Thinking about the things that he couldn't figure out with his IQ experience, Ning Que slowly closed his eyes in the sunlight and began to reconstruct Zhuo'er's face that couldn't be darker in his somewhat chaotic mind, and to strengthen his confidence to sort out his chaotic and confused thoughts. The beautiful spring sun sprinkled on the rockery in the front courtyard of the princess's mansion, sprinkled on the bamboo chair, sprinkled on his body, bright and warm, and gradually dried out all the spring cold he had in the past.

"Are you basking in the sun? But...... Mom wouldn't let me bask in the sun. ”

A childish and crisp voice sounded softly behind the chair, Ning Que opened his eyes and looked back, and saw a boy's little face poking out next to the rockery, with two apple-like blush on the slightly dark and healthy face, the long eyelashes were very beautiful, but the expression on his face was a little timid.

Ning Que looked at this little black face, and somehow remembered Zhuo'er, and felt slightly sour in his heart. He got up from his chair, bowed slightly to the little boy he hadn't seen for a long time, and said in a harmonious voice, "I've seen the little prince." ”

The timid little boy is the stepson Xiaoman brought back from the grassland by the princess Li Yu, all the way from Weicheng to Chang'an, especially after the bloody battle in Beishan Road, Ning Que and the little boy have not had a lot of contact.

"Your Highness, why don't you let the little prince bask in the sun?" he asked with a smile.

"Mom said it was easy to get a tan. ... Shangman looked at Ning Que very seriously and explained: "I am my mother's son, the grandson of His Majesty's approval, and the proudest nobleman of the Tang Empire, so I can be black, but not too black." ”

Ning Que couldn't help but scratch his head as he listened to the little boy's answer. He could imagine the discomfort of a grassland child after coming to the rich and prosperous Chang'an City, but he didn't expect that Her Royal Highness the princess's education and care for the little prince would be so strict, and explained with a smile: "It's not bad to bask in the sun occasionally." ”

The vestibule was quiet, and the little boy looked around, and found that neither the teacher and the palace maid had found that they had sneaked out" showed joy on his face, jumped to the bamboo chair, pulled Ning Que's sleeve, looked at him with a small face full of expectation, and said, "Can you tell me a story?"

Ning Que was stunned, he didn't expect the little boy to recognize him, and he didn't expect that he still remembered those fairy tales by the fire. Looking at the little boy's expectant eyes, looking at Ran Jing's vestibule, thinking that he had nothing else to do at this time except basking in the sun, he smiled and sat back on the bamboo chair, motioned for the little boy to sit beside him, and said: "I don't know how to tell stories, the ones I told last time should be called fairy tales." ”

"What's the difference between a fairy tale and a story?" asked Xiao Man curiously.

Ning Que replied: "The story is very complicated, the fairy tale is very simple, and it is very happy. ”

Xiaoman laughed happily and said, "Then I'm going to listen to fairy tales." ”

Ning Que remembered some pictures from the past years, couldn't help but smile, and said, "This happens to be what I do best." ”

Xiao Man shifted his body and moved closer to him, intently preparing to listen.

Ning Que thought for a while, looked at him and said, "You are the little prince on the grassland, then I'll tell you one, the fairy tale of the prince will listen to you, okay?"

Xiao Man said happily: "Okay, okay." ”

Ning Que lay on the bamboo chair, looked at the sky and said: "There are pythons in the forest, they are very large, after capturing the prey, they don't need to chew it, just swallow it directly into the stomach, and then sleep for a month, and use these times to digest the food in the stomach." ”

Xiao Man's eyes widened and he said in horror: "...... , it's terrible, doesn't it mean that fairy tales are all happy?"

Ning Que glared at him, thinking that you were not as good as Sangsang back then, and said, "It's just the beginning, don't worry... When I heard this story, I was more interested in the things in the forest, so I drew a picture of a big python devouring a big beast, and I showed it to other adults, and asked them if they were afraid, and they said, "What's so scary about a hat?"

Xiao Man clapped his hands excitedly and said, "I understand, you painted the snake as the edge of the hat, and you drew the big beast as the middle of the hat, is your picture not good?"

Ning Que was speechless and continued: "I didn't draw a hat, it was a snake swallowing a beast, and those adults couldn't understand it at all like you now, so I simply drew the situation in the belly of the giant python." ”

Xiao Man looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "Isn't it the fairy tale of the little prince?

"It came out right away. Ning Que explained: "Wait a little longer and come out." ”

It didn't take long for the princess's palace to teach Mu Mu and the palace maids to finally find the vestibule, and at this moment, Her Royal Highness the princess also ended the old days with Sangsang, Ning Que took the little maid's hand, and fled under the suspicious and resentful eyes of the palace maids, and ended the visit to the princess's mansion as quickly as possible.

Walking on the quiet streets of Nancheng, the big black umbrella tightly wrapped in coarse cloth kept patting Sangsang's thighs, and the master and servant walked quietly for a while, and Sangsang suddenly said without a beginning: "The princess is a good person." ”

Ning Que looked up at the sky above the street separated by plane trees, looked at the clouds that were gradually gloomy, and said, "It looks like it's going to rain." ”

The bull's head is not the horse's tail' preface doesn't match the afterword, which is probably the case, Sang Sang wants to say something, Ning Que doesn't want to say those things, so the former has no head and no tail to jump out of a sentence, and the latter looks up at the sky and says that it is going to rain.

Sang Sang stopped, looked up at him, and asked, "Young Master, why don't you like her?"

Ning Que felt the need to let the little maid know her true thoughts, and after hesitating for a moment, she said, "Because I don't think she is a good person in the traditional sense, although she is really good to you." ”

I don't know why, Sang Sang showed rare stubbornness on this issue, and said seriously: "If Your Highness is not a good person, then why did she go to the grassland back then? Why is she so good to Xiaoman?"

Ning Que looked at her quietly, and suddenly said: "If she is a good person, then why did she go to the grassland back then? Why did she treat Xiaoman so well? I don't think that all stepmothers in the world are bad people, but I have never seen any stepmother like her who regards Xiaoman as more important than her own life." ”

The same two questions, in Sangsang's opinion, can prove that Her Royal Highness the princess is a good person, but here Ning Que has become the opposite example, she can't understand what he wants to say, and looks at him suspiciously. At this time, raindrops fell gently over Chang'an City in the thick spring, Ning Que untied the big black umbrella from behind her and opened it, continued to walk forward, and said: "If something is abnormal, it must be a demon, Your Highness, your future mother is still so young, and motherhood is overflowing?" In my opinion, it is too early, I think this is empathy, she transferred her feelings for Shan Yu to the little boy's body...... , In this way, she seems to have a lot of apologies for the Shan Yu who sleeps in the grassland. ”

"Only we, the border soldiers, know what a great hero Shan is here, but such a great figure was murdered by his idiot brother so inexplicably and took the throne?"

"Young Master, what exactly do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is that Her Royal Highness will probably regret it for the rest of her life, because that Shan Yu should really love her, and he is the only man in this world who dares to really love her. ”

"I don't understand. ”

"Nothing. ”

Sang Sang was silent for a long time, and then suddenly said, "Do you think Her Royal Highness the Princess killed Shan Yu?"

Ning Que didn't answer directly, and said, "It seems that your usual stupidity is really pretending to be lazy." ”

Sang Sang lowered his head and walked under the black umbrella, clenched his small fists slightly, and said, "What about the evidence?"

"There are a lot of things in this world that don't need proof. ”

Ning Que looked at the wisps of rain falling outside the umbrella and said, " Back then, she went to the grassland not only to defuse the attacks of some gods within the empire, but also to show weakness in the battle with the queen mother in exchange for the mercy of His Majesty, and to win the respect of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and even to develop her own Min power on the grassland, but she could not stay on the grassland forever, Her Majesty was getting older and older, and the successor must always be decided, so she needed to come back, and as a woman who was in love with her, she had only one way to come back.

Sang Sang lowered his head and said in a low voice: "But when His Highness decided to marry the grassland, he was only twelve or thirteen years old. ”

"I started killing horse thieves when I was twelve or thirteen years old, and human ability is not necessarily proportional to age. Ning Que held the big black umbrella, gradually quickened his pace, shook his head and said: "What I just said is just that His Highness has a reason to do that thing, and he can benefit from it, but in my opinion, the best proof of this matter is the sentence I said before." ”

"We all know what a great man Shan was who died young, and it is very difficult for such a great man to be framed and killed, unless the person who did it was the one he believed and loved the most. ”

Sang Sang lowered his head and pursed his thin lips, and muttered softly: "In short, it's all your guess, young master." ”

Ning Que said: "I also hope that the guess is wrong, and I also hope that this world is full of fairy tales, and the prince and princess will live happily ever after in the end, but you see...... , the prince of the steppe died, and the princess went home. ”

Sang Sang raised her head, a drop of rain slid down her slightly dark cheeks, she looked at him with some annoyance and asked, "Young Master, why is the world in your eyes always so dark?"

Ning Que stopped, looked at her silently, and said coldly after looking at it for a long time: "Because from the time I survived to the time I picked you up in the pile of dead bodies on the side of the road, the world I saw was so dark. ”

After saying this, he also felt his gaffe, and strode towards the front of the street with some shame, not knowing whether it was the shadow cast on the spirit of the old study building of the academy, or because he was about to kill someone, he always felt that the rain outside the big black umbrella was no longer so refreshing, and it seemed a little dull.

Sang Sang stood in the rain and looked at his back, suddenly quickened his pace and chased after him, chased under the big black umbrella, chased to the guy's side, and then reached out and grabbed the corner of his sleeve hanging down from his right hand holding the umbrella, and never let it go.

From time to time, the conversation between the master and servant sounded under the big black umbrella.

"I thought that young master, you were going to scold Your Highness for being an idiot again. ”

"Don't move your feelings about anything, it will only hurt others and herself in the end, so she is really an idiot. ”

"Then why didn't you scold the young master just now?"

"In the future, I will scold these two words less, because those emotional idiots...... , all poor people. ”