Zhu Gaoxian walked on the city wall of Wuding Prefecture, the remnant sun was like blood, staining the West Mountain and lonely, and every time he took a step, the red gold scale armor on his body would collide and make a clanging sound.

He suddenly stopped and said to Su Wen behind him: "You go down, restore order in Wuding Prefecture, reorganize the captured rebel soldiers, and transfer a guard post to patrol the city in three shifts for twelve hours, day and night." ”

"No." Su Wen bowed and retired.

After the people retreated, Zhu Gaoxian continued to walk along the ruined city wall, and finally on the masonry of the city wall, there was a drunk Mr. cloth cloth, who could smell the rich smell of wine on the other party from afar.

The city is full of corpses and bones, and the city sings about wine.

Zhu Gaoxian met with this person, in the mansion of Li Xuan, the former imperial capital of the Imperial Palace, this person was Su Qing, a staff member of the Han Palace, and Su Qing was bribing Li Xuan at that time.

It was precisely because of Li Xuan's incident that Zhu Gaoxian decided to completely eradicate the Han Wang Party.

Now goodbye, Su Qing has completely lost the gloom of a strategist, and has the chic posture of Li Taibai, who is fishing for the moon in the water.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Su Qing sat up slowly, seeing this fluttering demeanor, he didn't seem to be worried about rolling down from the city out of tune.

The city wall of Wuding Prefecture is about ten zhang high, and if you throw it down from here, you will definitely break your head and bleed.

Su Qing waved his hand to greet: "Ah, Lord Qi, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you still have such an extraordinary bearing." ”

Zhu Gaoxian took a step forward and said, "Listen to the accent, are you from Beiping?" ”

Su Qing smiled: "Yes, you are a fellow countryman with Prince Qi, but I left my hometown at the age of seventeen." ”

Zhu Gaoxian was born in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, and grew up in the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping since he was a child.

King Qi was not in a hurry, sat on the city wall, and chatted with Su Qing: "Why did you leave your hometown?" ”

Su Qing seemed to be still a little drunk and not yet sober, and tried to recall: "When I was seventeen years old, I followed King Yan, well, that is, the current His Majesty to participate in the Battle of Jingjing. ”

This made Zhu Gaoxian a little surprised: "You have also participated in the Jingjing?" ”

Su Qing said: "I was the official of the left guard of Yanshan under General Zhang Yu, and I participated in the battle of the Nine Gates of Beiping, the battle of Jizhou, and the battle of Zunyi...... Well, Lord Qi, you should have heard of this, right? ”

Zhu Gaoxian sighed: "This is all a tough battle in the early days of Jingjing, your resume, after the war, you have to be a Dusi Tongzhi from the second grade, how did you vote for the Han Dynasty as a cloth cloth?" ”

"Lord Qi has said it all here, why can't you guess my identity?"

Su Qing generously admitted, "During the Jingjing, after the battle of Beiping, I was incorporated into an army that was not compiled and not recorded in the archives because of my bravery, on the bright side, my name was already a soldier who died in battle, and the court sent the pension to my home, and since then I have become a shadow guard who will never see the light, until the second year of Yongle, I was placed in the side of the King of Han, until today." ”

Speaking of this, Su Qing looked behind Zhu Gaoxian: "Xiao Qi, you and I used to be comrades-in-arms who fought side by side, and it is rare to see you today, why not come out and talk about it?" ”

In the shadow behind Zhu Gaoxian, Ah Qi slowly walked out wearing an iron demon mask.

Under the residual sun, Ah Qi stood in the shadows, while Su Qing sat calmly under the sunset.

Su Qing said softly: "You are standing in the shadows, but you are living in the sun. I stood in the light, but I lived as a shadow. ”

He really envied Ah Qi, who could live freely like this.

Shadow attendants, a mysterious word, they will always live in the shadows, is the emperor's killer weapon. In the past ten years, Su Qing seems to have lived a brisky life, but he has always been burdened with heavy sins.

On the other hand, Ah Qi, thanks to King Qi, pulled out of the quagmire of the shadow servant, and with King Qi, Ah Qi can live freely.

"You've violated the rules of the Shadow Servant."

Ah Qi faced his former colleague and said in a cold voice, "You just leaked your past experience, according to the rules, I should take you back to Beijing with your head." ”

The reason why few people know about the existence of the shadow attendants is because the secrecy is strict enough, and everyone is like a mute, with no past, no real name, only code names and tasks, and the power of life and death given to them by the emperor.

"So what?"

Su Qing didn't care, he threw the empty wine jug in his hand down the city wall, and out of nowhere he found a new wine jug, and said lightly, "After drinking this last pot of wine, I should go on my way." ”

Ah Qi was stunned for a moment, frowned under the mask, and did not speak.

Su Qing has lived in the shadows for too long, he is full of disgust for his dirty life, and now that he has finished the emperor's errand, he just wants to give himself a relief to end this black life.

"If there is anything else I want to ask, just take it as my last words before I die, as long as I know, I can answer you." Su Qing took a sip of the wine jug and licked the corners of his mouth, "But you'd better hurry, because I only have time left for this pot of wine." ”

Zhu Gaoxian paused for a moment and asked, "How is King Han now?" ”

Su Qing said leisurely: "Shenyang Zhongtunwei and Datong Zhongtunwei set off from Hejian Mansion at the same time and arrived in the west of Wuding Prefecture. ”

He asked rhetorically: "I have a question I don't understand, with your wisdom, it is not difficult to guess that Su Wen, a young general, is still too young and immature compared to the King of Han, if you are in charge of Wuding Prefecture, you can kill the King of Han here, without my action, in this case, why do you still choose to let Su Wen guard the King of Han?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian thought for a while and said, "What do you think, how is Su Wen?" ”

Su Qing said: "There is courage and strategy, if it is carved, it can be the general of the country in the future, but courage is greater than strategy." ”

"So, Su Wensheng has a heavy responsibility, what he lacks is just an opportunity to go up, this king asked him to guard the King of Han, it is to give him a step, the higher he stands, the farther his vision will naturally be."

Zhu Gaoxian said lightly, "Besides, even if Su Wen will make mistakes because of his youth, there is still this king to give him a cover, and I, who is the prince, must cover the people under my hands." ”

Su Qing was interested: "When it comes to this, what else are you hiding?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian said lightly: "It's nothing, I just transferred the two guards stationed in Shanghe to the north of Yangxin and Dawan, and occupied the nodes of various roads in Wuding Prefecture." ”

Su Qing was stunned for a moment, and then laughed heartily: "I see, I see, you have long been guarding against the hand of King Han, so that even if I have not transferred Shenyang Zhongtun Wei and Datong Zhongtun Wei, you can still catch King Han, okay." ”

His mood was cloudy and clear, and the guilt in Su Qing's heart disappeared a lot when he thought that even without his betrayal, King Han would not be able to escape.

The friendship of the lord and the minister for twelve years is still a rock stuck in Su Qing's heart after all, and now King Qi's words will shatter this rock.

"Thank you, thank you for taking such a knot for me."

Su Qing breathed a long sigh of relief, "In this way, I can also go." ”

He lifted the wine jug and drank it all, the wine tasted mellow in his throat, and Su Qing suddenly said, "By the way, there is one more thing I should tell you." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxian raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter?" ”

The corners of Su Qing's mouth rose: "I heard that Prince Qi has not taken a concubine yet?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian was a little confused: "Yes, does this have anything to do with what you want to say?" ”

"Of course it matters......"

Su Qing looked at Ah Qi, and the corners of his mouth rose, "Do you know, my old friend Ah Qi ......"

Before he could speak, Ah Qi already knew what this guy wanted to say, and interrupted in an unkind tone: "I advised you to go through your own brain before you spoke." ”

Zhu Gaoxian looked at Ah Qi suspiciously, he could obviously feel that something was wrong with Ah Qi, but he couldn't say it.

What is this Ah Qi hiding from him?

Su Qing shook his head, got up and stood to look, only to feel that the sunset was so poignant, and gently closed his eyes.

He leaped and fell from the city wall nearly ten feet.

For him, this should be considered a relief.

Zhu Gaoxian was silent for a while, and sighed: "Bury him." ”

……

This rebellion set off by the King of Han lasted less than a month from the announcement of the King of Han to the capture of the King of Han and the bulldozing of the rebels in Wuding Prefecture.

Zhu Gaoxian took his army and returned to Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong.

In front of his residence, several guests were already waiting.

One is the commander of the Shenyang Zhongtun Guard, and the other is the commander of the Datong Zhongtun Guard.

"Lord Qi, King Han has been tied up by us, just waiting for you in the house, if there is nothing to do, we will go back first?"

The commander of the Shenyang Zhongtun Guard scratched his head and said, "I hope the prince will understand, our two guards are both Tun Guards, and we can't leave Hejian Mansion for a long time, this time the troops have made an exception, and now we have to rush back immediately." ”

Zhu Gaoxian said: "It's hard work. ”

"It's nothing, it's also our honor to be able to do things for the prince. Then we won't bother and take our leave. ”

"Walk slowly."

When Zhu Gaoxian walked into the house, he saw that King Han was tied to a chair, his face was as black as coal, and his face became more and more gloomy when he saw Queen Qi.

"Hey, second brother, since you were a fan, this is the first time our brothers have met, I never thought that it was such a scene, it is really embarrassing." Zhu Gaoxian sighed.

King Han took a sip and said disdainfully: "Grandma! ”

Zhu Gaoxian smiled: "My grandma is also your grandma." ”

He and King Han are both from Beiping, and "grandma" is a dialect of Beiping, which is not a curse word, but probably has two meanings. One means "no way" and the other means "stop".

Obviously, what King Han wants to express now is the second meaning.

"You won, boy, I can't fight you, no wonder the boss lost in your hands, I didn't lose unjustly."

King Han said coldly, "If you want to kill or chop, let you dispose of it, if you still remember that I am your second brother, for the sake of the face of the Zhu family, don't embarrass my wife and children." ”

"Second brother, don't talk too early."

Zhu Gaoxian said, "I won't kill you, and the old man won't kill you, you won't understand this truth." Since you understand these truths, there is no need to be stubborn, I will take you back to Jinling City, you kowtow to the old man and admit your mistake, and this matter will pass. ”

"And then?" King Han sneered, "Then let me curl up in Jinling City for the rest of my life, my whole family is under house arrest, I can't even get out of the gate, and I live like a dog?" I'd rather die than live on my knees for half my life! ”

Zhu Gaoxian sighed and said: "Second brother is hard-mouthed again, if you are really not afraid of death, then you will not run away, and dying in Wuding Prefecture can be regarded as a round of your Han prince's wisdom, at least you died on the battlefield." However, you ran away, which means that you are still afraid of death, second brother. ”

King Han was furious: "Fart! When Lao Tzu killed the enemy on the battlefield and became famous, you were still fucking unarming me, Lao Tzu's life was picked up after nine deaths, you said I was afraid of death, if I Zhu Gaoxu was afraid of death, I would not have followed Lao Tzu to rebel back then! ”

"Yes, you became a famous general at the age of twenty."

Zhu Gaoxian said calmly, "At that time, every time you came back from a battle, you would be covered in scars, and I was waiting for you in the camp to return triumphantly, remove your armor, clean your wounds, and give you medicine." Fourteen years have passed, I am not Zhu Gaoxian at the time of the Jingjing, and you are not Zhu Gaoxu at the time of the Jingjing, we have all changed. ”

King Han was silent for a moment, his eyes flashing with the light and shadow of fourteen years ago, when he and King Qi were still close brothers, not mortal enemies like now.

If King Qi hadn't competed with him for that position, they would still be close brothers by now.

Zhu Gaoxian muttered about the past in his mouth: "I still remember that once you were hit by an arrow wound, two fingers away from your spine, although you survived, but the poison on the arrow began to spread, if you let it spread, the toxin will spread in the spine, even if you can survive, you will not be able to stand up for the rest of your life." I searched all the antidote herbs at the military doctor, but I found that there was still a lack of medicinal herbs. You lie on the bed, pull my sleeve, and say to me in a dying voice - fourth, brother doesn't want to be a waste, please give my brother me a good time. ”

King Han's eyes were complicated, he still remembered this past, but he didn't want to say it again.

"In order to find the last herb, I searched all over the army, but there is no one in the army, so I will pick it myself." Zhu Gaoxian continued, "At that time, there was a war in Zhending, Li Jinglong's hundreds of thousands of troops were deployed, and there were enemy troops everywhere. ”

"If it weren't for the third brother's army coming, my life would have been gone, where would I still fight with you today, but even if I do it again, I will still do it."

King Han leaned back in his chair and was silent, even though more than ten years had passed, he would always have a backache during the rainy season. If it weren't for King Qi risking his life to pick up that life-saving medicine, he would have had back pain, and he would have died long ago when he was in trouble.

"I don't mean anything else when I say so much."

Zhu Gaoxian said, "No matter how much you and I fight to the death, we are also brothers by blood, at least, you can't die in my hands." ”