"Are you Princess Yihe?" Suddenly, a flash of white lightning flashed in his heart, and the questioning words blurted out. After asking, Wang Xun regained his composure, and bowed his head to the ground towards the female Taoist priest in the shadow, "I'm your official Wang Xun,
I’ve met Her Royal Highness the Princess!”
"Your Highness, what kind of princess? That's just a title to fool people." In the shadows, the female Taoist nun smiled and turned sideways, squatted slightly, and returned the courtesy as an equal, "Your Majesty doesn't have a daughter like me, sir.
It’s just a loss of my longevity!”
"This..." "This..." For a moment, Wang Xun was at a loss for words. Using ordinary palace maids to pretend to be princesses and granting marriage to the princes of small neighboring countries was a consistent method used by the Tang Dynasty to win over surrounding forces.
The vassal kings actually knew this very well. However, after all, the woman he was marrying had the title of princess, which meant that he had the support of the Tang Dynasty, and most of them were young and beautiful. So they pretended to be confused while pretending to understand.
But in the event that the Tang Dynasty was at odds with that country, the woman sent as a princess would become the first victim. The husband wanted to take her blood to show that he was incompatible with the Tang Dynasty from now on. But on the other side of the motherland
, because she has no royal blood at all, and will not take her life or death seriously.
If it were three years ago, Wang Xun would have felt that using an irrelevant woman to calm down the war between the two countries was a very cost-effective way. However, now he can understand how much is hidden in the heart of a woman who is given away as a commodity.
I felt helpless and miserable. Therefore, I pursed my lips for a long time, but couldn't find any suitable words. I had to smile and bowed to the ground again.
The female Taoist priest did not dodge this time. She stood in the distance and accepted Wang Xun's bow completely. Then she shook her head, smiled, and whispered: "You imperial envoy, you are really thin-skinned. Come in with me, this courtyard
It was specially given to me by the Great Khan, and no outsiders will disturb me now."
"Imperial envoy, please come in!" Before Wang Xun could express any hesitation, the short and fat man Liu Shun'er had already taken the lead and grabbed his arm, "My master just wants to ask you a few gossips, and it has nothing to do with national affairs. So don't worry.
!”
I'm afraid that Ashilanda will misunderstand! Wang Xun whispered in his heart, but couldn't express it with his mouth. He could only smile and followed behind the short fat man.
The courtyard is not big, but it is really a Taoist temple. The left corridor and the right wing are clean and solemn. There is a small pool behind the main hall, with a few pieces of residual lotus floating on the water. Set against the residual lotus is an old small wooden
The bridge sways across the pond, leading to a small cabin next to it.
The female Taoist led Wang Xun across the wooden bridge and lowered her head into the small compartment door. The guests and hosts took their seats, and then ordered Liu Shun to drop a few drops of wax tears into the copper basin placed in the center of the room to rekindle the charcoal fire inside.
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The quality of the charcoal was very average, with the smell of unburnt pine wood. The female Taoist priest was completely unaware of this, and took a copper pot with her own hands, rinsed it with water several times in front of Wang Xun, and then ordered Liu Shun'er
He refilled it and placed it on the charcoal basin. "Your Majesty, please wait a moment. I haven't played with these for a long time, so I need to spend more time preparing!"
"Wang is so frightened that he can see the tea art of his motherland thousands of miles away. How dare he pick and choose again!" Wang Xun really couldn't guess the other party's purpose, so he smiled and gently handed over his hand.
If they were in the Central Plains, it would be extremely rude for them to come to see a married young woman so late. And it is extremely inappropriate for the other party to invite guests to tea without making preparations first. But drinking tea tonight will definitely
It's just a cover. The young woman must have something important to say, or some important information that needs to be told to him face to face. So there is no need for him to care about these red tapes.
Princess Yihe nodded slightly, with an expression on her face that was half a smile. Then she waved her hand and ordered Liu Shun'er to step back. She stood up again, took out a clay pot from the locked cabinet, slowly opened it, and slowly sat down again.
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At this moment, the copper pot on the charcoal fire was already making a faint sound. Princess Yihe walked over with the clay pot in her arms, squatted down with half of her skirt, and then straightened the clay pot a little away from the charcoal basin. Then slowly
He stood up, took a very clean silver spoon from the cabinet, scooped out half a spoonful of snowflake-white refined salt into one of the two magnetic bottles, opened the lid of the copper pot, and gently put it into the water.
This is an authentic Central Plains tea ceremony. It is cooked in front of the guests, and every move is as fast as a dragon. Wang Xun is not the first brother who has never seen a beautiful woman, but then his eyes were a little straightened by the actions of Princess Yihe. He was lost for a long time.
, and then suddenly remembered that he was in a foreign land at this moment, not in the city of Chang'an. The person making tea was not Ziluo, but a Fanbang princess who might cause big trouble to him at any time.
The female Taoist priest noticed his every move, but didn't think there was anything strange about it. She smiled, made a sign of "stay safe", and then focused on the copper pot. Draining water and putting tea in it
, nourishing the taste, warming the cup, the movements become smoother and smoother, and the charm of the Central Plains becomes clearer and clearer.
When the water in the pot made a faint sound of bubbles again, the female Taoist stood up slowly, picked up the copper pot, poured half a cup for Wang Xun, and poured half a cup for herself. She gently put the copper pot down and raised the cup.
Invite each other between the brows.
"Thank you!" Wang Xun smiled, raised the tea cup, and returned the favor. A touch of nostalgia emerged from the tea cup at the same time, and suddenly filled the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
It has been a year and a half since I came out, and I don’t know what the situation at home is like. I remember how easy it was when I boasted to Aunt Yun, Bai Yuzhi and others that I would make great achievements in Haikou. But now, even if I have a holiday, I
I don't dare to go back to Chang'an. In the Western Regions, with the big tree Feng Changqing, I can still make others worry. If I go back to Chang'an, I'm afraid my family will be implicated because of me.
"It's still the tea from the year before last. Don't be offended, Imperial Envoy. The vendors only brought bricks of tea here. It's hard to see new tea in Bahan!" Seeing Wang Xun's expression, the female Taoist priest thought he was picky about the taste of the tea.
, quickly apologized in a low voice.
"I'm not picky about tea." Wang Xun responded with a smile. Then he realized that his words were very bad, so he quickly added, "I usually only drink plain water or alcohol. I have very little experience in tea. So Her Royal Highness is now
Even if you treat me with Xiaolong Tuan, it’s all in vain. I can’t tell the difference between drinking and drinking!”
This sentence was purely made up casually, but it made the beauty smile. "Have the customs in the Central Plains changed again, and literati don't like drinking tea anymore? Or is it that the imperial envoy is not a literati to begin with?"
Wang Xun was taken aback and managed to keep his nerves from spilling the tea on his lapel. Just as he was hesitating whether to repeat the lies he had told Prime Minister Zhang, Princess Yihe smiled and continued.
Added: "If you weren't a man in the army, you probably wouldn't have said that every citizen of the Tang Dynasty has a Tang Dynasty behind you! An unscrupulous scholar would not care about the life and death of a few traders.
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What did she mean? For a time, thousands of thoughts flashed through Wang Xun's heart. When negotiating with King Ashilanda of Bukhanna, he didn't even notice whether there was such a picture of Xiang Yi and Princess around him.
Face. Now the other party is taking the opportunity of inviting him over for tea to continue to probe into his true identity. Is it because he wants to find an opportunity to favor Asilanda? Or maybe he wants to take the opportunity to take revenge on the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty for impersonating her.
Revenge for the princess’s distant marriage?
However, when he went out, there were so many pairs of eyes looking at him. Even if Wang Xun wanted to kill someone now, he could not escape alive. Princess Yihe saw that he was unwilling to respond, so she smiled and explained in a low voice:
"Your Majesty, please rest assured. No one will hear what Pindao tells you today. Whether you are from the military or from the court, you are all doing it for the Tang Dynasty. And Pindao, the daughter who got married,
Even if you are dissatisfied with this marriage, if you want to have a status in your husband's family in the future, the more powerful the mother's family behind you is, the better. Otherwise, once you get old and lose your lust, won't you be bullied by your husband's family to the point of death?!
After hearing this, Wang Xun's heart, which had been in his throat, finally fell back into his stomach again. He put down the tea cup, smiled and handed over to the other party, "In this way, I will not hide it from Your Highness the Princess. I did join the army.
Come, but the matter of the mission has been approved by the Anxi Jiedu envoy Feng Changqing and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and all the promises made can represent the imperial court."
"So, the Anxi Army's westward expedition is already a certainty?" Princess Yihe's eyebrows jumped, with an impatient expression on her face.
Wang Xun thought for a while and responded truthfully, "Thirty thousand soldiers are in full swing. It's just because the weather has turned cold that we have to stop in Xiaobolu Country. Until the spring of next year, no matter whether there is anyone here to respond,
, will also drive across the mountains to bring all the places in the river back into the territory of the Tang Dynasty!"
This is the established plan of the Anxi Army. Even if it spreads, it will not have any bad impact. The Great Cannibal Eastern Expedition Army has been crippled, and all the nine surnames are defeated, and they are at each other's elbows.
, unable to act in unison at all. Looking at the entire river, the only one who has the strength to hold back the Anxi Army is Ge Luolu, who completely fell to Dashi in the past few years. And whether Ge Luolu surrendered or died, in Feng Luolu
In the plan of Chang Qing and others, this capricious tribe must be completely wiped out. Otherwise, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who died on the banks of the Talos River would simply not be able to close their eyes.
"That's good. That's good!" Princess Yihe clasped her hands together and murmured a prayer in the direction of the main hall, "Emperor Zhenwu bless you and let Feng Jiedu's soldiers and horses come over as soon as possible. I am willing to burn incense sooner or later and be grateful to the emperor forever.
Grace!"
"Could it be that the princess has other enemies here? Do you need help from the Anxi Army to eradicate them?" Seeing her pious words, Wang Xun couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"Zhezhi City!" Princess Yihe, who was gentle and kind before, suddenly became full of hatred and responded through gritted teeth, "If the Anxi Army comes, please ask the imperial envoy to pray for me to seal the festival. Don't leave a living creature in the entire Zhezhi City.
