It turns out that I too have been robbed.

Pei Ruzhou was stunned for a moment, and followed the other party into the hall.

Fuxun Palace was not painted with vermilion paint, and the pillars, beams, and flower windows in the palace all retained the dark wood color, which is rare and elegant in Huazhang Palace.Most importantly, there is not a single maid or eunuch in this hall.

After Pei Ruzhou entered the door, the other party actually took him to the table and sat down.

"There is only old tea left in the palace, Mr. Pei laughed at me." Just as he was speaking, Qi Baili was about to pour tea for Pei Ruzhou.

The difference between this vulgar young man in front of him and the future tyrant in "The Prophecy" is so great that Pei Ruzhou, who had been prepared for a long time, reacted a little too late.

It wasn't until Qi Baili picked up the teapot that he finally woke up.

"Your Highness, don't bother!" Pei Ruzhou smiled quickly, and took out a small red lacquer box, "This is a gift I brought from Zhoulan Pass. I saw His Highness in Suihan Palace today, and I haven't had time to say hello to him." , now it happens to be brought together.”

Hearing Pei Ruzhou's words, Qi Baili showed a slightly surprised expression.He didn't seem to have thought that someone would send gifts to Fuxun Palace.

It has been a year since Qi Baili returned to the palace, but the palaces have always treated him as a transparent person.Not to mention such gifts and rewards, even the monthly salary is often severely deducted.

After finishing speaking, Pei Ruzhou smiled again, and directly opened the box.

There is a celadon smoker with wishful cloud patterns inside, and anyone who knows the goods or not can tell at a glance that Pei Ruzhou's gift is not just perfunctory, but carefully selected.

Seeing this, Qi Baili couldn't help being surprised: "Young Master helped me out today, I should have thanked you. Your gift is too expensive, I really..."

Seeing that he wanted to refuse, Pei Ruzhou quickly shook his head and said: "This is a specialty of Zhoulan Pass, and it is also the wish of the whole city. Your Highness must accept it!" After finishing speaking, he subconsciously blinked at Qi Baili again.

Pei Ruzhou specially emphasized the three words "Day Orchid Pass".

It is written in "Heavenly Prophecy" that after Qi Baili became emperor, he devoted himself to pleasure and neglected governance, which made the border suffer untold hardships.Although he didn't go into details, Pei Ruzhou has reason to believe that the day orchid pass is one of those "unspeakably miserable".

Therefore, Pei Ruzhou decided that he must improve the presence and favorability of his hometown in advance.

I hope that by that time, the boy in front of me will still be able to eat people with a short mouth and soft hands...

Sure enough, Qi Baili hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"It's a pity that I don't have anything interesting here, and I will definitely return the gift in the future." Qi Baili said seriously, with a slightly embarrassed expression.

This is what Pei Ruzhou was waiting for!

He smiled and said: "How can there be no return of greetings? Your Highness only needs to remember that we are at the Zhoulan Pass." He couldn't be more sincere in these words.

While talking, Pei Ruzhou saw the elegant decoration in Fuxun Palace, and on the shelf not far away, there was nothing but a few flipped piano scores.It is completely impossible to see that its owner will be a person who loves extravagance and extravagance in the future.

Could it be that at the beginning, Qi Baili was really just an ordinary prince who was modest, prudent and indifferent to the world?

Pei Ruzhou decided to wait and see.

At this moment, his eyes fell on the small case not far away, where there was a guqin with missing strings.

Seeing this, Pei Ruzhou paused for a moment, then took out another thing from his sleeve.

It is a wound string.

"I don't know how to play the lyre, and it would be best if the strings could be put to good use."

——Different from other princes and princesses, Qi Baili's mother is just an ordinary girl.The emperor fell in love with her when he was drunk, and unexpectedly became pregnant overnight.

Afterwards, although Le Nu was conferred the title of Zhaoyi, she never saw the emperor again.A few years later, Zhaoyi died of illness in the palace, and his only son, Qi Baili, was sent to Weiguo as a proton.

It wasn't until a year ago that the Emperor of the Wei Kingdom passed away, and the court was in chaos, that Qi Baili returned to Fengcheng.

Pei Ruzhou guessed that the old piano this morning should be a relic of Qi Baili's mother and concubine.

The strings in front of him had been removed from a new piano.Pei Ruzhou was hesitant to give it away, but he took out the things when he saw that the strings of the old piano were still missing.

Compared with the smoker just now, the strings are worthless at all.

Seeing it, Qi Baili was stunned for a moment, then the eyes of the 16-year-old future tyrant in front of him turned red.

This time Qi Baili did not refuse: "Thank you Mr. Pei for thinking about it."

"No, Your Highness, you can just call me Ru Zhou, please don't be so polite."

Pei Ruzhou couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time couldn't help but spit on himself quietly.

Cheating, bribery!

After I came to Fengcheng, why did I learn badly?

But giving gifts to the emperor... is it considered bribery?

Pei Ruzhou, who was thinking wildly, didn't notice that the moment he waved his hand, Qi Baili's eyes became extremely calm, how could he look a little moved?

Growing up in the Imperial Palace of the Wei Kingdom, he felt that it was only natural for him to be strong and face the weak.He was born only to learn the law of the jungle, never thought of pursuing fairness, he just wanted to make himself stand at the top of the balance of power.

The behavior of Qi Yunyao, who is also the prince, not only does not make him feel unwilling, but on the contrary, Qi Baili smells the fragrance of power, and is more eager to be like the other party and trample other people under his feet.

In his world, Pei Ruzhou who inexplicably appeared and helped him play a piece of music is an outlier.

……

After all, the two were not familiar with each other, and Pei Ruzhou left Fuxun Palace after not staying for long.

Before leaving, it was Qi Baili who personally sent him outside the palace, without any airs of being a prince.

Entering the palace this time, the big maid beside Princess Shuming also followed.

As soon as Pei Ruzhou returned to his residence, he found out the maid he was going to just now, so he walked forward with a worried face.When there was no one there, she hurriedly lowered her voice and asked, "My lord, why are you so close to the sixth prince?"

This maid named Cong Tao was about the same age as Pei Ruzhou, and she was always outspoken.

Pei Ruzhou couldn't help but asked back: "Why, can't it?"

"It's not impossible..." Cong Tao bit her lip and said, "It's just that I heard that His Majesty and the Queen Mother don't like him very much. The sixth prince has a very good relationship with Emperor Wei who passed away last year. When Emperor Wei was drinking and having fun, He played the piano and music for him, he is a spineless one. Humiliated us, Dayi—”

"Okay, did mother teach you to speak ill of the prince behind his back?" Pei Ruzhou suddenly frowned and interrupted Cong Tao's words.

"Oh." Cong Tao pursed her mouth and stopped talking.

More than ten years ago, it was the time when Weiguo was at its strongest.Even Pei Ruzhou, who didn't care about the imperial court, knew that before Qi Baili, the country of Wu next door also sent a proton, and that person died directly in the palace of the state of Wei... Now, the country of Wu didn't even dare to pursue it.

After a while, he couldn't help saying: "When you sent people to be protons, why didn't you think about your integrity?"

"Oh, my son!" Hearing this, Cong Tao couldn't help being startled, and seeing no one around, he hurriedly said, "Don't dare to talk nonsense."

"I know I know."

Everyone knows that the Weiguo Palace is a place that cannibalize people without spit out their bones. Qi Baili was sent there by his own father as a hostage when he was three or four years old.In the end, trying to live hard turned out to be a mistake?

He suddenly felt a little unworthy for this future tyrant.

After Pei Ruzhou left, the sky gradually darkened.

Qi Baili didn't light the lamp, but just rolled up the bamboo curtain in the room.

He sat by the desk and picked up the smoker that Pei Ruzhou had just sent with great interest.

"Pei Ruzhou..." Qi Baili said his name slowly, and couldn't help but smile contemptuously.

Is this little boy trying to curry favor with me today?

It's a pity that he just came to Fengcheng, so he might have found the wrong person.Now any master in Huazhang Palace is stronger than himself.

It seems that although Mr. Pei is beautiful, he has no ability to know people.If such a person were placed in the Weiguo Palace, he might not survive the night.

It's just a pretty toy.

After a while, he shifted his gaze to the string.

Contrary to what Pei Ruzhou imagined, Qi Baili's gaze on the strings was as cold as a cold pool, without even the slightest emotion.

He rubbed the string casually, threw it aside, and didn't look at it any more.

——What Qi Baili hates the most in his life is playing the piano and painting.

His mother and concubine felt that the emperor would see her again, so she sat in the palace and played the piano day and night.Now Qi Baili has long forgotten the appearance of his mother and concubine, only the sound of the piano hovers in his mind like a curse, and it won't go away.

When he arrived in the state of Wei, he heard that he was the son of Le Nu, and Emperor Wei sent him to Yuefu with a wave of his hand.

Since then, the thing Qi Baili hates the most has become his means of making a living.

In the next ten years, other princes started to study, only he was always accompanied by Guqin.

... Could it be that Le Nu's son is only good at playing the piano?

But he just wants to hold the seal and decide the life and death of the world.

At this moment, Pei Ruzhou, who thought that he was acting for Zhou Languan, and gained favorability in front of the tyrant who had not yet turned black, didn't know that he had picked Qi Baili's Ni Lin today and touched it hard.

Commonly known as, messed up.

As the night darkened, Qi Baili finally got up and walked towards the edge.

He saw the zither string that he had thrown away casually again, and after hesitating, he bent down and picked it up.

If the young master asks again in the future, he still has to leave an explanation.

The moment he picked up the strings, Qi Baili suddenly thought of Pei Ruzhou again.

His fingers were slender and porcelain white, as perfect as the jade carvings in the temple, except for the fingertips where there was a little bluish-red trace from twiddling the strings.

It's like the color that someone pinched the petals and fainted.

He suddenly wanted to make the color brighter and brighter.