I retired early, and I didn't have time to have breakfast, so I asked the gold-faced master to unload my iron armor and leave the palace from the secret passage on the grounds that it was hot. It's easy to find that yard full of wisteria flowers.

"Princess Anping misses her so much that she came to visit early in the morning." Hu Yanzhuo was still dressed in scorching purple, and the snow-white gauze on his neck was faintly oozing blood.

"What about what I left here yesterday?" I got straight to the point.

"Her Royal Highness hasn't had breakfast yet, has she?" He didn't answer the question.

"I'm not hungry!" As soon as I finished speaking, there was a "gurgling" sound from my uncompetitive stomach.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, please move to the front hall for dinner."

I thought that a small three-entry courtyard, at most three or four rough maids-in-law, and when I arrived in the front hall, I found that these two rows of beautiful women were all serving us for dinner! This is better than my treatment in the East Palace, I don't know how much! It seems that my prince is really shabby.

Looking at the meals on the table, they are all extremely refined and expensive. In the past 20 years of Tianyuguo, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, I took out the funeral goods that Gu Tianba collected for himself, and opened the granary twice before I could barely restore the prosperity of Tianyu Capital City, but I didn't expect me to tighten my belt, but the big family in this capital is living in such luxury.

Precious things are delicious, I disregard the image of the cheeks to eat big, Hu Yanzhuo is afraid that I will choke, from time to time let the national color Tianxiang standing next to me give me soup, seeing that I don't pay attention to the bowl of fish soup that looks no more ordinary, Hu Yanzhuo had to personally scoop up a small spoonful of soup to try the temperature and send it to my mouth, I drank the soup, I thought it tasted good, took the bowl and drank it in one go, and ate it bitterly, until I hiccuped a very loud full, and looked up to see Hu Yanzhuo squinting his eyes and looking at me with a smile instead of a smile, Only then did he put down his chopsticks in embarrassment.

"Full?"

'Well, I'm full. As he spoke, he grabbed a candied fruit and put it in his mouth.

Hu Yanzhuo sighed, took the fragrant silk handkerchief in Guose Tianxiang's hand and helped me wipe the residue from the corner of my mouth, "This is how many days I haven't eaten to be hungry like this?" ”

"Your food here is delicious?" There are all kinds of animals and plants on this continent, but there are also geographical restrictions, for example, my favorite mango is only produced in the southern Xinjiang country, and Tianyu cultivated cattle are scarce, so the people cannot slaughter them at will, and even the palace is difficult to eat a meal of beef, let alone such tender beef. In addition to the newborn baby, ordinary people do not drink milk, one to this thing is less, the other is also fishy, this milky pastry, in Tianyu is even more rare, and the candied fruit, in Tianyu can not eat such a good ......

"If you like to come often, I'm here for you!"

He speaks very casually, unlike those people in the East Palace, who always think about it for a long time before saying a word to me, and not like those people in the East Palace who are eager to deliberately please me with every word. His expression and tone of voice are natural, making people feel comfortable and unburdened.

"I'm very good at eating!"

"I can afford you ten meals a day?"

"Ten meals a day don't feed me like a pig?"

Looking at each other and smiling, they suddenly felt that this man full of cheetah's breath was not as dangerous as he imagined. And his eyes are not as sharp as I understood when I first met him, but an indescribable tenacity and calmness. His eyes are very good-looking, even when he squints, there seems to be a quiet lake behind the faint melancholy, gentle and peaceful.

"It's time to change the gauze around your neck." The scarf was already soaked with oozing blood, and if it continued like this, the blood would have trickled down the gauze.

"It's fine." Hu Yanzhuo is also the emperor of the Northern Desert, except for these two losses on Murong Xingye, he has never been so seriously injured in the battle with his troops. But he didn't want to bandage it, he was afraid that the hideous wound would frighten the girl in front of him, and he was even more afraid that she would take something and leave.

"Bring me gauze and medicine, and I'll help you bandage it." Just thank him for his hospitality today, hehe...... And I think he's a pretty good person, and he will inevitably go out of the palace in the future, and then have a meal or something.

Hu Yanzhuo has countless brothels in Hualou, and there are even more women with various styles around him, and he admits that the girl in front of him is extremely beautiful, but what attracts him is not her appearance, but her frankness, real and playful cuteness with a little girl. Different from the roughness of the Mobei women, and different from the delicateness of the women of Tianyuguo, they are frank and delicate, delicate but not weak. Her beauty comes from the depths of her heart and is indescribable. Even if Fang Cai eats and drinks regardless of his image, it makes people feel so calm and quiet.

"What do you have to do with the night?" Hu Yanzhuo knew that it was rude to ask like this, but he couldn't care so much, he just wanted to know whether Murong Xingye and her were in love with each other before or Murong Xingye's wishful thinking. If they are happy, Hu Yanzhuo will naturally take advantage of the beauty of people and not be the villain who beats mandarin ducks. But if Murong Xingye was wishful thinking towards her, then Hu Yanzhuo would also save her from Murong Xingye's clutches. The men of Mobei stand up to the sky, dare to love and hate, as long as they are emotional, there is no reason to hide and look ahead!

"Don't get me wrong, Saya and I are just good sisters." Forgive me for being a rotten girl, as I get to know more and more about the man in front of me, I think he is calm, gentle, and secure, strong and melancholy and lazy and noble, and the enchanting and beautiful little night is simply more suitable than the male protagonist in Tanmei comics.

"Sisters?"

"It's my best friend, Sister Jinlan?"

"Not a lover?"

"What do you want?" Dare to love these two people treat me as a third party between them, "Don't worry, I won't steal the night with you." Xiaoye belongs to you, I am optimistic about you, you must be happy! ”

After listening to her words, Hu Yanzhuo finally found a problem. It turned out that she had always misunderstood the relationship between herself and Murong Xingye. It's really black who is close to ink, the prince of Tianyu Kingdom, this broken sleeve, has cultivated the crown princess personally appointed by Emperor Tianyu so that he not only accepts but also blesses the man and the man's previous relationship. He and Murong Xingye? Thinking about Murong Xingye's appearance in women's clothes, he couldn't help but feel a thrill.

He was miserable by Murong Xingye, in case this misunderstanding could not be solved, and let him carry this black cauldron with broken sleeves all the time, when would she understand her heart for her? Hu Yanzhuo hurriedly explained: "My mother and Ye's mother are Jinlan sisters, and we have known each other since childhood. That's why relationships are closer than others......"

Listening to Hu Yanzhuo's memories of his and Xiaoye's past, the two are still childhood sweethearts, it's really romantic!

If Hu Yanzhuo knew that the woman in front of him understood his explanation as reliving memories, maybe she would have used a knife to split her brain to see what mess was inside.

Hu Yanzhuo asked Aunt Fang to wrap up all the things I took off my clothes from me yesterday, and I saw that it was almost lunch time, so I hurried back to the palace. But when I went back to the secret room to sort out my things, I found that the purse that Mu Yu gave me during the day yesterday was missing. I must have been drunk and accidentally left in the restaurant or on the way to Hu Yanzhuo's house. In the afternoon, I slipped out of the palace again and searched around, but I couldn't find it.

Xiao Ye disappeared for a night and showed up early the next morning, and when I asked him where he had gone, he said he had gone out of the city to relax. I think he went to find Hu Yanzhuo.

Although Tianyu is the largest country on the continent, in fact, nearly half of the cities have been out of the control of the imperial court, many of which are occupied by peasant rebels or bandits, and some are occupied by neighboring countries. This Tianyu Imperial Court can survive so hard that it is still destroyed, I really don't know if it is unfortunate or lucky.

The granary of Tianyu has bottomed out, the crops of this autumn harvest are not yet time, the 300,000 army needs supplies, and the poor people who are hungry need to eat, but where does this food come from?

The household department advocated suppressing the rebels and bandits, and seizing the food and property they had seized to serve as military salaries and relief for the victims. However, the generals and troops led by Su Chonghua could not draw enough soldiers to capture a city, in fact, they were worried that there would not be enough food and grass supply, so the soldiers would not be able to attack the city, and they would be sent to death if they went. Moreover, no one can guarantee that there will be food in the cities that are lost and captured. The army did not dare to attack the city easily without food and grass. If you don't attack the city, you won't have food. The army and the poor will not be able to survive, and it is like entering a vicious circle, and the cycle will become tighter and tighter. The end can only be a dead lock that can never be untied.

In addition to natural and man-made disasters, the Tianyu court also forcibly conscripted labor to build various fortifications for the pleasure of the powerful, resulting in a sharp reduction in labor, and a large area of fertile land was abandoned because no one cultivated it. As a result, there is a serious shortage of food production. There are also profiteers who stock up grain, buy low and sell high, making the livelihood of the people even worse, and a large number of poor people fall into the grass and revolt. This has made the situation even more turbulent.

In fact, there is another very important reason why Tianyuguo has not been captured until now, that is, it is too poor, so poor that the benefits obtained by others to capture it have not cost much to attack it. To put it mildly, today's Tianyuguo is a hot potato, without that courage, no one dares to take over. Besides, it's hard to hear, there are still 300,000 troops in Tianyuguo today, maybe tomorrow these armies will be broken up because of food shortages, and then Tianyuguo will naturally be self-defeating. At that time, who wanted to gallop in this land or do whatever he wanted, it all depended on his mood.

I have fewer and fewer opportunities to leave the palace, and every day I am discussing with Qing Yu, Zhuangyuan and other ministers how to tide over the current difficulties. I heard that the Qiyun Mountains outside the city stretch for thousands of miles, with famous peaks and magnificent rivers. However, most of the mountains are gently undulating, with tinkling springs and gurgling streams, which are very pleasant.

There is a large group of bandits entrenched on Qiyun Mountain, who have terraced some gentle mountain ranges, planted various crops, cultivated when they are busy, and robbed when they are free. Not only did they store grain, but they also stored a lot of treasure.

The bandits' base camp was on top of a hilltop that was difficult to defend and difficult to defend. Because the bandit leader was born on the 15th day of the seventh month, he called himself the ghost king, and the top of the mountain was called the ghost king's peak.

The ghost king is cunning and ferocious, and I heard that inspired by Gu Tianba's construction of the Colosseum in the city, a colosseum was also built on the top of the ghost king, but it was more grand and magnificent than the colosseum in the city. He also often ordered people to go to the forest on Qiyun Mountain to catch all kinds of fierce beasts, so that those who were captured on the mountain could fight with the beasts to the death.

The Ghost King is less than a hundred miles away from Tianyu Capital, and it is only half a day's journey if it is a rapid march. Before, the imperial court didn't go to exterminate because it felt that it was not enough to pull out the rogues, but later the power of the ghost king became bigger and bigger, and Tianyu's national strength became worse and worse. The Tianyu court did not dare to touch the ghost king easily, so it deceived itself and turned a blind eye to the ghost king. The ghost king is becoming more and more rampant, robbing merchants and robbing the army. Last winter, 3,000 bandits broke into the capital and plundered in the city, Gu Tianba urgently summoned Su Chonghua to return to the court, but before Su Chonghua came back, the gang had already run away without a trace.

It is rumored that there are more than 10,000 ghost king bandits, which is more than the number of people in a medium-sized county in Tianyuguo. The grain on the top of the ghost king is piled up. Even if the ghost king is surrounded for a year and a half, the people inside are still hungry and thirsty.

But isn't so much food exactly what Tianyuguo needs? Therefore, the ghost king is bound to win against me, but rashly attacking is definitely the next strategy. And now Chaoyan's understanding of the ghost king is mostly rumored. What is the situation on the top of the ghost king, how many bandits are stationed, the terrain, the fortifications...... We don't know any of these specific details.

Qin Ruoan caught a few of the ghost king's subordinates who went into the city to procure, and learned that the ghost king was going to hold a big birthday banquet this year. I planned to send someone to sneak into the ghost king's top first, and on the day of the ghost king's birthday banquet, I learned the bridge in the TV series to put sweat medicine in the wine, and then put down the ghost king and his subordinates, and then took the ghost king's top in one fell swoop.

It's rare that Su Chonghua didn't refute my suggestion, I know, he is also anxious, if he can't get food, he, the general of Tianyuguo, will not be able to appease the generals and soldiers of the army, and the soldiers will be very hungry at that time, maybe they will do something.

Who knows, the first batch of more than a dozen people who sneaked into the top of the ghost king were sent back early the next morning!

More than a dozen bloody human heads were pulled to the city gate by a broken donkey cart, with hideous faces and dead eyes.