Phoenix and Dragon

Who is he?

Prince Su's son suddenly had such a question at this moment.

The doubts in his heart grew wantonly. From the day he met Qin Feng, it seemed that he had stepped into a situation intertwined with past and old dreams.

The wind is clear and the sky is high, everything is cold, and the dew in the autumn evening spreads into misty evening smoke. Under the curtain of wind and moon, there is an indistinctly elegant lonely shadow, which flies into the eternal night.

When the tide of memory recedes, there are sudden waves. It seems that a small figure smiles slyly, and then turns his back and walks away, never to be heard from again.

Today, plum blossoms are the only ones I love, and most of the works in the forbidden gardens of the imperial palace are plum trees.

Before the season of plum blossoms, there should be no clear shadows that are scattered and slanted.

Qin Feng's footsteps slowed down. Li Mingyuan was thinking about something, and unknowingly followed Qin Feng to walk down slowly. When he looked up and saw the dead branches that hadn't bloomed, he suddenly felt that he had arrived.

Shang Beast Garden is located in a corner of the imperial palace. It is clean on weekdays, and even cleaner at night. After all, the place where wild beasts are kept in captivity will not taste too good, and the beasts will not be too friendly. If there are outsiders sneaking around here, even dogs are not needed. Let go, let go of the lion directly.

In today's world, although there are many martial arts masters, there is no one who is brave enough to go head-to-head with a lion with bare hands. A master's mind is so simple that it is disgusting.

Ever since the barbarians changed the gift of the beast to the princess, although the effect is the same, but in the Jin Dynasty, the emperor finally didn't have to use the juniors to pretend to be the front of the court. In recent years, the princes and princes of various families have rarely been called. Enter the palace to watch these beasts.

But the Shang Beast Garden is still the Shang Beast Garden, and the emperor is not the Emperor Xuanzong who made the biggest joke of all time. He ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to allocate funds every year to raise these living creatures. Although he did not take care of them, he never criticized them.

All things in the world have spirituality. If a rolling pin has been used for 800 years, it may become a hammer, let alone a living animal. The beasts in Shang Beast Garden live a stable life. They sleep when they are full, and wake up when they wake up. Eating, once there was a tendency to become a serious live pig.

In view of the fact that the barbarians were uneasy and kind when they sent this thing, and they were raised in pairs. Therefore, although the living creatures here cannot sit in the Sangong Sixth Courtyard, they can still have a baby. Now that many years have passed, The cubs have survived several litters alive and kicking, and they were cute and tight when they were young.

This group of living creatures also has aura, and they have been rewarded by the emperor with good food, drink and a good life. It is a joy to be a town house and a beast in this palace. Under the care of the eunuch in charge of the Shang Beast Garden, they are very obedient and petted, even more obedient than cats. Not only that, these beasts usually do not move, and they are particularly violent only when there are strangers.

The son of the world suddenly missed the childhood when he played with beasts like cats and didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

However, it is obviously not the right time for Shi Ziye to miss him.

Li Mingyuan raised his head and looked around, the night was dark and autumn, the palace was tall and tall, the wind was blowing and the shadows were sparse, the leaves were rustling and falling, and the cold well was quiet and quiet.

Li Mingyuan was suddenly a little uncertain. He had never been to Shang Beast Garden when the blue sky melted into the moonlight and was quiet.

A completely unpopular black-painted accelerator outside the Shang Beast Garden is completely hidden in the night without making a sound, the jackdaws are wailing in vain, and the garden is full of animals and animals.

Qin Feng has a leisurely posture. In his eyes, pavilions, terraces, pavilions, or the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, tall mansions, or grassy paths and deserted gardens are all ways to come and go freely in the world of mortals.

Li Mingyuan followed him across a stone bridge, came to the outside of the black-painted accelerator, and heard Qin Feng knock on the door that seemed to have been answered by no one for many years, and it seemed that no one would answer at this moment.

However, Li Mingyuan was so stunned to see the door open with a "squeak", making a long wandering sound in the dark night, the sound was chilling.

It was as dark inside and outside the door.

Li Mingyuan was taken aback, thinking that no one would open the door, subconsciously went to look at Qin Feng, but saw that he was not squinting, his peach blossom eyes were smiling brightly, shining with gentle light.

He always looks like he has nothing to worry about, making others worry too much for nothing.

Li Mingyuan had no choice but to settle down and observe the door together with Qin Feng. After looking at the door, he found that behind the black lacquered gas door, there was a faint flame that was not bright. Only then did Li Mingyuan see clearly that it was a well-dressed old eunuch slowly approaching with a candle.

Qin Feng saw the figure of the old eunuch clearly, and his smile deepened.

The old eunuch's face seemed to be naturally expressionless, and because of his old age, deep wrinkles, under the trance candlelight, at first glance, it looked a little scary, and he gave the elder son goosebumps all over his body.

What is this number?Li Mingyuan thought, have I reached the boundary of stopping the spirit and guarding the grave?Qin Feng is not going to enter the palace, what is he taking me to the place where he is going to talk about "Liao Zhai" at this moment?

The son's rich thoughts are not something others can guess.

The most important thing is that the other two people present did not even think about speculating.

Qin Feng didn't care what Li Mingyuan thought or looked at, and greeted the old eunuch with a smile: "My lord, don't come here without any problems."

The old eunuch looked Qin Feng up and down with his cloudy eyes, and smiled with a sluggish smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, this old slave is deaf and blind, almost can't even recognize Master Jiu." He The action was surprisingly slow, with the appearance of running out of fuel, and respectfully replied to Qin Feng, and then set his sights on Li Mingyuan: "This is..."

Qin Feng smiled but did not answer.

Wang Gonggong squinted his eyes and looked twice, showing an expression of sudden realization in an old-fashioned way, and saluted Li Mingyuan tremblingly: "So it's the little prince... I haven't seen you for many years, I'm afraid the little prince won't recognize the old slave. The old slave still remembers you."

Little prince is really a distant title.

In the past, Princess Su's concubine Zhang was still there, and only Li Mingyuan was left under her knees. He was the eldest son of Prince Su's Li Xizheng'er Bajing. The servants called Li Mingyuan the little prince one after another in order to please and celebrate.

Later, the concubine Zhang died, and the second concubine Sun entered the Prince Su's mansion. She had no doubts about her love for Prince Su Li Xi, and she played harmoniously with the piano and se, and later gave birth to Li Mingyao.

How shrewd are the people in the palace, their eyes are staring at the master every day to ponder, and they can see that Prince Su has a general affection for his original wife, but an unusual love for Sun.Prince Su Li Xi has always had a reputation of being a fool, and the servants all felt that when it came to the issue of his two sons, Li Xi must love Li Mingyao and Wu Di would like Li Mingyao, but he would not care so much about Li Mingyuan.

In order not to offend Mrs. Sun, this cunning man obviously played tricks on addressing him. From then on, he called Li Mingyuan "the eldest son" and Li Mingyao "the second son", and grandiosely raised the identities of the two brothers to be inexplicably equal. together.

Although Li Xi looks confused, he often pretends to be confused, and sometimes he is really confused when he has a dog-like temper, but in the overall situation, Li Xi remains sober under his pretending to be crazy.

In this matter, Li Xi saw through and didn't tell the truth. He knew the origin of the Sun family long ago. In order to avoid inexplicable disasters for Li Mingyuan, he simply acquiesced in this kind of favoritism. Later, she was brought up by Prince Su, and only then did she faintly realize the truly touching heart of loving father under the unreliable appearance of her father.

Although the rumors outside are messy, saying that there are many right and wrong in the deep house of the Prince Su's mansion, the brothers are not the same mother, and they are all descendants. Sooner or later, there will be partiality for a title, but Li Mingyuan knows that although his father looks confused, My younger brother may really be a [-] with all kinds of tricks, but the real inside is not enough for outsiders, as long as their father, son and brother understand it.

It's just that if these things are spread outside the palace, it will be full of grievances and grievances.

The most obvious point is that outsiders have also learned the tricks of the servants of the palace, and they are all called Li Mingyuan's son, and they are rarely called the little prince.

This title, until Sun's death, has not been changed, and now it has been agreed upon.

In the present age, the little prince who still calls Li Mingyuan is either an old friend of the Sun family who met when he was not a princess, or the ignorant young man who called him indiscriminately.

The old eunuch obviously does not belong to the latter category.

king?

Li Mingyuan accepted the ceremony calmly, but he was thinking in his heart when he had seen this old eunuch. He was vaguely familiar with it, but he couldn't grasp the point.

Zhang Wang Li Zhao Liu, these surnames are too common, it is normal for Li Mingyuan not to remember the names of every servant, and it is even possible to confuse him with others.

This prince is indeed too old. When he was in his prime, Li Mingyuan was probably still just a child. No matter how hard he searched his mind, he couldn't remember an old eunuch who didn't know much.

Qin Feng didn't exchange many pleasantries. Entering this door was like entering his own family's courtyard, and he didn't see anyone outside. He stepped in, and while walking, he gave instructions: "I didn't give any instructions in advance when I came here today. I have something urgent to enter the palace. It’s messy, don’t need to alarm others, just clean up that road.”

Wang Gonggong followed behind him. He wanted to use the weak candlelight to illuminate the road for him, but he raised his hand to signal that he didn't need it. Without asking too many questions, he replied: "Jiu Ye, Xiao Wang Ye, please follow me."

Li Mingyuan's sanity was immediately drawn back by this sentence.

The scenery of Shang Beast Garden is the same as before. Several cages with ferocious beasts are behind the high forest, some distance away from here. Li Mingyuan tried his best to restore the surrounding plants and trees based on his youthful impression. It was the place where they played wildly together when they were young. It’s just that in the past ten or twenty years, the scenery has changed. There are more flower beds on the winding path, and the rockery has become a bonsai. It is a servant room.

Li Mingyuan looked at it secretly with his vague memory. He remembered that the path was under an ancient tree behind the gazebo...

At this moment, the prince pushed away the servant's room with his withered hands.

The room was dark and barely clean.

Wang Gonggong said nothing, fixed the candle dripping wax on the old wooden table, turned around tremblingly, walked to the bed, and lifted the wooden bed board.

Beneath the bed board was a gloomy hole without light.

When Qin Feng saw it, he smiled slightly.

Li Mingyuan was stunned.

"Jiu Ye, Xiao Wang Ye, this old slave will send you two here." The old man's voice sounded in the night, and the memory of an old friend flashed in his cloudy eyes, "This old slave once said to you That master swears that he will guard this place day and night, and never let this place reveal its flaws... Ninth Master, little prince, you two must have something important to do, go quickly, and I am sorry that this old slave will not see you off again."