On a rare sunny day in winter, Li Ye got a reclining chair and placed himself in the yard. There were all kinds of delicious food and wine on the food table in front of him.
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Li Ye, with his legs crossed, held his chin in one hand and the wine glass in the other, watching the singers dancing in the sun with great interest, occasionally shaking their heads to the beat of the instruments.
Da Siming stood aside with a jug in his hand, and she would fill Li Ye's wine glass when there was no more wine; Shao Siming knelt beside the food table, cooking a hot pot according to Professor Li Ye's method, filling it from time to time. Half a bowl was delivered to Li Ye, and every mouthful was fed to him.
Li Ye rarely experienced such a comfortable life, but today was different. Li Yan wrote new poems, rehearsed new songs and dances, and asked Li Ye to watch everything he said, otherwise he would ignore his hard work.
At this moment, Li Yan was next to Li Ye, with the same posture and demeanor, even more than enjoying the intoxication. When the interest comes up, he will "correct" Li Ye's posture and explain how to get the most comfortable enjoyment and the most relaxed spirit.
Li Yan called this the way to keep in good health.
He thinks that Li Ye is either busy with major social affairs or fights everywhere all day long. He is really too tired, and he should learn to relax properly, otherwise he will worry that Li Ye's body will be too burdened and he won't be able to last long.
Li Ye thought that what Li Yan said made sense.
If the other party's reclining chair was not covered with thick sable fur, his whole body would almost disappear when nestled in it, and he would still scream cold when the breeze blows by, Li Ye would definitely think that Li Yan really knew the way to keep in good health .
Originally, Li Yan was also a Qi-training monk, so he definitely couldn't be so weak.
It's just that he can't remember the last time he practiced. Just like many literati who were strong and strong when they were young, they eventually became weak and sick. Although he has made a lot of achievements in music, it cannot make up for the lack of his body consumed by drinking and sex.
After a song, the dancers bowed and left, Li Yan raised his wine glass and signaled to Li Ye, "Brother Ye, drink so much!"
Judging by his heroic appearance, it seems that the end of a song and dance was not just in front of him, but a battle on the battlefield, and he is the coach who commanded thousands of troops.
Li Ye raised his glass cooperatively.
Yesterday he and Song Jiao were discussing the overall situation of the war which was related to the survival of the dynasty, but today he was drunk with Li Yan, this kind of life is indeed very colorful.
Usually, the way Li Ye relaxes himself is to enjoy the scenery or drink a drink. Today, Li Yan guides the servants and maids of the palace to serve him attentively, which is not interesting.
When he was young, Li Ye's temperament was even more dull, and Li Yan, a brother who knows everything about food, drink, and entertainment, became the best bad friend to regulate Li Ye's life. Every time he went to a brothel, the other party pulled him go.
It has to be said that this kind of playfulness is also useful. It is indeed a long-term way to relax. Otherwise, Li Ye would have been depressed in the days when he could not practice for twenty years.
After enjoying the singing and dancing with Li Yan for a long time, and discussing the knowledge of music and poetry in depth, Li Ye benefited a lot.
Before leaving, Li Yan seriously asked the maids of the palace to take good care of King An's life and serve him comfortably, otherwise they would be severely punished, which made the elder and younger commander quite flustered.
The panic was not because he was afraid of the emperor Li Yan, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he did not take care of Wang An comfortably.
In the afternoon, the drunk Li Yan drove back to the palace. If he didn't leave, he would directly pass out in Prince An's mansion. It's just that after drinking two pots of wine, he can't keep his eyelids open. This doesn't meet Li Yan's drinking capacity, and it can only show that his body is really weak now.
When Li Ye was seeing him off, he hesitated to speak. He wanted to remind Li Yan to be less sensual and practice more, but seeing that the other party was about to snore, he gave up and planned to go to the palace to persuade him seriously tomorrow.
After Li Yan left, Young Master Siming followed Li Ye with his head down. No matter what Li Ye did, the two of them looked ashamed, which made Li Ye feel funny in his heart. In the end, Haosheng comforted them, and the two girls relaxed a little.
As the end of the year is approaching, Li Ye began to pay close attention to the news in Guangzhou.
It's not that I'm worried about Liu Yin's problem, but that if Chu Nanhuai and others return, they will inevitably land from Guangzhou. Now they have been out for more than two months, according to their footsteps, a trip back and forth is enough.
However, if you count the time spent searching for potatoes and corn in Central America and South America, it is not too surprising that there is no news yet. Li Ye delineated a large area for them. After all, he didn't know the exact location. If they got there, Chu Nanhuai and others had to find it by themselves.
If the potatoes and corn were brought back earlier, they would be able to catch up with the planting season. At that time, Li Ye would call the ministers and the people to harvest a round, and let them witness the yield in the field, then the people would be full of confidence and trust Li Ye. There is no longer any reason not to return.
"If Chu Nanhuai and the others can come back in time, that would be the best. My cultivation can be raised to the Daluojin Fairyland in time, and I will have full confidence in fighting the Khitan army of gods in the fairyland. If they can't come back in time, The situation would not be so favorable.”
When Li Ye talked about this with Wu You in Xianyu, he explained why he desperately hoped that Chu Nanhuai and others would return as soon as possible.
The princess tilted her head and thought for a while: "If it is possible, that would be great, but what if it is not possible? Brother Ye, do you have an alternative?"
Li Ye has no control over when the food seeds will return to Datang, or even whether Chu Nanhuai and others will succeed in this trip. Placing hope on things beyond one's control is tantamount to handing over fate to unknown judgment, which is not what wise men do.
The princess thought that Li Ye must have another method, so that he can gain the loyalty of a group of Tang people in the next year's war.
To the princess, Li Ye didn't need to hide anything, and he didn't show off. He said truthfully, "Ma Yin."
"Ma Yin?" The princess was a little confused.
Li Ye nodded: "The reason why Ma Yin is not dealt with now is to wait for him to call up some old troops in Chudi to increase the signs and momentum of the rebellion. It is best to let many people know. In this way, tomorrow I will If we use thunder to extinguish them before sending out troops, everyone will realize how much control the imperial court and I have over the world."
This is a typical scheming technique, not very bright and aboveboard, even a bit dark.
The princess thought for a moment, and suddenly realized: "If Brother Ye kills Ma Yin now, there will be little movement. For ordinary people, it is just an insignificant news, and naturally there will be no shock in their hearts.
"Maybe they will think that brother Ye can't tolerate the existence of the old princes, label him a rebel, and get rid of him on purpose!
"Only when people see Ma Yin revealing his rebellious strength, causing people in Chu and even more places to be frightened, and Brother Ye quickly destroy him, then they will know how strong the imperial court is, and they will be grateful to Dade.
"At the same time, let them see that Ma Yin colluded with Khitan, confirming that he is a traitor, brother Ye's execution, so that no one will doubt it, and everyone will give a thumbs up! In this way, the world The common people will not be dissatisfied with the court."
Li Ye was very satisfied with the princess' comprehension ability.
This is actually a strategy of "fattening the pigs before killing them".
Having figured out Li Ye's arrangement, the princess applauded happily: "Yelu Abaoji is a savage, what's wrong with competing with Brother Ye, it's more about strategy. We don't know that since the Han and Tang Dynasties, we have long been familiar with various conspiracies and tricks. I can't be more familiar with it, and I have used all methods.
"He thought that by helping Ma Yin to rebel, he would make brother Ye difficult at home and abroad, but this was just shooting himself in the foot. Instead, it gave brother Ye a chance to win people's hearts quickly. This guy is really... So cute and silly!"
Li Ye was praised, but he didn't show any pride, instead he couldn't laugh or cry: "Are you calling me treacherous?"
The princess hugged Li Ye's arm and said with a laugh: "That's not true, brother Ye is the smartest, I'm just complimenting you!"
Li Ye: "..."
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Andes.
The sun hangs high above the head, and the sunlight shining down is extremely blazing. Even if flying in the mountains, the position is slightly higher, and the temperature is not low enough to make people feel comfortable.
"Master, it's winter season, why is it so hot here?"
Finally, when it was time for a break, a group of more than twenty people found a shade to sit in the shade. When Li Wenwen came back with a water bag from the mountain spring, he heard Liu Xiaohei asking Chu Nanhuai this stupid question.
Chu Nanhuai didn't answer Liu Xiaohei's interest at all, took the water bag from Li Wenwen, drank half of it happily, let out a sigh of relief, and kicked Liu Xiaohei's ass, "Go get some game and come back!" , today’s food has not been settled yet! Remember, only hunt small living animals, don’t pick wild vegetables!”
When Liu Xiaohei was looking for food last time, he came back with a bundle of plants that he couldn't name. He even called it delicious. He had already tasted it, and was scolded bloody by Chu Nanhuai.
Don’t drink anything other than mountain spring water, and don’t eat anything unless it’s an animal. When it’s time to eat vegetables, you’ll only eat those wild vegetables that animals can chew, and you’ll never stuff anything into your mouth. This is what Li Ye told Chu Nan before departure Huai et al.
Liu Xiaohei didn't listen carefully at the time, and was reprimanded countless times by Chu Nanhuai for being careless along the way. Chu Nanhuai is really mad at asking why the summer in the southern hemisphere is so hot.
It took less than a stick of incense to meditate, when Chu Nanhuai heard Liu Xiaohei's panic yelling for help.
He opened his eyes and saw that Liu Xiaohei was being dragged by Li Wenwen and flew over the hill, his shoulders were covered with blood, and there were more than a dozen people in strange clothes behind him, and five short-bodied people were chasing after them, howling.
"Indigenous people?" Seeing the people chasing Liu Xiaohei, Chu Nanhuai got up quickly and ordered everyone to respond.
He knew that now he met the aborigines that Li Ye was talking about, and they were also powerful practitioners among them.
However, Chu Nanhuai was not afraid, there were only a dozen people on the other side, and the aura fluctuations transmitted were the strength of the real Lingchi, and only the first three barely reached the standard of the Yinshen real person.
When they got closer, Chu Nanhuai could see their faces clearly. These people's heads are large and flat, their facial features are nothing special, their skin is relatively dark, their clothing styles are very old, and their colors are relatively bright.
Each of these natives was very angry, the kind of anger they saw when foreign enemies invaded. They all have a brown staff in their hands, which looks weird and crooked, and their attack methods are relatively simple, obviously using the staff as a wooden stick.
Chu Nanhuai was well aware of the purpose of his trip, and had been avoiding meeting and fighting with the natives. Being able to take away the potatoes in Li Ye's description quietly and without waves is the greatest victory, and there is no need for extra complications.
But now, Liu Xiaohei and Li Wenwen somehow provoked each other and let them chase and kill them so fiercely. Chu Nanhuai didn't hesitate, and ordered all the monks to attack directly, to capture them first.
A fierce battle immediately broke out between the two sides.
Chu Nanhuai and the others soon discovered that the staffs in these people's hands could not only be used as sticks. As they stopped, shaking their heads and waving their wands, and muttering words in their mouths, giant figures of ferocious beasts jumped out of the wands, roaring and rushing towards them.
Chu Nanhuai and the others didn't know the enemy's reality, so they didn't hold back when they shot. The sword energy and knife light, combined with the flames and wind blades, flew out like a tide, blasting the beasts into the air before they came face to face.
The battle was not difficult for Chu Nanhuai and others. Although the opponent's spells were peculiar, their power was not exaggerated. Relying on their superiority in realm and numbers, they quickly surrounded these natives and wounded them one by one. uniform.
For Chu Nanhuai and the others, the battle that lasted less than half an hour was not so heavy. It's just that some people were injured during the process. Those ferocious beasts rushed over and bit, but anyone who broke through the spiritual energy barrier would leave wounds on the monks.
Fortunately, there were only four or five injured people, and Chu Nanhuai didn't think there was anything wrong.
These native monks were tied up and thrown on the ground, still glaring at the Tang monks, chattering non-stop, wishing to pounce on them and bite off a piece of their flesh.
Chu Nanhuai felt a little troubled. Naturally, he couldn't understand what the other party said, and he didn't have the time and interest to spend time slowly understanding the other party's language.
"Master, what should we do with these people? Are they all killed? Can't our whereabouts be revealed?" Liu Xiaohei approached and asked. Although he screamed miserably before, the injury to his shoulder was not too serious, and he was no longer bleeding.
"Shut up!" Chu Nanhuai didn't take a good look at Liu Xiaohei now, "I asked you to find some food, how did you get hunted down?!"
Liu Xiaohei disturbed his head aggrievedly and said: "I flew over a few mountains, and I saw a stone city on the other side of the mountain. Although it is not big, there are many people. There is a large farmland outside the city. I was very happy at that time. I thought there was something delicious this time, so I went to the city to collect some food... "
Hearing this, Chu Nanhuai didn't want to listen anymore.
Obviously, Liu Xiaohei, who was a thief, was discovered. The key is that he was chased and killed before he escaped in time.
But since there are cities and farmland, Chu Nan's thoughts come alive.
What better place to find food seeds than in the plowed fields
If there were really the kind of potatoes Li Ye mentioned here, these natives would definitely plant them, maybe there would be some in those fields!
Originally, Chu Nanhuai and others focused their search on the indigenous settlements and farmland. It's just that the original plan was to search secretly, but Liu Xiaohei accidentally discovered it, and it seems that the scale is not small.
This is a blind cat with a dead mouse.
"How many people are there in the city? How many great monks have you found?" Chu Nanhuai asked quickly.
"There are tens of thousands of people." Liu Xiaohei recalled, "It is uncertain how many great monks there are."
Chu Nanhuai's face darkened.
In a small town with tens of thousands of people, there are actually more than a dozen big monks with real strength, and there may be more than that. After all, there is no need for the other big monks to come out to chase Liu Xiaohei and Li Wenwen.
Are these natives so powerful
Chu Nanhuai felt that this possibility was unlikely.
This kind of strength is much stronger than Datang, and it doesn't make any sense. If this is the case, they will not just stay here, but conquer the world.
Could it be that this small city with only tens of thousands of people is actually the capital of the aborigines
Chu Nanhuai felt that this idea was more reasonable.
If it was the capital of the natives, then there would probably be quite a few great cultivators inside. With the strength of their team, it would be difficult to win head-on.
But the farmland is just outside the city. If you don’t go, how can you find potatoes
Take a detour and go somewhere else
Chu Nanhuai fell into deep thought, trying to come up with a perfect plan.
In any case, the food seeds are right in front of us, so we can't just let them go. Chu Nanhuai knew how anxious Li Ye was to get that kind of food called potatoes.
Before Chu Nanhuai could think of a strategy, the strange screams of the bound natives suddenly became high-pitched and full of momentum.
"Master, their reinforcements are here!"
Without Liu Xiaohei's warning, Chu Nanhuai had already seen more than 30 big cultivators coming, and the first few of them all had the strength of Yangshen Daoist Realm!
Chu Nanhuai's heart tightened. He didn't expect the other party to come so fast. If he knew this, he shouldn't have stayed here for so long. He should move to another place.
However, they are guest soldiers after all, and they are not familiar with the secret methods of these indigenous monks. No one knows if they have a way to lock the location of these people, or even know the situation of their companions.
"What should we do?" Su Emei asked in a low voice, this was the first question she asked.
Chu Nanhuai took a deep breath: "Leave a break for the teacher, you take Xiaohei and Wenwen and go first! Since we found the city and farmland here, it means that we have found the right place. After you leave, go out day and night , covert action, it shouldn't take long to bring the seeds back!"
This is the only way. There are too many people on the other side, and they can't communicate with each other. Even if they have no malicious intentions, they can't get along with each other peacefully.
But as soon as Chu Nanhuai finished speaking, Su Emei rushed to the big native monks first, "Master, you should take them to complete the task. I am afraid that I will not be able to do it, so I dare not delay the important affairs of the dynasty and King An's entrustment." !"
When she said these words, although her tone was decisive, her voice was very calm.
It was too late for Chu Nanhuai to stop him, so he could only watch Su Emei transform into Fairy Guanghan, swinging his sword and killing the vicious natives who were screaming.
"Let's go!" Chu Nanhuai knew that with Su Emei's departure, there would be no possibility of her surviving, and her heart ached like a knife in an instant. But at this moment, he could only focus on the overall situation, dragged Liu Xiaohei and Li Wenwen, turned around and left.
"Master, wait!" Li Wenwen shouted anxiously.
Chu Nanhuai burst into tears, but knew that he could not hesitate, otherwise Su Emei and the others would die in vain.
This trip to find food was so dangerous, and such a heavy price had to be paid, which Chu Nanhuai had never thought of before.
However, with an output of 50 shi per mu, there is no food for the Tang Dynasty to starve to death. How can it be so easy to obtain
How could it be possible without paying the price
"Master, stop quickly, Senior Sister Su shocked them all!" Liu Xiaohei yelled.
Chu Nanhuai knew that this was absolutely impossible. Although Su Emei's combat power was outstanding, she still had no chance of winning against several great cultivators with the strength of the Yangshen Daoist Realm, let alone something that would stun them.
But he couldn't help but look back.
Seeing this, the strange scene in front of him stunned him for a moment.