Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Sun

Gu Chenxiao calmly glanced at the box of ten brocades on the case, and selected a piece of pickled preserved yellow peach fruit and put it in his mouth, the sweet and sour taste was very appetizing. He spoke soothingly www.biquge.info seemingly unintentionally mentioning to Qin Heng his words in Shoukang Palace on the first day of the new year.

"The customs of Jian'an and Kangnan are a little different, my imperial brother set up the woman of the Nalan family as the crown princess at the age of fifteen, and then accepted a few emblems and Fengyi, and now the prince's east palace is full of everything, which was originally intended for the royal branching out. ”

When Qin Heng heard him go to Gu Zhengnuo, the prince of Kangnan, he stretched out his hand to take the candied red-clothed peanut and paused lightly, stopping in mid-air.

His father once warned himself that the relationship between his third brother Qin Huai and Gu Zhengnuo, the prince of Kangnan, was extremely unusual.

My father was a little angry that day, and pointed to a letter of impeachment jointly signed by several ministers on the case and said: "My father knows that you have suffered it on behalf of others, and the initiator is hiding behind your back to watch your jokes. Father's anger is that you always lack the courage to kill and make decisions under your hands. ”

The father refers to the third brother Qin Huai, who is like a humble gentleman on weekdays, and privately helps in the court, known as the virtuous king, but often does bad things. On the surface, he was respectful, but secretly he was persecuted by the wind and frost sword.

Qin Heng didn't want to kill each other, he didn't want his future throne to be achieved by stepping on the blood of his relatives, he blindly hoped to use a gentle strategy to influence the third brother's heart, even in front of his father, he often excused the third brother.

Qin Heng's name was taken by his father and his late mother, from the Book of Songs, Xiaoya, "such as the eternal sun, such as the rise of the moon, such as the longevity of Nanshan, not collapsed, such as the pine and cypress, all of them are not or inherited".

His father and mother taught him to be innocent, hoping that he would be as full as the moon and as the red sun rises. He hopes that Jian'an will be in his own hands, and he will not lose or collapse, and he hopes that his brothers, friends, and brothers, and the descendants of the royal family will compete to inherit it.

His kindness can't be exchanged for the gratitude of the tiger wolf, and Qin Heng knows who is behind the interception and killing before he leaves Jian'an.

Since Huairou is successful and still wants his life, then don't blame him for not knowing how to love his brother as a brother. The third brother can befriend Kangnan's crown prince, and the wolf's ambition is beginning to appear, so why should he make friends with His Royal Highness King Ning, who is the most beloved by Emperor Kangnan.

Qin Heng figured it out, looked up at Gu Chenxiao with a smile, and waited for him to continue.

Gu Chenxiao just looked at him a little confused, and asked: "Listening to what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said a few days ago, there are only two good ladies in the East Palace now, is it possible that the crown princess has not been established for a long time, so that it is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to the Queen Mother on the morning of the first day of the new year?"

Qin Heng listened to Gu Chenxiao's direct question, Ruyu's face flushed slightly, and he drank the tea slowly, but he sighed heavily in his heart.

The two princes Liangyuan, one is the niece of Concubine Yu Shu, and the other is the younger generation of the concubine Niangniang's mother's family, both of whom he dislikes very much.

It's just that the mothers of these two are intertwined in the palace and have relatives to each other, and they are like towering trees that cannot be shaken. His position as the crown prince is not stable, and he still needs someone to support him, it is his father who taught him to be obscure, Mo to fight for a long time, and admit people back to the palace, whether he likes it or not, whether he likes it or not, whether he loves it or not, is all in him.

This time he came to Xixia, and his father also said that if he couldn't marry the eldest princess Murong Wei, he would retreat to the second best place and select other noble girls from the Xixia royal family in exchange for Xixia's support and better help him stabilize his position as the prince.

Qin Heng folded his hands and sighed lightly, a little helplessly relieved: "His Royal Highness King Ning, with the identity of you and me, in the eyes of outsiders, it is Zhong Ding jade food, which is unspeakably expensive. However, the high place is unbearable, whether you accept a concubine or not, and who you accept as a concubine, it is not your own decision. ”

Qin Heng didn't take the initiative to answer his question, but he also revealed that it was not his original intention, but only in his interests.

Qin Heng drank a cup of tea, and called out with a deep look in his eyes: "Chenxiao, the two of us met by chance in this Xixia, and lived together in the Ninghui Hall for more than half a month. These days, I only talk about Fengyue, and I don't care about the future, and there are quite a few people in the mountains who don't know the taste of Han and Wei and Jin, and they can be regarded as fateful. I will ask you to call your name, hoping that out of the imperial city of Xixia, we will meet in the future and be commensurate with brothers. ”

Worthy of being the prince, Qin Heng found a stable position in a few words, he hoped to form an alliance with Gu Chenxiao, which was secretly in line with Emperor Kangnan's flying pigeon and wanted Gu Chenxiao to befriend Qin Heng's original intention.

Gu Chenxiao smiled and drank all the tea in the cup, with a relaxed smile on the corner of his mouth.

The two are friends rather than enemies, and Qin Heng is not full of admiration for Murong Wei, so he will not marry.

Thinking of this again, Gu Chenxiao's heart was unexpectedly relieved, and the smile on the corner of his lips became much more sincere, and even the title was changed quickly: "Brother Qin said it really freely, it's just that it's in the sky, but it's in the people who succeed, if you really want to fall in love with someone, you should fight for her." ”

Qin Heng suddenly remembered Nan Ke's dream the night before, the woman in the dream was affectionate and infinitely desolate, calling his name so sadly, sighing that he had no chance in this life, and renewed his covenant in the next life.

is to have a beloved woman, but I am afraid that there are tigers and leopards in front of her and jackals in the back, and I will not be able to protect her for a lifetime in the end. So even in his dream, Qin Heng was so genuinely sad.

Qin Heng showed a light smile, his knuckled fingers held the cup and slowly lifted it, his fingers were slender and white, and his smile had the vicissitudes of being dyed by sadness: "Brother is about like this in his life, so he will replace wine with tea, I hope that you can make your wishes come true." ”

Gu Chenxiao only knew that Qin Heng's mother died early, and now the throne of Emperor Jian'an is vacant, but the power of the harem is in the hands of Concubine An. I want to come to my father's favor and love, can give him a life of fine clothes and food, and can give him the supreme crown prince, but it can't compare to the loneliness and hopelessness in the depths of my heart.

For a while, infected by Qin Heng's emotions, Gu Chenxiao also felt a sense of vicissitudes in his heart, and he missed his mother and father who were far away in Kangnan, looking forward to embarking on the return journey as soon as possible.

On the 14th, the Ministry of Rites invited two highnesses to go to the paddock to watch the horses.

Because there are a large number of nomads in Jian'an, almost on horseback, most of Xixia's war horses are purchased from Jian'an, and some are still kept in the paddock.

In order to show respect, Emperor Chongming once told the Ministry of Rites that he must ask Qin Heng to go and see the horse farm in Xixia before leaving.

A few days ago, the banquet was arranged compactly, and the Ministry of Rites could not arrange it, and now the two highnesses chose to leave Beijing on the seventeenth day of the first month, and they also had to participate in the poetry meeting of the Shangyuan Festival.

After that deep talk, Qin Heng and Gu Chenxiao already cherished each other, and they were much more harmonious than a few days ago. Early in the morning of the 14th, no one from the Ministry of Rites came to urge, and the two made an appointment to change their riding clothes and travel to the racecourse together.

Xia Lanxin is a little idle these days, knowing that Murong Wei is busy with the affairs of the poetry meeting, it is inconvenient to bother, except for the eighth day of the first month, she has passed a word for the third brother, and she has not entered the palace in the past few days. (To be continued.) )