old friends return

In March of the 17th year of Shunqing, the spring just started, the second prince Cheng Muxing, who had been stationed in the west for three years, returned to Beijing to appeal for his post, and also came back with Han Shuwen, the son of General Han, who had been named a major general before he was an adult. .

Cheng Muxing also brought back a woman from the Western Regions, named Yu Chiling, who was the woman he often mentioned with Cheng Muzhi in his previous letters.This time he returned to Beijing, saying that he wanted to sue his job, but more because he wanted to introduce this woman to the royal family.

It's also good to give this woman the status of being married to a medium.

So His Royal Highness the Second Prince, who is so devoted to this matter, is busy every day to make arrangements for the big wedding, and he still needs to spare some time to accompany his Mei Jiao Niang to stroll around the market in Shengjing .

Although this woman was just rescued by him unintentionally on the way to Qinzhou to suppress the bandits, there was such a fate.

So only Han Xiaoye was left to drink with the lonely and cold His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The two haven't seen each other for a long time, and they should have a lot to say, but the atmosphere has been dull for some reason, and the two of them are only focused on drinking, speechless for a long time.

It is said that they use wine to drown their sorrows.

But if he drank too much wine, more sorrow rolled up from his heart along with the wine.

So I would rather stay drunk than wake up.

Cheng Muzhi took a sip of his wine and looked at Han Shuwen with a little drunkenness.

Han Shuwen came to accompany him, and he didn't drink too much, not to mention that he has been hanging out in the military camp, so his drinking capacity is naturally much better than Cheng Muzhi's.

"If you want to ask anything, just ask directly, and put down the wine." Han Shuwen was about to snatch the wine glass from his hand, but Cheng Muzhi dodged it with a backhand, poured the wine into his mouth again, dropped the glass, and his eyes widened. He looked at Han Shuwen fiercely.

"Tell me the truth, Ah Yan, has he ever gone to the west to find you? Don't lie to me..."

Han Shuwen's eyes were complicated, and he turned his head to answer him, "No."

"I don't believe it! Ah Yan, if he doesn't go to you, who else can he go to?"

"If you say no, you don't! I know about this later than you! Didn't you promise me to protect him? You just protect him like this? You can't even look down on a person. You still have Face came to me and asked me for someone?"

Han Shuwen's eyes were red, and suddenly he pulled Cheng Mu Zhi's collar, half-dragged him from the seat, and punched him viciously in the face.

Cheng Muzhi was a little dazed by this punch.

"Now you pull me over to drink with you, then I don't care about the distinction between monarch and minister. I am your friend now. I hope you can wake up and talk to me again."

"I also know that I can't blame you for this matter, but you are not qualified to come to me and ask where Qingyan is."

Cheng Muzhi sat on the ground with red eyes, his face was swollen from the beating, but the pain on his face made him much more awake than before.

Han Shuwen turned his head away, realizing that he was a little too excited, and took a few deep breaths before gritted his teeth and refused to look at Cheng Muzhi.

"If Ah Yan hadn't entered the East Palace back then, if he had been with me back then, if it had been me protecting him back then, I could at least guarantee that he is still by my side now."

"But you are the prince, so naturally I can't argue with you about these matters."

"But you didn't do what you promised me." Han Shuwen looked at Cheng Muzhi and said to him word by word.

But hearing Cheng Muzhi sneer, he just sat on the ground, took the flagon and poured the wine directly into his mouth, "You think you know Ah Yan better than me?"

"Ah Yan has been with me for five years... Do you think I understand him better or you understand him better?"

"Yes, it was because I didn't protect him well, and I didn't take good care of him by my side, but now that I think about it...he left at the time, it wasn't a temporary idea at all...but I had such a plan long ago."

Speaking of this, Cheng Muzhi felt a strong sense of sadness in his heart, "Look at Ah Yan's surface is gentle and silent, a gentleman like jade, as if he doesn't care about anything and nothing can make his mood fluctuate."

"Even after such a big incident happened in the Liu family, he didn't show anything, but that was his final bottom line. Once he was really touched by his inverse scales, he would become vindictive, and he would fight to achieve his goals. , by any means.”

Han Shuwen stopped talking.

"So he'll go..."

"So you don't look for him? You really listen to him and don't look for him? You still come to ask me if he has ever looked for me? Cheng Muzhi, you bastard! You are so relieved of him..."

Hearing this, Han Shuwen couldn't help roaring out again. After being immersed in the military camp for a long time, it seemed that besides being good at drinking, his temper and voice became better day by day.

"I've looked for... but I can't find him..." Cheng Muzhi's voice gradually dropped, and he choked up when he spoke again, "How can I trust him..."

It was quiet again between the two of them.Han Shuwen looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was sitting on the ground sobbing and crying drunk, and there was really nothing he could do for a while.

No matter what, he and Cheng Muzhi have the same thoughts for Liu Qingyan, but no matter what, they are also playmates who grew up together since childhood, and now they are the rare confidants of each other.

He simply sat down and leaned against the leg of the table with Cheng Muzhi, "Didn't you say Qingyan would come back for revenge?"

Cheng Muzhi stopped crying.

"According to what you said, Qingyan will definitely come back... No wonder you haven't chosen a concubine all this time. Why, are you afraid that Qingyan will be angry when she comes back?" Han Shuwen asked him with a smile.

"His Royal Highness, before Qingyan comes back, you should work harder to remove as many obstacles as possible for him." Han Shuwen patted him on the shoulder, paused, then turned his head to be serious. He said to him calmly: "If Qingyan really comes back, if you can't protect him well then, I will definitely not let you go."

He looked up again at the moon that had climbed into the sky, "It's not early, I have to go to the pilgrimage tomorrow to see the Holy Majesty, so I'll go back first, you should rest earlier."

"Don't drink any more alcohol. You are going to go to court tomorrow. Go to bed early." Han Shuwen was worried that he would continue to lie here alone, so he had to carry him back to the room first, but he heard that he had already His Highness the Crown Prince, who was so drunk and was about to fall asleep, leaned on his shoulder and said, "This is not my room, I slept in Ah Yan's room."

Han Shuwen gritted his teeth with hatred.

He didn't listen to what he said, and threw him directly into the prince's bedroom where he hadn't lived for a long time. He didn't even bother to help him onto the bed, so he just put him on the ground, called Gao Jin to serve him, and left by himself.

Cheng Mu was left alone on the ground with red eyes still moaning.

In my dream, I meet someone I haven't seen for a long time.

I want to see him, but I am afraid that when I see him, that person will become no longer familiar to me.

In the past two years, he has become more and more silent in the court. What happened to the Liu family two years ago made him finally recognize his ability.

He is saving.

Ah Yan, when will you come back... We haven't seen each other for two years.