Phoenix and Dragon

The morning in the imperial city was somewhat chilly for no reason, the red sunlight piercing through the autumn mist, faintly piercing the hazy paleness of the dawn in the capital.

Gao Cai's complexion was still not good, he lay on the bed all night, and at dawn he still couldn't lie down, disregarding his apprentice's persuasion, he struggled to get up, tidied himself up, endured the pain and moved to the imperial study .

Gao Cai had heard about the events of the night from his young apprentice. Gao Cai wanted to take advantage of the injuries on his body to hide from laziness, but when he heard that the emperor and Prince Su had quarreled all the way from the harem to the court hall, he knew that laziness could not be avoided.

He has been with the emperor for decades, and he knows the emperor's temper best. If something goes against the emperor's mind at this time, even if it's a shitty thing like not handing over the straw paper, I don't know how many people's lives will come to an end. .

The emperor was so furious today that he didn't discuss a single business matter, Gao Cai was waiting in the study when he came back early, and he heard the emperor coming back after half a stick of incense.

For a moment, everyone in the imperial study room was terrified, and needles could be heard quietly dropping.

Gao Cai greeted him courteously, and when the emperor stepped over the palace threshold, Gao Cai gave him a silent look, and immediately a clever palace servant swiftly served the emperor's usual tea.

Gao Cai took it, waved away the court lady who was carrying the tea tray, and personally held the tureen and handed it to the emperor: "Long Live Lord, moisten your throat."

The emperor's complexion was indeed not good, because he looked a little blue because he hadn't slept all night. Thinking of the outrageous anger he had just shown, no one would think that the emperor must be something to be offended at this time.

Only Gao Cai glanced at the emperor calmly.

I don't know if it's Eunuch Gao's delusion. At this time when everyone thinks the emperor is furious, Gao Cai actually thinks that their Long Live Lord doesn't seem so unhappy...

Gao Cai turned his mind around, flicked the whisk in his hand, and pushed away the left and right.

Li Xu's mind was obviously elsewhere, and he didn't know what he was thinking when he returned to the palace with a sullen face. After sitting in front of the desk, he drank the hot tea comfortably and obediently, only to realize later that The idle palace daughters and eunuchs all retreated, and the quiet atmosphere was unexpectedly very satisfactory, and the person standing by to wait on him turned out to be a talented person who was injured only yesterday.

Li Xu raised his eyes and glanced at Gao Cai, Gao Cai hurriedly lowered his head respectfully: "Long Live Lord, what orders do you have?"

There was no one else in the entire imperial study room, and Li Xu no longer had any scruples. Looking at Gao Cai's chubby face like a dough cake, he was very pleasing to the eye, but he still wondered: "Why are you? Didn't it mean that you two Doesn't the sky need to come?"

Gao Cai smiled, and the smile was sincere without any reluctance: "The master is kind, but the slave has always been as long as he can serve by the side of the Long Live Lord, there will be nothing wrong with it."

Li Xu's mood seemed to suddenly improve a lot, he wanted to smile but didn't smile, he just sullenly said, "You came just in time, the eldest son of the emperor doesn't need to announce, go and make a bowl of black sesame paste for me first."

Gao Cai was taken aback when he heard the words, and didn't respond for a moment, but was discovered by Li Xu.

The sullen emperor was extremely impatient, and urged with a wave of his hand, "Go quickly."

Gao Cai hastily responded, took a step and walked backwards.

His judgment was right, fortunately he paid everyone first, Gao Cai thought as he walked, everyone thought the emperor was angry, only he saw that the emperor was not only not angry, but also inexplicable mood not bad.

That's surprising.

Quarreling is different from other things. All other things are judged on the same level. If you win, you will feel aggrieved when you lose. But there is only one thing about quarreling. If you lose, you win, and if you win, you lose, no matter who is higher or lower, The anger I've ever had is real.

Gao Cai has lived to this age, and he has never heard of anyone who can quarrel and be happy. Even a child who wins the quarrel will be unhappy when he comes back, let alone Li Xu, a golden and precious emperor.

Until, the emperor said, boil black sesame paste.

Although this sentence is reasonable, it has no beginning and no end. People with ulterior motives may only guess that the emperor was reincarnated from starvation, and the taste is not very particular.

Of course, other people can't hear it. There is a source for what he said.

I still remember when the late emperor was still there, Prince Su was young and courageous, and dared to cause any trouble.

Going to the study with the other princes, not studying hard, bullying his brother and entertaining master every day, a complete jerk.

The most extreme time, I mixed ink into a bowl of black sesame paste that the former emperor gave to the Taifu, and the Taifu ate it more than a dozen times a day.

This matter was reported to the late emperor by other princes, and the late emperor was furious, and wanted to pour the sesame paste with ink in it for Prince Su.

Today's Empress Dowager brought Li Xu to kneel down to beg for mercy, but Prince Su didn't even say a single word of begging for mercy, he took the sesame paste mixed with ink and drank it clean in two gulps, the late Emperor was dumbfounded.

It's strange to say that Prince Su doesn't know what changed. He is obviously a noble prince, but he is like a big eater. Drinking any dirty things is still a plate of side dishes, and there is not enough to go with the wine. The thing that Mr. Taifu drank was thrown into Prince Su's stomach, like a lively rabbit turned into an immobile tortoise, and there was no reaction at all.

Faced with Prince Su's ridicule that the Taifu "doesn't live up to his stomach after reading too much", the first emperor couldn't laugh or cry, and when his anger was still lingering, he cursed: "This kid is just like this sesame paste. He smells sweet and looks at people. Five people and six children are actually a bowl of black paste."

Li Xu never had the habit of preparing this kind of food, now that he brought it up out of the blue, Gao Cai understood it.

Thinking of this distant past, Eunuch Gao felt that this night was more than a twist.

There is a secret door in the apse of the imperial study room, Gao Cai endured the pain from the wound on his body, and walked quickly in two steps, just in time for someone to come over.

Qin Feng's smiling face faced Gao Cai's white face with a little blood color, and nodded: "Elder-in-law is in good spirits."

Gao Cai hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you, Master Jiu, for your concern."

As he spoke, his eyes glanced behind Qin Feng calmly, unexpectedly but unexpectedly, he saw Prince Su with a shaky complexion and a capitalized "unhappy" all over him, and someone who didn't know who it was. Whether happy or not, or in other words, he didn't know whether he should be happy or not, the eldest son Li Mingyuan with a tangled face.

Gao Cai didn't delay any longer, and stepped aside immediately.

The three of them entered in a file. Prince Su, who had just quarreled with the emperor and was thrown into the prison of the clan's mansion, unexpectedly returned to the front of the imperial court when no one knew it.

Prince Su didn't come to quarrel this time, so the arrogance and domineering of his teeth and claws have become yesterday's flowers. Compared with his [-] behaviors in the past, his well-behaved behavior seems infinitely shy, and he has to follow the rules before the imperial court Come.

Prince Su and the emperor looked at each other, and took the lead to kneel down: "See the emperor."

Li Xu glanced at Li Xi expressionlessly, then glanced at Li Mingyuan and Qin Feng behind him, and said in a calm, majestic voice, "Get up."

The three stood up one after another.

Li Xi was silent, Qin Feng was leisurely, Li Mingyuan was still confused.

Gao Cai silently stood beside the emperor, his eyebrows lowered, and he became a completely non-existent person.

In the imperial study room, there is the morning light at dawn. The light shines through the gaps in the carved window edges, and disperses into countless strands of light, passing through the eternal and solemn palace.

Prince Su Li Xi looked gloomy, counted the scattered light and shadow, and said: "Your Majesty, that smiling boy said that he can give my younger brother a clear understanding, and my younger brother is here to wait for this understanding."

There is silence in the imperial study room, and with the light and shadow like an arrow, all the scenes and portraits are frozen into the past and eternity.

Qin Feng originally lowered his head with a thoughtful expression, but when he heard the sound, he lifted up a face that was disastrous to the country and the people.

He was born with a smiling face, and when his face was expressionless, he always had a three-point flying color. He turned his head and met Shi Ziye's inquiring eyes without any surprise.

King and subject, father and son, each want to understand each other, meeting in front of the imperial court, especially the messy meeting in front of the imperial court, naturally can't tolerate the chattering of shrews in the market. .

Li Mingyuan didn't speak, just looked at Qin Feng quietly.

Qin Feng didn't speak, and a ray of time would pass by his sideways face, his smile was like a dream or a bubble.

The emperor was condescending and didn't say a word, whether he didn't know what to say, or didn't want to say at all.

The scene was awkward for a while.

Qin Feng cupped his hands, and more people came out.

"Your Majesty." Qin Feng said calmly and calmly with a smile, "Let me let you tell me."

All of a sudden, the three pairs of eyes in the imperial study room, except Gao Cai, all fell on Qin Feng.

The emperor's face was tense and serious. He pursed his lips when he heard the words, waved his hand, and acquiesced.

Qin Feng saluted and thanked him, and before he raised his head, he felt Prince Su's eyes of silent protest.

Prince Su Li Xi was full of displeasure.

Li Xi curled his lips, and hummed condescendingly: "I am the prince of the court in public, and I am the emperor's younger brother in private. When I talk to the emperor, I say that if you are older, it is a state matter, and if you are younger, it is a family matter...Boy, Who are you? This King asked the Pope, what is the matter with you?"

Prince Su showed that kind of frivolous arrogance on his face, and what he said was really rough and unpleasant, not to mention his tone. To put it bluntly, he pointed at Qin Feng. You are not qualified enough to speak to the king at all. I haven't put a big hat on you yet, hurry up and stay where you can cool off.

Retiring despite difficulties has never been Qin Jiuye's style. It is his nature to climb his nose and face smoothly. Sure enough, he shocked Prince Su's old thorn in his hand.

Qin Feng didn't lift his head when he heard the words, and bowed his hands to Prince Su Li Xi in the posture of thanking him for his gratitude. After being polite, he didn't wait for Li Xi to say something disgusting, and pulled out a shining gold medal from his sleeve like a magic trick. Years have left traces that still shine on this token. The gold medal is densely recorded with the difficulties and dangers when the Jin Dynasty was founded, and the loyalty and righteousness when the country was founded.

"Does your lord recognize this?"

Li Xi just said "I don't pay attention to the world" and his face immediately changed: "Gold medal to avoid death."

"Yes." Qin Feng handed the gold medal to Li Xi's hand in a persuasive manner, and didn't mind letting him see it clearly, "Tai/Zu awarded four iron coupons of alchemy books to the four iron hat kings in the past. This gold medal was originally not This size is more than ten times larger than this, it is absolutely impossible to carry it with you. It is just that when this object was passed to the hands of an old friend of the prince, the first emperor loved the old friend of the prince and hoped that there was something to protect her anytime and anywhere Peace and joy, seeing this thing is like seeing the late emperor."

The arrogance and arrogance on Li Xi's face instantly collapsed like gravel. He held the small gold medal in his hand, his lips trembled, as if he couldn't believe it, and he repeatedly looked at it in his hands, and finally , suddenly remembered something, suddenly looked at Qin Feng's face.

This face overlaps with the girl in the Jade Age in memory. The woman who grew up in the deep palace was originally born as a general, and more than ten years of court life has not worn away her true nature as a general.

I still remember that Li Xi was ordered to enlist in the army decades ago, and his old friend, who was still a girl before leaving the court, came to see him off. He was dressed in a bunt, his long hair was tied into a neat knot, and he was sitting on a horse with a condescending smile and a heroic posture.

"In the future, I will be like the Seventh Emperor Brother, a general who goes into battle to kill the enemy, expand the territory for my Jin Dynasty, and defend my family and country."

Later, his old friend was really amazing, there are few men in the world who can match her wisdom and bravery, stealing the letter card, mobilizing the forbidden army, and helping the present to win this prosperous world.

The piles of piles are beautifully like the empty mouth and white teeth blowing out in the play when they are not really interpreted.

Later, a beauty with red makeup from ten miles married, and her beauty moved Jinghua...

Decades later, the words still ring in my ears, but it's a pity that Yiren has gone.

Li Xi frowned, with an expression mixed with nostalgia and disbelief in his eyes: "Pingyang..."

He yelled this, and looked at Qin Feng's face again with belated awareness, and suddenly realized that there was a kind of shocking joy: "Xiao Jiuer?... Are you Xiao Jiuer from Pingyang and Chang'an Hou's family? you are still alive?"

Qin Feng raised his head and smiled, the sun passed through the hall, and the slightly dim smile was blurred beyond the sudden brightness.

"Uncle, nephew, on behalf of mother, thank you for thinking about you for many years."