A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

Zhao Pingzhen quickly went north to supervise the troops in person, while Qin Xiaolou was left in Lin'an to handle Beijing-China affairs.

After some incidents, Zhao Nanke decided to reuse Qin Xiaolou, and soon he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and a backbone of the main combat faction was selected from the Ministry of War to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He "magnanimously" let it go home.

Zhao Nanke reformed the military system in Lin'an and improved the quality of soldiers; Zhao Pingzhen used Wu Yi to train troops in the north. Wu Yi's methods were very tough. The training tasks assigned to soldiers every day were more difficult than killing the enemy on the battlefield, forcing them to carry dozens of weights. Jin practiced under the scorching sun, and many soldiers were killed in the first month of training.Zhao Pingzhen strongly supported him, and gave 150 taels of subsidy to each dead soldier per household, and was tax-free for life. During this period, one household tax is exempted.In this way, even though the military training is very harsh, there are still an endless stream of people signing up to join the army.

Since leaving Beijing, Zhao Pingzhen has been able to receive letters from Jingzhong every three to five days, some are from Empress Dowager Mu, some are from Zhao Nanke, some are from Qin Xiaolou, and some are letters from cronies reporting the recent situation in Beijing.

After reading the letters from Zhao Nanke and Empress Dowager Mu, he would put them away in a brocade box and put them on the shelf; after reading the letters from his cronies, he would put them in the cabinet; Expand it anytime.

Qin Xiaolou is really an interesting person to him, even his words are interesting, and the things he said through his mouth are more interesting than others.So Zhao Pingzhen likes to read his letters once or twice, each time he can taste something different, and then his gloomy mood will improve.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

The border wars continued, and Zhao Pingzhen personally took the Iron Armored Army that Wu Yi had trained for a year to the battlefield, winning three consecutive battles and shocking the country.

Zhao Nanke rewarded Zhao Pingzhen many things and supported him more and more.In addition to those high-sounding things, there is also a private letter from the capital.

Zhao Pingzhen opened it and saw that there were only four words on the letter paper——

"Brother believes in you."

He held the letter paper in silence for a long time, then carefully folded the letter and put it in the brocade box.

In the past year, Qin Xiaolou's status in the court has also increased a lot, and he has concurrently held the positions of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he has become one of the youngest important officials in the court.As early as the beginning, almost everyone knew about his relationship with Zhao Pingzhen.However, at that time Zhao Pingzhen was just a dandy prince with no real power in his hands, and not many people actually looked up to him, and naturally even Qin Xiaolou was not favored by others.Now that Zhao Pingzhen is the Generalissimo of Hebei Army and Horses, and Qin Xiaolou is just showing his talents, the two seem to be the pillars of the future court, no one dares to despise them, and many people even have fear of them.

This day, when Qin Xiaolou went back to the mansion, Qin Chengxue, who had calculated the time, was waiting for him in the corridor.The two walked into the study hand in hand, Qin Xiaolou said: "Show me your paintings of the past few days."

Qin Chengxue took out a few sheets of rice paper and spread them out on the table, and Qin Xiaolou flipped through them.Over the years, Qin Chengxue's painting skills have improved a lot. At a young age, he already has Ma Liang's brushwork, especially good at figures and houses.

Qin Xiaolou flipped through it casually, and saw that many scenes in the painting showed a hurried figure of a young man in red clothes and a black gauze hat.Some of these paintings are close-up views with fine brushwork, and some are distant views with a few simple strokes, but both the figure and the charm are in place, and there is no other candidate except Qin Xiaolou.

Qin Xiaolou felt sour when he saw it, put the rice paper back on the table, and pretended to be relaxed, "Have you ever painted landscapes?"

Qin Chengxue nodded, and took out a few paintings from the drawer.Qin Xiaolou took a few glances and said, "Cheng Xue, if you have nothing to do, you don't need to be bored in the mansion every day, you can go out and walk around. Although the landscapes you draw are tangible, they are not as vivid as the people you draw. spirit."

Qin Chengxue embraced Qin Xiaolou from behind, buried her head in his shoulder, and whispered softly, "Brother..."

Qin Xiaolou sighed, turned around and put his arms around his waist, gently stroked his hair: "Go out for a walk, don't always be bored in the room."

Qin Chengxue's tone was soft, with a bit of childlike coquettishness: "There are bad people outside, and I don't like them."

Qin Xiaolou knew that it was the childhood experience that left a shadow on Qin Chengxue's heart.At that time, Zhao Pingzhen asked him why his clothes were ragged and his eyes were blue. He replied that someone robbed him of his clothes, but that was not the case.Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue are a pair of beautiful children. They lived on the streets when they were young, and they were inevitably coveted by others. Then some black-hearted people reached out to them and wanted to send them to the hall. The 11-year-old Qin Chengxue was almost raped, but fortunately Qin Xiaolou sacrificed his life to save him, and the two fell to the same embarrassment as when they stopped Zhao Pingzhen's carriage.Since then, Qin Chengxue has suffered from reluctance to go out and deal with strangers, and relies on Qin Xiaolou wholeheartedly.

In the past, Qin Xiaolou relied on him in order not to make Qin Chengxue feel sad. Now that Qin Chengxue is over 20 years old, Qin Xiaolou reflected on whether his attitude towards his younger brother was wrong, which made him become the person he is now. look.Qin Chengxue's ignorance of world affairs is naturally a good thing, Qin Xiaolou is afraid that he does not have the ability to protect him for the rest of his life, if he meets a few more people like Zhao Pingzhen, he may suffer a big loss.In fact, Qin Xiaolou knew that this would not work, but he was busy with official affairs a few years ago and kept procrastinating, so that Qin Chengxue was still like this for so many years.

He said cruelly: "Cheng Xue, it is impossible for you to deal with me alone in this life. You will always meet bad people, and you will also meet many good people. If you deal with bad people now, you will not be afraid in the future. If you I always hide in the house, and I can’t cope with the situation in the future.”

Qin Chengxue said wronged: "I only deal with my brother in my life, why not? Will my brother leave me?"

Qin Xiaolou was silent.For some reason, he always had an ominous sense of prophecy in his heart, as if he would not be able to accompany Qin Chengxue for the rest of his life.Maybe it's something that he can't control, maybe...he will die earlier than Qin Chengxue.As for letting Qin Chengxue marry a wife and have children, he had already expressed his position at the beginning.Now that he had spoken out, he thought he would never regret it.In fact, he also thought about it afterward, what is right and what is wrong to so easily promise his own brother his whole life.In this world, if he had ever loved anyone, it was Han Xuzhi and Qin Chengxue.Han Xuzhi made him understand the sweetness and bitterness of love, but his feelings for Qin Chengxue were so complicated that he couldn't explain it himself—sometimes the boundary between family affection and love is not so clear, at least he knows, He lived with Qin Chengxue all his life, and he didn't feel wronged.As for Zhao Pingzhen... It's not impossible to have him for the rest of his life, but although he doesn't resist, if he had a choice, he would definitely not choose him.

In the end, it was Qin Chengxue who gave in to this issue, and agreed to go out with the person Qin Xiaolou assigned to protect him.

Zhao Pingzhen threw the stall in the north to Wu Yi and a group of newly promoted generals, and entered Beijing overnight.

After receiving Zhao Nanke's letter, he also responded to several sensational letters, and the brothers actually said a lot of nasty words.Thousands of miles away, today Zhao Nanke told his younger brother not to be as naughty as in previous years when it was cold, and needed to add more clothes; tomorrow Zhao Pingzhen asked his brother to spend more time with the Queen Mother, and congratulated his concubine for giving birth to a prince for him... Strange The strange thing is that the two brothers lived in the same city for more than 20 years ago, and the journey between the mansions was only an hour's journey back and forth. They were obviously close, but they were far from being so close when they were separated by thousands of miles.

One day, Zhao Pingzhen mentioned that his longing was getting stronger and stronger, and he hoped to return to Beijing to visit the emperor's brother and mother.It is a great violation of the law for the guard to leave his post without authorization.However, Zhao Nanke thought about it all night, and actually wrote him back a letter, asking him to choose a day to return to Beijing secretly without telling everyone.Over the past year, Zhao Pingzhen has cultivated a few trusted confidantes, and the current battle situation is pretty good, even if he is away from him, there will probably be no troubles, so he really chose to go out overnight with a group of entourages in plain clothes, and secretly went to Lin'an up.

When Zhao Pingzhen entered the capital, the first thing he did was to visit the emperor and Empress Dowager Mu in the palace. He passed by the Qin Mansion on the way, and he didn't even give him a stingy look.After entering the palace, he stopped by to meet his newborn nephew, and gave the future prince a full moon gift.

When he left the palace, he didn't go to the temporary residence Zhao Nanke arranged for him, but went straight to the Qin Mansion.

Because Zhao Pingzhen's return to Beijing was very secretive, he didn't want to disturb others, and when he entered the Qin Mansion, he told the people not to report.He used to be a frequent visitor to the Qin Mansion, and several servants in important positions recognized him, so he was allowed to drive straight in without hindrance.

When Zhao Pingzhen came outside Qin Xiaolou's bedroom, he seemed to have a premonition that he didn't push the door to go in immediately, but lightly poked a hole in the paper on the window to see what Qin Xiaolou was doing from the hole. What.

He couldn't die, what he saw was the scene of two naked and white bodies entangled on the bed.

Qin Xiaolou seemed to be in a half-dream and half-awake state, his eyes seemed to be half-open, and there was a usual smile on the corner of his mouth.He was lying on the bed, and Qin Chengxue was on top of him.

Qin Chengxue skillfully licked Qin Xiaolou's dogwood with the tip of her tongue jerkyly, but did nothing else, just licked foolishly.After a while, Qin Xiaolou finally couldn't stand the itch, he giggled, and patted the back of his head lightly: "Don't make trouble."

Qin Chengxue closed her teeth and rubbed Qin Xiaolou's nipples gently with her upper and lower teeth. When he couldn't help opening her eyes and exclaiming, Qin Chengxue finally let go of her teeth, looked up at him and smiled innocently. .

Qin Xiaolou bent down and kissed his forehead, then lay back down again, and said softly: "Hey, don't make trouble, I'm sleepy."

But Qin Chengxue refused to stop there, curled up and hugged Qin Xiaolou's lower body, and began to hesitantly.

Qin Xiaolou tried to push him, but he couldn't push him away, so he let him go, relaxing his body and enjoying the comfort from his brother.

Zhao Pingzhen, who stood outside the door and watched all this, felt extremely complicated.As early as when he was 16 years old, he knew how important Qin Chengxue was to Qin Xiaolou, and how much Qin Chengxue depended on his brother. He also knew that the two brothers were very close, but he never thought How could he be so affectionate; at the same time, he felt disgusted in his heart.He hadn't planned that Qin Xiaolou would guard his body like a jade for him, and it wasn't that he hadn't imagined the scene where Qin Xiaolou and Gu Xiaojun were intimate, but Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue being together inevitably reminded him of himself and Zhao Nanke, which made him feel Awkward and disgusting; not without acid and jealousy, but not at all excited to see a live erotic palace.

Of course, although he felt a little angry, he was cold by nature, and such a thing was not worth his doing.

When Qin Xiaolou's cheeks were flushed and he couldn't help moaning slightly, Zhao Pingzhen kicked open the door and walked in, indifferently overthrowing Qin Chengxue who was lying on Qin Xiaolou's body, and then condescendingly looked down on the two brothers.

Qin Xiaolou was greatly frightened. The person who has always been flattered and humiliated finally showed a panicked look that Zhao Pingzhen had never seen before. He hurriedly pulled up the quilt to wrap himself up. After a short while, he suddenly came back to his senses. Come on, quickly cover Qin Chengxue with a quilt.

As for Qin Chengxue, she was immediately stunned.

Zhao Pingzhen sarcastically said: "I want him to sit in bed, but you refuse, so it's for you."

Only then did Qin Chengxue learn that Zhao Pingzhen had made up her mind, and immediately blushed in embarrassment and annoyance, but gritted her teeth and could not say a word.

Qin Xiaolou's chest heaved violently, and the frightened expression on his face hadn't subsided. He was obviously shocked—why did Zhao Pingzhen, who was thousands of miles away, appear here?And his relationship with Qin Chengxue was broken by him, which was something he had never prepared for.

Zhao Pingzhen looked at the two brothers indifferently: "Qin Xiaolou, what do you want to say to this king?"

Qin Xiaolou clutched his chest and panted for a while, then said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness..."

Zhao Pingzhen frowned, and suddenly felt that he was the husband who caught his wife in bed.This knowledge reduced his anger a lot, and at the same time felt a little ridiculous, so he snorted softly, and said coldly to Qin Chengxue: "Put on your clothes and go out."

Qin Chengxue's lips trembled a few times, showing a faint tendency to say "no". Finally, Qin Xiaolou, who came back to his senses, quickly took his hand from under the quilt, and regained his composure: "Cheng Xue, you go out first. .”

Qin Chengxue glared at Zhao Pingzhen unwillingly, but Zhao Pingzhen just stood still, with a kingly air all over his body, and the imperceptibly depressed Qin Chengxue couldn't breathe.

In the end, Qin Chengxue had no choice but to put on her clothes and go out.

Zhao Pingzhen sat down beside the bed, put his hand into the warm blanket, and grabbed Qin Xiaolou's lifeline with his cold hand, still with an indifferent attitude: "What do you want to say?"

Qin Xiaolou's expression changed slightly due to the pain, and he couldn't help taking a deep breath.However, Qin Chengxue was not around, and Zhao Pingzhen was not holding his lifeline for the time being, so his former sanity was somewhat restored, and he said with a pale face and a smile: "No."

Zhao Pingzhen looked disgusted: "I really didn't expect you to do such a thing."

Qin Xiaolou still smiled: "I was born cheap, and His Highness is not here, so I couldn't bear the loneliness for a while, so it was absurd."

Zhao Pingzhen narrowed his eyes and sneered, "Just once?"

Qin Xiaolou looked calm: "There will never be a next time."

Zhao Pingzhen looked at him for a while, then suddenly sneered, and shook his head again and again: "Forget it, I didn't come to Xingshi to inquire about crimes. But you should be clear that since you are my person, you should make a choice and not be so greedy. This time I will Forgive you, if there is a next time..." After saying that, he smiled coldly.

Qin Xiaolou is as good as others: "Your official understands."

Zhao Pingzhen stood up, still with a disgusted expression, but his tone softened a little: "How to call it or what to call it, your cleverness should not be used only for these things."

Qin Xiaolou secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the corner of the quilt and smiled: "Zhenqing."

Zhao Pingzhen originally wanted to find Qin Xiaolou for a spring breeze, but when things got to this point, he naturally didn't have the intention.He stood dryly in the room for a while, and suddenly a puff of breath welled up in his heart, so he sighed out: "Qin Xiaolou, Qin Xiaolou..."

Qin Xiaolou's eyes sparkled, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

Zhao Pingzhen said: "If you want to play, then play bigger." After saying that, he walked away.

The next day, Zhao Pingzhen entered the palace again.

He talked with the queen mother for a while, and played a few games of chess with Zhao Nanke.When he was about to leave the palace, he suddenly turned back and said to Zhao Nanke: "Brother Huang, I want to ask you for someone."

Zhao Nanke had a premonition in his heart, so he asked, "Who?"

Zhao Pingzhen said word by word: "Qin Xiaolou. I want him to go back with me."