Later, I became the prince of the group

This inn is a bit shabby, the first floor is a noisy lobby, and the second floor is full of single rooms for sleeping people, only the place directly opposite the stairs has a circle of sitting tables and a short table for people to drink and chat.

Just now, the prince of Huaibei was sitting here leisurely watching the farce below.

The mistress downstairs was dying, the innkeeper knelt on the ground and begged with tears, when Liu Qi went out with Prince Huaibei, the latter's men were carrying the mistress out.

Huaibei Prince's son lightly left a sentence: "I don't want his life. Since he has reached his limbs, it's over if he cuts off."

Everyone around is terrified.

Without hands or feet, he becomes a human stick, how can he survive.

Chang Le followed behind, a little anxious: "My lord..."

Liu Qi glanced at him and said, "You don't need to follow, you wait here for big brother."

Chang Le gritted his teeth and stopped in his tracks.

The people of Prince Huaibei's son were all led away in an instant.

Chang Le immediately asked people to go back and inform Chu Yan, while he himself followed far behind the people in the Huaibei Palace. Those servants saw him, but seeing that he was so far away, they ignored him.

Prince Huaibei didn't take him anywhere, he just changed to another restaurant. He asked for a private room with ease, served good food and wine on the table, and began to chat with Liu Qi.

Liu Qi responded fluently, he had hundreds of sets of lies to tell this person, the key was how he could get out.

Counting the time to report the letter, even if Chu Yan hurried over without sleep, it would take a whole day and night. Even if Chu Yan arrived, with their small number of people, it was impossible to fight against the prince of Huaibei, so the only way to delay it was to delay it first. Today, slip out of town again.

When Prince Huaibei asked, "When will Brother Yan leave?" Liu Qi said, "It's hard to say. I've just arrived in Huaibei, and I haven't made a deal yet. I'm afraid it will take a while."

Prince Huaibei smiled and said, "But how do I feel that if you meet me today, even if you plan to settle down here, you will run away tomorrow?"

Liu Qi: "..."

Too self-aware for me to answer that.

Huaibei Wang Shizi kept looking at him, as if he was waiting for his answer, so Liu Qi had to think about it: "Where is this, Shizi, I came to Huaibei, and the travel expenses alone cost a lot, if I just go back home , I am too unwilling. We businessmen pay attention to profit, and the prince should know that he has seen so many merchants in Huaibei."

The Prince of Huaibei gave a long "Oh" and said, "I see that you not only pay attention to profit, but also pay attention to integrity. This is the first time a businessman calls himself 'I' in front of this prince."

Liu Qi: "..."

Sorry, it's also the first time I meet a prince who doesn't need to call me sister-in-law.

It's unskilled.

He endured and endured, and then he suppressed his anger, and said: "I was alone when I was young, and no one taught me to behave. I hope the prince will forgive me."

"She is a beauty with a personality." Huaibei Wang Shizi smiled, but because of this, he didn't pester him for not changing his nickname. "It seems that your elder brother who adopted you is not competent enough."

Liu Qi: "..."

motherfucker.

Liu Qi felt that the self-cultivation he had saved from being a dandy in the first half of his life was all for this time: "Your Majesty, don't make fun of grass-roots people."

"I'm not joking with you, but I really want to know." Prince Huaibei's eyes became a little ambiguous, and his tone was full of amusement, "How did your elder brother raise you to such a big age? You look so good , hasn't he played with you?"

Liu Qi's expression suddenly turned cold.

Huaibei Wang Shizi seemed to ask very seriously: "How did he play with you? Red candle? Whip? Jade? Holding such a small body in his hand, listening to him call 'big brother', is happier than ordinary love. "

Seeing Liu Qi's angry face, he sneered and said, "You don't have to pretend to be upright and dignified. I've seen a lot of broken sleeves, but I still have good eyesight. When you mention your elder brother, the tenderness in his eyes is true, which can make a With that look on the man’s face, you must have already gotten used to it.”

Liu Qi realized that on the surface, this son was well-dressed and could even talk to him in a few words, but in reality he was a eccentric beast, not fit to stand on two feet at all.

Qin Shou also got up and came forward: "You change your taste from me once, and I will let you go. After all, you still made money. How do you feel?"

The corner of Liu Qi's mouth twitched into a smile, but the next moment he shot the arrow in his sleeve without saying a word, the cuff was hidden under the table, Huaibei Prince was unprepared, he was shot in the leg immediately, he fell down clutching his leg, bowed his head Look, that place is only an inch away from the lifeblood.

Liu Qi directly opened the window, ready to jump out, but when he was about to jump, he suddenly found that there were already people from the Huaibei Prince's Mansion downstairs guarding him, jumping at this time was no different from falling into their hands.

At the same time, upon hearing the master's cry of pain, the guards outside the private room swarmed in. Before Liu Qi could react, he was pulled away by a strong force, and then a pungent smell poured into his nose.

Before losing consciousness, he suddenly thought: Fortunately, he stabbed his leg.

Located 28 miles outside Huaibei City, the reporter galloped all the way, and met an oncoming team before Shen Shi.

With sharp eyes, he recognized that this team of nearly 200 people was his brother.

He rolled off his horse in agitation, the team was forced to stop by him, and someone rushed to help him.

Chu Yan lifted the curtain of the carriage and asked, "What's going on?"

The man almost scrambled forward and explained what had happened.

Chu Yan's heart sank, and he rubbed the cloth on his legs fiercely with his hands.

He was here to pick up Liu Qi, and they were leaving Huizhou, so Chu Yan naturally had to arrange the route and food on the way.It only took him two or three days to arrange these things, and he guessed that Liu Qi would be back soon, but he was always uneasy, so he simply came to pick him up in person.

But why don't you start earlier, and maybe there won't be such a thing today.

No, why didn't you come to Huaibei with him? It's not that you don't know where Huaibei is, so why did you let him come alone?

Chu Yan's mind was confused for a while, so he had to bite his lip and use the pain to wake himself up. After a while, he said: "Take two brothers to go back and pass the message, and let the first and second teams bring the maids and children and the prepared supplies together. Leave Huizhou immediately and go back to Jingzhou according to the original route, without worrying about us. The remaining 400 people took their weapons and brought food canisters on their horses, and rushed to meet us on the way."

"What about us?"

"I will bring [-] people into the city, meet up with the people on the other side of Xiaoqi, and try to bring him out, and the rest will guard near the city gate. If you find out that the soldiers want to close the city gate tomorrow, stop them immediately .”

The squad leader asked hesitantly: "There are so many soldiers at the city gate...how can we stop them?"

Chu Yan asked the reporter: "How many defenses are there in Huaibei City?"

The man said: "If I am not mistaken, there are 1000 people in each of the four city gates, and the east and west gates are for people to enter and exit, so there is a big camp not far away, the exact number of people is unknown."

Chu Yan roughly thought about the direction, and said: "From the ones you stay outside the city, we will hire people in the surrounding villages. We only need to give the villagers some money and let them enter Huaibei from the west gate tomorrow. Take the money. I will go into the city today and do the same thing, so that you can goad them in the ranks of the people tomorrow and stall for time."

The squad leader nodded, and after passing this method on, he said, "Boss, I will go into the city with you."

Chu Yan ordered twenty people quickly, without delay for a quarter of an hour, and galloped on the horse.

The Huaibei Palace at this time.

Huaibei Prince's son had just finished taking the medicine, he was gasping for breath in pain, and most of all he still had lingering fears.

He was very angry in his heart, thinking about how to cut this man who dared to hurt him into pieces, but when someone came to ask him what to do with the man in the wing, he changed his mind and said, "Lock it first."

Then he got up and went to the wing room to look at the people.

Liu Qi was still in a coma, and his hands were chained to the two ends of the bed, in a posture that allowed others to do whatever they wanted.

Prince Huaibei pressed his injured leg and thought to himself: Do you think you can escape this way?I don't want to kill you. When I recover from my injury, I will let you die on the bed.

The Prince of Huaibei carefully traced Liu Qi with his eyes, and suddenly felt that he looked better this way than when he was sitting and awake. This person has a bit of a temper, but he is really a good skin, and everything suits him. Mind.

But in other words, he can be regarded as a single-minded person if he can love his elder brother so much. If he can treat himself like this in the future...it is not impossible to save his life.

Huaibei Wang Shizi was imagining, while reaching out to wrap around Liu Qi's neck.

The slender neck seemed to be broken when it was twisted, and it seemed to be able to control his whole body when it was stuck in his hand. The prince of Huaibei was aroused for a while. What an interesting reaction to such a situation.

His fingers tightened sharply.

The drowsy person coughed subconsciously and murmured something.

The prince of Huaibei loosened his hands slightly, but still kept half of his strength, and lowered his head: "What did you say?"

Will it be begging for mercy, or committing stubbornness?

I saw him frowning in pain, with an aggrieved expression on his face.He seemed to be unable to tell what day and night, where he was, subconsciously looking for support: "His... Your Highness... I... feel uncomfortable..."

Huaibei Wang Shizi only heard these few sounds clearly, he let go of his hand suddenly, stayed in mid-air, stunned for a while, and after a while, his expression was full of disbelief.

Your Highness?He is the eldest son, definitely not worthy of this title, and the emperor has no heirs, so could it be that this person...is someone close to his father?

No, it's impossible, if his father had a habit of cutting sleeves, he would have discovered it long ago.

Then the "His Royal Highness" in this population... Isn't it just a name with a similar sound?

Huaibei Prince's son suddenly thought of something and rushed into his father's study.

He stayed in Huaibei to do a lot of things for his father these days, so the people guarding the study didn't stop him when they saw that it was him.

He rummaged through boxes and cabinets for a long time, and finally found a dozen letter papers, which were informative reports sent by their former collaborators in Northern Qi, and some of them were dedicated to introducing the royal family.

One of the lines reads impressively: Yan, the eldest son of the royal family, the eighteenth king of An, male in the royal family, surnamed Liu Yuqi...

The letter paper was scattered on the ground, Huaibei Wang Shizi murmured: "No way..."