The three of them arrived in the front hall, and the banquet was ready.

Ji Qingchen invited Gu Qi and Ye Qingchen to sit down, Gu Qi and Ye Qingchen bowed down and gave him the main seat, he knew that if he didn't sit, the two would not dare to sit down, so he sat down generously, and Gu Qi and Ye Qingchen took their seats.

The three of them had been hungry for an afternoon of chatting, and now in the face of a table of exquisite dishes, they naturally began to eat and drink unceremoniously.

After a while, when he was full of wine and food, Ye Qingchen exclaimed, "Your Highness, just now Zhao Xianglin and his son waited outside the pavilion and said that they wanted to ask you for guilt, and let Weichen convey it on their behalf, but this, we chatted in the study for an afternoon just now, I forgot about it just now, and now it's this hour, they have been waiting outside the pavilion for a long time, Your Highness, look, did you see their father and son?" ”

"Since my uncle said so—let's see it!" Ji Qingchen finished drinking a glass of wine, put the quilt on the table and said to Guo Lun, "You go out to have a look, if they still have it, let them come to the hall." ”

"No" Guo Lun was ordered to leave.

Suddenly, Zhao Xianglin trembled and followed Guo Lun into the hall step by step, and he was also followed by the singer Mingyan, who had just been sent back to the Taishou Mansion by Ye Qingchen last night, and Zhao Cheng, who was carried by four big men on a wooden couch, with a broken arm and leg.

Zhao Linxiang father and son waited at the door of the pavilion for three full hours, Zhao Cheng was a little more relaxed lying on the couch, but Zhao Linxiang stood at the door of the pavilion for a whole afternoon, and his back and legs were already sore, but anyway, now that he saw His Royal Highness the Nine, he couldn't care about the exhaustion of his whole body, he stepped forward briskly, and knelt down with a "plop" in the face of Ji Qingchen, and said, "Today in the drunken house, the dog Zhao Cheng has no eyes, offended and collided with His Highness, and asked His Highness to atone for his sins!" ”

Zhao Cheng had already been reprimanded by his father at home, and now seeing that his father had bowed his head and pleaded guilty, he didn't dare to lie on the wooden couch and pretend to be dead, so he could only hum and chirp and struggle to get up from the wooden couch, and said to Ji Qingchen, "Today in the Tiandrunken Residence, Zhao Cheng has no eyes, he doesn't know His Royal Highness's true face, he offended His Highness, and I ask His Highness to bypass Zhao Cheng once, Zhao Cheng will definitely change his life and be a good person in the future, and please ask His Highness to give Zhao Cheng a chance." ”

Ji Qingchen at the banquet sneered and didn't speak, just quietly stared at Zhao Cheng's father and son. Ye Qingchen and Gu Qi didn't speak, they just bowed their heads and drank.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little gloomy.

Now Ji Qingchen's smile seems to be more terrifying to Zhao Xianglin and Zhao Cheng's father and son, as if a sharp sword hanging over their heads!

Zhao Linxiang saw that His Royal Highness the Ninth ignored his plea for the crime of replacing his son, and his heart "gadeng", his face became a little pale, and he secretly thought to himself, could it be that His Royal Highness the Ninth really wanted to cure his son's sin? Although Zhao Xianglin doesn't know how much strength Ji Qingchen has now, as a prince, as long as Ji Qingchen says a word, even if he is the Taishou of Ningzhou City, it is easy to punish his son Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Xianglin has only two sons and one daughter, the eldest daughter has been married, the eldest son has already served in the Ministry of Rites for his fame, and the second son Zhao Cheng is left to be idle and bullying men and women all day long, which makes Zhao Xianglin quite a headache for Zhao Cheng, and because Zhao Cheng does not have a great future like the eldest son Zhao Fang, Zhao Xianglin usually loves Zhao Cheng more, even if Zhao Cheng bullies men and women, as long as he does not make trouble, Zhao Xianglin will not care.

I didn't expect to offend and annoy the Nine Emperor Princes now.

Zhao Xianglin's heart was very annoyed, he regretted that he hadn't told his son a few more words in the past few days? If he had restrained some of his son's stupid behavior, his son would not have made a fuss like he is now, so that the Nine Emperor Princes would be sent to the capital city where he left the country!

But now Zhao Xianglin is no matter how annoyed, he also knows that because of his unsuccessful son Zhao Cheng, the current Ninth Highness has a bargaining chip with himself in his hand, if he doesn't show some sincerity, His Royal Highness the Ninth will definitely not give up, so he can only grit his teeth, seems to have made a lot of determination, and continued to plead guilty to Ji Qingchen with a straight face, "Your Highness, the dog offended and collided with His Highness, and he should have been punished, but it is too far to go to the capital, and it is far away from Ningzhou City, I am afraid that his personality will not be ...... in a few days Therefore, the lower official also asked His Royal Highness to spare the dog once this time, and the lower official will definitely discipline him strictly in the future, and will not let him do evil again. As a father, the dog offended His Royal Highness, that is, the subordinate official was not strict in discipline, and the subordinate official was not strict as a father. ”

"Look at this-Zhao Taishou hurry up, please get up, you kneel, Qingchen doesn't dare to bear it!" Ji Qingchen saw that his goal had been achieved, so he immediately got up and walked quickly to Zhao Xianglin's side, helped the other party up, and said in a sincere tone, "Zhao Taishou, it's nothing that Zhao Cheng offended Qingchen, how could Qingchen pursue him for the following crimes because of his momentary recklessness?" It's just that it doesn't matter if young people make some mistakes, but you are the Taishou of Ningzhou City, you are the parent official of Dayan, what Zhao Cheng is doing now is completely because you are not strict with your son and conniving at him, so he is allowed to bully men and women and bully others, this crime is not light! However, Zhao Taishou has a close relationship with Qingchen, and he personally went to the pavilion to ask for guilt, with this sincerity, how could Qingchen not give Zhao Taishou face. So today's matter Qingchen doesn't want to pursue it anymore. However, in the future, Zhao Taishou will have to discipline him more, how can he no longer let him cause trouble everywhere! ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Zhao Xianglin was very grateful, "After the official goes back, he will definitely discipline the dog strictly, and he will not disappoint His Highness!" ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded with satisfaction, and he invited Zhao Xianglin to sit down and have a drink with him.

Zhao Xianglin's purpose in coming to the pavilion this time was to ask Ji Qingchen for his son Zhao Cheng, and now that the purpose has been achieved, he naturally does not dare to stay and drink anymore, for fear that his son's words and deeds will offend or make His Royal Highness Nine unhappy, so he immediately bowed to Ji Qingchen and said goodbye.

Ji Qingchen didn't keep it.

It's just that Zhao Xianglin left the cigarette to Ji Qingchen when he left, saying that since His Royal Highness Nine likes it, he will stay by his side. Ji Qingchen didn't want it, after all, he had just returned to China, and he was afraid that his mind would leave a bad impression on his father. But no matter how he refused, Zhao Xianglin just didn't want to take away the cigarettes, and asked him for guilt, saying that this was his own heart, if His Royal Highness the Ninth didn't accept it, he would have trouble sleeping!

Ji Qingchen was very helpless, so he could only leave Mingyan in the pavilion.

After Zhao Xianglin's father and son left, Gu Qi had already heard Mingyan's piano skills from Ye Qingchen's mouth, and wanted to play Mingyan with high interest.

Mingyan moved her gaze to Ji Qingchen when she heard Gu Qi's request, as if she was asking him for advice.

Ji Qingchen was a little embarrassed by Mingyan's demeanor, so he could only say angrily, "Mr. Gu asks you to play a song, you can play a song to cheer us up!"

Mingyan bowed her head to receive the order, and the sound of the piano exploded in the hall, this time she played "The Wind of Saibei", which is a famous song that expresses the scenery of Saibei, and this song makes the atmosphere of the banquet reach a climax as soon as she thinks of it.

With the music of tea and smoke to add to the feast, this meal was eaten late at night.

At this time, Ji Qingchen himself was also eight or nine points drunk, he saw that Gu Qi was already drunk, and Ye Qingchen was also eight points drunk, so he ordered Guo Lun to take the two back to the room to rest, and he himself returned to the room in a daze under the service of the maid, and when the maid left, as soon as he lay down, there was a strange fragrance wafting in front of him.

He felt that the fragrance was familiar, as if he had smelled it somewhere, but when he recalled it carefully, he could not remember where he had smelled it! At this moment, suddenly his body was agitated, because he felt a trace of murderous aura. Could it be that someone wants to assassinate himself? As soon as this thought appeared in his mind, he felt a strong murderous aura attack him.

He jumped up, instinctively trying to touch the saber at the head of the bed, but just as he was leaving the bed, a dagger shone blue in the bright candlelight, and slashed at his throat like lightning. At this time, his body was hanging in the air, and he suddenly found that the dagger was stabbing at him, and he could only use all his strength to deflect his head to avoid this fatal blow.

Because of this fatal blow, he was forced back into the bed, and just as his body touched the bed, he heard a "bang", and a dagger with a sharp blade quenched with poison and a dark blue light slammed into the bed, only an inch away from his cheek.

Just glanced at Ji Qingchen and broke out in a cold sweat, because this was a dagger with a sudden poison, it seems that someone wants to kill himself! Suddenly, he felt a strange force attack on him again, and as soon as he inhaled, his body jumped up again, and he kicked the enemy hard.

"Bang-" He shook the enemy back with a kick, suddenly got up and half-squatted on the bed to look ahead, and found that as the lights in the room flickered, the singer Jiang Rou was staring at him with a surprised expression.

Obviously, Ji Qingchen's kick just now was not light, which caused Jiang Rou to suffer internal injuries.

"Is that you?" Ji Qingchen's face was a little gloomy, he couldn't believe that the assassin in front of him was Jiang Rou, the singer who was weak in the drunken house today.

"Yes, it's just a pity that you found out and didn't stab you." Jiang Rou knew that with his own skills, he couldn't hit the sudden assassination just now, and now it was impossible to kill Ji Qingchen again, so he smiled miserably and said, "But you don't have to waste your tongue anymore, no matter what questions you ask me, I won't tell you." ”

She is an assassin, and since she knows the tragic fate of the assassin falling into the hands of others.

"Leaving the country to secretly guard Jiang Rou?" Ji Qingchen snorted coldly, got up and walked off the bed, stared at Jiang Rou tightly, and said in a cold tone, "Do you think I need you to explain something?" ”

Jiang Rou was silent, but at the moment when Ji Qingchen revealed her identity, there was a little surprise in the eyes of Gu Jing Bubo just now.

"Empress Dowager Xiao sent you here not just to kill me, right?" Ji Qingchen smiled contemptuously and said, "Did you find what you were looking for in the study just now?" ”

I have been friends with the little emperor Li Changchuan for ten years, and I know the character of this friend of mine too well, since the other party let him go outside the capital, he will not do such a trick and send a killer to assassinate him, so the only person who can mobilize the secret guard who has left the country is probably the Empress Dowager Xiao, who hates him to the core, and since the Empress Dowager Xiao only sent a very average but very talented musician Jiang Rou, he has already guessed that the Empress Dowager Xiao sent Jiang Rou to his side mainly to get one thing.

Jiang Rou still didn't speak, but her expression had changed from surprise just now to horror, as if someone had discovered the secret of her body.

"Hey——!" Ji Qingchen quietly stared at the silent Jiang Rou, and after a long time, he sighed slightly and said, "You-let's go!" Remember not to let people outside find out when you leave, otherwise you may not be able to get out of Ningzhou City. ”

"You-" Jiang Rou was stunned for a moment before she stared at Ji Qingchen with a surprised gaze, unable to believe what her ears heard, "Are you really willing to let me go?" ”

"When Empress Dowager Xiao sent you to my side, she already thought that I would not kill you, and this is her cleverness. But you only have one chance, and if I meet you next time, I will definitely not show mercy to you! As he spoke, Ji Qingchen's eyes quietly looked at the northwest direction. After a while, he found that Jiang Rou was still stunned in the room, so he scolded, "Get out!" Immediately! Don't make me want to go back! ”

Jiang Rou didn't know what Ji Qingchen meant, but at this moment, her eyes moved to Ji Qingchen, and she found that this man, who was the ninth prince of Dayan, was so bleak and lonely at this time, like a lonely withered grass in the desert. The inexplicable Jiang Rou only felt that her heart hurt, for the first time she had curiosity, wondering what kind of experience the man in front of Lu Dao had had, and how could he have such a lonely look? It's just that Ji Qingchen's roar made her come back to her senses immediately, and in the end she endured it, but still said, "Even if you let me go today, if he meets you again in the future, I will still not show mercy to your subordinates!" ”

After that, seeing that Ji Qingchen didn't pay attention to herself, she tidied up her clothes and disappeared into the night.

After Jiang Rou left, Ji Qingchen's gaze moved to Jiang Rou's departing figure, watching quietly.

By this time he had drunk all his wine, and without the feeling of sleep, he walked out of the house, and sat down in the gazebo in the courtyard, looking at the northern sky for a long time.

Halfway through, I heard him whisper to himself, "Shu'er, how are you doing now?" You said you were going to wait for me, and I said I was going to marry you. But now, judging from the Empress Dowager Xiao's temperament, I'm afraid that she may not let the two of us get our wish! ”