Rebirth of the Golden Bastard

The more you go to the south of the Yangtze River, the more beautiful the scenery is, and the green mountains and green waters begin to increase. For several days, Cang Qiao and the others rode their horses and walked in the large forest that covered the sky and the sun.Although Huaque didn't come out to talk much at first, as time passed, he would occasionally come out to ride a horse.Hua Que's equestrian skills are not good, but he rides like a young master from somewhere.He was riding Sikong Lang's horse. Originally, Sikong Lang wanted to ride with him but the beauty didn't want to, so when Huaque came out to breathe, Sikong Lang acted as a temporary driver, sitting in front of the carriage and waving his whip at the horse. .Not to mention, the dignified Eighth Prince was not sloppy in driving the carriage, and the groom who was driving the carriage kept praising him for his skill.

"When I was young, I spent a lot of time driving donkeys and horses. I would also chop wood and make fires, plant seedlings and harvest wheat, and feed chickens and pigs." Sikong Lang didn't seem ashamed of his hard life, but rather proud of it.

Cang Qiao asked curiously, "How did the emperor discover you?"

"That's a long story." Sikong Lang smacked his lips and said, "I lived in Liu's small town before the age of 16." He said, looking at Hua Que ahead, "Hua Que and I are still fellow villagers. Before the age of 16, we My mother has never been by my side. I heard that she has been looking for my father, and she probably found it later. She tried her best to ask someone to bring the letter into the palace, and then someone came to find me and took me away. .”

Cang Qiao said, "What about your mother?"

"My mother also entered the palace." Sikong Lang sighed, "She was not by my side for the first 16 years, and she passed away within two winters after entering the palace."

Cang Qiao was stunned for a moment, seeing Sikong Lang's carefree expression, she thought his mother was alive and well, but she didn't expect to mention this dearest person, and it was nothing more than a sigh of regret.

Sikong Lang flicked his whip and looked at the back of Hua Que riding in front of him, "What's so good about the imperial palace? Anyway, I don't understand. When I first entered, I was always pushed aside and laughed at by other princes because I was stupid and didn't know much about many things. The same goes for my mother. Compared to the daughters of other royals and nobles, she is just an ordinary peasant woman, and she was pissed off by other women within two years. Thanks to my third brother taking care of me, I gradually adapted to life in the palace."

Cang Qiao was a little speechless, secretly looked at the man's face, and felt relieved when he saw that there was no other expression, and said, "I don't think I should ask these..."

"It doesn't matter." Sikong Lang cracked his mouth and smiled a little honestly, "I don't have any impression of my mother, I will remember whoever treats me well. In this world, what I care most about is third brother and..." He said here But he didn't say any more, he frowned and sighed in annoyance.

Cang Qiao's original impression of the Eighth Prince was in a daze, and there were some uncertainties.But at this time, I appreciate it, maybe because of great wisdom and stupidity, or maybe it's just because of simplicity.Sikong Lang has neither a royal smell nor a smell of copper, and he will always believe in things he is obsessed with, saying that he is a stick, but he is cute.It is not easy to trust someone or something wholeheartedly in this world, especially in the royal family.

Cang Qiao rolled her eyes, and decided to give the silly prince a push, "Do you like the old Hua Que?"

"I like it." Sikong Lang nodded bluntly, "I always remember the matter of marrying him, and I have been waiting to mention it to my father when I get married."

Cang Qiao smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that Hua Que is already married before you mention it?"

"I made an agreement with him." Sikong Lang said, "I told him when I left that I will definitely come back and let him wait for me."

Cang Qiao thought of Huaque's way of always avoiding talking about the palace after entering the capital. Speaking of which... Huaque's reputation in the south of the Yangtze River has grown so much, why did he suddenly come to the capital?

He seemed to catch some thread suddenly, and smiled with the corners of his mouth, "I said the Eighth Prince, who is obviously the same person, but you don't like it because of the gender change? You are not true love."

Sikong Lang was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at him, "It's not a woman... but..." He seemed to be looking for a reason, but he couldn't find any.

Cang Qiao smiled and said: "There is a saying that men and women are together to reproduce offspring, and men and men are together is true love."

Sikong Lang stared wide-eyed, "There are such words?" He paused for a moment as if he couldn't believe it, "Isn't this against the laws of heaven?"

"Can you see Tianli?" Cang Qiao rolled his eyes: "No one wrote Tianli as a big-character poster and pasted it on your bedside."

Sikong Lang couldn't keep up, "Big characters..." What is that?

"Rules are made by people. In order to strengthen the majesty of this thing, I added a law of heaven. The law of heaven is just an adjective for people's inner emotions. You can like whoever you want, and hate whoever you want, except for you. If you don't want to, is there any other reason?"

Sikong Lang was taken aback by what was said, as if he had a sense of enlightenment, but he still seemed to have missed the point.However, outsiders should not make irresponsible remarks on matters such as feelings, and Cang Qiao just stopped at the end, pulled the rein of the horse and walked forward with a "drive".

Xia Yunqing stood side by side with him, and Hua Que leaned over beside him.

"What are you guys saying behind?" He pretended to ask casually.

Cang Qiao looked at him with a smile, "Want to know? Really want to know?"

Hua Que stared at her beautiful phoenix eyes, "Do you want to tell me?"

"Say!" Cang Qiao laughed and said, "It's just a reminder to that silly prince."

Hua Que was inexplicable, "Why wake up?"

"Just wake up like this." Cang Qiao said perfunctorily: "Hua Que, you came to the capital to see how he is doing, right?"

Hua Que was taken aback for a moment, then said in an uncomfortably low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"If you really have the heart." Cang Qiao reminded: "You understand the royal family's thoughts. It's okay that the eighth prince is willing to put aside those things. If you care about other people's eyes, as a friend, I have to remind you that you should make a decisive decision on this relationship."

Hua Que smiled lightly, "How could I not have thought of it?"

"However, it's not his turn to be the most popular candidate for succession to the throne right now, so it doesn't matter if he becomes a happy prince in the future." Cang Qiao rubbed his chin and said, "But if he wants to fight for imperial power...the road ahead will be bumpy..."

Hua Que didn't know whether to laugh or cry, seeing that Cang Qiao looked like a matchmaker who had suddenly transformed into someone else's welfare, Xia Yunqing said next to him before he could tease him, "Brother, Hua Que will naturally think about Hua Que, you might as well think about you My business?"

Cang Qiao looked up at him, "My business? What's my business?"

Xia Yunqing also looked at him in the blink of an eye, and the possessive desire in the deep eyes hit Zhongcang Qiao's head like a home run baseball.Cang Qiao woke up suddenly, her ears turned red.

Hua Que was still a little confused by the side, but Jiang Ji could clearly see Xia Yunqing's eyes.With a sigh in his heart, he slowed down his horse and slowly fell behind them, walking with Gu Xiaojia's carriage.

"Hello." Jiang Ji said lightly: "The relationship between your two young masters has always been so good?"

Gu Xiao lowered his head as if he had something on his mind, Jiang Ji shouted a few times before he raised his head in shock, his big round eyes filled with innocence, "What?"

Jiang Ji frowned, "What are you thinking?"

"Ah?" Gu Xiao became nervous for a moment, "No, it's nothing!"

Jiang Ji was suspicious, but he didn't ask any more questions, and repeated: "I said, the two young masters of yours have always had a good relationship?"

"I got better recently." Gu Xiao looked at the person riding a horse in front, "It should be after the young master lost his memory."

Jiang Ji snorted, and said again: "Who is this Huaque? He has a good relationship with the Eighth Prince?"

Gu Xiaoxin nodded absently, "Hua Que is a famous actor in the troupe, and the Eighth Prince...has some misunderstanding with him." Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, looked up at Jiang Ji and said, "What the young master said is What does that mean?"

"Ah?" Jiang Ji was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"It's about Mr. Que'er and the Eighth Prince..." Gu Xiao asked nervously, "Why would the two of you have troubles if the Eighth Prince fights for the imperial power?"

Jiang Ji let out a laugh, "I said you are an idiot, I heard that you have read a lot of books? Where have you read so much?"

Gu Xiao's face was a little red, "Where does the book talk about this?"

Jiang Ji shook his head, and said: "Isn't the dispute between the royal family just about who can take power? The emperor's well-being is not obvious now. In a few years, if the emperor is exhausted, the princes and their supporters will go to the court. He will start to try his best to occupy the power of the imperial court. Now the people who are most favored by the emperor are naturally the eldest prince Sikong Ming, the third prince and the ninth prince. The tenth prince is also very favored by the emperor. For some years, the eighth prince had no one to rely on in the palace, and his family was not an official family. It stands to reason that the possibility of being selected as the prince is very small, but it does not mean that there is no possibility. Our emperor is the emperor of Ren, and he hated his family's calculations. The honesty of the eighth prince may be the only advantage, but it may not be."

Gu Xiao seldom touched these things, so he was taken aback when he heard it, "And then?"

"Then?" Jiang Ji looked at him like an idiot, "Is there anything else I need to say? If the eighth prince doesn't have the heart, it's fine to be named a prince in the future. If he has the heart to fight for imperial power, he will naturally have to sacrifice a lot of things. Such as love, such as relatives, or even completely changing himself. If he really likes Huaque, Huaque also likes him, but it is a necessary responsibility to become a king and reproduce offspring. If the harem beauties cannot escape, then he and Huaque It's impossible."

Gu Xiao's face turned pale, and she stared blankly at Jiang Ji for a long time before she slowly let out a sigh.Then he lowered his head and watched the horse's hooves stop gnawing.

Jiang Ji was a little confused, looked at Gu Xiao for a while, saw that he was not in the mood to continue talking, and stopped talking.He just quietly rode beside him.

Gu Xiao felt numb in his heart at this moment, he thought of every detail of how he got along with the Ninth Prince.It was a secret that the young master didn't know, and it belonged to him alone.The Ninth Prince asked him to keep the meeting between the two of them secret, so he always went to see each other secretly, and every time he thought of that expectant and joyful mood, he jumped for joy, as if his heart was filled with something, following the beating of the heart Make him not like himself.

The Ninth Prince is very gentle, he is just a servant, but he always treats himself with good food and drink.He would ask himself what books he had read, and he would play chess with himself.Such a noble person as the Ninth Prince would help him wipe his dirty face, and then say that he looks like a child who can't grow up.

Gu Xiao lowered his head, watching the road that was constantly being crushed by the axle, his eyes gradually blurred.His heart was like a ball being kneaded together, and for the first time he felt unable to breathe.

——"Gu Xiao, what did your young master do recently?"

——"Gu Xiao, your young master is really an interesting person. I heard that he...do you know why?"

——"Gu Xiao, Cang Qiao will definitely take you with me when I go out this time, please do me a favor."

In fact, it's not that he doesn't know, no matter how stupid he is, he still knows that the Ninth Prince always asks about the young master from himself intentionally or unintentionally.He seemed to be investigating the young master, but the ninth prince said that he was just curious, and he just wanted to help the young master.And this time too, the night before leaving, the Ninth Prince made an appointment with him alone, they met in the pavilion outside the palace gate, the Ninth Prince said...

"What exactly does Hanyue Palace want to do? If you know, can you write back and tell me? This is a major issue related to my Yilan country. As a prince, I have an obligation to share it with my father. You will help me, right? What is the connection between Cang Qiao's ring and the Cold Moon Palace? Of course, I just want to know the truth of the matter, and with my ability, if something happens to your two young masters, I can help."

The Ninth Prince smiled gently as always, with a coaxing voice.He wanted to believe him, he wanted to believe.

Tears welled up little by little, dripping hot on the back of his hand.He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, thinking of the kiss Sikong Shen kissed on his forehead, so soft, as if cherishing the most important treasure, he thought he would not feel wrong...

Jiang Ji quietly looked at Gu Xiao, who was crying silently, and slowly frowned.Cang Qiao's laughter coming from the front turned into a gray background.