Chapter Forty-Eight: The Pavilion of Receiving Officials (3)
"See, my lord... Princess..."
Sun Yanwu performed a military salute with his whole body in armor, kneeling on one knee, and clasping his hands into fists above his head.
The central defenders and officials who followed him hesitated for a while, then followed Sun Yanwu and fell to their knees. The guards who were holding their bows and pulling crossbows surrounded the unknown guards on both wings, looking at the officials who knelt on the ground and saluted at a loss, who was the princess in their mouths? When did they have a princess? When?
Not only were they at a loss, but even the civil and military officials who were not the Zhongwei of the King of Wei were incredulous, thinking that something was wrong with the head of the King Wei's personal guard.
There is one prince who is not worry-free, princess? Where did it come from? Whose princess? Where?
All the guards who were standing were stunned, and looked at the officials closest to them at a loss, and these grassroots general banners and hundreds of households, like them, did not know the situation, and could only look at the officials kneeling in front of the pavilion, but the only thing that responded to them was the figure of them bowing their heads and kneeling, and gradually the tips of the swords and arrows in their hands hung down unconsciously, and they looked around in confusion at their robes, wanting to get answers from them, but they responded to them with the same confusion as they were.
First a hundred households hesitated and knelt down, and then the brothers of the hundred households under his command followed their own officials, one or two... Three or four kneeling, then five or six... Seven eight... In knots... Finally, the pieces knelt on the ground and saluted, and the sound of metal friction from the collision of swords and armor was huge.
Mougins was quiet, the scene was silent, deathly silent, the cold wind of winter was blowing, except for the occasional sound of war horses plowing the ground and chewing grass to make a satisfied snort, there was no other sound, and even the jackdaws in the sky disappeared without a trace.
Xia Zongxiao didn't speak, his eyes quietly looked at the reactions of the officials who came with his own guards, a meaningful smile flashed, he retracted his mind, and gently stabbed Bai Ye, like a guard kneeling on the ground, as if in Wolong Village.
The difficult and obscure voice of the white night penetrated inside and outside the official pavilion: "Both... Get up..."
Sun Yanwu and the others raised their heads, their eyes first locked on Bai Ye, and then unconsciously glanced at their prince's face, Xia Zongxiao nodded invisibly.
Sun Yanwu took a sharp breath, bent his hand and waved, and the surrounding guards behind him were ordered, compared to when they knelt down and saluted, they got up in a uniform and well-trained manner.
"What does that mean?"
The guards of the prince paid homage to the prince... Princess? ... Why did White Night speak? What qualifications does he have?
And this group of guards of the King of Wei, didn't they still shout very loudly a few days ago, and they all wanted to eat Bai Ye alive? How can you see people, but you don't shout anymore, and you don't take people?
The highest-ranking civil official present was Xia Zongxiao's old acquaintance, Kou Zhen's clansman Kou Wenpu. After not seeing him for a few days, he is still the same demeanor, and he is also an official assigned by Kou Zhen to find Xia Zongxiao. If King Wei can't be found, the queen mother of the court will blame him afterwards, and he will be questioned.
After receiving this errand, he was worried, except for the active Weiwang Sanwei, even the Jizhen Four Guards who were left in Jizhen by Bai Ye, and then after Bai Ye's henchmen were cleared by the right minister, he pressed the generals who came out of the Beijing camp and let them scatter to find someone.
In just a few days, there were a few more strands of gray hair on his temples, and now he could understand that his friend of the same year who served as the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion often complained when he had a drink with him, and he served as Yin of Jingzhao Mansion for three years and complained for three years.
Every time I encounter a situation related to King Wei, I have a headache, what King Wei did on the street with which family, and which gambling house he smashed... In the Qinglou Shipyard, you are jealous of others... In the temple Taoist temple, he indiscriminately mentioned poems and painted dirty walls... Molessing women from good families on the street... These are all trivial things, and what is even more terrifying is that if there is nothing to do, go to the craftsman manufacturing department, get some strange things, and explode across the mountain, causing the nearby houses to complain, accusing the king of Wei, and there are three major Muzhang boxes in the Jingzhao Mansion case warehouse......
At that time, I was so sarcastic at him, I didn't admonish the officials, and I enforced the law impartially, so what was the headache? Now it seems that these words are unfair, and when it comes to his head, he finds that this Wei Wang will give people a "surprise".
Now I know his suffering, he is born with a distinction between high and low, and some people's hair is more valuable than ordinary people's lives.
The queen mother's most spoiled grandson was lost? The prince of Great Qin was taken captive? So the initiator Bai Ye's family was imprisoned, even if the Bai family has been a leader for generations and has made great achievements, but so what? If the White Night Dog dares to kidnap the prince, then he will have to pay for his actions.
The right minister just took this opportunity to take down the Bai clan of Jizhen. But the scene in front of him made him puzzled, and his heart was full of doubts. Pointing to the guards who knelt on the ground and saluted and the white night who opened his mouth to be exempt, Kou Wenpu was puzzled. "King Wei... You.. It's..."
Xia Zongxiao looked at Kou Wenpu and did not speak, but showed a smile that he thought was kind, and raised his hand to summon Sun Yanwu, who was still hesitating in place and didn't know how to be good.
Sun Yanwu took three steps and made two steps, hurriedly stepped forward, and when he passed by Bai Ye's side, although he hesitated, he still bowed down respectfully and passed by, and attached his ear to Xia Zongxiao's side.
Xia Zongxiao whispered a word, Sun Yanwu couldn't help nodding, and then he ordered to leave two hundred households as the prince's guards, and the rest of the guards followed him back to Shuozhou.
Xia Zongxiao was about to answer Kou Wenpu, he had been sitting on the stone bench for a long time, it was a little cold, and as soon as he got up, the little dice cleverly stretched out his hand and picked up his own prince. Xia Zongxiao smiled, naturally stood up on the arm of the little dice, and finally turned around and grimaced at Bai Ye to let her learn more...
The little dice walked up to Kou Wenpu with Xia Zongxiao in his arms and said with a familiar smile: "Lord Kou, I haven't seen you for a long time, my face is ruddy, my complexion is radiant, and my complexion is good, but there is a happy event?" ”
Ruddy complexion and radiant complexion? Kou Wenpu stretched out his hand and touched his cheek, which had been exhausted for a few days to find the king of Wei, although his mind was full of fog, he still followed Xia Zongxiao's words: "Finding the prince is the biggest joy for the lower officials!" ”
"Recovered? Kou-sama! Recovery, where to start? This king just went out to relax, no! When you have enough, you will come back by yourself. ”
"Distracted?" Kou Wenpu stammered: "It was the guards in the prince's camp who saw it with their own eyes, and the prince was kidnapped by Jizhen in the middle of the night!" It is also the news that they broke through to the right minister on the day they arrived in Shuozhou!
The prince disappeared without news for more than ten days! Is this called distraction? Xiaguan sent people without calculation, and rummaged through the Shuozhou region... Is this called distraction? The right minister stayed in Shuozhou for a long time for the prince's business, and he couldn't go north for a long time! Wei Du also returned from Jingsui Town to Shuozhou... This sentence is distracted! Does King Wei think he can explain? Kou Wenpu was dumbfounded and said hurriedly.
"The white night kidnapped this king?" Xia Zongxiao exaggerated as if he had heard some shocking anecdote: "Lord Kou? Where did you hear that? This king was taken captive by the White Night?
This king is in the midst of 20,000 personal guards, who can kidnap this king, isn't this a big joke in the world? When I defend the king, the three guards are not paper-paste? This kind of rumor can't be spread around! Spreading rumors in the army and disturbing the morale of the army is suitable for the accomplice of Xia Liao's thieves! It's a big sin to lose your head, but don't talk nonsense! Xia Zongxiao also patted Kou Wenpu's shoulder lightly, and said in a serious and thoughtful tone.
"Then the three commanders of the prince, how can you say that the prince was taken away by the white night?" Kou Wenpu said in a hurry.
"Is there one? Ah! It must be that this king is in a hurry and has not explained it clearly to them! They misunderstood! Misunderstanding! In fact, the events of that night were like this: that night the king was with Ah Ye..."Xia Zongxiao was ready to start telling the story he had carefully prepared.
But before the story began, it was interrupted by Kou Wenpu, who heard some clues in Xia Zongxiao's words... Ah Ye?
What does this mean? Is he so manly? And in front of the public.... This is absolutely not good, there are a lot of nobles and wealthy families, but those are all private things, and no one will talk about it in front of everyone.
After all, King Wei has a lot of bad deeds and a lot of ridiculous things, if he and Bai Ye are really a little unclear, they can't say it in public. Otherwise, it will not benefit the majesty of the court and the dignity of the royal family. At that time, not only the queen mother was angry, but even the saint who ignored King Wei on weekdays would be furious, after all, the saint is especially good-looking, as the highest official present did not stop the damage to King Wei in time, the royal family's face of himself will definitely be angered by the saint.
Hurriedly interrupted: "Your Highness! ”
"Lord Kou! Don't interrupt the king! Such an adult! Also from a family! Didn't Kou Xiang teach you that you can't interrupt no one to speak? Xia Zongxiao glared at Kou Wenpu dissatisfied, and said unhappily.
Kou Wenpu was inexplicable and dumbfounded, are you still reasonable?
"Where did you just go?" Xia Zongxiao said angrily: "Look, let you interrupt, forget where you go!" ”
"Oh yes...... Speaking of that night... That night was long, and I had no intention of sleeping, and this king ...... "a story without sincerity, and I heard that everyone was dumbfounded."
Especially Kou Wenpu, as if he had heard the Arabian Nights, struggled to open his mouth and stammered: "Lord Wang... You mean... It's you with white... Leaving the camp at night... And Bai Ye is a daughter? And then you... Want to marry Bai Ye as the princess of the king? ”
"Hmm!" Finally someone understood, Xia Zongxiao nodded with satisfaction, but corrected Kou Wenpu and said: "It's not that you want to marry, it's that she is already Princess Wei!" ”
"Already? Why? ”
"It's just, we've been... What's... You know..."Xia Zongxiao's words were ambiguous, revealing a look that all men understand, everyone's incredible eyes looked at Bai Ye in unison, Rao is Bai Ye is used to seeing big scenes, and was also stared at by the strange eyes of hundreds of pairs of eyes present, at first there was a little inexplicable shyness, and gradually was angered by their unscrupulous eyes, sword eyebrows were upside down, cold eyes glared, and no one dared to look at her wherever the cold gaze went.
Bai Ye stared at everyone proudly, and finally snorted coldly before giving up.
"This..."Kou Wenpu was embarrassed, this was already in the opposite direction of what they had planned before, and they originally planned to use the Bai family in Jizhen as an excuse to clean up some deep-rooted Jiangmen families together, but now how can it be?