Chapter 241: Five Cities Meet (6)
(Cat flutter Chinese) In this way, the scope of the search is much smaller. Yeyue only cut down a group of feudal officials who occupy the pit and don't tomorrow, and there are not many people who are literate and hyphenated left, and it shouldn't be difficult to investigate, but the trouble is that this kind of thing can't be done blatantly, so as not to startle the snake, so as not to investigate secretly, but the time of the Five Cities Alliance is tomorrow, no matter how powerful she is, she is not sure who the person who sent the wine is in one day.
After thinking about it, Emperor Xi decided to take this matter to heart first, and after the matter of the Five Cities Alliance was over, he would carefully look for clues to see who actually wanted her or Ye Yueming's life.
The next day, Ye Yueming and the emperor Xi dressed up, and as soon as the day broke, they went out of the city, and under the escort of Zhou Yaji, they went to the place of the alliance - on the sand dunes outside the city of Yuzhuo.
The five border cities are Jade City, Broken Leaf City, Geshuo City, Zhizhi City, and Zhonggu City. Among the five cities, the strongest army and the largest number of people are undoubtedly Yuzhuo City, but the only one that has never taken the initiative to surrender to the herdsmen until now is the ancient city of Zhonggu. The smallest city defenders are only two thousand, but they have never taken the initiative to meet the enemy and enter the pass, if it weren't for Qin Wen's always as long as money and food don't want human life, Zhonggu City would have been a ruined city by now.
Geshuo City and Zhizhi City, located in the middle of the five cities, and Broken Leaf City guard three completely different exits of the Tagan Desert, because of the geographical location, the three cities are not very close, even to the point that no one knows the name of the local Taishou.
The largest jade city, the prefect Sun Buzhi, originally ruled the security of the five cities on the border, but Sun Buzhi's prefect was only nominal, and the five cities almost never listened to Sun Buzhi's call because of the inconvenience of coming and going, which was in the conversation with Sun Buzhi, she also heard some similar statements, so the emperor always felt that the five cities would be alliance, and it might have little effect.
The court officials of the True Twenty-Eight Classics, the local prefect, they may not recognize it, Ye Yueming is a down-and-out prince exiled here, why do they need to listen to Ye Yueming's words?
Di Xi always felt that he couldn't eat accurately, so he was inevitably nervous. Standing on the high platform of the sand dunes, she was always unconsciously rubbing the corners of her clothes to hide the faint uneasiness in her heart.
After a long time, these three words have become the biggest psychological guarantee for the emperor.
She glanced at Ning Yi, who was not far away helping her subordinates sort out the cups and plates, and exhaled deeply. In the end, she still got Ah Yi over, in the end, she still felt that she didn't have much bottom in her heart, this kind of intuition couldn't be said, but it had been haunting her heart, and she couldn't get rid of it.
Fang Ying, the city lord of the ancient city closest to Yuzhuo City, was the first to reach the sand dunes. This weathered old man's face was covered with ravines, I heard that he was already seventy years old, but he was still in good spirits and physically tough, and he personally went into battle last year to capture several of Qin Wen's subordinates alive. Because Fang Ying's age is too old and very stylish, the herdsmen can be said to have a lot of respect for Zhonggu City, and they can try not to look for Zhonggu City to fight the autumn breeze, even if they really look for it, they will go politely, and return it politely, although every time Fang Ying has to shout and shout to kill for a while, vowing to drive them out of Zhonggucheng, but the defenders of Zhonggu City are too few and too vulnerable, so this sentence has always been just a verbal sentence.
Later, after a long time, Qin Wen also admired the arrogance of this old man, it is said that when Qin Wen came to the border to plunder resources this year, he specially bypassed the ancient city and gave Fang Ying a chance to recuperate.
In the face of such an old man, how could Ye Yueming and Emperor Xi be disrespectful? As soon as they saw Fang Ying coming, the two of them immediately bowed deeply to Fang Ying without saying a word. Fang Ying helped the two juniors up, and also performed the etiquette of a military general: "The prince, the county lord, the old minister is polite." ”
Emperor Xi smiled slightly, leading Fang Ying to sit down, with unconcealed worship in his eyes. She was thinking, in the territory of Biguo, under Liancheng, is there a figure similar to Fang Ying? Such a person defending the country is simply a great blessing for the country.
Ye Yueming personally poured a glass of warm wine for Fang Ying, and after clinking glasses with Fang Ying, he drank it all: "Xiao Wang Xie Fang's decades of hard work have saved the people of the ancient city for Cangshuo. ”
The prince laughed. Eat the king's luck, and be loyal to the king. Since the old minister has the court's money, he naturally has to do his best and dare not slack off. Fang Ying said, took a sip of the wine in the glass, and then said with a smile: "There is a rule in the old minister's army that you can't drink alcohol unless you win a big victory, so the old minister will drink a little, and please don't mind." ”
"My lord is so worried about me, so what's the harm in drinking a little wine? But after all, Master Fang is the master of the ancient city, and Xiao Wang is not suitable to interject more. If the adults don't drink it, Xiao Wang will drink it all for Lord Fang. Ye Yueming picked up the wine glass, drank a whole glass of warm wine in one gulp, and hugged his fist towards Fang Ying, and before he could start greeting, he heard a shout: Su Qin, the city lord of Geshuo City, is here.
Emperor Xi was in charge of receiving the high-spirited young city lord who had just taken office last year, and he only felt that his body was full of vitality, and people couldn't help but want to get close to him.
Su Qin has a pair of woman-like willow thin eyebrows, but the eyes under the eyebrows are extremely sharp and sharp, as if he can see all the unknown grievances of others, and he is full of the smell of righteousness. Seeing Emperor Xi greet him, he just said thank you, girl, and followed Emperor Xi to the side of the city lord of the ancient city and arranged for him to sit down.
This person whose personal temperament seems to be very high-spirited, but he has a not very good reputation. Legend has it that Su Qin's personal life is disordered, and he is greedy for money and lustful, and he is the same as all the skills that men need to have. Wild flowers at home, red apricots outside, none of them are missing. It is precisely because of this that his face, which looks upright, looks a little decadent.
Presumably, this person wanders among the flowers every day, and he doesn't care about the trivial matters in the mansion at all, right?
Su Qin sat down, and Yeyue Mingbian did not pour wine for him alone, and drank with him first, but asked Emperor Xi to go down and urge Ah Yi, how long will it take for the wine and food to be ready.
Ah Yi was like having three heads and six arms, he didn't stop for a moment, franticly frying and cooking in the city of Yuzhuo City, and more than a dozen people were a little stretched to beat him.
After Emperor Xi informed Ye Yueming's words, he returned to the sand dunes with four plates of dried fruits and placed them in front of Su Qin and Fang Ying.
Su Qin was not polite, he didn't even say thank you, picked up a plate of dried fruits and put it in his mouth, chewing while looking at the emperor's body: "This girl looks quite standard, is she the personal maid in the prince's mansion?" ”
Emperor Xi smiled slightly and shook his head.
"That's? I think the girl has an extraordinary temperament, not quite like an ordinary girl, could it be the princess of the prince? ”
When Emperor Xi heard this, he shook his head again.
She and Ye Yueming just had a verbal marriage contract, and it was supposed to be a big wedding after her and Xu, but she didn't expect that Ye Yuezhao poisoned Ye Hui, and everything was even postponed. Until now, there has been no substantive agreement between her and Ye Yueming, but in this way, Emperor Xi also feels more relaxed, presumably Ye Yueming also thinks so.
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