Chapter 25: The Approaching King of Yan (2)
On the fourth day after the incident, Li Xian belatedly felt that the Great Prison Temple was heavily imprisoned, and took out the four royal family members including Li Bo, the son of the king of Qiuyang, who committed the crime that day.
After a few days in prison, Li Shao, the prince of Hengyang, Li Jiong, the prince of Liyang, and Li Chi, the prince of Ruyang, seemed to be much more restrained than before.
But what exactly they were thinking in their hearts was unknown, and the hatred they looked back in the direction of the Great Prison Temple before leaving was enough to prove the resentment in their hearts.
In this regard, whether it is Xie An, the secretary of the Criminal Department, or Gou Gong, the Shaoqing of the Great Prison Temple, and Di Bu, the warden of the heavy prison, all expressed their disdain, after all, in their opinion, once they forced back the northern overlord who was about to come to Jijing, the fourth son of the emperor [King Yan] Li Mao, the role of these four royal princes would end here.
How to appease the four royal sons who suffered a lot in the Great Prison Temple, that is the matter of [Eight Sages King] Li Xian, compared to this matter, Xie An is more concerned about the attitude of Su Wan, the daughter-in-law of the Lu family.
As Xie An guessed at that time, since that day, Su Wan has deliberately kept a certain distance from Xie An, which makes Xie An sigh secretly.
Speaking of which, the eldest grandson Xiangyu once proposed to let Xie An invite Su Wan to the house as a guest, this woman's idea is not difficult to guess, it is nothing more than to take advantage of this to probe Su Wan's tone, but unfortunately, Su Wan refused the person sent by Xie An under the pretext of being unwell.
Putting aside this matter, which made Xie An feel a little regretful, Ji Jing seemed quite calm, and in comparison, it was not as lively as Xie An's house.
It turns out that it is not good to marry two wives who are proficient in martial arts, no, it is not long before moving into this mansion presented to Xie An by Li Cheng, the fifth son of the emperor. The backyard of the North Wing, which should have been called a garden, had long since become unrecognizable, and there were sword marks left by Liang Qiu Dance and Jin Ling'er everywhere, which made Xie An feel quite heartbroken.
Large areas of flowers and plants withered because they were trampled, and rockeries were shattered, you know, it was all silver.
This made Xie An couldn't help but maliciously speculate if Li Cheng, the fifth son of the emperor, learned about it. Will he regret giving this mansion to him Xie An.
But after thinking about it carefully, Xie An secretly shook his head.
Also, it seems that Li Cheng, the fifth son of the emperor who was born with a golden key, how can he care about such a trivial matter?
"Wu'er, Sister Kim. Even if you learn martial arts, why bother with knives and guns? It's not good to hurt anyone, what do you say? β
During the lunch meal, Xie An once again persuaded him, after all, in his opinion, when Liang Qiuwu and Jin Ling'er were fighting, it was called a danger. Every time Xie An, who was watching from the sidelines, was frightened, for fear that any of them would be injured because of this.
Of course, this is only the opinion of a layman like him, and in the eyes of Liang Qiu Dance and Jin Ling'er. It's just a competition.
At least, Liang Qiu Wu didn't use the [Wolf Slash] treasure knife that was enough to destroy the golden broken stone, nor did he use the [Fog Flame] that Liang Qiu's family kept secret, and Jin Ling'er. It's just two ordinary daggers.
"Husband, rest assured, the concubine has her own sense of proportion...... Not. In the future, the concubine's body will only use seven points of strength......"
When she said this, Liang Qiu Wu actually had no malicious intent, although she was very annoyed that Xie An recruited bees and butterflies in the past, but in the past few days, she has gradually accepted Jin Ling'er, after all, before this, almost no one in the entire Jijing can act as her opponent when practicing martial arts, although there is her grandfather Liang Qiu Gong, but you must know that Liang Qiu Gong is over sixty years old, although his body is still strong, but after all, it is not as good as thirty years ago when he was called the heyday of the first fierce general of the Great Zhou, and Liang Qiu Wu, she is the same age as Xie An This year is nineteen years old, His physical fitness is in a period of rapid growth, and if he hurts his grandfather, I'm afraid Liang Qiu Wu will not forgive himself in his life.
After all, Liangqiu Dance is not as good as Chen Bei, although Chen Bei's force value is amazing and he has rich experience in actual combat, but his foundation is so solid, and there is no so-called move routine at all.
Moves, this thing, just like eating with chopsticks, although each has its own habits, but in summary, it is nothing more than just a few ways, if you grasp two chopsticks in the palm of your hand, it is strange to be able to hold something in the dungeon.
Because of this, Liang Qiu Gong was able to use the same strength on the premise of beating his grandson Chen Bei all over the ground to find teeth, the reason is that Chen Bei has never experienced formal martial arts teaching, but Liang Qiu Dance is different, she has been practicing martial arts with Liang Qiu Gong since she was a child, and what she learned is an orthodox and standardized martial arts routine, even if she uses the same strength, Liang Qiu Gong is difficult to defeat his granddaughter.
Liang Qiu Dance was previously known as the first combat force in Jijing, and it was not without reason.
Just like what the eldest grandson Xiangyu said to Xie An at the beginning, this sentence is also applicable to Liangqiu Dance.
It's good to stand high, but the problem is that if you're the only one standing on a high place, it's a little lonely, since the martial arts surpassed Liang Qiu Gong, Liang Qiu Wu can only practice martial arts alone against the wooden stakes that can't move, you can imagine how dull it is.
And now, there is such a martial arts master in the same generation as Jin Ling'er in the family, aside from the emotional aspect, Liangqiu Dance is still quite happy, after all, Jin Ling'er is the only woman in Jijing who can tell her to deal with it like a great enemy, and even, in terms of agility and speed of moves, Jin Ling'er is far better than her.
All in all, this is the only thing that Liang Qiu Wu does not feel disgusted with her husband Xie An's marriage to Jin Ling'er.
It's a pity that Liang Qiuwu, who was secretly called a stupid woman by Xie An, really couldn't speak, and often inadvertently offended Jin Ling'er.
"In that case, Yu will use six points of strength!" Although he said to Xie An with a smile, Jin Ling'er's displeased eyes deliberately glanced at Liang Qiuwu.
Liang Qiuwu frowned, although her brain was not very active, but she couldn't even see this obvious provocation, and said in a deep voice, "Then the concubine will ......use five points of strength."
"Then the rest will be ...... four points"
"Three points!"
"Two points!"
"One point!"
"Half a point!"
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After staring at each other for a long time, Liang Qiuwu and Jin Ling'er suddenly slapped the case together, glaring at each other angrily.
Two stupid women......
Xie An covered his forehead and sighed secretly.
Next to her, Yi Yi hid her red lips and chuckled. Gently persuaded, "Miss, Sister Ling'er, the food is cold, let's eat first...... "As she spoke, she took a bowl of rice and handed it to Xie An.
Looking at Yiyi's well-behaved appearance, Xie Anxin was overwhelmed with emotion.
This is, what a good daughter-in-law......
"It's still Yiyi's good ......" Taking advantage of the opportunity to take over the job, Xie An smiled and touched Yiyi's little hand. Shamefully, Yiyi immediately lowered her head.
Perhaps awakened by Xie An's words, Liang Qiuwu and Jin Ling'er and the two daughters immediately lifted the-for-tat confrontation, sat down, kept silent, and thought about it. They didn't want to be taken down by Ibi.
"What about Xiangyu?" Looking at the empty seats at the dinner table, Xie An asked in wonder.
Yi Yi listened and explained, "Concubine Fang Cai has already called Sister Xiangyu, Sister Xiangyu woke up, but she didn't get up, and her complexion didn't look very good......
That crazy woman is anemic. It's no wonder that you look better when you wake up!
Xie An was muttering to himself here, and over there, the eldest grandson Xiangyu gently held his forehead and slowly walked over from the inner room. After sitting down at the table, he glanced at the food on the table, and his face showed a look of disgust, not knowing. I thought the food was terrible.
Seeing this, Yi Yi stood up. A casserole with a lid came from the wall cabinet next to him, and said softly, "Sister Yiyi, this is the ...... you want."
The lid opened, Xie An glanced at it, and realized that it was a bowl of egg custard that was kept warm in the casserole.
Nodding, the eldest grandson Xiangyu pointed to the fresh fish soup on the table, and said weakly, "Yiyi, serve a bowl of ...... for my sister."
"Hmm!" Yi Yi answered, took a small bowl, served a small bowl of fish soup for the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and then served a small half bowl of rice for her, in Xie An's opinion, it was just a few bites, but despite this, the eldest grandson Xiangyu still had a lot left, which made Jin Ling'er raise her eyebrows and feel a little unhappy.
Think about it, Jin Ling'er, who was not from a good background, cherished edible food very much because of her childhood experience, and naturally she couldn't get used to the extravagant and wasteful attitude of the rich children, since she entered the door, the amount of food in Xie An's house was a lot finer, and the people in the kitchen didn't want to be reprimanded by the third lady.
"Still feeling sick?" Xie An cautiously asked the eldest grandson Xiangyu, after all, at this time period, this woman's temper is not very good.
"Hmm," after taking a sip of fish soup, the eldest grandson Xiangyu wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, frowned slightly, and said softly, "I always feel weak, nauseous, dizzy, not in the way, old problem......"
Seeing that the eldest grandson Xiangyu's tone was normal, Xie An secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to speak, but he heard Yiyi next to him say with a surprised face, "Sister Xiangyu can't be pregnant, right?" β
In an instant, the atmosphere in the room froze a lot, including Xie An, everyone's expressions were a little strange, especially Liang Qiuwu, who was even more nervous, looking at the eldest grandson Xiangyu dumbfounded.
"Pregnant?" The eldest grandson Xiangyu was stunned, then glanced at Liang Qiuwu meaningfully, and chuckled, "Oh, that slave family has to raise it first......
Liang Qiuwu opened his mouth, and stopped talking.
"Still laughing!" Gently knocking on the door of Changsun Xiangyu's head, Xie An said angrily, "With your body and bones, one bad is one corpse and two lives!" As he spoke, he turned to Jin Ling'er and said, "Doesn't Sister Jin know medical skills?" β
Jin Ling'er understood, got up and walked to the side of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, grabbed the vein of her right wrist, squinted her eyes slightly, and carefully probed her pulse.
It is convenient to have a wife who is proficient in medicine at home......
Secretly sighed, Xie An asked a little nervously, "How is it, Sister Jin?" β
To be honest, Xie Anxin was really a little nervous.
It's not that he favors one over the other, but in fact, Xie An really doesn't want the eldest grandson Xiangyu to be pregnant, the reason is that this woman's health is too poor, one is not good, that is, one corpse and two lives, therefore, Xie An has always been very concerned about having sex with the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and also, how can he be willing to take this risk from this pampered wife?
Hearing her husband's question, Jin Ling'er shook her head, frowned and said, "The pulse is too weak, and Yu can't detect it, but it's ......."
"But?" Xie An felt his heart lifted.
"I can't see if I'm pregnant, but it's true that my blood is out of balance, and I'll make a prescription later. Tell someone to go to the city pharmacy to grab some medicine to ......"
"That bitter and astringent medicine?" The eldest grandson Xiangyu showed a look of disgust, thinking about it, how can she, who has always liked sweets, resist the bitterness of the medicinal juice.
"Good medicine is bitter," glancing at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Jin Ling'er said with a straight face, "If you are really pregnant, with your current body, you should know what Yu wants to say......"
"......" seemed to hear the meaning of Jin Ling'er's words. The eldest grandson, Xiangyu, glanced at Xie An and nodded slightly.
Thinking about it, she also knows that with her current physical condition, even if she is pregnant, Xie An will ask Jin Ling'er to boil medicine to let her have an abortion. After all, this is no longer a question of cruelty or not, but about the life of the eldest grandson Xiangyu.
"Kid...... Is it? Under Xie An's stunned gaze, the eldest grandson Xiangyu uncharacteristically picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and swallowed it despite his disgusting face.
So suddenly the atmosphere in the room feels a little frozen?
Xie An subconsciously looked around, and he found. The expressions of the four daughters were a little different from usual, and they secretly looked at him from time to time, Liang Qiuwu and the eldest grandson Xiangyu and Jin Ling'er didn't need to say much, and even Yiyi showed a look of eagerness to try. made Xie An cry and laugh.
And at this moment, Liang Qiuwu and Jin Ling'er seemed to notice something, and looked up at Fang Liang.
While Xie An was sighing secretly, a black-clothed assassin suddenly jumped down from the beam. Knock on one knee and clench your fists. "Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen......
Glancing at the chest of the visitor, seeing the small characters embroidered on it with the words [Nanzhen Fusi Six Doors], Jin Ling'er frowned, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "Didn't you see that you were eating?" β
may be because the deployment of the six doors of Nanzhen Fusi is his original Jinling brothers, so Jin Ling'er is very polite in her words, as if she is still the eldest sister of the assassin of Jinling Dangerous Tower.
"Big sister...... Ah no, reply to the third lady, it's not that the villain is deliberately disturbing, it's just that there is something important to tell......" As he spoke, the man turned his head to look at Xie An.
And Jin Ling'er also seemed to notice this small move, and pouted with some taste, thinking that she was also a little unwilling, the brothers under her hands were now reused by her husband Xie An, but she, the eldest sister of the former Jinling people, could only stay at home, obediently being the daughter-in-law of the Xie family, and her martial arts were useless except for learning martial arts with a hateful woman known as [Yan Hu Ji].
Thinking of this, Jin Ling'er couldn't help but glance at her husband Xie An with a rather resentful gaze.
Seeing this, Xie Anxin was stunned, deliberately pretending not to see it, coughed, looked at the assassin and asked, "What's the matter?" β
"Lord Qiyu, thirty miles north of the capital division, I found a cavalry trail......"
"North of Jijing?" Xie An raised his eyebrows, and his expression became a little solemn.
Come to think of it, there is only one cavalry that appears in the north of Jijing......
The fourth son of the emperor [King Yan] Li Mao's northern Xinjiang soldiers and horses!
"Are you here?" Wiping the oil stains on the side of his mouth with a handkerchief, the eldest grandson Xiangyu showed a little surprise in his eyes, and said in surprise, "It's so fast, it's three days earlier than the concubine expected...... It is worthy of Li Mao! As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Liang Qiu Wu, and giggled meaningfully, "The show has begun!" β
Glancing at the playful smile of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Liang Qiuwu's face turned cold, and then he frowned and ate silently.
"Four Highnesses......
ββAt the same time, Chaoyang Street, Prime Minister Li Xian's mansionββ
"Your Highness, there is a cavalry trail in the north of the city, and the number is ...... More than 10,000 rides! β
"......" Li Xian, who was eating in his own house, stared at the words, slowly put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and muttered, "It is worthy of being a protΓ©gΓ© of Liangqiu Gongjiao, and he pursues the speed of soldiers, and he came so fast that it was ...... three days in the morning than the king expected."
"What is Your Highness going to do?" Ji Hong, the official who came to Li Xian's mansion to eat, frowned and asked.
Squinting his eyes and thinking carefully, Li Xian slowly stood up and said, "No matter what the purpose of the fourth child is here, I Jijing can't lose my courtesy, Ji Hong, you and I will enter the palace immediately, called Li Shou...... No, please Your Majesty immediately summon a hundred officials to meet the fourth child at Deshengmen...... The more thoughtful the etiquette on my side, the more I will be able to win the support of the world......"
"Yes!"
About an hour later, Li Shou's court urgently sent a duke, called the officials of various ministries and departments, temporarily put aside the government affairs at hand, and went to Desheng Gate to meet the imminent arrival of the fourth son of the emperor, Yan Wang Li Mao, you must know that Desheng Gate is the closest gate to the palace, and it is never easy to open, but now it is opened for Li Mao, and Li Xian has given Li Mao enough face.
Half an hour later, the Desheng Gate, which was usually closed and no one passed, is now overcrowded, headed by Li Shou, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Manchu Dynasty are all standing here, waiting for [Yan Wang] Li Mao.
I don't know how long it took, and I don't know who shouted, and in the distant wilderness, a burst of dust gradually rose up, and in that dust, a cavalry that seemed to be quite fierce and majestic slowly entered everyone's sight.
"Actually driving towards Jijing?" One step behind Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, Li Xian frowned, you must know that Jijing is the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, no matter where the soldiers and horses are, when they are close to Jijing, they must slow down the march, otherwise they will be punished for rebellion, but this cavalry actually charged directly towards Jijing.
"Cheng ...... The Prime Minister ...... "Some officials in the Manchu Dynasty have been a little panicked, after all, the cavalry is close at hand, and even the face of Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, can't help but show a little surprise.
Seeing this, Li Xian shouted loudly, "It's all about standing firm!" β
When the courtiers heard this, they looked at each other and stood in the open space outside the city with a look of trepidation, watching the cavalry get closer and closer to them.
Finally, the cavalry came to a position only twenty or thirty zhang away from Li Shou, Li Xian and the hundred officials, but when they saw an order in their army, the cavalry all over the mountains and fields reined in the reins of their horses, and they actually restrained the momentum of the charge with all their brushes, and the horses' hooves trampled heavily on the spot, like thunder, and many of the hundred officials were so frightened that their legs weakened and they fell to the ground.
"Hahaha, hahahahaha......" In the cavalry army, there was a burst of laughter, not so much arrogant and arrogant, but rather domineering not to take everything in the world into account.
After laughing, six cavalrymen slowly rode out of the army and paused in front of Li Shou and Li Xian.
The first person looked at the current son and the current prime minister of the DPRK and China condescendingly, without the slightest intention of getting off the horse, the horsewhip in his hand put on Li Shou's shoulder, and said coldly, "Hey, who are you?" Dare to wear the robe of the Son of Heaven......"
For a while, the atmosphere around him froze, and Man Chaowu looked at the rebellious guy in amazement.