I'm a professional

As the team approached the capital day by day, Bai Mu was in a hurry to get angry, and at night he slept with chest tightness and shortness of breath.

I always feel that something is pressing on him, and I can't wake up, so the spirit in the morning is naturally not good...

The system that has passively triggered the harmony shield several times in the middle of the night is hesitant to ask for a reminder——

But... according to past experience, there is a high probability that the host is not sleeping well, walking the bird in the middle of the night...

And after being pointed out by it, there is a probability of more than 95% that the host will be attacked by voice for a whole day from embarrassment, causing the system to freeze and be forced to overhaul.

The system is stuck in a difficult decision.

Bai Mu's mind was on the task that was about to end, and he didn't pay attention to the silence of his family's system...

md, he is so sincere, how can he surrender? !

As time passed, Bai Mu's anxiety gradually calmed down as the shadow of the tower in the distance gradually became clear.

The system detected the host's emotional changes, and was quite puzzled: Has the host given up on the mission?

it's not true.

Bai Mu just realized something suddenly.

——Whether the task is successful or not is today.

Unlike on the road a few days ago, today he was alone in a carriage.

As if he had sensed something, the curtain of the car was lifted, and Yan Xiao's sharp-edged face appeared in his field of vision.

Yan Xiao: "Do you want to ride a horse?"

There was a strange look in his eyes, and Bai Mu couldn't see for a moment whether he wanted him to agree or not.

But it doesn't matter, the protagonist Gong's "moody and unpredictable" is stamped in the plot introduction.

In this regard, Bai Mu has also learned deeply in the past few days, and has long since given up speculating on his thoughts.

Bai Mu lowered his eyes and responded in a low voice.

The coldness on Yan Xiao's body increased for a moment, but was quickly subdued. He helped Bai Mu get off the carriage and led the horse over for him.

……

This action attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers, and even Lin Xunyi frowned unobtrusively: ...too much.

Bai Mu took it calmly, and he raised his eyes to look at the tower in the distance.

He thought, does he know what Yan Xiao wants to do?

Yan Xiao seemed to have seen Bai Mu's determination, he smiled, but his heart was cold.

— how willing he is to do so! !

For the little friendship when we were young? !For his friendship with Zhong Ang! ?

Or maybe trust...

Yan Xiao pulled the corners of her upturned lips with difficulty.

The memory of the young man has long been blurred. He didn't expect it to be so far back then, and he didn't know what his uncles and cousins ​​thought about the absurd actions of the throne... They wouldn't tell him these things...

But since the founding of the dynasty, the Zhong family has been guarding Yunnan for several generations...dedicated to their duties and never slacking off...

...Perhaps Zhong Ang really deserves his trust.

It's a pity that it's him in front of him now.

——Naturally rebellious.

……

Yan Xiao and Bai Mu rode side by side. Originally, Bai Mu planned to take a step behind, but Yan Xiao saw his intention and reined in to slow down to keep pace with him.

Bai Mu looked at him in surprise. The two of them walked side by side, which could be explained by the fact that the status of the supervisor was different: it turned out that Yan Xiao hadn't planned to completely tear himself apart from that little bastard...

Yan Xiao tilted his head to look at him as if feeling something, but Bai Mu had already withdrawn his gaze.

He poked the system, "How is it? How about the task?"

System: "The progress has been pushed forward by 50%, but it has not been completed yet."

Bai Mu was really surprised this time. He murmured in disbelief, with a somewhat complicated tone, "I didn't expect that little bastard... to trust me so much?"

It was only today that he figured out that he had been caught in a misunderstanding before——

He thought that the key point of the task of "relying on Yan Xiao" was on Yan Xiao - he wanted to gain Yan Xiao's trust.

But who would really trust a betrayer? !If you can turn your back on the first time, you can turn your back on the second time...

But in fact, whether Yan Xiao believed him or not was not critical.

The key is Li Tanyi...

Li Tanyi thinks he has betrayed.

This should have been a simple task, Bai Mu thought.

That little bastard was almost something he grew up watching, and he knew all about his suspicions, which became even worse after he became the emperor.

——He is always suspicious of everyone around him, sometimes Bai Mu feels tired looking at him.

According to Bai Mu's thinking, when he was in northern Xinjiang, he didn't send a letter back for several months, which was enough for the little bastard to consider it a betrayal.

but now……

Bai Mu raised his eyes to look at the tower again, and there was a faint figure standing there.

Li Tanyi saw the situation just now with his own eyes - but the progress of the mission is not yet full...

This trust is really heavy... It makes people feel blocked... Especially when it appears on Li Tanyi.

Bai Muchong sighed at the system, "This little bastard is really itchy, but at this time...it's so pitiful..."

He was sighing like this when he suddenly noticed something.

A sense of crisis of being locked in the key suddenly surged...

Bai Mu: "Fuck?! No way?!"

"Fuck, he's serious!! md! md! md! md!!"

On the city floor.

Watching the emperor lead the arrow and draw the bow, the attendants beside him knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and wept, "Think twice! Your Majesty, please think twice!"

But he didn't dare to make too much noise.

Li Tanyi ignored these people. He squinted his eyes and looked ahead. The tip of the arrow was shining coldly in the sun, and it was facing the man's neck.

His hand was very steady, without any trembling.

That person...he is too familiar...

Throughout the time of his entire life, whether it was the gloom of being bullied and humiliated back then, or the glory of being on the throne now... As long as he raises his eyes, that person will always be within his sight.

He has never changed...after...

Li Tanyi's eyes were wrinkled and cold——

... will not change! !

The bowstring is fully drawn, and the two fingers are suddenly loosened.

At the moment when the arrow came out of his hand, it seemed that a voice passed through the time and space and rang in his ears, "Don't cry..."

The hand holding the bow suddenly trembled, and the trajectory of the arrow that should have been smooth shifted downward...

Li Tanyi didn't seem to notice it, he raised his hand in a daze, and wiped it on the side of his cheek...it was dry.

—Yes, he would not cry a long time ago.

There was chaos under the city tower, but Li Tanyi threw the longbow in his hand, turned around, and said calmly, "Go back to the palace."

The attendants had already knocked out a bloodstain on their foreheads, but they didn't dare to raise their heads when they heard this, so they could only endure the confusion about the chaos downstairs, and followed Li Tanyi tremblingly.

The arrow didn't hit Bai Mu, but it startled his horse.

With the momentum of thunder, the feather arrow sank deeply into the ground in front of the horse's hoof. The horse was startled, its front hooves raised high, and Bai Mu's upper body was parallel to the ground for a moment.

Bai Mu had experience with this, so he let go of the rein and jumped off, so as not to be led wildly by the horse.

However, when he adjusted his posture in mid-air, another person stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms.

Bai Mu, who was crushed to the tailbone by the saddle: "..."

Bai Mu: ...No need.

He endured the throbbing expression and thanked him, and poked the system quickly in the sea of ​​consciousness, "How is it? How is it? How is the task?!"

The system is well aware of the host's urination, and first played the system announcement of the points credited to the host, and then said: "Congratulations to the host for completing the task."

Immediately, Bai Mu felt that his bones didn't hurt anymore, and his legs didn't feel sore anymore—all the hard work during this period was worth it!

He held back his laughter and endured the pain, and for a moment he had a strange expression on his face, but luckily Yan Xiao was looking up at the tower at the moment, so he had no time to pay attention to his expression.

When the army returned to the city, His Majesty came out of the palace to meet him.

In the eyes of the common people, this is naturally the great general's outstanding achievements and his Majesty's trust; in the eyes of officials who know a little bit about the inside story, this has become the little emperor's gesture of favor to Yan Xiao.

But from Bai Mu's point of view, it was simply that the little bastard was too late to return to the palace, and maybe he wanted to demonstrate by the way.

——I didn't see an attendant behind him hurriedly hiding his bow and arrows behind him. He looked like he wanted to disappear in place immediately.

Actually, it doesn't matter if you have the bow or not... Some things are never about proof.Ranking the people in the capital who wanted Yan Xiao to die, Li Tanyi definitely topped the list.

——Yes, even though the arrow was aimed at Bai Mu, no one thought so...

I'm afraid even Yan Xiao himself felt that it was aimed at him.

Fortunately, he can still laugh at the little emperor now.

That set of official clichés has been spoken in the street for a long time, and Bai Mu has not returned to the capital for a long time, so he is a little uncomfortable with it.But on the other hand, Yan Xiao handled it with ease.

Bai Mu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: As expected of the protagonist Gong!

Returning with a big victory this time, naturally, he should be rewarded.

Those who are able to be brought into the palace by Yan Xiao will be promoted to rank at least three ranks up.

On the other hand, Yan Xiao only had some treasures like gold, silver and cloth, which was really shabby.

However, this person is really unsealable——

In terms of title, the Marquis of Wu'an was originally a super-grade Marquis, hereditary, and even the word "Wu'an" has a special meaning; in terms of official position, the position of "Great General" dominates the world's soldiers and horses. The Yan family's army will not obey other people's orders...

As for the fiefdom, this is probably the last insistence of the Li family's royal family.

…Once this place is sealed off, I don’t know whether my surname is Li or Yan.

Such a large-scale award is rare even since the dynasty opened.

Bai Mu watched from the sidelines, and many officials couldn't help but show more envious expressions.

He lowered his eyes and remained silent, but in the sea of ​​consciousness, he couldn't help commenting to the system one by one, "To conquer Shanping, more than [-] people were beheaded in that single battle... In the Battle of Wuyang, he served as a vanguard and led the army to break through... But Only got the fifth rank... This General Jiang Shi is afraid that he will vomit to death..."

"This man... Wu Lin... I have never heard of it... What is his contribution? A third-rank official... This is a pie in the world, right?! I'm not afraid of choking to death..."

"..."

"Yan Ling is not bad, he has earned himself a title, but I don't know if he sees it or not..."

"..."

Bai Mu complained about the messy rewards one by one.

It seems to be out of order, but the intention to deliberately provoke the internal relationship of the Yan family army is obvious.

But this military achievement... Li Tanyi is far away in the capital, and he knows such details...

Sure enough, there is a spy for this little bastard in the Yan family army!

Looking at those who were rewarded, all of them were as immobile as a mountain: those who received awards for nothing did not secretly rejoice, and those who received credit for their merits but were not rewarded did not feel depressed...

Coupled with the similar style of armor on the body, I am afraid that it is impossible to tell who is who.

The protagonist is attacking and fighting, and Bai Mu is watching lively.

But he never expected that the house would burn down to his own.

This wave of rewards ended, and all the ministers withdrew one after another.

Bai Mu was about to leave with Daliu, but was stopped by a servant.

The officials in the capital are not surprised by this, everyone knows that Pei Jiasanlang is His Majesty's confidant, and it is common to be left behind for secret talks after the court meeting, let alone this time when he came back as the supervisor.

——Being the supervisor of the Yan family army, slipped around the border, and came back with a full body...

This Mr. Pei really lived up to his reputation.

Facing the awed or curious gazes around him, Bai Mu's face turned blue: he hasn't forgotten the arrow at the gate of the city yet.

The little bastard called him over now, is he trying to kill him right away? !