The voice seemed to come from outside the world, strange and familiar, neither light nor heavy, neither salty nor light. It's like saying something inconsequential, or it's like saying a fact that can't be questioned.

When people looked back, they saw a young man in his twenties undressing his cloak outside the temple gate and walking in step by step.

Someone said "huh", wanting to say that this person is so familiar, but why can't he remember who it is?

When it came to Shang Shujiang of the Criminal Department, his eyes lit up, and he bent down slightly and shouted: "His Royal Highness the Dust King." ”

People suddenly realized that it was the painting of the Four Highnesses Quan Qing who had only recently returned to China. The prince, who was sent to return to the Moon Kingdom as a proton at the age of thirteen, returned to Northern Qi after nearly ten years, but he can no longer be called a prince.

"The minister's power is painted, knock on the emperor. Long live my emperor, long live it. Quan Qinghua knelt down in the middle of the main hall and knocked on the ground with his forehead.

Quan Qingcheng sniffed, "Fourth brother, please get up." ”

Quan Qinghua stood up, looked around at the courtiers on both sides, and after a while, said the same sentence again: "Miss Yesi was just invited by this king to drink tea, how could she be rumored to be thrown outside the city?" Who said this first? After finishing speaking, his eyes fell on the person who kept saying that the lost girl could not be asked for anymore.

Cold sweat began to break out on the back of the man's neck, it is said that a person who has not returned to Beijing for many years is a royal family, and it is impossible for him to have much power in Lin'an City, and there is no need for him to be afraid of this dust king like this.

But it's not much, obviously the dust king looks indifferent, but he can always make people see a little gloomy from that indifference. Just like now, His Highness the Dust King's gaze was like scrutiny, forcing him to speak.

So he stubbornly said: "It's not who said it first, it's the night of the fifteenth day of the lunar month. The eldest lady of the night family took the people in the house to find most of the night in the inner city and the outer city, and even the people from Yin Yamen in Lin'an Mansion followed suit. ”

As soon as Chi Hongfang heard this, he stopped doing it: "Which eye did you see that this mansion brought people to look for it?" That night, the mansion was clearly to the city gate to welcome the Fourth Highness back to Beijing, and he kept sending the Fourth Highness back to the Dust King's Mansion, why did it become the Mansion to find Miss Night Fourth in your mouth? Hey, when did you learn this ability to open your eyes and tell nonsense? ”

The official's face was so red that he wanted to say a few words back, but he saw that the secretary of the criminal department also stood forward, so he closed his open mouth again, and the rest of the words were not spoken.

At this time, the imperial uncle regent who had been standing at the forefront of the courtiers spoke, and he asked Quan Qinghua: "The Fourth Highness returned to Beijing, why did he come to the early dynasty today?" ”

Quan Qinghua nodded at him, "I came back late before, and I rested in the house for a day yesterday." ”

The regent didn't say anything more, nor did he ask Miss Yesi why he was invited to have a cup of tea, but silently turned around and stood again, but his eyes kept looking at the ground, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Since then, no one dares to mention the matter of Miss Night Fourth, but everyone is speculating in their hearts, why did His Royal Highness the Dust King, who had been a proton for seven years, return to Beijing and the first thing he did was to relieve the witch of the Night Family? Where's this? Not next to each other!

The second half of the early dynasty was dry, and there was nothing special. At the end of the year, most of the talk is how to hold the palace banquet in the New Year and who to invite. Let's talk about the emperor's youth, and listen to the opinions of the regent and the queen mother in everything.

When the dust king Quan Qinghua heard this, he threw out another sentence: "It is true that you should listen to the opinions of the Queen Mother, although the king has been away from Beijing for many years, but every time the father's royal book is sent to the return moon, it will always mention that Yu Concubine Niangniang is knowledgeable and generous." ”

All:??

The regent frowned slightly, but still didn't say anything. When Quan Qingcheng looked at his fourth brother again, the stars in his eyes flashed, and he subconsciously sat up straighter.

Finally, the early dynasty was dispersed, all the courtiers left, and even the regent did not stay to talk to the emperor as usual.

Quan Qingcheng waited for a while, and then sent Wu Nuo to chase his fourth brother. As a result, Wu Wei came back after leaving the main hall and told him: "The Fourth Highness didn't leave, just waiting for you outside the hall!" ”

He hurriedly ran out of the Chengguang Palace, and at a glance saw the painting of Quan Qing standing quietly not far away.

When he sent Proton to return to the Moon Kingdom, he was only seven years old, not very old, but he was also impressed by this fourth brother. Because the fourth brother is the only brother who often visits him, he will bring him delicious snacks and fresh things outside the palace.

At that time, the fourth brother was a sunny boy, with crooked smiling eyes and a bright look. But today's fourth brother is not the same as before, although he will also look at him and smile, but there is a lot more rustiness and indifference in that smile.

He walked over and took the initiative to greet: "Fourth brother." ”

Quan Qinghua nodded, "I can speak." ”

"Well, my sister treated me." Speaking of his sister, he took half a step back and gave a serious salute to Quan Qinghua, "I heard that on the night of the fifteenth day of the lunar month, it was the fourth brother who saved my sister on the way back to Beijing, Qingcheng thank the fourth brother." ”

Quan Qinghua was stunned, and only after a while did he say, "Miss Night Four? ”

"Well, it's Miss Night Four. The fourth brother spoke for his sister in the court, and Qingcheng was very grateful to the fourth brother. ”

He thought of the woman he had rescued outside the city that night, her face was pale and covered in blood, but she didn't say a word when he drugged her. When he left the country of Guiyue, he thought about who the first acquaintance would be after returning to Lin'an, and he also thought that if someone was the first to express kindness to him, then he would have formed this good fate.

The Fourth Miss of the Night...... Let's just say it's a good fate, at least she said that he is a gentleman, so he should do his best to be a gentleman.

It's just that Shanyuan later went to Yanhua Palace, he never went to Yanhua Palace, only looked up at the foot of the mountain. That place was an unattainable existence for all mortals, and he once thought that no one in the world would have anything to do with Yanhua Palace except for a yamen like Qin Tianjian, but now it is different?

"What is the fourth brother thinking?"

When he came back to his senses, he remembered that there were still people waiting for him to talk, so he said: "I was thinking that I had been away from Northern Qi for too long, and the things here were already unfamiliar." Qingcheng, when your father left, were you there? ”

Quan Qingcheng shook his head, his expression lonely, "No, my father's illness came quickly, and he died suddenly, and no one was prepared." What's more, I was a little mute at the time, and my father couldn't think of me very much, how could I be there! Even I, the emperor, were also appointed by the emperor and his old man, because I was the youngest prince, and because the sixth brother happened to have an accident that day. ”

Speaking of the sixth brother, Quan Qingcheng's mood obviously fluctuated, Quan Qinghua looked at him for a while, and suddenly wanted to ask about the matter between the fourth lady of the night and his sixth brother. Although he has been in the country of Guiyue for many years, the news from the Northern Qi side has not been interrupted, and he will always say that the fourth lady of the General's Mansion has fallen in love with the sixth royal highness, and has repeatedly expressed in front of people that he will not marry the sixth highness.

The reason why I talked to him about General Yipin's Mansion and Miss Yesi was because General Yejinggui had a teacher-student relationship with him for five years. When he was young, he read military books, and his father asked the old general Ye for more guidance, but the old general had that time, so this matter fell to the night general, which was the origin of his relationship with the night family.

But he learned the formation method from the night general in the barracks, so he was not familiar with the people in the night mansion, even the fourth lady of the night had only seen it once at the old general's birthday banquet.

Later, when I left for a foreign country, I lost contact with many people here, but I was able to keep one or two letters with my teacher every year.

The teacher's letters sometimes talked about the art of war, sometimes told him to take care of himself in the country of returning to the moon, and sometimes he also said that he had a very noisy and disobedient little daughter at home.

So he knew the title of the witch of the night family, and he also knew how optimistic the teacher was about his daughter's marriage with the Sixth Highness, and he knew that in the end, the old general couldn't help but ask his granddaughter to beg, and went to the emperor to give this marriage contract.

The teacher was quite worried about this, and in the last letter he mentioned to him that if his little daughter was in trouble, he hoped that he could help him. even said that he actually hoped that his youngest daughter could marry him, whether it was in Northern Qi or Guiyue, it was the children who were taught since childhood to be sons-in-law to be more at ease here.

At that time, he was in Guiyue, and the whip was out of reach, and he felt that the teacher's words were too early, he was only middle-aged, and if his daughter was in trouble, with the military might of the night general, even the royal family could not bully the girl of the night family too much.

Unexpectedly, in just half a year, the old general died of illness, the general died of illness, and later, his father was gone.

"Fourth brother, why don't you always speak?" Quan Qingcheng felt very uncomfortable. In the past, the fourth brother was a high-spirited young man, because he couldn't speak, so when the fourth brother was with him, he always listened to the fourth brother talk eloquently. Speaking of martial arts and the art of war, it is also said that parents are short. Now he can speak, but the fourth brother is silent. "Is the fourth brother unwilling to talk to me?"

Quan Qinghua retracted his thoughts and shook his head slowly, "No, I'm just thinking, time has passed, and many things in Lin'an City are different from before." So I don't know where to start for a while, it's definitely not aimed at you. ”

Quan Qingcheng became happy at this time, "Since the fourth brother is back, don't go back." Although the imperial uncle regent said that it was not a good thing for the proton to return to China, he also did not say that he must send you back again. ”

Quan Qinghua has no words, although Guiyue is a foreign country, he doesn't want to stay in this homeland. This was originally his home, but after so many years, home has long been strange, and his father and mother are gone, where can he still call it home?

Or he has long lost his home, just when his father sent him to Guiyue Kingdom to be a proton, he knew that there were so many princes, he was the only one who was given up, and the only one who was not distressed by his father.

Proton, that's a hostage, no one can understand what kind of life he has lived in that country all these years, and no one can know that every year's moon and night festival is the most difficult for him to suffer fifteen full moons......