"What?"

Xiao Chen opened his eyes suddenly, looked at the guard in front of him in surprise, and said, "Ye Zhichu, why is he here?" ”

The guard shook his head and said, "My subordinates don't know, Ye Zhichu just asked me to tell the prince that Mr. Ji asked him to come." ”

Xiao Chen's eyes narrowed, and then he suddenly got up:

"Let's go, take me to see it."

Re-ascending the white wall, without the previous solemnity and solemnity, the white wall is peaceful and calm, as if nothing had happened before.

Looking up from the white wall, Xiao Chen saw Ye Zhichu riding a tall horse, with hundreds of guards, and a carriage pulled by four horses behind him, waiting quietly outside the white wall.

The moment Xiao Chen looked at it, he happened to meet Ye Zhichu's gaze.

The two looked at each other, no longer the tension of the previous day, but there was still a faint smell of gunpowder in the air.

Ye Zhichu suddenly smiled, and took the lead in breaking the silence: "Lord Xiao, don't come to harm." ”

Xiao Chen snorted lightly: "It's just that I haven't seen you for half a day, and my Xiao Chen is in good health." But Marshal Ye's move ......" Xiao Chen stretched out his hand and pointed at the hundred horses and the carriage behind Ye Zhichu.

Ye Zhichu said with a smile: "The prince asked knowingly, but Ye Zhichu didn't know Mount Tai and underestimated the prince, and today he is just here to fulfill the promise to withdraw troops." ”

Xiao Chen frowned.

Withdraw troops? Promise? He really didn't understand a word.

With an indifferent smile, Ye Zhichu pointed to the shabby crowd around him: "A few days ago, I came with an army of more than 100,000 people, and it is understandable that the prince turned me away, and now I am only a single hundred riders, what, is the prince also worried that I am a threat to Yong'an?" ”

"Although there are grievances, it's always okay to invite me into the city for a cup of tea, right?"

Xiao Chen pondered for a moment, and after making sure that Ye Zhichu did not play other tricks, he waved his hand lightly: "Open the city gate and welcome Marshal Ye into Yong'an." ”

Two columns of armor, stretching from the Yong'an City Tower to the White Wall, although the defenders of the two cities of Qinglong and Vermilion Bird were only integrated overnight, but under the command of Xue Wuxing, these soldiers instantly showed the demeanor and courage that a soldier should have.

All of them have resolute faces and tall postures.

Xiao Chen and Ye Zhichu rode into the city gate, Ye Zhichu's gaze swept lightly over the soldiers on both sides, and his eyes narrowed slightly:

"The prince is really calculating, he actually started the idea of allies, in my opinion, the two support armies that supported the prince before have now become vassals of Yong'an, right?"

Ye Zhichu's vicious eyes saw at a glance that these people were not all Yongan Black Armor.

Xiao Chen, who was riding a horse and walking in front, smiled dumbly, shook his head and said: "That marshal really thinks highly of me, although I, Xiao Chen, have a lot of blood, but such a calculation is not beyond my reach." ”

Ye Zhichu's eyes rolled slightly, and he suddenly nodded as if he understood something, "I understand." ”

Slowly retracting his gaze, Ye Zhichu's eyes quietly flashed with a touch of solemnity, the current Yong'an is indeed not the Yong'an that can be kneaded by Qianguo before.

The two rode into the Yong'an Palace, and the unaware people watched Ye Zhichu and Xiao Chen walking side by side, and guessed in their hearts which of the prince's best friends this was, but how did they know that the person who followed Xiao Chen was the devil who almost turned Yong'an into purgatory?

In the palace hall, a sumptuous banquet was set up, roast chicken, roast duck and pork knuckle, and all kinds of luxurious dishes were readily available.

Xiao Chen stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation: "Marshal, please sit, I just don't know if Xiao Chen's meal today is comparable to the meal that the marshal invited me to in Tiger Roaring City before?" ”

Ye Zhichu took a deep look at the sumptuous banquet in front of him, nodded with a little emotion: "It's comparable, just to eat this meal, but I, Ye Zhichu, have paid I don't know how much hardship." ”

Xiao Chen suddenly said for no reason: "So I think of one thing, I, Xiao Chen, still owe you the empress a meal!" ”

Ye Zhichu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Inviting me to dinner is much more difficult than inviting me to dinner, and the prince must be mentally prepared." ”

Xiao Chen's eyes rolled, he looked at the extremely aggressive gaze in Ye Zhichu's eyes and laughed: "Don't worry, marshal, even if I, Xiao Chen, don't prepare properly, Yong'an still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people, there is always someone who can match the appetite of your empress." ”

Ye Zhichu smiled faintly, nodded and said, "I hope so." ”

The two sat down slowly, and Xiao Chen immediately sent someone to invite Ji Wushuang. After all, what is the promise of retreating, Xiao Chen doesn't know at all, it is better to invite Ji Wushuang to come.

After a while, a guard walked quickly to Xiao Chen's side and whispered:

"Lord, Mr. said that he couldn't pull away, but he has already arranged things, and the prince just waits for him to finish eating."

Xiao Chen was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded lightly.

He didn't care about the promise of retreating, in short, Ji Wushuang forced back the army of tens of thousands of Qianguo without blood, so that Yong'an avoided a bloody battle, which is more realistic than those literati who can only moan without illness.

Look, what is a master, Ji Wushuang is like this, everything will be done for you, but this wine banquet can be regarded as a celebration banquet, but people say that they won't come if they can't come, so it's called a matter to go away, leaving only merit and fame.

Xiao Chen, who secretly said chic, raised his wine glass and toasted Ye Zhichu and said:

"Come, drink!"

The two exchanged glasses, ate and drank so comfortably, and completely lost the appearance of fighting to the death on the battlefield before.

Ye Zhichu just buried his head in eating and drinking, and didn't mention what the promise of retiring from the army was before.

However, this made Xiao Chen curious, and he couldn't help but ask tentatively: "I want to ask, what can make the marshal withdraw his troops and truce?" ”

Although this question has the meaning of revealing people's shortcomings, it can't stop curiosity and kill the cat.

Ye Zhichu was stunned: "The prince doesn't know? ”

Xiao Chen looked dazed.

With a dumb smile, Ye Zhichu shook his head and said: "The prince said before that I looked down on you and I didn't believe it, but now it seems that the prince really doesn't deceive me." ”

Xiao Chen, who heard the meaning of teasing, just smiled lightly.

Ye Zhichu suddenly said: "It's not a secret, the reason why I withdrew my troops was because of one person. ”

"Alone?!" Xiao Chen frowned slightly, he really couldn't understand what kind of person could have such a huge influence and make the marshal in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops change his mind.

"Who is it?" Xiao Chen continued to ask.

Ye Zhichu, who was full of wine and food, wiped his mouth, got up and said in a dashing manner: "Now they should have just come out of Yong'an, and it should be too late to catch up now, is the prince interested in going with me?" ”

Xiao Chen, who was full of curiosity, was like a cat's claw scratching his heart, and immediately accepted it.

"Such a strange person, I naturally want to meet him!"