For the emperor

The eldest prince and the second prince of the Cang Kingdom took back the command of the rebellion site with [-] elite soldiers.Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the emperor supported the sick body (Cang Tiansu: ...) to issue this imperial decree, which is to give the two elderly princes a platform to compete with each other.

Lin Yaolan led more than a dozen people to the prepared carriage, and stared at the prince of Cangguo who was coming from a distance for a long time.

After Cang Tiansu Shi Shiran got into the carriage, he came back to his senses, turned his head and looked at the situation on his side, feeling a little chilled for no reason.

Cang Tianci ordered six people to accompany him yesterday, including himself a total of seven people. This is a real princeling. Those who were spoiled and raised in the golden nest naturally had to bring people to serve them.Each of them brought a servant and a maid, and Cang Tianci also brought two additional guards with swords.

Sixteen people lined up in a big team. Lin Yaolan thought that she should have enough momentum before, so she hurriedly lined up and rushed to the scene, but she saw that the other party was traveling lightly, walking with a smile, and getting into the carriage alone, without even giving a single glance. All the people on our side standing here foolishly scratching their heads.

It doesn't take a lot of momentum, just a single county king's chariot can cover an area equal to five or six ordinary carriages, and it's an understatement to compare myself to the ground.

Lin Yaolan's right eyelid twitched when she finally understood the true meaning of the phrase "not to fight is to fight". She looked at the second prince who was obviously out of shape and lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking. into the third carriage.

The two princes each have one, and the remaining 15 people have to be squeezed into three carriages according to their status. Lin Yaolan looked at the crowded space in the car, and received one after another from her classmates, she could only pretend not to see it. Arriving, while secretly sulking.

No matter how good a carriage is, it will not be without a little vibration, and a long journey that is too crowded to move is especially tiring.

When the army stopped for lunch, the second prince of Cangguo got out of the carriage and came to talk to his friends. Seeing the miserable faces of the six people who were sore and grinning, he was stunned for a while, and said in a low voice: "Separate a few people into my carriage, With two days to go to the nearest occupied town, you look like this..."

After Cang Tianci finished speaking, he looked at his carriage that could accommodate six people, stomped his feet, and walked directly to Cang Tiansu's carriage.

The eldest prince of Cang Kingdom was reclining in the spacious seat reading a book. When he heard the announcement from outside, he sat up straight after being slightly stunned: "Second prince, please come in."

Cang Tianci chose the seat next to the door and sat down, not daring to turn his head to look at him, staring at the toes of his shoes and twitching the corners of his mouth stiffly: "Brother, how have you been these few years?"

It's not that he didn't worry about it. In recent years, the Northwest Army has continuously replenished its troops, maintaining a round number of [-].He wrote stacks of letters and entrusted the officers before his departure to take them, but he never received a reply.

There are thousands of mountains and rivers between the two sides, and there is no news. When the father showed himself the battle report that was a few months late, everything had been settled. His worry and anxiety had long been meaningless.

"It's okay." Cang Tiansu reclined on the soft seat again, "There are a lot of interesting things in the northwest, but I didn't enjoy many blessings, but I learned a lot."

There is no following.

Cang Tianci smiled wryly, since he received the imperial decree last night, he couldn't sleep all night, and after thinking about it for a whole night and a whole morning, he finally finished the draft and summoned up his courage.

He planned it well - he wanted to apologize for what happened back then, he wanted to talk about what he had seen and heard in the past few years, and he wanted to express his thoughts and feelings.

——When the matter came to an end, he didn't even want to ask "what about you?", and directly blocked all his next words.

The carriage fell silent, and no one spoke again until the large army set off again.Cang Tianci persisted and did not leave, and Cang Tiansu did not chase him away.

2000 people buried pots to make food, built camps and set up tents. By the time they could lie down and rest, it was completely dark.After a brief grooming, Cang Tiansu began to write a letter to Zhao Liu.

It is rare that there are no piles of military affairs to deal with, but the bad habit of long-term lack of sleep has been deeply ingrained and difficult to change.Instead of staring blankly in bed, I might as well find something for myself to do.

Halfway through writing the letter, I heard Zhang Kun's voice from outside: "Second prince, why are you standing here in a daze?"

Cang Tiansu was stunned, folded the letter and put it away, and opened the curtain to have a look. Sure enough, Cang Tianci was holding a silver tray in his hand and looked at the patrolling guards, with an embarrassing expression of being caught by someone for doing something wrong. When the guards saluted, he turned to look at him with wide eyes in a panic, and hid the tray behind him.

Such a grown-up person, why is he still so stupid.It's still the same as before, when there is a quarrel, he looks wronged by being bullied, no matter how coaxed he can't turn back, after a few days of cold war, he always twists his body and pouts to give in...

Cang Tiansu glanced at the steaming barbecue on the tray, and his expression softened for a moment, indicating to Zhang Kun and the others to continue patrolling, beckoning them into the tent.

Cang Tianci, who entered the main tent, was even more embarrassed than outside. He didn't know where to put his hands and feet. While trying to pretend to be calm and find a place to sit down, he had to find a way to hide his stupidity of hiding the tray He froze at the door for a long time, and finally his eyes turned red because of aggrieved.

——The former Xiaodouding No. [-] was not bad at observing colors. From the expressionless dead fish face in the sky, he could tell that his eldest brother had finally loosened up a bit, and his attitude was much softer than during the day. Naturally, it is necessary to strike while the iron is hot and borrow the slope to get off the donkey.

Cang Tiansu looked at him helplessly for a while, then stepped forward to take the tray in his hand and put it on the table, took out the ointment and wiped his red palms.

Cang Tianci felt that he was at fault, and whispered: "It's a rare time to come out. Yao Lan suggested to make some barbecue, and set up a shelf next to the carriage. I roasted a little bit and thought it tasted good. I want to ask my elder brother to try it together."

It was two hours ago that the seven eldest young masters started to barbecue for self-help. During this period, countless fruits, vegetables and meat were wasted. It is conceivable that such a small plate of meat brought by the second prince had to be selected after thousands of selections to stand out among the dwarfs. One, the selected ones are more accessible.

Cang Tiansu was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "Second brother, I don't blame you for the nanny."

Ever since they were young, the two of them had almost never had any quarrels, because Cang Tian never fought back when he was beaten or scolded. Once they disagreed, they would usually walk away angrily, and in the end he would always run back uncontrollably. Take it easy.

In Cang Tiansu's memory, that was the only time he lost his composure, pointing at the other person's nose and scolding, he had no reason, spoke indiscriminately, hurt others and himself.

He remembered very clearly that on the way back to Xingtai, he ran into Cang Tianci who had worked so hard to sneak out of the East Palace. , You can throw all your self-blame to the other party.

At that time, he didn't have the ability to kill the culprit, so he could only vent his anger on innocent victims like himself.

Cang Tiansu has been reluctant to think about this incident, the long scar on his heart has not healed yet, he is afraid that tears will burst out when he touches it.The strength and calmness of the past few years are too vulnerable in front of this scar.

It's just that now the person involved is standing pitifully in front of him, complaining silently with red eyes, the eldest prince rarely blames himself, and finally admits that what he did was unkind at the beginning, and he is suspected of picking up soft persimmons by venting his anger.

Cang Tianci's round eyes lit up, carefully observed his face, and after a long time he was relieved, pouted and said: "But then you ignored me..."

Did Cang Tianci not understand why Dudu treats this lukewarm fellow in front of him differently since he has never lacked friends.If it were anyone else, he wouldn't be able to say this kind of childish complaint with confidence, it has nothing to do with self-esteem, nothing to do with pride.

Just like the problem of his own mother and concubine, this proud and invincible little moon bestowed by the sky has searched for a long time among the surrounding stars, but he has not found such a person who can make him courageous, like when he was 12 years old when facing Cang Tiansu Usually, while hiccupping and rubbing his nose, he cried and said, "Father said that I am not the mother's biological son..."

No matter how good, no matter how close friends are.

Such a reckless and reckless mentality, or in other words, such a person who can babble and confide all his troubles, he lost it and never found it.

Cang Tiansu looked at his scorched palms, the upward curve of his mouth remained unchanged, but the joy of emotion was gradually disappearing.The soft emotion that had just arisen in his heart almost disappeared because of this sentence.

Emperor Jing made it clear that he put the two of them in the position of rivals. If the two princes who were nearly grown had a good personal relationship, one held great power, and the other was favored, what Emperor Cang Jing would see would not be brothers and sisters. Harmony and happiness will only be turbulent and full of crises.

The two most powerful sons joined forces, and their power was strong enough to threaten him as an old man. In Cang Tiansu's view, no matter how adventurous and playful Emperor Cang Jing was, he would not allow such a thing to happen.

And once the emperor turned his back and couldn't touch the elder son who had real power in his hands, it would be extremely easy to pull down the second son who was superior because of his favor.

Looking at the second younger brother who was full of grievances in front of him, Cang Tiansu was suddenly full of disappointment—why did I ignore you, can't you calm down and think about it?

The case of Jian Guo is also the same. When you are unable to resist the Liu family, why can't you bear it?Does it have to be destroyed to show your loyalty, your talent, your uniqueness?

On the way back, several generals chatted about important military and state affairs. Li Renqiang once said euphemistically that Prince Cheng gathered a gang of mobs to rebel like clowns and made such a vigorous rebellion. The second prince and the Liu family are in the central power system Meaningless internal strife should account for at least [-]% of the responsibility.

The name of the country given by the sky is justified, and the Liu family has great power. If it weren't for the gift of the sky, it is incapable of decentralizing power to the Liu family and at the same time guaranteeing that its own status will not fall. General Bian would not have the guts to hide and watch the excitement when the country is in crisis.

If it weren't for the fact that Cangtian bestowed the supervisory state on a really unsightly job, Emperor Cang Jing would not have helped Cang Tiansu suppress the Liu family openly, and at the same time almost chose to give up his second son who had been raised by him for several years.

Five years after the birth of Cang Tianci and before the birth of the third prince, only one princess was born in the harem. Naturally, Emperor Jing did this not only to show respect to the empress who was having difficulty conceiving.

No matter how smoky the young people below are, and no matter how the courtiers guess and stand in line, Cang Jinglan and Cang Tiansu understand very well that without the second prince of the same age, it is written in the imperial edict of Emperor Jingli that the crown prince is only It could be Cang Tiansu's name; Cang Tiansu can only be the one who is qualified to sit in that seat after a hundred years.

Concealing the emotions in his heart, the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom lowered his eyes and said flatly, "Second brother, I didn't ignore you..."

"You have! I wrote to you and you didn't reply. You have been back for so many days, and you haven't looked for me. If it's not necessary, you won't say a word to me..."

"...I just think that we are not suitable for getting along like we were when we were young." Cang Tiansu frowned, and interrupted his long-winded complaint first.

Cang Tianci, who was lowering his head and fiddling with his hands, trembled for a moment. When he looked up again, his eyes were already red, but he still tried not to cry: "You're still blaming me..."

Cang Tiansu smiled at him lightly: "I don't." In the past few years, except for hatred, all his other emotions have been indifferent. Sporadic and pitiful waves.

"The relationship between the two of us is like the wooden box that was buried under the small shabby house in the cold palace when we were young. After so many years, it has become moldy, deteriorated, and rotten..." The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom put away the ointment and did not look at it. The other party's expression said, "Look, no matter how beautiful it was back then, no matter how precious it was, now, there is no need to dig it out anymore."

Whether it's ceramic marbles, clumsy woodcarving dolls, or Yinyan cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, those things that God bestows on him day and night, his eldest brother has already put them down.

Cang Tianci, who is spoiled by some and loved by others, can confidently immerse himself in memories and refuse to wake up, but Cang Tiansu does not have such a privilege.

The first thing he does when he opens his eyes every day is not to lament the carefree childhood he has lost, but to cheer up and do his best to survive.

Whether it is the desolate and quiet Lenggong, or the warm and crowded Zhaori Palace, it contains the most precious childhood memories of the two of them. When Cang Tiansu looks back, the past is still so beautiful, so clean, so relaxed, so beautiful. at ease.

It's not that he doesn't miss it, it's just that when he lets go, he doesn't hesitate at all.The sky in a remote corner of the imperial city is too cramped and narrow. Even if the blue and clear sky penetrates the heart and cleanses the soul, it can no longer hold back his ambition.

The gradually growing eldest prince needs a wider world to display his fists. In the Northwest, in Qi Country, and even in the whole Wuji, the fingertips of his plain hands and Qianqian trembled lightly, strung together a glorious journey.

Cang Tiansu was a little disheartened.

What happened to the nanny four years ago was due to the immaturity of both of them, and I have no right to complain to anyone—but why four years later, when I have grown up, you are still so idealistic, so childish, and so immature?

From the time I got on the carriage to the northwest, the ending was doomed.Since the first day I stepped into the power center of the Northwest Army, we are no longer the close companions, the friends who talk about everything, and the brothers who love each other.

I am the eldest son of the illustrious emperor of the Cang Kingdom, and you are the legitimate heir chosen by the emperor, and you are the only opponent I want to defeat.

Godsend, why don't you understand?

——You and I can only be enemies.

Never die.