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Chapter 674 Conclusive
Fenglingdu.

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor was buried here after his virtuous Xiangfeng, and it was called "Fengling", hence the name.

This is the corner where the Yellow River turns from north to east. It is a traffic hub for boats to cross the river. In the past, there were frequent business trips.

It's a pity that the river is blocked now, and only soldiers can be seen patrolling, guarding against the Song army on the other side.

There are no business travelers in the huge post houses outside the town, and all of them have been requisitioned.

On the sixth day of September, Yi Shu'an has arrived at Fenglingdu...

Yi Shu'an's father was Yisu, who captured Guozhou at the end of the Jin Dynasty and built a fortress on Zhongtiao Mountain to resist Mongolia. Seeing Xuanzong fled to Bianliang, he knew that the situation was over, so he surrendered to Mongolia. According to the old system of the Jin Dynasty, he wore gold amulets , Served as the Jiedu envoy of Jiezhou.

When Yisu was alive, Yi Shu'an went north to Jiuyuan City and was held under the gate of Arahai.Later, he inherited his father's title and guarded Xiezhou.

These years have been easy and comfortable, nothing more than collecting five households as escorts every year to give to the clan relatives, and the Yi family is rarely recruited to fight.

Recently, however, there has been a tendency for storms to come.

In July, I suddenly received an urgent letter from Lian Xixian, saying that Liu Heima had rebelled against Mongolia and returned to the Song Dynasty, and Jingzhao Mansion could not be defended, and asked Yi Shu'an to search Zhang Rou's daughter to prevent the Zhang family from collaborating with the enemy.

Although Yi Shu'an couldn't understand, he did as he did and blocked Pujin Ferry.

After sending people to search for a long time, they found Zhang's daughter, and kindly asked her to go to Jiezhou City to find out the matter, but she fled to Zhongtiao Mountain.

Not long after, Zhang Yanxiong led people to arrive and asked Yi's family to let them go, Yi Shu'an felt a dilemma, and sent someone to invite Lian Xixian to deal with it, but he didn't know where Lian Xixian had gone.

Afterwards, the news of the fall of Tongguan and the death of Lian Xixian came... Yi Shu'an suddenly discovered that Xiezhou was already at the front line of the war with Song Dynasty.

He was afraid that the Zhang family had really colluded with Li Xia, and the next step was to attack Jiezhou.

Until three days ago, Zhang Yanxiong brought several witnesses...

"What did you say?! Prime Minister Lian is not dead! You voted for Li Xia?!"

If it is said that Lian Xixian is not dead, Yi Shu'an will believe it, but it is unbelievable to say that he voted for Li Xia.

However, two letters have been handed to him.

One of them was half burned, but it was indeed written by Lian Xixian himself. He wanted to expose the Zhang family's defection to the enemy to His Majesty. His words were convincing, and it was not the same thing as the previous statement of "preventing the possibility of the Zhang family collaborating with the enemy".

The other letter was a truce letter from Li Xia to Luoyang. It was rich in content. It not only pointed out the great war in Mobei, the two sides should not continue to use troops, lest Brother Ali would take advantage of it. An envoy Hao Zhe has been sent south for peace talks.Li Xia claimed that he had just learned about this and decided not to use troops against Shanxi and Henan.

The problem is... the wording, the handwriting of the letter.

"Is this Lian Xixian's handwriting? Left hand?"

Uncle Yi couldn't believe it.

But I found many gentlemen who are good at calligraphy and painting in the mansion to look at it, and it was indeed written by Lian Xixian.

So far, many things seem to have answers suddenly.

Why did Lian Xixian dare to make his own claim and appoint Wang Liangchen as commander in chief?

Wang Liangchen was better than Hunduhai, how could he be defeated in an instant?
Why did Liu Heima surrender to Li Xia?

Why did Lian Xixian quit Guanzhong without saying anything?
Also, how did Mengge Khan die suddenly in Diaoyu City...

One idea, one hundred ideas.

When it was discovered that Lian Xixian was collaborating with the enemy and treason, all doubts were instantly cleared up.

It's a pity that Yi Shu'an figured it out, and when he raised his head again, he was facing Zhang Yanxiong's murderous eyes.

"My Zhang family wants to cooperate with the enemy?! Guan Long has been lost, and my marshal is still fighting with His Majesty in Mobei. Who is collaborating with the enemy?!"

Yi Shu'an was shocked.

He is just a young prince, and he would never dare to go against the Zhang family, a first-class family of princes.

"Don't be upset, General Zhang. It's not that I doubt the Zhang family, it's Prime Minister Lian..."

"Lianxiang? What a Lianxiang! The traitor who pretended to die for the country, wait for me to send the elite dead soldiers across the Yellow River, and bring him up in front of you to see who is collaborating with the enemy!"

Uncle Yi thought it was an angry talk, but she didn't want to, the news reached Xiezhou yesterday that Lian Xixian was really captured by the Zhang family...

He galloped to Fenglingdu Town, entered the post house, and immediately summoned Yizhong.

"What's going on?! Lian Xixian is really alive?"

"Yes, it has been taken back by the Zhang family."

Uncle Yi was surprised, and asked again: "Have you tried it?"

"No. Zhang Yanxiong said that the man was eloquent, and he had to wait for a few days before interrogation before he was willing to tell the truth. The commander-in-chief is going to see him?"

"See?" Yi Shu'an was furious, and said, "I shouldn't have to judge such a big matter, it should be transferred to Kaiping."

However, Yi Zhong said: "There is one more thing to worry about... On the bank of the Yellow River, there are many troops brought by Lian Xixian from Jingzhao. They planned to rob and kill Zhang Jiarui and rescue Lian Xixian that day."

Yi Shuan was startled.

"How dare he?!"

"They said they wanted to ambush Li Xia..."

"Ridiculous! How could Li Xia come to the north bank?"

Yi Shu'an is tired of these lies.

Shanxi had been quiet for too long, and he didn't want to get involved in the dispute. When he saw the truce letter, he already hoped that the matter would end here, but it was Zhang Yanxiong who proved the Zhang family's innocence, not that Lian Xixian was still alive.

"The evidence of Lian Xixian's crime of treason is solid, yet he dares to speak eloquently, heh, he is not bad at all."

Yi Zhong said: "Yes, Lian Xixian is a traitor."

"Don't you understand? These people planned it a few years ago." Yi Shu'an took two steps and murmured, "Don't let this matter spread. Lian Xixian's reputation is too high. Be careful, it may cause chaos."

"Yes. And... Zhang Yanxiong wants the commander-in-chief to meet him."

The same is the Marquis, but Yi Shu'an and Zhang Rou are not the same. Hearing that Zhang Rou's generals are so domineering, his face collapses, his face is full of embarrassment...

~~
In another post house.

Zhang Yanxiong was standing in the courtyard gate holding his knife, his eyes were always on Li Xia, full of vigilance.

Under his watchful eyes, Li Xia and Zhang Wenjing were sitting on the stone steps in an orderly manner and talking.

"Is he annoying? He can't even leave." Zhang Wenjing has changed into women's clothing, which is a little more beautiful than yesterday's men's clothing.

Although they met each other, they were in Yi's territory after all, and they didn't have much time to spend together, so she could only call Li Xia over in the name of listening to the report.

At this moment, she wanted to talk about the engagement, so she glanced at Zhang Yanxiong, seeing that the general was still staring there, she couldn't help being annoyed.

"Just stare at it, don't embarrass him."

"Tell me, when he received that letter from Lian Xixian from you, he was so angry that his beard stood on end...like this."

Zhang Wenjing pulled her hair at the temples, but she didn't have the slightest prestige of Zhang Yanxiong.

"If it's like this, then he's a bit cute." Li Xia said casually, moved closer, and said in a low voice: "Actually, Lian Xixian lied to me in that letter, so he didn't intend to tell Kublai Khan about it." The state of the Zhang family."

Zhang Wenjing didn't dodge, smiled, leaned into Li Xia's ear, and replied in a low voice: "I know, I won't say it, it will make Zhang Yanxiong hate Lian Xixian to death... the class is playing with the axe, and Dong Shi imitates you. An dare to learn your methods to deal with you." ?”

"You see it all?"

"Yeah, but I didn't expect you to come in person. Zhang Yanxiong didn't expect it either, did you find out? He was completely dumbfounded yesterday."

"Found it, and when he saw me, his eyes glared. He wished he could kill me on the spot."

"He didn't dare to kill you. He told Yi's family that you are a sharp soldier under my command." Zhang Wenjing said proudly.

Li Xia said: "But in this way, the Zhang family is really collaborating with the enemy."

"How is that good?"

"I don't use you to design the Zhang family..."

"Cough cough!"

Zhang Yanxiong coughed heavily again, and pulled out the knife a little.

The two people in the courtyard didn't even look at the knife, they just sat up straight and continued chatting.

"I'm not going to look for you. I want to send sister Yuan back home. I want to go to Luoyang to have fun, and then go to Chang'an. Don't get me wrong."

Zhang Wenjing said, and glanced at Li Xia, as if afraid that he really misunderstood.

"Okay, I understand." Li Xia replied casually, "I've been too busy in the past two years. I planned to spend this time busy and go shopping around Kaifeng."

Zhang Wenjing laughed again, obviously she still had a lot to say, but it was hard to say because someone was staring at her, so she had to choose what she could say.

"Then you've been busy for a while, but my fifth brother was terrified. I wonder why he covered his face so pale at home."

"It's time to come to him and apologize to him some other day."

"..."

Zhang Yanxiong looked at it, not understanding what the two were laughing at, and why it was so funny.

He is quite troubled.

I still have the idea of ​​killing Li Xia in my mind, but the current situation...

First, Li Xia sent someone to deliver two letters to the eldest sister, and then the eldest sister said that Lian Xixian was going to frame the Zhang family, Li Xia agreed to send someone to pretend to be a member of the Zhang family, and "rob" Lian Xixian back , proving that the person is cheating.

It turned out that Li Xia came in person, and he couldn't kill him in front of Yi's family...it was always too complicated.

Let people not know what to do.

He only got the order to bring the eldest sister back as soon as possible and not to cause trouble to the Zhang family.Moreover, as long as it does not violate the family's great interests, he can only listen to the eldest sister.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanxiong couldn't help being upset when he saw Li Xia who wanted to kill but couldn't.

Occasionally, I also thought of the scene when I saw Li Xia and Zhang Wenjing standing together on the Chen Tuan Pagoda, and I still felt that they were a good match.

"Ugh……"

~~
A wisteria flower was blown down by the wind and fell under the stone steps. Zhang Wenjing picked it up, thought about it, and pinned it to Li Xia's ear.

"Ok?"

"It's beautiful, don't take it down, but you are in my hands again."

Li Xia was not annoyed, and let her play around.

"You are a handsome man, you are really obedient." Zhang Wenjing nodded in satisfaction, and then she thought about it again, holding her face in her hands and thinking about it, without looking at Li Xia, she asked in a low voice, "How dare you come here?" ? Are you not afraid of danger?"

"You are so close, there is only a river across, I don't even want to go this way, it's too..."

In this situation of being stared at by others, it is impossible to talk smoothly after all.

There was another communication sound outside.

"General! Uncle Yi has arrived..."

Zhang Wenjing looked up and saw that Zhang Yanxiong had turned his back, and hurriedly whispered in Li Xia's ear.

Li Xia also quickly whispered a few words.

"Yes, I know……"

"Eldest sister." Zhang Yanxiong turned around and said, "It's not good to interrogate anymore... Get up and go out."

Li Xia didn't make things difficult for him, stood up, and said, "Is Uncle Yi here? If General Zhang hasn't figured out how to tell him, how about I teach you a few words?"

Zhang Yanxiong frowned, and said: "Don't bother me, wait for me to distract the Yi family's eyes and ears, you go back to your territory, and stop looking for Zhang family's affairs..."

"Just listen to him." Zhang Wenjing changed her posture, got up and ordered: "Li Jieshuai said that he will help the Zhang family get out of these things, you just listen to him... and, Your Majesty has sent envoys to discuss peace with Song Ting, please speak respectfully."

~~
The [-] or so people brought by Li Xia were placed by Zhang Yanxiong in the post house opposite, and Zhang's family was also watching.

Standing at the door, Lin Zi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Xia finally came back from the opposite yard.

"Go in and talk."

The two walked into the room, Li Xia said: "Don't just focus on me, don't forget our various purposes for coming to Shanxi."

"Remember, the problem now is if Lian Xixian can convince the Yi family to believe him..."

Li Xia handed over a talisman and said, "Let's start preparing."

Lin Zi understood that Li Xia's trip had many purposes besides picking up the girl from the Zhang family... To stop Lian Xixian's desire to return to Mongolia, and then bring him back, he still needed to arrange detailed work and find out the deployment of troops on the other side of the Yellow River .

To do this, if there are no troubles, how can we cross the Yellow River again.

"Yes." Lin Zi replied: "The commander-in-chief has just decided to pass in Guanzhong, and I'm here to give a gift to this neighbor from Shanxi..."

(End of this chapter)