When Xuan and Li Jian walked on the big ship of the Duhu Mansion, Yang Xiaofeng followed Zhou Xuan with broken steps, and he looked pitiful.

Zhou Xuan said coldly: "Yang Xiaofeng, wait for me honestly below, don't move, I'll ask you later." ”

Yang Xiaofeng had never heard Childe talk to her in such a stern tone, and she was so frightened that she knelt on the side of the big boat's pedals, tears falling silently.

Zhou Xuan ignored her, and got on the boat with Li Jian, he roughly guessed the reason why Yang Xiaofeng appeared on Li Kun's boat, it must be that she ran out of Jiangzhou alone to find him and got on the wrong boat, although this Yang Xiaofeng is silent, her temper is actually very strong, and he mentioned to him once a year ago that he wanted to follow him into Beijing, but he didn't agree, and Yang Xiaofeng didn't say anything at the time, but it is likely that she made up her mind to follow at that time, and now I just don't know if she has lost her body? But with her soft and strong temperament, if she loses her body, I'm afraid it won't be like this-

Li Jian followed Zhou Xuan on the big ship of the Duhufu, his heart was still "pounding" and jumping, happy and worried, feeling that the world was a little discolored, looking back, his cousin Li Kun had already led people away, and he couldn't help but worry again, and said: "Brother Xuan, my cousin is very vicious, he can't swallow this breath, he has a lot of ways to deal with you, and nothing else, my brother will bear it for my brother, but if he really goes to sue the emperor, and his father believes his slander, it will be really tricky." ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Brother Jian, you have to understand your identity, you are the prince, the prince of the Tang Kingdom, you have to have the majesty of the prince, Li Kun is just a prince, your courtier." You don't have to be afraid of him, I know that he must be very domineering in ordinary times, relying on your father's favor and bullying you, this conflict seems to be a matter between me and Li Kun on the surface, but in fact it is a struggle between your Royal Highness the Crown Prince and him, I am your friend, Li Kun humiliating me is tantamount to humiliating you, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't protect a friend. After spreading the word among the government and the opposition. You will lose your prestige. The country will not be a country, and the king will not be a king - Li Kun just wants to take this opportunity to establish his authority, and his intentions - hehe, my brother must understand. ”

Li Jian said angrily: "I understand, he just wants to rebel against usurpation-"

Li Jianqiang swallowed the word "position" that usurped the throne, and changed his words: "Brother, don't worry, my brother will keep my brother safe even if he goes to the soup, and my brother will go to see my father." Don't let your father listen to him. ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "Don't worry, I just need you to help me with one thing, that is, you can give me a chance, I can defend myself in front of the emperor, don't cut off my head without saying a word." ”

Li Jian hurriedly said: "This will never be, my father has already heard my brother's name, and my brother returned to Beijing last year to present your two words of "Fixing the Storm" and "Nian Nujiao" to his father's imperial review, and my father loves lyrics and songs. I appreciate my brother's talent very much. I heard that my brother was going to participate in the Lantern Festival chess meeting, and my father said that he would definitely summon him alone. ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "That's good, give me a chance to speak, and I can refute Li Kun." For Brother Jian, you have a bad breath. ”

Li Jian was very grateful, and said emotionally: "Brother Xuan, it is really a great luck for the younger brother to be able to meet Brother Xuan in Jiangzhou, you and I are the friendship of life and death, the younger brother seems to be noble in the capital, but in fact, it is difficult to speak alone, and he needs Brother Xuan's help-Brother Xuan, isn't that a three idiots, he really came to be a sword slave of the brother?" ”

In normal times, Li Jian would definitely be extremely uncomfortable when he saw the three idiots who had humiliated him, even if he didn't turn his face when he saw Zhou Xuan's face, he would definitely have a bad heart, but now it was different, he just saw the three idiots and another little thin man make a heavy attack on Li Kun's prestige, which is equivalent to giving Li Jian a long ambition.

So as soon as Zhou Xuan explained a little, Li Jian immediately said with relief: "If you don't fight, you don't know each other, Brother Xuan doesn't need to say much, the younger brother is not the kind of person who will repay him, and those who become big things don't care about their previous suspicions, not to mention that now is the time to employ people." ”

Zhou Xuan suddenly thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Jian, the foolish brother asked me about the sword slave, but he refused to say who instructed him to assassinate you, this is the righteousness of their rangers, and I don't want to ask, Brother Jian, who do you think will be the culprit behind the scenes?" ”

Li Jian looked at Zhou Xuan's eyes and asked, "Is Brother Xuan suspicious of my cousin?" ”

Zhou Xuan said bluntly: "It's very possible, but just now my sword slave appeared, I paid attention to Li Kun's expression, but I didn't find anything abnormal, it seems that I don't know the three idiots." ”

Li Jian said: "After my brother returned to Beijing, he investigated this matter, but he couldn't find any clues, only knew that to hire the Five Idiot Ranger as assassins, he only needed to go to the lonely mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou to meet a person from Lin, and Lin would contact the Five Idiot Ranger, so if it was really my evil brother who hired the three idiots, they would not meet, and it was normal for them not to know each other." ”

Zhou Xuan nodded, thinking: "This is the best, lest the third and fourth children be recognized and cause trouble for me, the forest of the lonely mountain of West Lake, this name sounds so familiar——"

"Brother Zhou Xuan, Master Li Yonggu, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Lin Hanyun walked out step by step, she put on the new winter clothes produced by the "Yunshang Women's Clothing" designed by Zhou Xuan, which is a knee-length snow-white mink coat, red fox fur collar, red and white, bright and eye-catching, this should have been paired with trousers or bare-legged stockings, but it seems that there is a long way to go for a noble woman in the Tang Kingdom to wear pants, let alone bare calves, so in Zhou Xuan's opinion, Lin Hanyun's outfit looks strange, but Lin Hanyun feels good and walks ladylike.

Li Jian raised his eyebrows and said diligently: "Miss Lin has a hard journey from afar, and she has lost her welcome from afar. ”

Lin Hanyun smiled and said: "

Where to go, if you are far away, you will fall into the river. ”

Fairy Jingyi followed behind Lin Hanyun and said angrily, "Hanyun, have you forgotten what your sister said to you?" Shi Li said: "Lord Li, the head of the female Tao." ”

Li Jian hurriedly returned the salute.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Brother Jian, how long will you hide your identity from Sister Hanyun?" ”

Li Jian was slightly embarrassed and said, "Brother Xuan can help the little brother explain." ”

Lin Hanyun heard that this Li Yonggu was actually the crown prince, his small mouth was wide open, his big eyes became copper bells, and he was speechless for a long time.

Fairy Jingyi didn't look surprised, the last time she sent Judge Fan to Xu Tingshi to intercede for Zhou Xuan, she already knew the true identity of the draft envoy Master Li.

Gu Changshi, who was stationed in Jinling by the Fenghua Metropolitan Protectorate, came with more than ten carriages to pick him up, and there was a luxurious mansion on the shore of Mochou Lake in Jinling. In Zhou Xuandi's words, this is the Beijing office of the Fenghua Metropolitan Protectorate in Jinling, and Gu Changshi is the director of the Beijing Office.

Yang Xiaofeng was still kneeling there, and Laifu and Xiaoxiang were persuading her to get up, saying that she was going to get in the car, but Yang Xiaofeng just didn't get up.

Zhou Xuan walked over and drank: "Hurry up!" I'll settle accounts with you when I get to the next place. ”

Yang Xiaofeng got up and sat in the carriage with tears and Xiaoxiang in her eyes.

Together with the hundreds of retinues brought by the crown prince Li Jian, Zhou Xuan and his entourage entered Jinling from Jubaomen through Wuwei Bridge, and went south along Qinglong Street to Mochou Lake.

Mochou Lake was formerly known as Hengtang. It is also called Shicheng Lake. Because of the legend of the girl Mo Chou throwing herself into the lake in the Southern Qi Kingdom of the Six Dynasties. It is also called Mochou Lake, known as the first lake in the south of the Yangtze River, the lake is not big, the radius is four or five miles, the weeping willows on the embankment, the begonias in the water, the flowers and trees are endless. The scenery is elegant and beautiful, and the south is the famous Qinhuai River.

The mansion of Fenghua Duhufu is built near the lake, the winding path corridor is hidden in the pine, bamboo, flowers and stones, the building, the pavilion, the pavilion, the golden splendor, the staggered fall, it is a garden-style building.

Li Jian smiled: "I have lived in Jinling for a long time, but I didn't know that there was such a good place. Back then, Lord Lin chose to build this house, which was really unique. ”

Li Jian saw that Zhou Xuan and Lin Hanyun had settled down. Immediately resigned, he was in a hurry to return to the palace to see his father to defend Zhou Xuan and meet his father. He didn't see his father's anger, so he asked, "Father, didn't the royal brother come to see his father?" ”

Li Nian is sixty years old, his eyebrows are gray, he is still clear-eyed, elegant and elegant, he raised his eyebrows, and asked, "What's the matter, has Kun'er come back?" ”

Li Jian said: "Yes, when Erchen greeted the fleet of Fenghua Protectorate in the morning, he saw Brother Wang's ship docking. ”

Li glared at Li Jian: "Do you have time to greet the ship from Fenghua, but you won't greet your brother?" ”

Li is very strict with his own son, but he is extremely conniving with his nephew Li Kun, which is really strange.

Li Jian was about to distinguish, Li didn't allow him to say goodbye: "It must be you who collided with your brother, which made Kun'er unhappy, go to King Jing's Mansion to apologize to your brother, and then come to see me together, my Li royal family is you and Kun'er in this generation, I like to see you two brothers get along in harmony, go quickly." ”

Li Jian left Daxing Palace sullenly, thinking: "If you want me to apologize to him, isn't that sending him to the door to humiliate him, hmph, don't go, it's just right if Li Kun refuses to come to see his father." ”

Li Jian wanted to go to Mochou Lake to find Zhou Xuan, but he was afraid that Li Kun would come to complain about the evil, so he thought about it, so he went to the harem to see the queen mother, and the queen mother also asked about Zhou Xuan last time, because Feng Ajian brought back two paintings, and the queen mother was very interested in the costumes of the characters on the paintings.

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At this time, Zhou Xuan was training Yang Xiaofeng in the room, this little prostitute was kneeling, her face was a little haggard, Zhou Xuan asked her how she came to the land, and she said three words: "Get on the wrong boat." ”

Zhou Xuan asked: "Did that kid Li Kun bully you?" ”

Yang Xiaofeng shook his head, took out the knife from his waist, and held it up to Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan couldn't help laughing when he saw her solemnly take out such a knife, and said in his heart: "This knife is a fart, it seems that the kid surnamed Li doesn't plan to use it strongly, otherwise you stupid girl will be a dead end." He said sternly: "What did I tell you when I was leaving, how dare you be disobedient, did you tell the two mistresses when you went out?" ”

Yang Xiaofeng shook his head, his head lowered.

Zhou Xuan said angrily: "Do you know how many people are worried about your departure!" You are really a misfortune, since Teng Wangge won you, I have not stopped, Song Wu set up a Hongmen banquet, Guiya Mountain met a thief, the first two times I didn't complain about you, but this time I inexplicably let me fight with the emperor's favorite nephew, it's not all because of your willfulness, I will be killed by you sooner or later! ”

Yang Xiaofeng was silent in tears before, but now she cried loudly, and tears fell like rain.

"What are you crying about, do you still feel very wronged?"

"Woo-woo-"

"Do you know what's wrong?"

"Woo-woo-"

"I know crying, that's good, since you refuse to admit your mistake, I don't dare to keep you, you can go wherever you want, Wei Jue is in Guangling, you can go to him."

After that, Zhou Xuan stepped forward and prepared to leave the room.

"Childe-", Yang Xiaofeng cried out heartbreakingly, kneeling and chasing after Zhou Xuan's legs, looking up at the face of pear blossoms with rain, and mourning: "Xiaofeng knows that he is wrong, Xiaofeng knows that he is wrong, begging Gongzi for forgiveness, Xiaofeng no longer dares to disobey Gongzi, begging Gongzi not to drive me away-"

Zhou Xuan watched

The prostitute wept and begged for forgiveness, and the girl who was so clean was now dressed in dirt. Her hair is also unkempt, and she must not even dare to take a bath these days, so she can't help but feel pity, and she is scared enough, and now it's time to be soft, sighing: "Xiaofeng, don't you know how worried I was when I heard Laifu say that there was a person like you on the boat in front of me on the big boat?" I knew you were headstrong. I'm afraid you'll sneak out. I didn't expect it to be you. Fortunately, this is the case, if you miss it again, what do you say you will do? And I'm going to die of grief! ”

Yang Xiaofeng hugged Zhou Xuan's leg like a puppy and whined: "Yes, yes, it's a little mistake, only Gongzi is really good to Xiaofeng in this world, and Xiaofeng is reluctant to leave Gongzi——"

Zhou Xuan asked with a straight face: "So you will follow me as soon as I leave in the future?" ”

Yang Xiaofeng hurriedly said, "No, no." Don't dare, Xiao Feng is waiting for his son to come back at home, and he has to wait for ten or eight years. ”

Zhou Xuan laughed: "You can talk quite well, why should I go out for ten or eight years and be exiled?" ”

Yang Xiaofeng peeked at Zhou Xuan's face, and saw that he had a smile on his face, not as cold as before, so he calmed down.

Zhou Xuan helped her up. Wiping her tears, she said, "Okay." Thankfully, nothing happened to you, so go take a shower. The face has become a flower cat, and Xiaoxiang will help you get your dress ready. ”

Yang Xiaofeng walked out obediently, but walked back and asked softly, "Has the son really forgiven Xiaofeng?" ”

Zhou Xuan looked at her crying and swollen pupils, felt pity, pinched her face and said, "The first time will forgive, remember, there is no second time." ”

Yang Xiaofeng said "um" and went out.

After lunch on this day, Judge Fan went to the Hanlin Academy to report, and the ten major capital Hufu chess battles were mainly undertaken by the Hanlin Academy, and the names of the three participating chess players in the Fenghua Military Land should be reported, namely: Gu Liuquan, Zhou Xuan, and Zhou Zhouchi.

Wednesday is the three idiots, this name is Zhou Xuan to give him the land, called the third is always not like words, chess proverb: "chess is one foot long, no eyes to live by itself", then three feet is naturally more powerful.

The four idiots heard that the name of the Wednesday ruler was good, and said: "Then I will call it the Thursday ruler in the future." ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "No, three feet and four feet are easy to reminiscent of the Five Idiot Rangers, and they are too uncreative, I have already thought of one for you, just call it Zhou Xiaojian, Xiaojian has no bad chess, not bad, right?" ”

The four idiots muttered: "Little tip, little tip, this name is too weird." ”

Zhou Xuan saw that the third idiot's face didn't seem to be very good, and asked, "What's wrong with the third child, did you hurt yourself in the morning with that person?" ”

The three idiots said lightly: "Thank you for your concern, don't get in the way, I want a jar of wine at night, and I will be lucky." ”

The fourth idiot said: "Fortunately, the third brother took the palm for me, if it were me, I wouldn't be better in half a month, but I'm afraid I won't be able to play chess." ”

Zhou Xuan asked: "That guy is so powerful?" ”

The four idiots said: "It's not powerful, I shouldn't be with him, I committed the taboo of raising the short and avoiding the long, that guy is from Guangling Peng Zumen, and he is practicing the 'immortal palm', which sounds good, but it is actually a poisonous palm, I don't palm with him, and I can stun him in three or two turns." ”

Zhou Xuandao: "Well, that's the truth, it's the same when playing chess, you have to give full play to your strengths and suppress the opponent's strengths, especially for the locals who are strong in chess, the ability to adapt to the situation is very important." ”

While speaking, Judge Fan came back from the Hanlin Academy, came straight to Zhou Xuan, and said: "Zhou Gongzi, this Lantern Festival chess battle is really amazing, the eighteen great chess players in the world actually came eleven, basically every capital has a big chess player in charge, Zhenhai Festival is the most extravagant, and there are two big chess players, namely Huang Xingjian, who ranks fourth among the eighteen chess players, and Chen Xingyuan, who ranks eighth, these two are from Guangling, collectively known as 'Guangling Two Stars', with excellent chess strength, Zhenhai Hu is bound to win the championship of this chess battle." ”

Zhou Xuan asked: "Master Fan, who is the highest ranking of the 18 chess players, and has he come to participate in the competition?" ”

Judge Fan said: "Huang Xingjian, who is ranked fourth, is the most powerful chess player in this chess battle, Xia Guan is just a rough game, I don't know how to divide the realm between masters, I only know that the top five big chess players can let the bottom five big chess players first or even two sons." ”

Zhou Xuan exclaimed: "Wow, so powerful!" ”

In the past few days on the boat, Zhou Xuan, three idiots, and four idiots have played chess with Gu Liuquan respectively, and the chess power of the four idiots is slightly weaker than that of Gu Liuquan, and the four idiots can win about three to four games after ten rounds, and the chess strength of the three idiots is equivalent to that of Gu Liuquan, maybe a little stronger, after all, the three idiots are young and strong, and this chess game is also physical work!

And Zhou Xuan, Gu Liuquan admitted that he was not an opponent, saying that Zhou Gongzi's chess strength increased at a very fast speed, and he improved his chess strength by at least half a son compared to when he played the game of chess with Feng Yuan.

Some players will never be able to bridge the gap of being given up in the first place.