Ten days later, 30,000 troops from the north of the town were stationed outside Hukou City, Xizhou.

There are five cities in Xizhou, Hukou is the fortress that enters the highlands of Xizhou, there are high mountains on both sides, and a shock plain in the middle is Hukou City, the more you go west, the higher the terrain. Such a terrain is also destined to be an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, so whether or not Hukou City can be captured has also become the key to the war.

Today's Xizhou is still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, so although they are stationed outside Hukou City, they will not fight just like fighting.

Their demand was to remove the generals of Hukou City and replace them with General Wei. Of course, this is just a name, to put it bluntly, it is to get the military power of Xizhou.

They were stationed outside the city of Hukou, and the city did not close its gates, except for strengthening its guards.

Three days later, Zijin brought a letter to Liu Yunxiang.

Liu Yunxiang saw the handwriting on the envelope and sighed slightly, "As Yan Duan expected, Lu Changan has returned to Xizhou." ”

Xizhou is the root of Lu Chang'an, and when he heard that the Zhenbei army had been diverted to Xizhou, he naturally couldn't sit still in Beijing, and hurried back.

opened the envelope and asked her to meet at the Su Ji Sheep Soup House in Hukou City.

"Your Highness doesn't know about this letter, right?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

Zijin shook his head, "I go into the city every day to buy roast mutton buns." ”

Speaking of this, Zijin stuck out his tongue, "The person who sent the letter knew this, so he put the letter in the bun shop, and the owner of the bun shop gave it to me." ”

Feng Zheng snorted on the side, "This is going to be a war, you still think about eating steamed buns every day, you can really do it!" ”

Zijin said angrily: "Every time I buy it back, you eat more than me?" ”

"As soon as you buy a big pack, if I don't eat it, it will be wasted!"

"Phew, give me back the buns!"

The two quarreled, Liu Yunxiang shook his head with a smile, and looked down at the letter in his hand. The handwriting is Lu Changan's, he invited her to meet, Xu was afraid that she would not go to the appointment, and he finally left a sentence: Yunxiang, the mutton soup in this shop is delicious, really.

"Don't tell Your Highness." Liu Yunxiang said.

"Huh?" Zijin's eyes widened, "No, are you really planning to go?" ”

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Invited by a friend, I should naturally go." ”

"Then tell Your Highness."

"Tell him to keep the bad things done."

Liu Yunxiang didn't let the two of them tell Yan Dui, but asked them to go with her.

After lunch the next day, Yan Du hugged her and slept for a while, and then went to train with illness. As soon as he left, Liu Yunxiang secretly left the barracks with Zijin and Feng Zheng.

When I entered the city, the scene inside the city was really unexpected.

This Hukou City does not have the prosperity of other towns, at a glance there are dilapidated houses, and the people walking on the street are all yellow and thin, most of them are patched, and some are still in rags.

The road they took should be the main east-west long street in Hukou City, but there are few stalls on both sides, and there are not many shops, and there are even fewer people who come and go to buy things.

There is a decadent scene here, which makes Liu Yunxiang really puzzled. It stands to reason that Hukou City is an impact plain in Xizhou, where the land is fertile, suitable for medium crops, and because of the special geographical location, the east and west meet, commercial trade should be quite frequent, no matter what.

There were also a lot of beggars on the street, and although the three of them were not dressed very gorgeously, they were very conspicuous compared to the people here, so those beggars gathered around.

At this time, they didn't dare to send away the money, otherwise they would be picked up by these beggars, and the three of them hurriedly left.

Walking out for a while, Liu Yunxiang said: "Hukou City turned out to be this scene. ”

Zijin is not surprised because he often comes to buy steamed buns, but said: "The people here are very poor, it seems that there was a drought in the past two years, and many people starved to death." ”

"But in the mainland, I have never seen displaced people from Xizhou."

"The people of Xizhou cannot leave Xizhou, this is the ban set by Darong when he founded the country."

"Why?"

Zijin can't say it, but Feng Zheng is familiar with the law, and he knows it.

"Because after the ancestors conquered the great glory, they did not kill the officials and generals who died in the country, but sent them and their families to Xizhou, and the people of Xizhou could not leave Xizhou and enter the interior for generations."

Liu Yunxiang nodded, so it was.

However, it has been more than 100 years since the founding of Daei, and it is rare for this ban to be so strict.

After walking for a while, I finally saw the sign of Su Ji Sheep Soup House. Far away, I can already smell the umami of the mutton soup.

Zijin's saliva was about to flow out, and he said that he must drink two more bowls of soup.

"Nope." Feng Zheng said.

Zijin frowned, "Why not?" ”

"We followed the girl out to protect her, aren't you afraid that the soup will have a drug to stun you, and then the girl will be taken away by them?"

Zijin thought about it for a while, and nodded obediently, "I won't drink anymore." ”

Liu Yunxiang smiled, although she felt that Lu Changan would not be so despicable, but it was better to guard against it.

Walking in some more, I saw a square table in front of the sheep soup restaurant, and the table was next to a small river in the city, and it was very pleasant to enjoy the scenery while drinking soup.

And Lu Changan was sitting there, dressed in plain white, reading a book in his hand.

In a trance, Liu Yunxiang remembered his previous life, and he always liked to find a secluded place to read in the downtown area. She also asked him why he didn't watch it at home.

He said that the book is an ideal world, and if you stay in the ideal world for a long time, you will forget the real world. He likes to read for a while, and then look at the scenery of the market, so that when he becomes an official in the future, he will not be high above and will not investigate the people's suffering.

Thinking of this, Liu Yunxiang sighed.

If Heaven had been fair to him from the beginning, he must be a good official now.

Liu Yunxiang walked over and sat down opposite Lu Changan.

Lu Changan raised his head, saw Liu Yunxiang, and smiled at her.

The smile was bright, clean, modest, gentle, "I thought you wouldn't come." ”

Liu Yunxiang turned his head and glanced at the mutton soup restaurant, "I don't like to drink this mutton soup, but you said it was delicious, I have to come and taste it." ”

Lu Changan picked up the upside-down teacup and put it in front of Liu Yunxiang, lifted the boiling teapot on the stove, poured her a cup first, and then poured himself a cup.

"This restaurant is very famous in the whole of Xizhou, their sheep are Xizhou mountain goats, slaughtered and boiled in soup, the soup is delicious and does not have a heavy smell. I didn't like lamb soup before, but after trying it once, I fell in love with it. ”

The owner of the sheep soup restaurant came and asked Lu Changan if he still wanted the same three things.

"Well, just one more as it is."

The boss glanced at Liu Yunxiang and retreated with a smile.

"For the past few days and nights, I have always had a dream." Lu Chang'an Road.

"What dream?"

"In my dream, I stood on the temple and admonished me in a loud voice, and all the courtiers looked at me, and I saw real admiration in their eyes. It's such a good feeling that every time I dream of this, I get addicted to it and don't want to wake up. ”