The cool breeze blows into the dusty hall and stirs the elegant green curtains hanging from the beams. Incense wafted slowly from the incense burner beside the jade couch, diffusing and bringing a sense of tranquility.

"I thought it would be worse than the corpse country. After saying these words as if muttering to himself, Xiao Shizhu, who was silent, took a step back and sat on the edge of the jade couch bed, the joy on his face slowly faded, and he regained his calm again.

Seeing this, he looked at each other and didn't know why Xiao Shizhu was not excited.

He didn't know that when he mentioned this Qingqiu Fox Country, Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but be interested. The marriage was known when he was in Junzigang, and he also knew that once it was successful, Tu Yaoqing, who married him, would be an authentic beauty, but he had never been very interested in this marriage.

It's not that he doesn't like beautiful women, it's just that privately, he doesn't like to be forced.

Even an idiot can see that this marriage is full of political interests. Today's Nine Shadows Kingdom is getting bigger and bigger, it is like a towering giant tree with a canopy, and there are many ghosts who want to go under the tree to enjoy the shade.

The marriage planner of the Qingqiu Kingdom is also ready to bet heavily on the Nine Shadows Kingdom. So he came up with a strategy of sacrificing his daughter to form an alliance, and spread his future glory and wealth on his daughter's chest.

However, Yu Gong said that the conditions proposed by Qingqiu Guo made Xiao Shizhu unable to refuse. With the alliance of the Qingqiu Kingdom, then the Nine Shadows Kingdom can insert a nail into the Eastern Yingzhou that makes the Emperor Xudu uncomfortable.

Moreover, the Nine Shadows Kingdom will also have a springboard for invading Dongying Continent, laying a solid foundation for entering Dongying Continent in the future.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Shizhu, who weighed it again and again, decided to see it first. As the so-called thousands of troops are easy to get, it is difficult to find a general, and the harvest is not a person who talks about it on paper, Xiao Shizhu has long been unable to ask for it.

It's just that Xiao Shizhu doesn't know the sincerity of the other party's surrender for the time being, and he needs to have an interview with Beicheng.

"Let's pass on the pass first, I'll see him first, and then I will meet the Qingqiu ghost envoy. After being silent for a long time, Xiao Shizhu said slowly to the ghosts in front of him: "I have to go to patrol the camp at night, I have been in a coma for so long, and if I don't show up again, the army's heart will be shaken, you can arrange this matter." ”。

"No. The ghosts followed the big head, bowed to Xiao Shizhu and retreated.

Immediately afterwards, a palace man entered the palace and helped Xiao Shizhu collect the leftovers, put on a clean futon, and made him a cup of hot tea.

Outside the main hall, the drizzle continued to quietly fall from the sky, washing away all the dust in the world. Under the water curtain woven by raindrops, the city is spotless.

Xiao Shizhu raised the teacup in his hand, took a sip of fragrant tea gently, and turned his head to look at the clouds and clouds, the raindrops as thin as silver threads in the sky.

It didn't take long for a male ghost to look like a human soul, but with golden skin and red pupils in his eyes, striding into the hall with his head held high.

The ghost is the harvest. The calluses on his hands, and the dozen or so large and small scars clearly visible on his exposed arms, all tell his bravery and battlefield experience.

As soon as he entered the main hall, he walked straight to Xiao Shizhu and knelt down, kowtowed, and said, "Descend to the general and meet the King of the Nine Shadows." ”。

Xiao Shizhu told the palace people on the side to go to the tea seat, put down the teacup and looked at the harvest, and said: "Get up, General Harvest, there is no kneeling in my Nine Shadows Kingdom, you might as well learn to follow the customs of the locals, and also change this problem of loving kneeling." ”。

Slightly surprised, he slowly raised his head, and saw the smile on Xiao Shizhu's face through the misty green smoke that spread out in front of him.

But he was also shocked to find that the soul in front of him was the soul of the person who fought with him on the night he lost his military rations. Suddenly my heart was secretly shocked, I never expected that on that dark and windy night, it was the Nine Shadows King who calmly escaped from under his nose.

"Really didn't kneel?" asked cautiously, his eyes widened after a pause, but he didn't get up from the cold floor.

"Really. Xiao Shizhu replied tirelessly, raised the teacup in his hand, and tasted the tea leisurely.

At the same time, the palace people had already brought a square stool and placed it opposite the jade couch, and a cup of hot tea had not yet been served.

After thanking him, he slowly got up and walked on the square stool, took the teacup and thanked him again.

"Why did you reverse the Beiyin Dynasty?" Glancing at the harvest of the teacup and the delay in drinking tea, Xiao Shizhu put down the teacup and said slowly: "As far as I know, you are a ghost general who commands a division of cavalry in the Beiyin Dynasty, and you have fought 71 battles for the Beiyin Dynasty, and 15 times have established a military industry. A year's worth of money can buy a haunted house with three courtyards in the downtown area near the ghost market in the city. With such good conditions, why do you want to rebel against the Northern Yin Dynasty?"

"The Nine Shadows King even knows this?" Bei Shu was only a little surprised, Xiao Shizhu didn't even know the information of his official rank, but it was obviously a little surprising to be able to count his combat exploits. Then, he looked directly at Xiao Shizhu and said: "After the Nine Shadows King burned the grain and grass that I was responsible for transporting that night, the Emperor Xudu was no longer in my current position. ”。

"He sent Tubo to Dongyizhou to execute me. At this point, her eyes flashed with loss and despair. However, in an instant, it turned into a spark of hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said: "With my understanding of the old thief in Xudu, when Tubo set off, a team of ghost soldiers was also ordered to go to my hometown of Sishan, and my family and even my youngest son, who was less than five years old, could not escape death. ”。

Hearing this, Xiao Shizhu stared at the hatred overflowing in his eyes, and suddenly secretly felt that he had been a little ruthless. He also has an unshirkable responsibility for the current loss of soul and the destruction of his family.

"Do you hate me?" A faint sense of reproach rose from his heart, driving Xiao Shizhu to blurt out this.

Hearing this, he did not rush to answer, but looked at the tea leaves floating on the pale yellow tea soup in the cup in his hand and pondered.

Outside the hall, there was a drizzle, and there were layers of mist around. A little splash of water, a little silver flower bloomed on the jade steps in front of the hall, bringing a crackling piece of thought.

In the main hall, after pondering for a moment, he finally shook his head and said firmly: "Don't hate, the two armies have their own magic in the battle, and you just did what you had to do." ”。

"But the distrust of Emperor Xudu thinks that I deliberately gave you grain and grass, so as to kill my family and want my life, and this account should be counted on his head forever. After saying this, Bei Shu finally took a sip of tea.

The fragrant tea entered his throat, and the hatred in his heart slowly calmed down. Then he put down the teacup, got up and knelt down to bow to Xiao Shizhu, and said impassionedly: "Please give me a chance to take revenge, let me join the Nine Shadows Army, and from now on, I will saddle your horse and follow you to conquer the evil ghosts of the Northern Yin." ”。

"This reason is very good, but I still have to ask one more question, how did you escape?" Xiao Shizhu, who hurriedly helped him up, didn't ask more about his hatred, but just asked if he ran away.

Holding the teacup, he told him the whole process in detail. Even on the white sand dunes, how to take advantage of the right time and place is not missed.

Xiao Shizhu listened quietly without saying a word, and it wasn't until the other party finished talking about all the processes that he slowly spoke: "You are really a ghost; ”。

As he spoke, a trace of admiration flashed in Xiao Shizhu's eyes.

Talking about this, Xiao Shizhu has lost so many doubts about Bei. He stood up, waved to the other side of the hall with a flat face, and strode to the other end of the main hall, standing in front of the complete map of the ten continents of the underworld hanging on the wall.

After Bei Shu came to him, Xiao Shizhu picked up the slender bamboo pole standing at the base of the wall, handed it to Cheng Shui, and asked solemnly: "General Bei Shu, please point out for me on the map what other branches are there in the Zhongdu Army in Dongyi Continent?"

After raising his eyes and scanning the map, he raised the bamboo pole in his hand and pointed at the valley mouth in the south of Fengming Valley, and said: "The nearest Xudu Army is here, according to the military system of the Northern Yin Dynasty, there are less than one division of ghost soldiers stationed here, and it is also the Xudu Army that I once commanded." The current commanders should be Tubo and King Yama. ”。

After saying this, he handed the bamboo pole in his hand up again, pointed to the Retreat Plain in the north of the Black Tooth Country, and said to Xiao Shizhu: "The remaining seven main divisions of the Xudu Army are all stationed here, and the commander is one of the six heavenly protectors of the Emperor Xudu. Scattered on the Plains of the Hidden Gods, the six directions and the middle of the body can be assembled in a short time in wartime. There was also a large fleet, with thousands of capital warships located in the western harbor. ”。 With that, he moved the bamboo pole to the left again, pointing to the west of the Plain of the Hidden Gods on the map.

"However, as far as I know, it has been a long time since the days were repeated, and many local ghost people have been recruited, and fifteen divisions have been expanded, most of which were used to attack Fusang Kingdom. After a pause, Bei Shu said slowly: "Now that Dayi, the lord of Fusang Country, has returned to the Northern Yin Dynasty, eight of the fifteen divisions are still in Fusang, and the rest have been withdrawn to the junction of the Escape God Plain and Fusang Kingdom. ”。

The top of the bamboo pole in his hand was retracted, and then he was a little heavier in the mountains west of Fuso on the map.

Xiao Shizhu's profound gaze was directed towards the place he was pointing, which was erected on the endless mountains on the western border of Fusang Country, and said thoughtfully: "Relying on the topography of the mountains, establish a defensive offensive to prevent Fusang Country from backing against water?"

"Yes, that's the strategy of the day. She nodded back.

"Hmm. Xiao Shizhu, who answered, asked thoughtfully: "If I want to occupy the entire Dongyi Continent, give you a strong cavalry, and order you to be the vanguard." So where are you going to hit first?". The gaze never retracted from the map.

This time, he didn't rush to answer, but looked at the map and pondered for a long time before raising the bamboo pole in his hand again and pointing to the west of Fengming Valley on the map, about a hundred miles away from the lonely city of the corpse country.

The two cities are located on the southern edge of the Wenyuan Valley, between the mountains, and become a barrier for dozens of miles.

"Why?" Xiao Shizhu asked again.

"Opening this place is equivalent to opening the south gate of Wenyuan Valley. Taking advantage of the heavy casualties of the army of the Corpse Country at this time, it was the best time to seize Wenyuan Valley. With Wenyuan Valley, a large canyon that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be attacked and retreated, and it can be rampant with all parts of the south of Dongyizhou. At that time, if you turn over and clean up the Xudu army in Fengming Valley, and win, all parts of Dongyizhou will be returned to Jiuyou. He put down the harvest of the bamboo pole again, and said without hurry.

The corpse can run rampant in Dongyi Continent for many years, most of which is due to the favorable terrain of this Wenyuan Valley, so the harvest will give Xiao Shizhu such advice.