There are many singing and dancing houses in Chen Guofan's capital. In order to distinguish them from the prostitutes' houses, the names of the singing and dancing houses are all Yangchun Baixue, and the names of the prostitutes' houses are all colorful. Although the singing and dancing houses are also secretly engaged in high-priced prostitution business, they are all elegant on the surface. Only

A song and dance studio has neither an elegant name nor a prostitution business. Most people cannot afford to redeem the women in this song and dance studio. Liu Yao, the most beautiful woman in Fanjing, came from this song and dance studio called "Dance House".

The eldest son of Chen Guoguo's Mansion is called Li Chen. He is a plain-looking man who never shows off his appearance. Most people can't remember what he looks like after seeing him once. He often walks alone on the street wearing simple clothes.

Only the owner of the dance studio he often visited could recognize him at a glance and greeted him with a smile but with a slight complaint, he came over and said: "Long time no see, Mr. Li! Since Liu Yao married to the Song Dynasty, you have stopped coming to see me, an old woman."

!" Then he called to the girl in the dance studio: "Xi'er, make tea quickly and prepare some fruits, Mr. Li is here."

Li Chen glanced at Fanjing's No. 1 Song and Dance Studio, which was declining due to the departure of Fanjing's most beautiful woman, and comforted: "Aunt Su can train a Queen of the Chen Kingdom and a No. 1 dancer in the Chen Kingdom, and she can also train her in the future."

Cultivate more beauties famous in Kyushu."

Su Rui, the owner of the dance studio, led Li Chen into the inner room while looking at the young man walking next to Mr. Chen Guoguo. Su Rui had lived in the dance studio for forty years and had seen all kinds of men, most of whom were arty.

, rich people who are greedy for beauty, and occasionally there are elegant young men like Li Chen who are noble but not showy. But she has never seen anyone like the young man walking next to Li Chen today.

The young man's appearance is unforgettable, his dark and calm eyes are calm but concealing deep hatred. His black hair is shawl, casually tied with a silver mulberry ribbon. He is wearing a wide robe from the Chu country with long sleeves and waist.

There was a long sword hanging between him, and he seemed to be a down-and-out man, but he could not hide his unruly and aristocratic aura. Aunt Su Rui felt that this young man had a great background, and couldn't help asking: "This young man seems to be from the Chu country. I wonder if this is his first time here."

I am Chen Guofanjing?"

The young man replied with a cold face: "I have been to Fanjing many times."

Li Chen said with a smile: "Aunt Su, this friend of mine has traveled around the world since he was a child. He may have visited more places than you, Aunt Su, have ever heard of."

Su Rui pretended to complain and said: "Young master, since you have been to Fanjing several times, why did I see you in the dance studio for the first time!"

Li Chen said: "Although he has never been to the dance studio, he is close friends with the four beauties we sent to the Song Dynasty. All the new songs of the Chen Dynasty that have been sung in recent days are all composed by this friend of mine."

"

The three of them walked to a private room. Su Rui was about to ask them if they wanted to have tea or listen to music. Li Chen suddenly turned cold and whispered: "Aunt Su, please close the door. I have something to tell you."

Su Rui closed the door, and the three of them were sitting upright.

Li Chen said: "Aunt Su, do you know that Liu Yao is a chess piece we sent to the Song Dynasty?"

Su Rui looked at Li Chen coldly and said, "Master Li, among the women who come out of our dance studio, which one is not a chess piece? Those with mediocre looks become chess pieces that cannot be used for much purpose, while those with outstanding beauty are chess pieces that can affect the rise and fall of the country."

Apart from the queen, Liu Yao is the most beautiful woman I, Su Rui, have ever seen. I had already expected that you would use her as a chess piece. And those three girls, are they also your chess pieces?"

Li Chen said: "Those three did not know anything about it. Only Liu Yao is a chess piece."

Su Rui sighed: "So, you are just using these three innocent girls to make up the numbers. You men always like to treat women as objects."

Li Chen smiled bitterly: "Liu Yao also begged me to let the three of them go. It was enough to send her alone to the Song Dynasty. But the Chen Kingdom was prosperous and wanted to have good relations with the Song Kingdom. Instead of sending the princess to get married, he only sent a dancing girl to the Song Kingdom.

I can't help but make people talk, so I will create four beauties from the Chen Kingdom and present them to the King of Song."

Su Rui asked: "But why Liu Yao? With all due respect, Mr. Li has known Liu Yao for many years and has always taken care of her. Don't you want to keep her by your side? If Liu Yao hadn't made good friends with you, I wouldn't have treated her."

She took special care of her and gave her the best girls in the dance studio, the best rouge and gouache, and the best silks and satins."

The young master of Chu State glanced at Li Chen, and Li Chen said: "I respect and pity Liu Yao, and have no personal feelings. When I met her, she disguised herself as a man and talked with me about the affairs between the Chen and Song Dynasties.

As a matter of national policy, I have always wanted to recruit her to serve the country in our Prime Minister's Mansion. Unexpectedly, she is not only a woman, but also a dancer in a dance studio. To be honest, it was not my idea to send her to the Song Dynasty, but hers.

. She told me this strategy when she was pretending to be a man. Later, she asked me to help her, using my reputation as the Prime Minister of Chen State, who has been in love with her for many years, to turn her into the number one dancer in Chen State, and then offer her to

Song State, assassinate the King of Song."

Su Rui took a breath of cold air and finally showed a surprised expression: "Master Li, are you saying that Liu Yao is offering advice and asking you to send her to the Song Dynasty to assassinate the King of Song?"

Li Chen said: "Exactly. I came here to tell Aunt Su that if Liu Yao's assassination is successful, the dance studio will be closed. In order to give an explanation to the Song Dynasty, we must arrest everyone in the dance studio, especially you, Aunt Su.

"

Su Rui said calmly: "In that case, I will just wait for Mr. Li's arrest warrant."

Li Chen said: "Aunt Su is worrying too much. Not only have you taken care of the current queen, but you have also taken care of Liu Yao for many years, both in public and private matters. I will not arrest you. I am here today just to let you know some of the ins and outs of Wu."

Chen Guo owes you the closure of the dance studio. In the past few days, you have been waiting for my news. As soon as there is news over there in the Song Dynasty, I will immediately send someone to escort you out of Chen Guo, and then we will raid the dance studios in Chen Guo.

Shop owner, from now on I have to make Aunt Su hide her name and live in a foreign land."

Su Rui said: "Thank you Mr. Li for saving my life. I only have one thing that I don't know. Why did Liu Yao take the initiative to invite the Song Dynasty to assassinate the King of Song? How can she, a dancer from the Chen Kingdom, have any deep hatred against the King of Song?"

Li Chen said: "She told me that she grew up with her brother since she was a child. Her brother was once a soldier of Wei State. Wei State was destroyed by Song State. Her brother died tragically on the battlefield. She has always wanted to avenge him."

Su Rui was dubious. Before she had time to think, she heard a few hasty knocks on the door, and someone whispered outside the door: "Is my young master inside?"

Li Chen stood up and opened the door. He saw that his personal guard was pale and seemed to have something important to report. The guard said: "Sir, it's not good. The king received the envoy who just returned from the Song Dynasty and became furious. The master asked you to go home quickly!"

"

Li Chen asked: "The person who came back from the Song Dynasty? Is it Zhang Ling who escorted Liu Yao and the others to the Song Dynasty? Did something happen to the Song Dynasty?"

The guard nodded and said: "Nothing happened in the Song Dynasty! Something happened in our house! Mr. Zhang said that Miss Liuyao openly assassinated the new King of Song Dynasty at the Jiuzhou State Banquet in the White Jade Palace of the Song Dynasty. The king said that the four beauties of the Chen Kingdom are our government's guarantor

It was sent to the Song State. If the Song State attacks Chen State in anger, the first person to be unlucky will be our Prime Minister's Office."

Li Chen was thinking about why Liu Yao openly committed an assassination at the state banquet. The Prince of Chu who had not spoken to him for a long time suddenly asked, "Has Miss Liu been arrested?"

The guard did not answer him, but said to Li Chen with a pale face: "Master Zhang said...Miss Liu is the princess of Qi, Xiao Yi. Everyone at the Jiuzhou state banquet heard it clearly. She is the subjugated princess who avenged Qi.

...The king said that our prime minister's office is involved with old people from the Qi State, which is an unknown disaster...Young master, please return to the government immediately!"

Li Chen looked at the guard in surprise: "You said Liu Yao is Princess Qi Guoyi?"

Young Master Chu grabbed the guard and asked sharply again: "Has she been caught?"

The guard said: "Listen... listen to Mr. Zhang, the new king of Song Dynasty is not the sick man or the puppet king at all. He captured the princess of Qi alive in public and detained her. Mr. Zhang said that the new king of Song Dynasty was calm and calm in trouble.

Xian, unfathomable, was assassinated in public, but he didn't get angry, and had the assassin and three other Chen women taken away. He continued to eat with the envoys from other countries, and even let Master Zhang go, as if nothing had happened.

Happened."

The prince of Chu put down his guard, saluted Li Chen, and said, "Farewell." Then he hurried away, mounted his horse, and galloped toward the Jade Capital of Song Dynasty in the southeast.

Li Chen looked at the back of Zhuge Escape riding away under the window, and sighed and said to Su Rui: "Aunt Su, my relationship with Liu Yao, even though we have known each other for many years, is not as good as the first time my friend saw her on the old city tower.

Eye."

****

The sound of horseshoes broke the tranquility in the dense forest on the border between Chen and Zhao. When the last ray of sunset in the woods was swallowed up by darkness, Zhuge Dunji dismounted and rested under an old tree with his eyes closed. He had been driving for two consecutive days, and he could enter tomorrow.

Zhao Guo changed horses, and it would take another six days before he could barely ride to the Jade Capital of Song State. He was calculating in his mind, and the feeling of being trapped was already sweeping through his body.

He had a dream. In the dream, he was wearing a jade crown and a brocade robe, riding a horse towards a woman in red. He ran towards her for a long time and finally came to her. He said: "Xiao Yi, Qi State and Wei

The country exchanged your birth dates and horoscopes, and you were destined to be my wife as soon as you were born."

The woman in red said coldly: "Sir, you have recognized the wrong person. I am a dancer from Chen State, not a princess from Qi State."

He hugged her and said, "Follow me, don't go to Song Dynasty."

The woman in red pushed him away and said firmly: "I'm going to the Yudu of Qi State, and I won't go with you." She turned to leave, but he hugged her from behind and said, "You're going to the Yudu."

To die, do you think it is so easy to assassinate the leader of a country?" She struggled to leave, and he said: "You have never even lived, how can you die?"

She stopped struggling and asked, "How can I live?"

He said: "Keep the promise between you and me."

She asked: "What's my promise to you?"

He said: "You and I have exchanged tokens, birthdays, betrothal gifts, and documents. You want to marry me."

On a cold morning, when he woke up from his dream, the woman in red in his dream was gone after all. He felt chilly and opened his eyes in confusion. Birds in the forest were chirping in twos and threes, but he was alone. He stretched his muscles.

, turned on his horse. Although he felt bitter for a moment when he woke up, he suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth. Xiao Yi, I really did not admit you wrong. As long as King Song has not executed you, I will definitely rescue you! This time, I will definitely

Don't let go.

****

It was already autumn when Zhuge Escape arrived in Jade City. After settling in the inn, he originally wanted to find a few noble relatives and friends he had made in Jade City a few years ago and ask them about the whereabouts of the princess of Qi who assassinated the King of Song. However, he did not expect that he had just

While eating a bowl of noodles in the restaurant, the people at the tables next to him were all talking about the princess of Qi who assassinated the king of Song. He just sat quietly and could hear more than he wanted to know. It turned out that the princess of the subjugated country had assassinated a puppet.

The story of the King of Song has spread throughout the teahouses and restaurants of the Song Dynasty.

A fat man at the table next to Zhuge Dunyi said: "It turns out that our new Song Dynasty king is hiding something secretly! My uncle is a palace guard. I often hear him describe the burlyness of King Wu and the heroic appearance of the prince, but I have never heard him mention it.

The appearance of the second young master of Song Dynasty..."

Another man beside him interrupted: "Brother, please lower your voice. Our king is already the king, so don't call him 'Second Young Master of the Song Dynasty' anymore! Be careful of others hearing you."

The fat man smiled and restrained his voice: "I didn't say anything bad about him! I was praising him. I think back then, his brother followed King Wu to conquer the country and conquered Qi south. His reputation as a prince certainly surpassed him.

The sick second young master. But who would have thought that he could capture the princess of Qi, a highly skilled martial artist, without any effort at a state banquet in Kyushu! King Wu has been assassinated so many times, but he has never captured an assassin alive with his bare hands!"

"How did you know that the Princess of Qi is so powerful in martial arts? Maybe the Princess of Qi is just a weak woman!"

The fat man described it with elation: "My uncle saw it with his own eyes! My uncle was a centurion who accompanied King Wu to conquer Juncheng of Qi State. He could defeat five men by himself. But guess what, he couldn't defeat that Qi State at all.

Princess! The Princess of Qi was as light as a swallow and very agile. She dodged her uncle's sword with a swipe. Before my uncle could see what was going on, she had already struck her on the back of the neck with her palm. Her target was not

Uncle, so I didn’t fight with my uncle and went straight to our king."

The slightly fat man took a sip of wine. The man next to him listened intently and asked, "What happens next?"
To be continued...