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The maidservant came up to collect the fragments of the teacup, and slowly backed out.

Only then did Qi Xiangmei ask, "Cousin, how did you know him? I have a good eye for people. To be honest, I don't think he is the kind of person you said."

"As long as you know that he is our enemy, the rest is not important. Wang Xin." Cen Li shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression, "I am very thirsty, can you give me your tea? "

Wang Bing was stunned for a while, then nodded: "...um."

Cen Li drank the tea from the teacup that Wang Bing had drunk, but did not pay attention to the fleeting unnatural expression on Wang Bing's face.

Qi Xiangmei yelled frantically in her heart, "very important, very important", and said lightly, "I know."

Cen Li drank the tea in one gulp, looked at Qi Xiangmei's absent-minded look, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Qi Xiangmei blinked nervously and quickly, "Knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing one's heart, what the Liang people said is true. By the way, do you have anything else to do when you come to see me? That, Yuan Pinghou... Since he came here for you, cousin, you must be careful, and the prefect should pay more attention. I also heard that Captain Han also went to Minglanxuan that day, but he went there after I left Yes, I don't know what it said."

Both Cen Li and Wang Bing were taken aback. If Mo Wankong was here, he would be so angry that he would jump over the wall.Cen Li was a little excited and said: "I knew that coming to you would yield something. You didn't tell Mo Wankong about this, did you? The prefect has no military power. I think it's thanks to the captains and others that my portrait can spread so quickly throughout Runan County. It's really annoying!"

Cen Li looked at Wang Bing, who was confused, and explained: "Han Kuang, the captain of the northern part of Runan County, after Runan County was taken over by King Yuhe in February, he took office together with Zhang Min, why? Do you know him?"

Wang Bing turned his head away, and his voice was a little harsh: "I don't know."

Cen Li glanced at him for a few more times, refusing to let go of the slight change on Wang Bing's face, and finally sighed: "Oh. I guess so, you should be in Shanyin at that time, and I don't even know you when you think about it. Runan In February of this year, you took it back, and it was still the soldiers led by Yuhe Wang."

Wang Bing said nothing.

Qi Xiangmei took the maidservant's teacup, placed it beside Cen Li, and asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"

"Oh, it's nothing. I'm explaining to him about Captain Han. He didn't understand anything when he first came to Runan County. I only know a little bit. In fact, I brought him here because of the prefect's banquet, and secondly. I want you to tell him about the various intricate forces in Runan County, I don't think anyone here knows better than you."

Wang Bing finally understood why Cen Li brought him here. It should be a place with a lot of people like Ming Lanxuan, and Qi Xiangmei is the top card. He must have seen many princes and nobles. The news can be said to be first-class well-informed .Wang Bing once went to kilns with his brothers in order to "mix in" with them. Most famous restaurants are only places where pigs' heads are hung and mutton is sold. With words like ", the prostitutes inside all look like they are addicted to drugs, and they are manipulated like puppets, which almost scared him to death. I really can't understand why those brothers still go there often.Compared with Qi Xiangmei, Wang Bing respected him from the bottom of his heart. Hearing what Cen Li said, he immediately bowed in awe and said, "Excuse me, miss."

"Sit down, it's not a lesson." Seeing Wang Bing's cautious appearance, Qi Xiangmei couldn't help but smiled, and then said seriously: "In Runan County, there are three forces that can make big waves. The first is Runan. Wang turned into Chen Cheyun, the royal family member of Yuhe Wang. He is the real owner of Baixianglou. Few people know this. Hu people, every time the sale starts, all customers will be given a secret signal in advance. It is said that some slaves are secret clues deliberately released by Yu and Wang.

Wang Bing searched his stomach and tried to recall what he had heard in Dongguan after dinner, "In the past, the Runan Palace raised many capable people and strangers who specialized in recording and sorting out folk tales and poems and poems. There is a gentleman's demeanor who hides in the court. Later, the seven kings rebelled, bullied the weak and feared the hard, and the Runan king became the target of public criticism. The court was too busy to help the Runan king. After the rebellion ended, the King of Runan took control of Runan again, until the fall of Luoyang last year, and in December Runan County..."

As soon as December last year was mentioned, Cen Li probably guessed what he was going to say. Seeing Wang Bing's embarrassment on his face, Cen Li said very relaxedly: "Don't beat around the bush, just say it directly, say what you want."

Wang Bing seemed to have taken a reassurance, "I don't know what happened after Runan County was broken last December. Before that, he and Yuan Pinghou were called 'Runan Shuangjie'. After the city was broken, this A good story is a thing of the past.”

Qi Xiangmei opened her eyes wide and exclaimed, "He is such a person? However, when Yuhe Wang showed up in the city not long ago, he was as thin as a mummy, not at all like Lin...that Yuan Pinghou type People, and you said they have a very good relationship, why are He Yu and Wang always alone when they show their faces?"

Wang Bing frowned, and carefully pieced together Chen Cheyun's appearance from fragmentary memories. The face in his memory was already blurred, but his figure on the Tongtuo Street riding a tall horse was still vivid in his memory. Even His Majesty couldn't help but praise him. style.Wang Bing asked: "I saw him when he was recalled to Luoyang before, he was very handsome, how could he look like a mummy?"

But at the same time as he spoke, he actually understood that he was slaughtered by his relatives, trampled by the horseshoes of the barbarians, regained Runan, and was left alone in the end.

It's a miracle that he's still alive.

Wang Bing shook his head, "The rumors about the two of them stop at the fall of Runan County, I don't know."

"Forget it, I'm just asking casually. And..." Qi Xiangmei didn't seem to like drinking tea, so she was busy making tea for the two of them. This time, she only drank the second cup, and the tea had already cooled down . "The second force is Zhang Min, the prefect of Runan, who was ordered by the imperial court, and three captains who are in charge of military power. This is well known, and now we need to add Yuan Pinghou." Qi Xiangmei let out a long breath, "You I don’t know, some idiots are rebelling every day, and the captains are very busy.”

Border County has a large population, and it seems to be a habit for this piece of land to be robbed.The people of the two ethnic groups were forced to be together by the war without knowing each other. Zhang Min, the prefect, tried his best to reconcile the conflicts between the two ethnic groups, making Runan County look peaceful on the surface, but in the eyes of the Hu people, this was military suppression. It's easy to talk, the more oppressed, the more you have to resist. This is the "local snake" that can't be suppressed in Runan County.

Qi Xiangmei continued to speak calmly: "If Chonggou hadn't killed the emperor's uncle later, we wouldn't have fallen to this point, and we wouldn't have been hiding in Tibet like a family dog, just a little prefect."

Qi Xiangmei is a mixed-race child of Hu and Liang, her father is from Liang with the surname Qi, and her mother is a Hun princess. Wang Bing, the airborne Hanliang man.The country was ruined and the family was destroyed. The pearl was not covered with dust, but became even more dazzling under the wind and snow.

"With the Qi Mansion as the center, we have people all over Runan. It's just that after Yuhe Wang took Runan again, our power is not as good as before. This is the third."

Wang Bing opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the maid outside the door suddenly said: "His Royal Highness, Mo Wankong is waiting for you in the main room."

The expressions of the three people in the room changed at the same time.

Still in that room, Chen Cheyun tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids seemed to be heavy, he opened and closed several times before opening them, the light outside the window made him squint again, the sun was in the middle of the sky, and it was already noon.

After pressing his still dizzy head, Chen Cheyun got up from the couch, the thin quilt slipped off, the private room was cleaned cleanly, there was a decoction made of licorice on the table, and it was still smoking, everything showed signs that someone had been there .

Chen Cheyun sneered.Li Xiong is just worrying blindly, and he even prepared licorice soup. If I can really get rid of this drug addiction, I will quit early.

A bowl of dark soup stared at Chen Cheyun like an abyss, and Chen Cheyun saw his dumbfounded expression in the reflection of the soup.

After staring at it for a long time, Chen Cheyun picked it up and drank it all.

Li Xiong was busy downstairs, and Chen Cheyun walked a less crowded road until he reached the door of the underground room.

The two guards at the gate were all in disbelief when they saw Chen Cheyun, they hurriedly saluted and opened the door.

Last December, half an hour before Xuanhu City was breached, Chen Cheyun killed all the barbarians in the room and never entered it again. It was Li Xiong who took care of it all the time. It has been half a year.

Ji Dong has been gone for half a year.

As soon as Chen Cheyun entered the room, a man who seemed to be in his twenties was stunned, his mouth was big enough to stuff an egg, and he didn't know that the bloody whip fell off his hand.

After a while, the man remembered to salute, "Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian!"

I really can't blame him, Yu and Wang didn't show up for half a year, and suddenly stood in front of me, it was more panic than seeing a ghost.

The room was really cool. Chen Cheyun let out a sigh of relief. He was very satisfied with the man's change of name. After all, if the slaves who were about to be sold knew their identities, who would know who they would be resold to? It will really add tea and talk for the people.Chen Cheyun said indifferently: "Take me to the darkroom."

This room is strangely built, and there are countless large and small "rooms" in it. It is like a prison, and all kinds of people are locked inside. When I saw Nayu and Wang walking with the man, they all stood on the wooden fence door. , the eyeballs followed the man.

"He's a kid from a rich family, look! The clothes he wears are made of high-quality materials, which ordinary people can't afford!"

A young man with disheveled hair and white face clicked his tongue and said: "Aren't you talking nonsense? He was led by Luo Ning himself to come here. He is the first one besides Li Xiong. Good master."

"What are you doing? Buns? Stay in honesty. I look at this person first, and wait for the next master to buy it.

Chen Cheyun glanced at the "lively" prison cell. These people who voluntarily sold their bodies for money had had enough of the treatment that slaves should have, and were impatiently looking for new buyers.

"Master... Young Master, this way please."

The two passed through countless "cells", and the noise became farther and farther away, until at the end of the road, an iron door stood in front of the two of them. Chen Cheyun was about to order the door to be opened, when Li Xiong's eager shout suddenly sounded behind him. Shout: "Young master! You can't drive it, you can't drive it, you can't drive it!"

"Why is that?" Chen Cheyun and Luo Ning turned around together. Seeing Li Xiong running towards him panting, Luo Ning retreated a few steps away from Chen Cheyun knowingly, crossed his hands on his navel, and looked obedient.

Li Xiong was sweating profusely and kicked for a while before remembering to salute, and said: "Master...Young Master! You haven't been here for half a year, and the guys here have made a lot of troubles. They are very cruel and violent. I'm afraid I will hurt you, Young Master." .”

"I understand his temperament, don't worry, I have my own measure, and I didn't open the door alone, aren't you and Luo Ning here?" Without waiting for Li Xiong to dissuade him, Chen Cheyun said to Luo Ning: "Open the door." Bar."

Luo Ning took the key from his waist and inserted it into the lock tied with the iron chain. With a click, the iron chain came loose. Before Luo Ning pushed the door, there was a "creak", and the door opened a small crack by itself.

Smelling the bloody smell coming from the crack of the door, Chen Cheyun frowned and took a step forward.

Before the foot of the second step landed, suddenly a bloody hand stretched out from the dark door, grabbing Chen Cheyun's collar with one hand!

If you look carefully, the bloody hand only has four fingers, but both Li Xiong and Luo Ning had only time to react to protect Chen Cheyun in the midst of the sudden change—Li Xiong blocked the bloody hand from the side, and Luo Ning put Chen Cheyun took a few steps back, and quickly re-locked the iron chain.

The faces of the three of them changed in shock. Chen Cheyun gasped and looked at the dark red handprint on his chest. If he took another step, that hand would not be as simple as just grabbing his collar.

Li Xiong seemed more nervous than Chen Cheyun who was caught. He hit that hand just now, as if hitting a cold snake, and then he was so scared that there was sticky blood on his palm, "My...my lord Look, let’s go back, at least wait until there are more people, huh?”

Luo Ning chicken pecked rice and nodded, cold sweat dripping down his back, if Yuan Pinghou died in the Hori room, then dozens of heads of his family would not be enough to cut off.But Yuan Pinghou still insisted on saying: "I'm fine, let's go."

With trembling hands, Ronin mechanically inserted the key into the lock.He went back and forth between losing his head and self-sacrifice, finally gritted his teeth, and turned the key with a "click", at worst, the hand would greet him again.

The dark room is not cool, but creepy and cold. The sound of iron chains vibrating echoed in the narrow dark room. Luo Ning pushed open the door and walked in the front. The dark room was pitch black. There are candles on the bright wall, and there are spray-like red water stains on the three walls and the iron gate, like a mandala opened in hell.The closer the three of them got, the louder the vibration of the iron chain was, accompanied by the low gasp of a dying beast.

When he finally walked to the end, Chen Cheyun opened his eyes wide. He saw something curled up on the ground that could no longer be called a human being, biting his fingers. Four iron chains were wrapped around the man's body like vines, and his clothes were ragged. There were a few pieces of cloth left, but he didn't seem to hear the footsteps, or he was too absorbed in gnawing his fingers on the ground. After a while, he realized that someone was there. He raised his head, revealing a pair of cloudy and blood-red eyes in the disheveled hair.

Looking into those eyes, Chen Cheyun couldn't help taking a step back as if he was being stared at by a pack of wolves on a winter night.

Li Xiong: "Your Highness! Be careful!"

The man lying on the ground suddenly jumped up with his bloody mouth open, stretched his hand straight to Chen Cheyun's face, the knife-like nails stopped an inch away from the tip of Chen Cheyun's nose, the iron chain was pulled to the extreme, and strangled into the man's flesh!

Chen Cheyun opened his eyes wide and looked at the hand that was missing a middle finger. As he got closer, the sound of that person sawing wood came intermittently into Chen Cheyun's ears.

"Brother...brother..."

That voice was too unpleasant, as substandard as a child's babbling, hoarse as if sand had been poured into his throat, and only Chen Cheyun could hear it when he was close.

The man was still moving forward with all his strength, the rusty iron chains were constantly being pulled into the muscles of his limbs, but he just rushed forward without feeling it.

Chen Cheyun raised his hand to signal that Li Xiong and Luo Ning were okay, and said to the man: "Your Highness, don't do this, I'm not your younger brother."

As soon as the words fell, the man finally stopped swinging his hands wildly, and fell to the ground. The iron chain fell to the ground with a "bang", and he re-examined the person in front of him as if he had just woken up from a dream, "Kill you...kill...no ?yes?"

Chen Cheyun squatted down and stroked his head, scaring Li Xiong and Luo Ning almost to the point of death.

Chen Cheyun said softly: "I'm not, but I can help you, let you see your brother, he is in the city. Only I can help you here, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

The man obviously hadn't spoken for a long time, and he couldn't even utter a complete sentence. His voice was still as unpleasant as sawing wood, and two lines of tears washed down his unkempt face: "I...I am not, what kind of prince, Hua Xin, he is, the prince It's..."

"His father killed your father, and he took your crown prince. Don't you want to take revenge and let your father rest in peace?"

Liu Jun bit his finger, seemed to be in extreme pain, and said in a trembling voice: "I, think, he, die."

In the fifth year of Anxi, Emperor Liu Ge, the great ancestor of the Zhao Kingdom, died. The crown prince Liu Wan took the throne less than two months later. He was later killed by Liu Ge's adopted son and his own younger brother Liu Kou, and took the throne. Liu Jun was also abolished and was once raised in the East Palace of the new crown prince.The way of heaven is reincarnation, and in the sixth year of Anxi, that is, in October last year, Chongyan and Liu Junli cooperated with each other to overthrow Liu Kou, and the new crown prince Liu Huaxin died in a fire in the palace.

That night, the flames were so intense that the palace was as bright as day. Liu Jun stood opposite Liu Huaxin, who was being guarded by the imperial guards, and threw a torch, and the palace city that was already drenched in oil suddenly became a big fire.

Liu Jun thought that a fire would burn everything beyond recognition, and he got his revenge, and he did.The end of seeking skin from a tiger is to ride a tiger. Chongyan was afraid that Liu Jun’s status as the prince of the previous dynasty would be embraced as emperor by everyone. After the incident was completed, he lied that Liu Jun also died in the fire. Liu Jun was alone and had no military power. So he hit the stone with an egg, so he had to be a "dead man" obediently.He couldn't stay in the state of Chu anymore, so he drifted to Ruyin County, and then to Runan. In February of this year, he joined Yuhe Wang's army to recover Runan incognito, and wanted to take revenge on Chonggou. It was found out later, and he has been a prisoner for more than two months until now.

What Liu Jun didn't know was that Liu Huaxin, who was supposed to be burned to the ground in October last year, and who was also a slave in Runan County, was taken away by Lin Yi as early as December last year. He was still hiding from Chonggou in the state of Chu, and he didn't know what to do. It was not until February this year that he went to Runan and sat in the "prison" that Liu Huaxin had been in. Only then did he know that he was not dead.

The good luck in a person's life is probably limited. When it is used up, one needs to get used to the days of wandering alone in the future.Liu Jun was probably like this. When he was the crown prince, the East Palace was his paradise, and Liu Huaxin was his younger brother and his best playmate.

Now that Liu Huaxin became the crown prince, the East Palace became his underworld. Liu Huaxin was still his younger brother and his most hated enemy.

Chen Cheyun's voice was like the melodious singing of a mermaid, bewitching the poor ignorant fisherman, "I'll help you find him, how will you repay me?"

"Kill... him, I want him to die."

"it is good."

Han Kuang put away his sword, wiped the blood from his face, and said to the soldiers behind him, "Count the wounded, collect the weapons, and incinerate the corpses."

Hundreds of corpses were lying on the road outside the city, all of them were barbarians, and some of them were not even half the height of Han Kuang.

Even if killing is crowned with the reputation of protecting the frontier and defending the land, it is still killing, and killing anyone is killing. Han Kuang feels very hopeless.

Especially recently, I don’t know if the state of Chu, which is dominated by the Jie tribe, is putting pressure on the Huns. More and more Huns have come to Daliang.

One of them walked up to Han Kuang, clasped his fists and said, "Report to Captain Han, there are fifty knives in total, two swords, and no armor."

Half of these hundreds of people were unarmed, and they dared to make trouble under the banner of "fighting back to Pingyang". It was really brave to stand out. Han Kuang nodded and said, "Take them all and go back to the county office."

Zhang Min was reading the dossiers presented by the counties, and when he heard Han Kuang coming, he threw the dossiers aside and said, "Lieutenant Han has worked hard, take a seat quickly."

Han Kuang didn't have time to change out of his armor, but fortunately Zhang Min had gotten used to it, "Thank you Mr. Zhang."

After Han Kuang reported to Zhang Min what happened outside the city, he drank the tea before the case.

After hearing this, Zhang Min's face changed from sunny to cloudy, and he felt a headache when he mentioned this matter, "Recently, the chaos caused by the party is more frequent than before. It's hard work for Captain Han."

Han Kuang: "It's not hard for a subordinate official to serve the country."

"In that case, the dossier is recorded. If Captain Han is fine, he will help Yuan Pinghou find out more about the portrait. If he wants to come to Yuan Pinghou's old place to revisit, it is because he is not interested in drinking, and has ulterior motives."

Han Kuang snorted, and said disdainfully, "Isn't he really capable? Since the scope of the target has been narrowed to Xuanhu City, the lower officials think that they are useless."

Zhang Min knew Han Kuanggang's upright temper, so he laughed and said, "Why are you still worried about the fact that he left Runan County to go south last year? At that time, Runan County couldn't be defended at all, and even the court advocated abandoning the city and retreating." If you don’t leave, wouldn’t you just sit and wait for death? Captain Han, you can’t be single-minded, you have to learn to be flexible, there’s no way you can knock down a wall with your head, don’t you think so?”

Zhang Min is twenty years older than Han Kuang, and he looks like a loving father and son. It doesn't sound like he is admonishing others, but it makes Han Kuang feel a little ashamed, but this can't change Yuan Pinghou's innocence. The image of a coward in his heart seems to be the conflict between civil servants and military officials since ancient times, especially in troubled times. When the general conflict escalates to irreconcilable, it is probably time for a change of dynasty and a revolution.

After a brief silence, Han Kuang neither nodded nor continued. It was not until Zhang Min heard that Yuan Pinghou had arrived that Han Kuang got up angrily, saluted and left.

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