The yin wind at night dragged a long howl between the halls and pavilions of the Yuque Palace, whirring.

No matter how hot it is during the day, the underworld can always cool down in the yin wind at night.

Xiao Shizhu, who was sitting in the main building, turned a deaf ear to the wind outside the building.

A look of satisfaction appeared on his face, and he quickly regained his composure.

Xiao Shizhu knew very well that when the time came, King Yama would lead his troops north to eradicate the Xudu Army and the Xuandi Army that had been secretly allied with the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom and were abandoned and forgotten by the Northern Yin Dynasty, as well as other Dongyingzhou ghost countries that had been stubbornly resisting the Nine Shadows Country for a long time.

In this way, the wings of the Qingqiu Fox Country were cut off, and the entire west coast of Dongying Island was blocked.

This was arranged by Xiao Shizhu himself.

And Xiao Shizhu was also very satisfied with Changqin's arrangement. And he knew very well that the king of Yama would definitely take the opportunity to go north, and with Changqin's official position, he had no right to know it in the eyes of outsiders, and naturally he would not leak it out.

At the same time, Xiao Shizhu smelled a faint fragrance coming towards him.

When I looked up, it was the ghost mother who had bathed and changed her clothes, and walked over accompanied by Chenruo. At the same time, Zhu Li's lips opened lightly and asked Xiao Shizhu, "What kind of playbook do you read?"

"The reception plan and the itinerary of the Qingqiu Fox King. Xiao Shizhu said it without thinking, without concealment.

After the words landed, there was silence inside and outside the main building of Juexiangyuan. The wind outside the building has gone away, but the coolness is left. The hundred birds in the building, as well as the big flower of the dog that day, have already slept.

Chen Ruo, who sent the ghost mother to Xiao Shizhu's side, did not stay, and quickly bowed and said goodbye and withdrew.

When Chen Ruo left the main building, the huge and heavy door had been slowly closed.

In the quiet building, only Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother couple remained.

Seeing that there was no ghost present, the ghost mother also became bolder, so she simply moved to Xiao Shizhu's side, sat sideways on the other party's legs, pressed the rocking chair and gently rolled forward, and then shook it back.

Xiao Shizhu didn't say anything, let the ghost mother put her arms around his neck, and sat on his chest like this. The ghost mother was as angry as an orchid, but Xiao Shizhu's face was very calm, and she just slowly closed the notebook and put it back on the desk.

The hot soup on the table has become warm and is no longer hot.

Looking at his wife, who was as charming as silk, Xiao Shizhu, who had put the notebook away, smiled.

Then, he said, "I'm too tired today, don't toss me, okay? ”。

said so insincerely, without the slightest complaint, but with some expectations.

"Isn't it just to watch a few children play with you for a few hours?" the ghost mother deliberately followed his words and said, "Isn't this much easier than you going to the battlefield to fight?"

There is no force in the ghost mother's words, most of them are just a joke with Xiao Shizhu.

At the mention of those children, the smile on Xiao Shizhu's face immediately froze. A little distress appeared at the center of his eyebrows.

It is not difficult to see that Xiao Shizhu has a bit of a headache when he mentions the children's play.

The main thing is that the three children are together, and they can make too much noise, as if this aspect has caused a psychological shadow to Xiao Shizhu.

The ghost mother could see at a glance that Xiao Shizhu was reluctant to say more about the troubles of these children for the time being, so after pursing her lips and smiling, she continued to joke: "On the battlefield, the stumps and broken arms, blood splashed everywhere, and I didn't see any psychological shadows on you, but a few children made you exhausted." ”。

"It's not Poria yet, she plays whatever the fuss is. I also brought tea and made that kick ball, and ran around. After Xiao Shizhu said this, he smiled bitterly, and the distress between his eyebrows increased instead of decreasing.

But distress is distress, he doesn't dislike the children, they are all his species, but he is a little helpless about the children's crazy trouble, but he will never be disgusted with it.

At least not yet.

Even to Xiao Fulei, Xiao Shizhu did not graft the anger and resentment of this son's mother and concubine, Tu Yaoqing, onto the child.

"Well, I'll talk about her another day. The ghost mother sneered again, and then said.

"Come on, she's still going to make a fuss, and it's useless to say it. However, I'm starting to worry a little about this kind of Poria cocos, how can I find her in-laws in the future?" Xiao Shizhu chatted with the ghost mother about family life, and picked up the ghost mother and walked towards the bed.

Compared to the weight of the weapons he Xiao Shizhu often carried on the battlefield, the ghost mother was lighter.

Soon, Xiao Shizhu easily moved the ghost mother to the side of the bed, and then gently put it on the bed, but he sat on the edge of the bed, stunned.

It was only when he thought of finding his daughter-in-law's house that it temporarily became a very distressing thing for him, so that Xiao Shizhu's brows tightened again, and he looked at the delicate and exquisite patterns on the blanket on the ground under his feet, and was stunned.

The ghost mother turned over, let her body lie on Xiao Shizhu's side, and covered the back of Xiao Shizhu's thick hand on the edge of the bed.

I felt the dry and rough skin on the back of Xiao Shizhu's hand.

Perennial wars and often have to go out of the palace to inspect, and have endured a lot of wind and sun, Xiao Shizhu and those Taiping Tianzi's skin is incomparable.

The ghost doctor of the Nine Shadows Country had already said that he would use dragon oil to maintain Xiao Shizhu, but Xiao Shizhu said that all ministries, localities, and projects in the country had to use money everywhere, and the price of dragon oil was expensive, so he didn't get these 'surface projects' on his body, so he rejected it categorically.

This made the ghost mother feel like a knife every time she touched his dry skin.

The ruling king has done this step of Xiao Shizhu, which is already good.

But Xiao Shizhu still has to bear the infamy because of this, which is really unreasonable.

It's a pity that even if you can't say it, you still have some knowledge, but Yu Guo and the people can't pour it out, and they will only scold the scholars in the teahouse every day, and still give Xiao Shizhu the name of a tyrant, and spray Xiao Shizhu to the skin in the teahouse tavern, and even on the bed of the woman in the Qinglou.

Even Xiao Shizhu's shrine, which he doesn't use once in a few years, and the past inspection of going out of the palace to inspect can be used as an excuse by these useless scholars to criticize Xiao Shizhu.

While saying that Xiao Shizhu was extravagant, these scholars and doctors seemed to have read the book to the stomach of a dog, blind, and could not see that the powerful army and the infrastructure of the Nine Shadows Country were built and built by Xiao Shizhu with the money he saved one bite at a time.

They only saw Xiao Shizhu's style out of the palace, but they didn't see that all the expenses were earned by Xiao Shizhu himself. You can also see the brutality of Xiao Shizhu's punishment of traitors, the wilderness of violent corpses, and the hanging corpse city wall. But I can't see the strict laws of the Nine Shadows Country, which has caused the crime rate to plummet, not to mention that there are fewer and fewer traitors, even officials, who dare to form gangs and fights, few dare to be greedy.

The ghost mother knew about these scholars scolding Xiao Shizhu, and it was precisely because she knew that her heart hurt like a knife.

At the same time, he also felt aggrieved by Xiao Shizhu.

She endured her distress and whispered to her husband: "Poria is still young, you don't have to worry about her in-laws' affairs." Recently, some scholars have started spraying you again, Lin Cong will report this to you. ”。

Xiao Shizhu came to his senses from his stunnedness, nodded disapprovingly, and said, "I reported it, I know." ”。

He didn't seem to care, and he spoke nonchalantly.

"I know you won't let them go to hell, don't we have Daoshan Island Hell?" said the ghost mother in a hurry, and her eyes were a little red.

According to Lin Cong's report, many of these people have already begun to receive the Beiyin Dynasty's Yulu. If this continues, they will be the guns of the Northern Yin Dynasty that can be used at any time in the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

"Freedom of speech. Xiao Shizhu smiled faintly, shook his head and replied: "It doesn't endanger the interests of my country and the ghost people, just spray me, just let them spray." They are all old pedants of the past, who do not accept new things and do not continue to study, and who hope that if they scold me all day long, they will restore the class system of the past and the past, and the common people cannot go to school, and so on. That being the case, if you say a whole bunch of rubbish, it doesn't seem like I'm so incompetent. ”。

The tone was still nonchalant, but with a little more contempt and disdain.

At the end, Xiao Shizhu also added: "A few stray dogs bark at my dogs, do I want to rush up and open my mouth to bite them?"

The ghost mother was still angry, but now it's okay, she popped again and laughed. It's already turned anger into joy.

"Don't worry, Xuanjiao is staring at them, and has arranged a special ghost to investigate them. Their words and deeds can be detected anytime and anywhere. There are also the people and ghosts who are looking at it with bright eyes, these people can't turn the sky. Seeing that his wife was happy, Xiao Shizhu simply said a few more words: "Once they have any treasonous remarks, the judicial department is not a vegetarian, and will ask them for their guilt and accountability. Now, I don't have that much time to take care of these ghosts. ”。

Seeing Xiao Shizhu thinking about it like this, the ghost mother felt that there was nothing wrong with thinking about it, so she didn't say anything about it anymore, but said: "In that case, then go to sleep, and you have to go to the court tomorrow morning to discuss matters." ”。

Xiao Shizhu nodded, turned over and got on the bed......

The central part of Dongyingzhou.

After more than ten days of rainstorms, it finally ushered in a day without rain.

But the sky was still dark and dark.

The three rivers that flow to the north of the mountain are all flooded with flooded beaches, making the river at least half wider than before.

The river in the south hits the foot of the northern foot of the mountain, washing the mud and rocks at the foot of the mountain, drowning the weeds and shrubs, and soaking every tree that grows at the foot of the mountain.

The same is true on the north shore, where the river beach has long been submerged by the rolling water and churning waves.

Fortunately, the terrain of Dongyingzhou is not shallow, and the rainy season is about to pass, if the torrential rain continues, the torrent flood can submerge the entire Hades Island, so that it will sink into the sea and never see the light of day.

But it is also such a strange weather, which has created a unique condition for the ghost world, and after the rainy season, the ghost rice in Dongyingzhou will have a bumper harvest, and the yield will be several times higher than that of other places.

One acre of fertile land can have the yield of two or three acres of land, which is the reason why Xiao Shizhu is determined to win this Underworld.

And now, in the forest across the river, on the opposite side of the mountain, several gray-haired fox ghosts dressed in black are hiding in the dense woods by taking advantage of the darkness of the night and dark clouds, and their eyes are all staring at the mountain on the opposite bank.

As we all know, the mountain is located in the central region, and it guards the three rivers. Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, it is a place where the soldiers of Dongyingzhou must fight.

When the Qingqiu Fox King first cooperated with Xiao Shizhu, he wanted to take the lead in occupying this place, holding the Qiyi Mountain, and invisibly threatening the Jiuyou Army in the southern region.

However, the Jiuyou Army seized the rebellion of the Tushan clan, and cleaned up a lot of his army with the help of counterinsurgency, and for a while the Qingqiu Fox King had no troops to adjust, but it gave the Jiuyou Army to the south time, and one went east to pursue the evil ghosts of the Northern Yin Dynasty, and rushed straight to the Qiyi Mountain.

Just one step slower, this Fox Mountain was included in the territory of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

This made the Qingqiu Fox King regretful, but if he wanted to start a war with the Nine Shadows Kingdom, he still had to snatch the Fox Mountain again.

With the Fox Mountain, it can be regarded as leaving the garrisons of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in Dongying Continent without a portal.

No, he Qingqiu Fox King had just left Dongyingzhou on the front foot, and more than a dozen elite scouts who had already been arranged rushed to the vicinity of Qiyi Mountain as planned to conduct reconnaissance.

It was the dozen or so fox ghosts hiding in the forest on the other side of the river now that they were all elite scouts arranged by the Qingqiu Fox King.

These scouts have been here for a few days, and they have looked at the peaks and ridges on the opposite bank of the mountain with a clairvoyant mirror through the waves of the river, and they have not found any fortifications or fortifications in the mountain, nor have they seen any construction.

In the rain and fog, although the mountains are a little hazy, the grass and trees are still luxuriant, the strange peaks are still steep, and the mountains are still so strange.

The spies of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom can see the northern foot of the Foxy Mountain is still the same as it used to be.

In this way, it seems that the Nine Shadows Kingdom is still following the peace agreement with the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, and in order to show mutual non-aggression, even if it occupies the area of the Fox Mountain, it will not remain at the northern foot and will not build fortifications in the place facing the Qingqiu Fox Country.

It's just that at the foot of the mountain, a few patrols were sent to patrol along the border of the foothills.

However, for the sake of insurance, these elite scouts of the Qingqiu Fox Country did not draw conclusions easily.

As soon as it was dark, he sent out some brothers who were good at water, and they waded through the river at night.

Or for reconnaissance, I have to go to the southern foot of the mountain range to have a look.

The scouts of the Qingqiu Fox Country, who were still hiding on the other side of the river in front of the Fox Mountain, were eagerly waiting for their companions who had gone to reconnoitre.

After the second half of the night began, it was almost dawn, and a few fox ghosts sent out to reconnoiter were again on the broad river, struggling to swim towards the north bank of the river in the rolling waves.

These fox ghosts are counted when they go, and they are counted when they come back.

It wasn't that he died at the hands of the soldiers of the Nine Shadows Country who didn't come back, but the torrent in the river was too fierce, and if he was a little careless, the fox ghost sank in the waves, and he couldn't float.

To be precise, after floating up and swimming across the three rivers, there was only one fox ghost scout who arrived safely on the north bank.

When he saw the surviving scout come back and return to the other scouts, the leader of the scouts immediately asked with some surprise, "What about the other brothers?"

But I still didn't dare to raise my voice, and tried to keep my voice as low and soft as possible.

"Drowned. The surviving scout shivered with cold, and countless droplets of water flew from his body, flying in all directions.

The other scouts hurriedly fetched a fur and wrapped it around the shivering surviving scouts.

"You went to investigate, and you weren't found, were you?" asked the scout leader again.

There was still a look of vigilance and nervousness in his eyes.

At the same time, he made a gesture and sent four of his men to guard the surroundings.

The surviving scout, who was trembling again, shook his head, and said in a low voice: "No, but there are sentry posts and patrols arranged on the mountain, and we didn't even get close to the top of the mountain, nor did we enter the southern foothills area." ”。

Hearing the surviving fox ghost scout say this, the scout leader who led the way, the vigilance in his eyes gradually turned into loss.

was supposed to reconnoiter the southern foothills, but it was in vain, and the scout leader was naturally lost.