"yes, I almost forgot. Yuan Shu left a letter before leaving. This letter was written in a hurry, I was afraid that he already knew that his fate was short, and said that if the battle of the Quicksand Country was over and General Fang did not come back, he would take this letter to the capital and hand it over to the princess of King An's mansion with his own hands. There is no doubt that what he said is Miss Fang. Fan Jin felt the condensation around Fang Xiaoyu's body at this moment, and suddenly remembered this.

"Oh? Where is the faith? Fang Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked.

"I didn't put it on my body. I'll go back and fetch it. Fan Jin hurriedly got up, and he was going downstairs to get the letter.

Fang Xiaoyu didn't stop him, and watched him leave, and ordered Tu Hongzheng: "You follow him behind to ensure his safety." ”

Tu Hongzheng followed without saying a word, and the other two stayed or went, not knowing what to do, but a little embarrassed.

Fang Xiaoyu noticed the discomfort of the two, and asked with a smile, "Both of you live in the border city?" ”

The two didn't expect Fang Xiaoyu to suddenly start chatting with them, and they both nodded.

"Now that the chaos in Beiyan has started, it is uncertain how long this war will last, what are your plans?" Fang Xiaoyu asked with a smile, but that look always made people feel like they had a picture.

It's just that the two of them looked sad after hearing Fang Xiaoyu's question, and they didn't care about her face at all, so naturally they didn't see the so-called 'plot', but sighed and said, "I don't know what to do." The family has lived in Beiyan for generations, and their roots are all in this city. If you stay away from Beiyan, you must start all over again. I was also quite reluctant in my heart, but I don't know when the war will end, but I can't afford to spend it. It's really ......."

They seem to be still beautiful, wearing brocade clothes and satin, eating rice and flour, and they seem to be beautiful in front of people, but in fact, they are very clear in their hearts. Their roots are in the border city, and their business is all in the border city. Now the border city is allowed to enter but not to leave, and it is under the city by a large army. How can I go back?

Let's not talk about whether continuing to stay in the border city will face the danger of breaking the city, even if the army blocks the enemy army, but the drought and lack of food in Beiyan is no longer something that can be solved by manpower. Stay in the city then. Either they were starved to death by starvation and thirst, or they were confiscated by the defenders of the border city to replenish their military rations. At this particular moment, even if the defenders did so, no one would blame them. And these businessmen can only consider themselves unlucky.

In fact, they are the same as Fan Jin. Staying in this small suburban town is also terrifying. I don't know when the border city was broken, and the army of the quicksand country burned and looted all the way. If that day comes, this small suburban town will not be safe.

They are just lucky in their hearts, hoping that the defenders of the border city will be more powerful and can fight back these invaders. Although these days will eventually be lost, it is better than going elsewhere to be a rootless wanderer.

The three of them were not here to have fun in this restaurant today. In fact, their purpose is the same as Fang Xiaoyu's, they are all to find out the news. I felt tired and stopped here to rest, but I happened to run into two other people. It's people who know each other well, and they put together a table.

"I just need someone to do something for me. If you want. So I took my warrant and went to the Yuan General's Mansion in Jingcheng to find the eldest princess, and when she saw my letter, she knew how to settle you. Of course, if you are unable to leave your homeland and do not want to leave Beiyan, I will not say anything. I will always give you a stable and peaceful Beiyan. Fang Xiaoyu wanted to take the two of them for his own use. She had some plans in mind that would require a few businessmen to complete. However, if you use the Moon Shadow Division or the Canglan Sea Pavilion, although it is not impossible, it is not a businessman, and some habits and actions may not be able to show flaws.

Her enemies are shrewd to death. The layout of the game one by one always spans more than ten or twenty years, and it is very difficult to deal with, so if you want to break the game, you should always find some people with small loopholes to complete it.

The two people in front of him are both businessmen, and playing a businessman is a true performance, and it is not easy to be suspected. And she won't tell them what she wants to do, she just needs to live a new life as she says, and it will be difficult for the other party to catch the flaws.

Such people are not difficult to find, but it is rare that there are two ready-made ones in front of you now. And one of them is also an admirer of her family's general, so she must be more dedicated to doing things.

The two looked at each other, and both saw shock in each other's eyes.

To be honest, they were a little excited.

Fang Xiaoyu is the concubine of Fang Jianzhang, the general of Zhenyuan, the concubine of the prince of King An, with the eldest princess on her head, and the emperor also values her very much, otherwise she would not have asked a woman to come to Beiyan alone. If they hug this thigh, their family will have a chance to become a master in the future.

But they hesitated.

Opportunity always comes with risk.

They didn't believe that a character like Fang Xiaoyu would just look for two ordinary businessmen to promote, without asking for anything in return, and they were not some kind of compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva.

She needs them, necessarily because they are useful.

Whether it is worth putting themselves in danger for the sake of this skyrocketing opportunity, they are a little hesitant.

"There's no need to rush to say yes. I will stay in Beiyan for some time, and I will give me an answer before I return to Beijing. Fang Xiaoyu didn't force it, and gave enough grace time.

Both breathed a sigh of relief.

Fan Jin trotted all the way home, found the previous letter from the cabinet, solemnly put it in his arms, and trotted all the way back to Yu Ji Restaurant, and ran up to the third floor of the compartment, after entering the door, he did not forget to look out of the door, and saw that there was no suspicious person, so he retracted his head and closed the door tightly.

He took out the letter from his bosom and handed it to Fang Xiaoyu.

A letter is thin, but it seems to weigh a thousand pounds.

Tearing open the envelope, Fang Xiaoyu took out a thin piece of paper, unfolded the letterhead, and wrote clearly in a few sentences how her father led 50,000 elite soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy after coming to Beiyan, how he beheaded countless enemies, how he was locked out of the city gate and could not enter the city, and how he escaped and fought his way out of the bloody road.

Among them, Yuan Shu also wrote that he passed out in a pile of dead people, and when he woke up afterwards, he still pretended to be dead. As the enemy retreated, he had heard strange words.

It was the two generals of the enemy army who spoke, and the words were only two short sentences.

"I, the country of quicksand, have sent troops to attack Beiyan as you wish. Should the concubine also fulfill her promise? ”

"That's nature. The general waits for good things to come. ”

Fang Xiaoyu looked confused.

The two sentences that Yuan Shu heard revealed a message. These two generals are not from the same country. Otherwise, the other person would not say, 'I, the country of quicksand, send troops to attack Beiyan as you wish', but directly say 'I'.

At that time, she had suspicions that the person who instigated behind the Quicksand Country should be Da Zhou. Dacheng and Dayu have secretly signed an alliance agreement, and Dayu should not suddenly rebel and attack Dacheng. And Da Zhou is recognized as an ambitious person, and this incident happened at the moment when Da Zhou threatened Da Cheng and his relatives, which is really suspicious.

But what Fang Xiaoyu cared about was the 'noble concubine Niangniang'. Which concubine is it?

Because of the death of Princess An Jian An, she learned a lot about Da Zhou. And because of this, she also learned. Da Zhou is a very interesting country.

There are many mountains and forests, so it has a very powerful advantage for training the army. Their martial arts are also very strong, at least compared to those forces in the rivers and lakes of Dacheng. It's not a star.

And all this originated from the founding emperor of the Great Zhou.

The origin of the founding emperor of the Great Zhou is very strange, and no one knows where he came from. At the beginning, he appeared inexplicably, and he was brilliant in his martial arts. Martial arts are also extremely strong.

Afterward. It took him twenty years to create the Great Zhou Dynasty, and with the power of one person, he recruited troops and bought people's hearts, so that he could completely overthrow the predecessor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Great Banner State, and he himself became the emperor in a yellow robe.

Then, Da Zhou began his road to prosperity.

The founding emperor of the Great Zhou lived for more than one hundred and ten years until his death. only then did he hand over his position as emperor. At that time, his eldest sons were already in their eighties and approaching nineties. He was dying of old age, and he could see that he could be blown away by the wind when he walked, so before his death, the founding emperor passed the throne to his grandson, the imperial grandson, who was close to seventy years old.

Because of the founding emperor's strong martial arts and strong internal strength, several members of the royal family in the future have been favored, and after practicing the martial arts secrets left by the founding emperor, they all lived a long life. Therefore, the Great Zhou Dynasty has formed a strange phenomenon. The emperor is stubbornly tyrannizing the throne and does not let go, and the prince and grandson are all old men.

Every emperor is very old, and there was even an emperor who lived for more than 140 years, and survived his crown prince and son, and his grandson, and finally the remaining descendants were killed, and finally had to be taken over by the descendants of his brother's family.

So even in this generation, the emperor is more than a hundred years old, and the two most powerful contenders for the position of prince Yun and King Meng are already seventy or eighty.

And that's not all. Da Zhou is also an unusually patriarchal country. Men are the sky, and women are just dust. The only purpose for which a woman lives is to please men, and to pass on the lineage.

Don't look at the queen concubines in the palace, they also seem to have infinite scenery, but in fact, they are just infinite scenery in the eyes of outsiders. Even the emperor's favorite concubine is the queen of the country, but when it comes to status, she is not as good as a minister of three or four grades.

Those courtiers above the third grade, when they see the queen, concubines and princesses in the harem, they don't need to salute. On the contrary, if the strength of the minister's family should not be underestimated, there is even a precedent for concubines to salute the minister.

In the Great Zhou, there is no possibility for women to participate in the men's court. Women can be tools to be used, such as Zhou Guifei Zhou Ling, who was sent to Dacheng to be a spy and a pawn, but it is never possible to be respected by others like her smile.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty can tolerate the harem competition for favor, and step on each other's corpses to get a higher position, it is better to say that the emperor also wants to see these interesting scenes, but when it comes to the **** dispute, the harem is forbidden to participate. Once discovered, not only the concubine of the harem will be executed, but even her son will be abolished.

It can be said that the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is an old stallion. What's the most? The most children. He had so many women that he couldn't even recognize which one was which, and he himself had so many sons and daughters. That's why there is such an extravagant act as sending the lineage to be a spy and a spy, for the emperor of the Great Zhou, a few fewer children may be to reduce the burden on his harem of the Great Zhou.

That's why Fang Xiaoyu felt that this 'noble concubine Niangniang' in the conversation between the two was a little strange.

If the invasion of the quicksand country is really the shadow of the Great Zhou Dynasty, then there is no doubt that this 'noble concubine Niangniang' has touched the level of state affairs, which should be a taboo for the Great Zhou Emperor.

But if it weren't for the Great Zhou, which country could easily raise 500,000 troops, and then increase the number of troops by 100,000?

Could it really be that Da Yu shouted at the thief to catch the thief, saying that Da Zhou had a mortal threat to Da Yu and wanted the alliance to resist the enemy, and on the other hand, he secretly supported the quicksand country to raise troops against Beiyan?

Fang Xiaoyu closed his eyes, searching for the memories of his past life in his mind. In those memories, it is true that Dayu Chao and Dacheng did form an alliance, and before she died, there was no impression of Dayu that Dacheng used soldiers.

Fang Xiaoyu couldn't help but be a little irritable.

She knew that her rebirth had changed a lot in this life. For example, in the previous life, there was never a matter of the quicksand country raising troops, but in this life, the quicksand country has become a big enemy that shackles Beiyan.

No matter who stands behind the Quicksand Country, the top priority is to beat all the people in the Quicksand Country back to their mother's womb first!

Thinking like this, Fang Xiaoyu picked up the envelope again, poured the seal on the tabletop, and sure enough, a piece of jade pendant slipped out of it. This piece of jade pendant is pitch black all over, not so much a piece as half a piece. The side of this half of the pitch-black jade has a concave and convex like a gear, and there is a strange pattern on the horizontal surface of the jade pendant, like a fire, red, but there seems to be a whitish pattern missing next to it, and only a few whitish lines blending with this fire can be faintly seen.

Fang Xiaoyu could see at once that the pattern on this jade pendant was by no means naturally formed, but was carved by someone later with a unique technique, and this jade is likely to have the other half, those few white lines, and the few red lines missing from the red flame, should be combined with the other half before showing a complete pattern.

According to what Yuan Shu said in the letter, this jade pendant was accidentally dropped by the general after retreating. He was quick to hide it in his arms, always thinking that it might come in handy.

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the jade pendant carefully, but did not find any useful clues. But thinking of a general, wearing this jade pendant even on the battlefield, may mean that this jade pendant is a very important thing for him. So she put away the jade pendant completely and decided to focus on it afterwards to see if there were any clues.

Fang Xiaoyu folded the letter again, and then put it in his arms. She was about to express her gratitude to Fan Jin, but suddenly her eyes were cold, and she shouted: "What person! The teacup lid in her hand was thrown out by her. (To be continued.) )

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