When Du Bufu, White Lotus and Yan Song's father and son were eating wine and food on the boat, White Lotus suddenly found that Yan Shifan seemed to be staring at him all the time, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said to Yan Shifan a little unhappily:

"Yan Gongzi, I hope you have more self-respect!"

Yan Song also noticed his son Yan Shifan at this time, and immediately reprimanded Yan Shifan:

"Shifan, don't you know that Miss Bai is your Uncle Du's wife?

Yan Shifan was reprimanded by his father Yan Song and returned to the cabin angrily.

Yan Song immediately apologized to the White Lotus and Du Yi:

"I'm sorry, Brother Du, White Girl!"

Du did not forget to touch the white lotus's hand, comforted her, and then said to Yan Song:

"Brother Yan, it's okay, Yan Gongzi should also be young and beautiful, besides, Ling'er is really good-looking, which man won't fall in love when he sees it!"

Yan Song sighed:

"But I'm angry that I'm a rebel, I don't know etiquette so much, it's because I don't discipline strictly, I'm too guilty of the white girl!"

White Lotus's anger also disappeared a little, and then glanced at Yan Song:

"I'm sorry, Brother Yan, I was really too excited just now!"

Yan Song changed the topic and said to Du Yi:

"Brother Du, in fact, I asked you this time, and I also want to ask Brother Du for something!"

Du did not forget to look at Yan Song very curiously:

"I don't know what Brother Yan is about, just say it, what do you ask, Brother Yan, if you are my brother, don't talk about begging between us in the future. ”

Yan Song's face turned into joy when he heard this:

"Okay, don't forget to be worthy of my good brother Yan Song. ”

Yan Song said what he wanted.

It turned out that Yan Song was interceding for the emperor and wanted Du not to forget to go to the north again to lead troops to resist the Tatars.

Du Bu was about to agree to this matter, but was stopped by the white lotus on the side:

"Brother Du, have you forgotten what happened to you before?"

Du did not forget to reply very resolutely:

"I don't forget that as a man, when my family and country are in trouble, how can I sit idly by? Ling'er, I have already decided to go to the north, you don't need to persuade me. ”

Then he said to Yan Song:

"Brother Yan, but at this time, I will go to the north to resist the Tatars, can you give me a three-month delay, I have an important matter to go to Hangzhou to do!"

Yan Song said:

"But now Datong and Taiyuan are in an emergency, without Brother Du you, I'm afraid that the Tatars will take Taiyuan and go all the way east to Jingshi. ”

Du didn't forget to look at the ship and replied to Yan Song:

"Brother Yan, can you let me slow down, I'll rush to Taiyuan tomorrow morning!"

Yan Song nodded.

Du Buyi pulled the white lotus off Yan Song's boat and returned to the inn of Chengtian Mansion.

After the White Lotus sat on the edge of the bed, she asked Du Yiyi:

"Brother Du, what are you going to do now?"

Du did not forget to walk back and forth in the room a few times:

"The border is in an emergency, and as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, I naturally can't stand idly by, but my apprentice is now in deep danger, and I can't help but save it, and now I can't forget it, it's really a dilemma. ”

White Lotus got up and pulled Du Bu Bu to sit next to him, and wiped the sweat beads on Du Bu on his forehead:

"Brother Du, since that's the case, then I'll help you save Yingshu and Yingqin, can't you just rush to Taiyuan tomorrow?"

Du did not forget to look at the white lotus:

"But I don't worry about you, your martial arts are not very good, and the thieves I met in my two apprentices must not be ordinary people, otherwise it would not have told me in blood!"

White Lotus smiled:

"Brother Du, you have to believe me, if I encounter difficulties, I can handle it myself, and the last thing I want is to be separated from you. ”

Du did not forget to put his hand on the shoulder of the white lotus:

"Ling'er, I can't forget that I can't help you, but if you really want to go to Hangzhou alone, remember to go to Suzhou to find my brother Hu Hu, it will definitely help you." ”

The White Lotus held her eyes and never forget:

"I knew you cared about me, you don't have to worry about me, I'll take care of myself!"

Du did not forget to kiss the white lotus's face, and then looked at her affectionately:

"What are you talking about? Ling'er, do you know? You are now the most important person in my heart!"

White Lotus got up and began to untie Du Yi's clothes:

"Of course I know, remember to take care of yourself when you go to the north tomorrow, I saved Yingshu and Yingqin and will definitely take them to find you, you remember to wait for me!"

On the second day, the White Lotus went to Hangzhou by boat with Yan Song and his son, and Du did not forget to ride a horse and hold the appointment decree given to him by Emperor Zhu Houxi to Yan Song, so he hurried to Taiyuan.

After running around the clock without stopping, Du did not forget that he had reached the outside of Taiyuan City in five days.

At this time, outside Taiyuan City, there was already a desolate scene, and the corpses were everywhere, and it was obvious that it had experienced countless wars.

Don't forget to come to the gate of the city and start knocking.

After a while, an unfamiliar general walked to the city gate and looked at Du Forget:

"Who are you, what's the matter with going into town?"

Du did not forget to shout at the general:

"I am the newly appointed king of the northwest and the chief of the nine sides of the imperial court, Du Forget!"

When the general heard this, the name of the person who came was Du Buzhi, and the name seemed to be a little familiar, but he forgot who it was, and shouted again:

"You said you were the chief master, what credentials do you have?"

Du did not forget, so he took out the hand of Emperor Zhu Houxi from his bosom and threw it into the hands of the general.

So the general opened the edict and hurriedly went downstairs to open the city gate for Du Yi.

Then he knelt down with the officers and soldiers near the city tower and Du Buyi:

"I don't know the arrival of the chief system, and I hope that the chief system will not blame us and others. ”

After a while, Xu Shao, the prefect of Taiyuan, and Xin Luan, the chief soldier, also came over to greet Du Yi.

Du did not forget to go to the city tower and asked a few people about the situation in Taiyuan.

I only heard the chief soldier Xin Luan say:

"Our Taiyuan Mansion has been attacked ten times by Tatar soldiers in this month, and if the Tatar soldiers come again, I am afraid that this Taiyuan City will be the same as Shuozhou City, and it will become meat on the Tatar chopping block. ”

Prefect Xu Shao then said:

"Many of the people in Taiyuan City have died due to lack of food and water, and there has been a plague in the past few days, I am afraid that it will not be long before we will be infected with the plague and die. ”

Du did not forget to ask:

"But I didn't see any Tatars when I came, why didn't you let the people flee?"

Prefect Xu Shao's expression was very helpless:

"Even if the people are let out, they will not survive, and maybe they will be caught by the Tatar soldiers, because now our entire Shanxi, Shaanxi, and even Jingshi have suffered a big locust plague, and the people have almost no harvest, and even if they escape, sooner or later they will starve to death on the road. ”

Du didn't forget to let out a long sigh:

"So, what are the Tatars who attacked us eating now?"

Chief soldier Xin Luan replied:

"According to the spies, these Tatar soldiers robbed people's homes, and they didn't even let people go!"

Du was not forgotten for a moment:

"Could it be that they still eat people?"

Xin Luan nodded:

"Yes, they took all our Ming people to roast and eat!"

Du did not forget to clench his fists at this time:

"This herd of Tatar cattle ......!"

After a while, a soldier ran over and said to the chief soldier Xin Luan:

"Report, General Xin, I suddenly found Tatar cavalry ten miles outside the city, I'm afraid they are going to attack our Taiyuan City again. ”

Du did not forget to ask Xin Luan:

"How many soldiers are there in Taiyuan now?"

Xin Luan replied:

"About nine thousand!"

Du did not forget to ask again:

"How many Tatars are there?"

Xin Luan says:

"As far as we know, the total number of Tatar soldiers who came this time is 100,000, and they are all flexible cavalry, and the number of cavalry that comes to attack our Taiyuan City is almost 20,000 every time. ”

Du Yi was a little puzzled at this time:

"Why don't the Tatar soldiers come at one time and 100,000 cavalry directly occupy Taiyuan City, but only 20,000 cavalry come each time?"

Xin Luan looked in the direction outside the city:

"The rest of their soldiers should be raiding the nearby border towns!"

Du Buyi and the chief soldier Xin Luan and the prefect Xu Shao hurriedly organized the defense of Taiyuan City.

At this time, Du Buyi found that there were many old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers guarding the city, and the people in the city could see that many of them were already thin due to hunger and plague.

But after an hour, the Tatar soldiers did not come to attack the city, and then Du did not forget to ask the spies outside the city:

"What is the situation with the Tatars now?"

The spy replied:

"We had seen the Tatars ten miles away, but for some reason, the Tatars suddenly disappeared again, and we don't know where they went!"

After Du did not forget to signal the spies to continue to investigate, he took the prefect Xu Shao and Xin Luan to patrol around the city.

After seeing these hungry and cold people in the city and the plague raging, Du Yi couldn't help but feel sad, so he took the opportunity to ask Xu Shao:

"Lord Xu, do you know how this plague appeared?"

Xu Shao sighed:

"I heard that this plague came from the drinking water of our Taiyuan City, otherwise it would be impossible for the people in the city to even have no water to drink. ”

Du Cheng said:

"Then take me to see the water source!"

So the prefect Xu Shao took Du Buzhi out of the city, came to Fenshui outside the city to take a look, and found that the Fenshui Yanqi at this time was even more turbid than the Yellow River, and it was not drinkable at all.

Du did not forget to look at the turbid Fenshui at this time, sighed lightly, and then asked Xu Shao:

"Could it be that there is no other water source in such a big Taiyuan City?"

Xu Shao replied:

"No, we Taiyuan people rely on this Fen water for water, and we haven't had rain in Shanxi for nearly two months. ”

Du did not forget a wry smile:

"And what are you all drinking now?"

Xu Shao turned around and pointed to a small hill not far away:

"There is a kind of fruit tree there, the long fruit contains a lot of water, and the people all pick the fruit from the tree and press out the water to drink, and because we have an official well in the yamen, there is a lot of water in it, so we, the officers and soldiers, are drinking the water inside!"

Du did not forget to directly reprimand Xu Shao:

"Why don't you give water to the people to drink?"

Xu Shao knelt on the ground at this time, very helpless:

"If we give the people water from the wells to drink, then we officers and soldiers will die of hunger and thirst, and when the Tatars come again, who will come to defend the city?"

Du did not forget to signal Xu Shao to stand up:

"In that case, let's go to the hill first. ”