Chapter 730: Beacon Fire
Yue Qianqiu, who was considered omnipotent, was now trapped in Nanjing City by Xiao Jingxian's words. If he really wants to leave, unless Xiao Jingxian sends hundreds of people to surround him at the door, then he will naturally be unable to fly, but the possibility that Xiao Jingxian said really makes his heart tremble, and he doesn't dare to ignore it, plus Xie Shiyi Ye also helps, he can only stay.
However, he is not familiar with Nanjing City, and his connections are not as good as the Xie family's father and daughter, plus many people knew that he and Xiao Jingxian were together before, and he was not happy to go out by smearing his face all day long, so he had to not go out most of the time. Therefore, he finally found out that he was the one who became a full-time nurse for Xiao Jingxian again!
Although this kind of work is not the first time to do it, Yue Qianqiu was angry when she thought of the forest that Xiao Jingxian tossed in Nanjing City, and she took care of him at first, and she didn't bother to pay attention to him at all. However, Xiao Jingxian has never been worry-free, and he can always provoke him to sneer and sneer when he comes and goes. In the end, Xie Shiyi, who was a part-time doctor, couldn't help but give Yue Qianqiu a suggestion angrily and funny.
"I've been here for a while every day, and I've heard you yell at him countless times to shut up, if you really don't want to talk to him, and now that he's still recuperating, you can tie him to the bed and stuff his mouth, so that your ears will be clean?"
Xiao Jingxian, who was reclining on the bed, glanced at the teaser with a mocking face: "Master Xie, I didn't offend you, right?" Do you need to make such a bad move for Qianqiu? Besides, I think that Qi Xuan tied hundreds of pounds of iron chains and locks on my body at the beginning, but in the end he couldn't help me, do you think the rope can work? ”
"Shut up! Qi Xuan's biggest mistake at the beginning was not to break your hands and feet, otherwise it would be interesting to see what kind of moth you can come up with! Yue Qianqiu glared at Xiao Jingxian angrily, and then looked at Xie Shiyi Ye and asked, "This guy is a cockroach, as long as he can't be killed at once, he will be alive in a few days." If Xie Shiyi Ye said that he was almost too good, I wouldn't care about him! ”
Xie Shiyi Ye suddenly smiled: "He is just weak and unbalanced from eating and drinking for a long time, after all, his physical foundation is not bad, and he is almost fine now, so he can walk on the ground." Of course, muscle weakness is a certainty, and you need someone to help you. ”
Yue Qianqiu really didn't expect that Xie Shiyi, who had just suggested how to deal with Xiao Jingxian, asked him to help Xiao Jingxian walk around in a blink of an eye, seeing that the guy on the bed immediately hit the snake with the stick, stretched out his hands and asked to help him get off the ground, he suddenly scolded angrily: "Wait, I'll go to the street to buy you two crutches, and you can go as long as you want!" ”
Seeing Yue Qianqiu angrily brushing his sleeves away, Xiao Jingxian asked in a good time: "Xie Shiyi Ye hasn't mentioned the progress of the dungeon excavation over there in the Left-behind Mansion in the past few days. But it's been six days since I was brought back by Qianqiu, and no matter how slow the action is, there should already be results, right? ”
"His Royal Highness King Jin should know, why I don't want to say it." Xie Shiyi Ye moved his gaze back from Yue Qianqiu's back, but he didn't look at Xiao Jingxian, his eyes seemed a little uncertain, "Qi Xuan, his two guards, and the three jailers are all dead, everyone's corpse is blurred with flesh and blood, and the stone walls of the dungeon are still intact, and even splashed with blood, so when the corpse is dug up, naturally everyone thinks that it is cannibalism." ”
He paused for a moment, then stared at Xiao Jingxian and asked: "And the wooden fence collapsed, and the iron chain fell off, but there was no trace of you, so some people thought that you had already escaped, and some people thought that you were not arrested at all, everything was Qi Xuan's plan to use your name to make a trick, but it turned out to be calculated by you, and some people even said that you are a demon and a monster...... Among them, the argument that you have been dug up a long time ago is the least believed, and I have to say that His Royal Highness the King of Jin and the Nine Princes have cooperated well. ”
"He's good, I'm just lucky."
Xiao Jingxian shrugged his shoulders matter-of-factly, and a smile appeared on his emaciated face. Although his face didn't have much blood from these days' recuperation, it was obviously much better than the near-death state when he was first brought out by Yue Qianqiu. He didn't continue to ask Xie Shiyi Ye what the specific state of Qi Xuan and the others' corpses was, but asked lightly.
"Has the news of their deaths gotten out?"
"It's only circulating in a small area, so since Jiu Gongzi hasn't asked about it before, it means that he doesn't know...... Why, what does His Royal Highness King Jin mean to publicize it? ”
"That's right." Xiao Jingxian nodded slightly, and said in an extremely affirmative tone, "Just let some mouths quickly spread it around." After all, Qi Xuan suspected that my brother-in-law had been assigned in Nanjing in the past, and he and I returned to Beiyan after Kang Le appeared in Bazhou, but the people were gone, and Qianqiu and I were also missing in this Bazhou City. ”
"Actually, there is also news from Shangjing." Xie Shiyi Ye pondered for a while, and roughly mentioned Xiao Qingqing's sudden perverse behavior, seeing that Xiao Jingxian only stretched out after frowning slightly at first, and even laughed there, even if he had an extremely cold and calm heart, he couldn't help but have some doubts about Xiao Jingxian's unexpected attitude.
"Xiao Qingqing is the same as me, she is very calm, not crazy." Xiao Jingxian didn't seem to be shy about the madness he had always done, but his tone was so flat that he seemed to be talking about a trivial matter like eating and drinking, "The reason why she did this naturally has her reasons." I used to seem like a mad butcher as my brother-in-law wanted, but I wasn't really that murderous. ”
Although he used to live in the deep mountains and old forests in a corner of Liaodong, Xie Shiyi was originally different from ordinary ginseng pickers, and his vision was broader. And after he accepted Du Bailou's invitation to open the old ginseng hall, because he got countless times more resources, the things he could access were naturally much more open than before.
For example, he knows very well that almost all the emperors of the Northern Yan Dynasty cultivated their cronies after ascending to the throne, and then vigorously purged the remnants of other losers in the status competition, but they were often polite to the cronies of the previous generation of the Son of Heaven, and over time, the intertwined big families one after another, until the now missing Northern Yan Emperor ascended the throne, he changed his style.
Therefore, he couldn't help asking: "Xiao Qingqing deliberately forced the six princes out of Beijing, and then wantonly eradicated dissidents?" ”
"There have been many families that have been uprooted over the years, but not enough. When my sister was there, she and my brother-in-law used to say that throughout the dynasties, there were not many people who died from foreign enemies, but many who died from internal strife. It is precisely because when the country was founded, it was like a blank piece of paper that could be swayed to the fullest, so people's hearts were upward. And as long as the past few decades have ......"
Xiao Jing answered the question first, but then suddenly paused, and then said unhurriedly: "As long as the past few decades, the protection of officials and officials, and the collusion between internal and external officials, will inevitably create a deep-rooted big family. At this time, there is actually an opportunity to restrict and shackle it, but if you still throw a mouse at this time, or you are blinded, or the king has no brains and means at all, and this situation is delayed until a hundred years later, at that time, it will be difficult to return. ”
"And now, it is one hundred and eight years after the founding of Beiyan."
Saying this, Xiao Jingxian leaned on the pillow, and the casual expression on his face was like a leisurely scholar who had nothing to do, but the words he said were like a gust of wind sweeping through this extremely warm room that was obviously burning charcoal basins.
"So since my brother-in-law came to the throne, he was ready to kill a large number of people. It's just that no matter how crazy he is, it is impossible to kill all the big clans, and in that case, he himself will not be able to sit on the throne.
Therefore, first to eliminate the remnants of the losers, and then use the strategy of raising up a group to suppress a group, mowing the grass stubble by stubble, even the so-called southern expedition, pacifying the world, and giving the opportunity to condone man-made rebellion, is only a means to eradicate dissidents. Now, the only thing we can see and know is Shangjing and Nanjing, but I can guarantee that there should be chaos everywhere. ”
Even Xie Shiyi Ye can be regarded as a person who has had a lot of lives on his hands, and he can't help but feel terrified at this time, and his brows are even more wrinkled into a big pimple: "Such blind killing, no matter how well it is controlled, it cannot avoid hurting the innocent." What's more, in this way, the people's will will be completely ignored? To put it mildly, there is no good word for the former emperor or the current six princes. If Xiaoxiao hadn't controlled it fairly well these days, Nanjing City would have been in chaos a long time ago! ”
"Miss Xie is very good, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice."
Xiao Jing first skipped the previous comments of Xie Shiyi, and only answered the last sentence, and then pulled the quilt up slightly, covered his chest, and glanced out lightly, only then did he raise his voice a little: "Qianqiu, if you go to see her, you might as well bring a word, don't be too serious, she was not a princess before, and she is not a queen now, but don't forget the original intention." ”
Yue Qianqiu, who had just left angrily, but in fact carefully went around in a circle and returned, was indeed eavesdropping in a corner of the yard at this time. When Xiao Jingxian broke the trace, he couldn't help but jump on his head, and secretly scolded this guy who pretended to be dead, but in the end he was not so cheeky that he continued to listen to the corner of the wall, so he could only turn his head without snorting and go back to the stable, leading the horse and leaving.
However, just overheard such a lot of conversations between Xiao Jingxian and Xie Shiyiye, he compared the current situation while walking, but he had to admit that what Xiao Jingxian said was probably true. However, when he thought that Emperor Beiyan had disappeared to this day, and that he was still actually in the hands of Yue Xiaosi, he couldn't help but sweat for that cheap father.
Although Yue Xiaosi is with a group of crazy people, it is inevitable that he will not be crazy and will not survive, but now there is still medicine to treat, don't end up being pitted to hopeless!
Just as he was walking absent-mindedly, even forgetting that he could ride a horse, the sound of horses' hooves and shouts suddenly called back to his soul. At first the shouting was only to make way for the people to give way, but perhaps the person who gave way was too slow, or the person on the horse was too anxious, and after a while of swearing, the man suddenly raised his voice.
"Urgent military intelligence! If you damn grass people don't give way again, you will all lose your heads if you miss my big business! ”
Hearing the words of emergency military intelligence, Yue Qianqiu suddenly got into his mind, and then subconsciously ran forward. After running for less than two steps, he realized that he still had the reins in his hand, and he couldn't help but beat his head with tears and laughter, and then reflexively took two steps back, jumped on the horse's back, shook the reins, and galloped away to the place where the sound had just come from.
Turning the corner, he saw the messenger who had not yet passed. And this time, it was not because others were slow to give way, but because the people who had gathered to hear his words surrounded him. In the past, the six princes almost transferred all the soldiers and horses in Nanjing, and many of the families of these soldiers were from Nanjing, so they naturally cared about the safety of the pillars of the family.
At this moment, the crowd was boiling, and all kinds of questions rushed towards the messenger like a tidal wave, and the guy who had just made a threat was upset. However, he tried to hit people several times with his horsewhip, but he was finally frightened by the surging crowd and withdrew his hand. In the end, seeing that if he didn't open his mouth today, others would not let him go, so he finally screamed angrily.
"Bazhou is stalemate, it's just a siege, where is the winner so quickly divided, how do I know if the men in your family are alive or dead! Which siege of the city was not piled up with human lives, go and go, give way quickly, Lao Tzu will also go to report to the Holy Maiden of Baishan! ”
Yue Qianqiu saw that the man waved his whip in the air, scaring people with a sound to make way, and the people around him were really reluctant to get out of the way, but he was thinking about it, and then when the people rushed to the palace, he immediately trotted in the other direction.
Although this person's words are unknown, the words still reveal the unhappiness of Bazhou's siege - if it goes well, what kind of human life is needed? I don't know if the men in other people's families are dead or alive, which means that there have been a lot of casualties in the siege battle!
After waiting for half an hour at the agreed place, Yue Qianqiu saw Xie Xiaoxiao in men's clothes. As soon as he saw the solemn countenance of the man, he knew that she must have seen the messenger, and that the messenger could not have brought back good news.
Sure enough, before he could ask, she took the initiative to speak: "On the side of Bazhou, the six princes offered a very high reward, plus the army directly plundered the three cities of Yongqing before, and he used the countless wealth in Bazhou City as an incentive, so although the damage to the siege was not small for a few days, the morale was very high. ”
Yue Qianqiu chuckled in his heart, and then asked in a deep voice: "Then how many dead and injured people are there on Beiyan's side?" ”
"More than 1,000 dead and wounded." Xie Xiaoxiao frowned slightly, and then sneered, "That guy has always been a stubborn character, the incentives I just told you, he tried his best to advocate them, but the casualties were brushed aside, I estimate that at least this number is the number, and it may be more." It's just ......"
She paused, and then said in a deep voice: "That guy swore in the letter that someone in Bazhou contacted Xiancheng to open the door!" ”
The four words of offering the city and opening the door came into his ears, and Yue Qianqiu only felt as if his brain had been smashed by a sledgehammer, and he was even a little dazed at the first moment. Fortunately, he is not a person who has not experienced things, he calmed down in an instant, and then rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "When such news comes out, whether it is true or not, it is a great stimulus to both the enemy and us." ”
Seeing that Xie Xiaoxiao's face was still solemn, he couldn't help but feel a little furious: "Is there anything else?" Why didn't you hear your father mention it when he went to my place just now? ”
"Because it's also news that has just arrived." Xie Xiaoxiao sorted out his emotions for a while, and then said, "Tanma reported that there is a cavalry of unknown origin and at least two or three thousand people is rushing towards Nanjing. By the time we speak, we may have entered the city. ”