sword sentient beings

When King Shun came out of the pavilion, his face was calm.

The old swordsman who was waiting outside breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he came out safely, and rushed to greet him to check if he was okay.

After this examination, he was indeed in good health and not a single hair was missing, but he felt strange in his heart: It seemed that the prince was different?

Obviously he was wearing the same clothes, and his expression was as calm and composed as before, and his emotions were restrained. But I don't know why it feels different, it seems... there is something different between the eyebrows and the corners of my eyes?

With a sense of ease and ease?

"Your Majesty?" The old swordsman was anxious and asked cautiously, "Are you okay?"

King Shun smiled and said, "What can happen to me? I'm feeling so good. I've never felt so good."

what?

The old swordsman was obedient and didn't know what to say for a moment.

At this time, King Shun asked: "Xu Xianguan, can I enter the city now?"

Xu Zhongnan didn't know what was going on inside, but he just followed the order he had received before and said, "I heard that Prince Shun has a manor in the suburbs of Beijing with a good hot spring. Why don't you go and enjoy it?"

Prince Shun smiled and said: "Why, the Imperial Master still can't trust me? Really, it's not that I'm rude, the Imperial Master's courage is far worse than... Well, now that the arrangements have been made, let's go to Nanzhuang."

The team then turned around and headed south. After circling half of the capital, they arrived at a manor on the outskirts of the capital.

Arriving at the gate of the manor, King Shun smiled and said, "Xu Xianguan, do you want to come to the manor and sit for a while?"

Xu Zhongnan said seriously: "If His Highness is willing to leave me a small room in the garden, I will certainly be willing to stay in this precious land for how many days?"

how? Has Xiaosi become Xiaozhu? To live directly in the palace and watch him under the prince's nose, is it so blatant?

Prince Shun smiled and said: "Although Nanzhuang is not big, there are still a few free houses. How can there be no accommodation for the immortal officials? Please invite the immortal officials to rest in the guest room. There is a good hot spring in my villa, and the immortal officials can take a bath to relieve their fatigue."

Although he was smiling, Xu Zhongnan clearly saw the cold eyes of the old swordsman behind King Shun, as if he was looking at the thief who broke into the door, and he felt guilty in his heart. However, the order he received was like this, and there was no room for hesitation. Fortunately, the prestige of the Imperial Preceptor is at its peak, so King Shun doesn't dare to do anything to him...right?

After arranging to fix Xu Zhongnan, King Shun finally returned to the backyard of the manor.

In the backyard, there is his private courtyard and his private hot spring, which is also a private bathroom. It was a wooden house. There was a pool made of jade in the wooden house, which was filled with hot spring water brought in from outside. It was clear and warm. It was so dense with mist when you entered that you could hardly see anyone.

"The prince is finally here."

In the pool, someone made a sound.

In the private hot spring that was only for King Shun, one person had already taken a bath.

The man's body was in the pool, and his head was exposed on the water. His face was red, as if he had been soaking for a long time.

"Well, I'm back. How long have you been soaking in the water, sir? Why do you look like a crab?" King Shun joked, taking off his clothes and sliding into the water.

wow-

The man got out of the water, exposed his naked body, sat on the edge of the pool, and said: "It must have been four or five hours, right? I arrived in the morning as promised, but as soon as I entered, I found that there were eyeliners all around the manor. Although I don't look good, , but I am also a stranger, and I am afraid that I will be caught in something wrong and miss the prince’s important event. The only way to be safe is to hide in hot water. "

King Shun couldn't help but laugh and said: "Thank you, Mr. Kuang. They are really smart. They even searched my other courtyard so early. It seems that the old guy is determined to protect my nephew again."

The man said: "The Imperial Master has always been like this. He only respects the person in the seat, no matter who he is. I don't think this surveillance will be removed until the dust settles."

King Shun said: "It doesn't matter, let them monitor us. We have nothing to do with others."

The man paused and said "yes" in agreement.

We...don't have anything shameful to do?

Let's have a private meeting in the pool. Isn't this state enough to be shameful?

He thought that King Shun might be deliberately high-sounding and righteous for the sake of saving face, so he followed suit and said, "Exactly, our righteous deeds of bringing order out of chaos will naturally not be shameful."

He thought he was stepping down the steps for King Shun, but King Shun thought for a moment and said, "Ah, that matter, let's forget about it."

"what?"

The other party didn't hear clearly and repeated: "What did Your Highness say?"

King Shun repeated: "I told you to shelve our plan."

"Puff-"

The man was so shocked that he fell into the pond again, causing countless splashes.

Of course King Shun knew that he was surprised. In fact, he was also surprised by his decision, but this was what he really thought about now: "I have thought about it. Although this plan has the possibility of success, it is still causing chaos. At this time, everyone The Jin court is in turmoil and cannot withstand this turmoil. If it goes too far and the court is uprooted, wouldn't it be a joke for me to be the emperor for three to five days?"

He said seriously: "The imperial court is a big tree, and I am the branches and leaves of the big tree. If I damage the foundation of the big tree, I will only die together with the tree..."

The more he spoke, the wider the eyes of the person opposite him opened. He gradually ignored his usual restraint and was dumbfounded, like a wooden chicken. "Snapped!"

Suddenly, King Shun slapped himself.

He gritted his teeth and said, "What kind of bullshit metaphor is this?"

The man was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Do you understand? This metaphor is simply ridiculous! Even if the imperial court is a big tree, it is dying. Isn't it His Highness's fault? On the contrary, this is the big tree seeking its own death and committing repeated crimes. The mistake was eaten by insects and ants, and its vitality was lost, so that it is now about to wither."

"How can you do nothing at this time and just let the tree collapse on its own? Are there many clans that are so confused?"

"To me, only if you become a big tree, can you enjoy the wind and rain, eat the wind and drink the dew, can you thrive and make the big tree sprout new buds!"

“Instead of clinging to the broken and defending the weak, it is better to break and then stand up!”

He spoke sincerely and became even more excited. King Shun also listened carefully and sighed: "Why don't I know what you said makes sense? This plan was originally initiated by me. But now I really don't have this intention. I always feel it’s boring. I’m tired and I really don’t want to bother anymore.”

"It's boring, and it's impossible to succeed." He shook his head, "Forget it, that's it."

King Shun said, standing up from the pool and wiping the wetness with a towel. It stands to reason that because he wanted to meet this person in secret, there was no one around him to serve him. This person should have come out to serve the prince temporarily, but the man was just soaking in the pool, looking at the sky.

King Shun shook his head and went out. Taking a bath was his favorite activity. Even if he wasn't plotting, it was normal to take a bath for half an hour, but now it was no longer interesting.

He seemed to lose all motivation at once.

After he left, the man immediately stood up, took a robe and tied his hair briefly, then lifted up a board in the wooden house and got out.

We walked along the tunnel until we reached an exit, which was a quiet room with no one around.

He rolled up the curtains, sat down at the table, and waited quietly.

After a while, an old man came in, closed the door, and said, "Mr. An, I knew you were looking for me."

Mr. Na An stood up and said: "Your Excellency Cheng, you must tell me what happened on the way to Beijing! Your Highness Prince Shun is like a different person. There must be something fishy about this!"

The old man was the swordsman who accompanied King Shun. He said at this time: "Okay. I also feel that something is strange, and I want you to come up with an idea."

He then started from the beginning, telling a series of things from the time he was sent to meet Marquis Gao Yuan, to being rejected by Marquis Gao Yuan, and then to being blocked on the way to Beijing by the envoy of the Imperial Preceptor.

"There are two places where the prince may have been plotted along the way. One is the subordinate of Marquis Gao Yuan, and the other is the subordinate of the Imperial Master. I think the second point is more suspicious."

"Yes." Mr. Na An said, "Indeed. Since the prince asked you to deliver a letter to Marquis Gao Yuan after waking up from the hallucination, it is natural that his ambition has not disappeared. But after meeting the Imperial Master..."

He suddenly said: "Did you see anything while you were waiting outside?"

The old swordsman shook his head and said, "I didn't see it, but one of my men said that he seemed to have seen a flash of lightning."

"Thunder light..." Mr. Na An said, "It can only be the national master! The national master is the national master who has tampered with it! We are careless. We only know that the national master is powerful and follows his words, and the thunder from the sky will fall from the sky. I didn’t know there were such insidious methods besides sky thunder. It’s really hard to guard against this method when it is used for the first time. No, it may not be the first time. Who knows who he has used it on? Otherwise, why is the capital so peaceful?”

"In the past few years, various governors in other places have been having troubles. How stable is the capital city compared to this? Although it is rumored that this prince has ambitions and which powerful officials want to cause trouble, who has done anything in the capital from the beginning to the end? People have always said If the Imperial Preceptor suppresses the capital and prevents others from doing anything, then he is looking down on the Imperial Preceptor, he is clearly trying to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron."

The old swordsman said: "So, the prince has really fallen into the tricks of the national master?"

Seeing Mr. An nod, the old swordsman stumbled and said: "That's difficult. Even if we know the methods of the Imperial Master, since it is the Imperial Master who takes action, who can resist? Even if he falls into the trap..."

He swallowed the words "hopeless", but that's what it meant.

It’s not that he emits other people’s ambitions and destroys his own prestige. In fact, the national preceptor is an immortal in the sky. How can mortals break the immortal’s methods? When the national master decided to take action, the outcome was already determined.

For a moment, he felt depressed and felt like "the situation is over, you go back to your Shuiliandong, and I will go back to my Gaolaozhuang".

Mr. An frowned, as if he was worried for a moment, but he calmed down in an instant and said: "The Imperial Master has unexplainable power, and we can't solve it from the strength. But there are still people who can restrain the power, and that is the rule."

The old swordsman was speechless for a moment. What he said was true, but it was just as if he hadn't said it at all.

You don’t even know the rules used by the National Master, how can you restrain yourself?

Mr. An said: "There are two people we can count on now. One is reliable but not necessarily capable, and the other is unreliable but capable. The first one is naturally that one..." He pointed.

The old swordsman smiled bitterly and said: "The dragon has its head but not its tail, and the prince may not be able to find it. How can we find it?"

Mr. An said: "Then the second one, I have to ask her. It's Marquis Gao Yuan."