At this time, the lingering dust has not changed much from the last time I came, still lying on the bed and leaning on the railing, staring at the vast bamboo forest outside the window, only showing a side face, sensing that I was coming in, and not saying: "What, do you suspect that I am eavesdropping on military secrets, and you have come to trouble me?" ”

I shook my head: "How did you find out about Shuofang City?" ”

Yingchen smiled, only to find that there was an extra wine jug in her hand at some point, raised her jade hand and took a sip in her mouth and said, "In addition to the alliance formed by the four protectors, do you have any other better way to stabilize the power of Luoyan Town?" ”

Seeing that I lowered my eyebrows and was silent, Yingchen smiled even more happily: "Don't worry, since I came here, except for secretly reporting to Fenglou every day that you are enjoying the flowers there today and which girl's pavilion you are going to stay in, I haven't said a word." ”

The laughter continued, but it was like a cold wind in the wax moon, blowing goosebumps all over my body.

"What the hell are you going to do?" I stared at her and whispered.

Yingchen restrained his smile, took a full sip of the sake in the flask, wiped his mouth and said, "It's nothing, I just don't want to go back to that place of rouge, I want to find another way out." ”

Yingchen said this and slowly stood up, only to find that she was disheveled, as soon as she stood up, she immediately revealed a large area of snow white, and hurriedly turned around and said, "If you have anything to say, you don't have to be like this." ”

There was a lingering sound of eating and laughing behind him: "At present, the food and salary of Luoyan Town are stretched, it really can't meet the eloquence of Lord Bai, and more importantly, the battle of Shuofang City is close at hand, this will be the best time for you to lay the foundation for fighting for power on the ancient road in one fell swoop, but you can't even build five iron boats, and there are so many troops in the air, you can't let them all swim to fight Shuofang City, right?" ”

When I heard this, I subconsciously wanted to turn around, but when I thought of her appearance, I stood up and said, "Without iron sheets, ordinary warships can't attack the city?" ”

"The city wall of Shuofang City is as high as ten zhang away, and the military road on the city wall can accommodate horses and artillery carts, hiding tens of thousands of soldiers, once the battle starts, countless rolling stones and fire oil can burn the entire river basin into a sea of fire, ordinary warships, I am afraid that they have not even seen what the enemy looks like, they will be burned to ashes, and the whole army will be destroyed, right?"

"In your opinion, what is the best plan?" I whispered.

Yingchen giggled: "Hu Zi, the general of the city guard, and Hu Da are both courtiers under this girl's skirt, if Lord Bai is relieved, you might as well let this girl go to see them, maybe, what will happen at that time, what do you think?" ”

I stood there, feeling a gust of incense coming from behind me, and whispered, "Condition." ”

"Let me stay in Luoyan Town, that's all." Yingchen said lightly.

I shook my head: "Just to stay here?" ”

Yingchen sneered: "Then if you really want to give me a name, I don't mind." ”

"Fenglou and the person in Fenglou are so good, why do you want to leave him and come here?" I asked.

"You have someone, I have the heart, hand in hand to build an era that belongs to us, isn't it?" Yingchen asked rhetorically without answering.

I sighed: "If you want to leave Fenglou, I can help you, but Luoyan Town already has a master." ”

Yingchen was silent for a long time, "The heroes of the world, except for you and the ghost baby, no matter how dominant you are at the moment, but sooner or later it will become the dust of history, I didn't want to be the master here, let alone dare to compete in front of the real Princess Wushan, I just hope that before the troubled times come, I will find a place for myself to support, that's all." ”

"Troubled times?" I smiled bitterly and said, "Haven't the troubled times already begun?" And you can't help but look down on me too much, Bai Xiaoyi himself is in danger, and he really can't let the girl support herself. ”

Yingchen sighed softly: "A sword has crossed the air several times, who knows me from all over the world, I only hate the skin I was born with, but I don't have the life of the princess, all you can see at the moment is just the hint of the troubled times, Jiuquan Mansion has been spying with the Buddha-faced Venerable several times, and it is only a matter of time before you get involved in the ancient road, and when the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs regroup and are ready to march into the ancient road, it is bound to set off an unprecedented bloody storm on the ancient road again, and at that time, you who take Shuofang City will definitely bear the brunt and become the first roadblock in Jiuquan Mansion, With your strength, how long can you stop them, even if you spare no effort to stop the Jiuquan army outside the door, how many troops will you have to continue to hold Shuofang City and deal with the covetousness of other forces in the ancient road? ”

Speaking of this, Yingchen paused, and said quietly: "And I, not only can I solve all the problems of your blindness, but also ensure that you can retreat in the face of the attack of Jiuquan Mansion and the ancient road forces, take advantage of the troubled times to show your ambitions, and fulfill your wishes that you dare not imagine." ”

I was slightly moved when I heard this: "Do you know what my heart desires?" ”

Yingchen said with a smile: "Marry Princess Wushan, and wash the nine prisons and nine springs in blood!" ”

I was completely stunned, turned my head, and found that she had already tidied up her clothes, her eyes changed to charming, and began to become awe-inspiring and undesecrated, standing there proudly, staring at me and saying: "I know that the reason why you have gone to great lengths to recruit troops in Luoyan Town is to compete for power on the ancient road, but in fact, it is for Jiuquan Mansion, whether it is the revenge of killing your father, or it Jiuquan Mansion is killing all of your Bai family, all of them are not the hatred of the sky, but it is a pity that the monofilament of this world is not a thread, the lonely tree is not established, and no matter how great a person's ability is, But he couldn't fulfill his long-cherished wish among hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and Shuofang City is not only a pass connecting the ancient road and the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, but also a springboard for you Bai Xiaoyi to accumulate forces on the ancient road to enter the Nine Springs Mansion. ”

"But as you said, even if you take Shuofang City, in the face of the menacing million-strong army of the entire Jiuquan Mansion, as well as the various forces with ghosts in the center of the ancient road behind me, with me, how can this Shuofang City sit on the ground?" I worried.

But Yingchen smiled, flicked the wide sleeves in his hand, stretched out two fingers from the white jade ground and compared them in front of me and said: "Two tigers fight, there must be an injury, look at the ancient road, who can afford the word 'tiger'?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "The Dragon King of the Ghost Gate and the new Lord of Wu Mountain. ”

But Yingchen sneered: "You are wrong, according to what I know, although the new Wushan Lord is powerful, but the drunkard's intention is not to drink, from the distribution range of the city he seized, with Yunxi as the center, it continues to spread to the southwest, and all the large and small city lords along the way have not been personally stationed by him, and they have formed an impermeable iron bucket in the southwest of the entire ancient road, but in the entire Yellow River Ancient Road, the terrain in the southwest is the most complex, and there are countless weak water areas and boulder shoals, and the river course is even more complex and changeable. Usually a short waterway of less than ten kilometers in a large turn of more than ten places, the light and dark tributaries are countless, not to mention the inconvenient passage of large ships or fleets, and the environment is harsh, rain and snow are uncertain, such a barbarian place, do you think that with the grand plan of today's Wushan Lord, do not compete for the southeast or northeast where resources and environment are more abundant, but why put so much effort and energy to build a city and build a walled city there, and arrange troops? You know, at the beginning, when he sent troops to attack a city on the far edge of the southwest, he lost 10,000 of his subordinates just because of the extremely cold weather, do you think he was stupid? ”

Facing the head of the lingering dust, I was stupid, looked at her with a blank face, and said, "Why? ”

Yingchen sneered: "Because there, there is something." ”

"What?"

"The Ancient Gate of the Yellow River!"

Yingchen said in surprise, took a deep breath and said: "It has been a period of time since the ancient road catastrophe, these ancient road bosses have never cut off the action of finding the source of the catastrophe while fighting for territory, according to the news I got in the Fenglou at the time, the most widely circulated theory is that there is something big behind the ancient gate of the Yellow River, and it directly caused the ancient road catastrophe, but what happened, no one knows, after all, the world behind the ancient gate has always been the biggest taboo in the world, People don't know anything about it, so naturally it is impossible to guess the reason, but through a series of actions and measures of the new Wu Mountain Lord, he must have known something, so he will give up the opportunity to become the biggest force in the ancient path and stick to the southwest instead. ”