Chapter 515: Big Gamble
Anzhou, Jiunan County.
As the "front line" bordering Shuzhou, the 60,000 remnant soldiers who escaped from Niutou Mountain are now stationed in this small county town, waiting for the next instructions from the capital.
In order to prevent the Shu army from launching a surprise attack, Jiunan County has been sealed off for several days, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except for scouts conducting reconnaissance outside.
Under the setting sun, the several-meter-high city walls were dyed a deep red, and faintly one could see the gleaming tips of guns swaying behind various city defense weapons.
Today, Jiunan County is like a hedgehog with its hair standing on end, curled up alone in the vast southwestern plain of Daning, barely surviving.
Even though the defenders in the city had already learned of Yangzhou's surrender, and even though scouts had discovered that the Tengu army had gone to Yangzhou, they still did not dare to let their guard down.
Because the psychological trauma caused by the Battle of Niutou Mountain to this group of defeated soldiers was too great.
They were afraid that the Tengu Army's movements were just a cover, that Wei Changtian was up to something sinister again, and that the scene at Niutou Mountain would happen again.
Therefore, they have not slacked off for a single moment in the past ten days and have always been prepared to meet the enemy.
But the Shu army never showed up.
Instead, it was “Report!”
In the South City Gate Tower, a soldier in yellow armor hurriedly ran to an officer dressed as a lieutenant and reported loudly:
"There is a rider outside the city approaching the city gate!"
"One rider?"
The captain frowned, then stood up and walked out of the city wall, stood on the battlement and looked into the distance.
The dust was rising like a thread, and there was indeed a horse galloping towards this side. The tiny figure seemed particularly lonely in the empty sky and earth.
Due to the distance, the captain could not see the appearance of the person coming, but he could tell that it was not his scout.
Could it be that he is a foreigner who doesn’t know the current situation in Jiunan County? “Arrow!”
The captain shouted softly, and immediately a soldier handed over a bow and an arrow.
He immediately glanced sideways, drew his bow and arrow. The blood-red sunset shone an iron light on the arrow spine. When the bowstring was full, the tip of the arrow was aimed at the man on horseback from a distance.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, the fine steel feather arrow shot out with the force of splitting gold and stone.
Although the man on horseback was still a hundred feet away from the city wall, the captain was already at the sixth level, and the arrows he shot could definitely reach that distance.
If the rider was just an ordinary person, this arrow would be enough to take his life.
But "Beware!"
"Here comes with ill intentions!"
When the captain saw the man causing the arrow to shatter and fall with just a wave of his hand, he shouted loudly at the first moment.
It is obvious that this person is also a cultivator, and his cultivation level is not low.
“Crash!”
The sound of armor rubbing against each other suddenly rang out, and hundreds of spears were immediately pressed diagonally against the top of the wall, with more than a hundred archers behind them pulling their bowstrings to their full length.
There was only one person on the opposite side, but he caused such a big fuss on the city wall. It was enough to show how tense these soldiers were in the past few days.
However, the captain did not order an attack immediately. He just frowned as he looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer, muttering softly:
"woman?"
He saw clearly when the other party waved her sleeves to block the arrow, and they were indeed the wide sleeves that only women's long skirts had.
As the other party got closer, his guess was soon verified.
It was indeed a woman.
Longzhou, Longzhou City.
There were three men and one woman sitting in a guest room of an inn, and the four of them had different expressions.
Apart from that woman, the three men all had somewhat unusual temperaments.
Especially the old man with half white hair, he had an extraordinary aura, even a beggar could tell that he was not an ordinary person.
But the strange thing is that these four people seem to be led by a woman who has nothing special about her except her pretty looks.
"Master Qin, Master Shen, Brother"
Looking at the three people opposite him, Xu Suisui said calmly, "Next we have to go to the Folian Temple. I have something to discuss with their abbot Hui'an."
"Huian."
Qin Zhengqiu nodded, and said with some emotion: "I know him well. I met him once last year."
"You were accompanying Young Master Wei at that time, right?"
Xu Suisui smiled and said, "Miss You is also traveling with us."
“.”
If it had happened before, Qin Zhengqiu would have been shocked.
But now he is no longer surprised by Xu Suisui's "special abilities".
"Yes, we went there together."
After responding, Qin Zhengqiu stopped talking and did not ask Xu Suisui what he was going to do in Fulian Temple.
On the contrary, Shen Ran, who was standing by, noticed the information that the latter had just inadvertently revealed, and asked softly: "Teacher, you just said that we should go to the Folian Temple first, so where are we going after that?"
“.”
Glancing at the sunset outside the window, Xu Suisui smiled gently and replied immediately.
"Go to Dafeng, Huailing."
Shu Kingdom, Shuzhou City.
"Sir, two things."
When Chu Xianping called Wei Changtian out of the "chess and card room", the latter had just defeated Xu Qingwan with a clean hand.
"Changtian, ten taels of silver."
Comrade Xiao Xu mercilessly stretched out her hand to ask for the money she won in this round, and did not back down at all because the other party was her husband.
"Okay, okay, I'll admit defeat!"
Wei Changtian responded while groping in the secret compartment of the mahjong table, only to find that he had lost all his 100 taels of "gambling money".
"Hey, Qin'er, you put it on for me first."
"Oh, okay!"
"Sister Xu, here's the silver for you."
"Yeah."
“.”
Behind him, Liang Qin obediently took out ten taels from her remaining gambling money and gave it to Xu Qingwan, and the latter unceremoniously put the silver into her already full secret compartment.
After the transaction was over, the two girls knew that Chu Xianping had something to say to Wei Changtian, so they did not start a new card game. They just turned around and asked, "Changtian, are we waiting for you?"
"Brother Changtian, are you still playing?"
"Play! Wait for me!"
After glaring at Xu Qingwan, Wei Changtian followed Chu Xianping out of the room, his expression gradually changing from unwilling to calm.
"What's wrong?"
"Sir, the comrade just sent a message saying that Ning Yongnian had left for Huailing an hour ago."
"How long will it take him to arrive?"
"Normally, ten days."
"Okay, I understand."
Wei Changtian nodded: "What about the other thing?"
“Another one.”
Chu Xianping obviously hesitated for a moment, but finally lowered his voice and quickly answered: "Princess Wuping just appeared under the Jiunan County City of Anzhou, and then was tied up by the garrison and taken into the city."
“.”
"Um."
This time Wei Changtian's reaction was a little late, but his expression was still calm.
He just looked at Chu Xianping with the calmest eyes, and then said slowly in a tone without any fluctuations:
"Brother Chu, you need to pay more attention to Shuzhou in the coming period of time."
"Let Du Chang withdraw the Tengu Army from Yangzhou."
"Five days later, I will go to Huailing."
“.”
It was already night, but the mansion was brightly lit.
Chu Xianping's eyes suddenly widened, and he stood there in a daze, watching Wei Changtian turn around and walk back to the room. He couldn't even utter a word during the process.
Go to Huailing.
What was the young master going to do? Was he not willing to be passive in the future, so he took the initiative? Since Ning Yongnian wanted to use Li Wutong to threaten the young master, was the young master going to just solve all this in advance? Chu Xianping pondered for a long time, but he still couldn't guess Wei Changtian's idea.
In his opinion, if Wei Changtian was doing this for Li Wutong, then there was no need for him to ignore the latter in the past few days.
So it wasn't for Li Wutong? Chu Xianping guessed more and more confused, but he knew that something big would happen in Huailing, and this event would most likely directly determine the fate of Dafeng, Daning, and the Wei family.
“Hua La La~”
The sound of mahjong tiles colliding rang out from the house again, mixed with Wei Changtian's half-joking shouts.
"Humph! Wan'er, don't be so complacent!"
"Just look at how I won back everything I just lost!"
(End of this chapter)
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