Xu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "If I go with you, Liu promised not to kill me, it won't be good for your cooperation." But what if other officers and soldiers of the Jingyang Kingdom, such as the cronies of the eldest prince, act on me in anger? It's better for you to go and find out the situation first, and when the envoy of Jingyang Kingdom comes, I will accompany you there. ”

Xu Zhilan nodded, stood up, and said that this was the end of the secret talk.

After dinner, Xu Zhilan lay on the bed and thought of Xi'er again, he clenched his fists, and repeated the oath he had made countless times in his mouth.

Last year, Xie Huishu's death, Xu Zhilan seriously suspected that Xu Zhao sent someone to do it; This time, Guo Gonggong knew in his heart that it would be difficult for Xu Zhilan to arrange Xi'er's whereabouts, and asked Xu Zhilan in front of General Wu how to arrange Xi'er'er, but the next night, Xi'er was killed.

Xi'er'er died very strangely, just ask, how could a soldier be bold enough to flirt with a maid in the palace? Even if these maids are from Chengcheng and have a low status, no matter how low they are, they are still the maids of the palace, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, right? Xu Zhilan regretted that he slapped the soldier who was instructed to death with a slap on his head at that time!

According to Xu Zhilan's speculation, he felt that it should be General Wu or Guo Gonggong who instructed Luo Shixun to let the soldiers create chaos when registering in the palace, and then sent a master to kill Xi'er and then escaped. At that time, the situation was very chaotic, everyone went out to look for the murderer, and there was no time to check themselves. It is very likely that after this murderer escaped, he took advantage of the chaos outside to kill another Qingge disciple who participated in the search for the murderer, and married the disaster to Lan Keqing's side. It seems that the orchid people didn't want to surrender to Cheng, so they killed Xi'er in anger, but Xu Zhilan asked Lan Keqing to tell the members of the Qing Pavilion that he was pretending to surrender to Cheng to save his life, so as to prevent some people who were loyal to Hualan from having an accident, so it was impossible for the orchid people to run to kill Xi'er.

All these things, Xu Zhilan put in his heart, he didn't tell Lan Keqing! Xu Zhilan is principled, although he wants to take revenge, he doesn't want the country to be in chaos, because the people in the world are innocent, he doesn't want Lan Keqing and other people loyal to him to confront Dahua, he wants them to live a peaceful life for the rest of their lives. Of course, in this era of being punished at every turn, Xu Zhilan has to arrange Lan Keqing and these people well before he can avenge Xi'er.

In the early morning of the next day, Xu Zhilan washed up, ate breakfast, and took Lan Keqing to greet the soldiers of Jingyang State on the city tower, and after the soldiers of Jingyang State retreated, Xu Zhilan refused General Sun to send troops to escort him, and only took Lan Keqing out of the city gate to see Liu Promise.

In the king's tent, Xu Zhilan pretended to say a few words to Liu Chengcheng to express his deep regret for the death of the eldest prince and ask the eighth prince brother to mourn the nonsense.

Before Liu Cheng could speak, General Gilgrad, who had been holding back for a long time, asked angrily: "Master Pony, Xu Zhiyuan asked Xiao Jinfeng to come out to apologize, and Dahua also meant this?" ”

"There are some things that can't be said clearly in one or two sentences, and now Xu Zhiyuan can't have anything to do, otherwise, this king will be very troublesome!" Xu Zhilan said as he looked at Liu Promise with inquiring eyes.

Liu promised to understand that Xu Zhilan was asking General Gilgrad if he was his own person, and whether he should say something? He nodded slightly to Xu Zhilan.

Gilgrad is a straightforward person, seeing Xu Zhilan and Liu Cheng looked at each other, he said impatiently: "Don Ma, everyone is your own person, the reason why General Ben did not officially send troops to attack Lingyun Pass is that he is afraid that after the fight, Princess Luoyang will personally come to command, and let her get the battle merits will bring trouble to the Pony." If there's anything, just say it, don't hide it. ”

Since Gilgrad knows a lot of things, Xu Zhilan is easy to explain, he said: "We all know that Xu Zhiyuan can't die now, if he dies, this king will be in trouble!" The best way to deal with it now is to allow Xu Zhiyuan to send Xiao Jinfeng over to apologize, and then this king will relax some trade restrictions and let Xu Zhiyuan compensate some silver taels, that's all. ”

"How much to lose? The eighth prince said that Na Xu Zhiyuan was penniless by the horse, and the Qingyun County that the emperor gave him was also one of the few poor counties in Dahua, and Qingyun County was in his hands for a few days, how much could he lose? If there are more, he doesn't have it, and the compensation is too small, that is, he slapped me in the face of Jingyang Kingdom, saying that our eldest prince is only worth eight thousand taels of ten thousand children! ”

Hearing General Gilgrad's words, Lan Keqing covered his mouth and turned his back to snicker.

Xu Zhilan spread his hands and said, "You can mention as much money as you want him to lose." This king reminds you that at most, he will compensate you for the future taxes of Qingyun County, and there will be no more! How much tax can he have in Qingyun County? Now he doesn't even have a palace, and he is afraid that he won't be able to afford it, so he hasn't even appointed the prime minister, but just verbally called Su Rui the prime minister and the Xiao family brothers as generals. There's no way you can't allow him not to even build a palace or appoint an official, right? If you take his taxes from Qingyun County, he will make Su Rui a real prime minister, and Xiao Jinyun will become a real general of the palace. ”

"Then we can't do anything about him?" General Gilgrad said depressedly.

Xu Zhilan said helplessly: "Xu Zhiyuan now wants money, he has a life, and we can't take this life yet!" ”

"Even if there is no tax, we have to make an appearance, otherwise how can we explain to the people of Jingyang Kingdom?" Yoo promised.

Xu Zhilan also knew Liu's helplessness, and said: "It's only like this!" ”

The matter was almost discussed, and when General Gilgrad left, Xu Zhilan was ashamed to promise Liu: "It happened too suddenly, Xiang'er was open-mouthed for a while, and told Xiao Jinfeng about Luo Yuzhu......

The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to say more, Liu Cheng waved his hand and diverted the topic: "Since Xu Zhiyuan knows about this matter, he will definitely find ways to put pressure on this king through other royal brothers, trying to get this king to hand over Luo Yuzhu." ”

This is also something that Xu Zhilan is worried about, he said: "Xu Zhiyuan said to Princess Luoyang that he would be a hostage to Brother Wang, and the timing of Xiao Jinfeng being caught was very coincidental, so this king thinks that General Sun has always been Xu Zhiyuan's person!" This time the king came lightly, and wanted to take Luo Yuzhu from Lingyun Pass smoothly......"

Liu promised to understand what Xu Zhilan meant, and he said, "Luo Yuzhu has already run away after killing the eldest brother, and this king doesn't know where they fled to. The biggest possibility should be that I went to the Western Regions. ”

Xu Zhilan was shocked, groaned for a while, sighed, and said: "Luo Yuzhu and the others know that in order to save their lives, this king revealed to Xu Zhiyuan that they had the emperor's evidence, and they will not cooperate with this king in the future!" Of course, they won't cooperate with Xu Zhiyuan. When they left the Western Regions, they should be afraid that Xu Zhiyuan would arrest them! But here in the Western Regions, Xu Zhiyuan is friendly with King Gui, if Xu Zhiyuan knows that Luo Yuzhu and others have gone to the Western Regions, he will definitely try his best to capture Luo Yuzhu back from the Western Regions. ”