It was morning. After passing through the porch and entering the side hall, Yin Ping saw a girl in goose-yellow clothes. That was Zhao Xiaosong. She was instructing some servants of the Princess Mansion to carry several large boxes and repeatedly warned not to handle them carelessly.
Something was broken.
As soon as the two of them looked at each other, each other smiled: "Sister Yue's family, you are here."
"Well, this is..."
"Oh, there are a few big bottles at home, but the princess thought they were an eyesore, so I asked them to be replaced. By the way, sister-in-law, your highness is waiting for you, I will take you there."
Zhao Xiaosong is the granddaughter of the famous minister Zhao Ding. When the Jurchens conquered Lin'an, he accompanied the princess on the dragon boat. Later, he and the eldest princess killed Qin Hui on the dragon boat. He helped save his life and now he has become the princess's personal bodyguard.
The maidservant served the princess in her daily life and was also in charge of many important affairs in the palace. Yin Ping and her were quite familiar, so they chatted for a few words and headed inside.
Passing through the next door is the school grounds of the inner courtyard of the Princess Mansion. Two teams of armored soldiers are practicing in the sun. One team is male soldiers, and the other team is all women. These are the female servants in the Princess Mansion, most of them.
They were widows who lost their families during the Jurchen search for mountains and seas. After work, the government also asked them to do some fighting training. At this time, everyone was shouting and sweating with knives and sticks, and the person responsible for training them was a
A gray-robed Taoist nun carrying a sword on her back.
Sensing the figure walking by, the Taoist nun turned her head, and then nodded slightly. Her voice sounded mellow, even a little hoarse, but quite charming: "Miss Yue."
Yin Ping Bian also saluted: "Master Qingyi."
Both parties are also old acquaintances.
This Qingyi real person Luo Shouwei was originally a Taoist priest of the righteous sect. When the Jurchens came, she followed her father and brother to the south. Later, the Jurchens killed the Yangtze River defense line. Her father Luo Si and brother Luo Shoujing both died defending the city, so Luo Shouwei stayed
He was in the army. Later, Li Pin was impressed by his deeds, found Luo Shouwei, helped him preserve the Zhengyi sect's classics, and introduced her to Zhou Junwu.
When the new monarch arrived in Fuzhou and joined the eldest princess, Zhou Pei rescued a large number of women who had lost their families. When it came time to select female officials, he selected Luo Shouwei, who was excellent in swordsmanship, and Yue Yinping, who was proficient in five steps and thirteen spears, to recruit strong men.
They compiled a set of formations and training methods suitable for women to kill enemies. Taoists have studied formations intensively, and Yin Ping was the direct descendant of Zhou Tong. The two had a working relationship at that time.
After greeting each other, after a while, Yin Ping saw the eldest princess in the study at the back who was writing at her desk. She was dressed in plain home clothes, sitting behind the desk, holding a pen in one hand and an abacus in the other.
Keep fighting.
"Just sit down and have something to eat. I'll be ready right here."
It was not the first time that the two parties had met. After the conversation, Zhao Xiaosong arranged for Yin Ping to sit down in the room and brought him a plate of snacks. Yin Ping sat there and looked at the eldest princess in front of him with envy, almost turning into a phantom.
In the princess's house, the eldest princess's arithmetic skills are astonishing. She can mentally calculate the results of addition, subtraction and subtraction of large numbers with just one glance. No matter how complicated the account book is, it cannot escape her scrutiny. And Zhao Xiaosong
He has a good family background, and has a photographic memory of various classics and stories. Although Yin Ping's brain is not bad, compared with these two people, he can only feel ashamed.
If he had such skills, he could go back and help his father take care of the Wei army's debt. According to his father, the most important thing in a war is, after all, money.
After a while, the eldest princess finished checking the numbers on the account books, called Zhao Xiaosong over, outlined a few numbers on the accounts with her, and explained a few words in a low voice. Zhao Xiaosong nodded, packed up the account books and went out. Zhou Pei
Then he got up and came over to Yin Ping.
"In the past half month, do you have any clues about what happened to Zhong Ergui in Houguan County?"
She was dressed in white linen home clothes and was broad and graceful. When she got closer, she seemed friendly. Yin Ping shook her head.
"What we know now is still the same as before. The female pirate named Chen Shuangran did it, but she hasn't been caught yet, and the evidence is hard to find."
"I heard that you two siblings have recently defeated Fuzhou's invincible opponents, and they are very powerful."
"Actually, it's mostly that little monkey named Yue Yun who's beating people."
"Well, you better not get involved. How can you find your husband's family in the future?"
"Your Highness..."
Zhou Pei said a few words, leading the topic to marriage, and Yin Ping smiled helplessly and apologized. If it were an ordinary person, he would probably feel restrained by the majesty of the eldest princess, but firstly, the status of the Yue family is different, and secondly,
The two parties had already gotten along a lot when they settled in Fuzhou. Zhou Pei, Luo Shouwei, Zhao Xiaosong, Yin Ping and others had already had the experience of talking about poetry and books on typhoon nights, and even recommending romance novels to each other. Zhou Pei was dignified to the outside world,
But in private, he is actually very easy-going.
"Don't take it seriously, Yin Ping. If word gets out in the future, I'm afraid it will be said that someone related to my eldest princess's mansion is either a widow or an old lady. Look at you, you are also a female official of my princess's mansion. Besides,
Look at Zhao Xiaosong, she recently said that she is determined not to get married, and wants to inherit Zhao Ding's legacy and restore the Central Plains... It makes me so angry, and that Luo Shouwei, sooner or later someone will say that I, the eldest princess, am a pervert.
, broke up other people’s marriages.”
"Hehe." Yin Ping smiled bitterly and did not participate in the topic, "I just haven't met anyone..."
Among the few people, Yin Ping knew Zhao Xiaosong's thoughts. She was talented and had a photographic memory since she was a child. She was sent on board by Zhao Ding to serve the eldest princess. It was originally a way to avoid disaster and survive, but after saving
After Zhou Pei, she was able to handle many things in an orderly manner. Gradually, she also found this ability interesting.
The two talked privately, and Zhao Xiaosong said: "...the sages' books that I memorized in the past have become useful, and those obscure principles have become clearer in my heart. I want to be able to be like a man and stand upright all my life."
matter!"
Among the few people, Zhao Xiaosong is the youngest, but in Yin Ping's eyes, he has the greatest ambition. He is a very remarkable person.
As for Luo Shouwei, the real person of Qingyi, everyone knows that she once got along with Li Pin for a period of time. Li Pin was a great scholar in the world and had wives and concubines in his family for a long time. However, since the Jurchens first went south, he had had sex several times.
The first time was the thousands-mile escape while being seriously injured after the city of Taiyuan was destroyed, the second time was the humiliation of Jingping, and then the city of Lin'an was destroyed, and he followed Junwu on his continuous escape.
During these three displacements, the family members were scattered to pieces. After arriving in Fuzhou, there was an old wife who could no longer get out of bed, and a little daughter who was lame during the war. She was rarely seen in the backyard on weekdays.
With his status, it would not be difficult for him to marry any woman, but he was busy with his studies and did not care about this matter. Instead, while helping Luo Shouwei sort out the classics of the sect, Luo Shouwei took care of various housework for him, and even helped him with the backyard.
My old wife and daughter all get along well with each other.
Taoist priests of the righteous sect can get married. Yin Ping and others once thought that Luo Shouwei might become their "master's wife", but real life was not that smooth. The two had a quarrel last year, and Luo Shouwei ran away in anger.
When they came to the Princess Mansion to serve as Zhou Pei's military attache and personal bodyguard, Yin Ping and others asked Li Pin. Li Pin said frankly and simply: "I was rushing to talk. I said something serious and we had a falling out."
The female officials who followed him were either widows or old aunts, and those who had some kind of marriage had broken up. There had been rumors of bad things outside for a long time. Although these were trivial matters, Zhou Pei also looked helpless when talking about them. But there are many such things.
It was useless to say that, she sat with Yin Ping, and then talked about her longing for her and Yue Yun to travel through the green forest:
"Although I have learned a few tricks from you and Master Qingyi, but I really want to hit someone, but I can't use them at all. If not, I really want to hold the three-foot green blade and watch it with you.
Look at the martial arts scene in the market."
When she talked about this, there was longing in her eyes, while Yin Ping wrinkled her nose and shook her head desperately.
"The novels are all lies, Your Highness." She said, "Let me tell you, don't look at how chic the people in the market are in those martial arts novels. In fact, the most common people in the market are unruly people. Look at Zhong Ergui.
, weren’t they the ones who were forced to death by those people, weren’t they the same ones who had excrement poured on Prime Minister Qin back then! Also, let’s just say that the day before yesterday, we encountered something..."
Zhou Pei smiled and said: "Tell me, tell me."
"The reason for the incident is that the night before yesterday, at the night market in Yinqiaofang, I met two extremely vicious villains, and then they started fighting. Afterwards, there was no winner, and the two villains ran away..."
"Oh? Brother Yun couldn't catch them. What are the two bad guys called?"
"Well, one is called 'Hunyuan Ax' Zhou Xing, and the other one, I later heard should be 'Tiger Shark' Zhan Yunhai." Yin Ping waved his hand, "That's not the point. The point is, they didn't fight very hard.
Well, in the surrounding night markets, tables, chairs and benches would inevitably bump into each other. The boy couldn't bear it, and he was still injured after the beating, so he went to pay for it door to door, and then there was a shop, I heard it was a shop selling steamed rice cakes...
…”
Yue Yinping said: "The person who steamed the rice cakes was a fat aunt who was full of fat. She encouraged her nephew to come over and make trouble. Princess, you know, the prices are sky-high. A broken stool costs two taels of silver, and a table is said to be made of red sandalwood.
, asking for ten taels, isn’t this nonsense? Also, he said that the broken bowl of steamed rice cakes in his family is an antique passed down from his family. If it is broken, he will have to pay one hundred taels! I heard that the boy even grabbed his younger brother and refused to let him go.
.Your Highness, what would you do if you meet such a person?"
Zhou Peixiao: "It's really interesting...Did Brother Yiyun beat him because of his temper?"
"No." Yin Ping shook his head, "My little brother was almost mad to death. I heard that he also raised his fist to hit me. The boy just screamed and lay down directly on the ground. It was a shame. He said you hit me and you hit me to compensate.
More. When my younger brother told me about this, his face started to smoke."
"How could there be such a scoundrel?" Zhou Pei said with a smile, "What happened next? How to deal with it?"
"Of course, one thing will bring down another thing." Yin Ping also laughed, "Later, the younger brother directly approached the official down below, frightened the boy and ran away in despair, and then let the official and people in the market decide the compensation.
Apart from anything else, I set the lowest price for this steamed rice cake shop, hahahaha.”
"If we make such a fuss, we still have to pay for it. Brother Yun is still kind."
"Well, if he doesn't pay compensation, it won't be a trivial matter. Dad will take him back and beat him."
The two of them chatted and laughed for a while. There was movement outside the door, and then came in was Qingyi's real person Luo Shouwei. After saying hello to Zhou Pei, Zhou Pei asked her to sit aside.
"I called Yin Ping here today because I secretly inquired about something." Zhou Pei sat in the main seat and talked about business, "There have been various things happening in and outside the palace recently. Since the injustice case in Houguan County last month,
, it’s not peaceful outside, we think there’s a group of people secretly trying to do bad things, and you all know this.”
"...According to the intelligence obtained in the past few days, there are several places in the city that are very dangerous. The first is my princess's mansion, where someone may come to make plans; the second is Mr. Li's identity.
His position is very important, and he may have been targeted by thieves; as for the third one, there may be something wrong with the Zuo family who came back from the southwest, but there is no need to worry too much about this."
"Because of this kind of news, I put more thought into it and wanted to arrange some trustworthy people with strong martial arts skills to look after Mr. Li. The first thing that came to mind was Yin Ping and Brother Yun, but Yun
My little brother has a wild temperament. Recently, because of Zhong Ergui's incident, he has been chasing bad guys everywhere. The one I trust the most is Yin Ping. However, Yin Ping is not married yet. Although she and Mr. Li have the status of master and apprentice,
But after all, there are differences between men and women, so I thought about it..."
After Zhou Pei said this, he looked around at the two people in the room. Yin Ping looked calm, waiting for her to give orders, while Luo Shouwei on the side looked calm, looking at her nose, nose and heart.
"So I thought about it, is it possible to ask Yin Ping to come to my place and be a personal bodyguard for me? You also know the security of the house and bodyguards, so it shouldn't be difficult to take over. As for Zhenren Luo, I went with Li
Sir, I have also dealt with you. If you take some soldiers and go over there, I think it might be more suitable than Yin Ping. What do you two think?"
Halfway through her words, Yin Ping actually understood the meaning. At this time, he stood up with bright eyes: "Yin Ping obeys the decree." His eyes drifted to Luo Shouwei next to him.
I saw that Luo Shouwei had also stood up. After a while, she slowly bowed and saluted: "Shouwei obeys His Highness's order."
As soon as these words came out, both Zhou Pei and Yin Ping in the room breathed a sigh of relief. After a few words of explanation, Luo Shouwei was the first to say goodbye and left. Yin Ping followed her. When they were about to go out, they turned around and smiled at Zhou Pei.
After bowing, Zhou Pei pursed her lips and smiled, winking at her knowingly with one eye...
After the two of them left the room, Zhou Peicai went to pour herself a glass of cold water. Then she sat down in front of the open window and fanned herself with a fan. Looking at the rockery in the backyard, she thought about the various things in the distance.
kind of thing.
Progress is too slow...
In the far reaches of the world, the land of Jin, controlled by the female prime minister, has officially begun to seize the northwest after recuperating; Zou Xu and Dai Mengwei formed an alliance and held a martial arts conference in Bianliang; the Fair Party area, the territory between the four kings
It gradually became clear that after He Wen implemented strict reforms, he began to show his strong soldiers and horses. After attacking He Wen to no avail, the other people turned to plot against Lin'an and were expected to break the city in the near future. Although Zuo Xiuquan had already set off,
He tried to persuade King Gao Tian to plunder a batch of gold and silver from the city to subsidize the southeast after the city was broken, but the actual development may not be so smooth. After all, the big pie drawn has not been fulfilled at all, so he asked people to pay tribute. This
It is inevitable that Gao Chang will look down on Southeast... Everything can only be done through Zuo Xiuquan's mediation.
In the most important southwest, land reform has begun step by step. Zhou Pei has seen various land reform steps and subsequent reactions from the southwest, and each one is thrilling. Especially later, under Zuo Wenhuai's explanation, she and Jun Wu also
He understood the pros and cons more deeply. Junwu sighed endlessly and praised the huge power of the Southwest. Privately, he may have deepened his thoughts on establishing a "constitutional monarchy" in the future, but it is not possible now.
Preparations for large-scale enlightenment have not yet been made, and the first team has not been trained. Even if we talk about enlightening the people, it is an empty talk. What's more, the southeast is a special area where enlightenment is the most difficult. Mountains
Ruggedness and lack of resources have led to strong cliques among local clans.
Zhou Pei sometimes thinks that if he can have an executive team like Southwest, today's affairs will not be so difficult; sometimes he thinks that if Ning Yi is replaced here, I am afraid that he will also be able to control the situation.
Clumsy, is it difficult to start?
But it is meaningless to talk about difficulties. Ever since the emperor chose to escape on the dragon boat, the world has entered a chaotic state of fragmentation and heroes. But now, speculators from various forces have been eliminated one after another.
, all the surviving parties have found their own way forward, but has their own side found it?
Following the ideas passed down from the southwest, the younger brother put his hope in maritime trade, and was even mentally prepared for such treachery as the so-called "constitutional monarchy". However, at this moment, the first batch of sea-going ships had not yet returned, and the books were almost ready.
At the end of the day, the various large and small families that originally supported the royal family have now become full of doubts and suspicions, and the Wu Dynasty's majesty and confidence are about to be exhausted.
How many families and ministers are there who truly stand by her side without hesitation... She habitually counted them with her fingers in a low voice.
My forehead hurt again.
Zhao Xiaosong walked in from outside and said with a smile: "Your Highness, I saw Master Luo and Sister Yue were handing over matters."
"Well, Luo Shouwei agreed." Zhou Pei also smiled, "I finally got rid of one of them. I have gained some virtue."
"Then, Your Highness, should we make arrangements for Miss Yue? I heard from my friends in the Beiwei Army that General Yue is worried. Every time Miss Yue goes back, she has to nag him. Don't take it easy.
Old aunt, I am so sad."
Zhou Pei snorted: "Don't just talk about her. What about yourself? You should also get rid of yourself quickly. I am Amitabha."
"That's not possible. I still want to make great achievements with Her Royal Highness the Princess." Zhao Xiaosong said, "The Princess is a figure like Li Xiuning in the Tang Dynasty. In the future, when we build the Detachment of Women, I will be indispensable as a follower... And, Princess, let me tell you,
I can’t look down on any man in this world!”
"Okay, Your Majesty, you don't look down on me either."
"Well, Your Majesty doesn't look down on me. And, Princess, I can't enter the palace because of my temper. Otherwise, I might be punished for being too talkative and disturbing the palace..."
"You talk..." Zhou Pei was so angry that he lost all his strength. After a while, he sighed slightly at her: "Don't wait any longer. I have become an old aunt. It's so sad."
"Yeah, I'm not taking it easy." Zhao Xiaosong nodded, then suppressed his smile, "Your Highness, it's almost time. The adults you summoned earlier should have been waiting outside for a while. Look."
Zhou Pei also nodded.
The short break has passed, and another round of work has arrived.
…
"What the hell, what a mistake!" Zuo Xingzhou, who was still wearing some bandages, cursed bitterly.
Shortly after noon, he and Ning Ji sat across from each other in a small shop outside Huaiyunfang, complaining and eating the food that had been served. Ning Ji, who claimed to have eaten, looked at him and spoke slowly across the way.
Eating a bowl of ice powder.
"It depends on what you said, when will you have to take action?"
"Who are you looking down on? You think I've been here for so long, and the name of 'Hunyuan Ax' Zhou Xing is really a mixed bag? Let me tell you, back then I held two axes and killed people from here in Putian.
Go there, and then kill all the way back from there, the whole street is really a river of blood, I am a bloody massacre... Well, by the way, why doesn't your brother come out?"
"I believe it's a river of blood. Look at your bloodshed the night before yesterday. It's all over the street. Is it necessary? And your bad lines, I really... he's not available."
"What kind of blood, what lines, you, you, you, what do you know? Some of the blood is mine. After all, I have to be injured, and some of it is chicken blood, duck blood, and pig blood that has been hidden in the body for a long time. And the lines, you
Do you know what publicity is? The bad guys in Fuzhou city can't come face to face to see me and Yue Yun duel, so of course they have to hear it through word of mouth, and the most important thing about word of mouth is that it is popular. Listen to my plan.
Those lines are simple and direct with violence. If you retell them to people, will they be effective and interesting? And the blood is flying all over the sky. After you see it, do you want to tell people... right?
?Look at your dumbfounded look, do you understand? Do I have an argument? What do you know...you didn't even listen to the lessons in the mountains back then, you scumbag...you brother is very cold."
"I found that you bitch is talking all over the place now... Ang, of course he is cold and cold. He practices throwing knives. If he doesn't take action, he will kill you if he does. By the way, don't talk about my brother. What's wrong with that brother of yours?
What's going on?"
"...That's what I said was a mistake." Zuo Xingzhou sighed, "Originally, it was planned that I would challenge Yue Yun alone. Yue Yun has a strong family background and is naturally gifted with supernatural powers. It's normal that he won't be able to defeat him.
But look at the lines I designed and the blood I brought, I was able to express my ferocity. Although it was a little inferior, I was not afraid of death and finally escaped from being rounded up by a group of hawks and dogs... In this way, my reputation
It must have rang. But I didn’t expect that he was also nearby. Now the one-on-one battle has become two-on-one. No matter how fierce you are in two-on-one, when others repeat it, the two people will be beaten badly. It needs to be done now.
I don’t know how effective it will be, but I’m afraid something bad will happen now. What’s going on with your four-foot pervert?”
In the restaurant, Zuo Xingzhou, Barabala, spoke like a barrage of words, cleverly and casually speaking out the last sentence. Then, as if he didn't say anything, he started to eat rice. Ning Ji crossed his arms.
, I had already prepared a lot of complaints, but at this time the sneer froze there, and the next expression seemed to be stuck. It took a long time to switch and could not be switched out.
Ahead, Zuo Xingzhou didn't look at him, he just worked hard to eat, eat, eat, taking care of his self-esteem with great tenderness.
"By the way, I also made an appointment with Zhan Yunhai to go to Jiuxian Mountain to help him with his boxing..." This corner of the hotel had been quiet for a while. At some point, Zuo Xingzhou raised his head and said
Maybe he changed the topic quickly, and the words exploded in his mouth like firecrackers. A fist was already in front of him with a bang.
"Fuck..." Zuo Xingzhou rolled towards the ground with his stool. In front of him, Ning Ji had climbed onto the table like a tiger and rushed towards him.
"Damn it, you can't just pretend I didn't mention it-"
"What haven't I mentioned before? 'Hunyuan Axe' Zhou Xing is so arrogant. I, the deputy leader of the Wulin Alliance, 'Little Sage Qitian' Sun Wukong, will have a showdown with you today to see who is the real number one in the world.
, don’t run--"
"You bastard, I have something else to do this afternoon -"