Zhu Gaojiu walked up the city wall of Wudingzhou. The setting sun was like blood, dyeing the loneliness of the Western Mountain red. Every time he took a step, the red and gold scales on his body would collide and make a clanking sound.

He suddenly stopped and said to Su Wen behind him: "Go down, restore order in Wuding Prefecture, reorganize the captured rebel soldiers, and organize a guard post into three squads to stay in the city for twelve hours.

Patrolling, day and night.”

"No." Su Wen bowed and left.

After the people retreated, Zhu Gaojie continued to walk along the broken city wall. Finally, on the masonry of the city wall, lying on the bricks of the city wall was a drunken gentleman. From a distance, he could smell the strong alcohol on his body.

gas.

The city is littered with corpses, while the city is drinking and singing.

Zhu Gaojie met this man once, at the house of Li Xuan, the former censor of the Zuodu Procuratorate. This man was Su Qing, a staff member of the Han Dynasty Palace. At that time, Su Qing was bribing Li Xuan.

It was precisely because of Li Xuan's incident that Zhu Gaojie decided to completely eradicate the Hanwang Party.

Now that we meet again, Su Qing has lost all the melancholy of a counselor, and looks as cool as Li Taibai trying to catch the moon in the water.

Hearing the footsteps, Su Qing slowly sat up. Seeing this airy behavior, he didn't seem to be worried that he would fall off the top of the city without a care in the world.

The city wall of Wuding Prefecture is nearly ten feet high. If you were thrown down from here, your whole body would be smashed, your head would be broken and your head would bleed.

Su Qing waved and said hello: "Hey, Prince Qi, I haven't seen him for a long time, but he still looks so extraordinary."

Zhu Gaojie took a step forward and said, "Looking at your accent, are you from Peiping?"

Su Qing smiled and said, "Yes, I am from the same hometown as you, Prince Qi, but I left my hometown when I was seventeen."

Zhu Gaojie was born in the 24th year of Hongwu. He grew up in Prince Yan's Mansion in Peking. Although Su Qing's Peking accent was very weak, he could still hear it.

King Qi was not in a hurry. He sat on the city wall and chatted with Su Qing: "Why did you leave your hometown?"

Su Qing seemed to be still a little drunk and had not yet sobered up. He tried hard to recall: "When I was seventeen years old, I followed the King of Yan, um, His Majesty today, to participate in the Battle of Jingnan."

This surprised Zhu Gaojie: "Have you ever participated in the Jingnan War?"

Su Qing said: "I was once the officer of the Yanshan Left Guard Baihu under General Zhang Yu. I participated in the battle to seize the Nine Gates of Peking, the Battle of Jizhou, the Battle of Zunyi... Well, Prince Qi, you should have heard of these, right?

"

Zhu Gaojie sighed: "These are all tough battles in the early days of the Jingnan period. With your resume after the war, you must have been a second-grade Dusi Tongzhi. Why did you become a commoner under the King of Han?"

"Prince Qi has already talked about this, how come he still can't guess my identity?"

Su Qing admitted generously, "During the Jingnan period, after the battle in Peking, I was incorporated into an army that was not organized and recorded in the files because of my bravery in combat. On the surface, my name has been

He was a soldier who died in battle, and the imperial court sent a pension to my home. From then on, I became a shadow guard who would never see the light of day. It was not until the second year of Yongle that I was placed beside the King of Han until today."

Having said this, Su Qing looked behind Zhu Gaojie: "Xiao Qi, you and I were comrades who fought side by side. It's rare to see us today, so why don't we come out and talk about it?"

From the shadow behind Zhu Gaojie, A Qi wearing an iron ghost mask slowly walked out.

Under the setting sun, A Qi stood in the shadow, while Su Qing sat calmly under the sunset.

Su Qing said softly: "You stand in the shadow, but live in the sunshine. I stand in the light, but live like a shadow."

He really envied A Qi for being able to live freely like this.

Shadow attendants are a mysterious word. They will always live in the shadows and are the emperor's trump card. For more than ten years, Su Qing seemed to be living a light life, but he was always burdened with heavy sins.

On the other hand, A-Qi, thanks to King Qi, got out of the quagmire of Shadow Attendant. With King Qi, A-Qi could live freely.

"You violated Shadow Attendant's regulations."

Facing his former colleagues, A Qi said in a cold voice, "You just revealed your past experience. According to the rules, I should take you back to Beijing with your head."

The reason why few people know about the existence of the Shadow Warriors is because the confidentiality is strict enough. Everyone is like a mute, with no past, no real names, only code names and missions, and the power of life and death given to them by the emperor.

"so what?"

Su Qing didn't care, he threw the empty jug in his hand down the city wall, and took out a new jug from nowhere, and said lightly, "After drinking this last jug of wine, I should hit the road.

"

A Qi was stunned for a moment, frowning under the mask and saying nothing.

Su Qing has lived in the shadows for too long. He is full of disgust for his dirty life. Now that he has finished his errands as an emperor, he just wants to give himself relief to end this black life.

"If there is anything else you want to ask, just think of it as my last words before I die. As long as I know, I can answer you." Su Qing took a sip from the wine bottle and licked the corner of his mouth, "But you'd better

Hurry up, because I only have time for this bottle of wine."

Zhu Gaojie paused and asked, "How is the King of Han now?"

Su Qing said leisurely: "Shenyang Zhongtun Guard and Datong Zhongtun Guard set out from Hejian Prefecture at the same time and arrived in the west of Wuding Prefecture. They should have captured the King of Han by now and are on their way to send him away."

He asked back: "I have a question that I don't understand. With your wisdom, it is not difficult to guess that Su Wen, a young general, is still too green and immature compared to the King of Han. If you were to take charge of Wuding Prefecture, you could overpower the King of Han."

If you die here, I don’t need to take action. If that’s the case, why did you choose to let Su Wen guard the King of Han?”

Zhu Gaojie thought for a while and said, "What do you think of Su Wen?"

Su Qing said: "If you have courage and strategy, if you refine it, you can become a general of the country in the future, but courage is greater than strategy."

"So, Su Wensheng has a heavy responsibility. All he lacks is an opportunity to move up. I asked him to guard the King of Han to give him a step. The higher he stands, the further his vision will naturally be."

Zhu Gaojie said calmly, "Furthermore, even if Su Wen makes mistakes because of his youth, I still have the king to protect him. As a prince, I have to protect the people under my control."

Su Qing became interested: "For this reason, what else are you hiding?"

Zhu Gaojie said lightly: "It's nothing. I just transferred the two guards stationed in Shanghe to the north of Yangxin and Dawan, occupying the nodes of various roads in Wuding Prefecture."

Su Qing was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily: "I see, that's it, you have been on guard against the King of Han for a long time. In this way, even if I have not transferred the Shenyang Zhongtun Guards and Datong Zhongtun Guards, you can still Catch the King of Han, that’s good.”

His mood turned from cloudy to clear. When he thought that even without his betrayal, the King of Han would not have been able to escape, the guilt in Su Qing's heart was relieved a lot.

After twelve years of friendship between master and minister, it was still a rock stuck in Su Qing's heart, and now King Qi's words have shattered this rock.

"Thank you, thank you for taking away such a knot in my heart."

Su Qing breathed a long sigh of relief, "In this way, I can leave feeling relieved."

He picked up the flask and drank it all in one gulp. The wine entered his throat with a mellow aftertaste. Su Qing suddenly said: "By the way, there is one more thing I should tell you."

"Huh?" Zhu Gaojie raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter?"

The corner of Su Qing's mouth raised: "I heard that Prince Qi has not taken any concubines yet?"

Zhu Gaojie was a little confused: "Yes, does this have anything to do with what you want to say?"

"Of course it does matter..."

Su Qing looked at A Qi and raised the corners of her mouth, "Did you know that my old friend A Qi..."

Before he could speak, A Qi already knew what this guy wanted to say, so he interrupted in a bad tone: "I advise you to think through your thoughts before speaking."

Zhu Gaojie looked at A Qi suspiciously. He could clearly feel that something was wrong with A Qi, but he couldn't tell.

What is this Aqi hiding from him?

Su Qing shook her head, stood up and looked out, feeling that the sunset was so beautiful, she closed her eyes gently.

He jumped and fell from the city wall nearly ten feet away.

For him, this should be considered a relief.

Zhu Gaojie was silent for a while and sighed: "Let's give him a good burial."

…

This rebellion started by the King of Han lasted less than a month from the time when the King of Han announced the ban on Jingnan to the time when the King of Han was captured and the rebels were annihilated in Wuding Prefecture.

Zhu Gaojie took his army and returned to Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong.

In front of his residence, several guests were already waiting.

One is the commander of Shenyang Zhongtun Guards, and the other is the commander of Datong Zhongtun Guards.

"Prince Qi, the Prince of Han has been tied up by us and is waiting for you in the house. If nothing happens, we will go back first?"

The commander of the Shenyang Zhongtun Guards scratched his head and said, "I hope Your Majesty will understand. Both of our guards are Tun Guards and cannot leave Hejian Mansion for a long time. This troop dispatch has been made an exception. We must rush back immediately."

Zhu Gaojiao bowed and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"It's nothing. It's an honor for us to be able to work for the prince. Then we won't disturb you and say goodbye."

"Walk slowly."

Zhu Gaojie walked into the room and saw King Han tied to a chair, his face as black as coal. Seeing Queen Qi's face became even more gloomy.

"Hey, second brother, this is the first time that we brothers have met since you became a vassal. I never thought that such a scene would happen, which is really embarrassing." Zhu Gaojie sighed.

The King of Han spat and said disdainfully: "Grandma!"

Zhu Gaojie smiled and said, "My grandma is also your grandma."

Both he and the King of Han were from Beiping. "Lao Lao" is a dialect of Beiping. It is not a curse word. It probably has two meanings. One means "no way" and the other means "stop talking nonsense".

Obviously, what King Han wanted to express now was the second meaning.

"You win, kid. I can't beat you. No wonder the boss lost at your hands. I didn't lose unjustly."

The King of Han said in a cold voice, "If you want to kill or behead me, let me do whatever you want. If you still remember that I am your second brother, for the sake of the Zhu family, please don't embarrass my wife and children."
To be continued...