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In the blink of an eye, it was late spring and March, and the peach blossoms in Jinling City were all over the streets.

The annual spring festival has just ended.In Jinling City, it was rare to hear drums and music shaking the sky, and it was very lively.

The common people were all crowded on the side of the street, their faces full of curiosity and joy.In the private room on the upper floor of the restaurant and teahouse by the window, there are hidden wives, ladies and maids from countless honorable families in Jinling City.

The ladies opened the windows, holding small handkerchiefs and sachets in their hands, and there were fresh bouquets on the tables next to them. There were excited and expectant smiles on their faces, and the faces of the ladies were also beaming.

The sound of drums and music parading in the street finally approached, and the ladies hastily opened the windows a little and leaned out.The ladies busily laughed and shouted "slow down, slow down".

The pioneers of the two teams passed by, and the ladies finally saw the true faces of the top three in this year's palace examination.

Suddenly, there was a subtle silence in the private rooms of the surrounding teahouses, and after the silence, there were sighs of excitement one after another.Then, the flower handkerchief and the small sachet were thrown towards the man riding the white horse in the middle of the road like flowing water—the Dasheng folk customs are open, and no one does not love a good-looking son.

Yan Ying was riding on a white horse, his face was pale, and the red brocade robe made his face even more radiant white, like suet jade.As the horse walked forward slowly, he looked around, as if he was looking for someone.

Tanhua next to her was in her thirties, her face was full of smugness, and when she saw this, she leaned over and asked softly, "Brother Yan, what are you looking for? Could it be that you are looking for your sweetheart?"

The last sentence was actually just a joke. Yan Yingcai won three yuan at the age of 19, and she has an enviable face. Now it is estimated that it is a fragrant bun in the hands of all the rich and powerful families with daughters in Jinling City. There may be a sweetheart.

Who knew that Yan Ying nodded and said, "Well, I'm looking for a sweetheart."

Wang Tanhua was choked, and could only hold back a sentence: "Did you find it?"

Yan Ying raised her delicate eyebrows, and said: "He won't let me in the house, and he doesn't even want to see me when he's parading in the street. He'd better not have a newcomer, he's already changed his mind." But there is no other expression.

Wang Tanhua: "..."

There was really no way to answer these words, so Wang Tanhua couldn't even speak, and could only laugh dryly.

Yan Ying also smiled and stopped talking.

……

There is a slightly remote restaurant at the corner, it was occupied by one person this day, so it was very quiet.The window of a private room upstairs is half open, and only a white jade-like chin can be seen faintly from the outside.

He kept his eyes out of the window until the parading team could no longer see him before he looked back.

Xie Qiao sat aside, took a sip of the tea in his hand, and pointed out: "Why do some people do it? Don't you feel aggrieved when you even sneak a glance at others?" But it's obvious gloating, after all, it's really rare for this person to look deflated.

Li Mingbei narrowed his peach blossom eyes, looked at Xie Qiao, and said: "The little prince can't enter the barracks, so he has time to drink tea with me, two people who hate each other?"

The smile on Xie Qiao's face froze, and the corners of his mouth twitched when he remembered something. He cleared his cough and took another sip of tea, and said, "Of course I have a business to look for you."

Li Ming said sadly: "What about Beiliang?"

Hearing this, Xie Qiao completely let go of the smile, and said, "That's right. After all, Juquhun is the prince of Beiliang, and he's still in our hands." Now he's being locked up in Dali Temple for his status. In the prison of special prisoners.

In the government and the opposition, no one is more informed than Li Mingbei about this kind of news. Although he is only the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Prime Minister Lu is about to retire in his old age, and Li Mingbei will be the next Prime Minister.In fact, it is okay to ask his brother directly about this matter, but——Xie Qiao lowered his eyebrows—he couldn't get past his brother when he mentioned Beiliang, and he didn't want to stab his brother in the heart again and again.

Li Mingbei seemed to see through his thoughts, and said: "Even if you don't ask His Majesty, Your Majesty will call you into the palace soon."

Xie Qiao frowned: "Is there something going on in Beiliang?"

Li Ming said sadly: "Yes. The King of Beiliang wrote a letter to His Majesty, saying that on August [-]th he would send envoys to congratulate me and redeem Juquhun by the way."

Xie Qiao's pupils shrank.

Li Mingbei narrowed his eyes sadly, and a cold light flashed across his eyes: "Not long ago, Beiliang sent troops to our Dasheng border, but now they have sent envoys to come—" He glanced at Xie Qiao, and said: "I can I don't believe that the king of Beiliang, who killed his mother for the sake of the throne, would bow to me Dasheng for a half-brother."

Xie Qiao lowered his eyebrows. He twirled the pattern of the teacup in his hand. His dark eyes were reflected in the tea, revealing a biting coldness: "No matter what he wants to do, I will never let him succeed."

There was joyful noise from people outside the window, and Xie Qiao put the teacup on the table with a "bang": He would never allow someone to destroy his current life and this warm and noisy world.

I don't know what to think of, Xie Qiao looked out of the window with long-distance eyes, and after a while, he said: "Since there were envoys from Beiliang at that time, maybe I can start from him and find him back." Will think of that.

Li Mingbei naturally knew who "he" was, he glanced at Xie Qiao, took a sip of the tea in his hand, but he didn't realize the possibility that he thought of - this little prince is not a fool, he is very smart, even if If he doesn't point it out, he won't fail to think that in the final analysis, he is just escaping for the time being.

However, he is not always evasive, he will always face it.

Li Mingbei watched Xie Qiao's rare swaying eyes quickly disappear, gradually covered by firmness, and knew that he had forced himself to think about it, so he took another sip of the tea in his cup.

Xie Qiao saw that he had finished his cup of tea, so he knew it was time to go. He said, "Are you going to the Luming Banquet later?"

Li Mingbei nodded. He was in charge of the administration of officials, so he naturally wanted to go to the banquet to have a look at the newly recruited people this year, but—he looked at Xie Qiao with a three-point smirk on his face: "Young Lord, won't you go? Jinling today The busiest place is the Luming Banquet, but the young prince who loves to be lively doesn't go to lively places, so why not go to the deserted military camp?"

Xie Qiao's face darkened when he heard this, he stood up, left a sentence "None of your business" and walked away.

Li Mingbei was not annoyed, but drank the tea in his cup in a rare good mood, and walked out with his hands behind his hands.

……

City North Barracks.

Xie Qiao stood outside the gate of the camp with his hands behind his back. The soldiers guarding the camp looked at Xie Qiao with a troubled face. He said, "Little prince, don't embarrass me. Our general said that you are not allowed to come in."

Xie Qiao took a deep breath and said, "I promise, if you let me in, nothing will happen to you."

After hearing this, the soldier's face became a little firm, and he said loudly: "My lord, you are wrong, the villain is not afraid of his own trouble, but, as long as it is an order from our general, the villain will If you die, you must obey the order!"

"You!" Xie Qiao took another deep breath, and was about to say something when he saw Ling Daoyuan coming out of a tent, seeing him with a gloating smile, he took a few steps forward and said, "Oh, Isn't this our little prince? What are you doing in the barracks?"

Xie Qiao watched him grit his teeth, forced a smile on his face, and said, "Master Gu is here too."

The smile on Ling Daoyuan's face froze, he turned and left.

The words just now were naturally false. Xie Qiao looked at the soldier, closed his eyes, and seemed to have made up his mind, and said, "Go and tell your general, and just say..." Xie Qiao took a deep breath before speaking. Then, he gritted his teeth and said, "Just say that I embroidered something and brought it to him."

The soldier didn't realize it for a while: "Embroidery, embroidery?"

Xie Qiao clenched his fists and closed his eyes, looked at the soldier, gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you go soon?"

The soldier looked at Xie Qiao with some indescribable words, and nodded quickly: "Oh, oh." After saying that, he walked in.

Xie Qiao stood there, recalling what happened not long ago, and felt that he was shooting himself in the foot.He's grown up, he's never done anything stupid like this.

He just wanted to see how jealous Lu Jue was, so while Lu Jue was at home, he casually took a purse from home to Lu's mansion, saying that the purse was well embroidered. Lu Jue asked him where it came from with a smile at that time, but he hesitated Next, I casually made up a sentence from a girl.

At that time, Lu Jue just nodded with a smile, took the purse, and also praised the orchid embroidery on the purse, but he didn't see Lu Jue jealous at that time, and felt very disappointed.Unexpectedly, after they passed the cloud and rain that night, Lu Jue disappeared the next day. After asking the housekeeper, he found out that he returned to the barracks before dawn.

From that day on, he could no longer enter the barracks. He hadn't seen Lu Jue for a month, and thinking about him made his bones ache.

The soldier quickly came out, cupped his fists towards Xie Qiao, and said, "Our general invites you in."

After hearing this, Xie Qiao strode in, entered the big tent, and saw Lu Jue standing in the tent with his hands behind his back. He was about to make a move when he saw Lu Jue turn around and look at him with a half-smile: "Where is the thing?" ?”

Xie Qiao was startled, but still took out a purse from his arms, gritted his teeth and threw it to the other party.

Lu Jue received the item, looked at the crooked but serious stitches on it, and finally laughed out loud with a clear voice.He walked a few steps closer, and tapped Xie Qiao's forehead with his fingers, then pointed to the messy thing on the purse, and said, "What is this?"

Xie Qiao felt a little hot, and said, "Lamei."

"Embroidered by yourself?"

Xie Qiao felt that he had never lost such a big face in two lifetimes. He took a deep breath, and finally choked out a sentence: "...I, embroidered."

Lu Jue let out a chuckle, his eyes were full of smiles, he put the purse into his arms, looked at Xie Qiao and said, "I like it very much. I see that your embroidery is much better than that girl's."

Xie Qiao suddenly looked up at him: "Brother Huaiyu, there is no—"

Lu Jue nodded: "I know." He raised his eyebrows and reached out to knock on Xie Qiao's forehead: "Qiaoer, don't you want to see me jealous? Are you satisfied now?"

Xie Qiao: "..."

He looked at Lu Jue carefully for a while, and finally choked out a sentence: "Satisfied."

Lu Jue smiled, and finally leaned forward and kissed Xie Qiao's lips, and said, "Go back when you're satisfied, this is a military camp, you can't stay too long."

Xie Qiao opened his eyes wide - he thought about Lu Jue until his bones ached, but -

Only then did Lu Jue add: "By the way, I will rest and take a bath in the future." Generally speaking, the days of his rest and bath are fixed every month, but there are also several months where the days are not fixed, and this month happens to be .

Xie Qiao: "..."

Seeing Xie Qiao's appearance, Lu Jue's picturesque eyebrows and eyes finally burst into an overwhelming smile, which was so romantic and soft.

The author has something to say: Juqu Jinque, the king of Beiliang, is a bastard who thinks he is very affectionate. Even Juquhun has more human feelings than him. Just remember this

May the little angels be safe, healthy, and happy to read~