Artifact World XVIII
As soon as the news of Wen Jingxing's expedition to the border came out, it caused an uproar among everyone.
Almost everyone tacitly acquiesced that he had automatically withdrawn from the struggle for the throne.
On the day of the expedition, Sheng Shuyuan didn't come, but the second prince came. With tears in his eyes, he said, "Brother, how long will it take you to come back?" β
The little tall eyebrows next to him: It seems that the Second Highness is not unintentional to our Highness.
The second prince can also be regarded as a cub raised by Wen Jingxing, he touched his head helplessly, and said gently, "After the matter is dealt with, I will come back." β
The Second Highness pursed his lips, "Brother, don't worry, I will definitely help you guard the throne and not let the fourth child rob it." β
Xiao Gao: It's good that you don't run away with others, so your brother doesn't rest assured that His Royal Highness is on the side.
Wen Jingxing smiled, "You grow up first, I hope that when I come back, you can already ride a horse and shoot arrows." β
His Royal Highness clenched his fists, "...... Brother, I will! β
Xiao Gao: Tsk, Your Highness is so harsh on cultivating a subject?
Wen Jingxing jumped on the horse and turned around and said, "There is one more thing, you must help me watch it." β
Xiao Gao's eyes lit up: It's coming, it's coming! Is the confession of an idol drama coming! My ears are ready! Just wait for the master to say!
Yun Shengxia's drooping eyelids opened again, and he said excitedly, "What? Is there anything I can do to help? β
Yo, that's really the only thing you can help with.
Wen Jingxing said lightly: "Do you know that there is an extra cat around the concubine?" β
Xiao Gao "......" he can't understand this operation a little.
His Royal Highness nodded earnestly, "Remember, remember." She had the impression that the queen had such a cat.
Wen Jingxing: "Help me take care of it, don't let the concubine hold it for too long." I don't know why, Xiao Gao and Yun Shengxia heard a little bit of gnashing of teeth from it.
The second prince hesitated, "Yes, but my mother, don't let me say hello to my mother." She didn't let me stay with my mother. β
Wen Jingxing turned his head and patted the horse's buttocks, "If you see it, stop it in time, remember." β
Xiao Gao suddenly realized.
Your Highness is inevitably too much of a chicken thief!
found a compromise excuse to let the Second Highness go to the queen more often, which can not only cultivate the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but also make the Second Highness think of himself from time to time.
Worthy of Your Highness!
The more Xiao Gao thought about it, the more he felt that his five bodies were on the ground, and suddenly he heard His Royal Highness remind, "That, my brother is gone, don't you follow him?" β
Wen Jingxing can't even see a horse's butt anymore.
Kodaka "......"
Your Highness, I am also your first confidant! Give me a face, wait for me!
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Wen Jingxing seems to be a natural leader, and in just three years, he has already put the border in order.
His strategy was completely unleashed in the war, and he seemed to be gentle, easy to speak, and his status was not as noble as that of a prince.
In the three years at the border, Emperor Taishang successively sent his connections to his subordinates, and with the presence of the grandfather of the Northern Kingdom, Wen Jingxing subtly and imperceptibly took most of the military power of the Yun Kingdom into his hands.
With these three years of investigation, there is no doubt that Wen Jingxing is the most suitable prince in the mind of the emperor.
At the same time, the battle between the second prince and the fourth prince in Beijing was also very noisy, and almost everyone ignored His Royal Highness at the border pass.
No, there is one person who doesn't, and that is the four princes born by Concubine Xian.
In the past three years, almost every week, the four princes have sent killers to assassinate Wen Jingxing, but none of them have succeeded.
Just like now.
Three years of transformation have made Wen Jingxing more and more mature, and the two abrupt elements of warmth and masculinity are perfectly combined in him, and his temperament is more and more charming.
At the moment, he was flipping through the folds.
Wen Jingxing thought for a moment, picked up the pen and wrote a letter, stamping him with a private seal.
"Someone."
The guards who came in kept their heads down from beginning to end, squatted down and bowed, and then raised their hands high, wanting to take Wen Jingxing's letter.
Wen Jingxing heard a sound in his sleeve, took back the letter quietly, and sat there to continue to read the next fold.
He didn't seem to see the guards who came in, and let him kneel there for the night.
It's a battle of patience.
Whoever can't stand it loses.
Sure enough, the guard couldn't help it, and spoke first, "General." β
Wen Jingxing leaned on the chair, fanned the wind with a feather fan, and said lazily, "What's the matter?" β
The guard's voice sounded a little aggrieved, "...... It was the general who called his subordinates to come, and if the general did not give orders, the subordinates retired. β
Wen Jingxing didn't reply to him.
The guard looked up slightly to look at Wen Jingxing, and saw that Wen Jingxing was criticizing the fold very seriously, as if he hadn't heard it at all.
The guard "......" He waited for a moment again, grabbing Wen Jingxing's spare time, "General? β
Wen Jingxing didn't even give him a look, "What's the matter?" β
The guard "......" I'm afraid it's not deaf!
The guard repeated: "If the general has no other orders, his subordinates will retire." β
Wen Jingxing only: "Hmm." "Yes.
Let this killer's heart not go down.
He almost didn't explode into a foul language, if he wants to fight, if he wants to die, he can't be happy, what do you mean? Is there something to tell me or let me go?
The guards were a little impatient, "Your Highness means to let your subordinates retire?" β
He heard the sound of putting down the booklet, and then heard Wen Jingxing's voice in a trance, "Why are you here?" β
Guard "......"
The excellent professional quality made him hold the knife in his hand, and said calmly, "The general asked me to come." β
Wen Jingxing seemed to suddenly realize, "Yes, I'm sorry, General Ben forgot about you." β
Guards" ...... Nothing. β
And then what?
The guard raised his head with a grin, and Wen Jingxing continued to look at the excerpts.
Guard "......" Ahh So can I go, can you give me a word, I'm here to kill people, I can't twist Yangge with you here!
Guard: "Your Highness, do you have any other orders?" β
Wen Jingxing replied with another word: "Hmm." β
Do you have it or not, you don't want uh-huh, who knows what you're talking about, this person, I don't kill love, whoever comes, who comes!
The killer's heart is close to bursting, "General, subordinates retreat." β
Wen Jingxing opened his mouth to stay, "Wait, General Ben has something for you to do, this is a letter from home, you have to send it back to the capital day and night." β
The killer saw the opportunity, his eyes lit up, and he was about to reach out to answer the letter, when his dagger fell to the ground.
There was also a loud bang.
Crisp and echoing.
Wen Jingxing didn't look surprised, and joked to him, "The quality of your dagger is not good." β
The killer encountered the Waterloo of his career, and said numbly and stiffly, "The barracks is going to be searched, and I picked it up casually on the side of the road." β
Wen Jingxing nodded clearly, picked up the dagger from the ground, and gently pressed it against his neck and said, "I guess I have to stab a lot of knives to cut my neck." β
Xiao Gao next to him took Wen Jingxing's dagger as usual, and then captured the guard.
Wen Jingxing laughed lightly and began to polish the fold that he was going to go back to.
The guard was unwilling, "I don't understand, where am I exposed?" β
Kodaka" ...... Don't talk about it, even I can see it, shut up. β
The guard bit his lip stubbornly.
Xiao Gao saw that he was well-behaved, and he couldn't bear to die in vain, so he kindly told him, "As a killer, how can you wear a bracelet?" The dagger and bracelet in your sleeve swaying too loudly. β
The guard's face darkened, "This is given to me by my fiancΓ©e, if my assassination is successful, I will go back and marry her." β
Xiao Gao found Wen Jingxing's writing pen and couldn't help frowning secretly.
Pushing yourself and others, didn't Your Highness think of the Second Highness?
No, although he was very touched by this story, he took 10,000 steps back and said, the person he wants to assassinate is you, Your Highness! Although his fiancΓ©e is quite pitiful.
Sure enough, Wen Jingxing raised his head and asked with a smile, "Keep liking, why do you want to do such a dangerous thing?" β
The guard raised his head proudly and said impassionedly, "The Lord treats me like a mountain, if I leave my kindness behind because of the love of my children, then am I still a person?" β
Kodaka: ...... Sounds like our Highness won't be killed by you, or is he wrong?
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes again, and said heroically, "Give me a good time, I won't tell you who my lord is when I die!" Ignoring his eyelids, which kept shaking out of fear, it was a bit convincing.
Wen Jingxing asked, "Aren't you afraid that your fiancΓ©e will be sad?" β
The guard sighed, "Actually, she didn't know I existed, it was my wishful thinking." If I succeed, I will go back and confess to him, if so...... Forget it, you'd better kill me. β
Xiao Gao secretly hated: This person is also too lucky, and he can just say that his highness is in the heart of his highness, and our highness is now in this hazy period.
Wen Jingxing didn't know what to think, and laughed, "Let him go." β
Xiao Gao's eyes widened, for fear that this boiled duck would run away, and he went up to pinch the back of his fate, "Your Highness, think twice." β
Wen Jingxing turned a deaf ear and handed the letter he had written to the killer and passed it to the emperor. β
Seeing that Xiao Gao was not at ease, Wen Jingxing also gave him a look, Xiao Gao was unwilling to let go, and saw the killer slip away.
Xiao Gao didn't understand, "Why does Your Highness want to let the tiger return to the mountain?" β
Wen Jingxing smiled and asked rhetorically, "Do you think he is a tiger?" β
Xiao Gao scratched his head, "But after all, he is our enemy, as long as he wants to kill His Highness, he will be unforgivable." β
Wen Jingxing shook his head: "There are no absolutes in the world. β
Kodaka" ...... His Royal Highness can't bear to let him and his fiancΓ©e live and die apart? β
"Maybe this fiancΓ©e is what he is talking about in order to survive?"
Wen Jingxing didn't speak.
Xiao Gao complained again, "Your Highness also took the initiative to put such an important thing into the hands of the enemy, wouldn't this stretch out our own necks for others to chop?" β
Wen Jingxing asked him, "I ask you, why do you want to hide the news that we are going back?" β
Xiao Gao was asked, and wondered, "Want to catch the enemy off guard?" β
Wen Jingxing shook his head, "This will only deepen their vigilance against me." β
Xiao Gao seemed to understand something, "His Royal Highness has been fighting for many years away from the capital, if he has always maintained an unfathomable image, the four princes will strengthen their guard against His Royal Highness?" β
Wen Jingxing: "It's better to use this killer's mouth to give them the information they need most, and give them a soft-hearted handle." β
Xiao Gao "So, whether the guard has a fiancΓ©e or not, it doesn't matter if he really has a fiancΓ©e or not, the important thing is to let the four princes let down their guard against us?" β
In fact, he had other ways to send them news, but watching the killer only remembered himself.
Anyway, you can use it, but it's just a matter of borrowing his hand.
Xiao Gao asked again, "But Your Highness, how can you be sure that the person behind it is the fourth prince, and there have been assassinations from the Second Highness over the years." β
Wen Jingxing smiled at him inscrutablely.
Xiao Gao "......Okay, he understands."
The person sent by the daughter-in-law is not a human being!
Speaking of killers, another killer came outside. Sensing the sound of breaking the air from the back of his head, Wen Jingxing didn't look at it, he calmly played the pen with his backhand, and the tip of his nose cut the cold arrow that broke through the air in half, and accurately shot into the eyebrows of the assassin who maintained the archery posture.
Kotaka skillfully dragged the man away and closed the door.
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At the same time, the palace was also carrying out this assassination.
The assassin had not yet approached the emperor, and the knife accurately stabbed into the four princes who were standing in front of the emperor.
The emperor's eyes widened, and he called out to the imperial doctor again and again.
The second prince, who had been watching for a long time, steadily threw a dagger into the assassin's heart.
The assassin was dead and clear.
But the emperor only saw the four princes standing in front of him, and the fatherly feeling was about to overflow.
After the imperial doctor looked at it a few times, and repeatedly said that it was only a little pierced, it was no big problem, and the emperor was relieved.
The fourth prince was grateful, and said, "Blocking the sword for my father is the accusation that my sons and ministers should fulfill." β
The concubine next to her, who was protected by the second prince, said coolly, "Yes, the assassins haven't stabbed it yet, you have already sent your body up by yourself, and you are really an unknown prophet." β
The emperor's fatherly heart was a little bit.
The fourth prince only felt that his heart hurt badly, and he covered the wound and said, "Father and son are connected, it seems that as long as the son closes his eyes, he feels that the knife has been pierced into the heart of the father, and there are no available soldiers around the father, so it is better to use the flesh and blood of the son to occupy the dagger, and the son just wants to give the father time to escape." When he said this, he was full of emotion, and even the guards next to him were moved by his innocent heart.
The emperor deeply condemned himself for doubting the heart of the fourth prince towards him, and was moved to hold his hand tightly, making the concubine next to him roll her eyes.
Concubine Xian saw this white eye, wiped her tears, and was about to kneel down to the concubine, "I also ask my sister to forgive my son's love for his father, he doesn't want to fight with His Royal Highness, but he is afraid that His Majesty will be hurt." β
This sentence wiped out all the rescue efforts of the Second Highness, and made the emperor suspicious of the Second Highness.
The Second Highness was neither humble nor arrogant, and said, "It's the son's clumsiness, and when he sees an assassin, the first thing he thinks about is how to kill the assassin, not the useless work of blocking the sword for his father." I also ask my father for forgiveness. β
The concubine next to her also wiped her tears, "Xia Er is afraid of swords, Your Majesty also knows, if it weren't for the urgency of this incident, how could he overcome his fear and pick up a knife to stab the assassin." β
Indeed, the emperor's favorite is this second son, after all, it is the son born to him by Bai Yueguang's sweetheart, or his first son, and he also grew up in the palm of his hand.
How afraid Yun Shengxia was of the sword, he couldn't be clearer, and now he felt sorry for Yun Shengxia, and took his hand to ask for warmth.
Yun Shengxia caught a glimpse of the faces of the four princes, and he was about to turn into pig liver, and he mocked him and made a lip shape, "If you want to fight with my brother, you are dreaming." β
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