It turns out that I too have been robbed.

Boys who grew up in the palace are naturally more mature than those outside the palace.

Not to mention that Qi Baili grew up in the Weiguo Palace.He who can please Emperor Wei, as long as he wants to, can leave a good impression on anyone.

In the past few days of staying in the General Zhenxi's mansion, at the beginning, Princess Shuming was more or less entangled because of the rumors about Qi Baili's past.But in the next few days, Qi Baili's image in the heart of the princess has completely changed to a gentle, gentle and shy boy.

In addition, the princess knew that Qi Baili's mother and concubine passed away when he was young, so she took extra care of Qi Baili.

Until Qi Baili returned to the palace after spending the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhenxi General's Mansion, the princess was still thinking about him.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, time passes faster and faster.

In the blink of an eye, Fengcheng was covered with snow, and Pei Ruzhou also celebrated his 17th birthday this winter.

There is no uniform time for the princes of Dayi to go out of the palace to build a mansion, but compared with the previous dynasty, it is still relatively early.

Among the princes of this generation, Qi Yunyao, who is the youngest, is still guarding the imperial mausoleum.As for Qi Baili and the fourth prince, one was about to be eighteen, and the other had already passed eighteen, so the emperor thought about it and let them end their days living in the palace at this time.

After that, they will live in the royal mansion outside the palace for a few years, and after the crowning ceremony, they will go to their own fiefdom.

Dayi's princes' fiefdoms are not large, but most of them are very close to Fengcheng.

Nowadays, many brothers of the Holy Master live in the fief for half a year and stay in Fengcheng for half a year.

In Pei Ruzhou's view, this kind of life is much better than staying in the palace all the time.

Coincidentally, Qi Baili's homework improved a lot in the past six months, and perhaps because of Qi Yunyao's comparison, the emperor and the queen mother also liked Qi Baili a lot.Therefore, although the palace given to him by the emperor was not good, and it looked a bit small, but fortunately, it was in a good location, only two streets away from Zhenxi Grand General's Mansion.

After leaving the palace, Qi Baili would often be invited to his home by Pei Ruzhou.

After a long time, even Pei Ruzhou's younger brother Pei Yufeng got used to the fact that Qi Baili often appeared at his home.

And the princes are no longer studying in the palace, so of course Pei Ruzhou also returned to the general's mansion.

Everyone knows that the Pei family is destined to be a general, and Pei Ruzhou will definitely return to Zhoulan Pass in the future.But before that, the emperor sent him to the Forbidden Army in the Imperial City, in the name of exercising.

Most of the Forbidden Army in the imperial city are the children of nobles, but in Pei Ruzhou's view, these young people are obviously much easier to get along with than the people in the palace.

They rode horses to patrol the city together during the day, and at night, they gathered together to drink.

Pei Ruzhou thought——Qi Baili is going to be the emperor in the future, and the group of noble children around him will definitely be the pillars of the country in the future.So he also dragged Qi Baili into this circle.

When the initial prejudice disappeared, Qi Baili had perfectly integrated into the circle of the Imperial Army.Most importantly, everyone in Fengcheng now knows that the relationship between Pei Ruzhou and His Highness the Sixth Highness is not so good.

——From Pei Ruzhou's point of view, during the period of leaving the palace, apart from the fact that his poison would still flare up regularly, there was nothing bad about it.

Oh... no.

Perhaps there is still one thing, that is, after he left the palace, the prince really became more and more enthusiastic towards him.

And Pei Ruzhou finally understood where this enthusiasm came from.

……

The imperial city's imperial army took a ten-day rotation. They had just finished work that day. When it was time for the rotation, there was a sound of horseshoes outside the imperial army's barracks.

"His Royal Highness is here!"

Prince?

Hearing these two words, Pei Ruzhou hurriedly got off his horse, headed towards the entrance of the barracks, and gave a big gift to the prince.Along with him, there were several other noble boys who were also in the imperial army.

"Ru Zhou, get up quickly." The crown prince smiled, and helped Pei Ru Zhou up with his own hands, "I've already told you, don't be so polite with me."

It was rare for the prince to wear a green shirt today, and he smiled extremely gently at this time.

But the other teenagers standing beside Pei Ruzhou couldn't help casting a little worried look at him when they saw this scene.

Pei Ruzhou was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously pulled his wrist out of the prince's hand.

"Okay, Your Majesty..."

"En." Qi Yisu smiled, as if he didn't see Pei Ruzhou's rejection.

A few months ago, Pei Ruzhou would have thought the prince was a little bit strange, but now...he already knows where the strangeness is!

When the prince first came to find him in the Forbidden Army camp, he had the same expression of surprise and flattery as the other teenagers in the Forbidden Army.

And when they came down two or three times, those teenagers who had gotten to know Pei Ruzhou well finally couldn't help asking him while drinking.

"...Ru Zhou, do you have a good relationship with the crown prince?"

"Huh? It's okay... His Royal Highness is very enthusiastic." Pei Ruzhou said tactfully.

"Oh, that's good, that's good." The expression on the speaker's face was a little strange.

Seeing this, Pei Ruzhou, who was still not drunk after only two sips of wine, couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Unlike him, the young man who spoke just now is already a little over the top.

Asked by Pei Ruzhou, the other party hesitated for a while, and finally leaned closer and said, "I'll tell you a secret, don't tell anyone else!"

"En!" Pei Ruzhou nodded solemnly, "Definitely!"

"...That is, in fact, we all know that you have been staying at Zhoulan Pass before, and you may not have heard of Fengcheng." Speaking of this, the young man suddenly regretted it, but Pei Ruzhou looked at him like this , he really couldn't swallow half of what he had said, "His Royal Highness, it's a broken sleeve... Mr. He Ning, do you know?" The man took a deep breath, and finally said this sentence completely. Speak up.

Pei Ruzhou: "..."

what!

Although he was in Jiuchongtian before, he felt it vaguely and really doubted it.

But thinking wildly, and conjecture being confirmed, are two completely different things, okay?

At that moment, Pei Ruzhou almost spit out the wine in his mouth.

"Ahem..." Pei Ruzhou subconsciously asked again, "Is what you said true?"

"Ok!"

Qi Yisu was still the prince after all, no matter how much he wanted to say, the boy just now was unwilling to say more.

And now Pei Ruzhou had seen a lot of broken sleeves, so he immediately understood the meaning of the forbidden army boy's words.

... He felt that the prince was interested in him.

Outside the Forbidden Army barracks, many people turned their gazes over.

Pei Ruzhou ignored the prince's ambiguous gaze, and had a serious conversation with the prince.

——The prince asked Pei Ruzhou how his life was recently.

Pei Ruzhou answered about his work situation.

——The prince asked Pei Ruzhou if he had any poisonous hair recently.

Pei Ruzhou said that everyone in the barracks took great care of him.

This conversation was like a chicken talking to a duck, nothing came out.

Pei Ruzhou thought that he had already written the word "perfunctory" on his face.But when he, who had been staring at his toes, couldn't help but look up at the prince, he saw that the other party was looking at him with a smile on his face.

Pei Ruzhou: "..."

Are the things I just said really interesting?

Pei Ruzhou, who had absolutely no experience in dealing with broken sleeves, was stunned.

He didn't know how he got along with the prince, and he just hit the point that the other party liked.

Qi Yisu was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, and the stars held the moon and so on. For him, it couldn't be more normal.

Pei Ruzhou's obvious perfunctory and resistance made Qi Yisu find it very interesting.Of course, the most important thing is that Qi Yisu likes Pei Ruzhou's aura that is completely different from that of Fengcheng's children—it's like a fire, and it's a bonfire in the desert at night.

From the first time he met Pei Ruzhou, Qi Yisu was obsessed with this feeling, and after a long time, this feeling not only showed no signs of fading, but even continued to ferment.

……

After all, the other party was the crown prince, even though Pei Ruzhou really wanted to go home, after a few words, Qi Yisu took him to a restaurant in Fengcheng.

The prince had also invited Pei Ruzhou to attend a banquet or have a meal with him before.Pei Ruzhou originally thought that there were other people here.But when he got to the private room in that restaurant, Pei Ruzhou realized that he was the only one today.

The musician, who is hidden somewhere, is slowly stroking the piano.

Pei Ruzhou, who has learned pipa since childhood, could hear a somewhat ambiguous feeling from the gentle sound of the piano.

If you look carefully, you can find that although this box is large, it is divided into spaces of different sizes by several thick veils.

From where Pei Ruzhou is now, one can see a soft collapse.

And in the smoker before it collapsed, a sweet fragrance is still slowly wafting out.

Pei Ruzhou had never been to such a place before.

But based on the experience he gained from wandering around Zhoulan pass... this kind of restaurant should not be very serious.

From the moment he entered the box, Pei Ruzhou wanted to leave.

Qi Yisu didn't seem to notice the troubled expression on Pei Ruzhou's face, and was still pouring tea for him.

In the end, a jug of wine was conjured out of nowhere.

"Ru Zhou, how about a taste of this wine?"

"...Mmm." Pei Ruzhou slowly took the wine glass from Qi Yisu's hand.After he took a sip, he pretended not to know what Qi Yisu meant and asked, "Your Highness, where are the other friends today? It's really boring for the two of us to drink together."

It would be great if we could call out the group of people in the Forbidden Army - Pei Ruzhou thought silently in his heart.

Hearing this, Qi Yisu smiled.

Now he is outside the palace, and Qi Yisu is obviously not wearing yellow clothes, but in Pei Ruzhou's eyes, apart from his unchanging aura, he also has the oppressive feeling of being a prince who has been in a high position for a long time. Nothing has changed.

Qi Yisu didn't speak, and drank a glass of wine by himself.

After a while, after putting down the cup in his hand, he said: "This is 'Jie Cang Wine'. I specially asked someone to bring it from the Western Regions."

...... Jiejiu.

Hearing these three words, Pei Ruzhou was slightly taken aback.

He is very familiar with the name Xie Pianjiu.

This thing is native to the Western Regions, and because of its geographical location, there are many in Day Lan Pass.

But Pei Ruzhou has never tasted it.

The Jiejing wine was too strong, so strong that it could catch fire if it got sparks on it.It's okay to drink Jiejing wine at the beginning, I just feel that the taste is light, as if there is nothing special about it, but after a while, I can feel its power.

Hearing what Qi Yisu said, he seemed to think that Pei Ruzhou would like it, so he found someone to bring Xie Jujiu from the Western Regions to Fengcheng.

But Pei Ruzhou really has no interest in Jie Pingjiu!

He paused for a long time, and finally said: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Apart from this, Pei Ruzhou didn't know what to say.

While he was hesitating, the prince had already drank several glasses of wine.He also pushed a white jade cup to Pei Ruzhou's side.

Qi Yisu didn't speak, but seeing the half-smile expression on the other person's face, Pei Ruzhou knew that he had to drink this glass of wine...

Forget it, isn't it just a glass of wine!

Seeing this, Pei Ruzhou didn't have anything to worry about, he directly picked up the wine glass, closed his eyes and swallowed it in one gulp.

Just like what I heard before, the Jiejing wine did not have any fragrance, but when I swallowed it, the burning pain spread from the mouth to the stomach in one go.

Pei Ruzhou couldn't help frowning.

At this time, Qi Yisu had already poured him another glass of wine.

Do you still want to drink?

"Your Highness..." Pei Ruzhou couldn't help biting his lips, and he couldn't help but compare silently in his heart—even though he was a real brother, the prince Qi Yisu's temper was really not as good as Qi Baili's.

Tsk tsk, no wonder Qi Baili ruled the world in the end.

Not far away, the ambiguous sound of the piano continued.

The prince drank another cup of Jiejing wine.

Pei Ruzhou knew that according to the rules, the crown prince "gives himself face" so much, so he must drink this glass of wine.

But who told him to be too aware of his drinking capacity, Pei Ruzhou's drinking capacity is not bad, and it is of course no problem to have a casual drink or two under normal circumstances.He really can't do it like Qi Yisu pouring down cup after cup.

"What? Don't you drink?" Seeing that Pei Ruzhou was motionless, the crown prince suddenly raised his head and looked at him with a look that Pei Ruzhou couldn't understand.

Pei Ruzhou really wanted to nod his head, pretending that he didn't know how to drink, but he knew that he couldn't fool the person in front of him.

The sound of the zither became more urgent, and Pei Ruzhou suddenly felt that Qi Yisu was really dangerous at this time...

Qi Yisu heard people say that during the last break, Pei Ruzhou called Qi Baili home, and the two of them sat on the roof of Zhenxi General's Mansion, watching the moon and drinking all night.

When he heard about that, he couldn't help but want to find Pei Ruzhou.He thought that he had given Pei Ruzhou enough time...

But in the end Qi Yisu endured it, until now that Pei Ruzhou had another rest, he brought people here.

Pei Ruzhou really wanted to leave.

Hearing Qi Yisu's question, he shook his head first, then suddenly bit his lip and said, "Your Highness, I can't drink enough, and I have to go back to the Imperial Army after two days of rest. If you want to drink—" You might as well find someone else.

Before Pei Ruzhou finished his extremely bold words, he saw Qi Yisu's expression suddenly changed.

He said directly: "Mr. Pei didn't hide from Qi Baili, why did he just hide from me?"

Qi Yisu didn't call Pei Ruzhou "Ru Zhou", his tone suddenly turned cold.

Hearing Qi Yisu's words, Pei Ruzhou immediately planned to apologize to him.

But before he got up, Qi Yisu suddenly grabbed Pei Ruzhou's wrist through the small table.

Qi Yisu narrowed his eyes and said, "You are afraid of me."

Pei Ruzhou didn't speak.

"That's right," Qi Yisu smiled, "The Forbidden Army is full of children from the capital, you must have heard a lot about me."

Indeed - Pei Ruzhou nodded silently in his heart.

However, it seemed that he couldn't tell Qi Yisu face to face.

Seeing that Pei Ruzhou was still silent, Qi Yisu suddenly got up and approached him, took Pei Ruzhou's wrist, and said in a low voice: "But since you are afraid of me because of rumors and avoid me, why aren't you afraid of Qi Baili?"

Qi Baili?

Pei Ruzhou didn't understand why Qi Yisu suddenly mentioned Qi Baili.

Without giving him much time to think, Qi Yisu just stared into Pei Ruzhou's eyes and said, "He grew up in Weiguo, do you really think he is a clean and simple person?"

Hearing this, Pei Ruzhou stood up suddenly, and tried his best to break away from Qi Yisu's hand, "His Royal Highness!" He gritted his teeth and reminded.

Pei Ruzhou's voice was a bit loud, and the sound of the piano was suddenly interrupted by him, and the private room in the restaurant was so quiet that a needle could be heard.