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The Xuanji Sect's Chinese New Year's Eve this year was much more lively than in previous years, because the sect had accepted many new disciples this year.

According to tradition, on December 29, all the second and third generations of disciples will finish their affairs and rush back to the mountain to arrange and prepare the dinner party for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Tianhuo was responsible for the planning of the Chinese New Year's Eve activities, Cang'er was responsible for the overall affairs, Yi Prisoner was responsible for eating and drinking, and the other disciples also had their own tasks.

Even Zhou Heng, who is usually obsessed with runes, was pulled out to breathe, his task was more special, and he turned out to use runes and charms to make festival lighting effects and New Year's fireworks, this task immediately aroused Zhou Heng's interest.

Gray Kite and Qingniu have now fully adapted to the identity of the disciples of the Xuanji Sect, of course, they are still a little uncomfortable with the master of Tianhuo, these days they have become the main force in organizing the Chinese New Year's Eve night banquet, and they are very happy to be busy.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that the two of them have celebrated the New Year's Day and New Year of the human race, and there is no such custom in the demon clan, and the first thing to try is always full of interest.

In fact, Liu San's mother was only thirty-six years old, and now his mother's illness has been cured, and she will continue to stay on the mountain to recuperate.

But Liu's mother was born in a poor family, and she always helped to do what she could, so with Xuanjizi's generosity, she naturally acquiesced to her staying.

And Sun Shui is a little gloomy, since he was sold into slavery, he was checked off the name from the family tree by the elders and relatives of the family.

Although he has now gone to slavery, the family still refuses to accept him, and even the two younger brothers who were able to continue their studies because of his sacrifice have become extremely indifferent, which makes Sun Shui extremely sad and can only regard the Xuanji faction as his home.

The little white ape and the little white wolf are becoming more and more spiritual, and their bodies are much larger, their hair is crystal clear, like white brocade, they can now understand human speech, and the little white ape has even learned to communicate with everyone with gestures and expressions.

Usually, the three Xiaobai will follow Master Zhou Yong to practice and work, and play with the Tianzi Six Elementary Schools in their spare time, but the strength of the demon cultivator has improved rapidly in the early stage, and now the strength has far surpassed the Tianzi Six Small, and you can often see the three Xiaobai running around Xuanji Mountain with the Tianzi Six Elementary Schools.

Three of the four masters sent by the Nineteenth Prince left, all of them were from Yundian Province, and they took leave a few days in advance and went home for the New Year. There is only one master surnamed Zhao who can't go home for the New Year because his home is in Jinling Mansion and the distance is far away, so he can only stay on Xuanji Mountain to celebrate the New Year with everyone.

The four major spiritual artifacts of the Xuanji Sect are becoming more and more humanized, and they are naturally indispensable to this grand event of the human race during the New Year, and no one dares to refuse their request, so they can only readily agree.

As for the other servants on the mountain and most of the staff of the Chamber of Commerce were from Wanshui County, so after Cang'er asked Xuanjizi, he gave everyone a seventeen-day vacation, and they could rest from Chinese New Year's Eve until January 16 and then return to work.

According to Xuanjizi's instructions, Cang'er settled everyone's wages a year ago, and purchased a valuable gift for each servant and chamber of commerce fellow who went home to visit relatives, and this arrangement was naturally sincerely thanked by everyone.

Xuanwei Mansion Li Zhifu and Wanshui County Song Zhi County Bonus Year, Xuanjizi sent Tie Yumo and Su Xing to personally send it to thank the two adults for their care.

Because of the bonus given in the first year, and the two adults knew that the Xuanji faction was the mess of the nineteenth prince, and they had not made a profit so far, they were naturally embarrassed to accept it all, and they were only willing to accept half of it on the spot, and the remaining half was resolutely unwilling to ask for it, so that the two of them brought back the Xuanji faction.

As for the annual bonus and New Year's greetings to the Nineteenth Prince, they had already been conveyed by the prefect Li half a month ago.

And Master Zhao, who did not return to Jinling Mansion, only then showed his extraordinary status, and he also repaired a letter and forwarded it to the Nineteenth Prince through Governor Li's Mansion, and it is said that the letter was mostly a few words of good words for the Xuanji faction.

Sure enough, not long after, the Nineteenth Prince really sent a reply letter to Xuanji, and specially asked Governor Li to convey New Year's greetings.

At this time, the Xuanji faction found out that Master Qian, who was in charge before, was just a disguise, and it was Master Zhao who really made the idea.

There were many affairs and entertainment in the Xuanwei Mansion around New Year's Day, and Li Zhifu did not personally rush to the Xuanji faction to offer condolences this time, but sent a henchman to the Xuanji faction before Chinese New Year's Eve, bringing New Year's greetings from the nineteenth prince and Li Zhifu, and by the way, bringing some special gifts that were not worth much.

And the two undercover servants in the Xuanji faction were quickly picked up by the Jing'an Division of North Yunnan Province and the Provincial Daolu Division of Yunnan Province after going down the mountain.

The Jing'an Division of North Yunnan Province was an espionage agency directly under the Song Emperor, while the Yundian Provincial Daolu Division was the administrative body of the Xiuzhen sect established in the name of the imperial court in the provinces by the Daluo faction of the Protector God Sect.

Now the truth was revealed, after listening to the report, Xuanjizi was not surprised, and asked him to quickly tell the news to the Li Governor of Xuanwei Mansion, and he reported it to the nineteen princes in the capital on his behalf.

Governor Li calmly dealt with it, this is just a regular means for the imperial court to monitor the Xiuzhen sect, there is nothing to make a fuss about, and he can only turn a blind eye to these two people, otherwise he will violate the bottom line of the imperial court.

And the nineteen princes in Beijing are even more calm, if the palace makes such a big move in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, but the father does not know it at all, I am afraid that his good life will come to an end.

The Nineteenth Prince specially arranged for Li Cheng to remind Xuanji that he must not touch these two people, and it was best to arrange some inconsequential small boss work for them in the Xuanji faction, so as to appease the heart of the imperial court.

After receiving Li Cheng's message, Xuanjizi laughed, sure enough, if he got involved with the official, he would be in trouble, but there was no way, how could he give up the things in the world?

Before the start of the dinner, Xuanjizi led the disciples to pay homage to the Taoist monarch from afar, and then worship the ancestors of the Xuanji faction (Big Dipper Seven Star Sect), and a set of rituals took a quarter of an hour.

Xuanjizi raised her glass again to announce the start of the dinner, and drank this cup with all Xuanji disciples, recounted good stories, and imagined the future.

......

On the New Year's Day of Dunhuang City, the curtain was opened again on a cloudy day, under the heavy lead clouds, the earth appeared gray and lifeless, and no ray of sunlight could break through the clouds and sprinkle on the earth.

The howling north wind and the falling snow never stopped, and the extreme cold was still the theme of heaven and earth, both inside and outside the city, continuing to fall into a tense and oppressive atmosphere.

It wasn't until midnight, when the sky was brighter, that the border troops in the north of the city found two ladders and more than 300 corpses of Meng Yuan soldiers who had never seen them yesterday and more than 300 corpses of Meng Yuan soldiers who were grinning with their teeth frozen under the city.

It seems that last night the Mengyuan army wanted to take advantage of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Huaxia tribe to launch a sneak attack, but unfortunately the weather was too cold last night, and they were successfully blocked by the wind and snow before they even had time to climb the city wall, burying the lives of more than 300 soldiers in vain.

These new corpses made the defenders in the north and west of the city terrified, but fortunately there was this continuous cold, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, and at the same time, they were even more worried that the Meng Yuan army would be angry and attack the city today.

However, until noon, there was no sign of the Mengyuan army sending troops, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, which means that most of the Mengyuan army will not attack the city today.

Because it was dark again for another three hours, such a short time was not enough for the Meng Yuan army to capture the city wall.

Some border soldiers jokingly said: "It seems that these barbarians also know that today is our New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and they are embarrassed to attack us." Let the residents of the city also have a small celebration today, and there is no need to worry about being harassed. ”

......

It's not that the Meng Yuan army doesn't want to attack Dunhuang City, but the weather has been too bad recently, many soldiers have frozen to death and frostbite, the number of casualties is increasing every day, and there are some problems in the internal coordination of the barbarian coalition army.

In the past few days, the generals of Mengyuan, the Western Regions, and the Western Regions have been appeasing the emotions of the soldiers, while accusing each other of ineffective siege of the city, and they have quarreled fiercely.

On December 27, after the arrival of the second division of the Chinese army in the Western Regions, they immediately sent people to the Mengyuan army to ask for grain and grass.

The new commander of the coalition forces, Batu, was not as good at talking as his predecessor Su He, and first scolded the grain urging officer in the Western Regions and Xifan, and whipped him out of the tent.

Later, he felt puzzled, and personally took 30,000 iron horsemen to the west of the city to supervise the battle, and the Western Regions and Xifan coalition army was forced by Batu's obscenity, so they had to storm the west city wall for two days, and left more than 10,000 corpses, but they did not even climb the city wall.

Seeing that the Western Regions and the Western Tibetan Coalition Army were about to run out of food, with the military quality of these two armies, if they ran out of food, it would not take a few days for the whole army to disperse.

Although Batu was very angry, but as the commander of the coalition army, he couldn't watch the Western Regions and Western Tibetan coalition army disperse like this, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the Golden Horde, it is estimated that the Khan may kill himself in order to appease those people in the Western Regions and Western Tibet, and he can also take the opportunity to seize his own tribe.

Batu was distressed for a long time, and finally came up with a way to let the coalition troops in the west of the city divide into two routes, one way to continue to maintain pressure on the west of the city, and the other way to loot the Tang city behind Dunhuang City.

At the same time, Batu took out part of his small army rations to support the Western Route Army, and then he asked the Western Route Army for more than 9,000 Tang people imprisoned in the Western Regions camp.

Nearly half of these Tang people have been slaughtered and tortured to death in the Western Regions and Western Tibet, and the dead have never seen a single corpse, and they don't know where they were buried by these barbarians.

And the living people have long been tortured by hunger and cold, only skin and bones are left, like a group of walking corpses, even if they want to eat meat, they can't get rid of much meat, although the Western Regions Xifan Army doesn't know what Batu wants these people to do, but now as long as there is food, they are willing to sell anyone.

Batu did not explain, and took 30,000 troops to escort the more than 9,000 Tang people back to the camp in the north of the city.

Because of the grain and grass in the Western Regions, Xifan celebrated again that night, allowing the soldiers to let go of their bellies and eat a big meal, and consumed a quarter of Batu's support for grain and grass.

For them, they don't want to think about many things if they don't understand them, anyway, they just have to eat and drink, at least these beef and mutton are much better than those minced meat.

......

Dunhuang City, in the city lord's mansion.

Li Chengliang city lord is with the help of servants, began to wear formal sacrificial clothes, today he wants to lead the gentry of Dunhuang City to worship the ancestral temple, this is the most important annual memorial ceremony in Dunhuang City, is the Chinese sons and daughters of the ancestors' reverence, is the important moment of the Chinese ancestors to dedicate blood and food, naturally by the city lord himself.

Li Chengliang is now at least twenty pounds thinner than a month ago, and the suitable sacrificial clothes worn on his body in previous years look extraordinarily lenient, because 20,000 Li people fell into the hands of the barbarian army, and Lord Li was angry and seriously ill, and he was able to walk on the ground recently.

The people of Dunhuang have a stronger admiration for the city lord Li, and they are very glad that they have such a good city lord, and they always hope that Lord Li can get better as soon as possible.

If City Lord Li is in good health, he can take charge of government affairs by himself, so that General Fan's burden can be lightened a little and he can devote himself to fighting the enemy on the front line.

When the barbarian army was killed in the city, one was angry and bloodied in bed, and the other led the soldiers of the border army to fight bloodily for more than 20 days in order to protect the citizens in the city.

The people were moved by such a good city lord and a good general, fully supported the two adults, actively participated in military training and preparation, and many young and strong fire lines joined the city defense army, and the veterans in the city defense army filled the vacancy of the border army in time, so that the Dunhuang city was guarded without leakage.

The Changshi and Sima of Dunhuang Mansion were both persuaded on the side, hoping that the adults could take care of their bodies, and the memorial ceremony could be handed over to General Fan to do it for him.

Li Chengliang's wife also tried to persuade him with tears streaming down her face, saying that he was coughing up blood three days ago, and he was going out to preside over the sacrifice today.

Li Chengliang was furious, kicked his wife over and said: "You are a woman's family, what do you know? I am the lord of a mansion and a royal clan, if I don't attend such a big event as the New Year's Day memorial, the people in the city will guess, and the guess will be panicked, and the panic will change, and the change may not be able to keep the city, do you know?"

So I have to go out today, even if I die, I will also die in the ancestral temple! If you dare to talk more, I will divorce you!"

Mrs. Li and City Lord Li have been together for more than 20 years, and they have never seen her husband make such a big fire, Mrs. Li didn't dare to say a word more, and a few maids and servants came out of the backyard and hurriedly helped Mrs. up and sent her back to the back room.

It was the city lord's family matter just now, and it was inconvenient for the governor Shi and the mansion Sima to intervene and persuade them, and when the lady left, they still insisted on persuading Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang was still angry, after coughing violently, his face became flushed, and it took a long time to suppress it and gasp, and said with difficulty: "You two don't need to say much, I am old, but my mood is immature, I will only be angry, this disease is more than a month, and the burden of Dunhuang City is on Yun Chao alone."

Yun Chao came to see me the day before yesterday, he was very thin, his face, hands and feet were full of chilblains, the whole person was exhausted to the limit, and his body was completely supported by a false fire, and if he continued like this, he would also fall ill.

I've been lying in bed these days and thinking a lot, and what I did that day was really wrong, making it difficult for Yun Chao to do. I am six years older than him, and I have lost the decisiveness and bloody courage of my youth, if I insist on sending troops to save people that day, I am afraid that Dunhuang City has been breached.

Since I was wrong once, I can't continue to make mistakes, I know my own physical condition best, and it is not a problem to support this sacrifice, I want to help Yun Chao share some of the pressure.

If I lie in bed any longer, I will not be recuperating, but evading the responsibilities entrusted to me by the imperial court, and you two will not need to say much, go and see if all the sacrificial work of the record and joining the army is ready? Tell the gentry and village elders waiting outside that I will come out immediately. ”

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