Escorting materials is also a big deal, and those materials are related to the reconstruction of Shuoyue Island, as well as the food, clothing, and treatment of injuries and illnesses for the soldiers and civilians on the island, and they must be delivered urgently.

Don't look at Xiao Fuling's young age, but growing up with Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother, it is indispensable to teach by word and deed. She also served as a prisoner, and she has accumulated experience in handling these court affairs.

If you are not in a hurry at the moment, you will handle everything in an orderly manner.

"Wait, Fan Jinhong. Just as Fan Jinhong was about to leave the main hall, Xiao Fuling stopped him again and advised: "After the materials are counted, immediately arrange for guards and guards to enter the ship where the materials are delivered, and don't let the materials be lost." ”。

"No. Fan Jinhong replied and continued to walk outside the house.

"Lord Weng can be so calm and calm when he encounters things at a young age, and he handles everything in an orderly manner, which is really taught by the words and deeds of the lord and **, which makes me admire. Chenghuang Fan Shi took the lead and praised with a smile.

Other officials also cast admiring glances at Xiao Lingling and praised her with gossip. The main hall became noisy and no longer silent.

And Xiao Fuling is not proud and proud of this. She had long been accustomed to being praised by other ghosts, or rather flattered.

When she was in the Jade Que Palace, she could hear such words more than a dozen times a day, and there was no duplicate one.

At that moment, Xiao Fuling just smiled slightly, and stood up: "I heard that when the Northern Yin Dynasty attacked Shuoyue Island, it also sent a raiding team to harass the coastal areas in the north of our country. Dusk City is also within the enemy's range, right?"

With that, her eyes fell on Chenghuang Fanshi's face.

"Yes, there are probably a dozen warships and tens of thousands of enemy sergeants who have launched two night attacks on our port outside this ghost town. After nodding his head without hesitation, Chenghuang Fan Shi said to Xiao Ling: "But in order to cause any damage to the city, only the port was attacked and some of the forts were destroyed, but now they have been repaired and can be used normally." ”。

"Okay, that's good. However, this yamen of yours is very stuffy, so why don't you take me to the city and the port to take a walk, and breathe. Xiao Fuling dropped this sentence and walked out of the main hall with the guards.

Chenghuang Fan Shi did not shirk it, and hurriedly led his officials to follow.

When she walked out of the main hall and stood in the bright and warm cloudy light, Xiao Fuling suddenly stopped in the courtyard, looked back at the ghost officials and ghost officials behind her, and said, "What are you doing with me? Don't you have any official business to do? Go and do your own business, Chenghuang Fan Shi will follow me." ”......

In the wilderness south of Huangquan after nightfall, wind and sand blew again.

However, it is not as strong as the wind and sand a day ago, but it has raised a faint gray fog between the heavens and the earth, and it has not yet reached the point where the wind has destroyed the grass and trees and the walls have fallen.

This little wind and sand will not last long, and it will stop tomorrow morning when the clouds rise.

Even so, it would be very difficult to walk against the wind in the wilderness without bringing the Wind Beads. It's as if there is an invisible hand pushing pedestrians backwards.

More than a hundred miles north of the Strange Stone Valley were a few small hills, not very high, standing in the middle of a desert, on the edge of an inexhaustible swamp.

On each hill there are many walls and watchtowers, as well as stone houses and stone chambers carved out of the rock wall. There are also beacon towers, which stand on top of each hill.

This is a ghost soldier camp in the south of Huangquan, with more than 300,000 ghost soldiers stationed on these small hills on the edge of the swamp. Together with the Strange Stone Valley and the Black Thunder Mountain, it forms several barriers in the northern part of the Huangquan Holy Land.

And the swamp behind those hills was hundreds of miles in circumference, and the ground was covered with turbid yellow water, and there was no bottom in sight. And under the yellow water, there is a black and foul-smelling mud. What appears to be a vast expanse of water is in fact a web of death-filled waters connected by countless pools of water and soft mud pools, as well as criss-crossing waterways. The pungent swamp gas rising from it has been drifting and lingering in it.

In addition, there are many dead trees with green leaves scattered in this swamp on the yellow water. These dead trees with fangs and claws have been soaked in water for thousands of years. But from the roots to the trunk, and then to the branches that stretched out from the trunk, they had assimilated with the stone.

Their appearance is still the same as that of dead wood, but in the daytime, under the light of the cloudy day, they will shine with a dazzling agate luster. Most of the fossils are broken tree segments, and some only show a stump on the yellow water, but they are as hard as iron and stone, and the sound of striking is sonorous.

And this swamp has no life at all, it is lifeless. There are no creatures in it that can survive in it.

It's not that the methane is thick, but as long as you set foot in this swamp, most of them have no return, and they fall into the mud under the yellow water of the swamp, and they can't climb out again.

In addition, there is nothing edible in it, let alone any minerals. Therefore, for thousands of years, whether it is the ghosts of Huangquan, who are native to here, or the ghost soldiers of Xudu who are stationed in this world, they have never set foot in this swamp.

Therefore, this swamp is even more mysterious and eerie. For the ghosts of Huangquan, it is a symbol of death.

Therefore, there are no ghosts, and they will easily get involved in it. Unless it's a ghost who doesn't want to live and wants to find a place to die quietly, and some unsuspecting beast soul animals, they will run into this swamp.

But after that, I never saw these ghosts come out of it again.

And at this moment, on a small hill on the southern edge of this swamp, a little ghost standing guard in the watchtower facing south is looking through the clairvoyant in his hand into the wind and sand outside the watchtower.

This little ghost looked very anxious and nervous, and there were beads of sweat the size of beans on his frowning forehead. But it's not so hot inside the watchtower, but it's a little cool because of the wind and sand outside.

Not far from him, an old ghost sat next to the wall. The spear that should have been in his hand also stood against the wall beside him.

The old ghost didn't have any weapons in his hands, but instead clutched a flask.

On the ground in front of him was a plate full of fried soybeans.

"Little ghost, you've been staring at the wind and sand for a long time. The drunken old ghost, whose cheeks and nose were already red, burped a foul-smelling wine and asked the little ghost, "It's dark, the wind and sand are blowing non-stop, what are you looking at? Can you see anything?"

"I can't see it. The little ghost said this, and he became even more anxious and nervous. With his heart racing, he didn't take back the clairvoyant mirror, continued to look at the wind and sand outside the building, and said urgently: "What else can you look for? Find the figure of Xiao Shizhu, the son of God." Didn't you have intelligence that they might be coming to our side? ”。

The wind and sand outside the building are still roaring, and sometimes there can be raised wind and sand, along the observation hole of the watchtower, blowing into the building.

"Come, come, the Son of God is not as good as it used to be. The old ghost snorted coldly, and said disapprerovantly: "Didn't you stop inviting the messenger who came to deliver the message? He wanted to plot against the Queen of Huangquan, but he never wanted to be counterattacked by the queen and seriously injured him. Even if he comes, he can only become a ghost under the knife, what is there to be afraid of. ”。

During the day, the news that the Queen of Huangquan was going to chase and intercept Xiao Shizhu spread throughout most areas of southern Huangquan. Except for those marginal areas that are too far away and may not have passed the news for the time being, other garrisons and passes have received orders not to let Xiao Shizhu go, and to execute him on the spot when he can encounter it.

This order made the ghost soldiers who received the order all ready to fight.

Although Xiao Shizhu was still a hero in their hearts before this. But at this moment, when it comes to Xiao Shizhu, these ghost soldiers are only left with contempt and anger.

Queen Huangquan used the method of bewitching the soldiers and civilians of the Huangquan Holy Land, and publicized Xiao Shizhu as a shameless villain who betrayed his word because he couldn't borrow soldiers.

It's a pity that the soldiers in Huangquan are few ghosts who are as clear-headed and can think seriously as Ke Yun and Wutou. Naturally, I believed the nonsense made up by Queen Huangquan.

Although they hate Xiao Shizhu, there are still some ghost soldiers who are afraid of Xiao Shizhu. Now I have been holding a clairvoyant mirror and looking at the little ghost in the wind and sand outside the building, which is one of them.

After all, Xiao Shizhu led the troops to solve the threat of thousands of years of ghost soldiers in the capital within half a year. His heroic deeds of fighting and being fierce to the ghost soldiers of Huangquan have long been spread in Huangquan.

Those Huangquan ghost soldiers were afraid of Xiao Shizhu precisely because of this.

The fiercer ghost soldiers were all defeated by Xiao Shizhu's hands, how could the Huangquan ghost soldiers not be afraid of Xiao Shizhu?

"Come and have a drink at the bar, relax, and drink some to relieve the tension. The old ghost took another sip of wine, beckoned to the little ghost, and said, "What is there to worry about." ”。

The little ghost who couldn't stand his persuasion finally sat down opposite the old ghost after receiving the clairvoyant mirror, took the wine jug handed by the other party, and after taking a sip worriedly, he frowned and said: "But I heard that they solved the more than 200,000 chasing soldiers brought by General Xiaoyue overnight." ”。

He said these words in the afternoon when he listened to the messengers rushing from all over the country to deliver the news. This place is not far from the Strange Stone Valley, and the ghost soldiers of Huangquan discovered that Xiaoyue and their entire army were annihilated, so they hurriedly sent messages to all places, asking them to strengthen their guards in case of accidents.

This also made the fear in the little ghost's heart increase instead of decreasing.

"You're still too young to hold your breath. The old ghost was drunk and hazy, narrowed slightly, grabbed a handful of fried soybeans and put them in his mouth, and chewed them with relish.

The click of chewing soybeans sounded again and again, and the little ghost on the other side was still worried, and his mind was not on the deliciousness of soybeans and wine at all.

"Young imp, you only saw that Xiaoyue lost, didn't you hear the messengers say? In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, the queen has increased the number of pursuers from twelve to twenty-two. The old ghost swallowed the chewed soybeans, took another sip of wine, and said without thinking about it: "Twenty-two chasing troops, plus the defense of our various passes, and near the passage of the two realms, have begun to arrange defense lines again. With such strict defense, he Xiao Shizhu was injured again, can he still run out? What are you nervous about? Maybe behind him, there are already those twenty-two pursuers chasing after him. ”。

After speaking, the old ghost laughed triumphantly, and didn't put Xiao Shizhu in his eyes at all.

Besides, he drank a little too much wine, and as soon as the wine came up, there was no one on his mouth, and everything he could say and couldn't say was told to the little ghost on the other side.

And when the little imp heard this, he was also a lot more relieved. When the brows opened, the anxiety and tension on his face faded a lot.

The little ghost also thought at this time, don't talk about strict defense, just say that the twenty-two chasing soldiers, Xiao Shizhu didn't want to get rid of it easily.