Chapter 397: The City Lord's Entrustment
The battle in the south had begun, and the barbarian army suddenly appeared, but the place of attack was not the border cities that people imagined to be located at the junction of the two major dynasties of Tianfeng and Great Wu.
Planting Huaping in the spring garden, abundant vermilion grass in the Middle Tang Dynasty.
There are quite a few people in the city lord's mansion, and most of them are female dependents who are like flowers and jade.
It's just that there are not many of these maids who are used to take care of Bai Xiongqi's daily life, and the rest of them have only one task except for the most basic sprinkling and cleaning, that is, to take care of the flowers and plants in the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion.
Bai Xiongqi's temperament is like the large and small springs in this Wencheng, tranquil and gentle, just like the name of this city.
In addition to cultivating and dealing with the affairs of the city on weekdays, Bai Xiongqi's favorite thing is to sit in the spring color of this garden, warm wine and enjoy flowers with his wife, who had been hand in hand before his career, and talk about trivial things that do not matter, and for the rest of his life, his greatest wish is just to repeat it day after day.
It's good to be safe.
It's a pity that in this chaotic world, the stalls where the mountains and rains come, even if they don't ask much, how can those who seek benevolence and get benevolence have?
As soon as the front foot sent away Luo Yi, the great god, the army of the back foot barbarians did not know what means they used to cross the seven border cities in the south and came to Yeyang City in the middle of the dynasty.
In terms of north-south direction, the location of Yeyang City is almost in a straight line with Wencheng to the west.
The territory of the dynasty is in a north-south direction, and the distance between Yeyang City and Wencheng is only less than three thousand miles, and in terms of the terrifying mobility that the barbarians are showing now, I am afraid that they will be able to come immediately.
Ye Yang City is the same as Wencheng, although it is the main city, it is only the early stage of a legal domain and a few star pole peaks, not to mention the million army of barbarians, just a master of earth weapons, you can easily break the city.
When the news reached Wencheng, Li Shengxian, the city lord of Yeyang City, had already been martyred.
Bai Xiongqi was a little anxious at the moment.
Yesterday there was a big battle, and before the restoration work in the city could be fully carried out, the barbarian army had strangely arrived in the middle of their dynasty, and he couldn't help but worry about whether he would be the next martyr.
Eat the king's lu, bear the king's worries.
If the barbarians really came to the city, he would choose to die in battle like Li Shengxian, but if he could not die, who would mind living a little longer?
A dirty thought suddenly appeared in Bai Xiongqi's mind: "If only those barbarian armies went to attack other cities first. β
As soon as the idea of immortal poor Dao friends rose from Bai Xiongqi's heart, the city lord, who was more than ninety years old but still looked like a teenager, blushed, and hurriedly shook his head vigorously, and then his wife's delicate and pretty face appeared in his mind, and he smiled knowingly.
Life has been so far, the first 30 years of wind and rain, the last 60 years of stability, the days are short and short, long and long, in short, he should suffer in this life, and the blessings he should enjoy have finally been experienced, and he has no regrets even if he dies.
At this time, in the Great Wu Dynasty far to the south, the old subordinates of Great Wu set off a powerful counterattack in various parts of the dynasty.
Armies from the capitals and counties of the state came out of their own territories
Bing, from all directions in the southeast, northwest and north, invariably marched towards the original Great Wu Wangdu, and invisibly formed an encirclement covering the entire dynasty, which in turn surrounded the barbarian army.
And after Ye Yang City of Tianfeng Country was occupied by the barbarians at the speed of light, the situation of the entire dynasty was exactly the same as that of the Great Wu in the south, with the experience of the neighboring countries, the monarch of the Tianfeng Dynasty was most worried about the repetition of the barbarian army in these days, and he also staged a so-called direct smashing of the Yellow Dragon in Tianfeng City, so during this period of time, the masters of the dynasty were frequently gathered, and almost all the people who could be transferred back were recalled to the royal capital Tianfeng City, in order to have a hard encounter with the barbarian army, even if they were defeated, they should have the spare strength to transfer, so as not to be like the Wu Dynasty should be easily taken off the headγ
Han Shisha and Jiang Ning received an invitation from the City Lord's Mansion immediately after they came out of the small world, and it was obvious that Bai Xiongqi had not given up his search for Jiang Ning during this period of time.
The two followed behind the maid who led the way, and walked slowly along the path in the garden, along the way, the purple and red fragrance was sultry, welcoming spring, smiling, peony, rhododendron, hyacinth, yueji, gardenia and calla lily are all blooming vigorously, although they are just some ordinary products, but because of the irrigation of the nine-eyed spiritual spring in the house, they gradually gave birth to something extraordinary.
For example, the bouncing maid who led the way in front of her head, in addition to the fragrance, also had a faint demonic aura on her body, which was nothing to hide under Jiang Ning's green electric pupils.
The smiling girl in front of her is clearly a smiling flower that has just been transformed.
Jiang Ning and Han Shisha looked at each other and smiled, lighting up the flowers, this city lord who had never met before was very interested.
The foundation of all kinds of flowers is thin, even if there is a spiritual spring to irrigate, in just a few decades, it is already good to cultivate to the second and third orders, and if you want to transform into a shape, no one will help you open the spiritual wisdom, you will definitely not be able to do it.
After all, those spiritual springs were just spiritual springs, and the quality was not comparable to the high-purity yuan liquid, which was far from the pool of snow agar that Jiang Ning found in the night forest.
Due to the fact that his cultivation is still mainly based on wood, the true yuan in Jiang Ning's body seems to be a little ready to move at the moment.
Heaven and earth wood spirits, especially spirit flowers and spirit grass, are of great benefit to them as wood cultivators, just following behind that little girl, Jiang Ning felt that the whole person was much more refreshed, he suddenly felt that he had so much yuan liquid, he might as well learn to ignite some flowers and plants in the small world, but there was no need to kill chickens and eggs to eat them and seize the wood spirits, the number of ignitions only needed to be more, and the wood spirit qi they emitted in the small world on weekdays was enough to assist their own cultivation needs.
Han Shuibian, who is also a wood Tianling root, also has the same feeling as Jiang Ning, about Aiwu and Wu, because of his love for the little girl in front of him, even with Bai Xiongqi, who has never met, secretly has a good feeling.
Walking through the path of the garden and through the verandah, there is a small marble paved courtyard, and the courtyard has only one entrance, except for the round marble table in the center, there is only a cluster of green bamboo swaying in the wind.
The bamboo poles in the courtyard are on the thin side, and they are obviously all new
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When the two of them followed the smiling girl in, Bai Xiongqi was laughing with his wife, and the gentle woman next to him smiled lightly and poured the freshly warmed bamboo leaves into the four bamboo cups on the table.
The eyes of the bright girl lit up.
"The bamboo leaves of Mount Emei in the Central Region!" Han Shisha blurted out, "Your Excellency is really in good taste." β
Bai Xiongqi's eyes fell on his wife's body, and he smiled with his eyebrows: "Shame, shame, although I drink well, I don't have any research on the tea ceremony." β
The bright girl chuckled, and her eyes fell on the gentle woman: "It turned out to be Madame." β
The gentle woman smiled lightly, did not answer, but pointed to the bamboo cup in front of the girl, "The gods live among the plants and trees, the essence of the plants and trees in the tea, the flowers in the morning and the moon and the evening, the virtuous guests, talk about the past and the present, taste the tea, what is the joy between the heavens?"
Jiang Ning smiled.
These two sentences, the first sentence is from the "Scholar's Covenant" of Jiang Zhilan, a calligrapher of the previous generation of Tianfeng Kingdom, taking 'The poem and book contain the holy vein, and the grass and trees dwell on the gods.' 'The lower que. The latter sentence is recorded in Wang Fuli's "Tea Talk". The gentle woman in front of her not only loves tea, but also loves to read. It's no wonder that the warm temperament is natural, which makes people feel good when they see it.
I have to say that this is indeed a woman who can make her husband feel that her face is shining when she is brought to people.
From the look of pity in the white male eyes, it was easy to be sure.
Han Shuisha took a sip of tea, "The city lord invited us here, and he entertained us with such good tea, which can be regarded as a gift for guests, if you have any troubles, you might as well talk to the two of us." β
Hui Zhilan's heart is like her, about Bai Xiongqi's invitation to enter the City Lord's Mansion, she has already thought of countless possibilities on the way here, and most of them are inseparable from the fall of Ye Yang City.
It's just a million army of barbarians, how can she and Jiang Ning be able to deal with it, so although she said that she was willing to listen to Bai Xiongqi's difficulties, she didn't give any promises, although the two of them had a good impression of this Wencheng city lord, but some things can't be done, if Bai Xiongqi wants to ask the two of them to defend the city together, she and Jiang Ning will definitely not agree.
It's okay to do good, can you help, for the sake of his face on that day, it's no problem for him to hold up the big hand of the Wencheng Barrier to block the rules. But they are not so noble to lose their lives for the kindness in their hearts.
Bai Xiongqi smiled, but what he said surprised the two of them slightly.
"There is a nine-eyed spiritual spring in the City Lord's Mansion, so there are nine wood spirits in the garden today. Both of them are Wood Aspect Heavenly Spirit Roots, and they should be of benefit to you. β
Bai Xiongqi waved his hand, and several delicate girls came out of the garden one after another, standing side by side beside the smiling girl, who was very well-behaved and cute.
Smiling and holding his wife's hand, Bai Xiongqi said: "I come and go with Wan'er, I have no regrets in this life, and the children under my knees have also started their own families, but these girls, without the protection of the city lord's mansion, are to return to the demon clan, and the fate is still visible to the naked eye ups and downs, so ......"
"I can take them in," Jiang Ning said.
"It's just that, how can you be sure that the barbarians will definitely attack Wencheng?"
After the capture of the capital of the Great Wu Dynasty, the battle line arranged by the barbarians in the west was temporarily retracted and the troops were not moved, and in the east, they only killed a Wu Chaoying, but in fact, they did not capture the city as wantonly as they had for thousands of years, so that the actions of the barbarians were in the eyes of the masters of the northern realm.
Since they have other plans, they will naturally prioritize attacking the city that has what they want.
If that thing had been in Wencheng from the beginning, why did the barbarian army have to make such a move and take the lead in capturing Yeyang City in the east?
Bai Xiongqi didn't explain, but repeatedly emphasized: "In short, they will definitely come." β
(End of chapter)