I met his angry and murderous gaze, his face was like autumn frost, and then his eyes were like sharp blades piercing towards him, "The prince and noble man have forgotten so much, maybe they have forgotten me, let me remind you, at Yuwen Hu's birthday banquet, the woman you used as an arrow target, have you forgotten?" ”

He tried to look at me with his eyes wide open, as if he remembered something, and unconsciously blurted out, "It's you!" ”

"It's me!" Hatred surged out from the bottom of his eyes, and his tone was as strong as agitated turbulence, "The hatred of an arrow, the hatred of piercing bones, you have forgotten, but I have never forgotten, and I have always remembered it clearly." ”

He looked at me suspiciously and indifferently, "Yuwen Hu sent you, and you are his spy?" ”

"This girl has nothing to do with him now, and I don't bother to be his spy, and I can hear it clearly with your stupid head!"

He looked insulted, his face was angry, and he said contemptuously: "You little woman dares to beat me, believe it or not, I will let you die......"

"Bang" a loud sound, I changed my hand to hit it, hard and fast, he was caught off guard, I rubbed the painful palm, ignored his almost murderous eyes, exhaled lightly, and said leisurely: "There are too many words." ”

Looking at his red and swollen face, frowning tightly in pain, I snorted at him, "Does it hurt?" But this pain is insignificant compared to the pain I have suffered, and I haven't done it yet. ”

He glared at me, "A little woman, dare to hold a knife to my neck, dare to talk to me like this, who do you think you are, how dare you, dare to ......"

I curled my eyeliner proudly, "You've never been slapped by a woman, right, being slapped by a woman, you feel like it hurts your face?" ”

"You ......," he said with anger and hatred, "you better remember what you did to me today, and I will repay him twice as much tomorrow!" ”

It's all like this, I haven't had any remorse, and I dare to say big things, I was angry from my chest, "I should say this to you, remember how you treated me in Tsukazaifu, you almost killed me, I will get it back a thousand times." ”

I was confronting the man when I suddenly felt a sword light coming from behind me, and I dodged immediately. It was a young man with the sword, and I was so annoyed that I had been so careless as to let this man sneak onto the boat without knowing it?

Seeing the sword stabbing at me again, I hurriedly ducked. The situation was not in my favor, I was armed with a knife, and only melee attacks could be harmful, and with a long sword in his hand, he could easily attack me, forcing me to dodge left and right. After a struggle, I knew that this person's martial arts were good, and he was not an opponent, so I wanted to find a chance to escape. But he made a cross-cut and the sword was already against my throat.

The boat went to the shore again, and several soldiers stepped forward to grab me, and as soon as the beautiful man saw that his master had been rescued, he hurriedly stepped forward to support his master, "Your Majesty, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, fortunately, there is a brother." The man turned to me with a cold expression, "Otherwise, I will be killed by this demon girl!" ”

I heard him right, just now that beautiful man called him "Your Majesty", and he called himself "I", this person, he ...... It turned out to be the emperor of the Chen State - Chen Qian!

I just want to take revenge, and even this will provoke the emperor of a country! With my act of threatening him with a knife and slapping him just now, there is no doubt that it is an insult to the king and an offense to the dignity of the king.

Chen Qian ordered someone to untie the bamboo flute I hung on my waist and take it for a closer look, which made me suspicious, could it be that he asked people to stop me at the beginning, but it was for this bamboo flute?

Chen Ji said to the beautiful man at this time: "General Han still took the imperial brother back to the palace first, and summoned the imperial doctor to take a look, he was injured ...... It's quite serious. Chen Xuan looked at the injury on Chen Qian's face, and it was a little difficult to speak.

Hearing this, Chen Qian suddenly felt a great loss of face, his face distorted, and he said sharply: "Escort this demon girl down, and wait for the fate!" ”

"Go back to the palace!"

——

I was not imprisoned in a black cell, not executed, but entered the palace, dressed as a palace lady, with my hair combed in a bun, and wore a striped skirt with a placket, and was taken to the emperor's bed-style dry hall.

Chen Qian was dressed in regular clothes, wearing a white gauze hat, wearing lotus white gold silk embroidered Zhai Feng Ling cloud pattern wide sleeves, holding jade Ruyi, leaning on the carved mandarin duck honeysuckle pattern wooden couch, looking at me coldly and leisurely.

The puffiness on his face had faded, and after being treated by the imperial doctor, it was no big deal, so he was able to summon me with this leisurely appearance.

"What do you want?" I looked at him sideways.

Chen Qian walked over, pinched my chin with one hand, and forced me to look at him, "Knowing my identity, do you regret treating me like this?" ”

I endured the pain that my jaw was almost crushed, and gritted my teeth at him, "Just do it, there's nothing to regret." If I had to do it again, I would do it again. ”

"Humph!" Chen Qian threw me away with one hand, and I fell to the ground hard, and I caught a glimpse of Chen Qian's mocking smile in my eyes, "I really don't know whether to live or die." ”

"But," Chen Qian squinted at me, with a cruel smile on her lips, "I won't kill you, I want you to live." Sometimes, it's even more uncomfortable to let someone live than to have her die! ”

"It is human nature to be greedy for life and fear death. People, once they have a chance to live, even if it is a humble and small opportunity, they will want to do their best to seize it. As long as you can live, one more day is counted as one day, even if you live like an ant. ”

After Chen Qian finished speaking, he sneered at me, "You say, is what I said right?" ”

Yes, that's exactly what I thought in my heart. Whatever the reason, he doesn't kill me now, I have a chance to live, why don't I live? There are too many variables in the future for anyone to predict, and as long as you live, there will be countless possibilities. Just like a moment ago, Chen Qian fell into my hands and left me at my disposal. The next moment, I was pointed at the neck with a sword, and life and death were all in Chen Qian's hands. It can change in an instant, but I don't know that I have no chance to turn over in another day?

Chen Qian slowly walked beside me, a scent of ambergris filled my snort, and he looked at me like a hellish Shura, "I will torture you slowly, little by little." You have to live well, and don't die if you can't hold on when the time comes. ”

What do you mean, you want to make fun of me and slowly kill me?

"What's your name?" Chen Qian asked me.

"Xiao Qingqiang." After much thought, I said my real name.

With his intelligence resources, sooner or later his identity will be found out, how can I lie to him, or tell the truth directly, so as not to cause trouble in the future.

"Xiao Qingqiang." Chen Qian read it playfully, and said to the chief steward and chamberlain beside him, "You can help her make a book and arrange her into the list of miscellaneous palace maids." From now on, all the rough work in the Shiqian Hall will be done by her! ”

"Whoa." The chief attendant received the order and took me out of the palace.

——

"Brother Huang, do you really think that woman is a spy?"

Chen Qian walked slowly and said: "No, she is not, no spy will rashly act to expose himself without being sure whether he is exposed, the real spy should have taken the opportunity to escape in the chaos she created." ”

Chen Qian turned around and instructed Chen Xuan, "Brother Xuan, you continue to send people to secretly track down the whereabouts of the real spy, and you must find out the details of the other party and arrest them as soon as possible." ”

"Okay." Chen Ji nodded, and then asked, "Brother Huang, since that woman is not a spy and she hurt you, why didn't you kill her, but left her in the palace?" ”

With a weird smile, Chen Qian took out a bamboo flute and said to Chen Qian, "Because of this." ”

Chen Ji was still puzzled, "What does this matter have to do with this bamboo flute?" ”

Chen Qian's smooth hand gently rubbed the body of the flute, and whispered: "This flute has a special name, called the love flute. It is the music and art of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the first Huan Yi and his wife in Jiangzuo, Huan Yi visited the famous craftsmen, the above good water bamboo Seiko made this bamboo flute, with a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" to capture the hearts of the people in the heart, for a while it was passed on as a good story, this bamboo flute is also known as the love flute by the world. ”

"You and Brother Chang have been trapped in Chang'an for several years, and the emperor has sent envoys to negotiate with Zhou Guo many times, hoping that Zhou Guo can let you two return to China. At that time, I was ordered by the emperor's uncle to offer a bunch of rare treasures to Emperor Zhou Ming, hoping that he could let you and Brother Chang return to China, and this bamboo flute was also one of them, which was intended to praise him and Queen Dugu for their deep affection. Who knows, he only glanced at it, and then gave the bamboo flute to his fourth brother, without any intention of letting him go. ”

Chen Qian stared at Chen Xuan and asked, "Now this bamboo flute is in the woman's hand, you say, who gave it to her?" ”

Chen Ji's lips moved, and he responded with a little surprise, "It's Yu Wenyong." ”

"Not bad." Chen Qian recalled, "When Emperor Zhou Ming transferred this flute to Yuwen Yong, he said that if Yuwen Yong found his beloved one day, he could give her this love flute. Yu Wenyong gave this thing that symbolizes love to the woman, you say, who is this woman from Yu Wenyong? ”

Chen Ji suddenly realized, "Brother Huang means that she is Yu Wenyong's lover." ”

"This woman is Yu Wenyong's beloved." Chen Qian had a playful smile on his face, and his eyes were full of calculations, "Now that Yuwen Yong has ascended the throne, the relationship between Chen Guo and Zhou Guo is tense, and there are wars from time to time. If the woman he loves falls into my hands, he will not dare to be unscrupulous in the future, which will be unfavorable to my Chen Guo. ”

"Brother Huang wants to use that woman to contain Yu Wenyong?" Chen Ji thought for a while, obviously disapproving, "But what is the private relationship of children in the face of national affairs, is it useful to do this?" ”

Chen Qian threw the bamboo flute aside and muttered, "Is it useful, just try it and you'll know, even if you can't contain Yuwen Yong, you can make him have some scruples, and he won't act rashly." ”

"What's more, since ancient times, there are still few people who have misled the country for beauty?" Chen Qian's eyes flashed, "Xia Wei is my sister, King Su is Daji, Fucha is Xi Shi, and Xiao Baojuan is Pan Yuer." You don't underestimate the role of women. ”

Seeing that his brother had made up his mind, Chen Ji didn't know what to say, so he quietly changed the topic, "At the family banquet the day before yesterday, the younger brother saw a Wan Zhaoyi next to the imperial brother, and he looked very familiar, but he didn't know who this Wan Zhaoyi was?" ”

At the mention of Wan Zhaoyi, Chen Qian's facial lines softened, "She was a palace maid who fled from the Liang Palace when Jiangling fell, was rescued by me, and later followed me back to the Linchuan Palace and settled down." Back then, you were also a guard in the Jiangling Liang Palace, and you probably saw her, but you can't remember it after many years, so you know each other. ”

Chen Ji pulled away a faint smile, "It's strange that I feel familiar, it's an old man." This Wan Zhaoyi was born very beautiful, presumably the royal brother likes her very much, right? ”

Chen Qian's eyebrows and eyes were unconsciously bent, and she smiled, "Beauty is secondary, and the most commendable thing is that her heart is clean." When I was still the king of Linchuan, the concubines in the palace were jealous and made me upset, only Wanxi was the most indisputable and never got involved in these incidents. ”

"But she's so indifferent, and I'll wonder if she cares about me." Chen Qian frowned slightly, and said helplessly, "This is about what others often say, there are some things, the more you can't get them, the more you want to get them." ”

"Wanxi is kind and kind, and she never fights with others, but she doesn't fight, and it doesn't mean that others don't fight. Just because she doesn't harm others doesn't mean that others won't harm her. I failed to protect her and made her lose her child. Now, I won't let anyone hurt her anymore, I'm going to find someone to keep her out of the shots. ”

Chen Qian's eyes sank, and he secretly made a decision.

Exegesis:

(1) From Jin Chaoyuan's "Touching the Fish ▪ and Asking How Much Is the Lotus Root" "Acacia tree, flowing year, was mistaken by the west wind for no reason." ”