Xu Yuanshu counted the number and authenticity of the banknotes while Li Yunqing sat quietly and watched eagerly.
The private room was quiet for a while, except for the rustle of counting money.
For a long time,
Xu Yuan raised his eyes.
Li Yunqing said immediately:
"Third Young Master, have you finished counting?"
"Exactly, Your Highness, don't worry, I will make arrangements. After all, you have to be honest in everything, right?"
Xu Yuan put the ordered banknotes into Xumijie, paused, and asked with slight interest:
"But I'm curious about one thing. Your Highness, how much money do you usually bring with you when you go out?"
When Li Yunqing heard this question, his eyes immediately became alert:
"what you up to?"
"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking."
Seeing this, Xu Yuan smiled dumbly: "Your Highness, you know me. I have always been generous to my friends. If I say five million, it will be five million. I will not raise the price again."
Li Yunqing resisted the urge to curse and said with a low smile:
"I have always heard of Third Young Master's reputation for being charitable and charitable."
"Miscellaneous praise."
Xu Yuan cupped his hands and suddenly asked:
"But His Highness is so generous, how do you plan to make up for the shortfall of five million taels in the future?"
Five million taels is already an astronomical figure.
With Dayan's current productivity, ordinary people could only earn twenty or thirty pieces of silver from a year's hard work.
In the Prime Minister's Palace, if there is no special position, the annual salary of a top powerhouse like the second-grade Yuanchu, who is the best in the world, is only one million taels of silver. However, every time he performs an extremely dangerous mission, this salary will probably rise by a hundred. About forty points.
Li Yunqing smiled slightly when he heard this:
"I borrowed six million from a famous person on Yingzhou Island before."
"Six million?" Xu Yuan's eyes narrowed.
Li Yunqing's expression changed, and he suddenly sighed:
"But I only received the first three million, and for the remaining one and a half million, I probably need to find some bookkeepers to take over the responsibility."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan rolled his eyes in his heart.
This statement is most likely false, but the accounting profession is indeed a high-risk profession no matter where in the world it is.
A moment of silence,
Xu Yuan stopped mentioning this matter and asked instead:
"I wonder how long it will take for His Highness to leave Beifeng City?"
Seeing that the topic was back on track, Li Yunqing tried his best to calm down his painful emotions and said:
"The sooner the better, preferably tonight."
"tonight?"
Xu Yuan pondered for a moment and asked seriously: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to leave the city tonight?"
Li Yunqing was slightly confused:
"Not tonight?"
Xu Yuan explained:
"It's not impossible, but it might be a little dangerous."
Li Yunqing looked puzzled:
"The barbarians outside the city are not now."
Before the words fell,
As if to confirm Xu Yuan's words, a burst of white light burst out from the dark sky outside the window.
Subsequently,
"boom!"
A series of shocking explosions resounded over the city!
Because Li Qingyan had already been vaccinated, Xu Yuan was not too surprised when he heard the noise.
Get up, walk to the window, raise your eyes to the south.
In the dark blizzard night, with his fifth-grade cultivation level, he could only see hundreds of white lights of different sizes lighting up in mid-air.
That was the light of the city defense formation.
The projectiles thrown by the barbarian siege equipment caused waves of roars and ripples on the translucent city defense formation.
The sound was scary, but after a volley of fire, the entire Beifeng City was protected under the translucent cover as if it were impregnable, and no building in the city was destroyed.
And at this time,
Li Yunqing also came to his senses and looked at the distant sky through the window:
"What's this?"
Xu Yuan slowly turned his eyes back, his eyes filled with blood and flames, and the dark sky behind him roared:
"Your Highness, what do you think?"
Li Yunqing slumped back onto the soft couch and took a sip of wine to calm down.
Silent for a long time,
He exhaled and chuckled:
"The barbarians actually attacked the city tonight, but judging from your reaction just now, Third Young Master, I should have already known that."
Xu Yuan slowly walked back to the soft couch and sat down, pouring himself a glass of wine:
"Yes, your imperial sister has anticipated that the barbarians will most likely attack the city tonight."
"That's good."
Li Yunqing nodded: "Since Sister Huang had expected it, there should be nothing wrong with her."
Xu Yuan shook his head, looked at Li Yunqing, and asked:
"It is true that there will be no loss in sealing the city to the north, but Your Highness, do you insist on leaving the city tonight?"
Li Yunqing pondered for a moment, then nodded firmly:
"To go out, tonight should be just a tentative attack. I read the files in the north. When these barbarians attack a city, they usually use a large number of boulders mixed with "Ice Spirit Cones" and "Sulphurous Acid Beasts" to consume the city defense formation. .”
Xu Yuan smiled inexplicably:
"The barbarians are barren here, and they can't afford things like source crystal bombs."
Xu Yuan had also seen this method of siege in the files given to him by Lou Ji.
The Ice Spirit Cone looks like an iron spiked ball about three meters in diameter, with a thumb-sized source crystal in the center and hundreds of ice cones wrapped around it.
The rotten acid beast is a hard-shell monster on the ice sheet. Once the ice crystal shell is shattered, it will self-destruct, exploding a large pool of acid.
Compared with the several internal local rebellions before Great Yan, these two things are a bit unsatisfactory.
Because during the Great Yan Civil War, source crystal bombs were used in sieges.
If there is no interference, the siege equipment will aim at one point of the city defense formation in one round, and a few rounds of throwing can directly penetrate the formation from the front.
The two items of the barbarians are cheap and do little damage to formation cultivators, but they do a lot of damage to buildings and ordinary people.
During the previous siege of Beifeng, the barbarians also used this method to attack the city, trying to consume all the source crystals that maintained the city defense formation. Unfortunately, at that time, Beifeng City was full of strong men and elites.
There is no need to even open the city defense formation. The high-level cultivators in the city can smash these projectiles in the air.
However, Beifeng City is now empty. Faced with such overwhelming attacks, the city defense formation can only rely on protection, and the source energy consumed by the city defense formation every moment is calculated in terms of massive amounts.
The costs of offense and defense are not of the same magnitude at all.
Xu Yuan drank the contents of the cup in one gulp and stood up without any more ink:
"In that case, let's set off."
Li Yunqing glanced in the direction of the south of the city again and stood up silently.
No more words,
As soon as the two of them walked out of the private room together, they immediately noticed that there was a little chaos in the corridor outside.
Many attendants armed with swords were walking quickly in the corridor, with different expressions, some were panicked, and some were as serious as water.
All the way downstairs, there were constant knocks and discussions, and some disheveled waiters and men rushed out of the door.
Obviously, the barbarian siege also affected the most expensive hook fence in Beifeng City.
Under the war, the world is full of changes.
But the chaos didn't last long.
When Xu Yuan and Li Yunqing came downstairs to the lobby, under the organization of the Madam and Turtle Gong, the whole lobby resumed its singing and dancing style.
Because they knew that the barbarians would not be able to fight in for a while.
The tall woman twisted her waist on the stage, and the musician played some soft tunes without being affected.
Xu Yuan looked at such peaceful singing and dancing, breathed out softly, and asked in a low voice:
"Your Highness, what do you think of this scene?"
As Li Yunqing went downstairs, his eyes stopped in the hall for a few breaths, and he said with a bachelor smile:
"Third Young Master, I am not qualified to judge them now."
After a pause,
Li Yunqing glanced at Xu Yuan:
"But I guess in a few days the barbarians will break through Nancheng, and the relatively orderly lobby will become crazy."
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Xu Yuan glanced at the waiters in the hall and the beautifully dressed patrons below, and shook his head gently.
impart, right?
After walking out of the lobby, when the two came to the stable, many people had gathered here and were whispering.
However, these people all use sound transmission methods. After hearing their conversation, it seems that they are disciples of the sect who know some inside information and have no intention of having fun here anymore.
Moreover, if there is no background for walking at night in Beifeng City under military curfew, the soldiers have the right to kill them directly.
On a blizzard night, except for the sound of wind and the roar of the sky in the south of the city, everything was quiet, and the lights carved with bright patterns on both sides of the road were looming.
Occasionally, you can encounter a group of heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets in the snow.
However, after seeing the Beifeng Mansion Office sign on the carriage, the soldiers let them go without any further questioning.
After being questioned again by a group of patrolling soldiers,
Li Yunqing looked at the houses on both sides of the car window, suddenly sighed and said softly:
"When the city is destroyed, all the common people in the city should be slaughtered by the barbarians."
Xu Yuan, who had closed his eyes to rest after hearing this, opened his eyes and glanced at the third prince:
"To those barbarians, we, the people of Dayan, are nothing more than two-legged sheep."
"Sheep with two legs"
Li Yunqing looked out the window, the cold wind was blowing his hair on the temples, and he murmured and stopped talking.
The carriage became silent again for a while.
I don’t know how long,
Li Yunqing sighed and suddenly asked:
"Changtian,
"Tell me, did my father and Mr. Xu expect this?"
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Silence.
For a long time,
Xu Yuan replied in a low voice: "Maybe I expected it, maybe I didn't expect it."
Li Yunqing rolled his eyes when he heard this:
"What you said is the same as what you didn't say."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly and reminded:
"This second-grade Yuanchu will only send you to Houting County. Remember to be careful when you get there. The situation there is not too good. The food and grass stocked up are probably only enough to last the elite of the sect for about a month."
Li Yunqing was quiet for a while and said:
"Changtian, you must have something to do when you stay in Beifeng City, right?"
"I'm just a proton staying with your royal family." Xu Yuan said without missing a beat.
"Oh, forget it if you don't tell me."
The seriousness on Li Yunqing's face disappeared, and he stretched out and spread out on the soft couch: "I am just a common person. The more I know about these bad things in the north, the more upset I will be."
Xu Yuan nodded in agreement and looked at the skyline in the south of the city:
"Yeah, the more you know, the more annoying it becomes."
Li Yunqing looked back and stared at Xu Yuan's profile for a few breaths, then suddenly smiled:
"Third Young Master, I have a suggestion for you. You can learn from my second brother, be more cold-blooded and unscrupulous. Only in this way can you become the next Duke Xu of my Dayan."
Xu Yuan turned his eyes with interest when he heard this:
"If I become the next Mr. Xu, can your royal family survive?"
Li Yunqing shrugged:
"You have become the next Mr. Xu. The ones who should have a headache are my eldest brother, my second brother, and the sects all over the world. It has nothing to do with me."
Xu Yuan's eyes flashed and he stared at the other person, trying to judge the truth or falsehood of the other person's words.
Finally, he chuckled:
"You are quite free and easy."
"This is not free and easy, but self-awareness."
Li Yunqing spread his hands:
“As for me, although I think I’m pretty good and can understand many things, I’m far behind my second brother and my eldest brother.
"So it doesn't matter to me who's surnamed in the world. Anyway, I have money. If I don't get soldiers when I return to Beijing during this trip, I will go to a remote place to be a rich man and marry a few beautiful women to live a stable life. Not bad."
There was a smile in Xu Yuan's eyes:
"In picture books, it's usually people like you who become the emperor in the end."
Li Yunqing chuckled and cupped his hands:
"Thank you, Third Young Master, for looking after me."
As he spoke, the carriage slowly stopped.
Xu Yuan glanced sideways out of the car window:
"arrive."
Li Yunqing also looked back:
"pawnshop?"
The carriage stopped in the wind and snow at the entrance of a large pawn shop. Through the bright lights on the street, you can see the "Pawn Shop of the World" written in flying phoenixes on the plaque.
Got off the carriage,
It was cold outside the car, so Xu Yuan wrapped himself slightly tightly in the jacket Li Qingyan prepared for him, stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-"
Short and rhythmic, very light.
Li Yunqing on the side hesitated slightly when he saw this:
"I don't have to avoid it?"
Xu Yuan chuckled:
"It's a one-time password. If you use it next time, it will probably be taken seriously."
Li Yunqing was a little disappointed when he heard this.
At this time, a slightly older voice came from the door:
"Sir, our store is closed, so hurry up early tomorrow."
Xu Yuan followed the contact code given by Lou Ji:
"I'll pawn the jade pendant."
"Jade pendant?" The old voice sounded impatient.
"Black Dragon Jade Pendant."
"Squeak——"
The door opened, and a middle-aged man whose voice didn't match the old one at all appeared in their sight.
Wearing a nightgown, he seemed to be resting.
Xu Yuan didn't say anything, and directly took out a token with a black dragon tattooed on the back and three characters engraved on the back from his Sumeru Ring. But before he threw it to the middle-aged man for inspection, the other man bowed directly to him and saluted:
"Third Young Master."
Xu Yuan looked at the middle-aged man, took back the bronze medal, and slightly raised his hand:
"Are you Mr. Liquor?"
The middle-aged man stood up straight and his eyes fell on Li Yunqing behind Xu Yuan:
"It's me. Lord Lou Ji has told me in advance that you want to leave the city?"
Xu Yuan waved his hand, pointed at Li Yunqing and said:
"It's not me, it's him."
"he?"
Mr. Jiu frowned slightly and said hesitantly:
"Third Young Master, are you sure? If I send him out of the city, it will be difficult for him to come back."
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When Li Yunqing heard this, his pupils shrank slightly.
He realized that the black scale guard in Beifeng City should be the second-grade Yuanchu in front of him.
Thinking of this,
Along with the roar of the formation above the city, Li Yunqing looked at Xu Yuan with a strange look.
It's not out of gratitude, after all, I was defrauded of five million by this kid.
But because Xu Changtian sold him the way to escape, what should he do?
He didn't believe that this kid would live and die with the city.
so,
What on earth does this guy want to do?
(End of chapter)
