Ji Yunqi didn't go to court for several days, although Xiao Fang kept sending people to contact the palace, Xiao Fang couldn't sleep at night and couldn't eat.

Especially after listening to Madoka's words, ominous thoughts came to mind all the time.

But he didn't dare to disturb Ji Yunqi at will, so he could only wait in the palace uneasily.

After all, some truths are unavoidable. After the news came to Zishi, Ji Yunqi did not enter the palace quietly like before, but handed out the book outside the palace gate.

Just for this action alone, Xiao Fang's heart was already in his throat when he was waiting in the side hall. When he saw Ji Yunqi bowing down the steps with the dusty scouts, the blood in his whole body was cold.

"Is it... Yun Feng's news?"

His voice was trembling, as if he was stepping on a steel wire above a ravine, and only a gust of wind could blow him down.

"Your Majesty," the scout bowed his head, "Little General Ji went out of the city to meet the enemy, but unfortunately he was ambushed. Although General Xing went to meet him immediately, he still failed to rescue him in time..."

Xiao Fang buzzed in his head, but tried to grab the handrail to calm himself down: "Is Yun Feng captured? Whatever they want, as long as they can be given, give them! Change Yun Feng back!"

Ji Yunqi was silent and turned away.

The scout paused and replied in a low voice: "Back to the emperor, the Nanjiang people escorted the little general to the gate to call for formation, and demanded to open the door to let them in. The little general would rather die than surrender, let us shoot arrows, and finally...General Xing ordered... ..."

Xiao Fang froze and couldn't move, he could only hear the scout's voice gradually going away, as if separated by clouds and mist.

"The little general died for the country... When the Nanjiang people retreated... they took the little general away..."

Before he slid off the chair, he was picked up by someone, only in time to hear someone call him "Fang Fang" in a hoarse voice.

Splitting headache.

All the scenes swirled in front of his eyes like a vortex, and the position of his heart seemed to be repeatedly pierced by something. He even thought that he would wake up on the bed in the rented room the next moment.

But there was always some fetter that held him, and he was reluctant to leave. He turned his head and looked along the hand that was holding him. It was Ji Yunqi's flushed eyes, but when he looked carefully, his appearance slowly changed again.

Younger than Ji Yunqi, more smiling than Ji Yunqi, the young man's face is still familiar, only the corners of his eyes were red, but in a blink of an eye both eyes were dripping with blood and tears.

With trembling hands, Xiao Fang tried desperately to wipe the blood off his face, but he couldn't wipe it off.

"Yunfeng, Yunfeng..." His throat was so choked that he couldn't utter a complete sentence: "Come back, okay... let's not make any achievements, your brother and I... are waiting for you... to come back, okay? "

The young man covered his hands with his hands, and laughed even more joyfully. Blood and tears rolled down his mouth, and his thin lips moved, as if he had said something.

Xiao Fang desperately wanted to come forward to listen, but he felt that people were getting farther and farther away from him, and even his bone-chilling hands moved away.

He rushed forward in a panic and bumped into something hard, and the warm touch woke him up.

When he opened his eyes, all he could see was his bedroom, the imperial physician had already retreated from the door, and only Ji Yunqi was left holding him in his arms.

"Fangfang..."

Xiao Fang suddenly got up, knelt down on the bed, hugged Ji Yunqi's neck fiercely, tears could not stop falling, and he wiped them away indiscriminately.

"Yes... I'm sorry, I'm fine, I made you worry, I shouldn't faint now, I'm sorry..."

He was stuttering and trembling all over——Yun Feng's whereabouts were enough to make Yun Qi sad, he couldn't help a little, but added trouble to others in the face of it, he was really a waste.

Ji Yunqi suppressed the choking in his throat, and after a while, he gently stroked the top of his head, slowly stroking it down along his hair: "Fang Fang, as long as you are fine."

Xiao Fang buried himself in Ji Yunqi's hair, biting his arm desperately to prevent the sound of crying from escaping.Ji Yunqi patted him on the back without saying a word.

In the distance, the morning bell had already rang. At this time before, that young man who was always full of energy had already packed up and was waiting outside the imperial study room, preparing to sort out the notebooks for him and study with him.

It is impossible not to think about it, but even just thinking about the shadow standing in the morning light, Xiao Fang will be defeated.

He hated himself for listening to Yun Feng's begging, thinking that making meritorious deeds was nothing more than a long trip, he hated himself for treating war as a trifling matter, thinking that bloodshed and fighting were just a stroke of paper.

"I'm sorry..." With a trembling voice, he kept apologizing, and felt guilty for being so useless.

Ji Yunqi kept patting him, and responded to every apology he made.

"it's not your fault."

Xiao Fang felt ashamed, slowly stopped his voice, wiped his face with the quilt, and sat up straight: "Yun Qi."

Ji Yunqi looked up at him.

"Nanjiang took Yunfeng away... there must be some other requests. You send an order to Shuanglouguan, saying that as long as they ask, they will allow it to the greatest extent. If the people there can't make the decision, give it to Nanjiang's envoy." Let it go, I'll go talk to them."

Xiao Fang stopped for a moment.

As the morning sun rose, driving away the cold at night, he thought that the place far outside the pass was still hot as summer, and his heart felt like a knife cut him, so he immediately changed his mind.

"No, you arrange carriages and horses. There don't need to be too many people. I'm going to Shuanglou Pass!"

"Fang Fang, don't worry," Ji Yunqi pressed Xiao Fang who was about to jump up: "You are right, since they took Yunfeng away, it must be of value to use, the weather is hot, they also know, the delay is too long If they don't, it won't do them any good. Now we have to see, which side is more calm."

Xiao Fang was stunned by his calmness, but saw Ji Yunqi's hands on his legs—the veins on the back of his hands were swollen, and he didn't know how much effort he had to restrain his impulse.

"I see."

Xiao Fang slowly bent down, buried his face in the crook of his arms, and knew for the first time that standing at such a high position, he would be so powerless.

The order to Shuanglouguan was sent out at a speed of hundreds of miles, and all that was left was to wait.

The journey back and forth was not short, no matter how fast the horse was, it would take some time, Xiao Fang was so anxious that he went to guard the city wall every day when he was free.

Even though the scouts had told him plainly that Yun Feng was gone, as long as he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he always had a little expectation.

Not only him, besides Ji Yunqi, Qin Huai and Fan Shengyu also often stood with him on the city wall.

Qin Huai said, "That's my favorite successor."

Fan Shengyu said: "That is also my student."

If you haven't really seen Yunfeng, there is always hope.

Maybe just like Yun Qi during the Chinese New Year, it was just a temporary intelligence error?Maybe Yun Feng was being mischievous on purpose, so he wanted to scare them first like his brother?

Maybe when they were all hopeless, Yun Feng would suddenly appear in front of them...

Xiao Fang looked into the distance in the cold evening wind, with a little smile prepared for surprise on the corner of his mouth, his cheeks were already wet.

Ji Yunqi's horse had gone away, and he looked at the figure that should have always been tall and straight.

Although after leaving the palace gate, his straight back bent slightly tiredly, but in front of everyone, Ji Yunqi was still the calm and calm general who could not be defeated by anyone.

With Ji Yunqi here as stable as a mountain, others have no right to be overwhelmed with grief.

No one can guess where the worst possible bottom line is, and they only hope to get a clear answer as soon as possible.But to everyone's surprise, the answer came quickly, but it didn't come from Nan Jiang.

Xiao Fang looked down at the people at the bottom of the steps, they looked like individuals, but in his eyes, they looked like evil spirits in skin.

Antieta still had that modest smile on her face, and bowed deeply to Xiao Fang.

"The bandits in Nanjiang are rude and dare to offend the Tanrong and Tanrong countries." He glanced to the side and signaled his followers to hand over the paperwork.

"My Dayong frontier army accidentally encountered the fleeing Nanjiang defeated army, and after defeating them, I did not expect to snatch them from them..."

Antitta glanced at Ji Yunqi who was standing aside, and sighed: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, General Ji, my army is in awe of General Ji, so naturally I dare not treat the little general badly, and I have already taken the ice cream." Put the pieces in the coffin."

Xiao Fang couldn't help clenching his fists in the word "in the coffin".

"It's still your country, thank you for your thoughtfulness." He gritted his teeth and said every word insincerely.

Antieta didn't seem to notice the gazes around him that seemed to be devouring him, and slowly bowed to thank him: "It's just that the daytime is still scorching hot, although we try our best to get ice cubes from all around, we are afraid that it will take too long... ..."

Xiao Fang stared at him, feeling cold all over his body, only by pinching himself desperately, could he restrain his extreme nausea and resentment.

That kind of madness and hissing had nowhere to vent. For the first time in his life, he wanted to kill someone. He just wanted to stab the man in front of him with a bright dagger in the chest, pull it out and stab it again until it became a bloody mess.

But he can't.

He couldn't let Yunfeng die in vain, and he couldn't give Xi Rong a chance to declare war when he should be recuperating. He didn't want to bear it, but he couldn't.

"What do you want?"

Antieta's tensed shoulders slowly relaxed. Although Xi Rong won by advancing, he won by retreating, but the price of retreating was his life. Who wouldn't cherish their own life?

only……

He looked into Xiao Fang's eyes - it's just that this young little emperor has changed so much, he can even endure such humiliation, maybe, they shouldn't give the disabled lion a chance to stand up while panting.

"My country's request has already been mentioned to the emperor before." He did not have the slightest joy of victory, but was worried under Xiao Fang's calm eyes with hatred.

"200 million taels of silver, [-] taels of horses, [-] shi of grain, and some seeds of various fruits and vegetables. I'll give them to you." Xiao Fang looked at him coldly for a while, and then smiled again.

"Lu Zeyi doesn't know something. I treat Yunfeng like a younger brother. Your country can help me take Yunfeng back. I will never forget this feeling and intention!"

How could Xiao Fang forget.

On this road, he and Yunfeng had been looking forward to Ji Yunqi's triumphant return. After Yunfeng went out, he had discussed with Ji Yunqi that when Yunfeng came back, he must welcome him more grandly.

Let Yun Feng raise his eyebrows once, truly walk out of Yun Qi's shadow, and be a hero of Da Tan with his head held high.

But everything collapsed like a bubble.

Xiao Fang never thought that on the same road, they would be waiting for a cold black coffin.

Ji Yunqi lost his composure for the first time, and rushed a few steps ahead of him, put his hands on the black coffin, turned his back to Xiao Fang, and shrugged his shoulders slightly.

The civil and military officials who came to welcome them were all silent, and the oppressive silence was like a heavy stone in their hearts, making it impossible for everyone to speak.

Xiao Fang didn't dare to look back, neither dared to see Yun Feng who was completely changed, nor Yun Qi.

"Everyone," he took a few deep breaths, stood in front of the black coffin, facing all the officials, "I hope you all remember today."

On this day, because they were not strong enough or rich enough, they were trampled|trampled on the ground with their faces trampled on the ground, and their lives that should have been fresh were played wantonly.

But he had to lower his head, endure all the shame, and spend countless money to buy back the remains of the heroic spirit.

What lay in the black coffin was not only Yun Feng, who was not yet 16 years old, but also the dignity of all of them.

"Today's shame will be returned in another day. The three cities of Cuizhou are still waiting for us!"

"We need money, we need food, we need weapons, and we need soldiers who are not afraid of death!"

Xiao Fang straightened his clothes, faced the crowd in front of him, knelt down on his knees, touched his forehead to the ground, and prostrated himself in the dust.

"I used to be ignorant and stubborn, I didn't seek to make progress, and I dragged Da Tan to this point. I have never left you. Xiao Fang is extremely grateful. Please accept my worship."

Yu Xiang, who stood at the front of all the officials, did not come to help him, but slowly knelt down under the support of Qin Huai and Fan Shengyu. Behind him, layers of people knelt down and were bowed down by Xiao Fang.

Someone turned away and couldn't help sobbing softly.

Xiao Fang wiped the wet corners of his eyes, and kowtowed deeply again: "From now on, please everyone."

Yu Xiang also bowed down: "I am willing to do my best for the emperor, and I will die!"

"I am willing to do my best for the emperor, until after I die!"

"I am willing to do my best for the emperor, until after I die!"

There were more cries mixed with a loud shout, Xiao Fang straightened up, trying to raise his eyes to look at the sky, so as to keep the tears from rolling down in his eyes.

That handsome young man sitting quietly on the steps of Suilanju once looked up at the sky like this.

"What are you looking at?"

"cloud."

The youth of the past has now disappeared like a cloud.

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