True Phoenix and Virtual Phoenix

"Brother Mu!? Oh, the emperor only let Prince Dongcheng live in Huayang Palace a few days ago, so Zhao Mu is now living here, so the three of us will be able to stay together in a fair manner this time!"

Hearing Zhao Mu's name, Gu Baobao was unexpectedly not directly connected with the little prostitute, and seemed to be quite happy to see him, but according to a conservative estimate, this is probably the result of those gold, jade, etc. stimulant effect.

The baby was carrying a few large ingots in his arms, and a blood jade was hanging around his neck. When Le Hehe followed the little prince out, Zhao Mu was looking at a calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall with his back to the door.

Gu Baobao didn't know much about painting, so he just glanced at it casually, and found that it was a picture of a moonlit night and snow, signed by Su Jiliu [Note 1].

Gu Baobao had heard of Su Jiliu, and the maids of Jinghua Palace seemed to be interested in discussing this handsome king who had a bright future, but for love, he gave up everything and was willing to live in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests.

The years of his reign were the most prosperous and powerful period of Tongguo. At that time, Northern Chu also asked Tongguo to disrupt the plan of unifying the seven kingdoms. The king of Chu was almost madly obsessed with such an enemy emperor.

Tongguo is a country of water, and the people have to take boats whenever they go out. There are no horse-drawn carriages, and all means of transportation are boats. scale water battles.

But the blind infatuation of the King of Northern Chu has become his hot-headed index. The largest water battle in the history of the Seven Kingdoms was launched between Tongguo and Beichu. Northern Chu went to war, and the enemy almost wiped out the military strength that Northern Chu had accumulated for many years.

At that time, Nanzhao was in the midst of civil strife, so he did not participate in this large-scale battle that almost dispatched troops from seven countries, and he was even very grateful that Northern Chu's ignorance prevented a imminent disaster for Nanzhao—if it hadn't been for Northern Chu. If the jackals threw out such a large piece of fat, the eyes of the pack of wolves would most likely be fixed on the precarious Nanzhao.

Because of a wrong decision, Northern Chu was in dire straits, and people complained everywhere. Everyone inside and outside the court pointed the finger at the instigator of this disaster, King Yue Xichen of Chu [Note 2].

Later, Yue Xichen was beheaded by his own younger brother [Note 3], and his body disappeared in the Jiutian River [Note 4], and was never recovered in the end.

Su Jiliu was beyond everyone's expectations. After the Tongguo defeated Chu, he suddenly became abdicated, built a tomb for Yue Xichen, and then disappeared without a trace.

The relationship between Tong Wang and Bei Chu King was left unsolved, and became an eternal mystery in everyone's mind.

A few years later, a batch of paintings gradually spread out on the market. The inscribed name is Su Jiliu, and the higher the price, most of them are owned by the royal family, and it is rare for ordinary people to see them.

"Does Brother Mu like this painting? It is said that this is Su Jiliu's most highly rated painting by the world so far, but what is really interesting is the artistic conception expressed in the painting..."

Hearing Li Zhao's voice, Zhao Mu turned around, the expression on his face was surprisingly complicated, he smiled for no reason and then took Li Zhao's words.

"The reason why this painting is so famous and the world flocks to it is not only Su Jiliu's superb painting skills, but also the people in the painting - the mountains are covered by heavy snow, the moon is shining brightly, there are three people in the courtyard, one seat, two men, one lying down and one Leaning over, they looked at each other and smiled. The man who bent over was holding a baby on his body. Many people guessed that the man on the couch was Su Jiliu, and the one holding the child might be Yue Xichen whose life and death were uncertain. As for the child in his hand, the world It’s impossible to know.”

"The little baby may have been picked up by Su Jiliu, or this picture was originally fictitious."

"Probably not. Most of Su Jiliu's paintings are realistic. There are many landscape pictures before, and there are real people to test a few pictures of people. It is absolutely impossible to fabricate such a picture for no reason."

"Hey, it must be a boy~ son!"

Gu Baobao's extremely inconspicuous laughter suddenly broke out in the room, instantly breaking the serious discussion between the little prince and Zhao Mu.

Regarding boys and boys~, Baobao probably corrupted the female classmates around him too much before he died, and has formed a mindset for two men holding a child.

But in this era, there has not been any strange incidents involving boys and girls. Zhao Mu and Li Zhao were suddenly shocked by the baby's strange thinking and were speechless.

Seeing the two princes looking at him with a pair of confused eyes, the baby realized that what he said was too avant-garde, smiled awkwardly, and quickly waved his hands: "When I fart, fart! You two continue."

"Hey baby, let's meet again."

Zhao Mu coughed unnaturally. It seemed that he was planning to take all his thoughts away from the two infatuated and short-lived kings. At this moment, his eyes were full of the beaming Gu Baobao who had changed into new clothes.

"Yes! It's really a narrow road to Yuanjia."

The baby twitched the corner of his mouth, and kicked the golden baby that was so heavy that it was about to fall out of his pocket, and looked up at Zhao Mu with a smile on his face.

Zhao Mu glanced at the blood jade on the baby's chest calmly, smiled, and didn't care about it like he did.

It was rare to get together again, Li Zhao ordered the dining room to prepare some food and wine, and the three of them had lunch in the side hall.

Because of discovering the big backer of Xiao Lizi, he became friends with his brother, and got a new baby. Gu Baobao is in a particularly good mood today, not to mention his bright smile, and Zhuyeqing, who is not low in strength, even secretly drank a few times Drink it down.

Li Zhao was seriously ill yesterday, and he was a little out of sorts in class. The Taifu has already told him that he will not go to class today. Thinking that the baby has become his maid of honor, and he will be able to see her every day from now on, the little prince is also very upset. He was happy, seeing that the baby was younger than him and could drink so refreshingly, so he drank a few more glasses not to be outdone.

Li Zhao was a little gourd when he was not drunk, but he was still a gourd when he was drunk.He shrank into the corner listlessly, as if he had a tortoise shell, huddled into a ball and stopped moving.

Baobao is a big fool. He only knows that he was able to drink before he died, but he doesn’t know that he is not immune to alcohol now. The little crown prince was huddling himself and doing well, so the baby didn't go to such a big place, he just wanted to stay with the little prince.

"Go away! I'm going to sit here—"

Gu Baobao crawled up to Li Zhao in a dizzy state, and sat down with a squeak, moving his buttocks and yelling endlessly until he took Li Zhao's place and pushed him to the top. It's over when you're on all fours.

"Baby, baby..."

Li Zhao lay on the ground and kicked his legs. His eyes were slightly opened, and he looked at Gu Baobao who had shrunk into a corner. He stretched out his hand to grab it, but his claws dangled in the air for a long time without grabbing anything.

"I said you are annoying, are you annoying, why do you keep calling me?"

The baby scratched his flushed face with his paws, lay down on the ground in a daze, crawled forward a few times on four legs, and didn't stop until the whole body was crawling on the little prince's body.

After staring blankly at the drunk cat under him for more than ten seconds, the baby suddenly felt weak in his hands and feet, and fell down with a snap. Fortunately, there was a flesh pad under his body, so he didn't fall at all.

Li Zhao was gasping for breath from the sudden weight. That fleshy guy was still lying on his body, wriggling and wriggling, and sometimes he used his fist to hang down on his chest a few times. If you press it down, you will vomit out your stomach together.

"Both of you don't know how to drink, why did you drink so much just now?"

Zhao Mu looked at the two little guys rolling into a ball on the ground, shook his head angrily, and stepped forward to try to pull the two of them apart.

"Damn bastard, you're touching me! Touch, touch my fart, fart~ ass?! Humph——"

The baby waved his hands in the air for a while, opened Zhao Mu's outstretched hand, hummed twice in disdain, arched his head, lay on the little prince and began to sleep soundly.

"Puchi, you are really small-minded, you can hold grudges for such a long time!"

Being reminded of the scene when they first met by the baby's words, Zhao Mu smiled knowingly, but thinking that it would be unseemly for them to go on like this, and let people see them and spread some rumors, he still ignored the baby's resistance and carried him up.

After calling a few servants to feed Li Zhaoxing wine and tea, and watching people send him into the bedroom, Zhao Mu didn't stay any longer, picked up Gu Baobao who was left lying aside and talking nonsense, and left.

At the beginning, this boy was unwilling to live and die, he punched, kicked and yelled to resist for a long time, and then bit Zhao Mu's face with his teeth bared. After slapping Gu Baobao hard on his ass, the girl finally calmed down, with four paws pawing at Zhao Mu's body like a koala.

When Zhao Mu lowered his head slightly, he could see the baby's blushing face was very close to him, the lines of his eyebrows were like water, his thin eyelids covered those bright eyes, leaving only thick The large silhouette left by the eyelashes, the small wings of the nose are fluttering, pouring out a little steam, and the rosy lips are occasionally pursed twice, and they seem to be slightly pursed as if there is some dissatisfaction.

Where should I send you?

Zhao Mu poked his head forward slightly, and smelled a faint smell of wine. His original decision to send the baby back to his own residence seemed to be confused. Zhao Mu turned his feet and carried the baby to him. Go to your bedroom.

"Prince, you are back."

Song Er was making tea at the table, when she saw Zhao Mu entering the door, she rushed to greet her, and saw the little palace maid in yellow who was holding her own crown prince, Song Er quickly reached out to pick it up, Zhao Mu shook his head silently, signaling to himself Come in person.

Just put the person on the bed, the quilt was not covered yet, the little guy who just calmed down not long ago rolled on it several times, and then talked nonsense on his own.

"Well, driver, take me home, the money, the money is in your pocket, take it yourself..."

"Huh? What driver?"

Song'er took a piece of cloth soaked in cold water and handed it to Zhao Mu, and asked a puzzled question along the way, and immediately got the baby's answer.

"The driver is not the driver, you are the driver and you don't know what a driver is, how stupid! Hehe——" The baby turned over, smiled silly twice, and continued: "Uncle, can you turn the car over?" Turn on the air conditioner in the room! I'm dying of heat."

air conditioner?What is this again?

Zhao Mu and Song'er looked at each other for a while, showing complete incomprehension of the baby's inexplicable words, and simply laughed it off, and stopped entangled, who knew that the drunk guy hadn't finished yet.

"Hey, uncle, why are you doing this! How do you send me back without asking where my family is? You don't want to kidnap and sell me? It looks like I'm a bully when I'm drunk. I learned kung fu from Bruce Lee, and Jackie Chan is still my aunt's third son. Uncle’s son’s wife’s cousin’s neighbor’s relative, you dare to play tricks on me and ask Jackie Chan to destroy you on behalf of the moon. Wahaha, cough—”

The baby laughed strangely twice, probably choked on his own saliva, coughed violently again, coughed a few times and began to report his family, why did XXXX, Songyu North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, report a long list, all of them were I don't know what these individual words are, but I don't know what they are when they are put together.

The faces of Zhao Mu and Song'er became more and more strange, and they turned their heads to signal Song'er to help the baby up first. Zhao Mu took a cup of hangover tea and poured Gu Baobao a cup.

Song'er didn't know what to do, and when he helped the baby up, he helped the little girl tidy up her clothes, straightened the piece of gold inlaid jade wrapped around the baby's neck, and didn't notice the bloody redness when she touched the piece of jade. A few black marks appeared on the jade.

Zhao Mu just glanced at it, clenched his teeth a little bit, and waved his hand to signal Song'er to go out.

Li Ruohong, who are you?A man disguised as a woman, and full of weird words, logically, a little maid locked in a deep palace, how could she know so many messy things?

Uncertain factors are either friends or enemies, but no matter what you belong to, whether you are an enemy or a friend, it is up to me to decide!

huh huh huh~~

The sound of birds flapping their wings was suddenly heard in the open space outside the house. Zhao Mu glanced at Gu Baobao who was still not sleeping soundly, turned and left the bedroom, opened the door and went out.

The jar of blood sent to Dongcheng yesterday had already received a response. This time it was a vulture who brought back the letter. Zhao Mu untied the bamboo stick tied with two knots from the eagle's leg, and pulled out a blank piece of paper from it. , painted a layer of colorless liquid on it, and put it on the fire to bake for a while, and dense words appeared on a small piece of white paper immediately.

"The blood sample sent has been injected with Gu. Your Highness can verify it on your own body. If the effect is correct, I hope that your Highness will return home as soon as possible. The seven princes are ready to move. They are afraid that they will set up an ambush on the way His Highness returns home. Your Highness will send people to respond as soon as possible, but Kezhou [Note 5] Recently, a group of rogues have appeared and frequently invaded Xilang, I fear that the emperor of Nanzhao will misunderstand me in Dongcheng, Nanzhao is no longer safe, Your Highness must leave as soon as possible."

[Note 1]: Su Jiliu, the last emperor of the same country.It was worn by Rusty Tassel. Although Jin Zi told Naisu about the characters in the second volume, it was mentioned a little in the first volume, so I mentioned it in advance.

[Note 2]: Yue Xichen, the former emperor of Northern Chu, was killed by his younger brother Yue Beilin and fell into the Jiutian River. His body has not been found yet.It was the dawn that crossed over.

[Note 3]: Yue Beilin, the current emperor of Northern Chu, will not be mentioned in this volume.This person was crossed by Yue Beilin himself.

[Note 4]: Jiutian River is the largest river in the Seven Kingdoms. Its source is Jiutian Mountain in Beichu. The top of Jiutian Mountain is covered with snow all the year round. In spring, the ice and snow melt to form Jiutian Waterfall.Although the scenery is beautiful, but because the terrain is too dangerous, few people can really see it.The two sides of the Jiutian River are the Northern Chu, Nanzhao, and Tongguo, from the upper reaches to the lower.Although Dongcheng is adjacent to Northern Chu and Nanzhao, the border is not as far as Jiutianjiang, and it is an inland country.

[Note 5]: Kezhou, located at the intersection of Dongcheng and Nanzhao, belongs to Dongcheng, and is very close to Xilang in Nanzhao.