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The two people in the corner also stopped talking at some point.

Qingming smiled silently, shook the paper fan lightly, and listened to what they said without saying a word.

As early as two months ago, when the bandits were successfully suppressed, he had already received the news, but he didn't know the details, so when he heard someone talk about it, he simply listened carefully.

Han Shi also didn't speak, and drank the wine in the jug one after another, as if nothing attracted him more than the wine in front of him, and he didn't pay any attention to what they were talking about.

After the man finished speaking, Qingming closed the folding fan, turned his head, and looked at the people around him. His temperament and age were right, Han Shi?Han Tuo!

His eyes flickered slightly, as if he knew something.

"This Young General Han is worthy of the name of the Han family, what do you think? Brother Han." Qing Ming seemed to be casually playing with the wine glass on the table.

"Tch~" Han Shi snorted disdainfully, "They only know one thing."

"Hearing Brother Han's tone, don't you know the second thing?" Qingming looked up at him.

"I don't know the second thing, I don't know, I just know that the leader of the Xishan Bandits has escaped, and he hasn't been caught yet." Han Shi said the last sentence with a bit of sternness, his eyes were piercing.

"Then, it is possible that Major General Han is going to capture the leader of the Xishan bandits." Qing Ming said with certainty.

"Who knows!" Han Shi restrained his harshness, and replied indifferently with the corners of his lips curled up.

Qing Ming didn't ask any more questions.

At this time, the topic in the lobby changed again.

This time it was because of the Major General Han that he mentioned it. Over the years, whenever Han Tuo was mentioned, he would definitely think of the young prince who was exiled from Beijing.

"Speaking of... all these years, I've never heard any rumors about the prince. You said, he won't be 'uh'..." Qian San raised his hand and gestured on his neck.

"Who knows? I don't know what the emperor thinks. He was exiled from Beijing, but he did not deprive the crown prince of his title. Moreover, he has been exiled for so many years, and he has never mentioned it once. I heard that some ministers have asked for an order to recall the prince... "

"It's more than that, there are still people who say that the prince will be abolished and a new prince will be established!"

"So, what is the emperor thinking? He neither recalls nor appoints a new crown prince, which makes the ministers in the court panic."

"The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, if you can guess it, can you still be regarded as the emperor?"

"Let me tell you, let's stop guessing here. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as the government is good and the people are harmonious, it doesn't matter who will be the emperor and who will be the prince~"

"It's not~ come, come, let's continue drinking~"

"Drink~" "Dry~"

The lobby became chaotic and noisy again.

Hearing the mention of "Prince", Qingming played with the fingers of the wine glass, paused slightly, and then let go, as if nothing had happened, and shook the paper fan again, seemingly inadvertently mentioned, "Han Shi felt What will happen to the prince in the end?"

"Hmph~" He snorted coldly, but didn't answer immediately.

Qingming smiled, "Why, brother Han seems to have a problem with that prince!"

"Oh, how dare I," Han Shi raised his eyebrows and smiled mockingly.

"Oh~? Is that what I heard wrong?" Qing Ming continued to ask.

Han Shi didn't shy away from it, and said coldly, "I really don't like him very much, but he should become a qualified emperor."

Qingming opened his eyes slightly, a little surprised.

Han Shi understood his expression, knew that he had talked too much, Wei Wei explained a little bluntly, "Having not been deprived of his title for so long means that the emperor should have chosen him as the crown prince, the emperor is a wise king, his vision Of course it won't be too bad."

"Really?" Qingming smiled indifferently, "The prince has clearly been away for a long time, and there are no other princes in the court. Is there no one who can compare with him? And the emperor must have seen him for a long time. Isn't it possible that his talented son has become mediocre?"

"The princes in the court, the first prince is honest and mediocre, the second prince is unrestrained, the fourth prince is obsessed with landscape poetry, the fifth prince and the sixth prince are still young, although they don't know the situation of the prince, none of the four princes other than him is worthy of being a grandson." Besides, the emperor did not eradicate the influence of his relatives, or the backing left to the prince, or the last trial before he ascended the throne, no matter what it is, as long as he wants the throne, he will definitely face some obstacles, and he must Be clear about these obstacles. If he has no talent or morality, you can imagine what will happen to him, I don't need to say." Han Shi spread out the situation, analyzed it carefully, and put the possible results in front of him.

"In your opinion, what kind of situation do you think he will face?"

"Trial." Han Shi didn't dodge or dodge, looking directly at him with sharp black eyes, and his tone was affirmative.

Qing Ming restrained his smile without a trace, "How can you see that?"

"The power of foreign relatives keeps expanding, but the emperor didn't deal with them effectively. They praised and killed them, and then strangled them all." Han Shi said calmly, full of killing words, without any emotional fluctuations.

Qing Ming remained calm on the surface, but his heart trembled heavily, not because of the murderous feeling in his words, but because of his sharp and keen political vision.

Sure enough, he is a talented person, not only well versed in the essentials of military warfare, but also clear about the current affairs and the state of affairs, and he does not have too much personal feelings for the prince. He is frank and upright, and is indeed worthy of the title of "Pillar of the Country" of the Han family.

"Heh~" Qing Ming chuckled, took the jug on the table and poured a glass for him, and then refilled a glass for himself.

He raised his glass, "Brother Han really has unique insights and knowledge, Qingming admires it, and I respect it first." After the words fell, he drank it all down, and the cup was turned down.

"Young brother is indeed a bold person. It is really Han Shi's luck to meet you today." After finishing speaking, he also drank the wine in the glass, "Come on, let's continue drinking."

"it is good."

The two of them had a thousand cups of wine when they were close friends, but they didn't drink to the point of unconsciousness. Not long after the sun went down, they left the wine shop together.

Coincidentally, the two lived in the same inn, which was much more convenient.

in the room

Qingming opened the window and stood by the window. After a while, a pigeon fluttered its wings and landed on the window sill.

His slender fingers untied the note from the pigeon's leg.

[Is it safe?Zigui]

Qingming took out a piece of paper and wrote: Ann.Already in Linxi, I ran into Han Tuo by chance.Qingming put down the brush, took out a small piece of Panlong white jade from his sleeve pocket, fiddled with it a few times, and it became like a seal, stained with red mud, and stamped: Yuehuang.

What this name represents, probably no one in the world knows, no one knows.

Prince Yuehuang.

Pushing Han Tuo, the grandson of Old General Han, into the flower pond, he almost drowned, and was expelled from Beijing by the Holy Majesty, Prince Yuehuang who had not heard from him for many years.

The paper is tied and the pigeons are released again.

Qingming leaned against the window, smiling silently.

"I really didn't expect that he would be the first person I made friends with after going down the mountain. Now, he should have guessed that I know his identity, but unfortunately, he couldn't guess my identity."

Prince Yuehuang, whose surname is Ji, first name is Yuehuang, and his style name is Qingming. Only the emperor, empress and some close people know this name.Old General Han had no way of knowing, let alone Han Tuo.

"Looking at his attitude, he should already know what happened back then..." The memory of many years ago became clear again at this moment.

After all, it was just an accident on his whim. He should not be the one who was supposed to be pushed into the flower pond, but he just appeared at that time, and what he said was not very pleasant, so he kicked him down when he was in a daze .

As if remembering someone's stunned expression at that time, her thin lips parted slightly, and a few chuckles escaped.

After a while, the smile faded slightly.

"One more year, one year?..." He looked in the direction of Dijing, his eyes were a little dark, a little melancholy, calm and serious like a boy, his eyes were sharp, like a sword out of its sheath, just After a while, he returned to his gentle and jade-like appearance, and all the sharpness dissipated. "I'm really looking forward to it. What will he look like when he knows that I am the prince? It will probably be very interesting!"

Second day

When Qingming went downstairs, he saw Han Tuo sitting alone at the table.

He seemed to have noticed Qing Ming's gaze, looked up, smiled heartily, and waved, "Good morning, Brother Qing."

"Brother Han is early too." Qing Ming greeted and walked over to him.

After ordering breakfast, he chatted with Han Tuo.

"Young brother, do you have any plans for today?"

"Brother Han?"

"I heard that the scenery near the Qili Pavilion in the suburbs is good. If you have nothing to do with the young brother, we can go and have a look together."

"Okay, let's not hide it, Brother Han, the younger brother left home this time just to look around and have some fun."

"That's just right. On the way here, I haven't played it carefully. Most of it is hearsay. Now I happen to be with my younger brother."

The two smiled at each other.

After that day, the two often went out together, and in more than half a month, they visited the entire Linxi Town.

Occasionally, when the weather was bad, the two would drink tea and play chess in the inn.

It's really a chess match, the quality of chess is like character, the two people's personalities can be resourceful, through each chess game, it is vividly displayed: Qingming is as calm as water, good at using defense as offense, meticulous in mind, punctual as a deep pool, calm and leak-free, When attacking, it is like a river and sea, with turbulent waves, making people feel like they are facing a big enemy, and there is a catastrophe at any time; If you don't pay attention, it can form a prairie fire, which is daunting and powerless.

It is precisely because of this confrontation that the two win and lose evenly. In comparison, there are more draws.

Of course, in addition to playing chess and discussing the art of war and current affairs, Han Tuo will also practice swords in the backyard of the inn.

At this time, Qingming would take out his Tao Xun and play a tune.

The melodious and melodious sound of the xun, the fluttering clothes, and the gleaming silver sword, complement each other perfectly, without any sense of discord. If you don't know that these two people have only known each other for less than a month, you may think that they are acquaintances A long time confidant.