Your Majesty, he has a backache and brain fever

The snow fell and melted, and the flowers bloomed and withered, as if with a flick of a finger, several cycles of spring rain, summer thunder, autumn leaves and winter snow had passed. Time passed, and it was the 25th year of Qi'an. Xia Moshi is already an 11-year-old boy, he is no longer like the powder-faced doll of the past, but more of a handsome and handsome beauty.

It has been three full years since Shen Yunqi was brought back from the ruined temple. The cowardly and short orphan on the street in the past is now a teenager, and he has the stature that a 14-year-old should have, instead of being as flamboyant as before. A poor child who is three years older than Xia Moshi but looks younger than Xia Moshi, maybe because of these years in the palace, Shen Yunqi's bearing is almost comparable to that of some aristocratic princes .

Although the ability of scheming is still a little immature, it is far away from his adult self in the previous life. Besides, Xia Moshi is very clear that Shen Yunqi has been an extremely assertive and bottom-line person since he was a child, but now he is in the capital all the year round. In this small one-third of an acre of land, some people can't use it well, due to lack of experience and experience.

In Xia Moshi's considerations, if Shen Yunqi was allowed to stay by his side, he would no longer be able to grow better. However, although the current Seventh Prince has already secretly belonged to the power, it is not yet fully surfaced. The timing, all of a sudden, Xia Moshi couldn't think of a more suitable place for Shen Yunqi.

Moreover, he always felt that someone seemed to be trying to get close to him recently, and he began to wonder if it was the "help" that Xu Shuyi told him back then, so he sent Shen Yunqi to investigate this matter.

It was another sunny afternoon, and Shen Yunqi came back from the outside. The "help" he was looking for had not found any clues, but he brought back news about the border. The person they were looking for was Xia Xuhuai.

Of course, Shen Yunqi did not inquire about this news on purpose, but because it has spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital.

Under Xia Moshi's urging, Shen Yunqi became a very eloquent storyteller, telling everything he knew.

"Your Highness, do you know about General Dingguo? When he was young, he rescued the current Holy Majesty several times through life and death. Later, they became brothers. Because General Dingguo was displaced since he was a child, he was nameless and only had a humble nickname. So after the emperor ascended the throne, he was given the country's surname, but because General Xia was stationed outside all the year round, the emperor rarely mentioned him as a brother-in-law, so after so many decades, Beijing has almost forgotten that there is such a thing. A general Xia who is not a member of the imperial family."

Xia Moshi probably understood what he meant: "Could it be that this brave but gradually forgotten General of Dingguo is Xia Xuhuai's father?"

Shen Yunqi nodded: "It is not reported in Beijing whether the son of General Dingguo is called by this name, but according to the information we know, it matches the person you are looking for."

According to what Shen Yunqi said, in the early years, an expert who was proficient in fortune-telling once asserted that the son of General Xia should not be with his family until he was 16 years old, otherwise it would bring disasters to the whole family, so his father was cruel and heartless. He sent him to a deep mountain and old forest where he didn't know where, and called a few loyal old servants, and packed them up and exiled them.So in all these years, he never showed up in Shangjing once.

As for the authenticity of this rumor, Xia Moshi thinks that it still needs to be verified, and the old forest in the mountains is barely considered, but no matter how you look at it, he does not look like a waste chess abandoned and exiled by his family. I am afraid that the family of the general of the country will not be able to live in peace a long time ago, and they have already provided all kinds of after-dinner conversations for the common people, so why have they been silent for so many years.

Then why did it suddenly appear now? Xia Moshi clearly remembered that when he left, Xia Xuhuai told himself not to reveal his news. Now, it couldn't be Xia Xuhuai who ran out early and jumped around.

Moreover, at that time, Xia Xuhuai also said that it was for his own good. Could it be that his emperor's father didn't like Xia Xuhuai or was quite afraid of Xia Xuhuai's father?

Xia Moshi calculated in his heart: "16 years old, he just happens to be that age at this time."

"Your Highness, why do you know how old he is?"

"It's nothing, I found out by chance. You continue to say that you can't go home before the age of 16, so what's going on now, he's coming back?"

"That's not true, it's just that now that the battle report has come from the northern border, our dynasty has retreated steadily and lost two passes in succession. The court urgently transferred the nearest General Xia and his wife who were stationed on the coast of the East China Sea to serve as reinforcements. At the same time, the emperor intends to recall the only son of General Xia."

Therefore, Xia Xuhuai, who had always been lonely and unknown before, was famous all over the capital. It was precisely because the emperor ordered to find Xia Xuhuai, but there was no news of him, and no one even knew the name of the son of this important minister. Very helpless and powerless frustration.

Xia Moshi suddenly realized that now is the time for employing people. The name of General Xia's only son is more effective than any other signboard. As far as they are concerned, they are all existences similar to a sea-fixing needle.Anyone related to General Dingguo is basically a powerful existence in everyone's mind.

So, even if Xia Xuhuai is just an idiot who doesn't understand anything, as long as he doesn't abuse himself, and doesn't do anything that squanders the morale of the army and the people, as long as he appears on the battlefield, he has already won half of the battle. What's more, Xia Mo At that time, I knew very well that the word idiot had nothing to do with Xia Xuhuai at all.

After General Dingguo sent his army to the north, Xia Moshi clearly felt that the emperor's mood became more and more changeable. Sometimes he smiled and sometimes frowned. The two contradictory expressions perfectly blended together, fully explaining what the word "a king's heart is like a sea" is.

Xia Moshi knew that this might be the beginning of suspicion.

However, in the northern border at this time, General Dingguo, who is usually invincible in the hearts of the people like a divine soldier, suddenly lost his performance this time, and it seems that the two recent victories seem to have been rather uneventful. He was so difficult that he was accidentally shot by an arrow by the enemy, and fell off the tall horse on the spot. The general's wife only had time to let out a stern cry, but because there was still a scene of melee between the two of them. , far apart, I could only watch helplessly as my husband fell hard beside the iron hoof.

Seeing that something bad was about to happen, fortunately, an unknown boy with a plain appearance suddenly appeared on the battlefield in the northern border and turned the tide to stop the powerful enemy. However, General Xia and his wife died soon after. Huang Quan, the red blood that hadn't cooled off after decades of fighting, was finally sprinkled on this land that they had loyally guarded all their lives, and was icy cold and speechless by the violent wind, waves and sand in the desert.

Due to the tense war and the scorching weather, the young man hurriedly buried the two with the help of General Dingguo's personal soldiers. The strange thing is that everyone only knew about the couple's demise, but no one else knew about their burial. where.

After two months of stalemate in the war, the war finally came to an end, but this young man who rushed to the battlefield decisively and made first-class military exploits, disappeared quietly the night before the squadron returned to the court, completely and completely. There was no trace, as if such a person had never appeared in the barracks, and the figure that entered and left the barracks these days seemed to be just their fantasy in the desperate situation.

Half a month later, returning to Shangjing with the victorious and returning troops, apart from the good news of the great victory in the northern border, there were also two coffins containing the clothes of General Dingguo and his wife.

The news of General Dingguo's death spread like wildfire after they left the border town, and the whole country of Qi State mourned together.

On the day when the coffin entered the city, Xia Moshi happened to see the profile of Emperor Qi An in the imperial garden. He stroked the mustache on his chin slowly and slowly. There was no sadness or joy on his cold face. Xia Moshi's father only responded indifferently, making it difficult for people to tell whether he felt more regretful or sad about the death of his righteous brother.

Looking at his receding back, the emperor clasped his hands behind his back, and seemed to be walking very calmly, Xia Moshi couldn't help thinking darkly: "Or compared to the two, he has the upper hand in his heart." Yes, are you glad?"

On the same day, in order to express his grief and grace, the emperor issued three imperial edicts in succession. First, to increase the food and salaries of the border troops by [-]%; Mrs. An Guogong; third, order all over the country to intensify efforts to search for An Guogong's only son, and come back to organize the funeral for his parents.

Seven days after the imperial decree was issued, Xia Xuhuai finally showed up in the capital with a few old servants of the Xia family. After meeting the Holy Majesty, he took the emperor's handbook and won the two coffins back to the mansion overnight from the Huguo Temple. He hurriedly arranged the ups and downs, arranged the internal and external affairs properly, helped the parents to be buried in the hall with mournful faces, and the hearse carrying the coffin traveled eastward heavily, and finally arrived at a sunny place on the hillside outside the city. There, Xia Xu Huai set up a tomb for his parents.

It is estimated that they were more or less aware of the subtle psychology of the emperor. During the whole funeral, no official came to express condolences. At most, they sent someone to send something to express their condolences. Let's pay tribute to the legendary figures who fell from the Great Qi Kingdom, but it's a pity that the identity is not enough to make it difficult for them to visit, so that the couple who have fought for the country all their lives have no words from others. , it was exactly what Xia Xuhuai wanted.

Everything was silent and the evening breeze was cool. Xia Xuhuai was standing on the porch, smelling the faint scent of magnolia flowers wafting from the courtyard, and somehow it reminded him of some memories of the past.