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In the dark, as if being called, An Mingxi appeared in Huamanlou again two days later and received a letter from Hua Qianyu as he wished.He took a stack of letters from Hua Qianshu and didn't stay for long. After thanking him, he took the letters back to Chonghua Hall, found a suitable place to read letters in the main hall, and finally chose to sit behind the desk.

He put the letter on the table, untied the rope, spread the letter flat and counted the number of letters.There are ten letters in total, with the date written on the outside and only one page on the inside, no parting is mentioned on the paper, no matter how tired you are, what you show is only the scenery on the way, the adventures on the road, but just this, An Mingxi spontaneously felt a sense of satisfaction The feeling made him beam with joy.

He carefully put the read letters back into the corresponding envelopes one by one, and folded the letters aside, let Ah Jiu grind the ink, and brought the pen and paper himself.The ink-stained tip of the pen was hung on the paper, because he couldn’t carry the countless thoughts in a few words, and he was afraid of being hypocritical when he wrote too much. After thinking about it, he decided to talk about the current situation like Hua Qianyu, but in detail Thinking about it again, nothing worthy of his praise has happened recently... It turns out that all his happiness comes from Hua Qianyu.

...Maybe Hua Qianyu hasn't arrived at the destination yet, and he doesn't know if there will be any results after sending this letter.

Distressed for a long time, he put away his pen and took out a wooden box from under the desk, which was only a circle bigger than the envelope. The stack of letters inside were all written by Hua Qianyu, except for the one he got from Zhuge Xingyun half a month ago. There is also the letter that Hua Qianyu sent someone to send him news and invite him to meet. He also put the ten letters he received today into it.Seeing that half of the space inside the box was missing, An Mingxi thought it was time to replace it with a new one.

At night, An Mingxi in his sleep did not know when he felt a noise in his ears, as if someone was calling his name, which made him turn over involuntarily, trying to get further away from the source of the sound. Suddenly, the voice in his head was amplified Countless times, it is so big that it seems that the speaker is hidden in his ear canal.Before he had time to react to what the man said, he woke up from the dream. He sat up, and it seemed that a flame rushed to his face in a trance, burning him with sweat.

—Someone is calling him.

He followed the sound and turned his head, seeing the sea of ​​fire and Ah Jiu at the other end of the sea of ​​fire.

Ah Jiu pushed down the burning screen and saw that An Mingxi was still sitting on the bed in a daze, his eyes were red with anxiety, he shouted loudly and inadvertently inhaled the smoke, which made him cough violently.

An Mingxi stepped on the ground, did not take two steps, the heat of the floor stimulated him to step back, turned around and put on his shoes, suddenly remembered that the jade pendant was still lying on the bed, he quickly grabbed it into his hand.

An Mingxi's way forward was cut off by the fire. Ah Jiu and the other two splashed out the water in the bucket, opening a way out briefly. An Mingxi quickly walked through the flames and escaped under the protection of the three of them. In the main hall, when he was confused and at a loss, Ah Jiu noticed the flames on his sleeve.The flames were extinguished, An Mingxi raised his hand, and only then remembered that he was still holding the jade ball in his hand. Because he held it too tightly, the patterns on the ball's surface were imprinted into the flesh, and he felt a dull pain when he stroked it lightly.

There were constant palace people who came to put out the fire, and buckets of water were poured out, but it could only make the fire smaller for a short time, and the fire rose again after a while.

An Mingxi looked at the little flower in Yuzhong in a daze, and suddenly he raised his head and walked quickly into the sea of ​​flames. Just as he was about to run, Ajiu grabbed him and shouted amidst the noisy voices: "Your Highness! do what!"

An Mingxi looked at Ah Jiu, and anxiously turned his eyes back to the burning main hall: "Letter...painting!" He tried to break free from Ah Jiu's grasp, but Ah Jiu pulled him in the opposite direction to where he was going , Shouting: "It's all burned! It's gone! It's all gone!"

An Mingxi still wanted to get rid of him, because the fire he saw only engulfed half of the main hall.

Ah Jiu was anxious, and called the firefighters to stop An Mingxi together, and then said: "Ah Jiu, let Ah Jiu go! Ah Jiu will bring them out." An Mingxi was stunned, just as Ah Jiu was about to go around When he ran back to the fire scene, An Mingxi grabbed him and shook his head: "No, don't go."

Ah Jiu suddenly wanted to cry, and there were thousands of people in the palace, but An Mingxi never thought of sacrificing the life of any of his servants... His Fourth Highness is so kind that it makes people feel distressed.

The fire continued until dawn, and the entire hall was reduced to ruins.An Mingxi wrapped the cloak brought by Ah Jiu, looked at the ruins in a daze, and held the jade pendant in his hand all night. At this moment, he really felt the reality that Hua Qianyu was not by his side.

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A few days later, the Empress Dowager Yan Huizhi left the palace and went to Dayuan Temple. She will worship the Buddha for three years, and all the royal family members in the capital came to see her off.

The gaze cast by An Mingxi on Yan Huizhi—she might not have left the palace voluntarily, An Mingxi suddenly thought.He turned his head and looked at An Qingxuan who was so indifferent that he didn't seem to want to send his mother away from home but to drive away his enemies. The cause of the fire seemed to be answered.

If people's dislike of people is not born out of thin air, An Mingxi wants to know the reason why their mother and son are hated.

He has always thought that his concubine mother is gentle, kind and aloof from the world, but what if she is not as pure and innocent as he thinks?Even though he thought of this possibility, An Mingxi didn't dare to let such thoughts stay in his mind for too long, he felt blasphemous just staying at the level of "thinking".

At the beginning of November, An Mingxi received another letter from Hua Qianyu from Zhuge Xingyun. The latest letter was dated ten days ago, and that was the only long letter. The eldest prince An Mingyang was killed.The letter is filled with the young man's longing for life in the army, and his excitement when the longing becomes reality.

It was already snowing at Hua Qianyu's place, and he said that standing on the high wall and looking at the vast snow-covered territory made him feel excited, but An Mingxi wanted to ask him if he was cold... Couldn't Hua Qianyu take care of himself?An Mingxi thought that this was unsightly nonsense, so he didn't write the words to the letter.

An Mingxi's letter was still unfinished. He originally wanted to tell Hua Qianyu that the Chonghua Palace was on fire, and the letters and paintings sent by Hua Qianyu were also burned to ashes, but he saved Yupei—this is The only major event that happened to him recently, but after only a few sentences, he felt that it was too much to comfort Hua Qianyu, who was thousands of miles away, so he changed the paper. One after another, he often can only write the word "take care".

The second half of the long letter is about the customs and customs of the army’s territory. Hua Qianyu said that he thought the frontier was deserted, and there were few ordinary people after leaving the army. Unexpectedly, the popularity around the army camp was much heavier than he thought. There are ordinary houses, wine shops, tea shops, and even brothels.The discipline of the barracks was not as strict as he had originally thought. When he walked outside, he saw a lot of brothels.He also said that the decoration of the brothel was very similar to that of Changxiyuan, and most of the girls' accents were not like the locals, Hua Qianyu thought they were military prostitutes dispatched from various places.

Hua Qianyu's tone was uninteresting, only sympathetic. An Mingxi also sympathized with those daughters who couldn't help themselves, but at the same time, he was also worried that General Hua really became a "General Hua"—if he was just passing by, how could he understand these things? Condition?An Mingxi had mixed feelings for a moment. Based on his understanding of Hua Qianyu, he suspected that Hua Qianyu deliberately did not hide the news that would worry him in order to induce him to show possessiveness.And even though An Mingxi guessed Hua Qianyu's little thoughts, he didn't want Hua Qianyu to be embarrassed. He followed Hua Qianyu's wishes and his own heart, and wrote the ban with a pen, prohibiting Hua Qianyu from entering and leaving. In the brothel, Hua Qianyu is not allowed to get too close to the girls...

Looking at the childish words he wrote, An Mingxi couldn't help but smile. After thinking about it, he didn't throw away the paper, but continued to write, talking about the fire in the palace, talking about Zhuge Xingyun becoming a messenger, Talking about his improvement in martial arts...

Then tell him he misses him.

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Mingming didn't think too much at night, but An Mingxi's thoughts suddenly became clear when he woke up in the morning. He thought he should know the truth, no matter what the truth was, he would know his mother and concubine better, and he would also understand himself better.

Before Chang Shen, he asked the palace servants to send a letter to An Mingxin, in which he asked An Mingxin to meet at Wangchun Tower in Shenshi.An Mingxi, the yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs, waited at Wangchun Tower, but until sunset, he still couldn't wait for An Mingxin.He didn't wait any longer, and went back to the palace to find someone in An Mingxin's bedroom—the palace servants in the palace didn't invite him in, only the Taoist was not there.

Two nights passed, and there was still no news from An Mingxin.

You must know that there are actually two other options for the reason why their mother and son are hated, that is, the queen Hua Yaxi and the prince An Mingjing, but Hua Yaxi is the mastermind who sentenced the mother and concubine to death, and An Mingjing does not want to face it.

The wound An Mingjing left on him was not as severe as An Mingxin's, but the wound in his heart was far deeper than An Mingxin's.He thinks that his bad school career started when he was "abandoned" by An Mingjing, and he also thinks that without the support of An Mingjing, who is the prince, others would not dare to act recklessly against the prince.

He couldn't forget the indifferent gaze cast by An Mingjing when he was being bullied.And no matter how cruel An Mingxin is, at least he is not hypocritical, and he will not hide behind others to play tricks.

An Mingxi knew that it was not that An Mingxin had never returned to the palace these days, but he just ignored his request to see him on purpose.So he guarded near An Mingxin's bedroom, lucky enough to stop An Mingxin who was about to go back to the palace.

Under the illumination of the lights, An Mingxin saw the person coming, and sneered: "You really don't give up—what do you want from me? Are you asking for a beating?"

Looking at An Mingxin who was obviously impatient, An Mingxi went straight to the point: "Why do you hate me?"

Hearing this, An Mingxin's eyes widened, and the corner of his mouth curled up on the right side, as if he had heard the worst joke in the world, and asked, "What do you think it's because of? Is it because I'm jealous of you being favored?"

"It has something to do with my concubine mother?" He could always hear abuse words against his concubine mother from An Ming's heart.

An Mingxin frowned slightly, and said: "Isn't this very clear? What are you asking? But... To be honest, even without that woman, I still feel disgusted with you from the bottom of my heart!"

He approached An Mingxi, leaned close to An Mingxi who was not flinching, lowered his eyes and said condescendingly: "When he is proud, he is arrogant, and when he is frustrated, he seems to be the most pitiful wretch in the world... Such a big man nowadays Do you still need a hug? My poor brother!"

An Mingxi endured the grievance in his heart, and then asked: "What did the concubine mother do?"

An Mingxi frowned again, chuckled in disbelief, and asked, "You really don't know? Didn't you say it well before?"

"What did I say?"

An Mingxin closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he pushed An Mingxi away, causing his back to collide with the wall, and said with a cold face: "My concubine mother who doesn't know how to charm men was thrown into limbo Don't you know what happened?"

An Mingxi suppressed the pain, without changing his face: "What's the matter with my mother and concubine?"

An Mingxin pulled up his skirt and glared angrily: "She just talked about that woman's sensitive life experience in front of me, but she was imprisoned by your 'kind and great' father, and she was not allowed to meet her own son... …Can you still say it’s irrelevant? She was forced to hang herself, but she couldn’t see me for the last time—can you still say it’s irrelevant?”

An Mingxi stayed where he was.

An Mingxin let go of his skirt, patted An Mingxi on the shoulder, calmed down his voice and emotions, and said, "Are you sorry? No? After all, you and your mother are the ones who are just and deserve to be punished." The object of sympathy... Evil people like us don't even have the right to cry.

An Mingxin lowered her head and whispered in his ear: "Are you curious about your mother's background? Your loving father, queen, mother and concubine probably won't tell you, how about letting me be this villain?

"Uh huh, listen carefully... You are indeed a bastard, because your concubine who is especially good at pleasing men is a prostitute—surprise? I told you kindly in the past, but you wronged me Denigrate...or are you just not willing to admit it?

"How about letting your father imprison me until I die?"

An Mingxin looked at An Mingxi who was still absent-minded, and couldn't put on a smile anymore, put down the corners of his mouth, gave An Mingxi a "bah", and left.