Chapter 49: The Remnant and the Loyal Gate (2)
At night, the lights on both sides of Qinhuai are bright.
Zhang Xiang came to Ning Xiangju early in a carriage.
A person like him, although ordinary people rarely know that he is a colt, but they also know that he is a rich family by looking at his clothes.
The girls in Ning Xiangju who hadn't seen him hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and those who had seen him asked him with a smile if he was here to find Miss Qin.
After being entangled by this group of girls with heavy makeup and powder for a while, Qin Elegy's maidservants finally came, and after driving these girls away, they quickly came to Qin Elegy's boudoir with Zhang Xiang.
Earlier, Zhang Xiang sent someone to send a post, so knowing that he was coming, Qin Elegy postponed all activities tonight and waited for him intently.
After Zhang Xiang entered the door, Qin Elegy had already prepared a table of wine and food.
After the two drank a few glasses of wine, Zhang Xiang quickly got to the point, he looked left and right, and asked, "What about your senior brother?" ”
"What? It's only been long since you've been here, and you're going to look for my senior brother? Qin Elegy squinted and looked at him with a smile.
Zhang Xiang smiled and said, "Isn't it a big deal!" ”
Qin Elegy poured himself a glass of wine a little boringly: "You said by name in the letter, let me find my senior brother, can I not look for it?" ”
"And where is he? Why didn't I see it? Zhang Xiang glanced inside the room again.
Qin Elegy smiled lightly: "Ming Heng, in fact, senior brother is by your side, if you look for him in the future, you don't need to go through me, you call him three times loudly, and he will appear, he is ordered to protect you thoroughly, so as long as there is nothing else, he is secretly protecting you, and he will naturally follow you all the way from the Horse Mansion to here." ”
"Really?" Zhang Xiang was skeptical.
Qin Elegy glanced at him, and then shouted: "Senior brother, it's cold outside, come in and have a glass of wine to warm up." ”
Soon, a dark shadow flashed in through the window.
It was Yuan Shen who was holding the long sword and had a cold face.
Zhang Xiang was dumbfounded, he knew this, so he didn't have to come here.
Yuan Shen glanced at the surprised Zhang Xiang expressionlessly, and then picked up the glass of wine that Qin Elegy had just poured on the table and drank it.
Zhang Xiang asked curiously, "Where were you just now?" You can't hang out of the window all the time, do you? ”
Yuan Shen glanced at the top of his head expressionlessly.
Qin Elegy smiled and said, "Senior brother has been on the roof!" ”
Zhang Xiang suddenly realized that he did have a superior demeanor, and he didn't take the usual path.
Yuan Shen looked at him and said, "What are you looking for me?" ”
Zhang Xiang Zhengse said: "I now know where those people live in Donghuzhuang, they live in the Qingguang Courtyard next door to my workshop, the house is the mother of the little son of Kangfu, when they moved in that day, it was personally received by Mrs. Kang. ”
Qin Elegy and Yuan Shen were both stunned.
Yuan Shen only knew that the people from Donghuzhuang had gone to Laolonghe before, and he didn't know where they lived, but later because this matter had nothing to do with them, Yuan Shen didn't investigate.
Zhang Xiang continued: "I have confirmed twice that it is them, Donghuzhuang is the remnants of the former Chu, and the Kang family is the family of Zhongmen, didn't you say that they came to Pingzhou for other purposes?" Maybe it has something to do with the Kang family, but at the moment my people don't dare to approach that mansion, I don't know what they have to do with the Kang family, I want to invite you now, if you can, can you sneak in and have a look? ”
After listening to Zhang Xiang's words, Qin Elegy glanced at Yuan Shen, and then frowned slightly.
Yuan Shen's expression still did not fluctuate.
After a while, Yuan Shen suddenly said, "Don't go." ”
Zhang Xiang was directly confused by his answer: "Why? ”
"I can't beat Wei Lie." Yuan Shen replied simply and straightforwardly.
Zhang Xiang was a little speechless: "I'm not asking you to fight with him, you just sneak in and see if you can overhear anything, so that you can know the purpose of his coming to Pingzhou." ”
Yuan Shen said: "Wei Lie is such a cautious person, if he lives in, he will definitely strengthen the defense of that mansion, as soon as there is a disturbance, he will be able to find out, it is not easy to get out of being entangled by him at that time, I am just ordered to protect you, not ordered to help you, so I will not go." ”
This guy doesn't seem to be able to move.
Zhang Xiang had no choice but to look at Qin Elegy for help.
Qin Elegy asked him: "Ming Heng, this matter has nothing to do with you, no matter what Wei Lie does in Pingzhou, as long as it doesn't hurt you, what are you going to find out what he is doing?" It's too late to hide from him! Why provoke him! ”
Zhang Xiang said: "I just think what he wants to do is not ordinary, otherwise it would be impossible to risk contact with a big family like the Kang family." ”
Qin Elegy nodded: "That's true, if it's not a very important matter, Wei Lie won't go out in person, if it's feasible, we also want to know, if it's not feasible, don't provoke him, our well water doesn't interfere with river water." ”
Zhang Xiang frowned and said: "I always have a very uneasy feeling, if I don't figure it out, I feel very uneasy." ”
Yuan Shen said in a low voice on the side: "If he makes trouble for you, I will protect you with all my might, but if it has nothing to do with you, I will not make a move, put away your curiosity, and don't inquire about things that have nothing to do with you, otherwise it will be easy to lose your life in the future." ”
Qin Elegy also said on the side: "Yes, Ming Heng, Senior Brother is right, people's hearts are sinister, Wei Lie is even more scheming in the rivers and lakes, if he does something but someone interferes, he will definitely kill people and destroy his mouth, although he has rarely moved around in the rivers and lakes over the years, but his reputation, others will be afraid of three points when they hear it, Master told us not to provoke him easily." ”
As soon as the two persuaded him like this, Zhang Xiang did dispel some thoughts, but he had no intention of giving up.
He understands the two of them, Qin Elegy and Yuan Shen are the objects of the Snow God Sect and the extermination of the imperial court, and their identities are already sensitive, and they don't know how much effort it took to come to Pingzhou to protect him, and how much risk they had, if they exposed their identities here in Pingzhou, the gains outweighed the losses.
If he has a way, he will not ask Yuan Shen for help, but at present, he knows Yuan Shen who has the highest martial arts, so he has to make this decision.
In this case, he didn't want to involve the two of them, so he had to think of other ways.
After drinking a few glasses of wine with the two, because he was thinking about it, Zhang Xiang was also not interested, so he hurriedly said goodbye to the two and left.
After Zhang Xiang left, Qin Wangge's eyes showed a worried look.
She said to Yuan Shen: "Senior brother, Ming Heng won't give up, why don't you help him go and explore?" ”
Yuan Shen didn't speak.
Qin Elegy knew that he was unwilling, so he had no choice but to say, "If Wei Lie finds you, what are the chances of you escaping?" ”
"If Master wants to kill me, what do you think is a chance that I will be able to escape?" Yuan Shen asked her rhetorically.
Qin Elegy said: "Twenty percent!" ”
Yuan Shen nodded: "If Wei Lie wants to kill me, I desperately have a chance to escape, and if he only wants to arrest me, I still have fifty percent." ”
"What then?" Qin Elegy said worriedly: "Seeing Ming Heng's appearance, he will not give up, he will definitely think of other ways, and when the time comes, he will be caught by Wei Lie, but it will be troublesome." ”
"This kid really doesn't know how thick the sky is." Yuan Shen shook his head: "Don't worry, I will watch him and won't let him mess around." ”
"Hmm..."Qin Elegy nodded lightly, and suddenly smiled: "Even so, don't you think that Ming Heng has a sense of righteousness in his heart like his father?" If Wei Lie really wants to do something, it will be the people who will suffer at that time. ”
"This has nothing to do with us, the people of the world are the old emperor's business, the old emperor is not in a hurry, what are we in need of?" Yuan Shen snorted lightly: "If Wei Lie really wants to rebel, he has his own court to take care of him, why should we interfere?" ”
"That being said... But... Alas..."Qin Elegy wanted to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh: "Southern Chugen is basically not very stable, although Zhao Yan has been firmly grasping the imperial power all these years, but every year there are major disasters everywhere, big disasters, Bianjing, Pingzhou These places seem to be singing and dancing, prosperous, but I don't know how many refugees are in those remote places, I don't know how many refugees are affected by disasters every year into a big city like Pingzhou, the imperial court but where the disaster relief is not good, there will be some small forces to rise, the imperial court suppressed, and the people who died. Senior brother, you and I have both stayed in Mobei, do you look at those places in the frontier, when was it stable? Northern Liao, Xijin and Southern Chu will always break out from time to time some small-scale wars, for which the suffering of the people is countless, now the Northern Liao is growing stronger, the current Beilu Army is no longer the Northern Lu Army led by General Zhang, once the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry goes south, the current privy envoy Wenbo can stop it is not yet known. Xijin and Dongyan are also eyeing each other, just waiting for the civil strife in Southern Chu, the remnants of the former Chu are not only these people in Donghuzhuang, with a figure like Wei Lie, if they rebel, they will raise their arms and shout, and they will be huge, and when the time comes, once Nanchu falls into internal and external troubles, it will be ruined. ”
"That's none of our business." Yuan Shen didn't seem to be moved by what she said, with an expression of indifference.
Qin Elegy continued: "At that time, whether Wei Lie's rebellion is successful, or Southern Chu is destroyed, our Snow God Sect in Mobei will have no place to stay, and the current imperial court will not be able to exterminate us, isn't it because most of the imperial court's troops are used to resist Northern Liao and Xijin!" The great enemies of the imperial court are still Northern Liao and Xijin, and they don't take us seriously at all, and let us toss. ”
Yuan Shen said: "Hasn't Beiliao been recruiting us Snow God Sect!" When the time comes, it's a big deal to join Beiliaobei! ”
"Join Northern Liao?" Qin Elegy suddenly became angry: "Liangzhou has fallen, more than a dozen members of my Qin family, hundreds of thousands of people in Liangzhou have been slaughtered, those Northern Liao people don't treat us Southern Chu people as people at all, I can't wait to cut the Northern Liao people with a thousand knives." ”
Seeing Qin Elegy's angry appearance, Yuan Shen suddenly realized that he had touched the bottom line of Qin Elegy's hatred of the Northern Liao people, and hurriedly shut up, a little embarrassed.
Qin Elegy also understands his character, he is the kind of hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, he says that he doesn't care, but he is a hard bone, those Northern Liao people who came to recruit the Snow God Sect don't know how many were killed by him, if something really happens, he will definitely be the first to rush to the front.
So Qin Elegy didn't take it to heart.
Yuan Shen didn't want to stay longer, for fear of saying the wrong thing again and upsetting Qin Elegy, so he got up and said, "I'm leaving, don't worry, I will be optimistic about Zhang Mingheng's ......"