Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 16: I have an appointment and can't stay in the middle of the night
There is a mountain five miles outside Shengjing City. Its east and west peaks rise from the plains, like a phoenix spreading its wings and about to fly, so it is named Phoenix Mountain. The east mountain of Phoenix is as beautiful as a screen, and the west mountain is like green ridges.
Shengjing City, the capital of Beiyu, is located in the embrace of the twin phoenixes spreading their wings, forming a natural defense barrier!
In late spring in March, the sun is warm, the south wind is blowing, and the peach blossoms on Phoenix Mountain are in full bloom. Halfway up the west mountain, there is an antique pavilion with exquisite features, called Xiangxue Pavilion.
Looking from a distance, I saw two men sitting in the pavilion: a purple robe and jade belt, brilliant and luxurious, sitting on the side of the stone table, holding a chess piece in one hand and playing with a tea cup in the other, with a warm smile on his face.
It was King Yi. Opposite him was Yan Rong, who was dressed in white robes and had a sword hanging from his waist. He was majestic. The sweat on his forehead was dense, and sometimes two drops fell on the chessboard.
"Yan Rong, you finally beat me once!" King Yi paused, smiled slightly, and his eyes suddenly became clear.
Yan Rong sighed, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in confusion: "Although we grew up side by side, if I want to play chess and study like my brother, I really can't do it! It's rare to win this time, and I suspect that my brother is deliberately giving up.
Stay!"
King Yi poured a glass of wine with a smile, took a sip, and said: "You are not good at playing chess and reading, just like I am not good at riding a horse and fighting. We are evenly matched, why should I deliberately let you down? I know you don't like playing.
I play chess and study, but waiting in this pavilion is really boring. I am playing chess by myself. If the gang masters see me, I am afraid I will feel strange."
Yan Rong looked at the jug on the table in surprise, then poured himself a glass and asked, "Could it be that the sun has risen from the west today? Isn't my brother a teetotaler? Why did he start drinking?"
King Yi picked up the lid of the incense burner, lit up the ambergris inside, and said with a smile: "I heard that the leader of the Lu Gang is very fond of wine. Since we are the ones inviting her to meet, we naturally have to respect her preferences. This is a rose specially prepared for her.
dew."
Yan Rong raised his eyebrows and joked: "Hey, it's a pity that brother doesn't like publicity. Otherwise, with your considerate and gentle temperament, how many women would be infatuated and crazy about you!"
King Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "It's not as good as you said. I'm just being polite."
Yan Rong curled his lips and drank the wine in the cup without saying anything, but secretly sighed in his heart: Isn't there a woman in the villa who was so fascinated by King Yi that she couldn't extricate herself!
While the two were talking, the sky suddenly darkened. Yan Rong quickly looked up at the sky, only to see that the sun was shining brightly just now, the wind was light and the clouds were light, but within a game of chess, the situation suddenly changed and dark clouds covered the sun.
He became worried and said, "Looking at the weather, it's going to rain. Should we wait?"
King Yi also looked up and said, "Just wait a little longer, the leader of the Lu Gang may be delayed by something."
Shaoqing, he suddenly remembered something and asked again: "By the way, last time you said that Gu Zhili went to the caravan and hoped that they would find a little girl?"
"Yes." Yan Rong started to clean up the chessboard and said casually: "Speaking of which, the performance of the Gu family and his son that day was really weird! Gu Zhili said that eighteen years ago, he had a cousin who was favored by the emperor and sent to the palace.
But for unknown reasons, two years after entering the palace, the cousin suddenly died suddenly. The emperor not only blocked all relevant information, but even the palace servants who served her disappeared. He also sent her newborn daughter out of the palace, and she still lives among the people.
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King Yi listened quietly and frowned slightly. After hearing what Yan Rong said, he asked: "This matter involves royal secrets, and Gu Zhili actually told the whole story like this. It seems that he really trusts this young gang leader."
Yan Rong touched his nose and said suddenly: "I remembered. Gu Zhili said that he had exchanged letters with the old gang leader before, and it was the old gang leader who recommended the young gang leader to him. After the two of them met with the Lu Gang leader, they kept talking.
She casually asked her if the old gang leader had ever mentioned the two of them or what happened eighteen years ago."
"What did the leader of the Lu Gang say?" King Yi asked with a frown.
"She has never heard the old gang leader mention it. Oh, by the way. The weirdest thing is that when the Gu family and his son saw the young gang leader, they said she looked like someone. Before leaving, they asked her if anyone had said
But she looks like someone. I heard the young gang leader was confused."
Hearing this, King Yi frowned more and more, and his eyes gradually deepened: "This conversation is out of context, and it is indeed a bit weird. Yan Rong, have you seen this Lu Gang leader, do you think she looks like her?
who?"
Yan Rong scratched his scalp and said with a wry smile: "She is indeed prettier than most women, but I really can't think of anyone she looks like."
King Yi pondered for a long time, and finally sighed: "Hey, I hope I'm overthinking..."
Yan Rong saw his strange look and suddenly became confused: "Brother, did you think of something?"
King Yi's eyes darkened, and with a hint of unknown emotion, he said softly: "This matter is of great importance. I will talk to you after I see the leader of the Lu Gang..."
After Yan Rong heard what he said, he stopped asking further questions.
The dark clouds above the head were getting denser and thicker, and the thick clouds covered the entire sun. Then a bright light flashed through the gaps in the clouds. The beautiful lady and the others did not wait, but they waited for the first scene of the year.
rainstorm!
The rain came down hard, and soon it was pouring down. The stone table in the pavilion and the two people's bodies were also wet by the splashing rain.
Yan Rong looked at the rain getting heavier and heavier, so he advised: "Brother, why don't we go ahead! The road in the mountains will be very muddy when it rains, and even the horses' hooves will be stuck in the mud after a while. More
Besides, with such heavy rain, the leader of the Lu Gang will probably not come."
King Yi stood in the pavilion with his hands behind his hands. He pondered for a moment and sighed: "Okay, this is all we can do today. Let's go back first."
The two left Xiangxue Pavilion, less than a stick of incense later, and the rain had not abated yet. Two horses were galloping on the path from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. Lu Ning and Totuo were wearing coir raincoats and hats, and hurried there in the rain.
Keep an appointment.
Fortunately, the two of them were riding rare horses. In such heavy rain, the road was muddy and slippery, but the two horses were still galloping quickly.
The two stopped in front of the Xiangxue Pavilion, quickly dismounted from their horses, and walked into the pavilion. There was no one inside.
Lu Ning took off his hat, revealing his black hair, and sighed softly: "It seems they have left, but we still missed it..."
She walked around the pavilion, scanning every part of the pavilion with her wonderful eyes. Suddenly, her eyes were attracted by a black stone at the foot of the stone table. She hurriedly bent down and picked it up, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a chess piece.
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Lu Ning sighed slightly and whispered: "It seems that they must have been waiting for a long time. The rain came so quickly that they didn't even bother to pack up properly and left in a hurry..."
After saying that, she put away the chess pieces, turned to Toto and said, "Let's go back."
Toto saw that her face was a little worried and a little angry, so he couldn't help but said: "If it weren't for Elder Feng and those people's entanglement, we would be able to catch up!"
Lu Ning patted his shoulder and comforted him softly: "It doesn't matter, I hope King Yi has a lot of him! If it doesn't work, at worst, I will go to the door in person to plead guilty."
With that said, Lu Ning put on a hat to cover her hair, walked out of the pavilion, jumped on the horseback, and hurried down the mountain with Totuo.
When Yan Rong and King Yi returned to the Xiaoxiang Villa, they were soaked to the skin, their clothes were wet and sticky, and they looked very embarrassed.
I don't know whether it was because he didn't wait for the beautiful woman, or because he was drowned in the heavy rain. When King Yi walked into the door of the annex, his eyes were stern, his lips were pressed tightly, and his face was very ugly.
Some drinkers were stranded in the hotel due to the heavy rain and could not go anywhere. They simply called for wine and meat to continue the carnival. The boys guarding the door were busy greeting the guests in the hotel at this time, and no one noticed the two people at the door.
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It was Bei Xiaobei who accidentally raised his eyes while he was busy and saw the two of them soaking wet. He quickly put down his work, took a brand new silk and ran over. While wiping the water for King Yi, he said hurriedly: "
Hey, where have you been? Why do you get so wet?"
When the other boys heard this, they immediately came over and hurriedly wiped the muddy water from their bodies.
Yan Rong couldn't care less about himself and hurriedly ordered everyone: "Where is Fang Yi? Why didn't you see her coming? You should boil water for His Highness to take a bath and make some ginger soup to prevent him from catching a cold!"
The few servants did not dare to leave alone and immediately went to prepare bath water and ginger soup. Hearing the commotion, a beautiful shadow floated on the stairs. Hua Fangyi saw Yi Wang who was soaked all over, and hurriedly walked out of the stairs.
He walked up and came down, took a blouse and put it on him, and said distressedly: "Your Highness, how can you be so embarrassed? Where have you been in such a heavy rain?"
Yan Rong blurted out without thinking, "Today my brother made an appointment to meet with the leader of the Lu Gang. But we waited for a long time at Xiangxue Pavilion and didn't see anyone, but we waited for this heavy rain. Although we hurried and hurried, we still couldn't wait.
It’s still raining!”
King Yi glanced at him and scolded him coldly: "Yan Rong, you talk too much again!"
When Yan Rong saw Hua Fangyi's face darken, he realized that he had said the wrong thing and hurriedly shut up. He quickly walked aside and wiped the rain off his body and head.
Hua Fangyi was both distressed and angry. She could only bite her lip and said, "Your Highness, are you willing to die? You have to wait for her in such a heavy rain. She is not a noble person. Is it worth your wait?"
King Yi was not in the mood to explain at this time, and just wanted to change out of his clothes quickly, so he said calmly: "I'm tired, let's go and rest for a while!"
After that, he walked around Hua Fangyi and walked upstairs. Yan Rong saw him leaving and hurriedly chased after him. Hua Fangyi was left standing there in a daze, not knowing what she said wrong.
King Yi and Yan Rong stepped up the stairs one after another, and a strange voice suddenly came from above their heads: "Hey, isn't this His Majesty King Yi? Why is he so wet?"
King Yi slowly raised his head and looked at two men with goose hats and brocade clothes standing on the seven or eight steps, with embroidered knives at their waists: the leading man was thirty-five years old, less than six feet tall, small and skinny.
With a wretched face and two beards on his lips, which were trimmed into a shiny black color, this man is Wang Jing, the only son of Wang Su, the Minister of Civil Service, who is now the commander of the Imperial Guards Department!
Behind him stood a strange-looking man, tall and thin, with an iron-grey face and a pair of phoenix eyes pointing skyward. This was the first time King Yi saw this man, and he didn't know his name, but judging by his dress,
He is also a member of the Imperial Guard.
King Yi was not in the mood to pay attention to them, so he walked up without saying a word and passed by the two people on the stairs.
"Your Highness, please stay. I have something unclear about my humble duty, and I would like to ask Your Highness for advice!" Just when King Yi was about to walk out of the stairs, Wang Jing's annoying voice came from behind again. This chapter has been completed!