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

The white snow light seeped through the window lattice, and the snowflakes were like sharp and fine sand and stones, smashing the sky and covering the sky.Bai Yu quietly opened her eyes and looked out the window, feeling completely sleepy for a while.

Yan Xun keenly noticed that his breathing sound was different from that in deep sleep, so he stood up and pulled the quilt for Bai Yu, "What are you thinking?"

Bai Yu turned over and met Shang Yanxun's gaze.

"You've heard all the rumors outside these days, right?" Bai Yu lowered his eyes sadly, "President Shen is looking for the source of the rumors."

Bai Yu slept with her long hair disheveled and her clothes disheveled. The front of her pajamas was ajar, revealing her fair collarbone and chest.Yan Xun's throat moved, and he quickly looked away.

"Hmm...Track the source..." Yan Xun pulled back his wandering thoughts, "Do you think he suspects that you deliberately released these rumors?"

Bai Yu said in a low voice: "It's not doubting, he definitely thinks it's me. That day only Brother Huang, Prime Minister Shen, me, and Nanny Feng were present, who else do you think other than me?"

Yan Xun was lost in thought.Bai Yu shivered, subconsciously said: "Do you also think it's me?"

Yan Xun hurriedly said, "No, no, I was thinking of how to help you clarify."

"Actually, I know who it is." Bai Yu bit her lip, "But I can't say, I can't say."

Yan Xun caressed his face, and said: "Then don't talk about it. Prime Minister Shen is the elder of the four dynasties, he has never experienced any big storms and waves, and he will not be easily deceived."

Bai Yu sighed softly, and said: "I'm really scared, now it's just some nonsensical talk, if one day the Cen family gets serious and makes a fuss about what my father said back then, what should I do? "

"The emperor is already working to weaken the power of the Cen family. After all, they are just relatives. There is a minister among the civil servants, and I am among the generals. We will not stand idly by. Just pretend that nothing happened and everything will be the same as before. Just fine."

Bai Yu looked at Yan Xun, smiled brightly, and buried her head in front of his chest, "Brother Huang, it's really great to have you two ministers of humerus assisting you."

"Shen Xiang only wants peace in the world all his life, but I want to protect my family and the country and you."

A strand of Yan Xun's fluffy hair fell from the sideburns, and Bai Yu gradually fell asleep soundly sleeping with that strand of hair in his hands.

The new year is approaching, and Yuchi Yuanhe, who was stationed in the south of the Yangtze River, returned to Beijing after a change of defense. Not only did he bring back a large number of brocade silks and famous tea leaves woven by Jiangnan's skillful embroiderers, but he also brought back two hundred singers and dancers, all of whom were petite and delicate. , I feel pity.In addition, it is said that he brought a hundred beautiful young ladies with white skin and red lips, but when he returned to Shangjing, there were only ninety of these hundred young ladies.

So there were rumors that the ten young men were tortured to death by General Yuchi's strange skills and ingenuity.

Regarding such rather unpleasant rumors, Yuchi Yuanhe did not explain, just smiled and sent one hundred of the two hundred beauties to the emperor, kept thirty for himself, and distributed the rest to several ministers in the court .

When the ten beauties stood in front of the general's mansion together, Bai Yu's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and Yan Xun almost tripped over the threshold when he heard the words.

Bai Yu gave him a cold look, then flung his sleeves and went back to the room.

Yan Xunsan smiled sarcastically, how could he dare to invite the girls into the mansion, and it was not easy to save Yuchi Yuanhe's face, so he had to order someone to take them to Yan's mansion to serve Princess Chunyi—after Yan Jun's repeated Convincing her mistake, she has already moved back.

Yan Xun shook Bai Yu's hand, and said with a smile, "I asked them to serve my mother. I only heard that he would give me a gift, which is a special product in the south of the Yangtze River. I thought it was tea silk, but I didn't know he would give it Come some beauties."

Bai Yu let out an "oh" and continued to read with her head down.

Yan Xun rolled his eyes, and quickly changed his words clumsily: "No, no, I don't know if it's beautiful or not, I didn't look at it."

Bai Yu couldn't help laughing, "Okay, I know."

Yan Xun breathed a sigh of relief, and then emphasized: "I really didn't watch it."

"This General Yuchi is interesting." Bai Yu closed the book, "I heard that he even sent a hundred beauties to the emperor. Besides the beauties, he also brought back many young men. He is not afraid of others saying that he is in favor of the emperor. Unscrupulous, using beauty to misuse the government."

"It's not for the Emperor Bo's favor, but he really thinks it's very important to have a beautiful woman to accompany him." Yan Xun gave a "tsk" and said, "Yuchi Yuanhe is a great general with only one shortcoming, which is lust. There is never a shortage of Yingying and Yanyan around me. But this is a trivial matter, and he is still serious when he is fighting."

Bai Yu smiled and said, "Then General Yuchi's garrison in the south of the Yangtze River is close to the water."

In the Chongming Palace, the emperor stared fixedly at the icicles formed by the accumulated water under the eaves, tapped his fingers twice on his knees, and said, "Play "Guangling San"."

Ye Zhiyan tuned the strings to test the sound, and Fang slowly stretched his sleeves and played the piano.The sound of the piano is melodious and light, endless, clear and clear without the slightest stagnation.

The emperor reclined on the soft couch in the Nuan Pavilion, wearing a fox fur on his knees, and lazily said: "Watching the return, waving the five strings, looking up and complacent, wandering too mysteriously. The sound of such a good piano is not inferior to the number of others. A veteran musician for ten years."

Ye Zhiyan smiled and said, "The emperor's absurd praise."

The emperor got up and walked to the window. On the long table was a flat wooden box that was two meters long and one meter wide. The emperor stretched out his hand to open it.

This is actually not a box for holding things. Inside is a sand table similar to that used in marching and fighting, but it is not an ordinary sand table used by generals to check routes and dispatch troops, but a model of a vast grassland.

The "grassland" inside is vast and open, and the vast forest sea holds out the red sun in the morning, gushing out in all directions, and the rays of light are overwhelming.

Take a closer look, the "red sun" is propped up with a small wooden stick, take it off and replace it with a luminous pearl placed next to it, as if a round moon came out of the clouds, the moonlight was shining, illuminating the sky. Pink and purple wildflowers bloom on the distant "river bank".

"Cows, sheep, roe deer, and horses" scattered on the "grassland" are scattered or eat grass or drink water, or rest and run in groups, and "birds" the size of rice grains are perched on the branches.Everything is done to life.

Ye Zhiyan saw this thing for the first time, looked left and right curiously, and said: "This model is really exquisite, where did it come from?"

The emperor smiled softly and said, "On my birthday, King Liang made it himself. To do this, his hand was pricked by wooden thorns."

Ye Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, and said, "The king of Liang has a heart."

"I have never been to the grassland, but I told him once, and he really remembered it." The emperor touched a lamb by the river, "This gift from him is more thoughtful than any gold, jewelry, or shellfish."

"To avoid suspicion, the prince seems to have not entered the palace for many days." Ye Zhiyan looked at the emperor's expression and said slowly.

The emperor was taken aback, and sighed, "There are a lot of gossip these days, so it's better for him to avoid it."

Ye Zhiyan said: "Occasionally, I heard a few gossips, saying that it was the King of Liang who publicized this matter in an attempt to seek the throne."

The emperor frowned and said, "This is all nonsense. Who said it?"

"They don't dare to talk nonsense in front of the emperor, but there are so many people talking nonsense, and the emperor can't punish them." Ye Zhiyan lowered his eyelids and said in a low voice, "Compared with this, there are even more irrelevant things."

"Anything else? What else?"

Ye Zhiyan said: "They are all villains. They say that the position of General Yan was given to him by the emperor for the sake of King Liang. And General Yan is the reliance of His Royal Highness King Liang..."

The emperor suddenly became annoyed, and looked very hesitant, "You bastard!"

Ye Zhiyan sighed: "I don't blame the emperor for being angry. The generals in the capital are all comrades, and they are all the emperor's favorite generals. They should help each other regardless of each other. Why are they still secretly slandering?"

The emperor's eyes darkened, "Cen An said these words?"

Baiyu was wearing a thick feathered satin cloak, holding a large bouquet of red plums and white plums in her hands. Every plum blossom on the flower branch was in a posture that was about to bloom, ready to be released, with some fresh snow.

"Your Highness has picked so many plum blossoms, did they all go back and put them in bottles?" Qiu Ye asked.

Bai Yu said: "Use half of it as medicine, and keep the other half for watching. I will plant some plum trees in the palace next winter, so I don't have to travel all the way to pick them."

Qiu Ye said: "Then come down and take it, Your Highness beware of cold hands."

As he spoke, he was about to reach out to take the flowers, but before they reached his hands, he suddenly heard someone behind the flower tree ask, "Who are you?"

Bai Yu turned her head and saw a strange man, about thirty or so, with sharp features, sword-shaped eyebrows, and a pair of sharp black eyes, staring at him firmly.

Not knowing the identity of this person, Bai Yu refused to talk to him, and was about to leave when the person stepped forward to block his way.

Qiu Ye stood in front of Bai Yu and said, "Who are you? Don't be presumptuous!"

The man turned a deaf ear and just stared at Bai Yu with a burning look in his eyes, "What's your name? Which family is it from?"

Bai Yu sized him up a few times, frowned, and said coldly, "General Yuchi respects himself."

Yuchi Yuanhe was a little surprised, "How do you know my identity?"

Bai Yu didn't want to talk to him, so he turned around and wanted to leave, Yuchi Yuanhe grabbed his arm, "Hey! Don't go, I'm being rude, I just want to know you..."

Qiu Ye pulled Yuchi Yuanhe's hand away, ordered the guards to step forward to protect Baiyu, and said, "General, this is His Royal Highness King Liang!"

"King Liang?" Yuchi Yuanhe looked surprised and fascinated, "I have heard that His Royal Highness Liang Wang is a peerless beauty in the world, and I thought they had never seen the world. Now I know that the last general has never seen the world."

Yuchi Yuanhe's look of three souls but seven souls was both angry and funny, Bai Yu gave him a speechless look, and went back to the carriage with plum blossoms in his arms.