Under the Tu Castle of Wu'e.

Lu stood quietly, Li Yanniang was beside him, and she found water in the village to clean it a little, and she didn't look so embarrassed.

Half an hour ago, Lu Ning shouted under the city, Qi Guozhao Xuanlang Zhang San, sent Ruan Linggong Xinqin, encountered barbarian interceptions, fled overnight, and finally arrived here.

At the beginning, when Lu Ning and Li Yanniang appeared, the city was like a great enemy, and Lu Ning shouted several times, and finally there was a barbarian who knew the Central Plains dialect, and asked Lu Ning to wait here in a blunt tone.

But now, more than half an hour has passed, and no gate is opened.

The earthen city is not high, and there are no ditches and moats, etc., which are completely incomparable with the ordinary state capital cities of the Central Plains.

Lu Ning was looking at the situation of the city wall and the arrow tower, and then he condensed slightly, and said, "Someone is coming." ”

After a while, sure enough, inside the city gate, there was the sound of a wooden bolt, and with a squeak, the city gate opened, and from inside, a group of people came out.

At the front of the team, there was a middle-aged couple of barbarians, the barbarian women were very neatly dressed, the barbarians were tall, and the black men like iron towers were swarthy.

"Welcome, Ambassador!" But she was a barbarian woman, and she said to Lu Ning in a slightly blunt Central Plains dialect, and even introduced herself, it turned out that she was Ruan Shoujie's eldest daughter, called Ruan Danyu, and the swarthy man was his husband, called Ruan Jing.

Ruan Danyu was very enthusiastic and invited the envoy of Qi and Mrs. Zhaorong to enter the city.

But he treated Li Yanniang as his father's wife, Lu Ning wondered in his heart, and his face was silent.

Ruan Jing won't say anything, obviously, this swarthy man is a very martial and brave barbarian, and his Wen Zou Zou has a name with a Central Plains flavor, and I am afraid that it was only after he married Ruan Danyu.

"There are hemp flags all over the city, but something happened to Ruan Linggong?" Lu Ning asked as he walked.

Ruan Danyu immediately looked sad, wiped her tears and said: "So that the envoy can know that my father was attacked by thieves on the way from Wuning Cave and has died. ”

And so it was! Lu Ning didn't want to disguise any grief, just sighed.

"The mourning hall is newly established, the envoy and Mrs. Zhaorong should not go first, there are some family affairs, and the little woman still has to take care of it, so don't blame the envoy and his wife." Ruan Danyu wept and looked painful.

But Lu Ning has read countless people, and naturally feels that this barbarian woman, ninety percent out of ten is a fraud, and among the barbarian women, she is good at hypocrisy, and she is also a powerful person.

Looking at the Wu'e Tucheng again, there are a series of earthen huts and thatched houses, and the streets are very narrow, and the main road into the city is now taken, in terms of the Central Plains, it can only accommodate a horse-drawn carriage.

The dirt road is dry now, but apparently it had rained the other day, and the road was full of wheeled wheels and footprints, and potholes.

Occasionally there is a tree or two, slightly green.

A barbarian came up from the path between the mud houses and thatched huts to enter the main road, and was immediately shouted at by the barbarians who followed him, and hurried back.

They all looked flustered, as if they were facing a great enemy.

"The envoy and his wife will rest first, and the concubine will deal with some miscellaneous matters, and come to talk to the envoy later." Ruan Danyu said again.

Lu Ning bowed slightly.

……

Lu Ning and Li Yanniang were placed in a mud house courtyard in the city, and outside the courtyard, Ruan Danyu left many barbarians to patrol and guard.

In the evening, Ruan Danyu hurriedly came and entered the wing room where Lu Ning lived.

"Envoy, it's too ugly here, but I also have a last resort." Ruan Danyu said, and sighed, this barbarian woman, although her skin is slightly dark, and she is over thirty years old and nearly forty years old, but she has a good foundation,, and some charm.

Lu Ning nodded: "I also guessed a little!" ”

Ruan Danyu's eyes lit up immediately, but he sighed again, "Yes, in the Central Plains, this kind of thing about the death of the ancestor and the struggle for power and profit, the envoy has naturally seen a lot in the history books." ”

Shook his head and said: "Now the strong enemy is around, the aunt and the people close to her, but to make waves, it really makes people sigh, my little girl, in order to protect the younger brother, but has to fight with the aunt and her close head, and now I still call her an aunt, but she doesn't remember the previous love at all." ”

"Auntie?" Lu Ning faintly guessed who it was.

Ruan Danyu sighed: "It was Mrs. Wona, who was just divorced by my father a few days ago, and after my mother died, she became my father's most trusted wife. ”

Lu Ning nodded slightly, during this time, he already had some understanding of Ruan Shoujie's department.

Although Ruan Shoujie has a lot of wives, and theoretically, there is no distinction between wives and concubines, but in fact, there has always been one of his most trusted wives who runs the house for him, who was naturally Ruan Danyu's mother before, and later, it was Mrs. Nawona.

Mrs. Wona was born in the Wona barbarian tribe, and Ruan Shoujie divorced all his wives in order to marry the imperial concubine of the old dynasty from the Central Plains, including Mrs. Wona, of course.

"Now the one who guards the mourning hall is my aunt's brother, so I can only grieve the envoy and my wife, don't go to the mourning hall to worship my father first, although my father must want to see Mrs. Zhaorong!" Ruan Danyu said, wiped her tears again, and sighed: "Although my father has only seen the portrait of Mrs. Zhaorong, he admires it, although he has not yet visited Mrs. Zhaorong, but he has already made Mrs. Zhaorong's name into the family tree, and the number is Mrs. Zhaorong, which shows my father's mind, and now Mrs. Zhaorong is my father's only wife." ”

Lu Ning bowed slightly, "Deactually, naturally!" ”

Ruan Danyu sighed again: "My father died, naturally should be my younger brother inheritance, he likes this Wu'e City very much, I don't want to go to Wuning Cave like my father, not to mention, my father died, Jiao Gonghan will not stop here, next, will inevitably attack in a big way, the first target of the attack, I am afraid that it is Wuning Cave, this Wu'e City, but the road is far away, I have already sent people to ask for help from Uncle Ruan Kuan, we are standing in the city, when we can wait for Uncle Ruan Kuan's reinforcements. ”

Shaking his head, Ruan Danyu said helplessly: "However, Aunt and many leaders just don't agree, and they will definitely take my younger brother back to Wuning." ”

Lu Ning gradually understood that this was not just a matter of resisting Jiao Gonghan, but a matter of the leadership of the Wu'e barbarians.

The leaders who wanted Ruan Danyu's younger brother to go to Wuning Cave were naturally his tribe, near Wuning Cave.

Mrs. Wona's clan is in the northeast, and now she is encroaching on the territory of Guangyuanzhai, but she naturally has to weigh the overall situation, that is, to leave Ruan Danyu's younger brother in this Wu'e Tucheng, although it is close to Wo Naman, but this Wu'e Tucheng and the nearby local people are obviously not controlled by Wo Na Man, but obey the orders of Ruan Danyu and his wife.

Ruan Danyu kept calling Li Yanniang "Mrs. Zhaorong" and regarded her as her father's only legal wife, which was also weakening the authority of the "aunt".

After pondering for a while, Lu Ning nodded: "It's not a secret, after I saw the disaster, I already had an entourage to go to the north and send troops and horses, two thousand elites, it should take three or five days to arrive." ”

Ruan Danyu was stunned, her eyes were a little bright, and she was a little hesitant, obviously weighing the pros and cons.

Then, she nodded lightly: "Okay, if the envoy's military horse can help me defend the city, I won't be afraid of anything!" He got up to say goodbye, and before leaving, he said: "Tonight, there may be noise outside, and the envoy is not surprised." ”

Lu Ning nodded, thinking that tonight's Wu'e Tucheng must be a bloody night, and he would not care who won and who lost, after all, he didn't know what kind of person Ruan Danyu was, and he didn't need to help.

Anyway, the more chaotic the better.

It's really not good, just take Li Yanniang to escape in chaos.