That evening, Luo Hong couldn't find Xiao Yunyan anywhere, and finally remembered that he might be in the watchtower. So he walked to the watchtower. When he got to the bottom of the stairs, he met Luo Hu who was coming down from the watchtower. He hurriedly asked: "Luo Hu, have you seen His Highness?"
"Where is His Highness up there?"
Luo Hong was overjoyed and was about to go up, but was pulled back by Luo Hu, "What are you doing with His Highness?"
"Master He is back and said he brought good news."
Luo Hu frowned, "Don't go yet. His Highness is in a bad mood right now. You'd better wait for him to come down on his own."
Luo Hong smiled and said, "Don't worry, what I said will ensure that he will be in a good mood immediately."
Luo Hu gave him a meaningful look and said, "Then - you go."
Luo Hong went up with a face full of joy and saw Xiao Yunyan looking ahead at the dusk. He hurriedly ran towards him and said happily: "Your Highness, Your Highness, Mr. He has returned to the camp."
Xiao Yunyan responded lightly: "Well, just settle them down."
"Settled in, but Mr. He is waiting for His Highness to give you good news."
Xiao Yunyan refused: "She is tired from traveling and traveling. Let her have a good rest first."
Luo Hong said bravely: "However, Mr. He seems to have good news to tell His Highness. He seems to be very urgent."
After hearing this, Xiao Yunyan frowned and said casually: "I know, you go down first, I will come over later."
"Yes." At this time, Luo Hong finally understood that Xiao Yunyan and Luo Hu seemed to be hiding something from him, so he wisely left and hid under the watchtower. Finally, two quarters of an hour later, Xiao Yunyan came down from the watchtower. Luo Hong followed him cautiously and saw him walking straight to his tent. Once inside, he opened another military book.
"His Highness always said that he had memorized dozens of military books by heart when he was a child and no longer needed to read them. Why did he think of reading the military books again today?"
"Luo Hong, if you have nothing to do, just go and rest."
Luo Hong said cautiously: "Your Highness, then..."
"What about this and that? Come out quickly."
As soon as Xiao Yunyan finished speaking, a guard came to report: "Your Highness, Mr. He wants to see you."
Xiao Yunyan finally put down the book in his hand and said helplessly: "Let her come in."
From time to time, He Lianyi came in. As soon as he saw Xiao Yunyan, he couldn't wait to announce his victory to him: "Your Highness, the matter has been settled. The general and prefect of Liangcheng promised that as long as Your Highness passes by, they will surrender to His Highness." He said. Then, He Lianyi handed over another letter, "This is their letter of surrender to His Highness."
Xiao Yunyan took the letter, read it and nodded, "Well, it's quite sincere."
Seeing that he had finished speaking, Helianyi didn't say anything for a long time, so he had to ask: "Your Highness, what do you want me to ask for..."
"Oh, I have already written to my grandpa, asking him to introduce Lu Zhongjian. I have also written to my father, asking for what you want."
"I know His Highness will promise me these things."
"Then what are you asking?"
"It's about King Yi."
"I sent someone to report your letter to my sixth brother that day. But what exactly do you want to do?" Xiao Yunyan stared at her with burning eyes.
Helianyi avoided his gaze, but he grabbed one of his arms fiercely, "What on earth do you want to do?"
"Your Highness." Helianyi saw the fierce light in his eyes and was slightly frightened by him, "You, your grip hurts me so much."
Only then did Xiao Yunyan let go of his hand, "Don't think that this king doesn't know that you have deployed a lot of Xia Army people on the other side of Dinghe with the purpose of assassinating my sixth brother on his way back and forth."
He Lianyi was surprised for a while, with a look of disappointment on his face, and sneered: "So His Highness trusts me on the surface, but is secretly checking me?"
"You are so deliberate, I naturally want to know your true purpose."
"Are you deliberately thinking this? Your Highness, maybe you think I'm deliberately getting close to His Highness, right?"
Xiao Yunyan sneered, "Do you think that I am really that stupid and can't see through your little tricks?"
He Lianyi neither admitted nor denied, and remained silent for a long time before answering: "Your Highness, Xiao Yunsheng and I have a deep hatred. At that time, it was he who bribed the people around Helian Dingbang and encouraged Helian Dingbang to assassinate and rebel, which led to the rebellion. The subsequent situation.”
"It wasn't him who made you lose your father and brother, it was Helian Dingbang. If he didn't covet him, how could he be easily bewitched?"
"He broke through Jiaxu Pass and killed hundreds of thousands of my soldiers. I have to settle this blood debt."
"You played such a big game of chess that you actually gave up the city in order to assassinate him."
"On this point, I sincerely want to cooperate with His Highness. Wouldn't it be good for Your Highness if I get rid of King Yi as soon as possible for Your Highness?"
"No. If you really cooperate with me sincerely, it will not only be of no benefit to me, but also to you. In the future, if he confronts Ning Jun in this area, I will set up another front to prevent Helian Dingbang from looking at each other. If you I want to get rid of him, and Helian Dingbang will only deal with me in the future. Isn’t this not worth the gain?"
"I just feel that if we don't get rid of it now, I'm afraid it will be even harder to get rid of it in the future."
"I said I have no intention of competing with him for the reserve position." Xiao Yunyan said, turning around and suddenly placing the letter in his hand on the candlelight, and the piece of paper instantly turned into ashes, "So, this can also be done It doesn’t count.”
He Lianyi's face turned livid, and he stood up. He was stunned for a while, and then sneered twice: "It turns out that I was tricked by His Highness."
Xiao Yunyan said: "Sixth brother and I grew up together and we are brothers and sisters. Even if I have to fight with him, I will fight openly and openly and will not use other people's hands to get rid of him. Also, you are so full of calculations, I, the king I don’t like it very much, so the cooperation between you and me is over.”
He Lianyi listened silently, stood up, and was about to leave, but she saw Xiao Yunyan stretched out his long arm to stop her: "I didn't plot against you. You have no place to stay. I can return this city that I took without a fight." I’ll give it to you, but I can’t guarantee that I won’t attack it in the future.”
"That's the case, then there's no need. If you and I meet again in the future, just treat it as strangers." After that, Helianyi slammed the door and walked out.
Luo Hong watched helplessly as He Lianyi slammed the door and walked out, and hurriedly walked into the tent. Seeing Xiao Yunyan looking lost, he felt strange, "Hey, Your Highness, why are you here alone? What's wrong with Mr. He? I see She took General Du and Miss Shen and left overnight, why is it so urgent?"
"It's okay, don't worry about her." Xiao Yunyan finally stood up and walked out.
"Your Highness, are you okay?" Seeing the disappointment on his face, Luo Hong hurriedly caught up with him and asked, "Why does Mr. He have to leave in the middle of the night?"
"Don't mention this person again in the future, she will never come back."
"What? What about - then, where is Liangcheng? Do you still want to go?"
"No need, prepare to attack Xuyang first." After saying that, Xiao Yunyan left alone, leaving behind a stunned Luo Hong.
...
The night was as dark as ink, but tinged with bright red. Slowly, red spread throughout the world. She smelled a strong smell of blood, saw babies one after another, men one after another died tragically under chaotic swords, and women one after another screamed miserably. Then, everyone fell down except her, and she was the only one left. She looked at the blood-stained bodies one after another. Her heart felt as if it had been cut out with a knife, and she was so painful that she couldn't breathe.
"Princess, princess, wake up, wake up..."
She was finally shaken awake, and it turned out to be another dream. But is it really just a dream? She shook her head. Sometimes, she wished that the one who fell was herself, so that she wouldn't have to suffer these endless tortures. Knowing that she could no longer sleep, she put on her clothes and got up, walked to the window, and suddenly saw that the lights in the room opposite were still on, and said to Shen Liuxiang, "Go to Master Xuan."
The door of the shabby room opened, and standing in front of him was a gaunt and thin old woman. Her hair was the color of snow, her complexion was purple, her face was full of wrinkles, and her whole body was sinister, which made her look quite scary.
The old woman said in a strange voice and intonation, "I told you to let the princess have a good night's rest. If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
He Lianyi said: "Master Xuan, I can't sleep. I hope Master Xuan can give me some more advice. That Xiao Yunyan will not be controlled by me, and I can't control him."
"But things in the world always turn around."
"We tried our best to get close to him, but in the end I was forced to leave. Master Xuan, now that this game has become a dead end, how can I break it?"
"Everything in the world will always turn around. Don't be discouraged, princess. Just let the next thing take its course."
"But I'm afraid Xiao Yunyan and I will never meet again."
"It would be fine if we really had no intersection. But unfortunately, once you two meet, this bad fate may never be broken."
"A bad fate?" He Lianyi obviously found it unbelievable, "Where is the fate between me and him?"
“It’s not happening now, and there’s no guarantee it won’t happen in the future.”
"Master Xuan, Xiao Yunyan is the prince of Daliang. The Xiao family has a feud with our Helian family. I will never be sincere to him."
"But the princess needs to understand that love cannot be controlled by intentions."
He Lianyi swore with conviction: "Master Xuan, I promise you that I will never let myself be tempted by him."
"If the princess is not afraid, she can leave the Cold Valley early tomorrow morning. He is the only one who can help the princess regain her kingdom."
He Lianyi shook his head, "But, I have broken up with him, how can I go back? He is not a person who can be manipulated by me, so how can he help me restore my country?"
"The princess remembers what I said: Everything has its own destiny, and there will be a turning point when you reach the end of the river. It's just two words: love: it can break people's hearts, kill their hearts, and seal their throats. The princess can't underestimate it."
However, He Lianyi still scoffed at Master Xuan's sincere warning, "My heart is dead and my intestines are broken, so why should I be afraid? I'm just worried that I will take the wrong path again?"
The old woman sighed again: "Princess, don't worry, I already calculated the princess's fate eighteen years ago, and I will definitely not be wrong."
Thinking of Helian Dingguo's dying advice, Helianyi had no choice but to believe it and said leisurely: "Master Xuan, can I really regain control of the Great Xia Kingdom?"
The old woman said: "Yes. It is not difficult for the princess to take back Daxia. There will be two hundred years of Kingdom Zuo after Daxia. What I have calculated today is that the people who will rule Daxia in the future will also be of the bloodline of the princess and King Ji."
"Me, me and him... blood?" He Lianyi's face was filled with shock.
"If the princess wants to avoid this bad relationship, it is not impossible to resolve it. As long as the princess does not have a heart for King Ji and chooses another son-in-law to have children in the future, the princess can spend the rest of her life in peace. But if the princess becomes obsessed with King Ji , I’m afraid that my body will be shattered into pieces and destroyed forever.”
"Master Xuan, the only thing I am obsessed with is restoring the country, but if he is the only one who can accomplish it, even if I am shattered into pieces and never recovered, it will not matter. But I serve as a tiger, so how difficult is it to keep my innocence? .”
"If you really can't keep your innocence, there is another way."
"What method?"
"The princess can only give him the same amount of body and soul."
Hearing this, Master Xuan closed his eyes for a long time before saying, "Then the princess will leave early tomorrow morning."
Chen Liuxiang finally couldn't help but ask: "Master Xuan, how do we go? How can we meet King Ji again?"
Master Xuan shook his head and said: "I have already leaked too many secrets, and I can't let them out any more. Now there is only one thing I have warned you: the princess should only act like a snake to King Ji, but never be sincere towards him."
Chen Liuxiang complained again: "Since you have leaked more information, what's the harm? You always let the princess guess without starting or ending. We took many wrong steps in the beginning."
He Lianyi scolded: "Liuxiang, don't be rude to Master Xuan."
However, Master Xuan did not take it seriously. He showed a rare strange and profound smile and said to Helianyi: "Princess naturally knows where King Ji is at this moment. Am I right?"
"Yes, I know, and I will follow Master Xuan's instructions." After saying that, Helianyi stood up and walked out.
The two walked out of the house one after another. Chen Liuxiang looked at He Lianyi blankly, "Princess, where will we go tomorrow?"
"Xuyang, Xiao Yunyan will definitely attack Xuyang first. We will go to Xuyang early tomorrow morning."
"But can Xu Qianmin resist King Ji?"
"It is precisely because we cannot resist that we are going."
"Oh, I understand. But will Xu Qianmin take us in?"
"My father has always been kind to the Xu family. I expected Xu Qianmin to take me in."
"Okay, slave, listen to the princess."
