"Yuebai, don't be stupid. Jin Liancheng held her hand tightly, "What is she for? She is for the nine cities and one river, in order to establish herself as the king! Now that the emperor has been forced to agree to her, she will soon become the lord of one party, and she jumped off the cliff not for you, but because she would rather die than give up these nine cities and one river, for the sake of the vitality of the ten thousand thousands! But she pulled you as a bargaining chip -- when I arrived, I saw your appearance...... I want to cut her with a thousand knives!"

Lin Yuebai seemed to hear something from his words, and straightened up happily: "What did you say? She is going to be the lord of the domain? Then she is not dead, is she? Where is she?"

Jin Liancheng looked at Lin Yue's pale cheeks suddenly showing a blush because of excitement, she is beautiful, and the reason why her beauty is overwhelming the country and the city is that at any time and in any state, a smile, a joy and a anger make people look away. Jin Liancheng sighed secretly and gently hugged her into his arms, "No one knows where she is, the people of the Zhao Mansion sealed the news to death, and the people in the capital thought she was in Caiyun City, but she couldn't get up because of illness and couldn't go back to Beijing to be sealed, in fact, she has no news since you fell off the cliff, maybe she is really dead." ”

Lin Yuebai only felt that her heart was sinking more and more, and she was getting more and more panicked, she finally met Chen Cheng, although she didn't know why he became a member of the Jungle Army, and she didn't know what they were going to do hiding in Youzhou by concealing their identities, but the moment she saw Chen Cheng when she woke up, her heart was at ease, but why didn't he save Yao Jin - Lin Yuebai didn't want to or dare to think deeply, she only hoped that Yao Jin was still alive now, and she only hoped that everything she didn't dare to think was just a misunderstanding.

There was a soft knock at the door, and a man's voice came in: "My lord, there is a secret letter." ”

Jin Liancheng gently put Lin Yuebai's hand into the quilt, glanced at the bird's nest that was overturned next to him, and said with a smile: "I'll let them make another bowl." So saying, he got up and went out. And Lin Yuebai's gaze fell on the folded sheet that he had just sat on beside the bed, she knew that he would never tell her the truth, so she could only close her eyes sadly again.

Jin Liancheng, who was outside the door, took the secret letter with an indifferent face, opened the letter while walking towards the study, and said: "The people who take care of the girls should be changed from time to time, and they are not allowed to talk to the girls." ”

"Yes. ”

Before he could reach the study, Jin Liancheng had already finished reading the secret letter in his hand, and he stopped and looked at the sky outside the courtyard, "Emperor Wei, it seems that the matter of Wei can be settled before winter." The king's meaning, we should also leave for Caiyun City as soon as possible, so as to prepare early. ”

"Yes. My lord, there is one more thing. ”

Say. ”

"There's a letter from the secret agents in Caiyun City, Princess Li Chao may have returned to the Zhao Mansion. ”

"Oh?" Jin Liancheng couldn't help but lower his voice and raise the speed of his speech, "What do you say?"

"A few nights ago, a middle-aged man, an old woman, and a teenager entered the courtyard of the Zhao Mansion on Chinese New Year's Eve, because it was late at night and it was not real, and our people did not suspect it at that time. But early the next morning, the middle-aged man and the old woman went to the Jiangmen pharmacy in Caiyun City, and inquired from the pharmacy that the two men were from the Northern Wei Dynasty, and in the afternoon of the same day, a young aunt came to the Aoyuan of the Fujian Kingdom, and also entered the Zhao Mansion. ”

"An aunt?"

"After inquiry, that aunt's name is Long Wan, and she is the female official in front of Princess Li Chaoya in the past. ”

Jin Liancheng was silent, thought for a moment and said, "That man and the old woman must also be from Jiangmen." The Jiang family and the Murong royal family are all subordinates of Murong Zihua, who would be worthy of them to be sent to the Zhao Mansion from the distant Northern Wei Dynasty, and they specially asked Long Wan to come over......"

So the subordinates speculated that it was very likely that Princess Li Chao secretly returned from the Northern Wei Dynasty. We have been exploring the entire Li Dynasty and the Min Kingdom for a long time, and there is no trace of her, maybe she is in the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

What did she do when she went to the Northern Wei Dynasty? Shouldn't she be firmly guarded in Jiucheng and Yijiang? Although Jin Liancheng had doubts in his heart, he was also a little happy: at that time, he didn't save Yao Jin and threw her to the place where the wild wolf was infested at the bottom of the valley, and this matter was known to Yuebai, although he could resist death and deny it, but in the end it was a thorn in their hearts. Now if she hadn't died, and she had become the lord of Nine Cities and One River, it might be a good thing for him. The corners of Jin Liancheng's mouth rose, but he suddenly remembered something, frowned and asked, "That guy in the cellar, is he still crazy every day?"

"Eighty percent of them have been fighting too much, and they haven't called much these days. ”

"Don't kill it, keep it useful. ”

"Yes. ”

The stout man dressed as a housekeeper was about to retire, but Jin Liancheng suddenly stopped him, "Wait." ”

"Your Excellency, please command. ”

"Beat that guy to serious injury but don't kill him, throw it into the Zhao Mansion!"

"Yes!"

"Wait!" Jin Liancheng rubbed the scar marks on the tiger's mouth on his right hand, and said expressionlessly: "Why bother with the strength of my brothers, castrate him and tie him to the Zhao Mansion, the right is the joy of me sending the princess of the Li Dynasty to the feudal domain." ”

"But he's—"

"He's nothing. Go ahead, take care of this quickly, and we'll leave for Caiyun City immediately!"

"Yes!"

At the end of the summer of that year, the historic Li Dynasty finally produced the first and perhaps only princess in history to become a vassal king, although she gave Jiucheng Yijiang a very gentle and even somewhat feminine name "Xiao Nanguo". But everyone knows that Her Royal Highness the princess is scheming deeply and has been calculating for a long time, which can never be described as gentle. When she was wearing the vassal court uniform specially customized by the Ministry of Rites and repeatedly modified by Long Wan and Wang Xiang, the pure white background, the blue sea ripples, the faint pear blossoms loomed, and a four-clawed coiled dragon embroidered with gold thread and a winged phoenix woven with silver thread on her shoulders were vividly entrenched on her shoulders. The eyes of the coiling dragon are obsidian, and the feathers of the phoenix are inlaid with pieces of red, yellow and sapphire, so that the court dress of the dragon and the phoenix silently announces the world, its owner is by no means an ordinary prince, the king of the county can be compared, her identity is noble and special, no one dares to underestimate half a point.

Sitting in a sedan chair with no curtains but full of expensive jewel beads, a guard of honor of hundreds of people, and sixteen pure white horses to open the way, when Yao Jin came out of the palace of the Li Dynasty, she was arrogant. deliberately chose such a posture that everyone had to look up to and leave the capital, neither subtle nor evasive, she just wanted to tell the world that Yao Jin was no longer a flower in the palace of the Li Dynasty for the emperor to pick and give away, not a tribute, a gift, she would be firmly rooted in her small southern country, like a towering tree like a tree to dig each of her roots deep into the soil, the vast land, the wide Jinsha River- Yao Jin glanced back implicitly and politely, Emperor Li and Empress Li were still watching her leave from the city tower, their clothes were meticulous, their smiles were kind and arrogant, but in Yao Jin's eyes, it was like carving a woodblock print hanging on the wall for a long time, soulless, tarnished, and a little depressed. Yao Jin laughed in her heart: goodbye, this time it is really never goodbye, with the holy purpose of "no need to enter Beijing unless there is a national funeral", she can never return to this place, this place that she hates so much.