Chapter 1

At the beginning of the first month, a heavy snow fell in the imperial capital.

The snow was still falling until dawn, and after three quarters, a magnificent carriage stopped at the palace gate, and the snow and mist flew, and the painted wheels pressed against the thick white snow, making a slight creaking sound.

The carriage slowly stopped, several palace ladies stepped forward to lift the curtain, and the attendants on both sides still bowed their heads, and they didn't dare to come out.

It is said that in this carriage sat a noble man with a poor body, who was the youngest son of Shen Lan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the dynasty, Shen Xuefeng.

From today on, Young Master Shen will officially enter the palace to be a companion to the unfavored Third Highness.

As soon as this news came out some time ago, the inside and outside of the palace boiled like an exploding pot, and within a few days, the entire imperial capital was all spread.

There was only one point of their discussion: Is this Young Master Shen weak and sick and has broken his brain, how could he volunteer to be the companion of the Third Highness?

The Third Highness Ji Yan, a prince with no sense of existence, doesn't even know what his mother's surname is, it is rumored that his biological mother died young, and his name was also frowned at by His Majesty.

But who is Shen Xiaogongzi?

It is rumored that Shen Xuefeng was talented and intelligent when he was young, Yuxue is cute, his mother is the nephew of the Empress Dowager, and his father is the champion of the list that year, and even the eldest sister in the family is a heroine among women, and she is very good at kung fu.

Such two very different people get together, no matter how weird they look, anyone who listens to it will feel evil.

What's even more evil is that no matter what others say, Shen Xiaogongzi's attitude is very resolute.

He, Shen Xuefeng, still wants to be the companion of the Third Highness!

At that time, the curtain of the car was opened, and the servant knelt on the ground obediently, waiting for Shen Xiaogongzi to show up.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted again, and a young man in a moon-white shirt poked his head out.

But seeing that his lips were red and his teeth were white, and his green silk was like a waterfall, his appearance was delicate and lovely, and his apricot-like eyes under his long eyelashes looked out curiously, and then he couldn't wait to step down from the carriage wrapped in a rosewood cloak.

The daughter of the Shen Mansion is lively, active, strong in martial arts and heroic, but the son is born frail and sickly, male and female, and it is not good to be a little tired.

The young man cautiously got out of the carriage, took the umbrella handed to him by the servant, winked and smiled, "Thank you."

The voice is unique to the youth, and looking at his ruddy complexion, his figure is not too thin, and the servants who have seen Young Master Shen for the first time invariably said in unison: It really doesn't look like a sick man.

In the next second, Shen Xuefeng coughed at the cold air that came to his face, and the attendants who came from Shen Mansion were not surprised, so they immediately took the cough drop, and watched him pour it down.

Only then did he get off the carriage and get on the soft sedan chair, although the queen mother was annoyed that her nephew did not follow her wishes to be the companion of His Royal Highness, but she still felt sorry for his disease-prone physique, and sent it all the way to the door of Chongwen Pavilion.

After getting off the sedan chair, Shen Xuefeng reopened the umbrella, carried his bookbag through the bamboo garden, and quietly looked at the scenery in the museum as he walked.

The hand holding the handle tightened, and the heart pounded.

What if we meet for a while, what if Ji Yan doesn't like to read with him?

However, he did not have the right to refuse, and it was not clear which was more important than the son of a royal outcast and the son of a favored minister.

On the way, I met several classmates, and one of the teenagers recognized him at the door of the school, and said with some hesitation: "Shen Gongzi, don't go in yet."

Shen Xuefeng stopped suddenly, shook the falling snow on the green umbrella, and looked at him puzzledly: "Class is about to begin, why can't you go in?"

The man looked left and right, and quietly attached to his ear: "The Third Highness is being punished inside, and I don't know how he made His Highness angry, you see that these brothers in front of the eaves of the corridor have all been blasted out."

Hearing this, Shen Xuefeng immediately looked around and found that everyone had indeed not entered the house, and many people secretly shook their heads at him, saying that the situation inside was very serious.

A few gossip and excited sons and brothers, after you finished talking word by word, Shen Xuefeng roughly had a basic understanding of what was happening inside: he bumped into the internal discord of the princes on the first day of school.

"Otherwise, I'd better go in," Shen Xuefeng hesitated, "After all, I'm the companion of the Third Highness, and they won't do anything to me."

"Don't, the punishment inside has been going on for a while, and it is estimated that it should be over, and you can't save anything if you go in now, but it will leave a bad impression on several highnesses."

After all, this is a disgrace within the royal family, although Shen Xuefeng is the son of the second-rank minister of the dynasty, and his mother is the queen mother's favorite county lord, but he can't rely on his family background to go in and do it.

Just as a few people outside the door were entangled, a high-spirited order suddenly came from the silent school: "Fight again!"

Outside the hall, several sons and daughters of the family trembled when they heard this voice.

Then there was the laughter of young boys and girls inside, and after the laughter, I heard a person say vaguely through the door: "Not yet?" I'm afraid I won't recruit him if I don't kill him today—"

It was quiet again.

Shen Xuefeng's heart was shocked when he heard this movement, and for a moment he suspected that he had bought the wrong stock after crossing in.

W- This isn't going to really kill people, is it?

Ji Yan This is really a hellish start, his father doesn't care about his mother, he can't study well, this kind of person can really become a generation of Ming Jun of the Daji Dynasty?

Thinking about it, doesn't Long Aotian's male protagonist take this route, maybe in the future, he will encounter some extraterrestrial masters.

But now is not the time to think about these, the most important thing is not to let that group of princes and princesses torture the future emperor, if Ji Yan really has three longs and two shorts, how can his task be completed.

Quarrels can be heard in the house from time to time, and they tend to get worse.

Shen Xuefeng anxiously walked around, and after glancing at Mu Duo in a small pavilion in Zhuyuan, a flash of inspiration.

As the saying goes, the morning bell and the evening drum are struck at the beginning and the drum is struck at the end. This is usually used as a reminder during class in the school.

He hurriedly opened his umbrella and beckoned to the attendant behind him: "Bai Hua, come and help me, let's go ring the bell together."

The attendant named Bai Hua said, "...... Master, we can't ring this bell, only Mr.'s clerk can. ”

"That's right," Shen Xuefeng grabbed his wrist and leaned over and whispered, "Let's ring the bell, the people inside will definitely think that Mr. is coming to teach, so that they won't bully His Royal Highness anymore, and we don't have to freeze outside."

With that, he took the attendant in one hand and the umbrella in the other hand and stepped into the vast snowy day.

I don't know if a few of the young ladies who accompanied the reading were also cold enough, in short, everyone tacitly glanced at each other, and seemed to understand Shen Xuefeng's plan, but after all, no one stopped him.

said that it was to ring the bell, but in fact, it was Shen Xuefeng who commanded Bai Hua to do it, he couldn't carry it on his shoulders with his own hands, as long as he didn't cough, it was good.

The young master's order is the sky, Bai Hua rolled up his sleeves and hit it directly.

Soon, the huge bell let out a heavy, low hum, one after another.

Boom...... Boom...... Boom......

This voice resounded in the sky, slow but with full penetrating power permeated the Chongwen Pavilion, and the afterglow was long.

Hearing this, the palace ladies serving in the Chongwen Pavilion rushed over one after another, and said in a panic: "Shen Gongzi, stop! It's not in order! ”

Without doing anything, Shen Xuefeng ignored the dissuasion of the palace maids, and still commanded: "Hurry! Birch, crash! ”

After only three sounds, there was movement in the door of the school, and after five sounds, the door opened, and the luxurious smell of burning incense from the stove came to the face, and several attendants trotted out with a thin voice: "Your Highnesses order, please take a few seats."

Shen Xuefeng was overjoyed when he saw the door open from a distance, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, this trick really works! Let's go in first! ”

The palace maids didn't dare to hurt the nobles, and they were worried that Shen Xuefeng would disturb the order of the school by hitting the bell without permission, so they looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Since Shen Xuefeng was hit, he was not afraid of being punished, he was the last to enter the academy, and as soon as he stepped in with his front foot, he smelled a trace of imperceptible blood from the thick incense and spices in the hall with his years of experience in drinking medicine.

…… Like, someone was hurt.

As far as the eye could see, the delicate and luxurious carpets covered the floor, the tables were in order, and the princes and princesses sat boredly playing in their places, as if some trace was hidden by this ordinary.

As a newcomer to the palace, Shen Xuefeng was naturally the focus of everyone's eyes, and he roamed around the hall under the pressure of a lot of eyes, and finally, his gaze stayed in an inconspicuous dark corner.

There was a man sitting in front of the bookcase in the corner, and the man happened to be looking up at him.

There was no emotion in his eyes, and he was gloomy and compassionate, which made Shen Xuefeng feel creepy inexplicably.

It is none other than the Third Highness Ji Yan.

He was thinly dressed, but not shabby, and sat there straight, with a few books on the small desk in front of him. After eyeing Shen Xuefeng for a few moments, he retracted his gaze as if he was timid, lowered his head again, and retracted into a dark corner.

Shen Xuefeng still didn't miss the cold gaze of the poisonous snake.

…… It's scary!

He walked up hard, sat down in front of the table next to Ji Yan, and was filled with the heavy smell of rust and blood when his nasal cavity was neutral, and he endured it for a long time before he vomited.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I'm Shen Xuefeng......"

Shen Xuefeng's scalp was numb, his neck was like clockwork, and he didn't dare to turn his head to look at the young man next to him.

The thought of accosting was immediately suppressed.

Shen Xuefeng clutched the corners of his clothes, nervous and scared, his hands were covered with cold sweat, and his whole body was stiff.

Why didn't anyone tell him that the future emperor's childhood was so terrifying.

It is precisely because of the awareness of the timidity and shrinkage of the people around him that he has passed well

After a while, Ji Yan silently shifted his gaze.

He looked at people like this, quietly and never disturbed people, his eyes were cold and gloomy, like a cold, clammy poisonous snake attached to Shen Xuefeng's body.

Blood oozed from under the cushion on which he knelt, wetting the blanket and staining it red and white.

This blanket is usually replaced every two or three days, because his blood will occasionally be splashed like today, and the palace people feel dirty, so they take it and burn it, and then spread a new one the next day.

Most of Ji Yan's face was always hidden in the dark, as if he didn't feel pain, he didn't scream or move, because he knew that Mr. wouldn't call his name, and the book in front of the case didn't turn a page until the end of class.

He is such a superfluous person, since he was born with a lowly mother who was forced to hang himself, he has lived in every dark corner of the palace, and in the eyes of everyone, he is just a toy for any prince or princess to deceive, and can only play such a value.

So he was observing Shen Xuefeng, observing his uncomfortable expression after smelling blood, and quietly waiting for Shen Xuefeng to show the beginning of his disgusted expression.

Ji Yan was never curious, naturally, he would not be curious about why Shen Xuefeng wanted to be his companion.

He was just waiting for Shen Xuefeng to have a seizure, because his only role for anyone was to vent, and Shen Xuefeng must be no exception.

Even if he didn't understand, he knew that Shen Xuefeng must be the favored son of a certain important minister, this young man attracted the attention of many princes and princesses as soon as he came in, he was very beautiful, hidden in the dark, he couldn't see the specific facial features, he could only see the white and smooth jaw, and the red lips that were not thin, but full and good-looking, and even the texture on his shirt was painted with silver wire, and he walked with a clear fragrance.

Shen Xuefeng didn't say a word to him in the whole class, and Ji Yan knew that he had already stared at the bright red blood stains on the velvet carpet, and he had heard him cough several times, but he was too timid to make too many sounds.

His white wrist trembled slightly as he wrote, and his lips were bitten by himself, and he was about to bleed.

Timid is like this, but he still has to be his companion reading persistently.

Ji Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.

At the end of class, the two of them were still sitting motionless, there was no stove near the seats, and Ji Yan neither shouted cold nor pain.

Shen Xuefeng shuddered, feeling that the patience function of the three highnesses was a little too strong, and he could still sit quietly in the school after being injured, he had to suspect that Ji Yan really didn't feel pain!

There was no one left in the school, he put down the pen that had been dried up a long time ago, turned around and took out a small porcelain bottle from the bookbag that exuded a faint fragrance, and put it nervously in front of Ji Yan.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, this is a hemostatic medicine, I used to be accidentally injured a lot, so my sister will put this ...... on me"

Ji Yan looked at him expressionlessly.

This scared Shen Xuefeng enough, he finally saw Ji Yan's appearance clearly, pale and unruly facial features, deep and three-dimensional eyebrows and eyes, cold-blooded thin lips, and those eyes full of haze. Shen Xuefeng couldn't help but take a few deep breaths, and coughed painfully because the smell of blood was too pungent, coughing until his face was red.

"Your Highness, you don't matter, do you?" He plucked up his courage and threw a question to Ji Yan.

Shen Xuefeng didn't know where he got the guts, and said quickly: "Otherwise, Your Highness, you have a good rest, and I will write today's homework for you."

After finishing speaking, he coaxed again, drooping his eyes, looking deflated, and carefully looked at Ji Yan's reaction.

"Do you think it's okay?!"

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