[Rebirth] Sovereign and ministers get along

Thousands of miles away, Ningfang Palace.

The maid on duty at night lowered her head slightly, half asleep, half awake, inside the bright yellow curtain, Yue Yu frowned, and suddenly shouted: "Shen Lanqing!"

Opening his eyes suddenly, Yue Yu wiped his forehead, and his palms were covered with cold sweat.

Empress Lian stood up, wiped Yue Yu's forehead, and asked, "Does the Emperor want to moisten his throat?"

"Yeah." Yue Yu closed his eyes, and hummed, his thoughts were still trapped in the dream, and he couldn't catch his breath.

Lian put on a bijia and got out of bed, and whispered to the maid on duty to pour a glass of warm water, and served Yue Yu to drink it with her own hands, before asking softly, "Is the emperor having a nightmare?"

Yue Yu narrowed his eyes and said with a wooden face, "It's just an irrelevant dream, go to sleep."

"Yes." With downcast eyes, Lian went to bed obediently, carefully pressed down the curtain, and lay sideways beside Yue Yu.

The curtain covered the moonlight, and in the darkness, Yue Yufu opened his eyes again, his eyes were clear and he was not sleepy.

The dream just now was too real.

The sky was filled with yellow sand, covering the sky and the sun, with yellow sand and white shadows, Shen Lanqing staggered forward in the desert alone, the scalding wind dried up his moist lips, leaving a series of dry bloody holes.

Shen Lanqing touched the water bag on his waist, carefully sipped his saliva, raised his hand to cover the scorching sun, looked into the depths of the endless desert, and then moved on...

Suddenly, a sharp arrow came through the air and shot towards Shen Lanqing's back. Shen Lanqing turned around, turned his body sideways with all his strength, moved his lips with regret in his eyes, and said two words silently: "Your Majesty... "

What is the meaning of unfinished?

He was in a dream just now, and Yue Yu had no time to think about it. At that time, his whole heart hung up following the arrow that was spinning towards Shen Lanqing's chest, and he woke up suddenly, inexplicably rejoicing that the arrow didn't go into Shen Lanqing's chest. chest, but I have to regret that the unfinished meaning in Shen Lanqing's words has become a mystery.

It's all because the dream was so real...

Yue Yu lowered his eyes, raised his hand, and slowly put it on his chest. In the dream, that emotion was so strong that he lost his sense of proportion. He wanted to rush over to stand in front of Shen Lanqing, to block the force for him. arrow.

He was sure that that emotion shouldn't belong to him, however, it felt inexplicably familiar.

Recalling the dream before Shen Lanqing's departure, the sky full of red plums turned into rain of blood, Shen Lanqing was lying in the barren hills, seriously injured... Yue Yu's eyes turned cold, and he became angry for no reason. allow.

No one can move his subjects except him, not even God.

After the fourth watch, Yue Yu felt drowsy again and fell asleep slowly.

Inside Prince Yun's mansion and outside Xuanwu Hall, the lights were brightly lit.

The timing of King Yun's arrival was too ingenious, too timely, Shen Lanqing and Shen Yi were caught off guard, and they were blocked in the study forcibly, with nowhere to escape.

A giant crossbow has been set up outside the inner study, and the sound of King Yun's footsteps is getting closer.

The bright red chicken blood stone that was being turned methodically in Shen Lanqing's palm suddenly paused, Shen Lanqing smiled and said softly, "Shen Yi, wait for the old rules."

Shen Yi frowned and stared at Shen Lanqing's eyes - this is not Xuantianjiao, your broken eyes are too dangerous.

Shen Lanqing narrowed her eyes and stared at Shen Yi unkindly, until Shen Yi silently looked away before slowly retracting her gaze: "It's brightly lit outside, it's okay."

"..." The corners of Shen Yi's mouth twitched, but he remained silent in the end.

The sound of King Yun's footsteps stopped at the door, and through the light and shadow, it was clearly seen that King Yun's hand had already been placed on the door panel.

Shen Lanqing put the bloodstone into his sleeve pocket, stretched out three fingers, and started counting down silently:

"three."

"two."

"Father." Yue Yuan's voice suddenly sounded, and the momentum that Shen Lanqing and Shen Yi had accumulated stagnated.

Outside the door, King Yun withdrew his hand on the door panel, turned around, and asked coldly, "What's the matter?"

"Shuh!" Throwing away the fan, Yue Yuan slapped it twice suddenly, and said nonchalantly, "Just now I asked Shen Lanqing to come to the study to look for Yunzi. I haven't seen him come back after waiting for a long time, so I came to look for him , did not expect to meet the father by chance, is the father's body safe?"

"I can't die." King Yun's eyes turned cold, and he stared dangerously at Yue Yuan, "Could it be that no one told you that this study is a forbidden area of ​​the palace?"

"When I was young, my son often came and went here with his mother and concubine, so he was negligent..." Yue Yuan lowered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were filled with grievances, "My son will leave the house and return to Beijing tomorrow, and I want to take the cloud that my concubine used to use when she was alive to make a Think about it, father won't mind if you think about it?"

"Return to Beijing?" King Yun narrowed his eyes, staring coldly at King Jing Yuecan who came with Yue Yuan, "Who agreed?"

"The son was ordered by the emperor to come to visit the sick King Jing and King Yun..." Yue Yuan still lowered his eyes, "Now that the father and the third elder brother are in good health, the son should return to Beijing to return to his life, so as not to be in trouble." The mansion made my father angry..."

"There is no need to go back to Beijing. In a few days, you will leave for Zhengdu to study..." King Yun interrupted Yue Yuan impatiently, then turned and pushed open the door of the inner study. How long will you stay there?"

"My lord's chicken blood stone decoration is too attractive, I forgot to come out for a while." Shen Lanqing caressed the chicken blood stone that he put back on the desk with nostalgia, really reluctant to part with it.

King Yun sneered: "It's just a stone, if Lord Shen likes to take it, but, Lord Shen, did Yue Yuan ask you to help him find Yunzi?"

King Yun automatically ignored the guard who was knocked down outside the study, and Shen Lanqing would not rush to mention it stupidly. Following what King Yun said, Shen Lanqing looked at Yue Yuan apologetically: "My son, the lower official is incompetent, and I couldn't find him. Looking at the cloud left by the princess."

"Hmph..." Yue Yuan snorted twice, "What incompetence, my master doesn't know you? Master who can't move his feet when he sees a beautiful stone!"

"..." Shen Lanqing touched her nose embarrassingly.

Jing Wang Yuecan smiled and patted Yue Yuan on the back of the head: "Okay, don't run on Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen can't find the things that Uncle Wang kept as a treasure. It's getting late, so it's better to go early Let Mr. Shen go back and resettle."

After finishing speaking, Prince Jing looked at King Yun with a warm smile, and King Yun slowly raised his hand to make a gesture, and all the crossbowmen around the inner study lowered their arrows.

"Shen Lanqing moved the mechanism where the king hid the secret letters..." In the study, King Yun said directly to Prince Jing.

King Jing Yuecan's smile remained unchanged, and he stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, leisurely admiring the moon, with an air of nothing to do with himself.

Yun Wang Yuetuo laughed silently, raised his hand to take off the five-stone bow, stretched it into a full string, and shot an arrow at the night sky: "The letter was not only written by Zheng Chen to this king, but also by Yue Xian. This king's."

King Jing Yuecan's eyes were fixed, and then he chuckled: "Shen Lanqing is an imperial envoy, so it's not easy to have any accidents in the palace, but Berkshire is more than 4000 miles away from the capital, so it's hard to guarantee that you won't meet a tough mountain bandit halfway."

"Lord Yun's mansion has released many people out of the mansion recently."

"Prince Jing's mansion still has a few idlers who can be sent to Uncle Wang."

When King Yun and King Jing were "chatting", Shen Lanqing and Shen Yi had already returned to their residence with Yue Yuan.

Regarding why Shen Lanqing appeared in the study room of King Yun's mansion in the middle of the night, Yue Yuan didn't ask a word, but said: "My lord has already told my father to leave the mansion tomorrow, so, Mr. Shen, please pass on the order and leave as soon as possible tomorrow." !"

"Okay, the prince should also rest earlier, and his thighs will suffer from tomorrow." Shen Lanqing responded with a smile, and watched Yue Yuan enter the courtyard where Prince Jing temporarily lived.

"Isn't Yue Yuan going to Zheng State?"

"You let me watch him being sent by King Yun to the Kingdom of Zheng as a proton and male favourite?"

The corner of Shen Yi's mouth twitched, and he turned his head to look up at the sky - isn't returning to Beijing also a proton?

"Although they are all protons, the treatment is very different..." Shen Lanqing explained, taking advantage of the moonlight to walk cautiously, "What's more, the Holy One ordered me to bring Yue Yuan. How to bring it back."

"Trouble." Shen Yimu commented two words, grabbed Shen Lanqing's wrist, and dragged him to speed up.

The next morning.

Shen Lanqing led a group of men riding tigers and flowers to bid farewell to King Yun and King Jing.

King Yun kept a few words to Shen Lanqing politely, then asked Yue Yuan with a cold face: "Are you determined to go to Beijing?"

"My son also wants to fulfill his filial piety..." Yue Yuan shrugged helplessly, "But the emperor's order must not be violated!"

"You know what the king is referring to."

"Father, the homeland is hard to leave. Rather than going to study in Zheng, my son wants the capital to be loyal to the emperor."

"Loyalty?" The corner of King Yun's mouth showed a slight smile, and he raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to hand over a burden to Yue Yuan, "Take away all the belongings of your mother and concubine."

"Thank you, father, for your generosity." Yue Yuan put on a straight face, took the package, said goodbye to Prince Jing, and signaled Shen Lanqing to leave.

After 72 rides, galloping horses, and traveling in starry nights, in three days they arrived at the border of King Yun's territory, the northern boundary of Foping County, Hanzhong County, and the bank of Jiaoxi River at the foot of Qinling Mountains.

After three consecutive days of galloping, he only rested for an hour at Yin time every day, and the people were exhausted.

Seeing that he was about to leave the territory of Northern Yizhou, Shen Lanqing raised his hand, and following a string of horses neighing, all 72 riders stopped on the mountain road.

Shen Lanqing looked around her surroundings: "Rest here tonight."

"Master Shen, why don't you hurry up and pass the Qinling Mountains, and you guys can go to the city on the other side of the mountain to rest!" Wang Shichang suggested loudly, and a group of tiger riders echoed.

Shen Lanqing frowned indiscriminately, and explained with a gentle smile: "The Qinling Mountains are high and dangerous, who knows if there are bandits blocking the way? Now everyone is exhausted, and we are struggling to cross the Qinling Mountains. Didn’t we lose our prestige as a tiger rider? This place has beautiful mountains and clear waters and a wide view. It’s a good location for camping. If you have enough energy, you can pass the Qinling Mountains tomorrow. After passing the Qinling Mountains, you can enter Chang’an City. Rest for three days, let the brothers relax and relax."

The men raised their voices in response, and a group of people dismounted, those who drank the horses drank the horses, those who drank the water drank water, those who collected firewood collected firewood, those who hunted hunted, and those who camped set up camp...

After the first two nights of camping, there was no need for anyone to order these things. Once they decided to camp, they began to perform their duties.

Shen Lanqing dismounted from his horse, put some ink and Tayun to go to the riverside together, and he dragged the limping Yue Yuan to the upper reaches of the river to drink water to quench his thirst.

Yue Yuan limply lay on Shen Lanqing's shoulder, wailing: "Jiusi, what kind of treasure did you touch my father and king, and ran away in such a hurry, what's the matter?"

Shen Lanqing took two sips of water, wiped his face with the water, and wiped the water drops under the corner of his forehead with a handkerchief: "Soapstone."

"Trap! Don't fool me, those messy rocks are treasures in your eyes, but in the eyes of my father, they are no different from the bluestones that can be seen everywhere in this mountain."

"My son, King Ruoyun really has plans..." Shen Lanqing pointed to the sky, "What will you do?"

"What will happen to you?" Yue Yuan turned his face, looked at Shen Lanqing's side face and winked, "Should we continue to be loyal to the emperor, or should we talk about brotherly loyalty?"

"Nature is loyal to the emperor." Shen Lanqing ruthlessly pushed Yue Yuan away, stretched his waist, and exercised his muscles and bones, "I am the eldest son of the Shen family first, and then Shen Lanqing."

"Hmm..." Yue Yuan lay down on the grass, looked at the twinkling stars in the night sky, and said lazily, "It's just the opposite. You are the imperial minister and the emperor's companion first, and then you are the son of King Yun. I'm afraid At that time, if I say so, the starling may not believe me."

"..." That's right, at least your narrow-minded starling didn't believe you in the last life, otherwise why would you scold me who begged for you and then circle you?Shen Lanqing glanced at Yue Yuan sympathetically, "The Holy One is wise, wise, tolerant, and I will trust you."

"Jiusi, you have never even believed these words, have you? Otherwise, why would you have been trembling in front of the starling and refused to go beyond the slightest?"

"..." Facts have proved that Yue Yuan also has moments of perfection, but Shen Lanqing would not admit it to death.

Shen Sui brought the roasted game and dry food, Shen Yi put on a sullen face, and squeezed between Shen Lanqing and Yue Yuan again: "I will keep watch at night."

"The first half of the night for you, and the second half of the night for me." Shen Lanqing made a decision that could not be refused.

Shen Yi twitched his eyebrows, but didn't answer.

Shen Lanqing glanced at Shen Yi from the corner of her eye: "If you don't ask me to get up and change shifts with you, I will lend you to the little Taoist priest after returning to Beijing."

"..." Shen Yi's originally dull face instantly turned stinky.

Smiling, Shen Sui gave Shen Yi a deer leg: "You both sleep, and I will keep watch at night. Actually, it's okay if I don't. After all, I'm still in the border of Yizhou."

"We've reached the border, so it's better to be more careful." Based on the content of those three letters, it was impossible for King Yun to let him go back to the capital. There has been no movement so far, and he is probably waiting for them to leave the border of Northern Yizhou.

Shen Lanqing calmly tore a few mouthfuls of chicken, drank a bowl of mushroom soup, picked up Yue Yuan who was still eating the chicken legs, jumped onto the big tree by the roadside, found a branch, put Yue Yuan beside him, and leaned against the Close your eyes on the tree trunk, no matter what, it’s better to get enough sleep when you can. After leaving Hanzhong and entering the Qinling Mountains, I’m afraid the road will be difficult.

As Shen Lanqing expected, the next day, since they entered the Qinling Mountains, they began to encounter bandits non-stop.Some bandits have strongholds and slogans, and they do not take their lives for money;

Those who make small troubles will be dealt with by the followers, and those who have a small scale will be handed over to the men of Huhuiqi. As for the last kind of bandits, Shen Lanqing, Shen Yi, Shen Sui and several shadow attendants It became the main force of the battle.

Although there were constant bandits on the road, Shen Lanqing and his group dealt with it fairly calmly, only Yue Yuan, who was probably driven too hard, became a little silent.

Yue Yu got the news in Beijing, and ordered hundreds of tigers to ride out of Beijing to meet them.

In the fifth year of Ding'an, on April 25th, Shen Lanqing and his party fought and marched, 72 riders and 69 riders left. Compared with the almost complete annihilation in the previous life, the situation is much better.

In the evening of the same day, I went to Zijing Ridge in Jizhou, and the capital was very close.

Shen Lanqing slightly loosened half a string, and leaned on the trunk of the bauhinia tree to play with the bamboo flute in his arms.

The bamboo flute was a gift from Hanwa before he left. The workmanship was rough, and it was not worth as much as the gift he gave Hanwa in return, but Shen Lanqing cherished it very much.

Bored at this moment, Shen Lanqing accidentally thought of the bamboo flute, and touched it out to try the sound.

The bamboo flute was close to his lips, Shen Lanqing played it, and the sharp tone pierced the night sky in an instant, and the bow was put on the string five meters behind him, and the sound of piercing the sky was extremely fast, and at the same time, a huge force slammed into his shoulder On the ground, the black figure hugged him and fell to the ground, rolling on the spot.

When Shen Lanqing recovered, her eyes were already red with blood.