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"Presumptuous! Don't let it go! There was an old temple man with a wrinkled face waiting at the door of the hall, and as soon as he saw me, he hurriedly stepped forward and tore away the hand that the big man held on my arm: "Girl, forgive me, these reckless men don't know how to be polite, they didn't hurt you, right?" ”

"Nope." I looked at the old temple man and shook his head suspiciously.

"Girl, please come with the old slave, Jun Shang and Mr. Zhao are waiting for the girl inside!" The old temple man bent down and invited me in.

The Xiuming Hall is quiet and quiet, except for the sound of clothes rubbing against each other when walking, there is only the sound of the old temple people's muddy and heavy breathing in and out. The huge kneeling tree-shaped lamp in the hall was silent, and the whole hall was dim and gloomy, except for a few small bronze beast head lamps embedded in the wall that still burned faintly.

The old temple man led me through two small doors and stopped in front of a black-lacquered gate.

"Your Excellency is inside, girl, please come in!" The old temple man bowed to me and bowed to the side.

Finally about to meet Qi Hou officially, I straightened my clothes, took a deep breath, and pushed open the heavy wooden door.

Behind the wooden door, there is a small room two zhang square, in which a narrow bed and a bronze water vessel are placed, and it is thought that it should be the room of the temple and the maid who served the marquis of Qi to sleep. Walking further in, I saw a pair of amethyst curtains more than a foot wide, and I opened the strings of amethyst stones, and a huge bedroom appeared in front of me. There was not a single candle flame here, and only the dark red fire from the window floated faintly on the black granite floor. I walked a few steps back and forth in the huge room, looked around, but I didn't see a single figure.

Where is Qi Hou? Where's the shirtless? Could it be that the old temple man at the door is playing tricks on me?

I turned around and was about to retreat to the door, when a low voice suddenly came from behind a beaded curtain on the left side of the bedroom: "You are the god son of the Jin people?" ”

It's Qi Hou's voice! I was shocked, and hurriedly turned around and bowed forward and bowed: "The sorcerer of the Jin Kingdom pays a visit to the Marquis of Qi!" ”

"The divine son of the Jin people is actually a woman?" The voice asked.

"The servants of God, whether male or female, are just the skin that the king sees." I didn't dare to look up, and replied with a bow.

"Get up and come closer." The jewels and jade jingled, and it seemed that Qi Hou had opened the curtain.

I took two steps forward with my head down, bent over.

"Closer."

What is he going to do? Why are there only two of us here? I wondered in my heart, and took three more steps forward, until I walked to Qi Hou's side, and saw the golden silk brocade shoes he stepped on the stepping table.

"Look up."

I raised my head slowly, and the Qi Hou in front of me was wearing a plain bed dress embroidered with dragon patterns, the crown on his head was gone, and his long hair with a few strands of silver was scattered behind him.

"You are the beauty who posted 'Qi Jiang Wings' that day? The widow also said that you and Su Qi of Fuqin are both Chen Heng's people, but I didn't expect you to be Zhao Ying's people. Qi Hou looked at me, sneered and leaned on the cushion behind him, "You guys are now seeing that the widow has been cornered, and you all want to come to my Qi country to get benefits, right?" ”

"Chen Hengju is in the phase without thinking about being loyal to the king, plotting rebellion and rebellion, intending to kill the king, which has gone against the way of being a minister and against the way of heaven. The Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom only wanted to help the king ascend to the right path of heaven this time, and there was nothing else to ask for. Zi Di serves the gods, and just wants to eliminate the war of the Three Kingdoms and accumulate a hundred years of virtue for the king. I raised my hands in front of me, folded my fingers, and bowed.

"Hmph, for the widow to correct the way of heaven? He, Zhao Ying, has controlled the government of the Jin State for many years, and he knows what the way to be a minister is! The Duke of Jin is now fine, but he has more virtue than widows. After Qi Hou finished speaking, he sneered, took out a long box with a red entwined lotus pattern on a black ground that was more than a foot long from his side and handed it to me, "Whether you are a god or not, the widow doesn't know, but the widow has a question here that you still need to answer." Let's open it and take a look! ”

"No!" I took the box with both hands, opened it gently, and found that the box was divided into nine small compartments by wood chips, and each compartment contained three mayfly wings of different colors.

"Widows like women who stick 'ginger wings', but do you know why over the years, Mrs. Ru in the widow's palace has not dared to stick these wings to invite pets?"

"The minister doesn't know."

"That's because the people who posted the 'Qi Jiang Wings' have to answer a question from the widow, and those who can't answer and answer incorrectly will lose their heads." Qi Hou lifted the bead curtain, leaned out and looked at me coldly, "Although you are a Jin person, the widow doesn't want to break this rule for you." ”

"If you embarrass the foreign minister like this, I am afraid that it will hurt the future alliance between the two countries." I looked up and said.

"The right minister has already mobilized the soldiers and horses of Linzi City, and just waiting for the widow to give an order, three thousand tigers will attack Chen's mansion and kill Chen Heng. The Zhao family's people can't make a move, and it makes no difference to the widows. However, tonight, Zhao Wuxian saved the widow's life, and the widow is considering whether to make an alliance with him. Qi Hou tilted his head and glanced at me when he said this, "In the past four years, eleven women have died, and the widow doesn't want to have a twelfth." If you say that you are the Son of God, then you can answer the question of the widow, right? ”

This Qi Hou relied on Kan Zhi and the three thousand tiger ben people to put up a fight with us, he looked down on Chen Heng like this, it was really naïve.

"Please show me up." I closed the lid and said aloud.

"Great goodness of the sorcerer!" Qi Hou laughed and leaned back, through a pair of bead curtains, and said slowly, "The widow only asks, there are countless insects and butterflies in the world, why did the widow choose this mayfly wings alone?" ”

Why did you choose mayfly wings? Because it's the right size, transparent and easy to color? Wrong! Because there is a lotus lake in the Qi Palace, mayflies are easy to catch? Not right either!

Ginger wings...... Qi Jiang and Qi Hou...... A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I said respectfully: "The feathers of the mayfly are beautiful, and it is needless to say that the beauty is self-explanatory, but the foreign minister thinks that the king takes the ephemera wing to draw the color but takes the meaning of the ephemera's life and death." ”

"Go on." Qi Hou left the cushion and leaned forward.

"Mayflies are born and die at night, there is only one day in life, and one day is one life. For mayflies, a sunrise and sunset can reach the world for a hundred years, and the sacred tree for a thousand years. The Venerable One is willing to stick this mayfly wings to know that staying together for one day is staying together for a lifetime! ”

After speaking, the huge dormitory was quiet, only the aftermath of my words was mixed in the wind through the hall, and it did not disperse for a long time.

Qi Hou hid his body behind the bead curtain, so that people couldn't see the look on his face clearly: "You go...... Zhao Wuxian is waiting for you in the side hall. ”

"The covenant between His Excellency and the Zhao Clan?"

"You tell him that the Zhao family agrees. As long as they can help the widow exterminate the Chen clan, within three years, the Qi State will never interfere in the defense of the country. Qi Hou's hoarse voice came from behind the bead curtain.

"Qi Hou Yingming!" I was overjoyed and bowed down.

Exiting the dormitory of the Marquis of Qi, the old temple man led me through the dim passage and into the side hall of the Xiuming Palace.

Unlike Qi Hou's dormitory, almost all the lights that could be lit here were on. Under the lamp, Wuxian was kneeling in front of a sand table with a middle-aged man wearing a crown and a beautiful beard, discussing something in a whisper.

"Doctor Gao, Mr. Zhao! Man, the old slave brought it to you. The old temple man bowed.

When Wuxian saw me, he got up and walked over with a smile: "The king sent someone to pick you up earlier, why did you arrive at this time?" There are a lot of people out there, so it doesn't scare you, does it? ”

"Go down!" The middle-aged man waved his hand, and the old temple man retreated.

"Come and see Dr. Gao." With a smile, he took my hand and walked to the senior officer.

Gao Yuan does not look like an ordinary child of the Qing family, he does not have the pale complexion raised in the inner courtyard of the high wall, his face is clean and has a faint brown, and with his high forehead and broad nose, he has a bit of a swordsman's atmosphere.

"Ah Shi, I've seen Doctor Gao."

"The little girl and I don't need to be polite. Just let him call me Big Brother. No wonder my junior brother was upset just now, it turned out that there was such a treasure left outside! ”

"My big brother likes to make fun of people the most, don't pay attention to him." Wuxian glared at Gao Yuan with a smile, turned around and pulled me to the wall by the window, "But I'm hungry, the chef in the palace just sent a few snacks, you eat first, I'll take you down to rest after I finish talking to Brother Gao." ”

"I saw you fighting the assassins on the rooftops just now, don't hide it from me, but you're hurt?"

"It's only been a few moves, how can you get hurt? Don't worry! ”

I pulled his sleeve and looked him up and down, and when I saw that he was really not injured, I calmed down: "You don't care about me, you discuss yours, I just sit here and don't go anywhere." ”

"Hmm." Wuxian leaned over to block the playful gaze of the senior bureaucrats, raised his hand and twisted my nose lightly, "Soon, wait for me." ”

"Wuxian, if you are still like this, I will also go back to your sister-in-law to burrow into the bed." The senior official shouted with a smile behind his back.

"Here we are." Wuxian sat down after pressing my desk, and walked back to the sand table quickly, "Senior brother, where did you just go?" Let's move on ......"

"Well, come and see, Linzi City is here, Gao Wancheng is here, if I go back to Gao Wancheng tomorrow to transfer troops......" Gao Gong picked up a vermilion lacquer bamboo stick and a shirtless shirt and drew dots in the sand table.

This senior bureaucrat and Wuxian are in the same class to learn swords, and they can be regarded as childhood friends. Now, no matter what kind of attitude the Northern Clan has, as long as they can make friends with the Gao Clan, they will have a three-point chance of winning the alliance with the Qi State.

I shrugged my shoulders and loosened my stiff body, and took my eyes back from the two people arguing in front of the sand table. In front of him, on the desk with the black ground hook cloud and thunder pattern were three dishes of yellow, yellow, green and green rice dumplings wrapped in powdered sugar. I slept for a long time after returning from Lianhu, and my stomach was indeed a little hungry at this time, so I pinched a rice ball with my fingers and put it to my mouth and took a bite. The powdered sugar entered the mouth first, sweet, and the sorghum rice diluted the sweetness, leaving a fragrance of lotus leaves in the mouth. The meals in this Qi Palace are really exquisite, and even the rice dumplings are better than those of the Jin Kingdom. I couldn't help but take two more bites, and found that there was a round fruit in the center of the rice ball, which was pinched and divided into two halves, and there was a small emerald green bud in the middle.

What is it? I picked out the little bud and put it in my mouth and took a sip. Uh, it's bitter......

"That's a lotus seed." Wuxian and the senior officials were talking, but they peeked at me from time to time. At this time, seeing that my eyebrows and nose were all wrinkled together, he shouted at me with a smile.

"I ...... I know! You do your thing, ignore me! I glared at him, stuffed the remaining half of the rice dumplings into my mouth, and when I saw that he was still looking at me and smiling, I took a plate of yellow rice dumplings and turned my back, and turned my head to look at Wu shirt secretly, he was talking with the senior with his eyebrows raised.

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