May 17, Qinghe City.

The news that the militia in the city had gone out of the city to suppress the bandits had spread in the past two days, and the bloody and fleshy human heads brought back, as well as the officers and soldiers who had been withdrawn from the Goatyu Fort, were enough to prove the people's speculation. Some people even said that the officers and soldiers had fought a battle with the pigtailed soldiers in Shanyangyu Fort, and they said that they were in a frenzy, as if they had been to the battlefield to observe. In short, there are many rumors in various versions, each with its own opinion.

But there is one thing that everyone recognizes, that is, the second child of the Yue family, a big family in the city, almost died outside, and the Yue family's family almost died, and less than twenty of the hundreds of people returned. Some people are secretly discussing, saying that this Yue family is going to decay from now on, because the pension paid to the relatives of the deceased family alone is tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Although Yue Xiang has the general official position, in fact, the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of his team still depend on his own management, and the government's own officers and soldiers cannot pay salaries, let alone manage these "militia volunteer brigades".

Some time ago, Yue Xiang spent a lot of money on the black market because he wanted to buy weapons and horses, and almost all the cash at home was spent. Now I simply bought the land and some real estate, anyway, when the war starts, these real estate will be destroyed sooner or later in the hands of the Eighth Banner Army, and it will not be sold sooner or later.

Those old guys in the clan didn't dare to say that they scolded Yue Xiang for being a loser in their hearts, Yue Xiang knew it but didn't care what others thought. In his eyes, the combined value of a hundred of these old antiques is not as good as one of his family members, the eldest husband has done something and has not done anything, these family members have no hesitation to follow him through the ghost gate, and now they are dead and can't even bring back the corpse, and they don't take care of their families and feel uncomfortable.

When I went back to the city to find Zou Chuxian's order, I was asked about it, and it was still that set of lies with mixed truths and falsehoods. However, Zou Chuxian expressed pity for his family, and did not express suspicion or blame for Yue Xiang, after all, those hundreds of Jurchen heads were real military achievements. Moreover, the annihilation of such an elite army of the Yue family soldiers will definitely have an impact on Qinghe's garrison and combat effectiveness, and he is now worried about this problem.

As for the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, they were also absorbed by him and scattered into various battalions. Originally, there were more than 5,000 soldiers in Qinghe City, plus the 3,000 brought by Zhang Jing, the family members of each family, and the defeated soldiers of all parties, and the total number of people had swelled to more than 10,000 on the surface.

Now that Yue Xiang has become the commander of the light pole, Zou Chuxian once wanted to allocate hundreds of people from the rout to be under his command, or to serve as the battalion officer of his personal standard battalion, but Yue Xiang refused. He had seen with his own eyes the combat effectiveness and mental outlook of these officers and men, and if he changed them in a short period of time, he asked himself if he had this ability, and that an army lacking morale and fighting spirit would have no hope of winning the battle.

It is said in the book of war that training soldiers must first train their courage, and if they are not bold, even if they learn very martial arts in peacetime, they will not be able to show them in wartime. He believed that there were many skilled men among those officers and soldiers, but they seemed to have been frightened, and the first reaction of good soldiers when they encountered an enemy attack was to draw their swords and resist, and their first reaction was to turn around and flee.

To deal with this phenomenon from the root is not something that can be completed overnight, Yue Xiang doesn't have this time now, what he needs is to pull it out on the spot to fight, but unfortunately there is no such force for him to drive now. Come to think of it, his first subordinates are almost completely dead, and with such a terrifying record, who would want to defect to his banner.

For Huang Taiji Yue Xiang did not keep his promise, anyway, the enemy used it to deceive, and the oath was used to repent. Since he has even deceived his own people, there is no reason to be honest with the enemy, and he definitely does not want to miss such a good opportunity to deal with Huang Taiji. But when he found the Yamen prison, he knew that the captured Zhenglan Banner horse thieves had all chewed their tongues and committed suicide, Yue Xiang felt a pity in his heart, these guys were all dead soldiers, and they probably didn't know much about the open and secret battles between their masters, otherwise they should be able to think that they had a chance to live.

As for the injuries on the body, they were all skin injuries, and did not hurt the muscles, bones and internal organs. With his natural divine power and strong physique that cultivates both inside and outside, it is not much of a hindrance, in fact, no matter how exquisite the so-called routines of martial arts training are, its essence is also to practice martial arts. As the saying goes, if you don't practice martial arts, you will be empty when you get old. Yue Xiang's physique has a great innate advantage, coupled with the strict training of the day after tomorrow, and the help of divine weapons and sharp weapons, so that he has the ability to ride alone and kill back and forth in one go.

Otherwise, if you change to an ordinary person, no matter how high your martial arts are, you will run out of strength to kill twenty or thirty people, and then your hands will be soft, and the knife will be curled, and it will be your death. And Yue Xiang's physical fitness is much higher than that of ordinary martial arts masters, which is called an innate advantage. Others may not be able to practice his strength after decades of practice, he was born with it. As long as he doesn't lose his strength, he won't be afraid of these injuries on his body.

The remaining eighteen people were arranged to cultivate, and in that case, it was enough to prove that their strength was stronger than others. These eighteen people can be said to be his last bit of capital, and they naturally have to be carefully cultivated. Yue Xiang pushed away all the people who came to visit under the pretext that his body had not yet been demobilized, and meditated and cultivated in the inner hall. His old lady was naturally even more anxious to lose her soul, the old man had just been angry with his son, and now his son had an accident again, and he saw that the entire Yue family was about to collapse. Naturally, she gritted her teeth even more against the culprit of the Chen family, if it weren't for Yue Xiang protecting her, she was afraid that she would even have the heart to strangle her.

At night, Yue Xiang sent away the chattering old lady and called Xiaowan in. Xiao Wan has been nervous in her heart since she returned to the city, she has suffered such a catastrophe, although Yue Xiang doesn't care, but her mother-in-law will definitely not spare her, and she has been terrified for the past two days. Although she is the descendant of Baiyang, she usually has a quiet and alert personality, but she is naturally very afraid of her mother-in-law, and it seems that there is some meaning of one thing descending one thing.

"My mother is gone, don't be outside, come in quickly."

Xiao Wan pushed the door in, turned around and closed the door. I also paid attention to the movement outside, and seemed to be afraid that my mother-in-law would go and return. In the past few days, her mother-in-law has looked at her like she is looking at the enemy who killed her father, and she just wants to eat her alive, so she doesn't dare to meet her if she is fine.

"Alas...... My mother-in-law didn't give me a good face for a day today...... "After this series of events, the relationship between Xiao Wan and Yue Xiang seems to be further than before, and this is probably the only gain. Under Yue Xiang's strong request, she gradually became more daring to speak, Yue Xiang happened to like her like this, she was so polite all day long, and she was a husband and a concubine, and he was really not used to hearing it.

"That's right, I didn't give you a good face, her only son almost lost his life because of you, and it would be very polite not to scold you. If it weren't for me...... Hmph, you can be content. ”

"Concubine...... Concubine...... 's sin, ten thousand deaths......" Xiao Wan's mouth flattened, and tears began to flash again. She doesn't know how many times she has said this word of apology, but she still says it inadvertently. Now her mood is very sensitive, and she can have rich associations with whatever Yue Xiang says.

Yue Xiang looked at her, and his heart was full of tastes. Some people say that Chong Guan is angry and red-faced, and it is true that the beauty smiles and the bones are withered. If you want to leave it to others, for her to get in hundreds of your own subordinates, I would have slaughtered her a long time ago. But I just like her, and I don't have this idea at all. If you want to kill her in Goat Valley Fort, you can do it, in fact, this ending is already doomed, if you want to kill her, you won't save her at all, since you have rescued her, there is no reason to do anything to her, otherwise it will be the real loss of the lady and the soldiers.

I can't let her go like this, obviously she has only been here for a short time, she should still be a stranger to herself, but she just fell in love with her, it's incredible. Remembering that he had divorced twice in the original era, he had long since disbelieved in true love, but here he felt this long-lost feeling.

Could it be that I unknowingly fell for her charm? But this feeling ...... Nothing seems bad.

"Since you know the art of soul dementoring, why don't you use it on my wife once, so that she can make less trouble for you all day long." Yue Xiang's tone was playful, but his expression didn't look like he was joking.

"This Spiritualism...... It is not a panacea, and it works well for most people, but sometimes progress is slow. Moreover, the concubine's skills are not perfect, and the mother-in-law has a deep prejudice against the concubine, and this kind of thinking cannot be reformed overnight. Xiao Wan said it more tactfully, in fact, it means that his wife is simply stubborn, and if she wants to change her concept, she has to take out the strength of the fool to move mountains, otherwise it is useless to do anything about this kind of person.

Yue Xiang smiled when she heard this, she didn't understand why his mother always looked at Xiaowan unpleasantly. But judging from the way she used the soul dementorship on the four guys in the East Factory, her skill should still be quite high, and it only took one meal to make them forget all the insults she had given them, and make them forget the existence of that Abahai.

"How is your skill better than that Abahai?" Thinking of two women, who are about the same age and have similar appearances, they all know the secret art of Baiyang, but one is Han and the other is a Jurchen, and it is always interesting to compare.

"The concubine is not as good as her, she can charm many people at a time, but the concubine can only cast spells on two people at most. Her skills are much higher than those of concubines, but her tricks are useless against concubines. In addition, she is definitely not Bai Yang's disciple, I don't know where she stole my family's secret method, she is really a shameless vixen! Speaking of Abahai, Xiao Wan's expression was immediately full of dark clouds, it was already despicable for that shameless ** woman to seduce men everywhere, and what made her even more intolerable was that even Yue Xiang was almost succeeded by that **.

Although she is a woman, that doesn't mean she's a pacifist. In fact, on the contrary, once a person who is easily unwilling to hold a grudge against someone really hates someone, that kind of hatred is absolutely acute. This is how she feels about Abahai, as a wife, her husband is being watched by other women, this is a disguised challenge, as soon as she thinks of this, Xiao Wan hates to poke the vixen with scissors a few times before she relieves her hatred.

"Oh...... That's weird, so where did she learn it? Yue Xiang lay on the bed and muttered to himself, there was no record of the White Lotus Sect making trouble during the Shenzong period in history, and the most famous one was Xu Hongru who was proclaimed emperor a few years later. But I didn't expect that the power of the White Lotus had penetrated to the highest level of the two regimes of Ming and Jin, is this the real history? In history, although the woman Abahai was favored, she was abandoned by Nurhachi because she was too clever, but the specific tactfulness was not explained, could it be related to the secret identity of this white yang?

Of course, she can't think of a reason now, and no one can force her to say it if she doesn't say it. At the same time, Yue Xiang was concerned about another thing, that is, Gao Huai's gold collection, which could be said to be the root cause of all these incidents.

However, when asked about Xiao Wan, she said that although she had heard about this matter, Gao Huai had never mentioned anything like a secret treasure to her. She changed her name and surname and stayed by Gao Huai's side for several years, but she didn't know what Gao Huai did, in fact, she couldn't do anything if she did.

Later, the Qiantun Mutiny triggered a frenzy that affected the whole of Liao, and Gao Huai was forced to step down, ending his ten years of chaos in Liao. But Xiao Wan was secretly transferred before he fell. For about half a year after that, there have been people secretly chasing her everywhere, but fortunately, the remnants of Baiyang are secretly protecting her from disaster, but unexpectedly, after investigation, it seems that it is not in the name of pursuing the White Lotus Sect, it seems that the rumor of Gao Huai Zangjin came from the pursuing party.

"Really?" Yue Xiang felt that Xiao Wan would not lie to himself, could it be that all this was just a ridiculous misunderstanding? He didn't give up, maybe Gao Huai didn't tell her clearly, this kind of thing is not unusual. So he asked again: "Then when you left Gao Huai, did he say anything special to you?" ”

"Hmm...... Special words? This ......" Xiao Wan tried to recall, and after thinking for a long time, she said: "The concubine can't remember for a while, the godfather said a lot to the concubine, and the concubine doesn't know it for a while...... This, by the way, seems to have been ...... But that wasn't the time when my godfather was about to have an accident. ”

"Oh? What? What's that? ”

The concubine remembered that she was only fourteen years old at the time, and her godfather was assassinated once and almost died. Later, when he returned home, he said something strange to me, saying that one day if he was gone, he would ask me to remember a few words. Saying that, Xiao Wan took out the four treasures of the study and wrote a bunch of words on the paper:

A moment of joy and a moment of sorrow, remembering a thousand things wrong. If you want to get a thousand things, you can relieve your worries and relieve your sorrows.

The red cliff is buried in the water and does not flow, leaving the name and surname to carry the empty boat. The hustle and bustle is sad and cold, and the infinite heroic soul is swimming inside.

There is no shore in the water, and there is no year after year.

A little heavy and long, a skimming to the Xijiang River, the cross can be compared to the cross, and the sun is clear to the moonlight.

After writing it, Yue Xiang took it to watch, and he couldn't figure out how to look at it. I don't know what this means, but it's like limerick poetry? Or is it some codeword? However, since it is specially explained, Xiao Wan has to remember it, which is naturally an important thing. Yue Xiang intuitively felt that this was related to what he wanted to know, but Xiao Wan only knew these words, but what they meant was not clear, Gao Huai didn't tell her, just told her to think about it, and if she couldn't think of it, forget it.

Odd...... What does that mean? Yue Xiang suddenly thought of the mysterious pursuer, Xiao Wan didn't know in advance, the news of Gao Huai's hidden gold came from him, could it be that the meaning of these words had something to do with him?

"What is the origin of the man who is chasing you? How did he know the secret of Gao Huai's hidden gold? ”

"According to my father's secret investigation, that person was the Liaodong Governor at that time, and it may be a secret envoy with the emperor's order to recover this huge amount of money, and it is said that the fall of my godfather is also related to this person."

"There is such a huge amount of energy...... What is this man's name? ”

"This person's surname is Xiong, and his name is Xiong Tingbi."