Assassin A

"Daniu, what's the matter with you?" The prince waved his fan and waved his mouth slightly, "Come here and let me have a look."

Where have the small tea farmers seen this battle?Immediately froze, swallowed, slowly moved over, glanced sideways, who is that person kneeling, Shen Yufeng? !

"What happened to your face? Did the girls make fun of you again?" The prince stretched out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped off half of the white powder on his face in a leisurely manner, then smiled suddenly: "Have you had morning tea?" ?”

"Uh...not yet."

"Well, I didn't eat either, let's go together." After finishing speaking, he took Daniel by the hand and left.

"My lord, what should I do with this person?" Cai Ting, King Qingnan's confidant, asked the question.

Da Niu blushed from embarrassment when he was held by the prince.At this moment, he suddenly felt that his hand was pinched hard, the force was so great that he could almost hear the sound of metacarpal dislocation.

"You still need to ask me? Pu Shao!"

"exist!"

"Press it down and whip a hundred lashes first, the king will come for trial later!"

"Yes!"

One hundred whips.One hundred... This person must be beaten to death?But there were only him and the prince on the table, and this morning tea was eaten in a cautious manner, and Daniel only killed five buns and two bowls of porridge.The prince ate very little, and he was too embarrassed to eat any more.

"You know what I hate the most?"

The unlucky little tea farmer almost choked to death on the sudden question, rolled his eyes and straightened his neck and swallowed, "Uh, uh, oh!"

Rong Min smiled, and reached out to pat him, "The kind of people I hate the most are assassins, not to mention spies. As long as these two kinds of people fall into my hands..."

A meat bun fell into his hand, and Daniel patted him on the shoulder clumsily, "Eat, eat buns. I can see that you are unhappy, but you have to eat, and you will have the strength to get angry when you are full. "

Rong Min raised his eyebrows and looked, "What stuffing?"

"Fresh meat is delicious. Eat it quickly. Come, have some porridge. This rice porridge is also very sweet."

The grumpy prince tossed it casually, "I don't like buns."

"Then what do you want to eat?"

"Shumai."

"Hmm..." Daniel turned his head and said to the servant who was waiting beside him, "My lord wants to eat siu mai."

Rong Min laughed loudly, "I'm just kidding you, stupid!" In the end, he actually ate another steamed bun and half a bowl of porridge.

After eating breakfast, Daniel bowed respectfully to the prince: "I'm going to farm."

"Don't go, how about I show you some fun today?"

The little tea farmer has never seen the world, he is stupid, and he is really stupid, but he still has a bit of a cunning mind.Immediately drooping the corners of his mouth: "I don't want to go. You want to take me to see Shen Shaoxia, right? We are timid, the bloody ones, I can't see them."

Rong Min stopped in his tracks: "Do you want to know what mistake he made and fell into my hands?"

Daniel nodded, then shook his head, "You are an honorable person, Shen Shaoxia is from the Jianghu, and I am a tea farmer. I don't understand your affairs, but at least the prince will remember me, Shen Yufeng saved you once, be a man... ...uh, I won't say that."

"Can't you be ungrateful?" A sneer appeared on Rong Min's lips, "If I told you that Shen Yufeng's master had arranged for the encounter with the assassin that day, and that this Shen was someone else's spy who had been inserted into the palace?"

"what!"

Rong Min chuckled, "Shen Yufeng saved me as a play, for real, the only person who has saved me is you." As he spoke, he lowered his hand to touch his thigh, "The injury was so serious that day, but he is an idle person. live, and refuse to take good care of it.”

Daniu scratched his ears foolishly, "I'm used to it."

Seeing the little tea farmer blushing again, King Qingnan felt much better, and casually pointed to the two guards: "From now on, when my benefactor is busy with farm work, you two will be responsible for wiping your sweat with an umbrella, so you can take care of him."

"I can't! I can't!" Da Niu became anxious, grabbed Rong Min's hand and said, "Doesn't the prince say that I don't know what's good? The place in the mansion is just for fun, so don't take it seriously." ? I am rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and I am used to the wind and rain, so it is not easy to treat us like a son."

Rong Min thought for a while and smiled: "Forget it, just tell the manager what you want. No, just tell me directly. After dealing with Shen Yufeng's matter, let's go to the tea town together. It's almost Chinese New Year. What gifts do you want to give relatives?" Even though I said I would leave it to the manager to make arrangements."

Daniu smirked: "I understand this, the village gentleman said 'returning home'."

King Qingnan, who had been talking and laughing with Daniel just now, immediately became gloomy after entering the side courtyard where Shen Yufeng was imprisoned.

Sitting in the soft chair, he folded and folded the folding fan in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was not in a hurry to ask questions. First, he admired Shen Shaoxia who was hung in the courtyard, covered in blood.

Then he casually said, "Who is your master?"

Shen Yufeng gritted her teeth tightly, her thin lips pursed into a line, "I don't understand what the lord is talking about!"

Pu Shao swung his whip away, and it hit his cheek, a red streak appeared on his handsome face.

"My lord, stop talking nonsense! You went into the study room at night and got a glimpse of the map of our troops and horses in the southern region. What's your intention? You even copied the list of generals. You just said that you didn't know it. Now we have the physical evidence. It’s not true yet!”

As he spoke, he shook out a piece of rolled up tissue paper, which was densely packed with small letters.

Pu Shao pulled the corner of his mouth gloomily: "Do you still want to deny it?"

Shen Yufeng let out a long laugh, "Stupid! Just look at that word! Even if I went to visit the study in the middle of the night, how could I write such small characters in the dark? No candle and no fire, just try writing!"

The King of Qingnan smiled faintly: "You can also write down the name of the person and write it silently when you return to your room. Don't you assassins and spies all have unique skills? It is said that the famous assassins of the Xuanji Camp under King Geng of the capital are good at this... ...Could it be that Shen Shaoxia was from the Xuanji Camp?"

Shen Yufeng was furious, and his sword eyebrows stood upside down: "How can I remember the names of more than a hundred people? Besides, those Xiao Xiaoxiao in Xuanji Camp are worthy of my name of Yufengjian? King Geng Li Zan? A joke! I will not be killed even if I die." This insidious person takes advantage of it!"

King Qingnan raised his head and laughed, his eyes flashed coldly, "Since you said you were wronged, why do you know that there are more than a hundred generals on the list? Why are you so hostile to King Geng?"

Then he smiled again, and whispered softly: "A commoner, reckless in the world, just opened his mouth and called King Geng by his name, and dared to criticize him as a sinister..."

Standing up tall, the plain clothes glistened in the sunlight, "Which prince is your master? As I said today, this king will have a plan for socializing in the future. Well, King Geng Li Zan has always been the second prince. The prince is a party, if this king guesses correctly, you must be a spy from the third prince's lineage, aren't you?"

Shen Yufeng, a master of the Xizui Tower in the Jianghu who mainly focuses on assassination and collection of debts, with a majestic Yufengjian, is not worthy of giving the King of Qingnan a shoe in a witty fight, so he was cheated out of his life with just a few words.

Seeing his pale face, Rong Min knew that he had guessed right.Not wanting to delay any longer, he told Pu Shao: "Since the assassin cut me with a knife, and Shen Shaoxia sent him to the door to go deep into the 'tiger's lair', it is imperative to get the knife back from him. Cut off the veins of his right hand and throw him into the dungeon Keep a close watch."

"Yes!"

"Rong Min! Did you behead me and think that the palace would be peaceful? Did you think there was someone else who wrote the list?"

King Qingnan turned his head and smiled: "You don't need to worry about this. Besides, I didn't say that I would kill you. It's a pity not to have fun with such a beautiful person, isn't it?"

Hearing these words, Shen Yufeng wished he could be killed immediately, he can't be humiliated!However, a sneer in Rong Min's eyes made him feel cold all over his body, and his future was dangerous.

The spy's night visits to the study passed away so peacefully that even few people in Qingnan Palace knew about it.

The prince is still playing and singing every night, happy every day, and the servants in the mansion are also beaming to prepare for the coming New Year in more than a month.

Da Niu sat by the Yuhua Pond, soaking his bare feet in the cool water, holding a big meat dumpling in his hand, eating it deliciously.Pu Shao also imitated him and sat aside with bare feet, passing him a cup of warm tea from time to time, or wiping the glutinous rice sticking to his cheeks with a towel.

"Don't eat it, and have another hour for dinner. If you like this meat dumpling, you can eat it every day. Is it too short for you? Come, eat a longan."

Daniel opened his mouth, crystal clear, the sweet pulp was thrown into his mouth, he chewed, "It's so sweet~"

Pu Shao laughed out loud. It turns out that snapping kung fu can also be used to feed small animals?Looking up again, Daniel also peeled a longan and handed it to his mouth: "Brother Shao, eat."

The head guard's heart moved, and just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard a burst of clear laughter, Mr. Lin.

He quickly put on his boots and socks, shook his guard robe, and stood solemnly.

In the past few days, the prince has been calling Lin Mengqing to accompany him.

Sure enough, a small group of people came out from behind the plantain grove, led by Prince and Young Master Lin.

"Da Niu, what are you doing?"

"I'm fishing."

"Did you catch it?"

"No... all the fish you raise are fine, and I think my bait is not tasty."

The King of Qingnan smiled faintly, "Come on, the sun is still hot now, and it's hard to get sunburned carefully. Come with me to the pavilion to listen to Mengqing playing the piano."

Lin Mengqing joked, "I'm afraid he played the piano to the cow."

Daniu immediately blushed, forgot to put on his shoes, and followed into the pavilion with his bare feet carrying the fishing rod.It wasn't until he sat down that he realized that he had nowhere to hide his muddy feet because he was either digging or wandering around all day long, wearing bunts all the time.

Everyone in the pavilion saw it, but the prince pretended not to know, so no one dared to laugh at him.

Lin Mengqing tuned the piano, moved her slender and well-proportioned fingers casually a few times, stood up and bowed to the prince, then sat down and began to play.

Rong Min caught a glimpse of some dried glutinous rice sticking to Daniel's front, and reached out to help him remove it, "Were you eating rice dumplings just now?"

"Yes, Brother Shao told me to eat less, so we ate longan."

"If you eat too much longan, you will get angry. Do you still have meat dumplings? Bring me one and try it."

After hearing this, the servant immediately went to get it, put it in a delicate small dish and handed it to the only big cow sitting next to the prince.It turns out that the rules in the family's mansion are who will serve by the side...

Peeling a zongzi can be done even by a child of a few years old, but Daniel is nervous around the prince.Shaking and shaking, finally pushed it away, and dunked it into the plate, bang!Dropped on the floor.

He was about to pick it up, but was stopped by Rong Min: "Just take another one."

While waiting for the zongzi, Rong Min, immersed in Mr. Lin's superb piano skills, suddenly asked, "Are you literate?"

Daniu looked around blankly, and then he knew that he was asking him, "How many do you know? The gentleman in the village is kind, and we never care about eavesdropping outside the window. Unfortunately, I will go to work in the fields after I am seven or eight years old. , I have no chance to eavesdrop again, and now I can barely read a few words."

The prince wants to write and write: "Write down your name and I'll see."

Daniu nodded, and firmly held the brush with his right hand, "An Daniu," the three words were crooked.

The prince just smiled when he saw it, and just threw it aside and ignored it.

The person who delivered the zongzi came, but Daniel couldn't sit still, the one on the ground had already been picked up, and it was about to be removed.

"Hey, little brother, do you want to throw this zongzi away?"

The boy who was stopped was stunned for a moment, then bowed his head: "Yes."

"It's a pity. If you don't need to wash it with water, bring it to me to eat."

Rong Min frowned slightly after hearing this: "What are you rushing for? Does the palace still care about one or two zongzi? If you want to eat, just ask someone to get it."

I don't want Daniel to hold his head down for a while, and after a while, tears are falling down, "I... I don't know how to compliment. It's just that I eat and drink in the mansion, and there are so many people serving and taking care of me every day. My sister... Maybe she can't even drink porridge, I feel very bitter."

Rong Min asked curiously, "Aren't you the only one in your family? Is your sister married?"

"Yes, my sister was originally married to Chen Asi, a fisherman in Chenjia Village. But a few years ago, my brother-in-law encountered a big storm when he went out to sea. Although he came back alive, he had a broken arm. He could barely catch his breath and could no longer fish. .”

Rong Min chuckled, patted his back and wiped the tears off his face with a handkerchief, "What is this, just bring your sister to the palace."

Daniu cried even harder when he heard it: "Since my brother-in-law broke his arm, they have no business. I only have one room and one bed. The little rations can't take care of my sister's house. So they went north to the capital, where there is a brother-in-law A relative of the family can vote... I heard that the capital is prosperous, and my sister can do some work to get by. It's been two years... woo woo woo~~"

Since the "dropping zongzi" incident, for seven or eight days in a row, I haven't seen Daniel's silly smile again.The bulging face was getting thinner day by day, and the anxious Cui Cui yelled at the kitchen all day long to make him something different to eat.

Pu Shao is an orphan, and he was raised in the palace since he was a child. He doesn't know much about the family relationship along the way, but every day he sees Daniel crying or sighing, his heart aches.

I really racked my brains to find a way to tease him, but the little tea farmer just had a bitter face, not seeing the clouds and the sun.

That girl Cuicui was originally the head maid, and she has been serving the prince since she was a child, and it was only when Daniel came to the mansion that she was called to serve him.The girl can speak a few words in front of the prince, her mind is more delicate than Pu Shao's, and she has a standard knife-mouthed bean curd heart. I really can't see this little tea farmer being so wronged.

The head of the maid couldn't bear it anymore, so she called the head of the guards, and after the two of them discussed it, they formed a gang to ask the prince, "Daniu is the master's benefactor, and our palace has always treated those who are kind. You can give him some silver and let him go north." Visit my sister in the capital, that poor family, Da Niu will not stay for long, the old man will come back again, won't he?"

Both of them are slaves who know the King of Qingnan best, and they saw early on that their prince had a preference for this small tea farmer. Although they couldn't understand why the prince was so stubborn and unwilling to let the bull go, but after all, it was the master's business, and they could only do it. here we go.

Rong Min put down the scroll, "It's very rare for the two of you to think highly of the same person. In this case, ask the manager to give him 100 taels of gold, and let him take it to the capital to give to his sister, or simply take it back and raise it together. Pu Shao tomorrow Let’s set off to escort him out of the southern region, and rent a good car and horse for him after crossing the border.”

night.

In his room, Daniel happily packed the presents from the guards, as well as the gadgets given by the girls in his room on weekdays.The most important thing is the ten round and golden ingots in the center of the table, "This can make my sister have no worries about food and drink for the rest of her life, the prince is really a good man!"

Pu Shao silently helped him pack his things, and packed them into three bulging bundles, "You... come back quickly after the new year."

Daniu paused, raised his head and smiled: "Well, I will definitely be back."