Chen Guofanjing has many song and dance studios, in order to distinguish them from prostitute houses, the names of song and dance studios are all sunny and snowy, and the names of prostitute houses are all flowery. Although the song and dance studio is also secretly engaged in a high-priced prostitution business, it is all elegant on the surface. There is only one song and dance shop, which has neither an elegant name nor a prostitute business, and ordinary people cannot afford to redeem the women of this song and dance shop. The first beauty in Fanjing, Liu Waist, comes from this song and dance workshop called "Dance Workshop".

The eldest son of Chen Guoguo's prime minister's mansion is called Li Chen, who is a mediocre person who never shows his dew. Ordinary people can't remember what he looks like when they see him, and he often walks alone in plain clothes, and only the owner of the dance shop he often visits can recognize him at a glance, and comes over with a smile but a little complaint: "It's been a long time since I've seen Li Gongzi!" Since Liu Waist married to the Song Kingdom, you won't come to see me, an old woman! He also greeted the girl in the dance workshop: "Xi'er, hurry up and make tea, prepare some fruits, Li Gongzi is here." ”

Li Chen glanced at the Fanjing No. 1 Song and Dance Workshop, which was becoming depressed due to the departure of the first beauty in Fanjing, and comforted: "Aunt Su can cultivate a queen of Chen Guo, a first dancing girl of Chen Guo, and she can also cultivate more beauties famous in Kyushu in the future." ”

Su Rui, the owner of the dance workshop, led Li Chen to the inner room, while looking at the young man walking beside Chen Guoguo's son. Su Rui has lived in the dance workshop for 40 years and has seen all kinds of men, most of them are rich people who are elegant and greedy for beauty, and occasionally there are elegant sons like Li Chen who are noble but not inconspicuous. But she has never seen a character like Gongzi walking beside Li Chen today.

The boy is unforgettable, and his dark and silent eyes are plain but hide deep hatred. His black hair was draped, casually tied with a silver mulberry ribbon. He was dressed in the wide robe and big sleeves of the Chu State, and a long sword hung from his waist, as if he was a down-and-out Jianghu man, and it was difficult to hide his unruly and noble spirit. Aunt Su Rui felt that this young man had a great background, and couldn't help asking: "This son seems to be from the Chu State, but I don't know if it's the first time to come to my Chen Guofanjing?" ”

The boy replied with a cold face: "I have been in Fanjing many times. ”

Li Chen smiled and said, "Aunt Su, this friend of mine has traveled around Kyushu since he was a child, and he has probably been to more places than you have heard of Aunt Su. ”

Su Rui pretended to complain and said, "Since Gongzi has been to Fanjing several times, why did I see you in the dance workshop for the first time!" ”

Li Chen said: "Although he has been to the dance workshop, he is close friends with the four beauties we sent to the Song Kingdom. In recent days, Chen Guo's new tunes have all been made by my friend. ”

The three of them walked to a private room, and Su Rui was about to ask them if they were eating tea or listening to music, when Li Chen suddenly turned cold and whispered, "Aunt Su, please close the door, I have something to tell you." ”

Su Rui closed the door, and the three of them were all sitting upright.

Li Chen said: "Aunt Su, do you know that Liu Waist is a chess piece that we sent to the Song Kingdom?" ”

Su Rui looked at Li Chen coldly and said, "Li Gongzi, which woman who went out of our dance workshop is not a chess piece?" Those with mediocre posture have become useless chess pieces, and those with outstanding posture are chess pieces that can affect the rise and fall of the country. In addition to the queen's mother, Liu Waist is the most beautiful woman I Su Rui has ever seen, and I have long expected her to use her as a chess piece. And those three girls, who are also your pawns? ”

Li Chen said: "Those three, I don't know, only the willow waist is a chess piece." ”

Su Rui sighed: "In this way, you are just using the three innocent girls to make up the numbers. You men always like to treat women as objects. ”

Li Chen smiled bitterly: "Liu Yuan also begged me to let the three of them go, and it was enough to send her to Song Kingdom alone." But the Chen Kingdom was prosperous, and he intended to make friends with the Song Kingdom, so he did not send the princess to the Song Kingdom, but only sent a dancing girl to the Song Kingdom, which inevitably provoked the tongue, so I simply created the four beauties of the Chen Kingdom by myself, and dedicated them to the King of Song together. ”

Su Rui asked, "But why willow waist?" With all due respect, Li Gongzi has known Liu Waist for many years and has always taken care of her in every way, don't you want to keep her by your side? If it weren't for Willow Waist to be friendly with you, I wouldn't have taken special care of her, and gave her the best girl in the dance studio, the best rouge gouache, and the best silk and satin. ”

The prince of Chu glanced at Li Chen, and Li Chen said: "I respect and pity the willow waist, and I have no personal feelings. When I met her, she disguised herself as a man, and talked to me about the national policy of the Chen and Song dynasties, and I always wanted to recruit her to our prime minister's mansion to serve the country, who knew that she was not only a woman, but also a dancer in the dance workshop. To tell you the truth, it wasn't my idea to send her to Song, but hers. When she was dressed as a man, she told me about this plan. Later, she asked me to help her, and took advantage of the reputation of my son Chen Guoguo's love for her for many years, and turned her into the first dancing girl of Chen Guo, and then dedicated her to the Song Kingdom to assassinate the King of Song. ”

Su Rui gasped, and finally showed a surprised expression: "Li Gongzi said that Liu Waist offered advice to let you send her to the Song Kingdom to assassinate the King of Song?" ”

Li Chen said: "Exactly. I came to tell Aunt Su that if the assassination of Willow Waist was successful, the dance shop would be closed. In order to give Song Guo an explanation, we must arrest everyone in the dance workshop, especially Aunt Su. ”

Su Rui said calmly: "In that case, I am waiting for Li Gongzi's arrest warrant." ”

Li Chen said: "Aunt Su is too worried, you have not only taken care of the current queen mother, but also taken care of Liu Wei for many years, I will not arrest you in public or private." I came here today just to let you know some ins and outs, and the closure of the dance workshop is what Chen Guo owes you. In the past few days, you have been waiting for my news, Song Guo, as soon as there is a rumor, I will immediately send someone to escort you out of Chen Guo, and then we will search for the owner of the dance shop in Chen Guo, and from then on, we will have to wronged Aunt Su incognito and live in a foreign country. ”

Su Rui said: "Thank you Gongzi Li for sparing my life." I just don't know anything. Why did Liu Waist take the initiative to invite him to the Song Kingdom to assassinate the King of Song? She is a dancer of Chen Guo, what deep hatred can she have with King Song? ”

Li Chen said: "She told me that she grew up with her brother since she was a child, her brother was a soldier who defended the country, the defense of the country was destroyed by the Song State, her brother died tragically on the battlefield, and she has always wanted to avenge her brother." ”

Su Rui was suspicious when she heard it, and before she had time to think about it, she only heard a few hasty knocks on the door, and someone whispered outside the door: "May I ask if my son-in-law is inside?" ”

Li Chen got up to open the door, and saw that his personal guard was pale, as if he had something important to report. The guard said: "Childe, it's not good, the king received the envoy who had just returned from the Song Kingdom, and he was furious. The lord told you to hurry home! ”

Li Chen asked, "Who came back from the Song Kingdom?" Is it Zhang Ling who escorted Liu Waist and them to the Song Kingdom? Is something wrong with Song Guo? ”

The guard nodded and said, "Song Guo didn't have an accident!" Something is going on in our house! Lord Zhang said that the willow-waisted girl openly assassinated the new Song King at the Kyushu State Banquet in the White Jade Palace of the Song Kingdom. The king said that Chen Guosimei was sent to Song Guo as a guarantee by our government, and if Song Guo was angry and attacked Chen Guo, the first unlucky one would be our Prime Minister's Mansion. ”

Li Chen was thinking about why Liu Yi wanted to openly assassinate him at the state banquet, when the prince of Chu Guo, who had not spoken for a long time beside him, suddenly asked, "Has Miss Liu been arrested?" ”

The guard didn't answer him, but said to Li Chen with a pale face, "Lord Zhang said...... Miss Liu is Xiao Yi, the princess of Qi Kingdom, and everyone at the state banquet in Kyushu heard it clearly. She is the princess of the dead country who avenged the Qi country...... The king said that the involvement of our Prime Minister's Mansion with the old people of Qi is an ominous disaster...... Childe, hurry back home! ”

Li Chen looked at the guards in surprise: "You said that Liu Waist is the princess of Qi Guoyi?" ”

The prince of Chu grabbed the guard, and asked sharply again, "Has she been arrested?" ”

The guard said, "Listen...... Listening to Lord Zhang, the king of the new Song Dynasty is not the rumored sick seedling and puppet king at all, he captured the princess of Qi and detained her as a sentient being. Lord Zhang said that the new Song Dynasty king was calm and unfathomable, and was assassinated in public, but he did not get angry, and let the assassin and the other three Chen women take him down, and he continued to eat with the envoys of all countries, and let Zhang go, as if nothing had happened. ”

The prince of Chu put down his guard, saluted Li Chen, and said, "Farewell." Then he hurriedly drove away, mounted his horse, galloped, and galloped towards the Song Guoyu capital in the southeast.

Li Chen looked at the back of Zhuge who was riding away from the window, and said to Su Rui with a sigh: "Aunt Su, although I have known Liu Waist for many years, it is not as good as the first time my friend saw her on the old city tower at that time. ”

******

The horses' hooves broke the silence in the dense forest on the border of Chen and Zhao. When the last rays of the sunset in the woods were swallowed up by darkness, Zhuge escaped and dismounted, closing his eyes and resting under an old tree. After two days of continuous driving, you can enter Zhao Kingdom tomorrow to change horses, and after another six days, you can barely ride to the Yudu of Song Kingdom. He counted in his heart, and he was already swept over by sleepiness.

He had a dream in which he, in a jade crown and brocade robe, rode a horse to a woman in red. He ran towards her for a long, long time, and finally came to her. He said: "Xiao Yi, Qi Guo and Wei Guo exchanged you and my birth dates, and you are destined to be my wife as soon as you are born." ”

The woman in red said indifferently: "Childe, you recognize the wrong person." I am the dancer of Chen Guo, not the princess of Qi Kingdom. ”

He hugged her and said, "You come with me, don't go to the Song Kingdom." ”

The woman in red pushed him away and said firmly: "I'm going to the Jade Capital of Qi Kingdom, and I won't go with you." She turned to leave, but he hugged her from behind and said, "You go to Yudu to die, do you think it is so easy to assassinate the lord of a country?" She struggled to leave, and he said, "How can you die if you have not even lived?" ”

She stopped struggling and asked, "How can I survive it?" ”

He said, "Fulfill the promise between you and me." ”

She asked, "What promise do I have with you?" ”

He said: "You and I have exchanged tokens, exchanged birthdays, dowry gifts, and documents, and you want to marry me." ”

In the cold morning, when I woke up from my dream, the woman in red in my dream was finally gone. He felt a chill and opened his eyes in confusion, and the birds in the forest were chirping in twos and threes, but he was only one person. He stretched his muscles and turned on his horse. Although he was bitter for a moment when he woke up, at this time, he suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth. Xiao Yi, I really didn't admit you, as long as King Song hasn't executed you, I will definitely rescue you! This time, I'm not going to let go.

******

When Zhuge escaped and arrived in the jade capital, it was already autumn. He originally wanted to find a few noble relatives and friends he had made in Yudu a few years ago after settling down in the inn, and ask them about the whereabouts of the princess of Qi who assassinated the king of Song, but he didn't expect that when he was eating a bowl of noodles in the restaurant, the people at several tables next to him were all talking about the princess of Qi assassinating the king of Song, and he could hear far more than he wanted to know when he just sat quietly. It turned out that the story of the princess of the dead country assassinating the puppet King Song had spread all over the teahouses and restaurants of the Song Kingdom.

Zhuge escaped to a chubby man at the next table and said, "It turns out that our new Song King is actually hidden!" My uncle was a palace guard, and I often heard him describe the burly of King Wu and the heroic posture of the crown prince, but I never heard him mention the appearance of the second prince of the Song Kingdom......"

Another man beside him interrupted: "Brother Tai, be quiet, our king is already a king, don't call him 'Second Prince of Song Kingdom' anymore!" Beware of being heard. ”

The slightly chubby man smiled and retracted his voice: "I don't have any bad words about him!" I'm complimenting him. thinks that his brother followed King Wu to defend the country and conquer the Qi country in the south, and the reputation of the prince was of course overpowered his sick second son. But who would have thought that he would be able to capture the princess of Qi with high martial arts skills at the state banquet in Kyushu without much effort! King Wu has been assassinated so many times, and he has never captured an assassin alive with his bare hands! ”

"How do you know that the princess of Qi is strong in martial arts? Maybe the princess of Qi is a weak woman! ”

The slightly chubby man described it with his eyebrows fluttering: "My uncle saw it!" My uncle was a centurion who followed King Wu to conquer the Juncheng of Qi, and one person could bring down five men. But guess what, he can't beat that princess of Qi at all! The princess of the Qi Kingdom was as light as a swallow and very agile, and she dodged her uncle's sword with a whoosh. Before my uncle could see what was going on, she had already slapped him on the back of the neck. Her target was not her uncle, so she didn't fight with her uncle and went straight to our king. ”

The chubby man took a sip of wine, and the man next to him listened attentively and asked, "And then?" ”

"The state banquet in Kyushu, but the state banquet that invited envoys from Chen, Chu, Zhao, and Shu, how could there be only one guard for my uncle? Above the main hall, there were at least a dozen or so guards, who wanted to catch the princess of the Qi Kingdom. I didn't expect her to be so fast, so vicious, more than a dozen guards, none of them could get close to her, and those who got close were beaten half to death. My uncle is still in bed. The doctor said that it was fortunate that the assassin did not go against his uncle, nor did he go against him, otherwise his uncle would not have been in bed for three months. ”

"Really? The princess of Qi is just a woman, how can she be so good? ”

"After she knocked down the guards in the hall, she rushed directly to our king. The king is good, he put down his chopsticks unhurriedly, divided five by two, and directly restrained the hands of the princess of Qi Kingdom, and after a few words of her, he asked someone to take her down. After that, our king should listen to the tune and listen to the tune, not only entertaining the envoy of Chen Guo with generous gifts, but also laughing at the three dancing girls of Chen Guo who were sent together with the princess of Qi State. ”

"What does this have to do with Chen Guo?"

"The princess of Qi was sent to the White Jade Palace as the first dancer of Chen Kingdom!"

"This princess of Qi openly assassinated the king, it was a big crime to cut off her head, why didn't she listen to the king's order to cut off her head?"

"Who knows? Maybe the king didn't take this girl in his eyes at all, first locked her up for a while, served her with a big punishment, and by the way, asked about the whereabouts of the remnants of the Qi Kingdom, and then asked about the beheading. Or maybe the king is benevolent and righteous, according to the law of the Song Dynasty, and does not deal with women and children with the death penalty. But this matter is known to the market, and sooner or later the king will deal with it publicly. ”

"It seems that although this princess of Qi is a heroine among women, she is also more than lucky."

"I won't tell you, I have a relative who is from Qi State, he said that the princess of Qi State is five years old and good at the qin, ice and snow are smart, and she fled to the people when Qi destroyed the country, and the old people of Qi Kingdom hope that she is still alive, and it can be regarded as a thought for Qi people. I didn't expect her to dare to assassinate the king. The punishment of the Song Kingdom was harsh, even if he escaped the death penalty, it was a pity for this strange woman. ”

Zhuge got up and saluted the few people at the next table: "Forgive me for being rude, I overheard you talking about the assassination of the princess of Qi Kingdom. Dare to ask if you know the whereabouts of the princess of the Qi Kingdom? Where is she being held? ”

The chubby man said, "Brother Tai is exempt." As far as I know, the king did not escort her to any prison, presumably she was still imprisoned in the White Jade Palace. Looking at Brother Tai's dress, he should be from Chu State, could it be that this matter has also spread to Chu State? ”

Zhuge said, "Thank you for your advice." I still have important things to do, so I won't talk to you more. You paid for the drinks. So he hurriedly checked out the bill and rushed to the White Jade Palace, leaving those people looking at each other.