Let me eat a soft meal

When King Xiao came back suddenly, there was no mansion in Beijing, and King Xiao didn't say hello at all, so he moved into the Prime Minister's Mansion with someone to live there.

The courtiers didn't think so when they saw it, but they felt: King Xiao's heart to win the heir is known to all passers-by.

King Yu just fell, and King Xiao came again, and the young general with a black horse and black armor next to King Xiao was very familiar, with eyebrows and eyes like General Feng Luo, and a fierce aura all over his body, isn't it just a new rise in recent years? The one in black, the invincible young general in black at the border?

Xiao Wang and this black-robed young general had a good relationship, and he returned to the capital with the army. At first glance, he was on equal terms with the fourth and ninth princes, and many interested people came to him.

Some are the remnants of King Yu's lineage, and some are spies who come to spy on the false and false.

"Throw them all out for me." Ye Xuan tied up this group of weak staff without any effort, clapped his hands, and told Tai'an to throw all the staff who were tied up in a ball by the rope, and just threw them at the candied haws seller at the door. at the peddler's feet.

The peddler raised his head stiffly, and met Xiao Wang's eyes with raised eyebrows.

"Stop." Ye Xuan called to stop the peddler, snatched his gourd target, carried it and walked in, "I want all of your stuff."

Tai'an, who was following behind, silently took out money and stuffed it into the hands of the weeping peddler. He was the last one to enter the prime minister's mansion, kicked the staff to the side, and closed the door with a "bang".

Ye Xuan took a few candied gourds from the target, and threw the rest together with the target into Tai'an's arms, "I'll see you off."

Tai'an with private money: "..."

He watched the thick-skinned master walk towards the inner room with a blank face, paused at the target, and took out a few, let the guards divide the others, and then climbed over the wall and headed towards Pei's mansion.

Xie Yushu reviewed the memorials in the inner study room—the emperor was seriously ill every day, and there was no prince in the court. The daily memorials were all read and picked by the prime minister first, and the unimportant ones were processed and approved first, and the important ones were sent to the palace— — Hearing the movement at the door, he looked up and saw Ye Xuan coming in with some candied haws.

Xie Yushu couldn't help laughing, "I didn't see you like this before."

"It's bitterly cold at the border. After staying for a long time, I'm hungry for what I don't like." Ye Xuan peeled off a thin layer of candy paper on the candied haws to prevent dust and chemical, and handed it to Xie Yushu's mouth.

Xie Yushu bit one into his mouth, nodded understandingly, and said with a smile, "I was like this when I first came back. Now that I've been in Beijing for a long time, I'm thinking about Qingzhou's pancakes."

"Tai'an can make it. When he comes back, ask him to cut a few and put them on the plate for snacks." Ye Xuan also took a bite. The syrup wrapped around the hawthorn was too sweet, and he moved slightly between his eyebrows. It was smoothed off quickly, and Xie Yushu directly took the remaining bunch of candied haws in his hand.

"If you don't like it, don't force it. Give it to me, just to neutralize the taste." Xie Yushu sighed and shook his head at the thick memorial in front of him.

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, leaned forward and looked at him with his chin resting on his cheeks. Instead of reading the memorial, he asked, "What's wrong? What makes you so worried?"

"What else? Establish a crown prince." Xie Yushu said, "Seven out of ten memorials are for King Qi to be crowned crown prince. Now that the affairs of King Yu have just ended, and all the officials sent into exile have not yet left the capital, they are forced to rush forward like this... Sigh , His Majesty will be angry again tomorrow morning."

Seeing that Xie Yushu had almost eaten, Ye Xuan peeled another piece of candied haws and handed it over, and said in a flat tone, "The officials of the fourth brother's line have always been so aggressive. If you find it annoying, I'll find someone to beat the fourth brother up." -"

"...It doesn't have to be like this." Xie Yushu paused for a moment, then turned her head to look at Ye Xuan carefully.

Ye Xuan noticed his gaze, raised his brows, and sat upright with his back straight. In order for him to see clearly, he stood up and opened his hands and turned around.

Xie Yushu couldn't help laughing when he saw the hem of his clothes flying up.

Ye Xuan glanced at him, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of something pleasant." Xie Yushu glanced at the hem of Xie Yushu's clothes, the more she looked at it, the more she wanted to laugh, covered her lips and coughed, and said solemnly, "Every time I go back to my brother's house, the little group leader also likes to go around like this, Show me the beautiful dress she's wearing."

Ye Xuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, he reached out and grabbed Xie Yushu, who was about to run away, into his arms, wrapped his arms around his waist, and lifted him into the air.

"Okay, Yushu, you are laughing at me." Ye Xuan said, his eyes drooping, and he put on a pitiful appearance of being bullied.

Xie Yushu slapped him on the face and pushed it away, the smile couldn't be hidden in his voice, "I've already said that you can't fool me with your appearance."

"Put me down quickly." Xie Yushu put his hands on the boy's broad shoulders.

Ye Xuan looked up at him, suddenly there was a cunning flash in his eyes, he threw him up, caught Xie Yushu's terrified cry, and spun him around on his shoulders, and said with a malicious smile, "I don't. "

"Ye Xuan!" Xie Yushu grabbed his shoulder in shock and patted him on the back, "Put me down quickly, or I won't be polite."

"Oh? Mr. Xiao wants to punish me? Then try." Ye Xuan hugged his legs and laughed softly, his chest buzzing.

Xie Yushu narrowed his eyes dangerously, "Wait, I must write on your face."

As he said that, the hand on Ye Xuan's shoulder suddenly pulled hard, and Ye Xuan was caught off guard and fell to the side with an unstable center of gravity. With one free hand, he grabbed the heavy table leg and did not really fall to the ground.

Xie Yushu took the opportunity to break free from him, rolled onto his back, trying to counter him, but Ye Xuan grabbed his wrist, grabbed his shoulder and pressed him to the ground. Xie Yushu is a champion in martial arts after all, although it is not as good as the skills honed by Ye Xuan on the battlefield Proficient, but it is definitely impossible to catch it like this.

The two exchanged hands on the ground several times, Xie Yushu seized the opportunity and snatched the writing brush on the table, was hugged by Ye Xuan again and fell into the chair, Xie Yushu sat across his lap with one hand Holding his shoulder, he poked his face with a bug with one hand, leaving a light mark.

Both of them stopped their movements, panting slightly, and the sound of breathing blended together.

Xie Yushu played around like this, showing a proud expression like a child, "I won, I will use your face as rice paper and write on it."

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows and said "Oh", and asked with great interest, "Then what are you going to write?"

"I have such a big face, even if you write in hairpin lowercase, you can't write much."

"Then I'll take off your clothes and write on you." Xie Yushu said, grabbing Ye Xuan's collar.

Pricked—the cloth used by the imperial court is never strong enough, and it would be torn apart when it was pulled like this. Ye Xuan's clothes, which had been messed up in the fight, were even more open, revealing the strong chest of a young man who had been practicing martial arts all year round.

Xie Yushu was stunned, Ye Xuan looked down at the wide open chest and raised his eyebrows, then slowly raised his head to meet Xie Yushu's bewildered gaze.

"you--"

boom!The door was kicked open vigorously from the outside, and the dandy young master dressed as a rich family came in carelessly with his hands behind his back, shouting, "Ye Xuan, I'm here, Young Master Pei, why don't you come out quickly... Come on."

The four eyes met, the audience was silent, and the atmosphere was strange.

Pei Cheng looked at the scene in the room, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost, "In broad daylight, the sky is bright, what are you doing so shamelessly!?"

Xie Yushu's face turned red in vain, his eyes flickered and he quickly got up, "No, Pei Liulang, you misunderstood..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ye Xuan grabbed his hand and pressed it to his chest. His skin touched, his heart was beating so loudly that his arms went numb all the way to his heart, and Xie Yushu froze.

Ye Xuan squinted at Pei Cheng, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you want to continue watching?"

Pei Cheng trembled all over, covered his mouth and took a half step back in horror, Tai'an stood in front of him, holding the two door handles expressionlessly.

"disturb."

boom.The wooden door closed.

Pei Sheng said with a trembling voice outside, "So the rumors are true..."

Tai'an was puzzled, "What?"

Before Pei Cheng came back to his senses, he muttered, "It turns out...it turns out that Xie Yushu is really Duanxiu, and he still likes Ye Xuan!...Wait, they seemed to have a good relationship before? It seems that Duanxiu is not so difficult to understand ? Then what was I shocked about just now?"

Pei Cheng turned to look at Tai'an, and asked him, "What am I shocked about?"

Tai'an: "..."

He silently looked up at the sky: He thought that when he was a child, he didn't understand other people's thoughts because he was young, but now he realizes that it's because people are too complicated.

Ye Xuan changed his clothes, leaving Xie Yushu alone in the study to entertain Pei Sheng in the yard.

Pei Cheng looked disgusted at the crude tea cakes, "You are a Xiao Wang, and the hospitality is too poor, isn't it?"

"My fief is in Cangzhou, which is the nearest border to Beirong." Ye Xuan looked at him impatiently, "Why are you here?"

Pei Cheng stared at him with a stinky face, "It's been so long, can I come and see you, young master?"

"No." Ye Xuan refused.

Pei Cheng rolled his eyes, threw a gold-encrusted invitation letter from his arms, and muttered, "You think I want to come? My brother asked me to send you this."

The elder brother Pei Cheng was talking about was exactly Pei Chang who went to Beirong with the army. A few years ago, he escorted the second prince's coffin back to Beijing, and appointed General Xuanwu to station in Bohai Sea.

"What is this?" Ye Xuan picked up the teacup, took a sip, and didn't go to get the post.

Pei Sheng explained, "The Spring and Autumn Banquet held by the noble concubine Yue is held in Putuo Temple. Except for the sons and daughters of the courtiers, the third princess, fourth prince, fifth prince, eighth prince, and ninth prince will all go."

"No." Ye Xuan refused.

"Why?" Pei Cheng frowned, "All the courtiers' children will go, it's a good time to be strong, your power is too weak now, if you want... then you have to go."

Ye Xuan looked calm, "I didn't want to sit in that seat, so naturally I don't have to go."

"What? You don't want to?" Pei Cheng didn't expect it, he asked suspiciously, "If you don't want to, then why did you come back?"

"I just want to come back because I don't want to." Ye Xuan sneered, "If I thought about it, I wouldn't do it when King Yu forced the palace, but wait until they are all finished fighting, and then I will reap the benefits."

No one knew that he came back, and no one knew that he had brought soldiers. He could have been doing things in the dark at that time, but he was exposed openly. He walked into Qianyuan Palace by himself without doing anything and saying a few words it came out.

This is probably the reason why the emperor didn't let the imperial army kill him. Once he did, the emperor might die at his hands, but he himself wouldn't survive to get out of Qianyuan Palace.

Pei Cheng frowned, "Forget it, I don't even bother to know what you guys are going to do, anyway, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, my Pei family has to sacrifice to heaven."

Once the emperor and the courtiers, the Pei family was too powerful. The emperor thought of the law, except for the Gao family Yuwang party, which weakened Xu Guogong's party. Only the Pei family hardly moved. This was obviously fattened for the next emperor.

He has a clear view of this matter, Grand Master Pei also knew about it long ago, his sons have been ups and downs in the court for many years and are deeply ingrained and unable to move, but his grandchildren were all sent out of Beijing, and now only the playboy Pei Liu is left .

"Okay, if you don't go, I'm too lazy to go. The Spring and Autumn Banquet is just a poetry competition for a few days and nights, which is not very interesting. It's better to watch a few plays."

Ye Xuan immediately put down the teacup and issued an order to chase away the guests, "Pei Liulang walk slowly, the king will not see you off."

Then he got up and patted the hem of his clothes, and under Pei Cheng's staring incredulous gaze, he just left him on the spot and went back to the study.

Pei Sheng: "..."

"Li Tai'an, tell me the truth, is your master having trouble with Xie Yushu?!"

Tai'an: "I don't know..."

"How could you not know?" Pei Cheng said angrily, "You had this tendency when you were young, and you even made a broken wreath to trick me into worshiping the world with you. You came to look for your mother, I asked General Feng later, he said that your mother died long ago, and you will go to burn incense in a few years, you lied to me!"

Tai'an pursed his lips, looked helplessly at Pei Cheng's suddenly red eyes, and opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain it.

Pei Cheng sniffed, and suddenly sneered, "Seven years ago, you didn't explain, you just said that you would never leave without saying goodbye, and when I knew, you had already left the city, and I couldn't chase after you on horseback. up, and turned down the hillside, and almost died there..."

"..." Tai'an silently rubbed the handle of the knife with his thumb, and apologized dumbly, "Sorry, I..."

"Li Tai'an, I don't want to hear the reason anymore."

Tai'an watched him take out the candied haws he gave him before and put them on the table one by one, got up and walked out, and hesitated for a while when he wanted to follow.

Pei Cheng paused, and suddenly asked, "Have you seen your mother?"

"...No." Tai'an was silent, and slowly choked out a sentence, "Because she has another child and doesn't want me, so I only have that cloak."

Pei Cheng said "Oh", turned around and looked at him for a long time, then he was speechless, and asked him, "Have you been incensed this year?"

Tai'an shook his head in a daze: "No."

"Then let's go, visit your mother's grave and offer incense." Seeing that he was still standing there in a daze, Pei Cheng put his waist down and said in a vicious voice, "Hurry up and come over to me! It's so annoying! You bastard damn thing!"

……

During the past few days when Concubine Yue held the Spring and Autumn Banquet at Putuo Temple, Xie Yushu would keep approving each batch of memorials until late at night. Ye Xuan ordered a bowl of noodles and brought them over for supper. He was lying on the table and fell asleep, his face still smudged. Snack crumbs, a faint black under eye circle.

Ye Xuan carried him to the bed, and as soon as the quilt was covered, Xie Yushu opened his eyes in a daze, and called out vaguely, "Your Highness...?"

"It's Zixuan, Yushu made a mistake again."

Ye Xuan touched his cheek, Xie Yushu rubbed against his palm, and changed his words slowly, "Well, Zixuan..."

"Have a good sleep." Ye Xuan gently slid his fingertips over the red mole at the end of Xie Yushu's eyes, Xie Yushu shrank his neck with some itchiness, and fell asleep completely.

Ye Xuan walked out of Xie Yushu's yard and walked a little further, making sure that Xie Yushu would not be disturbed, so she said in a low voice, "Come out."

Appeared like a ghost in Taian, "Huang Weiren."

Huang Weiren waited in the small hall for a while, when he saw Ye Xuan coming in, he didn't exchange greetings, he just said, "Your Majesty called the prince into the palace to discuss business matters."

"Oh? An urgent call in the middle of the night, I don't know what is the business?" Ye Xuan looked at him with a half-smile, and tapped the handrail lightly with his fingertips.

Huang Weiren looked at him and smiled, "What's the matter, isn't His Royal Highness Xiao very clear? General Feng's 30 troops are coming to the capital, and there are even [-] disguised troops mixed in, right or not?"

"Or, it shouldn't be called General Feng, but General Feng Zijian, right?"

……

The night was silent, but the cicadas kept singing.

Ye Xuan followed Huang Weiren all the way into Qianyuan Palace without hindrance, and could clearly feel the strange atmosphere that seemed silent but actually, but Ye Xuan didn't notice the killing intent, and there were no hidden guards around.

Ye Xuan held the sword in the sleeve calmly, and saw Huang Weiren turned left and right and led him into the inner hall, led him in, Zhao An was standing on the side, and Concubine Xian was sitting on the side of the bed holding a handkerchief. The emperor wiped the back of his hands, and the bed was a little messy.

Ye Xuan frowned, walked over with strides, lifted the bed curtain and looked in, and saw the emperor lying there with his eyes wide open, his eyes had already collapsed.

"He's already dead." Concubine Xian put down the emperor's hand, only to reveal a few bloody scratches on her hand, but she smiled softly, straightened her sleeves and said slowly, "It hurts me so much when he struggled and scratched." .”

"I don't know if my sister was in such pain when she died."

She muttered to herself, "I shouldn't have promised her to marry me knowing it was a hell, and in the end I had to bear someone else's name even when I died. In the hands of a useless person, it is just a wedding dress for others."

Ye Xuan suddenly looked at her, raised his brows, and the mystery that he couldn't figure out before was completely revealed at this moment.

He laughed and said affirmatively, "So you are the eldest princess of Bohai."