I write novels in the East Palace

"Guan Yan, walk slowly!" Fang Chengxiang raised his voice helplessly, holding the corner of his coat and trotting for a while, unable to catch up with his son who got off the carriage and ran all the way, "You have no orders, no tokens, The guards in the palace don't know you, so they won't let you trespass!"

However, before the words were finished, Fang Guanyan showed the token to the guard and passed through after confirmation and body search.

Fortunately, the inspection was delayed for some time. Prime Minister Fang was an important minister authorized by the emperor to act in a hurry without abiding by the rules. He came in and out of the palace almost every day, and the guards had seen him at the door, and they didn't stop him when he was in a hurry.

Prime Minister Fang was able to catch up with his son, and looked at the sleeve that had just been stuffed with the token, "What happened to the token you just showed? It was given by His Majesty?"

"It's the jade pendant given by the master in return."

When he left the palace last time, Zhou Chengyi not only gave him the manuscript and pen, but also gave him the token of the prince who can enter and leave the palace at will.

"If you want to find me in the future, just come, I'll be there at any time." Fang Guanyan still remembers Zhou Chengyi's smile when he said this, it seemed to have a bit of intoxicating meaning.

Fang Guanyan pursed his lips, and hurried towards Qianyuan Palace even faster.

Poor Prime Minister Fang let out an "ah" and could only continue trotting.

At the gate of Qianyuan Palace, the two also ran into Zhong Liyue who was coming from the barracks in armor.

The Western cannons are already in place, and there are two important matters in the court recently: one is the research and imitation progress of various Western hot weapons by the Firearms Battalion; the other is that the expedition to Beihu has already been put on the agenda.

General Pei led [-] assault battalion cavalry to go to Cangzhou with light clothes to see if the specific conditions of Ruchuan and Yanyun City can fight. , driving straight into Shangxidu, he must be caught off guard.

The reason why this unexpected style of play can only be placed in the second place is first of all because the Northern Hu in the Western Regions has no family, they are all nomads, and they are related by marriage for generations. They were even unified a hundred years ago. At that time, there was no one in the Central Plains. The combined generals were really defeated and defeated, and the country was finally destroyed. Even the Sha Man who went north had bowed his head and proclaimed himself a vassal.

However, the dream of conquering the Central Plains and becoming the lord of the world will eventually be shattered by the death of the Great Khan. There is no successor who can suppress the old department, so they are divided again and each hires Khans to be independent. One by one, they were expelled from the Central Plains, and some of them were even beaten and fled to Shaman or the southeast.

Beihu was founded during the time of Emperor Taizong. At that time, Xiao Guo was resting and recuperating, so Beihu also kept a low profile. During the period of the first emperor, it suddenly rose to become Xiao's confidant, and it has been to this day.

Precisely because it was once a country, the Western Regions have always had an unclear attitude on the issue of Beihu. It seems that neither side wants to offend, but in fact there may be no worries.

This method is certainly available, but we have to worry about the Western Regions turning against the water and being attacked by enemies.

The secret assistance of the "Hu Country Granary" in the Ruchuan Battle of the Western Regions can also be said to be "indispensible".

It is impossible for Zhong Liyue to hand over the initiative to the Western Regions, so this good strategy can only be used as a next step.

The second is that General Pei is better at defending the city than surprise attacks. However, the mail army left behind in Cangzhou was the first to bear the brunt of the outbreak, and its combat power was severely hit and weakened.

The emperor suppressed Zhong Liyue and asked Pei Shengyi to go first, so he had considerations for combat power. If there were not enough soldiers in Cangzhou to start the battle, the Tianqi Army had to be used.

Although Zhong Liyue made frequent ingenious strategies and was almost invincible, as the emperor said before, rushing to war would do more harm than good.In this case, it would be better to stay in Beijing to train the Tianqi Army, and wait for General Pei to pass the news back before making any plans.

Of course, the emperor also ordered the Firearms Battalion to escort several Western cannons to Cangzhou after General Pei's light cavalry.

When the three of them went in together, they heard the emperor asking in a cold voice, "Are you blaming me for what you just said?"

"I dare not." Zhou Chengyao's weak and tired voice was slightly stiff.

"I dare not rather than not." The emperor's tone sounded moody.

Zhou Chengyao coughed twice and spit out a word in tit-for-tat: "Yes."

The emperor's breathing suddenly became heavy and rapid, and a suffocating silence spread in Qianyuan Palace, even Wang He didn't dare to say a word.

He heard the sound of panting like a blowing bellows interspersed with Zhou Chengyao's muffled cough.

The two of them didn't know what topics they talked about before, but Fang Guanyan had an intuition that the prince and Prince could say such outrageous things, it should be for the sake of the husband.

Zhong Li stepped in to cut off the atmosphere, "Okay, the two sick people are still arguing, are you afraid that you will live too long?"

The emperor held his chest for a while, then turned his angry eyes to him with an ugly face, "Are you here to blame me too?"

"I'm here to ask about the situation. Calm down. You'll die of anger before anyone finds it." Zhong Liyue's words almost made the emperor poke at him on the spot, his breathing suddenly became heavier, and he covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed .

"Your Majesty!" Wang He hurried forward to pat him on the back, the emperor's red eyes were more glaring than the blood on the handkerchief.

Wang He turned pale with shock, but was warned by the emperor to glance at it.

Zhong Liyue was interrogating Chang Xia and Ling Dong who were on the side, and his fierce and fierce breath was released on the two of them, "Where did the accident happen, please give me a clear answer, if there is any mistake, I cut you off on the spot."

Both of them nodded, Chang Xia couldn't help trembling when he opened his mouth tremblingly when he wanted to speak, and he spoke intermittently.

Zhong Liyue frowned, and Chang Xia was suddenly surrounded by killing intent, and couldn't even speak.

Zhong Liyue's killing intent can tear the enemy's heart apart, let alone a teenager in his fifteenth or sixteenth year.

"Tell me." Zhong Liyue frowned and nodded at Lin Dong, because his dissatisfaction became more fierce.

Lin Dong also trembled in his heart, but his performance was better than Chang Xia's. He briefly explained the situation, "Yesterday, His Highness went out of the palace to Chang'an City and did not return overnight. There is no news until now."

"He disappeared outside the palace? Why is no one following?" Zhong Liyue's tone changed after hearing this.

Neither of the servants could answer this question. No matter what caused the disappearance of the master, it was their dereliction of duty.

Zhou Chengyao suppressed the itch in his throat and explained, "Marshal, don't need to get angry. The fourth brother has always had such a temper. He rarely asks people to follow him when he goes out."

Fang Guanyan knew that Zhou Chengyi had always defended his people, so he certainly didn't want to see his people punished innocently, so he also testified, and said, "The point now is who kidnapped His Highness?"

"Could it be Beihu's secret work?" Prime Minister Fang frowned.

Zhong Liyue waved his hand, and his expression was not too nervous, "What kidnapping, I taught him some boxing skills when he was young, how can ordinary people take people away so silently and without any movement, I see him even more It's like walking with someone."

Zhou Chengyao said anxiously, "He's not—how do we know if he will still be able to do it now!"

Both the emperor and Zhong Liyue looked at Zhou Chengyao because of this sentence, and the former looked puzzled, "You know?"

"...Yes." Zhou Chengyao let out a wry smile, "Why didn't I know that he was so obvious, it was because I knew that I couldn't help it." Couldn't help but blame the emperor.

Zhou Chengyao first felt that something was wrong when he saw Zhou Chengyi's sharp handwriting written with a quill pen for the first time, but at that time he felt strange but didn't have much doubt.

After reading Fang Fanggu's analysis article on the Stealing Scroll, which was highly praised by Zhou Chengyi, he finally couldn't help but look for books about the disease of leaving the soul. To study these detailed descriptions.

[Encountering a catastrophe, a sudden change in personality, as if returning from a dead body, evil spirits invade, one body has multiple souls, and there is no lag between transitions]

These Zhou Chengyao used to put it on Zhou Chengyi's body as bizarre descriptions like novels, but they fit so well.

Zhou Chengyao tossed and turned for a long time after reading it, and fell ill the next day, but later buried it in his heart and never said it.

The emperor and Zhong Liyue thought that he knew the same as himself, and both sides fell silent, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little inexplicably sad.

Prime Minister Fang brought the topic back, "His Royal Highness is really good, he can turn Guan Yan around with one arm."

The images of the previous days popped up in his mind, and he added, "And it's easy, there is still room for effort."

Everyone's eyes immediately fell on Fang Guanyan, and they checked his height and weight visually. Although they were a little surprised why they turned him around, no one was bothered about this kind of thing at this time.

Fang Guanyan was thinking about the conversation between the three emperors, when the topic turned to him unexpectedly, his face was calm and his fingers curled up in his sleeves.

After confirming that Zhou Chengyi's force value is really good, Zhou Chengyao raised a question again, "What if it is drugged?"

"It's not impossible." Fang Guanyan pondered for a moment and said, "The key thing now is to find out who wants to harm His Highness, whether it is a specially selected His Highness as the target, or a temporary intention."

"If the latter is probably seeking money, but if it is the former..." Fang Guanyan paused, but everyone understood what he meant.

In fact, Fang Guanyan intuitively felt that Zhong Liyue's guess was right, Zhou Chengyi was not a reckless person, and it was impossible to do something on the street without any news in the city, and if he was drugged and taken away, he would have to be caught by surprise or gain Zhou Chengyi's trust.

That time in front of the gate of Qianyuan Palace, Pei Ju, who didn't even have footsteps, couldn't get close. It was not easy to attack Zhou Chengyi by surprise, and it was very likely to cause trouble, and the latter would only be more difficult.

Zhou Chengyi was willing to go with them, which meant that they had something he wanted to know, and that he himself was not threatened...

After deducing it through many circumstances, Fang Guanyan felt less worried about his whereabouts for some reason.But he only kept these things in his heart and didn't say anything.

"I'll investigate this matter." Zhong Liyue took the initiative to take over the matter with serious eyes, and only asked for a portrait of himself.

"I'll provide it." Fang Guanyan said and went back to the house to fetch dozens of paintings, and when he unfolded them, each of them was Zhou Chengyi, whether standing or lying down, looking up at the moon or smiling down, all of them were of the best quality. Pen, ink, paper, inkstone and pigment.

The others didn't react yet, only the well-informed Zhong Liyue looked at Fang Guanyan's eyes, revealing something was wrong.

In fact, as Zhong Liyue guessed, Zhou Chengyi followed someone on purpose.

He went out of the palace that day to collect wind.

"Poor Scholar Farming" has come to an end, and the entire manuscript has been sent to Chang'an Bookstore; "Misunderstanding the Country" is only a short and medium-length essay, and it is almost finished;

Zhou Chengyi's code word daily tasks were suddenly reduced by two-thirds, which was a bit uncomfortable, but he really didn't have any new ideas for a while. After thinking about it, he decided to go to Chang'an City to collect wind, and he didn't ask Chang Xia to follow him.

"You can only be born after joining the WTO, and you must first join the WTO after you are born. I'll go visit, what's the matter with you following me, am I such an old man, will I still lose it?" Zhou Chengyi waved his hands and told Chang Xia and Lin Dong to go back.

Then I didn't expect that the word would become a prophecy, and I was "lost" as expected.

At first, Zhou Chengyi only felt that there were always people staring at him on the street, but when he looked back, except for ordinary people passing by, there were only fortune-tellers setting up stalls, and he couldn't see who had any clues.

"Could it be that I made a mistake?" Zhou Chengyi pinched his lips thoughtfully, intuitively feeling that there was something wrong.

He pretended not to notice anything, wandered around the street, and caught a thief who wanted to steal his jade pendant.

The little thief was not afraid of being caught, and wanted to grab him around the waist, but Zhou Chengyi directly twisted his hand off.

"What a guts." He frowned and cursed, then tied him up and left him at the gate of the government.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he ran into another person who forcibly told his fortune. He opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut, saying that he was born in a wealthy family, but there was a disaster in his life. He fell directly from the sky to the ground, and even his life was hindered.

Then he insisted on breaking the disaster for him, and said that he didn't need money, but he was destined to do good and accumulate virtue.

Zhou Chengyi laughed when he heard it, and he looked at him with a bright and undisguised look at a liar, "Then how do you plan to solve the disaster for me?"

"Young Master, follow me." The man stroked his goatee and made Taoist gestures, looking at him with some fairy spirit.

Zhou Chengyi was smiling and didn't know whether he believed it or not, so he just asked him to lead the way, and when he saw the Taoist priest heaved a sigh of relief, his eyes revealed a bit of disappointment.

The corners of Zhou Chengyi's lips deepened, and the prickly vortex disappeared in an instant. He followed him for two steps, and then turned around and rushed into another alley.

"How dare you lie to me at this level? Didn't you know that I wrote a fraud prevention guide?" Zhou Chengyi straightened his cuffs, with a proud expression on his face, even swaying when he walked, and happily planned to share this interesting story with Fang Guanyan .

However, halfway through the journey, the Taoist came looking for him out of breath, and brought a bunch of fellows with him.

Zhou Chengyi weighed the number of people on both sides, fell silent for a moment, and tried to reason, "It's not necessary, my friend. We didn't lose money. I didn't report you for cheating money. Are you so lingering and unkind?"

The Taoist said with a cold face, "Young Master Fang, come with us."

The author has something to say: After the injection, continue to code.

This is a supplement.