On the second day of June, 4 p.m.

After another day of fighting, the Big Tooth Army laughed and cursed wantonly outside Baiyun City, and even unbuttoned their pants in groups to pee on Baiyun City, and only retreated after a lot of ridicule.

The soldiers on duty on the walls of Baiyun City were all dejected, like frosted eggplants. Listening to the arrogant laughter and invective of the big tooth army outside the city, everyone's cheeks were hot, both ashamed and angry. They wanted to rush out of the city gate immediately and fight to the death with the big tooth dog, but the military order was like a mountain, and the military order made them unable to defend it, so they could only defend it.

It was night, there was no moon in the sky, and the night was dark.

A figure rose from outside Baiyun City, flew over the city wall, and sneaked into Baiyun City.

After sneaking into Baiyun City, this figure went straight in one direction, and finally stopped in front of the gate of the Zhennan Wang's Mansion, and arched his hand to the guards in front of the palace: "Qi Wanshi, the wife of the city lord of Yancheng, I want to see the old prince, please pass it on my behalf!"

The guards in front of the palace were all startled when they heard the identity of the visitor, and after looking up and down, they felt that the person who came did not seem to be joking, and immediately entered the palace with half a doubt, and the adults in the palace would determine whether it was true or false.

At present, the battle situation is tense, and they dare not use the momentum of the palace to block some visitors from the door as usual.

The visitor was recruited into the palace, and it was not until three o'clock in the second half of the night that he climbed over the wall and quietly left the palace.

At three o'clock, the south gate of Baiyun City quietly opened, and a team of 5,000 cavalry wrapped their horses' hooves in cotton cloth and quietly left the city.

In the southwest of the city, outside the blockade line of the Big Tooth Army, a large group of men and horses quietly came out of the dark night, broke through the blockade line of the Big Tooth Army and rushed to Baiyun City with lightning speed.

The Great Tooth Army was alarmed, and in an instant they shouted to kill the heavens, breaking the silence of the night.

The five thousand cavalry of Baiyun City carried the grievances and anger of these days to kill blatantly, tearing open a big hole in the blockade line of the Big Tooth Army, breaking up the queue that the Big Tooth Army had managed to organize again and again, and perfectly covering the entry of the large army into the city.

Two quarters of an hour later, the large army all entered the city, and the gates of Baiyun City creaked and closed.

Before the chaotic Big Tooth Army knew what was happening, the battle was over.

At dawn the next day, more than 30,000 ragged and embarrassed soldiers were added to the northwest battalion of Baiyun City, and a large amount of supplies such as water, food, and medicine were urgently deployed.

The sun was three poles, but there was a snoring sound in the northwest camp. Many people fell asleep while eating, they couldn't remember how long they hadn't slept peacefully, at this time they entered Baiyun City and settled down, and their long-tense spirits could finally relax and be lazy, and their tiredness came to their hearts, and their eyelids were closed and they fell asleep without struggling twice.

The soldiers of Baiyun City were holding water bags, feeding water to those who had fallen asleep one by one. The water in the water bag is specially prepared with elixir, and a few sips can temporarily relieve the tired body. These people's bodies are in a state of near or have collapsed, and if they do not have physical strength, they may never wake up from this sleep.

The news that there were more than 30,000 troops in the northwest camp overnight spread far and wide, I don't know whether it was the big tooth spy secretly making trouble, or the three of them became tigers with false rumors, and the news spread that it turned out that Yancheng was broken by the big tooth army, and the city lord of Yancheng was killed in battle, and only 30,000 were defeated

The army fled to Baiyun City last night, and millions of troops rushed from Yancheng to attack and were about to come to the city, and Baiyun City was in danger.

Although the official stood up to refute the rumors at the first time, it had little effect, because the people were indeed awakened by the shouts of killing outside the city in the second half of the night, and many people saw with their own eyes a ragged and embarrassed army passing through the streets of Baiyuncheng and heading for the northwest camp.

Recently, the big tooth army called for war outside the city every day, and the people in the city were already panicked, and now there is the news that Yancheng is broken, and the millions of troops of the big tooth army are about to come to the city and launch a general attack on Baiyun City.

The situation in the city was about to get out of control, and at the critical moment, Su Han, the king of Zhennan, took to the street on crutches to talk face-to-face with the people in the city and refute rumors. The old prince is highly respected, deeply loved and trusted by the people, and stabilized the people's hearts in just a few words.

Walking on the side of the street, looking at the simple old man who was surrounded by the crowd and moving forward slowly, Zhang Xiaopaw was quite surprised and said: "I didn't expect the old prince to be so approachable, almost no different from the old men of our ordinary people's families, if he passed by on the street, I wouldn't have associated him with the prince." ”

Zhou Jianlai and Niu Dawa walked aside, the three of them had just come out of the northwest camp and were walking on the way to Zhou Jianlai's house.

Zhou Jianlai said with a smile: "The old prince has been frugal all his life, and his food and clothing on weekdays are the same as those of the common people, so he is naturally almost the same as the common people. ”

"I don't know how old the prince will live this year?" Niu Dawa asked curiously as she looked at the old prince's snow-white hair.

"It's like six out of nine. Zhou Jianlai replied uncertainly.

"Awesome. Terrible. Niu Dawa gave a thumbs up with an admiring expression.

"In fact, the old prince's body has not been very healthy. Zhou Jianlai shook his head, thinking that Niu Dawa was praising the old prince's toughness, and said: "When I was young, I fought in the south and the north to fight the world, and small injuries and big injuries were commonplace, burying many incurable hidden diseases in the body. It is said that once last year, the family had already dressed him in a longevity coat and the coffin was carried into the lobby. Who knew that his old man didn't swallow his breath, went to the ghost gate and came back. ”

Niu Dawa scratched her head when she heard this, and said with a smile: "I mean that he is still capable of giving birth to a son when he is over seventy years old, which is really amazing." ”

Zhou Jianlai couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and then lowered his voice and said: "Most of the princes and generals who followed Emperor Su to fight the world back then were old people. When he was fighting, he didn't care about starting a family and having children, and after he conquered the country, he was all fifty or sixty years old, and because of the decades-long battles, he left some physical problems, and he was a child who only got after several years of careful recuperation. According to folk rumors, Emperor Su got a copy of the exercises of Peiyang out of nowhere, and sent a copy to each prince and general, and forced them to practice, so that they could have more children. ”

"If it's true, then our Emperor Su must be an interesting person. Zhang Xiaopaw couldn't help but laugh.

Zhou Jianlai withdrew his gaze from the old prince who was gradually moving away, looked ahead, and his gaze fell on a pair of towns on the side of the road five hundred steps away

On the house stone lion, the heartbeat suddenly couldn't help but speed up a little.

As the saying goes, he is cowardly in his hometown, although he left home with grief and despair and discouraged, and lost his good feelings for this home that only has interests and no feelings, but after all, this is the place where he grew up from childhood to adulthood, there are people and things he is familiar with, and now he has returned from the outside experience, and his mood is inevitably a little excited.

His pace couldn't help but quicken slightly.

The distance of more than five hundred steps will not be in front of him for a while, looking at the familiar word "Zhou Mansion" on the door plaque, Zhou Jianlai couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth and smile happily, and walked towards the door of the mansion on the stone steps in front of the door, a little impatient.

"Stop!" but was stopped by the guards on both sides of the door.

"Who's it?"

"This is the Zhou Mansion, the idle people are waiting to leave quickly!"

The two guards scolded repeatedly, because of the drought, there were often relatives who couldn't beat the eight poles to defect, and the Zhou family couldn't bear to be disturbed, so they had already ordered that there would be any more Zhang San and Li Si to defect, and they didn't need to report it, and they were directly bombed away.

Zhou Jianlai, Zhang Xiaopaw and Niu Dawa were dressed ordinarily, and the clothes on their bodies were rummaged through several households when they passed through a dead city on the way to Baiyun City. In addition, he was dusty along the way, and he hadn't taken a bath for a long time, and his gray face was not much different from a beggar, so the guards didn't recognize Zhou Jianlai at all.

"What, do I have to report my name when I go back to my home?" Zhou Jianlai immediately frowned and said unhappily.

The guard couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and stared at Zhou Jianlai's face.

One of them seemed to feel that Zhou Jianlai was familiar, and poked his head forward, and finally his eyes fell on Zhou Jianlai's empty right sleeve, and finally recognized Zhou Jianlai, and said in surprise: "Fifth young master, you can be regarded as back." Great, great. Hurry up and please, the little one will go and report to the old man and the big grandmother. ”

"Hmm. The guard's words made Zhou Jianlai's heart warm, and he felt that there were still people in this family who cared about him, otherwise the guard would not be so excited, and he was anxious to report.

The Zhou family is a wealthy family in Baiyun City, and the pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, and gardens and rocks in the courtyard are magnificent, but they are much more eclipsed than the Li family in Yancheng, at least there is no green in the courtyard at a glance, there is no flowing water under the bridge, and the lake by the pavilion has long dried up.

Zhang Xiaopaw and Niu Dawa looked east and west, there was only curiosity and no shock in their eyes, they had seen the grandeur of the Li family in Yancheng, and their horizons had improved a lot.

"Yo, isn't this the fifth child? ”

"Fifth brother, it's not easy to have a good time outside, look at this grizzled person, he won't be begging all the way back, right?"

A man and a woman walked out in front of him, dressed in brocade clothes, and it seemed that after hearing the news of Zhou Jian's return, they came out to greet them. The man is about twenty years old, and the woman is ten ** years old, and the two of them are slightly similar to Zhou Jianlai, and they both look at Zhou Jianlai with contempt and play.

Zhou Jianlai's gaze swept over the two, smiled, and responded: "Thank you for the fourth brother and third sister, the days outside are really not easy, and I almost didn't come back after several life and death." ”

Zhang Xiaopaw and Niu Dawa frowned when they listened to it, don't meet again between relatives, this picture is not the same as they imagined, why are the words full of ridicule and hostility?