Where there are people, there is strife.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

As the saying goes, the world must be divided for a long time, and it must be divided for a long time. Since the unification of the Spring and Autumn Period, after the stability of dozens of dynasties such as Yan, Zhao, Wei, Shu, Jin, etc., the world has finally been in turmoil. Zhongli's vein is hard to govern, rising in the end of the micro, there is more than 300 years of the Great Qi country, however, everything has a fixed number, the last king of the Great Qi Zhong Li soul is brutal and unreasonable, leading the princes from all walks of life to rise up, which is to Chen State, Southern Liang as the respect, after decades of war, the pattern of the world is determined, the Great Qi changed the name of the country to the Northern Qi, and the West Chen, the Southern Liang into a three-legged trend.

A hundred years have passed, the queen of the West Chen is obsessed with cultivating immortals and asking, ignoring the government and politics, causing the eunuchs to interfere in politics, and the people are not happy, Chen Zhenxi's general Xiao Yuantu responded to the voice of the people, and got the yellow robe in the army, and marched all the way, and finally overthrew the old Chen, changed the country name to Chu, and the world has been determined since then.

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Hongtai three years, the world is peaceful, the people live a rich life, at this time the Northern Qi Emperor Zhongli Baichuan has just had dinner, the Southern Liang monarch He Shoucheng is holding a hoe to hoe the ground, there is a person named Xiao Yuantu in Lin'an, the imperial city of Western Chu, is reading a letter at sunset.

In the sweet water alley of Zhuque Avenue in Lin'an City, the stinky tofu of the old Liu family is still steaming in the pot, and the girls of Tianxian Ju in the depths of the alley have begun to pick up customers, and there is a group of children chirping at the mouth of the alley, gnawing on sugar gourds in their mouths, and looking at the crowd coming and going on the side of the road with big eyes. The setting sun fell on the ground and shone on the eaves of thousands of people in Lin'an City.

Scholars drink and write poems on the high-rise building, businessmen grope for calculations, officials worry about tomorrow's court, when the forbidden army worries about assassins mixed in the city, and parents of poor families quietly wipe their tears while playing naughty dolls.

Those who pray for God to worship Buddha, those who ask God for mercy, those who seek to have a son, those who can be admitted to the Jinshi, all living beings are chaotic, dogs and horses, each has his own worries, and each has a peaceful world.

Compared with these, the two masters and servants who were walking on the official road in Changzhou, Jiangnan Province, more than ten miles away from Luoyang County, were very ordinary.

Both of them led their horses, the only difference was that the good-looking young man in front of him was dressed in luxurious clothes, and the one with a delicate face in the back was dressed in gray cloth.

The setting sun hit them in the face, and it was red.

At this time, they are in the middle of such a scene:

Dead vines, old trees, no crows.

Small bridges, flowing water, no people.

The ancient road, the west wind, two skinny horses.

In addition to this, there are two large packages on horseback.

This is probably the scene that poets yearn for the most, but unfortunately there is no one to write poems at this time, only a slightly deep voice slips out of the mouth of the young man in luxurious clothes.

"Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green, the evening breeze blows the willow flute, the sunset outside the mountain, the end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the acquaintance is half scattered, a pot of turbid wine is full of joy, don't dream cold tonight...... Ask you when you will go, don't wander when you come, the end of the sky, the corner of the earth, and the friends are half scattered......"

"Your Highness?" A servant named Motofu interrupted the young man's singing.

"Huh?"

"What kind of song are you singing, why has Yuanfu never heard such a way of singing?"

"This is what my mother taught me, how do I know?" The young man spit out the dogtail grass in his mouth, very dissatisfied.

"Eh, the queen is really, really...... It's kind of special. Yuan Fu scratched his head and said.

"Nonsense, if my mother is not special, can she teach me such a deviant prince?" The young man said impatiently, but the next sentence made people feel a little distressed: "It's a pity, it's too early."

Yuan Fu looked at the lonely and beautiful face of His Royal Highness, sighed, hesitated slightly, and patted the young man's shoulder with his free hand.

The young man's surname is Xiao, his name is Jinchen, he is the crown prince of Chu State, and the only son of Chu Emperor Xiao Yuantu.

In his words, what's so good about being a prince, it's better to be a hero in the rivers and lakes to live freely and happily.

"Your Highness, don't be sad, people have to look up, besides, the county town of Luoyang is already very close to here, and when you get there, you can enter the deer park of your dreams, it must be very fun."

"Really? How far is it going? Xiao Jinchen was still secretly hurting himself for a second, but when he heard Yuanfu's words, he instantly came to his senses, his eyes were burning, and Yuanfu was a little scared when he saw it, although he was a eunuch, but ......

"Yes, there are still more than ten miles away from Luoyang County, and you can get there after dark, but ......"

"But what, hurry up, don't grind."

"I heard that the scientific examination of Luyuan is particularly strict, and no matter what your identity is, and whether you are a jinshi or a civilian, you must answer the special entrance to Luyuan...... Yes, only those who answer the introductory test questions can be admitted. Yuan Fu hesitated, and seemed to be a little incomprehensible, so he said a little stumbling.

"Cut, you said that, I've already taken the test."

"Huh? When did you take the test, how I don't know. ”

"Yuanfu, you don't know this, I secretly got their test questions at the beginning of spring this year, and then secretly went out of the palace a month ago and passed the exam in the Lin'an Luyuan branch library, otherwise how could I come out." Xiao Jinchen was a little proud, saying that he did coolies, he really couldn't do it, but he was also very good at handling things.

Yuan Fu's face suddenly became a little bitter, with his strength, he couldn't even look at Xiao Jinchen, what if something happened......

Yuan Fu shook his head, a little afraid to think about it.

Both the master and servant were a little silent, but fortunately, such silence had actually occurred a lot in the past ten days.

Almost synchronously, turning over the horse-drawn reins, the horses' hooves bursting, and setting off countless loess.

Ma Zi ran very fast, so the two of them soon came to the city wall of Luoyang County, but it was very embarrassing that the gate of Luoyang County City was closed.

There is no curfew in the Chu State, and unless there are special circumstances, the gates of the states and cities will generally not be closed, so there is an obvious fact that they can only sleep outside the city today.

The master and servant looked at each other, sighed at each other, and then began to lead the horses unusually skillfully towards the place where there was a water source.

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More than 3,000 miles away from the county seat of Luoyang, under the Xuanxie Pavilion of the Chu Palace in Lin'an City, Xiao Yuantu, whose temples were already a little white, sat quietly, and behind him there was a middle-aged woman in palace clothes with a somewhat graceful temperament who was talking about the piano.

"Wanjun, do you think I should arrest him back?" Xiao Yuantu smiled bitterly and interrupted the sound of the woman named Wanjun.

"Jinchen, this kid is Miss Sui, he can't help much anyway, it's good to go out and see the world, besides, there are some virtuous people in the deer park, and they won't hurt him." The woman said gently.

"Alas, then I'll listen to you, and let him go, but this stinky boy is really underwhelmed, you look at the letter he wrote to me, and this secrecy work is really good, I only found out after more than ten days of disappearance."

Wanjun got up and took the letter, looked at it a few times, but showed a soft smile.

"In the end, it is Miss and Your Majesty, your son, who has courage." Wanjun praised it, looked at the frowning brows of the man opposite, couldn't help but stretch out his hand to smooth it, and then walked around behind Xiao Yuantu, put his two hands next to the man's temples and gently pinched it: "Don't worry, there is Yuanfu by his side, he is a famous god feather in the rivers and lakes, what are you afraid of."

"Alas, Northern Qi is about to move, and Southern Liang only thinks about keeping the success and ruling it, I'm afraid of changing the sky, and I'm afraid that I won't pave the road for him." The man closed his eyes and muttered to himself.

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and Your Majesty does not need to be like this." The woman in the palace costume looked distressed.

The letter on the table was clearly illuminated in the last rays of the setting sun.

Father, forgive his sons and ministers without saying goodbye.

Erchen has lived in a palm-sized place in the palace since he was a child, poetry and etiquette, imperial mental skills, endless learning, and the outside world can only be learned from painting books and sage books, such days are really boring.

This kind of life that can be seen at a glance is not what Erchen has ever thought, Erchen is eager to be a guest in the rivers and lakes, Erchen is eager to live a magnificent life, Erchen does not want to live but has no self, father, you think about it, everyone is called by the prince and the prince, but in addition to the prince and their important ministers, who knows me, and who knows that the crown prince is named Xiao Jinchen?

Father, you know, my mother is a very legendary person, and what she told her son, her son thought it was very good.

The world is so big, I want to see it.

I beg my father not to arrest me back, no one in Luyuan will know me, and my sons know what to do and what not to do, my sons are weak, don't worry.

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Outside the city of Luoyang County, close to the late autumn weather, the green grass has gradually turned yellow, people lie on it, do not feel uncomfortable at all, the horses are tied to two trees on the left and right, are bowing their heads and drinking quietly, the stream is not very wide, can be a step away.

Xiao Jinchen and Yuanfu were head to head, pillowed on their arms, staring straight at the stars.

"Your Highness, what do you want to do when you come out of the palace?"

"Be a hero."

"But being a hero is very tiring."

"I'm not afraid."

"Then who do you want to practice like when you practice?"

"Naturally, it's my imperial sister, haha, don't say it, when I think of others telling her to ask you to take care of the devil, I want to laugh...... Well, it's actually not her, I want to be like the hero of Shenyu, wearing a mask, killing traitors, coming and going without a trace, how good. The young man stared at the brightest star in the sky, fascinated.

"Actually, Shen Yu may also ...... It's not chic. Yuan Fu looked at the sky, a smile flowed from his lips, it turned out that His Royal Highness imagined himself the most.

The autumn wind blows, neither hot nor cold.

The two of them slept leisurely, the moon was very bright, and it seemed to be a little warm, and the autumn night was like a crisp, and the people who fell asleep were slightly drunk.