What kind of woman will Princess Nangong be? The princesses born to the Queen Mother are all beautiful and extraordinary, Princess Pingyang and Princess Longxi I have seen, they are indeed rare beauties, this Princess Nangong must also be an outstanding character.

What kind of woman is she? With a noble birth but condescending to a noble person, she gave up the comfortable and luxurious life of the Han Palace, married into the barren land of Mobei, endured bitter cold, wind and frost, and had to serve the rude Hun king who was as old as her father in humiliation, and supported the peaceful sky of the Han Dynasty for more than ten years with her already weak shoulders, giving her younger brother enough time to recuperate.

I heard that she was only thirteen years old when she got married, such a little girl, not to mention modern times, even in ancient times, should be the age of coquettishness in her mother's arms, but she has to carry the burden of the country and bear the suffering that should not be borne by her.

She must be unwilling, she must have cried bitterly when she leaves Weiyang Palace and Chang'an. But when she arrived in the Xiongnu, it turned out that she did not live up to the trust of the country and her father, and for a long period of time, the Xiongnu basically did not carry out large-scale incursions on the Han border.

When I came to the princess's tent, before I could make a report, the princess had already come out of the tent, and before I had time to see her face, I knelt on the ground respectfully with Yan Qixing, bowed to see her, and for the first time in my life, I sincerely kowtowed a few times.

This is a great woman to be respected. Even thousands of years later, people can't forget her name.

"Hurry up. "The princess's voice was very good, just as I had imagined, holding one in one hand, and she herself came to help us up.

I looked up at her steadily, her smile was as kind as a flower, ah, what a noble and beautiful woman!

Unlike Princess Pingyang's delicate and delicate beauty, her beauty has an indescribable strength, like proud snow and cold plums, but the appearance covered by this strength is almost gentle, not belonging to Chang'an, not belonging to Weiyang Palace, but tempered in the wind and frost, with a kind of fearless arrogance and stubbornness, but also indestructible holiness and dignity, it is a beauty that people dare not look up to and cannot blasphemy!

Pingyang can't compare to her, and I can't compare to her. This is true beauty, beauty that makes you want to cry and cry.

I was moved for no reason, my nose was sore, and I really wanted to cry, so I quickly controlled the fluid flowing in my eyes.

The princess led us into the felt tent, and Yan Qixing said: "Princess, your younger brother, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, greeted the princess, and he said: Sister, my brother misses you very much, you must take care of your body, as long as you live, our sister and brother will definitely be reunited in our lifetime." ”

Princess Nangong lowered her head, and I could clearly see tears flashing in her eyes. But in the blink of an eye, she smiled: "Che'er still remembers me, it's good." Back then, there were several sisters and brothers, and I had the best relationship with him. At that time, we played together almost every day, and my mother also accompanied us, running around the palace. Once we played hide and seek, Che'er somehow hid under the Xuan's royal case, it happened that my father and the ministers came to the Xuan's room to discuss state affairs, Che'er was afraid that his father would see the punishment, so he hid and didn't dare to come out, and finally fell asleep under the case. From the imperial grandmother to the palace maids, they were all crazy and looked for him everywhere, and finally the little guy walked out of the Xuan room by himself with sleepy eyes. That time, I was punished to kneel with him, and I still can't forget that scene. ”

Listening to her tell about the past of her childhood, the expression on her face was leisurely and fascinated, and the tears that had been held back fell out again, and she couldn't hide it now, so she quickly wiped it with her sleeves.

The felt tent where Princess Nangong lives is very gorgeous both in appearance and interior, surrounded by curtains and gauze tents, which has a bit of the taste of Weiyang Palace. It can be seen that as a Yan clan, her status in the minds of the Xiongnu and military ministers is extraordinary.

Everyone sat on the floor with master and servant, and the princess looked at me for a moment and said, "You are Liu Dan, the first female official in front of the imperial court? This spring, the Han envoy who brought spring food told me many stories about you, which is very wonderful. I heard that Che'er values you very much, and even gave you all the snow fox fur I gave him. ”

I grinned awkwardly and couldn't say the whole thing.

Oh, why are you so embarrassed in front of beautiful women!

Fortunately, Yan Qixing came to relieve me and said: "Princess, the ministers are here this time, in addition to visiting the princess, there is still a major event to ask the princess for help." ”

Princess Nangong put away her smile, motioned for the attendants around her to leave, and asked, "Could it be that Che'er wants to start a war against Hungary?"

Yan Qixing hurriedly said: "It's not about war, it's about private affairs." ”

At that moment, the Xiongnu were sent to Han, and the emperor roughly said about the gift of jade, Princess Nangong was stunned for a long time, and asked: "It's just a piece of jade, what's the matter?"

Yan Qixing looked at me, and I had no choice but to speak: "Actually, that piece of jade is a token for me to go home and recognize my relatives." Without that piece of jade, you can't find your relatives and you can't go home......"

At this point, I saw that the princess's face sank, and her eyes sharpened when she looked at me: "You mean that Che'er is so prosperous for a woman?"

"No, it's not ......" I shook my hands and quickly denied it. "The important thing is not to recognize relatives and go home, but this piece of jade, involving a big secret, at the beginning His Majesty did not know, so he gave the jade to people casually, and then he knew it, so he wanted to take the jade back. Princess, don't get me wrong, your majesty, he is by no means the kind of monarch who gets dizzy for the sake of a woman. ”

The princess groaned for a moment and asked again, "What is the secret?"

I asked Yan Qixing, "Does Lord Yan know?"

Yan Qixing shook his head: "Your Majesty only said that it was important, but did not tell the details. ”

I said, "This is a big matter, princess, and without your majesty's permission, I beg your pardon for not daring to tell me." ”

"Where did this jade come from?" Princess Nangong asked.

I said, "It was brought from the Western Regions." One is to find the relatives of the mother, and the other is to unravel the secrets, who knew that the jade was stolen soon after the Han Dynasty, and it fell into the hands of His Majesty by chance. After the minister became an official, only to know that this piece of jade was given by His Majesty to a young man named Wuwei to the Xiongnu, and the minister stated it to His Majesty, and His Majesty sent the minister to accompany Lord Yan to envoy the Xiongnu, so as to retrieve the Hetian jade. ”

Princess Nangong seemed to accept my explanation, sighed and said, "Do you know who this Uwei is?"

Yan Qixing said: "Because I don't know, I ask the princess to help." ”

Princess Nangong said: "He is the younger brother of the military minister Shan Yu and the eldest son of Yi Zhixian, the king of the Xiongnu Zuogu Li. ”

Leng Buding's heart jumped when he heard the name "Yi Zhixian", and soon after, he would succeed the military minister Shan Yu as the next king of the Xiongnu. Suddenly remembered that there was a record of "Uwei" in the historical records, after the death of Yi Zhixian, his son became the father of the Xiongnu.

I only heard the princess continue: "Back then, Uwei was a young man and was curious about the Han Dynasty, and when the emperor's grandmother collapsed, he had to go to Chang'an with him. Shan Yu couldn't resist his bitter pleading, so he had to let him go without revealing his identity. I was expecting someone to tell him who he really was, and let him take Uvi hostage, just because he loved this grandson the most, or maybe he could write something about it. But after thinking about it, I was afraid that it would be self-defeating and endanger the big man, so I forbeared. ”

I secretly said in my heart: Fortunately, you didn't bear it. But even if Liu Che knew it, he wouldn't do that, he wasn't ready yet, so he wouldn't easily provoke this big Han Dynasty's number one enemy.

Yan Qixing said: "This Prince Uwei is currently in the royal court?"

The princess said: "He is in his fief with the king of Zuoguli. However, three days later, it will be Shan Yushou's birthday, and Yi Zhixie and his son will definitely come to congratulate him on his birthday, and then wait for the opportunity to retrieve the jade. It's just that you have to find a reason to let the two adults stay for three days. ”

I said, "It's easy, let's just say we want to congratulate Shan on his birthday." ”

So the three of them discussed again, and Yan Qixing and I said goodbye and left the princess's felt tent.

In the evening, the military minister Shan Yu set up a banquet to entertain the Han Dynasty envoys, and during the banquet, the military minister Shan Yu heard that we wanted to stay to congratulate him on his birthday, and he really agreed.

I drank the wine, ate the meat, listened to the ugly piano, and watched the ugly dance, and I was mentally prepared to talk to the Bank of China about the battle of the three lilies, but the strange thing is that tonight's Bank of China said that it was so well-behaved that it didn't even say a provocative word, and didn't even look at me.

It's weird.

When the banquet was over, it was the middle of the night when I stole a robe of a Hun slave, made my face dirty, and sneaked out of my makeshift tent after putting it on. According to Yan Qixing, except for Shan Yu and other aristocratic officials, ordinary soldiers and ordinary people of the Xiongnu basically did not speak Chinese, but the Xiongnu invaded and plundered the Han for many years, and captured many Han slaves. So I disguised myself as a slave, took a pile of hay, pretended to be working late at night, and went to find the felt tent that the Bank of China said.

I stayed in the Xiongnu for only three days, so the killing of Zhongxing said that it must be carried out as soon as possible, and I also imagined that if Zhongxing said that he died, it might bring trouble to the mission, but for the sake of Xiao Huo, I didn't want to let go of any opportunity.

Along the way, he met a few Hun soldiers and smoothly fooled past. I ran into a few Han slaves, and asked the Bank of China about the approximate location of the felt tent with an excuse, so I put down the hay and quietly touched it.

Because it is the royal court, although the guards on the periphery are strict, but the interior is very lax, and the Bank of China said that the front of the felt tent is quiet, and there is not even a guard, or is his official rank not high enough to need the status of a guard? By the way, he is just a courtier around him.

Even so, I didn't dare to be careless, so I went around the back of the felt tent, took out my Swiss army knife, and poked the thick felt tent. stabbed left and right, but was stunned and didn't break it.

Phew! It's all for the kind of scene in the TV series where you can stab the enemy's tent with a broken knife.

I was pondering whether to give up or continue, but I heard something strange in the tent, and then there was a slight sound of footsteps. It's like the feeling of tiptoeing when a thief commits a crime, it's very familiar. I stopped moving, turned around the tent and looked at it, and sure enough, someone came out, and by the light from the tent, the ghostly look was not what the Bank of China said?

What does this guy want to do if he doesn't sleep in the middle of the night?

I was overjoyed, didn't this create an opportunity for me to kill him? Immediately I raised my leg and landed lightly on my heels, and came to another tent with lights on, and the Bank of China said to get in, and the lights went out immediately.

This, isn't this old boy having a tryst with some beautiful woman, he is a eunuch, can he make it?

Trying to put his ears to the tent, there were faint voices of two men talking, but what was said could not be heard clearly. In a hurry, he took out his saber and stabbed it again, and stabbed it a few times, hey, it really broke a small hole. I put my ears on it again, and I heard the last sentence of the Bank of China: "You go back to report, if you miss this time, it will be postponed to the birthday of your birthday according to the original plan, and the big thing will be completed." ”

My heart fluttered: what was missing? What plan? Who was the target of the report? Birthday...... What do they want to do on the birthday of the military minister Shan Yu?

After thinking about it for a long time, when he came back to his senses, the Bank of China said that he had already left.

The temperature in the grassland was very low at night, and I was wearing little clothing, so I stayed outside for a long time, and I wanted to shiver from the cold. I wanted to sneak to the BOC again to say that the tent would kill him, but after thinking about it, I felt that the timing was not right, and before the plan that the BOC said did not figure out what it was, it was still not appropriate to act rashly, so let him live one more day.

I returned to my tent and thought about it, but I couldn't think of what happened to the Xiongnu in the first year of Yuanguang in history. Judging from the secret and strange actions of the Bank of China, what is planned must not be a trivial matter. After thinking about it, I decided to go to see Princess Nangong, or what clues I could get from her, so I changed my clothes and went to meet the princess. Fortunately, Shan Yu did not stay in the princess's bed tonight, and after the report, he soon saw Princess Nangong who got up in a hurry.

"Lord Liu came here late at night, what's the matter?" the princess was disturbed from sleeping, but she did not look displeased.

I thought about it and said, "Princess, the ministers want to ask, what important things have happened in the Xiongnu court recently, or are about to happen?"

The princess looked at me inexplicably and said, "The biggest thing is Shan Yu's birthday." Why are you so nervous?"

I reminded her, "If you think about it, what else did the princess not expect?"

Princess Nangong suddenly said: "Yes, there is another thing, Shan Yu once said that he would declare Shan as the crown prince of the Xiongnu on his birthday." ”

I slapped my forehead and immediately understood, and whispered, "Princess, Prince Yushan is probably in danger." ”

Princess Nangong's face turned pale with a "brush": "What do you mean by this?"

As soon as the words fell, I heard a big chaos outside, and someone was shouting in Xiongnu language. When Princess Nangong heard this, she immediately rushed out. I knew something was wrong and kept up.

The entire Xiongnu court was in chaos, several tents were burned, slaves carried wooden barrels full of water to extinguish the fire, and the Xiongnu soldiers hurried towards the central tent with weapons in hand.

I grabbed a man in slave attire and asked, "What's wrong?"

It was a Han slave, and he replied in fear, "Someone wants to assassinate Da Danyu." ”

It wasn't Yu Dan, I was a little relieved, and asked, "Have you caught the assassin?"

The man said, "The slave and maid do not know, but they must not have been caught." ”

I was relieved to find the princess and see that she was with Prince Yudan, and that they were both safe and sound.

Came to Shan Yu's big tent, Yan Qixing arrived early, and the elderly military minister Shan Yuzheng, who was surrounded among the princes and princes, was so angry that he stood outside the tent and jumped like thunder, wanting to arrest the assassin, the spirit of the head proved that he was unharmed, and the princess stepped forward to greet Shan Yu, I carefully looked at it in the crowd, and there was no figure that the Bank of China said. After a while, I saw him appear in the tent, and ran to Shan Yu's side, looking very anxious and concerned.

I watched coldly at his hypocritical performance, how can you expect to see in him the virtue of loyalty to a man who betrays his country because of his personal grudges? As long as there is a greater good, he can even sell himself.

But who else can give him greater benefits besides Da Shan Yu? The answer is very simple -- the next Shan Yu!

It is by no means Yu Shan, he is the rightful heir to the throne, and there is no need to use this means no matter how urgent he is. The Xiongnu have the strength to do Shan Yu is nothing more than the four kings -- the left and right Xian Wang (also known as the left and right Tu Qi King), the left and right Gu Li Wang, among which the left Gu Li King Yi Zhixian is the most likely, because he is the most ambitious, and according to historical facts, seven years later in the second year of Yuan Shuo (127 years ago), the military minister Shan Yu died, he really defeated Yu Shan by force, and took the position of Xiongnu Da Shan Yu from his nephew.

Just as I was thinking about it, someone patted me on the shoulder, it was Yan Qixing.

"Lord Liu is in a trance, could it be that something is wrong?" he looked at me suspiciously.

I looked at the left and right and no one was paying attention, and I pulled him to a little further away and said, "Do you want to know who the main messenger is?"

Yan Qixing was stunned for a moment and said, "You go first, and then we will talk about it later." ”

According to etiquette, I asked Shan Yu with Yan Qixing, and I glanced at the princess and went straight back to the account. As soon as I arrived at the tent door, a figure flickered, and a cold knife was placed on my neck.

"@#¥%$&※◎□§" A strange and deep voice came out of a man's mouth, and he couldn't understand what he was saying at all. Seeing a few Hun soldiers coming this way, I was in a hurry, quickly grabbed his wrist and snatched the knife to push him into the tent. The man was about to struggle, but the knife was already in his heart.

I fixed my eyes on him, dressed in Hun costumes, not very old, with fair skin, high nose and deep eyes, he was actually a Caucasians, and then I was very surprised, and asked, "Who are you? Is that the assassin?"

The man glared at me in fear and confusion and shook his head.

I thought for a moment and asked him in English: "YouarenottheChinese, alsoisnottheHsiungnupeople, whoareyou?" (You are not Chinese, you are not a Huns, who are you?)"

He was still staring at me blankly, and I was dumbfounded, and when I saw a Caucasian person talking to him in English, my head was really in water!

What should I do now? Although he is sure that he is the person sent by the Bank of China to assassinate Shan Yu, there is no way to know the details because of the language barrier, let alone what plan they will carry out on his birthday.

I had to gesture at him, and he looked at me puzzled, and I simply handed the knife back to him and motioned for him to return the knife to the sheath. He obviously sensed that I had no malicious intent, and he also gestured with me with the knife in the sheath, but unfortunately the content of his gesture was too complicated for me to understand. As a result, after a while, both of them were sweating profusely.

At this moment, there was a noise at the door, and I was startled, and hurriedly motioned for him to hide under the bed. Fortunately, I couldn't get used to sleeping on the floor, so I temporarily ordered someone to build a simple bed out of a wooden plank, otherwise I wouldn't even have a place to hide.

"Lord Liu. It was Yan Qixing who spoke.

I reached out and pulled him in, saying, "I'm in big trouble now, I've got an assassin hiding here." ”

Yan Qixing was startled, looked left and right, and I pointed under the bed. Yan Qixing groaned slightly, and said: "This official is only Hetian Yuhuan, and he doesn't want to cause trouble for no reason, so he will be handed over to the military minister Shan Yu, and the right will be a birthday gift." ”

"No, I can't. "I am categorically against it.

"But why?" Yan Qixing was puzzled.

I said, "I can't explain it to you now, but the most important thing at the moment is not to let him fall into the hands of the Huns." ”

Yan Qixing said: "There is an assassin in the royal court, and the Huns will definitely not give up, but I am afraid that when the military ministers calm down, the first person to suspect is the Han envoy." It's not safe to keep him here. ”

"I know, that's why I'm asking you to think of an idea. "I'm in a hurry.

Yan Qixing thought for a while and said, "The only way to do this is to ask Princess Nangong for help." ”

I sighed: "It's not that I haven't thought about this, but ......"

But to ask the princess for help, I have to tell the whole thing together, including the things that I want to kill the middle bank. I really don't want a second person to know about this.

After hesitating for a while, I really couldn't think of any other way, so I had to nod and agree.

Yan Qixing went out to find the guards who accompanied him to guard the door and summoned the assassin from under the bed.

I said, "He doesn't know Chinese or English," I said, "He doesn't know Chinese or ......English," and I almost missed my mouth. "Anyway, there was no communication at all. ”

But when he heard Yan Qixing say a lot of strange language, the man actually began to talk to him. I glared at the two of them in amazement, and sincerely admired Yan Qixing.

"What Chinese language are you talking about? What country is he?" I asked impatiently.

Yan Qixing ignored me, and talked to him for a long time before replying to me: "He can speak Xiongnu." He said that he was a descendant of the prince of the Otsuki clan. After Lao Shangdan Yu wiped them out, the remaining members of the Yue clan moved out of their homeland, and his father's family was separated from his clan during the flight, and he lived a life of displacement for decades afterward. A few years ago, his father was killed by the Huns, this time to avenge the revenge of the family and the country came to the royal court, who knew that the royal court was heavily guarded, just close to the big tent was discovered, to be able to escape is really a fluke. ”

After a pause, he said: "If he is really the prince of the Yue clan, not only can we not give him to the Huns, but we also have to find ways to help him get out." ”

Not bad, finally thought of it.

I say. "Lord Yan, ask him again, what is the relationship with Yi Zhixie, the king of the Xiongnu Zuogu Li?"

Yan Qixing inquired as he said and told me: "He did not know Yi Zhixian, but he only met a Xiongnu a few months ago, and after getting drunk, he leaked the details of the Xiongnu royal court, and he hid in a car transporting forage, so that he was able to sneak into the royal court. ”

I asked, "What about the forage cart was also told to him by the Huns?"

Yan Qixing nodded and said, "Someone used this prince to assassinate the military minister Shan Yu. ”

I said, "So behind this, I'm afraid there will be a bigger conspiracy." Without further ado, let's go find the princess. ”

For the sake of prudence, we should first send someone to see how the princess is doing, and if we run to the princess's bed for the night only when his old man is frightened, will we not fall into the net?

After a while, the messenger reported that Shan Yu had not returned to the princess's account.

Yan Qixing said that there were occasional fair-skinned people from the Western Regions among the slaves, and the identity of the prince would not be suspicious for the time being, so he immediately painted a half-black face on the prince of the Yue clan and pretended to be a slave, and the three of them carefully avoided the soldiers and arrived in front of the princess's tent.

It's really bad luck, just arrived at the door of the tent, someone behind him shouted: "In the middle of the night, why did the Han envoy come here?"

Looking back, surrounded by a bunch of guards, it was the military minister Shan Yu and his old man.

Yan Qixing was not in a hurry, and stepped forward to salute: "There is an assassin in the royal court, and my deputy envoy and I are worried about the safety of the princess, so we have come to visit. ”

The military minister Shan Yu did not doubt it, and said with a heavy "um": "That kid is really bold enough, but this big Shan Yu is under the protection of the Tengger God and the Great Kunlun God, even if there is danger, he will be able to save the day!"

As I spoke, I had quietly stood in front of the Yueshi Prince, hoping to avoid Shan Yu's dim eyes.

But the one who should have come still couldn't hide, a Hun soldier with sharp eyes, saw the prince of the Yue clan, and shouted with a finger of his hand...... He spoke in Xiongnu that I didn't understand, but I guess it was: "Who are you?" And so on.

I secretly complained, so I had to watch the Yue Prince walk over.

He was not a fool after all, and immediately took out the unique fear and timidity of a slave, and stepped forward to meet Da Shan Yu with trepidation.

The military minister looked him up and down with suspicion, and asked him in Xiongnu, only to see that the prince of the Yue clan was stunned, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

I'm sweating!

At this moment, as soon as the curtain was lifted, Princess Nangong walked out, her voice was as gentle as a spring breeze, and said, "Da Danyu, did my slave accidentally anger you?"

The military minister Shan Yu was stunned and asked suspiciously: "Your slave, why has this Da Shan Yu never seen it?"

Princess Nangong smiled slightly and said, "A month ago, King Zuogu Li sent me a batch of slaves, and when I saw that this slave was strong, I ordered him to do some work outside, so Da Dan Yu had never seen him. ”

Then he gave a few instructions to the prince of the Yue clan in the Xiongnu language, and a maid stepped forward and took him away. The military minister did not stop him, apparently believing the princess's explanation.

I glanced at Yan Qixing, and under the lamplight, I found that a slight cold sweat was oozing from the corners of his forehead.

The princess turned to us and said gently, "Thank you for your concern, the palace is fine, please go back to the tent and rest." ”

Raised his eyes and glanced at Shan Yu, and said, "Da Shan Yu, aren't you coming in?"

The military minister Shan Yu looked at her, then at us, and waved his hand with a big mouth: "Rest, let's rest." ”

A crisis was resolved so quietly.

But what about tomorrow?

Returning to the tent in a cold sweat, Yan Qixing immediately asked: "There are no outsiders now, who is the main messenger you said just now?"

I sat down on the simple bed, wiped my sweat, and said, "Some things can't be explained for a while, and some of them are guessed by me, so I can't be sure, but according to my estimate, most of the assassins are related to the king of Zuoguli, Yi Zhixian." ”

"Evidence?" Yan Qixing made the same old mistake again.

"It's all guessed. I glared at him impatiently. "Forget it, go back first, let me think about it, and then I'll find a chance to see the princess tomorrow." ”

Yan Qixing was also happy, and turned around and left without saying a word.

Alas, I don't know how many people are going to lose sleep tonight......