Chapter 653: I Didn't Expect His Highness to Be Alive!

"How's it going?" Li Youwen looked at Li Gang and asked in a condensed voice, not only asking Li Gang to tell all the answers between the two people who met him and him, but also carefully asking about the changes in the expressions of the two people.

It was enough for Li Gang to say nearly two pillars of incense, and Li Youwen had no problem, narrowed her eyes and carefully pondered. “…… Liu Changshi said that he would come out of the city to meet me at three o'clock? ”

Seeing Li Gang nodded, Li Youwen bowed slightly and smiled at Li Gang. "Thank you for your hard work, hurry up and go down and rest."

"Yes, the last will obey." Li Gang didn't ask why, in the eyes of these guards, it was very normal for the general to act arbitrarily.

Seeing that after Li Gang retreated, Duan Sheng's eyes fell on Li Youwen's body, and his eyes were full of inquiry.

"It seems that there is nothing abnormal in the city, and Yunzhou City has not received any news about me yet." After Li Youwen nodded politely at Duan Sheng, she commanded in a deep voice. "General Duan, you tell everyone to hurry up and eat, seize the time to rest for a while, at most half an hour, Liu Changshi will be able to come."

"The last will obey." Duan Sheng also respectfully took the order to retreat, leaving only Li Youwen, Li Shenjin and Xiuniang on the barren hill.

"Let's go too, and after entering the city tonight, we'll make a decision." Li Youwen glanced at Yunzhou City, which was becoming more and more difficult to distinguish in the night, and then turned her horse's head and walked down the barren slope.

Li Youwen was full of confidence, she had already understood the inner thoughts of Liu Changshi and Wang Zhong, the guard of the East Gate, from the conversation with Li Gang, they were loyal to herself, not Xu Shou's insidious rebels.

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Wang Zhong, who was wrapped in iron armor, stood on top of the city, his fingers lightly tapped the horizontal knife scabbard on his waist, his eyes fell on the darkness in the distance, his expression was very calm, but the green tendons that were leaning against the female wall and listening to the back of his big hand beat revealed his inner unpeace.

From time to time, Wang Zhong turned his head and looked at the leaking copper kettle located in the east gate of Yunzhou, although the distance was a little far away and he couldn't see clearly, but he would still look at it twice from time to time, otherwise, as if he couldn't feel at ease.

Finally, Wang Zhong heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from below the castle tower, and the fingers of his hand that tapped the scabbard of the horizontal knife at his waist couldn't help but pause slightly. The hurried footsteps finally stopped behind Wang Zhong.

"General, everyone has been arranged according to your orders, and we guarantee that there will be no mistakes."

"Well, remember, I don't want any accidents to happen, you find a few more trustworthy ones, watch the two ends of the city wall, and make sure there is no mistake." Wang Zhong's shoulders loosened slightly, turned his head, patted the shoulder on the henchman's hand, and commanded calmly.

"The last general understands, general, you can rest assured." The subordinate nodded in understanding, and walked quickly away from Wang Zhong's line of sight. Wang Zhong's gaze once again moved to the copper kettle in the city tower, as if it was getting closer and closer to the agreed time.

However, Wang Zhong still couldn't hear the slightest sound of hooves, which made Wang Zhong's heart can't help but beat a drum secretly, could it be that something happened outside the city that he didn't understand, so that his highness's trip was delayed?

Just when Wang Zhong's heart was feeling uneasy, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw that in the darkness about a stone's throw away from the city gate, a ball of fire quietly appeared, it should be a lantern, and then this lantern slowly but resolutely drew two circles in the darkness.

Seeing this scene, Wang Zhong let out a long breath of turbidity in his chest, and his eyes swept over the confidants and soldiers standing not far from him, and these people's eyes were also curious at the lamp, but they did not show any surprise.

"Open the gates, hurry! Zuo Xin, follow me down and approach His Highness. After Wang Zhong whispered to the soldiers around him, he beckoned his lieutenant general to walk down the tower with him.

When Kankan came to the bottom of the city tower, he already saw a black-clothed knight passing through the half-open city gate and coming through the city gate. Wang Zhong suppressed his excitement and stood quietly in place, and soon, he saw Liu Changshi accompanied by a black-clothed knight walking towards him.

And when the black veil was lifted, Wang Zhong no longer had any doubts, and directly turned over and fell to the ground, looking at the familiar face that he hadn't seen for a long time with great excitement. "The last general, Wang Zhong, meet the general!"

Although Wang Zhong's voice was extremely suppressed, the excited voice still revealed his inner unpeace.

Li Youwen was also quite moved when she saw this subordinate who was so excited that she was already in tears, but she knew very well that now was not the time to talk about the past, so she stepped forward, leaned down, patted Wang Zhong's shoulder gently, and without any extra words, she rode in the direction of the princess's mansion.

Wang Zhong just watched like this, until Li Youwen and his knights disappeared from sight, and then he gave the order and asked the city gate to be closed again. At this time, Zuo Xin, the deputy general next to him, stammered and asked Wang Zhong.

"I'm not dazzled, am I? General, is that really Your Highness? Oh, my God...... I didn't expect His Royal Highness to be really alive, sure enough, Jiren has his own natural appearance, great, great......" Zuo Xinshen muttered there.

Wang Zhong was really impatient, and simply punched Zuo Xin's chest. "Shut your foul mouth, do you want everyone to know? Your Highness came back so secretly this time, I just don't want too many people to know, you kid had better keep your mouth shut, do you understand? ”

"Don't worry, little brother, I won't leak half a sentence if I kill him, definitely!" Zuo Xin took a deep breath and replied in a categorical tone.

Although the princess's mansion in Yunzhou City is not as small as the Zhaoyang princess's mansion in Beijing, it is definitely not smaller, and it is even three points larger than the yamen of Yunzhou Thorn History. Although the news that Princess Zhaoyang was in the grassland before, it had been circulating for several months.

But because the Son of Heaven has not given up, coupled with Zuo Yu Linwei's need to stabilize the army's heart, Yunzhou's side has always been in a state of extreme stability, and all the personnel in Princess Zhaoyang's mansion have been evacuated a lot, however, as the princess's mansion governor, Liu has always stayed here to preside over the overall situation, but now, there are less than 100 idle people in Princess Zhaoyang's mansion.

However, for the sake of safety and concealment, Liu Changshi only informed a few of the guards he felt trusted, and now, the security of the princess's mansion was handed over to those black-clothed knights and the princess's palace guards.

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At this moment, Liu Changshi saw Li Youwen wearing a veil on her head and sitting on the main seat, and for a while, she couldn't help but burst into tears, couldn't afford to bow to the ground, and only after a while did she hold back her sadness.

After appeasing the loyal Liu Changshi, Li Youwen raised her finger and stroked her eyebrows, and asked in a low voice about the situation in the princess's mansion and Zuo Yu Linwei's situation these days.

Liu Changshi answered one by one, as the chief of the princess's mansion, although there is not a lot of intersection with Zuo Yu Linwei, but the princess's mansion is in Yunzhou City, and Zuo Yu Linwei is just separated by a city wall, and Liu Changshi, as Li Youwen's long history, often runs to Zuo Yu Linwei's camp, which is also a common thing.

There are many acquaintances in Zuo Yu Lin Wei's camp, so Zuo Yu Lin Wei's situation, he is also handy, and carefully reported to Li Youwen about Zuo Yu Lin Wei's situation these days.

In the first three months since Li Youwen's disappearance, although Xu Shou began to preside over the work of Zuo Yulinwei's battalion, there has been no big movement, and it is more focused on pacifying and stabilizing the morale of the army. It wasn't until the beginning of last month that the Son of Heaven arrived in Yunzhou with the holy decree of worshiping Xu Shou as General Zuo Yulin, and Xu Shou began to officially grasp the authority of Zuo Yulinwei.

"After Xu Shou worshiped the general, he began to become arrogant and domineering, first the thorn in his eyes, many of the generals who were loyal to Your Highness were transferred from the camp by him, assigned to each village and fort, and then promoted his henchmen in the camp, but because Xu Shou had only a short time in the Zuo Yu Lin Wei camp, he did not dare to do too blatantly."

Xu Shou's villain was ambitious, and naturally gradually acted in a high-profile manner, which made Liu Changshi very unhappy, but after Li Youwen disappeared, he could only endure it angrily, and now, he finally didn't need it.

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