The Demon Soul is Coming

() (The previous chapter "Soul Wear" should be chapter "358". I don't know how to read it when uploading it. I made a mistake. There is no way to change the chapter name of chapter v. Sorry.)

Liu Sang and Qingying Qiu Yuxiang went down from the top of the city and walked on the official road.

From time to time, soldiers will come and go in a hurry, obviously something happened.

A carriage stopped beside the two, and a person got out: "So the concubine is here?"

He is Ximen Wei Xu. ..

Ximen Wei Xu got out of the carriage and said: "Just now when I went to the Xiaoqing Pavilion, the concubine has already gone out, and I walked around for a while, intending to go home, I didn't expect to meet my concubine here, what a coincidence."

Liu Sang thought to himself, by chance, as the young master of Ximen, mobilizing some energy and finding someone out is an extremely simple matter.

Qingying Qiu Yuxiang said: "Just now I saw Princess Xia leave in a hurry, what happened?"

"It turns out that the two of you don't know yet," Ximen Wei Xu approached, speaking like a secret, "just now at the side door of the Dragon Palace, there was an assassin lurking and assassinated Princess Ningyun. Clearly. Duke Yu of Chu led the guards to encircle and suppress those assassins, and those assassins were sent by no one, they were all dead soldiers, and they all committed suicide by taking poison."

Liu Sang pretended to be surprised: "Hasn't the Dragon Palace already been occupied by the Chu Clan? How did the assassins get in?" ..

Ximen Wei Xu looked a little gloating: "The guard Luzhuang who led the princess to the side gate seems to be the inner response of those assassins, but Luzhuang also died in the battle, so it is not clear who bought him. But just think about it, Princess Ningyun mainly died in Youyi City, who is most beneficial, in fact, the mastermind is not so difficult to guess, but there is no evidence."

Qingying Qiu Yuxiang said: "The princess left in a hurry..."

Ximen Wei Xudao: "Chu Yugong personally explained to the princess that those assassins were sent by foreign enemies. The princess didn't believe it or not, but took advantage of others' inattention and robbed Yingzhao. Just ran away like this, see Princess Lai is still suspicious of the Chu Clan, but this is understandable, the assassins are in ambush at the gate of the Dragon Palace. As soon as she enters, the assassins swarm up, and the Chu Clan is really involved."

Liu Sang naturally knew.Those assassins really had nothing to do with the Chu Clan. At this juncture, the Chu Clan was unwilling to offend Xu Dong, but the lady would leave immediately after being assassinated. This was also the idea he gave her last night. Dragon Palace was assassinated.Rushing away in a hurry, the news will soon spread throughout Hezhou, and the Chu Clan failed to find out the mastermind behind it. The next step is no matter how Xu Dong deals with the Chu Clan.First of all, it has the upper hand in morality. It can be said that the Chu clan is unkind, Xu Dongcai followed the unrighteousness, and the Chu clan can only swallow their own suffering.

Of course, from another point of view, the falling out between the Chu Clan and Xu Dong is also something that Lord Yuyu would like to see. The departure of the lady made the assassins sent by Lord Yuyu fail to kill the lady. In terms of strategy, it indeed played the role that Young Yugong wanted.

However, there is no way around this. You can see how well the Chu Clan has been infiltrated by seeing how Duke Zhiyu can arrange for assassins to infiltrate Youyi City and launch an ambush at the gate of the inner city. Unstoppable, if Xu Dong is tied up with the Chu Clan, he will only sink with this big ship.

But the problem is that if he just sits idly by, once Duke Zhiyu conquers Nanyuan, Xu Dong will not end well. This can be said to be a relationship between lips and teeth.Because Nanyuan was facing the great enemy of Lord Zhiyu, he didn't dare to target Xu Dong for a while. If Lord Zhiyu swept Nanyuan, then Xu Dong would just send one or two soldiers to stop him. .

Originally two people were playing together, and there was one more person, which felt very awkward, but for Liu Sang, now was not the time to pick up girls, so he bid farewell to Qingying Qiu Yuxiang, and let Ximen Wei Xu accompany her for a stroll, Qingying Qiu Yuxiang was also helpless.

***

Liu Sang returned to Chu's house, and saw Chu Tiannan come back at noon. As soon as Chu Tiannan came back, he went into the study alone. Liu Sang knew that he was probably discussing the details of assigning those girls to various brothels with Cao An's gang. Yes, even though this person helped the Chu Clan to do some unknown and nasty things, he still had some conscience in his heart.

As for the Chu family, they are typical who want to be a whore and set up a chastity archway. On the surface, they maintain the demeanor of a family, but secretly condone the Cao An gang to do evil.

The banquet in the afternoon originally had Xia Yingchen as the main guest, and Xia Yingchen had already left the city. Liu Sang thought that the banquet would also be cancelled, but no one came to inform him, but when it was almost time, Ximen Wei Xu went to the car. Come, invite him to go to Dragon Palace together.

Chu Jiaojiao saw that her fiancé was invited but had no role of her own, Kongzi was depressed, Liu Sang was too lazy to care about her, and Ximen Wei Xu didn't care about her either.

Liu Sang followed Ximen Wei Xu into the carriage, and the carriage drove to Dragon Palace. Liu Sang asked suspiciously, "Why does Ximen brother take care of my younger brother like this?"

Ximen Wei Xu forced a smile and said: "I was driving to the Xiaoqing Hall, but Brother Chu Jian arrived one step ahead. The concubine is not good at refusing, so I took Brother Chu's car and took the first step. Let's go to dinner together."

Only then did Liu Sang understand, and she thought that Qingying Qiu Yuxiang took good care of him.

He said: "Isn't Mrs. Wen Shao hosting a banquet this time? Young Master Chu, as her husband, drove to meet Qingying girl. Mrs. Wen Shao won't be jealous?"

Ximen Wei Xu had no expression on his face: "This is not the first time Chu Jian has done this kind of thing? How can the family flowers smell like wild flowers? Wen Lu... When the young wife of the Chu family was still a girl, she was also known as a talented woman in Youyi City. At that time, Chu Jian tried his best for her, but now that he is married, he spends all day attracting bees and butterflies, often not even returning home, what can Wen Lu do to him? It's just that the Wen family is also a family, Chu Jian It's messed up, but I dare not abandon it, those low-ranking girls from poor families, are there still few girls who have been harmed by him?"

Seeing his aggrieved look, Liu Sang guessed that before Wen Lu came out of the boudoir, Ximen Wei Xu might also be one of her suitors.

The carriage drove to the right side door of the Dragon Palace. Liu Sang looked and saw that the Dragon Palace was built like a fortress. The Youyi City was already as high as the city and the pool was deep. As a city within the city, the walls of the Dragon Palace were actually higher than the outer city. Go out three minutes, enter through the side door, first pass through the arched passage, and there are tall arrow towers inside. These arrow towers echo each other, and each top is fixed to require ten people to operate.A city defense ballista that can fire fifty strong arrows at a time.

Liu Sang thought in his heart: "This dragon palace has only three gates on one side and two sides, so it is difficult to break into it. If we use heroic tactics to attack from a high place, it is difficult to deal with the city walls and the ballistas on these arrow towers alone. If you use siege equipment, this is the inner city. It is difficult to bring in large siege equipment, and there is not a good enough place to assemble the siege. Even if the strategy I told my lady last night is step-by-step, it will be successful, but just now Occupying Youyi City, I am afraid that I will face the army of Lord Zhiyu soon. There is not enough time to sweep the inner city. The Chu Clan only needs to retreat to the Dragon Palace, and there must be enough reserves in the Dragon Palace to last for several months. At that time, Xu Dongjun will be troubled externally and internally, and then, I am afraid that he will be destroyed together with the Chu Clan."

A servant led them into Hengzhi Garden.Although it is the end of winter, there is a fragrance of wintersweet in Hengzhi Garden, which is poetic and picturesque. The rockery and the corridor are ingeniously divided, and there is a circular pattern.

Wen Lu, as the host, came out to greet her with courtesy.Liu Sang saw Qingying Qiu Yuxiang at the other end, but she was being entertained by Chu Jian, surrounded by many young men and boys, and there were also some young girls in small groups, tasting wintersweet and talking funny things.Although they are all ladies, but in this era, Confucianism is not prominent, ethics is not prosperous, there are not many restraints on women, and they are not too particular. If it was in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of his last life, these girls would only be in front of people. It is a shame to show your face.

In a large courtyard, there are wine and vegetables for young masters and young masters to drink and chat there, and there are things for young ladies to play in the corner, such as throwing pots, horse hangings, chess pianos, and flower pots.

Liu Sang secretly observed that this is a place to play, and there are no arrow towers nearby, but even if there are foreign enemies, they can't break through those arrow towers to get here, and there is a tall pavilion slightly higher than those arrow towers. , when the dragon palace was first built, it was used as a palace for the king. The tall building should be the star-gazing tower that almost every palace has. It was originally used for witchcraft sacrifices and stargazing, and later it was used as a garden building. A part is preserved.

Seeing him, Qingying Qiu Yuxiang nodded in greeting, and wanted to come, but was pestered by Chu Jian and the young masters.

Liu Sang looked quietly and saw that she was in the crowd, but she looked even more lonely and lonely, as if there was an invisible line that naturally separated her from other people, as if she was really not from this world People, just because of some special reasons, fell into this world that does not belong to her.

But when she was with her, this feeling was not so obvious. Why?Is it because both of them like to paint, and to a certain extent, I can be regarded as her confidant, or is it because I am also like her, and I am not from this world?

Thinking of what she said in the morning about her seeming to have memories of her previous life, Liu Sang couldn't figure out whether it was true or her unilateral imagination. When you find yourself, it is normal to have various assumptions.

But if you really think about it this way, another problem will inevitably arise, that is, if her "memory of previous life" is just a fantasy, how can I guarantee that my previous life is really a certain person? The middle school students in the world really died in a car accident and traveled here?

Do the so-called cars, schools, airplanes, etc. really exist, and not something I imagined?

Thinking of this, Liu Sang suddenly realized that it was not a bad thing to meet the little prince at that time. Although the little prince finally suffered the consequences and died, at least through the little prince, Liu Sang knew many things, which were not what he imagined. , but Qingying Qiu Yuxiang is completely confused about whether those things are just her dreams or whether they are real, so she will inevitably be confused, lost, and eager to find a confidant who can understand her and support her heart .

After figuring this out, Liu Sang began to realize that if her "memories of previous lives" were not just her imagination, then she might be her only bosom friend in this world, although they obviously came from different places. a world.

"It's very dark, very dark, there is a long river, the water in the river is very red, very red, there is no north, south, south, east, west, that river is the beginning of the world and the end of the world, it is also very cold, so cold It's like being continuously burned by fire..."

What kind of world is that?Living in such a world always feels pitiful.

Although I want to find an opportunity to talk with Qingying Qiu Yuxiang for a while, but here, there is obviously no such opportunity.Qingying Qiu Yuxiang was originally a beauty who was easy to attract bees and butterflies.But it's not like his wife, who can unceremoniously pull down her face and not give anyone face.So much so that she was called "Ice Beauty", Qingying Qiu Yuxiang felt like a lost deer, and she didn't know what she was doing.

This banquet is a poetry banquet in name, so it is inevitable to talk about poetry and painting.Liu Sang didn't want people to pay too much attention to him. His main purpose of going to the banquet was to have a look in this dragon city.If Xu Dong wants to develop, he must pass the Nanyuan barrier. Youyi City is the military, political, and cultural center of Nanyuan, and the Dragon Palace is the most important thing in Youyi City. It is only beneficial to come in and experience it for yourself. Call attention to him.But it is not a good thing.

Fortunately, he didn't have any acquaintances in the first place, and if he deliberately pretended to be a nerd who was not good at speaking, it was natural that others would not take him to heart.

But Liu Sang accidentally discovered that it became a shadow.Unexpectedly, he was not the only one, there was another one, Wen Lu, the nominal host of this poetry feast.

Although she is the hostess, the most eye-catching woman at the banquet is undoubtedly Qingying Qiu Yuxiang, while the man is Chu Jian.But this is also a normal thing. Chu Jian is the eldest young master of the Chu Clan, the banished grandson of Chu Yugong, and the future heir of the Chu Clan. It is inevitable that many people will deliberately curry favor with him, and there are also many men around Qingying Qiu Yuxiang who offer their favors. Even Chu Jian accompanied her all the time.

On the other hand, Wen Lu, because she was already married, and she was married to Chu Jian, others would not dare to casually come over to show her hospitality, and she didn't seem to like talkative people, and even her husband was inadvertently left out in the cold For a moment, she also became like a dispensable shadow, unnoticed.

Although both of them are shadows, they are quite sympathetic, but as one of the shadows, Liu Sang is naturally unwilling to provoke the other shadow. After all, she is the young nainai of the Chu family. It will become noticeable, but this is not what he wants.However, Wen Lu probably also found that he was ignored, out of the hospitality of the hostess, or because she was really bored, she walked slowly with a smile.

Before Wen Lu walked in front of him, a figure flashed in front of her, bowed his hands, and said with a flattering smile, "Young nainai."

Wen Lu was taken aback for a moment, and said in a low voice, "So it's Mr. Kui."

Liu Sang saw this young man, although he was thick-backed, but his appearance was unremarkable, from the side, there was a scar on his face.This person is obviously different from those nobles of the family in the garden, and Wen Lu obviously doesn't like this person much, and even has a bit of disgust.

The young man surnamed Kui held a box and said fawningly, "This is the pearl orchid qiongzhi scented tea that the villain asked someone to bring from Chuzhou a few days ago, and it is specially dedicated to young nainai."

Wen Lu forced a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Kui." He ordered a maid to accept the scented tea.

The young man arched his hands and said goodbye with a smile. Although his head was lowered, his eyes were fixed on Wen Lu's waist and lower abdomen.Although he acted respectfully, Wen Lu clearly noticed his strange gaze, and felt a chill.

Liu Sang quietly looked over and saw that the young man was going to Chu Jian, and soon he hooked up with Chu Jian, talking and laughing, trying to please him.At this time, Wen Lu also came to him, and he seemed to ask unintentionally: "Young Madam, who is..."

Wen Lu forced a smile and said, "That's Mr. Can Youkui, the leader of the Young Gang of the Cao An Gang."

Liu Sang suddenly realized that the Chu faction was originally the backstage of Cao An's gang, and naturally wanted to win over Chu Jian, the young master who had the right to inherit.However, this Kui Canyou obviously has bad intentions, and it can even be said that he has malicious intentions, but Chu Jian has been pampered since he was a child, and he is used to being courted by others, so he naturally feels that it is only natural for others to curry favor with him.

***

A banquet was held in the garden, and everyone formed a circle, carrying out drinking orders. Chu Jian continued to show his hospitality to Qingying Qiu Yuxiang, but Qingying Qiu Yuxiang just chatted and dealt with it.

Some people in the meeting talked about the current situation and worried that there would be war in Nanyuan.Chu Jian said with a smile: "There is nothing to be afraid of. I have many soldiers in Nanyuan and the city is strong. What kind of people have the courage to attack?"

Kui Canyou said: "I heard that Princess Ningyun was assassinated in the city this morning, so she left in a hurry..."

Chu Jian sneered and said, "She doesn't know good and evil. If we Chu Clan really want to deal with her, can she escape? I told my father a long time ago that it only takes ten and a half months to send troops to wipe out places like Xu Dong. There is nothing to win over, it's just that my sister takes Xu Dong seriously, worrying that in case of war, they will play tricks from behind, not to mention who dares to invade Nanyuan, even if there is, relying on Xu Dong What can those soldiers and horses do?"

Liu Sang looked around and saw that everyone was pointing fingers at the current situation, but most of them agreed with Chu Jian's point of view. He always felt that even if there was chaos everywhere, the war would not happen to them. Only a few people looked worried, but even Dissenting opinions are quickly overwhelmed.

Liu Sang shook his head secretly. These people are almost considered "keyboard politicians" on some forums in his last life. However, these people do not know that the war is imminent.

Looking quietly, Wen Lu, like those few people, also looked worried and restless.

... (To be continued.)