a pillow in autumn

When the night was getting dark, Shen Yan and Qu Bin returned to the post house full of alcohol, happily rewarded the doorman with a few pieces of silver, and walked in with their shoulders crossed.As soon as they returned to the courtyard where the envoys were located, the two of them straightened their bodies immediately with clear eyes.

The light in Prince Rui's room was still on, and Shen Youtang and Zhou Mubai were each holding on to a book under the light. Seeing the two walk in, they both put down their books.

Shen Yan and Qu Bin saluted, knowing that Prince Rui was waiting for them, they stopped exchanging greetings and got straight to the point.That night, the two of them came back to follow the spy who was following them. They thought they were from the Tu clan, but unexpectedly the man crossed several streets and entered a deep house compound.Shen Yan and Qu Bin exchanged glances outside the courtyard wall, quickly turned over from the top of the wall, and watched the man walk into a house under the cover of night.

"Your Highness! We have seen the person in the room before in the palace, it is Zuo Yin Huo Ke'an. He probably followed us to find out our relationship with Bailimo." Qu Bin saluted Zhou Mubai and reported what he had just seen: " Shen Yan and I climbed to the roof, lifted the tiles and saw several people in the room, Huo Ke'an talked about the insufficiency and scheming of vertical stones, and said that there is no need to wait any longer, the speed of soldiers is precious, and he also mentioned, Prince Mo!"

Zhou Mubai frowned, and walked a few steps in the room, "Huo Ke'an... I heard that he is Bailihan's real uncle?"

"Yes." Shen Youtang replied, generally frowning and thinking.

The two looked at each other, and suddenly thought of it together, Zhou Mubai quickly said: "Bailimo!" Shen Youtang also called out at the same time: "Baimo!"

"Assemble the people immediately and go to Bailimo's Prince's Mansion!" Zhou Mubai ordered repeatedly, and rushed out by himself.

The doorkeepers of the post house suddenly saw two or thirty people from the envoy rushing out in a hurry, they all panicked, stopped the horses and refused to let them go.Zhou Mubai raised his horsewhip, brushing his face with a whip, the man covered the blood on his face, saw Prince Rui turn the horse's head through his fingers, and ran out first.

In the silence of the night, the horseshoes made a clear sound of stepping on the stone pavement. When they ran to the gate of the Prince's Mansion, there was no one guarding it. A lieutenant jumped off his horse and pushed open the gate. Everyone rushed in and heard the sound of fighting.

Searching for the sound, they hurried to the atrium, only to see a group of masked men in black coming out with weapons in hand, they met on a narrow road, and the two sides immediately fought together.

The backyard suddenly lit up, Zhou Mubai caught a glimpse of the flames, and shouted: "Don't fight, rescue Bailimo, go immediately!"

A few lieutenants escaped and went straight to the backyard to find Bailimo, who was surrounded by several personal guards and tried their best to protect Bailimo in the pavilion beside the pond. For tall and burly.

The two sides exchanged swords and swords, and Ruiguo's deputy general picked up Baili Mo in the light and shadow, and ran to the front yard together, and the prince's personal guards joined hands to cut off the rear.A few more people flashed out of the right side room, without saying a word, they went straight to attack Bailimo. Zhou Mubai and others in front had rushed over to stop the attack of the man in black. Mo went straight to the door.Just as the fight was going on, another group of people rushed in from the gate, and the leader was the eldest prince Bailihan.

"Mo!" Bailihan charged forward holding on to the long sword.

Deputy General Ruiguo was in a bad mood, so he hurriedly raised his weapon to block. Bailihan was also a martial artist since he was a child. He lightly lifted his long sword to separate the weapon, and supported Bailimo with one hand, expressing his concern: "You are injured. gone?"

Thousands of emotions flashed across Baili Mo's eyes, he pursed his lips tightly and nodded.

Bailihan put one of his arms on his shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "Let's kill him!"

When the man in black saw Bailihan coming in, he paused visibly. Several people looked at each other, and suddenly rushed towards the two Shangshan princes together.

The people brought by Bailihan all came to protect him when they saw this, and after fighting for a while, the leader of the man in black had already attacked Bailimo's side, and under the firelight, he raised his broad-backed knife and slashed straight down.

"Mo!" Bailihan yelled, pushed Bailimo away with his backhand, stabbed obliquely with the long sword, and slashed down fiercely.

The man in black obviously didn't expect that Bailihan would push Bailimo away, and the blade slashed to Bailihan's shoulder, cutting off a piece of flesh and blood.Enduring the severe pain in his shoulder, Bailihan changed his long sword, and in the blink of an eye, the blade sank deeply into the belly of the man in black.

The man in black yelled wildly, took a step back and fell staggeringly, his eyes were full of unbelievable resentment.Seeing the leader fell to the ground, several black-clothed men from behind rushed over to kill them. Prince Rui's mansion joined forces with the two princes' forces, and quickly contained more than ten black-clothed men before and after.

"Brother Huang!" Bailimo limped forward to see his brother's injury.

Bailihan shook his head to show that he was fine, and stepped forward with his sword in hand, and lifted the black cloth covered by the leading man in black, and saw a bearded and fleshy face.

"Tu Xie!" Bailihan squinted and screamed.

"Brother Huang knows this person?" Bailimo and his elder brother supported each other and looked into his eyes.

"The son of King Tu Keqi of the Tu Clan." Bailihan clutched the wound on his shoulder and looked around. The courtyard was in a mess, and the envoys of the Rui Kingdom were also injured, so he said calmly: "Thank you for your help. Helped and saved my brother's life. Now go back to my mansion and bandage it."

Shen Yan and others all looked at Zhou Mubai, and Zhou Mubai also wanted to understand the twists and turns, so he nodded.

The attendants of the First Prince's Mansion stayed to deal with the aftermath, and the group followed Bailihan back to the mansion. After the wounds were treated briefly, Bailihan dismissed the attendants.

"In the day, I heard that the envoys of the Tu clan had arrived in Shangshan, so I took a few people out of the mansion to meet these envoys. Who knew that I was accidentally trapped in a courtyard." Bailihan Sitting on the main seat, he frowned deeply, "It wasn't until nightfall that my attendants found me and brought me out by force. I always felt something was wrong in my heart, and I came all the way to look for you, and something happened. "

These words may be somewhat true, but too much information is missing in them, making it really difficult to distinguish, and the hall was silent for a while.

Bailimo took a deep breath, stared at his elder brother and said: "Dare to ask the emperor under house arrest, but Zuo Yin Huo Kean?" Seeing that his elder brother was silent, his voice became indifferent: "Emperor brother thinks something is wrong. It's strange, it's also because Huo Ke'an once suggested to the emperor that he wanted to assassinate Mo."

Seeing the sudden change of Bailihan's face, Zhou Mubai already knew that even if Bailimo's guess was wrong, it was not far away.After all, this is a secret matter of Shangshan Kingdom, she got up and cupped her hands, and wanted to take someone away.

Bailimo hurriedly took two steps forward to thank them for their help tonight, Mubai smiled and said, I said before that if there is something that Mubai can help, I will definitely help, and now I will give you a favor.

Bailimo laughed loudly, although Bailihan was not very proficient in Yu Ruiguo's language, he also knew that Zhou Mubai wanted to avoid it.

"Prince Rui, please stay." Bailihan's shoulder was severely injured, his face was a little pale, but his voice was firm and pertinent. Seeing Zhou Mubai stop and all his attendants looking around him, he said Turning to Baili Mo, he said: "Mo, what happened tonight happened suddenly, no matter what the cause is, it is indisputable that the king's only son Tu Xie will be killed gradually in our dynasty, and Shangshan and the Tu clan will have grievances because of this." Enemy, from now on, the situation will be the same as water and fire."

Bailimo lowered his head, and his voice was empty and sad: "Brother Emperor, didn't the enmity between the Tu clan and me, Shangshan, be forged more than [-] years ago? Our rich land of Shangshan was occupied, and more than ten Wan Erlang was buried under their iron cavalry, isn't it worth the life of a butcher?"

Bailihan was stunned for a moment, his face was a little embarrassed, he regained his strength after a while, and said solemnly: "Before, Han wanted to form a marriage with the Tu clan, so we helped Erzhu stabilize the Tu clan and asked him to restrain the clansmen. , to protect our people from being harmed. As for what happened tonight, the two countries will no longer be friendly, and I am afraid that the army of the Tu tribe will invade our dynasty in a big way in a few days. For the current plan," he turned his head, looked at Zhou Mubai and said: "The only way to control the Tu clan is to join forces with Ruiguo, one is to defeat their elites so that they will be unable to stand up in a short time, and the other is to make a treaty with the three countries after we succeed, so that the Tu clan will not provoke us again. Only then can I solve my predicament in Shangshan!"

"Brother Emperor!"

"Mo." Bailihan looked at him deeply: "Huo Ke'an is my own uncle after all, the only younger brother of my mother and concubine. I will not protect him as a brother, and I will report to my father tomorrow morning to dismiss him." Pursue responsibility. But please read that my mother and concubine only have this family member in her natal family, leaving his wife and children alive, and be demoted to common people from now on?"

Baili Mo nodded his head and said: "Brother Huang has considered everything carefully, and Mo will let Brother Huang make the decision."

Just now, Qu Bin relayed the two brothers' conversation to Zhou Mubai, and Bailihan led them to the study room, pointing to the Shangshan and Tu people's frontier fortresses on the map to ponder one by one. .

It wasn't until the sky was getting bright that the envoys of Ruiguo and his party bid farewell and left.

In the early court, Lord Shangshan Bailihe knew about yesterday's assassination, so he swiftly sealed Zuo Yin's mansion, and all the people were imprisoned first.Bailihan and Bailimo followed him to the study and reported the fact that they joined forces with Ruiguo. Bailihe knew that he and the Tu clan would be in trouble from now on, so he had to agree to this matter.

Then, according to the customs of Shangshan, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and worshiping the Holy Spirit, the two countries jointly established a national book, Bailimo and Zhou Mubai went to the altar to drink, and the two countries drank blood to form an alliance!

On the next day, the envoys from Ruiguo went to the palace to bid farewell. Zhou Mubai accepted the Shangshan Kingdom Letter with the national seal printed on it, and led a group of heroes to set off.

33 people walked to the gate of Shangshan City, and a flying horse came galloping from behind. The rider rushed up and asked anxiously, "Is Prince Rui Guorui driving?"

The guide responded with a raised voice, and the man immediately fell off the horse.Several personal guards followed behind Zhou Mubai. Seeing that the visitor had unpacked his luggage, holding a jade box high above the top with both hands, he said in a loud voice: "By order of our prince Mo, Prince Rui please give this as a gift. To the reed pipe princess of your country."

Zhou Mubai raised his chin, Shen Yan took the box, and put his hands in front of Prince Rui's eyes, Shen Lan first probed on the jade cover, and then slowly opened it.

Under the sunlight, Zhou Mubai saw a golden crown inlaid with blue chalcedony leaning on the warm box.

The author has something to say: I received two hand grenades from Jiang Xia;

Received fourteen landmines.

In the hot weather, I am still dizzy while drinking ice and writing.Well, thank you all.Thanks again to the little monkey who helped catch bugs~