Yan Qinghan took Mo Bai to the place as promised, Pei Yao's post did not set the place of going to the appointment in Qiu's mansion, but in a teahouse not far from Xiao's house, and the little maid took them directly to a separate room.

"Han Gongzi, please inside. The little guy said to Yan Qinghan, and then retreated silently.

He walked in and saw Pei Yao sitting by the window playing chess and drinking.

Seeing that someone was coming, Pei Yao raised his head and said with a light smile: "It's here." ”

Yan Qinghan walked over, sat opposite him, looked at the black and white chess on the chessboard, and raised his eyes to look at him: "I don't know what the prince is looking for this king?"

Pei Yao chuckled lightly and fell with white chess: "If it were other princes and princes, they would definitely not give up this opportunity to win me over, Your Highness is different, is it true as the rumors say, Your Highness will not be in the future?"

Regarding Pei Yao's words, Yan Qinghan listened to it a lot, so naturally he didn't care, his eyes didn't have a trace of waves, and he responded: "The length of life is determined, so why worry about it." ”

Pei Yao picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for Yan Qinghan, and Mo Bai suddenly reminded behind him: "The prince doesn't drink." ”

Yan Qinghan frowned, Mo Bai, who never talked much on weekdays, actually persuaded him not to drink today?

Pei Yao's eyebrows were flirtatious, and he said to Mo Bai with a smile: "Could it be someone else who was drunk the day before yesterday?"

At that time, he met Yan Qinghan and Shen Yanshu in the tavern, and Yan Qinghan's smell of wine was clear to him.

Mo Bai looked at his master and Pei Yao's suspicious eyes, and then said curtly: "It was Miss Shen who said that the prince could not be allowed to drink anymore." ”

Hearing Mo Bai say this, Pei Yao smiled and said, "It turns out that there is a virtuous family to help." ”

He pulled the bell on the table, and soon a servant pushed the door open.

"What do you have to say?"

Pei Yao said: "Serve tea." ”

The little guy replied simply: "Okay!"

It didn't take long for the little guy to put on a pot of dragon wells and replace them with new cups.

Yan Qinghan poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip lightly, feeling a lot more comfortable.

Pei Yao asked, "Why is the prince in Jiangzhou?"

"Accompany the daughter-in-law. Yan Qinghan said.

Pei Yao didn't expect him to say this, he almost didn't choke on the tea, he put down the cup, and said: "I think Miss Shen is different, I have long heard that Miss Shen San is versatile, won the top of the Zhaode Hall, and is even more in love with King Ning, but I didn't expect to have a marriage contract with His Royal Highness." ”

Yan Qinghan's eyes flashed slightly, and he said: "The prince is very well-informed, not in Chang'an, but he knows the situation in Chang'an. ”

Pei Yao is not modest: "There is still the shadow left by the ancestors, of course I can know a little bit about these gossip, but I don't know if the prince is interested in accepting my little chess piece?"

The atmosphere instantly quieted down, Yan Qinghan looked at Pei Yao, but saw him smiling, and his eyes calmly let Yan Qinghan look at him, not cramped at all.

Half a sound, Yan Qinghan said, "Why did the prince choose me?"

"Nature is no choice. Pei Yao said, "Otherwise, would you choose King Ning, King Yu, and King An?" To put it mildly, they have lived in the deep palace for a long time, have a narrow vision, and only know the art of comfort and conspiracy, but they are quite afraid of military generals. If we help them ascend to the throne, our Jingwang Mansion will not be able to get any benefits, and we may even suffer backlash. ”

Yan Qinghan nodded, his reason was reasonable, and he said, "Aren't you afraid that I will be like them, and the chess pieces I use will be discarded?"

"If this is the case, it can only be said that Pei Mou pressed the wrong treasure. Pei Yao said, "But His Royal Highness has an essential difference with them, you are crowned king with military merits, you naturally know that this battlefield is not easy, now that the general of Zhenbei is no longer there, in addition to our Jingwang Mansion, can Da Zhou find a few generals who can resist the enemy?"

Pei Yao's words hit the nail on the head, and the analysis was also thorough, since Emperor Wen of Zhou ascended the throne, the status of military generals has become lower and lower, and they have been suppressed several times, and military candidates like Dingxi Hou have retired from the battlefield, and they are retired in Chang'an, what way out can other generals have?

Not to mention the impact of the fall of General Zhenbei, today's Great Zhou, which still looks prosperous on the surface, is actually vulnerable.

Yan Qinghan's deep eyes pondered for a moment, got up and saluted Pei Yao, and said, "In this way, it will be hard work." ”

Pei Yao also stood up and returned the salute.

When he took this step, it was naturally well thought out, all the princes, there was no one who didn't want to get to that position, and the other princes also said or hinted at it, but the only one who could really make him want to assist was Yan Qinghan.

The two sat down, Pei Yao raised his glass and said, "I wish the prince a great success!"

"Tea instead of wine. Yan Qinghan raised the teacup beside his hand.

Pei Yao chuckled, but he didn't mind, but drank it all and asked, "Lord Wang, I want to know, where does this Shen Yanshu come from?"

"Why do you ask that?" Yan Qinghan was a little strange, "She is Shen Jun's granddaughter and Shen Kangzhi's daughter, which is true." ”

"But the maid next to her, does the prince know who it is?" Pei Yao asked.

The teacup in Yan Qinghan's hand was stunned, and he suddenly remembered that Pei Yao had lived in the general mansion of Zhenbei, so he naturally knew Chen Yanxi, and he said, "Chen Yanxi." Chen's mansion was full of beheadings, Chen Yanxi escaped a catastrophe with the identity of a maid, and was later sold to the Shen family by the tooth shop, what's so strange about this?"

All this went smoothly, which is obviously the best explanation, but Pei Yao still feels a little strange.

He said, "It's me who is too much of a soldier." ”

The two of them talked about the affairs of Chang'an and the southwest again, and most of them had the same opinions, and they had a great sense of hating each other, and they had their own views on the strategy of governing the army, and if they had different opinions, they could also learn a lot from debating with each other.

This conversation took a few hours.

"Get out of the way!" suddenly sounded a familiar shout from the street outside the window.

Yan Qinghan and Pei Yao's eyes both looked over, and when they saw Xiyan galloping on the street on a fast horse, her expression seemed to be very nervous.

"Mo Bai, go and ask what's going on?" Yan Qinghan said.

Mo Bai received the order, answered, and flew out of the window directly.

Xiyan finally arrived at the gate of the Xiao Mansion, and with a sound of "huh-", he tightened the horse's rope and stopped with the horse's hooves volleying.

She turned over and dismounted, handed the horse to the maid at the door, and went straight to the door.

Mo Bai fell directly in front of Xi Yan: "The master asked me to ask you what happened." ”

"The young lady has encountered danger in the mountains, and now she needs to find a reliable doctor. Xi Yan dropped this sentence and went in to find Xiao Lu.

After Mo Bai listened, he turned around and walked towards the teahouse where Yan Qinghan was.

Yan Qinghan and Pei Yao, who heard the news, were both stunned.

"There is a doctor in the Qiu Mansion that I brought from King Jing's Mansion. Pei Yao got up as he spoke, and asked people to go back and take the doctor to worship Moon Mountain.

"Lord Wang, should we also help Miss Shen?" Mo Bai said.

Yan Qinghan said: "Anyway, she is my future princess, so she naturally wants to help." ”

Mo Bai knew that his prince was still angry with Shen Yanshu in his heart, so he told everything about him after he got drunk yesterday, including that he regarded Shen Yanshu as himself, and that he met Yuan Qingqing and returned to the house to feed the medicine.

Yan Qinghan raised his eyebrows, and said a little angrily: "Why did you only tell me now?"

Mo Bai said aggrievedly: "It's the prince, you said don't mention her." ”

Yan Qinghan: "......"

Without saying a word, Yan Qinghan went out directly, and just happened to meet Pei Yao, who was leading the horse, so they got on the horse together and headed towards Baiyue Mountain.

Xiao Nansheng and the others listened to Xiyan's words, obviously they were very anxious, but with Ah Qi blocking the door, none of them could get out, so they could only be in a hurry.

Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Shen Yanan couldn't sit still anymore, so he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to find Ah Qi to fight alone.

It's a pity that it was still thrown back directly by Ah Qi!

"You guys!" Shen Yan'an got up from the ground, patted the ashes on his body, and pointed at Ah Qi and the little monk, "You are imprisoned! I am the son of the official Shangshu, you don't let me go out again, believe it or not, I will report to the official to arrest you!"

Ah Qi was unmoved.

Suddenly there was the sound of horses' hooves outside the temple, and the little monk opened a thin crack in the door, and saw Xiyan Yan Qinghan and Pei Yao, they were good at riding, and they were more than half as fast as ordinary people.

"Who are you?"

"Where is Shen Yanshu?" Yan Qinghan asked directly.

Ah Qi looked back at them and said, "Do you want to look for her too?" But Master said that you would not be allowed to enter the mountain. ”

Little Monk: "......"

Yan Qinghan listened to Ah Qi's words, and the horse didn't get off, so he rode directly and continued to the path in the mountains and forests.

Ah Qi looked at the little monk puzzled.

It's just that the horse hasn't been walking long, and the road is difficult to move forward, so you have to walk.

They tied their horses to the side of a tree and followed the path.

Nie Dong and Nie Liang simply helped Shen Yanshu's wound with medicine, and then slowly carried her out of the bamboo forest, and then walked forward, and met Yan Qinghan and Pei Yao, who came to find Shen Yanshu.

"Who are you?" Pei Yao narrowed his eyes slightly, he could feel that Nie Dong and Nie Liang's martial arts were not low.

Yan Qinghan saw Shen Yanshu on Nie Dong's back at a glance: "What's wrong with her?"

Nie Dong said: "Now is not the time to explain, she is seriously injured now, and she must be taken back to treat her wounds first." ”

Yan Qinghan Pei Yao stepped forward, only then did she see the injuries on Shen Yanshu's body clearly, she unconsciously leaned on Nie Dong's back, her whole body was covered with blood, and there were arrow wounds, abrasions, scratches, and bites on her arms and thighs......

They couldn't imagine what Shen Yanshu had gone through to become what he was now.

Yan Qinghan's heart suddenly became a little flustered, how could she, who was alert on weekdays, let herself be hurt so badly?

"I'll carry her back. Yan Qinghan was about to take over Shen Yanshu from behind Nie Dong's back.

For the first time, I felt that this woman was so vulnerable, she scolded him so fiercely two days ago, and today she made herself so embarrassed, won't this stupid woman protect herself!

Thinking that Shen Yanshu was still duplicitously taking care of himself after he was drunk, Yan Qinghan's heart suddenly softened.

He wanted to protect this woman and not let her suffer any more harm......