Princess Qingyang has been living in the palace since the New Year, chatting with Mrs. Qi who raised her since she was a child, and Wang Jian, the Lord of Shu, and then waiting for the escort of the delegation led by Han Qian to welcome the bride after the Lantern Festival. Next, set off for Tanzhou to marry Yang Yuanpu, the third prince of Chu.
Being in the palace these days does not mean that Princess Qingyang has nothing to do.
The dazzling array of dowry needs to be prepared, counted, and shipped out of the palace treasury in two days to be shipped in advance.
For a gorgeous wedding dress, you should also seize the time to complete the final embroidery and cutting.
Although there is a weaving and embroidery bureau in the palace with the best embroidery workers in Shu, Princess Qingyang does not like the aesthetics of the people in the palace. As a woman, she can only get married once in her life, so what will she do about the wedding dress? Maybe don’t ask?
What is more important is the choice of palace officials and maids who will accompany her when she marries into the Chu Kingdom.
Although Qingyang has been surrounded by a group of palace officials and palace ladies since he was a child, and he can basically be sure that they are reliable and have nothing suspicious or messy involved, but in the capital of Shu, these people are reliable and do not mean to force She made them leave their hometown and marry her to Chu State, where they would be separated from the new couple for the rest of their lives without the possibility of reunion. Didn't they have any complaints in their hearts?
But when she went to the Chu country, she was followed by a foreign country that was ambiguous with Chu's enemies. If she didn't have one or two people she could rely on, marrying Yang Yuanpu would be like a sheep to a pack of wolves, and her situation would be dire.
Although Princess Tan Li Yao also has an inextricable relationship with Shenlingsi, it not only does not mean that Li Yao and the Xinchang Hou Mansion behind her will miss her old relationship, but they even try their best to suppress her because of her competition for favor; not to mention that once Yang Yuanpu After ascending the throne as emperor, the three palaces and six houses must be filled with the daughters of ministers, and each of them will be her strong rival.
When the time comes, she will be alone, how can she do it without one or two people around her who can give advice?
Although his brother finally chose to adopt Han Qian's advice and successfully served as the governor of Yuzhou, responsible for the management of Banan affairs, Qingyang always felt that Han Qian was not trustworthy.
But apart from Han Qian, who among the trusted generals around the third prince of Chu, Yang Yuanpu, could she rely on to be a strong supporter?
Qingyang sat in front of the window with a heavy heart, watching the drizzle falling on the eaves.
At this time, Mo Mo, who was waiting on the left and right, walked in and reported: "The Changxiang Marquis Mansion has just sent someone into the palace. They said that Han Qian was seriously ill because of the wedding reception. He was bedridden in the South Garden of Jinhua Tower. Maybe he would have to postpone the invitation to your Majesty for a while. I will escort the princess back to Chu Kingdom to get married!"
Qingyang was startled, stood up and said, "I'm going to tell the lady, and then I'll go to the Changxiang Marquis Mansion."
Although deep down she believed that Han Qian was a kind of person with a vicious temperament and was not trustworthy, for now, without Han Qian, she would become a caged bird trapped in the inner palace of Prince Tan or the Chu Palace.
Although there was no strict etiquette for men and women to guard against each other in this world, Qingyang could not just go to Jinhua Tower Nanyuan to visit Han Qian. He thought of returning to Changxiang Marquis Mansion first, and he also had other things to discuss with Liang Wan.
In recent years, under the governance of Wang Jian, the Lord of Shu, although the capital city of Shu cannot be said to be closed at night, bandits running rampant in the streets have basically been banned.
Princess Qingyang left the palace in a hurry, and only five or six people gathered in a gorgeous carriage through the streets. There could not be any ceremonial guards, nor could there be hundreds or thousands of guards surrounding her for protection.
Even if Liang's scouts want to destroy the marriage between Chu and Shu, they cannot do it by assassinating Princess Qingyang. In that case, the relationship between Liang and Shu will be completely broken, and the Shu will be completely pushed to Chu. aside.
When passing through Nanhua Alley, I saw an old man in shabby clothes, leading a donkey and driving a charcoal cart that was transporting firewood to the city for sale.
Maybe the charcoal cart was too old and the charcoal was too full. I turned into the alley and didn’t go seven or eight feet away when I heard something...
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page)
With a squeaking sound, the wooden wheels collapsed, and the charcoal cart tipped over. The dark charcoal suddenly leaked all over the floor, and the collapsed cart body immediately blocked the five- to six-foot-wide narrow alley.
The old donkey was also strangled to the ground by the rope that was suddenly fastened to its chest, its hooves thrashing and howling.
Qingyang felt the carriage stop, opened the curtain and a cold wind rushed in. Seeing the situation at the entrance of the alley, he frowned slightly. When he was about to ask the charioteer to lead the horse around, he saw several beggars holding broken bowls on the left and right.
When she realized something was wrong and was about to scream, several beggars and the vegetable sellers who followed from behind had already swarmed up and restrained the palace attendants who were surrounding the carriage.
"You dare to rob me, are you not afraid of annihilating the nine tribes?" Qingyang shouted sharply, but before she could pull out the makeup knife hidden in her arms, a figure jumped onto the carriage extremely quickly and unfolded a large piece of thick black cloth.
, and walked towards her with a package wrapped around her head.
Qingyang then felt that her hands were clamped like iron vices and she couldn't struggle. She screamed sharply, but her voice was muffled by the thick black cloth and inside the carriage and could not be heard. Soon there was a hand like an iron vice.
They pried her mouth open, tied it with a rope, and strangled it into her forced open mouth, telling her to never make a sound again; at the same time, she heard a voice ordering others to disguise themselves as palace attendants and lead a carriage from
Go around Nanhua Lane.
Qingyang still wanted to wait for the carriage to leave Nanhua Lane before making any noise, but she didn't want to be dragged into the carriage the next moment, and dragged to a side house with several other palace attendants and Mo Mo. Only then did she realize
The other party had planned to rob her in Nanhua Lane for a long time. This house was located on the only way for her to go from the palace to the Changxiang Marquis Mansion, so she should have been secretly prepared.
Entering the courtyard, she was separated from the palace officials. She was pushed through the hall to transfer the property. She could tell intuitively that she was put into a car full of fishy smell from the other side of the house.
Inside, the hands and feet are fixed to the body of the car by additional ropes.
Not to mention breaking free at this time, she couldn't even make any noise.
The carriage passed through the cobweb-like streets and alleys of the capital city of Shu. Qingyang quickly lost his direction and didn't know which gate he was being transported out of. The carriage didn't stop until he heard the gurgling sound of water.
She was dragged down from the carriage, and the black cloth covering her face was removed, and she was shocked to see Han Qian, who said he had contracted an acute illness in the Nanyuan of Jinhua House and was bedridden. He was standing by the river, surrounded by people,
He was staring at the mighty river flowing away.
We haven't seen him for just a few days. At this time, Han Qian's beard and hair are unkempt. His cheeks and chin have not been shaved for several days. They are covered with dense stubble. He looks rough and down-and-out. His cheeks are thin and his eye sockets are sunken.
Going down, it felt as if I had really been seriously ill in the past few days.
Occasionally I glanced over, but my eyes were so sinister, with a chilling resentment hidden deep inside.
Yang Qin saw that Princess Qingyang was being ridiculed, but Guo loosened her ties and did not make a fuss. He said strangely: "The princess seems to be very calm?"
"You went to such great lengths to prevent me from making any strange moves, but you didn't knock me out with a stick. You must not have dared to hurt me at all. So what else does this princess have to worry about?" Qingyang rubbed the quilt.
With his wrists numb and swollen, he suppressed the anger in his heart and said as calmly as possible, "Why are you kidnapping me out of the city? Can you tell me the reason now?"
Yang Qin, Zhou Chu and others were secretly shocked when they saw that Princess Qingyang could be so calm at this moment.
Han Qian didn't move or make a sound.
Yang Qin said:
"A dramatic upheaval occurred in Jinling, His Majesty was murdered. The traitor Xu Hui usurped the crown prince's throne, but falsely accused the imperial concubine of colluding with Marquis Xinchang to murder His Majesty. Your Highness will not be able to survive. My family is worried that something will happen to the marriage between the Princess and Your Highness.
We can only use this method to ask the princess to accompany us back to Dachu to marry His Highness, and also ask the princess to understand our difficulties."
Qingyang's heart was filled with overwhelming hatred that wanted to tear the people in front of her into pieces, but what made her even more unbearable was that Han Qian couldn't even look at him at this moment.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page)
Without even looking at themselves, it seemed that Guo Que and Xi Faer had grabbed an innocuous kitten or puppy.
Qingyang gritted his teeth and asked:
"What if I can't understand?"
Han Qian was still like a statue, looking at the mighty river flowing away, completely unmoved by Qingyang's words, as if Qingyang's resentful words were not as loud in his ears as a wisp of moist and warm river breeze in the afternoon.
Yang Qin signaled Guo Que to take the black cloth and rope he had just taken off, so that Princess Qingyang could clearly understand the cruel situation and facts before her.
Of course they hope that Princess Qingyang can show a cooperative attitude, otherwise they will have to kidnap Princess Qingyang all the way back to Dachu.
Qingyang wanted to rush forward and scratch Han Qian, the thief, on his face, but now she could only question Yang Qin aggressively:
"I haven't arrived at the Changxiang Marquis Mansion. Someone will soon report me to the palace. Then it will be confirmed that the bride-to-be has left without saying goodbye. Do you think you can really escape the pursuit of Yinlong Si Jingqi in the thousands of miles of Shu? And?
How can your troops who stayed behind to cover their whereabouts escape the execution of Shu?"
Yang Qin said:
"It is said that the daughter-in-law has no control over her. We can only ask the princess to leave a letter stating that after the princess learned about the drastic changes in Jinling, she was afraid that the Lord of Shu would regret the marriage and voluntarily conspired with us to escape from the capital of Shu. I
I think the Lord of Shu will definitely feel the sincere feelings between the Princess and His Highness, and forgive us for our disrespectful sins."
"What if I don't write it?" Princess Qingyang said.
Yang Qin said:
"We have already written the letter, and the handwriting is at least 70% consistent with the princess's. Now we only need to borrow one of the princess's favorite things to prove it; and the people around the princess probably don't
If you dare to bear the crime of genocide after losing the princess, you will also prove that the princess is the mastermind of everything and everything is done voluntarily by the princess!"
Qingyang didn't expect that everything was planned by Han Qian and others, making her unable to live or die. At this time, she didn't hide the hatred in her heart, and asked bitterly, "Aren't you afraid that I will hate this in the future?"
Yang Qin said: "Everything we do is for the sake of His Highness. The princess is angry at this moment, but she has a deep relationship with His Highness. In the future, she will understand that my Lord is loyal, which is really rare."
Qingyang cursed in her heart. She had a shitty relationship with Yang Yuanpu. She knew that she couldn't expect Han Qian, a thief, to put her back intact, but how could she be willing to be kidnapped by Han Qian, a thief, and brought back to Chu State?
Taking advantage of Yang Qin's unpreparedness, Qingyang suddenly reached out to a guard beside him, snatched the saber from his waist, and was about to kill himself with the knife. However, he was not prepared for Guo Que, and Xi Fa'er's hands and feet were faster and grabbed her from behind.
He knocked her sword off and then cut her hands behind her back to prevent her from harming herself.
Yang Qin and Zhou Chu's expression changed with shock. They didn't expect Princess Qingyang to have such a fierce temper. Not to mention that Princess Qingyang died here today, even if it was self-inflicted and missing a little finger, it would be difficult for them to explain it when they return to Tanzhou.
Qingyang said proudly: "I fall into your hands and I can't struggle, but I want to die. What can you do to me? Let's see how you deal with your master when you return to Dachu?"
Han Qian then turned around and glanced at Qingyang.
This look without any emotion, so cold, seemed to hide a little murderous intention, which made Qingyang frightened, as if he was a dead body in the eyes of this dog thief. He didn't know what happened in Jinling, calling this dog
The thief's character has changed drastically.
Han Qian took out a book from his arms, walked to the river and soaked it, then walked to Qingyang, tore off the soaked rice paper pages one by one, covered her face, and covered her mouth and nose
, staring cruelly and mercilessly at Qingyang's face that was turning red and purple, and said word by word:
"What I want to do is to make the Lord of Shu Wang Jian and the Marquis of Changxiang Wang Yong think that you have left Shu with us, but if we really bring you with us, it is just a burden. I don't know how many more people will die for you..."