Chapter 71

Zhongli Jiujiu's martial arts skills were not considered outstanding, but she had an endless stream of tricks up her sleeves, especially when it came to raising small animals. No one in the world could compare to her. Seeing Chen Sining asking for advice, she said with a smile,

"It depends on talent. It's easy to say. Treat animals as friends, and over time, even if you don't speak, you will understand each other's meaning. But it's very difficult to do. If your mind is not meticulous enough, you will never understand what they are thinking. You train them with food, which is a very basic method. No matter how smart the two little snakes are, they can understand most of your orders, but it is impossible for them to understand all your meaning. If you really raise them well, you only need to look at them, and they will understand what you want to do … "

Chen Sining listened for a long time, but she was still confused. She thought for a while, looked at the little white snake seriously, and said in her heart, "Wag its tail".

The little white snake, who was eating the meat, noticed its master's eyes, and its movements stiffened. It carefully spat out the food, looked around blankly, and then lowered its head with grievance, with a look of "I know I was wrong".

"Uh …"

Chen Sining rubbed her forehead. She could only write it down for the time being, and try it slowly in the future.

Zhong Li Jiujiu talked about the method of domesticating small animals, and took out the small porcelain bottle found on Si Kongzhi last time.

On the way back, Zhong Li Jiujiu studied it several times, but she could only confirm that the medicine in the small porcelain bottle was not poisonous. There was no suitable environment and tools to analyze on the way, so she did not know what it was for.

At this time, in the quiet night at home, Zhong Li Jiujiu poured out a pill from the bottle, and then liquefied it with medicine. She smelled it, observed the color, and carefully identified the ingredients.

After Chen Sining finished eating, she went out to wash the dishes. She looked at the Chinese character "Happy" on the window of the opposite wing room, and did not want to disturb Xu Buling's wedding night. She returned to the room, sat down at the table, and petted the little snake while watching Zhong Li Jiujiu busy. She asked curiously,

"What medicine is this?"

"Hundred Steps Grass, Penta Chinensis …"

Zhong Li Jiujiu carefully observed for a while, and there was a little surprise in her eyes,

"He used a lot of expensive medicinal herbs. Most of them are used to clear away toxins, clear the internal heat, and refresh the mind. It feels a bit like an antidote. I can't tell what kind of poison it is, but judging from these herbs, it's most likely that after the poison breaks out, the internal heat will be too strong, and the mind will not be clear. It may also be accompanied by sores in the mouth and tongue, and the body will become thin …

Zhong Li Jiujiu said seriously, and suddenly found that Chen Sining's face gradually changed, and her brows furrowed. She stopped talking and thought about the relationship between Sikong Zhi and Zhou Qin. She became more serious.

"His Majesty's illness also has this symptom?"

Chen Sining attached great importance to her Lord Father. When she heard Zhongli Jiujiu's words, she naturally thought of Chen Jin, who was lying in the palace. She hesitated, and said, "There seems to be a little."

"There seems to be some, but the imperial physician said that Father drank too much wine and injured his lungs, which led to his current condition. The specific symptoms are …"

Based on her memory, Chen Sining explained Chen Jin's illness and his usual situation in detail.

Zhongli Jiujiu listened attentively and made associations with the ingredients of the pills. She slowly guessed it in her heart. She closed the bottle and said in a serious tone,

"This was found on Si Kongzhi, and put together with the Dragon-locking Insect, it must be a strange poison he made. Ordinary people can't tell the cause, and your father must have been poisoned."

Chen Sining still did not believe that her father was poisoned, because once it was confirmed, there must be something strange about the death of her mother and brother. Since she was a child, she had felt that her mother was killed, but she did not want to confirm this guess. After all, death from illness was fate. There was sorrow, but no hatred. Murder was like a blood feud, and the target of revenge was probably her second brother, Chen Ju, whom she had always respected.

Chen Sining was silent. Although many thoughts flashed through her mind, she finally stopped thinking and focused on her father's illness. Regardless of whether Zhong Li Jiujiu's guess was true or not, she had to try the medicine. Her father was already living a life worse than death, and it was better to try everything in a desperate situation than to not be saved.

"This medicine can cure my father?"

Zhong Li Jiujiu looked at the bottle, shook her head, and sighed.

"Based on the number of pills, it is a slow-acting poison. This antidote is only to keep him alive. Take one every once in a while to ensure that he doesn't die. I can find a way to cure him, but whether or not he can be cured, we will have to see your father in the future. "

Chen Sining nodded, and she could not sit still anymore.

"Then when are we going back to the capital?"

Zhong Li Jiujiu spread her hands slightly.

"I think we can go back very soon."

"Hmm?"

…

Boom, boom, boom —

8th of October, the third day of Xu Buling and Zhongli Chuchu's wedding.

Outside Yanshan Pass, the 20,000 Xiliang Army and 70,000 infantrymen formed a formation at the front line of Liuzhou. With dozens of tongues of fire, the steel bullets that could destroy cities and mountains fell on the walls of Nanyue for the first time.

The border between Dai Yue and Nanyue, which had been silent for sixty years, was once again ignited in the flames of war on this ordinary autumn night.

Although it had been sixty years, the army outside the pass was still the Xiliang Army, and the Nanyue inside the pass was still the same Nanyue.

Back then, Great General Xu Lie had taken advantage of the free time when the Wu Pass had not been conquered for a long time to lead his troops and horses to push Nanyue's border to Liuzhou, crushing everything along the way like dry weeds and rotten wood. But now, the army of Nanyue seemed to be weaker than before sixty years ago.

Back then, Nanyue at least had an ambitious monarch who gathered troops and displayed the strength to fight for supremacy in the Central Plains. And the current monarch of Nanyue, Chen Jin, had been bedridden for many years. Relying on the young Chen Ju and Zhou Qin, who was bent on seizing power, as well as a badly infiltrated imperial court, how strong could they be?

Although in a short period of time, nearly two hundred thousand troops were formed by grabbing able-bodied men and stationed along the Liuzhou border, most of these soldiers and horses were farmers from the surrounding mountain strongholds. Not to mention their armors, even their weapons were brought from their own strongholds. It was fine for them to do hard labor to repair the city's defenses, but when they encountered the fully armored Great Yue army, a third of them ran away before the battle even started. When the battle started, another third ran away, and the remaining third directly surrendered. Because Xu Lie had come here before sixty years ago, everyone knew that the Xu Family Army did not kill prisoners of war and did not plunder the people.

Although the Xiliang Army had managed to raise close to two hundred thousand troops in a short period of time, gathering along the border of Liuzhou, from the beginning of spring until now, most of these troops were farmers from the surrounding villages. Not to mention armours, even their weapons were brought from the villages. If they were still on tenterhooks, then they would not need to raise their sabers in the future. Not to mention, now that they had the aid of cannons, they did not need to forcefully attack the city.

In a situation where there was such a huge disparity between the two armies, it was needless to say what would happen.

On the night that Yang Zunyi gave the order to bombard the Yanshan Pass, the Xiliang Army smoothly entered the pass.

What awaited them after the door was not the desperate counterattack of Nanyue, but the governor of Liuzhou, Zhang Ying. He ran over with the village gentry elders with tears in his eyes, saying in a tearful voice:

"General Yang, you've finally come! The Chen family of Nanyue has imposed tyranny and heavy taxes, forcefully roping in able-bodied men, and the people have suffered for a long time. This lowly official and the many village gentry of Liuzhou have endured the humiliation for many years, all this while waiting for a good general of the Celestial Empire to save the people of Liuzhou from the water and fire … "

This scene completely confused Yang Zunyi and the Xiliang Army.

Xu Buling's name for entering Nanyue was' for the brotherly country, eradicate the traitor Zhou Qin, restore the orthodox Chen family '.

After all, fighting was one thing, but they still had to save face. They could not openly say that they were invading a friendly country that paid tribute every year.

The moment Liuzhou came up, they were prepared to merge the land of a province with Dai Yue. Wasn't this a slap to Xu Buling's face?

For this, Yang Zunyi even scolded the governor, Zhang Ying, saying that he was disloyal and unjust. Then he told him to bring the many village gentry back home to wait for news.

The Flying Water Ridge was between the mountains to the south of Liuzhou. Following the destruction of the Yanshan Pass, Ning Yuhe and Qing Ye also successfully entered the pass. When Yang Zunyi stabilized the situation in Liuzhou, they set off with light equipment, heading towards the Eighteen Stockades to meet up with Xu Buling …