Chapter 54 The lord, the advisors have to enter the tiger's den(1/3)
Chen Baiqi did not respond to Ji Yan's hard and soft words for a while.
She found that she seemed to have fallen into a strange circle for no reason.
The name of the strange circle is, if I don’t go to hell, who will?
Chen Baiqi does not claim to be a defender of Taoism. She yells when she sees injustice on the road. She may have some of the bad habits of a scholar: she is habitual of thinking, scheming, and calculating.
When something happens, she will always think carefully and never act rashly.
With so many forces gathering in private, it was suspected that they had bribed the assassin of the Assassin League to assassinate Lord Mengchang. For her personally, it was not her business to do anything to you, but when she thought about the bigger picture, she was unable to act, so she just let it go.
The scope of the matter was beyond her imagination.
According to Chen Baiqi's current rough understanding of the Qi State, the Mengchang Lord is like a corrupt but towering strong wall. His military power, land, retainers, and wealth, the resources of the Qi State that he has gathered over the years are enough to make him a powerful man.
giant.
According to Zuo Zhuan, Duke Xiang - thicken the walls so that visitors will have no worries.
Even if Lord Mengchang's foundation is rotten and rotten, it will still be the root of his own land. But if he dies, it means that all the walls that originally surrounded Qi will collapse, and Qi will be in danger.
The state of Qi is in danger, and this matter will involve many innocent people being carved up by the ambitious vassal states.
She was now randomly thrown into the body of "Chen Huanxian". Now that she has the identity of Qi State, it means that Qi State has become her mother country. Moreover, this matter is also related to Jiang Xuan, Brother Yuelu, Chief Peinan and others.
She thought that even if she was unwilling to let the evil Lord Mengchang be her lord, she could not let Lord Mengchang die in Caocheng like this.
She doesn't know at the moment how many people are ambushing in the dark waiting to kill Lord Mengchang, and how many sophisticated strategies and conspiracies are waiting for them, but at least in one of them, if she becomes a participant, in this way, she may have
Opportunities can break the situation.
She also didn't expect to choose a "foreign" lord. Since she was a native of Qi, she had no intention of treason. As a commoner, Chen Huanxian was poor and had a lot of foreign debt. She originally wanted to stand up and at least stay in Yueludu.
After gaining a layer of gold, you can choose a new master in Qi State and take up the position of counselor again.
One year is limited, and now it's almost a quarter, and she doesn't even see the shadow of a decent lord.
And by rescuing Lord Mengchang and taking on such a big favor, maybe I can also... borrow a little bit of east wind in my career in the future?
Chen Baiqi was pondering, but Ji Yan was not in a hurry. There was confidence in the corner of her mouth, and her eyes leisurely turned to the finger-long bamboo tube next to Chen Baiqi's hand.
The outer layer of the bamboo tube is coated with a layer of paint. The bamboo tube is hard and straight, with a closed tail and a wooden plug braided with a thread at the head. It does not look ordinary.
She raised her eyebrows, reached out to take it, pulled out the cork, and sniffed inside.
"Qingdanlu?"
Ji Yan pondered for a moment, and his slightly narrow and sarcastic voice made Chen Bai look sideways.
When she looked at it, she looked confused.
System: Congratulations to the character for obtaining the "Green Pill Dew" formula.
Chen Baiqi accidentally got a prescription and checked it out.
Prescription: Qingdanlu
Recipe: Qingdan fruit, white dew, mica grass.
Function: Specially used to treat various iron injuries, trauma, swelling and pain.
Rating: C grade.
Ji Yan handed the bamboo tube back to her, stuffed it into her hand, and said, "Do you know who left this?"
When Chen Baiqi heard her question, he moved his fingers slightly and made a guess.
She fainted at that time, and it seemed that someone was holding her up. The person closest to her at that time was...
"Weixi?"
When Ji Yan heard this, his eyes suddenly shot out.
"Wei Xi?" Ji Yan smiled maliciously and gently rubbed the corner of his clothes with the back of his fingers: "How do you know his name is Wei Xi? Do you know him?"
He had never introduced himself to her before.
Chen Baiqi opened her mouth and shuddered for a moment because of her quick words, but she quickly reacted. She lowered her head and rubbed a small character carved on the bamboo tube. She said: "This tube has a stream engraved on it."
"I got out of the car just now and saw that he was very handsome and a swordsman with a loyal heart, so I guessed that it might be Wei Xi, the great disciple of Yuelu."
"Are you literate?" Ji Yan's eyes became more serious. She was now somewhat convinced that Chen Rong might really be a noble queen of the Chu Kingdom.
Others can pretend to be dumbfounded, but this is a real way of literacy that cannot be learned except by the upper class.
"My father should hire a master to teach him." Chen Baiqi said.
Ji Yan pondered for a moment and then said: "How have you considered it?"
She was referring to the cooperation with her in seducing and assassinating Lord Mengchang.
Chen Baiqi said: "I am a native of the Chu State, and I have no enmity with Qi for any reason. Although I am not unwilling to die for the assassination of Lord Mengchang, I also know that this matter is extremely dangerous. If I fail, I will lose my life at least, and my father will be harmed at worst.
So I have one more request to make."
This means that she has relented and is not determined to "do not want to die".
Ji Yan seemed to have known her choice for a long time, and she said: "Let's talk about it."
"From now on, don't mention anything about me to anyone. I can be Chen Rong, Ji Rong, Wei Rong, anyone, but I can't be from Chu. If I fail, don't worry, just let me
Abandoned corpses in the wilderness, if I am lucky enough to succeed, please keep your promise and let me leave. From now on, we will be strangers in the world, and we will never recognize each other again." Chen Baiqi's eyes were clear and bright, and his words were even more sonorous and powerful.
She planned to completely clear the identity she had used to fool Ji Yan. This was because she thought that if the mission failed and she died accidentally, the Chu Guo family would be freed from suspicion. Secondly, she wanted Ji Yan to
Yan trusted her false identity even more and did not doubt it.
For a moment, Ji Yan felt the pulse in her hand beating rapidly, especially the sentence "If I miss, don't worry, I will abandon my body in the wilderness", which frightened her.
This woman looked demure, gentle, and gentle, yet she could be so cruel to him.
Ji Yan couldn't help but stare at Chen Baiqi's eyes, wanting to squeeze into her pupils to see clearly what was inside.
"Stay with me. If you can please me, maybe... you can still live the life of a noble girl like in the past." For some reason, this kind of words blurted out from Ji Yan's mouth.
After saying this, she immediately frowned, not knowing how to understand why she said such a thing.
Before she could regret it, Chen Baiqi shook his head without hesitation.
"Those who kill will always be killed. I don't want to embark on such a path."
Chen Baiqi's words aroused the fire in Ji Yan's heart, but made her eyes grow cold.
Is this a metaphor for her fate?
"Oh, the pride of a noble is really sad sometimes. He would rather die standing than live lying down. Does your lady think the same way?"
Chen Baiqi glanced at her but didn't reply.
Ji Yan grabbed the train of her skirt and stood up. She had experienced many things, including wars, cholera, and turbulent chaos. She was not a person who showed her emotions. She would get angry and would not care about such verbal disputes.
Anyway, in her mind, "Chen Rong" is already a dying person.
She doesn't have time to worry about "dead people".
"Although you have dancing skills, your body is not soft and flexible enough. Please take advantage of these few days to let me train you. After all, if you can be appreciated by Lord Mengchang, that's all. If not, you can only become his subordinate."
The plaything is just like other sarcastic girls. When the time comes, the noble girl will definitely be unwilling to do so, but she will be unable to resist."
These words were full of bad intentions, overtly and covertly, but her tone was calm and gentle.
Chen Baiqi raised his eyes... Seeing that she was about to leave, he asked one last question: "Did you cause the chaos in Caocheng? Since you want to assassinate Lord Mengchang, what about the Yuelu disciples and the people in the city?"
Although she asked what she wanted to ask, maybe she wouldn't answer, Chen Baiqi thought.
Ji Yan stopped for a moment in front of the car door, turned around and said, "Who are you related to the Yuelu disciples, or... did you fall in love with Wei Xi after just one meeting?"
Chen Baiqi looked at her and said these words with a smile, but her expression remained unchanged. She blushed and shook her head. She lowered her eyebrows and said: "Yuelu Bookstore is famous all over the world. I have also admired it and fell in love with it. It's just not
I hope that such a holy place will end up like this, and I don’t want you to suffer disaster because of this matter."
Ji Yan saw that Chen Baiqi was very serious when he said this. At this moment, the sky turned white, and a trace of golden light leaked out, filling the moldy corner with the smell of sunshine again, and the golden light emitted from the gap smudged her eyebrows, Shuoyu
Gliding gold, the cold dew on her face seemed to be washed away in an instant, and it seemed to glow. Although she couldn't see her eyes, Ji Yan thought that her eyes must be brighter and dazzling than that light.
Ji Yan was in a daze for a moment.
It seems like it's dawn.
By the time she came to her senses, she had already spoken: "There are only three people on the list of the Assassin League this time, and the rest are not worthy of our wasted work."
The three of them? Chen Baiqi raised her eyes. At that moment, the sunlight just poured into her black eyes, which were like amber and filled with golden brilliance.
Ji Yan saw it.
Maybe when she said that sentence, she was waiting for this moment.
She twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled unconsciously.
An idea that came to me for no reason.
Chen Baiqi felt nothing about Ji Yan. She guessed, who were the three people?
Also, although the Assassin's League would not kill anyone who had no money to buy their life, as for other forces, she especially remembered that the Assassin's League had just contacted a suspicious person disguised as a businessman in a caravan not long ago.
To be continued...