An Feng Bamboo Horse

?It was night, the white tiger skin was peeled off by the third prince, and presented to the current emperor in the big tent.The emperor was very happy, praised him greatly, and asked who would cooperate to solve this difficult white tiger.

Qi Xuemiao stood in front of the emperor with his hands down, his expression was calm, without any hypocrisy, he smiled and said: "It's nothing more than the servants and servants in the palace." He asked people to submit a tiger hunting list.

The eldest prince standing next to the emperor, Qi Xuesheng, the current crown prince of the Eastern Palace, quickly glanced at the list in the emperor's hand. All of the dozen or so people were Qi Xuemiao's confidantes, but there was no red-haired boy in the uniform of the imperial guard that his subordinates reported. name.Did Qi Xuemiao want to protect Xia Anfeng from killing Xia Anfeng; or did he not want to involve the Dingguohou's mansion and arouse the emperor's suspicion?

Qi Xuemiao talked eloquently about the adventures of hunting tigers in front of the emperor, but never mentioned Xia Anfeng, let alone hinted that he was doing tricks in the White Tiger Cave, framing the people who went in to look for them first to be drugged and kill each other.

This emperor's younger brother is deep in thought, far from his harmless and innocent face.

The prey that everyone hunted on the first day was presented to the imperial inspection respectively. After receiving a batch of rewards, everyone returned to their tents to rest and prepare to face the remaining four days of hunting with vigor.

Qi Xuemiao returned to his tent, scrubbed his hands and face with the hot water brought by his maid, and when he was changing his hunting clothes with his back to the door of the tent, a figure flashed into the tent.

With the familiar breath and footsteps, Qi Xuemiao didn't turn his head back, and only his underwear was left, and he raised his hand to untie the gold ornaments on his braids.The visitor walked slowly, walked up to him, without making a sound, he said, "I can't reach the back of the hair, please help me remove it." He tilted his head towards the visitor.

The third son of Luo had a stinking face, but he still stretched out his hand and patiently removed the delicate beads for him.The beads and gold ornaments were removed, and a black hair fell down like a black waterfall.

Ask in a calm voice: "Why do you deliberately approach Xia Anfeng during the day?"

Qi Xuemiao tied up the blue silk with a tie, turned his head with a smile, and touched the man's handsome face with his slender fingertips. "The news is so fast, have you arranged someone in the hunting ground?"

"You promised me that the affairs of Marquis Dingguo belong to Marquis Dingguo. Xia Anfeng is Xia Anfeng, and he will not be involved."

"This prince is hunted down by others, and there is no one around to escort him. It happens that Second Young Master Xia is nearby. This is a coincidence."

Yubai embraced Luo Tang with both arms, and their intimate noses touched. Qi Xuemiao had already mastered how to subtly resolve the man's dissatisfaction: "His name is not even on the tiger hunting list. Isn't my prince's sincerity enough? Brother Huang knows that he has helped me, as long as he doesn't explicitly express his attachment, Brother Dahuang will not take action against him easily because of the prestige and status of Marquis Ding. Your worries are completely unnecessary."

"You were hunted down, and he happened to be nearby. Is it really that simple?" asked distrustfully.

The lips were gently kissed and rubbed gently, the man said coquettishly: "Yes, it's that simple. You and I grew up together since we were young, and you still don't believe what I say? Look at Xia Anfeng, right? Zhang Baiyan obeyed..."

"Bu Zhangbai's scheming city is far less important than yours."

The third prince's kissing movement paused for a while, and then continued to kiss him as if nothing had happened, but there was an inexplicable smile on his lips.

Luo Tang probably also noticed that the words were a bit harsh, so he slowed down his tone, and said, "I never ask you why you did many things. You want to reverse the case and pull Xia Zun from the horse, I don't agree." I ask you why; you have had a deep grudge with the prince, and you obviously received a tip that he wanted to take advantage of the field hunting to attack you, and deliberately sent his entourage away. I don't ask you why; you want to win over Bu Zhangbai, but he is just a juren with no official position. , I also don't ask you why. But there are some things, you have to be measured, don't overdo it, and harm innocent people in vain."

The earnest words seemed to hit a ball of cotton, Qi Xuemiao just laughed after hearing him say such a long paragraph: "Are you here specially to teach me a lesson?"

"I don't want you to go to the point of no return."

"Even if there is that step, you will accompany me to the end, won't you?"

Qi Xuemiao's tone was taken for granted, even arrogant, Luo Tang was dumbfounded and didn't know how to refute for a while.

After a moment of silence, he said: "...you asked me to investigate, I went to investigate. During Bu Zhangbai's stay in the guild hall, two people who were not candidates came to visit one after another. One was Xia Anfeng, the other Through appearance comparison, he is one of the remnants of the Chinese army who survived the battle of Tianmai Valley that year, and he is also a "defected domestic slave" who Ding Guohou notified the local government office to call himself."

The third prince was thoughtful: "In this way, he has already contacted those soldiers back then. When..."

Luo Tang was silent for a while, "I can only be sure that he avoids Xia Anfeng and lives alone in the guild hall, just to start investigating the incidents of the year and make things easier. Xia Anfeng should still be kept in the dark, thinking that all his thoughts On the test—"

"Okay, why don't you stay close to your friend for three words?" Qi Xuemiao interrupted him, suppressing his displeasure, and laughed again after a while, "It doesn't matter when he becomes suspicious, what matters is If he has doubts, it will be much easier for us to do things in the future. You find an opportunity to take him to see that person-let me handle the rest."

Luo Tang looked at him steadfastly, and the third prince smiled at him: "You always show such wary eyes, it really makes me sad. If you really don't want to, there is still time for you to get out now."

Luo Tang asked: "If I withdraw, will you give up?"

Qi Xuemiao's smile gradually faded, and he glanced at him.

"If you're still here, how can I get out?" The man smiled wryly, opened the tent and left.

Qi Xuemiao untied his hair, lay down on the tent mattress, and laughed softly.

——You asked me many whys, and I always answered you with the same simple answer.

But I guess you don't want to hear that.

Lying in the tent, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, there was another person.

Xia Anfeng's heart kept flashing back to the scene of meeting the third prince.Kuiyang Street is under the control of their Dingguohou Mansion, the third prince who was supposed to be in the capital appeared on that street in his clothes; the jade pendant of the third prince was presented to the girl in Nuanyun Pavilion; He claimed to admire Bu Zhangbai as a man, but secretly followed Bu Zhangbai and his actions; he deliberately created an opportunity to approach him in the hunting ground, and let the killer sent by the prince see them together ...

It is not Xia Anfeng's specialty to figure out the direction of the situation and analyze the trap layout, but with so many clues entangled in one place, an idiot can deduce that there must be some ulterior motive behind it.

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't lie down comfortably, and the more he thought about it, the more he worried about Bu Zhangbai who was alone in the tribute courtyard.

Playing with the azure kit with his fingers, he circled the lines on it once, and then circled again. Xia Anfeng got up, put on his clothes, and opened the curtain of the tent.

There was a person standing at the door, Xia Anfeng met him suddenly, the latter said coldly: "Yuwei, go back to your tent."

It's the captain of the guard.

Xia Anfeng smiled: "Xia Anfeng is so honored, is it worth alerting the captain to come to a newly added guard in front of the imperial guard camp?"

The captain said: "During the field hunting, all the hunting personnel are not allowed to go out without the emperor's orders. This is the rule."

"What if I have to go out?"

Although the tone was teasing, the young master did not seem to be joking, and his hand was already touching his waist.

His hand was caught by another hand, and Luo Tang flashed out from behind him on the right.

"Your sword is broken, there is no rush to go out."

"Luo Xiaotang..."

He nodded to the captain of the imperial guard: "Xia Xiaohou has not yet adapted to the rules in the palace. For Luo's sake, give him some time." The captain of the imperial guard said that if it is light, he is in charge of guarding the palace, and if it is serious, he is beside the emperor. If Xia Anfeng confronted him directly, he would suffer a lot in the future, and Ding Guohou might not be able to take care of him.

In fact, the captain of the imperial guard was also told by the prince to pay more attention to this group of newcomers who participated in the field hunting for the first time, especially Xia Anfeng who had just filled in the vacancy, so he would go to the camp here.Seeing that the son of Duke Wei's mansion came forward to intercede, and seeing that Xia Anfeng was also silent, no longer intending to force his way in, he stopped thinking about it and turned his back and left.

When the man left, Luo Tang let go of his hand and complained in a tone of voice: "It's only the first day of field hunting, why can't you bear your temper? If I didn't worry about you and found a relationship to come in to see, you still Are you going to fight directly with the captain of the imperial guard?"

Xia Anfeng dragged him into the tent, frowning: "You came just in time, let me tell you about the strange things that happened today—"

He told Luo Tang everything about meeting Qi Xuemiao. In fact, Luo Tang already knew everything from the informant, but he heard that Qi Xuemiao seduced this ignorant and sinister young master. The men sent by the crown prince broke through the gate of hell, but there were still bursts of anger and blood in their hearts.

Qi Xuemiao regards human life as nothing, not only using Xia Anfeng as a game, but also ignoring his own safety, he actually used the assassin sent by the prince as a stepping stone to test Xia Anfeng's ability, he didn't want to think about it, what if Xia Anfeng If you don't want to cooperate, or if something goes wrong, it is very likely that both of you will lose your life!

He doesn't claim to be meticulous in his work, so why did he do such a willful thing today!

He had clearly been warned not to get close to Xia Anfeng! !

"Hey, your face is ugly, is it okay?" After Xia Anfeng stated what happened during the day, he shook his palm in front of his eyes a few times.

"The third prince is a moody person, and the prince is also not easy to mess with. You'd better stay away from them, and don't get involved in their affairs."

"Of course I hope to be as far away as possible, but the third prince said that he is very familiar with Xiaobai's grandfather, and he will do everything in his power to help Xiaobai fulfill his wish." Xia Anfeng saw Luo Tang's expression became even uglier, Ask him, "Have you been in the capital for so many years, are you familiar with this third prince? How much do you know about him?"

I was Qi Xuemiao's companion, and we grew up together; when we were 12 years old, we had our first skin-to-skin contact.For him, I will do many things that I am not willing to do.Including digging out what happened back then, ruining your father Ding Guohou's reputation.

All kinds of words swirled in his throat, Luo Tang's face sank again and again, facing Xia Anfeng's unreserved and trusting eyes, he couldn't say a word.

Every time I deliberately get close to you, and I have become close friends with you for more than ten years, it is all because of...his teasing behind the scenes.

"He and I..." Luo Tang only said three words, then suddenly changed the subject, and asked straightforwardly: "Xia Anfeng, if one day, you face your loved ones, and the responsibilities and obligations you shoulder , you can only choose one of the two—how would you choose?"

"What responsibilities and obligations do I have?" Xia Anfeng was puzzled, "I am neither the heir apparent nor an official in the court. This issue has nothing to do with me."

"It's just a hypothesis, try to think about it."

In such an environment, asking such a question, Xia Anfeng also put away his joking thoughts, and said seriously: "If there is a day when I have to face that kind of dilemma, I think I will do my best to ensure that the responsibility is fulfilled, and the security My dearest and dearest."

Luo Tang smiled wryly.He patted the red-haired boy on the shoulder, and said softly: "This is the difference between you and me. I will ignore my responsibilities and choose the person I love."

He said: "You ask me to know more about the third prince - I don't know him well. But I have a word, you must keep it in your heart, don't trust anyone too much, whether it is the third prince, Bu Zhangbai, or me. "?