Tang Dynasty

Li Jiancheng stood on the side of Hirano with his horse on his horse, and behind him stood a thousand fine riders in awe.

Wei Ting pressed Shibobi who was bound by five flowers, and saw his fiery red cloak fluttering slightly, becoming more and more bright in the increasingly bright morning light, but his back just remained motionless.

Not long after, on the other side of the plain, accompanied by the sound of hoofbeats, a line of people and horses appeared in sight.

The entourage brought by Agbi is not many, it can be seen that it is only a few hundred.When he got close, he raised the rein of the horse, and the people behind him also stopped.

Li Jiancheng clamped the horse's belly, stepped forward with the rein in hand, cupped his fists and smiled at him, "Khan is here all right."

Duobi laughed when he heard the words, and said: "Although you and I are not in debt to each other, why bother to change the name so much?"

"Since the eldest brother said so, then Jiancheng had no choice but to be respectful rather than obedient." Li Jiancheng still smiled, and changed his words lightly.After a pause, he turned around and signaled Wei Ting to bring Shibobi forward, and said, "I have brought the little Khan, so return King Qin to me."

Duo Bi looked at him and didn't answer, just raised his eyebrows and said: "Jiang Jian, you are so eager this time, it's not like your usual temperament."

Li Jiancheng's expression remained unchanged, and he said with a faint smile, "If elder brother wants to reminisce about the old days here, Jiancheng should also accompany him." As he spoke, his hand became more and more forceful, and he staggered a little closer to Shibobi.

Dubi smiled and sighed, turned around and clapped his hands, and a Turkic soldier came up leading a horse.Immediately, one of them was lying face down on the horse's back, his hair was hanging in a mess, and there were blood stains on the thin underwear.

Li Jiancheng squinted his eyes, watching the man and horse walking up to Duobi and stopped, his expression gradually became solemn.After a while, he withdrew his eyes and looked at Doubi steadfastly, and said, "Brother, are you using torture on him?"

"No torture." Duo Bi shook his head, his expression completely indifferent, "This injury was suffered on the battlefield. I only said that I want to save his life, but I have no obligation to treat his injury."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to grab the horse's messy hair, lifted it up hard, and let it go hard again.Li Shimin coughed a few times in a low voice, and fell back to the original place with the strength of the opponent, but he didn't struggle at all.

Seeing this, Li Jiancheng immediately pushed Shibobi forward a few minutes and said, "Brother, since the person has been brought, let's exchange it quickly."

He Bi narrowed his eyes at him, with a vaguely deep meaning in his eyes.After a while, he nodded slightly, whipped the horse's rump, and the brown horse wobbled towards Li Jiancheng.

Seeing this, Li Jiancheng also loosened the grip on the Shibobi, and pushed the man towards Duobi.Almost at the same moment, the protons of both sides returned to their own side.

Greeting Shibobi back, he signaled the troops to retreat, and then turned to Li Jiancheng and said, "Jiangcheng, if Shibobi hadn't been young and energetic, greedy for the results of the battle, and wanted to exchange for Li Shimin, it would not have been so easy."

Seeing that Li Shimin had been taken behind him surrounded by everyone, Li Jiancheng took it back and didn't look back anymore. Hearing this, he only said to Tuobi: "Brother, you treated him like this only out of personal revenge."

"So what?" The men and horses backed away slowly, and laughed aggressively, "As for why this personal enmity started, Jian Jian should know the most clearly."

Li Jiancheng looked at him for a long time and sighed.

"You should know that what I have done this time may have just made a decision for you." After waiting for a while, Duobi left this sentence, then turned his horse's head and whipped away.

Li Jiancheng was a little surprised at the meaning of these words, but he heard an exclamation from behind: "Your Highness!"

Fang turned around, but Wei Ting trotted forward and said, "Your Highness, King Qin... the situation is not good..."

"what happened?"

Wei Ting hesitated for a moment, and said: "King Qin has a deep knife wound on his waist and abdomen, and the situation is critical..."

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Li Jiancheng immediately got off his horse and walked towards the back of the person.

Li Shimin was temporarily placed on the grass, and the doctor performed simple wound treatment.Under the cover of the surrounding soldiers, his figure was almost invisible.Li Jiancheng walked behind the crowd, vaguely glimpsed a corner of blood seeping on the ground, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He turned around and slowly said to Wei Ting who was following him, "Take King Qin back to the city for treatment."

"Yes!" Wei Ting ordered, and quickly walked past him.

But Li Jiancheng did not move at the same place, he raised his eyes to look at the aggressive horse who had disappeared, and then slowly closed his eyes.

His fingertips were clenched into fists, but he couldn't stop shaking for some reason.

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After the men and horses returned to the city, people from Prince Qin's residence had already heard the news and rushed over.Li Jiancheng stopped the man outside the mansion, and spread the word that the doctor is treating him and should not be disturbed.When the injury eased a little, he should be sent back to the mansion.If you stay here again, you will be punished by military law.

Generals like Qin Qiong in the Palace of King Qin still feel dissatisfied, but counselors like Du Ruhui tactfully call on the crowd to disperse, secretly saying that King Qin fell into the hands of the prince, Xu Zheng was seriously injured, if he doesn't bear it for a while, it might be bad for King Qin.

The rest felt reasonable and had to leave angrily.

Li Jianjian stood in the corridor in the courtyard, unfolding the letter Fang sent from Chang'an amidst the noise of coming in and out behind him.In the letter, Wei Zheng briefly explained the current situation in the court, and the Qin Wang Party did not have much movement for the time being.It's just that Liu Heita's rebel army, which was once suppressed by the King of Qin, returned from the north at this time and made a comeback. Back to Mingzhou.Li Yuan had already discussed this matter several times at the court, and it seems that he intends to send Li Yuanji, the king of Qi who is still in Chang'an, to fight against him.

After reading it, Li Jiancheng folded the letter and put it in his sleeve, then walked back into the room.

The servants in the room were busy pouring water and serving medicines. When they suddenly saw Li Jiancheng, they all wanted to put down their work and come to worship.Li Jiancheng waved his hand to signal that they were excused, and then walked slowly to the bedside.

Standing in the blood-stained white gauze at his feet, the doctor was leaning over, wrapping bandages around Li Shimin's abdomen.The wound had been covered by bandages, so we couldn't see the extent of the injury, but apart from that, the deep and shallow knife wounds on Li Shimin's naked half body clearly showed the brutality of the lonely battle that day.

Li Jianjian stood where he was, quietly watching the doctor take care of the wound, and then his servants rushed over, carefully putting on his underclothes.

And Li Shimin just closed his eyes from the beginning to the end, breathed weakly, let others fiddle with him, and remained motionless.

Li Jiancheng stepped back a few steps to make way.After a while, he finally withdrew his gaze and signaled the doctor to go out together. Fang asked: "King Qin...how is the situation?" Seeing that the doctor looked hesitant, he added, "You don't need to worry about it, but it's okay to say it."

"That old man will speak bluntly," said the elder doctor, bowing his hands, "Although King Qin's life is not in danger, the situation is really not good."

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "What do you mean by that?"

The doctor replied: "King Qin has more than a hundred wounds all over his body, and the knife in the waist and abdomen even hurt the lungs. However, these wounds seem to have been around for a long time, but they have not been treated. At this time, some of them are already showing signs of festering."

"Exactly five days." Li Jiancheng said slowly, "Is there still a way to treat it?"

"Of course there are. The old man has just cut off the carrion for the King of Qin. The injury is not serious." The doctor raised his eyes to look at Li Jiancheng, and said hesitantly, "It's just..."

Seeing his hesitation, Li Jiancheng's eyes deepened, and he said word by word: "Go ahead."

"Yes." The doctor had no choice but to nod his head, and said, "It's just that the old man is very weak, and it seems that he hasn't eaten for several days. If this continues, I'm afraid it will not be conducive to the recovery of the injury."

He was seriously injured, and not even a drop of water or a grain of rice... Li Jiancheng suddenly understood at this moment what he said before, he had never punished Li Shimin, but he used this method of killing his anger slowly, which was actually worse than punishment. Vicious.

Seeing that he was silent for a while, the doctor said: "The king of Qin has no energy at this time, so he should resume his diet as soon as possible. It's just that he has been cut off for too long, so he should be given liquid soup for a few days, and then switch to solid food. Fortunately, the king of Qin has If the foundation of martial arts is properly maintained and supplemented with medication, it may not leave long-term symptoms."

Li Jiancheng came back to his senses, looked at him and saluted politely: "Then there will be Doctor Lao."

The doctor nodded, but also cupped his hands and said: "The old man will come back tomorrow, so I will take my leave."

Li Jiancheng watched the doctor leave before turning back to the room.Screening off the servants, he walked to the bed, sat down gently, and looked down at the unconscious person on the bed.

Li Shimin lay on his back. After washing and washing, his face returned to its usual tall and handsome appearance.However, his complexion was as pale as paper, completely bloodless.As if touched, it will be broken.

Such a fragile Li Shimin is really too rare.For a while, Li Jiancheng couldn't even associate him with the invincible General Tiance on the battlefield in the past.After watching quietly for a while, he stretched out his hand, and slowly stroked the other person's slightly softened brows due to the pain, and Mo Liao slowly pulled up the corner of the quilt that had not been tucked in.

At this moment, there is no power struggle between the two, no barriers between the two, as if they have returned to the scene many years ago, when they tucked the quilt for Li Shimin, who was sleeping irregularly, with a rare purity.

He smiled silently, and suddenly felt that it would be great if he could stay in this moment for a long time.

——Unfortunately, if you wake up, everything will return to the original state.

——In this life, between you and me, there will only be an endless ending.

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That night, Li Jiancheng had a simple dinner in his room, and then ordered his servants to bring up the boiled medicinal porridge.Because of Li Shimin's difficulty in eating, the old doctor simply changed the prescription, and after the servants fried the medicine, they mixed it with the gruel.This can also be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Retiring the servants, Li Jiancheng walked to the bed with the porridge, looked down at Li Shimin for a moment, then took a sip of the medicinal porridge from the bowl, leaned over and clasped the back of Li Shimin's neck, and passed with his lips and teeth touching.

The gruel with the fragrance of medicine quickly occupied each other's breath, as if this once very familiar but now somewhat long-lost touch aroused something, Li Shimin's articulate was easily pried open, and he accepted it unconsciously. This medicinal porridge seemed to have a faint meaning of swallowing.

After swallowing all the porridge one bite at a time, Li Jiancheng put Li Shimin back to the lying position.

Then he stood by the bed, silently looking at the person on the bed.The opponent's hair was slightly disheveled by the action just now. Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand and lifted a strand of hair sticking to his face to the base of his ear.But the hand just stood there, no longer moving.

Seventy percent of the remaining breath between the lips and teeth came from the medicine porridge, but three percent came from the other party.

There was such a moment of motionless silence, without warning, Li Jiancheng clasped Li Shimin's chin lightly, leaned down, and dropped a kiss on the other's lips like a superficial kiss.

Pure and crunchy, yet fleeting kiss.

Then he stood up, opened the door and left.

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Li Shimin opened his eyes three days later.

All he could see was the tent embroidered with plain patterns, and all his limbs seemed to be drained of strength, unable to move at all.If he struggled to move, his waist and abdomen would feel a sharp pain.

Closing his eyes feebly, he seemed to recall the day of the outnumbered battle and the five days and nights in the Turkic camp.

Every moment is suffering, and every bit of forbearance is at the price of seeing the loss of one's consciousness.I don't know when it started, his sanity has become blurred, only the knife stabbed in his waist stimulates him with severe pain from time to time, and he is still alive.

Occasionally, when his consciousness is clear, he would recall that many years ago, when he was chasing Song Jingang, Liu Wuzhou's subordinate, he had led the army to forcibly fight day and night, and survived without water and food for two or three days like this.However, at that time, he only wanted to win, but at this time, if he persisted, what could he do for it?Sometimes he felt that his elder brother would not let him go, and would come to rescue him immediately, but the scene of the other party leading the army to abandon him and go back to rescue Yanmen quickly dragged him into the bottomless darkness.

Occasionally hope, after endless waiting, can only fall into deeper despair.

And then... everything was already blurred, only Li Jiancheng's shadow swayed vaguely in front of his eyes, but there was no trace of what happened in the end.

While his thoughts were in a mess, the door was opened from the outside, and a vague white figure stepped into the door.Li Shimin moved his body vigorously, trying to see the person clearly, but his body didn't obey.

But at this time, there was only an exclamation: "Your Highness is awake? This servant is going to call the doctor!" It was the voice of the servant girl.

Not big brother.

Li Shimin sighed slowly, no longer struggled, just cast his eyes on the top of the tent again, and stared blankly.

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"Are you awake?" Li Jiancheng paused slightly before raising his eyes.

"Yes," Wei Ting said, "I just woke up, the doctor looked at it, and said that apart from some weakness in the body, the rest is fine."

Li Jiancheng gave a low "hmm", turned his eyes back to the case, and stopped talking.

Seeing that he was suddenly silent, Wei Ting couldn't help hesitating and said: "Your Highness, do you want to go and have a look?" After all, he has also witnessed Li Jiancheng staying in the room every day for the past few days.

"No need." Li Jiancheng wrote a few words on the paper with a pen, without raising his head, "Since he is awake, let the people of King Qin's residence... take him back."