Wish Junshou and Tianqi

Chapter 17 Catch the Turtle in the Urn of the Banquet of Thousand Years 2
A few people came late and slowly sat down next to Chu Shou.

Chu Shou smiled and said, "Sister Hongying, why are you so late?"

Gu Hongying glanced at the sister-in-law Su Wenning who was beside her and replied, "I was delayed on the road, so I'm late."

With a cold face and raised chin, Su Wen has a slender neck, thin lips, a high nose bridge, round almond eyes, and a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows, making him look like a savage son.

"A few days ago, the fifth uncle of my in-law's family, Su's Ali, told me that I saw you in Ganlinzhou. I thought she was talking nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be you!"

Chu Shou responded, nodded with a smile, and answered the clichéd question about returning to the capital: "The journey is in a hurry. If it wasn't for the lack of resources, we must have a gathering with Sister Hongying..."

Gu Hongying clicked her tongue, waved her hand, and denied it: "I should be the one who went to see you. You have been thinking about the city and the countryside for me all these years, and the four seasons are constant. Thanks to the rescue of General Chu, my younger brother was able to save his life." .”

As he spoke, he became sad.

Su Wen put down his wine glass solemnly, turned his eyes to look at Gu Hongying, and said in a soft voice, "I said sister-in-law, what kind of kindness is this, can you remember it for a lifetime? If the Chu family really wants to save people, they will do everything they can." Merit, that's easy? You have to pull out some kind of marriage contract, to put it bluntly, it's just a deal between you and me..."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chu Shou, rolled his eyes and said, "It's no use for you to be grateful every day."

Chu Shou lowered her eyes and sighed helplessly. When her grandfather sent a letter saying that the Gu family had suffered a sudden change, His Majesty was furious, to the point of beheading all the families.

At that time, Gu Hongying, the eldest daughter of Gu's family, was already married. There was her younger brother, Gu Chengye, and the youngest daughter of the second wife, Gu Ruihuan. The Chu family came forward as a guarantee.

When Chu Shou received a marriage contract as guarantee, he agreed without even thinking about it. After all, saving lives is the most important thing.

Thinking about it afterwards, Su Wenning, the second daughter of the Su family in Jingdu City, probably wanted to hate her in the dark, and Su Wenning wanted to accuse Gu Chengye of being her lord, so it was a knot.

Chu Shou remained silent, and the ladies and ladies at the banquet did not dare to make a sound, but Princess Changle listened with gusto.

Gu Hongying was anxious, but didn't know what to say. Just as she was deliberating, a voice came from the table.

Shen Sheng said: "Since you like that young master so much, why don't you ask your father to guarantee your marriage contract, so that you can quickly take advantage of this kindness?"

After Su Wenning listened, Dang even patted the desk in front of him, leaned forward slightly, and said to Qu Zhuoyi at the opposite table: "Qu Zhuoyi! Don't go crazy here!"

At the beginning, she asked her father to come forward to rescue Gu Chengye, but his father kept a stern face and said nothing, scolding that the Gu family should not get involved in the troubled waters, and she was angry at him for a person who could not be beaten!
She also stubbornly knelt for a day in the cold wind of the winter, unable to hold herself back and passed out.

When she woke up again, she was disheartened, thinking that she was separated from her Gu Langjun, but who knew that her father brought news, the Chu family came forward, and Gu Chengye saved his life. As a guarantor, Gu Chengye is the son-in-law of the Chu family.

She felt sad again, and was depressed for a month, but even so, in Gu Chengye's eyes, she was just a young lady of the Su family who had met a few times, and she was no different from others.

It would be a lie to say that she is not unwilling, she complains and is extremely unwilling.

Qu Zhuoyi sat upright, folded his arms, sneered, rolled his eyes, and ignored him.

Chu Shou couldn't help asking, since when did such a person exist in Kyoto?He talked quickly, very straightforwardly, and turned to watch the show.

"Ning'er, I thought there were too many rumors in the market, but now it seems that Ning'er, you are really so affectionate." Wen Xianwan twisted the veil, covered her lips and smiled softly, her eyebrows were heavenly, and her face was full of sneering complacency, she This cousin, with a high heart and arrogance, relying on Su's family background, usually gives her a lot of face, and finally seized the opportunity, how can she do it?

"Yes, Ms. Su, there are so many good men in this capital, why hang on a tree!" Xue Ying held up her wine glass and made a gesture towards Su Wenning, "Come on! Let me toast you, calm down .”

What Xue Ying said was true, but it wasn't false. With such a pure heart, she naturally couldn't understand the meaning of Wen Xianwan's words, but she tried to persuade her.

Su Wenning gave Wen Xianwan a hard look, grabbed the wine glass in front of the case indiscriminately in his hand, drank it back with a sway, and then drank it down, and said: "Sister Wen is still sitting in her boudoir, but she has clear eyes and ears. Let the Wen family win your spirits."

As soon as Su Wenning finished speaking, Wen Xianwan's face turned green, and everyone present knew it well, and smiled lightly.

There are two reasons: one is still sitting in the boudoir, Wen Xianwan is a few years older than them, and she is supposed to be a married woman, but she has not been able to ask for a kiss, and she just said what she said and listened to the rumors in the market, Just be a gossip woman, not doing business.

Secondly, Wen Xianwan's father was married, and her brother and she should have followed their mother's surname Zhao, but the old concubine casually mentioned that Zhao was Ming Qi's surname, so she only let her brother take the surname Zhao, and she still took her father's surname Wen For this reason, she even made a fuss once, which has become her sore spot ever since.

"Sister Wen, do you want to have a drink with me?"

Su Wenning continued to add fuel to the flames, Wen Xianwan's expression was completely unbearable, and she got up angrily and left the table.

The old concubine looked at it from a distance, her face was full of worry, and the concubine Rong Gui who was sitting in the seat was also a little lost, and said politely absent-mindedly.

The dance music suddenly changed its tune, and the originally peaceful voice began to brighten up, and the pipa sounded like pearls falling into the moon disk, continuously and continuously.

The masked girl is playing the qin with jade hands, rinsing and rinsing to the sound of the pipa, like the ding-dong of spring water, and the melodious jade flute, as if coming from the clouds, which is refreshing, and the sound of the drums is like the low roar of the earth, gradually pulled up, The dancer was barefoot, holding a small drum in her hand, beating it intoxicatedly.

During the banquet, someone couldn't help admiring: "As expected of His Royal Highness, this is even better than the arrangement of the old musicians in the palace."

"These are all the first-class Le Ji in the whole Ming Qi, and they are willing to gather together to celebrate the feast after winning the reputation of Debo Mountain."

For a moment, everyone's eyes were attracted, but someone was puzzled and asked: Why only listen to the music, but not the dancer?

Before the words were finished, the Feilou Window Pavilion was opened, and several graceful dancers slid down from the heads of the crowd along the thick cables. superior.

The six dancers are all covered with golden veils and dressed in exotic costumes. They dance elegantly and mysteriously, with bright eyebrows and eyes, and soft and graceful figures. Whether it is a song, a dance, or a person, it is indeed the first time I have seen it.

Chu Shou sat and drank for a while, grabbed a handful of snacks in his hand to watch the beauties dance, and gave half of them to the three thousand and one people behind Ah Shui. Come out, don't be hungry.

Although the girl on the stage covered her veil and couldn't see her face clearly, the eyebrows and eyes of the leading dancer became more and more familiar.

Chu Shou was startled suddenly, recalled that this dancer was like the Huainiang holding a soft sword she met in Cangjia City, she threw down the snacks in her hand and put them on the table, she leaned forward slightly , at the banquet over there, no one from the Metropolitan Procuratorate could be seen, "Obviously I was still eating there just now..."

She didn't get up, she was looking around, and the banquet was full of joy, as usual.

The only strange thing was the lead dancer, Chu Shou decided not to care about other things, and after the whole show, he must stare at Zhao Huainiang to death.

When the music was at its most intense and high-spirited, Huainiang climbed onto the cable again, grabbed it with one hand, and flew with the other hand holding the satin, and flew towards the opposite side of the platform.

Everyone thought it was a choreographed movement, but when they raised their eyes in amazement, Huainiang jumped up easily with a force in her hand, and landed firmly on the rope hanging in mid-air, and pulled out the soft sword around her waist with her backhand, With a few light steps, she walked towards Concubine Rong, who was sitting in the right seat...

Chu Shou took a look, and sure enough... Immediately, he took out a folded short bow from between his skirt and robe, stretched it out with a light flick, and drew out a golden short arrow, stood up, put the bow on the bow, and swung it like Like a full moon, it is about to gain momentum.

Only then did everyone react, and the music stopped abruptly, but there were many more assassins than Chu Shou had imagined. In an instant, a large group of men in black appeared from nowhere and poured into the banquet...for a while, all around upset.

Noisy voices whistled in Chu Shou's ears, but now she felt so still in her heart as if the whole world was only left with Yuejin Huai Niang. She drew her bow and arrows to meet her figure, and moved slowly as she leaped. .

Seeing the dancer's soft sword pointing directly at the gate of the imperial concubine's eyebrows, the servant girl behind Concubine Rong rushed forward and shouted loudly: "Come on! Come on! There are assassins!"

But the chaos off the field was not as simple as on the field, and those men in black didn't hurt anyone, they just turned over and overturned a lot of tables, and the utensils hit the ground, bang bang, it was even more lively than before, and everyone panicked. Busy running for their lives, scattered around.

Ah Shui and Sanqian stood aside to protect her, and Chu Shou stared at the target and shook her head slightly. She hadn't held a bow and arrow for a long time, and she brought it into the palace just in case, but she didn't expect it to be used.

In the only range, Tentacle Wen flashed a lot of figures fleeing in a panic. These dignitaries lost their airs and staggered in a panic.

"Five, four..." Chu Shou counted down the countdown silently, because once the countdown was over, the soft sword would definitely slide over the imperial concubine's neck, and there was no possibility of survival.

"three two…---"

With a sound of swiping, the golden arrow roared away following her words, and flew straight towards Zhao Huainiang, piercing the sky like a sharp knife.

When Chu Shou opened his eyes again, the maid of the inner court had already helped Concubine Rong off the high platform, and followed the crowd to hide everywhere,
"Ah Shui, Sanqian, take them to find a place far away to hide!"

Chu Shou didn't turn his head back, and with a loud exhortation, he held the bow and arrow and looked for Huainiang's escape direction.

Ah Shui, Sanqian helped Gu Hongying and the party find their way to leave the banquet, and Su Wenning also followed with difficulty.

Qu Zhuoyi was still sitting upright, seeing that the men in black seemed to have no intention of killing anyone, so he looked at Chu Shouyuan's back from a distance, his eyes were full of approval, there are still some interesting people in this capital city...

Chang Le, who was beside Concubine Rong, was surrounded by a group of maids of internal affairs. She didn't say that she wanted to leave.

Chang Le is a bit weird, facing this situation, she is not as flustered as other young masters and ladies, thinking that anyway, the imperial army will come to stabilize the situation soon, instead she began to "appreciate" the chaos scene.

The red lips parted slightly, the louder the panicked voices of the noble ladies, the more obvious the whistle of the long knife sliding through the air, the more excited she became, like a giant python crouching in the dark, spitting out red letters.

"Princess, let's..." A small internal officer nearby reminded with a trembling voice.

Chang Le put his gold-armored index finger to his bright red lips and said, "Shh... this is much better than the gaudy song just now..."

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During Chu Shou's period, he made eye contact with a man in black. The man in black was holding a big knife in his hand and was slashing at her. She didn't hide and didn't care. Went somewhere else, like crazy, just thinking about smashing things...

Chu Shou was speechless: ...

They were very measured in their actions, and they didn't even think about killing people. Instead, they wanted to watch the roar and the shining swords mess up the place, the more chaos the better.

Just when Zhao Huainiang was about to succeed, she was chopped off by an arrow. The man was still merciful and shot at her right arm. She reluctantly picked up the soft sword that fell on the ground, put it back on her waist, and hid He took off the veil and dance clothes in the dark, and walked out of the banquet with his shoulders and short arrows bowed.

Stumbling along the way, looking for the most secluded place, she wanted to pull out the sharp arrow embedded in her flesh and blood several times, but endured the pain and gave up this idea.

The arrow is ingenious, and after being shot into the shoulder, it blooms automatically like a flower, and thus it is firmly "planted" in the flesh and blood.

She was sweating profusely, her face was as pale as paper, and she stumbled into a dark alleyway, unable to hold on any longer, she leaned on the wall and fell down. The golden arrow is enough, but it can't reach it, so I can only endure the pain.

Suddenly there was the sound of light footsteps, she held her breath suddenly, and touched the soft sword at her waist with her left hand...

"I saw that it was you, you are so brave." Chu Shou walked slowly with a bow and arrow, his voice was cold.

Huai Niang's heart that was in her throat quickly fell again, she forced the corners of her mouth to smile and said, "The bruise on your knee has just dissipated, and this has given you a new injury, Princess..."

"Who sent you here?" Chu Shou asked coldly.

Zhao Huainiang spoke weakly, her voice still charming: "Of course...the person who brought me to the capital sent me here..."

Chu Shou pursed the corners of his mouth and gave a sneer, with a chill in his eyes, he stepped forward again and pulled out the golden arrow on her shoulder. Holding his wrist, the bone-eroding pain quickly spread to his whole body. The pain was so painful that he couldn't feel the wound, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Chu Shou tore off a corner of his robe, bandaged her briefly, and took out a waist card from his waist, which was the amulet for entering and leaving the palace, and threw it beside Zhao Huainiang, saying coldly: "Leave the palace on the left. There is a river five miles away, you can scratch your face with gravel, and you can jump into it with another stone, as long as you don’t die in the palace.”

Zhao Huainiang picked up the talisman, chuckled a few times, then raised her head to straighten her sweat-soaked hair, and teased softly, "If you can reach my hometown along that river, then slaves can." Consider it."

Chu Shou snorted coldly, waved his hands, and walked into the darkness again holding the bloody golden arrow.

(End of this chapter)