Chongxi [rebirth]

When those hands reached into the quilt to hold his hand, Li Fengqi almost collapsed and opened his eyes.

The person next to the bed was muttering something, and he no longer had the energy to discern, all his mind was focused on the hand that was being held.

The opponent's palm is very soft, unlike his hands which are full of calluses when holding a knife all the year round, only the middle finger and ring finger have some thin calluses, probably caused by holding a pen and practicing calligraphy all the year round.There was not much strength in the hand, and the two hands wrapped his hand in it, rubbing it lightly, driving away the cold chill.

It turned out to be keeping him warm.

This is not the person sent by Li Zong.

After thinking for a while, Li Fengqi guessed the other party's identity.

It should be the male concubine that Li Zong used to humiliate him - Ye Yunting, the eldest son of Duke Qi's mansion.When he woke up in the morning, he should be the one who wiped his face.

He knows a lot about the affairs of Duke Qi's mansion.Ye Zhili married the younger sister of Dali Temple Qing Wang Qie when he was not in power in his early years. As a result, within two years of marriage, the Wang family died of dystocia, leaving only one son, the eldest son Ye Yunting.If you really want to talk about this matter, you can't blame Ye Zhili, but he married his current wife Yin Hongye less than a year after Wang's death.Not long after, the Yin family became pregnant again and gave birth to the next son, Ye Wang. Since then, the Wang family has cut off contact with the Duke of Qi.

When Emperor Taizong of the Northern Zhao Dynasty founded the country, it was divided into one capital, five prefectures and thirteen prefectures.The first capital is Shangjing, and the five prefectures are the five governor's mansions of Yunrong, Runan, Longyou, Nieyang, and Beijiang. The three prefectures of Luzhou, Zhongzhou, and Jizhou under the command are the three prefectures of Gyeonggi, and they have always been responsible for the safety of Shangjing and the imperial city.

Yin Xiaozhi, the governor of the Yunrong Dudu Mansion, is also the confidant of the emperor's close ministers. Although he is not in Shangjing, it does not affect the Yin family's power and status in Shangjing at all.

And Yin Hongye is Yin Xiaozhi's favorite granddaughter.

She is a whole round younger than Ye Zhili. It is said that despite the Yin family's objection, she wanted to make a sequel to Ye Zhili. Yin Xiaozhi doted on this little granddaughter the most. Although he was dissatisfied, he finally agreed to the marriage.But Ye Zhili has used the power of the Yin family over the years to finally climb to his current position, from a down-and-out marginal prince to a Zhongshu Ling who is more powerful than the prime minister.

After gaining power, Ye Zhili loved Xu Xian and the second son a lot, but the eldest son left by the first wife became the redundant one.Yin Hongye has an arrogant and indulgent personality, although she doesn't think her stepson is a thorn in her side, she doesn't treat him too well either.Ye Zhili turned a blind eye to this, most of the time he didn't even let the eldest son out, just pretending that there was no such person in the Duke's mansion.

According to the old rules, Ye Yunting was the eldest son, and he should have been granted the title of heir when he reached the age of ten, but Ye Zhili had been dragging him on the grounds that the eldest son was weak and could not be honored and favored too much. The palace came to congratulate him.

Although Li Fengqi always knew that Ye Zhili was a dignified man with sinister and vicious methods, he never thought that he would be so cruel to his own son in order to make room for his second son.

Thinking about it this way, Ye Yunting's situation is similar to his.

It's just that Ye Yunting's reaction today was far from what he expected.

A few days earlier, Li Zong could not wait to tell him that Si Tiantai had chosen a concubine with a suitable fate for him. The concubine had a good family background and good looks, so she was a man.

The compatibility of fate is of course Si Tiantai's nonsense, but Li Zong just wanted to take the opportunity to put a man for him to be a princess to disgust him.

He still remembers Li Zong's expression at that time, looking at him so excitedly and impatiently, expecting him to show humiliation.It's a pity that he didn't get what he wanted, and finally returned to the palace in despair.

However, within a few days, Ye Yunting was sent to the palace as expected.

Li Fengqi had never paid attention to this eldest son of the Duke's Mansion before. He only heard that he was locked in the backyard all year round and rarely went out.He thought he was a cowardly and incompetent person.

Now that he was married to celebrate his happiness, he became an abandoned child, and he might even be buried with him. Noisy and tossing is inevitable, even crying, making trouble and hanging himself is human nature.

But he never thought that Ye Yunting would take the initiative to take care of him, a dying person.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Li Fengqi thought for a while, thinking about his purpose, when he felt the back of his hands get cold, the hands that had been keeping him warm were pulled away from under the quilt, and then there was the sound of footsteps walking away lightly.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a tall and thin figure walking towards the bed.

Although Li Zong was getting more and more extreme and crazy, he was right in saying one thing, the eldest son of Duke Qi's mansion was indeed good-looking, just looking at this figure from the back, he was quite romantic enough.

Li Fengqi followed his back, and saw him walking to the side of the bed and starting to make the half-made bed.His movements were a little clumsy, he pulled the mattress left and right, but he couldn't make it evenly. In the end, he probably got annoyed, so he simply made the bed randomly, and piled up the soft pillows and quilts.

Looking at that appearance, there is still some childishness that has not faded.

Li Fengqi pondered for a moment with downcast eyes, and decided to give him a try.

He closed his eyes, twisted his eyebrows together in pain, and let out a weak voice: "Water, water..."

Ye Yunting, who had just barely made the bed, paused, walked quickly to his side to check, and saw that the unconscious man's lips were chapped and white, and a weak breath came out from between the lips, making him look more and more sick and pitiful.

No wonder, he hadn't had water for at least a whole day.

Ye Yunting hurriedly went to the outside and poured a glass of water in, but when it was brought to his mouth, he suddenly remembered that this person had suffered from cold wind and was sick, so it would be impossible to just feed this cold water like this.After hesitating for a moment, he put the water glass back on the table, brought another candlestick, and held the water glass over the candle flame to slowly bake it.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the cold night wind blew in through the gaps in the windows, making the candles flicker.

The comatose patient on the bed called out "water" again, Ye Yunting was so anxious that he could only protect the candle with one hand and hang the teacup over the candle with the other.After finally heating up a cup of water, his fingers were also hot red.

Ye Yunting hissed twice, rubbed his hot red fingers, then carefully placed a soft pillow behind Li Fengqi's head, and fed warm water to his lips.

The warm water flows over the dry lips, flows through the thirsty esophagus, and finally falls into the stomach.

Li Fengqi originally just wanted to try him, but when the warm water entered his throat, his body couldn't wait to ask for it. He gulped down a glass of water and couldn't help letting out a low sigh.

He couldn't remember how long he hadn't had a sip of hot water.

Five days, ten days, or a month?

Li Zong was very afraid of him. Since he was poisoned and bedridden for more than a month, he first killed his loyal confidants in the palace, trapped him in the palace, and cut off the communication between Shangjing and Beijiang, causing him to have an accident. The news cannot be sent back to northern Xinjiang, and there is no one to support it.

There are also situations more difficult than this when marching against the enemy, but it is the first time that they are so embarrassed.Although it is not unbearable, it is a lie to say that it is not uncomfortable.

The physical pain was second to none, more the anger of being betrayed.If it wasn't for the need for patience at this time, he would really like to ask Li Zong personally, is the brotherly love for more than ten years fake?

He defended the frontier for him, killed powerful officials, and secured the throne, but in the end all he got in return was such humiliation.

Ye Yunting's cup of hot water at least made him feel that the world is not full of wolf-hearted people like Li Zong.

Li Fengqi's chest rose and fell for a few breaths before he opened his eyes.

Ye Yunting was observing his situation, but at this moment, he happened to meet his eyes.

The man looked at him deeply, with obvious scrutiny.

He was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized, and said: "My lord is awake?" After a pause, he said again: "I am Ye Yunting." He didn't say much about the rest, but Li Fengqi should know everything.

Li Fengqi stared at him for a moment, and saw that his eyes were full of calmness and fearlessness, with a hint of concern.Just then he said, "Thank you." His voice was still hoarse, but it was much better than the previous one, which was like rubbing against gravel.

His attitude was much gentler than before, Ye Yunting was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "My lord, there is no need to thank you."

After he finished speaking, Li Fengqi closed his eyes again without responding.

The two were speechless for a moment, Ye Yunting saw that his expression was still calm, and then looked at the darkened sky outside, he was a little worried about Ji Lian who hadn't come back, so he said: "I'll go outside and have a look." Then he got up and left.

Ji Lian has been out for an afternoon, and it's getting dark now, so he should come back.

Ye Yunting was thinking about where to find someone, when the door was pushed open, Ji Lian's voice came loudly: "Master, Master, we have dinner!"

From far away, you can feel the joy in his voice.

Ye Yunting went outside to take a look, and saw him entering the room with two bowls of hot porridge.

"Where did you get the hot porridge?" Ye Yunting was surprised.

"I cooked it myself." Ji Lian put down the porridge and closed the door, and then said as if he was taking credit: "I went around the whole palace, found the back kitchen, and found the unused rice grains, thinking that anyway they He didn’t even deliver food, so he cooked his own porridge.”

This palace is a house with five entrances and five exits. Although all the servants have withdrawn, some precious and valuable artifacts have also been confiscated and even taken away by the escaped servants.But in places like the kitchen, if you search carefully, you can still find something useful.

"It's a pity that those meat dishes are spoiled, otherwise I can make two more dishes." Ji Lian said regretfully.

Ye Yunting laughed when he heard the words: "Hot porridge is not bad either."

He lowered his voice again and asked, "Have you found out where those secret whistles are hidden?"

Speaking of this, Ji Lian was even more proud. He leaned over and whispered the results of the investigation with Ye Yunting: "There are four people in total, all hiding on the old trees in the main courtyard, one in the southeast and one in the northwest. As for the others I have searched all over the place, but there is no one there. Only two or three older servants live in the inverted room at the back."

There were only four people guarding the main courtyard, which was better than what Ye Yunting imagined.

He asked again: "Where are the two maidservants? Did you see them when you were in the mansion?"

Ji Lian thought about it for a while, then shook his head: "They should not be in the mansion."

It's getting dark now, if he was in the mansion, he would definitely light candles, but along the way he walked, he didn't see any candles lit except the inverted room.

The maid is not in the mansion... Ye Yunting lowered his eyes in thought, guessing that these two people were not the maids of the palace.It's just that I don't know who sent it.

Seeing him frowning, Ji Lian pushed the porridge bowl in front of him and urged: "Master, eat the porridge first, or it will be cold."

Ye Yunting came back to his senses, picked up the bowl and was about to eat, when he suddenly remembered that there was someone in it.Then he got up again and went to find a clean small bowl and took out a bowl. After he finished the small bowl of porridge in a hurry, he took the remaining half bowl of porridge and went to the inner room.

He thought about it as he walked, and he didn't know how long the rice in the back kitchen would last. It seemed that he had to find a way to get some more money and buy some rice when he came back.

Inside, Li Fengqi has been listening to the movement outside since Ye Yunting left.

He has good hearing, and he could clearly hear the conversation between the master and the servant in a low voice, so he was even more surprised. This eldest son was more and more beyond his expectations.

Even when Ye Yunting was walking towards him with a porridge bowl, he was still thinking about such an outstanding appearance and calm temperament, Ye Zhili had lost his mind to push such an heir into the fire pit.

As for that dude Ye Wang, could it be possible that Ye Zhili was still counting on him to help him up the wall?

When Li Fengqi was puzzled, Ye Yunting had already put down the porridge bowl and approached him, lifted the thin quilt on his body, supported his back with one hand, and passed through the bend of his leg with the other.

Li Fengqi:? ? ?

He frowned slightly: "What are you doing?"

Once a stranger and second acquaintance, Ye Yunting skillfully lifted him up horizontally, facing him face to face, and said: "It's cold here, I'll carry the prince to bed."

His tone was flat, and his expression was even more flat than his tone.

If it wasn't for Li Fengqi himself who was hugged in his arms, he wouldn't feel that there was anything wrong.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said weakly, "That's all."

Very often, very act.There is no need to stick to these.

He tried to convince himself in his heart.

Ye Yunting didn't pay attention to his changing expression, carried him back to the bed, covered the quilt again, and brought him hot porridge to drink.

Li Fengqi took a sip of the porridge with downcast eyes, and remembered what he had just heard: "Li Zong even skipped your meals?"

Hearing him call the emperor's name directly, Ye Yunting was not too surprised, fed him another sip of porridge, and said: "Well, maybe I offended the servant from the palace today, so I didn't have any food." Meals are still available.

"You are quite courageous." Hearing that he offended the servants in the palace, Li Fengqi couldn't help but look up at him.

Ye Yunting smiled, and didn't talk to him about the daytime situation: "I told a few truths, but the servant doesn't like to listen."

Li Fengqi didn't get entangled in this matter either, but asked again: "If Li Zong keeps refusing to deliver meals, what are you going to do?"

"There is still some rice in the back kitchen." Ye Yunting was not too worried: "I still have some money in my hand, and I can exchange some rice to last a while, but..." His eyes swept over Li Fengqi's calm face , tentatively said: "However, it will be winter soon, if there is no charcoal fire, it may not be able to survive. Everything in the palace has been looted, does the prince know where there are other valuables hidden in the palace?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Fengqi without blinking, paying attention to his expression.

Since Li Fengqi did not have his help in the previous life, he was able to get rid of the strange poison and overcome the difficulties, and even led his troops back to Shangjing to seize the throne.Ye Yunting didn't believe that at this moment, he really had nothing to do and let others slaughter him.

King Yong'an used his soldiers like a god, even if he stumbled, he would not fail to get back up.

However, Li Fengqi's expression did not change under his gaze. He licked his chapped lips, as if he didn't understand the meaning behind his words: "I have been in northern Xinjiang all year round, and there are no valuables in this palace. I'm afraid I’m going to disappoint you.” After he paused for a moment, he continued: “This marriage is not what I intended, if you have the guts, run away with your servants at night. If you don’t know where to go, you can go to Northern Xinjiang to find Zhu Wen, just say what I mean, he will give you a safe place."

Ye Yunting's eyes dimmed when he heard this, thinking that Li Fengqi still didn't trust him.

But soon he was relieved again.It's normal to be like this, the king of Yong'an was in such a catastrophe, how could he easily tell him his hole cards to this outsider who has only known him for a day?If so, then he is not King Yongan.

He shook his head and said, "I won't leave." He couldn't leave either.

Since he entered the palace, he and Li Fengqi have been tied together, Li Fengqi died, he died.If Li Fengqi is not dead, he has escaped.What must be faced is the double pursuit of the palace and the Duke of Qi's mansion.

He took Ji Lian with him, and he was unfamiliar with the place when he left the capital, and he didn't have money and customs clearance documents, so he couldn't escape far.

Instead of being caught back after escaping and ending up in a miserable end, why not take a gamble.

He bet that the big ship of King Yong'an would not sink.

Li Fengqi saw that his expression did not waver when he heard the word "run away", and there was a bit of admiration in his eyes.

Not only is he not stupid, but he is also sober.

He closed his eyes to hide the emotion in his eyes, and after finishing his porridge, he excused himself to rest and stopped talking to Ye Yunting.

Seeing this, Ye Yunting went to the outer room to put the bowl, and went to the back kitchen with Ji Lian in the dark to boil some hot water for washing, then extinguished the candles, and rested on the imperial concubine couch in the inner room.The quilt was found from the side room, it was clean and warm, although the imperial concubine's couch was a little narrower, it could still sleep.

In fact, the palace is so big that there are empty rooms everywhere where you can rest.But the current situation is not clear, Ye Yunting is afraid that if he is far away, he will not know what happened, so he prefers to make do with it in the main room. It is better to squeeze together than to have something happen quietly and no one knows.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, Ye Yunting was tired all day, thinking about the past life, he fell into a dream.

The night owl outside the window let out a long and short cry.

On the bed, Li Fengqi opened his eyes, and made three long and one short echoes.

The night owl outside fell silent, and vaguely heard the sound of wings fluttering into the air in the forest. After a while, there were two short and one long calls.

At the same time, in the dark room, a window was pushed open silently, and then a figure came in and closed the window neatly.

The visitor first noticed Ye Yunting who was sleeping soundly on the imperial concubine's couch. He put his fingers together and pressed hard on the side of Ye Yunting's neck to make sure that he was unconscious. Then he came to the couch and knelt down on one knee: "I'm late, my lord. crime."