The night is getting darker.

Under the snowy wind and snow, the boat tower was moored by the river, and gradually became quiet as the river water rose and fell.

In the boat building, Yue Nu was dressed up beautifully, standing on the corner of the stairs, waiting for Lu Hongluan's summons. Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, he found nothing, and was caught by Qiao'e who had secretly ran over to listen to the room. Then the two maids were embarrassed to go back to the room.

In the room downstairs, Zhongli Chuchu and Song Yufu were lying together, talking about private topics between newlywed women in a small voice. The relationship between the two was already good, and they got married to Xu Buling at this time, so there were naturally more topics. However, Chuchu had just gotten married and was still a little unwilling to let go. She always talked about Qingye, what she couldn't get up, etc.

Ning Qingye was exhausted and fell asleep on the boat. He woke up again in the middle of the night and lay on the bed of his old friend, listening to the thoughts of the whole tree.

In the cold winter, I wish Manzhi a better sleep. He wrapped himself and Qingye into caterpillars with a quilt. He hugged Qingye like an octopus, as if he was holding a large thermos, and he was slightly dissatisfied with nagging:

"Afu has been betrayed, and Xiao Zhong has also been betrayed. In a blink of an eye, we are still young people on the boat... Oh no, we are just strong and loyal. As the saying goes, people's hearts will be seen over time. I understand now. I didn't recognize you sister. I won't care about you when you bully me next to me..."

Ning Qingye was in a state of nowhere, and his arms were stomped by the branches of big white balls. His mind was no longer as innocent and pure as before. He felt very strange. He always remembered the scenes of messing around in the village.

Ning Qingye has a straightforward personality and never hides his thoughts or deliberately conceals it. Instead, he makes his expression look a little stiff and his eyes flash, so he dare not look at the Manzhi.

Zhu Manzhi looked silly and had a very active mind. After saying a few words, she noticed something was wrong with her good sister. She raised her head and looked at Qingye carefully:

"Xiao Ning, you won't be with Mr. Xu..."

"I don't."

Ning Qingye quickly shook his head, hesitated, and explained seriously:

"I'm still in a perfect state, don't think about it."

Zhu Manzhi frowned: "I'm not thinking about it, but why are you blushing? Look, it's white again. Xiao Ning, I treat you as a friend of life and death. If even you abandon me, I... I'm not the youngest?" ??

Ning Qingye slightly avoided his eyes. Chuchu came up with a bad idea to make her forced to participate, so she was embarrassed to tell Manzhi. She couldn't stand being asked so much that she explained:

"I really didn't leave you. People in the martial arts world will always be honest. They will definitely be together. They blushed because... because they accidentally saw Chuchu and Xu Buling that thing, well... Chuchu is wild..."

Zhu Manzhi's eyes lit up, and she lay in front of her, supporting her chin with her hands:

"Is that so? Takino? Can you beat your master and Sister Xiang'er?"

"That's not..."

Ning Qingye was already thin-skinned and didn't want to talk about these shameless things, so he simply changed the topic:

"Manzhi, don't worry, you won't be the youngest."

Zhu Manzhi was quite disappointed, lying on the side, looking at Ning Qingye's face:

"Why?"

Ning Qingye thought for a while and said seriously: "We met another woman in Nanyue, who is about the same age as us. Now we have no horoscope, so we will definitely enter the door in the end."

When Zhu Manzhi heard this, he became a little interested and subconsciously straightened his chest: "What kind of woman is older or younger than me?"

Ning Qingye recalled: "It must be bigger than you, his martial arts skills are taller than you, and he is taller than you, well... he can talk more than you. He stumbles all day long, and he will only shut up when his mouth is blocked and sleeps." ??

Zhu Manzhi frowned and got up again, turning Qingye's face to face herself:

"Xiao Ning, can you speak? Am I very short? Are you very low in martial arts skills?"

"Um."

"Um??"

"I'm serious, that woman is better than you, but she doesn't sound nicer than you, so you don't have to worry."

Zhu Manzhi saw that Qingye was not teasing her, and the sense of crisis suddenly came:

"Where is that woman now? I'll meet her."

Ning Qingye shook his head: "I was thrown in Nanyue, but Xu Buling left a letter. It seems that he will see you again in the future. You have to work harder, don't be overtaken by others."

Zhu Manzhi nodded thoughtfully, lay flat beside him, thought for a while, then looked down at the capital he was proud of, and asked in a low voice:

"That woman is really older than me?"

"Well, older than you, almost the same as me."

“…”

Cut ~

Zhu Manzhi rolled her eyes and had nothing to say... ——

It is not easy to march in the cold winter, and news from all over the country has also dropped sharply, and the boats are very leisurely.

Xu Buling rested for a night, and the next day he started to stay in front of Cui Xiaowan, telling stories and poems like before, and arousing Xiaowan's interest, making her feel relaxed.

However, Xu Buling is not a poet and saint. He has basically told Xiaowan all the poems and songs he knows. Xiaowan doesn’t like to listen to the more tragic stories, and she has no inventory in her stomach, so she can only rack her brains to make up some stories.

Fortunately, Cui Xiaowan is not picky. She likes to listen to any stories told by Xu Buling, even if she has heard them many times.

Cultivating your body and mind will inevitably be a long process. Just chatting for two days can't recover immediately. Lying in bed for a long time is not good for your health. Xu Buling thought that the weather would be better and took Xiaowan out to relax.

But I had just returned to the boat for three days and the heavy snow had not stopped yet, so a letter was delivered to Xu Buling first.

At noon, the girls on the boat hid in the room to keep warm. Xu Buling sat in Xiang'er's room and told the story of his adaptation of the "Legend of Abai".

Cui Xiaowan lay on the side of the bed, her two fair jade hands stretched out from the bed, helping Xu Buling to pluck the melon seeds, just like in the past, asking from time to time:

"Isn't it Fahai to suppress demons? Why did you become a woman?"

"Well...Fahai was reincarnated and turned into a princess..."

"Didn't you meet Xu Xian on the Broken Bridge? Why did it become under the eaves?"

“There is no broken bridge over there.”

"Fahai meets Xu Xian when he is reincarnated. Should Xu Xian marry Abai or Fahai?"

"Well... marry together?"

...

Just chatting in a mess, the door suddenly got knocked, and then Song Yufu's voice came:

"My husband!"

Xu Buling stopped talking, looked back and asked Xiaowan to cover the quilt, get up and go to the outer room, and open the door.

Outside the door, Song Yufu looked a little happy, and she was holding an envelope in her hand, which was obviously just delivered. She handed the envelope to Xu Buling and said softly:

"Mr., I wrote a letter to my grandfather a few days ago and asked him if there was any solution. I thought my grandfather ignored me, but I didn't expect that Erhei had just sent the letter. My grandfather had great magical powers and must have a solution. I hadn't had time to read it."

Xu Buling took the envelope, which was a little surprised. Yuelu Mountain was actually only a hundred miles away, and it took only one day to travel back and forth. But the old master was unpredictable and he had never visited him.

Although he didn't like the old Master's style of conduct, Xu Buling still knew about the old Master's vast powers. He closed the door and went to Xiao Qi's study with Yufu, opened it and read it carefully.

Perhaps the situation is gradually becoming clearer now, and the old master is no longer as singular as before. He gives a few words to make people guess. The letter clearly states two things:

First, the old master did not know how to treat the disease, but he knew that there was a thousand-year-old agarwood in the imperial city of Daqi in the previous dynasty. The founding emperor of Daqi was in poor health in his later years. The national teacher Zuo Zhe first found the Emperor of Daqi to take care of the Emperor of Daqi. It came from the Qu family of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period. The agarwood wood was carved into paperweight and was left in the Chang'an imperial city for three hundred years. When he broke Chang'an before Jiazi, he was taken away by the palace servant and sent to Northern Qi. It is unknown whether it was useful to Cui Xiaowan's illness.

The second thing is more serious, which is the old Master’s speculation about the situation as today.

Nanyue adopted the land of Guiyue and presented the territory of thousands of miles to the Xu family, which led to an imbalance in the situation and the Xu family, who used the emperor to make the princes, dominate the Xu family.

Dongyue only had the Liaoxi Army as the main force, blocking the Xiliang Army in the west and defending the Northern Qi Dynasty in the north, and was unable to resist. Northern Qi conquered for one year. Although there was a large area north of the Yellow River to supplement food and supplies, it was impossible to lose the people's hearts in the name of restoring the country. It could only be recruited but not forced to take charge. It had accumulated sixty years of family wealth, and it was difficult to support Northern Qi to continue crossing the Yellow River to the south.

Under such circumstances, the old master speculated that Northern Qi and Dong Yue would inevitably turn wars into jade and join forces to attack Xi Yue, who was controlled by the Xu family first.

With the powerful troops of Northern Qi and the wealthy Jiangnan, the Xu family's attempt to destroy the two countries was extremely expensive. The old master could not reach Zuo Qingqiu's hands and could not help, so that Xu Buling himself could break the situation.

Xu Buling looked at the envelope carefully and his brows gradually frowned.

Song Yufu stood beside her, looking up on tiptoe, but unfortunately she couldn't see clearly, and asked softly:

"My grandpa, what are my grandpa saying? Is there any way?"

“There is, there is, I’m not sure.”

Xu Buling handed the letter to Xiao Qi who was waiting beside him and asked:

"Can the four kings in the eastern region and the northern Qi have a relationship with each other recently?"

Xiao Qi took the envelope and looked carefully from beginning to end, and her face became a little serious:

"The surrender of Nanyue was more than ten days ago. The news might have reached the hands of the Four Kings of the Eastern Region and the Northern Qi. If the speculation of Yufu's grandfather was true, it should be in the planning stage and had not yet formally contacted. The alliance between the two sides had to find ways to stop it, but at this level of negotiation, the hidden stakes buried could not be touched at all."

Xu Buling nodded thoughtfully, thought for a long time, and looked at Feixue outside the window:

"It's only the spring that you can cross the river to fight the four kings in the eastern region, and there are still two or three months left..."

Xiao Qi blinked: "How are you going to deal with it?"

"Prepare to take Xiaowan out for a break."

Xu Buling came to the desk, picked up his pen and ink, and started writing letters on rice paper.

The letter was obviously not a reply to the old master. Xiao Qi turned her head and looked carefully for a few times, and was slightly stunned, then narrowed her eyes and showed a bit of cunning...
Chapter completed!