Seeing Jiang Ran holding a knife and about to leave, the eldest princess quickly jumped out from the desk and stopped him:
"Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive!
"After all, that's my brother."
"Your brother can't refuse to pay!
"What's more, that's your brother, not mine."
Jiang Ran narrowed his eyes:
"We are a small business, and we make a living by licking blood with the tip of a knife.
"If he dares to default on his debt, he will kill me.
"He wants my life, and I want his life. This is reasonable!
"What's more, isn't the eldest princess also furious because of this?
"If that's the case, then in my opinion, how about we kill him and let the eldest princess take his place?
"Didn't you tell me that there was a precedent for a woman to ascend the throne as emperor in the previous dynasty?
"Since the place where you live is called Jianming Tower, then it is right for you to use your sword to scream and shock the world with one move!
"When the great event is accomplished, I will personally go to the Qing Kingdom to kill the Qing Emperor and relieve you of the Qing Kingdom's worries.
"Go to Liguo again and kill the emperor of Liguo. If the two countries are in chaos, you can take advantage of the situation and we can unify the world in the future. What do you think?"
"I think... how about we skip the first link and how about the rest?"
A voice suddenly came from one side, and with a creak, a person walked out of the wooden cabinet.
This is a middle-aged man, in his forties or fifties. He is dressed simply, but his elegance cannot be concealed.
It’s just that he smiled a little awkwardly at this moment:
"After all, if you can't do something like killing the emperor, it's better not to do it."
Jiang Ran glanced at this unexpected person, then at the eldest princess, and chuckled:
"So, which song is this song about?
"Should I kneel on the ground and shout long live the Holy Lord, or should I pretend not to know and let's go to the imperial city again?
"Let this dragon chair have a different butt?"
The eldest princess subconsciously glanced back at the tip of her buttocks, coughed slightly, and said to the middle-aged man:
"Brother, you are a gangster who doesn't know the rules.
"You also have to be patient. Now that you don't have an expert in the field around you, it's probably useless if you do.
"You made him angry, and he really dared to chop off your dog's head."
"presumptuous."
The middle-aged man's eyes widened:
"How can you, the eldest princess of the dynasty, talk such nonsense?
"Why did my head become a dog's head?
"Then as my younger sister and my same mother, who do you think you are?"
After finishing speaking, he glanced at Jiang Ran and smiled slightly:
"Jiang Ran, the Jing Shen Dao, your name is like thunder to my ears even if I live in the palace for a long time.
"Okay, you don't have to be formal. I paid a private visit incognito today just to see you.
"Red tape can be avoided."
"..."
Jiang Ran was speechless for a while, he had no intention of saluting.
After entering the door, he discovered that there was someone hiding in the cabinet.
In just a few words with the eldest princess, Jiang Ran had already guessed who the hidden person was.
Therefore, these words were not only meant to tease the eldest princess, but were also meant for the current Emperor Jin Chan.
Sure enough, after hearing this, the man couldn't hide anymore.
Jiang Ran casually pulled a chair over and sat down, then picked up the cup of tea he had just now:
"It's the same sentence, which song is this sung from?"
When the eldest princess was about to speak, Emperor Jin Chan already stretched out his hand to stop her.
The eldest princess naturally gave up her seat and asked her royal brother to sit down.
They saw the Jin Chan Emperor looking straight at Jiang Ran, his eyes were deep, as if he wanted to see through all the secrets in him.
Jiang Ran raised his head. Although there was no tit-for-tat confrontation, their eyes met and they did not give in.
Looking up at you, I intend to assassinate you!
If this is above the court, under the watchful eyes of the civil and military officials of the court.
If someone shouts "take it down", someone will jump out immediately, capture Jiang Ran, and drag him to the Meridian Gate to behead him.
Of course, whether it can be done is another matter.
Now we are in the eldest princess's mansion, in the eldest princess Shan Yuchan's bedroom, so naturally it doesn't matter.
After Emperor Jin Chan looked at Jiang Ran for a long time, he sighed:
"Too young... It would be nice if you were a few years older."
"Um?"
Jiang Ran was stunned:
"What does the Holy Spirit mean by this?"
Is it such a straightforward question?
Emperor Jin Chan smiled dumbly.
As an emperor, when had he ever explained his words and deeds to others?
It is often the people below who speculate on the holy will.
If your guess is correct, you will naturally be promoted to a higher position and your future will be bright.
If your guess is wrong, you will be in trouble.
There are so many different ways to be an official... But no one can ask the emperor face to face after the emperor has finished speaking, what do you mean?
This is all outrageous.
After Emperor Jin Chan smiled, he glanced at the eldest princess:
"If you were a few years older, this position of consort would belong to you.
"Now that you are so young, have such good looks, and are so good at martial arts, it is really unfair for you to be the consort."
"Brother Royal!!"
The eldest princess said coldly:
"Think carefully before you speak!!"
"Okay, okay, okay."
Emperor Jin Chan waved his hand gently, thought for a moment and said:
"Before Yuchan entered the palace, I had already heard about her experience.
"But when she arrives at the palace and explains everything that happened, to be honest, even if she is standing right in front of me, I will be very scared.
"Jiang Ran, although you are a reckless man, you first saved my biological sister.
"Then he captured Hou Ning of the Changyang army among thousands of troops.
"He even escorted the eldest princess back to the capital safely all the way...
"This deed does not talk about merit, the court, or imperial power.
"As a brother, I can't thank you enough.
"As the Emperor Jin Chan, I want to ask you, what reward do you plan to ask for?"
After finishing speaking, seeing Jiang Ran about to open his mouth, he quickly added:
"We'll talk about it after we think about it."
"whatever?"
Jiang Ran asked.
Emperor Jin Chan raised his eyebrows:
"whatever!"
As he said that, he looked at the eldest princess thoughtfully.
The eldest princess was stunned and curled her lips, obviously disapproving of it.
Just listen to Jiang Ran laugh and say:
"Then give me the silver that is due to me, eighty-seven thousand taels! By the way, one thousand taels of which is owed by your son.
"It is only natural and right for me to pay my son's debts."
"..."
Emperor Jin Chan feels a little toothache.
However, he still reached into his arms and took out a stack of banknotes:
"It's already been prepared."
Said and handed it to Jiang Ran.
The moment Jiang Ran took it casually, several ding-ding-ding sounds came out in his head.
Several prompts started flooding the screen in an instant.
However, he has experienced many such battles and has long been able to remain calm.
The habitual cover-up is to lower your head and count money.
Emperor Jin Chan was stunned again when he saw this scene.
This money was given to him by his own hands, and he still had to count it?
He glanced at the eldest princess and found that the eldest princess was winking at him.
Emperor Jin Chan sighed, not knowing whether this was good or bad for a moment.
The eldest princess said that Jiang Ran loves money.
This is actually a good thing.
Jiang Ran is young and has unparalleled martial arts skills. In less than a year of traveling around the world, he has already made a huge name.
After a year and a half of hard work, it is unlikely that he will be known as the number one master of Jin Chan.
In this way, in another ten or eight years, he may be the best in the world.
And such a master is still a knife hunter.
A knife hunter who loves money.
This is easy to control. As long as you give money to such a person, he can do things for you.
This is a benefit.
But the disadvantages are also obvious...
That is, if you have money, others will also have money.
People who love money to a certain extent often don’t have their own stance. Their stance is money.
Therefore, if others give more than oneself, he may become a knife in the hands of others and swing it towards himself.
Therefore, in addition to money, Emperor Jin Chan felt that he needed to use other methods to keep Jiang Ran around.
Nowadays, the world is in turmoil, and Qingli and Li are restless. This is when someone needs to help him stabilize the world.
But how should we win over them?
Do you really want to leave your own sister to others to do whatever they want?
Although judging by her age, the eldest princess has already reached the age of marriage.
There are even rumors that she is called the old princess.
Others say that although the eldest princess has never been married, she has many faces and is romantic every night...
In the face of such rumors, even if he is the Emperor Jin Chan, he cannot act rashly.
After all, once you get furious over this, maybe someone will believe it and think it's true.
If Jiang Ran could take away this 'evil obstacle', it would be a great help to himself.
While he was having random thoughts in his mind, he saw Jiang Ran raising his head:
"Okay, now that the money and goods are settled, Jiang bids farewell to you two.
"Farewell!"
"ah?"
Emperor Jin Chan was still scheming. When he suddenly heard these words, he didn't know how to respond.
After all, the eldest princess had already expected it. When Jiang Ran finished speaking, he shouted:
"Stop!!!"
Jiang Ran looked back and smiled:
"Eldest Princess, does she still have a way to restrain Jiang?"
The eldest princess pointed at the window and said:
"If you dare to leave, I will jump from here."
"...Then what? Your martial arts are not weak. Even if I jump, can I still fall to death?"
"Besides, even if you fall to death, what does it have to do with me?"
Jiang Ran was puzzled.
"Then you'll be half dead, or at least break one leg."
The eldest princess seemed to have already planned it, and she was actually talking about it now:
"Then he announced to the outside world that I couldn't think of it.
"When people ask why they can't think about it, they say that this palace has been abandoned by others!
"You know very well what you and I said today, and there are many people who heard those words. If I say that you always give up, I don't think anyone will doubt it.
"When they were curious about why they started falling out and ended up abandoning each other, they said... You and I have an affair without a matchmaker, so that the pearls are secretly knotted.
"In the end, we broke up because of a small amount of money. You actually didn't care about the life or death of our mother and son and just walked away.
“I couldn’t think about it and committed suicide!
"How big of a fuss can this matter make? Emperor brother, you have to help add fuel to the flames. It's best to let this matter spread all over the world overnight.
"To do this, even a three-year-old child on the street knows that there is a Jingshen Dao Jiang Ran, a bad guy who always gives up!
"When the time comes, I'll see how your Jingshen Sword still shows its power in the world!
"Besides, aren't you a knife-catcher? After this incident, let me see how you can still catch knives in exchange for money!"
"...You are so shameless!"
Jiang Ran murmured.
"I also think this is inappropriate."
Emperor Jin Chan frowned, feeling that this plan was not feasible.
“I don’t care!!”
The eldest princess just lay on the ground and rolled around:
"Anyway, if he dares to leave now, I will dare to jump."
"...I'm afraid of you."
Jiang Ran was speechless for a while and had to sit down again:
"Tell me, you must keep me here. What do you want to do?
"Let me take you to Qingguo? This matter is easy to say and difficult to say.
"It depends on how much money you want to give me."
"One hundred thousand taels of gold!"
Emperor Jin Chan blurted out.
Jiang Ran raised his head and glanced at him:
"Your Majesty, you should know what Jun Wu Xiyan is."
"Of course I know."
Emperor Jin Chan was speechless for a while. Did this arrogant man think that the emperor had been orphaned since he was a child and had never read a book?
Then he added:
"If you can kill Emperor Qing.
"I will add another hundred thousand taels!"
"Kill Emperor Qing?"
Jiang Ran raised his head and glanced at Emperor Jin Chan, and suddenly smiled:
"I can't do this."
"oh?"
Emperor Jin Chan was stunned: "You can kill me, why can't you kill Emperor Qing?"
"Didn't you say you wouldn't pay me?"
Jiang Ran curled his lips:
"If I help Qing Emperor later and he doesn't give me money, I will kill him too.
"But now, I have no reason to kill him if he has no grievance or enmity.
"For this deal, Your Majesty, you should go to Wangchen Island, Jingming Pavilion and Wusheng Tower.
"One hundred thousand taels of gold is enough for them to go through life and death."
Emperor Jin Chan was silent for a moment, then smiled:
"It seems that it's me, Meng Lang. You are a knife catcher, but not a killer.
"That being the case, please escort the eldest princess to the imperial capital of Qing Kingdom.
"This journey must be full of dangers and there will be no injustice for a hundred thousand taels of gold."
And as Emperor Jin Chan finished speaking, a prompt popped up in front of Jiang Ran.
[Knife-catching mission: Escort the eldest princess to the imperial capital of Qing Kingdom! 】
【Accept?】
Jiang Ran frowned slightly as he looked at the prompt that suddenly popped up.
When escorting the eldest princess back to the capital, there was no such reminder, probably because the eldest princess had never explicitly made such a request.
She asked herself to come to the capital in the name of the final payment.
Now that the Golden Cicada Emperor spoke clearly, only then did the prompts come out.
Jiang Ran touched his chin slightly, and instead of answering in a hurry, he asked:
"When will we set off? How much will the car drive?"
"One month later! When the eldest princess travels, there will naturally be many cars."
Emperor Jin Chan said softly:
"In addition to the eldest princess, there are also my Jin Chan envoys and military retinues among them.
"The specific number of people has not yet been determined and must be discussed between the DPRK and China.
"Wait until the matter is over, and then go back all the way...Jiang Ran, you have to worry a lot about this."
"One month..."
After Jiang Ran thought about it carefully, he nodded lightly.
Then he glanced at the eldest princess.
The eldest princess shook her head gently at him.
Jiang Ran smiled:
"Forget it, Jiang took over this deal.
"I asked why the Holy Spirit would take such a risk and condescend to come to see me in person. It turns out he wants to discuss such a big business."
Emperor Jin Chan smiled:
"Don't underestimate yourself. I've heard a lot about how you can turn your hands into clouds and rain.
"The eldest princess admires you so much that she wishes you could be entrusted with her for the rest of her life.
"Of course, I don't care about this.
"When she grows up, no one can make decisions for her.
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore... It's been a long time since I left the palace. Jiang Ran, can I trouble you to take me out of this princess' mansion?"
"It's natural."
Jiang Ran said and stood up.
Emperor Jin Chan naturally stood up and was about to explain a few more words to the eldest princess when Jiang Ran grabbed his shoulder. He only had time to say "you" and then disappeared out of the window with a long voice.
The eldest princess quickly came to the window and looked far into the distance. At this moment, Jiang Ran was almost entering the imperial city.
His Intentional Flowing Light Technique is so fast!
Emperor Jin Chan only felt that everything around him seemed to be fleeting. When he came back to his senses, he had already seen the walls of the imperial city.
He was about to tell Jiang Ran that he would just let it go when he got here.
He has his own way of proving his identity and can enter the imperial city.
As a result, before they could speak, the two of them had already arrived at a large hall.
Below is the [Guangming Hall], which is where Jin Chan's civil and military ministers held court meetings.
The two people were on the roof. Emperor Jin Chan looked down at the buildings below, feeling very strange for a moment.
Of course he had to go to the Guangming Palace every day, sit on the dragon throne and listen to the court officials' memorials.
But now from this angle...it's really a bit confusing.
Just listen to Jiang Ran ask:
"Where do you live?"
Emperor Jin Chan blurted out subconsciously:
"Wencheng Palace."
"where?"
Jiang Ran asked again.
Emperor Jin Chan searched for a long time, but he was still not sure.
Jiang Ran was surprised:
"You don't even know where you live?"
"Of course I know!"
Emperor Jin Chan's face turned dark. Why did he sound like a fool to this man?
Either he suspects that he is illiterate, or he says that he can't find a place to live... Isn't this huge imperial city his residence?
It makes me feel angry, so I will stay in Guangming Palace tonight, yes, I will sleep on the dragon chair, so what?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard a strange "Jie Jie" laugh:
"I didn't expect that after so many years, another master would dare to break into the imperial city at night!
"How audacious!"
Jiang Ran raised his eyebrows and glanced at Emperor Jin Chan beside him.
I found that the confusion in the emperor's eyes was no less than my own:
"Who, who's talking?"
"Behind."
Jiang Ran reminded him.
As soon as Emperor Jin Chan turned around, he saw an old eunuch standing with his waist hunched over in the Hall of Light.
I saw that the clothes around him were not moving in the wind, grinning, and his face was full of defiance.
But when he saw that the person next to Jiang Ran was the emperor of the dynasty, his expression completely froze on his face.
Just listen to the emperor speak:
"Who are you? It's so late at night. If you're not on duty, you should rest early. If you're on duty, why don't you wait in the palace and go to the roof for what?
"Which palace are you from, and who is the leading eunuch?
"Why don't you explain quickly!"
Under these repeated questionings, the old eunuch lost all his grace and became messy in the wind...