The shattering of the teacup broke the last sliver of calm between the two of them.

Li Pei looked down at the gradually spreading tea soup, and the corner of his mouth twitched, feeling absurdly pity.

Before leaving the main hall, he stood against the light at the door and quietly listened to Fu Nanyin's last words——

"Two years ago, I thought you were good at planning. If you were an official in the court, you would definitely have a place. It's just that compared to playing tricks, leading troops from the Central Plains to the Mobei King City in less than three months, this ability is even better. .”

Li Pei didn't look back.

He also saw the sprouting spruce in the courtyard. It seemed that when they first arrived at the National Teacher's Mansion a few days ago, they hadn't had such a green color.

Spring has really come.

Li Pei didn't even wait until the next day, and prepared to leave the city that night under the cover of the hidden guards.

……

After a farewell in the front hall, it seemed that they had run out of words, and the two of them kept a tacit distance in the empty National Teacher's Mansion.Liu Yigong and Yao Guang who didn't know when he came back came and went in and out of Funanyin House several times, but never mentioned the other person's name.

Fu Nanyin sat in the study for four hours, and Li Pei stood in the courtyard for four hours, looking at the figure reflected on the window by the candlelight in the room.

"Owner……"

Yao Guang saw that Fu Nanyin was holding a letter that he had read several times, and couldn't help calling out in a low voice.But I didn't expect that the shoulders of the man who was in a trance suddenly moved, and he looked up at him in a daze.

After a while, Funanyin's eyes regained clarity.

"What do you want to ask?"

"You...why do you have to drive His Royal Highness away?"

Yao Guang saw Li Pei chasing all the way from Chang'an, and accompanied him in the carriage for a few days. When he entered Mobei King City, he took care of Fu Nanyin by himself. If he couldn't guess the relationship between the two Yao Guang's eyes and head can be discarded.

At this time Li Pei stood in the courtyard, even if he didn't say a word, anyone could see that he was reluctant to leave.

But even so, Funanyin still didn't seem to let go.

It is cruel.

The balance in Yao Guang's heart could not help but tilt towards the Prince of Central Plains, and he couldn't help showing it on his face.

"You continue to stare at General Song and the Central Plains soldiers, don't stay with me." Fu Nanyin withdrew her gaze from the hazy window paper and landed on Yao Guang's face.

Yao Guang looked at his master in disbelief, as if he didn't expect that the person in front of him would become such a cold and ruthless one after only a few days.He just said a few good words for the prince in his heart...

"Find someone with a similar figure to Li Pei from the hidden guards, and transfer them here."

As soon as these words fell, Yao Guang's eyes widened unconsciously again, and it was obvious that he couldn't understand Fu Nanyin's operation.

Obviously, the righteous master is standing outside the door, and with a single word, even hooking his fingers, he can bring him back, so why wait for the man to leave before going to such lengths to find a substitute to come back?

Besides, it is not easy to find a substitute who looks like the prince...

Funanyin watched his complexion change again and again, and wanted to continue to ask something but couldn't say it, it was really uncomfortable.

"If Li Pei told me right now that he had made up his mind and wanted to stay, I wouldn't stop him."

Yao Guang's eyes lit up, seeing that Fu Nanyin wanted to stand up, he stretched out his hand to help him with a wink.Unexpectedly, the latter just pushed the window open a gap, and silently looked at Li Pei who was also silent outside for a while.

"Unfortunately, he won't."

For a long while, Funanyin didn't know who she said this to.

Yao Guang has completely given up thinking about the twists and turns between the two, and the confusion still hangs on his face, quietly watching Fu Nanyin not closing the window again, and letting the cool breeze pour in through the crack of the window.

"He knows that once his identity as the prince of the Central Plains is discovered, everything we have arranged in Mobei today will be in vain, and the King of Mobei will detain him at all costs and impose conditions on the Central Plains."

Yao Guang frowned, suddenly felt that this paragraph seemed somewhat familiar.

"Haven't we tasted the taste of the enemy's proton?"

When Funanyin said this, there seemed to be some emotion in her tone.He didn't suffer much when he was in Chang'an. Li Pei protected him very well, but after all, it was a man-made knife. The feeling of losing freedom and mobility made it difficult for Funanyin, who was used to holding sovereignty, to breathe, as if a knife was hanging high On top of his head, the more people want his life, the more he will be caught off guard when the knife falls.

Even if he is like this, Li Pei, who is the prince, is naturally even worse.

Yao Guang couldn't bear to look out, because the distance was too far to see the expression on the prince's face clearly, but he seemed to be able to easily see a bit of loneliness and injury from the thin figure.

There is some struggle in my heart.

"To ensure that the prince is safe and not let the king of Mobei find out, it's not impossible for the dark guards to do it..."

Funanyin raised her head, with a sarcastic smile on her lips.

"What if King Mobei has already found out?"

Even if the day of entering the palace has passed, and there are so many important officials in the court today, whether it is the right minister or Chao Yu, they are now the king's confidantes, and it is impossible to conceal any disturbance.

Every trick and speculation of his servants will be passed into the palace verbatim.

This is not the most terrible.

The letter from King Linzi...

That's why Li Pei had to leave Mobei no matter what.

In the morning, the secret guard accidentally intercepted a secret letter sent from Chang'an to the palace. When Yao Guang returned to the mansion, he brought back the translation of the letter. Except for this, the rest is all about wooing and negotiating peace.

Funanyin turned around and went to the desk, tapped on the unpacked letter paper with her fingers, motioning Yaoguang to take a look.

The letter is not long, and it takes only half a cup of tea to read it word by word.

But Yaoguang was silent for too long.

"The king of Linzi...is that the one who said last time that he would help the master leave Chang'an?"

There was some hesitation in Yao Guang's tone.

"He wants to frame the prince, keep him in Mobei forever, and then become the crown prince himself?"

Funanyin laughed.

"Perhaps the King of Linzi thinks more than us."

Informing Mobei King of Li Pei's whereabouts in the letter, perhaps it is not to alert people, but to let Li Pei's forces and Mobei King pull Xiao Mo, and the snipe and clam will fight, so that Linzi King can sit back Fisherman's profit.

When the last of Mobei's troops is exhausted, he will be truly foolproof if he raises his troops again.

"It seems that the prince does have a reason to go back."

Is it really so?

After Yao Guang finished reading, Fu Nanyin picked up the letter again, glanced at it casually, and then tore the letter paper into pieces under the former's astonished gaze.

"This is not the first letter from King Linzi."

The two had already been in contact, but the secret guards he stayed in Mobei had never intercepted any secret documents from Chang'an for such a long time, but this time he and Li Pei had just arrived in Wangcheng for a few days. "Intercepted" letters come.

It is impossible for Funanyin not to suspect that this letter was not written by Li Jiao to King Mobei at all, but was written to him specially.

It's a pity that Yao Guang standing in front of him at this moment is obviously not a suitable listener, and he doesn't understand the implication of Funanyin's words.

But at least he has self-knowledge.

"Although it's a bit late to say now," Yao Guang couldn't help but frowned, looking back and forth between the confetti on the ground and Fu Nanyin's hand that was still hanging in front of him, and then said:

"But why didn't the master show this letter to the prince?"

"Why did you show him?" Funanyin's tone was a little confused, but he didn't hesitate in his movements. He stepped on the broken piece of the "Secret Document" and walked to the edge of the chair again.

When you look up from this direction, you can see where Li Pei is standing. Unfortunately, it is also a wind outlet. The cold wind is blowing strongly towards Fu Nanyin, so that at this moment, he does not even feel that he is in a warm room with a charcoal basin. middle.

It was freezing cold, as if standing side by side with Li Pei.

"Tell Li Pei that the younger brother he has always trusted and loved betrayed him, wanted to take his crown prince, and even killed him."

Funanyin looked at the people in the courtyard without blinking. Although they were three feet away, he could feel that Li Pei was also looking at him.In Fu Nanyin's feeling, that line of sight should have been heavy and puzzled, and perhaps aggrieved.

It's just that Li Pei on the outside pursed his lips, his eyes were actually full of unspeakable tenderness and nostalgia, and there was a bit of firmness that Fu Nanyin had never seen in him before, as if he was making a promise.

"I can't guess Li Jiao's intentions. If I hand this unverifiable letter to Li Pei at this time, is it to let him tear up the illusion of royal family affection with his own hands, or...to force him to trust me?"

I didn't know his identity back then, but Li Pei told him a lot of palace secrets with his identity as "Pei Tianren". Although he never said it clearly, Fu Nanyin knew that he was very affectionate. Because I cared too much about it before, there was a grudge in my heart, and it was difficult to dispel it for a while.

Maybe it's the same for Li Jiao.

Whether it's the entanglement between the two brothers or his obsession with the royal family, others can't get in their way. In the end, it is still up to Li Pei to see clearly and come out.

It got darker a lot.

Funanyin's body could not stand the cold, so she finally asked Yaoguang to lower the window, and blocked the figure from his sight again.

"Is the master really not going to bid farewell to the prince?"

For some reason, the movement of Yaoguang's hand suddenly became louder, and when he loosened his hand, the wooden window panel fell down heavily, making a disturbing sound.

Funanyin leaned back on the armchair covered with mink velvet, turned her body to look over, her brows were also slightly frowned, and there was no trace of blame in her tone.

"I realized that you paid too much attention to Li Pei today? Did he secretly benefit you?"

A trace of unnaturalness suddenly flashed across Yao Guang's face, he staggered his eyes and said coyly: "The subordinates are only loyal to the master, and dare not take advantage of the prince."

Funanyin smiled, but didn't care.

"I won't see him anymore. When Li Pei leaves, go and pass a message."

He looked at the window paper behind Yaoguang, and at some point he could no longer see the figures of people outside the courtyard.Funanyin's voice dropped undetectably.

"The chores in the Central Plains have been dealt with, remember to open the gate of Chang'an City..."

He exhaled lightly.

"Bring me and my son a clean slate."

When Fu Nanyin's eyes fell, Yao Guang couldn't help looking at the figure behind Fu Nanyin.He opened his mouth, but suddenly got some instructions, and nodded like a puppet.

"Yes, Master."

Funanyin knew what Li Pei meant.

Since I said I won't see you, this time, there is no need to look back.

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