Chapter Twenty-Three: A Secret Place
Ruan Guifei, who is graceful and luxurious, can't tell that she is a woman who is nearly forty years old, but she is like a girl in her twenties. just looked at Xu Yanzhuo lying on the bed, and did not comfort the injury, or anything else. Instead, he sternly reprimanded, "Why are you so negligent and reckless? Guards don't have any secret guards, do you know how many pairs of eyes are staring behind you? Your uncle has long said that the crown prince is not so simple, he still has the queen Xia family. ”
Xu Yanzhuo had no choice but to listen even if he was impatient. It's the family again, the royal family, and it's never been me.
After the concubine left, Xu Yan Zhuo asked the servant to help him to the room where Qi Wen was recuperating.
Qi Wenxiu was injured on his back and couldn't lie down. Now he is wearing a pure white undershirt, his hair is scattered, lying on the bed, and he is playing with the Nine Rings in his hands. Suddenly he looks much younger and more childish.
It's not like a handsome scholar dressed up as a scholar on weekdays, and it's not like the strong and resolute person who fought against ten yesterday. How many faces does he have, and how much of him is there that he doesn't see?
I can't help but be attracted and want to know more, like now, even if I'm injured, I want to come and take a look and see what he's doing?
"The prince is here." Qi Wenxiu saw the person who was standing in front of the door supported by the servant and looked at him, and said, "Why did you go to the ground?" ”
Xu Yanzhuo asked the servant to put the chair in front of the bed, helped himself to sit down on the chair, and asked, "Can I still go to heaven if I don't go to the ground?" ”
"The prince laughed." Qi Wenxiu put aside the Nine Rings in his hand, "Is there something wrong with the prince?" ”
Xu Yanzhuo picked up the nine links that were put aside, and when he saw it, it had been unraveled. Then he shook it away again, and played with it in his hands. "The concubine came just now.
"Came to see your injuries?" Qi Wenxiu chatted casually.
"If so, it's fine." Xu Yanzhuo played with the nine links in his hand, "Unfortunately not, my mother is the most loyal puppet of the family." ”
Qi Wenxiu looked at the prince who bowed his head, and actually said such childish words, he was not talking about his mother, but his mother, and even resentment in his tone. It can be seen that he loves and hates this concubine. "When you are strong enough to control the family, the imperial concubine will no longer have to be controlled by others."
"How easy is it to say?" Xu Yanzhuo looked up at Qi Wenxiu, hoping that he could help him. "Several elders, as well as the two major departments, are all in a loop."
Qi Wenxiu met Xu Yanzhuo's trusting eyes and said slowly, "The prince is going to start cultivating his own strength. ”
"How can you not be discovered." Xu Yanzhuo had thought about this question a long time ago, but he was like a chess piece on the chessboard, which was clear at a glance.
Qi Wenxiu changed his posture and lay on his stomach, "In the past, the prince was alone, but now the prince has me and the entire Dulomon." ”
Qi Wenxiu looked at the person lying on the bed like a turtle, and said such bold words that everyone couldn't ask for, the contrast was very great, but it was very heartfelt. Isn't it because of himself that he's lying on the bed like this now?
He lay on the bed because of himself.
Thinking of this, the gorgeous eyebrows and eyes were unconsciously dyed peach-colored, but he pretended to be calm and asked, "What should the king do?" ”
"The prince needs to have his own elite army, and he also needs to cultivate his own Ruan clan people, slowly steal the beams and change the pillars, erode the three major elders, the two major departments, and finally become the Ruan clan of the prince."
"The elite army, stealing beams and changing pillars, and constantly arranging their own people into the Nguyen clan?" Xu Yanzhuo understands that these things are easy to say, but it is difficult to implement them. It's hard to just raise an army without being discovered.
Qi Wenxiu naturally understood his thoughts, and said, "This world is so big, somewhere isolated from the world, in a remote mountain and valley, farmers hoe and plough, who cares." As for money and materials, the prince only needs to prepare them, and the grass people can help the prince implement them one by one. ”
Indeed, after all, Solomon will be convenient in the rivers and lakes. Xu Yanzhuo suddenly felt that there was nothing in this world that could not be difficult for him, with him, the things that he couldn't meditate and had no way in the past would become simple, "Then this matter will bother Wen Xiu?" ”
Qi Wenxiu didn't react, someone actually called his name directly, but looking at the prince with a look of intimacy, it was difficult to say anything, "It is the duty of the grass people to share the worries of the prince." ”
"Don't be a prince." Xu Yanzhuo waved his hand, "In the future, if you call me Yan Zhuo, I will call you Qi Xiu." ”
"It's not polite." Qi Wenxiu was about to get up.
Xu Yanzhuo pressed Qi Wenxiu's hand, who was about to get up, and said, "Between you and me, this fateful friendship, what kind of etiquette do you talk about." Moreover, this king has never been a man of propriety. ”
In the palace of Tai'an, Xu Sheng received news from the spies.
In order to gain the trust of the second emperor brother, this Qi Wenxiu was really open-minded.
Burned the news casually, went out and saw the young man practicing swords there, and beckoned, "Come here, I'll take you out to play today." ”
Si Koulin took the peachwood sword, followed Xu Sheng to the stable, and led the horse out. After this time, Si Koulin has learned to ride a horse, and he has a little red horse that is very exclusive to him.
"Where to go?" Si Koulin asked, he usually followed Xu Sheng to ride horses in the suburbs of the capital.
"Take you to a nice place today. Let's go hunting in the mountains, too. Xu Sheng replied, there is something that must be confirmed.
"Hunting?" Si Kolin's influence on hunting was still in the time of Si Kolin, when a large group of people took curved bows and hunted in the mountains and forests. But it's just two people.
"You've been stuck at home, aren't you bored?" Xu Sheng rode in front and led the way in front. Ride not fast or slow, so that Si Koulin can follow.
This time I went to a place a little far, not out of the capital yet, but in the outskirts of the capital.
The two of them listened at the foot of a mountain, and Xu Sheng looked at this hunting place on his horse, which was not comparable to the Stygian Mountain. This is a place where all the officials and nobles in the capital can come here to hunt.
"We're hunting here today." Xu Sheng explained to Si Koulin, "There will be all kinds of animals inside, if you like it, we can bring some back." ”
"Huh?" Si Koulin was puzzled, "They are not fruits, how can they be said to take them away?" ”
"That's fine." Xu Sheng whipped his horse and rode in front, "Don't forget that we are here to hunt today." ”
It's better to see if the boy is really psychic.
Si Koulin drove his horse and followed behind Xu Sheng.
Halfway up the mountain, Xu Sheng suddenly stopped, bent his bow, and aimed at a jungle.
Si Koulin followed behind Xu Sheng, and also stopped, looking curiously at what Xu Sheng was doing? I followed his gaze and saw a deer.
In an instant, Si Koulin saw the eyes of the deer, and clearly felt that the deer felt the danger, and it was all fear and fear.
Xu Sheng was about to open the bow, but suddenly heard the voice of the young man behind him stopping, "Don't kill him." Xu Sheng glanced back at the young man.
Si Koulin drove his horse to Xu Sheng's side, "Can you not kill him?" ”
Xu Sheng put down his bow and arrows, and was about to ask Si Koulin for the reason, but saw that the deer that was hiding in the jungle actually jumped in front of the young man, as if he was not afraid of him at all.
The child on the horse, smiling like an elf, tentatively reached out and touched the horns on the deer's head. After touching it, he quickly withdrew his hand, turned his head sideways and smiled at Xu Sheng, a little embarrassed, and a little cute.
The deer made a few jumps into the jungle and disappeared.
Si Koulin couldn't find a reason to explain what he had just done.
It was Xu Sheng who spoke first, "It's interesting, isn't it?" ”
"Huh?" Si Koulin thought that he would definitely ask himself something, and if he did, he would tell him.
"The last time you were drunk, I knew it." Xu Sheng said slowly.
"You got it? Don't you think I'm weird? Si Koulin's face was incredulous, although he had guessed that he might already know, but he didn't seem to be alienated from himself during this time.
Xu Sheng took a step closer to him on his horse, staring at Si Koulin with a pair of golden eyes, "Do you think I'm strange?" ”
"No, it's not strange." Si Koulin was stared at by his eyes, didn't dare to look at him, and replied with a little stammer.
"That's not it." Xu Sheng's eyes were still staring at him tightly, "It's no wonder or not, only we have the final say." ”
"Okay." Si Koulin looked away, avoiding his gaze, and there was a slight flush on his snow-white skin.
"Let's go, then." Xu Sheng took Si Koulin to gallop around the mountain. Nothing strange happened to the teenager during this period. Xu Sheng took the initiative to ask, "What do you see on this mountain?" ”
"What do you see?" Si Koulin asked puzzledly, isn't it the same as what you see?
"It's fine, it's just boring." Xu Sheng got off the horse and prepared to walk slowly for a while.
Si Koulin also got off the horse, thinking about whether he should say it or not. Holding the reins of the horse, he walked next to Xu Sheng, glanced at him, and said hesitantly, "Actually, I know that there is a place where they all like to go there." ”
"Who?"
"It's the animals here." Si Koulin explained, and said like a child sharing a little secret, "Do you want to go?" “
Xu Sheng stopped, looked at Si Koulin and said, "Okay." ”
The two tied their horses together, and Si Koulin led the way in front. The road I started walking was good, it was all a place with some tracks, and I slowly walked into the deep mountains, full of thorns and grass, and there was no road.
Xu Sheng had no choice but to open the way in front, holding a sword in one hand and opening the jungle alone in front, holding the reckless child in the other.
I walked for a long time, but no one said to stop.
Xu Sheng wanted to see the strange place that the child said, and even this time he came not without purpose, one was to confirm his psychic nature, and the other was that there was a secret place here.
The dignitaries and nobles hunted here every year, but no one had ever seen that place, and over time, it became a legend.
However, the carpenter Weng once told him that this Qiushen Mountain does have a secret place called the Eyefish Pond.
Si Koulin didn't say to stop, because he wanted to take Xu Sheng to see the secret that only he might know.
It's like a child who can't wait to bring his favorite and closest people to share his secrets.
After walking for a long time, Xu Sheng felt that the hand he was holding suddenly struggled. The child next to him also stopped.
Xu Sheng stopped and glanced at the child inquiringly.
"Here we are." Si Koulin looked up into Xu Sheng's eyes, and for the first time he strongly felt a place, as if he originally belonged here.