I feel at ease

King Jing was awakened by the sound of birds chirping.

He always likes to be quiet, there are few tall branches in Wen'an Pavilion, and the Futang Pavilion is even quieter. Not stable.

As soon as he woke up, he felt sore all over his body, and his head was tingling. He often got drunk and hungover. He often burned spices to relieve headaches in his room.

He lazily opened his eyes and called out, "Come here."

But his eyes were fixed on the roof of the carriage and did not move.

Only then did he remember that recently, according to the emperor's order, he went south to visit the New Lianghuai Jiedu envoy, and to investigate the position of the salt and iron transport envoy, and experience the local folk customs by the way.Yesterday I broke the crown of the Red Hall's top card, and if I had a romantic night, even if I was drunk and passed out, I should have stayed in the other courtyard of the Red Hall, why is it in this state now?

The curtain of the carriage door had been lifted, and a guard bowed his head and said: "My lord is awake, my subordinates have prepared some food, please eat it."

King Jing sat up and said coldly, "What's going on?"

The man lowered his head slightly, and told what happened in the middle of the night. It turned out that King Jing was indeed staying in the other courtyard of the Red Pavilion, but he was besieged by assassins in the middle of the night, and dozens of people with high martial arts skills surrounded the other courtyard.

King Jing tapped his head, vaguely remembering that there seemed to be killings everywhere in the middle of the night. He was so drunk that he grabbed the sword and wanted to kill him, but no one around him could kill him anyway. Then, he I fell unconscious again.

King Jing climbed out of the carriage, drank a few sips of refreshing soup with the hand of the guard, looked around, there was a cliff slope in the distance, surrounded by huge trees to block the sun, this place should be hidden , there is also a retreat when the enemy comes, but the prince was originally soft and gentle, and he became a dead man in the middle of the night. When he woke up, he was in such a corner. I am in a nearby courtyard, how can the local state government not know about it."

The guard didn't follow King Jing's question, but instead said: "My subordinate has sent Xu Cheng to Huaidong to appease the envoy to ask for help. Because of concealing people's eyes and ears, all the soldiers are on standby outside the mountain. This time there are ten secret guards following. One person was lost last night, and there are still nine people to protect the prince's safety."

King Jing's complexion improved a bit, and he looked at a pile of ditch fire emitting faint blue smoke in the distance. He remembered something and said, "In the dark guard, is there a person wearing a green iron mask?"

The guard bowed his head again and said: "The prince is talking about Wei Qi..."

King Jing said coldly, "Call him over."

In an instant, a secret guard came out of hiding and knelt at King Jing's feet.

King Jing had a headache all over his body. He glanced at Wei Qi, and suddenly kicked him. The kick was so hard that Wei Qi didn't dare to stop him, so he fell to the ground.King Jing sneered and said, "You were the one who knocked me out last night?"

The guards beside King Jing quickly knelt down and said, "My lord, calm down!"

Wei Qi didn't dare to answer, got up and knelt straight again, the guard said again: "Last night, the assassin was very skilled in martial arts, and the prince was very drunk, so my subordinate... my subordinate..."

King Jing turned his head to look at the people around him, and the guard said softly, "It was the subordinate who knocked the prince unconscious."

"you?"

The guard said again: "The lord knows that it is absolutely necessary, and the dark guards are not allowed to get close. Last night... the subordinates saw that the lord was going to fight against the enemy angrily. They were afraid of being hurt, so they had to... go out This is the worst policy, I beg the prince to forgive me!"

King Jing gritted his teeth and stared at the guard, and the words came out from between his teeth: "Wei Congzhi, you are so courageous, you even dare to hit my head!"

Wei Congzhi bowed his head and said, "This slave deserves to die, please punish me, my lord!"

King Jing snorted coldly, leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes and said, "If you don't come to rub me for this king, I must be swollen by your kid."

Wei Congzhi smiled embarrassedly, and hurriedly supported his master and massaged the wound.

Wei Qi knelt aside, as if he didn't exist from the beginning to the end, and it took him a while to listen to Wei Congzhi's words: "Wei Qi, step back."

King Jing closed his eyes in silence, Wei Qi replied in a low voice: "Yes." He stepped back.

King Jing frowned, raised his eyes and squinted at the personal guard beside him, and said sarcastically, "I'm the secret guard of King Jing, but there's still a cripple!"

The guard said with a smile: "Wei Qi came out protecting the prince yesterday, the prince is 20 meters around, no one can get close."

King Jing was unhappy, squinting his eyes and said, "How could such a cripple get into your eyes?"

Wei Congzhi smiled lightly and said, "No, the life-and-death contract signed by the secret guards, who didn't work for the prince, and I feel relieved to have them around these few years."

King Jing laughed and said, "What kind of benefit does Zhu Cang give you by taking credit for the hidden guard?"

Wei Congzhi said with a smile: "Who does this subordinate need to benefit from? The prince will be satisfied if he rewards his subordinates with a few more smiling faces..."

Just as he was talking, he heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance. King Jing stepped down from the carriage and saw Xu Chengyuan jumping off his horse and rushing towards him. Several people followed behind him, and the first one got off his horse and rushed to worship: "It's too late to save me from a lowly position, my lord forgive me!"

King Jing laughed and said, "It's just leading a snake out of its hole, why did your lord say that?"

King Jing dispatched troops to the town of Lianghuai, followed the vines and caught a group of traitors and thieves, Lianghuai salt and iron transfer envoys, prefects and prefects were all detained pending trial.This assassination case, either beheaded or exiled, and some officials were demoted, involved as many as 300 people. It was another bloodbath case since King Gong's treason case, known as the Huaidong Assassination Case in history.

Wei Qi returned to the capital with King Jing, handed in his seal, and hid in his dormitory to rest.One of the hidden guards was lost, and the one who died was Wei Shishi who lived in the same room with him. Wei Qi stood beside Wei Shishi's bedside and spoke silently. After a long while, he sighed and took off his mask and threw it on the table. On the face, a slightly pale face was revealed, with straight eyebrows and slightly tilted corners of the eyes. It was not very upright, but the bridge of the nose was straight and dignified. A slanted scar stretched from the corner of the eye to the corner of the mouth, covering half of Wei Qi's left face. Old, obviously has seen better days.

Wei Qi cleaned himself up and took a nap.There was no Wei Shishi in this room, let alone being disturbed, so he simply filled the water and locked the door, and washed his face in the room.

Wei Qi took out a bottle from his pocket, sprinkled some powder into the water, then rubbed the corners of his eyes and eyebrows carefully, and after a while, rubbed some skin to remove impurities.

Seeing that the eyebrows are thick and long like temples, the corners of the eyes are slowly opening, like a brush is slightly raised, the whole face is vivid, and it is shocking to look at.This is really a very handsome face, but it's a pity that the long scar is across the face, one glance is scary, but if you look at it twice, you will sigh that such a good appearance has been ruined.

Sitting in front of the table, Wei Qi looked at the broken face in the muddy water, laughed at himself, took out another bottle, dabbed on the corners of the eyes and eyebrows, and after a while, he returned to the previous crooked eyebrows and hanging eyes look like.

In the year when Prince Gong conspired against him, Fang Cheng'an, who was famous in the capital, was also the companion of the fifth prince Xiao Jing.

Fang Cheng'an is the third son of Fang Ze, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. At the age of five, he was ordered by the Holy Majesty to study with him in the palace. He was originally ordered for the third prince Xiao Yue, but he was caught by the fifth son, Xiao Jing. Xiao Jing was only bigger than Fang Cheng'an. When you are one or two years old, Feiqing should not cry endlessly.The emperor had no choice but to give it to him.

Fang Cheng'an was born well since he was a child, and Xiao Jing was very happy to have such a playmate, holding it in his hand all day long. Until Fang Cheng'an was ten years old, the third prince Xiao Yue took command of the battle and became famous in the first battle.From then on, Fang Cheng'an became obsessed with martial arts, and wanted to be Xiao Yue's right and left arm.

When Fang Chengan was 13 years old, Xiao Yue moved to the county king and gave him a marriage.He married Wei Yuanjun, the most talented woman in the world, the daughter of Duke Wei.The prince Xiao Mingzhao was dissatisfied, and got drunk and made a big fuss in the third prince's mansion. He was reprimanded by the emperor to think about his mistakes behind closed doors, which became a joke in the world.

It was also the first time Fang Cheng'an got drunk that day, and he was so drunk that he didn't show any emotion.But in the middle of the night, when the bridal chamber was full of candles and candles, he played tricks in the county prince's mansion and refused to leave. He wanted to watch the night for Xiao Yue's wedding night.Xiao Jingsheng was pulling and pulling, but this person was determined to be soft and hard, so Xiao Jing couldn't bear it, so he punched Fang Chengan in the face.Fang Cheng'an drank too much wine and couldn't react for a while, but felt a rush of heat, and when he reached out to touch it, his hands were covered with nosebleeds.

Fang Chengan looked at the blood on his hand, raised his eyes to look at Xiao Jing for a long while, tears streaming down his face.

Xiao Jing was stunned for a moment, suddenly shocked and hurt in his heart, he stretched out his hand not to cover Fang Chengan's bleeding nose, but covered his tearful eyes, and said coldly, "Without him, you still have me, Fang Chengan... You are my Xiao Jing's man!"

Fang Cheng'an learned martial arts from a famous teacher, and since then he has worked harder and harder, until Xiao Yue led the army to go out again, Fang Cheng'an guarded the third prince's mansion softly, begging Xiao Yue to take him with him.

At that time, Xiao Yue had been married for half a year, and his demeanor became more and more dignified. Seeing Fang Chengan's sharp eyebrows and eyes, he couldn't help but reach out and touch them, and said with a faint smile, "It's me, and I'm only 15 years old. He's half a boy, and he's the companion of the fifth younger brother, so what's the rush to join the army?"

"Fighting the world and defending the territory will show the true qualities of a man!" Fang Cheng'an answered quickly, but Xiao Yue smiled helplessly, conscious of his words and deeds, and said in a low voice: "Just let me be an ordinary guard, I have martial arts skills What you strive for can always be put to good use..."

Xiao Yue stroked Fang Cheng'an's temple hair, reluctant to let go, and after a while he said in a low voice: "Cheng'an, you are still young... After three to five years, when you grow up, it won't be too late to start a career."

Fang Chengan knew that Xiao Yue's decision would not be changed, so he had no choice but to go back to the mansion, but saw the crown prince coming out of the Fang mansion, stared at him sideways, and asked Cheng'an's eldest brother indifferently: "This is Fang Chengan?"

Fang Youting nodded and said: "It's the younger brother, who wanders around all day long and doesn't do anything right, the prince laughed at him."

The prince looked at Fang Cheng'an with a smile and said: "No, I heard that Fang Cheng'an is good at martial arts, and he is the companion of my fifth younger brother. He is good at both civil and martial arts. The future is limitless!"

Fang Chengan said submissively with Su eyebrows and eyes: "The prince is absurdly praised..."

Fang Youting was slightly taken aback. Although the crown prince was the second child, he was a direct descendant. He was established as the heir apparent very early on. A person who was born with honor was too stingy to praise his servants. The crown prince had no relationship with Fang Cheng'an. These words were heard in his ears It's not a matter, it's like coaxing and mocking.