Xingcheng, it's noon, it's warm.
To the north of the city wall, there is a suspended covered bridge extending beyond the city wall.
At this time, there was only one chair placed on the outermost part of the covered bridge. This made this dark and thick covered bridge look less like a place for literati and inkmen to drink and banquet with a view, and more like an ingenious building. The person on the chair should be pushed directly into the Yahe River rolling eastward from there, and allowed to sink and float.
There was a man sitting on the chair, a man in plain white clothes with no colorful embellishments on his body. When the river breeze blew the hem of his clothes, his whole body was as beautiful as a man in a painting.
Yun Bailou.
He just looked at the river in front of him all alone, from sunrise to this moment, not knowing what he was thinking.
I don’t know how long it had passed, but a short old man with a white robe and white boots, but a dark face, walked quickly from one end of the covered bridge. His movements were rough, but his footsteps were as light as a civet cat. Under the cover of the sound of the surging river, it was almost like negligible.
Before he was even a foot behind Yun Bailou, the old man stopped far away and said in a voice just loud enough for Yun Bailou to hear, "Sir, the envoy from Li County is here."
"Oh," Yun Bailou seemed to be immersed in a certain atmosphere and couldn't extricate himself. He didn't look back after hearing the words, and asked softly, "Su Yiming? Oh, no, Su Yiming went elsewhere. Who is it?"
The old man bowed and replied, "They are from the ANBU. They just came to deliver a letter from Luo Chuan, the prefect of Li County."
Yun Bailou stretched out his hand, and the old man quickly took the letter out of his arms and handed it into his hand.
Yun Bailou opened the elegant golden envelope, opened the letter and read it, then smiled and threw the letter into the air, letting the paper go with the wind, and finally fell into the elegant water, soaked and sunk , "He is worried that we have fallen into a clumsy trick like Nanyi's." There was a kind of laziness in his voice, as if he was extremely sleepy and couldn't arouse the slightest interest. "Call the county magistrate's office." The young man who came with us will answer a letter for me."
The old man lowered his head and waited, but did not hear Yun Bailou's instructions from behind. He couldn't help but raise his head and asked in surprise, "Sir, what are you talking about?"
Yun Bailou seemed a little displeased, "Let him think about it by himself, why should he ask me about such a thing?!"
"Yes," the old man was startled, bowed quickly and backed away, then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When only Yun Bailou was left alone on the covered bridge, he sat there blankly again, no one dared to disturb him, until a woman in a brown robe fell from the sky. She landed silently on the cloud first. On the left hand side of Bailou, after looking at the west, he turned back to the right hand side of Yunbailou. After standing silently for a long time, Yunbailou finally asked, "The team going south, can we pursue it?" Are you joining Lijun’s army?”
"Well," the brown-robed woman nodded, "Luochuan looks like a tycoon in troubled times. If the young master's team is left to him, there is a high probability that it will be lost in southern Xinjiang."
"Maybe," Yun Bailou said nonchalantly, "but this battle in Heyu City is of great importance, and it won't work without my eyes to see it with my own eyes." Xiu Shuzhu said
The woman in brown robe thought for a moment and then turned her head to look at Yun Bailou, "Young Master has always stayed here in Xingcheng and refused to leave. Is it because you are afraid that he will lose too quickly?"
Yun Bailou sighed softly and said, "What I'm more afraid of is that he will be defeated too hard."
"How is that possible?" The brown-robed woman was a little surprised and couldn't help but look back at Xingcheng, and then looked further south, "With the temperament of the prefect of Li County, no matter how quick and ruthless the defeat is, Masaki can always defend it."
Yun Bailou was still staring at the river calmly, as if he was thinking a lot, but also as if he was not thinking about anything, just in a daze, "If you win, you can always tell whether it is a big victory or a tragic victory, but there is never an end to defeat." "Yes, some people recover their strength in a moment when they are defeated, and some people lose their country once they are defeated." He seemed unwilling to say more on this matter, and asked, "How is the situation in the north?"
The woman in brown robe said quickly, "Everything is ready, we just need to give the Young Master's order to act."
"Don't be anxious," Yun Bailou said calmly, as if he was talking about something innocuous, "Everything in this world, no matter how well-planned, still depends on God's will.
, whether this can be done or not depends on whether the other party gives us a chance. Be patient. In many cases, achievements will wait. "
The woman in brown robe nodded, "I will tell them what I said," she just looked at Yun Bailou's side face. As she looked at it, she seemed to be infected by some complicated emotions and couldn't help but shed tears. , after a long while, she slowly knelt down, looked up at Yun Bailou's side face, and suddenly smiled and said, "Sir, there are some interesting things in the news coming back from the north."
"Oh?" Yun Bailou turned to look at her for the first time. Seeing the tears on her face, he took out a white silk scarf from his sleeve and gently placed it on her face, "What's this interesting?"
The brown-robed woman took the silk scarf from her face, but did not bother to wipe her tears. Instead, she put it into her arms and said, "The northern part of Cangshan County in Changzhou in the northeast was finally robbed. A big city was destroyed in the war, but the casualties among the people in the city were not too great." "More, because..." She met Yun Bailou's eyes and said slowly, "The legendary Xie Huangshi has taken action!!"
"Oh," Yun Bailou didn't even raise his beautiful eyebrows when he heard this, "Of the two Changzhou stones, it was this Xie Huangshi that took the lead..."
The brown-robed woman's eyes shone brightly as she said, "It is said that Xie Huangshi and the Beiyi Heavenly Demon only fought for three times, and they shattered half of the big city. Then both sides left, and the people in the city had no choice but to move south. .”
Yun Bailou's expression showed no change, and he said coldly, "Nowadays, there are not many people in the big city on the northern border."
The brown-robed woman nodded and asked, "Young Master may be able to guess, what other news is coming from the north?"
Yun Bailou looked back at the surging water in front of him, "Wuzhou."
"Young Master's guess is good, it's Wuzhou!" The brown-robed woman nodded with a smile, "Young Master, maybe you can guess Wuzhou?"
Yun Bailou shook his head and said nothing.
The brown-robed woman looked at the expression on his face and said quickly, "Speaking of Wuzhou Ling County, north of Wangchuan, in the land between the Nu River, a group of refugees has revolted!" Seeing that Yun Bai's face remained unchanged, she continued Said, "The leader of the rebel army, named Liu Xiazi, who calls himself Liu Tianshi, is actually a farmer. Taking advantage of the natural disasters and monsters in the northwest, he pulled up a team and ran around, saying, 'Heavens come to the world and all food is shared. "Don't accept it" seems to have gained momentum very quickly. It is said that the prefect of Lingjun sent troops to encircle and suppress him several times, but never killed him. "
"The heavenly beings who have descended into the world are all unable to take in their food," Yun Bailou snorted, "They are just a small common people."
As he spoke, he stood up and faced the river in front of him, as if muttering to himself, "Aunt Yue's child has also been here, so that's it for today."
Yun Bailou turned around and walked out of the covered bridge, followed closely by the brown-robed woman.
"Luochuan should not know these two pieces of news in a short period of time," Yun Bailou clasped his hands behind his back and walked very quickly, as if fleeing, "I'll send him a copy, just give it to... Autumn breeze."
The woman in brown robe nodded, "Yes."
