Going north to Xijing, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

From the mountain plain to Xijing, there are no high mountains and mountains, and the terrain is gentle.

King Rui avoided the prince and deliberately chose a trail and took a long detour.

The trail is lined with greenery, and the fields on both sides are growing well. On the low hills, far and near, the fiery red shandan flowers bloom all over the place, rendering the warmth of summer.

In front of the farmhouse and behind the house, the apricot trees are already full of small apricots, probing their brains in the green leaves. In the clear blue sky, there are a few white clouds floating as if they were nothing. Birds are occasionally startled by the sound of horses' hooves, and their wings cross the blue sky, leaving a few coquettish cries.

Occasionally, King Rui would look at the pigeons flying by in the sky, and his eyes would be meaningful.

Yan Chen indulges in the landscape with King Rui and King Yuan every morning, instructs King Yuan and Brother Ji'er to do kung fu, and in the afternoon he is always driven to the car by King Rui with a black face to sleep in the afternoon, King Rui is shaking a fan on the side, and he looks at it for an hour or two.

In the next morning, Yan Chen took Qin Niang to boil pills, and when he was sweating profusely, the original king diligently handed over cold water with the eyes of King Rui who could cool down.

In the evening, the guards roasted pheasants and poultry that were brought in or exchanged, drank the small pot of wine brought by Qin Niang, watched the splendid stars, chatted about interesting things in the army, and occasionally, they could also eat the delicious food that Yan Chen personally cooked......

Accustomed to seeing the cold and withered yellow of the border pass, and drinking all ten years of bleak and widowed wine, now Rui Wang is red-faced and warm-hearted, and his guards almost suspect that this gentle-eyed and kind-faced young man has changed his inner body.

Yan Chen didn't like to live in a hotel, every time he camped, he set up a tent in the wilderness and stayed, Yan Chen leaned on King Rui, or listened to him play the flute, or listened to the insects and frogs, or talked without a ride.

Under the starlight, Rui Wang sniffed the quiet breath of the woman next to him in his nose, looked at Yan Chen's cheeks that could be broken, chatted and chatted, often his heart was ape, his whole body was hot, and he sent Yan Chen to the tent with a black face and handed it to Qin Niang, and then hurried away.

Qi Zheng prepared several large buckets of cold water for him every night......

The years are quiet, and King Rui can't wait to never go to Xijing.

The prince's itinerary was not so pleasant.

In order to return to Xijing in a hurry, the speed of the brigade was not slow. The dust kicked up choked people with hard breathing.

Li Xu, who was clothed in fine clothes and food, was fed up with the boring rush. When he came to Shanyuan, the weather was not so hot, and the prince was still shining, and Li Xu felt a little comforted in his heart. On the return trip, the newspaper was delivered every day, and the people who reported the news several times a day came and went to Chuansuo, and the prince was so busy that he didn't have time to get off the bus, and only occasionally sent people to greet him.

Li Xiaojie's Imperial Forest Army was even more heavily armed, on alert throughout the whole process, and had no time to come to her. The carriage was so fast that her bones were falling apart, and she refused to brave the sun to go out on horseback. The wound on her shoulder was scabbed, itchy and painful, and she was upset. The new palace people are far less intimate than Mama Sun, and they often make her heart angry, and she can't maintain the image of a dignified and gentle princess.

Li Yun rode a few times in a hurry, but couldn't find King Rui, so he got into the carriage and hurried away.

Qi Zihao listened to the report of the hidden guards, and Yan Chen and his party traveled in the mountains and rivers, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The power and glory above 10,000 people turned out to be behind the hard work.

It's just that everyone has a fate. I can't complain, I can't lose it, I can't avoid it.

"What? The person sent to investigate Yan Chen's details has no news at all? ”

In the woods outside the station.

"Yes, none of them have returned, and there has been no news."

Someone is whispering.

"Check again. Keep an eye on the safe house! ”

"Yes."

"Also, who assassinated the crown princess must also be investigated. What the remnants of the previous dynasty, hum, ridiculous! ”

A gust of wind blew, and there was silence again.

Li Yun was bored, took Yu'er, and walked out of the post station's house to hang out.

Gonggong Quan came in from outside the courtyard with a whisk of dust, holding a box of tea leaves in his hand. Seeing Li Yun, he smiled and said, "Yo, where did Miss Li go?" There is a forest outside this station, be careful. ”

Li Yun said absentmindedly: "How many Royal Forest Troops are there in front of the post station, what are you afraid of?" Where does this come from? ”

Gonggong Quan said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to stay up late today, and the old slave takes a box of good tea and makes a pot of tea for His Royal Highness to wake up." ”

Li Yun muttered: "How can there be good water in this broken ground? Didn't spoil the good tea. "Gone with the rain.

Gonggong Quan shook his head and walked towards the prince's room.

Li Xiaojie finally had time to find Li Xu.

After saluting, Li Xu leaned back on the couch and said weakly, "Brother is in trouble?" ”

Li Xiaojie didn't speak, Li Xu sent the people away, Li Xiaojie went to the window to look at it again, retreated and sat down, and then whispered: "There is news from the palace that the saint wants to choose a side concubine for the prince." ”

Li Xu sat up straight, his expression changing.

"Is there a candidate?"

"Yes, and there are two. One is the eldest daughter of Huangfu Taiwei, the other is Shen Qingchu, the second daughter of the imperial doctor, her sister married the eldest son of Prime Minister Ning, and Ning Hongbo of Taifu Temple is the wife. ”

The two of them encompassed the three mansions.

Now the Great Xia court is divided into one pavilion, three mansions and nine temples. One cabinet is the cabinet, and the three mansions are the Taiwei Mansion, the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the Imperial Historian's Mansion. In other words, in addition to Li Mingde's high cabinet, the following three governments will also be tied to the crown prince.

"Hehehehehe......" Li Xu couldn't help laughing, but his laughter was not joyful, but it was a little cold.

The backyard of the East Palace is like the court.

"This is what Qi Zihao means?"

"No, that's what the Holy Ones meant. The strange thing is that the saint, who has ignored the government for a long time, why did he choose to arrange this matter at the moment when King Rui returned to Beijing to report on his work? ”

Li Xu sneered: "The saint's partiality is too much. The prince's backyard has put the ministers of the court and the central government in his hands, but the two sisters-in-law have never been married, so they are not afraid of chilling the queen's heart? ”

"It is reported that when I return to Beijing this time, the saint will also choose a concubine for the second king."

"Oh? Candidate? ”

"The queen recommended the concubines of the Shanyuan Cui family, the Fanyang Lu family, and the Xingyang Zheng family."

"Hey, that's interesting. The eldest son all chose concubines among the courtiers, and the sons-in-law all married women with high surnames. The royal family wants to wipe out the world's top elites. What a big appetite. ”

"It's just appearances." Li Xiaojie said slowly.

"Eldest brother, what does the truth think?"

"The truth is that the difference between the queen and the saint is becoming more and more superficial." Li Xiaojie said: "If the prince's marriage is successful, and there is no opposition from the court of the successor to the throne, the Li family will gradually be hollowed out." ”

"However, if the Shijia Gate Valve is included in the Imperial Court by the Rui King and the Original King, then they can compete with the crown prince. After all, although the officials of Great Xia were almost all controlled by the Shi family when they were not as good as Emperor Er, they were still under the world of the Shi family. ”

"Oh? Then my Li family wants to help the second king marry a girl surnamed Gao? ”

"Grandfather meant to help each other secretly, and openly opposed it. Mother, you have to hurry up with your heirs! Everything is waiting for that day......"

Li Xu was annoyed when he thought of this.

Here, the crown prince also knew the news in the palace.

In fact, marrying Huangfu Lezhao was as early as when he went out of Xijing, Taizu agreed with him to seize the power of Li Xu's women's army, which was originally to be handed over to Huangfu Lezhao.

Taiwei Huangfu is Qi Zihao's old favorite general, the deputy general of the Haoran Army back then, only six years older than him. Huangfu Lezhao is only in time this year, but I heard that since he was a child, he has both civil and military skills, and he has the style of Qi Xi back then.

Speaking of Qi Xi, Qi Zihao thought of Yan Chen again, remembered her eyes that were the same as Xi'er, and remembered her poignant smile that day.

His heart throbbed for no reason.

Although she is not Xi'er, she is the one who can make Qi Zihao unspeakably concerned, because those eyes don't seem to be just because of that kind of eyes.

Later, he will let her see his splendor. He will also give her the incomparable dignity of the Son of Heaven and the concubine that Qi Zirui can't give, and he even thought that when that day comes, what if she is named the imperial concubine?

Could it be that there are still women in the world who will refuse this glory?

Qi Zihao didn't know that not only would there really be a woman who would refuse, but there was one now.

Shen Qingchu.

"Father, daughter unwilling!" In the gentle and beautiful voice, there is an unquestionable firmness.

Imperial Doctor Shen Pingzhang stared at the arrogant face of his second daughter Juanxiu, and was speechless for a while.

He didn't want to.

Shen Pingzhang used to be a crazy scholar and a talented man, but because he was born in the Shu clan, he was depressed in the old dynasty of Emperor Er. Later, he defected to Qi Jin and wrote ten thousand words for him to crusade against the text, which became famous all over the world and had a high prestige among the Shu people.

The new dynasty was established, that is, to worship the imperial doctor.

He has two talented supermen, the daughter of Maung Sai Shih.

The eldest daughter fell in love with the son of the emperor at first sight, and the dynasty had not yet been established at that time. The youngest daughter is ten years younger than the eldest daughter, and she has been lonely and proud since she was a child.

But the king's fate is hard to disobey! Shen Pingzhang's head is about to explode.