Speaking of pearl lotus seed soup, there is actually a little story.

Li Yuxuan and Bai Ruolan have known each other since they were five years old, and they can be said to be childhood sweethearts. Ruolan has liked to drink pearl lotus seed soup since she was a child, especially made by Li Fu. Every time he went back to the Li Mansion as a guest, Li Xia would call someone to prepare.

But once, Li Yuxuan just didn't give Ruolan to drink, saying that unless she promised to be her wife when she grew up, she could invite her to drink every day. At that time, Li Yuxuan had just spoken, and Bai Ruolan had only turned ten years old, and she didn't understand anything at all. actually ran to the living room and said in front of the two adults that he would marry Li Yuxuan when he grew up, which made the adults at a loss for a while. After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, they all laughed back and forth, making a big joke. After that, Bai Tengqi used this matter to tease his daughter whenever he was free, which made Bai Ruolan hate Li Yuxuan when she was a child.

At that time, Uncle Gu was in charge of the Li Mansion, and he also made those soups himself, so he knew what happened to Li Yuxuan and Ruolan when they were children.

Afterwards, Li Xia pulled his son, who was only ten years old at the time, and asked if it was true. Li Yuxuan's serious answer startled Li Xia.

"I must marry Ruolan in the future!"

Later, Li Yuxuan began to travel to the mainland, and stayed in the purple bamboo forest for a few months, the two spent too little time together, and finally survived until Li Yuxuan This year, Li Xia brought his son to the door to propose. The parents of both parties finally made an agreement to marry on Ruolan's twentieth birthday.

Thinking of these past events and looking down at the wife in his arms, Li Yuxuan's heart and eyes were full of happiness at this moment.

In this way, there was no match, laughing and laughing, and a bowl of pearl lotus seed soup was drunk for more than half an hour. It was already completely dark, and campfires were lit everywhere in the camp. Fifty steps outside the tent, Li Fang and the others were standing at a loss.

According to the past practice, Li Yuxuan would hold a meeting with the commanders every day when it was dark to learn more about the training of the "Black Dragon Knights" in the past year and discuss how to improve in the next year, and tell everyone about the development of the Li clan in the past year.

But today, the time is almost an hour later, and I still don't hear Li Yuxuan's meeting password. In desperation, Li Fang and the others gathered fifty steps outside the tent. But because Li Yuxuan had an order first, he didn't dare to take a step closer, so he had to stand far away and look here.

Li Yuxuan, who was in the tent, coaxed Ruolan to finish drinking the pearl lotus seed soup, took the black cloak on the hanger and wrapped Ruolan in it, and helped her up.

"You slept all afternoon, and now you go out for a walk, and it's not good for your body to lie down all the time. ”

"When did our young master Yuxuan become like an old woman, nagging!" Ruolan laughed softly in Li Yuxuan's arms.

Li Yuxuan shook his head with a wry smile, pinched Ruolan's little nose lightly, and said with a smile: "It's not because of this little goblin!" made the beautiful person in his arms laugh.

Walking out of the camp with his wife in his arms, he looked up and found Li Fang and others in the distance.

As soon as everyone saw Li Yuxuan, they appeared from the tent, walked quickly to Li Yuxuan, stood three feet away, knelt down on one knee, and put their right hand into a fist on their chest.

"Subordinates meet the young master!"

"Get up. Seeing everyone get up and stand on both sides, Li Yuxuan introduced Ruolan to everyone, "This is the eldest lady of Baifu, and she is also your future young master's wife." ”

Everyone hurriedly saluted again, and said in unison: "My subordinates have seen the young master's wife!"

For the sake of secrecy, the "Black Dragon Knights" are not to have any contact with any news outside the valley. The only exception is that Li Fuzhong has a carrier pigeon that Li Yuxuan personally feeds. Therefore, everyone didn't know until now that the little girl in front of them was the future young master's wife, no wonder Li Yuxuan had such a "look".

Ruolan broke away from Li Yuxuan's embrace and said with a smile: "You don't have to be polite, please get up!"

The voice was as melodious as Huang Ying's out of the valley, and the speed of speech was not hurried or slow, which made Li feel relieved and secretly exhaled. I didn't expect that the girl who looked so petite on the outside, in the face of such a battle, was not distracted, not panicked, behaved decently, and spoke generously, and she really deserved to be the future lady of the young master.

Later, everyone learned from Li Yuxuan's mouth that Ruolan had already dealt with the affairs of the clan at a young age, so they really looked at each other, thus establishing their status as the young master's wife in Li Yuxuan's army.

Everyone saluted and stood still on both sides, Li Fang and the others saw this situation, neither advancing nor retreating.

Ruolan was originally a delicately shaved person, and when she saw everyone's expressions of hesitation, she understood what was going on. Turning around and smiling, "Yuxuan, it seems that the generals still have something to discuss with you, and Ruolan also wants to take this opportunity to walk around." ”

Li Yuxuan understood that this was an opportunity to get closer to Ruolan and his subordinates, and said with a smile: "Then you can walk around!" turned to Li Fang and ordered, "Send a small team to protect you!" After speaking, he kissed Ruolan on the forehead, and took the lead in stepping back to the big tent, and everyone hurriedly caught up.

Li Fang, who was on the side, instructed a squad leader behind him to say a few words, and then followed, and when he passed by Ruolan's side, he said softly: "Mrs. Xie Young Master!"

Ruolan smiled silently, only bowing slightly.

In the tent, Li Yuxuan sat down on the handsome seat, and there were more than ten people on both sides of Li Fang and Langzhong.

Li Fang was about to report on the training of the "Black Dragon Knights" within a year, but Li Yuxuan raised his hand to stop Li Fang's speech. His eyes swept over the dozens of generals below, and everyone couldn't help but bow their heads to avoid his gaze. Only Li Fang, Lang Zhong and the two still maintained their original level-eyed gaze.

"Li Fang listens to the order!" Li Yuxuan snorted.

"The subordinates are here!"

Li Fang's agile reaction made Li Yuxuan very satisfied.

Li Yuxuan took out a shaved black jade divine dragon from his arms, about two inches in size. Looking closely, it seems that someone has been split in two from the middle, and half of the knowledge in Li Yuxuan's hands is only. Li Yuxuan held the jade tiger in his hand and walked in front of Li Fang. was about to hand over the jade tiger in his hand to Li Fang, Li Fang suddenly knelt down on one knee and said:

"Young master, my subordinates think that the black dragon talisman can only be held by the young master himself, and it must not be handed over to others!"

It turned out that this was a military system set up by Li Yuxuan under the listening to Li Fangjian. The Black Dragon Talisman is a dragon carved from black jade, representing the supreme command of the "Black Dragon Knights". It is artificially divided into two, and it is held by the commander. Previously, Li Yuxuan had already handed over half of the Black Dragon Talisman to Li Fang, so that he could gain the identity and status beyond other generals and become the instructor, responsible for the training of the entire "Black Dragon Knights". But if Li Yuxuan also handed over the other half of the Black Dragon Talisman to Li Fang, he would have the right to transfer and command the "Black Dragon Knights", and even under special circumstances, he could do his own thing without accepting the monarch's orders.

This measure of the black dragon talisman can well prevent the rebellion of subordinates, because in peacetime, half of the black dragon talisman is in the hands of the monarch, and the generals do not even have the right to transfer troops. But once it is imhuman, there is also a great risk. Therefore, there is another method of checks and balances under this system. That is, the monarch can use his seal letter to slash the black dragon talisman in the hands of the general. However, the command ability of a general who owns the entire Black Dragon Talisman must be extraordinary, and handing over the army to such a person also requires a certain amount of risk.

"Li Fang's Black Dragon Talisman!"

Li Yuxuan stopped drinking, and Li Fang had no choice but to take half of the black dragon talisman with both hands. And at the same time, he took out the other half of the black dragon talisman from his arms, and turned the two into one, and a swarthy flashing tiger appeared in Li Fang's hand, with a mighty and lifelike expression.

"The generals will obey!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"From now until I take back the Black Dragon Talisman, all the generals of the 'Black Dragon Knights' are under the control of General Li Fang. ”

"Yes!"

"Okay, you all retreat first! Li Fang, you stay a little longer!"

Everyone looked puzzled, but they still obeyed the order to withdraw from the tent and went back to the camp to rest. Only Li Yuxuan and Li Fang were left in the main account.

Li Yuxuan saw that everyone had withdrawn from the tent, so he motioned for Li to sit down on a chair in his hand, and he paced back to the front of the handsome position.

"Young master, my subordinates think that it is inappropriate for the young master to do this. In this way, it is very easy to form a second center of power in the military other than the commander-in-chief, which is not conducive to the implementation of the centralized power system. If this goes on for a long time, it will inevitably lead to a situation of factions and weaken the combat effectiveness of the entire army. ”

"General Li Fang, you should have thought of this when you set up the Black Dragon Fu System at the beginning! Are you afraid that you will be in an important position and arouse the suspicion of others, and you are also afraid that your high merits will shock the Lord and set yourself on fire, right?"

Li Yuxuan squinted at Li Fang, and his cold gaze made Li Fang tense all over, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said:

"The young master is wise!"

The implication is that once he sits in this position, he may be unlucky in the future.

"Well, if you have such concerns, it proves that you will not exceed your duty. Don't worry, since I handed over the Black Dragon Talisman to you, I will never distrust you. If I complete this mission, I will have a new arrangement, and in the future, I will directly command the 'Black Dragon Knights', and I will not hand over the Black Dragon Talisman to others!"

After speaking, Li Yuxuan stood up from his position and paced to a map in the corner of the camp, and Li Fang also got up and followed.

It was a fairly detailed map of the southern part of the continent, drawn by Li Yuxuan's second uncle, Li Qiu, who was in charge of intelligence gathering. On it, there are not only mountains, rivers, cities, etc. What's more, the number of troops and the names of the commanders of each of the major cities and passes above are annotated in detail.

Li Yuxuan stared at the map, as if he felt that he had arrived on the battlefield, commanding thousands of troops and horses to gallop across the country, attacking cities and plundering land. After a long time, Li Yuxuan noticed that Li Fang was still silent, standing quietly behind him.

Li Yuxuan stared at the map in front of him again. After a long time, he finally put his finger on the recognition of a city and muttered to himself:

"Suger, the third largest city in the Carol Kingdom, the city lord Su Dongyao, has a total of 4,000 garrisons, including 500 cavalry.

When Li Yuxuan said this, he turned around and found that Li Fang was staring at the map intently, still silent.

"Remember, Yi Fu entered the city in batches, each hidden, and when my army arrived at the city, I should join forces with the outside and kill him by surprise. ”

After a pause, Li Yuxuan stared at the map in front of him for a moment, "Li Fang, the fate of the Li family will be handed over to you for the time being!" After speaking, he turned around and walked out of the camp with his hands in his hands. There was the sound of Li Fang's knees hitting the ground.

"Young master, please rest assured, I swear to live and die together with the 'Black Dragon Knights'!"

"Good!" the voice outside the tent was heavy and pathetic. Under the jumping firelight, Li Yuxuan's shadow looked weird.

Three days later, Li Fang led the last group of more than 100 people to leave the camp.

Looking at the empty valley in front of him, who would have thought that three days ago there were still two thousand troops stationed here.

"Yuxuan, shouldn't we also go. Ruolan's voice clearly revealed a trace of reluctance.

It's no wonder that in the past three days, she and Li Yuxuan have spent the happiest and most romantic three days in history, and now they are about to leave here, of course, there will be a lot of reluctance.

"Yes!" drove the horse to the mouth of the valley and looked back at the valley, Li Yuxuan said a meaningful word.

"The war is finally about to begin!"