Chapter 1238: Drawing Firewood from Under the Cauldron (Monthly votes requested at the start of the month, two-in-one)

The sheepskin curtain was lifted, and snowflakes rushed into the room, turning into two dark spots.

In October, in the Southern Zhili, one only needed to wear two thin shirts, and occasionally at noon, one would even feel a bit hot. In the same season, in the Heyuan Prefecture near the Northern Court, it had already reached the freezing point. In the morning, the water vats froze, and heavy snow fell intermittently from the sky, deep enough to cover a person's ankles.

*Creak, creak. *

Yang Xu took a thick stack of envelopes and put down the curtain to go home.

He threw off his fur coat, sat at the table, and just opened the envelope, the corners of his mouth rising involuntarily with a smile.

Thanks to his little junior brother, Prince Huai of the Great Shun, the Emperor specially permitted the construction of three waterways from Wucheng to Heyuan City, making correspondence between the soldiers much more convenient.

In the past, it was good to know about family affairs that happened months or half a year ago. Some old hometown wives remarried without counting, and one had to wait until there were children to know. Now, the fast ones take three or four days, and the cost of sending letters is much lower. Even ordinary soldiers send one every month, only occasionally having packaging issues where letters get soaked.

In addition, the deduction of supplies has been significantly reduced, and the food treatment has been significantly improved.

Because military pay is sent to the border after being counted by the Ministry of Revenue in the Imperial Capital and even the Southern Zhili, a small team can handle it. How many "inspections," "escorts," and "counting" links were reduced in the middle?

All in all, there are many similar benefits, including soldiers finding it more convenient to go home to visit relatives, saving time on the road, and everyone being able to go home more frequently.

Changing with each passing day, occasionally even being able to eat specialties from Jiangnan.

The only regret is that the three waterways cannot be increased, and twelve hours of operation is still not enough.

Heyuan Prefecture is too close to the Northern Court. Waterways are convenient, but if they are opened at will and used freely, it will allow northern spies to drill through the gaps and pass messages.

Therefore, they are all for military use, controlled by soldiers at the entrance and exit, not easily used, and letters must be transported uniformly.

Yang Xu practices "Eye Consciousness Method" and "Ear Consciousness Method," making it very easy to distinguish spies. He used to go to the city gate to catch spies, and now he has an additional task of overseeing the safety of waterway entry and exit.

Last year, the request to go back to the Long Gong for the New Year was rejected by his superior, and his salary was temporarily increased to continue guarding.

After a while, Yang Xu simply moved his home near the waterway, checking in every day, and he could respond if someone called at home.

Letters fell one by one.

Everything at home is fine, the junior brothers have achieved success in cultivation, the third junior brother has forged two top-notch spiritual weapons, and the fifth junior sister has talked to a man. Only when mentioning Pingyang Prefecture, Yang Xu could almost see through the letter paper several junior brothers dancing and describing various prosperity.

Inside and outside the letters, it seems like two different worlds happening in parallel.

Thirteen ports, thirteen treasure tree buildings, Phoenix Fairy treasure fish, fire trees and silver flowers, peach blossom corridors, mirage insect dreams, water and sky in one color—

Just hearing the description is beautiful.

In the letters, Xu Zishuai has always used "like a world away" to describe it.

However.

Perhaps the junior brothers only recently realized this huge difference of "like a world away." Yang Xu felt that it was two worlds walking long ago. The iconic node is about his grandfather's ninetieth birthday, when Yang Dongxiong was promoted to a Perfected Form Jiang Zongshi.

Since then, he has been riding alone.

Little junior brother entered the Hunting Tiger realm at eighteen, was enfeoffed by the Imperial Court, and Lanzhou was merged into Pingyang. Later, he talked to a Perfected Form-level Dragon Lady as his wife. The Xu family said she was beautiful, and he had seen her when he went to Huangzhou. He hadn't thought about what wedding gift to send his junior brother, and then the little junior brother became a Perfected Form!

A twenty-two-year-old Perfected Form suddenly pierced the sky.

Things didn't end there.

Sky Dragons are hindered by the stones in the river and cannot move easily, so Perfected Form is the strongest under Sky Dragon.

Well.

Young and promising, suddenly gained great ability.

Little junior brother became a "naughty monkey" that no one could control, causing trouble wherever he went.

First, in the Jianghuai Great Marsh, he killed two great demons, a small test of his skills. Perhaps it was because he felt it was not good after fighting here, and there was still danger, so he went to the Hanging Temple, received the "drowning love" of the Diamond King, opened the Six Desire Heavens, and squeezed out the Ninth Buddha. This is even more incredible. With the hand of the Great Sun Tathagata held high, the remaining ritual constraints are useless, and there are no shortcomings at all.

Went to Hantai, the former family head and elders of the White family in Hantai died, and there was no Great Snow Mountain master. He moved a mineral vein and walked across the river. Yang Xu was assigned several bottles of Flying Moon Spring. Little junior brother said it would be useful to give to people in two years, so that He Ningyuan could be promoted.

Came to Heyuan, three of the Eight Beasts of the Northern Court died, half of the Shuofang Terrace was captured, and a big wave of benefits was snatched.

Later, he descended to the Southern Frontier, which was even more incredible. Xu Zishuai said he killed more than a dozen Perfected Forms in battle, separated the two banks, and fought against three hundred Perfected Forms with one person's Qi sea, crying for his father and mother.

Three hundred.

Yang Xu couldn't figure out what kind of scene that was, but Heyuan Prefecture was indeed affected by the south. Because of the Southern Frontier's involvement, the Northern Court took the opportunity to fight several battles.

Finally, he is still a Sky Dragon in the Southern Frontier.

Only one or two of these things were witnessed by him, and the rest were read on letter paper and heard from horse merchants. Small changes every three months, big changes every half year. Is there anything more "like a world away" than this? Many times Yang Xu felt that he had received a fake letter.

If he was like this when he was a Perfected Form, who could control him when he became a Sky Dragon?

Even the dog on the side of the road would be kicked twice!

Isn't that so.

The Dry Bone was kicked to death, and he is about to come to the Northern Court.

I don't know what the Khan of the Northern Court will think.

"Should be here soon.

Yang Xu folded the letter paper, stuffed it into the leather box, went out again, and according to the Great General's instructions, the little junior brother arrived at the Imperial Capital three days ago, and after a short stay, he had already gone north.

"General~"

The shouting drifted from afar, and Yang Xu's eyes narrowed.

The guards broke into the wind and snow, gradually becoming clear in the blur, waving at the door: "General!"

"A-Wu? Something happened outside?"

"Nothing happened, it's—it's someone who wants to see the General."

"Who?"

"E Qirui, the Bone Sha who defected from the Southern Frontier, was enfeoffed as a Hou Jue, arrived earlier than the General's junior brother, with small eyes and a big nose. I heard you are Prince Huai's senior brother. Good guy, he was so enthusiastic, beaming with joy, insisting on seeing the General and inviting the General to drink—"

"See me? And invite me to drink? Rare thing—"

"General." A-Wu looked left and right, leaned to his ear, and lowered his voice, "I heard that this Cang Wu Hou Jue was beaten into submission by Prince Huai, your little junior brother.

This kind of thing is like finding a wife. A man must be fierce to control her! If he is like a soft-footed shrimp and only fierce to you, like A-Wen, that's why he defected to our Great Shun. According to this logic, it's reasonable to see the General. You are the senior brother.

"

"Go!" Yang Xu kicked him, "Talking nonsense all day, stop visiting places that aren't proper. If you have that spare money, can't you save more and send it home to be filial to your parents? Don't talk nonsense."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"The Qi Blood Great Wall is solid for ten thousand miles. Ten thousand miles, hundreds of thousands of miles are divided into many sections, with many rituals arranged. Without special methods, it is impossible to destroy. It has been built since the Great Li, but the size of the territory at that time cannot be compared with today."

"What a majestic pass!"

E Qirui exhaled a mist of heat, looking at the majestic city, accompanied by generals on the left and right.

This is the rolling hills and mounds of the Southern Frontier, with a small stockade every three steps and a large stockade every five steps, a majestic landscape that can never be seen.

The Great Wall stretches across the earth like a long dragon lying down. No wonder many people can brand the Great Wall as a "phase" in their True Gang.

"Cang Hou Jue!" Yang Xu ran over all the way, hurriedly apologizing, "I'm really sorry, I was resting at home earlier, the distance was a bit far, I failed to welcome you, please come in quickly, I have already arranged a wine banquet."

"General Yang Xu?"

"It's me." Yang Xu wanted to speak again.

"The one who should apologize is me! How can it be the General? It was I who disturbed General Yang's rest," E Qirui interrupted directly. "In addition, since I want to see the General, of course, I should invite. I have already inquired about the restaurant in the city. I heard that fish soup shabu-shabu mutton is a specialty of Heyuan. Don't be polite, move your steps quickly."

Yang Xu was stunned.

This Cang Wu Hou Jue—

Quite polite?

He looked at the Great General on the left and right, saw He Ningyuan nod, didn't be too polite, and stepped aside.

"Good, Cang Wu Hou Jue is spending money."

Steam swirled.

"I'm new here, and I'm not familiar with the place. To be ashamed, before in the Southern Frontier, except for high mountains and snow, I really didn't know what ice and snow were. Please take care of me, General Yang!"

E Qirui stood up, raised his glass, and personally toasted Yang Xu.

"No, no, no." Yang Xu stood up in a panic, held up his glass, and was terrified, "Guests are guests, you are a senior, and a dignified Hou Jue. This trip to Heyuan Prefecture to support our border soldiers, I really should thank you on behalf of the border people."

A Heaven-Man Jiang Zongshi who is one with heaven and earth, reaching the Heaven-Piercing and Earth-Severing realm, almost standing at the peak of Perfected Form, only one step away from knocking on the Heavenly Pass. I don't know if there is heart fire. If there is heart fire, he can completely contain the Sick Tiger together with the Great General.

Even if Yang Xu is Liang Qu's senior brother, the other party's strength and status are too terrifying.

Liang Qu is Prince Huai, he is not.

"No, what am I, a Hou Jue? Prince Huai is the real hero!" E Qirui shook his head. "Compared to Prince Huai, that's the tip of the cow hair on nine cows, not worth mentioning. You are Prince Huai's senior brother, that is also a real hero!

Even if you exchange it for a Hou Jue title, it's worth it!"

"This—"

Yang Xu was ashamed, flattered, and sat on pins and needles.

What's going on?

Even if the news of his little junior brother becoming a Sky Dragon spread, people around him didn't flatter him so much, and they shouted for him to bleed heavily and invite guests to dinner.

Don't know how to answer.

To say no is to belittle his own junior brother, which is not allowed.

To say yes is to belittle the Cang Hou Jue, which is also not allowed.

"Wow!"

"What is that? A palace? Could it be piled with white jade? Who is so extravagant?"

"Why is it evening all of a sudden? What time is it now?"

The exclamations of the diners relieved Yang Xu, and he hurriedly lifted the curtain to look into the distance.

On the horizon, the fire was burning, the red clouds were flowing, and the white jade palace broke through the sky, three rooms and six openings, towering and majestic.

On the ground, the people of Heyuan opened their mouths wide, looking up at the vast palace moving north, dragging a piece of flowing clouds.

Red Qilin! Bai Yu Palace!

Yang Xu recognized the two iconic products at a glance.

"Junior brother!"

"Prince Huai!"

The Qi Blood Great Wall stretches across the horizon, and the flowing clouds are ethereal.

The distant mountains are rolling.

The curse of the Southern Frontier Saintess is useless.

Liang Qu hugged Long Eying's waist tightly, his broad chest pressed against her smooth back, holding her earlobe, kissing and kissing for a long time, before pulling away, lifting the white bear fur, and steaming faint white smoke and heat from inside.

Long Eying's face was flushed, her fingers hooked her green hair, wiped the dense sweat on her forehead, and got up to tidy her clothes.

After a few years, Long Yao and Long Li were used to it, and they came in to clean up with a calm face, soaking the white bear fur in warm water.

"Phew~"

The eldest dragon girl pillow leaned on her knees for a while, soft and warm.

Buried his head and took a deep breath, exhaled, stretched his muscles and bones, Liang Qu turned over and sat up, stood by the window with his upper body naked, immediately noticed Yang Xu and E Qirui on the ground, sighed at the coincidence, immediately put on his clothes, and let Chishan find a place to land.

"Better to come early than to come by coincidence, there is food again, Madam, the fish soup shabu-shabu mutton in Heyuan Prefecture is a must."

Prince Huai descended to Heyuan Prefecture.

Outside the Qi Blood Great Wall.

Wearing a bamboo hat and a black robe, the little fat man stood by the river, looking into the distance, watching the vastness of the Flowing Gold Sea, jumped up, dragged his head with one fin, hugged his chest with one fin, turned two and a half times in the air, broke the water surface, without any water splashes.

Bubbles wandered, big mouth opened.

"Pitter-patter, bang, bang! I'm here!"

The old toad jumped hard, flipped ten times in the air, brought up a vortex, landed lightly on the back of A-Fei's head, and pulled the long whiskers.

Accompanied by a burst of intense self-accompaniment.

Two frogs combined.

Pulled the long whiskers, stepped on the head.

"Thirty miles east, advance at full speed!"

A-Fei followed the river, flicked his fish tail, and went all the way east.

Treasure hunting combination.

Report!

Once, twice, not three times.

The lingering rhyme of killing the dragon, the sun was high at noon, the sea was surging, and the negotiation was alone. The various situations in the Southern Frontier were rare and hard to find. Killing a Wu Sheng was still difficult.

But letting A-Fei cooperate with the old toad to fish for benefits and cause destruction was very simple.

By October, the weather was getting colder. The Northern Court was located on fire stones, hot inside and cold outside, the Jiangnan on the fortress, and it was bound to transport grain and supplies from the rear to the front line.

Liang Qu set a small goal.

Eat up the logistics of Shuofang Terrace!

The sky was blue.

He Ningyuan and other Great Generals waited on the city tower, welcoming from afar, lined up like wild geese going south.

The palace was magnificent, and the world was majestic.

A piece of red clouds fell to the earth, the vast sea of clouds was misty, the moment the Red Qilin landed, the white jade royal carriage behind it melted, falling into a boundless sea of clouds, sticking to the calves, rolling and flowing.

Dragon People and disciples landed lightly.

The little mirage dragon wrapped around Long Eying's forearm, hugged with both claws, and looked up at forty-five degrees to pretend to be a master.

Prince Huai and the Princess descended from the void.

People had not arrived, but the voice arrived first.

"Great General He, since our last farewell, I have missed you very much!"

He Ningyuan saluted and smiled: "Prince Huai's arrival, the end general is ashamed to have failed to welcome you. A few years are short, Heyuan is still the same, but Prince Huai, the changes are amazing."

"Hahahaha, things are the same, people are different, things are the same, people are different."

"Speaking of things being the same and people being different, in the years you were away, Heyuan didn't change, but the Shuofang Terrace opposite has an old friend. I wonder if Prince Huai remembers?"

"Oh, I don't have many acquaintances in the Northern Court."

"Then I'll say a feature for Prince Huai to guess."

"Please."

"He is a zhang tall."

Liang Qu's thoughts turned, surprised: "Haruhan?"

Thousands of miles apart.

On the city wall of Shuofang, the eagle-eyed lookout saw a spectacular scene, pulled the copper bell, and reported urgently.

Inside the big tent, the oil was fragrant, and the smell of fat made the air greasy.

Sunar, Baibuhua, and Cilun'e learned the news, their faces were serious, Haruhan was as hungry as ever, grabbed a lamb leg, like an ordinary person eating a chicken leg, sucked it clean in one bite, chewed the remaining bones in two bites.

*Crack, crack. *

Ten years passed.

Several people in the delegation were originally the proud sons carefully selected by the Northern Court. At the age of thirty or forty, they successively promoted to Perfected Form and came to the border Shuofang Terrace to practice.

The most gifted Haruhan reached the second level of Perfected Form. Compared with ten years ago, he was more burly and stronger. In time, he would definitely be able to replace one of the Eight Beasts!

However, the dazzling talent in the eyes of others, compared with Liang Qu, is just a grain of light.

"That guy, how on earth did he cultivate?"

The black leopard of the Golden Royal Court in the past, Sunar, was sweating coldly. Clearly ten years ago, everyone had a chance to compete on the same stage, and the outcome was unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, when they went to the battlefield again, the other party would have a life danger if they looked at them more!

The identity of "acquaintance" became a life-threatening charm.

Cilun'e analyzed: "Prince Huai's strength is not to be feared. Our Northern Court is not without Martial Saints. As a Sky Dragon, Liang Qu is still downstream, nothing more than taking advantage of the Dry Bone's unpreparedness. Our Northern Court can stop him outside the pass. The key is his elusive method. If the Southern Frontier hadn't lost its long-Qi, it wouldn't be like this. We must ensure that supplies are not stolen."

"It doesn't matter, the Master will take action." Baibuhua said coldly.

The big tent was towering, and the pillars that three people could hug supported a height of ten zhang.

The yellow candlelight set the background for the tent. In the copper furnace, the yellow grease was half-solid and half-melted, and the unique smell permeated.

The crawling mastiff turned its head away, and several generals bowed and worshipped.

"Prince Huai has arrived, please ask the Master to divine!"

"Don't worry, everyone, our Great Snow Mountain divination method is unique in the ages, and we will definitely be able to stop him outside!"

The monk wore a golden cockscomb hat, draped in silk red clothes, a thick string of prayer beads around his neck, and his earlobes almost hung down three feet, full of nobility.

Karma Chilie!

Heaven-Man Master, the most beloved disciple of the Venerable of the Lotus Sect, with high righteousness in Dharma, especially good at rituals and divination!

He swung his prayer beads, smashed the head of the crawling slave, dug out the brain marrow, and put it into the Dharma bowl.

In the middle of the formation, he chanted mantras.

Heaven and earth resonated, and the divine power was unpredictable.

Half-red and half-white brain marrow flowed out and penetrated into the formation lines.

After a while.

Karma Chilie frowned.

"Master?"

Great General Batu Mengke's concerned voice had not yet fallen.

"Puff!"

Half-circular blood splashed on the tent.

Karma Chilie fell to the ground, dropped the Dharma bowl, pushed over the altar, and half a human brain rolled on the red carpet.

"Master! Master! What's wrong with you?"

"Quick, quick, go to the Golden Terrace and invite my master!"

Above the E River, the cold wind blew. The old toad carried a bulging yellow leather bag, squatted on the fish head, waved his arms, and pointed to the grain of the treasure ship.

"Add bricks and tiles to the Long Gong! A-Fei! Swallow it in big gulps!"

The fat fish opened its big mouth.

Stormy inhalation! ===== CHAPTER 1239 =====