In the night, King Ning received a letter of guilt from Wang Senjun, in which he said that his mother died suddenly, and as a son of man, he invited Ding to worry for three years and carefully serve his mother's tablet in the family ancestral hall.

King Ning couldn't help but let out a sneer.

Ding worries for three years?

Naturally, the tribute escort will fall on others.

As soon as he finished reading this affectionate letter of guilt, the secret guard presented another secret letter, and after reading it, King Ning raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows, and asked, "Where is the person?" “

"It's been taken, and I'm waiting for the prince to fall."

An evening breeze mixed with the scent of flowers brought his thoughts back to the past.

He was eleven years old when he was thrown into the barracks.

No one cared about him, the young prince, and many even speculated that the new emperor had installed assassins in the army, looking for an opportunity to kill him.

During that time, his head seemed to be a fame waiting to be sold, and any bit of wind coming from the capital was enough to cause him to die silently at night.

Every day he listened to the screeching sound of swords clashing, and watched the arrows flying in the air, and the blood-soaked armor kept dripping blood on the ground.

Yes, the sword has no eyes, and there are dead people on the battlefield every day.

Maybe one day it will be his turn, and he is not afraid, and even feels a relief. It's just that there is always a brute force nerd around him who desperately protects him.

That nerd is called Zhang Yu, and he is the personal guard left by the concubine before she died.

Whenever it was time to eat, Zhang Yu would always put the rice in his bowl into his own bowl first, and after a quarter of an hour, he would ask him to eat at ease when he had nothing to do.

He was still young, thinking that only knives and guns could kill people, and he didn't understand these twists and turns, and he laughed at Zhang Yu's heart.

Until one time, Zhang Yu vomited a mouthful of blood on the dinner table, so frightened that he threw his chopsticks on the ground, and trotted all the way to invite a military doctor.

The incident ended with the rod killing the soldiers who delivered the food. But this little soldier doesn't even have a pair of boots that don't show his feet, but he can get colorless and odorless poison?

Since then, he believes in Zhang Yu more than anyone else.

The two of them drank a pot of hot wine together in Hantian Lake, tried swords and swords under the lonely mountain, and in Mobei he blocked an arrow for Zhang Yu, leaving a three-inch-long scar on his chest forever.

Five years ago, Zhang Yu was burned alive by the Queen Mother's people in the post house, it turned out that he was not the mother's personal guard before her death, but a nail buried by the Queen Mother beside him.

If the nail is not strong enough, it will naturally be pulled down.

Zhang Yu is dead, but he still has a sister.

The moonlight shone on a weeping begonia next to the stone table, King Ning took a deep breath, and the spring night in Shuzhou was full of the fragrance of begonia flowers.

The first time I knew that Zhang Yu had a younger sister, it was also a spring night.

They were chased by the enemy to the edge of the cliff, and Zhang Yu took him to hide in a small cave. In order to force him to appear, the leader of the enemy army ordered people to set fire to the mountain, and they were choked by the smoke and almost fainted.

Zhang Yu tore off his sleeve, dipped the last bit of water in the water bladder, covered his mouth and nose and said with a wry smile, if the two of them had a life to live in Beijing, they would marry their sister-in-law to him and be his eldest brother.

Thinking of this, King Ning let out a chuckle, and the evening breeze ruffled his sleeves. He meditated in his heart. Zhang Yu, how could you ever think that your sister would have to marry the governor as a concubine in the end, and she took your old path. Is he really that easy to deceive?

"Bring it with you."

The guards pressed a man and a woman and threw them at King Ning's feet.

The woman is neither humble nor arrogant, and her waist is straight. The man desperately lowered his head, eager to bury his face in the bluestone slab.

King Ning stretched out a foot and lifted it up with the tip of his boot against the man's face, and as soon as the man glanced at him, he was frightened and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

King Ning spit out three words: "Zhao Laosan? "Lord Wang, I don't dare anymore. Please spare me this time, I will be an informant, a dark stake, put me in the most miserable place, I will be a cow and a horse for you, don't kill me! “

He was prostrate on the ground, trying to reach the corner of King Ning's clothes, but the guard slammed the back of his hand with the hilt of his knife, and retracted his hand stupidly.

King Ning sneered, pointed to the woman next to him and asked him, "What does Aunt Zhang promise you?" It is a capital offense to let you sell her life like this, and leaking military aircraft. ”

Zhao Laosan's face was pale, his hands pressed his chest, he grunted in his throat, and fell straight to the ground, so frightened that he turned his back on his back.

The woman kneeling beside glanced at Zhao Laosan on the ground and said, "The prince can't scare him, I just let him look at the tribute box for me, where is it a military aircraft?" “

King Ning raised his hand and slapped her hard, he looked at the blood oozing from the corners of her mouth and the few strands of hair scattered from her sideburns, and was suddenly stunned, he didn't expect to do it himself.

The woman raised her head and chuckled: "So, Brother Achen doesn't plan to kill me." ”

King Ning lowered his eyes and said, "Lingyan, what have you become now, if your brother knows......"

The woman spat at him, spat out the blood foam in her mouth, and shouted, "Shut up, how dare you mention him to me!" ”

She tried to struggle to get up, but was held down by the guards behind her. "Do you really not know about the good things you do? I'm not the stupid girl I was anymore, you know he's ..... You know. ”

She knew that her brother was the queen mother's person, but her brother had never done anything unfavorable to him.

"You deliberately sent him to die, you hurt him. You killed him, and led me into the house, wanting to see me like a pug, wagging my tail at your little favors. “

King Ning pressed his eyebrows: "Why do you think so?" Who told you? ”

But the woman just glared at him viciously and didn't say a word.

The guards put the two of them down again, Xie Hanci walked out of the bamboo pavilion next to him, and said embarrassedly: "Sorry, it's not the right time" King Ning poured two cups of tea again, and said with a wry smile: "It's okay, I let Chasing the Wind wake you up in the middle of the night, disturbing your good dreams." “

Xie Hanci knew that she was not here at the right time, when she came, she saw Governor Zhang's concubine spitting in King Ning's face, God knows, why she always saw these things that she shouldn't see!

King Ning moved the two letters to Xie Hanci's hand, "You are also a coincidence, one is the expected letter of guilt, as for the other...... It's a surprise tonight. “

Xie Hanci simply glanced at the letter of invitation, the rhetoric throughout the article was piled up, citing scriptures and classics, not like a letter of invitation to sin, but like "A Detailed Count of Ancient and Modern Filial Sons". Of course, the focus at the end of the article falls on the three years of Ding Wei.

As for the other letter, there are only a few crosses, and the wording is simple and capable, but one sentence by one, it recounts many crimes of Governor Zhang, embezzlement of military salaries, forming parties for personal gain, forcibly occupying fertile land, favoring wives and destroying concubines, and the last one, although it has nothing to do with Governor Zhang himself, is very intriguing.

"The tenth crime is that the aunt in the house bribed the coachman Zhao Laosan, spied on the tribute in private, and delayed the military plane, and her heart can be punished."

Xie Hanci hesitated and set his eyes on King Ning, not knowing whether he should pick out or continue to pretend to be stupid.

King Ning seemed to see her concerns and said, "But it's okay to say it. ”

Xie Hanci took a sip of tea and asked cautiously, "Lord Wang, Brother Jin, born by Aunt Zhang, won't it be your child?" This sentence almost made him squirt out the hot tea in his mouth.

"What do you want?"

Xie Hanci smiled awkwardly: "I also asked casually, I guess there must be something extremely hot in the tribute, and if one is not done well, it will anger Long Yan at the least, and at worst it will cause misunderstanding between the two countries." Those who bring tribute to Beijing will not only not be able to reap any benefits, but may also get into trouble. ”

King Ning glanced at Xie Hanci, and after a moment of silence, he said, "There is a golden-tailed blood finch in the tribute. “

Located in the southwest, the country is home to many mountainous birds, including the rare Blood Sparrow, which is usually red and so eye-catching that it attracts the attention of hunters wherever it flies.

The blood finch is already rare, and if it has golden feathers on its tail, it is regarded as the incarnation of the Vermilion Bird God and is called the Golden Sparrow. It can be said that it is the embodiment of auspiciousness in the eyes of the people of Dayue.

Xie Hanci recalled that he had read in a book of "Hundred Birds and Beasts" given to her by his brother, after the defeat of the Great Vietnam, except for the massacre of civilians, all the prisoners of war in the Yue Kingdom were returned to their own country by the first emperor, in order to thank him for his benevolence, the Great Yue Emperor specially found a golden-tailed blood finch to offer to the first emperor.

This bird has been kept in the palace near Beijing until the death of the bird in the sixth year of Yuanchang, and the body was buried in the imperial tomb of the first emperor.

Xie Hanci asked with some puzzlement: "The golden-tailed blood sparrow can also be regarded as a symbol of the truce between the two countries, and there is no problem for Dayue to pay tribute to this thing." Could it be that Governor Zhang is afraid that the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so he can't raise the auspicious bird? Since Da Yue paid tribute to this bird, he must have been equipped with a messenger who domesticated this bird, and Governor Zhang was a little worried, so he was too cautious. "But this bird is dead."

King Ning said with a wry smile: "I came to Shuzhou this time not only for the list in Shen Lang's hand, as soon as this golden finch was sent to Dafeng, its head was screwed off, and the person who took care of the golden finch that night was also missing. ”

The goldfinch was killed, the matter can be big or small, to say that the symbol of the friendship between the two countries was destroyed, it is a contempt and provocation for Da Yue, if you don't want to provoke Da Yue, then someone needs to come out to "take the blame".

Xie Hanci took a deep breath and said: "No wonder Governor Zhang and his son-in-law Wang joined the army so much to prevaricate, this is a tribute, this is simply ......"

Get killed.

The first to greet the envoy of Dayue was the general of Zhenguo stationed in the south, he led the troops for many years, was familiar with the situation of Dayue, and was still the brother of Concubine Xian, the emperor would definitely not press the sin on his head and cut off his arm.

However, it would be difficult to say if Governor Zhang took over the tribute escort, Governor Zhang's official position was neither high nor low, and it was suitable to give Da Yue an "explanation".

King Ning stood up and walked to the weeping begonia, the branches of the begonia flower were coiled upward, the color was like a red flame, he reached out and gently broke a begonia with black spots on the petals, and threw it on the stone table.

"As a courtier, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. Governor Zhang should understand this truth. ”

Xie Han opened his mouth, but he didn't make a sound. The person in front of him, although he is a noble prince, but after getting along in the past few days, he not only has no shelf that a prince should have, but he has been helping her.

But tonight, she realized that he was not the same person as her. He is a prince, and his identity is destined to carry something heavier.

The night was already deep, the cold wind was passing through the trees, and the crisp sound of the branches breaking was even clearer in the silence of the night. Xie Han settled down, and continued to look at the secret letter in his hand, and the letter at the end of the letter was written "Hu San".