Back and forth: I brought supplies to help the impoverished prince

When night falls

Wen Jiu sat on the stone steps at the door, looking at the palace maids and eunuchs kneeling on the ground in front of him, and asked: "Did you remember everything I said?"

The palace maids and eunuchs below nodded repeatedly and responded, "Understood!"

Wen Jiu nodded in satisfaction and spoke in conclusion: "Very good, then everyone should do their job and let us work hard to survive in this land of Da Zhou. Your families are waiting for you to return home safely. I promise that those who can return with me alive will receive a large sum of money to go home, and those who die for me, your family will also have a lifetime of wealth and glory."

"Let's go." Wen Jiu waved his hand.

The remaining maid walked over to Wen Jiu with her head down, stretched out her hand to help Wen Jiu up, and whispered in Wen Jiu's ear: "Your Highness's threat just now did not have much effect."

"Chunxue?" Wen Jiu had some impression of this little palace maid who had taken care of him along the way. She had a low sense of presence and had always been unknown, even being bullied by other palace maids.

"Yes," Haruyuki replied, "If Your Highness really cares about that girl, he shouldn't show how important she is. That way, she will be safe."

"What are you doing?" Wen Jiu naturally knew that his beating of the palace maids and eunuchs just now was useless, but now he had no good way to solve the problem of insufficient threat. He could only beat them first and deal with the rest later.

Chunxue supported Wen Jiu as he walked into the palace gate and whispered, "Your Highness can trust me. I will never betray you."

"Ha!" Wen Jiu used modern sarcastic words very naturally.

Chunxue lowered her head and whispered, "Your Highness is too weak now. It will not be easy for you to return alive, nor will it be easy for you to fight with the other princes after you return. Your Highness should improve yourself, such as the skills of self-protection. I will teach you."

"Who do you belong to?" Wen Jiu looked at the seemingly insignificant palace maid in front of him warily, and the coldness in his voice could not be hidden. "What does the person behind you want to do?"

"He wants Your Highness to have the ability to protect himself. When Your Highness reaches the stage where he can practice martial arts, he will come to see Your Highness." After Chunxue finished speaking, he took out the clothes that Wen Jiu was going to wear tonight and helped him change into them.

He turned his head to look at Qiao Shinian who was sleeping in an untidy manner, and frowned tightly: "Your Highness, it seems that the best protection for this girl is to follow General Lu back. General Lu is a gentleman and will not force this girl."

“Get lost!” Wen Jiu put down his hand, stared at Chun Xue fiercely, and said with gritted teeth: “She is mine! She is here to accompany me! No one can dare to touch her! No one!”

Staring at the fierce light in Wen Jiu's eyes, Chun Xue lowered her eyes and said, "I understand."

"Sister, wake up! It's time for us to go to the party!" Wen Jiu's gentle voice kept disturbing Qiao Shinian's wonderful dream.

There was a huge contrast between him at this moment and his ferocious look just now.

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"Oh~~" When Qiao Shinian stood behind Wen Jiu and yawned five or six times with her mouth closed, her eyes were already filled with tears.

There was still a long time before the banquet started, so she followed Wen Jiu towards the banquet.

"Sister, stop yawning. I feel like yawning too." Wen Jiu said in a low voice, slightly tilting his head.

There is not much difference in structure between the imperial palace of Zhou State and that of Chuwen State. The walls of Chuwen State are mainly gold and red, and the road surface is paved with white marble, while the walls of Zhou State are mainly white and red, and it looks like a road paved with marble bricks.

When the palace servants on the road saw them, they curiously stole glances at them.

Qiao Shinian looked at Wen Jiu who was walking in front, and was pulled back by Chunxue, and finally gradually walked side by side with Chunxue.

Wen Jiu seems to have a bit of a hunchback, so he needs to practice his posture.

Qiao Shinian added another item to her plan. She whispered to Chunxue beside her, "Chunxue, will General Lu and the others also attend the banquet?"

Haruyuki replied quietly, "Yes."

Qiao Shinian nodded. She couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Her and Wen Jiu's foreign journey had already begun.

She doesn't want Wen Jiu to be a villain or a tragic evil man in the future, so what she has to do now is to vigorously cultivate Wen Jiu's modern thinking. She doesn't expect him to become a good person in this era, but at least not a bad person.

When the eunuch leading the way took them to their location, the men and women around them all looked at Wen Jiu curiously.

Qiao Shinian was very familiar with some of those looks, they were looks of pity.

They were high and mighty, and they felt sorry for the prince who had fallen to the point of being a hostage.

They gloat, they are contemptuous, they are disdainful, and they are complacent.

"It's that marquis. He's secretly watching us." Qiao Shinian squatted down and whispered in Wen Jiu's ear, then motioned Wen Jiu to go and look.

It wasn't completely dark yet, and the open-air banquet was already brightly lit, but it was still not enough for Qiao Shinian. She looked at the dim distance with difficulty and whispered, "Wow, is that his wife? She's so pretty."

Wen Jiu followed Qiao Shinian's gaze and saw a woman in a gorgeous dress standing next to Wen Wenshan. She smiled from time to time and seemed to be talking to someone.

"Probably not. I heard that he hasn't married yet, and concubines are not eligible to attend such a state banquet. Judging from the way the girl is dressed, she should be a person of noble status." Wen Jiu answered in a low voice.

"Oh, what about the person opposite him? I feel that Wen Wenshan's attitude towards that person is not as arrogant as before, but a little close. Is he his brother or something like that?" Qiao Shinian squatted beside Wen Jiu.

Wen Jiu looked at the person opposite Wen Wenshan: "It should be the wise king."

"The virtuous king? The emperor's son?" Qiao Shinian was curious, and then quickly turned his head and pretended to pour wine for Wen Jiu, "Ah, he's looking here!"

Wen Jiu also took the wine that Qiao Shinian had just poured, but before he could move, Qiao Shinian grabbed his arm and said, "You are still young, you can't drink. Don't forget what I taught you before, children should not drink wine."

"I didn't plan to drink, I was just pretending." Wen Jiu felt wronged, he turned to look at Qiao Shinian: "Sister, the virtuous king is the brother of Emperor Zhou, not his son."

"Oh, Brother Zhou Di is so young, so is Emperor Zhou also young?" Qiao Shinian picked up a grape and stuffed it into Wen Jiu's mouth.

Wen Jiu's voice became a little softer, with a gossipy tone: "The life story of this wise king is a little complicated."

Qiao Shinian immediately became interested: "Tell me more about it."

"King Xian is the last son of the old emperor of Zhou. It is said that his mother, Concubine Xian, had an affair with the emperor, and the old emperor of Zhou disliked him because of this.

Later, the old emperor died. Emperor Zhou and Concubine Xian worked together and finally secured the throne. Then news spread that Concubine Xian had followed the old emperor of Zhou.

At that time, the virtuous king was only six years old. A year later, the virtuous king’s grandfather brought back a sickly daughter from Zhuangzi who had never appeared in the public eye. Her appearance was exactly the same as that of the late Concubine Xian.

Then the woman was taken into the harem by Emperor Zhou, and in just six months she became an imperial concubine and gave birth to a little princess.

Qiao Shinian's eyes suddenly lit up, and she turned her head again to look at the wise king who had already taken his seat, the shock in her eyes almost bursting out.

"What the hell, is that possible? In other words, his brother and his mother had an affair? Then, his mother and his brother's father gave birth to him. Then, his mother and his brother gave birth to a sister!"

"Oh, but that's just a rumor. Many people know that the current Imperial Concubine is just the biological sister of Concubine Xian." Wen Jiu turned his head to look at Qiao Shinian, who had a dazed look on his face, with an unnatural expression: "Sister, stand still. You've been squatting like this for too long, staring at me all the time, it's too conspicuous."

Qiao Shinian nodded, and before he stood up, he said, "As expected, you ancient people knew how to have fun. It was so damn exciting! I'm going to tell Tiantian and Xiaobai about it when I get back."

Feeling that Qiao Shinian's tension was relieved, Wen Jiu also relaxed a little.

He suddenly remembered a word Qiao Shinian had taught him, 'cricket others'.

Unexpectedly, when so many people were paying attention to him, he and Qiao Shinian would secretly talk about the famous wise king of Zhou State.