Yun Qingchen was slightly stunned and hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to say those things to Ye Zhaopei.

In normal times, Ye Zhaopei had to answer frankly about any matter in the palace, even if she did not have an official position, but only had the name of "Beauty Sword". But her relationship with the king is well known, and her power to inquire about everything is also acquiesced by the king.

But now Ye Zhaopei's identity is embarrassing.

Seeing him like this, Ye Zhaopei couldn't help but smile and said, "If I want to kill the king, why bother sending assassins." It's good that I can kill it single-handedly, and the people in this whole Ledu are not my opponents. ”

Yun Qingchen didn't speak.

Ye Zhaopei continued: "The Queen Mother is afraid that she listened to the instigation of the traitor and thief, so she made this will. Now that there is an undercurrent surging in Ledu, you tell people to pay more attention and don't let the Queen Mother suffer. ”

"Yes......" Yun Qingchen deserved a little difficulty.

Ye Zhaopei frowned: "The assassin was sent by the Song Kingdom. The monarch was confused by the princess and envoys of the Song Kingdom, thinking that the Song Kingdom was really willing to make friends with my east, but he never thought that if Zhao Situ wanted to go to see the barbarians in the north, he had to pass through the Song State, and if it was not for the permission of the Song King, Zhao Situ would not be able to enter the border at all. ”

"But there is no evidence, what Miss Ye said is one-sided, and the Queen Mother may not listen to it." Yun Qingchen said.

"Yes," Ye Zhaopei smiled, "Actually, I also told Jun Shang not to trust the Song people too much, but he didn't listen to me." ”

Yun Qingchen glanced at Ye Zhaopei and did not speak.

This beauty, Jian Ye Zhaopei, is also from the Song Kingdom.

"One more thing," Ye Zhaopei spoke again after a moment of silence, "interrogating an assassin is actually quite simple. I guess the group of people in charge of interrogation have no way to deal with the assassins, so they can't ask anything. They are too gentle. I can tell you a hundred cruel punishments. Go tell the prospective husband that if you don't know how to do it, feel free to ask me. ”

Yun Qingchen was silent for a moment and asked her, "Miss Ye, why do you know so many punishments?" ”

At this time, the group was in front of the door of the "Tiger's Den", and Ye Zhaopei smiled at him: "You forgot, I came out of Huojiao Mountain." How do you think Burning Mountain trained a killer like me? ”

Yun Qingchen was stunned and speechless for a while. And Ye Zhaopei had already turned around and walked into the tiger's den.

Ye Zhaopei is the "Beauty Sword" in the end, although he is in prison, his detention place is a clean and tidy room. Ye Zhaopei looked around, his eyes stopped for a moment on a set of string-patterned purple pottery cups on the table, and then sat down cross-legged on the collapse, closing his eyes and meditating.

Ye Zhaopei was imprisoned in the morning, and when she opened her eyes, a few inches of sunset shone through the tiny ventilation window of the cell—it was already dusk outside.

She didn't open her eyes until she heard footsteps. Looking up, the man in black standing outside was Yun Mang, who had gone to the wrong garden to find Ye Zhaopei three times today.

Seeing him, Ye Zhaopei was not in a hurry to speak.

Yun Mang looked back and forth at the cell where Ye Zhaopei was staying, and said the first sentence: "The Queen Mother is not bad for you, this place is good." The string-patterned purple pottery cup on the table is the top grade from the South Kiln, and even the children of the powerful may not be able to use it. ”

"This is not arranged for me by the Queen Mother," Ye Zhaopei looked indifferent, "It's the king." It's been a while since it was built. ”

Without waiting for Yun Mang to answer, Ye Zhaopei continued: "There is also a similar cell opposite, which was built for you by the king. It looks pretty good, at least Jun Shang remembers that you like the painting of Shui Wuyuan, and there is such a one hanging in that cell. ”

Yun Mang looked at her deeply: "I'm really scared now. ”

Ye Zhaopei also smiled, and then changed the topic: "You went to the wrong garden to find me today, just to remind me that the Queen Mother wants to arrest me?" ”

Yun Mang shook his head: "That's not it." The Queen Mother's will was promulgated after you went back to see the king, and I didn't know there was such a thing before I looked for you. ”

He paused for a moment and curled the corners of his mouth: "I came to you mainly to tell you a little story. ”

Ye Zhaopei looked at him, and Yun Mang smiled more and more gently: "Do you remember the girl I met on the street selling rouge gouache before?" ”

Seeing Ye Zhaopei nodded, Yun Mang continued: "Today, the city is worried about the king, and she can't celebrate the festival, she came to my courtyard and quietly stuffed me with a sachet made by herself, embroidered with magpies. ”

As he spoke, Yun Mang took off the sachet from his waist: "It's this one, I'll show you." Alas, I originally said that I didn't hang the sachet very much, but the little girl gave it, can I either? Of course I have to take it. Don't say it, this sachet smells good. I thought, aren't you alone? I don't know how to do embroidery myself, so I'll share it with you. ”

Ye Zhaopei smiled: "Why didn't the jailer let you in?" ”

Yun Mang pinched the sachet: "He said that the Queen Mother has a decree, if it is not for her or the king, no one else is allowed to open this prison door." He asked, "Why do you ask?" ”

Ye Zhaopei was still smiling: "If you come in, do you think you can still say so much?" ”

She must have been so bitter that Yun Mang couldn't say a word.

Yun Mang hung up the sachet again: "Zhao Pei, don't say it, you call it jealousy." You see, you have liked Jun Shang for so many years and have done a lot of things for him, but what has he given you? ”

Ye Zhaopei said calmly: "A wrong garden, 10,000 taels of gold, countless treasures. ”

Yun Mang: "......"

Yun Mang: "Okay, don't say it again. ”

Ye Zhaopei smiled: "But that's the reward he promised me, don't you know?" There wasn't any feelings at all that I was expecting. ”

Yun Mang was silent, and couldn't help but feel a little sad for her: "So what now? Are you still looking forward to it? ”

Still looking forward to it? Ye Zhaopei actually didn't know. When she was ten years old, she caught a glimpse, and then gritted her teeth and swallowed it in her stomach mixed with blood and tears, and the burning mountain was actually a flame cage that she had prepared for herself. She has always loved Jiang Zhi.

Jiang Zhi is now twenty-six years old and has not yet married a wife, and everyone thinks that Jiang Zhi is in love with the beautiful sword next to him.

But Ye Zhaopei knew very well that Jiang Zhi just had no feelings for the love between men and women, including her. Even though he knew exactly what it was and knew how to respond, he never gave his sincerity to anyone.

After being silent for a long time, Ye Zhaopei smiled very lightly: "Maybe I'm still looking forward to it, right?" But it shouldn't be as much as expected in the past. I'm twenty-one years old, and I'm no longer the innocent girl I used to be. In the past, I killed people because I liked the king, but now I kill people because I have to live. ”

Yun Mang asked her, "Then what would you do if the king did something excessive to you?" ”

Ye Zhaopei thought about it very seriously and said, "If the king wants my life, I will give it to him." After all, my life is also given by him, I just hope that he will not laugh at my feelings for him, and he will not let me live too hard. He promised me that he would let me live in peace after I had killed enough people. ”

She looked at Yun Mang: "Do you know something?" Did you tell you anything? ”

Yun Mang frowned and said, "It's about the arrangements for you in the future." ”

Ye Zhaopei urged with a smile: "Tell me quickly." ”

Yun Mang lowered his voice and said, "On a snowy day last year, you and Jun Shang entered the capital together to meet the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is fifty-six years old and likes you very much. Later, he specially asked about the relationship between the king and you, and also expressed his desire for you to be his wife...... Allowed. ”

Ye Zhaopei's smile disappeared on her face, and she let out a very soft "ah", without much surprise, not a question or a painful question, just a flat answer, indicating that she understood.

Yun Mang sighed and looked at her: "I went to the wrong garden to find you, and I want you to leave this place quickly." It's already a sad place for you, so why stay long? The world is so big, and you are the top killer in the world, no one can hurt you, you don't need to stay here for a man who wants to give you to an old man. ”

"Yun Mang," Ye Zhaopei looked at him, "You say, what kind of thing am I to the king?" Is it a sword, a knife, a woman, or a tool? ”

Yun Mang saw a little crystal tear in her eyes. He was speechless.

Ye Zhaopei blinked his eyes and laughed again: "But it doesn't matter." For example, today's vassal states are not as majestic as the central emperor of heaven, with my ability, at the age of twenty-five, I will definitely be able to sit in the position of queen. ”

It's only four years from now, and she has survived eight years of burning mountains in the past, are you still afraid of these four years?

She got up from the collapse and took a few steps closer to Yun Mang: "But before that, I still have something to say to you. ”

Yun Mang nodded, and was about to listen carefully, but Yun Qingchen led more than a dozen tiger ben outside to appear here.

"Qingchen, what are you doing?" Yun Mang frowned.

"It's the king's order," Yun Qingchen bowed his head slightly, "The king has woken up and said that he wants to see Miss Ye." ”

Yun Mang was puzzled: "What's the matter?" ”

"Maybe the king wants to make the final arrangements for me." Ye Zhaopei smiled. The jailer opened the cell door for her, and she walked out and said to Yun Mang: "Those assassins in the prison can come according to the punishment of burning the mountain at the beginning, they can't stand it, and they will confess completely." You go and teach the husbands. ”

After a pause, she said again: "I will go to see the king, and I will say once again that the people of the Song Kingdom cannot be trusted, and it is up to him to listen to me or not." But it's up to you in the future, Yun Mang. ”

Yun Mang's expression was complicated, Yun Qingchen didn't understand what the situation was right now.

Ye Zhaopei smiled at Yun Qingchen: "Let's go, go see the king." ”

The palace where Jiang Zhi lived was located in the middle and was the resting place of the kings of the past dynasties. Ye Zhaopei always remembered what Jiang Zhi said when she returned from the burning mountain when she was eighteen years old, and Jiang Zhi walked in front of the palace gate with her.

He said: "The tired bird is determined to return to the mountains and forests, and the phoenix bird will always stop on the highest branch and fly in the clouds." ”

He said, "Zhao Pei, I will live in this place." ”

Now, Jiang Zhi really lives in this place, and Ye Zhaopei, as his most proud "beauty sword", is also discarded.

Ye Zhaopei entered the hall alone, and Yun Qingchen waited behind her. The servants in the hall came out and talked in a low voice, Ye Zhaopei couldn't hear it, but Yun Qingchen heard it.

What the subordinate said: "It seems that the king is indeed affectionate and righteous to the beauty sword, and he has been calling the girl's name when he is asleep." ”

Another person said: "Yes, the king also said that he wanted to marry Miss Ye, but the queen mother was very angry." ”

Yun Qingchen was slightly stunned.