, and one of the two horns was made into a dagger, and the other was kept by Zhuoya to make a horn.

It seems that today's comer is undoubtedly Zhuoya.

Zhuo Tu was nervous, he knew that Zhuoya was still alive, but he didn't expect Zhuoya to dare to come back to him. When he grabbed the horn of the ox and looked at it carefully, a small jade pendant suddenly fell out of the horn, and on the jade pendant, the word Ba Kang was clearly visible.

Zhuo Tu instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and he immediately understood what Zhuo Ya meant. He locked himself in his room, and no one was allowed in.

Looking at the horns on the table, he was filled with emotion. After a while, he pulled two bricks from under the bed and pulled out a wooden box from the ground. When the box opened, a large bronze seal and a sharp black iron sword appeared in front of his eyes, and he rubbed them and thought carefully.

With his prestige over the years, it is not impossible to gather some of the old departments, but now the Ding Ling Department has long ceased to exist, and even if he wants to rebel, the risk is extremely great.

can think about his current situation, although he is rich and decent, he has to be subservient. Although he seems to have ignored everything for a long time, in fact, the blood in his heart is still faintly fluctuating.

Now that he is incompetent, the son of the old Ding Ling King has already become a puppet of the Tuoba Department, if he really wants to raise troops, who will he support to be the new Ding Ling King?

Just as he was thinking nonsense, the voice of a maid suddenly came from outside the door.

"Young master, the master won't let you in, young master!"

The son's giggling voice reached the door: "Daddy, open the door, Daddy!"

"Oh, no, young master, you can't disturb the master. ”

The sound of his son's footsteps was far away, and Zhuotu suddenly put the thought out of his mind, and he let out a long sigh and broke his sword fiercely.