Chapter Eighty-Three: Ten Pirates
When Madame heard that the fourth prince was going to stand up against the eldest brother, she scolded unceremoniously: "Pull it down! Don't make trouble for us again." Is it really shameless to be your father?"
Bai Yan's face flushed in a daze, but he didn't dare to be furious, and gritted his teeth angrily and closed his mouth.
As soon as the words came out, Mrs. knew that her tone was a little heavy, and she couldn't bear to think about it, so she bluntly comforted a few words: "If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your mother." ”
Bai Yan just lowered his head and still refused to speak.
Jiang Jinglan suddenly asked, "Who is his mother?"
Bai Lingyu replied casually: "Concubine Shu." ”
"Oh oh, it's that Haizhou Mu's sister, my aunt's best friend, right? No wonder Xiaosi is so afraid of your mother. Is it the same as you, who was scolded by her since childhood. ”
Jiang Jinglan's skills are okay, and he poked the waists and eyes of three people with one sentence. Xiao Bai, His Royal Highness and Madame glared at the same time.
Miss Jiang stuck out her tongue, turned around and squeezed her eyes with the big and small senior sisters. Suddenly I remembered something, and I turned around and asked, "Auntie, your family...... Is the place big enough?"
Madame was stunned for a moment, and then realized the problem. Tomorrow's game is a five-man match, but it will take a lot of space. The vacant land at home is so big, these little monkeys who are not light or heavy, it is a trivial matter to destroy the flowers and plants in the yard, but they will definitely be tied up and unable to be used.
She looked at Jiang Jinglan, who was smiling flatteringly, and immediately made a decision.
"Go to your house. ”
There are many things to do to adjust the formation and cultivate tacit understanding when five people go into battle. They don't even know what they're really capable of. The time was too urgent, and the friends who were named got up one after another, planning to go back to the other courtyard with their wives.
But whatever His Highness says, he will go with him.
Jiang Jinglan was a little disgusted: "I didn't greet you, why are you going to my house?"
The old four's temperament seems to have changed, and he is not as oily and smooth as before. But it's still the same stubbornness, and it's hard to pull back what you recognize.
"Why don't you speak! What an old man, how can you play a child's temper. ”
His Royal Highness simply shut up, and whoever says anything just won't pick up.
No one could persuade him. Madame just opened her eyes and closed her eyes to him: "To be honest, I'm really worried. The fourth child is in a bad mood, floating outside alone, who knows if there will be some accidents. said this, but glanced at Jiang Jinglan with a smile.
West of Qingtan City, Jiangjia Courtyard
The friends hurriedly poured into the gate of the courtyard. The first thing I saw was the pirate who had competed with Bai Yan before. At this moment, he is standing with Tao Lao.
Seeing Bai Yan enter the courtyard, the man was very surprised, and said in surprise: "I was about to go to you, but I didn't expect you to come by yourself." It just so happens that the letter has been delivered."
"Who wrote my letter to me?" Bai Yan looked puzzled.
"Old Elder. He said he missed his grandson. ”
Originally, the friends were full of doubts about the relationship between the four princes and pirates, and they were even more confused as soon as this remark came out. Isn't his mother a concubine? How did he become the grandson of some old elder on Pirate Island?
Bai Ye is even more thunderous.
The eldest grandson?
Didn't you say a few days ago that I was the eldest grandson? Why did I change people?
Tao Lao saw that things were a little chaotic, and all parties seemed to be in the clouds. Hurriedly stopped everyone. I rubbed my hands together for a long time, but I didn't know where to start.
Madame hesitated for a long time: "This is a long story. In a word...... Let's put it this way. When he was a child, he lived on the island for a few months of the year. ”
"What is there to hide. They're all too young to know this. As he spoke, the gray-faced pirate shook his wet hair, glanced deeply at Bai Ye, and then glanced at the fourth highness with a solemn face.
The pirate's attitude and expression completely infuriated Madame, and she exclaimed, "You are nervous, stinky boy!
Madame is furious, and no one can catch it. The pirate smiled and shook his head, and turned and walked into the corner of the courtyard.
The people in the courtyard stood stupidly, and after being silent for a long time, Bai Yan finally muttered in a low voice, "Then I'll say it." ”
Bai Ye looked at the young man and clenched his fists nervously. An ominous premonition seems to be coming true more and more.
"Before my father ascended the throne, he was with Elder Shui. After the last war, I still have to go to the island for a few months every year. Every time, he always took me to play with the island. ”
"The elders and elders have loved me very much since I was a child and have taken care of me as if I were my own. This little uncle, who was only ten years old at the time, took me on the boat and into the sea every day, and played crazy everywhere......"
"Wait, wait!" Jiang Jinglan exclaimed, "Am I right? After the last war, didn't Pirate Island start attacking Dalan and Qingtan City? Is there something wrong with your brain or is it wrong for me to hear?"
"Well, that's right. Elder Shui, they are targeting my imperial grandfather. My father was still the third prince at that time. ”
The friends who heard about this kind of farce for the first time almost lost control of their facial expressions.
"Do you mean, when Pirate Island was fighting and killing Lao Tzu, he was in love with the kid at the same time?"
The pirate leader known as Uncle Xiao came out of the darkness: "Six years. ”
Tao Lao took Bai Ye's hand and explained tremblingly, "That's the case. Pirate Island was dissatisfied with some of the decisions made by the previous emperor. But today's saint, at that time, he was always in the same camp as Pirate Island, Dashuai and the Jiang family. ”
Bai Ye knew what the old steward meant. The decision to betray his father was made by the emperor. It was his holy decree that recalled the three princes on the front line, it was his holy decree that ordered the Jiang family to cut off supplies, and it was his holy decree that forced the marshal to besiege the city.
It's all the emperor's fault. Everyone else is my father's best friend, they are all forced to be helpless, they all wait for him to die before they go to fight for the reunion of the high-ranking officials and the family, and they all talk about love while avenging their father!
Bai Yan didn't notice the strange young man who was being dragged by the old steward Tao.
He has been immersed in happy recollections: "My father really likes Aunt Shui, and he also really respects my mother." Every time I go to the island, my mother happily urges me to prepare, and also asks me to bring all kinds of delicious and fun things to the island to share. ”
"The island is fun, swimming, fishing, practicing knives every day...... Once, my mother also went to live with her for a long time...... At that time, it was really called leisurely. I always thought that my father wanted to live on the island forever and never return to Qingtan again. ”
"It wasn't until I was nine years old that my father suddenly said he would never go again. Aunt Water never wanted to see him again. Bai Yan's eyes suddenly dimmed. "At that time, he was already the emperor, and every time he came back from the court, he was sullen. He always ignores my mother. Gradually, no one dared to tease him. ”
"But I've always been thinking about Aunt Shui. The last time I saw her, she had a big belly. That's when I realized that it was my younger siblings in her belly. I secretly swore that I would love him well. However, I know that it should be my father who did something sorry for the island. I haven't been back to the island since. ”
His Royal Highness kept whispering, Xiaobai and Yichi felt uncomfortable as if they were hairy, but the girls around them were stupid. Only Jiang Jinglan kept pouting angrily. She doesn't care what the emperor Lao Tzu is, this kind of story of chaos and abandonment, she has always been the most disgusted.
Bai Ye took Tao Lao's hand and slowly walked away from it before he said viciously, "Why?"
Tao Lao was originally a little guilty in his heart, but when he saw Bai Ye's expression, he was even more uneasy, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Ye, you, how are you ......?"
"Why did you tell the Wood Hall Master that I was Elder Shui's child? Who are you using to cover for whom? Why did you wrap me up in the affair between Pirate Island and the Emperor? Elder Shui and the Emperor had a falling out, was it because of Fangyi? Because of my father? Where is she now?"
Tao Lao's eyes flickered, and he pondered for a long time before he said, "If I say that the little girl Linlang can't fully represent the forces and ideas of Pirate Island, can you understand?"
"Needless to say, everyone came to the imperial capital on their own initiative. Did the old elders mean it or did they mean it themselves?"
Tao Lao couldn't help but glance back, and said hesitantly: "Probably, it's all there." It is true that the relationship with Qingtan City has always been tense. However, the relationship between Pirate Island and Haizhou, and with Concubine Shu and His Royal Highness, has not been broken over the years. At present, the eldest prince is about to go south. I'm afraid the islanders have some idea. ”
"Are they afraid that the eldest prince will be unfavorable to Haizhou in the south?"
"I'm afraid. It is normal for the princes to fall into each other, but whether it is Haizhou, Quanzhou, or the island, I still hope to fight it. The fourth child is not small, if he can take this opportunity to fight for the opportunity to go south to lead the troops, he will be much more relieved. No matter what kind of fight you have with the Nanlu people, at least there are your own people in the reinforcements, so you won't be too passive......"
"It's not certain that the country will die, but you are thinking about fighting for power and land? You guys are really interesting...... So you want to show your face on the colonel's field? simply carry the flag and shout all over the city, saying that the Fourth Highness is a person from Pirate Island. ”
Bai Ye thinks that these old guys are sometimes unreasonable. "The eldest prince and Lu Xiangzheng have no handle, are you sending this kid on the road directly? Besides, you just told the hall master that I am the child of Elder Shui and the emperor, do you want me to pretend to be now? Doesn't the Nine Old Hall know what year Elder Shui gave birth to the child?"
"I really don't know, so it's not so scary if you pretend. Madame came after me at some point. She looked at Bai Ye's eyes, and at some point, it seemed to have changed.
"Xiaoye, don't be so nervous. Pirate Island and Long Wuji reached an agreement, that is, an agreement with the Emperor. I guess they want to tie each other tighter. ”
Madame patted Sayo's shoulder with relief, "You're a good boy." Rest assured. My good sister and the fourth lady are representatives of Haizhou's traditional forces. It is more appropriate for them to recover the lost territory. This is also the meaning of Dashuai. ”
Tao Lao nodded: "So, the people of Pirate Island, are ready to enter Qingtan City openly." Starting tomorrow. ”
"Tomorrow?"
"Yes. Isn't the Holy Lord going to come to the university tomorrow? They're officially competing, it's fair enough, right?"
A shout in the distance interrupted the conversation.
"Are you done, are you done? Ten of us pirates, let's practice with the five of you. ”