Thinking

Seeing that he didn't bring Yu Ke, Qi Si was a little confused about the situation.

But Lu Yingqiu hesitated for a moment, and said: "Let's not talk about that, let's talk about what happened during these days."

Qi Si was silent for a moment, and the sufferings of these days came to mind one by one, but he didn't want to talk about it, so he said perfunctorily: "I... it's nothing, I escaped, and was taken here later."

Lu Yingqiu knew that he was just like this when he was awkward, and said in a deep voice: "Speak carefully, don't hold it in your heart." Qi Si was injured and poisoned, his mind was exhausted, and too many thoughts were not good for him.

Only then did Qi Si obediently tell the story from the day he was attacked, to Baigu County, and then he fell into a coma, and then woke up just now.

Lu Yingqiu was silent for a while, then told him: "It rained heavily that day, the assassin didn't leave any clues, but you are safe once you enter the Palace of Yan Kingdom."

Qi Si nodded and asked, "Yu..."

Before he could ask, Lu Yingqiu covered Qi Si's mouth with his hand, motioning him not to speak.

Qi Si felt strange, Lu Yingqiu whispered: "He went back, you saved him."

Lu Yingqiu asked again: "During these days, you have grown up a lot. If I entrust you with something that must be done, can you do it?"

Thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Naturally."

Lu Yingqiu was silent for a moment, and there was some unspeakable emotion between Yingwu's eyebrows and eyes, and finally he said: "He can't come to accompany you, Your Highness, from now on, you will be the little prince of the Jin Kingdom, you must be sensible."

Qi Si looked at Lu Yingqiu, not understanding what he meant for a while.

Lu Yingqiu spoke clearly, "You are Yu Ke, you are the prince of Jin."

There was an eerie silence in the hall.

Outside the hall, the summer wind from the northern kingdom carried the scent of vegetation in the garden, blowing into the Jingyun Hall, gently brushing the corners of Qi Si and Lu Yingqiu's clothes.

Qi Si's hands subconsciously clenched Lu Yingqiu's sleeves, slowly shook his head and said, "But I don't..." Before he finished speaking, Lu Yingqiu made a silent gesture to him.

"Your Highness, do you want to go back?" Lu Yingqiu asked slowly.

Qi Si nodded, with some disbelief in his eyes.

"Your Highness, do you remember the disaster victims in Wuling Pass and the bandits in the mountains?" Lu Yingqiu looked serious.

Qi Si didn't speak, and didn't nod his head—he would never forget these two things.

Lu Yingqiu's expression softened a little: "In the future, many people will want to kill you, and many people will rely on you to survive. You have to be a good prince of the Jin Kingdom for those people and for yourself... If not, it's time to return. Not going."

The palace is tall and magnificent, with luxurious curtains, but it makes Qi Si feel a little cold.

Qi Si heard the threatening meaning in Lu Yingqiu's words, Lu Yingqiu seemed to be a different person, with a cold and determined look on his face.

Qi Si moved back subconsciously, looked into Lu Yingqiu's eyes, and asked with a somewhat difficult voice: "Why?"

Lu Yingqiu looked determined, and that familiar heroic face revealed the power of a general, which he rarely showed in front of Qi Si, and he replied: "Your Majesty's order, I'm sorry, Qi Si, I can't take you away , you can't go either."

This is the answer of a loyal and steadfast general, but it is also Lu Yingqiu's answer.

Qi Si felt chills in his heart, he had a feeling of being betrayed - he escaped from the brink of death, but was abandoned without discussion by the most trusted and close people.

He lowered his eyes and pondered for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Lu Yingqiu, and still had the same question: "Why?"

Lu Yingqiu's expression remained unchanged, and he replied, "Protons are used to restrain the state of Jin."

He only said this sentence, and Qi Si understood.

——The proton is used to restrain the Jin State. If the proton is fake, once the war breaks out in the future, people in the world will undoubtedly think that he is the prince, but Emperor Hongjia will not be restrained, and the Jin State will not be ruled by this. hostage threat.

So he is a stand-in, a future outcast.

Lu Yingqiu understood his thoughts, and he said firmly: "You will not be in danger here, if something happens in the future, I will fight to the death to protect you."

Lu Yingqiu's eyes were deep and firm, but not as gentle as before.

Qi Si shook his head, he understood how Yu Ke felt that day, and he was even more embarrassed than Yu Ke at the moment.

There was no anger in him, just sadness and a little isolation—he was literally alone, with no one next to him or behind him.

Qi Si looked into Lu Yingqiu's eyes: "I can."

Just like Yu Ke's answer in the Jin Palace that day.

Lu Yingqiu turned away his eyes, stepped forward and hugged Qisi.

Qi Si leaned on Lu Yingqiu's shoulder, something in his heart went out, and his voice was calm: "One day in the future, you don't need to fight to protect me. General, you are more important than me."

Lu Yingqiu let go of him and looked at Qi Si. Qi Si's face was pale with a sick look, his body was thin and thin, but his back was straight, and he always carried a natural pride and stubbornness. At this moment, he seemed to be a different person, with a somewhat indifferent look on his face.

Lu Yingqiu shook his head with a smile, and said helplessly, "You are very much like your father, and I thank Your Highness for the people of Jin."

Lu Yingqiu took out something from his bosom, stretched his hand around Qi Si's neck, and clasped the thing behind his neck.

Qi Si lowered his head and stretched out his hand to lift it up. Looking at it, it was a thin black gold chain attached to a red rope. Covering the skin and the unevenness of the bones, it looks like an extremely thin snake, but it is also very delicate, cold and delicate.

"Keep it away, don't show it to others casually," Lu Yingqiu warned.

Qi Si only regarded it as a status token of the royal family of Jin, and put it in the neckline and refused to look at it again.

His eyes were a little empty, and he said, "Does he know?"

Knowing that he was asking Yu Ke, Lu Yingqiu replied, "I haven't told him yet."

Qi Si felt comforted - at least Yu Ke didn't abandon him.

Lu Yingqiu patted him on the shoulder, said nothing more, got up and left, and let him think alone.

Qisi sits in Jingyun Hall, the palace of Yan Kingdom is gorgeous and tall, with carved beams and painted buildings, curtains and silk brocades are flowing.He thought back on the past, and wondered if it was worth it to save Yu Ke with all his might.

In the end, he thought, of course it was worth it, and he had to do it a hundred times again.

He, Yu Ke, and even Lu Yingqiu couldn't help themselves.But he still didn't want to forgive Lu Yingqiu in his heart. Lu Yingqiu had cared for him since he was a child, but he could abandon him without hesitation.

After Lu Yingqiu left the Palace of Jingyun, he went to see the Emperor of Yan Kingdom, and agreed to formally welcome "Yu Ke" at the court three days later.

Lu Yingqiu will stay in Yan Country for a few days this time, and he will accompany Qi Si every day.

From Qi Si's point of view, Lu Yingqiu came to monitor whether he would be obedient - Lu Yingqiu was no longer the person he completely trusted.

And Lu Yingqiu didn't explain anything, after confirming some matters with him, sometimes he would talk to him about Yan country's customs and customs, and sometimes he would quietly accompany Qisi by the side.

The words he repeatedly emphasized to Qi Si are two sentences——

——"Don't feel like you're pretending to be someone else, you're still yourself."

"Don't tell others about your past, your past is Yu Ke's past."

And Qi Si was just silent, looking at Lu Yingqiu with some emotion in his eyes, but he refused to say anything.

The real Yu Ke only stayed in the Jin Palace for a few days, and the outside world's understanding of Yu Ke was limited to his life experience and practice in the temple.

And Qi Si and Yu Ke have been together since childhood, and no one knows each other better than them.

He doesn't need to make more pretense, and there won't be too many things that will hinder him from replacing Yu Ke.

He looked at the lights in the palace alone, kept thinking about the things Lu Yingqiu had explained, and let these instructions be engraved in his mind - this was his only hope of going back, although he didn't know where "going back" meant, after all he He no longer has family members, but the Jin Kingdom and Luyang City in the south are still the lighthouses in his heart, and there used to be his home there.

In the past few days, sometimes when I thought about passing by the mirror, I felt in a daze that Yu Ke was in the mirror.

Time is flying fast, and at the court meeting this day, Qi Si will enter the court as a hostage as the prince of Jin.

In the Fengtian Hall, Emperor Yan Guosu sat on the throne without saying a word, while his courtiers stood respectfully. In the hall, there were towering beams and pillars, carved beams and painted buildings, and the atmosphere was solemn.

Emperor Su raised his eyes from the seat, his face was clear and elegant, but his eyes were like sinking water, making it hard to see through.

"The Prince of Jin and the special envoy of Jin enter the palace—" the eunuch communicated loudly.

Qi Si's heart was beating a little faster, and she was dressed in the prince's uniform, and followed Lu Yingqiu up the stone steps in front of the main hall of Yan State, across the threshold in front of the hall, and walked among the civil and military officials standing quietly on both sides.

His thin body was even smaller in the tall palace. As he walked forward, he looked at the people on both sides from the corner of his eye, and they also looked at him.

The faces of the accompanying envoys behind him were stern—this was a humiliation and submission to Jin.And Lu Yingqiu's expression was calm, neither humble nor overbearing.

At the foot of the throne, Lu Yingqiu saluted to Emperor Su, Qi Si saluted beside him, and all the entourage also saluted, and Emperor Su signaled to excuse him.

The eunuch took over the document from Lu Yingqiu and handed it to him as a document from the Kingdom of Yan. The alliance between the two countries was formally concluded since then.

The ceremony was not long, but the links were complicated. Qi Si was wearing the prince's imperial clothes and was a little tired. He quietly glanced at Lu Yingqiu who was beside him.

Today Lu Yingqiu was dressed in the court uniform of a military officer, with a straight figure, broad shoulders, and a heroic and resolute face. He was a Confucian general among military generals.

Lu Yingqiu felt that Qi Si was looking at him, looked down at Qi Si and smiled gently, but Qi Si turned his eyes away, and his nose felt a little sore.

During the few days when Yu Ke was in the Jin Palace, no courtiers saw him, and on the day of seeing him off, they all looked at him from a distance through the curtain of the carriage, and the envoys who accompanied him today didn't even know that the prince had changed.

The existence of expectation seems to have been erased.

When we met for the last time, Qi Si asked Lu Yingqiu: "Your Majesty wants me to stay here, have you hesitated?"

Lu Yingqiu's words were resolute, as if stuck in Qi Si's heart: "The emperor's orders are like iron."

Qi Si nodded, did not meet Lu Yingqiu's eyes, looked at the picturesque garden outside the window, and said nothing more.

"General, take care."

"Your Highness, take care."

Leaving Fengtian Hall, Lu Yingqiu watched the palace servants return to the bedroom with longing thoughts.

Lu Yingqiu turned around and left, but didn't see Qi Si looking back from afar.