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For several days in a row, he didn't think about tea and food, and he wasted chopsticks before eating, Zhou Ji began to feel upset.Every time he habitually slammed the official documents on the ground, it seemed that the louder the slam, the calmer he would be.

"Is there any news from Chen Guo?" The sky was about to dawn, Zhou Ji sat up and asked the palace servants directly.

Gong Ren said: "...not yet."

"Useless!" Zhou Ji stroked his wide sleeves, and brought a pile of bamboo slips to the ground, making a "boom bang" sound.

"Damn the slave! Die the slave!" The palace man was startled, and quickly fell to his knees in horror, kowtowing continuously.

"Forget it, forget it, what are you fussing about." Zhou Ji squeezed out a helpless smile, waved his hand, and told him to back down.

Success or failure is determined by fate, victory or defeat is in the hands of God, and it can be controlled by manpower, so why should people be anxious?Victory is my luck, defeat is my fate, that's all.

"Today is my uncle's first seven days. I will always do my duty as a nephew. You go and prepare the horse for me. I will personally go to this once majestic General Polu's mansion."

"As ordered."

Today is the seventh day of Wei Yan's death, and it is also the seventh day that Song Huai went to Chen.

Chen Guo.

Song Huai waited at the station for a full six days, and just now he waited for Mr. Li Xie, the Dazai of Chen Guo, to arrive.

The candlelight flickered, and the orange light shone on Song Huai's face, softening his originally hard and square facial contours.He uncovered the wooden box, with bright eyes, "This time, I will bring the dog head of Wei Yan from the Yue Kingdom to join King Chen, beg for a shelter, and hope that Lord Dazai will speak to King Chen. Here are capital coins and silver coins. I stole it from Wei Yan's mansion, and I hope Lord Dazai will accept it with a smile."

Everyone in the world knows that Li Xie, the Dazai of the Chen Kingdom, regards money as his life, loves corruption and accepts bribes the most, and loves power. However, he is quite trusted by King Chen. , it can be easily solved.

Sure enough, Li Xie's eyes were shining brightly, and he grabbed a handful in the cloth bag Song Huai handed over, happily listening to the sound of money, his face full of intoxication, and he replied casually: "It's easy to say, easy to say."

Song Huai Zhanyan, if you say it well, then everything will be really easy to talk about.

Handing over the coins to the people around him for safekeeping, Li Xie looked at Wei Yan's head in distaste, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "I never imagined that Wei Yan, who was so rampant back then, would die in the hands of an unknown junior. Sigh." Turning around, he asked again, "By the way, what's your name?"

Song Huai said, "I'm a pariah, Song San."

Li Xie hesitated for a moment, "It doesn't seem like this is a real name, but just a ranking in the family?"

Song Huaigao said with a smile: "If I can follow King Chen to become famous all over the world, then my name and surname will naturally remain in history. If it is not reused, it will still be lost to everyone. Even if I tell my real name and surname, what does it matter?" Use? Who will remember?"

But I said in my heart, if I can successfully assassinate King Chen, I will be able to return to the Yue Kingdom and make a name for myself. The defeated general?

I, Song Huai, never need to be remembered as a loser!

Li Xie smiled approvingly: "Your Excellency is very ambitious, I will make arrangements when I go here, and I will definitely let you meet the king in person tomorrow."

"Thank you, Dazai-sama."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

The next day.

Jiuzhangtai, the ceremony is grand and majestic.The dark officials were divided into left and right sides, standing tall with their wat boards, standing for too long, they were extremely bored, they couldn't help but elbow their colleagues next to them, "Master Jiang, do you know that today the king specially announced that we Come to Jiuzhangtai, what exactly is it?"

The other person frowned bitterly, "It's hard to say, I can't tell. At this moment, the king should be busy discussing countermeasures with the generals, to see how we can win the Yue Kingdom in one fell swoop, and call us a group of civil servants for no reason. Assembly, don’t you want to stop fighting the country of Yue? Let us improve diplomatic relations and negotiate peace with the country of Yue?”

One person wrestled his hand and said: "The power of the sky is unpredictable, the power of the sky is unpredictable, but I guess with the temperament of the king, he will definitely not seek peace and admit defeat."

"Forget it, you and I wait and see what happens, anyway, we don't need you and me to throw our heads, spill blood, and charge into battle, right?"

"Justified, justified."

On the high platform, Cui Kegun, the king of Chen, was crowned with a crown, and his clothes were embroidered with Fufu, which shone brilliantly, like a god and man.

Cui Ke narrowed his long and narrow phoenix eyes slightly, propped his chin with one hand, glanced at everyone in the audience, and finally fixed his eyes on Dazai Li Xie, and asked, "Have you arrived yet?"

Li Xie came out and replied: "Song San has been waiting outside the door for a long time, waiting for the king to summon him."

Cui Ke pretended to be fussy, smacked his lips and said: "You are really, everyone has come, but you didn't tell the widow earlier, you should be punished, you should be punished."

Li Xie also said: "I am glad to be punished by the king."

"Then punish you to dance the sword for the widow after the feast is over, and you are not allowed to leave the palace tonight, and the dance will not end until you are exhausted, how about you?"

"……it is good."

Such intimacy and closeness, not to shy away from the mouth of everyone in the court, is really too presumptuous, but the courtiers are not surprised, they just smiled and spread their shoulders.

"It is said that Song San entered the palace." Cui Ke said.

"Yes."

Everyone looked back in unison, only to see a black figure outside the door, gradually enlarged from far to near.Holding the wooden trunk in his hands and carrying the long sword, he walked steadily, step by step.

Unlike Yue State, Chen State did not pay much attention to etiquette and education, and naturally did not have too much red tape.For example, ministers of Yue State had to take off their shoes to show respect when they went to court, but Chen State did not have such trivial rules.

For another example, the monarch of Yue State was assassinated by an assassin on the main hall in the past, and he was still terrified and terrified in retrospect, so he ordered that no matter who it was, no one was allowed to wear a sword when going to court, but this rule could not be enforced in Chen State.

The Chen people are rough, they win the world on horseback, and compete for superiority in swordsmanship. Chen kings of all dynasties liked to watch sword dancing and fighting fou. boring?

This also provided an excellent environment for Song Huai's assassination.

"Who is Song San?"

"With such a rustic, vulgar and vulgar name, one can tell that he is just a street ranger, not a character at all!"

"That makes sense."

The courtiers murmured, but Song Huai pretended not to hear him, and stood under the stage, his voice agitated: "Song San, I specially presented the dog head of Wei Yan from the Yue Kingdom, and came to join the king, and I hope the king will not dislike my roughness, and stay behind the saddle. , with a skip and a broom."

The courtiers were in an uproar, although they had already been in an uproar just now.

"So this is the thief who killed Uncle Zhou Ji!"

"I just wonder who is so bold and dares to touch Wei Yan. I thought it was this week's sacrifice to the thief and shouted to catch the thief. I sent someone to finish Wei Yan, and rewarded the criminals all over the world. Now it seems that there is a lot of background in this!"

"This Song San can be considered a hero!"

Cui Ke narrowed his eyes and raised his brows high, "In the battle of Bowangpo in the past, my Hussar General of Chen Guo seriously injured his legs because of Wei Yan, and he is still unable to walk alone. The widow once swore that in the future, Wei Yan will be killed by a thousand swords." I want to avenge the injury of General Hussars, and what you have done now has really helped me a lot! God bless Chen! God bless Chen!"

All the officials folded their sleeves together and bowed down, shouting loudly, like the waves of the sea, majestic and solemn, "God bless the great Chen! God bless the king!"

Cui Ke said: "Let's all be flattened, Song San, and present his head."

"Yes!"

With his heart raised to his throat, Song Huai's face could be wrung out with a bucket of sweat, his sword-shaped eyebrows were squeezed into small peaks, and the knuckles in his hands were glaring white because they were clenched too tightly.

Nearly.

closer.

Song Huai took a deep breath, and was just about to step on the white marble dange when an untimely voice came from behind him.

Yes, very inappropriate.

"Wait a minute!"

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