The implication is that they don't need to join forces with the Chu State.

But in order not to make things stiff, the emperor of the southern kingdom still had to say with a smile: "The two of you who came to my southern country thousands of miles away, presumably they are tired now, or go to the post palace to rest first, and tonight I will set up a banquet in the palace to entertain the envoys, how about it?" ”

"Then there is the Emperor of Laonan."

However, Lin Mohan was taken to the Prince's Mansion by Ye Minghao on the pretext of visiting Xue'er.

When Su Yingxue saw Lin Mohan, she really couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, she didn't owe him a little, but now she couldn't help him with anything.

After that, he was arranged to live in a separate courtyard of the Prince's Mansion.

Ye Minghao told Xue'er everything in the court, Su Yingxue thought for a while, and said: "In the palace where my father set up a banquet tonight, Shangguan Jinrui will definitely have movement, Minghao, you go to rest first, and then you can have energy at night." ”

Ye Minghao didn't refuse, so he took Xue'er back to his room together.

In the evening, the palace sent a carriage to the prince's mansion to pick up Ye Minghao and Su Yingxue, as well as Lin Mohan and others into the palace.

The emperor decreed, and all the ministers in the court who were ordered came, not only them, but also the princes in the royal family, and it was very lively when Ye Minghao and others arrived, Shangguan Jinrui had not yet arrived.

Shangguan Jinrui came with the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom, and the voice of the eunuch outside the hall sounded: "The emperor has arrived, and Emperor Yongshou has arrived." ”

Everyone looked over, and then scattered on both sides, greeting the few people who walked in outside, for "I have seen the emperor, I have seen the Yongshou Emperor." ”

In the main hall, the loud voice of the emperor of the southern kingdom sounded: "Today's banquet is to entertain the Emperor Yongshou and the prince of Qi who have come from afar, I hope the two of them can return happily, and I will pay tribute to the two of them." ”

Shangguan Jinrui and Lin Mohan picked up their wine glasses at the same time and drank a glass together, but Shangguan Jinrui's red eyes kept staring at Lin Mohan and did not leave for half a minute.

Lin Mohan did not show weakness, he looked at him, and the two of them were on the main hall, killing him with their eyes, and many people in the south saw the doorway, but they only pretended not to know.

"I came thousands of miles to the south, I sincerely want to join forces with the south, I don't know what the south thinks, please give me a happy word?"

In the main hall, there was silence all of a sudden, and no one expected Shangguan Jinrui to bring up this matter in person, and everyone looked at the emperor of the southern country.

The emperor of the southern kingdom froze, looked at Shangguan Jinrui, and then looked at the courtiers in the first hall, and finally his eyes fell on his son Ye Minghao, and then said with a smile: "The state of Chu wants to join forces with my southern country, such a important matter, we will discuss it later, today's banquet is to catch the wind for the envoys of the two countries, not to talk about state affairs." ”

But as soon as the words fell, Shangguan Jinrui slapped the glass of wine in his hand on the mahogany table, and then asked sharply: "Does the emperor of the southern kingdom look down on my Chu country?" That's why it's so pushing? ”

This time the face of the emperor of the southern kingdom was even more ugly, he originally wanted to treat it politely, but he didn't expect the other party to be arrogant, he thought he was something, this is the territory of the southern kingdom, and he can't be allowed to be wild.

"Since Emperor Yongshou said so, then please do it."

In the main hall, everyone looked at Shangguan Jinrui, this person was too bullish, he wanted to join forces with Nanguo, his attitude was still so arrogant, seeing him so demonic, it was really not comparable to ordinary people, and no one spoke.

Just when everyone thought he was going to be angry and leave, suddenly a cheerful voice sounded: "Brother Huang, we are sincerely here to join forces with the Southern Kingdom, since the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom said that we will discuss it later, why don't we slow down?" ”

As soon as this voice sounded, it attracted all the attention, and they looked at the woman who was talking, everyone had not paid attention to her before, but now when they heard her words, they knew that she was the princess of Chu State, but this woman had a veil on her face, and she couldn't see what she looked like at all.

After Shangguan Jinrui listened to her words, he finally didn't speak, and sat down with a cold face.

The hall was quiet, the woman slowly got up and looked at the emperor of the southern kingdom, saluted respectfully, and then said softly: "Our Chu country came to the southern country in person, and we wanted to join forces with the southern country to defeat the enemy, in order to show the sincerity of our Chu country, this princess is willing to marry the prince of the southern country as the princess's side concubine, in order to show the sincerity of my Chu country." ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar, and many people talked about it, saying everything, and looked at the crown princess from time to time to see how she reacted.

Su Yingxue has been wondering who this princess is? After thinking about it for a while, I finally remembered that if I guessed correctly, it must be Shangguan Jinhuan, I remember that she admired Ye Minghao extremely back then.

"Does Princess Shangguan think that anyone can enter the Southern Prince's Mansion?"

Su Yingxue's quiet voice sounded in the hall, and there was a slight ridicule between her lips and teeth.

The woman opposite lifted the veil, smiling lightly, and her skin was covered with a faint flush, becoming more and more charming, but the bottom of her pupils was vaguely cold, and she was even more annoyed with Su Yingxue in her heart.

All along, she has only one person in her heart, although the royal brother wanted to marry her several times, and finally she forced him to stop with death, this time she came to Nanguo, she insisted on coming over, that is, she wanted to marry the prince of Nanguo, although she couldn't be a concubine, but it was good to be a side concubine.

"This palace heard that the crown princess has never allowed His Royal Highness the prince to take concubines, but today's concubine entered the prince's mansion for the sake of the two countries joining forces, and only marriage is the best thing to ensure the interests of the two families, so I hope that the princess can understand the general situation and not spoil the major affairs of the two countries."

As soon as Shangguan Jinhuan's words fell, everyone in the entire hall looked at each other, and then everyone got together and muttered quietly, could this princess of Chu have something wrong with her brain, they don't want to join forces with Chu at all, she can even say such a thing, she wants to marry their prince and wants to go crazy, so she also buckled such a big hat for the princess.

Su Yingxue didn't want to say more to her, "Since the princess knows that I am jealous, why bother doing this, that's right, if there is a day when the palace is in the prince's mansion, no woman will want to enter the prince's mansion." ”

Su Yingxue's cold and strong voice together, Shangguan Jinhuan's face changed, a pretty hand was raised, and Su Yingxue on the opposite side was pointed at: "You are so careless about the two countries?" ”

Su Yingxue smiled and reminded: "This palace wants to remind the princess of Chu that our southern kingdom has not agreed to join forces with Chu State, how can you keep saying that it is appropriate for the two countries to deduct such a big hat to this palace, and there must be evidence of facts." ”

Shangguan Jinhuan's face turned green for a moment, and Shangguan Jinrui's face was not much better, their Chu State was wholeheartedly trying to join forces with Nanguo, but they didn't expect to be treated like this by Nanguo now, it was really annoying, "I have said goodbye, since Nanguo has no intention of joining forces with Chu State, then there is no need to say anything." ”

The Emperor of the Southern Kingdom didn't want to make a fuss about this matter, but when it happened to the situation of tearing his face in front of him, there was no way to do it, so he ordered the squire of the military department: "Immediately send Emperor Yongshou and others into the post palace to rest, and let the prince send Emperor Yongshou and others away early tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Shangguan Jinrui and the others left the banquet, and tonight's banquet made them understand that the Southern Kingdom would join forces with the Qi State, and it would not be a good thing for them to join forces with the Chu State, so they had to find allies as soon as possible.

Shangguan thought about it carefully, in addition to the Southern Kingdom, the best object for them to join forces at the moment was the Yan Kingdom, why not join forces with the Xia Kingdom, and there would be no need to suffer so many white eyes.

But this night, something happened in the post palace, Emperor Yongshou was stabbed, at this time, there was an imperial doctor beside him who was treating his injuries, the previous assassin broke into the room, causing his arm to be injured, fortunately it was not too serious, who is this assassin?

Shangguan Jinrui only thought that the assassin must be from the south, and they were dissatisfied with him, so they sent people to assassinate him.

At this time, Ye Minghao and Su Yingxue had already rushed over, and a domineering and cold voice sounded outside the door: "Could it be that Emperor Yongshou suspects us of it?" ”

As soon as these words fell, Shangguan Jinhuan beside him said in a deep voice: "Isn't that so?" You Nanguo doesn't want to join forces with my Chu State, so you want to kill my imperial brother, if something happens to my imperial brother, your Nanguo just joins forces with Qi State to destroy our Chu State. ”

Su Yingxue on the side said coldly: "Princess, this is a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain, my southerners are not so despicable and shameless, if we southerners really send someone to kill Emperor Yongshou, can we only hurt him with one arm?" Do you still let him live so well? ”

That's right, if the southern kingdom really sent people to kill the people of Chu, then they wouldn't just hurt one of the emperor's arms, their ability would definitely not be so bad, this is the territory of the southern kingdom, if you want to kill a person, it's very easy.

Seeing that Emperor Yongshou and the two stopped talking, Ye Minghao reminded him again, "Our southern country has sent a lot of soldiers to defend the post palace, how can outsiders get in, so this person must be the person who has been hiding by Emperor Yongshou's side, and since that person is close to Emperor Yongshou, this palace does not believe that Emperor Yongshou will not notice anything." ”

As soon as these words came out, Su Yingxue suddenly thought of whether it would be Shangguan Jinyu, if it was really Shangguan Jinyu, then it could only be said that Shangguan Jinyu's memory had been restored, so where did Butterfly Dance go? Could she be in the Southlands too?

In the room, Shangguan Jinrui didn't speak, his face was full of gloom, but he already realized it in his heart, but he didn't want the southerners to know the details, so he didn't say anything.

A report came in from outside the door: "Your Majesty, your subordinates have checked everywhere and found no whereabouts of the assassin." ”

As soon as this person's words fell, someone else reported: "Your Majesty, your subordinates have not found out the whereabouts of the assassin." ”

At this time, Su Yingxue was relieved, it seemed that Shangguan Jinyu had not been arrested, and immediately ordered Du Ming, "Search the post palace for me, don't let go of any place, if you find an assassin, arrest him immediately." ”

"Yes, Princess."

After Ye Minghao and Su Yingxue left the post palace, after coming out, Ye Minghao could be sure that the person must be Shangguan Jinyu, since he couldn't find out, he must have been hidden, if he guessed correctly, that person must be his sister Night Butterfly Dance.