I never expected that I would meet familiar...relatives in a foreign country!

Xingde choked for a moment, all kinds of memories flooded into his mind, his eyes were misty, and he said excitedly:

"You have a mole on your body. Where is it? What funny things did you do when you were five years old?"

The person in front of him was also choked, the fog dissipated, and shock emerged:

"Why do you ask this question?"

Under Xingde's suspicious gaze, he looked ashamed and said reluctantly:

"I have a mole on the sole of my foot. When I was five years old, I drank poison secretly and my mother forced me to vomit by feeding me feces..."

Filling with manure!

His lifelong shame!!

After he left his hometown, only his brother Xingde, who grew up with him, knew about this past event.

Xingde is not his biological brother, but was adopted by his parents. However, the two grew up together and their relationship is more than that of family.

That's why Xingle felt so distressed when he saw Xingde's pitiful appearance just now.

What kind of life has his brother been living in Yan State for the past five years?

“It’s really you!”

Xingde was overjoyed and immediately rushed over to hug the little eunuch. As he hugged her, he couldn't help but shed tears:

"Xingle, why did you come to Yan State to be a eunuch? Can't you survive as a small guard in Qi State?"

The young prince is a eunuch, and now even his brother is a eunuch!!

Could it be that he and the prince are destined to be eunuchs in this life? ?

The more he thought about it, the sadder he became. Overwhelmed with grief, Xingde went from crying silently to breaking down in sobs.

Unexpectedly, Xingle scratched his head, smiled innocently and wiped away his brother's tears:

"No, I didn't become a eunuch. I applied for a job as a guard. I dressed up as a eunuch during the Chinese New Year to come and look for you. .... I wanted to come and look for you after dark last night, but I was tripped by other guards. I got drunk and slept until dawn. After I finally sobered up, I came to look for you."

"I see..." Xingde's embarrassed tears suddenly stopped, "Why did you come to Yan State to be a guard? What about the job in Qi State?"

He asked with concern: "Are you being bullied and want to come to me to comfort you?"

Xingle shook her head: "I was not bullied by anyone. I came here on the orders of Huipin to look for His Majesty the Seventh Prince."

"This is a letter from Concubine Hui... She told me to personally deliver it to His Highness the Seventh Prince."

"Come in and talk." Seeing the letter from home, Xingde became excited. His Highness missed his family, and he would definitely be very happy if he saw Huipin's letter.

Xingle hid the letter back in her arms and followed Xingde into the kitchen of Changqiu Palace.

When he saw that the Seventh Prince was also so thin, only slightly better than his brother, Xingle was suddenly filled with sadness, but he remembered his identity and first bowed to the Seventh Prince.

Just as he was about to take out the letter from home, he saw Chu Qi sitting next to him.

That person looks like the Seventh Prince...

The only difference is that one is well-proportioned and the other is thin...

No, which one is the Seventh Prince?

Xingle looked left and right, looking at the clothes of the two men, hesitating and undecided. Maybe His Highness was wearing eunuch's clothes just like him?

"Brother..." He had to ask Xingde for help.

Xingde looked at the real Qi Chenli and winked at his brother.

The latter understood, took out the letter from home, and respectfully presented it to the thin one:

"Your Highness, this is a letter from Huipin that I was ordered to deliver."

When Qi Chenli heard that there was a letter from home, he suddenly got excited and could not maintain his calmness. He stood up and snatched the letter from Xingle's hand. Without any hesitation, he opened it in front of the three people and read it.

There were very few words on it, except for a paragraph expressing concern for Qi Chenli's health, the rest was clear: Emperor Wu of Qi was critically ill, and the eight princes suffered heavy losses in their infighting. Qi Chenli should return home as soon as possible to fight for the throne!

As for what to do?

Go back secretly and sneak back through Chencang secretly. She has her own people to pick her up!

Qi Chenli blinked, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

In his memory, his mother had always been a weak woman. Although she was born in the general's mansion, she had a very gentle temperament, never got angry with anyone, and treated everyone gently.

Even when his uncle's family was imprisoned, his mother was demoted, and he was sent to Yan State as a hostage, his mother did not become hysterical, nor did she ever blame Emperor Wu of Qi.

A woman who seemed to have such a good temper and was so gentle would actually let him go back to fight for the throne without saying a word.

The letter also implicitly pointed out that the eight princes suffered heavy losses in the infighting, and she was involved in fanning the flames.

Is this still the mother in my memory who looked delicate and gentle and had an even weaker temperament?

Perhaps, she disguised herself too well and Qi Chenli was deceived?

But when Qi Chenli suddenly received the news, he was not as ecstatic as he had imagined, but rather very frightened!

He felt that he was not cut out to be an emperor.

From childhood to adulthood, he was a mediocre student. Of the six arts of a gentleman, he barely learned one, etiquette, and in other aspects, he was simply terrible.

Because of this, he was often ridiculed. His name, Qi Chenli, was the right one and it suited his situation very well.

Although his six older brothers and two younger brothers were not that outstanding, they were definitely better than Qi Chenli.

He was competing for the throne with eight such people, and was imprisoned for five years.

Qi Chenli was panic-stricken, and the negative emotions almost overwhelmed him. He murmured, "No... I can't do it..."

It seems that he is talking to his mother.

But my mother was not around at all.

He looked helplessly at Chu Qi, his younger brother, who was leisurely eating a chicken leg, and slowly handed the letter to him: "Brother, this is a letter from mother, you should be able to read it too."

Even if there was such important content in it, he was willing to let Chu Qi read it. In his heart, Chu Qi was his biological brother. The two of them could not be together as brothers for more than ten years. In the days to come, they should open their hearts to each other and support each other. He should have the right to read his mother's letter.

Xing Le, who was about to speak to stop Qi Chenli, froze in place after hearing him say "brother". The words to stop him were stuck in his throat. Why did the Seventh Prince suddenly have a younger brother? ?

He had never heard of such a thing!

Chu Qi put down the chicken leg, wiped her hands, and under Xingle's suddenly nervous gaze, she slowly took the letter from home and read it word by word with her eyes lowered.

Qi Chenli's reaction was so strong that she felt that this might be an event concerning fate.

After reading it, she raised her eyebrows, thinking to herself that this hostage actually had a chance to return home.

However, in the original plot, he died a few days before the New Year.

Starved to death.

In the original plot, perhaps this eunuch who called himself Xingle also tried to find Qi Chenli.

But he arrived too late, and all he saw was Qi Chenli's corpse.

This time, with Chu Qi's help, Xingde was saved, allowing him to go back with food to save the dying Qi Chenli.

The gears of Qi Chenli's destiny began to turn slowly that night.