Fairy, Please Let Me Explain

Xu Yuan familiarly counted the number and authenticity of the bank notes, while Li Yunqing sat quietly and watched eagerly.

The private room was silent for a while, except for the rustling of money counting.

half an hour,

Xu Yuan raised his eyes.

Li Yunqing immediately said:

"Third Young Master, have you finished counting?"

"It's not bad, Third Highness, don't worry, I will arrange it. After all, you must be honest in everything, right?"

Xu Yuan put the ordered bank note into Xumijie, paused, and then asked with a little interest:

"But I'm curious about one thing, how much money do you usually bring with you, Third Highness, when you go out?"

Hearing this question, Li Yunqing's eyes were immediately alert:

"what you up to?"

"Don't be nervous, just ask."

Seeing this, Xu Yuan smiled dumbly: "Your Highness, you know me well. I have always been generous to my friends. If I say five million, it will be five million. I won't raise the price again."

Li Yunqing suppressed the urge to scold others, and said with a low smile:

"I've always heard of the reputation of the third son as being kind and generous."

"Absurd praise."

Xu Yuan arched his hands and asked suddenly:

"However, His Highness is so generous, how will he make up for the shortfall of five million taels in the future?"

Five million taels, this is already an astronomical figure.

With Dayan's current productivity, ordinary people can earn only twenty or thirty pieces of silver after a year of hard work.

In the Xiangguo Mansion, if there is no special position, the annual salary of a top powerhouse like the second-rank Yuanchu is only a million taels of silver, but every time he performs an extremely dangerous mission, the salary will probably rise by a hundred. Forty or so.

Li Yunqing smiled slightly when he heard the words:

"Before, I borrowed six million from a big name on Yingzhou Island."

"Six million?" Xu Yuan's eyes froze.

Li Yunqing's complexion changed, and he sighed suddenly:

".But I only received the first payment of 3 million yuan, and the remaining 1.5 million yuan. I should probably find some bookkeeping shopkeepers to take the blame."

Hearing this, Xu Yuan rolled his eyes in his heart.

There is a high probability that this statement is false, but the profession of accounting is indeed a high-risk profession no matter which world it is in.

Be quiet for a moment,

Xu Yuan also stopped mentioning this matter, and instead asked:

"I don't know how long the Third Highness is going to leave Beifeng City?"

Seeing that the topic was back on track, Li Yunqing tried his best to put away his pained emotions, and said:

"The sooner the better, preferably tonight."

"tonight?"

Xu Yuan pondered for a while, and asked seriously: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to leave the city tonight?"

Li Yunqing was slightly puzzled:

"Not tonight?"

Xu Yuan explained:

"It's not impossible, but it may be a little dangerous."

Li Yunqing looked puzzled:

"The barbarians outside the city are not."

The voice did not fall,

As if to confirm Xu Yuan's words, a burst of white light burst out of the dark sky outside the window.

Subsequently,

"boom!"

A series of shocking explosions resounded over the city!

Because Li Qingyan had already been vaccinated, Xu Yuan was not too surprised to hear the noise.

Get up, go to the window, raise your eyes to the south.

In the dark night of blizzard, with his fifth-grade cultivation base, he could only see hundreds of white lights of different sizes shining in mid-air.

That was the light of the Great Fortress Array.

The roar and ripples caused by the throwing objects thrown by the barbarian siege equipment on the translucent moat formation.

The movement was scary, but when a volley came down, the entire Beifeng City was protected under the translucent cover as if it were solid, and no buildings in the city were destroyed.

And at this time,

Li Yunqing also came back to his senses, looking at the distant sky through the window:

"What's this?"

Xu Yuan slowly turned his eyes, blood flames lingered in his eyes, and the dark sky behind him roared:

"Third Highness, what do you think?"

Li Yunqing slumped back on the soft couch, took a sip of wine to suppress his shock.

silence for a while,

He exhaled and laughed lowly:

"The barbarians actually attacked the city tonight, but you should have known it from your reaction just now, Third Young Master."

Xu Yuan walked slowly back to the soft couch and sat down, poured himself a glass of wine:

"Yes, your imperial sister has already predicted that the barbarians will attack the city with a high probability tonight."

"That's good."

Li Yunqing nodded: "Since Huangjie has expected it, there should be no loss."

Xu Yuan shook his head, looked at Li Yunqing, and asked:

"It is true that there will be no loss in Beifeng City, but your Highness, do you still insist on leaving the city tonight?"

Li Yunqing pondered for a moment, but nodded firmly:

"To go out, tonight should be just a tentative attack. I read the files of the northern border. When these barbarians attack the city, they usually use a large number of huge stones mixed with "ice spirit cones" and "rotten acid beasts" to consume the large defensive formation. .”

Xu Yuan smiled inexplicably:

"The barbarians are poor here, and they can't afford things like source crystal bombs."

Xu Yuan also saw this kind of siege method in the files Lou Ji gave him.

The ice cone looks like an iron spike ball about three meters in diameter, with a thumb-sized source crystal in the center and hundreds of ice cones wrapped around it.

The Rotten Acid Beast is a hard-shell monster on the ice field. Once the ice crystal shell is broken, it will self-explode, exploding a large puddle of acid.

Compared with the previous local rebellions in Dayan, these two things are not enough.

Because the Dayan Civil War used source crystal bombs to attack the city.

If there is no interference, the siege equipment is aimed at one point of the protective formation in one round, and a few rounds of throwing can directly penetrate the large formation from the front.

The barbarians are cheap to make, and they don't do much damage to the formation cultivators, but they do a lot of damage to buildings and ordinary people.

The barbarians also used this method to attack the city during the siege of Beifeng before, trying to consume all the source crystals that maintained the large formation protecting the city.

You don't even need to open the large formation to protect the city. The high-level cultivators in the city can smash these projectiles into the air.

But now that Beifeng City is empty, facing this kind of overwhelming throwing, it can only be protected by the city defense array, and the source energy consumed by the city defense array every moment is calculated in massive amounts.

The cost of offense and defense is not of the same order of magnitude.

After drinking the contents of the cup in one gulp, Xu Yuan stood up without any further ink marks:

"In that case, let's go."

Li Yunqing glanced at the direction of the south of the city again and stood up silently.

no more words,

As soon as the two walked out of the private room together, they immediately found that there was a little confusion in the corridor outside.

Many servants with swords walked quickly in the corridor, with different expressions, some were panicked, some were sinking like water.

All the way down the stairs, there were knocks on the door and discussions, and some disheveled red ladies and men came out of the door.

Obviously, the barbarian siege also affected the most expensive Goulan in Beifeng City.

Under the war, the world is in various states.

But the confusion didn't last long.

When Xu Yuan and Li Yunqing went downstairs to the lobby, under the organization of the old bustard and Mr. Gui, the whole lobby resumed its appearance of singing and dancing.

Because they knew that the barbarians would not be able to fight in for a while.

The tall slender woman twisted her graceful waist on the stage, and the musician played some soft tunes unaffected.

Seeing the peacefulness of singing and dancing like this, Xu Yuan exhaled lightly, and asked in a low voice:

"Your Highness, what do you think of this scene?"

As Li Yunqing went downstairs, his eyes stopped in the hall for a few breaths, and he said with a very bachelor smile:

"Third Young Master, I am not qualified to judge them now."

paused,

Li Yunqing glanced at Xu Yuan:

"However, I guess that in a few days the barbarians will break through to the south city, and the orderly lobby will become crazy."

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Xu Yuan glanced at the attendants in the hall and those well-dressed benefactors in the hall, and shook his head slightly.

import, right?

Walking out of the lobby, when the two came to the stable, there were already many people gathered here whispering.

However, these people are all using sound transmission methods. Hearing their conversations, they must be disciples of the sect who know some inside information, and they are not in the mood to have fun here anymore.

Moreover, if there is no background to walk at night in Beifeng City, which is under military curfew, soldiers have the right to kill them directly.

Except for the sound of the wind and the explosion of the sky in the south of the city on a snowstorm night, everything is very quiet, and the bright pattern lamps engraved on both sides of the road are faintly visible.

Occasionally, in the snowstorm, a group of heavily armed soldiers can be encountered patrolling the streets.

But after seeing the sign of the Beifeng government office on the carriage, these soldiers let them go without too much questioning.

After being questioned again by a group of patrolling soldiers,

Li Yunqing looked at the houses on both sides outside the car window, sighed suddenly, and said softly:

"When the city is broken, all the common people in the city will be slaughtered by that barbarian."

Xu Yuan closed his eyes and meditated after hearing this, opened his eyes and took a look at the third prince:

"To those savages, our people of Great Yan are just two-legged sheep."

"Two Legs Sheep"

Li Yunqing looked out the window, the cold wind was blowing the hair on his temples, he murmured and stopped talking.

The compartment became silent again for a while.

I don't know how long,

Li Yunqing sighed, and suddenly asked:

"Long days,

"You said. Did my father and Mr. Xu expect this?"

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silence.

half an hour,

Xu Yuan replied in a low voice: "Maybe I expected it, maybe I didn't."

Li Yunqing rolled his eyes when he heard this:

"It's the same as if you didn't say that."

Xu Yuan smiled slightly and reminded:

"This second-rank Yuanchu will only send you to Houting County. Remember to be careful when you get there. The situation there is not too good. The food and grass hoarded are probably only enough for the elite of the sect to last for about a month."

Li Yunqing was quiet for a while, and said:

"Chang Tian, ​​you should have something to do in Beifeng City, right?"

"I'm just a proton staying with your royal family." Xu Yuan was tight-lipped.

"Oh, it's fine if you don't say it."

The seriousness on Li Yunqing's face disappeared, and he stretched himself out on the soft couch: "I'm just an ordinary person, the more I know about these bad things in the northern border, the more annoying I feel."

Xu Yuan nodded in agreement, looking at the sky in the south of the city:

"Yeah, the more you know, the more annoying you get."

Li Yunqing looked back at Xu Yuan's side face earnestly for a few breaths, then suddenly smiled and said:

"Third son, I have a suggestion for you. You can learn from my second brother, be more cold-blooded, and be more unscrupulous. Only in this way can you become my next Duke Xu."

When Xu Yuan heard this, he looked back with interest:

"I'm the next Xu Gong, can your royal family eat?"

Li Yunqing shrugged:

"You have become the next Mr. Xu. It is my elder brother and second elder brother who should be troubled, as well as the sects of the world. It has nothing to do with me."

Xu Yuan's eyes flickered, staring at the other party, trying to judge the truth of the other party's words.

Finally, he chuckled:

"You are free and easy."

"This is not free and easy, but self-knowledge."

Li Yunqing spread his hands:

"As for me, although I think I'm pretty good and can understand many things, I'm far behind my second and eldest brothers.

"So I don't care about anyone's name in this world. Anyway, I have money. If I don't have soldiers when I return to Beijing, I will go to a remote place to become a rich man, marry a few beautiful women and live a stable life. Not bad."

There was a smile in Xu Yuan's eyes:

"In the picture book, people like you usually end up becoming the emperor in the end."

Li Yunqing smiled and cupped his hands:

"Thank you, Third Young Master, for looking after me."

While speaking, the carriage has slowly stopped.

Xu Yuan glanced sideways out of the car window:

"arrive."

Li Yunqing also looked back:

"pawnshop?"

The place where the carriage stopped in the wind and snow was at the entrance of a large pawnshop. Through the bright pattern lamps on the street, one could see the words "Pawnshop of the World" written on the plaque flying around.

got out of the carriage,

It was cold outside the car, Xu Yuan slightly wrapped the jacket that Li Qingyan had prepared for him, stepped forward and knocked on the door lightly.

"Duk-duk-duk-duk-duk-duk-"

Short and rhythmic, very light.

Li Yunqing on the side hesitated slightly upon seeing this:

"I don't have to avoid it?"

Xu Yuan chuckled lightly:

"It's a one-time password. If you use it next time, it will probably be taken as a spy."

Li Yunqing was a little disappointed when he heard this.

At this time, a slightly old voice came from inside the door:

"My lord, the shop is closed, hurry up tomorrow."

According to the contact code given by Lou Ji, Xu Yuan:

"I'll pawn the jade pendant."

"Jade pendant?" There was a trace of impatience in the old voice.

"Black Dragon Jade Pendant."

"Squeak—"

The door opened, and a middle-aged man who didn't match the old voice appeared in the sight of the two.

Wearing a nightgown, he seems to have taken a rest.

Xu Yuan didn't speak, and directly took out a token with a black dragon and three characters engraved on the back from the Xumi ring, but before throwing it to the middle-aged man for inspection, the other party directly bowed to him:

"Third son."

Xu Yuan looked at the middle-aged man, took back the bronze medal, and slightly arched his hands:

"You are Mr. Wine?"

The middle-aged man stood up straight, his eyes fell on Li Yunqing behind Xu Yuan's side:

"It's the old man, Master Lou Ji has already told me in advance, are you going out of the city?"

Xu Yuan waved his hand, pointed at Li Yunqing and said:

"It's not me, it's him."

"he?"

Mr. Jiu frowned slightly, hesitantly said:

"Third Young Master, are you sure, the old man will never come back after sending him out of the city."

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When Li Yunqing heard this, his pupils shrank slightly.

He realized that the Blackscale Guard in Beifeng City should be the second-rank Yuanchu in front of him.

Thinking up to here,

Accompanied by the roar of the formation above the city, Li Yunqing looked at Xu Yuan with strange eyes.

It's not because of gratitude, after all, he was cheated by this kid for five million.

But because Xu Changtian sold him the way to escape, what should he do?

He didn't believe that this kid would do the trick of living and dying with the city.

so,

What exactly does this guy want to do?