Ruoyu simply jumped off the horse, tore off a corner of his clothes, tied it to a dead tree nearby, and then got on the horse again and ran towards the vast twilight in the distance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ruoyu chased the horse seal all the way, chased all the way, and when he finally saw the horse, where was there anyone on the horse's back?

There were no footprints of half a person except for the horse print, so he only cared about chasing the horse print, and Ruoyu realized at this moment how bad the environment he was in.

The northwest desert is a deep canyon, with wind and sand raging, sand and gravel, and piles of rocks and mountains everywhere you look.

Looking up at this moment, the sun is in the west, and it will not be long before it will fall behind the mountain, Ruoyu knows that if it gets dark, then this place will really become the devil's territory.

It's just that the desert is so big that she doesn't know which direction to look for, so she just instinctively heads west.

Just after she had traveled some distance to the west, Liu Yan came out of the chaotic stone forest in the east, holding a large handful of withered grass in her hand, and saw that there was an extra horse next to her horse, and hurriedly looked around.

Liu Yan searched around, but didn't find it, he was a little anxious in his heart, and said to himself: "I said that I was fine, I had to follow, so I put myself in." ”

complained in her heart, but her footsteps couldn't help but go west, and after only a few steps, she saw her walking this way dejectedly.

"Your Highness." Ruoyu was very surprised to see him, and his face immediately flashed with joy.

Liu Yan was thinking about going over, but saw a snake coiled on the stone beside her, twisting its body, as if it was about to move.

Ruoyu was surprised when she heard the "whirring" sound, and couldn't help but look sideways, only to see that the snake had erected its body, and its neck swelled as if it was about to attack.

In Liu Yan's exclamation, Ruoyu drew his sword very calmly and slashed at the flying snake very accurately, and the snake suddenly turned into three pieces and fell to the ground.

Liu Yan swallowed his nervous saliva, and suddenly felt that the woman in front of him was more terrifying than a poisonous snake, so he didn't move forward again, but dropped a sentence of "let's go", and turned around and walked back.

Ruoyu neatly put the sword into the sheath, followed, and saw the withered grass in his hand before getting on the horse, and couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, what is this?" ”

"A kind of grass in the desert, I just took the opportunity to go out and take some grass back, are you so nervous? You see this desert, stretching for thousands of miles, once you go in, the chance of coming out is very small, and I only dare to linger near the entrance for a while. And the snake just now is highly poisonous, you are too bold, if you are a little careless, you are bitten by it, that is the gods who can't save you! Next time, remember, don't be rash. Liu Yan took the opportunity to say a few words to her.

Although the tone was reproachful, Ruoyu felt very comfortable listening to it, and couldn't help but smile, followed him, and rode leisurely.

After returning to the palace, Lu Zhi greeted him, and the two walked to the main hall after talking and laughing, only to see Chu Shenxia pestle in front of the palace gate like a wooden stake.

Liu Yan's face sank suddenly, Lu Zhi realized that something was wrong, and stopped laughing, watching Liu Yan walk towards Chu Shenxia with heavy steps, and suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"Your Highness is back?" Chu Shenxia saluted, and his tone was not salty or light, making it difficult to figure out what he was thinking.

So Liu Yan replied to him with a "um" without being salty, and after speaking, he walked straight past him and walked towards the hall.

"Your Highness." Chu Shenxia shouted to him, but he didn't turn around, he always turned his back to him and said, "I have something I want to say to Your Highness." ”

Liu Yan didn't look back, and said coldly: "No need, I'm very tired today, and I'll have to review the folds later, I'm afraid I won't have time to chat with you." ”

"Your Highness, I promise this is not small talk, the stakes are high." Chu Shenxia finally turned around and saluted respectfully.

Lu Zhi looked at the two of them very embarrassed, afraid that Chu Shenxia really had something important to say, so he couldn't help but remind Liu Yandao: "Your Highness." ”

Liu Yan glanced sideways at Lu Zhi, and said helplessly: "Okay, you come in with me, Lu Zhi, you wait outside." ”

"Yes." The two responded at the same time.

Liu Yan naturally knew that he didn't have anything important to say, so when he entered the hall, he just took care of his own review and review, and didn't raise his eyelids to look at him.

After a while, I heard Chu Shenxia ask softly, "Your Highness had a good time today?" ”

"It's fine."

Chu Shenxia asked again: "Does Your Highness know that the palace maids and father-in-law like to talk about Your Highness in private." ”

"Let them go."

Chu Shenxia roared twice, and asked in a deep voice: "There is not much left in the treasury, does Your Highness know?" ”

"I know."

Liu Yan finally stopped his pen and looked up at him, and said impatiently: "I know what you said, but what does this have to do with me riding a horse and having fun?" The treasury is empty, I am discussing with the ministers every day, hoping to come up with a good way, right now, Lu is short of people, how do you want me to conjure up a bunch of money out of thin air? ”

Without waiting for Chu Shenxia to answer, he added: "Your recent style is becoming more and more similar to those old and stubborn ministers, no matter what I do, I have to go and do it as a king, and before I can become the Son of Heaven, I will be driven crazy by you." ”

"Your Highness feeling tired? Want to relax? Chu Shenxia felt very disappointed when he heard his words, but he still suppressed the breath in his chest and asked calmly.

"Naturally tired, doesn't a king even have the freedom to enjoy himself?"

"Your Highness, it's not that I don't want you to enjoy and relax, if anyone has been tense for a long time, sooner or later it will break. I just hope that His Royal Highness will establish the prestige that the emperor should have, and not let the people of the whole palace look down on His Highness, it is His Highness's nature to be close to the people and love the people, but if there is no king's style, who will respect His Highness? ”

Liu Yan folded the music in his hand and put it aside, his tone was a little ethereal, "I always feel that a lot of things have changed these days, you have all changed, everyone around me is changing, only I am the same as before, I don't know if I can't keep up with your pace, or there is a complete gap between me and you, I don't want to admit what you said, although what you said is very right, and what is right makes me speechless." It was too fast, it all came so fast, I wasn't ready, and it all fell into my hands without saying anything. ”

Liu Yan got up suddenly, gently stroked the table, and said in a deep voice: "Shen Xia, do you know that these things don't mean anything to me at all?" Even though so many people fought for the dragon chair, I really didn't want to, I didn't want to sit in that seat at all. It's too high, it's too lonely, and I'm starting to feel it now, and I don't want to lose my freedom for a seat I don't want to sit in. ”

"Your Highness wants to be free? In the whole world, who is not involuntarily? Freely? Especially the people of the royal family, there is no freedom to speak of, and since His Royal Highness enjoys the right to life, kill and take away that ordinary people do not have, he should pay some price for this, which is considered a fair deal. Chu Shenxia's words were like nails, and he replied sharply.

Liu Yan stared at Chu Shenxia's eyes, the flesh on his cheeks jumped, Chu Shenxia looked at his gaze, and said firmly: "If you sacrifice the freedom of your Highness in exchange for the lives of tens of millions of people in the world, your Highness is not willing?" ”

"How can I do that? It is precisely because of your high hopes that I feel uneasy day and night, I am afraid that I will not do well, I am sorry for you, and I am sorry for the people of the world. Liu Yan sighed leisurely.

"I firmly believe that His Highness will be able to do it." Chu Shenxia was very determined, which made Liu Yan's heart full of fighting spirit.

There was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps, and Lu Zhi rushed in and said: "Your Highness is not good, according to the soldiers, a large group of people have gone to split the mountain with axes, and a group of people from nowhere have gone to the desert." I heard that I was looking for some treasure, and I also heard that someone unintentionally dug up some a few days ago, which caused a storm. ”

"Treasure?" Liu Yan descended the steps, walked in front of him, and said in surprise, "What treasure?" Why did you provoke the people to be so crazy? ”

"I don't know what I do." Lu Zhi shook his head.

"This ......" Liu Yan habitually turned his head to look at Chu Shenxia, Chu Shenxia caught this glance, thought carefully for a moment, and then said: "Whether there is treasure or not, I don't know, but in the long run, the people only want to make a fortune by digging treasures, so they have no intention of farming, if no one cultivates, His Royal Highness will definitely be able to guess this ending." ”

"Then I will send troops to guard the mountain, and the people will not be allowed to dig it." Liu Yan asked tentatively, and before Chu Shenxia could answer, he shook his head and vetoed it first.

Where can you stop it? Besides, you can't let the soldiers guard the mountain all day long, there are not many soldiers in Huangling, and after the forbidden army goes back to resume their lives, there are only 100,000 marching columns left in the huge Lu country.

Each state has some troops, and there are not many of them when they arrive in Huangling, and now is the time to use people, where is there such idle time, sending so many people to guard an empty mountain.

"It's better to dispel this rumor as soon as possible." Chu Shenxia reminded.

Liu Yan paced back and forth in the hall, his frowning brows couldn't stretch for half a minute, and he didn't know how many steps back and forth, he suddenly stopped and said happily: "Why don't we also dig up treasures?" ”

Lu Zhi immediately objected: "Your Highness, it's just a rumor, why waste this time and energy?" When the days passed, the people could not dig up the treasure, and naturally they would know that they would come back. ”

Liu Yan was silent and looked at Chu Shenxia, Chu Shenxia really agreed with him and said: "Your Highness's proposal is not impossible, after all, in addition to the people, there is another team of unknown people who ran into the desert, presumably they also rushed over when they heard the rumors, maybe they can't be sure, there is really a treasure." You can give it a try, and if you find a treasure that can be filled into the treasury, let me and Ruoyu go to find the treasure. ”

Lu Zhi scratched his head and said, "Is it feasible?" This news came out of thin air, the people are crazy, why are you also crazy? ”

"Just do what Shen Xia said." Liu Yan said simply, and added at the end, "Also, I'm going too." ”