I looked at Huaibei Cangsu's face in a daze, and didn't know how to continue to speak for a while, but Huaibei, swept the gloom on his face, turned his head to look at me and said, "You came to me, there must be something else, right?" ”

I nodded, "You go to Shuofang City, leave it to Aunt Seventh here, and General Wu can't take care of it alone." ”

Huaibei's face flashed with bitterness, he tilted his head and took a deep breath and said, "Okay, then I'll leave now." ”

"Let's go back at night, I'll go back with you at night, as well as Grandpa Ghost, Grass King and Mrs. Huo, there are rich resources over there, which is suitable for Mrs. Huo to heal."

After speaking, he turned around to leave, but Huaibei stopped me and said, "It was Yingchen who came to me first, and she asked me to help her stay, regardless of whether the princess comes back or not." ”

I stopped, didn't look back, and bit my lip, "It's okay, the past is gone, Shuofang City needs you, nothing else, don't think about it." ”

Hingchen not only found the Jiang'an Bridge, but also looked for Huaibei.

She secretly reluctantly cooperated with Jiang'an Bridge, stopped the letter sent by Wei Junyao, and bought a lot of people's hearts, in order to have a chance to fight when Luoyan Town wanted to expel her from the town one day.

But what she said to Huaibei is that she likes Huaibei, no matter whether Luoyan Town will tolerate her in the future, she hopes that Huaibei will not abandon her, and she doesn't want Huaibei to fall out with me because of her, the implication is that she doesn't want to leave Luoyan Town.

After learning this, I didn't get angry with Huaibei, but I felt that this woman was very pitiful, or that the women in the entire ancient road were very pitiful, and she had great ambitions and scheming strategies that were no less than those of the strong from all walks of life, but in the final face of survival, she was no different from ordinary women, and she could only rely on beauty and flesh to retain people's hearts to achieve what she wanted to do.

Yingchen is a woman who is difficult for men to say "no", it is not surprising that Huaibei and Jiang'an Bridge fell under the corners of her skirts, but what puzzles me is that these tricks that can be seen through at a glance, with her scheming, why do they do it, could it be that her relationship with Huaibei is real?

But no matter what, before Wei Junyao came back, I categorically couldn't put these two people together, Huaibei had a withdrawn personality before, although he had changed a lot during this time in the ancient road, but in his bones he was still the big boy who was not good at words, and even a little autistic, love can make people crazy, and it can also destroy people, once this kind of person falls into the gentle country of a woman, there is nothing he dare not do, in order not to kill him in the end, I can only arrange it like this now.

Suddenly I felt that what Yingchen said was very right, without Wei Junyao, let alone dividing the ancient road, I couldn't even deal with a small Luoyan Town, too many things were intertwined, a little bit improper, either death or dispersal, no matter what the result, it was absolutely unacceptable to me.

After saying goodbye to Huaibei, he bumped into Sister Yu and told her a thing that he had been thinking about for a long time, that is, let her also go to Shuofang City and find a way to control Fenglou.

Sister Yu didn't agree to me immediately, just asked me to go back first, she still needs to think about it for a while, at least she can't do this until Mrs. Huo wakes up, otherwise there is no one who can make up her mind here in Luoyan Town, which will cause a shortage of manpower.

I groaned slightly, "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”

Huaibei arranged two canopy boats, carrying me and the Grass King, Mrs. Huo and others on the same day to rush back to Shuofang City, Huaibei has been silent on the whole way, standing alone in the bow of the boat, the back is gloomy and lonely, messy hair buns and shabby cloth shirts and boundless river water, swaying together.

It wasn't until the boat traveled in front of the gate of Shuofang City, looking at the city walls full of "white" flags, that Huaibei was slightly moved, turned his head to look at me, and in his eyes, I saw the word awe for the first time.

Shuofang City City Lord's Mansion is a big mansion with five entrances and five exits, leaving enough space to settle in Huaibei and Mrs. Huo and others, after entering the city, Ruan Qing was the first to receive the news and rushed over, although she didn't understand medical skills, but the elixir and herbs that Fenglou had hoarded for so many years had already piled up, after discussing with the Grass King, a cart full of medicines began to be sent to the City Lord's Mansion, I was grateful, but she was interrupted by a smile and a wave of her hand, and hurried back to Fenglou to deal with affairs.

After settling everything, I took Huaibei to Wucheng Soldiers and Horses, and after meeting Wu Jiyun, I arranged some errands for Huaibei, and then asked Wu Jiyun to take me to Beicheng and the pass of Nine Prisons and Nine Springs.

Beicheng Chengguan is far away from the city, in the middle of which is a no-man's land dozens of kilometers long and heavily guarded, and the river begins to become more and more turbid here, the cold air on the bank is pressing, the soldiers are wearing thick winter clothes, and even the breath that comes out of the nostrils and mouth is condensed into a white thick fog.

"It wasn't like this here before, since the river has risen fiercely in the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, the temperature has begun to drop sharply, and there are constantly Yin soldiers and warships lingering in the nearby river basin, it is estimated that there is some bad intention."

After confirming the identities of Wu Jiyun and me, the two of them walked up to the city wall, only to find that the lengthy city wall had already been covered with heavy soldiers, and the armor like ink was like the dark clouds, all the soldiers were facing outside the city wall, the red tassels on the top of their heads were blown straight by the river wind, and the black spears were more like blades inserting into the sky.

Crossing the north city wall of Shuofang City, it is a turbid and flooded estuary, the width of the estuary is symmetrical with the city wall, the surging river water pours from the dark estuary, and the power of ten thousand jun continues to beat on the city bricks, splashing monstrous waves, scattering the wind and heavy mist, sprinkled on the city wall of the people, and the sound of the waves like thunder, is like a hammer, knocking on people's hearts.

"This estuary is the gateway to the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs?"

Standing on the city wall and looking at it for a long time, I came to my senses and asked with palpitations.

Wu Jiyun nodded, and pointed to the river below: "The ancient road and the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs share a river water, and the North City Gate is a specially modified gate, which can slow down the turbulent water, leaving a gap that is less than one person to pass through, which has the effect of dredging the water flow without allowing the enemy to take advantage of it." ”

"And what will happen if this gate is closed?" I frowned.

Wu Jiyun's face was embarrassed, "I have also considered this problem before, but I heard the old general here say that even if the city gate is closed, it will only cut off the water source at the north end of the ancient road, but the river will not overflow the city tower." ”

"So weird?" I subconsciously leaned over to look outside the city tower, but as soon as my head stretched out, before I could see the situation under the city wall, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Xiao Yi......"

Suddenly stood up, turned his head, and found Wu Jiyun standing there with a calm face, seeing me looking at him suspiciously, he frowned and said, "What's wrong?" ”

I shook my head, listened to the huge waves that exploded in my ears, and when I turned my head to look down again, the sound appeared again.

"Little B......"

I was suddenly startled, and without waiting for a reaction, I turned my head directly in the direction from which the sound came, but I was stunned to find that the sound was caught in the waves, as if it came from under the city gate.

And after this, I waited for a while, and the voice that called me never appeared again, and I couldn't remember whose voice it was, so I straightened up leisurely, looked at Wu Jiyun and said, "What is under this city gate?" ”

Wu Jiyun looked at me in confusion, as if he didn't understand what I was asking, I thought about it, and then asked, "After this city gate was lowered, did it go directly into the riverbed?" ”

Wu Jiyun pondered for a moment, as if he didn't know very well, turned around, and a general standing on the side immediately clasped his fists and bowed down and said, "Lord Qiyubai, can't the city gate be lowered into the riverbed?" ”

"Why?" I wondered.

"Because no one knows how deep the river is in this area."

When I heard this, Wu Jiyun and I glanced at each other, and we both saw surprise in each other's eyes, and then looked at the general and said, "There is no bottom, isn't there someone who wants to dive into the city, and you don't even have room for defense?" ”

But he denied it: "Adults may not know much about the ancient road river, from the mouth of the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs River to the river area around the gate of the North City, no person or creature can dive more than fifty meters underwater, otherwise even if the saint comes in person, he will be frozen at the bottom of the river and will never be able to get out." ”

I was slightly shocked when I heard this, "In other words, the city gate only needs to be fifty meters into the water, which is enough?" ”

"Lord Hui, exactly."