The team was in disarray.
Kui Lang's black horse was also tripped by the rope, but after all, he was experienced in many battles. The moment the horse landed on the ground, he stretched out his hand to support the horse, and then rolled out... After rolling two or three times, He quickly stabilized his body, except that his robe was slightly worn away by the sand and stones on the ground, and he was unscathed.
Before Kui Lang could heave a sigh of relief, he heard a woman's sharp exclamation from behind: "Help! Save Ben Gong!"
Oops? !
Kui Lang secretly thought that something was wrong, and following the sound, he saw that the Zhulun chariot of the third princess had already turned around, and a masked man in black sat on the driver's seat instead of the driver, swiped his whip, and drove Speeding towards a muddy path beside the road, weaving through the dense forest...
"His Royal Highness Three!" Marquis Pingyang's nervous voice came from behind, and he swung his sword to block the arrows, while shouting, "My son-in-law, save Your Royal Highness!"
As far as Kui Lang is concerned, whether the three princesses are dead or alive, or what kind of situation they end up in, what does it matter to him? !
Kui Lang didn't want to care about the third princess at all, but Pingyanghou's shout reminded Kui Lang that he still had nothing and needed the help of Emperor Dayu. He is Dayu's son-in-law, so why did Emperor Dayu help him restore himself? !
At this critical moment, the three princesses cannot afford to lose!
Kui Lang's complexion changed suddenly, he drew out the long knife by his side, swung the knife and shouted: "Quick! Follow me to save Your Highness the Third Princess!"
Kui Lang snatched a horse from one of the accompanying soldiers, jumped on it, and hurriedly rode the horse to chase that path. Four or five other soldiers who did not fall followed closely behind.
"Tap Tat Tat..."
The path was winding and deep, and they had long since lost sight of the Zhulun chariot. They could only vaguely hear the sound of the wheels coming from ahead, as well as the horseshoe and rut marks left by the Zhulun chariot on the path. Pointed out the way forward.
After Kui Lang and the others chased for two or three miles, they turned a big bend and were shocked by the scene in front of them...
"My son-in-law." A soldier exclaimed nervously, "It's the princess' carriage!"
A few tens of feet ahead, the third princess's Zhulun cart overturned beside a deep forest, the horse pulling the cart lay on the ground and neighed mournfully, and the man in black who was driving the cart was gone...
Kui Lang's face was so gloomy that he almost dripped water, if the third princess had an emergency...
Kui Lang quickly got off his horse and walked towards the overturned Zhulun chariot. In the next moment, several black arrows shot out from the woods. Before the soldiers could react, they had been shot Shot between the eyebrows and fell off the horse.
Kui Lang's pupils narrowed sharply, and he was about to step back and get on the horse, but he didn't see a ghostly figure behind him at some point. The other party struck Kui Lang's back of the neck without hesitation.
Kui Lang's eyes went dark, and his consciousness was soon shrouded in darkness, and he didn't know anything...
A gust of cold wind blew by, leaving only the sound of the cold wind sweeping the fallen leaves around, desolate and desolate... Until after a cup of tea, the sound of horseshoes and human voices came again from the end of the path.
Pingyanghou finally arrived with the remaining remnant soldiers, seeing the mess all over the ground, Pingyanghou's face sank, knowing something was wrong.
Sure enough, after searching the carriage and the surrounding area, he found that although they recovered the third princess, Kui Lang was kidnapped by the gangsters.
They came to Southern Border this trip to send Kui Lang back to Baiyue for restoration, and since Kui Lang disappeared, the restoration matter would naturally be unable to continue...
Now, they have no other choice.
Marquis Pingyang gritted his teeth, ordered the formation of the team, and then continued to set off, rushing to Luoyue City at high speed.
Three days later, Marquis Pingyang and the three princesses traveled day and night and finally arrived at Luoyue City ahead of schedule, and went straight to the Zhennan Palace.
When King Zhennan heard that the third princess and Marquis Pingyang were coming, he was surprised and suspicious. He didn't know why they came to Nanjiang suddenly.
Thinking that the son-in-law of the third princess is Baiyue's eldest prince Kui Lang, King Zhennan had a vague premonition, but he couldn't see them, so he ordered his servants to invite them to the outer study.
In just a few days, the third princess became haggard. As soon as she saw King Zhennan, she couldn't wait to step forward and said excitedly: "My lord, hurry up, send someone to rescue the son-in-law!"
King Zhennan was at a loss when he heard this.
After Pingyanghou on the side comforted the third princess, he roughly talked about the surprise attack on their convoy on the road three days ago...
"When Ben Hou found the carriage of the third concubine, the third son-in-law had disappeared, leaving only the third concubine unconscious in the carriage. The marquis sent people to search around, no matter whether it was the third concubine or the villain. missing." Marquis Pingyang solemnly clasped his fists at King Zhennan and said, "My lord, the third son-in-law disappeared in southern Xinjiang. Please send someone to search as soon as possible, and we must rescue the third son-in-law."
Marquis Pingyang obviously didn't have a good rest these few days, his eye sockets were slightly sunken, there was a deep shadow under his eyes, and his whole body was a little thinner.
Kui Lang not only came to southern Xinjiang, but was also kidnapped? ! Listening to Pingyanghou's statement, King Zhennan's face changed several times, and his eyes were even more complicated.
The king of Zhennan was in a state of confusion, so he raised his voice and said, "Come on, call the prince over here!"
The long attendant responded, and then hurriedly withdrew, and the bellflower serving in the study hurriedly served tea to the two honored guests.
Xiao Yi is usually in the barracks at this time, and he ran with the fast horse. About an hour and a half later, Xiao Yi came slowly.
The atmosphere in the study was even more solemn.
Xiao Yi clasped his fists to the King of Zhennan indifferently, then glanced at the third princess and Pingyanghou, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Your Highness, the third princess, Lord Hou, why do you two want to come with the son-in-law?" Southern Xinjiang?"
Xiao Yi’s words actually sounded like knowingly asking questions. After all, the emperor had long ago ordered Guan Yubai to come to southern Xinjiang to pass on the decree, ordering Zhennan Wang and his son to attack Baiyue to help Kui Lang restore the restoration. Why did Kui Lang act like this, even if he is a fool also know.
Marquis Pingyang's face froze for a moment, and his chin lifted slightly: "My lord, this Marquis, His Royal Highness the Third Princess, and the son-in-law are of course here on the orders of the emperor. After discussing these matters, the most urgent thing is to rescue the son-in-law as soon as possible! "
Speaking of later, Pingyang Hou's tone carried a hint of order.
Xiao Yi pursed his lips into a smile, and he smiled happily. He sat down nearby with his robe lifted, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and said: "Master Hou, this is Southern Xinjiang, not the capital of the kingdom. Since Lord Hou asked someone to do something, it is Shouldn't you be more polite?" He said casually, but there was a high arrogance in his tone.
The King of Zhennan glanced at Xiao Yi, and thought: Pingyanghou is also an angel after all, it is too offensive for this rebellious son to speak like this, but it is rare to say the right sentence, obviously he is Pingyanghou and the three princesses. People, dare to order them to Zhennan Wangfu with confidence, it is time for this rebellious son to give them a blow!
"..." Marquis Pingyang choked for a moment, unable to speak for a moment. In southern Xinjiang, the King of Zhennan and his son are local snakes, and the strong dragon will not suppress the local snake. If the King of Zhennan and his son are unwilling to cooperate, it will be too easy to perfunctory the matter.
Seeing Pingyang Hou's aggrieved expression, Zhennan Wang sneered in his heart, feeling extremely happy, drinking tea without making a sound.
"Lord Hou," Xiao Yi said again with a smile, "Since you and Your Highness the Third Princess are here by the emperor's order, how dare you ask where the imperial edict is?"
Marquis Pingyang choked again, and replied stiffly: "The imperial decree is gone. It must have been snatched away by those thieves."
Xiao Yi spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Master Hou, you said that you came to the southern border by order, but you didn't have an imperial order in your hand, so I don't know if what you said is true or not..."
There was a hint of sarcasm at the corner of Xiao Yi's mouth, as if to say, it is really unheard of for someone to lose the imperial decree since he has the imperial order!
Pingyanghou's face became more and more ugly, and the corners of his mouth were drawn into a straight line.
Xiao Yi turned a blind eye and continued: "Master Hou, this is empty talk. In my opinion, Lord Hou should go find the imperial decree before discussing it."
"You..." Pingyanghou didn't expect Xiao Yi to treat them like this at all, pointing at Xiao Yi with trembling fingers, the veins on his forehead twitched, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Marquis Pingyang could bear it, but the third princess couldn't bear it. She had to swallow her anger with the empress and queen mother all her life. She stood up abruptly, her eyes widened, and she pointed at Xiao Yi's nose and cursed: "Presumptuous! Xiao Yi, you Dare to ignore the emperor, and fail to resist the order?!"
The words of the third princess are a bit embarrassing. If you say it to Dali, if you resist the order and don't obey it, it will be a serious crime of beheading!
But Xiao Yi still smiled, as if the third princess was an unreasonable child, "Your Highness the third princess, you are the ones who said what you said! You and Lord Hou have no imperial decree, and you only come to the palace to show off your power based on oral orders that you don't know whether they are true or not." , Don’t you think that the Zhennan Prince’s Mansion can be fooled by anyone?!”
As he said that, Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, looked suspiciously at the two of them and said: "Since we all speak with one mouth, then this son can also suspect that the third princess and Lord Hou are trying to help Kui Lang escape back to Baiyue without telling the emperor. ?!"
Hearing this, even King Zhennan frowned. Although he felt that Marquis Pingyang and the third princess were not so courageous, what Xiao Yi said was not unreasonable.
Meeting Zhennan King's suspicious gaze, Pingyang Hou was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "My lord, this Marquis is loyal to the emperor, and the world can show it!"
The crime of falsely preaching the imperial decree is too great, and Pingyang Hou can't afford it. The problem is that they really don't have the imperial decree.
Marquis Pingyang was so irritable that his temples twitched wildly. He thought that after arriving in Luoyue City, he could leave the matter of Kuilang's robbery to Prince Zhennan and his son, but he didn't expect the situation to completely get out of control...
This Prince Xiao is really difficult to deal with!
But the king's capital is thousands of miles away, even if he sends someone to the king's capital to ask for an imperial decree, it will take at least one and a half months to come and go. He can afford to wait, but Kui Lang can't.
In the outer study room, the two sides froze, and there was a moment of silence.
Xiao Yi sneered in his heart, picked up the teacup on the side, moistened his throat slowly, and then said: "Anyway, if there is anything, please let the Lord Hou and the Third Princess find the imperial decree before we talk about it."
King Zhennan cleared his throat, and said, "Your Highness the Third Princess, Lord Hou, you are exhausted from the journey, why don't you go down and rest first..."
Seeing Zhennan Wang and his son singing and trying to send them away, Pingyanghou gritted his teeth, could only squeeze out a smile, stood up, and politely said to Zhennan Wang: "Your Majesty, I will give you the matter of the imperial decree." It will be a while for Benhou, and now the whereabouts of the third son-in-law are unknown. If there is an eventuality, neither the prince nor the prince will be able to explain to the emperor. I also ask the prince to help me and send troops to search for the whereabouts of the third son-in-law .”
After finishing speaking, Pingyang Hou lowered his head slightly and lowered his posture.
Seeing this, King Zhennan felt very relieved. He knew that what Pingyang Hou said was most likely true, and it was impossible for him to really ignore Kui Lang. However, begging for help should also have the attitude of begging for help, right? !
King Zhennan stroked his beard, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Lord Hou, I will send someone to investigate right away, and when I have news, I will tell Lord Hou and the princess."
No matter how reconciled the three princesses and Marquis Pingyang felt, they all had to bow their heads under the eaves, and they all got up and thanked King Zhennan.
The turmoil in the study was swept away at once, and Pingyanghou and Zhennan Wang exchanged pleasantries seemingly without any grievances.
Xiao Yi was too lazy to socialize with them, so he didn't stay any longer, and left on his own.
Instead of talking nonsense to irrelevant people, he might as well go back to accompany his Ah Yue and his little girl.
Now that he has come back, Xiao Yi doesn't plan to go to the barracks anymore, he just walked back to Bixiao Hall quickly, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw Nangong Yue leaning against the window and bowing her head, doing needlework.
"Ayi."
Nangong Yue looked at him with a smile on her face, but Xiao Yi frowned slightly, walking towards her, and said, "Ah Yue, you can just throw my clothes to the sewing room."
Nangong Yue was sewing a purple robe. Looking at the size of the robe, Xiao Yi knew it was made for herself. Of course he likes Nangong Yue to sew clothes for him with his own hands, but he is more worried about tiring her.
Xiao Yi looked at Nangong Yue's belly with almost "awe" eyes. It is less than eight months now, and Ah Yue's belly is already so big. According to Lin's grandfather, next, Ah Yue's belly will grow again. Big, also said that during this period of time, pregnant women should not eat too much, and have to move around more, so as not to cause the fetus to be too big, and it will be difficult to give birth in the future...
Nangong Yue guessed what Xiao Yi was thinking at a glance, and it wasn't the first time he looked at his stomach with such eyes these days.
She hastily diverted his attention, and said to Huamei beside her, "Humei, go and get those two little clothes."
Huamei understood immediately, and responded, and took out two small purple clothes from the camphor wood box specially prepared for children. One was a small beanie and the other was a small robe. Embroidered a few green bamboo leaves, simple but chic.
Xiao Yi looked at the two little purple clothes, and then at the purple robe with the same embroidery in Nangong Yue's hand. The little clothes and his robe were made of exactly the same material, even the piping was the same color.
Xiao Yi smiled, his brows brightened, and his face, which was so beautiful that it was almost gorgeous, was unbelievably soft.
"Ah Yue, this is the father-daughter outfit you made for me and my daughter, isn't it?"
Xiao Yi touched the delicate and cute little gown, and couldn't help but imagine how cute his daughter would look in this little dress in the future. At that time, he will also wear this purple robe, so when others see it She knew that he and her daughter were father and daughter.
Thinking about it, Xiao Yi couldn't wait any longer. He ignored Thrushcross's gaze and kissed Nangong Yue's mouth, and said, "Ah Yue, let's make this sewing room make some father-daughter outfits for me and my daughter, okay?" good?"
From now on, he can wear the same clothes as his daughter every day!
Seeing his high spirits, the corners of Nangong Yue's eyes twitched, feeling weak. This guy A Yi can always "crook" things to a weird direction.
Their nieces must not be like A Yi!
Nangong Yue didn't know how many times she thought about it, she was having a headache, how to bring this topic to an end, when a sound of raising the curtain suddenly sounded, Baihui walked in, and said: "My lord, Miss Jugeng is here, and said that the lord invites you Go there one more time."
Xiao Yi's face smelled bad all of a sudden, he just came back from King Zhennan, and before his butt was hot, King Zhennan came to call for someone again.
As his father, he really thought about it.
Xiao Yi lazily responded, and then said to Nangong Yue: "Ah Yue, I have a good idea, I will carve another set of rings for my daughter and me to match these two clothes... Ah Yue, wait a moment Me, I'll discuss with you when I come back, what kind of pattern should I engrave?"
While speaking, he finally stood up slowly, pulled the curtain out of the room.
When Xiao Yi came to the outer study of the palace again, King Zhennan was walking back and forth in the study irritably, and his eyes locked on Xiao Yi who entered the room.
"Nizi," Zhennan King asked eagerly, "Just now Pingyanghou told this king that Baiyue has been captured, and Kui Lang is going to Baiyue to preside over the overall situation... What's going on?"
After Xiao Yi left, King Zhennan exchanged greetings with Marquis Pingyang again, and Marquis Pingyang dictated the emperor’s will to King Zhennan before departure, saying that King Zhennan was stupid, but he dared not take Pingyanghou easily If he didn't, he had to answer vaguely a few times.
After finally sending off Pingyanghou and the third princess, King Zhennan got more and more wrong, so he called Xiao Yi over.
How could the emperor think that Baiyue had been captured by the southern border army
King Zhennan squinted his eyes and looked at Xiao Yi, gritted his molars and said, "Nizi, are you hiding something from me?"
With the audacity of this rebellious son, apart from killing his father and rebelling, there is probably nothing he dare not do!
Thinking about it, King Zhennan's eyelids twitched wildly.
"Father, you came to me for this?" Xiao Yi shrugged and said casually, "Father doesn't care about this matter."
"You..." King Zhennan glared at Xiao Yi fiercely. Although Xiao Yi didn't say anything, King Zhennan was already convinced that this traitor must have done something behind his back!
With the audacity of this rebellious son, sooner or later he will bring catastrophe to the palace!
"Now that things are going on, you still have to pretend to be stupid with this king?" Zhennan Wang slapped the case heavily, "Even if this king helps you hide Pingyanghou, don't forget that there is Anyihou! Now Pingyanghou has gone to Qingyunwu to meet you It's time for Marquis An Yi, when the time comes, the situation in Southern Border and Baiyue won't be hidden from Marquis Pingyang at all!"
The king of Zhennan was in a hurry, and really wanted to slap this naughty son in the face, but his rationality told himself that he might not be able to please him... Ever since this naughty son stayed in the capital for a few years, he has completely escaped his control...
Marquis Pingyang is a second-rank military marquis and the emperor's cousin. I'm afraid he won't be easy to deal with. This time, he's in serious trouble!
King Zhennan anxiously looked towards the northeast window, which was in the direction of Qingyunwu.
At this time, Pingyanghou had already been welcomed into the study by Xiao Si, Guan Yubai was sitting on a mahogany armchair by the window, holding a roll of chess records in one hand, and picked up a white piece and placed it on the torreya wood chessboard with the other .
Marquis Pingyang smiled, cupped his fists politely and said, "Marquis An Yi is really in a good mood." While speaking, he strode towards Guan Yubai.
"It's just playing chess." Guan Yu said with a smile, casually placed the game record beside the board, and stood up.
After the two greeted each other, they sat down across the chessboard.
Marquis Pingyang looked around and praised: "There are bridges, water, and bamboos. This Qingyunwu is elegant. It is warm like spring in the harsh winter. It is suitable for Anyi Hou to recuperate." A lofty taste.
Guan Yubai naturally heard the sting in the other party's words, and said in a gentle voice, "Thank you, Lord Hou, for your concern."
Marquis Pingyang glanced at Guan Yubai again, seeing that the other party was neither surprised nor impetuous, and no longer circling around in circles, he spoke seriously about his reason for coming: "This Marquis is following the emperor's order to help Kui Lang take over Baiyue."
He curled his lips mockingly, and said in a commanding tone: "The emperor said that since Marquis An Yi came to southern Xinjiang last year, he has made little achievements. Everything that Hou does must be reported to this Hou!"
His words are sonorous and powerful, with a strong voice.