wind and earth

The momentum of the ten thousand army is soaring, and Li Ke, the king of Wu, led the army for thousands of miles. However, he has rushed to Yumen Pass in ten days, and alternated with the emperor, and took over the task of pacifying Turpan.

In the tent, Li Shimin patted Li Ke on the shoulder and looked at the child with a look of relief.

"We, Ke'er, can finally take on this great responsibility." He took the fur-collar coat from Li Quan and did not put it on.

"Father..." Li Ke was moved.

"You are such a kind and gentle child, just like your mother, you can be moved to tears by a little thing." He patted Li Ke's shoulder again.

Li Ke bowed his head and smiled.

At this time, Chufeng was paid, but his face was still as white as paper.

"Sir, are you sick?" Li Ke wanted to step forward to help Chufeng, but seeing that his father had already stepped forward, he stopped.

"It's much better." He turned the warm stone in his hand again.

Li Shimin put on the coat in his hand and said: "I have to take this guy back to the palace to recuperate. When you enter the palace next time, I will definitely return you a healthy gentleman."

"Are you really sick?" Why is there no news from the palace.

"It's not in the way." He wanted to take the tether from Li Shimin's hand.

"Ke'er, the guarding of Yumen Pass may drag on for a year. Don't be impatient, attack slowly and force retreat. When you return to the city, I will surely fulfill your request." Still pulling the string, tied a bow tie for Chufeng.

Li Ke only felt that his father's attitude towards Chu Feng was different, but after hearing the emperor's secret consent to his request last time, his mind was diverted, and he hurriedly bowed to thank him.

"Wu Wang, sir is waiting to drink your wedding wine." Chufeng smiled, and the pears vortexed.

Li Ke was taken aback, his face flushed slightly, and he said, "Sir, you really know everything."

Seeing that Chu Feng was smiling happily, Li Shimin turned his hands behind his back and walked out of the tent. He felt a little relieved, exhaled white smoke, and curled the corners of his mouth to show a smile.

For Li Ke, he has always wronged the boy, and Chu Feng's congratulations gave him more confidence. He did the right thing.

***

Jiu Feng pulled the rope on the horse, turned and got off the horse, approached Li Shimin, and sat down on the ground.

This hill was the place where the two of them often gathered before they captured Chang'an City.

"You are here." Li Shimin was still lying on the ground, not like a noble emperor.

"Second brother." He looked worried.

"He, too much like me." Opening his eyes and looking at the blue sky, he has not been so free for a long time.

Jiufeng hummed lightly, he understood Li Shimin's concerns.

"He is Ruo'er's and I's child, Jiu Feng knows, your second brother has been in love with Ruo'er for many years." He chuckled lightly, not knowing why he mentioned this to Jiu Feng.

Jiufeng still hummed.

"I have too many expectations for Ke'er, but I'm also afraid. Whenever I see him persist, I feel flustered again." He was afraid that if he was so persistent, he would kill his brother like him.

"Second Brother." Jiu Feng paused and then said, "Elder Brother and Fifth Brother are Jiu Feng's fault."

Li Shimin stood up and leaned against him, looking at Chang'an City below the mountain: "You... It's really like what they said, you are too partial to the second brother."

Jiu Feng curled his mouth: "Second Brother, what do you think?"

"You boy!" He raised his hand and rubbed Jiufeng's head.

***

After traveling thousands of miles, Chu Feng was weak and easily fatigued, and fell asleep before arriving in Liangzhou. Li Shimin embraced him and let him lean on his shoulders.

Seeing that Chufeng's small face was still pale, he showed a little reluctance, reached out to touch his face, and stroked his lips with his fingertips.

After hesitating for a while, he tilted his head slightly to press his lips, and licked his lips, separated by an inch. He reached out to caress his face and kissed him again.

The curtain of the dragon pattern of the carriage was raised, and Li Quan saw the scene inside the carriage, and immediately pulled down the curtain again, turning around, worried that other people would see it.

"Li Quan, retreat and serve." The voice was extremely low, afraid of waking Chufeng up.

"Yes." Li Quan asked his servants and soldiers to retreat before walking back to the carriage to respond.

Li Shimin picked up Chufeng, put on his fighting clothes, and walked into the other courtyard of the Liangzhou Imperial Mansion.

Looking at the emperor's back, Li Quanxin became even more flustered. The emperor's retreat was to preserve Chufeng's reputation and not to be talked about.

But as far as brotherhood is concerned, the emperor can wake up Chufeng and let the husband get off the car by himself, instead of this ambiguous act of intimacy.

Follow up in small steps, open the door for the emperor, and when the emperor enters the room, he closes the door.

Turning around, he saw that the emperor was tucking in the quilt for Chufeng, and he sat on the bed, pulled up the bridge of his nose, clasped his hands, and rested his forehead on the clenched hands.

A look of bitter thought.

"Your Majesty..." the voice trembled.

"I know, don't talk too much." Looking at the sleeping Chufeng, he sighed.

He knew in his heart that as an emperor, such uncertain emotions must be eliminated.

Let Li Quan take a few books and put pen and ink, and he sat down at the table in the room, trying to concentrate on writing, but looked at Chufeng on the bed from time to time, unable to concentrate.

Finally, he turned his back and looked out the window.

Liangzhou is very cold today, the ground is full of frost, Li Shimin opened the window halfway, his mouth was so cold that white smoke was blown out of his mouth, his nose was a little red, he still stood by the window, as if he thought it would calm him down.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Li Shimin restrained his thoughts.

"Second brother is not wearing a fighting suit, but wants to drink medicine with Chufeng?" He smiled and approached slowly.

"You slept so hard." He took the fighting clothes from Chufeng.

"It's a heavy sleep, I'm a little hungry now." He was still wearing the wolf fur coat Li Shimin gave him, which was too big and looked pitiful.

Li Shimin looked at his heartbeat, but remained silent.

"What? Second brother, do you want to wear this of mine?" He untied the bow tie and wanted to return it to Li Shimin.

"Just wear it!" Li Shimin smiled, "I won't get sick again."

"Second Brother Xie." He approached the table and looked at the Emperor Fan written by Li Shimin, reading it carefully.

"Sir, do you want to teach one or two?" He picked up one and leaned on the table, and began to read.

"No, just, happy." His eyes were full of emotion.

"Just say that your heart is tied to the world, more tightly than my emperor." Chufeng smiled.

"Second brother, although Chu Feng knows the secrets of the past, he never expected to meet such a holy lord of hundreds of generations, nor did he think that he could see the road and not pick up the lost things, and the prosperity of the people could help the second brother open up a prosperous world. Yan.” The corners of his mouth twisted into a beautiful pear dimple again.

"It's been a very difficult journey." Li Shimin sighed.

Chu Feng looked at Li Shimin, hesitated for a while, and then asked, "Second brother, that fire sword..."

Li Quan entered the door and bowed: "Your Majesty, dinner is ready."

"What did you say?" Li Shimin didn't hear clearly.

"It's all right." He smiled, and said, "I'm hungry, maybe the grass people have a meal with the emperor?"

Li Shimin laughed and embraced him, "Let's go!"

Looking at the faint pink stain on Chufeng's cheeks due to insufficient sleep, Li Shimin turned his eyes away.

It was drizzling outside, and it was not wet, but it made people feel cold. Several snow stoves and a few candles were placed in the house to illuminate the room, and it was also warm to stay.

The two ate dinner, talking about the continuous snowstorm, which caused food shortage, and now the frontier fortress encountered war again, discussing how the people should deal with taxation.

"...I have asked Fang Xuanling to settle this matter. You also know that Xuanling loves to be calculative. Everything has to be settled. Now he has to decide." Li Shimin had already thought about this winter snowstorm.

"I seem to have seen Mr. Fang holding a scale." Chu Feng smiled lightly.

"In the matter of the granaries, the household department opened the granaries one by one, but King Ji still only obeyed the orders of his mother and concubine, and this time he returned to the city, I don't know what mistakes he can make." Li Shimin took another sip of wine.

Chu Feng offered him a few bites of food: "It didn't take a day for the Wei family to become powerful. The second brother is bothered now, but he is afraid that the eradication will lead to rebellion, and the matter of King Qi will happen again."

Li Shimin turned the wine and said nothing.

"King Ji was cowardly and could not convince the ministers. In the end, Wei Yingchao rebelled and killed those who threatened him in the palace, and proclaimed himself king by stepping on the blood of the royal family." He said Li Shimin's worries.

Li Shimin poured another glass of wine, but was pressed down by Chufeng.

"Second brother, eat something." The flagon has bottomed out, but there is no food on the plate.

"Cultivate one's morals, regulate one's family and rule the world..." Li Shimin put down his wine, feeling inexplicably lost.

"Second brother..." Chu Feng stared at him, he understood Li Shimin's suffering.

"You said...Second Brother has won the world, but he even has to guard against his own children. Is it worthwhile for Second Brother to fight the world?" He smiled wryly.

Chufeng couldn't bear it, and frowned slightly.

"For the sake of this world, I removed my brothers, and finally my father and king also left me, and then even the concubines around me were plotting. After King Qi's rebellion, who will be next! Who else!" He threw the wine dendrobium Come out, spilled white wine all over the place.

"Second Brother..." Tears rolled from his eyes and he choked up, "What can I help you with..."

Chufeng wept silently. He had been with him for many years, so he didn't understand the suffering of his second brother.

Counting all the secrets, the second brother was destined to bear the notoriety of killing brothers and brothers, so he killed Yuan Ji for him and buried Li Jiancheng.

King Qi was exiled, King Ji was poisoned by Webster, Chengqian fell, and then Concubine Yang died of illness, and the talented Wu family and King Jin... all because he was Li Shimin, the Li Shimin of the prosperous Tang Dynasty who never closed his house at night to build roads. , All these hardships have to be borne by him alone.

Chu Feng burst into tears, and his red lips trembled slightly. He grabbed Li Shimin's sleeve, choked up, and said it again.

"Second brother...how can Chufeng help you..."

Li Shimin shook his hands, wiped away his tears with his thumbs, and hugged Chufeng in a heartbeat.

***

That knife made Li Shimin feel scared for the first time.

It was the knife that Jiufeng blocked for him, the knife that almost killed Jiufeng.

He only felt that there was a piece of emptiness in his heart, as if he was missing in this world.

At the end of the day, he walked quickly to the Jiufeng Wing, the wooden window was slightly opened, and he stopped when he heard Chengqian talking with Jiufeng.

"You...why do you always try your best to protect the father..." The tone was sad.

"That's all I can do."

Li Shimin glanced at Jiufeng, and saw that there were endless thoughts in his eyes, as if he knew many things but couldn't say them out.

"But this time you..." He couldn't understand.

"Second brother, it seems to own the world, but in fact it is not." He sighed.

Chengqian said nothing, just looked at Chufeng quietly.

"Ganer... all I can do... is to protect my second brother..." Jiu Feng burst into tears.

"You... don't cry, I don't blame you." Handed the kerchief.

"But I blame myself." Jiu Feng bowed his head.

"What are you blaming yourself for!"

"Ganer... for the sake of the world, the second brother has lost too much. Just because the world needs him, he has to support him, so he can't be free. But I can't help him with these things."

Cheng Qian paused for a moment, speechless.

After a while, Cheng Qian walked out of the door, stood outside the door for a while, and then left.

When Li Shimin entered the room, he saw Jiu Feng who was sleeping beside him. He reached out to touch Jiu Feng's face, brushed his fingers across his lips, and stopped abruptly.

He was shocked, his fingers were hot, he got up and wanted to leave, but he didn't move forward.

Jiufeng, but his brother.

That night he turned over Yang Ruo'er's brand, thinking that he would be able to have fun and have sex with fish and water, but the figure of Jiufeng always appeared in his mind, and the fingers that brushed his red lips were also slightly hot.

He was impatient and hurt Yang Ruo'er, seeing her wronged, he hugged her and coaxed her softly, and then he had a sleepless night.

He shouldn't have a weakness.

Looking at the top of the bed, I always feel sad, and I draw the bridge of my nose, and sigh deeply.