In the afternoon, the welcome building hung out a sign outside, and it was closed to the public at night, and the guards on the side of the East Palace had already arrived.

His Majesty is a very low-key person, so the prince didn't dare to be too high-profile, when it was almost dark, he came in a carriage without a marker, and when he got off the car, he saw Shen Leng waiting outside the door and immediately quickened his pace, showing a kind smile on his face that was not half flawed.

"General Shen, I've been waiting for a long time."

Shen Leng leaned over and bowed: "I've seen Your Highness, and the minister has just arrived." ”

The prince held Shen Leng's hand: "Today, we don't care about the monarchs and ministers, I really treat General Shen as a friend, why should General Shen be so polite." ”

Shen Leng said: "The rules still can't be messed up." ”

The prince and Shen Leng entered the restaurant with their hands, and all the people in the welcome building leaned over to greet them.

Black Eyes personally led the two of them up to the second floor, and tea and dried fruit snacks had already been prepared in the private room.

The prince sat down and said with a smile: "Originally, I wanted to invite you to the East Palace for a drink, but after thinking about it, it was too formal, or it was more brisk outside. ”

Shen sneered: "His Royal Highness Prince Xie is loved, in fact, this local minister doesn't come often...... Does Your Highness have anything to ask your ministers to order? ”

"No, no."

The prince waved his hand: "Nothing, I just want to meet and chat with you, General Shen is my minister of Daning, young and promising, and I can learn a lot from chatting with people like General Shen." ”

Shen Leng leaned over and said, "Your Highness has praised it." ”

The prince smiled: "Don't be nervous, look at your appearance." ”

He got up, walked to the window and looked out: "The prosperity of Chang'an City, the peace of the people, and even the stability of the entire Daning, people like General Shen are indispensable to fight with the enemy outside, I often think that my father led the troops to fight at the age of sixteen, and the enemy was outside the northern frontier, but I was still doing nothing, this time my father was preparing for the northern expedition, and I asked my father to take me more than once, but my father did not allow it, he said...... I have to stay in Chang'an, as the prince of the country, I can't act arbitrarily, I must focus on the overall situation. ”

He glanced back at Shen Leng, and his tone deliberately accentuated a little when he said the four words of the prince of the country just now.

However, Shen Leng didn't react, sitting there like a child, with his hands on his knees, and there was a nervous expression on his face that he didn't know what to say.

The prince snorted in his heart, smiled and said: "Daning, our Li family has worked hard for hundreds of years and dare not have the slightest carry, so that today's national fortune is prosperous and the people's livelihood is prosperous, of course, it is indispensable for ministers like you to devote their lives to it, I came to see you, or I want to say thank you on behalf of my father and the emperor, on behalf of myself." ”

Shen Leng hurriedly got up and lowered his head and clenched his fists: "Your Highness is serious." ”

The prince patted Shen Leng on the shoulder: "General Shen is only twenty-five this year?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, yes."

"A year younger than me."

The prince said: "But I feel for a while that my life in the past 20 years is really not as wonderful as yours, by the way, I heard that you are an orphan?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, yes."

"An orphan, who can grow up to be a general who leads an army in Daning, must have suffered a lot when he was young to be as good as he is now, if you don't dislike it, you can call me a brother in private in the future."

Shen Leng took a step back and leaned over and said, "The minister doesn't dare." ”

The prince smiled: "General Shen, you are too nervous, I said that today is just a private gathering between you and me, not a formal occasion, you relax." ”

Shen Leng said: "The minister understands, the minister knows." ”

The prince glanced at Shen Leng, and just deliberately said that you can call me a brother in private, he was always looking at Shen Leng's eyes, and he wanted to learn from Shen Leng

There was something extraordinary in his eyes, but he was disappointed, he didn't see anything, he was sure that he wouldn't be wrong, and he was sure that even if a person could act again, suddenly he would be a little flustered when he mentioned the word brother, and there was no fear in his cold eyes that he thought would appear.

How did he know that Shen Leng actually didn't know these things at all.

"I've always wanted to have a brother, either a brother or a brother, because I'm so lonely."

The prince sat down, looked at Shen Leng and said: "So, I am very happy after Changye was born, I am very happy, originally my father only had one son, I have no playmates around me since I was a child, you know, although those uncles of mine have children, but when they see me, they will always have seven points of respect and three points of rustiness, until I am almost twenty years old, I have never felt what it is like to have brothers and sisters, I admire you very much, and I respect you very much, seeing such an excellent young man as you, I can't help but think, how good it would be if you were my brother." ”

Shen Leng stood there, and said in his heart, "What medicine did the prince take wrong?"

Seeing that Shen Leng still didn't react, the prince couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, and said in his heart that this guy is really so deep?

The words have been said so clearly, why he didn't even have a serious reaction.

The prince asked, "Can you understand this feeling?" ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "Although the minister is an orphan, there is no shortage of friends around him when he is young, Chen Ran, the general of the minister's personal barracks, is a fellow villager who grew up with me, and Meng Changan is also like the minister's brother." ”

The prince sighed, slightly disappointed.

"Speaking of Chen Ran, I heard that he is about to get married?"

The prince smiled: "Cao Anqing, give the things you brought to General Shen, and ask him to transfer them to General Chen Ran, this is my little care, congratulations to him on his new marriage, and wish him a hundred years of happiness." ”

Cao Anqing hurriedly put the gift box on the table, and then bowed back.

Shen Leng leaned over and said, "The minister thanked His Highness for his kindness." ”

"Huh? Why haven't you served the food yet? ”

The prince said with a smile: "I didn't even eat lunch for this dinner in the evening, lest I eat less and taste the food of the new building, so arrange for someone to serve the food, let's talk while eating." ”

Cao Anqing lowered his head and said, "The slave maid will go and order." ”

Weiyang Palace, East Warm Pavilion.

The emperor glanced at Wei Lan: "The prince went to the welcome building?" ”

Wei Lan, the commander of the Ouchi guards, lowered his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told General Shen the day before yesterday that he also set a table of wine and food in the Welcome Building, and His Royal Highness the Prince arrived at the Welcome Building before dark, and General Shen was waiting outside the Welcome Building." ”

The emperor snorted, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Is there enough manpower for the prince to bring with him when he leaves the palace?" ”

"The guards of the East Palace have long been arranged near the welcome building, and the forbidden army has also arranged people."

"You can bring someone with you."

The emperor said in a flat tone: "He is the crown prince, how can he go out so casually, after the prince and Shen Leng met, you secretly escorted him to the East Palace and came back." ”

Wei Lan said: "The minister will go." ”

After he came out of the East Warm Pavilion, he felt that something was wrong, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had so many strong guards in the East Palace around him, when he was officially canonized as the prince, a large part of the guards in the East Palace were personally selected by him, and the strength was naturally very clear, besides, there were forbidden troops secretly guarding around the Yingxin Building, and no one could make anything in the Yingxin Building, the Yingxin Building was the territory of the Liuyun Society, and the Liuyun Club had almost controlled the entire Chang'an City Secret Dao Force now, what else did Your Majesty have to worry about?

After thinking about it, Wei Lan understood that His Majesty should not be worried about the crown prince.

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, the emperor put the last review of the day on the table, got up and stretched his body: "On behalf of the boat, tell the imperial dining room to send dinner to the Dongnuan Pavilion, and I will sleep here today." ”

Dai Fangzhou hurriedly wanted to go out, and the emperor ordered again: "Prepare two people, don't worry, just send them over after an hour." ”

Dai Fangzhou was stunned, and said in his heart that he was ready for two people

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But of course he couldn't ask, so he hurriedly went out and ordered.

Half an hour later, the welcome building.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince held the wine glass and said: "The food in this Yingxinlou is really not ordinary, this is the most comfortable meal I have eaten in the past few years, after thinking about it, it is probably not how appetizing the food is, just because it is General Shen who eats with me, I still say the same sentence, I have always felt that General Shen and I are in love, and this glass of wine respects the fate between us." ”

Shen Leng hurriedly raised his glass: "Your Highness Xie raises love." ”

The two of them were just about to raise their glasses, when they saw Cao Anqing coming in from outside the door and glanced at the prince cautiously: "Your Highness, just now Concubine Zhenniang's palace sent someone to find General Shen, saying that Concubine Zhenniangniang had something to see him." ”

The prince's face sank suddenly, but he quickly laughed: "It seems that there is something important, otherwise, how can you send someone to find this palace gate when it is banned, go quickly." ”

He put down his glass, the anger in his eyes flashing.

Shen Leng didn't know what was going on, so he had to bow down: "The minister will retire first." ”

He felt that something was wrong when he went out, Concubine Zhen had never sent someone to find him, at most she sent someone to find the tea master to enter the palace, how could it be so coincidental today?

Soon after he left the welcome building, the prince also boarded the carriage and returned to the East Palace, and in the carriage, the prince's face became more and more ugly: "Concubine Zhen still let Shen Leng enter the palace so late?" If you say that he has nothing to do with Concubine Zhen, who believes it! ”

Cao Anqing opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

In Weiyang Palace, Shen Leng followed the person who came to him and came in through the side door, and the attendant said: "General Shen can go to Dongnuan Pavilion, Your Majesty is waiting for you." ”

Shen Leng suddenly thanked him.

In the East Warm Pavilion, the emperor glanced at Yan Bai, the deputy commander of the Ouchi guard, who was known as one of the five-colored deer.

"Do you see clearly?"

Yan Bai lowered his head and said: "I can see clearly, when His Royal Highness heard that it was Concubine Zhen Niangniang who invited General Shen into the palace, his face changed greatly, obviously he was going to be angry, but he endured it, and the minister withdrew before General Shen went out, and he didn't see the rest of the matter." ”

The emperor snorted: "I know, you go down, you are not allowed to tell anyone about tonight's events." ”

"I understand."

Yan Bai bowed his head and withdrew from the East Warm Pavilion.

He went out, Shen Leng entered the door, and the two of them greeted each other after they met, of course Shen Leng would not have thought that Yan Bai was also in the Yingxin Building not long ago.

He wanted to wait for His Majesty to summon him outside the Dongnuan Pavilion, but Dai Fangzhou was already waiting at the door, and when he saw Shen Leng, Dai Fangzhou said with a smile: "Your Majesty has been waiting for General Shen for a while, come in." ”

Shen Leng hurriedly thanked him, and when he entered the Dongnuan Pavilion, he found that the food had already been set on the table.

"I'm not full."

The emperor glanced at Shen Leng and pointed to the opposite side of himself: "Sit down and eat, stir-fry the rice, eat without saying a word, eat first and then speak." ”

Shen Leng seemed to be really unrestrained in front of His Majesty, sat down, and picked up a bowl of white rice, as if he was rushing to eat it with His Majesty, the two of them ate quickly and very fragrantly, and it didn't take long for the rice to finish eating the dishes on the plate.

Shen Leng put down the dishes and chopsticks and smiled, and the emperor gave him a blank look: "In my territory, I almost didn't rob you." ”

Shen Leng smiled again.

The Emperor asked, "How?" ”

Shen Leng said: "Generally, it is a little worse than what the minister did." ”

Emperor: "After eating my things, you still say that it is average?" I'm asking you, the prince. ”

Shen Leng: "Uh...... Pretty good. ”

The emperor smiled: "I guess that you and the prince will not be able to eat, so I asked people to prepare some, since you have eaten my meal, then don't rush out of the palace first, eliminate food, and accompany me for a walk." ”

"Obey."

Shen Leng got up and accompanied the emperor out of the Dongnuan Pavilion, how cold is it in the night of this wax moon?

But whether it was the emperor or Shen Leng, he didn't feel cold.

Even a palace lamp hanging every short distance can bring warmth, the more you look at it, the warmer it becomes, and the wind and snow will not invade.