Chapter 66： foregone conclusion

Ping Yuanhou's eyes became out of focus, as if immersed in imagination.

Zhang Yunming waited for a while, and then asked in a soft voice but clearly speaking again: "Father, at that time, Bei Rong went deep into my hinterland, and the capital was in danger. The soldiers of the Sifang Qin Kings were not sent or could not reach, you would let your soldiers guard Do we run away"

Pingyuan Hou returned to God and murmured: "If this is the case, the country will be defeated, the lives will be burnt, and the nest will be covered. How can my family be spared if there is an egg? Besides, as a military commander, how can I not go out to meet No, I can’t take my family and run away. I must invite the righteous soldiers to fight the enemy to the death."

Zhang Yunming nodded and said, "Then, what that person said is very likely to happen. She has never seen Dad. In these years, Dad has released the military power, kept a low profile, ignored political affairs, and the military commander in the DPRK is not the only one. Why would she say that when something really happened, Dad will fight, Dad only told us today that there are sergeants with Dad around the capital, but how could she say that Dad can summon volunteers?"

Ping Yuanhou frowned, his lips pursed into a line.

Zhang Yunming made persistent efforts: "Father, think about the prince, is this'story' too reasonable and reasonable" at the beginning, he was shocked by the hidden inevitability of this incident, and believed Zhang Yunzheng's words.

Ping Yuanhou was pale, with cold sweat on his hands, stood up and walked back and forth in the room. After a long while, he suddenly stopped, ignoring Zhang Yunming, but put his face in front of Zhang Yunzheng and asked, "Who is the one who said this!"

Just as Zhang Yunzheng was about to open his mouth, Zhang Yunming said before Zhang Yunzheng: "It's a... someone who is not familiar with Daddy!" At the same time, he flicked Zhang Yunzheng's arm.

Zhang Yunzheng blinked and nodded. Dad has never seen that little liar, shouldn't it be a lie. If it is a little liar, then Dad would definitely not believe it.

Ping Yuanhou glanced at Zhang Yunming angrily, hating him for destroying his surprise, so he could only ask Zhang Yunming again: "This person, where is he now?"

Zhang Yunming calmly said: "She doesn't want to show her face, let us swear that she can't tell others her identity."

This is understandable, those master hermits like to evasive. Ping Yuan Hou pulled the corner of his mouth and paced around the room again. He was suspicious by nature, and Zhang Yunming made the person who said this very mysterious, and he couldn't help making speculations.

After a stick of incense, Ping Yuanhou stopped and said: "The person who told the'story' must be related to the Zhenbeihou Mansion!"

Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng glanced at each other, and Zhang Yunming asked, "Why does my father say that?"

Ping Yuan Hou hummed: "Don't tell me what a stranger you met on the mountain!"

Zhang Yunming smiled indifferently, not at all ashamed of telling an unsuccessful lie.

Ping Yuanhou paced slowly back to the table and said slowly: "This person can see the first opportunity, and cannot bear to see this tragedy. He must have a plan. He actually did it a long time ago, since it was revealed that the prince was right. The second Miss Shen of the Zhenbeihou Mansion began to be bad. The queen poisoned the three princes in public. During the hunt, she broke the assassination of the three princes and destroyed the appearance of the four princesses. After the abolition... these things are not good for the prince but benefit Zhenbeihou. Mansion, therefore, this person must be related to Zhenbeihou Mansion."

Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng did not dare to speak, they felt like walking on thin ice while listening to Ping Yuanhou's analysis.

Ping Yuanhou went on to say: "He probably brought you two in recently... No, last year, he asked you to buy food..."

Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng are rare and honest at the same time. The cat looks at Ping Yuanhou with alert and obedient attention: The cause of this is that Shen Wen came to the mansion to see Zhang Yunzheng, and Ping Yuanhou will speculate on Shen Wen next step. Now, if it is discovered that Shen Wen said that a girl under the age of twelve, Ping Yuan Hou would probably not buy it...

Ping Yuan Hou continued: "You went to buy food because the youngest daughter of Zhenbeihou said some nonsense about dreaming, and let you use it as an excuse..."

The two brothers are not breathless anymore. They have been in contact with Shen Wen recently and have fully accepted that Shen Wen is a man of foresight and big plans, but they want to make Ping Yuan Hou, a man in his forties, who has been on the battlefield. People believe in Shen Wen, that is simply fantastic! If Ping Yuan Hou has his own ideas, how to manipulate two people in the middle of this matter in the future, who should I listen to?

Ping Yuanhou then inferred: "That person must have instructed Zhenbeihou's little daughter to come and get in touch with you! When you come back from the south, you will leave the house frequently, meet him, and even give him gifts!"

The two brothers secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Ping Yuanhou didn’t notice, and then said to himself: “That person is definitely not Zhenbeihou. Shen Hou is stubborn and stupid. He walked all the way to the dark. He is not here now. It must not be his eldest son either, that child is simply made out of Zhenbeihou's model, he is not very clever..."

Both Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng were silent, waiting for Ping Yuan Hou to say something before making a fuss. Ping Yuan Hou shook his head: "Although his second son is a smiling tiger, there is nothing profound to look at. The third cub is smarter than the two older ones, but he is not yet an adult, and how capable..."

Ping Yuanhou frowned: "It should be a woman who can instigate the second lady. Isn't it possible that the elder daughter is impossible! That child is too young and has a tendon... It's even more impossible for Yang's, she is almost a shrew, can't keep words... Old lady Maybe... But Gu's heart is soft and unbroken, not like..."

Zhang Yunzheng became impatient: "Father, don't guess, anyway, that's what it is now! Many things have already been clues!"

Zhang Yunming thought that Ping Yuan Hou would reprimand Zhang Yunzheng, but Ping Yuan Hou unexpectedly nodded his head and said: "If you said that last year, there is still no evidence, but now, the prince wants to send grain and iron to Bei Rong privately. It's very suspicious..."

Zhang Yunming asked in surprise: "How does Dad know this?"

Ping Yuanhou asked, "Isn't this something you know and I wrote it down?"

Zhang Yunzheng shouted: "Father! You went to my bedroom to look through my things!"

Ping Yuanhou waved his hand indifferently: "Then what's the matter, your kid's life is all given by me. See how your things are, I haven't counted you on the account of deceiving your parents!"

Zhang Yunzheng was angry: "If I starve to death, I will return my life to you!"

Ping Yuan Hou said indifferently: "You are not allowed to eat unless you make it clear! You are such a big man, you can't die if you are hungry for a meal or two!"

Zhang Yunming hurriedly interceded and said, "It's better to give him food, or else he always quarrels and beats others if he fails."

Ping Yuanhou said: "No! Tell me what you are going to do now"

Zhang Yunzheng said irritably, "What else can I do, of course, is to be a bandit!"

Ping Yuanhou said, "You mean to pull the draft..." At this point, Ping Yuanhou coughed artificially, raised his shoulders, and after sitting again on the bookcase, he half raised his chin, his expression a bit arrogant. Looking at the two brothers.

Zhang Yunzheng asked Zhang Yunming: "Father what does this mean?"

Zhang Yunming asked in turn: "You just said that the grass was a bandit, did you want to pull the bandit to steal the prince's food and iron?"

Zhang Yunzheng said: "Yeah...little...that person said there would be mountain bandits and Lianghu water bandits..."

Ping Yuan Hou agreed with him and said: "It's easy to transfer this way. It's robbed on land. It's a good idea to transport it to the ship, in the rivers and lakes. Where can he find it? Where will he put it?

Zhang Yunzheng said: "She said she wants to build a wine cellar."

Ping Yuanhou suddenly frowned, "So much food can be used to raise soldiers, and can be sold in exchange for money, why does he use it to make wine and there is still a lot of wine..." He fumbled under the bookcase, opened the drawer, and opened a box. , Took out two jade balls, put them in his hands and turned them around. He stopped and suddenly blurted out: "It's vicious!" He looked at Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng, and said, "This person is cruel, you guys. But trust him"

Zhang Yunming nodded involuntarily when thinking of seeing Shen Wen for the first time, she looked like a fat duck. Zhang Yunzheng thought that Shen Wen had confessed all the causes and consequences to him, even if she was vicious, it would be excusable, and nodded.

Ping Yuanhou took a deep breath: "This person is unfathomable, I can only guess two or three. If you have any doubts in the future, you should get out immediately and tell me so I can make arrangements."

Zhang Yunzheng was straightforward and couldn't help but ask: "Why does Dad say so because she wants to build a wine cellar?"

Ping Yuanhou sighed: "If I hadn't read about things and people's history, I wouldn't have thought of this. This person wants so much food to make wine. If he wants to sell money in the future, he will use wine as a weapon. If he wants money, I think it must be. I will ask you for it, but I don’t need to sell wine, the business is trivial, and the money turnover is easy to show. Then the wine brewed is a weapon."

Zhang Yunzheng asked: "How does wine become a weapon"

Ping Yuan Hou lowered his voice and said: "There are records in the books that the wine brewed by someone in a certain place is strong and unusual, and it burns when it is on fire, and the water is unstoppable. When it is splashed on the water, it continues to burn."

Zhang Yunming suddenly said: "That fat...that person will make this kind of wine..."

Ping Yuanhou nodded and said: "In the future, he must go to fire!"

Thinking of the flames everywhere and the screams of people, Zhang Yunming couldn't help but shiver, echoing Ping Yuanhou's sigh: "It's so cruel."

Zhang Yunzheng poked his lips: "If this can prevent you from dying on the battlefield, I think it's good."

Ping Yuan Hou sighed: "People should always be compassionate..."

Zhang Yunzheng stood up and interrupted: "She said she wanted to be'guilty and punished.' It must be those people who deserved the crime and died more than guilty! Father, what else do you have, I am starving to death, I really have to eat!" He looked in the eyes of the sky. When my mother died, I felt that the other party deserved it.

Ping Yuan Hou remembered the idea he had just now, and then picked up the shelf and started spinning the jade ball.

Zhang Yunzheng looked at Zhang Yunming: "Why do you show up like this?"

Zhang Yunming said helplessly: "Aren't you talking about mountain bandits and water bandits?"

Zhang Yunzheng nodded and said, "Yes, but why did Dad start to tune in?"

Zhang Yunming sighed: "Why didn't you listen to what Dad said? Didn't he say that he had resigned from the military, but is there still someone under him?"

Zhang Yunzheng suddenly said: "Oh, Dad wants us to use him."

Zhang Yunming sighed: "This is indeed the best choice. Dad's people must be reliable. They used to be sergeants, so we don't need to find someone now."

Zhang Yunzheng said, "That's great!" Turning around and saying to Ping Yuanhou, "Father, borrow us from hundreds of people!"

Pingyuan Hou Ba said: "No one taught you how to be polite, how do you say this?"

Zhang Yunzheng was anxious: "I'm hungry! I don't have time to spend with you, what do you want!"

Ping Yuanhou said solemnly: "I want you to tell me every step. If there is a reason, you must make it clear. If there are any consequences, you must tell the consequences!"

Zhang Yunzheng looked at Zhang Yunming, Zhang Yunming nodded, and Zhang Yunzheng said, "Then let me tell you, I'll go to eat first!" By the way, Ping Yuan Hou gave a casual salute, and Ping Yuan Hou waved his hand helplessly, and Zhang Yunzheng ran away. .

Ping Yuan Hou frowned as he watched Zhang Yunzheng close the door of the study, and asked Zhang Yunming, "He was so carelessly raised. You really think that person is fine."

Zhang Yunming shook his head firmly: "It's okay, she...she's a nice guy. Just..."

Ping Yuan Hou immediately asked vigilantly: "What is it! He is threatening you! You have to tell me why your brother went to beat Polo!"

Zhang Yunming sighed: "This is a long story. A while ago, the Bei Rong envoy did not arrive, she said that Huo Luo is a person who bears grudges, and will beg for marriage in the future, and the prince will let the emperor marry the fifth princess to him, she said the fifth princess He Fan soon died..."

Ping Yuanhou said "Oh": "That's why your brother pretended to be the **** of the Fourth Princess to beat him! If the prince does not mention marrying the princess, he can still keep his sister. But I read what you remember, the prince's person He told Huo Luo that he could ask for a princess in the future. With this matter, Huo Luo would ask for the fourth princess! The prince had to count the fifth princesses, but his own sister would be lost. This plan is very vicious!" He frowned. Look at Zhang Yunming: "You shouldn't be exposed in this plan, why are you sighing?"

Zhang Yunming was a little embarrassed: "She said that she did what she did and saved the fifth princess. She... When the third son of Shen asked to marry my sister, I couldn't speak ill of it."

Ping Yuan Hou puzzled: "He wants to save the five princesses, what's up with you in this?"

Zhang Yunming's face was a little red, and he didn't dare to look at Ping Yuanhou: "No...no me...what's the matter."

Ping Yuan Hou tilted his head slightly and stared at Zhang Yunming. The jade ball in his hand rattled. Zhang Yunming's ears were red, and he said carefully: "Daddy rest and I will go to bed"

Ping Yuanhou nodded, Zhang Yunming secretly relieved, turned around and walked out, and almost walked to the door, he heard Ping Yuanhou slowly say: "You want to marry the fifth princess"

Zhang Yunming stopped, turned around stiffly, and said with a smile: "Who wants...who wants" marriage matters should be decided by the parents. If you move your mind, you will fall behind.

Ping Yuanhou turned the jade ball: "He must say he will let you marry in the future, right?"

Zhang Yunming lowered his head and hummed, his shoulders drooped, looking decadent.

Ping Yuan Hou cut out: "The fifth princess is also a girl, nothing." He regarded himself very highly, and naturally felt that his son was worthy of everyone. What's wrong with the husband, he can't enter the official position as a husband, and wronged his son.

Zhang Yunming didn't say anything: that charming charming, natural and generous, sweet and shy... how can it be nothing?

Ping Yuanhou sighed: "Not now, wait two years, and see what the emperor meant..." There was no words in the second half of his words. With that "story", the idea is different again. Ping Yuan Hou felt that he was on guard, and the original ease of life was gone.

Zhang Yunming said hurriedly, "Don't worry about this matter. Dad, you said, can my sister marry the third son of Shen?"

Ping Yuan Hou thoughtfully said, "It seems that this person is really towards the Zhenbeihou Mansion. If it was before, I would probably not agree. Now, if the future will really be as he said, we should get in touch with each other. Shen San, that little bastard, is quite clever, and worthy of your sister. Moreover, Shen Hou, who does not love beauty, and his son will not be a bad person..." He looked at Zhang Yunming, "Your sister's marriage is up to you. Mother decides."

Zhang Yunming said: "The man said that she would naturally let her mother consider San Gongzi Shen at that time, but I just don't say bad things." But without saying that I can't tell my father! I'll let my father come forward to stir up you!

Hou Pingyuan smiled: "Then we will wait to see how he makes your mother consider this matter."

Zhang Yunming smiled and asked: "Why did Dad lend us soldiers"

Ping Yuanhou sneered: "How can we let those grain weapons and iron weapons be transported to Beirong! Naturally, we have to do this secretly, but one day we are really found out. We will tear up our faces and explain it clearly. It is also reasonable. !"

Zhang Yunming hurriedly said: "Father, don't think about using this method, it will attract the emperor and the prince's hatred!"

Ping Yuanhou sighed: "I don't understand. So I agreed to give it to you people and use the identity of a bandit to rob."

Zhang Yunming was relieved and said: "Thank you for your accommodating father."

Ping Yuan Hou asked: "The people in the Zhenbeihou Mansion know anyone other than the second silly lady"

Zhang Yunming did not dare to correct Ping Yuanhou and said, "The three sons."

Ping Yuan Hou asked: "I didn't tell Shen Hou."

Zhang Yunming shook his head: "Second Young Master Shen said he was afraid of his righteousness."

Ping Yuan Hou smiled: "This kind of person, whoever marries him, is unlucky, others are at the border all day long, and his wife, children, women and children are all in the capital. I don't know when to keep it..." I can think of the "story". He sighed again: "But if something happens to him, we won't have a good life."

Zhang Yunming also smiled and said, "Then let's help him. Dad, you should rest like this for the first time."

Ping Yuanhou let out a long sigh of relief and waved to him: "Remember to tell me the situation in detail every day, every day!"

Zhang Yunming saluted and left comfortably.

Ping Yuan Hou sat in the study for a long time, carefully recalling the "future" mentioned by his two sons, and comparing those pages of records, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the development of the situation was unstoppable: bantering from outsiders, fighting for the throne, and breaking his hands and feet. …Those events are so tightly linked that people can’t escape.

He frowned and muttered to himself: "What would that person do?"

Like the Fourth Prince, Ping Yuanhou thought that the person hiding in the dark must be a very old man with a high level of Taoism. He might be a woman, but he never thought that he would be a child.

He believed that at the last moment, that person would definitely contact him formally. Although he is no longer in charge, if he "predicts" that Zhongzhen Beihou Mansion and Heping Yuanhou Mansion will be victimized at the same time, the people from that Zhenbeihou Mansion will definitely come to unite his forces. Now, the man only instigated his two sons to make a small fight, which shows that he didn't want to get involved. Then I was preparing on the side, helping the two sons, and moving forward depending on the situation.

He picked up the pen, wrote a list carefully, and repeatedly sketched it. After finishing writing, he put the list on a candle.

It was late at night when Ping Yuan Hou returned to the bedroom. Tonight, Li was reading the account book and had not slept yet. Seeing him coming, Li put down the thick account book in his hand, got up with sleepiness, changed his clothes, and asked in a low voice: "Hou Ye has anything important to stay so late."

Li didn't dare to sleep because she knew that the study was fenced up and only let her two sons in. She asked people to find out that the two sons went in one after another, but they didn't come out for a long time. She was still worried about whether her two sons were in trouble, but at night, people said that the "cousin" was hungry and came out arguing about making fried dumplings and egg dumpling soup. Eat a bowl of leftovers first. The other one came out with a big smile, took out his fan, and greeted the gang waiting for him to return to the yard together. It sounds like these two rebels should be fine. Although this matter passed silently, Li still wanted to hear Ping Yuanhou talk to see if he was really angry because of what the two sons did.

Thinking of Li's tragic end in that "story", Ping Yuanhou shook Li's hand tightly and sighed, "Madam has worked hard."

Li was embarrassed by the sudden intimacy of Ping Yuanhou: "What is the hard work of the concubine, Master Hou has been busy for a day, and the food delivered is good. Those two wicked sons can anger Master Hou."

Ping Yuan Hou took Li and sat by the bed, and said, "Madam gave me such a good child, how can I be angry." Not too much!

Li smiled: "It sounds like there's no such thing as Lord Hou."

Ping Yuanhou was still in a heavy heart, and shook his head and said: "These years, I have been relying on my wife to support this family and me. Madam feels wronged." The story says that Li will do his best to organize his army in the future. , And died protecting the youngest son, Ping Yuanhou was touched in his heart and sighed: "How can I be such a beautiful lady!"

Li blushed, and whispered: "What Hou Ye said is the blessing of the concubine." Seeing Pingyuan Hou's eyebrows were unrelentingly depressed, fearing that he would not believe his words, Li continued: "At the beginning, in the concubine, I've heard of the prestige of Lord Hou, a young general, brave and invincible, how many times he committed danger alone, and returned in **** battles... At that time, my concubine thought that the hero of the world, Lord Hou was the number one. I heard that Lord Hou was going to marry. My wife, my concubine begged my mother..." For so many years, now that he is old, Li is embarrassed to say that. When he was young, he did not have this face. Now she feels embarrassed when she speaks: At that time she heard that Ping Yuan Hou said that he wanted to marry a rich woman. For the first time in his life, he was glad that his family was the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. He secretly prayed that Ping Yuan Hou could choose himself for money.

Ping Yuan Hou shook Li's hand with both hands: "But who knows married a nameless..."

The Li hurriedly stopped and said: "Master Hou can't say bad things about himself. I don't know who is the concubine of Master Hou. Master Hou is thinking about how many arrangements can be made to keep our family. The concubine must marry Master Hou. In order to have a life-free worry, even with my parents, I can not worry about the burden of money."

Ping Yuan Hou thought that if, as the "story" said, he hadn't actually saved his family. With most of his subordinates leaving Beijing to fight the enemy, his family was killed by others, and his eyes were red with anger for a while, and he clasped Li's hand tightly and did not speak.

Seeing Ping Yuanhou’s expression with sadness, Li thought that Ping Yuanhou had misunderstood what he meant, and it sounded like he was expecting Ping Yuanhou to protect his family before marrying Ping Yuanhou. "Of course, my concubine didn’t say that Master Hou was good for this. At that time... the concubine was in the south, and I had no chance to meet Master Hou, so my father and mother decided to kiss him. Many sisters said that the martial artist had no appearance, and I will do it in the future. Regret... The bridal chamber took off his hijab, and the concubine took a look at Master Hou. Master Hou was so handsome and as bright as a star, and he was kind to others. It was a hundred times better than what the concubine had originally thought... The concubine felt that it was Hou at that time. Lord is dead, there will be no regrets in this life..." Money can give you whatever you want, the feelings of youth! Lee blushed.

Ping Yuan Hou was moved by the pain in his heart, holding Li by his side, and whispered: "Madam, I am ashamed of my husband! Madam is as beautiful as a fairy, with such a good posture, married my incompetent husband..." Finally let down about you!

What happened to my husband today is in such a bad mood, Li hurriedly stopped Ping Yuan Hou Dao: "Master Hou must not say that! My concubine has been married to Master Hou for almost 20 years, and I am in love with Master Hou. Flying as fast, except for being guilty for that child, there is nothing to worry about. Although my father prefers me a little bit, he spends more time with the dowry, but the sisters in the concubine's family, which are not full of gold and silver, are married to rich and powerful wives. My housekeeper came back from Jiangnan and told me about many sisters. Their concubines and concubines had been beaten up in smoke. Some had already retreated into the back hall and began to eat fast and reciting Buddha. Some were mean and unkind, and even killed their lives. She is no longer the happy and innocent girl. Master Hou, my concubine can stay with him in such a calm manner. I don’t know how many generations of cultivation blessing it is!"

Hou Pingyuan hugged Li and said: "In my life, it is really lucky to have a wife."

Li said in a low voice: "When the concubine gets old, Lord Hou may find that there are many other women who are younger and more beautiful..."

Hou Ping Yuan was puzzled and said: "Since I married my wife, why can't I see other women anymore? Please madam tell the truth, are there other women in this world?"

Li chuckled, his eyes lingered on Ping Yuanhou's face, and he pulled his voice and asked, "Is it..."

Ping Yuanhou nodded firmly: "Yes! My wife is a woman in my eyes. She is really pitiful for her husband. She must be sick. She will never get better in this life. Madam must take good care of me."

Li held back a smile and said coyly: "Don't worry, Master Hou, your concubine will take care of Master Hou."

The two held hands and faced each other. Li was surprised to see that Ping Yuanhou smiled with tears in his eyes, perhaps embarrassed. Ping Yuanhou immediately got up to wash, and then the light went out.

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Huo Luo got up the next day and found that the nose he had been beaten the day before was swollen, and even his face was swollen. This is nothing, the terrible thing is the severe pain in the front of the chest, and the pain is even more unbearable. Every time he breathed, it was like thousands of needles, so he could only breathe slowly. Drink water carefully, you have to swallow with small mouthfuls when you eat. Unlike in the past, he occasionally got a knife and gun on his body, took a deep breath, and forbearance would be able to forget most of it. This kind of pain every second made him unable to speak loudly. He clearly had phlegm in his throat, and his chest was uncomfortable, but because it was too painful to cough, he could only endure it.

He has never been so useless after he has grown so long. The anger in his heart and the pain in his body made Fire Luo's mood exceptionally violent. If he hadn't dared to stand up violently, he really wanted to kill dozens of people to relieve his anger!

Just as Huo Luo was so uncomfortable to die in the house, the soldiers in front came to report that the prince of the Southern Dynasty had sent another person!

Fire Luo resisted the pain and asked the translator to bring people in. The prince's people first expressed their condolences to the drop of water in the Fire Luo Temple yesterday. Fire Luo kept his face cold and did not speak-he wanted to cough as soon as he opened his mouth, so he could only endure the politeness of the interpreter.

Then the prince's people said that they should not break contact in the future. After the northern border is settled, Huo Luo can ask Tugu Khan to marry the emperor's princess for him.

Fire Luo listened to the translation, and a ball of flame burned from his chest, burning his face and neck red. The prince thought he was just shy, so he didn't care.

Fire Luo shouted in his heart: I want to marry that fourth princess! I want to kill her! No, drag her to death with a horse! …But he knew that he had no right to ask for marriage, and he had to be asked by his father. Now if he shows his mind, not only can the other party ignore it, the four princesses are so contemptuous of him, and if he doesn't get married right away, he won't have a chance again.

The beasts on the grassland are inherently cunning. The reckless Fire Luo completely concealed his intentions. However, he said a few words to the people sent by the prince not to break his trust in the future, and he must deliver grains and ironware on time, etc. .

The prince’s people promised that there was not much food for 300,000 catties, and a large family usually had two or three million catties for a granary. With such a small price, Huoluo’s cooperation is worth the price.

The two sides said goodbye. As soon as the prince’s person left the yard, Huo Luo couldn't help coughing and vomiting a mouthful of blood. Then he wailed in pain, his face was pale, his head was sweaty, and he was relieved for a long time before breathing again. Get angry. He muttered "revenge" in his heart over and over again: Sooner or later, one day, his suffering will be returned to the fourth princess ten times a hundred times! That eunuch, he wants to chop him into mud!

On another day, the two sides signed the covenant, which was nothing more than the Southern Dynasty's recognition of Tugu Khan, the lord of Northern Xinjiang, and Tugu Khan respected the Southern Dynasty. The emperor did not promise any grains-no one has defeated anyone. Why did the two countries have not even established official trade exchanges as gifts? The borders often checked the goods that passed. In this way, the 300,000 catties of grain and those weapons and iron tools that the prince privately promised were very precious to the northern Xinjiang that did not produce grain and iron.

Huo Luo didn't have any impression of figures at all. His lion opened his mouth and asked for prices. The prince's people bargained for 300,000 catties of grain, which was less than one-tenth of what he had mentioned, but he thought it was pretty good. Bei Rong mainly eats meat, not farming. Instead, grains are non-staple food. Even if there is a little grain, even if he doesn't come for such a trip, let alone some iron tools and weapons.

The covenant is certain, and Huo Luo will not visit the capital anymore, and will immediately prepare to return north. In the following nights, the two brothers who came to listen to the wall heard nothing. Only on the last night, Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng came, and Zhang Yunming was left in the outer courtyard. Zhang Yunzheng heard the prince seeing him off, and mentioned that the grain and iron items shipped should be sent to northern Xinjiang in the spring of next year, and did not say a specific schedule.

Zhang Yunzheng immediately told his father and brother the news when he came back. At Guanyi Pavilion the next day, Zhang Yunming passed this sentence to Shen Zhuo.

On the day that the Bei Rong envoy left, the four elder brothers of the Zhang family and the Shen family gathered on the second floor of the Huanyin Pavilion again, watching from the window.

Although Huo Luo's nose is not so swollen, there is still a blackish blue in the middle, the bridge of the nose is obviously interrupted, and the nose becomes a little crooked. He didn't want to get out of the way, so he rode a horse, but because of the pain in his ribs, he could only bend his back slightly, frown and endure the pain, completely without the arrogance he had when he first entered Beijing.

Shen Jian whispered to Zhang Yunming: "It seems that your cousin beat him hard, it's a pity that we didn't see it."

Zhang Yunming chuckled, unfolded the fan in his hand, and shook it lightly and said, "My brother, he has heavy hands."

Maybe it was because he felt something, Huo Luo looked up and saw a few brightly dressed young people upstairs by the roadside. They were all as straight as loose, looking at him condescendingly, with obviously ill-intentioned expressions. Although they were not wearing the same clothes as last time, Huo Luo still recognized that this was the person he ridiculed when he entered the city.

Huo Luo glared again, but as soon as he was about to straighten his chest, he felt his chest hurt like a heavy blow. He could only grit his teeth and hold his chest, and looked at those people more.

Several people at the window sill gave bright smiles at the same time, including Zhang Yunzheng who was standing in the shadow behind Zhang Yunming also grinning sneer. It is a pity that except for seeing Zhang Yunming with two rows of white teeth faintly behind him, Huo Luo couldn't see his face clearly, and naturally couldn't recognize the "eunuch" who had beaten him so hard that he was watching him leave.

Huo Luo turned his face back, and for a moment, he also wondered if he was being beaten by these people. But after thinking about it carefully, I don't think so. What happened that day was completely caused by him. When the other party moved his hand cruelly, he drew out the dagger first, and the **** didn't use all his strength at first. In other words, if I had known that **** had a high martial arts skill, I would definitely not be so rashly challenged. If these people are interested, they should come and find fault with themselves.

Huo Luo's mind turned to that matter again, and in a daze, he saw the woman's extremely beautiful half-face and the eyes that made him crazy... For a while, blood rushed to his throat, and he almost lost his breath. The streets of the capital were extremely crowded and long, and he really wanted to burn it all up!

The team of the Bei Rong envoy finally left the gate of the capital and the people watching the excitement. The fire basil held the reins and motioned for others to help him off the horse. As soon as his feet hit the ground, he bent over and vomited a mouthful of blood on the ground, and then the pain was so painful that he could not straighten his waist. After a long time, he was helped by someone into the carriage-his ribs could not stand him right away. After the bumps, he just came out of the capital on horseback. He has exhausted all his perseverance, and now he can only lie down and go back.

On the hillside not far from here, the old Taoist priest stared at the scene dumbfounded. When the team passed by, the little Taoist priest looked at the expression of the old Taoist priest and asked incomprehensibly: "Master, what's the matter, you look like you have seen a ghost."

The old Taoist shook his head in disbelief, and asked the little Taoist in a low voice, "Did you see anything?"

The little Taoist tilted his neck: "Should I see something?"

The old Taoist priest said in the ear of the young Taoist: "When he came, he was full of majesty, able to enjoy wealth and longevity, and his descendants were full. But when he left, his face was full of disappointment. Don't say anything about the majesty, it would be difficult to live until the end of his life. You say, what is going on?"

The little Taoist worries: "Why do you ask these questions that I can't know, and I don't know him, why would he tell me?"

The old Taoist twisted his beard and squinted his eyes: "In the capital, something that can change heaven and earth has happened, and the man against the sky has taken action."

The little Taoist asked: "If you shot it, you hit him."

The old Taoist shook his head: "It's not that simple. If you just hit him, it won't break his kingly spirit."

The little Taoist muttered: "I can't see anything, Master, what will I do in the future? How can I rely on eating?"

The old Taoist also sighed: "Yes! How could I be so wrong? A man who can see the psychics of the past and the present is actually a mortal with naked eyes! If it doesn't work, you just go vulgar."

The little Taoist priest shook his head: "No! Then there is no food to eat! I have to follow you all the time, maybe you can live 300 years, I will die in front of you."

The old Taoist cursed: "You lazy! Don't go to memorize the spell! Do you want to have a lifetime of idle meals!"

The little Taoist nodded and said, "Should that not?"

The old Taoist pulled the little Taoist and said, "Of course it shouldn't!" He began to teach the little Taoist the principle of rewarding hard work, and the two of them walked back to the view of Xiaoyun.