long friend

That day when Xiao Qiyu sent Xiao Qichen out, it was usually like a greeting: "By the way, why don't you go to Qiping's mansion these days? Don't you like children very much, don't you want to visit your little niece?"

Xiao Qichen just smiled and didn't answer him.After Xiao Qiyu told "Remember what I said", he closed the door.

He and Xiao Qiping seem to be not as close as before. If it is really the source, it was around the eve of Su Yan's wedding that day, when he admitted to Xiao Qiping in Bowang Garden: "I only have him in my heart."

From then on, Xiao Qiping avoided him intentionally or unintentionally, and Xiao Qichen naturally wouldn't listen to his opinions. The two maintained a tacit peace, but in the end they no longer talked about everything.

Some things are like a hidden soft nail. No one will realize its existence unless you touch it. Even when healed, the scars remain forever.

Xiao Qiping couldn't understand or persuade him, he could only let him "do it for himself".

Occasionally Xiao Qichen thought it was funny when he thought about it, both Su Yan and him had said these four words countless times, but although they took different paths, they didn't take "good for themselves" seriously.

He returned to Chenglan Palace, locked himself in the bedroom without calling anyone.

Need to be calm, every word Xiao Qiyu said hit his only weakness, and he didn't even notice when the other party knew about it - he thought that even the people around him, who were as familiar as the green clothes, didn't see the clue.

"Qichen, let's open the skylight and speak frankly. I really have nothing to threaten you, but there is one person—what do you think of Su Yan? He is now caught between home and country, and his wife is giving birth again. Think about it He must be very anxious, if he found out at this time that his best friend has always had unspeakable dirty thoughts about him, what would he do?"

"You don't have to wonder how I know, some things will not be known until they don't happen."

"The result depends entirely on your choice now, Qi Chen, if you want it to be a secret, do something for me, and I will keep it secret after it is done. But if you are not good... this matter will soon spread to the public. Su Yan heard it, it won't take more than three days."

"How can this be a threat? I'm talking to you! You know my secret, and I know yours. Isn't it fair?"

"Whoa-"

The sound of teacups breaking and tables and stools being toppled came out one after another, breaking the usual tranquility of Chenglan Hall.

Luyi hurriedly opened the bedroom door, seeing Xiao Qichen squatting in front of the overturned square table with blood on his left hand, he couldn't help saying in shock: "Your Highness! What's wrong with you?"

She tore off a section of her cuff, and hurriedly covered the wound on Xiao Qichen's right hand.There was something wrong with his eyes, and the green clothes looked scared but couldn't ignore it, and shouted loudly: "Lord Tianhui! Something happened to His Highness, Tianhui—"

Tianhui had heard this movement a long time ago, but Xiao Qichen didn't shout, he didn't dare to knock on the door indiscriminately.At this moment, after Lvyi finished shouting, Tianhui jumped down from the roof lightly and skillfully, and then pulled Xiao Qichen up from the ground neatly: "Your Highness, calm down, no matter what we hear, we have ways to deal with it!"

He grabbed Xiao Qichen's injured wrist, and said to Lv Yi: "Please trouble me to get the imperial doctor." Then he couldn't help but drag Xiao Qichen out of the bedroom like pulling onions from dry land.

When Xiao Qichen caused troubles everywhere when he was a child, the old imperial doctor who was in charge of dealing with the aftermath had left Beijing for several years. The imperial doctor invited by Lvyi was a young man. Unreal.Lvyi nodded like a pounding garlic, and sent the imperial doctor away with gratitude.

Tianhui copied both hands, and said helplessly: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you today? I'm so disrespectful. No matter how unhappy you are, you don't lift the table... King Zhao said something serious?"

After a lot of tossing, Xiao Qichen extinguished the spark in Xiao Qichen's heart by himself, and said amusedly: "I found that you talk more and more recently. At the beginning, you were a boring gourd and didn't say anything."

Tianhui refused to admit it: "Then you must have confused me with Tianyou."

Xiao Qichen didn't refute him, and sighed lightly: "I'm in a mess, I want to go out."

Tianhui: "Go to the Marquis Mansion?"

A few words just hit Xiao Qichen's sore spot, he felt the wound on his hand was hot again, he shook his head after a long while: "...Go to the prime minister's mansion, I will visit Prime Minister Xie, and find Xie Hui by the way."

Xie, who has been surnamed for several generations in the prime minister's mansion, is usually crowded with officials from all walks of life and students from the Imperial College.Since Xie Xiang fell ill, the number of people who come and go to get through the joints has been reduced by half, showing a bit of a miserable state of the world.

Not long after Xiao Qichen knocked on the door knocker, it was Xie Hui who opened the door.

He was originally a well-known bachelor in Jinling, the dream lover of the fireworks girls on the Qinhuai River, he was naturally handsome and handsome, and his every move was romantic.Even when Xiao Qichen reunited with him in Xiashan Academy, among the rough alleys, Xie Hui was still at ease, not showing the slightest bit of embarrassment.

At this moment, Xie Hui's complexion was gloomy, and the sharpness and edges of his body had been smoothed by something.He raised his eyes to see Xiao Qichen, and forced a smile: "It's Your Highness, come in."

Sitting under the porch, Xiao Qichen had no time to admire the unique Taihu Lake stones in the prime minister's mansion, and asked, "Brother Zhongguang, have you worked too hard recently? The girls of Hua Jieyu are really going to be sad when you are like this."

Xie Hui lost the intention of arguing with him, and said weakly: "Let them be sad... Your Highness, we have a good relationship, can I tell you something quietly?"

Xiao Qichen raised his eyebrows, signaling him to fart quickly.

Xie Hui moved the chair closer to Xiao Qichen, and there was no one else around, so he still lowered his voice: "Grandfather... I'm afraid it will die. I heard that many corruptions were found in the court, but His Majesty can't wait for him." .Your Highness, if you can see His Majesty recently, you might as well remind me...the Prime Minister's Palace is already preparing for the funeral."

"How could it be?" Xiao Qichen asked puzzledly, "Xie Xiang's body has always been strong and strong, I think Da Sima is still waiting to quarrel with him for ten or eight years..."

"Because he has never been sick, it would be a big problem if he fell down. After all, his age is there... none of his internal organs is healthy. The doctor said that he fell to his head, so he couldn't speak. It seems that this time even if the miracle doctor is alive, he can save him. I'm not coming back." Xie Hui sighed lightly, and said, "Although I have had a bad relationship with him in the past few years, it still hurts to see him suffer all day long. But he can't write or speak. I don't know what he was thinking."

Life and death are too heavy to say, once mentioned, it will be a farewell, no matter how calm and calm it is, it is false.The connected blood has always made people feel bitter at the moment of parting, shouting all the way, as if they would not stop until they burst into tears.

Xie Hui couldn't bear to continue when he said this, he wiped his eyes, and asked, "Your Highness, why did your hand hurt? I thought this kind of bandage, the blood stains, can only be seen on Su Yan."

"Losing your temper in the palace." Xiao Qichen said briefly.

"It's strange, Your Highness—" Xie Hui drew out his voice inexplicably surprised, "You can still lose your temper?"

Xiao Qichen smiled at him calmly: "I hate others threatening me the most. Xiao Qiyu dared to take Su Yan as a target and asked me to do things for him. Is it okay if I lose my temper?"

As soon as Xie Hui heard it, he knew that this matter was not easy, so he put away his foolish manner and asked, "What does King Zhao want to do?"

"He wants military power, to expand the territory." After Xiao Qichen said these eight words, he smiled mockingly, "He thought that he had made military exploits by going to southern Xinjiang? How can the battlefield be a joke?"

"Your Highness, I'm more curious... how did you get into his hands?" Xie Hui reminded.

Xiao Qichen was overwhelmed by his question, he silently put the teacup in his hand on the table, his eyes wandered, and immediately said softly: "Aside from Su Yan, what else do I have."

When a person is used to being alone, it is inevitable that he will be very indifferent to feelings.Xie Hui was born in a respectable family in Jinling. He received the strictest education since he was a child. After seeing his parents treat each other with respect for many years, he never understood why some people are willing to die for another.

He and Xiao Qichen are very similar in this point, so they understand each other. When Su Yan blamed Xiao Qichen for being impersonal, Xie Hui was the one who understood Xiao Qichen's feelings best - "feelings" are too fragile, the more you give, the easier it is to lose , so Xie Hui refused to have a thorough heart-to-heart relationship with others, and thought that Xiao Qichen was the same as him.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Qichen was deeply involved in it later, and he was in unbearable pain.The person he likes is fighting for the country, and his wife and children are still at home, so he has no position to care for that person.

Xie Hui persuaded him to cut it off as soon as possible, but Xiao Qichen didn't listen to him at that time, Xie Hui understood.After all, I just expressed my heart, and it is over before it starts. Individuals will suffer terribly, but everything can't stand the time.

Who knew that after one year, Xiao Qichen would still be so stubborn!

He hated iron and said: "Your Highness, I really don't know what Su Yan has to deserve this from you. He doesn't know anything about your thoughts. There is an old man in the family... and soon there will be a young man, a young couple." Even if you don't talk about honey and oil, at least you don't hate each other, you... why are you bothering?"

"Brother Zhongguang, you really don't know." Xiao Qichen smiled. Compared with the hidden gnashing of teeth when talking about Xiao Qiyu before, this time he is much more sincere, "He is indeed like that to me, but in the East Palace back then, if he hadn't His 'that's it', I've long...I can't talk to you now."

Xie Hui: "..."

Xiao Qichen thought for a while, and then said: "When we met again later, I lied to him not because I wanted to throw myself into the lake. In fact, when I went to Shanglinyuan that day, I really wanted to seek death. I had nowhere to go twice. Really desperate, I didn't know what else to do, and then he said...he's on my side."

"Whatever you want, as long as I can give it, I will give it to you."

This promise sounds like a child's play, and adults know that it can't be taken seriously.But the promise silently fermented in his heart, and the age of ignorance of love and hate was suddenly stunned by a sentence, and when he woke up, he found that he was deeply stuck in the mud and could not escape.

There are so many people who are indifferent to feelings, but not everyone has encountered their own warmth.

"When I met him," Xiao Qichen finally thought for a long time before concluding, "he was too young. He might not be a big deal to me, but to me at that time, he was the best."

When they left Xie Hui's house, none of them convinced the other.But Xie Hui respected his decision, Xiao Qichen said coldly: "You look down on me and dare not say it in person, you are a coward."

The one who responded to him was Xie Hui who closed the door rebelliously: "Then your Highness, hold it in your own hands!"

Xiao Qichen gathered his cloak, and as dusk approached, his mood kept going up and down this day, which was really exciting.He sighed, undecided between going back to the palace and going to Chu Wang's mansion for a meal - sooner or later he and Xiao Qiping had to have a clear talk, otherwise Xiao Qiping had been so lacking in attitude, and Xiao Qichen would feel apprehensive when facing him again.

He thought about it, but turned around.

Some things are resolved as soon as possible, procrastination is not the solution.

"Give way!"

Xiao Qichen didn't pay attention to the front and back when he was thinking, and when he was suddenly pushed away by Tianhui, a carriage sped past where he had just stood.Tianhui was angry from the heart, and yelled at the driver: "How did you drive? If you hit someone, can you afford it?"

Xiao Qichen thought in shock: "Tianhui can say such things!"

The carriage stopped at the sound, the driver looked back, and the passenger also looked over with an unfriendly expression.Looking at it, the people in the car were startled, got out of the car hurriedly, and bowed respectfully in front of Xiao Qichen: "I don't know it's His Highness the Sixth Highness, I offended him, and I hope His Highness Sixth forgive me."

"Master Li?" Xiao Qichen asked strangely, "Where are you going?"

It turned out that the person riding in the impulsive carriage in the street was none other than Yushi's second son and current secretary Cheng Li Xu.He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said: "Isn't this...my sister is giving birth, my parents are worried and it is not good to go to my sister's husband's house, and my brother-in-law Yuan Zheng is not at home—Your Highness, what do you think he is talking about!"

Xiao Qichen seemed to be awakened by his rhetoric, tilted his head and said: "...Rong Niang?"

Li Xu froze on the spot, seemingly unable to accept why the Sixth Highness called his little sister so intimately to his reclusive younger sister for a while, and he blushed completely as he thought of something in his mind.

There was one more person rushing to the Hou's mansion. Mrs. Cao welcomed Li Xu in at the door, and apologized again: "The master wrote to Ayan, but Ayan replied that the war is urgent, if he leaves his post without authorization because of this It's not a big deal if the Turks know it, but it's a big deal to shake the army, if everyone says that the family—"

"Ma'am, don't need to say too much, I can't count on my brother-in-law, I just feel worthless for my sister!" Li Xu walked into the house, and when he heard his sister moaning in pain, he frowned again.He seemed to have endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Madam, in the past, Su Yan didn't know how to know cold and heat. You said he was still young. Now my sister gave birth to the queen of your Su family, Su Yan really doesn't care at all." ?!"

Xiao Qichen stood at the back with a calm expression, but his heart was already in a turbulent state.

Mrs. Cao hurriedly said: "When Yan'er comes back, it's okay for my brother-in-law to beat him up personally. Now that Rong Niang is still inside, Mr. Li might as well let these things go. We are all worried about Rong Niang's safety, aren't we?"

The bloody towel was taken out, and the maid brought hot water into the inner room, and the midwife's sharp cry could be heard through two walls: "Madam, breathe in—breathe in! Don't shout!"

The bloody smell in the inner room almost came out, and Li Xu wanted to rush in, but was stopped by a hand.He looked at the person with red eyes: "Your Highness, the one inside is my own sister!"

Xiao Qichen's calmness was in stark contrast to his: "I can't stop you if you want to go in. It's just that Rong Niang is in such pain, it may not be better to see you. Besides, there are all female relatives inside, and the midwife brought two helpers. The girls who have not left the cabinet, Mr. Li is a man in it, how can you ask them to have the nerve?"

His words were like pouring cold water on Li Xu, he stopped his hand to push the door in a daze, and murmured: "Then what to do...what to do...Rong Niang..."

At this moment, another maid came into the room with hot water and clean towels, Xiao Qichen turned to her, and said gently: "I would like to ask this elder sister to convey a word for Ayan."

After the maid stopped, Xiao Qichen suddenly stuffed something into her hand.

He withdrew his hand a little reluctantly, concealing the trembling of his voice as usual: "Ayan asked me to tell Rong Niang that he likes the child regardless of gender, and the name has already been decided, and it will be called Su Heng."

In the northern border, while Su Yan was asleep, he took a handkerchief from him—the style was very ordinary, and the pattern was not as delicate as women's flowers and birds, but a few freehand brushstrokes of mountains and rivers, with the words "He Qing Hai Yan" in the corner, it was him. name.

Xiao Qichen knew that Su Yan had been carrying something close to his body for many years. He originally wanted to keep it as a souvenir for himself and quietly entrust his lovesickness, but he couldn't get over the crying and shouting of the woman inside and his own conscience, so he gave the handkerchief to the maidservant.

He blinked: "Ayan gave it to her."

The maid did not doubt that he was there, thanked him repeatedly, and then went into the inner room with hot water.Perhaps the handkerchief really had a miraculous effect, Li Rong's cry immediately became quieter, and turned into soft sobbing, even the mother-in-law no longer sounded so anxious.

Xiao Qichen looked at Li Xu, his expression was no longer so eager to tear Su Yan apart, he obviously believed Xiao Qichen's words.At first I wanted to explain that "Su Yan doesn't care about Rong Niang", but he couldn't get it out of his mouth. Xiao Qichen thought: "Just pretend that I have some selfishness in the end... I don't know if he really cares."

Everyone had their own ghosts, but with the same anxiety, they waited for half an hour in the cold wind.

The midwife pushed open the door, sweating profusely, and was immediately surrounded by Mrs. Cao and Li Xu.She looked happy and said happily: "It's a boy, mother and child are safe!"

Mrs. Cao breathed a sigh of relief, her body went limp and she nearly fell down, while Li Xu was also stiff as if struck by lightning, and immediately covered his face and sobbed softly.

Hearing a few babies crying from the inner room, Xiao Qichen's eyes darkened. He supported the pillars in the corridor, exhaled lightly, then bent down abruptly and retched.

The author has something to say: This article is going like this... I could have written a brand new plot without Li Rong and no children, but that's what I said when I wrote Beifeng, and the contradictory words between the two sides are not very good.

Rongniang is a victim of feudal legacy, and so is Ayan.I am not praising arranged marriages when I write this. On the contrary, it can be understood as my kind of...disapproval of this kind of sick marriage relationship.Their marriage was a tragedy, but no one did anything wrong in this relationship.I know that some readers who read the article cannot accept it, but they will not change it. Their life trajectory has been set, so I think I should stick to it.

This article is not a cookie... so abuse is certain.The direction is very mysterious. Everyone has also discovered that it is impossible for them to be as close as the two of Beifeng. There must be gaps between them. This is a bit difficult to deal with, and I will carefully consider it.Regardless of whether you choose to leave for a while or stick to it, I am very grateful for your advice.