Chapter 15 Chapter Thirteen

At noon that day, on the ancient road outside the east gate of Jincheng, in the long yellow sand, more than 30 riders in gray clothes, surrounded by a dusty but still luxurious cart, galloped towards Jincheng. These thirty or so riders, all of them were tough, capable and majestic, although their faces were covered with dust, they couldn't hide the look of heroism in their eyes.Everyone turned around a desolate mountain ridge, and the tall but dilapidated towers of Jincheng stood in front of them.All the riders breathed a sigh of relief in unison: It's finally here!For more than a month, protecting the owner, he went east and west suddenly, running around in all directions, not to mention horse legs, even human legs have already turned into fine hemp rods.After running for many days in this unobstructed long yellow sand and under the scorching sun, I saw that I was about to arrive at Jincheng. Now I can stop and let people take a breath, right?All the riders unknowingly lifted their spirits and raised their whips to urge their horses.

When entering the city gate, the speed of the riders slowed down, and finally stopped altogether. "What's the matter?" A clear and dignified voice in the car asked. A rider reined in his horse, walked up to the car, bowed his head and clasped his fists and said, "I want to tell you, Master, there are a lot of people around the gate of the city, and the road is completely blocked. My subordinates will drive them away immediately." "No, go and see, what's going on?" the voice said. The rider took the order to go, then returned immediately, and said to the inside of the car: "Master, there is an execution ground on the east side of the city gate, and they want to kill people."

"Oh? Drive the car over there, I'd like to see how people are killed." "this……" "What is this?" The person in the car said angrily, "I'm not afraid, could it be that you are afraid?" The rider had no choice but to lead a few men, waved their whips and yelled to drive them away, opened a path among the crowd, and pulled the car away. Lead to the side of the court and stop. At that time, there were already crowds of people on the sidelines of the court, and there were as many spectators as mountains.Hundreds of guards and sergeants were waving their whips to suppress them, and if anyone who dared to push forward, the whips and whistle sticks would be slammed down without thinking.

On the north side of the court, and on the south side, a shed was built with bamboo mats, bamboo poles, and brocade silk. There are two long tables in the shed, and two chairs behind the table. The chairs are covered with brocade cushions and brocade chairs. Dingyao tea set.There is a row of ten wooden stakes in the center of the execution ground, from the base of the stakes to the height of the people on the stakes, they are all brownish black, and it takes the blood of many people to be soaked! "Oh, what a crime! The boss of the old country, who is afraid of falling leaves and hitting his head when he walks, is also said to be a thieves. There is really no way for people to live!" An old woman lamented.

A man said angrily: "It doesn't matter if you robbed someone's new wife, but also killed someone's groom, and now he wants to kill the whole family. This Chu Yan Wang is really ruthless!" "Ah, ah!" A shriveled old man tugged at his son's sleeve, "Don't talk about it, don't talk about it anymore, it will be a disaster if you cause trouble!" "Brother, just now you said that you robbed the new wife, killed the groom, and murdered the whole family. Who is the king of Chu Yan?" The rider was accosting himself with a smile.He sized up the majestic rider and asked, "My lord, are you from another place?"

"Yes, my name is Lin Xing, from Longxi. I want to come here to sell some leather goods. Seeing that there are many people here, I will come and have a look." The rider replied. "Oh, Uncle Lin, people outside your family don't know the suffering of us people in Jincheng! King Chu Yan is our prefect, Chu Lianzhong." Lin Xingqi said: "Oh? Then why do you call him King Chu Yan?" "Hmph! It's kind of polite to call him the King of Hades. To be honest, the crimes he committed are more vicious than the King of Hades. Let's just say the whole family of the old country leader who is going to be killed today..." The man was about to continue talking. , the shriveled old man hurriedly tugged on his son's sleeve: "Don't talk about it anymore, don't talk about it anymore..."

The man snatched back his sleeves, looked at the awning and said angrily: "Why don't you let me talk about it? He can do everything Chu Yan Wang did, but he's still afraid of people talking about it?" He turned to Lin Xing and said, "That's right. My son's only son was getting married in elementary school, and I didn't expect it, the bridal sedan chair was stopped by Chu Wuchang just halfway through the procession..." "Chu Wuchang?" The man gritted his teeth and said: "Oh, he is the son of King Chu Yan! This bastard is 100% worse than his father. No matter which family's daughter or daughter-in-law looks a little bit more upright, don't dare to tell him. I heard that there is no one who will not suffer."

"Alas!" the old woman sighed, "The new daughter-in-law of the old country chief's family is really handsome. At that time, Chu Wuchang fell in love with her immediately. The man was about to be carried away. The elementary school grabbed the sedan chair and refused to let go, so he was beaten up. The poor old son of the old country leader died halfway before he could carry him home. The old man The happy event at the head of the country's family has turned into a funeral, so you cry so badly!" Lin Xing's face turned red: "There's really no law for the king! Why doesn't the old head of the country quickly report to the police to arrest the murderer? Then... the old man's single seedling was beaten to death, what should we do?"

"Report to officials? Wang Fa?" The man said with a "sneer" smile, "In the territory of Jincheng, the biggest official is King Chu Yan. Sue officials? What kind of officials are you going to sue? What should you do? What else can you do? Do it? Easy to do, buy a coffin, carry it out of the city, find a random place, dig a hole and bury it, cry a few times, forget it!" The old woman sighed: "Could it be that the whole family goes outside the government office Bumped to death?" Lin Xing asked again: "Then why do you want to kill his whole family today?"

The old woman pursed her mouth and trembled: "The new daughter-in-law was snatched away, and Chu Wuchang was about to be ruined that night. I didn't expect that this woman was a fierce person, and she bit off Chu Wuchang's ear in one bite, and now she broke the sky. What a disaster! Chu Wuchang first called a dozen street bastards to rape her in turn, then tied her to a house post, and burned her to death with a soldering iron. But that’s not all, that night Then, the whole family of the old country head was arrested by the officials of the yamen, who only said that they were horse thieves from Erligang outside the city, and they were condemned to death without passing the hall."

Lin Xing was trembling all over, and the man hurriedly asked, "Uncle Lin, what's the matter with you?" Lin Xing collected himself: "Oh, it's all right..." Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of gongs, and the man spat thick phlegm on the ground: "Chu Yanwang is here." The riders saw two large green woolen sedan chairs meandering forward, one behind the other, surrounded by the guards and sergeants. Behind the sedan chairs was a prison cart. After a group of people entered the execution ground, two people got off the sedan chair.The one in front was in his forties, with an official uniform and hat, a chinchilla beard, and a pair of triangular eyes. He was cold and unpopular.The person behind was fattened into a pile of lard, and his eyes, nose, and mouth were all squeezed out by the three-foot-thick fat on his face. From a distance, the white flesh was piled up, making people just glance at it. I couldn't help but feel nauseous. The ox cart pulling the prisoners was extremely high. When getting out of the cart, several prisoners were pulled by their arms by the guards and fell directly from the cart. Lin Xing stared and was shocked.Although the six prisoners tied to the wooden stake were all bloody and inhuman, they could still be distinguished. A hunchbacked old man, a shriveled old lady, and a middle-aged stupid woman were the tallest of the six, and the two There are two women, one is only twenty years old, the other is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the one in the far east is actually a thin girl about six or seven years old.The mouths of the six people were all stuffed with rags. There was a tidal wave of astonishment and lamentation from the crowd, and the sergeants rushed up immediately, whipping their whips and whipping their sticks: "What's your name? Don't howl! Do you want to die? Shut up!" Chu Lianzhong and Chu Wuchang sat down after the long case.Chu Lianzhong raised his sleeves slightly, and several guards carried ash buckets and brushes, ran to the wooden post, dipped the white ash in the bucket, and drew a big circle on the chests of the six people. Lin Xing asked again: "What is this for?" The man gritted his teeth and said: "Chu Yan Wang said that this family's crimes are heinous, beheading is too cheap, I want to bring some fresh ones today, so that everyone can learn more, they want to shoot random arrows, but they are not allowed to shoot inside the circle. If any archer shoots an arrow into the circle by mistake, he will whip that archer's ten leather whips." Lin Xing laughed back angrily: "Hmph, well, well...so it turns out that Chu Lianzhong, the third-rank official of the imperial court who is upright and upright, loyal to the emperor and loves the people, and Jincheng prefect Chu Lianzhong is such a character!" A row of sergeants held bows and arrows, stood still sixty paces away from the six criminals, bent their bows and set their arrows.Immediately, Chu Lianzhong threw out a warrant, and the sergeant let go of his finger, "Whoosh, whoosh," and the sharp arrow flew out through the air.Immediately, overwhelming cries sounded from the sidelines of the court.These people are not crying for the Lao Guotou’s family, but themselves: Isn’t the Lao Guotou’s family’s today their own tomorrow? Just at the right time, suddenly, in mid-air, before the sharp arrow, several gray figures passed by, as fast as lightning, as fast as the wind.Then, those dense sharp arrows disappeared without a trace!Thousands of people took a closer look and found that the old country leader's family was still in good health, but those sharp arrows that were shot at them were held in the hands of a few gray-clothed men. The audience was in an uproar: "What's the matter? Someone came to save the Laoguo's family! Oh, is it true? Who? Who is so bold? Huh? Look at the clothes of those people, they don't look like our pimples. of?" Chu Lianzhong was frightened and furious, and ordered all the soldiers to take down all these gray-clothed men who had acted recklessly and disturbed the execution ground.All the guards and sergeants agreed in unison, each armed with a weapon, and was about to rush over. "Slow!" Suddenly, a crisp voice said.Although the voice was not loud, it exuded an inviolable majesty.Looking at the prestige, I saw the curtain of the luxurious carriage lifted, and a slim and handsome young man came out. I saw him wearing a pair-breasted gown with grape arabesque pattern, a beaded ribbon in his hair, a pair of carp gold pendants hanging from his waist, and black leather shoes, which are the most fashionable among scholars, waving a Xiangfei golden bamboo folding fan in his hand.On a face as white as jade, a pair of big black eyes rolled slowly: "Chu Lianzhong, you are so bold, how dare you touch my people?" Chu Lianzhong saw that he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, although his clothes were luxurious, but his manners were a little "pretentious". He was probably a rich young master from some family who came here for sightseeing.Those who don't know how to live or die dare to provoke this official!Wait, don't you get your shit out?He sneered: "Which family are you from? Dare to offend the court's laws? Do you know what it means to disturb the court?" The young man squinted at him, pointing at the old country's chief family: "Chu, what crime did they commit, you want to execute them?" Lin Xing led his subordinates, untied the old country chief's family, and helped them sit on the ground.When Chu Lianzhong saw it, his face turned blue: "Do you dare to release criminals privately? This is a more serious crime! They are all robbers. According to the court regulations, all robbers will be executed if they are caught, and their property registration will not be confiscated!" "Oh?" The young man jumped out of the car lightly, Shi Shi ran to the old country head's family, leaned over to inspect, and when he was in front of the shriveled old woman, he straightened up suddenly, and said in shock: "Ah, this is not good Lah! Even such an old mother-in-law has become a bandit? Hey, Chu, how old is she?" Chu Lianzhong was startled, and the clerk standing beside him said rashly, "This is Guo Li, the old lady of Guo Wangcai, and she is seventy-six." The young man's face changed even more: "My God! Seventy-six years old? Even she is going to go out of the city and go to the mountains to become a robber? Your surname is Chu, you are a prefect who loves the people like a son, and you are really good at being a prefect!" Then he asked with a smile , "Master Chu, dare to ask, how long has it been since you asked the doctor to take a look at your eyes?" Chu Lianzhong was startled again, he didn't know why the other party changed the subject, so he said: "My eyes are very good, there is no need to seek medical treatment." The young man said quickly: "Since it's very good, can't you see that these two old men, three women, and a girl, in such a pitiful appearance, can also be robbers with swords and sticks? If others don't rob them, they will kowtow and burn incense. Besides, with their appearance, who else can they rob except themselves?" "Coax!" The crowd burst into laughter. Chu Lianzhong gritted his teeth: "You...what the hell are you?" The young man shook his fan leisurely: "...Well, then what are you?" Chu Lianzhong blurted out: "I'm nothing!" As soon as the words fell, there was another roar of laughter in the execution ground. In fact, although the young man speaks humorously, after all, it is not to the point where people can't help themselves.The reason why thousands of people laughed was because they hated Chu Yan Wang to the core. Now that someone dared to pluck the hair from the tiger's head, everyone cried out in their hearts, so they laughed heartily. "Little bastard, you dare to talk to me like this, you're tired of work, aren't you?" The boy nodded: "Well... yes, yes, I am a little beast, then... you are an old beast!" Chu Lianzhong was trembling all over. No one had ever dared to humiliate him like this in a large crowd: "You...you..." "If you weren't an old bastard, how could you talk to a little bastard like me?" With just one word, the execution ground was full of laughter.Lin Xing stood far away, watched with folded arms, smiled and sighed: "Oh, the eyes of Master Chu really should be taken a look at by a good doctor. Little Caiping's mouth is something that even His Highness would not dare to provoke , but this old bastard wants to argue with her, what is it if he is not asking for trouble?" He shook his head again and again, sympathizing with Chu Lianzhong. At this time, Chu Lianzhong calmed down, and a cold grin appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It seems that today I want to reverse the case for these thieves?" Caiping smiled: "Oh, you've been making trouble for a long time, but you're still winking! That's right, put your bags in the pile, you've finally got a word right, I'm not only going to reverse the case for this 'strong thief' today, but also Take off your black hat, remove your prefect post, and punish you for the crime of disregarding human life and killing innocent people indiscriminately!" Instead of being angry, Chu Lianzhong smiled: "Hahaha, remove me from my position? Punish me for my crime? Are you worthy?" Chu Lianzhong didn't want to quarrel with this reckless young man, so he ordered someone to come forward and take him down. He wants to take a good look, is there a steel wrap around his neck? "Of course I deserve it! Today, not only will you be dismissed and punished for your crimes, but I will also use your execution ground to cut off the heads of you and your son!" In Qingyue's voice, the rider raised the curtain He lifted it up, and one of them stepped out of the car supported by two handsome young men dressed like picking apples. He is dressed in white clothes that are better than snow, and his golden crown is shining brightly. The emerald finger on the thumb of his left hand emits a dazzling light under the reflection of the noon sun.The whole person has a luxurious and dignified demeanor, which shocks the audience! Seeing him coming out, Lin Xing, Cai Ping and all the riders quickly knelt down on the ground and said in unison: "His Royal Highness Jin'an, Prince Chen! Thousand years, thousand years!" Chu Lianzhong was stunned, not knowing where this person came from.Your Highness, could it be...he... suddenly elated: Ah!Could it be that he is here?In the past year, he has been very satisfied with the several missions he has run. He has already received good words and praises, and the day before yesterday he even sent someone to tell him that he might come in person recently, and he has important missions to handle by himself... Ah, no, No, his age is earlier than twenty, but the golden-crowned young man in front of him, who is too beautiful to look directly at, is at most twenty years old, right?He, he... Could it be?Suddenly thinking of another person, his legs suddenly went limp. Lin Xing shouted in a deep voice: "Chu Lianzhong, this is His Royal Highness Prince Chen's son, why don't you hurry up and kneel down to greet him?" "His Royal Highness Prince Chen!" The whole practice field shook.Zhao Chang'an's reputation spread far and wide in Kyushu, even though it is located in a remote Jincheng, everyone is familiar with it.Unanimously, thousands of people knelt down on the ground immediately, calling them thousand years old.Chu Lianzhong's eyes turned black, and with a "plop", he didn't kneel, but fell to the ground. Zhao Changan was supported by two teenagers, and walked slowly to him.A rider brought the Taishi chair, Zhao Changan sat down, and asked without looking at Chu Lianzhong, who was covered in chaff, "Chu Lianzhong, are you guilty?" Cold sweat dripped down Chu Lianzhong's forehead, and he kowtowed again and again: "Yes, yes, I am convicted, I deserve death for my crime, offending Your Highness a thousand years old..." Zhao Chang'an said angrily: "Hmph! Who asked you this? I am asking you, how did you frame the good as robbers and kill innocent people in vain?" "Your Highness is a thousand years old, Your Highness is a thousand years old, don't listen to those unscrupulous people's slander..." "Master Shizi Qingtian, you old man must save us!" The old country leader's family rushed over.The people around the court also scrambled to say: "Your Highness, thousand years old, let us grassroots be the master. I beg you, old man, to kill this Chu Yanwang, save the people of Jincheng, and give us a way to survive..." Time, cries, shouts, grievances, and pleadings spread across the wilderness, shaking heaven and earth. Zhao Changan glanced at Chu Lianzhong from the corner of his eye, and said coldly: "Master Chu, listen, listen, come and listen yourself, how many sins do you have to do to have so many people crying and begging me Kill you? Stop! Drag him over here!" It turned out that Chu Wuchang wanted to slip away from behind the arbor while dragging his bloated body while everyone was not paying attention. Chu Lianzhong still begged himself: "His Royal Highness Qiansui, you must listen to my explanation, I have difficulties..." Zhao Changan waved his hand and interrupted his words: "Chief Guard Lin, drag these two piles of rotten meat over here, I don't want to listen to their ramblings anymore. Serve the little one first, find a soldering iron, and bake him like this. A piece of roasted pork. Then tie the old one to a wooden stake, draw a big circle on the chest with white ash, and then shoot. Listen well, if any of you dare to shoot an arrow into that circle, Ben Gong Just reward him with a hundred leather whips!" "Yes!" The grinning Lin Xing and all the guards agreed loudly. "You!" Chu Lianzhong struggled a few times, but Lin Xing grabbed him like iron pincers with both palms, and he couldn't break free at all.He suddenly hissed and shouted: "Your Highness is a thousand years old, you can't kill me!" Zhao Changan wondered: "Oh? Why can't I kill you?" "According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, the subject is a member of the third rank of the court! Except for the current emperor, no one can dispose of the subject at will." "Hmph!" Zhao Chang'an turned cold, "Don't talk to me about the long rules and short rules here. If you talk about laws and regulations, you are even more damned. Falsely accused of robbery, indulged in murder, wasted life, forced rape Daughters of the people, inflicting torture, offending the royal family... just any one of these crimes is enough to kill you a few times. Today, I will kill you first and then play it. After you kick your feet, you will break it again Pass it to the emperor, and at that time, the emperor will only praise my palace for being loyal to the emperor and the country, and eradicating traitors for the people!" Chu Lianzhong's complexion was ashen, his sweat was like pulp, and he fell limply on the ground like a mangy dog ​​with cramps.Lin Xing was about to drag him away, "Wait!" He shouted again, "Your Highness, thank you a thousand years ago! The minister is too..." Without a single sign, a ray of cold light flashed quickly under the bright sun in midair, and the shouting stopped abruptly, as if cut off by a sharp knife.Immediately, his eyes bulged, his hands scratched upwards convulsively, and a line of black blood hung from his nostrils. Zhao Changan was startled, and hurriedly called Lin Xing to check.Lin Xing wiped Chu Lianzhong's mouth and nose, and said solemnly: "Your Highness, this man is dead!" Zhao Chang'an said: "Dead? Why are you so unafraid? Scared to death in just two sentences?" "It's not that I was scared to death, but someone killed someone to silence me!" Lin Xing took off the official hat of the dead man, stroked his hair, and saw a steel needle nailed to the hairline of the dead man's forehead, and most of the steel needle had been submerged. Skull, in just an instant, the skin around the steel needle was already black, and the blackness was still spreading rapidly in all directions. The faces of Zhao Changan, Lin Xing and others changed.Lin Xing gasped, what a domineering poison, what a ruthless method, what a precise aim, what a clever concealed weapon technique!Looking back, the direction from which the poisonous needle was shot was the most crowded place by the court.Among those thousands of people, how to find out the murderer? The poisonous needle is thin and small, and in such a situation where people's voices are thundering and chaotic, and they shoot it unsuspectingly, if it is not Chu Lianzhong who shoots, but Zhao Changan, then he will not be able to avoid this at all. A vicious attack! But the thousands of people around the court didn't know what happened just now.The crowd saw Chu Lianzhong suddenly fell to the ground, and after a moment of surprise, the crowd cheered: "King Chu Yan fainted from fright, he knew that he had committed too many crimes, and he could not escape death, so he fainted!..." Hearing the thunderous cheers, Zhao Changan frowned and winked at Lin Xing.Lin Xing understood, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness Prince Chen ordered: Chu Lianzhong accused his good of being a robber and killed innocent people indiscriminately. According to the laws of our Song Dynasty, he will be executed immediately! His son robs the women of the people and commits crimes in the street. Let the two of you decide!" As he spoke, he dragged the body to the west of the execution ground, which was far away from the crowd, raised the knife in his hand, and chopped off the black head.And Chu Wuchang was also beheaded by a rider with a swing of a knife. When the two heads fell to the ground, there was thunderous cheers inside and outside the court, and the ground trembled. Thousands of people knelt down and praised: "His Royal Highness is blessed with long life...long life for a hundred years...prosperity and prosperity...marry a beautiful daughter-in-law and live a happy life!" A lot of big fat boys..." Zhao Changan frowned when he heard this: "What is this mess?" Just now he was frightened by the poisonous needle, but now he heard so many people sincerely praise and thank him, he couldn't help feeling relieved: I didn't expect to do it so easily. Doing a good deed has so many people praising it. It seems that Nineteen Lang is right. Doing more good deeds will bring you good fortune. At this time, Xing Anyu, the commander-in-chief of Jincheng, had received a flying report, and led all the civil and military officials to the execution ground in a hurry, and kowtowed to sign up one by one according to their ranks.Zhao Changan waved his hand lazily: "Forget it, forget it! I didn't want to disturb the place, but now that I've come, I'll quickly find a resting place for Ben Gong. After running for so many days, I'm already tired." Xing Anyu said respectfully: "I have asked people to speed up the arrangement. The Chu family's garden house in this city is not bad. There is no preparation in the haste. I can only ask His Highness Chitose to make it up for now." Zhao Changan asked, "Chu's garden? Is it Chu Lianzhong's garden?" "yes!" "Okay! I want to see how honest and loyal this Chu Lianzhong is?" Jincheng is located in a bitterly cold place in the northwest. Although it is an important military town that the military strategists must contend for, the city is in decline and the people's livelihood is miserable.But the garden of the Chu family is grand and grand, with all the extravagance and extravagance.What is particularly surprising is that in such an arid place where dripping water is as expensive as oil, a three-foot-high wall outside the garden separates two worlds: outside the wall, the sky is full of yellow dust, and the dry soil is paved on the ground. The tongue is dry; but inside the wall, there are streams and springs singing, and the trees are dense and the grass is dense.I really don't know how much people's fat and people's anointing it takes to build it. Xing'an Yu led the way sideways, and led Zhao Chang'an into the most spacious and luxurious Xianyou Pavilion. Zhao Changan frowned and asked, "Xianyou Pavilion? What do you mean?" "Returning to Your Highness, Master Chu... oh, no, no, no, it was Chu Lianzhong who said that as a subject, one should share the labor for the emperor, and always remember 'worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later. Music', the above is to relieve the troubles of the king, and the bottom is to comfort the suffering of the people, so this pavilion is titled 'Xianyou'." "Wow!" Zhao Changan spat out the whole mouthful of tea he just drank, and wished he could vomit his breakfast before he could clean it up. Concern for the people and loyalty to the emperor', it will not take three years, and our national surname in Song Dynasty will have to be changed." Xing'an Yu didn't dare to answer, but kowtowed repeatedly.Zhao Changan yawned: "Okay, you guys go down first, I'm tired, what's the matter, let's discuss it tomorrow." Xing Anyu originally wanted to find an opportunity to ask, since Chu Lianzhong died, how to fill the vacancy of the prefect of Jincheng?King Zhao Changan came here suddenly, is it business, or is it just His Highness's whim, coming here for fun?Also, how many days do you intend to stay here?You and your subordinates and colleagues are also ready to serve.But seeing that the nobleman's face was full of impatience, he didn't dare to make any more troubles, so he backed out repeatedly. When the figures of Xing'an Yu and others disappeared into the depths of the flower path, Zhao Chang'an said to the three young men who were standing there: "Picking apples, picking blues, picking greens, I've been in a mess all day, I'm really hungry, go, See if there is anything to eat, bring some quickly, let’s make a cushion before we talk.” Caiping bowed and said: "The subordinates have just ordered the Chu family's kitchen to rush to make some snacks first..." With sharp eyes, she saw a figure flashing behind the crystal curtain and behind the rockery. "Who?" Before the words finished, the person rushed out of the curtain. I saw a scholar in green shirt running backwards in a panic.Caiping shouted: "Chief Lin, catch that kid quickly!" Lin Xing had led several of his subordinates to rush over, but in the blink of an eye, the scholar slipped back like a chick.Zhao Changan watched coldly, and asked what was going on through the curtain.The crowd pushed the scholar to stand ten steps away from him. Everyone shouted: "Kneel down!" But the scholar stuck his neck, his face tilted to one side, and he didn't move his hands behind his back. Zhao Changan glanced coldly, and smiled: "The bones are quite hard!" Lin Xing swept his leg across, and the scholar suffered pain, and fell to his knees with a "plop", his body was tilted, and his hat fell to the ground. The knee-length hair, which was as shiny as a mirror, fell down like silk.Everyone couldn't help being taken aback: This narrow-eyed scholar is actually a woman! Zhao Changan turned his head to the left and glanced at it, then to the right, and said repeatedly, "Wow, this hair is not bad! It's a pity... the eyes are small. Huh? No! Chief Guard Lin, Can you see, this woman...is there something wrong with her face?" Lin Xing didn't have time to agree, but Caiping said: "She has a mask on her face!" Zhao Changan sat down gracefully on a chaise longue chair, and said with a smile: "Caiping, go, tear off that skin, let everyone come and see, how ugly she is, I have to make a broken thing to cover it up." Covered?" As soon as the woman heard this, she was about to get up. Lin Xing stretched out his fingers and sealed the shoulder well points on her shoulders, and she couldn't move immediately.As soon as Caiping peeled off the dough. Just looking at it, Zhao Changan was startled, not only him, but everyone around him was also shocked.Because at this moment, they saw a beautiful face.Zhao Changan regained his composure, and looked at the woman again, with a fierce look of jealousy in his eyes. Caiping shouted: "Hey, who are you? Why are you hiding outside like a thief?" The woman was annoyed that Caiping accused her of being a thief, and protested: "I am from Gusu in the south of the Yangtze River, my name is Yan Heying, and I never do those sneaky things." "Never do sneaky things?" Caiping snorted, "Then what were you doing hiding outside just now?" The big eyes rolled, "Oh, I see, you are here to assassinate His Highness, right?" As soon as these words came out, not only Lin Xing, but even Zhao Changan himself laughed.Such a delicate and weak woman, who can be seen from the family of Zhongming Dingshi at a glance, how could she be an assassin? Yan Heying raised her neck, and said coldly: "I don't know martial arts, and I have no grievances with your highness in the past, and I have no vendettas in recent days, why assassinate him?" "Then...you can't be...hehe..." Caiping smiled, and couldn't help but sneak a glance at Zhao Changan, who had a long face from the corner of his eyes.Yan Heying also laughed, but sneered: "Hmph! Do you think that all the men in the world are dead? All the women will come to invite your highness to visit you?" When she said this, Zhao Chang'an, who had a black face and a dark face, smiled instead: "Oh? You are neither an assassin, nor did you come here to take a look at me, but what are you here for?" Yan Heying said: "I'm here to find someone, your personal bodyguard." Zhao Changan frowned: "One of my personal guards? What's his name?" Yan Heying gritted her teeth: "Yin Yannian!" Zhao Changan was startled, his expression changed greatly: "Yin Yannian? Are you looking for him too? You... how do you know him? How did you know him? What do you want him for?" His tone was sharp, his face turned blue , very ugly. Yan Heying felt joy and pain in his heart: "It seems that he is really your bodyguard? Where is he now?" Zhao Changan raised his head and said condescendingly: "What is it, if you return to the palace like this? I figured it out, who is asking who now! Tell me quickly, how did you know him!" Yan Heying closed her lips tightly.Zhao Changan looked sideways, and smiled leisurely: "Haha... how dare you show me face? You have a lot of backbone! Picking apples!" Zhao Changan lightly shook the folding fan: "Go! Take a knife and draw a few strokes on this tender, pink and pretty face, to see if she dares to look up at that horse face and ignore people!" Caiping agreed loudly, took out a naked dagger, waved it back and forth, and slowly approached Yan Heying with a smile.Yan Heying was frightened and angry, seeing that the tip of the dagger was about to fall on her cheek, she yelled in fear, "Okay! Let me tell you, don't scratch!" Zhao Changan waved his hand slightly, and Cai Ping withdrew the dagger, feeling extremely regretful: "Really, why did you say that? Since you want to be a hero in a daze, you should do it to the end!" Zhao Changan waved his folding fan to Lin Xing: "You all go out, guard this place, and don't let anyone in." Lin Xing bowed and obeyed, leading all the guards out of the curtain. Yan Heying burst into tears. Looking at the dagger that kept shaking, she was afraid and hated at the same time, so she could only casually say a few words about how she and Yin Yannian met, omitting too many details.Even so, as she narrated, Zhao Changan's face became more and more ugly. When she said that Yin Yannian sent her back to Gusu, there was a loud "crash", and everyone in the pavilion was shocked. Taking a closer look, it was Zhao Changan who dropped a cup of tea on the ground. Yan Heying was puzzled, huh?What's the matter with him?Looking at that look, it seemed that he would pounce on him and bite him at any moment, and he completely lost the graceful and noble demeanor just now.Suddenly thought, ah, there must be something wrong with this Zhao Changan, right?I heard that some men have the habit of cutting off their sleeves to give up their peaches. Could it be... this Zhao Changan is also like this? She once heard Zhang Han mention "Xianggu". She didn't know why at the time, but later she knew what it meant. Once she understood what it meant, she felt disgusted.At this moment, she saw Zhao Chang'an's sour face with the vinegar jar overturned, and thought: Could it be that the one named Yin is actually his male favourite?But Yin's face is pockmarked, how can he look like a girl?Well, maybe this Highness likes pockmarks?Besides, Yin's appearance is a bit weaker, and his skills are a bit weaker, but he is quite attractive in other aspects. Not only his words are eloquent, his behavior is free and easy, his temperament is gentle, and he is caring and considerate. It is no wonder that Zhao Changan is infatuated with him ... Thinking that she actually fell in love with a "Xianggu" at the beginning, she couldn't help being embarrassed and sad.I thought again: just now Zhao Changan asked, "You are also looking for him", so, could it be that he is also with my surname Yin? She was feeling ups and downs, but she heard Zhao Chang'an say: "What happened by chance? I hired you for fifty taels of silver and sent you home!" His tone was extremely gloomy and scary.She was stunned, looked up, and saw his fierce look: "Hmph! Why are you looking for a guard? I don't believe a word of you bitch! Caiping, Cailan, go, search her, I'm afraid she is from the Chu family! The assassin who was sent has a murder weapon hidden in his body." "Yes!" Caiping and Cailan rolled up their sleeves and were about to start.Yan Heying was ashamed, angry and hated, and said in a hateful voice: "Zhao Chang'an, your mother is so gentle and kind, but you are so arrogant and domineering, bullying others, you really can't even catch up with your mother!" Zhao Changan was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips and chuckled: "Oh? You have even seen Mrs. Wang...my mother? It seems that you are quite capable! Hmph! This Palace and the Queen Mother are also bitches like you Can you compare them casually?" Pulling his face, he shouted, "Search!" Caiping and Cailan immediately searched Yan Heying's whole body, inside and out.While turning over, the two giggled and said, "Oh, she has thin skin and white flesh, this little face is so slippery!" Caiping pinched her face hard.Cai Lan also took the opportunity to pinch her wrist: "So tender, tsk tsk!" She smacked her lips again and again, "I'm about to drool!" Zhao Changan smiled and admired Yan Heying's pale face and tears.Yan Heying was ashamed and hated: I didn't expect that Zhao Chang'an, who I used to think about day and night, was fascinated, and ran away from home, turned out to be such an inferior character.If I still have half strength in my hand at this moment, I will definitely lift it up and slap myself several times. Caiping and Cailan presented the things found on her to Zhao Changan.Just a few taels of scattered silver, a small knife with a wooden handle, and a flat thing wrapped in a silk scarf. Cai Lan gently pulled the knife out of the scabbard, only to see that the blade was as thin as paper, and the light of the knife flickered like autumn water.On the handle of the knife are engraved with two ancient and elegant plum blossom seal characters in gold: Origin.Although they were not familiar with weapons, Zhao Chang'an and the other four all praised: "Good sword!" Zhao Chang'an saw again the thing that was five fingers wide and two inches long, carefully wrapped with a snow-white silk scarf, through the texture of the silk scarf, there was faint emerald color oozing out.Zhao Changan took it and opened the silk scarf. "Ah!" Several people in the pavilion, except Yan Heying, all exclaimed in surprise.In Zhao Changan's palm, there was a piece of emerald green and translucent jade pendant, on which there were also four plum-blossom seal characters in wrong gold: Goodwill and Prolonging Years. The jade pendant is shining brightly, overflowing with emerald green, and is extremely precious.For a moment, the entire pavilion was like Mu Chunbo, and the place where the eyes came in was a slightly trembling blue color.The jasper wrench that Zhao Changan wore on his thumb immediately became a worthless stone in comparison. Zhao Changan was dumbfounded, staring at the jade pendant for a long time before asking with a distorted expression: "Why is this jade pendant on your body?" Yan Heying's mind was alert, but within a short while, he realized that he was extremely infatuated with Yin Yannian.She was determined to get angry with him, so she smiled sweetly and said, "Yin...that Yin man is infatuated with me, and he gave me this jade pendant as a token of... I know that no matter where other people are or where they are, in his heart, there will always be only me." Although she wanted to be angry with others, when she said these words, her heart ached. 赵长安的脸当即成抹了烟灰的锅底：“不……不要脸！他……又不是没见过美女，会看得上你？你……你……你以为，你长得很美？”说归说，他心里也只得承认，晏荷影的容貌确实出色。他将玉佩揣入怀中：“哼哼，这块玉佩，分明是你偷的，想你一个居心叵测的刺客，连本宫都敢谋害，何况是偷一块玉佩？” 晏荷影怒道：“赵长安，你几时也学会了楚阎王诬良为盗的那一套了？” 采苹喝道：“住嘴！殿下的名讳，也是你能随便乱叫的？” 赵长安斜睨晏荷影，脸现狰狞：“偷盗宝物，谋刺本宫，现还敢出言犯上？”把缘起小刀递与采苹，嘴角歪拧，恶狠狠地道，“去，拿这刀，在这个贼贱人的脸上，左右各划三千下，看她以后还敢不敢仗着这张脸子，到处去勾引男人？” 晏荷影大惊，顿时浑身哆嗦。采苹面现畏怯：“殿下，算了吧，反正她谋刺的图谋也没得逞……” 赵长安大怒：“呸！怎么？怕了？不敢划了？林侍卫长，进来，本宫有差使交办。” “来了。”水晶帘一掀，进来了几个人。为首一人缓步走向赵长安：“你又在假冒本宫的名头，又要把谁的脸划烂呀？”阁内众人俱一怔，只见来人面如春花，身似秋树，举止潇洒。而最令人注目的是，他居然也是一身白衣如雪，发上金冠灿然。 赵长安脸色立刻变了，连忙站起，与采苹、采蓝、采绿拜伏于地：“殿下……” 来人抢道：“昭阳，你胆子大得很啊，又冒充我赵长安的名字在搞七搞八？” “昭阳”显然对这个后来的赵长安甚是畏惮：“殿下，本宫怀疑她是个刺客，方才说要划破她的脸，不过是吓唬吓唬她。” “哼，昭阳，你身为公主，偷偷地从京城里跑了出来，没一点儿皇室的规矩，刚才又打着本宫的旗号，杀了朝廷的三品大员，你这样放肆，只怕也太过分了一点儿吧？” 晏荷影冷眼旁观，此时方才恍然：唉呀！原来蛮横的赵长安是假冒的，嗯，原以为，她既然对赵长安跪拜，那她至多不过是个郡王，没料到她竟然是公主！昭阳？是她的封号，还是她的名字？正胡思乱想，听赵长安问昭阳：“你说有人要杀你？这个人现在哪里？”原来晏荷影一直跪伏于地，赵长安进来后并没看见她。 采苹一指晏荷影：“殿下，她就是刺客。” 赵长安转头，一眼便看见了晏荷影那绝世的容颜，不禁一怔，细细端详了一会儿，方温言细语地道：“这位姑娘，你被他们点住穴道了？”上前一拍，解开她的穴道，然后把她轻轻扶起，“这位姑娘的武功根本就白瞎，怎么可能来行刺？昭阳，你动不动就要打要脾气，也该收敛收敛了。” 晏荷影顿时对他心生好感：不愧是名满天下的赵长安，行止气度，果非常人可比。 赵长安潇洒地踱了几步，道：“算啦，楚廉忠杀也杀了，昭阳，你今晚就先到别处休息，过两天本宫事办完了，再带你回京。到时候你乱杀大臣的事，该怎么办，皇上说了算。”昭阳起身，悻悻地要退出帘外。 晏荷影急道：“哎，我的东西还在她们那儿呢！” “哦？”赵长安沉声喝道，“站住！”昭阳马上停步。采苹忙将缘起小刀递与晏荷影：“适才冒犯姑娘了，还请姑娘见谅。”晏荷影接过小刀，不知该如何措词，昭阳疾走几步，已离开了先忧阁。