On the 11th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to leave Longquanyi and traveled south, arriving at Taipingchang in the afternoon of the same day.

The vanguard and miscellaneous soldiers have requisitioned many local houses, and each house has been given money for five houses, which means that the attitude of the Han Wangjun is obvious. After Zhu Gaoxu's main force arrived, he was stationed on the spot.

Today, the marching route of the Han army, along the western foot of the Longquan Mountains, is south-west; And Huayang County is also in the southwest of Longquanyi. So the Han Wangjun walked for a day, and the distance from Huayang County almost did not change, and it was still only fifty miles!

Between the two armies, there have been many frictions between the cavalry scouts......

When Han Wangjun arrived at Longquanyi yesterday morning, Xue Lujun was already in Huayang County. Today, until Zhu Gaoxu received the scout's last report, there has been no movement in the official and military camps in Huayang County. From this point of view, Xue Lu does not seem to have any intention of entering Chengdu City, and the Tun army looks outside the city, and may have plans to find Zhu Gaoxu to fight.

Xue Lu was waiting in Huayang County, and the two armies were fifty miles apart, a very ambiguous distance.

The number of people on both sides, the small Han army, also has nearly 70,000 people, and an army of this size will take at least one day to cover fifty miles; If you suddenly approach each other, it will be almost dark after walking, and people will be sleepy. Therefore, it is difficult for a big war to break out immediately at this distance, leaving a considerable buffer time. But it's already so close, it doesn't have to be too much trouble to go to war.

The relationship between each other, Zhu Gaoxu's words when talking about it are: I obviously want to sleep with each other, but I say that I want to be friends first.

Zhu Gaoxu lived in a well-to-do blue-tiled house with a courtyard dam in front of the house and many loquat trees planted around it. However, now is not the season to eat loquat, and it is inevitable that it is a little regrettable.

He was joking, but he was actually a little nervous. The number of enemy troops may be 100,000, and the opponent is right in front of him, so it is strange that the mood can be relaxed.

The person who cares most about himself is often the enemy, and Zhu Gaoxu has always been thinking about Xue Lu, and he really doesn't know much about it. However, Zhu Gaoxu has had a lot of dealings with Xue Lu for the discipline of female Taoist priests.

Ji Gang has a very bad reputation, and many people say that he is a bad person behind his back. But Zhu Gaoxu seems from his experience of dealing with him many times, at least Ji Gang is not a mad dog, but is very knowledgeable and knowledgeable about current affairs. Therefore, in the past few years, Ji Gang was favored, and most of the people he dealt with were the civil and military forces left by the Jianwen Dynasty.

Xue Lu is not an old minister of Jianwen, but a hero of Jingnan! Even if he is not as good as Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and others, he is also a general who has made great contributions to the first emperor. Ji Gang almost beat Xue Lu to death for a female Taoist priest? The process is unknown, but Zhu Gaoxu guessed that maybe Xue Lu was also very energetic, which aroused Ji Gang's great anger, and that incident was just an impulsive move.

Such a person who even refused to let the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the favored minister of the first emperor, want to be upright, at this time, there is no sign of shrinking into Chengdu City to seek stability, which makes Zhu Gaoxu think clearly...... Xue Lu just wants to go head-to-head with Zhu Gaoxu?!

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word, and pondered in the courtyard for a long time. When he came back to his senses, he heard a rustling sound. He followed the sound to the door of the hall and saw Miao Jin sitting alone on a stool next to a square table, holding a bowl in his left hand and grinding something in the bowl with his right hand.

He walked into the hall and saw that Miaojin was still grinding things intently, so he came closer. I saw Miaojin holding a white thing in his right hand, which seemed to be a pearl, and was grinding on a whetstone.

"What is Miaojin grinding?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Miaojin didn't stop in his hand, raised his head and said, "Grind pearl powder." When I was in Longquanyi, I found a local Langzhong and asked him if he couldn't sleep easily and what he was good to eat. Lang Zhong said several medicinal herbs, the best one is pearl powder. But I couldn't find the pearl powder. Fortunately, there was still a small string of pearl chains on his body, so he grinded them to make pearl powder. ”

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he was defenseless and felt as if he had just drunk a big mouthful of hot water, and the warmth spread throughout his stomach. He really doesn't sleep well these days and often suffers from insomnia; It is estimated that if you think too much, when people think too much, your head can't stop.

He was stunned for a moment and blurted out, "Miaojin, you are so good to me." ”

Miao Jin showed a hint of a smile, looked up at Zhu Gaoxu and shook his head slightly.

Zhu Gaoxu sighed and muttered: "I am a prince, and I always say that others are close to me for glory and wealth. But I didn't give you anything, but let Miaojin be imprisoned for a few years in her best years, and asked you to save me......"

Miao Jin smiled again and said softly: "The prince is a person who is easy to remember only the good of others. ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while after hearing this, Miaojin should mean that he also helped her in Beiping. But she didn't mention those things, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't mention them.

Miao Jin said: "During the years I was locked up in the palace, not only did I not blame the prince, but I also had to thank you." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was a little confused and said, "Thank me?" ”

Miaojin glanced at him, grinding pearls with a "rustle", and looked a little embarrassed, and whispered: "The prince knows that the palace is very cold and deserted. For so long, if you don't even have someone to think about, how can you get over? ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked thoughtful.

Miaojin's face turned a little red, and her voice became as low as a mosquito flapping its wings, "However, when I thought that I might be able to see Gao Xu again soon, my heart felt like the spring sunshine, and I had hope, and my mood improved......"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, his eyes became hotter and hotter. At the same time, I felt the afterglow of winter shining through the door, and the house was facing east to west.

There are indeed so many beautiful things in this world, such as the sunset in winter. He also felt that these living people close to him were very good to him. If you fail in your struggle for power and profit, and you cause all these people to go to hell, then I am afraid that you will not be able to turn a blind eye, and your resentment and soul will not be at peace forever!

Zhu Gaoxu was clumsy for a while, and it was difficult to accurately express the enthusiasm in his heart, so he had to swear solemnly: "I will treat you well in the future, and I will treat you well." ”

Why does this sentence sound so smooth? Maybe it's because when he lost all his luck and had no choice but to "confess" before, he said it too many times.

Miaojin said "um", her wonderful gaze brushed over Zhu Gaoxu's face, and she continued to grind pearl powder.

Zhu Gaoxu stood in place in a daze, and then he thought of another woman who saved his life, Ma Enhui. She was locked up in Fengyang, which was even more deserted than the palace, and her family was dead, and now she belongs to the situation that Miao Jin said "I don't even have a person to think about"!

…… I don't know if it's a psychological effect, or if pearl powder really has a miraculous effect on insomnia, Zhu Gaoxu slept very sweetly that night, and didn't even have a dream.