Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 432 Pretend
When Ye Chen heard this, he already understood in his heart, and Shangguan Bingyun also knew that Wang Dongyang probably guessed that someone from the Maitreya Sect would assassinate him tonight, so he intentionally set fire to disturb Wang Dongyang's audiovisual, to cover Their real assassination plan.

From a distance, the fire by the river beach looked alarming, mainly because the tent was big and there were many things around it.But if it really spreads too far, it's actually impossible. At this time, it's just watching a group of people bravely put out the fire.

The strong wind blew over, and the wind on the distant river beach helped the fire, and suddenly raised the flame.Ye Chen's face flickered.Taking advantage of the confusion, he notified Hu Sanguang somewhere outside the Louchuan with gestures and code words that the two small coincidences arranged on the Louchuan should not be unfolded later, and wait for his notification.

The chaos caused by the fire did not last long. Some of the soldiers in charge of maintaining order found several suspicious-looking people with weapons and arson equipment. Because of Wang Dongyang's presence here, the Jinling Mansion dispatched thousands of soldiers, and three or four first-class masters were quickly surrounded.

As a result, at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and a woman's scream resounded throughout the audience. A man in black suddenly came out of a tent, holding a knife in his hand, and stood on top of a woman with pear blossoms and rain. On the neck as white as jade.

"Stand back, or I'll kill her." The man in black shouted coldly with a mask on his face.

The general who organized the officers and soldiers to besiege the other thieves was shocked when he saw the woman's face clearly, and shouted at the officers and soldiers to stop temporarily.The four thieves who were surrounded in the middle were back to back, armed with knives for vigilance, and took the opportunity to stop to rest.

This unlucky woman, known to everyone, is the freshly released Oiran Bai Shishi not long ago.At this time, she was in such a dangerous situation, her face was pale, she was terrified, tears were flowing, she was crying softly, she was so pitiful, which aroused the desire of protection of almost all the male animals in the audience.Even those dignitaries and dignitaries of the Southern Tang Dynasty who had been watching the excitement on the building boat stood up in a big way.

"Bold thief, hurry up and release Miss Shishi."

"You guys are so brave, you dare to kidnap Miss Shishi, believe it or not, I will destroy your nine clans."

"This strong man must not get excited, there is something to discuss, and the knife in his hand must not hurt Miss Shishi."

Several big figures with no small status shouted at the same time.Others were equally outraged.Only Wang Dongyang didn't stand up, but straightened up, but frowned and looked at the thieves.

Ye Chen knew that Bai Shishi was a concubine, so he naturally understood that this was a trick played by Maitreya.It's just that his overall plan for Maitreya is still a little unclear.Therefore, most of the attention is still on the boat where he and Wang Dongyang are.And soon noticed that a gifted scholar and two serving maids serving wine were taking advantage of the chaos to approach Wang Dongyang.

"These three people may still be a cover, and their function is still to cover the real assassination of Shangguan Bingyun and Yu Niang." Ye Chen had a little understanding in his heart.

Wang Dongyang didn't know that Bai Shishi had been dropped, so he was a little confused, but then he suddenly remembered something, turned around and shouted: "Come on, there are assassins on board."

Before he could finish his words, a sudden change occurred, and the two maids suddenly accelerated and rushed towards Wang Dongyang.But the talented man stopped with his usual expression.

"There are assassins!"

"Bold!"

Thanks to Wang Dongyang's sudden vigilance, the two first-class masters behind him responded immediately, firmly guarding Wang Dongyang behind him, and at the same time holding weapons to meet Shangyun.

Like four rays of light colliding together, they tore each other apart at the moment of contact!
Destroy, shatter, disintegrate, gore

"The thief is so daring!" The moment Wang Dongyang shouted, there was a loud noise, and the two maids passed through the figures in front of them like a gust of wind. The guard stopped him.

Clang, clang, clang, clang clang clanging metal, a burst of dizziness, fighting together.

The other 20 people in the hall on the second floor of Louchuan naturally screamed, but fortunately at this time, there were not many women here, and the men were all of status. After screaming and running around, they calmed down when they saw that there were only two assassins.A few people whose status was not much worse than Wang Dongyang also asked some of their master guards to help.

At this time, other master guards who had caught up from the first floor had already firmly protected Wang Dongyang.

This time, the two assassins had clearly failed and were in danger.

Ye Chen took advantage of the chaos and came to Liu Linxuan's side, his face was pale and flustered, he crawled next to Liu Linxuan's ear, and said in a low voice: "Master Liu, I accidentally bumped into that short scholar in white clothes over there just now, He appears to have hidden weapons."

Liu Linxuan was startled at first, then followed Ye Chen's gaze, and found that the scholar was sneaking towards Wang Dongyang very skillfully.Without thinking too much, he pointed at the scholar and shouted loudly, "Lord Wang, be careful, that man is an assassin, catch him."

The talented man obviously didn't expect to be discovered suddenly. Amidst the panic of the people around him, he gritted his teeth, moved his body, and decisively hijacked the nearest official.

"Let us go, or kill him." The talented man said coldly.The two maids on the other side also took advantage of the guard's pause and used their superb body skills to avoid the siege of the crowd and came to the talented man.

At this time, in order to avoid the presence of other assassins, more than 20 dignitaries and a small number of talented people in the field have retreated to the innermost part of the building, completely distanced from Wang Dongyang, and Ye Chen and Liu Zongyang are also among them.In the wide hall in the middle, there was a mess, Wang Dongyang's expert guards and some dignitaries' guards firmly surrounded the three assassins.

Although Wang Dongyang was a second-rank official, he naturally couldn't ignore the life and death of this colleague under the watchful eyes of everyone.After a stalemate, the guards threw their hands at each other, and the three assassins slowly retreated to the edge of the river near the building boat.Among them, the scholar kicked the hostage in his hand towards the guards, and then the three flew up and jumped into the river.On the boat, some of Wang Dongyang's guards with bows and arrows quickly bent their bows and set up arrows to shoot at the place where the three assassins fell into the water in the river, but after a long time, no figures of the three assassins appeared, and no blood surfaced.

At this time, everyone realized that the official who had just been taken hostage had been kicked unconscious by the assassin.

At the same time, under the building boat, five or six assassins also hijacked the oiran Bai Shishi, forcing thousands of officers and soldiers to be unable to do anything. They also retreated to the river, jumped into the river and escaped.Fortunately, Bai Shishi just fell and was not injured.

On the upstairs boat, Wang Dongyang was lucky that he was alerted earlier, but at the same time, he also secretly scolded the assassin for being cunning and was escaped by him.He knew that these people were all members of Guoshi Lou Yanming, even if they were wanted in Jinling City, it would be useless.So he did not make any follow-up arrest arrangements.

At this time, someone came to ask him: "Is the oiran banquet going on normally?"

Wang Dongyang let out a long laugh, and said boldly: "Since the thief retreated in embarrassment and the oiran Bai Shishi is safe and sound, the oiran banquet must be held normally."

As soon as Wang Dongyang said this, someone naturally cleaned up the scene quickly and rearranged the banquet.

All the dignitaries and talented people experienced the assassination in person and nothing happened. Apart from the thrills, they felt that today's trip was worthwhile. Just now most of them behaved very badly. If they said that they would leave the stage early, it would be even worse. Ashamed, they talked loudly about the assassination incident just now, showing their bravery, and some even began to write poems and lyrics about the incident just now.

On the other side, Liu Linxuan was in a good mood. Just now Wang Dongyang personally thanked him sincerely. Although the last assassin might not be able to hurt Wang Dongyang, Wang Dongyang owed him this favor.Now that Liu Linxuan is in this position, he knows that the favor of a big man with real power like Wang Dongyang is hard to come by.

With this knowledge, Liu Linxuan's affection for that scholar named Chen Qing exploded, and he was full of gratitude.As for why he didn't point out the assassin himself, he could understand.After all, everyone knew that even if the force behind the assassin who dared to assassinate Wang Dongyang was not the Maitreya Sect, it was not something an ordinary scholar could provoke.If Chen Qing pointed out to his face, wouldn't he die miserably if he retaliated afterwards.It can also be seen from this that this talented scholar from Suzhou is not only good at poetry, but also very smart.Such people are the most valuable to make friends with and support.

On the other hand, being able to prevent his own people from creating some coincidences has achieved his own goal, and Ye Chen is also in a good mood.Of course, he knew that the main event tonight had not yet begun.

The highlight here is naturally not just the oiran banquet, but the real assassination event that will take place at the oiran banquet.

Although the servants in charge of the oiran banquet on the upstairs boat moved quickly, it still took some time to clean up the mess in the venue and rearrange the banquet.

During this period, everyone was not idle. Wang Dongyang agreed, Liu Linxuan and others presided over it. With the topic of the oiran contest tonight, everyone began to compose poems and chant lyrics.

Ye Chen has achieved his goal tonight, and he is secretly thinking about how to remind Wang Dongyang without revealing his identity.Liu Linxuan next to him heard what someone said, and suddenly turned his head and said to him: "Zhong Shu! I heard that you forced a talented scholar not to write poems in Qinghe Tower before, is there such a thing?"

Ye Chen came back to his senses and said, "My lord is too famous."

Ye Chen still wanted to be modest, and Liu Linxuan said: "Zhong Shu doesn't need to be modest, your poems "Qinhuai Night Mooring" and "Reminiscing Homeland" are indeed at the peak level of poetry, and ordinary talents are indeed very stressful in front of you. It is normal to dare to write poems. However, everyone here is a real great talent in the Southern Tang Dynasty, much higher than those like Fu Ruojin and Li Shiwen. While everyone admires your two poems, but I am very dissatisfied, just now someone said that you spent a lot of time carving out these two poems. Zhong Shu might as well write another poem on the spot now, so that everyone can see it."

Sorry, it's a little late.

(End of this chapter)