The person in Zhao Pu's memory is already very vague.

All he remembered was that winter was especially cold. There were many wounds left by the practice girl red on his hands, but the plum branches that had frost on nine cold days were colder than pinprick.

In order to pick the plum, his hands were frozen stiff, and when he climbed down the treetops, his thin winter coat was already soaked with snow.

It was cold, so cold that he was unconscious when the cold wind blew him through with their laughter.

He didn't even have the strength to tremble, he only knew that such a day could freeze people to death. Zhao Yao was no longer entangled, he immediately turned around and rushed into the wind and snow, heading towards his dormitory.

He is not like others, the maids in the palace are still treated by the Tai Doctor when they are sick, but if he is sick, he can only wait for death.

Just then, a cloak fell on him.

Thick, soft, and wrapped in a warm scent.

He had been frozen for so long that his limbs and mind were frozen and stiff, so much so that the sudden warmth made him shiver.

This came suddenly at the end of the road.

He had only one last bit left to survive, and he didn't dare to bet on whether it was a charity or a trap.

He was like a frightened bird, instinctively driven to take off the clothes and flee in a hurry, not even seeing what the person in front of him looked like.

That night, he had a high fever.

Wu Xinghai had an argument with the eunuch of the Internal Affairs Department the day before yesterday in order to get him the charcoal fire for the winter, and he was blinded in one eye. Mama Songyan went to Dongchang to deliver a letter on his behalf, but he has not come back yet.

He was eight years old at the time, and he was still instinctively dependent on his mother.

When he was ill and delirious, he secretly left the dormitory, braved the wind and snow alone through the long street, and knocked on the door of the cold palace.

He didn't have the strength, and knocked on the door for a long time before he heard Dou Qingyi's voice.

"Pu'er?"

"Queen Mother......" He almost instantly shed tears, dripping on the placket of his clothes, and instantly froze. …… I'm so cold. ”

Dou Qingyi's voice inside the door was as cold as the wind and snow falling on his face.

"It's the third watch, what are you doing here?" She asked. "Where's Songyan?"

Through the door, Zhao Pu couldn't see the look on her face.

"Queen Mother's ......"

"Didn't you say, don't get half a step closer to the cold palace?" The voice inside the door was still cold. "Go back immediately, and don't let your father know."

Zhao Xuan only let out an inaudible sobbing outside the door.

After that, there was another moment of silence.

"Go back and dress more. Tomorrow I will ask Shi Shen to send you some money, not too much, let Songyan prepare some charcoal. Dou Qingyi inside the door paused. Don't forget, no matter how cold it is, you can only wear your own clothes. What do you remember I taught you, Juan? ”

"Don't be ......contaminated with the queen mother," Zhao Pu's voice outside the door trembled.

"What else?"

"Don't touch a man's shirt."

Dou Qingyi in the door snorted, no praise, only an indifferent and simple sentence: "Go back, there must be no next time." ”

After that, there was no more sound inside the door.

Dou Qingyi has never been a person who is good at expressing emotions, and she also knows that she has no chance to be a loving mother when she falls into the field she is in today.

Inside the door, she knelt on the steps.

Comfort and gentleness not only cannot let their mother and son survive in the deep palace, but also cause them to abandon their previous achievements and fall into the abyss.

She quietly listened to the footsteps of Zhao Xuan staggering to his feet and then disappearing into the wind and snow, and her pale hand silently covered the heavy copper door.

That was the location where Zhao Pu's voice had just come from.

And Zhao Pu, who walked through the long street alone, raised his head with great effort, only saw the endless red walls and golden tiles in his blurred vision, and the snowstorm that engulfed the whole world.

He suddenly remembered the man who had cloned him.

It must have been a very flamboyant and unscrupulous person, his body temperature was very hot, and when the cloak was raised, the sleeves even raised a smooth and chic arc.

The arc brushed over Zhao Pu's shoulder and lightly hit it in that position.

In the cold wind, he trembled and raised his hot hand and gently touched his left shoulder.

There seemed to be a slight warmth there.

He was so cold that in his confusion, he instinctively wanted to take the brief warmth from there and be a spark for him to survive this night journey.

It's just that the wind and snow that night were too big, and the touch of that location had long been swallowed up by the diffuse cold.

Zhao Pu didn't touch it.

——

Fang Linyuan didn't know that just now, his arm brushed Zhao Pu's shoulder and lightly bumped into the same position many years ago.

He tightened the big crush on Zhao Xuan's neckline, wrapping his figure tightly.

"That's right." He said. "I entered the palace that year and saw you by the Taiye Pool."

"It's winter?" But I heard Zhao Pu ask.

Why did Zhao Pu suddenly ask about this.

"You don't remember?" Fang Linyuan said. "Oh, yes, you didn't know who I was at the time, and you didn't ask for the cloak I gave you."

As he spoke, the voice of the forbidden army could be faintly heard outside the plum garden, presumably the emperor learned of the change here and was sent to check the situation.

Fang Linyuan hurriedly tied up the big dazon for Zhao Pu, and didn't forget to pull it to make sure it wouldn't fall.

It's really ...... Now that the two of them are dependent on each other, he is almost more afraid than Zhao Pu himself that he will be found to be a man.

Zhao Pu suddenly pinched his wrist at this moment.

Fang Linyuan was taken aback: "What are you doing?" ”

"You knew who I was then?" saw Zhao Pu ask again.

He raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Pu suspiciously. But Zhao Pu still had that cold appearance, staring at him with a pair of eyes, like a fox demon trying to eat people.

“…… That's right. Fang Linyuan withdrew his arm. Otherwise, how could I ask the emperor to marry you? ”

Speaking of the word marry, Fang Linyuan still couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, and the corners of his mouth twitched stiffly.

Zhao Pu didn't move, still staring at him: "So, you have been ...... since then"

Why do you still get to the bottom of it!

"Don't ask that, okay?" Fang Linyuan was unbearable to death, and he couldn't wait to dig a pit and bury all those old things.

"Fifth Highnesses, are the Fifth Highnesses here!"

Not far away, the voice of the Praetorian was heard.

Fang Linyuan hurriedly raised his voice and said, "Yes, over here." ”

As he spoke, he didn't forget to lower his voice and reminded Zhao Pu: "Someone is coming, don't talk in your voice anymore." ”

Zhao Pu really closed his mouth.

His rare obedience and cooperation made Fang Linyuan finally breathe a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look in the direction of the forbidden army.

And he didn't see it, Zhao Pu behind him was wrapped in his clothes, and although the gaze cast on him was quiet, it was almost terrifying.

Since then, it's been ten years.

Zhao Pu suddenly remembered the drunken voice of Naren Timur when he was entangled.

"Jade Yama likes you very much."

Zhao Pu looked at Fang Linyuan's eyebrows and moved.

He never believed that there was really any love in the world, and the human heart had already abandoned these useless entanglements when the nine knots were born, and the survival of the fittest was natural.

But...... Does anyone really like another person for ten years, or even just because of one side?

He would never be fooled by such words. Rhetoric and sincerity have always been poisons that blind people's minds.

Zhao Xuan lowered his eyes, but under the cover of the footsteps of the guards getting closer and closer, he raised the bleeding hand.

The slightly curled fingertips lightly touched his left shoulder.

It's lukewarm.

It wasn't that he stupidly wanted to believe anything, but that the spark in that cold night was really there.

It had been perched on his shoulder, not extinguished, but buried by the falling snow, so that he could not see.

Just now, the snow had fallen, and the spark had jumped again.

It was Fang Linyuan who dusted off the snow.

——

Emperor Hongyou had a calm face.

The apse of the huge Chonghua Hall is silent.

The news in the plum garden was tightly blocked, and the ministers, nobles, and officials had already left the palace after the banquet. Now only the concubines of the palace who participated in the banquet and a few princesses and princes are sitting here.

They gathered here at this time, but they all lowered their eyebrows and did not dare to speak. There were dozens of people in the entire hall, but there was only the sound of the queen holding the sleeping Nine Emperor Prince Zhao Jue and gently patting it.

Fang Linyuan turned his head to look at Zhao Pu.

He was sitting there, and the Imperial Physician was kneeling in front of him to treat his wounds. The jade was crushed raw, and many pieces of debris had been submerged into the flesh under Zhao Pu's grasp, and the imperial doctor was picking out the broken jade for him at this moment, so careful that he didn't dare to raise his head.

Zhao Pu's expression was the same as before, he didn't say a word, his eyes lowered and he didn't know what he was thinking.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps, it was the eunuch sent by Emperor Hongyou to invite Naren Timur.

Fang Linyuan turned his head to look and saw that the eunuch was followed by two Turks.

It was the retinue of Naren Timur, but he himself did not come.

Everyone in the hall had different expressions, and the palace concubines exchanged glances silently, while Zhao Yao, who was not far away, glanced at Zhao Xuan gloatingly.

The eunuch knelt down in front of Emperor Hongyou, and the two attendants also leaned down and saluted Emperor Hongyou.

"See His Majesty the Emperor."

Emperor Hongyou's expression was gloomy, and after a while, he asked in a deep voice, "What about Crown Prince Timur?" ”

One of the attendants replied: "Back to Your Majesty the Emperor, Crown Prince Timur was already drunk when he was taken back to his residence. You sent someone to invite him, but he was in a coma and couldn't come to see you. ”

As he spoke, he bowed again and saluted, "If Your Majesty the Emperor has any orders, we will be at your disposal." ”

Fang Linyuan's eyebrows moved.

Naren Timur hid from sight, as he expected. And these two people looked fearless, they should have known what was going on.

They have always known that the Han people pay great respects, and tonight such an unseemly thing will be more afraid of spreading than them. Now that the two countries are about to sign an agreement, Naren Timur's status is precious, and Zhao Pu is not really insulted, they must be sure that Emperor Hongyou will be jealous, and he will not really do anything to Naren Timur.

Sure enough, they are right, and Emperor Hongyou can't do anything about them.

Emperor Hongyou kept his face calm and stopped talking.

After a moment of dead silence, Jiang Hongluan next to him smiled warmly.

"Well, it's not a big deal. Your Majesty, since the crown prince of Timur has fallen asleep, and the night is heavy, let them both go back and rest. She said in a loud voice.

As she spoke, she reached out comfortingly and gently touched Emperor Hongyou's arm.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty might as well talk about it tomorrow."

Emperor Hongyou paused and turned to look at her. Jiang Hongluan smiled with a smile on his face, and Emperor Hongyou reluctantly raised his hand and said, "You guys stand down." ”

The two men immediately saluted and turned away.

The heavy doors of the temple were covered from the outside. Emperor Hongyou showed a gloomy look of mountain rain coming. Jiang Hongluan on the side also looked worried, and looked at him again and again, but he didn't dare to persuade him again.

Emperor Hongyou slapped his palm on the armrest of the dragon chair.

"Presumptuous! The Turkic barbarians are really too deceitful! ”

When there was a loud bang, the tweezers in the imperial doctor's hand fell to the ground in fright, and the blood in Zhao Xuan's palm also dripped to the ground.

The imperial doctor was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and before he could ask for guilt, he saw that everyone in the palace hurriedly got up and knelt down towards Emperor Hongyou.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

The imperial doctor hurriedly turned around on his stomach and kowtowed in the direction of Emperor Hongyou.

Fang Linyuan also had to kneel down.

Emperor Hongyou did not say anything.

Fang Linyuan cautiously raised his eyes, and saw Emperor Hongyou with a gloomy face, sitting upright in place, looking in the direction behind him, as if he was confronting someone.

Who else can confront Emperor Hongyou now?

In his spare light, Zhao Pu was still sitting upright, kneeling up and down the palace, but he was the only one sitting face to face with Emperor Hongyou, so calm that he couldn't see Emperor Hongyou getting angry.

The atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

At this moment, there was a faint sobbing sound from the temple.

It was Zhao Jue who had just been scared awake.

The cry was like a switch was being flipped at the touch of a switch. With the crying, Emperor Hongyou's complexion suddenly changed, and his expression, which had just sunk to almost drip, suddenly eased.

"Jue'er woke up? It's okay, come, father. ”

He turned around, smiled and reached out to take Zhao Jue from the queen's arms, and gently patted him while holding him and coaxing him, and waved his hand to let everyone in the palace get up.

This is not only the first son of the emperor after the third prince, but also the concubine of the queen of the middle palace who was nearly forty years old. The emperor has always been fond of him, and he can't wait to love him like an eyeball.

Fang Linyuan sat back in his seat and glanced at Zhao Pu.

But seeing that the imperial doctor was leaning over to pick up the tweezers on the ground, Zhao Pu had already pulled out the silk handkerchief in his sleeve, pressed it on his hand and wrapped it back and forth, and wrapped the wound in his palm.

"." He didn't even raise his eyes, and said to the imperial doctor.

If the imperial doctor was amnesty, he didn't care whether Zhao Pu's bandaging would worsen the wound, so he leaned over and saluted the emperor, then lifted the medicine box and retreated.

Over there, Emperor Hongyou coaxed Zhao Jue and asked the palace maid to carry him down to sleep.

I didn't take another look in Zhao Pu's direction.

"It's getting late, Your Majesty will have an early pilgrimage tomorrow, so it's better to rest early." Jiang Hongluan persuaded on the side.

Teaching Zhao Jue to cry for a while, Emperor Hongyou's expression gradually eased at this time, and he sighed.

Jiang Hongluan smiled, raised his eyes again, and said to Zhao Pu in a warm voice: "Huining is frightened today, and I will have a good rest in the mansion when I go back." Your father is worried about you, so you won't go to a place where there is no one alone like you do today. ”

The words fell, and the palace fell into a dead silence where no one answered.

Fang Linyuan pondered and was about to open his mouth to agree for Zhao Pu, but he heard Emperor Hongyou shout angrily: "Zhao Pu, didn't you hear what your queen mother said!" ”

Fang Cai was still a soft-spoken "Jue'er", and when he faced Zhao Pu at this time, he called his name and surname sharply, like an enemy.

Fang Linyuan was sandwiched in the middle, uncomfortable like a green vegetable that had been crushed by steamed bread slices.

Zhao Pu remained silent.

There was another snort from the side.

"Zhao Pu, father and queen mother are worried about you. You have caused such a big mess today, and it is a great mercy that your father did not punish you. If you don't appreciate it, why do you treat your father so coldly? ”

It's Zhao Yao again.

She seems to have finally found an opportunity to speak. She sat upright, with a condescending posture, and looked at Zhao Pu with a sarcastic face, as if she had finally found an opportunity to attack him.

saw Zhao Pu raise his eyes, and looked at her quietly with a pair of eyes, indifferently as if he was looking at a dead thing.

Zhao Yao was a little scared, but as if someone was supporting him, he pursed his lips and raised his head higher

Finish.

On the side, Zhao Jin also raised his head and stood up unhurriedly.

"Although my father is forgiving, my son still wants to ask for an order and ask my father to punish Zhao Pu." He said.

Fang Linyuan next to him made this look stupid.

He looked back and forth at everyone, and he didn't figure out why Zhao Pu, who was clearly a victim, was punished.

"You go on." Emperor Hongyou said to Zhao Jin.

"Zhao Pu is now married to a wife, and her reputation for chastity is not in her eyes, and she should know that the face of the princess is the face of Daxuan." Zhao Jin said. "Of course, tonight's incident was the presumptuous of the Turkic barbarians, but if it wasn't for Zhao Pu's disobedience to women's ways and seducing her in private, how could it make that barbarian have evil thoughts?"

Fang Linyuan was dumbfounded.

What did he say? What does he mean is that Zhao Pu was almost insulted because he seduced Naren Timur?

Could there be anything more absurd in the world?

Fang Linyuan only felt that the three princes wanted to clean up Zhao Pu too much, so he forgot to bring his brain.

He looked at Emperor Hongyou, and waited with some pity in his heart for Emperor Hongyou to scold him.

But unexpectedly......

When Emperor Hongyou heard this, he turned to look at Zhao Pu, and his eyebrows sank even more.

"Speaking of which, I'm here to ask you. What are you doing tonight when you go alone in the plum garden? ”

The emperor actually listened to his words?!

Fang Linyuan was completely dumbfounded.

A light sneer came from Zhao Pu's side.

"If you want to be punished, you will be punished, don't talk so much."

He raised his eyes and looked straight at Emperor Hongyou, his eyes were full of ridicule and provocation.

——

Zhao Pu has known since childhood that some people are born to be rejected.

He never tried to win the favor of Emperor Hongyou.

Emperor Hongyou has several children, he is proficient in reading, flower arrangement, incense, and female red, and is the most intelligent and precocious child of Emperor Hongyou.

But Emperor Hongyou didn't like to come to his mother's bedroom for as long as he could remember, and he didn't like him. He was able to memorize poems at the age of three, but when he memorized poems and read, Emperor Hongyou did not have a smile on his face.

When he was older, Mama Songyan secretly told him that he had to learn to hide his clumsiness.

His mother is because she reads too well and has a higher insight than the emperor, so the emperor doesn't like her. He is the emperor's daughter, he doesn't need to be a too smart child, as long as he is well-behaved enough, he can win the emperor's favor.

Zhao Pu didn't understand why. Zhao Jin only learned to memorize the three-character scripture when he was eight years old, and when he stumbled to recite it to his father, his father smiled so much that he couldn't close his mouth.

Why is he three years old, but he has to pretend that he can't?

Later, his mother was beaten into the cold palace, and Mama Songyan said that it was useless to pretend to be well-behaved now, and only by saving her life could she have a future life.

It was easy to save your life in the palace.

He didn't need to please Emperor Hongyou, he just needed to talk as little as possible in front of Emperor Hongyou, so that his voice would not be heard. He didn't have to laugh, and it didn't matter if he even caused Emperor Hongyou to be angry, because it would allow him to attend a few palace banquets less, so as not to be seen by others when he pretended that the woman was not skilled enough.

Emperor Hongyou hated him, but because he was his own child, he would not kill him no matter how angry he was.

If he doesn't kill him, Emperor Hongyou will not be afraid of him.

At this moment, Zhao Pu is not afraid. He looked directly at Emperor Hongyou, knowing that for the sake of face, he would never think of how to punish him so as not to alarm the courtiers.

Sure enough, the pupils of Emperor Hongyou under his gaze gradually contracted, and his chest rose and fell more and more, and the hand resting on the armrest pinched the back of his hand inch by inch.

But he couldn't speak.

The corners of Zhao Xuan's mouth raised a faint arc, as if hovering in the sky, looking at the lion's furious eagle.

He understood too early that the person who has nothing to lose is the least thing to fear. It's just that Zhao Jin and the others don't understand, and they are still trying to curry favor with the emperor and divide him, but they don't know that they are just bothering to be useless fools.

He who has never been loved is not afraid or disgusted.

Zhao Pu smiled lightly and lowered his eyes.

But at this moment, a clear voice sounded from his side.

"Your Majesty forgives the sin, but His Royal Highness's words are really inappropriate."

It's Fang Linyuan.

The cold smile on Zhao Pu's face stopped at his lips.

…… He forgot.

He was arrogant and wanton, and everyone here didn't pay attention to it, but he forgot that Fang Linyuan was also here.

He's not someone who's never been loved.

——

Fang Linyuan really didn't want to wade into this troubled water.

But Zhao Pu saw that he was tense with Emperor Hongyou, and his piece of green vegetables sandwiched in the middle, seeing that the steamed bread slices on both sides were getting hotter and hotter, and if he didn't stand up, he would be scalded.

God is pitiful, their family is going to quarrel, can't they close the door? Why bother involving him, an innocent outsider.

He was slandered in his heart, but he had to show a dignified look on his face, and got up and saluted Emperor Hongyou.

"Here's a place for you to speak?" Zhao Jin said loudly beside him.

"Jin'er." Emperor Hongyou frowned and stopped him.

Zhao Jin was startled and hurriedly lowered his head.

"An Pinghou." Emperor Hongyou turned his head to look at Fang Linyuan, and his expression finally eased a little. "I know you want to love her, but if she does something uncivilized, I will give you an explanation."

"Your Majesty doesn't know." Fang Linyuan hugged his fists. "Before today's banquet, when Naren Timur saw the first meeting of the Fifth Highness, there were many disrespectful lunches, and his words and deeds were frivolous, and the ministers also stopped drinking. At this time, he pretended to be drunk and did not dare to come, which could also be seen that he was weak-hearted, not that His Highness the Fifth Highness intended to be involved with him. ”

As he spoke, he tilted his head slightly and looked at Zhao Jin.

"His Royal Highness was also present at the time, you should remember the situation at that time, right?"

Zhao Jin's face was ugly, he turned his head away, and did not make a sound.

Emperor Hongyou's expression softened a little.

"Besides, Her Royal Highness the princess left the table when the ministers were drinking with Her Majesty and Naren Timur, and there were many palace people around to witness it, and there was no conversation with Naren Timur." Fang Linyuan said again.

Emperor Hongyou let out a sigh slowly.

"It's none of her business." He said. "But I and the queen have spoiled her, and she has been raised with such a frivolous temperament that does not know the height of the sky, which really makes me feel embarrassed when I face you."

Although he didn't admit his mistake, he was relieved, but he still had to count a few words from Zhao Pu.

Everyone watched, Fang Linyuan didn't want to take care of it, and he had to take care of it.

He bowed to Emperor Hongyou and said loudly.

"Your Majesty is torturing the ministers when he says this." He said. "The minister is still grateful to His Majesty for not blaming the minister for being rude and frivolous that day, and is willing to give the princess to Weichen for his kindness, and even more grateful to His Majesty for raising the princess to be so strong and resolute."

"What do you mean by Aiqing?" Emperor Hongyou asked.

"Your Majesty doesn't know. When the minister arrived at the plum garden today, His Royal Highness was entangled by the thief and smashed the jade pendant. When he did this, he moved ......"

Fang Linyuan's eyebrows moved, and he thought about it.

"It was the thought of committing suicide during the festival. If it weren't for the minister's timely seizure, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

——

"Suicide for the sake of observance." On the return carriage, Zhao Pu said with a chuckle. "Fang Linyuan, you really think of it."

Fang Linyuan was also laughing as he sat on the side.

He was still thinking about the scene in the Chonghua Hall when his own voice fell.

Emperor Hongyou was stunned, and the palace concubines around him let out a surprised sound. And Zhao Jin and Zhao Yao, who were complacent, were dumbfounded in an instant, and their stunned appearance made Fang Linyuan almost laugh.

When he entered Beijing this time, he learned some skills that he couldn't learn at the border gates. This skill of making something out of nothing and referring to a deer as a horse cannot be learned anywhere else.

Fang Linyuan turned his head and saw that although the fox was not looking at him with his face propped up, he was also smiling on his face.

"Naturally." Fang Linyuan said. "If I say that you are going to kill Naren Timur, won't the emperor be even more angry?"

Thinking of Emperor Fang Caihongyou's appearance of lowering his face and comforting Zhao Pu, Fang Linyuan only felt that this dead fox really owed him a lot.

See how he returns.

With a smile on his face, he turned his head to look out the window at the night scene of Shangjing Market. But the curtain was not raised, and the light and shadow outside the window shone on Zhao Pu's face clearly, but Zhao Pu's smile gradually faded.

After a while, he heard Zhao Pu say: "But in the future, don't help me anymore for the affairs of the palace." ”

Fang Linyuan turned his head inexplicably: "What? ”

"You don't have to worry about my business with them." Zhao Pu said.

He lowered his eyes slightly, and the look in his eyes was removed.

No matter what Fang Linyuan said for him, Emperor Hongyou would not have any change in him, but it was Fang Linyuan who wanted to bear the open guns and hidden arrows that those people should have shot at him for him.

Zhao Pu has always been disgusted, and now for the first time, he found that liking him was also a thing that would bring disaster.

He is never afraid of bringing bad luck to others, but if Fang Linyuan is ......

Zhao Pu pursed his lips slightly.

"Why?" Fang Linyuan was still puzzled.

"Can't you see that nothing good will happen if I am involved?"

Zhao Pu's tone somehow brought some inexplicable emotions, like a dead tree blooming, and before the delicate flowers were seen, a cloud of dust fell first.

Fang Linyuan was even more inexplicable.

"But I've already got you involved?" He said. "Husband and wife are one, didn't you say it?"

Hearing the words "husband and wife are one", the corners of Zhao Pu's mouth moved slightly.

For a moment, he lowered his eyes and whispered.

"Well, I'll double my compensation for you after that day."

The night breeze of early spring blew the curtains, and the lively lights of the street market outside the window stretched the shadow of Zhao Pu's eyelashes on his face. His intact hand was clasped on his knee, motionless, but he was a little nervous.

This was the first time he had made a personal commitment.

Fang Linyuan, who was on the side, was looking at the fire-spitting artist at the corner of the street with great interest, laughed when he heard the words, and said casually: "That's not necessary." If you really want to compensate me, you will leave one day, just compensate me for being a normal lady. ”

Zhao Pu's hand on his knee was slightly retracted.

He turned his head to look at Fang Linyuan, and after a long time, he asked in a low voice, "...... Normal? ”

The carriage traveled at a leisurely pace, passing right past the corner of the street. With a loud breath, the artist spat out three feet high, and there was a shout around him, and even Fang Linyuan's eyes lit up.

"What?" He turned his head with great interest, but he didn't hear what Zhao Pu said.

saw Zhao Xuan's eyebrows drooping, and he turned his head to look at the other side of the window.

"Nothing." He said lightly.

Seeing this, Fang Linyuan shook his head in amazement.

turned a blind eye to such a wonderful show, Zhao Pu is really a ruthless person who can achieve great things.

——

When he went back that day, Fang Linyuan sent someone to ask a doctor to redress Zhao Pu's wounds, and under the pretext of letting Zhao Pu recuperate, he still stayed in his Fuguangxuan confidently.

Song Zhaojin heard about this, and specially sent someone to send ointment to Zhao Pu, so that he could recuperate from his injuries in the next few days, and he didn't have to go to the province in the morning and dusk.

Fang Linyuan finally got unprecedented tranquility, practiced martial arts, and read two books of fashionable words in Beijing.

On the third day, he even had the kung fu to go drinking with his colleagues from Honglu Temple and Zhuo Fangyou.

The work together some time ago really made Fang Linyuan familiar with them. In addition to the envoys from all over the world during the New Year's Festival, they are always leisurely, and they are also gentle, Zhuo Fang persuaded them to avoid suspicion for Fang Linyuan, and also specially chose a place like Yuehualou with a reasonable price, many diners, and often officials coming and going.

Fang Linyuan did not refuse.

"I heard that Master Hou and General Zhuo will return to Yumen Pass in the near future, so I will take advantage of today's rest, which can be regarded as a practice for the two of you." Yu Tao said with a smile at the dinner table.

"Your Excellency, you're so polite." Fang Linyuan said with a smile.

"Nothing. General Zhuo promised me the day before yesterday that he would bring back the good wine from Yumen Pass for me, and today we will pay for this good wine first! The official next to him said with a smile.

Hearing this, everyone laughed.

They are now familiar with each other, and several officials are all good-natured people, and they have a good meal. After a few glasses of wine, they became more and more open, some began to talk about their own wives bitterly, and some people came to Fang Linyuan's side and asked him if it was inconvenient for Fang Fang to bring back the plants in the north that only had thorns and no branches and leaves.

While everyone was talking and laughing, Yu Taoshen mysteriously pulled Fang Linyuan to the window.

"When I saw Lord Hou today, I suddenly remembered what I heard in the yamen yesterday." Yu Tao said. "After thinking about it, I'd better inform the Hou Ye."

"What's the matter?" Fang Linyuan asked.

Yu Tao said: "Yesterday, there was news from the palace that the officials sent to negotiate peace with Naren Timur had a hard stubble, and the emperor was worried for two days, and he was afraid that he would summon the Hou Ye after some time. ”

"Hard stubble?" Fang Linyuan tilted his head slightly, puzzled. "What unreasonable demands did Naren Timur make?"

Yu Tao lowered his voice: "He wants the emperor to marry his daughter." ”

"Isn't it ridiculous!" Fang Linyuan was stunned. "It's they who abandoned the city and abandoned the army, how dare they let Da Xuan send the princess and relatives?"

"Yes!" Yu Tao responded. "But the Turkic barbarian is said to be a scoundrel, saying that it is not a kiss, but that his wife has died, and he lives in widowhood, and wants to marry my Daxuan woman. It doesn't matter if it's not the emperor's princess, he doesn't dislike any minister's daughter, even if it's a folk woman, to marry him in a name. ”

"It sounds good now, but who knows how he will declare it to the outside world in the future?" Fang Linyuan's eyebrows tightened.

"That's right!" Yu Tao said. "It is said that the adults have been arguing for two days, and there is no result. Since yesterday, someone has already played to His Majesty, saying that you should go and negotiate with Naren Timur. I thought you would be caught off guard and didn't know how to respond, so I told you in advance...... You just don't have to spread the word. ”

When Fang Linyuan heard this, he nodded with his eyebrows and said, "Yes, I know." The adults are kind, and I understand it. ”

Yu Tao raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder.

"However, the emperor Xu has also moved his mind, and he has already decided to let the queen choose the palace maid." Yu Tao said. "Maybe I won't give the position of princess, give a county lord or something, just perfunctory."

Fang Linyuan shook his head.

"If he wants to marry Timur, it is good to marry anyone, but it is by no means a gift from the emperor." He said. "My Yumen Pass soldiers fought on the battlefield in blood, and they were originally glorious victories, how could they still let a woman fall into the diplomatic relations between the two countries to maintain the peace of his Turks?"

Yu Tao sighed when he heard this, and said, "Isn't what Hou Ye said true? It's really that this barbarian is too difficult, and he is a wild man, so people can't do anything. ”

"Thank you, sir." Fang Linyuan said. "I'll go back and think about it, there will be a solution."

Yu Tao nodded.

"We've been standing here for a while, and now that we're done, Master Hou will go back to the table with me."

Fang Linyuan responded and turned around with him.

But at this moment, the wind rose outside the window, and Fang Linyuan's eyes swept away, and a figure suddenly crashed into his eyes.

A tall and thin person, his back crossed the afterglow, and he looked very much like Zhao Pu.

Fang Linyuan paused, and hurriedly turned his head to look out the window. ：，，.