In fact, according to seniority, Li Chengqian should call himself uncle...
But how can he deserve the honorific title of Prince? So everyone talked about their own affairs. Li Chengqian called his eldest brother master, but he and he were brothers.
But now in this scene, even if they are brothers, he feels a little unbearable.
"The general has met His Highness the Crown Prince."
Xue Rengui hurriedly saluted, keeping his posture very low.
Li Chengqian nodded slightly. He didn't intend to just reminisce about the past here. He turned to look at the other generals and smiled and expressed condolences to them one by one.
The generals were also grateful. The prince's personal condolences may not mean anything to Li Jing, but to them, they were indeed quite flattered.
Finally, Li Chengqian's eyes fell on Hou Junji, and his expression moved slightly, but there was nothing too abnormal.
Of course he knew that this Hou Junji was the culprit that caused the disagreement between his father and his master, and ultimately caused his master to fly away.
But now, he is no longer a child and can write his personal happiness and anger on his face.
on the contrary.
He is familiar with Taoist scriptures and Buddhism, and now he has done a good job in cultivating his character. His inner thoughts will never be revealed easily.
Perhaps, this is what they call 'City Mansion'?
"General-in-waiting."
Li Chengqian smiled lightly and said,
"I heard that you are extremely brave on the battlefield. You rush to the front every time, even faster than the soldiers!"
"As a general, there is no need for you to be so desperate."
"It is said that a thousand troops are easy to obtain, but a general is difficult to find."
Hou Junji was slightly startled.
He didn't expect the prince to say this, but the next second he reacted and decisively knelt down on one knee.
"The last general is a criminal. When he goes to the battlefield, he rushes to wrap his body in horse leather. Naturally, he has to fight bravely and set an example for all the soldiers in the army!"
Hou Junji lowered his head and said,
"It's just that the criminal was lucky in the end and survived despite the desperate charge."
"The guilty minister wanted to commit suicide after the war was completely victorious, but he was stopped by his comrades. In the end, it was the general manager who spoke, saying that my life was not decided by myself, but by His Majesty. His Majesty should decide whether I should live or die. Decide!"
"The guilty minister returned shamelessly. Once he arrived in Chang'an, the guilty minister knew that it was time for him to return to the prison and wait for his fate."
His posture was humble, and his tone was even more humble. How could he still have the slightest trace of his former unruliness?
Listening to his words, the generals had different expressions.
Has Hou Junji finally smoothed his edges?
"The general is serious."
Li Chengqian's eyes flickered, he gently lifted Hou Junji up, and said seriously,
"My father is not a person who does not distinguish between merit and fault. How can you be imprisoned after you have made great achievements this time? Wouldn't that chill the hearts of all the soldiers?"
"General, don't have any doubts. Let's go to the city with Gu Gu to have a banquet and have a good rest. Tomorrow, my father will hold a grand meeting! I will naturally know what my merits and demerits will be then."
"I believe that with your military exploits, my father will not treat you badly!"
"Thank you, Your Highness, Prince!" Hou Junji stopped as soon as he was satisfied, and stood up without continuing to be pretentious.
"By the way, Helan Chushi is your son-in-law, right?" Li Chengqian suddenly asked.
Hou Junji raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince."
He admitted it directly.
The name Helan Chushi is not Han Chinese at first glance. It is a Xianbei surname.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Han people were the first class, and all other Xianbei and Turkic people were in a lower class!
With the prominence of Hou Junji at the beginning, it was impossible to recruit such a son-in-law, but who made the old horse stumble and plummet?
Daughter, it would be nice to get married and drink wine!
Even, it’s a bit high-spirited! After all, Helan Chushi works as an errand in the palace,
"Helan Chushi is now in Gu's East Palace, leading an army of thousands of cattle guards."
Li Chengqian smiled and said,
"I'll arrange a meeting with your husband-in-law later."
"Let's go to the city."
With that said, he was already calling the generals to enter the city to work.
Xue Rengui looked at Li Chengqian with a bit of confusion in his eyes.
Why is His Highness the Crown Prince so kind to Hou Junji? We are enemies with him!
If you don’t say too much, at least you can’t give me a good look!
Xue Rengui was relatively simple-minded. Because of Xu Fenglei, he subconsciously regarded Li Chengqian as belonging to his own faction, so he would naturally have to deal with Hou Junji!
When he was in the military camp, he never visited Hou Junji!
Therefore, Li Chengqian's conversation made him feel a little uncomfortable.
But he couldn't say anything... Don't think that if someone calls you Brother Xue, you will really be their elder brother.
He is the most noble prince!
"Let's go."
Li Jing turned a blind eye and waved his hand and said,
"Have a good meal and drink. The royal banquets are always very sumptuous. When your eldest brother returned home in triumph, it was really a bear's paws and an orangutan's lips, and there was even tiger meat! It was a pleasure for my master!"
"Let's go, I don't know what to eat this time."
Xue Rengui was a little speechless.
My master, when did he become a foodie?
You still eat tiger meat...Aren't you afraid that the one you raise will get angry? !
…
That night.
In a wine shop in Chang'an, the soldiers mingled with each other and drank various kinds of meat and vegetables.
"Come on, drink!"
"Damn it, I finally won the battle, and I can finally get a wife this time! It feels so good, so good! Come... drink!"
"Then let's have a drink for our future sister-in-law! Hahahaha... do it!"
"Why are we fighting? Isn't it just to get a wife? This time we finally broke out. We have worked hard for half a life, so we have to enjoy it!"
"..."
There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the army, and the only person who can be rewarded by the prince himself is a high-ranking general in the army, at least a captain.
And at this moment, they are all looking forward to what title they will be awarded by the emperor tomorrow and how much fertile land they will be rewarded with.
In a private room in the back hall.
The environment here is better and there are fewer people sitting there.
Li Chengqian raised his wine glass and said loudly:
"Thank you for your hard work, my father-in-law would like to give you a toast!"
Gudong, Gudong!
Li Chengqian drank the wine in one gulp, eliciting thunderous applause.
"good!"
"His Royal Highness has a great capacity for drinking!"
Li Chengqian smiled, but his brows wrinkled slightly.
His sister had warned him not to drink any alcohol. As soon as he touched it, the scars on the soles of his feet began to hurt.
All the way back from outside the city, he had endured the severe pain and tried his best to pretend to be a normal person.
The shoes and socks were probably already bloody and bloody, and the alcohol was irritating him, and the smell made him straighten up!
"Everyone, please eat and drink to your heart's content, but don't get too drunk, so as not to affect tomorrow's court meeting."
Li Chengqian warned.
All the generals nodded in response, not daring to be too indulgent.
"Come on, drink."
"We drink a lot, even if we drink two kilograms of wine, we're just like a normal person!"
"Blow it! If you drink two kilograms of wine, I'm afraid you will be drunk in the Tai Chi Palace tomorrow!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Amid the laughter and laughter, the atmosphere became relaxed.
Li Chengqian took advantage of the fact that they were in a good mood of drinking, and when no one was paying attention, he stood up gently.
But his feet were so painful that he had to limp out of the house, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Everyone was drinking and eating, and no one paid attention to him.
Except Hou Junji.
His popularity is not good and he is relatively withdrawn, so he makes his own decisions.
However, beside him, his son-in-law Helan Chushi was specially called by Li Chengqian and was accompanying him.
"Father-in-law, please drink."
"Father-in-law, this bear paw tastes good. It's a rare delicacy. Would you like to try it?"
Although Hou Junji was in despair, Helan Chushi was still respectful to him.
After all, this father-in-law has been brilliant before! And now I have the attitude of getting up!
"Um."
Hou Junji took a sip of wine, but his eyes followed Li Chengqian as he left the room.
"Why is this prince limping on his feet?"
"Has he been injured recently?"
Helan Chushi shook his head and laughed.
"No, this is His Highness's hidden illness, which has existed for many years."
He lowered his voice and said,
"It is said that Sun Simiao cannot be cured and can only be relieved at most."
"I also heard that... His Highness the Crown Prince has a big sore under the sole of his foot. When it attacks, it is unbearably painful and itchy, and the flesh and blood are bloody. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's temperament changed drastically before, and he had a big quarrel with His Majesty, which is also related to this."
Hou Junji raised his eyebrows.
"How can you, your Majesty, be so ill?"
He murmured,
"Tell me more about the quarrel between the Crown Prince and His Majesty! Tell me everything you have heard and known during your years in the East Palace!"
When Helan Chushi heard this, his eyebrows suddenly lit up.
"Okay! Father-in-law, I really know a lot of secrets in the palace. Please wait a moment and I'll tell you where to start..."
"Well... let's start with the departure of Master Xu Fenglei! Everything seems to have happened after he left."
"First of all, there is a huge difference between His Majesty's attitude towards the Crown Prince and the King of Wei..."
"..."
Hou Junji was a careful listener with deep eyes.
…
In the courtyard outside the house, next to a lake.
Li Chengqian carefully took off his shoes. When he took off his socks, his teeth were clenched.
Hiss.
The socks were stuck together with flesh, blood, pus, and water. Just peeling them off was so painful!
But Li Chengqian seemed to be used to it. He didn't hesitate and ripped off the entire sock with one force!
The pain that penetrates the sky ×10!
In an instant, he almost lost consciousness!
"Uh-huh..."
Li Chengqian couldn't help but groaned.
He gritted his teeth and looked at the ragged soles of his feet, his emotions no longer fluctuating.
In the past, he might have gone crazy and become hysterical.
But now, he is calm at his core.
"It's just a stinky skin. It doesn't matter if you give it up, let alone such a disease?"
Li Chengqian thought lightly,
"It does not matter."
Then, he followed the same pattern and tore off the other sock, dipping his soles into the pool water.
The cool and clear water was instantly dyed red.
And Li Chengqian's brows finally relaxed a little.
"Hou Junji."
Li Chengqian said softly,
"Master hates this person very much."
"How should I help Master kill him? With my father's character, if it is not a real crime of rebellion, I am afraid he will never kill him."
"rebellion……"
In his heart, since the first half of the year, he has had a bold plan, a treasonous plan, but it is the plan he wants to do the most!
However, that plan was always in its infancy.
But now, it seems that there is a little idea.
After a while.
He washed the soles of his feet, took out a bottle of medicinal powder from his arms and applied it on his feet. This was the sore medicine prepared for him by his sister Li Lizhi.
laugh.
The medicinal powder blended into the bloody soles of the feet, and there was a sense of coolness.
"This girl's medical skills are getting better and better."
"The eldest sister has a bank, the younger sister has a medical clinic, Qingque wants to write a masterpiece, and Li Ke wants to be a political party."
"Everyone's goals are very clear, but what about me?"
he said to himself.
As a prince, will he inherit this country in the future?
In everyone's eyes, this is the path he should and must take, as if he, the eldest son, was born with this mission.
But it's not like he had to be the first to get out.
Being an emperor is a bright and smooth road, a road to the top that countless people can't envy.
But does he have to leave?
Li Chengqian looked at the soles of his feet that were no longer bleeding and shook his head.
These feet can't walk that way.
He has his own way to go.
At this moment, a burst of footsteps came.
"His Royal Highness, it turns out you are here, you scared me to death!"
Helan Chushi walked to Li Chengqian's side, just glanced at his feet, then stopped looking at his feet and said,
"Are you here to enjoy the scenery?"
Li Chengqian put on his shoes as if nothing had happened and said:
"Yeah, I'll come out and have some quiet time."
"Aren't you having dinner with your father-in-law? Why are you out?"
Helan Chushi looked at Li Chengqian with a hesitant expression, as if he had something to say but was worried.
"What's wrong?"
Li Chengqian said doubtfully,
"If you have something to say, just say it directly without this expression."
When Helan Chushi heard this, the corners of his mouth turned down slightly, and finally he sighed softly.
"Your Highness, don't blame the general. My father-in-law just asked about the affairs in the general's palace, and the general told some things about you."
He sighed, but spoke carefully, always paying attention to Li Chengqian's face.
Seeing that Li Chengqian's expression remained as usual, he continued:
"After hearing this, my father-in-law felt very unfair for His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Obviously you are the crown prince, but His Majesty only favors King Wei. Instead, he is extremely harsh on you, especially after you become ill, so..."
"Oh, I can't say it! In fact, the general has always felt that His Majesty has gone too far, but who dares to say this? In fact, we can all understand your actions, really! Anyone else would be depressed and crazy ! You must be looking for a channel to vent your emotions!"
Li Chengqian listened to his words, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, but then quickly dropped.
What's this?
Someone gives you a pillow when you feel sleepy? Want to drink milk? Mom is here?
He was just thinking about how to catch Hou Junji, but this old boy came up to him on his own?
That would save a lot of effort! The next second, Li Chengqian's expression became extremely sad, and he even turned over the sore on the sole of his foot so that Helan Chushi could clearly see it.
"You understand loneliness..."
He whispered,
"But my father will never understand, never will! Even if he can understand, he won't care about my feelings."
"He will only continue to pamper King Wei. One day, he may even depose Gu directly and pass the throne to him! Gu is ready."
"Who said Gu is a lame? How can the emperor of any country be a dead cripple?"
