"When Boss Jun came to seek refuge with His Highness, the prince had already left for the Hosdu Empire, but looking at the appearance of the prince, he didn't seem surprised by Boss Jun's decision, is it because Miss Yan has already explained the situation?"

"It makes no difference whether you say it or not, I don't want to help who is his freedom, I'm not interested in speculating."

In the dead of night, the Dingyuan Palace, which had been busy for a day, slept peacefully in the dark night, only the study revealed soft lighting, and Wen Moqing and Chu Ci stood relative to each other at the door and behind the case, each with its own lazy posture, showing a completely different atmosphere and demeanor.

Also as the first emperor or true or false confidants, these two people are quite subtle when they are alone, but they are both silent people, you look at me, I peek at you, trying to find something from each other's expressions and demeanor all ended in failure.

In the end, Chu Ci, who was still carrying an important topic, broke the silence first.

"The imperial capital is already a locked cage, and the palace is even more heavily guarded, and many details of the situation are unknown. Before coming to Dingyuan County, His Royal Highness and I went to General Yun, and I heard General Yun say that probably the emperor and the four princes have been firmly controlled by Lian Song, and the current harem of the former dynasty is all up to him and Concubine Yun. If the situation is indeed as General Yun said, the matter of the fall of imperial power will have to make plans in advance. ”

"How many people have hearts? If you want to say anything, you don't have to say a few words to probe my attitude. ”

Wen Moqing has a soft voice and thousands of expressions when she is away from her worries, and she has always maintained an indifferent attitude towards idle people like Chu Ci who are not far away.

Chu Ci knew that he was so unconcerned, and he leisurely regarded the study as if he was his own home, and sat loosely: "It's easy to say, I just want to ask the attitude of the prince, do you plan to continue to stand on the side of the emperor, or do you plan to change hands again to help the reckless and naïve prince of the prison country, or serve others?" Of course, the prince can lie to me or not tell me, it depends on whether the prince has the heart to change the imperial power. ”

Not to mention that Wen Jingyuan, who was under house arrest, is now unknown in life and death, even if Wen Jingyuan is his emperor well, Wen Moqing, who was tempted and persecuted one after another, will not continue to be used by him. Glancing at Chu Ci's calm face, Wen Moqing smiled slightly coldly: "I want to ask if I am willing to help the second prince, do you need to be so verbose about a word?" ”

"The prince understands in his heart, so why do you need me to say it clearly?"

The traitorous ministers are in charge, and the country of Dayuan will not be a country, and it is urgent and urgent to support the new emperor. Wen Moqing had already guessed that he couldn't escape this troubled water, he just wanted to drag out all the messy things until after getting married, who knew that Chu Ci wouldn't even give him this little bit of leisure, step by step, sentence by sentence, and keep an eye on it.

"According to the temperament of the second prince, I am married to Liwu, and he definitely doesn't want to come to the eyesore, but he can't escape your treacherous fox from it. Maybe the second prince didn't guess that your actions were not to make him or anyone happy, but to make everyone think that I had a great friendship with the second prince, and to take this opportunity to let irrelevant people 'decide' my power tendencies, right? ”

Regarding Wen Moqing's sharp questioning, Chu Ci didn't have the slightest quibble, nodded and accepted it all: "I just said that the smartest person is indispensable to the prince, look at the things that His Highness can't think of, the prince can easily guess it, and he is worthy of being the junior brother of Boss Jun." ”

The implication is that Jun Wunian also knows this plan.

Wen Moqing leaned on the bookcase and was silent for a moment: "Since you grew up in the Fox Hill Country since you were a child, why do you want to help Dayuan?" ”

"It's a long story." Chu Ci smiled refreshingly.

"I'll have time to listen to it no matter how long it is."

Sniffing out the resoluteness of Wen Mo's unanswerable vow, Chu Ci spread his hands and leaned softly into the wide chair: "I can tell the prince my purpose, in exchange, the prince must give me an answer tonight - in the matter of assisting the second prince to ascend the throne, does the prince want to be with us, or is he going to be an enemy of us." ”

"The answer is in my heart, it depends on whether you are sincere enough to change it."

Wen Moqing's trustworthiness, Chu Ci did not doubt it, thought for a moment, and told the story of his last reservation.

"My identity is already known to the world, and if it sounds good, it is an illegitimate child, and if it is bad, it is a wild seed. When I was a child, I didn't know who I was, and every day I lived a life worse than the poorest people, and my ears were mostly insults and insults, and all I saw in my eyes was my mother's tears and my uncle's hateful eyes, until I was ten years old, I didn't know that my mother was a princess of a country. I remember living a comfortable life for a very young man, when I was six years old, when my mother and I were suddenly taken away and sent to a small village on the border of the Great Abyss, where I met my father for the first time, and for the first time I saw someone cry for me and my mother. ”

Whether it is in the rumors or in the impression of Wen Moqing, the first emperor is a faint monarch who is obsessed with the Qinglian King to the point of absurdity, and he never imagined that the first emperor would secretly go to the border to see an unknown woman and illegitimate child. Chu Ci's reminiscences made it difficult for Wen Moqing to be sure that he was talking about the first emperor, but Chu Ci's serious color made him reluctant to interrupt.

"My father privately proposed to my uncle several times that he wanted to take my mother and me to Dayuan, but my uncle angrily refused, and in exchange for my uncle's harsh treatment of my mother. In those years, every summer my father would send someone to take my mother and me to that small village, and after three or five days of gathering, we left in a hurry, although the time was short, but it always made me remember it vividly, and I began to look forward to the next reunion from the time we separated, and this lasted until my mother died. ”

With a slight sigh almost silent, Chu Ci's eyebrows drooped slightly, and his smile was lonely: "My mother's death is still a mystery, and my father is heartbroken about it, and he ignores my uncle's objection to take me from the Fox Hill Country, which happened when I was thirteen years old." Later, under my father's arrangement, I entered the imperial capital of the Yuan Kingdom, worshiped the most prestigious tutor at the time, and in the third year, I began to help my father propose some simple state affairs, and unknowingly changed from an illegitimate child to a chief strategist of unknown origin. Later, my father began to change, obsessed with the Qinglian King and made many absurd and unreasonable decisions, but even so, my father still took care of me, including my father's intention to withdraw from the staff cabinet in the end. ”

"With your intelligence, it is more important to stay in the Staff Cabinet, why did you quit at this time?" Wen Moqing finally couldn't help but interject.

"Because my father decided that if I stayed in the Cabinet, I would be caught up in something bad." Chu Ciruyu's face was a little more tired, and his tone was not as full of nostalgia as just now, "Father probably understood what he was doing, since I quit the Cabinet of Staff, my father's spoiling of King Qinglian has become more and more excessive, and those who have no courage to dissuade have been scolded by the courtiers and the people as cowardly and incompetent, in short, none of them ended well." I have always believed that my father forced me to leave because he wanted to protect me from being harshly cursed and cursed from the troubled times that he had single-handedly opened. He has always treated me as the most cherished son. ”

Everyone once thought that Chu Ci left the Staff Pavilion because he was desperate for what the first emperor had done, but now that the truth has been revealed, there are more unsolved puzzles in addition to sudden enlightenment.

"You want to protect Dayuan, do you want to repay your kindness?" There was too much hesitation hidden in Wen Moqing's tone.

"No one is gone, how can I repay the favor?" Chu Ci smiled dumbly, and his fingers lightly tapped on the flute, "The prince must think that his father is an irresponsible emperor, right?" Not really. After my father died, my father-in-law Xie, who took the initiative to guard the tomb for him, sent me a letter, which my father wrote a long time ago. The letter was full of guilt and pain from his father, who said that after his mother's death, he fell into an inextricable pain, and because of this pain, he became more and more crazy, and he always wanted to destroy the forbidden city that had bound him all his life. My father was afraid that he would go down the wrong path, so he told me that if one day he was devoured by madness and became a tyrant, then I must find a way to protect the Abyss from him, including after his death, as a father, his only request to me as a father is to protect the Abyss for him forever. My father wanted to hand it over to me, but I didn't have time, and by the time I saw it, he had already gone down in history as a tyrant of desolation. ”

The sound of calm breathing was clearly heard in the candlelit study, and long after Chu Ci stopped to reminisce, no one said a word to break the silence.

It is undeniable that what Chu Ci said surprised Wen Moqing.

Faint? Mingjun? An emperor who is obsessed with femininity? A husband who loves his wife and children deeply? How many roles did the former emperor, who has been dead for two years, play in front of different people? The deceased is gone, and many questions may no longer be answered, and it is only the question he asked at the beginning that can satisfy Wen Moqing, but that is enough.

"I swore to the person I respect the most that I would protect the land and people of the Great Abyss for him, and I would have a somewhat different path from you. I don't care who is the emperor, but at present, there is only one choice that can make the burden on my shoulders easier, and there is only one second prince. Wen Moqing raised his hand, and a nameplate engraved with the word "broken" fell into Chu Ci's hand, "Sometimes you can find me, any child of Junzilou has a way to contact me." ”

After all the hard work was not in vain, Chu Ci shook the nameplate in his hand, and his smile returned to brightness: "Thank you Shizi - in fact, Shizi should also thank me, so that in the future, Shizi will not have to help His Highness secretly." ”

"The relationship between you and me is only until the imperial power is settled and the country is stable, and I have been with the fox for too long, and I am worried that I will be infected with a cunning taste."

"The prince is really cold, I thought that I could love each other with the prince like I did with Boss Jun." With a sigh, Chu Ci made a sad look.

"Don't disgust me." Wen Moqing frowned, quickly let go, and put on a warning face, "Also, give me one thing to remember by rote - all the agreements between us will start in three days, and before that, whoever dares to make trouble for my marriage with Liwu will send him to see what Abi Hell looks like." ”