The sky was clear, and the wingtips of the white birds were shallow among the flowing clouds. Chu Shixia gathered a light and warm fox fur and shrunk down to drink tea at the table under the eaves. Chu Mingyan slowly boiled a pot of aged tea, his eyebrows and eyes were calm and peaceful.

Chu Zhixia stared blankly at the appearance of the clouds being cut apart.

Chu Mingxiu wiped his hands and walked around from behind the shadow wall, and Chu Zhixia raised half of his ass to make way for him. Chu Mingxiu glanced at her, rubbed to Chu Mingyan's side and sat down, picked up the warm tea and drank it all.

"How?" Chu Mingyan asked.

"The leak was made by an old woman who bought rouge gouache in the house, and she had a lazy son at home, who had no long things, and was all supported by her meager salary. Seeing that Changle was seriously ill, she thought that the Akiba Mountain Residence was idle, so she sold the news to a eunuch, intending to make a final profit. ”

Chu Mingxiu spoke eloquently, but he couldn't hide the faint bloody aura on his body.

"Come here, it's smoked big brother." Chu Shixia couldn't help but say.

In Chu Zhixia's heart, Chu Mingyan is a glazed statue, even if he just touches it, it will leave unclean fingerprints, and it will fall apart if he is not careful. She was especially unaccustomed to the way Chu Mingxiu came to Chu Mingyan's side, the head wolf was stubbornly low and small, pretending to be a docile and loyal dog.

Make somebody's blood boil. Chu Zhixia thought, who doesn't know what you are pretending to be?

Chu Mingxiu glanced at her, followed her gaze to the corner of his robe stained with a few bloody fingerprints, and hurriedly moved the corner of the robe to the side, excusing himself, "She just grabbed me when she begged for mercy." ”

The old woman was fifty or sixty years old, and she cried with a handful of snot and tears, and her feelings were sincere. Every word of her is her own heart of love for her son, and the listeners cry and hear the sadness, and even the battle-hardened subordinates are slightly moved.

Chu Mingxiu didn't eat it, and said with a mouthful of snow-white teeth: "You love your son, and you don't hesitate to betray your master for this, and I want to praise you for your courage and resourcefulness." But if you dare to take my sister's life, don't beg me for mercy. None of our surnamed Chu are wronged. ”

Chu Mingxiu has been in the army for a long time, and there are countless methods to torture people, knowing that his brother and sister are not soft-hearted masters, but he still habitually wants to pretend.

In the meantime, Chu Mingxiu didn't mention it, and said briefly: "It's all dealt with." ”

Chu Zhixia knew that it would be his turn next, so he shrunk his neck and said a little cowardly: "Oh." ”

"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Chu Mingyan wiped the bottom of the teapot with a linen cloth and looked at her for a long time.

Chu Zhixia touched the tip of his nose and said cautiously: "Big brother, what do you want to hear?" ”

"Originally, I just wanted to ask you, where did you steal the overlord gun you learned; Later, I felt that it was the Fourth Highness who was more important than the overlord gun; Now what makes me even more strange is, where did the sunken boat go? Chu Mingyan stared at her.

From childhood to adulthood, Shen Zhou was like a shadow around Chu Zhixia, never leaving for a moment.

Chu Zhixia licked his chapped lips, lowered his eyes, and felt empty pain in his heart, "Where did you go on the sinking boat...... I don't know. ”

Maybe he has died in some corner where Chu Zhixia can't find it.

Chu Mingyan was silent, only sighing.

"What about the Fourth Highness? I heard that he was bitten by a poisonous snake, and then someone secretly gave you a hundred poison pills. Don't take me for a fool. Chu Mingyan asked instead.

Chu Shixia asked a little nervously: "Do you know that the East Palace has been abolished?" ”

Chu Mingyan understood it at one point, and looked at her coldly: "Are you looking for death?" ”

Chu Zhixia was not afraid, and said bluntly: "Bai Huan is definitely not a Ming Jun. What's more, if he succeeds to the throne, the Chen family is monstrous, stretching for three generations, and there is no possibility of reviving the government. Could it be that it would be better for someone like him to win the world than the Fourth Highness? ”

"Did you know that winning the heir has always been a big gamble? The heart of the monarch is unpredictable, and the world is impermanent. If you win the bet, you are the minister of the dragon; If you lose the bet, you will never recover. How many lives do you have? Chu Mingyan slapped her lightly on the head, "I just don't know whether to live or die." ”

"I have to bet and I have to win." Chu Shixia gritted his teeth and said, "Big brother, no matter what you say, I won't change it." ”

Chu Mingyan was rarely hit by her so hard, and he couldn't help but be stunned and frowned slightly. Chu Mingxiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, realizing that the trivial things that they ignored were the key to Chu Zhixia's change.

"Changle, I never taught you the Overlord Gun." Chu Mingxiu raised his chin and said, "Where did you steal the teacher?" ”

Chu Zhixia was caught off guard by him, he didn't make up a good wording at once, looked at him blankly for a moment, and subconsciously said, "I dreamed of it." ”

Chu Mingyan reacted and pursued after the victory: "You said that you dreamed that your second brother died in the imperial capital. That's why I have to come to the imperial capital for him. So, is it also because of that dream that you supported the Four Highnesses? ”

After a while, Chu Zhixia nodded lightly and said bitterly, "Yes." ”

Chu Mingyan realized that she was not making a child talk nonsense, and asked cautiously, "What kind of dream is it?" ”

"It's a long, long ...... Nightmare. ”

Chu Zhixia slowly recalled that bloodstained experience, from Chu Mingxiu's death in the imperial capital, to Chu Mingyan's running out of oil, to the Chu family's dismissal on "trumped-up" charges, and then to the thirteen departments of Beidi uniting to support Xueguan.

She spoke very slowly and meticulously, the time, place, and characters were tightly matched, the motives were sufficient, and the logic was complete, which made Chu Mingyan suspect that this was not a dream, but her personal experience.

Chu Mingyan held her wrist and rubbed the smooth Buddha beads on it. Under the Buddha beads are layers of gauze, Chu Zhixia's hand is holding a sword, and there is no room for the slightest instability, and the military doctor deliberately avoided the muscles and bones when he gave the knife.

But the scar won't go away.

Chu Mingyan began to wonder if he was right to be alone for so many years.

Maybe a moment of forbearance and retreat can be exchanged for calm, but there will always be a day when I leave Chang'an and Changle. Perhaps, only by thoroughly purging the people who are trying to turn the clouds and rain in the DPRK and China can they go on in peace for a long time.

"At least one thing is right." Chu Mingxiu was in a cold sweat when he heard this, and he took a deep breath and said, "The deposition of Bai Huandonggong is a good thing for our family. The regent hurriedly pinched Changle in the palm of his hand, wasn't he afraid that the king would rise up in the clouds? ”

"The wolf's ambition can be punished." Chu Zhixia said lightly but firmly.

Chu Mingyan's tone loosened and asked her, "Then how do you know that this Fourth Highness is reliable?" ”

He did not hesitate to risk his life to save Chu Zhixia, perhaps it was to encircle the only force around him that he could rely on. Chu Mingyan has always been cautious in judging the situation, and is rarely blinded by a momentary warmth and righteousness, especially for sudden kindness.

The most different thing between him and Bai Huan is that he has been truly despised and trampled on by his superiors, and even lost his life for a time. Bai Ziche knew better than Bai Huan that if the superior did what he wanted, he could easily crush the fate of ordinary people. ”

Bai Ziche trembled in the hierarchical palace for many years, hiding in a corner that others couldn't notice before he grew up. But the power played with him more than that, and the regent easily made him lose his most important person.

He understood better than the pampered princes that people can easily die.

"His Royal Highness knows how to exercise restraint better than the abolished prince." Chu Zhixia analyzed it in detail, "Restraint of the desire for power, restraint of anger and sadness. This may be a kind of sadness for him personally, but an emperor who knows how to restrain the use of power is a kind of luck for the world. ”

Chu Mingyan reluctantly agreed, nodded and said, "Then Chang'an will find a way to meet His Royal Highness." ”

Chu Zhixia was stunned.

"It should be regarded as a thank you to the Fourth Highness for saving Changle. The grace of dripping water, the Chu family will inevitably spring up to reciprocate. Chu Mingyan calmly finalized this matter that was enough to shake the situation of the government and government.

"Your angel investor [Zhenbei Wang] is in place"