Chapter 61: Poisoned Wine
When Fushengye came to the military camp of the Zhangxiong Department in Wulipu, he saw that the lights were lit up here, and the soldiers of the brigade were partying with wine.
The guards recognized the combination of floating leaves' iconic black robe and golden mask, and hurried to greet him as soon as they saw him.
As soon as Fushengye asked the guards, he learned that it was the lord of the Bohai Kingdom who proposed to the King of Whitehorse of the Zhangxiong Department, and implored the King of Whitehorse to marry the prince of the sea to be the princess.
King Charming has recently agreed to the proposal of the lord of the Bohai Kingdom, agreeing to go up the mountain and let Lan Ye and the sea prince marry to consolidate the relationship between the two countries.
The Vermilion Bird Camp has just received a letter from the King of the White Horse today. He has already recognized the identity of the sea prince's quasi-son-in-law, and ordered Fushengye to preside over the engagement celebration as a brother.
The Floating Leaf has not yet received the news, and the Liu Hanye and Yanlong Ye in the Vermilion Bird Camp have already begun to prepare for related matters.
In front of the Suzaku Camp, the prince of the sea in the big tent of the Chinese army and Yan Longye pushed the cup to change the lamp, chatting and laughing happily.
Yan Longye drank until he was slightly drunk and said, "Your Highness treats me honestly!" I want to treat you as a brother, but you want to be my brother-in-law. Then I won't be your brother-in-law! ”
The sea prince said: "I have admired the lord of Qilan for a long time, and now I have finally got what I wanted, congratulations!" Come and drink this cup with us! ”
Yan Longye smiled and drank all the wine in the cup.
Fusheng Ye went straight to the camp tent and saw Yan Longye, who was half drunk and half awake, and said, "You drank too much, you still have important things to do today, so you shouldn't drink!" ”
Yan Long Ye saw that it was the floating leaf that suddenly arrived, and the resentment against the floating leaf in his heart had not yet dissipated: "Although you are my eldest brother, I am the son of the world, and you don't have to worry about my affairs." ”
Seeing Fushengye's hurried and enthusiastic greeting, the sea prince raised his wine glass and said, "Brother-in-law, I'll give my eldest brother a drink!" ”
Floating leaves hate self-cooking. Because he knows that those self-acquaintances seem to be kind on the surface, but in fact, they don't take you seriously at all.
Because when a person is truly in awe of someone, that person will say or do whatever they say in front of someone
will be careful to converge everywhere cautious, slightly restrained.
Behind the Sea Prince sat the swordsman, the smoke and dust, and the swordsman excellence. Both of them are famous in the Central Plains, and their martial arts attainments have also reached the level of major generals.
Floating leaves have not yet officially fought a samurai at the rank of major general. If the killer was between the two of them, then Yanlong Ye would be in danger.
Fushengye said to the sea prince, "I don't know how to drink!" ”
Seeing that Fushengye rejected him so bluntly, the sea prince's face changed suddenly: "Big brother, isn't this going to give Haiwa'er face?" ”
Fushengye didn't know that the sea prince's nickname was Haiwaer. He also didn't know that the Sea Prince hated being called by the name "Haiwaer" very much.
The swordsman Yanchen and the swordsman are very aware of the temper of the sea prince, as long as someone dares to mention the words "sea baby" in front of the sea prince, the sea prince will be furious.
The sea prince himself said it himself, indicating that he was very unhappy in his heart and wanted to find trouble!
Fushengye said: "No one can force me to drink with someone who is not a friend at the banquet. ”
The sea prince said: "Big brother! Are you going to toast and not eat and drink? I am the prince of the Bohai Kingdom, and the prince of your Xiangxiong Department is a good friend. I am also the future husband of the lord of the county. Why do you have to refuse my kindness when you are banished and can't go home? ”
Fushengye said: "If you don't consider the master's mood when you persuade you to drink, why does the master give you face, is it because you are awesome?" ”
The sea prince was furious and felt very ridiculous: "What kind of master are you in front of me?" ”
The swordsman got up and said, "Your Highness asked me to toast this son!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, he drew his sword. Smoke and dust used a high-grade sword, the name of the sword was Longyin. The cold light of the sword blade is as dignified as a pool of autumn water, and the sound is like a dragon's chant when it is unsheathed, hence this name.
Yanchen picked up an empty cup with the dragon sword, handed it to a singer who was pouring wine, and said, "Fill this cup!" ”
The weak and delicate singer looked at the sharp sword, she trembled a little with fright, and hurriedly stepped aside after filling the wine with nervousness.
The smoke and dust pointed the tip of his sword straight at the floating leaves, and the three-legged wine glass full of wine was stable on the tip of his sword. Yanchen said to Fushengye: "Childe, please drink!" ”
This is a naked provocation! If someone hands the wine like this in the Dongyi Department, it means that they are not convinced to fight, and if they want to admit defeat, they will drink the wine on the dry sword, then everyone is still friends. Refusal will lead to a decisive battle between the two samurai!
Fushengye looked at Yanchen embarrassedly, and hadn't thought about whether to tear his face at this time.
Although Yan Longye complained a little about the floating leaf, he didn't want him to be in a stalemate. He stretched out his hand and picked up the wine glass on the tip of the soot sword and said, "My eldest brother never drinks!" I did it for him! He was about to raise his glass and drink it all.
Fushengye snatched the wine glass in Yan Longye's hand and watched it carefully in his hand: "I'll tell you a story, let's listen to it!" ”
Everyone was curious about what the floating leaves would say to ease the awkward atmosphere.
Fushengye said: "Once upon a time, there was a famine in a vassal state in the Central Plains. A large number of poor people were starved to death because of lack of food and food. There was a noble slave owner named Qian Ao who put some food on the side of the road, waited for the hungry poor to pass by, and gave them alms. One day, a hungry man covered his face with his sleeves and dragged a pair of broken shoes, staggering by, when Qian Ao saw it, he picked up the food with his left hand, picked up the soup with his right hand, and shouted arrogantly: "Hey! Come and eat!" The hungry man raised his head and glared at him contemptuously, and said, "I am so hungry because I don't eat this 'food that comes from the mouth'." Qian Ao also felt that he had gone too far, so he apologized to the hungry man, but the hungry man finally refused to eat and starved to death on the side of the road.
After finishing speaking, Fushengye's eyes were like torches, looking at the smoke and dust in front of him.
Yanchen said: "I'd rather die than eat the food that comes from me, but I have a bit of backbone!" But it's just stupid. ”
Fushengha said: "Is life the most precious thing for a samurai?" Or honor? ”
Yanchen said: "Of course it's an honor!" ”
Fushengye said: "A beggar would rather starve to death than eat the food that was robbed, you said that I am now well-fed, will I care about your cup of disrespectful wine?" ”
After speaking, Fushengye threw the wine glass at the feet of the smoke and dust, and the wine spilled all over the ground.
The smoke and dust turned blue and white for a while: "Duel!" Wash away your insults to me with your blood! ”
Fushengye said: "Before saying this, should you ask your master's opinion first?" ”
The sea prince said: "Smoke and dust is the most noble offering of my Bohai country, and he has the obligation to protect me, but I have no right to dominate him. The challenge he threw at you has nothing to do with me. ”
Fushengye said: "I remember that you just said that you wanted to marry Lan Ye as your wife?" ”
The sea prince said: "Yes! The King of the White Horse has agreed to my father's proposal. ”
Fushengye said: "I now announce the cancellation of the engagement!" ”
The sea prince was stunned when he heard it: "Why do you say that? Can you still change the decision made by King Charming? ”
Fushengye said: "I can't change the decision of the White Horse King, but I can influence the decision of Lan Lanye. Because my other identity is the Nine Elders of the West Mountain of the Moon God Temple. ”
When the sea prince heard this, he immediately grimaced and said, "That big brother, it was just a joke just now." Yanchen is not quick to apologize to his eldest brother. ”
Yanchen put away his sword and respectfully gave it to Fushengye: "I drank too much nonsense just now, please Gongzi Haihan!" ”
Fushengye patted the sea prince on the shoulder and said, "I don't care what your identity is. Since you want to marry the lord of the county, you must be in awe of my eldest brother in the future. Otherwise, how dare I trust my sister's lifelong happiness to you. In the future, if I find out that you have done something sorry for Lan Lan, I will not spare you! Don't think that you have a king's father who can be proud in front of my sister, and my sister has my big brother behind her to support her. ”
The sea prince kept nodding and said, "Yes, yes, the eldest brother is really powerful!" ”
Yan Longye was dumbfounded, he was very polite to the Sea Prince, but the Sea Prince treated him as an ignorant little boy and always spoke out to squeeze him. He always felt that the identity of the sea prince was higher than him, so he gladly accepted it. Now it seems that he has made a mistake, and he can get along with the Sea Prince on an equal footing like Floating Leaf.
Liu Hanye stared at the spilled wine on the ground, and he saw that the traces of the wine that quickly seeped into the ground seemed to glow with phosphorescence.
So he took out a silver needle and came to Yanchen's side and said, "Please let me go!" ”
The smoke receded to the side, and Liu Hanye squatted down and inserted a silver needle into the traces of the wine on the ground. When the silver needle was pulled out, it turned black.
Liu Hanye's complexion changed abruptly: "There was poison in the wine just now!" ”
Everyone looked at the smoke and dust. Yanchen said in fear: "How can there be poison in the wine, the wine that His Royal Highness the Sea Prince drank was also poured out of the same wine jug." ”
The sea prince picked up his wine glass and handed it to Liu Hanye to test it with a silver needle again, but found that there was no poison in his wine.
When everyone was puzzled, the singer who had poured wine for the smoke and dust quietly moved her steps and walked towards the door.
Smoke and dust eyes are quick and the first to spot the sneaky singer who wants to escape.
With a roar, he drew his sword from its sheath and ran towards the singer who was trying to escape.
The singer turned back in horror, and she actually stepped forward, and her body was pierced by the sword of smoke and dust, and blood flowed to the ground. When the singer was dying, she hugged the smoke and said, "Master, you are so ruthless!" ”
Yanchen originally just wanted to catch the escaped singer, but he didn't expect that the singer would be bent on death, and he even had the heart to frame him when he was dying.
Yanchen looked at everyone: "This girl is crazy! What nonsense, I don't know her at all. ”
But the doubts of the people could not be so easily dispelled. Liu Hanye looked at the smoke and dust with an unkind face, and then turned his gaze to the sea prince.
The sea prince said: "I promise that the poisonous wine is not caused by smoke and dust!" It has nothing to do with me. Our two families are allies, but also in-laws. What reason do I have to travel thousands of miles to poison the people of the Zhangxiong tribe to make revenge? I came to take the lord of Lan County as the princess, and I came so that our two tribes can be united forever and develop together. Someone must be trying to drive a wedge between our two clans, so they want to blame others! ”
Liu Hanye also felt that the situation was serious when he heard it, and he asked all the irrelevant people present to retreat, leaving only the Sea Prince, Yanchen and Excellence in the tent, as well as Yanlong Ye and Fushengye and the six of them.
Liu Hanye looked at the sea prince and said, "I believe that Your Highness will not be stupid enough to poison the prince of the Zhangxiong Department in front of everyone." ”
Fushengye picked up the wine jug on the Sea Prince's table and fiddled with the lid on the jug: "There are two independent inner tanks in this jug, and by flipping the mechanism on the lid of the jug, you can make the poured wine look like it comes from a jug, but in fact, the wine is not the same." The wine in it should be poisonous in one liner and non-poisonous in the other. ”
The sea prince said: "This kind of wine jug is not rare, but I swear that this matter has nothing to do with me. ”
Fusheng Ye nodded and began to tell about someone who wanted to kill Yan Longye and blame the Sea Prince.
He didn't tell everyone the source of the news, only that the news was absolutely accurate, and that everyone should be on guard and work together to find the assassin hiding next to the Sea Prince.
Prince Hai said: "The smoke and dust and Mr. Excellence around me are both old men who have followed my father for many years, and they are absolutely trustworthy. ”
Yan Long Ye knew that the eldest brother had come to save him, so he hurriedly apologized to Fusheng Ye.
Fushengye said: "I may be a little harsh on you, but I will never hurt you, I will only protect you, because I am your brother!" ”
The sea prince reprimanded Yanchen in front of several people, and asked him to immediately interrogate several other singers to find out who was behind the poisonous wine as soon as possible.