"Concubine Shizi, the letter has been sent."
Baihui walked into the small study through the curtain, then walked up to Nangong Yue and said respectfully.
Nangong Yue was sitting lazily by the window, squatting on a chubby white cat on her knees, gently stroking the white cat's back with one hand, and carelessly flipping through a blue book on the case table with the other hand. booklet.
She responded lightly, the corners of her mouth slightly hooked, revealing a hint of expectation.
After the day of reconciliation, she ordered Baihui to forge Xiao Fang's private seal, wrote two more letters, and affixed her private seal.
Early this morning, these two letters were sent to Mr. Third Xiao and Mr. Six respectively, asking them to urge them to divide the property.
After the two old men receive the letter, they will definitely do something.
A sly light flashed in Nangong Yue's eyes.
Baihui backed away again, while Nangong Yue continued to flip through the booklet. When she saw Xing Chuan, her right hand stroking the cat slowed down.
"Meow-"
Mao Xiaobai let out a dissatisfied cry, and stood up on her knees, as if scolding her for being so inattentive!
Nangong Yue hurriedly shifted her gaze, and gently scratched its chin. After a while, Xiao Bai was so comfortable that she purred, closed a pair of beautiful mandarin duck eyes, and lay down lazily.
Huamei leaned over curiously, and asked with a smile: "Concubine Shizi, is this playbook written by 'Mantangchun' so interesting?"
Mantangchun is a well-known opera troupe in Luoyue City, Cheng's troupe can sing well in both civil and military operas, and this Mantangchun is specialized in literary operas, and is also quite popular among the girls in the city.
This playbook was handed to Bixiaotang by Man Tangchun early in the morning, saying that he had written a new playbook and wanted to show Shi Zifei a look.
Nangong Yue was idle, so she casually took a look at it, but she didn't expect this book to be really "interesting".
She raised her eyebrows and glanced at Huamei, then pushed the playbook towards Huamei, motioning her to read it.
Mao Xiaobai immediately opened his eyes vigilantly, Nangong Yue didn't dare to be distracted, and smoothed its fur obediently.
Huamei took the playbook and read it like a sage, and she couldn't help laughing, probably the prince would not be treated as courteously as the concubine.
Ying'er on the side was also a little curious, and leaned over to watch with Huamei. The two maids were fascinated by accident, but their expressions became more and more strange, and they were about to smile.
After a while, Huamei couldn't help but raised her head and said: "Concubine Shizi, the playbook is too...too..." She didn't know what words to use to describe it.
The cat Xiaobai who had closed his eyes suddenly opened his eyes, stared at Thrush impatiently, squatted up, then kicked his legs suddenly, first jumped onto the desk, and then jumped down to the window, shaking his furry Big tail, swaggering away.
The room was quiet for a while, followed by Huamei and Yinger, who couldn't help laughing, not knowing whether it was because of the white cat or the script.
Ying'er asked: "Concubine Shizi, did the slaves go back to Mantangchun?"
Mantangchun's playbook was specially sent in order to curry favor with the imperial concubine. It tells the story of a young general and his wife.
The beginning of the story is somewhat similar to Dayu's famous bitter drama "The Story of the Cold Kiln". It is about a daughter of a family who is married to a young general by the emperor. He guarded the frontier with the young general. Less than a year after their marriage, the enemy army suddenly invaded the border, and the young general led the troops to march, leaving the general's wife in the mansion, and was embarrassed by the general's stepmother.
The general's wife is tolerant and magnanimous. The general fights in the front, and the general's wife caresses the people in the rear. She also uses her dowry to resettle and rescue those refugees who are homeless due to the war...
But the stepmother was very vicious, she used all kinds of insidious and shady means, on the one hand to torture the general's wife in various ways in the mansion, on the other hand spread rumors of the general's wife's unfilial piety outside, and even united with the elders of the clan Tried to divorce his wife for filial piety while the general was away.
Fortunately, at that critical moment, the young general finally returned triumphantly and punished the vicious stepmother, and the young general's father finally saw the true face of the stepmother and let her accompany the ancient Buddha with green lanterns to redeem his sins.
Ying'er and Huamei secretly exchanged glances. This play is alluding to the Zhennan Palace, and they are singing the praises of the son and concubine, but just watching it makes people feel so aggrieved.
Is Shi Zifei the kind of person who was tortured and assassinated by his wife, and who is too stupid to bear it
With my wife's meager means, how can I use the prince to act in place of the concubine!
There was a sound of raising the curtain, and Que'er came in from the outside, looking at Thrush and Ying'er with strange expressions, she raised her eyebrows suspiciously.
She still had something serious to report, so she walked up to Nangong Yue without asking, and said, "Concubine Shizi, the third old master and the sixth old master are here, and they went to the prince's outer study, but they haven't sat down for a cup of tea yet. He was brought out. Hearing that the prince was furious, the faces of the two old masters were not very good-looking."
After a pause, Que'er said again: "Concubine Shizi, do you want me to ask Miss Jijiao?" Jijiao is the maidservant in Zhennan Wang's outer study, and she must know best what happened in the outer study just now. But that's all.
Before Nangong Yue answered, Baihui went and came back, reporting that Miss Jugeng is here.
Nangong Yue smiled, nodded and said, "Please come in."
Soon, Platycodon grandiflorum came in wearing a blue makeup gown. She combed a double bun and only wore two jasper beads on her hair, which looked elegant and generous.
"I have met the concubine." Kikyo bowed respectfully.
Nangong Yue smiled and signaled her to excuse her.
Jujiao respectfully said: "Concubine Shizi, the prince was furious today, he was a little anxious for a while, and the servant was a little worried. He wanted to summon a good doctor to take a look at the prince, but the prince said that he was fine, and the servant did not dare to say anything. But the servant was really worried. , so I came here specially to Shi Zifei to ask for a fresh and refreshing medicinal recipe."
Asking for a prescription is just an excuse for Kikyo to come here, and both of them know it well.
Nangong Yue cooperatively ordered Baihui to write a medicinal recipe for Jugeng, and then said: "Who is so bold that he angered the king?!"
Jugeng sighed faintly, and followed Nangong Yue's words: "Concubine Shizi, you don't know that just now the three old masters and the sixth old masters in the clan came to see the prince, and said that the prince has returned to the mansion, and asked when the prince will be able to return to the palace?" The property left by the old prince was divided. The prince questioned the two old masters, since the old prince entrusted them with the property, why did they hand it over to his wife? He also said that there is a difference of two million taels in the account now, and he scolded them. I am worthy of the trust of the old prince! The two old masters were shocked, and said that they were deceived by the wife, and everything was done by the wife. Smashed everything in the study..."
Nangong Yue responded, and instructed meaningfully: "You have to serve your father carefully, and if your father has any discomfort, don't hide it for your father."
"Yes, Crown Princess." Kikyo replied respectfully.
Nangong Yue casually pulled out the jade bracelet from her hand and gave it to Kikyo.
Kikyo blessed himself, thanked him respectfully, turned around and left.
When she picked up the curtain and went out, she bit her lower lip with her head down, and said to herself: I am the big maid in the prince's study, looking at the scenery, but speaking of it, it is just a room, and I can be sent out to work at any time People still have to have a decent status, which is the guarantee of their future. But now in this palace, the only one who can talk is the concubine... I hope that the concubine can make decisions for herself for the sake of keeping her own place.
After Jugen retreated, Thrush said happily, "Concubine Shizi, I think Madam won't be able to make any fools this time!"
Even the old masters Xiao San and Xiao Liu have testified against Xiao Fang, so no matter how eloquent Xiao Fang is, it is impossible to turn the situation back.
Nangong Yue was also in a good mood, with a smile on her face.
Now, Xiao Fang will either grit his teeth and take out two million taels, or he will continue to make stupid moves... The former is fine, if it is the latter, they only need to push a few times appropriately, and Xiao Fang will naturally Getting closer to the cliff...
People always have to pay for the sins they commit, no matter how long the interval is!
The corners of Nangong Yue's lips curled up slightly. She glanced at the western wall clock on the wall and said, "Baihui, go to the small kitchen and take a look. If lunch is ready, send it to the study."
Baihui bowed her knees and said yes, and went on to do it.
Not long after, she took the food box to the study, and handed the food box to Bamboo.
In the study, Guan Yubai was also there. These days, as long as he was in Bixiaotang, he would definitely have lunch prepared in the small kitchen with Xiao Yi.
After lunch, the two returned to the desk, and saw a huge sand table on the big mahogany desk, with the city, mountains, rivers, canyons, swamps...all of them, and the other side Small black and red flags clearly occupy both sides of the sand table, representing the two armies of the enemy and ourselves.
Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai stood at the two ends of the sand table, the former fiddled with the red flag, and the latter fiddled with the black flag.
With a sound of "squeak", the door of the study was pushed open from the outside, and there were three young men standing at the door, the one at the front was wearing a blue robe, tall and strong, with profound features, and his appearance and temperament were similar to those of the Dayu robe on his body. It seems that there is a sense of dissonance.
The baby-faced young man behind him coughed, and stretched out his hand to make a petition: "Lord of Baiyue, please! Our son is waiting for you inside."
Nuhar's expression froze, then he strode in with a big smile, clasped his fists at Xiao Yi affectionately and said, "Your Majesty Xiao, I haven't seen you for two years. His Majesty seems to be still as handsome as ever." Sweeping over Guan Yubai who is opposite Xiao Yi, he thought to himself: This person is so young and equal to Xiao Yi, could it be that An Yihou of Dayu
Xiao Yi seemingly casually fiddled with the small red flags in front of him, connecting them together.
The movements of his hands could not help but attract Nuhar's eyes, and his pupils shrank sharply.
The mountains, rivers, cities and pools on this sand table are all so familiar to him.
This... This is clearly their Baiyue sand table!
Xiao Yi already knew the topography and topography of their Baiyue like the palm of his hand, and even made a sand table? ! What's more, this sand table is more detailed and meticulous than their own Baiyue's!
Nuhar's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but secretly speculate: What does Xiao Yi mean by taking out their Baiyue sand table? And this little black flag with the silver "Xiao" written on it clearly represents Xiao Yi's flag, so could this red flag refer to...
Xiao Yi raised his eyes to look at Nuhal, with a half-smile, and then called him by name: "Nuhal, you seem to be much richer than two years ago, and it seems that life is very satisfactory. .”
Ever since ascending the throne of Baiyue King, Nuhar has been proud of his spring breeze, and he is naturally generous and fat. It's just that, to come to Luoyue City this time, he didn't eat well and didn't sleep soundly all the way, so he had already lost a lot of weight.
Now that the situation is stronger than others, Nuhal can only apologize and say with a smile: "Where is there!"
Xiao Yi didn't bother to be courteous with Nuhar, and went straight to the point: "A few days ago, your elder brother Kui Lang, who is now my third son-in-law of Dayu, specially 'sent' people to Luoyue City, and offered a pretty good deal to this prince. conditions." He raised his brows casually, the threat palpable in his words.
Nuhar couldn't understand Xiao Yi's implication, and his heart sank.
The elder brother Kui Lang suppressed their younger brothers for many years, so that now he is still terrified when he hears the name of the elder brother.
He also knew that Emperor Dayu had issued a decree to order Zhennan Wang and his son to help the Dahuang brother restore... Unfortunately, when the Dahuang brother sent troops to the north, he offended Nanjiang, and even offended Zhennan Wang and his son. Xiao Yi's support may not be easy!
I am still alive!
Nuhar settled his mind, smiled more attentively, and said: "Xiao Shizi, I am alone with you..."
While he was speaking, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Guan Yubai suddenly lifting his slender fingers with distinct bone rings, slowly winding forward along a valley, and the small black flags followed his fingers along the way, The soldiers are divided into three groups, one is to attract the attention of the enemy in the front, and trap the enemy in Ruijiang City, the other is to press down from the south from the rear, and the third is to pass through the Linxi Grand Canyon to block the last way out of Ruijiang City... At that time, I will He and Baiyue's tens of thousands of soldiers became turtles in the urn, hard to fly!
Looking down from Nuhar's position, on the sand table, the situation of the enemy and us is clear at a glance.
Nuhar's eyes were almost wide open, staring in disbelief at the red flag that was instantly wiped out by the black, and he could hardly move.
It wasn't until this moment that he suddenly realized that if Xiao Yi captured Baiyue, it would be effortless... Then Nanliang, which had already been destroyed, would be a lesson for Baiyue!
Nuhar's heart was chilly. He always thought that as long as he gave Baiyue a chance to recuperate, and gave himself ten years, no, twenty years, he would definitely be able to make a comeback and take down Southern Xinjiang. The sharp blade that has seen blood is sharpening the knife, looking for a gap to swing the butcher knife...
Nuhar's feet softened, he knelt down with a plop, and eagerly explained: "Xiao Shizi, listen to Gu's explanation, Gu didn't lend the way to Nanliang at the beginning..."
"Shut up!" Xiao Yi, who was still smiling, suddenly turned cold, and interrupted Nuhar impatiently, "I don't have so much time to listen to your useless nonsense!"
Nuhal couldn't help but clenched his fist, the veins on the back of his hand were bulging.
Xiao Yi said meaningfully: "Nuhal, it's useless to talk about 'the past'."
It means that anyway, you two brothers are half-baked, laughing at fifty steps, and you are all sorry for Nanjiang!
The expression on Nuhal's face was suddenly a little awkward, and he could only smile stiffly.
Xiao Yi glanced at him, casually pulled up a small red flag from the sand table, held it in his hands and played with it, and continued: "Now your big brother is willing to use the three cities to the north of the Lominga River and the west of Annan Mountain The seven cities and two cities in the northwest, a total of twelve cities, as well as one gold mine and two silver mines, let this prince send troops to hundreds of countries... Nuhar, what do you think of this condition?"
Twelve cities? ! Nuhar couldn't believe his ears, that was almost half of Baiyue's country, brother, is he crazy, or is he a demon? Isn't he afraid that his father and ancestors will come to his dream and strangle him, a traitorous and unfilial son? !
Nuhar clenched his fists tightly, his thoughts turned quickly, he hurriedly took a step on his knees, and said, "Shizi Xiao, you can't trust Brother Gu Na! He is just a proton of His Majesty the Emperor of your country now. No matter what he promises to you, he still needs to wait for the son to do his best for him and conquer the country before he can fulfill his promise. In the end, those benefits are just a piece of paper!"
Nuhar talked endlessly, and the more he talked, the more he felt that he still had an advantage over the eldest brother.
only…
Thinking of Baiyue's half of the country, Nuhal felt his heart was bleeding!
However, if he wants to keep his throne...
Nuhar stared at the small flag in Xiao Yi's hand, and now he and Baiyue were like this small flag, unable to escape from Xiao Yi's palm!
The throne that I have finally obtained, I can't give it up to others!
Nuhar's eyes darkened, and he finally made up his mind. He raised his head and promised, "Xiao Shizi, if Brother Gu agreed to your conditions, Gu can also agree to all of them, and Gu is also willing to give the two cities northeast of Lominga River Also give it to the son to show my sincerity."
Coupled with the two cities northeast of the Luominga River, half of Baiyue's land was completely cut off.
I am afraid that he, the king of Baiyue, will also become the most humiliating king in the history of Baiyue! All of this is thanks to the elder brother Kui Lang!
Nuhar hated him so much, he felt like tens of thousands of needles were pricking his heart, but he could only cup his fists at Xiao Yi and bowed his head as a vassal: "Xiao Shizi, I will only obey the orders of my son in the future."
He gritted his teeth and said: In ancient times, there was a saying that "Goujian lay down his salary and tasted his courage". Twenty years in Hedong and twenty years in Hexi, not to mention the disagreement between the father and son of Zhennan King, he doesn't believe that southern Xinjiang will always be smooth and smooth!
There was a moment of silence in the room.
Xiao Yi looked at the top of Nuhal's head, even if he couldn't see the other person's eyes, he could guess what the other person was thinking.
He yawned noncommittally, which was very obvious in this quiet room, like a silent irony, which frightened Nuhar to stiffen his whole body like a wooden stick.
"Nuhar," Xiao Yi asked indifferently, knowingly asked, "Have you brought your sixth brother?"
Nuhar's face became even more rigid, he was escorted to Luoyue City by Fu Yunhe and Mo Xiuyu, Xiao Yi must have known about the Sixth Emperor's younger brother, this time he was just venting his anger and questioning him.
He swallowed his saliva, and said with difficulty: "Shizi Xiao, Gu Na Sixth Brother has escaped..." His words were vague, in fact, after his Sixth Brother learned that Luoyue City was coming, he fled first.
"But Xiao Shizi, don't worry, the six emperors will never be able to escape alone in Baiyue! Gu has sent an army to search every house, and I believe there will be news from time to time." He promised dryly.
Following Nuhar's words, Xiao Yi's expression suddenly turned cold, and he exerted force with his right palm, and with a "click", the small red flag broke.
Nuhar's back felt cold, and cold sweat dripped down his face.
"Nuhar, since there will be news 'from time to time', why don't you stay in the palace for a few more days!" Xiao Yi's tone cannot be questioned, "Don't leave Luoyue City until you find someone!"
As he said that, he didn't wait for Nuhar to respond, so he directly told Fu Yunhe: "Little Crane, why don't you take the 'guest' to rest? Don't let others say that we have neglected the distinguished guests."
"Yes, big brother." Fu Yunhe smiled and clasped his fists in response, then stepped forward to Nuhar, looked down at him condescendingly, but put on a "please" gesture in a courteous and thoughtful manner.
Too much deception! It's just too deceiving! The veins on Nuhar's forehead bounced a few times, and a burst of anger rushed straight to his forehead, almost about to explode, but in the end he still dared not speak out.
He stood up stiffly, bowed to Xiao Yi and said, "Xiao Shizi, the orphan will leave first."
Fu Yunhe and Mo Xiuyu took Nuhar back first, the door of the study was closed again, only Xiao Yi and Guan Yubai were left in the room.
Xiao Yi stroked his chin, winked at Guan Yubai with a smile, and said, "Two cities were added! Xiaobai, do you think this Nuhar is too stingy?"
"Wait for him to calm down for a few days, and he will naturally show his sincerity." Guan Yu's white lips curled slightly.
The two looked at each other and smiled, the victory was already in their hands.