"Sister Lan, why are you here?" A guard's voice came from outside the room.

"General Ji ordered me to wait and come over to help." A female voice is crisp and audible. Dozens of large and small generals in the cell looked up curiously. As soon as the words fell, a burst of footsteps came, and several young women came in with torches to observe, followed by the slender Guo Fengrong.

Guo Fengrong was originally a small guard in this prison, and he was specially detained by the order of Ji Xiancheng.

The cell was dimly lit, illuminated only by a few flaming torches stuck in the walls.

The first young man held a torch high, this is Meng Qi, and behind him are several young women, all dressed in short clothes, narrow sleeves and tight pants, looking curvy in the bright and dark cell, which has a unique taste. When a pretty woman's face with a heroic spirit appeared in the eyes of these captives, it was as if a ray of light appeared in the dark night, which stimulated the hearts of many captives to beat a lot faster.

This was the first time Jia Daozhen had met Yu Lan, and he often recalled this moment many years later.

A group of apprehensive captives are helplessly waiting for the uncertain fate of life and death in the gloomy prison, and a handsome woman is in the damp and dark, musty smell and faint blood cell under the bright torch light, and it is also a comfort to be able to see a beautiful face before she dies.

Because Jia Daozhen was Mingxiong's old acquaintance, Guo Fengrong detained him alone in a trumpet. Yu Lan looked at the gloomy captives in the various cells, came to Jia Daozhen's trumpet, and looked at him carefully for a while.

"You're Jia Daozhen?" Yu Lan asked with some curiosity.

Jia Daozhen didn't understand why this young woman was interested in him, his eyes just glanced at her, and when he saw Yu Lan's face, his eyes couldn't help but brighten, and then he turned dark, and then lowered his head and said nothing, and the general of the defeated army was ashamed.

Guo Fengrong smiled and said: "That's it!" I heard that if Uncle Ming hadn't captured him alive, this guy would probably have occupied the South City Gate! When this guy first came in, he was still not convinced, and shouted that he would fight with Uncle Ming for another 300 rounds. ”

Yu Lan sneered: "It's hard!" It's a pity that he recognized the thief as his father and became a Tartar eagle dog, no matter how capable he is, he is just a good housekeeping dog! ”

Yu Lan's words annoyed the prisoners in the cell, and a hundred households in the neighboring room couldn't help but retort: "You wait to make a mess of the place, fool the people, and resist the king, how do you know that the court is noble and the law is strict?" He stood up, his ankle-hugging iron rattling and a fierce rage.

Yu Lan and several other women were quite surprised, and couldn't help but look at this hundred households a few more times. Guo Fengrong said angrily: "I don't know what is dead or alive, as a prisoner, I dare to speak out!" Another day, you will be given a meal of stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots to make you comfortable! "He used to be a jailer, and he knew a lot about the methods used to torture prisoners.

"Master Wang? The law? Yu Lan pursed her lips, these women already hated Yuan Ting, especially Yu Lan had lost her parents for only a month, and she hated to go to the city to kill the enemy and avenge her parents.

She has been the head of these women for a long time, and she has been in battle several times to kill the enemy, so she naturally has the majesty of a leader, and as soon as the cold murderous aura is revealed, Jia Daozhen and other Yuan army generals immediately feel that something is wrong. couldn't help but look at her in amazement, I couldn't imagine that a handsome woman of young age could have such majesty. Several low-level officers still wanted to deceive her that she was a young woman, and when Yu Lan's face turned cold, these people couldn't help but stop moving, only to hear the sound of shackles and mopping the floor.

"We are the people, we just want to live in peace, who will sit in the world, we don't care, the rent that should be paid, and the service that should be paid will not be less, but this court can give us a way to live? Not to mention, look at how many people have been forced to rise up since the beginning of the year? Although I am a woman, I also know that the law should be just and strict, not favoritism, not fraud, if the law of the court is only used to bind the people of the world, but conniving at the rich and powerful, what is the use of such a law? And the Mongolian people regard the Han as lowly, and the operation of state affairs is decided by the Mongolian people, and you and other nine-foot men also have ancestors, parents, wives and children, and do not want to protect the family and protect the people, but are willing to be the eagle dogs of the Yuan court and slaughter the world's anti-Yuan heroes, is it really sad and ridiculous? ”

Yu Lan was originally a village girl, and this month she often went to the training ground of the Jing'an Army, and from time to time she met Yu Zhilong to explain to his soldiers why the meaning of the battle, and later paid attention to talking with Zhao Shi, Qian Zheng and others, and learned some of Yu Zhilong's words, and today I couldn't help but say it under anger.

Jia Daozhen didn't expect this woman to be able to say a big truth, although she had the heart to defend herself, but thinking of the current shortcomings of the court and her own captive status, she finally didn't say a word.

"It's Jia Daozhen." Jia Daozhen sighed lightly.

"It's a pity! I heard that you and General Ming had a good relationship, and now General Ming raises the banner of righteousness to save the people from fire and water, but Lord Jia is a thief and a tiger. Seeing that Jia Daozhen was speechless, Yu Lan smiled, led everyone around the prison, and went out.

Worried about Yu Lan's safety, Gao Shang once specially assigned a small team of soldiers to obey Yu Lan's arrangement, saying that it was to assist, but it was actually to protect, and the one who was coincidentally selected was Meng Qi.

Meng Qi was standing behind Yu Lan at this time, and there were all kinds of feelings in his heart. A few days ago, his team was sent to defend, because of the fierce battle, the original several companions of the Meng Rebel Army actually died two in the melee, and the last companion was completely frightened, and once again secretly encouraged Meng Qi to seek an opportunity to join the Yuan Army, Meng Qi stabilized him, took advantage of his unpreparedness, secretly stabbed him with a knife, and then pretended that he was too injured and died. The rest of the people didn't know, but instead comforted Meng Qimo too sadly.

Looking at Jia Daozhen and the others who were captured, Meng Qi was a little happy. These Yuan court officers were naturally high in the past, and they didn't know how the people dared to look at each other squarely. Now seeing the embarrassment of these Yuan military colonels being detained in prison, Meng Qi suddenly had the feeling of turning over and being the master.

It's just that he joined the Jing'an Army, and it may be difficult to turn back in the future.

Thinking carefully about the behavior of the Jing'an Army, Meng Qi has gradually agreed with most of Yu Zhilong's ideas. Otherwise, he would not have stayed in the army forever and did not think about it.

"Sister Lan, don't worry, these rats don't know what to do, if it weren't for Master Ji's special order to keep their lives, they would have been cut down a long time ago in the opinion of the younger brother! When I turn around, my little brother will repair these miscellaneous pieces! ”

"I think these people are addicted to being dogs and are hopeless. According to what Brother Guo said, it's not a hundred to kill, how good! Liu E couldn't see the faces of these people, and pouted.

"Brother Ji has an order first, those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die, how can we be untrustworthy? Besides, that Jia Daozhen is still General Ming's old acquaintance. Yu Lan said helplessly.

"Brother Ji is worried about our safety and doesn't allow us to go to the city to fight, but it's really boring to watch these guys here! Why don't you help make arrows and transport stones? Liu E said dissatisfied.

Guo Fengrong was taken aback, Ji Xiancheng's mind everyone understood, if something happened to these women, he would have no way to deal with Yu Zhilong. Although Huang Er is a fierce general, he is also very protective, Liu E is now his heart, and the lack of a hair makes Huang Er feel distressed, just now Huang Er specially sent someone over to tell Guo Fengrong that the safety of Yu Lan, Liu E and others must be guaranteed. Those things such as transporting stones are not much safer than fighting at the head of the city, the strong crossbows and stone bullets of the Yuan army are coming in waves like rain, and the middle ones are all broken bones and tendons, or the flesh and blood are blurred, if these little ladies are bad, Ji Xiancheng, Huang Er and others will not eat him!

"A few sisters came to help, the younger brother is grateful, no, the younger brother here has been transferred to fight, if the captives make trouble, it is really difficult to deal with, with your sisters in charge, the younger brother feels more at ease!" What Guo Fengrong said is also the truth. At present, there are only seven or eight guards in the cell, which is indeed understaffed, and Ji Xiancheng has hinted today that if something cannot be done, or the captives make trouble, they will all be dealt with. In order to deal with the worst situation, Guo Fengrong had already asked Ming Shijie to send a few more soldiers who dared to do it, but now these soldiers have not yet arrived.

"In that case, we're here to help you first. It's just that it's very boring to keep here, I see that the front few courtyard walls are built of big bluestone, and there is a lack of stones in front, so I went to ask the noble brother personally, can it be transported to the front for use? As Yu Lan spoke, he heard the horn sounding in the northern city, and the noise was loud, and the Tartars were about to attack the city again!

Yu Lan and her sisters were busy treating the wounded in the city, comforting the people, and even going to the city to fight in person when it was critical. At this time, the operation was presided over by Ji Xiancheng and others, assisted by Mingxiong, Wan Jinhai, Xia Houen, Qu Bo, etc., and the people's husband and material dispatch were planned by Xie Lin and Cheng Shilin, and Yu Lan played a huge role in the stability and cohesion of the people's hearts.

The battle in Linqu was in full swing, and all kinds of people in the palace of the prince of Yidu City, the governor's mansion, and the palace of Marshal Wing were always uneasy.

The war has continued for many days, although the official army has won countless victories outside the city, and even attacked the city that night to exterminate the Shuntian thief chief Liu Zhengfeng, the results are indeed brilliant, Yidu Road has already detailed the battle table, and reported to the Privy Council of Dadu, and at the same time submitted more than 100 generals to make meritorious achievements, only to wait for the approval of the Privy Council, you can present the award. Unexpectedly, a hundred secrets, by the remnants of the thieves dying counterattack, actually attacked the city of the official army counterattacked, now the remaining bandits entrenched in Linqu City, hold out, the official regiment besieged the city, the death battle can not enter, but it is the loss of countless people and horses, Yidu Road had to continuously recruit the Yuan army and the righteous army, the people, like a flowing water to Linqu.

There were a lot of men and horses, but the results were few, except that the city wall became more and more dilapidated under repeated attacks, and the officers and soldiers could not advance an inch.

Mai Nu has stopped going to the governor's mansion these days, and has been stuffy in the palace, waiting for good news ahead. He was in a depressed mood, his face was naturally not good, and he comforted Zhuo Sicheng and other subordinates to go to the palace every day to ask for peace, and carefully asked for instructions on various matters, for the sake of Zhuo Sicheng and other diligence, it was not good to buy slaves to get angry, but the impatience was overflowing. Zhuo Sicheng, Gu Kai and others simply picked up the most critical points to report, and the rest were discussed and decided.

In the morning of this day, the bright red morning glow had just been reflected in the east, and hundreds of people in the palace had already begun to be busy in the palace.

The palace covers an extremely wide area, no less than three or four hundred acres, not only gardens, ponds, all the buildings and palaces and pavilions are densely covered, the cloister, the shadow wall, the shrubs, the mountains and stones, etc., according to the topography of various places, the layout is scattered, just like a swimming dragon.

Hundreds of people are distributed in the meantime, there are cleaning the courtyard, the road, there is taking care of the flowers and seedlings, there are for the royal family and other people to prepare washing utensils, clothes, shoes and socks, there are also in the backyard to sort out the carriage and horse honor guard, etc., the people are silent, although there are many people, but the action is skillful, each performs its duties, and there is no frolicking noise in the huge palace.

A young beauty in a green dress with red sleeves, a purple scarf around her waist, and a high bun walked in the corridor, and when she walked, she was faintly seen wearing a pair of silk shoes, and the upper of the shoes was embroidered with several brilliant red peonies. Followed by two low-eyebrow maids in white, they followed suit.

When the next few waves of people met on the road saw the beauty coming, they avoided it, gave a salute, and said respectfully: "I've seen the concubine!" ”

The beauty nodded slightly, did not squint, the lotus steps did not stop, through the corridor, through the courtyard, straight into the backyard of the main hall of the palace.

"Concubine Niangniang looks more beautiful today, I wonder why the little prince just doesn't want to stay in the side courtyard overnight?" A sweeping servant looked down in a daze and squinted at the figure of the dress beauty in the distance, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

With a thud, his companion knocked the head.

"You took the wrong medicine this morning! It's still a ghost! Do you dare to say such a thing? The older companion glared at him in fright, "The face of the lady concubine can also be seen by us subordinates?" Dare to chew your tongue! Feelings: You have forgotten that Niu Er committed a crime at the beginning of the year and was torn alive by the general of the little prince. ”

The young servant was so frightened that he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and honestly continued to sweep up the fallen leaves in the courtyard.

The great general, is the little prince to raise a few Mongolian mastiffs, this is a few years ago the tribes on the prairie specially dedicated to the king of Yi, Luo Tier saw the hunting heart, simply asked for it, self-raised in the side yard. This mastiff is half a man tall, with thick hair, about a finger long, and a pair of yellow or brown symmetrical round spots on the eyebrows.

Niu Er was originally a subordinate, specializing in cleaning chores in the side yard, but one day he swept the floor and didn't notice, and collided with Luo Tier, who was walking fast, and Luo Tier casually threw him into the kennel and ignored it. Half a day later, when the steward carefully asked Luo Tier whether to let him out, Niu Er had already been torn to pieces!

Thinking of the general's fierceness, this servant restrained his mind and no longer dared to delusion about the beauty of the concubine.

The concubine passed through the courtyard gate and the moon gate, and arrived at the door of the resting hall of King Yi and his wife.

"Father and mother can be safe?" The beautiful man did not enter the hall, but first whispered to the maid who was waiting outside the hall.

The maidservant lowered her eyebrows and replied, "Concubine Hui, I entered the washing room just now, and the sisters have not come out yet." ”

The sisters mentioned by the maidservant girl refer to the maidservant who delivers the things to be washed, and she has a low position in the house, but she is only a maid called by outside the hall, and she is not allowed to enter the hall to wait.

Concubine Shu nodded, she is the daughter of a Goryeo official, surnamed Liu Mingzhen, since the year before last, she was selected by Goryeo Guang into Dayuan, and was first enshrined in Dadu.

At the beginning, she took a sea boat from Busan, drifted across the sea, and trekked all the way to Baodi County, the governor of Yuandadu Road, to go ashore, which is now Tanggu.

Liu Zhen, who is accustomed to the local small city, has already deeply admired the prosperity of Goryeo Xijing, but when she arrived in the capital of Yuan, she saw the towering city walls, the tall city towers, the city was full of people, the pavilions were dense, and the tall archway was almost shocked.

According to the fire man who led the way, the whole city of Dadu is about 7,600 steps long from north to south, about 6,700 steps wide from east to west, and 60 miles in circumference, and the whole city is divided into three castle structures: the big city, the imperial city, and the palace city. The city is rectangular in shape, and there are 11 gates on the surrounding walls. There are towering corner towers at the four corners of the city wall, and there are piers outside the city. In the city, there is an imperial city and a palace city, which is divided into fifty squares. In July of the thirtieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Tonghui River was completed, and the trough ships of the Grand Canal could directly enter the Beijing Division for loading and unloading. Since then, the capital has become more and more prosperous. The population of the city alone is no less than hundreds of thousands!

Although there are pavilions in Goryeo, many are low, there are no high-rises, although they are exquisite, they lack grandeur and are less solemn. As for the city wall, it is only a few zhang high, and the city wall of Dadu is as high as more than ten zhang.

Shangyuan Capital, prosperous and prosperous, nothing more!

Liu Zhen admired in her heart, she already had the heart to be in the position, saw the prosperity of foreign countries, and had the opportunity to enter the palace, so she hoped to be favored by Emperor Yuan and reproduce the strange aftermath.

Goryeo tribute girl into the Yuan, at that time quite prosperous, Qi was originally a Goryeo people, very scheming, for the second queen, more concerned about the matter of tribute girls.

Every time the tribute girl came to China, Qi selected dozens of favorite people to teach and cultivate them as confidants. Qi saw that Liu Zhen was not only smart and beautiful, but also talked tactfully between answers, extremely decent, and happy, and in a few months, he reported the emperor's intentions and rewarded them one by one to the powerful men of Mengyuan everywhere. Because Yidu Road is a key place in the eastern part of the abdomen, the beneficial king of Mainu is in charge again, and Concubine Shu is assigned to Yidu Mainu.

But what Liu Zhen didn't know was that the Naqi clan had secretly summoned the scattered people of the Dragon Sect of the Baiyunguan Quanzhen Sect to meet them one by one, the women who had just entered the Yuan Palace. Baiyun Temple is the first jungle of Quanzhen Taoism, and it is also the ancestral garden of Longmen sect, and the Beijing Baiyun Temple of later generations is located outside the Xibianmen of Beijing, and it is one of the three ancestral gardens of Taoism.

Since receiving the order of the Qi family, the host of this Baiyun Temple has strongly recommended the idle Taoists who are visiting here to be a view of the Qi family. If Yu Zhilong saw this Taoist priest, he would know that he was the person he saw in Linqu and Yu Lan!

This scattered person secretly met each other one by one with all the daughters of Goryeo, and others still ignored it, but after seeing this Liu Zhen with low eyebrows, he couldn't help but be surprised. It is said that this woman is not only beautiful, but also faintly royal weather between the eyebrows, and has the spirit of a prosperous man, but unfortunately there is a red mole on the side of the right ear, and there are twists and turns, but if you meet a noble person in this life, you will have a very happy encounter.

"Royal Weather? Wangfu! Is it possible that you still want to follow the road of mourning home? Qi's embroidered eyebrows frowned slightly, and said secretly: "It is enough to have a mourning family in this deep palace!" ”