Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Trouble of the Henchmen
"Dark clouds cover snow" at this time like thunder rushed to the edge of the small lake, the horse's head was lowered, and the limbs were firmly nailed to the ground like a rooted old tree, and the sudden self-galloping momentum stopped moving.
With a terrible scream, ** Bo only felt that he was flying in the air, and his body involuntarily turned over in the air, and fell into the lake in embarrassment, splashing in the water, dizzy and swollen, and he didn't know where he was.
Xu Ying felt relieved when she saw him fall into the lake.
Wave shook his head in the water and came to his senses. The small lake is only half a person deep, but the bottom of the lake is soaked in soft silt, although he is embarrassed, but not injured, depressed, seeing Xu Ying and "dark clouds cover snow" are standing by the lake, one person and one horse, looking at their eyes seem to have mockery, can't help but annoyed, in a blink of an eye, he didn't get up, waved his hands at Xu Ying, made a panic on his face, shouted: "I don't know water, come and save me." ”
When Xu Ying heard him say this, her face also changed color, although she was not weak in martial arts, she was not watery at all. You must know that in this ancient period, it was not said that it was a woman, but many men were also hindered by etiquette and could not swim.
Seeing her anxious pace left and right, Bo was secretly amused in his heart, so he simply squatted slightly in the water, his head was submerged in the water, he took a sip of water, and then his head came out, opened his mouth and spit out, and stammered and roared: "Come on... ”
Xu Ying turned her head to look around, and saw that there was no one else in the back garden of this big palace, so in desperation, she gritted her teeth, raised her sword and cut a two-zhang long bamboo branch in the bamboo forest next to her, and moved into the water in fear, carefully testing the depth, and walked towards the ** wave, hoping to hand the bamboo branch to him, and then pull it ashore.
**Bo saw her coming with a bamboo pole in hand, obviously she didn't know water, and said in her heart: She doesn't know water but dares to come down to save me, it's really good to me. Seeing that Xu Ying's snow-white clothes had already submerged in the lake and were dirty, he felt ashamed, so he suddenly stood up and said with a smile: "Forget it, don't come down." ”
Xu Ying saw that he was drenched and suddenly stood up in the water, couldn't help but be stunned, his face changed instantly, and he was embarrassed, walked back to the shore, threw away the bamboo pole in his hand, picked up a small pebble, raised his hand and threw it towards the ** wave, stomped his foot and said angrily: "Bastard boy, be rude." She loves Jie, and at this time, seeing the filthy corners of her clothes, she couldn't help but be annoyed, turned around and ran away, came to the wall, jumped out of the wall, and ignored the call of ** wave.
Boshou stroked the swollen spot on his head and muttered, "Why are you so stingy?" Yi Xing walked back upstairs to change clothes, but secretly regretted it in his heart.
When he returned to the small building where he lived, he changed his clothes, but he didn't see any trace of Jing Kun and Qin Zhuofeng, only his scholar Ma Sanbao was reading in the study, and asked about Jing Kun's whereabouts, but Ma Sanbao couldn't say why, so he had to give up and go back to his bedroom to drink tea.
It was already dark, and the wind was howling outside the window, rustling the bamboo forest, as if it was going to rain.
**Bo was sitting in his room and feeling lonely, but he heard footsteps on the stairs, and a person came to the door of his room and said softly: "Your Highness, the little Zhou Jin asks to see you." ”
**Bo Zheng felt bored alone, so he called him into the room, Zhou Jin walked into the room with a tray in both hands, and after the food on the plate was placed on the table, he invited **Bo to eat.
Zhou Jin stood aside with his head bowed and bowed, looking deferential, as if he had completely forgotten that the "His Royal Highness King Ning" in front of him was a fake.
**Bo invited him to eat at the same table, but he also refused to live or die, just served tea and water on the side, and served him wholeheartedly.
**Bo turned his head and saw the small Tsinghua porcelain bottle on the coffee table on the side, and suddenly remembered that this was left by Qin Zhuofeng, which is said to be a unique antidote to the poisoning of Zhou Jin's body, and hesitated in his heart, then reached out and handed it to Zhou Jin, and said to him: "If you take this medicine, you can go to the poison, so as not to worry about it all day long." ”
Zhou Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, his hands trembled slightly and took the antidote, swallowed it with the tea, and couldn't help but sigh for a long time, and said gratefully in his heart: "Thank you, Your Highness, for giving the medicine to relieve the villain's henchmen." "It turned out that he had been forced to take poison since he restrained Qin Zhuofeng, not only worried that he would die from the poison, but also afraid that the identity of the fake prince would be revealed, but he couldn't eat well for the past two days, couldn't sleep restlessly, and was restless like an ant on a hot pot.
**Bo said lightly: "I will give you the antidote, but I can't bear to let you be frightened, but you won't betray me, right?" ”
Zhou Jin hurriedly knelt on his knees and said: "Your Highness has the grace of life for the little one, how can the little one be blinded by lard to do something that is inferior to this beast?" After a pause, he smiled and said, "Besides, if His Highness's confidential matter is leaked, the small ones will not be able to get out of it, and it will be a dead end." ”
**Bo recalled the situation he saw on the night he first arrived at Ning Wangfu, Ning Wang Zhu Quan was indiscriminately treated by a quack doctor summoned by Zhou Jin, if his identity was revealed, and the real cause of Zhu Quan's death was investigated, Zhou Jin, the head of the palace, could not get rid of the death penalty, and he was completely relieved at the moment.
Zhou Jin served ** Bo after eating, then packed up the dishes and chopsticks and left in a hurry.
**Bo sat alone in the room, couldn't help but get anxious, and said in his heart: "Jing Kun and Qin Monkey don't know where to run, and they haven't been seen from morning to night. Walking to the door, I was about to go downstairs to chat with Ma Sanbao, but suddenly I heard the sound of hurried footsteps on the stairs, and a short and fat figure ran upstairs, and it was actually Zhou Jin who went and returned.
Bo Zheng was strange, but saw him bow down and said, "Your Highness, someone is asking to see." **Bo was slightly strange in his heart, but he saw Zhou Jin whispering with a mysterious face: "It's the white-clothed boy who played in the courtyard with His Highness in the afternoon." It turned out that when he passed by the gate of the backyard in the afternoon, he heard the ** wave in the courtyard neighing, which was very lively, so he couldn't help but look at it curiously, and saw a young scholar in white in the courtyard and ** wave where to mess around. He is an old and sophisticated man, and he can naturally see that Xu Ying is a girl dressed as a man.
When Bo heard him say that Xu Ying was visiting, he couldn't help but be happy, and went downstairs to follow Zhou Jin towards a small door in the corner of the backyard.
However, it was said that after Xu Ying left King Ning's mansion in a rage, she wandered around the city, and it was already dusk when she returned to her home. As soon as I entered the door, I saw an old servant in Tsing Yi walking over, and said to her with an anxious expression: "Miss, where have you been?" The master looked for you twice, but there was no trace of you, and there was a lot of fire at first. But it was Xu Fu, the old housekeeper of the family.
Xu Ying couldn't help but stick out her tongue and laughed in a low voice: "Is Daddy's anger gone?" I didn't want to go out and hide for a while, and then I came back when he was angry. ”
Seeing Xu Ying say this, Xu Fu hurriedly smiled and said: "You go out on the front foot at noon, and His Royal Highness King Yan will go to the house to meet the lord on the back foot, and sit for a while before leaving." In the afternoon, General Lan Yu came to the house to meet the master, and the two of them were still drinking tea in the study after dinner, and at this moment the master had a big fire and extinguished. Go to the study now and see the master, he will not blame you in front of the guests. The old slave went first, then turned around and walked towards the kitchen, and went to boil medicine for Xu Da.
Xu Ying wanted to see her father, but at this moment, she heard that Lan Yu was also in the study, she frowned, and tiptoed back to her boudoir, not wanting her father to find out. When I returned to the room, I sat in front of the bronze mirror, and suddenly remembered the gambling contract with **Bo in the afternoon, and couldn't help but laugh, and said secretly: This kid is so arrogant and hateful, what is the competition to beat me, he wants to ask me to willingly change my daughter's outfit to show him, undoubtedly a fool's dream. Unconsciously stood up, changed into a light yellow silk shirt, and sat in front of the mirror to dress up.
A person's gentle cough came from the door, followed by a deep man's voice: "Ying'er, I have something to say to you for my father." ”
Xu Ying heard that it was her father Xu Da, so she quickly stood up, walked to the door of the room, and welcomed her father into the room.
Xu Da walked into the room with a calm face, sat down, took the celadon teacup handed by Xu Ying, looked up and saw his daughter's rare daughter's dress today, he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart, remembering that after his wife died, he cared about national affairs and cared little about his daughter, so he couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart, and couldn't get angry anymore, sighed and said: "Ying'er, be careful when you go out in the future." ”
Xu Ying said in a low voice: "Daddy, two days ago, my daughter had a grudge with Jinyiwei and caused such a big incident, don't you blame me?"
When Xu Da heard her say this, he suddenly sighed and said, "When my father asked you to follow your master to practice martial arts, I hoped that you could be a chivalrous woman with clear grievances. Speaking of which, your master is a person who respects his father in his life, although he has a strange temperament, and on the surface he seems to be informal, but in fact he has clear grievances and grievances, and he is sober and abnormal in terms of right and wrong. Before the Battle of Poyang Lake, your master was a heroic man under Chen Youliang, sneaking into the barracks, intending to assassinate his father, but when it came to the end, he was unwilling to harm his father, just because he mixed into his father's army for a few days, and felt that the righteous army of our Ming Dynasty did not disturb the people, and sincerely drove the Mongolian Tartars out of the Central Plains and restored the rivers and mountains of our Han people, far better than Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. It was this that he spared his father, and stayed in his father's army, serving to expel the aliens. ”
Xu Ying suddenly chuckled and said, "Master, his old man often proudly says that Ying'er is better than his daughter than Daddy and your daughter." ”