In the main hall of the Chu Wangfu in Wuchang City, Ning Zhongyuan drank a cup of tea slowly, with an expressionless face, looking as if the creditor came to the door, and he didn't have a good face.

At this time, there was a circle of ministers from the Chu Palace, who were staring at the two people standing in the hall with unhappy faces, and they couldn't wait to roll up their sleeves and drive them out. It's just that the attitude of these two people is respectful, as if they didn't see it at all, and they look like they are in a good place.

One of them is Xue Guan, the representative of the White Lotus Sect who visited the Fu Han Army, since Liu Ruhan proclaimed himself the King of Han, Xue Guan also got a so-called prime minister, but in the White Lotus Sect, this prime minister is nothing, because they have four prime ministers, and there are two so-called military advisors on it, and they don't know where to get this messy official system.

Of course, Xue Guan, who got the prime minister's official, still couldn't escape the order of being a messenger, this time he was ordered by Liu Ruhan, the king of Han, and Liu Zhao, another confidant of the king of Han, to come to the Han army as an envoy, but this time Liu Zhao was the main envoy and he was the deputy envoy.

"King Qichu, King Han sent the two of us here this time to congratulate the young general on his victory!" Xue Guan also ignored those eyes that wanted to kill, and hurriedly hugged his fists and congratulated.

Ning Zhongyuan sighed lightly, and then said: "Your envoy is kind, this king has a heart, but this king is a little puzzled, your envoy is here now, is it possible that he is specially here to congratulate?" ”

Xue Guan was sweating a little on his forehead at this time, and he glanced at Liu Zhao very covertly, but Liu Zhao seemed to be wandering out of the world and didn't look at him.

"I'm waiting for the two of you to come today, but there is another big event....." Xue Guan couldn't wipe his sweat, and he didn't dare not continue, "Some time ago, I taught the Holy Maiden to go to the Hanyang Gong Army to contact feelings, but for some reason, she was seized by the Hanyang Gong and imprisoned in the army.....

"Presumptuous!"

Ning Zhongyuan didn't finish listening, he dropped the teacup in his hand, and the broken porcelain pieces on the ground were stained with tea powder, and the heat rose. I don't know whether this presumptuous voice is scolding Xue Guan or scolding his own precious son.

Xue Guan was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and said in a low voice: "Please also ask the prince to forgive me for capital crimes, it is really an order that cannot be violated..... King Chu, spare your life! ”

This scene made Liu Zhao behind him itch with hatred, he was originally Liu Ruhan's nephew, and he had always been used to being powerful and blessed in the White Lotus Sect, but then he accidentally glimpsed Chen Caiwei's true face, and immediately felt like he had seen a celestial, and he was stalking to marry Chen Caiwei as his wife.

At that time, Liu Ruhan actually had this idea, but it was not for this uncompetitive nephew, but to completely annex Chen Daoxian's power in this name, so he acquiesced to this nephew's actions, and went to Chen Daoxian himself, thinking about a good thing between the two families.

But who is Chen Daoxian? Although he looks like a rough man, his mind is extremely delicate, and he is clear about the trick in Liu Ruhan's heart, so it is impossible to agree. However, Chen Daoxian did not want to offend Liu Ruhan at this critical time, so he made a false deal with the snake on the one hand, and sent Xue Guan to find the Fu Han army to marry on the other hand.

Later, after the marriage of the two families, Liu Ruhan also had to swallow this bitter fruit with a hard nose, especially after the power of the Fu Han army became more and more powerful, he became more and more afraid to act.

However, since the Qing army's southern expedition, 200,000 troops attacked the Han army, which made Liu Ruhan think that his opportunity had come, so he secretly grabbed Xue Guan's handle and let him secretly betray Chen Daoxian.

With the secret help of Xue Guan, Liu Ruhan completely seized Chen Daoxian's original power and foundation, and a large number of Baihe Daoists loyal to Chen Daoxian were secretly executed, and Chen Daoxian was also placed under house arrest. And Chen Caiwei sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in time, so she secretly found some old departments and sent herself out.

The next thing was very simple, Chen Caiwei had no choice but to go to Ning Yu, the nominal husband, for help, and then Ning Yu was left in the army and really became husband and wife.

But in this way, Liu Zhao's heart was about to explode, he thought that after Chen Daoxian was placed under house arrest, this Chen Caiwei was not the meat on his plate, and he could eat it as he wanted, but he didn't expect that at the last critical moment, Chen Caiwei ran out.

However, he is also cowardly, this time he actually took the opportunity of congratulatory congratulations, but in fact he ran to the territory of the Fu Han Army to ask for someone, but he scared Xue Guan out of a bad way. The current Fu Han army is not as good as before, and it is not possible to share the world with the Qing Dynasty.

"Qiqi King Chu, my Han and Chu families have a good relationship and fight against the Qing Dynasty together, which was originally an excellent thing. It's just that Chen Daoxian secretly communicated with the Qing army in my sect and almost killed the life of the King of Han, which is really a crime that deserves death. Although his daughter is promised to be married to Ling Lang, we suspect that she is a secret agent of the Qing army, and it may be unfavorable to Ling Lang......"

Liu Zhao was also not afraid of heaven and earth, and said a lot of things freely, ignoring Ning Zhongyuan's increasingly ugly face.

"Hmph, what bullshit doesn't work, it's just that your uncle and nephew colluded to steal the foundation of the Chen family, and now they come to my Ning family to beg for beauty, are you a fool in this world?"

Naturally, he is not an outsider, but he is still the fourth elder of the Ning family, Ning Zhongyi, who does not tolerate sand in his eyes.

"You! Full of nonsense! Liu Zhao saw that his heart was exposed, and he was immediately a little angry, and immediately played the young master's temper.

Just when everyone didn't know how to step down, Cui Wancai stood up, and after a few peaces, he asked Liu Zhao and Xue Guan to be sent back to the post station, so that after the two sides calmed down, they would talk about other things.

When this was over, Ning Zhongyuan insisted on inviting Cui Wancai to go drinking together, and the two of them put a few dishes on the back garden of the Chu Palace, and served a pot of fine Huadiao wine.

Normally, Ning Zhongyuan himself only drinks Xifeng wine, but he knows that Cui Wancai has always only liked Huadiao, so every time he drinks, he accommodates Cui Wancai's taste.

"This stinky boy, now, has really grown up, such a big thing, just a brief mention of it to the two of me, has caused so many rights and wrongs today."

Ning Zhongyuan slapped Ning Yu's letter on the table with some annoyance, and sighed: "If it is an ordinary people's family, a young man of this age can make his parents worry a little more, but this king can't feel this kind of fun at all." ”

Cui Wancai smiled on his face and said softly: "There is nothing wrong with Ning Yu in this matter. The White Lotus Sect was originally full of ghost thoughts, if it really made the family dominant, it would be difficult to deal with it in the future, and now there is a young lady of the Chen family hanging outside, thinking that Liu Ruhan would not dare to do anything to Chen Daoxian, I am afraid that he will not be able to sleep. ”

Ning Zhongyuan pointed at Cui Wancai with his finger, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone says that you Cui Wancai is full of talent, but Ning Yu didn't learn any knowledge from you, all he learned was some tricks of people's hearts, I really don't know now, how did you become a teacher......

"Hahaha....."

The two looked at each other and laughed, but it alarmed the birds in the garden, and they saw a flock of birds flying in the night sky, which was a strange scene.

Cui Wancai poured himself a glass of wine and sighed: "In this world, it is the hearts of the people who calculate, not the knowledge. If you really teach Ning Yu to be a nerd, you're afraid you'll kill me. ”

Ning Zhongyuan smiled slightly, drank all the rice wine in the cup, but he didn't know whether he was in a hurry or choked, he couldn't stop coughing, but he couldn't stop it, and his face was extremely flushed.

This scene frightened Cui Wancai, he wanted to call for someone to invite Lang Zhong, but was stopped by Ning Zhongyuan waving his hand, and after a while, the cough gradually stopped, and his face slowly returned to a normal state.

"Lord Wang, this is the ...... injury from years ago" Cui Wancai's expression was a little uneasy.

Ning Zhongyuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "If you don't care, the arrow from the previous year touched the lungs, so that it didn't get better for a long time, but it drove the old wounds, and you can't die." ”

"But, my lord, at this time, you must not have anything!"

When Cui Wancai saw his old friend like this, he suddenly felt sad, he still couldn't understand it, these were just comforting words from Ning Zhongyuan.

Ning Zhongyuan ignored it, but just sighed: "The world says that Ning Yu will descend to the stars, but I am really a little uneasy in my heart. Throughout the history books, which of those so-called destined stars is not ill-fated? How many have a good ending? As the saying goes, wisdom will hurt! ”

Cui Wancai stopped his emotions and said softly: "The prince doesn't have to worry too much, although Ning Yu is young, he acts calmly and never does things that he is not sure of. ”

"I hope so, I hope so, for Yu'er, I will live a little longer......."

Ning Zhongyuan was completely drunk, this man who couldn't get drunk when he drank Xifeng wine, but he was finally drunk in the gentle township of Huadiao...... He can finally get drunk and have a good time, and he no longer has to worry about the so-called life and death of the family......

Cui Wancai still looked like a humble gentleman, he looked up at the faint starlight in the sky, but his thoughts drifted to the past, when the young man pried open the door of his house, everything seemed to have never passed.

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Jinghai County, Hebei Province, the noisy street town in the past, has become very quiet at this time, a large number of Qing soldiers guard every corner of Jinghai County, it can be said that it is difficult for a mosquito to fly into this small county town.

Dozens of ministers stood quietly in front of a palace in Jinghai, all of them did not speak, but all of them turned their eyes in the direction of the palace, because Emperor Kangxi was now lying inside.

Since the war with the Fu Han army, Emperor Kangxi has been unconscious, Xun Zhu and Nersu fled all the way back to Luzhou with people, but the current troops in their hands are not enough, Kangxi has not woken up, so he did not dare to stay longer, and then took people all the way through the state and county, after several days of running, this arrived in Jinghai, Hebei.

Ma Qi, as an old minister in the court, although he was sent back to Beijing to study by Kangxi, but in the current situation, the ministers had no choice but to invite Ma Qi back, and he heard the defeat result confirmed by Zhang Tingyu himself, and the whole person felt stunned and almost fell to the ground.

Along with Ma Qi was also the Minister of Parliament Xiao Yongzao, the Han Army with a white flag, this person professed to be of high character, but in fact he was arrogant and paranoid, arrogant and arrogant, and had a very poor relationship with his colleagues, but he was quite trusted by Kangxi, so he was ranked as the Minister of Parliament, but in fact he was an out-and-out old stubborn.

"You waste, you let the emperor fall into such a situation, even if you cut off all your heads, you deserve it!"

Xiao Yongzao began to spray as soon as he came, but these words offended almost everyone present, and the ministers and generals who followed Kangxi naturally needless to say, even Ma Qi, who came with Xiao Yongzao, felt a little pimple in his heart, and he should be the first to die if he was driven back.

It's just that it's not suitable for quarreling at the moment, Ma Qi has no choice but to be this kind guy, "Let's go and see how the emperor is doing first, as for the conviction, let's talk about this later." ”

"Humph!" Xiao Yongzao squeezed out a sound in his nose, and no longer entangled too much, so he walked to the palace together. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Xiao Yongzao leaving, this old guy was like fish glue, and he couldn't shake it off if he stuck it.

It's just that when they walked to the gate of the palace, Ma Qi and Xiao Yongzao were stopped by a eunuch, who was Kangxi's personal eunuch, called Wei Zhu, and was quite respected.

"Two bosses, where are you going?" Wei Zhu's face was a little yin and yang.

Ma Qi was about to say two good words, but he was preempted by Xiao Yongzao's cannon barrel, he took a step forward, and his face was furrowed, "The two of us are going to see the emperor, who are you?" How dare you stop me? ”

Well, after these words, he offended another person. However, Wei Zhu is not as good as his predecessors, but he didn't dare to really stab in front of the ministers, so he could only whisper: "If the adults want to see the emperor, they have to be old slaves, and now the emperor is not cured, Lord Xiao, you are making a lot of noise in front of the door, what kind of system do you become?" ”

After saying this, Xiao Yongzao was blocked there. Seeing that Xiao Yongzao was about to be furious again, Ma Qi had to smile bitterly and said: "My father-in-law is reasonable, but the two of us are reckless." I also asked my father-in-law to give a message to the emperor. As soon as he finished saying this, he stuffed a silver ticket into Wei Zhu's waist.

Wei Zhu didn't look at the silver ticket, but just lightly covered it with his hand, his movements were extremely elegant, and he said with a smile: "Lord Ma Qi is really polite, the old slave will give you a gift." After speaking, he didn't look at Xiao Yongzao, so he walked towards the palace.

Seeing this Wei Zhu behaving like this, Xiao Yongzao almost crooked his nose in anger, and he pointed at Ma Qi viciously, "Lord Ma Qi is also a person who has read the books of sages, how can he be a dog with such a castration?" ”

Ma Qi didn't have a chance to explain anything at the moment, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Lord Xiao, now that the big thing is important, how can you argue over such a small matter?" This is the big picture! ”

When Xiao Yongzao heard this, he just snorted coldly, but he didn't say anything more.

It was only after a while that Wei Zhu came out of the palace and smiled at Ma Qi: "Oh, Lord Ma Qi, this time it's a coincidence, the emperor's body is better, and he is awake, and he invites the two adults into the palace." ”