It seems that I lost my mind for a while, which caused Xiong Lie to follow my gaze curiously, but fortunately, I reacted in time and hurriedly closed Xiong Lie's gaze, "Having said that, I still have to thank King Quxiong for his thoughtfulness and sending this girl to accompany me, otherwise I really don't know how to survive this journey." ”

Xiong Lie laughed, then turned his head to look at Aster, and then introduced to everyone, "If you are careful, this king is much more careful than the second son, and the girl that the girl is talking about is none other than the king's side concubine Aster." ”

Xiong Lie's words made everyone look sideways, and Aster bowed slightly between everyone's gazes.

"This king is worried that the girl will be embarrassed if she is unfamiliar with my Quxiong for the first time, so let the side concubine accompany her, and only the side concubine can be accompanied by the identity of the girl." He has something to say, but on the surface, he is calm and generous.

I naturally understood the meaning of his words, although on the surface, he meant to treat me as a distinguished guest and let Aster, who was a side concubine, accompany me, but in fact, there was inevitably no comparative meaning in his words. He even used Aster's side concubine to secretly step on me again, comparing it to Yuan Jue's side room, but we can take this as casual and don't care, it is inevitable that Aster will be wronged.

I looked at Aster with pity, she married this proud and arrogant man as a side lady, and it must be difficult to live a difficult life in the future.

"How so?" I couldn't help but say that it was not worth it for Aster, "Mrs. Aster is the lady of the king's side, naturally I can't take advantage of the identity of Mrs. Niyin, I didn't know Mrs. Niyin before, but after all, this can't be all blamed on Niyin." Ni Yin thought that what was the identity of a man, when it looked at how he treated his wife, thanks to the king's lack of shelf, Ni Yin had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Aster. ”

"Oh?" Xiong Lie listened to my words, and was stunned at first, as if everyone present was surprised, and the atmosphere suddenly froze. After a while, it was Xiong Lie who spoke out first, and said with a smile, "Miss Niyin is really a lover of personality, she will say whatever she thinks, such a temperament is just in line with the king's wishes, good." Unexpectedly, Miss Niyin actually spoke out for the king's side concubine. ”

Xiong Lie said, turning his head to look at Yuan Jue, Xu was expecting Yuan Jue to give him a step down. But Yuan Jue raised his head at this time, as if he didn't hear what we were saying, so Xiong Lie was left alone embarrassed.

"Miss Neon's temperament is really different." Xiong Lie could only sigh to himself, but when he said this to Yuan Jue, he undoubtedly asked Yuan Jue to take care of it.

"I'm used to it." Unexpectedly, the first thing Yuan Jue said to him when he raised his head turned out to be like this. "She doesn't need to be like everyone else."

At that moment, I could clearly feel that Vice General Qiao, who was standing next to Yuan Jue, exchanged glances with the two people standing behind me. It's just that everyone tacitly didn't make a sound.

That sentence may be his promise. I felt a deep sense of warmth and looked at Yuan Jue, but he didn't care at all.

"Okay." Xiong Lie suddenly burst out laughing. "But jokes aside, let's get down to business. After seeing the morning exercise of the Quxiong army, I don't know what the second son thinks. ”

"If you have a doubt, I hope that King Qu Xiong can explain it." Yuan Jue also seemed much more modest at this time.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Xiong Lie is very free and wanton.

"The number of Qu Xiong's army seems to be much smaller than I expected." Yuan Jue broke the doubt in his heart.

When we first came in, I noticed the Quxiong soldiers who were practicing in the field, and I also felt that something was wrong, but I didn't know the specific details of the barracks. At this time, as soon as Yuan Jue said, I felt that it was really like that, when I found them outside Xiangcheng, they were a little wolf because they were defeated and fled, but now I see the army of Quxiong, which is said to be a large army, but in fact it is only one or two thousand people. The difference between the number and the eight thousand warriors that Xiong Lie said at that time was too much.

Xiong Lie is confident, "I have lived on the grassland for generations and live as a nomad. Do you know what we are most afraid of? ”

"Acts of God." Hou Yue thought of it and answered first, and then was glared at by Vice General Qiao.

"Not bad." Xiong Lie didn't care about this, "We are most afraid of natural disasters, storms and rains, they are all our natural enemies, not to mention that on the grassland, there are other tribes that threaten our survival, and there are even old enemies like the eagle flock that day." Their invasion will cause the tribe to suffer considerable losses, and we, the Yibu people, have lived in tribal groups for generations, and all of them are united, living together, hunting and harvesting together, and defending against enemies together. This was true even up to my father's generation. ”

Everyone looked sideways at Xiong Lie, waiting for him to continue.

"Before I succeeded to the throne, I followed my father in one of the worst battles of his life. Because of the sneak attack of other tribes, we were not even prepared in the slightest and were caught off guard. They took advantage of the night to surround our tribe in a very short time, in that battle, we lost most of the elite soldiers, more than 3,000 killed, the soldiers of the tribe and the people were together, the army battle caused the people who should have been protected to be slaughtered, countless casualties everywhere, at that time, we Qu Xiong could not stand up again. For the sake of everyone's temporary stability, the first leader sent my brother to the victorious tribe as a hostage...... For a long time after that, the king wondered why we were caught off guard in that battle, because we were never too defensive against other tribes, and all the people were together, but at the moment of the war, we couldn't disperse at all, and the army had to cover the evacuation of the people on the one hand, and resist the invasion of other tribes on the other, and we couldn't exert our strength at all. When Xiong Lie recalled the so-called tragic war, the faint anger burning in his eyes seemed to devour those people, and he could feel that even after so much time, he still regarded the tribe that invaded Quxiong as a great enemy, and he hated it.

"So, did the king separate the elite warriors of the tribe?" Yuan Jue listened to Xiong Lie finish telling that story, and he quickly thought of it.

What? What does it mean to separate the elite warriors of the tribe? Why am I starting to lose understanding of what they're saying?

But Xiong Lie looked at Yuan Jue approvingly, it seemed that Yuan Jue had said his thoughts, there was a particularly subtle change between them, in the competition, and in mutual appreciation, Xiong Lie then said, "The eight thousand warriors are divided into four camps, and they don't know where the other camps are, only the generals of each of their camps will bring the news to Marshal Jiang to the king on time, and they will be uniformly dispatched by Marshal Jiang, but Marshal Jiang needs to carry the king's letter." At different times, the king will send each tribe to a different place to garrison, and then change again after a period of time, although the four camps are scattered, but they open a state of protection on all sides to protect the people in the tribe in the center. Each camp will be divided into three camps after the morning exercise, and will be dispatched by their generals, with three guards in the front, middle and back, once the first guard is broken through by the enemy, the second line can be maintained in the distance to delay the enemy, and the third line will be quickly withdrawn to cover the evacuation of the people. The other three sides will form an encirclement from within, sweeping away the intruders. ”

This time, I vaguely understood, which was equivalent to scattering and preserving their forces and gathering them to fight, "In that case, why didn't the Quxiong army react in the slightest when the eagle flock raided the tribe's camp that day?" ”

The situation of that day, the sudden attack of the eagle flock, if the army of the Quxiong tribe was really as tightly deployed as Xiong Lie said, how could there be such a mistake, making it difficult for the Quxiong camp to deal with it for a while.

"This ......" Xiong Lie was embarrassed, he looked at me left and Yuan Jue on the right, not knowing how to explain it.

"Unless, there are ghosts in the Quxiong camp." Yuan Jue said in one word.

That's right, that's what I didn't feel right at the beginning. After listening to Xiong Lie talk about the layout of the Quxiong army, I even more suspected that the sudden attack on the camp by the eagles that day was secretly planned by someone. This person not only knew the location of the big camp, but he made the eagle flock suddenly rush into the big camp in the middle of the three layers of defense in the four directions outside, and he could also control the leader of the eagle flock. Who is this person, his existence is really terrible, what is he trying to do?

After reviewing some of the troops, Xiong Lie asked Yuan Jue if he had gone to several other places to review, but Yuan Jue politely refused.

I think what Yuan Jue is thinking about at the moment is probably the same problem as what I am thinking. We undoubtedly affirmed the strength of the army under Xiong Lie's control, but we couldn't figure out what kind of people could lurk in the army and make the eagle flock raid the tribe?

Although Xiong Lie is arbitrary, he naturally has his own set of methods for marching and fighting, and he can quickly unite the Quxiong forces after the death of the old leader and succeed him as king, he will definitely not be just a little conceited as shown on the surface.

This person, really like what Aster said, is credible for seven points. Even in the moment when it seems to be all honest, he still tries to hide the real him from us, and he can't see through what kind of person Xiong Lie will be hidden under such a surface, although he is very sure that he is not a threat to us at all, it may just be a survival instinct of his.

Under such a violent, arrogant, and self-righteous illusion, he should at least be absolutely shrewd when he is hidden.

"Now that you're here, you might as well walk around." Before leaving to go back, Xiong Lie suddenly said, "This is the most scenic land under my Qu Xiong's power, it's better to walk around at will and wait until the afternoon to return." ”

This is indeed a good construction, these days, we have been busy running around for various reasons, and it has been a long time since we have such free time, we can calm down and spend half a day on the grassland in a relaxed and comfortable way.

I just wanted to say yes, but Yuan Jue had already refused, "Let's go back." Although this is within the power of Qu Xiong, there is no shortage of various threats, not to mention that now, we still have to discuss the next alliance matters, and when the first qiē is over, it is not too late to relax. ”

"It's fine." Xiong Lie agreed.

As a last resort, he got up with the crowd and returned to the camp. I was the same as when I came, in the same car as Aster, Hou Yue and the others were behind us, but this time, Yuan Jue and Xiong Lie led the way in front, and Vice General Qiao and Gao Yong walked in the front to explore the way.

Aster was silent a lot, not like when she went, when she had something to say to me, and now she just sat quietly aside.

I thought she didn't want to talk at the moment, so I didn't bother her contemplation, Aster turned her head, as if looking at the fleeting scenery outside the carriage window, her side was really beautiful, there was a feeling of peony that I had seen in the family mansion, beautiful and generous, gorgeous and charming. She is very beautiful, her words and deeds are also generous, and she is obviously very well proportioned, but when she is alone with her, she inevitably feels that there is a kind of loneliness and sadness in her eyes.

What are you grieving about? Is it lamenting fate? But she doesn't seem to be the kind of person who is happy to live between heaven and earth and wantonly publicity. Compared with the freedom outside, it feels graceful and luxurious to be more suitable for her.

Perhaps, she is missing Ziyuan. The woman who ran away from home and mistakenly thought that she had robbed her sweetheart. Where is Ziyuan now? Is it really like what Aster heard and became Xiong Lie's killer? Does she really have that ability? If so, how do you find her? But if you can ask Xiong Lie, this matter is much simpler.

Whenever I look at Aster, I think of another girl who was also attached to sisterhood. Over the years, I have never forgotten her, but I never want to see her again, compared to Cheng Jing, Li's affairs, the person I don't want to see is her. That was probably the first time I experienced that feeling, and I don't blame her for the choice, because I knew she loved Chengjing. It's just that I don't know how I'm going to face her if I see her again.

After returning to the camp, Yuan Jue began to discuss the alliance with Xiong Lie. For a few days, I didn't see Yuan Jue again, especially after hearing that sentence, he suddenly became very busy, so busy that he didn't even have time to pass by me.

The people around me are all in a hurry, and everyone seems to have their own things to do, and I don't have them.

"Hou Yue, do you know the second son...... "I rarely met Hou Yue, so I spoke."

"I don't know, I haven't seen the second son today. That, sister, I still have something to do, I'll leave first, you can wait and see Brother Qiao and they will say hello. Hou Yue hurriedly ran away.

Hou Yue ......, "No matter what I call him, he has already walked away and can't hear it."

Are they really that busy? What are they so busy in the Quxiong tribe that they haven't even seen Yuan Jue today?

Unless...... It dawned on me.

Unless, they are busy catching the so-called inner ghosts?! If Yuan Jue and Xiong Lie have discussed the way of the alliance, then in the past few days, it is urgent to find out the so-called inner ghosts in the camp! But what kind of stratagem were they going to use? (To be continued.) )