Before dawn, the generals of the garrison who had come to meet him all returned. They came in the night, just to show their loyalty to the emperor.

The fourth master had already gotten up at this time, washed up and changed his clothes, but he was still sitting in the tent. After breakfast, I looked at the sky outside the tent with a bowl of tea. It was still dark, and in the distance, under the lights outside the imperial tent, people could vaguely be seen coming and going, trotting quickly.

Su Peisheng and Zhang Desheng and Wang Chaoqing and Wang Yicheng were all guarding the door of the tent. There were no guards, so they could only use the eunuchs as guards, and the four of them guarded the door all night last night.

The fourth master has been sitting with his eyes closed and holding the tea, and the tea bowl in his hand has gradually cooled from the itchy palm of his hand.

The lights in the tent slowly dimmed, and that was because it was already light.

The guards outside the tent changed shifts, and after the new guards came in and knelt and kowtowed, one of them took a step forward, stood beside the fourth master, and said with a smile: "Say hello to the fourth beyler." The slave is Feng Guoxiang, who led the Han army under the third leader of the white flag. ”

Hearing that it was inlaid with a white flag, the fourth master put down the tea bowl that had already been cold and smiled at him.

Feng Guoxiang's eyes lit up, he was overjoyed, took another half step forward, bowed and said, "These are the brothers of the slave with the white flag. ”

Su Peisheng was sharp-eyed and clever, and instead of taking the eunuchs down, he took a few steps forward and protected the fourth master in the middle. If this surnamed Feng has bad intentions, they will call him a return!

Not to mention them, even the fourth master seems to be relaxed, and he has already secretly supported the ground, if Feng Xiangguo is really not good, the short sword hidden in his sleeve is not a vegetarian.

Feng Xiangguo has the heart to serve, he is a Han Chinese, a Han army with a white flag, and there is no ladder to climb the sky, he can only be an ordinary soldier of the Eight Banners in his life. The people who counted up were all full of people, and they all had the opportunity to take care of his own relatives, otherwise this change of guard would not have sent him to Baoding Mansion, which was 108,000 miles away.

But Feng Xiangguo did not accept his fate. If his ancestors had accepted their fate, their bones would have been gone. His life is worth a fortune, so he should sell it to someone who can make the highest price.

This time, the emperor brought all the elder brothers, and he had been eyeing the fourth master early in the morning. The fourth master has been eyebrow-raising with the person with the white flag for a few days, and he also heard a little wind. The emperor has not yet set up the flag, and no one knows if the white flag is thrown by mistake. But if someone holds the white flag in their hands, is it still rare to send it up?

It's worth it now.

Feng Xiangguo decided to take a gamble. Anyway, his parents died a long time ago, and his uncles and brothers took care of each other, and he was unwilling to lose his life on the battlefield in a few years, or lose an arm and a leg and go back to see his uncle's face to live.

He whispered: "After the slave saw the king of Zhijun return to the tent just now, the third master of the Cheng'en Mansion sent the people away. After that, the Lord of Long Live washed up and said that he wanted to rest, and the adults in Baoding Mansion came, so they knelt outside and waited. ”

After he finished speaking, he quietly glanced at the fourth master.

The fourth master didn't care about the news he said, he wanted to know even more if this Feng Xiangguo was Weishenme suddenly joined him? Maybe there's something wrong with this man?

Either way, this is not the time to ask. After a long time, he has seen people's hearts, and he is a person who harbors evil intentions, and he will definitely come out in the future. There is no hurry.

Thinking of this, the fourth master smiled at him, nodded slightly, and didn't say a word.

Feng Xiangguo breathed a sigh of relief, Sibeile didn't stab him with a knife on the spot, which means that this master has the heart to take him.

He took three steps back and kowtowed two more before he stepped back.

After Feng Xiangguo left, Su Peisheng heard from the beginning to the end, and at this time he couldn't help but come over and whispered: "Master, what do you think this means?" ”

He has been following the fourth master for more than ten years, and he used to quietly talk about Yonghe Palace behind his back, and he should say this at this time. After all, now the fourth master only has a few eunuchs in his hands, and the guards are not there.

The fourth master shook his head, got up and didn't speak. Su Peisheng had no choice but to bury his doubts in his heart and ponder for himself. The gentleman in the teahouse outside is a storyteller, and he always likes to say that someone has a different face, and the birds and beasts outside bow their heads when they see him, and people across several mountains and seas have heard his name.

But he has been in the palace for so many years, and even the emperor and the prince have never encountered a bird with a branch, and the beast bows its head.

Exceptions have been taught by animal taming eunuchs.

This Feng Xiangguo suddenly came to say such a thing to the fourth master, either he was harbored with evil intentions, or he was a lost dog. He was looking for all the masters who could give him meat to eat.

The officials of Baoding Mansion outside knelt until the sun rose, and the emperor came out of the imperial tent, and spread the word that they knew their loyalty, but in order not to disturb the people, there was no need to hold a grand welcome, and the emperor drove the camp into the city. Local officials knelt beside the royal road to greet them.

So these officials shouted long live, thanked the emperor and retreated. They rode horses or sedan chairs to the city gate, and knelt down on both sides of the royal road to greet them.

About half an hour later, I saw the bright yellow flag of the royal car waving in the wind from a distance, slowly coming.

Accompanying the emperor's royal car were the King of Zhijun, the fourth master, the ninth master and the thirteenth master, and the four of them rode horses to accompany each other. The prince's car followed behind the royal car.

When I arrived outside the city, I saw neatly kneeling people beside the royal road, and from the color of the clothes, people of all sizes up and down the Zhili had arrived.

The royal car stopped here, Liang Jiugong came out of the royal car and called the king of Zhijun to come over, and when the king of Zhijun came back, he rode his horse and ran to the front, and shouted to the officials who knelt to greet him: "The emperor has a decree, wait for you to get up!" ”

"Long live thanks!"

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After shouting long live and kowtowing again, the officials got up, bowed their heads and solemnly stood up like wooden stakes, and the wind blew through and brought up a cloud of smoke and dust.

The fourth master kept looking ahead, and he didn't even glance at it. Jiu Ye kept looking at King Zhijun, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Thirteen couldn't help but always want to look behind the prince's car.

Although through the heavy curtains, I couldn't see what kind of expression the prince was in the car.

But the prince of Zhijun spoke on behalf of the emperor, but the prince couldn't even show up.

Prince...... Is there really no trace of injustice in my heart?

Inside the prince's car, because all the curtains were tightly closed, the smell in the car was not very good. The midday sun reflected on the bright yellow curtains, and the interior of the car was also covered with a layer of gold.

The crown prince did not wear a tiara, nor did he wear a grand gown, not even boots, he was wearing a lake-blue civilian dress, leaning on the pillow, a handful of flower cards in his hand, only white socks on his feet, and a pair of loafers on his feet.

He laughed and threw down a card and said, "Bao, you lost again." ”

Po knelt under the bed, his upper body straight. Between the two of them is an embroidered stool, on which are scattered with several flower cards. Ah Bao also held a card in his hand, and when he saw this, he just picked up the counting chips beside him and counted them, and said, "Your Highness is going to win all the monthly money of the slave after three years." ”

When the prince saw that the car was moving again, he threw the card in his hand and said, "It seems that he is going to enter the city." After that, he sat up straight, Ah Bao quickly put away the cards, moved the stool, waited for the prince to put on his shoes, and said, "Your Highness really doesn't need to change clothes?" While glancing at the crown clothes that had been taken out a long time ago for today's entry into the city.

The prince closed his eyes slightly, shook his head slightly, and said lightly: "That's it." Anyway, I can't see anyone, all I can see are my own people, and it's not necessary to be so neat. ”

Ah Bao said no more, and after putting on his shoes, the prince sat on the couch, closed his eyes and counted silently in his heart. When the count was about to reach 10,000, the car stopped. The guards outside lifted the curtain and said, "Respectfully His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Po jumped down first and knelt in front of the car, while the prince stepped on his back. The little eunuch who originally used the car as a footstool didn't dare to talk to Ah Baoding, and secretly slandered: Bah, follow the fart, I'm afraid that the prince's will be eaten urgently.

The prince raised his eyes and saw that only the fourth and thirteenth brothers were still there before the car was driven, and the king of Zhijun was probably called away by the emperor a long time ago. Now the emperor is waiting for the king of Zhijun, which is to take one step at a time, and it is difficult to leave an inch.

The fourth master and the thirteenth had just stepped forward to salute the prince, but the prince waved his hand casually to exempt them from salute, and opened his mouth to ask, "What about the old nine?" Lone remembers that he came with him, right? ”

The prince didn't get out of the sedan chair just now, and after the emperor left, the ninth master found a reason to jump. The king of Zhijun is not there, the fourth master is too lazy to care about him, and the thirteenth is the younger brother can't speak, so it became like this.

Thirteen looked embarrassed, and the fourth master said calmly: "Back to the prince, just now the ninth brother said that he wanted to have diarrhea, and he was afraid that the indecent anger would startle the prince's driving, so he retreated first." ”

Thirteen's face turned red, he really didn't expect that Brother Nine wouldn't even find a decent reason. And the fourth brother, he actually said it so bluntly!

The prince laughed suddenly, leaned forward and pointed at the fourth master, and said, "Fourth, fourth, I didn't expect you to be a narrow person." ”

The fourth master smiled slightly and said, "Prince Nengbo smiled, it is the credit of my younger brother." ”

The smile on the prince's lips slowly ended, looked at the fourth master for a long time, sighed and shook his head, patted the fourth master's shoulder, and said, "Okay, you don't need to wait here alone, let's go back and rest." There is a feast in the evening, and you all have to go to the feast, so go back and rest. ”

The fourth master bowed: "Yes." ”

He and the Thirteen Eyes sent the prince away, and then returned to his horse and went to the city. The people of Baoding Mansion have been waiting to lead the way for a long time, and for the sake of these royal brothers, they have lent out the most Haode houses in the city.

The place where several emperors lived had already been surrounded by guards, and the ordinary civilians on the same street were temporarily moved away. So the more the fourth master and the thirteenth walked, the more silent the surroundings became, and only the sound of horses' hooves in front of and behind them echoed.

Thirteen looked at the fourth master several times, and plucked up the courage to ask: "Fourth brother, it's too much for the ninth brother to do that......" What he wanted to ask was that the ninth brother really dared not to put the prince in his eyes?

Did he really think the crown prince was going to fall?

Thirteen is not stupid, he can leave the palace and build a mansion safely and soundly after Zhang Jia's death, and he has not lost the emperor's favor, he is a clever person.

Because of this, he saw that the emperor was cold and negligent to the prince, precisely because the emperor could not do anything about the prince. He can only use this way to attack the crown prince and weaken the prince's authority.

But does it work?

When he entered the city today, the prince probably couldn't see it in the car. When the royal car passed, the prince's car passed by, and the officials knelt down again. Although a few knelt hesitantly, kneeling not as neatly as kneeling to the emperor, none of them dared to stand straight when the prince's car passed by.

No matter how the emperor suppresses it, the crown prince is still the crown prince. His place is still firmly nailed to the heart of every courtier.

Even the emperor didn't dare to reprimand the crown prince justifiably, but only dared to suppress it so secretly...... There are also wives and concubines in the thirteenth house, and what the emperor did was like Zhaojia's quietly giving Guarjia's small shoes to wear, and the share was a little later, and the moon silver was given later, etc.

Interesting? No matter how much Zhaojia does it, Guarjia's child is still good to be born. He was also annoyed by Zhao Jia's small actions again and again, afraid that her big heart would hurt the child again, and he planned to ask for a seal for Guerjia's as soon as possible. has a name, so that she can protect the child.

Replaced by the emperor and the prince, how the emperor snubbed the prince in Beijing and sowed discord among the brothers, but the prince is still the prince.

Why did Brother Jiu dare not treat the prince as one thing now?

Thirteen out of the palace late, can't be compared with the first few brothers, not to mention that there is Yikun Palace in the Ninth Brother Palace, and there are five brothers outside the palace, and he is also good friends with the starling brother and the tenth brother. He is well-informed, could it be that he already knows something?

Thinking of this, Thirteen couldn't sit still like he had a needle under his buttocks.

The fourth master is very leisurely, and the road has already been washed with water. The sun is shining, the sun is not hot or cold, and there are early-growing spring branches sticking out of the wall in the houses on both sides, and the branches are green and cute.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Thirteen hurriedly said, "Fourth brother......"

"Thirteen, your heart is in turmoil." The fourth master said, he pointed to a pomegranate branch sticking out of the wall, and a few young buds appeared on the brown branch.

"You see, spring is here, and the grass and trees are growing, and this is the time of day." He said, Thirteen looked at the past in puzzlement, "People, you can't control it." ”

The horses of the two also walked outside the wall at this time, and the fourth master broke the pomegranate branch with his hand, held it in his hand and said, "People can break it off, but they can't help but make it sprout." ”

He threw the branch to Thirteen, and rode his horse first.

Thirteen took the branch and walked down another street, and the houses where the brothers lived were not together. Except that the crown prince lives with the emperor.

The branches were turning around in his hands, and he thought that the fourth brother meant that I could only watch the play if I couldn't manage it?

Is the fourth brother also watching the play?

On the other side, the fourth master found the house under the guidance of the guards, and saw Su Peisheng when he entered from the gate. He and the others came back first.

Su Peisheng came up, and told him all the way how big this house was, how many times he entered, and where Master Li was now.

entered Guishoutang, but the fourth master didn't see Su Su come out to greet him, only a few girls around Su Su were there. One came over and said, "The master is soaking his feet in the Xinuan Pavilion." ”

After that, he led him over, and through the door, he heard the sound of Su Su gasping for air conditioning in the house, and smelled the strong smell of the potion for soaking his feet.

She soaked her feet early in the morning and went out to kneel?

Opened the curtain and went in, Su Su sat on the couch, her pants were pulled up to her knees, and Bai Shengsheng's legs were soaked in a knee-deep barrel.

"You sit." He bent down and reached out to test the temperature of the medicinal soup, it was hot.

"What's going on?" He asked. Who here would dare to tell her to kneel? Thinking about it, could it be that the emperor entered the city in the morning, and she also went to greet him?

Li Wei still wondered, why didn't he know?

"Before dawn, I went to kneel in front of the emperor's palace, and knelt until just now...... You're back so fast, I didn't see you over there. ”

Seeing that her face was full of 'It's a pity that I didn't see you', he couldn't help but reach out and gently twist her face.

"Who's going to call the people? How is it arranged? He asked.

Li Wei thought about it, vaguely as if she was ......

"There is a person...... Say yes...... "Who is coming?"

No, she asked rhetorically, "Shouldn't you go?" "The emperor has entered the city, can she still dodge? She is a high-grade side Fujin. When she knelt, she still thought that the people of Baoding Mansion wanted to stay up until they could kneel to the emperor, maybe how many years it would take.

What do you think of the fourth master, which means that he doesn't know that there is such a thing at all?

He didn't know, and the emperor must not have this order.

Didn't you go out and kneel in vain this morning?

She was struggling with whether to lose a white kneeling, the fourth master went out to change clothes, Su Peisheng said: "The slave went to ask just now, someone came to say last night, and the emperor will kneel to greet him when he enters the city in the morning." Master Li is the leader of the ......"

The fourth master was stunned and puzzled: "Why is she the leader?" ”

Su Peisheng also felt Coke when he inquired, but he didn't dare to play in front of the master, so he lowered his head and said, "I heard...... Long live the lord brought a few little nobles and promises, the prince brought Shu Fujin, the king of Zhijun did not bring anyone, the ninth master brought a concubine, and the thirteenth master brought a grid......"

On the whole, their master Li has the highest grade.

Only then did the fourth master understand what was going on, and he couldn't help laughing.

The author has something to say: good night everyone, see you tomorrow