Huaiyu is slightly cool

Amidst the rattling of horseshoes, a man wears a golden crown with hair inlaid on his head, his eyebrows are aligned with double phoenixes and his forehead is mopped with gold. Wearing a moon-white embroidered black iris flower-style sachet, and wearing thick-soled black satin beaded shoes, a young girl who is only eleven or twenty-three years old, with a childish face, sits on a good BMW horse, holding it with one hand. The horse was stiff, but in the other hand he was holding a long and thin black gold knife upside down. With a cold look in his eyes, he rode into the flower viewing banquet set up by Fang Zhongji of Fang's family in Bingzhou with a murderous look, leading 36 Lingyu personal guards on horseback. superior.

Fang's nursing home fell down, and the butler boldly stepped forward. When he saw the person sitting immediately, he knelt down in fright and shouted: "I don't know if the saint is coming here, but I'm not far away to welcome you. Please calm down." .”

At the banquet, the son and singer, who was having fun, saw Zhou Huai barging in with a knife, and then looked at the butler who was about to cry from fright, and the audience was silent for a while.

When Zhou Huai came in, he first glanced at Duan sitting in the case, then at the calm princess in a purple dress of Yunying, then got off the horse and smiled at the other party.Then, she kicked Fang Zhongji, who came to meet her with a smile, and kicked him flying two or three feet before vomiting blood.

"I said, I cut off one of your fingers once I saw you. You dare to provoke me, do you want to provoke me?" Zhou Huai slowly approached the person who was clutching his stomach in pain with a knife in his hand, and pointed the tip of the knife at After Fang Zhongji's throat, he said slowly.

Fang Zhongji, who was dressed in a Chu-colored broad robe and looked pale and gloomy, stared straight at Zhou Huai.His eyes were scorching hot, as hot as a burning fire, with the madness of moths rushing to the flame.He didn't care about the knife on his neck, and just replied with a smile: "I just want to see what is special about the person my master cares about. Now that I see it, it's nothing more than that. Besides, if I break off another finger, there are eight more people left." I mean, I can see you eight more times!"

Fang Zhongji spat out a mouthful of blood, and pointed to the phoenix orchids that were in full bloom in the courtyard, and said, "Look, I finally made the phoenix orchids bloom in the north according to the method you said, and the flowers bloomed exceptionally this year." Well, do you like it?"

Zhou Huai looked at the young man lying on the ground, expressionless: "I am your uncle's master, not yours. And I don't want to see you again, why don't you just break it off once and for all."

He is willing to give everything for her, and now he is not even recognized as a master?Fang Zhongji looked at Zhou Huai in a daze, with sadness and bewilderment in his eyes.

Zhou Huai didn't pay attention to him anymore, he just stepped on the opponent's right hand neatly, and then raised the knife and dropped it. The knife accurately cut from Fang Zhongji's palm and wrist. The wound was neat, but the wrist bone was white and blood spattered. , fell on the Pteris orchid on the side.

Seeing this, everyone at the banquet exclaimed in surprise. At this time, after Fang Zhongji's scream, they all ran away like birds and beasts.The young master who recognized Zhou Huai was even more frightened and kicked his legs to crawl out.Only the eldest princess, without changing her face, held the wine glass and watched the farce in front of her as if she were not involved.

Zhou Huai looked at the blood stains on the hem of the skirt, and kicked away Fang Zhongji, who was staring at him with his hand closed, like a dead dog. The princess' case went a few days ago.

When he walked to the eldest princess, the murderous aura all over his body had disappeared, and instead he looked a little haggard, but his eyes, which were cold and emotionless just now, also softened a bit.

"Always wearing red is not a good person. Especially men, nine out of ten are perverted, and the remaining one is gay."

Zhou Huai used a concluding statement to tell the eldest princess that she came here to save the eldest princess from the hands of the male pervert. This is a heroic rescue of the beauty.

But the eldest princess didn't feel rescued, instead she said very calmly: "It seems that Liao Qiwei is also dressed in red, I thought red was the representative color of your subordinates."

"I'm talking about men. Don't you think men who are always in red look weird? I thought you knew how to avoid them, or you were going to use yourself as bait to lure wolves? It stands to reason that with your treatment of me The degree of attention that I can relate to, the three generations of the ancestors have been checked by you, but you still almost fell into the wolf's mouth, so shouldn't the military adviser around you be charged with dereliction of duty and beaten to death? ?”

The eldest princess glanced at Fang Zhongji's severed palm, her expression stunned, but she still said, "The correct way to do it is to put a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, not a wolf's mouth."

After speaking, seeing Zhou Huai's playful expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, he came back to his senses and said, "I wanted to come here. I heard that there are pictures of you growing up in the Fang family's painting building, so I came here."

Zhou Huai narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the eldest princess with a smile and teased: "Is the portrait or the real person more beautiful?"

The eldest princess glanced at the miserable appearance of Fang Zhongji, who was still lying on the ground and no one dared to help him, and answered directly: "Portrait."

"That's a pity, he won't be able to paint anymore in the future." Zhou Huai smiled brightly, then turned around and ordered the guards to lead the team to set fire to Fang Zhongji's painting building, and let the eldest princess' maidservant pack the luggage, So they took people out of the city overnight and left, leaving only the scattered phoenix orchids in the yard, as well as the undried blood and the burning fire.

"What is that?" Holding a glass of green plum wine, the eldest princess asked Zhou Huai, pointing to a narrow road paved with stones and cross-wood not far from the station.

Zhou Huai pursed his lips and pulled out the unsealed tea cakes that were moistened and softened by the rain. Looking through the rain curtain in the direction pointed by the eldest princess, he replied directly: "The ground is a railway, and the stones standing high It’s a stop sign, and the two rooms next to it, one big and one small, are the waiting room and the public toilet.”

"It's also a car? Why is it called a railway if it's not made of wood?"

"Those are just basic facilities, and iron cars will be used on them in the future. It's a pity that iron ore mining is still too slow. After almost two years, two locomotives and more than 50 carriages have been built, which are used to travel along the Yunzhao line. There are not enough things, so the inner ring route will be empty for about half a year.”

The eldest princess knew that Zhou Huai had built three such roads in the northwest, with different lengths. The longest one was from Yunzhou to the border of Zhao Kingdom, and the shortest was from Yunzhou to Shouzhou, Juzhou, Yizhou, and Qizhou. , five states are connected, almost connecting half of the northwest, and one is still unfinished, but looking at the posture of crossing the mountain and building bridges all the way to the south, one can guess a little bit.

The place where they are now is the post station that just entered Yanzhou. The railway was built not far from the post station, and that railway has not been used for a long time, so she asked curiously. She didn't expect Zhou Huai to use iron as a car .

The eldest princess thought to herself, according to the amount of iron used in the weapons made by Zhou Huai, it would be enough to dig out all the five iron mines in Zhou Huai's hands.Then why is she planning to use iron to make a large number of iron cars?You must know that there have always been laws and regulations expressly stipulating that iron and salt should not be sold privately.In the past, Xirong and Qiang divided Zhaoguo into two, and those minerals were also divided between the two countries.

Although the country is now restored, the treasury is definitely empty, and there is no way to supply that amount.Now that Zhou Huai is in urgent need of iron ore, it may be more urgent than the need for labor.After all, in the past few years when Zhou Huai was in power in the Northwest, with the help of medical and household registration preferential treatment policies, the population of Northwest freshmen and migrants has surged, and there is a weak and bully Xirong who is close to each other, so there is no need to worry about labor relay.However, iron ore is dug less and less, and it may not be possible to buy it at a high price.And according to Zhou Huai's bandit habits, would she spend money if she could solve it directly by force?So there is only one possibility, Zhou Huai has already set his sights on the treasury of Xirong or Qiang, and is trying to find a fair reason to rob the treasury of the other party.

The eldest princess wants to cry but has no tears. Thanks to her efforts to help Gongxi Yunjing go back to the Qiang Kingdom, thinking about the safety of the Qiang Kingdom, this war should not be fought. It turned out that the ambitious Zhou Huai was the one who grasped the start of the war. And a key figure in peace.Although she may not have the ability to make the world peaceful, she has the ability to make the world chaotic.The eldest princess believed that Zhou Huai had this ability.

"Hello? Liangyue? Hello?!"

"Ah? What did you just say?!"

"What are you thinking? I called several times, but you didn't answer." Zhou Huai asked with a smile, and without waiting for the eldest princess to answer, he repeated what he had just said: "I just said that the rain outside may I can't stop for a while, I'm staying here today, what do you want to eat, I'll cook for you."

The eldest princess shook her head, she didn't want to say more, she just said: "Let Yicheng arrange good accommodation, let's chat."

"If you don't dislike bad food, let Yi Cheng prepare the food." After Zhou Huai finished speaking, with a gesture, someone went out to make arrangements.

The eldest princess looked at Zhou Huai. The other party was wearing a lake blue embroidered orchid-style wide-sleeved fairy dress today. A half-moon-shaped jasper waist pendant is hung, and a white jade hairpin carved with magnolia flowers is simply inserted on the hair bun that is combed into a bun.

The eldest princess looked at it for a long time before asking: "Are you Zhou Huai or Zhou Huaiyu?"

"Who do you want?" Zhou Huai was taken aback, and asked back with a gloomy gaze, but the eldest princess turned her head and looked out the window without answering.

Zhou Huai didn't continue this topic anymore, but instead asked the maid who had left for the eldest princess: "Where is Yunling?"

The eldest princess took a quick look at Zhou Huai, then bowed her head guiltily and replied, "I'm married."

This time it was Zhou Huai's turn to be silent, and the eldest princess hurriedly explained: "Although he is a descendant of my martial arts family, his family is simple. , she was also a good concubine when she married."

Zhou Huai nodded, got up and poured the tea that had been scraped into slag into the pots of carnations that were bearing fruit on the flower stand beside him.

Xiao Yu led a pair of fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls who looked like masters and servants over, and they were seeing this scene.He twitched his eyes, pretended to turn a blind eye, walked up to the eldest princess, and muttered a few words in a low voice. Zhou Huai beside the flower stand said, "This Miss Lu wants to give you tea."

Zhou Huai turned around, glanced at the two of them, and also treated Xiao Yu as nothing, and only replied to the eldest princess: "You have short hands, but you are soft-spoken. When I enter the city, I will buy it myself."

Zhou Huai refused very simply.She would rather dig out the tea that had just been buried in the soil for flower fertilizer and dry it to make tea than accept this kind of carelessness.

The eldest princess took a sip of wine by herself, played with the wine glass and said slowly: "They are masters and servants who escaped from marriage in Qingmei County, Fuzhou. Ji Congli, the son of Ji Zhengde, a wealthy gentry in Fuzhou, wants to forcefully marry Miss Lu who is already engaged. Ms. Lu and her fiancé Mr. Li made an appointment to elope. Before she could do anything, she heard that Mr. Li had been caught and beaten to death by Ji Congli. Ms. Lu knew that Ji Zhengde was in collusion with the government of Fuzhou, so she had to travel thousands of miles to find Qingyu in Yanzhou Zhifu Zhang from far away. Knowing that Ji Zhengde was the main member of your chamber of commerce at that time, Zhifu Zhang didn’t dare to make any claims, so he wrote to Huai Yuan, but he never got a reply. This time, he happened to know that we were passing through Yanzhou, So I asked my old friend Mr. Xiao to help bring it, please deal with it face to face, and said that if it was too late, he might not be able to keep Miss Lu."

Hearing this, Zhou Huai sat back in his seat and looked at the haggard and restless master and servant with red and swollen eyes, especially the woman in front who was clearly the master.On the other hand, she looked beautiful, but at this time her expression was sad, her thin and frail figure and her plain white body made her look as delicate and pitiful as a weak willow supporting the wind.It's just that Zhou Huai doesn't like such delicate women, and she's not in Yunzhou, hasn't read any letters, and hasn't seen anyone from the government at this time, so whether this is true or not has yet to be confirmed.Besides, even if this matter is true, it is true that she is the saint of Jing Guofeng, but she has no political power, and she will not blatantly intervene in the official case. How could the prefect of Yazhou let Xiao Yu bring the litigant to her? ?Thinking of this, Zhou Huai asked the eldest princess calmly, "Do you want to help her?"

"Is it troublesome?"

"It doesn't count, it's just that we don't go through Fuzhou when we go back to Yunzhou."

"Can't you make a detour? I really want to help her. There are too few women who bravely resist in the face of difficulties and injustices. Now that they have met, it is fate, right? And I know, this is just a matter of effort for you."

"These are really nothing, but why should I care?" Zhou Huai's expression was indifferent, and he didn't even bother to give away any extra expressions.

The eldest princess knew that Zhou Huai was not a good person, let alone merciful, but she didn't expect her to be so indifferent, and she was a little stunned for a while.

When the two women heard this, they immediately fell to the ground crying, "Miss Zhou, please uphold justice for the little girl. As long as you can avenge Mr. Li and bring Ji Zhengli to justice, the little girl is willing to pay any price."

The green-clothed maid also kowtowed and begged: "I beg Miss Zhou to help my young lady."

The eldest princess asked the master and servant to stand up, and said to Zhou Huai: "I can write to the prefect of Fuzhou to ask him to handle it, as long as you don't protect Ji Zhengde, what do you think?"

Zhou Huai stared coldly at the two masters and servants, and then at the eldest princess with a firm face and a dignified uprightness, and finally turned his gaze to Xiao Yu who was silently watching, and said coldly: "Wait until the rain stops We will divert to Zizhou."