Chapter 1426

Xiao Yi is here!

The corners of Marquis Pingyang's mouth twitched slightly, but the next moment, the smile on his lips froze.

Behind Xiao Yi, another person walked slowly into the yard. The man was wearing a thick cloak with white mink fur. Bottom out.

Marquis Pingyang couldn't help but took a breath.

The official language of the Marquis of Anyi is white!

But why did he come? !

Could it be that Xiao Yi also called Guan Yubai?

Why?

Thinking of a certain possibility, Pingyang Hou's pupils shrank, and his eyes were uncertain.

This is Luoyue City, and there are eyeliners from the Zhennan Palace everywhere. If Xiao Yi has been sending people to watch him secretly, then the fact that he met Li Yunqi just now may not be concealed from Xiao Yi, has Xiao Yi already guessed that Li Yunqi has just been What did you say to yourself...

In other words, Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai have already guessed why they came here?

The more the Marquis of Pingyang thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he suspected that today might not be as smooth as he thought.

In the complex and tangled eyes of Marquis Pingyang, Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai walked side by side in the direction of the hall, and kept crossing the high threshold.

"Happy New Year, Marquis." Xiao Yi said with a smile, while casually bowing his hands to Marquis Pingyang, and then sat down on the top of the Taishi chair.

Guan Yubai, on the other hand, sat down opposite the Marquis of Pingyang and nodded slightly as a compliment.

Marquis Pingyang also nodded, his face a little stiff.

So far, it doesn't make sense to think about it any more. Maybe they are playing tricks and bluffing? ! The Marquis of Pingyang said to himself in his heart.

For today's plan, it is necessary to cut the mess with a quick knife, and he will deceive them!

"Master Shi," Marquis Pingyang glanced tentatively between Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai, and asked straight into the ground, "You and I don't speak secretly, are the three concubines in your hands?!"

After Pingyang Hou suspected that Guan Yubai's coming to southern Xinjiang might be his and Xiao Yi's plan, he boldly made more speculations, whether the two of them had been planning a very important event as early as last year or even earlier. A big game, a game that takes the emperor into account... Maybe even Kui Lang's coming to Southern Border is part of this game.

If his guess is correct, then Kui Lang, who was kidnapped by Xiao Yi's people, may have been more fortunate...

Pingyang Hou's gaze finally stopped on Xiao Yi, staring at him without blinking, trying to put pressure on him, but he didn't want Xiao Yi to still smile, even more brilliantly.

"So what?" Xiao Yi said calmly, his bright black peach eyes staring straight at Marquis Pingyang without hesitation.

Xiao Yi actually admitted it? ! Marquis Pingyang's eyes widened in disbelief, and his eyes turned to Guan Yubai again, only to see him holding a blue-and-white porcelain tea cup in both hands, sipping his tea leisurely, leisurely and indifferently, obviously, he was not surprised by what Xiao Yi said.

Sure enough, the two of them had indeed colluded for a long time! And they didn't plan to hide it any longer? !

Why?

Could it be that they feel that even if they let themselves know, it doesn't matter?

The Marquis of Pingyang was almost unable to think calmly. From the moment he arrived at Bixiaotang, the development of the situation completely exceeded his expectations.

The words have already been exported, and it is hard to take back the water.

There is no turning back, so don't panic...

The Marquis of Pingyang pretended to be calm, squinted his eyes slightly, his sharp eyes were as sharp as a drawn sword.

The Marquis of Pingyang said threateningly: "Master Shizi, Marquis Anyi, have you ever thought about what would happen to you...and the Zhennan Palace if the emperor found out?"

Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, tilted his head to look at Marquis Pingyang, and asked instead, "What will happen?"

The Marquis of Pingyang was choked. He wanted to say that the Zhennan Palace would be raided and destroyed, but how could Xiao Yi not know about these!

Xiao Yi sneered disdainfully, and directly asked himself and answered: "Master Hou thinks that the emperor will copy my Zhennan Palace? Since Master Hou is a military marquis, he must know the strength of Dayu's troops, and who is worthy of being a general?"

The "general" Xiao Yi said was naturally enough to attack the generals of the Zhennan Palace.

Marquis Pingyang thought for a moment, and his barely calm face almost didn't tighten.

Yes, Taiyu has long been out of service!

Of course, Dayu has military generals, but these generals can suppress bandits and deal with some small wars, but there is no such general, that kind of general enough to deal with battles between tens of thousands of troops... It is precisely because of this that Dayu only I have to ask Xiye for peace, I have to choose a princess and a relative...

The Marquis of Pingyang looked at Xiao Yi for a while, and Guan Yubai for a while. Two of Dayu's most valiant generals were in this hall at the moment. Both of them were so young, but in their twenties, they were all experienced. War, invincible.

What's more, in addition to the generals leading the army, the combat effectiveness of the army is also an important factor that an emperor needs to consider.

On the one hand, the successive battles in the past few years have brought a lot of trauma to the southern border, but on the other hand, the raging flames of the beacon have also tempered the southern border army into an invincible elite division.

Xiao Yi looked at Marquis Pingyang's erratic eyes, the corners of his mouth raised even higher, but his tone suddenly became sharp: "Does the emperor know that it is not a big hindrance to this prince, and what the Marquis wants to say can be sent to the capital. Fold!"

Marquis Pingyang's lips pursed tightly into a straight line, his face sinking like water. He originally thought that he had caught Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai's handle, but now he finally realized that as Xiao Yi said, it doesn't matter to Xiao Yi, Zhennan Wangfu, and Nanjiang whether he says it or not. .

What's more, he is now deeply trapped in the southern border, can he send his book out? Can he and the third princess get out of the southern border alive?

However, the Marquis of Pingyang could not pierce this layer of window paper, so he could only ask in a strong manner: "Xiao Yi, this Marquis only asks you one last question, do you have any intention of not being a minister?"

On the surface, what Pingyang Hou said was asking whether Xiao Yi would rebel with Guan Yubai, but he was actually trying to see how Xiao Yi would deal with himself.

Xiao Yi leisurely crossed his arms and sighed, but looked at Guan Yubai and said with a smile, "Xiao Bai, why does everyone think we are going to rebel?"

Xiao Yi neither admitted nor denied, which made Marquis Pingyang even more uneasy.

Guan Yubai put down the tea cup unhurriedly, looked at Xiao Yi and smiled, without saying anything.

What they want is not the northern expedition to force the palace, but the unification of the southern region, which not only includes the southern border, Baiyue and Nanliang, but also integrates the nearby small countries and tribes to make the southern region stronger and more complete. . Only in this way can Zhennan Wangfu and Nanyu be able to advance, attack, retreat and defend. In the future, Xiao Yi's children will not be like Xiao Yi in the past, and they will go to the capital to be protons because of the emperor's words.

But the southern region has been in constant wars for several years, and there are many small countries around, so in order to integrate the southern region, they need to buy more time...

However, even so, it does not mean that they need to bow to anyone.

They are already strong enough, and because of this, they are feared by others.

"Marquis," Guan Yu Bai Wenrun looked at Marquis Pingyang and asked with a smile, "I wonder what Marquis thinks of the chosen master?"

Guan Yubai did not specify who the Lord Pingyang Marquis chose, but since the development of the matter, Pingyang Marquis no longer dared to underestimate Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai. The person is Han Lingguan, the king of Shun County.

Marquis Pingyang lowered his eyes halfway, hiding the complicated emotions in it.

He originally thought that Shunjun King Han Ling was wise and wise, and with his help from the side, he would be able to ascend the throne smoothly, then he would have the power of the dragon. It has come to this point.

But there is no turning back.

If Shunjun Wang can ascend to the throne, then he will be able to be under one person and above ten thousand people; if not, once Gongjun Wang Han Lingfu succeeds in winning the heirloom, he will definitely not let him go to Pingyang Houfu because of his scornful nature... …

The Marquis of Pingyang did not think that the fifth prince, Han Lingfan, would be able to ascend the throne. With his weak body and soft temperament, he did not have the appearance of an emperor at all.

The more he thought about it, the more irritable and chaotic the Marquis of Pingyang became. He didn't even remember what he said later and when he left Bixiao Hall.

This way, Marquis Pingyang's mind was drowsy. When he got to the station, he was locked in the room by himself for a while...until there was a messy footstep in the corridor outside, accompanied by the familiar voice of the servant. : "Master Hou, it's not good..."

A blue-clothed servant stepped in quickly, his face pale and panting.

"Master Marquis, it's not good!" The servant hurriedly saluted Marquis Pingyang, "Just now our people and the guards of the palace found the three concubines in the woods outside the north gate..."

Quinn found it? ! The Marquis of Pingyang frowned, looking at the young servant's appearance, he knew that it might not be good news.

really--

The servant continued: "The third concubine... he is dead!"

In an instant, the room fell into a dead silence, and Marquis Pingyang's heart sank to the bottom...

Pingyang Hou suddenly realized that Xiao Yi was serious.

Kui Lang is dead, and people can't be resurrected from the dead, which means that Xiao Yi and Zhennan's palace have cut their own way, and they don't care about the suspicion and jealousy that will attract the emperor!

The Marquis of Pingyang felt as if he was in a fog where his fingers could not be seen, and he didn't know which direction to go.

He stumbled and fell into the armchair behind him.

Soon, another messy footstep sounded from outside, and in the next instant, the third princess wearing a plum-red robe hurried in, followed by a palace maid with a small face of the third princess. Against the brightly colored dress, he looked paler and panicked.

"Master Hou, the concubine he... he..." A layer of mist appeared in the eyes of the third princess, and her eyes were red.

The Marquis of Pingyang reluctantly settled down and said, "His Royal Highness the third princess, this marquis already knows." He turned his head and asked the servant, "The corpse... Where is the third concubine now?"

The little servant hurriedly replied: "Go back to Marquis, the guards of the palace found the body and sent it to the inn. Now it's in the backyard below."

The Marquis of Pingyang and the third princess went down in a hurry. The small courtyard behind the inn was crowded at the moment. Five or six palace guards were standing beside a two-wheeled scooter. There was a person lying on the scooter. In other words, a corpse, covered with a gray linen, and the outline of the corpse faintly exposed under the linen.

The three princesses with golden branches and jade leaves had never seen the corpse before, and stopped at the entrance of the courtyard, unwilling to go any further.

The Marquis of Pingyang did not force the third princess, but walked to the scooter alone, gritted his teeth, and resolutely untied the sackcloth.

A ferocious face under the sackcloth caught his eye, his face was dead white, his eyes almost bulged out, a piece of gray, not a bit angry, there was a bloody wound on his neck, and a wound could be seen in the wound. The incised blood vessel, the wound is flat, and it is obviously killed by a sword.

This is Quillang!

It was impossible for Marquis Pingyang to admit his mistake. The moment he saw Kui Lang's body, the last hope in Marquis Pingyang's heart was completely shattered.

He looked at the third princess and nodded slowly to her: "His Royal Highness, it is the third consort."

Only a few words, but the Marquis of Pingyang said it extremely difficultly, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

Done! When Kui Lang died, he became an abandoned son. Will the royal father take her back to the capital? ! The body of the third princess trembled and she almost fell, but the maid beside her hurriedly supported her.

The third princess was already panicking, unable to think at all, she just murmured, "Who did it? Who did it?"

The courtyard was silent, as if a needle could be heard falling.

The Marquis of Pingyang knew who did it, but he couldn't say what he said. Back to Baiyue again..."

"Master Hou, what should we do?" The third princess was easily persuaded by the Marquis of Pingyang. After all, once Kui Lang returned to Baiyue, the person who was most worried should be Baiyue's pseudo-king Nuhar.

The Marquis of Pingyang said with complicated eyes: "Now, only this Marquis asks the emperor for an decree again..."

The third princess was so panicked that her mind went blank, she didn't notice anything wrong with the Marquis of Pingyang, she just answered again and again, and then staggered away with the help of the palace maid.

Looking at the weak back of the third princess, Marquis Pingyang's expression became more and more determined and gloomy, and he said to himself in his heart that people who don't do it for themselves will be destroyed.

Now, the chance of Prince Shun being able to win the succession is probably only 2-3%. He can't take such a big risk to tie the whole family of the Marquis of Pingyang to Shun County alone.

He must protect himself, he must leave a retreat for the Marquis of Pingyang, a retreat that can protect the Marquis of Pingyang no matter who ascends the throne...

So, that night, a secret report was hurriedly sent out from the inn...

In the middle of the night, a ghostly black figure floated into Zhennan Wangfu, and quickly headed towards Qingyunwu in the northeast.

In Qingyunwu, a white eagle perched on a branch suddenly opened its sharp eagle eyes, its wings trembled slightly, eager to try, but the next moment was stopped by a flat male voice: "Han Yu."

"Little Si, your little feather has grown up again!" The man in black jumped off the fence lightly and said with a smile, "Is it possible to have a kitty soon?"

Xiao Si glared at each other fiercely, one or two are still over, their Han Yu is still a child, okay?

Si Lin was just teasing Xiao Si. After brushing off his robes, he strode over, propped his right hand on the window sill, and leaped into the room, just looking at Guan Yubai who was behind the desk. .

Guan Yubai put down the scroll in his hand, and the corner of his mouth curled slightly, and said, "Have you succeeded?"

"That's it! I'm going out, can I fail?" Si Rin sat down opposite Guan Yubai, took out an envelope sealed with lacquer from his arms, and handed it to Guan Yubai.

Guan Yubai took the envelope and picked up a wolf pen from the pen holder. After the tip of the pen was soaked with a little transparent liquid, he evenly smeared it on one side of the envelope, then carefully opened the envelope, took out a piece of silk paper, and quickly After browsing through it, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Soon, the letter was restored to its original state, and was handed to Si Lin by Guan Yubai.

"I have to trouble you to go again and put this letter back." Guan Yu said whitely.

"Yu Bai," Si Rin sighed and complained, "Can't you give me some more difficult tasks? Don't you think this trivial matter bothers me too much?"

After complaining for a while, Si Lin Haosheng ate supper and left with satisfaction.

The ghostly figure floated out of the palace like a ghost. From the beginning to the end, the guards who patrolled the palace knew nothing.

The next day, King Zhennan also learned the news that Kui Lang's body had been found. He was shocked, suspicious and panicked. After walking around in the study a few times, he hurriedly called Xiao Yi and asked a question. Fan, asked whether Kui Lang's death had anything to do with him, and how he planned to deal with the Marquis of Pingyang and the third princess, but Xiao Yi had a nonchalant attitude from beginning to end, as if it didn't matter at all.

King Zhennan was trembling with anger, and scolded in a trembling voice: "Nizi, if you have the ability, you can take care of Marquis Anyi, and don't cause trouble for the palace! Let this king clean up the mess for you!"

"Father, you are looking for me to say this?" Xiao Yi shrugged nonchalantly, "Don't worry, for my precious daughter, the palace will be fine!"

What he said was meaningful, but King Zhennan only felt that he had been stabbed in the heart by this villain again, and his face was blue and white.

"You idiot..."

The angry voice of King Zhennan resounded again in the palace, and it was another lively and noisy day.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the Zao Dynasty reopened, which also means that the emperor's royal brush and treasure seal finally saw the light of day. The emperor immediately issued an imperial decree to let the Marquis of Pingyang do everything cheaply in the southern border.

But after the imperial decree was issued, the emperor was still worried, and he was always worried about how he would respond if the Zhennan palace was going to rebel...

The more the emperor thought about it, the more he felt that the situation in the DPRK was not optimistic.

After the emperor got Pingyang Marquis's book a few years ago, he often couldn't sleep at night. He was awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night, probably because he was depressed. On the eighth day of the new year, the emperor suddenly fell ill.

The three princes of Chengjun, Shunjun, and Gongjun came to the palace several times to visit the emperor, and together with the five princes, they took turns to wait on the emperor's dragon couch, pouring medicine and water, and serving them with all their heart.

However, the emperor suddenly fell ill, but there was no one to supervise the court, no one to handle political affairs, and more and more memorials were handed to the palace.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the imperial physician Wu and several other imperial physicians were stopped by several cabinet ministers as soon as they came out of the Hall of Longevity. After some inquiries, several ministers learned that the emperor had recovered from a stroke a few years ago, but he was weaker than ordinary people.

The problem is that there are so many political affairs in the world, but there is no way to wait for a month.

After some discussions on the duty room, several ministers came to the Hall of Longevity together and asked to see the emperor.

Eunuch Liu didn't dare to neglect, he knew the emperor, and soon, several ministers saw the emperor on the sickbed in the palace.

In just two days, the emperor seemed to have lost a lot of weight, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his complexion was sallow. Seeing the emperor's appearance, several ministers exchanged glances secretly, knowing that the imperial physicians were right.

Therefore, the chief assistant Cheng Dongyang bowed his head and asked respectfully: "The emperor's dragon body is ill, and the ministers and others are also worried. It's just that the country cannot be without a ruler for a day, and there are many affairs in the court. I don't know who the emperor thinks is to supervise the court. for good?"

After being ill for more than two days, the emperor had been thinking about this issue for a long time, and immediately said: "Just by..."

The emperor originally wanted to say that the fifth prince would supervise the dynasty, but he only said two words, and hesitantly swallowed the rest.

Xiao Wu has an upright personality and is deeply trusted by his ministers. If there is a report from the southern border recently, with Xiao Wu's temperament, I am afraid that he will be biased towards Zhennan Wangfu.

For Taiyu!

A hint of hesitation and struggle flashed in the emperor's eyes, and after a while, he finally said resolutely, "It's up to Duke Gongjun to supervise the dynasty."

After the words were over, the palace was silent.

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