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"Gone?"

Xie Yuan sat in the courtyard, just bathed, his shawl was scattered, he was wearing a thin nightgown that was loose, his placket was slightly open, he neither drank nor read, he only looked at the flowers and trees in the courtyard under the moonlight.

In the autumn cold, after the old housekeeper Uncle Yun hurriedly came to report, his tone was hoarse and flat, as if he didn't care too much about his daughter escaping from the Xie family.

"Lord, there are many cults here in Linzhou, which can make the third master disappear silently, and I don't know how many cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, if the girl goes, isn't this a sheep into the mouth of a tiger?"

Xie Yuan looked at him expressionlessly, "You're old and haven't woken up?" Who told you that my daughter is a lamb? ”

As a subordinate, being ridiculed by his master like this, he should quickly kneel down and say that he was wrong, but Uncle Yun was because he was old and had never seen any scenes, so he said firmly: "The girl's family, no matter how smart and powerful, she must be pitied, it has nothing to do with her." ”

Xie Yuan scoffed at this, but he didn't bother to say anything, he just got up, "Of course Linzhou is not a good place, those people deliberately want to lead her over." ”

"Then the lord, you still let the girl know the news that the third master is in danger?"

"Can you hide it? I've been holding back for four years, and now I'm spying on the news, and I'm almost inserting someone in my room. ”

Xie Yuan's tone was quite sneering.

Yun Shuquan didn't hear it, "The hidden side of Linzhou is too deep, and even Bi San couldn't find out, but fortunately, the girl gave advice last time, and now Bi San and they are also in Linzhou, so they must be able to protect the girl." ”

"You don't need to protect, just use her to lure out that group, she should also know her worth, otherwise she won't run away to be a burden."

Xie Yuan walked barefoot on the plank, his back gradually entering the panicked lights in the house.

Uncle Yun looked slightly dumbfounded.

The girl is your own, my lord.

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Linzhou is remote, far away from the prosperous place of Zhaoguo, where the capital is located, and far away from the place where Zhaoguo's military strength is densely stationed.

"Linzhou is located in the northern foot of my Zhao territory, although the economy is lacking, but because it is far away from the frontier, it is located in a remote area, but it has also been peaceful for many years, the people are very simple, but unfortunately this tranquility is not long, forty years ago, our country and the Great Wilderness started a war, the war was tight, the front line was defeated and retreated, and finally fought in the northern foothills, Linzhou City was broken into the city by the Great Wilderness Qi Yellow Army, at that time the seven cities in the northern foothills have fallen one after another, but because Linzhou was the last city at that time, after being captured, my Zhao army rushed to attack the city, how vicious the people of the Great Wilderness, The flesh and blood of the people in the city were used as combat weapons, and the city wall hung corpses I don't know how much, and the battle was bloody, and my Zhaoguo army finally retreated with a disadvantage, and had to retreat ten miles. ”

"What a bunch of brutes."

"Hey, don't talk about it, let's have a drink."

"Don't drink it, it's going to be open at night."

These people saw that it was almost dusk, but they were also a little cautious, there were four people in big black robes and veils drinking tea at the table next to them, one of them was not interested in the tea floating with inferior tea residues, and only lowered his voice and said: "This Linzhou City is so strange, there is no city gate to enter in the daytime, and you can only enter it at night?" ”

"Linzhou has long been destroyed, there is no city, there is no government jurisdiction, there are three religions and nine streams everywhere, they are all in and out, and they have already had their rules, outsiders can only follow their rules."

As soon as Ming Jin and the others entered the boundary of Linzhou, they dressed up in disguise, of course, it was not a woman dressed as a man, but a big black robe, even the peony was not spared, and in order to avoid revealing the filling, Ming Jin also mixed the ointment with medicinal powder and smeared it on the cheeks of the three women, creating a sallow and rough appearance, which at first glance was almost inseparable from a foreign person.

"I know that since the accident happened forty years ago, Linzhou City has also become a dead city, but then my country repelled the Great Wilderness Army, and Linzhou City was also recovered, why is it still so..."

"The city is recovered, but everyone is dead, how to regain the popularity of the year? If you send other people to prosper the city, but no one wants to come, you can only drive away some homeless people, but after these homeless people get there, because the good and bad are uneven, there are many cattle and ghosts, but it forms a mixed trend. At that time, there were supervision officials sent by the imperial court, but because of this, they did not find the mixed evil cults, and later the supervision officials died with their families, and it was rumored that evil spirits were doing evil all over the city, and spiritual sacrifices were held all over the city, and evil beliefs were rampant, and the court found that something was wrong, and then sent officials, but they were killed again and again, and each time it was impossible to investigate the results of the evil ghosts to do evil. At this time, the other cities of Zhao Kingdom also knew about it, and the people were full of voices, all thinking that it was related to the matter of ghosts and gods, and even the court thought that the place might really be cursed, and over time, no officials were willing to go over, but all those who were responsible passed the buck to each other. The imperial court saw that the city of Linzhou had no economy to give to the country, and the discipline was weak, and several times the army used to encircle and suppress, but it was always empty, the expenses were very large, and there was no income, and the treasury could not bear it, and finally gave up the discipline of Linzhou, and only focused on the supervision of the neighboring cities. ”

Ming Dai was dumbfounded, "This Linzhou City... That's amazing, huh?"

It made the dignified Zhaoguo a huge empire impossible to discipline.

"In fact, it's not that you can't discipline it, it's just that you pay too much, but the income is far from enough to offset, because Linzhou is not a confidential place, and it is not a strategically important frontier, it belongs to the inner hinterland, and the first emperor was in his old age at that time, and he was won away from a lot of energy by the war with the Great Wilderness.

Ming Dai understood, and sighed: "I didn't expect that a country as strong as my Zhao Kingdom would have such a helpless time. ”

Ming glanced at her, "If there is anything you want to ask, just say it, you don't have to keep looking for topics." ”

Ming Dai, who was seen through and used calm to cover her inner anxiety, was slightly embarrassed, but still said: "I know I can't put all the pressure on you, but I'm still very worried, the intelligence only says that my father disappeared in Linzhou City, and I don't know if I live or die, and now we are in the city, I don't know how to start..."

"First go to the place where the third uncle will stay after entering the city, it will be related to his disappearance."

After thinking about it, Ming Dai quickly woke up, "Because my father is a cautious and stable person, after entering the city, he will carefully screen the foothold, and check in after it is deemed safe, and he will not easily change his address, either he is missing from this foothold, or he is in other places... But there will always be something left there, because according to the letter, there was a gap of more than ten days between my father's arrival in Linzhou and the date of his disappearance. During this time, he will definitely write down some of his observations and discoveries and prepare to pass them on to his uncle. If we find that foothold, we may find some clues. ”

After figuring it out, Ming Dai suddenly became enlightened and ate some food on the table.

"Linzhou City is now controlled by a cult, probably they are also afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by the people of the imperial court, so they have spent many years deploying poisonous swamp ponds and traps outside the abandoned city, and there are countless trespassers, and there are very few survivors."

Ming Dai observed the surroundings, this tea shed looked simple, but the price was very expensive, but it was still full of people, but in the distance, there were many people squatting under the trees and munching on dry food.