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Mrs. Pei took the initiative to take a concubine for her son. Pei Xu took the child to live in the princess mansion and suddenly said to the eldest son: "In a few days, we will go to Qingzhou together, and then go directly back to the military camp. From now on, Zhang Yushu will teach you the art of war."

"Xiao Shu also wants to join us?"

"Of course." The tall man held the baby and said without hesitation.

The construction of Prince Wei's Mansion in Chang'an began. It occupies a vast area and faces the Princess Mansion across the water. The pavilions, terraces and pavilions are all majestic. The large open space close to the study is covered with plum blossoms. At first, there were only red plums, but later there were some novelties presented by others. Variety.

The King of Wei was very fond of this plum forest and would take care of the plum blossoms himself. He would often go there to enjoy the flowers when he came back in the twelfth lunar month. He would sit there all day without seeing anyone.

Pei Xu spent most of his time fighting in the field and rarely returned to Chang'an. The Palace of the Prince of Wei was usually empty. Only Xu Huiyi was kept in a small courtyard. There were people watching her wherever she went. It was no different from house arrest.

When Pei Shen was three years old, someone came from the army and said that the king of Wei planned to take the fourth son with him.

Xu Huiyi pursed her lips tightly, fearing that Pei Xu would discover something, but she had no choice but to send her son away with a smile.

The three-year-old boy walked into the military tent and saw the man sitting above him. He looked murderous and said without a smile, "Come here."

Pei Xu looked carefully and saw that the child in front of him looked like Xu Huiyi, and he couldn't tell who the father was.

His phoenix eyes were slightly lowered, examining Pei Shen.

The late King Zhao Xuan of Hejian had many people under his command who were good at strange and cunning skills. Their whereabouts were elusive and they were devoted to him.

Zhao Xuan's remnants appeared in Yongzhou a few days ago and caused him some trouble.

In the past few years, Pei Xu has always suspected that Pei Shen was Zhao Xuan's son. He gently knocked on the table and said to the child in front of him: "From now on, you will live in the military camp. Someone will look after you. Don't run around. Remember What?"

Pei Shen nodded, and when he left, he passed by the little girl in a light purple brocade dress.

Pei Shu rushed in from outside the tent, as fast as an arrow leaving the string, and rushed into Pei Xu's arms. She held a handful of wet mud in her hand, slapped it on the neat table and said, "Father, I The treasure I found for you was picked up from the river."

Pei Xu picked up the clay and found a five-color stone inside. He smiled and said, "This clay statue was wrapped on purpose."

"This is a good thing. It cannot be seen by others." The girl who was less than five years old said seriously, her almond-shaped eyes widened, "I took two, one for you, and one for my mother at the end of the year."

She has no memory of her mother at all, and she often pesters her father to ask: "Will she like me? Will she like the things I give her?"

The same is true now.

The man in cold armor hugged his daughter and said in a soft voice: "I like it, she must like it."

Pei Shu sat in his arms and asked in surprise: "Why are you crying?"

She wiped her father's tears with a handkerchief and said in a childish voice, "I'll go out with you to play."

"What do you want to play, Xiao Shu?"

Hearing this, Pei Shu gestured excitedly: "I want to ride a big horse, just like last time, and I saw a nest of little rabbits on the mountain opposite the day before yesterday. Father, I want to raise a rabbit."

"You went to the mountains the day before yesterday." Pei Xu paused for a moment and wanted to say it was too far and unsafe. Finally, he sighed and said, "Did you bring the shadow guard?"

"Take it with me." Pei Shu nodded, and finally encouraged Pei Xu to go up the mountain and catch a nest of rabbits for her personally.

Pei Shu was lawless in the army until she was seven years old. She was so bold that she dared to barge in while Pei Xu was discussing matters. All the generals in the army were used to it.

Until one day when he heard the dirty words coming out of his daughter's mouth, Pei Xu suddenly realized that he could not continue to let her hang out in the army where they were all men.

He should choose a nanny for his daughter and teach her carefully.

After choosing Pei Shu's servants, Pei Xu planned to send her back in person. As soon as he made this decision, he heard crying from outside the tent.

Pei Shu's almond-shaped eyes were red and swollen. She had obviously cried more than once. She nestled in his arms and shouted: "I don't want to go back. Pei Shen can be by my father's side. Why can't I?"

She sobbed: "Father doesn't love me anymore and wants to drive me away."

"What did Xiao Shu say?" Pei Xu saw her crying and patted her back to comfort her: "You are a girl. It is not convenient for you to stay in the army for a long time when you are old."

He didn't know how to explain it, so he said tactfully: "You don't have a female teacher to teach you. It will be very inconvenient for you to talk about marriage in the future."

After the words fell, I heard my daughter crying louder, "Father really doesn't like me, and now he is thinking of sending me to get married."

Pei Shu didn't want to leave, so she said unreasonably: "You like Pei Shen more. He has more followers than me. He follows me wherever I go. He is much more impressive than me."

"My father has changed his mind and prefers Mrs. Xu. He has forgotten my mother a long time ago, so he only took Pei Shen with him and refused to take me with him."

The man who was coaxing her softly at first turned pale, and his voice was neither soft nor serious, "Xiao Shu, that's enough."

Pei Shu flinched. Her father had never spoken to her in such a tone. She swallowed her tears and heard familiar footsteps coming from behind. She turned around and saw that it was her eldest brother.

The young man who was much taller than her had a cold expression on his face. He obviously heard what he said just now and said calmly: "Go back and be detained for two days without eating."

Pei Xu immediately raised his hand and said somewhat unbearably: "Forget it, she is still growing, so she has to eat."

"Then you'll be put in solitary confinement." Pei Zhi glanced at her, "I'll take you back."

After walking out of her father's military tent, Pei Shu secretly glanced at her elder brother, suppressing her burps.

"Don't say that kind of thing in front of your father in the future." Pei Zhi stopped and turned his head to look at her, "Don't mention your mother again during this period of time."

Pei Shu was afraid of her eldest brother because her father would not harm her, but his eldest brother would really lock her up and starve her.

She nodded and said, "I understand."

On the way back to Chang'an, Pei Shu refused to give up and said, "Father, what if Mrs. Xu bullies me?"

Pei Xu said "huh?" in surprise. He was about to say that he would kill anyone who bullied you, but when he thought about it carefully, if he taught a seven or eight-year-old child to kill Xu Huiyi, Zhao Zhen would probably scold him if he found out.

He was silent for a while and then said: "If this happens, just ask the Shadow Guard to handle it."

Seeing that her father's tone was calm and perfunctory, Pei Shu curled her lips and silently hid aside and shed tears at night.

Because she was in Chang'an, Pei Xu was a little worried and returned to Beijing early this year.

Pei Shu held a clay doll in her hand and ran into the prince's study on short legs. With tears in her eyes, she said to the young man next to the desk: "Brother, Pei Shen has this, why don't I?"

"Some time ago in the military camp, your third brother cried again, so I squeezed one. Pei Shen happened to be nearby."

After hearing this, she felt even more aggrieved and began to wipe away tears: "You don't want me, you all like him more."

The young man was dressed in purple. When he was writing, his wide sleeves moved slightly, revealing the hidden lotus pattern on the sleeves. There was no sign of comfort on his face. He let her make trouble and said in a cold voice: "Go back when you have cried enough."

Pei Shu knew that her eldest brother hated others crying the most, but she couldn't control it. She sobbed and said, "You are a bad person. I don't want you to be my eldest brother. I was bullied by Mrs. Xu and you didn't help me. You even made sarcastic remarks."

"Your sister has been stepped on, and you still act like a bastard. How can you be such a coward, Crown Prince Wei?" She finished speaking in one breath, lowering her head and not daring to look at him.

"You learned to lie at a young age." Pei Zhi finally raised his eyelids, "You have a group of servants around you, making the palace a mess. No one dares to step on your head."

"Yes!" Pei Shu's face turned red with anger, feeling that no one understood her. "She laughed at me and always wanted to go to her mother's old residence."

"She said I didn't look like my mother, and she always wanted to control me. I wasn't allowed to do this or that."

She was not allowed to fish or climb trees. She pretended to hold the handkerchief and said it was dangerous. She was doing this in the army and her father never cared about it. That woman just took advantage of her father and brother's absence to deliberately show off and live up to the mistress of the palace. .

"You really should discipline him well." The young man looked a little impatient and planned to get rid of this trouble. He stood up and said, "I will accompany you to find the father."

"He is in Mrs. Xu's yard, and there are shadow guards guarding the door, not letting me in." Pei Shu was dejected and tried to trot to keep up with her elder brother. Thinking of the clay doll, she felt aggrieved, "Pei Shen was sitting outside the yard, and I show off what you gave me.”

Pei Zhi paused, remembering that Zhao Xuan's lingering old men seemed to have appeared next to Prince Liang recently. He looked down at her and said, "I'll go in later, and you wait outside."

"why?"

Pei Xu always pampered and cared for his daughter and never let her see blood. Thinking about this, the young man said slowly: "If you want to have nightmares in the middle of the night, you can come with me."

Seeing that her elder brother didn't seem to be joking, Pei Shu shrank her head and waited outside honestly.

Pei Zhi coughed slightly when he entered the door and caught a glimpse of two blood-stained heads in the box in the inner room. They were Zhao Xuan's old troops that had been seized recently.

"Xu Huiyi, your husband's subordinates have been recruited. Do you have any last words?"

The woman in plain clothes glanced at the box and said calmly: "I only have one husband, Prime Minister Pei, who are these two people?"

Pei Xu's face turned dark. When his eldest son said that Pei Shu was outside, he simply got up and left.

After that, for seven consecutive days, the King of Wei went to her courtyard to interrogate her in person every day. No matter how much he interrogated and tortured, Xu Huiyi insisted that she was at odds with Zhao Xuan, and she never heard anything from her old subordinates.

After that, more and more secret guards followed Xu Huiyi, and some even competed with Pei Ke.

Only on Zhao Zhen's death anniversary and birthday every year, Xu Huiyi goes to the place where she played as a girl to burn paper and worship, so she can be less restrained.

At that time of year, Pei Xu would either get drunk or speed up the pace of foreign conquests. Military affairs were extremely busy, and there was a shortage of secret guards and spies, so he had no time to keep an eye on her.