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Qiu Wenshu looked at Qiu Wenfei in disbelief, unable to hide his astonishment.

Just now, he had thought that Yuan Chen was Prince Rui's cousin, that Yuan Chen was Prince Rui's concubine, but he had never thought that... Yuan Chen was the Ninth Prince.

It was him.

Qiu Wenshu recalled many things.

The white pigeon in front of the dormitory window, Yuan Chen's mysterious note.

On the night of Double Ninth Festival, he was seriously injured and Yuan Chen was unscathed.

The assassin in white in Huzhou Feng Mansion was injured, and there was blood in Yuanchen's room in Hushan Academy.

It turned out that he was right to call himself stupid.

Yuan Chen from afar came here on foot, and he hadn't seen him for several months. He was even taller, and even vaguely had the broad shoulders of a man from the north.

Both Qiu Wenfei and the little eunuch leading the way bowed their heads in salute, but Qiu Wenshu shook his head and looked at Yuan Chen with a complicated expression. His black hair was tied up high, and the roundness of his youth gradually faded, and his facial lines became increasingly handsome and sharp.

How could he mistake such a person for a woman?

The eunuch behind Yuan Chen said in a shrill voice: "Bold, how dare you spy on His Highness's face, come—"

Yuan Chen raised his right hand expressionlessly, the eunuch immediately shut his mouth and lowered his head.

Qiu Wenfei took a step forward, bowed to Yuan Chen again, and said: "My younger brother came to Beijing for the first time, and has gone through a lot of hardships, so it is inevitable that he behaved a little rudely. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

A person who needs his elder brother to be careful, why would he ask his elder brother to take care of him?

Qiu Wenshu came to his senses, lowered his head politely, and bowed to Yuan Chen.

Yuan Chen lazily said: "Get up."

Yuan Chen's voice changed and became deep, Qiu Wenshu couldn't help but think of what he heard when he was in a daze.

——It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that these two prisoners will survive to the capital!They are dead, and the case of cheating in the imperial examination will end with the two of them. Are Master Wei and General Li willing?

——If they arrive at the capital safely, they can drag the entire Qiu family into the water and ruin Qiu Wenshu's family as long as my brother manipulates it.

Is Yuan Chen really such a person?Wasn't the one who seriously promised to save him in the rainy night also Yuan Chen?

"Manjusri, hurry up and thank Your Highness!"

In the hand-chasing corridor, Qiu Wenshu stood up, bowed his eyes to Yuan Chen, his slightly exposed wrist was as thin as a stick, and there were still unhealed welts on it.His voice was cold: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Yuan Chen's eyes flickered slightly, he lowered his head and waved off the invisible dust on his body carelessly, and said: "Master Qiu, let's go to Minghuaxuan first, Bengong and Wenshu will catch up on the past first, and then we will be there."

Qiu Wenfei took a deep look at Qiu Wenshu, and left with the leading eunuch.

Yuan Chen dismissed his entourage, walked down the corridor first, and walked onto a quiet path.

"Come with me."

Qiu Wenshu followed after him. He wore a black square scarf on his head and a lake-color Taoist robe with a cross-collar collar. He behaved like a child of an aristocratic family in every move, and no one could find fault with him.

From the emerald green, the winding path leads to seclusion, very quiet.

Yuan Chen stood under the tree and plucked a small branch lazily. He asked, "You must be surprised that I will appear here."

From the corner of his eyes, Yuan Chen kept looking at the yellow clothes at the corner of the corridor not far away. He didn't hear the answer for a long time. He turned his head and saw Qiu Wenshu standing on the path, looking at him quietly.

Yuan Chen sneered: "Why, could it be that you are waiting for me to make up a new lie for you?"

Qiu Wenshu was a little embarrassed, and Yuan Chen chuckled.

"How can the exquisite and transparent Qiu Wenfei have such a stupid brother like you?"

Qiu Wenshu didn't say a word, and the index finger hidden in the sleeve curled up unconsciously, rubbing it with his thumb constantly.

"Qiu Wenshu, it's me." Yuan Chen pointed at himself and said with a smile, "I told the Li family that you stuttered. I was the one who put you in jail and made fun of your Qiu family."

"The reason, what is it?"

"The military power in the hands of the Li family is coveted by everyone. If you help him relieve his worries, you can get his love." Yuan Chen stood under the tree, looked back at Qiu Wenshu, and said with a half-smile, "If you were me, You will betray me without hesitation."

"I do not know."

Yuan Chen's eyes flickered slightly, and he lowered his head and said: "That means you are stupid, you don't know how to choose, and you still think you are superior."

Qiu Wenshu kept looking at Yuan Chen, his eyes were wet.

"It's your elder brother who knows how to advance and retreat." Yuan Chen approached Qiu Wenshu, slapped his face contemptuously, and said, "Only one can stand out from the crowd and kneel and lick in front of me."

Yuan Chen's words hurt Qiu Wenshu deeply.

It turned out that in Yuan Chen's eyes, his eldest brother, the Qiu family, was just a pug kneeling under the imperial power.

It turned out that his elder brother had to swallow his anger and suffer all kinds of humiliation in front of Yuan Chen for him.

But he still foolishly prays that Yuan Chen has difficulties, and hopes that Yuan Chen is not a bad person.

Qiu Wenshu lifted Yuanchen's hand and looked at him with hatred: "What right do you have to humiliate my elder brother?"

"My eldest brother is loyal to the emperor and serves the country, and his heart is for the common people, but what about you?"

"For the sake of the throne, siblings will fight each other without any means, and disregard human lives. It's disgusting!" Qiu Wenshu said angrily, "If Da Ning falls into the hands of the two of you, the country will be ruined!"

Heavy footsteps came from the corridor, Yuan Chen caught a glimpse of his royal brother's frosty face from the corner of his eye, and immediately slapped Qiu Wenshu backhanded.

"Today, I slapped you to warn you on behalf of the Qiu family, what can be said and what can't be said!"

Qiu Wenshu was stunned by the beating, and his face was in hot pain. The pain caused by the torture was far less painful than Yuan Chen's slap.This is Yuan Chen's true face, those who obey prosper and those who oppose perish...

"If we can't stand at the highest point, we can only be trampled on the soles of our feet. Have you ever tasted this precarious feeling!"

"Do you think everyone is like you, living a carefree life since childhood, without even needing to move your brain!"

Yuan Chen's words hit his head and face, and the invisible pressure sank on Qiu Wenshu, making him helpless.

"Why do you look down on us?" Yuan Chen walked closer, almost surrounded Qiu Wenshu, blocking the glare from the corridor, "You can be ascetic, you can be innocent, but because countless people will You stand behind me!"

"Without me, you wouldn't even be able to climb out of the prison!"

Qiu Wenshu laughed angrily. If he had known this before, he would rather die in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice than come here to see Yuan Chen's true face, let alone his elder brother bowing his knees to Yuan Chen for him.

"You are a man," Qiu Wenshu said with a smile, "that's great."

"What do you want to say?"

"It's really a blessing for Manjusri not to marry you."

Yuan Chen froze immediately, unable to say anything harsh.

Qiu Wenshu turned and left in a daze.

Looking at Qiu Wenshu's back, with his back to the corridor, Yuan Chen's eyes were red, and there was a sadness that was too thick to hide.