His little movement did not escape the eyes of some people. Pei Yuanhao looked at him and said softly: "Mr. Fu, what's wrong?"

"I seemed to hear a woman's voice."

"..." Pei Yuanhao didn't say anything, and looked at him with stern eyes. My heart suddenly tightened, and I saw Fu Badai tilting his ears toward us again and said, "Why is there another prince besides the prince?"

Princess?"

Pei Yuanhao frowned again, gritted his teeth, and said, "No. She is not the only woman here."

"Oh?"

Seeing his face darken, Liu Li, who had been sitting silently next to him, stood up at this time and nodded slightly towards Fu Badai: "Mr. Fu, I would like to meet my junior Liu Li."

Fu Badai raised his eyebrows, as if he remembered something, and immediately smiled and said: "She must be the daughter of an old friend."

"This time of greetings, I am taking the liberty of a junior. I hope Mr. Fu will not take it personally."

"Where are you, your Majesty, you are so polite?"

After the two of them finished their greetings, Pei Yuanhao's cold eyes finally fell on me. I bit my lower lip, stood up, and gave Fu Badai a deep bow across from him: "Mr. Fu, the Zhengzi of Jixian Palace is

Yue Qingying pays his respects."

Fu Badai's gray eyebrows twitched: "Yue... Qing... Ying...?"

My heart was also beating loudly, and I felt that Pei Yuanhao's gaze was almost piercing through my body, but I still kept my expression unchanged and looked down at my toes while maintaining a saluting posture.

"Yue Qingying?"

Fu Badai recited it again, as if thinking about these three words, his dark gray eyes showed a little smile. Under Pei Yuanhao's gaze, he smiled and said: "It's rare that Jixian Palace still has

A woman holds office. Mr. Yue, I will cause you trouble in the future because of my old age."

"Don't dare."

I said respectfully, and then led Xiao Nianshen out from behind the table and walked up to Fu Badai. Although Nianshen was still a little confused about what just happened, he quickly walked forward and dusted off his clothes.

, and bowed respectfully to Fu Badai: "Student Pei Nianshen, pay your respects to the teacher."

What he did was the ancient ritual of apprenticeship in Xichuan that I specially gave him. Fu Badai didn’t see it and only nodded gently. Liu Saner, on the other hand, walked over, held his arm and said softly, Fu Badai

Then he was slightly shocked, got dressed and waited solemnly. After Nian Shen's salute was completed, he leaned down, groped for Nian Shen's thin arm, and said, "This person is His Highness the First Prince."
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"To tell the teacher, yes."

"Today you and I have formed a master-disciple friendship, which has its own destiny. Being a master is nothing more than a small gift for you."

As soon as he heard that there was a gift, Nian Shen was excited and immediately looked at the old gentleman happily. Fu Badai seemed to be able to feel the child's expectant eyes. He smiled slightly and said to Liu San'er beside him: "Qinghan , you take it out."

"Yes..."

He nodded and put his right hand into his left sleeve.

Now, I am only a short distance away from him. I can even distinguish his every breath from the gurgling sound of the clear spring and from the pounding of my own heartbeat.

I don’t know if it’s my misunderstanding, but his breathing is as chaotic as my heartbeat.

He walked up to us, and Nianshen immediately leaned towards him and bowed: "Greetings to Senior Brother Qinghan."

Liu Saner walked up to us with his head lowered. A few strands of his hair fell down, half covering his eyes, but revealing his red ears. However, his voice was still very calm: "Junior brother, this gift is from Master." It has been carefully prepared for you, and I hope you can appreciate the master’s good intentions.”

I no longer had the intention to see what gifts I had prepared. He was right in front of me. Although his voice and expression were so calm, I could clearly see that his lowered eyes were full of brokenness and trembling. Light, at this moment, I can only pinch myself hard. If it doesn’t hurt a little and wake me up a little, I don’t know what I will do.

Will I hug him harder? Even harder than when I lost him in the freezing rain?

But just when I was distracted, I heard a sudden riot around me——

"Be careful!"

"Assassin, there is an assassin!"

"Liu Qinghan is an assassin!"

I was startled by the guards who suddenly rushed up from around me. When I looked closely, I saw a dagger in Liu Saner's hand!

At this time, I was also shocked.

Fu Badai was a great scholar that Pei Yuanhao had gone through great troubles to invite to the capital. In addition, the emperor treated him with such courtesy, so the guards were not so harsh on him and Liu San'er. They did not search them, and they probably just checked them briefly. They were let in with their luggage, but they never expected that Liu Saner actually had a dagger on him!

I opened my eyes slightly and raised my head to look at him.

He also looked at me. At this time, all the guards had rushed in, drew their swords and pointed them at him. The atmosphere became tense for a while.

But he was still as calm as before, but there were many things surging in the eyes that looked at me.

At this moment, Pei Yuanhao, who was behind him, stood up and waved his hand gently: "Back off!"

The guards could only retreat after hearing the emperor's order, but they still looked at him warily.

Pei Yuanhao said in a deep voice: "What does this mean?"

Fu Badai on the side stood up slowly while holding on to the table, smiled and said to Pei Yuanhao: "Your Majesty, this is the meeting gift that I want to give to the eldest prince."

"A dagger?"

"Not bad."

Pei Yuanhao's eyebrows frowned slightly. At this time, Liu San'er held the dagger in his hand and slowly walked forward and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me. This dagger is not an ordinary dagger. It was collected from the Xichang Emperor."

Made of iron ore from China."

When Pei Yuanhao heard this, his expression immediately became subtle.

Iron ore, this is a very delicate topic in the Celestial Dynasty. In fact, the royal family entered the country from the north. Except for the resistance in the entire Central Plains, it has not always been so peaceful. There are still many people in various places who miss the old dynasty and want to overthrow the royal family all the time.

Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the imperial court issued a strict order to nationalize all iron ore and prohibit private mining.

Iron ore is a necessary material for casting weapons. All iron ores are nationalized and civilian weapons cannot be manufactured in large quantities. This fundamentally eliminates the possibility of anyone using violence to resist the imperial court.

But Nishikawa is still an exception.

Precisely because the imperial army did not invade Xichuan, to a large extent Xichuan became a special and independent region of the Celestial Empire. The iron ore there was not owned by the state, but was owned by chieftains and big families capable of mining.

That’s it——

I lowered my head and looked at the dagger, which shone with a cold light.

The reason why the Yan family was able to provide armaments and support the chieftains in rebellion more than ten years ago was because there were several huge iron mines in Xichuan and they could forge weapons independently.

And now, Fu Badai gave Pei Nianshen a dagger made from Taihe Iron Mine in Xichang...

Pei Yuanhao also kept looking at the dagger and was silent for a long time. Until the atmosphere in the entire hall became a little strange, and the guards stared at Liu Saner more and more nervously, he suddenly raised the corners of his lips and said to

Nian Shen said: "Thank you very much for your teacher."

After listening to it deeply, he quickly took the dagger with both hands and said respectfully: "Thank you, teacher, and thank you, senior brother."

At this time, Liu San'er said softly: "Your Highness, don't be afraid. Although the knife belongs to Xichuan, the handle is in your hand now."

……

It was only at this time that the guards finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fu Badai, although he couldn't see anything, was sitting there with a faint smile, as if he had a panoramic view of everything. Eunuch Yu stood there.

Behind him, he was also covered in cold sweat. He waved his hands around, and the guards retreated.

I was about to turn around and walk back with Nian Shen when I heard Pei Yuanhao's voice and suddenly remembered: "Aren't you going to meet Mr. Qinghan?"

"..."

My steps suddenly stopped, and I turned my head stiffly. I saw him looking at me with a cold look on his face. Liu Saner's breathing behind him was also messed up for a moment, but neither he nor I said anything.

I let go of Nianshen's hand, slowly turned around, leaned towards him and bowed: "Mr. Qinghan."

"...Master Yue."

That was the first thing Liu Qinghan said to me.

It’s not that I never thought that he and I could meet again; I also guessed countless times what it would be like to see him and I meet again. However, no matter how I guessed, I never guessed that it would be

This way...

He is Mr. Qinghan; and I am Mr. Yue...

In addition to these years, there are many things between him and me, just like the door in front of me. Obviously I just need to push it open, but after I really push it, I have to face it again.

What?

I stood in front of the door and realized for the first time that I was so powerless.

That night, the Holy Emperor would not return to the palace immediately, but would stay in this hotel. I took Nianshen and followed the emperor into the east chamber, while Fu Badai and Liu Qinghan moved into the west chamber.
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It’s just——it’s so close.

Ever since I returned to the room after finishing the meal, my heart has been unable to calm down. It beats violently as if the blood in my body is boiling. The flow of blood in my body seems to have set off an overwhelming wave. My breathing and heartbeat are...

The uncontrollable whistling. And among the whistling, there was a voice, with an extremely sweet temptation, that kept echoing in my ears——

"He is right next to you, only separated by a few walls."

……
To be continued...