On the third day of Kang Yu's hostage, a fire broke out in a courtyard of the palace, which happened to be close to the kitchen, so the fire was quickly discovered and extinguished in time.

But Kang Jue inexplicably made a big fire, beat the servants who guarded the courtyard, and put them in the prison and were not allowed to come out, and the servants in the palace were all frightened, and they didn't know when the disaster would befall them.

The area of the fire in the yard is not large, but there is snow everywhere, how can a fire be caused without combustibles?

Kangjue took his personal guards to check in the courtyard several times, but found no valuable clues.

"Wang, could this matter have anything to do with that man?"

Kang Jue's face was gloomy, and his eyes were gloomy as he stared at the neatly stacked boxes in the room.

"It must be Mu Qingao's trick." Conjue gritted his teeth.

The guard was stunned, "Wang, Lord Jing has been wandering around the border, and the wire report sent yesterday also said that he was ...... in the south."

Kang Jue interrupted him impatiently, "Hmph, that's just a trick, if I guess correctly, he is the one who took away the seventh child." ”

"Wang ......" The guard looked at him in surprise, and he didn't understand why Kang Jue rejected that day's proposal, if that person was really King Jing, it was obvious that his proposal would not do any harm to Beihu.

Thinking of the last glance of the Seventh Highness at the resentful glance, the corners of the guard's mouth twitched, the Seventh Highness and the king are siblings, and they are also the only surviving prince of the Beihu royal family, the king will not abandon his past promise and want to kill the Seventh Highness by the hands of others, right?

"What are you thinking?" Kang Jue's cold and fierce eyes made the guards feel a pang of despair, and he forgot to manage his expression in front of Kang Jue.

"The subordinates are guilty, please punish the king!"

Conjue flew up and kicked him in the heart, and the guard fell to the ground in pain, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"What I want is an obedient dog, what kind of thing are you, dare to wantonly speculate on the king's mind?"

Kang Jue brushed his sleeves away, furious, and the servants he met along the way were all scolded by him.

Back in the dormitory, the maid brought a cup of hot tea, and the upset Kangjue knocked it to the ground, and the maid lowered her head to pick up the broken porcelain, and after a while, she brought a new cup of tea.

"Get out!" Kangjue waved his sleeves and was about to sweep away the teacup, but was quickly dodged by the maid.

"Wang, tea can clear the eyes and clear the fire, you better drink some."

Kang Jue turned around suddenly, grabbed the maid's neck directly with his big hand and pushed her against the opposite wall, pinched her chin hard and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Wang, my name is Xie Min, and I'm from Gusu, Da Zhou."

"Da Zhou?" The strength in Kangjue's hand increased, Xie Min was a little unbearable, and the tears of pain were about to roll down.

"Calm your anger, king, I didn't come in with a big disrespect to the king, but I had a good proposal to cooperate with the king."

"Fool who doesn't measure himself, aren't you afraid that I will strangle you? Why should I believe you? ”

Xie Min darkened his eyes and said obscurely, "I'm afraid!" Of course I was afraid, but the fact that the king did not do so shows that I am not a threat to the king, but on the contrary, I can help the king so that he can get what he wants. ”

Kangjue snorted coldly, "Do you know what I want? ”

"The little woman dared to guess that since October last year, Beihu has ushered in continuous blizzards, and the king who loves his people is anxious, but the neighboring countries have not reached out to help Wang tide over the difficulties, so Wang has to acquiesce to the Beihu people to cross the border to the Great Zhou Dynasty to burn and plunder, and do ...... misdeeds."

Hearing this, Kang Jue's hand strength increased a little more, Xie Min's face turned purple, and he coughed violently.

"Wang ...... King...... Listen to me......"

Kang Jue's narrow eyes were full of anger, "I didn't kill you at the first time, it doesn't mean that I won't kill you now, it was the Emperor of the Great Zhou who sent you?" Or Mu Qingao's spy......"

"Wang ......" Xie Min struggled hard, his breathing became weaker and weaker, and his eyes bulged out like a person about to drown.

"Wang, I am from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou, please ...... Please ...... king."

"Mu Qingsong?"

Xie Min nodded violently, Kang Jue finally let go of his hand, Xie Min fell to the ground weakly, coughing violently, and it took a long time to recover.

At this time, Kang Jue sat there drinking tea for a long time, his sharp eyes locked on Xie Min on the ground, "Say, what did he ask you to do?" ”

"Wang, there is a good deal, the king will definitely be interested."

"Tell me about it."

"The king has heard of such a thing as stone paint, right?" Xie Min wiped away the blood oozing from the corners of his mouth and said coldly.

Kangjue was noncommittal, slowly sipping the tea, and his posture was leisurely.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that if the king can help him do something, he is willing to provide the king with fifty barrels of stone paint to help you recover some stubborn tribes in Beihu and unify Beihu."

"It does sound tempting, but he Mu Qingsong's own status is in jeopardy, why does he think that this king will cooperate with him?"

"With those fifty barrels of stone paint, isn't this what the king wants most at the moment?"

Kang Jue was silent, in the courtyard where the fire was burning, there were five boxes of stone paint that he had worked so hard to find, a total of only about 100 catties, compared to 50 barrels, nearly 500 catties of stone paint, which was indeed very tempting.

"What are his conditions?"

"Kill Mu Qingao."

Kang Jue suddenly laughed and stared playfully at Xie Min, who was at a loss.

"This straw bag, is he afraid that Mu Qingao will snatch his status as a prince? When I work with him, it's an insult to my intelligence. ”

Xie Min's eyes widened in astonishment, "Wang, are you not satisfied with the conditions given by the crown prince?" ”

Kang Jue suddenly burst out of a ghostly fire, staring at Xie Min gloomily, "I won't kill you, you go back and tell that waste, if you want me to help, doesn't he think that fifty barrels of stone paint are too cheap to buy Mu Qingao's life?" ”

Xie Min fled from the palace in a hurry, and Xie Ying, who was hungry and cold outside, hurried up.

"Sister, what's wrong with your neck? Who was pinched like this? ”

"Let's go, this is not the place to talk." Xie Min pulled the chattering Xie Ying away in embarrassment, and soon two black shadows jumped out of the palace and followed them from a distance.

In the palace stables, the horse is fed by an old man sixty miles away with dark skin.

He carried a bowl of piping hot porridge into his dilapidated hut, and gently called to the dark corner, "Xiaobao, come out to eat." ”

Soon a little face like a pink ball was revealed in a pile of tattered cotton wool, and he saw that it was an old man he knew, so he moved his little short legs over and made a gesture, "Thank you, grandpa!" ”

The old man burst into tears excitedly, gently rubbed the child's face with his shriveled and cracked fingers, and said kindly, "Good, Xiaobao, when it gets dark, grandpa will go to the kitchen to ask you something delicious, Xiaobao obediently don't run around, you know?" ”

Dough Zi nodded solemnly, with a hint of wit in his big watery eyes, and squatted on the ground carefully, drinking gruel one by one.

After eating, the kid stood up and patted his little belly, signaled to the old man that he was full, and then walked straight back to the cotton wool, hiding himself in it, revealing two beautiful big eyes, "Grandpa, go get busy, I'll wait for grandpa to come back and sleep." ”

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