The blue sky was as pure as the sea, a few light clouds floated in the air, and the cool autumn breeze blew through the towers of Lingqiu City, Gao Yuan stood on the tower with a solemn expression, looking down at the soldiers who were training under the city.

"This is already the second batch of recruits. Gao Yuan looked at these hot figures, a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes, in the past half a year, Gao Yuan, who returned to Lingqiu City, rarely showed such a relaxed expression.

The tragedy that happened in Lingqiu City half a year ago has always made him unable to let go, including the city lord Xiang Qiushan, the entire city of 5,000 defenders were slaughtered, and none of them were spared, and then the news of Gao Fei's death came. Gao Yuan could only turn his grief into strength, ordered the gate of Lingqiu City to be closed, silently accumulated strength, and recovered his vitality.

In the past six months, he has recruited two batches of recruits with a total of 10,000 people, plus the Zhennan Army that was withdrawn from Diyun City before, and now Lingqiu City also has more than 70,000 troops, and it is enough to defend himself.

But he knew in his heart that it was not enough to rely on self-preservation, he would still have to fight back sooner or later, and he firmly believed that the mourning soldiers would win, and the royal capital, Emperor Yuncheng, should have been theirs.

So he insisted on training the army every day, day and night, rain or shine, in addition, he sent people to strengthen the city defense, build a fortress, and even the tower of Lingqiu City has been renovated and is now as high as ten zhang.

What's more, from Lingqiu City to Diyun City, a powerful spy network has also been secretly formed under his careful planning.

At this moment, a herald came to Gao Yuan's side and reported the latest information from Diyun City: Qin Xu's family of three had left Diyun City and were coming in the direction of Lingqiu City.

Of course he can't forget this family, half a year ago, Qin Yu told him that his family would move to Lingqiu City soon, but in fact, their family had just set off from Diyun City now, what happened in between?

And in the past half a year, this girl, who he had a good impression of when he was young, once came to Ling Qiu Cheng to stop them from sending troops, and once bewitched her outside Diyun City Gao Fei was the murderer of the first king.

And her father, Qin Xu, who used to be his most respected mentor, publicly corroborated Gao Fei's death a few days after Gao Fei's disappearance, which made the various forces in Southern Chu look down on the wind and force him to give up the idea of attacking again, and huddled in this city in aggrieved.

Of course, there are a lot of doubts that need to be clarified in all this, so he really needs Qin Xu and Qin Yu, the father and daughter, to give him an explanation in person, if it weren't for the past kindness, he would like to arrest them all in front of him and torture them like prisoners.

The order has already been given, and in a maximum of three days, the people he wants to see will be "invited" to him.

Jujube red horses gallop on the winding official road, and on both sides are dense bamboo forests.

Li Sheng sat on horseback, his hands around Yun Luochen's waist, and looked around curiously, like a child who had just come into the world, eager to see this strange and wonderful world.

Originally, Yun Luochen planned to be one person and one horse, so that the speed would be faster, but Li Sheng couldn't ride a horse, so he had no choice but to do so, Yun Luochen had a kind of weakness to take advantage of others.

The cold autumn wind blew, Yun Luochen felt the warmth brought by the soft body of his back, and the soft and slightly hot breath on his neck, this wonderful feeling made him extremely intoxicated, and there was a trace of joy in his heart, and even hoped that this road would never end, so he carried his beloved girl and ran on the autumn boulevard.

"How can I have such thoughts, the Demon Sect may have already done something against the Dragon Hall. Yun Luochen forcibly pulled back his flying thoughts, and slammed the horse's belly, and the galloping horse immediately sped up and rushed out, and Lisheng, who was not holding it tightly, was caught off guard, and leaned back with a scream.

Yun Luochen's eyes were quick, he grabbed Lisheng's hand and pulled her back, Lisheng hugged Yun Luochen, and lay on his back and gasped in shock.

"I'm sorry. Yun Luochen felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and his face was a little flushed.

"I'm fine. Li Sheng lay in Yun Luochen's ears, exhaling like an orchid, Yun Luochen only felt a faint fragrance lingering between his nose, Li Sheng did not have any perfume fat powder on his body, it seemed to be her natural strange body fragrance, only when the two of them were so close to each other, they could smell it.

Yun Luochen felt that his breathing had become a little heavy, he tried to restrain the inexplicable impulse in his body, swallowed his saliva, and said with some difficulty: "Lisheng, don't get too close to me." ”

"Good. Li Sheng straightened up obediently, and his hands that were originally clenched loosened, "You seem to be nervous." ”

"It's very stressful. Yun Luochen admitted, "You are the first to ...... with me like this With such a close girl, I don't know what to do. ”

Li Sheng snickered and said, "You are also the first." ”

This smile finally released some of Yun Luochen's restraints, and he also smiled: "How do you know that I am the first? You are so beautiful and have such a good temper, has no one pursued you before?"

"Even if there were, I forgot, and what I forgot was the same as if it hadn't happened. ”

There was a hint of gloom in Lisheng's words.

"So, in my heart, you are the first, I am willing to believe in you, I will be close to you, since I choose to go with you, I have decided to give everything I have to you. ”

Yun Luochen slowly realized Lisheng's words, the beautiful softness and wonderful fragrance were still by his side, but the guilt in his heart finally slowly disappeared, he began to feel that this moment was the happiest moment in his life, and he vowed to use everything he had to protect this happiness, even if he gave his life, so as to protect this beautiful girl.

Happiness always flies quickly, and before you know it, it's getting late, and Yun Luochen knows that this place is still far away from the nearest town, and there seems to be a tea shed on the side of the road in the distance, so Yun Luochen decides to ask if he can stay there.

If it was just him, he wouldn't mind traveling overnight, but now he was reluctant to leave Sheng and suffer.

The owner of the tea shed, an old man with gray hair, told Yun Luochen that he only had one bedroom in the back kitchen here, which was usually empty, and he had to watch the tea shed at night, so he was used to sleeping on the bench outside.

Yun Luochen said to Lisheng: "Let's rest here for one night first, you sleep in the bedroom, and I'll sleep outside like the boss." Li Sheng didn't say much, just nodded "um".

When night fell, Li Sheng went into the room to rest, and Yun Luochen lay on a bench next to the tea table, gossiping with the owner of the tea shed.

"Uncle, how long has your tea shed been open?"

"I can't remember clearly, it must have been more than 20 years, my wife died early, my son died in the army, I am a bad old man, I have no ability, I see that there is no place to settle on this official road for more than 100 miles, so I built a shed here to sell tea, there are not many people who walk this road, and I can't make any money, but I can afford to raise my old bones, hehe. ”

The old man grinned, his cloudy eyes narrowed into a slit.

"Recently, I often dream of my wife, and I dream of her when she was young, she was so beautiful at that time, just as beautiful as the girl doll you brought......"

The old man should have not spoken to him for a long time, and he couldn't hold it as soon as he opened the chatterbox, his eyes were distant and intoxicated, and his words were full of affection, and Yun Luochen listened quietly.

"I dreamed that she was smiling at me and waving at me, and I thought that she should be thinking about me over there, calling me over, and I thought, I should be almost in this body...... It's just that this tea shed has been with me for more than 20 years, just like my child, I'm gone, who will care about it, those merchants on this official road, where will they go to drink herbal tea and rest their feet in the future......"

The old man's voice grew quieter and quieter, more and more indistinct, and finally became a slight snoring.

Yun Luochen couldn't sleep, and after only a while of separation, he began to think about Lisheng again in his mind.

So he immediately sat up, and immediately ran outside Lisheng's room, he knocked on the window, "Lisheng, are you sleeping?"

Li Sheng had just taken a shower and combed his hair, and was sitting on the bed thinking about the day, when he suddenly heard the sound of Yun Luochen, was slightly stunned, and deliberately pretended to be lazy and said, "I just slept, is there something wrong?"

"Well, it's nothing, I just don't worry about you, I'm here to see you. Yun Luochen scratched his head outside the window.

"Come in if you want to see it. Lisheng couldn't help but smile and said in as calm a voice as possible.

"Huh?" Yun Luochen was stunned and sat down with his back against the window, "You're still asleep, it's not good." ”

Li Sheng pushed open the window suddenly, stretched out his head and looked down at Yun Luochen and smiled: "What's wrong?"

Yun Luochen was startled, looked up and saw that Li Sheng couldn't help laughing, only then did he know that he had been fooled, and said angrily: "You lied to me!"

Li Shengjiao looked at him with a smile and didn't speak.

"Wow, Lisheng, you've actually learned to deceive people!" Yun Luochen couldn't help laughing.

Lisheng snorted, and clasped his hands in front of his chest: "Say, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, why are you looking for me?"

Yun Luochen smiled: "It's really okay, it's just ...... Missed you. ”

The window was closed with a "bang", and there was an angry scolding from Lisheng inside: "Flesh!"

"Hey......" Yun Luochen shook his head in frustration, suddenly smirked a few more times, and then sat down against the wall again, he felt more secure staying outside Lisheng's window.

After a while, Lisheng's voice came from the room again: "Are you still there?"

"I'm here. Yun Luochen hurriedly replied.

"Why don't you go to bed? ”

"I'm sleeping, I'm outside, sleeping and watching you. ”

After being silent for a while, Lisheng asked again: "You are so good to me, did we really know each other before?"

Yun Luochen hesitated for a while, and said slowly: "I don't know each other, we have only met once, that is, in the Demon Realm Forest, that time you were hunted down, I wanted to save you, but I couldn't beat others, but I was saved by you......"

Thinking of this, Yun Luochen smiled self-deprecatingly, "I don't know why, when I see you, I feel very close." ”

There was another long silence.

"Do you like me?" asked Lisheng suddenly.

Yun Luochen suddenly felt that his heart stopped beating for a beat, only to feel that his qi and blood were surging, and his brain was instantly blank.

"I ...... Should be...... Like. Yun Luochen said this sentence with difficulty, and suddenly felt a little nervous.

A long sigh suddenly came from the room, this sigh was undoubtedly from Lisheng, but it seemed to carry the vicissitudes and sorrow that had passed through thousands of years, Yun Luochen heard this sigh, and felt that something in his chest seemed to "bang" and shattered.