Chapter 187: Graceful, on track, Bijou Junior.

When the schedule for departure was set, the Emperor dismissed the crowd.

After leaving the imperial study, Fang traveled to a quiet place, Yan Yuanzhao, without being told, pulled Chi Xiaochi away.

The brothers had long been accustomed to Yan Yuanzhao's eccentricity and dispersed.

"Yes, Shi Tingyun." Yan Yuanzhao stopped and said, "I went to the General's residence yesterday, but you were so calm that you didn't say a word to me."

Chi Xiaochi said, "It's not too late. I got a letter from my father last night, and that's when it was finalized."

"You ......" Yan Yuanzhao looked around and lowered his voice, "You give me an accurate sentence, the southern border there is really nothing?"

Chi Xiaochi faintly said, "The crime of deceiving the king, the Shi family will never commit. The Sixth Prince is overstating the case."

Yan Yuanzhao was slightly relieved, and knew that he had lost his words, so he changed his demeanor and frivolously raised his fan: "Okay, I know. ...... There is still half a month before you leave the city, so I guess you are very busy. That pot of good flower carving, this is for you and I sit on the boat to enjoy the beauty of the use, now it seems that you can only give you a strong line, but also live up to it."

Chi Xiaochi intentional look at him, said: "a pot of flower carving, how to talk about not live up to, don't lose a cavity of green clouds will be good."

Yan Yuanzhao not pick up his words, as if just in the imperial study want to go to the side of the person is not him in general, golden fan a turn, pointing to a certain place: "You have the heart to talk with me, not as good as to think of that boring gourd to go to the Zhennan pass all the way to how to amuse."

Chi Xiaochi looked in the direction Yan Yuanzhao's fan was pointing, only to see Yan Yuanheng standing under the apricot blossom tree not far away, staring at the two of them.

Noticing Chi Xiaochi looking over, Yan Yuanheng's expression changed slightly, clenched his fist against his lips, coughed lightly, and then walked closer with his hands folded.

He asked, "You have only just recovered from your illness, and you are leaving after only half a month, will that not be a hindrance to your march?"

Since he is doing official business, Chi Xiaochi is naturally respectful: "There is no harm, Thirteenth Prince please be at peace."

Yan Yuanheng still wanted to say something, but Yan Yuanzhao was impatient to listen to these two people's polite words and waved his fan, "Let's go."

Farewell to Yan Yuanzhao, Yan Yuanheng walks side by side with him in the palace.

Unlike Yan Yuanzhao, Yan Yuanheng was really quiet and quiet, and came to him specifically to ask him what he needed to do to prepare for his trip to the border.

Chi Xiaochi before coming to listen to his teacher's class, made enough notes, since one by one answer, in addition, he did not smart, snake added to the thirteenth prince to climb friendship, on the contrary, also detached a lot.

After Yan Yuanheng asked the question he wanted to ask, the two of them fell into an awkward silence.

Yan Yuanheng could only strain to find a topic, "You have something on your mind?"

Chi Xiaochi bowed her head and smiled, "Yes."

Yan Yuanheng: "Family matters?"

Chi Xiaochi : "Sort of ...... a letter from my father, in which he urged me to ...... hey, don't mention it."

Yan Yuanheng had just vaguely heard Yan Yuanzhao and Shi Tingyun talk about the "family letter", and now that he was being vague, his face became a bit ugly.

He had been with Shi Tingyun since he was six years old, and knew him best. He was a bright man with a clear mind, and seldom acted in such a manner.

He pretended to be relaxed and said, "What is there not to say. But do you have someone in mind?"

He was just making a casual remark, who would have thought that the person in front of him would admit it, "...... Yes."

Yan Yuanheng changed color and immediately asked, "Which family's daughter is it? If you are interested in her, why don't you ...... organize the wedding ceremony early, and why are you in a hurry to go to the border at this time?"

Chi Xiaochi thought, ooh, isn't this talking, little mouth blathering.

Chi Xiaochi gave an embarrassed smile.

Yan Yuanheng remembered Shi Tingyun's strange behavior when he came to the door a few days ago, his heart became more and more uneasy, so he stopped his steps and waited for him to explain.

Chi Xiaochi gets the timing of the hesitation just right: "Yuanheng ......"

Yan Yuanheng listen to him in this strict rituals of the palace exams called him his real name, heart slightly warm, hair cold look also slightly slowed down: "Yes. ...... It's time for you to tie the knot. The marriage is when the general for you to choose? Which one did you choose? Household Ministry Qu Shangshu family's second miss, or Qu Ying's sister?"

Chi Xiaochi: "Yuanheng, I'll tell you something ...... you mustn't tell the others."

Yan Yuanheng was inexplicably a bit nervous, "Uh-huh."

Chi Xiaochi lifted his breath a little, suppressed his voice, and said, "The person I adore ...... is a man."

Yan Yuanheng: ".................."

Yan Yuanheng's finger knuckles gave a piercing clang as he said in a subdued voice, "Who is it? Chu Ziling?"

Chi Xiaochi wondered, "What makes you think it will be A Ling?"

Yan Yuanheng's body was shaking, "Is it really him?"

Chi Xiaochi soothed, "You have not seen it."

Yan Yuanheng pressed, "Really?"

Chi Xiaochi said helplessly, "...... Thirteenth Prince."

Yan Yuanheng Fang Cai returned to his senses and realized that he had lost his temper, so he took a deep breath to calm his mind and said in a low voice. A man, you with his ...... seven generations of the Shi family loyalty, you want to let the Shi family end up without a queen?"

"How could the Shi family not have a descendant?" Chi Xiaochi's attitude was gentle, "My uncle is my father's sibling, and also belongs to my family, but my second uncle is not talented enough in martial arts, so my grandfather passed the Toki family gun to my father."

Yan Yuanheng's pretty face stiffened to the point of being wooden, "Is that so. Then are you going to the Southern Border this time with the intention of bringing this matter to the attention of General Shi?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "It is not so. He may not know my feelings yet, and I have no intention of letting him know. If I love a person, I will not wish for anything, but will bury him in my heart forever, and will spend my life pledging to my country and never marry."

Yan Yuanheng did not expect to hear such frank words, staring blankly for a moment, his complexion slightly gloomy down: "Su Chang with deep love ...... I am not the first time to go to the South Border, but there are still many unknowns, these days may have to bother the house. ...... Farewell."

With an arch of his hand, he turned away, his departing back a barely maintained poise.

Chi Xiaochi looked at his back and laughed silently, walking behind him.

He was reluctant to believe all of the original owner's dreams; after all, seeing is not believing.

So he chose to take the initiative.

A family letter fabricated out of thin air measured two hearts.

-- Sixth Prince surface playboy, the heart of the family and the country is not lost, although the private relationship with thirteen plastic very much, but in the major events but intentionally to avoid competing with him.

--The Thirteenth Prince's surface is cloudy and light, but his heart for the original owner is full.

Chi Xiaochi as Shi Tingyun has really accumulated a lot of acting ideas these past two days.

Shi Tingyun can be treated well by the two princes, although we cannot rule out the purpose of the initial friendship, but after these few days of probing, we can see that Shi Tingyun is a straightforward person, saying one thing at a time, and is a friend who can only be gained by exchanging sincerity for sincerity.

Yan Yuanheng, who is quite sentimental, but also has the rare open-mindedness of a young man, will be the sense of proportion to grasp very strong, and the two princes only involved in personal relationships, never mix the state business into the public affairs.

This emotion cultivated since childhood is in turn more pure.

So here's the question.

Who on earth could slag off Shi Tingyun?

If it was the betrayal of Van Chang, it wouldn't have made the original owner say something like that about thinking he was a slave, and it wouldn't have made him so distraught even after his death that he would rather hand over his body to a bystander than come back for revenge.

Therefore, the only thing that can hurt him to the core is a true heart.

In this generation of the Shi family, Shi Tingyun is the only one who possesses the ability of a general.

General Shi let him come back to Wangcheng, is to hope that he left the heir family, but he went against his father's expectations, back to Wangcheng for a long time is still not work, and all day long and the sixth prince mixed together, as a game of life.

However, judging from the message revealed by A Shu's words, the General has been back in the City of Hope for a whole year, practicing his gun every day.

Lou had asked him last night, after he and he had gotten back into bed, "Perhaps Shi Tingyun is unmotivated by the marriage?"

Chi Xiaochi propped up his head and smiled at him, "Sir, Shi Tingyun is nineteen this year, according to the average age of ancient people, this life is almost half over. Passing on the bloodline, who needs him to walk the heart, just walk the kidney."

Although the Toki family didn't have a throne to inherit, it wasn't even close in terms of family importance.

Shi Tingyun preferred to disobey his father's wishes, but did not mention the matter of marriage, it is really possible that in his heart secretly like a certain who can not be explicitly said.

......

Compared to the wind and waves within the Imperial City, there was a sense of order within the General's residence.

Shi Tingyun was not going to the border for the first time, and this was a time of peace on both sides, so he and the Thirteenth Prince could travel with the team that was deploying troops to send food to the border.

The family stewardship is busy playing point, Chi Xiaochi left and right nothing to do, simply go to the back college field, with a hair band, will be well bundled silver crown pull down, long hair backward stroke up, with a hair band three or two times in the back of the head, and take the silver gun used in the past days of practice, a few simple drills, and suddenly heard a sound of a broken air from behind.

Chi Xiaochi agilely turned back, crossed his long lance to block, and his silver spear grasped away an iron spear with a resounding muffled sound.

Chu Ziling had no intention of hurting him, it was just a false shot. He turned the iron spear around behind him with one hand and bowed slightly, "Gong Zi."

Chi Xiaochi simply said, "One game?"

Chu Ziling was also unambiguous: "As ordered."

Before the words fell, a silver light in the shape of a semicircle, directly attacked Chu Ziling's face, Chu Ziling was not slow, with the side of the gun hook to meet, single brawn to the silver gun to the ground, prancing to fall on top of the silver gun gun body, the gun body will be pressed out of an arc.

Chi Xiaochi still had the instinct to use a gun in this body, he sidestepped the gun and smoothly detached himself from Chu Ziling's pressure, the silver-white blade of the gun cut a light flower on the ground before the gun slightly shook and rose up horizontally to block the incoming punches and kicks of Chu Ziling.

The two of them fought on an equal footing, and after about fifty rounds, Chu Ziling finally lost the battle, and his iron spear flew out in the shape of a cross.

In the next instant, a line of silver light landed three inches in front of Chu Ziling's neck.

Chu Ziling raised his hand and said with a smile on his face, "Gong Zi, spare my life."

Chi Xiaochi, take away the gun.

Just now, as he watched from the wall, he realized that the original owner's gun power was well restrained, not like he wanted to take his life.

After this game, both of them are slightly sweating, so they sit side by side on the edge of the schoolyard and talk about the sky.

"Do you know anything about the southern border?"

Chu Ziling laughed and said, "I don't know. Ziling only knows that wherever Gong Zi goes, Ziling will go. This promise is valid for life until Ziling dies."

Chi Xiaochi sighed and covered her face with one hand.

He asked, "Where were you last night?"

Chu Ziling smiled, "I'm really sorry, Gong Zi, I snuck out of the house."

Chi Xiaochi gave a curious "huh?" A cry came out.

Chu Ziling said, "Yesterday, I heard from Mrs. Su, who is in charge of purchasing in the mansion, that a few peach blossoms have bloomed at the south gate of the city, and they are very rare, the earliest in bloom in Wangcheng. Ziling wanted Gong Zi to see the first peach blossoms before anyone else, so he took advantage of Gong Zi's sleep yesterday to sneak over the wall and pick a few branches."

Chi Xiaochi sidled up to him and asked, "Where are the flowers?"

Chu Ziling laughs, "On Gong Zi Hair."

Chi Xiaochi raised his hand and found that there was indeed a branch of colorful peach blossom on his ponytail at some point, and it was still covered with clear dew, so it seemed that he had sprinkled water to prevent the peach blossom from wilting, and had carefully raised it until now.

He removed the peach blossom and played with it for a moment before letting out another soft sigh.

Chu Ziling realized that something was on the mind of his Gong Zi, so he turned sideways to look at him, "Gong Zi?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Something happened at Zhennan Pass. ...... Do you still remember father s vice general Wen Feiru, when he was escorting a batch of bows and arrows, he was hit by a dark trap of a roving bandit on the Great Green Mountain and was seriously injured."

"Vice General Wen?" Chu Ziling was taken aback, "What about Dingyuan City?"

"Father wrote to mention this matter, I happen to stay in Wangcheng tired, so I wrote back to my father, to go to defend Dingyuan City on behalf of the city, otherwise leave Governor Zhang alone in the city, I'm afraid that the wisdom is more than enough, but the force is not enough. It's hard to support a lone tree." Chi Xiaochi lowered his eyes and said, "You do not mention it to others, privately prepare more good medicine for injuries, when you arrive at the border, go with me to visit Uncle Wen. By the way, you must pretend to think that he was injured by the South Border people, or else with Uncle Wen's temperament ......."

Chu Ziling nods.

He went to the border with Shi Tingyun, and met Wen Feiru, a big, thick, but facetious man.

With his character, he was afraid that he would rather run headlong into the ground and swallow this stifling loss.

He said, "Gong Zi, I'll make a note of it."

After explaining the situation to him, Chi Xiaochi went to take a brief bath in the pool and returned to the house, only to see A Shu kneeling in front of his room, wiping away his tears, and Lou Ying in a wheelchair, wearing a light-covered hedge, talking warmly to him about something.

Chi Xiaochi wondered, "What is this? Meng Jiangnu weeping at the Great Wall or Yang Bailao begging for Huang Shiren?"

A Shu listen not very understand, knee to Chi Xiaochi his head, deep kowtow a song, said, "Gong Zi, I ...... small, also want to go with you to Zhennan Pass."

"You?" Chi Xiaochi squatted down with a sobbing expression, "You've been lacking in martial arts since you were a child, what can you do if you go?"

"Whether it's leading a horse and stirring it, or waiting for Gong Zi to eat and live," A Shu said with tears in his eyes, "I don't want to wait for you at home. A Shu wiped his tears and said, "I don't want to wait for you at home, it's too painful. You don't know, before you went to war, handed up the war report one after another, small all day at home in fear, staring at the border map heart anxious, afraid of which war report, on ......".

A Shu can't go on, choked and swallowed twice, the young and clear cheeks are all tearstains, but in the eyes there are a few more points of determination: "A Shu has saved all these years the whole wealth overnight to give my sister, although it can't guarantee that she will live a lifetime of food and clothing, but it is enough for her to be betrothed to a suitable family ...... A Shu wants to go to war with Gong Zi, even if she can't come back, she can still seek peace of mind. Shu will go to the battlefield with Gong Zi, even if he can't come back, he can still seek peace of mind ......"

Chi Xiaochi hit his head and tsked: "What are you talking about? This time is different from the last time, it's not a Southern Border rebellion, it's just that Vice Admiral Bai of Yongzhou City didn't follow orders and hurt ...... him."

As he spoke, Chi Xiaochi passed a glance to Lou Ying.

Lou Ying stopped it at the right time, "...... Gong Zi."

Chi Xiaochi feinted a slip of the tongue and immediately shut up.

A Shu looks up at Chi Xiaochi a little confused.

Chi Xiaochi embarrassedly reddened a small half of his face, completely like a student who had made a mistake, "...... Mr..."

Lou Ying couldn't help but wonder how he managed to blush so literally.

"Yongzhou?" A Shu was surprised, "Gong Zi, we are going to Yongzhou? Not Jinji Tomb?"

Chi Xiaochi interrupted him slightly sharply, "A Shu!"

A Shu choked.

Chi Xiaochi ordered, "If you want to come with me, don't mention this to anyone, it's a military secret, do you understand?"

A Shu surprise: "Gong Zi Yun Xiao's going with you?"

Chi Xiaochi waved his hand.

A Shu got up joyfully, said he would go clean up himself and come back to serve Gong Zi, and hurriedly dug back into his own hut to clean up his own grooming.

Chi Xiaochi laughed and cursed the unsteadiness, lifted his robe and ascended the steps, came in front of his husband and pushed him to walk under the porch.

Lou Ying turned back and said softly, "A letter that doesn't even exist can be used like that."

"Who says it doesn't exist anymore." Chi Xiaochi lies on her stomach above her wheelchair, sliding around moodily, "The letters are all in their hearts now."

The people closest to Shi Tingyun and most trusted by him were Yan Yuanzhao, Yan Yuanheng, Chu Ziling and Li Yeshu.

The four of them, in turn, could be divided into two groups.

The Sixth Prince and the Thirteenth Prince are of the royal family, and if it is the two of them who are going to make a profit, it is nothing more than a struggle for power and usurpation of power.

At first, Chi Xiaochi was more skeptical of the Sixth Prince.

However, the sixth prince obviously want to go to the southern border, but did not go to grab this grasp of military power, in the army to establish the prestige of the valuable opportunity, and even in the thirteen initiative to claim no longer requesting to go with him, apparently to him to avoid, does not seem to be holding his breath and thirteen phase to compete with the appearance of the throne.

Though the thirteenth prince's heart is interested in Shi Tingyun, in the face of border affairs, he also took the initiative to ask for help, and has not excused himself.

At least from the looks of it, the duo has nothing to lose in the big picture, even if they have a small loss.

After the initial testing of the two princes, the next step was Shi Tingyun's sidekick.

Chi Xiaochi wasn't worried about which of the emperors they were eyes and ears, only about their minds, whether they were so big that they harbored aspirations of swallowing the heavens.

Last night, he sent a letter to his father, who was far away in Zhennanguan, by means of pigeons kept at home, and specially used a "Delivered" card to make sure that the letter could only be received and opened by Shi Jinghong.

In the letter, he wrote: "Changes in the family, hope that the father to assist: Dingyuan Wen uncle, Yongzhou Bai uncle, which place to come to the enemy, feign injury fraud."

Chi Xiaochi can't rule out the possibility that the two boys around him are both spies.

As soon as they made a private connection and exchanged information, they would immediately realize that Shi Tingyun suspected their identity, and would certainly take other measures then, either jumping over the wall in a hurry or slipping away.

Naturally, we can not rule out the possibility that the spies are highly vigilant, even after learning the news, but also press the troops, letting go of the opportunity to win a battle for nothing.

But Chi Xiaochi believed that if any of them really had foreign scouts who had lurked by their side and held back for years, they would have to choose the right time to do something to prove themselves.

Besides, it's in Chi Xiaochi's best interest that they stay put, so why not?

Chi Xiaochi pushed his wheelchair and said with a smile, "Dingyuan Wen Feiru, Yongzhou White Mirror Lake. It depends on which side will be attacked."

......

The main God's space, in "a moment".

The dark red mastermind squirmed slowly, keeping a close eye on Chi Xiaochi that worldline.

It just wasn't really in a pleasant mood.

After seeing yet another carrier pigeon that flew out from within the city of Hope while the night was still young, the Lord God really wanted to shoot that pigeon down.

However, it can only think of stopping this kind of alleged serious violation.

...... What a dumbass! So stoic!

As it was cursing, it suddenly heard a flurry of noises coming from outside "in a jiffy".

These days it has already been frazzled by one thing after another, so it can't help but say in exasperation, "What's going on? What's the mess again?"

The door of "In A Moment" was thrown open with a bang, and in ran a sweaty system, panting, pale, and unable to say a word.

The Lord God was in a hurry, "Speak!"

"Boss, the report we submitted last week ......" that system ate a scare and spoke smoothly in turn, "That is, it is the report stating that the system was broken into by abnormal energies that was modified ......"

"...... modification?!"

The system cried and shivered as it projected the display onto the public screen.

What was a serious report in black and white has been doctored into a highly buffed and softened emoji of a man.

"You're so slutty.gif"

...... Also TM is a moving picture.

...... also TM cloth a hundred pages.

A hundred people speaking at the same time to say you're a slut, the mental pollution can be imagined.

The Lord God was distraught, "Why didn't you check when you sent it over?!"

This system is specialized in writing reports, and it looks like it's been poisoned as well, "Before I sent it over yesterday ...... I checked it ...... But I realized there was something wrong with it when the main system sent a reply asking what it was ......"

"Are you a waste?!" The Lord God moved in true anger, "Check! Find out! Who came into your office yesterday? Had access to your computer?"

"There ......" the system shuddered, "129, 872, 399, 737, 121, and 089 ...... I was on duty yesterday. So there were a lot of people who came in to ask about things ......"

The Lord God barely calmed down, "089Don't worry about him for now, investigate the rest of them one by one!"

The system trembled, "No, boss ...... the main system said that we've always been in trouble lately, and that it's going to send the monitoring system to conduct another full audit ......"

The Lord God choked, "Get out!"

That system then rolled in a sweat.

As soon as the door closed, the AI opened its mouth to solicit the Lord God's opinion, "Greetings. That unissued worldline we're withholding ......"

The Lord God's voice grew colder, almost as if he were gritting his teeth, "Fake a delay! A period of time is a period of time if you can withhold it!"

Things spread quickly.

Sitting shift 023 mood is not bad, barefoot rack on the table crackling game: "tube writing report that assholes finally bad luck."

089 gripped the mango and maneuvered the energy to peel the skin off, "What did he do?"

"You forgot?" 023 glanced at him, "When 61 formatted, he said that 61's memories were not cleaned up, reported to Brainflower, threw him in for a second time, thee is not a thing. ...... Hey, I say, on this memory you still be a human father."

089 gave a laugh and trailed off, "Ah..."

023 opens his mouth, "Ah."

089 willed it and took a small fork and stuck fresh chunks of mango and pitched them to 023, while deleting the ass-kisser's name from his meme.

On top of that horse's ass, there were seven or eight other system numbers that had been deleted.

089 It has always been a credo in life that no one can take advantage of you as long as you become a peaceful waste of space.

But he would also mark out the lapdogs who were mixed up in the system and were responsible for snitching on the main god, and put them on a memo, waiting for a certain moment when he would pull them out to get a little bit of lightning.

He believed that whatever the main god had done to 061 and Chi Xiaochi, at the earliest tonight, and at the slowest until the day before the main system came to inspect, it would have to be withdrawn, and everything would be back on track.

And his preconceptions were not wrong.

Because time passes at different rates inside and outside the system, Chi Xiaochi suddenly suffered from a severe headache the night before he was to leave for Zhennan Pass.

This time, the world line was stuffed into his brain without warning, the reception process is particularly painful, for a few seconds, Chi Xiaochi eyes a black, can not see anything.

He was held tightly from behind by an awakened Lou Ying, his body curled up, his teeth chattering, and it took a long time before the image of a teenager appeared before his eyes.

He sat on a hillside tainted with blood and mud, panting slightly, his legs propped forward, his calf's welt bone slightly dented as if broken, a hacked silver helmet thrown at his feet, and his dying white horse lying upside down at his side.

He had his bent silver spear stuck in his side, and his eyelashes, stained with blood that had dried, looked unusually long.

The wind blew from behind him to in front of him, ruffling his hairband and making it look like he was holding in and biting into the blood-stained hairband.

That was Shi Tingyun on the battlefield that Thirteenth Prince Yan Yuanheng saw when he first went to the frontier.

When he saw himself, he staggered up and dragged his wounded leg down to pay his respects, with the clear light of a teenager in his eyes.

He smiled brightly, with little decorum as always, "Yuanheng, you're here, it's good to see you."

Yan Yuanheng stepped forward to assist, "It was Father who sent me to support ......"

Shi Tingyun interlocked his hands with his and raised his eyes, his smile wobbly as hell: "Then thank you, Your Majesty, for gracing the Thirteenth Prince with your presence at the end of the line."