Cloud Country, Ping'an City

Just after the Hundred Flowers Festival, it is the late spring and early summer, and the hustle and bustle of Heian City has not yet ended, and the streets and alleys are full of stumps and leaves mixed with various colored petals. Ping'an City is different from Wanzhou City, it is an authentic northern city, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the remaining side is guarded by a city gate as high as eight zhang, and the gate is strictly controlled. The size of the houses in the city is also scattered, set up in accordance with the etiquette law, in the middle is the city in the city that occupies a huge area - the Forbidden City, set up nine gates, outside the door is the royal road around the Forbidden City, to the outside is the residence of the royal family, the yamen of the six departments, the residence of the Huangzi Gongqing, and then to the periphery is the world-famous Wan'an Street, the shops are lined up, the wine shop is salty, the outermost part is the mansion of the gentry and merchants, its specifications are strict, it is the product of the completion of the ritual law, which is completely different from the random placement of Wanzhou houses.

Ye Nan strolling through the street can't help but admire the designer's precise setting, such a layout not only invisibly consolidates the status of the royal family in people's hearts, but also makes it easier to manage, if Wanzhou is like a wild grass made by calligraphy everyone, then Ping'an City is like a regular script written by Confucian sages one stroke at a time.

Today, at the invitation of the crown prince Ye Yunlan to the East Palace to enjoy the flowers, Ye Nan passed through the overlapping palaces, and was personally welcomed into the East Palace by the crown prince after the report.

For the future emperor, the current prince Ye Yunlan, Ye Nan had already used the Southern Tang Intelligence Network to investigate it clearly before he came.

Ye Yunlan is the eldest son of the current Emperor of Yunguo, he has been brilliant since he was a child, and he studied under a generation of Shuoru Zhang Zhongchen and the famous general Su Wei when Emperor Wu, and he has dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can be called a civil and military all-rounder.

A generation of Ming Jun, Ye Nan let out a long sigh in his heart.

"What is on Young Master Ye's mind?" Seeing that Ye Nan was distracted, Ye Yunlan asked out loud.

"Seeing the strange flowers in Huainan in the garden, I can't help but think of my homeland." Ye Nan's tone seemed to be overwhelmed with emotion.

"After all, it is inevitable to be away from homesickness, tomorrow I will ask someone to send these southern plants and trees to the Young Master Ye's Shuyu Palace, and chat to soothe the young master's homesickness. I am actually very interested in the scenery of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but it is rare to see it in the imperial capital, and I have to ask the young master for advice today. Ye Yunlan said lightly.

"The minister must know everything." Ye Nan bowed and replied.

In fact, today Ye Yunlan not only invited Ye Nan, but also invited Chen Guo's proton-Chen Huailiang, the son and nephew of the major princes in the imperial capital. Ye Nan is actually very interested in Chen Guo's proton, the Southern Tang Dynasty is only separated from Chen Guo by South Vietnam, and the intelligence network operated by the Southern Tang Dynasty for many years has little record of this Chen Huailiang, only saying that he is elegant and good at swords, and he is decisive in killing, and there is no other record that he is a mysterious figure.

"Today, it is rare to invite the two young masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Chen Kingdom, and I will toast the two of them on behalf of the ministers of the Yun Kingdom." Raise a glass and drink it all.

Ye Nan also smiled and raised his glass, greeted the children of the ministers, and then drank it all. But Chen Huailiang only lowered his head and drank it all. Chen Huailiang has been pledged in Yunguo since he was a child, and the children of the ministers have long been surprised by his loneliness, but in comparison, it makes people have a good impression of the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"According to legend, there is a magnificent landscape of 100 miles of frost hitting red leaves in Wanzhou City in the Southern Tang Dynasty in autumn, I don't know if there is really such a scene?" A Shangshu's son asked Ye Nan.

"The number of 100 miles is not accurate, but the frost and red leaves do have their scenery, although there is no 100 miles of grandeur, but the beauty of the red dress and plain sleeves dancing in the maple forest is indeed pleasing to the eye." Ye Nan replied with a smile.

"I heard that there is no curfew in Wanzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty every night, and there are many flowers and willows, and I think that Young Master Ye is not shallow."

"In the next is indeed the heart of the land of flowers and willows, but the family education is strict, when you come to visit the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future, you will definitely take this as a way of hospitality to entertain you, so that you can enjoy such a glamorous fate in the next."

"Hahaha, Young Master Ye made fun of it."

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"I heard that Master Ye Shao studied under the master of swordsmanship Yang Ke, and he must be good at swordsmanship, and he will definitely ask for advice one day." Chen Huailiang's words were particularly harsh in the chatting and laughing banquet, saying that he was going to have a good competition.

"I haven't obtained one-tenth of the teacher's skills, I'm afraid it will disappoint Young Master Chen, it's better to use wine as a sword to have a good fight." Ye Nan said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Both of them are the world's talents, why bother dancing with swords and swords, sad and angry, and come to drink." Ye Yunlan raised his glass.

So Ye Nan also raised his glass, and Chen Huailiang smiled and raised his glass indifferently.

The banquet lasted until dusk, and most of the people during the banquet asked Ye Nan about the strange news of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Ye Nan was also well-informed, laughing and enjoying himself during the banquet. However, Ye Yunlan occasionally asked questions during the period, but it was the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the status of each person in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the operation of the government, Ye Nan naturally couldn't tell the truth, and prevaricated half-truthfully

At the end of the song, everyone dispersed, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.

In the Jade Palace, Ye Nan knelt in front of the bookcase, recalling the scene during the banquet, it was not strange for the children of the princess to ask those strange things, and there were quite a few people of insight among them. Chen Huailiang does not seem to have scheming, he always speaks straightforwardly, and the wine is dry, but he is generous and heroic. And Ye Yunlan is like a fog, gentle and frugal, very thoughtful hospitality, and has no disdain for Chen Huailiang, who is ignored by everyone, but the situation of the Southern Tang Dynasty is only some news that Yunguo should have known a long time ago, as the crown prince, he should not be unfamiliar with these things, and there seems to be something deep in his eyes that people can't see.

At this moment, the East Palace, the prince's bedroom

The prince was also kneeling in front of the bookcase, and said to the black-clothed man who was half-kneeling in front of him: "Take my handwritten edict to dispatch the five masters in the night owl to monitor the Jade Palace day and night, and Ye Nan's every move will be reported." ”

"Yes" The man in black jumped into the night and quietly walked away.

The darkness of the night seems to devour people's hearts, making those who stare at the darkness feel as if they are about to be sucked into it.

The wind was blowing, and the wind blew through the silent Forbidden City, mixed with some unknown shouts.