Lin Ying scoffed at the Song King's letter, read it hastily, folded it and handed it to Shu'er.

Shu'er did not read it, but handed the letter to Yan Qing, who was walking over to serve tea.

Liu En fiddled with the seven strings of the piano with one hand and looked at Shu'er expectantly: "Mother, when can I see the King of Song?"

Shu'er didn't answer but asked: "Haven't you never met Grandpa Zhao Wang?"

Liu En looked at the small wooden sword held in his other hand and persisted: "Then when can I see Grandpa Zhao Wang?"

Shu'er sighed: "A few years ago, His Royal Highness King Zhao went out to guard Wucheng in person, and was seriously injured by Rong warriors. He has been unable to move. I heard that he has been injured repeatedly in recent days and has stopped going to the Zhao Dynasty for meetings. If you

If you want to see His Highness King Zhao, you can only go to Pingliang Ninghe Palace to meet him in person. In a few years, when you grow up and everything is safe in Chu State, I will take you to Zhao State to meet His Highness King Zhao."

Liu En nodded, but still looked at Shu'er, waiting for another answer from her.

Lin Ying knew that Shu'er had never mentioned King Liu of Song in the past three years, and had never asked anyone about the situation in Song, so she came to her rescue and said: "Xiao En, the King of Song is very busy, much busier than me, the King of Chu.

Too much! I can’t spare the time to take you to the Song Kingdom, so how can the King of Song have time to come to our Chu Kingdom?”

Liu En pouted: "But everyone says that King Song is my father! Why doesn't he come to see me? Why doesn't he take me to the Kingdom of Song to play?"

Lin Ying smiled charmingly and said: "In my opinion, although King Song is your father, you are not his son! You are just his daughter, and you can't help him manage the country. Why does he support you? Since he doesn't want to

Why do you want to support you and come all the way to see what you do?"

Shu'er glared at Lin Ying, but did not stop him from continuing to slander the King of Song.

Seeing Liu En's pitiful daze, Lin Ying comforted her and said, "It's okay. Your father, King Song, doesn't want you. You still have your mother, uncle, and Xiaoying. We won't leave you."

Liu En lowered his head and muttered aggrievedly: "Why can't my daughter govern the country..."

Lin Ying chuckled: "That's right! Why can't women govern the country? Look at the princess of Zhao State, Duguqing, she is governing the country for her brother! This shows that your 'Song King Daddy' is really big-hearted.

Narrow-minded! It’s okay not to be so ‘daddy’!”

Lin Ying saw that Liu En was still unhappy, so she picked her up and said, "Let's go! Xiaoying will take you to the Wutong Hall to choose gifts!" Then she turned back to Dongfang Sui and Shu'er and said, "The Wutong Hall is ready.

Dinner and good wine, it's been a long time since our family got together to have a good meal."

The lights in the Wutong Hall were brightly lit, and a dazzling array of delicacies from the mountains and seas were placed on the dining table, all prepared by the Chu Palace imperial chef personally selected by Lin Ying.

Liu En was used to seeing the delicacies in the palace. He was not hungry at this time and was not interested in the food on the table. Instead, he asked Lin Ying: "Xiaoying, where is my gift?"

Lin Ying said: "Old rules, Xiao En can take whatever is in Xiaoying's room as he pleases."

Liu En scratched his head and looked at Shu'er: "Mom, what did I get last year and last year?"

Without waiting for Shu'er to answer, Lin Ying said with a smile: "It's not called 'last year', but 'the year before last'. The year before last, you couldn't even say it right, so you gave me a white jade pole hare that was all white.

Writing brush, I wanted to compete with your uncle. Last year, you insisted on me playing a piece of music for you, and you fell asleep while I was playing. You didn’t choose anything, so I sent the piano to you the next day.

I bought your Xinlan Temple, and I haven’t seen you play it until today. Now that you are in good spirits, hurry up and carefully turn my Wutong Temple upside down before you feel full and sleepy.”

Lin Ying, Shu'er, and Dongfang Xin sat down to eat, while Liu En quickly ran to Lin Ying's desk and started flipping through it at will.

Seeing that his daughter had no manners, Shu'er called her over and scolded her: "Didn't my mother teach you? Don't touch other people's things! What's more, His Highness's desk is full of neatly arranged memorials, which are related to our Chu country.

All the affairs are extremely important and extremely confidential, how can you flip through them at will?"

Liu En was puzzled: "What matter is so important?"

Dongfang Sui said: "In short, Xiao En, His Highness's writing desk is the country of our Chu State. If you mess with His Highness's writing desk, you are messing with the country of Chu. So, you better not touch His Highness's writing desk.

.”

Liu En lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head, his watery eyes looked at the King of Chu curiously and expectantly: "Xiaoying, since the country of Chu is also in your house, then give it to me, okay?

"

Lin Ying was stunned for a moment, then rolled her eyes, took off the black jade pendant with dragon pattern hanging from her waist, and held it to Liu En with both hands. Liu En took the jade pendant and rubbed it carefully with his small hands while listening to Lin Ying say: "Xiao En

, the country of Chu is in your hands."

Shu'er looked at the familiar jade pendant and felt that time was flying by.

When she was nine years old, she followed Yanxiao and Song Yun to Prince Sheng's Mansion in Yuling, Chu State, and it happened to be the young Lord's fifth birthday party. King Chu You died suddenly in Linjiang Zhaohuang Palace that night. Prince Sheng and Dongfang Yu, the guest at the palace at the time, immediately foresaw the banquet.

After seeing the collapse of the Chu Kingdom, he decided to send the princess and the young prince out of the Chu Kingdom. Before leaving, King Sheng gave his jade pendant to his only son.

Shu'er knew that this jade pendant was the most valuable object, or even the only object, that Lin Ying's father personally gave to him.

Dongfang Sui noticed Shu'er's surprise and couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, how can this jade pendant... be the kingdom of Chu?"

Lin Ying's tone was calm, as if what she said had nothing to do with her: "To talk about the origin of this jade pendant, we have to go back many years ago, when we were not even born yet.

I heard from the historian that before King Wu of the Song Dynasty raised his troops to destroy Wei State, King Wei Bei had already anticipated the ambition of King Wu of Song Dynasty, so he planned to marry the State of Qi in the south and make good relations with the State of Chu in the east, so that the Song State would be attacked from both sides.

Prince Jiang Ji of the Wei Kingdom and Xiao Yi, the princess of the Qi Kingdom, were engaged to be married. The two countries of Qi and Wei successfully reached a marriage alliance to jointly resist the Song army.

However, the widow's grandfather, King Chu You, was not as impulsive as King Qi Ai. The envoys from the Wei Kingdom entered Chu through the Song Dynasty with great difficulties and dangers, and brought the largest, most complete, and purest piece of diamond jade stored in the Lingxi Palace of the Wei Kingdom.

Dedicated to the extravagant King You of Chu, hoping that he would send troops to attack the Song Dynasty as soon as he was happy.

But King Chu You neither wanted to offend the powerful Song State on the other side of the Chu River for the sake of Qi and Wei, which were far to the west of Song State, nor did he want to reject the envoys of Wei State outright. Therefore, he decided to delay.

He deliberately made things difficult for the envoy of Weiguo, saying that he would make seven jade pendants from this piece of diamond and give them to his seven sons respectively at their birthday banquets. The envoy of Weiguo then returned to Weiguo and invited the most important person in Lingxi Palace.

The good jade craftsmen lived in Zhaohuang Palace for half a year, working day and night, to create seven exquisite jade pendants with dragon patterns. However, when King Chu You gave these seven jade pendants to his seven sons respectively,

At that time, two years had passed, Wei State had been destroyed, and King Wu of Song had begun to attack Qi State.

Chu State did not send troops to aid Qi Wei at all, but got the best jade from Wei State in vain. When I was living in Chen State, I heard the storyteller of Chen State tell me that the disasters caused by the seven kings of Chu were caused by these seven jade pendants that I got in vain.

To. The alchemist of Weiguo said, "The wronged souls attached to the utensils will cause curses on the utensils, and the curses will cause chaos." If we follow what the alchemists said, the wronged spirits of Weiguo are really powerful.

However, I have never believed in these theories about strange powers and chaos. Even if there are indeed evil spirits attached to these seven jade pendants, when the late king ordered the death of the six kings, the other six jade pendants were smashed into pieces and fell into the earth with the six kings, leaving only

Without this one person, how could there be any strange power to mess up Chu? Besides, Chu State and Wei State did not have any deep hatred, it was just a passing by "no merit, no reward". King Chu You died in the grave

, the seven kings of the Chu Kingdom also died, and this last diamond jade pendant should also be put to rest.

But since some people think that Wei's diamond jade can disrupt the state of Chu, then I gave this jade pendant to Xiao En. Giving her the "supernatural power" that can "disrupt Chu" is equivalent to giving her the power of Chu.

The country, let her play with it in the palm of her hand.

This is just one of the reasons.

Another reason is why I really want to give this jade pendant to Xiao En."

Dongfang Sui looked at Lin Ying deeply and couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. He only heard Lin Ying continue: "When my father gave this jade pendant to me, I had just turned five years old and was about to leave Chu State and live in Chen State to escape the war.

My father asked me to take this jade pendant and use it as a customs clearance document to return to Chu in the future. Later, I returned to the Chu Kingdom smoothly.

I gave the jade pendant to Xiao En, thinking that if one day Xiao En also leaves Chu, as long as she takes the jade pendant, the jade pendant will escort her back smoothly."
Chapter completed!