Chapter 234 The end of the war

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

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

  For a while,

  Xu Yuan raised his eyes.

  Li Yunqing immediately said:

   “Third Young Master finished counting?”

   “It’s not bad, Third Highness, don’t worry, I will arrange it. After all, you must pay attention to integrity in everything, right?”

  Xu Yuan put the ordered bank note into Xumijie, paused, and 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 do you want to do?”

   “Don’t be nervous, just ask.”

  Xu Yuan smiled dumbly upon seeing this: “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 resisted the urge to curse, and said with a low smile:

   “I have always heard of the reputation of the third son for being kind and generous.”

   “Absurd praise.”

  Xu Yuan cupped 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 silver coins 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 goes to perform an extremely dangerous task, this The salary will probably rise by about 40% gradually.

  Li Yunqing smiled slightly when he heard the words:

   “Before, I borrowed six million from a big name in Yingzhou Island.”

  ”Six million?” Xu Yuan’s eyes froze.

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

  “. But only the first payment of 3 million was received, and the remaining 1.5 million should probably be to find some bookkeeping shopkeepers to take the blame.”

  Hearing this, Xu Yuan rolled his eyes.

  This statement is likely to be false, but the accounting industry is indeed a high-risk occupation no matter which world it is in.

  Be quiet for a moment,

  Xu Yuan no longer mentioned this matter, and asked instead:

   “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 painful 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 a little confused:

   “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 has not yet fallen,

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

   Then,

   “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, walk to the window, and look south.

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

  That is 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 after a round of volleys, 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:

   “This is. What?”

  Xu Yuan slowly turned his eyes back, 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 already know the reaction from the third son.”

  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 the emperor 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 closing the city to the north, but you still insist on leaving the city tonight, Your Highness?”

  Li Yunqing pondered for a moment, but nodded resolutely:

  ”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 boulders mixed with “ice spirit cone” and “rotten acid Beasts “consume the moat 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 file given to him by Lou Ji.

  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 rotting acid beast is a hard-shell monster on the ice field. Once the ice crystal shell is crushed, it will explode by itself, exploding a large puddle of acid.

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

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

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

  The barbarians are cheap to make and do little damage to formation cultivators, but they do great damage to buildings and ordinary people.

  Before the siege of Beifeng, the barbarians also used this method to attack the city, trying to consume all the source crystals that maintained the large formation of the city, but unfortunately at that time, the Beifeng city gathered strong people, All the best.

  You don’t even need to open the city defense array, the high-level cultivators in the city alone can smash these throwing objects into the air.

  However, the Beifeng City is now 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 at the same level.

  Drinking the contents of the cup in one gulp, Xu Yuan stood up without any more ink:

   “In this 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 noticed 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, during which some disheveled red ladies and men rushed out.

  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 did not last long.

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

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

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

  Xu Yuan watched the singing and dancing so peacefully, exhaled lightly, and asked in a low voice:

   “Your Highness, what do you think of this scene?”

  Li Yunqing went downstairs, his eyes stopped in the hall for a few breaths, and he smiled very bachelorly:

   “Third son, 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 the southern city, and the still orderly lobby will become crazy.”

  “.”

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

  impart, right?

   walked out of the lobby, and when the two arrived at the stable, there were already a lot of people 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 play here anymore.

  Moreover, if there is no background in this military-controlled curfew in Beifeng City, soldiers have the right to kill directly.

  On the snowy night, except for the sound of the wind and the explosion of the sky in the south of the city, everything is very quiet, and the bright pattern lamps engraved on both sides of the road are looming.

  Occasionally, in the snowstorm, you can meet a group of heavily armed soldiers patrolling the street.

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

  After being interrogated by a group of patrolling soldiers again,

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

  ”When the city is broken, all the people in the city should be slaughtered by that barbarian.”

  Close your eyes and meditate Xu Yuan heard this and opened his eyes to look at the three princes:

  ”To those barbarians, our people of Great Yan are just two-legged sheep.”

   “two-legged sheep”

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

  The compartment became silent again for a while.

  I don’t know how long,

  Li Yunqing sighed and asked suddenly:

   “Long day,

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

  “.”

  Silence.

  For a while,

  Xu Yuan replied in a low voice: “Maybe I expected it, maybe I didn’t expect it.”

  Li Yunqing rolled his eyes when he heard this:

   “It’s the same as if you didn’t say what you said.”

  Xu Yuan smiled slightly and reminded:

   “This second grade Yuanchu will only send you to Houting County, remember to be careful when you get there, the situation there is not too good, and the hoarded food and grass are probably only enough for the elite of the sect to survive Around January.”

  Li Yunqing was quiet for a while, and said:

   “Changtian, 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.

   “It’s fine if you don’t say it.”

  The seriousness on Li Yunqing’s face disappeared, and he stretched out and spread 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 and stared at Xu Yuan’s profile 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.”

  Xu Yuan looked back with interest when he heard this:

   “I have become the next Xu Gong, can your royal family eat?”

  Li Yunqing shrugged:

   “You have become the next Mr. Xu. The ones who should be troubled are my eldest brother and second brother, 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 quite 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 who’s name is in this world. Anyway, I have money in my hand. If I don’t have soldiers when I return to Beijing this trip, I will go to a remote place to become a rich man and marry It’s not bad for a few beautiful wives to live a stable life.”

  Xu Yuan had a smile in his eyes:

  ”In picture books, people like you usually become the emperor in the end.”

  Li Yunqing smiled and cupped his hands:

   “Thank you, Third Young Master, for looking after me.”

   While talking, the carriage has slowly stopped.

  Xu Yuan glanced sideways out of the car window:

   “It’s here.”

  Li Yunqing also looked back:

   “Pawn shop?”

  The place where the carriage stopped in the snowstorm was at the entrance of a large pawn shop. Through the bright pattern lights on the street, you can see the words “World Pawn Shop” written on the plaque.

   got off the carriage,

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

   “Tu Tuk – Tuk Tuk – Tuk Tuk -”

  Short and rhythmic, very light.

   Li Yunqing on the side hesitated a little when he saw this:

   “I don’t need to avoid?”

  Xu Yuan chuckled lightly:

  ”It’s a one-time password. If you use it next time, it will probably be treated 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:

   “Young master, the shop is closed, so hurry up tomorrow.”

  Xu Yuan followed the contact code given by Lou Ji:

   “I’m here to pawn the jade pendant.”

   “Jade pendant?” There was a hint of impatience in the old voice.

   “Black Dragon Jade Pendant.”

   “Squeak——”

  The door opened, and a middle-aged man whose voice was completely inconsistent with the old man appeared in the sight of the two.

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

  Xu Yuan did not speak, and directly took out a token with a black dragon pattern and three characters engraved on the back from the Sumeru Ring, but before throwing it to the middle-aged man for inspection, the other party directly bowed to him A gift:

   “Third Young Master.”

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

   “Are you Mr. Wine?”

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

   “It’s the old man, Master Lou Ji has already explained to 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.”

   “Him?”

  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.”

  “.”

  When Li Yunqing heard this, his pupils shrank slightly.

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

  I want to go 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, this kid was cheated of 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 same thing as living and dying with the city.

  So,

  What exactly does this guy want to do?

  (end of this chapter)