Chapter 51: There is nothing to be done
Xu Ying waved the plum blossom paper umbrella she got from Zhu Quan yesterday in her hand, and said lightly: "Since I lost to you in yesterday's competition, I should obey the old agreement, change the dress of my daughter's family, and then return this umbrella that you regard as a treasure?" ”
Hearing her say this, Zhu Quan suddenly remembered that Xu Ying had agreed with him that if she lost the competition to herself, she would change her daughter's dress, and recalled that she won inexplicably yesterday, her face was slightly red, and she shook her hand and said: "Yesterday you missed for a while, you shouldn't be real." ”
When Xu Ying heard him say this, her eyes rolled, and she smiled narrowly: "Since this is the case, there is no need to return this umbrella to you." Then he turned his head and left.
Zhu Quan hurriedly reached out and grabbed her sleeve, and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid of you." As he spoke, he reached out and took the umbrella.
Xu Ying's face turned red, and she stretched out her hand to brush her sleeve and said angrily: "What are you doing in public." ”
Zhu Quan hurriedly withdrew his hand and sighed helplessly: "You are competitive on weekdays, but you are not as difficult to deal with as today." ”
Xu Ying smiled when she heard this: "Then let's go, I'll accompany you to return other people's things." ”
Zhu Quan knew that if he didn't want her to go with him, he was afraid that it would be more complicated, so he walked side by side with her. At this time, it was still early, and there was still some time before the afternoon when he met Ling Xuan yesterday, so the two of them traveled all the way in the city and walked slowly.
Zhu Quan turned his head to look at Xu Ying, who was excited next to him, and said in his heart: She has changed the dress of her daughter's house and is more like a child.
When Jiang Xian, who was following the two in the distance, saw Xu Ying, he was even more sure that that night, on the long street, the young man who was let go by himself was His Royal Highness King Ning who was passing with the beloved daughter of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei. was full of doubts in his heart, and said: King Ning lives in a simple house on weekdays, and he has never been in court with me. Is there really such a clever method? When I designed Xu Ying that day, the two of them also played together on Long Street like today?
When the sun was shining, Yang Xu and the others slowly came to the small bridge where Zhu Quan and Ling Xuan met yesterday.
The two stopped on the bridge, and Xu Ying threw the snacks in her hands into the river, attracting a group of fish to float on the surface of the water to compete for food, making the calm water microwave. East#Fang#Net .com was about to see the "Ling girl" in Zhu Quan's mouth, and his heart was like this rippling river, with ripples.
Zhu Quan leaned on the side of the bridge, looked at Xu Yingruxue's side cheeks, for fear that she would be conscious, and hurriedly lowered his head to look at the swimming fish in the water, and suddenly felt a piece of peace in his life, many things that he had experienced in this world at this moment, many people seemed to have completely forgotten, forgetting that he spared his life but conspired against Zhou Jin, the former head of his palace, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, those who were hostile to him, and it seemed that even the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who made himself feel a slight chill every time he met, Yan Wang Zhu Di also completely forgot.
At this time, Jiang Xian, who was standing far away in the crowd by the river, looked at Yang Xu and the others on the bridge, recalled Zhu Quan's skills that day, and was suspicious in his heart, and said in his heart: It is not unusual for His Royal Highness King Ning to know martial arts, but he has always been in the capital division, how can he imply the way of the Goryeo in his hands? It's weirdly tight. With a thought, he reached out and quietly took down a bunch of sugar gourds when he walked past a vendor holding a haystack and selling sugar gourds.
A light boat floated far away on the river, and a purple-clothed girl sat on the bow of the boat, who was Ling Xuan, who met Zhu Quan by chance here yesterday. She turned and played with a spotted bamboo flute in her hand, looking at the calm mirror-like river surface where the boat rowed, recalling that she and Zhu Quan met here yesterday today, and her heart was like a deer.
On the small bridge, Xu Ying was holding out the paper umbrella, blocking the dazzling sunlight. I felt a little impatient in my heart, raised my head lightly, and looked forward, but what caught my eye was a small boat in the distance, sitting on a purple-clothed girl, only to see her beautiful melon seed face, the water is the eyes are waves, and the mountain is the eyebrows. The wrist is white-skinned and the red jade shoots are budded, and the tuning is slanted. The fine foot discretion is reduced by four points, and the slender jade shoots are wrapped in spring clouds. Although she is a woman, she can't help but be moved when she sees her like this. When he saw the flute in her hand, he thought to himself: Could this woman be the Ling girl he said was good at flute music?
Zhu Quan saw that Xu Ying was very interesting to feed the fish just now, so he also crushed the snacks in his hand and threw them into the river, looking at the carp in the river and jumping out of the water, he couldn't help but bow his head and smile, and he didn't see Ling Xuan on the boat in the distance. [East^Fang&Net .com]
Ling Xuan was staring at the water, but at this time, she looked up at the bridge in the distance, but saw a woman wearing a light yellow shirt, with a very beautiful but heroic appearance, staring at her coldly, her eyes seemed to be a little hostile, and she was puzzled, but she saw that the young man next to her who bowed her head to feed the fish was the strange boy Zhu Quan who met yesterday, and she was even more puzzled. She grew up in a large family since she was a child, and she was good at music and danqing, so she was inevitably a little proud in her heart, and she also looked at Xu Ying coldly at this time.
Xu Ying was also surprised when she saw the other party's cold gaze, and said in her heart: It seems that this girl is afraid that she also has a great background, how can a young lady from an ordinary big family have such a proud gaze?
At this moment, Zhu Quan heard a few sharp sounds of breaking the air, and it seemed that a few things were shooting towards him and Xu Ying. He is also a person who has been practicing martial arts for a long time, and he blocked in front of Xu Ying in a flash.
As soon as Xu Ying raised her hand, she blocked it obliquely with a plum blossom paper umbrella, only to hear the sound of "poof", and several things passed through the umbrella surface and fell to the ground.
Zhu Quan looked down at this time, but saw that the things on the ground were round and red, and it seemed to be the fruit on the sugar gourd, and he couldn't help but be strange, I don't know why.
When Xu Ying used an umbrella to block this "hidden weapon" that was shooting quickly, her wrist fluttered, and her heart sank, knowing that the person who made the secret attack was strong in martial arts and was not under him. What makes her most chilling is not the other party's martial arts, but the internal force of the other party's hidden feminine power, which is a faction of its own, like the night when Zhu Quan first met him, and designed the layout to capture his Jinyi Wei surnamed Zhao. I looked up at the way the hidden weapon came from, but I saw a surge of pedestrians, bustling around, and passers-by were unaware of what had just happened.
Xu Ying was plotted by the other party that day and was taken to Jinyiwei Prison for detention, although he didn't know Jiang Xian's true identity, but he also knew that this person was ruthless and cunning, most of them were in a high position in Jinyiwei, and it was very difficult to deal with.
Zhu Quan frowned and was about to speak. saw Xu Ying stretch out his hand and gently pull his sleeve, and said coldly in a low voice: "Let's go, let's go back." ”
At this time, Ling Xuan's boat had slowly sailed under the bridge, she didn't know martial arts, naturally it was difficult to see the situation just now, seeing that the woman wearing a light yellow shirt and a very beautiful appearance opened her umbrella a few "skylights" with a wave of her hand, she was angry in her heart, and she wanted to scold, but she saw that Zhu Quan turned a blind eye to herself who was close at hand, but her heart was empty, and she was resentful, and waved her hand to signal the boatman to moor the boat under the bridge, unwilling to meet Zhu Quan and Xu Ying again.
Xu Ying naturally knew that Ling Xuan's boat was under the bridge at this time, and seeing that Zhu Quan only had a look of hesitation on his face, he said lightly: "Don't you still want to see your confidante?" The tone was quite sarcastic.
Zhu Quan was shocked when he heard her words, and said in his heart: A strong enemy is lurking, and it is really not appropriate to involve the gentle and polite Ling girl in a crisis at this time. Hearing the word "confidant" said by Xu Ying, his face couldn't help but turn red, and he reprimanded: Don't talk nonsense, I listen to you, let's go home. ”
Xu Ying heard him say this, and couldn't help but smile proudly: "Is everything listening to me?" ”
Zhu Quan saw that she was in such an emergency, and still had the upper hand in this verb, and said with a wry smile: "Little brother listens to the orders of the senior sister, let's go." ”
Xu Ying knew that the person who had just sneaked up on him had no intention of taking the lives of the two of them, otherwise he would definitely not attack him with such a "secret weapon", and after hearing Zhu Quan's words, he was satisfied, and left with Zhu Quan with a smile.
Ling Xuan was under the bridge, and heard Yang Xu and the others leaving, but she was not angry in her heart, and said in her heart: Listening to him talk yesterday, he was a very unusual person, and he should be separated from a maverick person, how could he see it today, but he obeyed this woman? The more I thought about it, the more unhappy I became, and turned my head to the maid Cuixiang next to me and said coldly: "Go home." ”
Cuixiang knew that Miss heard the words of Yang and Xu, and was unhappy, secretly cursing Zhu Quan, wanting to persuade a few words, but when she saw Ling Xuan's frosty expression, she didn't dare to speak again, and ordered the boatman to row the boat and go home.
Back in the palace, Xu Ying told her master Qin Zhuofeng and Jing Kun about the previous attack on the bridge with a calm face, turned her head to look at Zhu Quan, and continued with a frown: "Judging from this person's unique internal strength, ** Buli Ten is the man surnamed Zhao who designed to frame me that night and arrested me in Jinyi Wei Prison. ”
Jing Kun heard Xu Ying's words, and said lightly: "It seems that this person does not want to hurt His Highness, but seems to be suspicious of His Highness's identity and tried to do so." ”
Zhu Quan nodded and said, "Yes, if he wants to kill me, he just needs to sneak to my side in the crowd, and the sudden killer is." ”
Qin Zhuofeng smiled and said, "What can this kid do if he knows your identity as a pretending prince?" Go tell Zhu Yuanzhang? That's looking for your own death. After a pause, he continued: "In the past few days, you still go to the school as usual, and I will secretly follow you, if he appears again, the old man will take action to kill him, so as to prevent future troubles." "When he followed Chen Youliang and Xu Da, who were anti-Yuan, he repeatedly assassinated high-ranking officials and generals in the Yuan Court, and he naturally had a lot of experience in these ways.
Just as they were discussing, outside the north gate of Yingtian City, three middle-aged men dressed as merchants rode out of the north gate on three horses, all the way away, only to see these three people with vigorous hands, superb riding skills, obviously all people with martial arts, the first thin, dusty man turned his head to look at the north gate of Yingtian farther and farther away, his heart was full of doubts about Zhu Quan's identity as King Ning, after the scene at the bridgehead, he had already concluded that the current King of Ning Zhu Quan was the night when he designed to capture Xu Ying, the beloved daughter of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, A boy who met by chance. How did a prince who lived in a simple house and was pampered in the palace practice a kung fu that is quite related to Goryeo martial arts? Based on his own martial arts knowledge, he can conclude that the kung fu of this "His Royal Highness King Ning" is by no means obtained by practicing in a short period of time. In short, there are too many doubts about him.
It turned out that this person was the "Jinyi Guard" in disguise, and Jiang Xian, the same acquaintance of the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen.
It is precisely because of Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless temperament, coupled with the sensitive identity of His Royal Highness King Ning as a prince, that this has become an extremely difficult problem for Jiang Xian, and now he is still shouldering the important mission that the emperor has just given, and he must complete it as soon as possible. His Royal Highness King Ning, who had a strange background, could only be put aside for the time being. Thinking like this in his heart, Jiang Xian rode his horse and galloped, and the two subordinate Jinyi guards gradually disappeared at the end of the avenue.