Lian Jun's expression was unnatural for a moment: "They are either bandits or something, they are just reckless men who have lost their livelihood and want to seize power." After finishing speaking, he touched the tip of his nose unnaturally.
"Lian Jun! Be honest." Xie Fengyue took off her raincoat and threw it down with a slight sound.
The servants and soldiers in the hall looked at each other in confusion.
Lian Jun quietly raised his eyes, glanced at Xie Fengyue's expression, raised a smile on his face and blocked everyone outside the door to wait.
"Why are they so angry? They are really just rogue bandits. Now rogue bandits are everywhere. A few days ago, my father went around lending troops to the various prefectures and prefects to quell the chaos."
Xie Fengyue sat up straight: "The bandits are all refugees or escaped slaves and tenants of various families. How can they understand the art of war and strategies when they are illiterate? They also know how to catch people with status and threaten them. During the week at the government office, They are all rich and powerful families who are temporarily living in Lingnan City. They went straight there and they obviously had an agenda. This is not something that ordinary bandits can do. "
Lian Jun pursed his lips and his eyes wandered.
He didn't know whether he should say it or not. Logically speaking, it was not his turn to talk to a girl from an aristocratic family or a girl from a northern aristocratic family.
Although the gentry in the north and the south were not incompatible with each other, they were clearly divided and had their own affairs.
The bandits around Lingnan Mansion were indeed just bandits at first. His father felt sorry for them when he saw them. They were all poor people who could not survive.
Anyway, they were only entrenched in the Xishan area, and all they robbed were the food of aristocratic families. They didn't rob gold, silver, or soft goods, and they only injured people but never killed them.
But I don't know who among that group of people got the idea, and suddenly rushed into the county government office one day, killed the county magistrate, and occupied the county as a base.
Then they started to attack the small tribes, burning, killing, looting, and absorbing the surrounding refugees and escaped slaves. Their team was growing day by day, but the surrounding county pavilions were in bad luck.
They sent people over to negotiate, but the envoys went in vertically and came out horizontally, so Lian Qihai had no choice but to personally lead the troops to attack them. Thinking that they were all poor people oppressed by the world, he didn't want to kill them all, so he could recruit them as soon as possible. They wanted to recruit people, but that group of people were so determined that they would rather die than surrender.
So it has reached the point where it is now, with thousands of people dying all over the place, and only a few hundred people fleeing.
Seeing that he lowered his head and said nothing, Xie Fengyue asked again: "Is it because Lian Xiaolang is hiding this from me because it is related to the peace of the country?"
Lian Jun hesitated and simply changed the subject: "I will send someone to Liuheju first to inquire about your uncle's situation, so as not to worry you."
Xie Fengyue sighed, if you don't want to say it, don't say it.
"Then thank you very much, Mr. Lian Xiaolang."
He and she waved behind her, and the large coir raincoat hid Xiao Xuan's whole body inside. At a glance, it looked like a moving grain pile.
"Let him go with you. My uncle knows him, otherwise he won't be willing to go with others under such a blockade."
Lian Jun replied dissatisfiedly: "Miss Xie, the situation outside is unclear right now. I'm afraid it won't be convenient with a child."
Xie Fengyue said nothing, but looked at Xiao Xuan.
He understood, and quickly took off his raincoat, holding the leg of the stool beside him with one hand. In the next moment, the huanghuali wood stool leg was crushed, and scattered sawdust scattered everywhere.
Lian Jun's eyes widened and he was amazed, "You are born with supernatural power, you actually have such a good seedling under your hands!"
Xie Fengyue asked with a smile: "Can Mr. Lang feel at ease now?" The rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, with no intention of stopping.
The two of them just sat quietly, drinking cold tea.
In the end, Xie Fengyue spoke up: "Are you going to apply for the army, Mr. Lian, or will you just serve under General Lian?"
Lian Jun became interested when he heard the mention of this, his eyes brightened: "Of course he was recruited to go to the border. My father is just a garrison here and there is no war. A good man wants to shed blood on the battlefield, how can he just stay in the rear? .”
It's not like Xie Fengyue is smiling when she says this, nor is she not smiling.
In one sentence, he simply described Lian Qihai's 50,000 garrison garrison as people who are greedy for life and afraid of death
Sure enough, a small setback can't stop the brain from being stupid.
Before Xie Fengyue could speak, Lian Jun continued proudly: "I plan to go back to Shengjing in the middle of the month to say goodbye to my mother and then go to the command of my father's sworn brother, General Weiyuan."
"Lian Xiaolangjun wants to protect the North? Isn't there no war there? I heard a few days ago that the third princess of Beiyuan will marry Qian'an in exchange for a ten-year truce."
Lian Jun's blood boiled as soon as he mentioned the war. He replied without any hesitation: "The barbarians want to cease the war just because they want to get married. What are they dreaming about? A year ago, they broke the promise of a winter truce and occupied three parts of the northern border. A large county is still wrangling, and their armistice document is just a piece of waste paper.”
The more he talked, the more he raised his head, and he slapped the corner of the table: "Bullshit princess, the person you chose for marriage was not a member of the royal family, but a member of the noble family. Isn't this everyone's well-known fact?"
"The Beiyuan dynasty is quite smart. They know that each generation of the royal family is not as good as the previous one. The inheritance has been lost until now. They just want to bring harm to the big clan. If the direct descendant of a big clan marries a foreign clan wife, it will simply become the whole family. The laughingstock of the Qian'an clan is a shame."
After Xie Fengyue heard the words, the haze that had been hanging over her head for many days was swept away. She finally knew why Mrs. Xihua chose her brother to marry Princess Beiyuan.
Princess Beiyuan had promised from the very beginning that she would marry the son of an aristocratic family, so that her brother Xie Lingyun would be in the selection process. Now Mrs. Xihua must have reached a secret agreement with Beiyuan to allow Xie Lingyun to marry the princess. Everything you say and do is under control.
If Xie Fengyue's guess is correct, Xie Lingyun, who is now in Shengjing, may have changed his appearance and is no longer a sideline of the Xie family. After all, this status is not worthy of marrying Princess Beiyuan.
Xie Fengyue even wanted to laugh when she thought of this, one son and one daughter in the same family.
Daughters were married off as legitimate daughters, and sons had their names changed to marry princesses. They all ignored their ancestors' etiquette and laws for the sake of power, and it was so terrifying.
Lian Jun didn't hear Xie Fengyue's response. When he turned to look at her, he discovered that there was a faint smile on her face, and there seemed to be thousands of streams of light floating in her eyes, which captured him at once.
The beauty smiled, nodded and lowered her eyebrows.
He spoke a little unnaturally: "Miss Xie is very knowledgeable, but she also knows about the armistice."
Xie Fengyue was in a very good mood, and her voice softened a bit unconsciously: "I once heard a friend mention it, so I remembered it. It is true that Lang Jun Dayi, the only son of a noble family, would join the front line."
Lian Jun felt refreshed by such praise: "No, I just don't want to be sheltered by my parents. But Miss Xie's friend actually knows these things in advance, which is quite capable."
Xie Fengyue didn't reply, just smiled and nodded slightly.
Gongzi Yan does have some abilities, but he always hides them from her.