MTL - Fairy, Please Let Me Explain-Chapter 234 start the war

  Chapter 234 War Begins

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

  The private room was silent 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 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."

  Xu Yuan smiled when he saw this: "Your Highness, you know me well. I have always been generous to my friends. I said five million is five million, and I won't raise the price again."

  Li Yunqing resisted 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 6 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 received the first three million yuan, and the remaining one and a half million yuan, I should probably 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 stopped mentioning 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 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 now."

  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 level 5 cultivation base, he could only see hundreds of white lights of different sizes shining in the air.

   That is the light of the moat formation.

  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:

"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 already know the third son's reaction just now."

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

  Li Yunqing pondered for a moment, then 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 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 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 smashed, 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 they don't do much damage to the formation cultivators, but they do a lot of 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 it was a pity that at that time, the Beifeng city was full of strong people and elites.

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

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

   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 of them 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 Gui Gong, the whole lobby resumed its appearance of singing and dancing.

  Because they knew that the barbarians would not be able to come 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 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 this fairly orderly lobby should 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?

  Walking out of the lobby, when the two came to 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 curfew in Beifeng City, soldiers have the right to kill directly.

  On a night of blizzard, except for the sound of the wind and the explosion of the sky in the south of the city, everything was very quiet, and the bright pattern lamps engraved on both sides of the road were faintly visible.

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

  But after seeing the sign of the 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, sighed suddenly, and said softly:

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

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

   "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 suddenly asked:

   "Long Sky,

   "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-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 hoarded food and grass are probably only enough for the elite of the sect to last for about a month."

  Li Yunqing was quiet for a while, then 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.

   "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 north, 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 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 use unscrupulous methods. 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 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."

  Xu Yuan had a smile in his eyes:

   "In the picture book, it is usually people like you who 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:

"arrive."

  Li Yunqing also looked back:

   "Pawn shop?"

  The position where the carriage stopped in the wind and snow was at the entrance of a large **** shop. Through the bright pattern lights on the street, you can see the words "World Pawn Shop" written on the plaque flying around.

   got out of the carriage,

  It was windy and 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.

   "Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-"

  Short and rhythmic, very light.

   Li Yunqing on the side hesitated slightly upon seeing 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 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:

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

  Xu Yuan followed the contact code given by Lou Ji:

   "I'm here to **** 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 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 didn't speak, and directly took out a token with a black dragon and three characters engraved on it from the Xumi Ring, but before throwing it to the middle-aged man for inspection, the other party directly bowed to him:

   "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, his eyes fell on Li Yunqing behind Xu Yuan:

   "It's the old man, Lord 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, hesitatingly 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.

  Thinking to this point,

  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 trick of living and dying with the city.

so,

   What does this guy want to do?

  (end of this chapter)