Chapter 1383: A Gift from a Thousand Miles
The south wind is late in winter, and the snow has stopped.
The three of them traveled north, and the early spring solstice.
Far away in other countries, Chu Xuan trembled, and had already arrived at the imperial city of Yue.
Above the court, the sneering and mocking eyes gathered from all directions made Chu Xuan stand on pins and needles.
The gift she was holding in her hand had been placed safely on Wu Ying's table at the moment.
Chu Xuan can say that when she received this task, she almost committed suicide by jumping into a well that night?
It's simply an impossible task.
Not to mention that the war between the two countries is in full swing, and the hatred between the two countries has reached the point of irresolvability.
Not to mention that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a lifelong enemy of His Royal Highness the son of her family, and the two of them seem to have a little bit of meaning to Lord Rashomon.
Mortal enemy plus love enemy.
If there is anyone in this world who wants the fox head on the neck of His Royal Highness, Chu Xuan gambled his life, and he can say with absolute certainty: It must be that Wu Ying!
Chu Xuan looked at His Royal Highness the young prince on the throne with a perverse and serious face, his heart was like ashes, and he said in his heart that he was afraid that he would have to explain here today.
In this sensitive period, as an envoy of the Southern Jin Dynasty, the prince came to this imperial city to offer gifts, which was undoubtedly a sheep into the wolf's den and brought about his own destruction.
Wu Ying's eyebrows lifted slightly, looking at the young woman below the hall, her fingertips tapped the brocade gift box, and her eyes were cold: "Who are you?"
Chu Xuan was swept away by that sight, and there was a cold suffocating feeling like being in a yellow spring.
Of course, she knew very well that it was impossible for Wu Ying not to know her name and what her identity was.
But Wu Ying knows such a question, and there must be a deep meaning in it.
A cold sweat slowly slipped down her forehead.
If she didn't answer properly, she would definitely die here on the spot.
Chu Xuan's neck was full of cold sweat, she thought silently for a long time, stiffened her body and bowed deeply, her voice was tense and hoarse: "The minister of the prince of Ye Wangfu's foreign surname, Chu Xuan." β
She knew that answering like this would inevitably lead to a catastrophe, she didn't say that she was a retainer of Empress Murong, as a powerful enemy's minister, with the strength of His Royal Highness Wu Ying, she would definitely not let her go out alive, and she wouldn't even open the gift box to take a look.
Even though he knew this clearly, Chu Xuan still answered like this.
Although she was born as a merchant slave in the country, she is weak and can be bullied, but she also has the pride and belief of being a native of Chu.
At this point today, she is working for His Royal Highness, the benefactor, and if she claims to be a minister of another country, she will inevitably make His Highness laugh at the enemy.
How can you bow down to the majesty and terror of the prince of the enemy country?
Chu Xuan slowly raised her eyelashes that were wet with sweat, and her voice trembled but she also said firmly: "Foreign minister, what does Your Highness think?"
"Presumptuous!"
"This woman dares to despise our country so much, and she should be sentenced to capital punishment!"
"Minister! What a minister, is it true that I have no one in my day,!"
The two words foreign minister made the courtiers suddenly angry.
Since he was the one who offered the gift, the prince of the enemy country actually sent only one foreign minister.
Is this belittling their Royal Highness the Crown Prince, or is it provoking their national prestige?!
His Royal Highness the Prince, who thought that he would be angry and bloody, still sat firmly on the throne, under the white jade bead curtain of the crown, the dark red eyes exuded an inscrutable color, and his gaze seemed to be on a large number of Chu Xuan's flower-like and jade-like faces.
Wu Ying was silent for a long time and repeated: "It's just a foreign minister?"
Chu Xuan finally made up her mind to die, and was lifted up by her cool tone, and she said, "Yes, it's just a foreign minister." β
Others didn't know that the word 'only' was used just right, which was very much in line with Wu Ying's mind, and her sharp eyes were also relaxed, and she said lightly: "Give me a seat." β
The audience was dumbfounded, thinking that they had misheard.
This...... It's all like this, and you don't want to kill it?
Also give a seat?
Chu Xuan's legs also began to weaken, and his heart said that he shouldn't give a tiger chair, right?
The ministers looked at each other, and no one could guess the true intentions of His Royal Highness the Prince, but soon, a chair was moved out by the palace people.
Chu Xuan only dared to sit a little bit next to the seat with the tip of her buttocks.
In the entire court, except for her and Wu Ying, who were sitting, the rest of the ministers and even Wu Ying's brother Wu Zhang were all respectfully maintaining a standing posture.
Chu Xuan was uncomfortable.
"What is the matter with this gift?" Wu Ying's palm was attached to the unsealed brocade box, and through the surface of the box, he could sense the cold breath in the box, which should be a special ice cube stored in it.
Wu Ying looked at the things contained in the box, and was not interested.
Although Chu Xuan said that she was the son of the Ye family, all the courtiers and princes in the audience knew that Chu Xuan's true identity was actually a confidant under the new Empress of the Yin Kingdom.
In the war between the two countries, there are not many military attachΓ©s and generals above the court of the Yue Kingdom who have suffered from the air raid on the battlefield.
The hostility towards Chu Xuan is not deep.
She calls herself a minister of the Ye family, but in everyone's hearts, she has long been deeply convinced that she will only be the confidant of Empress Murong of the Yin Kingdom.
What is working for the prince of the Jin Kingdom is just a tacit cover-up.
Wu Ying naturally wouldn't be interested in the gifts prepared by Murong Heng.
The Yin Kingdom is a new country that has recovered from the dead, and in this era of war, the foundation is very weak, and Murong Heng can have today, nothing more than relying on the power and resources of the Ye family to get to today's level and height step by step.
But Wu Ying knew that his heart was far away, his homeland was not in the Southern Jin Dynasty, and he was no longer in the court, and what Murong Heng could draw from him seemed to be gradually becoming limited.
If he wants to continue to stand in this Kyushu, Murong Heng naturally can't just put all his eggs in one basket, and now this Chu Xuan has come very coincidentally, and this gift is also extremely delicate.
Wu Ying did not open the box to watch the ceremony, but he could also guess that the gift in this box was a rare treasure that was extremely difficult to find in Kyushu.
Just by feeling the extraordinary chill through the box of noodles, you can sense that the ice used to hide in it is a vulgar thing.
This Murong Heng will spend his thoughts.
If it were someone else, I would be very curious about what kind of treasure was hidden in the box.
It's just that Wu Ying is really not interested in this thing in the world.
When she opened her mouth to ask, the court was quiet, except for the light breeze outside the hall, in the huge hall, only Wu Ying's cold voice hovered in the hall.
Although the tone is soothing and calm, it can linger in people's hearts, but there is always a lingering cold and cold to the bone.
Chu Xuan was so nervous that she didn't know where to put her hands, and she didn't dare to raise her head to look at the handsome young man on the throne, lowered her head, and said slowly:
"The master of my family has explained, and the matter of asking the prince today must not be known to outsiders, and it is ...... I also ask His Highness to send the ministers to the court. β
When she said this, Chu Xuan was about to suffocate to death.
What the hell is this request, in front of everyone's eyes, they met the prince of Yueguo, discussed and sought state affairs, but let all the courtiers retreat.
I don't know this, I think it's a stupid assassination of their own plan.
With Wu Ying's temperament, it is absolutely impossible to obey so obediently.
"This woman is arrogant!"
"What a foolish request this is! Your Highness, your subordinates admonished that this woman refused to explain her intentions and had bad intentions! She must harbor evil intentions! She should take it down as soon as possible, and put her head on the platform to show her to the public, so as to suppress me and cross the prestige of the country!"
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
Even the prince Wu Zhang bent down with a gloomy face: "The minister seconded the proposal!"
Wu Ying's dark pupils swept lightly towards the crowd, and the noisy scene instantly became extremely quiet, her eyes rolled slightly, and finally settled on Chu Xuan, and her eyes spit out two words lightly without waves: "Reason." β
Chu Xuan didn't even have the determination to see the move at this moment, and lowered his head in resignation and said, "There is no reason, this is the original words of my family master." β
Wu Ying's eyes narrowed, and a scarlet light flashed in his dark eyes: "You have two lords." β
Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment, raised her head, but still didn't dare to surrender her gaze to Wu Ying's side, pursed her lips and said, "Everything you do today is the order of Lord Yeling." β
The atmosphere in the court suddenly became tense.
And Wu Ying's sharp eyes slowly opened, and she said "oh?", and then disappeared, but her gaze fell seriously on the box under her palm.
Chu Xuan caught a glimpse of Wu Ying's movements, and was wondering why the killing intent suddenly disappeared, when he heard Wu Ying's voice slowly drifting from the direction of the throne.
Yes.
It's floated over.
The voice was floating: "So, this gift was also prepared by him for you?"
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be ...... Isn't it Murong Heng?
Chu Xuan was stunned and stunned, and hurriedly whispered respectfully: "Yes." β
"Your Highness, there is fraud in this matter, the things in the box must be strange poison and killing, and you must not be tricked to open it!"
"The minister admonished, the son of the Ye family is the enemy of my country, this gift is unreasonable, this gift must hide a murderous intention, and this box should be burned with this woman!"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not listen to what this demon girl says!"
It's annoying......
Why are these old things so noisy!
The noisy sound was like the harsh sound of a silver spoon scraping through a porcelain plate, and the noisy cutting and miscellaneous, directly aroused the killing intent in Wu Ying's heart.
The whole hall is like a cold ice purgatory!
Everyone's faces were as white as frost, as if an evil ghost was coming, and they were terrified.
Wu Ying pressed the killing intent in his heart like a wild flower, pressed one palm to his heart, and slowly raised the other palm, just about to let the young eunuch send this group of noisy and obstructive guys.
But before the palm of her hand was raised, her mind flowed, and on the one hand, she was murderous, and on the other hand, she showed off a little childishly.
Her gaze fell on the surface of the box.
It was a gift he had traveled thousands of miles to give her. (In fact, it was Chu Xuan who traveled thousands of miles, and Wu Ying automatically ignored her at the moment, and her brain became a fox.) οΌ