"I told them that I was the prince of Qi, but they didn't believe me, and they laughed at me and said that I was bragging. One day a sister took me and told me to go and wash the feet of a guest, how did this prince do such a thing! "I poured a basin of boiling water on the guest's feet, and the sister suddenly became very fierce and locked me in a dark room, and then I found out that there was a broken window in the dark room, and I ran out of it." ”

Cao Ran picked up the little prince and said distressedly: "The injury on your back was caused by that bad sister?" The little prince nodded, a line of crystal beads flowed out of his eyes, and he stopped sobbing in just a few seconds, "Sister, I'm not afraid of pain." Let's go back to Qi together and go to Qingqi Palace to find my father and mother, okay? ”

"Didn't I tell you that boys can't cry?" With a man's voice, a man in white clothes and silver face came in, with long black hair draped over his shoulders, and the voice was Linjun in the sedan chair yesterday. It's not the first time she's seen this person, and she can be regarded as saving her a few times, but the first impression that comes to mind is the time when she took a bath in the Qing Pond in the backyard of Feng Mansion.

Thinking of this, Cao Ran's face immediately burned, and she wanted to pretend that she didn't know, but after all, she had a few life-saving graces, she paused, lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look directly at him, and said in surprise: "It turned out to be you, what kind of Northern Regions Linjun are you?" ”

"Sister, do you know each other?" The little prince raised his head and crossed his feet excitedly waiting for Cao Ran's answer, he thought that if they knew each other very well, maybe he could ask his sister to intercede and send him back to his father and mother.

Cao Ran didn't know how to answer, did they know each other? There had not been much conversation in the few encounters, and she didn't even know what his name was or what he looked like. The name Linjun also came from Zhu Xuan's mouth.

"What about knowing, the little remaining troops in the hands of your father and emperor are simply dying. If he is willing to collect his troops and abandon his armor, then Benjun can also consider letting your family continue to enjoy royal treatment in that palace city. His voice was cold, not at all like he was saying to a child.

The little prince clenched his fists and said: "Don't you think, my father will not succumb to you, my father said that the mission of the royal family is to protect his people, and if he is in danger, he will die and die with his people." ”

"What your father said is right, he is a good emperor, so this monarch only took away his military power, and did not deprive him of the position of emperor, as long as he puts the military and political affairs of the entire country into my hands, that is, he protects the people of Qi and can continue to govern the whole country, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone."

Cao Ran was stunned, how powerful is he to make the emperor of a country hand over the military power of a country, and he doesn't want to be the emperor, so what does he want the military power to do? This man is too hard to fathom.

She pulled the little prince and said to Linjun with confidence: "Since this is the case, you are also known as Yijun, and it is too embarrassing to hold a child hostage, and many people in the world will think that the so-called Linjun is just a villain." Why don't you let him go back to China, and seriously rely on strength to compete. If you can't even do this, even if you get military power, I'm afraid you won't be able to defend it! ”

Cao Ran felt that he was a little too arrogant when she heard Linjun's words, although she didn't know which side this Linjun was, but this kind of unscrupulous braggart still didn't sound very comfortable for her, so that her words were a little ruthless.

The little prince pursed his lips and looked at her with adoring little eyes, and Cao Ran simply said what he wanted.

Lin Jun wore a silver mask and did not see any change in his expression, and said indifferently without fluctuation: "What you said makes some sense, fortunately, Benjun has never cared about fame and fortune, what the world thinks is their business, why should Benjun care." ”

In Cao Ran's cognition, men all want to save face, especially a monarch or something, they care most about these reputations, and they must have a decent gentleman and a reputation that is far and wide. Even if you are a hypocrite, you have never seen a hypocrite so direct.

In fact, it is indeed Cao Ran who overestimated Linjun's perception of face, and he really didn't take face and reputation seriously for others to see and be told by others. Although he did not deliberately curry favor with the Li people of the three northern kingdoms, no one in the rivers and lakes of the northern regions did not fear him, his name as a king was sealed by the world, and the nearly one million soldiers and horses under his command crossed the three northern kingdoms, but they willingly followed him not only because he had a stronger king's spirit, but more importantly, they wanted to follow an era together. An era of generations eroded by war is destined to be overshadowed by a new era.

Cao Ran was dumbfounded, facing faceless people, as if all words were powerless. She pouted and glanced at the little prince, sighed lightly, and thought, "It seems that the only way to go is to follow the old path of the little prince, and I don't know if the car out of the palace can hide the two of them." ”

The little prince seemed to see what she meant, and secretly stuffed the gold bag in his arms again.

Lin Jun leaned over and waved his hand to take a strand of hair from the back of the little prince's head, and there was no knife in his hand that could neatly cut off a strand of long hair, and it didn't hurt a bit! It was easy for him to control such a weak sword qi, but Cao Ran, who was on the side, was dumbfounded, and once felt that his eyes were dazzled, he picked up a jade pendant that the little prince was wearing and tied his hair. said to the little prince: "Since you have come back intact, you must send some tokens to your father to reassure them." ”

Cao Ran rolled her eyes at him and snorted secretly in her heart, I'm afraid it's used to intimidate other people's parents, it's quite tactful, it's really a shameless person.

"Wouldn't it be more reassuring for you to send me directly back to my father and mother?" The little prince innocently blinked a pair of longing eyes at Linjun's cold mask, and he didn't get a response. Lin Jun got up and walked away without taking a second look.

The night of the Beiyan Palace was very quiet, and there were a few more soldiers guarding the three-person high courtyard wall, since the disappearance of the little prince, this courtyard was not as free to enter and exit as before, and their plans had to wait for the opportunity.

Cao Ran was drowsy, and felt that there was a figure shaking in the room, turned over and touched the little prince sleeping beside him, thinking that the little baby had drunk too much water during the day, and the movement at night was too big. Half-squinting, he stretched out his hand and probed a few times without probing the body of the little prince, so he sat down and confirmed this idea.

continued to be confused for a long time, but still didn't see the little prince come back, and the pee was a little longer. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and refreshed herself, and sat on the edge of the bed with the moonlight in the room without a lamp, and fumbled for her shoes, and found a pair of small shoes neatly placed there.

She was completely sleepy all of a sudden, and the little prince would never get up at night without wearing shoes, so who are the people in this room? Where did the little prince go?