Ye Pei, who returned to Qifeng Pavilion, lay on the bed for an hour or two without making a sound.

Miao Jinhe and the others already knew what happened in Jin Mingchi today, but they just sighed silently and stayed quietly with Ye Pei outside.

In the evening, Ye Pei suddenly got up and ordered: "Change clothes!" ”

Man Tingfang, Miao Jinhe and the others were taken aback, "It's so late, the palace gates are closed, where are you going?" ”

Ye Pei didn't answer, he found a narrow-sleeved men's dress to change into, and walked out of Qifeng Pavilion.

At this time, the lights were on, and the palace gate had just been locked. Ye Pei was familiar with the patrol route of the palace guards, deliberately avoided it, and came to the back garden in a blink of an eye. Leap between several large trees, jump out of the palace wall with the power of the rebound of the branches, and come to the outside of the palace.

Without the constraints of that palace wall, Ye Pei felt a lot more relaxed, but where was he going at this moment?

She walked like a lonely soul, without a purpose.

She wants to drink, but she wants to find a safe place, the Eight Kings Mansion and the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau haven't gone back for a long time, if they suddenly appear at this moment, they will definitely scare everyone, let alone drinking, just explain and don't have to do anything else.

Let's go to the wine shop, after all, it's just me, I'm really drunk, I'm ugly, the newly sealed Le'an County Lord hangs over the drunken shop, but it will make the official family lose face!

Somehow, she suddenly missed Liu Wan'er, if she was there, I could still go to her to get drunk and rest, but it's a pity......

Doteongyi!

A thought flashed into Ye Pei's mind, yes, go to Dutingyi!

The Khitan envoys came to the Great Song Dynasty every year to live in Dutingyi, which was a post house specially built for the Liao State, and other countries lived in Duting Xiyi.

Xiao Shinan is quite good at drinking, so it's good to go to him for a drink.

Ye Pei has always dared to act, and immediately walked in the direction of the Duting Station in the west of the city.

In a blink of an eye, I arrived at the gate of Dutingyi, and saw that the gatehouse was quite magnificent, and the Khitan guards at the gate guarded it.

Ye Pei approached and said, "I am an old friend of the prince of Nanping, and I am here to visit me today!" ”

Seeing that Ye Pei was dressed luxuriously, the guards didn't dare to slack off, so they stepped forward and saluted: "Dare to ask the son's surname?" ”

Ye Pei thought for a while and said, "Zhenyuan Dart Bureau Lou Zijin! ”

"Childe later, I'll go and report!"

In less than a pillar of incense, the door of Dutingyi Mansion was opened, and one person walked out of it, it was Xiao Shinan, the son of the king of Nanping!

He personally went out to pick him up, but when he saw Ye Pei, he was stunned, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be Lou Gongzi!" Welcome, welcome! As he spoke, he took Ye Pei's hand and entered the Dedu Pavilion.

After entering the door, Xiao Shinan let go of Ye Pei and asked, "Lord Le'an, why are you?" What's wrong? ”

Ye Pei pretended to be indifferent, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, don't torture me, I'm just here to ask for a glass of wine, okay?" ”

Xiao Shinan laughed: "If there is nothing else, we Khitan people had better drink alcohol, and good wine will naturally be enough!" ”

As he spoke, he instructed the attendants around him, "There will be a banquet in the West Chamber, I want to have a happy reunion with old friends, and no one else will visit me." ”

Xiao Shinan took Ye Pei to the West Chamber, and sat down.

In a blink of an eye, the attendant brought more than a dozen plates of side dishes and two jars of chrysanthemum wine.

Xiao Shinan ordered the door to be closed, and no one dared to disturb it again.

Xiao Shinan said: "Sister of the Ye family, this is the chrysanthemum wine you drank in Yanjing, I pour it for you to taste again?" ”

Ye Pei nodded and drank the big sunflower bowl handed over by Xiao Shinan. Xiao Shinan also drank a few cups silently.

After a few glasses of spirits into his stomach, Ye Pei let out a sigh of relief and said, "Happy!" I want to drink, but I can't find a place, I think that Brother Xiao must have good wine here, so I take the liberty to visit, Brother Xiao don't blame! ”

Xiao Shinan said with a smile: "The sister of the Ye family trusts me so much, I am grateful." As he spoke, he persuaded Ye Pei to have a few cups.

Only then did he ask: "Sister of the Ye family, how did you enter the palace from the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau and become the lord of Le'an?" The rapid change of this identity made Xiao unexpected! ”

Ye Pei sighed and said, "This matter is a long story, that day I was separated from Brother Xiao, and I returned to Bianliang City with Senior Brother. My brother was busy walking darts all day and didn't have time to take care of me, so I made a few friends outside, but I met my cousin Cho Yoon-hee while playing in Kemari. ”

"Cho Yoon-hee? Is it Boping Hou Cho Yoon-hee? Xiao Shinan asked in surprise.

"Exactly, my mother is the sister of the eight princesses, because my parents died early, so they wandered the rivers and lakes.

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"I see. Unexpectedly, the sister of the Ye family was actually the niece of King Yan. ”

"Later, my aunt really came to the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau to look for me, and the senior brother Lu Chang was not forced to stay, so I followed my aunt to live in the Eight Great Palaces." Ye Pei took a sip of wine and continued:

"Brother Xiao also knows that our Great Song Dynasty is the son of King Yan, so I met Jinshang in the Eight Princes' Mansion again. Who knew that the Queen Mother also knew about me and ordered me to enter the palace, but I encountered an assassin's assassination, and I was adopted as an adopted daughter by the Queen Mother and stayed in the palace. ”

Xiao Shinan listened carefully, "I didn't expect you to rise step by step to many twists and turns." By the way, how is my brother Lou Zijin doing? I didn't see him coming. ”

Ye Pei pursed his lips and said, "Don't mention it, he is really disappointing, it's been a long time since he ran away from home, and even me and Senior Brother don't have any news of him." ”

Xiao Shinan smiled and said, "You had an awkward relationship with him?" ”

Ye Pei pouted and said, "No, it's him who has an awkward relationship with me." ”

Xiao Shinan understood, no longer asked deeply, and only bowed his head to eat vegetables.

Ye Pei drank a few glasses of wine, and today's sorrow came to his heart again, so he said sadly: "Brother Xiao, have you ever loved someone so much that you can't extricate yourself?" ”

Ye Pei came to visit so suddenly, Xiao Shinan knew that there must be a reason, and Ye Pei's question confirmed the conjecture in his heart.

Xiao Shinan did not ridicule Ye Pei, but instead looked like a big brother, and said: "I still envied my sister when she was young and didn't know what it was like to be sad, but now that my sister has grown up, she also has something on her mind?" ”

As he spoke, he poured a full glass of wine for Ye Pei, and both of them drank it all.

Xiao Shinan looked at the wine glass in his hand and recalled the past, and said for a long time: "I once fell hopelessly in love with someone, but unfortunately that person has left me, no matter what I do, I can't get her back." ”

Ye Pei stared at Xiao Shinan with wide eyes, "I didn't expect that Brother Xiao is also a temperamental, have you ever fallen in love with someone so affectionately?" So does she know? ”

"The two of us are childhood sweethearts and have a deep relationship."

Ye Pei asked strangely: "Since she also knows your thoughts about her, why did Brother Xiao say that you can't get her back?" ”

"Silly girl, there are many friendships in the world, and not two people can be together forever if they have feelings for each other."

"What separates you?" Ye Pei asked with a frown.

Xiao Shinan smiled bitterly, and shook the wine glass in his hand fiercely, "Life-death!" ”

“…… Who is this man? ”

"My wife!"

Ye Pei didn't dare to ask again, she already knew a story that was sadder than herself, her emotions would always have a settlement in the future, and Xiao Shinan's death with his wife would never be reversed.

The two fell into silence for a while, Ye Pei poured a full glass of wine for Xiao Shinan, and the two drank a few more glasses silently, a lot of empathetic sadness does not need words, they just sit together, it is a comfort.

After a long time, Ye Pei suddenly remembered the assassination of Brother Ulucha, and asked bluntly: "Brother Xiao, I have something to ask Brother Xiao. ”

Xiao Shinan is a straightforward man and said: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"Brother Ulucha I met in Nanjing City last time, is Brother Xiao familiar with it?"

Xiao Shinan thought for a while, "I know, I can't talk about acquaintance, I just knew him at the same time as my sister-in-law last time." ”

"Brother Xiao, do you know, the assassin I met in the palace last time turned out to be him!"

Xiao Shinan was surprised, "Oh, you said Brother Ulucha? ”

"Exactly!"

Xiao Shinan narrowed his eyes and frowned in thought, as if he had connected some things together.

Seeing Xiao Shinan's expression, Ye Pei silently drank another glass of wine and waited quietly for Xiao Shinan's response.

Xiao Shinan said slowly: "Sister of the Ye family, that Ulucha brother is originally the Rong Jia dead soldier of our Great Liao Emperor. ”

"Rong Jia's dead?" Ye Pei was puzzled.

"This Rongjia is our Khitan language, which means a person who is loyal to the emperor, and this Rongjia dead soldier is a personal guard who is only loyal to the emperor. However, not many people know about it to the outside world, only a few of us nobles know about it.

That Ulucha brother is not a big deal, but his adoptive father Rong Lisha is a well-known first-class martial arts master in our Khitan. It is said that Rong Lisha never married, and only picked up orphans as righteous sons, but in fact, he was accepted as disciples and served as dead soldiers. ”

Xiao Shinan looked out the window with a sad face and drank a glass of wine

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continued: "On that day, Uluchage presented my father's letter, in fact, to force my father to obey the Empress Dowager Xiao Yunjin. ”

Ye Pei asked suspiciously: "Now that Liao Xingzong has succeeded to the throne, shouldn't it be the auxiliary government of the Empress Dowager of Qi?" ”

This Liao State was founded from Yelu Abaoji and passed to Yelu Longxu, the Holy Sect of Liao, and it has been six generations.

After the death of Concubine Yelu Longxu, she remarried her cousin Xiao Bodhisattva, the most wise heroine in the history of Liao, the Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan is her aunt, and the regent Han Derang is her uncle, Xiao Bodhisattva is the proud daughter of the sky, and she was named Queen Qi Tian as soon as she entered the palace.

It's a pity that the two sons born to Brother Xiao Bodhisattva died one after another, and Yelu Longxu pampered a maid under the account of the Empress Dowager Chengtian, named Xiao Yunjin, and gave birth to a son, who is the current Liao Emperor Yelu Zongzhen.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva took Yelu Zongzhen to his palace to raise him, as a parent and child, and Xiao Yunjin held a grudge.

Xiao Yunjin's mind is insidious and vicious, and he slowly cultivates his own power, and not many young people have been promoted to concubines, and his status is second only to Brother Xiao Bodhisattva.

And Xiao Shinan's father, Xiao Xuyuan, the king of Nanping, is the adopted son of Xiao Siwen, the father of the Empress Dowager Chengtian, and Xiao Shinan can be called the cousin of Xiao Bodhisattva.

Because Xiao Yunjin wanted to control the power of the court, he regarded Xiao Xuyuan as an enemy.

That time, Uluchage was instructed by Xiao Yunjin to write to Xiao Xuyuan and inform Xiao Xuyuan of the current situation.

The lord was seriously ill, Xiao Yunjin acted as the government official, she controlled Brother Xiao Bodhisattva in the palace, and asked Xiao Xuyuan not to act rashly.

A few years ago, Liao Shengzong passed away, Xiao Bodhisattva was named the Empress Dowager of Qi, and Xiao Yunjin was the Empress Dowager of the French Emperor.

Xiao Xuyuan suspected that Xiao Yunjin had secretly hidden the edict, and her title of the Empress Dowager was her own edict.

The two forces became more hostile and tense.

At this time, Xiao Yunjin had already mastered the power of Zhongjing and the military power of Zhongjing and Shangjing, and took Xiao Bodhisattva and the little emperor Yelu Zongzhen as hostages in his hands, making the king of Nanping more passive.

Xiao Shinan sighed and said, "Otherwise, I would have envied you at that time for not knowing what it was like to be young and not knowing!" When I met Uluchago, I already felt like a political maelstrom was approaching.

My cousin, Empress Qi Tian, Brother Xiao Bodhisattva, was kind, but she was controlled by Xiao Yunjin's maidservant. Yelu Sect is really young, and now he is in charge of Xiao Yunjin. She was ungrateful and murderous, and killed the ministers who opposed her one by one.

My father, the king, threw a rat and was difficult to decide for a while. I was sent to the Great Song Dynasty by a grace decree, and I knew that this was the first step she had taken to weaken the power of Nanfu, and the next major war was inevitable.

If it is really as you said just now, Brother Ulucha came to assassinate the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, I think of a few things at this moment, she sent me to the Great Song Dynasty, probably to use the hands of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to put me to death! ”

"What!" Ye Pei looked at Xiao Shinan with wide eyes.

"Xiao Yunjin is afraid of my martial arts, knowing that my father is not in good health, it is difficult to lead troops to fight again, if I am separated at this time and stay in the Great Song Dynasty, she will have one less strong enemy.

She also sent the dead to assassinate her, and if she succeeded, she could take the opportunity to go south, annex the land, obtain money and food, and stabilize her position.

If it fails, it can be planted on me, I am like a proton in the Great Song Dynasty, if the Great Song Dynasty officials are angry, they can naturally kill me by the hands of the Song people. ”

"However, Zhao Zhen, the official of the Great Song Dynasty, sent people to inquire about the whereabouts of the assassin at that time, but they did not find it, and they did not mention this matter again later."

"That's the wisdom of the Great Song Dynasty, I was already in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, and I was a fish and meat for swords, if I really had the intention of assassinating, I would never send someone to assassinate in this situation. You tell me? ”

Ye Pei nodded, and said to himself: "I didn't expect that the sixth brother had much more than I thought. ”

Xiao Shinan sighed: "Politics itself is full of blood and brutality! The heirs of Jingzong of the Great Song Dynasty are scarce, but there is no cruelty in competing for the throne. However, our Khitan throne has changed frequently for decades, and there will be a coup d'état every few years.

There was a river of blood during the 'Brothers' Rebellion, do you know how many lives were taken in a coup d'état? Taizu Abaoji has three sons, and they take turns to be emperors in the three rooms, but it is only in the generation of Yeluxian of Liaojingzong that the emperor is fixed.

Moreover, we have many Khitan tribes, and each tribe has its own military strength, and if we disagree, we may meet each other. Therefore, the Khitans seem to be brutal and easy to kill, but in fact, they are all helpless. ”

Xiao Shinan said as he spoke, his fists clenched, revealing a sad face that he had never seen before.

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