Li Daitao

"I knew he had never ridden a horse before, so I shouldn't have stayed too far away from him at that time." Qin Shu's emotions had calmed down, and he seemed to see his doubts, and explained a few sentences more rationally.

Yi Zhen also had lingering fears in his heart. At this time, he looked at Liang Xiao who was standing in front of him safe and sound, and said softly, "Fortunately, nothing happened."

Liang Xiao smiled silently at him for a while before suddenly reacting.Hastily let Yi Zhen into the room: "...Uncle Yi, come in and sit down. I'll pour water." Said, ran to the table, rinsed the cup with tea, and brought it over.

Le Yi Zhen didn't notice his petty obsession.But he was full of unspeakable love for this well-behaved and sensible child.Because of his uncle's identity, he can't be too eager.But when he took the tea, he couldn't help but took the opportunity to reach out and touch his face, and praised him.

Liang Xiao blushed and looked very happy.The child was originally a little thin, but now his face was flushed, and he looked healthier.

Qin Shu lowered his head to talk to Xu Ji about these small movements between the two of them, so he didn't know if he saw them.

This is just a small town, the guest rooms are simple, and the furnishings in the room are also simple, there is only a bed, a table and a chair.Qin Shu gave up the only chair to Yi Zhen, and sat on the bed by himself.

He had just put Xu Ji on his lap to sit, when the little guy suddenly groaned, his little brows furrowed, with a pained expression on his face.

Qin Shu felt strange and asked, "What?"

"It's okay, I'm fine." Xu Ji said immediately.But he didn't dare to sit still, he moved his body agitatedly, and carefully changed into a more comfortable position.Hands involuntarily guarded by his side.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Qin Shu put him on the bed and started to check.

"I know I'm wrong! I really know I'm wrong. I'll be good from now on, and I won't dare to be naughty again. Really!" Xu Ji was startled, covered his hands behind his back, and cried out. "Father has already hit me, don't hit me again, it hurts so bad..."

Yi Zhen put down his teacup, coughed lightly, and didn't look at him.

Xu Ji immediately shut up. He didn't dare to beg for mercy any more, so he had to discuss with Qin Shu aggrievedly: "Then hit me lightly, lightly...it hurts..."

Qin Shu stretched out his hand to touch it, and could feel slight bumps through the fabric.As soon as he touched it, Xu Ji trembled slightly, but he still held back and didn't make a sound.

Qin Shu simply pulled down his trousers, only to see that his little butt was covered with red and red palm prints, and the finger marks were clearly visible. Even if he wanted to hit him, there was really no place to strike.Liang Xiao ran to the bedside to have a look, took a breath, interceded for him in a low voice, and said to Qin Shu: "Your brother is so young, and he didn't do it on purpose, and I have nothing to do, so just leave him alone. "

Although Qin Shu was angry with him, seeing Xu Ji's fate made him feel distressed, and turned his head to give Yi Zhen a complaining look.

Yi Zhen coughed: "Don't be reluctant to bear him. Whenever he got into trouble, it was easier than admitting his mistakes. But you ask him, is there ever a time when his memory really changed?"

Xu Ji was very wronged, he had indeed refused to change after repeated admonitions, but at that time his father only said a few words about him casually, but he never slapped him like today.This was the first time he was beaten, and he was really scared at the moment, and muttered in a low voice: "Really, everything will change in the future."

"Daddy, do you really want to hit me?" Seeing that Qin Shu was silent, he secretly raised his eyes to take a look, but he couldn't figure out what was going on on his face, so Xu Ji finally turned his attention, Close your eyes. "Come on, let's fight. Dad, let's say yes first, you can't be angry with me again after you finish the fight."

Qin Shu was confused by him, finally sighed, and went to get the medicine bottle just now, but Liang Xiao had already taken it with interest, rubbed the medicine on Xu Ji carefully, and asked him softly if it hurt.

Xu Ji began to cry, and whispered sorry to him, Liang Xiao acted like a grown-up, first patted his head, expressing his forgiveness generously.Then he reasoned with him earnestly and earnestly. The two children murmured and quickly reconciled.

Although Qin Shu didn't believe that he could change everything, he didn't want to do anything to him at this time.Let Xu Ji lie on the bed, Liang Xiao leaned beside the bed and rubbed the medicine on him. Both of them were children, so they naturally had a common language. After whispering for a while, they soon started talking and laughing in a low voice.

Qin Shu said to Xu Ji: "Remember this time first, and if you commit another crime in the future, you will be counted together with the principal and interest."

Xu Ji broke into laughter and nodded again and again, "I will be obedient from now on, and I won't dare to mess around anymore."

He didn't dare to lie down, so after applying the medicine, he moved to Qin Shu's side, and then pulled Liang Xiao to the bedside to be next to him.Seeing that Qin Shu didn't intend to push him away, he carefully leaned his side on Qin Shu's lap, murmured "Daddy", raised his hand and grabbed Qin Shu's lock of hair hanging down his shoulder, and took it Play with it in your hand.

It's rare for Qin Shu to see him calm down for a while, studying without making trouble. This kid is really likable just by looking at him.Then she reached out and touched his forehead, and asked him softly, "Does it hurt?"

Xu Ji blinked, and finally told the truth: "It hurts. My father said, I am a man, and I have to be punished if I make a mistake. My father hit me right." He thought for a while and then said, "My father didn't Break me, it doesn't hurt now, don't worry."

Qin Shu smiled lightly and said nothing.This child doesn't understand that he was born into a powerful family, and his words and deeds in the future may affect the lives of others. If he behaves like this in the future, it is really not a good thing.It's just that Xu Ji is still young, so he might not understand if he said it at this time.

At this time Yi Zhen coughed lightly, and said softly from the side: "I will discipline him strictly in the future, and won't let him become a playboy."

Qin Shu didn't expect him to see his thoughts, slightly surprised, glanced at him, noncommittal.

Yi Zhen saw that the clothes he had just mended were placed beside the bed, so he picked them up to have a look.Qin Shu has a delicate mind. Although Liang Xiao never picks and chooses when it comes to food and clothing, children always love beauty by nature.He worked hard on the broken part, and it looked like a peach blossom, which you couldn't see unless you looked carefully.

Yi Zhen touched the stitches for a while, and said in a dazed voice, "I want to buy some clothes for him, is that okay? He's growing fast at this time."

Seeing the pain and longing on his face, Qin Shu couldn't give Liang Xiao too much in addition to his current situation, so he suddenly lost the reason to object.He waved at Liang Xiao: "Thank you, Uncle."

Yi Zhen was overjoyed, and said again: "I'll buy him another pair of shoes, and..." For a moment, he just wanted to give this child the best things.

Qin Shu said softly: "Master Hou, please stop in moderation." This made Yi Zhen calm down a little.

Qin Shu had no intention of quarreling with him again, and Yi Zhen paid great attention to what he said, only picking out trivial matters related to Xu Ji or Jian An, and everything was fine for a while.

With Xu Ji on his lap as a pillow, Qin Shu hugged Liang Xiao beside him, listening quietly, occasionally asking a few questions.

Without Xu Ji's noise in the room, it made people a little uncomfortable for a while.Yi Zhen looked at Qin Shu, who was quietly standing between the two children, and lost his mind when he was speaking.

When Qin Shu asked him, he couldn't react for a while.

Qin Shu asked again: "How tall is Jian An?" He pointed to Liang Xiao again: "Which of them is taller?"

"Of course Jian An is taller. Those kids are half a year older than him."

Qin Shu let out an oh, and then seemed a little dazed.

That night Xu Ji still stayed here and did not leave.Qin Shu didn't resolutely object because he had just been beaten.

Xu Ji didn't dare to lie down on his back, he would touch it if he was not careful, and he couldn't sleep soundly.In the dead of night, Liang Xiao was fast asleep. Before he fell asleep, he suddenly crawled up to Qin Shu's side and whispered into his ear.

"Daddy? Daddy?" Without a response, he got closer and closer, with warm breath blowing against his face, making people even want to ignore him. "Daddy? Are you asleep?"

Qin Shu pushed him onto the bed and lay on his stomach: "Go to sleep."

Xu Ji groaned. After being quiet for a while, he struggled to get up again and began to rub against Qin Shu's arms: "Daddy..."

Qin Shu had no choice but to ask him, "What's the matter?"

"Daddy, can we bring Brother Jian An back together? I miss my brother, as long as you ask, Father will do it." Xu Ji's voice was a little coquettish, and he groped to put his arms around his neck. , softly said: "I have never bullied my brother, really."

Qin Shu was already worried about that child, but when he heard Xu Ji say this, his heart moved slightly, but Xu Ji was already hard to let go, and with Jian An, it would be even more difficult to get away.He no longer has the energy to bring up the grudge again, but he also does not want to get entangled with Yi Zhen again.So there was no words for a long time.

Xu Ji thought that he would not agree, so he was a little anxious, and moved closer, almost whispering in Qin Shu's ear, "Daddy, let me tell you something..." He also seemed to hesitate for a moment. "I'll tell you if you're not angry, and you can't let the king know that I said it."

Qin Shu was amused by his pretentious appearance, and sighed and patted him: "You have so many tricks, what's the matter? Tell me."

Xu Ji lowered his already low voice even lower: "Actually, my father lied and lied. Brother Jian An is not in the capital, he is in the palace..."

"The palace is also in Beijing, so it's not a lie." Qin Shu froze at first, then relaxed when he heard that it was such a trivial matter, and patted Xu Ji, not realizing that there was some excuse for Yi in his words .

"It's different!" Xu Ji pouted after being splashed with cold water. "When he enters the palace, he can't come back casually."

It's a pity that Qin Shu couldn't see it.She couldn't help asking him again: "What is Jian An doing in the palace?"

Although Xu Ji was a little angry, he still answered all his questions: "He went to accompany the prince to read. Originally, the emperor's uncle sent someone to pick me up. My father said that the prince is a golden branch and a jade leaf. I have a bad temper. Maybe something The time collided, and after talking about it, I didn’t know why, and it became my brother who took my place.”

"Ask you to accompany the prince to read?" Qin Shu was a little surprised, Shaoxuan should be in his twenties, and there is still a need to find a child to study with him.

Xu Ji nodded, and then thought that Qin Shu couldn't see it: "...it's the little prince."

"Little prince?"

"Well, yes. He is not good at all. He bullies me every time we meet, but the emperor dotes on him. I can't beat him. Brother Jian An lives in the palace, so he will definitely be bullied by him."

Qin Shuyue felt that something was wrong: "Which prince is it? Shaoxuan bullied you?"

"Uncle Shaoxuan is very kind to me. He gave me a lot of fun things. He doesn't bully me. The little prince is Qizhang."

The name Qizhang had never been heard before, and Qin Shu was slightly startled: "How can there be two princes?"

"Anyway, people in the palace call Qizhang the little prince. The emperor's uncle didn't mention them when he heard it. Brother Jian An was his companion reading. The emperor's uncle didn't want Uncle Shaoxuan to be the prince. He wanted to replace the prince with Qizhang. But many grandpas and uncles refused to agree. They kept arguing with the emperor. Follow me out."

Xu Ji thought for a while, and seemed to remember that Shaoxuan was also the prince.After much deliberation, I am also a little confused.Although he is extremely smart, but he is still a four or five year old child after all, he still can't understand the fights in court, and Yi Zhen deliberately doesn't want him to know about these intrigues.At this time, it was also confusing, and finally shook his head and said: "I don't know, you can ask my father."

Qin Shu heard a lot of clues from his words, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, broke out in a cold sweat, couldn't lie down anymore, sat up and lit the oil lamp, and called Xu Ji up to ask questions.

Xu Ji couldn't explain many of them clearly, but Qin Shu even guessed, but he understood half a dozen of them.Qizhang's identity is not difficult to guess. Qing Emperor finally got his wish after exhausting all his efforts. This child was born of him and Zhu You.Although Emperor Qing was overjoyed, it was inconvenient to announce such a thing to the world. The child was also named under the name of a concubine, and there were quite a few courtiers who knew about it.

But Qin Shu deliberately avoided all the news about Beijing, and the place where he lived for many years was a remote village, so he didn't know about it.

In the eyes of others, Emperor Qing's affection for Zhu You has reached an unimaginable level, and of course he loves this child like a treasure.This child was so smart that Emperor Qing moved his mind to change the crown prince.

Perhaps Qing Emperor was too impatient, or the world was too impermanent. At the beginning, those who thought Shaoxuan was a mediocre prince, now in turn accused Qizhang's background, and Qizhang was still young. I feel that Qingdi's move is absurd and nonsensical. The edict to abolish Shaoxuan and change to Liqizhang has been drawn up, but all the officials in the court have written to oppose it, which is suppressed for a while, but judging by Qingdi's attitude, on this matter , is unwilling to give up.

The enthusiasm at the beginning has already been completely poured out, and now such a major event as Emperor Qing abolishing who will be established, in Qin Shu's view, is just such a distant and irrelevant matter to him.

But Yi Zhen's position in it became strangely subtle.Shaoxuan and him are cousins, before Shaoxuan sat firmly on the position of prince, and since he had no heirs except Emperor Qing, he had a lot to do with his support, so naturally he should be counted as one of Shaoxuan's party.But on the other hand, like Emperor Qing, he had one and only son, who was also born to a man.Those who accused Qizhang of his origin, invisibly, had trouble with Marquis Yanzi on this point.

No one can change Qingdi's determination.He asked Xu Ji to enter the palace to accompany Qizhang to read, more or less maybe a little bit of coaxing, if he failed to win over, Xu Ji should be a hostage, so Yi Zhen had to think twice.

Xu Ji is such a smart little guy, even though Yi Zhen has tried his best to protect him, he can still see the clues from the attitude, words and deeds of others towards him, even from a look in his eyes, so when it comes to these When I was doing things, I couldn't help but feel a little listless: "...Finally, my father took me out, so I don't plan to go back. Let whoever the emperor likes to be the prince, let him be. Father said we don't care."

"...Father Wang said that it would not be difficult to take my brother out. When he returns the soldier talisman and power in his hand to the emperor's uncle, he will no longer be a marquis. As long as Shaoxuan's brother can't become the prince, the emperor's uncle will take Jane Brother An sent me back. My father brought me out this time, so we don’t plan to go back. My father said to take me to Tongcheng to have a look. That’s where my father used to live... We will live there and settle down. After that, I brought my elder brother to live with us...and then I met you, Daddy, so good!"

Xu Ji lay on his knees, leaned close to his face and rubbed against him affectionately, he also felt a little tired after talking so many words, feeling drowsy, covered his mouth with a small fist and yawned, But he still looked at Qin Shu with his eyelids open: "Daddy, Xiaoji will be good. You won't want me, right? Let's bring my brother to live with me, okay? Daddy, tell your father to let him go sooner." Take my brother out. Okay?"

Qin Shu remained silent, being so entangled by Xu Ji, he reached out and touched his little head.Xu Ji just assumed that he didn't speak and agreed.He yawned again, moved to a comfortable position, and fell asleep with his feet on his pillow.

Qin Shu was disturbed by his nonsense.He deliberately wanted to forget what happened back then, and didn't think about how Yi Zhen got here in the past few years. He only thought that his life was going smoothly these years, but he never thought that he would have so many difficulties. Saying it in a few words with the immature eyes of a child makes people feel more and more sad.

He remembered that when Yi Zhen mentioned Jian An yesterday, he accompanied him carefully and asked him if he wanted to see Jian An, so that he could be sent immediately.He said it frankly at the time, as easy as eating and drinking. Qin Shu didn't expect what kind of deal would be hidden behind it, let alone Yi Zhen who gave away his own glory and wealth, so nonchalantly, even wish for it.Such indifference, in the final analysis, is just for him to be happy.

He thought that Yi Zhen was just unwilling, just because he couldn't get it, and he was more and more unwilling to let go of the novelty-seeking mentality, but there are a few people in the world who can just for the sake of unwillingness, just for the sake of curiosity, and for the sake of being strong and eager to win. Abandon power and wealth?

As Yi Zhen himself said, he just wanted to make himself happier.It's just that he didn't say anything... he could do anything for it.