"Stupid!" Chu Qianchen scolded coldly.

Chu Qianchen curled up his fingers, and his eyes became deeper and deeper.

She knew, she was right.

In fact, she had no evidence and was just deliberately deceiving Chu Yunyi just now, because she saw that Chu Qianhuang's expression was different yesterday, and she seemed to feel guilty and did not dare to get close to Chu Yunyi.

She just lied so casually that the little brat Chu Yunyi confessed.

He can't hide his emotions at all. He really should be sent to the Xuanjia Camp for more training.

Chu Yunyi only thought that Chu Qianchen knew the whole story, and quickly defended himself: "Second sister, I'm not stupid."

"Father has made a big mistake. If I do nothing this time, the Chu family will most likely lose their title. Fifteen years ago, it was because of my grandfather that we were able to keep our title. If we lose the title now, then all my grandfather's efforts would have been in vain."

"Brother Mu is only five years old. I am the eldest brother, so of course I have to help him keep his title."

Chu Yunyi is still seriously injured and his speech is not as fluent as usual. His voice is intermittent and weak.

His eyes were surprisingly bright, and he raised his chin slightly in a proud manner, "Second sister, the Chu family still has me."

Even if the other people in the Chu family are useless, she still has him! "Stupid!" Chu Qianchen called him stupid again, feeling that he was being too good for her by hitting him on the forehead.

She raised her hand and patted his head gently. This gentle action performed by her was so spontaneous, like the wild orchid blooming freely in the mountains.

She was wondering in her heart whether she should hand this foolish boy over to the cunning Su Mubai to teach him a lesson.

Don't pat a man's head! Chu Yunyi couldn't help but think of the words that Chu Yunmu kept repeating.

Chu Qianchen tapped his knuckles twice and asked again, "How did Chu Qianhuang know that the alchemy furnace would explode?"

“……” Chu Yunyi didn’t know either. He shook his head and swallowed. He always felt that the surroundings seemed to have become a little cold.

His palms began to sweat and he almost knelt down before his sister.

He didn't dare to hide anything and said hesitantly, "My elder sister just told me that she heard in the palace that the emperor would go to Yuanqing to watch the elixir being made, and asked me to find a way to go with him."

"She said that something might happen in Yuanqing Temple that day, and told me to act accordingly."

Chu Qianhuang spoke vaguely. Chu Yunyi later wondered what would happen in Yuanqing Temple and even suspected whether someone wanted to assassinate the emperor. Chu Qianhuang happened to overhear the secret conversation of the main envoy.

Assassinating the emperor is equivalent to treason, which is a serious crime. Even if Chu Qianhuang heard it, he would not dare to say anything. It is normal. After all, words are not enough.

Chu Yunyi felt that this was very likely, and he had been keeping an eye on the people around the emperor yesterday. Unexpectedly, the alchemy furnace exploded in the end...

When he thinks back on it now, he finds it a little bit unbelievable.

Another possibility suddenly emerged in my mind. Could the furnace explosion be caused by human factors? Could it be Chu Qianhuang?

That's impossible.

Chu Yunyi immediately rejected this possibility, thinking that this speculation was too absurd. Chu Qianhuang did not go to Yuanqing Temple yesterday at all.

Chu Qianchen asked again: "What else?"

"..." Chu Yunyi was about to answer when he suddenly came to his senses and realized a little too slowly that he had been tricked by her.

Originally she knew nothing, she was just trying to trick herself.

"You...you cheated me?!" Chu Yunyi felt that there was no trust between people at all.

Chu Qianchen's eyes flashed with a hint of smile again. He did not deny it, but took the opportunity to admonish him: "What's wrong with you? Haven't you heard a saying? Soldiers have no fixed form, and deception is the way. Don't you want to be a general?"

"..." Chu Yunyi wanted to explain that it was Chu Yunmu who kept saying that he wanted to be a great general, but he couldn't deny it.

He entered the Imperial College to study military subjects in order to join the army in the future.

He wanted to go to the battlefield and fight like the King, protecting the people and making great achievements.

A man should be like this.

Chu Yunyi's thin lips were pressed into a straight line, his eyes showing great ambition and aspirations, but when he met Chu Qianchen's eyes, he became timid again, as if a bucket of cold water was poured on him.

"Three days ago, my cousin Zhao went to the Imperial College, so I went to him for help and asked him to take me to Yuanqing Temple. My cousin Zhao thought I wanted to join in the fun, so he agreed."

Several princes often went to the Imperial Academy to attend classes. This was to show the emperor's importance on the Imperial Academy. It also made the children of nobles flock to the Imperial Academy, hoping to take the opportunity to get close to the princes.

Yesterday, in addition to Chu Yunyi, there were also other sons of royal family and noble families who went to Yuanqing Temple with other princes.

"Yesterday morning, we arrived at Yuanqing Temple at the beginning of the morning, and first accompanied the emperor to appreciate the maple leaves. It is said that the opening of the alchemy furnace must be done at an auspicious time, and Taoist Xuan Jing calculated that the auspicious time for opening the furnace is 15:15."

"Master Xuan Jing wanted to start the ritual an hour in advance, and asked two Taoist children to move the alchemy furnace out of the alchemy room. When they put down the furnace, a few pieces of charcoal fell out from under the furnace, and then the furnace exploded..."

"I rushed towards the emperor..."

Chu Qianchen listened to him quietly and couldn't help but sigh: This kid is really young and energetic.

"Were you afraid at that time?" Chu Qianchen asked softly.

Chu Yunyi couldn't help but recall the scenes at that time.

When the furnace exploded, he acted on instinct and rushed towards the emperor, protecting him with his body. At that moment, his mind was blank until he felt a sharp pain in his body, and then he came to his senses and heard the panicked shouts of the people around him.

It was only a brief moment, and then his consciousness was swallowed by darkness...

At that moment, he suspected that he was going to die, and he was actually a little scared.

However, no matter how scared he was, he couldn't tell Chu Qianchen, otherwise he would be laughed at.

Chu Yunyi thought so in his heart, but when he said it out loud, it became:

"Even if you are afraid, you must not be afraid."

After he said it, Chu Yunyi regretted it, thinking that what he said was ridiculous and just like acting like a spoiled child.

He is so grown up, yet he still acts like a spoiled child with his sister!

Chu Qianchen stared at Chu Yunyi deeply.

He was obviously in better spirits than yesterday, but his face was pale and his lips were dull due to excessive blood loss.

Chu Yunyi was usually a proud young man with a bad temper;

"Yeah." Chu Qianchen rubbed his head. This time, her movements were much gentler.

Amber almost shed tears of sympathy for Chu Yunyi.

She often felt that the princess was an eagle soaring in the blue sky, and the way an eagle educates its eaglet is to throw it off a high cliff, letting it flap its wings hard and learn to fly on its own.

The eagle is the overlord of the sky, the strongest and also the most protective.

If anyone else wants to bully Chu Yunyi, they have to think twice.

Amber looked at the brother and sister again and silently retreated.

She thought Chu Yunyi wouldn't want her to be there too.

"If you die, the title of Yongding Marquis will be preserved." Chu Qianchen said in a detached and calm tone, as if she was just an outsider.

"From now on, you will just be a tablet on your desk. You will be there a few times every year during the birthdays, the death, the Qingming Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival, the Double Ninth Festival, the Winter Solstice, and the New Year's Eve. After a few years, no one will remember you anymore."

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“Is it worth it?”

Chu Qianchen looked at him and asked.

This time, if she hadn't taken action, Chu Yunyi would have been dead for sure.

To be honest, before Chu Qianchen asked him, Chu Yunyi did not regret doing this. His goal was achieved, so he felt that everything he had done was worth it.

But now, Chu Yunyi didn't dare to answer.

Although Chu Qianchen's voice was so calm and rational, Chu Yunyi could still hear a little bit of heartache in it... and anger at his lack of resistance.

The rebellious boy couldn't help but reflect in his heart at this moment, was he wrong?

Chu Qianchen's expression remained calm. "You started learning martial arts when you were four years old. You practiced in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer for a full eight years. In the end, you didn't die on the battlefield, but died in such a trivial matter. Do you think it was worth it?"

Chu Yunyi: “…”

Chu Qianchen stood up gracefully and walked towards the east-facing window while continuing, "If you die, it won't benefit the country and the people, but just a small title."

A small title? Chu Yunyi silently repeated these five words in his heart, and suddenly he had an extremely subtle feeling, as if he was in a fog, and there was a door in front of him, tempting him to move forward, and move forward...

He opened and closed his mouth, feeling that Chu Qianchen had described him as a brave but foolish idiot.

"A gentleman should not fear life or death!" Chu Yunyi said dryly, "Since I plan to join the army, I will not fear life or death."

“Squeak.”

Chu Qianchen walked to the window and pushed open the two windows with both hands.

Rays of sunlight filtered in through the layers of treetops outside, forming a dancing, mottled light and shadow with the wind, and the lush branches and leaves seemed to be humming a sweet song.

Chu Qianchen turned around and faced Chu Yunyi again, repeating in a low voice: "Fearless of life and death?"

In the backlight, her face appeared blurry and her expression unclear.

The hairs on the back of Chu Yunyi's neck stood up, and a wild intuition told him that he had said the wrong thing.

He shrank his neck, and for a moment he almost thought he was going to be beaten, but then he saw Chu Qianchen burst out laughing.

She seemed to have heard a joke, and her smile was as bright as the breeze and the moon in the morning, or the wind blowing through the sparse trees.

Chu Qianchen shouted towards the window: "Tang Yuchu."

Chu Yunyi: “…”

The next moment, a green figure jumped down from the roof, and with him came a black figure, one big and one small.

Tang Yuchu came in through the window holding his plate of unfinished peanuts. The little black cat squatted on the windowsill, tilting its head and looking at the people in the room curiously.

Chu Qianchen asked: "Are you afraid of death?"

"I'm scared." Tang Yuchu said as a matter of course while eating peanuts, wondering how the princess knew he was on the roof.

After a pause, he added: "On the battlefield, we are used to seeing life and death, so we are more afraid of death, because we are afraid that it is not worth dying."

"Even if I can't fight one against a thousand, I can at least exchange my life for a hundred of the enemy's lives, right?"

He picked up a crispy date from the plate next to him and started eating it with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

Chu Yunyi: “…”

He looked at Tang Yuchu by the window in surprise.

Tang Yuchu, Yun Zhan, Xue Fengyan and others were all soldiers under the command of Prince Chen. All of them were young and promising. They had fought their way through the battlefield and killed countless enemies.

He thought they were not afraid of death.

Chu Yunyi blinked slowly, his eyes slightly confused.

The twelve-year-old boy was still a little confused. Chu Qianchen felt that Chu Lingxiao was really harmful. He was afraid that Shen would spoil Chu Yunyi after having a legitimate son. But did he educate Chu Yunyi well? Chu Qianchen simply told Chu Yunyi what he was thinking: "Do you think they are not afraid of death?"

"..."Chu Yunyi was speechless.

Tang Yuchu finished a crisp date in two bites, touched another one, and said vaguely: "On the battlefield, life and death are determined by fate. No one can guarantee that they can retreat unscathed every time. There are many soldiers with broken hands and feet. Even if they risk their lives, they have to survive."

"Every time we go to the battlefield, we don't think about whether we are afraid of death or not, but about surviving."

"As generals, we need to keep our soldiers alive, not just think about fearlessly living and dying every day."

Tang Yuchu glanced at Chu Yunyi with a strange look, "I remember you stayed in Xuanjia Camp for a month, didn't you?"

What I mean is, how come you don’t even understand this!

After saying that, Tang Yuchu grabbed the crispy dates and began to eat them with relish.

Chu Qianchen pulled the corner of his mouth slightly, and added: "You only care about yourself, not the overall situation, and you don't even know the importance of the benefits and losses. It's better not to go to the battlefield, so as not to harm others."

(End of this chapter)