The General and His Enemy Your Highness

In the secluded courtyard, Chu Yuan looked at the exquisite copper incense burner on the table, clutching the exquisite robe, and forced a smile, "Brother Emperor, do you really want to do this?"

The prince drooped his eyes and dusted off his apricot-yellow coat to hide the sinister eyes, and said slowly, "As long as you are husband and wife with King Xiping, you will be the concubine of King Xiping in the future. Why not?"

Chu Yuan gritted her teeth secretly, thinking that she would become a laughing stock if this matter happened, but she still lowered her head and answered in a low voice.

"Let's just wait here." Chu Yan went out with a flick of his sleeves, but two tall men nodded to him outside the door.

Chu Yan slightly hooked his lips, tilted his head slightly to signal them to go in, and walked away slowly. The princess's frightened scream came from the room in an instant: "Who are you?! Crown Prince! Brother! Brother!"

Chu Yan kept walking, with a cold and vicious smile on his lips.

Chu Yuan, don't blame the emperor, the queen mother wants to win over King Xiping, but I don't want to raise tigers, so I have no choice but to—

I have pity on you.

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"His Royal Highness is here—"

"His Royal Highness is here—"

After the two announcements, the young masters who were chatting with each other calmed down a little, and stood up to salute the two Highnesses.

Chu Yan looked around, but didn't see Mei Geng and Chu Ce, his expression turned ugly immediately, and he turned his eyes towards Lu Zhibei and the others, "Where are King Xiping and King Huai?"

As soon as his voice fell, a chuckle came from behind the door: "See His Royal Highness the Prince."

The long and tall King Xiping walked out slowly, with intricate cloud patterns on the dark purple robe, and a smile in his eyes quenched by Xingzi's cold light, he stood up again after a casual salute, intentionally or unintentionally blocking the thin and frail young man behind him , smiled and said: "Go to the East Courtyard to have a look, I forgot the time for a while, His Royal Highness, forgive me."

As a prince, Chu Yan was proud of himself, but now King Luo was evenly matched with him, and even this king with a different surname was so presumptuous, he couldn't help but squinted his eyes, but swallowed the accusation that came to his mouth.

Chu Yan's eyes became more and more treacherous, mixed with excitement and resentment, and said lightly: "It's okay, there is no need to be too polite."

Let him be complacent, left and right... he won't be complacent for long.

This ambiguous attitude caused the princes of the family to have different thoughts. Counting seniority, they and King Xiping should be regarded as peers, and some princes were even older than him. It is not an exaggeration to call him Xiting, but they already respected King Xiping. , Now that they have the military power and have made great achievements repeatedly, they have to salute and call "Prince" politely when they meet, and their hearts are very complicated.

But who let the family have a powerful father and a hereditary throne?

No matter how jealous, no one dared to speak ill of King Xiping anymore, so some people focused on His Highness Duke Huai who was always by King Xiping's side.

"His Royal Highness Duke Huai was crowned king when he was young, so he must be above us in both literary and martial arts." The person who spoke was dressed in brocade clothes. He was a handsome young man, but the ill intentions in his eyes were too obvious, and he said slowly: "I admire you. Extremely, I hope I can ask you a lesson or two."

Chu Luo, who happened to be sitting next to Chu Ce, smiled and said in a low voice, "That's this year's Tanhua Lang, Yang An, the son of Yang Yu, head of the household department, and Yang An. In the past two days, he has been thinking of ways to please His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Chu Ce nodded knowingly, and before he could speak, King Xiping on the other side sneered slowly, his eyes sharp, "Ask for advice? What are you?"

Yang Tanhua didn't save Yang Tanhua the slightest bit of embarrassment for these words, and Yang An's face immediately turned ugly, but most of the people who came today were from the prince's party. Seeing that King Xiping was so merciless, some people were naturally upset, and immediately said angrily: "The king of Xiping is here. Yan, could it be that you look down on us?"

That Tanhua Lang probably couldn't hold back his face, and couldn't help but retort: ​​"There are often discussions between the princes of the family, and they discuss the way of practicing martial arts. Why is King Xiping like this?"

Mei Geng sneered, if Chu Ce were invited today, people would be wary of being in the limelight, and would be ridiculed if he suffered a disadvantage. I am afraid that this is the idea of ​​the prince again.

It's almost the same as wooing and enmity.

Chu Ce lowered his eyes and said softly, "I'm ashamed, if you talk about young age, the crown prince was only fifteen years old when he was crowned crown prince, which is a year earlier than this king. I wonder if Tan Hualang asked for advice?"

The surroundings were silent for a moment, and Yang An was speechless for a moment.

"laugh."

The sound of laughter was abrupt, and King Xiping put one hand on the armrest of the rattan chair, and let out a few suppressed low laughs, which caused Feng Sunan not far away to laugh too.

Who is Feng Ershao?

Mei Geng is a mad dog, and Er Shao Feng is that vicious dog, unceremoniously sarcastically said: "This year's Tanhua Lang is also interesting, look at this year's age is much older than His Highness Duke Huai, I don't like how people make kings The Zhanghe River in Huai River has been plagued by floods for many years, but Tan Hualang asked for orders to dig the canal, but now he is here to ask for advice from His Highness Duke Huai, how can he be qualified if he doesn’t go for a walk around the Huai River?”

The corners of Feng Chengyu's eyes twitched when he heard it, and he couldn't get in the words, so he had to wait for Er Shao Feng to rest before saying in a deep voice, "Shu Nan, shut up."

What he said made the prince's face extremely ugly, and Yang Tanhua lost all embarrassment. King Xiping was very happy, and watched the show for a long time noblely and reservedly, before he said leisurely: "If a dog wants to please its master, it must have some brains."

Yang Tanhua's face turned pale, and she dared not speak out.

Mei Geng's attitude was extremely arrogant, but no one in the audience dared to comment. Firstly, because of his status as the only King of Xiping in Great Chu who held the military power, and secondly, because of his vicious rumors——Lin Zichen, who died violently at home, died in the Second Young Master Yu in prison.

The breeze was slightly cold, and there was silence everywhere, waiting to see if His Highness the Crown Prince would get angry.

After a long while, someone laughed lightly: "Don't disturb the tea party of His Royal Highness, this tea is the new tea of ​​this year, and you really shouldn't let it down."

It was Lin Shuyu who rescued the siege, the second youngest of the Lin family who entered the family tree of Lin Shangshu's mansion.

Seeing that he opened his mouth, someone answered along with the words, and everyone tacitly put aside the previous dispute.

Mei Geng stared at the clear tea soup, glanced at the smiling Lin Shuyu without any trace, secretly thought it was strange.

In the previous life, he took the initiative to approach Chu Ce and surrender, so why is he getting closer to the prince in this life?

What made him give up Chu Ce, the most suitable pawn?

Mei Geng restrained his thoughts, he knew that the crown prince would not be well-intentioned today, but he did not expect it to be the old way, the servants made a mistake and spilled some wet clothes while pouring tea, so he invited him to change in the side courtyard.

If he guessed correctly, he probably planned to slander some crimes in full view.

King Xiping glanced over with a smile that was not a smile, and happened to see the success and viciousness in the prince's eyes, and immediately got up leisurely, and walked out with his servants.

That look made the prince flustered, he even felt that Mei Geng had seen through all his schemes, mocking his whims.

As soon as Mei Geng left, Chu Ce and Chu Luo were left. His Royal Highness Luo quietly leaned over and whispered, "The prince can find a way to match him and Chu Yuan, aren't you worried?"

Chu Ce clutched the hem of his clothes and showed a shy smile, shook his head lightly, as if shy of being infatuated, and responded in a low voice: "He won't."

Chu Luo narrowed his eyes, smiled without saying a word.

On the other hand, Yu Yi frowned, and heard Lu Zhibei whispering in his ear: "There is something wrong with King Luo and the prince, do you want me to go and see?"

"No need." Yu Yi shook his head lightly, his lips fluttered, and said softly, "Luo Wang and Huai Wang are so calm, they should be fine."

Lu Zhibei nodded suspiciously.

Then I saw His Highness King Luo walking towards His Highness the Crown Prince with a smile, admiring the emperor brother over and over again, toasting him with tea instead of wine, and then all the tea was spilled on the golden robe of His Highness the Crown Prince.

So King Xiping left for less than a cup of tea, and His Royal Highness also left the table with a sullen face to change clothes.

Less than an hour later, King Xiping returned to the table neatly dressed, but he heard King Luo whisper lightly: "King Xiping, there will be a good show later."

Mei Geng raised his eyebrows slightly, and quietly took the hand of His Highness Duke Huai who was beside him, covered it tightly with a wide sleeve robe, and lightly scratched his palm, with a calm smile on his face, and murmured thoughtfully: "Yeah."

Just now the servant lured him to a very remote place intentionally or unintentionally, so King Xiping slowly drew out a dagger and pointed it at the man's neck, and then... escaped successfully.

King Xiping couldn't understand how stupid the prince was to set up such a trap, as if he had dug a hole on an empty road, covered it with green leaves, and barely told passers-by that there was a hole.

If he was a well-mannered scholar, he might have been forcibly escorted there, but he was known throughout the Xiping Dynasty as a general capable of both literature and martial arts. Mei Geng sighed, feeling that he was really anxious to get rid of him in his previous life.

I'm afraid that my mind is filled with the upper reaches of the Zhang River, including mud and sand.

"what--!"

A heart-piercing scream from a woman startled all the guests.

The woman ran into the Songlan Garden as if in a panic, as if she hadn't expected to meet someone, she knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed fiercely to King Luo and King Huai, and yelled: " Your highnesses, your highnesses, hurry up and save my princess, it's too late—it's too late!"

Mei Geng was startled, and subconsciously glanced at Chu Ce, but received the same frowning and puzzled look from Chu Ce, and immediately felt a little vague and uneasy.

On the contrary, King Luo asked in shock, "Hongyu? Why are you here? Where's Yuan'er?"

Hongyu, the personal maid next to Chu Yuan, she was crying and couldn't explain clearly, she only said that she wanted the two highnesses to go down and have a look. In the end, a group of people who were not waiting for the prince followed Hongyu to the side courtyard. King Luo led someone in without saying a word.

When he broke into the inner room of the side courtyard, King Luo's footsteps stopped suddenly, but all the princes of the aristocratic families who followed him saw the situation in the inner room, and there was no sound for a while.

The naked woman was lying on the ground with a white silk around her neck, her whole body was bruised, her legs were stained with dried blood, her black hair was disheveled, her originally delicate and beautiful face was now lifeless gray, her eyes were wide open, mixed with blood. Unwilling, resentful and even frightened—the disheveled prince stood beside her, holding the other end of the white silk.

Mei Geng took a look, then looked away, and led Chu Ce to block the stunned young man behind him.

——It’s Chu Yuan.