Lin Ying scoffed at King Song's letter, read it hastily, folded it and handed it to Shu'er.

Shu'er didn't look at it, but changed hands and gave the letter to Yan Qing, who was coming over to serve tea.

Liu En plucked the seven strings with one hand and looked at Shu'er hopefully: "Mother, when will I see Daddy Song?" ”

Shu'er didn't answer and asked: "Haven't you never seen Grandpa Zhao?" ”

Liu En looked at the small wooden sword held in his other hand again, and persevered: "Then when will I see Grandpa Zhao?" ”

Shu'er sighed: "A few years ago, His Royal Highness King Zhao personally went out to defend Wucheng, and was seriously injured by the warriors of the Rong clan, and he has been unable to move. I heard that he has been in repeated pain in recent days, and he has not gone to the Zhao Dynasty meeting. If you want to see His Royal Highness King Zhao, you can only go to Pingliang Ninghe Palace in person to meet him. In a few years, when you grow up, when everything is safe in Chu State, my mother will take you to Zhao State to meet His Royal Highness King Zhao. ”

Liu En nodded, but still looked at Shu'er, waiting for her other answer.

Lin Ying knew that Shu'er had never mentioned King Liu of Song in the past three years, and had never asked anyone about the situation of the Song Kingdom, so she relieved her and said: "Xiao En, King Song is very busy, much busier than me, the King of Chu!" I can't even spare time to take you to the Song Kingdom to play, how can the King of Song have time to come to our Chu Kingdom? ”

Liu En pouted: "But everyone says that King Song is my father!" Why didn't he come to see me? Why don't you take me to Song Kingdom to play? ”

Lin Ying smiled evilly and said, "In my opinion, although King Song is your father, you are not his son!" You are just his daughter, and you can't help him govern the country, what can he do to raise you? Since he doesn't want to support you, he comes all the way to see what you do? ”

Shu'er glared at Lin Ying, but did not stop him from continuing to slander King Song.

Lin Ying saw Liu En stunned pitifully, and comforted: "It's okay, your father of King Song doesn't want you, don't you still have your mother and uncle, and Xiaoying, we won't leave you." ”

Liu En lowered his head and muttered aggrievedly: "Why can't my daughter govern the country......"

Lin Ying smiled: "That's right! Why can't a woman govern the country? Look at Duguqing, the princess of Zhao Kingdom, she is governing the country for her brother! It can be seen that your 'Father Song Wang' is really narrow-minded! Such a 'Daddy', don't do it! ”

Lin Ying saw that Liu En was still unhappy, so she hugged her: "Let's go!" Xiao Ying will take you to the Sycamore Hall to choose a gift! Then he turned back to Dongfang Shu and Shu'er and said, "Dinner and good wine have been prepared in the Wutong Palace, and our family has not been together for a long time to have a good meal." ”

The Wutong Hall is brightly lit, and a dazzling array of delicacies from the mountains and seas have been placed on the dining table, all of which are made by the imperial chef of the Chu Palace personally selected by Lin Ying.

Liu En was accustomed to seeing the delicacies in the palace, and he was not hungry at this time, so he was not interested in eating at that table, but asked Lin Ying: "Xiaoying, where is my gift?" ”

Lin Ying said: "The old rule, the things in Xiao Ying's room, Xiao En can take them at will." ”

Liu En scratched his head and looked at Shu'er: "Mother, what did I take last year and last year?" ”

Without waiting for Shu'er to answer, Lin Ying smiled and said: "That's not called 'going to last year', but 'the year before last'." The year before last, you couldn't say anything good, so I took a white Qi white jade rod hare brush and gestured to compete with your uncle. Last year, you had to ask me to play a tune for you, and I fell asleep while I played it, and I didn't choose anything, and I sent the tail piano to your Xinlan Hall the next day, and I haven't seen you play it to this day. Now that you are in good spirits, hurry up and carefully turn my Wutong Hall upside down before you are full and sleepy. ”

Lin Ying, Shu'er, and Dongfang Shou sat down for dinner, while Liu En ran to Lin Ying's bookcase and began to flip through it at will.

Shu'er saw that her daughter was rude, so she called her over and reprimanded: "Didn't my mother teach you? Don't mess with other people's things! What's more, His Highness's bookcase is full of neatly arranged chapters, all the affairs related to our Chu State are extremely important and extremely confidential, how can you turn them at will? ”

Liu En was puzzled: "What is so important?" ”

Dongfang said: "In short, Xiao En, His Royal Highness's book case is the country of our Chu country. If you mess with His Highness's bookcase, you will mess with the country of Chu. Therefore, Your Highness's bookcase, you still don't touch it. ”

Liu En lowered his head and thought about it, then suddenly raised his head, and looked at the King of Chu with curiosity and hope: "Xiaoying, since the rivers and mountains of Chu are also things in your house, then you can give me the rivers and mountains, okay?" ”

Lin Ying was stunned for a moment, then rolled her eyes, took off the ink-colored diamond jade dragon pattern jade pendant hanging from her waist, and held it to Liu En with both hands. Liu En took the jade pendant and carefully rubbed it with his little hand while listening to Lin Ying: "Xiao En, the rivers and mountains of Chu are all in your palm." ”

Shu'er looked at the familiar jade pendant and suddenly felt that time had flown by

At the age of nine, she followed Yan Xiao and Song Yun to the palace of Yu Lingsheng in Chu State, which coincided with the fifth birthday banquet of the little lord. That night, King You of Chu died violently in Linjiang Zhaohuang Palace, and King Sheng and Dongfang Yu, the guest of the palace at that time, immediately foresaw the collapse of the Chu State, so they decided to send the princess and the little lord out of the Chu State. Before leaving, King Sheng gave his jade pendant to his only son.

Shu'er knew that this jade pendant was also the most valuable object given to him by Lin Ying's father, and even the only object.

Dongfang Chu sensed Shu'er's surprise and couldn't help asking, "Your Highness, this jade pendant ...... How is it the country of Chu? ”

Lin Ying's tone was calm, as if what she said had nothing to do with her: "If you want to talk about the origin of this jade pendant, it goes back many years, and at that time, we were not born.

The widow heard the historian say that before King Wu of Song raised troops to destroy the Wei Kingdom, King Wei Bei had already anticipated the ambition of King Wu of Song, so he planned to marry Qi in the south and make friends with Chu in the east, so that the Song State could suffer from the enemy.

Jiang Ji, the crown prince of Weiguo, and Xiao Yi, the princess of Qi, made a baby kiss, and Qi Wei and Wei successfully reached a marriage alliance to resist the Song army together.

And the widow's grandfather, King Chu You, was not as impulsive as King Qi Ai. The envoy of the patriotic state entered Chu through the Song realm with great difficulty and danger, and brought the largest, most complete, and purest color of the diamond jade hidden in the Lingxi Palace of the patriotic country, and presented it to the extravagant King of Chu You, hoping that he would be able to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty as soon as he was happy.

However, the king of Chu You was unwilling to offend the powerful Song State on the other side of the Chu River for the sake of Qi Wei and the two countries far west of the Song State, nor was he willing to refuse the envoy of the Wei Kingdom. So, he decided to stall for time.

He deliberately made things difficult for the envoys of the country, saying that he would make this piece of diamond jade into seven jade pendants and give them to each of his seven sons at their birthday banquet. The patriotic envoy returned to the patriotic country and invited the best jade craftsmen in the Lingxi Palace, and lived in this Zhaohuang Palace for half a year, day and night, before creating seven exquisite dragon pattern jade pendants. However, by the time King Chu You gave these seven jade pendants to his seven sons, two years had passed, the Wei Kingdom had been destroyed, and King Wu of Song had begun to attack the Qi State.

The state of Chu did not send troops to aid Qi Wei at all, and obtained the best jade for the defense of the country in vain. When the widow lived in Chen State, he heard Chen Guo's storyteller say that the disaster of the Seven Kings in Chu Realm was caused by these seven jade pendants obtained for nothing. There is a saying in the defense of the country, 'The soul of injustice is attached to the instrument, and the instrument produces a curse, and the curse produces chaos.' 'According to what Fang Shi said, the unjust soul of defending the country is really powerful.

However, the widow never believed in these strange powers. Even if there is really a soul attached to these seven jade pendants, when the first king gave the six kings to die, the other six jade pendants have been smashed and entered into the ground with the six kings, and only the widow is left, what strange power can there be to mess up? What's more, the state of Chu and the country of Wei really don't have any deep hatred, but it's just a 'no merit and no luck' passing by. King Chu You entered the soil, and the seven kings of Chu also entered the soil, and this last diamond jade pendant should also be stopped.

But since some people think that the vajra jade of the country can disturb the rivers and mountains of the Chu State, then the widow gave this jade pendant to Xiao En, and gave her this 'divine power' that can 'mess with Chu', which is equivalent to giving her the rivers and mountains of the Chu State, and let her play with it in the palm of her hand.

That's just one of the reasons.

Another reason is the reason why the widow really wants to give this jade pendant to Xiao En. ”

Dongfang looked at Lin Ying deeply, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, only to hear Lin Ying continue: "When my father gave this jade pendant to the widow, the widow had just turned five years old and was about to leave the Chu State and live in the Chen State to escape the war. My father asked me to take this jade pendant, which can be used as a customs clearance document for Guichu in the future. Later, the widow really returned to Chu smoothly.

The widow gave the jade pendant to Xiao En, thinking that if Xiao En also left the Chu State one day, as long as she took the jade pendant, the jade pendant would escort her back smoothly. ”

After saying that, Lin Ying smiled coldly again: "After all, if you don't return to Chu State, how can you 'mess with Chu'?" ”