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City North Barracks.

Lu Jue was sitting in the tent, holding a volume of military books in his hand, after reading for a while, he put the book on the desk with a "slap" and made a clear sound.

He was supposed to take a bath yesterday, but he went to the barracks before dawn, and didn't even have breakfast at home.He didn't know what expression to use to face Xie Qiao, and he didn't want to see Xie Qiao at all.

That was the child he had loved for nearly ten years. Xie Qiao had been raised in his yard since he had an accident in the palace when he was nine years old, and he had never been back to the palace until he became a mansion at the age of 16.Year after year, most of the time, Xie Qiao was basically by his side.He watched Xie Qiao grow from a thin child to a handsome young man with his own eyes.

However, he never thought that this child would do something like that to him one day.

He even didn't expect that Xie Qiao's kiss, which might just be drunk and messed up, would make his always sober and desireless heart flustered like this, and after a day and a night, he didn't get better.

"General, your meal." The young soldier lifted the curtain and came in, respectfully putting the tray in his hand on the table.

After finishing the work, he was about to go down when he listened to the young general's order: "You tell the guards outside the camp, if the little prince comes, don't let him in."

The soldiers were a little surprised. Everyone in Jinling City knew that His Highness was almost raised by their general. They had always had a good relationship. In the past, he had also been to the barracks. At that time, their general would usually order people to be brought into their tents. Anton, but this time...

Although a little surprised, the soldier still answered "yes" respectfully.

"Report!"

At this moment, a soldier entered the tent, saluted Lu Jue and said, "General, Your Majesty ordered you to enter the palace."

"I see, you go down."

……

Lu Jue followed the orders and entered the palace. He thought the emperor announced him because of military affairs, but the emperor saw him and asked a question helplessly: "Huaiyu, did you quarrel with Qiaoer?"

Lu Jue frowned subconsciously, and said, "Nothing. Why does Your Majesty ask such a question?"

Xie Zheng seldom saw Lu Jue showing his thoughts. Lu Jue has always been open-minded and free-spirited, and he has never been frustrated. Even in the most difficult years of their life in Changsha, he just laughed and said, " Changsha's mountains and rivers are very good, and it would be an elegant thing to bury the bones here and nourish the mountains and rivers here'.

This kind of human heart was too upright and pure before, so now that he has something in his heart, he is not good at hiding it.A carefree person like Xie Zheng could see that, not only did he and Lu Jue have brotherhood, not to mention that his own brother was involved, so he said directly: "Qiao Er, stay here." I wrote a letter and left home. Are you really all right?"

"What did you say?" Lu Jue raised his head suddenly.

Xie Zheng sighed helplessly, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Jue, and said, "Xu Lai sent it to the palace today, and he said he was going to go out and visit some Tai County. The time will be back, so Gu don't worry."

Speaking of this, Xie Zheng couldn't help laughing helplessly, and said: "Tell me, he stayed in Jinling well, why did he think of going to Tai County? I can't understand it after thinking about it, or the queen wants to pass you on alone." Enter the palace and ask the last question——no, why did he suddenly think of Tai County? Is there anything special about Tai County?"

Lu Jue read the letter at a glance, frowned even tighter, and said, "I'll go find him and come back." Xie Qiao's behavior was simply nonsense. He was brought to Jinling by him when he was nine years old, and he stayed in Jinling for nine years. He has traveled, and he took him on several long trips.But this time, he left alone, without taking anyone with him!Moss County is on the opposite side of the Yangtze River. Xie Qiao was so afraid of taking a boat when he was a child, and it didn’t ease after several years of age. This time, he gained a lot of courage overnight and dared to run across the river by himself?

If it's because of that night, he doesn't have to—

Lu Jue made up his mind to bring him back, when Xie Zheng smiled and said, "Actually, Qiao Er is old enough to go out by herself, Huai Yu, you don't have to worry too much. Gu told you to come in." Gong just wanted to ask if something happened to cause Qiao Er to behave like this all of a sudden."

"Your Majesty, you don't know, he has never gone out by himself, besides, there are many waterways in the south, he—"

"Huaiyu," Xie Zheng patted Lu Jue on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Qiao Er is not eight years old. The only thing I'm worried about is whether he left because he had something to do with you. completely relieved."

Lu Jue closed his eyes, and finally said: "Your Majesty, there are indeed some minor incidents between us, so please allow your Majesty to let the minister bring him back."

Xie Zheng raised his eyebrows and said: "Sure." Then he said: "I see that you are usually too tense, if you find him, you don't have to rush back, you can have a good time - but alone I really don’t know what’s so interesting about Moss County.”

Lu Jue had something on his mind, so he didn't refute, but just clasped his fists and saluted: "I obey the order."

Lu Jue retreated and strode out of the palace, just in time to bump into Li Mingbei who was going to report to the palace.It was rare to see Lu Jue frowning, and Li Mingbei became interested, and asked with a smile: "Master Lu, where are you going in such a hurry?"

"Master Li," Lu Jue cupped his fists sloppily, and said, "I have something urgent right now, let's talk another day."

"It's about our little prince, right? I heard His Majesty say that he left home?" Li Ming said sadly and slowly, seeing that Lu Jue just paused for a while before walking forward, he continued: "Back then I also counted I have taught him for a while, and he will not leave Jinling unless he has something to do." After all, there is someone in Jinling.

As he said this, something suddenly crossed his mind, and he said: "A few months ago, he came to the library of my house and looked for the classics about the former imperial concubine Jing. Although I don't know what he was looking for, you also know , our little prince's hands and feet have always been very honorable, and he never does useless things."

Lu Jue turned around, saluted Li Ming sadly and solemnly, and said, "Thank you, Lord Li, for telling me."

After saying that, he walked out of the palace even more quickly - he thought that Xie Qiao left home because of what happened that night, but now it seems that it is not at all.But because it wasn't, he was even more worried.What happened to need Xie Qiao, a noble prince who was raised in Jinling, to cross the Yangtze River to Tai County in such a hurry?

After leaving the palace, Lu Jue rode a fast horse to Xie Qiao's palace.When he arrived at the mansion, before he knocked on the door, he saw Xu Lai opened the door, hurriedly greeted him, and said anxiously: "Oh, Master Lu, you are here, please take care of our Highness."

"What's going on? Why is he in such a hurry to go to Tai County?" Lu Jue asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Xu Lai was anxious, and while handing a letter to Lu Jue, he said: "As soon as our Highness came back yesterday, he asked the slave to pack his luggage, saying that he was going to Tai County, and there was nothing to do when asked. Say, don't let the slave follow, you say, you say this..."

Lu Jue opened the letter and read the ten lines at a glance, then slapped a thin sheet of letter paper on the desk, veins popped out on the white forehead, and his voice was angry: "He is just messing around!"

"My... my lord?" Seeing Lu Jue's appearance, Xu Lai felt even more uncertain, and said, "What...our Highness said?"

"He wants me to find a doctor in the south of the city and take him to Tai County!" Lu Jue looked at Xu Lai with a livid face: "Why don't you look after him? Why didn't you go find me earlier? What the hell is he going to Tai County for?" Do you need a doctor?!"

Xu Lai was so anxious that he burst into tears: "Slave, I can't persuade you. You also know that our Highness doesn't listen to anyone except you and His Majesty..." In fact, sometimes we don't even listen to His Majesty...

These words stabbed Lu Jue hard in his heart again, he closed his eyes and said, "I'll go to Tai County to find him."

"Bring... Take this slave, I will go with your lord, and you can take care of our Highness when you arrive in Tai County—" Xu Lai said with a mournful face, "You don't know, our Highness didn't bring a single servant this time..."

"I'll go to the south of the city to find the doctor Qiaoer mentioned, and we'll meet at the ferry." After Lu Jue said this, he turned around and left, and Xu Lai hurried to pack his luggage.

……

Tai County, Luzhou, Jiangbei.

Moss County is a small county, and outsiders rarely come here, so there is only one inn in the city.

One day, a strange foreigner came to the street outside the inn. He had a handsome face, but he was wearing coarse linen clothes. But there is no trace of malaise.

Because the man's temperament was too special, but his outfit was so strange, the waiter in the shop took a second look, and just as he was watching, he saw the man enter the shop, threw a peg of silver at him, and said, "One room up house."

The shop waiter saw that the man was dressed rough, but his hands were so generous, he immediately put on a respectful smile, walked up to the man swiftly, and said: "Okay, sir, please come with me."

……

Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty has informed that General Lu has entered the palace? Did Qiaoer have any business?" The Queen put a cup of lotus seed soup on the table and asked with a smile.

The emperor took the queen's hand and sat down, said with a smile: "He's all grown up, just going out for a long trip, what can he do?" Then he frowned slightly and said: "Hey, Ting Tong, Qiao Er Going out alone, why do you want me to ask Huai Yu? Even if they have a good relationship, Huai Yu can't care about Qiao Er going out."

The queen sighed helplessly, and lightly tapped the forehead between the emperor's eyebrows reproachfully: "Your Majesty can't even see this, and he is Qiaoer's elder brother."

"See what?" Xie Zheng had a simple question on his face.

The queen didn't answer, but asked, "Where is General Lu? Did he say he was going to find Qiao Er?"

"I've said it. I'm lonely—in fact, I feel that Huaiyu is too fond of Qiaoer. Qiaoer, it's not bad to go out and practice alone."

The queen shook her head with a smile, and said: "Qiao Er is really right." Her majesty was so careless in matters of affection, and she didn't know why he was attracted to her in the first place.

"what?"

"Your Majesty doesn't need to ask any more questions." The queen just patted the emperor's hand lightly, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty just look back, and you will know when the time comes."