Forty-nine, buds

Zhou Xuan asked the two Liao people to return to Nanjing to meet Han Derang and asked Han Derang to go to Mount Tai to meet Yang Xiaopin.

The two Liao people looked embarrassed, and Yelu Gaoba's confidant was smart and said, "Shan Tai went deep into the Song Dynasty and was too far from Nanjing, our Liao Kingdom. If the Duke and Miss Pin'er were willing to go to Daming Mansion, the villain would report to Prime Minister Han. Prime Minister Han would definitely come to Daming Mansion to welcome Miss Pin'er."

Zhou Xuan did not trust these two Liao people very much and said, "Let's talk about it, Miss Pin'er is in a state of uneasiness recently. I will take her to climb Dongyue to relax. When she feels better, she will go north again. Twelve years have passed, and I am not in a hurry to do this."

The two Liao people dared not say anything more and retreated with timidity.

Sichi suddenly came over and said, "Master, please see, isn't that the carriage of our Zhou Mansion?"

When Zhou Xuanchao looked at the way he came, he saw two strong horses riding in a gorgeous carriage, one in front and one behind, two riders accompanying him, far away, and I couldn't see who the rider was. But since the Siniang said that it was the carriage of the Zhou Mansion, it was naturally Liu Shouzhen, Princess Yuexiu of the Southern Han Dynasty. The carriage that Zhou Xuan lent to Ye Feibai last time was not returned, and Ye Feibai took the Southern Han delegation away from Song Jing and returned to Nanhan early in the morning.

Siniang looked at him and said, "That's right, it's Liu Shouzhen's two maids, and Liu Shouzhen should be in the carriage."

The carriage quickly drove to Zhou Xuan and others who were resting under the willow shade. When the curtain was lifted, Liu Shouzhen, who was carrying Ru Hanfu, had a fallen horse bun, with beautiful eyes flowing, and said with a smile: "Young Master Zhou is going to visit Mount Tai, why don't you call me?"

Zhou Xuan was so angry that he really didn't want to get involved with such a woman. Speaking of which, Liu Shouzhen still had a grudge against him for killing his father. Although Zhou Xuan didn't act directly, Zhou Xuan did not feel guilty at all when facing Liu Shouzhen. Liu Jixing's tyrant would die of evil, and he should be full of evil.

Zhou Xuan said coldly: "Hey, you are a foreign woman, why do you always follow me? I am a wife."

Liu Shouzhen was embarrassed. After all, she was also a beautiful and noble Nan Han. She smiled so sweetly and spoke to Zhou Xuan. Unexpectedly, Zhou Xuan was so cold and said in anger: "Why are you following you? You built your way. The road is open to the sky. You can go one side, you can control it."

Zhou Xuan laughed and said, "I can't control you, let's go your own way."

Liu Shouzhen bit his little white teeth and said, "I only have this path. No, can I go to Mount Tai!"

Zhou Xuan sat on Xiao Hu's bed, shook his head and folded his fan and said, "Should you like you, don't let me see you."

Liu Shouzhen slammed the curtains with hatred, and the carriage rushed past, raising a piece of dust. The two women from the Falcon glared at Zhou Xuan, followed quickly, and disappeared at the end of the road in a blink of an eye.

Yang Zongbao smiled and said, "Why is Brother Zhou so rude to this Princess Liu? It is better to resolve enemies than to make them."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "If Brother Yang is pitying for the fragrance and jade, it is okay to rush over and comfort him."

Yang Zongbao said embarrassedly: "Brother Zhou was joking. I was just a little curious. The Kaifeng Sumo Teahouse has been talking about the 'Central Plain Red' these days, guessing who that woman was? I was a little suspicious that the 'Central Plain Red' was Liu Shouzhen--"

Zhou Xuan said at a glance: "Brother Yang, you always say that you have to be a gun and a stick, not a woman. I think you are very lustful!"

Yang Zongbao blushed and said with a rough neck: "Zhou Xuanxiu is going to make fun of me."

Zhou Xuan said: "Why is this a joke? If you want to verify whether Liu Shouzhen is 'a little red in the Central Plains', then you have to peel off her clothes to see if there is a red mole in the Danzhong area--"

Yang Zongbao's face was flushed, and his forehead was full of blue veins, and he argued: "I don't have this meaning, I have no such intention!"

Zhou Xuan asked: "In addition, how to verify it?"

Yang Zongbao was speechless and said for a while: "I didn't say I wanted to verify it, I was just suspicious."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "It's okay, you can verify it if you have the ability. I don't dare to do it anyway. Even Xiao Sanniang is not her opponent. Whoever dares to provoke this woman is, only King Kong can subdue her."

Yang Zongbao knew that Zhou Xuan was humorous and joking, shook his head and smiled, but his eyes were aiming at the direction where Liu Shouzhen disappeared. It seemed that he was really moved by that Princess Yuexiu.

Zhou Xuan asked: "By the way, what kind of person is that Xiao Sanniang? Why is there a scar on her face?"

Yang Zongbao said vaguely: "Xiao Sanniang is quite mysterious. I don't know who she is. How did Brother Zhou know that there is a scar on her face?"

Zhou Xuan said: "That Ye Xiao Sanniang and the 'Central Plain Ring' sumo wrestling, both of them pulled off their straps, which was dazzling. Xiao Sanniang's butterfly mask was also knocked off. The fourth brother saw that Xiao Sanniang had scars on his face."

Yang Zongbao said "Oh" and said, "So that's it. I have never seen Xiao Sanniang's true face. It turns out that she has scars, so she wears a mask now."

A sudden giori exploded in the sky, and the dark clouds gradually came up, and it was about to rain heavily.

Yang Zongbao said: "Brother Zhou, let's hurry up and arrive at Quxing tonight."

Everyone got on their horses and continued to walk eastward. When it was more than ten miles away from Quxing, heavy rain fell. Fortunately, the sudden rain came quickly and quickly. Everyone rushed to Quxing and was wet and it was already time to hold the lights.

Yang Zongbao was a fifth-rank Yuhou. This time, he was ordered to accompany Zhou Xuan to travel around the mountains and rivers, and his post chief was entertained with him.

After dinner, Yang Zongbao was still wandering around the town with two sign troops, but he didn't see Liu Shouzhen, her maid and coachman, and he secretly wondered: "Has Liu Shouzhen rushed to the front, or did he stay behind early to shelter from the rain?"

Three days after that, it was raining and raining. I didn't meet Liu Shouzhen all the way. I guess Liu Shouzhen was angry and went straight to Mount Tai, but Zhou Xuan wanted to go to Mengyin area to find out the news about Xiahou Liusu.

The rainy season is the two months from Qingming Festival to Dragon Boat Festival. Last April, Zhou Xuan returned to Xinzhou and it was raining all the way. Zhou and Lin Hanyun were telling stories and kissing in the carriage.

When Zhou Xuan thought of this, he felt a little restless. There was a pure beauty waiting for her in the carriage beside him. Not only was Lin Hanyun prone to impulsiveness in the carriage, but Zhou Xuan was even more so. He hugged his beloved woman in the carriage and shook her, listening to the raindrops hitting the roof, listening to the sound of wheels on the carriage, he was both calm and impetuous, and always wanted to do something.

Zhou Xuan handed over the reins of "Zhaoye Yuhua Conferred" to Lihu. He got on Yang Xiaopin's carriage. As soon as he hugged Yang Xiaopin's soft waist, the pure and beautiful girl said in a daze: "Young Master's method is very good-"

Zhou Xuan kissed her trembling and rosy lips and asked, "What did Pin'er say?"

Yang Xiaopin said, "It's what the young master said to those two Liao people."

Zhou Xuan said: "Oh, it means letting Prime Minister Han go to Daming Mansion to meet us, right? Prime Minister Han may not come, but the eyes of the two Liao people flashed, as if they had something to say to us."

Yang Xiaopin said, "If you don't come, forget it, go back to Jinling."

In Yang Xiaopin's heart, Zhou Xuan was her only one. Although she knew that her father was still alive and was also a powerful prime minister in Liao, she was not sure. Her parents' image was also very vague in her heart. Her family affection was extremely weak, and she only had the desire for blood connection. But if Han Derang refused to go to Daming Mansion, Yang Xiaopin decided not to go to Nanjing, Liao. She didn't want Zhou Xuan to take risks for her, because she felt that her life experience was still twists and turns. Her mother Li Mochou died early and left a huge shadow on her going north to find her relatives.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Pin'er, don't think too much, I will deal with it. These two Liao people cannot let go. It's not that they don't believe their words, but that they can't believe them all. The convenience was Cao County. When I stayed at night, I secretly asked two personal soldiers to visit Nanjing, Liao. Whether Prime Minister Han lost a daughter twelve years ago, and whether he would send someone to look for it. If something happened, one person rushed to me and the other went straight to see Prime Minister Han. Everything must be done by himself, and no one could lead others to the nose."

Yang Xiaopin nodded repeatedly.

That night, Zhou Xuan wrote a letter to Han Derang at the Cao County Inn, calling two clever personal soldiers and giving some advice.

The two personal soldiers packed their luggage, changed their clothes, and left Cao County early the next morning and headed north, making an appointment to meet at Daming Mansion.

It is said that Luoyang peonies are the best in the world, and Caoxian peonies are also famous. Zhou Xuan wanted to take the sheep and enjoy the flowers with his little fancy. Originally, the early peonies had already bloomed in mid-to-late March, but the rain in March this year was particularly high than in previous years. Yang Zongbao accompanied Zhou Xuan to visit several peony gardens with an umbrella, but they were only green, fat, red and thin, and they were still budding.

A white-haired Guanyuan Old Man said, "This weather is so evil. There was a yellow rain two days ago. Many flowers wilted. Could it be that it is going to have a big flood? I remember that when I was young, there was a yellow rain like this. Three days later, the flood suddenly came and many people died. That was fifty years ago-"

It was quite regretful that I didn’t appreciate the peony in Cao County. Zhou Xuan did not take the words of the old man who silenced the water in his heart. Zhou Xuan is an experience of a southerner. If he wants to slim water, he has to wait until around the Dragon Boat Festival. What kind of water can slim water rise at this time!

On March 17, Zhou Xuan and his group of more than 40 people left Cao County and headed towards the ancient city of Juye. The Zhou emperor wrote in Confucius' "Spring and Autumn" that "Seeking the Unicorn in the West" was in Juye. It was named because of the Oyeze. However, according to Yang Zongbao, the Oyeze is now just a large depression, with a lake with a radius of dozens of miles, which is far from the legendary Oyeze.

It still rained this day, and no matter how fast the carriages and horses were, they were not going fast. By the afternoon, the rain became heavier and heavier, and it became a heavy rain, and it was still raining so heavily.

Zhou Xuan wore a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat. Seeing the people and horses rushing in the rain like this, he said, "Is it because the sky has been pierced? The rain is too heavy, find a place to rest."

The two Pai Army brought by Yang Zongbao were both old soldiers who were familiar with the terrain of the road. Li Pai Army said: "Mr. Zhou, there is no village in front or shop in the back. Juye cannot get there today. The nearest Suijiazhuang is still twenty miles away. It is probably difficult to get over such heavy rain. Only the Laojun Temple is quite spacious in the valley on the left, so why not go there to shelter from the rain and rest at night?"
Chapter completed!