"And ......," Murong Shu deliberately dragged out the last note.

Murong Jin frowned and said, "And what? ”

"Your Highness."

Murong Jin was stunned when he heard this familiar voice, and Nan Xiao walked in from the side outside the door, I don't know how long he had been listening outside.

"Nan Xiao, you ......"

"Your Highness, I ......" Nan Xiao smiled slightly, gentle and extraordinarily serious, "I am willing to be a knife, to be your highness's knife." ”

"Nan Xiao, you don't have to be so wronged by yourself, I don't want you to be like that."

Nan Xiao shook his head, "Your Highness was willing to let me follow you, and let my father-in-law take me in, and he was willing to let me go into the palace to study with you." Nan Xiao can't repay it, if there is still some value in these things, it can be regarded as doing my best to repay your kindness. ”

He used to have no warm clothes, no food, and was sold by abductors, but later he found an opportunity to escape, and he also lived the life of a beggar on the run. Now he can be regarded as a brocade of clothes and food, with books to read, martial arts, a father-in-law who treats him well, and half of the little master in the house.

He remembered this kindness.

He has never forgotten that he is under the fence.

If a person has no value, it is easy to be discarded......

He didn't want to be like that, and he didn't want to live a life of exile anymore.

So, he wants to prove that he is useful.

"Nan Xiao ......" Murong Jin looked at Nan Xiao, and the corners of his eyes were slightly sour.

"Tsk," Murong Shu leaned on the shelf on the side and looked at them coldly, and said in a low voice, "It's obvious that he is eating this king's Yulu and growing so tall, and now it's all his good, it's a big deal......

Nan Xiao suddenly knelt down with a "plop", and said in a firm tone: "Your Highness, please remember that you have a sharp blade called 'Nan Xiao', and he will become the sharpest and most useful knife for Your Highness." When he had finished speaking, he got up and walked out.

Murong Jin looked at Nan Xiao's departing figure, and sighed silently in his heart, he knew that what Nan Xiao had decided in his heart could not be changed, so he had to look sideways at Murong Shu, "Uncle Wang, you ask Yun Che to be more careful, and try not to let Nan Xiao suffer too serious injuries." ”

Murong Shu admired the pattern on his cuffs, "Little Ah Si, you said, if this knife is sharpened faster in the future, will you use him?" ”

"If I could, I would not like that day."

"What do you mean......" Murong Shu touched his chin thoughtfully, "Will you forge other swords in the future, or are you really not going to fight for the throne?" ”

"I can't fight, and I don't want to fight. If I can save this life, it will be a great luck, to be a prince in a remote area, or to be a commoner, and stay away from this palace, isn't it? Do you want to stir up the bloody storm and fratricidal battles, do you live or die to fight for the throne that incorrupts people and forbids people to be free? When people live, don't they just want to be at ease? ”

Murong Shu didn't speak, he still had a faint smile on his face, he looked at Murong Jin meaningfully, "You are very conscious, it's not that you want to fight, being in the emperor's family, it's really a little bit unreasonable, this is your innate sin." This is the sin that you and I are born with. ”

"Uncle Kerui doesn't ...... either"

"Do you think that this king does not fight for power, nor does he fight with others for military power, and has nothing to do all day long, and is still leisurely and happy, right? But little Ah Si, in the eyes of your father, this king is guilty, do you know why? ”

"......" Murong Jin shook his head.

Murong Shu said: "Because Your Majesty thinks that I have the intention of rebellion, I am guilty. If you don't want to fight, it doesn't mean that others will believe you, they will still attack you, they will hurt you, and when you are forced to the precipice, don't you fight back? At this time, you feel that you have just stepped into this struggle, but in fact you are already at the center of the power vortex. You know where you make the choice? ”

"I know, but I'd like to give it a try."

Give it a try, it's better than being stuck in a cage.

Murong Jin gathered his big and walked out. Before he stepped out of the threshold, he heard Murong Shu's clear voice coming.

"Dayan has a rule, standing up is not long. Almost every queen's son was made a crown prince as soon as he was born. ”

Murong Jin looked back and smiled calmly, "It's good that I'm not." ”

......

Summer goes to autumn and winter arrives again, and the red leaves are frosty overnight.

South Vietnam, Ning Wangfu.

The early winter morning brings these cold and fresh smells, clean and beautiful.

Bai Mao gathered the newly made fox fur of the ready-to-wear shop and watched the leaves in the yard fall one by one.

"Hasn't the prince come back yet?"

Yi Bai put a copper kettle on the red clay stove on the side, "Not yet." ”

"It's strange, I entered the palace before it got dark yesterday, what can we talk about for so long."

"Could it be that the emperor is a chatter?" Yi Bai took out some fine silver needles with a teaspoon and put them in a teapot and waited for the water to boil.

Bai Hao shook his head, and then sighed one after another.

Yi Bai also frowned, "Master, don't sigh, the old prince will be fine." ”

"It's hard to say."

This year, it was extremely cold, and the grass and trees withered too quickly, and Bai Hao had a faint bad feeling in his heart.

At noon, news came that the Hu people in the north of South Vietnam had rebelled, and the prince was still in the court to discuss with His Majesty and the ministers.

Bai Wu said disdainfully: "It's just a few Hu people, as for the discussion from yesterday to today, can't you come up with a countermeasure?" ”

Bai Hao gently threw half of the walnut shell he had peeled off on Bai Wu's forehead, "You think there are only a few thousand Hu people?" This time, the five major tribes of the Hu people marched together, with a total of more than 200,000 people, and two cities had already broken in the north. ”

"Oh," Bai Wu said nonchalantly, "those small cities in the north are still far away from Mirror City, and they can't be beaten for a while, and South Vietnam won't let them fight them." Those Hu people who don't know what to do or worse, they always have to make trouble every few years, and the old man beat them back last time, and they haven't invaded in the past ten years, and they still obediently confessed, this time it is estimated that there is no big problem, you can rest assured. ”

"What did you say?"

"I said the north is still far from here, and I can't fight it for a while."

Bai Hao frowned and said, "Next sentence." ”

Bai Wu glanced at him, "These Hu people always have to make trouble every few years, and last time my father beat them back." ”

"That's it."

"What's wrong? I don't know if I think our father is very powerful, but when my father was young, he was a general who protected the country, but he was angry. ”

Bai Hao sighed, "You also said it, that was when I was young, and my father is already fifty-six this year." ”

"So what, our father should be strong, don't raise the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige."

King Ning's body bones have not been as good as they seem on the surface over the years, he often coughs until midnight, his legs and feet are not so neat, and the old wounds left on the battlefield when he was young often flared up. Not to mention whether you can still carry a gun and ride a war horse, it would be nice to be able to ride a horse and slip around outside.

Bai Wu has been too well protected over the years to know nothing about the political situation outside.

King Ning has a heavy army, and although he is old, the Northern Lion Army he has received is still loyal to him. The emperor is jealous, and now that the Hu people are in the realm, it is a good time to change people.