Yu Wenhan and Yang Qingqiu returned to the Guyue Inn to pack their luggage.

"Your shopkeeper hasn't come back yet?" Yang Qingqiu saw that the former bustling inn was a little empty at the moment, and asked the shopkeeper casually.

"I guess I won't be able to come back." The shopkeeper was a little worried, shook his head and said.

"Why?" Yang Qingqiu asked.

"I went to inquire this morning, and I heard that I have been locked up in a dungeon." The shopkeeper sighed, "We who only need to go into the dungeon haven't come out alive." ”

"What did the shopkeeper do? I saw that Wang Chengyue should be the backer of your inn that day, and your inn should also have an official component? Yang Qingqiu continued to inquire.

"Hey, what if you have a housekeeping component? It's not that if you want to do it, you can do it. Our shopkeeper is about to offer Wang Chengyu as Lao Tzu on weekdays, what can he do? I thought that Wang Chengyue would be happy in the future, who knew that he would have to pull someone to accompany the funeral! The shopkeeper cleaned up the table and muttered, "I'm glad I'm just a handyman." ”

"Funeral?" Yang Qingqiu was a little surprised, he didn't expect Wang Yu to be so brutal in the border city.

"Isn't it? The shopkeepers of several major merchants that this little Yama usually runs have been arrested and put in the dungeon, isn't this a funeral? The shopkeeper was also angry as he spoke.

"Wang Chengyue is the little king of Yama?" Yang Qingqiu then asked.

The shopkeeper simply threw the work in his hand on the table and said: "We usually talk about him in private, but I didn't expect him to really become the 'king of Hades' this time, torturing people when he is alive, and it is not easy to be killed when he is dead!" ”

"But I often hear that General Wang Yu treats the people well, this place is peaceful, the people live and work in peace and contentment, it is a rare and blessed land to live and live." Yang Qingqiu inquired.

The shopkeeper looked up and down at the handsome man in front of him with disdainful eyes, shook his head and said, "Seeing that your face is like an understanding person, I didn't expect to be so naïve!" You also said that you were there that night when there were assassins, so have you ever seen a livable blessed place where people die in an inn and no one reports to the official, and the guests do not panic? Live and work in peace and contentment, these four words may have been believed by people ten years ago. ”

Yang Qingqiu took out a silver ingot from his waist and handed it to Xiao Er, nodded a pot of tea meaningfully, and said in a low voice: "I want to hear it in detail." ”

The shopkeeper looked around cautiously, accepted the money, and said, "Anyway, I'm going to run away in a while." ”

It turns out that the so-called peace in the border city is an illusion, although tens of thousands of people have moved here in the past ten years, a small part of it is because of the high military salaries here, and most of the people who have migrated here with their families are deceived by the rumor of low taxes. But the reality is that if you are physically qualified to join the army, you must first have dozens of taels of silver to pay Wang Chengyu before he is eligible to be selected; In addition, those people who could make a living by doing business and farming came here, thinking that they could live a good life after paying a lot less taxes and servitude, but they didn't expect to pay a lot of protection money to Wang Chengyu after arriving here, which was called to protect them from being bullied by desert bandits. Wang Chengyue took people around the streets and alleys to collect this protection fee every day, and also increased the name of the fee, and the people saw him as if they saw the "king of Hades". When the harvest is not good and the money cannot be paid, Wang Chengyu's people not only lend money, but also smash and rob, and finally force many people to sell their sons and daughters. The people who make a living here, the desert robbers have not seen a few times, but these days are becoming less and less hopeful.

On the way back to the capital, Yang Qingqiu told Yu Wenhan about the situation he had discovered.

Yu Wenhan felt desolate and said: "Strengthen the protection of border cities, protect the territory, and formulate special policies for border cities more than ten years ago. The first is to reduce taxes and forced labor, attract people from other places to migrate and settle, prosper and unite the people; The second is to increase military salaries, increase troops and strengthen the army, stabilize the morale of the army, and make the desert ethnic groups dare not attack. Do you know that this policy was proposed by Uncle Wang back then, but now it has become a means for Wang Yu and his son to collect money. ”

"Yes, back then, Lord Hua worked hard to make the border city solid, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Now, it has become a purgatory. Yang Qingqiu also said angrily, "With these and the evidence provided by Sheng Ze's little prince, can you bring down Wang Yu?" ”

"It may not be enough." Yu Wenhan thought for a moment and said, "I thought about it carefully, why Helian abandoned the disease and instigated Huang Bei to be the enemy of Wang Yu, did he just want to cover up the truth about the hundred-year-old snow lotus?" He has been a proton in the capital for twenty years, so he probably knows my father better than I do. ”

Yang Qingqiu understood what Yu Wenhan was referring to, nodded, and hurriedly embarked on the return journey together.

Three days after Yun Chuan and Yun Xi returned to Tusang, Weidun Khan and his people waited for them to return to Tusang's headquarters from the Yue tribe.

"Father, why did you come back?" Yun Chuan stepped forward and pulled Witton Khan's sleeve and said coquettishly.

"It's not to make up for the basket you poked." Witton Khan looked at his daughter with a smile and said lovingly.

"So, that means it's okay?" Yun Chuan smiled like a flower, snuggled and said.

"You have to thank your uncle for this, he helped you settle the eldest grandson's boy." Witton Khan said.

"Oh", Yun Chuan pursed his lips, looked back, and said, "Why don't you see uncle and brother, didn't they come back together?" ”

"Well, they should come back in the next two days, right?" Witton Khan asked the national teacher Uenqi on the side.

Wu Qien is Yun Xi's uncle, who followed her father in his early years to birth and death, and was recognized as a righteous brother, with superb medical skills and familiar with the art of war. I heard Yun Xi say that her uncle often tried medicine himself when he studied medicine in his early years, so that his hair was full of gray, and later his face was also blue, so he wore a half-mask on weekdays, and few people saw his true face.

"According to the plan, we should return from Huangbei today, and we should arrive tomorrow at the latest." Ukien said.

"Uncle and brother went to Huangbei? What do they go to do? How is Bayinta now? Yun Chuan was shocked and asked.

"You haven't told anyone about Bayin, have you?" Witton Khan asked.

"Of course I didn't say anything." Yun Chuan's big eyes couldn't help flashing a few times, and he said calmly, "Who can I talk to?" ”

"Didn't say it was the best. I'll take a rest with your mother first, and then you come to say hello after dinner, and I have something to tell you. Witton Khan saw through Yun Chuan's weakness at a glance, and Queen Qiqige on the side also bowed her head and sighed when she looked at her.

"Okay, okay." Yun Chuan nodded, thinking that he was displeasing his mother again, and he didn't want to ask anything more.

"Celestial Princess, where is Xi'er at the moment?" Ukien asked.

"She's reading in the yurt. National teacher, are you going to see her? I'm with you, and I happen to have something to do. As he spoke, he wanted to leave with Ukien.

"Yun Chuan, the national teacher hasn't seen Yun Xi for a long time, so don't bother." Yun Chuan didn't expect Witton Khan to stop him, thinking that he had already exchanged news with Yun Xi, so he had to nod helplessly and watch them leave.

Yun Xi saw Wu Qien and Yun Chuan coming in together, put down the medical book in his hand, got up and greeted him happily, and said, "Uncle, you're back!" ”

"Well, it's been okay these days, right?" The corners of Wu Qien's mouth raised, and he looked Yun Xi up and down with concern, and asked softly.

"It's nothing, I went to Xuelong Mountain, trying to try my luck if I could find Ganoderma lucidum, but unfortunately I didn't find it." Yun Xi said calmly.

"Alone to find Lingzhi?" Ukien asked unusually calmly.

"Yes, I'm alone." Yun Xi couldn't see the expression behind his uncle's mask, so he hurriedly lowered his head and poured tea for his uncle.

"Do you know all about the celestial princess messing around these days?" Wu Qien took the tea, sat on the side of the desk, and asked.

I didn't expect my uncle to ask so directly, Yun Xi raised his eyes and looked at his uncle who was drinking tea, and felt that he seemed to be asking casually, so he said, "I know that Eldest Sun Huan asked her for a kiss at the Yunshi Conference." ”

"Then she told you about Yang Qingqiu?" Wu Qien put down the teacup, his eyes were deep, and he looked at Yun Xi and asked.

fled with his uncle back then, although Yun Xi was still young, he also knew that his uncle would treat him like his own daughter. Although I don't know what the relationship between my uncle and Tusang is, I can get the favor of Tusan Khan when I came here, but I have long respected Wuqien as my own uncle, if it weren't for him all these years, I am afraid that it would be difficult to save my life.

Yun Xi was thinking about whether she should tell her uncle all the truth, although she and Yun Chuan agreed that the matter of her cousin and the hundred-year-old snow lotus had to be concealed first, but her uncle was the biggest person in the know about her past and identity.

"The eldest princess and Yang Qingqiu went to the Marble Conference together, and Yang Qingqiu also stole the limelight from the eldest grandson Huan in front of everyone, didn't these eldest princesses tell you?" Wu Qien didn't believe in Yi Yunchuan's temperament, she could hide this matter, "I didn't expect that I haven't seen him for eight years, Yang Qingqiu has grown so tall, and his martial arts are also very good, I think I taught him to tie a horse back then." ”

"I know, Yun Chuan told me everything about the Marble Conference. She also asked me if I wanted to recognize Qingqiu's brother, and I refused. "Yun Xi still decided to talk about it as agreed with Yun Chuan first, so as not to cause more incidents due to incomplete information. I only hid half of the truth, and it doesn't mean that I deceived my uncle.

"I told you not to tell others about your background, you said that the eldest princess can be trusted. Hey, it's her I can't trust the most. Wu Qien poured himself another cup of tea, and then said, "She and Yang Qingqiu don't look like they just met, and the two of them are eye-catching, and I can't get used to it." Yang Qingqiu even dared to offend Xiyu for her, although he was good at martial arts, he was also a man who forgot his righteousness, it was right that you didn't recognize him! ”

"Huh?" Unexpectedly, after asking for a long time, my uncle wanted to complain about Yang Qingqiu. Yun Xi suddenly didn't know what to say.

"I think how much your father valued Yang Qingqiu back then, except for King Chen and King Peace, he was the most attentive to him, Wen Tao Wuluo, all of them were careful and cultivated. He also went to our house to look for you twice in three days, and he couldn't forget about you so quickly. Seeing that Yun Xi actually knew about this, Wu Qien didn't have to hold back, and said with a few pounds.

"He doesn't know my life and death......" Yun Xi saw that his uncle was protecting himself like this, and he was still a little inexplicably moved in his heart, and whispered.

"Even if he doesn't know, then why did he quickly set his sights on the desert princess, what's the matter? Why, I can't stay in the capital and want to come to Tusang as a horse? Back then, the prince taught him that 'a big husband should have great ambitions and protect the family and defend the country', how did he learn? I was so optimistic about him back then, I thought he must be a man who was a general. Ukien said indignantly.

Yun Xi looked at his uncle's angry appearance of hating iron and steel, and his face became even darker, and he was a little happy in his heart. Hurriedly poured another cup of tea for his uncle and comforted: "Uncle, I'm not angry, don't be angry." My father also taught me that women should also be women and not let me shave my eyebrows, so I don't have to follow the trend now. Maybe Brother Qingqiu has his own ideas. ”

"Xi'er, are you really not angry?" Wu Qien took the teacup, looked at Yun Xi closely, and asked.

"Don't be angry." Over the years, haven't you learned to accept unsatisfactory? Yun Xi said with a smile, "Yun Chuan treats me so well, if she can really be with Brother Qingqiu, it will be a good thing." Besides, the strength of the country is strong, and it is not necessarily that Brother Qingqiu wants to come to the desert to be a colt. ”

"But Yang Qingqiu was ...... with you back then," Wu Qien said dissatisfiedly.

"It's all a joke from childhood, and it can't be taken seriously." Yun Xi hurriedly interrupted, "Uncle, you don't have to feel wronged for me, I am quite satisfied with my current life, and no one is obliged to wait for anyone for a lifetime, not to mention that he is still a person who may not be alive." ”