His Royal Highness the First Prince of Daliang

"There are still seven days, Qi Changfeng should be back." Kang Ning and Yan Gui walked side by side under the shade of the golden and red trees outside Wangshu Palace.He has been wrapped in a thin fox fur with a hood, but he still doesn't look bloated, and there is a kind of coquettish delicacy in his movements.

"How do you know? Do you know what he is doing?" Yan Gui stopped and asked outside the palace wall.

"He...he went to Southeast Shu County to suppress the bandits?" The little prince's eyes seemed to wander slightly at this moment, but the speed was very fast, so it seemed to be an illusion of Yan Gui, "I know, it's because of him Before you left, you agreed with me to return in January. Now counting the days is almost here."

Having said that, Yan Gui still felt something strongly wrong at that moment.

If the little prince really believed the rhetoric of suppressing bandits, why didn't he ask about the bandits in the southeast these days?

But for some reason, Yan Gui, who always likes to get to the bottom of it, subconsciously let go of this doubtful point and refused to delve deeper.Or maybe Yan Gui already had an answer in his heart, but he didn't want to admit it, and didn't dare to recognize it.

He immediately changed the subject.

"You like him that much?" Yan Gui raised the corners of his lips, teasing Kang Ning with a half-smile.

"...En." The little prince agreed lightly.

The kind of happiness that often lingers on him these days is slowly and vividly resurfaced now—since the night when Qi Changfeng sneaked in to bid farewell, the little prince has been in a long-lost good mood these days: "I am very happy." like."

"Why?" Yan Gui's affection for Qi Changfeng is quite limited - to some extent, it is even worse than his "limited affection" for others.

"What unique shortcomings does he have in this person? No, I mean—advantages?" Yan Gui wanted to deeply analyze the source of Kang Ning's feelings.

At that moment, the little prince really thought about it very seriously.Many adjectives such as handsome, upright and open-minded, gentle and steady rushed through his mind, but they all disappeared in an instant.

In the end, he hesitated and shook his head, with a vague sense of nostalgia and melancholy in his description, "I don't know," Kang Ning said slowly, "I haven't met anyone else either... I only saw him, and I like him." That's it."

What an incomprehensible reason this is.

Yan Gui was simply unbelievable: "What do you mean you haven't seen someone else? I'm not a human? He's not a human?" He casually pointed to the guard standing in the distance, "And the one next to you - this is as much admiration as a crucian carp crossing the river. Or, are they not human?”

When he questioned him like this, Kang Ning immediately felt that there was indeed something wrong with what he said just now.He gave his friend a strange look, and said hesitantly, "Yeah... you are all human too... Well, then I really don't know."

"Qi Changfeng, isn't he a vixen?" Yan Gui thought bitterly in his heart: "That's right, this kid is from southern Xinjiang, so it's hard to say whether he has any unpredictable methods! "

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Qi Changfeng, the slandered vixen, is currently wounded in a town not far from Beijing.

If he followed his current pace, he would be able to rush back to the little prince in just one day and night.The reason why he delayed until now was probably because he was too deeply stimulated that day at the head of the Changle Gang, and he had already received news that Zhao Yunxia had found the poisonous woman root earlier than him and sent him back—so he went a little earlier. Tian started chasing weak clues and ran around again, trying to find a little trace and proof about Gui Quezi.

Under such circumstances, Qi Changfeng's injuries could not be healed well, so he repeatedly postponed his return to Beijing.Or maybe subconsciously, Qi Changfeng was also a little unable to face the little prince—he had returned to his usual calm and calm appearance, but the hateful words of the Nanyi people before they died still left a deep knife mark in his heart.But he has been unable to find the ghost magpie's trace, and his anxiety and fear are increasing day by day, causing a huge violent fear in his bones and blood.

One night, Qi Changfeng fell into a nightmare from which he couldn't wake up.

In the Wangshu Palace in the dream, everyone was standing around with blurred faces, and he saw himself sitting by the bed in shock, holding a bowl of poison in his hand, and slowly feeding it into the mouth of the person on the bed.Qi Changfeng wanted to stop, shout, and call for help, but he couldn't do anything.But after a while, the person on the bed fell into a violent tremor, and the gurgling blood continued to overflow from the corner of Kang Ning's mouth. Qi Changfeng stretched out his hand to hug him, but someone threw him away.

The faces around him came to life in an instant.

Seeing Meng Baifan's face full of tears, he accused him, "Your Highness has gone down! General Qi, you killed His Highness!"

Then there is the face of Concubine Zhao crying on the ground, and the eyes of the emperor looking at him with hatred.And Qi Changfeng looked blankly at the person on the bed, only to see a pale and lifeless face - who is that?Who is that lying there?Is that my little Highness?

Will not.

He can't believe it.He wanted to walk over, to reach out and touch the man's face.

But many hands came up to stop him and gripped him tightly. They lay between him and Kang Ning, pulling him farther and farther, making the distance of a few short steps infinitely longer.

"General!" He was finally woken up by Geng Fei and the others.

Qi Changfeng woke up from his dream in sweat profusely, facing the frightened and worried expressions of his confidants.At this time, it was pitch black outside the window, the street in the distance was infinitely silent, and the skin of the wound on the shoulder that had healed was itching slightly.Qi Changfeng let out a long breath, and then he gradually felt his heart beating wildly. He looked around the people in front of him calmly, and then gave an order:

"I'm fine, go back and sleep. Leave tomorrow morning and return to Beijing at full speed."

Qi Changfeng didn't know at this time that Yan Gui had also returned to the capital.

The name Yan Gui is well-known in a small area, but to Qi Changfeng's generals, he is more of an "old friend" brought back by Zhao Yunxia when he returned from searching for medicine, and he is not so important that he needs to report the news of Poison Pogen Let them know the general at the same time.

Therefore, Qi Changfeng only needs to worry about the ghost magpie.

In fact, Qi Changfeng only had dealings with Yan Gui when he was a child - Yan Gui was even younger at that time, he was exquisite and beautiful, and he had to be said to be smart and agile in his speech.

I don't know how Qi Changfeng can hold grudges against such a child who is one year younger than the little prince.In short, if Qi Changfeng has three points of disgust for Meng Mingyue's daring to Xiao Xiangkangning, then Yan Gui is not Xiao Xiang's little prince, he is already seven points on guard against him.

In fact, the origin of this is a joke made by Princess Zhaoyang that day.

Last year, Kang Ning was getting older, and it happened that his second sister was in love with her. Every now and then, she would take her younger brother to banquets and socialize in Beijing. At that time, she attracted countless infatuated men and women for the little prince. .The second princess was also guilty of causing trouble for her younger brother, but although she also tried to stop it, many of the rich and powerful had relatives, so she couldn't really kill him.

Until Yan Gui tracked down the clues and returned to Beijing due to the extermination of the Chen family, he killed all directions as soon as he came.Not only did he have to stay with the little prince day and night, but he also didn't allow anyone else to take a share.

How can those crazy bees, waves and butterflies around the little prince let go?Some of them passed their complaints to Princess Zhaoyang.

And the second princess said with a smile at that time: "Yan Gui is the villain of my brother's family, I can't control their affairs."

As soon as this statement came out, the next day, almost the entire capital knew about this joke.But Yan Gui was not ashamed but proud, and since then, he has been entrenched by the little prince's side, and has even more "big wife" style.

After Qi Changfeng came back, there were almost no less than ten people who sent this joke to his ears as a joke at the banquet.After all, even random passers-by on the street would know that General Qi and His Royal Highness are good friends who grew up together—then how could this kind of funny and evocative anecdote not be the topic of the table, drinking The reason.

From this, one can also imagine how Qi Changfeng would feel about Yan Gui.

Even before Qi Changfeng, a wooden head, wakes up to his own intentions, he regards Yan as a serious problem.In his opinion, Yan Gui is the standard kind: a bitter, jealous friend.

When Yan Gui was a child, he tried his best to distract Kang Ning's attention, so that the little prince, who had no stamina and memory, couldn't think of looking for his favorite brother Changfeng.And when he grows up, he is really even more hateful - how can he blindly occupy the little prince's attention according to his own preferences, and willfully isolate him from other friendly and amiable friends!

At such a time, Qi Changfeng couldn't remember that he had sent Geng Fei away in a hurry because of a "catch fish and sell it well".

——Clearly showing consideration for his subordinates and allowing him to go back to visit relatives.How could he be the same as Yan Gui? !

Although, all in all, when Qi Changfeng returned to the capital this spring and learned that Yan Gui had already left Xizhou and might never return in this life, he would never admit that he felt an unspeakable sense of relief.

But Qi Changfeng didn't know that he would come back sooner or later for everything he owed at the time.

The day Qi Changfeng entered Beijing was early winter.

He reported to Emperor Hui in the Hall of Harmony in Qing Dynasty that he first went to Shu to seize medicinal materials this month, and then discovered the remnants of Nanyi and the whole story of this conspiracy, so he stayed for a few days to wipe out the rebels, and then went to him. Wandering in the southeast area, one is to end the real banditry and join the tribe at the same time; second, he tortured the remaining Nanyi population: the first name of the ghost magpie was in the local chronicles from the south of Shu to the middle of the mountain Mentioned, so he tracked it for two days by himself, and left people to continue searching—and so on and so on.

His report is very different from the previous style, it is clear and detailed, almost like showing merit.Probably because he still remembered the suspicion that Emperor Hui had prevented him from seeing the little prince before he left Beijing—Qi Changfeng didn't know what the emperor meant, so he was more or less trying to please him.

Even Qi Changfeng is ready, if the emperor is unkind, don't blame him for being unrighteous - don't blame him for moving out Zhao Guifei, who has been in a cold war with the emperor, to show off his wounds to those who have always loved him more.

But what Qi Changfeng didn't expect was that instead of finding excuses not to allow him to go to Wangshu Palace, His Majesty was quite talkative, and offered to let him go to Kang Ning's place for everyone to chat.

There was a look in Emperor Hui's eyes that Qi Changfeng couldn't distinguish clearly at the time. If he had to describe it, it would probably be "watching the fun." "Changfeng, let's go now." Meet your old friends!"