Aspirations

Chapter 191
Xia Xiang said earnestly and earnestly: "Master Shanlai went west after hearing the Dao, pity me laity, still lingering in the rolling red dust, the difference between the realm, the difference between the sky and the abyss. If Zhang Hou can turn back to the shore, it is also a great thing. It's up to you. Lianzi, what kind of network do you think the Star King will set up in Xingzhou, and what is the emperor's countermeasures?"

"If you don't mention Zhang Hou's matter, let him go, you will always be worthy of your life, and seek more blessings." Lian Ruohan has no interest in Zhang Hou, and smiled, "Xia Xianzun wants to know how I got the emperor's help and made it happen. The good times are always in the great foundation, right?"

Xia Xiang also laughed: "The emperor has great talent and strategizing strategies. Lian Niangzi is talented and smart, and knows people and responsibility. The emperor and Lian Niangzi will work together to achieve a good situation.

"Okay, don't hold me high." Lian Ruohan smiled, coincidentally with Xia Xiang, and his heart was infinitely sweet, "It started five years ago, when my father and I had a fight, and I was alone. I went to the capital sadly. After living in the capital for some time, I didn’t know where to go or what to do. One day, I went to Xishan on a whim, but I accidentally met someone who was equally heartbroken…”

"Emperor?" Cao Shuli also heard about the emperor's encounter with a fairy in the secret source, and asked curiously, "The emperor was heartbroken in Xishan, is it because the hermit-seeker did not meet?"

Lian Ruohan nodded: "My sister is really smart, in a sentence. I didn't know that he was the emperor at the time, I just thought he was a rich family child. I saw that although he was dressed in luxurious clothes, but his face was full of sadness, I couldn't help thinking of my own life, and it was also sad. Tears fell. He asked me why I was crying, but I didn’t answer. Instead, he asked him, as a man, why he was sad in the mountains alone? It's not that you are in a daze, a pillow of yellow beams."

"He said that I could be his daughter based on age, and he said that no one dared to talk to him like this. After asking my name, he told me a lot, and I realized that he came here to look for it. His sweetheart, but since the farewell, she has no news, destiny is not easy, Yiren is unpredictable..." Lian Ruohan remembered the past, his eyes blurred for a while, and a bit of bitterness appeared on the corner of his mouth, "The more I talk, the more I talk. It was speculation. After learning what happened to me, he advised me to look away. Although Daxia women were not eligible for imperial examinations, they were able to do business. Throughout the ages, there have been many extraordinary and wealthy women who have achieved great things by themselves. , others can, and so can I."

"What happened later?" Cao Shuli had an envious look on her face, and in the envy, she was also happy with Yourong Yan, "Following with benefits, when the benefits are exhausted, they are scattered. Then give up. Friendship with love, and the death of love hurts. Only with hearts, indifferent and clear, friends are not lost..."

Xiao Jia suddenly said with emotion: "May our white heads be as new, and our tops as old!"

"Later he made me recognize him as a foster father..."

As soon as the words came out, Xia Xiang was shocked and almost jumped up: "You, you recognized the emperor as a foster father? Didn't you say you are a princess?"

Lian Ruohan covered his mouth and smiled: "Why, do you remember that when you used to bully me, I was bullying Her Royal Highness, and now you're afraid?"

Xia Xiang smiled and sat up straight again: "Why have I ever been afraid of anything? It's just the thought that I can't marry Mrs. Cao after marrying the princess. I feel a little depressed. It's better than this, Mrs. Lian, you and I break the engagement and I marry. Even the lady and the lady of Mantuo are forgotten."

"You dare!" Lian Ruohan raised his eyebrows, then smiled proudly, "I can report this matter to the emperor, and the emperor will decide."

"Don't make a fuss, Xia Langjun, listen to the lady Lian." Cao Shuli gave Xia Xiang a sullen look.

"I recognized him as my adoptive father. Later, when I found out that he was the emperor, I regretted it again. I don't want to be a princess. Fortunately, the emperor was enlightened and said that I was only his righteous daughter, not the emperor's righteous daughter. He would not Officially canonized me as a princess." Lian Ruohan giggled, "So, Xia Xianzun, your good wish to be a horse has failed, I am still me, Lian Ruohan, the helm of the good times, not the big one. Princess Xia, do you feel disappointed?"

Xia Xiang smiled without saying a word, stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture to let Lian Ruohan continue talking.

Lian Ruohan folded her hair: "After I met the emperor, the emperor came to Xishan many times to find people to meet with me. The emperor taught me a lot of things, whether it was knowledge, vision, structure, and the general trend of the world. Two years later, one day, the emperor said that he wanted to set up the first business firm in Daxia, and the name was Haojing Changzai. I don’t know why the emperor suddenly wanted to set up a business firm, but I also wanted to do something, so I was very happy I agreed. Unexpectedly, when Haojingchang was established, the emperor fell ill."

Xia Xiang nodded secretly. The emperor should have noticed that Hou Pingpan and Xingwang were gradually growing up, and they had become a problem for their confidants. When they were about to take power, they suddenly fell ill. It should be that Xingwang and Hou Pingpan were also losing patience and brazenly attacked the emperor. Forced the palace.

"Fortunately, although the emperor was ill, Mr. Jin Jia took care of his body, and his condition was brought under control. After the emperor fell ill, he seldom left the palace. I asked someone to tell me that I would try my best to make the good times bigger and stronger. Fortunately, I did not live up to the emperor's entrustment. I have been conscientious and conscientious for the past three years, so that the good times will always grow from nothing to strong, stand proudly on the land of China, and become the first business firm in Daxia." Lian Ruohan nodded, "Okay. Now, the past life and present life that the good times are always there is finished, and now it's time to talk about the emperor's trip to Xingzhou."

"Yes, yes, Lady Lian, did the emperor have a proper arrangement in Xingzhou?" Although Xia Xiang was very emotional about the relationship between the emperor and Lian Ruohan, he also had many questions, but this was not the time to get to the bottom of it. To know why the emperor insisted on going to Xingzhou.

"I don't know very well, the emperor didn't explain the matter of going to Xingzhou." Lian Ruohan looked worried, "Hao Jing Chang was in the early days of its establishment. I can't contact the emperor directly. Fortunately, after Ye Muping and Ye Zhenren entered the palace, the emperor sometimes passed some orders to me through him. Although Ye Zhenren is not very convincing, he is still serious when he does things for the emperor."

Xia Xiang knew that even Ruohan had a prejudice against Taoist priests, so he laughed: "Ye Zhenren is loyal to the emperor, whether he is a real immortal or a deceiver, the loyalty of the emperor can be learned from the sun and the moon. There is one more thing, even the lady. When you came to Zhending, what you did in Zhending was also deliberately done by the emperor's order?"

"You're smart, I finally figured it out." Lian Ruohan smiled sweetly, "Since the emperor chose you to come to Zhending, and handed over such an important place to you to manage, there must be someone by your side to teach you how to act. But then I found out that I didn't need to teach you to learn it very quickly. Of course, I will privately set my life with you later, not the emperor's order, but me. "

"Thanks to Mrs. Lian's love, this official will treat you like a new one in the future." Xia Xiang understood the whole story. Fortunately, he didn't have any bad intentions, otherwise he might be reported to Lian Ruohan in secret. The emperor thought again and asked, "The emperor came to really decide to go to Xingzhou, and he didn't tell you beforehand?"

"No." Lian Ruohan shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Recently, Mr. Jinjia and Ye Zhenren are all in Zhending, and no one from the emperor's side has sent me news. Besides, the trip to Xingzhou is another matter. Suddenly, it is said that the emperor's loved one appeared in Daping Village, Guangzong County, under the jurisdiction of Xingzhou..."

"Daping Village?" Xia Xiang suddenly remembered something and was startled, "So that's the case, no wonder Xingwang insisted on persuading the emperor to go to Xingzhou, Daping Village? What a Daping Village!"

"What's wrong?" Cao Shujun and Xiao Jia asked in unison.

Even Mantuo, who had been closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly opened his eyes with a look of surprise.

Xia Xiang showed a meaningful smile and brought the map.

Lian Ruohan took out the map, Xia Xiang spread it out, found the location of Daping Village in Guangzong County, and said: "Guangzong County is more than 160 miles east of Xingzhou, Daping Village in Guangzong County, there is a square in the south of the village. Thousands of feet of sand dunes..."

A few days later, the emperor passed Xingzhou, turned east, and came to Taiping Village, Guangzong County.Standing on the sand dunes in the south of the village, looking around, there is a vast stretch of sand dunes. On the sand dunes, there is no grass. Outside the sand dunes, there is a forest.The forest surrounds the sand dunes in a circular shape, and the entire sand dune is like a high platform that has experienced thousands of years of wind and frost, silently telling the vicissitudes of the years.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Tan Cong, the governor of Xingzhou, reported that there are fairies in the forest here. Someone once saw the fairy and said that the fairy has a peerless appearance, and it came and went. The minister thought that it was mostly the secret source of Xishan. The fairy." Hou Pingpan stood by the emperor's side, pointed to the forest, and kept saying, "But the forest here is huge, and a lot of manpower is needed to search, and the yamen of Guangzong County are not enough. Zhuang Ding of the Cui Clan of Boling."

Xia Xiang stood not far behind Hou Pingpan and listened to Hou Pingpan's words. He couldn't help being surprised. As expected, the real foreshadowing fell on Boling Cui Shi.

The emperor nodded slightly: "That's very good, that's right. But this place is also more than a hundred miles away from the Cui family in Boling. Who will go to Boling to adjust people?"

"Li Chi of Taiyuan's Li family and Zheng Mingrui of Xingyang's Zheng family have always been on good terms with Cui Xiangyang, the son of Boling Cui's family, so let them go, and they will definitely live up to their holy orders." Hou Pingpan brought out Li Chi and Zheng Mingrui in time.
The emperor seemed to have no idea, nodded and said, "Okay, just send the two of them there."

Hou Pingpan turned back and said: "Li Chi and Zheng Mingrui obey orders. The emperor ordered you two to go to the Boling Cui family to ask for 1000 people from Zhuang Ding. You two should hurry up and go back quickly. There must be no mistakes."

"Yes!" Li Chi and Zheng Mingrui came out, and the two of them didn't forget to take a look at Xia Xiang, and then took their orders away.

"I will be camping here today." The emperor turned around and ordered, "Send the order, set up camp."

Although Xia Xiang wanted to persuade the emperor not to camp here, there was no chance. As soon as the emperor's golden mouth opened, everyone immediately became busy. In less than an hour, the tents were set up one after another.

Camping here is dangerous.The sand dunes of Yimapingchuan are certainly safe to defend, and the surrounding forests are also like dark monsters under the night, I don’t know how many dangers are hidden inside.Although people have already been sent to the forest to check, and there are also banned troops guarding the forest in a fan shape, but the emperor's entourage is mixed with fish and dragons, and the banned army is only a few thousand people. Gu, the emperor is in danger.

It's just that Xia Xiangren's words were soft, and he was not qualified to speak. He had to secretly let Mantuo sneak into the forest to check it out.After Mantuo came back, he reported that there were no soldiers in ambush in the forest, but the forest was so large that if more than a thousand people were mobilized to ambush it overnight, it would be almost impossible to detect it.

Xia Xiang gathered several people in a tent, and when they were discussing matters, Jin Jia and Ye Muping came.

As soon as Jin Jia entered the tent, he was thirsty. After ordering a cup of tea, he drank it all in one go: "Xia Langjun, is everyone here?"

Xia Xiang smiled and said, "As soon as you arrive, you will all arrive."

Jin Jia laughed: "Okay, now that everyone has arrived, the old man will come to pass a secret message."

As soon as they heard the secret order, Xia Xiang, Zheng Shan, Zheng Hao, Lian Ruohan, Cao Shuli, Xiao Jia, Mantuo, Cao Shujun and others all stood up at the same time, and they were about to answer the order. Jin Jia was stunned. Then he smiled and waved his hand: "You don't have to be so solemn, the emperor said that the matter is urgent, and everything should be done cheaply."

"Who?" Mantuo came to the tent door in a flash, the tip of the sword lifted the curtain, and two people stood outside the door, it was Li Dingshan and Song Chaodu.

Xia Xiang never thought that when he saw Li Dingshan again, it was actually in the tent. He was stunned, but Li Dingshan laughed, entered the tent with Song Chaodu, and went straight to Xia Xiang.

"Xiang'er, we have parted ways in Zhongshan Village, and we can only meet today, do you feel as if we are separated from another world?" Li Dingshan was more excited than excited, "Not bad, although he lost a bit of weight, he is more determined and imposing than before. Come on, I've seen Shilang Song."

Xia Xiang didn't care about reminiscing with Li Dingshan, he had seen Song Chaodu, and before he had time to say hello, Jin Jia announced the emperor's oral decree.

"Xingwang and Hou Pingpan betrayed the country. I thought of the love of my mother and compatriots. I wanted to open up the Internet. I used to come to the sand dunes of Daping Village, just to make Xingwang reflect. I hope he can find his way back. , if not..."

"What if it's not?" Xia Xiang thought it was Jin Jia who said half of the words.

"No more." Jin Jia smiled helplessly, "When the emperor said this, King Jing and King Qing came in, the emperor didn't say any more, the old man left, and then came to you."

Xia Xiang nodded and asked Li Dingshan: "Sir, the emperor asked you and Song Shilang to come here early, but what precautions are there?"

Li Dingshan smiled implicitly: "The emperor is here in Daping Village, one is to find the whereabouts of the fairy, and the other is to give the star king one last chance, and he does not want to meet the star king. It's a matter of fact. In the final situation, the Star King's achievements will fall short, and you should be remembered as one of your great achievements."

(End of this chapter)