The prince is very fierce

It was just dawn, soldiers were patrolling back and forth on the streets of Liangcheng, and the sound of armor rubbing against each other came into the room.

Between the curtains, Xu Buling opened his eyes and tilted his head to look. Cui Xiaowan was leaning on his arms, still sleeping soundly with her head resting on her arms.

It was cold in the cold winter, and the quilt was very thick. Cui Xiaowan almost buried her face under the quilt, her hair pressed against his chin, curled up like a kitten.

The little sparrow huddled in Cui Xiaowan's arms.

Xu Buling still held most of his conscience in his hand, and the warm touch was very good, but since she was touched without a bellyband on the first night, Cui Xiaowan had been wearing a close-fitting small dress, and his hand was still rubbing the fabric.

As Xu Buling's hands moved, Cui Xiaowan frowned, opened her eyes in a daze, looked down, and squeezed Xu Buling with her shoulder, saying dissatisfiedly:

"You're touching me again. We agreed not to move around and lie together... You're lying to me..."

Xu Buling said this before going to bed, but after falling asleep, his hands and feet moved around and he couldn't control it. He still looked innocent at this time. He smiled softly, pulled his hands back, got up and tucked the quilt in:

"It's still early, sleep a little longer. Yiyi, get up, the early bird catches the worm."

Bird:?

Are you a man?

The little sparrow was not happy with such blatant discrimination. He turned his chubby head and huddled into Cui Xiaowan's clothes, pretending not to hear anything.

Xu Buling still had to rely on the little sparrow to monitor the movements in the city. Seeing that the little sparrow could not get up, he had to reach into the quilt and take the little bird out of Cui Xiaowan's arms. Cui Xiaowan helped him, but fortunately he still took the little sparrow out.

Xu Buling held the reluctant little sparrow and came to the table to feed some bird food. After a few words, he threw the little sparrow out of the window.

The sun had not yet risen, and the streets were covered with snow left over from last night. Except for patrol soldiers and breakfast vendors, there were almost no pedestrians.

The little sparrow shivered with cold, but facing Xu Buling's eyes of dependence and trust, it still chirped twice and disappeared in the flying snow.

After Xu Buling finished washing, he glanced at the window and looked a little bored.

Two days ago, he tied up Jiang Kai and ran to the Foreign Hall. Beiqi must have known that he was coming, and could guess that he would attack the envoy team again. At this time, he should set a trap as soon as possible and wait for him to step on it.

Xu Buling took advantage of this point, because if he wanted to set a trap against him, Zuo Qingqiu would definitely be there in person.

Beiqi relied on Zuo Qingqiu, the national teacher, to support it. The national teacher was not only the head of the strategists, but also the spiritual leader of Beiqi. As long as Zuo Qingqiu could be lured in and killed, it would be a greater blow to Beiqi than slaughtering 100,000 troops.

It took time for Beiqi to set up a trap and get people in place. The Foreign Hall was heavily guarded these two days, and he didn't have the opportunity to sneak in again, which meant that the trap had not been set.

Xu Buling could only wait for this. He spent these days playing chess and chatting with Xiaowan in the house, and there was nothing else to do.

Apart from these thousand-layer cake-like calculations, there were also more interesting things.

After the disappearance of Jiang Kai, the prince of the right, Beiqi knew that it was Xu Buling's hand. He felt that if Xu Buling didn't show up, there was little hope of finding him back. He only sent people to patrol the city symbolically, and didn't try to find him at all.

As a result, Jiang Kai was stunned. No one found him hiding in the back alley of the brothel. Until last night, Xu Buling couldn't stand it anymore. He was afraid that the prince of a vassal king would starve to death in the back alley of the brothel, so he made some noise to guide the officers and soldiers of Northern Qi. Northern Qi found Jiang Kai, who was almost fainted from hunger, in the broken house behind the brothel.

After being rescued, Jiang Kai was naturally furious and cursed along the street:

"He passed by the yard more than a dozen times, but he didn't come in to take a look. Do you still have me, the prince, in your eyes?"

However, Jiang Kai had suffered two losses, and he obviously remembered it. He was afraid that Xu Buling would not come back to take revenge, so he kept his mouth shut about how he was kidnapped and didn't reveal anything. His appearance of preferring death to speaking moved Xu Buling to tears and laughter, and he felt a little embarrassed to silence him.

Xu Buling stood in front of the window and waited for a while until it was bright, then went downstairs to buy two baskets of buns and returned to the room.

Cui Xiaowan's physical weakness improved very slowly, and she was a little sleepy. She just woke up at this time. After washing up slowly, she sat at the table with Xu Buling to eat breakfast.

Cui Xiaowan was very different from ordinary women. Even though she slept with Xu Buling, her words and deeds remained unchanged. She sat upright at the table, just like in Taohua Valley, eating her buns and listening to stories.

Xu Buling had been racking his brains to make up stories in recent days. No matter how much he had in his stomach, he would have to pour it out. He really couldn't think of anything, so he sat at the table with Cui Xiaowan to play chess. The bet was to take off a piece of clothing if he lost a game, and wear a piece if he won a game.

It stands to reason that playing this with a girl is a very advantageous thing, but the actual situation is completely different from what Xu Buling expected.

Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are compulsory courses for children of aristocratic families. Cui Xiaowan, as the legitimate daughter of the Cui family in Youzhou, doesn't mean she can't play chess.

Xu Buling has been a martial arts fanatic since childhood, and his chess skills are obviously half-baked. After a fierce battle on the chessboard, he was defeated and almost lost his pants. Later, Cui Xiaowan was reluctant to bully her newly acquired lover, so she deliberately gave him two games, which allowed Xu Buling to save his dignity and not chat with her naked.

Compared with the two masters who met each other in the warm room of the inn, Yiyi, who was running around outside, was much more pitiful.

After leaving the inn in the early morning, Yiyi flapped her wings and circled above Liangcheng, mainly to monitor the movements of the Foreigner Pavilion.

The weather in the cold winter, even if there was a little sun in the sky, was not for birds.

Yiyi stood alone on the branch, splitting her legs. Looking around, she could not find any other birds to chat with. When she was thirsty, she could only drink snow water, and when she was hungry, she had to snatch food from the mouths of squirrels in the woods.

From morning to afternoon, she stared at the trail all day, but there was no movement in the Foreigner Pavilion.

Yiyi looked at the sky and saw that it was almost time to get off work, so she turned around and flew to the inn.

But when she flew over a street, Yiyi suddenly realized that something was wrong and searched carefully between the houses.

Although Yiyi looked plump, she was actually very different from ordinary sparrows. She had a special name in the atlas of rare and exotic animals and was known as the "Yunfu Mountain Spirit".

Being named "Mountain Spirit" by the ancients was not just as simple as being well-behaved and close to people. The intelligence of Yunfu Mountain Spirit is far superior to that of ordinary birds and beasts. Its speed and vision are not inferior to those of hawks and falcons. It has a long life span and is loyal. It will starve to death when its master dies. Its only shortcoming is that it is not very aggressive and can only do reconnaissance work.

Although the buildings below are uneven and there are a lot of clutter, Yiyi still found a little bit of bamboo green in the corner of the alley.

Yiyi circled in the air, took a few glances, and then flew to the roof of a nearby house. After a careful inspection, she saw a small green snake slowly crawling in the thatched pile in the alley, spitting out its snake tongue from time to time to search for nearby smells.

This little broken snake, why is it so haunting...

Yiyi was stunned for a moment, stood on the tile, and after carefully confirming that it was correct, she chirped twice to remind the little broken snake below.

The temperature is very low in winter, and even if there is sunshine, snakes can't stay for too long.

Ah Qing was a little uncomfortable from the cold. When he heard the sound, he raised his little head from the bushes and looked around. When he saw the little sparrow on the roof, he opened his mouth and shook with surprise.

Snakes can't make sounds, so they can't communicate with the little sparrow. Ah Qing shook a few times, then turned around and crawled out. After crawling a few steps, he shook again, motioning the little sparrow to follow.

Although the little sparrow hated Ah Qing for competing for favor, it was not vague about the big things. Ah Qing was here, which meant that Chen Si Ning must be here too, so he jumped above the house and followed behind to look for her.

A bird and a snake moved in such a strange way. It took them half an hour until it was dark, and they came to a dilapidated temple outside the city.

A few days ago, the prince Jiang Kai disappeared, and Liangcheng was under martial law. The gates in and out of the city would be strictly patrolled. Zhu Manzhi riding the prince Jiang Kai's chasing wind horse would definitely not dare to swagger into Liangcheng to stroll around.

Yiyi flew through the sky, still far away, and saw two figures in the ruined temple, eating around the campfire. Just by the outline, she recognized that they were Zhu Manzhi and Chen Si Ning.

However, the ruined temple was not empty. From the sky, there were more than 30 people in uniform robes holding official swords on the snowy field around the ruined temple, surrounding the ruined temple and basically blocking all retreat routes.

"Chi chi -"

The little sparrow was anxious, and its figure flew into the ruined temple like a sharp arrow. It anxiously called out twice to remind, then turned around and flew into the night sky, rushing towards Liangcheng...