51. The beacon smoke suddenly rose
Su Tian opened the tent, and Mo Yu pressed his hand: "Don't move, I'll bring it to you." {The first station of this book} ("Qi" biqi.me"Wen".com)"
The palace maid saw Mo Yu and Su Tian in the same bed tent, Mo Yu was only wearing a close-fitting little clothes, stepping on the carpet barefoot, her face was red, she didn't dare to look up, and handed over the letter with both hands.
The military information sent into the palace has already been unsealed with fire paint, and the ink rumor is not intended to peek, but the silk cloth is slippery and has been scattered in his hand. She hurriedly lowered her head, slipped under her feet, and fell to the head of the bed with a "thud". Her entire knee turned blue and purple, but she didn't realize it, and the half of the sentence on the silk cloth was still shaking in front of her eyes, "Qin Jun broke the Lingxiao Pass ......."
Su Tian came out of the bed, picked up the ink rumor from the ground, saw her face pale, and the palm of her hand covered her forehead, signaled her not to be afraid, and then took out the silk cloth and read it twice from beginning to end.
You don't have to look at it anymore, Mo Yu can guess what is written on it. The army of Lingxiao Pass was mobilized, and the originally impregnable pass became the weakest place on the border of Chu State. Mo Yu's chest heaved, his mind went blank, and he couldn't say anything.
Sooner or later, there will be a war between Qin and Chu, which used to be only a small-scale invasion of the border, but this time, it is almost a full-scale declaration of war. Thousands of miles of corpses and millions of bloodsheds...... Could it be Xiao Zhen?
Su Tian put the ink rumor back on the edge of the bed, pressed her hand and asked, "Are you afraid?" Mo Yu bit his lip and shook his head, but in fact...... She was very afraid, and her little understanding of the war came from a few books in the library, such as killing and surrendering pawns, and sacrificing flags with blood, these terrible words, when written in the book, still carried a bit of the fantasy of Jin Ge Iron Horse. But if it appears in reality, it means separation, fighting, death, and betrayal...... The worst nightmare of all in the world.
"Mo Yu, to tell you the truth, although it was forced by the situation, I also had such a plan," Su Tian put her head on her knees and combed her hair, "I want to give up the fifteen cities around Lingxiao Pass, and I had such thoughts when I transferred the old general Huang Qi back to Shouchun earlier." β
Mo Yu nodded, but then asked, "What if the others object?" β
As soon as she spoke, she knew she had asked a stupid question. Abandoning the land of the city will definitely attract strong opposition from Wenchen, and she can already imagine what kind of vicious words will be placed on him. The more you don't do it, the easier it is to blame others.
"Others will definitely oppose it," Su Tian's face was gloomy, "The strength of the Chu State is not as good as before, and the most important thing is that the treasury of the Chu State is empty, and there is not much money left to support a long-term war. Mo Yu, I told you, you have to learn to compromise, and when you can't keep the overall situation, keep what is most important to you. I have asked Huang Qi to secretly train an elite army, and when it comes to a critical moment, he will defend Shouchun at all costs. As long as the clan of the Chu State is still there, at least the Chu State will not be destroyed. β
Mo Yu put his hand on his cheek: "No matter what others say, I will always support you." β
"Well, you must always support me." Su Tian held her hand instead, at least there is one person in this world who knows him, so it doesn't matter how much accusation and infamy.
"Well, of course I'll always have your back."
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The night was deep, and the moonlight shone in through the tiny lattices in the windows. Mo Yu opened his eyes and watched the shadows cast by the moonlight, moving inch by inch. Outside the curtain, Su Tian slept very lightly, and Mo Yu could hear the sound of his breathing, each of which dissipated in mid-air, like a mist without a trace.
She got up from the bed lightly, put on her clothes, and walked around the small couch where Su Tian was resting. Outside the door, there was a palace maid who was keeping vigil, and she could not enter or exit through the main entrance, but could only climb out through the half-open window.
In the Chu Palace at night, there was no sound at all, and the branches pointed straight into the air, like the shadows of demons and monsters. Mo Yu ran as fast as she could along the winding path in the palace, not daring to turn back all the way, as if something terrible was chasing her from behind.
She vaguely remembered where Ying Shi lived, and looked all the way over, but there were no guards in front of the palace. There are dozens of incense waxes lit in the hall, which illuminates the whole palace, but the brighter the candlelight, the darker the dark corners that cannot be illuminated.
Ying Shi was sitting at the table, picking out the sunspots one by one from a box of chess pieces. She had been picking up for a long time, and finally confirmed that there were only white jade pieces left in the box, so she raised a box full of black seeds in her hand and poured it in with a bang. The blacks and whites were mixed back together, and she stirred them with her fingers to get the pieces to mix well. Then, day after day, the sunspots were picked out one by one and put back in the empty box.
When Mo Yu entered the hall, Ying Shi only raised his eyes, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "There is nothing to do all day, the living can only pick up chess pieces to play, I will pick them up three times completely, and it will be dawn." β
"Send a message to Xiao Zhen, I want to see him." Mo Yu can't pretend to be calm and calm, and can only directly say his purpose. Compared with Ying Shi, who has been immersed in the palace for many years, she herself is really more like a child.
Ying Shi looked up at her: "Should I say that you are too confident, or too naΓ―ve?" Why should I help you? β
"I was in the capital of Qin and met the King of Qin."
As soon as Mo Yu's words fell, a glimmer of light flashed in Ying Shi's eyes, and he quickly returned to a cold heart: "You are still a little clever, tell me about Ying Xuan's situation, and I will help you deliver the message." β
She guessed correctly, the only thing Ying Shi cares about the most is this younger brother. Mo Yu can also come up with other ways to send a message to Xiao Zhen, and it is the safest and fastest to win the poem. Xiao Zhen left Ying Shi in Chu State, and there must be a way to secretly contact her.
I don't know what method Ying Shi used, the letter of Mo Yu was sent, and I soon received a reply. Dodging Su Tian, Mo Yu dared to secretly unfold it, and on the one-inch square silk cloth, there were two words written on the dragon flying and phoenix dancing: "Miaoyin".
Mo Yu clumped the silk cloth into a ball and pressed it under the bed, and his heart went up and down. When he asked him a question, he didn't answer any of them, so what do these two words mean? Is it saying that the temple of wonderful sound? Now that the two countries are at war, how can he still dare to enter the territory of Chu? He is not afraid, this is a ploy to lure him here?
There were still two days left before the appointed date, and Mo Yu did not receive any other news. To go or not to go, hesitated for a whole day without a conclusion, she held a copper coin in her hand, thinking to herself, just throw it away, if it is literally, she will go.
With a flick of his fingers, the copper coin flew in the air, and Mo Yu suddenly reached out and grabbed the copper coin and gently pressed it on the table. As soon as the copper coin left her hand, she realized that in fact, what she desperately wanted in her heart was literal.
She told a little lie to Su Tian, saying that she had asked for a sign at the Miaoyin Temple, and it was a miracle, and she wanted to ask for it again. Su Tian has always been careful, and Mo Yu didn't dare to hide his whereabouts from him, for fear that he would see any flaws. However, he has always been frank and frank, explaining where he is going, but he will not ask why he is going.
The consequences of that civil war are already beginning to be revealed, and most of the towns along the way are not as prosperous as they once were.
As soon as I entered the Miaoyin Temple, the Dengying incense that used to be swirling was gone, presumably because of the war, and the incense money offered was not very rich. Xiao Zhen was sitting on the incense table with one leg propped diagonally, leaning lazily on the statue of Miaoyin Tiannu with his upper body, and the other leg hanging down, indifferently stepping on the futon used to kneel and worship.
Seeing his indifferent look, Mo Yu's words rushed out: "You asked someone to follow me, didn't you?" Otherwise, how would you know that the garrison at Lingxiao Pass had withdrawn? β
"Well, I'm asking someone to follow you, what's the matter?" Xiao Zhen sneered, "But I have a way to know the movements of the Chu State, why do you question me?" "He didn't lie, he had carefully laid out the Chu State for many years, and he had bought people everywhere, and those Golden Eagle Guards who followed the ink rumors were originally just to ensure her safety all the way, but he didn't bother to explain for himself.
"What are you going to do?" Mo Yu pressed his chest and tried to warn himself not to be angry, but when he said it, he was still blunt and unpolite, "I broke my promise and didn't do it for a month, but you don't have to be so despicable and shameless to take the opportunity to use troops against the Chu State, right?" β
Xiao Zhen smiled even more exaggeratedly: "You also think too highly of yourself, do you think that I used troops against the Chu State for you?" I've never been a seed of infatuation, and I'm not stupid enough to do that. β