At this time, inside and outside the city, it can be described as turbulent.

The county guards had all been mobilized, and at the same time, a large battalion of the Chu army stationed nearby immediately dispatched 5,000 soldiers and horses to approach here;

In addition, Qu's private soldiers, also known as the "Qingluan Army", also have two teams of soldiers and horses heading here.

Under Yupan City, Uncle Zheng gave an order for Tian Wujing, slaughtering 40,000 elites of the Qingluan army in one fell swoop, and Qu Tiannan of the Great Chu Pillar State also died on the bank of the Wangjiang River, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, although the Qu family was greatly injured, but the remaining Qingluan army plus the recruits who have been added in recent years must be far from the heyday in terms of combat effectiveness, but it is also enough in the territory of Chu State.

In addition, other nearby Qu slave families similar to the Fan family also received orders from the Qu family, and each family sent private troops to move closer to Xiayong City.

A mediocre city, at this time, is attracting tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to close together, like waves surging from all directions to crash towards the only reef.

The Mi family is not the traditional aristocracy of the Chu State, but the Mi family has produced two generations of close ministers of the Son of Heaven of the Chu State, and the two generations of the Mi family heads have grown up studying with the former emperor and this generation of princes, and the contemporary Mi family head has also been appointed by the regent as the head of the Chu State Household Department, in charge of the court's money and grain affairs.

Now, the eldest lady of the Mi family has been picked off by someone.

And the four princesses,

is missing.

This kind of thing happened in the territory of Chu State, and it was impossible for the royal family not to be angry, and for the Qu clan not to be angry.

……

On the wall of Xiayong City, a thin old man sat cross-legged on the battlements, and beside him, stood a general with a sword.

The thin old man's surname is Yuan, and his name is Gangtian; The young general's surname is Li, and his name is Mu.

The four major powers in the East, after the contemporary Yan Emperor ascended the throne, the religious forces were vigorously suppressed in the whole country, changing the miasma of "gods and Buddhas in the sky" during the reign of the previous emperor;

The Qianren have always believed in qi refiners, and they feel that those people can penetrate the heavens, and they are mysterious and mysterious;

The Jin people have been formed for too long because of the pattern of the three families, and the ancestors of the Helian family are savages, and they believe in Confucianism, so there is no most powerful worship in the Jin land;

And the Chu people believe in witches.

Yuan Gangtian is one of the twelve witches of Great Chu, these twelve witches are not divided according to strength, in fact, witches are all-encompassing.

Wu culture, the earliest originated in Daxia, witches, can be surveyed, can be cured, can be divined, can be lucky, can be written, etc., so that the twelve witches of Great Chu are divided into twelve branches from the original point of Wu.

It's just that these branches have taken on new names in other countries, and they are no longer described as witches.

meantime

At that time, the Shanyue people also had their own Wuzhu culture, and after the Marquis of Chu opened the border by the order of the Great Summer Prince, the Chu people integrated and absorbed the Wuzhu culture of the Shanyue people, integrated it into themselves, and has been developing, and finally made the Wuzhu culture the only mainstream belief in Dachu.

Li Mu is not from a big family, in fact, like Nian Yao, he is also a person from the Prince Regent's mansion, and is currently the general of Songzhou City.

Located within the Qu fiefdom, the city was a product of a compromise between the great nobles and the royal family, who allowed the nobles to maintain their independence, and the nobles allowed the royal family to keep garrisons within their fiefdoms.

Therefore, Li Mu's duty is to monitor Qu's family.

But now,

Those things can be put down first, and what needs to be done now is to find the princess.

The fourth princess and Miss Mi left the line and came out alone, just to want to be free to play before they got married.

The queen mother, the regent and the biological mother of the fourth princess, took pity on her daughter who was about to marry, so she chose to turn a blind eye to this.

The atmosphere of Chu is different from that of Qianguo, although it does not have the heroism of the women of Dayan who bends their horses and bows, but it is far from the point where the women of Qianguo are bound by etiquette.

Chu people are so romantic.

However, something has already happened, someone, under the nose of a group of guards, kidnapped the princess.

Li Mu sighed,

Subconsciously reached out and touched the handle of his knife.

Yuan Gangtian smiled slightly and said:

"Annoyed?"

"Hmm." Li Mu directly admitted it.

In his opinion, a woman, even if she is a princess, if she loses it, she will lose it, it is not worth such hard work, and he has to let him, the general of Songzhou, come over to organize a search.

Yuan Gangtian shook his head, he didn't bother to say anything to Li Mu to change this temper, because what the regent probably appreciated was Li Mu's temper.

Everyone in the world thought that Nian Yao was named a marshal at a young age and guarded the town of Nanguan, which was from the trust of the regent, but Yuan Gangtian knew that Li Mu's kindness was not lower than that of Nian Yao.

"My Great Chu Imperial Family, a descendant of the Phoenix, although not like the Yan people, still raise Pixiu from generation to generation, but in my Great Chu Palace, there is a treasure of fire phoenix essence blood.

Each generation of core members of the royal family will be blessed with essence blood. ”

When Li Mu heard this, he said disdainfully: "Useless things." ”

He once asked the regent, can the fire phoenix essence blood strengthen the body and increase the qi and blood?

The regent's answer was no, and he could only leave a mark on his arm like a flame, which would not fall off for the rest of his life.

Since then, Li Mu has scoffed at the blood of the fire phoenix.

Yuan Gangtian stretched out his hand, and in the palm of his hand, a small bat was slowly spreading its wings, revealing its fangs, and its small eyes flashed with dark green light.

"This is a black bat carefully fed by the old man, it is very spiritual, but unfortunately, my Great Chu Fire Phoenix bloodline has long been cut off, and I can only reproduce with this subspecies that retains a trace of Fire Phoenix bloodline."

Saying,

Yuan Gangtian spread out his other palm and said:

"General Li, borrow a knife."

Li Mu drew the knife and closed the knife.

Yuan Tiangang's palm was drawn out of a bloody hole.

"Hoo ........."

Yuan Tiangang's lips trembled slightly.

"What's wrong?" Li Mu asked.

Yuan Tiangang squinted his eyes, gritted his teeth slightly, and said:

"Just make a small cut in your finger."

Li Mu didn't have the slightest guilt, but said, "Say it early next time." ”

Yuan Tiangang was helpless, turned his palm down, and blood dripped on the black bat, while silently reciting a witch spell in his mouth.

The hair on the black bat's body began to show a translucent color, not glowing, but the color of the fur instantly became extremely delicate, and the spirit was also lifted all at once.

"Go, find the fire phoenix breath."

The black bat flew away from Yuan Tiangang's palm and flew into the air.

Li Mu looked at the black bat flying far away and said, "Below, just wait?" ”

Yuan Tiangang took out the gold sore medicine with some pain and began to apply it to his palm, and at the same time said:

"How do you find it, you still have to find it, I have my way. The black bat is one of the methods, and the other method is to use the divination method of witchcraft to deduce.

The fourth princess is my Dachu royal family in the end, and her life is clear, so she should be able to deduce something. ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "You also helped Nian Yao like this at the beginning, right?" ”

In the past, the Emperor of Chu died, and many princes of Great Chu competed for the throne.

Nian Yao, the commander of the fourth prince, led the imperial forbidden army loyal to the four princes to start a rebellion, and captured three princes one after another, one of whom was also hiding in the Shanyue tribe.

Li Mu knew that under the appearance of a clear goal for this kind of rapid march, there must be help from external forces.

For example, the way used to find the four princesses at this time, if there was Wu Zheng by Nian Yao's side to help, it would be a little natural to quickly quell the rebellion by "capturing the thief and capturing the king first" again and again, because those princes must have also been given the blood of the fire phoenix.

Yuan Gangtian began to pinch his fingers, and obscure spells kept coming out of his mouth.

Li Mu held the knife and continued to stand quietly beside this Wu Zheng.

The evening breeze blows through the walls of Xiayong City, bringing the bitterness of winter.

…

In the small courtyard of Fan's mansion in spring,

The old woman sat there, looking gloating for a while and restless for a while.

In the separate courtyard where the main house of the head of the family is located, Fan Zhengwen sat in the house, facing Weng Zanghai and drinking tea.

Now, most of the people in the Fan Mansion and the children of the Fan Mansion have gone out to participate in the search for the princess, and at the same time, the Fan family, as the first family of the lower Yong, has also mobilized the grain shops in the city and began to prepare grain and grass for the upcoming soldiers and horses.

These are all things that the Fan family should do.

Of course, what shouldn't have been done, they did.

"Family master, I heard that the Great Chu royal family has fire phoenix blood in its body."

Fan Zhengwen nodded,

Turning around, he looked in the direction where the conservatory was.

Weng Zanghai asked in a low voice, "Will she make a move?" ”

Fan Zhengwen smiled,

Road:

"It's the same as doing business, whoever is reluctant will have to go in and lose money."

Weng Zanghai touched his long beard, thoughtfully, and then said:

"But after all, it is not safe to place the princess in the Fan family like this."

"The incident happened suddenly, there is no way but to put it in Fan's house."

Fan Zhengwen paused and continued:

"Now that I'm on the boat, there's nothing to open up, and the worst case is nothing more than asking Mr. Weng to be a little tired and enter the Jin with me and my insiders."

Family business, Fan Zhengwen can completely put it aside, because he still has a way out, as long as the sixth son can inherit the unification in the future, he still has great hope to come back, and when the time comes, he can earn a bigger family business.

He is willing, and he is really willing, first there is giving, then there is gain.

But in the small courtyard of the conservatory,

After all, that old woman failed to take advantage of this silent confrontation with her grandson,

She began to stretch out her hand,

Covering the "heavenly machine" over Fanfu,

Because just now,

She sensed that someone was coming here by deduction.

……

At the same time,

Habitually sitting on the roof, Ah Ming, who is in the spirit of eating big households and not eating for nothing, is still drinking.

He Chunlai and Chen Daole did not continue to accompany him, they were waiting for the two entrances of Qingfangzhai, in fact, there is no difference between guarding and not guarding.

Ah Ming drank alone and was a little lonely.

Until he saw a bat flying in the sky.

Ah Ming beckoned,

The bat ignored him, and as if sensing something, it began to hover over Fan's mansion.

Ah Ming was unhappy,

bared his fangs,

Let out a slight growl,

The next moment,

The bat's body trembled, and there was a touch of flattery and fear in his eyes.

Falling from the sky,

It fell on Ah Ming's shoulder.

Ah Ming reached out and touched the bat's head,

Softly said:

"Good."

————

Good night.