When I came to Huanfeng Pass, I found that there have been great changes here, Huanfeng Pass, which used to rely only on the mountain as a barrier, has built a city wall, and the city is also a lot more lively, and some of the families of soldiers have moved to Guancheng.

In a place where there were no people before, there were people who started trading here.

"Princess? Lord, the princess is here! As soon as Tong Xiaowu entered the city, someone shouted on the wall of the pass.

She looked up and just saw Xuanyuan Yuchen looking down, he ran down with an excited face: "Lady, are you here?" ”

"Hmm!" She laughed, she hadn't seen him for more than a month, he had lost a lot of weight and darkened a lot.

"You've lost weight, haven't you eaten well?" Xuanyuan Yuchen's brows were locked together, looking at her with a faint distress on his face.

"Shall I go up and have a look?" Tong Xiaowu avoided the topic and pointed to it.

Recently, she has been too busy at work, and she has established thirteen factories in three months, with such a fast pace, can she not lose weight?

And sometimes for work, she can't even eat hot food, and for the sake of technology, she often eats and lives in the factory for three or five days.

Now that it has finally stabilized, although the output of iron production cannot go up, at least it is operating normally, so that I have free time and have time to repair the palace.

If An Luo hadn't asked her to come out today, she would still be busy with the factory!

Xuanyuan Yuchen nodded, dragged her to the city gate, and pointed to the green hillside grassland in the far north:

"Do you see that mountain in the distance? It's called Lianqing Mountain, fifty years ago, it was still our Xuanyuan land, and now, from Huanfeng Pass to the north, it is already the territory of the North Hell's Xilin Department. ”

"Xilin Ministry?" Tong Xiaowu said in a low voice: "Isn't that the Xilin Department that Zhiming Lin Gongzi said?" ”

"That's right! It's them, they're so close to us, but I can't do anything about it, this is all slow-sloped land, there are no natural barriers, and everything we need is inside the Xilin Department, I'm really ......"

Xuanyuan Yuchen looked into the distance, his fingers clenched together.

He has been stationed in Huanfeng Pass for more than two months, and even some official affairs in Beizhou have been transferred to work here, in order to find evidence that Empress Rongzheng colluded with Beiming to plan the Jingbei tragedy, but now, he has no clue at all.

Although they also violated on a small scale, his purpose was not to kill all the people in the Xilin Department, and he could not act rashly until he found evidence.

"I heard that the Xilin Department is one of the few settled nomadic tribes, and the Xilin Department can reach more than 3,000 people by sending troops casually, so it is not ...... to think that their tribe is not small," Tong Xiaowu said.

"Yes, the Xilin Department has a city of 100,000 people in the Hongshan generation, all of them are settled herdsmen, and the surrounding pastures reach more than 3,000 miles, and because they belong to the largest tribe in the southern part of the Northern Underworld, they are now integrating other surrounding tribes."

Xuanyuan Yuchen frowned and spoke, his tone full of heaviness.

"What do you say? Are they integrating other tribes? ”

This is what Tong Xiaowu is most worried about, the Northern Netherworld is sparsely populated, and most of them are nomadic, so for so many years, even if they occasionally enter the Leanbei Mountain and invade Xuanyuan Beizhou, at most they will rob and kill.

If they were fighting other tribes, there was a good chance that they would have a big fight with Xuanyuan.

"Yes! The spies we sent out reported that Gamahan, the leader of the Xilin Tribe, was expanding his army, and that Xilin City was speeding up trade and commerce recently, and that the Xilin Department had sent foreign affairs to other tribes more than a dozen times, and I wanted to personally investigate the situation in the Northern Underworld, but ......"

When Tong Xiaowu heard this, he grabbed his wrist, "You can't act rashly, don't forget, you are the King of Xuan in Beizhou!" ”

She knew that his mother's hatred was a pain in his heart that could never be forgiven, and he always wanted to find the murderer.

For so many years, the people of Desireless Gate have also been investigating this matter, and when he was in Shanshui Village before, if it weren't for the unknown murderer, he would have returned to the capital a long time ago.

However, now, the evidence is in the Xilin Department, but he can't get it, and now he must be very anxious.

"Lady, what if...... If I go to the North Underworld, will you help me protect the North State, right? The corners of Xuanyuan Yuchen's eyes were scarlet, and he grabbed Tong Xiaowu's shoulders tightly, with a hopeful gaze in his eyes.

Tong Xiaowu suddenly sneered, looked up at him, bit her lip, and said in a firm tone, "Where are you going?" Where am I going, do you think Beizhou, Xuanyuan is important to me? If it weren't for you, would I be here? Yuchen, don't want to leave me behind......"

Xuanyuan Yuchen's brows furrowed slightly, for a long time, he just looked at her like that, and then held her in his arms and hugged her hard.

Tong Xiaowu felt his fiery chest and felt his heart beating "thump", but she found that his thoughts were getting farther and farther away, and his soul had already drifted through Beizhou in the mountains and flew to Xilin City far away in the grassland.

That night, Xuanyuan Yuchen cooked for her and cooked her a lot of things she liked to eat.

"Lady, you try this, this is our vegetarian balls in Nanzhou, I made it myself. There is this, these lotus roots are all sent from Buzhou, there is no one in the north, and this, this is a specialty of Beizhou, this is called dried grass mushrooms, after soaking, the fried meat is particularly delicious......"

"Well...... "Tong Xiaowu used to give him vegetables, but today it's the other way around, and he personally makes vegetables for her."

She looked up at the busy Xuanyuan Yuchen, and her heart was in chaos: Yuchen, do you really want to leave me to go to the Xilin Department?

She wanted to ask, but she was afraid to hear his firm answer!

Will she be able to stop him? That's a piece of his heart, if he can't find his mother's murderer, I'm afraid he won't stop for the rest of his life.

Tong Xiaowu lowered his head and took a bite of food, and nodded, "It tastes good, there is progress, Yuchen, let me ask you, do you speak the Northern Underworld dialect now?" ”

Xuanyuan Yuchen's movements stopped, put down the chopsticks in his hand, sat down, stroked her hair, and nodded, "Don't worry, I will definitely come back alive." ”

"If I don't come today, how long are you going to hide it from me?"

Tong Xiaowu's eyes were slightly red, she didn't like to cry, but she couldn't help it.

She really didn't dare to think about what it would be like for him to leave secretly if she hadn't come today? Fortunately, she came by herself today, if she didn't come, did he plan to disappear in her life silently?

"I ......" Xuanyuan Yuchen really didn't want to say goodbye to her face-to-face, he was afraid of her tears, he was afraid of her retention, he was afraid that he would become cowardly, and he didn't want to pursue the Jingbei tragedy anymore, and he really wanted to be with her when his mother died.