Qin Xun recognized the girl's appearance and said with a smile: "Zhaoyang? You are not in the palace to accompany your aunt, what are you doing in Shanglin Yuan? ”

I haven't seen her for six years, and Qi Yao, the princess of Zhaoyang who was always playing with her in front of Qi Jing, has become a fourteen-year-old girl, her eyebrows look like a white concubine, Lan Hui is soft, but she has a girlish atmosphere like a spring flower.

Qi Yao stroked the horse's neck and told him to stop: "The mother concubine is about to give birth in the near future, and she is mostly recuperating, I am afraid of disturbing her, so I came to Aunt Lin." Cousin, what about my imperial brother, none of you came back? After all, Qi Yao is a daughter's family, so she is more coquettish, so she doesn't care about Qi Jing's so many etiquette rules, and calls Lin Chu "aunt".

"I'll come back early, your imperial brother is still on the way, and he will arrive in Beijing in a few days. Eh, can you ride me on a horse? Qin Xun started the idea of Qi Yao's mount, and estimated in his heart whether this half-sized horse could bear the weight of two people.

"Not good! If I ride with you and let him see me, if I go from my brother to my aunt, and let him see it? Qi Yao refused without hesitation, but turned over and dismounted to hold the reins, "But if you are bored alone, I can walk with you, how about it, I'm still interesting enough, right?" She landed and stood still, raised her empty hand without a leash and compared it back and forth between herself and Qin Xun's heads, "In the past, you were as tall as me, why haven't you caught up with my imperial brother for a few years, is it because the water and soil in Jiangnan are more supportive?" Cousin, is Jiangnan fun, can you talk to me? ”

Qin Xun told some interesting things about Jiangnan with Her Royal Highness the curious princess all the way, Qi Yao held the reins and walked parallel to him, listened with a pair of beautiful eyes with relish, and soon came to the vicinity of the archery range, in addition to the neatly lined up soldiers who were practicing arrows, there was a man and a woman standing outside the field talking, the woman was Qin Xun's mother Lin Chu, and the back to them was a young man with long shoulders and broad shoulders, and he was about a high-ranking general when he looked at the scene.

"Brother from the halberd!" Qi Yao, who was far away, shouted towards that place, raising his empty hand above his head and waving to greet him.

When the young man heard the voice, he looked back, his face was handsome, but there was no smile, and his eyebrows were full of heroic demeanor.

Qin Xun raised his eyebrows and asked Qi Yao: "The one who doesn't meet the enemy?" ”

Qi Yao called him "Brother Cong Halberd", where did the second Halberd come from Chang'an City, I think it was the nephew of the Empress Dowager Tang, Tang Zhan Tang Cong Halberd.

Qin Xun had never seen Tang Cong Halberd before, and he still had some impressions of this name, one was that Tang Cong Halberd succeeded Qin Xun's husband Xi Guangling, and shocked Chang'an with his superb chess stage name, and won the praise of "not meeting the enemy"; The second is that when Qin Xun was eight years old, Chu Ci's father, the hussar general Chu Zhenggong, killed himself, and the one who took over the position of hussar general was Tang Congji, who was eighteen years old at the time.

Qi Yao nodded "Uh-huh" in response, Qin Xun turned his head to look at her, and when he saw the look in the eyes of this little girl, he smiled out loud.

"I said, your little girl came to Lin Yuan if she had nothing to do, it seems that the drunkard didn't mean to drink."

Qi Yao listened to him make fun of him, and stomped his feet a little shyly: "You don't laugh at me!" Guantang turned around from the halberd and got on the horse as if to go elsewhere, she hurriedly said, "Oh, I didn't tell you, I'll go and play with Brother Congji!" As he spoke, he hurriedly got on the horse, and before the words fell, the person had already rushed out with the horse's belly.

"Go, go, stinky girl!" Qin Xun choked on the dust raised by the horse's hooves behind him, and scolded with a smile.

Tang Conghalberd and Qi Yao, who was chasing behind him, both beat their horses and left, and the only thing left in front of him was naturally Lin Chu, Qin Xun quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Meet my mother." ”

The middle-aged female general was as beautiful as ever, and when she looked at her son, she lost some of her heroism, and held him by the arm to help him up and pull him closer: "They have grown so big." ”

With a long body and a handsome appearance, he is a young man who is in his prime of life, which makes Lin Chu, a mother, feel very relieved.

The mother and son entered the house, and Lin Chu unexpectedly reached out and hooked down the high collar that wrapped his son's neck.

When a mother understands her son, even if he has the intention to hide it, she can see at a glance that something is wrong with him.

“…… Mother. Qin Xun was stunned, and turned over a little uncomfortably to straighten out his collar.

Lin Chu sighed softly: "Does it hurt?" ”

"Men's family, what does it hurt to break a little skin?" Qin Xun smiled indifferently.

"Don't take it seriously, you are a doctor yourself, be careful to take care of it as soon as possible." Even though Lin Chu was accustomed to seeing deaths and injuries on the battlefield, this injury was also extremely distressing for his son.

Qin Xun didn't want to continue talking about the scratch on his neck, so he glanced around the room, and saw an old Go board on the table at a glance, deliberately changed the topic, and said with a smile: "That one is the Tang Cong Halberd General, right?" I heard that his chess skills are excellent and he is not an enemy, and his mother has had fun playing with him? ”

"Occasionally." Lin Chu followed his son's gaze to look at the Go board, lost his mind for a moment, and went to the side of the desk to put it in order, "Come and sit." ”

Qin Xunfang sat down, and then heard his mother's words say in surprise: "Have you seen King Ping?" ”

"......" Qin Xun didn't know how to answer for a while.

The old entanglements of his mother's generation when they were young are not taboo to talk about, so Qin Xun has also heard a little about it, and intends to avoid mentioning the old things to hurt his mother's heart, but he doesn't want Lin Chu to take the initiative to mention it to him.

"Have you seen it?" Seeing that his son was stunned, Lin Chu asked again.

"Yes."

He ...... Are you okay? ”

Sensing that his mother's words were both hesitant and earnest, Qin Xun was a little sad for no reason.

"I saw that he was in good shape and should have lived well...... It makes sense. The impression of Guzhou was just that, Qin Xun replied with a sigh.

"It's good, it's good." Lin Chu muttered.

Since Guzhou was mentioned, Qin Xun simply asked clearly: "I don't know why my mother introduced Qi Jing and me to King Yu Ping?" Niang clearly knew that the royal family, King Ping, and the Lin family ...... "He didn't plan to ask openly, and Lin Chu also put his index finger in front of his mouth and shook his head at the right time.

Even if we don't talk about personal affairs and only talk about government affairs, any two of these three are talked about together, it is an obscure relationship that cannot be elaborated, not to mention that the three are entangled together, and it is even more chaotic.

"If you ask something else, my mother will answer you if she can answer you, don't ask about this."

It should obviously be an extremely important question, but he didn't let him know at the moment, Qin Xun rubbed his temples a little annoyedly, and was angry: "What if I ask that thing?" ”

Lin Chu didn't answer immediately, calmly watched his son wipe his face and seemed to suppress his troubled mood before he spoke: "Mother doesn't know." ”

"What?"

"I said, I don't know, if there is anyone else in this world who knows, there are only your grandfather and King Ping, they don't say, I don't ask, you ...... too" Lin Chu shook his head and signaled him not to take the initiative to ask, and said, "Actually, even if they don't say it, Xun'er, you have always been smart, you should know better." ”

Whether the Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman exists or not, even Lin Chu never knew, one was her father, the other was her lover, and no one had told her clearly.

Knowing the son Mo Ruomu, Lin Chu said it well, Qin Xun naturally knew in his heart why no one clearly announced the existence of this thing in the world, not that they didn't want to, but that they couldn't.

Although no one can retell what Gaozu said at the beginning, and it is not certain whether Gaozu was finally made according to his words, but the four words of "Imperial Ancestor Tiger Fu" are known to everyone from Gaozu's mouth, so if this thing does not exist, it is a disobedience to Gaozu, and it is inevitable that someone will bite Lin Tian and King Ping and say that they have bad intentions to fake Gaozu's prestige with rumors; But if this thing exists in the world, it is an arrogance to the present, and it is also clear that there is a suspicion of rebellion against the king with this holy object. It is not the best policy to say it or not, Lin Tian and King Ping had to choose a better strategy in comparison, and they kept their mouths shut and didn't say anything.

Sometimes thinking of this, Qin Xun couldn't help but scold Qi Gaozu without awe in his heart, he casually said two bastard words and didn't care, his eyes were closed, and he kicked his braids, but he called Ruchen Ruzi has not been a person inside and outside for decades.

Lin Chu didn't tell Qin Xun that the last major incident caused by the Imperial Ancestor Tiger Fu was the incident of the Ping Wangfu's water.

At the beginning, the emperor secretly searched the Pingwang Mansion for several rounds but failed to find it, and he was so angry that he simply burned the Pingwang Mansion, wanting to tear his face and force the Ping Wang's body to escape with this thing, but he didn't want the Ping King to live in the mansion steadily, and he had the intention of dying with rumors, but the emperor panicked and ordered people to go into the fire to rescue him.

And Lin Chu arrived like crazy, only to see that King Ping, who was seriously burned, was carried out of the mansion, wrapped in his clothes, and what he was protecting was not a holy relic, the Imperial Ancestor Tiger Talisman, but a Go board given by Lin Chu in the old days.

At that time, King Ping smiled with the last of his strength, and his throat, choked by the smoke, which could barely come out, spat out a broken sentence at the emperor, so that people could almost read the lips to understand: "If you can't believe it, kill me." ”

Rao is emperor, seeing this, he was also a little at a loss, forced to such a situation or did not see the tiger talisman, and heard Lin Chu cold and hateful: "Didn't he say it, if he didn't believe it, he would kill him, if he killed King Ping and destroyed the Lin family, it can make His Majesty feel at ease and no longer be suspicious, Your Majesty will do it." ”

The emperor brushed his sleeves away, but ordered the imperial doctor to secretly heal King Ping, in the end to pick up King Ping's life, so far, the brothers are difficult to get along, the emperor does not take Qi Ge's life, but wants to take advantage of this to go to the water to make "King Ping" disappear.

Since then, the monarchs and ministers have avoided the taboo of the ancestral tiger talisman, and the prince of Ping, who rode a horse and shot and drank and laughed, died in the old memories of the old people, and the mountains and seas were bound to travel, and they were parked as a lonely boat.

The mother and son talked about some things again, and through the window with the bamboo curtain rolled up, they saw the handsome young general returning to the archery range, instructing the soldiers to shoot arrows, and it was naturally Princess Qi Yao of Zhaoyang who was bouncing up and down beside her.

Qin Xun smiled and said, "Zhaoyang, this girl is happy with that general, right?" I remember that the general was twenty-six this year, twelve years older than her, and he didn't have a wife at home? "Although I don't understand, I want to know that if the emperor can let the pearl in his palm be so enthusiastic, at least the position of the wife of Tang Congji's halberd is still empty.

"Zhaoyang has loved to follow me to Lin Yuan and Xi to ride and shoot since I was a child, sometimes I am busy with affairs, so I asked the halberd to take her, the girl's family at this age, the love is just beginning, and the halberd is a good child with a talent, and it is normal to be happy." It's like I liked Qi Ge back then.

Lin Chu couldn't help but think of his sixteen-year-old son: "Xun'er has a happy girl now?" ”

"Not really." It's really not a lie, it's really not a happy girl, it's just a happy son.

Lin Chu smiled: "If you have, you might as well come and talk to your mother." At such an age, it is also wonderful to have a happy person in mind. She subconsciously stroked the edge of the Go board that was in her hand.

On the same day, she gave Qi Ge, who was still the prince, a copy of the same Go board, Qi Ge smiled and asked why, she smiled and said: "Uncle Qi made me a general of the mighty cavalry, and people will give you a thing to have fun on a happy occasion." "At the beginning, the innocent Lin Chu was still able to unscrupulously call Qi Dong, who had been proclaimed emperor, as his uncle.

Qi Ge teased her: "Go general? Specializing in chess? ”

"It's Weiqi! Uncle Qi said that he was the only one in the military, and he was at the same level as Brother Zhenhai's hussar general! You see, I think it's very similar to 'Go', so I'll give you a Go board, and when you see this, you think of me! Fourteen-year-old Lin Chu sat on horseback and smiled like a spring flower.

Qi Ge laughed and said yes.

Later, when Qi Ge left, the only thing he had with him was the Go board.

At that time, although she was married, she and Qin Zhenhai tacitly respected each other like guests, and occasionally went out of the capital to meet Qi Ge to catch up with each other, but she was also measured, until she and Qin Zhenhai became husband and wife, and Qi Ge finally broke off her fate in this life.

When she was a girl, she fell in love with each other, and it became an old dream, and the clouds gathered and dispersed, and there was no time for the fate.