Zhuge Hui and Yang Xiu directed their men to move the luggage into the house.

This house was originally owned by a businessman. It is a typical four-in-one house with blue bricks and green tiles. The house is not very big (by Yangxiu standards), but the yard is not small, with rockery and flowing water, and more than ten apricot and peach trees.

The trees and branches are full of fruits; a grape stretches its vines wantonly on the grape trellis, occupying a large territory. The clusters of small grapes are densely packed, which can make patients with trypophobia take off on the spot. The environment here is quite quiet,

Zhuge Hui liked it at first sight. While the servants were busy cleaning the house, she sat on the swing hanging under an apricot tree and swung back and forth with a comfortable expression: "This house is really nice. I like it here very much."

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Yangxiu sat on another swing and swung with her: "It's just a bit shabby."

Zhuge Hui laughed dumbly: "This is Nanyang, so naturally it cannot be compared with Luoyang."

Yangxiu said: "That's right." He relaxed whole body, lying on the swing, squinting his eyes, "The poverty here is poor, but it makes people feel at ease. It's not like Luoyang, where every corner is soaked with fear and despair. Every corner is filled with fear and despair.

The whole day is spent in the shadow of doom."

Zhuge Hui sighed: "This is only temporary, Luoyang is over, Nanyang will be over soon..."

Yang Xiu said: "If you can enjoy peace for one more day, just count it as one day. In this troubled world, enjoying a moment of peace is already a luxury."

Thinking of the atmosphere of fear and despair shrouded in the shadow of doomsday in Luoyang, the two girls sighed. They should really be proud of their excellent psychological quality. They did not suffer from depression after staying in Luoyang for so long.

disease!

Zhuge Hui was not in the mood to swing anymore, so he stopped the swing and asked Yangxiu: "What are your plans next?"

Yangxiu said: "What other plans can I have? Rest here for a few days and then return to Luoyang."

Zhuge Hui was surprised: "You want to go back to Luoyang!?"

Yangxiu said: "I promised to send you to Nanyang quietly. Now that you have arrived in Nanyang safely, of course I have to go back. We can't let that fool face hundreds of thousands of Hulu troops alone in Luobei, right?"

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Zhuge Hui looked at her and said, "If you go back, you will die!"

Yang Xiu didn't even open his eyes: "Just die, it doesn't matter. Anyway, living in these troubled times is a punishment!"

Zhuge Hui didn't know what to say.

At this time, Yangxiu completely lacked the flamboyance and liveliness of the Battle of Piaoliu. Some of it was just boredom, originating from the depths of his soul, and the boredom of this damn troubled world. In the past few months, the Yang family has had several new members.

Several outstanding disciples died on the battlefield, including an uncle who rose to the rank of governor. The elder had always been very kind to her and regarded her as one of his own. Together with Yang Chen, he suppressed those hungry wolves who wanted to kill Yang Jun.

, the clan member who divided the property of Yangxiu, would teach Yangxiu how to read and practice martial arts when he had time. He taught most of Yangxiu's skills. But such a kind elder, in seven days

He died in the battle at Xingyang, and his four sons died together with him, so his line was considered extinct.

Before Yangxiu could recover from the huge blow, even greater bad news came. Hundreds of thousands of Jin troops were slaughtered by Shi Le in Ningping City! The successive bad news almost defeated her. Like many people, she

She also realized that this troubled world has no end. No one knows when the end will come. People seem to live in this world just to wait for death! This makes her very tired. Yang Chen and Yang Jun have to give up more than once.

She went to the relatively safe Guanzhong or Jiangdong, but she was rejected. She didn't want to go anywhere. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get out of this terrible troubled world, so she might as well accept it calmly!

After a long while, Zhuge Huicai said: "Actually... living is not just about suffering, there are still some things worth our efforts to live on."

Yangxiu opened her eyes: "What about?"

Zhuge Hui said: "For example, food, wine, and beautiful scenery. Don't you want to eat all the food in the world, drink all the wine in the world, and see all the beautiful scenery in the world?"

Yangxiu didn't speak anymore, just sighed deeply.

However, Yangxiu's bad mood did not last long, because three hours later, the banquet started.

The ingredients used by Li Rui in the banquet were relatively common. They were all common poultry, river fresh food, and pork, mutton, and dog meat that can be bought in the market. None of those well-known delicacies from the mountains and seas are available here, let alone

There are no dishes that simply take a small part of the ingredients and kill a hundred sheep to make a bowl of soup, which are purely to show off one's wealth. What stands out about the dishes at the entire banquet is that they are delicious and large in quantity.

, take charge!

Although the ingredients were ordinary, everything was very delicious. Sheep Xiu transformed into a hamster again, eating until her cheeks were bulging... Alas, she has never eaten such delicious food since this guy came to Nanyang. She really misses it.

ah!

She thought, in fact, living is quite good, after all, if you die, you won’t be able to eat such delicious food!

She was eating happily, but Sima Fan was a little bit confused about the food. He held the chopsticks with one chopstick in between, absent-mindedly.

Li Rui noticed something strange about him, sat down next to him with a bowl of braised noodles, and asked, "What's wrong? Are you absent-minded?"

Sima Fan was silent for a while and said, "I don't know what's going on in Luoyang now."

Li Rui rolled his eyes and said, "What else can I do? It's almost over!"

Sima Fan was speechless: "Actually... you don't have to speak so bluntly. Now you are the governor of a county, and you can be regarded as a high official in the border area. You must restrain your words and deeds to avoid others being caught."

Li Rui curled his lips: "I have to live freely for myself first. As long as I have a clear conscience, then why do I care about other people's eyes?"

Sima Fan still wanted to persuade him, but when the words came to his lips, he was no longer in the mood. He asked in a low voice: "Is it true that you can't survive this time?"

Li Rui shook his head: "We can't survive. The best choice for people in Luoyang City now is to run away as far as possible."

Sima Fan said: "This is the capital of the Jin Dynasty. How can we give up so easily?"

Li Rui said: "If you don't let it go, just die with it! If you have no soldiers, no food, no food, it's more serious to run away quickly!"

Sima Fan said: "If Luoyang is lost, the Jin Dynasty will be finished..."

Li Rui was speechless: "It sounds like Da Jin is not over yet!"

Sima Fan: "..."

It's really easy to choke to death if you chat with this guy!

Li Rui took a big mouthful of noodles and said: "Cheer up, there are so many things to do every day, appease the people, resettle the refugees, train the new army, strengthen the defense forces in various places... By the way, there are also

Wang Ru is running around in the Xiangfan area, one after another, and there are so many complicated things that you may want to commit suicide, so be alert and deal with it!"

Sima Fan looked a little strange: "Wang Ru... has captured Xiangfan."

Li Rui was completely stunned: "What!?"

Sima Fan repeated: "Wang Ru has captured Xiangfan."

Li Rui's eyes were as wide as pig urine: "Did I hear you right? If I remember correctly, when he fled Xinye, there were only three thousand people left with him. He was just a lost dog. Just these three thousand people.

Can we also capture Xiangfan!?"

Sima Fan said: "Not only Xiangfan, but also Jiangling was captured by him."

Li Rui had the urge to vomit blood: "How did he do it?" He had always wanted to get rid of Wang Ru completely, so that he would not always hang around in front of him, which was very annoying. However, after taking Xinye, his power

It was greatly diluted. After all, he still had to divide his troops to occupy Biyang, Duyang, Wuyang, Kunyang, Luyang and other places to block the Hu people's route into the Nanyang Basin. With so many places, he had more than 10,000 people on hand.

Backbone, that is definitely not enough. After taking these places, he could no longer mobilize enough strength in a short period of time to continue going south to take down Wang Ru. No, when he went to rescue the Forbidden Army, Sima Fan spent a lot of money.

The strength of the two tigers could only squeeze out a thousand Wuhuan cavalry, and there was not a single one more. The most important thing was that neither Wang Cheng, the highest official in Jingzhou, nor Shan Jian, who was in charge of military and political affairs in the Xiangfan area, refused to let the Jin army enter.

Xiangfan territory, probably because they were afraid that he would use an excuse to destroy Wang Ru, swallowed up Xiangfan in one gulp.

Anyway, he didn't have enough power on hand, and the local snakes in Xiangfan were not welcome, so Li Rui had to give up the idea of ​​going to Xiangfan for the time being. In his opinion, Wang Ru only had 3,000 people left in Xiangfan.

There were more than 10,000 people in the area. It was not easy to deal with him. He happily put Wang Ru behind him and turned to work on more important things.

Then he heard the shocking news that Wang Ru had captured Xiangfan and rushed all the way to Jiangling, which almost shocked him!

Sima Fan looked ashamed and uttered two words: "Fake surrender!"

Jia You explained for him: "Wang Cheng, the governor of Jingzhou, and Shan Jian, the prefect of Xiangyang, both admired Wang Ru's bravery. After Wang Ru was defeated and fled to Xiangfan, they began to recruit him to surrender. Wang Ru had always disagreed, but some time ago

Tian probably agreed on the price, so he suddenly agreed and took 20 people into Xiangyang to surrender to Shan Jian. Shan Jian was overjoyed and held a banquet to entertain him. As a result, he pulled out a hidden short knife during the banquet and hijacked Shan Jian. Du Rui

When a group of Xiangfan military and political officials threatened the lives of their families and forced them to order the troops in the Xiangfan area to surrender, Xiangfan, a battleground for military strategists, was captured without bloodshed."

Li Rui: "...ridiculous!"

Jia You sighed: "What's even more outrageous is that the day after he captured Xiangfan, he took several officials from Xiangfan and more than ten carts of gifts and went south to Jiangling to ask to see the king. The king did not doubt that he was there and went out of the city to greet him. As a result,

He had more than a hundred dead soldiers ambushed in the car. When Inspector Wang came out of the city to greet him, the dead soldiers suddenly jumped out of the car and captured him in one fell swoop, forcing him to order the Jiangling garrison to surrender..."

Li Rui really wanted to vomit blood this time: "You know that the other party is a desperado, but when the other party is at the end of their rope, you don't think about how to eliminate evil and do all the evil, and instead go to surrender! It's okay to surrender, and you don't have to be wary at all! This is your Sima family.

The pillars that you rely on? How unimaginable are you to pick such a bunch of weirdos to help you govern the world?"
Chapter completed!