His Royal Highness the First Prince of Daliang

With a night of north wind, the magnificent imperial city entered winter.

Ever since the emperor Long Yan joyfully sighed in the Hall of Qinzheng in the first ten days, "Having a child should be like Qi Changfeng!" This "young general in the south" who was originally a child's play, a commoner boy from the frontier, has become popular in the capital.Special permission to carry a sword in front of the emperor, bestow the court, go in and out with the prince, eat and sleep together, and be personally assigned by the emperor to learn literature and martial arts with a famous teacher-this is no longer about creating another "confidant Li Wenlun", this is directly approaching. How Zhao Yunxia was treated in his youth!

But Kang Ning noticed that Brother Changfeng was not in a good mood recently.

This made him worried and a little strange at the same time.He wanted to understand why brother Changfeng was unhappy.He asked Huanqing, Xiaofuzi, and even the emperor's brother and sister.But Huanqing and the others only said that His Royal Highness was thinking nonsense. Qi Xiaolang has been enjoying himself recently, and he doesn't look unhappy even watching his performance; Now I only know about Brother Changfeng, but I don't know that I have other brothers and sisters.How could Qi Changfeng be unhappy?Why didn't he ask them why these royal brothers and sisters were unhappy?

Kang Ning couldn't count on them, so he had to find a way to coax his big partner.But he suddenly discovered that he had been with Brother Changfeng day and night for two months, and he had heard so many stories about his adventures from Brother Changfeng. Before I woke up, I had already started to practice martial arts. I knew that he always liked to make some harmless jokes with Brother Erhuang, which made Brother Erhuang scream in anger. I knew that he always missed his hometown Baihe—— But Kang Ning never asked him why he came to the capital all the way, why he followed his uncle to leave home under the call of his father.

He always talked to Qi Changfeng about his father and mother, about his little thoughts about his parents, about his happiness and troubles, but he never talked about Qi's uncles and aunts with his brother. ——So he seemed to think of it only now, where is brother Changfeng's own home?Where are his father and mother?Did he miss them?

Kang Ning is like those people who can't see the bugs under the lamp, annoyed that they have never cared about such an important issue.He thought, if his eldest friend was unconsciously dazed for longer every day because he missed the uncle and aunt of the Qi family, then he would help him find his father and give Brother Changfeng a winter vacation so that Brother Changfeng could Going back to southern Xinjiang to reunite with my parents for a while—even if I hope that Brother Changfeng will be successful in his studies in the capital, the uncles and aunts of the Qi family must miss their son very much, right?

Just like him, just thinking that Qi Changfeng might want to go back to southern Xinjiang to be with his family more, he already started to miss him.

For two or three days in a row, Kang Ning wanted to find an opportunity to ask Qi Changfeng if he was homesick.But every time he just started, Qi Changfeng would intentionally or unintentionally divert the topic - Kang Ning didn't know how hard he was to hide his thoughts.His worried and expectant expression almost undisguisedly put the meaning of "I want to talk to you about something that makes you uncomfortable" on his silly little face.

Qi Changfeng was a little surprised that Kang Ning saw something.He is actually a person with an open-minded and cheerful personality on the outside, but at the same time he is very guarded - none of the people with exquisite thoughts in the palace and those outside the palace who are waiting to drive him as a newly promoted red horn thinks that he is worthy , There should even be something unhappy.Kang Ning, a little idiot, was so sensitively aware of it.This made him a little indescribably sad, and felt that this child was really not in vain.

But he still didn't want to talk to anyone about his depression as his parents' anniversary approached.

It's been almost a year since his father and mother left him.He hadn't said a single word about them to anyone since they left.When Zhao Yunxia took him to Beijing, he also thought that when he entered the capital to meet the emperor, the emperor would definitely ask him about his parents-he could be rescued by Emperor Liang Hui, more or less depended on The name of the martyrs of the Qi couple in the frontier—he would not say a word by then.If the emperor punishes, let him punish.

But Emperor Hui Xu heard something from Brother Zhao and didn't ask him.

It's strange, but he doesn't want to tell anyone how hot, kind, and beautiful his mother was when he was alive, and he doesn't want to tell others about her beautiful voice when she sang the Baihe ballad; He was ignorant when he was young, so he ran into the ditch of Shitou'ao, and his father searched for him all night with a torch, but he was not willing to beat him when he found him, and carried him all the way back from Shitou'ao.

Qi Changfeng left all of this in the burnt-out little house in his heart, which was once simple but safe, and he didn't want anyone but himself to step in again.

Zhao Yunxia, ​​Sisi Niang, and the owner of Dengfeng Villa, including Emperor Hui and Concubine Zhao, are all adults with a sense of boundaries, and the princes and princesses are a group of children with insight into the world and understanding of human relationships. They are all considerate and considerate enough , tacitly kept the distance from him that Qi Changfeng obviously didn't want to announce, and never stepped on other people's forbidden ground shamelessly.

But Kang Ning really didn't understand anything.

When Qi Changfeng appeared in front of him, he was just Qi Changfeng, the heroic and brave big brother that his father said, and his witty and cute good friend who could accompany him every day.He is not the son of a tragic and righteous man, he is not a general who is favored by his father and must make a gesture of friendship, and he is not a spokesperson for the anti-barbarians who was persecuted by King Xi Nan and therefore the court has to make gestures to comfort and win him over.

To put it bluntly, Kang Ning first saw the real person in his sight, and then he loved and liked him more and more, and then because he cared about him and saw everything behind him, he slowly began to pay attention to what this person is What kind of identity, what kind of family background you have, what kind of things you have experienced, and so on.

—so he hit it head on.I bumped into the day when the emperor granted Qi Changfeng a holiday, bumped into the dormitory where Qi Changfeng hid, bumped into the sadness and embarrassment that Qi Changfeng had never shown in front of him.

In some ways, Corning was probably a really sensitive little kid.On that dark and cold winter morning, all the palace people hid like shadows in this deep and vast hall. The little prince ran up alone and drove straight in. Then he was stunned when he saw Qi Changfeng's face.

Just for a moment, his whole body was like being beaten by frost, an inexplicable and strong sadness clenched his young heart tightly, he didn't know that he had already shed tears.

He originally wanted to ask, "Brother Changfeng, what happened to you today?"

But he said nothing.He seemed to see Qi Changfeng's expressionless face, curled up posture on the side bed, and those dull eyes staring at the silk window, so he didn't want to say anything.

With a gentle instinct, like a warm pony, he bravely walked over step by step, and hugged Qi Changfeng's head in his arms without saying a word.

Something—maybe it could be called courage appeared in the little prince's chest for the first time, and he suddenly had a desire to protect Qi Changfeng.He imitated Concubine Zhao when she caressed him, gently stroking the hair of the big friend in his arms. It was subconsciously expressing something he couldn't say. What he wanted to tell Qi Changfeng was: at this moment, the world There is someone who loves you very much.

"What's the matter with you," Qi Changfeng asked the child without moving, expressionless.His voice was hoarse, "Why are you crying?"

Corning didn't know.Corning won't say.He shook his head, his voice was childish and pitifully choked, "I like Brother Changfeng," he realized that he only knew how to say this at this moment, "I...I hug Brother Changfeng for good ?"

Qi Changfeng was silent for a while without any response.Then he suddenly raised his upper body, picked up the little prince who was standing on tiptoe with difficulty at the head of the bed, and looked at him twice, as if an animal was confirming whether it was its cub.Then he took Kang Ning into his arms and laid him on his chest.

Perhaps it is the pure and innocent love of a child that can always make people feel sad, or maybe in the deepest part of the heart of a young man who has lost his parents and is homeless, he actually hopes that someone will care about him and ask him——

After being silent again and again, he talked about what he thought he would never want to mention to anyone after a long time: "My mother," his voice was hoarse, and just these two words brought tears to his eyes:

"She loves the rouge made by a family in the east of Baihe County."

He thought again of the white river in his hometown, of the blue sky falling into his eyes, of his parents walking towards him through the damp dense forest, when A Niang saw him, her eyebrows raised fiercely : "If this little bastard harms my Rouge again, let's see if I don't break his pair of dog legs!"

Father was still working as a peacemaker between the two mothers, and he had already seen the roast chicken wrapped in bamboo leaves in the burden of his father and mother—the little he rushed over like a nimble monkey, scooped it up, and picked it up. He picked up the fragrant roast chicken that was still warm, cleverly dodged his mother's howling palm, and rushed to find his good friends in the village with the roast chicken in hand.

He was so ignorant and happy then.

He also remembered a lot of things, those warm, romantic things that no one in this world would know or care about except him, he told intermittently—or more like talking to himself—sometimes Some complete episodes, sometimes jumping incoherently to other segments, sometimes just laughing or crying.

And Kang Ning was always held by him in his arms, and at the same time hugged him, quietly listening to these whispers that were not exciting at all compared to the previous stories, but at this moment they could attract his full attention.

In this way, they spent the whole day in this small, dark and quiet bed, from the dark morning to the cold and windy dusk, it seemed that on this day, these two children were the only ones left in the world , so give and take the last of your strength from each other.

In the Yongchun Palace, in the warm and bright Nuange, Concubine Zhao was somewhat worried, "Kang Ning is not sensible, he has always been reckless, maybe he will poke Qi Xiaolang's sore spot carelessly. Let's send someone to see them ?” How did she feel that the emperor was unreliable, “Besides, it’s been a day.”

Emperor Hui shook his head, hugged the imperial concubine's shoulders comfortingly, and pressed her down on the sitting table, "When you make friends, you can't just enjoy the other party's comfort to you. When you are in the most lonely situation of a friend, you can safely think that he is alone. People can face it. Such two people cannot be close friends."

"There are always some things that our parents can't intervene in, and we are destined not to arrange for him. Let the children figure out what to do."