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After several days of marching in silence, the army finally arrived at Fengcheng.There are almost no long-term residents in Fengcheng, but there are many merchants from the north and the south, inns and official posts.

Because the imperial court has declined, the major official posts are almost deserted, and only the inns in the city are open to provide food, drink and rest for businessmen traveling from north to south.

Because the defenders in Fengcheng had no salary, they had almost scattered around. If it wasn't because Fengcheng was the only way to enter the capital, the city would have been abandoned long ago.

After Xia Heyu led the army to move into Fengcheng, he sealed off Fengcheng and sent people to build an outward-sloping wall around Fengcheng to prevent the invasion of ladders.Once Fengcheng is blocked, the materials entering Beijing will be blocked. Xia Heyu wants to use this method to threaten Shi Jinyu into submission.

It's just that Shi Jinyu is busy taking care of another person's affairs at this time.

Song An, who guards the northwest, is currently in Beijing. In the main hall of the imperial palace, holding on to the glass cup full of fine wine, squinting at the fluttering sleeves of the maiko in front of him, smelling the smell of meat and powder in the air. fragrant.

"Young Master Song, how are my maikos dancing?" Shi Jinyu kept staring at Song An, and only then asked.

"It's really beautiful." Song An opened his mouth and praised, his cheeks were slightly red, and he was already a little drunk.

Shi Jinyu asked the maid to pour some wine for Song An, and then said: "Then Mr. Song might as well stay in this palace for a while, I still have a lot of beauties in my collection that I haven't shown you."

"Okay, okay, okay." Song An stared at the maid who poured wine for him, grinned, and said a few "good" words in succession.

Shi Jinyu turned his head and smiled disdainfully.A few days ago, Shi Jinyu sent two beauties to the northwest, and sent them to Song An's room.These two beauties got Song An drunk on a certain day, and when Song An woke up, he found that he was already in the capital, surrounded by beauties, rouge and pink buttons, gorgeous singing and dancing.Song An also staged a drama in the capital that he was reluctant to miss Shu.

Shi Jinyu raised his hand at the subordinates, and said to Song An: "Then Mr. Song, why not write a letter to your family, saying that you will stay with me for a while, so as not to worry your family."

After all, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were placed in front of Song An one by one.Song An looked at these things impatiently, frowned, picked up a pen and wrote a few words casually, and asked people to take these things away.

I didn't write anything in that letter, I just told my family about the itinerary.The letter was not mailed, but Shi Jinyu's people imitated the handwriting and replaced it with a surrender letter, which was sent to the Northwest at high speed.

The army in the northwest has since surrendered, but Song An slipped and fell into a well a few days later and died.However, whether it was a mistake or deliberate, no one can know.

Later, Shi Jinyu sent someone to fish out Song An's body from the well, rolled up a straw curtain, and threw it into the wasteland outside the capital.

When everything was done, Shi Jinyu lay down on the soft couch and heaved a sigh of relief. He had finally brought down another one, and when Qi Xingzhe and Xia Heyu were brought down again, he would be able to stand on his own as emperor with peace of mind and welcome all nations to congratulate him.

Thinking of this, Shi Jinyu smiled, took a sip from the wine glass at the side, but found that the taste of the wine was not quite right, as if it had been mixed with water, he immediately dropped the glass and summoned the servants to question him.

"Back... back to the king." The servant knelt on the ground and stammered: "The capital...the capital has been short of supplies recently. It is said that it is said that it is because of that Xia Heyu, who has blocked, blocked Fengcheng."

"Fengcheng?" Shi Jinyu frowned. He didn't know much about this city, let alone the importance of Fengcheng. His subordinates didn't have any scribe advisers, so he thought it was just an excuse for his subordinates. He was so angry that he lost his temper and asked his subordinates to get him wine no matter what means they used.

With this order, the people in the capital will suffer. The wine, meat, rice and noodles in the capital are difficult to be self-sufficient, but now they will be plundered into the palace. With all the industries dying and the people struggling to survive, the people everywhere are discussing with their stomachs stretched. The tyrannical future monarch in the palace.

But Xia Heyu has sealed Fengcheng for a long time, the walls have already been repaired, and the luggage and defenses have been arranged, but he has never seen the capital send troops to attack. To tease the bad-tempered little wolf, the two guys fought frequently, and they always asked Jiang Linyuan to coordinate.

Xia Heyu jumped up and down all day and was rarely quiet, but Zhang Ling kept his head down and kept silent these days, no one knew what he was thinking.

The sun was a bit poisonous, the air was dry and hot, and the sound of cicadas was deafening.Zhang Ling sat down against an old banyan tree, holding a jug of wine in his hand, enjoying the coolness in the dense shade of the tree.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that Zhang Ling was feeling bored these days, Xiao Sha came to him specially.

When Zhang Ling turned his head, he saw Xiaosha's head poking out from behind the tree. He raised the corner of his mouth and smiled reluctantly, then turned his head and looked into the distance, took a sip of wine casually and said, "I didn't think about anything."

"Don't lie to me." Xiaosha said, came out from behind the tree, sat down next to Zhang Ling, leaned over and said, "You've been boring yourself these few days, you can just tell me what you're thinking." Tell me how uncomfortable it is to be alone."

"What did you take?" Zhang Ling ignored Xiaosha's words, but he spotted the gourd in his hand and asked.

Xiaosha raised the gourd in his hand, shook it, and said, "You mean this? Brother Jiang gave it to me just now. He said it was delicious. He asked me to bring it to you."

"Huh? Mr. Jiang?"

Xiaosha nodded, "I don't know what it is, why don't you try it." Then he handed over the gourd in his hand.

Zhang Ling took the gourd and held it in his hand, hesitating, but thinking that Jiang Linyuan gave it to him, Zhang Ling felt relieved, unplugged the wooden stopper from the gourd, and gulped it down involuntarily.As a result, before Xiaosha could react, Zhang Ling spit out everything in his mouth and coughed continuously.

It turned out that what Jiang Linyuan put in this gourd was extremely hot chili water. He saw that Zhang Ling had been depressed these days, and even many soldiers in the barracks had become depressed, so he wanted to use this method to wake him up.

Xiao Sha was frightened by Zhang Ling's sudden suddenness. After Zhang Ling coughed for a long time, he thought of patting his back. While patting his back, he asked, "You, are you okay..."

Zhang Ling coughed for a long time until his eyes were red. Then he straightened up, took a deep breath, shook his head, stuffed the wooden stopper of the gourd, and said to Xiaosha with a smile: " This is really a good thing, when you go back, thank Mr. Jiang for me."

Xiaosha became even more curious, and reached out to snatch the gourd from Zhang Ling's hand, and said, "What the hell is it, let me taste it too."

Zhang Ling raised the gourd in his hand above his head to prevent Xiao Sha from touching it, "Obviously it's for me, if you want to drink it, you can let Mr. Jiang go, don't come and grab it from me."

"Why are you so stingy?" Seeing that he couldn't win the gourd, Xiaosha put his hands on his hips and scolded Zhang Ling, "I just tasted it, and I don't want to drink it all up."

"Not at all." Zhang Ling raised his left eyebrow, hid the gourd on the top of his head behind his back, and said with a pursed mouth: "But thank you for bringing it to me."

Xiao Sha curled her lips, sat upright and sighed, and muttered softly, "It's a human speech."

Zhang Ling smiled and raised his hand to rub Xiaosha's head. Xiaosha hid his head and slapped Zhang Ling's hand away. Losing his anger, he quietly turned around.

Zhang Ling stuffed the jug in the other hand into Xiaosha's arms, got up and patted the dirt on his body and said, "I'll give you the rest of the wine, I'll go first."

Xiao Sha pointed at Zhang Ling's back with the jug in his hand and said, "Where are you going?"

"Go back to the barracks." Zhang Ling said without looking back.

Xiaosha let out a breath slowly, feeling that this person had returned to normal, and turned around with the jug in his hand, then turned back to talk to Jiang Linyuan.

The heat of midsummer is spreading from the sky and the earth, people are better off, but this little wolf has suffered, wrapped in fluff, it is really uncomfortable.

The little wolf found a shady corner and lay lazily on his stomach, with his pink tongue protruding from his mouth and drooping on the ground.

Xia Heyu stood beside the little wolf, with his toes raised, whenever the little wolf stretched out its tongue to pant, he would step on its tongue.

Normally, the little wolf would bar its teeth and bite Xia Heyu, but today the little wolf really didn't bother to move, and didn't even bother to open his eyelids.

"Be careful that it will recover after a while, and then take it out on you." Jiang Linyuan leaned against the door, wearing a thin shirt, and said quietly.

"It's rare for it to be so honest." Xia Heyu said, "I have to take this opportunity to bully it more."

Jiang Linyuan smiled and shook his head, feeling that Xia Heyu sometimes looked like a child.

"That's right." Xia Heyu withdrew his toes and said suddenly: "What did you drink for Zhang Ling? I see that he has gotten better recently."

"Good stuff, don't spread it outside." Jiang Linyuan smiled mysteriously.

"What good stuff?" Xia Heyu walked to Jiang Linyuan's side, faced him, leaned against the door and asked curiously.

"If you want to know, you have to agree to one of my requests." Jiang Linyuan raised his chin slightly and said.

"any request?"

"Let me go to the capital and meet that Shi Jinyu. I'd like to see what tricks he's playing if he hasn't called for so long." Jiang Linyuan said.

Xia Heyu's throat twitched, and he turned his face away and got up and said, "I won't ask any more. Even if Zhang Ling drank horse urine, it has nothing to do with me."

"Don't." Jiang Linyuan grabbed Xia Heyu, "It's not a problem if we just wait in Fengcheng, what if that person plays some tricks?"

Xia Heyu turned his head, his face was displeased, "Then what happens to you when the time comes?"

Jiang Linyuan blinked, and asked with a smile, "Reluctance?"