I rubbed my forehead sadly, thinking that there were only a few clues left on the road. If Song Langsheng and the others couldn't find it, they would really shoot themselves in the foot.

When they stopped, it was already dark, and when I jumped out of the car, I found that we were in a small farm, and the bandits were unloading their horses one after another. The thieves in the mountains are not simple. They are obviously bandits running rampant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but they even have nests near the suburbs of Beijing.

Beard ordered a young thief to take me to rest in Zhuangzi's most secluded house, I quietly took off a jade ring and handed it to the young thief, laughing: "This little brother has worked hard all the way, This princess doesn't want to make you embarrassed, it's true that you have eaten almost nothing for the past two days, and you are dizzy with hunger, can you ask your boss to give me something to eat?"

The thief took the jade ring hesitantly and motioned me to go back to the house to wait. He asked two people to look at me first, and then ran away without a trace.

I lay on the bed, touched the quilt, and found that the cotton cloth on it was as clean as new. I thought that there were many empty houses covered with spider dust along the way, but the house where I was imprisoned was not clean enough. Net, tables, chairs and cabinets are readily available, which is really weird.

But confusion returns to confusion, I will not refuse if food is delivered to my mouth.

The young thief was quite reliable in his work. After a while, he brought rice, wine and vegetables and a fragrant roast jī. After setting the table, he swallowed and said: "This is deliberately prepared by the master for the princess, the princess please Enjoy."

I kindly asked, "Do you want to eat together?"

The young thief waved his hands again and again, not daring to talk to me any more, he hurriedly closed the door, locked it, moved to a position where he couldn't smell the smell of vegetables, and stopped.

I don't worry about what kind of poison they will put, I can kill it anytime, and I'm not in a hurry. So after a while, I swept the table full of food into my stomach, until I hiccupped contentedly, and then waited for the bearded boss to "visit" me.

When he entered the room, he saw the cups and plates on the table, and was stunned for a moment, "Her Royal Highness is really at ease with us, and I'm not afraid of what we might do with the meals."

"The big boss treats me with courtesy, how can there be any intention of harming me?" I took a sip of wine and said, "I just thought that there are two big men outside this house guarding the door, hey, the long night is destined to scare insomnia. already."

The bearded man smiled, shook his hand, and let the bandit guarding the door retreat a hundred paces away, and asked, "So, is the princess still satisfied?"

I hadn't answered yet, but the next moment, I saw him closing the wooden door with his backhand and bolting the door. I was heartbroken by his actions, and stood up quickly, "The boss just wants me to write a letter, and then Why bother with others?"

The whiskers turned a deaf ear, the light in his eyes deepened, and he approached me step by step, walking steadily but without hesitation.

Could it be that he never believed my words from the beginning to the end, and kidnapped me here, not for making money but for robbery?

So the house was spotless, and it was replaced with a brand-new bedding? Wait, shouldn't there be a seductive medicine in the wine and food just now?

I suddenly realized that the seriousness of the situation was far beyond my imagination. He knew that I was still plotting evil, and he didn't care about any consequences at all. Then, how could Rao be able to shake him with such a eloquent tongue.

He approached, and I retreated step by step. I was filled with fear. My back was soaked with cold sweat.

There was no way to retreat, he was nowhere near me, my hair stood on end, and I was so frightened that I was about to cry.

Then, he knelt down with a thud, raised his sleeves in a salute, and said, "Wei Chen joins Princess Chitose."

There are endless strange things in this world, and now even bandits know how to treat me with the most standard etiquette of monarchs and ministers, which is simply incredible and outrageous.

Seeing my petrified appearance, the bearded man said, "There are people watching secretly along the way. The minister failed to recognize the princess in time, and the princess was frightened, and the minister deserves to die."

It took me a lot of effort to recover a little bit of my thinking ability. I heard that his gentle and elegant voice was different from the rough and loud voice in the daytime. After thinking about it carefully, the voice was indeed familiar. Can not remember.

Seeing that there was no response from me, he said again: "Chen..."

"My lord, you big guī! You have this beard face and ghostly recognize who you are!" I finally couldn't bear it any longer, "Is it difficult to introduce myself after so long?"

The bearded man sneered when he heard the words, "It turns out that Your Highness has already forgotten about his ministers." As he said that, he raised his hand and tore off the whole face, "In these years, Xianyang often misses Her Royal Highness the Princess."

Looking at this handsome face with sharp edges and corners, I rubbed my brows with a headache and said, "Zhang Xianyang, are you the governor of Zhejiang Zhi, are you tired of being the governor of Zhejiang, have nothing to do, and go to be a bandit?"

Zhang Xianyang, the first face of Princess Xiangyi, in a strict sense, was the first person I saved by using the name of the face, and of course, it was also the largest and most powerful official among all the "face heads". that.

He listened to me joking even more, Suo Xing stood up, looked at me and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many years, but the princess is the same as before."

Chapter 49

Although there are always rumors that Wei Qingheng is my first face, but after all, the rumors are just rumors. In fact, the first face of this princess to be included in the house is the person in front of me, Mr. Zhang Xianyang.

Naturally, it wasn't because I fell in love with him because of his beauty. It was true that he was handsome at the time, but at that time, the only thing I cared about was the elder brother who disappeared without a trace, how could he pretend to be someone else.

Therefore, it was the father's arrangement for him to enter the princess' mansion.

Things are like this.

Zhang Xianyang's father Zhang Ting was originally a general stationed at the border.

One year, Daliang yù invaded our country while taking advantage of the civil strife in Daqing. Because our army was outnumbered, the emperor ordered him to pretend to collude with the commander of another tribe in Liang.

Later, just when the big event was about to be completed, an officer who did not know how to assemble Zhang Ting's criminal evidence and brought it to the capital, which caused a lot of ups and downs in the dynasty. I am afraid that we will attack together with the enemy, but if we don’t reveal the truth, we will punish General Zhang for treason. Wouldn’t it mean that Zhongliang died in a wrongful way?

Just when his father was hesitating, he received a letter from General Zhang from thousands of miles. In the letter, he expressed his willingness to die, willing to bear this crime for the common people in the world, and never have any regrets.

Afterwards, he sneaked into the Daliang tribe as a "fear of crime and absconded", causing great damage to the enemy's troops, and he was too busy to take care of himself.

He didn't take a single soldier to dispel the invasion of the enemy country, but in the end he died on the battlefield of the enemy.

The royal father held his letter for a long time without saying a word, and the country was moving.

This bloodline is Zhang Xianyang.

So my father called me to have a long talk and put forward the proposal of the first guarantor. To be honest, I have no way of understanding the meaning of this slanderous idea of ​​insulting others. Instead of asking other people to surrender to the princess's mansion, why not just hide their identity in the city?

The father said that Zhang Xianyang is a talented person, and he should not be mediocre.

At the time, I just thought this logic was bizarre. Who knew that his father was a traitor who was collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, even if he saved his life because of "the princess who was greedy and disregarded the law and discipline and asked him to come face to face" and let him go in the future If you go out and fill one and half positions, how can you stand among the hundreds of officials?

It wasn't until he entered the mansion that I gradually understood what my father meant by "should not be buried".

Not only did this young man not resent because of his father's grievances, but he also never felt ashamed because of his status as the head of the family.

With a clear mind, he told me that he wanted to be a good official and make his father, who watched him from afar, proud of him.

At that time, I was still young, and I tactfully expressed the truth of why the world is difficult and why we should be obsessed with such truths.

Guess so much

next year

Come, he has been meditating all the way from a small seventh-rank sesame official to the position of Governor of Zhejiang Zhi, and he has to admit his father's eyesight and his determination.

Okay, that's a bit of a stretch.

In fact, the theme that I have said so much to express is that although Zhang Xianyang was really surprised when he revealed the true face of Mount Lu, the anxiety he had been feeling all along the way also calmed down.

He is a very reliable person.

The fact that someone like him is actually lurking in this little gang of bandits has to baffle me.

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Zhang Xianyang saw my doubts, he motioned me to sit down, poured a cup of tea for me, and said slowly: "Princess, but why does the minister want to hide under this Changkong Village?"

I raised my eyebrows and said: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are flooded, and the hungry people in the prefectures and counties have been displaced. The prince knows that it is not easy for you to borrow food. He tried his best to order Han Fei to send disaster silver to help you. This bandit village is risking your own life, what do you want this palace to say to you?"

Zhang Xianyang pondered for a moment and sighed, "Does the princess know the reason for this flood?"

"Bào the rain broke," I squinted at him, "Why, listening to your tone, is there a mystery?"

"The same river and the same rain, why didn't the neighboring provinces burst their dykes, but there was such a big mess in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

I was slightly taken aback, "You mean that the people from the Hedao Yamen did not repair the embankment because they were greedy for money? Then they should start a strict investigation..."

"The minister has checked, and the people in the river did not steal work. Someone deliberately destroyed the embankment to create this flood."

I frowned, only to hear him say: "After the flood, the state was starving, and although the DPRK ordered the suspension of taxes and the prohibition of increasing the price of rice, there was not enough rice to sell in the market; In the past, I heard that some people used rice grain to lure bandits from all sides, and after a few turns, I knew that in the early Meiyu period, Changkong Village began to secretly hoard rice grains, and they were also responsible for the destruction of the embankment."

My heart froze, "How can a small bandit village have such ability?"

"The small bandit village has no such ability, but if there is someone behind it..." Zhang Xianyang said: "The purpose is far more than just expanding the bandit village."

"So, you sneaked into Changkong Village to find out what happened? But I don't understand, how did you become their boss in such a short period of time?"

He smiled lightly, "I was originally the head of Changkong Village."

Zhang Xianyang is the head of Changkong Village, which sounds a bit shocking at first glance.

He said that when he first entered the officialdom, his first contribution was to level the Changkong Village, the largest village in the world.

This bandit village is called the first village in the world, and it has deep roots. As a result, he rose from a small bandit to the think tank of the bandit, and later he used the handsome man's plan to become the prospective son-in-law of the bandit leader, and finally lost the bandit's head without the bandit knowing it. and replace it.

When Zhang Xianyang said this, I couldn't help but cast a contemptuous look at him, Zhang Xianyang staggered my eyes with a little guilty conscience, and coughed: "After that, I will take the major strongholds and hiding places of Changkong Village to one place. Once it is mastered, the inside and outside should finally be united, and it will be wiped out in one fell swoop.”

I shook my head again and again, "Just a traitor like you, didn't the people in Changkong Village cut you down?"