Hearing Liu Boji's complaint, Liu Xiu smiled, picked up the tea cup, and drank the tea slowly. At the same time, he was also thinking about the conversation between Mo Yan and him just now.
Mo Yan took the initiative to find him, obviously he wanted to seek refuge with him, but now it seems that he has disappointed him greatly. It can be said that he came in good spirits and returned in despair.
Liu Xiu didn't care about this. As the same saying goes, people with different paths don't work together. No matter how talented Mo Yan is, he and his side are not from the same group after all, and they can't get along with each other.
Xu Xiling, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Miss Boji, my lord is right, this Mo Yan is far inferior to Mr. Li."
Liu Boji curled her lips and was about to speak when Xu Xiling added: "He is not a man at all."
"Ah?" Liu Boji opened her eyes in disbelief and said in surprise: "He... Mr. Mo is not a man?"
Xu Xiling shrugged, picked up the tea cup slowly, took a sip of tea, and said, "Even if he is a man, he is not a normal man."
Any normal man, including Liu Xiu, would be more or less stunned and surprised when they see her true appearance. This is not entirely due to her beautiful appearance, but also because of her superior appearance.
Charm.
But this Mr. Mo was good. When he saw her true appearance, his eyes didn't even pause on her face. He glanced directly at her. Either he was a woman disguised as a man, or he just had the habit of Long Yang and was attracted to women.
Not interested at all.
This is Xu Xiling's judgment of Mo Yan.
Liu Boji looked at Xu Xiling blankly for a while, then couldn't help but sigh, and her shoulders slumped.
Mo Yan is the most beautiful man she has ever seen in her life. Even except for Xu Xiling, no woman she has ever seen can match Mo Yan's appearance.
It's a pity that Xu Xiling swore that he was not a man, which was really disappointing. Liu Boji couldn't say that she fell in love with Mo Yan at first sight, it was just a simple appreciation of beauty.
After she felt sorry, she immediately became interested in gossip again and asked in a low voice: "Sister Xi Ling, do you think Young Master Mo may have a habit of cutting off his sleeves?"
Xu Xiling smiled and said: "If he is not a woman disguised as a man, then nine times out of ten she is!"
Liu Boji opened her mouth wide and sighed: "This is the first time I have seen someone with... a sincere fetish!"
"I have seen some before, especially in the capital. There are many such people. There is even an actor's hall specially provided for such people in the capital."
"The Actor's Pavilion? What is that?" "It's similar to a brothel!" "It's full of men?"
"Yes." Xu Xiling nodded and said with a smile: "There are men among them who are even more beautiful and charming than this Mr. Mo."
"Sister Xi Ling has been in there?"
Xu Xiling shook his head and said: "I have a senior sister who once disguised herself and sneaked into the Actor's Pavilion. I heard a lot of things from her. The waiters there, like the girls in the brothel, are all divided into different levels, such as Tianzihao, Dizihao, etc.
Herringbone, and font..."
Hearing the two of them talking openly about the Actor's Hall, Liu Boji's eyes lit up with yearning on her face. Liu Xiu couldn't help but stroked his forehead, and he began to murmur in his heart whether Boji should be forbidden from ever having sex with her again in the future.
Xi Ling contact.
He deliberately cleared his throat and said, "Want to watch the show? If not, we will go home!"
Liu Boji and Xu Xiling's faces straightened up, and they immediately stopped talking with a tacit understanding. However, Liu Boji quietly winked at Xu Xiling, signaling her to talk later.
Xu Xiling couldn't help but chuckle, but it soon attracted Liu Xiu's glare.
She suppressed her smile, sat upright, and watched the play seriously. Liu Boji, like Xu Xiling, looked seriously at the last play performed on the stage - "Huang Gong of the East China Sea".
The play "Huang Gong of the East China Sea" can be traced back to the early Western Han Dynasty. It tells the story of a white tiger appearing in the East China Sea. A man named Huang Gong went to subdue it, but was bitten to death by the white tiger.
The highlight of this play is the fight between man and tiger. Of course, the tiger is dressed up by a man, not the real white tiger. But no matter how fierce the battle between man and tiger is, the final result is that the white tiger wins, and Huang
The public lost.
The whole plot is actually a tragedy, but because the fighting is fierce and lively, the audience often enjoys it and cheers enthusiastically, so the tragedy of the whole play is downplayed.
By the time "Huang Gong of the East China Sea" was finished, the entire show was over. On the way back home, Liu Boji was still in high spirits and talked non-stop about the show she had just watched.
After returning to the mansion, after dinner, Liu Xiu went to rest. At present, his body has not recovered yet, he is very weak and cannot withstand the torture, and Liu Xiu is really tired today.
There was no talking all night, and when it got daylight, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.
Liu Xiu opened his eyes, calmed down for a while before regaining consciousness, and said: "Come in."
As the door opened, Xuying quickly entered the room, bowed and said: "General, Captain Zhu wants to see you!"
The Captain Zhu he was talking about was naturally Zhu You. Liu Xiu looked at the sky outside and saw that it was just dawn. Why did Zhu You come to see him so early? He sat up from the bed and said, "Let Ayou come in!"
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As soon as Xuying stepped out, Zhu You ran in from the outside and said anxiously: "My lord, something bad has happened. A reckless army has come outside the city!"
"What?" Liu Xiu was shocked. He immediately got out of bed and asked while putting on his clothes: "The reckless army? Where did the reckless army come from?"
There shouldn't be any reckless troops here in Xinye! Currently, the eldest brother has led his army to attack Chuiyang and Jiyang. Where did this reckless army come from?
Zhu You shook his head and said: "I don't know where this reckless army came from. The strength seems to be about a thousand. Lord, how should we deal with it now?"
At present, Xinye is almost an empty city. Liu Yan led the Zhutiandu tribe to the north and took away all the troops he could. Even the family members of the Zhutiandu tribe also accompanied the army.
If Liu Xiu hadn't been injured and needed to stay in Xinye to recuperate, even Liu Boji would have left Xinye long ago.
This reckless army came suddenly and unexpectedly, and there were thousands of people, so it was not easy to deal with it. With the help of Xu Ying and Zhu You, Liu Xiu quickly put on his clothes and said as he walked out: "Ayou, you come right now
Gather all the brothers in our army, go up to the city wall, and prepare to meet the enemy!"
Originally, Liu Yan left 500 elites for Liu Xiu, responsible for protecting Liu Xiu's safety. However, with Xu Ying, Xu Fei, and Xu Ting joining forces, Liu Xiu felt that he no longer needed to arrange so many people to protect him.
, so he sent four hundred of them back to his elder brother. Currently, only a hundred of them remain with him.
It would be too difficult to resist a thousand people with the strength of a hundred people. Zhu You looked at Liu Xiu and hesitated. When Liu Xiu saw that he was standing still, he said urgently: "Ayou, are you still here?" What are you doing standing here? Go quickly!"
Zhu You had no choice but to respond and went to the front yard to gather all the people on his side who could fight. Liu Xiuze took Xu Ying, Xu Fei and Xu Ting and hurried to the county government office to see the county government office. How much more manpower can be gathered?
When Liu Xiu and his party arrived at the county government office, the place was already in chaos. Everyone, including the county magistrate Liu Tong, was packing their things. People were running in and out, shouting.
Seeing this, Liu Xiu couldn't help shouting angrily: "What are you doing?"
Liu Tong, who was busy giving instructions in the courtyard, his eyes lit up when he saw Liu Xiu. He quickly came forward to greet her and said hurriedly: "Axiu, you came just in time. I was going to find you? Bo Ji." What? Hurry, take Bo Ji with you, we have to evacuate quickly!"
Liu Xiu asked: "Withdraw? Where?"
Liu Tong waved his hand and said: "No matter where we evacuate, we must evacuate Xinye first! Now the reckless army has come over, and there are no soldiers in the city. We can't defend it at all..."
Liu Xiu asked curiously: "People can evacuate, but what about the food and grass? Can we take the food and grass away with us?"
"This... I can't control that much now!" Liu Tong shook his head and said.
Liu Xiu almost became angry and said: "We have an army of more than 10,000 people and thousands of family members and their dependents. All the grain and grass they need are stored in Xinye. Once these grains and grass fall into the hands of the Mang army, Magistrate Liu, do you know what it means?"
This means that more than 10,000 troops and thousands of family members will have no food to eat. Even if Jiyang and Chuoyang are captured, the entire army will be in danger of starvation.
Liu Tong was left speechless by Liu Xiu's question, and he hesitated and was speechless.
With Liu Tong's ability, he could be a county magistrate and was quite capable in managing the government affairs of a place, but it would not work if he were asked to go to war, and he did not have the courage to fight.
Liu Yan left him behind and made him the county magistrate of Xinye, which was quite reasonable and insightful.
Liu Xiu shouted loudly to the panicked crowd around him: "Don't stop it! Everyone who can hold a weapon, follow me!" As he spoke, he turned around and walked out.
Liu Tong's eyes widened in shock, and he hurriedly pulled Liu Xiu back, asking in a trembling voice: "Axiu, you... what are you going to do?"
Liu Xiu said seriously: "In this battle, we can only defeat the enemy and repel them. There is no other way. If we win, the whole army will survive. If we lose, we will perish!"
The current situation is no longer a question of whether they can survive. If Xinye is captured by the Mang army, the nearly 20,000 people in the Zhutiandu tribe headed by Liu Yan will not only be cut off from food and supplies, but also lose their foundation and will be trapped. In this area between Jiyang, Huoyang, and Xinye, the situation is crisis and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Liu Tong shook his head repeatedly and said: "There is no one available in the city now, how can we fight against the reckless army?"
Liu Xiu looked at Liu Tong and asked, "Aren't you human? Aren't they human? Since we still have strength, why can't we fight?"
As he spoke, he looked around at everyone present and saw that all the government officials had their heads lowered and no one spoke. He said in a deep voice: "You can escape, but what about your family? Can they escape? The imperial court treats me like a hawk. You have never seen the methods of the Zhu Tianjun family members. Once the Mang army is allowed to capture Xinye, won't you know what will happen to them?"