Bully

"Your Majesty?" Xu Chengyu called him, with puzzled eyes.

Ming Chuan came back to his senses, he looked at Xu Chengyu and said, "I'm not going back."

Xu Chengyu was taken aback, "What does your majesty mean?"

Ming Chuan shook his head, turned around and walked in the opposite direction of the palace.Xu Chengyu quickly pulled him back and said, "Your Majesty, you are Your Majesty, why don't you go back to the palace?"

"Why not?" Ming Chuan asked back.

"You are the emperor, your majesty!"

"But I have never been involved in government affairs." Ming Chuan was very calm. "There are state teachers and courtiers in the government affairs. Even if I disappear, I will have nothing to do with the people of the world."

Xu Chengyu calmed himself down and asked, "Where is your majesty going if you don't go back to the palace?"

Ming Chuan stared into the distance and said, "No matter where you want to go, you can go wherever you want."

"But it's dangerous outside the palace, and it's really dangerous for Your Majesty to be alone."

"It doesn't matter if I'm in danger or not?" Ming Chuan looked at Xu Chengyu seriously, and asked, "Do you really not understand what I mean?"

Xu Chengyu was taken aback, "Your Majesty..."

"Don't call me Your Majesty," Ming Chuan said, "I don't want to be Your Majesty anymore."

Ming Chuan's eyes were very calm, not on a whim, he looked at Xu Chengyu, and said: "I am 20 years old this year, and I have been in the palace for 20 years. You can still choose different paths for your own ambitions, but no one has ever asked me what I think. Do you want to be a prince, do you want to be an emperor."

Xu Chengyu said with difficulty: "Does Your Majesty have to go?"

Ming Chuan said: "I have no reason to stay."

Xu Chengyu knew that what Ming Chuan said was the truth, he wanted to say something to keep Ming Chuan, but after much deliberation, he couldn't find a reason for Ming Chuan not to leave.In desperation, Xu Chengyu said: "Is your majesty so relieved of the national teacher? There was a palace change just now, so you didn't go to see the national teacher?"

Ming Chuan was taken aback, and Xu Chengyu hit the iron while it was hot: "Your Majesty, why don't you go to my place first, I'll go into the palace to see the situation, and we'll talk about it when I come back."

Ming Chuan pondered for a moment, and agreed.

Xu Chengyu sent Mingchuan to the place where he lived, and asked the servant to take care of him.Before leaving, Ming Chuan said: "Xu Chengyu, I guess you should be able to understand my feelings."

Xu Chengyu looked at Ming Chuan, Ming Chuan said: "Don't tell the teacher."

Xu Chengyu nodded and sighed inwardly.

When Xu Chengyu came back from the palace when the moon was in the sky, Ming Chuan moved a chair and sat in the yard with his eyes closed to rest his mind. The night wind blew his clothes, as if he was really going to ride the wind back. .

Xu Chengyu also moved a chair to sit beside him.Ming Chuan looked at him, and Xu Chengyu said: "I saw the national teacher. There was a knife wound on the national teacher's back, but it was not fatal. It will be fine after a while."

Ming Chuan felt relieved and asked, "Where's your father?"

"My father is fine." Xu Chengyu said: "The national teacher has a long-term vision and ordered people to protect them all."

Mingchuan nodded.

Xu Chengyu poured himself a cup of tea, and told Ming Chuan what happened during the day and night he was absent.Not long after they left the secret passage that day, Wei Ji broke into the sleeping hall, searched around but found no one, and set fire to the Zichen hall.Cheng Gonggong died for the Lord, and the remaining court ladies and eunuchs died or fled.

Ming Chuan closed his eyes, his breathing trembling slightly.

Xu Chengyu continued, after Wei Ji found out that Ming Chuan could not be found, he found a man with a similar figure to Ming Chuan, covered his head and exchanged him for Wei Nanqing.During the exchange, the Chinese division discovered that Ming Chuan was a fake, and the two parties fought. The imperial army and A Xuanqi began to fight, and the palace became a battlefield.

"Princess Jingrong was accidentally injured." Xu Chengyu said, "She blocked Wei Ji's knife."

"You know?" Ming Chuan asked.

Xu Chengyu nodded, "The eldest princess died in Wei Ji's arms, and many people saw it."

Ming Chuan closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling, "Where's Wei Ji?"

"Wei Ji is crazy." Xu Chengyu sighed, "If Young Master Wei is not still alive, Wei Ji will go with the Eldest Princess immediately."

"The national teacher didn't kill Wei Ji?"

"The national teacher said that Wei Ji has the will to die, even if he is alive, it is nothing to worry about." Xu Chengyu said: "I should ask the national teacher to remember his military talent."

Ming Chuan nodded, but did not speak.For a while, the courtyard fell silent.

"The national teacher asked about you." Xu Chengyu said: "The national teacher is very worried about you."

Ming Chuan raised his eyebrows, "What did you say?"

"I said I got separated from His Majesty." Xu Chengyu said.

Ming Chuan nodded, took out a few letters from his sleeve, and handed them to Xu Chengyu.

Xu Chengyu opened it and looked at it. The first letter was a marriage edict, giving Princess Jingrong to Wei Ji as his wife, who would sleep in the same cave a hundred years later.

"She has always known that she and Wei Jiming are not right," Ming Chuan said, "but she is dead, no matter whether she is right or wrong, as her younger brother, I want to fulfill her wish."

The second letter was almost equivalent to a posthumous edict, which said that Wei Nanqing would be made the crown prince, and the state teacher would assist the government. After the prince became an adult, if he could use it, he would inherit the general rule, and if he couldn't use it, the state teacher would replace him.

"I don't really want to make him emperor," Ming Chuan said, "I just want to save Wei Nanqing's life."

Xu Chengyu nodded, and the third letter was a blank letter with only Ming Chuan's money at the bottom.

"This letter is for you," Ming Chuan said, "I didn't write anything in it. Whatever you want, just write it yourself."

"I can't afford to be a humble minister."

"Keep it." Ming Chuan said: "It may not really work. You also know that my edict is not very useful."

Xu Chengyu didn't say anything, he looked at the letter and said, "Your Majesty really decided to leave?"

Ming Chuan nodded.

Xu Chengyu pursed his lips and said, "Then I will pack your luggage for you, and send you away tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Ming Chuan said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

In the palace, just after a palace change, Rong Shang stood in front of the palace, feeling a lingering smell of blood.Some imperial guards carried water to wash the ground, over and over again, until the ground was as bright as new.

Rong Huo came back and reported, "There is no sign of His Majesty yet."

Rong Shang was silent for a moment, and said, "Where do you think His Majesty will go?"

Rong Huo said: "This subordinate is dull."

Rong Shang's eyes flashed, "No!"

Surprised, Rong Huo said, "What did your lord think?"

"Xu Chengyu." Rong Shang turned and left, his clothes fluttering, "Go to Xu Chengyu's place!"

The door of Xu Chengyu's house was knocked in the night, and the boy guarding the door was sleepy. When he opened the door, he saw the imperial guards holding torches. He was so scared that he lost his sleepiness.

Rong Shang led someone into Xu Chengyu's house, Xu Chengyu came out in a hurry and asked, "Why is Master Guoshi here?"

Rong Shang said coldly: "Where is Your Majesty?"

Xu Chengyu was taken aback, and said, "What are you..."

"I ask where is Your Majesty?" Rong Shang was impatient and directly sent people to search.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Xu Chengyu said, "Come with me."

Rong Shang's eyes flickered slightly, he followed Xu Chengyu to a room, and said, "Your Majesty is inside."

Rong Shang pushed open the door, there were no lights and candles in the room, only the moonlight shining in from the window.The bed, where people were supposed to lie, was clean, and the mattress was neatly laid out, as if no one had ever slept on it.

Xu Chengyu opened his eyes wide.

When the clouds are exhausted, the Milky Way flows silently, and the moonlight is bright and clear, more crystal clear than a jade plate.Ming Chuan's figure was elongated by the moonlight, and he walked alone in the night with his arms folded, as if he was walking in his own courtyard leisurely.

Unknowingly, he walked to the shed that Mingchuan visited that winter.These sheds are used for emergencies in winter, and there are not many people here in summer, and the few scattered here are beggars and the like.

Seeing Ming Chuan, not many people were interested in him, so indifferent and almost numb.Ming Chuan thought to himself, sure enough not everyone is like that beggar.

Ming Chuan took some straw and spread it with ease, took off his outer shirt and spread it.Leaning on the pile of straw, he thought, wouldn't it be a bit embarrassing to be reduced to this point on the first day?

He thought for a while, laughed for a while, and slowly fell asleep with his pillow on the night.

The next morning, Mingchuan was woken up.The man picked up a straw and tickled his nose and eyes, which was extremely itchy.

Ming Chuan opened his eyes and looked at him. The man smiled happily and said, "We meet again!"

Mingchuan sat up abruptly, "Beggar!"

The person squatting in front of him is not the beggar he met two years ago, but...

Ming Chuan looked him up and down, and saw that he was wearing a satin shirt and his hair was neatly tied up, clearly he looked like a young man.

"I have a name now." The beggar took Ming Chuan's hand and wrote on it.

Ming Chuan watched, and read out softly, "Qi Gai."

He laughed, "Qi Gai, beggar, isn't it the same?"

"Of course it's different." Qi Gai lifted his clothes and sat on the straw next to Mingchuan, "I'm no longer a beggar."

Ming Chuan opened his eyes, as if listening to a story.

Qi Gai said: "After you left that year, I left the capital and planned to go to the south of the Yangtze River. I met a rich businessman on the way, and I rescued him. It happened that he had no heirs in his family, so he accepted me as his adopted son and taught him I read and write, settle accounts and do business." Qi Gai looked proud, "Now, I am a rich man in the Jiangnan area."

"It's amazing!" Ming Chuan cheered, wondering if such a good thing could happen to him.

After Qi Gai finished talking about himself, he asked Ming Chuan again, "What about you, did you sneak out again?"

Mingchuan suppressed his smile slightly, and said, "It doesn't count."

"Yes, yes, no, no, what is 'not counting'." Qi Gai patted Ming Chuan and asked, "Where do you want to go?"

"I haven't figured it out yet."

"Then why don't you come with me, let's go to Jiangnan." Qi Gai said: "I originally came to the capital to buy goods and prepare to transport them back to Jiangnan, but it happened that the capital was not peaceful recently, so I was delayed for two days." As he said, Qi Gai Happy, "I can meet you even here, we are really destined."

Ming Chuan thought the same, and he said, "If you don't think I'm burdensome, I'll go to Jiangnan with you."

"I don't dislike you!" Qi Gai pulled Ming Chuan up and said, "Let's go."

Ming Chuan got up, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the imperial city for the last time, as if he could see a familiar figure between the red walls and green tiles.

I'm leaving, Ming Chuan thought, tomorrow I want to try a different life.