Li Chongyan still couldn't stop laughing, and said, "Okay, good, your father is kind, but your father must have been deceived." The flower and bird checks on this robe were not prosperous in the imperial capital three years ago. Besides, this is a robe for spring, where can you wear such a thin robe in winter? Don't you think that you are a martial arts practitioner, and others have already frozen their faces like robes, and they say that they bought it at a high price? ”

Cao Xiwen was skeptical and asked, "Really?" But the shopkeeper said that it was ordered by someone else and had not yet come to pick it up, and my father paid double the price to get it. ”

Li Chongyan smiled: "You tell me which shop it is, and I'll smash his shop for you when I turn around." This is clearly the bottom goods that can't be sold, and when I saw that your father was so deceitful, I made a statement about your father. But your father's temperament is indeed easy to fool, hahaha. ”

Cao Xiwen saw Li Chongyan laughing at his father, and he was a little annoyed, and punched him in the shoulder.

"Ahh Well? ”

Cao Xiwen pointed at Li Chongyan and looked down from the beginning: "Look at your crown, huh?" Belch...... It's quite expensive to look at. You clothes, huh? Dare to embroider dragons? Why don't you go to heaven? And your belt! ”

"What happened to the belt?"

"Belt...... Uh, the belt! Cao Xiwen pointed to the Haidong Qing True Pearl Jade Belt, and he couldn't recognize the texture of the craftsmanship at all, but felt that it was exquisite and gorgeous, and he had never seen it.

"Say, what's wrong?"

"Uh...... Not bad. Cao Xiwen really couldn't think of any derogatory words, so he had to reluctantly count: "I said how much money do you kid earn a month, so dare to spend like this?" ”

"You don't know how much I'm earning a month, don't you? Didn't I tell you when I was in Xinyang County? ”

"Then you dare to wear it like that? Aren't you afraid to drink the northwest wind? ”

Li Chongyan put a ride on Cao Xiwen's shoulder, opened his mouth, and said with a smile: "If I have no money, you will drink the northwest wind with me?" ”

Cao Xiwen wanted to ridicule him at first, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he was rich and extraordinary, and he was more pressed than those aristocratic sons and brothers in Beijing, and he couldn't help frowning.

He stretched out his hand and poked the dragon embroidered on Li Chongyan's clothes and said, "You said that you are dressed as a thief and a thief is expensive, and you dare to wear this dragon?" Don't you want to die? Hurry up and take it off. ”

"What did I take off?"

"I don't care what you wear, you can't wear this anyway, you will get into trouble when you turn around!" Cao Xiwen's face was buried, and he was already reaching out to unbutton Li Chongyan's collar.

Li Chongyan couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to push him, where could he push.

Cao Xiwen explained: "You give me this clothes, I will hide them now, if someone finds out, I will say ...... Well, this is a robe for singing opera. ”

Li Chongyan smiled and shouted while hiding: "Okay! Don't take it off! I'll tell you the truth today, my real identity is the prince! Not to mention that there are five dragons on this robe, even if it is nine dragons in the future, I will wear them. ”

Cao Xiwen's hand that was unbuttoning stopped slightly in the air, and immediately turned into a slap on Li Chongyan's head.

"How dare you talk nonsense! Call you nonsense! My father said that you have to be a man with your tail between your legs when you go to the emperor, you are still so arrogant, do you want to cause trouble for your father! Nine dragons? Do you know who wears the robes of the nine dragons? ”

"Emperor." Li Chongyan was stunned by his training, and replied with his mouth open.

"Nonsense! Of course I know it's the emperor who wears it, am I asking you? I'm asking you rhetorically! As far as you are concerned, you still want to wear the robes of nine dragons......"

Li Chongyan had been hit several times by him, although he knew that he had good intentions, he couldn't stand the pain, and shouted loudly: "I am really the prince!" If you don't believe it, ask your father! ”

Cao Xiwen was awakened by his words.

My dad?

In the past few months, his father's strange words and deeds suddenly made Cao Xiwen have a feeling of being sudden.

Don't call him by his name, wait at home and drink, and don't mention Li Chongyan's beautiful wife...... Spending money is like flowing water, and you are full of wealth.

Could it be that he is really the crown prince?

Cao Xiwen looked at Li Chongyan in surprise and suspicion, and had already stopped.

"No, can you stop talking nonsense in broad daylight?"

"Why am I talking nonsense? You say, what's my last name? ”

"The surname is Li."

"What is the surname of the Holy Lord today?"

“…… There are many people with the surname Li in the world. Didn't you stay in our Jingzhou? The prefect of Jingzhou is also surnamed Li. ”

"Is his Li the same thing as my Li Neng?" Li Chongyan was a little unhappy.

Cao Xiwen felt that Li Chongyan seemed to be really angry, and it seemed a little inappropriate to question other people's family names, and he said at the moment:

"Brother Li, don't joke with me. It's not funny at all......"

Li Chongyan pointed to the other side and said, "The two deputy commanders of the Ministry of Rites, the Household Department, your father, and the Dragon Scale Army are waiting outside at this moment. Oh, and I've brought the princess with me today, as you always said you wanted to meet. As long as I'm talking to you here, they're all hungry and waiting in front. ”

Cao Xiwen was dizzy for a while, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Wait, you wait a while." Too...... The Crown Princess? Is it the princess of the blue sea that my father escorted? ”

"Hmm."

"Is it your wife?"

Li Chongyan frowned, "It's okay for us to talk like this, when you turn around and go outside, you still have to call Your Highness." ”

"Then do I have to call you Your Highness too?"

At a single question, both of them fell silent, as if the distance between them was immediately stretched out of reach.

Li Chongyan didn't answer, he was afraid that a "yes" word would make him lose a friend and have one more faceling.

The people he saw since he was a child, except for his father, were all Facelings. These people never dare to raise their heads and bow their faces when they talk to themselves. So he couldn't see their faces all the time. In his heart, they were all Facelings.

Li Chong stretched out his hand and slowly put it on Cao Xiwen's broad shoulder. But this time, he could clearly feel a fear in the other party's heart, and even the hard muscles on his shoulders seemed to be retreating.

Cao Xiwen was left to him by himself, and his mind was still very chaotic.

"Brother Li, if you really are...... What about my father? ”

"Your dad already knew."

"When did he find out?"

"From the first time we were intercepted on the way out of Jingzhou."

Cao Xiwen remembered.

On that muddy road, my father chased after him with an angry face, but as soon as he saw Li Chongyan, he immediately extinguished the fire. I heard him say that he came to Jingzhou to recruit troops, but he left his tolerance and accompanied himself and Li Chongyan to walk around for more than half a month before arriving in the imperial capital.

Dad really knew.

Cao Xiwen laughed bitterly.

"Brother Li, why do you bother...... Why bother to make fun of a poor sour boy like me. You're too unkind to do that, isn't it? ”

Having fun? Li Chongyan was just about to have a seizure, when he suddenly remembered the words of the crown princess.

At first, I just wanted to hide my identity, but then I really had some tricks, and it was a lie to say that I didn't have the purpose of joking at all.

Li Chongyan just sighed after all. Since getting along with Cao Xiwen, he has learned one thing, to be considerate of others.

If it was me, I was afraid that I would have been angry.

"Xi Wen, I didn't mean to lie to you, I just ...... unknowingly"

"You said you are a prince, what are you doing in Jingzhou?"

"It was my father's order, he said to learn the way to govern the country, to know the suffering of the people, any county order is the most able to understand the people's feelings, Jingzhou is remote and bitter, so I came to Jingzhou."

Cao Xiwen never thought that those powerful royal families were proud of their nobility and refused to fall into the clouds, and he never expected that a monarch in the imperial throne would send his only son to a land like Jingzhou, a land of poor mountains and bad waters, but just to understand the people's feelings.

"Your father is really willing."

"Xi Wen, you said that you don't like to make friends with powerful people, and I also think that when we were in Jingzhou, you didn't know my identity was the happiest, in fact, I would rather you never know who I am, so that you won't have more worries when you talk to me now."

"But you always know, don't you?"

Li Chongyan did not answer him directly, he walked to a pavilion on the side and sat down, as if to say to himself:

"Since I was a child, I have had two identities, one is the prince and the other is Li Chongyan. All look only at the former, not at the latter. The best is just to take care of both, and there are only two people who can do both. One is my father, and the other is the prince by my side. Oh, now there are three, and the crown princess. ”

"It turns out that Uncle Wang is a father-in-law......"

"But you are different, you are the only one who only knows that I am Li Chongyan and does not know that I am the crown prince. I will never forget what you said, you only associate with me and think that I have done practical things for the people. In other words, it has nothing to do with whether he is a prince or not. It's something I've never tasted or heard. I just want to know, even if you know it now, is this still true? ”

Cao Xiwen blurted out: "How is it not true? I, Cao Xiwen, have never told you a lie, and I will never regret what I said. ”

"Good!" Li Chongyan nodded heavily, "Xiwen, I want you to know that some of the things I said to you are not lies, let alone jokes. ”

"What?"

"Make you the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses!"

Cao Xiwen was stunned, and then laughed loudly: "This is not a joke? ”

"No jokes, of course, not now." Li Chongyan said with a straight face: "I have thought about it, it really makes sense for my father to let me go to Jingzhou." I did learn a lot there. Therefore, I will also appoint you some lower-level military positions first, as long as you do a good job, you will naturally have a bright future. In fact, before leaving Jingzhou, I mentioned to you that you would be my close guard, but you didn't agree. But at that time, you were also unaware of the danger of the situation of the people in my royal family. It seems to be high, but it needs to be guarded against everywhere. The duty of a guard is really not an errand for food. ”

"But there are many people in the world who are good at martial arts, why do you want to find me to be your guard?"