Chapter 57 Qingmei
The Zheng family also stepped forward: "Master Li, the prince of Li forcibly seized the beautiful concubine of the Zheng family and disturbed my old master's funeral. You must give an explanation for what happened today!"
Jin Sui said coldly: "What? Your Zheng family is killing innocent people, are you going to sit back and watch?"
"This woman is from your Zheng family and is also a citizen of Da Xia. As long as she is a citizen of Da Xia, I have the power to control her!"
The Zheng family member angrily said, "You! You are so unreasonable and rude!"
Jin Sui shouted loudly: "What a polite Zheng family, they actually followed the example of the previous dynasty and buried people alive!
It seems to me that you want to overthrow Xia Gang and rebel, right?"
Li Heng hurried forward to dissuade him, but Jin Sui pointed at Li Heng and cursed:
"You are such a good fellow, Li Zhou Mu! You are disrespectful to me and have withheld military pay, but I can forgive you."
"But you allowed the Zheng family to kill people. Are you colluding with the Zheng family to overthrow the government?"
This was a serious accusation. If even a word of it reached the court, Li Heng would never expect to be promoted in his lifetime.
Li Heng was not stupid. He knew that arguing with King Li in public was a mistake. No matter how he proved himself, as long as something happened to King Li, he would be an accomplice.
The most important thing right now is to let King Li leave safely, and then he will mediate the conflict between King Li and the Zheng family. Fortunately, the head of the Yan family sent someone to pass the message and let King Li go.
Therefore, Li Heng did not return to Jinsui, but instead said to the Zheng family: "I will investigate the matter between you and the King of Li and give you justice."
"If the Zheng family dares to stop and kill the King of Li's men in public, it will be a serious crime. Have you thought about it?"
Jin Sui winked at Han Xing, and while the Zheng family was distracted, she said loudly: "You have time to stop me here, but you don't go to save your Peng Peng."
"Do you really want Peng Peng to be buried with Old Master Zheng, and you to be the head of this family?"
She didn't even know who the Zheng family member in front of her was. She just wanted to sow discord. It was no more interesting to have the enemy fight among themselves than to do it herself.
The Zheng family member was almost so angry that he lost his mind, but he insisted: "You can release the King of Li, but leave Chen Yun behind!"
Jin Sui snorted coldly, "Not only will I take Chen Yun away, but if I find out that you dare to bury someone alive again, I will make sure that the entire Zheng family will die without a burial place!"
"In the past, your Zheng family committed evil in Yan territory, but the imperial court did nothing about it."
"But now it is me who rules over Yan! Anyone who dares to harm my people of Great Xia should consult my sword first!"
After saying this, he waved his hand, and the Black Feather Army soldiers who had been prepared all rushed away.
The Zheng family was hesitating between chasing the enemy or saving Zheng Pengpeng. Li Heng hurriedly advised:
"The Li King is in the border town, he can't run away."
"It is important to save people first. I promise to bring Chen Yun back to the Zheng family."
The Zheng family member shouted, "I want the King of Li to kowtow and apologize in front of the Zheng family's ancestral mausoleum!"
Li Heng did not respond. The Yan nobles were indeed too arrogant and conceited. No matter how poor the King of Li was, he was still a prince.
Asking the prince to kowtow at your ancestral tomb, what's the difference between this and rebellion? After breaking out of the Zheng family's encirclement and making sure they didn't catch up, Jin Sui led the Black Feather Camp and traveled overnight, returning to the border town as quickly as possible.
Wei Zhubo actually led his men to guard outside the city. When he saw the team, he hurriedly ordered people to start cooking.
Almost crying, she helped Jin Sui off the horse. When she saw Cheng Yu, she was both angry and happy:
"You drunkard, is this because of drinking? What if you want to implicate the prince?"
When he saw Chen Yunniang, he swallowed his complaints and looked at everyone in confusion.
Jin Sui smiled and said, "I robbed her. When I enter the city, I have to rob a beauty!"
Wei Zhubo was so frightened that his face turned pale and he almost fell to the ground: "Your Highness, you can't do such a thing! Whose girl is this? Send her back to her right away."
Han Xing hurriedly helped him up: "Your Majesty, are you kidding? Is our prince the kind of person who would forcibly seize a commoner girl?"
After entering the camp, Jin Sui first arranged for the soldiers who had stayed behind to guard the city, and then he would work in three shifts to guard the city to prevent revenge from the Zheng family.
Jin Sui asked Wei Zhubo to start work at dawn and build a watchtower first.
I just found it funny. I didn't expect that the first watchtower I built when I came to the border town was not for the northern border, but to guard against the nobles inside the border.
It's really a case of internal and external troubles.
She now hoped that Gu Changxiao would come quickly and return the title of King Li to him.
At the same time, I hope he can come later, giving me more time to complete the infrastructure of the border town.
Otherwise, when they come, there won’t be much else but enemies, which is so embarrassing.
After everyone drank hot tea and the wounded soldiers had their wounds bandaged, Cheng Yu told everyone about his old story with Chen Yunniang.
It's a very clichéd story, the two are childhood sweethearts.
Off topic, when Jinsui heard the term "childhood sweethearts", she looked at Chen Yunniang, who was at most 27 or 28, and then at Cheng Yu, who was in his 40s. How could this be considered childhood sweethearts? She couldn't help but ask, "How could you two play together when you were young, when your age gap is so big?"
Even though he had just escaped death and had experienced a lot of anxiety, Cheng Yu was still choked by these words.
"Your Highness, how senior do you think I am?"
Jin Sui said honestly: "It should be the age of forty."
Cheng Yu touched his face weakly. Do I look that old?
Chen Yunniang, who had been sitting quietly beside him, said softly, "Brother Cheng is three years older than me. He is thirty-one this year."
Not only Jin Sui didn't believe it, all the soldiers in the Black Feather Camp looked incredulous.
Everyone came to the conclusion that drinking too much will make you age faster.
Wei Zhubo was furious. Is the focus now on discussing Cheng Jiugui's age? The two knew each other since childhood, and their families were old friends. When Chen Yunniang reached the age of 15, she was betrothed to Cheng Yu.
After the engagement, Cheng Yu went to Chang'an to study, preparing to pass the imperial examinations before getting married.
Unexpectedly, in the second year after he arrived in Chang'an, something happened to the Chen family. The men were exiled and the women were sold to music troupes.
The Cheng family wanted to rescue Chen Yunniang, but Chen Yunniang was noticed by a noble family because of her beauty. In order to please the noble family, the Chen family members forcibly sent Chen Yunniang to the noble family's ship.
When Cheng Yu rushed back to his hometown, Chen Yunniang had long disappeared.
While reading for reference, Cheng Yu also inquired about Yunniang's whereabouts. It was not until six years ago that he got the exact news that Yunniang was sold to Yanzhou.
He could have been an official in Chang'an, but in order to save Yunniang, he requested to be an official in Yan.
At this time, Yunniang was taken in as the seventeenth concubine by Old Master Zheng, who was nearly eighty years old.
Cheng Yu tried every possible way for three years, but not only did he fail to rescue Yunniang, he also offended the Zheng family, was demoted again and again, and finally became the chief clerk of the border town.
Even so, he didn't want to leave. As long as he was in Yan, he would have a chance to rescue Yunniang one day.
But when he heard that Old Master Zheng had passed away and that the Zheng family wanted Yunniang to be buried with him, how could he bear this? In order not to implicate King Li, he left the letter of resignation and went to the Zheng family with a sword to rescue Yunniang.
After hearing the two people's past, a group of men in the military camp all burst into tears.
Who would have thought that Cheng Zhubo, who loved drinking and reciting poetry and was both civil and military, actually had such a heavy past.
No wonder he always looked towards the direction of Yanzhou City every time he drank.
No wonder he loves to sing the Nine Songs. The Mountain Ghost, Madam Xiang, and even the border soldiers can sing it.
It was the first time that Hei Hu let out a sobbing cry, which was both unpleasant and scary.
(End of this chapter)
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