Make peace with the Lord of the Prairie

"Clang-clang-clang-"

The low chime was lifeless, as if mourning the loss of a life.After three rings, the bell stopped, but it seemed that the ethereal reverberation could still be heard in the sky above the imperial city.

The moment the death knell sounded, the entire imperial city fell into a momentary standstill. Everyone stopped what they were doing, raised their heads, and looked in the direction of the imperial palace with serious expressions.

Two streets away from Huahuai Building is the second prince's mansion—Chengwang Mansion.At this moment, the earth-shattering wailing in the mansion could be faintly heard two streets away.

Ming Heng lowered his eyes and sighed deeply.

Sighing with him is the waiter who is serving them vegetables.

After a while, the shop waiter came back to his senses, and continued serving vegetables for them, while sighing in a low voice: "The second prince is gone. The two princes left within a month, hey, heaven is jealous of talents."

Ming Heng was still holding the teacup in his right hand, rubbing the cup with his fingertips lightly, thinking: Yes, God is jealous of talents.

The waiter in the shop brought a table of dishes and took them out.However, the three of them are not in the mood to taste delicious food.

Tuoba Hong held Ming Heng's hand on the table, squeezed it lightly, and comforted him silently.

Ming Heng forced a smile, picked up the chopsticks to pick up some food for him, and said, "Let's eat first."

Because of the matter of the second prince, everyone felt a little uninspired by the meal.After dinner, Mingheng asked Tuobahong where else he wanted to go.Tuoba Hong held the teacup and drank tea while thinking for a while, then suddenly turned his head and asked Ming Heng: "Do you want to see your second brother for the last time?"

Ming Heng was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, and said softly: "Forget it, it's not convenient for me to show up at this time."

In fact, Ming Heng sent a letter to the capital when he first learned about the prince's sudden death, expressing his intention to go back and offer incense to his elder brother, but after sending this letter, there was no news of it.Because of this, Mingheng was also slightly lost for a while.

He really didn't have much affection for the prince, but it was his elder brother after all. As a younger brother, it was reasonable to want to send him off for the last time, but Emperor Qianyuan didn't agree to just such a request.Of course, he was not sure whether this letter was delivered to the royal father, because at that time, the royal father had already fallen ill due to grief, and all matters in the court were handed over to the second prince to handle.So he couldn't be sure who meant that he was not allowed to return to the country.

Of course, Tuobahong also knew about this matter. Seeing his mood drop suddenly, he knew that he had thought of this matter. His tone changed, and he said relaxedly: "Then I won't go, your brother doesn't treat you well." Well, it's not worth you to send it off. I'm afraid there may be chaos in the city today, so let's go back first."

Mingheng nodded.

At this time, there was a drizzle in the sky, and the originally clear blue sky became gray in the blink of an eye.The entire imperial city was shrouded in a sad atmosphere, which was so oppressive that people could not breathe.Ming Heng looked at the pedestrians with mournful faces, and his mood became more and more heavy. He couldn't bear to look more, so he went home.

So the agreed one-day trip to Kyoto had to be abandoned because of the sudden death of the second prince. The three of them had dinner at Huahuai Tower and hurried back to Jinghe Garden.

The carriage had just stopped at the gate of Jinghe Garden, before Mo Jia had time to knock on the door, the gate had already opened by itself.I saw the old butler hurried out holding the envelope in his hand.

Ming Heng watched the gray-haired old man walking fast and anxiously, and his heart trembled following his trembling footsteps, for fear that the old man would fall.However, the old man's body was much stronger than he thought, and he walked up to them safely, and handed the envelope in his hand to Tuobahong.

Tuobahong took the letter and prepared to open it, asking, "Where did it come from?"

"North side." Worrying that the partition wall has ears, everyone in Anling referred to Ye Ruo as the north side, so even if people heard it, they could interpret it as the north side of Anling.

Hearing that it was a letter from Ye Ruo, Ming Heng leaned over to read it, and saw two pieces of letter paper in the envelope.Ming Heng glanced at it and was stunned, the two pieces of paper were written in different characters, the first letter paper was written in Yee Ruo characters, while the second letter paper was written in Chinese characters, and Ming Heng was still very familiar with that handwriting— - That is the word of the father.

Mingheng was shocked and wondered why the letter written by his father was sent by Ye Ruo?He wanted to read the contents of the letter, but he was pressed by the first letter paper and could only see a few words.And Tuobahong was reading the content on a piece of letter paper, Mingheng couldn't understand it, so he could only wait for Tuobahong to read the retelling for him.

While Tuobahong was reading the letter, Mingheng looked at him, trying to read some information from his facial expression.Tuoba Hong was quite calm at first, but watching his brows slowly gather, they finally wrinkled into a word of Chuan.

Ming Heng became more and more curious, and whispered in his ear: "What did you say in the letter?"

Tuoba Hong remained silent, frowned and folded the letter paper again, took Ming Heng's hand and said, "We'll talk about it when we go back to the room."

Ming Heng guessed that it was probably a serious matter, and it was not suitable to talk about it outside.

After entering the house, Tuoba Hong directly dragged Ming Heng back to the house, and shut Mo Jia and the housekeeper outside.

Ming Heng couldn't hold back his curiosity long ago, and hurriedly asked: "Did something happen to Ye Ruo?"

Unexpectedly, Tuobahong shook his head and said, "Nothing happened to Ye Ruo..." After he finished speaking, he paused, then directly handed over the second piece of letter paper, and said, "This is from Emperor Qianyuan."

Mingheng was surprised when he heard that it was the letter written by his father, so he quickly took it and read it.After reading it, he just sat there holding the letter paper blankly, without speaking or moving. After a long time, he shook the thin letter paper and murmured to himself: "I thought he forgot about my son."

Tuobahong took away the letter paper in his hand and read it carefully. Although he already knew the content of Emperor Qianyuan's letter from Ashinahan's letter to him, he hadn't read it with his own eyes.After reading ten lines at a glance, he suddenly laughed out of nowhere.

Mingheng looked up at him.

Emperor Qianyuan's letter was a reply to the one he had sent to the imperial city before. He first cared about his life in Yerou, and then talked about some recent events in Kyoto.At the end of the letter, Emperor Qianyuan simply mentioned the sudden death of the crown prince, and asked him to come back to see his brother for the last time when he had time.

Emperor Qianyuan's letter was not written in the tone of the Nine-Five Supreme Being, but more like a family letter written by a father who cared about his children to a child who married far away, with a touch of warmth between the lines.However, such a warm letter from home made Ming Heng very flustered.

In the past 20 years, the emperor had never treated himself with such a loving attitude.If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, so Ming Heng was not at all happy when he received this letter from the family.

He read the letter carefully again, then raised his head and asked Tuobahong: "What do you think? Father Emperor actually agreed to let me go back to Beijing to mourn the crown prince."

Tuobahong poured him a cup of tea, glanced at the letter paper, chuckled disdainfully, and said two words coldly: "Hypocrisy."

Ming Heng put down the letter with a wry smile, this was also his idea.

Tuobahong asked: "Do you want to go back?"

Ming Heng nodded without thinking.

Tuobahong looked at him with a frown, apparently disapproving of his decision.In his opinion, Emperor Qianyuan sent such an abnormal letter suddenly and insisted on letting Mingheng return to Beijing, obviously his purpose was impure.He was worried that Ming Heng would be in danger.

Mingheng knew his father better than Tuobahong, so he naturally thought of this, but he still decided to go back.For one thing, now that the two princes have been lost one after another, the palace must be in chaos. He wanted to investigate the truth about the sudden sudden death of the two elder brothers.Secondly, once the second prince dies, the fourth prince will be the new prince candidate without any accidents, but the fourth prince is suspected of colluding with Musa, and he is worried that the two will persuade Emperor Qianyuan to be unfavorable to Ye Ruo.Back in the palace by himself, at least he could help Ye Ruo speak well in front of Emperor Qianyuan at the critical moment.

Thinking like this, he became more determined to go back, raised his head and said to Tuobahong: "I want to go back."

Tuoba Hong pursed his lips tightly and looked at him expressionlessly, but there was obvious worry in his eyes.

Ming Heng held his hand and comforted him: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

Tuobahong didn't speak, just stared at him for a while, then suddenly said: "I'll go with you."

Ming Heng was startled, and immediately refused: "No, you can't go."

"Why not," Tuoba Hong said confidently, "You are my queen now, why not I accompany my queen back to her mother's house to mourn my brother-in-law?"

It was obviously a very serious occasion, but Mingheng still couldn't restrain the corners of his mouth from twitching—the queen, her natal family, brother-in-law...

Tuobahong didn't bother to care about these details, and felt more and more that his statement was reasonable, and he decided: "That's it, I'll write a letter later and ask Ashinahan to prepare some troops, and we will use it as a way to deal with it." Come to Beijing to express condolences in name!"

Mingheng was tired: "Stop making trouble, how can you show others like this, is it possible to let everyone know that you are pregnant? Besides, you are still pregnant with a child, so it is not suitable to go to a funeral, for fear of bumping into the child. White things are no better than red things, you are in a special body now, what if the child has something good or bad?"

Tuobahong also became worried when he heard it, he lowered his head and touched his stomach, but he was worried about Ming Heng.

Mingheng also understood his worry, thought for a while, and discussed: "Otherwise, let Ashnahan prepare some troops, and I will take them there in the name of Yerou. As you said, Yerou and Anling is now an in-law, so it is reasonable for me to return to Anling to mourn my elder brother with Ye Rou, and my father can't say anything."

Tuoba Hong also went down the slope and made a compromise: "At that time, I will send a formal condolence letter to Emperor Qianyuan, and then send several officials to Beijing with you. In addition, you take Mo Jia."

Ming Heng was taken aback: "Bring Mo Jia? Is it appropriate for his blond hair to be so conspicuous? How about changing someone else?"

Tuobahong shook his head and insisted: "Only Mo Jia. Ashnahan wants to sit in the royal court, and Wumeng wants to protect Zexi. I don't worry about the skills of the others. Mo Jia is the best besides the two of them." the best."

Tuobahong has already made such a big step back, and Mingheng couldn't be more demanding, so he agreed: "Okay then, I'll take Mo Jia. But in this way, there will be no one to protect you. You just stay in Jinghe Garden and don't go anywhere, otherwise I should be worried."

"Understood." Tuoba Hong was also very talkative, and readily agreed.

After both parties took a step back, they finally reached a consensus on Mingheng's return to Beijing.Tuobahong wrote a letter and ordered people to send it back to Yerou quickly.

Ashinahan received the letter and said that it would take some time to prepare the troops, Mingheng was not in a hurry, and patiently accompanied Tuobahong to wait for Yerou's envoys in Jinghe Garden.

Ye Ruo's envoys arrived in Kyoto ten days later.Not long before Ye Ruo's envoy arrived in Beijing, He Zexi quietly visited Jinghe Garden.

It turned out that after receiving Tuobahong's condolence letter, Emperor Qianyuan did not refuse Tuobahong's request, but allowed the envoy Yerun's condolences, and arranged the matter to He Zexi.He Zexi was quite surprised when he heard the news, so he quietly brought Wu Meng to Jinghe Garden that night.

Mingheng and Tuobahong told He Zexi their thoughts. He Zexi originally disapproved of Mingheng's return to Beijing, but after their explanations, he did not object anymore. The three of them discussed some things and he hurried back to the mansion. .

The night before Ye Ruo's sympathy team arrived in Beijing, Ming Heng and Mo Jia went out of the city secretly, and met them at the post house outside the capital, rested for a night, and went to Beijing together in the early morning of the next day.

It was almost noon when he arrived in Kyoto, and He Zexi greeted him at the gate of the city with officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial City Army.In addition to his status as the sixth prince of Anling, Ming Heng now has the status of a "queen", so the courteous treatment should not be neglected.

After receiving the people, He Zexi first arranged the envoys of Ye Ruo to the embassy, ​​and then brought Ming Heng into the palace.

As the prince of Anling, Ming Heng naturally didn't need to live in the embassy, ​​but since he was sent to marry him shortly after he was crowned queen, the capital had already followed the marriage team to marry him before he even had time to build his palace. , so he had to live back in the palace these days.

Yuanxi, the head of the palace, greeted him at the gate of the palace early, and brought a message from Emperor Qianyuan, saying that King Hui had worked hard all the way, and he will take a rest in Chonghua Palace today, so there is no need to rush to see him.

Yuanxi followed Emperor Qianyuan when he was young, so he is a man of discernment who can become the chief executive step by step. After delivering the message for Emperor Qianyuan, he immediately added a sentence: "Since the prince fell ill, your majesty has been in poor spirits. , and now the second prince is also... His Majesty is sad right now, shutting himself in the bedroom all day long, unwilling to see anyone. No, the fourth prince was stopped outside the door this morning."

Mingheng listened calmly, and then sighed, revealing a trace of sadness, and said in a low voice: "Brother Prince and Brother Second Emperor left suddenly, it's really God's jealousy of talents, father and emperor with white hair and others with black hair People, I must feel uncomfortable, please look at it more, and hope that the father will take care of the dragon body."

Yuan Xi said that this was natural, sent Ming Heng to the Chonghua Palace, stayed there for a while, and told the servants in the palace a few words before going back to return.

As soon as Yuan Xi left, Ming Heng asked Mo Jia to close the door and sat down to pour a cup of tea.However, before he could do anything, a little servant handed him the teacup.

Mingheng was stunned for a moment, since Tuobahong became pregnant, he rarely let servants serve him, not only did he not have servants to serve him, but he himself became a servant, patronizing Tuobahong.

Thinking of Tuobahong, Mingheng's thoughts drifted away unconsciously.The two have been inseparable for half a year since they got married, this is the first time they have separated, and they are not used to it.In fact, as soon as Mingheng stepped out of the gate of Jingheyuan, he wanted to see Tuobahong.

Tuoba Hong is still five months pregnant, and his body is getting heavier, and sometimes his legs will cramp at night, and Ming Heng often gets up in the middle of the night to massage his legs.Once I leave, what can I do if I get cramps at night?In addition, the people in Jingheyuan didn't even know that he was pregnant, so how could they take good care of him.

The more Mingheng thought about it, the more worried he became. He thought about asking Zexi to find someone he could trust to take care of Tuobahong for a while.

Ming Heng's heart was full of Tuoba Hong, and he didn't bother to drink tea, so he held the teacup and stared at the tea noodles with furrowed brows.The little eunuch who was waiting on the side was anxious and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, is the tea not suitable for your mouth?"

"Oh, no, the tea is pretty good." Ming Heng came back to his senses, took a sip of tea with his head down, put the teacup on the table, and looked around.Since I left the palace, the Chonghua Palace was also vacant, so most of the servants in the palace were assigned to other palaces, leaving only one or two gatekeepers.When he came back today, Yuan Xi specially called a few people to come back to serve him, but they were all unfamiliar faces, not the servants he used to be, and his personal servant, Xiao Fan, was nowhere to be seen. Thinking of this, he asked the little eunuch: " What about the little fan?"

The little eunuch replied: "Since His Highness left the palace, the little fan has been taken away by the Ninth Princess."

Mingheng raised his eyebrows, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Oh? I'm with Qianqian, it's good."

Just as he was speaking, the gate of Chonghua Palace was slammed, accompanied by the girl's voice as crisp as a bell.

"elder brother!"

The corner of Mingheng's mouth twitched slightly, and he gave the palace man outside the door a wink, and the palace man ran to open the door.

Just as the door was opened a crack, a certain golden branch and jade leaf ran in like a gust of wind, buried his head and hit Mingheng's chest, hugged his brother's waist, jumped up and down excitedly, and started crying loudly after the jump.

"Brother, I miss you so much, I thought I would never see you again. Woohoo." Ming Qianqian cried so much that his nose and tears wiped all over Ming Heng's clothes.

Ming Heng didn't dislike her either. He hugged his younger sister's small body and patted her on the back gently, comforting her softly: "I'm not dead, how could I never see you again? I won't see you again. If you want to Brother, just send me a letter, and brother will come back to see you when he receives the letter."

"Really?" Ming Qianqian finally stopped crying, looked up at him with big eyes that were red and swollen from crying, and said, sobbing, "Brother, are you lying to me? Really, I will write to you Are you coming back to see me? Will Tuobahong agree?"

Ming Heng raised his eyebrows, and said to himself: "Why doesn't he agree? He will agree."

Not only will he agree, but he will also ask to follow. If he is not allowed to follow, he may even make a fuss.

Mingheng found that Tuobahong seemed mature and stable in front of outsiders, but he was like a child who hadn't grown up in front of him, cute and persistent, if there was something he wanted to do and he didn't allow him to do it, he would Lying on his chest, rolling around, acting coquettishly and pretending to be obedient, in short, he won't stop until he nods.

At the beginning, he lay on the bed for more than half a month in order to raise the baby, almost laying down Tuoba Hong, but later he asked bitterly to go out for a walk.He didn't agree with it at first, so he grabbed his collar, acted softly and rubbed his head like a kitten, and even resorted to sex. In the end, Mingheng couldn't stand it anymore. That's it, so I reluctantly took him out to let the wind out for a while.

Mingheng still remembers the appearance of Tuobahong when he looked at him with pursed mouth, he was aggrieved and cute, even the slightly raised corners of his eyes drooped down, as pitiful as a stray dog.

"Brother? Brother?" Ming Qianqian found that her brother started to be in a daze while talking, so she stretched out her hand and pushed him, trying to bring him back to his senses.

Mingheng recalled his thoughts, and sighed helplessly.He found himself thinking of Tuobahong involuntarily today, and he couldn't stop thinking about it.Ever since I separated from Tuobahong, I always feel that something is wrong.

Ming Heng frowned, and forced himself to talk to his sister.

"Why did you come here at this time? By the way, little fan? Didn't you say that little fan was taken away by you?"

"Little Fan was sent out to the palace by me to handle some business." Ming Qianqian hurriedly clarified, "Let me explain first, I'm not stealing you, I'm helping you take care of it temporarily, and if you say a word, I'll let Little Fan come back to take care of you."

"Is your brother the narrow-minded person? I don't worry about the little fan following you." Mingheng pulled his sister to sit down, "You can keep the little fan, but these days let him come back to serve for a few days, wait for me Tuck it back and rub it, then take it back with you."

"Oh," Ming Qianqian readily agreed, "I'll let the little fan come to you when he comes back."

Mingheng nodded, and was about to pick up the teacup for a sip of tea, but suddenly paused, put it down again, and said: "By the way, I brought you some interesting gadgets from Yerou, it's up to Anling to see you." We're here." He waved to Mo Jia while talking.

Mo Jia handed him the burden that he had been carrying all along.

When Ming Qianqian looked up, he noticed Mo Jia, and was stunned when he saw his blond hair and blue eyes.

Ming Heng watched his sister's reaction, and introduced him: "This is Mo Jia, the envoy sent by Ye Ruo this time."

"An envoy?" Ming Qianqian felt that he didn't look like a twitching person, but he didn't ask any more questions, but heard that it was the envoy who came to Anling this time and asked suspiciously, "Then why don't you keep going to the embassy?"

"Well..." Mingheng put the gadgets he brought from Yeruo on the table one by one, and replied, "Mo Jia is very skilled, and it was specially arranged by Tuobahong to protect me, so he followed me these days I live in Chonghua Palace."

Ming Qianqian looked at her brother with a complicated expression, then suddenly leaned over, half of her body lay on the table, and whispered in her brother's ear, "Brother, how is Tuobahong treating you?"

"Okay," Mingheng replied without thinking, the corners of his mouth could not stop rising when Tuobahong was mentioned, and even his eyes were bent.Seeing his younger sister's disbelief, he smiled slightly, and repeated with a serious expression, "Tuobahong is very kind to me, very kind."

The author says:

I couldn't log in to the background yesterday, so I didn't update it. Today, there are [-] words, so yesterday and today are two in one.

Friends in Henan should pay attention to safety, and friends on the eastern coast, as typhoons are coming, we must take precautions.I hope everyone is safe and sound!