Mo Li stepped forward and said: "If Your Highness can't bear it, you might as well spare His Royal Highness the Prince and Prince Changle, they have knelt all night, and they should know that they are wrong." ”

Jianing said: "It's okay, don't leave you and tell Changle to get up and go home." ”

"What about His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince?"

"Let him kneel, for twelve hours will be indispensable. Jianing reluctantly made a final decision.

Mo Li understood her intentions, and he didn't persuade him much, so he went, but he came back with a sad face, and replied to Jianing: "Your Highness, the prince of Changle refuses to get up, he said that the twelve hours he said should not be missing a quarter of an hour......"

"This kid's temper is also extremely stubborn. Jianing sighed.

Mo Li said: "Your Highness, this is not a stubborn temper, this is a backbone." ”

Jianing smiled: "Don't leave you to say yes, anyway, he has to suffer a little more for this backbone." ”

Compared with Jiayi, Jianing actually couldn't bear to punish Changle, because she had requirements for Jiayi, but not for Changle. The night before Weiyang went to Beiliang to meet her in Changsun Mansion, she had promised Weiyang that she would not let Changle enter Luoyunmen, and she would ensure that Changle would be the little overlord of Chang'an who was happy for a lifetime, so in her eyes, Changle and Jiayi were destined to take different paths.

Twelve hours finally ended, Mo Li, who had been counting the time, couldn't wait to come over and ask the two of them to get up, Jiayi was already weak, he knelt for twelve hours without eating or drinking, and fell asleep with Venus in his eyes together, Mo Li hurriedly asked someone to send him back to Shaohua Palace. Mo left to help Changle get up, Changle was still laughing in front of her, saying that he was fine, and laughed at Jiayi for being too weak.

He was also a little stunned, almost unable to stand, and was supported by Mo Li, Changle leaned on her arm, smiled evilly, and said with a wicked smile: "I haven't knelt in vain for the past twelve hours." Mo Li lowered her eyebrows and smiled shyly, after all, she was cautious everywhere, changed to a not so intimate posture, and helped Changle to the palace gate.

From a distance, they saw the carriage of the Changsun Mansion parked in front of the Shengchong Gate, and the Prime Minister of the eldest grandson was beside the carriage. Mo Li let go of Changle and said goodbye to him and returned to Zhaoming Palace. Changle was ready to be reprimanded and walked towards the eldest grandson.

"Father, are you coming to pick me up personally?" he said with a grinning smile in front of the prime minister.

The eldest grandson's face was gloomy, and he directly raised his hand and slapped him: "You rebel!

Changle covered his face, glared at his father, ignored him anymore, hit him directly, and got into the carriage.

The prime minister also got into the carriage and was about to continue scolding him, when he said sullenly: "The eldest sister was seriously injured in order to steal information, the imperial sister said." ”

The prime minister was silent, and the anger on his face dissipated, only serious and cold: "And then?"

Changle looked at this "ruthless" father with resentment, and said: "I asked, she has no worries about her life, and she was also named a concubine......"

The prime minister raised his head slightly, withdrew all his heavy thoughts, and said: "Okay, the daughters of our eldest grandson family are the lives of the imperial concubine......"

Changle could only hear the smug meaning in his words, but he didn't understand his sigh: "The imperial concubine of the enemy country is also counted?"

The prime minister didn't answer him, but ordered him with a cold face: "You are not allowed to mention these things again in the future, and you are not allowed to mention a word about her, and you are not allowed to ask again!"

Shaohua Palace, the candlelight is on.

Jianing entered Jiayi's bedroom, and the imperial doctor who was guarding her saluted her, and she asked, "How is he?"

The imperial doctor replied: "Back to His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness the Prince is fainting due to excessive fatigue, and his body is fine. ”

"Well, you can step down first. Jianing nodded, asked the imperial doctor and the palace people to retreat, she walked to Jiayi's bedside and sat down, guarded him, and waited for him to wake up.

After a long time, Jiayi woke up from his stupor, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Jianing sitting beside him, with a worried look on his face, and he called out weakly: "Sister Huang......"

Jianing showed a smile and helped him sit up, like an ordinary eldest sister: "Are you still uncomfortable? should be hungry, what do you want to eat?"

"Don't leave, go and ask the imperial dining room to bring some soup......," she commanded.

Jiayi grabbed the eldest sister's arm and interrupted her: "No need, sister Huang, I'm not hungry." ”

"Then don't eat it, Mo Li asked the imperial doctor to bring in the tonics. ”

Jianing stopped, turned to him, stretched out her hand to sort out his scattered sideburns, and looked at his somewhat weak face, she felt a little guilty: "Jiayi, the imperial sister can't bear it, this is the first time I have punished you, you know, I just want you to understand your identity and figure out what you should do." ”

Jiayi nodded: "I understand, Sister Huang, I have already figured it out, and your punishment is right." ”

Jianing said: "When you were young, no matter how willful you were playful, I left it to you, but now that you have grown up, you can no longer be muddy, and now it is a crisis for the country, you should also take care of it." ”

"Yes. Follow the teachings of the imperial sister. Jiayi thought for a moment, looked up at her, and asked, "Sister Huang, I'm ...... Do you have to inherit the throne in the future?"

Jianing replied without hesitation: "Of course, you will not only inherit the throne, but also be the best monarch in Nanke." ”

"Okay. Jiayi lowered her head and contemplated her brows.

Jianing said: "Sister Huang knows that you are a little unwilling, maybe it is not your ambition to become a monarch and become the emperor, but, Jiayi, you are from such a background, you must take such a road." The imperial sister doesn't want to ask you if you want to, because no one has ever asked me if you want to, I have been a fine work of Luo Yunmen since I was born, and I returned to the court at the age of sixteen to take charge of Luo Yunmen, and no one gave me a choice, that's it. Actually, it is the queen mother, she told the imperial sister on her deathbed to let you inherit the throne after your father, this is the mother's last wish, you can also think like others that this is an excuse for the imperial sister to make ambitions, but Jiayi, if the imperial sister is a man, she will definitely not let you take such a path......"

His ruthless and decisive imperial sister Princess Zhaoming will only be heartfelt to him, and the words have been said to this part, what he must bear in the future, Jiayi couldn't be clearer, he said: "Imperial sister, I really understand." I will...... Succession to the throne...... Be the wisest monarch in Nanke. ”

Jianing patted him on the shoulder in agreement, and said softly: "Jiayi, don't worry, you just need to do your own thing, and the rest will be borne by the imperial sister." ”

Jiayi understood that since then, his future has become a straight path, and there is no other choice, so he has to accept it.

Later, the sister and brother stopped talking about this topic, Jiayi asked about the preparation for war, and Jianing told him about the arrangements of the various departments of the court, and discussed with him the meaning of Emperor Nancheng. Regarding the dispute between the two countries, Jiayi sighed: "The two countries have been fighting for several dynasties and generations, when will there be an end to this? When will the world be peaceful?"

Jianing said: "One mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, how can the world tolerate two masters? Nanke cannot lose, but can only strive to win in the competition between these two countries, and win the world, probably only when the world is unified will the world be peaceful." ”

Later, they stopped talking about such a heavy topic. Jiayi knew that it was useless to avoid it, so Jiayi still mentioned Ji Chang'an: "Sister Huang, my master...... Who is Ji Changan? Why do you hate him so much? Is it because of his looks?"

Jianing was unpleasantly silent for a while, and then said, "He's a strange person of unknown origin. ”

"Then what is your relationship with him? Why did you treat him like that last time in the Zhaoming Palace? Then let him go? I think that you don't completely hate him, nor do you have a complete dislike for him. Jiayi said the doubts in her heart.

Jianing was really seriously thinking about the question that Jiayi gave her, and the answer was: "I don't know, I really don't know." He's a special person, Jiayi. ”

"What's so special ......?" Jiayi asked. Jianing glanced at him: "Don't ask, I don't want to mention him." ”

Jia Yi smiled lightly: "Sister Huang, I just hope you can be a little happier." ”

Since then, Jiayi rarely goes out of the palace, and Changle rarely sneaks into the palace to play with him, and the two usually only meet when they go to Lingyan Pavilion to study, and it is rare to go to Ji Changan together once or twice. The discussion of preparations for war in the court was in full swing, and they also began to pay attention to the movements of the court.

Until the day of Qixi Festival, Changle finally couldn't sit still, and slipped into the palace over the wall again, Jiayi had already slipped out of the palace to find Huayin, so this time he didn't go to Shaohua Palace to find Jiayi, but went to Zhaoming Palace.

Twilight had just fallen, Changle was lying on the wall of the Zhaoming Palace and looking at the front garden, Jianing was taking a cool look in the Huxin Pavilion, and Mo Li was beside her. The meticulous work who was secretly guarding the Zhaoming Hall knew that Changle had turned a blind eye to him, and Feng Ge, who could pass under the palace wall, had not yet adapted to this eldest grandson who was used to breaking into the palace, so he raised his hand and hit a string of darts, but fortunately, Changle reacted quickly and avoided it immediately.

But he still fell off the wall, which alarmed the palace people of Zhaoming Palace. Changle got up from the ground in embarrassment, and grinned: "Sister Fengge, it's me, it turns out that you are so good, I almost got ...... trick"

Feng Ge knew that he had made a mistake and almost made a long joy, so he hurriedly apologized: "Feng Ge mistakenly took Gongzi as an assassin who broke into the palace, and he made a heavy hand for a while, so I ask Gongzi to forgive him." Changle rubbed his sore leg and said, "I don't blame you, I don't blame you, I'm really breaking into the palace." ”

The candle light was lit in the Huxin Pavilion, and the people inside had already noticed him, he quickened his pace, jumped into the Huxin Pavilion one by one, stood firm, first winked at Mo Li, and then saluted Jianing.

Jianing asked him: "Changle, why did you have such leisure to climb the wall of my Zhaoming Hall tonight?"

Changle replied with a hippie smile: "Sister Huang, isn't it Tanabata today...... "Jia Ning then asked: "And then?"

Changle continued: "There is a lantern festival in Chang'an City, but it looks good...... Jianing pretended not to understand what he meant: "And then?"

Changle was a little embarrassed to say it directly, so he made excuses: "Then ...... Then I knew that the imperial sister would definitely not go to see it, I wasn't afraid that the imperial sister would be bored alone, so I would come into the palace to accompany you to talk to you......" Jianing saw that he was really pretending to be presentable, so he also pretended to be confused: "Okay." is still happy and has a heart. So what do you want to tell the royal sister?"

Changle thought hard about it, and deliberately made a look of grievance: "It's the last time I was punished for kneeling, why did you punish Jiayi for kneeling for a full twelve hours, and let me get up early? You don't ask for me so much? Imperial sister, do you also think that I can only fight and make trouble, which is useless? Imperial sister, you also gave up on me, didn't you? You don't even know about this, I have been entangled for many days...... This is actually what he wants to say.

Jianing said: "As far as you love to think nonsense, the imperial sister feels sorry for you, isn't it good to let you suffer less sin?" Changle, Jiayi is different from you, the imperial sister has no requirements for you, I just want to be your Chang'an Xiaobawang for a long time, this is what I promised others." ”

Changle asked, "Who?" Jianing looked directly at him and sighed, "You don't need to know. Although she didn't say it, Changle guessed it in her heart. She didn't take Changle and laughed mischievously, and said: "Is the Qixi Lantern Festival really so good-looking? The imperial sister would rather stay in the palace alone, but it's a pity not to go to see the lanterns, why don't you help the imperial sister buy one, let Mo Li go with you, she brings the lantern back, you don't need to run to the palace anymore, it's not good to be attacked as an assassin again." Won't I leave you?"

Mo Li said happily: "Of course Mo Li is willing to take this trip for His Highness. ”

Changle's goal was finally achieved, he was overjoyed, and the shy Mo Li glanced at each other, the two of them retired, and went out of the palace with the palace token. Before leaving, Changle remembered a very important thing, and turned back to Jianing: "By the way, Sister Huang, there is someone who invites you to Yunlai Inn for a while!"

Before Changle entered the palace, he was with Ji Changan, the master and apprentice drank in Yuqiongju, Ji Changan instigated him to enter the palace and ask Mo to leave to spend the Chinese Valentine's Day together, Changle couldn't help his instigation, and immediately said that he would sneak into the palace to find Mo Li.

As soon as Ji Changan heard him say that he had a way to sneak into the palace at night, he took his words and asked him the specific route, Changle was not stupid, poked him, and asked him why he wanted to enter the palace, Ji Changan fooled him: "Of course I want to do the same thing as you." ”

"Do you want to go to your sister to leave the city, but you can't do it!" Changle didn't clear up for a while, blurted out this sentence, so he slapped Huayin and slapped him on the head.

Huayin winked at Ji Chang'an: "Isn't it? Chang'an Daxia is going to find Her Royal Highness the Princess, right?"

Ji Changan smiled and nodded, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

Changle and Huayin's mood can be imagined, they didn't say much, but admired his fearless spirit of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer tigers to go to the mountains", and simply expressed their admiration to a higher level.

Having already asked about the safest route to sneak into the Zhaoming Palace, Ji Changan suddenly said again: "If you don't forget it, I won't enter the palace, good apprentice, you will be an old man under the moon tonight?

Of course, Changle was willing to be such an "old man under the moon", so he agreed.

The city full of lanterns on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the wonderful artistic conception of people after dusk, in short, in such a romantic Qixi Festival, the young and young people who are in love can understand everything as a beautiful thing.

However, the fact is that this night, Ji Changan endured his addiction to alcohol, barely stayed awake, changed into black clothes, and took advantage of the night to enter the palace. He memorized a route that Changle had come up with after many years of breaking into the palace, bypassing the palace road where the Imperial Forest Army was the most heavily guarded, turning over the palace with the least number of secret guards, and gradually approaching the Zhaoming Palace, although his injury was just right, but with his high-level geographical survey ability as a special forces and his quick and keen infiltration skills behind enemy lines, he was still easier to sneak in the palace than Changle, and he was more capable of ensuring that he was not discovered by Luo Yunmen.

In short, he successfully sneaked to the Zhaoming Palace, lying on the end of the road map drawn by Changle, that is, the palace wall where Changle was shot down by Qin Fengge, and secretly snooped, at this time the lights of the Zhaoming Hall were very dim, and he thought that Jianing really went out of the palace.

He followed the root of the wall, using shrubs as cover, went around to the back courtyard of the Zhaoming Palace, and pasted it under the corner of the Jianing Dormitory, listening to the movement inside, silent, according to the light shadow on the window paper, there was no one inside. He made sure that he was not exposed, so he put the special hook through the crack in the window, and by feeling and a faint voice, he removed the bolt from the inside, he opened a crack, looked inside, and made sure that there was no one inside, so he turned over and closed the window.

By the dim light of the candles, he searched for his target in the splendid and spacious dormitory of Jianing. After looking for a while, there was still no gain, and at this time, a beautiful shadow that had been hidden for a long time slowly fell from the high palace beam, with a light posture and a thin shirt fluttering like a fairy.

It turned out that she didn't go to the Yunlai Inn, she had been waiting for him here. ：：