The three of them talked and laughed, and after a while, they came to the door of the most spacious courtyard in the Ten Princes' Mansion. Lai Xing'er saw a jujube red dwarf horse tied to the bolted horse pile outside the courtyard gate, and he looked very familiar. At the same time, the horse also seemed to recognize Lai Xing'er, and rushed straight to Lai Xing'er with joy.

"Chasing the wind!"

Lai Xing'er shouted excitedly, left Tang Kuan and Zhu'er, galloped to the front of "Chasing the Wind", stepped forward and hugged the horse's neck, and asked it affectionately: "I want to be miserable these days." Alas, how did you get back to Chang'an? Lord Mo Feilin, Grandpa Shang, and Brother Qian are also back? That's great! ”

"Chasing the wind" seemed to understand Lai Xing'er's words, shook his head slightly, and put his face close to Lai Xing'er, letting him touch and kiss.

Tang Kuan and Zhu'er were both surprised and amused when they saw this person so affectionate and reluctant.

Zhu'er seemed to vaguely guess a little bit of the reason, stepped forward and pulled away Xing'er, smiled and persuaded: "Okay, the prince has been waiting in the house for a long time." There will be a chance for you to get close to it in the future. ”

turned around and said to Tang Kuan: "Please Lord Tang first enter the house and wait in the guest room for a while, and Rong Xiaoyi will go to the prince first." ”

Lai Xing'er patted the shoulder of "Chasing the Wind" and whispered to it: "I'm really happy to see you return safely." After a few days, I will introduce the 'Little White Dragon' to you......" After that, he turned around and walked into the Muwang Mansion with Zhu'er.

Since Li Qi, the king of Mu, secretly played the shocking secret heard from Ru Xianyuan's mouth to the emperor in Yanying Hall alone that day, he noticed that his father had obviously changed a lot, although on the surface, he did not seem to easily believe that his grandfather died at the hands of Li Jinzhong just based on Ru Xianyuan's words before his death, but in his heart, he seemed to have added a heart, that is, he was often absent-minded and in a trance even when he listened to politics every day.

Li Qi saw this in his eyes, but he was bitter because he took over the envoy from Li Jinzhong to negotiate with the Tibetan envoys, and he was busy dealing with Yangzong all day long, and he had no time to enter the palace to share his father's worries.

After many days of verbal and verbal exchanges, Yangzong finally made a compromise: Tubo and the Chang'an court still followed the practice of the previous dynasty and maintained the relationship between uncle and nephew, and Tubo no longer insisted on asking the Chang'an court for the land of the four states, but changed to the Chang'an court to reward 500,000 yuan of money and 200,000 silk to Tubo every year in exchange for it.

Although the annual reward is inevitably too large, compared with the cession of land in the four states, it still keeps the bottom line of the negotiation under the emperor's explanation. Therefore, once the representative of the Central Sect, Tubo Zampu, signed his name on the agreement between the two countries, Li Qi still felt a little relieved.

However, a private request made to him by Yang Zong after the formal negotiations made Li Qi feel a little laughable.

Yang Zong came to King Mu's Mansion early in the morning, signed the agreement book and finished the demarcation, and smiled at Li Qi with an unpredictable expression: "Your Royal Highness King Mu knows that although you have never set foot on an inch of the land of our Tibet, in the minds of the people of Luoqi City, they all regard you as a messenger of peace sent by the gods, and they love and admire you like a god. ”

Although Li Qi was not as young as the weak crown, he couldn't stand such a sensual face, so he tightened his eyebrows and replied: "Lord Yangzong said this?" How can Xiao Wang dare to bear this arrogance? The eldest princess of my dynasty and relatives died suddenly, so that the major affairs of peace between the two states have not been completed, and Xiao Wang, as the ambassador of peace ordered by his father, is still afraid of guilt, how can he be worthy of such a false praise from Lord Yangzong? ”

Yang Zong asked Li Qi: "Your Highness was ordered to send me to Tibet more than two months ago, but you parted ways?" And in order to prevent Beiyan from sending people to intercept and kill halfway, a stand-in was arranged in advance? ”

Li Qi nodded as if he didn't understand: "Lord Yangzong means that Xiao Wang's stand-in replaced this king to meet your Bang Zampu in Luo Some Jin, and won a good name for Xiao Wang?" ”

Yang Zong smiled but did not answer, and then said his request: "The little hero who pretended to be His Royal Highness King Mu and persuaded Zampu to respond to his family affairs, got help from others, and disappeared on the day the news of the death of the eldest princess of Changning reached Luoqi City. According to the speculation of the lower officials, most of them returned to Chang'an. The official has finished his business today, and it is inconvenient to stay in Chang'an for a long time, and he wants to see the little hero again before leaving, I wonder if His Royal Highness is willing to do it? ”

Li Qi has studied the Six Classics of Poetry and Books since he was a child, and he has practiced a superb technique under Zeng Qingze, which can be said to be both civil and military, and naturally he is a little young and vigorous.

Two months ago, before he and Zeng Qingze left Beijing to travel south, they did hear that their father was worried about their safety, and specially selected a young eunuch of the same age in the palace as his stand-in, and traveled west with the brigade of the mission to Luo.

Before King Mu returned to Beijing, Zhu'er, who was standing next to Li Qi, had already heard that it was Tubo who came to Xing'er to pretend to be King Mu's envoy, so as soon as he heard this, he volunteered to ask Li Qi for his life to find Lai Xing'er to see Yangzong.

Lai Xing'er followed Zhu'er and stepped into the main hall of the Mu Wang's Mansion, only to see a young prince sitting in the center of the hall, with a good appearance: white skin, sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, nose like hanging gall, lips like a little Zhu, natural grace and grace.

At the same time, Li Qi was also looking at Lai Xing'er, and thought to himself: Look at this kid, although he is wearing a half-shirt that is usually worn by a forbidden soldier, he looks forward to his posture between his steps, but he has a faint bit of Confucian demeanor, and he is really a character!

Under the guidance of Zhu'er, Lai Xing'er walked to the front of the steps and knelt on the ground, bowed to Li Qi three times, and when he looked up, he found that Yang Zong was sitting at the bottom, looking at him with a smile in his eyes. He was startled, and then he was about to turn sideways to salute Yang Zong, only to hear Li Qi ask Yang Zong: "What does Lord Yang Zong want to see?" ”

Yang Zong stood up and wanted to help Xing'er up with his own hands, so he nodded again and again: "It's this little hero." ”

"Oh, and tell me your name, your origin, and your present position." Li Qi deliberately wanted to frustrate Lai Xing'er's spirit, and did not say that he was rude and flat, but asked coldly.

Lai Xing'er saw that although His Royal Highness King Mu was born with a dignified appearance, he was not peaceful and kind to others, so he had to gently break free from Yang Zong's hand, and still knelt down and replied: "Back to His Royal Highness, the younger one is the son of the criminal official Lai Shenxing, named Lai Xing'er, and now Yu Linwei is on an errand. ”

Li Qi was puzzled: Since this kid is a descendant of a criminal official, why can he still join Yulinwei as an errand boy? (To be continued.) )