Volume 1 The Wind Rises Chapter 47 The Emperor's Eldest Son
"Isn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the building?"
In the backyard of this Guangxing Building, in a room where no light was visible, Zhou Wenbin was talking with the guy who handed him the origami that day.
After Zhou Wenbin and the others entered the city, they just wanted to find the prince and brought the guy to this room.
The guy had some leftover food from the kitchen in his hand, and sent it to Zhou Wenbin and the others, looking at Cao Cheng lying on the ground, he knew what happened last night without asking!
"My lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went out of Guangxing Tower the day before yesterday and hasn't come back yet, so you better wait!"
The guy looked at Zhou Wenbin's attendant's eating appearance, and he was a little hungry, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he spoke.
In fact, this guy is more concerned about the silver taels that Xi Yuanxiu promised him, after all, he is now taking his life to help these people in front of him.
The people in Chichao have long known what has happened in the past few days, Xue Luping and Wang Shichang have joined forces to get rid of Zhou Wenbin and others, and only people like him who exchange their lives for money dare to take these people here.
Cao Cheng was also in a coma at this time, woke up, and under the light of the candle flame, he saw everything around him clearly, and knew that he was in the back kitchen of the restaurant, in the room where the vegetables were placed.
"Lord Zhou, where are we now?"
After Zhou Wenbin heard Cao Cheng's voice, he turned around and said indifferently: "Yangzhou Guangxing Building!" ”
Cao Cheng saw that his wound was bandaged in an extremely awkward way, and saw the blood on Zhou Wenbin's hand, and then thanked Zhou Wenbin, and then turned his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
The guy saw that these people didn't seem to have a very good relationship, so he waited for these people to finish eating, quickly cleaned up, and left.
Last night, when Cao Cheng was unconscious in the carriage, he muttered a few words, which probably meant that without this Lord Zhou, they would not suffer from this, and these words were naturally listened to by Zhou Wenbin.
The attendant was holding some water and feeding it to Jia Daya's mouth, this Jia Daya's teeth are bigger than ordinary people, and the gap between the teeth is much larger than ordinary people, so even if his mouth is slightly open, he still drinks the water in his stomach without dropping.
The four people in this room are now waiting for the person they are hoping for in their hearts to push open the door that was closed just now!
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"His Royal Highness, in fact, there is something the lower official wants to ask you?"
Xi Yuanxiu looked at Li Yuanhuan, who woke up a little later than him today, and asked.
Li Yuanhuan was stunned by Xi Yuanxiu's sudden question, although he could be regarded as a door-to-door neighbor these days, Xi Yuanxiu never took the initiative to speak to him.
Today, it's a strange thing!
Li Yuanhuan asked Bian Ying to support him, and then hobbled to the door of the prison and asked suspiciously, "I don't know what my brother wants to ask?" ”
Xi Yuanxiu looked at Li Yuanhuan's face intently, because after being tortured in the past few days, his face looked more feminine, and said slowly: "You did this case?" ”
After saying this, not only the two people opposite Xi Yuanxiu, but even Liu Xiao got up from the ground and stared at Xi Yuanxiu.
Li Yuanhuan's eyes suddenly turned red, he grabbed the railing with his hand, and asked in a sad tone: "Is it true that even my brother is confused, and even you believe what Governor Xue said?" ”
Xi Yuanxiu recalled that at the table that day, Xue Luping took it out of his arms and took out the waist card for everyone to see, the waist card system was indeed made by royal craftsmen, this can't be faked!
And Xi Yuanxiu has just remembered that he has never asked this party in the past few days.
And after he got up early in the morning, he lamented that he had been thinking about things by himself all these years, and he was used to dealing with things only by his own judgment, and he was really a little conceited that he had no elders beating him over the years!
"I didn't suspect anyone, I'm just judging what is happening at hand, please forgive me, Your Highness!"
"It's okay, after all, I'm indeed suspicious, but will my waist card be..."
Xi Yuanxiu knew that Li Yuanhuan stopped at his mouth and didn't say his name, he shook his head and said: "Naturally, he is not the crown prince, although he is at odds with His Royal Highness, it will not reach the point of framing him!" ”
After hearing this, Li Yuanhuan lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
Xi Yuanxiu was so sure that it was not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who did it, so there was naturally a reason.
Because Xi Yuanxiu, like his father who still lives in Dali Temple, loves people the most!
No matter who they meet, they like to observe each other thoroughly.
He knows the prince's way of doing things, and going straight is the prince's style of doing things.
Li Yuanqing would not do this kind of conspiracy and deliberately harm this half-brother, but if the other party gave him a chance, he would not let it go!
For example, now, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not shy about it, he is going to fall into the ground, he is going to take advantage of the fire to rob, and he is going to send people to torture his younger brother who competes with him in the court in front of everyone.
This is the way His Royal Highness the Crown Prince acts, those things that hide people's eyes and ears and blame others, he doesn't bother to do!
Li Yuanhuan's thumb rubbed against the rusty iron railing, and said in a low voice: "It seems that between the imperial brother and me, the elder brother is more optimistic about the imperial brother." ”
Xi Yuanxiu shook his head and sneered: "How come, Your Majesty, among these princes, none of them is not the best among people, but it's a pity that none of you are as good as Brother Anping!" ”
After Li Yuanhuan heard this, his eyes were instantly moist, tears kept rolling in his eyes, and for a while, there was no sound in the entire cell.
Li Anping, the eldest son of the emperor, has slept in the land of Yangzhou for many years.
Later generations evaluated the Eastern Expeditionary Army back then, if this army is compared to a person, then Xi Fang must be the head with unparalleled wisdom in this person.
And Li Anping and the current prince who is idle in Chang'an, does not leave the mansion all day long, and is just a glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine every day, are the two hands of this person, and these together are indestructible.
But no one would have thought that the eldest son of the emperor would encounter the main force of Dongyue returning to Yangzhou when he transferred to Qingzhou.
Even though the soldiers under Li Anping risked their lives to protect him to break through, they still couldn't escape, and finally all died here.
However, it was also because the eldest son of the emperor fought fiercely with the main army of East Vietnam for a day and a night, delaying their return to help, that Jingguo's Eastern Expeditionary Army could successfully enter Yangzhou.
Therefore, when evaluating the battle of that year, Li Anping was not inferior to Xi Fang and Song Hong.
However, His Majesty the Emperor Jingguo did not add a nickname to the eldest son of the emperor, and even his previous residence was not divided again, and he also sent many eunuchs to clean it every day!
In the eyes of outsiders, His Majesty the Emperor has always been unwilling to believe that the eldest son of the Emperor has really left him.
"Back then, in the palace, no one wanted to be close to me, only the eldest brother of the emperor would play with me for a few days when he came back from the battle!"
Li Yuanhuan wiped the tears with his hand and said sadly.
Xi Yuanxiu couldn't help but sigh and sighed: "If Brother Anping was still alive, His Majesty must have passed on to him a long time ago!" ”
"If I can still go out, I must go to the emperor's eldest brother to accompany him for a few more days!"
Li Yuanhuan couldn't support his body at the moment, and after saying these words, he sat down directly on the ground.
Bian Ying hurriedly went up to help His Royal Highness, but because of his own health, he fell directly to Li Yuanhuan's side.
Xi Yuanxiu looked at these two people, and he couldn't bear it, and he just wanted to ask about it, but he heard the annoying voice again.
"Do you want to go back to Chang'an, His Royal Highness?"
Xue Luping was wearing an official uniform at this time, pacing over, his face and tone were very angry.
Xi Yuanxiu couldn't help but think that when he first came to Yangzhou, Marquis Anding had told him that this Xue Luping was also a member of the Eastern Expeditionary Army that year.
Xi Yuanxiu just happened to talk about the eldest son of the emperor with His Royal Highness the Offering King, so he couldn't help but ask mockingly: "I heard from the Marquis of Song that Lord Xue was also a soldier in the Eastern Expeditionary Army back then, and it stands to reason that you are also an iron-clad man, how did you become the way you are now?" ”
Xue Luping listened to Xi Yuanxiu's words, deliberately looked at his dress today, and then smiled at Xi Yuanxiu: "Lord Xi, my official is the best material in Yangzhou, and it is not much worse than what His Royal Highness Xianwang wears!" ”
Xi Yuanxiu put his hands behind his back, tilted his head and smiled at the fact that this Xue Zhifu was playing a burlesque here.
Seeing Xi Yuanxiu's attitude, Xue Luping no longer pretended not to understand, shook his new official uniform, and then said slowly: "Do you think I don't look good like this?" ”
"I think it's naturally not as good as when adults were in the army, after all, your loyal liver and courage were still in your belly at that time!"
"Oh, Lord Xi, isn't my liver, my gall now, not with me?"
"Adults really don't think that after doing so many things, those things really still grow on themselves!"
Xue Luping touched his gray beard, looked at Xi Yuanxiu's somewhat disgusted smile, and snorted coldly: "What do you know, can you eat enough with your loyal liver and righteous courage, can you wear that brocade dress, stupid, you are as stupid as your father!" ”
Xue Luping spat on the ground and continued: "You children of rich and noble families have been well fed and warmly clothed since childhood, no matter how close you are to the children of those poor families, you don't understand their suffering, you can do anything without considering the consequences, just throw your own head and sprinkle your own blood, we are different from you, we don't go to the battlefield to defend our families and defend the country, we are to get those military salaries, so that even if you die in battle, there are bereavement relief to your family, you don't understand anything, What are you still talking about with this official here! ”
Xi Yuanxiu knew that Xue Luping's words were indeed true, if there were no silver for nothing, if it wasn't for the sake of being able to eat well, I'm afraid that few people would be willing to go to the battlefield where there is no return from the beginning.
The same goes for the red tide, which he single-handedly established!
"By the way, Lord Xi, this official is not here to tell you this!"
"Lord Xue, please speak up!"
"Someone spent 100,000 taels to buy your life!!"