Half blood

A carriage drove up outside the camp. This carriage was pulled by a large black horse. The vermilion roof was covered with blue ribs. The dark blue curtain was gently lifted by a hand with sharp bones. A person wearing a black official uniform got off the car, first saluted the soldiers in the battalion, and finally walked up to Li Xuan, saluted again, and said softly: "Your Highness, the emperor asked You go back with the convoy..."

Li Xuan has never seen Li Xiuqi in official uniform. In his impression, Li Xiuqi is always wearing white moon-colored cloth and cotton clothes, with a good-natured chuckle on the corner of his mouth, but now he has a Yuguan, with a jade belt around his waist, and a pair of black eyes looking at him quietly like a bottomless pool in late autumn, which made him feel that this person is clearly standing in front of him, but seems to be as far away as a patch of sky cloud.

He saw Li Xiuqi's mouth move, but he couldn't hear what he said, so he asked, "What did you just say?"

After hearing this, Li Xiuqi repeated the words: "Your Highness, the emperor asked you to go back with the convoy. "After hearing this, Li Xuan's temper suddenly rose, and he said sharply: "I won't go back..." After saying this, Li Xuan realized how much he sounded like an eight-year-old child.

He took a deep breath, raised his head, walked past Li Xiuqi, came to the front of the convoy, and said, "You all go back to me now, and then send a message to my father, saying, when I want to go back, I will naturally go back." , but I don't want to go back now, so no one can drag me away."

The leading official of the convoy was a little embarrassed. He glanced sideways at Li Xiuqi. Seeing that Li Xiuqi had no expression on his face, he could only bite the bullet and say to Li Xuan: "Your Highness, you are making it difficult for the little one..."

"My father knows it. He knows that I am here to make trouble for no reason. He won't blame you. Go back." The official in the lead of the motorcade turned his head to look at Li Xiuqi again. Li Xiuqi walked over and said, "You I also heard what His Highness meant, so let's go back first."

The leader of the convoy breathed a sigh of relief and said that the horses in the convoy had been walking for several days and wanted to rest in the barracks for a day before leaving tomorrow. Li Xiuqi nodded, explained the situation to General Wei, and asked the leader of the convoy to lead the horses in .

General Wei Zhong asked: "Governor Li, is he going to start surveying the terrain today, or should he rest first and take me to prepare a banquet to clean up the dust, and go tomorrow."

Li Xiuqi first thanked Wei Zhong for his kindness, and said: "General Lao Wei, I think it's getting late today, I want to take a walk around the camp to understand the situation, and then go into the mountain tomorrow."

Wei Zhong nodded, and said again: "Governor Li, Wei Yuan and the others were injured in the mountain yesterday, so they can't take you around today. There are many things on the embankment, and I can't get away. I can only ask Your Highness to condescend and take you Walk around." Li Xiuqi turned around and glanced at Li Xuan, and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Xuan also raised his eyes to look at Li Xiuqi. For some reason, his chest started beating fast. He said, "Okay, Governor Li will go back to his room and settle down first, and then I will show you around the camp." Li Xiuqi thanked him again. Once, followed by a soldier, went back to the room first.

At this time, a drug boy with a Taoist hair combed came over. The drug boy had a round face, because he walked in a hurry, his cheeks were flushed, and his two thin nostrils trembled with his breathing, "Mrs. Okay, great, you haven't left yet, my master asked me to ask if you feel any discomfort." While speaking, he took out the booklet under his armpit, moistened the tip of the pen with the tip of his tongue, and put the pen Put it on the paper, waiting for Li Xuan to speak.

Seeing his posture, Li Xuan asked, "What's the matter?"

Seeing that Li Xuan was so uncooperative, the drug boy ignored Li Xuan, clipped the booklet back, freed up one hand, caught Li Xuan's pulse, frowned for a while, and said: "Hmmm , some palpitations."

"Palpitations? I don't have any."

"That's not what your pulse says, it's beating fast, as if someone is chasing you." Then he took out the booklet and wrote on the paper: heart palpitations, and then asked: "where's your head?" , Are you dizzy?"

Li Xuan shook his head, but the little medicine boy still didn't believe it, he freed his hand again, tried his forehead, and said, "Well, it's a little overheated, there should be some swelling pain." After speaking, he wrote in the booklet made a fortune.

Li Xuan was annoyed by him now, grabbed the booklet and said, "Don't write nonsense, I'm fine."

Seeing that the brochure had been snatched, the little drug boy blushed anxiously, and stretched out his hands to snatch the brochure back, but he was not tall enough, so he couldn't reach it, so he said softly, "Don't hide your illness from medical treatment." , my master's medical skills are excellent, listen to him, and he will provide you with medicine until you are cured."

"But I'm really fine," Li Xuan still held up the booklet, and said, "Don't write nonsense on the booklet, it will delay your master's important event."

The little drug boy wrinkled his face and said, "I didn't write nonsense. I checked your pulse. Your pulse is really abnormal and beats too fast. It's a manifestation of heart palpitations. It's my master's antidote." One of the sequelae... and your face is also red, which means that the blood is too full, and it is also a sequela, if you don't want to die..."

"Okay, okay, stop talking!" Li Xuan glared at the little Yaotong, and seeing that Li Xiuqi had come out of the room, he pushed the booklet into the little Yaotong's arms and said, "Don't write nonsense. , I’m really fine, there are some things, some things you’ll know when you grow up, do you hear me, don’t write nonsense!” The little drug boy didn’t care about him, holding the booklet, a little aggrieved He lowered his mouth, and ran quickly with red eyes.

Li Xiuqi walked slowly back and forth towards the tree, the figure was exactly the same as when Li Xuan first met, then he stood still in front of Li Xuan and bowed, and said lightly: "Your Highness." But this opening was different , It was different from that time, Li Xuan couldn't tell what was the difference, whether it was the unemotional tone or the unemotional look.

"If Your Highness has something to do, I can walk around here by myself without bothering Your Highness." Li Xiuqi said.

"How can this work? You just came here, and you don't know the way. You don't know. The roads in this mountain are all the same, and there are wild animals in the forest. Anyway, anyway... Let me take you there."

"Then please trouble Your Highness."

"Oh, that's right!" Li Xuan suddenly remembered something, "Don't call me Your Highness in the camp, the soldiers in the camp don't know my identity yet, they only know that I am the son of a friend brought by General Wei from the capital , don’t know my true identity yet, so you don’t need to call me Your Highness anymore.”

Li Xiuqi nodded and asked, "Then what should I call you?"

"Just call me by my name." Li Xuan felt that Li Xiuqi was really old-fashioned, how many times he had told him not to call him His Highness, but he was not willing to listen, and now he finally had a chance to change his words.Speaking of which, he had never heard Li Xiuqi call his own name before, and for some reason, he had some expectations in his heart, as if calling him that way would bring the two of them closer together.

Li Xiuqi hesitated for a moment, then asked again: "Then what should I call Your Highness?"

"Just call me by my name, Li Xuan."

"Li Xuan?" Li Xiuqi said, his voice was not loud, and it reached Li Xuan's ears just right. Li Xuan felt that the string in his heart was about to be broken. It was the first time he found out that his name was so It sounds good, catches the tongue, lifts the tip of the tongue slightly, and makes the sound of "Li" when you take a breath, close your lips, and push it forward, you can make the sound of "Xuan", two simple words, With the tip of the tongue and lips, it was like a drop of water falling from the small white petals on the plum tree, and fell on the black stones under the tree with a ticking sound.

"Well, um... from now on, it will be called that..." Li Xuan stammered.

Li Xiuqi frowned slightly, and said: "Your Highness, this will mess up Gangchang, I will call you by your first name in front of people, and continue to call you Your Highness in private..."

"You, you..." Li Xuan muttered, somehow, with such disappointment in his heart, "You can do whatever you want."

Li Xuan brought Li Xiuqi out of the camp, he specially brought the blueprint that Wei Yuan brought with him last time he went into the mountain, unfolded it for Li Xiuqi to see.

Li Xiuqi took the blueprint and checked the trend of the river, and found that the blueprint was not very accurate, and some places where the waterways turned were not shown, but he didn't bring a pen and ink with him, so he spread the blueprint on the ground first. , use the fingernail on the finger, scratch hard on the paper, and leave marks on the wrong place.

Li Xuan also leaned down, looked at the imprint left by Li Xiuqi, compared it with the river, and said: "Brother Wei and the others have used this drawing for many years, and no one has seen the mistakes in the drawing, but you can see it at a glance." .”

Li Xiuqi replied: "Major General Wei has used this drawing for a long time. People often can't find the thing with a low nose. It's the first time I read it. Bystanders can see the difference immediately." After finishing speaking, he rolled up the drawing After putting it away, he said again: "Your Highness, it's getting late today, let's go back to the camp first, and then go into the mountain tomorrow." Li Xuan raised his eyes and saw that the sun had already set in the sky, leaving the sky full of red, "Tomorrow The weather should be fine." Li Xuan said looking at the Wanli sunset.Li Xiuqi replied: "Yes, tomorrow should be a sunny day."

Walking side by side on the way back to the camp, Li Xuan suddenly asked, "How is Li Fei?"

"The eldest princess is fine, but she is a little dissatisfied with His Highness for not saying goodbye."

Li Xuan knew that Li Fei was not the only one who was dissatisfied. Everyone in the palace complained about his reckless flight to the south. Li Xuan secretly glanced at Li Xiuqi, feeling very upset. How did Li Xiuqi think of him running away? Could he have discovered his ulterior motives?

Li Xiuqi just stared straight ahead, silently looking at the road ahead, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of emotionless mask, which made Li Xuan unable to tell the emotion behind the mask.

Li Xuan suddenly said, "I want to use this opportunity to prove myself, to prove that I am not an idiot...even if I don't have the status of prince, I can still make a career..."

"Your Highness, not only did you fail to prove yourself by doing this, but on the contrary, you proved that you are a reckless and rash person who traveled south impulsively without any preparation... Is it really just because of this reason, Your Highness? "

Li Xuan pursed his lips. Can he say another reason?He can't, he can only bury that secret in his stomach, let it die in it bit by bit, for his own good, for their good.Because of the current state, Li Xuan was already very satisfied, so he walked down the mountain path side by side, and he hoped that this road would be endless, or that this road would lead all the way to the rosy clouds in the sky.He took a deep breath and said, "Maybe I'm just a reckless person. There's really only one reason."