Li Ran is a person who never forces, in the early years, she couldn't force anything, and later felt that there was no point in forcing it.

Hearing the sound of Mingdi, Li Ran's heart was put down, and she leaned back on the back of the chair a little idlely, gossiping with Zhou E, waiting for Xie Ze to come back.

Around noon, Xie Ze came back, this half a day, neither siege, nor called the formation, after an arrow shot at the head of the oak city, Xie Ze led people around the oak city for most of the circle, and then collected the troops back.

As soon as Xie Ze entered the Yuanmen, the commander who stayed outside the oak city sent someone to send a reply letter from the oak city.

Li Ran didn't enter the tent, and together with Zhou E, moved to the side where the front door of the tent could be seen, and stood and watched the curtain of the tent keep lifting and falling, watching the flowing water rush in and out.

Zhou E is an old soldier, and he can understand everything at a glance, and while watching, he explained to Li Ran.

“…… They all went out, these are all hard detectives, and Vice General Zhou and they all went out, and it seems that they are willing to see each other in Licheng.

Why? This is not simple, if you don't want to see it, then it will continue from a feint attack to a real attack, this battle is not just fought today, the bottom of what should be found before the siege has already been figured out, and there is definitely no need to send so many hard probes out at this time, let alone Zhou Bi will take them.

If you want to meet, you have to make an appointment with a place, which is not easy to find.

This thing, it's called Ma Pole to fight the wolf, two afraid, we are afraid of being attacked by us and losing our lives, we are also afraid of being attacked by them, while being afraid, we have to think about it, see if we can find an opportunity to kill the other party in one fell swoop, in case the other party is negligent Where is the loophole.

Think about it, how busy is this? If you want to find a place that is beneficial to yourself, both sides are looking for something that is beneficial to your own family, and you will definitely not be able to talk about it, that is, you will retreat, I will retreat, okay, I have found a place, I have to check it, look at the place, and I have to stare at each other.

Tut. ”

Zhou E pursed her lips and snorted.

"I'll tell you, I hate this kind of thing the most, trivial life, a look without care, can happen big, this is good at this handsome, he has been in charge of espionage for many years.

The sun is overhead, eat first?

Don't look at it, it's busy, it's early, I haven't seen it back yet, let me tell you, if you don't say anything, you have to watch two or three trips, eat first? ”

Zhou E slapped twice on the stomach, she was hungry.

"Hmm." Li Ran responded, turned around and said to Zhou E: "I'll eat with you, he probably can't care about eating well." ”

Zhou E responded, and entered her tent with Li Ran one after the other.

The two had dinner, Li Ran asked Xiqing, knowing that when Xie Ze heard what was going on, he hurriedly ate a few meat steamed buns, drank a bowl of soup, and didn't eat less, so he didn't ask more, and still sat outside the tent with Zhou E, listening to Zhou E talk about the story of the army.

Xie Ze was busy until late before he came in from the front of the tent.

Li Ran hurriedly stood up, took a few steps, looked at Xie Ze's slightly tired face, stretched out his hand to pull Xie Ze to sit down, and asked with concern, "It's all arranged?" ”

"Well, Licheng replied very quickly, it was a concise and sharp handwriting, and the letter also mentioned that the day Hong Min returned home, he thought that you should come back safely."

Xie Ze sat down, took the hot handkerchief handed by Xiqing, wiped his hands and face, and smiled with Li Ran.

"Those letters are official business, so I won't show them to you, I have already asked people to deliver them to the emperor urgently.

The place of meeting is chosen by the oak city, in the northeast of the oak city a very spacious place, there is an abandoned post station, called Yingguiyi, I also fancy the Yingguiyi area, this one, the oak city is very sincere. ”

Li Ran exhaled slowly.

"Eat first." Xie Ze smiled and motioned to Li Ran, "Don't wait for me next time, I don't eat on time, I'm used to it a long time ago, you can't do it, it's easy to hurt your spleen and stomach." ”

"I want to wait for you, I'm a little hungry just now, and I won't hurt my stomach if I eat half a bowl of crisp cheese."

Li Ran took the soup Xie Ze handed her and said with a smile.

Xiqing's hands and feet were extremely fast, and Xie Ze and Li Ran had already set up a table of food in a few words, and retreated to the door of the tent with their hands down.

The two had dinner, and Xie Ze began to explain tomorrow's arrangements to Li Ran.

"The location was chosen by Licheng, the time is our choice, I chose the end of the day and the beginning of the day, this time is beneficial to you."

Li Ran is stunned, what does it mean to be in favor of her?

"Your birth date is the end of the year." Xie Ze saw Li Ran's stunned expression, and explained with a smile.

Li Ran's eyebrows raised, she wanted to laugh and couldn't help it, she didn't expect Xie Ze to be so exquisite.

"Rather believe it, besides, this time is also the most appropriate.

From Oak City, or from us to Yinghuiyi, the journey is almost the same, it is the past half an hour, the journey in the middle of the day, the sky is bright, and each other can see clearly.

We have been staring at the movement of Licheng since the letter was ejaculated, and the Licheng side is not too late, and they are also staring at us, they want to arrange manpower, it is extremely difficult to hide from us, and we are the same.

Although I think Oak City is very sincere, however, the heart of defense is indispensable. ”

Xie Ze explained extremely carefully.

Li Ran listened intently, and didn't ask much, his arrangement was much more thoughtful than she could have imagined.

The next day, Xie Ze was quieter than the previous days, and when Li Ran woke up, Xie Ze was still asleep.

Li Ran waited for Xie Ze to wake up, the two got up, ate breakfast unhurriedly, and packed up, Shi Nan and the others were already waiting brightly.

Zhou E was dressed in light armor and stood next to her horse with a serious expression, and on the horse's back, there were two large pots of arrows on the left and right.

Xie Ze walked next to Zhou E, stopped, looked up and down, mumbled, walked past Zhou E, took the reins from Sang Zhi's hand, and handed it to Li Ran.

Li Ran followed behind Xie Ze, and when she passed Zhou E, she vaguely heard that Zhou E seemed to be relieved, and looked sideways, Zhou E met her gaze, subconsciously glanced at Xie Ze, and took a few steps forward to get on the horse.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Li Ran's footsteps pause, Xie Ze handed the reins to Li Ran and asked in a low voice.

"It's nothing, Zhou E is afraid of you? She seemed relieved when you came over just now. Li Ran got on the horse, leaned over and bowed his head, and said in a low voice to Xie Ze.

Xie Ze snorted lightly, got on the horse, and stood side by side with Li Ran, shaking the reins out, and said in a voice that Zhou E could hear: "If she is not afraid of me, she will bully me." “

Li Ran didn't expect Xie Ze to answer such a sentence, and looked back at Zhou E, Zhou E turned her head to look at the gate, but she didn't hear Xie Ze's words.

Out of the gate, everyone rode forward, ran for three quarters of an hour in one breath, and in the distance, saw a group of forty or fifty people on the opposite side, galloping head-on.

There was a shot away from the abandoned inn, and both sides reined in their horses, slowed their horses, and slowly approached.

There were still about ten paces to go, and everyone on both sides reined in their horses.

On the opposite side, Qi Yi came out of the crowd first, and Jian Mingrui followed behind, half a horse behind.

"This is the girl." Qi Yi stared at Li Ran, smiled meaningfully, and asked.

"It's me." Li Ran met Qi Yi's gaze and looked at Jian Mingrui from Qi Yi.

Qi Yi's words had countless meanings, and she understood them, but she didn't bother to think about them, and she didn't bother to deal with them.

These sarcasm, as long as she doesn't care about it and doesn't get angry, is meaningless, she never has the time and energy to pay attention to, she only deals with the substantive harm that she has to deal with.

Xie Ze squinted at Qi Yi, and after Li Ran's voice was me, he raised his horsewhip at Qi Yi and Jian Mingrui and said, "Right here?" ”

Qi Yi saw Xie Ze from Li Ran, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "It's right here." As he spoke, he turned over and dismounted.

The little guys on both sides moved very fast, propping up the umbrella, putting the folding chairs, putting the table, tacitly touching the two tables next to each other, leaving a gap of about an inch in the middle.

The four of them sat down separately, and put the tea made by each small family in front of each other, Qi Yi lifted Erlang's legs, picked up the front of the robe and shook it, put it away carefully, looked at Xie Ze and said with a smile: "Ling Zheng's appearance is far inferior to the handsome, and the virtuous couple looks really interesting." ”

"In my eyes, I have the appearance of a clumsy man, and as for how outsiders look, I never pay attention to it, and I have never paid attention to it."

Xie Ze's voice was faint.

"Childe said that according to the character of the handsome, marrying this girl must be because of his love, just listen to the words of the handsome, you know that this is indeed the case."

Qi Yi bowed slightly to Xie Ze.

"What are you going to say about me?" Jian Mingrui looked at Li Ran, smiled and asked slowly.

"I don't know yet."

Li Ran sighed.

"The day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, I stood at the gate of the cart and watched the cart full of corpses, pulled back by cart, piled up and incinerated into ashes.

Are there many dead people in Oak City? ”

Li Ran looked at Jian Mingrui and asked.

"Compared with the siege, the number of people who died defending the city was slightly less, and in those two days, more than 100 people died."

Concise and sharp, with a gentle voice.

"How can you fight a war without dying."

"Yes, in the big battle a few days ago, more people died."

Li Ran's expression was gloomy.

"A while ago, there were seventy-six people who escorted me from Jin County into Shudi, and when I returned to the camp a few days ago, with me, there were only twenty-one people.

Among the dead people, there was a surname Ma, whose nickname was Ma Leg, who said that his father died without giving him a big name, and simply followed the nickname and called Ma Leg. When he is old, they all call him Lao Ma.

Lao Ma followed General Zhou to fight for more than ten years, and his body was injured, such as an arrow in the knee socket of his left leg, except that he walked not very neatly, and when it rained on a cloudy day, his leg was sore, and he was very accurate.

He was very proud of this leg, and as soon as the leg was sore, he put his hands behind his back, held his head high, and shouted everywhere: It's going to rain, put away the clothes, close the window!

Lao Ma went out to escape the famine when he was very young, he didn't remember where his hometown was, he didn't have a family, he was old, General Tuo Zhou found him a place to eat a hot meal, at the end of last year, he entered the Rong'an Palace, on an errand in the gatehouse.

He entrusted me with the most comfortable life when he was the gatekeeper for most of the year, and he didn't want to enter the Martyrs' Shrine after his death, and wanted to continue to stay in the gatehouse of the palace. ”

Jian Mingrui looked at Li Ran silently, Qi Yi's eyebrows raised, and he squinted at Li Ran.

Xie Ze squinted at Qi Yi.

"There is a duffle in Qingfeng Building, her husband was taken away by her husband, she doesn't even know who took her husband away, almost 20 years, she has always felt that her husband is still alive, maybe he is trying to find a way to go home, her home is seventy or eighty miles away from the capital, she has to go back every other month, every time she feels, maybe she can see her husband when she goes back."

Li Ran looked at Jian Mingrui.

"The general told me that there were not many dead people, only two or three hundred.

I'm sad, everyone in two or three hundred miles has parents and relatives, joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and they can all write a story or a play.

I asked the general. ”

Li Ran pointed at Xie Ze.

"He thought about the piles of people who died, who were pulled back in piles, who were burned in piles, who were just like me and him, and he said he didn't think about it, what about you? Have you ever thought about it? ”

"Nope." After a moment of silence, Jian Mingrui glanced at Xie Ze and replied.

"What the hell is the girl trying to say? It's a bit of a circle. Qi Yi answered.

Li Ran glanced at him, and then said to Jian Mingrui:

"In the books I have read, many of them are written about Princess Leping, but there are only a few words, and many are only a few lines, the beauty is the best in the world, and the father and brother are dead and alone, and they are missing.

Princess Leping escaped in the battle outside Rong'an City, how did she escape? What have you experienced? No one cares how scared, how desperate, how painful it is. ”

Jian Mingrui's face turned pale, and Qi Yi squinted at Li Ran.

Xie Ze took a cup of hot tea from Xiqing's hand and put it in front of Li Ran.

"In the eyes of those literati, Princess Leping is just a title, and in your eyes, all living people with flesh and blood, crying and laughing, are just numbers.

I want to say a few words to you, that's all. ”

Li Ran's eyelids drooped slightly, looking at the cup of steaming tea in front of him.

"Although I was detained in a small courtyard, I didn't understand people, and I didn't think that I could persuade a word to fall, but I am already very grateful that my son can listen to these words.

This battle outside the oak city, tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of joys and sorrows, hundreds of thousands of tragedies, countless spring boudoir dream people, buried here, the record of later generations, is just the imperial court to conquer Shu, take oak city, or Ke ......"

"The girl is so sure that it is the imperial court to conquer Shu?"

Qi Yi cut off Li Ran's words and said with a hint of sneer.

"Well, that's Shu Zheng Zhoudi."

Li Ran replied very quickly.

Xie Ze laughed as he picked up the teacup and raised it to Qi Yi.

A hint of red flashed on Qi Yi's face, and he snorted.

Jian Mingrui wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh, and after a moment, he sighed and owed to Li Ran.

"The princess's benevolence is from the same source as Ling's grandfather, and she has been taught."

Jian Mingrui said as he stood up, took two steps back, bowed slightly to Li Ran, and said in a low voice to Qi Yi: "Let's go." ”

(End of chapter)