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"The national teacher was tempting in every possible way from the beginning, but now it seems that the person the national teacher is testing is not my lord, but me, right?" Zhao Xu withdrew all the pretentious gentleness, and his whole body was as cold as the ice and snow on Tianshan Mountain , lonely like pines and cypresses under the bright moon.

The national teacher still looked like he was sitting on a cloud and despising all living beings, "That's right."

Zhao Xuji nodded slowly, "From the very beginning, even a few years ago, you made up your mind, and I thank you for your sincere help. It's just that my lord and I just get what we need and act on the occasion. In the name of my son, I make every possible effort to make things difficult for my heirs, it seems to be giving me a blow, but it is actually meaningless."

"Deceive yourself," the national teacher seemed to have seen through everything, "If the Xuanyuan family already had an orthodox heir, Xuanyuan Hui would not have to continue the bloodline and spread the branches, and you would still be satisfied with the 'true monarch, minister, False couples' and cringe?"

He explained Zhao Xu's troubles for the past year, and Zhao Xu couldn't help feeling angry, but after all, he has done a good job in cultivating energy these years, so he said coldly: "I can't imagine that people outside the national teacher are so familiar with wind and moon. Xu really admires the matter. But the same sentence, even if Huihe Khan is here, I am afraid he is not qualified to dictate his nephew's family affairs, right? National teacher, how do you treat the prince? Take concubines and have children?"

"Now that the Qi Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, even if Huihe is no longer a vassal, the new emperor can't do anything to Huihe. Huihe can be alone. Do you know why I want to help the prince?"

Zhao Xu frowned. He knew that the National Teacher had a high position and authority in Huihe before, but he did not expect it to be this far. "If you say it is a relationship of flesh and blood, let alone me, even the National Teacher himself doesn't believe it? The relationship between the two countries is of course a benefit." at the head."

"Those Deng Dang can also afford it." The national teacher stood up, pushed open the window of the elegant room, and pointed to the stars outside the window, "Since the princess is a talented scholar, she knows everything about astronomy and geography. Does the princess know about the 'five-dimensional gathering room'?"

Zhao Xu nodded, "The Western Zhou Dynasty was the Shang Dynasty, and the phenomenon of the world was clearly understood."

"That's right. In my spare time, I always like stargazing at night, and Duanyang 21 years ago happened to be illuminated by divine light, and the sky and the earth were bright..."

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the first year of Jinghe, it was Xuanyuan Hui's birthday, so Zhao Xu had some worries in his heart and listened attentively.

"Later, the night before my lord visited Yaluke, I saw Ziwei move westward, with Gou Chen by her side. At that time, your late emperor was already very weak. Who is Ziwei Emperor Star referring to? Isn’t it obvious? It’s easy to make icing on the cake, but it’s hard to send charcoal in the snow. It’s true, but you Han people have always admired “the kindness of a drop of water, should be repaid by the spring”, and the gratitude and feedback you get in the end is not peace. Comparable in the prosperous age?"

Zhao Xu smiled, "The National Teacher coincides with my thoughts back then."

The national teacher looked at Zhao Xu, "If one day, the interests of the lord and the gentry run counter to each other, even to the point of death, how will the princess choose?"

Zhao Xu completely understood at this time, what the Huihe people care about is not the mess between him and Xuanyuanhui, but whether he, Zhao Xu, will become a stumbling block on Xuanyuanhui's road to becoming a dragon, and whether their previous investment will be defeated. Float.

Thinking about it, Zhao Xu said calmly: "At the moment, I am one with the prince, if you are not at ease, I can form an alliance with you in the name of the Zhao family or myself."

The national teacher looked at him without saying a word, and Zhao Xu said slowly, "Isn't it safer? Let's do this, I will press the treasure book that the late emperor canonized me as Princess Su to you, and promise you one thing, treat me After fulfilling the promise, how about you return the treasure book?"

The national teacher nodded, "very good, since the princess is so proud, I will no longer be hypocritical. Before I came, Khan had a long talk with me. Although the prince is his nephew, he still has doubts about whether the Su palace can compete in the world. So let me bring him here, if the prince really has destiny, I will spare no effort to help the true emperor since I return to the heaven and the court. If there is another war in the future, the Huihe iron cavalry will definitely not stand by. "

After all, the national teacher also took out the seal with the wolf's head from his sleeve, and handed it to Zhao Xu, "Then I ask the princess to keep it on her behalf. As for whether to tell the prince, it's up to the princess herself."

Zhao Xu raised his wine glass, the two touched each other, and drank it down in one gulp.

In the evening, when Zhao Xu went back to Lilou, Xuanyuan Hui was lighting up the lamp to read military books, as if he was waiting for him.

"This is the token of the Huihe cavalry." Zhao Xu threw the thing to him directly from his sleeve. "It's really cunning and cunning. In the end, I still owe him a favor."

Xuanyuan Hui was stunned for a moment, then narrowly took it, his eyes flickered slightly, and he held the seal tightly.

Zhao Xu looked at him quietly, and saw that Xuanyuan Hui seemed to have sighed, and then leaned over to squeeze his shoulders shamelessly as if nothing happened, "It's hard work for the concubine to be with him."

Zhao Xu sneered, "He's planning for you wholeheartedly. Whether it's the map or the military amulet, it's meant to be for you. I'm a villain, so let him be on guard all the time."

Xuanyuan Hui rubbed his fingers on the wolf's head, "What exactly is Huihe's picture?"

He couldn't figure it out, but Zhao Xu smiled leisurely, "I also ordered Zhizhi to investigate this time when I returned to the national teacher, it's interesting."

"Oh?" Xuanyuan Hui raised his eyebrows, "You would never tell me that he was also a child of a noble family before he became a monk. He grew up with my uncle and concubine as childhood sweethearts. , he was disheartened and became a monk. Khan always obeyed him because of his friendship and debt to him, so he became powerful in Huihe. After the death of his mother and concubine, he has been paying attention to heaven and court. Is it because of my movement that you take extra care of me?"

Zhao Xu felt that Xuanyuan Hui was really full of whimsical ideas, and even put on the late emperor's green hat. He was very angry and funny, and said, "If the prince is not afraid of trouble, he can go and confront the national teacher face to face. It looks like the two countries are about to go to war."

Xuanyuan Hui smiled embarrassingly, "Then what do you say?"

"It's funny to say that the spies once peeped at the national teacher when he was taking a bath, and saw a wolf-shaped tattoo on the national teacher's body. The tattoo was clearly only available to princes. Then I went to check the Huihe Khan and Zuo Xianxian at the age of the national teacher. All the princes in the king's ministries, it turned out that there was only one person named Mengchen, who had disappeared since he was five years old. Our national teacher was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous national teacher at the age of six. Huang Temple."

If the national teacher is really Meng Chen, then it can be explained that his speech in Huihe is very important. After all, the national teacher is like a living Buddha, not to mention the prince's background.

Xuanyuan Hui was just thinking about it, so he heard Zhao Xu say leisurely: "The current Khan is the son of the former Khan's concubine, and Huihe Kedun has a son and a daughter, one son is named Meng Chen, and one daughter enters the customs alone..."

Xuanyuan Hui froze, and slowly turned to look at him, "Is that so..."

The author has something to say: the closest descendants of Huihe today are the customs of the Yugur people and the belief of the Tibetan people in Lamaism.