Qin Xun smiled bitterly: "I think I misunderstood Your Majesty now, I always thought that he was trying to do the golden mean after making a big move in the early days of his accession to the throne, and now he understands that his imperial technique is the sole respect of the prince and the balance of the emperor." When he was the king, he looked at the courtiers under him to resist the courtesy, but when he cultivated the prince, he wanted you Qi Jing's ministers to obey smoothly and succeed to the throne after his death, I guess he would think this way, probably because it was also related to the situation when he first won the throne. He cut Lin Qin because Lin Qin has no relationship with you, and he is a heavy general with military power, so he is afraid that he will threaten you with too much high power, and he stays with Lin Qin, and because Lin Qin, especially me, is close to you. As for the Chu family, although General Chu's wife is also the daughter of the Qu family, but you are the son of Empress Xiaohui, the secret of the palace will never be clearly announced to the world, so the Chu family and you cannot be clearly related, and because of its original status in the court, the Chu family is the most suitable and the most escaped blade that cannot be used by His Majesty to die with the Shen family. I'm afraid that when His Majesty married Empress Xiaohui, he was planning for a son like you who will have in the future, and he took great pains to ask all the important ministers of Daqi to submit to you. ”

And Qi Jing, who was born in this position, is really lucky and unlucky.

"But he is more of a king than a father, and I don't like to be close to him." Besides, no matter how much you talk about the biological father killing the biological mother, no one can be relieved. Qi Jing took out one from a plate of peeled and heated chestnuts and fed it to Qin Xun's mouth, "Qu Dang can't be underestimated, even as the so-called secret prince, I can't slack off, and my father is ......" Qi Jing's eyes sank, "Everything is variable before I really sit in that seat, I don't believe that he will be trustworthy to Empress Xiaohui under any circumstances." ”

Qin Xun felt a little sad for him, the Qu family should obviously be his mother's family, but they have become the party with the most eyeing of his talent and status, and they are always ready to take advantage of his slack to choke his key opponents.

Qi Jing looked at his expression, and added a sentence lightly: "The Qu family is not mine, and I don't plan to ask for the Qu family." ”

Well, Qi Jing has never been a person who will bend his mind to meet others and ask for giving, Qin Xun also fed him a chestnut, and suddenly changed his words: "Chestnuts are actually interesting to peel by yourself, so if you put a bunch of peeled ones, you don't think it's so delicious." ”

Qi Jing smiled: "There is still such a statement? ”

"Yes, a lot, like, don't you think it's more delicious to eat a chicken leg than a plate of deboned chicken—oh, I forgot you haven't nibbled on it." Qin Xun remembered that His Royal Highness the Noble Prince was served exquisitely by the palace people, how could there be such a loss of honor when he grabbed the chicken leg and gnawed it, he smiled again, "But eating like melon seeds, it is more comfortable to peel a handful and eat it." ”

Qi Jing knows this preference, Qin Xun ate snacks here at Qi Jing when he was a child, and Qi Jing would sometimes ask the palace people to peel a small bowl of melon seeds and spoon them for him to eat.

Late at night, Qin Xun stared at Qi Jing and drank the decoction, and when the two of them were sleeping on the couch together, he looked at the top of the carved bed and couldn't help but say, "It's hard for you to still have a relationship with your aunt and mother and son."

That's good. ”

"She's kind—you cover the quilt." Qi Jing didn't finish speaking, and caught a glimpse of him stretching his arm out of the quilt, and pressed him back without delay, "It's not easy for anyone to live in this palace, she has done well enough, and she can be regarded as entrusted by my biological mother, she loves me like a parent, and I am also willing to serve her like a biological mother." He smiled, "Now that there is Yunji again, it is no better, if one day I really meet an accident, I can still have a son to protect her." ”

"Don't say anything frustrating." Qin Xun frowned.

After being silent for a long time, Qin Xun spoke softly again: "Qi Jing, how old did Your Majesty tell you these things when you were there?" ”

"When I remember."

"When do you remember?"

"It's more than three years old."

No child is born with insight into the world, unless he has been forced to seal the coquettishness and simplicity of his nature since he was a child, Qin Xun turned sideways and hugged him tightly in his arms, trying his best to soothe the restlessness hidden in this body.

The emperor did not want Qi Jing to be a smooth sail and did not know the hardships of the heir, the Spring and Autumn Dynasty has changed, there is no shortage of emperors such as Qin Huang and Han Wu in history, and after the death of these emperors, most of the regimes fell into the hands of the relatives of the ministers, and the brilliant imperial industry created by hard work is often prosperous and quickly declined, which is because its heirs are weak in power and difficult to keep and glorious. In the final analysis, it is not unreasonable to say that the rich is not three generations, how can the children of the royal family who have lived in peace and prosperity for a long time still be able to cultivate the ambition and city of their ancestors, so the emperor's attitude towards the position of the prince has been ambiguous, that is, he does not want Qi Jing's succession to be too smooth, and still wants him to be involved in the struggle of the princes to carve out of the city, which is why the emperor can also tolerate the Qu Party again and again to support Qi Xuan, and tolerate Qi Lang's pampering and ambition, He can even do it himself, deliberately stirring up a few probing skills among his sons.

If the monarch of the dynasty who inherits the great unification must go through a bloody battle, if he loses in the battle for the throne, even if he succeeds to the throne, it is difficult to defeat the foreign ministers, so the emperor wants a winner who fights, and wants Qi Jing to cultivate the bearing of the king.

If Qi Jing did not meet that requirement in the end, the emperor might really break his promise to Empress Xiaohui.

Therefore, Qi Jing was wary of his father's courtesy, and Qin Xun also didn't trust the unpredictable king.

The decoction slept peacefully, Qi Jing had already fallen asleep in his arms, Qin Xun rubbed his indistinct sleeping face hidden in the dark night with his light hand, and finally sighed softly, and snuggled him into sleep.

When he woke up on the second day, Qin Xun still felt a dull dull pain in an unspeakable part, and he bluntly said to Qi Jing, Qi Jing blushed slightly, hugged him and coaxed him gently.

"Why can't you sleep so late today?"

"Am I not a patient?" Qi Jing asked innocently.

Qin Xun buried himself in his chest and laughed: "You smell so good." ”

Qi Jing doesn't like incense, and his body is always cleaned with a clean smell.

"Once upon a time

Xun always has some sweetness on his body. Qi Jing stroked the hair that he was draping on his back, "But since you went to the villa, you have been immersed in medicine for so many years, and you are used to carrying some medicinal fragrance on your body." ”

"The smell of medicine is light and fragrant, and if it is heavy, it will make people uncomfortable, and I actually can't stand too strong medicine." Qin Xun propped up his upper body, touched the tip of his nose with the tip of his, and said with a smile, "I always feel that you don't sleep very well in the past two days, and I don't know if it's because people are sick and easy to fall into nightmares or if you are more worried when you were in Chang'an, how about I go out today to find some spices and herbs, and mix a soothing incense for you?" Can His Royal Highness allow his ministers to go out? ”

Qi Jing rubbed the tip of his nose with a smile: "Yes." ”

They only got up at noon, after lunch Qin Xun went out to look for things, and when he came back, it was a fine afternoon, the autumn sun was warm during the day, Qi Jing knelt on a soft mat in a spare room with a high ceiling and wide window, and put a low case in front of him, reading a book.

"You don't have to take care of the government, and you still can't lose the habit of reading." Qin Xun sat opposite him across the low table, the spice package in his hand was placed beside him, and he supported his elbow with one knee.

"There is nothing to do left and right, and the right to pass the time." Qi Jing handed him a lacquered envelope, "The package that Zichang sorted out for you contains a letter from Feng Jiangnan, I guess it's about arbitrary." ”

Qin Xun guessed that it was probably a letter from the villa, and the news about the killing of the sect would not be sent to him in the open, but would be delivered by the secret guard.

"Why don't you open it first, what if it's a love letter sent to me by my Jiangnan affair?" Qin Xun blurted out a laugh, seeing that the words had not fallen, Qi Jing raised his eyes slightly from the book he opened in his hand, and hurriedly touched the tip of his nose and turned his head, "Cough, that, in the end, you are still young and sick and heal quickly, you look good today, after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet tomorrow night, do you have to continue the morning court in the future?" ”

He knew the current affairs, Qi Jing's eyes turned into a smile, and he lowered his eyes to read the book: "Since it is great, naturally I can't be lazy." ”

Tearing open the seal, it was indeed a letter from Lu Feng, Qin Xun felt a little guilty in his heart, he received the letter today, thinking that he had not arrived in Beijing not long after leaving Jiangnan, and Lu Feng on the Jiangnan side couldn't help but send a letter to him.

The content of the letter is often simple, nothing more than asking him how everything is going after Qi Jing returns to Chang'an, saying a few words that he and his friends are very good, and Rhubarb is also very good, and when he fights with Liu Beicang, he is still in good spirits as always, and there is a sentence attached to the back that Qin Xun looked at it twice, and he said: "After you left, I thought about it carefully, it turned out that I was the distant cousin who returned to the city." ”

If it was before, maybe Qin Xun would still find it interesting, but now it is a little unpleasant. Concubine Bai Jiang and Lu Feng's mother Bai Hui are distant cousins, if Qi Jing is really the concubine's parent, it is indeed a distant cousin with Lu Feng, but Qi Jing is actually the son of the late Empress Xiaohui, Qin Xun, the nominal cousin, has no blood relationship with him, and Lu Feng, a distant cousin who is obviously not true, actually has no blood relationship with him, to say that Qi Jing's cousin who is really connected by blood should be the Chu family brothers and sisters who are connected by tracing the bloodline of Queen Xiaohui Qu Peilan, Chu Ci and Chu Zixi.

No wonder Qi Jing treats others

is not very attentive, but treats the Chu family brothers and sisters a lot.

Qin Xun smiled, folded the letter again, took back the envelope, and casually put it on the corner of the low desk: "Senior brother's letter, it's a bit homely, you can open it if you want to see it." ”

"If you don't open it, I can probably guess." Qi Jing put down the book, took the pen and wanted to dip it in ink, but Qin Xun suddenly reached out and grabbed it to prevent him from moving.

"How?"

Qin Xun's hand loosened him, but he got up and bypassed the side of the case, sat in front of him and lay on his back in his arms.

"Don't make a fuss, I'm just-in." Qi Jing was still holding the pen in his right hand, and his left forearm was resting on the desk, just supporting his shoulder lying in the crook of his left arm.

"What are you doing?"

"I was flipping through the commentary of Zhixing, which was thrown aside by you the night before, and I was about to make some annotations for him."

(End of chapter)