Chapter 3 Yanchang Kingdom
In a small city in Yanchang Kingdom, two young and beautiful women stopped at the door of the Dongfeng Inn.
"Xiao Zhao. It's getting late, so let's rest here tonight. "Pranyo Lang entered the inn first, and Xiao Zhao followed closely and also entered the inn.
The city here can only be regarded as a small peripheral city of Yanchang country, and the flow of passengers is mixed, and most of the people do business. There are not many locals in this city, and most of them are stationed in foreign populations. The population of Yanchang is not extensive, so most of the residents live in the surrounding cities close to the main city of Yanchang.
Entering the inn, Pranya Lang carefully inspected the environment of the store. It's pretty clean, looking at this store should be some years, and it's not bad to stay here for a few days.
Xiao Zhao had already walked to the counter and asked the shopkeeper in charge of collecting the accounts: "Shopkeeper, how much is a room here for a night?" ”
Most of the people who came here to rest were outsiders, so the shopkeeper was not very curious about the little girl in front of him who didn't speak like a local and looked good.
"The lower room is two dollars of silver a night, the middle room is five dollars of silver a night, and the upper room is one or two pieces of silver a night." The attitude of the shopkeeper is neither humble nor arrogant.
Xiao Zhao looked at Pranruolang, who was walking this way: "Miss, how long do you think we want to live here?" ”
"I want a medium room and stay for five days." Pranya Lang thought that they couldn't waste too much money, they were no better than the palace when they were outside now, and it should be more than enough for two people to squeeze into a middle room.
The shopkeeper looked at the oncoming woman and was a little surprised. Looking at the age of only fifteen or sixteen years old, his facial features are still a little immature, but he can see that he is a rare beauty embryo, with an indescribable temperament in his gestures, and when he grows up, he doesn't know how amazing the world should be, presumably this person must not be annoying.
After all, the shopkeeper himself has read countless people, so he quickly looked away and said to Xiao Zhao, who was taking out the money: "A total of two taels and five pieces of silver, and a total of three taels of silver if you add it early." ”
Praruo Lang nodded to Xiao Zhao, who was taking out the money, and was led by Xiao Er to see the room.
The room was generally clean and tidy, a good size, and the bed was big enough for two people. So after walking for a day, Praruo Lang waited for Xiao Zhao to close the door, and went directly to the bed and lazily did not move.
"Poof, miss, I see you're tired too. I'm going to order some food to give you a stomach to pad your stomach and go to bed after eating. Xiao Zhao also walked very hard this day, looking at the princess who couldn't wait to rest.
Pranyo Lang waved his hand lazily: "Go, go, just order something, you can eat it together." ”
After eating dinner and washing up, the master and servant finally fell asleep.
On the second day, Pranyo Lang took Xiao Zhao to walk in the market, saw all kinds of strange things, and bought a bunch of things in a hurry, including small snacks and wooden hairpins.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she walked towards the stall selling weapons, and saw a small dagger lying quietly in an inconspicuous corner. The blade is shrunk inside the hilt, and the average person would not think that it is a dagger.
The reason why Pranya Lang is attracted to it is because it looks too much like a switchblade in the 21st century, and there are knives with a similar structure to switchblades in this era, which is quite rare.
"Boss, how do you sell this knife?" Pranya picked up the knife, and she noticed that there was only one such switchblade in the stall.
"To be honest, no one wants to buy this knife, if the girl likes it, she will sell it to the girl for two dollars." Sure enough, the girl's family doesn't know weapons, how inconvenient it is for this knife to fight with people, and I'm afraid that someone will be stabbed to death before the blade is pulled out, the stall owner thought secretly.
Pra Ruolang took this low-imitation version of the switchblade, a little excited, ordinary people may think that this knife is not brought out of the row, and it is not convenient to fight with people, just as a useless toy knife, but she thinks that this knife can be used for self-defense, with a knife with great fanfare, others can see what it means at a glance, and she will not really dance the knife to make a sword, of course, it is to use this knife in case of emergency, surprise. After thinking about it, he asked, "Big brother, where did you get this knife?" ”
"Isn't it just my son's son who doesn't learn all day long, and he knows that he specializes in some useless things, which is useless, and only a little girl like you can see it." After speaking, the stall owner touched his neck embarrassedly, feeling that his son was too much.
Pranya Lang was silent, and after a while, he finally couldn't help but say earnestly: "Big brother, your son is a promising one, don't just look at the surface of things. ”
After saying that, Prajna Lang turned and left. Pinched the switchblade in his hand, I don't know what was used to replace the spring, there was a small button on the handle, and Pan Ruolang pressed it with his hand, and a sharp dagger with cold light was immediately unsheathed. What a knife, the more you look at this knife, the more pleasing it is to the eye.
I remember that although she was a girl, she especially liked to play some exciting things, such as parkour, skateboarding, and bungee jumping, which was like a daily routine. Thinking that I haven't been in contact with these things since I came here, I feel a little depressed, and I don't know when I will be able to contact them again.
Seeing that it was not too early, Praruolang thought that she and Xiao Zhao should also go back, after all, there were many fish and dragons here, and it was not safe for the two little girls to be outside in the dark. But what she never expected was that the two of them had already been targeted.
"Biaozi, I'm aiming for a good product." The two mung bean eyes were shining, and the man with a lewd face said to the man with a scar on his face next to him.
The scar man is also the biaozi in the mouth of Mung Bean's eyes, and he has already noticed the two of them Praruolang and Xiao Zhao, and he can see at a glance that these two girls will definitely be able to sell them for a good price.
"Ergou, let's follow, first inquire about the situation and then wait for the opportunity to act." So the two extremely obscene men followed Praruolang all the way to the inn where the two of them rested.
After the two of them entered the cubicle, Biao Zi pulled the shopkeeper who happened to pass by and threatened: "Say, how long are they going to stay here?"
The shopkeeper was obviously also a timid person, and he could see that the two people in front of him were definitely not good people, so he immediately shuddered and said, "They have to stay for another four days before leaving." ”
Ergou immediately pulled out the dagger from his waist and pressed it against the waist of the shopkeeper: "Don't say anything about this matter, do you know, otherwise..."
Biaozi let go of the shopkeeper and Ergou went back first to make a plan to arrest people.
The two of them are considered to be members of a criminal gang, and there are now more than a dozen people in the group, who are engaged in human trafficking, and generally young boys and girls who are not very attractive will sell them as slaves, and those who are a little more attractive will be bought to be prostitutes in places like Qinglou. A woman like Xiao Zhao who looks like Xiao Zhao seen today can be regarded as a middle and upper grade, and she can buy it at a good price, not to mention a woman with a look and aura like Praruolang, who must be sold for a big price.
Poor Pan Ruolang and Xiao Zhao have not yet noticed the danger of approaching, and they have just escaped being assassinated, and what follows them is another conspiracy. However, at this time, Praruolang and Xiao Zhao were still happily planning that they would go to the main city of Yanchang Kingdom in a few days, and they were full of expectations when they thought about it.
At this time, inside the imperial palace of Dali. King Chen, the emperor and the crown prince sat together.
Emperor Dali frowned and looked at his courtiers: "Shaoqing, Yu Nuan and his team were assassinated, and the princess was missing, what do you think of this matter?" ”
Xiang Shaoqing showed pity on his face, and his face was sad: "Brother Huang, my brother is not feeling well, how can the little princess I am looking forward to be assassinated, how vicious the person behind this is, Brother Huang, you must order the arrest of the person who assassinated behind the back, this king will definitely eat him alive!" ”
Xiang Shaoqing looked sad, but if you look carefully, you will find that there is no real sadness in his eyes.
Prince Xiang Linyuan looked at his father and then at Xiang Shaoqing, who was pretending to be sad, and said without any expression: "Uncle Huang doesn't have to be sad, the princess Jiren has her own natural appearance, and she will definitely be able to escape this catastrophe, but I don't know who did it and what the purpose is." ”
"There are as many as 200 guards sent by Emperor Yunuma, and the assassins actually slaughtered them, which shows that there are a large number of assassins and they are all masters, and this incident happened in the territory of Yunuma country, and it seems that they have been prepared for a long time." Emperor Dali is worthy of being a generation of emperors, and the head of analysis is the Tao.
The prince nodded: "And the assassin chose to do it in Niujin Mountain instead of entering Dali with his own team, he should also be afraid of being exposed in Dali, I think this matter is very likely to be done by Yu Nuan Guo's own people." ”
King Chen pretended to nod his head, not wanting to answer, only with a look of deep regret on his face.
"I don't know who in the Yu Swamp Country would do this, and there is such a big force." The emperor pondered, after all, this woman was originally the princess of Heqin who he pointed out to his younger brother, and the young lady was not too young, and there should be someone in charge, and he couldn't mix with those dancing girls all day long.
The prince doesn't care much about this princess of Yunuma country, his father originally planned to stuff Princess Yunuma into the prince's mansion, but the prince's mansion already has a princess, and it is not appropriate to let the princess of a country be a concubine, after all, he has not yet ascended the throne, and besides, he only has Xiang'er in his heart, how can he give other women the opportunity to threaten Xiang'er's safety. Thinking about it, he looked sideways at Xiang Shaoqing, he was ashamed of his imperial uncle in this matter, but this was Xiang'er's own choice, wasn't it?
Although Xiang Shaoqing did not express his conjecture on the surface, he also had some eyebrows in his heart. According to the report from his spies, it is very likely that this incident was committed by the Empress of Yunuma Kingdom.
I didn't expect the queen of a country to be so vicious, thinking that Li Yunxiang would most likely ascend to the throne of the queen in the future, would she also become like a snake and scorpion, Li Yunxiang lost him Xiang Shaoqing, but he regretted it, and a sarcastic smile hung on the corner of Xiang Shaoqing's mouth.
At this time, inside the Yunuma Imperial Palace.
There was a man in black kneeling in the queen's bedroom, and the man said to the woman who was playing with the Buddha beads: "Niangniang, we have searched the whole mountain and its surroundings, but we still haven't found the princess." ”
The queen's face was not colorful, she looked at the people on the ground, and said without any emotion: "That's to let her run?" It's ridiculous that dozens of well-trained masters can't even catch a weak woman. ”
The people underground knew that the more expressionless the queen looked, the more angry she became, and said cautiously: "It is also possible that the princess was dismantled and swallowed by the beasts in the mountains." ”
"Oh? Is it? Did you see it with your own eyes? Empress Yunuma's eyes narrowed slightly.
The kneeling man had cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly said, "My subordinates will take people to find it." He knew the cruelty of this kind-hearted woman.
"Inevitably. To live to see people, to die to see corpses. The queen narrowed her emotionless phoenix eyes and said coldly.
Then he waved his hand at the kneeling man on the ground: "Go, if you don't find anyone, you don't have to come back alive." After speaking, he closed his eyes and recited the sentence Amitabha.
At this time, the emperor of Yunuma and Concubine Yue were also in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, the concubines have all said that you can't let Lang'er go to get married, you just don't listen to the concubines, woo woo my poor child." Even if Concubine Yue is crying heartbroken at this time, she is still very beautiful, and I feel sorry for her. She secretly swore that she would find out who was behind this and avenge Lang'er.
The emperor held his forehead, and at this time he didn't have time to appreciate the beauty of his concubine. He is also bitter in his heart, not to mention that his own child was killed, and this family affair with Dali is also very likely to be in vain, his worried hair has turned a lot gray in the past few days, and he sent out a group of people to look for Ruolang, but there is still no news, and his heart is also anxious like ants on a hot pot.
At this time, how many people are thinking about where Pranya Lang is, whether he is dead or alive.