below the lord

Chapter 38 Separation

The next day, the four city lords gathered again in the main hall of the Qi Mansion, except for Lu Li.

The whereabouts of Jiangcheng Lord Lu Li abducted Qi City Lord Nianxia in the middle of the night, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

Here, Nian Xia personally passed the city seal of Qicheng to Nian Dong.

Niandong only glanced at Qiyu, Qiyu said yes, and then accepted the city seal.

Regarding this matter, Yin Shi, the lord of Han City, was the only one who felt that something was wrong, but seeing that Qi Chengyin at the scene reacted, and there was no other better way, so he acquiesced.

In fact, this is not the first time that such a thing has happened. A certain year before, the city lord of Li City was vacant. Finally, after discussions among the city lords at that time, he was replaced by the adopted son of the city lord Han.After all, it was the precedent set by Yin Shi himself back then, even if he objected in his heart, he had the confidence to oppose it.

Niandong became the city lord of Qicheng, and with the city seal in hand, Qiyu's goal has been achieved a step further.

Thinking that this matter could come to an end, Nian Dong asked Nian Xia to go back with him.The city is still the same city, but the master has fallen.

But Nian Dong didn't expect Nian Xia to reject him, if Nian Xia didn't go back to Qicheng with him, where else could he go?Could it be that he wants to stay here with Qiyu?

At this time, Nian Xia took out another city seal, which shocked everyone present.

This city seal is the city seal of Jiangcheng.

No one expected that before Lu Li disappeared, he would pass the Jiangcheng seal to Nian Xia.This was also unexpected by Qi Yu.

Nian Xia finally understood Qi Yu's strategy of killing two birds with one stone, if Lu Li hadn't handed over the city seal to him, once it fell into Qi Yu's hands, half of the five cities would be Qi Yu's.If it were just a few days ago, Nian Xia would not interfere with Qi Yu's ambition, but the situation is different now.

However, in Qi Yu's opinion, it's not too bad if the Jiangcheng seal didn't fall into his own hands, but in Nian Xia's hands, it's better than falling into the hands of the other two city lords.With Nian Xia's personality, Qi Yu concluded that he would not compete with him in the future, he should just want to stay away from Nian Dong and accept it, so as to give himself a place to live.

Thinking of this, Qi Yu didn't object.It would be great for everyone that Nian Xia returned to the position of city lord, but this time he changed his identity and became the city lord of Jiangcheng.

Nian Dong was the only one present to suppress his anger, it was obvious that Nian Xia played a big joke with him.Just when he thought they could finally return to the past, Nian Xia became the lord of Jiang City.

Qicheng is in the north, Jiangcheng is in the south, and the world is separated from the north.

Niandong's hatred for Nianxia was recorded again.

He must have done it on purpose, Nian Dong thought.If he had known earlier that Nian Xia was going to become the city lord of Jiangcheng, he would never have accepted to be the city lord of Qicheng.What's more, this city seal was given to Nian Xia by Lu Li, he would rather accept to go to Jiangcheng than to go back to Qicheng, if there is no relationship between them in secret, Nian Dong would be even more skeptical.In Nian Xia, he played tricks on him, tricked him once, and again.Nian Dong hates this feeling, Nian Xia always tells him nothing, refuses to explain anything, and leaves everything to Nian Dong to be suspicious, but he acts as if he is forbearing and accommodating, that was the case back then, and it is the same now .He hates this kind of summer.

But Nian Dong also didn't express his thoughts to Nian Xia, and they only protested their dissatisfaction in hurtful ways.Even though his heart was turbulent and full of mixed feelings, Nian Dong just looked up to the sky and smiled at the end, congratulating the newly appointed City Lord Jiang before him and walked away.

After turning around, he was never seen again.

Nian Xia knew that her relationship with Nian Dong had already run counter to each other, and those who missed them would never get back, so why bother to torture each other, leaving is the best way.

Regarding the ownership of the five cities, the result was finally reached on this day.

In the next six months, Nian Xia got used to his peaceful way of governance in Jiangcheng, making Jiangcheng as peaceful and peaceful as Qicheng before.

After Niandong arrived in Qicheng, he changed the way of governance before Nianxia, ​​emphasizing martial arts and despising literature, and developing military affairs.This behavior aroused the dissatisfaction of Yin Shi, the lord of Han City.The city lords had already guessed that Nian Dong's move must have been instigated by Qi Yu.Since taking over Qicheng in the winter of Niandong, Qicheng has existed in name only, and now it only exists like a subsidiary city of Yuecheng.

City Lord Han knew that Qi Yu's move must be aimed at himself. If Qi Yue joined forces to attack Han City, Yin Shi would be defeated, so he had to join hands with City Lord Li Huiling.Hui Ling was originally Yin Shi's adopted son before, but later went to Li City because of the vacancy of Li City Lord. Now that his adoptive father is in trouble, Hui Ling will naturally help him.

Nian Xia does not support this war, but he has nothing to do with them, and only expresses his attitude that peace is the most important thing.This is taken for granted in the eyes of other people. City Lord Qi Niandong is his old lover, and City Lord Yue Qiyu is an old friend. Although they don't have deep friendship with Hancheng and Licheng, Nianxia's character is also good. Only persuasion.

Therefore, this conflict and contradiction is roughly a war between Qi Yue and Han Li.Although they are still standing still, the competition behind the scenes has already begun.From recruiting troops to buying horses, hoarding food and armor, building defense facilities and attracting contacts.

Most of the common people migrated to Jiangcheng in Nianxia for peace, and a civilian group assembled by a third-party force based on the idea of ​​peace in Nianxia was born.

Another year of winter and summer passed, when the noise of the war was getting louder and louder, only news came from the north that City Lord Qi was going to get married in Niandong.

When Gong You reported this to Nian Xia, Nian Xia seemed indifferent, without any other special reaction, just bowed his head and did his own thing.

From Nian Xia's point of view, this kind of life is considered normal.Originally, if he hadn't had the wishful thinking he had back then and had feelings for Nian Dong, Nian Dong's life would have been like this: getting married, having children, raising daughters, and living the same life as ordinary people.In this way, Nian Xia felt that it was right to leave at the beginning.

Seeing that Nian Xia didn't care about it, Gong You was very angry, and cursed Nian Dong all day long, but because of Nian Xia's swearing, he dared not speak out, and he could only sigh when he mentioned it.

In private, Nian Xia asked Gong You his opinion on this battle.Gong You said that although he is a descendant of the Youzhe family, he cannot restrain all the members of the Youzhe family from participating in this war in a dictatorial manner. The Youzhe family is a special ethnic group that survived by being employed by foreigners , this is an unchangeable fact, but I will definitely not participate.Whatever happened to Nianxia, ​​so did Gongyou. He only followed Nianxia.Nian Xia's answer to Gong You was not ambiguous, and he never brought it up after the questioning.

Nian Dong's talent and attainment in martial arts is a rare genius, but Li City City Lord Hui Ling seems weak and unremarkable, but unexpectedly good at defending and difficult to attack.

Nian Xia was very curious about this matter. When we met in the Qi Mansion before, the Li City Lord looked dull-eyed, silent, and only followed the public in making decisions. He had no opinions and was mediocre. , I didn't expect that there was something special about him. If he didn't think about it, Yin Shi, the lord of Han City, wouldn't have adopted him as his adopted son in the first place.Thinking about it this way, Nian Xia felt that she was judging people by their appearance.

Due to the ability of the city lord Li to catch him by surprise, Qi Yue couldn't attack Han Li for a long time. After several months of confrontation, the situation became unfavorable for Qi Yue.

Nian Xia didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that going on like this would only hurt both sides, and then a truce came. Unexpectedly, a few days later, he received the news that Han City had been breached, and suddenly he was very flustered, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.

Sure enough, with Hancheng's surrender, Yin Shi was killed in battle, and news of Nian Dong's death in battle also came.

When I first heard about it, Nian Xia thought it must be a rumor, how could Nian Dong, who was invincible on the battlefield, die.It wasn't until Gong You brought definite news that Nian Xia began to collapse.

In order to capture Hancheng, Lord Qi Niandong did not hesitate to use his body as a bait to launch a surprise attack. Only then did City Lord Qiyu find a breakthrough, but Niandong lost his life.

"Qiyu, this bastard, how could he let Dongzi do such a thing? Is he crazy to win!" Gong You roared, but Nian Xia didn't hear it, and just knelt down beside the desk blankly. .Gong You wanted to lift him up from the ground but he pushed him away forcefully. After half a day like this, Nian Xia was expressionless, without a trace of sadness, let alone shed a tear.Gong You only felt that something was wrong. Although he was alive in this year, he was no different from death. I wish he could roar, be sad, go crazy, whatever. and expressions.

One day passed, Gong You woke up lying on Nian Xia's side, and seeing Nian Xia still looked like this, he was very angry, but there was nothing he could do about him.

Seeing Nian Xia like this, Gong You had no choice but to take off his armor, drew out his saber and pointed it at his neck and said to Nian Xia:

"City Lord, as your bodyguard, I failed to save Dongzi in time. It was my incompetence. Gong You hereby apologizes with death."

After all, he really swung the knife to kill himself, only then did Nian Xia react, and grabbed the blade with his bare hands, snatched it from Gong You's hand, and threw it far away.

"What are you doing!" Nian Xia finally roared out, her pale face had aged dozens of years overnight.

"Then what are you doing!" Gong You couldn't help but asked back.

"If I die, I will die..."

"You think you're the only one who will seek death, and I won't!" Hearing what Nian Xia said, Gong You became even more angry: "It was my fault that I didn't expect Dongzi to die, and it was also my fault that I didn't save Dongzi in time. , it was my fault for not stopping Qi Yu! Are you as wrong as I am? Why should you die? Would it be easy if you die?"

"I killed Dongzi..."

"Why did you do it again? Everything is your fault, everything is your fault, you are amazing!"

Being scolded by Gong You, Nian Xia felt angry and funny, and finally cried: "Do you still remember that I handed over Qi Cheng Yin to Nian Dong at that time?"

"So what, it was Qi Yu who first suggested it, and everyone present agreed. Who could have foreseen that things would develop like this?"

"I! I can!" Nian Xia's eyes were bloodshot, staring straight at Gong You: "If Qi Chengyin doesn't respond to Nian Dong, he can never become the lord of the city, but I still handed over the city seal to him."

At this point, Gong You was stunned, remembering that Qi Chengyin had reacted at the time, so even Yin Shi didn't refute, how can Nian Xia not now?

"Dongdong came to see me the night before he became City Lord Qi, and I know that the city seal didn't respond to him at that time."

"Then why did Chengyin respond again when Dongzi accepted it the next day?" Gongyou asked, and then he reacted.

"Could it be..."

"Yes, it wasn't Dongzi who made the city seal react at that time, but another person present, and I knew that Dongdong was not the successor of the city lord, but I still handed over the city seal to him. You said, I didn't do anything wrong, Who else did it!"