The sky was already dark, Yun Chuan had already dressed up, sat on the side of the desk, poured water for himself, put the black pearl on his waist, and waited for someone to arrive.

"Princess, Princess Mingcheng has arrived." The maid asked for advice outside.

Yun Chuan got up and lifted the curtain, and squeezed out a bright smile towards Mingcheng, "Sister, come in, it's cold outside in the morning." Yun Chuan pulled Ming Cheng's sleeve and said affectionately.

Ming Cheng walked into the yurt, looked Yun Chuan up and down vigilantly, and asked coldly, "Say, what's the matter with coming to me early in the morning?" ”

"Sister Mingcheng, we haven't seen each other for more than a year, don't you want to catch up with me?" Yun Chuan sat down unhurriedly and poured Ming Cheng a glass of water.

"So early in the morning, you came to me to catch up, you are really leisurely and elegant." Ming Cheng was still standing, looking at Yun Chuan with a pair of phoenix eyes, "Say, what's the matter with coming to me?" ”

"Sister, I'm really looking for you to catch up. Sit down, I'll let them bring breakfast in a moment, and we'll talk while we eat." Yun Chuan's grinning appearance made Ming Cheng more vigilant.

"Celestial princess, I am not as blessed as you, and I have a lot of time to squander at will." Ming Cheng said impatiently, "I'll leave first if there's nothing to do." ”

"Is my sister going to serve Shangdu Khan to get dressed and washed? Thinking that a year ago, Sheng Ze wanted to take his sister to flee to Da Shu, and almost ruined his sister's good deeds. Yun Chuan took a sip of water and looked at Ming Cheng meaningfully after speaking.

"Yunchuan, although you and I are full of affection, I have treated you well since I was a child, so why bother with this past?" Ming Cheng said lightly.

"Can this sentiment really be fulfilled? Sister, do you know that Sheng Ze suffered a hundred boards for you and was confined on the snowy mountain for a month, which was really blurred with flesh and blood, hunger and cold. But every time I went to see him, he didn't say a word about it, and I think he was heartbroken. Sister, I'm just curious, you grew up with us since childhood, and a small princess position can make you abandon your friends and seek glory? Yun Chuan deliberately exaggerated Sheng Ze's injury, staring at Ming Cheng's ruddy cheeks, wanting to see the slightest remorse on her face. It's a pity that Mingcheng's face didn't change at all, but became more indifferent.

"I have long said that I am not convinced that my father was punished for no reason, and I am not convinced that I will always be subservient, but you have never listened to it in your hearts. I am different from you, and I used to be the leader of the army, all of which I earned with my hands and blood. Now that I am the princess, I don't steal or rob it, why can't I ask for it? Besides, Sheng Ze's heart, don't you understand? Is it so easy to get hurt? Ming Cheng was still indifferent.

"Then why did my sister agree to follow Sheng Ze to Da Hun and let Sheng Ze cause trouble? You can tell us generously that you are willing to tie the knot with Shandu Khan. Yun Chuan stood up and looked at Ming Cheng and said, "Is it really to use us to put on a show and let Shangdu Khan see your sincerity towards him?" ”

Ming Cheng glanced at Yun Chuan, sat down slowly, and smiled lightly: "Yun Chuan, are these important?" The letter of renunciation has been written, why are you still so obsessed? ”

Yun Chuan took a deep breath, sat down as well, and said with a little disdain: "Yes, these are really not worth mentioning compared to wealth and power. However, I have something here that you should be interested in, and it is directly related to your current position. ”

Ming Cheng looked at Yun Chuan with interest: "Then you can take it and take a look, what is so powerful?" ”

"Sister, did you notice that something was lost when you were dressing up in the morning?" Yun Chuan looked at Ming Cheng's outfit, an orange-yellow satin skirt, wearing a phoenix crown inlaid with jade, and a pair of jade earrings. Ming Yuan was born to be a well-known female general on the grassland, heroic and compelling, after becoming the princess, she learned to paint her eyebrows and apply powder, and she became more glamorous. Yun Chuan thought to himself, Ming Cheng, who used to dislike gold and silver jewelry and pink delicacy, has really changed now. Yun Chuan took out a black pearl from his waist and shook it in front of Ming Cheng's eyes.

"This is on my earrings, how can it be with you? I said how did I lose it? After Ming Cheng finished speaking, he was about to reach out to get it.

Yun Chuan immediately retracted his hand, smiled slightly, and said, "This is what I found in General Wei Xu's room yesterday. Yesterday, when I met my sister interrogating the patrol chief, how could a black pearl fall on one of the earrings, and I wondered, it turned out to be in General Wei Xu's room. ”

"You nonsense, how could my earrings be there for him? What are you making up? Ming Cheng looked at the table, slapped the table, and stood up suddenly.

"Sister, this is really what I found in General Wei Xu's room. I heard that you also arrived at the Yueshi tribe at noon yesterday and attended the welcome banquet in the evening. Yun Chuan took a step back, looked at the black pearl and said, "At the banquet, I heard that you and General Wei Xu left early, where did you go?" Why did the pearl on your earrings fall into the general's yurt? ”

"Yun Chuan, what exactly do you want to say?" Ming Cheng sat down slowly and looked at Yun Chuan with cold eyes.

"Sister, what do you think I want to say?" Yun Chuan squinted at Ming Cheng, and suddenly laughed, "My sister can't even look down on Xia Yi's little prince, how can she look down on a general!" Could it be that General Wei Xu also loves his sister and secretly hides your belongings? Sister, you are really careless, you don't know that such a private thing has been dropped, but fortunately I found it, if this is found by your pair of 'children', I don't know what will happen? ”

Ming Cheng's face had regained calm, and he stretched out a hand and said, "Then thank you, sister, for being able to return to Zhao completely." ”

"I heard that black pearls are rare in the world, and Emperor Dahu sent two black pearls to Huang Bei, and it turned out that Shangdu Khan gave them to his sister. Sister, I like this black pearl a lot, why don't you give it to me? After Yun Chuan finished speaking, he put the pearl back on his waist, raised his eyebrows, and smiled mysteriously.

"I've been wearing you for a long time, if you like it, wouldn't it be better for me to give you a new pair?" Ming Cheng said, looking at Yun Chuan, who was playing tricks, thinking about how much she knew about herself and Wei Xu.

"I just want to make a commemoration, I don't know what kind of story is behind this little pearl?" Yun Chuan said to himself, making a thoughtful and meditative look.

"Yun Chuan, what exactly do you want to say?" Looking at Yun Chuan's pretentious appearance, Ming Cheng was obviously impatient.

"Sister, I just remembered a story I heard when I was a child, that is, although people don't know about ghosts, some things can be recorded by some items with divine powers, and mages who are familiar with divine powers can see what happened through these items." Yun Chuan blinked his bright eyes, took out the black pearl again, the black pearl of light and shadow swayed reflected Ming Cheng's impatient cheeks, Yun Chuan looked serious, stared at the black pearl and said, "Look, this black pearl is not like human eyes, I heard that it takes a thousand years to practice such a round and translucent black pearl, I think this must have divine power." It happened to be left in General Wei Xu's room, and it happened to be picked up by me, isn't it God's arrangement? Black Pearl, Black Pearl, please help my sister find the culprit who stole Snow Lotus, tell me what you see! After Yun Chuan finished speaking, he stared at the black pearl seriously.

"Yunchuan, don't mess around. You're not a mage, and you don't have any divine power in this world! If you like this black pearl, you can keep it. I still have something to do, so let's go first! Ming Cheng looked at her pretending to be a ghost and felt worried, not knowing what kind of medicine she was selling in this nonsense.

"Sister, don't go, look, there seems to be a snow lotus in the black pearl, like the one that General Wei Xu gave me yesterday?" Yun Chuan grabbed Ming Cheng and handed the black pearl to her, with a shocked look on his face, and said in a matter-of-fact manner.

Ming Cheng's face was pale, and he looked at the black pearl fixedly, except for seeing his own reflection, but this pearl was indeed like a cold eye staring at him, which made Ming Cheng's palms sweat a little, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"Yun Chuan, what do you want to do like this?" Ming Cheng pushed away the black pearl and said angrily.

Yun Chuan was not angry, he insisted on coming to Mingcheng, pointed to the pearl and said, "Sister, can't you see it?" I've felt like I've had divine powers since I was a kid, really! There is a snow lotus here, and the position is in the corner of the yurt, the same as the one of General Wei Xu. No, the location has changed, how is it in a big box now. Oops, why is this big box so familiar, it seems to be... ”

Ming Cheng slapped the table abruptly to interrupt Yun Chuan, who was describing, and said angrily: "Yun Chuan, don't be pretentious, you called me early in the morning, don't let me listen to your nonsense!" ”

"Sister, I'm helping you, if we can find Xuelian's whereabouts from here, won't your position in Huangbei be more stable?" Yun Chuan pretended to be angry and said, "That big box is really the same as the one that put the snow lotus!" Look at you, you see! ”

"Yunchuan, you don't have to worry about Xuelian's affairs, and you don't have to worry about my affairs!" Ming Cheng's eyes were like firelight, he glared at Yun Chuan fiercely, stretched out his right hand and said, "This is mine, I don't want to give it to you now, give it back to me!" ”

"Sister, how can you go back on your word? I said I had given it to me, how could I go back? Yun Chuan pouted, shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and playfully plucked the pearl and said, "Although my sister turned her back on me and Sheng Ze, the three of us grew up together, and you treated us like relatives before, I can't bear to watch my sister fall on my heels." General Wei Xu, well, I don't think he will be your backer. ”

"Yunchuan!" Ming Cheng looked at Yun Chuan with a worried and sincere expression, unable to determine whether what Yun Chuan said was true or false. The people of the steppe all believe in divine powers, especially the two major ethnic groups of Xia Yi and Tusang, who worship the Snow Dragon Mountain as a sacred mountain, and the mage is known here as the messenger of the sacred mountain, who can speak to the sacred mountain on their behalf and know the past and the future. Yunchuan was caught by a mage when he was a child, and he insisted on being accepted as a closed disciple, and was taken to Xuelong Mountain to study for three months, which was a supreme honor in the hearts of the grassland people. But according to Yun Chuan herself, she couldn't bear the daily practice of meditation and meditation, so she ran down the mountain and gave up halfway.

Ming Cheng didn't believe in these things in her heart, she always believed that the so-called divine power is nothing more than something that bluffs people and blinds the minds of the world, which is the value of the existence of divine power. But looking at Yun Chuan's chattering appearance, plus he did have something to do with Wei Xu, and it was completely impossible for Yun Chuan to know these things. What else can be explained by divine power?

Yun Chuan saw that Ming Cheng was obviously a little flustered, and he couldn't help but secretly applaud in his heart. Yun Chuan handed the water cup to Ming Cheng, looked at Ming Cheng with watery eyes, and said slowly: "Sister, on the day you got married, I returned everything you gave us before, are you angry?" Sheng Ze said that I was too childish, he said that everyone has different pursuits, and we should not force you to live according to our standards. Sister, although I don't know General Wei Xu, Ke Shangdu Khan was once known for his cruelty, and I heard that those who betrayed him were all going to be killed by the Nine Clans! ”

Yun Chuan said it warmly, and Ming Cheng couldn't help but feel ripples in his heart when he heard it. Ming Cheng raised his eyes and looked at Yun Chuan's watery eyes, wanting to explore the true intention behind these bright eyes.

Ming Cheng sighed deeply, although he grew up with Yunchuan and Shengze, he had already fought on the battlefield with his father, and he went out alone to quell the civil strife and collect the annual tribute. Obviously, she is also talented and intelligent, and she is still the only daughter of Xia Yi's general, but she has no shoulders to rely on, and she is inevitably humiliated by other tribes. But Yunchuan and Sheng Ze are both adults, but they can still be willful without scruples. Every time I see these two people tell themselves where they went, what banquets they attended, what kind of friends they made, and what troubles they caused, I felt that this so-called friendship was really ironic!

And he was indeed moved by Sheng Ze, when he decided to elope with Sheng Ze, he also had a longing, but Sheng Ze's feelings for himself were only pity. Eloped with him that night, and what he said completely extinguished his only remaining longing. As for what happened later, Ming Cheng never regretted it, nor did he feel sorry for Sheng Ze, and he gave him a freedom, which was also his best explanation of the throbbing he once had.

Ming Cheng's eyes became gentle, analyzing Yun Chuan's move, whether it was Xuan Xuan or true feelings, she just didn't want the theft of the hundred-year-old snow lotus to become the fuse for the disintegration of the four major races. I have never cared about peaceful coexistence, but these second generations are different. Thinking of this, Ming Cheng said softly: "This earring is not strong in the first place, I may have accidentally fallen there when I was talking to General Wei Xu about things, this is not something worth studying." And I have always been at odds with General Wei Xu, and the whole Huang Bei probably knows it. I am now the only princess of Huangbei, and Shangdu Khan is my best backer. You actually said that you are really good for me, then this matter will end here, you can rest assured, the matter of the hundred-year-old snow lotus will also end here. I will persuade Shandu Khan not to pursue this matter anymore, and to give everyone a vision of peaceful coexistence. ”

Yun Chuan thought that he had a city government in his heart, he was calm and calm, he was a little anxious just now, but now he can be so calm. "Sister, if the hundred-year-old snow lotus is not exhibited tonight, how can the people in the rivers and lakes spread the rumors," Yun Chuan asked.

"It's been lost, how can it be displayed?" Mingcheng raised his eyes upwards and said with a smile.

"Sister, is the hundred-year-old snow lotus really lost? That's not what I saw in Black Pearl, it's obviously a good show. Yun Chuan pretended to be calm, and began to muttered in his heart: Could it be that the hundred-year-old snow lotus is really gone, so Huang Bei directed such a scene of planting blame?

"What's stealing? Yun Chuan, who do you think of me? You can say that I am greedy for power and that I am not close to people, but I am a dignified princess, and you take a pearl and pour dirty water on me to ruin my reputation, what is the point of such nonsense? It's my business who I marry, am I sorry for you? Mingcheng asked impatiently.

"The Marble Conference was held by my father and King Yelu together, and our four major ethnic groups in the desert steppe were finally willing to work together. Now everyone thinks that the hundred-year-old snow lotus is lost here, in case the people in the rivers and lakes deliberately provoke again, then everyone will point the finger at my father, I don't want this harmonious situation to be broken, and this matter has nothing to do with our Tusang. Yun Chuan said it conclusively, with a deep look of the overall situation in mind.

"True harmony is never achieved by alliances, either you are better than others, and they dare not mess with you; Either you are more ruthless than others and swallow them up, so that there can be harmony. Ming Cheng continued: "Look at your father, he wasn't in a hurry yesterday at all, so they didn't pay attention to whether this snow lotus was true or false, true or fake, and you didn't have to worry about it, just enjoy your rich life." ”

Yun Chuan thought to himself: How can I not be in a hurry, if you don't take out the real snow lotus, where are we going to steal it? In the current situation, I can't give up the main control, I have to find another breakthrough.

Yun Chuan smiled, disapproving of Ming Cheng's ridicule, and said: "My sister still understands me, in fact, I am really not interested in the development situation of this grassland and the struggle for royal power, but I am just curious about where this real snow lotus has gone, what it looks like, whether it is still intact or has been eaten a long time ago." I heard that the petals of this hundred-year-old snow lotus are crystal clear, the veins are clear, and they are rare in the world, I have long wanted to see the flowers, otherwise I wouldn't have joined in the fun, right? Now that the hundred-year-old snow lotus is inexplicably gone, it makes me even more curious, is there a big conspiracy hidden behind this? Does it have anything to do with General Wei Xu? I wonder if he lured you to the yurt to use you to cover up his true purpose of stealing the century-old snow lotus? Is he rebellious? I heard that he is over thirty years old, but he has never married a wife, but there was an old friend who was blocked and robbed by Shangdu Khan, I think he must have a grudge, he has long seen that Shangdu Khan is not pleasing to the eye, so seize this opportunity, not only can give Shangdu Khan a dismount, but also provoke the relationship between Huangbei and other ethnic groups, this trick is simply amazing! But, sister, you were used by him for no reason, you said how wronged you were! But it doesn't matter, I can ask my father to protect you and give you justice! ”

Yun Chuan was talking about Xila, but he was full of interest, his face was full of seriousness, and his expression was concerned, Ming Cheng listened to what Yun Chuan said, which was true and false, false and true, and felt helpless and angry. Ming Cheng thought to himself that he was really not afraid of smart people in this world, he was afraid of pretending to be a smart spoiler, if such a gossip and bloody story spread, everything he had worked so hard to lay out would be in vain. "Yun Chuan, your imagination is too rich. You say you have divine powers, but do others really think you have a fever and are confused? Ming Cheng instructed.

"Sister, the three months I learned from the mage were not in vain, and I gained a little bit! Don't worry, I'll only tell my father and brother to let them help my sister through this, and I'll keep it a secret! Yun Chuan put his right hand on his chest and assured. I secretly thought about what a mage, I just wanted to use my status as a princess to show my reputation, and in the past three months, I had nothing to gain except for meditating, eating, drinking, and sleeping, except for learning some postures and the ability to arrange stories.

"Yun Chuan, don't threaten me under the banner of caring about me. I don't believe what you see with your so-called divine powers, but if you really want to know the truth about Snow Lotus, I can help you and satisfy your curiosity. Ming Cheng picked up the cup and drank it all, looking at Yun Chuan with deep eyes, waiting for her response.

"Sister, I am sincere and curious. If you don't care about my sincerity, then I'll put it aside; Tell me, how do you satisfy my curiosity? Yun Chuan replied with an innocent face.

"There is a small box carved with snow lotus flowers next to Shangdu Khan's pillow, if you have the ability, you can go and see it. But if you betray me, it's hard to say whether the hundred-year-old snow lotus will provoke a dispute. After Ming Cheng finished speaking, he got up and prepared to leave, took two steps, turned around and said, "Yunchuan, I am a person who never regrets it, and if I do some things, then I can bear the consequences." It's you, don't bury your good life because of a moment of curiosity. ”

After Ming Cheng finished speaking, he lifted the curtain and left. Yun Chuan recalled Ming Cheng's words, which was clearly warning himself. Yun Chuan sighed, he never thought of revealing the invention, everyone is a good friend, although the friendship has been broken, but it will not become an enemy. However, this temptation still paid off after all, at least the whereabouts of Snow Lotus were discovered, and Ming Cheng also promised not to pursue the theft again.