Fubao didn't respond. The two of them walked side by side on the road. Chunxi frequently lowered her head to look at the shoes on her feet, but the expression on her face was very solemn.

Since Fubao chose him, he didn't hide it and asked directly: "Why? Didn't you say you are not afraid of anything?"

Chunxi lowered his head: "I'm not afraid, but that thing..."

Fu Bao keenly grasped the key point of his words and said excitedly: "You know what's in it, right?"

Chunxi realized that he had said something wrong and quickly said, "I don't know, I don't know."

Fubao said disappointedly: "Brother Chunxi, I thought you wouldn't hide this from me." After all, he had promised it himself, and it was really disappointing that he went back on his word now.

Chunxi knew he was in the wrong, so he lowered his head and said, "It's a very dangerous thing, it will hurt many people, that's all I know."

Fubao didn't hide anything: "Yes, but I'm looking for weapons."

Chunxi struggled: "But if I use it, there will be more casualties. I don't want to..."

Fu Bao: "If you don't use it, someone else will. I came here to find it, but the most important thing is to prevent it from falling into the hands of King Li."

Hearing about King Li, Chunxi was shocked: "The most cruel person in the royal family is him. I am not surprised that he is looking for this thing. Isn't there any other way to end this rebellion?"

Fubao: "No matter what, this batch of goods must not fall into the hands of others."

Chunxi pursed her lips, said nothing, and took Fubao back to the dilapidated temple.

At noon, Li Shuangrong returned to the ruined temple with a dark complexion as usual. Fubao hurried to greet him: "Father, how is it?"

Li Shuangrong shook his head: "The steward is very strict. The boxes are all made of iron and are sealed. They can't be opened at all."

Fubao nodded: "Are you tired?" Although she stayed there for a whole night, she did not see Li Shuangrong.

Li Shuangrong: "I just went there, they don't trust me yet, they only let me do some cleaning work."

Fubao: "I roughly know what it is. If it's dangerous there, it's better not to go there."

Li Shuangrong: "I was introduced by Zhuzi and we signed a contract. If I only work for one day and then quit, what will Zhuzi do?"

Fu Bao pondered for a while and said, "Then you decide for yourself. Leave when the time comes."

Li Shuangrong nodded: "Don't worry, the managers there are very kind, it's not tiring, and the pay is high."

Fu Bao listened to Li Shuangrong's evaluation of the place and suddenly understood why there had been no news about the dock for so long. After all, who would want to lose such a good job?

Chunxi didn't know what he said to his younger brothers. When Fubao went to talk to them about things, they all stopped laughing and sat upright, looking like young masters from wealthy families.

Fubao sat opposite them and looked at Chunxi: "Will you still help me?"

Chunxi no longer hesitated: "It's better to let you get it than... hand it over to King Li."

Fu Bao was delighted: "Really? As long as you are willing, I will be relieved."

Chunxi looked conflicted: "If, I mean if, I have other ways to end this rebellion, can I not hand it over to Tianqi?"

Fu Bao was stunned by what he said: "If we can avoid war, of course we won't need it..."

The eyes of several young men were all cast on Chunxi, as if waiting for him to make a decision.

The familiar feeling came over him again. Fubao looked at Chunxi deeply and asked, "Who are you?"

She had long discovered that several people showed respect to Chunxi, either openly or covertly. It was not like a younger brother respecting an older brother, but more like submission to a person of higher status.

Shuangxi's expression suddenly became tense. Normally, he was the most lively and talkative. At this moment, his expression had confirmed Fubao's guess.

Chunxi no longer concealed her feelings and said to Fubao frankly, "Do you know what King Li's name is?"

Fu Bao was stumped by his question and kept calling King Li "King Li", but Fu Bao really didn't know his own name.

Chunxi asked again: "What was the surname of the royal family of the previous dynasty? Do you know?"

Fubao hesitated and said, "It can't be that his surname is Chun..." Ever since the fall of the previous dynasty, people had deliberately stopped mentioning news about them, so that she knew nothing.

Yi An stood up and said to Fu Bao, "The royal family of the previous dynasty was Chen."

Fubao: "Then you guys..."

Yi An: "Brother Chunxi is the son of the previous crown prince, Chen Xi. After the crown prince died, it was not King Li who was appointed as the crown prince, but him."

Fu Bao's pupils suddenly shrank. She had never imagined that in Yuezhou, a place 18000 miles away from Kyoto, on the side of a busy road, in such a dilapidated temple, the person living there was actually the crown prince of the previous dynasty.

There was no joy or anger in Chunxi's eyes, and his expression did not change, as if he did not care about this identity.

Fu Bao: "Why did all those former ministers of the previous dynasty support King Li?"

Chen Xi said: "The emperor's uncle is the only person they can find who has royal blood from the previous dynasty."

Imperial uncle... Fubao suddenly remembered that he almost revealed his flaws several times when talking with Chunxi, but he did not expect at that time that there were other bloodlines of the previous royal family living among the people.

Fubao: "Then the method you mentioned..."

Chen Xi said: "I am more legitimate than the emperor's uncle. As long as I appear, there will be disagreements among the old ministers, and they will choose the successor between me and the emperor's uncle."

Fu Bao: "Then how can you be sure that they will choose you? And if they doubt your identity, how will you explain it?"

He was only a few years old when he was appointed as the crown prince, and his memories of the royal family were only about the days of hiding from place to place and the bloodthirsty and cruel uncle who was not close to him. Would they choose such a crown prince?

Chen Xi: "You don't understand them. They don't want to revive the previous dynasty. Even if there are such people, they are only a small minority. Most people just have a grudge against Xiao Xu. Tianqi can't tolerate them, so they turn to King Li and find a legitimate reason to fight for power for themselves."

Fubao looked at him and suddenly realized that the Chunxi he knew was just a disguise, and his heart suddenly sank.

Chen Xi looked at her and said, "As an emperor who can shock others and revive the Southern Dynasty, I am no match for my uncle. However, as a puppet, my uncle is no match for me..."

When he said this, the boys' eyes were filled with pain: "Brother, you managed to escape with great difficulty, only to let him think you were dead. If you do this, all your previous efforts will be wasted."

Chen Xi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he said firmly: "As a royal family, we enjoy the support of the people. Now that we can find a way to keep them from the flames of war, why should we fear death?"

Fubao was shocked. He didn't expect that he could have such awareness. He couldn't help but respect him more.

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