"Princess, but what's the matter?" Han Jian was already about to sit down opposite Xiao Zhan, but when he saw Xiao Zhan's unusual reaction, he looked up and asked in surprise.

Xiao Zhan said coldly: "Why is the King of the East pretending to be so confused, isn't this what you deliberately arranged?" ”

As he spoke, he grabbed a short blade with a sheath from behind him and threw it directly on the ground.

Han Jian didn't take it lightly to check out, and he himself was a little inexplicable.

"Why did the princess bring the sword into my palace?" Han Jian asked.

"You ask me?" Xiao Zhan sneered, "But this palace is going to ask you, what does this dagger mean, does it mean that you want to kill this palace?" You people from the Northern Dynasties, is this how you entertain visitors? ”

As Xiao Zhan shouted, some of the ministers of the Southern Dynasty who had just entered the hall after them were a little flustered, and they seemed to feel that Princess Yongdan's anger was a little big, as if the people of the Northern Dynasty were provoking her.

Han Jian stepped forward, picked up the dagger on the ground, and pulled it out a little to see, but it was a very ordinary dagger, which looked like a big coincidence, such a dagger might be bought from the street, if it was put on his body and entered the palace, if he didn't search carefully, he might not be able to find it. Xiao Zhan himself came to the palace as a state envoy, and he is the princess of a country, who will search her for selflessness when she enters the palace?

Han Jian guessed in his heart that this was probably Xiao Zhan's trick to retreat.

Maybe Xiao Zhan realized that she was in danger, and it was likely that she would not come back when she entered the palace of the Wei Dynasty today, so she simply took a rake first and framed the Northern Dynasty people, so that the Northern Dynasty people's plans were disrupted, and she herself would be safer. Han Jian thought about it again, maybe Xiao Zhan's original intention of bringing the dagger was not to frame a false accusation, maybe he just wanted to get the dagger to protect himself. Perhaps it was a stroke of inspiration that led to such a clever idea, so he took out his dagger as soon as he sat down.

"Excuse me, princess, maybe it was some unsightly minion who accidentally landed here." Han Jian took the dagger and said with a smile, "If the prince doesn't believe it, he can summon the stewards and eunuchs in the Wu'an Hall one by one." Recently inquired. ”

Xiao Zhan sneered: "You ask them, and they will say?" ”

Han Jian said with a smile: "The princess may not know, the banquet I am going to attend to His Majesty is a little bit of a blade, which is not allowed, even as the king of the county like Zaixia, entering the palace is just wearing a scabbard, the princess doesn't believe it, come and see for herself?" ”

Han Jian said. took two steps forward and straightened the waist of his sword, meaning to let Xiao Zhan personally pull out his sword and take a look. Xiao Zhanxin said that if this was the case, his hand had been stretched out, and he was about to draw his sword, but he suddenly realized that this might also be Han Jian's trick to fight back. She had entered the palace of the Northern Dynasty before, and at that time she was also trying to compete with swords. came to assassinate Yang Rui, and many people in the palace at that time were sabers. And at that time, the saber on the waist of Yang Ke, the king of Xiaobei, was genuine, how could it be fake?

That means that now Han Jian is just bluffing her.

"King Dong, do you think this palace doesn't dare to try?" Xiao Zhan said coldly.

Han Jian was stunned for a moment and said: "Why did the princess say this, in fact, I also hope that the princess will prove the innocence of the princess, although she is the king of the east." I don't dare to break the ban. ”

Xiao Zhan smiled coldly, but he was looking at Han Jian. Han Jian asked her to draw her sword, but she didn't dare to go up and pull it out, but once she pulled it out, she couldn't guess what the consequences would be. Maybe Han Jian will turn his face on the spot. Let the palace guards come out and take her down, and then put her under house arrest for this reason. Maybe Han Jian was just joking, let her pull out her sword and say a few words with a smile, and the matter will be revealed. Anyway, she didn't believe that the sword on Han Jian's waist was just a scabbard and hilt, and there was not even a weapon in it?

"Hongu doesn't want to see it." Xiao Zhan said.

"If the princess doesn't look at it, then show it to the princess." Saying that, Han Jian held the hilt of the sword himself and was about to pull it out, Xiao Zhan seemed to feel a crisis, maybe it was the fact that she took out the dagger that annoyed the East King, and the East King was ready to "attack" her here.

But at this moment, a majestic voice shouted from the high hall: "Don't be rude! ”

When Han Jian heard this voice, his hand just pressed on the hilt of the sword and did not make any further move, but instead looked at the direction in which the sound came from, that is, the entrance of the back hall into the main hall. At this time, Yang Rui had already walked out in a brocade dress, followed by several little palace maids, one of whom was also Yang Rui's personal palace maid Hui'er.

"See Majesty." Han Jian and Ning Yuan hurriedly got up and saluted.

"Don't be inhibited, just sit down." Yang Rui said, he walked under the main hall first, and sat down in the main seat.

This time the banquet in the Wu'an Hall is very knowledgeable, except for the main seat where Yang Rui sits under the plaque in the main hall, there are only two seats on one side, one is for the East King and the South King to sit together, and the other is for Ning Yuan. On the other hand, there were a lot of envoys from the Southern Dynasty, because there were indeed a lot of people brought by Xiao Yang this time.

After all, in the diplomatic relations between the two countries, there is no such thing as a situation in which one country entertains envoys, and there are not as many people as envoys.

Xiao Zhan was not surprised to see Yang Rui, it was not the first time she had seen Yang Rui. I had seen it in the court before, and at that time she felt that Yang Rui was a far-sighted monarch who might be very difficult to deal with. This time, she thought that under the coercion of the Dongwang Mansion, Yang Rui had lost her previous edge, but she didn't expect that when she saw Yang Rui, she was still as aggressive as before, and she did not lose her demeanor at all.

Xiao Zhan saw Yang Rui greeting Han Jian and Ning Yuan, and he stood aside and just watched coldly and didn't speak. Because even she, the envoy, didn't say hello, and the officials of the Southern Dynasty behind her didn't dare to trespass up and salute. This ceremony itself is not good, it is too respectful, after all, this is the people of the Northern Dynasty, not the emperor and the queen mother of the Southern Dynasty who provide them with food. If they are not respectful at all, they are emperors after all, they are in other people's land, and if they do something wrong, they may be retaliated.

Yang Rui didn't wait for Xiao Zhan to greet her, so he sat down first, then looked at Han Jian and asked, "King Dong, what happened before?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I didn't know which one was not long-eyed before, but he actually dropped the blade in the Wu'an Palace, but was found by Princess Yongdan." Han Jian said, "Her Royal Highness the princess is a little dissatisfied with this, and I want to find someone to ask about it, and at this time, Your Majesty is here." ”

"Hmm." Yang Rui nodded and said, "Where is the blade?" ”

Han Jian stepped forward and handed the dagger that Yang Rui had thrown on the ground before in front of Yang Rui. Yang Rui took out his dagger and looked at it, and sighed slightly: "The blade is good iron, but after all, it is not made by us in the north. ”

Xiao Zhan was a little surprised when she heard it, she didn't understand anything about weapon forging or something, and naturally she couldn't tell the difference between the same dagger from the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Yang Rui said: "Should Princess Yongdan think about it, has she ever seen this dagger somewhere, or was it accidentally hung on her body and brought into the palace?" If you haven't seen it, I'd rather send someone to investigate, the occurrence of blades in this palace is not small. When the news spreads, I am afraid that it will have an impact on you, the princess, me, and the king of the east. ”

Xiao Zhan was a little angry, she didn't understand why although Yang Rui seemed to be high-minded, he was speaking in favor of the East King. If you think about it carefully, who calls someone a monarch and a minister, but she is an outsider.

Xiao Zhanzheng didn't know what to say, but at this moment, a young official walked out from behind Xiao Zhan and said, "It seems that something is inappropriate for Your Majesty to say this. ”

"Oh? Who are you? Yang Rui looked at the Southern Dynasty official who suddenly appeared.

Judging from the official uniform on this young official, he is only a middle-level official, that is to say, at most five or six grades, such officials are generally subordinate officials, and may only be in charge of driving or responsible for some scheduling, which has no practical significance. After returning to the Southern Dynasty, he may not even be able to be a petty official of seven or eight grades, but he just wears an official uniform and looks like a gangster when he is on an envoy.

"The villain Xue Qian, I've seen His Majesty." The man saluted respectfully.

Xiao Zhan looked at this Xue Qian, this person was inconspicuous in the envoy team, and she didn't even leave any impression on this person. It's only strange that this young man looks very ordinary, he doesn't have the temperament that a young talent should have, and he is just a person in charge of carriages and horses, if she wasn't going to make the battle bigger today and find more people to fill the scene, this Xue Qian would not have a chance to appear in the palace of the Wei Dynasty.

"Tell me, what's wrong with what I'm saying?" Yang Rui seems to be competing with such a young official.

Xue Qian saluted and said: "Since Her Royal Highness the princess is an envoy of a country, she has come to your country, and your country should treat each other with courtesy. Now that Her Royal Highness the Princess has come here for a banquet, if there is anything that she feels inappropriate, Her Royal Highness the Princess can naturally choose to stay. The so-called war between the two countries is not to kill the envoy, it is this dagger, not to threaten the safety of Her Royal Highness my princess, I am afraid that it will also make the princess feel uneasy. Your Royal Highness the Princess, please go back, take a rest, and come back to the banquet in the future. ”

Although there seemed to be no definite reason for Xue Qian's words to be reversed in the first half of the sentence, the last sentence made Xiao Zhan feel very good.

In such a situation, she was originally a one-person opponent of Yang Rui, Han Jian and Ning Yuan of the Wei Dynasty, and she was a lone enemy, and now Xue Qian spoke, even if Xue Qian himself was a talentless and nameless little person, it was very important now, at least it showed that the person she brought had integrity, not just to go through the motions.

Han Jian saw Xue Qian's words and deeds, although he was a little nervous, he could also speak in an orderly manner in this situation, and he also knew that he was not a simple character. You must know that the appearance of the blade in the palace is a big deal in any dynasty, and Xiao Zhan was also very clever in making this move, and he wanted to quickly ask for more blessings to leave the palace first, and then make a long-term plan. But he avoided the important and trivialized, and Xiao Zhan was here to make a false accusation.

In this case, Yang Rui joined in, which made Yang Rui unable to leave. But the appearance of Xue Qian made things turn around. (To be continued......)