Fortunate Young Gentleman

The young general was stabbed through the throat with a sword and fell into a pool of blood.

A young man walked out of the shadows, looked at the middle-aged man, and said, "I was practicing archery just now, and I accidentally lost my hand. My lord, please don't blame me."

The second prince walked to the dead young general, bent down and groped in his arms, and pulled out a piece of white paper.

The white paper is empty and has no content.

The second prince looked over and over before crumpling the white paper into a ball and throwing it on the ground. He looked at the middle-aged man and said, "We have traveled all the way and finally got here to help King Zhou achieve great things. I hope Your Majesty, don’t let down our hard work.”

"The king knows."

King Zhou said calmly, turned around and was about to go back to his room, but suddenly he groaned, collapsed to the ground, curled up, and roared loudly in his throat.

Veins popped up on his neck and forehead, and something was crawling under his skin. His clothes were instantly wet with cold sweat.

The middle-aged woman behind the second prince flicked a pill into King Zhou's mouth. Then, his body gradually stopped struggling and his roar slowly disappeared.

The second prince looked at him and said apologetically: "Sorry, I forgot to give you the antidote today."

After he said this, a smile appeared on his face and he said: "The prince is a smart man, it is best not to play any tricks. You know, without the prince and the prince, who can we help?"

After saying that, he glanced at King Zhou again and turned away.

After the few people left for a long time, King Zhou climbed up from the ground with difficulty, picked up the ball of paper, closed the door, slowly moved to the table, and sat down slowly.

He took off the lampshade and put the piece of paper close to the flame. The paper burned slowly. Under the heat of the flame, writing gradually appeared on the paper, and finally turned into ashes under the flames.

King Zhou looked at the ashes on the table, clenched his fists, and finally could only sigh.

In Prince Zhou's Mansion, all the patrolling guards have been replaced by burly men. Although they are dressed like Han Chinese, the language they occasionally communicate with is a strange syllable.

In a certain hall in Prince Zhou's palace, many armored generals gathered together and were having a heated argument.

A young general slammed the table and said, "It will be a good thing for the country and the people to believe that the king will succeed to the throne. Why should we oppose it?"

The face of another burly man next to him turned red and he said angrily: "If I want to rebel against you, I won't do it. I have worked so hard to get to this day. Besides Prince Xin, who else can be the emperor?"

The young general stepped forward and said solemnly: "I won't resist either!"

puff!

As soon as he finished speaking, his body trembled violently. He lowered his head and looked at a sharp knife that passed through. He turned back and looked at a man with an indifferent expression. He couldn't believe the passage: "General, general..."

The man suddenly pulled out the long knife, and the young general vomited blood and fell to the ground.

The man glanced around and asked, "Who else has any objections?"

The burly man opened his eyes wide, looked at the man, and murmured: "You, you..."

He drew out his long knife, pointed it at the man, and said in a trembling voice: "In order to rebel, you even ignored the honors you have held for many years..."

puff!

Another knife broke out from his front, with blood stains on the tip. A man with a gloomy complexion came out and said, "Those who disobey military orders will be killed without mercy."

Two people were killed one after another, and the room finally became quiet.

The man known as the general looked at everyone and asked again: "What else do you want to say?"

After a long silence, someone finally stood up, hesitated for a moment, and said: "We were able to capture these five states by surprise and captured them in one fell swoop in the name of the late emperor's death and the King of Zhou's return to Beijing to express his condolences. At this moment, the news has spread, and all the state capitals are on guard. In this case, our troops alone cannot attack any state city. What's more, the neighboring states must have begun to gather troops and wait until the court's reinforcements arrive. If we join forces with them, we will definitely be defeated!”

The man's face was calm. He naturally knew that the rebellion would not succeed, but if he didn't rebel, he would die now. The feeling of life being worse than death was even more terrifying than death.

He didn't want to die, let alone live a life worse than death.

He glanced around and said in a deep voice: "King Xin was treasonous and unethical. He plotted to kill the late emperor, seize the throne and usurp the throne. He committed a crime that is outraged by both humans and gods. Everyone will punish him. In order to help the main family, he will not regret it even if he dies!"

"I will never regret it even if I die."

"I will never regret it even if I die..."

"I will never regret it even if I die!"

…

The blood under the two corpses lying on the ground was still spreading. Everyone looked at the bloodshot long knife in the man's hand and spoke one after another, but their voices were not so confident.

When everyone in the room retreated, a figure came out from behind, looked at the man, nodded and said, "Well done."

The man looked at him and asked, "Can you give me the antidote?"

The second prince threw him a small porcelain bottle and said, "This is the antidote for three."

The man got the antidote, glanced at him, turned and strode away.

The second prince twitched his lips and said, "All Han people are greedy for life and afraid of death."

The middle-aged woman walked out from behind him and said calmly: "There are people who are greedy for life and afraid of death everywhere. There are Han people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and there are also many Han people who are not afraid of life and death."

The second prince cupped his hands and said, "Sorry, I forgot that Master Gongsun is also a Han."

The middle-aged woman did not speak again, but the second prince sighed and said: "This trip to Chu State was a complete failure. None of the tasks before leaving were completed, and we could only complete it on the return trip. He created some trouble for them, but he didn’t expect that King Xin’s reputation would be so great. If it weren’t for Master Gongsun, he probably wouldn’t be able to occupy even one state.”

The middle-aged woman said: "In one month at most, the rebellion will be suppressed. The second prince should make plans in advance to avoid being unable to retreat."

The second prince nodded and said: "Master Gongsun, don't worry. If I can't retreat completely, won't I be advantageous to Brother Wang in vain? Even if this thing doesn't succeed, it will still disturb the situation of Chu State, not a little bit." Nothing gained..."

He walked around the hall, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and said: "I'm afraid the Chu court will never guess that we will bypass Kyoto and come to the south..."

…

Since she had a bite of noodles at the old lady's shop two days ago, Tang Ning didn't have a drop of vinegar in the next two meals she ate.

He stood in the corridor and reached out to grab the whip that Zhao Man accidentally threw at him. Zhao Man hurried over and said with concern: "Are you okay? I didn't mean it..."

"It's okay." Tangning waved her hand, looked at Wanyan Yan, and said casually: "If you want to become more powerful, you'd better change your weapon. If you only use a whip, it will be difficult to make progress."

Wan Yanyan had actually realized that although her whip was easy to use, it was not only ineffective but also a burden when meeting someone more powerful. She also thought about whether to use another weapon.

Zhao Man had been coveting Wan Yanyan's whip for a long time and immediately said: "You changed your weapons, can you give me this whip?"

Wanyanyan immediately took back her whip and said, "I won't give it away."

"Stingy." Zhao Man rolled his eyes at her and said, "I gave you your clothes and jewelry."

Wanyanyan glanced at her mouth and said, "Then I'll give it back to you."

She had already borrowed a thousand taels of silver from Tang Ning and bought a lot of clothes and jewelry that she liked. Although they were not as good-looking as Zhao Man, she did not want to give her the whip of her heart.

"Okay." Zhao Man looked at her and said, "Your bellyband is mine too, don't forget to return it together..."

"Give it back!" Wan Yanyan reached out to take off her clothes, then looked at Tang Ning and prepared to walk into the room.

"Forget it, forget it." Zhao Man waved her hand and said, "I'm not as stingy as you. Whatever I give away is yours..."

Wan Yanyan came back, handed the whip to her, and said, "I'll lend it to you for two days."

Although Wan Yanyan and Zhao Man are quite different in personality, they are similar in age and have similar status, so they get along quite happily.

Chen Zhou walked in from outside, walked to him and said, "Sir."

Tangning looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Chen Zhou glanced at Zhao Man and Wan Yanyan in the yard, then looked outside again, winked at him, pursed his lips, and looked outside again.

The meaning of these actions was quite obvious. Tangning walked outside in confusion, turned around and looked around, and saw Li Tianlan standing by the lake not far away.