The wheels of the carriage were turning sharply on the Ming Road, carrying Xiao Shizhu and the others all the way.
The driver who drove the car was not idle, waved his whip and urged the beast soul who pulled the car to run faster.
On most roads in the underworld, because the vehicle does not monitor, there is no speed limit, so the driver did not control the speed even when he rushed the car; he kept the beast soul running as much as possible.
The cars came and went on the road, and pretended to be a coachman and were very calm for the imperial guards who were driving Xiao Shizhu. He was very skilled in driving. He could easily avoid passing vehicles even if he was fast.
After giving the order, Xiao Shizhu in the car leaned against the Jinhui Sanjiao behind him, slowly closed his eyes and calmed down.
At the same time, in my heart, I continued to think about various things.
Most of the things I have to worry about recently have happened in Dongyingzhou, and I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or something else.
But Xiao Shizhu knew that the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom problem had reached a point where it had to be solved.
The great ambition of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom made Xiao Shizhu always think of the Ba Snake in the mountains and fields in the southern Xuanyanzhou.
This huge beast soul always likes to appear alone in the tropical rainforest to eat alone. However, its total weight and size are always slightly smaller than that of an elephant.
Xiao Shizhu has always had a question recently. Bashe had to swallow elephants in order to survive, but in the final analysis, he tried hard to eat in one bite.
But what about Qingqiu Fox Kingdom?
Their series of small actions were just about being full and looking for trouble when they had nothing to do, so they thought they could defeat the death of Jiuyou Kingdom.
Xiao Shizhu felt that the Qingqiu Fox King was very courageous, but he still didn't understand why an old fox could be so unaware of himself?
"King, Lord Changqin replied, he did not open the letter, nor would he open it again." At this time, the fungus man in charge of sending the message to Changqin spoke to Xiao Shizhu, which interrupted Xiao Shizhu.
My own contemplation.
Xiao Shizhu recovered from it, nodded silently, and said that he knew about it, and ordered: "Tell Changqin, the first thing he did when he arrived in Yuque City was to visit Hu Lan and pass the letter to the other party."
As long as the letter is not opened, there is still room for this matter.
After the gangren nodded, he concentrated his energy and passed Xiao Shizhu's order to Changqin, who was thousands of miles away.
"Lord." At this time, Qinglan looked up at Xiao Shizhu, handed Xiao Shizhu's hand pot to him, and said, "Since Qingqiu Fox Kingdom has stole the ghost cannons and shells from the Northern Yin Dynasty, this kind of
The action seems absurd and crazy, but is this also a manifestation of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom's secretly becoming an enemy of Fengdu?"
This can be seen directly; it is not surprising that Qinglan can think of this.
"Yes." Xiao Shizhu, who frowned, stretched his eyebrows after taking a sip of tea, and said slowly: "I really can't see clearly every move of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom this time.
It is said that if you have nothing to do, you shouldn’t make enemies, and tigers don’t fight against wolves. What’s more, they have already formed an alliance with Fengdu in the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom. It’s really stupid to stab Beiyin Chao in the back at this time. But maybe this is ambition and selfish desires.”
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Xiao Shizhu put down his hand pot and turned his head to look at the car window.
Qinglan immediately rolled up the curtains for him so that he could see the scenery outside the window.
Over the years, Jiuyou Kingdom has developed policies such as land reclamation, promoting water conservancy, and advocating agricultural and sericulture rewards. In addition, the military weapon supervision branch has created many tools that are conducive to farming, which has made the sides of the underworld roads all over the country almost all have fertile fields.
It is spread all over and rarely sees barren fields again.
On the vast and undulating fields, you can see a lot of vitality and lush crops; this year is another year of harvest.
But these scenery flashed away due to the speed of the car, and always flew past Xiao Shizhu.
Looking at Xiao Shizhu outside the window, after a while, I couldn't help but remember that when he was still huddling on Shuoyue Island, he did not dare to make such crazy actions as the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom. At that time, even if Xiao Shizhu led his troops to attack the four sides, he
The enemy had to defeat them one by one. For the past ten years, Jiuyou Kingdom has maintained a war strategy of getting along far and near, first weak and then strong.
Even with such caution, Xiao Shizhu almost died several times.
I dare not be as arrogant and arrogant as the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom today, so I will play with a snake and swallow an elephant.
To put it bluntly, Xiao Shizhu always felt that every move of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom was so crazy that it was a bit crazy.
In this case, the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom will perish faster; or become another strong opponent of the Jiuyou Kingdom.
"I mean, if they have such courage, will there be a third party support in secret?" At this time, Qing Lan once again pointed out the problem, and analyzed Xiao Shizhu thoughtfully:
"After all, even crazy actions require great courage and strength; and these courage and strength are unlikely to come from Qingqiu Fox Kingdom itself, but the intervention of external forces will easily bring them this kind of courage.
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Qinglan's words were said after careful consideration, and they were definitely not unreasonable for a moment, nor were they unreasonable.
He followed Xiao Shizhu to fight in the south and north for many years, and taught countless words and teachings. He could see through some problems thoroughly. He hit the nail on the head and pointed out the key points of the problem.
Indeed, as Qinglan said, there are probably third forces that are not Jiuyou Kingdom and Beiyin Dynasty, secretly inciting and supporting Qingqiu Fox Kingdom.
It may be other ghost countries, or civil forces lurking everywhere like the Mo family led by Modi in the past.
They secretly gave Qingqiu Fox Kingdom great support and assistance, just like the Jiuyou Kingdom and the Beiyin Dynasty in the past; but Qingqiu Fox Kingdom chose this force, and it was with Jiuyou Kingdom and the Beiyin Dynasty.
He turned his face away.
"What you said is not without reason, but what force is unknown? It is still unknown whether it exists or not." Xiao Shizhu muttered and fell into deep thought.
"I'm telling Lin Cong to pay special attention to who the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom secretly formed an alliance with? Is there any specific object secretly supporting the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom." Soon, Xiao Shizhu, who was awakened by Qing Lan's words, was quickly awakened by Xiao Shizhu
He said firmly to the fungus man named Shenchi: "By the way, there is King Yama, and King Yama also enjoys the right to read this kind of information."
After all, King Yama is on the front line and is also facing the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom.
Xiao Shizhu has always been employed without doubt. Not only did he not find anything suspicious about the ghost of King Yan, he also did a lot of things for him, and he was loyal. Xiao Shizhu did not have much suspicion about him.
and suspicion.
In addition, King Yama wanted to face the army of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, so Xiao Shizhu thought of giving him the information of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, which would help King Yama to adjust and deploy in a timely manner and better deal with the war on Yingzhou.
"You have to hurry up this matter." After a pause, Xiao Shizhu added: "But it must be highly confidential and temporarily set it in the category of Class A confidentiality."
"Yes." The gangren responded, concentrated his mind and energy again, and began to send a message to Lin Cong...
To the southwest of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, among the steep mountains of Congdiling Ridges, there is a forest located between interlaced rivers on the plain, standing not far from the border.
This forest, far away from towns and military passes, is rarely visited by people and is always full of tranquility.
There are wood, stones and wildly growing flowers and plants everywhere, green cypresses and towering trees. The rain falls and cypresses and moist cypresses, and the wind comes and pine trees roll green. And once it rains, a light blue smoke will rise in the forest, in the forest
Walking and wandering. A veil-like mist passes through the trees and trees. Everything in the forest only has a looming outline left in the fog.
There are many ponds of different sizes and shapes in this forest, which are arranged in an orderly manner among the plants and trees.
The edges of these ponds are filled with calcified lime. Looking around, the appearance is snow-white. It is like white clouds falling on the ground and falling between the forest.
But the water in the pond is unique, and it is full of bright red all year round. Against the background of white, the red is particularly bright and conspicuous. The water in each pond is like blood, dyeing the water in the pond red.
Because the mountains are high and forests are lush, Qingqiu Fox Kingdom has not intended to develop for thousands of years. In the past, the trees in the forest are high and dense and dark, and few ghosts will come here.
Therefore, these wonders of pools that are dotted in this forest are also little known.
So much so far, not many people know that these pools and the blood-red water in the pool have existed here for how many years? When did this natural landscape be formed?
However, the ghosts who know that they exist are all called these small pools of blood in the forest.
If these pools are bigger and deeper, they will be exactly the same as the blood pool in Liutianzhou.
At this time, deep in the forest, beside a small pool of blood, a human soul was squatting on the edge of the pool, holding up the water in the pool, washing his black face covered with gray at the bottom of the pot.
Although the color of this pool of water is as red as blood, it is still clear and clean, and each pool of water is completely clear.
Occasionally, a few drops of water splashed and flew into the mouth of the human soul who was washing his face, and there was still a trace of sweetness.
It can be seen that the water in these pools is not only a bit strange in color, but also non-toxic and harmless, no different from ordinary clean water.
But the ash on the face of the soul slowly polluted the red pool water of the pool.
It was not until a long time later that the ash particles of the pot ash sink to the bottom, and the pool water returned to its clear appearance.
Beside this human soul, there are seven or eight other human souls, both tall, short, fat and thin, but they all wore straw hats and straw raincoats because of the rain.
All were fully armed, with a long sword with a sharp waist strap, a foldable crossbow on its back, and a hard arm guard at its wrist under the cuffs of both hands. It was not like an ordinary ghost, but like an executing one.
Squad for confidential missions.
The rain curtain is actually not easy to penetrate the tree canopy with dense branches and leaves on their heads. There are only occasional dripping water falling from the forest, and the scattered water splashes and throws away on the soil. However, these souls have never taken off the hats on their heads.
and a hat draped over your body.
The edge of the hat is dripping from time to time; after the water droplets fall to the ground, muddy splashes splashing.
The soul of the human being who washed his face quickly washed away the black ash on his face, revealing his originally wrinkled face.
He slowly stood up and slowly straightened his waist, looking in front of him with a vigilant gaze.
The other souls also looked in that direction with vigilant eyes. They stretched out their hands almost at the same time, pressed the hilt of the long knife on their waist, and then clasped the hilt with their five fingers, ready to draw the knife at any time.
Where they looked, the breeze blew across the grass and trees, and the light blue mist floating in the forest also swayed with the wind, changing endlessly.
After the wind in the forest, only the sound of raindrops hitting trees and sucking into the soil and rocks. All the souls of the plants and trees slightly pulled their lunges and held their breath.
They looked at the depths of the forest with vigilant eyes, and black shadows flashed in the floating mist.
I can't see what it is, nor can I sense any murderous aura.
But these souls still did not dare to relax their vigilance easily.
Soon, they watched the black shadow in the mist and walked slowly out of the mist. They finally saw the true face of the black shadow. After secretly breathing a sigh of relief, they completely relaxed their vigilance.
The hands of the souls of the few of them slowly loosened the hilt of the long sword around their waists.
The one who came was a gray-haired fox. Except for the three tails swaying in the breeze, there was no difference between other places and ordinary foxes.
The fox came to the human souls, immediately lifted his front feet and stood up. Soon, the fox transformed into a human form.
Only the three tails behind the strand cannot be disintegrated, they still hang behind the strand, sagging and dragging on the ground.
The fox turned into a small dwarf about five feet tall, with white hair and beards, and was also wearing a gray coat. The wrinkles on his face and slightly hunched back, and his thin and haggard appearance made him old.
So obvious.
"Master General." The other souls relaxed, and at the same time bowed and bowed to the old fox ghost.
The old fox ghost gave his head slightly twice, and after returning the greeting, he glanced at the human soul in front of him, and finally fell on the human soul who had just washed his face, and asked weakly: "Tu Gongjing, Prince."
All the things explained have been done, right?"
The human soul named Tu Gongjing seemed to be the leader of the human soul here. After hearing this, he nodded a few times and said to the old fox ghost in front of him: "Everything is done; seven hundred and eighty-eight rotten ones are done.
The corpses of demon souls, beast souls, and plague ghosts were cut into pieces and thrown into the rivers. Now, those bloody and rotten corpses should have flowed through the Jiuyou Kingdom’s garrison sites in the eastern part of Dongyingzhou.
, Every river is gone."
The sound of wind and rain was very noisy, and Tu Gongjing did not make a loud noise. He still whispered to the old fox ghost in front of him, just to ensure that the old fox ghost could hear it clearly.
So much so that the human souls who are a little further away from Tu Gongjing can basically not hear clearly. What are he talking about?
"Where is the official position that the prince promised us?" Tu Gongjing paused, and when the old fox ghost nodded and recognized what they did and showed a satisfied expression on his face, he seemed to remind him: "
You know, the prince once promised us that once we did this, we would be able to restore our posts to the Tushan clan’s soul officials; in the Tushan clan, talented ghosts can return to the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom
The court served and continued to serve the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom. The Tushan family could also erase the charge of rebellion. Please ask the chief general to inform the prince, hoping that he would not go back on his word and fulfill it in time."
The strong wind blew again in the rain and fog, and the grass and trees were tilted around. The mist in the forest split and merged in the wind, changing endlessly.
"Go back on your word." The old fox ghost slowly stroked his long silver beard, narrowed his eyes and said, "The prince has turned his word on your word. What can you do with Tu Gongjing and Tu Shan?"
The old fox ghost narrowed his eyes, and was suddenly filled with coldness and gloom.
After the murderous intent appeared, he also emitted a strong murderous aura all over his body.
The human souls who were suddenly stunned, their expectations immediately turned into vigilance. As they immediately looked around, they held the hilt of the long knife on their waists again, pulled the lunge, ready to draw the sword and fight at any time.
As the old man finished speaking, they looked around and saw a lot of black shadows suddenly appearing in the mist.
The ghost energy rose and the shadows were scattered. These ghosts who suddenly appeared quietly in the foggy forest, catching Tu Gongjing and the others off guard; but these ghosts did not walk out of the forest and the mist.
Facing these Tushan souls, the only one who had murderous aura was revealed from beginning to end.
The temperature around the surroundings dropped sharply, and the murderous aura was filled with coldness.
The dark shadows who did not show up had already put the muskets in their hands on the iron sand, and the dark and cold muzzle had already aimed at the souls of the Tushan clan in the fog.
"From the time when you did this, the prince did not intend to save your life, and he still wanted to restore his official position? It was simply a delusion." The old fox ghost paused and said this proudly: "
You don’t think about it, can the air leak when you do things?"
Tu Gongjing gritted his teeth hatefully, stepped forward and drew a knife at the old fox ghost and slashed.
The old fox ghost seemed old and very flexible. When he saw Tu Gongjing lifting his legs, he smiled and pointed his feet with his tip, and took advantage of the force and flew backwards.
A cold light flashed, and a few long silver-white beards scattered in the wind, rotating and falling to the ground; the sharp sword light struck the old fox ghost's chest.
But it only cut through the gray coat on the old fox ghost's body, but failed to hurt the old fox ghost's flesh.
At the same time, gunfire sounded loudly in the forest, and flames spewed down iron sand and flew across the sky, making a sharp sound from breaking through the air, heading towards the souls of the Tushan clans headed by Tu Gongjing.
The wind is filled with the breath of death, and the rain is filled with the sadness of cunning rabbits and dead dogs cooking.
Under the heaven and earth, the wind and rain wept. Soon the red blood mist in the forest was flying, dyeing the light blue mist flying everywhere in the forest on rainy days.
Pain and desolate groans and screams came one after another.
The souls of these humans who were silenced fell on the muddy ground on rainy days, all of whom had their eyes wide open, looking as if they were dying with their eyes open.
The hats on their heads also fell to the ground, making the regrets on their faces and eyes visible. (To be continued)