Chapter 410.
Jiahe City, within the Wanfeng Teahouse.
A hand slammed down hard on the table, and a voice of righteous indignation was heard shouting angrily:
“Conspiracy, this is all a conspiracy!
“First, the young prince was killed at the border, followed closely by Great General Yu Golden Cicada’s Jinyang Mansion falling into the hands of thieves.
“Now Guan Changqing, on the grounds that my Qing Kingdom has invaded the Huwei Pass in an undeclared war, swung his troops northward, rushed my Zhenyang Pass, and marched all the way across the border, and when my Qing Kingdom was tired of fending off the attack, His Majesty unexpectedly collapsed!
“All of this is clearly the Golden Cicada’s wolfish ambition, the plotting and scheming.
“Truly abominable to the core!!!”
“That’s right, what’s even more detestable is that they’re obviously ambitious, and they’re still hitting each other upside down.
“Saying that my Green Country is holding onto their eldest princess’ matter because they want to take advantage of the opportunity to invade the Golden Cicada.
“As a result, they even went along with it, letting that bitch, the Eldest Princess, enter the hinterland of my Qing Kingdom, and taking advantage of the moment when all parties had gathered their eyes here, they suddenly sent out a surprise attack!
“They are not just wolves with ambitions, but they have never cared about the safety of their own eldest princess.
“It can be described as heartless, despicable and shameless to the extreme!!!”
“Who knows whether the Princess is real or not? The one who came up to negotiate peace on the surface is the Rapunzel, but in reality, it may not necessarily be some kind of a cat or dog.
“The Golden Cicada people are despicable and shameless, so don’t fall for it again.”
“This is that you do not know …… the reason why the Golden Cicada Emperor dared to this kind of military danger is not without reason.
“This trip to come to our country’s Rapunzel, there is a Golden Cicada expert escort.
“This person’s martial arts skills are world-class, rumored to be the Golden Cicada’s first expert!”
“Golden Cicada First Expert!?”
When the people present heard this, they were all surprised.
Immediately, some people asked for details.
At the same time, in the corner of the teahouse, two unimpressive young men also glanced at each other when they heard this.
Only, one of them had a rather playful look in his eyes, and his lips opened and closed, repeating wordlessly:
“Golden Cicada’s first expert.”
Following that, he squeezed his eyes at the other.
The other youth frowned slightly.
These two were naturally Jiang Ran and Tang Yuyi who had come out to inquire about the news.
In this era where there was no internet, the teahouses and taverns where such people gathered were often the places where news flowed the fastest.
People from the north and south, come together in one place, naturally will inevitably say something that others do not know.
Only news is true or false, but also have to distinguish a little.
And when the topic came to Jiang Ran, Tang Wuyi naturally did not avoid teasing.
Especially this Golden Cicada first expert five words, but also let Tang Wuyi have a kind of indescribable comfort.
Jiang Ran, however, was unimpressed by this.
Instead, he was a bit surprised, how did such a rumor spread into the territory of the Green Country?
Meanwhile, the gossip in the teahouse continued.
Some people counted Jiang Ran’s record, nearly a year after his debut in the jianghu, he had experienced a lot of large and small battles, however, no matter what the opponent was, he had never been defeated.
Among them, there are unimpressive mountain bandits and roadblocks, and there are also top experts like the master of Zuo Dao Zhuang.
The details were quite surprising to Jiang Ran.
He himself might not even be able to remember so much.
He and Tang Yuyi exchanged a glance, and both knew that this was obviously someone deliberately spreading the word amongst themselves.
Otherwise, even if someone was occasionally able to bring Jiang Ran’s name to the Green Country, it didn’t make sense that it would be familiarized to such an extent.
The first thing that Jiang Ran and Tang Yuyi thought of was Heavenly Que!
At the same time, to wait for that person to Jiang Ran’s information, so after saying so.
The entire teahouse was also silent.
Even if there were countries apart, some infamous people could often cross the boundaries of countries.
For example, someone like the Zuo Dao Zhuang Master was by no means only famous in Golden Cicada.
Even in the Green Country, he was also infamous.
Jiang Ran was even able to take down this person, so what should they, the ordinary Jianghu people, do?
Suddenly, someone slapped on the table again:
“What are you guys doing? Isn’t this a good thing?
“The stronger the expert he comes with, the more genuine this Rapunzel’s identity will be!
“In that case, if we take down the Eldest Princess and take her head, won’t it be a great blow to the Golden Cicada?
“If the people of the Golden Cicada knew that the Golden Cicada Emperor disregarded even his own sister’s life for his own ambitions, it might also help the situation of the two countries!
“All in all, what a juncture this has come to, as a person of the Green Country with a martial art, shouldn’t one fight for justice in this time of national trouble?”
“It makes sense!
“By killing the Eldest Princess, or capturing her alive and bringing her to the front of the three armies, we can turn the situation around!”
“Exactly! We should invite our fellow travelers and raise the world to attack the river!!!”
The group of people within the restaurant, each filled with righteous indignation, amidst the angry shouts, they all got up and left the teahouse, some went to invite their friends, some went to spy on the news, and each went their own way.
Jiang Ran and Tang Yuyi saw this, also along with the crowd left the Wanfeng Teahouse.
Walking on the crowded street, they listened to the people’s discussion around them.
Today’s scene on the city’s head, naturally, was also widely publicized.
It was said that the eldest princess and her entourage were beaten by the guarding generals, and were considered to have taken out a mouthful of bad anger.
Jiang Ran and Tang Wuyi listened to these contents in their ears.
Tang Yuyi whispered:
“The Emperor of the Qing Kingdom suddenly died, could it be the handiwork of Heavenly Que?
“Nowadays, the three religions and nine streams among the rivers and lakes of the Qing Kingdom are all righteously angry at the Golden Cicada.
“The Rapunzel who has been exiled to the Qing Kingdom is obviously a thorn in their side.
“There are those who want to kill her before she is killed, and there are also those who want to use this to turn things around.
“But it never occurred to them that if the Golden Cicada Heavenly Prince really cared about this sister’s life, wouldn’t he have suddenly ordered troops to be sent at this time?
“And …… do you think that this Golden Cicada Heavenly Prince will be a person who can give up his own sister?”
Jiang Ran stroked his chin and shook his head slightly:
“People’s hearts are divided, let alone someone like him.
“It’s not surprising what kind of decision he can make ……
“But there is also a point that cannot be ignored.”
“What?”
“Guan Changqing has been imprisoned for a long time by the people of Heavenly Que, yet his oil skin has not been damaged.
“Nowadays, all the news we’ve heard is that Guan Changqing sent troops to attack the Green Country, but there has been no edict issued by the Golden Cicada Heavenly Prince.”
“Are you saying that this is Guan Changqing acting privately on his own?
“Yet things were blamed on the Golden Cicada Heavenly Prince?”
Tang Yuyi took a deep breath and glanced at Jiang Ran:
“If that’s really the case, then I’m afraid we initially fell for Heavenly Que’s evil trick.
“Taking advantage of the fact that we’re focusing all of our attention on the fact that the Eldest Princess killed the young prince of the Qing Kingdom, Guan Changqing is a truly important hidden son that they buried in the Golden Cicada.”
“There’s no point in talking about this now.
“Regardless of what’s going on with Guan Changqing, right now we’re already riding a tiger.”
Jiang Ran said softly:
“In the Green Country, we are the enemies of the world.
“Now we only have two ways to go ……”
“Which two?”
When Jiang Ran spoke of these two paths, it was already the time when he and Tang Wuyi had returned to the hiding place of the Eldest Princess and her entourage.
After all, he didn’t want to say it twice.
So he simply endured Tang Yuyi’s grasping ears until he saw the Eldest Princess before saying:
“The first path is to immediately hit the road back home now!
“Find out what happened to the Golden Cicada!
“Guan Changqing why suddenly sent troops, your brother and what is going on? Did he acquiesce in this matter, or did he know nothing about it?
“But in that case, this matter of our coming to the Green Country will be a complete failure.
“Even if we correct the situation, this side of the Green Country will never believe it.
“After all, all the way to burn and loot is true, the knife has been cut on people, and then tell them that this is a misunderstanding.
“Obviously it doesn’t make sense.
“In other words, the war between the two countries to this point, has been inevitable.
“It has completely fallen into the hands of those in the shadows.”
Holding a water bag in her hand, the eldest princess listened to Jiang Ran speak without the slightest expression on her face.
She said after some quiet contemplation:
“You are right, now that we go back, the battle between the two countries is inevitable.
“Then your second path is obviously for us to continue onward.
“The emperor of the Qing Kingdom suddenly died …… Your news was spread all over the sky.
“Someone is deliberately stirring up the enmity of the rivers and lakes of the Green Country, compiling this situation where the world is hostile.
“And if the death of the Emperor of the Green Country is otherwise mysterious.
“If we can investigate clearly, and personally go to that Wanyan Buming will be divided into things clear, this is once and for all the way.
“Only, this one road nine deaths and one life …… will only be ten thousand difficult.”
“That’s right.”
Jiang Ran nodded:
“This path is not easy to follow, and it’s not even certain if we can make it to the top in the end.
“But it is the best way.”
“Then move on!!!”
The Rapunzel was also a dry person, and had already come to her senses when she came to the Green Country.
At this time, she was also not at all willing to return without any success.
There was just one thing that made her a little worried:
“I don’t believe that imperial brother will act like this, Guan Changqing may have been hit by someone’s tactics, that imperial brother …… he doesn’t know exactly how he is living today ……”
Qing Guo side of the emperor are suddenly avalanche.
It is hard to say that this matter is not someone in the dark.
Although the Golden Cicada Heavenly Prince was high up in the sky, he was not immortal.
Thinking about this, the Eldest Princess couldn’t help but worry.
Jiang Ran thought for a moment and softly comforted:
“Don’t worry, I expect he’ll be fine.
“Don’t forget that there’s still Daoist Lack of Reality and Daoist Yizong in the picture. ……
“This Niubizi is very capable and acts in an inscrutable manner, there’s no need to worry too much.”
The Eldest Princess nodded, and nowadays, she could only think in this way.
And the crowd decided to continue onward, that the identity of the envoy, for the time being, could not be used.
Although the accompanying ambassador Liu Mucheng raised objections to this, thinking that they were on a normal mission and shouldn’t throw away their identity for other reasons.
But under Jiang Ran’s suppression, he didn’t manage to make any waves and was easily suppressed.
The crowd was immediately disguised, with Tang Yuyi taking action to make them change their appearance as much as possible.
But when he saw these people gathered together, Jiang Ran still frowned.
There were too many people.
And some of them were still able to be seen at a glance even if they had changed their disguises.
For example, Wang Jingyuan, who was so handsome and martial, even if he took off his robe, it was still difficult to hide the aura of being a soldier.
Such a group of people waving through the city would still easily be seen as having identity problems.
Once carefully investigated, it was highly likely that their true identities would be found out.
Therefore, after Jiang Ran thought for a long time, he called Poetry, Frost and Snow Sisters, Wang Jingyuan, Liu Mucheng and the others over to have a meeting together.
This small meeting was not short, however.
The main reason was that Jiang Ran had proposed to turn the whole thing into zero, so that it could not attract attention.
The crowd basically agreed to this.
But how to zero, but became the key.
Jiang Ran’s initial intention was, Wang Jingyuan with Liu Mucheng, as well as the accompanying military escort these people do not have to go forward, find a place to hide.
Waiting for orders here.
He himself took the Poetry, Frost and Snow Sisters, as well as his own original men, protected the Princess, and headed straight for the capital city of the Green Country.
However, after this proposal was made, Wang Jingyuan and Liu Mucheng immediately opposed it.
The two people’s thoughts were also surprisingly consistent.
They had come here with imperial orders.
Wang Jingyuan was here to protect the Eldest Princess and her party, so how could they watch the Eldest Princess leave while they waited here?
Liu Mucheng is the ambassador, this trip can speak the diplomatic affairs, all are his to deal with.
If he doesn’t go, who will go and hand over to the Green Country?
Jiang Ran and other people and how many people understand the green country palace etiquette?
In the future, even if they investigated something, they would have just entered the palace and offended the Heavenly Family, so how would they be taken down directly?
Although this is not a problem for Jiang Ran, after all, the people who can take him down are really not many.
But this was obviously not enough to convince Liu Mucheng.
In the end, the Princess ordered Wang Jingyuan to take the people and find a place to hide.
Although Wang Jingyuan is reluctant, but since it is the order of the Princess, he is also the general of this trip, really can not disobey the order, which agreed.
But Liu Mucheng was determined to follow Jiang Ran and the others.
In the end, Jiang Ran simply agreed, after all, Liu Mucheng’s words are still reasonable.
Although Jiang Ran didn’t attach importance to the external handover, it was by no means useless.
Moreover, one more person would not cause too much of a problem.
It was only after some deliberation that the matter was considered settled.
However, after Liu Mucheng and Wang Jingyuan left, Jiang Ran did not leave.
What he said about dividing the army into three groups was actually a division of the army into three groups.
One way was Wang Jingyuan, one way was himself with the Princess, as well as the Frost Snow Sisters.
There was also one way, but it had to be done by the two Poetry and Pictures.
It was just this matter that Jiang Ran wasn’t going to tell Wang Jingyuan and the others.
“The one who stepped in to save the Eldest Princess that day at the Tiger Wei Pass was most likely the Old Sect Master,” he said.
“It has been several months since Elder Tang led the Demon Sect disciples to investigate to this point.
“It has also been more than half a month since we arrived in the territory of the Green Country.
“And yet there has been no news of them …… Fang and Painting Yi and I have also searched around the city, and we have not seen the secret mark left behind by Elder Tang.”
Jiang Ran looked at the Poetic Painting duo:
“I’m afraid I’m going to have to let you guys make a run for it in this matter.”
Their group had plunged headlong into the middle of the Green Country, and it was never too much to describe it with a phrase that there were a lot of people and a lot of unfamiliar places.
Elder Tang and the others had already been in the Green Country for a long time, and no matter what, they knew more about the place than they did.
Jiang Ran had asked Mr. Tang and the others to move this way, on one hand, to investigate the matter of the old Sect Master, and on the other hand, to guard against today’s situation.
Now it was naturally time to use them.
The two Poetry and Painting people looked at each other and nodded at the same time:
“Don’t worry, just leave this matter to us.”
“Well, I’ll leave secret marks along the way, so you guys can follow them and catch up when the time comes.”
Jiang Ran said softly:
“Although you guys are highly skilled in martial arts, it’s reasonable to say that there won’t be anyone who can hurt you.
“However, if the opponent is Jun He Yuya of the Heavenly Que, I’m afraid that this person’s knowledge of you guys is only far beyond that of the next person, so you must be careful and careful again.”
“Don’t worry.”
Tang Shixi laughed lightly:
“If you can’t see this person, then it’s just a matter of time, if I can see this person, I’ll bring his head up to send it to you.”
Jiang Ran laughed dumbly.
Tang Shixiang’s martial arts were extremely strong, but Jiang Ran wasn’t sure to what extent.
If one day, she really carried Jun Hejia’s head over to herself, Jiang Ran wouldn’t even be surprised.
Tang Yuyi, on the other hand, looked at Jiang Ran with a smile on her face:
“Sister and I aren’t here, don’t you dare steal food.”
“……”
Jiang Ran rolled his eyes, originally wanting to reprimand her twice as he did in the past.
But looking at the Tang Yuyi in front of her, Jiang Ran’s words of reprimand were suddenly a bit unspeakable.
Come to think of it, since the Cangzhou Mansion until now, it seemed like it was the first time he had separated from Tang Wuyi.
In the past, he hadn’t noticed that he had been chattering in his ear, but now that he thought of being separated from her for a period of time, his heart was surprisingly a little less comfortable.
“Habit is really a terrible thing ……”
Jiang Ran reached out and touched Tang Yuyi’s head:
“We’ll walk through this way, drawing as little attention as possible.
“You guys have to be careful as well.
“Elder Tang and the others didn’t show anything, so maybe they’ve encountered something as well.”
“Alright, alright, why are you still being motherly, you’ve been instructed several times, the two of us aren’t children, do we not even know about this?”
Tang Yuyi looked at Jiang Ran with some surprise, but the corner of her mouth couldn’t help but tick, just more words, but didn’t say them.
Jiang Ran nodded slightly, the matter was considered completely settled at this point.
However, in order to consider the safety of Wang Jingyuan and the others, Jiang Ran still left Xu Mu, who hadn’t appeared in front of people.
As for how Wang Jingyuan and the others would act next, Jiang Ran did not bother.
When they left the Green Country, Jiang Ran felt that he could bring back all of these people without a single one of them, and that he had accomplished his mission.
When the things that should be accounted for had almost been accounted for.
The people then went their separate ways.
First, they separated from Wang Jingyuan and the others, and then after that, the poetic duo took advantage of the bystanders not paying attention to them and quietly left the group.
By the time they reacted, Jiang Ran’s side was left with the Frost and Snow duo, the Eldest Princess, Tian Miaomiao, Chu Yuniang, Luo Qingyi, Li Tianyu, Wu Di, and Liu Mucheng.
Even for the sake of ease of movement, even Yi Cangxian Jiang Ran had temporarily handed over to Wang Jingyuan to watch over.
In order to prevent accidents, Jiang Ran fed Yi Cangxian some more ruthless medicine.
He instructed Xu Mu to pay careful attention and not to let this person get away.