There are many treasures in this country

Xiao Suo woke up in the middle of the night, Shen Yan's chest was too hard, which made him uncomfortable.The person under him didn't realize it, he was moving around and couldn't sleep because of the noise, he stroked his back and asked in a daze, "what are you doing?"

Xiao Suo rubbed the corners of his eyes, with a special soft voice: "I can't sleep anymore, let me down."

"No." Shen Yan flatly refused.

How many times have I dreamed back in the middle of the night, thinking that I was holding him, but reaching out to grab him was nothing.

"My bone hurts." Xiao Suo reasoned with him rubbing his side, "I can't sleep well like this."

Although Shen Yan was reluctant, she still put him by her side and hugged him, leaning against his thin back with her heart, kissed him and said: "Okay, go to sleep."

"Still can't sleep." He rubbed against the pillow, and asked again: "I'm going to see King Qi tomorrow, are you going?"

Shen Yan supported his buttocks with one hand, closed his eyes and said, "Go. How can I not see this mighty prince."

"Do you think he will speak?" Xiao Suo became more sober as he spoke, and opened up the conversation, "I have many things to ask him, what if he doesn't say anything?"

"It's the middle of the night, you are refreshed, it can be seen that you didn't clean up thoroughly last night!" Shen Yan pinched him and threatened: "If you don't sleep, I will take you to do something when you can't sleep! "

Xiao Suo has a good temper lately, he curled his lips and scoffed: "I'm not afraid!"

"Yo huh?" Shen Yan smiled when he heard the words, and the place where he was ready to go was close to him, and there was a dangerous breath in his breath: "Aren't you afraid?"

"...Afraid." Xiao Suo struggled inward twice, but still didn't dare to be too rampant.

Shen Yanchun just teased him, pulled him back, patted his shoulder, and coaxed him softly: "Okay, okay, stop making trouble. Go to sleep, you have to go to Prince Qi's mansion tomorrow morning, and you won't have time to go to the yamen if it's late .”

When Xiao Suo got up the next day, his eyes were covered with two bruises as expected.The side of the bed was cold and empty.Shen Yan had already returned home early in the morning, and did not go to the palace with him.

After freshening up, he first went to Yushitai to meet Mao, and then went to Xicheng in a sedan chair.

In front of the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion, there used to be a lot of flowers, cars coming and going, and the crowd was like a bustle.But now the people are scattered, the houses are deserted, the summer is hot, and it is as depressed as autumn.

Shen Yan was exchanging greetings with Qin Huan by the wall, when he saw him coming, he waved from a distance: "Master Xiao, I have been waiting for a long time!"

Xiao Suo straightened his robe, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "I have seen the two generals."

Qin Huan listened casually and casually, and knew roughly what happened between them. Looking at the situation of these two people, they were not as close as they were when they came to Beijing from Yuezhou. Officially said: "You go in, I am ordered to guard, and I don't care about the investigation, so I won't go."

Shen Yan smiled and punched him: "You are the only one who is smart enough to stay out of it! Come on, let's go in."

Although King Qi's party has been convicted, but King Qi is a royal family after all, and he has not been punished by reducing his rank, so the pomp that he should have cannot be reduced at all.Xiao Suo handed over the official post at the door and waited for half a day before he was led in by two servants.

Seeing that there was no one around, Shen Yan whispered: "I'll see him later, don't mention Mei Qi."

"I understand." He wanted Mei Qi to stay out of the matter and not to be implicated in the case again.

The weather is not good today, and there is bound to be a heavy rain.Shen Yan came with an umbrella, but before entering the house, the little boy who untied the sword took it away, as if it was some kind of sharp weapon.

Indoor sandalwood is curling up, and it is very quiet.King Qi had already been waiting inside, holding tea and resting his eyes with his eyes closed, his handsome aged face could not be seen clearly in the shadows, he could only feel the years slowly flowing in front of his eyes, and looking back, it was already a hundred years old.

Xiao Suo saluted Shen Yan, thanked him for his seat, and heard him ask softly: "I guess you should come too, why didn't Yan Jun come with you?"

"Master Yan has entered the palace." Xiao Suo replied.

Shen Yan said with a smile: "However, if you want to ask the prince about some things, it's the same if Mr. Yan doesn't come, Mr. Xiao."

King Qi put down the cup: "If he comes, Xiao Wang won't say anything. I know what you want to ask." He picked up a big red carved lacquered wooden box on the table, and said, "Master Xiao also has this on him, right?"

Seeing him open the lid and take out a crystal black pearl, Xiao Suo couldn't help secretly wondering, and pretended to say: "Of course ordinary people don't have such a rare thing. The prince is too flattering to his ministers."

"Why not?" King Qi smiled, his eyes swept over Shen Yan's guilty face, "Isn't there a black pearl in the bag around your waist?"

"This one..." Xiao Suo grasped the kit and looked at Shen Yan, not knowing how to answer.

Shen Yan hurriedly lied for him: "Master Xiao, this one is a fake, just make sure it looks like it, it's not the King of Pearls."

King Qi didn't expose him, and said with a smile: "Xiao Wang's one is real, do you know where it came from?"

Before the two could answer, there was a sudden rustling outside.After a while, the sound of dense rain floated from far and near.

King Qi got up and stood in front of the window, with broken hair flying in the wind, he turned around and sighed: "Oh, the past is like yesterday, and it has been 27 years in a blink of an eye, but it still seems to be the same."

He leaned against the window, with a memory of the past in his eyes, and recalled: "27 years ago, Xiao Wang was only 16 years old. This black pearl king was picked off by the emperor himself—that is, the first emperor—from his waist. It was handed over to me."

Twenty-seven years ago, the young man in fresh clothes and angry horse was sent to accompany his elder brother, who was ten years older than him, as a companion.The two sit together, drink and eat together, face each other day and night, and gradually connect with each other, and even share the same bed.

There are long years in the womb of the Tai Tai, and every flower and leaf is condensed with time.

"He said, you have bad luck and a lot of disasters. Wearing this black pearl, you will be able to turn bad luck into good luck and make disaster auspicious. I said, what about you? He said, if you are happy, I will be happy. "

Xiao Suo looked at the tenderness and brilliance on King Qi's face, his heart was touched, he was surprised and moved, he couldn't help looking at Shen Yan.The latter was also looking at him, and smiled slightly, his expression full of smoke and water.

"Xiao Wang went to the army when he was less than 20 years old, and he also fought in Xifan. Everywhere he went, the emperor's brother would send three or five secret greetings, and the letters would be warm and caring. At that time, I thought that life would be like this In the future, Brother Huang and I will be together forever. He also promised me that. However, when I came back, Uncle Huang had passed away, and Brother Huang became the emperor."

"Ascension to the throne means that after he is established, he will marry a wife and concubine, and produce heirs for the royal family. And I will also hand over my military power, marry the princess, and be an idle prince from now on. Everything that happens in the uterus is only In the womb of the crown prince. Brother Huang said, I am destined to have fire, and I am stubborn and enthusiastic and will not give in. The Taoist priests in Nanshan said, I am destined to carry water, which is flexible and inexhaustible.

"In my opinion, both of them are right." Shen Yan interjected, "The lord has the nature of water and fire, he is heroic and passionate, but the water is still and deep. The blending of water and fire, and the harmony of yin and yang, can be balanced."

King Qi turned his head and smiled, and said: "Brother Huang said that he was born in the royal family, so there are naturally many things he has to do. He will not break his promise, but he will not abandon the ancestral temple. He ordered me to be by his side all the time, but he also gave me a daughter. , made me get married. I listened to what he said. The concubine has a gentle temperament, dignified and generous. It is my luck to marry her, but it is her misfortune. I owe her a lot."

Xiao Suo thought, this is probably the reason why you treat Wei Lan so kindly, but he didn't say it directly.

King Qi sat back in front of the hall, and continued: "Brother Huang did not break his promise and become fat. He not only treats me as before, but also entrusts me to handle all major affairs in the court. You must ask me first before agreeing to everything. Even if there is disagreement , and they all accommodated to my will. At that time, the courtiers attached themselves to me, and there were thousands of things every day, and I couldn't control them, so I just let them do it."

"I'm afraid that although the lord has no intentions, the people below have intentions." Xiao Suo said, "They form a clique for personal gain, and they are playing the banner of the lord."

"That's right." King Qi nodded, "Power and time are enough to change a person, and I am no longer what I was back then. Brother Huang handed over the world to me, the world that I fought for him. There are a lot of gossips in the middle, and the emperor also needs to monitor those courtiers who have unruly intentions from time to time, so he ordered me to secretly contact the masters of the rivers and lakes, and set up the Happy Hall."

"The Happy Hall was actually built by the first emperor's order?" Shen Yan was surprised.

King Qi sighed, and said: "The current emperor also knows about it - this matter was mentioned in the emperor's letter. The happy hall gradually became one of the best killer organizations in the Jianghu, which Xiao Wang did not expect. They Eliminate dissidents for all walks of life, and the money collected is divided among everyone, and no one can take it out."

"Later, things got serious, and the corpse dumping place in the suburbs of Beijing was discovered. Chen Jidao proposed to expand the ice room there, and bury the secret underground forever. I asked the emperor for an order, and the emperor naturally has everything , and blocked the rumors, and ordered Beijing to stop spreading the story of the Nanshan Corpse Cave. Who knows, after decades, you dug it out. It can be seen that there is no secret that will not be revealed, and it is only a matter of time."

Shen Yan thought for a while, and said: "Perhaps the emperor knew about this, so he ordered me to investigate the secrets in the icehouse."

It's not hard to guess Huan Ye's intentions, naturally he wants to eradicate King Qi's influence.In fact, since he sent Shen Yan to Zhuoyang to investigate Chen Jigu a year and a half ago, one after another, the Yuezhou case, the fraud case, the ice drinking case, and the red candle case, he took advantage of the topic and took advantage of the trend, bluffing and secretly But all the land points to the members of King Qi's party.

How could King Qi not know: "The emperor has been jealous of me for a long time. From the day I helped him ascend the throne, he has been planning to empty me one day. No wonder, the situation is like this. Either he empty me or I empty him As for whether you are willing or not, it is not important. I know all these things, but I have to do my best to maintain it, not only for me, but also for the people who depend on me. And the emperor, he also has his helplessness. No more Power, he can only die."

Xiao Suo asked at the right time: "Has the prince ever thought about becoming the throne on his own?"

Shen Yan was so frightened that he glared at him and said: "Master Xiao has not been an official for a long time, but he doesn't know the rules and speaks without restraint. Don't blame me, my lord!"

King Qi twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "It's okay. Xiao Wang's lifelong ambition is not here. Without this throne, there will be a lot of constraints. We know that power can make people, but it can also harm people."

"My lord has realized." Xiao Suo said.

Holding the pearl, Huan Bin lost his mind for a long time, hooked the corner of his mouth and said: "It's better not to realize it."

Shen Yan felt sorry for him, so he sighed for a while, stood up silently for a while, and said: "Thank you, my lord, for telling the inside story, I still have troubles in the world, so I will leave first." After saying that, he wanted to go out with Xiao Suo.

King Qi suddenly stopped him: "General Shen, you have to be careful!"

Xiao Suo looked back at him, saw that there was a smile on his lips, and there seemed to be some deep meaning in his words, so he asked worriedly: "How dare you ask the prince?"

Huan Bin didn't answer.

Without saying a word, Shen Yan dragged Xiao Suo away through the rain.