Snowy Chang'an Road

Chapter 48 An unexpected surprise
  "No."

Hearing Wei Shao's firm refusal, Pei Ying said: "If I remember correctly, my father has some friendship with Yun Zheng. If he has murderous intentions and kills a King of Peking and another daughter of Duke Pei, what about Chang'an?" How many people will kill him?"

"You don't have to put yourself at risk."

"I'm worried about you. You're too straightforward. I'm afraid these old foxes will set up an ambush for you and lead you into a trap. One more person and one more brain. Having more brains is only good and has no disadvantages."

After hearing her words, Wei Shao only heard and remembered one sentence.

"Are you worried about me?"

"Yes, you are my husband. If you die, I will have to be a widow for you. Do you think I am suitable to be a widow for others?"

Wei Shao shook his head.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Zhong Yang felt goosebumps all over his body. This was so strange to hear.

Wei Shao and Pei Ying originally wanted to bring some soldiers, but they were stopped outside the city gate of Changsha. The soldiers guarding the city originally wanted to stop Pei Ying, but after hearing that she was the Princess of Peking, they silently let them go.

"Wei Shao, it seems that someone knows that I am coming and has informed the soldiers guarding the city in advance."

Changsha was prosperous in the country. Even though the army was approaching fifty miles outside the city, the people's lives were not affected in any way except for closing the city gate tightly.

The two rode horses, led by the soldiers, to the outside of Linxiang Prince's Mansion.

"King Beiping, you can't bring your sword in."

Wei Shao handed the sword to the soldier and said, "Keep it safe for me. If something goes wrong with you,"

He made a gesture of wiping the neck of the young soldier. The soldier was obviously frightened. Wei Shao, the king of Peiping, had a bad reputation of killing one against a hundred, and his reputation had been spread all over the world.

Today, he was face to face with such a demon king, and he even gestured at wiping his neck. It was a lie that the soldiers were not afraid. The hand holding the sword was trembling.

Wei Shao pinched his wrist and said, "Hold it tight."

In Linxiang Prince's Mansion, Han Zhu sat on the throne. After Wei Shao and his wife entered the city, Han Zhu knew every move they made.

"Wei Shao, King of Peiping, pays homage to King Linxiang."

They are both kings, but kings with different surnames like Han Zhu have their own kingdoms and territories, which is different from Wei Shao, a king with only a name.

The countries in the hands of these kings with different surnames were all the Kingdom of Wei, and they were the local emperors in the Kingdom.

"King of Peking, please wake up. This beauty must be Princess Peking, right?"

"Yes, Pei Ying, Princess of Peiping, pays her respects to King Linxiang."

"No need to be polite. When I was young, your father Pei Kai worked together. I was the county magistrate and he was the county magistrate."

Seeing that he directly pointed out the relationship, it seemed that he meant to show his goodwill, but Pei Ying just smiled and still did not let down his guard.

"Come here, serve tea to the King and Princess of Peiping."

The two of them took a sip of tea first. Wei Shao took out the letter from his arms without turning around and ordered someone to hand it to Han Zhu.

"This is a letter from His Majesty to you, King Linxiang. It is up to you to open it personally."

Han Zhu took the letter and put it aside without opening it. He just drank tea and ate the cakes in front of him.

"What? You didn't even read His Majesty's letter?"

"I know what your Majesty wrote." Hearing this, Wei Shao was shocked, thinking that only the five of them had read the letter, and they would never leak the content of the letter. So how did King Linxiang know? of?
  "King of Peiping, you don't have to guess. His Majesty also sent the same letter to King Nancang, but the letter from Chang'an is faster than yours. I already knew about this two days ago."

Wei Shao breathed a sigh of relief, that's what happened.

The first thing is done, now comes the second.

"The king of Lujiang, Yunzheng, led tens of thousands of county soldiers and fled to Changsha. I don't know about this. Do you know?"

"I know."

"How dare you ask King Linxiang where Yunzheng is now?"

Han Zhu did not answer him, but picked up the letter in front of him, opened it slowly, picked up the brush, drew a circle on the letter, and ordered the letter to be returned to Wei Shao.

"Yun Zheng went to Xiangjun?"

Han Zhu nodded.

"He is a rebel. Even if he comes to surrender to me, how can I dare to take him in? I didn't even let him enter the city gate, so I drove him away. I also know that he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, many jewels and food, comparable to When it comes to peace, what do these external things mean?"

Seeing that the couple did not speak, Han Zhu continued: "I have killed so many people after so many years of fighting, and how many innocent souls have been created in the world. I am old now, and I have no time to fight and kill."

"The King of Peiping was ordered by His Majesty to eliminate us kings with different surnames. Even if Yun Zheng does not come to our country of Changsha, one day Chang'an's army will come here to pacify us."

"King Peking, you have come all the way from Chang'an. I will not let you go back empty-handed. I have prepared 25 counties and 20,000 county soldiers, as well as dozens of boxes of gold and jewelry for you to take with you. , tell Your Majesty that this is all my intention."

"Of these twenty-five counties, twelve are in the north of Changsha and thirteen are in the southwest of Yuzhang County. His Majesty can re-establish counties there and hand them over to people he trusts. I don't know my sincerity, maybe. Impressed His Majesty?"

Wei Shao and Pei Ying originally thought that if they came today, even if it was not a bad day, they might not start well and end well, so they came with some precautions.

But he never thought that Han Zhu would actually speak out on his own, ceding fiefdoms, ceding troops, and spreading gold, silver and jewelry to express his sincerity to them and to express his loyalty to the Wei Dynasty.

Seeing that the couple still didn't speak, Han Zhu said, "Since the King of Peking has no objections, I'll do this for you. If I give His Majesty a gift, he has no reason not to accept it."

"Yes."

"By the way, there is another item that I want to give to you and your wife."

Han Zhu signaled his entourage to bring the small wooden box on the desk to the two of them.

Pei Ying felt that this box looked very familiar. Isn't this the box that her father gave to Wei Shao?

She opened the wooden box and found half a jade pendant inside. Are Han Zhu and Pei Kai so close?

"Your father, Pei Kai, is my brother who has been through life and death. It is only by listening to his words that I can be the king of Changsha for nearly ten years. The situation in the court is turbulent. He is in a high position, but he is in a high position. Su Shenghan, if you see your father after you return to Chang'an, tell him that if one day you can no longer stay in Chang'an, he will come to Changsha to find me. I will definitely go with him to fish by the river, play the harp under the willows, play chess on the high platform, and drink wine. Yan Huan."

"Uncle Han, I will take your words back to Chang'an and tell my father."

"Call me uncle, I am older than your father."

Pei Ying's eyes were full of surprise. Han Zhu looked much younger than his father, but he never expected that he was actually older than his father.

"I don't like fighting or worrying, that's why I look young. I will hand over this half of the jade pendant to you. Your father wrote to tell me that the other half has been given to the King of Peking."

"Yes, my father-in-law ordered it to be sent from Chang'an. I have received it."

"That's good. Yu Yuanren and Yu Yuan are a match made in heaven."

(End of this chapter)