Chapter 17 The people of Nanzhao
"The minister Suzhou Governor Ji Wenyu sees His Royal Highness King Duan." Suzhou City Governor's Yamen, in the back hall, Suzhou Governor Ji Wenyu respectfully bowed to Zhao Ji.
"Get up, Lord Ji, this king is on a slight patrol this time, and I don't want too many people to know the whereabouts of this king." With a wave of his hand, his own guards moved the seat for Zhao Ji to sit down.
"Yes, I understand." Ji Wenyu nodded and got up, looking at Zhao Ji: "It is a blessing for Suzhou that King Duan can come to Suzhou. β
Zhao Ji waved his hand and said: "There is no need to say these polite words, this king is here this time to ask Lord Ji about someone." β
"The prince has an order, and his subordinates must be respected." Ji Wenyu hurriedly bowed down and listened.
"This time, Lin Tiannan, the leader of the Jiangnan Martial Arts Alliance, held a martial arts competition to recruit relatives, I remember that Lord Ji was also present, right?" Zhao Ji turned his head and looked at Ji Wenyu.
"This ...... Lin Jiabao is a wealthy family in Suzhou, and Lin Tiannan is a well-known good man, he sent an invitation, and it is not easy not to go, but His Royal Highness can rest assured that the subordinates and Lin Tiannan do not have much friendship. Ji Wenyu thought that Zhao Ji was going to deal with Lin Tiannan, so he hurriedly cleared up the relationship.
"It doesn't matter, whether Lord Ji and Lin Tiannan have a friendship or not, this king doesn't care, this king just wants to know, when Lin Tiannan was competing to recruit relatives that day, sitting next to Lin Tiannan, who is the person surrounded by four beauties?" Zhao Ji waved his hand impatiently, he was not interested in caring about these things, and he couldn't care about it.
"That Zhuo Gongzi?" Ji Wenyu thought about it when he heard this, Zhuo Ao himself has an extraordinary temperament, and with four beautiful women around him, it is difficult not to attract his attention, so he said after a while: "I can't hide it." The subordinate also asked Lin Tiannan, but Lin Tiannan seemed to be quite taboo about this person. only said that it was a wealthy family from the Yuhang area, but the rest refused to say more. He refused to tell him his full name. β
"Oh?" Zhao Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It's a little interesting." β
Although he looked down on the rivers and lakes and green forests, he also knew that with an identity like Lin Tiannan, if the surname Zhuo was just an ordinary rich family, how could he be treated as a guest by Lin Tiannan, and after the competition that day, he had entered Linjiabao with Liu Jinyuan, then Lin Tiannan was very respectful to the surname Zhuo, and the surname Zhuo was in Linjiabao. The status seems to be very detached, and even the old man beside him, the martial arts people present are quite respectful to him.
Perhaps, unintentionally, caught a big fish, Zhao Ji smiled at the corner of his mouth, turned his head to look at Ji Wenyu and said, "Okay, this king knows, bother Lord Ji." β
"What did Your Highness say? It is the honor of His Royal Highness to come to the ministers, why bother him, if His Highness does not dislike it. I also hope that His Royal Highness can be here for a few days, so that his subordinates can enjoy the friendship of the landlord. Ji Wenyu hurriedly said.
"There's no need to bother this time, this king still has some important things. You need to start now, if you have the opportunity next time. It's never too late to bother. Zhao Ji waved his hand, and then he was in Ji Wenyu's greeting. Left the prefect's yamen.
"Lord, shall we go back to Beijing?" A guard pulled Zhao Ji's carriage over and asked.
"No, let's go directly to Hangzhou." Zhao Ji leaned on the soft and comfortable cushion and said lightly.
"Then Liu Gongzi ...... there"
"Send someone to tell him, just say that this king has to take a step in advance, look at him like that, in the near future, I'm afraid I won't have the heart to follow this king, I really don't know where that cruel and pungent woman is." Zhao Ji shook his head and said.
"Yes, my subordinates will send someone to do it."
Without Zhao Linger's emotional bonds, although Li Xiaoyao was not very happy, he finally agreed to get married, and the wedding ended in a lively uproar.
"Brother, where are we going now?" Out of Suzhou City, Zhao Linger seems to be a lot more lively, she doesn't like to be lively, especially when she is surrounded by strangers.
"I was supposed to go back." Zhuo Ao looked at the sky and sighed: "But now it seems that going back is not a good place to go. β
"Why?" Zhao Ling'er looked at Zhuo Ao in puzzlement.
"Because you are the princess of Nanzhao, you should also go back to Nanzhao, not an inconspicuous small village." A cold and hard voice replaced Zhuo Ao's answer, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see a very energetic old man walking towards him with several black-robed guards.
When people are old, their energy usually decreases, and they look either kind or sluggish, and the word spirit is rarely used on an old man, but when they see this old man, everyone invariably adds this word to this old man.
"Who are you?" The old man must have been a general before, and he was a veteran of the battlefield with countless combat experience, his body was faintly evil, ghosts and spirits were clear, ordinary people would feel scared just when they saw him, although Zhao Linger was not an ordinary person, but his mind was no different from ordinary people, he was taken by his momentum, he naturally felt scared, and subconsciously shrank behind Zhuo Ao.
The old man came to Zhao Ling'er with four Black Miao warriors, and the old man suddenly knelt down on one knee and said: "Old minister Shi Gonghu, General Nanzhao, this time I came to welcome the princess at the bewill of the Witch King and returned to Nanzhao." β
"I don't want to go back." seemed to think of a lot of unhappy things, Zhao Ling'er pulled Zhuo Ao's shirt and begged: "Brother, I don't want to go back." β
"Don't worry." Zhuo Ao touched Zhao Linger's hair soothingly: "In this world, no one can force you to do what you don't want to do." β
"Who are you, daring fanatic? How dare you offend the princess's body!? Elder Shi glared at Zhuo Ao angrily, his eyes fixed on Zhuo Ao's hand that fell on Zhao Ling'er's hair, as if he might burst out at any time and chop off the palm of the hand that offended the princess's phoenix body.
"Moon sent you?" Zhuo Ao didn't answer, but looked at Elder Shi and asked lightly, "Why didn't he dare to come in person?" β
"Humph!" Elder Shi snorted coldly and said proudly: "I am the general of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, the elder of the Moon Worship Sect, and I only respect the orders of the Witch King in my life!" β
Although he didn't say it explicitly, it was obvious that in the heart of this stubborn old man, Bai Yue was not qualified to command him.
"Then you can go back and report to your witch king, just say that Ling'er is very safe with me, don't worry, if you have time, I will take Ling'er back to see him." Zhuo Ao said indifferently.
"You are presumptuous!" Elder Shi snorted angrily, slapped out a palm, and hit Zhuo Ao's chest, his martial arts are extremely high, and he is by no means under Lin Tiannan, at this moment, he shot out angrily, the power of one palm is enough to open the mountain and crack the stone, if you are hit by this palm, no matter how high your cultivation is, it will be difficult to escape the end of shattering your chest.
Zhuo Ao is not a top master, no matter how top a master is, he is still a mortal, and Zhuo Ao has already jumped out of the level of mortals, so although this palm can kill any top master, but for Zhuo Ao, it has no effect, and he didn't even make a move, a faint wall of qi was between the two, and Elder Shi slapped his palm on the qi wall, allowing him to urge his whole body to use his strength, and it was difficult to break through the distance of three feet in front of Zhuo Ao.
"This time, for Ling'er's sake, I can spare your life, next time, if you dare to rashly attack me again, heaven and earth, even if the Heavenly Emperor and Demon Venerable are all there, they can't save you!"
With Zhuo Ao snorting coldly, Elder Shi only felt a strong surge back, and he was involuntarily shocked and flew more than ten zhang away, before he barely landed, looked at Zhuo Ao with an annoyed face, and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency's grace not to kill, Shi remembers it, but Princess, you must go back to Nanzhao with me." β
"But you can't take her with you." Zhuo Ao looked at Elder Shi and shook his head with a smile.
"Yes, the old man is indeed not your opponent." Elder Shi nodded seriously, looked at Zhao Ling'er and said: "Princess Ling'er, Nanzhao is in great drought, the people have no harvest this year, the witch king is exhausted for this, tired and sick, he wants to see the princess before he dies, the old minister is incompetent, and he lives up to the trust of the witch king, but the old minister is willing to die, please return to Nanzhao, see the last side of the witch king, and also give the people of Nanzhao a hope!" β
A dagger appeared in his hand, and Elder Shi stabbed it fiercely into his heart without the slightest hesitation.
Zhuo Ao, a person who doesn't want to die, has seen it, but the person who gave away his life for an impossible task, even if Zhuo Ao has experienced a lot of worlds, it is the first time he has seen it.
"Ding~"
The dagger was knocked away, and Elder Shi was not far from Zhuo Ao, only a distance of ten zhang, in this distance, a mortal, if Zhuo Ao didn't want him to die, then even if King Yama came, he couldn't take his life.
"Although the old man is not as good as you, he will never be insulted by you!" Elder Shi glared at Zhuo Ao angrily, and his whole body was retrograde, and he was about to explode the meridians, but unfortunately, this time, he failed again.
"Although your stupidity does not move me, I happen to be somewhat interested in the affairs of Nanzhao." Zhuo Ao narrowed his eyes slightly, Nuwa was dead, but the idea she left behind could make people travel through time and space, which was undoubtedly incredible in Zhuo Ao's opinion, so he wanted to see it.
"Will you help me?" Elder Shi looked at Zhuo Ao with an incredulous expression.
"The result may not be what you want to see." Zhuo Ao shook his head, although he didn't pay much attention to it back then, but it was just some basic information, Zhuo Ao could deduce that behind Lin Qing'er's death back then, I am afraid it was not as simple as worshipping the moon.
No matter how influential the moon worship is, at most it is only similar to Lin Qing'er, the holy daughter of the Bai Miao tribe, but in the coup d'Γ©tat that forced Lin Qing'er to death, almost no one supported Lin Qing'er, and as far as Zhuo Ao knew, the original witch king's control over Nanzhao was not low, at least not worse than Bai Yue and Lin Qing'er, if there was no help from the witch king, it would be absolutely impossible for the moon to force Lin Qing'er to death with such an advantage.
Besides, the kings of a clan shouldn't be like that, otherwise how could they subdue the ministers?
"I still hope that Your Excellency will not interfere too much in the affairs of my Miao people." Elder Shi snorted.
"Ling'er, I haven't been home for ten years, and it's time to go back to your hometown to take a look." Zhuo Ao smiled and looked at Ling'er.
"Ling'er listens to my brother." Zhao Ling'er nodded obediently.
"Your Excellency is also coming with you?" Elder Shi frowned.
"Can't?" Zhuo Ao looked at Elder Shi and asked rhetorically.
"Yes." Elder Shi looked at Zhao Ling'er, who was snuggling beside Zhuo Ao, frowned, and finally nodded. (To be continued.) )