In the fourth year of Sheng Yuan Dynasty, it was the first day of May.
Yunzhou, Mocheng.
Supervising Tiansifu Yamen.
In the inner courtyard of the government office's back house, Lin Ji was lying on a bamboo couch, with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed.
There is a table next to the lounge chair. There are all kinds of fruits and snacks on the table. There is also a pot of tea that has just been brewed, and the smoke of the tea is rising.
In Yunzhou in May, most of the coldness had finally faded away. Facing the warm spring sun, his whole body looked wilted.
Beside him, a slender figure was wearing a white dress, holding an apple in his hand. The knife rotated flexibly, and the apple peel fell to the ground without breaking.
Just as the apple peel was being peeled cleanly, Lin Ji lazily opened his eyes.
"For me?"
Beishuang said nothing and put the peeled apples on the fruit plate.
"I don't want to eat."
The white eyes came as promised.
"You can eat it yourself." Lin Ji yawned, sat up from the recliner, and looked at the person who walked into the small courtyard.
"Brother Lin is very leisurely. In such a troublesome situation, as You Tianguan, how can you still have such leisure time?"
As he spoke, Zi Qing had already arrived nearby.
Beishang subconsciously wanted to leave, not only to get out of the way, but also because he didn't want to listen to the conversation between the two senior officials of Supervisory Sky Division.
But as soon as she stood up, Zi Qing pressed her shoulders, making her unable to leave, and she could only sit down again awkwardly.
Zi Qing looked at Lin Ji and said with a smile: "If Miss Lu and Miss Zhong know that you are messing around outside again, I'm afraid it won't be too much trouble."
When Beishuang on the side heard this, his face suddenly turned a bit bright red, and he lowered his head and said nothing.
Lin Jize said helplessly: "Master Zi, please don't talk nonsense. Lin and Miss Beishuang are innocent, they are just friends."
"Oh, you don't need to explain to me whether you are innocent or not." Zi Qing joked casually, "I'll leave it to Miss Lu and Miss Zhong later!"
Lin Ji smiled helplessly and said to himself, "Just don't ruin my reputation."
"I just received the news that the barbarian army is still three hundred miles away from Mocheng. According to the current situation, it will only take half a month for them to reach Mocheng at most." Zi Qing suppressed the smile on her face and said seriously.
Lin Ji was not surprised. During this period, he had been hearing battle reports all day long, but there was no victory report yet.
At first, we could still hear about the Zhenbei Army's heroic resistance, and added a bunch of useless rhetoric.
Later, the messenger seemed to have lost his spirit, and the daily battle reports were simplified to "retreat ten miles today" and "lose the enemy, retreat twenty miles" and the like.
He didn't even bother to add the subject and object, as if he was sure that those who read the news knew that the losers must be the Zhenbei Army.
"Where's the news from Jingzhou?" Lin Ji asked again.
"There is no news." Zi Qing shook her head, "Recently, the situation in all parts of Kyushu is not very good. The layout of the Changsheng Palace is not that simple. The states are in chaos almost at the same time, and the court has no time to take care of itself."
"So Yunzhou was abandoned?"
Zi Qing did not answer, but picked up the freshly peeled apple in the fruit bowl and took a bite.
Beishuang glanced at it but said nothing.
Lin Jize chuckled twice, then stopped quickly. …
"Is there any follow-up to the news about Qingzhou that I received the day before yesterday?" Lin Ji asked again, "Is there any result about the black cloud disaster in Qingzhou?"
Zi Qing nodded.
"There are results. The city of Yuancheng has been destroyed, the people in the city have died, and all life in Qingzhou has been devastated. The Black Cloud Tribulation has captured the entire Qingzhou, and now it has spread to Yanzhou."
"Is that so? Alas! Gao Qunshu and Fang Yunshan can't stop them even if they join forces?"
"Si Wuming, the master of the Eternal Life Palace, is here in person, and Song Cang, the deputy palace master, is also there. The one who controls the Black Cloud Tribulation is the Ghost King of Liangcheng." Zi Qing shook her head and said, "Such a formation makes people fearful just by talking about it.
There will be monks who have entered the Taoist realm to help, so the two of them are weak and naturally invincible."
"These people deserve to die!" Lin Ji's eyes turned cold, and then he sighed softly and said, "So Qingzhou also fell so easily? How can the Eternal Life Palace fight for energy from them in the future if it is so powerful?
transport?"
"Song Cang was seriously injured by Fang Yunshan. Fang Yunshan also found the way to the peak of Taoism. Moreover, he is also a top swordsman. The methods of Mengxian Sect are nothing but a joke to him."
"Song Cang." Hearing this name, Lin Ji thought of his former friend Xu Dingtian, a contemporary of Taiyi Sect who is now missing.
I don’t know where Xu Dingtian fled to. Now that Taiyi Sect has too much to take care of, I’m afraid they won’t have time to deal with him.
Song Cang was seriously injured, and he probably wouldn't be able to spare the time to seize his body.
"Lao Xu's luck is quite good." Lin Ji muttered in a low voice.
Zi Qing didn't know what Lin Ji was thinking, so she looked at Lin Ji's right arm.
"How's your arm doing?"
"If you can't move your hands, don't count on me." Lin Ji responded without thinking, "I'm just too lazy to go back to the capital to get involved in the troubles in the capital. I'm just recuperating in Mocheng and waiting for the injury to heal...or maybe
When the desert city is captured, I will leave."
"Fang Yunshan is right, you are indeed extremely tired."
"Thanks for the compliment."
Zi Qing rolled her eyes at Lin Ji and then said to herself: "That fellow Shen Long fought with Li Jian. He was defeated by Li Jian, but he was not injured. He just had to retreat."
"I would be surprised if Mr. Shen defeated Li Jian." Lin Ji was not surprised. "I had a sword fight with him that day, and I still haven't fully understood his sacrificial sword."
Zi Qing shook her head and said: "What I mean is that if you and I don't take action, the frontline Zhenbei Army will have no support. There are two Taoist monks on the other side, and their momentum is strong. Even the Yuanshen monks in the army are timid, for fear of
Being targeted by the other party's Dao realm."
"Although in this kind of battle, according to the rules, monks who have entered the Dao will never take action easily, but after all, it is not just a test like before. Now it is about to decide the winner. No one knows whether the other party will make a move."
"The recent military morale has been low and they have been retreating steadily. This is also due to the fact that the monks in the army cherish their lives."
"We should have cherished our lives." Lin Ji said, "The Zhenbei Army has carried out its best until now. The current defeat is caused by Great Qin's turning a blind eye."
Hearing this, Zi Qing narrowed her eyes slightly.
"So you are going to watch the Zhenbei Army be completely defeated and Mocheng fall, and then Shi Shiran leave?"
"Isn't that what Master Ziqing planned?" Lin Ji asked back.
Zi Qing was noncommittal and said: "There are still tens of thousands of people left in the city, and you don't care?"
"I told them to retreat a long time ago, but they won't leave."
"How many people have been living in Mocheng for generations, and it is difficult to leave their homeland."
"Then just be buried with your hometown." Lin Ji's tone became cold, "Lin is not a saint, and it is hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words. When he left Yunzhou, Lin was stripped of his luck by the Nine Provinces Dragon Vein.
, although now he is on the mission of Supervisor Tiansi, he is free to leave whenever he wants."