The moonlight was cold, and the cold air gradually came up. The winter nights in Yecheng are as cold as the nights. Gao Cheng couldn't sleep, walked out of the hall alone, and sat on the stone steps under the hall. The canopy was pitch black, but it was extremely clear, and the stars were brilliant, and they were all visible when you looked up. The stars hold the moon, the moon hangs in the sky, and there seems to be no star close to it in the lonely cold.

Gao Cheng was wearing a thin bed coat and a brocade-faced fox fur, not afraid of the cold at all, and was sitting on the stone steps in front of the house looking up at the stars, his hair falling like a dark cloud, hanging down to his waist. The servants on duty at night originally rushed to serve when they saw that Lord Lang was sleepless late at night, but they were all repelled by Gao Cheng, and only one or two were still left in the dark shadows in the corner of the courtyard to accompany them, so that Lord Lang could be summoned at any time.

Some of the slaves and maids in the Yecheng Mansion are the original old people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but more of them are new to the Mansion and have never seen the Lang Master. But who can not know the young, beautiful and brilliant son? It's just that I've heard of it and I've seen it completely different, and if I don't meet, I can't imagine that the son of the world is as beautiful as a woman who has captivated the country and the city. The slave maid in the corner of the courtyard stared intently at the son sitting on the ground, and it was really faceless. It's just that he sits here so quietly and more like a young scholar with an elegant temperament, no matter how he can't imagine how he fought bravely on the battlefield and intimidated hundreds of officials in the temple.

"Shizi! Shizi! Suddenly, there was a shout outside.

The unaware slave hurried to the gate of the courtyard, ready to see what was going on, and stop the daring trespasser.

Gao Cheng still sat still, and scolded in his mouth, "Shaft, it's bad for my interest." ”

At this time, the courtyard door was vigorously pushed open, and Cui Jishu had already broken in.

"What are you doing in my house in the middle of the night?" Gao Cheng asked.

Cui Jishu saw Gao Cheng sitting at the bottom of the stairs wrapped in a fox fur, rushed up and sat on Gao Cheng's side in three steps and two steps, and drove down the slave and maid who followed with a wave of his hand. Gao Cheng looked at him sideways without saying a word, Cui Ji calmed his breath and looked at Gao Cheng as well.

"Your lord has made you disturb day and night, and you yourself refuse to sleep, do you want to disturb me?" Gao Cheng could still hold his breath.

"What, isn't Lord Lang going out tonight?" Cui Jishu was surprised and looked at Gao Cheng.

"You ......" Gao Cheng stopped talking, not knowing what to say.

"Although Lord Lang saw her during the day and didn't say anything, Uncle Zheng thought that he must be afraid of many people, so he could meet at night." Cui Jishu is naturally referring to Yang Shunhua.

"Nope." Gao Cheng is categorical. Ask yourself, it's not that you don't want to, it's that you can't. He is not the willful son of the past. What's more, he has more important things to do tomorrow.

"Lord Lang can't sleep late at night, so it's my uncle's head." Cui Jishu muttered.

Gao Cheng seemed to be on his mind and didn't answer.

"Since you are a servant of the Yellow Gate, you should pay more attention to the affairs of the palace. At present, the new emperor is succeeding to the throne, and it is the time to hurt his vitality, so he must be careful in everything. Gao Cheng instructed, "The matter in front of me, since I have served as Ji Lun's advisor to open the mansion, I will hand it over to him." There is also Changyou, and you can only talk about Chen Li in their respective positions. Gao Cheng thought about it and commanded, "Hou Jing will pay more attention when he comes back, you don't have more contact with Hou Jing, you have to rely on him now, you also need to endure it." ”

Gao Cheng stood up and walked towards the hall, suddenly stopped and turned back and said, "I have my own handling of Gao Shen's affairs in my heart, don't worry about you and Ji Lun." ”

Cui Jishu felt that the prince was really not as playful as before, maybe the big prime minister was really hiding a big article.

Looking at Gao Cheng's back walking inside, Cui Jishu suddenly asked, "Didn't Lord Lang think about her?" ”

"It's useless to think about it, it's better to throw away the ...... from now on" The voice gradually faded away.

Cui Jishu suddenly felt the breeze blowing above his head, looked up and saw that there was nothing, and when he looked down again, Gao Cheng was gone.

The new emperor Yuan Shanjian was originally the son of King Yuangan of Qinghe, and he was also the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen. In fact, it is not the first time that the new emperor has seen Gao Cheng, the eldest son of the great prime minister and the son of the king of Bohai. He and Gao Cheng are relatives of Uncle Lang, and Gao Cheng's concubine Feng Yi Princess Yuan Zhonghua is the sister of the new emperor Yuan Shanjian. However, it was the first time that Motozen had an official meeting after the unification.

The meeting was in the garden behind Miyagi.

The first snow of early winter finally fell in Yecheng, and the weather after the snow suddenly became colder. But on this morning, the sun was bright, the sky was blue, and the snow in the garden was shining, so it was a particularly sunny and good weather. As far as the eye could see, the snow covered the ground and the evergreen trees and the seasonal trees that had long since lost their leaves and left only dry branches. The pavilions and pavilions in the garden have also hidden the original golden and brilliant edge, and the entire garden is like a fairy world like Qiongyu.

Gao Cheng walked behind his father, Gao Huan, the prime minister, in official clothes, and saw a young man in a gorgeous costume on the empty snow by the lake from a distance, he was holding a bow in his hand and looking at the sky, followed by several chamberlains, all bowing their heads and looking very respectful.

Walking closer, the prime minister Gao Huan said loudly, "Your Majesty, the minister Gao Huan and his son Gao Cheng came to see you." The tone was full of humility.

Originally, the snow fell heavily, and there was a thick layer on the ground, but after a few hours of snow stopped, I was afraid that the thick layer of snow on the ground had frozen, and the cold and hard ground Gao Huan could not kneel, and his appearance was peaceful and deferential, and he was completely a humble minister who was loyal to the monarch and loyal to the society. Gao Cheng saw it in his eyes and understood it in his heart. He also knelt down beside his father and bowed, and said loudly, "The prince of Bohai Wang, Gao Cheng in the middle of the service will meet His Majesty the Emperor." "Then he prostrated himself to the ground.

After a while, I heard a crisp and slightly childish voice, "The prime minister, please get up quickly, and there is no need to be formal in the senior waiter." This voice is kind and pleasant, obviously because he got along well with Prime Minister Gao Huan in the past few months, and there was no contradiction.

Gao Cheng followed his father and got up, and now he saw the new emperor and his brother-in-law Yuan Shanjian clearly. He had never paid attention to him before, let alone looked at him closely.

The new emperor Yuan Shanjian is extremely young, younger than Gao Cheng, and does not look like an emperor, like a boy who has not yet grown up. Compared with Gao Chenglai, who is young and old, and has become proficient, he seems to have no scheming and does not understand the world. became the emperor of Great Wei in a daze, and he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing for him.

Yuan Shan's appearance was very beautiful, and his expression and temperament were very similar to his sister Feng Yi's princess Yuan Zhonghua, which made Gao Cheng feel good in his heart. He looked at Gao Cheng with a smile and walked slowly to him, still holding the birch bark bow in his hand.

Yuan Shan smiled at Gao Cheng, seeing that he was wearing a crown with his hair tied and his dress flowing and handsome, he was really as beautiful as a woman in the city, but Gao Cheng looked at him calmly and silently with a kind of majesty that could not be hidden. Thinking that although he is young, he will be able to shock the temple of Great Wei.

Yuan Shanjian raised his other hand and stretched it out towards Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng was stunned in his heart, a little surprised, he didn't know what he was going to do, but he immediately calmed down and didn't dodge, watching Emperor Yuan Shanjian's hand gently caress the crown of his hair. Gao Huan didn't speak, watching the emperor's every move. Yuan Shanjian actually wiped off a little snow mark on Gao Cheng's crown with his fingers, and smiled without scheming, and Gao Huan on the side could see it clearly.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed and he looked up. Seeing an unknown bird flying high in the sky, he immediately put aside the Gao father and son in front of him, drew his arrow and raised his bow to aim at the bird with great agility, and focused on aiming at the bird's flight trajectory. A "whoosh" sound of birch bark arrows came out. Gao Huan and Gao Cheng both looked up at the bird, and sure enough, the bird suddenly stalled on the way to rapid flight, and it could be seen that it had been shot by Yuan Shanjian's arrow.

This made Gao Cheng extremely shocked in his heart, and he couldn't help but be impressed by Yuan Shanjian, it turned out that he was not the polite and polite person he looked, but he had such accurate archery skills. Only then did I think about it, I seemed to have heard my own concubine Yuan Zhonghua say that her brother is infinitely powerful, outstanding in martial arts, and proficient in archery, which seems to be true.

"Your Majesty's divine shot, this is a good omen from heaven, the blessing of the Great Wei Society." Gao Huan smiled and praised.

"The great prime minister is a lonely good assistant, and having the father and son of the great prime minister is really a blessing for the Great Wei Sheji." Yuan Shanjian casually handed the birch bark bow in his hand to a chamberlain eunuch, regardless of the fact that someone had already run to pick up the bird that was shot by the Son of Heaven. turned around and asked Gao Cheng with a smile, "I heard that my sister-in-law is only from Jinyang?" ”

Gao Cheng was stunned when he heard the title of "sister-in-law" in the emperor's mouth, and was extremely surprised, he didn't expect the new emperor to be so friendly and casual. Although he lost the prestige of the Son of Heaven and was not very polite, this young Son of Heaven was really very different from the previous Emperor Yuanxiu. I suddenly felt arrogant in my heart, and I really had the pride of commanding Ruoding to revive the Great Wei Sheji in the temple.

But he replied respectfully, "Yes, the minister just came from Jinyang and came to pay a visit to Your Majesty." ”

"Okay." Yuan Shanjian replied with a smile, "Is Lone's sister good?" I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss it very much. ”

Gao Cheng was extremely astute, "Your Majesty Lao is worried, the minister's wife is very good, and she will come to Yecheng to live in peace in a few days, and she will come to see Your Majesty." ”

Yuan Shanjian was strolling on the snow, looked at Gao Huan and said with a smile, "I heard that the prince was studying behind closed doors in Jinyang before, and it must be good to come to learn. ”

I didn't expect Yuan Shanjian to be so trusting and so understanding. Although Gao Huan also meant this, and his meaning would definitely be implemented, but he hadn't arranged for the emperor to be so considerate, Gao Huan was busy and grateful, "Your Majesty trusts you so much, and your holy grace is generous, and Lai Chen's father and son will live up to Your Majesty's entrustment to the newspaper." ”

Gao Cheng naturally followed his father to thank him, and he really felt physically and mentally connected.

"If Lone Ruo invites his sister-in-law to join the court, what advice does his sister-in-law have?" Yuan Shanjian stopped on the shore of the lake and was as clear as jade, and asked Gao Cheng.

Gao Huan and Gao Cheng also stopped.

Gao Huan looked at his son, he didn't want to say much today, he just wanted to give his son a chance to contact the new emperor, so that they could have a good start.

"Your Majesty, the envoys of Nanliang have arrived in Jiankang, does Your Majesty know?" Gao Cheng suddenly picked up a seemingly unimportant question and asked Yuan Shanjian.

Yuan Shanjian was a little surprised, looked at Gao Huan and said, "I don't know this lonely person yet." ”

"Your Majesty is requested to extend the envoy into the pavilion and treat him as a guest." Gao Cheng asked.

Yuan Shanjian looked at Gao Huan again.

"It is the negligence of the minister, and His Majesty forgives the fault of the minister." Gao Huan looked a little scared.

"The prime minister is too careful." Yuan Shanjian smiled. "Just do as the prince wants." Yuan Shanjian looked at Gao Cheng and waited for him to answer.

"The minister thought that Yecheng and Chang'an would fight sooner or later. Instead of panicking, it's better to prepare early. Since the envoys of the Southern Liang have arrived in Yecheng, they ask His Majesty to treat each other politely and form an alliance with the Southern Liang. Xiao Zhengde, the envoy of the Southern Liang Dynasty, is the eldest son of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang, and he was also my former minister of the Great Wei. Emperor Liang has always been soft-hearted to him, and if Xiao Zhengde is also willing to promote this matter, it will be done. Gao Cheng said what he thought in his heart.

"What, when the king of Linhe County of Nanliang arrives in Yecheng, has the prince already seen it?" Yuan Shanjian asked casually.

Gao Cheng also replied casually, "The minister met by chance in the market. ”

Gao Huan looked at the two.

Suddenly there was silence.

"What the prince said is very true." Yuan Shanjian's attitude changed suddenly, "If there is a war with Chang'an, there will be nothing wrong with the north and the south." ”

"What Your Majesty said is very true, first appeased Emperor Liang, if the north Rouran refuses to send an envoy to congratulate His Majesty on the succession, he will send an envoy to Rouran." Gao Cheng said his next plan.

"My sister-in-law is really thoughtful." Yuan Shanjian sighed with relief. "In this way, my sister-in-law must pay more attention to everything to be lonely, so that I can rest assured." Yuan Shanjian no longer looked at Gao Cheng, turned his head to Gao Huan and said, "Great Prime Minister, I will make the prince a general and prepare for the war with Chang'an in the future." In addition, if you add the left and right governors of Gyeonggi, you will be given the capital of the country. Yuan Shanjian looked at Gao Cheng with great trust.

Without waiting for Gao Cheng to thank him, Yuan Shanjian blurted out again, "I heard that my sister-in-law has a lot of capable people around her, so you can do it more handily when you choose officials." "This is the important task of entrusting the secretary of the ministry.

Gao Cheng added a thousand heavy burdens on his shoulders, but his expression was calm and natural, and he respectfully thanked him, "Your Majesty has entrusted the ministers with important responsibilities, and the ministers will not give up when the society is in danger, and they will not let go of the weight entrusted by Your Majesty." ”

Yuan Shanjian smiled with relief, "It is necessary for the general to be like this, so that the monarch and the minister can be united." ”

Gao Huan naturally thanked Ruyi.

The sky was clear, and the winter sun was shining, but there was no warmth, so the snow on the ground not only did not melt, but froze into ice.

Seeing that the backs of the father and son of the great prime minister and the new general gradually disappeared, Lin Xingren, a regular attendant among the eunuchs a little behind the emperor, walked up and whispered beside the emperor, "Shizi...... Your Majesty...... Why are you so entrapping the general? If he is bound to contain Your Majesty in the future, isn't it a mistake today? Lin Xingren is a person from the Qinghe Palace, and sometimes he makes a mistake and calls Yuan Shanjian "Shizi".

Yuan Shanjian said lightly, "Even if he is alone, he will definitely succeed to the position of prime minister in the future." Instead of enveloping it when the future is strong, it is better to let him feel lonely today. Yuan Shan saw that he had been out for a long time, his body was a little cold, and he wanted to go back to the dormitory, but Lin Xingren followed behind him. Yuan Shanjian said again, "The prime minister is also respectful, if the general is dedicated to the prosperity of the society, as long as he does not treat Lone as a puppet, Lone will not care too much, after all, there is still a sister." ”

The shadows of the emperor and the eunuchs grew farther and farther away, and finally disappeared into the sky.