Wang Shu snorted and said, "I'm going to ask you." ”

Zhang Shixing was confused, and asked rhetorically: "Is this matter related to me?" ”

Wang Shu said: "Nature has something to do with you. After you fainted again that day, the wound burst and bled nonstop, although Mr. Deng tried his best to save you, but you have been unconscious, he said that you need medicine to save your life. But there is a shortage of medicine on this mountain, so let's get medicine to save you. The guards in the cottage also ignored us, and then Deng Meiniang went to beg the king of Rinan, and the king of Rinan said that as long as Meiniang married him, he would be willing to save your life, and Meiniang had no choice but to agree. He sent someone to take the prescription and go down the mountain to grab the medicine, saving your life. ”

After Zhang Shixing heard this, as if he was struck by lightning, it turned out that he had mistaken the life of the beautiful girl, he grabbed his hair hard, an expression of pain appeared on his face, and muttered to himself: "If this is the case, it is better to let me die that day." ”

Seeing this, Wang Shu hurriedly comforted him and said, "Senior brother, since you can't give happiness to a beautiful girl, then it is a good destination for her to marry a prince, so don't be sad." You have to take care of your body so that you don't live up to the beauty girl's heart. ”

Zhang Shixing calmed down, gritted his teeth and said, "Senior brother, you are right, I should be happy for her if the beautiful girl can marry the princess." ”

At this time, Deng Chengda came out of the house again and said to Zhang Shixing: "Master Kongzhi, you have saved the lives of my father and daughter many times, and we have saved you from critical illness many times, so it seems that our two families are really fateful, the little girl is married today, and I am the only one in my mother's family, it seems that we are alone, I want to climb a relative with you, if you don't dislike it, and worship the little girl as a brother and sister, what do you think?" ”

When Zhang Shixing heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "It's so good, I can't ask for it." ”

Deng Chengda beckoned Zhu Yunwen and others to testify, and everyone nodded in agreement.

So everyone helped to put an incense case in Deng Cheng's house, lit three sticks of incense, and in the witness of everyone, Zhang Shixing and Deng Meiniang kowtowed three times to become brothers and sisters.

Zhang Shixing looked at Deng Meiniang's poignant expression, and a sense of pride suddenly surged in his heart, and said to her: "Meiniang, since you recognize me as your brother, I will definitely protect you, if someone dares to bully you in the future, let him be the emperor and the emperor, I will teach him a lesson and give you anger." ”

Deng Meiniang smiled with tears in her eyes: "I have the support of a good brother like you, let him have no future and no longer be afraid of anything." ”

Deng Chengda comforted: "Meiniang, today is your big day, and you are happy to recognize such a good brother again." ”

Deng Meiniang finally smiled, like a mountain full of flowers.

The twilight is vast, the cottage is lit up everywhere, a team of people and horses blow and blow to the front of Deng's house, Deng Meiniang wears a phoenix crown, wears a xia veil, covers her face with a red scarf, and walks on an ox cart with the support of several ordinary people's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the cottage is simple, the power is full of phoenixes, the ox cart goes around the field for a week, and then stops in front of the largest thatched hut in the middle.

Several young maids walked out of the house, helped Deng Meiniang out of the car, and sent her into the house.

At this time, there was a burst of drum music outside the house, and the king of the south in the house was dressed in auspicious clothes, and together with Deng Meiniang, he knelt three times and bowed nine times to the tablet of the ancestors of the Chen family.

After the ceremony, the maid sent Deng Meiniang into the inner house and cave room, and the king of Rinan came out of the house, climbed the high platform, and sat on the tiger skin gold chair, and the ceremonial official shouted: "Everyone come to congratulate." ”

The sound of drums began again, and the men, women and children in the village knelt down and kowtowed to the king of Rinan. Zhu Yunwen and others clasped their hands together and saluted the king of Rinan.

Zhang Shixing peeked and found that King Nan was very young on this day, with pink face and red lips, beautiful description, and looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

King Rinan raised his hand and said to everyone: "Everyone, you are flat. The king is getting married today, and a special banquet is held to entertain everyone, so that everyone can drink happily and not get drunk and go home. With that, he got up and went back to the cave room and went to make a ceremony with Deng Meiniang.

The ceremonial officer shouted, "Open the feast." ”

With an order, the subordinates of the king of Ninan set up a long table in the open space in the village, all the men and women in the village were on the table, there were thousands of people sitting, the horns were full of people, more than a dozen stoves were full of firepower, the cooks were slashing knives and shovels, and the meat and vegetarian dishes were put on the plate like flowing water, and everyone pushed the cup to change the lamp, so it was not lively.

Deng Chengda, Zhang Shixing and others, as their mother's family, naturally sat in the chief, and everyone in the village came to toast with bowls, praising Deng Meiniang's good life and marrying the prince. Deng Chengda couldn't cope with it alone, so he asked Zhang Shixing to help, Zhang Shixing refused to drink at first, I don't know when he started, but he didn't refuse, and poured a bowl into his stomach. Maybe he wants to get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows.

Three days later, Deng Meiniang returned to the door, Deng Chengda asked her if the prince was good to her, Deng Meiniang barely squeezed out a smile, and said: "Daddy, don't worry, the prince is very good to me." ”

Deng Chengda sighed and said, "Dad is powerless, you have to walk the road ahead." ”

Deng Meiniang said: "In this troubled world, it is worth living one day at a time." ”

At this time, the envoy of the king of Ninan entered the house and invited Deng Chengda to enter the palace for a gathering.

Deng Chengda walked out of the house, only to see Zhang Shixing, Zhu Yunwen, Huang Zhan, and Wang Shu also standing outside the door.

The group came to the big house in the middle, and saw that the king of Rinan above the hall was sitting in the middle, and there was a person standing next to him, with eyebrows like knives, eyes like mung beans, and a thin body, looking at everyone as if he was smiling.

Deng Meiniang stepped forward to greet King Rinan, who nodded and said to her: "The princess has worked hard all the way, please go to the harem to rest." ”

Deng Meiniang got up and walked to the back room.

Deng Chengda was about to kneel down and give a salute, but King Rinan stepped forward and hurriedly supported him, saying: "Uncle Yue, this is the inner palace, you can do the gift of the family, not like the outer court." ”

After saying that, he bowed to Deng Cheng and said, "Son-in-law Chen Tianping has seen his father-in-law. ”

When Zhang Shixing heard Chen Tianping's three words, he couldn't help but be shocked, and after taking a closer look at the King of Nan on this day, he found that this person was actually Ruan Kang, the servant who jumped into the water to save Chen Tianping that day.

When Zhu Yunwen and others heard this, they also looked at each other, recalling that day on the court of law, Li Cheng kept saying that Ruan Kang pretended to be Chen Tianping, won the trust of the Ming Emperor, returned to China to restore the throne, and was later executed by Ling Chi. It turned out that the real Chen Tianping was here.

Zhang Shixing looked at King Rinan with a puzzled face, not knowing whether the person in front of him was Ruan Kang or Chen Tianping, he turned thousands of thoughts in his mind for a while, and finally swallowed back the words that had come to his mouth, clasped his hands together, saluted to this King of Rinan, and said, "The lay disciple Kong Zhi has seen the prince. ”

The king of Rinan glanced at Zhang Shixing, his face was full of smiles, as if he didn't know, and he also bowed his hand and said: "I heard that Master Kongwen has married my princess as a brother and sister, then you are my eldest brother, let me make you an official?" ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Monks don't ask about mundane affairs, but they do the right way and purify all sentient beings." ”

That King Rinan laughed and said: "Brother Kongzhi is chivalrous and courageous, this king has always admired it." ”

Zhang Shixing's face changed when he heard this, and he was even more sure that the person in front of him was Ruan Kang, but whether Ruan Kang pretended to be Chen Tianping or Chen Tianping pretended to be Ruan Kang, he still needed to know more.

Zhu Yunwen and others also stepped forward one by one to salute King Rinan, and King Rinan smiled and said: "You are Brother Kongzhi's master, senior brothers, and they are all relatives of this king. ”

Huang Zhan said: "King Rinan, we are monks from Youfang, I wanted to go to Srivijaya, but we were trapped here because of the war, so I asked the prince to send us down the mountain and find a boat, so that we could go to Nanyang." ”

After hearing this, King Rinan shook his head like a rattle, and said to Huang Zhan: "Since that day, my men killed more than a dozen Ming soldiers and saved you from going up the mountain, the Ming army blocked us very strictly, and we couldn't go down the mountain at all, and the Ming Dynasty navy kept cruising in Haikou, you can't go out of the sea. ”

After that, he turned his head and asked the person standing beside him, "Commander Ruan, do you think that's the case?" ”

That Commander Ruan nodded and said, "What the prince said is extremely true. ”

King Rinan pulled this Ruan commander over and introduced it to everyone, it turned out that this person was the leader of the village soldiers who killed the Ming army by shooting arrows from the forest that day and saved everyone's lives.

King Rinan beckoned everyone to sit down, took out another piece of jerky, handed it to Deng Chengda, and said, "Lord Yue, the son-in-law still has to discuss some things with these masters, you can go back to the house first." ”

Deng Chengda took the jerky, thanked him again, and went out of the house.

After the others left, King Rinan smiled and said to Zhang Shixing: "Master Kongzhi, don't come to harm?" ”

Zhang Shixing hurriedly stood up and stared at him, knowing that the King of Nan was going to recognize him on this day, but he couldn't make up his mind how to call him.

That King Rinan seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Master Kongzhi, I am the real Chen Tianping, for the sake of safety, my servant Ruan Kang pretended to be me, and even you have deceived me, I am really ashamed." I have been very good at water since I was a child, so I jumped into the water that day, but I was only slightly injured, and then I met Commander Nguyen, so we went up the mountain together to take refuge for a while. Who knew that the Ming State was treacherous and destroyed the Li Dynasty, but wanted to annex my Annam, and I was so excited by righteous indignation that I erected a banner and occupied the mountain as the king, intending to restore my Dayue land. I have heard that Master Kongzhi and all of you are highly talented, and I would like to invite you to come and make a public announcement, I don't know what you think? ”

Zhu Yunwen clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the prince looks down on me and waits, I am just a monk who travels all over the world, how can I join forces with the prince to do big things?" ”

This King of Rinan sneered: "Master Kongwen, I have already inquired clearly, you are not a monk at all, but a lonely minister of Jianwen. ”

Zhu Yunwen and the others changed their complexions when they heard this, and said, "Lord Wang, how can you say this?" How we are not monastic anymore. ”

King Rinan pointed to Zhang Shixing and said: "This master of empty wisdom, dressed as a layman, has high martial arts, loves to fight unevenly, acts chivalrous and righteous, and has the token of Xiping Hou's Mansion in his hand, which shows that he used to be an official in the Ming army, and his position is not low, otherwise he would not have a relationship with Xiping Hou." The most important point is that you see that the Ming army is afraid to avoid it, so what are you not the lonely son of Emperor Jianwen? ”

As soon as Zhang Shixing heard this, he took the case and said, "How are you doing?" ”