It is said that the phoenix tree can attract the phoenix to live in. In fact, it likes the sun and is not tolerant to the cold, and its germination is especially weak. It is hard to imagine that there can be a living sycamore tree in a place like Beiliang, but since it was born in Qingliang Mountain. The courtyard of a private house is equivalent to casting a good fetus. Not only did it survive, but it also flourished exceptionally. It's just that the sycamore trees in the sycamore courtyard are growing gratifyingly, but the courtyard is somewhat gloomy and miserable. Probably because the Qingming Festival is approaching, people in the underground miss the people on the ground too much, so some people in the sycamore courtyard The sound is dead, it is a cucumber from Zhu Nu Hanlin, this second-class maid, whose name has long been forgotten, His Royal Highness returned after his first trip to the rivers and lakes, and the eldest son of the old Liang Wang who likes to eat cucumbers took it for her The vulgar nickname of Cucumber, she protested back then, but later got used to being called, and accepted it with resentment, Cucumber's death was sudden and inexplicable, it happened in the absence of King Xinliang in Qingliang Mountain, which made many people They were all caught off guard, and the servants outside the Wutong Courtyard did not dare to talk at all. Even inside the courtyard, they were silent. Xu Weixiong, who was in charge of the military affairs of the Wutong Courtyard, was silent, and the funeral was kept simple and hastily done.
Xu Feng's young Che Jian returned to the palace from the place of refugees, but still did not go to the Indus Courtyard, which was less and less frequented. Xu Weixiong, who was in a wheelchair, found him at the pavilion on Tingchao Lake, and handed him a handwritten letter written by Cucumber before committing suicide. After taking the suicide note, Xu Fengnian threw it into the lake without looking at it. A light and thin piece of heavy sandalwood-colored paper landed on the surface of the lake. , the suicide note and the woman are the same, light and fluffy, as if if you say nothing, it's gone, it's insignificant. Xu Weixiong calmly told Xu Fengnian that after Cucumber finished writing the letter, she stabbed her neck with a pair of chopsticks in the house and died at the desk. Wait until the maid's baijiu finds out. Xu Weixiong also said that in the letter, Cucumber admitted that she had been Zhao Goumi's spy placed by the imperial court in Beiliang since she was a child, and that she had betrayed twice in her life. The last time it leaked Bei Mang's whereabouts route. At the end of the letter, she said that she hoped that His Highness would come back alive to see her suicide note, and that she wanted to serve His Highness in her next life, so that she would never be so inhuman and ghostly again.
Xu Fengnian's expression was calm, and he couldn't see the joys and sorrows clearly. Xu Weixiong also said indifferently: "Beiliang Eagle Falcon is separated, Wutong Courtyard and Chu Lushan's spies are divided into internal and external, I knew at that time that you had already noticed that there was an inner ghost in Wutong Courtyard. I hope they can hold back a little bit and accept it when they see a good deal. It is a chance for them to live. But you should know one thing, since you have embarked on this road, there is no way to turn back, and there is no such thing as saving your life , women's fate is bad, let alone a female spy, after all, she can decide when to die, how to die, and she didn't suffer any crimes before she died. Spy, no one has her blessing."
Xu Fengnian sighed, rubbed his cheeks hard, and the words slipped through his fingers, slightly vague, "There is another spy who is involved with Bei Mang, who is hiding deeper. Who is it? There is no leak from her." Not to mention alarming Murong Baoding, who is in charge of the festival in Orange State, even Hong Jingyan couldn't go to Qingcang City to intercept me. That girl has a lot thicker skin."
Xu Weixiong asked back: "Are you really ignorant, or are you just pretending to be stupid? How many people in Wutong Academy have this kind of tolerance and scheming?"
Xu Fengnian put down his hands, covered his sleeves with both hands, turned his head to look at the lake, and said softly: "I'm going to see her right now, sister, help me prepare two glasses of wine."
Xu Weixiong hesitated for a moment, but finally remained silent. The second-class maids of Wutongyuan have their own private houses, each with its own charm, and the house of Green Ant, a small country hand in the palace, is the most miscellaneous. There are many strange objects in the house, but there are not many books. She is good at Playing chess, but there is no chess pier, not a single chess piece. To play chess, she always talks with His Royal Highness in the main courtyard directly, and Xu Fengnian can always kill Xu Fengnian. It is the two princesses who are miraculous and pioneered the nineteen ways. When they have a good heart, they can occasionally fight evenly. It shows that the green ant is extremely intelligent. It is probably because the extremely intelligent will be hurt. The green ant is also the strongest among the maidservants in Wutongyuan. The weak one, fortunately Xu Fengnian is a prodigal son who spends a lot of money on people around him, even the rare medicine elixir sent to the palace by Song Zhiming, a veteran of Wudang Mountain, and regularly given to green ants to warm and nourish the body all year round. Today, the Indus Courtyard is not a green ant on duty, and the door is not closed. She is sitting alone at the window, looking at the green sycamore tree outside the window, with a smile on her lips. When she heard the knock on the door, she turned her head and saw a His Royal Highness, who drank a glass of wine, stood up with a smile on his face. Most of the women in Wutongyuan still like to regard this gentle and handsome young man as their Royal Highness. Xu Fengnian went to the window, put down two glasses of wine, and followed her previous line of sight to look out of the green screen window. The green ant never cared about those dignity, anyway, Wutong Court didn't pay much attention to these rules, and sat back on the chair gently, elbows Leaning against the handle of the chair, she leaned her body and looked up at him. It has been like this for so many years. This man is always staring at Beiliang, looking at Jianghu and Jiangshan. She can only look at him, his profile or From the back, at most, you can only see his front when you are drinking against each other while playing chess.
Green Ant asked with a soft smile: "Cucumber is a fool, Your Highness, don't you think so?"
Xu Fengnian didn't look away, nodded and said: "In this yard, she has always been the stupidest one, she has the ugliest handwriting, plays chess the most stinky, and doesn't play the guzheng very well. To assassinate Yu Youwei, to assassinate Pei Nanwei, to assassinate Lu Chengyan, to attack on all sides and make enemies on all sides, and to take the blame and still feel that I am a heroine who stands up to the heavens, and every time I want to scold her a few words but I don’t know No matter how you open your mouth, and cursing in a roundabout way, she will definitely take it as a compliment. If you scold her bluntly, you will cry to death. The stupidest one, who became a spy, is really stupid in the end. So I don’t blame her, Because she is just a silly girl, not to mention that she still has her parents alive in Liyang Yangzhou, so she has no choice. What about you, you have always been the smartest one in the yard. My sister said, you have no relatives in Beimang For no reason, why are you still willing to sacrifice your life for the barbarian? It’s fun? If you had defected earlier and An Anxin would be your Green Ant, a girl from Beiliang, who would come to Wutong Courtyard to kill you? Planting cold? Murong Baoding? Or Hong Jingyan? Later Two, the top ten masters in the world, you called them to Qingcang City together, why didn’t they kill me? I really can’t figure it out.”
The green ant said calmly: "His Royal Highness, why don't we chat while drinking? Which cup belongs to Your Highness and which cup belongs to your servant? Just give it to your servant. The servant is more courageous than a cucumber, and the city is deeper. Your Highness can go home alive, but this servant wants to talk to His Highness again, but Cucumber doesn't dare, she is not only stupid, but also a coward."
Xu Feng said with a young sneer, "It's really a ghost. It's good to catch up before Qingming."
The green ant shook Xu Fengnian's cuffs, his eyes were blurred, and he looked at him. This beautiful and intelligent woman muttered to herself: "Everyone is a woman, why should I be a servant girl, why should I call myself a servant girl when I see Your Highness? Why can I only look at you from afar all my life? I am not stupid. I dare to kill people. I can kill people in writing. I also have a name. I also want to marry. I want to be a husband and a child. The idea, the biggest idea, does your highness know what it is? I remember that when your highness came back from the capital, he drank with me, talked a lot drunk, and talked a lot about dreams, saying that the dream of a lost dog is to have a home. Said The dream of a river pawn is to turn back after crossing the river. It is said that the dream of a swordsman is to enter the rivers and lakes and have swords to come out of the rivers and lakes. He also said that you don’t want people to die because of you, and you don’t want to watch people around you one after another. , I need you to go to the grave in Qingming. So my dream is to let you look at me more, really look at me, just like now. Only after I die can you remember me. As long as you live, you can hate me .”
Xu Fengnian shook back his sleeves to prevent her from holding onto them.
The green ant let out a sigh of relief, and said with a sweet smile: "The maidservant has finished speaking, and she can die. Your highness can go now. Don't stain your eyes. I don't want to make your highness feel guilty before dying."
Xu Fengnian turned around and left.
Not long after Xu Fengnian left the house, there was a slight squeaking sound of a wheelchair outside the house. The green ant didn't turn to look at the woman who was colder and smarter than herself, but bent down and reached out to hold a glass of wine, "It's the green ant prepared by the second princess." Ant bar?"
The green ant didn't look at the woman sitting in the wheelchair, and the latter also didn't look at the green ant with a dull expression.
The green ant snorted softly, "That's the same."
Green ants are really smart. If His Highness prepares two cups of green ant wine, one of which is dove wine, but the other glass is of course an ordinary green ant wine that is extrajudicial. Whether the green ants live or die depends on the destiny. But if it was the two glasses of wine given by the Second Princess Xu Weixiong, it was destined to be two glasses of poisoned wine behind His Royal Highness's back, so it doesn't matter which one she drinks.
The green ant casually picked up a glass of green ant wine and drank it down in one gulp. Before he could taste the taste, he picked up a second glass of wine and poured it into his belly in one gulp. Since it is death, drinking one more glass of wine will always make money. In the past, she has played chess with the second princess so many times, and the few times she won, it is because of her bit by bit advantage accumulation.
The green ant sat back in the chair, quietly waiting to die.
After a long time, Green Ant frowned, only to hear Xu Weixiong say coldly: "I did prepare two cups of poisoned wine for you, and I also guessed that he would replace two cups for you. He wanted to let you After drinking a glass of wine, I felt that I was lucky enough to survive, and then left Beiliang, looking for a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to hide, where I can live with peace of mind. But I will not let you leave this yard so comfortably, I just want to force you Drink up two glasses of wine, let you, an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, know exactly who owes whom! He doesn't want you to die, but also wants you to live comfortably. I don't have such a good heart. I want to die, I will let a few elite peregrine falcons follow you for the rest of my life... "
A voice interrupted the confrontation between the two women, "Okay, sister."
Xu Fengnian turned back and left with a wheelchair.
Xu Fengnian pushed her to Qingliang Mountain, overlooking Liangzhou City together, and said softly: "My last little patience has also worn out, so sister, don't worry, I won't be so bodhisattva-hearted in the future. Mother said before, who They are not born to suffer. Even if a man can't treat women well, he can't harm them at will. He has to treat them as human beings. Now that Wutong Courtyard is clean, I don't have any worries. This time, you will treat them as me Let's break it off once, and let's be willful with you for the last time, sister, how about it?"
Xu Weixiong hummed.
Xu Fengnian smiled in surprise: "Sister, why are you being so reasonable, I'm not used to it."
Xu Weixiong bumped his head back, hit him hard, and said flatly: "I saw that after you became the king of Beiliang, the number of times you went to the Houshan Machine Building Bureau exceeded my estimate, so I made an exception and allowed you to be willful." once."
The Beiliang Machine Building Bureau was built at the bottom of the mountain behind Qingliang Mountain.
It is this humble organization that has produced the best swords, the best iron spears, the best crossbows, and the best iron armor in the world for Beiliang iron cavalry.
Every sword, every iron spear, every crossbow, every piece of iron armor is only a little bit better than others, but with the addition of a 300,000 iron cavalry, how huge and amazing is the accumulated hidden advantage
The place where Beiliang eats the most gold and silver, apart from the military expenses for raising soldiers, is the large-scale ordnance produced by the Mechanical Engineering Bureau.
The second king of Beiliang, who guarded the northwest gate of the empire, paid more attention to it than the old king, and it was almost unbearably sick.
With firm eyes, Xu Fengnian stretched out his hand and made a gesture of throwing a bow and arrow, and said in a deep voice: "I want to tell Beimang Liyang an old truth that Xu Xiao made back then. The greatest truth in the world lies within the range of Beiliang's bow and crossbow." Inside!"