Through the palace of the king of subjugation

"Presumptuous!" Before everyone could react, Li Yu spoke first.

He tightly grasped the handle of the dragon chair, sat up straight, trembling unceasingly, "General Bai is sick and confused... Send him back to rest."

"Bai Ou was born in the countryside and doesn't know the rules. Your Majesty will take care of you." Bai Ou saluted, showing no intention of leaving.

He is used to being lazy and arrogant in this palace, and he has always been an outlier. Now he is also the highest-ranking general of the Habayashi Army's imperial guards. He has made great military achievements, and many of the guards outside the palace are staying with him Bloody robes.

He didn't want to leave, and no one in the hall dared to fight him.

"Which ones with long tongues were talking bad about me just now?" He turned around, his eyes seemed to be sharpened, and he looked around the hall, "One counts as one, stand up for me!"

That purple and gold battle armor seemed to dazzle people's eyes, and everyone lowered their heads.

Seeing that no one came forward, Bai Gu walked up to the only kneeling person in front of the hall.

Xiang Hong was also a military commander. Although he went to the palace in light armor, his military rank and family emblem were embroidered on his left chest.

"Xiang Hong, right?" Bai Ou glanced down condescendingly, rubbed his chin with his elbow, "Just now you said 'fake hand', right?"

"Are you avoiding war or are you tired of your family background, do you want me to investigate?"

The intelligence network of the city did not follow the usual path, and made outstanding military achievements in the defense of the city. Others may not know that Xiang Xingyan has returned to the city, and Xiang Hong knows it better than anyone else.

Sigou agrees with Baiou that there is nothing in the city that he can't find out, it's definitely not a boast.

Xiang Hong shut up guiltily.

"The mess waiting for you in the city, I will take care of you for you." Bai Gu said disdainfully, "Don't expect me to have the honor of 'don't expect to repay your kindness', why don't you repay your kindness now."

Bai Ou completely turned a blind eye to Xiang Hong's shocked eyes, and continued on his own: "Everyone likes gold, silver, and silk, of course I like it, but because of Shangning's law, I can't take it from you, but—"

"Doesn't a man have gold under his knees? You kneel down to the queen of heaven, kneel down to your parents, and kneel down to your benefactor, this general, today. It's not a loss."

As Bai Gu said, he glanced at the little emperor on the Dragon Seat who was already sweating from his forehead, then turned his head and said contemptuously to Xiang Hong: "Just now, give me two kowtows, just in front of His Majesty, someone will do something for you!" Testimony, it will also save me from regretting my debt in the future, and wanting to ask you for something else."

"you……"

The three northwestern cities are as high as the sky and the emperor is far away, and the Xiang family dominates one side. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the earth emperors.

He was furious, "Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated!"

"Scholar can be killed but not humiliated" is a compliment, and it doesn't apply to the masters of these aristocratic families, but for the children of these aristocratic families, face is often bigger than the sky.

But Bai Gu just wanted to slap him in the face in public.

"Your father Xiang Xing said that the prefect of one party is only from the third rank, and when he sees this general, he still has to salute in a proper manner!"

Bai Gu grabbed Xiang Hong's front and dragged him off the ground; in his eyes was the ferocity of the battlefield killing experience, which could not be compared with Xiang Hong's pretentiousness just now.

Seeing the trembling of the person in front of him, he continued with satisfaction: "You dare to talk nonsense in front of His Majesty and make me unrighteous. I will teach you a few words now. Why have you insulted me?"

There were a few light coughs from behind the curtain, like some kind of reminder, or as if he was emboldened by the people in front of the palace, and someone immediately stepped forward and shouted——

"No matter what rank the general is, there are still the Empress Dowager and His Majesty sitting in front of the hall—"

"How can you allow the general to teach others arbitrarily with trumped-up charges!"

"Unnecessary?" White Gull sneered.

Did this group of people blink their eyes when they accused him of unnecessary crimes just now?

He let go of Xiang Hong, who had been limp into mud, and said coldly, "Then why did you teach me a lesson?"

"you……"

The man was so swallowed that he couldn't speak, and someone immediately came out to smooth things over.

"General Bai can talk slowly if you have something to do. Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager are here. If you have any grievances, someone will make the decision."

"Heh—" White Gull sneered again.

Who can decide the little emperor's grievances over the years?

"This lord's voice is familiar." Bai Ou looked at the "peacemaker" in front of him, "It's what you said just now, no one knows better about Daicheng and Beiyin than Xiang Hong, right? ?”

"Needless to mention Xiang Hong, everyone here counts as one, whoever can answer the general's question, today Bai Ou will be disarmed and return to the field, and give up his seat to be in command this time."

He stood up straight and said loudly to the officials in the hall——

"What was the number of troops stationed in the city before the battle? How many people remained after the war? What was the composition of the team? How many casualties and enemies were wiped out in the battle of the city?"

"Same question, how about Beiyin?"

Everyone in the hall was chattering, but including Xiang Hongzai, no one dared to stand up and answer.

"After I dispatched some redundant personnel, the city garrison was less than 420 before the war. Excluding logistics and engineers and other non-combat forces, the total number of personnel that can be put into the battlefield is [-]."

"In the battle of waiting for the city, less than 3000 people actually went to the battlefield; the battlefield was cleaned up, and a total of more than [-] people were wiped out."

"Now, counting those who have returned to the garrison camp with minor injuries, there are still 3 people left; some of them were brought back to Jiangning by me and incorporated into the Imperial Guard Battalion of the Habayashi Army."

"Currently, they are still in the military barracks in the waiting city, and the number of people who can go into battle is 610 four."

The white gull asked and answered by himself, but instead swept away the arrogance and arrogance just now, he was unusually calm.

All the gods and ghosts in the hall were silent, and even behind the curtain, there was no sound.

Everyone knows that waiting for the city to win a big victory, but few people know such detailed figures; such a ratio of battle damage to enemy annihilation made them intuitively feel for the first time what a terrifying team it was.

"Someone must question me and ask me why I remember every number so clearly." The white gull continued: "That's because when you embrace the stove in winter to enjoy the snow, and in spring, when you lean on the porch to listen to the rain, these , to you, it’s just a bunch of numbers on the battle report.”

"You don't need to know the exact number, you just need to know the result of "big victory", because the number is dead, it's just a scribble on your political achievements and military achievements."

"But for me—"

"Each of them is a living person!"

"No matter how lowly one's background is, they are all brothers Paozhe who have been bloodied with me..."

"Enough!" Li Yu finally choked up.

"Enough..." he repeated.

Brother Baiou, what you have done for me is really enough.

The pure white wings of gulls have been stained with blood, so there is no need to dust them off for me.

That's why Li Yu never let the white gull go to court.

He didn't want his elder brother Bai Ou to die in the filth of the court, and he didn't want Bai Ou to see how he was wronged with his own eyes.

"Not enough!" Bai Gu said firmly: "No one is more suitable to be in command than me."

irrefutable.

"I've said enough..." Li Yu got up, swallowed the hot tears in his eyes, nodded and said in a deep voice, "I've made up my mind—"

"I suggest that Xiang Hong return to the city immediately and rectify the military affairs without any mistakes."

"Your Majesty..." Bai Gu suppressed the shock in his pupils, and said as calmly as possible: "Do you know what you are talking about?"

"I—" Li Yu looked at Baiou, his moist eyes were almost pleading, "I won't let you go."

But White Gull couldn't see anything anymore, his eyes were covered by anger and despair.

This might be his last chance.

He never imagined that at the last moment, it was the lover he wanted to save the most who wiped away his only hope with his own hands.

Li Yu watched Bai Ou's almost desperate back stepping out of Tai Chi Hall, and then slowly turned his back.

No matter how loud the White Ou was today, taking off the commander-in-chief in an irrefutable manner, and saving his face and reputation, but Zhou Zheling had already appeared, the matter would not end so hastily.

Whether the white gull can reach the city safely is still unknown. After all, the sentence "Qing Jun's side" cannot be just a verbal threat.

Even on the battlefield, Zhou Zheling would have [-] ways to kill Bai Ou.

Since Bai Gu said that he would hand over his back to him, he couldn't let Bai Gu go to the battlefield alone that might never be possible before the ruling and opposition parties were cleared.

Even if he had to give up something for the people of the three northwest cities, even if Bai Gu had to leave, he must at least ensure that Bai Gu could walk safely without facing enemies.

*****

Once upon a time, Nuoda was a world where gulls and birds could roam freely, but now that he has left Tai Chi Hall, he finds that he has nowhere to go.

He can walk freely in the inner courtyard of the palace, and he can come and go freely inside and outside the palace walls, but except for the bedroom and pavilion in Guangming Palace, the sky and the earth are vast, and he didn't know where else he could go.

People who don't have a sense of belonging can stay anywhere in the world, but they can't wait for a long time; people who belong to each other can only be tied to the tip of that person's heart no matter where they go.

The white gull wandered aimlessly in the palace until Wu Jinxi sank, and the sky was full of stars, only to find that his calf was sore and swollen. He looked at the familiar scene in front of him——

I actually walked to the vicinity of the Imperial Guard's small room.

He purposely covered his mouth and nose before opening the door and entering the house, preparing to welcome the peculiar musty smell and dust rising from the old house that had been unoccupied for a long time, but he was shocked by the sight in front of him.

The complete set of silk bedding, bronze mirror, desk, four treasures of the study, and even the rice paper that Li Yuquan had scribbled on when he was bored here before, were all placed in their original positions, spotless.

He hesitated and walked to the back of the screen, and sure enough, the carved wooden barrel with the copper hoop was there, and even the copper wire on it was as brand new as before.

It was on that day that he realized for the first time that the young man named Li Yu was really the king of the world.

It was also on that day that a generation of kings stood under the tree and waited for him, reflecting the gray walls and black tiles behind him, covered with fallen flowers, as beautiful as a painting.

The boy in the painting asked him with a trembling voice——

"Does it hurt?"

It took just over a year, and he and the person in the painting seemed to have traveled a longer distance than the previous 27 years; they walked into each other's hearts and found their destination through untold hardships.

Everything seems to be eternity.

Li Yu sat on the branch and shook his feet playfully, handed the candied haws to his mouth, and comforted——

"Yu'er likes to eat sour food."

Li Yu clearly knew that he had been cheated by the stone platform, but he still said that sentence in a tearful tone——

"I am willing."

It seemed like it happened yesterday, how could he forget it.

The thoughts occupied by anger and despair gradually became soft and clear at this moment.

They have gone through life and death together, they are sworn partners, and he wants Li Yu to trust him, so how can he doubt Li Yu.

It's not that he didn't know in his heart that Li Yu did everything to protect himself, but he couldn't explain it to Li Yu——

If you are gone, how can I be safe and smooth.

Bai Ou suddenly realized that all these contradictions stemmed from Li Yu's paranoid desire for protection that was almost unreasonable.

What is the secret!

Almost frantically, he rushed out of the small room and headed straight for Guangming Palace.

*****

There was no one in the bedroom, and there were a few rustling sounds from the couch.

Bai Gu stepped forward and saw Li Yu curled up at the corner of the bed again, hugging himself tightly with his arms, muttering that mysterious name——

"Cui Zhu."

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