Jiaochu

Chapter 141 The King of Zhenbei ([-])

When it was time to decide the winner, Meng Tianlan punched Yan Fei on the shoulder. Before Meng Jingxiu could be happy, Yan Fei kicked Meng Tianlan on the shoulder. Ye Lingxi cheered and clapped, while Meng Jingxiu stared with big unconvinced eyes and was angry. He said loudly, "Why are you happy? The winner hasn't been decided yet."

After the two of them took a few steps back and stood firm, their eyes facing each other showed an unwillingness to admit defeat. They refused to give in to the other and planned to fight again.

Ye Lanchen clapped his hands and said: "The martial arts competition can only end here. If we really have to fight to the death, my head will not be as strong as Lao Meng's."

King Pingnan patted his head and joked to himself: "I practice Iron Tou Gong with this head. I don't know how many iron pots I broke when I was practicing."

"What does Uncle Meng use to cook at home?" Ye Lingxi asked innocently and curiously.

King Pingnan was so amused that he laughed loudly, and the loud sound made Ye Lingxi sneak up and hide behind her father.

"King Pingnan is still so informal." King Zhenbei said with a smile.

King Pingnan waved his hand and said: "Don't be pretentious, just say what you have to say."

King Zhenbei didn't answer, and glanced at Yanjiang with his narrow and deep gaze, "I heard that your brother encountered gangsters on his way back to Beijing last time and was slightly injured."

"Brother is fine now. Your Majesty is worried," Yan Jiang replied politely.

Prince Pingnan said: "Don't you have a lot of dead soldiers there? Why don't you send more people to send them back? You are afraid that the emperor will detain them. Look at how stingy you are."

"The late emperor had an order that the vassal king was not allowed to enter the capital without being summoned. Has King Pingnan even forgotten the late emperor's will?" A glimmer of light flashed in the cold eyes of King Zhenbei, and a chill came from the depths of his pupils. seeped out.

"We vassal kings cannot enter the capital without a decree, and I have not bothered you to send people back in person. I don't know that you are a tough cock, but I am afraid of suffering a loss." King Pingnan did not shy away, and did not give any face to King Zhenbei. ,
Ye Lingxi was a little shocked, and finally understood where the little girl's confidence to "dare to say anything" came from.

"Isn't Yuzhou close to your territory? Why haven't you sent some people there?" King Zhenbei asked.

King Pingnan clenched his big fist and said angrily: "Why didn't I send you? I sent 500 troops, but a bastard came out of nowhere and rushed in front of me to save the people."

Ye Lingxi kindly reminded: "Uncle Meng, it was brother Xiao Yun who saved the man."

"Who! Which family's little brat?" King Pingnan asked.

Eunuch De replied: "He is the eldest son of the Xiao family in Jiangnan and the nephew of the imperial concubine."

Hearing the latter sentence, King Pingnan rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"Your Majesty, the banquet has been prepared." Eunuch De changed the subject at the right time.

Ye Lanchen had someone prepare a reception banquet in the imperial garden, and Yan Jiang also accompanied him there.When passing by Yanfei, King Zhenbei paused for a moment, his sharp eyes swept across the face with cold features, as if he saw the shadow of someone, the corners of his lips tightened a little, and he seemed a little unhappy. .

In addition to the two major vassal kings, King Pingnan and King Zhenbei, there were two other vassal kings at the Jie Feng Banquet. Their territory was not as large as the southern and northern territories, and their aura in front of them was also lower.

The next day, Ye Lingxi heard that King Pingnan was drinking happily and insisted on fighting with others. As a result, the hands of the other two feudal princes were broken and fractured. The two feudal princes are still lying in the imperial hospital.Then Ye Lingxi listened to Meng Jingxiu talking about it all morning, just saying that her father should not be allowed to drink. Every time he got drunk, he would act like a drunkard. When he woke up, he would be punished by her mother and concubine to chop firewood for a month.

In the afternoon, Meng Jingxiu took Ye Lingxi and walked around in the imperial garden. Unknowingly, they wandered near the Youzhu Pavilion. There was a melodious flute sound coming from inside. The two of them stood under the wall and listened in silence for a long time. , surrounded by bamboo shadows, and the cool greenery make the sound of the flute seem more ethereal and transcendent. If you listen to it under the moon, you don't know how touching it is.

A ray of breeze blew through Ye Lingxi's black bun. Meng Jingxiu jumped up and put her hands on the wall. Judging from this skillful movement, she must have climbed over the wall frequently.

At this time, the sound of the flute also stopped.

After a while, a wisp of breeze blew across Ye Lingxi's forehead again. Meng Jingxiu landed steadily on the ground, like a flexible cat. She said with disappointment, "I thought he was a good-looking young man, but he turned out to be an uncle." , they don’t look very good either.” Ye Lingxi said solemnly, “A person cannot be judged by his appearance, and the sea water cannot be measured.”

Meng Jingxiu smiled slyly and said, "If your brother Yan doesn't look good, you will definitely not like him."

"Then if your eldest brother doesn't look good, wouldn't you like him too?" Ye Lingxi asked.

"Do you admit that my eldest brother is good-looking?" Meng Jingxiu raised her lips proudly, like a cat that had stolen a fish.

Ye Lingxi put his hands behind his back and said like an old scholar: "Color is emptiness, emptiness is color."

Meng Jingxiu burst out laughing, her eyebrows arched, her waist bent, and someone walked out of the yard.A boy in white came over and invited the two of them in. When she saw another identical face in the yard, Meng Jingxiu stared at the two boys in white for several seconds, then blinked her big eyes in surprise, fearing that she might have been deceived. Eye.

"Are you two twins?"

The two boys in white nodded and acknowledged. Their identical movements and expressions made Meng Jingxiu blink her eyes. She had never seen twins that were so similar. There was no difference at all.

"What's your name?"

"Breeze. Clear the snow."

Meng Jingxiu stretched out her hand and nodded, murmuring, "You are Qingfeng, you are sweeping snow, Qingfeng, sweeping snow, sweeping snow, Qingfeng, I remember it." When the two brought tea, she couldn't tell the difference. Cleared.

"Uncle, what's your name?" After taking a sip of hot tea, Meng Jingxiu's original disappointed attitude changed significantly. She had never drunk tea with such a special taste, like a piece of snow melting quietly on a bamboo leaf, like The first moonlight shining into the snow... She couldn't accurately describe this feeling.

Ye Lingxi also likes this cup of tea, and also likes the sparse bamboo shadows reflected on the ground. A cup of tea, a small yard, quietly watching the flowing clouds and listening to the falling flowers.

"Is this your first time in the capital, Princess?" Xi said calmly with his eyes slightly closed.

Meng Jingxiu said in surprise: "Uncle, how do you know?"

"King Pingnan has a son and a daughter. The eldest son is Prince Tianlan, and the second daughter is Princess Anping. She should be eleven years old." Xi Mu said.

Meng Jingxiu was even more surprised. She didn't expect that the other party even knew her eldest brother's name and her age.

(End of this chapter)