I am a ruler in troubled times

At the end of August, when the autumn tiger is fierce.

A caravan of more than ten people, driving five carriages, drove silently on the grassy land.

Whenever there is a slightly stronger wind blowing, causing some movement around, these people immediately stop like outlaws being hunted down, draw out the long knife at hand, and form a defensive formation extremely skillfully.

After confirming that there is no danger, they will put the long knife back to its original place as if nothing happened, and continue on their way in silence.

"I see the light ahead! Do you see it?" The person in the first carriage suddenly jumped to the ground, pointed at the dazzling light ahead, and waved his arms excitedly, "Is that the Liuli Road? Li really didn't lie to us!"

When the others heard this, they all showed surprise expressions on their faces, and stretched their necks to look in the direction Xiao Ding pointed.

Sure enough, they saw color patches above the green grass, blue, green, yellow... mixed together, messy but indescribably beautiful.

This discovery made the crowd who had been on their way with sullen faces unconsciously raise the corners of their mouths.

The tall man at the back whistled and said loudly, "Brothers! According to the information from Liu Li, we can find the Liuli Road by following the colored spots in the sun, and keep walking along the Liuli Road. You can see the strange goods city. There are not only medicated soaps, but also unlimited soaps and glass!"

After all, the tall man whipped the whip to the buttocks of the steed below him, and rushed towards the direction of the light spot.

Xiao Ding, who was so excited that he jumped off the carriage, spat hard on his hands, sat back on the frame neatly, and said loudly, "Grandma! I thought Liu Li's tormented grandson was trying to You tricked us into feeding the bandits, but it turned out to be true! Brothers, follow Master Xiang, we're out!"

Silent all the way, also frightened all the way, people who heard the words showed the same ease and longing as Xiao Ding, shouted strange words, and whipped the horse's ass fiercely, wishing to rush to what Liu Li said immediately. Odd goods city.

Lord Xiang was the first to see the real Liuli Road.

He suspected that he was dreaming.

This is a wide road that Grandpa Xiang has never seen before, enough for two carriages of sixteen horses to pass through.

Whether it is the smooth and level road surface or the spaciousness, it is far better than Weidu.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Master Xiang would never have believed that someone who spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build roads in the three-way zone could still build it so well.

Not to mention Weidu, even Chendu, which he visited the year before last, although it is famous for its prosperity in the nine kingdoms, there is no such way to go.

Lord Xiang stood on the horse and looked along the glazed road for a long time before getting off his horse and walking to the side of the glazed road.

The reason why they can see the colorful light spots from afar is because there are colored glazes of different sizes and irregular shapes inlaid on both sides of the glazed road?

Master Xiang looked back, his horse was a real hard-earned horse bought from Liangzhou at a great price, and the others would not be able to catch up for a while.

After confirming this point, Master Xiang squatted down regardless of his appearance, and took a dagger to pry the colored glaze embedded in the road.

If it is not known in advance that it is colored glaze, the gemstone will not be illuminated by light spots in the sun.

He will never doubt that this is a gem!

Even if he knew in advance that it was colored glaze, Lord Xiang still felt that these colored glazes were extraordinarily bright and clear, and the size of colored glaze was also very pleasant, which looked more beautiful than most gemstones.

Just embedded in the soil like this, for people to trample, it is simply a waste of money!

Unfortunately, until he heard the sound of the carriage approaching, Master Xiang still failed to pry off any gemstones. Instead, there was an obvious small hole on the equally valuable dagger that he carried with him, which made Master Xiang feel distressed.

Xiang Ye's brothers have not yet strengthened their determination, and they can say that they won't even go to Qihuo City, dig out the 'gems' on Liuli Road and run away.

Master Xiang sneered and waved his hand, too lazy to talk to these people who didn't give up.

Anyway, since Liuli Road really exists, it means that Liu Li didn't lie to him. The Qizhen bandits who were active in the vicinity were all a cover-up to protect Qizhen from being discovered.

No, Qizhen should now be called the City of Rare Goods.

Now that there is no threat of bandits, they don't have to travel all the time, these fools can dig here for as long as they want.

Master Xiang didn't know.

After they set foot on the range of Liuli Road, the people in Qihuo City watched their every move.

Odd goods city, on the city wall.

Song Peiyu put down the simple version of the telescope in his hand, suddenly felt that the whole world became brighter, and couldn't help sighing.

Liulifang is still unable to produce transparent glass, such as the small piece of glass mounted on a telescope, and it is inevitable that it will appear gray.

At present, it can only be used during the day when the sun is bright, if it is at night... Tsk, it is no different for Chong Yi.

Alas, why is there such a big gap between people.

Liu Li was also on the city wall. He put down the binoculars in his hand and strode over, "There are two more teams coming. The first team followed Liuli Road and entered the range I can see, because I don't know where they came from." They came from the same direction, so we can't be sure who it is. The second team, judging from where they set foot on Liuli Road, should be the caravan of Wei Guo Xiangye."

Song Peiyu has been going through the account books left by Chen Tongpan these days. After listening to Liu Li's words, he can immediately remember the origin of this Lord Wei Guoxiang.

The offshoot of the Weiguo family, unwilling to become a commoner, worked as the second shopkeeper in Xiang's shop for two years, so he recruited some people to run the business.

Among traveling merchants, Master Xiang's caravan in Weiguo is not large, but has a very good reputation. Even people like Chen Tongpan like to do business with Lord Xiang, even when the production of medicinal soap is not much. , I specially left some goods for Lord Xiang.

Lu Jihe changed the fan and sneered, "I don't care at all who is going to step on the glazed road, I only care who will be the first guest of Qihuo City."

Song Peiyu was speechless and sighed again.

Qihuo City and the Liuli Road from Qihuo City to Yu County were completely completed half a month ago.

Even the tenants of Xianyang Zhuangzi rushed to Qihuo City one after another, and moved into brand new houses according to Song Peiyu's plan.

Everything was ready, but Song Peiyu found that Zhao Jun's bandit disguise was too successful.

Needless to say, the east side of Qihuo City, Zeng Town is in full swing, and the number of refugees is almost five times that of last year.

If Emperor Yonghe hadn't decided to build a city wall similar to the city of rare goods outside Yu County, Yu County would have started to think about how to keep refugees out.

Murong Jing received an urgent order from Emperor Yonghe to rush back to Yu County to sit in town, for fear that Yu County would cause trouble due to the large number of refugees.

For the construction of the city wall in Yu County, Murong Jing, who is already experienced, must preside over the overall situation.

Murong Jing also thought about taking Chong Yi and Song Peiyu to Yu County.

It's a pity that Song Peiyu cares more about the strange goods city that has not yet officially opened, and Chong Yi doesn't pay attention to Murong Jing at all.

Naturally, Lu Jihe and Bo Yang wanted to follow Chong Yi.

Finally, Murong Jing returned to Yu County alone.

Fortunately, now that the Liuli Road has been completed, it will take at least three hours to arrive at Qihuo City from Yuxian County. Murongjing's adjutant is still in Qihuo City, so Murongjing has nothing to worry about.

Because of the flames of war in Zeng Town, it is almost impossible for the strange goods city to welcome caravans from the east.

The caravans in other directions were frightened by Zhao Jun's disguised bandits, and even the towns further west with Qihuo City did not see caravans for several months.

Song Peiyu was guarding the newly built Odd Goods City, and the stock that was rushed out of the Odd Goods City, but got stuck with the buyers.

No caravan dared to approach the strange goods city at all, and even until the strange goods city was built, no one knew that Qi Zhen had been replaced by the strange goods city.

Because the reputation of the bandits in Qizhen is too great, they are also cut off from going to other unregulated areas, or the border counties and towns of other countries to promote the strange goods city.

It's a joke, no one will believe it at all, and those who go to publicize will be arrested as bandits.

Song Peiyu couldn't let Zhao Jun go farther to tie up a caravan to the strange goods city.

After thinking hard, Song Peiyu set his sights on the customers of Yaozao.

It has been almost a year since these medicated soap customers started the transaction with Chen Tong.

Song Peiyu felt that these merchants could more or less detect the approximate source of the medicinal soap, and even if they couldn't accurately guess that it was Qi Zhen, they had already set their sights on the three-way area.

That being the case, let's invite these merchants to be the first batch of guests of the Odd Goods City.

Song Peiyu asked Liu Li to send a message to these merchants, and officially notified them that the medicinal soap business with them was over.

If these merchants still want to do the medicated soap business, they have to come to Qihuo City in person.

Qihuo City not only has medicated soap, but also scented soap and glass.

Song Peiyu didn't care how many of these businessmen would take risks for the benefit of Yaozao, and risked being driven out by the bandits of Qizhen to come to the city of strange goods.

If no one is willing to come, he will try again.

As long as there is one person who is willing to come, even if this person tries to hide it from Odd Cargo City, it is impossible for him to hide it.

He bought something from the odd goods city, and it was impossible to transport it thousands of miles away and then lock it in his own warehouse, not to sell it.

Song Peiyu is confident that as long as the goods from the Odd Goods City appear in various countries, the Odd Goods City will have a steady stream of business sooner or later.

It's just that Song Peiyu never expected that there are already five batches of merchants who have set foot on Liuli Road, but he still doesn't know when the strange goods city will welcome the first buyer.

Starting from the first batch of caravans that set foot on the glazed road yesterday afternoon, all the caravans that set foot on the glazed road will camp in the same place, lying on the ground and trying their best to deal with the colored glaze embedded in the cement.

Song Peiyu has gone from being frightened and funny at the beginning, to now there is no disturbance in her heart.

It has even been decided to give a [-]% discount to the first guest who steps into the gate of the Odd Goods City.

Chong Yi, who was always holding the binoculars beside Song Peiyu, suddenly said, "There is a caravan running."

Song Peiyu, who was yawning and sleepy from the sun, immediately regained her energy when she heard the words, and quickly turned around to lift up the binoculars.

It's the fifth batch of guests.

Master Xiang and his party passed four groups of people in turn.

Although each group of people stood by the carriage or rode on horses, watching Master Xiang and the others rush to the city of rare goods, but Master Xiang was sure that these people were lying on the ground digging glass before they heard the sound of their horses' hoofs.

He didn't even have time to pat the dust off his chest and shoulders.

After seeing the tall and majestic city wall of Qihuo City from a distance, Master Xiang's hand increased silently, and the entire caravan slowed down tacitly.

"This is Qizhen?" Xiaoping stood on the frame, rubbing his eyes with tears, and couldn't believe that the city he saw was actually Qizhen.

Although he has never been to Qizhen in person before, those traveling businessmen like them who have been running around for many years are the most well-informed. He has heard of it a long time ago. one.

Xiaoping turned his head to look at the still shining Liuli on the side of the road, and murmured, "Actually, I must be dreaming. We are still on the way to Qihuo City, and we didn't see Liuli Road at all... Ugh, it hurts!"

Master Liu let go of the hand pinching Xiaoping's cheek, without any guilt on his face, "It's not a dream."

Xiaoping dared not speak out, and lowered his head angrily.

Suddenly, louder and louder hoofbeats came from behind, and Master Liu, who was hesitating, turned his eyes deeper, slapped the horse's buttocks hard, and said sharply, "Let's go!"

The caravan that had slowed down sped up again, not only maintaining the original distance from the caravan behind, but even increasing the distance.

Hearing the sound of horseshoes getting smaller in the distance, Master Liu raised the corners of his mouth proudly.

Everyone is already outside the city, even if they know that there is something wrong with the strange goods city, they still need to go in today to find out.

Besides, it wasn't the first day he knew that there was something strange about Odd Cargo City.

After receiving the news from Liu Li, it was finally time to decide to come to the Odd Goods City.

Or when I first started doing medicinal soap business with Liu Li.

He knew there must be something weird here.

Naturally, Song Peiyu would not receive the caravan in person, Xianyang had already sent someone who was in charge of contacting the caravan.

These stewards will clearly tell all the caravans that Qihuo City is the fiefdom of Prince Zhao.

If the caravan has concerns about this, they can leave on their own.

After the caravan has accumulated more than 5000 taels of silver in the Odd Goods City, if the caravan needs it, the guards in the Odd Goods City will send them outside the borders of any of Liang, Zhao, Yan, Wei, and Li to ensure that the caravan will not He was robbed in a three-way zone.

In fact, Song Peiyu didn't understand why Qihuo City became Chongyi's fief in the end, and even the garrison in Qihuo City became Chongyi's private soldiers.

Emperor Yonghe also didn't want to take advantage of this to forfeit the two points of profit that he had promised to the Song family.

It's just that after Emperor Yonghe made a decree to divide Qihuo City into Chongyi's fiefdom, Song Jinyu sent a letter to Song Peiyu from Xianyang in a hurry.

The two points that were agreed at the beginning would be given to the Song family's profit, but Song Jinyu made the decision and distributed it to Song Peiyu.The condition is that the family will be separated in the future, and nothing in the ancestral property will be distributed to Song Peiyu.

Along with Song Jinyu's letter, it was a stack of contracts of prostitution.

All the stewards and craftsmen in Qihuo City came from the Song family, and Song Jinyu gave Song Peiyu their contracts of sale.

In the end, Chong Yi and Song Peiyu made the most money.

The only one who suffered was Murong Jing. According to the will of Emperor Yonghe, his [-] personal soldiers became Chong Yi's private soldiers.

To be honest, Song Peiyu not only felt that this incident was sudden, but also felt a little hot.

How beneficial the Odd Cargo City will be in the future can be foreseen now.

Chongyi is the only prince of Zhao, the future prince and even the new king of Zhao.

Emperor Yonghe divided Qihuo City into Chongyi's fiefdom, which is equivalent to pulling gold ingots into his private treasury. Although it is not very good-looking, no one dares to say anything.

Song Peiyu was different. It was reasonable to give the two profits to the Song family, and all of them were given to him...Although it made sense, Song Peiyu always felt that his back was chilly, and he presumably had been watched by many people.

Song Peiyu delayed replying to Song Jinyu, and even after thinking hard, wrote a booklet to Emperor Yonghe to donate the two points of the profit to the clan.

The so-called clan is nothing but the Yonghe Emperor's siblings, the three of them.

As a result, all the replies from Xianyang rejected Song Peiyu's proposal.

That being the case, Song Peiyu could only take it first.

In order to celebrate that Qihuo City finally had a guest, everyone specially held a banquet in Chongyi's courtyard to celebrate.

After the inner city of Qihuo City was completely repaired, the shadow of Qi Zhen was no longer visible.

When receiving the imperial decree from Emperor Yonghe to divide Qihuo City into Chongyi's fiefdom, he was curious that the most central position of Huocheng was still vacant.

Song Peiyu immediately changed her mind and changed the originally planned City Lord's Mansion into a temporary palace.

Under his selfish intentions, he designed the exterior of the palace to be very gorgeous, even not much worse than Xianyang's East Palace, and there were almost no places that did not go beyond the rules.

This is a palace built according to the prince's regulations.

However, from Murong Jing, Lu Jihe, down to the soldiers in charge of building the palace, no one felt that something was wrong.

Lu Jihe even felt that Song Peiyu was too conservative, so he polished the ink and changed some details on the drawing, making the appearance of the palace more majestic and flamboyant.

As gorgeous as the palace looks from the outside, it is as barren as the inside.

Except that the outer hall serves as the city lord's mansion, which matches the appearance of the palace, the other side halls are like wild botanical gardens.

Song Peiyu has already obtained Chongyi's permission to clean up these deserted side halls one after another, and specially entertain the caravans who spent more than 5 taels of silver in the strange goods city.

Anyway, there was a guard standing guard at almost three steps in the palace, so there was no fear of caravans running around who could live in the palace.

Song Peiyu and the others followed Chong Yi to live in the main hall. There are enough houses in the main hall. They lived together in Sheng Zhai, Qingyu Lane, Qizhen for so long, and they have long been used to seeing each other without looking up.

It's just that Song Peiyu always remembered that when Lu Jihe made this proposal, there was a deep meaning in his eyes that he couldn't understand.

At the beginning, Song Peiyu was still vigilant to prevent Lu Jihe from acting as a demon.

Afterwards, Lu Jihe didn't see any movement, but Song Peiyu felt that he was thinking too much.

It is said to be the main hall of the Xinggong, but it is actually more like a single-door courtyard located in the very center of the Xinggong.

The main hall leads directly to the palace garden, and there are no flowers and plants as far as the eye can see, all of them are palace guards standing upright, looking very safe.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone was a little absent-minded and looked outside the door frequently.

Only Chong Yi had eyes for good wine, and when Song Peiyu came back to his senses, there were already five empty jars under Chong Yi's feet.

Song Peiyu has long seen how Chong Yi can't eat enough and drink enough when he meets something he likes, so he quickly snatched the wine jug from Chong Yi's hand, and let Jin Bao and Yin Bao take down all the wine on the table.

Bo Yang puts the most emphasis on self-cultivation, and only drinks when he is full.

He was too busy eating before, and before he had a few sips of wine, he immediately protested, "Leave me a few pots! No, just one pot, one pot will do!"

This is a good wine that Song Peiyu brewed last year, and there are only more than 20 jars left.

Bo Yang felt that if he missed today's opportunity, he might completely miss these fine wines.

Jinbao and Yinbao slowed down when they heard the words, and looked at Song Peiyu.

Song Peiyu shook her head firmly.

Just kidding, who on the table can beat Chong Yi?

Unless Bo Yang can take a big sip from the spout first, otherwise the jug of wine is reserved for Chong Yi.

Seeing that Jin Bao and Yin Bao's movements became more and more stiff because of Chong Yi's gaze, Song Peiyu had to say something to attract Chong Yi's attention, "There is another letter from Xianyang urging His Highness to go back. Departure?"

Chong Yi glanced at Song Peiyu, "whatever"

Song Peiyu thought that he couldn't feel Lu Jihe's ridicule for his knowing question, so he deliberately turned his back to Lu Jihe, and said to Zhong Yi, "It's better to start from the strange goods city at the end of September or early October, so that we can see the stability of the strange goods city. If you come down, you can also avoid the heavy snow."

"What are you doing staying for one more month?" Lu Jihe tapped his palm with his folding fan in dissatisfaction.

Song Peiyu gave Lu Jihe a strange look when he heard the words. He was also very surprised why Lu Jihe stayed in Qihuo City until now. He thought that Lu Jihe was so homesick and would return to Xianyang non-stop when Qi Zhen settled down. .

Before Song Peiyu could explain why he had to stay for an extra month, Jin Bao came from outside the yard with a beaming face, saying that he was in charge of receiving the caravan to pay his respects.

When everyone heard the words, they cheered up one after another.

What they are waiting for is the result of the caravan entering the city.

The reaction of the caravan was much better than Song Peiyu expected.

A total of five caravans entered Qihuo City, only one caravan came from Yan State. Knowing that Qihuo City is not only the master of Zhao Guoren, but also the fiefdom of Zhao Guo's prince, they left quietly.

Not only did the other four caravans stay, but they also decided on what to buy today, and asked Qihuo City to send them outside the corresponding borders.

Bo Yang didn't understand these business matters, but he knew that it was always right to care about income, so he asked the steward, "How much money did these caravans buy."

The steward smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, he stretched out his two outstretched hands happily, and was so excited that he said incoherently, "So many!"

Song Peiyu laughed and reminded the steward, "Give me the exact amount."

"10 taels! The four caravans spent a total of 10 taels of silver in Qihuo City!" The steward's face was grim and he didn't know it. Even the birds on the tree were frightened and fell on the table.

Everyone looked intently, but found that the bird that landed on the table was not an ordinary bird, but Murong Jing's Haidongqing.

Hai Dongqing still had a letter tied to her leg.

Then it will be fine.

Song Peiyu took the time to ask the steward for some details, and learned that among the four caravans, Xiang Ye's caravan spent 5 taels of silver, and the other three caravans spent a total of 5 taels of silver.

"Didn't they just bring five taels of carriage?" Lu Jihe suddenly thought.

Speaking of this incident, the steward also found it inconceivable, "Of the five carriages, two carriages were filled with silver, and three carriages were filled with gold!"

Lu Jihe smiled inexplicably, "This Lord Xiang is quite rich."

Hearing the words, the steward continued to praise Lu Jihe's words, and his words were all admiration and praise for Xiang Ye's caravan.

Song Peiyu was drinking heavily, leaning on the back of the chair with half-closed eyes, watching the chattering steward.

It seems that we still have to find someone from Xianyang to preside over the major events of the Qihuo City. After all, these stewards with prostitution contracts can't compete with those wealthy businessmen who can enjoy themselves wherever they go.

Since it is Chongyi's fiefdom, it makes sense for the imperial court to send people.

If it doesn't work, find someone from the Sheng family.

It just so happened that most of the members of the Sheng clan came from traveling merchants, even if they became officials, it would be very embarrassing in Xianyang.

Concubine Sheng is deeply fond of Emperor Yonghe and the eldest princess, and she is also gentle and peaceful, with only her family and younger brother in her heart.The East Palace's praise of the Sheng family is all due to a good relationship with Concubine Sheng.

Lu Jihe didn't have Song Peiyu's good temper. The more excited the steward was, the tighter his brows became. Finally, he couldn't bear it any longer. A few words without sharp words woke up the steward who was immersed in joy and couldn't help himself.

The steward remembered how many inappropriate things he said in agitation just now, and his body was covered in cold sweat. Without Lu Jihe saying more, he just stood there trembling.

When Lu Jihe saw the futile appearance of the steward, he immediately lost interest in talking, turned his head and stopped watching the steward, he thought it was bad luck.

Chong Yi, who quietly swept away all the cakes, turned to look at Song Peiyu who hadn't spoken for a long time, and chuckled softly, "Drunk?"

Song Peiyu was just a little dizzy, she was not completely drunk and didn't know anything, when she heard this, she rubbed the center of her brows, "Not drunk."

Chong Yi thought about it intently, and purposely said word for word, "People who are drunk refuse to admit that they are drunk."

This is what Song Peiyu said to Chongyi, but Song Peiyu's head was dizzy at this time, and he had already forgotten what he had said to Chongyi. Hearing this, he widened his eyes in surprise, "You know this sentence, don't you Never been drunk?"

Song Peiyu's illogical words convinced Chong Yi that the cat in front of him was already a drunk cat.

Chong Yi stared quietly at Song Peiyu for a while, and when his gaze was on Song Peiyu's misty eyes, his heart skipped a beat, he leaned close to Song Peiyu, and whispered, "Why don't you cry?"

If it was Song Peiyu who hadn't drunk, after hearing Chong Yi's words, he would only worry if Chong Yi had another nightmare.

But at this time, Song Peiyu was drunk and not sober enough.

So after he blinked his eyes, he looked at Chong Yi in a daze, imitating what Chong Yi said just now, and lowered his voice to the lowest, "Why should I cry?"

The tone didn't sound like a rhetorical question, but more like a simple question.

For a moment, Chong Yi felt that he seemed to be sick, or the toxins in his body that had not been completely cleared spread again, and he clearly heard the sound of his heart beating violently.

This was a voice he had never heard since he came to this world.

Chong Yi was stunned by the long-lost heartbeat in his ears, and put his hands on the position of his heart through his clothes.

Lu Jihe dismissed the manager, and was about to ask Chong Yi to quickly take off the letter paper from the feet of Hai Dongqing, who was already impatiently flapping his wings, when he saw two strange people.

He and Bo Yang accounted for four-fifths of the entire round table, and the remaining two people accounted for one-fifth. The chairs were almost stuck together.

Song Peiyu leaned on the chair, most of his face and body were blocked by Chong Yi who was possessing Song Peiyu.

From Lu Jihe's perspective, it could be seen that Song Peiyu's eyes were always fixed on Chong Yi's side face.

Chong Yi was even more strange, his own chair was not enough to sit on, so he had to put his arm on Song Peiyu's chair with a distorted posture, put one hand on his chest, his face was... in a daze?

Lu Jihe closed his fan expressionlessly.

'啪', '啪', '啪'

Hit hard on the stone table.

Not only did Chong Yi look at Lu Jihe with dissatisfaction, Song Peiyu, who seemed in a daze, also tried to go around Chong Yi to see where the sound came from, but Chong Yi's broad shoulders completely blocked Song Peiyu's sight.

In desperation, Song Peiyu could only hug Chong Yi's arm to borrow strength, and poked her head out from the side of Chong Yi to look at Lu Jihe.

Looking at these two people, Lu Jihe had the illusion that the strange thing was not Chong Yi and Song Peiyu, but him.

Lu Jihe wiped his face, refused to continue thinking, and pointed his fan at Hai Dongqing who was flapping his wings and trying to lift the table, unable to speak, "Look at what letter General Murong Jing sent."

After finishing speaking, Lu Jihe raised his voice to ask someone to bring sober soup.

"Ah!" Song Peiyu clapped her palms suddenly, "That's right! I haven't read the letter from General Murong yet!"

After drinking the hot hangover soup, Song Peiyu's sluggish mind immediately started to work.

Although he is not good at drinking, there is one advantage, that is, he is very well-behaved when he is drunk, as long as no one provokes him, he will never play crazy with alcohol.

Moreover, Song Peiyu seldom breaks up when he is drunk, and his memory is even clearer than usual.

The conversation with Chong Yi just now came to mind, Song Peiyu felt that it seemed... a bit strange?

Hearing Lu Jihe urging Chongyi to read the letter quickly, Song Peiyu had to suppress the feeling that something was wrong in his heart, and also focused on Haidongqing.

Chong Yi's method was still so simple and rude, catching Hai Dongqing like a pigeon, completely disregarding the face of the overlord of the sky.

Therefore, the overlord of the sky didn't like Chong Yi very much. After flying into the air, he yelled at Chong Yi for a while before flying away angrily.

Chong Yi suddenly stuffed the half-opened letter into Song Peiyu's hand, picked up the empty wine glass in front of him and raised it above his head.

After two breaths, the exquisite glass wine glass was thrown on the ground, and a yellow-green liquid flowed out of the originally empty wine glass.

Song Peiyu immediately forgot what was wrong, and bit the inside of her cheeks tightly, for fear that she would accidentally laugh out loud.

Hai Dongqing's temper is too violent.

After Lu Jihe and Bo Yang felt Chong Yi's cold gaze, they could only hold back the smile that was about to burst out of their throats. They wanted to use the remaining wine in the glass to suppress it, but they inevitably thought of Chong Yi Just did something with a wine glass.

It's getting harder to hold back the laughter.

Out of the desire to save others and herself, Song Peiyu speeded up her hand silently, and told the contents of the letter to others.

According to the latest news from Zeng Zhen, three more princes of the Wei Kingdom died on the battlefield.

Bo Yang couldn't help interrupting Song Peiyu, "How many princes does Emperor Wei have?"

Lu Jihe played with the folding fan, and said the answer calmly, "Emperor Wei has 29 princes in total, and [-] adult princes. Counting these three unlucky ones, five adult princes have died in the Zengzhen battlefield."

Song Peiyu added the latest information following Lu Jihe's words, "There are still three living princes of the Wei Kingdom on the battlefield in Zengzhen."

In fact, Bo Yang also knew about the situation of the royal family of the Wei Kingdom, which was something the family members had to understand.

He just couldn't understand how Emperor Wei could endure the successive deaths of his sons on the Zengzhen battlefield.

I even wondered if Zeng Zhen's feng shui belonged to the royal family of Kewei Kingdom?

Bo Yang unknowingly uttered this question.

"I don't know if Zengzhen's feng shui is the royal family of the Kewei Kingdom, but I know that the battle of Zengzhen is about to come to an end." Lu Jihe smiled, but his eyes were deep.

This battle has been fought so far, and Yan, Wei, and Li have all lost.

On the contrary, Zhao State had better seeds, and the grain depot that had been exhausted due to the war with Yan State was replenished.

After Chongyi returns to Xianyang, if there is another friction on the border between Zhao and Yan, there will never be any more evenly matched situations in a short period of time.

This is Zhao Guo's opportunity, it just depends on whether they can seize it.

Song Peiyu followed suit and nodded. Five princes were killed on the front line in succession. Even if the Emperor Wei could bear it, the ministers of the Wei Kingdom would not be able to bear it.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Wei is the country with the weakest background and the weakest national power among the nine countries. It can only be established by relying on timing and geographical location. It has already reached its limit by increasing troops to Zengzhen many times before.

This time, he was hit hard again. If he didn't withdraw his troops in time, let alone Qi Zhen, he might not even be able to keep his own country.

Song Peiyu looked down again, and said in surprise, "The Eighth Prince, who was declared dead by Wei Guo, entered Yu County among the refugees, and was discovered by General Murong."

Lu Jihe and Bo Yang looked at each other, both feeling incredible.

After finally running away from the front line, instead of returning to the Wei country, he mixed into the Zhao country?

Even if the State of Wei wanted to send spies to the State of Zhao, there was no need to send the prince of the State of Wei.

Song Peiyu read the letter and handed it to Lu Jihe.

It's a pity that the space of the letter paper is limited, and there is not much news about the Eighth Prince of Wei.

The specific situation can only be known when someone from Yu County specifically talks about this matter.

As the first batch of customers spent a lot of money in the strange goods city, the number of guests in the strange goods city gradually increased.

The silver and gold that was moved into the palace warehouse every day can only be described as appalling, even the well-informed Lu Jihe made some sour sentences that seem to be true or false.

However, Song Peiyu understood that these traveling merchants spent a lot of money in the strange goods city with the idea that there would be no next time.

When these merchants realize that the Odd Cargo City can indeed exist for a long time, they will stop buying so frantically.

Only then will Odds City's revenue stabilize.

As time entered September, letters from Xianyang urging them to go back came one after another.

King Su even asked in the letter if they haven't gone back yet, are they waiting for him to pick them up in person.

Even though Song Peiyu had written the approximate return date in the letter and sent it back to Xianyang, the urging from Xianyang never stopped.

When Chong Yi came to find Song Peiyu, Song Peiyu was reading the latest letter sent by the Song family from Xianyang.

Chong Yi sat beside Song Peiyu holding the white ball that was as big as a slap in the palm of his hand, and asked casually what the letter said.

Song Peiyu didn't give Chong Yi an answer right away. After a pause, he folded up the letter in his hand and looked up at Chong Yi who was staring at him, "Show me my family."

Urge him to go back quickly, start the six rites at the beginning of next year, and be able to marry a wife at the end of the year.

Chong Yi didn't understand, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Song Peiyu suddenly felt extremely embarrassed, and lowered her eyelids to avoid Chong Yi's sight.

However, Chongyi has never been a person who can read people's eyes. He couldn't get Song Peiyu's answer, so he just looked at Song Peiyu and didn't speak.

In the end, it was Song Peiyu who couldn't bear it anymore, and said in a low voice, "You just want to marry me."

There were obviously two people and a white dumpling in the room, but it was eerily quiet.

The birdsong in the yard suddenly became extremely harsh.

Song Peiyu twitched the corner of her mouth stiffly, and was about to change the topic, but Chong Yi spoke first.

"No"

Song Peiyu opened her eyes wide silently, and suddenly raised her head to look at Chong Yi.

Chong Yi frowned slightly, showing a rare look of impatience. When Song Peiyu looked up, he repeated, "You are not allowed to marry a wife."