Golden Stage

"Honestly speaking, the Qingsha Pass ambushes, and the Eastern Tartar mission was assassinated, did the emperor let the Jinwu Guard do it?"

Fu Shen let out a "huh" and said flatly, "You can guess it."

He felt Yan Xiaohan tighten his grip suddenly, so he smiled softly: "I know what you want to say, he won't be wronged if he gets mad, right?"

"But Brother Yan," he said with some regret, "No one has just lifted their legs and made it to where they are today."

"Your Majesty is old now, suspicious and suspicious, and listens to slander, but he was not like this before. Although the Yingguo Duke's Mansion has declined, it is still a giant. There are Beiyan Iron Cavalry, and Jingning Hou Mansion... Without the Emperor, there would be no The current Fu family, let alone me."

"In the second year of Yuantai, at the beginning of your Majesty's practice, there was turmoil in northern Xinjiang. My grandfather was transferred to Ganzhou Jiedushi. The emperor gave him absolute support. Military power, food and grass, and military pay... almost emptied the treasury, which was not abundant. It was only then that northern Xinjiang was pacified again. My father, second uncle, the mainstay who is still serving in the Northern Yan Army, and many generals scattered in the four regions all grew up in that battle."

"Just after you and I were born, the world ushered in a peaceful and prosperous age. I can't say without conscience that these are all the achievements of the ancestors of the Fu family."

Yan Xiaohan smiled inexplicably, and Fu Shen could hear his disapproval, but Yan Xiaohan didn't refute, and only motioned him to continue talking.

"He used to be a wise emperor," Fu Shen said, "on the day you gave the marriage, you asked me why I didn't just turn back. I told you at the time that the reputation of the Northern Yan Army should not be ruined. There is another reason I didn't tell you. Today You saw it too... I can't do anything."

"That's why I will only take revenge on him with unsavory means, and I can't help but save him. I'm both a whore and an archway..."

Hearing this, Yan Xiaohan immediately raised his hand and slapped him on the side of the waist, warning: "Don't talk nonsense."

"Just understand the meaning." Fu Shen said, "Everything in my hands was given by the emperor, and now he wants to take it back, but he is afraid that I won't let go..."

The rivers and mountains are still the old rivers and mountains, but the people's hearts are no longer the old people's hearts.

He couldn't go on.No matter how close Yan Xiaohan was to him, he couldn't empathize with him after all.Tangled in contradictions and capricious, even Fu Shen himself feels useless, let alone in the eyes of others, he may be blindly loyal.

"puff……"

Fu Shen looked up in astonishment, almost thinking that Yan Xiaohan had suddenly lost his mind and gone mad.Immediately, he was rubbed into that person's arms - not the affectionate hug between adults, but the kind of undisguised doting and love like coddling a child.

"Jing Yuan, do you know what you look like?" Yan Xiaohan kissed his heart, and with a smile said to Fu Shen, who had "You are sick" written all over his face: "A good boy who has never done anything bad, Suddenly one day I did something bad, and I was guilty of being a thief, and before anyone asked me, I made all the moves."

Fu Shen really wanted to give him a kick.

Yan Xiaohan, a bastard with no winks, couldn't help laughing again: "You honest gentlemen, are you tired of your work, huh?"

"Speaking of which, you just hate him for being jealous, and you can't change the loyalty in your bones. If it were me, this would not be a problem at all. After all, I am a traitor who turns his face and refuses to recognize others. What's more, someone else took the initiative to provoke me."

Fu Shen said: "Nonsense, can I be like you?"

Yan Xiaohan: "Then are you a saint?"

Fu Shen: "Why do I feel that you are mocking me around the corner?"

"That's enough," Yan Xiaohan said, "Since you're not me, why do you have to take revenge like a villain? Since you're not a saint, why do you have to force yourself to repay grievances with virtue and be selfless?"

"No one can force you to take revenge. Whether you are willing to pick it up or put it down depends entirely on your own will. Or if you don't want to do it yourself, it's okay to let me do it for you."

"Furthermore, the clay figurines still have a three-point earthy nature. What's wrong with hating him for being so big by the emperor? Killing loyal ministers and good generals because of suspicion and jealousy, it is not the Mingjun's doing in any dynasty or generation. If you make a mistake, you must accept the punishment." , there is no reason to ask you, who was murdered, to excuse him."

Fu Shen had never heard his long-winded sermons, so he felt a little strange for a while, but he couldn't refute it.

Yan Xiaohan supported his chin with one hand, and said with a smile: "Master Hou, you dared to yell 'the emperor is wrong' in front of me when you were 16 years old, why are you restrained and not showing your edge now?"

Years of old events are like a tide, and the sea and sky meet at the end of the distant memories, Fu Shen's throat suddenly feels sore.

"Go to hell, the king wants to die, don't learn those rotten Confucian habits," Yan Xiaohan lowered his head and kissed him, his voice was soft, but every word seemed to hit Fu Shen's heart: "Dare to love, dare to hate, happy to be kind!" Enmity. No one can restrain you except yourself."

He watched Fu Shen's back go away time and time again, watching him change from a boy to a young man, from a general to a duke, his high spirits were constantly worn away by the yellow sand and cold wind, and the voices of praise and criticism kept coming and going. However, the responsibilities assumed by the leaders have never been unloaded one day.

Sometimes Yan Xiaohan would wish that he was as insane as the rumors said.He wanted to seal up the 16-year-old Fu Shen, and stay forever in the age of not knowing suffering, or just like on the day of the wedding, maliciously watching everything he trusted, relied on, and protected collapsed, so that he would never again If you can't be a gentleman, you will get rid of the shackles from now on.

All unreachable illusions are projections of the most hopeless hopes in the world.Yan Xiaohan seldom loses control, and most of the time he is awake.When he was awake, he could say to Fu Shen, "You are superior in my heart, unmatched by anyone", but only when he lost control, he dared to admit that it was Fu Shen who went into battle and embarked on the road of loyal minister and good general. One of the only powerless things in life.

In this world, being a loyal minister is not only hard, but also fatal.

It was a mistake, and luckily, he never thought that one day he would be able to fall in love with this person.

Even if Fu Shen can only sit in a wheelchair, he is still a difficult weapon in the world, and he cannot be easily provoked. But in the middle of the night, when he was pulled from depression to tenderness, Yan Xiaohan suddenly felt a kind of near Coming from the illusory consummation, it seemed as if he had finally spread his wings with difficulty, and truly embraced the person he wanted to protect the most.

Breathing intertwined, lips and teeth glued together, heartbeat gradually becoming the same, Fu Shen's fingers gently ran along his slightly damp black hair, and it was hard to tell who was comforting whom.

The night flew by.

Fu Shen didn't know when he fell asleep, Yan Xiaohan had already left when he woke up.The sun is three poles high, the wind is light and the sun is warm, and the quilt is warm and harmonious. It turned out to be a rare and comfortable sleep.

The chaos at the Wanshou Banquet yesterday and his depression that had nowhere to vent seemed to have happened a long time ago.Many things are as big as the sky before you think about it, but you only find out after thinking about it, but in fact it is nothing more than that.

But the most important thing is that someone is willing to stay with him with 12 points of patience, tirelessly untangle the complicated threads for him, and understand his low emotions that may be unreasonable.

It's hard for Yan Xiaohan, a bloody court eagle dog scolded by Qingliu, to bear the humiliation and try to understand the thinking of these loyal people.

Before lunch, the eunuch in the palace came to deliver an imperial decree. His majesty praised Jingning Hou for his meritorious service in rescuing him. He bestowed several boxes of medicinal herbs, gold, silver and jewelry, etc., and specially sent an oral order, asking him what reward he would like. Proposed.

Fu Shen thought for a moment, then looked back at the gate of the Yan Mansion, and smiled: "It is the duty of a subject to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. I am ashamed of receiving a generous gift from His Majesty. The grace of heaven is so great. Why dare to look forward to Shu? On behalf of conveying."

The eunuch smiled and said: "Master Hou, please tell me."

Fu Shen said solemnly: "Yesterday's Longevity Day, Feilongwei was supposed to act as a guard to protect His Majesty's safety. However, treacherous people are cunning and almost caused a catastrophe. As the leader of Feilongwei, I can hardly escape the blame. Husband and wife are one Concentric, I also hope that His Majesty Yun Chen will use his own merits to offset his faults, and forgive the crime of the poor guard for his ineffectiveness."

It was as if a thunderbolt fell from the sky and struck the roof of Yan Mansion.The eunuch was in a daze, almost thought he was hallucinating, and asked with a pale face: "Master Hou...you, what did you just say...?"

Fu Shen smiled and said, "Huh? Is it not clear what Ben Hou said?"

"It's clear, it's clear..." The eunuch was sweating profusely, feeling as if he had heard a shocking secret that Yan Xiaohan was about to silence tonight.

Watching the back of the eunuch who passed the decree fleeing in a hurry, Fu Shen turned around leisurely, and met the dumbfounded maids and servants in the courtyard.

"See what I'm doing, are you so moved?" He said without changing his face, "It's not my fault for being soft-hearted, it's really your master who was so scared, she lay in my arms and cried for half the night last night."

"..."

Fu Shen asked someone to carry the box away, and went back for lunch without any guilt.After eating and wanting to digest, Fu Shen remembered that Yan's Mansion was not far from Qingxu Temple, and that the Taoist priest came here was really strange, he couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he asked Du Leng to push himself to go around there.

The prosperous palaces and temples in the past have become few and far between, and the Qingxu temples are full of depression, with few houses.In order to prevent fish from slipping through the net, Yan Xiaohan specially assigned a team of imperial guards to guard here.Coincidentally, the leader was General Wei Xuzhou who had met Fu Shen once.

General Wei was extremely tactful in his relationship with the world, and at first he also thought that Yan and Fu were not compatible, but from Yan Xiaohan's attitude after marriage, it was obvious that his attitude towards Fu Shen was unusual.It's hard to say whether Fu Shen meant that, but Lord Yan must have attached great importance to the Marquis of Jingning.

Seeing Fu Shen coming, he was stunned to himself, and greeted him with a modest attitude, and offered to ask Fu Shen to go in and have a look.

Fu Shen still remembers the first time he met him, when Wei Xuzhou was not so enthusiastic, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Isn't General Wei afraid that this Marquis is with the assassin?"

"What is Hou Ye talking about?" Wei Xuzhou immediately said, "You are one of us."

Fu Shen lowered his eyes and smiled, and repeated: "'One of my own'."

The two old foxes smiled at each other as if they had obtained the information they wanted in this riddle-like conversation.Wei Xuzhou made a "please" gesture, and Fu Shen bowed his head slightly in greeting, saying: "Then excuse me. Du Leng, let's go."