The military camp on the side of the Luoyang Army is temporarily encamped outside Yueqi City, which may be because it has just entered spring, and the ground around is full of dead wood, and occasionally patrolling soldiers will walk around, and they will step on a squeak.

The quietest place for the bonfire is their boss's tent, and now Xiao Ce, Xiao Anze and Lu Changfeng are all in the tent.

Li Hanning originally thought that Xiao Ce knew about Xiao Anze, but when he returned to the barracks, he found that Xiao Ce also knew about his younger brother.

When he arrived in the private tent, Xiao Ce sat on the main seat, and Xiao An stood aside, glanced at him and asked:

"When the hell did you come down the mountain?"

Xiao An said that for this second brother, who had not met a few times since he was a child, although there were many disrespectful things in his words, but what Xiao Ce asked, he still answered honestly, and Xiao An responded truthfully:

"Just a few days ago, when you just went back to Luoyang privately."

Hearing this, Xiao Ce glanced at Lu Changfeng and Ning Yu who were standing below, so they also knew, but they didn't tell him about the boss.

Lu Changfeng and Ning Yu, who were swept by his eyes, knew that they couldn't defend themselves, and lowered their heads a little awkwardly the moment Xiao Ce looked at it.

Xiao Ce immediately understood, and blamed: "Okay, you all one by one-" dared to hide it from him.

Xiao An saw that his second brother was angry, and hurriedly stood up and played a round:

"Second brother, don't blame them, I didn't let them say it, the news in the military camp is blocked, and it's normal that the news can't reach you, not to mention that even the father and the queen don't know about your return to Luoyang this time, so naturally the fewer people know, the better."

Xiao Ce immediately realized something, looked at the person in front of him and asked:

"Do the father and queen mother know about your descent from the mountain?"

Xiao An nodded quietly and said, "I know, I have already repaired a letter to Luoyang a few days ago. ”

Xiao Ce frowned as if he had thought of something:

"But I obviously heard the queen mother say in the past, that your master said that before your eighteenth birthday, you must not go down the mountain, otherwise-"

Otherwise, you will not die well.

Xiao An hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Second brother, have you forgotten, a few days ago was my birthday." ”

Xiao Ce was stunned when he heard this, according to the customs of Luoyang, how can there be a reason for an adult man to celebrate his birthday?

Xiao Ce hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said, "You-"

Xiao An took another step forward and explained to his second brother with a serious expression: "I know that the father, the queen mother, and the second brother care about me, but the second brother, don't worry, how can I go down the mountain without my master's permission, and when I was on the mountain, the queen mother often wrote to me about your mountain, the second brother has been so brave and good at fighting in the past few years, and the soldiers and horses of Luoyang are about to hit Chang'an this time, if I don't watch it with my own eyes, what a pity, so this time it is also my own idea to go down the mountain." ”

He has already said this, not to mention that his appearance here does mean that his master allowed him to go down the mountain, otherwise with his and his master's martial arts, he would not be able to go down the mountain, Xiao Ce just blamed a few more words, of course, he was reluctant to see this brother who had not seen him for many years, speaking of which, they were still half-grown children when they last met, and now Xiao Ce was already a handsome boy when he saw him again, and time passed so fast.

While they were talking in the tent, a soldier-like man lifted the curtain of the tent and walked in: "If you go back to His Royal Highness King Rui, those assassins have already finished interrogating, this is a confession, I don't know if His Highness wants to see them one by one?" ”

King Rui walked over, lightly flipped through the confession without a trace, and then handed it to Xiao Ce, Xiao Ce also opened the confession and took a look, Sure enough, everything was as expected, these assassins began to follow behind them from the time they left Luoyang, and there were only a handful of people in Luoyang City who wanted to kill Li Hanning.

Xiao An was silent for a moment on the side, and said:

"But I think, but these confessions are not enough for the father and mother to deal with the eldest brother, let's put this matter aside first, wait until there is more evidence accumulated, and wait until the father and mother have to deal with it."

to have an effect.

Xiao Ce is naturally like a mirror in this matter, if this confession returns to Luoyang now, Xiao Sheng's side will also find a replacement for the dead ghost, which is not painful for him at all.

Li Hanning naturally felt that this matter didn't matter, those assassins' martial arts were commonplace, even if they really fought in the inn, they would not fall behind.

Xiao Ce said in a deep voice: "Then as you said, just deal with it." ”

Seeing that outside the tent, it was getting late, Xiao Ce had just rushed all the way from Luoyang City, and he hadn't rested yet, and several generals had finished discussing the most important things, and were ready to leave the next things for tomorrow to discuss, even Xiao An also saluted and went back to where he lived.

Xiao Ce sat alone on the main case, and looked at the confession they had just taken by the light of the candle flame.

Li Hanning stood aside and added a candle, and the light seemed to be brighter between the flickering of the fire.

Xiao Ce noticed that he had been watching for a long time, Li Hanning stood aside and waited for him for a long time, he glanced sideways at the person next to him and said:

"Tomorrow and tomorrow's things, you should rest early."

They have not been in the barracks for the past few days, and the things in the barracks are all handled by Xiao Anze, Xiao Anze also just returned to the barracks not long ago, and he doesn't know the relationship between his second brother and this General Li, so he prepared a place to live alone, and this time they came back, Li Hanning's camp tent was next to Xiao Ce, the commander's camp.

But Li Hanning didn't leave, she could see that Xiao Ce had something on her mind, obviously she was fine after coming back from Luoyang, if she didn't guess wrong, Xiao Ce and her heart were related to him, the third brother who suddenly appeared.

Li Hanning looked at Xiao Ce, who had lost his mind in front of him for half an hour in front of him:

"If Your Highness can't sleep because of something in your heart, I see that it's just right outside, do you want to go out for a walk?"

Xiao Ce was stunned when he heard this, but he put down the paper in his hand, maybe it's not bad to go out and relax.

"It's fine."

"I've seen His Royal Highness King Ming."

"King Ming."

When they went out for a walk, the patrolling soldiers who passed by saluted one by one.

Everything in the barracks was still the same as before, no matter how long they were gone.

Along the way, Li Hanning didn't ask, until Xiao Ce himself sighed deeply:

"In fact, I have never mentioned it to you, my younger brother, I and the Xiao family have always owed him a lot, the year the queen mother gave birth to him, the Xiao family was still serving the imperial court, at that time the father was not Luoyang Taishou, the father and several other ministers in the court attacked several cities in the south, the queen mother was in danger when she was about to give birth to him, and he had to hide in the snow mountains in the winter, so he was born with a cold breath, and he looked for a lot of doctors at that time, saying that he could not live the full moon."

When Li Hanning was still in Chang'an in the past, he had actually heard many things about the Xiao family, but the most famous was Xiao Ce, the king of Ming, followed by his elder brother, who had always said that Xiao Mansion had three sons and one daughter, and even Zhaoyue She had seen it a long time ago, and it was true that she had never heard them talk about Xiao Anze, and it was as if she had been forgotten by Xiao Mansion and the people in the past.

Xiao Ce paused and said: "Later, my mother ignored her body on the snowy mountain, begged God to ask the Buddha, and finally asked a hidden celebrity by chance, maybe his poor mother could do this for her newborn son, so she agreed to accept him as an apprentice, but at that time she said that he was not allowed to go down the mountain until he became an adult." ”

Li Hanning hesitated for a moment and then asked:

"Why?"

Isn't it worrying -

Xiao Ce stopped, stood in place, looked at Li Hanning and said:

"Because he was born a month or two earlier than ordinary people, his body is weak and he needs to use the medicine unique to the snowy mountain, although he also said this time that he has enough medicine for the next year, but if it happens-"

For Xiao Anze, he has never stayed on that mountain for safety, and now if something really happens, they have no way to find the nameless snow mountain in a very short period of time to find his master and treat him.

Li Hanning thought about it for a while, in fact, on the way back to Tianwei City, they didn't have any contact with the Luoyang Military Barracks at all, but Xiao An still calculated that they would rush to the inn tonight and lead the troops to rescue them in time.

He also knew that the less people knew about Xiao Ce's return to Luoyang this time, the better, in fact, his younger brother looked farther away, much smarter than his brother imagined, maybe there was some other reason for going down the mountain, in short, she could also see that Xiao Ce's younger brother was thinking about Xiao Ce everywhere, unlike the relationship between him and Xiao Sheng.

Li Hanning thought for a while, when Xiao An was looking through the confession in the camp tent, and said in a deep voice: "Although I am just an outsider, I can also see that he wants to go down the mountain this time, and he really wants to help you." ”

If it weren't for this reason, Xiao An wouldn't have been, and he personally led the troops to the inn so late today, and he could have sent Lu Changfeng or Ning Yu to go instead of him, and he was really worried about Xiao Ce's comfort.

Xiao Ce nodded: "I naturally know this, but he has lived in the mountain for so many years since he was a child and has never come down the mountain, he doesn't know that the people under the mountain are sinister, and he doesn't know that the battlefield is not anywhere else, if he can, I hope he will always be under the mountain, and when we take Chang'an and wait until the world is peaceful, he will be his Rui King in the mountain." ”

In the end, this is how older brothers and sisters look at younger siblings, in their eyes, younger siblings will always be the same child, who follows them and even sometimes needs their own protection.

But Xiao Ce may have forgotten one thing, but his most beloved brother Xiao An is now grown up and can be his right-hand man.