It is said that the sycamore tree can attract the phoenix to inhabit, in fact, it likes the sun and is not tolerant to the shade and cold, and the buds are particularly weak, it is difficult to imagine that there can be a surviving sycamore tree in this place in Beiliang, but since it was born in the courtyard of the private house of His Royal Highness the former prince of Qingliang Mountain, it is equivalent to a good fetus, not only survived, but also unusually luxuriant. It's just that the sycamore tree in the sycamore courtyard is growing gratifying, but there is a bit of gloomy miserable and miserable relatives in this courtyard, probably because the Qingming is approaching, the people underground are too thinking of the people on the ground, so someone in the sycamore courtyard died quietly, it is a batch of cucumbers in the Zhu Nu Hanlin, this second-class maid, the name has long been forgotten, His Royal Highness the prince returned after the first trip to the rivers and lakes, the eldest son of the old Liang Wang who likes to eat cucumbers gave her a vulgar nickname of cucumbers, she also protested back then, and then was called used to it, and she accepted it with a grudge, the death of the cucumber, abrupt and inexplicable, died in the new Liang King happened not to be in the absence of Qingliang Mountain, so that many people were caught off guard, The servants of the palace outside the Wutong Courtyard did not dare to break their mouths at all, even if it was in the courtyard, they were all silent, Xu Weixiong, who was in charge of the affairs of the Wutong Courtyard, did not make a sound, and the funeral was simple and hasty.

Xu Feng's young Che Jian returned to the palace from the place of exiles, and still did not go to the Wutong Courtyard that was becoming less and less frequent, Xu Weixiong, who was in a wheelchair, found him in the pavilion on Tingchao Lake, and handed him a suicide note written by himself before the cucumber committed suicide, Xu Fengnian did not take a look at it, and threw it into the lake, and a thin sandalwood-colored flower note fell on the surface of the lake, soaked and wet, and slowly sank down to the lake, without even causing a ripple, the suicide note and the woman were like this, light and fluttering, as if it was gone, insignificant. Xu Weixiong calmly told Xu Fengnian that after the cucumber wrote the letter, he pierced his neck with a pair of chopsticks in the house, and died at the desk, a very strange way of dying, and was only found at dawn the next day by calling her to go to the main house to approve the red and the same second-class maid. Xu Weixiong also said that in the letter, Cucumber admitted that she had been a spy of Zhao Gou in Beiliang installed by the imperial court since she was a child, and she had betrayed twice in her life, once when His Royal Highness broke into the place of exile alone, and last time she leaked Beimang's whereabouts. At the end of the letter, she said that she hoped that Her Highness would come back alive to see her suicide note, and that she would still want to serve Her Highness in the next life, and that she would never be so human and ghostly again.

Xu Fengnian's expression was calm, he couldn't see the joy and sorrow clearly, and Xu Weixiong also said indifferently: "The Beiliang Eagle Falcon is separated, and the spy reports of Wutong Courtyard and Chu Lushan are divided into inside and outside, I knew at that time that you have already noticed that there are internal ghosts in Wutong Courtyard, and I hope they can restrain a little, and accept it when they see it, which should give them a chance to live." It's just that you should know a little bit, since you have embarked on this road, there is no way to turn back, there is no need to spare your life, a woman's life is thin, not to mention that she is still a female spy, after all, she can still decide when to die, how to die, and she did not suffer before she died. ”

Xu Fengnian sighed, rubbed his cheeks fiercely, and the words came out from between his fingers, slightly vague, "There is also a spy who is implicated in Beimang, hidden even deeper, who is it? Without her leak, not to mention the big driver who alarmed Murong Baoding, the leader of the Orange Prefecture, even Hong Jingyan couldn't go to Qingcang City to intercept and kill me, these two people stepped on the point just right, obviously after the precise deduction of Beimang's think tank, it seems that she is much thicker than the cucumber girl." ”

Xu Weixiong asked rhetorically: "Do you really don't know the way, or are you pretending to be stupid? Wutong Courtyard has this kind of forbearance and scheming, how many can there be?"

Xu Fengnian put down his hand, clasped his hands in his sleeves, turned his head to look at the lake, and said softly: "I'll go see her, sister, you can help me prepare two glasses of wine." ”

Xu Weixiong hesitated for a moment, but finally remained silent. The second-class maids of Wutong Courtyard have their own private houses, each with its own charm, and the house of the green ants of the small country of the palace is the most miscellaneous and numerous, there are many strange objects in the house, and there are not many books, she is good at playing chess, but there is no chess pier, not a chess piece, to play chess, she is talking directly with His Royal Highness the Prince of the Year in the main courtyard, and can always kill Xu Fengnian to lose his armor, never see her subordinates merciful, is to the god of the first nineteen ways of the two county lords, when the heart has a heart, occasionally can fight on a fairly high level, which shows that the green ant is extremely intelligent, probably because of the wisdom must be injured, the green ant is also the weakest one in the body bone of the Wutong Courtyard maid, Fortunately, Xu Fengnian is a loser who is generous to the people around him, and it is the precious elixir sent to the palace by Song Zhiming, an old man in Wudang Mountain, and he also regularly gives it to green ants all year round to warm his body. Today, the Wutong Courtyard is not a green ant on duty, the door of the house is not closed, she sits alone at the window, looking at the green plane tree outside the window, the corners of her mouth are smiling, when she heard the knock on the door, turned her head and saw His Royal Highness the Prince with a glass of wine in his hand, stood up with a smile, the women of the Wutong Courtyard probably still like to regard this gentle and handsome young man as their Royal Highness. Xu Fengnian walked to the window, put down two glasses of wine, and looked out of the green screen window along her previous line of sight, the green ant never cared about those humility, anyway, Wutong Courtyard didn't pay much attention to these rules, sat back in the chair gently, rested his elbows on the chair handle, leaned his body, and looked up at him, for so many years, it has been the case, this man has always been staring at Beiliang, looking at the rivers and lakes and mountains, she can only look at him, his side or back, at most when playing chess, when drinking, can see enough of his front.

The green ant smiled softly and asked, "Cucumber is a fool, Your Highness, did you say?"

Xu Fengnian didn't shift his gaze, nodded and said: "In this courtyard, she has always been the stupidest one, the ugliest handwriting, the most stinky chess, and the guzheng doesn't play very aura, every time I am instigated by you to touch the moldy head, to stab Yu Youwei, to stab Pei Nanwei, to stab Lu Chengyan, to attack enemies on all sides, and I still feel that I am righteous and righteous, and I am a heroine who stands up to the sky, I don't know how to scold her every time I want to scold her, and I don't know how to scold her. The stupidest one became a spy, and in the end he was really stupid. So I don't blame her, because she is a stupid girl, not to mention that she still has her father and mother alive in Liyangzhou, and she has no choice but to do so. What about you, you have always been the smartest one in the courtyard, my sister said, you have no relatives and no reason in Beimang, why are you willing to die for the barbarians? Fun? If you defect earlier, and be your Beiliang woman green ant with peace of mind, who can come to Wutong Courtyard to kill you? ”

The green ant said calmly: "Your Highness, why don't we drink wine and chat? Which cup is for His Highness and which cup is for the slave and maid?" The slave maid is bolder than the cucumber, the city government is deeper, and the bottom of her heart is the same as thinking that His Royal Highness can go home alive, but the slave maid wants to talk to His Highness again, and she doesn't dare to talk to the cucumber, not only stupid, but also a coward. ”

Xu Feng sneered in a young voice: "It's really already a ghost." It's good to be in time for Qingming. ”

The green ant shook Xu Fengnian's cuffs, his eyes were misty, and he looked at him, the woman in the show of wisdom muttered to herself: "Everyone is a woman, why am I a maid, why do I have to call myself a slave when I see His Royal Highness, why can I only look at you from a distance all my life, I am not stupid, I dare to kill, I can kill people on paper, I also have a name, I also want to marry, I want to marry and teach children more, I have too many ideas, the biggest idea, does Your Highness know what the Tao is?" I remember that His Royal Highness came back from the capital, drank with me, talked a lot of drunken words, and said a lot of gossip about dreams, saying that the dream of a bereaved dog is to have a home. said that the dream of the river pawn is to cross the river and turn back, and said that the dream of the swordsman is to enter the rivers and lakes and have a sword and a sword out of the rivers and lakes, and also said that you don't want anyone to die because of you, and you don't want to watch the people around you one after another, and you need to go to the tomb in Qingming. So my dream is for you to look at me more, to really look at me, like now. When I'm dead, you can remember me, and hate me as long as you live. ”

Xu Fengnian shook back his sleeves and didn't let her hold it.

The green ant exhaled and said with a smile: "After the slave is finished, you can also die, Your Highness can go, don't stain your eyes, I don't want to make Your Highness feel guilty when I die." ”

Xu Fengnian turned straight and left.

Not long after Xu Fengnian left the house, there was a slight squeak of a wheelchair outside the house, and the green ant didn't turn his head to look at the woman who was more indifferent and smarter than himself, and bent down to reach out and hold a glass of wine, "Is it the green ant bar prepared by the second county lord?"

The green ant did not look at the woman sitting in the wheelchair, and the latter also did not look at the green ant, and his expression was gloomy.

The green ant snorted softly, "That's no different." ”

Green ants are really smart, if it is two cups of green ant wine prepared by His Royal Highness, one is dove wine, but the other glass is naturally an ordinary green ant wine with extrajudicial grace, whether the green ant is dead or alive depends on the destiny of heaven. But if it was two cups of wine given by Xu Weixiong, the second county lord, it was destined to only be two cups of poisonous wine sent behind His Royal Highness the prince's back, so it would be the same for any cup she drank.

The green ant picked up a glass of green ant wine casually, drank it all, and before he could taste it, he picked up the second glass of wine, and still poured it into his stomach with his head up. Since it is death, drinking an extra glass of wine always earns, in the past, she has played chess against the second county lord so many times, and won a few times, relying on her little by little advantages.

The green ant sat back in his chair and waited for death.

After a long time, the green ant frowned, only to hear Xu Weixiong say coldly: "I did prepare two cups of poison wine for you, and I guessed that he would replace two more glasses for you." He wanted you to drink a glass of wine, feeling that he was lucky to survive, and then left Beiliang and found a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to hide, so that he could live in peace. But I won't let you leave this courtyard so comfortably, I'm just here to force you to drink two glasses of wine, so that you, an immature white-eyed wolf, can clearly know who owes whom! He doesn't want you to die, and he wants you to live comfortably, I don't have such a good heart, except for old death, you don't want to die, I will let a few elite peregrine falcons follow you for the rest ......of your life."

A voice interrupted the two women's rivalry, "Okay, sister." ”

Xu Fengnian turned back and pushed the wheelchair away.

Xu Fengnian pushed her to Qingliang Mountain, overlooking Liangzhou City together, and said softly: "My patience has also been worn out, so don't worry, sister, I won't be so bodhisattva in the future." My mother used to say that no one is born to suffer, even if a man can't treat women well, he can't do random harm, he has to treat them as human beings. Now that the Wutong Courtyard is clean, I don't have any worries, this time you will make a break with me, and I will be willful with you once, sister, what's the matter?"

Xu Weixiong snorted.

Xu Fengnian smiled in surprise: "Sister, why are you so reasonable, I don't feel very comfortable." ”

Xu Weixiong hit his head back, hit him hard, and said flatly: "I saw that after you became the king of Beiliang, the number of times you went to the Houshan Machinery Bureau exceeded my estimate, so I made an exception to allow you to be willful once." ”

The Beiliang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau was built at the bottom of the mountain behind Qingliang Mountain.

It is this inconspicuous institution that has created the best war knife, the best iron spear, the best bow and crossbow, and the best iron armor in the world for the Beiliang Iron Cavalry.

Every sword, every iron spear, every bow, every iron armor, as long as it is a little better than others, but with a 300,000 iron horsemen, how huge and amazing is the hidden advantage accumulated?

The place where Beiliang eats the most gold and silver, in addition to the military expenses for raising soldiers, is on the large-scale ordnance released by the Machinery Construction Bureau.

The second King of Beiliang, who guarded the northwest gate of the empire, attached more importance to this than the old king, to the point of being incredibly sick.

Xu Fengnian's eyes were resolute, he stretched out his hand to make a bow and arrow throwing gesture, and said in a deep voice: "I want to tell Beimang Liyang an old truth that Xu Xiao set back then, the biggest truth in the world is within the range of Beiliang's bow and crossbow!"