After being robbed by the prince of the enemy country

"I'm here." Huai Zhen touched Chu Shao's back, and had the illusion that he hadn't seen him for three days, and the man seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

Chu Shao lay on his shoulder like a newborn kitten and whimpered a few times, then calmed down, her tense back gradually relaxed, and after she was on the verge of death, she went up and down again, unable to support herself and passed out.

Huai Zhen hugged Chu Shao in his arms, turned his head and glanced at the "bandits" outside the city tower who were unilaterally slaughtered by the troops he brought, and the murderous aura in Yao Hei's eyes was stronger than the night.

He guessed that the real identity of this group of people might be Qin soldiers from a certain faction in the court, and they could be regarded as the people of Zhongqin.

But since the opponent dared to attack Suizhou overnight with the intention of massacring civilians in his fief, don't blame him for being ruthless.

"Just keep a few bosses alive." He ordered Wu Mang in a deep voice.

Wu Mang understood and took the order to go.

Chu Shao's neck was slightly raised, and the pinched finger marks on it had turned into bruises, which must be treated as soon as possible.

Huaizhen rushed to the palace with the man in his arms, and the sound of weapons behind him wailed and howled ghosts and wolves, and the early morning fog permeated with the smell of blood, permeating the air.

Chu Qingxu fell into the nightmare of the past.

It was such a horrible morning.

A young eunuch rushed to report that all the houses of the Hou's mansion had been ransacked, and all adult men would be beheaded, just outside the Meridian Gate this morning.

The chains were like ghost hands protruding from the ground, dragging his ankles, and the towering palace walls stingily left a narrow and endless palace road, and there were many bloodstains on the walls.

He staggered forward in a white robe, his sleeves were stained with blood flowing from his wrists, and the sound of the chains was as loud as a bell.

Thunder fell from the sky, and the palace walls suddenly collapsed. At the end of the palace road, there was a row of prisoners carrying "Desperation Cards".

A huge thunder fell: "The time has come, cut!"

He lowered his head and found that the rainwater under his body was suddenly dyed blood red. He raised his eyes and looked up at the sky, and the dense rain turned into blood shot into his thin body like an arrow. .

"Murong! He's awake!"

The warm voice entered Chu Shao's ears, and he couldn't tell where the reality was for a moment.

A puddle of tears covered his eyes, and Huai Zhen wiped them away with his warm fingertips, his handsome face was full of care and tenderness without any pretense.

This hand seemed to reach into the world from the sky, broke through the execution ground in the nightmare, and saved Chu Qingxu from the bloody rain.

Wrapped in Huai Zhen's breath, he closed his eyes again with peace of mind, the nightmare has already been overcome.

Seeing that he fell asleep again, Huai Zhen was a little anxious for a while.After Murong took his pulse, his expression relaxed a little: "Your Highness, don't worry, there is no serious problem. What happened last night exhausted Mr. Chu's energy, and he can only recover by sleeping."

Huai Zhen tucked in the quilt, looked at Chu Shao's tired face in his sleep, and murmured: "He worked so hard to protect my reputation."

Tu Wei has already told King Yu in detail what happened last night.

From the discovery of the abnormality on the mountain yesterday evening to the mobilization of cavalry at night to encourage the people to fight, he already knew everything.

"Without Chu Shao, today's Suizhou would be a dead city where 'bandits' cross the border."

Then what came back to Kyoto this morning was the news that "Prince Yu is incompetent, and the prince's fiefdom was captured by bandits". At that time, Huaizhen will become the laughing stock of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and will be nailed to the pillar of shame by the people of Zhongqin.

It won't be long before the wind direction in Beijing will turn to: So what if King Yu is brave and good at fighting?He can't even keep the people in the fief, and he can defend against the enemy externally, but he can't even solve the banditry internally. How can such a prince be worthy of the crown prince?

What's more, now that all the threats on the border of Zhongqin have been calmed down, even Nanqi has become the state of Zhongqinqi, and the prince who can only fight has little value in existence.

This incident alone can erase all the achievements of Huaizhen in the past ten years, and people will not remember that he just captured Nanqi, which was a great achievement.

Ning Yuanqiu is well aware of the pros and cons: "The public opinion in Beijing is already very unfavorable to His Highness. If something happens in Suizhou, we will have no time to make a comeback."

Emperor Qin's body can last at most another half a year, and the crown prince's position must be decided within half a year. If something happens to Huaizhen at this time, King Rui in Beijing is the only candidate for the crown prince.

Can Huai Zhenan not understand the sinister intention behind this?

He clenched his fist tightly with his hands on his knees, and said angrily: "For the sake of the throne, Huaiyang dared to let people come to Suizhou to fight wildly. If it wasn't for the righteousness of the name, this king would have led troops to force the palace. Why did he endure this kind of brother repeatedly?" bullying?!"

"Your Highness, calm down." Murong knew that King Yu was aggrieved, and it was not easy for him to suppress hatred in his heart for ten years, but it was not yet the time to vent it wantonly.

He deliberately glanced at Chu Qingxu who was lying on the bed.

Sure enough, it served as a reminder. Huaizhen thought that Chu Shao needed to rest, and was afraid of waking him up. He wanted to get up and go to discuss matters outside the hall, but Chu Shao's right hand outside the quilt was holding his big finger, and he was unwilling to let go in his dream. open.

Huai Zhen saw that his brows were stretched with difficulty, and couldn't bear to abandon him, so he continued to sit by the bed, suppressing the anger of being bullied by King Rui riding on top of his head, and lowered his voice, but the hatred did not diminish at all: "The gift from elder brother These 'good intentions', after returning to Beijing, this king will definitely repay them a thousand times."

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"So all of this is really the work of King Rui in Beijing?"

Chu Shao slept for a day and a night, and finally woke up. When Huai Zhen fed him medicine, he didn't hide anything from him.

"There were 5000 so-called bandits hiding in Langshan that night, and 3000 of them were originally waiting for orders on the mountain, trying to use up the number of people to use up the combat power of the cavalry. Fortunately, Si Yun reported the letter in time, and I brought people to kill them. Finally, the [-] people realized that the situation was wrong and wanted to withdraw from the other side of the mountain road, but they were blocked by my people."

He stirred the medicine in the bowl to dissipate the cooling air, "The terrain of Wolf Mountain is rugged and complicated, and there are many old-style traps in the forest. It is not a good strategy to attack the mountain."

Chu Shao blinked and said, "You can attack with fire."

Huai Zhen looked at the man who had just woken up but continued to be clever, and said with a smile: "That's right, I asked Wu Mang to set fires at every intersection on the way down the mountain. Those three thousand bandits, either Disarm and go down the mountain to surrender, or wait to be burned to death. No one is not afraid of death, and more than 500 people were captured alive in the end."

"Did anything come out of the interrogation?"

"Take a sip first, and I'll tell you later."

Chu Xiaoshao glanced at the brown concoction in the spoon, and bitterly opened his mouth to take a sip.

King Yu wiped the concoction on the corner of his mouth with his fingertips, and then said: "The bandits who attacked the city last night totaled 1 people, and 9 people were killed or injured. They wanted to interrogate after cleaning up the mess outside the city. But this group of people should have taken the poison in advance, and at noon yesterday, they were poisoned in the prisoner camp, and more than half of them died."

"Tu Wei caught a few people who hadn't been poisoned in time and tortured them, only to find out that they were all desperadoes. Zhongqin is densely populated, and there are many serious criminals who have been exiled in various states and counties. In the past five years, the factions in Beijing and China have secretly received orthodox barracks training, and although their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the regular army, they are not part of the Qin army."

Afraid that Chu Shao would be confused, Huai Zhen directly pointed out: "To be precise, these people are private soldiers kept in the dark."

"Private soldiers?!"

Private soldiers, in short, are privately raised troops. They are not known to the court and are not dispatched by the court. They may hide in deep mountains and old forests at ordinary times. After the purpose, the whole body retreats and there is no investigation, like a dark soldier crossing the border, leaving no trace.

Huaizhen said: "King Rui enjoys the support of the Chinese officials in the capital, but he has no orthodox military power in his hands, so he raises private soldiers in private. Wait, 9000 iron cavalry under my command can kill [-] of them, if it weren't for the suppression of numbers, they would have no chance of winning at all."

Chu Shao asked puzzledly: "Although I don't know the specific situation in Beijing, I can guess that this King Rui should be very popular with the emperor. He is so favored, why does he have to keep private soldiers? Could it be that he has even plotted against him?" thought?"

Huai Zhen was stunned for a moment, he really wanted to tell Chu Qingxu that in fact the prince who wanted to rebel the most and had the most capital to rebel was sitting in front of him.

"If the name is not right, the words will not go well, and if the words don't go well, things will fail. People will not believe in the throne obtained through rebellion."

Whenever His Royal Highness King Yu was forced to rebel, he would put this truth out to convince himself, and he endured it for almost ten years.

Chu Shao nodded, feeling that this made sense.

"Take another sip." Huai Zhen scooped up another spoonful of medicine and brought it to Chu Shao's mouth.

With a slumped pretty face, Chu Shao squeezed her nose and drank the medicine.

"It's too bitter!!" He hugged the quilt and tried to curl up in the corner of the bed. Huai Zhen didn't dare to tug at him, and only said seductively, "Don't you want to know the situation in Suizhou?"

"..." Chu Qingxu moved her butt back to Jiugu's side again.

Seeing his cute appearance, Huai Zhen felt much better unconsciously.

"The people are fine, and they are well protected by you. The group of girls wanted to thank you for saving their lives in person, but I stopped them for the time being. You need to rest well now."

"The men who were inspired by you to go to battle to kill the enemy are all alive, but a few of them were seriously injured, and the military doctors are treating them with the best medicine. The butcher Zhang who butchered the pig was cut in the leg. But when he applied the medicine, what he yelled was not pain, but 'I earned 300 taels of gold'."

King Yu exaggeratedly imitated the butcher's excited tone of getting rich, which made Chu Shao laugh, and he said worriedly: "At that time, the situation was urgent, and I only thought that there must be a brave man under the reward, but I didn't know whether the reward would be good or not. will be honored..."

Hearing that he actually had such concerns, Huai Zhen tapped Chu Qingxu's forehead: "Prince Yu's mansion is not as poor as you think, even if you promise them to kill a bandit and get a thousand taels of gold, this king can afford it. What's more, it's just a hundred taels? Everyone of those people who have done meritorious service will get their due rewards, don't worry."

King Yu's Mansion in Suizhou has a mountain of gold, and Prince Yu's Mansion in Kyoto has another mountain of silver. Huaizhen has been fighting abroad all year round, and he has no habit of extravagance at all, so his assets have accumulated more and more, and the gold in the warehouse can hardly hold it. There are countless treasures, even if he starts to spend extravagantly now, he will never spend it all in his lifetime.

Chu Shao really underestimated his financial resources.

"When I carried you back to the palace that day, the people were very worried about you. After two days, I will wait for you to recover. I will take you for a walk on the street. I will give everyone a safe report. You are a hero, and you deserve it." Their gratitude and praise."

"I can't turn the tide on my own."

Chu Shao knew very well that Suizhou's ability to overcome the difficulties was definitely not due to him alone.

"At a critical moment, the people are willing to listen to me because they think I am your princess. I can mobilize three thousand cavalry because of the Qilin Yuling you gave me. After that, Suizhou can escape completely because you arrived in time. I can protect myself because you gave me a sleeve arrow, and it was you who saved my life at the last moment of life and death, so... Jiu Gu, you are the hero, you are the hero of Suizhou, and you are also my hero."

"You actually regard me as a hero?" His Royal Highness King Yu's heart was half melted, and the other half was too vain - how could he be Chu Shao's hero?

"Yeah! Jiu Gu is of course a hero!" Chu Shao leaned into his arms, "I thought I would die in this sudden fight, and I had a nightmare. In the dream, there was an execution ground with blood flowing like a river. Even the rain that falls from the sky is red."

execution ground?

Huaizhen recalled that three years ago, all the adult men of the Chu family were beheaded outside the Nangong Meridian Gate. It was rumored that when Chu Qingxu rushed to the execution ground that day, he saw with his own eyes that his blood relatives were decapitated under the knife... Then What a cruel scene, if you really witnessed it with your own eyes, you will never forget it for the rest of your life.

Did he cry in his sleep because he dreamed about these things?

Fortunately, Chu Shao was not too entangled in a dream, his bright eyes reflected Huai Zhen's figure, like a cluster of fire burning:

"I thought I was dead and fell into purgatory, but suddenly a hand stretched out from the sky and fished me out of the river of blood in hell. When I woke up and saw you, I just felt...it's good to be alive."

"Your Highness is not only a hero, but also a god in my dreams."

"As long as you can see His Highness every day, being alive is an excellent thing."

Huai Zhen's heart trembled, that Chu Qingxu who took poison and jumped the tower to beg for death, now leans in his arms, saying that it's good to be alive.

This was the first time that he felt the cinnabar on Chu Shao's earlobe was dazzling, and this cinnabar reminded him all the time that Chu Shao's words were false.

But even if it is fake, it is still very beautiful.

"Then Qingxu is for me, let's live a good life." He hugged Chu Shao tightly, sniffed the faint medicinal fragrance in his hair, and dared not say the second half of the sentence.

Even if one day you think of everything, don't seek death again.

The author says:

Return to Beijing in the next chapter.