Seeing that the sun was sinking in the west, the light cast into the cold mountain from the window had begun to turn yellow.

Feng Tianshou raised his head and looked at Xu De, who was on the opposite side of the chessboard, with a solemn face, feeling funny in his heart, but he didn't laugh out loud, so he had to remind kindly: "Lord Wang, do you have to mess with me?" ”

Looking at the chessboard, the white chess piece was about to win again, and the sunspot rushed around in the gap like crazy.

"It's boring, it's boring, I'm also a prince, and you don't even put some water." Xu De threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chess jar, stood up and stretched.

"Lord Wang, Lao Feng feels that it may be difficult for you to improve your chess skills, so it would be good to learn the piano and instrument with the princess." When Feng Tianshou said this, he smiled like a fox.

"Let's talk about it. I still don't understand why you, a person who never goes to battle, use all kinds of tactics on the chessboard in a good way. Xu De picked up the teapot and leaned against the wall of the pot with the back of his hand, it was still warm, so he filled the teacups for himself and Feng Tianshou.

Feng Tianshou took the teacup and took a sip, with an expression of enjoyment on his face: "I can only understand it because I don't go to the battlefield." Speaking of the prince, Lao Feng has been on the battlefield with you, Sika City, I don't remember. ”

Xu De heard the black line on his face, and said: "It's just to go and wander around, and I don't dare to spend the night in the city, and I am also called to the battlefield?" ”

"Hehe," Feng Tianshou smiled embarrassedly: "It's a minutiae, don't do in-depth research." ”

Just as Xu De was about to instruct his subordinates to prepare a meal in Hanshan Zhai, he and Feng Tianshou were about to make a detailed plan for some front-line matters, but they heard from the front hall that there were guests coming.

"Guest, this time?" Feng Tianshou obviously felt sorry for not being able to mix a good meal in the Qin Palace.

"Who's the visitor?" Xu De asked more.

"The man was still waiting outside the door, dressed in cloth, his face was dark, and he was very poor, and he was afraid that he was not a peasant, and the porter saw his dress and did not let him in."

"Buyi? Farmers? The doubts in Xu De's eyes deepened, and he also glanced at Feng Tianshou, who was also puzzled on the side, how could a peasant dressed in cloth be a guest of his Qin Palace.

"What else did the person say?"

"The man just said that he was in the old part of the prince," the errand runner said again, "By the way, the man also rode an old donkey." ”

As soon as he heard the word donkey, Xu De reacted, it turned out to be Guo Yi.

"Lord Wang?" Feng Tianshou still looked puzzled, he didn't go to the court, so naturally he didn't know the interesting story of Guo Yi riding a donkey to the court.

"It's Guo Yi, he has always ridden a donkey to the court."

"Donkey riding? Not a single horse? I only know that he is poor, but I don't know that he is so poor. ”

"This person has a good name, but his reputation is wasted."

"Then the prince will go and meet him first, and Lao Feng will leave."

"Okay, I'll meet him again." After Xu De finished speaking, he did not drag the mud and water at all and left Hanshan Zhai.

"It's fun to ride a donkey." Feng Tianshou said and walked out, but saw that his two scholars were surrounded by two maids and a few guards.

He stepped forward and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

"The princess was afraid that Mr. Feng would bring wine, so she ordered us to keep it." It was a maid who said this.

"What about the few of you? You are the people who are close to the prince. Feng Tianshou looked at the guards.

"The prince ordered us to follow the maid sent by the princess." The guard had met Feng Tianshou, and when he said this, his smile revealed a hint of helplessness.

"Your princess will take care of the house, so Lao Feng won't bother today." After saying that, he smiled and took the scholar away.

Outside the door of King Qin's mansion, Guo Yi couldn't enter the door, he had been waiting here for a while, the porter told him to go quickly several times, and even almost started to move, he ignored it, stood upright, one person and one donkey, and looked at it with his back to the light, like a strange rock and pine.

At this time, Xu Chang hurriedly ran out of the door, and the porter saw Xu Chang, as if he had found a backer, and walked over in a few steps, saying: "Steward Xu, this sloppy man is not going to leave here, little ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Chang's slap came up and beat him around. Xu Chang opened his mouth and said: "Bastard, this is Lord Guo Yi Guo invited by the prince, you don't know what to do." ”

The porter was also shocked when he heard it, this poor sour man turned out to be an official? had to cover his swollen cheeks and apologize to Guo Yi.

"Master Guo will go in, and the prince has already prepared the wine and food. If you don't get angry, I'll send someone to beat this dog-eyed thing with a few sticks. ”

"It's okay, it's just that I waited a little longer, so why blame him." After saying that, he went into the door on his own, and his old donkey was also led to the stable.

Xu You looked back at the concierge and said, "I'll clean you up later." He followed him through the door.

Xu De asked people to prepare food in the tea room in the front hall, which was shaded by trees, and put a statue of Bingjian, which was cool. Because Xu De can't drink alcohol, this wine and food is not worthy of its name.

Xu De heard the footsteps outside the door, looked up, and Guo Yi walked into the tea room.

"Xiaguan Guo Yi, meet the prince." Guo Yi bowed.

"This is the middle of the house, not the court, so there is no need to be so restrained," he pointed to the seat opposite: "Sit down, eat and talk." ”

Guo Yifang sat opposite Xu De, and Xu De's words came: "I didn't give you silver, why is it still such an old donkey." ”

"Xiaguan went to Datong this time, and I don't know how long it will take to go back, and I can't bring it to Datong if I buy a horse, so I put all the money given by the prince into the Salesian Bureau."

"You have a good plan to borrow flowers to offer Buddha." Xu De's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his eyes revealed a cunning brilliance.

"The subordinate will punish himself with a cup and make amends to the prince." Without waiting for Xu De to react, he picked up the cup in front of him, drank it all, and when he finished drinking, he frowned strangely, but he didn't say anything.

"It's not wine, it's tea." Xu De's words dissolved Guo Yi's doubts, and he then asked, "Aren't you afraid that this cup is poisonous?" ”

"The prince kills people, kills and kills, why do you need to poison such indiscriminate means."

"You know me." Xu De smiled: "Your straightforward temperament is similar to your father." ”

"The same goes for the prince. I'll toast the prince again. As he spoke, Guo Yi filled the cup and toasted to Xu De, Xu De also took the cup of tea and drank it all, Guo Yi poured two cups of tea again, and then sat down.

"If there's anything you don't understand, ask it, and you'll leave early tomorrow morning." Xu De took a chopstick pickled radish and put it in his mouth, and put the chopsticks down again.

"Why did the prince choose me to be the chief soldier of Datong." Guo Yi's eyes were scorching, and she went straight into it.

"No other, suitable."

"Suitable?" Guo Yi felt that Xu De's answer seemed to be fooling him.

"What do you think of Zhenbei General Yuhuzi?"

"He is a fierce general, who can support the north for more than ten years alone, and he is also an extraordinary person." Guo Yi's evaluation is so high, "But his personal morality is at a loss, and he is afraid that he will die here." Guo Yi added.

Xu De nodded, he felt that Feng Tianshou recommended it correctly, "If you go to Datong as the chief soldier, there will be a lot of encounters with Yuhuzi." Xu De didn't say any more, and looked at Guo Yi opposite.

"What ......does the prince mean," Guo Yi groaned slightly, and then spoke, "Decide that I will fall out of harmony with Yuhuzi, and then pull out the tooth of Datong from Yuhuzi's tiger's mouth?" ”

"That's exactly what I mean, if it weren't for the fact that you have been back in Beijing for a few years and have not entered the court, I wouldn't have dared to make up my mind." Xu De made his attitude unabashed.

"Aren't you afraid that I'm pretending? As soon as I went to the north, I voted for the royal tiger, anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the prince is beyond the reach of the whip. ”

"You won't, you're too much like your father. I know your father, so I dare to say that I know you. Xu De's words were full of anger, obviously there was no conclusive basis, but there was a convincing power.

"Lord Wang, there are still some taboo things that the lower officials want to ask."

"But it doesn't hurt to say it, I, the Qin Palace, have no taboos." Xu De took a sip of tea, as if he remembered something, and quickly added: "Except for wine, there are no taboos." ”

Of course, Guo Yi would not be interested in Xu De's jokes at this moment, and said directly: "What the prince wants, but he wants to win the world?" ”

Xu De was stunned when he heard this, after all, the emperor was still living in the Ansheng Palace, and when he said that he won the world, it seemed weird, and when he said this, Guo Yi's eyes even stared at Xu De's eyes.

"Yes, I want to be emperor." Xu De followed with an even more rebellious sentence.

Guo Yi nodded, as if to say that this was the case, and then asked, "What does the prince ask for for the emperor?" Weiga Hainei? ”

Xu De waved his hand and said disgustedly: "This king already has such vulgar things, from Zizhu in the south, to Xi'an in the west, to Yanzhu in the north, and to Langya in the east, my Xu De's prestige is already above the little emperor." ”

"What the prince is asking for is gold and jade jewelry?"

Xu De laughed and said, "The treasures in the palace are all things that I Xu De can't look down on, and I don't lack gold and jade jewelry." ”

"Could it be that the prince wants his reputation to last forever and last for a hundred years?"

"I Xu De has so much infamy, I can't wash it away when I jump into Chen Jiang."

"Why is that?"

"I said I wanted to change something, would you believe me?"

"About dominating the world?"

"About the people of Limin." When Xu De said this, there was no emotion mixed in with it, and he simply said what he thought.

"I would like to believe that the prince wants to use the world to set up an altar and practice to seek immortality." Guo Yi smiled, not that he didn't believe it, but Xu De's words made his emotions jump, he pretended not to believe it, and made a joke to hide a trace of excitement in his heart.

"Don't believe it, I, Xu De, have already taken up the reputation of a national thief." After speaking, he smiled at Guo Yi and raised his glass to drink.

"Although your father is my subordinate general, and you also served in the Anxi army, I still ask you again, are you my subordinate?" Xu De's words sounded strange, and the whole Han would think that Guo Yi was the card in his Xu De's hand, and his words seemed too ignorant.

Who knows, after Guo Yi filled the two teacups, he sat down and said, "This, it depends on which step the prince will do?" ”

"Oh? Look at me? Xu De was curious, he hadn't talked with people like this for a long time, and he felt more and more that Guo Yi was a wonderful person.

"If the prince can really pick up the burden of the people of Limin, then I am like my father, so what if I hand over this life to the prince."

"I'm afraid that no one in the world will believe it, and I promise to be a thief for the sake of the common people in the world." After saying this, he and Guo Yi both picked up their wine glasses, and although it was tea inside, they drank extremely strongly.

"Lord Wang." At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside the door, and when he looked closely, it was Xu De's personal guard and groom, Li Tie.

"What's the matter?"

"Just caught a spy."

"Spies? This is new," Xu De looked at Guo Yi and added, "I haven't caught a spy in the Qin Palace's mansion for several years. Bring it here. ”

In a short time, a group of guards came with torches and a man with a big tie.

"Lord Wang, this is the person." Li Tie said on the side.

"Take what's out of his mouth."

Li Tie stepped forward and took out the rag from the man's mouth.

"Tell me which family you are."

When Guo Yi heard Xu De's words, she was amused by which family said such a thing.

"Xu thief, you are in charge of the government, and you must not die well."

"Yo, it's pretty energetic." Xu De raised his eyes and looked at Li Tie: "Hang on the tree for a while and then pull in." ”

"Yes." Li Tie stuffed the rags back and dragged the man out, and after a while, there was a muffled sound of a wooden stick hitting the human body outside.

"Come, let's move on to ours." Xu De picked up the chopsticks, picked out a piece of cold bamboo shoots, and put it in his mouth: "I heard that you are not married yet." ”

Guo Yi, who was originally unfazed, was obviously panicked after Xu De asked this sentence, and his face stiffened, but it was not obvious in the candle flame.

"Xiaguan's family is poor, and his career is limited, no girl from any family is willing to marry into my family, and he has been single until now."

"What's this, this king is single to forty, you are better than me, hahaha." Xu De paused: "This is also a big official in Datong, and someone will send the girl to your bed." ”

"The prince's words are wrong, and husband and wife should respect each other like guests......"

"I understand, I understand, when it comes to respecting each other, who is better than me in the capital this day?" Xu De snorted, making people wonder what he understood.

Then, the two of them said something about half a cup of tea, and Li Tie dragged the man back again, but the man's head was broken on the tree, and he dragged blood marks all the way, and it looked like a dazzling black color at night.

"Li Tie, look at this place."

"I'll send someone to clean it up."

"Well, tomorrow." Xu De no longer looked at the ground, but at the spy who seemed to have only one breath left, humming constantly, and he didn't say a word at the moment.

"You beat him to death!" Xu De was a little angry.

"I kept my hand, I can't die." Li Tie also felt strange and squatted down, "Oh, I forgot to take out what was in his mouth." ”

Guo Yi "......"

The rags in the spies' mouth were taken off, and a mouthful of blood was spat out, which dirty the floor of the tearoom, and he scolded Xu De weakly, which was nothing more than some words such as "national thief" and "traitor" that Xu De already felt painless.

Xu De frowned, not because of the curse words, but because the spy had soiled the floor.

"I can't seem to ask anything." Xu De smiled and looked back at Guo Yi, "What do you think?" ”

"According to common sense, it should be the royal family. After all, the general army of Datong was snatched by the prince, and I don't know what the mystery is. ”

"There is no mystery, it is just the exchange of grain and grass, and the head of the tiger probably thinks that he can drive you away and earn grain and grass for nothing."

"That's the King of Quang Nam?"

"It's possible that it's him, but he still has a few years to live, his shrunken old king. You know how to do yin and yang mathematics, can you try it? ”

"I can't try it, it's not a dream after all."

Xu De also smiled and asked Li Tie to take the person down to deal with it.

"It's not too early, and the next official should retire." Guo Yi glanced at the moonlight outside and was about to go home, but he was busy talking about things that night and didn't eat anything.

"Can you help me see what I ask for?"

"It's not a dream, lord." Guo Yi said with a smile as if reminding.

"That's nothing, Wu Yun is prosperous, Guo Zongbing."

"Lord take care of your body." Guo Yi saluted again, walked out in a hurry, and after a few steps, he was taken back by his subordinates and went to the stable.

At this moment, without waiting for Xu De's orders, someone outside had already cleaned up the table, Xu De also got up, put his hands behind his back, and went to the backyard, not taking tonight's spies seriously at all.