The mountains here are different from the mountains in the south, the mountains in the south are beautiful, covered with forests, cool in summer, golden in autumn, and are treasures of feng shui that can be relied on for survival, while the mountains in the western region have sparse vegetation on the mountains, the environment is arid, most of the mountains and rocks are exposed on the surface, and there are no natural resources that can feed the people.

At this time, it was the end of March, and most of the spring had passed, and Zhao Guo had already been warm and peaceful, and Liushan County, Changtai Prefecture, was still a little cold.

Spring here always comes later, and it always goes later.

When Zhong Xingyue and Wu Tian led their troops to Changtai Mansion, the prefect personally came out to greet them and provided a final banquet as a hospitality.

But when he saw that there were only two such young generals, he was also a little disappointed, but one of them was the grandson of the Marquis of Zhenguo, so he was slightly relieved.

The Marquis of Zhenguo will not let his juniors be bullied outside, let alone let his juniors be incapable of doing things outside.

After stopping for the night in Changtai Mansion, Zhong Xingyue took people to Liushan County.

Stationed outside the county.

"I said sister, this situation is not right, when we were in the capital city of Changtai Mansion, the prefect personally brought the squires and nobles out to greet us, how did they arrive in a small county town, but no one came out?

Zhong Xingyue ignored him, just frowned, and after a while, she said,

"The county order here, I'm afraid it's no longer a member of the imperial court. ”

"What did you say?"

Wu Tian's face was full of disbelief.

But he was not stupid either, and soon understood that no wonder he did not come out to greet him, because he was already a bandit man.

Either they became bandits, or they were taken hostage.

But it was impossible to hold him hostage, as he occasionally paid tribute and taxes to the city.

This person may be afraid of both the court and the bandits, in short, it is one word to describe him,

Arouse!

"Why don't you change the prefectural order?"

"Because the root cause is bandits, as long as the bandits don't solve it once, no matter how many county orders are changed, for them, they can't resist the coercion and temptation of these bandits, so this matter still has to be solved by us. ”

Wu Tian looked at Zhong Xingyue,

I haven't seen her for three years, and she has become smarter and more believable.

And herself, including the Snow Boy, is not as good as her.

"So what are we going to do now?

Zhong Xingyue shook her head, pondered for a while, and then said to Wu Tian,

"We set up camp outside the city, and rushed in, we don't know what is inside, since Qingfeng Village dares to do this, I think it is very confident in our own strength, we must find out the situation first. ”

"How do you find out?"

"You're here to go, I'm dressed up and looking. ”

Wu Tian definitely disagreed, acting alone, how dangerous it is, if he is caught, he will lose his life.

"The soldiers here can't be leaderless, and at the same time, you can also give them a false impression here, they won't think that there is another one who sneaks in, so that I am safe, besides, I am a senior in the late stage of the Jieyuan Realm, will I be killed casually?

Wu Tian can't resist her, especially since she is a general, he is just a deputy, and he feels aggrieved when he thinks about it.

Aggrieved to aggrieved, Zhong Xingyue still left alone.

The woman dressed as a man, and the cultivation was pressed to the later stage of the Yuan Mirror.

The army from the imperial court, when they came, saw that no one came out to greet them in Liushan County, so they were stationed outside the city, and the people in the city ran out to watch.

The person sent by the Son of Heaven was too cowardly, right, and he was really frightened?

Could it be that he raised his posture and wanted to wait for the county magistrate to come out to greet him in person?

Suppress the bandits and go directly to the mountain to suppress the bandits, what is the cost here!

All of a sudden, the people who had been humiliated by the bandits were dissatisfied.

"On the city wall, tell your county commander to come out to me. ”

Wu Tian stood in the barracks and talked to the guards on the city wall with the technique of transmitting sound for thousands of miles.

The guard soldier had also received benefits from the bandits, so he naturally didn't want those bandits to be gone.

"Our county order said that the general could go directly into the city to meet him. ”

Hey, I'll go~ It's pretty bullish~

A small local county magistrate dared to let him go to see him in person!

Wait until the bandits are over, and see how labor and management clean you up!

"I'm just waiting for him here. ”

Now the people also understand that these are two big officials who are closer, and they are both people who want to save face.

Wu Tian's purpose is very simple, that is, to let everyone know that the general from the national capital is in the military camp, so it is safer for Zhong Xingyue to mix in the city.

At this time, Zhong Xingyue, dressed in an apricot yellow robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, and a blue jade pendant hanging on his waist, was like a beautiful son in the world.

If someone familiar sees it, it must know who she is imitating.

Prince Zhao Heng!

Among all the men Zhong Xingyue has seen, Zhao Heng is the best-looking and the most generous, and he is truly gentle as jade, so she imitated him.

No matter where it is, the good-looking ones will always be treated better.

"This sister, why are you all coming back from outside the city, is there anything lively outside?"

A woman in her twenties and thirties holding a child heard Zhong Xingyue's question, turned her head and saw that it was a good-looking young man, and she was really patient.

"The emperor sent down to suppress the bandits, and I don't know what's going on, our county order doesn't go out to meet them, and they themselves don't want to come in directly, so they are consumed at the gate of the county seat, alas... You say, it's all about eating the country's money, why do you care about it... We little people can't understand it..."

Zhong Xingyue pretended to be surprised,

"It stands to reason that the people sent by the national capital have more official positions than the county order, and besides, for the stability of Liushan County, the Liushan County Commander should go out to greet him in person, right?"

"Shh......h

The woman made a silent gesture and quickly glanced around.

"Childe, it turns out that you are an outsider, of course you don't know that you are a foreigner, we stay in Shanxian County, it is different from the ordinary county seat, and the county order is not very easy to speak, and he is probably helpless......"

Zhong Xingyue was even more surprised,

"Why is it not good? Could it be that there are even bigger officials in our county?"

The woman grabbed him and motioned for him to stop asking.

"Childe, you still don't care about these things, leave Liushan County as soon as possible..."

After saying that, she was in a hurry to leave,

However, at the moment when she just turned around,

There was a flash of light, and it was a leaf, an ordinary leaf.

It was cut on the woman's neck, leaving an extremely thin cut.

Zhong Xingyue was startled, and hurriedly stretched out her arm to wrap up the woman's fallen body and the child she was holding in her arms.