Chinese New Year's Eve, heavy snow.

Today is the seventh year that Lu Qingqing has come to this world, and this day is also the Spring Festival she set, this night, the city does not sleep, people take out the best food, put on the most beautiful clothes, entertain friends in their own homes, or go to the homes of relatives and friends to gather and party, and more in the open space in a circle, light bonfires, eat, drink and jump.

"It's a pity that there are no fireworks. Lu sat lightly under the porch at the head of the city, although he was not afraid of the cold, but he also seemed to be wearing a thick cloak made of snow wolf skin, listening to the laughter coming from everywhere, and looking up at the night sky full of stars.

"Fireworks?" A small bun on the chair opposite that was tightly wrapped looked up, and his face was calm and indifferent to the appearance, "Firecrackers, I know, the kingdom will be set off on important days, but what are fireworks?"

"Fireworks are firecrackers that emit color. Lu smiled lightly and leaned over to pinch this little tender face, "The firecrackers that will go to the sky, poof-pop, release colorful fireworks, just like flowers." ”

Lu made a gesture lightly, but when he saw the stars in the sky, he said, "Although there are no fireworks, such stars are beautiful enough, I can't see so many and so bright stars before, and I can't see such a beautiful night sky." ”

"Where were you before?"

"Well, far, far away, but it was all years ago, I can't remember. ”

Lu gently picked up the ale wine on the table and took a sip, ah, this batch of wheat is brewed well, and the winery has to be given a bonus. She drank warmly and slightly, squinting at the cold wind blowing in and breaking snow, which was a special taste.

A small hand also stretched out to the small porcelain white wine bottle, and was slapped coldly, Lu gently poured a glass of milk warm on the stove on the side and gave it to him: "Children, don't want to touch wine, and milk." ”

Chongyun was speechless: "You know I'm not a child. ”

"I only believe what I see with my eyes. Lu lightly poked her eyes with two fingers, and said seriously, she leaned on the table with her cheeks on her cheeks, "Seriously, it's good to see you like this for a long time, or don't change back, sister and I will support you in the future." ”

Chongyun didn't want to pay attention to her at all, he knew that this person was a little drunk.

"Report-" A person hurriedly ran up to the city tower, "Chief, there is news from Yaoshan, there is a situation!"

Lu Qingqing's figure was straight, and the joke and drunkenness on his face suddenly dissipated: "Where's the strip?"

She took a note, opened it and looked at it a few times: "There is a wave of people of unknown origin in Changgu Pass, there are thousands of people, looking at the battle and configuration, it should be a well-trained army, and now it is coming directly to the north." ”

Changgu Pass is a natural checkpoint facing the south of Yaoshan Mountain, long and deep, and there is a trail next to it, short and wide, it is the Short Valley Pass, and the people of the upper country call it so, and Lu Qingqing did not change their names.

Normally, if people from the south want to come to the north, they will go through the short valley pass, but now this group of people came quietly from the long valley pass, and the letter said that this group of people traveled very quickly, and when this letter was delivered, I am afraid that it had already passed Qinghu.

And it just so happened that a shipment of goods was about to arrive in the Northland in the past two days, and it was a large batch of salt and cloth, which was of great significance to the Northland.

Her face was a little serious, she stood up and stretched out her hand towards Chongyun, who jumped down from the chair and ran to her in a few steps to naturally hold her hand, Lu gently led him down the city tower and ordered: "Inform everyone, have a meeting." ”

This year Lu Qing stayed in Qingwu City, after all, this is the central area of the Northland, and the information transmission of each city is relatively convenient, so other city lords and important people on Chinese New Year's Eve are here to celebrate the New Year.

It's very well manned.

Wind, Horn, Oshiro, Ershi, Wild, Naru, Heavy, and the bones of the Otsuki Clan and other combat-type innate ability warriors.

Except for the knife who was far away in the medicine mountain, and the leg that escorted Yitu, who had the ability of the golden bell jar to go to the merchant and bring back the batch of materials in the future, everyone else had basically arrived.

"This group of people came all the way in the snowy night, there must be some plan, the legs and a piece of soil are coming in these two days, they are escorting a large number of supplies, the team is big and the goal is big, and it is likely to become a target. Ming, take a group of men and horses to find out the situation, and immediately pass the news back; heavy, you lead the first military battalion to defend the southern city for me; Ye, you immediately go back to the Red Bone Mountain, take your people well, and hide in the mountains and don't come out; Feng, you quickly return to Qinghu City, stabilize the people, and finally take down the territory, I don't want a group of people from the south to change hands for me overnight. ”

"Yes!" everyone said in unison.

The bones of the Otsuki Clan and the others looked a little uneasy, because they had not been mentioned what they should do.

Lu gently said to the bone, "How's the gunpowder research going?"

Gu is the middle-aged man who made a deal with Lu Qing on behalf of the Dayue tribe in the past three years, and now he is also equivalent to the spokesperson of the Dayue clan, he manages the Dayue clan well, and Lu Qingqing's people who find the Dayue clan generally do not bypass him, but let him be a mouthpiece.

"Some progress has been made. ”

There is a girl in the Dayue tribe whose innate ability is research, and she is very sensitive to the interaction between matter, and after Lu lightly tried her ability, she directly offered people as scientists, whether it was ale wine, iron ore refining, or weapon manufacturing, there was a figure of this girl, and now Lu Qingqing asked people to specialize in gunpowder.

To defend the Northland, it is not enough to have more than a dozen innate ability warriors and tens of thousands of troops.

"Very good, keep up the good work, and let Yin go to Nancheng to help Chong, and help Ming spread the news. ”

This voice has an innate ability to travel sounds very, very far away, and the average person can't understand or even hear them. And if he makes his voice sharper, he can even use it to attack people.

Lu thought about it for a long time, and tried it with Yin for a long time, and finally came up with a way for her to let Yin speak thousands of miles away, and the receiving device on the other side was a huge receiver, connected to a special huge bell, and the sound wave of Yin was accepted, and then let the bell ring, ring a few times, how long intervals, through translation, you can turn out a sentence.

I think that when I yelled because of my loud voice, I was a broadcaster for a long time, but now the ability of this voice is not broadcasting, it is almost equivalent to telegraph.

Because this program has an encryption and deciphering process, it is more cumbersome and complicated, and it will only be used in extraordinary times, and other times it relies on carrier pigeons to transmit messages, and now, I am afraid it is an extraordinary period.

The group dispersed to carry out the task, Lu leaned back in the chair lightly, and sighed: "It would be nice to have a pair of messenger bugs, but unfortunately this thing is too precious and rare, and none of the people I have come into contact with." ”

Otherwise, you can grab a pair and come back.