The bonfires in the night had been extinguished, and the heavens and the earth had disappeared into darkness, except for the faint lights of the village, as if they would be extinguished at any moment.

In the light of an oil lamp, Li Li sat down at a rough table and said to Ruan Jian in the room, "I'll let you meet someone." He didn't say it in an inquiring tone, and he high-fived him three times.

After a while, a man walked in outside the door. She was a graceful woman, dressed in a long, narrow gown with a tapered hat on her head. The woman reached out and lifted her hat, revealing her face in the dim light.

She looked pretty good, and Ruan Jian had a feeling of déjà vu and looked at her carefully for a while.

At this time, Li Li said: "Chen Xianzhen." ”

Ruan Jian suddenly realized and blurted out, "Oh......"

Li Li showed a smile: "Remembered? ”

"I remember." Ruan Jian repeated Li Li's words, but in different tones and meanings. He continued, "I used to be the squire of the military department of the Chongguang Dynasty, and when Emperor Chongguang (Chen Jikuo) selected the envoy, I had seen Chen Xianzhen's side, and I felt familiar just now. ”

Ruan Jian said a few words and glanced at Chen Xianzhen again. This woman is really good-looking, although she seems to be worse than his previous wife, but she must be a rare beauty in Dayue.

The climate of Da Viet (Annam) is strongly exposed to sunlight all year round, and most people have dark skin, and some people are born dark, but most of them are tanned. However, the beauty that the Dayue men thought was beautiful had fair skin and long and straight hair, which seemed to be the result of years of cultural immersion in the northern dynasty.

In such a climate, a white beauty can only be a woman from a well-to-do family who does not have to go out to work, or even a nobleman.

Ruan Jian wondered what Chen Xianzhen was really doing, to meet in private at night? Ruan Jian remembered that he had betrayed his wife, and thought in his heart: Could it be that King Pingding came to Chen Xianzhen to appease my heart?

"King Pingding doesn't need to ......," Ruan Jian hurriedly said politely. But before he finished speaking, Li Li said: "Ruan Qing, don't think too much. ”

Even Chen Xianzhen seemed to sense Ruan Xuan's meaning, and looked his appearance up and down, and there was a look of contempt in her eyes.

Ruan Jian was immediately very embarrassed, but fortunately, before the words were completely broken, he pretended not to know.

Li Li looked at Chen Xianzhen who was standing in the room and asked, "Why do you hate Emperor Ming so much?" ”

Ruan Jian once again showed a look of sudden realization, and he hurriedly dissuaded: "Pacify Wang Sansi, this matter is almost impossible to succeed. ”

Li Li said: "Ruan Qing don't worry, listen to Chen Xianzhen, and then it's not too late to make a conclusion." ”

Ruan Jian nodded, couldn't help but turn his head, and asked Chen Xianzhen curiously: "When you went to Jinling, what did the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom do to you?" ”

Chen Xianzhen turned a deaf ear, and even said something that seemed to be irrelevant: "Do you still remember a major event that happened during the period of Emperor Jianding? Emperor Jian Ding killed the generals Deng Rong and Ruan Jingzhen, causing Ruan Jingzhen's son, Ruan Jingyi, to escape and defect to Emperor Chongguang. ”

Ruan Jian nodded and said, "I know that big thing, many people know about it. ”

After the "Battle of Annan" in the Yongle era, the Ming Dynasty fully occupied Annan, directly incorporated the entire territory of Annan into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and established a county system to implement direct governance; Then, because of the civil war in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army contracted its defense and abandoned most of the area. During this time, the rebel armies in various parts of Annam were surging. There are two people called "Emperor Dayue", first Chen Wei, that is, Emperor Jianding; Later, it was Chen Ji who expanded and replaced him, that is, Emperor Chongguang.

Chen Xianzhen said: "This incident started because of me. ”

Ruan Jian looked surprised, a little unbelievable, the so-called "post-Chen Dynasty" period, the key event of the strength of the two generations of Dayue Emperors was only because of one woman?

Chen Xianzhen said: "I am telling the truth. At that time, Emperor Jian Ding took a fancy to me (the royal family of Annan, who only married the clan with the same surname) and wanted to be a concubine. But Emperor Jianding's mother hated me very much and objected to it; When she couldn't stop her, she plotted to kill me altogether. At that time, the son of the general Ruan Jingzhen, Ruan Jingyi, was the general of the palace guard. The Empress Dowager issued an edict and ordered Ruan Jingyi to lead troops to do this. ”

Chen Xianzhen said this, his eyes were a little complicated, "But I didn't expect that Ruan Jingyi suddenly mutinied, killed someone, and escaped with me." ”

Li Li seemed to know this for a long time, and he listened calmly. Ruan Jian was very surprised when he heard it.

Chen Xianzhen glanced at Ruan Jian, "The next thing, Lord Ruan already knows." There was already strife and suspicion within Emperor Jianding, and at that time, some people took the opportunity to slander, breaking the last trust between the monarch and the ministers, and the two generals were killed. Among them is Ruan Jingyi's father. ”

Ruan Jian frowned and said, "Ruan Jingyi wants to do that, why?" ”

Chen Xianzhen smiled bitterly: "Lord Ruan, what do you say?" ”

There was silence in the room, and everyone seemed to be thinking about Ruan Jingyi's thoughts, killing their father for an irrelevant little lady.

The person who broke the silence was Chen Xianzhen: "When Ruan Jingyi was young, he didn't seem to be very likeable, and his temperament was gloomy and inactive. He was born in a family of military generals, but he liked to study alone, so he later became a military general, which was very different. Ruan Jingyi is timid and weak, lacking in bravery, but good at strategy.

I seem to have seen him when I was younger, but I don't remember. He said that he remembered it very clearly, remembered every detail, and recalled it repeatedly. ”

Ruan recommended and said: "Ruan Jingyi is timid, but the thing he did was really earth-shattering. He then exclaimed, "Dogs don't bark." ”

Chen Xianzhen looked at Ruan Jian a little angrily.

Li Li hurriedly smiled: "He's joking, don't pay too much attention to it." Do you know about Ruan Qing's wife? Ruan Qing is a bit cynical, which is really ordinary. ”

Ruan Jian looked at Chen Xianzhen: "You are also very affectionate to Ruan Jingyi?" ”

He seemed to understand Chen Xianzhen's hatred a little, because Ruan Jingyi was arrested by the Ming army, captured and beheaded in Jinling.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xianzhen said: "He is like my brother and relatives, I trust him more than I trust my family." ”

Ruan Jian frowned and said, "Is this how you feel?" ”

Li Li said: "Ruan Qing, although you married a famous beauty in Dayue, you don't understand women. A wise woman does not like to marry a man who is equally smart and has a lot of eyes, and if she sees through everything, it feels bad. It's like...... He wore a very elegant piece of gold jewelry, but some people said it was gold-plated. Ruan Qing thought about what kind of person Ruan Jingyi was. ”

Ruan Jian thought of a dark and thin man. He knew Ruan Jingyi, the general under the command of Emperor Chongguang, who was not good-looking, and looked like he was slack. Of course, Ruan Jian is also self-aware, his appearance is not very good, his head is big, his body is not burly enough, he feels a little weird, as if he has not grown up.

Chen Xianzhen frowned and said, "Is King Pingding saying that my elegance and beauty are all disguised?" ”

Ruan recommended and said, "Chen Xianzhen, pay attention to your words. Although you are a member of the Chen Dynasty, the previous Chen Dynasty no longer exists, and in front of you is the King of Pingding. ”

Li Li looked generous, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, don't be stubborn." Blame me for not saying it right, in fact, Chen Xianzhen is just high-spirited. ”

Ruan Jian suddenly realized that Li Li had the intention to reuse Chen Xianzhen. Because Ruan Jian knows Li Li very well, he is not a tolerant person at all, but he is still very generous to useful people. It seems that this is a "meritocracy"?

Chen Xianzhen suddenly said: "I have seen the kind of woman that King Pingding said. ”

"Who?" Li Li asked.

Chen Xianzhen said resentfully: "The mother of the marionette Chen Zhengyuan in Shenglong. She's a wagging dog and a weak prostitute! ”

Ruan Jian and Li Li immediately looked at each other.

Li Li said: "I have seen the pseudo-Empress Dowager Chen, it doesn't seem to be so unbearable, but it's a little weak." Do you hate her? ”

"I don't hate, I hate her, I feel dirty." Chen Xianzhen said.

Ruan Jian asked thoughtfully, "I don't quite understand. You resented the Ming Emperor Zhu Gaochu because Zhu Gaochu killed Ruan Jingyi? But it doesn't seem to make sense, I remember that the person who sent you to Jinling at that time was Ruan Jingyi, and Ruan Jingyi was the deputy envoy. The whole thing seems to be a beauty trick in the first place, if you two are in love, why do you want to do that? ”

Chen Xianzhen said: "Ruan Jingyi is not an ordinary man, he just wants to play with me, dominate me, and only covet my beauty. He didn't want me to feel bad and went along with my thoughts. ”

Ruan Jian sighed and said, "But in this way, Ruan Jingyi will be very uncomfortable." Why did you do that? ”

Chen Xianzhen said coldly: "I am the Chen Dynasty clan!" I was originally a nobleman, and I would never be a slave of the ship, and I volunteered to be loyal to the Chen clan. ”

Li Li clapped his hands and praised: "This king admires you very much." ”

Ruan Jian thought calmly for a while, and then asked: "You and Ruan Jingyi sent an envoy to the Ming Kingdom, probably because you want the Ming Kingdom to recognize the 'Great Yue Kingdom'." Now that Chen Zhengyuan has been canonized as king, the original goal is impossible to accomplish. So this time, do you want to kill Zhu Gaoxu to take revenge? ”

Chen Xianzhen looked at Ruan Jian very seriously and nodded slightly.

"Why?" Ruan recommended, "Even if this kind of thing is successful, I'm afraid there will be no return." ”

A deep anger appeared in Chen Xianzhen's eyes, "That person, treat me as a plaything, a prostitute!" He insulted me carelessly. ”

The dim room fell silent again, and at night in the remote mountains, there was no sound at all.

After a while, Li Li said to Ruan Jian: "There is an inside story. Chen Xian's body was never touched by others, and he only dedicated himself to Zhu Gaoxu. With Ruan Jingyi's knowledge, she dedicated her innocence to Zhu Gaoxu, but unfortunately it didn't play a role, and she was sent back later. ”

Ruan Jian couldn't accurately deduce for a while, Chen Xian really had a deep resentment, after all, it was not the revenge of killing his father and mother. At most, Zhu Gaoxu only killed a person who was good to her; But Chen Xianzhen hinted that she didn't seem to have any feelings for Ruan Jingyi.

As for Zhu Gaoxu's puppet Empress Dowager Chen, Chen Xianzhen also said: It's just disgust.

However, when Ruan Jian looked carefully, he saw from Chen Xianzhen's eyes that her hatred was indeed very strong and indescribably resentful.