lonely king

Half a round of red sun rose in the east, and the warm and warm sunlight spread over the entire Gaomingtai, the trees were dyed green, and the morning birds were flying. It was another spring morning. The peaceful and gentle appearance almost made people forget the strong wind last night. , but there are still many branches and leaves beside the path at the corner, indicating that it was ravaged by the strong wind last night.

After Sai Jian opened his eyes, his genius was dim. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to the side, but his hand was empty. The right side was empty, and the person who should have been lying here was gone.

Sai Jian sat up reflexively, without the sleepiness of getting up in the morning at all. He pulled off his clothes and asked the palace man next to him, "Nian'er? Where did he go?"

The palace man was taken aback by his dignified appearance, trembling and didn't say why, but in a while, Sai Jian had already dressed, he didn't have the energy to listen to the palace man's hesitation, and walked out , shouting "Wei Yu", he was still worried about what happened last night, he thought about it all night and thought he should check it out.And just as he squinted in the morning, the people around him disappeared, and Sai Jian was even more worried.

Just as he walked out the door, he collided with the oncoming person.Sai Jian was slightly startled, looked up and saw that the person who came was Baili Nian, he was only wearing a single shirt, obviously he woke up and went out for a while, and wanted to come back to sleep again.

Baili Jian saw that Sai Jian was dressed neatly, and the morning rooster outside the window had just crowed, and the red sun had only risen for half a round. It was still early, and it was not yet morning. Surprised, Sai Jian always clings to him until the last moment before getting up to go to the morning court.

"Why did your majesty get up so early?"

"Nianer, where have you been?"

The two spoke at the same time, their voices mixed together, the former was somewhat surprised, while the latter was full of anxiety.

Sai Jian didn't hear Baili Nian's words clearly, and he didn't pay attention. Instead, he stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms, as if he was afraid that he would run away suddenly, so he hugged him tightly. , Only two points eased, and the anxiety on his face gradually faded, but he still hugged Baili Nian, and asked the question just now repeatedly.

"Where did you go, Nian'er?" His tone was much more relaxed than before.

Baili Nian probably understood this person's anxiety just now, maybe he was afraid that something happened to him, or he might leave suddenly.Baili Nian's indifferent eyes showed two touches of tenderness, and he said: "When I woke up in the morning, my mouth was astringent, so I went to the kitchen to ask for some candied fruit. I just came back from eating, and I wanted to squint for a while. Already got up."

"Nian'er wants to eat candied fruit, so let the palace people get it, why bother to make a trip by yourself?"

Although Sai Jian said, his face returned to normal, and he walked into the inner room with Baili Nian's shoulders in his arms. Although he was well dressed, Bai Li Nian was wearing obscene clothes and only put on a coat. Jian was afraid that the wind at the door would blow him away.

While walking in, Baili Nian said, "Seeing that the king is sleeping soundly, I didn't disturb anyone. It's the same if I go to get it myself."

Sai Jian wanted to babble a few more words, but seeing that Baili Nian was afraid of waking him up, a feeling of warmth surged in his heart immediately.Baili Nian has always been indifferent, he has never shown concern for anyone, even Sai Jian never expected him to care about himself, now it was just a trivial matter, Sai Jian was so moved that he hugged Baili Nian back , buried his head on his shoulder.

Sai Jian is five centimeters taller than Baili Nian, and has a majestic figure. At this time, he buried his head on Baili Nian's thin shoulders, which was a bit strange, but Baili Nian was used to it, and he patted him lightly. Sai Jian's back comforted him, "Since your majesty has got up, let's go eat."

Sai Jian still rested his head on Baili Nian's shoulder, he answered irrelevant questions, and said in a very soft voice:

"Nian'er cares about me, I am... very happy."

Baili Nian caressed the hand on Sai Jian's back, and suddenly paused, his eyes froze slightly, flashing a trace of complicated emotions.After a while, his hand continued to caress Sai Jian, he was a little speechless, but his eyes softened, and he spoke softly.

"Nianer knows."

Baili Nian couldn't go back to sleep, he got dressed and went to have breakfast with Sai Jian.A few dishes, two bowls of clear porridge, and Baili Nian's breakfast doesn't like strong taste, Sai Jian doesn't care about these things, but he is willing to eat with Baili Nian.Sai Jian ate this light porridge, but felt that the taste was better than delicacies from mountains and seas.

After eating this bowl of clear porridge, Sai Jian seemed to remember something, he looked at Baili Nian, "Nian'er, did the assassin who came last night come back?"

Bailijian's slender eyelashes trembled slightly, but he didn't look up, "No."

"No?" Sai Jian was a little surprised, he looked at Baili Nian, "With Mo Yan's skill, how could he not chase the assassin back?"

Baili Nian put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, and he raised his eyes, "It's not that I didn't recover it, it's that I couldn't recover it. Mo Yan chased him outside the city. He wanted to recover the assassin, but that person should also know that he was taken back." When he came back, he only died, so he fought desperately, and Mo Yan stabbed him to death."

"Dead?" Sai Jian was a little surprised, but it made sense after thinking about it.He had also fought against Mo Yan before, and he knew that Baili Nian's subordinate was as cold as ice, and he was even more merciless in his attacks. If the opponent fought desperately, he would really send him to hell.

Sai Jian pursed his lips, with a serious expression on his face, "Although death deserves death, the king is still worried about not being able to find out the person behind the assassin."

Baili Nian didn't care, he took two pieces of side dishes, put them in Sai Jian's bowl, and said in relief: "It's just a skilled assassin, and it's not difficult to guess who is behind it, it's nothing more than a grudge against me. The person who can benefit from my death, or the person who can benefit from my death. The former should be the old man of Nanming or Beiyan, and the latter is Xizhao."

Baili Nian's tone was flat, as if it wasn't a big deal, but Sai Jian frowned, even the dishes that Baili Nian gave him were tasteless.He looked at Baili Nian, "Is Nian'er not worried about her own safety?"

"Why worry?" Baili Nian raised his eyes, and put his hand on Sai Jian's, "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry, Nian'er has her own way to protect herself. I can handle these trivial matters. Your Majesty doesn't believe that Nian Son?"

Sai Jian looked at Baili Nian in front of him, and after a long time sighed, he held Baili Nian's hand back, "How can this king not believe in Nian, Nian is the most intelligent person in the world?" People will be able to keep themselves safe."

Hearing this bare|naked compliment, Baili pursed his lips and smiled, and didn't speak any more.

……

As for the assassin, Sai Jian didn't bother to ask any further. He was already dead, so he couldn't find anything out. Just like what Baili Nian said, the people who instigated him were nothing more than these people, either the old man from Nanming and Beiyan, or It is Xi Zhao who is now at odds with Da Jiang.Sai Jian, who was going to the main hall to attend the early court, frowned slightly when he heard the minister talk about Xi Zhao.

He became more and more annoyed with each other, and became more and more worried about him, and he really became more and more disliked.

On the other side, Gaoming Tower, Wangbei Tower.

After Baili Nian watched Sai Jian leave, his face became a little colder.Sai Jian went out with his front foot, and Mo Yan entered the North Tower with his back foot. He picked up a white velvet and beautiful cloak, put it on Baili Nian, and said while putting it on, "My lord, it's done."

"He's not dead, is he?" Baili Nian raised his head and tied his cloak on his own.

Mo Yan withdrew his hand, and stood beside Baili Nian, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, "I can't die if the medicine is poured in."

Baili Nian's cold eyes did not show any ripples, and he gave a faint "hmm", as if what he was talking about was not about life and death, but about the taste of the porridge for breakfast.Baili Nian raised his eyes slightly, but the gentleness in his eyes had long since disappeared when he faced Sai Jian. It was as cold as an ice cellar, so he walked out, "Go and have a look."

The person who looked at him was naturally the assassin from last night.

How could the person Mo Yan wanted to chase fail to catch up.Mo Yan did chase outside the city, and he did catch up to the assassin, and the assassin did fight to the death, but no matter how desperate he was, he would not force Mo Yan to kill him.He was hit by a hundred-mile twisting poisonous needle, and it was good to be able to make it to the gate of the city. Even if he exhausted all his strength, he couldn't do two tricks in Mo Yan's hands, so he was caught and brought back by Mo Yan.

It’s just that the man also knew that being caught by Baili Nian would mean death, and he didn’t want to be forced to confess by Baili Nian, so he committed suicide by taking the prepared poison, but there are thousands of ways to commit suicide, and he should never use poison This kind, Baili Nian is best at making poison, and those who are good at making poison must also be good at detoxifying.

Baili Nian got up in the morning not to eat some candied fruit, but to get the pills.When Mo Yan came back early in the morning, he informed Baili Nian about this matter. Bai Li Nian only put on a coat, and went to see the man's poison. Take it.Nanlin Shenjizi's antidote is hard to find, and he was given an assassin, although it was cheaper for him, but it also hanged his life.

The person who was poisoned twice and beaten half to death by Sai Jian still failed to die after all.

She was locked in the cellar behind Jinshu Pavilion on Gaomingtai. When Sai Shu was still living in Jinshu Pavilion, she was fond of wine, and Baili Nian once gave her Zhuoyin wine, so she knew that there was a cellar behind Jinshu Pavilion. It is the place where Sai Shu hides wine, now Sai Shu is back in Cangyu Mountain, and no one lives in Jinshu Pavilion, so Baili Nian asked Mo Yan to put people in here.Sai Jian never interfered with Baili Nian's whereabouts, and Gao Mingtai let him move around. It would be safer to leave this person outside than Gao Mingtai.

The cellar was a bit damp and cold, water droplets stuck to the black-painted ground all the way, and he was covered in white, but he didn't get a trace of dirt on it. He walked in lightly, his face still pale and indifferent, and saw the man squatting in the corner , and his complexion has not changed a bit.

But the man stood up, he was excited and rushed towards Baili Nian, his body was black and dirty, almost staining Baili Nian, but when he was about to catch Baili Nian in his hand Suddenly, he was pulled back, even though he was only two feet away from Baili Nian, he still couldn't touch him.A chain was tied around his waist, dragging him halfway.

Baili Nian's expression remained the same, he looked at this somewhat familiar face, this person was Qing Weng, the storyteller of Zhumo Tea House, but Baili Nian opened his mouth, but called him by another title.

Baili Nian said without any emotion in his tone: "Since General Qing is here, let's be safe."

Being called "General Qing" in a daze, Qing Weng raised his eyes and looked at the dusty and beautiful face in front of him. Surprise flashed in his eyes, but he immediately covered it up, as if he didn't understand the meaning.

"What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about, old man!"

However, Baili Nian raised his eyes, which looked like the bottom of a calm pool, "General Qing naturally knows what I'm talking about. Since you came to assassinate me, you would also think of falling into my hands. No matter how hard you deny it at this time ,Means nothing."

"If I say I don't know, I don't know. If you want to kill me, you can do whatever you want. Don't say these useless words!"

Qing Man didn't want to talk to Baili Nian, he knew that if he fell into Baili Nian's hands, he would not end well. He wanted to die, but Bai Li Nian knew that he wanted to die, so what could he do? let him die.

Baili Nian looked at him, "Since I can detoxify and bring you back, you should know that I won't let you die. I only have two questions for you."

"I don't know!" Qing Weng opened his mouth without thinking, not to mention that he hated Baili Nian to the bone, but thought that the question he asked must be against Xi Zhao, so how could Qing Weng not answer.

Baili Nian was not surprised by his attitude. The young general, even though he was defeated by Jiang Huan in the first battle all his life, was a hero and hero, so naturally he would not submit to Baili Nian. Not a snort.

However, human beings have weaknesses.

Baili Nian took two steps back, glanced at the narrow window at the top of the corner of the room, and said in a low voice, "Back when the North Yan and Nanming faced each other, and Xizhao was still a vassal state of Nanming, I went to Nanming. At that time, the old King Xizhao was hostage in Nanming and lived in the Hengyuan of the Nanming Palace, do you know what the Hengyuan is?"

Baili Nian looked at Qing Old man, asked casually, and his voice was calm, but when the word "Old King Xi Zhao" came out, Qing Old Man's face tightened, as if he had been touched by Ni Lin, and even his tattered clothes The hands under the sleeves were clenched into fists.He stared at Baili Nian, "What do you want to say!?"

Baili Nian continued to speak slowly: "Hengyuan was originally the place where the princes and grandsons of the Southern Ming Dynasty raised war horses. After the Three Kingdoms eradicated ginger, Hengyuan became a place where poultry, cattle and sheep were raised to provide meat for the palace. Spend the rest of your life in the cattle and sheep pen, compete with the chickens and ducks for food, sleep with the cattle and sheep, and be chained like a dog, put around your neck, and jingle when you walk."

Baili Nian looked around twice as he spoke, "That place is worse than this cellar."

"Shut up!" Qing Man clenched his fists tighter and tighter. He stared at Baili Nian, not wanting to hear a word from him. When he was King Xi Zhao, he didn't want to hear a word!

But Baili Nian continued as if no one was there, "When I went to Hengyuan to visit the old King Xizhao, I saw that the old man was suffering, so I wanted to help the old man to end his remaining life. When I took out the poison, he You recognized me and knew that I was the old owner of Dajiang, but do you know how he is?"

Baili Nian looked at Qing Man, but Qing Man tightly covered his ears, not wanting to hear a word from him, his eyes were also bloodshot, and his emotions were collapsing.

Seeing his appearance, Baili Yan's eyes were unmoved, and he said softly: "Old King Xizhao knelt down in front of me, grabbed my trousers and cried and begged. He was not as good as he was when he was on a dog chain. He was so overbearing, he cried and said that he had listened to the words of the villain when he killed Dajiang, he begged me to kill him, begged me to help him, and send him out of the sea of ​​suffering."

"What kind of person is the old King Xizhao? Before the Three Kingdoms destroyed Da Jiang, Xizhao was the most powerful country among the Three Kingdoms. The old King Xizhao was so domineering all his life, but in the end he knelt at the feet of the person he once despised the most, begging him to die I will naturally fulfill him. When the poison falls on the ground, he throws himself on the ground, picks up the muddy house in the cattle and sheep pen, swallows it, and waits to die like an animal. You say that at that time, he should Is it thanks to me, thank me for being alive and sending him to die..."

"Ginger twist!"

Qing Man couldn't bear it anymore, he let out a loud roar, and struggled fiercely, the chain around his waist made a clinking sound because of his excitement, it was really ear-piercing, and although Qing Man was half a hundred years old, But he still possessed incomparable strength, as if he could break free from the shackles, but he was still bound by the chain.

Baili Nian raised his eyes and glanced at him, his eyes were still flat, "It seems that General Qing remembered me?"

Qing Weng's eyes were bloodshot, he stared at Baili Nian, wishing he could tear the man in front of him to pieces.When he first met Baili Nian, Baili Nian was still a playful boy, because he was good-looking, he also had an impression, and now his appearance is even more memorable, but his temperament has changed a lot, he is still cynical The young man is clearly the one who can see the softest part of the heart and can stab a knife in the softest part.

"Jiang Nian, what exactly do you want!" Qing Weng roared angrily.

Baili Nian raised her eyes slightly, "I've said it all, but I just wanted to ask General Qing two questions, I didn't think about anything else."

"I didn't think about it, what are you asking the king about!" Qing Weng said angrily, the king he was talking about was naturally his monarch, the old King Xizhao.

The young man was on the verge of collapse, and the old Xizhao King was his rebel. He couldn't hear how the generation of overlords he had followed died, and he couldn't hear how his king was insulted by Baili Nian.

"I'm just curious. With Qingquetang's ability, it's only a matter of time before I know how old King Xizhao died. You knew that I killed him, so you came to the door. But coincidentally, you don't know how old King Xizhao died. He begged me to kill him." Baili Nian lowered his eyes.

"There have been many years of entanglement between you and him. When he was suffering in Hengyuan, you didn't take action, but now you assassinate me who helped him. Do you think he should be grateful to you, or should he blame you?"

"Jiang Nian! Shut up, shut up!" Qing Weng yelled, as if he wanted to tear Baili Nian's mouth apart, but the latter's eyes remained calm, and his face remained calm.

Baili Nian muttered to himself, "Uncle Wang also misjudged you."