Chapter 69 Chapter Two

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Yuan, who was about twenty-five or six years old, was dressed in fine clothes and walked into the hall gracefully under the welcome of Zhao Mu. It is undeniable that he is a good-looking man. He is handsome and has an outstanding personality. He has broad shoulders, slender waist and long legs. He has a tall and straight body and a long sword on his waist. A pair of eyes are even more flexible and spirited, which shows that this person is resourceful and should not be underestimated. Xiang Shaolong's heart skipped a beat. He has more things to worry about than he can figure out.The worst thing is that he can see through at a glance that he is not an idiot Dong Kuang. At that time, he would never have been able to leave the Hou Mansion alive.

The second is his relationship with Zhao Mu. If Li Yuan is the person sent by Huang Xie, Chunshen Jun of Chu State, to secretly communicate with Zhao Mu, then Zhao Mu will immediately know the scheme Xiang Shaolong used to deal with him. Also, if Li Yuan knew that the envoy from Chu had not arrived in Handan, he would of course guess that something happened on the way, which would also arouse his and Zhao Mu's suspicions. Any problem can wipe out their entire army. well!How could such a person come out for no reason? Li Yuan stepped into the hall, and while listening to Zhao Mu talking to him, he greeted the guests on both sides of the table with a graceful smile.

Xiang Shaolong hoped that Li Yuan would never finish this journey. Ji Yanran was intelligent, and had noticed the difference in his demeanor earlier, and said with a smile: "Mr. Dong! The Chu State is full of talents, not only you are an expert in raising horses, but also Mr. Li Yuan, who is famous all over the world for his swordsmanship." An outstanding character, his younger sister Li Yanyan is the beloved concubine of King Xinna of Chu, and it is said that she is just pregnant, and if she can give birth to a son, she will become the heir apparent of the Chu Kingdom, so now everyone thinks that his future is limitless."

Xiang Shaolong understood that she was hindered by the maid behind her, so he used this way to mention Li Yuan's background.She had been to Chu State before coming to Handan, so she naturally learned the latest news about Chu State. But he felt that when she mentioned Li Yuan's name, her expression was a bit unnatural. Li Yuan's eyes lit up immediately when he saw Ji Yanran, and he took the initiative to come to the table, and politely greeted Xiang Shaolong: "Mr. Dong, hello! Although we were both ministers of Chu, we never expected to come to Qianli Handan outside the city will have a chance to meet."

Xiang Shaolong let go of the most pressing concern, heaved a sigh of relief, and stood up to return the salute. Zhao Mu suddenly gave him a strange wink, and a murderous look flashed across Li Yuan's eyes. Li Yuan didn't pay much attention to Xiang Shaolong, his eyes fell on Ji Yanran, and immediately flashed a charming look, and said with a bow: "Miss Ji left without saying goodbye, and it hurt me so much." He lowered his voice, except for Zhao Mu and Xiang Shaolong, the other guests thought he was being polite. Xiang Shaolong let go of another big stone in his heart, suddenly realized that Li Yuan was pestering Ji Yanran, and it seemed that they still had a relationship in Chu State, otherwise Li Yuan would not have said such sour words.This Li Yuan seems to be born with love, otherwise, how could he have traveled thousands of miles, from the Chu country far away to come here.Thinking of this, there is another thing on my mind.After Zhao Ya betrayed him, he no longer had the blind confidence in women that he had before.This Li Yuan has an outstanding character, and has a desperate enthusiasm for love, how can he know whether Ji Yanran will be taken away by Xiang Shaolong, if this is the case, the blow to him will be more serious than Zhao Ya.

After Ji Yanran took a peek at Xiang Shaolong, she smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Li is serious, how can Yanran take it on?" Zhao Mu said with a smile: "The two are old acquaintances, and now everyone is in Handan, why don't you have the time to get together and talk. Mr. Li, why don't you join Benhou's table and enjoy the performance of the singing and dancing girls." Li Yuan smiled, and after taking another deep look at Ji Yanran, he followed Zhao Mu and sat between Zhao Mu and Zhao Ya. Ji Yanran seemed also moved by Li Yuan's performance of chasing her all the way to Handan, she lowered her pretty face and her beautiful eyes were covered with a dazed look.

Xiang Shaolong felt even more uncomfortable. When the music started, a group of more than 100 singing and dancing girls came to the venue, singing and dancing, with colorful clothes flying, and enjoying the audio-visual entertainment to the fullest. "Hey!" Xiang Shaolong was slightly taken aback, only to see that Ji Yanran was looking at him intently with profound affection. At this time, the singing and dancing girls separated Li Yuan and Zhao Mu's sight, and everyone was fully enjoying the singing and dancing, and the sound of the music helped to cover up their voices, so that people could not hear them, and they were indeed telling secret words. opportunity.

Xiang Shaolong showed an unnatural smile. Ji Yanran rolled his eyes at him and said, "Don't have no confidence in him, okay? He thinks you so hard!" Xiang Shaolong thought to himself that it was like being bitten by a snake and being surprised when he saw the straw rope.He asked in a low voice, "Where do you live?" Ji Yanran quickly said, and then said: "Don't come to me, let Yanran come to you. Lord Longyang has always suspected that he has a problem with you, so he sent someone here to monitor me." Xiang Shaolong knew that she was very resourceful and cunning, so he was not worried that she would make a mistake, so he nodded in agreement.

Ji Yanran suddenly restrained herself and remained silent. Xiang Shaolong consciously pretended to appreciate the singing and dancing with all his attention. It turned out that all the dancers gathered in the center of the hall at this time, forming a big circle, and there were small circles inside the big circle, and they all made various graceful gestures such as raising their chests and bending over, and the line of sight between Xiang Shaolong and Zhao Mu had returned to be unobstructed. Zhao Ya was obviously very interested in Li Yuan, teasing him from time to time, which made Xiang Shaolong secretly hate her, even she didn't understand why she still had such jealousy towards her.

Li Yuan answered gracefully, but his eyes remained on Ji Yanran most of the time. The Marquis of Pingshan, Han Chuang, obviously had great ambitions for Ji Yanran, staring at her fiercely from time to time, as if he wanted to swallow her up. Many people who originally wanted to pursue this world-famous talented woman felt ashamed when they saw Li Yuan's appearance, and they all gave up pursuing her, not to mention that Ji Yanran seemed to have a lot of affection for him.If Li Yuan hadn't been of special status and superb swordsmanship, maybe someone would have wanted to kill him long ago.

◇◇◇◇◇◇ The two didn't have a chance to speak until the banquet was over. Ji Yanran left with Zou Yan first, and resolutely refused Li Yuan's company. Of course, she used this to show Xiang Shaolong's heart, which made Xiang Shaolong and other caring people feel very relieved. After Li Yuan left dejectedly, Xiang Shaolong was about to slip away, but he was dragged by Zhao Mu to send off the guests at the gate. When Guo Zong left, he told him about the banquet at his house tomorrow night. It was Zhao Ba and Zhao Zhi's turn, the latter took a deep look at him before leaving with Zhao Ba, and Long Yangjun's parting glance made his hair stand on end. In the end, only Zhao Mu, Zhao Ya, Guo Kai, Le Kai, Han Chuang and Xiang Shaolong were left. Han Chuang seemed to be waiting for Zhao Ya, and Xiang Shaolong couldn't help feeling angry, deliberately ignoring Zhao Ya whose beautiful eyes drifted towards him from time to time. Han Chuang said excitedly to Zhao Mu, "Everyone is here except Yan Guo." Although he spoke in a turbulent manner without beginning or end, Xiang Shaolong clearly understood what he meant, and he also knew that he had misunderstood that Li Yuan was the person who represented the state of Chu to participate in the East Zhou Lord's anti-Qin meeting. The situation is actually very delicate. Among the six kingdoms, the ones that value the most vertical integration are of course the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei who were at the brunt of strengthening Qin. Qi State is also very concerned about this strategy of joining forces against Qin, because if the Three Kingdoms fall, the next target will undoubtedly be Qi State, and then it will be the turn of Chu people. Now Han Chuang thought that even Chu would send envoys, so of course he was very happy. As for the Yan Kingdom, just after being attacked by Lian Po, the famous general of the Zhao Kingdom, he couldn't breathe, and his status has been greatly reduced in the eyes of other people, so it doesn't seem to matter if he comes or not. Zhao Mu snorted coldly, "I'm afraid Li Yuan's visit today has nothing to do with secret discussions." Han Chuang said with a smile: "He is now a big celebrity in front of the King of Chu. I heard that her sister has the beauty of the country and the city, and the King of Chu has no son. As long as she has the courage to give birth to a prince, Li Yuan will be the uncle of the country." , so as long as he is willing to say a few good words, why worry about the king of Chu not participating in this feat." A cold light flashed in Zhao Mu's eyes again, and even the sword mark on his face seemed to be much deeper. Xiang Shaolong, a bystander, knew clearly that Zhao Mu was dissatisfied and resentful towards Li Yuan. Guo laughed and said, "Ma'am, are you tired? Let Marquis Pingshan take you back home!" Han Chuang politely said to Zhao Ya: "I wonder if Han Chuang has the honor?" Guo Kai and Le Cheng smiled heartily, Han Chuang's words were like asking Zhao Ya if he could kiss Xiangze again tonight. Zhao Ya looked a little embarrassed, and looked at Xiang Shaolong.Xiang Shaolong looked towards the square outside the gate, where four carriages and many Zhao soldiers were waiting. Zhao Mu recalled that he had promised Xiang Shaolong to tie the knot between him and Zhao Ya. Even if it didn't work tonight, but Han Chuang could "take" Zhao Ya away in front of him. Go back and rest, I will go to the palace with my wife to meet the king later." Han Chuang had no choice but to leave. Zhao Mu said to Guo Kai and Le Cheng: "The Marquis still has a few words to discuss with Mr. Dong, you should go back first!" Behind Zhao Mu's back, Guo Kai winked at Xiang Shaolong, telling him to be careful, and then went to talk and laugh with Le Cheng. Zhao Mu, Zhao Ya and Xiang Shaolong were left, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. Zhao Mu said to Zhao Ya: "After I have a few words with Mr. Dong, let him accompany you back to Madam's residence!" Zhao Ya's pretty face changed, and she said angrily, "Don't I know how to go back?" After speaking, she gave Zhao Mu and Xiang Shaolong a hard look, went out and boarded the car and left, leaving Zhao Mu and Xiang Shaolong who had lost face They looked at each other. Zhao Mu smiled wryly, "Some women are like untamed wild horses, very difficult to control." Xiang Shaolong echoed, "This kind of woman is really good." Zhao Mu pulled him away from the gate of the mansion, and walked along the corridor towards the inner mansion. Although the night was quiet, the Hou Mansion was still brightly lit, like daytime. Finally, Zhao Mu sat down on the floor when Zhao Mu shared with him the inner hall of Yue Kingdom's beautiful sister Huatian Zhentianfeng. After serving the tea, the maid withdrew. Zhao Mu seemed to have something on his mind, and after pondering for a while, he said, "You should know the relationship between my father and Li Yuan!" Xiang Shaolong groaned in his heart, he was pretending to be Lord Chunshen's confidant, who came to assist Zhao Mu in realizing his Qingqiu dream of becoming a monarch, he couldn't deny that he didn't know, and the only thing he knew was that Li Yuan's sister was called Li Yanyan, It still depends on the fact that there are two characters in her name that sound the same as Ji Yanran, otherwise I'm afraid I'll even forget the name. Bite the bullet and said: "Master Hou is talking about Mrs. Yanyan's affairs? I have been doing business for the king outside, so I have never met Li Yuan. These things were told by the king himself." Unexpectedly, Zhao Mu nodded and sighed: "That's exactly what happened. Don't look at Li Yuan's good looks, but his scheming skills, even though there are thousands of generals in my father's house, no one can match. And don't mistake him for being a lover because he chased talented girls here. I'm sure there must be a reason behind it. No one is more scheming and ambitious than him. Hmph! It seems that Dad doesn't To spill my secrets to him, luckily!" Xiang Shaolong knew that the crisis was not over yet, if he asked Zhao Mu to ask a few more questions, his identity would be exposed immediately, and he followed his tone and said, "I really don't understand why Your Majesty trusts Li Yuan so much?" There will be no mistakes in this sentence. Zhao Mu snorted and said, "Father, you are called a wise man with thousands of thoughts, so there must be some mistakes. After all, it's still a woman's mistake, yes! Where did you just come from, did Li Yanyan give birth to a boy or a girl?" Xiang Shaolong had vaguely caught a clue, but he couldn't describe it in detail, he could only say: "I just heard that it's about to give birth." Zhao Mu's face was cloudy, and he said angrily: "Unexpectedly, Lu Buwei's tricks have been learned and used by Li Yuan. Father will never believe me. If Li Yuan gains power in the future, how can he allow father to control the government again? Dad really led the wolf into the house this time." If Xiang Shaolong still doesn't understand, then he doesn't need to come out to mess around.Zhao Mu not only mentioned the erroneousness of female sex, but also said that Li Yuan imitated Lu Buwei's plan and Chunshen Jun to lure wolves into the house.With these clues, he has already guessed the matter to the nines.Busily accompanied him and sighed: "I don't know if this Li Yanyan is Li Yuan's real sister." Zhao Mu said: "This seems to be true, and Li Yuan never had the chance to meet Li Yanyan when Father and Li Yanyan were friends, and Father also sent someone to investigate the relationship between his siblings." Then he looked at him suspiciously and said: "You don't know about this!" Xiang Shaolong groaned in his heart, it turned out that the child in Li Yanyan's womb was not Li Yuan but Chunshen Jun Huang Xie's.Oh shit! How could it have been so twists and turns. He said calmly: "How can you not know, but the person in charge of the investigation is called He Quan, this person is so-so in everything except flattery, I'm afraid he will be deceived by Li Yuan." What he said was all nonsense, but he was grasping Zhao Mu's psychology, even having a name, how could Zhao Mu not believe it. Sure enough, this big treacherous person got in the way of him, and said in a deep voice: "The problem shouldn't be here, they should be brothers and sisters without a doubt. I really didn't expect father to be so careless." This time Xiang Shaolong really came to his senses, he has figured out the relationship between Li Yuan brothers and sisters and Chun Shenjun. Li Yuan is indeed a powerful person. First, he will dedicate his sister to Lord Chunshen. After she is pregnant, Lord Chunshen will give the beauty who is pregnant with his own flesh and blood to the king of Chu who has no son. Then the child will have a great chance Became the prince of the state of Chu, this is a repeat of Lu Buwei's plan to donate Zhu Ji to King Zhuang Xiang. After clarifying this point, Xiang Shaolong heaved a sigh of relief and said, "This time Li Yuan came to our door, it is a god-sent opportunity to get rid of him, and then Li Yanyan will not be able to get out of your majesty's control." Zhao Mu Zhengrong said: "It must not be done, otherwise it will cause an uproar, even I can't get rid of it, and he is very skilled in swordsmanship, and he is as treacherous as a ghost. The family who will come with him this time will be the masters of Chu State. Not good, let him hold your people, even this Marquis can't save you." Xiang Shaolong sneered and said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, then I'll wait until he leaves Zhao Jing before doing anything." Seeing that he was so weak, Zhao Mu happily patted him on the shoulder, and said with a sneer, "You don't have to use swords and swords to kill people. Let me think about it. Yes! Do you really understand horse nature, or tomorrow Maybe she will be ashamed and ugly in front of a talented girl. Sigh! This is the first time I have met such a beautiful beauty, what a pity..." Xiang Shaolong said: "Master Hou, please rest assured, how can you pretend to be an idiot if you don't understand horse nature?" Zhao Mu said: "Zhao Ya can't do it tonight, why don't I give you some beauties!" Xiang Shaolong said: "Tonight can be avoided, tomorrow we have to arrive at Ji Cainv's place early, shall we go separately?" Zhao Mu recalled seeing Ji Yanran again tomorrow, so he cheered up and said, "I'll pick you up and go with me." Then he said gratefully, "It's all up to you today." Xiang Shaolong knew that he was referring to the female assassin, so after a few words of humility, he took his leave and left. Zhao Mu sent him straight to the gate, watched him board the carriage, and drove out the outer gate under the protection of the general at home before turning back to the house.