The nine princesses of the East Palace

Although there were doubts in his heart, Pei Zhao was a cautious and reticent person, so he didn't ask any questions.

When he returned to the Anhu Mansion in the Western Territory, it was already late at night, Li Chengyin didn't seem to plan to go to bed, after washing, he moved a ladder and climbed to the roof.Pei Zhao couldn't sleep, and climbed up the roof along the ladder, he saw Li Cheng Yin lying on his side on the eaves with his hands as pillows, looking at the stars and the crescent moon in the sky.

Pei Zhao found a seat and just sat down when he heard Li Chengyin say: "Azhao, tomorrow is the Qiqiao Festival, is there a girl you miss?"

Hearing this, Pei Zhao shook his head, "No."

"Then what kind of girl do you want to marry as your wife?" Li Chengyin asked again.

Pei Zhao thought for a while and said, "If possible, it would be the best to marry someone I like. However... I'm afraid it won't work."

As for the reason, he didn't go on to say.

Li Chengyin naturally understands what he means, Pei Zhao is not a son of an ordinary family, his father is a general, his mother is an eldest princess, with a noble status, but precisely because he is in an aristocratic family, the matter of marriage cannot be decided by himself.

He didn't continue to ask, but said, "I want to marry whoever I like too."

Pei Zhao turned his head to look at him, and saw that he was still looking at the stars and the moon, as if he was looking forward to it, but now Pei Zhao was confused, only felt that his words were specious, and finally couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked: "What about that?" Will Your Highness marry Princess Nine?"

"Why don't you marry?" Li Cheng Yin asked back.

The meaning of the words couldn't be more obvious, but Pei Zhao felt that His Highness was probably drunk and still not awake, talking nonsense.Of course he would marry the nine princesses, but it was only a stopgap measure, after all, it was the empress who sent her here.However, if he said that he liked the nine princesses, Pei Zhao thought it was nonsense.If you haven't seen it yet, how can you talk about your love?

But a few days later, Pei Zhao realized that he was wrong.

The first time Pei Zhao met Princess Nine was a sunny and rainy day.At that time, Li Chengyin had already changed his name to Gu Xiaowu, pretending to be an ordinary Central Plains tea merchant, while the Ninth Princess escaped from Xizhou Wangcheng, and was intercepted by Shuobo people on the way to Danchi. where to go.Li Chengyin found Pei Zhao and asked him to lead others to search, Pei Zhao and his party searched for half an hour before finding the fainted Ninth Princess on the sand.

A young general wanted to go forward to help the ninth princess, but Li Chengyin picked her up first, the young general who wanted to help the ninth princess was scared and took a few steps back, when he regained consciousness, Li Chengyin had already gone far away.

Although it is July, the night is still a bit cold.When Pei Zhao came over with the blanket on the horse's back, the Ninth Princess was having a high fever and talking nonsense, Li Cheng Yin tore off the sleeve of his clothes, dipped it in water, and carefully applied it to her forehead, with one hand He patted her on the back again and again, like coaxing a child... After a while, Princess Jiu felt cold again, so Li Chengyin took off his outer robe, covered her, and wrapped her tightly...

Ever since Pei Zhao knew Li Chengyin, he had never seen any woman in contact with him, and he was unwilling to say a few words, let alone take good care of her.Pei Zhao only thought that he was naturally cold, but he didn't think that he also had a tender side.

Ninth Princess was crying cold again, Li Chengyin picked her up, sat beside the fire, warmed his hands for her to cover her face...

Pei Zhao didn't stay for long, put the blanket aside, and left.

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Gao Xian had a rift with Shuo Bo, and he made extra efforts to investigate the case of Li Chengyin's assault. Within ten days, he found out that the incident was done by Shuo Bo, intending to blame Dan Chi.But at this time, Li Chengyin had already followed the nine princesses to Danchi Wang's tent.

When Li Chengyin went to Danchi, he gave three orders, one was to let Chai Mu take his handbook to Shuobo, pretending to ask Shuobo to send troops to aid the Central Plains, and take down Danchi; Wan Jingbing ambushed around Shuobo's camp, and the remaining [-] elite soldiers faced Shuobo head-on after rounding up with Dan Chi; the third was to try every means to hold Gao Xian back and prevent him from going to the front line.

Pei Zhao tried every means to bribe a quack killer, and added croton to Gao Xian's diet to hold him back.

On the day of Li Chengyin's and Ninth Princess's wedding in Danchi, Danchi's king's tent was full of joy and joy, but the surroundings of the king's tent were surrounded by heaven and earth.If Li Chengyin's goal is to capture Dan Chi, he can take it in one fell swoop within two days.

Shuo Bo started beating drums early in the morning.King Danchi betrothed the nine princesses to a tea merchant in the Central Plains, but dismissed Shuobo's marriage proposal. This was undoubtedly a great shame for Shuobo, and they couldn't hold back for a long time.

Shuo Bo's drum beat for an hour before Dan Chi sent troops out to fight, and the ones he sent were still unknown soldiers.But Shuo Bo's coach this time was King Lidun, and Shuo Bo's soldiers felt that Dan Chi was indifferent, and they all shouted that they wanted King Dan Chi to come out to fight in person, otherwise, they would smash the king's account and start killing.

The Danchi people thought that the Shuobo people were just trying to provoke trouble, but they were frightened when they saw such a big battle, and immediately went back to report to King Danchi.

Two quarters of an hour later, the people sent by King Danchi arrived, and King Lidun took a look. Among the three vanguards of Danchi, he recognized two, one was Heshi, the other was Imoyan, both of whom were King Danchi. He is a capable general under his command, but he has never seen the other one before. He is thin and looks like a native of the Central Plains. Could it be the Central Plains tea merchant that King Dan Chi has taken a fancy to?He looks so weak that Shuo Bo can find any man who is stronger than him.

King Lidun felt very angry. He pointed his sword at the sky and shouted loudly, "Kill!"

Shuo Bo soldiers responded one after another, and the sound of killing shook the sky.But before the Shuo Bo soldiers were dispatched, there was a sudden rain of arrows above their heads. It was the sound of arrows piercing into the flesh. A large number of soldiers in the vanguard fell down in an instant, and the Shuo Bo soldiers who hadn't fallen down also showed panic frequently. , The originally neat army formation suddenly became chaotic.

Before the rain of arrows stopped, King Lidun was furious, he drew his sword to resist, resisted desperately, until he was exhausted and [-]% of Shuo Bo soldiers were killed or injured, the rain of arrows did not stop.

The people from Danchi attacked with axes and spears, and he didn't look down on the Central Plains tea merchants before, but now he was wearing armor and holding a sharp sword, occupying the position of Central Plains commander.

King Lidun seemed to understand something, he was furious, but he had no choice but to resist desperately with the remaining Shuobo soldiers.

Dan Chi and the people from the Central Plains attacked from both sides, and within two days of the battle, Shuo Bo's troops were defeated and retreated steadily.King Lidun thought of fleeing, and only by fleeing could he avoid death. He chopped down a young general from the Central Plains, grabbed a horse, got on the horse, hacked and killed all the way, and led the remaining few hundred people to the west. flee.

He ran wildly for half a day, thinking he had escaped from the siege, but when he looked back, there were no more than a hundred people around him left.Surrounded by achnatherum taller than people, he panicked and patted the horse vigorously, kicking up waves of dust, but just as the horse raised its front hooves, it suddenly fell to the ground.

King Lidun was thrown to the ground, and Achnatherum splendens scratched his face, causing burning pain. He touched the ground with his sword and stood up with support. Before he could stand upright, a light flashed in front of his eyes, and a sharp sword slashed towards his neck. When he came over, he didn't even have time to scream, his head rolled to the ground.

When Pei Zhao was still in shock, he slapped his horse and chased after him, the sword in Li Chengyin's hand was still dripping with blood, and King Lidun was already decapitated.

"Your Highness, please return to the main seat." Pei Zhaodao, "If Your Highness makes any mistakes, the whole army will bear the blame."

Li Chengyin glanced at him, pointed to King Lidun's head and said, "Azhao, this is a sacrifice, keep it safe."

Sacrifice?Pei Zhao didn't quite understand what he heard, but he still went forward, picked up the head, and hung it on the horse.But at the moment when he picked up his head, Li Cheng Yin shouted loudly, patted his horse, and ran forward.

He was alone, and in front of him was a canyon, the terrain was dangerous and extremely dangerous.

Pei Zhao didn't have time to think about it, and immediately blew his whistle to attract his soldiers to chase after him.

There was only a clanging sound, and the sharp blades were handed over.Li Chengyin was fighting with a man in plain clothes.

Pei Zhao recognized this person. He was Li Feng, the son of King Zhong. Li Feng was on the same side as the former crown prince Li Chengye. I'm afraid it's in Shuobo's army.

And this canyon... not good!

"Your Highness, run away!" Pei Zhao shouted hoarsely.But it was too late, sharp arrows shot from all directions, although Li Cheng Yin knocked them down a lot, two arrows pierced into his abdomen forcefully.

Li Feng laughed loudly, "Li Chengyin, you have today too! You are so stupid that you actually came after me. Since you have come after me, then today is your day of death."

"Really?" Li Chengyin vomited a mouthful of blood, but smiled at Li Feng, suddenly lifted his foot, and kicked Li Feng two feet away.

When Pei Zhao led the men to rescue Li Cheng Yin under the rain of arrows, Li Feng had disappeared.

When the reinforcements arrived, there was a loud noise of killing. The person hiding in the dark probably knew that he couldn't fight, so he didn't shoot any more arrows, but just like Li Feng, he fled without a trace.

Li Chengyin was seriously injured, Shuobo was at the end of his rope, Pei Zhao didn't want to fight any more, he ordered his lieutenant to clean up the mess, and escorted Li Chengyin all the way back to Anhu Mansion in the Western Territory.

Gao Xian knew that Li Chengyin was injured, and asked why, Pei Zhao told him about Li Feng.Gao Xian immediately frowned, hating Li Feng to the bone, you must know that the Western Territory is his territory, and the crown prince was assassinated here twice, so his responsibility is very great, if it was the previous two crown princes, it would be fine , Li Chengyin was supported by his father, if Li Chengyin did anything wrong, the emperor would be furious, and his father would probably blame him too.

He immediately ordered someone to find the best medical officer to look at Li Cheng Yin's wounds, and then he wrote a self-crime essay, and ordered someone to send it to Shangjing and present it to the emperor.After sending the letter, he was still worried, so he wrote another letter from home and sent it out.

Li Chengyin lay down for two whole days before he woke up.After he woke up, he didn't ask Li Feng or what was going on with the war, but asked Pei Zhao to go to Danchi and ordered him to bring back the ninth princess as a concubine.

After Pei Zhao took back the Ninth Princess, there was a rumor circulating in the entire western region that the emperor ordered the encirclement and suppression of Shuobo.

It stands to reason that he had only been away for four days, and the emperor might have received Gao Xian's confession at this moment, and it was impossible for the decree to reach the western border so quickly.There is only one possibility, it was Li Chengyin intentionally spreading the word, although Gao Xian acted recklessly, but with the Crown Prince here, he should not dare to be so unscrupulous.

As soon as Pei Zhao came back, he went to Li Chengyin's room, but before the ceremony was done, he asked, "Your Highness, have you thought it through?"

Li Chengyin was lying on the couch at the moment, flipping through the military book in one hand, and holding the writing brush in the other, when he heard Pei Zhao's voice, he immediately raised his head, "Ah Zhao, are you back? Is she okay?"

Li Chengyin avoided the important and ignored the trivial, Pei Zhao had nowhere to say what he said, so he could only say: "Ninth Princess, everything is fine."

"That's good." Li Chengyin said.

The author has something to say: As a preview, the fourth episode is relatively long. In addition to this chapter, there is another chapter. The fifth episode has also been written and will be released later.There are only five episodes in total.