The personal entourage of the Central Plains envoy looked embarrassed and declared to the outside world: The envoy has suddenly fallen ill, cannot get out of bed, cannot see people, and cannot participate in today's voting.

This illness came by such a coincidence, naturally it couldn't deceive many people, the envoy of the Beiting was secretly happy in his heart, but he was silent on the surface, and even sent someone to send a decoction of condolences, Shangguan Fei was greatly relieved, feeling that the Dragon King's preemptive strategy had taken effect, and the envoy of the Central Plains was no longer a mortal threat.

On the other hand, Prince Loulan panicked, without the support of the Central Plains, he was like a young child who had lost the protection of his parents, unable to move an inch, let alone compete for the position of a colt.

Lin Tao deliberately left a sentence to Prince Loulan through his entourage, "Go to the Dragon King, and let him preside over everything." ”

Therefore, not long after Gu Shenwei returned to the post station, Prince Loulan ran in, his face paler than the Dragon King, "Dragon King, what's wrong?" Lord Lin, he ......."

"Lord Lin has encountered an emergency and has already left the Stone Kingdom. ”

Prince Loulan was dumbfounded, "Then what should I do?"

Gu Shenwei looked at the prince, as if he was estimating his catties, "This is a battle of life and death, Your Highness must be energetic and go all out." ”

"The battle of life and death, why is it the battle of life and death? Lord Lin...... It can't be an escape, right?" Prince Loulan's handsome face showed an expression of extreme indignation, and he finally understood that he had been abandoned by his big backers.

Gu Shenwei didn't answer this question, "No matter what, His Highness has already ridden a tiger and must fight." ”

Prince Loulan shook his head resolutely, he received the will of the Central Plains to compete for the position of the horse, Shiguo is located in a remote area, and it is meaningless for Loulan to grab it, "No, I want to quit, I will go out and declare, let the people of Jinpeng Fort be the horses, I don't care." ”

Gu Shenwei's face was cold, and his tone became stern, "You don't care, the Central Plains can care, controlling the Shi Kingdom is an important strategy for the Central Plains, if you throw your hands and leave, I'm afraid that you will not only get into trouble, but also cause trouble to Loulan." ”

Prince Loulan sat down dejectedly, less than two hours away from the final voting time, he really had already ridden the tiger, and he couldn't help but complain to the Central Plains envoy in his heart, Jinpeng Fort with a group of killers, Lin Tao must have seen that the situation was not good, and ran away first, but left himself to die.

Gu Shenwei stood aside and was silent, waiting for Prince Loulan to come up with the only idea himself.

The prince is not a stupid person, but he is used to eating and drinking, and there are strong people who take care of everything for him, and when he faces a crisis, he reacts more slowly.

After a long time, he raised his head, looked at the calm dragon king, his eyes lit up, and finally thought of a way to save his life, "You go and fight to be a colt, dragon king, I told those people to vote for you, you are not afraid of Jinpeng Castle, right? Only you...... You're also from the Central Plains, right? Dragon King, you must save me. ”

Prince Loulan's words were a little incoherent, but the meaning was still clear, Gu Shenwei thought about it and said, "It's not good ...... like this."

Prince Loulan almost pounced in front of the Dragon King, "Okay, this is the best, I'll go and tell those people, even if it fails, it is the responsibility of the Central Plains envoy, right? He should have been in the Shi Country......

In the middle of his words, Prince Loulan turned around and ran out, he had already made up his mind that no matter whether the Dragon King agreed or not, he would throw the hot potato to the other party.

Gu Shenwei tidied up his clothes, so far, everything is under his control, but he doesn't feel relaxed, his heart seems to be an inconspicuous pebble, which makes him very uncomfortable, he thinks about it carefully, and can't find an obvious flaw, so he puts down that little doubt and doesn't think about it anymore.

The Dutch girl walked in through the door and nodded at him, she had not lived in the inn for the past few days, and had gone on another important mission.

"Got it?"

The lotus girl raised the small cotton cloth package in her hand, "Here, we can act tonight, I have arranged everything." ”

Gu Shenwei hid a deep vigilance against the lotus girl, but he had to admit that there was no one around him who reassured him like the lotus girl, "Okay, let's act tonight." ”

Gu Shen was about to set off, and the lotus girl suddenly asked, "Do you really want to marry a princess?"

Gu Shenwei glanced at the lotus girl in surprise, he had never told her his plan, but she still guessed, "It has to be like this, the Great Snow Mountain needs a place to stay." ”

Gu Shenwei walked out of the room, the lotus girl was silent, in her opinion, the dragon king answered the question, and it was not necessary to marry the princess to seize the stone country.

The voting process was still presided over by Prime Minister Yang Dou, who first expressed regret that the envoy of the Central Plains was ill, and then thanked every noble person who came to propose.

To show that there was no black-box operation, voting was held in public, and everyone who had the right to vote had to stand up and say, "Of all the people, I think so-and-so has the best character." ”

The king of Shiguo did not appear, and his vote was said by Yang Dou.

As with the result of the split in advance, most people voted as promised, but half of them replaced Prince Loulan with the Dragon King.

There is no need for Gu Shenwei to sway from side to side anymore, everyone knows that he made two promises at the same time, and everyone knows that he will vote for himself at the last moment.

In this way, the Dragon King and Shangguan Fei each got six votes, and the battle was tied.

Shangguan Fei was relieved, and even generously congratulated the Dragon King and was willing to compete with him in the next round, because it was clear that Yang Dou, on behalf of the king, publicly voted for Shangguan Fei, which was tantamount to publicly indicating that he would definitely get the position of a concubine.

Everyone else also had the same idea, Prince Loulan privately expressed his gratitude to the Dragon King, and calmly accepted the defeat in the next round of the competition, "It's no wonder that you and me, the envoy of the Central Plains fled, and the King of Shiguo certainly understands the general trend." ”

Yang Dou announced the specific plan for the last competition in the evening of the same day, which was very simple, and made everyone believe that Shangguan Fei would inevitably become an attached horse, "Tomorrow at noon, please invite the two to the palace, and the princess will personally choose the concubine." ”

Shangguan Fei began to accept congratulations, and everyone understood that it was impossible for the princess to go against the king's intentions, and since her brother had chosen Jinpeng Castle, she would make the same choice.

Prince Loulan impatiently packed his bags, planning to finish the princess choosing the horse at noon tomorrow, he took back his country's gold and left the stone country immediately, and did not forget to complain to the dragon king, "I want to inform the envoy of the Western Regions, it is all his fault that things have developed to this point." ”

The matter has been decided, the dragon king did not show the intention of killing, and the nine young masters of Jinpeng Fort were still as polite as friends, which made many people breathe a sigh of relief, and a few people were a little disappointed, and the prince Kang was afraid that it would not be lively, and publicly shouted in the post station, "I thought that the dragon king could be a little bloody, but it turned out that he was also a bully who was afraid of the hard." ”

Gu Shenwei calmly faced the defeat, but after nightfall, he quietly left the post station without anyone noticing.

Not far from the city gate, the lotus girl hid among the trees, waiting for the dragon king, after the two met, they didn't say a word, continued to move forward, climbed the high wall, and sneaked into the city.

In a remote mansion, thirty vicious-looking robbers are waiting for the arrival of the dragon king and the lotus maiden.

Gu Shenwei disappeared for two hours last night, just to see another group of robbers, under the control of the lotus girl, nearly two hundred bandits have already mixed into the stone country in batches, scattered and living in different places.

The leader of this gang of robbers is He Sancai, who is known as the first knife in the Tianshan Mountains, a short and fat middle-aged man, who is extremely respectful to the Dragon King, in fact, he is even more afraid of the women around the Dragon King, and he doesn't even dare to look at her.

He Sancai led the way and invited the dragon king and the lotus girl into a side room where three captives were kept.

The captives were drenched in blood, apparently subjected to some cruel torture, and when they saw someone coming in, they hurriedly begged for mercy, and they recognized the dragon king, so they all knelt down to him, "The dragon king spares his life, we do all the tricks, and we dare not hide it at all." ”

Gu Shenwei didn't ask anything, he had already learned all the confessions from the Dutch girl, and he came here just to recognize people.

That's right, it's them.

On the first night of camping in the desert from Shuangquan Village, a dozen swordsmen dressed as merchants stormed the tents of the Four Noble Truths monks in an attempt to rob something important, but fled in defeat.

The three captives were three of them.

They have not given up, and they followed the monks to Shiguo, and they did not dare to rob it, but only monitored near Nengjue Temple, and even let them find a loophole.

A monk of high status in the monastery did not abide by the rules and had affairs with the women of the city, and often went out for trysts at night, and the swordsmen caught the rape on the spot, and then forced the monk to steal something from Zen Master Fayan for them.

The monk was forced to agree, and after returning to the temple and observing for several days, he finally started last night, stole the thing, and handed it over to the swordsman outside the temple.

The swordsmen were ecstatic, not expecting that they were also being watched.

Fifteen swordsmen, less than twenty miles away from the capital of Shiguo, were intercepted by the robbers, most of them were killed, and only three of them became prisoners alive.

"They're people sent by the Mustangs. "The Dutch girl has asked for a confession.

Gu Shenwei checked the cotton cloth package given to him by the lotus girl, "We can go and negotiate a deal with them." ”

"Aren't you going to use it? Mustang is going to do great things with it. ”

Gu Shenwei shook his head, "My approach is the opposite of him." He paused for a moment and said something that the military advisor Fang Wen had said, "Sometimes, being upright means being unscrupulous. ”

The two came to Nengjue Temple on the third watch that night, and did not climb over the wall to enter as usual, but knocked on the door generously.

It was the middle of the night, but there seemed to be someone waiting in the temple, and as soon as there was a knock on the door, someone opened the door from the inside.

The person who opened the door was not a bald monk, but a guard with a scimitar hanging from his waist, and whispered: "Dragon King, please come in, Your Majesty and the holy monk have been waiting for a long time." ”

Gu Shenwei walked into the temple gate, and the lotus girl disappeared into the night.

At the same time, not far from the Nengjue Temple, a figure jumped into the palace and went straight to the princess's residence.

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