"What, you want to go alone?"
Tian Yan glanced sideways at him, half-squinting his beautiful golden eyes, and glanced at Xu Yuan up and down: "But with your level of cultivation, Third Young Master, going south alone, I'm afraid you will most likely die on the way."
Listening to her explosive words, Xu Yuan felt slighted and retorted in a low voice:
"Tsk, there are so many bone-tempering and pulse-tempering warriors who dare to operate in the north. My soul-condensing cultivation is actually not weak."
Li Qingyan pressed the curtain above his head, and the black gauze swayed lightly:
"In this case, Changtian might as well go south alone? If he takes this opportunity to travel south alone to visit the northern border, Changtian should gain a lot."
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Xu Yuan smashed his mouth.
He felt something was wrong.
During the short half-hour of detouring from the city wall back to the military camp, shouldn't these two women have started to fight each other when they were alone? Why does it feel like he, the referee, is being targeted?
Thinking about it, he glanced at Xiaobai who was following behind with his head lowered.
Bai Muxi felt the gaze, raised her bright eyes, glanced at the two beautiful figures in front of her, one tall and one short, her eyes flickered for a moment, and she whispered:
"If the young master is willing to go south alone, Mu Xi is willing to accompany the young master."
Swish——
As soon as she finished speaking, two cold eyes looked at her at the same time.
Xiaobai lowered his head without any hesitation:
"If your Highness Wu Yuan agrees."
The words directly ignored someone, which made the girl in palace clothes very dissatisfied. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she looked at this woman with a strange aura with a little evil look.
When Li Qingyan heard this, his eyes under the curtain looked very interested.
Xu Yuan's face remained unchanged, but he was satisfied in his heart.
He is obedient and sensible, and he also knows how to use the scent of tea to draw hatred for him at the right time.
With a slight cough, Xu Yuan whispered:
"Okay, Mu Xi, don't sow discord. Qing Yan and Tian Yan are just talking in anger."
Upon hearing this, Bai Muxi immediately bowed and bowed without any excuse:
"Mu Xi knows that she was wrong."
"It won't happen again."
"yes."
"."
Looking back, Xu Yuan looked at the two girls, but before he could speak, Tian Yan suddenly spoke, his voice clear and calm:
"Xu Yuan, I have never heard you introduce this Miss Bai."
Xu Yuan's eyes showed surprise, he looked at Li Qingyan, and asked with doubts:
"Didn't you introduce me just now?"
Li Qingyan watched the fire from across the bank and said briefly:
"Just now, the commander ordered her to tell the saint that she is willing to follow you because of your great favor."
Xu Yuan looked back at Tian Yan:
"Isn't this already introduced? I am kind to her, so she follows me. It's that simple."
"."
Tian Yan's eyes flickered, and his gaze swept over Xu Yuan and Bai Muxi.
The former had a calm expression on his face, while the latter had already obediently lowered his eyes.
The expressions on their faces gave her a sense of grievance that she had no power to vent.
It was obvious that the relationship must be more than that, but she had no position to ask him.
Looking at the silent girl in palace attire, a smile flashed across Li Qingyan's eyes, and he suddenly spoke in a very soft voice:
"Changtian saved Siming's family, but she couldn't repay her even though she spent everything she had, so... um... haha."
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Xu Yuan's eyes froze, and he turned his eyes little by little to look at Li Qingyan with a hint of disbelief.
Hiss. Are you plotting against me?
Under the curtain, those magnificent red eyes blinked at him.
Xu Yuan found that he had underestimated a woman's desire for revenge. No matter how rational and intelligent a woman was, she would hold grudges and hold fire.
However, Xu Yuan's handsome face remained calm, because he knew Xiaobai would take action.
As expected,
As soon as Li Qingyan's voice fell, Bai Muxi's soft voice came quietly:
"What His Highness said is true. Mu Xi really has nothing to repay for this great kindness. However, this is just Mu Xi's wishful thinking."
"Stop acting."
Tian Yan's clear and beautiful voice interrupted the performance of the three of them. He took a deep breath and looked away: "Even if it's not wishful thinking, I... I'm not qualified to say anything anyway."
It is most difficult to accept the kindness of a beautiful woman.
Seeing her lonely and gloomy expression in the wind and snow, Xu Yuan sighed softly, but did not comfort her. Instead, he looked at Li Qingyan and asked:
"Where should we go south together?"
Li Qingyan glanced at Tian Yan, shook his head in his heart, and said via voice:
"You are so cruel."
Xu Yuan didn't reply.
"Do you want me to leave for now?"
Xu Yuan still didn't reply.
Just kidding, Yantian Jue comes with a spying sound transmission.
Seeing this, Li Qingyan didn't say much on the matter, and instead spoke:
"Let's go south to Guangyang Mansion."
Guangyang Mansion, the state capital of Da Mangzhou, was a northbound transportation hub controlled by the imperial court. Dozens of official roads converged here.
"Guangyang Mansion?" Xu Yuan murmured and asked softly, "What are we going to do there?"
Li Qingyan glanced at the south through the black gauze of the curtain:
"The front has moved, the war has begun. Once I send you there, I will return to the army."
Xu Yuan hesitated slightly:
"Aren't you going back to the Imperial Capital together?"
"Why, you can't let me go?" Li Qingyan said with a smile in his eyes, "If you can't let me go, Changtian, I might consider staying with you."
Xu Yuan rolled his eyes and said nothing.
Li Qingyan shook his head boredly and said leisurely without sending any more messages:
"Back in Di'an City, it's nothing more than the messy affairs of my family. Once I enter the capital with my identity, I will definitely be involved. Compared with these struggles for power, I am needed more on the battlefield in the north."
The breeze ruffled the curtain, and with a sudden glance, I could clearly see the helplessness in her magnificent red eyes like gems.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan suddenly asked:
"Is this trip urgent?"
Li Qingyan said lightly:
"You need time?"
Xu Yuan was silent for a moment, then laughed softly:
"When I first arrived in Beifeng, I said that I would erect monuments for the soldiers. Have you forgotten?"
Li Qingyan's red eyes were slightly surprised, his heart was filled with ripples, and he shook his head:
"I thought you forgot, but no need."
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Xu Yuan's eyes were puzzled, and he subconsciously glanced at the dilapidated Beifeng City. Li Qingyan's voice said leisurely:
"My second brother has already done this. In the south of the city, after the defeat of the barbarian army, he spent ten days and ten nights carving all the recorded dead soldiers on the south wall with his own hands.
"Now this matter has probably spread all over the world. Now his reputation in the military is not low."
Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes and then sighed:
"If that's the case, then so be it."
"I thought you would be angry." Li Qingyan looked into his eyes: "After all, this good name should be yours."
When a group of four people first came to Beifeng, it was the man in front of them who first proposed to erect a monument, in order to let those who died leave traces in this world.
"Good name. This good name seems a bit false to me."
Xu Yuan laughed softly, then shook his head gently:
"Everyone does this. The purpose is to let future generations remember the soldiers who died in the barbarian battle. Since Li Zhaoyuan did it, let him do it."
Li Qingyan looked at him deeply:
"The grassroots soldiers and generals don't understand the struggle for power within the palace walls. They only think that the second brother is a nobleman of Tianhuang."
"I know." Xu Yuan interrupted softly.
The royal family is supreme in the eyes of the common people in the world.
There was Wu Qi in his previous life, let alone this extraordinary world where the gap was so huge that it was irreparable.
In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, Li Zhaoyuan became a benevolent king in their eyes after this trip, and even a benevolent king in the future.
but
Xu Yuan looked towards the south wall and seemed to see Li Zhaoyuan's flying handwriting on it, and chuckled softly:
"too late.
"If you want to get involved in the army, this monument is indeed a good entry point, but it is too late. If Li Zhaoyuan had used his character and methods ten years earlier, he might have made some achievements in the army, but in this situation, there is no time. Let him lay it out."
"But since the erection of the monument has been done by Li Zhaoyuan, there is no point in staying in Beifeng anymore. Let's go."
After that, Xu Yuan walked into the snow curtain without looking back.
Looking at his back, Li Qingyan narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips with complicated emotions.
Tian Yan's golden pupils saw her expression clearly through the curtain, and he sighed softly:
"That's it again."
The sky is vast, the mountains are stretching, and there is a deathly silence among the endless flying snow.
A huge gryphon with a wingspan of more than thirty feet cut through the void and landed on the ground amid the blizzard. There were thick woods among the snow-capped mountains. Its wings were waving, the wind pressure overwhelmed the treetops, and the snow on the ground was dancing. For a moment, it was like a fairyland in Qionglou.
When all the dust fell to the ground, the gryphon lay on the ground, and the wind and snow remained.
There was a slight "squeak" of the door being pushed open, followed by a gentle male voice complaining in the silent mountainside:
"This Class B military monster is really embarrassing. Fenghan can't stand it."
Pushing the door open, a bleak cold wind blew like a knife. Xu Yuan quickly used his exercises to keep out the cold. Warmth surged through his body. He glanced around and sighed:
"At this speed, we don't know when we can get back to Guangyang Mansion."
"Slow?"
A clear and melodious female voice answered, and a girl in palace clothes standing in the air followed the man in brocade robes to the attic platform and whispered:
"If someone wasn't of low cultivation and didn't rely on monsters to travel, we might have arrived in the past few days. Are you right, Third Young Master?"
"."Xu Yuan.
Beautiful, but strange.
Xu Yuan glanced at the expressionless girl next to him and smiled:
"You can leave first, our destinations are different anyway."
"." Tian Yan snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan stretched out his hand to caress the messy hair at her temples. Tian Yan sensed it and snorted in his heart, but did not hide. However, his movement was interrupted by another rustling low female voice:
"Find a place to stay. Although this gryphon is cold-resistant, it lacks endurance. Let's rest for a night before continuing on the road."
Xu Yuan took his hand back without leaving a trace, and looked back at the tall and beautiful figure that appeared at the wooden door.
She had already put on plain clothes, her legs were slender and straight, her breasts were not wrapped, and her curves were enchanting.
The girl in palace clothes, who was hanging in the air at the same height as her, cast a cold side glance at the chest-wrapped princess who deliberately stopped wrapping her breasts:
"Rest in the attic?"
Li Qingyan didn't reply. He looked at Xu Yuan and signaled him to make up his mind.
Xu Yuan thought for a while and laughed softly:
"Go down and take a walk. Staying in this shabby attic every day will make my waist hurt from sleeping on it."
Tian Yan's eyes narrowed, as if he thought of something, and his fair face turned red with an imperceptible blush.
Li Qingyan said with a smile:
"Changtian, you need to take good care of your waist. Have you ever taken the elixir I gave you in the Imperial Capital?"
Xu Yuan's eyes narrowed and he replied with a smile:
"Haha, you are so good at talking but you don't really know how to do it. I have learned a lesson in His Highness's ability to keep your words."
Tian Yan listened to the conversation between the two, snorted coldly, and interrupted their conversation:
"So, Third Young Master, where are we going to wander? I remember that as a soul-condensing expert, you need to sleep. Do you want to be beaten to the ground in this snowy day?"
When it came to the last four words, she almost said it through gritted teeth.
After looking at each other for a moment, Xu Yuan's face turned red and his heart stopped beating, and he said softly:
"Although it's nice to be laid on the ground, it's not elegant. You still have to have a sense of ritual when sleeping and find a place to stay."
When Tian Yan heard this, his golden pupils glanced around along the mountainside, directly penetrating the flying snow in the sky:
"There is a mountain village three miles to the west, and a cave two miles to the east, but there is a bear demon inside. Where to go?"
"Caves where monsters live usually stink."
Xu Yuan whispered, and then asked slightly curiously: "But with such heavy snow, there are still mountain villages?"
Tian Yan replied expressionlessly: "A mountain village with no living people."
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The words fell, and suddenly there were no words.
"With such heavy snow, it will be difficult for cultivators to survive, let alone ordinary people."
Li Qingyan spoke very softly: "I would like to go to the mountain village to have a look. This gryphon will stay here and it will look for food on its own."
Xu Yuan sighed and nodded.
Calling up Xiaobai who was huddled in the corner of the attic practicing the Six Elements of Dian Yuan Jue, and dragging the soul-condensing expert with Yuan Qi, the four of them galloped along the mountainside toward the west.
Ten breaths later, the place arrived, but what Xu Yuan saw was not a mountain village, but a mountain col completely covered with snow.
Standing in the void, Tian Yan opened his lips and teeth slightly:
"wind."
The sound fell, the wind suddenly rose, and the snow on the mountain col was flying, revealing several dilapidated stone houses below.
The houses in mountain villages are not gathered together in one place. Instead, three or two houses are gathered together and stretch for several miles to form a village.
Falling into the courtyard surrounded by stone fences, Xu Yuan used his soul to sweep through the house and whispered:
"There is no one. It seems that they must have gone out in advance to escape the snowstorm. I remember that at the beginning of the snowstorm, the court issued a disaster evacuation order."
"impossible."
Li Qingyan's calm voice interrupted Xu Yuan and sighed softly: "The imperial power does not go to the countryside, let alone a mountain village like this. Judging from the home layout of this family, it should be an Orion family. There is a high probability that they will not be able to survive and escape on their own." ”
"The bodies of their family are all in the bear demon's cave."
Tian Yan interrupted abruptly: "The mountain people like these are unable to survive the natural disaster here."
Xu Yuan was silent for a while and said:
"The people in the city are not having a good time either. A large part of the disaster relief food distributed by the imperial court is disguised as military food. Ordinary people cannot guarantee even one meal a day."
Tian Yan glanced at the two of them and said in a calm voice:
"Xu Yuan, Your Highness, as senior officials of the imperial court, you two should know very well what the use of military force at this time means to the people at the bottom, right?"
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