The Xinwu Supreme asked, "How to solve the law?"

Mo Xichao said: "After so many years of getting along with the Grand Governor, the ministers and others have not learned, but there are still messy ideas." ”

The Xinwu Supreme didn't know why, and asked, "Oh, what kind of secret has Lord Mo laid down?"

Mo Xichao said: "Rong Chen will sell a pass first, and the Supreme will only wait for the result of this battle." ”

Xinwu Supreme asked, "What are the odds of winning?"

Mo Xichao smiled and said, "Seven points." ”

Emperor Xinwu's eyes condensed slightly, and then asked, "What about the remaining three points?"

Don't hesitate to say: "When the minister's strength is not enough, the strategy of the commander may be able to turn the tide." ”

Emperor Xinwu nodded slightly, and after weighing left and right, he sighed a little helplessly, Li Zhi'an's method was the last thing he wanted to use. But at the last moment, in order to protect the throne, he couldn't say anything, and threw away the woman's heart.

La's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Mo Xichao fixedly, and after half a sound, he said: "Okay, I believe in you, I hope to do your best, try not to do that strategy." ”

Li Lezhi, who heard this, rolled his eyes, why did my idea become the next step?

Emperor Xinwu said in his heart, you are a cub to buy Yetian is not distressed, I still have to carefully protect this bottle and can, but I regret it if I break it.

Mo Xi bowed down and said: "The minister must live up to the trust of His Majesty the Supreme." ”

When Xinwu heard this, he snorted, and then asked with a smile: "Lord Modu, if you win this battle, how should I reward you?"

After hearing this, Li Le sighed helplessly. I'm starting to test Mo Xichao again, it's not the right time for you to use the emperor's technique.

Mo Xi bowed down and hugged his sword, and said: "The minister does not dare to do his work, he is the supreme Hongfu Qitian, and the emperors of the great Shang dynasties are blessed." ”

Emperor Xinwu smiled and said, "How can you not be rewarded for your merits? Lord Modu, I heard that you haven't married a wife yet?"

Mo Xichao's eyes narrowed slightly, he understood what Emperor Xinwu meant.

Xinwu continued: "In addition to the promotion reward, I plan to marry you, the noble family, the royal family, Yunying's unmarried daughter, you can choose, how about it?"

Mo Xichao was silent, and the hall suddenly became very quiet.

Zhu Laoba tasted that the taste was unusual, but he couldn't think through it, and couldn't help but look at Li Le.

saw Li Le rubbing his eyebrows in great distress. It seems that this is a marriage given by His Majesty, a rare honor, but the real situation is clearly that the Xinwu Supreme does not trust Mo Xichao, and feels that he is close to the core of Xuanyi, and his purpose is not simple. And if you want to use him with confidence in the future, you must firmly tie up Mo Xichao, and use the marriage given by His Majesty to let these half of the Western Liao people completely settle down in Dashang, marry a wife and have children.

In this way, his wife and children are all in Dashang, even if he is really like Zhang Guobang and Shi Mingtang in Zhenzong, he is a pawn sent into our dynasty by Western Liao, and when the time comes, he will have more worries. After all, the only difference between Mo Xichao and those two is that Mo Xichao came to Dashang when he was a child, while those two were sent here as adults.

Presumably, a person who has lived in Dashang for nearly twenty years will not have much affection for Xiliao.

If you don't agree to the marriage, I'm afraid that Xinwu Supreme will be more suspicious of him in the future, and your precautions will be deeper.

If he agreed, the Xinwu Supreme could use him with confidence, but Li Le was sure that no matter what kind of ideals and ambitions he had, after today, he would no longer serve Xuanyi.

Mo Xichao is too important to Xuanyi, and Li Le doesn't want such a thing to happen. At this time, he had to excuse him, so he stood up, bowed and said: "Supreme, the minister thinks ......"

"The minister thinks that His Majesty has given too much ......"

As soon as Li Le's words began, he saw Mo Xichao in the center of the main hall suddenly answer loudly, covering his voice.

"The minister thinks that His Majesty's gift is too generous, and the minister's work is too small, and he dares to accept this great gift. However, he did not dare to resign. Thank you to Emperor Longen. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Xinwu nodded slightly, very satisfied.

And Li Le turned his head in surprise and looked at Mo Xichao. I don't understand what he thinks.

I only heard Mo Xichao continue: "Your Majesty's grace should be repaid forever, but the minister has made an oath for a favorite woman when he was young, unless she will not marry, if he can't marry her, he will not talk about marriage in this life." It's a pity that the woman has passed away, and the minister will not marry in this life in order to keep her oath, and I hope the Supreme will understand. ”

With such a simple refusal, Xinwu Supreme's face directly froze. He always thought that even if Mo Xichao refused, he would be very tactful in his words, saying some delaying words such as: "This battle is not yet decided, and we will wait until this battle is over." Unexpectedly, he would make up a lie about "keeping an oath for the woman he loves, and not marrying in this life".

Who would believe such absurd words? Unless I am regarded as a three-year-old child? Emperor Xinwu was really a little angry.

Li Zhi'an's face was also difficult to see, if he opened his mouth to defend Mo Xichao, with his friendship with the emperor, this matter would be over after a fool. Why are you standing up at this time?

Mo Xichao smiled bitterly at the same time, but also moved. He knew what Li Le was going to say, but he couldn't let Li Zhi'an endorse him, so it was likely that there would be a gap between Zhi'an and Xinwu because of himself, so why bother?

With Xuanyi, his goal can be realized, if the Grand Governor is guessed by the Supreme, then the final result, Xuanyi is likely to fall apart because of the estrangement between the two leaders.

In that case, with his understanding of Li Zhi'an, he would definitely leave a sentence: "Lao Tzu is gone, what do you like." ”

Then he withdrew his bottom and let go, and lived his drunken life of dreaming and dying.

Then, Qinghua Si Mei Xiangzhu, Lingming Si Han Lu, Kui Niu Si Zhao Shi, Changming Si Ban Ding, Ming Duan Si Ye Shenming, Mu Ge Si Wang Wu and others will definitely resign immediately. Even the Governors will do the same.

General Staff Bai Xiangru was rescued by Li Tanhua, and at that time, in the face of such a broken situation, he was disheartened, and he was afraid that he would leave.

At that time, the Xuanyi Forbidden Army may still exist, but it is just an ordinary sword of the so-called royal family, where will there be the ability to 'inspect the world'?

Jue Gongzi is more likely to engage in a mysterious organization and harm the martial arts after the separation of Xuanyi, when he is idle and bored, relying on his martial arts skills, these are all due meanings.

That kind of scene is something that Mo Xichao doesn't want to see. Because of his plan, it is indispensable to have the cooperation of the complete Xuanyi received by Li Zhi'an.

As long as Xuanyi is there, these speculations are irrelevant to his overall situation, so what if he lets him guess?

Above the main hall, after a moment of silence, Xinwu Supreme's expression eased, and he said: "I didn't expect Lord Mo to be a long-term lover, that's it, this matter is over." If Lord Mo has a favorite woman in the future, I can personally give her a marriage. Tonight's battle will also require the Lord to accept the opportunity. Since Mr. Xiangru has been defeated, Lord Mo Du asked for his own command. ”

Li Le sighed helplessly, and said in his heart, why are you here to do this? When the emperor is suspicious of you, can you let go of it again? Even if I am on top and can cope with most of the pressure, the emperor will definitely have a lot of constraints on you. Could it be that you are really satisfied after commanding this battle?

Thinking of this, Li Le's pupils shrank, and he looked at Mo Xichao fixedly, his eyes full of incredulity. He felt as if he had guessed something amazing!

However, at this time, he saw Mo Xi bowing down, saluting, and saying, "The minister will live up to His Majesty's trust." ”

Then he carried the sword of the beauty under the moon, turned around and walked out of the Taihe Hall with his hands in his hand.

And Li Le suddenly became stunned, and Emperor Xinwu called him twice before he reacted. While feeling bitter in his heart, he quickly turned around and said with a quiet smile on his face: "I was distracted, what did the Supreme ask just now?"

Emperor Xinwu laughed, amused by his words, and said: "You, aren't you really as good as Longyang? How can you be distracted by looking at Lord Mo's back? I am asking you, what kind of pastime do we have to pick up?"

Li Le said: "Why don't you call a few palace maids to come in and striptease for a while?" Don't worry, I'll give you the silver." ”

Emperor Xinwu's expression suddenly became awkward, and he said in his heart, this is my palace, and it is not your Qiuming Mountain, why do you dare to say any nonsense?

Zhu Laoba was amused by him and laughed all of a sudden, stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Le, not knowing what to say.

After leaving the palace, Mo Xi sighed for a long time, looked up at the dark night where the snowflakes gradually stopped, and there was an inexplicable emotion in his eyes.

After half a ring, I collected my thoughts. Then he called a messenger Xuanyi and said, "Go to the General Staff and ask Mr. Xiangru to release the No. 12 Messenger Eagle." ”

Xuanyi ordered to leave.

Mo Xichao's face was cold, and he muttered, "On the Lingming Division's side, it's time to take action, Faceling, this is your last chance......"

……

The night was late and the snow was stopping.

Fu'an County Palace.

The courtyard of the row house is scorching with lights. It stands to reason that today is the fourteenth day of the first month, and after two hours, at midnight, it is the fifteenth day of the first month, and the palace should be very lively. But at least it shouldn't be so quiet.

Except for some miscellaneous eunuchs and palace maids shuttling between the courtyards of the corridors with lanterns from time to time, making a "squeak" of stepping on the snow, there was no sound. Even the guards who were still in the palace before, as well as those martial arts people, disappeared at this time.

The whole palace gives people a strange feeling of quietness.

In the backyard of the palace, in a warm pavilion with green and elegant bamboo, there is a curling mist rising.

In the center of the warm pavilion of the bamboo building, there is a low table, on which there is a chessboard, and there are black and white children slowly falling on the nineteenth road. Next to the chessboard, there is a white jade wine pot and two good jade wine glasses.

When the candle flame was extinguished, Bai Xiaosheng and Jiang Hanyu were sitting on the soft couch on both sides of the low table, each holding black and white children, playing against each other, You Longsheng held his sword, stood quietly next to him, and watched them play chess.

After a while, Bai Xiaosheng lit the sunspot, picked up the wine glass, took a sip lightly, and said: "The younger generation likes to be quiet, and at this time, this palace is really quiet, and the rare heart is also quiet." ”

Jiang Hanyu nodded into Baizi and said: "It's really quiet, the people of the faction have been sent out, no one is disturbed, drink wine, play chess, it's good to be quiet." This kind of life, the old man used to be able to experience it often, since he was invited by Uncle Dong all these years, that kind of life is gone. Now that I think about it, I miss it very much. ”

Bai Xiaosheng smiled, put down his wine glass, and said: "After this battle, the predecessors will retire after their success, hide their merits and fame, and they can be promoted to the great grandmaster, and become a person who sits high in the clouds. Quietly thinking about moving, out of the Tianshan Mountain, a sword in his hand stirred the world, try to ask who in the world is not convinced? ”

Jiang Hanyu showed a smug smile on his face, nodded and said: "The old man can become a great grandmaster, Mr. Bai has a lot of credit, if Li Xunhuan really goes out of the rivers and lakes one day, he will have an old man to protect you." Besides, after the success of this battle, it may not be necessary to kill Li Zhi'an, with the friendship between the old man and Uncle Dong, let his family leave. In this way, it can be regarded as selling Li Xunhuan a face. ”

You Long next to him spoke: "Master, Li Zhi'an is the person who the prince ordered to kill, if he is released in the end, I am afraid that the prince will not look good." ”

Jiang Hanyu glanced at him lightly and said, "What's so difficult about this? Don't let the prince know, let it go secretly, if Li Xunhuan returns one day, it will be good for him." Shangguan Jinghong is ambitious, and he has Shura means, who in the world does not look sideways? Although the old man Tianji is known as the first in the world, after all, he is old, and it is unknown how long he can live. If Li Xunhuan reappears in the rivers and lakes, he can contain Shangguan. ”

When Bai Xiaosheng heard this, he smiled slightly, and said a thousand ways and ten thousand, this snow eagle is still afraid of Li Tanhua's unsolvable knife, afraid of forming a mortal enmity with Li Xunhuan, and feels that if he succeeds in seizing the throne, he will let Li Zhi'an go, and he will not be able to get over his face, so he takes it for granted that Bai is afraid of Li Xunhuan's revenge after he returns, so he uses Bai as an excuse to make a foreshadowing in advance.

In this way, others will think that he is protecting his juniors, so he will do this. What kind of money official has a half-copper relationship with him Xueyingzi? Everything is for the sake of his face.

Bai Xiaosheng is completely sure that even if Li Zhi'an is really killed in the end, when Li Xunhuan comes back to seek revenge on himself, this snow eagle will stand by and watch, at most he will say two words without pain.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiaosheng felt that Xue Yingzi was pathetic, a generation of heroes, top swordsmen in the rivers and lakes, just because Dong Cunke helped him when he was young, and now for the sake of face, he has to go out of the mountain to help the Dong family again, and step by step in the whirlpool of seizing the throne is getting deeper and deeper, so that now there is no way to leave, but to do that rebellious act.

If the seizure of the throne is successful, fame, power, and wealth will naturally be everything. If he fails, Jiang will not say that he will die, but he is afraid that even if he is alive, he will spend the rest of his life in fear and decadence.

It is a good thing to say that if you want to kick out the door with this kick, it takes great perseverance, determination, and great wisdom, which is ten million times more difficult than the promotion of a first-rate master to a grandmaster.

Although Bai Xiaosheng is not a great grandmaster, he is not even a grandmaster now. However, he had seen a genius swordsman who had fallen on this imminent kick. That swordsman has great perseverance and great wisdom, but he does not have great determination. Therefore, his skill and swordsmanship are always high and low. When it is high, it can be ranked in the realm of a great grandmaster, and when it is low, it is not even as good as a third-rate master. This is the result of not being able to move forward as soon as the door is approached.

And Jiang Hanyu's heart and talent are not half a star away from that swordsman. This battle can be won, Snow Eagle Zi is successfully promoted, if this battle is lost, he is even worse than the swordsman.

Bai Xiaosheng naturally wouldn't tell Jiang Hanyu about these things, and it was boring for no reason. So he planned to change the topic, put the black piece in his hand into Zhongyuan, and take out the opponent's big dragon, and then picked up the besieged dead white chess with a smile, and asked, "Senior Snow Eagle, how is this move going?"

Jiang Hanyu smiled and said: "Wonderful, silent cloth, the enemy will be saved, in terms of wisdom, the old man is not as good as you." Next, Xuanyi's side should send troops out to rescue him, right? It happened to fall into Mr. Bai's hub. ”

Bai Xiaosheng shook the folding fan lightly and said, "Senior Xueying, what you are talking about is this chess. ”

Jiang Hanyu poured a glass of wine, drank it all, and said, "What the old man said is also chess, what does Mr. Bai think?"

Bai Xiaosheng rubbed the chess pieces in his hand and said according to his meaning: "Yes, it's all chess." ”

Jiang Hanyu said: "In the next situation, the palace defense is already very weak, and the strange army that Mr. Bai laid out earlier should also have moved, right?"

Bai Xiaosheng shook his head and said, "It's not time yet, it's too early." ”

Jiang Hanyuqi asked, "Why do you say that?"

Bai Xiaosheng said: "Because Li Zhi'an has not made a move yet, the previous game was played by another person and Zaixia, that person previously thought that it was a military strategy under him, and he was decent when he shot, but now when he sees such a situation, his style of shooting will definitely change." If it is expected to be good, the person who played against the next before should be the 'Guigu Divine Sword'. ”

Jiang Hanyu asked strangely, "Why isn't it Mo Xiucai?"

Bai Xiaosheng slapped the folding fan with his hand and said: "Because Mo Xiu is good at agitating his lips and tongue, and he is good at agitating his lips and tongues, and he can see the way he used to provoke the forces of the rivers and lakes to kill him. Such means are not his style. Only that Guigu Shenjian has the ability to rotate the art of war if he wants to fight against the army, to plot against conspire, to combine if he wants to join forces, and to combine the art of war if he wants to. ”

Jiang Hanyu looked at him inexplicably and asked, "What's the difference?"

Bai Xiaosheng smiled and said, "Senior, Pang Juan, Sun Bin, who are the disciples of the Warring States Art of War?"

Jiang Hanyu blurted out and said, "Naturally, it's Guiguzi." ”

Bai Xiaosheng asked again: "Everyone, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, and the disciples of the confession?"

Jiang Hanyu reacted, frowned heavily, and said no more.

Su Zhang and the two are naturally from the Guigu Sect.

Although these are just wild historical legends, and there are no specific and reliable historical records, in any case, the word "Ghost Valley" runs through almost the entire pre-Qin and Warring States periods. It can be seen that the weight of "Guiguzi".