The first favorite of rebirth

Pei Jiqing slept all night, but still felt limp all over, as uncomfortable as walking for hundreds of miles, even his toes were numb, he opened his eyes and got up slowly, not knowing when he was covered with such a thick quilt , saw Jue Yun "Teng Teng" running over, and stuffed a bowl of warm jujube and ginger soup into his hand.

Pei Jiqing really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, although he soaked in cold water, his whole body was still hot, and he really didn't want to drink this hot thing, but when he looked up, he saw Jue Yun's expectant little face.

"Drink the soup quickly. You must have caught the cold after soaking in cold water last night." Jue Yun looked at his pale face, and stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, "I did this on purpose."

When Jue Yun talked to him, there was a soft tone in his tone. Although he was no longer cute like a baby, it always made people feel like he was acting like a baby, as if there was a puppy tail dangling behind him .

There were two huge dark circles on the child's face. Pei Jiqing closed his eyes, as if he saw the child galloping on the grassland on a horse, and couldn't find him all night, so he lowered his eyebrows and reluctantly took a sip, and said softly : "I'm a cold caused by hot and cold, I can't drink ginger soup, go get me some warm water."

Jue Yun took the ginger soup and took a teacup from the table. Pei Jiqing took a sip and said, "Looking at you being so obedient, it's really hard to imagine the way you killed people before."

Pei Jiqing pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Liao Kingdom wishes for the second prince to die quickly, even if we keep him, there should be no benefit..."

"He kicked you with his feet, I didn't chop it off, I've already made him cheap!" Jue Yun's serious prey was fleeting, but he said aggrievedly: "You don't blame me for doing it, do you?"

"I'm not afraid of you. You're right. If you have someone you want to kill, don't ask me." Pei Jiqing suddenly thought of something. Seeing no one around, he said softly, "Where's Lin He?"

"A herdsman brought us mutton. Lin He is grilling the meat. He will be here later." Jue Yun covered him with a quilt and said, "Sleep for a while."

Pei Jiqing lay down obediently, watching Jueyun run back and forth to clean up the house, she couldn't help sighing, the previous experience was like a nightmare, at least Jueyun rescued him, and nothing happened after all.

"Xiao Yunzi." Pei Jiqing couldn't help asking: "I was dressed like that yesterday, how did you recognize it?"

"Look at your eyes." Jue Yun said without hesitation: "You have a small mole under your eyes, I recognized it at a glance, the second prince must have read too many martial arts scripts, thinking that everyone is a masked robber, You can’t see it if you cover half of your face.”

"However." Jue Yun suddenly blushed, and continued: "You looked very good dressed like that yesterday..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Lin He came in with a white porcelain bowl, and put it on the table triumphantly. Jueyun leaned over and saw a bowl of milky white stewed mutton, which was dotted with shallots and goji berries. Green and green, it is really beautiful.

Jue Yun asked: "Didn't you say you want to barbecue?"

"He's not feeling well, so we'd better eat something light." Lin He replied, "I don't know."

"Then you shouldn't stew mutton." Jue Yun immediately said: "Mutton is fat, and it doesn't clear heat."

Lin He also had nothing to say at that time, he just gouged out Jue Yun with his eyes, Pei Jiqing couldn't help crying and said: "Enough Jue Yun, you guys eat, I'll drink some water first, and then make some porridge for myself."

"You rest first." Jue Yun thought about it, and said: "Let's go to Jinzhou together later, and let the people in the general's mansion show you the doctor. I just happened to hand over the dagger to General Xia and tell him what happened yesterday."

Pei Jiqing nodded, and Lin He hurriedly said, "Then I won't come, I'll wait for the good news of your promotion and fortune."

After Jueyun had dinner, he went to hitch a carriage, and helped the frivolous Pei Jiqing out the door, like helping a pregnant daughter-in-law. There were a lot of sundries piled up in their small yard, and Pei Jiqing was careful. Going around, he picked up a cloth bag casually, and what he saw was actually a bag full of hay-like things. He was a little surprised at the time, and he opened another one, which contained a bag of wolfberries.

"Here are medicinal materials and goji berries, and there are yams over there." Jueyun buckled the horse into the carriage and explained, "They were all sent by the herdsmen. I only gave a little money, but they sent so much. How to send it back."

"No need to give it away." Pei Jiqing got into the carriage and said with a smile: "It's a good intention. The herdsmen are simple and honest. There is no other meaning. Just accept it."

While talking, the two had already left Dingzhou City in a carriage. The weather today was very clear and cloudless, and the grass under the sun was like a blue sea. Along the way, they met many herdsmen, and the herdsmen were no longer the same as before. Instead of being vigilant, he raised his hand to greet them. Pei Jiqing lifted the curtain of the car and smelled a fresh and moist grass smell. The new pasture grew very fast, covering the entire grassland in a blink of an eye, and green shoots emerged from the fertilizer Head, looks very cute.

In the general's mansion, Jue Yun explained the cause and effect to Xia Chengxi, but his eyes kept looking at Pei Jiqing. The doctor stepped forward to feel Pei Jiqing's pulse. He looked at Jue Yun's concerned eyes, paused for a moment and said, "Young master is... a little angry ...It's all stimulated by drugs...I can prescribe some heat-clearing medicines..."

Xia Chengxi saw the doctor's incoherent words, and hurriedly backed away under Jue Yun's questioning eyes, so he stepped forward to cut the pulse, he suddenly realized, looked at Pei Jiqing and said with a smile: "What did you eat?"

"Stop talking." Pei Jiqing glared at him in a low voice, Jueyun put the dagger on the table, and said: "General Xia, this is the second prince's dagger, I have already killed him, Lin He said this dagger It belongs to the royal family, so I didn't leave the body behind."

Xia Chengxi reached out to take the dagger, and pulled it out excitedly. The dagger was gilded all over, and was inlaid with many gemstones and emeralds. The cost of imitation was extremely high, and there was a line of ancient Khitan characters engraved on the dagger. It will not be a fake.

"You kid is too..."

Before Xia Chengxi could say anything, Xiao Wansheng came in from the door with big strides. He grabbed the dagger and said excitedly: "Your life is too good, I'm going to find someone too. You found it and stabbed a prince to death."

"At that time, you told me not to open the horse market." Jue Yun turned his head to stare at him, and said, "If I hadn't opened the horse market, how would I have found him? You still called me a little white-eyed wolf with a wolf's heart..."

When Jue Yun looked at Xiao Wansheng, he was as fierce as a wolf, but in a blink of an eye, when he turned around, his black eyes turned into a puppy-like appearance, even a little wronged, Pei Jiqing patted his head and said: "Okay, don't be wronged, I will I know you are not a little white-eyed wolf."

Xiao Wansheng rubbed his nose and said: "You are quicker to change your face than to change your face, but you can do great things..."

Pei Jiqing was also very tired looking at Xiao Wansheng. Although he was deeply impressed by what this person did before, he had to thank him. Xia Chengxi put away his dagger and said: "Then trouble the Lord to report to the Regent and say that Mr. Lang The captain led the troops to destroy the remnants of the second prince, and killed him, let the court reward him for his merits."

Jue Yun took the dagger, shook his head and said, "No need for now."

Xiao Wansheng stared and said: "You melon baby, do you not trust me?"

"I definitely can't trust you." Jue Yun said: "But it's not because of you, it's because I'm going to make a great contribution, even more powerful than this."

Xia Chengxi looked at Jue Yun expectantly, but Pei Jiqing had a bad premonition in his heart. He always felt that this matter had something to do with Lin He, and Jue Yun really said: "The second prince did not die in my hands, the murderer was Lin He."

There was silence everywhere, except for Xiao Wansheng, when the other two guessed Jue Yun's meaning, Pei Jiqing didn't speak, Xia Chengxi thought for a moment, and then said: "Do you want to help him?"

"Yes." Jue Yun nodded, and immediately said: "The eldest prince doesn't know that Yelu Hechu is dead, so he must be worried all the time. Let's unite with Xiao Yixian's team in the desert. Why don't we take this opportunity to lure the eldest prince out and catch him all in one go, then ..."

"And then?" Xia Chengxi frowned and said, "You want Lin He to return to the Liao Kingdom to become the throne? For us, the First Prince and the Third Prince are the same. What difference does it make who becomes the throne?"

"Of course there is a difference. The eldest prince is a man who kills brothers and sisters, but Lin He is my brother. As the lord of the country, he will become friends with us." Jue Yun saw that Xia Chengxi didn't seem to agree, so he continued: "We took Dingzhou with great difficulty. If it was taken by the Liao Kingdom, wouldn't it be..."

"How do you know? Lin He won't take it." Xia Chengxi suddenly interrupted, "It is precisely because we took Dingzhou with great difficulty that we can't easily listen to the words of foreigners. How long has the world been peaceful? Can't help him. "

Jue Yun was still unconvinced, just when he was about to refute, he heard Xiao Wansheng say: "General Xia, why are you so timid and talkative, I think what the little boy said is right, if you want to make meritorious service, make a big one, listen to what you say, three The prince is also a child, and it is better for a child to be enthroned than an adult."

He stretched out his hand to pat Jue Yun on the shoulder, and said, "I'm afraid of a ball! It happens that I haven't fought for a long time, you are going, I will accompany you!"

"Master Hou has been in the capital for a long time, so how could he know the situation at the border? I walked on thin ice all day long, and only in exchange for these few days of stability." Xia Chengxi looked at Xiao Wansheng angrily, and said: "The people here are not our own people. If you want to fight, you might as well go back to the capital."

Xia Chengxi has always been cautious. He said this, but he was really impatient, so he couldn't help but satirize Xiao Wansheng and Fu Congjin for rebelling together. In the same way, it is not as good as your General Xia, you can kill the regent if you have the ability, the team dare not stand up, so what is the prestige."

Xia Chengxi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Jue Yun in a blink of an eye, and said: "This matter still needs to be discussed in the long term. If you want to have the name of master and apprentice with me, then don't rush to send troops, otherwise you will go with Lord Hou, which will not happen." Divide your soldiers into one soldier!"

The two refused to give in, Pei Jiqing hurriedly said: "Master Hou, don't worry, General Xia has been fighting in Jinzhou for a long time, and finally won the city. Now he lives comfortably around, General Xia doesn't want to have another accident, that's why he said that. "

"Dingzhou is a fortress. If you take Dingzhou, it will be easier to fight in other places." Xiao Wansheng also became serious, and he pointed to the map that Xia Chengxi hung in the hall, "If the third prince has soldiers and horses in the desert, we can do it." Lead the eldest prince out from here, as long as you kill this person, we will help the Lord of the Liao Kingdom up, it will be difficult to teach him to be obedient!"

He is usually foolish, but he is very serious when it comes to the formation of troops, Jue Yun sees that his hostility is a bit less, Jue Yun turned his head, looked at Pei Jiqing and said: "Uncle Pei, why don't you talk."

Pei Jiqing touched the back of Jue Yun's head, and said seriously: "Leading troops to fight is not a child's play. You are a general, and you bear the lives of many people on your body. You have to think clearly about the number of people, food, weather and terrain, and the odds of winning and losing. , you can't just rely on the momentary brotherhood, you have grown up, I can't help you decide."

Jue Yun nodded and said, "I will think it through."

After Pei Jiqing finished speaking, Xia Chengxi and Xiao Wansheng calmed down a lot. It was not early at this time, and Pei Jiqing also drank the medicinal materials for clearing away heat and reducing fire. Jue Yun still helped him into the carriage. Before leaving, Xia Chengxi deliberately He instructed: "Although Lin He is a child, he is from Liao after all. No matter what, you must take good care of His Highness."

Jue Yun sat silently on the carriage, just waved his hand politely, and did not speak again until the carriage drove into the night. Pei Jiqing held him in his arms and said: "Now I feel that being a leader is not so easy, yes Bar?"

"Yes." Jue Yun admitted his difficulty without hesitation. He stopped the carriage and helped Pei Jiqing get out. The two sat together under the boundless sea of ​​stars. Jue Yun rested his head on Pei Jiqing's arms. Li, said in a low voice: "Although what General Xia said is reasonable, it will not be good for us if the eldest prince is allowed to ascend the throne. Lin He will also be like me, living without a fixed place..."

"Think clearly as I said, and then make the final decision. You can't rely on emotions or talk on paper." Pei Jiqing thought for a long time, and still expressed her thoughts: "Although Lin He is on good terms with you, But he is a ruthless person. In order to kill the second prince, he can ask Xiao Yi to give up Dingzhou first, he can kill people alone, and he can even bump into a dagger... Such a person, if he is a brother, he will be very good, but if he turns against him , is your worst enemy."

"Why don't you believe him?" Jue Yun raised his head and said, "Could it be because he is from Liao?"

"He has nothing now, so he is trustworthy." Pei Jiqing said in a low voice: "But if he has a family, a country, and thousands of troops behind him, he can't just be your brother. You can't expect things to stay the same, you have to keep an eye on them at all times."

Jue Yun nodded, and finally fell silent. After a long time, he asked, "Uncle Pei, what about you? Should I be on guard against you?"

"Me?" Pei Jiqing smiled suddenly, and lowered his head to rub Jue Yun's forehead, "Silly dog, I will be old when you grow up, as long as you don't bully me."

Jue Yun said: "Puppy will not bully people."

After Jue Yun finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, so he couldn't help but blushed, and turned his head to look elsewhere.

Pei Jiqing didn't speak, but looked up at the distant scene. The ancient Great Wall flickered, like a dragon's figure. The bright moon in Qin Dynasty and the pass in Han Dynasty, the stars and bright moon, were also the sky thousands of years ago.