The two looked at each other for a moment without saying a word.

The blue cloudless clear sky behind him, reflecting the magnified ink eyebrows and lips in front of him, a touch of clarity between the enchanting ones, washed away the mortal dust.

Qing Ling came back to his senses and raised his leg to kick him away, but instead made the legs of the two of them entangle even closer. Through the thin clothing, she could almost feel the heat emanating from his tense, tight muscles.

Qing Ling only felt that the center of his chest was beating like a drum, and he couldn't help but breathe rapidly.

She roared, "Get out of here! He twisted his wrist to break free from his bondage.

Luo Yao didn't move, looking at her condescendingly, "Do you admit it?" ”

"Admit what?"

"It's not fair to admit that you are treating me."

Qing Ling snorted, "A person like you can even sell your own homeland!" What fairness will I tell you? ”

Luo Yao said: "When did I say ......?"

Before he finished speaking, a dark red object suddenly fell out of the placket of his clothes that had been pulled crookedly, and fell on Qing Ling's chest.

Qing Ling looked up and saw that it seemed to be a sachet or purse-shaped thing, but before he had time to discern it in detail, Luo Yao quickly snatched it with his hand, turned over, turned his back, and stuffed the sachet back into the placket.

Qing Ling sat up, with a puzzled face, "That sachet ......"

Why does it look familiar?

Luo Yao turned around abruptly and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Are you hungry?" ”

Qing Ling was stunned for a long time, and couldn't understand why the person who was still yin and yang just now and looked like he was stumbling to the end suddenly changed his sex and actually cared about his diet?

She slowly got up from the deck and said angrily, "What? You want to poison me? ”

Luo Yao entered the cabin, took out a small porcelain bottle, opened it, poured out a Zhu Yu Dan, and ate it.

"There are five more, you can keep them all." As he spoke, he handed the porcelain vase to Qing Ling.

I wish Yu Dan a tasteless food, but if you eat one, you will not be hungry for three days, and Qingling has not eaten less during the trip in the past.

She glanced at the small porcelain vase and understood that Luo Yao had swallowed one in front of her just now to prove that this pill was not poisonous, but she didn't want to accept his affection, so she turned around and avoided it, "Take it, I don't need it." ”

Luo Yao didn't persuade anymore, and put away Zhu Yu Dan, "Okay, tell me when you're hungry." ”

The two of them stood one after the other on the narrow bow of the boat, the waves of the water under their feet swaying slowly, undulating like thoughts.

Qing Ling looked at the front of the boat, the fog was vast, and the smoke was vast, and it seemed that there would never be an end in sight.

After a long time, Luo Yao's voice sounded behind her, "This piece of water originates from Yan Sui, and will eventually merge into Yan Sui again." The Yansui River flows all the way to the west and flows into the West Sea. On the other side of the West Sea is the Western Continent. ”

Qing Ling snorted, "In addition to the West Sea, there are also the people of Lieyang. ”

Luo Yao tugged at the corners of his mouth, ignoring the ridicule in Qing Ling's tone, raised his hand, unconsciously straightened out the tangled strands of messy hair on the top of her hair, and said softly: "Senior sister, have you ever thought that you will go down the river like this, away from the rights and wrongs behind you, and go to a completely unfamiliar place and start your life again?" ”

His tone was rare and gentle, which made Qing Ling's emotions ease down a little.

She stared at the place where the water and the sky interacted, a deeply buried string in her heart was gently touched, and she heard the faint sigh of the fourth senior brother before his death in a trance in her ears again, "Let go of the obsession in your heart, stay away from them, and be a truly free person......"

Qing Ling shook his head, put aside the thoughts that he shouldn't have, and turned to stare at Luo Yao.

"What, you want to trick me into going to the West Sea, so that the people of Lieyang can catch me?"

Because of the peace negotiation, the fleet of the Lieyang people did not come closer to the east, but it has been anchored in the sea hundreds of miles away and has not withdrawn.

Luo Yao had an innocent look in his eyes, "Although I am insidious and cunning in your eyes, I have no guilt in doing evil, but I said early on that I will still take care of the friendship of the same family." ”

Without waiting for Qing Ling to refute the evil words again, he raised his eyes, looked past her, looked into the distance, and pouted with a vague arc on his lips, "I admit that the people of Lieyang are the West Sea that I sent, and the sea ships that Dunderu gave them are also the deals I made by threading them together. The wound I suffered fell when I set up a formation in the Ice Blade Forest and the Sealed Stream Trench to help the Lieyang army clear the customs and move south. ”

After a pause, "Only in this way can we solve the siege of Jiuqiu." ”

Qing Ling glared angrily, "You relieved the siege of Jiuqiu, but have you ever thought that if the Lieyang army drove straight in, what would happen to the people of the Eastern Continent?" ”

Luo Yao looked down at Qing Ling, his eyebrows raised slightly, "Oh, Senior Sister finally cares about the people of the Eastern Continent?" ”

Qing Ling wanted to make a move, but remembering the entanglement between the two on the deck just now, he endured it again and scolded: "Shameless!" ”

Luo Yao smiled and continued: "The strength of the whole country in Lieyang is actually only about 100,000. Qianzhong led half of the troops to the south and turned to attack by sea, but the Xianxia Pass, which originally connected the east and the north land, was always in the hands of Chaoyan. ”

A bright light crossed Qing Ling's mind, "You mean ......"

Everyone focused their attention on the West Sea, but they forgot that Qianzhong led the troops to change to the sea route, which actually hollowed out the rear defenses and gave Chao Yan a chance to take the initiative!

Luo Yao said: "I persuaded Qianzhong to send troops to the West Sea, just to make Chaoyan worry about the future and give up the plan to attack Jiuqiu. On that day, you also heard Mo Nan'an Mountain say in the court that the military strength of Lieyang's side alone is not Chaoyan's opponent. Moreover, Qianzhong and the children of the soldiers under his command were all left in the royal city north of Xianxia Pass, how could he have no scruples? In other words, as long as Jiuqiu does not join forces with Lieyang, Lieyang has no chance to win this battle. ”

"Then if Jiuqiu joins forces with Lieyang......"

Luo Yao shook his head, "My uncle Luo Heng does have a personal grudge against the Chaoyan royal family, but his intentions alone cannot represent the entire Jiuqiu. My mother has always been kind, and she doesn't want her people to get involved in the war, as long as Chaoyan does not send troops to attack, Jiuqiu will never take the initiative to fight Chaoyan. ”

Therefore, the current situation is: if Chaoyan sends troops to attack Jiuqiu, Jiuqiu will join forces with Lieyang to deal with Chaoyan, and most of the results will be a defeat for both sides, or Chaoyan will lose.

If Chaoyan didn't move, then Jiuqiu wouldn't move, and Lieyang wouldn't dare to move......

Qing Ling stared up at Luo Yao, half-squinting her eyes.

Good you stinky boy, you are really more cunning than your father, and you have quietly controlled the situation in the world......

"Aren't you afraid, I'll tell my father these words of yours, so that he can find a way to crack your conspiracy?"

Luo Yao lowered his eyes and looked at Qing Ling, "You won't." ”

"Why not?"

Luo Yao was silent for a moment, "Because you are also a good-hearted person." The armistice of the Three Kingdoms will benefit the people of the world without any harm, and you have been managing the treasury and expenditure, and you will not fail to understand this truth. ”

The war continued, and it was only the thousands of people in the Eastern Continent who suffered.

The desolate city of Yinzhou, the desolate merchants and pedestrians, the names of 20,000 soldiers in the books, and the many more families behind them......

These thousands of people, just like the old couple running a cloth business on Zhaoyang Street, and the couple of newcomers from the fishing village they met this morning, have no ambition, no desire for power, and yearn for simple happiness, longing for peace and stability.

Qing Ling closed his eyes, was silent for a moment, and then opened them again, staring at Luo Yao, "Then how did you convince Qianzhong?" He can't take any benefits, why should he lead the army south? ”

Luo Yao tilted his head in the direction of the cabin, with a smile in his eyes, "Let me sleep in it tonight, and I'll tell you." ”

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The night sky was bright with stars and moonlight, and there was no sign of a rainstorm coming.

But Qingling remembered that the moon was bright and starry in the first half of last night, so he sat in the cabin with his knees crossed, looking up at the wisps of flowing clouds through the open canopy window, really afraid that the wind would suddenly surge and change the sky.

Luo Yao sat against the side window, turning his head to look at Qing Ling from time to time, and the smile in his eyes was obscure.

Qing Ling sensed his gaze and pursed his lips, "What are you looking at?" If it rains again tonight, I'll let you out! ”

"Senior sister is so ruthless?"

Luo Yao said unhurriedly: "I'll tell you all the secrets." Isn't it that I don't have any use value now, and my senior sister plans to kick me away? ”

Just now, he roughly explained the agreements between himself and Chiju.

Hokuriku's harsh natural environment, scarce products, and rapid population growth in recent centuries have made basic daily supplies such as food increasingly scarce. At that time, Qianzhong's father Jiuyu led the army south to conquer Chaoyan, in order to plunder the rich resources of the Eastern Continent and let the people of his clan live a life of abundant food and clothing, but he was blocked by Mu Chen at Xianxia Pass and gave his life in vain. Although Chiju is determined to avenge his father, as the king of a country, he should put the livelihood of his subjects above personal grievances, so for him, attacking Chaoyan again is to wash away the humiliation of the past, but also to inherit his father's will and let the people of Lieyang live a prosperous and comfortable life.

Therefore, when Luo Yao told Qianzhong that he was willing to help him open up the passage of the sealed moat, open the connection between the North Continent and the Western Continent, so that the people of Lieyang could exchange the food and crops needed for life with the Western Continent merchants by sea and with the fur medicinal materials that were special to the North Land, how could Qianzhong not be tempted?

After listening to Luo Yao's story, Qing Ling couldn't tell what it was like in her heart, as if there was some emotion blocked in her throat, which made her a little unsure of what to say for a while.

At this moment, hearing him joke about his ruthlessness and call her senior sister again, the emotion in his body finally spread softly, although his words were still sharp, his tone was much softer, "Who knows if your secrets are true or false?" If it's true, why didn't you say it last time I asked you in Zhanggu Mountain? Will you die if you say it? ”

Luo Yao leaned back against the window lattice, was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "If I had said it at that time, what would you do?" Will you help me keep Jiuqiu? ”

Qing Ling lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, stopped talking, and finally, said, "If you explain the truth of the matter so calmly, I may not help you." After a pause, "I said early in the morning that if you help me, I will help you." ”

Luo Yao smiled and looked at her, "What about Mu Chen?" Would he want you to help me? He has done so many things, didn't he just want to destroy Jiuqiu and ruin the marriage between Chaoyan and Daze? ”

Qing Ling raised his eyes to look at Luo Yao, his eyes flashing with an extremely complicated look, and then he suddenly looked away.

She pursed her lips tightly, the corners of her lips seemed to tremble slightly, and after a while, she bent lightly again, "Don't you want to ruin this marriage?" ”

She raised her head, looked up at the starry sky, and maintained a smile that seemed to be smiling, "You are too timid, and you only seek moderation in everything." Father now has a request for Daze, you occupy the land and people, if you open your mouth to ask him to cancel the marriage contract between you and me and marry Ah Jing instead, he will most likely agree. If that's the case, you can finally get what you want at this moment and go boating on the lake hand in hand with your sweetheart. And I'll be free. ”

Luo Yao stared at Qing Ling for a moment, his eyes were dark, and there was a wry smile on his lips.

"What to do? Senior Sister,"

He sighed lowly: "You and I are already husband and wife. ”