"Oh, it's true that I acted a bit harshly, but I was too scared at the time. You know that I am a weak woman. If I can't put the other party to death, I will be killed by the other party. In fact, it is also your guard's fault. Why are you so stupid? , He didn’t even say a word, saying that he is someone close to the special envoy. If so, we would have avoided this misunderstanding.”
Rong Changan pushed the main fault on the bodyguard, and the bodyguard was itching with anger, cursing in his heart: Damn bitch, she really knows how to fabricate lies! Last night, she clearly cut off his ear with a sword when she knew he was the guard of the special envoy, but now she said that she didn't know!
"You talk nonsense!" The guard retorted loudly.
Rong Changan asked with a smile: "Then what is the real situation?"
The guard opened his mouth and was about to say: "Actually..." Suddenly he thought, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if he told the situation that he was vulnerable last night and was defeated by Rong Chang'an
The special envoy also counted on the guards to refute Rong Changan face to face, seeing him hesitate, thinking that he was afraid of "Xue'er" being a noble concubine and dared not refute, so he said: "Tell me what happened last night. "
Judging from the tone of the special envoy's speech, it seemed that he had decided that the guards could refute Rong Chang'an to shame.
The guard lowered his head slightly: "Last night... last night..."
The special envoy was anxious: "What happened last night, tell me quickly!"
Guard: "..."
Rong Changan said with a smile: "I told you a lot last night, especially the last few sentences, do you remember?"
The guard stared at Rong Changan: "What did you say last night?"
Rong Changan: "I said, if you encounter this kind of misunderstanding again in the future, you should speak up early, so as not to cut off your ears and make the special envoy look bad. If every guard passing by my tent keeps quiet, it will be like a thief. The same ran into the woods, and his ears were cut off, didn't the special envoy's guards become one-eared guards?"
Chuntao is a naive person, when Rong Changan mentioned "one ear guard", she couldn't help laughing out loud.
Rong Changan looked at Chuntao seriously: "Why are you laughing, do you think I'm joking with a special envoy? I'm serious!"
Obviously he was canceling the special envoy, but deliberately said that he was "serious". Even if the special envoy was angry, he did not dare to vent to Rong Chang'an.
Seeing what Rong Changan said, Chuntao stuck out her tongue.
Seeing that the special envoy's complexion was dark and his cheeks were bulging like a frog, Rong Chang'an wanted to laugh in his heart. She coughed twice and said to the envoy:
"My maidservant is very naughty, I hope the special envoy will forgive Xue'er for her lax discipline."
The special envoy showed a smile and saluted Rong Changan: "The concubine has said it! Listen to you, it is indeed my guards who have done something wrong, as the saying goes, I will advise my guards not to pass by the concubine's tent in the future. Otherwise, there will be a misunderstanding. —Okay, I came here just to know what happened last night, now that I have figured it out, I’m going back to the tent. The imperial concubine tidied up a bit and had breakfast, so let’s get up.”
Rong Changan also leaned forward: "Then Xue'er will not give it away!"
The special envoy left Rong Changan's tent with two guards and returned to his own tent.
The guard whose ears had been cut off shouted loudly: "Master Special Envoy, are you going to spare Xue'er like this? She is clearly talking nonsense! What happened last night was not like that..."
"Stop talking!" the envoy interrupted the guard, with a gloomy smile on the corner of his mouth, "I know she's talking nonsense, but so what? Didn't I say it last night, and now it's still in her territory, we do anything We must be cautious in everything. Once we cross the border of the Great Jing Kingdom, we will have plenty of ways to humiliate that bitch Xueer."
The guard swallowed his saliva, and his cheeks protruded. After a while, he finally calmed down: "Everything is under the arrangement of the special envoy!"
Special envoy: "Hurry up and arrange for the cook to prepare meals. After breakfast, we will set off."
Guard: "Yes!"
A group of people lived in Xiaoxing at night, or a day, and came to the border checkpoint. Seeing white flags and banners planted all over the pass city, the atmosphere was dignified and solemn, Rong Changan frowned, not knowing what happened, feeling uneasy.
Chuntao also felt that the atmosphere was weird, and asked Rong Changan in a low voice: "Concubine Xue Gui, what's going on? Could it be that someone died? Who has such a big face, after the death, the entire Guancheng is filled with white flags?"
Rong Chang'an said: "I don't know the specific situation, I will find out when I go to the city and ask the people."
The officials guarding the gate knew that it was Concubine Xue in the palace and the special envoy of Tianchi Kingdom, so they hurriedly ordered the personnel to clean the post and arranged for Rong Chang'an and others to rest.
Because this checkpoint is a necessary place for foreign merchants and domestic businessmen, there are many hotels here, and the government also specially built a huge post house in the city to entertain envoys and important guests.
After arranging the house, the official was about to leave: "Concubine Xue, don't disturb your rest! Going to the north, the weather is even colder and the wind is like a knife. You must take precautions against the cold."
Rong Changan asked: "Master Guanyi, I want to ask you something."
The official bowed and asked, "Is there anything you can ask the imperial concubine?"
Rong Changan pointed to the white banner outside: "We came in from the gate, and we saw white banners along the way. The common people were mourning. Did a respected official in the city pass away?"
As soon as this incident was mentioned, the official wiped his eyes: "Reporting to the imperial concubine, you said that a certain person of high esteem passed away. This is true, but it was not a member of the staff. The one who died was our head coach, General Xu!"
Chuntao was the first to exclaim: "What, your general Xu is dead? He died in battle?"
The official shook his head: "I didn't die in battle, but was murdered!"
Chuntao was even more astonished: "As the border commander, who would dare to get close? Someone dared to harm him?"
The official wiped his eyes again and said: "The world is so big, there are so many wonders, you can't say that! That day General Xu went hunting outside and caught a lot of prey, so he barbecued and drank with his men outside. General Xu got drunk. The lieutenant general Send him back to the general's mansion. The next day, when the deputy general went to the mansion to report the matter to him, he found General Xu's house crying, and only after asking did he find out that General Xu's head was taken at night!"
The scene of General Xu being beheaded appeared in Rong Chang'an's mind, it was really terrifying.
Chuntao covered her mouth in shock, unable to speak.
Rong Changan said angrily: "General Xu is a general who serves the country and the people, with whom did he have a grudge, so vicious that he even cut off his head?"
The official sighed: "I don't know either! General Xu has been guarding Guancheng for more than ten years, and he has never done anything to the people. Foreign hostile forces dare not approach. With him, there will be a peaceful life! Now that he is gone, the people will not It's like mourning a concubine!"
Rong Changan suddenly remembered the conspiracy of Ziyan, the special envoy and Chu Lin, and suddenly understood: the person who killed General Xu must have something to do with them! Because the people who knew that Tianchi Kingdom was going to invade Dajing Kingdom, besides Huangfu Zan, was General Xu! In order to keep the secret, Zi Yan will definitely kill everyone who might leak the news of Tianchi Kingdom's invasion.
Rong Changan said in his heart: "Zi Yan, you are really quick! If I had come earlier, your plan would not have been implemented, and General Xu would not have died!"
In order to express his respect for General Xu, Rong Changan made a special trip with Chuntao to the General's Mansion to visit General Xu's family. Before leaving, Rong Changan said to them confidently:
"Don't worry, General Xu will not die in vain. We must give him an explanation and give the people an explanation!"
General Xu's family is naturally grateful to Rong Chang'an, saying that they are thousand years old.
After a short stay in Guancheng for a day, Rong Chang'an and the others set off for Tianchi country again. After walking for a day and a night, they came to the foot of a deserted mountain. It was dusk at this time, the forest was flat and the sky was low.
The special envoy immediately said to Rong Chang'an: "Grand Concubine, there is no village in front of this place, no shop in the back, and you can only stay at the foot of this mountain for one night."
Rong Changan said: "Besides that, what else can I do!"