"Bai Yucheng, I'm different from you. No matter how much I hate you, I will not do anything to you. The saying that one life is worth one life will never be the destination for hatred to be liberated, but will only allow oneself to sink into killing. Once I kill you for revenge, I may kill more people in order to survive, and finally annihilate humanity and suffer the condemnation of conscience. I don't want to be such a nondescript person, just like you now, who can trample on other people's lives at will for the sake of the great cause of restoring the country. ”

You are no longer the clean, clear, elegant and modest young man I was when I first met.

After saying a word, Ji Lianmei left quickly.

Bai Yucheng lay on the soft pillow and sighed deeply.

Did I win or lose this game........

Recall, the night of May 15.

"Your Highness, why don't you tell the truth to Ji Lianmei."

"You know, Ji Jingchen saved me, and I don't want to owe him."

"Things have come to this point, she is very likely to really attack you, now is not the time to care about these things, now internal and external troubles, if you don't solve this contradiction, you are nothing more than making enemies for yourself."

"Situ, I've been an understanding person for so many years, and I'm tired, so let me be willful for a while."

I'm not a person worthy of love, so let me maintain this relationship with her, even if she hates me more and more, I don't want her to be hurt on the way to love me.

I'm afraid you'll become someone else's chessboard, and even if I do everything I can, I won't be able to protect you.......

Bai Yucheng stood on the window lattice, recalling these words, his heart was clear.

I really didn't expect that I would be willing to be a chess piece and voluntarily lose all the games.

"Your Highness." Situ Che walked in from outside the door and half-knelt on the ground.

"What's ......?"

"Your Majesty has sent an edict asking you to return to the court immediately, and you must not fall in love with war. Your Royal Highness, in my opinion, we don't have to pay attention to it, as long as we take Gusu in one fell swoop, the military power we can control is enough to compete with the Great Song Dynasty, plus the care of Mianfu in the imperial court, let alone Wu Song, half of the world can be under your rule. Situ Che proposed.

"No," Bai Yucheng's eyes were firm, "Listen to my orders, and immediately, the class teacher will return to the court." ”

At noon the next day, the group had arrived in Shangqiu City, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

In Ji Lianmei's impression, the Spring and Autumn Song Kingdom should be a relatively prosperous place, but the Song capital city Shangqiu in front of her is far less prosperous than Gusu.

The toilers came and went, with a look of sorrow on their faces, followed behind them by their fierce employers, carrying thick leather whips, mercilessly striking them on the shoulders of a hired man who fell behind.

"It's too much." Ji Lianmei lowered the curtain on the carriage and sighed deeply. Although such scenes are often seen in costume TV series, now, this tyrannical scene really happened in front of her eyes, and the visual impact is much greater than in the TV series.

Bai Yucheng seemed to be surprised by all this, and he didn't move anything except for a hint of sadness in his eyes.

As for Situ Che, he was already a person who didn't know how to deal with human affairs, and when he saw this scene, he didn't even have a trace of sadness. It seems that in the troubled times, such a scene is no longer worthy of the slightest pity for him.

These two people, one because he was too affectionate, pretended to be ruthless in order to settle down and get what he wanted. And the other, more like an emotionless killing machine, never moved or merciful, no longer has the slightest emotion except to be loyal to its master.

"The world is like this, and such a poor person does not only exist in the Great Song Dynasty. You have seen prosperity like flowers, how do you know how these people living in wars and weak countries are trampled in the mud, even if they die, they may not understand whose hands they died in. Bai Yucheng looked at the group of people who had just passed by and sighed.

When entering the city gate, the guards guarding the city asked Situ Che for a token, respectfully addressed His Royal Highness the Prince, and let him go.

Originally, I thought that Wu Yue's palace was magnificent, but now when she saw the palace of the Song Kingdom, Ji Lianmei understood what it meant to be extravagant, which was completely different from the poor scene she saw when she came. The inner garden of the palace sang and danced everywhere, and even the eunuchs and maids who came to meet them were all mellow and rich, and they looked like they were living a beautiful life.

Bai Yucheng pulled the curtain tighter and took out a palm-sized rosewood box from behind him, and inside, a mask of human skin lay quietly.

Ji Lianmei's face changed suddenly, and she pointed to the mask and asked tremblingly, "This, this is ......"

"Don't be afraid, this mask is not made of human skin. In the future, whenever you leave my mansion, you will have to wear it on your face. ”

"Why?"

"Do you think that according to my father's fearful personality, after knowing that you are the princess of Liu Guo, he will still keep you in the Great Song Dynasty?" Bai Yucheng put the mask on and carefully put it on for Ji Lianmei.

I don't know if it's an illusion, after she put on the mask, Bai Yucheng's deep eyes seemed to turn into a gurgling spring in an instant, as if she was looking at what was most important to him.

Song, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

"Hahaha Cheng'er, you can be regarded as back, you haven't seen you for more than ten years, everything is okay with the emperor?" Although the man sitting on the dragon chair was wearing a dragon robe and was nearly half a hundred years old, he was like a child, smiling innocently, and even a little silly.

"Thanks to my father, Emperor Hongfu, everything is fine with Cheng'er." Bai Yucheng responded while observing the situation in the court.

The second prince, Yuxin, sat proudly at the prince's seat, but the ministers below did not question it. You can see the direction of the wind in the middle of the day.

"I heard that when Brother Wang was stuffed with songs, he seemed to have married a girl. What's it called? Ji Lianmei, the eldest princess of Liu Guo, right? Brother Wang has reached the age of starting a family, but marriage has always been the order of his parents, not to mention that you are the prince and married privately, I am afraid that you are suspected of deceiving the king, right? "Childe Yuxin is raging and vain.

"Brother Wang laughed, Princess Liu Guo has already married me as a concubine, and everyone in the five countries knows about this matter. How can you get married privately and deceive the king? And the princess left the king's camp yesterday and disappeared. Having said that, Brother Wang really cares about this king, but a small thing that happened in the border area, Brother Wang, also understands it clearly. ”

"Brother Wang has been weak since he was a child, and Brother Wang is only concerned about Brother Wang's health, so he will send someone to visit Brother Wang."

"Oh? If it's a visit, why do you have to sneak behind the tent every time and just come in? ”

Both of them mean something.

"Okay, it's rare for Cheng'er to come back, don't talk about it between you two brothers, it's naturally a good thing that you care about your brother Wang, but you don't have to be so shy, just ask someone secretly, next time, you have to be frank." Emperor Song said.

Ji Lianmei almost laughed out loud. Whether this emperor is really stupid or fake, even the words of the knife hidden in the smile can be heard as if this is a joke between brothers who care about each other.

"Cheng'er, since you have returned to our dynasty, then, the Hanlin Academy will still be supervised by you, and after a while, let's go to Xin'er to do the handover." After Emperor Song explained the matter, he was surrounded by beauties and walked off the throne, and the court meeting was dispersed.

Many princes and ministers came over to Bai Yucheng to congratulate him on his return. Although their hearts are more towards Gongzi Yuxin, Bai Yucheng still doesn't know the depth, so the grass on the wall still has to be a pawn.

Eventually, the ministers dispersed. Gongzi Yuxin slowly paced down from his seat, bowed to Bai Yucheng, and said, "Congratulations to Brother Wang, taking over the Hanlin Academy." Father can hand it over to you, I guess I am very satisfied with Brother Wang's ability. ”

"Taking over the Hanlin Academy is something that all princes have always had to do, and it is not as surprising as Brother Wang said." Bai Yucheng smiled slightly and replied calmly.

"Oh? That's really gratifying. Brother Wang, this girl next to you...... It looks familiar. Gongzi Yuxin saw Ji Lianmei standing beside her, and felt a little familiar, and couldn't help but stretch out a hand, as if to caress her face.

Bai Yucheng stopped Gongzi Yuxin's hand, and protected Ji Lianmei behind him, and said to him: "This is one of my servants, what's the matter, I thought that Brother Wang only cared about the body of this king, when did Brother Wang also be interested in this king's servant." ”

"Brother Wang likes something, Brother Wang naturally doesn't dare to touch it. The court meeting has also retired, and Brother Wang has also resigned first. Gongzi Yuxin glanced at Ji Lianmei meaningfully, and walked away.

"I was scared to death, I thought there was a flaw." Ji Lianmei covered her heart and took a deep breath.

"Don't worry, this skin is the best one I've ever made, as long as it doesn't get wet, it will never be discovered." Bai Yucheng patted her on the shoulder, signaling her to feel at ease, but the way he looked at her was as if he was looking at another person through this skin.

It's this look again.....

The princes of the Three Kingdoms period were generally crowned kings when they became adults, and the queens not only had to move out of the palace, but most of them also had to go to their own fiefdoms, and even the capital could not be found.

moved out of the palace because they were afraid that they would have an affair with the emperor's concubines, and rushed to the fiefdom to prevent them from staying in the capital to fight for power and distract their forces.

The Song Emperor of the current dynasty was weak and afraid of things, and his mind was focused on beauties and resolving the personal grievances of Xiang Hua's two clans, and some princes who had already been crowned kings also lived in the capital unscrupulously. Some of them are for the sake of making small calculations behind their backs, and some of them are because the conditions of the fiefdom are not as good as those of the capital, so they rely on the capital to gnaw at the old.

Bai Yucheng's Prince's Mansion is set up in Fengyin Lane, not far from the palace.

The decoration here is similar to the style of the Chengwang Mansion in the Wu Kingdom. All the pigment is white, and the green bamboo is hidden. Qingquan faction, open the ditch only a few feet, pour into the wall, go around the edge of the stairs to the front yard, hover under the bamboo and come out, quite a bit of the artistic conception of the meandering water.

Bai Yucheng was not in a hurry, and walked through the long corridor with Ji Lianmei.

The mask made of human skin was against the skin of her face, and it was not very comfortable, and Ji Lianmei reached out to tear it off.

Bai Yucheng grabbed her hand and said, "This person has a lot of eyes, and I'll take it down when I go back to the house." ”

"Oh......" Ji Lianmei whispered.

This face is indeed good-looking, neither the country and the city, graceful and luxurious, nor the fresh and beautiful feeling of the small jasper, the facial features give people a feeling of extreme comfort, like a girl growing in the forest, natural, quiet, sweet.