Many years ago, there were countless small countries on all sides, wars broke out frequently, and the people suffered unspeakably. In the end, there are three people, the power is balanced, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser. In order to seek stability, the three parties negotiated peace, and made a covenant not to provoke war, and each country was established and crowned king, divided into southeast, northwest, and northeast. The southeast is called Shaochong, the northwest is called Shuping, and the northeast is called Kunyi.

However, a few years later, the northwest continued to invade the southeast, and the northeast also joined in. King Shao Chong has been diligent in political affairs for many years, and the national strength is strong, and his power has long surpassed the northwest, so he captured a total of seven cities in the northwest and northeast to show warning, and the countries returned to peace.

In the palace of the king of Shuhei, the second son Tanazuo was dressed in tattered clothes, his face was full of dust, and his hair was unkempt. He stood outside the door, reluctantly looking at the Changlin Hall where he had lived for eight years, and finally left.

"Father." Gu Mingzuo came to the Jiulu Hall, the dormitory of Gu Di, the king of Shuping, and finally met his father again.

"Good boy." Gu Di got up and walked to Gu Mingzuo and helped him up, "This trip must be extremely careful, and don't reveal your identity." Remember, your name is Fu Yao, born on March 12, now eight years old, the second oldest of the five brothers, a native of Shaochonglaizhou. The family was poor, and your father took you to the capital of Shaochong and gave it up, because he didn't want to trouble his parents anymore, so he stayed in the capital and lived by begging. ”

"Yes, Fu Yao understands."

"Later, this king will send Feng Chu to send you to Shao Chong, and you will stay by Sheng Lianshuo's side, and Feng Chu will contact you when the time is ripe."

"Yes, the child will live up to his father's trust, and his father will take care of him." After that, Gu Mingzuo, who should be called Fu Yao now, bowed to Gu Di.

Gu Di nodded and asked Feng Chu to take Fu Yao out of the dormitory and go to Shao Chong.

This is a covert operation, and the fewer people who know, the safer it is. The second son of Shuping has already claimed to be ill for more than a month, and he has never been out of the room. So Gu Di let them set off early in the morning.

Gu Qi, the third son, knew the truth, and when he got up, he went to his second brother to relieve his boredom. But Gu Qi opened the door and walked in, only to find that it was not his second brother lying on the bed, but a stand-in. Gu Qi was just about to turn around and leave to ask his father for clarification, when he heard a sound of footsteps.

"Ze'er, in the future, you should not enter your second brother's room to disturb his rest." Gu Di closed the door after speaking.

"Father, when the second brother leaves, you don't send someone to tell Ze'er." Gu Qi tugged on Gu Di's sleeve and said complainingly.

"For the sake of your second brother and the safety of Shuping, this matter should not make too much noise, understand?" Gu Di held Gu Qize's hand, as if comforting him.

"I see." Gu Qi nodded, but he still had a question, "Why didn't my father let Ze'er go with him to assist the second brother?"

"Good boy, your second brother is already old, but you are still young, and it is too dangerous to go to Shaochong." After speaking, Gu Di pushed Gu Qi Ze and signaled that it was time for him to leave, "Hurry up and review your homework, don't think about it." ”

Gu Qi didn't seem to understand, he wanted to ask something, but he knew that his father would not answer him anymore, so he left the place with interest.

Gu Di looked at the closed door, sighed, and left.

After a few days of traveling, Feng Chu, who was pretending to be a businessman, had already passed through large and small checkpoints to the gate of Shaochong Capital, waiting for the last inspection.

Fu Yao hid in a bamboo basket of fruit on the carriage at this time, and the waiting time was extremely long, and his heart panicked.

Finally, it was their turn.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about, this is not a special period, and the soldiers at the city gate are just routine inspections, and they are not too strict. They just casually looked at a few baskets outside, and then let Feng Chu enter the city.

After entering the city, Feng Chu came to a shop that had been contacted in advance, transported the basket into a place where there was no one in the backyard, looked around for another week, and only let Fu Yao come out after confirming it.

Fu Yao was sweating profusely at this time, and the clothes on his body became more torn, and he seemed to be more like a beggar.

"In order to be more like, I can only beg the prince here for a few more days, and my subordinates will find time to inform you as soon as there is news."

After explaining everything, Fu Yao went out through the back door and begged on the street.

An informant in the palace once sent a secret report, saying that if Shizi Sheng Lianshuo passed his homework recently, King Shao Chong would be allowed to leave the palace for a day next month as a reward. In order not to arouse suspicion, Gu Di deliberately asked them to set off immediately and come to the capital a month in advance.

Fu Yao slept in a small alley at night, covered with a thin quilt discarded by others. During the day, I found a place to sit down and began begging. But because Fu Yao was young and had just come to the capital, he had no familiar people, so he was often bullied by those old beggars.

After Fu Yao begged here for many days, he finally waited for Feng Chu. I saw Feng Chu pretending to be a passerby, and when he passed Fu Yao, he added a note between several copper plates and put it in the bowl in front of him.

After a while, Fu Yao took out the note and took the opportunity to unfold it to check it when no one was around.

"Sheng Lianshuo is going out today."

There were only seven short words on the note, but it meant that Fu Yao was going to officially sneak into the Shaochong Palace from now on.

When Fu Yao saw it, he immediately cheered up, tried to observe the crowd, recalled the appearance of Sheng Lianshuo that Gu Di asked him to remember, and did not dare to slack off.

About an hour later, Fu Yao saw a figure in the distance, almost six years old, like Sheng Lianshuo, Fu Yao thought about it, so he would gamble.

It happened that it was lunch time, Fu Yao ran to the steamed bun stall, and deliberately grabbed two steamed buns when the person noticed him, and the stall owner naturally would not be willing to let the steamed buns be taken away, so he immediately put down the things in his hand and chased Fu Yao, shouting and scolding at the same time.

Fu Yao was running towards Sheng Lianshuo at this time, deliberately rubbing Sheng Lianshuo's shoulder, and because the force was too great, both of them were knocked down. At this time, the stall owner also chased after him, and when he caught Fu Yao, he was beaten.

"It's not good for a child to learn something, learn to steal." The stall owner shouted while fighting, and later said that he would take him to the official.

Fu Yao, who was beaten, tried his best to hold back the pain and didn't say anything, just firmly protected the bun, and there were still a few tears in the corners of his eyes.

Sheng Lianshuo saw this scene, so he hurriedly asked the guards to stop the stall owner.

After all, Sheng Lianshuo was only six years old, and as the son of Shao Chong, he couldn't see Fu Yao being bullied like this, so he took the initiative to pay for these two buns for Fu Yao.

After receiving it, the stall owner naturally left happily, leaving only Fu Yao and Sheng Lianshuo here. Fu Yao was a little flustered in his heart, he didn't know how to say it without being deliberate, and he could let Sheng Lianshuo take him. Just when Fu Yao didn't know what to do, Sheng Lianshuo opened his mouth first.

"What's your name? Why do you want to steal other people's buns?" Sheng Lianshuo wondered.

"I ...... My name is Fu Yao, I am eight years old, and I am so hungry that I ......" Fu Yao lowered his head in shame.

"What about your father, didn't they give you something to eat?" Sheng Lianshuo, who didn't know the taste of sorrow, asked such a question innocently.

"My dad doesn't want me anymore......" Fu Yao said with a slight cry. Because it was still a little painful to be beaten by the bun stall owner just now, Fu Yao was still able to squeeze out a few tears.

Sheng Lianshuo didn't expect his question to make Fu Yao so sad, and he was a little overwhelmed, so he hurriedly waved his hand and told Fu Yao not to cry.

"You don't have a home, do you, do you want to go to the palace? I just don't need a companion, so you can be a companion. ”​

Sheng Lianshuo has reached the age of studying, and Shao Chongwang Shengwen also asked people to find several companions to read, Sheng Lianshuo was not satisfied, and felt that they were respectful and respectful, and there was no meaning at all, so he wanted Fu Yao to come.

"The palace?" Fu Yao stopped crying, looked puzzled, and asked him suspiciously.

"You don't say I'm when you agree." After speaking, he wanted to go back to the palace with Fu Yao, but Sheng Lianshuo thought about it, they hadn't eaten yet, so he took the bun in Fu Yao's hand and wanted to treat him to a good meal.

"This bun is dirty, I'll take you to eat something else, let's take a walk."

Sheng Lianshuo took Fu Yao to a very good restaurant and ordered a lot of food.

Fu Yao hadn't had a good meal for more than a month, and he was gobbling it up at the moment, and he couldn't tell that he was once a pampered son.

After eating and drinking, Sheng Lianshuo couldn't wait to return to the palace, so he immediately started to hurry.