CHAPTER XX

The palace martial arts performance finally ended in a tragic way, and after Chu Nan fell into a coma, Leng Yun on the stage laughed a few times and fell to the ground. In view of the fact that Chu Nan was in a coma first, and Leng Yun's two tragic battles in a row were more convincing, His Majesty the Emperor finally designated Leng Yun as the first in martial arts, Chu Nan second, and Wang Lin Dugu Qiu and others also had their own rewards.

On the luxury carriage of the Chu Mansion outside the palace gate, the coachman drove the car carefully, for fear of bumping the people in the car. In the car, Chu Yue almost cried into a tearful person, looking at Chu Nan who was unconscious stupidly. Yang Mei carefully held Chu Nan in her arms, looking at Chu Nan with complicated eyes, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

There was already some distance from the palace, Chu Nan slowly opened his eyes, and sat up from Yangmei's arms with the carriage.

Chu Yue looked at Chu Nan who was chuckling stupidly, and forgot to cry for a while, and shouted as if she had seen a ghost: "You...... You ......"

Chu Nan put his finger in front of his lips, motioned to Chu Yue not to speak, and chuckled: "What, I'm not happy when I wake up?"

Chu Yue didn't care if she would touch Chu Nan's wound or not, she threw herself into Chu Nan's arms, and cried: "I'm scared to death Yue'er, I'm scared to death Yue'er." Why are you scaring people? Do you know how worried I am?"

Chu Nan touched Chu Yue's hair, shook his head and said, "If I don't take medicine before the game, don't vomit blood on stage, and don't fall into a coma after the game, many people will be so angry that they will jump to their feet and scold their mother." ”

Although Chu Yue had just come to the capital, she was obviously not a political idiot, so she secretly glanced at Yangmei, hugged Chu Nan's waist and stopped talking.

Chu Nan sighed and said: "The Chu family has the foundation of the south, with the support of his father, it is enough for Wen to have Chu An, and Wu to have Chu madness, if there is another martial arts master, let alone the eldest prince, our Emperor His Majesty will not be able to sleep." ”

Yang Mei looked at Chu Nan, who didn't look at herself after waking up, smiled bitterly, lowered her head silently, and muttered, "Jipin?"

Dugu Canghai looked at his beloved son Dugu Qiu who was standing under the hall, and said firmly: "It's not Jipin!"

Dugu Qiu lowered his head in surprise, thought about it or suppressed the doubts in his heart, and asked An to leave.

Dugu Canghai, who had not shown up for more than ten years, and was even suspected of having died violently, turned around and said to Dugu who had already walked to the door: "You are too impulsive this time, my Dugu family has never participated in party struggles, no matter what reward Your Majesty has this time, I will resign for your father, you can go to Liumen to be a head catcher with peace of mind." This is to inform Dugu Qiu, not to discuss with him, regardless of Dugu Qiu's reaction, one person muttered: "It can't be Jipin, otherwise the Chu family will definitely be the second Shen family, and the capital will bleed again." ”

And Pingnan Bo Yang Lie drank a jar of old wine excitedly, during which he even dropped seven or eight cups, laughed and said to his daughter-in-law: "I just said, how can you marry Mei'er to a waste?

Yang Lie's daughter-in-law hurriedly said yes, and went to snatch Yang Lie's wine glass, for fear that Yang Lie would hurt his body by drinking, Yang Jin on the side hesitated: "Could it be that he is a master of the nine grades, more powerful than the eldest prince?"

Yang Lie's dizzy old eyes flashed a cold light, and he sneered: "What nine grades? It's just a skill that is improved by medicine, and I don't know if there will be any consequences." ”

Yang Jin was stunned, remembered something, and muttered: "I can't let him deceive everyone, no, I'm going to expose him." Yes, I'm going to tell my eldest sister. ”

Behind him, Yang Lie looked at Yang Jin, who ran out in a hurry, fell down on the table, and fell asleep groggily, but sighed in his heart.

I don't know how many huge manors in the capital are playing out similar dramas, but no matter what, the fifth young master of the Chu family has completely taken off the hat of waste, and Chu Yuan's roar seems to indicate that Chu Nan is not as unpopular as the legend, among the younger generation in the capital, there is a fresh name slowly entering people's sight, but I don't know if he will be as famous as Chu Mad or as fleeting as a meteor.

Chu Nan acted enough, and when he was carried back to the small courtyard by his family, blood kept flowing from the corners of his mouth, and he looked terrifying. The young lady of the Chu family was also worried, and sat on the edge of the bed after Chu Nan was placed in the main room, and the people of the family all sighed when they were in trouble.

The next day, the reward in the palace came down, and those who performed this outstanding performance were rewarded, and no matter how bad they were, they would have gold, silver, or weapons. Naturally, Leng Yun, who got the first place, directly became a middle-level general in the city defense camp, as well as the horse armor given by the emperor, etc., and the limelight was unmatched for a while. Wang Lin and others and those sergeants from Mobei have also become stars in the army, and no matter how bad they are, they have become school officers. And the reward for Chu Nan, who ranked second, was far behind, although there was a large amount of wound medicine and gold and silver, but he was not promoted to the military position, but he was only sealed as a seven-rank imperial guard, which was also an idle position.

On the bank of the Jinshui River in the capital, in the premier teahouse Piaoxian Building, there are several people dressed as gentry talking about the just-concluded palace martial arts. The atmosphere of Daliang is open, and the people can talk about current affairs at will, and if they have the courage, they can even beat the drum to ask for the saint.

I only heard a man who looked like a rich businessman: "If you say that this martial arts exercise, the eldest young master Chu is not here, and the eldest prince did not participate, I thought that there would be nothing to see, but I didn't expect that so many masters would emerge, especially the kid from the Wang family, it was really ruthless, I heard that I fainted on the spot."

A short thin man next to him agreed: "Yes, yes, this year is really more ruthless than the other, the young master of the Leng Du family has been poked with five or six holes, and he can't survive when he sees it, it's really miserable." ”

A middle-aged man with a rat whisker shook his head and said: "If you want me to say, the fifth young master of the Chu family is still ruthless, provoking the eldest prince in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, forcing His Majesty to break the legs of the great prince's strategists, and defeating a general who led the army in Mobei." Tsk, what kind of person is that? That's a good man with dozens of Hu surnames under his hands, and he really rolled in the sea of blood. ”

The rich merchant frowned and said, "No, I heard that it was Chu Shangshu who was angry, and His Majesty punished the strategist." And I heard that Young Master Chu was seriously injured, and now he is still hanging his life with old ginseng, in case of an accident, then Miss Yang will be widowed like a fairy. ”

Xian'er was restless and restless when she heard that Chu Nan was injured, but now when she heard this, she not only said angrily: "How can you talk about this person? It's really untutored!"

The rich merchant was about to get angry and saw that it was a delicate fairy, smiled embarrassedly, knowing that Xian'er knew many big officials, and heard that there were princes who were worried about her, so he couldn't afford to provoke her, so he apologized: "I...... I'm just talking nonsense. Hearsay should not be true. ”

Xian'er simply sat aside and sulked, also wanting to hear more news from Chu Nan. After a short pause in the atmosphere, I heard a person who looked like a scholar sneered: "What do you know? Let me tell you, the young master of the Chu family's skill was forcibly raised after taking the medicine, and now that the medicine has passed, he will naturally suffer." ”

The rich merchant looked at Xian'er's face and deliberately asked, "Can't you?" Since the Chu family can produce a master like General Chu, why can't there be another one?"

The man said disdainfully: "Cut, let me tell you, many people saw it when he took the medicine, and this news was released by his brother-in-law himself, can it be fake?"

The man was dumbfounded, and hurriedly asked, urging the man to speak carefully.

The man's vanity was very satisfied, and he whetted everyone's appetite and said: "I heard that the medicine came from overseas, and ordinary people only take one at a time, and the young master of the Chu family took a handful in one go out of anger." This is a bad thing, although he defeated General Mu of Mobei, afterwards, do you know how much blood he vomited!"

Everyone was even more amazed, and nodded at the man's speculation.

The man was even more satisfied, and continued to say half-truthfully: "Hey, if you don't take the medicine, I heard that Young Master Chu is basically going to be abolished, whether he can save him is another matter." You haven't seen how many more carriages have been going to Chu Mansion recently, they are all in a hurry to see him for the last time, hey, poor man, although he has a bad reputation in the capital, he hasn't done anything bad to hurt the heavens and reason, it's just gone, poor Miss Yang'............"

Xian'er couldn't listen anymore, threw the rag in front of the man, and said loudly: "Shut up, don't talk nonsense!"

Ignoring the stunned many tea guests, Xian'er wiped her tears and ran downstairs, making up her mind that she would go to Chu's house to visit Chu Nan now, and say that she would see him for the last time, as for the face of the girl's family or something, to hell with it!

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