Chapter 31: The Second Handmaiden

"Mom......" Lianxing's face was pale, and she couldn't believe her ears, why did she do it like this? Is it because of the power of the prince in front of you? She didn't believe it, because although she was in decline, it was this fierce woman who would rather fall into the dust than be swallowed up by the rest of the school, and would rather face all kinds of ridicule from the world, but also insisted on the obsession in her heart. would rather be adrift all her life than commit to those noble and powerful ministers, how could such a woman make such a decision?

"Needless to say, I have already made up my mind, and perhaps the road you have to walk is even harder than mine. I hope you don't resent your mom in the future! Xingxian turned to her daughter and said.

"Mercy Star...... Listen to Mom! The face struggled, and the pretty face of the pity star who took off the veil was miserable. She knew that as long as she agreed, then there would be no room for return, and maybe when she looked back, she would be a hundred years old.

"Okay, don't show your mother-daughter affection anymore, this king has no mother since he was a child, you will only make me envious, jealous and hateful, and it will not be good for your daughter in the future, don't blame this king!" Li Kuan interrupted their parting scene, for him, this famous star fairy in Chang'an City really didn't feel much. Although she is really very beautiful, and she has an elegant temperament like a glacier snow lotus, but so what, Li Kuan himself can see it very clearly, the reason why these two women will find him is because they have really reached the point of exhaustion. The Yin and Yang family has been weak for too long, and the prestige of the year has gradually been forgotten by the world, and other schools have begun to move.

Don't think that these hidden schools are monolithic. There is also intrigue between them, and they are deceitful. They all want to annex other genres and strengthen their own momentum. The battle between the schools stems from the fact that each of them still has the most secret core of each family, when the hundred schools of thought divided up a mysterious thing. Divide a complete thing into nine. That thing is said to be able to change the general trend of the world, and whoever can get a share of it will definitely have a place for him in this world. Therefore, the various schools that participated in the division at the beginning have always wanted to snatch the part of the other schools to strengthen themselves.

And now because the Yin and Yang family has not heard from them for a long time, the soldiers, legalists, farmers and other schools have begun to try. Waiting for the opportunity to plunder the treasure that belongs to the Yin and Yang family. Li Kuan didn't know the secrets of these things, but he still felt that the current situation of these two women was not good. In the months before he left Chang'an to go north to the Turks, several groups of people came into contact with them. And they all broke up unhappily.

Of course, Li Kuan didn't really know anything, although he didn't know what that thing was, but he could roughly guess something. In the era of hundreds of schools of thought, there must be one thing that makes everyone's heart move. And in the end, this thing was divided. Divided into several pieces. And now these schools that have been handed down, the family is all looking for clues to it. Among them, there are several of the largest families in the Tang Dynasty - five surnames and seven wangs are involved, they are representatives of Confucianism, and some other people.

As for Li Kuan, he had such a guess, and he also used it to let the family attack Changsun Chong, it was because of a fortuitous discovery. There is no impermeable wall in this world, and he found that before he had seen the patriarch of the Qinghe Cui clan in the five surnamed Qiwang. The old man, who was already in his nineties, wore a very peculiar pendant on his body. It shimmers golden in the sunlight. This was when Li Er defeated the locust plague. That is, when his intelligence organization was just formed. On behalf of the people of the world, the patriarch of the Cui clan of Qinghe presented Li Er with the umbrella of the people written by the people on their clan's territory. In order to show respect, the old man personally escorted him, so that Li Kuan could see it.

After that, Li Kuan saw something similar for the second time, but this time it was on another person. The thing was tied around the man's waist, a strand of dark red rope dangling between his armor. And it also shimmered with golden brilliance, so Li Kuan paid attention, and when he approached the person, he carefully observed, and found that the thing was not actually complete, as if it was a part of something that had been separated.

So he boldly guessed that there might be some secret hidden in it. And he used it to depict the shape of the thing on the man's body and some obscure clues on the jade seal of the country that he copied himself. I also sent information to the major families. At that time, he only experimented with the idea of being cautious and not making a big mistake, and he also had Li Lizhi's abnormal expression as the trigger for this, so he would do this.

"Your Highness, don't blame, it's just that Pixing was raised by a folk girl since childhood, even if it is said to be the biological daughter of the folk girl, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the biological daughter of the folk daughter, at this time, it is inevitable that the separation will be reluctant, and there is something to disturb His Highness, please bear with me!" As a mother, Xingxian explained to Li Kuan that she was really afraid that Li Kuan would not treat her daughter well. As a mother, it is uncomfortable to push her daughter to someone else to be a maid, and if she makes her daughter dislike her master because of her own reasons, it will be even more unbearable for her.

"Don't talk about it, since you want to say that she left her to be a maid to this king, then this king will be disrespectful, but this king hopes that during this time, you still have to do something to show your sincerity!" Li Kuan said that he was a little aggressive, but it was also because he felt that it was necessary to give them a head when they were just subdued, otherwise how would they restrain them in the future?

"I don't know what His Highness wants the people to do?" Xingxian's body trembled slightly, the young man in front of her didn't seem to be as easy to convince as she imagined, or much stronger than she imagined. The result of her previous analysis was that this second prince was a affectionate and soft-hearted person, as long as he begged softly, coupled with his daughter's commitment to being a slave, he would definitely be able to get his protection. But now it seems that her purpose and plan have completely failed.

"This king hopes that within three months, you will spread the current situation of the Yin and Yang family to the ears of those secret schools and let them move. How can the king find them if they don't move? Only by finding these remnants of the sons can we make the next step! Li Kuan said indifferently, he is not a person who is good at planning. I can't find the slightest thread from the messy clues, and find the truth of the matter by peeling back the cocoon. So he could only lure the snake out of the hole. And the Yin and Yang family is the bait he throws out, as long as the target moves. Then he will be able to find them.

"Your Highness, you are asking for the life of the people's daughter!" Xingxian was a little desolate, but she didn't expect Li Kuan to let her be a bait to catch the big fish of the inheritor of the hundred schools of Zhuzi. As bait, it will definitely not end well, and he will be abandoned by the person who has served him, and he will be regarded as a rebel by his former partners. It's a two-sided trick, if it does. Then in this world, except for Li Kuan, there is no place for the Yin and Yang family here. And as she has a history of betrayal, she will definitely not be able to get all the trust of Li Kuan, and there will always be a layer of estrangement in the heart of the new master. Even if he gave away his daughter who was raised with hard work, he gambled on the inheritance passed down from his ancestors.

"Why, as long as you do it, this king will naturally guarantee your safety. Moreover. After these people are exterminated, what they have on them will be rewarded to you as trophies! Li Kuan made a promise. He may have had some interest in the so-called mysterious object, but not to the point where he had to get it, so he made such a promise.

Sure enough, as soon as he heard this promise, Xingxian's plump body was also shocked, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes, but he disappeared all of a sudden. Ying Ying bowed: "Since His Highness has decided." The folk girl can only do it, I just hope that Your Highness will not forget your promise! ”

"How could you forget? Say yes and let you pick first. Then you will definitely be allowed to choose first, which this king can still guarantee. Li Kuan still said calmly.

"Then, the folk girl will retire!" Xingxian put on a cloak and hat, and the snow-white cloak covered her pretty face and wrapped her delicate body. Bowed back, then turned to leave, the white cloak gradually blended into the snow in the distance, as if it was invisible, and then heard the sound of the courtyard door opening and closing in the distance, listening to the sound of this sound, the cheeks of the pity star standing beside Li Kuan were stained by the salty liquid, and then fell to the ground and shattered.

"Why, don't you want to be the king's maid? But it's too late! Li Kuan looked at the tear-stained Pixing with a burst of displeasure on his face.

"No, it's just that Lianxing is worried about her mother!" Lianxing hurriedly stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on his cheeks.

"Don't say it, the name of the star is not good, don't call it in the future!" Li Kuan didn't want to say more, Li Kuan didn't have much affection for this maid who came upside down, just like so many palace ladies in the palace, so he wouldn't know it carefully, at most, he didn't bully them like other princes, just be nice to them.

"No, this name was given to Lianxing by my mother, and it can't be changed!" The sixteen-year-old girl, with her pretty face stained with tears, raised her pretty face with tears on her face, and swore firmly to keep her name.

"What a pity star! Really, there is no connotation when you hear it, the stars are far away in the sky, and they last forever, how can they need the mercy of the world? It's completely innocent moaning, I really don't know how that woman could come up with such a name! Li Kuan complained that he didn't like this name at all, because this name reminded him of Gu Long's "Peerless Double Pride", in which the second palace master of the Shifting Flower Palace was called Pian Xing, an infatuated but pitiful and pathetic woman. At the beginning, because he read this novel in class, his mother was called to school, which became an indelible plot in Li Kuan's heart, and he will never forget it, the expression of hatred on his mother's face at that time, as well as the sadness and helplessness in his eyes in the face of the teacher's accusation. Since then, Li Kuan has hated the name, as well as the book, and of course, what he hates the most is his ignorance. Of course, this kind of hatred is only for this book, and Li Kuan didn't knock over other fiction books, but he only read them during the holidays.

After that incident, he knelt in front of his mother, watching the person who loved him the most silently weeping, and he never wanted to think about it again, even if it was now a thousand years later, he still had a grudge in his heart. I hadn't seen this woman before, and the owner of this name hadn't offended him, so it was hard to say it, but now that I took the initiative to send it to the door, how could I not seize the opportunity.

"No matter how hard you are, as long as you follow this king, you can't be called a mercy star, you know?" Li Kuan ignored the little girl's petty nature and turned to leave.

"It's not called Mercy Star, what's it called?" A weak voice came from behind him.

"It's called Red Sleeves!" Li Kuan didn't think about it, so he blurted out. This is because when I think of the novel I hate, I think of the master's most famous work "Chu Liuxiang" When I think of Chu Liuxiang, I think of Chu Liuxiang's two maids, one is called Red Sleeves and the other is called Tianxiang. And beside him, there is already a little maid named Tianxiang, so let's have another red sleeve.

"Red Sleeves? It's not good at all! The little girl muttered behind her, although she was handed over to Li Kuan as a maid by Xingxian, whose adoptive mother was also a master, but she did not admit that she was Li Kuan's maid in her heart. So I have a lot of resentment about the name Li Kuan gave her. But because I have a request for others now, I can only mumble a few words to myself, and I dare not say it out loud. (To be continued......)