After receiving back the third prince Zhao Kai, the boundary of the plum garden was demarcated, and after the map was recorded, the prince Zhao Huan, the right concubine Geng Nanzhong, and the prince Cheng Zhen finally left Xiongzhou. Only Taishi Tong Guan was left alone and finally stayed in Xiongzhou, waiting for the will of Emperor Zhao Ji.

  For a whole year, the Great Song Dynasty's invasion of Liao actually ended with the end of Yanjing's name domain. Under the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and countless grain and grass baggage, the invasion of Liao was obviously a failure. It's just that Tong Guan, as the commander of the Northern Expedition, seized the opportunity and threw himself into the prince Zhao Huan in time, and the prince Zhao Huan was meritorious, and Tong Guan, as a Chinese, naturally made some merits, and of course the responsibility for the defeat of the war was borne by Liu Yanqing, and Tong Guan was still meritorious in guarding Xiongzhou.

  The crown prince Zhao Huan became the biggest winner. When he returned to the capital, Zhao Huan put the descending table of the princess of Shu in a wooden box and carefully sealed it. caught up with the carriage that Zhou Nan used as a rent and hurried away.

  As for Zhou Nan's mention of the reopening of the field in Xiongzhou and allowing people from the two countries to enter each other's domestic travel, the crown prince Zhao Huan could not call the shots for a while, and the Spring Festival was approaching, it was inconvenient to ask for instructions, and the officials of the court of the Great Song Dynasty had to take a holiday again, so they could not discuss and decide, so they could only wait for the Spring Festival to reply to Zhou Nan.

  In fact, whether or not Zhou Nan can trade does not completely expect the reopening of the market, in addition to official transactions, in fact, it is more about the smuggling of ordinary people. Profit is not something that can be stopped by a government decree.

  After Zhao Huan and the others left, Zhou Nan asked Gao Yuan to lead the army back to the station, while Zhou Nan took his own pro-army and Yelu Yu Liyan and moved from the camp to Meiyuan.

  For the name "Xiangyuan", Zhou Nan is indispensable, and he doesn't want to spend much brains on the name. As for Yu Liyan, he didn't care about the name given by the emperor of the Southern Dynasty.

  Zhou Nan took his own pro-army and erected a boundary monument at the border of the plum garden not long away, enclosing the plum garden. Zhou Nan's pro-army set up tents on the edge of Merlin and guarded them outside. And Zhou Nan set up a few tents in the plum garden, lived one by himself, and the other two for Yu Liyan, Yu Min and others.

  In this fight with the Great Song Dynasty, Zhou Nan and Yu Liyan clearly realized that although the area was small, it was only the territory of Nanjing Province in the original Great Liao, but they must also act in the name of a country, otherwise, others are a country, and they are just a city here, and their identities are not equal, and many things must be restricted. When I returned to Yanjing this time, I couldn't be afraid of it, from the personnel to the various laws and regulations, I had to improve them one by one.

  There is also the matter of the country name, here he made his own claim to use the country name of the Great Liao, firstly, the use of the Great Liao national name is conducive to the collection of the old people of the Great Liao, and secondly, the Great Liao is also the dynasty that he recognizes in his heart, although the Great Song Dynasty is a south and a north, and the war is peaceful, but most of the time it is still peaceful. The Liao State is also the closest to sinicization and the most compatible dynasty among the dynasties established by ethnic minorities.

  Zhou Nan also explained to Yu Liyan afterwards the matter of the country name, of course Yu Liyan was willing to use the Da Liao country name, but Yu Liyan also told Zhou Nan that the country name was just a name, as long as it could keep the people rich and peaceful.

  This time, their state affairs have been decided, and it is rare that no one will disturb them, so Zhou Nan and Yu Liyan and others have been playing in Merlin for a few days.

  Wake up early in the morning and play in the plum forest, clearing the path and trimming the plum trees. When you eat, you cook some rice porridge, put some plum blossoms in the porridge, and drink it with a fragrant tooth and cheek. There are also fungus, hazel mushrooms, etc., which are picked in the forest, accompanied by the mountain chicken meat, which is delicious and abnormal. Even when drinking tea on weekdays, it is necessary to take plum blossoms to boil, and name it "plum tea", although it is light, it is fragrant and refreshing.

  At night, the sky is cold, the stars are sparse, and there is a kind of loneliness with high sky and wide stars. In the wilderness, under the ancient plum tree, several people lit a bonfire, and a hanging pot was boiled plum tea on the fire, and the fragrance of plum blossoms lingered in their arms. Several people talked about interesting things, which caused the people next to them to laugh from time to time.

  With girls, Zhou Nan's best thing is, of course, telling ghost stories. Modern ghost stories, classics like the last bus, hospital morgue, etc., can not be told, only the stories in "Reading Wei Caotang Notes" and "Strange Tales from the House". , but what made Zhou Nan depressed was that these ghost stories did not make the three girls afraid, but often shed tears of infatuation for the women inside.

  Yelu Yu Liyan only said that it was too stuffy in the tent, not like living with plum blossoms, and said that he wanted to move to a tree to live.

  The next day, Zhou Nan had a dozen birch trees cut down from elsewhere, and the thick trunks were made into wooden stakes one zhang high, and in the open space between several plum trees, wooden stakes were made as supports. Make a wooden ladder to make it easy to go up and down, and then arrange the thinner trunks on top to fix it, and then spread birch bark on it to make a floor. The four walls of the wooden house are made of thin, cut tree trunks all around, two windows are opened on the four walls, leaving only one door to enter and exit, and the outside of the wooden house is wrapped and wrapped tightly with felt, and it is only half a day for an imitation of a Tujia stilted building to be completed.

  After completion, Zhou Nan asked Yu Liyan to go up to have a look, and Yu Liyan was already eager to try it when he was below. Listening to Zhou Nan say that it was done, he flew up to the wooden house like a butterfly, pushed open the window, and saw a plum blossom blooming in the sky outside the window, as if he was in a flower. Yu Liyan opened another window with joy, but what he saw was a dense patch of plum blossoms that had gone two or three miles. I saw the forest wind blowing, with a thick chill, and the plum blossom branches poked out the petals of ice crystal jade without half a cent of dust, like a girl slim. The red bud in the middle of the green shoots is extremely fragrant against the severe cold.

  Yu Liyan whispered to the window, "The sunny sun has long been hung on the eaves, and the rain and fog have never been walked under your feet. Zhou Nan saw that Yu Liyan was happy, stood beside Yu Liyan, gently hugged Yu Liyan's shaved shoulders, and said, "If there is a craftsman here, I will definitely make an exquisite wooden house for the princess." ”

  Yu Liyan was shocked by Zhou Nan's shoulder, turned around from the window, and said with a shy, "Zhou Lang, if I can spend the rest of my life here with you, the concubine will ...... No regrets. ”

  Zhou Nan looked at Yu Liyan's red and white face in front of him, his pale red lips were slightly closed, a gust of wind blew, and he couldn't tell whether it was the plum fragrance outside the window, or Yu Liyan's lips were fragrant and powdery, Zhou Nan only felt confused and confused, and leaned forward slightly, Yu Liyan only felt inappropriate, but he was powerless to resist, and when he was hesitating, he suddenly heard Yu Min outside the door say, "I don't know what beauty is on it, I actually give poetry ......"

  Frightened, Yu Liyan hurriedly pushed Zhou Nan away, turned his face out of the window, and didn't dare to look back, but his face was as red as the plum blossoms outside the window. Yu Min and Yinping walked into the wooden house, and the two of them didn't care about Zhou Nan and Yu Liyan, they went straight to the window, and exclaimed again and again, "Princess, let's sleep on it tonight!" ”

  Zhou Nan saw Yu Min and the others coming up, so he had to say, "If you want to sleep on this, you need to spread a few layers of felt mattresses......" As he was talking, he suddenly heard someone below shouting, "Lord of Dazhai, Yanjing has an urgent letter to report." ”

  Hearing that it was an urgent report, Zhou Nan hurriedly came down, only to see a pro-soldier with a person in civilian clothes, and the person in civilian clothes saw Zhou Nan and hurriedly saluted and said, "I've seen a horse." The villain is a subordinate of General Xiao, and the day before yesterday, a sentinel returned to Yanjing to say that the army of Xi was gathering in the west of Jizhou City, intending to attack Ancicheng and approach Gu'an. The old general asked the horse to return to Yanjing to discuss the military situation. He also said that the Spring Festival is approaching, let the princess return to the city as soon as possible, don't be greedy for fun, and leave him behind...... Leaving his old man alone in the city for the feast. ”

  The last sentence must be Xiao Laoliu's original words. Like Song Chungui, please collect x Song Chungui.