Qinshan country, Wan'an City.

It's close to noon.

The most prosperous area in the center of the imperial capital, Wan'an Metropolis. The metropolis here is not the meaning of the city, but the largest gathering place of the large chamber of commerce in the entire Qinshan country, and even the entire northern continent, and it is the absolute commercial center of gravity of the Qinshan country. Countless foreign merchants traveled from the countries of the Western Regions, some from the major city-states of the Southern Regions, and some from the islands of the East China Sea. At this time, in addition to the Northern Regions and the Underworld, there are still business travelers from almost all regions of the continent gathered here.

The metropolis occupies an area of nearly 2,500 acres in the center of the capital, among which the headquarters of various famous guilds in Wan'an City are located, the market is prosperous and spacious, and there are countless singing houses and restaurants. The metropolis is lined with high and low houses and shops, and all kinds of small shops are crowded for a seat. Every day you can see the endless flow of cars and horses in the metropolis, the caravans coming and going, and every day you can hear the never-ending footsteps and the lingua franca of foreign visitors mixed with various accents.

In terms of scale alone, it is said that the two cities of Chang'an and the east and west of the Central Plains Datang are added together, which is almost the same area as the Wan'an Metropolitan Business District. And its geographical location is in the center of the entire Wan'an City. On the south side is the mansion of Wan'an Murong Family, a first-class family in Wan'an City, and it is recognized that the Murong Family has been noble for generations, and it is definitely enough to rank among the top five in Wan'an Family. And to the west of it, it is actually the family house of Wan'an's Li clan, the largest family in Wan'an. If these are not nothing, to the north of the metropolis is the location of the Imperial Palace of Qinshan Kingdom, which is resplendent and magnificent in scale. Moreover, the Jingliu Grand Canal, which starts in Wan'an City and leads directly to Liuyang City in the north, crosses the metropolitan area.

The merchant travel is endless, the merchant ships are bustling, Wan'an is very prosperous, and the metropolis of Midtown occupies seven of them.

In the center of the metropolis, there is a famous Qinlou Chu Lane in the capital, which is called Fengming Pavilion. Fengming Pavilion is the premier place for pleasure in the capital. The building stands out from the surrounding buildings, and is built to a height of seven floors. There are countless geisha in it, and the quality is better than the first floor.

However, at this moment, the highest roof of Fengming Pavilion. There are only five bedrooms on the seventh floor, and the one furthest from the stairs is undoubtedly the most noble. This bedroom in the elegant Lanhe is often the favorite place for the children in the surrounding mansions. Wan'an's recent Oiran has almost all been on the seventh floor to be dispatched, and ordering any one of them can bring a full house of spring color, which makes people feel happy. And absolutely no one thought that in the Lanhe Ya room where Fengming Pavilion was temporarily closed, there were actually two women living at this time.

Hua Rongyu from the Tang Dynasty Yin Sha Sect and her apprentice Shang Meng. Since the two of them were placed together by He Yue and Sima Yin outside Blackwater City, it has been almost a month since Hua Rongyu took Shang Meng to live here.

She had already checked Shang Meng's bloodline many times, and that trace of Nan Kelu naturally couldn't escape her eyes. Some fellow monks were trying to spy on them, but they must not have expected that this was exactly what Hua Rongyu wanted. But she didn't rush to take her out of here and get down to business. First, his cultivation on the Lingzhou Continent has been restricted to a certain extent, and secondly, the spring here is very good, and he is really reluctant to leave.

Even the old mothers of the girls here are also skilled, and she is also a great beauty who is proficient in sexual affairs. The yin qi is full of yin like the sea, and there is no taboo to share a bed with a woman. It was Hua Rongyu who relied on his superb means to let the old bustard **** here many times, and the old mother agreed to let the master and apprentice live on the seventh floor for as long as they wanted.

And at this moment, after a night of lingering with the first prostitute of Fengming Pavilion last night, Hua Rongyu, who was still full of peach, was gasping rapidly, sitting on the bed, her dress was scattered, and the spring light was leaking. took the tea handed by Shang Meng with concern and hurriedly took a sip. After she swallowed the tea, she was stunned for a while, and her mouth was babbling, but it was the name of her favorite baby apprentice Ji Yanliu.

"Smoke willow... Smoke willow..."

Last night, the master and apprentice each ordered two different girls. Although Shang Meng still hates seeing men, she is extremely wild in the affairs of women, and she is not timid and shy at all. After squeezing out the evil aura from her sister last night, she and Hua Rongyu both slept for a while. Shang Meng woke up relatively early the next morning, because in her sleep, she inadvertently sensed a threat again through the divine consciousness in the soul jade, exactly the same as the previous time, from the mysterious rosary. The two girls had left last night, but when they saw that the master was very abnormal, and was still in a sweet dream, the corners of their mouths rose slightly upward.

Shang Meng didn't care so much, and when he woke up, he had already sat down to consolidate his breath. About an hour later, that is, before this moment, Hua Rongyu suddenly woke up from his dream. Shang Meng was surprised to notice that her face was flustered, but her face was full of peach that could not be retreated. Hua Rongyu, who was cultivating in the Central Plains to reach the end of the separation period, actually had a magic barrier at this moment, his hands trembled, and he had words in his mouth.

She hurriedly transported the breath in her body to help Master stabilize the situation. He poured a cup of tea for Hua Rongyu, gently stroked his master's hand, and slowly said comforting words. But when she heard the name of Qinghua Rongyu, she suddenly had an extremely bad premonition.

"Master, did you dream of Senior Sister Yanliu?" When Hua Rongyu finished drinking the tea in his hand in a daze and his mood finally stabilized, Shang Meng asked cautiously.

Hua Rongyu didn't know how to answer, so he could only show a rather embarrassed smile.

Last night, she had a dream. She didn't like to sleep after cultivating, so she rarely dreamed, and even less was able to remember a dream so clearly, and even hardly ever had a nightmare! However, she had a clear nightmare, just after she had replenished that girl's Yin Yuan last night.

She remembered the dream perfectly. All her abnormal behavior just now was because of this nightmare that made her extremely worried.

- I don't know why, but Rong Yu's eyes have been in a secret room in the Yin Sha Sect all the time. She didn't know where this secret room was located in the sect, and she felt like she had never had such a secret room before. The chamber was dark, but there were rows of glowing green jade on the walls.

She immediately sensed that this row was full of natal soul jade from the six generations of disciples. Hua Rongyu was also in the row of soul jade on the wall all of a sudden, and felt the piece of Ji Yanliu. Her soul jade was placed in the center, and the green light was more obvious than everything around her, symbolizing her active personality and lively breath. Looking at that piece of soul jade, Hua Rongyu couldn't help but show a smile. This is her most precious apprentice.

However, what happened next was a nightmare that even a monk could not resist. A monk whose whole body was wrapped in black gas, Hua Rongyu had no idea where this person came from. He walked straight to the wall, and her heart lifted at once. Sure enough, after looking around, he slowly stretched out his hand to Ji Yanliu's piece of natal soul jade.

Hua Rongyu wanted to stop him loudly, and wanted to use the breath of his whole body to attack him, but he sadly found that he did not exist in this dream. She was watching it all as a third person. When that strange person held Ji Yanliu's soul jade in his hand and slowly stuffed it into the black robe. He turned his head, and all she saw was two spots of green fire, and the whole dream was shattered at once. Hua Rongyu felt that the world was spinning for a moment, as if he had fallen into infinite darkness, and he wanted to struggle but seemed to be pressed by a ghost, unable to move. His limbs were numb and weak, but he seemed to be able to hear Shang Meng's breathing in his ears. She fell into a nightmare.

Even since she was a child, she had never been shrouded in nightmares for so long. Hua Rongyu closed his eyes tightly, and he didn't know how long it took before he felt relaxed and woke up completely.

As soon as she opened her eyes, the last scenes of the dream immediately recurred in front of her eyes. This temporarily shattered her mind, because she dreamed of Ji Yanliu's soul jade, taken away by a ghost-like alien. She made those unusual moves, and she was completely out of shape.

And now after calming down. She thought it was strange. Hua Rongyu believes in women's intuition, so she trusts her intuition even more. She felt that the dream had no practical meaning. This is someone maliciously giving her a dream.

Glancing back at Shang Meng beside her, her beautiful face was full of doubts and concern. Hua Rongyu realized that she had been stumbling for a long time, touched her head, and said with a smile, "As soon as I dreamed of her, she woke up somehow, nothing serious, Meng'er doesn't have to worry." ”

"Come, let Master check the bloodline for you again. ”

On this continent, which monk would know about Ji Yanliu, and which monk had a holiday with her to scare her like this? She couldn't come up with an answer for a while, but when she saw Shang Meng who was relaxed, she suddenly opened her mouth.

After coming to Lingzhou, the string of prayer beads that made Shang Meng's soul jade feel in crisis all the time. His master is a native of the Central Plains.

Of course, Hua Rongyu didn't know anything about Nan Kelu in Shang Meng's body at this time. She knew the Dream Clan, but she didn't know Nan Kelu. For a long time, Hua Rongyu thought that the spiritual liquid that was splashed on the apprentice's skirt that day just had an ordinary marking and tracking function.

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In the Great Qin Imperial City on the north side of the metropolis, the dragon qi is entrenched, and the golden light is shining in the Tianyuan Palace.

This palace is the main hall of the old emperor Ying Wenzheng for more than 50 years. The early dynasty that began in the early morning morning, Baiguan slowly walked into the Tianyuan Hall from the Xiwu Gate on the west side, and was surprised to find that there were rumors that the old emperor had been suffering from a chronic illness recently, and had not been in the early court for more than two months before that. The last time the old emperor went to court was because the war between the two countries had just begun. As a result, today, the civil and military officials actually saw the aging emperor with a weak face and coughing on the dragon seat in the center.

Hundreds of civil and military officials bowed down and kowtowed again and again, and the mountain shouted long live. On second thought, it is not surprising that His Majesty personally attended the Early Dynasty today.

His Royal Highness the Prince, just two or three days ago, the front line of Xingyangcheng quickly sent the wartime Xinying to spread the news of the prince's siege to the capital. This time, the fate of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is uncertain, how can the old emperor still sit still!

Even though he was riddled with chronic illnesses and his body was weak, and the prince's distress was like a worse situation, when the civil and military officials made a big salute, he kept covering his face and coughing, trying his best to control it but couldn't. The old man's face was already very ugly after the officials below had saluted, and his breathing became a little short. But he knew that the matter was already very serious.

"Zhong Aiqing, I must also know the predicament that King Ming encountered on the front line. I... I have already decided, I will devote all my strength to the court, and I will also rescue the crown prince!"

When the old man said this, he was out of breath, but everyone felt his determination.

"Li Anliang and Murong Yu, you are the first rank hussar general in the DPRK, I want you to go to the north immediately to help Yang Cheng. After retiring from the court, let King Liang inform the two of the specific arrangements... Ahem..."

In the center of the splendid Tianyuan Palace, two burly men walked out of the two rows of officials, knelt down on one knee to receive the order, and then retreated. The King of Liang in the mouth of the old emperor is the four princes who have been loved by him in recent years.

"I... That's what I thought. It has been two months since the last decree sent to the whole country. It is likely that the first batch of reinforcements has all arrived in Xingyang City... Now, if the decree is sent to various places, it will definitely be too late... Let's use the armaments in the capital first and rescue my son. ”

"Ahem, ahem, ahem..."After the old emperor finished saying this, before he could say the following, he began to cough violently, and his throat became very hoarse. He reluctantly cast a glance at Qu Dui, the great eunuch standing beside him. Qu Du nodded, moving closer to the dragon seat.

Qu Dui's shrill voice sounded, but it always made the civil and military officials feel an irresistible harshness. "The major families in the capital will send a part of the escort team and a few generals to arrange it before noon tomorrow at the latest, and meet at the camp at the north city gate. ”

The ministers standing below seemed to have guessed that there would be such a request. Most of them came from different families, and they all professed to obey the order. Qu Du continued, "Imperial City Guards, Your Majesty has also decided to send two-thirds of your men to help. These troops will be handed over to the Praetorian Guard General Qi Guifeng to send to join the alliance forces of the major families before noon tomorrow!"

The four princes and the six princes standing at the forefront of the hundred officials, both of whom were princes with official positions and in the middle of the court, couldn't help but look at each other after listening to Qu Duan's words. They all knew in their hearts that what Qu Duan said was what his father said, but in this way... The imperial city is empty, and there will inevitably be danger...

Some of the officials also thought about this problem, but they didn't particularly care. After all, everyone was shocked by what happened to the crown prince, and His Royal Highness the crown prince of a country can now be said to be hanging by a thread, and he can't be broken no matter what. The Fourth Prince, who was only twenty-five years old this year, sighed silently. But fortunately, he still has hundreds of troops hoarded in his fiefdom in Southern Tianmai City, all of which are elite divisions. The six princes who were named the righteous kings also had military reserves in the western fiefdoms. As soon as these people leave, the four princes will transfer them.

The burly and sturdy Praetorian Guard general, dressed in iron armor, knelt down with a thud and took the order.

After Qu Duan said this, he glanced at the old emperor and bowed down. The old emperor nodded slowly, cleared his throat with difficulty, and announced, "Plus half of the soldiers stationed in the North City Gate camp... This time, there was another large force of more than 1,500 men. Doctor Wu, the task of reporting to various places will be entrusted to you and Gonggong Lin... Now, I declare that the army that has gone to support this time will all be led by Qu Dusk! All actions must be carried out by General Qu's orders!"