One room is a study, and the furnishings are simple and functional.

Two rows of bookshelves stand against the wall, and a rattan chair is placed in front of the window, and you can see the blue sky from the chair.

Not far from the bookshelf, there was a six-foot-long and three-foot-wide desk.

The shape of the desk is quaint, judging from the crimson pulp, it should be some years old.

On the desk, covered with snow-white rice paper, under the reflection of the sun, the eyes hurt, the right side of the rice paper is the alpine flowing water pen holder of Mingzhou Wenxuanzhai, on which is placed a purple wolf, on the left is a blue and white inkstone, a specialty of Mingzhou, and the pine ink of Yanzhou has long been polished inside.

In the air, there was also a faint smell of pine.

Behind the desk, there stood a middle-aged man who had entered the age of no doubt.

The middle-aged man has slender eyebrows, a high nose bridge, closed eyes, slightly gray sideburns next to his face, and wears a blue-gray satin robe with delicate manjing patterns embroidered on the cuffs and neckline, looking mature and stable, but approachable.

This is Qi Siyuan, the city lord of Liangzhou City.

Opening his eyes, Qi Siyuan's pupils flashed with a gleam, and he picked up the purple wolf on the right side, absorbed the loose ink, and waved it on the white rice paper.

The pen walks the dragon and snake, and the clouds flow smoothly.

In a moment, there was an extra word on the rice paper with the words of dragon flying and phoenix dancing.

"Wisdom"

Looking at the word "Hui", Qi Siyuan nodded and smiled with satisfaction.

At this time, outside the study, there was a report from the family.

"Master, Qian Ying, the captain of the city protection team, brought a young man, saying that he was a military post in the military camp of Qingyang Town, would you like to see it?"

"See you soon!"

Hearing the report from the family, Qi Siyuan put the purple wolf in his hand on the pen stand, and frowned unconsciously, there has been no news from Qingyang Town for nearly a month, and I don't know if it's good or bad to send someone this time.

At this moment, the family led a young man into the study.

Qi Siyuan raised his eyes, and the young man who walked in was wearing a dark green post man's general costume, standing at the door and looking at him, with a trace of novelty and doubt on his face, without the trembling of others at all.

"Sit down, sit down, I don't know who the little brother's surname is, and what kind of news he brought, but General Tuoba is victorious?"

Qi Siyuan greeted Meng Xie, who was standing at the door, and motioned for him to sit aside.

Meng Xie took a few steps forward, clasped his fists and saluted, and did not sit down, but told Qi Siyuan about the battle in front of him one by one.

"Tell the city lord that Changyuan Town has been lost, and Qingyang Town is imminent, please send troops and horses to rescue the city lord as soon as possible. ”

Hearing the news brought by Meng Xie, Qi Siyuan's face was shocked, the Qilin Army was the elite military horse of the Chu State, and it fought with the Qi State on weekdays, why did the news of the defeat come this time.

Qi Siyuan inquired in detail, and then he learned that it was the crown prince Qi Tian who led the troops of Qi State this time.

The crown prince Qi Tian is a genius of the Qi State, only thirty years old, not only a strong man at the level of a martial monarch, but also knows how to make good use of people, is resourceful, and helps the Qi State to conquer a lot of territory.

The news of the crown prince Qi Tian was handed over to him by Tuoba Hong before Meng Xie left, along with the token of the three-star military post, although he had never heard of the name of Qi Tian, the prince of Qi State, but from the solemn face of General Tuoba, Meng Xie also knew that this prince was probably extremely difficult to deal with.

Meng Xie looked at Qi Siyuan, who was pacing back and forth in the study, waiting for the other party's answer.

"Looks like that's the end of it!"

Qi Siyuan slapped his palms violently, seemed to have made up his mind, walked to the desk, picked up the purple wolf, and wrote the table.

After a while, Qi Siyuan picked up the things written on the table, dried them gently, stamped them with the official seal, and handed them to Meng Xie with his own hands.

Meng Xie looked down with doubts, and found that this was actually a dispatch order agreeing to the deployment of troops and horses.

It is clearly written on it, and the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou City and the garrison are allowed to be transferred to the command of General Tuoba Hong.

"Go, take the order to the soldiers and horses to cover the seal, and then send the order to the deputy general Kang Yugui of the garrison, he will take care of everything and take the soldiers and horses to rescue you"

Unexpectedly, he would get the order soon, Meng Xie said thank you to the city lord Qi Siyuan, and hurriedly turned around and left.

Out of the City Lord's Mansion, Meng Xie crossed two streets under the guidance of his family and came to the door of the Terracotta Division.

The Soldiers and Horses Division is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the entire Liangzhou City, including the city guards and the garrisons outside the city, but they do not have the right to directly transfer, but they need the order of the city lord to act.

Standing at the door of the Terracotta Division, Meng Xie looked at the blue bricks and red tiles of the Terracotta Division, and observed the deep courtyard through the vermilion lacquer gate.

As soon as he walked down the steps to the door of the Soldiers and Horses, Meng Xie was stopped by the officers and soldiers guarding him.

"Hey, what are you doing! This is the Terracotta Division, no idlers are allowed to enter!" the brown-armored soldier looked at Meng Xie with a few scrutinizing eyes.

Meng Xie took out the tiger head military post order from his arms and handed it to the soldier, thinking that the other party would enter to report, but he didn't expect that after the other party glanced at it, he turned his head directly.

"What kind of thing is this, I don't know, if you want to go in, you need to have a warrant from the head of the Zhang family. ”

Meng Xie was surprised, this was specially given to him by General Tuoba Hong before he went out, the three-star military post is a big official position in the Qilin Army, he can lead the sources of news from all sides, and then summarize and hand over to General Tuoba Hong, it is not easy to do it here?

What is the warrant of the head of the Zhang family?

Meng Xie wondered in his heart, could it be that even the tiger head token was not good in this Liangzhou City, and after thinking about it, he took out the order of the city lord and handed it to the soldiers guarding the door.

"This is the city lord's order, I hope you will inform me. ”

The soldier didn't answer at all, didn't even look at Meng Xie, and replied coldly and firmly, "Without the warrant of the head of the Zhang family, no one can enter, not even the city lord!"

Can't the city lord??

Meng Xie heard the clue from this sentence, and dared to love that this soldier and horse division didn't even recognize the city lord's warrant, which was really a strange flower.

In normal times, Meng Xie wouldn't care too much about these things, and it would be a big deal to change to a useful warrant.

However, now in Liangzhou City, Meng Xie doesn't know anyone, and the only thing he got is the city lord's order, which is not easy to do, which suddenly makes him lose his temper in his heart.

Tuoba Hong is still waiting for reinforcements on his side, but two watchdogs are making things difficult here.

Meng Xie thought about it, and he was angry in his heart.

Could it be that this Terracotta Division is not under the jurisdiction of the Chu State, but belongs to your Zhang family?

Anger rose sharply, Meng Xie glanced at the soldiers at the door a few times, and asked with a deliberate smile, "Really, no?"

Getting the soldier's disdainful eyes again, Meng Xie smiled angrily on his face.

At the same time, in the City Lord's Mansion, Qi Siyuan was still writing with a brush with a focused expression, but in front of his desk, there stood a man with a mask with a blue face and fangs shrouded in a golden robe.

If Meng Xie was still there at this time, he would definitely recognize it at a glance, this golden-robed man was the person who saved Zuo Tianyu and himself in the Demon Hand Ridge a few hours ago.

"Order, just give it to him?" The golden-robed man looked at Qi Siyuan in the study with doubts, and his tone was respectful.

Qi Siyuan didn't look up, he still kept writing, but his voice was still so calm and calm, "Yes, give it to him, and we will have a chance to control Liangzhou City." ”

"You mean cranes and mussels fighting?"

"What do you say? This time, that Wu Yun almost broke something, look at these people you recruited from the outside, they have not achieved enough things, and they have more than enough failures. ”

Qi Siyuan's voice was calm, but it made the golden-robed man feel a thrill all over his body, and he quickly lowered his head and admitted his mistake, "I have already cut off one of his arms, Wu Yun will definitely remember this lesson." ”

There was a murderous aura between the words of the golden-robed man, as if he was talking about the most ordinary thing.

"That's good, let him know who is the master, we can make him famous, or we can make him disappear from this world, okay, that's it, if it's okay, you can go down. ”

From beginning to end, Qi Siyuan didn't look up, but a few words decided the life and death of another person, and a domineering spirit was undoubtedly revealed.

"I have one more thing ......"

The golden-robed man raised his head, his eyes seemed to suddenly become sharp, as if he remembered something again.

"I went to the Devil's Hand Ridge during the day, and I found that thing on the military post just now. ”

"What's it, explain!"

Qi Siyuan seemed to hate others playing dumb riddles, and asked impatiently.

"It's the one that Emperor Heng has been looking for, the one that flows out of the palace. ”

When the words fell, the entire study was silent, and Qi Siyuan stopped abruptly holding the purple wolf hair stained with pine pattern ink in his hand.

Smack!

The pine pattern ink dripped on the snow-white rice paper, and the back of Qi Siyuan's hand was slightly white, but his voice was still calm.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure you once showed me a rubbing of that thing, and you can't be wrong. The golden-robed man replied categorically.

Syllable!

The purple wolf was broken fiercely, Qi Siyuan raised his head, looked at the golden-robed man with a solemn gaze, and his tone was unprecedentedly serious.

"If you kill the military post, you must get that thing in your hands. ”

"Yes!"

The golden-robed man bowed his head to receive the order, turned around and walked out.

When he just walked to the door, he was stopped by Qi Siyuan again.

"Remember, you have to borrow a knife to kill people, and use the identity of the Zuo family or the Zhang family. ”

The golden-robed man turned around and said yes again, and then walked out of the study.

Outside the study, the golden-robed man took off his coat in a secluded corner, revealing the sky-blue robe inside.

Putting the golden robe into the storage ring, he took off his mask again, and a handsome mask was exposed to broad daylight.

This face looked to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old at most, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, thin and moderately thick lips, and a faint smile always hanging on the white ground face, which made people can't help but want to get close to him.

As soon as the man put away his mask, he was alarmed by the crisp sound of something breaking behind him, and turned around quickly with a slight frown.

I saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old little maid looking at the ground with a frightened face, and after finding that the man was also staring at her, she said with a panicked expression: "Xin, Young Master Xin, I didn't know that you were here, I'll clean it up, I'll clean it up." ”

"It's okay, tell me, why are you so careless?"

With a kind and gentle smile, the man walked up to the maid step by step and asked softly.

"I thought someone had broken into the City Lord's Mansion just now, but I didn't expect it to be the young master, so I was startled and threw the ginseng soup on the ground. ”

The little maid found that the young master was not angry, so she had the courage to answer.

"Oh?" This Young Master Xin was puzzled for a moment, and then smiled again: "So that's the case, then I really don't blame you." ”

After that, Young Master Xin patted the little maid's head lovingly.

The little maid thought it was okay, raised her head and smiled innocently, and was about to say thank you to the young master, but found that she could only make a "uh, uh" sound.

A cold and ruthless face in front of her that she had never seen before frightened the little maid's face pale, and she was pinched by the neck to find her feet gradually off the ground.

Struggling desperately, the little maid stared hard with her feet in the air, and her hands clutched the hand that was holding her throat desperately.

However, how could she be the opponent of this Young Master Xin, that is, the golden-robed man.

"Still, I'm more convinced that only the dead keep secrets. ”

Young Master Xin spoke gently, and the smile on his face was still kind and gentle, but the voice in his throat was cold and without any emotion.

Gradually, the little maid stopped struggling, her eyes bulging out, and she looked at the sky blankly, as if she was telling her grievances.