The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 823

Zhen Zangzhu borrowed Fujian soldiers and horses, and besieged King Wu and his concubine Shen in the Wangchen Courtyard of King Wu's mansion.The important minister Chen Ruiwen arrived and sat in the hall opposite Zhen Zangzhu.Chen Ruiwen thought for a moment and said, "Lord Zhen, you are also a educated person."

Zhen Zangzhu immediately said: "I am a general."

Chen Ruiwen said solemnly: "The military general should also know that if a minister offends the emperor, the whole world will attack him. Are you really going to be this rebellious minister?"

The young general from Fujian "puchi" laughed, and said to Zhen Zangzhu, "This is really Chen Ruiwen from Wu Kingdom?" Zhen Zangzhu nodded.The young general said, "How does a fool become an important minister?"

Zhen Zangzhu said: "He is not stupid, he just sticks to the old rules. According to the usual negotiation rules, after the two parties meet, they can't go straight to the issue, but have to fight first. This bickering is not a quarrel, let alone expressing their opinions, it is just Just drop the book bag."

"Then Master Zhen will also drop the book bag later?"

"Originally it should be. But I have never read the Four Books and Five Classics, so I won't. Let him talk about the meeting alone, and let's have tea." Zhen Zangzhu said, "He finished talking, give him a cup of tea to rest, We can now negotiate."

The young general let out a long "Oh": "I understand. It's like dancing before singing an opera."

"That's right." Zhen Zangzhu looked at the opposite side, "I don't know how to jump into another official position, please trouble Mr. Chen to dance alone. Thank you for your hard work. Let me know when the dance is over."

Chen Ruiwen couldn't say a word for a long while, but slapped the table and shouted: "Zhen Zangzhu! You go deep alone, do you think you can make it?"

Zhen Zangzhu said: "Isn't this here to negotiate? With the prince, concubine and Lord Chen in your hands, why go?"

Since Chen Ruiwen was born, he could only deal with reasonable people. He couldn't deal with Zhen Zangzhu and Fujian teenagers at all, and his face was flushed red.Suddenly, a maid came out from behind the screen, and after wishing everyone a blessing, she told Chen Ruiwen in a low voice: "My lord Chen, my majesty is here to invite you." Chen Ruiwen hastily accused her of a crime and followed her away.

Walking to the door of the ear room next door, there are a few Fujian soldiers guarding outside.The maid drew up the curtain.The side room is not big, Chen Ruiwen saw a young woman in a green robe sitting on a nanmu armchair at the door, her hair was loosely tied in a bun, her face was plain without makeup, she was as delicate as a peony branch.Chen Ruiwen knew that this must be Concubine Shen, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "Your Majesty."

Concubine Shen stood up, her face full of panic: "Master Chen, save me~~"

Chen Ruiwen saw that there was no outsider in the house, and the maid leading the way had already closed the door, stepped forward a few steps and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, where is your son now?"

Concubine Shen also said in a low voice: "I have hidden him, thieves can't find him."

Chen Ruiwen said: "This place is dangerous, the thieves are cunning and vicious. Ask the empress where the son is, and I will try to rescue him first. The son is the foundation of the Wu state, so you must not go on business."

Concubine Shen shook her head again and again: "My lord doesn't know what happened. Right now, my lord can't help him out, he is very safe. As long as the bandits retreat, he will be safe and sound." Nai pointed to the wall and ear.

Chen Ruiwen made it clear.His eyeballs rolled around, and he made a writing gesture.Concubine Shen still shook her head.Chen Ruiwen said in a low voice: "Can I ask your mother to give me the four treasures of the study? I want to write an essay."

Concubine Shen's eyes turned red: "My lord, when a scholar meets a soldier, it's useless to write an article to explain the reasoning. Instead, it arouses the suspicion of the thieves. If you don't negotiate with them in good faith, let them retreat first. My maids are terribly frightened."

It's not that Chen Ruiwen has never seen beauties before.This woman is Zhuang Bumei, knowing that she was terribly frightened, she insisted that she was a maid, and she was a little bit pitiful, as if her heart had been pinched.It's just that how can he make these people retreat?Nai comforted and said: "Your Majesty, don't be afraid. You are a king's concubine, and they are not bandits but Fujian officers and soldiers. They dare not seriously offend your Majesty. The words of the next official will surely make them frightened. I beg your Majesty to give you the four treasures of the study."

Concubine Shen's face was filled with disappointment, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment, and said: "The call to action is really useless. But... it's not that there are other ways."

Chen Ruiwen hurriedly asked: "What is your plan?"

Concubine Shen stood up and looked at him with a sweet smile: "Please stay away for a while, sir, I will go out and discuss with Master Zhen."

Chen Ruiwen frowned: "Your Majesty is the Zhengfei of King Wu, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to show her face rashly."

Concubine Shen sighed: "Little life is in his hands, how can you say that it is appropriate or not?" Then she ordered the maid to go to her room to fetch cosmetics and jewelry.The maid agreed and went out.In an instant, there were only two people left in the room.Chen Ruiwen saw Concubine Shen sitting slumped, her hands and neck were as white as jade, her heart was itching so badly, she hurriedly looked away.

After a while, the maid came over with Concubine Shen's dowry, turned her head and glanced at Chen Ruiwen.Chen Ruiwen hurriedly resigned.

The maid then helped Concubine Shen dress up, mockingly said: "No?"

Concubine Shen said weakly: "It's half done."

"It's nothing." The maid said, "It just didn't work." She unbuttoned her hair and combed her hair.

Concubine Shen sighed: "Wu's beauties are all in the palace. Is there any woman in this palace who can overwhelm me?"

The maid said: "It's not that this person is not lustful. However, compared with power, beauty is immediately inferior. King Wu is the same."

Concubine Shen murmured: "In the history books, Si Daji was praised for her sex to harm the country. Could it be that men at that time didn't love the country?"

The maid laughed dumbfoundedly: "Only a few women who are perverted to harm the country are born in thousands of years? Could it be that they are really beautiful for hundreds of years? There have been beauties in the country, and no one can lose to anyone. It's just that only a few hundred years come out." It’s just a king who is fascinated by female sex.” She paused, “However, there are always men who are fascinated by female sex in the world, because there are too few beauties, and it’s like a mud worker who washes sand finds pearls.”

Concubine Shen smiled wryly, and said leisurely: "You are very right. In the early years, I worked hard on four men. The two who were controlled by me to death were all inferior people. Although one was fascinated by me, , his daughter-in-law said that she couldn't find me, so that's all. The other one already has a sweetheart, and treats me like nothing."

The maid said: "Your Majesty is a rare beauty in the world, there is no doubt about it. However, she is rare and not unparalleled. The beauty is different in nature, thin and fat, not to mention that the beauty is easy to grow old."

Concubine Shen sighed again.Not long after, the maid had already dressed her up.Concubine Shen took a picture in the mirror, and she felt that she was glamorous.After watching for a while, she suddenly asked: "Do you know if the lord is male or female?"

"male."

"Have you ever married a wife?"

The maid smiled and straightened Concubine Shen's clothes: "His daughter-in-law was poached from the opponent's hands with all his efforts, and now she has become a legend."

Concubine Shen's eyes moved: "Have you seen it? Is it beautiful?"

"I've never seen a real person, only seen photos in newspapers. How can that demeanor be described as a beautiful word?" The maid thought for a while, "Probably only Prime Minister Lin in Beijing can compare."

Concubine Shen was startled, and said: "Sometime, ask someone to take a picture of me too." The mirror was placed on the table, and Concubine Shen saw the maid standing behind her twitch her mouth from the mirror.Nai stood up, "Go out."

The maid responded: "Okay." Concubine Shen's complexion moved slightly, and she pursed her lips.

Now Chen Ruiwen has returned to the hall.Hearing someone shouting from behind the screen, "The empress has come out." He turned his head quickly.I saw Concubine Shen coming out in all her attire, followed by two maids, as if a fairy had descended from the realm, she stared at her for a while unconsciously.Suddenly he came back to his senses, and looked at the green bricks on the ground.Nai stepped forward and saluted: "See Wangfei."

Concubine Shen gently opened her red lips: "Your Excellency, you have worked hard." Chen Ruiwen said "I am ashamed".

Zhen Zangzhu said coldly: "You are the demon concubine Shen?"

Concubine Shen said: "What's the difference between Lord Zhen calling me a demon concubine and Lord Chen calling me a rebellious minister?"

Zhen Zangzhu was startled, then smiled and said, "It seems to be the same."

Concubine Shen gracefully sat down on the guest seat, and said straightly: "Besides covering up my sleeves to attack slander and seduce the Lord, I also have other skills."

Zhen Zangzhu stared at her for a moment: "For example?"

"Such as sending a message." Concubine Shen stretched out her hand to ask the maid for tea.The maid hurriedly delivered the tea to her, she lowered her eyebrows and took a sip, holding the tea in her hand and saying, "Through the rain of fire and guns from your army, I still sent the letter."

Zhen Zangzhu smiled and said, "I don't know which general to give it to? It must be Wei Ruoheng from South America."

"It's not the general." Concubine Shen said, "If something happens between me, the lord, and Mr. Chen, someone will let the late son go."

Zhen Zangzhu was stunned: "Release?"

Concubine Shen nodded: "Let go. Let go. I don't know where he will go, who he will find, and what he will do." Zhen Zangzhu's complexion changed in vain, and murderous aura suddenly burst out.Concubine Shen took another sip of tea, "I don't know if I went to South America to find Wei Ruoheng and the Bao family."

Zhen Zangzhu squinted her eyes and looked at her for a long time, the corners of her mouth curled up into a forced half smile: "Ms. Shen is just joking."

Concubine Shen raised her head slightly, smiling like a spring breeze: "Master Zhen thinks I'm joking?"

Zhen Zangzhu's face is like juggling flags, red, green, white, black.After a long time, he straightened his back and said to Concubine Shen seriously: "Since that's the case, we're bound together. Madam Shen, do you have any suggestions?"

Concubine Shen smiled and said: "I knew Master Zhen knew the current affairs." Then she stretched out her slender fingers and drew a horizontal stroke in front of her, "Each one takes a step back, two and one add up to five."

Chen Ruiwen was shocked, and blurted out: "No!"

Zhen Zangzhu frowned, and thought for a moment: "Your Majesty, do you want to divide the kingdom of Wu?"

Concubine Shen put her hands together on the teacup and said leisurely: "Didn't the Chu Kingdom divide it into ten pieces?"

Chen Ruiwen shouted: "It must not be done!"

Zhen Zangzhu thought about it for a long time: "Which piece does the empress want?"

Chen Ruiwen became louder and louder: "Wu is strong and prosperous because its land is slightly larger than other countries. If the soil is broken by some trivial matter, where will the prince be placed?!"

Concubine Shen said: "Our son naturally wants the state of Wu."

Zhen Zangzhu raised his eyebrows: "Could it be that our grandson wants South America?"

Concubine Shen smiled: "Master Zhen agrees?"

"Of course not."

"I also know that you have spent all your energy on Shanghai in the past few years. If I want to get that port, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it."

Zhen Zangzhu nodded: "I really can't take it. Otherwise, Mr. Chen would have reached out to take it."

Concubine Shen also nodded: "Since that's the case, we don't want it anymore."

Before the words finished, Chen Ruiwen shouted again: "Your Majesty, no! The prince is still here!"

Shen and Zhen turned their heads to look at him.Zhen Zangzhu made a gesture to Concubine Shen, which means that you can solve the affairs in your nest by yourself.Concubine Shen smiled bitterly and said: "Why am I willing to divide the country and divide the country. Isn't there no way out? If Mr. Chen still doesn't understand, just go out and ask General Wang who is guarding outside the mansion." Chen Ruiwen was startled.Concubine Shen sighed, "Anyway, this Wangchen Courtyard is not far from the gate of the mansion. We will wait here, Mr. Chen go and come back quickly."

Chen Ruiwen hesitated for a moment, looked at Zhen Zangzhu, who had a sarcastic expression;After thinking for a while, she bowed her hands to Concubine Shen: "Your Majesty will be right back." Concubine Shen nodded slightly.

Chen Ruiwen ran to the gate of the mansion without anyone stopping him.Instead, he asked the Wu soldiers outside where General Wang was.This person is the leader of King Wu's guard battalion, and he is standing against the wall of the palace, his face is as cold as ice.Chen Ruiwen hurried forward and asked in a low voice: "General Wang, have you sent someone to ask for reinforcements?"

General Wang shook his head slowly: "What kind of reinforcements are you asking for? I don't even look at what firearms they use. The range is twice as far as ours. As many reinforcements come, as many die."

Chen Ruiwen took a deep breath and stayed for a while: "Then... what should I do?"

General Wang looked up at him and said, "I don't know what to do. Firearms are far inferior to others. If you want to fight, you are determined to be invincible. Dare I ask Mr. Chen what to do?" Shaked down.

After a while, Chen Ruiwen lingered back to Wangchen Courtyard, dejected.The young general from Fujian immediately laughed and said, "Master Chen, did you get dizzy from the sun?" Zhen Zangzhu took a sip of tea calmly.

Concubine Shen sighed: "Master Chen understands already?" Chen Ruiwen nodded.Concubine Shen ordered, "Come here, and fetch the map of Wu Kingdom."

After a while, a eunuch brought a map from the study and put it on the desk.Concubine Shen and Zhen Zangzhu surrounded her.Chen Ruiwen hesitated for a moment, sat on the chair without moving, pretending to be too frightened.He knew very well that now that Zhen Zangzhu had borrowed elite soldiers and captured the prince and concubine, it was obvious that he had the upper hand. When the country was divided, he would most likely want to grab some advantage.Afterwards, Wu's ruling and opposition parties rarely criticized him.If he himself hadn't gotten involved, Concubine Shen would be the one to bear the blame.Anyway, she is a girl, and her reputation doesn't matter to her.

Unexpectedly, the two of them split up very quickly, and the split was already done within a stick of incense!Chen Ruiwen stepped forward to take a look, and drew the boundary line on the map with an ink pen.The area with Jinling has "Wu" written on it, and the area with Shanghai has "Yue" written on it.Zhen Zangzhu didn't get any benefit.Seriously, adding two to one makes five, and the two places are about the same size.

Chen Ruiwen frowned: If the other end is called Yue State, it would be unlucky for Wu State.Nai said: "Can you change the name of the country over there?"

Zhen Zangzhu said: "No change."

Concubine Shen said: "It's just a country name, it doesn't matter." She glanced at the men. "That's the end of the matter?"

Zhen Zangzhu nodded: "Yes." Nai smiled and cupped her hands at Concubine Shen, "Ms. Shen is well-deserved of her reputation. Since she is a brother and neighbor, I will ask Wu Guo to take care of her in the future."

Concubine Shen owed her all her blessings: "Wu Guo also asks Yue Guo to take care of it."

"It's easy to say. Welcome Wu Guo to come to Shanghai Port to ship."