Strange Tale of Qingluan

In a blink of an eye, noon was approaching, and Yan Ying was entrusted by Li Xuan to patrol the city. Although it was called 'Tourist', she was looking for Su Zhongming, but after working for several hours, she found nothing, so she had to go back to the village.

At this time, Su Zhongming was hiding in the alley, but because he came out in a hurry, he only brought a few copper coins with him, and because he was hungry, he had already bought steamed buns and soy milk and ate them. , will starve to death here.In desperation, he had no choice but to hide Su Meier first, and venture back to get his luggage by himself.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the alley, by coincidence, the figure of Yan Ying riding a horse passed in front of his eyes, and he hurriedly called out in a low voice: "Yan Ying..."

Yan Ying is very intelligent, not only has keen eyesight, but also has very keen ears. Su Zhongming only called out, and Yan Ying heard it. She reined in her horse and turned around, and saw a head protruding from the entrance of the alley. It was Su Zhongming.

After finding the person, Yan Ying dismounted immediately, led the horse and walked over, and said, "My lord! I finally found my lord! Li Hou asked me to find you back!"

Su Zhongming said simply: "I'm not going back, I want to take Su Meier back to Wenguo! She can't be protected here, but Wenguo can!"

Yan Ying thought for a while, and replied: "That's fine! Li Hou wants to deal with her. To be honest, I feel very distressed."

Su Zhongming didn't want to waste time, so he went straight in and ordered: "Go back first, fetch my luggage, and by the way, fetch my godmother and some money, don't let others know!"

Yan Ying asked: "My lord! If you meet Ah Qing, do you want to keep it a secret?"

Su Zhongming thought that she and Yi Yeqing were both his subordinates and his best friends, and the two of them would not betray him, so he said without hesitation: "If you meet him, tell him to fight this battle well. Go back to Wen Country, let's meet in Wen Country!"

Yan Ying nodded, wrote down her instructions, then handed over the horse to Su Zhongming, and returned to the village on foot.

At the moment of Shen Shi, Yan Ying turned back and did not see Su Zhongming at the entrance of the alley, so she walked into the alley, only to see a horse, a man and a baby girl when she went deep, she quickly stepped forward and called out: "My lord .”

Su Zhongming turned around and was overjoyed to see Yan Ying returning with a big bag. After taking the bag, he was still cautious and asked, "Didn't Li Xuan find out?"

Yan Ying confirmed: "Don't worry, my lord. When Yan Ying packed the bags for my lord, Li Hou had already gone to do military affairs."

Su Zhongming hurriedly asked again: "But you saw Ah Qing?"

Yan Ying shook her head.

Su Zhongming said: "I have no other orders. After the battle, you and Ah Qing should remember to go back to Wen Country." After saying that, he sent Su Meier to the horse's back, and he also carried the burden on his back. took the reins.

Yan Ying suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly reminded: "Master! On the way back to Wen Country, be careful of the people in Mufeng Club!"

Su Zhongming replied: "With my senior sister covering me, nothing will happen." Finally said 'Take care', and set off on the road.

After leaving Tongchuan, he rode his horse all the way north, planning to go to Guangling country to meet Shangyuan Hexiang first, and then return to Wen country.Traveling all the way, wearing stars and moons, he brought Su Meier to Waterwheel City.

At dusk, he stayed at the Fulai Inn, but unfortunately, he encountered an accident.

When he first came to this inn, he met a beautiful girl. At first, he didn't pay any attention to it, but in front of the counter, he happened to find the innkeeper secretly looking at the girl's appearance, knowing that the girl might be in danger. Knowing that he might have entered a black shop by mistake, he still forgot his name and stayed at this inn.

The girl happened to live next door to him, and when it was late at night, it was quiet outside, so Su Zhongming quietly left the guest room while Meier was asleep, quietly went to the next door, and knocked on the door.

After a while, the door opened, and the girl stood on the threshold. Seeing that it was a stranger, she asked in confusion, "Who are you? What do you want to do here so late?"

Su Zhongming hastily pushed her into the room and quickly closed the door.

The girl panicked, took a few steps back, and pointed at Su Zhongming: "You! You! Don't come here! Otherwise, I'll call someone!"

Su Zhongming raised his index finger in front of his lips, and persuaded: "Shh! Don't make noise, and don't panic. I don't mean any harm. I just want to come here, girl, you are single. I have something to tell you."

Having said that, the girl was still cautious and asked, "You, what do you want to say?"

Su Zhongming said bluntly: "We may have entered a black shop, and we specially targeted a beautiful girl like you! If the girl believes in me, I can save the girl's life."

The girl was startled and flustered, and asked, "Is this true?"

Su Zhongming opened his lips to speak, but he heard the sound of thin footsteps coming from the corridor. He knew the danger was coming, so he persuaded: "Quick! Hide until you collapse!"

The girl also heard the strange sound of footsteps, so she simply listened to him first, and hurriedly got into the cave.

Su Zhongming also hastily blew out the lights, lay down on the couch, pulled the quilt up, covered his face, and pretended to be sound asleep.

The closed door was suddenly pried open lightly, and two furtive figures came in and slipped to the front of the collapse.Seeing that it was two pairs of men's feet, the fallen woman couldn't help being afraid, and gently covered her mouth and nose, not daring to make a sound.

The voices of the two men then sounded in the room, the voices were slightly lower.

"That's the girl. I saw her before at sunset, and she is truly stunning!"

"The shopkeeper has good eyesight! This girl will definitely sell for a lot of money!"

The two were delighted, and slowly and gently lifted the quilt, but when the quilt was lifted, all four eyes were stunned, and Su Zhongming's white blade crossed the innkeeper's neck coldly.

The innkeeper was too frightened to move, and the waiter was also afraid to move because the innkeeper was held by the neck with a white knife.

The girl crawled out from the collapse, and when she saw the two, she couldn't help being angry: "It really is a black shop!"

Su Zhongming opened his lips: "You guys who open a shop and do business make a lot of money on weekdays, why do you still do this kind of business?"

The innkeeper replied: "I have no other choice! This is the order of the military master!"

Su Zhongming was slightly stunned: "You colluded with officials and businessmen?!" Then he became filled with righteous indignation and asked, "What are the officials asking you to kidnap beauties for? Tell me!"

In order to save his own life, the innkeeper had no choice but to confess: "I, I just heard... Wang Haoxie wants to choose beauties to enter the palace, but Wang is also a beauties from other countries, so we can only see one and catch one."

Su Zhongming understood, before returning to the white blade, he cut through the innkeeper's retreat as a lesson, and ordered the two of them to leave.

The waiter had no choice but to support the innkeeper, and left the guest room in a panic.

Su Zhongming turned his head and asked the girl, "What is the girl doing on this peninsula?"

The girl replied: "Come to visit relatives."

Su Zhongming persuaded: "Girl, let's go home early! This peninsula is already on fire, and it will soon reach the royal city."

The girl was taken aback: "It's like this! But I have to see my relatives!"

Su Zhongming suggested: "Girls should change into men's clothes, so that it will be easier to walk." After thinking about it, he kindly said, "If you don't mind, you can exchange clothes with me."

The girl agreed immediately, and took out some clothes from her own bag, handed them to Su Zhongming, and exchanged some men's robes from Su Zhongming.

Because this inn is a black shop, the girl didn't stay any longer, changed into Su Zhongming's clothes and left.Su Zhongming picked up the sleeping Su Meier and left the inn.

Waterwheel City is not too far from the royal city where Kou Xin lives. After Su Zhongming thought about it, he temporarily decided to change his plan and rushed to the royal city, planning to disguise himself as a woman and sneak into the royal palace to assassinate Kou Xin.

Li Xuan has already led the Shaole army to attack the Lechang people, but as the leader of the Lechang people, he still has time to order people to capture beautiful women from other countries. To Su Zhongming, this is really disgusting.

He sold the horse at the post station, put on a woman's attire, put on a veil, and led Mei'er, as a mother and daughter, to the back door of the palace. slave girl.

When the old eunuch saw that he was leading a baby girl, he felt that he was already married to someone else and could not be a concubine, so he wanted to refuse, but seeing that Meier was born beautiful, and felt that after a few years of nurturing in the palace, he could give it to Kou Xin, so he reluctantly refused. He agreed, let the two of them enter the palace, and ordered some menial tasks, such as sweeping the floor in the harem every day, such as sending the dirty clothes of the women in the harem to the laundry room, such as washing tableware in the imperial dining room.

On the first day he entered the palace, people in the palace called him 'Aunt Su', but they didn't know that he was a man disguised as a woman.

Five days later, he was sweeping the floor on the long street, and happened to meet Kou Xin who came in a chariot.

Someone in the palace was not polite when they saw him, Kou Xin was dissatisfied immediately, stopped the chariot, and questioned: "You are so brave! You don't kneel when you see Gu!"

Su Zhongming deliberately lowered his voice, and replied: "The young one is a newcomer and doesn't understand the rules of the palace."

Kou Xin was angry at first, but when he took a look at him, he felt handsome, so he couldn't help feeling a little bit embarrassed, and said, "Since I'm new here, I'm very kind, so I won't argue with you for now, just take off your mask and get closer. Let Gu take a good look."

Su Zhongming replied: "The young one has been ugly since he was a child, so he covered his face with a scarf to cover up his ugliness. Now His Majesty asks the young one to take off the mask, I'm afraid it will frighten His Majesty, and the young one is very panicky."

Kou Xin didn't take it seriously, but was still eager to try, and ordered: "Take off your mask and let Gu take a look, Gu won't believe it, you are so ugly that you can scare Gu to death!"

Su Zhongming had no choice but to follow his plan, slowly took off the scarf covering his face, raised his head, and let Kou Xin see clearly.

Kou Xin took a closer look overjoyed, but saw half of his face below the tip of his nose was gray and black, he was so frightened that he almost fell off the chariot, helped the chariot, and said to himself: "Scared to death alone, scared to death I'm lonely..." Immediately, she raised eyebrows and glared, and blurted out, "You ugly woman! How dare you enter the palace with such an ugly appearance! Someone! Drag her down! Use torture!"

As soon as the words fell, a guard drew out a white blade and rushed to Su Zhongming, and threw the white blade horizontally in front of him.

Su Zhongming suddenly felt bad, and shouted: "Just now His Majesty asked the younger one to take off his mask, how can His Majesty take his anger on the younger one now?"

Kou Xin said angrily: "If you dare to speak too much, your head will be cut off!"

Sure enough, you are a fool...

Su Zhongming couldn't help sneering in his heart, but in front of him, he had no choice but to how to save himself, so he couldn't help but panic.

At this time, an old eunuch came and leaned over to Kou Xin's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this ugly woman brought her daughter into the palace. In five years, he will be able to be used by His Majesty."

Hearing the words, Kou Xin suddenly beamed with joy, and said lightly to Su Zhongming: "I heard that you brought your daughter into the palace, but for your daughter's sake, I will spare you for the time being." After saying that, he ordered the chariot to move on .

Although he met Kou Xin, it was not the time for him to do the assassination. Su Zhongming could only continue to endure, and after covering his face with a veil, he continued to walk along the long street with a broom to pick up the fallen leaves.

Fifteen days later, he was holding a basket of dirty clothes and leading Su Meier through the corridor. Su Meier was also holding a basket with piles of dirty clothes in the basket. The two were going to the palace outside the harem. Laundry room.

As soon as he passed through the air corridor, Su Zhongming happened to see six servants on the ground slowly approaching with the imperial chariot, but the person sitting on the imperial chariot was not Kou Xin. Su Zhongming guessed that it might be Kou Xin's new love.

The crimson oil-paper umbrella was stretched very high, covering the man's head, but as soon as the man left the imperial chariot, Su Zhongming only looked at the man's shoes and clothes, and knew that it was not a woman, but a boy .

This made Su Zhongming curious: Apart from loving beautiful women, the leader of the Lechang people would not let go of even good-looking boys?