Mao Xiang was a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, and the wording was extremely exquisite, the Ming did not agree with the imperial status of the Northern Yuan, and regarded himself as the suzerain, and the two countries called the Northern Yuan a kingdom when they came and went, the same as the Goryeo Kingdom, not an empire side by side with the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Emperor Xuanguang of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is called the lord of the country, and Empress Dowager Qi is the queen mother.

Hachi is a self-confident person who will never give up no matter what kind of predicament he falls into. At first hearing the bad news, his mind went blank for a moment, but he soon regained his senses and began to calmly analyze the situation.

"Several imperial uncles killed my mother, and the emperor and queen did not mourn secretly, only saying that my father was sick and did not go to court, and waited for the imperial uncles to decide the victory and defeat, and the victor was ready to ascend the throne, so that the funeral news would be announced, and said that my mother died of voluntary martyrdom. You may also claim that I have been executed by the Ming Emperor a long time ago, and that the Liba Thorn bought as a hostage in the Ming capital is just a stand-in, and that he will wage war in the name of revenge for me. ”

As a proton, Hachi did not forget his diplomatic rhetoric, calling his father the emperor and his uncle the emperor, and still regarded himself as an empire. When it comes to the death of his biological mother, Empress Kwon, Hachi's voice is still calm, but the slight tremor of his fingertips betrays his heartache at this time.

Mao Xiang secretly said that this son of the world is really extraordinary, and the content of the guess is similar to what the emperor inferred, and said: "Don't worry, the emperor said that the prince is the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and everyone else is a rebel, even if he takes the throne and ascends the throne, the Ming Dynasty will not recognize him." They will fight if they want to fight, and the Ming will not be afraid. ”

Xiaoba sensed Emperor Hongwu's intentions, this was to let him go back to the Northern Yuan Dynasty, to help him seize the throne, his heart was overjoyed, but his face was still calm, and he sighed: "I have traveled in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and the emperor has treated me with the gift of the king of the county, I am very grateful, I hope that the two countries will be peaceful, and do not fight again, and the lives will be ruined." ”

Mao Xiao knew this, and said: "I will convey the words of the prince to the emperor, and the information newspaper says that your imperial uncles have sent many assassins to kill you, so as to frame the Ming Dynasty as a pretext for launching a war in the future." Please wait for the prince in the Jiming Temple, the brocade guard has laid out a lot of defenses, which will protect the safety of the prince. ”

After Mao Xiang left, the Medicine King Palace returned to calm, Rao is Xiao Bacheng Mansion, just learned that his parents died, he couldn't sit on the futon steadily, Fang Cai took into account the majesty of the prince, pretended in front of Mao Xiang, and now as soon as Mao Xiang left, Xiao Ba immediately walked out of the Medicine King Palace.

Outside there were fine snowflakes floating on Xiaoba's delicate eyebrows and eyes, melting into water droplets, flowing down the cheeks to the corners of his lips, as if he had tasted the bitterness of tears.

Xiao Ba seemed to be dizzy from the charcoal basin of the Medicine King Palace, bent over as if he was overwhelmed outside, propped his hands on his knees, breathed in the cold air, and inhaled the snowflakes together, freezing the tears in his eyes.

You can't shed tears, once the first tears fall, the subsequent tears will be like a flood and out of control.

Xiao Shami, who was serving on the side, draped a pure white fox fur on him, and Hachi reached out and pushed the fox fur away, "No, I'm fine, I'm not cold." ”

When he pushed back, his left hand touched the warm fox fur, which was sent to him by the Empress Dowager Qi's messenger, and he wanted to use Zhu Shouqian's hand to transfer it to Xu Miaoyi, but he was rejected, he was thick-skinned, this little setback couldn't hurt him at all, and he put it on himself as if he was happy.

Both parents are dead, the whereabouts of the grandmother are unknown, and the daughter of her heart is concerned with others...... Hachi felt that he had been completely abandoned by this world, and his angry anger melted into frozen tears and was about to drop.

Hachi went from a posture of bending over and gasping to a straight waist, looking up at the sky, tears melting into his dark eyes, and only his long eyelashes were wet.

At this time, a gust of north wind swept in, and the fine snow suddenly turned into goose feather snow, and the white velvet was light and fluttering, like the catkins at the turn of spring and summer, piled up on the cotton clothes, and they were not in a hurry to melt.

Xiaoba sniffed the snowflakes lightly, well, this wind came from the direction of Dayuan in the north, and there was a smell of blood, which was mixed with his mother's blood. She thwarted Park Buhua's conspiracy, got rid of his half-brother who threatened his status as a son, and retained his status as the sole heir to the Golden Family, but died under the poisonous wine of the imperial uncles.

And grandmother Empress Dowager Qi, when she used to support other concubines to give birth to more imperial grandchildren for her, Xiaoba was still a little Gengjie to her grandmother, and now she learned that her grandmother escaped from the palace and recruited troops for herself, Xiaoba can't wait to reunite with her grandmother now.

Is it an alliance of interests? Is it the flesh and blood of grandchildren? After all, the only relative in this world is my grandmother.

In the meditation room of Jiming Temple, Xiao Yamei Xiao Shami removed all the gold and jade furnishings in the room, and even the mattress covered with brocade was replaced with simple cotton cloth, and he took off the soft cloud silk undershirt and changed into the coarse linen jacket worn by the lowest monk in the temple, which was rough and stiff linen clothes from the inside to the outside.

In a foreign country, you also have to wear linen and filial piety for your parents. Xiaoba set up a simple incense hall in the direction of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, kneeling on the futon and burning the Buddhist scriptures copied in these days, and worshipping the souls of his parents.

In the middle of the night, the meditation room was brightly lit, Xiaoba did not sleep, still knelt in front of the incense hall to guard his parents, the brocade guards guarding the door began to change their guards and rest, and the sound of shoveling snow sounded in the yard.

"Can't you wait until tomorrow morning? I had to shovel snow in the middle of the night, and my hands were so cold that I couldn't hold a shovel. One sergeant complained.

"Here, this is the deerskin gloves that Lord Mao is equipped with, Lord Mao said that it is easy to hide assassins in the snow, and only a finger's width of snow will be shoveled off immediately to avoid accidents."

"Master Mao is too careful."

"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, the people here are delicate, once something happens, our heads will not be guaranteed."

"Come on, come on, brothers, let's have some supper to warm up."

"No more! Eat vegetarian every day, and the bird fades out of your mouth! ”

"It's not a vegetarian meal made in the kitchen of Jiming Temple, it's a big meat bun with beef bone soup sent by hundreds of households outside the temple!"

"Is this newly promoted 100 households male or female? Say he's a man, he's good-looking, say he's a woman, it's cruel enough to move. ”

"Shhhh......h

"It's a eunuch! Then he should be the emperor's confidant, we can't mess with him, I heard that the eunuch is the most thoughtful, and he is used to holding grudges. ”

"Hey, what are you going to do with the food box?"

"Sending supper to the prince, kneeling for most of the night, must be hungry, Lord Mao said that he would serve the prince well......"

Squeak!

The brocade-clothed guard who delivered supper pushed open the door, and a smell of smoke and fire came to his face. There is a simple incense platform in the meditation room, and the eight thorns that I bought kneel in front of the futon, burn yellow paper with their backs to the door, and the ashes of the large copper basin are about to be piled up, and when the door is opened, the north wind that pours into it blows away the black ashes that are as light as heavy snow, and scatters them, as if a black snow has fallen in the meditation room.

"Get out, I'm not hungry." Hachi continued to burn yellow paper in the brazier, and a half-burned page of yellow paper flew onto the desk, igniting the half-copied Buddhist scriptures.

The Jinyi guard picked up a cup of cold tea and extinguished the flames on the desk, "Before your imperial uncle's assassins come to Beijing, you will be burned to death by the fire you set yourself." ”

The voice was so familiar, Xiao Hachi turned his head suddenly, and saw that the Jinyi guard put away the scattered Buddhist scriptures and other things on the table, opened the food box, and put a swarthy clay pot on it, "Casserole noodles, the umami extracted with mushrooms, there is no meat, please use it." ”

The brocade guard peeled off the □□ on his face, revealing a face as white as the moon.

His legs and feet were numb from kneeling, but Xiao Hachi didn't allow himself to face Xu Miaoyi with such a dejected attitude, he stood up with difficulty with a bamboo cane, restrained the pain in his heart, and tried to say in a relaxed tone:

"Miaoyi? Even the brocade guards have been mixed in by you, maybe now I don't have to hope that they will protect me. ”

"There is an official in Jinyiwei who owes me a favor, this time I arranged for you and me to meet, pay off the favor, and we don't owe each other." Xu Miaoyi took out a bowl of mushroom noodles from the steaming casserole, "It doesn't matter if you have an appetite or not, you have to eat some, and I can go out and explain." ”

Xiao Hachi's crutches dragged his numb legs to the table, "You use the last bit of favor to see me, you won't just send supper, right?" ”

"Of course not, you and I are mortal enemies, whatever supper you supper, you □□ cheaper to come to the bowl." Xu Miaoyi said: "Hurry up and eat, when I tell the purpose of seeing you, I'm afraid you will be difficult to swallow." ”

Xiaoba sat down and picked up the noodle bowl, "Okay, if you don't eat for nothing, you don't have the courage to poison me anyway." ”

The noodles are hand-rolled, smooth and chewy, with fresh soup boiled with mushrooms in winter, Xiao Ba ate three chopstick noodles in a row, and his pale face had a hint of vitality, "This is not like the last severed head meal of a death row prisoner?" A meal goes down, and from then on yin and yang are separated. ”

Xu Miaoyi ignored it.

Xiaoba smiled boredly, and continued to bow his head to eat noodles, maybe he was really hungry, maybe the mushroom noodles were too delicious, he ate very fast, very elegant, and had a perennial upbringing, he ate noodles and drank soup without making a sound, and he didn't even have soup on his lips, like a big python swallowing it, without any traces.

After Xiaoba was full of food and drink, and stopped chopsticks, Xu Miaoyi said: "You are about to return to Beiyuan, whether you live or die, we will be in this life."

There will be no goodbye, so there are some grievances that must be settled before you go. ”

The mushroom noodles warmed Hachi's stomach, and even the cold heart seemed to show signs of recovery, and Hachi's cheekiness also recovered, "Oh, it's not necessarily. If I fail to seize the throne and am murdered to death by the emperor's uncles, this soul will float to Jinling City, and I will see you several times every night; If I stabilize the storage position and ascend the throne smoothly, as the emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the future, you are very welcome to come to my house as a guest, and I will do my best to entertain you as a landlord. ”

Xiao Ba glanced at Xu Miaoyi deeply, "My previous proposal is still valid, you can consider it." ”

Xu Miaoyi glanced at him coldly: "Wishful thinking, you will live or die after you go back, and it has nothing to do with me at all." ”

Xiaoba pretended to be sad, "You changed your face too quickly, just now you warmly invited me to eat noodles, but now you are suddenly so indifferent." ”

Xu Miaoyi said: "I said it a long time ago, I came to settle grievances tonight. On the first day of the first month of this year, I ran away from home and returned to the market to make a living, and I spent the New Year alone. ”

Xiaoba touched his belly and sighed: "People eat grains and grains, and they can't escape seven emotions and six desires. At the lowest point, someone delivers a hearty meal, even if you know that the intention is not pure, it is difficult to refuse. You are like this, and I am like this, they are all mortals. ”

Xu Miaoyi said: "Grace is over, let's start complaining." Xiaoba, you have cheated me, and I am not a good stubble, and I have also cheated you. ”

Xiaoba deliberately twisted his body and brushed the hair on the back of his head away, revealing a scar, "You still remember, that time in Fengyang Jiushan, you pretended to be sick and asked me to carry it, I was stupid and almost tired to death carrying you, but you smashed a stone here ruthlessly, and your head almost bloomed, this scar can't be erased for a lifetime, this is broken, you have to be responsible for me." ”

Xu Miaoyi retorted: "You teamed up with Wang Jingang to kidnap me as a hostage, do you want me to sit back and wait to be killed?" You and I are mortal enemies and hurt each other, and this grudge can be considered a tie - but what about my cousin? Since you came to the capital as a proton, has he despised you, hurt you, and done anything that made you resentful? He has only kindness to you, and has never had a grudge, but you repay virtue with resentment, and you have not forced him to die! ”

Xiao Ba smiled coldly, "What a Xiang Zhuang sword dance, it is intended for Pei Gong, Xu Miaoyi, it turns out that you are here for Zhu Shouqian." 166 Reading Network