When everyone heard this, they burst into tears of grief.
Several princes pushed away the crowd, ran to the emperor and cried loudly. In this heavy and sad atmosphere, Xiao Cheng stood outside the crowd, with two drops of tears hanging from the corners of his eyes. Beside Gu Qin, lowered his voice and asked, "What did the father tell you?"
Gu Qin: "The emperor handed over the imperial edict to me." He omitted the military talisman.
"Is it... passed to the prince?"
"yes."
"Oh, sure enough." Among so many princes, only the crown prince was the one who really loved his father. Because he had known this fact for a long time, Xiao Cheng's heart was already numb, or in other words, when he accidentally learned that the mastermind behind poisoning him was his father, he had already died of his heart for his father.
The two tears in the corners of his eyes finally fell down unbearably, Xiao Cheng still maintained a mournful expression, and continued: "Are you facing me?" He used a questioning tone.
For Gu Qin, he always had a little more fear.
Gu Qin lowered his eyes and replied softly: "Yes."
"Then give me the imperial edict." Although the existence of this imperial edict will not affect his ambition to become emperor, just in case, he still has to destroy it himself to be at ease.
Gu Qin kept his head down and didn't speak.
Xiao Cheng lowered his eyes, "Why, you don't want to?"
Gu Qin was silent, and suddenly asked: "Where is Qin Mu?"
Hearing that man's name, Xiao Cheng was taken aback for a moment, then sneered, it seems that Gu Qin still refused to give up on Qin Mu.
"I placed him in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers. He likes it very much. I promised him that he can leave whenever he wants, and I will not stop him."
"... did he stay there voluntarily?"
"You know his skills, and who can stop him."
Gu Qin raised his eyes, his eyes were cold: "Give him to me."
"Are you blackmailing me with an imperial edict?"
"Don't dare." Gu Qin's tone was neither humble nor overbearing, "It's supposed to return to Zhao intact, so why do you want to threaten him?"
Return to Zhao intact? What a perfect return to Zhao.
If Gu Qin hadn't taken Qin Mu away behind his back, Qin Mu should have been his.
When the two were secretly confronting each other, Eunuch Xu, the eunuch next to the emperor, found Gu Qin, "General Gu, did the emperor give you anything just now?"
According to the emperor's usual temperament, it is impossible to leave without explaining anything.
Gu Qin cast a casual glance at Xiao Cheng, and replied softly, "No."
Eunuch Xu wiped away his tears and asked again: "Then what did the emperor tell you?"
Gu Qin said: "The emperor said that I should assist the prince well."
Xiao Cheng's eyelids twitched.
Eunuch Xu glanced at him, and seeing Xiao Cheng standing aside with low eyebrows and no intention of joining the court battle, he looked away and asked: "Then the emperor intends to let the crown prince become the next emperor?"
Gu Qin bowed his head, "The emperor left before he had time to explain, and the last general dare not speculate on the holy will."
"Our family knows."
Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, Eunuch Xu nodded thoughtfully.
As soon as Eunuch Xu left, Gu Qin said: "Eunuch Xu will definitely search the emperor's bedroom, and I have nothing to do with finding out the imperial edict."
Xiao Cheng naturally heard the threat in this sentence.
Although everyone knew that the father loved the prince very much, and that the position of the future emperor should belong to the prince, but if there was no edict, even if it was a certainty, Prime Minister Bai would have no way to push the prince to the throne of the emperor.
Xiao Cheng gritted his teeth, his eyebrows darkened, "Okay, I promise you, within three days, I will return Qin Mu to Zhao."
"Then I will thank Your Highness here first."
A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and Gu Qin quickly suppressed the smile, "When His Highness sends the person over, I will hand over the edict to you personally."
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As an invisible prince, no one noticed that Xiao Cheng had left the palace.
It was already late at night when we returned to the other courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing, Xiao Cheng looked tired, and made a shush gesture to the servant waiting outside, and then gently pushed open the door of Qin Mu's room.
The slender eyelashes moved slightly.
Qin Mu pretended to be asleep on purpose, lay on his side on the bed, and let someone walk to his bedside. It was already late at night, and Qin Mu had already turned off the lights, Xiao Cheng could only make out Qin Mu's face through the ray of moonlight leaking in from the window.
The man in front of him was as handsome as a god. He was very close to him, and he could touch it with his hand, but Xiao Cheng felt that he was far away from him.
When he was a child, he liked to watch the moon in the sky very much, and his concubine would gently hug him and watch it with him. He asked Concubine Mu if there was any way to pick off the moon from the sky. In order to fulfill his wish, Concubine Mu ordered someone to make a moon out of luminous pearls and put them in his bedroom. It will emit a dazzling light, like the moon in the sky.
Xiao Cheng actually knew that it was just a night pearl and could not be turned into a moon, and Qin Mu was the moon that he would never be able to pick for him.
A sigh was hidden by his lips, Xiao Cheng retreated silently, leaving as quietly as when he came.
When the door closed again, Qin Mu quietly opened his eyes in the darkness.
Turning his head to look at the closed door, Qin Mu raised his lips, turned over, and fell into a deep sleep again.
the next day.
When having breakfast, Xiao Cheng took out the bank notes that he had prepared early in the morning.
Qin Mu paused with the spoon in his hand, "What is this?"
"The emperor died yesterday, and the candidate for the new emperor has not yet been decided. It will inevitably be another bloodbath." Xiao Cheng lowered his eyes, moved the stack of bank notes to Qin Mu's hand, and lightly tapped the bank notes with his fingertips. After clicking, he said: "You take these bank notes, buy a few houses, buy a few acres of land, and then find a loved one, and live happily ever after."
Qin Mu raised his eyebrows, "What about you?"
"As a member of the royal family, I can't help myself in some things." Xiao Cheng raised his eyes and looked at Qin Mu with a smile, "You saved my life before, and this is my reward. I hope you will be safe in the future." good."
Pulling out the stack of thick banknotes from under Xiao Cheng's finger, Qin Mu shook his hands and said with a smile: "It's a big deal."
Xiao Cheng also smiled: "The money is enough for you to squander for several lifetimes, and you can go wherever you want in the future."
"When you get rich, don't forget me, the lifesaver."
Unceremoniously put away the bank note, Qin Mu twisted a piece of shortbread and put it in his mouth and took a bite.
The delicate and soft crispy cake spread on the tip of the tongue, Qin Mu took another bite, and then heard Xiao Cheng's voice with a slight smile: "I will never forget it."
The lingering grudge against Xiao Cheng that remained in his heart had long since dissipated in Xiao Cheng's care for him during this period. Qin Mu is not a person without conscience, if Xiao Cheng treats him like this, if Xiao Cheng is in trouble in the future, he will definitely help him.
Swallowing the shortbread in his mouth, Qin Mu took the handkerchief Xiao Cheng handed over, wiped off the oil stains on his fingertips, and said: "If you lose by accident, don't think about dying together, and leave the green hills behind." Don't be afraid of running out of firewood, with the money you left me, it's not a problem to support one more person."
With a forced smile on the corner of his mouth, Xiao Cheng stared down at the corner of the table, and said in a low voice, "Well, I know."
Xiao Cheng prepared several winter clothes for Qin Mu, and asked the chef to make Qin Mu's favorite snacks. Worried that Qin Mu would get sick on the road, he prepared some valuable medicinal materials for emergencies.
Qin Mu smiled and said, "I can't take so many things by myself, so you should keep them for yourself."
Xiao Cheng: "It can be loaded on a carriage."
Seeing that he persisted, Qin Mu followed him.
Before leaving, Qin Mu said: "If there is a chance in the future, can I come to your palace to catch up with you?"
Xiao Cheng smiled and nodded.
Qin Mu lightly jumped into the carriage, turned around, opened the curtain and looked at him: "Then we will meet later."
"There will be a period later."
Xiao Cheng nodded: "There will be a period later."
When the car carrying Qin Mu drifted away, Xiao Cheng stopped laughing and stared at the direction Qin Mu left expressionlessly, without looking away for a long time.
There will be no chance.
After Qin Mu knew that it was he who sent him to Gu Qin with his own hands, Qin Mu might never forgive him.
But so what, only by becoming the most powerful person in the world can he get anything he wants. He is only temporarily entrusting Qin Mu to Gu Qin for safekeeping. One day, he will bring Qin Mu back , give him supreme glory.
In this compartment, Qin Mu was sitting in the carriage, grabbing a handful of melon seeds and nibbling slowly.
In order to prevent him from getting bored, Xiao Cheng prepared a lot of novels on the carriage in advance. This thoughtful move made Qin Mu curl his lips, pick up a novel and read it with relish.
When I saw this, I forgot the time.
These novels should be prepared by Xiao Cheng's subordinates, and there is also a secret history of the erotic palace mixed in. When Qin Mu opened the book, all kinds of indescribable illustrations and explanations came into view. The pictures drawn by the ancients are more emotional than looking at real people. The facial expressions of the characters are vividly portrayed, and they are extremely fragrant.
Qin Mu asked himself that he has done a lot of research on intercourse, and after reading this book, he realized that there are people beyond people, and mountains beyond mountains.
During the study of the secret history of the erotic palace, Qin Mu asked the groom where he was, and the groom replied that he would arrive in half an hour. Qin Mu didn't think much about it, and continued to immerse himself in the world in the book.
So, he didn't know that not only did the carriage not follow the original track, but it entered through the side door of the General's Mansion. When the carriage stopped, Gu Qin had already been waiting by the side.
The groom jumped off the carriage, walked up to Gu Qin, and whispered: "General, I have brought the person you want here as His Highness ordered."
"Well, thank Your Highness for me." He took out the imperial edict from his pocket, "This is what Your Highness wants."
After sending the groom away, Gu Qin paused, and walked towards the carriage step by step. At the same time, Qin Mu, who noticed something strange, raised his eyes vigilantly, and stared at the road that isolated the outside world motionlessly. curtain.
A guess gradually took shape in his mind, and darkness suddenly appeared in his dark eyes. Qin Mu quietly listened to the sound of footsteps stopping in front of the carriage, stretched out a hand, and slowly pushed the curtain aside.
When the light from outside leaked in, Qin Mu squinted his eyes, met Gu Qin's familiar eyes, slightly parted his thin lips, and said, "So it's General Gu, don't come here without any problems."
Damn it, Xiao Cheng betrayed him again.
Gu Qin didn't speak, his eyes swept over Qin Mu, and finally landed on the novel book in his hand. Seeing the four characters "Secret History of Erotic Palace", he paused, stretched his arms, and took it from Qin Mu's hand. He picked up a corner of the book.
The cover of the book is a little torn, and the paper is starting to turn yellow, obviously it's old.
He opened the book and looked at the various unsightly images painted on it expressionlessly. Finally, under Qin Mu's deep gaze, he raised his eyebrows calmly, "So you like to read this."
"..."
Putting the book in his arms, Gu Qin stepped into the carriage, leaning forward slightly, his deep eyes fixed on Qin Mu's, "Who are you reading this book to please?"