Golden Knife 17 years

The title of princess was bestowed, and Xiao Shu knelt in the middle of the yard to receive the order. The title given to her was Shuning, and Xiao Shu smiled in her heart. Girl, until now you can't even do the big palace ceremony well, why bother to deceive yourself like this?

If you ask her, it might as well be like the title given to Qiongya by the late emperor. Qiongya grew up helpless in the palace until she was 16 years old. Suddenly, people from Beichang'an came to propose marriage, and the late emperor sent an envoy to send her back. , Blood returns to blood, soil returns to soil, the blood from Beichang'an returns to Beichang'an.

Even if the envoy who came to ask for marriage explained to him that the current Khan is actually Qiongya's cousin, the late emperor didn't care.The first emperor said that your mother's family was from Qiongya, so I will use Qiongya as the name, and I will forget about your mother and concubine's wish, and send her blood back to her hometown.

So what is she, a princess, sent to her Aunt Qiongya to calm down?The imperial decree has been read, but Xiaoshao has no intention of getting up at all. She doesn't get up, and no one else dares to move. The father-in-law who announced the decree had to lower down and call her: "His Royal Highness Shu Ning? Your Highness Shu Ning, you can get up now." "Xiao Shu came back to his senses and stood up without saying a word, and the eunuch Xuan Zhi was taken aback.

After the Xuanzhi eunuch left, according to the rules, the female officials, court ladies and eunuchs in the courtyard would come to congratulate her, and everyone knelt and kowtowed neatly in the courtyard according to the rules: "Congratulations to Your Highness Princess Shuning, congratulations to Your Highness Princess Shuning." Picking up the cup at hand and throwing it on the ground, he shouted sharply: "No one is allowed to call this! No one is allowed!"

Li Tangdi just waved his hand when he received the news from Xiaoshu's yard: "Let her go, don't worry about it." Hai Dequan came in from the outside carefully grabbing a pigeon: "Your Majesty, Commander Zhou has a letter."

The snow in Meicheng is still falling, and the water in Jinyang Lake is bitingly cold, and a thin layer of ice has formed in some places.Zhou Shen was sitting on the shore, wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat on his head. Zhou Cong was also dressed in the same way. From a distance, he looked like two fishermen fishing.

"Bring it up."

Zhou Cong put away the rope that was sunk in the lake, and the thing tied to the other end of the rope was not a fish, but the proprietress of the flower boat, Cicada.Cicada's face was livid from the cold in the lake, her whole body was stiff, and she couldn't breathe.

Zhou Cong stepped forward and rubbed her hands, and sure enough, a lot of dark yellow stuff came out. The newly exposed skin was plump and tender, not at all what a 40-year-old should have.

Zhou Cong nodded to Zhou Shen. Mother Cicada was choking on water and was vomiting, when she heard Zhou Shen's voice drifting over: "Boss Cicada has been in this business for almost 20 years. Unexpectedly, he is still seventeen or eighteen years old." The little girl who looks like a fairy looks like a fairy, can the owner of the cicada reward Zhou with a thin noodle, and tell me where the nobleman on your boat has gone?" Zhou Shen said leisurely, holding the stove in his hand: " I don’t know if I’ve heard enough, tell me something else.” Chan Niang lay on the ground gasping for breath, and vomited a lot of water, she looked at Zhou Shen, but found that Zhou Shen didn’t even look at her, he didn’t take anything at all. She looks like a human being.

A snowflake fell on the back of Zhou Shen's hand. Zhou Shen raised his hand to blow away the snow, and turned his head to look at Niang Chan: "Boss Cicada, I found these two things in Wenxiang Building, you should take a look yourself." Zhou Shen threw the fake hand and white handkerchief in front of Chan Niang: "Don't tell me you don't know, haven't you sent someone to guard there all the time? I've already taken down the beggars you hired, and I've explained everything. .”

Half of the beggars on Suchun Street are hired by Niang Chan, and no one will go to question beggars for nothing, and put their eyeliner under the noses of everyone. It is indeed a risky move, but it is also a good move.

"I'm afraid you were the one who made the rumor about the haunted Suchun Street back then." Zhou Shen put down the hand stove and stood up: "But we can talk about that later, I just ask you now, the new lady on your boat Where is the person hiding? She has been drugged by me, and her meridians will gradually become paralyzed, and she will definitely not go far. The city has been guarded by my people for the past two days, and no one can leave the city, so I just I can only ask Boss Cicada, where did you hide her?"

Cicada shuddered, but remained silent.

Zhou Shen raised his eyebrows: "It seems that Boss Cicada didn't think about it, Zhou Cong, feed Boss Cicada some tea, and make Boss Cicada sober."

Zhou Cong walked over with the bucket, pinched Niang Chan's mouth and poured water into it. Niang Chan was choked and coughed for a while. Zhou Shen raised her hand and said, "Stop." Niang Chan just took a breath when she saw Zhou Shen He took out a small copper funnel and gave it to Zhou Cong: "Use this, Boss Cicada is a woman, so you can't be so rude."

Zhou Cong took the funnel and pulled Niang Chan up, removed her chin, and then inserted the copper funnel into Niang Chan's throat. Niang Chan retched violently. Zhou Cong ignored her and inserted the funnel into the mouth without shaking. Go in, and then pour water into it one scoop at a time.Cicada's stomach swelled up quickly, she roared from the depths of her throat, her eyes gradually turned white.

Zhou Shen signaled Zhou Cong to stop.Zhou Cong pulled out the copper funnel, and Niang Cicada was full of water, and her jaw was removed again. She wanted to vomit but couldn't vomit. The water in her stomach was so high that she could hardly breathe.Zhou Shen gave Zhou Cong a wink, and Zhou Cong went up to put Cicada's chin back.Zhou Shen looked at her bulging belly, and said in a cold voice, "Boss Cicada, where is that person?" Mother Cicada gasped for breath and said, "I don't know, I really don't know."

Zhou Shen glanced at Zhou Cong, and Zhou Cong kicked Mother Cicada in the stomach. Before she could scream, she sprayed water all over the floor, and what she spit out was pale blood.Cicada vomited and crawled on the ground, digging deeply into the ground with her ten fingers.Zhou Shen watched her crawl on the ground like a worm, sat back to the original position, held the stove again, and said to Niang Chan, "Boss Chan, you have suffered too, so I won't ask you any more." Turning over, with tears in his eyes, he saw Zhou Cong waving behind him, and then two sentry guards in black came over carrying a small sedan chair, picked up a tightly bound man from inside and threw him at Zhou Shen's feet.Cicada saw the man clearly, and ignored the severe pain in her belly, she got up and rushed towards Zhou Shen, Zhou Cong kicked Cicada again and fell to the ground.

Zhou Shen looked at the girl on the ground who was struggling with tears all over her face. She had a face similar to Cicada's.Zhou Shen signaled the two sentry guards to hold down the girl. Zhou Cong lifted the water bucket beside Cicada, pinched the girl's mouth open, and then took out the copper funnel and stabbed it in. The girl struggled more violently, but she never stopped Making a sound, when Zhou Cong went down the water for the first time, Niang Cicada let out an extremely shrill scream from her throat.

"My lord!" Cicada dragged her body to Zhou Shen's feet, calling him as she crawled, "My lord, you let her go, she can't speak..."

Zhou Shen didn't say a word, and Zhou Cong didn't stop, pouring another ladle of water down.Cicada couldn't move anymore, she kowtowed to Zhou Shen on the ground: "My lord, my lord, please let her go, I say, I say everything!" Zhou Shen stood up, and Zhou Cong stopped his hands.Zhou Shen walked over and looked down at Niang Chan: "Boss Chan, don't worry, let's talk slowly."

In the tavern, Mr. Hu was sitting by the window looking out. The snow was getting heavier and heavier. The wine in front of Mr. Hu was already cold. He: "Old Bao Hu! Close the window! I'm freezing to death!" He drank a big mouthful of cold wine, which made him shiver.While trembling, Hu Laobao heard a very short whistle, and when he turned his head, he saw a person standing quietly under the big elm tree outside the window. Hu Laobao's eyes lit up, he immediately stood up and jumped out.

Hu Laobao smiled at Zhou Cong with a wrinkled face: "Sir, I'm right, that mother cicada went into that broken yard every night, she must have done nothing good, what, did you catch it, it's a traitor Husband or what?"

Zhou Cong threw a money bag into his arms, and Mr. Hu knew a lot from the moment he got it, so he smiled happily and leaned over to pull Zhou Cong's sleeve: "Your Excellency is too polite, why don't you rest your feet, let's go have a drink or two." How about the wine?" Zhou Cong didn't want to tangle with him, so he pulled his sleeves to leave, but he didn't expect Mr. Hu to hold on tight, pulled his sleeves, and a copper whistle hanging from a gold chain fell out of it, falling into the snow Jingle.When Hu Laobao saw it, he knelt down flatteringly, picked up the whistle and wanted to put it back in Zhou Cong's hand, but he was stunned when he saw the complicated patterns on the whistle.

Zhou Cong reached out to take it, but Hu Laobao kept looking at the whistle over and over again. Seeing him like this, Zhou Cong knew that there might be something wrong, so he asked, "Why? The old man has seen this whistle before?"

Hu Laobao returned the whistle to Zhou Cong, but didn't say anything, just laughed: "What is the matter that the adults are talking about, the little old man just thinks this whistle is beautiful and exquisite, where have you seen it?" Zhou Cong followed Zhou Shen all the year round. When the prisoner was interrogated, he knew at a glance that Hu Laobao had concealed something, so he didn't talk nonsense with him, grabbed him by the collar, got on the horse and went to Zhou Shen.

After Cicada and the girl were brought back from the lake by Zhou Shen, they were placed in the yard of the sentinel. Zhou Shen had a group of people who knew how to heal, and they gave Cicada a pulse and fed blood-enriching and nourishing pills. After boiling the medicine and sending it to the room, Niang Cicada was frozen for a long time and suffered another serious crime. She couldn't move for a long time. She was extremely tired, but her eyes were still staring outside. After a while, Zhou Shen turned around the screen and walked in.

Cicada shuddered involuntarily. Seeing that there was a bowl of medicine beside her bed, Zhou Shen found a stool and sat down beside her bed, and handed the bowl of medicine to her: "Drink the medicine." Cicada stared at her. Holding the bowl of medicine and refusing to take it, Zhou Shen put the medicine in front of her face: "It's not poisonous, just drink it at ease."

Cicada still didn't answer, she stared outside and asked, "How is she?"

Zhou Shen handed the bowl again: "I'll let you see her after you drink it."

Cicada took the bowl and drank it in one gulp, Zhou Shen knocked on the table, and two guards sent the girl in.As soon as the girl came in and saw Niang Chan's eyes turned red, she lay down in Niang Chan's arms to hide her face.Niang Chan patted her back while stroking her hair, humming a song, Zhou Shen didn't sound like Zhongning's tune, and he hadn't heard the few words he occasionally sang.

The girl seemed to be very used to Cicada's behavior, and she fell asleep after a while. Cicada moved in to let her sleep more comfortably, and then looked up at Zhou Shen: "Before I say anything, I ask you to promise me one thing."

Zhou Shen was noncommittal, and glanced at her: "Are you negotiating terms with me?"

Cicada smiled wryly: "No, I'm begging you." Cicada gently caressed the girl's face with her hand. Faint red, naturally curly.

"We are all princesses of the Salman tribe. Her name is Amiya, and I am her older sister." Niang Chan stroked Amiya's hair and said, "I am no longer worthy to be Salman's princess, so I don't need to mention my name." To be honest, my lord, I am doomed to die now, I accept my fate, but please take Amuya away." Zhou Shen glanced at the girl, then at Channiang: "Go on, should I take her with me?" , look at you."

Mother Cicada touched her face, two tears fell from her eyes: "Your Princess Qiongya, no, it should be called Qiongya Dabei now." Dabei is what Bei Changan called the empress dowager. Shen has been walking in the court for many years, and knows a little about Beichang'an. Princess Qiongya has indeed appointed her son as the maharaja and herself as the queen mother.

"Everyone on the Keqin Grassland thought it was a sheep that was married back then, and no one was wary of this woman. Within three years of her marriage, Da Khan died, and she married Da Khan's son." Cicada clutched the quilt desperately: "The big defeat she is doing now, I don't know how many men died behind it, and how many times she married, I can't count it."

Princess Qiongya gave birth to seventeen sons. I don't know what to call these princes. Brothers are not brothers, and uncles and nephews cannot be called. The father of the first prince is the uncle of the fifth prince, and the father of the second prince is the son of the eighth prince. Uncle, but Qiongya doesn't care. If you don't call him, you don't call him. Everyone calls you prince. Who knows who your father is.

Qiong Ya was a 16-year-old girl when she first followed Da Khan, and she looked very much like Aruna. When Aruna was not married to the late emperor and became Concubine Ning, she was the most dazzling gem on the Keqin Grassland. Ten young people Ten of them love Aruna.

Qiongya inherited Aruna's beauty, but she had a heart of a poisonous snake.

After she married Saren the Great Khan, Saren died within two years.How the Great Khan died is still unclear. Everyone said that the eldest son Heertuo and Qiong Ya had colluded with each other for a long time, and the glass of wine that the Great Khan drank before his death was offered by the eldest son.

Later, Huertuo succeeded to the throne and married Qiongya. Qiongya became a queen with a big belly. It was not known whether the child belonged to Sa Ren or Huertuo.

Hultuo had always been physically weak, and died less than a year after succeeding to the throne. Qiongya married the Khan's younger brother Meng He with filial piety. The two of them seemed real together. In [-], Hasengge, the leader of the Keuru tribe in the west, rebelled. Meng He led his troops to the expedition and died on the battlefield.Qiongya sat in the tent with Menghe's child in his arms and waited for Hasenger to come. After one night, Hasenger married Qiongya.From then on, Qiongya was also called Temuer, which means iron in Beichang'an language. This woman's heart is made of iron.

Hasenger did not escape his fate either. The rumors from the big tent said that Qiongya went to Chagan, the leader of Keuru’s deadly enemy Agul, to cry late at night, and then at the next banquet, Hasenger got drunk Drunk, was hacked to death by Chagan's ambushing elite soldiers in the big tent, and Qiongya was sitting next to Hasenger, splashed with blood all over her body. When Chagan came in, she took off her bloody clothes and greeted Chagan's arrival with all her body. Shout him sweating profusely.Later, it was repeated again and again. People said that Qiongya's husbands were as many as stones in the Iron Line River, and their corpses filled Qiongya's valley.However, Qiongya relied on her marriage to erode the military power of various tribes again and again, and finally raised a wolf on the grassland for herself, her general Hadan and the black wolf cavalry under Hadan.Zhou Shen knew about the Black Wolf Cavalry. When he first entered the Golden Pavilion five years ago, he received a Black Wolf Cavalry sent by someone from the Ministry of War. He tortured him for three days without prying his mouth open. In the dungeon of the Golden Temple.

"We, Salman, have always been a small tribe in the easternmost part of the grassland. Four years ago, Hadan brought soldiers and horses and arrested all our tribe..." Chan Niang lowered her head and tried her best to endure the twitching shoulders: "... We Salmans are naturally similar to Zhongning. Hadan asked us if we would like to sneak into Zhongning. My father refused, so he chopped off my father’s head. After being killed by Hadan, Amuya watched her father and mother being killed, and from that day on she couldn't speak, and she was also stupid."

"...As long as they say they don't want to, they will kill them. When they asked about Amuya, Amuya would only bark, and Hadan said...Amiya is the princess of Salman, and he wants to give it to the black wolf. Try it out, they want to drag Amuya out, so I said I am willing to go to Zhongning..." Chan Niang trembled more than ever this time: "...Hadan...Hadan said that he has promised the brothers, don't care Who was the princess who threw me to the black wolf... After that, I was arrested and moved, and I was sent to this flower boat three years ago to replace the previous Cicada, until two months ago , Someone sent a letter over there, and gave me two things to let me release the news of the haunting on Suchun Street. Someone also sent this Qing Dynasty lady to live on my boat. She doesn't talk to me much on weekdays. Even this The last time she came back from an injury, I didn't let me touch her, but let Boss Li from Nine Needles Workshop visit, and then she disappeared, so I don't know where she went."

"My lord, I've told you everything I know." Niang Chan smiled sadly at him: "Amuya is clean, she doesn't know anything, please give her a place to go." Zhou Shen was pondering, with a whistle Wei came in and reported to him that Zhou Cong had brought Hu Laobao back, saying that he had something important to report.Seeing that Niang Chan was still guarding Amuya, Zhou Shen didn't feel anything unusual, and told the guards in the room that they were optimistic about the two of them and went out.

Cicada was already extremely sleepy, and fell asleep with her arms around Amuya. In her dream, she was still young, and Erjier was walking on the grassland full of flowers, holding her and Amuya's hands. Their heads are covered with flowers, and behind them is the hometown that they will never return to.