Lang Yi

Li Qiu, who was waiting in the mansion, rushed up to greet him, and said: "Your Highness, this person came to the door a few days ago, and took a piece of clothing from an ordinary family. It must be a token from your Highness, that you asked him to come—— Isn't this nonsense? We don't think he looks like a villain. When we drove him out, he stood by the door, saying that he wanted to wait for you. He has stood there for two days. Look, how about some money to send him away? "

It was only then that Tian Zong vaguely remembered the boy who deliberately lost to him in the practice field three years ago, beckoned someone to take a look at the clothes in the boy's hands, and then smiled: "That's right, call him over."

Li Qiu reminded: "Your Highness, you will be drunk now, take a closer look at this dress, don't admit your mistake."

Tian Zong laughed loudly: "It's not wrong, this king has worn only one piece of coarse cotton clothes since he was a child, and he can tell it at the first sight." Over there, Ning Xinghe was searched by the guards before he was released. .

Tian Zong rubbed his eyes, and saw that the young man in front of him was wearing thin clothes, and his figure was slender but strong and upright. He was completely different from the thin young man in his vague memory; but at this moment, there were tears in his eyes, and it was the same as before in his memory. The dirty little face overlapped.

Tian Zong felt drunk, supported his forehead, and said vaguely: "...Ning Xinghe? You are, really, here."

Ning Xinghe bit his lip, the tears in his eyes were about to fall, but he held back stubbornly, and only saluted him: "It turns out that His Highness doesn't remember me...I didn't expect that I would cause trouble for His Highness, so I will Let's go!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and left without hesitation.

"Hey——" Tian Zong was not completely drunk, he knew he was wrong, staggered, hurriedly stepped forward to grab him, and hugged his shoulders, and he couldn't speak clearly, but he still smiled affectionately: "Of course this king remembers." , Remember! The dignified prince, there is no reason to break his promise! Come on, come on, help me in first—"

Li Qiu hurriedly handed over the hot tea, Tian Zong casually threw away the old robe, took the teacup and drank it, only then did he wake up better.But Ning Xingye hurriedly threw him away, bent down to pick up the robe from the ground, and lightly brushed off the dust, his face turned livid, and his eyes became foggy again.

Seeing that he was trembling all over, Tian Zong thought it was because of his thin clothes, he randomly stuffed the teacup to Li Qiu, and asked, "Ning Xinghe, are you cold?"

Recalling the old days, the tearful young man who walked off the ring, Tian Zong felt very distressed, so he took off his cloak and put it on his shoulder without any explanation, but he was so drunk that he couldn't stand upright and flashed He staggered, and the guards hurriedly supported him.Tian Zong pushed the man away, laughed and said: "Ning Xinghe, you came just in time, let's fight again."

Unexpectedly, when Ning Xinghe heard this sentence, the tears that had been rolling in his eyes for a long time suddenly fell down.

He had a small dark red mole under his left eye. He shed tears unexpectedly, and the tears covered the red mole, like a small crimson crystal, making his whole face delicate and beautiful. Although Tian Zong was drunk, he looked I was stunned for a while, and couldn't help being a little at a loss: "You, why are you crying?"

Ning Xinghe choked up and said, "Your Highness, I..."

Before he could say anything, Tian Zong felt drowsy after drinking, and couldn't hold on any longer, so he casually leaned on someone's body and closed his eyes, and was helped to sleep in the bedroom in a daze.

When he sobered up the next day, Tian Zong was grounded, and wandered around the mansion in a bored way, thinking about opening a leaky window on this wall and hanging a calligraphy on the table over there.Hearing the sound of shouting and shouting in the backyard, he went to have a look. It turned out that a few young guards had nothing to do and were competing with each other. Pointing, but also cheering and cheering.

Standing in the corridor, Tian Zong saw that one of the people who was fighting was unfamiliar, and that person was not wearing a guard uniform, so he pointed to him and asked Li Qiu: "Who is this person?"

Unexpectedly, the man heard his words during the fight, he was stunned, and was punched in the face by his opponent.The guard who hit him quickly withdrew his hand, very embarrassed: "Oh, Brother Ning, why did you suddenly stop..."

Li Qiu knew that His Royal Highness was drunk yesterday and had a disposition not to pay attention to everything; sober up today, he suddenly forgot about leaving Ning Xinghe behind.Just as he was about to remind him, Ning Xinghe had already come over to salute. He didn't know whether it was because of the pain from being punched or something else, but his voice began to tremble again: "Your Highness, Ning Xinghe will never forget the kindness you have helped us in the past. Since you... I don’t remember the past anymore, I won’t cause His Highness any trouble, so I bid you farewell.”

Tian Zong rubbed his head, then suddenly remembered what happened yesterday, felt a little sorry, he laughed and waved him to get up: "What are you talking about, I drank too much yesterday, don't blame, don't blame." beginning of autumn.

Li Qiu saved Tian Zong's interest, and hurriedly nodded, meaning that the person's background had been checked and there was no problem, and he took out an envelope from his sleeve and handed it to Tian Zong.

The guard who just fought against Ning Xinghe interrupted: "Your Highness, this brother Ning is really good at martial arts, please keep him in the mansion, Your Highness!"

Tian Zong said with a smile: "Of course I want to stay. This king has ordered him before." Unfolding the envelope, it turned out that it was a letter from the coaches of the guard practice field recommending Ning Xinghe.Since he was drunk yesterday, Ning Xinghe should have given this letter to Li Qiu.

After reading the letter, Tian Zong hesitated instead, and asked, "The instructors said in the letter that your martial arts are all ranked first in the school. With such skills, you can definitely seek a good future in the Imperial Guard. It’s not impossible to be a general. Now if you only want to be a bodyguard of the palace, there’s nowhere to use it—although this king is a prince, he’s just a wealthy idler, if you stay with this king, it’s a waste of talent.”

Ning Xinghe was standing at the bottom of the steps with his head bowed, but now he raised his face. Although there were red and swollen fist marks under his eyes, his two clear and shallow eyes fixedly looked at Tian Zong, and said: "Ning Xinghe, in this life, only wishes Follow His Highness's side to serve you, and ask for nothing else."

……

Recalling the past every night, Xinghe looked at him piously when he said this sentence, Tian Zong tossed and turned on the pillow, it became more and more difficult to sleep, and he couldn't help but sigh.

He wished to stay by his side, but he pushed him away again and again.

On the first day, Tian Zong, who was full of pride, invited himself to go to the west to suppress the bandits, but failed and was injured. Almost all the guards under him were wiped out. Fortunately, Ning Xinghe was tenacious and desperately rescued him.

When he came back from a narrow escape, the emperor and empress were all shocked. Seeing that his injuries had not recovered, the empress forcibly detained him in her palace to let him recuperate, and ordered the imperial doctor to be by her side at all times.

However, Tian Zong is worthy of being a descendant of the Ji family, under the meticulous care of everyone in Yigong, in less than two months, he is already alive and well again.Tian Zong wanted to go back to his palace because he was worried about Ning Xinghe. Although the queen agreed, he ordered him to live in secluded places and no one else was allowed to visit him at will. Go out to meng lang, and something will happen again.

This is what Tian Zong wanted, so he stayed in the mansion honestly all day long, thanking guests behind closed doors.Ning Xinghe was injured worse than him. Although he had ordered him first, the care he received was not as meticulous as the prince's, so his recovery was naturally slow.When Tian Zong returned to the mansion, Ning Xinghe could only rest in bed and could only walk slowly in the side courtyard every day; Tian Zong visited every day, but every time he said some words of gratitude for his loyal protection of the Lord, the rest I don't know what to say.

In fact, when he was recuperating in the palace, Tian Zong recalled one by one what happened when he was seriously injured in the Western Territory.In the frozen mountain forest, I was extremely weak, and what happened in my blurred consciousness seemed to be forgotten, but gradually emerged from my mind as my body recovered.

When his hands and feet were stiff from the cold, Ning Xinghe untied his clothes and wrapped his hands and feet in his arms to keep warm; when he was dying of hunger, it was Ning Xinghe who cut his wrists and used blood to keep himself alive; At that time, the cold and soft feeling on his forehead could only be... Ning Xinghe's lips.

Recalling all the incidents since Ning Xinghe entered the Linwang Mansion, Tian Zong finally understood.

In the beginning, he was really happy, it turned out that Ning Xinghe had already thought about him this way; the love between two people is the most rare thing, he wished he could run over immediately, hold his hand and tell him.But when Tian Zong calmed down, he could only sigh to himself.

The royal family of Daying regards themselves as the descendants of the gods, and has always attached great importance to reputation, both internally and externally, strictly requiring conduct to be upright, and abstaining from extravagance and lewdness; it is more restrained and conservative in love/things, and even the harem of the emperors of the past dynasties Most of them only have one queen .As a descendant of the Ji family, he fell in love with the guards in the mansion. If it was spread, it would be disregarding human relations and rebelling against the ancestors, and it would turn the royal family's pure heart and self-defense for hundreds of years into a laughing stock.

Tian Zong secretly made up his mind: Don't tell the truth, just get along as before; this kind of thinking is just an illusion that occurred in the desperate environment of dying at that time, and when he gets married in the future, this absurd state of mind will pass.

*****

In the spring season, the courtyard is filled with the fragrance of flowers of all colors, and the breeze blows by, refreshing the mind.

This day Tianzong entered the palace to have an audience, was dragged by Tianci to play a few games of chess, and returned after having dinner in the palace.I haven't seen Ning Xinghe for a day, and I feel uneasy in my heart. I guess he didn't fall asleep, so he still went to visit after changing his clothes.Unexpectedly, Ning Xinghe was not in the room, and asked the other guards, saying that he went for a walk in the garden to exercise his legs.

Tian Zong simply went to the garden to look for him.

The stars were bright, and the garden was quiet. They walked around, but there was no sign of Ning Xinghe.Tian Zong couldn't help being lost, guessing that he might have returned to his room, but when he turned around to leave, he saw Ning Xinghe coming out from under the shadow of a tree, and saluted him: "Your Highness."

Tian Zong was angry and funny: "Get up quickly, you are recovering from your injuries, and your knees are not good. From now on, don't kneel to me when there are only the two of us——I have been looking for you in the garden for a long time, why are you here now?" Say something? It’s hard for me to find it.”

Ning Xinghe confessed: "This subordinate does not know that His Highness is looking for his subordinates, and is afraid of disturbing His Highness's tranquility."

Tian Zong didn't believe it, and asked, "Then why are you willing to show up now?" Before he could answer, he smelled a hint of wine in the fragrance of flowers all over the courtyard, approached the opposite side and smelled it, and was a little surprised: "Ning Xinghe, you Did you actually drink?!"