Chapter 452: Sacrifice (6)
The envoys of the Southern Tang Kingdom were detained, and everyone could not leave the Zhou army camp for a while, the reason was to prevent them from listening to the truth.
Li Yu, who was in the palace of Jiangning Mansion, couldn't get any news, and he was anxious, but he had nothing to do but wait for the result. He felt as if he was a prisoner awaiting trial, and when he sent Zhou Xian and Liu Liuqi away, everything was out of control. In such a mood, Li Yujing didn't have the heart to do anything, and paced around the gate of the palace all day long.
Looking back, the notes on the imperial case inside have been piled up, Chen Qiao's, Liu Cheng's...... The ministers have been busy writing books these days. But Li Yu couldn't read a word, at such a juncture, what could be more important than what he was most concerned about?
When I looked up, the snow was still falling, and although it was small, it seemed as if it had never stopped for a moment. Floating in the whole heaven and earth, shrouding everything in the world of snowflakes, the heavy eaves palace rooms extend to all sides one by one, and the palace is very quiet.
A close eunuch came from the corridor under the wide eaves and saw Li Yu standing at the door, kneeling down and saluting. Li Yu said: "Flat." Hasn't the envoy heard from him yet? ”
The eunuch said: "Back to Your Majesty, I haven't seen any news from the slave family." ”
Li Yu sighed and muttered, "How long have they been away from Jiangning Mansion?" ”
The eunuch replied, "Two days." ”
Li Yu said again: "I feel like two years have passed......
He couldn't tell the eunuch much about the secrets, so he paced into the palace. Two days is not long, but the Zhou army camp was originally near Jiangning City, and at this time, Zhou Xian and the others should have seen Guo Blacksmith, but they didn't know if they did it.
Li Yu didn't do anything in the past two days, but he felt physically and mentally exhausted under great pressure and fear. He returned to the dormitory, lay down on the couch with his body to rest, only to find that there was a stacked paper next to the pillow, and when he picked it up, it was Zhou Xian's handwriting.
It shows where the important things he collected, where the letters and files that were inconvenient to make public to the court, and where the thick clothes he usually liked to wear when it was cold...... The last sentence reads, the concubine knows that this will become an eternal secret, and hopes that His Majesty will treat Jiamin well.
After reading these trivial advices, Li Yu immediately got up and sighed.
He suddenly realized that he and Zhou Xian and his wife should have a lot of little memories for a few years, but he couldn't remember anything, only remembered that the two had sworn loyalty to each other many times, and some fun under the moon. Li Yu shook his head and said silently: The whole country depends on what Emperor E has done in the past few days, I really have no choice, don't blame me.
I just hope that they can live up to their expectations and bring the exciting good news!
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In the barracks of the Great Zhou Army, Liu Liuqi was waiting for the dinner to come.
A group of courtesans around were packing up and preparing for the dance performance, and they were frightened and silent for a while, but by this time they were actually chattering, and they could vaguely hear them exaggerating each other's beauty against their will. Death is imminent, and these innocent courtesans don't know it.
Liu Liuqi looked at herself at a round bronze mirror she brought, her eyes in the bronze mirror showed a cold killing intent, and she did not soften her heart because of pity. National hatred, family revenge, revenge in the sea of blood is tonight, the only chance!
Zhou Xian has missed the previous opportunity, and Liu Liuqi doesn't know the specific situation now, whether Zhou Xian can't do it softly, or really can't find the opportunity...... In any case, tonight's dinner party must take the risk, otherwise it will be difficult to find the opportunity to get close to Guo Shao.
Liu Liuqi was very calm and packed her things very seriously, and she looked as if she was spending the last moment. The clothes inside were tightly tied, and the outside was draped in flowing dresses, and although there were still snowflakes outside the tent, they were very thin, and if they were thick, they could not dance. Then she picked up a jacket and put it on outside to keep warm.
There were hardly any ornaments on the body, which reduced the hassle for the woman who searched her later.
However, Guo Shao was indeed quite bold, and even allowed the courtesans to dance with swords. The sword dance has to use a sword weapon, which is a real sword; Otherwise, there will be no momentum, and it is better not to watch the sword dance. Liu Liuqi sensed the opportunity, just waiting to improvise, she took a deep breath, the pupils in the bronze mirror first contracted slightly, and the coldness was gradually covered up by her.
At this moment, an older military general walked to the door and said, "Are you ready?" Come and stand still, and come with me. ”
Liu Liuyi's heart suddenly tightened, she recognized this martial artist as the person who was wandering around the river as if nothing had happened that day...... Because almost all the soldiers of the Zhou Army are young and strong, there are not many people of this age, and they are easy to identify. Liu Liuqi felt that something was wrong, and he intuitively felt that the generals of the Zhou army had already noticed it.
A group of courtesans walked forward one after another, and Liu Liuqi couldn't pause, and stepped forward in the crowd, only to find that Nawufu's gaze found him from the crowd, and he looked at it twice.
Liu Liuqi was born in a general's family and was not frightened by this detail. She said silently as she walked: Don't forget your words!
These four words are not only a reminder to Zhou Xian yesterday, but also an encouragement of his courage.
A group of people walked out of the tent, and the ground was a little muddy, because the snow in Jiangnan was very light and wet. After a long time, he walked near the largest tent, which should be the Chinese army tent of the Zhou army. I saw that some generals were walking inside one after another, and when they walked to the door, they unsheathed their swords and put them on the knife stand outside the door...... It's really funny, the military general unsheaths the sword, but the courtesan carries a sword.
However, Liu Liuqi and the others did not go to the Chinese army's tent first, but were taken to an airtight tent next to them to search their bodies. At this moment, I suddenly saw Zhou Xian also wearing a dance dress and a jacket to come in.
She soon saw Liu Liuqi as well, and the two looked at each other without saying a word.
Liu Liuqi observed for a moment and found that Zhou Xian looked haggard and looked very depressed. This woman, although she is a queen, does not look like a person who can withstand big things, she seems too weak; At the beginning, I wanted her to seize the opportunity to assassinate at night, which was indeed a bit difficult for a strong person. But it doesn't matter what Zhou Xian does now, this time she doesn't need to mix in the dance, and she has no martial arts and can't help, Liu Liuqi is ready to do it by herself.
I saw Zhou Xian's eyes flickering again, and he was worried. Liu Liuqi scolded secretly in his heart, don't want you to stab, just dance well, don't make a mistake to alert the other party...... Don't dance!
Liu Liuqi didn't care to look at it, but several women had already walked in outside the door, and lowered the curtain to cover it tightly. They were all old women, dressed in rough cloth skirts, and I don't know where they were recruited to cook on the fire; But one of them looks a little unusual. Sure enough, the woman said clearly: "Except for swords, it is not allowed to bring hard objects, hairpins and jade ornaments." Untie the things down first and search the body; The sword was placed on this table. ”
No matter what the woman was doing, the singers at this time did not dare to resist and did as she wanted. The woman sat down on the edge of the table and looked at the sword that was placed on it.
In order to pass smoothly, Liu Liuqi did not make a mistake, except for the sword, of course, she did not bring any other murder weapons, and she did not need it. Looking at the scene of the search in front of her, she already felt that moment getting closer and closer......