The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

When Yan Xun came back the next day, he brought several boxes of big crabs, which were given by others. Bai Yu was greedy for crabs, so he said, "Take it to the kitchen, let the cook pick out the crab roe, I want to eat crab roe soup dumplings."

"What about the remaining crab meat?" Wei Shiba asked naively.

"Ah, yes, don't waste it." Bai Yu turned to Yan Xun, "Are you eating crab meat?"

Yan Xun nodded.

Wei Shiba agreed to go.

"Look at how kind I am to you, I'll give you all the meat." Bai Yu smiled and acted obediently.

"When will your eyes be good?" Yan Xun didn't ask all this time, he was waiting for Bai Yu to say it himself, but this person didn't talk about the point for a long time.

Bai Yu said: "Yesterday. I fell asleep when you were not at home, and I can see it when I wake up."

"Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

"No, everything is fine."

Yan Xun looked at him, and suddenly asked, "Where did Qiu Ye go?"

"I'll let him go out to do some errands." Bai Yu lowered his head and picked at his fingers.

Yan Xun didn't ask him what was the matter, and went into the house to change clothes.

Qiu Ye came back more than half a month later, and showed Bai Yu a booklet.He said: "Your Highness, these are all the news I investigated in Haiwei."

Bai Yu took it and flipped through the pages.

"Sure enough." Bai Yu pointed to a spot on the paper, "October in Renchen year, this is the month after my birth. What a coincidence."

Qiu Ye was puzzled and said, "How does Your Highness know that Prime Minister Shen is related to Hai Wei?"

Bai Yu closed the booklet, put it close to her body, and said, "After Yan Xun came back from the expedition, he told me about the small country of Haiwei. He said that Haiwei believed in a flower called Manzhushahua, and they regarded it as the national flower. But the meaning of this flower in Dazhou is unlucky, because it is said that this flower blooms by the Santu River and is a flower of the netherworld."

That day Bai Yu followed Chizheng into the carriage, bumped for a long time, the carriage ran at high speed without stopping, and the curtain never opened.After walking for an afternoon and half a night, I arrived at my destination late at night.

Shen Xiu helped Bai Yu down, and it turned out to be at the foot of a barren mountain, with peaks overlapping and undulating, with no end in sight.Although Bai Yu could see it, she didn't know where she was.

The mountain road is rugged, strictly speaking there is no road, so Shen Xiu walked all the way and cut down the branches and weeds around the road to clear the way for Bai Yu.The trees, grass and stones are the same everywhere, without any characteristics for Baiyu to remember, and in addition to the darkness, he can't look around, he is dragged up the mountain in a complete chaos, and he has to pretend to be difficult The look of groping.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Bai Yu could vaguely see dots of fire not far away, and when he got closer, it seemed that the outline of a cave appeared in his field of vision, guarded by a few people walking back and forth.

The cave was very dark, there were only three or five torches lighting the entrance, so it was impossible to see clearly inside.A gust of moisture rushed towards his face, Bai Yu shivered, and Shen Xiu immediately put his coat on him.

"It's so cold here." Bai Yu said.

Shen Xiu opened the fire folder and lit the wall lamp on the nearby stone wall. The fire spread inward and lit up all the hanging oil lamps.Presumably they are connected.

The cave was suddenly brightly lit, and Bai Yu saw that the cave was very spacious and high, as big as several of his bedrooms, and there were several small openings inside, which might lead to other caves or exits.

Shen Xiu helped him in, let him sit on a stone bench carved from a large rock, and said, "Your Highness, wait a moment."

Although it is a cave, it is quite exquisitely decorated here, with many calligraphy and painting decorations hanging, as well as screen decorations, and several huge bookshelves, full of books.It seems that Shen Qing has lived here for a long time.

He was walking over to look at those calligraphy and paintings with his back turned to him, Bai Yu was able to turn his eyes, and his eyes fell on a screen, which was embroidered with a large piece of manjusawa, as bright as blood.

At this time, Shen Qing came out from a small hole, Bai Yu hurriedly stopped his gaze and looked at a loss.

Shen Qing still didn't reveal any secret to him, this was expected by Bai Yu.Even if Shen Qing believed his "surrender", for the sake of safety, he would probably still keep his mouth shut.Bai Yu didn't bother to listen to what he said in those scenes, and he couldn't rush to ask about his plan to avoid Shen Qing's suspicion, so he just smiled and pretended.

"Your Highness, as long as you wait with peace of mind, the veteran will definitely do his best to make His Highness get what he wants."

old fox.Bai Yu secretly gritted her teeth.

Shen Qing made it clear that in the name of letting Bai Yu prove his sincerity, he crossed the river and demolished the bridge after using him. What that meant was that you did what I ordered and left alone, and I won't tell you what I'm going to do.

However, on the surface, he remained calm, and only said: "Since Shen is doing things, I am naturally relieved."

Shen Qing stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's not that the old minister doesn't trust His Highness, it's just that His Highness can't help you with these things, and it only makes His Highness uneasy."

"Naturally, Prime Minister Shen asked me to come here today, it's the greatest expression of trust in me." Bai Yu said inwardly.If he didn't think he was blind, Shen Qing wouldn't let Shen Xiu bring him here at all.

"My hope is on Shen Xiang."

He meant it.

Shen Qing nodded in satisfaction.

Bai Yu recovered from her contemplation, and continued to say to Qiu Ye: "I saw a screen embroidered with manjusawa at Shen Qing's that day. It stands to reason that people in Dazhou would never plant this kind of flower at home or use it as a decoration." In the past, I never heard that Shen Qing had a special liking for Manzhushahua. On the way back, I remembered another thing—the younger generation of the Shen family, every 20 years old, they would go out for a few years. On the one hand, it is to increase knowledge and make friends with talents from all over the world, and on the other hand, it can also broaden Shen’s network. I seem to have heard that when Shen Qing was young and traveling decades ago, he became a teacher in Haiwei and lived there for two or three years. Year. It is said that the gentleman is a rare celebrity, with a chest full of stars and a belly full of pearls."

Qiu Ye listened carefully, and said, "So, this person is from Haiwei?"

"That's right." Bai Yu nodded, and said, "At the same time, I remembered what Yan Xun said about Haiwei's use of manjusha as its national flower. In addition, Haiwei just destroyed the country a while ago, and the new king's husband Meng Renta Being captured alive by Yan Xun. It's such a coincidence that these things are connected, so I let you go."

Qiu Ye thought for a moment, and said: "My subordinates found out that in October of the year Renchen, the teacher of Prime Minister Shen passed away, Prime Minister Shen went to Haiwei to mourn his teacher, and stayed in Haiwei for two full months before returning home! "

"I was just a month old at that time, and the Empress Dowager was holding a swaddling baby to attend the court. It was a time when the current situation was turbulent. As an important minister of the court, even if his teacher passed away, how could he stay there? Didn't come back for the last two months? Isn't he afraid that he would give the Queen Mother countless opportunities to make waves if he left for so long? I don't believe he can't tell which is more important—let alone look at Shen Qing who values ​​love and justice? He If he valued love and righteousness so much, he wouldn't treat his elder brother whom he watched growing up like this."

Qiu Ye took a deep breath and said in horror, "Then, what exactly did Prime Minister Shen do in Haiwei during those two months?"

"I don't know yet." Bai Yu paused, then said, "But..."

Two days later.

"Is he locked up here?"

This is the resting palace outside. The eunuch took Baiyu to the entrance of a palace called "Tingwu Pavilion", where the new king of Haiwei, Fumeng Renta lived.

Although living here is full of rich clothes and fine food, and the emperor even named him a "Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery", everyone knows that this is just a prisoner lingering on his last breath.Not killing him is just for the good name of the emperor.

"Yes, please, Your Highness." The little eunuch bent over and said.

Bai Yu followed him in.

He once imagined what a subjugated king would look like, desolate, depressed, skinny and ready to be slaughtered.He hadn't seen it, but it probably should have been like this.

Fumengrenta is obviously an exception.

As soon as he entered, he saw a majestic man with a naked upper body straddling a horse and practicing boxing in the yard. He had a rigid and powerful face, his body was bulging with big muscles, and his body was covered with sharp tattoos, which almost covered all his skin.

Da Zhou was relatively conservative under the shackles of Confucianism and Mencius. Even men did not like to be shirtless in broad daylight, and even this was considered an insulting punishment.So when Bai Yu suddenly saw him like this, she frowned unconsciously and turned her head sideways.

The little eunuch hurriedly apologized and said: "Your Highness, forgive me! He is always like this, it is not proper." He said to Fumeng Renta: "Put on your clothes!"

Fumengrenta stopped, but was still naked.The weather in late autumn was already very cold, he didn't realize it, and when his eyes fell on Bai Yu, he stopped and stared at him for a long time.Looking at it, he actually smiled Meng Lang and blew a whistle at Bai Yu.

Qiu Ye immediately said angrily: "Do you want to die?!"

Bai Yu stopped him, and looked at Fumeng Renta calmly.

"Who are you?" he asked.

The little eunuch was angry and impatient, afraid that Bai Yu would anger him, he yelled at his husband, Meng Renta, "This is His Royal Highness King Liang! You still don't kneel down to salute! Presumptuous barbarian!"

"King Liang?" Fumeng Renta rolled his eyes, "Oh, this little guy is so handsome, I thought he was your emperor's favorite boy."

Qiu Ye pulled out half of the saber, but was pushed back by Bai Yu.He looked at Fumeng Renta for a moment, and said: "Your relatives and family members are all in the hands of the emperor. You dare not kill yourself for fear of implicating them, so you think that as long as you anger the emperor and let him take the initiative to kill you, others will not be implicated?" ? If I were the emperor's brother, I would kill your whole family when I got angry. Men, women, old and young, no one will be left behind."

Fumeng Renta's frivolous expression froze suddenly, and his face gradually became ashen.

Bai Yu frowned, and said, "A prisoner looks like a prisoner, don't forget where you are. Put on your clothes."

I thought that Bai Yu would look easy to bully, but he didn't want to kick the iron plate.Fumengrenta's chest rose and fell violently, and he picked up his coat from the ground through gritted teeth and put it on.