Chapter 16: The Perfect Plan
"No, I can do it myself." Xu Xi politely refused.
"Then go take a hot bath." Pei Huai said to Xu Xi.
"Yes."
After talking, Xu Xi went back to the house, only to find Gu Chaoci sitting on the bed in his room waiting for her.
"How's it going? How's it going? As soon as Xu Xi stepped into the room, Gu Chaoci came up and took Xu Xi's hand and asked.
Xu Xi walked to the side of the bed tiredly and lay lazily on the bed like an out-of-body soul.
"Oh, you replied, you don't say anything. Confused me. Gu Chaoci complained.
"Of course, the plan went perfectly, and the Jin Yijun no longer exists." Xu Xi said with joy on his face.
After Gu Chaoci heard this, he said with some pride: "Really? That's great, my gunpowder is working, too! ”
"Yes, yes, thanks to the eldest lady who researched the gunpowder diagram." Xu Xi saw that she was so proud, so he replied obediently.
"His Royal Highness King Yan! The Southern Jin army ...... It was indeed annihilated!"
The spy buried his head deep between his knees, kneeling in the tall and glorious hall, his body trembling a little.
The corners of Wen Min's mouth couldn't help twitching, what he didn't expect was that Jinghu Palace and Pei Huai moved so fast, although the final victory belonged to Beiyan undoubtedly, but he always felt a wave of anger in his heart.
"How did they do it?"
Wen Min, who has been in power for a certain time, has a flat tone, but it makes people shudder.
"No...... I don't know!"
"Uh-huh!"
Jinghu Palace's plan for this move was complete and very fast, and it can be said that the spies who came later saw only a ruin.
Wen Min was very displeased, his eyebrows were already wrinkled, and his fists were clenched tightly.
"Your Highness! This matter is a little strange, and it is the hand of Jinghu Palace, so it is excusable that there is no information to investigate, and I hope that His Royal Highness will atone for his sins. ”
When Wen Min's emotions were a little out of control, Sikong Yi couldn't help but stand up anymore. Since Wen Min was supported by Pei Huai to succeed to the throne, his temperament is no longer the same as it was back then.
Now he has become a little absurd and debauched, even Sikong Yi can't stand it, but Sikong Yi's temperament and belief in the purpose is to require him to be loyal to the monarch.
Sikong Yi's sudden appearance made Wen Min a little resentful, he was a little disgusted with the behavior of this group of courtiers to restrain him, but he was a little helpless against them, so he could only hold back the anger in his heart.
After staring at the people below the hall for a long time, he let go of his clenched fist, his face was expressionless, and he waved his hand at the people in the audience, signaling to disperse and leave.
The crowd was bustling, Yanran did not have the seriousness that the court should have, Sikong Yi looked at his king, with a helpless expression on his face, I don't know why he shook his belief a little, shook his head and sighed, he also dispersed with the crowd.
"Young master, please stay!"
Before he left the main hall for a long time, it was the spy who came, Sikong Yi was a little surprised, he didn't expect him to come to thank him.
Naturally, he didn't care about a small spy, but his intuition told him that he could get some information about the annihilation of the Jin army from him.
"You mean...... All the land you see is scorched, and the corpses are scattered and charred to varying degrees!"
Sikong Yi seemed to have discovered some important information during the conversation with him, so he immediately became serious, listening carefully to every little detail in the spies' narrative.
Sikong Yi kept guessing his thoughts, and the spy nodded vigorously, and he also confirmed the conjecture in his heart step by step - the thing that annihilated the entire army of the Southern Jin Dynasty was gunpowder, and only after this thing was used would there be such a result.
What did Jinghu Palace want to do, since there were firearms, why didn't they turn them in.
One by one, thoughts flashed in Sikong Yi's mind, and he even guessed that Pei Huai wanted to rebel! However, with his understanding of Pei Huai, this idea was quickly denied by himself.
A little sad, Sikong Yi signaled to the spies and left directly.
At the end of the eighth year of Chunyuan, Sikong Yi fell ill at home and recuperated at home for a long time.
The situation in the court has become delicate, and Pei Huai and Wen Min, the king of Northern Yan, seem to be getting less and less able to deal with each other, which makes Sikong Yi very anxious, he is a little worried, worried that Pei Huai really has a firearm and really plans to rebel, and he really can't stand the current king.
In the ninth year of Chunyuan, the comet first appeared in the east, the comet for people means the meaning of the broom star, and Sikong Yi, who stayed at home, could no longer sit still, which was a bad omen!
"Master! The appearance of a comet in the east is a bad omen, what should we do? ”
Nie Chengwei watched the sky at night and found that such a situation was immediately reported to Pei Huai, but Pei Huai was full of joy and comfortable talking to Xu Xi, pulling some strange forces.
"Xu Xi! What do you think? ”
Pei Huai didn't open his mouth to answer his eldest apprentice's question, he blinked a few times with a pair of beautiful eyes, and then his eyes fell on Xu Xi, who was drooping his head, but he saw that Xu Xi was still in that posture, and he didn't take this matter to heart at all.
For Xu Xi, comets and other things are just natural phenomena, and of course she doesn't take this seriously!
"Haha...... Hahaha! It seems that Xu Xi doesn't pay much attention to this matter? Let me deduce that!"
Xu Xi didn't say anything, which made Pei Huai, who was a teacher, a little embarrassed, which was too bad for him!
The slender hand picked up a few drops of water and picked a few leaves from the side, Pei Huai directly started the deduction, which attracted Xu Xi at once, this kind of miraculous thing, Xu Xi has always been suspicious.
As an outstanding young man from modern times, she believes in science and technology, and she feels more or less ridiculous about Pei Huai's current behavior.
But suddenly she thought about it, didn't she cross over?
It's all possible, and what's impossible to deduce the future situation.
She looked at Pei Huai quietly, her fingers slid on the water droplets, and the round beads really slid with his hand, without spreading out a little bit, and the orderly rhythm looked at Xu Xi a little obsessed, because it was amazing.
At this time, a few leaves were suddenly thrown on top of the water droplets, and the leaves suddenly dispersed the water droplets, Pei Huai's brows also suddenly tightened, and his face didn't look good!
"Master!" Nie Chengwei was also shocked, he couldn't help but jump out of the word master, and his heart tightened, this is a big omen! There is no game to break - a game of death!
"Master!"
Pei Huai looked at the pattern blankly, as if he hadn't eased up, Nie Chengwei shouted a few more times, and then he finally responded gently.
Pei Huai's eyes were a little distracted, looking at the two of them, I don't know how long it took to come to my senses.
"Something is wrong!" After holding it for a long time, Pei Huai held back such a sentence, and at this time, what he was most worried about was his relationship with Wen Min.
Now the relationship between the two is very ingenious, and Pei Huai at the beginning was to follow the will of the first emperor to support him to succeed to the throne. But now Wen Min has not reached Pei Huai's high expectations and has become a famous monarch.
All in all, Pei Huai was disappointed.
Xu Xi's expression was a little strange, now she can barely accept the existence of such a thing as deduction, but she still can't fully believe that a deduction can really calculate what will happen in the future.
"The broom star sweeps over, a great omen! A great omen!"
I don't know how many times I read it silently, Xu Xi really can't stand it now, how can these people be nervous one by one.
Success is in people, and things are in the sky, which is the only truth for Xu Xi, who once licked blood on the tip of the knife.
Looking at the pile of things on the table, he finally couldn't help it, and Xu Xi just fell to the ground.
But the water droplets and leaves were rearranged on the ground, and Pei Huai and Nie Chengwei's eyes lit up.
Both of their eyes fell on Xu Xi's body, this is a breakthrough! And the key figure turned out to be Xu Xi.
"Xu Xi! It's really wonderful!"
Nie Chengwei was very happy, for him who had learned divination and easy image, he understood the meaning of easy image.
Xu Xi listened with a confused face, what is the situation?
I saw that Pei Huai slowly explained at this time.
"The broom star is a great omen. What I just deduced is a dead end! This means we have no way back!" Pei Huai sighed softly, and Xiu's eyes moved slightly.
"Generally speaking, the dead end is unbreakable, although I don't know why this is happening, but the hexagram shows that you are the one who breaks the game!"
The breath held in his chest finally came out, and with a flick of his robe, Pei Huai returned to his original position. The agile eyes looked at He Shanshui in the distance, and a comet dragged its long tail along the horizon.
At the same time, in the imperial capital of Northern Yan, Sikong Yi looked at the white star with a solemn gaze. The broom star came to the world, this is a great disaster for the country and the people!
Thinking of those things vaguely related to Pei Huai, Sikong Yi was very uneasy.
"Secretly lead people to lurk in the imperial city, and if you find a suspicious person, you will be arrested immediately!"
Sikong Yi's voice is rarely cold, and sometimes his loyalty makes people feel a little pity, and it can only be said that he was born at the wrong time.
When his subordinates left, Sikong Yi fell into deep thought, he and Pei Huai have always stood on opposite sides, but they both know each other, they are all for Beiyan, for this kingdom that stands on this land in the north.
"Your Majesty! The vision from the sky is indeed a bad omen, I am afraid that there will be changes in my northern Yanjiang and mountains!"
Standing beside Wen Min, the king of Beiyan, was a man with flowery hair, he bent down respectfully, but a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.
It seems that he is also quick to get rid of Pei Huai, and sure enough, Pei Huai is a big trick.
"Hmmm......"
The man sitting on the throne replied in a dull voice, Pei Huai - he was very jealous. It was he who had put himself on the throne, and he was afraid that he would one day break him down.
"Give me a good eye on Pei Huai and watch his every move! Anything has to be reported to me!"
Wen Min's brows tightened, he looked at the rain outside the window, it was dull and a little uncomfortable, and the contradiction between Pei Huai and him finally began from this moment.
The last sentence, he said word by word.
"If there is a motive for rebellion, execute on the spot! Kill or kill!"