Chapter 249, New Love and Old Love.
Yang Peng returned to the Yanwang Mansion. Yanwangfu is the left-behind mansion, because Yang Peng has already been the king of Yan, so the left-behind mansion was changed to Yanwangfu.
"King Yan returns to the mansion" The guard at the door shouted, and a person immediately rushed out of the hall, it was Qian Letian. Qian Letian hugged his fists and bowed: "My subordinates meet the lord!" Yang Peng nodded and walked straight into the hall, and Qian Letian followed. Yang Peng casually sat down on a chair and asked, "Is there something wrong?" "My lord, my subordinates have found some suspicious situations and feel that they need to report them to the lord." Yang Peng waited for the following. Qian Lotian continued: "Two days ago, a group of businessmen-like people came from the south, bringing a lot of goods from the south, but the strange thing is that these people don't trade with anyone. When the subordinates received the report, they immediately became suspicious, so they sent people to secretly monitor them. ”
"This morning, I found out that they actually secretly made contact with the people of the princess's mansion. ……”
Yang Peng narrowed his eyes. At this time, Jiang Li brought hot tea, Yang Peng took a sip of the hot tea, put down the tea bowl, and glanced at Qian Letian, "Do you think there is anything wrong with this?" Qian Letian hugged his fists and said: "My subordinates didn't find any evidence and didn't dare to guess!" Yang Peng smiled: "I don't think it's anything, Princess Lihua is from the south, and it is normal to buy things from merchants from the south!" ”
At this time, in the princess's mansion, Yang Peng's princess wife Zhao Lihua was in trouble. Why is it so difficult? It turned out that Ni Chengmou actually came and wanted to see her, Zhao Lihua didn't know whether she should see her or not, she thought about it for a while, and finally decided to see him, so she asked her cronies to go out to summon the news.
At nightfall, at the beginning of the lanterns, a young man dressed as a servant followed the palace maid beside Zhao Lihua into the princess's mansion through the back door, and went straight to the pavilion on the lake in the backyard under the guidance of the palace maid. At this time, Zhao Lihua, who was dressed in a plain dress and no makeup, was standing in the gazebo, facing the rippling blue water of the lake, with her back to the cobblestone path.
As soon as the young man saw the graceful Princess Lihua, he immediately became excited, "Lihua! His voice trembled.
Zhao Lihua turned around and saw the man, and couldn't help but feel countless emotions in her heart, the scene of parting that day was still vivid, but she completely lost the mentality at that time, she only felt that it seemed to be an absurd and bizarre dream, and it seemed very strange to the person in front of her. "Ni Gongzi, long time no see, don't come unharmed!" Zhao Lihua greeted formulaically.
Ni Chengmou was stunned, he imagined a lot of scenes when the two of them wanted to meet, or threw themselves into their arms and cried, or they were relatively speechless and shed thousands of tears, but he didn't expect such a scene in front of him, she was so cold, as cold as a stranger.
Ni Chengmou came back to his senses and stepped forward to hold Zhao Lihua's slender hand, Zhao Lihua immediately took a step back, raised his eyebrows, and said: "Ni Gongzi can be regarded as a full reader of poetry and books, but why is he so rude?" ”
Ni Chengmou's face changed, and he asked angrily: "But I haven't seen you for a few months, why is Princess Lihua so ruthless?" Could it be that all the vows of the day were fake? Zhao Lihua blushed slightly, and said with some annoyance: "That day, I was in love, I didn't know what was going on, and I did something ridiculous. Now that I am the princess of Yan and a married woman, how can I be wrong again and again! Ni Gongzi is famous, and he should know the word shame! ”
Ni Chengmou was speechless, but his heart was full of anger, mixed with jealousy, "Hmph! The princess is only afraid that it is good to say, not because of the high power of the throne of Yan, and I, Ni Chengmou, am just a mere waiter of the Ministry of Rites! Zhao Lihua frowned, "If Ni Gongzi wants to think like this, I can't help it!" The two fell silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. Ni Chengmou asked sarcastically: "Since Her Royal Highness the princess has already swung her sword to cut the love thread, why do you want to see me?" ”
Zhao Lihua glanced at the palace maid beside her, who immediately walked in front of Ni Chengmou with a small plate. Ni Chengmou saw that the one dragging on the plate was clearly the family heirloom jade pendant he gave to Zhao Lihua that day, and seeing this scene, the fire of jealousy in his chest became even more uncontrollable. looked at Zhao Lihua, "How ruthless the princess is!" Zhao Lihua was a little ashamed in her heart, "It's just strange, this princess was young and ignorant at the time, and she didn't understand what love was?" ”
"So, the princess now understands why she is in love?" Zhao Lihua's eyes revealed a moving look, "Hangou monk said, 'Once the golden wind and jade dew meet, it will win but there are countless people in the world', I think I have met it." Of course Ni Chengmou knew who Zhao Lihua was talking about, and he was so jealous and hateful, "Why, how can you fall in love with that puppet?" ”
"Shut up!" Zhao Lihua shouted angrily, and Ni Chengmou was stunned. Zhao Lihua said angrily: "You are not allowed to talk about him like that!" His heart and spirit are not something that a person like you can understand! Ni Chengmou finally determined that Zhao Lihua's heart was completely on that person, and he was jealous and hateful, but he was even more worried about not being able to complete the task assigned by the prime minister and the emperor, thinking about the consequences of the failure of the task, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Thinking in the head is like electricity, thinking about countermeasures. Zhao Lihua saw that Ni Chengmou was silent, thinking that she had hurt him fiercely, and couldn't help but feel very guilty, but this guilt was fleeting, she just wanted to understand this matter early, and said to the palace maid holding the wooden plate: "Return Ni Gongzi's things to Ni Gongzi." ”
The palace maid handed over the plate, "Please take it back." Ni Chengmou glanced at the jade pendant on the plate and sighed, "Since the princess is so ruthless, what else do I have to say!" Then he picked up the jade pendant and put it in his arms, hugged his fists and said: "I came this time, of course, because I wanted to see the princess, but the main reason was entrusted by His Majesty." ”
"Brother Huang? What did he send you for? "Your Majesty is worried that the princess is not used to living here, so he specially ordered his subordinates to bring many things that the princess likes, such as Jiangnan silk, green tea, and so on." Zhao Lihua only felt warm in her heart, and said movingly: "Brother Huang really has a heart!" Glancing at Ni Chengmou, "Thank you for sending it all the way!" ”
"The princess doesn't have to be polite, it's just the courtier's business." After a pause, "But these things are still left outside, I don't know when to send them to the princess?" Zhao Lihua thought for a while, "Just tomorrow." Tomorrow, you come through the back door. "Yes. If the princess had no other command, the princess withdrew. Zhao Lihua nodded, and said to a palace maid standing outside the pavilion: "Send Ni Gongzi for me." The palace maid walked in, "Ni Gongzi please." Ni Chengmou glanced at Zhao Lihua deeply, Zhao Lihua was panicked by him, and when he came back to his senses, Li Chengmou had already left with the palace maid.
Zhao Lihua looked at Ni Chengmou's back, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she had a bad premonition in her heart, but she couldn't figure out what it was. Thinking that she was too worried, she smiled self-deprecatingly, and let out a long breath, the matter with Ni Chengmou was finally resolved, which made her feel more relaxed.
The next day, early in the morning, the sun had just risen, and the whole city was still sleepy-eyed and quiet, and more than 100 porters followed Ni Chengmou to the back alley of the princess's mansion. Coming to the back door, Ni Chengmou stepped forward and knocked on the wooden door. There was the sound of footsteps at the door, and then the wooden door creaked open, and an old servant appeared in the doorway. Ni Chengmou hugged his fists and said: "Under Ni Chengmou, according to the agreement with Her Royal Highness the princess, I specially sent her something." "Oh, it's you, Her Royal Highness the princess has already explained, come in." As he spoke, he pushed the wooden door open.
Ni Chengmou secretly glanced at everyone, and then walked in first, while the others went in one after another with their burdens. Ni Chengmou and the old servant walked side by side, Ni Chengmou looked around, and the old servant said as he walked: "Her Royal Highness the princess hasn't gotten up yet, you can wait in the courtyard, if you can't wait, just put down your things and go." ”
Ni Chengmou stopped, sneered and said to the old servant, "Let's go find the princess ourselves!" The old servant was stunned for a moment, "You ......" Suddenly a very advantageous arm wrapped around his neck, and his words stopped abruptly, and before he understood what was going on, he only felt a chill in his back and chest, and saw the blood-stained tip of the knife leaking out of his chest, and he was so frightened that he died.
Ni Chengmou shouted in a low voice: "Remember everything, don't let people run away!" Everyone agreed, drew their weapons from their burdens, and rushed towards the front yard and the back yard.
"Princess, it's time to wake up!" Zhao Lihua woke up in shock, and saw that the bedroom was actually full of big men, several of her personal palace maids were controlled, and she trembled, while Ni Chengmou stood not far away with a sinister face. The princess was shocked, hurriedly covered herself with a quilt, and asked, "Ni Chengmou, what are you doing?" ”
Ni Chengmou smiled coldly, "Didn't I say that I would send the things that His Majesty gave to the princess, this is what His Majesty gave to the princess!" Zhao Lihua's face turned pale, "Brother Huang wants me to die!" Why? ”
Ni Chengmou shook his head, "The princess is wrong, it's not that she wants the princess to die, but she wants Yang Peng's rebellious thief to die!" Zhao Lihua's face changed, "What did you say?" Ni Chengmou sat down on the edge of the bed. Zhao Lihua hurriedly hugged the quilt and shrank inside, shouting, "Get out of here!" Ni Chengmou smiled: "I'm afraid I can't help the princess now!" Then he said coldly: "Originally, I didn't want to be like this, I originally thought that the princess could help us deal with Yang Peng without changing her original intention." But I didn't expect that the princess had changed, and she actually empathized and said goodbye! As a last resort, I can only make this decision! Zhao Lihua was shocked.
Ni Chengmou saw that Zhao Lihua was beautiful and beautiful, and he couldn't help but feel emotional, and stretched out his hand to pick Zhao Lihua's chin. Zhao Lihua's face changed, and she shouted angrily: "Presumptuous! Ni Chengmou was photographed by Zhao Lihua's majesty, trembled, and couldn't help but retract his hand.
Ni Chengmou was a little annoyed and angry, "Hmph! You're a stubborn man! Then he waved his hand. A big man immediately brought the pen, ink, paper and inkstone over. Ni Chengmou said to Zhao Lihua: "Now write a letter to Yang Peng." Zhao Lihua felt inexplicable, "What to write?" Ni Chengmou said in a weird manner: "Of course, it is to write about the lingering love words between you, and the most important thing is to tell him that you have specially prepared a table of wine and banquets, waiting to drink with him." ”
Zhao Lihua first heard Ni Chengmou ask her to write a love letter to Yang Peng, and her face was flushed with shame, but after hearing the latter words, she immediately understood the other party's intentions, and snorted coldly, "You want to harm him, don't think I'll be fooled!" Ni Chengmou's face fell, "I'm afraid this can't help you!" "Humph!" Zhao Lihua showed disdain and turned her head. Ni Chengmou was so angry that he pulled out the long knife on the big man's waist and put it on Zhao Lihua's snow-white neck. All the palace maids couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this, and Zhao Lihua was trembling with fright when she encountered this kind of thing.
"If you don't write, your beautiful life will be gone!" At this moment, Ni Chengmou still has a bit of the temperament of a genius, with a hideous face, a fierce look, and a villain. Although Zhao Lihua was extremely scared, she was also extremely angry, and even glared at Ni Chengmou angrily: "I was really blind at the beginning, but I still treat you as a good person!" Ni Chengmou was inevitably a little ashamed in his heart, but now that he had torn his face, he couldn't care so much, and glared and shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, do you write this letter or not!" "Don't write! Kill me, kill me! ”
Ni Chengmou was extremely angry, "Okay, good, you don't even want your life for him!" After hesitating, he turned around and walked in front of several palace maids, who were almost scared to death when they saw him coming viciously. Ni Chengmou glanced at them, his eyes fell on a palace maid with a relatively calm expression, and forced her with a long knife: "You go and tell Yang Peng, just say that the princess has specially prepared a table of wine banquet and invite him to the banquet!" ”
Zhao Lihua shouted: "Don't go!" Don't go! ......" Ni Chengmou was furious, turned around and shouted, "Plug her mouth for me." The big man standing next to the bed found a brocade handkerchief out of nowhere and rudely plugged Zhao Lihua's mouth. Zhao Lihua is a princess, how has he ever encountered such treatment, she is uncomfortable and aggrieved, and she can't help but shed tears.
Ni Chengmou shouted at the palace maid: "Go quickly!" Otherwise, kill your princess! The palace maid was at a loss and subconsciously ran out. Soon after, the palace maid came to the palace of King Yan to ask to see King Yan. The guards immediately reported and then came out and led her into the back study. At this time, Yang Peng, Qian Letian, Chai Yonghui, Zuo Mou, Yelu Hanyu and Yang Zhen were deliberating.
The palace maid hurriedly rushed in, and saluted in a panic and said, "The princess invites King Yan to the banquet!" Everyone looked at each other and felt very strange. Yelu Hanyu said jokingly: "Your Royal Highness the princess will actually invite the eldest brother to a banquet, it is really the sun coming out of the west." Yang Peng smiled and asked, "Why did the princess suddenly invite me to a banquet?" "The palace maid has been hesitant for a long time, and she can't say why. Yang Peng saw that she seemed to be a little panicked, and asked puzzled; "Why are you so flustered?" The palace maid hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, no!" Then he urged: "Your Royal Highness King Yan, go to the princess's mansion with the slave maid!" ”
Yang Peng looked at the palace maid for a moment and nodded, "Okay." Then he smiled and said: "It's rare for the princess to have this Yaxing, so naturally I can't brush off her good intentions." "The palace maid is overjoyed. Yang Peng said to the palace maid: "You go to the front and wait for me first, and I will come when I change my clothes." The palace maid promised, and then urged: "Your Royal Highness King Yan, you can hurry up!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded. The maid left and waited in the antechamber.
After a while, when he was anxious, he only heard footsteps, and Yang Peng, who was dressed in black civilian clothes and carrying a horizontal knife at his waist, came.
The palace maid hurriedly greeted her, "Your Highness, let's go." Yang Peng nodded, and the two left the hall, walked out of the gate, and walked towards the princess's mansion. The palace maid was in a hurry, her steps were very fast, and she walked in front of Yang Peng at once. Yang Peng smiled: "Don't be in such a hurry! The palace maid stopped and waited for Yang Peng, although she was extremely anxious, she didn't dare to show it.
Yang Peng glanced at the palace maid, "Why do you seem to have burned your buttocks?" "The palace maid can't say why." Why did the princess suddenly remember to invite me for a drink today? "This, slave, slave doesn't know. Probably, probably Her Royal Highness the princess misses Her Royal Highness King Yan. ”
Yang Peng snorted, "This is really a strange thing!" She is a sad person, I don't have a hug, I'm afraid that she will miss me through gritted teeth! The palace maid hurriedly shook her head, "No! Then he said very seriously: "Her Royal Highness King Yan, in fact, Her Royal Highness the princess loves you very much!" Yang Peng smiled and said nothing. Seeing that Yang Peng seemed to believe it or not, the palace maid hurriedly said: "What the slave said is true!" The princess would rather give up her life for the sake of King Yan......" suddenly realized that she had leaked her mouth, and quickly stopped.
Yang Peng frowned and asked, "The princess didn't even want her life for me, did something happen?" The palace maid hurriedly shook her head and made a smirk, "No! Nothing! Yang Peng stared at her and smiled.
The two came to the outside of the princess's mansion, and the huge princess's mansion didn't even have a door, Yang Peng said angrily: "The princess's guards are too lazy, they don't even stand guard!" The palace maid forced a smile and said: "Them, they are all lazy, so naturally they can't be compared with the soldiers of King Yan." King Yan, please! Yang Peng didn't delve into it, and followed the palace maid into the door.
As soon as he walked into the gate, the gate was slammed shut, and dozens or hundreds of big men poured out from all directions, surrounding Yang Peng, and everyone was unsheathed, all of them with bad faces.
Yang Peng asked the palace maid: "What's going on?" The palace maid knelt down and cried: "There is no way for the slave maid, they have arrested the princess, if the slave and maid do not listen to them, the princess will die!" "Hahahaha......" A string of insolent laughter suddenly came. Yang Peng followed the sound and saw a very handsome young man walking out from among the big men, and felt a little surprised, "It's you!?" ”
Ni Chengmou nodded, "Yes, it's me!" Yang Peng, you didn't expect that you, a hero, would be planted in the hands of me, a mere scholar! Yang Peng said: "I really didn't expect that that pretentious genius would actually be a dog for the Khitan people's dog, which is really eye-opening!" Ni Chengmou was annoyed and ashamed, "Yang Peng, you don't want to take advantage of your tongue, let's think about your own situation!" ”
Yang Peng looked at the big men with swords around him, and asked with a smile, "What are you going to do?" Ni Chengmou said triumphantly: "You have two ways now, one is to obediently lay down your weapons, go back to Bianjing with us, and accept Your Majesty's judgment; The second is to do the battle of the trapped beast, be killed by us, and we will carry your head back to restore your life. You are a smart person who believes in making the right choice! ”
Yang Peng laughed out loud, and his laughter was full of mockery, like a tiger laughing at a self-righteous sheep and rabbit. Ni Chengmou was uneasy and annoyed in his heart, and shouted: "Don't laugh!" Don't laugh! Yang Peng glanced at the big men around him and asked mockingly: "You think that just these people can take me or take my life!" ”
Ni Chengmou said with a gloomy face: "Yang Peng, you pretend to be calm in front of me!" Even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't escape today! Come on, kill him! ”
The two big men immediately rushed towards Yang Peng, slashing at Yang Peng with a left and a right. Yang Peng raised the horizontal knife, and with a loud bang, two long knives slashed on the scabbard of the horizontal knife. The two were taken aback, and wanted to withdraw the long knife and continue to attack, but at this moment, they saw a cold light flashing in front of them, Yang Peng unsheathed the knife, and before the two could react, they were cut open throats, splashed blood and fell to the ground.
Ni Chengmou was shocked, although he had heard of Yang Peng's prestige a long time ago, but he didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was just an exaggeration of false rumors, but at this moment he found that Yang Peng really seemed to be as brave and fierce as the legend!
"Go up, go up, go up ......," Ni Chengmou shouted urgently. Seven or eight big men howled and rushed up. Yang Peng smiled coldly, and fought with seven or eight people with a horizontal knife, the weapons collided with a sonorous sound, blood continued to splash out, and one by one the big men were killed on the spot, and in a blink of an eye, seven or eight big men were all slashed and killed by Yang Peng's horizontal knife! Tiger fights flocks of sheep, easy to play!
Ni Chengmou couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, and the big men were also frightened. Ni Chengmou thought that he was now riding a tiger, if he didn't kill Yang Peng, his life would definitely not be guaranteed, and he suddenly became desperate at this thought, and shouted: "Everyone go together!" The men plucked up their courage and rushed forward with a roar.
However, before he could engage Yang Peng, five or six big men fell to the ground. Everyone was shocked, and quickly stopped and looked around, only to see that many black-clothed and black-armored murderous warriors came to the surrounding walls and roofs at some point, holding a strangely shaped hand crossbow, obviously they had shot down those black-clothed men with arrows just now. Ni Chengmou's heart sank to the bottom, panicked and didn't know what to do.
At this moment, the gate was slammed open with a bang, and a beautiful female general led many soldiers and horses to rush in, surrounding Ni Chengmou and all the big Han groups.
The female general walked up to Yang Peng and gave him a blank look, her eyes full of complaints. This female general is none other than Yang Peng's wife, the former Liao princess, Yelu Hanyu. Yang Peng held Yeluteri's slender hand and smiled gently.
"W-what's going on?" Ni Chengmou couldn't help but shout. Yelu Hanyu snorted coldly, "You dog, you think you're very smart, but you're actually stupider than a pig!" I think I'm very clever, but I don't know that we have already discovered your plan! ”
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.