"Your Highness, Your Majesty is waiting for you inside."
Seeing His Royal Highness King Ying stop in front of the door, Eunuch Cao was a little puzzled, but he still reminded him aloud.
Xiao Xu didn't speak, he turned to his side and raised his hand to open the hall door.
The heavy door was pushed open from the outside, and there was a deep sound in the empty hall.
Although I don't know where this uneasy feeling comes from, I have to face all of this today.
He stepped in without hesitation.
Emperor Xixuan was standing under a portrait, looking up and appreciating it. He didn't turn his head when he heard the voice behind him. Instead, he said softly, "You're here."
"Yes, my son came here as ordered. I don't know if the royal father has something to explain." Xiao Xu bowed his head slightly, and then asked.
"Come here." Emperor Xixuan turned his head and beckoned to him.
Xiao Xu hesitated for a while before walking over, but he did not stand side by side with Emperor Xixuan, but stood one step behind him.
"I have a question I want to test you."
"Father, please speak."
Emperor Xixuan pointed to the painting on the wall and asked him with a smile, "Do you know who this painting is from?"
When Xiao Xu heard the words, he turned his attention to the scroll. The painting was not signed, but it could be seen that the painting was good. He replied truthfully, "I don't know."
Emperor Xixuan put one hand behind him, stroked his beard with the other, and said slowly, "This painting is from the painting saint Liu Xiran."
"Liu Xiran? Could it be the one who was cut in half six years ago?" Xiao Xu was a little surprised.
"That's right," Emperor Xixuan's eyes turned dark, "he was originally a painter of the generation, and he was deeply favored by me, but I couldn't tolerate the deception of others, so when he described a tiger painted as a cat as a Cat, this makes me very angry, although I am a person who cherishes talents, I cannot allow others to bully you."
Xiao Xu didn't know why his father suddenly mentioned this matter, although he didn't show it on the face, he already had doubts in his heart.
Emperor Xixuan glanced at the people around him, then turned around, walked back to the dragon chair and sat down, "For so long, I haven't asked about the soldiers in the battle with Nancang, and many of them haven't entered the capital to receive rewards, I don't know. Have you settled down well?"
"The border cannot be separated from people. The battle of Nancang consumed too much manpower and troops to prevent neighboring countries from eyeing the opportunity to enter. Most of them stayed and garrisoned. Although they did not enter the capital to receive rewards, their father did not treat them badly. The imperial decree for the reward for meritorious deeds has also been issued, and it is very rich, and they are also very grateful."
Xiao Xu discussed matters on a case-by-case basis, with a formulaic tone.
Emperor Xixuan nodded, "They are all good sons of Xixuan, thanks to them they can protect one side's safety," said this, he suddenly changed the subject, "I remember that in the army, there was a very outstanding young man named Chu Yan is here."
Xiao Xu's pupils shrank. He didn't know what his father's sudden mention meant, but he still calmly said, "Yes, although he is young, he is brave and resourceful, and he is a rare general."
Emperor Xixuan showed admiration, but his tone was doubtful, "I have heard that many generals are full of praise for him, but why is he not in Beijing this time? And why is he not in the list of awards you drafted? Is it missing or?"
Xiao Xu lowered his brows and said, "He was originally going to enter the capital with his ministers, but suddenly something happened at home, so he left, and he declared that he would not enter the court as an official, but if the people were in trouble, he would still come forward."
"Such talents are rare! But I heard that this Chu Yan has no father or mother, and is an orphan. How can there be trouble at home? Could it be—" Emperor Xixuan's tone changed, and he looked at Xiao Xu with a half-smiling smile, "You don't? Are you willing to let someone enter the court as an official, or do you simply don’t want him to appear in front of me?”
Xiao Xu's fingers slowly clenched, the bad guess in his heart has been verified.
He still said in his usual voice, "My son doesn't dare."
Emperor Xixuan didn't seem to hear his words, and continued, "Actually, Chu Yan also entered the capital together, but no one recognized it. Do you think the father and emperor are right?"
Xiao Xu pursed his lips.
"Chu Yan, Chu Qingyan, the difference in one word, the homophony is different, it's actually easy to guess, but no one has ever linked the two together, right?"
Emperor Xixuan said these words lightly, but it fell on his shoulders like a heavy stone, and his back stiffened in an instant.
On the mountain road of Fengtai Mountain, the carriage galloped, but unfortunately the speed could only be reduced due to the heavy wind and rain.
This mountain road was not easy to walk, it rained again, there were potholes everywhere, and the visibility was too low, and the carriage stumbled.
Pang Zhijing woke up leisurely because of the bumps along the way.
The light cough startled Xiao Hou, who was drying her clothes with his inner strength. He grabbed her hand and looked at her with joy, "You woke up, do you feel any discomfort?"
Pang Zhijing took a deep breath before complaining to him, "You're hugging too tightly, does that count?"
"It's still a joke, it proves that the injury is stable!"
Having said that, he still loosened the strength of holding her a little bit, and he didn't know why, just now when he saw that her face was so white that it was about to become transparent, he couldn't help but want to hold her tightly in his arms, That way he could feel that she was really alive.
Feeling that the wet clothes on her body had become dry, she was a little surprised, but when she looked up to ask him, she found that his lips were very pale, his face was not very good, and there were faint bloodstains on the corners of his mouth, as if there was something piercing her heart.
"What's wrong with you? Did those people hurt you?" she said, angry and distressed.
Xiao Hou basked in the sun lightly, "They can't get on me. This is the aftermath of the poisonous hair last night. Just take a good rest for two days, don't worry."
She nodded, remembering how terrible his poisonous hair was last night, and now she still has lingering fears, but fortunately everything has passed.
There was a gentle stroking on her face, she raised her eyes slightly, but met his gentle eyebrows, which were different from the gentleness of the eyes, but the gentleness of water that was really revealed in her heart, she blinked, this How could people suddenly change their temper and treat her so well? Is it because she saved him last night
She is someone who can't hide her words, and she couldn't help but say, "Xiao Hou, I'm not used to you being so kind to me all of a sudden."
"You don't like it when you're good to you, it's really a headache." He raised his hand and scratched her nose lightly, his voice helpless but with infinite doting.
However, this intimacy made her even more flattered, and she quickly said, "Xiao Hou, if you feel sorry for you because I helped you detoxify last night, and you feel that you have tarnished the innocence of a girl's family and want to be responsible, I will tell you. , this is not necessary, because in our place, although chastity is very important, it is not as important as you, and women in our place will not reject a man because he has an ex, and a man will not reject him because a woman has had an ex Boyfriend doesn't accept her, so—"
Suddenly she felt that the surrounding air became so cold, and then Xiao Hou's face became so scary so scary—