Hongli hosted a banquet in honor of the imperial envoys. The guards of the entire palace could be said to be guarding the outside but not the inside. After Song Qingshu left the banquet, although he met a few pairs of patrolling soldiers, they all nodded when they saw his official uniform and let him go. .
But Song Qingshu was not a fool, he would not think that the guards would still ignore him when he got to the inner courtyard of the palace, hiding his whereabouts along the way, and finally found Xia Qingqing by the lake.
A woman stood there alone, staring at the water in a daze.
"You came quite quickly." Hearing the voice behind her, Xia Qingqing seemed to have expected it early in the morning, without any surprises.
"Why are you waiting here alone?" Song Qingshu looked around. With her current status, she shouldn't be alone.
"To wait for you." Xia Qingqing turned around with a faint smile on her face.
The beauty is still the same, but her identity has long been changed. Song Qingshu's face flashed a trace of unconcealable sadness: "Why didn't you ask me before you made this decision? I will tell you all the plans in my heart. would choose to leave me."
"I've asked you many times." The breeze disturbed her hair, Xia Qingqing stretched out her fingers and smoothed the messy hair behind her ears, and smiled slightly, "But every time you only say 'trust me, trust me'. "
Song Qingshu was taken aback when he heard the words, it seemed to be true at the time.
Seeing his reaction, Xia Qingqing's expression was complicated: "Okay, I'll give you another chance, tell me your plan now."
Song Qingshu hesitated all of a sudden, that matter was too important to be leaked, and now she is Prince Bao...
"Forget it, I already know the answer." Xia Qingqing sighed quietly and stopped talking.
"Times have changed and your status is different now, so I can't tell you anymore." Although Song Qingshu had a desperate urge, in the end reason still overwhelmed everything.
"I understand, but this is probably the last time we meet. You have your plan, and I have mine. I don't want to add to the waves." Looking at the lake in the distance, Xia Qingqing said calmly.
"Your plan is to seduce Hongli and provoke the relationship between him and Kangxi, but do you really think Hongli can defeat Kangxi?" Song Qingshu sneered.
Xia Qingqing was obviously taken aback, and her face was as cold as ice: "You can understand it this way, but this is my own business, and I don't need other people to worry about it." I silently added in my heart: Of course I know that Hongli is not Kangxi's opponent...
"Well, there will be no date later." Song Qingshu turned and left resolutely.
"The future will be indefinite..." Xia Qingqing was briefly absent-minded, muttering to herself, with a trace of bitterness flashing across her face.
Back at the banquet, Song Qingshu laughed like before, got up frequently to drink wine with all the officials in Shengjing, stayed with Wei Xiaobao Duolong for so long, called him brothers, and had already practiced his ability to make friends with wine and meat.
Perfect. When he noticed that Hongli got up and left the banquet, he drank more happily, and when he came out of the palace, he was already drunk to the mud.
"Old Zhao, what do you think Mr. Song is doing? He suddenly became so..." Zhang Kangnian supported the drunk Song Qingshu, and looked at Zhao Qixian in astonishment.
"How do I know, it was fine before." Zhao Qixian was spat all over, and his expression was even more depressed.
"Hehe, I'm sorry, I'm sorry today, and you will be promoted after you return to Beijing." Hearing their discussion, Song Qingshu barely opened his eyes and said with a smirk.
"In this case, I think you should spit on me too." Zhang Kangnian on the side smiled wryly.
"Ugh..."
"Uh, I'm joking, Mr. Song, don't take it seriously." Zhang Kangnian's wailing came from the night sky.
In the palace, in the Yilan Pavilion where Fujin lived.
"My lord, it's getting late, please go back." Xia Qingqing said coldly.
"Qingqing, you are my Fujin." Hongli smiled and wanted to get closer.
With a flash of cold light, Xia Qingqing's Golden Snake Sword had already touched his chest, and said in a cold voice: "My lord, if you forget, I will remind you again, this Fujin's name is just a cover, so don't take it seriously. Also, no Call me that."
"Yes, yes, this king is just joking with Madam Yuan." Hongli took a few steps back embarrassingly, "Madam's dancing posture during the banquet today amazed all civil and military officials, and this king is also honored by them. , I was lucky enough to feast my eyes on it. When I proposed it to Madam that day, I never expected Madam to agree."
"The alliance between us does not include dancing for you, it's not an example." Xia Qingqing added in her heart: This dance is not for you...
"Only this one time, I am quite satisfied." Hongli said with a chuckle, "By the way, I heard that there has been some trouble in Madam's Golden Snake Camp recently. Would you like me to send someone to help Madam?"
"No need, that's just my way to deliberately paralyze Kangxi, otherwise Kangxi would not be able to tolerate a united Golden Snake Camp." Xia Qingqing shook her head and flatly refused.
It turned out that Xia Qingqing was moved by Luo Bing's rhetoric that day, and felt that Song Qingshu didn't seem to be sincerely avenging her. In addition, the longer she stayed with Song Qingshu, the more blurred Yuan Chengzhi's shadow in her mind became. She was afraid that one day, she would even Lian Qiu also forgot to report, so he had to choose to leave. However, she has followed Yuan Chengzhi to command the Golden Snake Camp for so long, and she is no longer the savage little girl who didn't understand anything and only loved to lose her temper. Before, because her husband was killed, hatred blinded her eyes, and she had already calmed down during this time. In her opinion, Luo Bing was limited by his vision, and his schemes were full of loopholes. Xia Qingqing was not as stupid as the people in the Red Flower Society, who easily gave up her innocence for an illusory possibility.
Xia Qingqing first went south to Shandong, saw that the hills in the Golden Snake Camp were fighting happily, and angrily led a group of cronies to the north. Chapter 207 Late-night visitors
Shengjing.
Hongli is having a headache because of Princess Jianning, and Wu Sangui, the king of Hepingxi, fell out and lost Wu Sangui as an ally. He has hundreds of thousands of troops at his disposal. There is no way out before, and there is a desperate situation for chasing soldiers behind. Of course, if he was willing to be a lord of a separatist regime, he would naturally be able to guard his one-acre three-quarters of land for decades. It's a pity that he has been coveting the dragon chair in the capital, so why would he want to be a lord
Xia Qingqing's arrival made him overjoyed, because she brought another way out: join forces with the Golden Snake Camp, and the Golden Snake Camp will help him transport the army from Lushunkou to Tianjin Wei by sea, and the Golden Snake Camp will raise troops from Shandong and fight to the capital together. In this way, Wu Sangui's Shanhaiguan was completely bypassed, and Wu Sangui and Xiao Feng of the Liao Kingdom were fighting fiercely.
The reason why Hongli had never thought of sending troops from the sea before was because none of his soldiers were good at water warfare, and the Bohai Sea was under the control of Shenlong Island, which had already surrendered to Mongolia. If he set off from the sea, hundreds of thousands of elite troops would It will only be buried in the belly of a fish, but forming an alliance with the Golden Snake Camp can perfectly solve all this.
The Golden Snake Camp flourished overseas in the early years, and is still the overlord of the Yellow Sea today. They are proficient in water warfare and can deal with the Dragon Cult just right.
Therefore, Hongli and Xia Qingqing hit it off and quickly formed an alliance. During this period of time, in order to discuss how to deal with the Shenlong Cult and the specific details of future cooperation, Xia Qingqing had to meet with him frequently. Hongli was worried that a strange woman who often came in and out of the palace would arouse the suspicion of interested people and reveal the big plan, so he placed Xia Qingqing in the palace as a side Fujin to deceive others.
"That's good." Although Hongli still had doubts in his heart, he knew that the other party's husband was killed by Kangxi. Whether it was for the benefit of the Golden Snake Camp or her personal enmity, there was no need to lie to himself, so he changed the subject, "Yes By the way, Madam Yuan, did you see the imperial envoy sent by the imperial court at the banquet today?"
"Imperial envoy?" Xia Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, and she said calmly, "I've seen it before. He looks like a pretty boy. It doesn't look like much. He must have no real skills."
"Mrs. Yuan is very wrong to think so," Hongli said in a deep voice, "After Wei Xiaobao died, Song Qingshu has become Kangxi's number one confidant, vaguely aspiring to be the number one master of the Qing Dynasty."
"No matter how high your martial arts is, it's just a knife. It can handle any big waves." Xia Qingqing deliberately put on a dismissive expression.
"When martial arts reach a certain level, it is no longer a knife. Madam Yuan, do you still remember how your husband died? The Golden Snake King has high martial arts, with hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and the majestic overlord of one party. Wouldn't he still die in Dongfang Bubai Bo?" With one blow from the waves, Huangtu's hegemony disappeared in an instant." Hongli deliberately looked at Xia Qingqing's face.
Xia Qingqing's expression changed drastically: "One day I will definitely kill Dongfang Bubai to avenge Brother Yuan... But how many Dongfang Bubai are there in the world? Song Qingshu's Chapter 207 Late Night Visitor
Although his martial arts are good, but if he wants to assassinate the prince, he may still be unable to do so. "
"There are many masters in this palace, so naturally there is no need to be afraid of him." Hongli patted his chest passionately, "It's just that at his age, he already has the bearing of a master, and it's hard to guarantee that he won't grow into the kind of person who kills a person in ten steps and never stays behind. The terror exists, and we have to guard against it."
"What does the lord mean to attack him before he's fully grown?" Xia Qingqing asked blankly, "It's just that I'm afraid it will scare the snake and make Kangxi vigilant. The loss outweighs the gain."
"I think it's just the opposite," Hongli sneered, "According to the spies' reports, Kangxi has asked him to prepare for the establishment of a secret intelligence agency - Sticky Rod. If it is really established, our future actions may be restricted everywhere in the future, and we will always be passive in marching and fighting. Hehe, as the saying goes, if there is a way to heaven, you don’t go, but if there is no way to hell, you come, this time he threw himself into the trap, how could this king let go of such a great opportunity?”
"But he is an imperial envoy after all. If the prince takes action, I'm afraid the situation will be out of control." Xia Qingqing frowned, feeling anxious.
"It's okay, this king has his own plan." Hongli smiled inscrutablely.
Song Qingshu was escorted back to the Sifang Pavilion by his subordinates, just as he got off the carriage, a royal guard came up to meet him, and said softly, "Lord Song, a beautiful woman came to see you just now."
"Beautiful girl?" Song Qingshu opened his eyes slightly, and said in a daze, "Did she announce her name?"
The guard replied respectfully: "No, but the other party was disguised when he came, and it seemed that he deliberately concealed his whereabouts. Our brothers thought that she must have something important to ask the Lord, so we took her into the hall on our own initiative, and now we are waiting inside. .”
"Could it be Xia Qingqing?" Song Qingshu was overjoyed, pushed away the guards and staggered inside.