"Little prince, alas, little prince!" Yan Niang chased Xiao Yu to the door of the room.
Xiao Yu turned around, cupped his hands, and said with a smile: "Don't give me away, Yan Niang!"
After saying that, he turned and left the room and walked towards the stairs.
Dongfang Lao and Shi Hu also hurriedly said goodbye and chased after Xiao Yu.
Yanniang stood in front of the door a little annoyed and wanted to chase her, but she had to give up considering her identity as the owner of Chunxiang Painting Fangfang.
Just when she couldn't advance or retreat, she heard Da Xiwu's hearty laughter behind her, and she turned around unhappily.
"Haha... If you want to chase, just go for it. Why are you standing in front of the door?" Da Xiwu said with a smile.
Yanniang said angrily: "It's really embarrassing. How could I, Hu Yanniang, be like this today? The words I say are like farts and make people laugh. It's all because of you, a dead person."
Da Xiwu didn't care, he lay down lazily on Yan Niang's bed.
"Get up, you're smelly with sweat, and lie down on my bed!" Yan Niang said, going to grab Da Xiwu.
"What's wrong with your bed? King Pengcheng can lie down on it, but why can't I, Da Xiwu?"
"Don't mention that damn ghost!" Yan Niang looked disgusted and scolded, "Don't just talk without practicing. If you can lie down, come tonight and let you see what I can do."
Da Xiwu yawned and stood up.
"I've already seen your two ounces of meat, so I won't be fooled by you. Which sister here is not younger and more agile than you."
Yanniang looked angry and flicked him on the head.
"Hmph, how dare you touch these girls chosen by the Queen Mother? Here, I am the only one you can touch."
"I'm really afraid of making a fool of myself."
"You... you are so heartless!" Yanniang pointed at Da Xiwu and was about to curse, but Da Xiwu hugged her into his arms.
Looking at this beauty who was more than ten years older than him, Da Xiwu still felt a little itchy, and he took a deep breath.
"I just like the smell of vixen!"
His hand started to feel a little dishonest, but he was patted hard by Yan Niang.
"Who is this vixen? What are you doing in broad daylight? You want me, an old vixen, to come back at night and talk about business!"
"Business, there is nothing serious to talk about!" Da Xiwu looked innocent.
"I've been just like you, A Gan, since I was a child. I know how to eat secretly. Be more serious." Yanniang said seriously, but her body remained soft in Da Xiwu's arms, letting him touch his hand under her collar.
The two were affectionate for a moment, and Yan Niang sighed: "Hey, Ah Wu, I don't know what you think. You insist on the slave family singing this play with you. Fortunately, the young prince did not fall into your trap. If the Queen Mother knew If you want to lead him into a dangerous situation, according to the temperament of the Queen Mother, both you and I will have to walk around in pain."
Da Xiwu smiled a little shamelessly, and put his hand under Yanniang's clothes, causing Yanniang to scream, her whole body felt hot, and her eyes were a little blurry.
"I have my own reasons."
"Why exactly?"
Yanniang suddenly took out Da Xiwu's restless hand from her collar, stood up and looked back at the handsome man.
"Hehe, I came back this time just for the young prince."
Yan Niang looked surprised: "Come here for him? You...what do you want to do?"
"It's not what I want to do, it's King Qinghe who wants to see him."
"King Qinghe...Why does King Qinghe want to see him?" Yan Niang stood up and sat aside, with a confused look on her face, "Awu, the slave family is confused. Why is that young prince involved with King Qinghe again?"
"Do you know the relationship between King Qinghe and the Queen Mother?"
Yanniang curled her lips: "You can't say this nonsense."
Yanniang was born in a wealthy family and had never entered a temple, but how could she not know about the unclear relationship between King Qinghe and the Queen Mother? Maybe no one in the entire Wei Empire knew about it. It was a secret recognized by the empire.
"So the purpose of my coming south this time is to bring the young prince to Luoyang, and to make him come with me willingly."
Yanniang frowned: "Your impassioned speeches are all false. You didn't even think about rescuing the detained barbarians. You were just trying every possible way to plot against the Prince of Jiangxia and force him into a desperate situation!"
"Only in this way will he be willing to come back to the Northern Dynasty with me, just like his uncle, King Xiao Baoyin of Qi! It is better to have a respected position in our dynasty and be able to express his ambitions, than to be in the Southern Dynasty, where he is uneasy all day long and is not careful. He will be dragged out by the tyrant and beheaded!"
"Are you doing this for the sake of the young prince?"
"It's not me, it's Prince Qinghe and the Queen Mother. They are doing the best for the young prince!"
Yan Niang's eyes were wandering, and he walked to the window and looked outside. People were coming and going on the street, and she felt that the room behind her was as cold as an ice cellar.
"Then... what to do with the imprisoned barbarians? Will we save them?" At this point, Yanniang's tone seemed to be trembling.
"Of course it was just a pretense to force the young prince to submit. Isn't it possible that Yan Niang didn't know about the background of the house? If the people behind the house caught the evidence that the Prince of Jiangxia colluded with the Northern Dynasty, it would be difficult for him not to escape. When the time comes, Chunxiang Huafang's mission is to cover the young prince's journey to Luoyang." At this point, Da Xiwu took a deep breath and looked very excited, "If the news that Prince Jiangxia defected to the empire spreads in Southern Qi, it will definitely have a negative impact on Southern Qi. The rule of the royal family was a heavy blow. The prince fled north, and the prince of Jiangxia himself would not have a good end. The tyrants of the Southern Dynasties would definitely kill him to warn the world, but they did not know how to destroy the Great Wall. If this trend continues, we, the iron hoof of the Northern Wei Dynasty, will drink. Ma Changjiang, the day when we can go straight to Jiankang is just around the corner!"
"I haven't said yet what to do with those barbarians, but they are all of your same race."
"Four to five hundred people are too many. It would be troublesome to keep them." Da Xiwu frowned, "Fortunately you didn't burn them to death last night!"
"If the young prince hadn't gotten involved in this matter last night, I would have burned down the entire courtyard."
"It's better to burn them, it's better than life being worse than death." Da Xiwu glanced at Yanniang coldly, "There's nothing to be soft-hearted about, Yanniang, you don't know why they are locked up there, right?"
Yanniang's eyes were complicated, and she nodded: "I know."
"This is what they deserve. Who made their father, brother and son the damn traitor, Egret." Da Xiwu was filled with indignation when he said this. "I think back when Emperor Taiwu and Emperor Wencheng were in power, these Egrets were favored by all. In the country, He was so domineering and wanton, he created so many unjust, false and wrong cases, and caused so many people to suffer unjust injustice. Emperor Xiaowen was wise and dismissed the waiting officers and dismissed Bailu at the beginning of his reign. He did not expect that these remnants of Bailu hated the imperial court and actually colluded with each other. The Southern Dynasty intends to stir up trouble. These people have ulterior motives and should all be killed, including their parents and relatives!"
Yanniang looked at Da Xiwu's sinister face, and suddenly felt that the person in front of her was so strange.
"Egret is already dead. That day in the fighting field, the sisters killed several of them, and the remaining remnants were wiped out by the Southern Dynasty's army."
"Hmph, this is the fate of a seller who seeks glory. He will not die a good death."
Yanniang squinted her eyes, looking at the man sitting sideways on her bed, feeling a cold feeling in her heart.
"Awu, what should we do next? The young prince didn't give you a chance to speak further."
"Just wait. That young prince is a warm-hearted person. He may care about the hundreds of dead lives that you and I don't care about. If he sees that we haven't acted for a long time, sooner or later he will. If you come to us again, all you need to do is be a favor, and the rest... I will make my own arrangements when the time comes."
"Don't try to hurt him!"
"Hmph, Prince Qinghe is waiting for him in Luoyang City, how dare I harm him."
Yanniang's expression was complicated, her brows and eyes were no longer full of charming charm, her back was turned to Da Xiwu, and a slight chill ran down her spine.
She looked out the window towards the end of the street. There was a steady flow of people on the road, and she faintly saw three familiar figures gradually disappearing among the crowds of people.
When she was about to close the window, her body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"Yanniang, what's wrong?"
Yanniang glanced under the window, turned back and smiled lightly at Da Xiwu: "It's nothing, it's just a little cold."
Da Xiwu put away his previous sinister attitude, and a look of surprise flashed across his handsome face.
Under the small building, a man dressed in red stood there quietly, silently watching his beloved go away.
…
After leaving the small building and walking on the bustling streets of Jiankang City, Xiao Yu was always absent-minded.
Even if the girl in his boudoir took the initiative to offer him wicker sticks and silk handkerchiefs, he didn't care at all.
Dongfang Lao and Shi Huo, who were following as guards, would look at each other from time to time. They couldn't figure out what the young prince was thinking at this time.
After following for a while, Dongfang Lao couldn't hold back his words and walked quickly for two steps: "The young prince is absent-minded, but he is still thinking about saving people?"
Xiao Yu sighed, turned around and smiled helplessly at Dongfang Lao.
"There are certain reasons, but not all. By the way, how were you kidnapped by those women last night."
This matter was a bit disgraceful, and Dongfang Laogan laughed twice.
"As soon as the young prince climbed over the wall, the general was ready to follow him. But just as the general was about to use Qinggong, someone hit his knee with a stone and fell to the ground. For some reason, his whole body felt numb and tight. Then I saw the Shihu brothers also fell off the wall and landed in front of the general. After that, a group of men in black came up and tied us up. The general couldn't even scream at that moment. I had no choice but to let them deal with it, and was finally taken to a dark and smelly room. After smelling the stench for a while, the numbness on the general's body disappeared, but he couldn't exert himself for a while."
Dendrobium nodded on the side and started babbling again, talking and gesticulating.
Xiao Yu probably knew what happened next. Yan Niang should have locked them in the toilet and interrogated them later. However, Dongfang Lao didn't know the details of these women, so he made some nonsense when the other party asked him. It was very interesting, but the Yan Niang didn't believe it at all.
During this time, they even thought about escaping. They drove Shi Hu into a panic and bit a woman's butt. The bite was so painful that it made the beauty pear blossoms burst into tears.
Dongfang Lao finally reminded: "The general didn't feel at ease until he got up in the morning and saw the young prince sleeping on the bed, but those women are so charming that they can cause harm to others. You must not believe it."
"I know." Xiao Yu said lightly, "If it were normal, I would never take the initiative to contact them, but last night we had the same purpose."
"No wonder they appeared there in the middle of the night. At first I thought they were with the group in the courtyard." Mr. Dongfang said in shock, "Their purpose is to save people too?"
Dongfang Lao remembered what Da Xiwu had vowed just now in the small building, which strengthened his thoughts.
"No, they are spies from the Northern Dynasties. They should have another purpose for going there. The detained Hu people were not their target. Instead, because there were many women, children, and children detained there, their original plan was ruined."
"Let me just say, there is indeed something weird about that house. What is so weird about it that makes them willing to take risks?"
"I found that." Xiao Yu turned around and looked at Shi Hu, "Shi Hu, is that thing still on you?"
Dendrobium groaned twice, nodded vigorously, and patted his chest, which was so hard.
"Don't use so much force, it's going to explode!" Xiao Yu said nervously.
"Explosion? What is an explosion?" Dongfang Lao was puzzled.
"Another day, I will do an experiment for you and you will know the power of explosives."
But Xiao Yu's words still confused the two of them.
Xiao Yu thought for a moment and then said: "I think as spies, their goal should be those amazingly powerful new weapons. There are many secrets in that house, but time is too tight and they cannot explore them one by one, but they The purpose must be to destroy that house in this world."
Xiao Yu's words made the two people around him even more confused, but he didn't explain any more.
Xiao Yu thought for a moment and whispered: "Don't rely on them to save people, we have to do it ourselves."
Dongfang Lao was puzzled: "Why is that? I think Na Da Xiwu is bold and open-minded, and he is an outstanding person in the world! He is willing to save people, so he happens to be the same as us. Let's rescue them together, wouldn't it be good?"
Xiao Yu sneered: "A prominent figure in the world? Do you know him?"
"We just met today, so we are very speculative."
"Don't be deceived by one person's illusion. Da Xiwu had many stains in his life, but this does not affect him from becoming a general. If the historical process does not change, many years later he will capture Dou Tai, recruit Hongnong, and break the sand. Yuan, Zhenghe Bridge, Gao Huan was defeated in the battle of Mangshan, and he became the general."
Dongfang Lao and Dendrobium still didn't understand. Seeing the young prince talking so easily, it was as if he could see through the secrets of heaven.
"Haha, forget it, from now on, that is just a hypothesis, but ruthless people are ruthless everywhere." Xiao Yu smiled when he said this, "I don't care what kind of hero he is, but I only believe his promise by three points at most."
Old Dongfang cupped his hands and said, "The young prince is wise."
Xiao Yu glanced at Dongfang Lao: "Flattery is of no use to me. Alas, it's so difficult to save people. Let's go see how the dog is doing soon!"
"Going to see the dog? Isn't the young prince going back to the palace?"
"If I return to the palace, should I follow the road south?"
After saying that, several people looked at each other and smiled.
"Look at the dog first. If he is okay, I will feel relieved."
"Lao Dongfang, Yun Niang and Gou'er have thanked the young prince."
Xiao Yu waved his hand: "Don't thank me all day long, it's boring."
As Xiao Yu was saying this, he suddenly heard Dendrobium's stomach growling behind him.
He looked back and saw Shi Hu touching his belly and smiling innocently.
Xiao Yu frowned. In fact, he had been hungry for a long time, so he joked: "That Yan Niang is really stingy. She didn't even treat us politely to eat, so she just let us go like this."
Dongfang Lao had an awkward smile on his face: "Little Prince... The general and the Dendrobium brothers have actually eaten it a long time ago, but hehe... Little Prince spent too much time on bathing..."
Dongfang Lao smiled a little evilly, and Xiao Yu's face turned red.
He thought of the red ribbon, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He couldn't help but look back in the direction he came.
It's just that the small building has long been obscured by the blue tiles and double eaves beside the road.
Old Dongfang complained in my ears: "Those women eat too little. The food is not even enough to stuff our teeth. We will be hungry soon."
Dendrobium nodded vigorously in agreement.
Xiao Yu smiled and said: "Let's find a place to have something to eat, and then return to Chunhefang."
Dongfanglao looked at the wine flags flying on both sides of the road, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Little prince, where should we eat?"
"Go to Chaogou Pier!"
"Ah? Are you going back there again?"
"Yes." Xiao Yu nodded, "I remember there should be a tavern not far from the door of the house."
Afterwards, the three of them walked for about two sticks of incense and came to the street outside the house again.
I didn't seem to pay that much attention yesterday. When I revisited my hometown today, I discovered that the street was extremely wide, almost as wide as the Royal Road. It was enough for ten carriages to run parallel here, and this spacious road extended to the east. It’s the bustling Chaogou Pier.
The three of them walked into the restaurant that Xiao Yu mentioned one after another. At this time, the business of the restaurant was average, with only scattered diners.
Xiao Yu directly asked for a private room on the second floor facing the street, where he could see the house opposite the market.
Mr. Dongfang simply ordered a few dishes, and the waiter wiped the table, sang along, and left.
Xiao Yu took a sip of tea and glanced sideways out of the window.
The door of the house was still closed and it looked lifeless. All traces of the fight yesterday seemed to have been completely wiped away, as if it had never happened.
The three of them chatted without saying a word.
Not long after, the waiter came over with a dinner plate.
The waiter put down the dishes one by one and was about to leave. He glanced out the window and said casually: "Hey, it's really a ghost!"
Xiao Yu squinted his eyes and followed the waiter's gaze as he looked out the window.
In a short time, more than a dozen carriages were seen lined up in sequence and stopped in front of the main entrance of the house.
At this time, the door of the house opened wide, and a group of servants unloaded large wooden boxes from the car and moved them into the house.
Mr. Dongfang also noticed the situation outside the window and asked casually: "Xiao Er, what the hell are you doing!"
The waiter wiped his hands with a towel and said with a smile: "It's the yard opposite. I've been working here for so many years. I only heard some noises from there at night, but rarely saw it open. I heard it before People said it was haunted there, and they just thought there were ghosts crying at night, but they didn't expect it to be so noisy yesterday."
The three of them naturally knew what the waiter was talking about, but no one said anything.
Xiao Yu put down the tea cup in his hand and said, "Xiao Er, have you never seen such a situation of vehicles stopping during the day?"
"Sir, I just said that I always thought it was an empty house. At least I heard that there was an old man who was deaf and mute living in the concierge and looking after the courtyard alone." The waiter thought for a moment. , "Let's talk about the carriage. I saw it once yesterday. I heard they said that a very distinguished person hid a treasure here. The treasure was not clean and caused grievances in the world. In the end, it alerted the officers and soldiers."
The three of them couldn't help laughing when they heard it, but they all pretended to be calm and did not laugh.
The waiter muttered: "Actually, at night, when I was sleeping in the lobby, I often heard the neighing of horses and the sound of wheels. I originally thought that there was a curfew, so how could there be carriages coming and going here... ."
The waiter turned around and left as he spoke.
Xiao Yu turned around again and saw that the large wooden boxes in the car had been unloaded.
Another batch of large wooden boxes have already begun to be moved out from inside the door.
Through the gait of the nursing staff who were carrying wooden boxes, Xiao Yu could tell that the wooden boxes moved in were empty, while the ones moved out were filled with things.
Xiao Yu's eyes turned to Dongfang Lao.
I saw Dongfang Laozi standing up from the couch.
"Young prince, I'll go follow them and take a look."
Xiao Yu nodded: "Be careful and go back early."
Dongfang Lao stepped in and left.
