How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"You came so early, is there something wrong?" After pouring the tea, Xie Shoujun sat on the wooden chair next to him and asked.

Xie Chengze took a sip of tea and asked, "Can't I ask my brother to come play if I have nothing to do?"

"If I remember correctly, you seem to have been put in solitary confinement." Xie Shoujun laughed, "You just ran away like this, aren't you afraid that the ministers will report you again after they find out?"

"Brother, can you just keep it a secret for me?" Xie Chengze chuckled. "It's really boring to stay alone in Chenghuan Palace. I wonder if brother is willing to take me in for a few days?"

"If you want to stay, then stay. It just so happens that this Wude Hall is also very deserted, and I feel a little lonely alone." Xie Shoujun took a sip of tea and rubbed the rim of the cup with his fingertips. The light-colored tea reflected his dark eyes. "But there are still many rooms in Wude Hall that have not been cleaned up. It will be troublesome to clean them up. I'm afraid you can only stay in my room tonight."

"It's okay, it's okay. I haven't slept with my brother for a long time." Xie Chengze waved his hand indifferently.

In his memory, when Xie Jinyu was still very young and couldn't speak, he always slept with his brother Xie Shoujun. As for why he didn't sleep with Concubine Hua, it was because a certain despicable emperor thought he was in the way and always used the excuse that a real man should sleep alone to prevent him from sleeping with his mother:).

But little Chengze doesn't want to be a man, he just likes to have a bed partner, especially since his royal brother takes special care of him. No matter how naughty and mischievous he is, or even if he shoves his cold feet into the other person's body, the royal brother will never be angry with him. He is truly a model of a gentle brother.

Xie Shoujun nodded and didn't think it was wrong.

As there was no military affairs to be dealt with in the court at the moment, he did not need to attend court. After breakfast, he planned to go to the training ground to supervise the daily training of the border guards.

Xie Chengze also wanted to go, but he couldn't wander around openly during the house arrest, so he disguised himself as a little eunuch and followed Xie Shoujun to the training ground.

On the training ground, the border guards had already started training. The sound of their training could be heard from far away. The imperial guards stood aside in twos and threes, looking at the soldiers practicing martial arts with disdain while chatting about the gossip they had heard recently. There was no discipline at all.

"These imperial guards in the palace are too lazy." Xie Chengze stood beside Xie Shoujun and said in a low voice with disdain, "Can they protect the emperor like this?"

"These people are the leaders of the Imperial Guards, and most of them are children of officials. Even if there is an unexpected situation, it is not them who rush to protect Your Majesty." Xie Shoujun shook his head and explained to him, "It is the ordinary Imperial Guards with no background."

Xie Chengze scratched his head. "You just came back, and you know it so clearly?"

He clearly remembered that in the original book, Xie Shoujun was not interested in these things at all.

Xie Shoujun laughed and said nothing.

In order to prevent Xie Chengze from revealing his identity, Xie Shoujun only circled the training ground twice. The soldiers under his command were relatively self-disciplined and were supervised by the captain, so he did not need to worry too much.

"Captain He is my confidant. If you need help during your stay in Beijing, you can go directly to him." Xie Shoujun pointed at a middle-aged man on the training ground and said, "I have already greeted him."

"Ah? Isn't this too bad?" Xie Chengze was a little surprised and waved his hand quickly, "No, no, it's a serious crime to mobilize military power privately. If the emperor investigates, you will be punished."

"No problem." Xie Shoujun looked very calm and indifferent. "As long as he can't find a replacement to guard the border, he can't do anything to me. Besides, I still have the power to mobilize some soldiers at will."

At worst, Shen Yuan is a very smart man. He can find some way to fool the other party.

Xie Chengze was somewhat shocked by his boldness. He didn't understand why the low-key eldest prince in the original novel suddenly became so high-profile. Could it be because he had stayed in Liaozhou for too long and was influenced by the local customs?

It shouldn't be.

Aren't the Huns at the border more brutal? And there's no sign that Xie Shoujun has any brutal tendencies?

Xie Chengze scratched his head again.

Never mind. If something goes wrong, I can just go find Shen Yuan to solve it.

Both the big and the small thought so.

In prison, Shen Yuan sneezed and counted on his fingers that the day he would be released from prison was almost here.

……

It started snowing halfway through the inspection. After walking back to Wude Hall with Xie Shoujun, Xie Chengze saw an unexpected person.

"Why are you here?" Xie Chengze looked at Xie Jinyu standing at the door of Wude Hall in surprise.

There was a light layer of white snow on his shoulders and head, obviously he had been standing here waiting for a long time.

Xie Jinyu's dark eyes stared straight at Xie Shoujun, full of deep hostility, and this inexplicable hostility made Xie Shoujun a little confused for a moment.

He was not very close to Xie Jinyu when he was young. He only remembered that when he left Beijing, this half-grown child tightly grasped the hem of Xie Chengze's clothes and seemed to be looking at him in the same way, as if he had snatched something from the other person.

But at that time, he didn't care. He was just wondering whether Xie Chengze would forget him in the future.

"I would like to ask why my second brother is here." Retracting his gaze from Xie Shoujun's face, Xie Jinyu turned to look at Xie Chengze with a somewhat cold expression, "Isn't my second brother under house arrest?"

Shen Yuan asked him to come and see who "picked up" his second brother. He thought of all the possibilities, but he never thought that the person was Xie Shoujun.

Why him?

Was it because of his mother's affairs that he conspired with those corrupt officials to devour the entire court?

If the Minister of Revenue and others are really his power, then he is too secretive. And what about his second brother... Is his purpose of approaching his second brother to explode gunpowder?

No, before he gets to the bottom of the truth, he can't let his second brother get too close to this person!

Just as Xie Chengze was about to open his mouth to explain something, he saw Xie Jinyu striding over, grabbing his wrist, pulling him away, "Let's go back to Chenghuan Palace."

"I won't go back!" Xie Chengze tried to break free, but unexpectedly Xie Jinyu was so strong that she pulled his wrist red.

After all, he was a martial artist, so it was easy to capture him.

"Jinyu." Xie Chengze had no choice but to whisper, "Chenghuan Palace is so boring, I don't want to go back."

As soon as he softened his voice, Xie Jinyu softened her heart. She turned around and looked at Xie Chengze, a gentle smile reappearing on her face. "Second brother is bored, so why don't you come to the East Palace? What's the point of an empty Wude Hall?"

Xie Shoujun on the side couldn't help but frown.

What does he mean by this? Why is Wude Hall boring?

"Why is Wude Hall boring? It's enough to have my brother in Wude Hall." Xie Chengze also frowned, dissatisfied with his tone and attitude. He pulled his hand away and said coldly, "Is your East Palace interesting? Oh, it is indeed interesting. I'm afraid it's full of Cao family's spies!"

The gentle smile on Xie Jinyu's face froze in an instant, "Second brother...that's not what I meant."

Xie Shoujun folded his arms and watched the scene, and found it quite interesting.

It seems that the third prince is quite attached to the second prince. I remember that in Liaozhou, the fourth prince seemed to be quite attached to the second prince as well. Could it be that all the members of the Xie family like to stick to their older brothers?