Chapter 2 Caught in the Middle
The calm guards around the pavilion instantly turned their faces no longer calm, and all their anger turned into shock, looking at Akiba's white eyes as if they were looking at a madman.
Isn't this guy crazy?
How dare you covet your master?
Even if there are occasional masculine things among the nobles of the empire, they are all unacceptable, a commoner, no, a wanted criminal dares to say such shameless things to the imperial prince?
Baili Lingfeng looked at Qiu Yebai, his gaze went from stunned to unpredictable, and then looked at her from top to bottom.
Akiba Bai could almost feel the bloody aura in his eyes, like a sharp knife, smashing her inch by inch from head to toe.
It is a gaze that can only be possessed by iron-blooded soldiers, who have really been stained with the blood of countless people, and who have seen the evil spirit of soldiers whose flesh and bones are broken and whose blood flows like rivers, and those who are only intrigued in the undercurrent of the struggle between the government and the opposition will not have such a gaze.
Baili Lingfeng watched Qiu Yebai still calmly hold the teacup and drink tea under his fierce and threatening gaze, as if he was completely unconscious, so he slowly said a word and smiled: "Si Shao, are you joking?" ”
He was really curious, where did the person in front of him have the confidence to dare to say such offensive words to a prince.
Autumn leaves raised their eyes to look at him, for a moment, looked up at the sky, and sighed: "Ah, yes, I'm kidding below, life is so difficult, you have to have a sense of humor." ”
The smile on the corner of Baili Lingfeng's lips froze: "......." ”
A cadre of military guards looked at Akiba Bai's gaze turned into certainty - yes, this person is really a crazy person who is out of tune.
"You're kidding the main hall?" Baili Ling Feng looked at the autumn leaves, and his eyes became more and more fierce and cold.
Autumn leaves did not dodge or dodge, looking at Baili Lingfeng and smiling, bright and gentle: "If I say yes, does Your Highness plan not to cooperate with Zaixia?" ”
Baili Lingfeng froze instantly, and then he looked at her for a moment, and the corners of his lips slowly raised a trace of cold arc: "Qiu Yebai, you are indeed brave enough." ”
She nodded, and said leisurely: "Yes, I am very courageous, otherwise I would not be sitting here today to drink tea with His Highness, His Highness is also very courageous, otherwise how would I let someone deliver me a letter, you are warning me, aren't you?" ”
When she returned to Huainan to change boats, she suddenly received a letter from the ladle in the Huainan area of the 36th waterway village, which only said that His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince invited her to drink and get together, and there was no other sentence.
"If I don't have someone to tell you from, how will you know your true identity?" Qiu Yebai looked at the golden tea in the cup and smiled: "Let me guess, don't suspect or the people around him have a big life, he escaped a life from Mei Su's hands, and I will report to you, you leave me this letter, don't you just want to say that you know who I am, if I don't want to cause trouble, it's best to cooperate with you obediently, right, so I came boldly in the next place." ”
Baili Lingfeng looked at Qiu Yebai, his starry eyes flashed slightly, and suddenly changed the topic: "Night Sishao, are you interested in accompanying His Highness to a game of chess?" ”
Akiba Bai undeniably put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the chessboard: "But it's disrespectful." ”
On the other hand, Ping Ning immediately stepped forward and put all the chess pieces on it back into the white jade chess dustpan and put them away.
Qiu Yebai looked at the chessboard, and then at Baili Lingfeng: "Your Highness, there must always be a color head in chess." ”
Baili Lingfeng's sword eyebrows raised slightly, and he teased: "What does the four young people want, won't they want this hall again?" ”
She chuckled: "Your Highness is laughing, you are so golden, the grass people can't afford it, how about we use the Mei family's account books to make a lottery?" ”
Hearing the words 'Mei family's account book', a sharp color flashed in Baili Lingfeng's eyes, but his honey-colored handsome face was still calm: "This color head is interesting, but you are in the Pingyun Palace, although the main hall of the Hidden Sword Pavilion is temporarily unreachable, but the Qiu family is in the capital, and your brothers and sisters, parents and relatives are here, don't you think your color head is a little lighter?" ”
This is an undisguised naked threat.
Such threatening words came out of Baili Lingfeng's mouth, but it made people feel as if they were so taken for granted, without a trace of threat, he was just stating a fact, stating that you are not qualified to negotiate conditions with him.
Qiu Yebai thought for a while and sighed lightly: "Your Highness seems to be very reasonable, but first of all, although I am in the Pingyun Palace, I am not a person who can keep His Highness, I don't believe that His Highness can give it a try." ”
She paused and continued: "Secondly, if you want to take the Qiu family under the knife, remember to remind me, I have time, I must go and see a lively scene." ”
Qiu Yebai is so understated, as if the Qiu family is not her kinship, but just an ordinary passerby.
Baili Lingfeng squinted his eyes slightly and looked at Qiu Yebai, as if judging whether she was telling the truth, or just bluffing: "Si Shao, the Qiu family is sorry for you no matter how much you are born, is it also the place where you were born, could it be that you really entered the rivers and lakes, and the six relatives didn't recognize you?" ”
Qiu Yebai looked at Baili Lingfeng and smiled, as if he was a little helpless: "Am I not the sixth relative, it's not the point, the point is the Eighth Highness, if you really have the ability to move the Qiu family, will you still sit here and talk to me about the lawsuit today?" ”
She didn't hide the contempt and ridicule in her eyes at all, so that Baili Ling Feng suddenly held the cup in her hand, and Ping Ning, who was waiting on the side, also had anger in her eyes, but the master didn't make a move, so he could only forcibly suppress his anger.
Qiu Yebai's expression did not change, and he still looked contemptuous, as if he didn't take the people of Pingyun Hall in his eyes at all.
Although it is already late autumn, but this year's season is out of balance, the autumn tiger hovers and does not go, close to noon, the sun is scorching, but the air is a tense atmosphere, which makes people feel a trace of coldness.
Baili Lingfeng lowered his eyes, and suddenly chuckled: "I have to say, Ye Sishao is very good at making people angry." ”
"yes, I've always thought I was empathetic." Without any worries, Autumn Leaf White continued to stimulate Baili Lingfeng.
Baili Lingfeng looked at her at the corner of his lips, and the smile like the scorching sun was as gorgeous as the sun, but only the black flame that burned people to ashes was left.
"Do you really think that the Qiu family is a monolith, the knife can't be inserted, the oil can't be spilled, don't forget how the Jiang family was destroyed at the beginning, how the Zhou family has preserved itself to this day, and how many people can survive to this day with the founder of the Zhenwu Emperor and Yuan Chen?"
Qiu Yebai nodded: "Yes, you are right, so the Qiu family simply took refuge in the Du family." ”
Although Baili Lingfeng seems to be the person of the Five Princes, since he dared to make a move against the Mei family, he made waves during this period and swept her in, which only shows two things, either Baili Lingfeng himself is in the field and has the ambition to be the emperor, or the five princes are very dissatisfied with their mother's arrangement of the emperor's throne and plan to set up their own door.
No matter what kind of plan it is, it shows one thing - he and the Du family are definitely not as harmonious as they seem on the surface.
A faint light flashed in Baili Lingfeng's black eyes, he stopped smiling, and said coldly: "Even if your chips are useful in this hall, then, what kind of lottery do you want." ”
Is this a disguised submission, and the blow of his pride she gave him under patience is just a follow-up, but unfortunately if you want to get something from her, then you will definitely suffer no less grievances.
Akiba Bai picked up a white chess piece and rested it on the chessboard, smiling: "It's very simple, if I win this game of chess, I will not only be reinstated, but I will also be promoted to three levels, you see that I am not greedy at all, right?" ”
Baili Lingfeng's slender fingertips also clamped a black chess piece and rested it on the chessboard, and said sarcastically: "It's not greedy." ”
It's very greedy!
Originally, the master of ceremonies was the fourth grade, if the official was promoted to the third level, he directly crossed the third grade, the third grade, and the second grade, and directly became a member of the second grade, and the second grade member could enter the cabinet, and he had the right to directly play all things with the emperor every day, and to discuss the relevant twists and turns of the headquarters, which can almost be said to be a step to the sky.
It would be okay to set up a position of general Mingwei in his army.
It's just that Qiu Yebai didn't seem to hear Baili Lingfeng's ridicule at all, and only nodded with a smile while falling: "Since His Royal Highness also agrees with Zaixia, then let's continue, what I can think of in this effort is to find an excellent fat difference in the imperial court, and I think that His Royal Highness will definitely be able to help Zai Xia get that fat difference." ”
Baili Lingfeng listened to her unscrupulous 'fat difference' and 'fat difference' chatter, and even the position was chosen, he paused in his hand, and the black jade chess piece almost smashed on the chessboard with a 'bang', and the position directly on the chessboard shattered into two halves, he raised his eyes and looked at Qiu Yebai coldly: "Ye Sishao, you are too greedy, if you fancy any of the positions of the military department or the household department, will this palace also give it to you?" ”
Qiu Yebai looked at Baili Lingfeng being angered by himself, and seemed to feel that his words were too much, so he restrained his expression and said lightly: "Why should Your Eighth Highness be so angry, you will not ask for a position that makes you particularly embarrassed." ”
Baili Lingfeng looked at her coldly, and a light of disgust flashed in Lang's eyes: "You win the chess game first." ”
The greedy man is punished for his heart.
Qiu Yebai has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, where can I not see that Baili Lingfeng's dislike of herself is extreme, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and she smiled: "Although I am not proficient in chess, I have not met an opponent in the rivers and lakes for many years, and I see that His Royal Highness is also a person who loves chess, and it is also a blessing to meet an opponent in chess today." ”
When Baili Lingfeng heard this, he sneered, stopped talking, and only concentrated on talking.
He has been in the army since he was a child, and he has been good at chess since he was a child, and he has worshiped many famous teachers, as the so-called chess game is like a war game, and it is necessary to take every step for the battalion, such as the way of the war, and then move, he is used to fight a hand, and he has also learned a good hand of chess, and it is almost difficult to meet the opponent.
This time he met with Qiu Yebai for the first time, and after several sharp words, he felt that although this person was insatiable, but his style of acting seemed to be unruly, but he had his own calculations every step of the way, the city was not shallow, and he was not at all like the ordinary people in the rivers and lakes who would only be brave and ruthless, and now when he saw Qiu Yebai say this, he couldn't help but rise in his heart to fight, and he also raised 120,000 points of spirit to fight.
However, he watched Akiba Bai play a few moves, but the chess path was extremely strange, it seemed to be out of order, just like a beginner, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and he didn't know if Akiba Bai's chess strength was too high, so he couldn't understand.
Qiu Yebai looked at Baili Lingfeng leaning on the recliner and thinking seriously, his handsome eyebrows were slightly cheeked, and he looked focused, but he had a bit of the demeanor of a general watching the sand table in battle.
She casually gave a son and said slowly: "It's also that Your Highness looks down on Your Highness, and those important positions can't be interfered with if you want to come to Your Highness." ”
Baili Lingfeng is wondering if the autumn leaves are too strange to look at, and he is dead end everywhere, and it is too simple for him to clean up a chess game, but he wonders if the other party is arranging a trap, after all, many ancient endgames seem to be disorganized, but the whole body is involved.
Suddenly listening to Qiu Yebai's stinging words, his hands suddenly stiffened, his original train of thought was interrupted, and he had to glare at Qiu Yebai coldly, and continued to think about it.
He had to think about it for a while every time, but Qiu Yebai didn't seem to think about it, every time he fell a son, she immediately followed the son, and it was still out of order.
This came and went, Baili Lingfeng fell for longer and longer every time, Qiu Yebai seemed to be a little impatient, and she didn't have time to make sarcasm, every time she forced Baili Lingfeng to turn her face, she apologized silently, and drew her attention back to the chess game.
But Baili Lingfeng is a first-class chess master after all, no matter how the chess game changes, no matter how much he keeps his back hand, it is impossible to kill himself everywhere.
He tried to approach Huanglong, but found that the other party was bluffing at all, blocked the way to retreat, and had no power to parry.
This is what the great eunuch Ping Ning, who has followed him all the year round and knows a little about chess, can see it.
Now that he has seen the flaws of the opponent, Baili Lingfeng is no longer polite, clinging to the chess pieces, pressing everywhere, and attacking fiercely, but in a moment, the sunspots have all formed a circle of whites, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Qiu Yebai's eyes with more and more cold contempt: "Night four less, you lost." ”
Qiu Yebai played with the white jade chess pieces in her hand, looking at the osmanthus flowers in the garden, wandering out of the world, and suddenly heard Baili Lingfeng speak, she looked at the chessboard as if she had just woken up from a dream, frowned slightly, and said a little suspiciously: "Oh, are you sure about Your Royal Highness?" ”
Baili Lingfeng sneered, showed the black jade chess pieces at his fingertips, and compared a certain place on the chessboard: "If this son falls, you will have no place to fight, you have already been defeated, you don't lose to me a son and a half, is it possible to cheat?" ”
He was very sure that in this game of chess, Akiba Bai would never be able to turn over.
Just like his situation, the Queen Mother's faction plans to kill him everywhere, the Qiu family has already taken refuge in the Du family, and it is impossible to fight against the Queen Mother for a concubine, although Qiu Yebai has the identity of a Jianghu person, but his roots are still in the Qiu family, the identity of this Jianghu person is a secret that belongs to him, and now it has become a shackle that binds him.
There is no place for Akiba Bai in the world, so Akiba Bai must only be used by him!
Akiba Bai looked down at the chessboard, and suddenly said, "Well, I don't understand." ”
Baili Lingfeng thought that she wanted to repay the debt, and the eyes in her eyes were even more sneering: "What, do you want to regret chess?" ”
The surrounding guards stood silently, surrounded the gazebo, and rested their hands on top of their knives.
As if he hadn't seen it at all, Qiu Yebai raised his head and said word by word: "Eighth Highness, I mean I don't know how to play chess at all, why, as a Go master, don't you even see it?" ”
Baili Lingfeng's hand froze in mid-air, stunned: "Then what did you say?" ”
Akiba Bai's fingertips lightly landed on the chessboard, and said lightly: "I said that I don't know how to play chess at all, but it's really an honor to let His Royal Highness play against Zaisa for so long." ”
Such sarcastic words instantly angered Baili Lingfeng, his face turned blue and pale, and he suddenly understood that Qiu Yebai was simply taking advantage of his cautious weakness and playing with him for nearly an hour.
Anger flashed in his eyes: "Bastard, you dare to play the ...... of this hall." ”
"However, I said that I had a rare chess player in the rivers and lakes, but I didn't say anything." Qiu Yebai didn't let Baili Ling Feng attack, and suddenly interrupted him with a smile.
Baili Lingfeng was a chess player in the end, and finally forcibly held back his anger, and looked at her fiercely: "Really? ”
Autumn leaves nodded: "That's right, you, can't win me." ”
Baili Ling Feng and Ping Ning and the others looked at Qiu Yebai with strange and wary expressions, and their eyes involuntarily stopped on the chessboard, as if they didn't believe that a person who didn't know anything about Go could turn the tables in such a situation.
"Don't believe me?" Akiba Bai chuckled: "Then, look." ”
After that, she suddenly turned her hands and flipped the chessboard directly, and the chess pieces on the chessboard were instantly scattered all over the ground.
Black and white chess pieces gurgled all over the floor.
Everyone froze in unison, looking at this scene in disbelief, because they were so shocked that even the hundred miles of Lingfeng, who was close at hand, didn't even have time to react because Qiu Yebai's behavior was too sudden, and they could only watch their winning chess game turn into nothing in an instant.
"You ......."
"As I said, I won't talk to Your Highness, not now, not in the future." Qiu Yebai smiled and gently patted Baili Lingfeng's shoulder, looking gentle and sincere.
"Akiba White!" Baili Lingfeng finally couldn't bear it anymore, regardless of his injured leg, his eyes were full of anger, and he looked at Qiu Yebai sitting on the bamboo chair fiercely: "You don't want to bully people too much!" ”
"This temple has always admired smart people, especially arrogant smart people, this kind of people have always been either too stupid or too capable, this temple thinks you are the first type of person, but now it seems that you are only the second type!"
This kind of person who can only play tricks on the little cleverness is in vain, and it is not worth his time at all.
He waved his hand coldly, and was about to say-take it.
But I didn't want to, at this time, suddenly a figure rushed from outside the door, and I forgot to salute Baili Lingfeng: "Your Highness, Eighth Highness is not good...... ”
"Presumptuous, how to speak!" Ping Ning looked at the panting and panicked little palace maid, and shook the dust and scolded angrily.
Only then did the little palace maid realize that she didn't seem to be talking like this, and immediately bit her lip and said respectfully: "The slave is guilty, but there are many fathers-in-law of the ceremonial supervisor from outside the Pingyun Palace, and they have surrounded all of our Pingyun Palace. ”
"What?" Ping Ning was stunned and muttered in disbelief.
According to the rules, all the internal eunuchs are under the supervision of the celebrants, although in fact, the eunuchs who have faces around the masters are actually only in the celebrity eunuchs, and they will only go to receive the physical examination sign when they are examined every year, and they are loyal to their own masters, and they are also the masters who can manage them.
But they still have some understanding of the celebrant eunuch, and there is only one person who can mobilize the celebrant and the inner guard in the palace - the queen mother Lafayette.
"What are the celebrants' inner guards doing?" Baili Lingfeng also walked out and asked coldly.
The punishment of the palace people in the ordinary palace is controlled by the inner guards of the celebrant eunuch, but if a palace can be enclosed, it is definitely not as simple as just disposing of the palace people, and he doesn't think that those eunuchs came to pass on the reward that the Queen Mother Lafayette gave him the title of king, and the matter of his title to the king was still stuck in Lafayette for a long time.
After all, a prince who was not from the Du family's lineage was crowned king in front of the prince of the lineage, even if he had brilliant achievements, it made the Du family feel that he couldn't get over his face.
When the little palace maid saw that her master was asking questions in person, she timidly glanced behind him and said respectfully: "Those fathers-in-law said that they came to take away the prisoners by order. ”
"What?!"
Everyone's faces changed, and even the most calm Baili Ling Feng couldn't help but have a cold face, and looked around suspiciously.
Who was it that leaked the news of Autumn Leaf Bai in the Pingyun Hall to Lafayette!
The arrival of Autumn Leaf White was something that no one expected, someone must have betrayed the Pingyun Palace!
A cadre of military guards and Ping Ning all looked at each other and looked at each other vigilantly, but everyone present did not leave the area around the pavilion, how could this matter be revealed?
Qiu Yebai's voice suddenly sounded lazily behind them: "It was I who let people inform Lafayette, and I had a good conversation with His Royal Highness in the Pingyun Palace." ”
"You?!" Ping Ning turned his head to look at Qiu Yebai, and couldn't help but whisper angrily: "Are you crazy, do you still want to die?" ”
actually ordered someone to notify the person who wanted to put him to death, didn't Akiba Bai know that the Queen Mother Lafayette was the one who ordered the whole country to want him, turn him into a prisoner, and wanted him to die the most!
Baili Lingfeng suddenly squinted dangerously, looking at Qiu Yebai and not speaking.
Qiu Yebai looked at him and smiled leisurely: "Of course I don't want to die, but I don't want to be coerced, so I let people notify our Lafayette to come, after all, the people who want the account books in my hands are not only the Eighth Highness, compared to the Eighth Highness, Lafayette wants the Mei family's account books more." ”
Baili Lingfeng looked at her and said coldly: "Qiu Yebai, do you want to deal with Lafayette with the same set as this hall, you are seeking skin with the tiger, do you know." ”
This man is simply a madman!
Qiu Yebai sighed lightly, and his eyes were cold and sneering: "Tsk, Your Highness, why are you so troubled and ashamed, I was originally very sincere in doing business with you, but unfortunately, His Royal Highness has never put me, a grass people, and the rivers and lakes in his eyes, so naturally I have to change a buyer." ”
What she said this time was the truth, originally she didn't weigh the possibility of cooperating with Baili Lingfeng, but unfortunately, after this fight, she knew that although Baili Lingfeng said it well, he was indeed an extremely domineering man in nature, and he only regarded her as a bag.
"Since His Highness doesn't see me as a partner, I'll have to try another buyer."
"You...... Are you so despicable and shameless, and have no self-esteem? Ping Ning finally couldn't help it, and broke out angrily.
When Qiu Yebai heard this, he couldn't help but laugh lowly, his voice was cold and ridiculed: "Where can you compare to the people of your Baili royal family, if you are not despicable and shameless enough and have no 'self-esteem', then how can you drink tea on an equal footing with His Royal Highness today?" ”
"The Tibetan Sword Pavilion has always been to collect things, if you want to get things from the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that you need to pay some unexpected costs." Qiu Yebai shook the folding fan in his hand, and looked at Baili Lingfeng with a smile, his expression was unparalleled, and his restrained momentum was fully open, and he was not weaker than Baili Lingfeng, the general of the battlefield.
"Playing with fire and self-immolation, the edict of the celebrant has always been there is no return." Baili Lingfeng was no longer angry at this moment, and a pair of cold eyes looked directly at Qiu Yebai, with a hint of regret.
Qiu Yebai sneered: "Eighth Highness, you still have to think about it, how to explain to Lafayette that you almost tossed the Mei family and the Du family so much." ”
She had said that anyone who dared to fight the idea of the Lord of the Hidden Sword Pavilion would definitely pay the price, and since he dragged her into the whirlpool, he would not want to be alone.
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==hoho~ Jump today.,7000~ A bit of a monthly pass reward.,That's right.,I can't understand the amount that can't be connected.,You can flip the tail of the previous chapter.,There are additional words.。