Chapter 111 The Sickly Person is Withered [Two in One]

After handing over the card and stepping into the towering vermilion palace gate, Wei Mingqi walked on the long imperial road. Looking at the old scenery on both sides, he couldn't help feeling emotional.

Five years ago, he celebrated the New Year with Wan Renshan. The old man was very lazy and always brought some wine, meat and other ingredients just to try his cooking, but Wei Mingqi was not diligent either, so they usually just ended up having hotpot.

After the father and the son had eaten and drunk their fill, the little emperor, who had just finished his family banquet, would rush over, scolding him while eating the remaining meat in the pot, and finally gasping for breath from the spiciness.

Many past events are like this. When you are in the middle of them, you just feel that they are nothing special. Only when you recall that moment one day in the future, will you have long-lasting gratitude.

While he was reminiscing about the past, a white-faced eunuch with two followers met him at a corner not far away. When Wei Mingqi saw them, a warm smile immediately appeared on his face, and he bowed and said:

"Isn't this Eunuch Liu? It's the Spring Festival, and he's wearing gorgeous clothes. He looks so impressive."

"..."

The young eunuch encountered the plague god on the first day of the new year. His white face turned black visibly. He waved his hands like he was shooing away a fly and said, "Who are you? Don't greet me indiscriminately from now on. We are not familiar with each other."

"Yo."

Wei Mingqi raised his thick eyebrows and asked, "Are you alienated?"

"..."

"Eunuch Liu, we are brothers who have burned yellow paper and chopped off chicken heads before!"

"..."

"I still owe you money!"

"..."

Seeing that even money was no use, and the white-faced eunuch left with a resolute back, Wei Mingqi had no choice but to use his ultimate move:
"Eunuch Liu, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize me as your brother, but you helped me buy "Dragon City Beauty" a few years ago..."

"Hey! Isn't this Brother Wei?"

The eunuch in front immediately turned around, with a very friendly smile on his face, and extended his hand to greet him, saying: "New Year, new look, Brother Wei is dressed in a very elegant and spirited manner, so handsome that I was face-blind just now and didn't recognize him. Look at what a commotion you have caused!"

"My upper and lower teeth are knocked and there are fights sometimes, it's no problem, it's no problem——"

The two hugged each other tightly.

"The one with the surname Wei..."

The eunuch surnamed Liu gritted his teeth and whispered in his ear: "You are so shameless! You forced me to drink and made me do this beheading business, and you promised not to mention it again. Today, you actually-"

"You believe this too?"

Wei Mingqi chuckled and replied in a low voice: "Eunuch Liu, I will use this as leverage over you for the rest of my life—"

"Hahaha! Good brother! Good brother!"

Liu Yue was so happy that he couldn't help hugging him tightly, his arms tightening like a python, and the fabric of his clothes made a creaking sound.

"Oh, are you so happy that you opened three doors? Don't forget that we are brothers--"

creak creak!

When Wei Mingqi also started to exert his strength, the force was not enough to be described as that of a python. His arm strength, as strong as a dragon and an elephant, tightened slightly and immediately gave the brothers in the palace a bone-loosening massage.

"You are so fucking wrong!"

After Liu Yue admitted his mistake with a grin, the brother in front of him finally let go of his hand. Then the former lowered his head to look at the brocade clothes that were torn around his waist, and a deep and depressed look flashed in his eyes:
"How long have you been out of the palace? You've made such rapid progress, and now you can stand on the five-gate stakes, right? You're such a complete animal."

"Well, you are one of the best since you can stand firmly on the second gate post, right?"

"..."

Sometimes, you just can't chat on this day. If you start chatting, you will end up chatting. But you can't not chat. This animal won't let you go!
After Liu Yue adjusted his mindset of wanting to cry but not being able to, he said to the two trembling eunuchs over there: "Just hand me your badges when you go over there. I'll get back to you later."

"Yes--"

After the two of them left, Wei Mingqi looked serious and asked, "Why are you still busy on New Year's Day? What happened in the palace?"

Although his brothers in the palace were always bullied by him, almost everyone with some connections in and outside the palace knew that Liu Yue was the next secretary trained by Wanrenshan.

Therefore, he was not required to take care of ordinary trivial matters. Usually, the matters he was involved in were mostly errands for Wanrenshan in the palace or for the mother and daughter.

In the past, whenever there was any movement in the palace, Wei Mingqi didn't have to go to Wanrenshan, he could just catch Liu Yue and ask for a rough idea, but this relationship didn't work today.

"We may be friends, but don't ask about what happened today. I won't tell you even if you ask."

Liu Yue said seriously: "If you really want to know, go find Wan Gong and see if he will tell you."

"You're so mysterious. Do you think others can't guess it?"

Wei Mingqi glanced in the direction where the two eunuchs left and said with a twitch of his mouth: "Isn't it just that Wu Tongtong is sick again?"

There was an awkward silence. If it were someone else, Liu Yue would not even be able to reveal the emotion he should have, let alone ask.

But inside and outside the palace, Wei Mingqi was an exception.

His experience and his stubbornness would make historians frown when they picked up their pens.

Of course, the most important thing is that he was brought up by Wanrenshan, and in terms of the latter's personal feelings, he is far more caring than Liu Yue himself.

"…How did you guess that?"

"Is that hard to guess?"

Wei Mingqi spread his hands and said, "Given our relationship, most of the things you can hide from me are related to the safety of the country. Don't even mention the kind that I have to hide from my own father. That's the sick Wu Tongtong."

"..."

Liu Yue just felt that it sounded awkward.

What does "our relationship" mean? He said it as if the two of them were very close. He hated Wei Mingqi to death. The thing he regretted most in his life was that day when he secretly followed Wan Renshan to the small courtyard where this guy lived.

From then on, his life fell into a pit.

"This is your own guess. I have nothing to do with it. OK, I have something else to do. See you later."

"Wait a minute——"

Wei Mingqi grabbed Liu Yue who was trying to escape and asked, "You have to tell me what happened. How is the sickly child now? Can he survive until the spring?"

"..."

Listen to what this traitor said. If someone else said this, everyone would ask, how many heads do they have to speak so generously.

Unable to fight and unable to escape, Liu Yue could only tearfully abandon his ambition to be a virtuous official and said:

"She has been bedridden for two days before the New Year. She must have been unable to bear the slightest bit of cold. The few times I called in the imperial physician, only the Holy Empress was there. I don't know the specific situation."

"..."

It seems to be the same old problem, but the symptoms tend to get worse year by year. When we met as children, we were wrapped up like dumplings in the first two years, but at least we could have snowball fights. Later, we could only move our mouths on the field. Especially after the world line was in chaos, without the Phoenix Blood in "Destiny", the Thousand-Faced Emperors of later generations could not even get off the kang, let alone stabilize the country and visit the people at the same time.

"It's getting worse by the way."

Wei Mingqi frowned and said, "A few days before the New Year, I saw her still alive and kicking. She was very energetic when she was arguing with people."

"..."

Seeing that he had no idea, Liu Yue said with a dark face: "Don't mention your majesty, I've been so angry that I want to break off all ties with you. Do you really feel nothing after causing trouble, Wei?"

"what."

"You're still here - how many troubles did you cause before the New Year? Not to mention the West Palace, you even dared to mess with the Beijing Camp, I really admire you! And the Xu family, they were county marquises conferred by the previous emperor! You came to their doorstep and killed them without even an imperial edict!"

Liu Yue became more and more angry as he spoke. In the end, he counted on his fingers with a red face and said, "It's ok for you to say that you have no eyes for the law, but you have to think about the situation of His Majesty and Lord Wan! You never attend a court meeting and you don't even notice the slightest bit of wind and rain. Why? Because the wind and rain have been blocked by His Majesty Lord Wan!"

"..."

The more Wei Mingqi listened, the more guilty he felt. It's not that he regretted doing these things, but once the Yue family's affairs spread to the capital, wouldn't Liu Yue be so angry when he heard about it?

The latter is still outputting at this moment, venting violently as if he finally found an opportunity:

"At the last court meeting, the officials were still not done with your affairs in the Beijing camp, and now news of the Xu family's affairs has come out again! My goodness, do you know how many memorials there are to impeach you? I'm telling you! They can bury you in the ground!"

"Seeing that Lord Wan said nothing and the Holy Empress was trying to smooth things over, three or four white-haired old officials in the court actually bumped into the palace pillars! Do you know that there has never been such an example in the country so far? The Holy Empress begged the ministers in tears at that time, and I was watching from behind and the historian's hands trembled -"

"..."

Seeing that Wei Mingqi was listening more and more attentively, Liu Yue suddenly stopped and asked, "You don't know anything these days?"

The former spread his hands to indicate——

“Fuck!”

Liu Yue was so angry that his eyes turned red. He was rubbing his fists and wanted to attack him, but he probably weighed the difference between the two of them with reason in the end, so he only stopped at gesturing:

"I was wondering why you looked so relaxed when we met, like nothing had happened! It seems like you really stayed at home after you came back and never stepped out of the door! The whole city has been stirred up by you, but you are so good! You are like an outsider——"

At this point, Liu Yue saw that his expression did not change and he became more and more depressed. Finally, he sighed suddenly and said weakly:
"Mr. Wei, I was raised by Wan Gong himself, but compared to you, I am nothing. I accept it, but you can't be so ungrateful. You should always think about others, right?"

"If you keep going on like this, I don't know what will happen to the country in the end, but Lord Wan and I will eventually be labeled as the most notorious eunuch party in history, and the mother and son of the Holy Empress will also become famous clay puppets in history. As for you——"

Liu Yue raised his eyes and squinted, "The most stupid and domineering traitor in history, the object of countless people's unofficial history books. Commander Wei is proud and arrogant, you don't want to end up like this, right?"

"Ha ha--"

Wei Mingqi was amused by what he said, but seeing that his few friends all looked at him this way, he became more confident in Wanrenshan's plan.

This bait of his is really delicious.

"Don't worry about it. It's not the right time for you to worry."

Wei Mingqi patted the brother on the shoulder and said sincerely:
"There is only one person in the Daqian Dynasty who can call the shots, and there is only one person who can protect you from the wind and rain. It is not your time to take over, so just be a yes-man."

"..."

When Liu Yue was lost in thought, Wei Mingqi put down his hand and sighed:
"With your current position and strength, everything you see is like looking at flowers in the fog, so I won't say much. You just need to remember one thing."

Liu Yue came back to his senses and looked solemn.

In fact, based on his own understanding of Wanren Mountain, many things didn't make sense to him. Even if the man surnamed Wei was really Wan Gong's illegitimate son, he shouldn't be protected like this.

But he really couldn't find any other reasons, so he had been in a state of mental exhaustion for some time. On the one hand, there was Wan Renshan, who had been following him like a teacher and a father since he entered the palace; on the other hand, there was Wei Mingqi, his only close friend in the palace.

Seeing one of them gradually becoming "fainted" and the other gradually becoming "lost", he had no choice but to grit his teeth and follow, because no matter his position or his inner feelings, Liu Yue had no option of "jumping ship".

Seeing the huge waves rising and the people below feeling uneasy, just as they were about to see the signs of a "ship sinking", a glimmer of hope from Wei Mingqi made them feel like they saw the dawn of hope.

"Now, of the five capitals and thirteen states of Daqian, half are in my hands and the other half are in the hands of the old man. The world is in half between the two of us. Time is short and the task is heavy. From now on, you just need to follow our footsteps. When you look up again, you will find -"

Wei Mingqi drew a circle in the air with his hands, a big and fragrant circle:

"Hey? How did I, Liu Yue, get a title of nobility? How come I'm even mentioned in history books? The most virtuous and capable eunuch second only to Wanrenshan during the reign of Emperor Wu? The comrade-in-arms of Wei Mingqi, the number one man in the martial arts world?"

Snapped--

"just you?"

Liu Yue opened his hand unhappily and rejected the empty promise: "Number one in the martial arts world? Have you asked Zhen Qianqiu?"

"Huh."

Wei Mingqi waved his hand casually and said, "It will be something I can do in a few years."

"..."

This guy is really crazy.

Liu Yue wanted to use the example in the prophecy that he would only be able to tie instead of defeating Zhen Qianqiu even if he monopolized six yuan, but he saw Wei Mingqi waving his hand and about to leave.

"Commander Wei, would you like to have hotpot with me tonight?"

"Besides—"

"..."

Wei Mingqi's back walked away. Liu Yue withdrew his gaze from where he was and let out a deep breath.

The depression in my heart during this period has finally been relieved.

This is how it is between brothers. No matter how serious the matter is or how tough they say, they will still involuntarily reveal some clues when it comes to each other.

For example, when Wei Mingqi asked, Liu Yue's choice was to tell him not to ask, rather than to evade the question with other things.

When Liu Yue was worried, Wei Mingqi also pointed out the outline for him in a straightforward manner.

Friendship and trust are accumulated bit by bit in such tacit understanding.

But Liu Yue still envies Wei Mingqi, this bastard.

Just as he advised, I don't even have the qualifications to worry about it now, because my strength and position are not yet there.

Wei Mingqi has already entered this generation ahead of time, while his peers still have to wait silently for the next five years.

The next five years...

Who knows which ones are still there.

On the other side, Wei Mingqi changed direction and did not go to find Wanren Mountain first, but went all the way inside, to the depths of the palace city which he had not yet set foot in.

The sick seedlings are wilting, so we have to go and water them.

(End of this chapter)