If it weren't for Wan Qishu mentioning that name, Xing Ran would almost forget that he had a cousin named Fang Baixue, and this cousin liked Wan Qishu to the core.

There are two things that impress Xingran, one is that when the ten-year-old Wan Qishu official worships the prime minister, the same ten-year-old Fang Baixue gave Wan Qishu a three-zhang long picture scroll, which depicts the customs and customs of the entire Dongqi Kingdom capital Weihai, the scale is vast, exquisite and detailed, and vivid and bright, lifelike, I heard that she has been painting this painting from the age of eight to the age of ten, just because of the eight-year-old Wan Qishu, he once climbed the Weihai Bell Tower and looked into the distance, and said with infinite sighs - "I have been an official for two years, how is Weihai, I don't know it." ”

Another thing is that she spent 1,000 taels of gold to buy a palm-sized night pearl and gave it to Wan Qishu as a birthday gift for the twelfth birthday, the reason is that Wan Qishu once inadvertently turned to a mythological atlas, which recorded the story of the country and the people who borrowed the Tianxuan starlight to raise the night pearl with the carved title, and he was interested in the night pearl that was soft and dissolving, like the starlight on the album, and said - "What year is fortunate to be able to see the style of Tianxuan Pearl, and there are no regrets in this life." ”

At that time, Xing Ran was surprised, and sneered and thought, this cousin should not have really caught up with Wan Qishu, but with just a few words, he tried his best for Wan Qishu and prepared what he liked. Based on what she knew about Wan Qishu, when he was eight years old, he was obsessed with only two things, one was how to get testimony from death row inmates to close the case, and the other was how to find out Xue Mo's flaws so that he could die. He longed to live in the Criminal Department all year round, how could he climb high and look far, and how could he say such literary and intimate words.

As for the envy of the night pearl, it is even more nonsense, Wan Qishu hates the most is the plaything that loses his mind, the reason why he forced Xing Ran to take on military power, is because the two princes are obsessed with calligraphy, painting and calligraphy, and the other is addicted to the rhythm of the string piano.

Thinking of this, Xing Ran couldn't help but smile.

By the way, thanks to Wan Qishu's reminder, otherwise she would have forgotten that she also has an aunt named Qihuang; If it weren't for the fact that he was comparing Fang Baixue with Xue Mo, Xing Ran would not have thought of an old royal news so insidiously and ruthlessly - in terms of blood relationship, Fang Baixue was not the daughter of Qi Huang and Fang Shangshu at all, her biological father was the former prince of the Northern Imperial Kingdom.

Back then, the prince of the Northern Imperial Kingdom sent an envoy to Dongqi, the prince's skin was like jade, his eyebrows were like paintings, Princess Qihuang fell in love with this prince at first sight, the two were young and did something that should not be done, Qihuang wanted the prince to marry him, the prince agreed, and lied to Qihuang that when he returned to the Northern Palace, he asked his father to come forward to marry Dongqi.

But who knew that the prince would never return, and Qi Huang waited for five months until the fetus in his womb could not be hidden, and he did not wait for a marriage certificate. In the end, it was Fang Suyue, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who had admired Princess Qihuang for many years, who begged the saint at that time to give him a marriage, and finally married Qihuang back home as he wished.

Although this was a secretive event at the time, it was not surprising that it could not even be left to the attention of the viewers for a long time.

The only thing that Xing Ran finds strange is that since the death of his father at the age of five, he has never considered family and private affairs, and has devoted all his efforts to court and political affairs, and suddenly one day he began to let go of military power and wanted to marry a wife and have children - and he wanted to marry such a girl whose background was not too bright and her IQ seemed to be a little inadequate.

She couldn't figure out what happened between Wan Qishu and Fang Baixue, and she couldn't figure out Wan Qishu's motives. But at that time, she clenched the military order written by Xue Mo herself, and suddenly felt that this opportunity was given to her by God - as long as she seized this opportunity, she would be able to let Wan Qishu also experience the pain of the heartache she had experienced in the past six years.

How wonderful.

And this opportunity is really easy to grasp, it will not be so easy to change a person casually, fortunately, the girl that Wan Qishu likes and is ready to marry home is Fang Baixue - it is the Fang Baixue who has been in trouble since he knew his life experience at the age of eight, and every year on his birthday, he has to turn the Fang Mansion upside down, just to go to the North Palace to see his biological father, and after drinking, he released wild words that he was a person from the North Yu and not a person from the East Qi, and even when Wan Qishu used a plan to repel the attack of the North Palace, he rode a horse to the front of the battle to intercede for the soldiers of the North Palace.

Such a girl who is dedicated to the north of the palace, why should I keep it in the east.

Xing Ran sneered and looked out the window, the sea breeze blew off the last plum blossom branch in front of the door, this flower will not bloom in the next year, it's really hard to say = na.

Xu is a bystander who is obsessed with the authorities, and Princess Xingran, who has been up and down in grief for six years, did not expect that the reason she found to make Fang Baixue unable to live is almost the same as the reason why Wan Qishu made Xue Mo have to die.

A girl who is dedicated to the North Emperor and carries the North Imperial Soldiers, Dongqi will not stay;

A general who is bent on thinking about the south and pretending to be the lord of the south country, Dongqi can't stay.

Many things in this world are coincidental in the way, confirming those who are destined and unable to break free, and on the day it happens, the experiencer suddenly realizes that it is too late.

The winter solstice has arrived, the sea breeze is howling, the ground is full of dead branches, the sky is gloomy, and half of the city is cold.

This day is Wan Qishu's fifteenth birthday, he has hardly ever celebrated his birthday, this time he held a birthday banquet in his own mansion, invited hundreds of civil and military officials to drink at home, and by the way came to witness one thing for him: he wanted to confess to Fang Baixue and ask for marriage on his fifteenth birthday.

These things should have been done by his parents and asked the matchmaker, but as we all know, Wan Qishu's parents died early, and he was prepared to do it himself. No one in the entire court felt that things were inappropriate and incompatible with etiquette, not only because it was the prime minister of Wan Qi who was above 10,000 people under one person in the dynasty, but the party who was asked for marriage was the girl of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites who knew the most about etiquette in the entire Dongqi.

The only thing everyone is looking forward to is that they can also receive an invitation from Wan Qian's mansion, so that they can see how Prime Minister Wan Qian, who has always been as lonely and alienated as iceberg snow and rain, and extremely cold, changed for that girl.

Among these people who wanted to meet her, there was also Princess Xingran, but unfortunately she didn't receive the invitation. Wan Qishu didn't give it to her, maybe in Wan Qishu's heart, the two of them were already strangers.

Outside Wan Qi's mansion, Princess Xingran sat in a tall and gorgeous carriage, the side of the wheel was full of gold ornaments dazzling, and the curtain made of brocade was complex and heavy to cover her raised eyebrows and bright eyes, she stroked the bright yellow holy decree on her lap, and said silently: Brother Xiaoshu, since this princess is here, how can she not get out of the carriage.

At the beginning of the night, the lights of thousands of homes were lit, and the Prime Minister's Mansion was rarely bustling, but in the end, because of the arrival of Princess Xingran and the holy decree in her hands, it became fragmented, the guests sighed, and the host was teary-eyed.

"Fang Baixue, are you guilty?" Xing Ran stood in the center of the main hall with the scroll of holy decrees, not wearing court dresses or princess makeup, but all around him was the majesty and dignity of the heavenly family.

The young girl is used to flying and domineering, and she never knew that what she had done was investigated, and she would have such a big crime, just accepting 10,000 taels of gold from the prince of the north was enough to convict her of treason and collaboration with the enemy, and she would be put on death row in the Criminal Department, and she would be tortured ten times. Although that Northern Imperial Lord is her biological father.

Fang Baixue didn't dare to admit his guilt, nor did he dare not admit his guilt, he looked at Wan Qishu beside him in a daze, his voice trembled: "Brother Wan Qi, I ......"

Xing Ran chuckled, but this laugh was colder than the night wind, as if a knife was scraped on a person's face: "Sister Bai Xue, in the winter of the sixteenth year of the Dongqi Dynasty, when Prime Minister Wan Qi was a waiter in the Criminal Department, he presided over the proofreading, revision, and compilation of the "Dongqi Great Law", and he added the crime of premeditated rebellion, if you can tell who instructed you to do it, you can avoid death." ”

"You...... What do you mean? Fang Baixue's face was pale, without half a trace of blood.

"I heard that you used a thousand taels of gold to buy a night pearl for Prime Minister Wan Qi, yes or no?" Xing Ran asked, squinting his eyes.

Fang Baixue reacted quickly, shook her head violently, and tears flew out: "No! It has nothing to do with Brother Wan Qi! I once gave it to Brother Wan Qi's Night Pearl, but he didn't take it at all! I took the money of the Northern Imperial Prince, and I spent it all myself! ”

"How can you have nothing to do with him, you will settle your family affairs tonight, and you and him will be husband and wife in the future, and your wife collaborates with the enemy and treason, and accepts money, how can she not know as a husband."

Speaking of this, Xing Ran raised his head leisurely, wanting to take advantage of the situation to ridicule Wan Qishu, but saw Wan Qishu's angry red eyes.

He has always been a person like ice, his skin made of ice, his eyes are cold, but now the ice has been burned by the flames in his eyes, and only a tear fell from his red eyes.

He took a step forward, pulled up Fang Baixue and protected her behind him, and let himself confront Xing Ran instead of the girl he liked: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Xiao Xue is simple by nature, you are her cousin, you should know her person the most, she never has such a mind, and she dare not have such a mind!" ”

Xing Ran seemed to see the reluctance and resentment on his face on the night of the summer solstice when he was fifteen years old from Wan Qishu's face. It turns out that caring about a person will make the expression so hideous, and the voice will become so hoarse.