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The morning light is faint, and the south wind has not risen.

The men and horses of Anta Hill were the first to arrive as promised.

Qian Ming and Zhang Han are really righteous men, after learning that Xia Xun has not yet captured Qulong, they thought that Xia Xun was waiting for their men, and without saying a word, they asked for orders to lead people to attack the mountain as the vanguard. How could they allow them to spoil Xia Xun's good deeds, and immediately stopped people. It's just that the people of Anta Mountain came early, and there was still half a day before the southeast wind blew. Seeing that these thousands of men and horses were stunned in the wilderness, Dushao had no choice but to go to Qulong alone to find Tang Chuan, and let Tang Chuan order to withdraw the defenders around Qulong first, so that the men and horses of Antashan could camp in the mountains.

This gamble is not over yet, Du Shao put forward such a condition, of course Tang Xiaotang was not happy, and with a wave of his hand, the needle of the pear blossom turned into a drizzle, and Du Shao was beaten back to the bottom of the mountain.

It's just that Tang Chuan knows that the so-called gambling game is actually meaningless.

Xia Xun's methods will be known at night, no matter who wins or loses, the men and horses of Anta Mountain have already sat on the boat of Qu Long. They will camp at the foot of the mountain, and that will be only a matter of today or tomorrow. Therefore, Tang Chuan rarely ignored Tang Xiaotang's opposition, and insisted on giving the order to withdraw the troops. In addition, hundreds of people were sent to take the remaining timber used by Qu Long to camp down the mountain to help set up camp. This kept the thousands of men and horses in Dian Ta Mountain from doing nothing for most of the day.

Tang Xiaotang was puzzled.

Look at the hot air all over the mountains, the smoke is miao, where is there still the atmosphere of preparation for the war when Xia Xun went to Qulong a few days ago?

I don't know when it started, the candidates in Qu Longshan, the most discussed thing is no longer Tang Xiaotang and Xia Xun's gamble in the end. But when Xia Xun went to the banquet tonight, what a means of turning things around would be revealed, and Tang Xiaotang would be applauded. The faction talked happily and praised without concealing it, as if these candidates were not people from Qu Long's camp at all, but spies sent by Xia Xun. So much so that Tang Xiaotang walked from the waist of the east mountain to the foot of the west mountain, and walked around the side of Qulong Mountain from the foot of the east mountain. And when she saw Xiahou, Bai Xiu, Fat Monk and others opening gambling stalls at the foot of the mountain, she finally couldn't help it anymore, waved her sleeves and picked up a small pink fist, and then turned the pear blossom needle into a torrential rain, rudely and brutally dismantling people's stalls into smithereens...

The reason is that Xiahou's gambling stall has a handicap.

A odds made Tang Xiaotang feel extremely angry, and he was embarrassed about the handicap.

"You demolish, I'll let you demolish, it's useless if you dismantle. ”

"Eh, don't be wrong when you walk by. Amazing gambles, doomed, win 100 times the odds. To make a fortune, it depends on the present day. Xia Xun won one loss, Tang Xiaotang won one hundred losses, and the draw returned to Zhuang. ”

"Eh, little brother. You are Qu Long, so why don't you buy a bet of Tang Xiaotang. ”

"Damn, you all buy Xia Xun, and I will pay for my life?"

“......”

Tang Xiaotang's rainstorm pear blossom demolished Xiahou's gambling stalls under Qulong Mountain, but it couldn't stop his poisonous mouth. Looking at the wooden basin with the word Xia Xun written on it, it was filled with silver and two copper plates, and then looked at the wooden basin with the word Tang Xiaotang written on it, there were only two poor copper bumps, Tang Xiaotang even had the heart to kill. Although Tang Xiaotang didn't know what means Xia Xun had, he could turn decay into magic tonight. But she knew that if Xia Xun's method was to seek the army's heart, then he might have succeeded...

Because, at this time, absolutely no one will be able to use a knife against Xia Xun anymore.

With a black and inky face, Tang Xiaotang walked back to the mountainside angrily and stayed alone in the Juyi Hall, silent.

Tang Chuan knew what his little junior sister was thinking, but now that things had inexplicably developed to the point of foregone conclusion, he had nothing to comfort. As Xia Xun said, Tang Xiaotang is a little hypocritical, and she has to see ghosts to be afraid of the dark. She has the strategy of a strategist, but she also has the calculations of the little girl's family. This is not necessarily a good thing for a person's growth. I still remember what the old grandmother had told him when he and Tang Xiaotang left Tangjiabao in Xichuan. Xiao Tang has been spoiled by me, if you have a chance to go north this time, you will let Xiao Tang suffer a few more losses. A wrestling is more meaningful than letting her take off the false name of the champion.

Thinking of this, Tang Chuan smiled bitterly, and did not peep through the window screen towards the Justice Hall.

Holding his bow and crossbow, he quietly turned and left...

He's been busy today.

When he got up early in the morning, he had to arrange for people to prepare for tonight's dinner, and there was not much food that could be cooked in the wilderness, but he would be more delicate if he could be refined, so as not to be called lazy and rude. Coupled with the request of the only one, Tang Chuan is even busier now, and he has to run around both ends of the mountain road without skills. However, thinking that he would be able to completely remove the burden from his body after tonight, he would be happy to be busy for a while. After all, Qu Long has 7,000 people, which is enough to be proud of all the forces. With first-class strategists such as Xia Xun, Du Shao, and Tang Xiaotang in charge, and top experts like Mo Xian, Lei Meng, and Muto to protect the way, even if he has to face strong enemies such as Huishan and the imperial family in the future, Qu Long has the ability to stabilize his head. It can even be said that most of the places in the top three in the heavenly test are already in their pockets. In this year's national examination, in terms of single confrontation, they are no longer invincible.

What could be more comfortable than being relaxed?

Late.

The moon rises in the east mountain.

Night falls.

The breeze lingers, the warm sun remains, and the meat is fragrant for ten miles.

Yesterday the insects and frogs sang, and tonight I only heard the long songs. The leaves in the mountains pave the path, and the osmanthus flowers scatter the fragrance in the evening.

By evening, the new barracks at the foot of Qulong Mountain were far from being built. The people and horses from Anta Mountain, smelling the aroma of wine and meat sent down from the mountain, put down the work at hand one after another. Neatly build bonfires, and then sit around the campfires, quietly waiting for the upcoming play.

Although Xia Xun and Tang Xiaotang's gambling game is scheduled for the twentieth day, everyone knows that the victory or defeat is actually tonight. And judging from the scene of Qu Long's banquet at this time, it seems that the winner has been decided. After all, the people's desire is difficult to support the Tang Sect alone. It's just that Xia Xun's gambling contract is particularly harsh, he not only wants Qu Long to return to his heart, but also wants Tang Xiaotang to lose convincingly. Tang Xiaotang's ruthlessness is well known to everyone, and the person who can make her serve has never appeared so far. Therefore, what they are looking forward to most now is what kind of shocking means Xia Xun will come up with tonight.

And on the other end...

In order to make it more decent to go to the banquet tonight, Xia Xun asked Xiahou, Mo Xian and others to change into clothes borrowed from Huishan. And he himself washed the green shirt in the morning when he took a bath, dried it for a long time and put it back on his body. Going through the motions is just a formality, and if you need to take care of it, you can barely take care of it.

"Ah Xun. ”

"Huh?"

Outside the dead wood forest, thousands of purple-red lanterns almost filled the small forest. Xia Xun and Dushao strolled through the forest, carefully and carefully inspecting each lantern. Xia Hou and the fat monk followed Xia Xun's ass with embarrassed faces, stumbling and wanting to speak.

"That's... What..."

"What?"

"That's it. ”

"What are you?"

"What... I opened a handicap in Qulong today. ”

"I know"

"Something unexpected happened, do you think you can help my brother think of a way?"

Carrying the lantern, Xia Xun looked sideways and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's just... It's just..."

"Ouch hey. ”

Seeing that Xiahou was speechless, the fat monk couldn't help but take over in a hurry, and said, "It's just that the handicap is collapsing." ”

"Collapse?"

Xia Xun moved to the next lantern and asked casually, "Are you calculating the odds low?"

"No, no," the fat monk shook his head, "We've calculated the odds very high." One loses 100, you win and loses one, and Tang Xiaotang wins and loses 100. ”

Xia Xun checked the rows of lanterns casually, and after finding no problems, he continued to walk down: "Since the odds are so high, why do you still collapse?"

"Hey..."Xia Hou sighed in annoyance, and then took over: "It stands to reason that nine out of ten will not collapse, otherwise I wouldn't have opened this plate." But those street boys, all of them bet on you to win, and Tang Xiaotang's handicap only has two or three copper plates. What do you think I'm doing? ”

"Hehe..."

Xia Xun couldn't help but feel funny when he heard it.

As long as it is a gamble, it will be lost, and even a gamble with such high odds can still appear in the phenomenon of empty plates. This was also greatly unexpected by Xia Xun. After all, Qu Long is Tang Xiaotang's territory, even if she is not optimistic, how can the candidates who Qu Long bet on have to give her some face?

But the result was so unexpected. In this way, the weight of the Tang Sect in Qulong is not necessarily too heavy.

Xia Xun shrugged helplessly: "Then I can't help you, you can't let me lose, right? I'm sure I'm not going to wipe your ass again this time. Get out of the way, get out of the way..."

Xia Hou was immediately unhappy, grabbed Xia Xun's wrist, and said hurriedly: "Ah Xun, it's not kind for you to talk like this." Brother went to Qu Long to open the handicap, didn't he want to help us beat the drum first? Now if there is a problem, you can't ignore it, otherwise my brother owes this assy debt, how can I be in Qu Long in the future?"

"Bang Bang..."

Xia Xun patted his sleeves, glanced at Xia Hou angrily, and then ignored it and walked away alone.

While walking, Xia Xun turned his eyes to look at Dushao on the other side of the forest, and shouted from afar: "Dushao, have you checked it over there?"

In the distance, Dushao turned his head when he heard the sound, then waved his hand and shouted with a smile: "Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!"

"Can you light the lights?!"

"Yes!"

"Good!"

Xia Xun responded arrogantly, and then quickly glanced at Lin Zhongmoxian, Luo Jue, Lei Meng and others, and shouted again with a wave of his big hand: "Light the lamp and invite Mingyue!"

"Light up the moon and invite the bright moon!"

"Light up the moon and invite the bright moon!"

"Sewn seam..."

Xia Xun drank, Lin Zhong Lei Meng and several other northerners all held their breath and shouted repeatedly!

The sound was like thunder, and suddenly it sounded, and it shook for more than ten miles in an instant!

Qu Long looked up and down when he heard the sound, and then stopped and looked at the dead wood forest from afar.

But when he saw the people in the dead wood forest, he immediately took out the prepared fire, quickly dispersed to all parts of the dead wood forest, and lit the fire oil in the lantern one by one. The yellow light reflects the red paper, and the contrast is purple red. Looking at the dead wood forest in the dark night field, it suddenly lit up with a spot of light, like countless demonic beasts hidden in the night, and suddenly opened its eyes! And as all the thousands of lanterns were lit, the dead wood forest was immediately illuminated into a purple red! And as the heat in the accumulated lanterns gradually rose, the Kong Ming lanterns gradually left the ground one after another and slowly floated up...