This is a dark prison cell.

The ground is covered with dry straw and spilled rice grains,? In the corner is a wooden barrel filled with disgusting filth,? The surrounding area is filthy,? Exudes a disgusting smell, the smell seems to have an entity,? It shot up into the air like smoke, drifting over the moss-covered walls.

There was the sound of chains being opened, so he looked up and saw a man wearing bright-colored uppers standing in a dark corridor,? Smiled at him, and then let him out, cleaned him up, and locked him in another In the obviously more luxurious room, what was said over and over again,? Repeated countless times...

"Actually, I can't remember many things clearly." The fourth prince stood in the procession returning from the funeral, and answered Yan Qianming's question, with a calm voice and a humble and polite expression,? Even humble? "Brother Yan asked me How is life in the country? In fact, there is nothing to say, just how do ordinary protons live? How does Qin Mei live. "

"But I heard that Princess Liang treats you very badly." Yan Qianming looked straight ahead. Behind him was an extremely long line of honor guards. He had just returned from outside the city and was walking slowly, as if he was taking a walk.

"That's because everyone's views are different. Qin Mei thinks that the princess wants Qin Mei to do something like the ancients said, 'working his mind and emptying his body'." The fourth prince smiled shyly, talking about himself Pretty words that you can't believe.

Yan Qianming laughed lightly, and the voice came out from the hoarse voice, which was an invisible contempt.

Yan Qianming has never paid attention to the fourth prince who has returned to the country. From the beginning to the present, he has not. The only thing he cares about is the relationship between this person and his younger brother.

However, the relationship between the two seems to be not as close as the relationship between the beast in the inner courtyard and his younger brother, so Yan Qianming didn't talk to the fourth prince with the idea of ​​asking anything at first.

He just wanted to know the truth. After all, his younger brother seemed to be a bad student and always lied to him.

"How did you and Xiaoxu know each other?" Yan Qianming didn't use any honorifics to address the fourth prince, "I heard from Xiaoxu that there seems to be no intersection, but he was deeply impressed by your fight against a tiger last time."

The fourth prince, Qin Mei, hid his hands in his wide sleeves, his overly sharp eyes were hidden under his thick eyelashes, and he also pretended to be stupid and said in a daze: "Yes, I met the second son Yan at the birthday banquet. It's the second time."

"Really?" Yan Qianming turned his head and looked at Qin Mei condescendingly, "I think it's more than that..."

Qin Mei raised his head and remained humble and polite as always, and replied: "Qin Mei really doesn't know what the captain wants to know, but if he can make friends with the second son of Yan, it is Qin Mei's blessing. When I left home and was far away in the Liang Kingdom, I heard about the name of the Second Young Master of the Yan family, and I heard it a lot, and after hearing it for a long time, I felt very kind."

"..." Yan Qianming looked at him coldly. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the fourth prince was really being raised and abandoned by Liang Guo so that he was cautious about himself, or whether this Qin Mei had actually been pretending in front of him.

Yan Qianming hates people who never show their true colors.

It almost reached the physiological nausea, and I wish I could get rid of it quickly.

People who always wear a mask to deceive others to achieve a certain goal are selfish villains, just like Yan Xiang, who wears a human skin for his family and country, but actually has nothing worthy of his respect.

Yan Qianming hoped that the four princes would be of the former type, not human beings.

Otherwise, if his Xiao Xu really made friends with the fourth prince, he would definitely be deceived in the end.

In the eyes of the eldest brother, Yan Qianxu will never grow up, and will always need to be protected by himself, so he has to check it out, do his best, and let all unstable factors die at the beginning!

——As long as he lives, he will protect his brother for a day.

"By the way, the captain is so anxious to bury Prime Minister Yan in the ground for peace, isn't he going to go to war without waiting for the first seven to pass?" The thin fourth prince frowned and looked at Yan Qianming worriedly, as if sympathetic, "Everyone Wei really is just like the brothers and sisters said, he is the pillar of our Da Yuan! If Qin Mei can be useful in this expedition, the captain will tell you, as long as Qin Mei can do something for Da Yuan , death is enough.”

Yan Qianming didn't like to listen to these empty words. Many people would say this before going to the battlefield, before seeing the cruelty of war.

Perhaps he thought that he could come back, come back well and completely, make contributions, and become famous in one battle, but as long as it is a war, it is cruel.

People will die, many, many people will die.

There will be blood staining the whole land, and even the river will be filled with corpses.

The brother who was sleeping with you in the same camp last night, the brother who said he missed his mother, might die the next day, and then he will be left on the battlefield forever, buried in a foreign land and countless dead soldiers Lying in a mass grave, sharing a tombstone.

The dead person can never come back, and there will be no news. The person who is waiting for him does not know, and will wait forever, thinking that as long as he waits forever, one day he will see his husband or son come back and stand at the door of the house. , laughed and cried, and said never to leave again.

Yan Qianming hated war as much as he hated pretenders, but he had no other choice but to use violence to counter violence.

This time he said nicely in front of all the adults that he led 30 people to ask for peace. In fact, he couldn't ask for peace at all. This battle can only be fought, but it depends on who it is fought with.

"If it's really enough to die, then it's up to you." Yan Qianming said coldly, "I just heard that Xiao Xu always mentioned you, so I was more curious about what kind of person you are, Fourth Prince, who can make Xiao Xu Xu thinks that you can sit on the crown prince." In the last sentence, Yan Qianming's voice was very low, but every word was as heavy as a heavy hammer, and it was necessary to strike some echoes.

After hearing this, the fourth prince immediately became ashamed, with a petty look, and bowed in fear and trepidation: "Oh my God! How could Qin Mo make it happen? It was the second son of Yan who praised Qin Mo. Qin Mo has the third elder brother above him, and the third brother below him." There are more than a dozen outstanding younger brothers, but it is really not the turn of a person with no ability like me."

Seeing this, Yan Qianming didn't say anything anymore, he still had a lot of things to attend to, and he didn't have the time to get entangled with such an unknown prince, and there was really no need, if the prince dared to do something bad to Xiao Xu , Yan Qianming didn't mind getting some blood on his hands.

After he stretched out his hand and strangled his father yesterday, there was nothing to fear anymore.

It seems to be a line for him, after crossing that line, he is omnipotent and has no psychological burden.

The fourth prince also felt the oppression and warning from the Yan family uncle, but he was a 'stupid idiot' and naturally he would not show too much fear.

After Yan Qianming followed Master Wang and General Zhao to the court to discuss urgent matters, the maintenance of the entire Yan family's funeral was under the pressure of Second Master Yan.

When the other princes saw that the ceremony was up, they also left. Only the fourth prince went back and forth, re-entered the gate of Yan's house, and walked into the hall full of monks chanting scriptures.

The threshold of the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion was trampled down by three points today. The fourth prince found that the red paint on the threshold was mottled and should be repainted. The front yard was cleaned very clean, and there were dejected servants passing by quickly. I don't know what to do.

He quietly looked at all these things that had nothing to do with him, in a trance he recalled the prison cell in his childhood.

The pungent smell in the cell and the grains of rice in the straw seemed to be engraved in his bones, so he couldn't forget it. He seemed to remember picking up the sour steamed buns in the straw. He remembered the endless night, but more memories were Intermittently, until the age of seven or eight, I can fully remember my own experience.

This is normal. Generally, children have incomplete memories of their childhood, and only remember the most impressive things, such as trauma: the death of their mother and concubine.

For example, when encountering painful things: the hunger and cold in the prison cell.

Another example is certain specific objects: brushes, rice grains.

The fourth prince, Qin Mei, passed through the crowd calmly, looking for Second Master Yan unconsciously, but he didn't need to look for him specially, he could see Yan Qianxu who was too beautiful today at a glance.

Yan Qianxu stood beside the crown prince, and the two of them were saluting to the officials who were about to leave.

The two of them bent down together, and Yan Qianxu's black hair draped in plain slid down from behind and fell on her chest. When she lowered her head, all the amorous feelings between her eyebrows and eyes turned into tenderness, as if she was having a simple conversation with the prince. Pure love.

Qin Mei was taken aback, and looked at the picture for a long time without daring to step forward. He only looked at it from a distance, and then looked at the clothes on his body that were not much worse than Shizi's, and his hands that were as thin as dry wood, slowly. Take it easy, hide your hands, just stare at the past, the harmonious and beautiful picture reflected in the black eyes, until the second master Yan looked over, there was a wave of fluctuation in the peach blossom eyes, and then said something to the prince beside him What, just came towards him, but unfortunately, Shizi also followed.

"Your Highness the Fourth?" Yan Qianxu stood beside the large water tank in the front yard, in front of the Fourth Prince, and said, "I saw that my elder brother had a very speculative chat with you before, but what did we talk about?" Yan Er The master showed a slight smile, and asked tactfully, because the son was present, so he could only be tactfully.

Qin Mei took a glance at the eldest son Zhao Qian from the corner of his eye, and confirmed that this person was the one who hooked up with Yan Qianxu under the table when he was eating in the Chu Pavilion. He also smiled, but there was not much smile in his eyes: "I just asked Qin Mei some things about the Liang Kingdom, but it's a pity that Qin Mei couldn't help much."

"So that's how it is..." Yan Qianxu understood that the elder brother probably hadn't discovered the relationship between himself and the fourth prince.

"But is this Mr. Zhao? The relationship between Mr. Shi and Mr. Yan is really good." The fourth prince nodded, as if he had just seen Mr. Zhao, so he asked this question.

"Fourth Highness, Axu and I naturally..." The relationship is extraordinary.

"He's a very good friend." Yan Qianxu quickly answered, "We grew up together, so we have a very good relationship. Since the eldest brother is not here at this time, he will help with the care..."

Zhao Qian glanced at Second Master Yan with his long and narrow eyes. Although he was unwilling to spend too much time on this 'passer-by prince', Yan Qianxu was so eager to separate himself from him, but it made him feel uncomfortable.

Obviously just reconciled in the small cubicle just now, and just talked about how he was as sick as himself, Zhao Shizi stretched out his hand and grabbed Yan Qianxu's wrist, not intending to treat this passer-by prince well, nodded casually, turned around and left .

"Hey, what are you doing?" Yan Qianxu was pulled away, and she turned around and smiled shyly at the Fourth Prince.

The Fourth Prince waved his hands as if it didn't matter, and then he heard the son's obviously angry voice: "Come in with me, I have something to say."

"Are you still talking? Spare me." Second Master Yan trotted, his voice sounded like he was acting like a spoiled child.

The Shizi who was walking in the front replied forcefully with two words: "No!"

——Sure enough, it must be that kind of relationship.

The fourth prince watched, thought quietly, blinked his eyes, looked up again at the gray sky where the dark clouds were gradually gathering after the wind, and said to himself a little lonely: "It seems to be raining..."

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