Liu Hong and Li Zhiyun chatted while walking, slowly leading the topic in this direction, and finally expressed their worries. Li Zhiyun listened and said with a smile: "Lord Liu, you don't have to worry. I've already talked to my grandma about this. ”

"What did the mother say?"

"Grandma said that it was all up to me to decide this matter. As for Abba, I will naturally have a way to get him to agree when the time comes, so you can put a hundred hearts! ”

Liu Hong saw that Li Zhiyun swore an oath, so it was not easy to say anything. He now has no position and no power in the imperial court, and there is no hope except for this quasi-uncle. Besides, there's still a year to go, so let's talk about it then.

The group stopped and stopped, and more than ten days later, they came to Gaoling County. After Gaoling County, it is out of the boundary of Yongzhou, and it is not far from Pizhou. They entered the city at noon, had lunch at the inn, and took a nap. Li Zhiyun plans to go to the county office on an errand tomorrow morning, and in the afternoon he can accompany Liu Yinglian to walk around the county seat.

Li Zhiyun took Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and two guards, and as soon as the group walked out of the gate of the courtyard of the post station, a man hurriedly walked over. He looked to be about thirty years old, dressed in an official uniform, followed by a soap-clad servant.

The man saw a group of people coming out of the post station, led by a young man, he was wearing a white jade crown belt, his eyebrows were clear and picturesque, he was wearing a silver-white boy's shirt, with an emerald green lotus jade pendant hanging on his waist, and several saber guards behind him, thinking that this could be the person he was looking for, right? He hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "Dare to ask if this son is the king of Chu?" Li Zhiyun nodded and said, "It's me." Who are you? ”

"Xiaguan Gaoling County ordered Wang Zhucheng to come to meet the King of Chu."

"It turned out to be Wang County's order, disrespectful, disrespectful!"

As soon as Wang Zhucheng heard the report of his subordinates that the king of Chu was coming, he hurried over. Seeing that Li Zhiyun and the others were going out, he hurriedly said, "Where are you going, Your Highness?" ”

"Oh, go out and take a walk."

"Then let the subordinate accompany you, and be a guide."

"Okay, there's a county order from Laowang."

Everyone left the post station and walked along a street, Li Zhiyun turned his head and said: "Wang County Order, I don't know what is worth visiting in Gaoling County?" Wang Zhucheng sighed for a while and said: "There is a Yuan River ten miles away from the city, and the scenery on both sides of the river is beautiful, or you can visit." However, it is getting late today, Your Highness might as well stay in Gaoling County for a few more days, let's pick a day, set off early in the morning, and accompany His Royal Highness on a tour. Li Zhiyun listened, smiled, and said, "Let's go back and talk about it." ”

They walked for a while, only to see a clearing on the side of the road in front of them, covering a large area, and there were many people standing in the open space, as if they were watching some kind of excitement, and the crowd also erupted into bursts of applause from time to time. Li Zhiyun pointed with his hand and said, "Wang County Order, what kind of place is that?" ”

"Back to the King of Chu, that's the martial arts arena."

"Martial arts arena? Let's go over and take a look. ”

The group walked over and stood next to the crowd. In front of them was a horse path, and on the opposite side of the road, about fifty or sixty paces away, there were five straw-tied arrow targets planted side by side. At this moment, a red horse galloped along the path, and on the horse was a woman. She sat down on her horse in a heroic manner, neatly removed the curved bow on her back, drew her white feather arrows, and galloped her horse while pulling her bow and releasing her arrows. The woman shot five arrows in one go, hitting the bull's-eye, and the crowd erupted in applause.

"Good archery! What a strange woman! Li Zhiyun couldn't help but praise.

Wang Zhucheng smiled and said proudly: "Don't hide it from Your Highness, this woman is the sister." When Li Zhiyun heard this, he looked at him in surprise and said, "It turned out to be Sister Ling?" It's not easy! ”

When the woman had finished shooting, she turned her horse's head back, turned over and dismounted, and handed the reins to a groom. At this moment a young man dressed as a servant came up and said something to her. I don't know if it was the servant's verbal confrontation or if he did something wrong, but the woman was annoyed and struck him with the bow in her hand. The servant turned and walked away, but the woman still did not give up, ran up and kicked him in the ass, and the servant quickly quickened his pace and ran away.

Liu Yinglian, who was standing next to Li Zhiyun, frowned slightly, thinking that this woman was light and informal, how could she be like a young lady from the county order? However, in front of her brother, she didn't say much, so she could only purse her lips and chuckle. Wang Zhucheng was naturally a little embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "Xiaguan's parents died early, and the younger sister was brought up by Xiaguan. Xia Guan saw that she had no mother since she was a child, and she was very pitiful, and she couldn't bear to be more restrained, which made her temperament a little wilder, which made the King of Chu and everyone laugh. ”

Li Zhiyun didn't care, and said with a smile: "Ling Mei has an innocent personality and does not lose her true colors, but this king is very ......" He wanted to say "I like it," but when I caught a glimpse of Liu Yinglian on the side, I had to change it to "appreciation".

When the woman saw her brother, she walked over to her. When she walked up, Li Zhiyun took a closer look, she was about seventeen or eighteen years old, her face was like a silver basin, her eyes were the same as apricots, her lips were not dotted but containing Dan, her eyebrows were not painted but horizontal and green, her skin was snow-white and crystalline, glowing with a warm luster, she was really as moist as jade, as soft as satin. Li Zhiyun couldn't help but secretly praise: What a beauty!

Wang Zhucheng greeted: "Sister, come here!" I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Chu. The woman saw that there was a clear and incomprehensible young man standing next to her brother, accompanied by a beautiful woman, so she walked up to Li Zhiyun, looked at him with a pair of sparkling eyes, and opened her teeth lightly: "You are the King of Chu?" Li Zhiyun nodded and smiled: "Miss Wang is extraordinary, she is really a woman who does not let her eyebrows, this king admires!" The woman glanced at Liu Yinglian and said, "Is she your wife?" When Wang Zhucheng heard this, his face changed, and he shouted: "Hugh is talking nonsense! The woman looked at her brother and pouted, "Then what should I call it?" Called the princess? ”

Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "Miss Wang misunderstood, we haven't married yet." When the woman heard this, she turned around and walked up to Liu Yinglian and said, "My name is Wang Zhujun, what about you?" Liu Yinglian said in a low voice: "My surname is Liu." ”

"It turned out to be Miss Liu, and we knew each other."

After leaving the martial arts arena, Li Zhiyun saw Wang Zhucheng say something to the official who had been following behind him, and the official turned around and walked away. The crowd continued to walk forward, and by the time they had finished shopping through one of the streets of the county seat, it was already getting dark. Li Zhiyun was about to return to the post station, and Wang Zhucheng said: "Your Highness, the lower officials have prepared water and wine in the Zuixian Building, dust it for Your Highness and you, please enjoy it." ”

"Wang County Order, you are too polite."

"The lower official is just a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, please ask His Highness to resign in a hurry."

"Alright then, it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Under the leadership of Wang Xianling, everyone came to the Zuixian Building, went up to the second floor, and walked into a private room. Li Zhiyun saw that the table was quite large and there were not many people, so he asked Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and the other two guards to come to the table to drink.

Xiao Er saw that the guests had arrived, and began to serve food and wine. At this time, Wang Zhujun walked in from outside and placed two earth-colored clay pots on the table. When Li Zhiyun saw it, he hurriedly asked, "What is this?" Wang Zhujun raised his eyebrows and said, "King Chu is brewing, you don't know the wine you sell?" I went to the brewery to buy it. ”

Then, Wang Zhujun called Xiao Er over again, pointed to a wine jar on the table and said, "Take this wine away, it's like water, and it doesn't have any strength at all." Xiao Er picked up the wine jar, looked at King Chu and said, "We also have this wine in the store." ”

"Hey, I said it earlier, it will cause me to run for nothing."

After the dishes were served, everyone picked up the wine and began to stagger and stagger together. The elixir is full of glass, and the jade liquid is thick and the amber cup is poured. Li Zhiyun didn't expect that Miss Wang drank a lot of alcohol, and her brother probably didn't have the strength to drink, so he didn't dare to persuade him to drink, but she frequently persuaded him to drink. She was annoyed when she saw Li Zhiyun drinking and cheating, so she came over and drove Zhang Zheng away on the side, sat down next to him herself, and forced him to drink the wine in the wine jar.

When the wine was halfway through, Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu began to compete with Miss Wang, and Li Zhiyun was happy to watch the excitement on the sidelines. In ancient times, women rarely showed their heads, so Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu probably drank at the same table with women for the first time, and they had no experience. Li Zhiyun is a traverser, in his previous life, he saw this kind of scene a lot, if a woman can drink, the amount of alcohol is generally amazing. He was secretly happy in his heart, wow, there was a good show to watch tonight.

Sure enough, Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu were so drunk by Wang Zhujun that they couldn't lift their heads when they lay on the table, so Li Zhiyun had to ask two guards to send them back to the post station.

After the banquet, several people left the restaurant. Wang Zhujun said goodbye to them like no one else, and walked away with his brother.

Li Zhiyun and Liu Yinglian walked in the direction of the post station. The meal dragged on for a long time, and it was the dead of night, with a bright moon hanging in the sky, flying colors, and the streets were brightly lit, and there were few pedestrians. After Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu were sent back by two guards, the family affairs of the palace who led the team were not at ease, and sent several guards to protect him. The guards distanced themselves from them, guarding them in front and back.

A man approached him, staggering. He probably had just come out of the gold nest with a red lantern, and was squinting to taste the taste of pink and jade stocks, but unexpectedly he collided with Wang Jia, and was scolded by the guards, so frightened that he hurriedly avoided the roadside.

Liu Yinglian doesn't like to drink, so she sat on a cold bench all night, and she was sullen and silent. Li Zhiyun leaned closer and said, "What's the matter, are you angry?" ”

"Nope."

"None? Why don't you squeak if you don't do it? ”

"What is there to say? Drink and drink, look at the intimacy of the two of you, so close to each other......"

Li Zhiyun laughed when he heard this, deliberately snorted, and said, "Hey, whose vinegar jar has been overturned?" Liu Yinglian turned her head to look at him, puzzled: "What do you mean by this?" Li Zhiyun suddenly remembered that the allusion to the vinegar jar happened after the second brother became the emperor, and the second brother has not become the emperor yet, of course she doesn't know.

This allusion is related to Liu Yinglian's teacher Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling's wife is very fierce, because her hometown is in Hedong, nicknamed "Hedong Lioness", she resolutely does not allow Fang Xuanling to take a concubine. Every time the "Hedong Lion Roars", Fang Xuanling is covered in "sifting chaff", and he is submissive. One day, after the end of the dynasty, the second brother remembered Fang Xuanling's high merit and wanted to give him a few beauties, but Fang Xuanling insisted on refusing. The second brother joked that you are a righteous gentleman, single-minded, and deeply in love with your wife. Fang Xuanling said the truth, saying that I don't want to take a concubine, but I really have a tigress in the family, and she would rather die than let me take a child. When the second brother heard this, he didn't believe that there was such a wife in the world, so he asked Fang Xuanling to take his wife into the palace. After Fang Xuanling brought his wife here, the second brother pointed to a wine jar on the table next to him, and said to Fang Xuanling's wife: "I want to reward several beauties with Fang Xuanling as concubines to comfort him, you either allow it, or drink that jar of poisonous wine." Fang's wife glanced at Fang Xuanling, didn't say a word, walked over and took a drink from the wine jar. How do you know, what kind of poisonous wine is in the jar, but it is the favorite old vinegar of Shanxi people. The second brother laughed, believing that Fang Xuanling's wife was fierce and vinegary, so he would stop appreciating beauty. Since then, Fang Xuanling's wife has another nickname "vinegar jar".