Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

Don't employ people you don't trust. That's not the style of His Royal Highness the King of Chu.

That is why Ashina Mihe was able to go from being a Western Turkic envoy to a retainer of His Majesty the King of Chu.

And now, his former lord, Yibishekui Khan, has been rehearsing a dance in Chang'an, hand in hand with his father, Moheduo Khan.

Of course, the rehearsal team also includes Siyehu Khan, whose father had long passed away.

The person leading the dance was called Ashina Duobi (Jie Li Khan).

Closer to home.

Before sending people to Longyou to intercept Zhang Wansui, His Royal Highness the King of Chu sent someone to call Ashina Mihe to his side. He wanted to have a good chat with this retainer who he had taken in on a whim and who brought him a huge surprise after many years.

"Your Highness the King of Chu..." Ashina Mihe usually didn't stay with other Dou family retainers. When he was in Chang'an, he had a good relationship with Ashina She'er. But now that he came to Qiongzhou, he often went out, traveling back and forth across Qiongzhou, looking for suitable pastures - Ashina Mihe's idea was very simple. Every winter on the prairie, the cattle and sheep that did not produce milk would be the first to be eaten. He wanted to be a useful person to His Highness the King of Chu.

"Don't be so restrained. Sit down." The King of Chu, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair, had just finished playing Monopoly with his sister Sizi. Having lost by one step, the King of Chu was in a particularly good mood. "Mihe, I never thought that you could discover such a talent for me. That Zhang Wansui is very good at raising horses, right?"

"Your Highness, Zhang Wansui is indeed very powerful. He knows how to raise horses better than the best shepherd I have ever seen on the grassland. So I think that if we can invite this man to Qiongzhou, then Your Highness, we will never be short of war horses in the future!" After Ashina Mihe sat down carefully, he began to talk about the little brother he met in Longyou.

"Qiongzhou is a small place, how many horses can be raised?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu scratched his head after saying this: "I do know where is suitable for raising horses, but right now..."

"Your Highness, I heard Mr. Xie say that 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step' - although breeding war horses in Qiongzhou is indeed a difficult task, if we don't do it, we will always stay where we are. On the contrary, as long as we start this matter now, even if we cannot achieve the desired results in the future, it will be much better than doing nothing in the first place!"

“It’s bad…” His Royal Highness the King of Chu patted his head upon hearing this: “Mihe, you were born in Western Turkestan. If you were born in the Central Plains and studied for a few more years, you would be granted a title of nobility and appointed as prime minister…”

"Your Highness... please don't make fun of me..." Ashina Mihe smiled bitterly and shook his head. "My brain can't take in too many books, but I know what I should and shouldn't do. If you hadn't brought me and my family to the Tang Dynasty, it goes without saying what my fate would be now..."

"Don't you hate me at all?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu found that Ashina Mihe was really a...honest and smart man.

"Your Highness, Mihe knows who is sincere in treating you well." Upon hearing this, Ashina Mihe stood up from his seat and knelt down in front of Li Kuan. "I admit that I am mediocre in intelligence, and all I can do for Your Highness is to raise and trade horses, which I am good at. But Your Highness has never treated me harshly because of my mediocrity. Even my daughter is now studying in the Dou family school. I am very grateful for all this!"

"What? Our Dou family also has a school?" The hands-off shopkeeper, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu, was stunned at first, then he personally stepped forward and helped Ashina Mihe up from the ground: "Okay, okay, there is no need to be so sentimental between us as king and subject. In fact, I have always paid attention to you over the years. You do your job conscientiously and fulfill your responsibilities. Just based on this, I am very satisfied with you."

"Your Highness..." Ashina Mihe couldn't help but tear up when he heard this, "In my eyes, you are my king for eternity!"

"Hey... you kid..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu had never heard such naked praise: "Speak more quietly... such words... involve usurpation... is it glorious?"

"Hmm...ah?" Ashina Mihe was overwhelmed by the King of Chu.

"I'm just kidding you," His Royal Highness the King of Chu laughed at this, then he put his arm around the other's shoulder, and then the king and his subject walked out of the hall side by side: "This time, I'll let Gangzi accompany you to Longyou. As for Zhang Wansui, I don't care what method you two use, even if you two personally seduce him, you must bring him to Qiongzhou for me. By the way, in order to reassure him, bring Zhang Wansui's family along as well - if they are too old to travel far, then leave them here, and someone will take good care of them."

"Your Highness, why should I go?" Just as Ashina Mihe was about to reply, Gangzi, who was holding a big coconut and slurping the coconut juice with a big tube, suddenly appeared at the corner of the corridor.

"Let you move around." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu said, and then he remembered that he still had to write a letter home: "But you two don't rush to leave. I have to prepare some gifts for Yu Aong and Lai Aong. In addition, Gangzi, you have to persuade those two old men - just tell them that I said, don't let them fight over trivial matters like they used to. They are so grown up... If they really kill one of them, I will rush back from Qiongzhou to attend the funeral, and by the time I get there, the seventh day will have passed!"

“Your Highness…you are so…” Yuan Tiangang has also gotten used to King Chu speaking all kinds of auspicious words - of course, Yu Zan and Lai Huer are probably even more accustomed to it.

"What do you mean by true? Those two old guys used weapons when they fought!" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu glared at Yuan Tiangang, and then he suddenly sighed.

As for the old house in Longyou, he never dared to go back since he left at a young age - even a shadow assassin like the Swinging Arm had never been sent there.

In fact, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu himself did not know why.

Obviously, he had become so powerful that he was almost invincible, but he would always look for the old house in Longyou that he had seen countless times in his dreams at midnight, anxiously, but he could never find the kind figure from that year.

Everyone grows up.

Growing up is cruel.

"Your Highness, have you thought of something unhappy?" Gangzi, who had always regarded talking back to His Highness the King of Chu as his life's work, suddenly handed the half-drunk coconut to His Highness the King of Chu: "Try this?"

"..." Upon seeing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu turned his head and glanced at this guy.

"Hehe..." Gangzi showed a very gentle smile when he saw this - and his tooth with a small half missing made His Royal Highness the King of Chu's conscience hurt unconsciously.

"Stop laughing... Don't laugh!" His Royal Highness the King of Chu pretended to be fierce and pushed the coconut away, then frowned and said: "Otherwise, I will let you know what cruelty and unreasonableness mean."

"Your Highness, haven't you always been like this?" Gangzi found that his master's words were very interesting.

"You..." His Royal Highness Prince Chu was angry because his conscience had hurt Gangzi before: "Is this how you talk to your master?"

"You're not allowed to tell the truth?" Gangzi started to pick up the coconut and suck on it again.

"..." What the hell is going on?!

King Chu, who was about to pounce on the opponent and beat him up, began to make repeated choices between being a human being and not being a human being.

"Ha..." Ashina Mihe, who originally just wanted to be an invisible person, couldn't help but laughed out loud after seeing this scene.

It seems that... our Taoist Priest Yuan must be one of the people in this world who can fight against His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu...