In the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the osmanthus flowers in Anqing City are fragrant, and after a heavy rain, the ground is golden all over.

Zhao Kou's army pressed the border, and Huaiyu personally came to the Anqing city wall, looking at the spread of Anqing official road.

Less than one hundred and twenty miles north along the official road, there was Shen Jing's army of 100,000.

Standing on top of the high-rise buildings on the city wall, Huaiyu seemed to be able to hear the voices of the commanding soldiers in the distance.

Unlike in the past, I heard that the imperial court sent troops to recover Anqing, but these days there is not a single pedestrian outside the city of Anqing, the people in the city do not go out, and the merchants and travelers from other towns and villages no longer come.

Therefore, the large areas of grassland on both sides of the official road outside the city are dense and verdant, and the green is refreshing.

Huaiyu held on to the battlements of the city wall, and a magnificent picture scroll appeared in front of him, and 100,000 iron horsemen stepped out of Anqing all the way north, and the places pointed by the red banner were all under the command of the Gu family's army

Now that you have embarked on this path, you must continue to do so.

A group of black cavalry galloped in the distance, and on the city wall, Uncle Eleven said in Huaiyu's ear, "It's a messenger sent by Shen Jing." ”

As the envoy approached, Huaiyu Haoran recognized that the person at the head was Shen Changan, who had not seen him for nearly six years.

The two armies are at war, and they do not come to the enemy.

Huaiyu hurriedly descended the city wall and greeted Shen Changan and his party with a smile.

Entering the city, Shen Changan turned over and dismounted, threw the reins in his hand to a soldier behind him, and walked towards Huaiyu with a faint smile.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and Huaiyu took the lead and said, "Shen has worked hard to make the dust all the way." ”

Shen Chang'an, as the son of Shen Zhijie, the current secretary of the Criminal Department, is talented, gentle and modest, and has never practiced martial arts.

But when he heard that his uncle was sent to Anqing, he took the initiative to invite Ying to come with the army.

His friendship with Huaiyu was well known in Kyoto when he was young, and after Zhao Kou thought about it, he granted his request.

Huaiyu met him in Anqing, thousands of miles away from Kyoto.

"It's been a long time, Huaiyu is fine."

Huaiyu smiled.

"Why, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you don't recognize me as a sister?"

Shen Changan is a few months younger than himself, when he was a child, he was taller than him and Xu Xiaopang, Shen Changan was the youngest of them, and often called himself "Sister Huaiyu Sister Huaiyu".

Now, after a few years, the original little fart has grown taller than himself.

The opening is no longer "Sister Huaiyu", but a flat and straightforward "Huaiyu".

Shen Changan paused and asked Huaiyu if he had anything to eat.

It just so happened that he hadn't eaten it yet, so Huaiyu smiled and took him to a humble noodle shop, beckoned the shopkeeper to serve a few bowls of beef noodles, and ordered a few bowls for a few soldiers who came with Shen Changan.

Shen Changan smiled, "I haven't seen you for a few years, so you invite me to eat this?" ”

Huaiyuwu put a chopstick noodle into his mouth, swallowed it, raised his eyebrows and said, "Anqing is barren, and now that the war is imminent, there is a lot of noise in the city, in this place on the border of Anqing City, it is good to have a mouth of beef noodles to eat." ”

Seeing that Huaiyu was proficient in eating, obviously coming here often to eat noodles, Shen Changan stopped talking, ate a few bites quickly, put down his chopsticks, and looked around.

Huaiyu is right, Anqing City is a military focus, and ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry are deployed to defend the energetic Gu family army.

As far as the eye can see, except for the soldiers in iron armor, there are few pedestrians and ordinary people in the city, and a few vendors operate the same beef noodles as this one.

Seeing that Huaiyu was still eating noodles seriously, Shen Changan didn't bother and sat upright.

After a while, Huaiyu finally finished eating noodles, took out dozens of copper plates from his sleeve and handed them to the owner of the noodle shop, thanked him with a smile, and led Shen Changan to the temporary military command point where she stayed.

Shen Changan didn't say why he came here, and Huaiyu didn't ask, just thought that the other party was a friend who hadn't seen him for many years, and now he came here to play.

There was a long silence all the way.

"I'm here for two things."

Huaiyu pulled a dog tail grass on the side of the road and pinched it in his hand, nodded slightly at Shen Changan, and motioned for him to continue.

"First, I want to come and see you, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you are much calmer than when you were a child."

"I haven't seen you for so many years, and you are much calmer than when you were a child."

Shen Changan smiled, "Second, I want to ask you, what are you going to do next?" ”

"What to do?"

Huaiyu took the dog tail grass in his hand in his mouth and asked casually.

She knew what Shen Changan meant, like many officials in the Daqing Imperial Court, for Shen Changan, every word and deed she did was rebellion, disobedience, and a thief in the eyes of the world.

He asked this question today, which was nothing more than trying to persuade himself to submit to the imperial court.

"General Fan's 100,000 elite soldiers are stationed in Yangcheng, and they can take the lead at any time to meet my uncle, how sure are you that you can defend Anqing?"

Huaiyu spit out the dog tail grass in his mouth and looked at Shen Changan seriously.

It seems that this person has not grown much over the years, how did he ask such an indescribable question?

Huaiyu was puzzled in his heart, and he was not ready to ask the puzzle in his heart, so he only said, "It's getting late today, if Shen Lai is an envoy to negotiate with me, then let's wait for me to call my generals and let's talk in the council hall." ”

This means that it is a business-like attitude.

Shen Changan was slightly stunned, and then smiled, "Sister Gu is still this straight character." ”

"Chang'an is still the same, just say whatever you want."

"Well, let's not talk about business today, just talk about old feelings." Shen Changan was no longer obsessed with Fang Cai's question, his deep eyes stared at Huaiyu, and suddenly sighed, "You must have suffered a lot over the years, right?" ”

The question is a bit sensational.

Huaiyu smiled, "Do you think I seem to have suffered a lot?" ”

In the eyes of the people of the world, she easily held the rest of the Gu family's army, easily took Yundu, and developed the Gu family's army, and now it has become a big problem for the imperial court, and the imperial court wants to get rid of its own Gu family army at all costs.

All this is so glamorous, she Gu Huaiyu, how can she ever suffer?

"If I remember correctly, there were less than 10,000 left of the 200,000 Gu family army back then, and in less than six years, the remnants of less than 10,000 people were gathered into today's scale and quickly occupied the southwestern cities, Sister Gu is worthy of being the daughter of General Gu."

Huaiyu didn't want to hear what he had experienced, so he just smiled and didn't say anything.

Shen Changan seemed to sigh and said with nostalgia, "Time flies so fast, when will you return to Kyoto, and the three of us will go to Luoyan Lake again?" ”

"Okay, when I arrive in Kyoto, don't just invite me to a bowl of street stalls like I did today."

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