A banquet was held in the Xiyu Palace, in order to welcome His Royal Highness King Yi who returned to the dynasty, and the hundred officials were invited to enter the palace, and finally saw the eldest prince who had not been seen for more than ten years.

Since the eldest prince was quickly named His Royal Highness the Crown Prince more than ten years ago, and then the war with Beichen reached the most critical time, the eldest prince resolutely went to Beichen to be a proton, this time it has been more than ten years, they have almost forgotten that there is such an heir to the Xiyu royal family, and some young officials have only recently learned that there is a big prince in their country.

The heirs of the Xiyu Kingdom have always been selected by the triennial crown succession ceremony, and each time they can be replaced according to the will of the people, the votes of the courtiers, and the decisions of the king.

However, in the three-year prince succession ceremony, several adult princes in the royal family have always participated, and this time they actually invited the eldest prince who made contributions in Beichen back, what is the purpose?

The courtiers also heard that the Sui people returned to the court with Guan Qianyi, and this significance was even more serious. Could it be that after so many years of thinking, the king finally realized that the third prince Fei Shangcheng and the second prince Fei Shangcheng are not the most suitable candidates? That's why the eldest prince returned to participate?

Baiguan has not had much expectation of his own stupid Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the past few decades, look at the appearance of His Royal Highness the Prince, who will only drool and giggle when attending a banquet, there must be four palace people who know martial arts to follow everywhere, where can they represent the most outstanding prince candidate in the Xiyu Kingdom?

On the contrary, the tea concubine is becoming more and more favored in the palace, and the king of Zongcheng with outstanding talents is showing a little expectation, and there are also courtiers who have changed the crown prince, but how many princes have inherited the ceremony, and the king is stunned and silent about the stupid prince's throne.

The courtiers speculated, maybe the king and the queen mother have a deep relationship, in order to give the queen enough face, let's first give His Royal Highness the crown prince a comforting identity, anyway, the king is now in a tough body, and there is no need to worry about the prince.

But now that the eldest prince, who is better than King Zongcheng, has returned, will the king still choose a fool to be the prince as always? The ministers all know that it is too mysterious. However, the king of his own family has always been unfathomable, and finding the eldest prince may be just a trick or a disguise.

"Mother, I'll go and respect my eldest brother." Regardless of the displeased look of the tea concubine, King Zongcheng came to Guan Qianyi with a glass of wine.

"Big brother, congratulations on returning home. This dress suits you better than the Regent's suit. King Zongcheng deliberately mentioned his clothes, as if it was meant to be ridiculous.

"Really? This king thinks that the red clothes you wear in Beichen are more suitable for you. Guan Qianyi touched a glass with him, "The unrestrained sky, and the prison-like shackles here." ”

King Zongcheng lowered his head and came closer, and said in a low voice, "Big brother, don't be so angry, we have something to say, this is a banquet in the Xiyu Palace, and there are ears everywhere." Haha," he raised his voice again, "Big brother, you and I haven't seen each other for many years, my younger brother went to Beichen to see you, you don't care much about me, and now I can see you in China, and my little brother is really happy." ”

"I'm happy, I'm happy, big brother—"

Suddenly, another male voice rushed into the middle of the two, and I saw that the foolish prince also brought a glass of wine, squeezed over, and clinked glasses with them, "You are also my eldest brother, right, I am also happy, there are so many people today, there is a lot of food, and the mother concubine finally let me come out to play." Hehehe-"

With a smirk, a stream of water also overflowed from the corner of the fool's mouth, and King Zongcheng's face turned disgusted, pushing him away, "Second brother, can you go out first, I'm chatting with my eldest brother." ”

The palace people around him stretched out their handkerchiefs and wiped the traces on the corners of the fool's mouth, the fool was impatient, blocked the palace people, and was unwilling to leave, so he looked at Guan Qianyi and said, "Don't, I just want to play with my eldest brother, and the mother concubine said that he is my eldest brother." ”

"He's my big brother!" ”

The fool smiled, "Then you too, so do I, it's better, the mother concubine said, the people who call the third brother brother are my brothers, not the eldest brother, or the younger brother, so, he is the eldest brother with us, do you think what I said is right?" He applauded himself, and was slapped by the king of Zongcheng, "I got you, I died of noise, go, I'll take you somewhere." ”

King Zong Cheng was afraid that Guan Qianyi was impatient with this fool, so he dragged the fool away first.

Cui Lei saw that everyone was gone, he approached Guan Qianyi and said in his ear, "Lord Wang, Your Majesty and the others have changed to the waterway, and they should be able to arrive in less than three days." ”

Guan Qianyi frowned, waterway? It's too dangerous. He secretly solved a lot of people in the tea concubine, but it did not include the waterway, he did not arrange too many manpower for those thorns by the water, if the assassin was empty, then the safety of His Majesty would not be good.

"You sent the remaining twenty guards to help."

"Lord Wang, that's the person next to you, don't move."

"Let you go, this is the king's command."

Cui Lei had no choice but to accept the order, but he sighed secretly, the prince took His Majesty so seriously, what did he think about returning to China this time? He was originally considered a confidant of the prince, but he almost couldn't guess what the prince was thinking about recently, and the prince would not take the initiative to tell him.

King Xiyi, who was the first to take the throne, got up and introduced the identity of Guan Qianyi to everyone.

"For my war in the west, I bowed down to Beichen for more than ten years, I was worried day and night, ashamed like the sea, today I finally see my king, I feel the world, I take this king/prince inheritance ceremony, through the Beichen Majesty Xià document, please return to China and attend this ceremony. Zhongqing can still choose every day, and there is no need to worry too much. ”

The introduction to Guan Qianyi's return to the dynasty is not long, Guan Qianyi retreated by himself to toast with the hundred officials, and the faint expression could not see the joy and sorrow, nor did he see other feelings, and the hundred officials sighed that this prince's ability to not do sex is stronger than that of the king, and he has a little more calm bearing than the king.

A minister was curious, so he took the opportunity to toast and asked.

"Your Royal Highness King Yi, I heard that you have established a great career in Beichen, why did you come back to my Xiyi?"

Guan Qianyi: "This king went to Beichen more than ten years ago, and lived a bloody road, and now he has been exchanged for the peace of the country and the people of Xiyi, and he has been summoned by his father, so as to take this opportunity to return to China to see the great rivers and mountains." ”

Seeing that His Royal Highness answered too casually, the minister asked again, "Doesn't His Royal Highness King Yi have any intention of participating in the prince/prince competition?" ”

Guan Qianyi showed a mysterious smile at this time, "This matter has its own destiny. Although the king did not believe in his fate, however," he paused for a moment, and the minister followed his gaze forward, but saw that his own king had brought an old man by his side, and heard the eldest prince say again: "Just as this king had to go to Beichen in the past, sometimes the will of heaven is difficult to disobey. ”

At first, the minister didn't know what Guan Qianyi meant when he said that the will of heaven was inviolable, until the king introduced the identity of the old man, and the minister was shocked several times in his heart: That was actually the patriarch of the Sui clan?

"He is returning to China with our Royal Highness King Yi this time?"

"The people still say that His Highness is followed by an old man, but they didn't expect it to be the patriarch of the Sui clan?"

The courtier looked at Guan Qianyi, who was smiling and silent, again, and his eyes became hot.

Shi Yulian was also very surprised when she learned the identity of the clan elder, and then thought that her eldest brother Yi's position as king/prince was more stable, and she couldn't help but feel happy. She picked up a glass of wine and slowly approached Guan Qianyi.

"His Royal Highness King Yi, Lian'er is polite."

Guan Qianyi was about to finish the toast, and when she saw this woman coming, she just nodded slightly, turned sideways, and returned to her seat, Shi Yulian was dissatisfied, so she insisted on following, and glared back at the person who teased her behind, and everyone hurriedly reined in.

"Brother Yi, why don't you pay attention to people? You haven't seen the old man yet, he has been sick for a long time, do you know, and now some people are starting to impeach the national teacher and remove him, saying that he has discredited the Xiyu country. Shi Yulian wanted to find some topics to talk to Guan Qianyi, and after thinking about it, she started with the elderly.

Guan Qianyi nodded: "This king knows about this." "The old man brought a bad news back to China, and he will naturally take the blame and resign, and he should have offended many people, and he should be impeached at this time.

"The queen wants to see you too, when are you free?"

"This king will not be free for a few days."

"Brother Yi, do you have to be so indifferent? The queen is like a biological child to you, and you don't miss any kindness? ”

"The queen mother, this king will find a time to visit. If it's okay, please don't bother this king at will, this king and you are not familiar with it. ”

Princess Lian couldn't say a word about this, and she was so angry that she turned around and ran away. When she turned around, she saw the foolish prince walking behind her, and she became angry, "Go away, don't get in the way of this princess." ”

The fool smiled, "Sister, you are so beautiful." ”

Shi Yulian also has no temper for this fool, "What is beautiful, annoying, go back to your mother's concubine, don't run around." "Although I sometimes hate such a stupid person, after all, I sympathize with him more than I dislike it, after all, he is the only son of the queen's mother, and she doesn't care too much about him.

There are few people in the palace who are sincere to him, so she can only take care of him.

"Don't look around, go back to the Queen's mother. A few of you look at it, don't let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince run to some dangerous places, you know? ”

As soon as Shi Yulian finished speaking, the fool wanted to leave.

"Hey, stop!" Shi Yulian chased after her.

Guan Qianyi looked at a few people who walked away, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

But on the other hand, Li Wei changed to walking by water in order to shorten the distance, but in the past few days, she vomited and diarrhea, and half of her life was gone.

Her languishing appearance made others feel distressed, and she ate some fresh food, and then slowly came back to life.

Cui Yue said, "Your Majesty, it's been less than two days since I went to the Golden Palace, so you can rest tonight." There's still a waterway tomorrow morning. ”

Li Wei was stunned, "Another one?" Didn't you go ashore? How can there be a waterway? ”

Master Qingyi smiled, "Your Majesty's time to go out is too short, I didn't think that I couldn't take a boat." If His Majesty can't endure this hardship, it is better for us to take a detour to go ashore and take another official road, which is safer and will not be so hard. It's a long way off, but it's just one more day. ”

Li Wei took a deep breath and shook her head, "Don't, don't have one more day, I don't want to wander for a moment." ”

At the beginning, when Guan Qianyi hit her and said that the rivers and lakes were dangerous and she didn't have three meals, she always thought he was scaring her, but now she knows that although she has never clashed head-on with the assassins, she has also seen how terrifying the assassins are.

In the past few days, in order to avoid the ambushes of many assassins, she had to follow the carriage dozens of times in fear, and only when she could relax could not breathe a sigh of relief, she had to get up and hurry.

Therefore, she recognized the facts: the rivers and lakes are really not where she can mix.

It's better to go to the Golden Palace early, when she gets to Guan Qianyi's side, she can always take a breath comfortably.

On this waterway, the guards were a little vigilant, and the assassins were secretly taken a lot along the way, and this last stop may be the most dangerous.

The higher this section of the river became, the more turbulent it became, and the number of people at the helm increased a lot.

The river is not calm, and the wind on the shore is also uneasy when the wind blows the reeds, Master Qingyi carefully observed for a moment, and felt slightly uncomfortable, "Your Majesty, you better go back to the cabin." ”

Li Wei shook her head, her eyes full of joy, "No, let's not get seasick today, we need to see this scenery a few more times." She thought that she would also lie in the cabin for a day, but she didn't expect to be dizzy, what is the reason.

"Your Majesty, it's not calm here, you still have to be careful." Cui Yue didn't want her to hang out either.

Li Wei looked at herself in a coarse cloth maid's costume and laughed at herself, "Who will recognize who I am now?" ”

Before the words fell, an arrow flew from the air, Cui Yue hurriedly blocked it, blocking Li Wei behind him, "Master, the assassin doesn't recognize you, but it won't be wrong to kill them all." ”

Li Wei hurriedly lowered her body and prostrate, wanting to go back to the cabin, but there were more and more arrows, she gritted her teeth and hid, for fear of causing trouble, so she leaned on the edge of the boat on the side.

Cui Cheng helped her to get up, seeing that there were many archers ambushed on the route ahead, and the dark black green shadow haunted the reeds, he couldn't help but be shocked: How many assassins must this be?

Qingyi said: "Cui Cheng took your master to go first, go ashore in the southeast direction, and then go to the left official road!" ”

Cui Cheng received the order and took His Majesty to jump from the back of the boat, Li Wei shook his head stiffly, "No, I'm not good at water, wow, this jump is going to kill you!" ”

"Don't be afraid, the water nature of the subordinates is good, and this time I will never let the master have anything to do." Cui Wei always remembered how His Majesty held his hand and sank, but he never let go, and he was saved. The prince arranged a martial arts guard by his majesty's side, which was originally a promotion for him. With Cui Yue by his side, he has no chance to repay His Majesty, and now that His Majesty is in trouble, he will never give up.

Li Wei couldn't either, so she had to hold his hand, and the two took a deep breath and jumped into the river. (To be continued.) )