Three quarters of an hour at Yin.
Shen suddenly woke up, and then fearfully moved Xie Shiguan's arm to the side. In the past, whenever he moved, this arm would always be tightened.
But today, maybe it was because His Highness drank two extra glasses of liquor before going to bed, Xie Shiguan slept exceptionally soundly tonight. He got off the bed quietly, tucked in the quilt for His Highness, then put on his outer robe and went out.
Now that His Highness is under house arrest in the palace and has no official duties to attend to, he would follow him around out of boredom on weekdays, almost never leaving his side. If he can't see him for a while, he would keep calling "Aque, Chenque" over and over again.
Since that day, Shen Que has been paying attention to the news from the border. Seven days ago, he heard that the Northern Barbarian Army was defeated, and then he sent a general to negotiate with the border garrison. His attitude was extremely sincere, and he said that the Northern Barbarians were willing to be a vassal state of the Heavenly Khan in the future, paying tribute every year and never going to war again. He only asked to open up trade routes and facilitate economic and trade between the two tribes.
The northern barbarians only bowed their heads once during the reign of the first emperor. That time, they sent Princess Menghe to Beijing for marriage. After that, the war stopped for more than nine years. The young emperor was very happy at once. He believed that the reason why wars often broke out in the north was because Beiliang was a barren land with poor mountains and bad waters. The barbarians could not get enough food, so they naturally invaded the Central Plains.
Perhaps all they needed to do was to make a breakthrough and tame these barbarians, so that they could avoid wars in the future and the people living on the borders could live in peace. So the saint approved the request immediately.
General Yunhui, who was guarding Longyou, immediately submitted a memorial, saying that the barbarians were cunning and it was inappropriate to easily initiate trade, and hoped that the emperor would revoke his order.
However, this memorial made Xie Yizhi furious. He threw the memorial off the table on the spot, and the matter of opening the business was carried out without delay.
Soon after, news of rebellion came from the south, so with Xie Yizhi's approval, part of the troops were transferred to the south.
The unrest in the north and south coincided with Shen Que's guess. The barbarians were cunning, and although Xie Shiguan had half northern barbarian blood, they would not trust him completely and would be on guard before entering the capital.
The date of February 7th was too tight, and coupled with the reduction of troops in the north, their military equipment and food supplies should not be weakened too much as they came all the way in. In order to arrive in Beijing on time, Shen felt that they might not slaughter the civilians excessively before they succeeded.
After thinking about it for many days, he could only come up with a remedy.
That is, he sneaked into the secret room, stole the private seal of Prince Yan, and then wrote several secret letters according to the handwriting of His Highness. One of them was to urgently summon the generals who led the troops to the south to return to the capital. He used a few vague words to point out that there was a trap in the south and asked them to hide their tracks and return quickly.
The second thing was to ask the generals stationed in the north to strengthen their defenses and warn them of the possibility of enemy attacks.
Shen knew that he was not a man of strategy, so he could only use this method to minimize civilian casualties. At least there would be soldiers to protect the people and they would not be slaughtered by foreigners.
The only shortcoming is that his handwriting is not very good. A few days ago, Shen asked His Highness to copy some of his articles. However, after spending a lot of effort, he only learned 50% to 60% of the handwriting.
Fortunately, these generals did not all have close personal relationships with His Highness, and most of them were military candidates, so it was natural that they had never seen the King Yan's calligraphy. Relying on a genuine private seal, Shen guessed that most of the generals would believe it.
After sealing the secret letters with wax, Chen hurriedly hid them beside the suitcase in the main house of Lansheng Courtyard, planning to ask the courier to deliver the letters as soon as the sun rose tomorrow.
Just as he put down the wooden lid of the suitcase, he heard some noise on the couch.
Shen's heartbeat tightened, and he walked towards the bed cautiously. Just as he stopped at the edge of the bed, the person under the mattress grabbed his waist. The mute was so scared that his whole body trembled, and even a little cold sweat appeared on his temples and back.
Xie Shiguan half opened his eyes, his eyes slightly hazy, as if he had just woken up. He reached out and clenched the mute's hand, whispering: "Where did you go just now? Why are your hands so cold?"
Shen pulled his hand away, and then hurriedly gestured to him, but he forgot that it was dark in the room, and even if His Highness had good eyesight, he could not see what he was gesturing.
He heard the prince chuckle: "How can I have such good eyesight? I am not a raccoon dog."
Shen Que then had no choice but to gently push open His Highness's clenched palm and wrote two words on it: Urgent.
"Isn't there a bucket in the room? Why don't you use it?" Xie Shiguan said, "I've already gone to bed, are you still embarrassed?"
Shen didn't answer.
His Highness skillfully pulled open the mattress, pulled the man onto the couch, then ripped open his clothes and bit him through his inner clothes. Then the mute's body trembled slightly.
I don’t know if it was because he felt guilty, but this time he rarely hid.
Xie Shiguan narrowed his eyes and looked at him with a half-smile: "You are silent, did you do something to offend me outside?"
His tone didn't sound like a question, but the throbbing in Shen's chest never stopped. For a moment, he felt that His Highness might know everything.
But he didn't expect Xie Shiguan to just grab his waist, turn over, press him under him, and said with a smile: "You are so brave to meet your lover at night without telling me."
But Shen could tell that he was just joking, so he felt slightly relieved.
He shook his head, but Xie Shiguan reached out to rub the bite mark on the back of his neck, laughing softly: "You're lying. If you didn't have a secret meeting with your lover, then who bit you like this, huh?"
Shen, however, tried to raise his head, wanting to tell him who that person was.
But it was too dark on the couch and the curtains were drawn, so his hands and lips were useless, so he could only let His Highness do whatever he wanted.
It was six quarters past the hour of the si hour that day.
Shen was awakened from his sleep. The prince had his back to him and seemed to be still sleeping. He quietly got off the bed and came to the suitcase again.
But after searching the side of the box for a long time, I still couldn't find the letters I hid last night...
How could that be? Before closing the lid, he remembered that he had clearly checked it once more.
"What are you looking for?" Xie Shiguan's lazy voice suddenly sounded from behind him, "It's still early, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
Hearing His Highness' voice unexpectedly, Shen was almost sweating all over. He turned around and tried to stay calm: "I can't sleep anymore, change clothes and go buy a bowl of wontons."
Xie Shiguan looked at him with a smile in his eyes: "Really?"
"Why do you suddenly think of those wontons again?"
Shen lowered his eyes: "I just dreamed about it."
Fortunately, His Highness did not seem to be suspicious, and just urged him, "Do you have to spend half a day choosing just these few tattered clothes? Why don't I choose for you?"
How could Shen dare to let him touch the suitcase, so he casually pulled the top layer, intending to take out a set of clothes at random. However, he didn't expect that when he just gently reached in, he touched several secret letters underneath.
Without having time to think about why the letter was hidden under the official robe, Shen quickly copied all the letters into his hand and hid them inside the official robe.
"Why are you wearing this official robe? Why haven't you worn the spring clothes I ordered for you at the beginning of the spring?"
But Shen stubbornly argued: "Dark colors are more resistant to dirt."
After answering, he turned his back to change his clothes. In order not to let His Highness notice, he quickly put the letters into his inner clothes, and then changed into his middle clothes, outer garment and leather belt.
Perhaps because he was too nervous, Shen tried twice in a row but still failed to pass the leather belt through the tail of his penis. Xie Shiguan stepped forward, used the back of his hand to push away his fingertips, and said softly: "I'll help you. Why are you so clumsy today?"
After helping him pass the leather belt through the tail of his clothes, Xie Shiguan came to the mute and patiently adjusted the position of the belt buckle for him.
Chen held his breath unconsciously, fearing that His Highness would touch the foreign object under his collar. Fortunately, Xie Shiguan's fingertips only pulled the belt buckle and did not touch other parts of his body.
"How about you wait for me, I will change my clothes and go with you?"
Shen Que quickly raised his hand: "Your Highness is under house arrest. If someone with ulterior motives sees it..."
"So what if you saw it? Are you going to cut off my neck?" Xie Shiguan asked with a smile.
The mute quickly covered his mouth and mouthed, "Don't say it."
His Highness pulled his hand away, lowered his head slightly, and then held up his face with both hands: "You really don't want to sleep with me?"
Shen opened his lips: "Very soon."
Xie Shiguan stared at his evasive eyes, pursed his lips, leaned forward slightly, and kissed the tip of the mute's nose. The more he kissed, the more flustered Shen Que's eyes became.
He's so stupid that he can't even lie properly, and yet he thinks he's smart enough to think he didn't discover anything?
The burning kiss went all the way down, and then she bit his lower lip lightly, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she smiled slightly: "Go early and come back early."
2 o'clock in the morning, Hanyuan Hall.
A scout wearing light armor and holding a yellow flag ran in. Upon hearing the sound, the court officials in the hall retreated one after another. The scout then fell to his knees under the Mingtang without any hindrance.
"Report—" he said loudly, "The border is in danger! Please have a look, Saint!"
Since Xie Yizi started to work on his own in politics, he did not feel that being an emperor was that difficult. When he got tired of reading memorials, he would throw them to the eunuchs to do. When he made reports in court, he would nod if he was happy and shake his head if he was unhappy, and no one dared to disobey him.
This was the first time that Xie Yizi held such great power, and he couldn't help feeling a little proud. Without Man Changshan and Xie Ling, couldn't he still be able to serve as the emperor properly?
The border is in danger? How is that possible? Didn't he already order peace talks with the Northern Barbarians? He also sent troops to suppress the rebellion in the south in a timely manner. Shouldn't the news coming to the capital now be good news?
Seeing that the emperor was reluctant to come to receive him, the scout knelt down and took a few steps forward, then repeated, "An urgent border document from eight hundred miles away, please have a look, Your Majesty!"
There was silence in the Hanyuan Hall, and almost no one dared to speak.
Under the scrutiny of the public, Xie Yizi slowly stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembling, and took the document handed over by the scout. At this moment, he didn't have the energy to carefully open it with the dagger. Xie Yizi directly used brute force to tear open the wax seal.
He was still holding out some hope, but when he opened the book and took a look, his legs suddenly went weak and he dropped the document to the ground.
This is a letter written in blood, saying that the northern barbarian wolf cavalry has broken through the border, and the soldiers at the border are outnumbered. The enemy army is advancing straight in and will reach the capital soon...
He has already dispatched most of his troops to the south to resist the attack from the southern barbarians. Now there are only the Sixteen Guards left in Kyoto. He has not had time to replace Xie Shiguan's men among them, and the Sixteen Guards may not all obey his orders!
It's over, everything is over...
The author has something to say:
Although I stay at home every day watching stupid videos, I still got yang. Now my whole body feels like it was stepped on by an elephant. I tried my best to finish this chapter. If it gets worse tomorrow, I may ask for leave. If it’s okay, I will continue to update daily.
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