Nangong Han said Ling Hu Yan's words at night to Ling Hu Zhao. Hu Zhao was also surprised, I didn't expect this girl to have such thoughts, she had to find Xu Chen?

Nangong Han comforted: "It's better to think about it in the long run, don't risk your life." ”

"But staying here is also risky, if your identity is revealed, how can you survive."

"Living one day at a time, there really is no perfect way to do it now. If you are alone, it will indeed be difficult for you, but Linghu Niang, who is not good at riding horses and not good at long distances, how can she get past Yuzhou? Even if you return to Chang'an and go south by Sword Pavilion, there is no post road, and you can't walk the carriage. You have walked from Huating to Chang'an for more than six months. ”

"How do you know?"

"Linghu Lady said to me last night. You set out in March and arrived in Chang'an in October. ”

Ling Hu Zhao was a little angry when he heard this: "I even told you this." Virtuous nephew, she is still an unmarried woman, don't lead her crookedly. ”

"Uncle, I regard you as a green mountain, but you can't treat me as a mustard."

When Linghu Zhao heard this, he knew that his words were a little excessive, so he apologized: "Virtuous nephew, my mission on this trip is to protect Yan'er, I am personally insignificant, I hope to understand my thoughts." ”

"I understand, we have no choice but to sing this three, and if the situation eases a little, I will find a way to send you away."

"I'm afraid that it will be easy to fall in love over time, not to mention that you are not only under the same roof, but also in the same room."

Nangong Han wanted to say a few more words, but then he was a little silent and didn't know how to respond.

In fact, few people know that Nangong Han is a person who loves his wife very much, although he is a secret agent of the imperial court and runs around all year round, he is extremely gentle to his family.

His wife was originally a maidservant girl in the family, surnamed Zhou, and her parents were poor, so they couldn't afford to raise her, so they sold her to Nangong's family as a mending girl.

When she was young, Nangong Han was naughty and mischievous, often bullied her, and often gave her a loop, causing her to be often beaten and scolded by the housekeeper.

One summer, Nangong was cold and greedy, lying on the well fence in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, never wanted to fall asleep, turned over in a dream, and fell into the well. The momentary fright made him overwhelmed in the water, fluttering and struggling. The more he threw and choked on the water, the more he felt that he was about to struggle, but a man pulled him up and out of the water. It was the handmaid who saved him from death.

Since then, he seems to have changed as a person, no longer bullying the servant, protecting everything, and often helping her with something. Perhaps because of his identity, the maidservant treats him as before, doing her part well, not pleasing or flattering.

Until several years later, each other grew up, and the housekeeper wanted to marry the maid according to his mother's wishes, which made Nangong Han anxious, and lobbied in front of his parents, saying that he couldn't marry his savior to another woman?

His mother asked him, "If you are willing to let her serve you for the rest of your life, then stay as a concubine!" ”

Nangong Xuan, who never dared to disobey his parents, said with tears in his eyes that time: "My son is willing to marry her as a good friend of Qin and Jin and marry a wife." ”

The parents were shocked and scolded their unfilial descendants, although the status of the Nangong family was not as good as that of the queen and general, but it was also a famous family, how could they marry a maidservant as a wife?

After several fruitless struggles, Nangong Han had to adopt a roundabout strategy and agreed to marry a wife, but the condition was to take a concubine first, first take the maid as a concubine, and then marry a wife.

When his parents heard this, they felt that it would not violate the etiquette system to take a personal concubine first. But after accepting a concubine and succeeding in his studies, Nangong Han was appointed by the imperial court to travel around the country, and the matter of his wife had long been forgotten.

After the maid surnamed Zhou was taken as a concubine, she had a mellow temperament, and did not think anything wrong, she still called him a son, and still took care of him as she did in the past, and said from time to time that the slave was born poor, and it was a blessing to be favored by the son, and I hope that the son will marry a wife as soon as possible.

For this reason, Nangong Han is also smiling, and does not explain much, the more he feels that the lady is mellow and loving, and after the maid has given birth to a boy and a girl, Nangong Han told his parents that he has no intention of marrying a wife, although Zhou is a maidservant, but he is kind-hearted and can become the head of the family. After hearing this, his parents felt that they could no longer convince him, so they had to let him go.

But the Zhou family did not comply, insisting that she was born humble, immoral and incompetent to become the heroine of the Nangong family. After hearing this, Nangong Han said: "It is the greatest merit that you can sacrifice yourself to save me, if you treat me sincerely, the heroine of the family is none other than you, and I have no intention of others." ”

Zhou burst into tears after hearing this, and reluctantly agreed to come down and become the young lady of the Nangong family.

……

In the evening, Nangong Han received a letter from Nangong Yue's flying pigeon, and Nangong Yue said a few words in the book, describing his worrying situation in Qinglong Town, and hoping that he would help.

He fell into deep thought, Nangong Yue, as a secret agent of the imperial court, is not very experienced, and now he is alone in Qinglong Town, he is weak and has no backup, and he is indeed a little aggrieved. What's more, she is still a beautiful girl like a flower, how can she be unfavored?

But after thinking about it, it is true that there is no good way, and it is too late to withdraw to Chang'an. I can't move now, and it is very likely that my identity will be exposed, and it will be a trivial matter if my life is not guaranteed, and it may ruin His Majesty's plan.

His Majesty did not realize the mistake of strategy by killing Gao Xianzhi and Feng Shuqing, and the Holy Decree asked Ge Shuhan to attack eastward in succession, defeat the rebels, and save the face of the Tang Dynasty. Ge Shuhan thought that he had just taken office, and there was not enough food and grass, so he did not move.

Both the court and the rebels had a premonition that a major war was coming, and both sides were actively preparing. And their respective scouts and spies all pricked up their ears to inquire about all kinds of information.

Ling Huzhao and Nangong Han analyzed that now His Majesty listens to and believes that the rebels are a rabble, but they don't know that in addition to the elite soldiers of Anxi, Hedong has also fought against the Khitan and Murwei people for many years, and they are also strong and strong. The Battle of Hangu Pass, commanded by Nalan, was demoralizing the rebels, but it was far from enough to demoralize them. I think you should write this information into the palace copy, hoping to dispel His Majesty's strategic intention to go east to Tongguan. As long as they hold each other for a year, the rebels will not be able to attack for a long time, and the envoys of all walks of life will be the king of Qin, and when the elite will come to suppress the rebellion, the rebels will be defeated.

Nangong Han combined with Ling Huzhao's analysis and sent several copies of the palace in a row, which did not seem to shake His Majesty's will to go east.

In Qinglong Town, the pavilion chief Sima Cuo is really ready to build a music workshop, and it is placed in the Barberry Inn. This made Nangong Yue very nervous, and she felt that Sima Cuofei had pulled her into the water.

And the hussar general Gao Lishi, who was far away in Chang'an, was also busy at this time, and did not have any instructions, and his cousin was trapped in Jing'an, and he couldn't wait for the help of the scouts of the military department.

But Sima may not be able to make a mistake easily, and there are several people under him, and without careful arrangements, it is not enough to take him down. She thought through all the tricks used by the secret agents, such as concealing weapons, poisoning, and creating disasters, which she could not do alone.

In terms of martial arts, he is by no means the opponent of butchers, blacksmiths and others, and the use of hidden weapons is also very lame. The only way to do it is to poison, but it is easier said than done. I rarely go back and forth to the Barberry Inn, and I suddenly went there, isn't there no three hundred taels of silver here?

The weather was getting colder, she looked out the window stupidly, and saw that there was a slope on the road from the Barberry Inn to the town street, and the road was frozen. Because she knew that every five nights, the pavilion chief would go to the jade brewing room to drink, and drink until midnight.

In the evening, she saw a man carrying water trying to pass the slope, she hurriedly took a silk horse and hurried over, stepped on the ice and slid it, fell to the ground, and rolled downward. Who knows, with a "bang", there was a cross on the back, and two buckets of water were all spilled on the ground. Nangong Yue hurriedly pulled the man who fell to the ground and apologized repeatedly, the man was angry, and when he saw that it was the beautiful Nangong boss of the silk village, it was not easy to have a seizure.

At night, the temperature plummets, and the water sprinkled on the ground has already turned into ice, and people and animals must fall if they want to pass through. Nangong Yue soaked a few sharp thistles with severe poison, wrapped them in mud, and waited for them to be placed on the slope in the middle of the night, waiting for Sima to pass by, no matter how he fell? How to fall? It is bound to be hit, and once the poison enters the blood, it can kill you in two or three days.

Late at night, she quietly waited for Sima Co to pass by, but until the time of Yinmao, she didn't hear anyone passing by. She was inexplicably frightened in her heart, worried that if it was dawn the next day, if the early riser fell, the poisoning would not hurt people's lives. In the panic, I saw a fire outside the house, and soon the fire was in the sky, could it be that the town was on fire? Hurriedly turned over, packed up important things, and went to the backyard to loosen the pigeon cage, only to open the door to look outside, many neighbors came out, thinking that something big had happened.

To see clearly, it turned out that the pavilion chief took Mo Si and Wan Buddha from the south of the town to drag a cart of pine hair, and burned the fire on the slope, and inquired only to know that the pavilion chief saw that the slope was so slippery, and the water became ice, so he thought of a way to burn the fire and melt the ice, so as not to be injured by the people who walked at night.

After asking the reason, the neighborhood was deeply grateful for the pavilion chief's righteous act.

And Nangong Yue's plan was in vain, but it was okay, it couldn't hurt Sima Cuo, and the poison on the thistle terrestris lost its toxicity as soon as it was burned by fire.

Nangong Yue fell asleep peacefully after returning to the house, and was not woken up by the noise outside until the next day. When he got dressed, he learned that when several sergeants under Li Hu rode through the town street, a horse stepped on an iron thistle and immediately rolled to the ground, and the sergeant on the horse also fell down and couldn't move. After the other sergeants checked the horse's feet, they immediately reported to Li Hu, who was furious: "Someone actually wants to kill the garrison? The whole town is under martial law. ”

Soon thousands of soldiers entered the town and surrounded Qinglong Town, and after everyone was called to an open space in the west of the town, Li Hu walked majestically to the front and glared at everyone: "Some of you dare to murder the garrison, it is really a thief." If you don't tell anyone what you did, you will spend the night in this ice and snow today. ”

There was a lot of discussion among the people below, and some people said who did it to stand up quickly and don't affect others; Some say they don't know; ……

Listening to everyone's discussions, Nangong Yue blamed herself in her heart for her recklessness.

Seeing that no one in the crowd stood up, Li Hu turned to Sima and said, "Chief Sima Ting, you and Mo Si and a few people burned the fire there last night, what can you do?" ”

Sima Cuo hurriedly stepped forward tremblingly and said: "The humble duty is to see that the ice is serious, and I am afraid that people will fall down in the night, and the ice is thick, so I use this method to melt the ice." ”

"It seems that the pavilion chief really cares about the safety of the people in the town!" Li Hu squinted at him and muttered.

"Humble duty is also duty."

"In that case, how about the pavilion chief follow me into every house to search and find out the origin of this thistle?" Li Hu held the iron thistle in his hand and said fiercely.

I never thought that Sima Cuo, who was only resigned, actually had the courage to reply this time: "General, since the town was established during the Sui - Emperor Wen period, Qinglong Town has been trampled by many soldiers and horses, and there are a few thistles on the street of the town, it is normal, why do you need to be so vigorous?" ”

Li Hu tilted his head to look at Sima Cuo, and said with an evil smile in his eyes: "Pavilion Master, what's wrong today?" After drinking the blood of a leopard, I still swallowed the heart of a tiger. Dare to be foolish in front of the general. Come on, take it down and tie it up. ”

I saw a few tiger and wolf sergeants coming down to stand Sima Cuo, and Sima Cuo trembled and was tied up by the five flowers. Sima Cuo also begged for mercy: "General, the villain knows the mistake, the villain knows the mistake......"

The school captain Yao Shiguan went up and fired a bow at Sima Staggered left and right, and a few whips came down, beating Sima Wrong Skin and flesh, and wailed.

At this time, Mo Si, Wan Buddha, blacksmith, butcher and others were ready to step forward, Li Hu pointed to a few people: "You guys don't want to step forward, I will let him die immediately, believe it or not?" ”

Mo Si and the others hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground and arched their hands: "General, the pavilion chief is really kind, he couldn't bear to fall and hurt people last night, and he used fire to melt ice, and today's advice is also reasonable." I implore the general to raise his noble hand and spare the pavilion chief......"

The neighbors below knelt down in the cold and pleaded with tears. Nangong Yue blamed herself for the disaster she led, and burst into tears.

And Li Hu was obviously unmoved, and continued: "You guys, Sima is wrong to cover up, understand? This thistle terrestris is used by the imperial court Yu Linwei, and the general recognizes it. If this person didn't stand up, he would definitely turn Qinglong Town upside down. ”

When Nangong Yue heard this, she almost collapsed to the ground, she forgot that Li Hu was a member of the royal family, had served in the army for a long time, and knew about the blades and hidden weapons used by Yulin Guard. This is really regretful, it is better to take the initiative to stand up and kill anyone, so as not to affect the neighbors of Qinglong Town.

When she was about to muster up the courage to stand up, she saw Murong Cheng, Yu Wenlan, and the dumb man coming over.

Murong Cheng approached Li Hu and whispered a few words in Li Hu's ear, then walked away.

Nangong Yue was thinking about her whereabouts being discovered by them? But without thinking about it, Li Hu cleared his throat and said, "Everyone get up!" What Pavilion Chief Sima said is true, how many wars and rebellions Qinglong Town has experienced in more than two hundred years, how can there not be a few thistles. No fuss. Rise up, everybody. ”

Sima Cuo gasped on the side and said, "Thank you for the kindness of the general!" Spare the villain. ”

Li Hu turned to Yao Shiguan and said, "Why don't you untie the pavilion chief soon?" Lao Tzu hasn't finished speaking, what kind of whip do you move. After speaking, he whipped Yao Shiguan a few times, causing Yao Shiguan to hug his head and howl.

Mo Si and the others hurriedly stepped forward and helped Sima Coo to the Funiu Inn, and then Wan Qianmei and Mr. Zhuge came separately.