The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

On the third day after He Zhaoyuan left, King Beidi brought over ten carts full of furs, a hundred horses, and fifty beautiful women.

In addition, they even saw a huge iron cage behind the team.

"Lion?" Bai Yan became interested. This huge monster is rare in Daliang. It seems that the previous dynasty caught one when they heard that the emperor was hunting in autumn, but because of fear, he directly killed it.

The iron cage was extremely strong, but King Beidi still ordered someone to feed the lion medicine.

"My lord, this medicine is only effective for two hours," the other party gave Bai Yan a medicine bottle, but it was only the size of an adult's finger.

Bai Yan and Xiao Jiuqin exchanged glances, and sent him away.

"It seems that the king of Beidi has not been convinced..." Bai Yan played with the small bottle in his hand, "Just give such a little medicine, who are you fooling?"

Xiao Jiuqin reached out and picked up the medicine bottle in his hand, "Send some insignificant leather blankets, and the horses are all good-looking, but in fact they can't even compare to the pony horses in the army. As for those women..."

"What happened to those girls?" Bai Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Xiao Jiuqin chuckled, "Either he was forced here, or he was a spy."

Bai Yan nodded, "He seems to be testing our attitude, but...the emperor is unconscious, who should those women honor?"

The next moment, the two looked at each other and smiled maliciously.

Didn't Wei Chengju want to be the emperor? Didn't he want to enjoy having three thousand beauties? Why not honor him...

Early the next morning, Xiao Jiuqin sent Xie Ping and a team of people to send the fur, horse and fifty beauties into Yingdu.

As for the lion... Xiao Jiuqin looked at Bai Yan, "Do you really want to keep this guy?"

The iron cage was covered with a layer of cloth, but the two of them could still feel the bloody smell from the lion's body.

"Keep it for now, otherwise if you send it to Yingdu now and fall into the hands of that violent person Wei Chengju, I'm afraid it will be a waste of money." Just as Bai Yan was speaking, the iron cage suddenly shook.

"The effect of the medicine is over?" Xiao Jiuqin was also interested, and pulled the cloth, revealing a lion with its mouth wide open.

"I heard from the envoy that the lion was captured not long ago, and it seems that it was only fed medicine before it was brought here." Unafraid of the roar of the big guy, Bai Yan walked half a circle around the iron cage, "It's really not quite right ..."

The lion has been in a defensive posture since he was awake, his hind legs are lowered, and blood remains on his fluffy hair, but this is not the strangest thing.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Jiuqin looked in the direction Bai Yan pointed, and saw that the lion's abdomen was bulging and "swollen".

"Could it be..." Xiao Jiuqin was slightly surprised.

Bai Yan pressed his lips slightly, "It should be."

Bai Yan and the two never expected that the first time they had close contact with a lion, they happened to meet it giving birth to a cub.

The lioness who gave birth was extremely vigilant, Xiao Jiuqin dispersed the people around, and in the end only three or two people remained, all of whom were veterinarians from Guixi Mansion.

One of them was an old man, his hands trembling while holding the medicine box, "Master, my lord, the little old man has lived like this, and he has never given birth to... such a big thing for so long!"

Not to mention him, even Xiao Jiuqin's eyes wandered, "Although that's what...but it's a bit embarrassing for them."

Bai Yan shook his head, "I don't want them to deliver the baby, but I want them to take care of the little lion after it's born."

Bai Yan was more careful, pointing at the body of the lioness who could no longer support herself, "I didn't ask Xie Ping and the others to take it with me before, because I thought it looked uncomfortable. I traveled all the way day and night, and I'm afraid it hasn't arrived yet. Yingdu can't hold it anymore."

I don't know if the medicine given to it by the Beidi people is not suitable or if it is tired all the way, the lioness' back is a little hairy, and all four paws are a little swollen.

Bai Yan was about to ask someone to bring some food and water, when he heard the veterinarian suddenly yell.

"I'm going to give birth!"

"Keep quiet and stay away." Xiao Jiuqin urged those people to walk back so as not to disturb the lioness giving birth to cubs.

He and Bai Yan stared at the lioness closely, trying to minimize their sense of presence. After about a cup of tea, the lioness suddenly let out a shrill neigh.

Bai Yan and Xiao Jiuqin's heart skipped a beat, and they saw three little fleshy things rolling to the hind legs of the lioness.

"Roar..." For a moment, I couldn't tell whether it was pain, relief, or joy. The lioness bent down, surrounded the three small things with her tail, sniffed them closely, and slowly licked them with the tip of her tongue.

The lion cub was just a meat dumpling. The veterinarians tried to take two steps forward, but the hair on the back of the lioness' neck suddenly stood up, showing an attacking state.

"Stand back first!" Xiao Jiuqin reprimanded.

One person hesitated, "Master Hou, this lioness is not in a good condition..."

"Yes," another person also said, "We looked at it from a distance, and it seems that the lioness was injured when she was captured, on the right abdomen and hind legs, and she just gave birth. If she was hungry for a long time , then it is not good for feeding the cubs.”

Bai Yan glanced at Xiao Jiuqin, and Xiao Jiuqin immediately understood, he took out the previous medicine bottle and gave it to the veterinarian, "Take a look at this medicine, whether it is harmful."

"Yes." Several veterinarians poured out some, sniffed and looked together, and finally said after a long time: "This medicine has a very strong paralyzing effect, and a small amount of it can kill a wild boar. And this medicine can Animals are addicted, if they take it too often, once they stop using it, it will easily make them manic and depressed, and if it is serious, it will even change their temperament drastically, and those who were not aggressive will be greatly affected, thus hurting people."

"And this lioness is already injured, let alone she is in the period of giving birth, so her emotions are more likely to change..."

"Then what should we do now?" Bai Yan turned a little bit and saw the wounded part of the lioness. He was a little worried, "If she can't feed her cubs, what about these three cubs?"

"To tell you the truth, newborn cubs are prone to die due to various reasons, so now we must take out these cubs as soon as possible and give them a careful diagnosis and treatment, lest they will be affected in the womb because of the lioness."

Hearing this, Bai Yan hesitated.

According to them, the lioness can no longer use the medicine, but if she wants to get the cub out, she must stun it.

For a while, Bai Yan inevitably had a hard time making a choice.

When he was worried, Xiao Jiuqin went over and asked those people a few more words. Bai Yan watched him turn back, "I have taken the medicine several times, and this time is not bad, so I will use it again. They took the cub out for treatment, and they said they could try to treat the lioness as best they could."

"That's it."

Because of the lioness, Bai Yan and Xiao Jiuqin stayed in Guixi Mansion for two more days, and on the morning of the third day, Songhua flew into the yard.

The two who heard the noise came out, Songhua obviously flew towards Xiao Jiuqin at first, but when it saw Bai Yan behind him, it flicked its wings, changed its angle, and flew in front of Bai Yan.

Xiao Jiuqin: "..."

"Pfft!" The maid who was tending the flowers and plants in the yard laughed out loud. Unable to lose face, Lord Xiao reached out and tapped Songhua's head.

Song Hua didn't even turn her head, but leaned over to Bai Yan's chin and rubbed it lightly.

Lord Xiao Hou couldn't take it anymore, picked up the pine flower and was about to throw it out, Bai Yan stared at him, "You try throwing it..."

For the first time, Lord Xiao, who felt that his status in the mansion was not guaranteed, had a gloomy expression on his face, "Just get used to it!"

Bai Yan deliberately pretended that he didn't hear anything, took Songhua over, touched the "frightened" little head, and took out the letter box from its thin legs. Inside was a thin piece of paper, only to write less than ten words.

"Wei Chengju and Yun Zhong can't bear it anymore." Bai Yan's expression was unclear.

According to the contents of the letter, Wei Chengju and Yun Zhong's private soldiers had not yet deployed. Originally, they used this to threaten the emperor. However, Huai Chun somehow managed to get a team of troops to surround the palace so that no one could get out. Come on, people from outside can't get in.

And what surprised Wei Chengju and the others the most was that the emperor was sober for half a day and exonerated Huai Chun of all charges. Not only that, Wei Chengdan was also escorted into the palace by Huai Chun's people.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Wei Chengdan and Huai Chun are in the palace, Wei Chengju and Yun Zhong occupy several prefectures and counties outside Yingdu, just waiting for the troops to arrive.

And Wei Chengfeng was undoubtedly in the most embarrassing position. On the day the emperor woke up, he specially summoned him and gave him a nominal title of general, so that the people in Huaichun would join him in guarding Yingdu.

It is said to give him a chance to redeem his crimes, but no one knows how much of it is true.

But Wei Chengfeng was not qualified to refuse, he was dismissed, and now that he finally got such an opportunity, he also wanted to take this opportunity to stand up, so he was conscientious in the beginning.

It's just that after Xie Ping and the others arrived, Wei Chengfeng and Wei Chengju became visibly anxious.

Although Xie Ping bluntly said that he was sending Beidi envoys to Yingdu, everyone knew who was behind him.

So before entering the city, Xie Ping was blocked, and Wei Chengju confiscated all the weapons of their group, and sent all the beauties and horses to the army tent.

Wei Chengfeng on the city wall naturally got the news, his eyes were hot, but he had no choice but to watch Wei Chengju's "collusion" with Xiao Jiuqin's people.

After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help thinking about the relationship between Xiao Jiuqin and Bai Yan, so he sent a memorial to the palace.

But he had no idea that this memorial was finally presented on Huaichun's desk.

"What else did Wei Chengfeng say?" Huai Chun casually opened the booklet, glanced at it, and then threw it into the fire.

When Wei Chengdan came in, he heard Huai Chun say, "Bo Yan is a rare sober person, it is impossible for him to collude with Wei Chengju... I have been friends with him for five years, although it is not a life-and-death relationship, but there is a heart-to-heart relationship."

Wei Chengdan paused when he heard this, and waited until Huai Chun finished speaking before going in.

"Your Highness." All the people in the hall saluted one after another, such a respectful attitude was never seen before.

Ever since Wei Chengju was stationed outside the city and Wei Chengfeng went to guard the city, Wei Chengdan, who was sitting in the palace, became the object of flattery and flattery. Wei Chengdan may be the one to be crown prince.

Haven't you seen that Huai Chun is in power, as long as there are no accidents, Wei Chengdan's ascension to the throne is a certainty.

As for Song Que, who just recognized his ancestor and returned to his clan, none of the ministers took him seriously.

People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, now that Wei Chengdan occupies a favorable position, they can't help but want to earn a share of the merits of being a dragon.

To this, Wei Chengtan didn't have much reaction, but Huai Chun took him to the emperor's bedroom several times to serve the sick.

But how sincere is it, who knows?