7.7–7.8

7.7

Sixth prince raised in Qi Guijun side less than a month, wax yellow skin has turned into a healthy wheat color, before and the same age of the fifth prince stood together with a head shorter, and now has grown to his ear, think another month or two will be able to flush or even catch up.

Essence has also changed, in the past always shrinking neck hanging head, how to look how weak, now the eyes shine, head up chest, handsome features grow a little open, very much the temperament of the nobility.

Li Jintian to all the princes to pay attention to, has several times driving to the imperial study to test the princes’ homework. What surprised all of them was that the sixth prince’s talent was not inferior to the fifth prince, who had been praised as a prodigy since he was a child. No matter which of the canonical books Li Jintian sampling, he can recite it backwards and then eloquently, those spot-on points of view every time to let Li Jintian and Mr. have a kind of refreshing feeling.

“Your Majesty, the Sixth Prince is indeed a makable talent.” Walking outside of the hall, Mr. said with relief.

Li Jintian nodded his head and smiled, “It’s still Qi Guijun who has taught him well, he has always been very good at raising children.”

Qi Guijun has no children at her knees, where did the Emperor get this from? Mister glanced at the Emperor with a slightly strange feeling.

It was then that Li Jintian suddenly realized that it was already in his last life. He waved his hand and left with a heavy gait, thinking of the twelfth prince who had been exceptionally raised by Qi Xiu Jie in his last life, another sharp stabbing pain in his heart. To be able to hold up a faltering empire in the midst of a raging storm, the twelfth prince’s talent was afraid to be not inferior to the fifth and sixth prince at all.

How nice it would have been if he had survived ……

Li Jintian wiped his face, his bloodshot eyes filled with remorse.

When Gao Min learned that the Sixth Prince had overpowered the Fifth Prince in the Imperial Study Room, his heart exploded with anger, and even though he was busy reorganizing the army, he still took the time to make a trip back to personally teach the afternoon riding and shooting lessons.

“Arms straight, thumbs clasped, feet spacing should not be so narrow, not conducive to lower plate stabilization.” One by one, he adjusted the Sixth Prince’s posture and pointed at the archery target a hundred meters away, “Shoot.”

The Sixth Prince was obviously subdued by his stern attitude, his head was filled with cold sweat and his fingers were trembling slightly, the bowstring was loosened and the arrow only flew out a few dozen meters before it was slanted into the mud, it didn’t even touch the target.

Someone beside him snickered, causing the Sixth Prince to blush with shame, hanging his head low and not daring to look at Gao Min’s expression.

Gao Min laughed coldly, then paced away, a low and inaudible “but so” drilled into the Sixth Prince’s eardrums. The Sixth Prince did not feel more ashamed, instead, he hooked his lips, and a hint of murderous anger seeped out from his eyes. You will be crazy, sooner or later one day I want to one knife one knife to scrape you alive, in order to report that day poisoned and killed the father of the king, exterminate his whole family of blood revenge!

Riding and shooting class is over, the fifth prince regained his confidence, see the sixth prince wilting, but also deliberately ran over to comfort, said he can beg his father for extra counseling, let him go to the Tian Chen Palace from time to time to play. This father and son duo played a white face and a red face, playing a stick and then giving a red date, the means of enlisting people was very skillful.

The Sixth Prince’s face turned grim as he gratefully sent the Fifth Prince to the entrance of the schoolyard and turned back to the path leading to the Purple Chen Palace. Although Jun Father had told him that there was no need to hide his clumsiness, he knew that if he was too good, he would definitely invite a lot of trouble for Jun Father, which was never what he wanted. He did not want to be protected only by Jun Father, but wanted to be strong as soon as possible and become his pillar. Right now, he was still weak, but sooner or later, one day, he would be stronger than anyone else, including the man on the imperial throne. He was not qualified to have Jun’s father.

When Zhou Yunsheng heard the wolf cub’s light footsteps, his originally idle expression became serious as he put down his scroll and interrogated in a deep voice, “I heard that you made a big fool of yourself in front of Gao Min today?”

Li Xudong nodded with reddened cheeks.

“Unproductive thing, after practicing for more than half a month you can’t even hit the bull’s-eye from a hundred meters away, do you eat so much food every day and eat it all in the dog’s stomach?” Zhou Yunsheng walked over and grabbed his son’s ear.

Li Xudong’s face showed a color of pain, but he actually enjoyed it. He loved Jun Father’s rebuke to him, and even loved the pain and warmth of his fingertips when he grabbed his ears. As the saying goes, love is deep and blame is deep, the fact that Jun Father would scold him and punish him meant that Jun Father loved him and valued him. He felt content for this.

Zhou Yunsheng didn’t know that he had taught his son to be a jittery M. After letting go of his ear, he flung his sleeve and said, “Go to the martial arts field, I’ll teach you archery.”

Li Xudong hurriedly followed with his ass.

“Carefully figure out my posture.” Zhou Yunsheng picked a ten stone bow and easily pulled it to full string. Converting the ten stones in terms of jin and tael, to draw the bowstring to full requires at least five to six hundred pounds of strength. This was not the first time Qi Guijun had personally taught the Sixth Prince, but the guards standing beside the martial arts arena were still appalled. They could not imagine what kind of terrifying strength Qi Guijun’s seemingly weak body contained.

However, they had long been taken under the wing of Qi Guijun and did not dare to run to the Emperor to report.

Li Xudong stared at the valiant Jun’s father with burning eyes, only to find him so fascinating that he felt dizzy just by looking at him alone.

Zhou Yunsheng loosened the bowstring, and the arrow sliced through the air with a sharp whistle before piercing through the center of the target, leaving behind only an inch of tail feathers.

I am afraid that Jun’s father has only taken out three points of his strength, his appearance is too weighty. In the midst of Li Xudong’s dark thoughts, Zhou Yunsheng once again drew his bow and shot an arrow, the latter arrow nailing exactly in the center of the previous arrow, splitting it into several strands. With such superior archery skills, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a hundred paces through a poplar.

The guards were creeped out, some of them had seen Noble Jun’s archery skills and admired them at the time, but right now they were nothing compared to Qi Guijun. This person, Qi Guijun, was simply unfathomable.

“Jun’s father is so powerful!” Li Xudong ran over and wrapped his arms around him with a fawning smile on his face.

“Don’t just kiss ass, take your bow and shoot for me.” Zhou Yunsheng flicked the wolf cub’s forehead in disgust.

Li Xudong answered the promise and picked the most ordinary ox horn bow and put the arrow on the string.

“Standing in the wrong position!”

Zhou Yunsheng walked forward to correct him, but after correcting him several times in a row, when he stepped back again, Li Xudong would unknowingly make the wrong move again. Zhou Yoon Sung was unable to do so and had to ring him from behind and teach him hand in hand.

Their bodies were pressed tightly together, the thin fabric conducting each other’s body heat over. Li Xudong’s body began to burn all over, even the blood in his body was gurgling and boiling. He loved this distance-less contact too much, loved it so much that he even wanted to rub Jun’s father into his bones and blood.

“Don’t tense up, the more you tense up the less you can aim. Relax and regulate your breathing after me.” The man’s warm nostrils slapped against his earlobes and neck, making it difficult for Li Xudong to endure. He tried to adjust his ragged breathing, but the beating of his heart became faster and faster.

In a trance, the arrow shot out, barely sticking in the edge of the target. Zhou Yunsheng was very dissatisfied, but he also knew that one bite would not make a big fat man, he retreated a few steps away and patted his son’s head, and reluctantly said, “Not bad, a little bit of progress. Did you memorize all the postures just now? If you remember, give me practice, no rest until you have shot all four white arrows, and if you are off-target for one arrow, then add another ten arrows, you guys are responsible for supervising.”

He turned his face to several guards and ordered.

The guards arched their hands in response.

Only then did Zhou Yunsheng raise his steps to leave.

Losing the warm embrace of Jun Father, Li Xudong’s soft brows instantly became stern. He picked up the ten-stone bow that Jun Father had used, and with a raised hand, he drew the bowstring full towards the center of the target, which broke through the previous arrow with a sharp force, shattering it into pieces. With such precise and fierce archery skills, he was afraid that it was not inferior to his Jun Father in the slightest.

A few guards had already seen it and bowed their heads to show their deference. Don’t look at this master in front of Qi Guijun good behavior like a dog, but in private but bloodthirsty very, anger him even do not know how to die. And he is only thirteen years old this year, unexpectedly can pull open ten stone strong bow, but also in front of his own father to hide their clumsiness, this father and son two are not ordinary people. With the existence of these two people, I don’t know how long the noble monarch and the fifth prince can continue their glory?

Thinking about this, the guards who were already subdued became more and more afraid to betray.

————–

Gao Min went to the army as he wished, when he was leaving, Li Jintian personally sent him to the Ten Mile Pavilion outside the city gate before he reluctantly returned to the palace.

Gao Min had just arrived at the border only a few days ago, and won a battle with fewer victories, the news of the victory was sent back to the capital, which made all the courtiers feel exhilarated, and they even said that His Majesty was wise and decisive, and that he had a unique vision.

Gao Min was already famous for his virtues under Li Jintian’s promotion, and at this time, his reputation was even higher, with the trend of comparing with the emperor. Li Jintian smiled amiably on the face, turned back to Yangxin Hall but could not stop fuming, panicked, and could not sit still.

Another year and a half had passed, Gao Min had already penetrated deep into the inland of Western Barbarians, and had a great tendency to destroy the Western Barbarians’ imperial court, and the army was under his command, which was indestructible, causing his prestige to reach an unprecedented height. At the border, the people only know that there is General Gao in Great Yan, but they do not know that there is an emperor, and with General Gao’s great favor, several border officials have defected to him, saying that they will fully support the Fifth Prince.

Li Jintian still loves Gao Min but can no longer trust him. On the contrary, he could no longer love Qi Xiu Jie, yet he trusted the other more than anyone else.

Which is more important, love or trust? Zhou Yunsheng will tell you with facts that trust is far more important than love. The maintenance of a relationship is not based on how strong the love is, but how solid the trust is. The trust that will never be shaken by outside interference is the strongest support for a relationship.

The original Gao Min was able to share the world with Li Jintian precisely with such a trust, but now, it had been completely destroyed by Zhou Yunsheng.

Li Jintian was afraid that Gao Min would shake his throne after he had accomplished unparalleled feats, so he secretly contacted his trusted advisor in the army and asked him to delay the transportation of food and provisions. If he could not keep up with the rations, the battle would definitely be lost. The only way for Gao Min to realize how safe and comfortable it was to stay by his side was to let him taste the bitter fruits of defeat.

Zhou Yunsheng smiled contemptuously when he learned the news, thinking that a dim king is indeed a dim king, even if he lost his country once, he still valued his own selfish desires more than the gods of the earth and grain, preferring to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of troops to break the wings of Gao Min. Should I praise him for loving the mountains and rivers more than the beautiful people?

But Li Jintian had miscalculated, because not only did Gao Min have the support of the Gao family behind him, but there was also a deep and unrepentant Li Wang who was secretly helping him.

7.8

Most of the provisions were intercepted by the Western barbarian army’s sneak attack, and the rest were burnt to ashes. In order to clear the tail, Li Jintian even removed his own beloved ones, so that Gao Min could not suspect him at all.

When Gao Min left the palace, he thought that he would never return to the court until he had destroyed the Western Barbarians, now he had completed all the 99 steps, but the last step was a failure. How could he be willing to return to the capital as a loser, accepting the accusations of the courtiers and Li Jintian’s forgiveness?

So he wrote two letters, one to his elder brother and one to King Li, who he trusted the most.

Li Wang and Gao Lang after meeting secretly left the capital, along the road to raise grain and grass sent to the border. Because of their high position and power, wherever they passed, the government offices gave them the green light, even if they emptied the local granary, no official dared to report to them. But they do not report, Li Jintian sent special surveillance Gao Lang and Li Wang’s spies but the matter secretly submitted to the Royal Court.

Li Jintian was shivering after reading the secret report. When Gao Min was in trouble, the first person he thought of was not him, but Li Wang, and Li Wang was able to go to the border regardless of life and death for him, so it was obvious that he was deeply in love.

He could no longer lie to himself that they were not related. If they weren’t related, would they be willing to share the same life and death? Without a relationship, would they risk the great crime of leaving the capital without authorization to go to the rescue? This is also let it go, more let him heart alarmed is the high Lang and Li Wang’s energy. They went all the way to the west as if they were the emperor’s parade in general, none of the officials dared to disobey their orders, wanting to give food and grass, wanting to give soldiers to soldiers. These people actually put him in the ground? If Gao Lang and Li Wang intended to rebel, they were afraid that they would submit on the spot.

Li Jintian was out of his mind with anger, but he acted very calmly in the courtroom. He knew that the more at this time, the more he could not reveal the slightest difference, thus alerting the Gao family and King Li.

With the help of his elder brother and King Li, Gao Min finally flattened the Western Barbarians and returned to the court. At this time, his prestige in Yan had risen to an unprecedented level. Whether they were dignitaries or commoners, when they talked about General Gao, they all praised him, saying that if not for General Gao’s bravery, there would be no peace and prosperity in Great Yan.

So my Great Yan’s peace and prosperity is all thanks to Gao Min? Li Jintian stood at the top of the castle tower, slightly bowing his head, using the twelve tassels on his crown to cover the icy smile at the corner of his mouth.

The endless army came in great numbers, raising dust and sand in the sky. Gao Min sat on his steed, his armor radiating cold light. He raised his head to look up at the city tower, first looking at his son who had grown a little taller, and gave him a valiant smile before looking at the emperor.

Li Jintian beckoned, the gentle favor in his eyes as always. Gao Min suddenly felt relieved and also softened his face in a rare moment.

Within a few days, a whirlwind of urging the emperor to set up a Queen and Crown Prince was created in the court. There was no need to think about the candidates for the Queen and the Crown Prince, they were undoubtedly Gao Min and the Fifth Prince.

The chief eunuch helped Li Jintian to organize the piles of zhangbiao, each zhangbiao praised Gao Min and the fifth prince to the sky. As if these two people are gods and buddhas descending to the world, specially came to save the Great Yan dynasty, the emperor to get these two people to assist is really a fluke of luck.

“Good, good, good, even this throne of mine was won because of Gao Min. Very good!” Li Jintian threw the zhang folders out fiercely, his eyes red.

The Chief Eunuch hung his head low, not even daring to breathe.

Li Jintian chest violently undulate for a moment, but also strange calm down, hand picked up the folders pat clean, Xu Xu said, “just, since it is the hope of all, then set up noble king for the queen of the king, with the Chintian Supervisor to pick a good day.” As for the establishment of the matter of the Crown Prince, can be delayed for a few times is a few times. He liked the fifth prince right, but as long as the thought of the fifth prince standing behind the high family, he felt diaphragmatic.

The eunuch-in-chief answered the promise, holding his hastily-written oracle and heading to the Chintian Supervisor.

——————

Inside the imperial study, Li Xuyan became the object that everyone was vying to please. His companion reader was Gao Nian, the first second son of Gao Lang, who was also being held up to the sky at the moment.

“My little uncle is the first fierce general of Great Yan, without him, how could the people on the border live in peace now? My little uncle has made a great achievement, naturally he should enjoy the highest honor. You can’t imagine what kind of hard life he lived on the border, unlike some of the remaining rebels, who are of no benefit to the country and the family, but also live so comfortably. If I say, he should have been beheaded a long time ago, so as not to waste food.”

“Who do you mean by the remaining rebels?” Cold voice suddenly came from the doorway, Gao Nian could not turn his head in time before he was grabbed by the hair bun and slammed hard into the table, hitting dozens of times in a row, immediately bleeding from all seven orifices, unconscious.

Only then did the Fifth Prince react, and hurriedly caused someone to come forward to stop him, and the Imperial Study Room was in chaos.

In the end, Gao Nian was seriously injured and had the servants of the Gao family carry him back on a piece of board, and it was unknown if he would wake up with after-effects. Gao Lang’s Zheng Jun cried and ran to Tian Chen Palace to complain, and had to seek justice for her son.

Because of Li Jintian’s extraordinarily favorable treatment of the Purple Palace, Gao Min did not dare to trespass, but also stored a few points to discredit and suppress Qi Xiu Jie and the Sixth Prince’s mind, and hurriedly sought to the Yang Xin Palace to ask for an audience.

The sixth prince’s position is second only to the fifth prince, the forbidden palace guards did not dare to take him how, so they simply sent the person back to the Purple Chen Palace in good condition, letting the upper several masters to compete.

Li Jintian learned about this from Gao Min, summoned the doctor to inquire about Gao Nian’s injury and learned that it was very serious, so he immediately drove to the Purple Chen Palace. He hadn’t been here for a long time, and he was a bit timid when he walked up to the palace gate. He had lived two lifetimes, the person he was most sorry for was not Gao Min, but Qi Xiu Jie, and he had mistakenly paid for his true heart, which he could never get back.

That’s why he dared to face anyone, except Qi Xiu Jie.

Waving his hand to signal the palace people not to pass on the message, he walked slowly and hesitantly, finally reaching the door but standing still, hesitant to take a step.

The sixth prince’s aggrieved voice came from inside the room, “Jun father, the child knows that he is wrong, but the child really can’t help it. Father has forgiven your death sentence, that Gao Nian a little child, why should he behead you with his mouth shut?”

Qi Xiu Jie’s tone was as flat as ever, as if nothing else in the world could move him, “On what basis? Naturally by virtue of his surname Gao.”

“So what if my last name is Gao? I’m still surnamed Li.” The Sixth Prince became more and more aggrieved.

Qi Xiu Jie laughed softly and sighed, ”Silly child, you think your family name is honorable? That was before, not now. Not to mention that you can’t touch the Gao family, even your father is just as untouchable.”

“Even Father can’t be touched? How could that be?” The Sixth Prince clearly didn’t believe it.

Qi Xiu Jie patiently explained, “Gao Lang is in control of the government, Gao Gui Jun is in control of the army, and the Gao family is in control of both inside and outside the palace. Gao Guijun want us to live, want us to die, but also can die quietly and unexplained, or you think I have no years to live in this broken body is caused by who? Gao Nian doesn’t have a royal bloodline, but his last name is Gao, and that alone can overpower you.”

As if he was stunned, the Sixth Prince was silent for a while before continuing to ask, “Jun Father, then is this Great Yan still my Li Family’s Great Yan?”

“Right now, who knows in the future?” Qi Xiu Jie let out a long sigh and admonished, “Such words are not to be repeated in the future. Later on, you take the initiative to kneel in front of the Palace of Nourishing Heart to ask for forgiveness, don’t make things difficult for your father.”

The Sixth Prince reluctantly agreed and mumbled, “I also don’t know what Father Emperor really thinks.”

Hearing this, Li Jintian ran away in a mess. It turns out that he is in a critical situation has reached the point where even Qi Xiu Jie, who lives in the deep palace and does not ask questions about the world, can also see clearly, so what do the courtiers think?

Li Jintian’s heart clenched as he recalled a book of memorials urging him to establish a queen and a crown prince. The courtiers naturally favored Gao Min’s father and son, where did they remember that they were the true master of Great Yan! A wave of hostility cascaded out from within his deep eyes, causing his footsteps to become more and more turbulent.

Waiting for the people to walk away, Qi Xiu Jie stroked the wolf cub’s head and praised it with a smile, ”Well fought, but the means are a bit simple and rough. The highest realm of killing is not blood and flesh flying around, but rather a sword without a shadow. There are a thousand ways to kill him without attracting attention, why did you bother dirtying your hands.”

Li Xudong wrapped his arms around his father’s strong and thin waist, and said sinisterly, “But my child cannot tolerate anyone disrespecting you, and will only be satisfied if I can finish him off myself.”

“Good boy.” Zhou Yunsheng laughed aloud and immediately had his attendant find a bundle of thorns and heartily put the wolf cub on his back.

The Sixth Prince knelt down in front of the Palace of Nourishing Heart to ask for forgiveness. Gao Min not only did not listen to him, but also put a bundle of thorns under his knees and ordered him to kneel until noon of the next day. Seeing that the Sixth Prince’s kneecaps had been ruined, Gao Min then sent word for him to go back. Fortunately, Gao Nian life, even woke up, in addition to dizziness and vomiting did not see other diseases, the high family only then rest. Otherwise, even if the sixth prince was a nobleman, it was necessary to make him pay for his life.

Li Jintian will be the sixth prince called into the imperial study severely reprimanded some, but also additional penalty he grounded for half a year, in fact, the heart pressure is not the slightest bit of anger, but instead of the heartache of the great. Originally, he is the same love for the five, six princes, and even love the five princes more, but after this incident, the six princes in his heart is far more than the status of the five princes.

The Sixth Prince does not have a strong mother family, he is very modest and courteous with a commendable filial piety, more importantly, his talent is still slightly better than the Fifth Prince, and he is more suitable to inherit the throne of Great Yan in any case. Now the question is to what extent is his kneecap injured, if he let Gao Min become an invalid, then who else can Great Yan count on? The twelfth prince died because of the Gao family’s father and son, the sixth prince was abolished because of the Gao family’s father and son, and the rest of the emperors, because of the negligence of discipline, completely lacked the temperament of the heavenly nobility, and absolutely could not hold up a piece of the countryside and the countryside. Is the future of my Yan really want to change the name of the high?

No! This must never be allowed to happen!

With a decision in his mind, he dragged the matter of establishing the Reserve backward, telling Gao Min that he was afraid of placing the Fifth Prince on the cusp of the storm, and that it would be better to use the other princes as a whetstone to allow him to train for a few years.

Gao Min was touched by Li Jintian’s bottomless indulgence, and completely let down his defense, and even had no doubt about it, and advised his elder brother not to instigate the court officials to submit the report again. The noisy court finally quieted down, and Li Jintian’s dissatisfaction towards the Gao family reached its limit.

Li Xudong had just been carried to the entrance of the palace by the attendants when he saw Jun Father standing under the veranda with his back hands, his handsome and peerless face shrouded in a layer of sharp killing intent.

Carrying the wolf cub back to the inner hall with his own hands, he took out the top quality injury medicine he had prepared and gently applied it to his bloody knee, speaking in a light and breezy manner, “My son, don’t worry, this small injury won’t get in the way, and it will be healed in a month or two. I originally did not intend to intervene too much, let them go play by themselves, but they are trying to bully my son’s head. So, I will destroy Gao Min and Li Xuyan to avenge my son’s death. Do you know what the most desperate thing in the world is? It is not the death of a family, nor is it the betrayal of one’s own family, but it is thinking that one is at the top of the world, but suddenly being pushed into the abyss. It is necessary for Jun Father to let this father and son duo savor the taste of shattered bones.”

Jun’s father is worried about me. Jun’s father wants to avenge me. Jun Father is such a gentle person, but he has actually become truly angry because of me. One after another blissful and incomparable thought occupied Li Xudong’s mind, causing him to be unable to do anything else in response other than to coyly respond.

As for how Jun’s father was going to destroy the Gao family’s father and son, whose reputation was as strong as ever, he didn’t care in the slightest, let alone doubt Jun’s father’s ability.