The next day, the sound of snails in the corner of the barracks came and went, and Helian Yi woke up from his hazy sleep. When I looked up, I saw Shen Liuxiang sitting on the edge of the bed guarding herself.

"Princess, are you awake? Is it better? ”

"Why are you here?" Helian Yi looked at the Luohan couch, but Xiao Yunyan was not seen, and Shen Liuxiang said: "King Ji went out early in the morning, and he asked me to come in and guard." Yesterday scared the slave to death. ”

"What's the sound out there?"

"I heard that King Ji is going to Song County."

"Song County?" Helian Yi thought for a while and figured out some clues: Xiao Yunyan only came to the border half a year ago, and Xiao Yunsheng was the commander in the army. Xiao Yunyan and Xiao Yunsheng often disagreed, when she was looted into the army by Li Xi that day, Xiao Yunyan was returning to Daliang Jingzhong to ask his father for soldiers and horses, and he was angry when he came back, which shows that things are very different from what he expected, and he should not have asked for many soldiers and horses, but it is not nothing. Therefore, he should be to place the soldiers and horses he asked for in Song County, and his ultimate goal should be Qizhou.

Shen Liuxiang saw that Helian Yi fell into deep thought again, and persuaded: "Princess, the doctor has explained that you have never thought too much about these two days. ”

"I have to know what he's thinking, what he's going to do."

……

At noon, Helianyi had just had lunch and was sitting down, Xiao Yunyan paced in, looking at Helianyi with a concerned face: "How is it, are you better?" ”

"It's a lot better, but it's just a little tired."

"That's good. By the way, you have also seen that my soldiers and horses are about to move, and it will be inconvenient to take you with me. Aren't you going to Lin Chuan, I'll send you there. ”

Helian Yi was stunned for a long time before asking, "Is Your Highness planning to let me go?" ”

"Isn't that exactly what you want?"

Helian Yi looked at Shen Liuxiang, Shen Liuxiang understood, and when he left the camp, Helian Yi asked again: "Are there all reliable people outside?" ”

"It's all my cronies, of course it's reliable."

Only then did Helian Yi speak: "Your Highness, I want to go to Song County with Your Highness." ”

"Follow me to Song County?"

"Your Highness, please take a seat, I have something to say to Your Highness."

Xiao Yunyan sat down, and Helian Yi said: "I've thought a lot about it in the past few days, and what His Highness said is not unreasonable." ”

"This king has said a lot, which sentence do you mean?"

"The most convenient way for me is to follow His Highness, and in the future, I will have the opportunity to personally slash Helian Dingbang."

"Then you are willing to follow this king?" Xiao Yunyan's face was full of surprise, and he didn't necessarily have a hint of joy.

Helian Yi hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, don't get me wrong, the reason why I am willing to follow Your Highness is because I want to cooperate with Your Highness. ”

Xiao Yunyan frowned, and looked at her with disdain, "Cooperation? What can you work with me? ”

"If I can give His Highness what he desperately wants now, will His Highness be interested?"

"What this king desperately wants at the moment is to get you." Xiao Yunyan looked half-joking, half-serious.

"Your Highness, don't laugh, Your Highness must have something in your heart that you really want to get it, with Your Highness's ambition, it will never be a woman."

"Oh, this king wants to hear, what does this king want?"

"Qizhou."

"Qizhou?" Xiao Yunyan restrained his laughter, and a light inadvertently flashed in his eyes, "Go on." ”

"Qizhou is not a place of contention for His Highness. But His Royal Highness must make meritorious contributions, and only by making more meritorious contributions will there be soldiers and horses. If this battle is won, it will of course be the icing on the cake for His Highness, and he will be able to create greater capital for himself. But if he loses, he doesn't know how many of the two thousand soldiers and horses can be left, and His Highness still has a slim future. ”

Xiao Yunyan sneered: "Joke, what's not slim about the future of this king?" ”

"Then let me guess His Highness's current thoughts, how about it?"

"You say."

"If I guess correctly, will Your Highness be able to grant me what I ask?"

"What?"

"It's just—please don't play tricks on me anymore, Your Highness."

"It's not difficult."

"Your Highness wants troops because His Highness is worried about the road ahead, so he will take great pains to seize a city and use it as a foothold in the future. And the area around Gaochuan on the Western Front is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so His Royal Highness will move this idea. Am I right or not? ”

Xiao Yunyan coughed lightly, but didn't say yes or no, only said, "You go on." ”

"Now in the Great Liang Imperial Court, there is no one with the highest reputation for the prince than King Rui, and once he is really made the crown prince, His Royal Highness will become a fish and meat in the future, and let others use his sword." Helian Yi deliberately didn't continue, Xiao Yunyan seemed to have a sharp knife hidden in his eyes, and said, "Go on." ”

"Not only His Royal Highness, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness's grandfather Yang family and the former prince's family will be suspicious, so His Royal Highness is now bent on taking precautions and earning a foothold for himself, so that he can settle the Yang family and the prince's family by his side in the future."

Xiao Yunyan looked at her deeply, with light in his eyes, as if he wanted to see her through. Helian Yi was stared at by his naked gaze and unconsciously lowered his head. Xiao Yunyan said: "Helian Yi, it seems that you know a lot about me and Daliang. ”

"The battle for your country's storage position is naturally what I am most concerned about in Great Xia. I'm afraid that Your Highness knows a lot about my father and brother, right? ”

"That's just as well."

"His Royal Highness's loyalty to your crown prince is also praised in our Great Xia." Helian Yi paused for a moment, and then said: "Even, I often heard people mention the romance of His Highness's daughter ransom on the way to his relatives, and the world says that His Highness is a rare upright gentleman. ”

Xiao Yunyan immediately shouted to stop, and looked at her directly, "Don't, this king doesn't need such a high hat, whether this king is a decent man and a gentleman varies from person to person." In the face of you, I really don't have any gentlemanly thoughts. ”

Helian Yi avoided his eyes and deliberately changed the topic again, "Let's get down to business, if I tell His Highness that His Highness shouldn't stop here, would His Highness be willing to listen to one or two?" ”

"I want to hear about it."

"His Royal Highness is ambitious, if he ascends the throne in the future, although he and His Royal Highness have been raised under the knee of Queen Ren since childhood, but you and his personality are different, and your political views are not compatible, and it will be difficult to show your ambitions in the future."

Xiao Yunyan suddenly raised his head and stared at her for a long time before he said, "How could I disagree with the sixth brother's politics?" I've always been on the same side as him. ”

Helian Yi said: "That was once, when the prince was still there, and you were all struggling to maintain the status of the prince. But now that the crown prince has passed away, there is Lord Yang behind you, and Xu Zhengrong behind him, and you all have the possibility of becoming the successor prince, can you still stand on the same front? I don't think His Highness looks like a person who is willing to be subservient. ”

Xiao Yunyan's face changed slightly, and said: "Behind King Rui is Liang Guifei in the palace, and Liang Yong and Liang Wen outside the palace, and their power in the court should not be underestimated. And he is the person on the tip of my father's heart. As for the relationship between me and my sixth brother, whether it is different temperament or political opinions, it is not worth mentioning. ”

"Rui Wang Xiao Yunhao?" Helian Yi shook his head, "The so-called authorities are obsessed with bystanders, is it true that His Highness can't see the situation in Daliang clearly?" ”

"What situation?"

"It's been half a year since the death of the crown prince, and King Rui was originally the most popular candidate for the new prince, but now not only has he not been appointed as a prince, but he has been treated coldly. The Liang family was just a bargaining chip used by Ling Zun to suppress the crown prince at the beginning. It can be seen that King Rui is not what Ling Zun really wants to support at all. Although there are many heirs of Ling Zun, in my opinion, only His Royal Highness and King Yi can compete for the position of prince in the future. ”

Helian Yi said, pretending to look at Xiao Yunyan inadvertently, seeing that his eyebrows were moving, his eyes gradually glowed with a little brilliance, and he took advantage of the victory to pursue: "Among all the princes, only His Royal Highness was raised by the queen as soon as he was born, his identity is no different from that of his sister-in-law, and he has a grandfather to rely on behind him, why does His Highness only think about a corner of peace, instead of trying to win the world?" ”

Helian Yi saw that Xiao Yunyan was a little moved, so he struck while the iron was hot: "You and I were born in Miyagi since childhood and grew up in Miyagi. Among them, the intrigue and bloody knife light, are you still seeing less? This four-walled lonely city, the most intolerable thing is sincerity and kindness, and if you want to survive, you can only keep fighting. For the sake of rights, the matter of father and son turning against each other and fratricidal brother cannibalism will not be felt by His Highness, right? The world is complicated, even if King Yi ascends the throne in the future, His Royal Highness may not be able to live a peaceful life. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Yunyan's face suddenly became solemn, and she raised her head and asked, "Well, but I really can't figure it out, what does this have to do with Qizhou?" ”

"Your Highness needs to win this battle, and only when the first step is steady, can Your Highness have a chance to continue."

Xiao Yunyan looked at her as if she had never known her, and froze for a long time before asking, "Don't you want to say that you can let me easily obtain Qizhou City?" ”

"Maybe it can? I want Your Highness to win back a city without bloodshed. ”

"Of course, the king can't ask for it, but how can you, an exiled princess, let the king break a city without attacking?"

"The guard of Qizhou is Du Shaowei, I know something about this person, I will use my way to let him descend His Highness. Please also believe me, Your Highness. ”

"I still don't understand, why are you doing this?"

Helian Yi poured Xiao Yunyan a cup of tea and handed it to him. Xiao Yunyan took a sip of tea, and Helian Yi continued: "In the past few days, I have thought about it a lot and figured it out: I am willing to follow His Highness, but I am only a strategist of His Highness, not a princess. ”

"If this king wants a counselor, there are naturally a large number of people who are willing to follow this king, so why do you need a woman to be a counselor?"

"But I can do what they can't."

"What can you do?" Xiao Yunyan deliberately laughed again, his eyes were full of teasing and aggressiveness: "Oh, if you want to be a counselor for this king during the day and a concubine for this king at night, then no one else can really do it." ”

Helian Yi is so big, and only Xiao Yunyan dares to tease her so blatantly, seeing that he did not restrain in the slightest, but intensified, he was angry, ashamed and angry for a while, "I have already said that if I am right, Your Highness will stop teasing me." I also ask Your Highness to fulfill his promise. ”

"I'm not playing tricks on you, I'm really going to be tossing and turning because of you these days." Xiao Yunyan's words were light, and his expression was very serious.

Helian Yi was embarrassed to turn his head, and had to back down, "Then I beg Your Highness not to embarrass me again in the future." ”

Xiao Yunyan looked at her sincere appearance, so she had to sigh and said, "Okay, then tell me, what can you help this king?" ”

"Accomplish great things."

"Great cause? What is a great cause? ”

"For His Royal Highness, what other great cause can be called besides the throne?"

"This king never thought about it."

Helian Yi stared at him and said with a smile: "Your Highness, from now on, you can think about it." ”

Xiao Yunyan took a sip of water, his eyes were confused. Seeing the situation, Helian Yi said, "Maybe Your Highness still has this idea occasionally, otherwise he wouldn't be in a hurry to make some achievements." ”

Xiao Yunyan finally looked at her again, the two looked at each other like this, Helian Yi was stared at by him again, stared at it for a long time, and finally became a little stunned, lowered his head and said, "Why does Your Highness look at me like this?" ”

Xiao Yunyan looked at her for a long time, then suddenly stood up and said coldly: "If you want to provoke the love of my father, son and brother, you have made a mistake in this calculation, this king will not be provoked by you, and he will not move some thoughts that should not be moved." With that, Xiao Yunyan stepped out.