The prince is very fierce

People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes.

Everyone likes to reunite rather than part, but the war that swept the world was not completely extinguished after all.

In Jinling City, Xu Buling accompanied Lu Hongluan in the mansion, enjoying the joy of being a father for the first time, and the Xiliang Army that defeated the four kings had turned north and kicked off the final general offensive on the eastern battlefield.

If the world is not peaceful, the country will be difficult to maintain, and if the country is difficult to maintain, the family will be difficult to maintain.

Xu Buling stayed at home with his wives for a month, until he drank his son's full moon wine, and then he reluctantly led out the war horse, took the war knife, and set out on the road to the north again.

September 18, the Yangtze River estuary outside Jinling City.

The building ship that followed Xu Buling all the way was anchored at the port again.

Xiao Xiang'er, Cui Xiaowan, Ning Yuhe, Ning Qingye, Zhu Manzhi, Zhongli Chuchu, six girls stood at the bow of the ship in late September, watching the army on the dock slowly leave.

Lu Hongluan, who had just finished her confinement, stood at the window of the second floor of the building ship holding her baby in her arms, looking far away, her eyes full of reluctance.

In front of the thousands of personal soldiers, Xu Buling rode on the wind-chasing horse, looking back, and did not move for a long time.

In the carriage behind him, Yeying held a whip and drove the carriage frame; Xiao Qi and Song Yufu, who served as military advisors with the army, as well as the doctor Zhongli Jiujiu, and the strongest fighter Chen Sining, also looked out the window and raised their hands to say goodbye.

Xu Buling went north to attack Qi, and the building ship returned to Chang'an along the river. This time, the farewell may be longer than the previous ones.

But the girls on the ship didn't look too disappointed, because they knew that this was the last farewell. As long as they finished this battle, they would no longer have to consider war, enemy countries, or even external factors such as the court and the clan for the rest of their lives, and they could live together forever.

However, there were still objections on the ship that they couldn't follow Xu Buling to the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Manzhi hugged his chest and kept muttering:

"I'm also good at fighting, and I've been to Northern Qi and I'm very familiar with Northern Qi..."

Ning Qingye's face was as cold as ever, and he whispered:

"You haven't even killed anyone, and you still want to fight?"

This sentence is not a joke. Zhu Manzhi has been in the martial arts world for many years, and he has never killed anyone. He has learned the mountain-shaking skill from his father, the Sword Saint, but he has never used it once.

But Zhu Manzhi didn't think this was a stain on her success in the martial arts world, and retorted with a frown:

"You can't think in a flexible way, what do you know about the martial arts world? The martial arts world is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly affairs..."

Ning Yuhe shook her head and smiled, without interrupting the conversation between the two girls. She also knows martial arts, but she has to admit that she is too far away from Chen Si Ning. Chen Si Ning is a half-step master, and what she lacks is the experience of killing; and what she lacks is the foundation. Together with Qing Ye and Manzhi, she should seriously lay the foundation with Li Hansheng and Zhu Liu.

The same is true for Zhongli Chuchu. Her medical skills are not as good as her master, and her martial arts are the same as Manzhi, and she may not be able to beat him. These days, she must be practicing hard, so as not to become a vase with nothing but her beauty.

Xiao Xiang'er and Cui Xiaowan really can't follow, but Xu Buling promised to build a "Baby Bridge", so Xiao Xiang'er won't be idle. After returning to Chang'an, she can plan and leave her own masterpiece in history.

Cui Xiaowan is no longer a loner now. She can bear the loneliness of more than a year by playing with Xiao Xianger.

The most miserable person may be Lu Hongluan. She has just given birth to a son and has to part with her husband and live in Chang'an City where she has lived for more than ten years.

Without Xu Buling's company, Lu Hongluan must be reluctant.

But this battle must be fought to the end. Lu Hongluan knows that at this moment, she is only looking forward to Xu Buling's bright smile and the soft words "Auntie Lu" when he returns triumphantly.

The building ship left the shore and sailed far away towards Chang'an, gradually turning into a lonely sail in the sky.

Xu Buling turned around and looked at the vast land in the north. After a long silence, the emotions suppressed in his heart turned into one sentence:

"Success or failure depends on this battle! Soldiers! Dismantle the camp!"

"Tiger--"

"Tiger--"

"Tiger--"

The long sword pointed north, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

Thousands of soldiers, after Xu Buling rode his horse and whipped his whip, headed for the desert north outside the Great Wall, raising dust...

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The final battle between Northern Qi and Dayue officially kicked off in the autumn of the first year of Jianping.

All forces and people in the world are paying attention to this final battle.

And outside the chessboard that no one noticed, a small matter that has nothing to do with the overall situation of the world is also quietly going on between heaven and earth.

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Autumn has gone and winter has come. Just after October, the first heavy snow fell from the sky and landed on the land of Youzhou.

In the distant east, at the end of the sky, on an isolated island overseas that has not been visited by anyone for several years, heavy snow buried the earth, and blue waves washed over the reefs. There was only the sound of waves between heaven and earth. This deserted island hanging overseas seemed to be on the edge of the world.

On the rough sea, a lone boat floats between heaven and earth.

A little girl, only fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a straw raincoat and holding a fishing rod, drifts with the current, fishing for fish under the sea.

Two pieces of iron spears are put together and placed behind the little girl. Her big eyes, full of spirit, stare out of the sea, as if she is thinking about how wide the sea is and how high the sky is.

Everyone who is at the seaside will think about this question, but this question obviously has no answer.

As the fish float shook in the wind and snow, Xiao Taohua came back to her senses and pulled up the fishing rod with force. The water was churning violently, as if she had caught something big.

The boat was dragged around in the sea. Seeing that the fishing rod was about to break, Xiao Taohua didn't want to have no lunch at noon. She stuck the fishing rod on the boat, picked up the iron gun next to her, jumped into the icy cold sea water.

Half an hour later, on the beach of Yuetuo Island.

Xiao Taohua was wrapped in a dry blanket, carrying a fish bigger than her on her shoulders, and walked towards the entrance of the underground palace.

The fish was very big and looked very strange. There were fins on its back and a mouth full of sharp teeth. It was particularly fierce, but its head was pierced by the iron gun, so it couldn't be fierce anymore.

Although this kind of fish is very big and fierce, it doesn't taste very good. Only the fins are delicious when cooked.

After catching it once, Xiao Taohua didn't want to catch it again, but she had bad luck today, so she had to make do with it.

Xiao Taohua looked at the big fish and thought secretly: If I tell Sister Manzhi, Sister Manzhi will definitely not believe that there is such a big fish. I have to take a few teeth back in the future...

There was no one on the beach, but some traces of human beings could still be seen.

There was an obvious crack on a big rock on the beach, which was caused by a collision.

There was a rusty iron rod on the ground, which was picked up by Xiao Taohua and inserted at the entrance of the underground palace so that she would not find the way back.

Xiao Taohua walked along the memorized route and came to the iron rod tied with a cloth strip.

The cloth strip on the iron rod fluttered in the wind, and it was written with "calculate good and bad luck, calculate misfortune and fortune", and there were also eight trigrams. It was a pity that no one came to her to tell fortunes in this place.

Xiao Taohua carried the big fish, walked through the deep tunnel, and came deep underground.

The corpse of the old eunuch had been dragged out by Xiao Taohua for burial.

Because of the last war, the underground palace was discovered by outsiders, and all the gold, silver and jewelry inside were moved away, leaving behind some messy garbage, which was also cleaned up by Xiao Taohua.

The stone wall at the corner of the passage was dug out by Li Hansheng and others, but the mechanism was not lowered, and the stone wall was raised and could not be seen.

Xiao Taohua walked into the center of the underground palace. This place was originally a place for people to live to avoid war, and there were many excavated rooms around. When she came, she picked a room with a good location and installed a small wooden door. Although it is impossible for anyone to disturb this place, how can there be no people in a place where people live.

There was a pile of wood in the center of the palace, and a bonfire was burning in the middle. Xiao Taohua had just walked in carrying a big fish, and a white Saker Falcon with its feet tied called twice vigilantly. After seeing the exaggerated big fish on her shoulder, it quickly lowered its head and cooed softly.

Xiao Taohua had been in Mobei for a long time and knew this valuable big eagle. On the way here, she was lucky enough to meet it and caught it. She didn't expect it to go fishing in the sea. She just treated it as a playmate during the hard training here.

"Are you hungry? Come and eat fish."

Xiao Taohua threw the big fish on her shoulder directly in front of the white eagle. The fish's mouth was bigger than the eagle's, which scared the white eagle so much that it spread its wings and flew around, with fear in its eyes.

"Hehe..."

Xiao Taohua smiled sweetly, went back to the house to change into clean clothes, then dragged the big fish to the dark river, skillfully gutted it and took out the meat, and then came to the campfire and started cooking the food in a hanging pot.

Training an eagle requires endurance, but the Saker Falcon next to Xiao Taohua obviously doesn't need to endure. It has been frightened by this fierce behavior and stands in front of it honestly, looking at the fish meat in Xiao Taohua's hand.

Xiao Taohua sat cross-legged beside the small chopping board, cut off a piece of meat and threw it into Baiying's mouth. Maybe she was too bored underground. Seeing Baiying eating voraciously, she chatted with him:

"What's so good about this? You are useless. You have never eaten good food. When I was traveling in Guanzhong, my mother bought me a Zhenping roast chicken. Do you know what roast chicken is?"

Baiying tilted his head: What are you mumbling? I don't understand human language.

Xiao Taohua also felt that the eagle didn't understand, so she grabbed Baiying, pointed at the fire, and then gestured on the eagle's neck with her hand, and then made the action of plucking feathers and roasting them on the fire.

"Gugu..."

Baiying understood this time.

Xiao Taohua put Ying down contentedly, continued to cut the meat, licked her lips and said:

"The roast chicken is so delicious, with crispy skin and tender meat. You can't eat it in this corner of the world for a lifetime. It's a pity that I have only eaten it once... and the water basin mutton in Chang'an City, do you know what water basin mutton is?"

Although Bai Ying didn't understand, he still learned to nod.

Xiao Taohua put the cut fish fillets into the boiling water in the hanging pot and smiled sweetly:

"This is how the mutton is cooked, the soup is especially delicious. And candied haws..."

Bai Ying nodded like pounding garlic.

Little Peach Blossom thought the eagle was a bit silly, so she raised her hand and threw a piece of meat over:

"You can't eat the candied haws, only I can. When I followed my parents to travel around the world, as soon as my father and Uncle Wu left, I would sit there to help watch the stall, and they would buy me a candied haws afterwards. Every time I pretended to be a fortune teller, I thought that if someone came to tell my fortune, I could get a few coins, and then go buy it myself; but unfortunately, after helping to watch the stall for a long time, only one person came to me for fortune-telling."

Little Peach Blossom took out her purse, took out the silver ingot from her arms, and shook it in front of the white eagle:

"See? This is the first money I earned in my life. I was so happy at that time, thinking of buying a whole pile of candied haws back."

When the white eagle saw Little Peach Blossom dangling a silver ingot in front of it, it carefully touched it with its beak.

Little Taohua quickly took back the silver ingot, touched the teeth marks on it, and whispered:

"Unfortunately, I was a blind person in telling fortunes. I was not sure how to spend the money, so I didn't dare to spend it. At that time, I thought that money can be exchanged for candied haws. The candied haws and silver are the same. Since I can't buy candied haws, when I want to eat it, Taking out the silver ingot and biting it doesn’t mean you’ve eaten it.”

Little Taohua brought the silver ingot to her mouth, bit it, and sighed softly:

"It's a pity that this thing has no taste at all, so I stopped biting it in the end."

In the deep underground palace, I talk to myself.

As the water in the hanging pot boils, there is a little more meaty aroma in the air.

Xiao Taohua took out the bowl and chopsticks, presented herself a bowl of fish soup, and took out a piece of dry biscuit. She held the bowl and sat by the wall of the underground palace. She ate the fish soup and the cake while looking at the dense carvings on the stone wall.

White Eagle was a little afraid of Little Peach Blossom, but there were no other living creatures in the deep underground palace. Even the animals were scared after staying there for a long time. When he saw Little Peach Blossom, he became silent and quietly touched and came closer.

Little Taohua picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks, threw it to Bai Ying, and continued:

"I was afraid that you would run away, so I tied you up. If you ran away, how boring would it be for me to be here alone? Don't worry, the eagle has a long lifespan. It can live for seventy or eighty years. If you stay here with me for two years, I will keep these After you have learned everything, I will take you out to conquer the world and fight with my big brother. I will be the best in the world. Then, you can eat whatever you want, and I will find you ten female eagles to keep you company..."

Having said this, Xiao Taohua blinked her eyes and looked at Bai Ying:

"By the way, are you a male or a female?"

Bai Ying nodded as if pounding garlic.

Little Taohua sighed. She didn't know how to distinguish between male and female, so she continued to eat fish from a small bowl:

"If it's a female, I'll find you ten male eagles as companions. Master asked me to keep an eye on the eldest brother, so I will be the National Preceptor. The National Preceptor is very powerful. If you want a few eagles, the eldest brother should give them to you."

Bai Ying made a "coo" sound twice. Although he didn't understand it, he acted obediently.

After lunch, Xiao Taohua washed the pots and bowls in the underground river and put them in the small cupboard.

White Eagle was also full and squatted by the campfire, looking at it suspiciously.

Little Taohua took the iron gun and came to the center of the empty palace. She glanced at the place she learned yesterday and carefully observed the scratches on it. Then she closed her eyes and imagined the movement and strength of the scratches. Her body also moved with her imagination. Moving, the tip of the spear swept across the stone tiles on the ground, practicing each move slowly and steadily.

There is no sun in the underground palace. To keep time, a homemade water leak is placed in the corner of the underground palace.

After a bucket of water is finished, a day has passed. Little Taohua will use an iron gun to carve a horizontal line on the ground, then return to the hut and sleep with the silver ingot in hand.

Just like this day after day

The scratches on the ground changed from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred.

At first, the white eagle was tied up and squatted aside to watch, then he loosened the rope and circled in the underground palace for a bird's eye view. Then he followed Little Peach Blossom and left the underground palace together, searching for fish that he had never eaten before on the vast sea.

The islands outside the underground palace changed from snow-covered mountains to spring flowers blooming, from spring flowers blooming to scorching sun, to fallen leaves all over the place, to snow-covered mountains again...

Little Taohua lives every day almost mechanically, but she is not boring at all. Occasionally she will take a boat to the market in Laoting County to buy some clothes, spices, and bring back a few books.

There were some books that her master once told her to learn, but what she liked more was the chivalrous stories printed by small workshops.

From "Sword Master Zhu Liu and the Seven Fairies of Emei" to "Sword Master Madam Guo Shanrong's Decisive Battle with Yaotai Fairy".

Whenever she was too tired from practicing martial arts, Little Taohua would sit by the campfire, holding a book, and explain these fascinating stories to Bai Ying.

Of course, I will occasionally brag:

"Do you know that the Sword Master Zhu Liu is his daughter? My sister, Fenhe Sword God, who I worshiped as a master, is very powerful..."

Bai Ying is very smart. He couldn't understand people's words at first, but after hearing more, he started to understand. At first they were afraid of Little Peach Blossom, but gradually they became friends who couldn't understand each other. They would also squat in Little Peach Blossom's arms and seriously feel the emotions of Little Peach Blossom when she told stories.

Time passed like this day by day, it seemed very long, but it seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

One morning, when the oil and salt in the underground palace were almost gone, Xiao Taohua took the boat again and came to Leting County, only to see a temporary notice posted at the gate of the county.

A notice to the world!

Little Taohua stood in front of the notice and looked at it carefully for a moment. Suddenly she realized that she was taller than the notice board.

She raised her hand, calculated carefully for a long time, and then muttered with a hint of realization:

"It's so fast. I'm already eighteen years old..."

The sound is a bit mature.

Little Taohua frowned. She didn't notice it before, but now she felt very uncomfortable. She quickly ran to the market, found a bronze mirror, picked it up and took a look at it.

The little peach blossom in the mirror has grown up...