Chongshan County.

Cheng Huaijin felt that after his friend returned from recuperating from Gujia Village, there was something wrong with the state of the whole person, no, to be precise, it seemed that after Xiao Hei died, his friend's state was not right from then on.

It was noon that day.

Cheng Huaijin and Ye Hongxuan were handling official business in the study, and when they were resting, the two were chatting while eating cold skin.

Chatting and talking.

Cheng Huaijin pulled the topic to Ye Hongxuan.

"Hongxuan, what do you seem to be thinking about these days? But what's going on? ”

"......" Ye Hongxuan chewed in his mouth for a moment, then nodded, and after swallowing the cold skin in his mouth, he looked at his friend: "I'm really worried about one thing these days." ”

"What?" Cheng Huaijin suddenly sat up straight, it was not a trivial matter to make his friend so worried.

Ye Hongxuan put down his chopsticks for the time being, took out a handkerchief and wiped his lips, elegantly picked up the teacup and took a sip of warm tea, and only then did he raise his eyes to look at his friend after putting down the teacup.

"Let's talk below."

"Hmm."

The two entered the secret room under the study.

Ye Hongxuan's expression was extremely serious, and his eyes were worried.

"Huai Jin, the heart of the king is unpredictable, and the companion is like a tiger."

“？” Cheng Huaijin's hand holding the chopsticks suddenly tightened.

"Although you have been the emperor's companion for several years, and you have had a childhood relationship with the emperor, but...... At that time, the emperor was just a prince who was not taken seriously, and your Cheng family was the object that several concubines and princes in the harem wanted to woo. Ye Hongxuan said bluntly and slowly.

That's right.

Cheng Huaijin doesn't understand.

So.

At the beginning, after driving the barbarians out of the pass, when the emperor revealed a little that he wanted him to relieve his military power to be the commander of this small county, he agreed without hesitation.

In fact.

He knew that the emperor was jealous of him, so he cooperated and handed over the military power, but in the eyes of some people in the court, he was entrusted by the emperor with a heavy task to come to this fiefdom of the king of the southwest.

In fact, he and the emperor both knew in their hearts that the relationship between them could not go back to the past.

Ye Hongxuan leaned lazily on the back of the chair, a pair of misty peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, bursting out of the Dao essence, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked to reveal a cool mockery.

"Now, he finally sat in that position, lost in the hands of the barbarians for more than 20 years, under the conquest of several generations of loyal martyrs of your Cheng family, they have finally all recovered, the barbarians have been resisted outside the pass, the king of the southwest has been wiped out, the world is peaceful, and you, the god of war with a high reputation among the people and great power, even if he unloads the military power, it is difficult for him to completely rest assured."

“……”

"Now, not only have you let your family start a business, but the restaurant business is also booming, when you tracked down the remnants of the king of the southwest, all the people were wiped out, and there were even two valuable little bosses who were wiped out together, I am afraid that if this matter reaches the ears of the emperor, he will doubt your loyalty, and even ...... It is better to kill by mistake than to be tolerated to the point where you are not allowed to do so. ”

Cheng Huaijin wiped his face fiercely and smiled bitterly and helplessly.

"The reason why I started to do business with my little sister's food recipe was because of ...... If I, the god of war, are neither in love with power nor greedy for money, the emperor will be even more worried about me."