"He ordered the military officials in all parts of the country to take Changqin in as soon as they found it, so that he could settle down, and then immediately send two groups of post guards. He turned his head to look at Qin Yuan, and said in a sonorous voice: "Go to Yankong County, inform Hu Hui to start recruiting new soldiers, strengthen army training, and then find the ghost captive who entered the three first countries, and tell him to fight steadily and steadily, and after winning the three first countries, give Lao Tzu to defend it first, don't think about entering other countries." Stationed on the spot, vigorously prepare for trouble. ”。

"The other group went to Juxing County, told the loess and the red fire, and secretly strengthened the border area. Speaking of this, Xiao Shizhu turned his head to look at the fungus man again: "Send the most proficient clansmen under your command to the border of Juxing County to investigate the real-time movements of the Zhurong National Army. Once they found that they had signs of invasion, these fungus people divided into two routes, one to inform the loess to prepare for battle, and the other to the coastal area, and informed the general of the naval division, Quanxian, and asked him to lead the warships and mermaids to rush to the coastline of Zhurong as soon as possible, destroy the enemy's naval division and docks, and block its coastline. ”。

"No!" Qin Yuan and the fungus man also hurriedly got up and gave their hands in response.

Listening to Xiao Shizhu's resolute assignment, admiration appeared on Yingying's smiling face, and bloomed on her face with her smile.

"In addition, we must send the fast-flying Yumin to the head army immediately, inform Dongyue and Tanuki Tianying, and at the same time train the troops quickly, let the Ying Zhao withdraw to Shuoyue Island, and take charge of all the defense affairs of Shuoyue Island, including training air cavalry and Yumin recruits. Once the war starts within half a year, he will have to provide me with 5,000 flying troops. At the same time, Yu Rong was transferred to the county of Shentou to help Dongyue train a new army of Shentou. Xiao Shizhu paused, and after a little thought, he said: "Fungus people, aren't you able to travel thousands of miles a day in the soil?" Immediately pass this situation to my wife, and ask her to tell Mrs. Lai, who will select the outstanding craftsmen from the Ordnance Supervision to enter Shizhu City, and open a new Ordnance Supervision Bureau, which is specially designed to manufacture firearms for the garrisons of Juxing County and Yankong County. ”。

"No, the minister will do it. With that, the fungus man jumped out of his chair.

"Wait. The other party wanted to perform the art of retreat, but was stopped by Xiao Shizhu, "If you can make meritorious service this time, I will personally give your family a surname; in the future, you will no longer need to call it a big mallet or a small mallet." ”。

"Thank you, King of the Nine Shadows. After finishing speaking, the fungus man was very grateful, and he performed the Escape Technique, and disappeared in front of Xiao Shizhu's eyes in an instant.

"Then what am I going to do?" Qin Yuan asked hurriedly. He also wants to go to the battlefield, and he also wants to kill the enemy with joy, and the impatience on his face shows that he can't wait for Zhu Rong to kill now, so that he can also show his skills, and it is best to cut off the opponent's ghost head with his own hands.

"You continue to hold on to Shizhu City. The next second later, Xiao Shizhu said indifferently, Qin Yuan was immediately a little discouraged, and shouted very dissatisfiedly: "Defending the city again?"

"Why are you more belligerent than Xuanshui?" Xiao Shizhu looked at his face like a bee's head, covered with a faint dissatisfaction, smiled and shook his head: "Don't underestimate your mission to defend the city here; And I left you behind, so that the people in Shizhu City, except for those old men and old ladies, nursing children, and underage teenagers, can all be trained to be soldiers on horses and farmers on horses. Once the loess is unfavorable to defend the soil, you have to go up the same way. ”。

As soon as these words came out, Qin Yuan immediately smiled, hurriedly bowed his hand to Xiao Shizhu, and said excitedly: "Thank you, master, thank you, thank you!"

"Don't thank me first, when I walked in the city, I saw a lot of fire-eating charcoals in the city, and you have to gather these human souls who can specialize in eating fire qi and train them into a 'sharp arrow' that goes straight into Wu Hui's heart. Once the war with Wu Hui starts, there will inevitably be the Zhurong clan among the enemy army, and the over-controlled fire gas will turn into all kinds of flames, and then these fire-eating charcoal ghosts will have to rush up and suck their over-controlled fire qi dry. Xiao Shizhu pretended to be slightly angry, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't train well, Lao Tzu will let you go to farming." ”。

"Guaranteed to get the job done. Qin Yuan received the order and turned away happily.

Xiao Shizhu looked at his departing back, and after he smiled, he shook his head slightly, and said, "This Qin Yuan." ”。

"My lord, you just learned from Ruyu's mouth that some of the human souls who died in the human body would mutate in the underworld where the yin qi was extremely heavy due to the different causes of death, so you could actually think of using the soul that mutated into a fire-eating charcoal ghost to restrain the Zhurong clan, which is really admirable. Ying Ying was slightly stunned, and a look of shock flashed on her face: "For thousands of years, ordinary people's ideas are incompatible, and the Gonggong clan is used to restrain the Zhurong clan, including the Emperor Xudu; ”。

"Isn't it interesting to do things that ordinary people can't do, and what ordinary people don't dare to think?" Xiao Shizhu smiled meaningfully, stood with his hands in his hands and looked at the white clouds in the air outside the house, and said no more......

Shuoyue Island, Xiaoyu Mountain City.

In winter, the city is much more lively than ever.

After Xiao Shizhu entered Yuque and the news of the surrender of the five counties of the Gonggong Country came, Wuqiu Shou and Chunyun were already very busy.

It is necessary not only to ensure the normal operation of the imperial court, but also to count all the items in the palace, and then start to classify and pack them one by one to make preliminary preparations for moving the capital.

In addition, the ghost mother with a big belly is not easy.

She was about to give birth after changing into a loose dress, but because Xiao Shizhu was not there, she had to go to the court every day in addition to reviewing the folds.

She was busy but did not complain, but her face was full of happiness every day, which was the joy of a ghost who was about to become a mother.

On this day, after the ghost mother finished reading the day's recital, she held her bulging belly and walked out of the Juexiang Garden to take a walk, and unconsciously came to the front of the Vientiane Palace. I saw that Wu Qiu Shou was directing the palace slaves to register and pack the furnishings in the Vientiane Palace.

The ghost mother stood to the side, quietly watched the busy palace slaves do some work, looked down at her stomach, stroked it a few times with her hand, and whispered to herself softly to her stomach: "Child, your father is about to come to pick us up." ”。

As he was talking, he saw Lai Yueqi coming from the direction of the Ordnance Prison. Just approaching the Vientiane Palace, Lai Yueqi saw the ghost mother for the first time, and exclaimed: "Sister, why did you come out again?

As she spoke, she had already stood in front of the ghost mother, and looked at Chenruo and Ghost Qian'er, who were saluting her behind the ghost mother with complaining eyes.

Since the last time the ghost mother ordered the soldiers to take her back from Heilong County, Lai Yueqi has been even more grateful to the ghost mother;

During the time that Xiao Shizhu was not on Shuoyue Island, Lai Yueqi was doing her best to take care of the ghost mother and the child in her womb.

"I have to take my children out and see the world. The ghost mother smiled disapprerovingly, looked at her abdomen again, and said, "Let him also see how hard these low-level people work every day to live, so that he can be sympathetic to the people's feelings like his father and be a good son in the future." ”。

"This hasn't been born yet, sister, do you know it's a son?" Lai Yueqi glanced at her, then immediately smiled lightly again, and said, "Besides, what kind of world do you see before you were born; If you want to see the world, he goes to court with you every day, and he has seen a lot of it. ”。

After finishing speaking, he took a step forward, gently held the right arm of the ghost mother, and took her to turn around cautiously, and walked slowly in the direction of Juexiang Garden.

"Moon girl, thank you for your hard work. The ghost mother's eyes flashed with gratitude, and she smiled: "In the past few months, you have to be busy with the affairs of the ordnance superintendent, and you have to take care of my ......."

"Sister, stop. Before she finished speaking, Lai Yueqi said bluntly: "If the family doesn't talk about the two families, if you say that again, you will see the outside, and if it weren't for you and Engong, I would still be fooling around in the black market now." ”。

As soon as she said this, her tone was so sincere, it made the ghost mother embarrassed, and hurriedly disregarded her noble status, and said: "When Xiao Shizhu comes back, I will tell him, let him go to your Yuebi Palace more, and you will also give him a little son." ”。

As soon as these words came out, Lai Yueqi, who suddenly stopped moving, trembled, and a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" the ghost mother looked at her suspiciously, wondering if she had said the wrong thing.

"I can't have children. After a moment of silence, Lai Yueqi bit her lip, finally let go of the last line of defense in her heart, and mustered up the courage to tell the deepest secret in her heart: "When I entered the underworld, I worshiped under the Yanshi in order to beg for food. There is a rule in this sect that in order to prevent the sect's mastery from being leaked, all disciples must be sterilized, so as to prevent the disciples from having feelings and pass on the mastery to lovers or lovers, and even children and descendants. So, they forced me to drink the yellow thorn soup, and I was infertile. ”。

She said it softly and slowly. But it made the obedient ghost mother, Chenruo and Ghost Qian'er suddenly change color when they heard it, and this kind of deprivation of the disciples of their fertility by inhumane means just to protect the peerless school is simply outrageous.

[The character of the fungus is a low-level soul, with no name and no surname, because it looks like ginseng, so it uses the nickname of mallet. 】

[Yellow thorn, a tree recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, can make people lose fertility after eating. It is estimated that this is the earliest contraceptive pill in history. 】