Probably because Lou Zhen himself occupied too much of a position in the fate between Xiao Di and Pei Yaowei, when he said this now, Xiao Zhen's first reaction was that he was referring to his parting ways with her.

The hand holding the cup shifted slightly, causing the wine to go around in a dangerous circle on the edge of the wall of the glass. His eyes were slightly gloomy, and he poured the wine down before he asked slowly, "What does Mr. mean?" ”

When he spoke, his gaze did not lean on Lou Zhen at all.

Lou Zhen took in his reaction, and he couldn't say that there were no taboos in his heart, but at least on the surface, he was still light-hearted.

"Your Highness and your highness." He said.

Xiao Di looked at him coldly.

The two looked at each other silently for a long time, maybe in another moment, Lou Zhen would not be able to hold on. But at this time, Xiao Di snorted lightly and took the lead in speaking: "Mr. is really a bold person. ”

His tone was not good at all, but Lou Zhen didn't think it was because he didn't want to hear himself mention Pei Yao.

…… Perhaps, on the contrary, it is because no one has dared to mention this person to him all these years? Or even if you bring it up, you don't have anything good to say? Lou Zhen secretly guessed and thought he had found the truth.

"Doesn't Your Highness like me mentioning her?" He pretended to be puzzled, hesitated, and then kicked his nose and said, "I really don't like it?" ”

"The king doesn't like it." Xiao Di told him word by word: "I don't like it very much." ”

Lou Zhen raised his eyebrows and nodded, not knowing whether to question or accept this answer.

When they first met, Xiao Di still had a good impression of him at first sight, but now looking at his look, I feel that he hates it very much.

Lou Zhen didn't know that he was hated, he lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "If that's ......?"

Xiao Di was annoyed by his deceitful appearance, and blurted out, "What if?" ”

Lou Zhen smiled slowly.

"One day when she dies, will Your Highness be willing to shed tears for him?" After a pause, without waiting for Xiao Di to answer, he had to inch in and say, "Are you willing to shed blood for her?" ”

Xiao Di slapped his palm on the case, attracting the attention of the guards in the distance.

He was a little relieved, and waved his hand at Wei Chaoyang, signaling that he was fine. When he looked back at Lou Zhen, he saw a layer of cold sweat on him.

"Sir, be careful!" He said: "That's the queen of the dynasty!" ”

He was angry, he was warning, but he ...... Didn't feel offended.

Lou Zhen was in a trance, and then thought: Yes, that is the queen of the dynasty, not the princess of Chu, if you really hate her so much, are you still taboo for me to say these two unpleasant words!

Lou Zhen thought like this, but his expression gradually calmed down. He stared straight at Xiao Di and told him, "That's the empress who will give you military power when the emperor is seriously ill." It's also a girl who has been watching grow up since she was ten years old. You have nothing to fear. There is no fear in the next. ”

When the words landed, he gently rested the wine cup on the table and straightened his posture.

After a while, Wei Chaoyang came over and whispered back in Xiao Di's ear, saying that the grain and horses were ready and ready to set off at any time.

Xiao Di nodded and asked him to go down and wait.

As soon as Wei Chaoyang retreated, he looked at Lou Zhen again, unlike before, this time, his eyes were full of scrutiny and vigilance.

"Is it an accident or a coincidence that Mr. is here today?" "Or is it intentional?" he asked. ”

"It's a coincidence to meet Your Highness here." Lou Zhen said: "However, even if there is no coincidence, the footsteps in the next step are also running to the front line and to your Royal Highness the King of Chu." ”

Xiao Di was silent, and smiled: "Mr. is frank." ”

Although he said this, he was thinking about the purpose of Lou Zhen's appearance in his heart. After so many years, why did he suddenly come to him?

Lou Zhen was quietly looked at by him for a while, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is looking at you like this...... Could it be that you feel that you are here to persuade you to make peace with her? ”

Xiao Di was reluctant to admit that because of Lou Zhen's previous words, this absurd possibility did flash in his mind.

He raised an eyebrow and asked, "Sir shouldn't be so naïve, right?" ”

Lou Zhen shook his head.

"It's just a pity in the next place-" He looked at Xiao Di seriously and said: "I regret this relationship, leading the people I respect and the people I love on the other, but after all, there is a good beginning and no good end." ”

Xiao Di thought to himself: Yes, I also regret it.

- Especially after King Ning went to Linyuan to pass on the queen's order.

After days and nights, he kept thinking about the war and her in his mind. In the past few years, he remembered the scene in Zhaoye Temple that year, and hated her so much that he felt at ease. But now, because of this queen's order to recruit herself to go to the war, the hatred is shaken as if jokingly.

Thinking about it, he even felt that such a woman's kindness was the most hateful.

Suddenly, Lou Zhen said again: "...... Having said that, I came here to repay your kindness. ”

Xiao Di was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed, "That's it!" As the king of the day, it is an internal matter to protect the people Zhaoxue. If you really want to talk about kindness, this king should thank Mr. for all the innocent people who have died at the hands of the Tan family in the past hundred years. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, shook his arms deeply, and thanked him seriously: "Thank you, sir!" ”

Lou Zhen was stunned, and after a while, he slowly stood up.

“…… In any case, Your Highness can't let Zaibai go this way, right? ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and unsheathed the saber from his back.

This sword......

Pei Yaowei watched this scene silently, it felt like someone had picked up the tip of her heart, and the vast snow in front of her was also slowly overlapping and blending with the dark and unknown hall of Butai, which made her sense ethereal.

Lou Zhen handed the sword to Xiao Di.

He said: "I heard that His Royal Highness has never believed in the art of Xuanmen, but in the next Bai Ding, he really has no long things, only this idea has the right to repay His Highness's life-saving grace back then, and I hope His Highness will laugh at it." ”

The clumsy sword, simple and solemn, with its own solemnity.

A very subtle and inexplicable feeling welled up in Xiao Di's heart, warm and comfortable, and he didn't know where it came from.

He looked surprised and asked, "Listening to what Mr. said, this ancient sword seems to have some origin?" ”

Nature has a history. But what exactly is the origin of this...... I can't let you know yet. Lou Zhen thought.

He smiled faintly: "For the complicated and boundless secret techniques in this world, not everyone is like you, with a heart of respect and distance. Looking at the crooked and evil ways, there were Tan Xing and others in the front, and in the future, maybe there will be others. ”

He told Xiao Di: "If Your Highness can carry this sword with you at all times, you can protect your well-being and prevent you from being injured by outsiders' evil arts." ”

After the hurried side of Yongchuan Station, until the fifth year of Yan Ping, Xiao Di never saw Lou Zhen again.

That year, His Royal Highness the King of Chu went to the southern border, and in more than a month, he recovered the lost territory. However, this good news, because it was because of him, when it reached the dust capital, it did not make Xiao Zhu's Manchu civil and military people so happy.

After the Battle of Split Earth Pass in March, the Zhou State was defeated, and in April, Xiao recovered from his illness, and the first thing he did was to figure out how to remove Xiao Di.

As soon as Xiao Difu heard the news that Xiao was cured, he also became aware of his position. Just when he was thinking about whether he should take a step back and obey the order once the holy decree came, or find another way and use the excuse of staying in the south, on this day, Wei Chaoyang reluctantly brought him an unexpected news.

"Your Royal Highness, the Queen Mother and Empress Dowager secretly ordered someone to send a message out, saying that it is to reassure you about the battle against Zhou in the south, as for the Lingyun Palace...... There should be no recall for a while. ”

Xiao Di thought that he was tired these days, and he was talking nonsense here.

"What do you say?" He asked, "Did the queen mother say this?" Listen to it yourself, do you believe it? ”

Wei Chaoyang was aggrieved to death, and said with a broken face: "Your Highness, it's true." He sighed and said carefully: "Actually, Manager Cheng's letter was earlier than the queen mother's queen mother—the former arrived." It's just that my subordinates were like you at the time, and I didn't dare to believe it, so I wanted to wait for the news to be confirmed before I got back to you. ”

Xiao Di frowned, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Empress—" Wei Chaoyang said, "As soon as the emperor woke up, he quarreled with the empress, accusing her of using people indiscriminately, and almost grounding people. ”

"Seeing the meaning of the queen mother, the emperor was originally thinking about calling you back, but the queen ...... Now that the Duke of Yasukuni and the eldest princess are not in Beijing, the queen went to ask the Duke of Yasukuni in order not to transfer you back. It's really strange, the Duke of Yasukuni has not asked about the government for more than ten years, but this time he was also moved by the queen. The old man knelt outside the Lingyun Hall with his sick body, and was personally helped into the hall by the emperor, and after that, the matter of this recall was over......"

Xiao Di leaned on the table and slowly sat down on the chair.

After a while, Wei Chaoyang said again: "But Your Highness, the emperor has issued another decree to send Liang Song, the prince of Qingle, to come over, saying that it is to help in the war, but in fact, it is still to share your authority." ”

"Liang Song......" Xiao Di casually thought of the name, but didn't take it to heart at all.

He thought, naturally, Pei Yaowei would do this, most likely just because she was more sober than Xiao Zhu. The war has reached such a point that anyone with eyes can see which one is available. Xiao Chai wants to withdraw himself, and it is understandable, but as soon as he leaves, who else can he count on at the border of Daliang?

Xiang Tao, Pan Xian? Or Qin Libei and Jiang Yi?

Or is it this Liang Song?

Except for the generals of the defeated army, that is, the nameless gentlemen, these people will not be Yuwen Zhijun's opponents.

He thought, Pei Yaowei is a smart person.

But she was inevitably moved by her utilitarian cleverness.

How stupid is that?

A long time later, when he thought of this moment, he couldn't help but think: it turned out that when all the knots in his heart were still tightly tied, his hatred for her could no longer be carried.

After three years of overturning and fighting in Yan Ping, in the spring of the fourth year, Liang Zhou discussed peace, and Princess Zhen'an sent her cousin to the dust to make peace. His Royal Highness the King of Chu retreated, suppressed several hearts under his command, and returned to Linyuan City 'honestly' with a team of guards.

It didn't take long for him to hear the news of Nakanomiya Yuxi. At that time, he solemnly drank a bottle of wine on the platform of the old days, facing the crescent moon in the north, and then put the Yao Wei at the bottom of the box.

However, what he didn't expect was that at the beginning of Yan Ping's fifth year, what he was waiting for was not the birth of the prince, but her death.