"Young Master Xu, this ...... It's too precious. The little girl can't stand it! Xu Molin hurriedly said, this rice paper is priceless, this gift is indeed too heavy.

"Daddy......" Xu Jiali was a little reluctant, her eyes were full of begging.

"Listen to my father's words, these rice papers are priceless, just to write a few words, how can you receive such a heavy gift? After my father found the sandalwood tree, he didn't have to worry about rice paper. Xu Molin insisted on saying.

"Alright then......"

Xu Xiang smiled slightly and said, "Xu Yuanwai, you don't have to be so polite, in my Xu Changsha's eyes, these rice papers can be used to make long-lasting menus." But in the hands of a talented woman like Miss Xu, it is a good painting! ”

"Dad, look, Young Master Xu has said so......" Xu Jiali really likes rice paper.

"Alas!" Xu Molin sighed and said, "Young Master Xu, this is really embarrassing. It's better to say the number, this rice paper is what I bought with you. ”

"What? Xu Yuanwai thinks that I, Xu Changsha, am the one who fell into the eyes of money? I said that it was given to Miss Xu, which is a gift. Xu Xiang was a little angry.

Seeing that he seemed to be angry, Xu Molin didn't say anything more and asked Xu Jiali to accept the rice paper.

After getting Xu Jiali's words, he asked Liu Sancai to dry them and then coat them with a layer of paraffin, which made it easier to preserve them.

The gnawing chickens in Ningdu City changed their signs, and then posted a notice that a new food would be launched on the seventh day of December - hot pot.

In Ningdu, the gnawing chicken has become the benchmark of Ningdu's catering industry, once a new food is introduced, many people come to visit, and it didn't take long for it to become popular throughout Ningdu, and those restaurants and food stalls have also launched similar food.

In the Xuanwu District of Ningdu City, Zhengning Street, a horse galloped on the street, and on horseback was a dusty soldier.

"Drive!" The soldier whipped his horse with his whip, as if something was important, urging the horse to speed up, and the passers-by avoided it.

After the horse crosses Zhengning Street, it can directly reach the Qinglou City.

"Is this something big going on? Look at that soldier, with three red flags on his back, this is a hundred thousand urgent military information! Ningdu City has not had this situation for more than ten years! After the crowd had avoided the horses, they all gathered around and began to talk.

"Judging from the soldier's dress, it should be the army on the side of Zitong Pass. It seems that something happened to Zitongguan! Someone said with a worried look.

"Who knows, but I heard that Beiyi invaded Zitong Pass, and the emperor also sent the Baolong Army over."

"What's the use of the Baolong Army? Beiyi is menacing, and if it weren't for the elite resistance of Zhongshan Kingdom, it would not be able to resist at all! ”

"It seems that something big is going to happen to Ning!"

Xu Xiang listened to their conversation in the crowd, his brows furrowed deeply.

When a soldier gallops through the streets on horseback like this, there must be an urgent change at the front, either the battle is won or lost.

If he wins, the soldiers will definitely shout "good news from the front" all the way so that the people can hear it.

But this soldier rushed straight to Qinglong City in such a hurry, he must have suffered a defeat, and it was not small.

He came to Xuanwu Street this time to restart the Xuanwu Commercial Street project, the displaced people on the other side of the Yellow River no longer need him to worry about it, and they were able to catch fish from the Yellow River, solving the problem of more than half of the food, and he had more spare money in his hand, and planned to come to see the situation here, and restart the commercial street project after the New Year.

However, when I first heard such news, I couldn't help but feel some worries in my heart.

If Zitong Pass is really broken by Beiyi, then only Jiuquan, an important town in front of Ningdu, can resist Beiyi's iron cavalry, and Ningdu may still fall into war.

Zhongshan has enough troops to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, but the grain production has declined in the past two years, and it happened to be a disaster year this year, when Wuye Kingdom and Beiyi invaded at the same time, and the troops naturally couldn't keep up.

Originally, he still thought that Ningdu was the safest place to allow him time to develop, but now it seems that it is not very safe.

If the Ming clan had sent out the elites outside Ningdu City early in the morning, everything would have been fine, but the Ming clan was afraid that something would happen in Ningdu, and these 50,000 elites were the foundation of the Ming clan's foothold in Ningdu, so they didn't dare to send them out casually.

"Xu Yi, you can find a chance to inquire about the situation." Xu Xiang instructed Xu Cheng that Xu Cheng was a hidden guard of the Spark and was very professional in inquiring about information, like this kind of defeat, the Ming clan would definitely not dare to publicize it, and could only rely on professionals like Xu Cheng to find a way to know the inside story.

"What about the commercial street in the White Tiger City?"

"Let's put it on hold." The establishment of a commercial street will cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, although the Ming clan must have a way to hold Ningdu, but when the war is together, everything will be chaotic, and even if the commercial street is built, there will be great losses.

The soldiers who rushed into the city had three red flags on their backs, which was a hundred thousand urgent military information, and no one dared to stop them.

The soldier rode on a horse, and after arriving at the Qinglong City District, the soldiers of the City Patrol Division who were guarding the main roads in the city did not dare to stop him, and let him go straight to the Zhongshan Palace.

When the horse arrived at the Zhongshan Palace, he was finally overwhelmed, lost his front hooves, fell down, and the soldier was also thrown to the ground, he didn't care about the pain on his body, and said to the soldiers at the gate of the palace, "Take me to see the king, Zitong Pass is in urgent military situation!" ”

When the soldiers guarding the gate saw the three red flags on his back, they did not dare to slack off, walked over to help him, and led him into the palace.

At this time, Ming Heng was roasting with Ming Jing, drinking wine, the warm room made his tiredness hit, he leaned on the couch, and said: "Jing'er, you go back to the house first, sleep alone for a while." ”

"Your Majesty! Subordinate Chen Chong asks to see! Just then, a deep voice came from outside the door.

Ming Jing got up, opened the door, and saw a middle-aged man wearing silver armor standing outside the door, it was Chen Chong, the head of the guard of their Ming Clan's palace.

"Father, what is the matter that he wants to rest? Tell me about it! ”

"Your Highness, the emergency military situation at Zitong Pass." Chen Chong hurriedly said.

Ming Jing was heartbroken, and hurriedly said, "What about people? ”

"Outside the hospital!"

"Bring it here." Ming Jing said, then walked into the room, knelt down towards Ming Heng, and saluted, "Father." ”

Ming Heng opened his eyes and asked lightly, "What's the matter with Chen Chong?" ”

"Father, the emergency military situation at Zitong Pass."

Ming Heng sat up, his expression solemn, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Bring someone over for questioning."

It didn't take long for Chen Chong to come over with the soldier, the soldier's face was full of fatigue, and he knelt down directly after entering the house, "The villain Zitong guards the general Wu Kai Wu under the command of the scout camp Wang Xiaojiu to see the king!" ”

"What happened to Zitong Pass? Wu Kai lost Zitong Pass? Ming Heng asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the king! Zitong Pass is not lost for the time being! It's just that...... There are 5,000 Beiyi troops over Tongshan, detour to Zitong Pass, and the soldiers are mighty, Xuanqing two cities! General Wu sent 3,000 men to intercept it, and the whole army was annihilated. Outside Zitong Pass, 100,000 Beiyi were eyeing each other, and could not send more people to encircle and suppress, General Wu ordered the villain to return to Ningdu to narrate the military situation, and asked the king to send troops to support! ”

Ming Heng snorted, stood up, and said angrily, "What's the matter? Can't annihilate a mere 5,000 soldiers? Still need lone troops to help? ”

The little soldier hurriedly replied: "After the Beiyi army crossed Tongshan, in order to prevent more Beiyi troops from coming in, General Wu sent 10,000 elites to guard the Tongshan Pass, and the Beiyi army outside the pass was eyeing each other, and the troops of Zitong Pass were already in awkwardness. Please also ask the king to send reinforcements to support, otherwise Zitong Pass may be lost......"

"What's going on? Didn't Lone send 30,000 Baolong troops over? Ming Heng asked angrily, Zitong Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with its back to Tongshan, only 20,000 soldiers are needed to hold the pass. Originally, there were 30,000 people in Zitong Pass, and now 30,000 Baolong troops have been sent over to defend Zitong Pass, which should not be a big problem.

Why did Wu Kai still say that the troops were not enough and that he would send reinforcements?

However, the little soldier showed a confused look on his face and said, "Since the Beiyi army came to the Zitong Pass, I haven't seen a single soldier come to reinforce it!" The 30,000 dragon army mentioned by the king ...... Didn't see a single one! ”

Ming Heng was stunned, the 30,000 Baolong Army was forcibly brought by him from Xuanyuan Ding, and he sent his henchman Ma Chen to command, when the Baolong Army was drawn to Ningdu, he personally went to the Ma father and son who were sent away outside the city gate, how could he not go to reinforce them.

According to the distance, even if there is a delay on the road for some time because of the weather, it should have arrived at Zitong Pass half a month ago.

"Where's Ma Qu?" Ming Heng had a cold face and asked Xiang Mingjing.

"Erchen immediately called Ma Qu over!" Ming Jing said.

The Ma family has always been loyal to the Ming clan and has always inherited the official position of the Yunqi general of the third grade.

Ma Chen, the current head of the Ma family, is the general of Yuncai, and his two sons Ma Qiao and Ma Qu are also lieutenants of Yunqi and lieutenants of Yunqi respectively.

This time to support Zitong Pass, Ma Chen and Ma Qiao led the elite commanders of the 1,000 Zhongshan Kingdom, while Ma Qu stayed in Ningdu.

It didn't take long for Mingjing to arrive with a young man.

"The last general Ma Qu has seen the king, but I don't know what the king has summoned him, what is the matter?" Along the way, Mingjing just urged him to come over, and didn't tell him what happened.

"Ma Qu, let me ask you, where is your father and your brother?" Ming Heng held back the anger in his heart and asked.

Ma Qu was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, father and eldest brother, they should be in Zitong Pass now!" ”

"! This is the person from Zitong Pass, people say that there are 30,000 Baolong Army, but I haven't seen a single figure! Don't you have correspondence with them? Don't know where they went? Ming Heng couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

When Ma Qu heard this, he felt bad. He felt Ming Heng's anger and said, "More than twenty days ago, my father sent a letter home. Although there was no mention of the army, it was also mentioned that there was still a day or two away to reach Zitong Pass. ”

"Now the problem is that he didn't go to Zitong Pass! Where did the others go? You tell me! Ming Heng roared angrily.

"This ...... I don't know. ”

"A bunch of rubbish! Chen Chong, take down the entire Ma family for me! If Ma Chen betrays this king, this king will definitely take the Ma family sacrifice flag! At this time, Ming Heng was already carried away by anger.

"Your Majesty! Wronged! I think something must have happened here, and it is impossible for my Ma clan to betray the Ming clan! Your Majesty! When Ma Qu heard that he was going to take down the entire Ma clan, he panicked and begged for mercy.

Ming Jing frowned and persuaded: "Father, the top priority is to go to reinforce Zitong Pass, and the matter of the Ma family can be slowed down first." After Zitong Pass stabilizes, it's not too late to make a decision......"

When Ming Heng heard this, he thought about it carefully, he was indeed carried away by anger just now, so he said, "First put all the people of the Ma family under house arrest in the Ma Mansion, and no one is allowed to go out without the decree of this king!" Tell Xiao'er to send someone to investigate and find out Ma Chen for this king! Life wants to meet people! Death to see the corpse! ”