Xu Yuan tapped the number of silver tickets and their authenticity, and Li Yunqing sat quietly and watched with a blank eye.

There was silence in the private room for a while, except for the rustle of money counting.

Ban Yu,

Xu Yuan raised his eyes.

Li Yunqing immediately said:

"The third prince has finished counting?"

"It's exactly right, Third Highness, don't worry, I'll arrange it, after all, you have to pay attention to honesty in everything, don't you?"

Xu Yuan put the ordered silver ticket into the Sumeru ring, paused, and asked with a little interest:

"But I'm curious about one thing, Third Highness, how much silver do you usually bring with you when you go out?"

Hearing this question, Li Yunqing's eyes were immediately vigilant:

"What do you want to do?"

"Don't be nervous, just ask."

Seeing this, Xu Yuan smiled dumbly: "Your Highness understands me, I have always been generous to my friends, saying that five million is five million, and I will not raise the price again." ”

Li Yunqing resisted the urge to scold, and said with a low smile:

"The third son's reputation for being kind and benevolent, I have always heard of it."

"False praise."

Xu Yuan arched his hand and suddenly asked:

"But Your Highness is so magnificent, how are you going to make up for the deficit of five million taels in the future."

Five million taels, which is already an astronomical amount.

With Dayan's current productivity, ordinary people can only earn twenty or thirty pieces of silver after a year's hard work.

In the Xiangguo Mansion, if there is no special position, the annual income of the top powerhouse in the world, which is the best in the world, is only one million taels of silver every year, but every time he goes to perform an extremely dangerous mission, this money will probably rise by about forty percent one by one.

Li Yunqing smiled slightly when he heard this:

"Before, I borrowed six million from a daimyo on Yingzhou Island."

"Six million?" Xu Yuan's eyes froze.

Li Yunqing's face changed, and he suddenly sighed:

But I only received the first three million, and the remaining one and a half million, probably I should have to find some bookkeeping shopkeepers to top the pot."

Hearing this, Xu Yuan rolled his eyes in his heart.

There is a high probability that this statement is false, but the accounting profession is indeed a high-risk profession in any world.

Quiet for a moment,

Xu Yuan also stopped mentioning this matter, and instead asked:

"I wonder how long His Royal Highness is going to leave this northern city?"

Seeing that the topic was back on track, Li Yunqing tried to put away his painful emotions and said:

"The sooner the better, preferably tonight."

"Tonight?"

Xu Yuan groaned slightly, and asked seriously, "Third Highness, are you sure you want to go out of the city tonight?" ”

Li Yunqing was slightly puzzled:

"Not tonight?"

Xu Yuan explained:

"It's not impossible, but it can be dangerous."

Li Yunqing's expression was puzzled:

"Now the barbarians outside the city are not."

The voice did not fall,

As if to confirm Xu Yuan's words, a burst of white light suddenly bloomed in the pitch-black sky outside the window.

subsequently

"Boom!"

A series of earth-shattering explosions resounded over the city!

Because he had already been vaccinated by Li Qingyan, Xu Yuan was not too surprised to hear this sound.

Get up, walk to the window, and look south.

In the dark blizzard night, with his five-rank cultivation as a visual distance, he could only see hundreds of white lights of different sizes lit up in mid-air.

It was the light of the moat.

The roar and ripples of the barbarians' siege engines on the translucent moat.

The movement was terrifying, but a volley came down, and the entire Northern Lockdown City was protected under the translucent cover, and not a single building in the city was smashed.

And at this time,

Li Yunqing also came back to his senses and looked at the sky in the distance through the window:

"It's . What? ”

Xu Yuan slowly turned back his eyes, his eyes were full of blood, and the dark sky behind him roared:

"Third Highness, what do you think?"

Li Yunqing sat back on the soft couch and took a sip of wine to suppress the shock.

Silent for a long time,

He exhaled and chuckled:

"The barbarians actually attacked the city tonight, but looking at the reaction of the third son, you should already know."

Xu Yuan slowly walked back to the soft couch and sat down, and poured himself a glass of wine:

"Yes, your imperial sister has expected that the barbarians will most likely attack the city tonight."

"That'll be fine."

Li Yunqing nodded: "Since the imperial sister has expected it, there should be no loss." ”

Xu Yuan shook his head, looked at Li Yunqing, and asked:

"It is true that the northern lockdown will not be lost, but Your Highness, you still insist on going out of the city tonight?"

Li Yunqing pondered for a moment, but nodded resolutely:

"If you want to come out, tonight should just be a tentative attack, I look at the files in the north, when these barbarians attack the city, they will generally use a large number of boulders mixed with the "Ice Spirit Cone" and "Putrid Acid Beast" to consume the city protection array. ”

Xu Yuan smiled meaninglessly:

"The barbarians are barren here, and they can't afford to use things like Source Crystal Bombs."

This kind of siege method Xu Yuan has also seen in the dossier given to him by Lou Ji.

The Ice Spirit Cone looked like an iron spike ball about three meters in diameter, with a thumb-sized source crystal in the center and hundreds of ice picks wrapped around the outside.

The Acid Beast is a hard-shelled monster beast on the ice field, and once the ice crystal shell is shattered, it will explode on its own, blowing up a large pool of acid.

Compared to the previous internal rebellions of Da Yan, these two things are a little inadequate.

Because the Great Yan Civil War siege is all used in the source crystal bomb.

If there is no interference, the siege equipment will aim at a point of the large protective array in one round, and several rounds of throwing can directly penetrate the large array from the front.

And the barbarian two things are cheap to build, and they don't kill the cultivators of the formation formation much, but they kill the buildings and ordinary people very much.

During the siege of Beifeng before, the barbarians also used this method to attack the city, trying to consume all the source crystals that maintained the city protection array, but it was a pity that the strong people of Beifeng City at that time were gathered and the elite were all there.

There was no need to even open the Great Array of City Protectors, and the high-level cultivators in the city alone could smash these projectiles into the air.

However, now that the city is empty in the North Blockade, in the face of this overwhelming throwing, it can only rely on the protection of the city defense array, and the source qi consumed by the city defense array at every moment is calculated in mass.

The offensive and defensive costs are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

Drinking the contents of the cup in one gulp, Xu Yuan stood up and did not ink again:

"In that case, let's go."

Li Yunqing glanced at the direction of Chengnan again, and stood up silently.

No more words,

As soon as the two of them walked out of the private room together, they immediately noticed that the corridor outside looked a little chaotic.

Many attendants with swords and soldiers walked briskly in the corridor, with different expressions, some panicked, some with sinking faces.

All the way downstairs, there were knocks and discussions on the door, and some disheveled red men and men rushed out of the door.

Obviously, the barbarian siege also affected the most expensive fence in the Northern Blockade.

Under the war, the world is full of variety.

But the chaos didn't last long.

When Xu Yuan and Li Yunqing went downstairs to the lobby, under the organization of Lao Bustard and Gui Gong, the entire lobby resumed its appearance of singing and dancing.

Because they know that the barbarians will not be able to enter for a while.

The tall woman twisted her waist on the stage, and the musician played some soft tunes unaffected.

Xu Yuan looked at this singing and dancing, exhaled lightly, and asked in a low voice:

"Your Highness, what do you think of this scene?"

Li Yunqing went downstairs, his eyes stopped in the hall for a few breaths, and he smiled very brightly:

"Third son, I'm not qualified to evaluate them now."

After a pause,

Li Yunqing glanced at Xu Yuan:

"But I guess in a few days the barbarians will break through the southern city, and this orderly lobby should become crazy."

“.”

Xu Yuan glanced at the people in the hall and the well-dressed benefactors in the hall, and shook his head gently.

impart, right?

Walking out of the lobby, when the two of them came to the stable, there were already a lot of people whispering here.

However, these people are all using sound transmission methods, and when I heard their conversation, I thought that the children of the sect should know some inside information, and they didn't have the heart to have fun here anymore.

Moreover, if there is no background in this military curfew in the northern lockdown city, the soldiers have the right to directly kill them.

On a blizzard night, everything was silent except for the sound of the wind and the explosion of the sky south of the city, and the engraved lights on both sides of the road loomed.

Occasionally, you can encounter a team of heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets in the snowstorm.

However, after seeing the sign of the Beifeng Mansion on the carriage, these soldiers did not interrogate too much and let them go directly.

After being interrogated again by a team of soldiers patrolling the streets,

Li Yunqing looked at the houses on both sides outside the car window, suddenly sighed, and said softly:

"When the city is broken, all the people in this city should be slaughtered by that barbarian."

Xu Yuan, who closed his eyes and recuperated when he heard this, opened his eyes and glanced at the three princes:

"To those barbarians, we people of Great Yan are nothing more than two-legged sheep."

"Two-legged sheep"

Li Yunqing looked out the window, the cold wind blew the hair of his sideburns, and he stopped talking with a mutter.

The carriage fell silent again for a moment.

I don't know how long,

Li Yunqing sighed and suddenly asked:

"Long heaven,

"You say. Did my father, Emperor Xu and Duke Xu, expect this? ”

“.”

Silence.

Ban Yu,

Xu Yuan replied in a low voice: "Maybe I expected it, maybe I didn't expect it." ”

Li Yunqing rolled his eyes when he heard this:

"You said it as if you didn't say it."

Xu Yuan smiled slightly and reminded:

"This second-grade Yuanchu will only send you to Houting County, remember to be careful when you arrive, the situation over there is not too good, and the hoarded grain and grass is estimated to be only enough for the elite of the sect to last for about a month."

Li Yunqing was quiet for a while and said:

"Changtian, you should have something to do while staying in Beifeng City, right?"

"I'm just a proton left on your royal side." Xu Yuan does not leak.

"Oh, forget it."

The seriousness on Li Yunqing's face disappeared, and he stretched his waist and spread it on the soft couch: "I'm just a layman, the more I know about these bad things in the north, the more annoying I feel in my heart." ”

Xu Yuan nodded in agreement and looked at the skyline in the south of the city:

"yes, the more you know, the more annoying it gets."

Li Yunqing looked back and stared at Xu Yuan's side face seriously for a few breaths, and suddenly smiled:

"Third son, this king has a suggestion for you, you can learn from my second brother, be cold-blooded, and be unscrupulous, only in this way can you become the next Duke Xu of my Dayan."

Hearing this, Xu Yuan looked back with interest:

"I have become the next Duke Xu, can your royal family eat?"

Li Yunqing shrugged:

"You have become the next Duke Xu, the headache is my eldest brother and second brother, as well as the sects of the world, which have nothing to do with me."

Xu Yuan's eyes flashed, staring at the other party, trying to judge the truth of the other party's words.

Eventually, he chuckled:

"You're free-spirited."

"It's not freedom, it's self-knowledge."

Li Yunqing spread his hands:

"As for me, although I think I'm pretty good, and I can understand a lot of things, I'm a lot worse than my second brother and eldest brother.

"So I don't care who is the surname in this world, anyway, I have money in my hands, if I don't want to go to Beijing on this trip, I will go to a remote place to be a rich man, and it is not bad to marry a few beautiful mothers-in-law to live a stable life."

Xu Yuan had a smile in his eyes:

"In the picture book, it is usually people like you who end up becoming emperors."

Li Yunqing smiled and arched his hand:

"Thank you, Sangongzi, for looking at it."

As he spoke, the carriage had slowly stopped.

Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the car window:

"Here we are."

Li Yunqing also glanced back:

"Pawnshop?"

The carriage stopped in the wind and snow at the door of a large pawnshop, and through the bright pattern lamps on the street, you can see the "World Pawnshop" written on the plaque.

got out of the carriage,

It was cold outside the car, Xu Yuan slightly wrapped the jacket that Li Qingyan had prepared for him, stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"

Short and rhythmic, very light.

Li Yunqing on the side hesitated slightly when he saw this:

"I don't have to shy away?"

Xu Yuan chuckled:

"A one-time code, the next time you use it, it will probably be used as a detail."

Li Yunqing was a little disappointed when he heard this.

At this time, a slightly old voice came from inside the door:

"Childe, the store is closed, hurry up tomorrow."

Xu Yuan followed the contact code given by Lou Ji:

"I'll pawn the jade pendant."

"Jade pendant?" The old man's voice was impatient.

"Black Dragon Jade Pendant."

"Squeak-"

The door opened, and a middle-aged man who did not match the old voice at all appeared in the field of vision of the two.

Dressed in a nightgown, he seems to have rested.

Xu Yuan didn't speak, and directly took out a token with a black dragon tattoo and three characters engraved on his back from the Sumeru ring, but before he threw it to the middle-aged man for inspection, the other party bowed directly to him and saluted:

"The Third Son."

Xu Yuan looked at the middle-aged man, took back the bronze medal, and arched his hand slightly:

"You're Mr. Wine?"

The middle-aged man stood up straight, and his eyes fell on Li Yunqing behind Xu Yuan's side:

"It's the old man, Lord Lou Ji has already explained to me in advance, are you going out of the city?"

Xu Yuan waved his hand and pointed at Li Yunqing and said:

"It's not me, it's him."

"Him?"

Mr. Jiu frowned slightly, and hesitated:

"Third son, are you sure, the old man sent him out of the city, but it will be difficult to come back."

“.”

When Li Yunqing heard this, his pupils shrank slightly.

He realized that the black-scaled guards in the Northern Lockdown City should be the first of the second grade in front of him.

Thinking of this,

With the roar of the formation above the city, Li Yunqing looked at Xu Yuan with a strange look.

It's not because of gratitude, after all, he was cheated by this kid for five million.

It's because Xu Changtian sold him the way to escape for his life, what should he do himself?

He didn't believe that this kid would do the same thing as living and dying with the city.

So

What does this guy want to do?

(End of chapter)