The moonlight was very good that night, Yan Susu asked Xu Qing to enjoy the beautiful scenery on both sides of the canal, the lights on both sides of the river were all in full bloom, the lights were brilliant, the flat boats and painting boats were cruising on the canal, and the laughter of tourists, the sound of silk and bamboo and the singing of courtesans came into the ears from time to time. Xu Qing and Yan Susu each operated an oar, slowly rowing a small wooden boat while enjoying the bustling night scene.

Suddenly, Xu Qing heard a familiar voice, and when he heard it carefully, it was Mei Kaifang arguing with a man. Xu Qing said to Yan Susu: "I'll miss you." "Throw the oar into the river, jump, point the oar with the left foot, kick the oar with the right foot, the oar flies forward, and at the same time leaps forward, and then clicks and kicks the oar, and so on, across a hundred steps, quietly boarded the boat where Mei Kaifang was, and clicked on the acupoint of the two men who operated the boat. Although the two boats wanted to scream when they found something abnormal, Xu Qing's movements were too fast, and their screams were pointed out before they had time to make them. Xu Qing's movements were extremely slight, and Mei Kaifang and the man in the cabin were unaware.

Xu Qing approached the cabin and listened intently. I only heard the man say: "You said that you and he are just acting, how can you guarantee that you will not fake the show?" Xu Qing heard that the man in the cabin was Li Shusheng. Mei Kaifang replied: "We've known each other for so long, don't you still believe me?" I said I just wanted to use him to destroy the Fang Gang, and I would kick him away when it was done, you have to believe me. ”

Xu Qing's heart tingled, and when he flew back to the small wooden boat without a sound, his face was like ashes, and he said to Yan Susu in a deep voice: "Let's go back." ”

Yan Susu asked in surprise: "What happened, your face is so ugly?" ”

"Don't ask so much, if you can't go, if you don't go, I'll go." Xu Qing didn't have a good airway.

Yan Susu didn't dare to ask.

On the third day of the seventh lunar month, Mei Congyun's 70th birthday, Meifu put up lanterns, set up a theater, invited Fan Yang's most famous troupe, and invited Fan Yang's popular courtesan, Yan Susu, a dance and music teacher in Yanwangfu, to perform a show. The dignitaries and celebrities who came to congratulate Old Man Mei on his birthday were well-dressed, and the noble ladies and ladies were dressed up in fancy clothes, secretly more energetic, and regarded attending the banquet as a good opportunity to show their beauty. It can really be described as a collection of crowns and covers, and the clothes are fragrant and sideburns. Of course, the number of Fan Yang's martial arts colleagues and business friends who came to congratulate Old Man Mei on his birthday was more than that of officialdom.

Mei Lanwei is the concubine of King Yan, and it is inconvenient to show up in public occasions where people in the rivers and lakes gather, although she is Mei Congyun's biological daughter, and she is close by, she did not come to celebrate her father's birthday, and only asked her daughter to bring a congratulatory gift. "Closed Moon County Lord" Li Mingyue and Mei Kaifang and Mei Rui, the daughter of Mei Kaifang's second uncle Mei Zhi, got together, dwarfing dozens of beauties in the audience.

Xu Qing came a little later, and the audience immediately paid attention. Mei Kaifang hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Xu Qing to introduce Mei Rui to him. Xu Qing just nodded slightly, his expression was indifferent, and after Mei Kaifang finished introducing him, he went to the man pile to find an acquaintance. After Xu Qing walked away, Li Mingyue whispered, "Cousin, it seems that something is not quite right with your sweetheart. ”

Mei Kaifang didn't understand why Xu Qing was so cold to herself, and said vaguely: "It seems that something is not quite right, I will ask him later." ”

The birthday banquet ended in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, followed by an opera program. The final finale was a music and dance performance by Yan So-so.

After Yan Susu finished the show, he went off the stage to find Xu Qing and whispered to Xu Qing, looking intimate, as if declaring war on Mei Kaifang.

It wasn't until late at night that the guests dispersed, and Yan Susu also returned to the elite martial arts hall with Li Dacheng. Mei Congyun called Xu Qing to the small hall and said to Xu Qing in private: "You seem to know a lot of girls?" ”

"It's not much, only six in Youzhou." Xu Qing replied lightly.

Mei Congyun groaned slightly and said, "What do you think of my eldest granddaughter?" ”

Xu Qing replied: "Miss Mei is very beautiful, she is very good, not only her appearance is outstanding, but her mind is also beyond the reach of ordinary girls. ”

Mei Congyun couldn't hear the ridicule in Xu Qing's words, and said, "If you want, I can marry Fang'er to you." ”

Xu Qing sneered in his heart, your Mei family used me to help you, why can't I use the Mei family to consolidate my power, and replied, "I am willing." But now that so many girls are pursuing me, I am tired of coping, and I hope to marry Miss Mei sooner. I sneered again in my heart, Mei Kaifang, you play with my feelings, don't blame me for being unjust to you, "Look at how you act in the future!" ”

Mei Congyun replied briskly: "This is no problem, I will marry Fang'er to you as soon as possible." "Thank you, senior." "You still call me senior." "Grandpa." Xu Qing felt unspeakable.

"Haha......" Mei Congyun got a good grandson-in-law and laughed happily. The names of Mei Kaifang and Xu Qing were thus decided.

Xu Qing and Mei Kaifang got engaged on an auspicious day. Although both men and women kept a low profile, the news quickly spread throughout Youzhou.

Yan Susu got the news of Xu Qing and Mei Kaifang's engagement, and the depression in her heart could not be relieved, so she played the guzheng and poured all her sorrow and sorrow into the thirteen strings. The charm of music is endless, Yan Susu is immersed in a person's world, and she doesn't even know that there is another person around her. Suddenly, a string broke in the guzheng, and a man's voice sounded behind him, "Imperial sister, your heart is too messy. ”

Yan Susu turned his head and said, "Brother Huang, you're here." ”

"Forget him, he doesn't belong to you, have you forgotten who you are? Forgot what kind of training you have? Forgot what you're here for? ”

"I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten. But I like him, we had a good time, taught me to forget him I can't do it. You haven't had true feelings for girls, and you can't experience this kind of taste. ”

"You are the best princess in Goguryeo, you have always been excellent, this time the task is for you to take the initiative to ask for help, but no one forced you. How can you complete our mission of recovering the country because you are so trapped by love? "Yan Susu's brother, whose real name is Gao Shi'an, is one of the few exiled princes of Goguryeo who was wiped out by the Tang Dynasty five years ago (668 AD), and his words are serious and authentic.

Gao Shi'an was engaged in anti-Tang activities in Goguryeo, and this time he infiltrated Tang Youzhou City as a medicinal herb merchant, the main purpose of which was to understand the deployment of Tang troops in Fanyang and Liaodong Province and the real name of his sister Yan Susu, and the progress of forming an intelligence network in Fanyang and Liaodong Province. Gao Gao'er was a princess of Goguryeo, not a princess of a big country in a peaceful and prosperous era, but a princess of a small country in the midst of ups and downs, did not live a peaceful and comfortable life, but received professional martial arts training and espionage training, served the country in the thirteen-year war between Goguryeo and the Tang Gaozong Dynasty, hated Goguryeo very much after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and engaged in anti-Tang activities with his brother Gao Shi'an after the fall of Goguryeo. Goguryeo intelligence officers learned that Mei Congyun was an undercover agent sent by Silla to the Tang Dynasty, and Yan Susu came to Fan Yang to find evidence that Mei Congyun and his descendants were Silla spies and combat the huge power of the Mei family. Silla served as a helper and client state of the Tang in the Tang war to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo, and after the war, he shared the fruits of victory and occupied a lot of Baekje and Goguryeo lands. Although Silla rapidly expanded its power after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje, its land and population increased rapidly, and it changed its national policy last year to support Baekje and Goguryeo people in anti-Tang activities, and took in the anti-Tang rebels who were suppressed by the Tang army and could not accommodate themselves in Baekje and Goguryeo, the hatred of the Silla brothers and sisters of Kose-an and the high-speed brothers and sisters remained unchanged.

After receiving the information that Mei Congyun was the prince of Silla, had been undercover in the Tang Dynasty for decades, and his power was intertwined, the Gao brothers and sisters thought that the opportunity to take revenge on the Silla people had come. Yan Susu clearly remembered that the Silla Army and the Tang Army joined forces to attack Goguryeo, which brought heavy casualties and crushing defeats to the Goguryeo Army, and some of the people fled their homes, and some were forcibly relocated to the interior of the Tang Dynasty by the Tang Dynasty.