After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

Emperor Hongchu is critically ill...Qi Yuan's coup...? !

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu were shocked at the same time, they couldn't believe what they saw.

It was obvious that Emperor Hongchu was in good health before they set off, and it was obvious that Qi Yuan was only developing his power in the court not long ago...

How did things suddenly get so bad? !

Qi Zizhen quickly digested the news and figured out the current situation.

Now that the border is undecided, the Southwest General is always the biggest hidden danger. They can't let it go, but the court is also imminent.

Emperor Hongchu had already been chronically poisoned by Song Ping secretly before. In his previous life, his body did not start to deteriorate until next year①. The sudden critical illness at this time in this life must have been caused by Song Ping's actions in advance. It may be difficult to survive this winter.

And at this time, the intention of Qi Yuan's coup was obvious.Although the national teacher is still there for the time being, the situation is too bad. As the prince, Song Yaoxu must go back to take charge of the overall situation as soon as possible.

... If the situation is a little worse, it is even necessary to rush back to succeed to the throne, so as to avoid the chaotic situation of no monarch in the country.

Song Yaoxu frowned, and immediately said to Wei Lingshen: "Please help me to call Le Yuan and Qin Gong, and let's discuss it together."

Wei Lingshen didn't know exactly what happened, but when he saw that both of them seemed to be in a bad mood, he nodded in response, and quickly turned around to look for Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong's camp.

After he turned around, Song Yaoxu gave another order to a soldier, saying that the things he was going to deal with should be postponed for a while.

Then he planned to take Qi Zizhen back to the camp first.

But just as he stepped into the tent, Song Yaoxu felt something strange.

In order to take care of Qi Zizhen's body, Song Yaoxu specially placed a small stove in the tent at night. The whole tent was supposed to be warm, but now a lot of chill has seeped in.

And there seemed to be some water stains on the door of the tent.

——Someone came in while they didn't notice just now.

Qi Zizhen also noticed that something was wrong, and looked at Song Yaoxu, just in time to see the white light flashing behind him.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Without saying a word, he pulled Song Yaoxu aside to avoid the surprise attack of the masked assassin in black.

Song Yaoxu, who had been trained in several battles, reacted very quickly. After evading the first blow, he immediately drew his sword out of its sheath, protected Qi Zizhen behind him, pointed at the assassin, and said coldly, "Who are you? How dare you intrude on the handsome man?" Assassination!"

The assassin didn't make a sound, and attacked again with a long sword in his hand.

Song Yaoxu's eyes were dim, and he was not as polite as him. He directly attacked the assassin head-on, and blocked Qi Zizhen firmly behind him.

Qi Zizhen retreated a long distance obediently, so as not to be affected by the fight between the two of them, and Anan went to the back to be a melon-eating crowd.

Perhaps it was tacitly tacit that the assassin was probably sent by the Southwest General to capture Qi Zizhen, Song Yaoxu struck fiercely, almost implying murderous intent in every move, and the sound of clanging collisions could be heard endlessly.

Qi Zizhen watched from the back and took his own saber in his hand. If Song Yaoxu couldn't stand it, he could step forward to help.

But after watching for a while, he found that Song Yaoxu always seemed to have the upper hand.

Today's Song Yaoxu is no longer the Song Yaoxu who would hesitate even watching him kill an assassin.

Qi Zizhen was in a trance for a moment.

However, at the moment when he was dazed, the situation of the battle suddenly changed.

Song Yaoxu, who was originally imposing, put away his previous sharpness, frowned and asked tentatively after the last sword move: "Second brother?"

Qi Zizhen: "...?!"

He was stunned for a moment, and when he turned his head to look at the black-clothed "assassin", he saw that the "assassin" also stopped the sword move in his hand, lifted the black cloth covering his face, and smiled terribly: "Long time no see~ Brother and Xiao Qizi miss me~"

Qi Zizhen: "..."

He suddenly regretted not pushing Song Yaoxu away just now.

Song Yaoxu also became a little helpless: "Why are you here? You are still pretending to be an assassin. If you accidentally hurt you, you will suffer."

Song Xingqiu didn't care at all, put away the sword, his long and narrow phoenix eyes were slightly bent, and an unscrupulous smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "It's not that I learned that something happened to the court, I think you should need me~"

Qi Zizhen ignored the unscrupulous elements in his words, and asked, "How did the Second Highness know about the accident?"

It stands to reason that they had just received the urgent letter from Ning Qingwei, Song Xingqiu couldn't rush over so soon after receiving the news.

Song Xingqiu just smiled meaningfully when he heard the words: "Guess~"

Qi Zizhen: "..."

To tell you the truth, he gets angry when he hears these two words now.

Just at this time Wei Lingshen opened the tent and walked in, with a more helpless look on his face, he explained for Song Xingqiu: "The friend from the rivers and lakes who helped deliver the letter happened to meet the Second Highness when he was changing horses in Jiuyou County, and the Second Highness was with him. After inquiring about it, I rushed over with that friend."

Tang Leyuan, who was following Wei Lingshen, heard this and saw a stranger in the camp, his eyes were more curious: "Second Highness? Second Prince?"

The matter is urgent, and they don't have much time to continue gagging here. Song Yaoxu asked them to sit down one by one when they were all present, and introduced them briefly to those who didn't know each other. Finally, he put the note they just got on the table show them.

Except for Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu, the other four people didn't know much about the real situation, and they all became more serious after seeing the scrawled handwriting on the note.

Song Xingqiu, who was not serious at first and just wanted to liven up the atmosphere, also shut up.

The situation in the court was much worse than they expected.

"Then our previous march plan is going to run aground?"

Tang Leyuan frowned. Compared with the Southwest General who didn't know what he would do, the situation in the court was obviously more urgent. If Qi Yuan was inadvertent, it would be possible for Qi Yuan to take the opportunity to overthrow the regime and succeed in usurping the throne. But he was completely reduced to a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Qi Zizhen shook his head: "Your Highness at the court must go back, but the crusade against the Southwest General cannot be terminated. Otherwise, internal troubles will not be resolved, and foreign troubles will flare up again, and our situation will be even more passive."

The rest of the people agreed with him.

Internal chaos is originally a taboo in military warfare, and this kind of time is the best time to be robbed.

Their best countermeasure should be to leave some people to continue to conquer the Southwest General, while Song Yaoxu rushed back to the court to meet with Ning Qingwei, trying to stabilize the turmoil in the court.

Due to the matter of General Southwest, Song Yaoxu would not rest assured to keep Qi Zizhen in the barracks, and worried that his body would not be able to bear the haste of the horse, so he finally decided to let Qi Zizhen make his own choice.

However, Qi Zizhen's thinking direction is different from his: "I don't worry about His Highness going back by himself, but I also don't worry about Le Yuan staying here alone."

The situation on the court side still doesn't know how it will develop, and the battlefield is a matter of life and death, so he is very worried about both ends.

Just when he was struggling, Song Xingqiu on one side rested his chin with one hand, smiled again, tilted his head and said, "Didn't Xiao Aqi forget me? If you really want to know about the Southwest General, I am better than you guys." There are too many people present, otherwise why do you rush over when you think I am?"

Qi Zizhen paused for a moment: "It turns out that His Royal Highness is really here to help."

Song Xingqiu's leisurely and indifferent smile burst for a while.

He suspects that he and this little sister-in-law are naturally at odds, and he has evidence.

Fortunately, Qi Zizhen quickly returned to business and made a decision after coughing lightly.

In the end, the six of them chose groups two and four. Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu rushed back to the capital together, while Tang Leyuan, Qin Gong, Wei Lingshen and Song Xingqiu stayed in the barracks and went to the southwest town of Wumeng.

Just when Qi Zizhen asked them if such an arrangement was possible, Qin Gong, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Speaking of which, do you think these two things seem too coincidental?"

The rest of the people were stunned for a moment, awakened by his words.

They had just finished their conquest of Wuhetu's troops and were about to go to Southwest Town of Wumeng. During this period, the Southwest General didn't move at all. He only knew from Wuhetu that he wanted to capture Qi Zizhen alive.But at this time, something happened in the court that Song Yaoxu had to go back.

Is this really a coincidence?

——Or, is there any connection between Song Ping and General Southwest?

If this is the case, it might be better to explain why General Southwest wanted to capture Qi Zizhen alive.

It's not what General Southwest wants to do, but what Song Ping wants to do.

Song Ping watched Song Yaoxu grow up, and knew Song Yaoxu's previous temperament best, and the person who could make Song Yaoxu change so much was Qi Zizhen.

Qi Zizhen was once framed by them, and later he completely turned against them in Jixian Tower, and not long ago, Song Ping tried to destroy his reputation and prestige as the master of the young pagoda.

Then the most critical question is whether Song Ping knows the forbidden technique of stealing fate, why did he let General Southwest capture Qi Zizhen alive instead of killing Qi Zizhen, and is it possible that it is related to the forbidden technique?

No matter what the possibility is, Qi Zizhen is in a very dangerous situation.

The delicate and frail Qi Zizhen was a little tired.

Stay in the barracks, the Southwest General is staring at him.

Let's go back to the capital, Guan Wang is sharpening his sword and rushing towards him.

It's really either a tiger's den or a dragon's pool.

Song Yaoxu felt distressed, but he was helpless, and gently held his hand under the table again.

No matter how much he hid in the capital before, Song Ping would definitely be able to sense Qi Zizhen's extraordinaryness after winning successive victories in this expedition, and would regard him as a thorn in his side.

Wei Lingshen at the side sighed, and said, "Then I will go back to the capital together with His Highness and Xiaozhen this time, and there should be more than one person to take care of me. It just so happens that I have to go back after a few years away from home."

The rest agreed with his decision.

Qin Gong also seemed to think of something at this time, and said: "By the way, if your Highness and the Military Advisor want to confirm the connection between Guanwang and Forbidden Art, you can also ask the National Advisor.

"My father told me in a letter earlier that Master Guo Shi went to our village in February to learn about the various secret techniques and legends of our tribe②, and said that he hoped that they could be recorded in the Ling Dynasty and passed down from generation to generation. The content of the history books as a secret, after several considerations and trials, Dad will tell you everything after confirming that it is not a lie."

February?

Qi Zizhen paused for a moment before he remembered, it seemed that during the period of his autism, the national teacher did temporarily entrust Lingning to his care on the grounds that he was going out of the city.

Did the national teacher go to Qin Gong and his tribe at that time?

He lowered his eyes and pondered for a while, and instinctively told him that the national teacher must not have gone simply to add content to the history books.

Thinking about this, he thought of the two letters from the national teacher before. This time, after returning this time, he must ask everything clearly in front of the national teacher, and see how the national teacher still perfunctory him.

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Plot/Timeline Notes:

①The physical condition of Emperor Hongchu in his previous life: see Chapter 54 for details

② Ning Qingwei went out of the city for a period of time: Chapter 20, leaving on the fifth day of February, Chapter 27, returning on February 21st

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