His Royal Highness the First Prince of Daliang

After Yan Gui left, Kang Ning was depressed for a long time, until the winter passed and spring came to the earth. It took seven years to go south, first to wipe out Xi Nan’s rebellious party, and then to eliminate the eleven independent Yi nationality states in the southern border. return to court.

The God of War in Daliang, General Qi Changfeng, is going back to the capital.

The entire capital of Kyoto and Bianji Prefecture were boiling over the news.Seven years ago, Qi Changfeng went south to join the war as a young general under the command of General Wen Dan. Apart from his special background and the favor of the emperor, there was nothing particularly eye-catching about him.

Seven years have passed, this young general who has risen all the way with his illustrious military exploits first beheaded Ni Wang's head, and then miraculously came back from the dead. The most admirable thing is that he changed his identity to deal with Nanque and Xiyue. , causing the two small continents to lose their combat power and surrender.

After that, General Qi, who had replaced General Wen Dan in the military power, wiped out the remaining small border countries within two years, and successfully handed over that large area of ​​foreign land to the new state officials appointed by Emperor Hui.

The civil and military officials of the whole court watched silently, guessing that this young general, who was deeply favored by the emperor, had outstanding military exploits, and had no complicated power background, entered the court. What changes the situation brought about.

For a while, the front court and the harem had their own thoughts, but Kang Ning felt very different.

Before Qi Changfeng came back, the little prince always spent a lot of time thinking about him.Sometimes Kang Ning dreamed at night that once Qi Changfeng won the victory and avenged his parents, he galloped thousands of miles overnight and returned to him from southern Xinjiang, and promised never to leave again.

But when Kang Ning woke up very happily in the morning, he often had to be dazed on the pillow for a while before realizing that he had fabricated another dream like this.

It's just that now that Qi Changfeng is really on his way back, and the two of them count the days before they can meet again, but the little prince feels nervous and evasive like a cowardly feeling close to home.

He seemed suddenly to have some strange sensitivity.

A few days ago, Meng Baifan came to Wangshu Palace to show him his pulse. He just casually mentioned the general Qi who everyone was talking about, and said that he was looking forward to seeing this commoner hero. He quickly withdrew his hand and stared at Meng Baifan several times in surprise.

And when Meng Baifan asked why, Kang Ning hesitated and couldn't speak.

In fact, it was he who suddenly remembered the failed relationship between Meng Baifan and Qi Changfeng that he had learned about during his illness.He had long planned to smooth over the regret that the two of them were not married, but in the past two years, he also had doubts from time to time—is his guess true or false?Maybe Qi Changfeng is not the man who makes Sister Meng feel like she belongs?

Or maybe, maybe the failure of these two people to get together is the best result after the two of them weighed it?

But looking at Meng Baifan's concerned eyes at this moment, the little prince felt a bit of guilty shivering for some reason, he shook his head, and passed his wrist over again: "I was shocked for a while, and when I think about it again, I don't know why. "

He put aside those inexplicable and complicated thoughts, smiled and said back to the topic just now, "Chang...General Qi has known me since childhood, and he is indeed a very good person. When he returns to the capital, I will definitely introduce Sister Meng to him. know."

By the end of February, the willows on the banks of the Datong River had sprouted crisp and tender new shoots. Emperor Hui personally greeted him out of the city with all his civil and military officials. .

There is no need to mention the compliments of the monarch and his ministers when they met, but Qi Changfeng was first praised and rewarded by the emperor, and then cared for for a long time like an ordinary elder. With all the attention and favor, the newly-baked commoner Marquis always seemed a little absent-minded.

This General Qi didn't stop looking unobtrusively when he was able to see the emperor and his party. He only restrained himself a little when he was talking to the emperor. There was a kind of unconcealable and jaw-dropping disappointment, as if he was not sitting beside the emperor who was envied by all, but was instead thrown to sit on the bench by someone important.

At this time, apart from Emperor Hui who was secretly amused, only Qi Changfeng's confidantes who stayed in the five thousand vanguard could guess a little bit what their general was thinking——

Since their return journey, the general has always been in a state of restless excitement, which became more obvious the closer they got to the capital.

Those stinky boys were still laughing behind their backs, saying that the general grew up in front of the emperor, how could he not change his face when he was in a sea of ​​swords and blood during the war, but now that he is going back to Beijing to meet His Majesty, the general actually tense up.

But the confidant knew that the reason why their general looked like this was not to meet His Majesty.

During the rapid march, the general deliberately bathed and combed his hair, tried to shave and incense, and even washed his battle robe and horses himself, just to be able to see his childhood friend——Daliang at first sight when he arrived in the suburbs of Beijing That little Highness who has never been out of Beijing and has a good name, but even he has heard of it.

What a touching and sincere friendship!

This reminded my confidants of Wang Jiazhu, his good brother and friend who was so good to wear a pair of pants when he was in his hometown.He thought that after returning to the temple, he would also have more than a month of family leave, and then he would be able to see Wang Jiazhu again.At that time, he will also wash his face and clean his clothes, he——

He shuddered.

Why did he do this to meet Wang Jiazhu?The general is also true - meeting a good friend, why does it seem like you are going to marry your sweetheart?

Sure enough, he still couldn't fully understand the general's thoughts.So he is the general, and he can only be a personal guard under the tent.

Then again, for the first time in seven years, their general shaved off his beard, which had grown as thick as a savage for so long, and rubbed his battle armor to shine with coarse cloth. Woke up early in the morning and dressed himself up like a living god, but the little highness whom the general was looking forward to seeing did not appear in the team that went out of the city to meet him.

Just the night before yesterday, the general had sworn to the little cat girl that he had already sent the news of his arrival to the little prince, and that the little prince would follow his majesty out of the city to welcome him. The little highness can be found in the crowd at a glance.

The little cat girl is the child rescued by their general from Nanyi. She ate and lived with them in the army for two years, and she couldn't tell if she was a boy or a girl. The old woman adopted her, and was brought back by the army this time. The two mothers were going to defect to an old sister of the woman who lived alone in the capital.

The little cat heard that they could see the fairy-like little prince outside the capital, and kept arguing to go back to Beijing with the 5000 people.This confidant had previously coaxed the child, saying that when he saw the description of His Highness the Immortal, he would definitely tell her when he came back.Who knew let alone him, even the general couldn't see the little prince in the first place.

In fact, even Emperor Hui couldn't explain what happened to Kang Ning to Qi Changfeng, who was so disappointed that his eyebrows drooped.

In fact, he had said earlier that he would bring his youngest son out—he had always known how much his precious son missed Qi Changfeng, that brat.

Although Emperor Hui sometimes had a taste for the sincere friendship he had single-handedly facilitated, today's situation is exactly what he wanted at the beginning—even better than what he originally imagined.

Ten years ago, Emperor Hui sent Kang Ning's uncle as the candidate to rescue Qi Changfeng, until he secretly contributed to making Qi Changfeng branded as Yongchun Palace in everyone's eyes, and even now, he has been tacitly acquiescing and assisting Qi Changfeng's relationship with Kang Ning.

The emperor wanted Qi Changfeng, who had made numerous military exploits and held the military power of the Great Liang, to stand unswervingly behind his youngest son.If Qi Changfeng back then was a dou who couldn't help, Emperor Hui would have dragged Zhao Yunxia, ​​who was out in Yunye, into the quagmire of the court, and stuffed him into the Southern Conquest Army to coat him with military exploits.

Because his youngest son was born weak, he was doomed not to be a big man. No matter how much he loved him, he still couldn't stop those who were not afraid of death from reaching out to Kang Ning.The emperor didn't want to wait until the youngest son was taken as a raft by those fighting for power and profit. Since the eldest son of the Zhao family insisted on being alone, those elites in the court decided that the little prince would not be able to achieve great things and refused to be loyal. Kang Ning There is no foundation and no background in the struggle for power, and he can only be used and affected again and again, and the emperor will create such a powerful foundation for him.

Now that Qi Changfeng has returned from meritorious service, he still puts Kang Ning in a more important position than him as the emperor. Emperor Hui is satisfied.

But the youngest son didn't know what was going on and refused to come, and the emperor was even more strangely cool.

He just pretended not to see the eyes of the young general who had something to say, and kept pulling Qi Changfeng to chat, laughing and chatting, until the long team passed by the lively cheers all the way, and finally saw the thick bronze gate of the palace city, Qi Changfeng finally Visibly revived to the naked eye.

But when he finished the performance reports and military awards in the Qinzheng Hall, and met the second prince and other familiar faces from seven years ago, he finally looked forward to the celebration banquet held in Qunfangzhai, but his expectation was the second time. Frustrated.

At the celebration banquet full of guests, the person he missed the most still did not appear.

If it wasn't for the fact that the emperor and Concubine Zhao who were sitting at the top all had normal faces and cheeks filled with joy, Qi Changfeng would almost have suspected that something had happened to Kang Ning.

But if not, why didn't he come to see him?

Qi Changfeng sat at the banquet for less than half an hour, and he didn't know how many glasses of wine he drank.As the protagonist of the celebration banquet in a certain sense, the emperor always had three cups of wine to drink, and then the two elderly princes, the civil and military ministers with different thoughts in the court, and all the comrades in the army who lived and died together— ——In his seven years of marching career, not to mention that he has never drunk a drop of alcohol, and under the strict military discipline, he rarely touches alcohol.By now it was a little drunk.

Finding a free time when no one was around, Qi Changfeng finally took the opportunity to leave the noisy hall of singing and dancing, wanting to let the cold spring breeze outside blow his dizzy mind, so as to save himself from thinking about that heartless little thing—— —

It's just that he used all his attention to control his mind and stop thinking, but he couldn't control his two feet with ideas.He was obviously so drunk that his sanity was not clear, why he could still ask clearly the direction of Wang Shugong.