"The eldest prince, please feel free to sit, the old man is ill today, and he couldn't go to greet him in person, please forgive the eldest prince." Jin Ran casually accepted the salute that could be listed, and then said to the old butler who had been standing outside the door: "Palm the lamp"

"Yes," the old butler took out the fire folds that had been prepared from his sleeve, walked to the candlesticks in the house one by one, slowly but steadily lit all the candlesticks, and then quietly withdrew.

The candlelight danced in Jinran's seemingly calm eyes, neither of them made a sound, but looked at the old locust outside the window together, after the withering of autumn and winter, and now it is dressed in new clothes, but the whole courtyard is decorated with such an old locust, and it shows a sense of hesitation in this dusk atmosphere.

The old housekeeper who went and came back walked in with a plate of scallion pancakes and two cups of tea.

Jin Ran nodded to the old butler, judging from his expression, he should be expressing his gratitude, which made Kelie a little surprised, so when the old butler put the cup of tea that belonged to him, Kelie also bowed slightly to him.

Only then did I hear Jin Ran say loudly: "I'm really sorry, I haven't eaten since the next dynasty, this scallion pancake is the chef's specialty in my house, is the prince interested in tasting it?" ”

As he spoke, he picked up a piece and ate it himself, nodded while eating, and handed it to Kelie with the scallion pancake in his hand.

Ke Lieben sat in the lower left position of Jinran, and only needed to stand up to take the scallion pancake handed by Jinran. Jin Ran took another bite and said, "After so many years, the taste still hasn't changed." ”

His eyes turned to the old locust outside the window.

Following his gaze, Kelie also cast his vision again, chewing onion pancakes in his mouth, and said a little: "From this point of view, the old acacia in this court is a unique landscape, although there are no other flowers and plants, but its own branches are scattered, like an umbrella cover shade, which means that An Pingjun will be full of children and grandchildren, and the family will be enjoyed forever." ”

"I didn't expect that although the prince came to my Yan Kingdom not long ago, the essence of this Central Plains culture can be learned and put into practice." Jin Ran seemed to have temporarily put aside his previous worries, and at this time, he was in the mood to chat with Ke Lie with scallion pancakes.

Kelie said with a smile: "The Central Plains culture is broad and profound, but Kelie is talented and dull, in fact, Kelie has admired the Central Plains culture since he was a child, and it happened that there was a gentleman on the grassland who was proficient in the Central Plains culture, so he had the opportunity to learn the fur." ”

"Oh? Are there still people on the grassland who are proficient in my Central Plains culture? ”

"Yes, he was a Yanren, but he died when I was ten years old." Colie was a little regretful and a little sentimental, because in his opinion, that person was not only his teacher, but also his confidant.

"Yanren?" Jin Ran glanced at Ke Lie with some meaning.

Of course, Kelie knew the meaning of Jin Ran's glance, and explained: "An Pingjun misunderstood, he was not captured by us, but came by himself, and his father Khan saw that he was erudite and talented, and he talked extraordinarily, so he stayed as a guest. ”

"Humph!" Jin Ran snorted softly and didn't answer anymore, I don't know if it was because he didn't believe what Ke Lie said, or because he was ashamed of that person's rebellion.

Ke Lie smiled helplessly, and his heart became more and more bottomless, in fact, he also wanted to use this incident to explore Jinran's attitude towards the righteousness of the country, it seems that things are a little tricky.

"No one knows what his name is, and my father Khan has sent people to investigate, but they have not found it, if there is anything peculiar about him...... I remember that he was always wearing a string of quaint carved Buddha beads on his hand, which was not very conspicuous, and people who were not close to him could hardly see it. ”

When Kelie said the words "a string of quaint carved Buddha beads", Jinran's pupils suddenly contracted, obviously this thing touched one of his nerves.

"The eldest prince is here today, he won't just come to talk to me."

"There is indeed something important, and I hope An Pingjun will help." Seeing Jin Ran say this, although Kelie knew that now was not the time, the person in front of him was his last straw, and life and death were fought here.

Seeing Jin Ran's inquiring eyes, he didn't wait for the other party to ask, and directly told the news he had received about the battle in Xiema Town.

"In this battle, the defenders of Xiema Town lost one hundred and eighty-one Yan soldiers, including two captains and one general soldier."

Killing machine, after finishing speaking, Kelie saw only a killing machine from Jin Ran's eyes, and his originally warm face instantly became cold, and his eyes were still staring straight out of the window, but the masseter muscles on his face appeared from time to time, and the remaining half of the scallion pancake in his hand was pinched into a lump at some point, and it was still being squeezed by the power of the five fingers, and he could even feel that there were oil stains oozing out of it.

Kelie's back was faintly sweating, he didn't make a sound to disturb the other party's thoughts, and he didn't dare, this feeling of life in the hands of others, he was the first time to experience it, at this time, in fact, he still had some regret in his heart for his baseless self-confidence, the kind of blind confidence that thought that the world was under his control, and finally let him taste the bitter fruit today.

Although he still believed that with his understanding of An Pingjun, he would not risk an all-out war between the two countries to kill him, but anger is a very magical emotion, and when this emotion reaches a certain height, even the most rational person will be carried away by it and become a tendon.

You may regret it afterwards, but when you are angry, no one will care about the consequences, unless you are not human.

So Kelie was afraid that this matter would touch Jinran's bottom line at this time, so he would cut himself recklessly.

After about half a burnt incense, the tense atmosphere in the house finally changed because of Jin Ran's words without any emotion: "Prince Kelie, please go back to the post house to rest, the old man already has a proposition in his heart, the guards came this morning to report that the city has not been very peaceful recently, and the prince should not move around." ”

Hearing this, Kelie exhaled heavily, bowed deeply to Jin Ran with the etiquette of the Humeng people, and without any more words of thanks, he left Jin Ran's study in silence, without even a single sound of footsteps, he knew in his heart that maybe if he said one more word just now, Jin Ran would definitely immediately ask the guards to take him down and put him in prison, and the result was naturally self-evident.

It was completely dark outside the house, and the subordinates also lit up the lamp niche in the corridor, so that the entire Anping Junfu officially entered the night mode, rubbed his eyes a little sour, Jin Ran returned to the desk, and looked at the secret letter from Bianguan Xiema Town that had been lying here since the bottom of the court, and he didn't check it because he was in a bad mood before, but now he suddenly felt that the contents inside had become extremely heavy, and he also sadly found that he had no way to reduce this weight.

With his right hand, he stroked the big words "Border Pass Emergency" on the envelope, like stroking the epitaph on the tombstone, and whispered a little sadly:

"By the prince, if you could endure the anger of the moment, why did you go incognito and exile Humeng and end up with a tragic ending of dying in a foreign land; If you could endure the anger of the moment, I would not have the feeling of trembling and walking on thin ice as I do today; If you could endure the anger for a while, he was unscrupulous but had misdeeds, I would have led a million big Yan Erlang to lift his royal court tooth tent! ”

Jin Ran's eyes turned out of the window again, looked at the old locust with some amazement, and said to himself again: "Ah Shu, when you planted this locust tree with Hong'er, you said that you wished our children and grandchildren to be full of people and grandchildren, and our children and grandchildren would be blessed, but you went that winter, and after tomorrow, I Jinran will also be a minister who is not a minister, and the blessing and misfortune of the Jin family...... It's unpredictable. ”

Out of the Anping Jun's Mansion Kelie only then found that the thin shirt on his back was cool, that was soaked in sweat to have the feeling, glanced at the already brightly lit Yanjing Street, sighed: "This city full of lights, it is really like the flowers blooming on the other side of the bridge." ”

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The next day's court meeting kicked off at the moment of the glow disclosure, the melodious morning bell and the pace of the hundred officials showed a magnificent and melodious scene, the inner servants shouted loudly, so that the opening ceremony of the entire court meeting was carried out skillfully and orderly, and a hundred officials shouted "Long live!" Banzai! Hooray! This brings today's court meeting into the main topic.

Yan Shuyi, who was the Emperor of Dayan, raised his hands slightly with majesty at this time and said, "Zhong Aiqing is flat." ”

Then with the eunuch behind him, "There is a book, nothing to retreat", opened the link of the hundred officials' deliberations, you say a word to me, it is nothing more than some small things that happen nowadays, just when everyone is still in trouble about how to punish a county in the south because of the fornication with the abbot of the nunnery in the county, a flying horse shouted all the way "Eight hundred miles of border passes", galloping towards the imperial city of Yanjing.

"Urgent! Border Emergency! Eight hundred miles of border customs expedited! ”

A chant from far and near interrupted the endless controversy in the court, and Yan Shuyi, who was so bored on the dragon chair that he wanted to doze off, immediately showed the majesty of an emperor after hearing the outgoing call, straightened his posture, and looked at the entrance of the hall with a serious and solemn expression, but no one noticed that the corners of his mouth were raised.

At the same time, Jin Ran, among the hundred officials, also frowned slightly, looking at the figure outside the hall getting closer and closer, he didn't expect this document to come so just right, so good that it should not appear on this day.

The person who sent the letter came to the palace and knelt down, and there was already an attendant who greeted him, took the document and presented it to His Majesty the Emperor of Dayan, Yan Shuyi took the paperwork, although he already knew everything about the matter in his heart, but when he saw such an urgent document, he couldn't help but feel a wave of anger suddenly burst out of his heart, and then he shot the case and said angrily: "The Humeng people are simply bold, on the surface they sent envoys to reconcile with my Dayan, and paralyzed us by discussing trade matters, but secretly sent a large army to seize the important town of Seshema on our side, so as to do this, Don't you think I'm afraid of him? ”

Yan Shu slapped the case with a bang, causing a burst of exclamation and angry reprimands in the court!

"Despicable Humeng, this move is tantamount to declaring war on my Great Yan!"

"I, Dayan, immediately send troops to attack these Humeng bandits!"

"Yes, immediately send 300,000 troops to drive the Humeng people back to the Broken Sky Trench again!"

For a while, the court was full of righteous indignation, you and I are all people who speak and fight, Jin Ran watched the changes in the situation above the court with cold eyes, and did not say a word, and after a while, the mood of the ministers was a little calm, and someone stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, Prince Humeng is still in the official post in Beijing, so you might as well invite one or two inquiries."

With a pause, Jin Ran followed the sound and looked, but saw that the person who spoke was actually Du Yushi House Xuan, which couldn't help but make Jin Ran's heart more and more suspicious, and then looked at Yan Shuyi who was sitting on the dragon chair, and a conjecture that he didn't want to admit appeared in his mind.