Xu Xian's face turned pale all of a sudden, and an infinite sense of terror burst out.

His legs were weak, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up, so he could only rely on his arms and move backwards in a panic.

Shi Wei carried a steel knife in his hand and forced forward step by step.

Behind him was a cold wall, and there was no way to retreat.

"Shi Wei, if you can spare my life, I promise that I will keep to myself in the future and will never do anything stupid again, you can forgive me."

When it came to life and death, Xu Xian could no longer care about any face, and begged Shi Wei for mercy with a servile face.

The former Shoufu of the Southern Tang Dynasty has been fighting with him for so many years, and now he is finally willing to lower his so-called noble head.

Shi Wei's heart was full of joy.

The knife in his hand became tighter and tighter.

"Xu Xian, you have repeatedly challenged my patience, I can keep you until now It is very kind, go with peace of mind, go and reunite with your precious son."

"Wait, Lord Shi, I-"

Shi Wei didn't want to listen to his defense anymore, his hand rose and fell, and Xu Xian snorted, and he became a dead corpse.

Shi Wei endured the knife to the ground, and when he turned around, everyone, including Yang Yanqi, was shocked, and they all looked sideways, not daring to look at Shi Wei.

Yang Yanqi was stunned for a while, before he came to his senses, waved his hand and shouted: "Why don't you take the body away quickly, dispose of it well, don't leave any traces of spiders." ”

Only then did the subordinates on the left and right react, and they hurriedly rushed forward and carried the bloody corpse out.

Yang Yanqi glanced again, and the rest of the people also retreated, and only the two of them were left in the ruined temple of Nuoda.

Yang Yanqi looked at the blood stains on the ground and sighed: "I didn't expect you to have the courage to kill, I thought you would be handed over to me to deal with." ”

"If it were someone else, I might not want to do it yet, but this Xu Xian has too much grudge against me, and I have to take action myself to resolve the hatred in my heart." Shi Wei said as he wiped the blood on his hands.

Then Shi Wei asked Yang Yanqi how he caught Xu Xian.

Yang Yanqi said that since that night, she sent people to keep an eye on Xu's house, and the day after she found out about the assassination, Xu Xian went out of the back door and went out of the city in a very low-key manner.

According to the clues provided by Shi Wei, Xu Xian will not leave Beijing for Huainan until at least half a month later, but now he is sneakily leaving Beijing early, obviously with a ghost in mind.

So Yang Yanqi brought a few powerful cronies and generals to ambush on the road south from Beijing, pretending to be bandits to tie Xu Xian to the ruined temple that had been agreed in advance.

After hearing Yang Yanqi's description, Shi Wei said with a smile: "You are still so neat and tidy in kidnapping tickets, and you deserve to have rich experience." ”

Shi Wei's implication was obviously hinting at her kidnapping herself.

Yang Yanqi glanced at him, "Then believe it or not, I will kidnap you now, imprison you in my hands, and imprison you for a year and a half, so that you can also enjoy the treatment I received back then." ”

Shi Wei immediately looked serious and nodded: "That's good, I can't ask for it, when the time comes, I will definitely do my best every night to make up for your mistake of Miss Slackening back then." ”

His sentence "Do your best every night" deliberately aggravated the tone, obviously with evil intentions, but it was matched with a serious expression, which made Yang Yanqi laugh when he heard the "poof".

The aftertaste of murder has not yet passed, but Yang Yanqi's delicate smile has aroused the evil thoughts in Shi Wei's heart.

While she was hiding her face and smiling, Shi Wei pulled her into his arms, and his mouth wandered restlessly between her face and neck.

Yang Yanqi snorted a few times, endured the itchy pleasure, and reluctantly pushed him away.

"There are my brothers outside the door, can you rest easy?" Yang Yanqi glanced outside the door, for fear of being seen by his subordinates.

Shi Wei glanced at the blood stains on the ground, this kind of place is indeed not a place for dancing and making the moon, so he put away the bad thoughts in his heart.

Xu Xian is also an official of the imperial court in the end, in order to avoid extraneous branches, after disposing of the corpse, Shi Wei and Yang Yanqi parted ways, and each went back to Luoyang City in different directions.

The day after returning to Luoyang City, Shi Wei received an invitation from the second prince, inviting him to go to the palace to attend a literary meeting.

Soon after Zhao Guangyi was renamed the king of Qin, Dezhao was promoted from the king of Wugong County to the king of Zhao, and at the same time served as the governor of Henan.

After this promotion, Dezhao held a lot of real power in his hands, especially the Henan Mansion Yin under his rule, because he was the official ruler of Luoyang, so his position was extremely heavy.

Since his promotion, Dezhao has been tired of official business, and he rarely has any leisure to hold any literary meetings, Shi Wei has roughly calculated, and it has been more than three months since the last meeting with friends.

The literary meeting began in the afternoon, and in the afternoon, all the guests wrote poems and lyrics, showing their talents.

Shi Wei's words are brilliant, and this is what has been circulated among the literati in Luoyang City for a long time, and this time he is here, so he naturally wants to be praised by everyone on the stage to dedicate a poem.

Shi Wei had no choice, so naturally he had to "plagiarize" a famous poem from later generations and win a full audience.

After the poetry competition, the literary meeting entered the free exchange session as usual, and all the literati gathered in twos and threes to discuss poems and exchange experiences with each other.

Dezhao summoned Shi Wei into the stone pavilion in the garden, where you can see the figures of all the literary friends, and there is a relatively certain distance, which is the place to speak.

"Yuanzhi, I haven't seen you for a while, what have you been busy with lately?" Dezhao asked with a smile.

Shi Wei vaguely heard a few different tastes from his tone, and then looked at Dezhao's expression, which was also a little different.

Shi Wei instinctively sensed that Dezhao's question was something in his words.

His mind raced, and he immediately sighed.

Dezhao said: "What are you sighing for, isn't there something worrying about you recently?" ”

Shi Wei did not hide it, and truthfully told Dezhao how Empress Song told her to be a matchmaker, as well as what means she used.

Dezhao's expression was not the slightest strange, obviously he had heard the relevant rumors.

Shi Wei thought that he was really guessing right, Dezhao called himself here, he must have wanted to ask about it, fortunately he was honest, otherwise it would have made Dezhao misunderstand.

Dezhao listened to his complaints, but said with a smile: "This king Nazelan's cousin is very virtuous, and the queen mother said to you, Yuanzhi, you should be happy, why are you still sighing like this." ”

Although Queen Song is not Dezhao's biological mother, she is the queen and her status forms her own mother, in terms of relationship, Song Zelan and him are indeed cousins.

However, his half-joking words clearly meant to be tentative.

Shi Wei's heart was clearly tight, and he immediately got up and arched his hand: "I, Shi Weimeng, have known the grace of His Royal Highness, and I have already made up my mind to be loyal to His Royal Highness for the rest of my life. ”

He expressed his attitude in a timely manner, and his tone was very generous and sincere.

A hint of relief flashed on Zhao Dezhao's face, and he waved his hand and said with a smile: "Yuanzhi, your loyalty to this king, how can this king not know, this king is just talking casually, why don't you be so serious." ”

Dezhao's words naturally showed his trust in Shi Wei.

Shi Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Dezhao for his trust.

The atmosphere in the pavilion soon returned to relaxation.

Dezhao personally poured Shi Wei a glass of wine, "But Yuanzhi, you are also interesting, how many princesses and nobles' daughters want to marry you, but you turn a blind eye, but you are engaged to such a little girl, and this king was very curious when he heard it." ”

Zhao Dezhao's words seemed casual, but they inadvertently revealed that he knew Shi Wei's situation quite well, and it seemed that he must have paid attention to it in private.

Shi Wei didn't dare to hide it, so he told him what happened on Taihang Mountain, but of course, the paragraph about Yang Yanqi was automatically omitted by him.

Zhao Dezhao also sighed after hearing this: "It turns out that you also have a hard time in Yuanzhi, no wonder you haven't married all these years." However, this king heard that the person named Mu Yu has also made a lot of contributions to the country in recent years, and not long ago he was promoted to the commander of the forbidden army and was transferred to Luoyang, I don't know if there is such a thing? ”、

"Even Mu Yu's recent situation has been inquired clearly, it seems that Dezhao is becoming more and more sophisticated, and when he gets along with him in the future, he can no longer be as casual as before, and he needs to be careful about everything......"

Shi Wei sighed in his heart, and admitted without hesitation.

Then he immediately said: "I really don't dare to hide it from Your Highness, Mu Yu's promotion was actually said behind the back by the Marquis of Shuncheng, and the purpose was to use the promotion as a lure in exchange for Mu Yu taking the initiative to divorce me." ”

"Then is this Mu Yu answered?" Dezhao took a sip of tea and asked lightly.

"That Mu Yu is also a person who renews his promise, and he rejected the kindness of the Marquis of Shuncheng in one bite." Shi Wei lost no time in facing Mu Yu in Dezhao.

Dezhao nodded: "This Mu Yu would rather offend the Song family than break the contract, it seems that although he has a bad background, he is also a respectable man of faith." ”

Shi Wei took advantage of the situation and said: "But Mu Yu offended the Marquis of Shuncheng, I am only afraid that it will affect the future of his army, so I ......"

Shi Wei wanted to ask Dezhao to protect Mu Yu, but he couldn't say it clearly.

Dezhao immediately understood, and immediately said: "A talent like Mu Yu is exactly what my Great Song Dynasty urgently needs, you can rest assured, this king will try his best to let him give full play to his talents, so that he can serve the country loyally." ”

Dezhao agreed to protect Mu Yu, and Shi Wei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Shi Wei raised his glass to thank Dezhao, and then asked, "Your Highness, I heard that Recently, Your Majesty plans to send someone to the Liao State to discuss with the Liao people about the return of Yanyun. ”

"You've got pretty good ears." Dezhao said with a smile.

And so it was.

Shi Wei lowered his voice and said: "Since Your Majesty has this intention, I have been to Liao twice and have experience in this area, so I don't know if His Royal Highness can fight for me for the envoy this time." ”

"You want to send an envoy to Liao?" Dezhao looked a little surprised, "You were taken captive by the Liao people to Yanjing a while ago, haven't you had enough of this suffering, you still want to go to the Liao country again." ”

In Shi Wei's mind, he couldn't help but recall a few thrilling moments with Xiao Xuan**

(To be continued)