Chapter 023 - Assassination(1/2)
(XX website www.xxx.***)(XX website www.xxx.***)(XX website www.xxx.***) "Shenxian Tea? I heard about it..." Hu Sanmei nodded slightly.
Wu Zhi smiled and said, "Do you know whose business Shenxian Tea is?"
Hu Sanmei looked at Wu Zhi and smiled slightly: "Is it yours?"
Wu Zhi nodded: "No, it's mine!"
Hu Sanmei said: "This is the secret you are talking about?"
Wu Zhi nodded guiltily.
Hu Sanmei sighed in disappointment. How could she care about these things? Perhaps if Wu Zhi said that there were a few moles on his back, it would be more attractive than this secret.
Wu Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, you can rest!"
Hu Sanmei shook her head and said, "Sing a song..."
Wu Zhitou was shaking like a rattle. It would be fine if the third sister was unconscious. When she woke up, she sang some lovely songs, and her face couldn't be held back.
The third sister smiled and said, "Then you go."
Wu Zhi went over and pulled the silk quilt upwards of the third sister's body, smiled, turned around and walked out. The third sister watched his back disappear, looked down at the silk quilt, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
A few days later, the third sister was able to walk around the ground. At first, she only walked around the room for a few steps. In a few days, she could walk in the small garden of the inn, and her complexion gradually improved.
On that day, Wu Zhi accompanied Hu Sanmei to walk in the garden. After walking a few steps, he saw that the third sister was not in high spirits and said with a smile: "Let's go out for a walk!" Hu Sanmei wanted to go out for a walk a few days ago, but was dissuaded by Wu Zhi.
The third sister smiled and said, "It's okay." I can't tell you anything about joy.
Wu Zhi immediately ordered the guards to prepare carriages and horses. However, when the third sister saw the inn gate and the ground carriage, she shook her head and said, "Let's go!" Wu Zhi thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Shi Xiu and Mu Hong are in front, Wu Zhi and his third sister are in back, and seven or eight guards are finally with him. The group leaves the inn and starts a tour of Shangjing.
Although the third sister carefully studied the map of Shangjing and staged a drama of winning the palace here, she did not have any impression of Shangjing. She took a slow walk and listened to Wu Zhi introducing Shangjing's humanities and geography, which was very interesting.
The group walked on the streets of Shangjing. It was very eye-catching. Especially Hu Sanmei, who was wearing a white dress, was once famous in Shangjing and was even captured by paintings. The images hanging all over the city were taken off the day before Wu Zhi arrived in Shangjing. It can be said that there were few people in Shangjing who didn't recognize Hu Sanmei.
Although Wu Zhi and others were wearing casual clothes, Hu Sanmei's sign was there, so how could the passers-by on the street know the identity of the pedestrian? They avoided it from afar and talked a lot. Most of the eyes of looking at Hu Sanmei were full of fear.
Wu Zhi looked at the pedestrians on the roadside and couldn't help but smile and said, "San Sister, your fame in Shangjing is no less than that in the Southern Dynasty. Unfortunately, you are a vicious person here!"
The third sister smiled and said nothing. No way, the foreign tribe of the Khitans, even if everyone in the Southern Dynasty regarded her as a tiger scorpion, I was afraid she would still be unsuspecting in the face of changes.
After walking through several long streets, Wu Zhi saw that Hu Sanmei was breathing slightly and said with a smile: "Let's go back to Duoguan to have some food. If you choose which restaurant you want, you will be afraid that the restaurant will curse you in your heart..."
The third sister nodded slightly, and Wu Zhi waved to the guards: "Go back to the inn!"
At this moment, the third sister suddenly said, "Be careful!" Before she finished speaking, dozens of sharp arrows roared in the sound of breaking through the air. Shi Xiu and Mu Hong saw the opportunity, they had already protected Wu Zhi and called the arrows. Several guards were not prepared and fell to the ground in silence. After being shot down, several pedestrians nearby were even more screaming. They immediately made a mess on the street.
The arrows shot out from the third floor of a restaurant not far away. A rain of arrows sprinkled by, dozens of men in black were covered in black, with black cloth coverings, only their eyes exposed, holding swords and weapons in their hands, and rushed towards Wu Zhi and others silently. Wu Zhi looked around and pulled Hu Sanmei to retreat into a small alley next to him. Shi Xiu and Mu Hong and other guards fought and retreated, and also entered the alley.
The alley was very narrow, which blocked the archers in the restaurant. Shi Xiu and Mu Hong led the other guards to guard the entrance of the alley. Although the number of people on the other side was extremely special, they knew that they were selected elite soldiers at first sight. One-on-one words were probably no less than the guards of the palace. However, the entrance of the alley was narrow, and there were two masters Shi Xiu and Mu Hong who fought to the death. The assassins were anxious but could not make any progress.
Hu Sanmei frowned and reached her white little hand in front of Wu Zhi. Wu Zhi was stunned and understood what she meant and pulled her behind her, "Forget it!" Hu Sanmei was pulled behind by Wu Zhi, and her mouth was slightly pouting, looking extremely reluctant. Unfortunately, Wu Zhi looked at the battle situation, but he didn't see the cute appearance of the third sister.
Standing behind Wu Zhi to watch the battle situation, the third sister felt relieved and looked at Wu Zhi's broad shoulders. Is this the feeling of being protected?
The assassins could not enter the alley, and suddenly heard the sound of gongs in the distance, but the soldiers of the city patrol arrived. The assassins whistled, and the assassins dispersed very quickly. Shi Xiu and others did not dare to chase after him, but guarded the alley, and a guard ran to the inn to mobilize troops.
Wu Zhi looked around and greeted Shi Xiu, "Go and find a carriage. Your prince, I want to pretend to be sick!" Shi Xiu smiled and answered his order. Hu Sanmei saw Wu Zhi lying on the ground in a big way, closing her eyes, and humming even more. The warmth in her heart just now was swept away, both angry and funny. If she hadn't known Wu Zhi as a human being, she would have really regarded him as a scoundrel.
When the Liao Dynasty patrol officers and soldiers arrived, they saw the Southern Dynasty guards moving the seriously injured noble king Qiansui onto the carriage. The noble king looked pale and hummed in a low voice, looking like he was a general who was immortal. The commander of the city patrol was shocked and went forward to ask about the noble king's injuries, but Shi Xiu pushed it away. The Southern Dynasty guards all looked as if they were ashen and walked northwards in the carriage.
The commander of the city patrol left his soldiers and set off his horse and rushed towards the city guard like flying. It was a big mess, this was a huge mess.
News of the place where the prince was seriously injured by the assassin spread rapidly throughout Shangjing. After the prince of Liao Kingdom Yelu and Luwufa issued an edict to search for assassins all over the city, he urgently summoned Xiao Fengxian to discuss countermeasures. Shangjing was even more panicked, and rumors were everywhere on the streets and alleys.
Just when the powerful and powerful in Shangjing were in chaos, Wu Zhi was chatting and laughing with his third sister in the attic in the inn.
"I want to see." The third sister pointed to Wu Zhidi's chest.
"What's so good about it? Girls are not ashamed." Wu Zhi was even more open in front of the third sister.
The third sister smiled, but she didn't force herself.
"Sister Three, how did you get injured?" Wu Zhi hadn't asked her about the injury.
Hu Sanmei shook her head. "I can't remember it anymore. It seems that someone was hit in a melee." She pointed to the back of her head with her finger.
"Let me go back to Beijing this time, I'm afraid the general's mansion in the capital is already under construction."
Hu Sanmei nodded slightly, without asking what was going on with the General's Mansion.
"Prince! Prince Lanling is here to visit!" Shi Xiu shouted outside the house.
"Please come over!" Wu Zhi said that, and hurriedly lay down. The third sister helped him cover the quilt and retreated into the back hall.
After a while, footsteps came from outside the door. Xiao Fengxian's voice sounded: "Your King, Xiao Wang is here to see you!" Shi Xiu pushed open the door, and Xiao Fengxian walked in. Seeing that there was no medicinal fragrance in the house, and there was no doctor around him, he couldn't help but be stunned. Wu Zhi waved weakly and signaled Xiao Fengxian to sit down.
Xiao Fengxian sat down and asked with concern: "How is your king's injury?"
Wu Zhi shook his head and closed his eyes.
Xiao Fengxian asked a few more questions, and Wu Zhi hummed and responded. After a while, the snoring sounded and Wu Zhi fell asleep.
Xiao Fengxian had no choice but to dismiss him.
As soon as Xiao Fengxian left, Hu Sanmei turned out of the back hall. Seeing Wu Zhi still snoring, she didn't speak, so she sat on a soft chair and tasted tea.
Wu Zhi opened his eyes helplessly and sighed: "Is there anything in this world that makes you curious?"
Hu Sanmei put down her teacup and nodded slightly.
Wu Zhiqi said: "What will make you curious? Let's hear it!"
Before Hu Sanmei could speak, Shi Xiu's voice came from outside the room, "Prince, the officials of the Ministry of Rites have arrived!"
Wu Zhi smiled and said, "Let them come in."
Before several officials came in, Hu Sanmei had already avoided it. Wu Zhi talked to several officials for more than half an hour before several officials left with a smile.
The noble king was seriously injured, but the Southern Dynasty delegation suddenly proposed to revise the alliance. This time, Wuzhi envoy Liao was originally a big sign of "revising the alliance". The Jurchens destroyed the country. The previous anti-Jin alliance was out of place. Not only did the territory of Song and Liao need to be re-established, but the "brotherly state" of both sides also needed to re-establish a relationship.
The Liao people are not fools. Wu Zhi knew the tricks of Yelu Sect Luwu and Xiao Fengxian, but they had no choice but to do anything. Who asked Shangjing to send an assassin? Moreover, Yelu Sect Luwu and Xiao Fengxian could probably guess who sent the assassin. On the second day of Wu Zhi's assassination, Yelu Sect Luwu moved Xiao Miyuan to the king of the Southern Court, and was promoted and surrendered in secret. It was probably because now Youyun, Zhongjing Road, and Tokyo Road were all in the hands of the Southern Dynasty. The organization of the Southern Court has long been in name only, and the officials of the Southern Court have long become idle.
Although there has been a lot of help from Yelu Sect Luwu since then, and there are even fewer important officials in the court who can compete with Xiao Fengxian, Yelu Sect Luwu can only bear the pain of giving up. If he does not make a gesture, his king's illness will probably not be "cured".
The territory negotiations between the two sides were not very twists and turns. Now the Northern Kingdom also knows that it would be difficult to get Zhongjing and Tokyo back from the Southern Dynasty. However, what made the Northern Kingdom happy was that the Southern Dynasty had no objection to the ownership of Huanglong Mansion. In return, the withdrawal of the Khitan Caimei officials in Youyun and the prefectures was reasonable.
Both the Song and Liao sides were very satisfied with the negotiations on the first day. Both the Northern Kingdoms felt that the Southern Dynasty was indeed as usual, and the gentlemanly style was as usual. Who knew that when the two sides discussed the towns of mutual trading on the second day, the problem arose. The Southern Dynasty insisted on demarcating a piece of land on the northwest grassland for the use of the tribes of the Southern Dynasty and the northwest grassland. Although the land was not much, it also affected the face of the northern Kingdoms. The two sides argued, and the negotiations on the second day ended unhappily.
Because of the land in the northwest, the Southern Dynasties negotiated with the Northern Kingdom for more than ten days. Finally, the Southern Dynasties proposed that half of the income from the mutual market would be returned to the Northern Kingdom. The land required by the Southern Dynasties was originally an open land. If they wanted to use it for mutual market, the Southern Dynasties still needed to invest a lot of money to build the city. Seeing that the Southern Dynasties insisted, they seemed to not give up until they achieved their goal. The noble king even had a "offset" and said that if he did not return to the country, he would be seriously injured and would not heal. With the pros and cons, Yelu Jiao Luwu finally agreed to the conditions of the Southern Dynasties, so the "Capital Covenant" that the Northern Dynasties later regretted was born.
On the second day, Wu Zhi led officials of the Ministry of Rites to embark on the journey back to his country. When Xiao Fengxian left the city to see him off, he seemed to have something to say, and hesitated for a long time. Finally, he still didn't speak.
Wu Zhi was supported by a guard and his face was pale. Seeing Xiao Fengxian's expression, he smiled and said, "I will take good care of Qianqian. It seems that your situation is not very good now. You should not let Qianqian get involved in the right and wrong place in Beijing."
Xiao Fengxian nodded roughly and said, "Qianqian has troubled the prince!"
Wu Zhi smiled and said, "You don't have to be polite, brother!"
Xiao Fengxian nodded and bowed, "Your King has a good journey!"
Wu Zhi then got on the carriage with the help of the guards. He watched the convoy go away and then turned to look at the dark clouds above the capital. Xiao Fengxian sighed and walked slowly forward,"
When the Southern Dynasty delegation returned to Beijing, it was just a surprise rain. The drizzle was as light as silk and the breeze blew. Wu Zhi was in a good mood and led his third sister straight into the royal palace. When he arrived at the backyard, Jinlian led the girls to greet him. Qiqiao came to Wu Zhi and chatted, but his eyes were staring at Hu Sanmei. Jinlian pulled the third sister over and asked about her questions. Zhu'er was even more excited when she saw her young idol. Everyone laughed and walked to the back garden. The palace maids held up dozens of paper umbrellas to hide the rain for the prince and the princess. The backyard of the princess was laughing and laughing.
Appreciating flowers in the autumn rain is a unique and sad feeling, and it makes people feel sad for no reason.
Xiao Qianqian's mood was probably like this. The wanderer left home to watch the autumn rain. After reading her father's letter, Xiao Qianqian lowered her head and said nothing. She was very disappointed. Jin Zhi sat beside her and whispered to comfort her.
Jinlian Zhu'er sat next to Hu Sanmei, asking about her well-being. Hu Sanmei was quite uncomfortable and looked at Wu Zhi from time to time.
Wu Zhi looked helpless, holding Qiqiao who was coming in hard in his arms. Listening to Qiqiao's chirping, he would also interject a few words from time to time, so as not to say that he was not focused on talking to her.
Xuan Jing was holding Qianyezi, as if chanting poems for her, and Qianyezi recited a few sentences from time to time.
As he was talking, Qiqiao seemed to remember something angry, pouted and said angrily: "My husband is not here, Sister Jinlian and I have been bullied!"
Wu Zhi twisted her face and smiled and said, "Who bullied you?" He thought to himself that I was not at home, it would be good if you didn't bully others, and anyone else dared to bully you? As for Jinlian being bullied, it was even more nonsense. Even Cai Jing didn't dare to have a confrontation with the noble palace now.
Qi Qiao knocked down Wu Zhi's hand and said angrily: "Who else can you? That bad woman!"
Wu Zhi was stunned. The "bad woman" that Qi Qiao mentioned was naturally Concubine Wang. At this time, he knew that Qi Qiao was not a joke, so he put away his smile and asked, "What's going on?"
Qiqiao secretly glanced at Jinlian for a few times, tilted her head and thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Forget it, I won't say it anymore. It's nothing if Qiqiao suffers a little aggrieved!"
Wu Zhi looked at her with a funny look, "Okay, let's continue to appreciate the flowers!" He turned to admire the beautiful flowers of Qiuyu, and exclaimed a few times from time to time.
Qi Qiao blinked her big eyes and looked at Wu Zhi. After a while, she saw that Wu Zhi still ignored her, and she got up so angry that she said, "I'll talk to Sister Jinlian!" She stood up angrily from Wu Zhi's arms and walked towards Jinlian and the third sister. After saying a few words, it seemed that Jinlian praised her and smiled again.
Wu Zhi shook his head, got up and walked to Jinzhi, sat down and smiled, "Qianqian, don't worry, your father is very charming in Shangjing!"
Xiao Qianqian said "happy", but her mood was not high.
Wu Zhi smiled and said, "After a few days, after the city of the Northwest Grassland is built, you can go see your father or live in the grassland city, which is not far from Shangjing. This way you can meet Brother Xiao without getting involved in the battle between Shangjing!"
Jin Zhi heard it anxiously: "How can Qianqian get there in the north as chaotic?"
Wu Zhi thought about it and smiled and said, "I will eventually come up with the best way to meet the two sessions." He said to Jin Zhi again, "I am still inquiring about the whereabouts of my father-in-law..."
Jin Zhi shook her head and sighed: "If my father doesn't want to be found, I'm afraid that my husband will not be able to find it."
Wu Zhi smiled, no, Fang La traveled through the Southern Dynasty from under his nose, but he knew nothing.
To be continued...