At 0:00 o'clock in the night, the Dingxi Pass was brightly lit, tens of thousands of soldiers were standing, bows and arrows were ready, the spirit was full of energy, and the morale was high.

On the left and right sides of the city gate, two rows of huge red lanterns are hung high, each lantern has a huge Chinese character on it, and the appearance is very festive.

City Lord Li Ming stood on the city tower early and looked ahead, and his face was full of joy mixed with wisps of melancholy.

He constantly lectured many officers and soldiers, reminding them to strengthen their vigilance, improve their defensive measures, and ensure the stability of Dingxi Pass, and never allow any mistakes to occur at this juncture.

Time passed slowly, and when it was about one o'clock in the middle of the night, in front of the gate of Dingxi Pass, there was suddenly a long dragon of fire flickering, and the neighing of horses was endless.

"It's coming!"

Li Ming's heart moved, and he shouted: "Princess Shi Xiuying of Dawan Kingdom and her guards are here, and all the soldiers quickly open the city gate to greet them." ”

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Suddenly, the trumpets rang out, and so did the gun salute.

When the soldiers who held the gate heard the sound of the trumpet, they hurriedly lowered the drawbridge and opened the gate.

The soldiers in charge of etiquette and greeting played musical instruments and played joyful songs.

Li Ming led thousands of soldiers down the city tower and greeted Princess Shi Xiuying.

After a while, Li Ming led the men and horses to Shi Xiuying's frame.

Not far behind Shi Xiuying's frame, there was a prisoner cart, and a person was being held in the prisoner cart. This person is disheveled, and he looks very haggard, this person is Murong Xiao, and he is the person designated by Wang Mang.

Shi Xiuying took the lead in asking, "City Lord Li, I don't know what you are doing here?" ”

Li Ming replied: "Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, my subordinates came to greet the princess on the order of Lord Wang. ”

"Lord Wang has a heart!" Shi Xiuying did not get out of the sedan chair, she was still sitting in the sedan chair: "Daughter of the barbarian country, why does Lord Wang need to greet her with such etiquette?" The request made by Lord Wang before has basically been fulfilled by my Dawan Kingdom, and Murong Xiao is also imprisoned in a prison car waiting for Lord Wang to deal with it. Lord Li, you can return to Lord Wang first. Tomorrow, the palace will go to see the king. ”

Li Ming said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness Princess, there have been some unpeaceful things in Dingxi Pass recently, thieves and robbers have risen everywhere, and there have been many rebellions. Although the princess's guards are strong, they are not safe.

Your Highness is worried about the safety of Her Royal Highness, so may Her Highness have my soldiers replace your guards and escort you to the inn to rest? Also, Lord Wang has a saying that he plans to hold a big gift with the princess tomorrow, I don't know if Her Royal Highness the princess has anything to say about this matter? ”

"Since Lord Wang has spoken first, then the palace will act according to his words." Shi Xiuying whispered a few times to the maids on the side, and the maids waved their hands to the guards after hearing this.

Seeing the gesture, many guards retreated behind the frame, and the men and horses brought by Li Ming escorted Shi Xiuying into the city.

After Li Ming and Shi Xiuying talked a few words, they came to the prisoner car and sneered at Murong Xiao. "Murong Xiao, do you remember this official?"

"Yes, of course I do." Murong Xiao said weakly: "You are one of Wang Mang's wise men and are quite trusted by Wang Mang, how can I remember?" ”

"It's good if you remember." Li Mingdao: "On that day, many masters of your Murong family were loyal to Lord Wang and fought against the Xiongnu for Lord Wang. At that time, Lord Wang didn't treat your Murong family badly, right? At least it certainly didn't hurt you. But you betrayed Lord Wang and fled with Princess Shi Xiuying without permission, causing Lord Wang's face to be damaged. Did you ever think you would be where you are today? ”

"I have nothing to say." Murong Xiao said: "When I see Lord Wang tomorrow, I have my own way out, so I don't bother you." ”

"Hmph, the traitor is still so proud. Tomorrow, Lord Wang and Princess Shi Xiuying will hold a big gift. Then will be the time for you to sacrifice to heaven. It's not a few hours before dawn, so you're done with your last morning. ”

Murong Xiao didn't respond to this, closed his eyes again, and seemed to resign himself to fate.

Under Li Ming's order, many soldiers escorted Shi Xiuying's frame into the pass smoothly and ran towards the direction of the post house.

After running for about two hours, Li Ming came to the frame again and whispered to Shi Xiuying: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Lord Wang deduced that there are many Ji family masters in the city who are ambushing, and even Ji Yun and a few of them have come to try to make trouble secretly.

Lord Wang asks you to change clothes with the maid immediately after you arrive at the inn room, and let the maid pretend to rest in the room, and then you go out of the back door and secretly go to the city lord's mansion with the subordinate to live temporarily, so as not to encounter gangsters in the post house. Does Her Royal Highness have a word for this? ”

"Go to the City Lord's Mansion to rest?" Shi Xiuying thought about it for a moment and said slowly: "The masters of the Ji family are indeed lawless, and it is normal for Lord Wang to consider this. City Lord Li, apart from these things, does Lord Wang have any other arrangements? ”

"Other than these, Lord Wang has not arranged anything else."

"Okay, since that's the case, then everything is up to you, City Lord Li, to arrange."

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In the western suburbs of Dingxi Pass, when Wang Mang received the news that Shi Xiuying was about to arrive in Dingxi Pass, Ji Yun and others also received the news almost at the same time.

Although the Ji family and horses in Dingxi Pass suffered heavy losses, they were not completely wiped out, and they still had a small number of intelligence personnel to investigate the news in all aspects. Not to mention that Ji Yun and others have the heart to investigate, and Shi Xiuying's whereabouts cannot be hidden, they must be above board.

Since Ji Yun heard the news, he immediately planned to arrest him.

As the saying goes, the hatred of killing one's father and the hatred of taking one's wife are not shared, Wang Mang snatched Ji Yun's woman Yuezhi, Ji Yun naturally hated Wang Mang very much, and wanted to snatch Wang Mang's woman away for revenge.

Now that Wang Mang wants to marry Shi Xiuying, Ji Yun feels that this is an opportunity for him to take revenge on Wang Mang.

And after Ji Yun came to Dingxi Pass and several other Nine Sword Masters to cultivate the Great Dao of Enlightenment, Ji Yun used the power of the Nine Swords to greatly increase his martial arts, and he successfully stepped into the realm of the Grandmaster, full of confidence.

Just when Ji Yun got up to act, the Lord of the Wind Sword immediately stopped him and stopped Ji Yun's action.

Ji Yun was so angry that he scolded sharply: "Feng, why are you stopping me? That Wang Mang snatched my Yuezhi and snatched my child, how can I not take revenge? Now that Shi Xiuying is about to arrive at Dingxi Pass, I must arrest this woman and ravage her. ”

The Lord of the Wind Sword said, "I'm not trying to stop you from taking revenge, I just want to tell you that this is not the most appropriate time to do it." Now all the people in the world know that Shi Xiuying, the princess of Dawan Kingdom, is going to marry Wang Mang, and Shi Xiuying is already on the way to Dingxiguan. However, after all, she has not yet arrived at Dingxi Pass, and she is not Wang Mang's woman.

What if you catch her now? You didn't snatch it in Wang Mang's hands, but snatched it halfway. For Wang Mang, there is no loss.

Because during Shi Xiuying's journey to Xiguan, it was not Wang Mang's people who were responsible for her thoughtfulness, but the people of Dawan Kingdom. Shi Xiuying was captured by you, and the biggest loss was Dawanguo.

Even Wang Mang can use this as an excuse to say that Dawanguo is not sincere, and deliberately did not send Shi Xiuying over to complete the marriage, and deliberately made such a bitter trick to tease people. In this way, Wang Mang had another excuse to challenge Dawan and ask for benefits

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