long friend

The air in Mingfu Palace suddenly froze, the empress stood in place, her hand holding the cane did not continue to strike.

Xiao Qiping was supported by the maid and stood firm, he groped forward two steps, stopped when he met Xiao Qichen, grabbed his arm to pull him up.Xiao Qichen didn't want to move at first, he was still stubborn, but when he looked up and saw it was Xiao Qiping, he immediately stood up without hesitation.

Xiao Qiping's hand touched Xiao Qichen's shoulder, and then reached his back.Xiao Qichen suddenly took a step to the side to prevent Xiao Qiping from touching the wound, his expression was unkind, but his tone was already gentle: "Brother Ping, I'm fine."

He and the queen faced each other silently, neither of them would back down.Standing behind, Su Yan happened to be able to see Xiao Qichen's thin back.Because of his action just now, the wound oozes some blood again, and the rusty red color that has become stale suddenly becomes quite bright again, on the contrary, it is even more dazzling.

Su Yan's mind was in a mess, he couldn't do anything, he could only poke at the spot in embarrassment, and was forced to witness the grievances between the most honorable mother and son in the world.

After Xiao Qiping noticed Xiao Qichen's resistance, he didn't force it, but withdrew his hand, let the maid support him again, turned his head and said to the queen: "Mother, the overall situation has been settled, this is what should be done, why are you here at Qichen?" Vent your anger?"

The cane was finally thrown on the ground by the queen, she said sadly: "Ping'er, the real culprit has not been found out yet, and you know what they said about our mother and son!"

Xiao Qiping said indifferently: "So what if you find out the real culprit? Gouging out his eyes? I've accepted my fate, so why bother?"

Su Yan was confused, but heard Xiao Qichen sneer and said: "I'm afraid the empress thinks I'm talking nonsense, but she forgot that in these years, apart from the Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Day, I never had the opportunity to meet the emperor!"

Xiao Qiping said: "You don't have to say a few words."

After hearing this, Xiao Qichen silently shut his mouth even though he still felt aggrieved.His eyes shifted, and then he saw Su Yan who was behind Xiao Qiping, his eyes widened suspiciously, Su Yan gave him a look back, after the two exchanged, there were too many and complicated messages to convey to each other, and they couldn't be understood instantly, so they had to put it down first.

After hearing Xiao Qichen's rebellious words, the queen in that chamber was so angry that her chest kept rising and falling.Immediately, a court lady came forward and helped her to sit on the stool, and brought tea and water to comfort her.

Xiao Qiping walked over slowly, and stood still in front of the queen. Although his voice was soft, he could not be refuted: "Many things cannot be solved by finding out the real culprit. Empress, you are confused. You must treat Qichen for adoption. Responsible, you can't look down on him because of your status, let alone punish him at will."

The queen said angrily: "It's him who speaks rudely!"

Xiao Qiping pressed her: "Qichen is still young, what can I say to make you so angry?"

The queen was still angry, she took a sip of water from the teacup, and the maid next to her said, "Returning to Your Highness, the Sixth Highness is going out today, and the empress asked him where he was going. The Sixth Highness said something...'You are not my biological mother, don't care about me Life and death, beat and scold at will on weekdays, but now they are pretending to control where I am going? Is it because I am afraid that Brother Ping will not see anyone when he comes? Or is it because I am afraid that I will sneak away to find the father?'”

She learned it perfectly, even the sarcasm in the original words was exactly the same.Xiao Qichen, who had already subsided, let out a mocking sneer when he heard the words, turned his head away, and straightened his clothes as if no one else was there.

Xiao Qiping remained quiet, his expression unchanged, and said: "Qichen has always been outspoken, and my father never said anything. You don't care about the consequences for what you do today. If it gets out, won't it be laughed at by others? ——Su Yan, you Bring His Highness the Sixth Prince back to the East Palace. Queen Mother, I will meet the Holy Father and tell Emperor Father to let Qi Chen not live here anymore, do you think it will work?"

What did the empress want to say, Xiao Qiping said again: "Although I can't see this place, I still feel that it is very deserted. I won't stay for dinner today, the empress forgives the sin, and the son bids farewell."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand to signal Su Yan to pull people away. He walked steadily, without even half a pause, and his back didn't look like a blind person anymore.

Xiao Qiping was brought up strictly in the deep palace.The queen is not a good stubble, and the emperor is especially fond of him.He just kept holding it outside, and now he rarely showed a trace of blood on his body, and the thorny feeling was very unlike him.When Su Yan grabbed Xiao Qichen's hand, he thought so abruptly.

When he came back to his senses, seeing Xiao Qichen staggering, he quickly whispered: "Are you all right?"

Xiao Qichen grinned: "It hurts me to death."

"Then you don't talk back to her." Xiao Qiping in front answered, stopped and turned his head and said, "It's a bad idea to take you to the East Palace after weighing it up. I will be crowned king soon, where will you be then?"

There was a very strange meaning in the words, Su Yan didn't have time to think about it, and Xiao Qichen said: "Brother Ping, I want to move back to the Chenglan Palace. I can't bear the empress's 'gracious upbringing'. If I stay here, I'm afraid I'll die before I get the king to open the mansion—it's too much for me to be punished twice in three days."

His tone was very calm, even a little indifferent, as if he wasn't talking about his own affairs.

Xiao Qiping didn't answer this time, he looked straight in Xiao Qichen's direction.Su Yan felt the person he was holding trembled, and even Su Yan couldn't help standing up straight, as if Xiao Qiping could look into his heart through the blindfolded ribbon. Tasting tea on the imperial concubine's couch, the crown prince who decided many important events coincided with each other.

"Don't let me hear you say that about yourself next time." Xiao Qiping said, his voice was soft, but there was no doubt about it.

Xiao Qichen flinched for a moment, and said, "I know I was wrong."

Coming out of Mingfu Palace, the willow shoots are already on the moon.When the autumn colors were getting thicker, Xiao Qiping was a little afraid of the cold, so he wrapped himself in a robe, but walked side by side with the two of them without riding on his shoulders.

Su Yan couldn't help but glanced at him several times, feeling that Xiao Qiping might have worked hard these years, but his demeanor was the same as before, still making people feel that he was approachable and instinctively fearful.He tugged Xiao Qichen's hand, but the other party kept bowing his head in silence.Seeing his thin clothes, Su Yan asked, "Is it cold?"

Xiao Qichen wanted to answer the truth, but seeing that Su Yan didn't have a shirt on, he held back and said forcefully, "It's okay."

Su Yan said: "I will take you to the East Palace later, and I will go back to the residence. You remember to take some medicine, ordinary Jinchuang medicine is also fine, don't let the wound dry... You are not in good health. It will be uncomfortable if it burns again."

After he babbled, Xiao Qichen's little cloudy face suddenly became sunny.He couldn't help but patted Su Yan on the head, and said: "I know, I know, Ayan usually doesn't say anything, and tells these things one by one."

Seeing that Su Yan was about to refute, Xiao Qichen quickly said, "But can you not go back to the barracks today?"

Su Yan wondered: "This... I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

"What's wrong, I beg brother Ping to send someone to tell your commander." Xiao Qichen's eyes were beautiful, and when he deliberately frowned to pretend to be pitiful, his eyes were full of water, making people have no time to listen to him, and could only be drunk In sight.

Seeing that Su Yan was speechless for a while, Xiao Qichen grabbed his hand and shook again: "My back hurts a lot, and I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight... Just chat with me, just like when I was a child. If it's not possible, I'll watch you sleep It's okay, Ayan, you're the best, you don't want to lie down all night by yourself, right?"

Su Yan really didn't know what to do now, he bit his lower lip in embarrassment, but couldn't say "no".

The two of them made a fuss behind them, and Xiao Qiping heard everything they said.Since he was blind, his hearing has become very good. Hearing this, he couldn't bear to say: "Su Yan, you should stay in the East Palace tonight. I'll send someone to talk to you later—you really are, A good little Marquis, guarding the city for nothing."

The second half of the teasing was neither light nor serious, but Su Yan ignored him. He wanted to open his mouth to thank him, but was interrupted by Xiao Qichen: "Brother Ping, thank you! I'll bring you osmanthus cake to eat tomorrow!"

Xiao Qiping smiled and said: "No need, you ate most of it when you bring it back, if you think about it, go and ask for it yourself."

He talked and laughed at Yan Yan with Xiao Qichen, and Su Yan who was watching from the side only felt that this scene was relaxing.He seems to be walking slowly back a few years ago on this long stone road, the moonlight is bright, and the ground is full of brilliance.

Su Yan raised his head and saw a star hanging on the cornice of the palace.

"That's Ziwei Xing." Xiao Qichen said, "Ziwei sits alone because the emperor is destined to have no relationship with the left and right. A few days ago, the father heard the words of Si Tianjian and decided that it was the destiny to let him abolish the crown prince and replace him with the prince." Crown Prince. The edict has not been issued, but it has been many days since he asked about it, so everyone in the palace is in a state of panic. If it is really easy to reserve..."

"Qichen." Xiao Qiping turned to him and said, "It's a matter of course, so there's no need to say more."

Su Yan suddenly understood, from the day he met Xiao Qiping, where did those few words that made him feel uncomfortable—whether it was the queen, Xiao Qichen, or even Xiao Qiping himself mentioned repeatedly, "I want to be king up".

But isn't the title of king in the East Palace the same as being abolished?

Su Yan raised his head to meet Xiao Qiping's thin back, he hesitated to speak after all.He took Xiao Qichen's hand, forced out a smile, as if he didn't hear what Cai just said, and said: "Let's go, I'll rest with you when I go back."

He took Xiao Qichen by the hand, and listened to the other party gossip one after another, and most of the time they were silent, silently counting the stone slabs under their feet.The palace city corridor is long, Su Yan walked step by step, hearing the sound of small footsteps mixed with the sound of steady breathing, he felt as if he had returned to the past.

At that time, he was carefree, playing around with Xiao Qichen all day long, and making jokes with Xiao Qiping.

Su Yan couldn't help laughing. It turned out that he was so close to these royal families who were born with nobles, and they talked about everything and got along day and night.Now standing in the same place again, listening to them talk about topics I don't understand, on the contrary, I feel a little distant and unfamiliar.

There is not much difference between the East Palace and Su Yan's memory, the decoration is still simple but elegant.The roses in the courtyard are still there, but in late autumn, they are no longer flourishing, and the leaves have fallen all over the ground, which is particularly depressed.

Xiao Qiping couldn't see this change, and naturally he didn't understand Su Yan's emotion. He turned his head slightly and said, "Qichen will go to live in your previous room. In a few days, I will try to let you meet Emperor Father, and then return to Chenglan Palace. That’s fine, let’s go to the lady next to you until you become an adult, and tell him yourself.”

Xiao Qichen couldn't tell whether he was happy or not, but his tone was very excited: "That's good, I'm going out of the palace to live with you!"

Xiao Qiping smiled and said: "This is not possible. Alright, go and rest quickly, your injury needs to be bandaged, don't delay any longer."

As soon as he said this, Xiao Qichen had no reason to stay anymore, he and Su Yan looked at each other for a moment, and finally smiled, and said in a low voice: "I'll still live where I used to be."

Before Su Yan understood what he was referring to, he was dragged across the corridor of the East Palace by Xiao Qichen excitedly, and stopped in front of a room in the other courtyard.The night was getting dark, Su Yan looked around, feeling familiar, he frowned, just about to ask, Xiao Qichen stretched out his hand and opened the door.

The maid lit the lamps for them, and the regular furnishings came into view. The bed was only slightly higher than the ground, and there was a low table in the middle with a tea set on it, but it seemed a little dusty. On the desk under the window were the Four Treasures of the Study .Although it is simple, it has all internal organs, and the utensils are all made of high-quality materials.

Su Yan walked a few steps, finally remembered, and said in disbelief, "This is... where I lived before?"

Xiao Qichen took off his shoes and socks, stepped onto the couch with bare feet, took out the ointment from the small drawer at the head of the bed and handed it to Su Yan, and said back to him: "Isn't that right. I used to eat and sleep at your place before, and I'll leave after you leave." I couldn’t fall asleep when I went elsewhere. Brother Ping heard that I was not in good health and called me to come to the East Palace. He talked with me. I took a rest by chance, but I didn’t expect to have a good dream here. Since then, I often Come here... You haven't come here for a while, so you lost your popularity."

While he was speaking, an obedient maid came in lightly, quickly cleaned up the house that had been unoccupied for a long time, and then quietly retreated out.

Su Yan was stuffed with a medicine bottle by Xiao Qichen, and stood there helplessly: "Aren't you called an imperial doctor?"

The old God Xiao Qichen said: "It's not easy to disturb late at night. It's not a big deal at all. Aren't you in the army? You've seen minor injuries on weekdays. Use this to wash it off first, and then apply some medicine. I'll work for you, my lord. How are you?"

During the daytime, I still couldn't feel it when we met, but at night, probably because of the silence, Su Yan could hear Xiao Qichen's words more clearly.When Xiao Qichen spoke, he was always a little vague, but with a soft and just right coquettishness, people liked to listen to him keep talking.He is no longer the child he used to be, and the innocence in his personality has also been hidden, only revealing some shadows when he whispers, so that people can know that he is still the same as before, and has not changed.

Su Yan's heart beat suddenly and violently because of this "unchanged". He held the medicine bottle and watched Xiao Qichen take off his outer shirt, then his middle coat, and finally exposed his entire back.

Xiao Qichen lay down on the couch casually, and generously showed Su Yan the wound.

He should have been like all the dandy boys in Jinling City, pampered and spoiled, with delicate skin and tender flesh, and he could leave marks if he pinched it.But on Xiao Qichen's ungrown, overly thin back, except for the clearly visible shape of the spine, bloodstains were scattered all over it. He was beaten to pieces. Blood dripping.

Finally, Su Yan let out a long breath. He sat on the side of the couch, raised the medicine bottle in his hand, and said softly: "I don't care about the severity of the attack. If it hurts later, remember to say a word, don't be stupid and just endure it there." with-"

Xiao Qichen leaned on his arm, tilted his head and smiled at Su Yan: "Got it, you're so noisy."

He rolled his eyes and was still thinking about joking.But soon, Xiao Qichen couldn't say a word.At first he smelled the familiar scent of medicine, and then the wound on his back was cold at first, and then it started to hurt like a blaze.

The potion seemed to drip straight into his bones, along the limbs and bones all the way to his brain, so hot that Xiao Qichen almost lost the ability to think.He grabbed Su Jin with his backhand, lost his sense of propriety, and said angrily, "Even a donkey can't stand your torment. Be gentle with me. Are you going to hurt me to death!"

Hearing this, Su Yan immediately put away the medicine bottle, and pushed the medicine away with his palm instead.His palms were cold, sticking to his naked back at this moment, it actually gave Xiao Qichen a bit of comfort appropriately.

Xiao Qichen soon stopped humming, bit his lower lip and endured silently, feeling that Su Yan should be hacked into pieces, and at the same time feeling quite emotional because he deliberately lightened the force.In the past, when he was injured, the young man was shy and refused to let the maidservant come, and the eunuch was awkward serving him. If it wasn't so serious that he couldn't walk, Xiao Qichen would always deal with it by himself.Although he was scolded several times by Sun Yuyi afterwards, he still refused to change after repeated admonitions.

"...It's true that no one treats me as wholeheartedly as he does." Thinking of this, Xiao Qichen felt a little hot-eyed.

Then Su Yan took another box of ointment and rubbed it on him. The ointment was used to stop bleeding, remove blood stasis and heal wounds.He lay on the couch, snapping his fingers and talking to Su Yan, his voice was low, mixed with the night wind and starlight.

When the east turned pale, Xiao Qichen finally fell asleep from sleepiness.Su Yan gently took a blanket at the end of the bed and put it on his back. When he stood up, his back was sore.

Su Yan rubbed his eyes, and moved to the center of the room. A candle on the table was about to burn out, and the candles were piled up, creating a gloomy white.

The author has something to say: It's late! !I was wrong! ! TAT