Yu Youwei was happily riding the horse and was addicted to it. No matter how Hsu Fengnian threatened and enticed her with words, she was unwilling to get off the horse and get on the carriage. Hsu Fengnian saw that her horsemanship was ordinary, and her slender jade-like hands were already red from holding the reins, so he could not help but feel a little annoyed. Only a person like him who had traveled the Jianghu would know that although those heroines with beautiful faces were beautiful, they could not bear to be looked at carefully. After riding for a long time, their buttocks were definitely not smooth and round. After holding swords and sabers for a long time, the calluses on their hands were even more unbearable to look at. Could it be that Yu Youwei was going to follow in his footsteps?
Hsu Fengnian snorted coldly, put two fingers between his lips, and blew a sharp whistle. The blue and white luan that Yu Youwei had painstakingly trained broke through the dark clouds and directly pierced the white cat in Yu Youwei's arms, Wu Meiniang. The big white cat, which had been pampered and was no more courageous than a mouse, had its snow-white fur standing up. It let out a miserable shriek. Yu Youwei was so scared that her face turned pale. Since the day she picked up this white cat and named it Wu Meiniang, it had been her only family member. This six-year phoenix, the most handsome bird in Liaodong, only swooped back and forth, not harming the white cat. However, Wu Meiniang was scared out of her wits. Even Yu Youwei looked at Hsu Fengnian with an exceptionally sorrowful expression. Hsu Fengnian, who was talking cheerfully with the old Taoist priest Wei Shuyang, pretended not to see anything. Yu Youwei had no choice but to get off the horse bitterly and get into the carriage to face the overly casual old man wearing a sheepskin coat.
Shu Xiu, who had originally wanted to use her beauty to entice His Royal Highness to surprise him, felt a chill in her heart when she saw this scene. She originally thought that the maidservant in the carriage had spiritual energy, but she was still young, and the taste of a green peach could not compare to that of a ripe peach. As for the maidservant driving the carriage, her appearance was not bad, and her figure could be considered graceful, but her temperament was too cold. With one glance, one could tell that she was a woman who did not know how to warm a bed. In the end, only the maidservant holding the white cat was the most threatening. Her two buttocks were full of charm when she got on and off the horse. Even Shu Xiu, who was also a woman, felt tempted when she looked at this scene. His Royal Highness was a veteran in the field of flowers, so why did he bring this lady who raised a cat along on this journey? Wasn't it to quench his thirst? 'Since you like this, why can't I go up and make up the numbers?' One dragon and two phoenixes, a pair of swallows. But why did His Royal Highness not seem to dote on her? It was rumored that His Royal Highness was willing to do all kinds of absurd things for the sake of those Beiliang courtesans. Fortunately, the Great Pillar Country was a big enterprise, and the local rich and powerful families could not afford such extravagance.
For a moment, Shu Xiu was somewhat dispirited. Her most powerful skill was not her internal energy or assassination, but her disguise technique. As long as she was given a portrait, a complete set of disguise equipment, she could transform into that person in half a day, almost passing off the fake as the real one. Just imagine, if he had Shu Xiu, wasn't it the same as having the face of all the beauties in the world? Not to mention how much she resembled the face, 80 to 90 percent of the appearance was absolutely at her fingertips. The problem was that Shu Xiu was not familiar with His Royal Highness. She could not understand his temperament and taste, so how could she know who the beauty in his heart was? Even if she had an accurate portrait, if she were to add feet to a snake, Shu Xiu's courage would shatter when she thought of the Great Pillar Country that was said to have hundreds of thousands of resentful ghosts on his back.
If there was no Great Pillar Country that covered the sky with one hand, life would be easy.
This disrespectful thought only flashed through Shu Xiu's mind, and she wanted to slap herself in the face.
After entering Yongzhou, Hsu Fengnian was not the son of This Old Man of the Astronomical Department. He could accurately predict the weather, and this storm came earlier than he expected. Thus, he did not take the official road, but took a shortcut to the predetermined resting place.
His Royal Highness changed the itinerary on the spur of the moment, causing a group of people who were full of enthusiasm to suffer.
To the north of Yongzhou, Yingliang County's gates were not only wide open. A group of officials, ranging from rank eight to rank six, were all 30 li out of the city, patiently waiting for His Royal Highness's arrival in a pavilion. The civil officials were led by Zheng Hanhai. He was a fat old man in his sixties. As the Assistant Secretary of Yongzhou, he was in charge of half of the province's financial records. He had fought for this position for many years, but he was always unlucky. The Yongzhou Assistant Secretary had changed quite a few times, but Zheng Hanhai's butt had taken root in the position. As an old civil official with a Jinshi background, he was unfortunately on leave in his hometown, Yingliang County, and was given such a difficult task. He could only drag his old and sickly body out.
The military official Deputy Commandant of the Eastern Forbidden City, Tang Yinshan, was the leader. His rank was 300 meters, and he was not outstanding. What made people not dare to underestimate him was that Deputy Commandant Tang Yinshan could command 200 soldiers. In the recent years of the dynasty, no matter how strong the civil officials were, the scholars of the four halls all seemed to become civil officials with a Jinshi background overnight. They gathered in the four halls, and their power suppressed others. However, this was a matter of the capital. Not to mention Beiliang, where it was rumored that one could hear the sound of iron hooves in one's sleep, in Yongzhou, the military officials were still a head above the civil officials. In his early years, Tang Yinshan's family was in decline; he could not compare with the scholars who came from the Yongzhou's rich and powerful clans. He could not study the classics, so he gave up his brush and joined the army. He was able to accumulate a considerable amount of merit at the end of the Spring and Autumn War. He was able to obtain an official position with an ordinary salary, but he was able to hold military power in his hands. It was enough.
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