Chapter 74 The Lonely Sword
Qin Leiyun looked at Huangfu Zhanwen with a calm wind.
The temperature in the house suddenly dropped.
Huangfu Zhanwen's face changed. His hand tightened and loosened on the sword at his waist. After all, he still had no courage to draw the sword. Finally, he said in a muffled voice: "Your Highness, do you have to go to that step?"
Qin Lei sneered with a faint sarcasm at the corner of his mouth: "Good question, this is also the question I want to ask you."
Without waiting for Huangfu Zhanwen to answer, Qin Leiyu said unstoppably: "I know your heart is not on the prince's side."
Words that kill the heart.
Qin Lei waved his hand to stop Huangfu Zhanwen's argument and said a little seriously: "I'm not interested in knowing who you are, really."
Huangfu Zhanwen was completely speechless and silently waited for Qin Lei’s following.
Qin Lei looked at him and said lightly: "Because in my opinion this is an insignificant little thing."
He put the paperweight on the table, and the crisp sound scared Huangfu Zhanwen, who was distracted, and was shocked.
When I came back to my senses, I looked at Qin Lei again and found that he was staring at him coldly. His always gentle eyes were actually shining with a shiny light. Just like the gaze of the Wolf King of the Grassland, with disdain intimidation.
Huangfu Zhanwen saw destruction in those eyes. It was like pinching a small insect to death. His Adam's apple shook, and he felt a little sweating behind him.
Qin Lei rubbed the paperweight expressionlessly, his voice cold and unemotional: "I am not the same person as the prince, you can choose your position towards me once. Either a friend or an enemy. How should General Huangfu choose? "
Huangfu Zhanwen avoided Qin Lei's eyes, lowered his head and said nothing. He felt that his back was wet. He was blown by the wind in the court and became cold. If he disobeyed his eccentric Emperor, the strange-tempered Emperor, would definitely not let him go. However, he had no other choice. The other party's identity as a prince made him shrank. Besides, the other party also had Zhonglikan and his own 100-man guard, totaling 500 people. It would be impossible to put him under house arrest in silence.
Qin Lei sighed in his heart that if he did not have the status of this prince, even if he threatened, he would probably not make the general bow his head. Guantao was right, only those who abide by the rules could win. If he did not regard himself as a prince, how could he expect others to treat himself as a prince?
He also knew that too much was too much, so Qin Lei turned his head to the horizon, let him go, and murmured: "I have released enough kindness on the school ground today. You don't need to repay you with loyalty, you don't need your sacrifice, or even your trust."
Huangfu Zhanwen raised his head suddenly and met Qin Lei's eyes as bright as stars. Qin Lei looked at him softly and smiled: "I know you were not fake at that time, and my promise to you was not fake. I will help you return to the battlefield. Do you believe it?"
Huangfu Zhanwen nodded.
Qin Lei gently put the paperweight back in place and said softly: "In return, I only need your obedience during this period, can I do it?"
Huangfu Zhanwen finally couldn't support him and fell to the ground dejectedly. He untied the sword around his waist and presented it to Qin Lei with both hands.
Qin Lei smiled, and Shen Qing stepped forward and took over the sword. He lifted the sword and knelt down to express his surrender.
Qin Lei asked Shen Qing: "How are those people drinking?"
Shen Qing bowed his head and replied, "Report to Your Highness, when his subordinates came out, most of them had drunk too much."
Qin Lei nodded and said to Huangfu Zhanwen who was kneeling on the ground: "I will keep the few who were not late this morning for a meal. You will take them back to the camp later. Remember, you must let those who have been beaten to see it. There is no need to give instructions on what happened later? Go."
Huangfu Zhanwen took the order and left.
Seeing Huangfu Zhanwen walking away, Shen Qing handed his sword to Qin Lei to play with. Qin Lei touched the antique scabbard and pressed the machine spring. A long sword like autumn water was deshewn out, trembling and moaning slightly in the air.
Only then did Shen Qing find that Qin Lei's hands were trembling.
He originally wanted to ask: "Your Highness, are you afraid just now?" He didn't dare to say it for some reason.
Qin Lei did not let him go, moved his eyes from the sword to his face, and grinned: "Shen Qing, are you a little afraid of me? Are you?"
Shen Qing was silent.
Qin Lei's hand returned to stability, and he took back the sword's scabbard and placed it on the table. He chuckled and said, "You and Huangfu Zhanwen are both honest people, not good at making fake things, and will not hide their emotions." Instead, he said, "Go and ask Shen Bingshen how he is."
Shen Qing took the order and left.
Qin Lei looked at the lonely sword on the table and smiled self-deprecatingly.
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The brothers of the Prince's Guards were a little angry. The general told him yesterday that he would just sleep peacefully this morning and ignore the sound of gathering drums. However, it is said that some people ran away in a blind eye and asked the new fifth prince to catch the straw of life. As a result, each of the brothers of the Guards wanted to get the five armies.
The brothers of the Guards had no complaints about the general, after all, they were always there. According to the general's personal soldiers, the general knelt down to the fifth prince before he was reduced from the twenty-sixth army stick to the current Five Army stick.
The guards didn't dare to blame the fifth prince. Who was that? That was the noble prince. Not to mention that others were right or wrong, they had to smile and silence. Who said that they were your prince?
But resentment always needs to be vented, and all resentment is concentrated on the 200 traitors this morning. Why do we get beaten to the board and go to the banquet?
No matter how resentment is, the board still needs to be beaten. Nearly five thousand soldiers were divided into fifty teams, one hundred people in groups, lying in front of the gate, taking off their pants, revealing one hundred fat and thin buttocks, either snow-white, dark, or orange. One hundred personal soldiers stepped forward to hold the backs of these untrous pants, and another hundred personal soldiers came forward to raise their dark military sticks high and roared down.
The Five Army Sticks said it was light or not. If you have a good relationship with the personal soldiers who were executed, you will have to make a few sticks. If you have some dirty things on weekdays, you must have a stick into the flesh. After five sticks, you will have a skin and a flesh break, and the tendons and bones will be broken. The people who lined up behind were frightened to watch. If you find that you have had conflicts with the personal soldiers who were executed on weekdays, you have to ask grandpa to sue the grandma and the people around you to change their seats.
For a moment, the camp was crying and howling, and shouting at dads and scolding her. Whether they beat people, beatings, or waiting for beatings, they were all angry. Especially when they saw the two hundred drunken traitors coming in from outside the gate with big bags, shaking their hatreds, holding big bags and small bags, this resentment finally reached its peak. Of course, they dared not have any trouble in broad daylight.
These fifty groups of military sticks started from the hour of Mao and were not finished until noon. The personal soldiers who were executed changed several groups, and hundreds of military sticks were broken.
Until the night, I could hear the silhouettes and curses from the camp. It was not until the stick urging the lights to turn off that the sound gradually subsided.
But in the dark, some restless figures ran around the camp tents. There was not much time to gather hundreds of people and rushed towards the northeast corner of the camp.
All of this fell into the eyes of several men in black who were hiding in the darkness. One of them hugged and disappeared gently in the night, passing the message to the central army's tent.
Behind the curtain of the big tent, Qin Lei, the fifth prince of the Great Qin, and Huangfu Zhanwen, the Crown Prince Guard General, were dressed in casual clothes, sitting at a small table drinking wine. Hearing the guard's report, Huangfu Zhanwen was about to get up, and Qin Lei shook his head and said to Huangfu Zhanwen: "Go after a stick of incense."
Huangfu Zhanwen had to sit down again. Qin Lei held the wine cup and clinked the glass with him. He realized for a while. He pinched the wine cup awkwardly, touched Qin Lei, and drank it into his stomach. He said self-deprecatingly: "I am too careless in discipline on weekdays, and I am so lawless, so I am a joke on Your Highness."
Seeing him like this, Qin Lei knew that the tiger's courage had indeed been lost in the past few years. He said warmly: "Brother Huangfu, don't be anxious. The Prince's Guards have become more and more difficult to return. Only by breaking them and then establishing them, and then chaos is the only way to govern."
Huangfu Zhanwen also realized his incompetence. He remembered the vicissitudes of the past and said, "Ten years ago, when the last general was still a captain of the imperial guards, there was a military camp fighting. In order to calm the situation, I personally owl thirteen heads, and the blood dyed the battle robe red, but there was no trace of nervousness."
After saying that, he sighed, and the meaning was self-evident.
At this time, Huangfu Zhanwen's personal soldiers rushed into the tent and said anxiously: "The general is not good, the fight started in the Northeast camp."
Huangfu Zhanwen's face darkened and he angrily shouted, "Be calm, how can you teach you?" As he said that, he looked at Qin Lei, and Qin Lei nodded slightly. He stood up and saluted Qin Lei and said, "Your Highness sits a little, Zhan Wen will go back." Then he turned around and left.
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The third update today, and there will be another update tonight.
Chapter completed!