After a few days, Qingyun Castle, which had been in turmoil for more than half a month, finally gradually returned to peace, and the Midyear Festival was over.

During this period, Chu Tianya was busy with socializing on various occasions and rarely took a break. Xiao Linglong seemed to have disappeared from his life, and disappeared for several days. When she stopped, Chu Tianya went to inquire about it, only to learn that she had taken Ada, Yelu Chongwen and four or five Yaksha female soldiers into Taiyuan City many days ago to watch the excitement, and she has not returned yet.

He Bo has always been most worried about Chu Tianya's marriage, and after hearing about this, he complained in private, saying that Chu Tianya has been a little rusty with Lord Xiao since he became the lord. She had been away for several days before she found out. He persuaded Chu Tianya, saying that there was nothing to do in the fort recently, so he might as well go to Taiyuan City to find Lord Xiao back. Otherwise, the mind of a beautiful woman has always been small, and there may be some estrangement from now on.

Chu Tianya pondered, Xiao Linglong was not the kind of woman who was a little family, and she left Qingyun Castle quietly at this time, probably deliberately avoiding not wanting to talk about marriage. She has always been smart and smart, and she probably sees the stakes and risks hidden in this brown marriage, and if she doesn't make a good fuss, it is very likely that there will be a rift between Chu Tianya and Jiao Wentong.

If you don't have to say it thoroughly, you can't find fault with it, so it's better to take advantage of this to tell her clearly, so as not to have a gap between the two of them - Chu Tianya thought about it so far and decided to go to Taiyuan City.

In the evening of the same day, he cleaned up a little, pretended to be a scholar of a wealthy family, took Xiaofei to pretend to be a scholar, and then Jiang Laosan pretended to be a follower, and there were only three people in a line, and they entered Taiyuan City in disguise.

After the First World War in Taiyuan, the city was almost completely destroyed, and the people were scattered and scattered. The current Taiyuan City is no longer the hometown of Chu Tianya. Not only has the city undergone repair and reconstruction, but most of the people in the city have moved from other places, and there are not many local people in Taiyuan, and few of them know Chu Tianya.

The midyear festival has just passed in the city, and there are still some after-celebrations after the big festival, and the crowd is bustling and lively. Chu Tianya and his entourage entered the city without revealing their hiding, but they were also safe, so they went to the Fuxing Inn to prepare to settle down. In the past, this was the most lively place in Taiyuan City, where the three religions and nine streams should be gathered, and all kinds of gossip and lace news were all over the place. When he and Xiao Linglong first met, they saved Meng De's wife Zhang here. When I think about it, those things just happened more than a year ago, and now I look back on them like a lifetime away, and so many things happened during that time.

Now the owner of this Fuxing Inn has changed, and no one in Chu Tianya and his party recognized him when they entered. The three of them ordered a simple meal and sat down on the corner table to eat slowly, paying attention to the scene in the store. Xiao Fei wandered around, looking for those tea and rice doctors and the tricks of the wine party, and inquired about Xiao Linglong's traces.

"Young master, can we hear from her here?" When they went out, they all changed their names, Jiang Laosan looked around suspiciously, and said in a low voice, "Lord Xiao is such a golden and jade leaf person, would come to stay in such a lowly and sloppy little inn?" ”

"I can't say." Chu Tianya smiled slightly, picked up a cup of coarse stem leaf tea, took two sips casually, and said, "Lord Xiao is an extremely nostalgic person. There are not many places in Taiyuan City that are worthy of her nostalgia, and Fuxing Inn is one of them. ”

"Then if there is no here, will she go to the former residence of the young master?" Jiang Laosan said bluntly.

Chu Tianya couldn't help but smile, "That makes sense." After a while, I waited for Xiaofei to come back and see the situation. If there is no one here, go to the old house of the Chu family to have a look. ”

After a short time, Xiao Fei came back, with a look of surprise on his face, saying that when he inquired about the news, a doctor of tea and rice gave him a letter, which was left by Lord Xiao.

"Young master, she's divine, how did she know that you would come here to find her?"

"Show me." Chu Tianya took the letter and opened it, his eyebrows suddenly sank, and his expression became stern.

"Young master, what's going on?" Both asked.

Chu Tianya slowly put the letter away, "It's okay." Go to checkout, we'll go right away. ”

"Where to go?"

Chu Tianya didn't speak, and walked straight out of the inn. Xiao Fei and Jiang Laosan settled the account and hurriedly followed, and found that Chu Tianya was striding straight towards the Taiyuan gate, as if he was about to leave the city.

"Strange, the young master seems to be in a hurry, where are you going?" Jiang Laosan asked.

Xiao Fei pouted, "Where do I know-keep up!" ”

The group of three arrived at the big apron at the gate of Taiyuan, and finally rented a mule cart that was willing to send them out of the city in the middle of the night for a long trip after spending twice the price, and looked straight to the northeast.

Sitting in the carriage, Chu Tianya took out the letter again and read it, there were actually only ten words on the letter: If you don't come after waiting for a long time, I will drift away.

"Young master, where are we going now?" Jiang Laosan, who was sitting outside the carriage, couldn't help but asked.

"Taihang Mountain, Qixing Village."

"Huh?"

"Don't ask, just go!"

Hearing this, the handlebar style was frightened. said that he was going to Qixingzhai, but it was a thief's nest that killed people and oversold goods, and he refused to go anymore after being beaten to death by the handlebar, so he had to turn around. Several persuasions were useless, so annoyed that Jiang Laosan took out the stinky temper when he was in charge of the prison city, kicked the handlebar out of the car, threw him some money as if he had bought the mule cart, and drove with Xiaofei to continue walking.

In the early morning of the next day, the mule cart finally drove to the halfway point of Taihang Mountain, and the majestic Tianqian Pass could be seen in the distance. The ringing horse and dark whistle guarding the cottage had already been eyeing the mule cart, and at this time, a dozen strong men dragging knives rushed out at Hula, and surrounded the mule cart.

"Which road is the friend who broke into the situation of the Seven Star Treasure Village, and quickly spread the name!" The little minions who took the lead shouted.

Jiang Laosan and Xiao Fei knew how to measure proportions, and instead of shouting arrogantly, they returned to the car and asked Chu Tianya, "Lord, what should I do?" ”

Seeing that Qixingzhai's minion behavior was quite restrained, and he did not indiscriminately catch passers-by and commit murder as in the past, Chu Tianya was still satisfied in his heart. So he said, "Show them my seal, and let it pass, and make no noise." Don't let too many people know that I'm coming to Qixingzhai. ”

"Yes!"

After a while, the minions got out of the way in fear, bowed down on one knee in unison, and sent the humble little mule cart to the Trench Pass. Another rode a fast horse forward to report, and the mountain gate was wide open everywhere, and the unicorn banner was erected at the head of the city. Although there was no gong to greet him, it was this low-key publicity and silent arrogance that made Xiao Fei and Jiang Laosan, who were driving, all of them look angry.

The mule cart drove straight into the Tianqian Pass, passed the Kaiyang Palace, slowly rolled over the big plank road, and stopped at the Yuheng Palace. Along the way, the leaders of all sizes pretended to be indifferent, but they all held their breath as if they were facing a great enemy, and no one dared to come forward to interrogate.

Chu Tianya got off the mule cart and glanced at Yuheng Palace, as usual, but the female soldiers and dependents of the previous guard were replaced by men, and they looked straight ahead like puppets, only treating Chu Tianya as air.

"It seems that Liang Xing, Fu Xuan and others have quite a set of leading troops, and the minions of Qixingzhai know the rules of military orders like mountains." Chu Tianya was quite satisfied in his heart, and without stopping at his feet, he directly detoured to the mountain behind Yuheng Palace and went to the Cloud Sea Fairyland.

At this time, it is the time of Chenpai, the autumn is high and the sun is shining, and the perennial clouds and mist of the mountain behind the Yuheng Palace are covered with colorful glow, which is worthy of the name of fairyland.

Jiang Laosan and Xiao Fei stopped very interestingly, Chu Tianya walked here alone and walked slowly, and saw that on the edge of the cliff, there was a beautiful woman with clothes in the wind like a fallen fairy.

Chu Tianya breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little relieved in his heart: Fortunately, I'm not stupid! Sure enough, she was here.

It was this gentle call that alarmed the beauty standing on the edge of the cliff with her hands in her hands, and she didn't look back, and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Looking for you."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Let's talk." Chu Tianya said calmly, smiling.

"What else is there to talk about between us?" Xiao Linglong turned around, without any expression on her face, and her voice was as cold as the water of this autumn deep pool, "Since you don't want to marry me, why bother with it?" ”

Chu Tianya chuckled in his heart, and secretly wondered: What did she hear, so her temperament has changed so much? Or does she want to use this cold and violent way to bargain with me about military power?

"Hey...... You'd better go! Xiao Linglong glanced at Chu Tianya a few times, as if noticing the subtle change in the expression on his face, so she sighed and turned away, and shook her head, "You are not the same you you used to be." You've changed, you've become a strange thing to me. I don't think there's really much to talk about between us! ”

"It seems that you are still angry, so I'll go first." Chu Tianya barely paused and said, "Flying Fox, since I can find the Xingfu Inn and the Cloud Sea Fairyland, I think you should understand my intentions." If you have to force the competition of interests with our feelings, that's not what I want; Believe, you don't want to do that. I will wait for you in the Seven Stars Hall for three days. In the past three days, you have calmly and carefully thought about how the two of us should get along. So be it, I'll wait for you. ”

After saying that, Chu Tianya turned around and left, without stopping for a moment.

Xiao Linglong couldn't help but be stunned, she was stunned for a long time, she suddenly turned around, and only saw Chu Tianya's back.

"He's, really, really...... Let's go? ”

"The current Chu Tianya is really not the Longcheng Taibao who was mixed in the market before......"

Chu Tianya went back and got on the mule cart again, and went directly to the core of the Seven Star Village, the Seven Star Hall.

Although Chu Tianya had already ordered him not to make a noise, Liang Xing, the big leader in charge of the Qixingzhai branch, had already prepared a feast to entertain Chu Tianya.

Bai Xu is also here. As early as a few days ago, Bai Xu was ordered by Chu Tianya to come to Qixingzhai to recruit troops and buy horses, mainly for the remnants of the Liao State scattered in Hedong and Hebei, and tried every means to buy some war horses from the north or Western Xia.

There were not many people who participated in the banquet, only the three leaders in charge of Qixingzhai Liang Xing, Fu Xuan and Liu Ze, as well as Chu Tianya and Bai Xu.

"Why did the lord come suddenly? The subordinates are not welcome, and the children are also offended, which is really a capital crime, a capital crime! Fu Xuan and the others had not had much direct contact with Chu Tianya, and as soon as they entered the table, they hurriedly toasted and made amends.

"It doesn't matter. Don't say it's you, even I don't know how I got here. Chu Tianya smiled slightly, raised his glass and said, "Please!" ”

With just one sentence, the slightly tense atmosphere in the banquet was much more relaxed, and Fu Xuan and the others were relieved with a smile, and it was not good to ask Chu Tianya's intentions again.

Bai Xu was secretly amused in his heart, the lord's answer was neither majestic nor intimate, but also leaky...... In the subtleties, in comparison, the late eldest brother and second brother Jiao do have a big gap with him in terms of this.

During the banquet, he did not talk about any official business, but only ate and drank. Fu Xuan and the others were very knowledgeable, and after settling down Chu Tianya's accommodation, they left and left, not daring to bother more. Only Bai Xu came with a tacit understanding and reported to him about the recruitment.

"Jingqian, how are things going?"

"Just getting started." Bai Xu replied, "Xiao Sheng has secretly sent his henchmen to various prefectures, counties and villages in Hedong and Hebei, looking for those places where the displaced people gather and scatter the news, and recruit strong warriors who are good at riding and archery to come and defect, promising preferential treatment and generous treatment. In addition, Xiaosheng also contacted some horse gangs who roamed the two rivers and took away smuggled goods, and asked them to buy good horses. I'm sure there will be news back soon. ”

Chu Tianya nodded, "How long has it been since Lord Xiao came, and has she already known the news?" ”

"Xiaosheng hasn't met her yet, so I don't know much about her." Bai Xu replied, "But Xiao Sheng guesses that she should know." Because Fu Xuan and the others had a close relationship with Second Brother Jiao in the past, they were also relatively close to Lord Xiao. If Lord Xiao was interrogated in person, it should be difficult for them to conceal it. ”

Chu Tianya nodded silently, and said in his heart: Even if it is not for Xiao Linglong, I must come to Qixingzhai this time. This important sub-village is, in the final analysis, like Jiao Wentong's private industry; The three leaders here, although they were in awe of me on the surface, knew that they were more willing to listen to Jiao Wentong. If we want to eliminate the possibility of potential division within the Xishan Rebel Army, we must make Jiao Wentong completely convinced of me; And to do this, I must turn the current Qixingzhai into my "industry"!

Bai Xu had obviously thought of this layer a long time ago, and only he understood the deep intention of Chu Tianya's sudden arrival in Qixing Village, but he just smiled and said: "Did the lord make the lord of Xiao County angry again, causing her to run away in anger, so the lord searched for someone and found here?" ”

"Not really." Since it was tacit, Chu Tianya didn't pick it out, but laughed self-deprecatingly, "Jingqian, it won't be you who revealed the news to her and said that I won't hold a wedding for the time being, right?" ”

Bai Xu smiled mysteriously, and his answer surprised Chu Tianya-

"Xiaosheng is guilty...... That's right, Xiao Sheng told her this. ”