atypical prostitute

Chapter 106
July is the hottest time of the year.The poisonous sun at noon scorched the earth recklessly, the cattle and sheep lay panting in the pen, and the cicadas in the shade of the trees were so tired that they forgot to sing, but there were crowds of people on the Suzaku Avenue, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City The subjects rushed in with great enthusiasm, bursting into fanatical cheers from time to time.

Today is the day when the army squadron returns to the court.

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At the end of the second year of Tianyou, the Turkic people encountered a once-in-a-hundred-year blizzard and a shortage of food and grass. Therefore, they tore up the peace that had been maintained for nearly 40 years, and brazenly invaded the south, aiming at the Central Plains.

At the beginning of the war, the Turks took advantage of the right time and place to attack the city and seize the territory. The frontier defense was exhausted and everyone was in danger north of the Yellow River.Fortunately, the monarch was decisive and worshiped Pei Jingzong, who is known as the "cunning fox", as his commander. He gathered an army of one million, and after several bloodbaths, he finally resisted the horseshoes of the Turkic people going south, and mobilized the border people to rise up to resist, forcing the Turkic people who are good at surprise attacks Falling into the quagmire of the Central Plains, and showing defeat in the stalemate, retreated along the Great Wall.

But these are far from enough. For the shame of blood, the monarch personally planned, dispatched troops, gathered strength, and created a battle in the desert. There are countless cattle and sheep captured." The splendor.

Then there were more than a hundred battles, big and small, all of which were unfavorable. In the end, the Turks were driven more than a thousand miles north of the Great Wall, and the royal court sent envoys to the south to claim peace.

When the news came, the whole country was jubilant, and in the bustling tea shop and restaurant, the storyteller would tell more than a dozen times a day that General Xiaoye was chasing and killing King Zuo Xian under the moon.

Although everyone in Chang'an knew that during the Battle of the Desert, Ye Chuan didn't find out that King Zuo Xian had fled until dawn when he was encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Turkic army.

But with the sound of the gavel and the spittle of the storyteller, they felt as if they were in a desert thousands of miles away. Seeing the light of the lonely moon, a handsome young man in white clothes and a red horse, holding a scimitar with Yingxue in his hand, and carrying a large carving sword on his back. Bow, chasing Zuo Xianwang who fled in embarrassment.

What a prestige!What a hero!
When the story crossed the river, it was even exaggerated that General Xiaoye chased Shan Yu under the moon, and Shan Yu was so frightened that he knelt down in front of the horse and begged.

The people's support for the Ye family is increasing day by day, and the nobles who are as greedy as wolves are paying more and more attention to General Xiaoye.

In Ye Chuan's [-]th year, he has accomplished such great feats. His future is boundless, and it is inevitable that he will be ranked among the pillars of the country.

I don't know which princess's empress can have such a blessing, win the emperor's favor, and be his regular wife?

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Ye Chuan, who didn't know that he had become the favorite of the entire Chang'an City, was watching a song and dance in the Zhaoyang Palace bored at this moment.

Yesterday he was watching the yellow sand sunset at the border, chewing dried meat and eating steamed buns mixed with sand, but today he was tasting delicacies from mountains and seas in the Zhaoyang Palace and admiring the feather fans fluttering and singing. The sharp gap between the border and the capital made him restless.

For a long time, the capital city has given him the feeling that there is spookiness oozing with splendor.

He had never liked this city where men put on makeup and women showed their heads and poses. It wasn't until he met her in the Princess's Mansion in the fifth year of Chengshi that he finally began to feel that returning to Beijing was something worth looking forward to.

She is different from them all.

They are corrupt and depraved in the prosperity, only she stands in the mud, spotless.

He wants to take her away and leave this city that exudes a corrupt atmosphere.

Is she...willing to come with me?
Ye Chuan thought anxiously, and subconsciously glanced at his sister.

Empress Ye, who was sitting on the red gold chair, felt her younger brother's questioning gaze, smiled back, pushed her husband who was busy fighting wine with several princes, and said, "My brother seems to have something on his mind."

"What's on your mind? Why didn't I see it?"

Xiao Zhiqian made fun of him, coughed lightly, paused the singing and dancing, raised his glass and stood up, and said: "This time resisting the southern invasion, brother's contribution is comparable to that of Wei Huo. I wanted to give the third division as a gift, but it's a pity that the court officials are too pedantic and old-fashioned. He babbled on a lot of truths, which made me dizzy, so I can only comfort a third-rank general. Today's family banquet, brother, if you want anything, just ask, as long as it doesn't violate the rules of the ancestors, brother-in-law will agree !"

The emperor's brother-in-law promised boldly, and Ye Chuan was also agitated when he heard it.

He had been interested in Fu's wife for a long time, and after getting the promise from the emperor's brother-in-law, Jinkou, he was overjoyed, blushed, stood up, and said, "I don't have anything in particular, but... , the girl should marry..."

I read it thousands of times in my heart, but when I really said it, I felt that the three words Fu Lici weighed more than a thousand catties, and I hesitated for a long time, but I couldn't utter it.

Xiao Zhiqian looked at his hesitation, smiled at the Queen, and said, "Whose lady did my brother fall in love with? Tell her name, and my brother-in-law will give you a marriage!"

Ye Chuan's face became hotter and hotter.

He lowered his head, clenched his fists, finally mustered up the courage, and was about to speak——

Hearing a burst of hearty laughter, King Teng, who had always been on good terms with King Liang, stood up.

He is the ninth younger brother of today, just like a handsome young man, I saw him stroking his smooth chin pretending to be mature, pretending to be suddenly enlightened, and said: "As expected, General Ye is interested in Sister Kang Hui."

Ye Chuan was shocked, and was about to defend himself, but King Teng went straight to the seat, and said to the kings at the banquet: "Do you still remember the incident where Sister Kang Hui fell off a horse and broke her leg? I only found out afterwards that it was Sister Kang Hui I have admired General Xiaoye for a long time, but that day on the hunting ground, I saw General Xiaoye being intimate with Fu's wife, and I was instantly jealous, and then I did something wrong in a fit of rage."

Xiao Zhiqian looked at Ye Chuan after hearing the words, and asked, "Is that true?"

Ye Chuan's thoughts were all on the fourth wife of the Fu family during the hunt organized by the prince of Yan. Naturally, Ye Chuan had a deep memory of the fact that he shot cold arrows at Princess Kanghui and failed to break his legs. However, he has a loyal personality and does not want to shame King Liang in public. , So pretending to be ignorant, said: "I don't know many of these joints."

"That's probably true."

Xiao Zhiqian spoke with great interest, and Zhao Wang also echoed: "Sister Kang Hui is arrogant, and she is not brave enough to win the three armies, and young heroes will not marry. May I ask, in the whole world, apart from starlings who are so proud, which other young people are worthy of her?" On this title?"

"Congratulations, Uncle, there will be many happy events in Prince Liang's Mansion."

Xiao Zhiqian looked at King Liang with a smile, and King Liang also looked at Ye Chuan with a smile.

Ye Chuan suddenly felt a chill.

He grew up in the army, and he was ignorant of the faction and conspiracy between the courtiers and the kings, but the soldier's intuition made him instinctively loathe King Liang.

The gentle and heavy gaze fell on her body, sticky like spider silk.

Ye Chuan immediately left the table, strode forward, and said, "Master Kanghui is a golden branch and jade leaf. I'm a rough martial artist, so I'm afraid I'm not worthy."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience was startled, Ji Ren stepped on the wrong footsteps, the rhythm of the music was out of order, and the Zhaoyang Hall was so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling.

Liang Wang still had a smile on his face, but the smile began to twist.

Holding the bodhi seed tightly with his thumb, he sneered and said, "Does General Xiaoye believe the rumors in the market?"

Ye Chuan responded tit for tat: "Ye is just self-aware, knowing that Qi Da is not a coincidence, and should not be climbed."

"Self-knowledge?"

King Liang's eyes were smiling, but his smile became more and more sinister.

"People value self-knowledge. If you don't know the meaning when you get a compliment, I'm afraid--"

"The lintel of the Ye family was earned by the ancestors who shrouded their bodies in horse leather, but they never knew what it meant to be disrespectful."

Ye Chuan said neither humble nor overbearing.

Chang'an City is too humid, most of the people here exuded a sticky and greasy smell, if it wasn't for the fact that his sister was in the palace, if it wasn't for the figure that haunted him in Chang'an, he really didn't want to accompany these royal nobles anymore It's socializing.

Both times of persuasion failed, King Liang's tenderness finally turned into the stickiness of a cold-blooded animal, a sneer leaked between his teeth, and he said: "Since General Xiaoye feels that my mother Hui is not good enough for you, then... this king will also It's no longer difficult!"

After finishing speaking, he let out a long sigh, glanced at Xiao Zhiqian, and stopped talking.

Xiao Zhiqian had always been wary of King Liang, but he was his elder after all, so he had to give him some face in such an occasion, so he teased and said, "My younger brother has really good eyesight, even Princess Kanghui can't see it."

Liang Wang said softly: "It's because our Lady Hui didn't have this good fortune. I didn't live up to my expectations in the hunting ground and broke my leg. General Xiaoye is a young hero, and he is in the limelight. How could he marry a disfigured woman!"

Ye Chuan was kind-hearted, and he felt sorry for his love for his daughter, and he didn't want to argue with reason.

But his forbearance and silence fell into the eyes of those princes and grandsons who had good friends with King Liang and Princess Kanghui, but they really thought that Ye Chuan disliked Princess Kanghui for her incomplete body and did not want to marry him.

For a time, the crowd was excited.

King Teng was the first to jump up, and said angrily, "Sister Kang Hui is so pitiful! She has been closed for more than half a year since she lost her face, and every time there is a feast, she always excuses herself to be unwell."

The King of Yue also said in a strange way: "Fortunately, I didn't attend today. If I know that even my sweetheart despises her for being ugly, I'm afraid—"

Ye Wurong saw that their words were getting worse and worse, so he couldn't sit still anymore, so he stood up and smoothed things over and said, "My brother, the princess has deep affection for you, how can you despise her just because she fell off the horse?"

Ye Chuan was already choked with grievances by the indiscriminate questioning of the princes and grandchildren, but now that his own sister said the same thing about him, his face turned dark immediately, and he said, "Even if the princess is perfect, I will not marry! Because she Poor morals!"

"you!"

King Liang was furious, and wanted to wrestle Ye Chuan, and several princes who had good friends with him suddenly rose up, and Concubine Fu of Liang even ran forward nervously, begging the prince to calm down.

Only Princess Chang and Princess Yan sat on the table with a calm demeanor.

Although Xiao Zhiqian said that he and his wife were deeply affectionate, he was the king of a country. He was unavoidably annoyed when his younger brother spoke like this at the family banquet, so he suppressed his anger and said, "My younger brother is serious, why don't you plead guilty to King Liang."

However, Ye Chuan was not forgiving, and said: "Everyone in the capital knows the name of the princess' domineering. She fell off a horse and broke her leg, and stayed behind closed doors. Her brilliance was intended to kill the fourth lady with a cold arrow, which is why the servant of the Fu family suddenly shot the arrow to startle the horse. If the fourth lady of the Fu family hadn't ignored the previous suspicions and shot the startled horse, I am afraid that this matter could not be caused by a lame leg. It's over!"

"Is this true?"

Xiao Zhiqian turned his questioning eyes to Princess Liang Fu.

Yu Jing glanced at King Liang, then at Ye Chuan, then at Princess Eldest, and finally chose to defend the princess, saying: "The princess just wanted to play a joke on the fourth lady, it's the servants who made a fuss. Tomorrow, I will tie up that wicked servant and deliver it to the prince and princess."

The eldest princess snorted and said: "The princess is really a good mother. Unfortunately, it depends on the master to beat the dog. I gave the slaves to the fourth lady. If the princess thinks that the servants from my house are evil servants, then the princess herself -"

Speaking of this, the eldest princess deliberately hummed, the meaning behind the words was the most understandable.

Yu Jing's face turned pale immediately, and she almost became angry from embarrassment. Unfortunately, the eldest princess has a noble status, and what she said was true. She could only swallow her teeth and said in embarrassment: "Loyalty should be rewarded, it's just reckless. But the prince didn't talk to the fourth lady at all. It means to care about."

"Fifth brother is a Buddhist cultivator, so broad-minded. Don't say that this matter was provoked by Kang Hui, it is really the fourth lady's fault, the prince will not care about it."

The eldest princess knew that King Liang was hypocritical, so she intentionally provoked him with words. As expected, King Liang put away his sword and bowed his sword, and said pleasantly: "Forget it, fate is determined by fate. General Xiaoye doesn't like Hui Niang, and I don't want to force others to do anything. But I don't know." How peerless and romantic is the woman that General Xiaoye's heart belongs to?"

Ye Chuan immediately blushed again, and stammered, "The fourth wife of the Fu family is... very good... very good... whether it is family style or character, she is... very good... very good..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Zhiqian raised his sleeves and said angrily: "Anyone can do it, but she can't!"

Ye Chuan looked at the emperor's brother-in-law puzzledly, but heard Ye Wurong say softly: "Brother, do you really want her?"

(End of this chapter)