Leng Chuxian muttered, "Even so, you are not willing to agree to my father's conditions. ”

Chen was drunk with guilt and lowered his head, "Chu Xian, I'm sorry." ”

Leng Chuxian smiled bitterly: "I probably lost because I didn't have the opportunity to accompany you through ups and downs like Cheng Jing, otherwise I might not be as good as her." ”

Chen Zui said: "You are not inferior to anyone, it's just an emotional matter, and there is a providence in the dark." ”

Leng Chuxian said: "Then I'll just be a good person to the end, Chen Zui, you stretch out your left hand." ”

Chen Zui didn't know what she meant, but he still stretched out his left hand. Leng Chuxian's right hand was clenched into a fist and placed on his palm, and when she pulled out, there was an extra blue sky-like gem in her palm.

"What is this?"

Leng Chuxian said: "Just when I thank you for saving my father, if you really run out of food, this sapphire may be able to solve your urgent needs." ”

Chen Zui wanted to say something, Leng Chuxian's eyes suddenly looked at him, "Don't ask, don't refuse, emotionally you have already rejected me, and you even refuse to accept my little thanks?" ”

Chen Zui put the gem away, "I took it, thank you." ”

"Let's go back, Cheng Jing has been waiting for a long time."

When he was about to walk to the door of the hotel, Leng Chuxian leaned into Chen Zui's ear, "Don't tell Cheng Jing about the gem first, and when the situation is not good, you can give it to her." ”

Li Chengjing walked over, "You're done talking." ”

Leng Chu said encycly: "Take care, I'll go back first." ”

On the way back, Chen Zui didn't say a word. Li Chengjing finally couldn't help but ask him what Leng Chuxian told him alone, Chen Zui only said that Qianye told Leng Chuxian about the day of the temple fair, and she was specifically to express her gratitude for her father.

Li Chengjing nodded, and asked again: "Then when you came back, what did Chu Xian say in your ear?" ”

It turned out that Li Chengjing had been in the car all along, and their actions happened to be seen by her.

Chen drunk and said: "This... Chu Xian asked me not to tell you, but it has nothing to do with feelings, and it has no effect on the Li family or you and me, but I promised her, so I can't tell you. ”

Li Chengjing knew that he would not be a person who kept his promises, and since he had said so, he would not ask him again.

Not long after the car drove out of Liucheng, Li Chengjing didn't speak all the way.

"Cheng Jing, are you still thinking about military salaries?"

Li Chengjing said leisurely: "We came to Liucheng with the hope of just in case, and it is not surprising that we did not receive the support of the Guo family. But I'm really worried that Baoyi's side doesn't know if he can convince Master Zou, if neither side is settled...... I promised my dad that he would find a way to solve the financial crisis, and now I really don't know what to do. ”

Chen Zui said: "Chengjing, don't worry, no matter whether you can get the support of external forces or not, no matter how difficult it is in the future, I will be by your side and go hand in hand with you." ”

With his words, Li Chengjing suddenly felt more confident in her heart.

They didn't want to travel at night, so they found a hotel and rested for another night, and set off again in the early morning of the next day, and returned to Ningzhou at about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Zou Baoer returned to Ningzhou four days ago, and saw that Chen and Li went to Ningzhou and returned in vain. Zou Bao'er told Li Chengjing that as soon as their brother and sister returned to Guicheng, they would persuade her father to support the Li family, and that her brother was trying his best to facilitate the matter, and believed that there would be good news soon.

In the blink of an eye, almost a month has passed, and what is waiting for is not the military salary sent by Zou Baoyi, but the news of the Yin army's declaration of war, and what is even more different from the past is that the Yin army is divided into three armies, Nanwu in the east, Baichuan in the west, and Zhaolin in the south.

Li Qiyu convened an emergency military meeting and deployed commanders from all walks of life under his command to rush to three places to support. At the same time, the commanders of the three places were telegraphed, and before the reinforcements arrived, they would fight to the end even if they were a soldier and a soldier. Even the five divisions stationed in Ningzhou sent four divisions to the three places to support.

Five days after the battle began, the two places in the southeast were unable to hold on to the Yin army, and they could not lose for the time being. However, the battle in the west was extremely unfavorable, and by the afternoon of the second day, Baichuan had already been lost. Commander Cheng led the remnants of the soldiers to retreat to hundreds, and the offensive of the Yin army did not decrease at all, and if this continued, the western defense line was in danger.

Li Qiyu sent Li Chengjing, Chen Zui and others to rush to hundreds of supports, and Zou Baoer insisted on going with her, but everyone still couldn't help her. After a few people arrived at the hundreds, they assisted Commander Cheng to attack the enemy and defend the city, but after the Yin army learned the first two defeats, this time no matter how they showed weakness to lure the enemy, how to surprise, the Yin army always stuck to Jintang, no longer greedy for merit, and was determined to fight endurance with Li Jiajun.

Although they helped Commander Cheng hold on to hundreds to prevent Yin's army from stepping further west, the two sides were deadlocked, and in terms of the battle situation, it only entered a temporary equilibrium.

The Yin army could not attack the city, but it was also able to resist the counterattack of the Li family's army. Nearly another month passed, and all three sides entered a stalemate. The Li family's food and salary are being attrition day by day, and the reserve supply is getting smaller and smaller, and if the war drags on for another four months, the Li family's army will not be able to defeat all fronts.

At this step in the field, Li Chengjing could no longer sit still, she decided to go to Guicheng to find Zou Baoyi in person to see how his fundraising was. Li Chengjing didn't expect Zou Baoyi to really fund the Li family's army for millions of oceans, she only hoped that she could buy a little more time for the Li family as much as possible, so that the war would have a new turn.

Chen Zui accompanied her to Guicheng, remembering the gem Leng Chuxian gave him when he left Liucheng, and said that he asked Chen Zui to hand it over to Li Chengjing when he had no choice but to do so. Now that it has almost reached the most critical juncture, Chen Zui made up his mind that if Zou Baoyi's side could not raise half a cent of military salary, he would hand over this gem to Li Chengjing. I was just thinking about a gem that Leng Chuxian gave casually, can it really be priceless?

The two took advantage of the darkness to sneak out of the hundreds, and recently the two sides entered a period of cessation, and they abandoned the car and rode back from the trail, so they did not encounter any obstacles along the way. In the middle of the night, when people were sleepy and tired, they rested in place.

Li Chengjing sat under a tree, quietly looking at the bright starry sky tonight, her face worried. Chen Zui sat beside her, pulled her against his chest, and wanted to say about the gem several times, but then thought of Leng Chuxian, she treated herself deeply, and only asked herself for such a thing, how could she say it.

Fortunately, there are only a few days left, and it will be too late to talk about it by then, and it can also give Li Chengjing a big surprise. Thinking of this, he comforted softly: "Chengjing, do you believe what I said?" ”

Li Chengjing let out a soft "um".

"I said that no matter what happens, I will be by your side, and I promise you that I will definitely think of a way to retreat from the enemy, otherwise I will swear to live and die with you and the Li family."

Li Chengjing looked back at him, "Isn't there still hope now?" Why do you want to say it so seriously. Bao'er said that Baoyi would do his best to facilitate this matter, Baoyi's intelligence and insight are not below you and me, and I believe that he can at least raise a sum of money to solve the urgent needs of our army. ”

Chen Zui stroked her hair lightly, "Then why are you still worried." ”

Li Chengjing said: "The war has not been settled and has broken out again and again, when will we have a stable day." ”

Chen Zui suddenly put his arm on Li Chengjing's shoulders, "Chengjing, that ......"

"To put it bluntly, why have you become sloppy?"

Chen Zui gritted his teeth and said, "How about we make an agreement?" If I think of a way to retire Yin Jun this time, I will propose to your father and ask you to marry me. ”

Li Chengjing stared at him.

Chen Zui hurriedly said: "Don't you want to?" ”

Li Chengjing's face turned around, but she smiled freely, "How could I have said that I would not do it?" ”

Chen Zui hugged her, Li Chengjing's head leaned on his chest, and kissed her forehead, "When Yin Jun is retired, I will go and tell your father in a dignified manner, I don't want any reward, I want to marry you." ”

Li Chengjing said: "My father never objected, and when it really comes, of course he will agree." ”

"Then I ask you, in case, I mean, if your father doesn't agree, will you marry me?"

Li Chengjing slapped his chest lightly, and said angrily: "I hate it, how can there be someone like you ask, what do you want me to say from your daughter's family?" ”

Chen Zui hugged her tighter, and Li Chengjing pressed against his chest and said, "We have been through so much together, I will not marry a second person except you." ”

As soon as it was dawn, they continued their journey. After a ride, Li Chengjing suddenly changed direction, she wanted to go back to Ningzhou first to see what the situation was on her father's side. Tell her father about this, so that he doesn't worry about the military situation day and night.

When they arrived in Ningzhou, the two went back to the Shuai Mansion together, and Adjutant Long told Li Chengjing that her father had been in the study for the past few days. Li Chengjing went upstairs to meet her father first.

Pushing open the door, Li Qiyu looked at the layout on the wall and was silent.

"Daddy."

Li Qiyu came back to her senses and was surprised to see her daughter come back, and Li Chengjing told the situation of the temporary truce and confrontation on the front line. As she expected, her father had been worried about the military situation on the front line, and knew that if such a stalemate continued, the situation of the Li family would be worrying.

Li Chengjing comforted: "Dad, don't worry about it first, I came back this time to settle the matter of military salary." Li Chengjing told her father Zou Baoyi that he had raised part of the military salary for them, and she would go to Guicheng with Chen Zui to bring the military salary back. Originally, Zou Baoyi didn't raise it, and Li Chengjing couldn't be very sure, but in order to comfort her father's heart, she said the matter in a nutshell.

Li Qiyu patted her on the shoulder and smiled happily, "Jing'er, then it's hard for you to run with Chen Zui." ”

"Dad, I am confident that I can defeat Yin Jun and never let Yin Jun touch half of my South China."

Li Qiyu looked at her daughter in her prime, who should have been a carefree lady like Zou Bao'er Leng Chuxian, but she had to bear what a man should do, her heart was sour, and she said softly: "Jing'er, it's Dad who is not angry, he didn't give birth to a son, and let you have a daughter's family to take on so many responsibilities, Dad really can't stand you." ”