V1.Chapter 180

The news of the marriage bestowed by the emperor did not spread. After all, Xu Xian did not agree to it. All the officials in the palace did not dare to tell this matter considering the majesty of the royal family that day, so no one knew that Xu Xian rejected the marriage bestowed by the emperor in the palace.

Except, these people from the Shushan School.

"Oh? The emperor wants to betroth the eldest princess to you?" He poured a glass of water and wine for Xu Xian who was busy eating. Hearing what happened in the palace today, Ye Wen felt that his life was getting more and more leisurely. .

Xu Xian responded casually: "Well, but I didn't agree!"

"Wow! Isn't this disrespectful?" Ye Wen didn't expect that his junior brother would have such a personality, and he would directly refuse the imperial edict in front of the emperor.

Xu Xian raised his head and said strangely: "It's just that he didn't accept the imperial edict, isn't it unusual?" Then he chattered about a bunch of ancestors who refused to accept the imperial edict, and Ye Wen knew that the Shang Dynasty did not accept the imperial edict It's nothing, of course, the premise is that there must be a reason that can be recognized by the emperor.

As for the gift of marriage, Xu Xian refused with the existing marriage contract, and the emperor could not force it, unless the current emperor is willing to let the eldest princess be Xu Xian's wife with others-the royal family must retain its majesty, and it is absolutely impossible for the princess to be married to Xu Xian. Ordinary people have the same status as women, on the contrary, it doesn't matter if Xu Xian only has concubines.

The two chatted for a while, and finally decided to leave for Shushan after a few days. Anyway, it is a common practice for the champion to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives.

Even the two of them had already discussed that it was unavoidable that the green fruit should be sent out again, causing Xu Xian to suffer a serious illness and his life was dying. He was unable to serve the court and had to concentrate on recuperating at home.

It was just to prevent the cold air in his body from recurring again. This time, Ye Wen needed to help protect Xu Xian's lungs so that the two cold airs would not echo each other, and then he could use this method.

"It's time to trouble senior brother!"

"No trouble, it's just a matter of little effort!"

The two of them decided to go back to rest after discussing, but the two of them didn't know that it was the middle of the night, and some of them couldn't sleep.

"What? You said that the No. 1 scholar rejected the emperor's marriage offer?" In the deep palace, the roar in a certain palace even made many guards on duty at night feel chills.

The court lady standing aside didn't take it seriously, as if she had expected such a reaction a long time ago: "Yes, Your Royal Highness! Zhuangyuan Lang said that he has a marriage contract, and he will be married only when he returns home, so he refuses to accept it." The imperial decree of the emperor's marriage!"

I saw the woman in the gorgeous palace attire snorted angrily, and slapped the small table next to it, only to hear 'bang! ’, the woman in palace costume immediately burst into tears, clutching her flushed palm: "I hurt this princess to death!"

The palace maid sighed secretly, went up to help the princess to kill her, and then said: "Isn't this just what the princess wants? Anyway, the princess doesn't think much of that number one scholar!"

Not wanting to, the princess said angrily: "That's only allowed if the princess doesn't agree to him marrying me, how can I ask him to reject the princess? Before the princess has despised him first, he dared to despise the princess first?"

Hearing this, the palace maid knew that the princess' temper had flared up again, so she could only bow her head and say nothing, and let the princess growl: "Hmph, I want to see what capital that Xu Xian has to dare to refuse the marriage offer from the royal family!" You go to inquire about Xu Xian’s route back to his hometown tomorrow, and this princess will talk to him personally!”

"Ah? The princess is leaving the palace again?"

"Why?" The princess said with a proud face: "Every time this princess goes out of the palace, she always travels in a low-key way. The emperor doesn't know that the princess is going out to play. What are you afraid of? Besides, if the emperor blames me, I will protect the princess." I'm following you!"

The palace maid looked helpless, she could only nod her head, but said in her heart: "Which time does the princess go out without bringing a hundred or eighty guards to clear the way, and she almost didn't hold a sign. This is considered low-key? How often does the emperor not?" Got it? Didn't you just pretend not to see it on purpose!"

"But, why did Her Royal Highness go to find Xu Xian?"

Only the princess snorted, and said proudly: "I want to tell him, it's not that he rejected this princess, it's that this princess looks down on him. Even if he accepts the imperial decree, this princess will never agree to this marriage !"

Because of the princess's words, in the next few days, many guards were so busy that they couldn't even eat well. Seeing this scene, the emperor Wei Hong asked the eunuch beside him: " What is my sister up to?"

The eunuch said: "Her Royal Highness seems to be inquiring about Master Xu's situation, and has recruited a lot of guards. It seems that she wants to trouble Master Xu."

"Oh?"

Wei Hong didn't expect that this matter had something to do with Xu Xian, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that his sister had lost her temper again, probably because she couldn't hold back her face after hearing Xu Xian's public refusal to get married, and that's why she made all these troubles Come.

But thinking about his elder sister, she doesn't have any bad intentions, and she won't do anything too much, so she can do whatever she wants. If he can make some marriage with Xu Xian because of this, he will be happier. Zhengchou doesn't know how to win over Xu Xian!

However, considering that my sister is a member of the royal family after all, and her body is rich, if she ran out and got injured a little bit, it would be troublesome, especially the people who came to Beijing with Xu Xian were all members of the martial arts.

"Xiaochunzi, call Huangfuzhe here for me!"

Not long after, Huangfuzhe arrived, and Wei Hong didn't say much, just said: "My sister seems to be going out to play recently, the Qing family remembers to arrange a few safe guards to protect the eldest princess!"

Huangfuzhe understood it as soon as he heard it, and after a few days, when Wei Hong called him to ask about it again, Huangfuzhe replied directly: "The humble minister sent Zhou Guan to accompany the princess, with Zhou Guan's skill, It will definitely protect the safety of Her Majesty the Eldest Princess!"

When Wei Hong heard it, some information from Zhou Guan flashed in his head: "A descendant of Zhou's family, the commander of the Imperial Army in Beicheng?"

Huangfuzhe nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Seeing Huangfuzhe nod his head, Wei Hong remembered that the Zhou family had been loyal to the Shang Dynasty for generations, and the Zhou family had produced talented people for generations. He thought that Zhou Guan, as the Zhou family, was doing well, so he felt relieved and did not Think about it again.

It's just that he didn't expect that Xu Xian and his group would be stopped by the Eldest Princess as soon as they left the capital, and Ye Wen, who was in the lead, looked at the leading woman and immediately knew why this person came.

He raised his eyes and looked at the row of men with extraordinary vigor and spirit on the opposite side. They were obviously specially trained elite guards, and there were many experts among them.

At first, the woman was dressed in a strong outfit, riding on a tall horse, pointed at the whip in her hand, and shouted: "Tell Xu Xian to come out!"

Hearing this, Ye Wen turned his head and said to his junior brother: "This trip to Beijing is really causing a lot of trouble! If you don't want to leave the capital, someone will block your way!" After that, he pointed to a coniferous forest in the distance: "And It’s not just one group!”——A certain group of people said to each other: “He’s not referring to us, is he?”

And the group of people on the opposite side couldn't hear what Ye Wen said, they just saw him talking to Xu Xian, and then pointed to the place next to him, thinking that he was looking down on him, the woman was even more angry, and immediately shouted: "Xu Xian, see Is this princess still not coming to see you?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the Shushan faction turned their heads in unison, most of them looked surprised, and only Ye Wen knew it clearly, and said to Xu Xian with a smile: "Oh, it seems that your refusal I've offended this Highness Princess!" After saying that, he looked at the woman on the horse in front of him: "It looks familiar!"

Xu Xian also sighed helplessly, then took a few steps forward, and saluted the woman on horseback: "Xu Xian, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has met Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping!"

"Princess Taiping..." Ye Wen was not far away, and Xu Xian didn't deliberately conceal his voice, so he could hear it clearly, but this title is too top-notch, so he couldn't help muttering a little more, calling Ning Ru next to him. Xue heard it, and looked at Ye Wen curiously: "What's wrong, brother?"

"Nothing!" Responding like this, he sneaked a look at the woman's upper body, and secretly commented: "Sure enough, she is worthy of this title, she is really ordinary!"

A certain princess didn't know that someone commented on her like this, and she was still very proud at this moment, and waved to Xu Xian: "Excuse me!"

Xu Xian stood up and asked, "I don't know what orders does Her Highness Princess stop Weichen and his party?"

At this moment, Princess Taiping realized that she was not here to show her prestige, but to let Xu Xian know that she didn't look down on him at all, so don't think that she was proud of rejecting the emperor's imperial edict.

It’s just that it seemed a bit inappropriate to say this by myself, and finally she winked at the maid next to her: “Huan’er, tell me!”

"Huh? It's me again?"

Seeing the princess's expression, the servant girl knew that she was helping the princess clean up the mess again, so she could only say: "His Royal Highness wants to tell Master Xu that even if Master Xu accepts the imperial edict, the princess will not agree to that marriage!" The subtext is Her Royal Highness doesn't like you at all.

It's just that the latter words are too straightforward, and there are so many people around, so it's hard to speak.

Xu Xian waited blankly for the other party to speak, who would have thought that after waiting for a long time, there would be only one sentence: "It's over?"

Na Huan'er was also taken aback, blinked his eyes: "It's over!"

"Oh!" Xu Xian responded, and then saluted again: "I understand!" Then he was about to leave, bypassing this group of people.

I didn't want the princess and didn't know that the tendon was wrong. Seeing Xu Xian's blunt response, she was immediately dissatisfied: "Why are you like this? Shouldn't you shout no at this time! You shouldn't! I'm so sad or something? Is it over with such a fluffy sentence?"

As soon as these words came out, not to mention the whole group of the Shushan faction was in a cold sweat, even the guards brought out by the princess had black lines on their faces, and then turned their eyes to the side, as if it was too embarrassing to follow such a master.

The young man who had been standing next to the eldest princess took a big step when he heard the words, but because he was standing behind the princess, the princess didn't notice it, but Ye Wen took a serious look. : "Hey! This guard is also top quality!"

Xu Xian wiped his sweat, and said to himself: "This eldest princess should be the emperor's elder sister, right? Isn't she a younger sister? Why is she acting like a child?"

The eldest princess quarreled and quarreled without stopping, but the people from the Shushan faction couldn't keep company with Ganxiao. When passing by, Xu Xian said: "If there is no order, I will leave!" Afterwards, all the people Shi Shiran walked around the group of guards, and the slightly pitiful eyes of the Shushan faction made the guards unable to lift their heads.

They all walked over, the eldest princess was still venting, so she even persuaded Huan'er: "Princess, go back to the palace!" She didn't listen.

"This princess has never been ignored like this before! Xu Xian, this princess is at odds with you!" This voice was not unusual at all, but when he shouted "at odds" at the end, there was actually a * * sound in line, the voice was powerful and thick , directly suppressed the eldest princess' voice.

In the end, there was a sudden explosion: "Kill!" The sound was so shocking that everyone who heard it trembled. When the guard accompanying the princess heard this, he immediately shouted: "Guard!"

Immediately, he commanded these dozens of guards to protect the eldest princess, and drew a bright straight knife from his waist, and waited intently for the incoming enemy.

It's just that when he took a look, he found that the enemy was not coming at him and his group, but at Xu Xian and the others who had just walked past. When Zhou Guan saw it, he thought that Xu Xian was the champion of the new dynasty, and he was just The appointed member of the Ministry of Officials, Wailang, also had the duty of protection, so he immediately commanded several guards outside and said, "Hurry up and protect Lord Xu!"

Who knew that the words hadn't finished yet, but when a group of men in black were still in the air, streaks of cyan sword energy shot out from the hands of a woman in green clothes. Fell down in the air.

Zhou Guan was shocked when he saw this, and secretly said: "Master Xu has such a master beside him?" Although he is also a royal guard, but his rank is not high, he is not clear about Xu Xian's affairs. Although he was also from a noble family, he didn't care much about other things, even the position of imperial bodyguard was just an idle job, and his seniority was mixed.

Of course, he still has abilities, otherwise he wouldn't have been picked by Huangfuzhe to protect the princess, it's just that he was a bit lazy.

At this time, the group of people who met Xu Xian didn't panic when they saw someone suddenly attacking, and no one drew out their weapons to deal with it. Only the woman in the green shirt was flying with sword energy flying in her palms. Most of the men in clothes were dead, and the last few wanted to turn around and run away, only to jump five or six feet away, but the woman threw a large yellow thing at random, and knocked them down directly from behind.

"Good skill, good hidden weapon! I don't know what is the relationship between this woman and Mr. Xu."

Zhou Guan rubbed his chin, and thought to himself, could this be the woman who was betrothed to Mr. Xu? If this is the case, it is not surprising to refuse the royal marriage.

"If I get such a beautiful wife, I'm afraid I won't like this one..." When I was slandering in my heart, I glanced to the side, and saw that the eldest princess had a face full of stars, holding her hands together and looking into the distance, with her mouth full of tears. He even asked: "Who is that sister? She's amazing!"

"Hey! That girl is younger than you, right?" Zhou Guan felt helpless seeing the princess like this, and looked at the servant girl beside him, also full of depression.

Looking at Ye Wen, Ning Ruxue dismissed a group of sneak attacking men in black with a wave of her hand, then ran to pick up the copper coins, and finally went to see the identities of those men in black.

"Did Junior Brother offend anyone in Beijing?"

As soon as this group of people came out, they ran towards Xu Xian and killed them, obviously for the purpose of taking Xu Xian's life. It's a pity that this skill is too loose, Ning Ruxue dismissed it casually. Not even a single fish slipped through the net, Ye Wen and the others didn't even need to make a move, they just watched from the sidelines.

Xu Xian first looked at the identities of the men in black, and found that none of them recognized them. Hearing Ning Ruxue's words, he said, "I offended a lot of people in Beijing this time, and it is inevitable that some people will use such methods Come deal with me!"

"Do you want to pursue it?"

Ye Wen touched his chin and narrowed his eyes. He didn't care about the mess, if someone dared to sneak attack someone from his Shushan faction, then no matter what the identity of the other party was, he had to get this thing back. Even if the other party is a prince, he will definitely make it difficult for the other party.

Xu Xian thought for a while: "Forget it, a group of jumping clowns! Just kill these people. If they don't know how to restrain themselves, it's not too late to settle the score together!"

More importantly, if the Shushan sect makes a big fuss in the capital, it will inevitably become a heresy of the evil sect, which will be greatly detrimental to the development of the sect, and the mountain gate that was built with great difficulty will also be destroyed in one fell swoop.

As for the future? Anyway, if he doesn't take an official career in the future, he won't have any interaction with these people again.

The members of the Shushan faction searched the corpses, and when they turned around, they found that the princess was chasing them again. Then they jumped off the horse and ran directly in front of Ning Ruxue, staring at Ning Ruxue with staring eyes. : "Women Xia, accept me as your disciple!"

"what?"

Not only Ning Ruxue was surprised, but the others were also overwhelmed by this sudden sentence, and Na Huan'er covered her face with an expression of 'I knew it would be like this'.

Only the guard came forward and said to Xu Xian: "My servant Zhou Guan, Mr. Xu was frightened, I will leave the next thing to you!"

Then he ordered all the guards to arrange the corpses one by one, and at the same time, he sent someone to inform the brothers of Wucheng Bingma Si to get a few carts to carry the corpses back. After the order, he said to Xu Xian: "No matter who sent these people today, they must be Give Master Xu an explanation!"

If it were other guards, I'm afraid they would not dare to say such a thing, but Zhou Guan can put it down. Because of his surname, and because of the status and role of the Zhou family in the Shang Dynasty.

More importantly, everyone in the Zhou family knew what the emperor was most taboo about. If they dared to murder the champion of the new department under his nose today, wouldn't they be assassinating the emperor in order to usurp the throne? Therefore, this matter will definitely bring out the final murderer, but the subsequent messy development is beyond his control. All he knew was that the guy who sent someone today was definitely going to be unlucky.

"Guard Zhou is being polite!" Xu Xian knew that the imperial guard had a very high status, which was very different from the surrounding palace guards, and from the two sentences Zhou Guan just said, this person's background was also extraordinary.

The two chatted casually, and when they turned around, they found that the princess was hugging Ning Ruxue tightly, crying and calling for her apprentice: "Woman Xia, accept your apprentice! Just accept your apprentice!" !"

Ye Wen and the others looked at these top-notch companions and were speechless...