The pagoda on the top of the mountain is surrounded by pine forests. Qin Hao took Cheng Shaoshang and his daughter along the way and found the scenery beautiful.

After entering the pagoda, Qin Hao checked and found that there was no one around, so Cheng Shaoshang found a corner and untied his clothes. The little guy was very well-behaved, and he ate whatever he was given.

Seeing her younger brother eating very sweetly, Nannan pressed his face with a smile, and the little guy waved his little hand, as if to say: "It's time to eat, don't make trouble."

Seeing Qin Hao watching from the side, Cheng Shaoshang gave him a coquettish sideways glance, but they belonged to old couples, so he didn't hold back.

When the little guy was full, Cheng Shaoshang stopped growing. He wiped his son's mouth, and then suggested: "The scenery is nice, why don't we go up and have a look?"

Qin Hao nodded: "Well, it's all here, let's go to the top of the tower to have a look."

Along the way, Cheng Shaoshang saw that the internal structure of the pagoda was very interesting, and began to discuss with Qin Hao how the pagoda was built. My daughter has been staying with Qin Hao all these years, and Qin Hao also formulated a set of learning for her from elementary school to junior high school. According to the plan, my daughter also has a certain knowledge of mathematics and geometry, and she can understand the discussion between Qin Hao and Cheng Shaoshang.

When he was approaching the top of the tower, he suddenly heard someone talking on it, and what shocked Cheng Shaoshang even more was that the content of the talk was actually about waste storage.

Qin Hao's heart tightened, and he hurriedly made a silent gesture to Cheng Shaoshang and his daughter, and was about to retreat quietly, when the little guy in Cheng Shaoshang's arms probably urinated, and burst into tears.

Qin Hao finally experienced what cheating is, and hurriedly asked Cheng Shaoshang to take his daughter away first.

Sure enough, the conversation upstairs stopped abruptly, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, and the wooden stairs creaked and wailed.

But hearing the footsteps, there seemed to be only four or five people, Qin Hao was secretly relieved, it seemed that only a few people were involved in this kind of conspiracy.

Cheng Shaoshang knew that he would only be a burden to Qin Hao if he stayed, so he hugged his son in one hand and ran downstairs quickly with his daughter in the other.

At this time, two strong men in bright silver armor also took the lead in chasing down.

Qin Hao recognized the armor on the opponent's body at a glance. This is the high-grade armor that only the prince's guards have. It is obviously a personal guard of a certain prince. This also echoes what he heard before. One of the princes, and it seems that the biggest beneficiary of the abolition of the prince is the third prince.

Before he had time to think about it, the two guards had already attacked in coordination, and the two short knives flashed a menacing cold light, one slashed at Qin Hao's throat and the other stabbed at Qin Hao's waist.

Qin Hao didn't have time to think too much. Using the narrow structure of the pagoda's stairs, he sideways avoided the short knife stabbing at his waist. At the same time, he tightened his right hand into a fist, and punched another guard's wrist.

Hearing a scream, the dagger had already fallen to the ground, Qin Hao took the opportunity to lock his throat and block in front of him.

In an instant, the other guard had already missed a single blow, and continued to slash at him with a knife. Qin Hao shrank directly behind the guard and confronted him.

At this moment, several people upstairs also rushed over, and Qin Hao saw a familiar figure, the third prince.

When the third prince saw Qin Hao, he was also taken aback. At this moment, the sound of footsteps going upstairs suddenly came from downstairs, and Qin Hao secretly thought it was bad.

I saw Ling Buyi walking up with Cheng Shaoshang and his daughter.

The third prince suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

As he spoke, he walked in front of Qin Hao regardless of the guard's obstruction, and smiled: "There's no need to be so tense when meeting old friends, right?"

Qin Hao sneered and said, "Since we are old friends, let's pretend that what happened today never happened, and I will never reveal a word when I go out, how about it?"

The third prince was still smiling, but shook his head: "You should know my character, and never entrust my fate to others."

"So you have to fight to the death?" Qin Hao's eyes narrowed.

The third prince pointed in the direction of Cheng Shaoshang: "You don't seem to have the capital to negotiate terms."

While speaking, Qin Hao directly threw the guard who was restrained by him in front of him, and then he rushed to the third prince like a cheetah in the blink of an eye.

The third prince turned pale with shock, and subconsciously drew his sword to resist. However, his force value was more than a star and a half behind Qin Hao. Before he could completely pull out the sword, Qin Hao had already grabbed his neck.

"Quickly let go of the third prince!"

Several guards panicked.

After the third prince experienced the initial panic, he suddenly smiled: "Before, I heard Zicheng say that you have the courage of a thousand men, and taking the head of an enemy general from a thousand troops is like picking something out of a bag. I thought Zicheng was exaggerating." , I realized that the reputation was well-deserved when I saw it today."

Qin Hao couldn't help admiring the third prince's demeanor, how calm he could be in this situation.

"Now do I have the capital to negotiate terms?" Qin Hao sneered.

Ling Buyi hesitated for a moment and walked over: "Zihan, we grew up together, you should know that the crown prince has a weak character and tends to listen and believe, so he is not suitable to inherit the throne."

Qin Hao glanced at Ling Buyi, and said mockingly, "Although the crown prince is weak, at least he won't do anything like kidnap other people's wives and children."

Ling Buyi looked directly at Qin Hao: "I never thought of hurting them."

Qin Hao looked at the third prince's bodyguard coldly, and said coldly: "But the third prince will give you two choices now, either perish together, or let us leave. I guarantee that no word of what happened today will be spread. .”

The third prince suddenly shouted: "Catch them quickly!"

With a force in his hand, Qin Hao directly lifted the third prince by the neck, put it on the window of the pagoda, and said with cold eyes: "If you dare to move a step, I will throw him from here!"

The guard's face turned ashen, and he shouted angrily: "Presumptuous, put the Third Highness down!"

The third prince hangs his whole head upside down on the side of the pagoda, and he is also scared out of his wits. At first he was sure that Qin Hao would not dare to do anything to him as a prince. At this time, he could clearly feel Qin Hao's killing intent. He had no doubt that as long as The guard dared to touch a hair on Cheng Shaoshang and the child, and he would fall down and turn into a meatloaf in the next second.

"Stop, ahem, I promise you!" The third prince's neck was strangled, and he could only squeeze out a few words from his throat.

Only then did Qin Hao lift him up, and said with a stern look, "Let them go."

Cheng Shaoshang's eyes were full of worry, but now he could only grit his teeth and pull his daughter away.

After Cheng Shaoshang walked for half an hour, Qin Hao took the third prince to the pagoda, pushed the third prince out, and Qin Hao backed away slowly.

The guard was about to catch up, but was stopped by Ling Buyi.

The third prince rubbed his somewhat constricted throat, and said in a bitter voice: "If what happened today hadn't happened, would Zihan be willing to help me?"

Qin Hao looked at him coldly: "From today onwards, we are no longer friends!"

Then he looked at Ling Buyi: "You too!"

A trace of loneliness flashed in Ling Buyi's eyes, but he didn't defend himself. In essence, he and Qin Hao were the same kind of people. Anyone who dared to hurt his family would pay a heavy price for it.

At the entrance of the camp, Cheng Shaoshang was surprised to see Qin Hao returning safely, he was instantly relieved, and immediately went up to greet him, hugging him without saying a word.

"It's okay, don't worry." Qin Hao gently hugged her and comforted her in a low voice.

Cheng Shaoshang's body trembled slightly, she knew very well that what happened just now involved a struggle for the throne, and if it didn't work out, the family would be ransacked and wiped out.

"You didn't tell the others, did you?" Qin Hao asked after returning to the tent.

Cheng Shaoshang shook his head lightly: "No, I'm not stupid. I don't have evidence. If I go to correct the third prince, no one will believe me."

"Well, you're right, you're not allowed to tell anyone about this, not even your grandfather, you know?" Qin Hao said.

Although Nannan didn't understand, she still nodded obediently.

Qin Hao asked her to hug her, and the little girl's tense body slowly relaxed, and she was still trembling, obviously she was greatly frightened.

After a while, she fell asleep in Qin Hao's arms. Qin Hao put her on the bed and covered her with a quilt.

Cheng Shaoshang worried: "Now that we have broken the secret of the third prince, even if we keep our mouth shut, if he really ascends the throne in the future, our Qin family may suffer disaster. Do you want to help the prince?"

Qin Hao pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "The crown prince has soft ears and no opinions at all. He is not the master of Zhongxing, let alone with Grand Tutor Lou around, he will not see his position threatened."

"What should I do?"

Seeing Cheng Shaoshang's distressed look, Qin Hao comforted him softly: "In addition to the prince and the third prince, there is also the fifth prince."

Cheng Shaoshang looked up blankly: "Fifth prince? But his birth."

The fifth prince was born after Emperor Wen and Meiren Xu got drunk once. In the harem, the empress was the political marriage after Emperor Wen started his business. Although Emperor Wen didn't like her very much, he always respected her very much. Concubine Yue was Emperor Wen's childhood sweetheart. Because of the existence of Bai Yueguang, only Concubine Yue dared to shut Emperor Wen out of the whole harem.

It is also because of his humble birth that the fifth prince has never had a sense of existence, and in addition to his usual idleness and appearance of a libertine, the prince and the third prince did not regard him as a competitor.

However, based on Qin Hao's understanding of the fifth prince since he was a child, he is an extremely smart person. He knew from a very young age that his birth is not as good as that of the prince and the third prince, and he is unlikely to inherit the throne. Harmful appearance.

Cheng Shaoshang looked at Qin Hao in surprise, and said in a low voice, "You mean, the fifth prince is pretending?"

Qin Hao nodded: "Leave this matter alone, and leave everything to me."

Cheng Shaoshang hesitated for a moment, but nodded in agreement.

On the other side, Wan Qiqi quarreled with Wang Yan and started to choke. The two agreed to have a riding and shooting competition, but Wang Yan saw that he was about to lose the game, so he deliberately shot an arrow to startle Wan Qiqi's horse, and Cheng Song chased after him desperately. , and rescued Wan Qiqi, but he himself suffered a leg injury and died.

During the period of offering sacrifices to heaven, seeing blood is very unlucky. In addition, during this period of time, many children from aristocratic families acted recklessly, and were even caught by the guards. A few pairs of wild mandarin ducks were caught. Emperor Wen was furious and said that he would severely punish them.

Outside the tent, Cheng Shi was kneeling with his family to intercede, and Wan Songbai was kneeling beside him with Wan Qiqi. Emperor Wen glared at the two of them angrily, and reprimanded them.

"The two of you don't know how to restrain the younger generation, and behave like those aristocratic children all day long."

Cheng Shi and Wan Songbai hurriedly kowtowed to apologize, Wan Qiqi was very depressed, she was the victim, but she had to kneel here, but the culprit looked back and Wang Zhen was fine.

Seeing that Cheng Shi and Wan Songbai's attitude was quite sincere, Emperor Wen didn't pursue it any further, and punished them to have fasting for the next two days until the end of the sacrifice.

However, the children of other aristocratic families were not so lucky. After a meal, they all wailed and wailed, including Wang Yan. This time Wan Qiqi felt the anger in his chest, and called His Majesty Shengming directly.

Cheng Song was a little depressed, it stands to reason that he saved Wan Qiqi, and Wan Qiqi even said that he would promise him with his body, but after returning, Wan Qiqi kept avoiding him.

There is no other way, Cheng Song can only come to Cheng Shaoshang for help, and Cheng Shaoshang can't help admiring Qin Hao's vision of seeing people.

"It's accurate." Cheng Shaoshang muttered to himself.

Cheng Song was at a loss: "Niaoyou, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, it's nothing, how about it, I'll go to Wan Mansion some other day and ask you." Although Cheng Shaoshang felt a little unbelievable, but for the lifelong happiness of his second brother, he decided to match him with Wan Qiqi.

What's more, it seems pretty good for a girlfriend to become a sister-in-law.

After Cheng Song left, Cheng Shaoshang took his son to Wanfu, Wan Qiqi was bored at home, ever since Tu Gaoshan got into trouble, Wan Songbai locked her up at home.

"Yu'er, let Aunt Wan give you a hug." It was rare for Wan Qiqi to remain enthusiastic about the little guy.

At this time, the little guy was almost one year old, and he was not as serious as before. After being hugged by Wan Qiqi for a long time, he was impatient to find his mother.

Cheng Shaoshang took his son, and asked side-by-side: "Sister Qiqi, did my second brother offend you?"

Wan Qiqi thought of the day when Cheng Song injured his thigh in order to save her, and she even lifted up her trouser leg to take a look, and blushed rarely.

"No, I, I am"

Seeing this expression, Cheng Shaoshang thought to himself: There is something to be done.

"I just don't know how to face it?"

Wan Qiqi nodded again and again, what Cheng Shaoshang said spoke to her heart, she had always regarded Cheng Song as a good brother before, she was not prepared to treat him as a lover at all, suddenly changed the relationship, she didn't know what to do for a while .

Cheng Shaoshang smiled and said, "Sister Qiqi, my second brother, although he is a little weaker, but he can risk his life for you at a critical moment, so it is worth entrusting him to. You might as well think about it carefully."

Wan Qiqi pursed her lips: "Okay, then I'll think about it."

After returning from Wanfu, Cheng Shaoshang seemed to have done something very fulfilling, and when Qin Hao came back, he proudly showed it off to him.

Qin Hao smiled and pinched her cheek: "Let me just say that your second brother is interested in Wan Qiqi."

"Yes, my husband predicts things like a god." Cheng Shaoshang rewarded Qin Hao with a sweet kiss, and said coquettishly.

The atmosphere in the room gradually became ambiguous. Naturally, a big battle was inevitable.

After a night of nothing to say, Qin Hao went to the palace early in the morning to go to work. When he was sorting out the memorials sent today, he suddenly found that there were several memorials that mentioned bad money. Take it seriously.

After the court meeting was over, Qin Hao took the memorial and went straight to Jianzhang Palace where Emperor Wen handled government affairs.

Emperor Wen was discussing with Prime Minister Deng Yu and several other courtiers about the frequent foreign invasions in Bingzhou.

"Why did Zihan come here?" Emperor Wen asked.

Qin Hao directly handed several memorials to Emperor Wen, and Emperor Wen took a look, and his expression changed immediately. Any centralized dynasty would have zero tolerance for counterfeit coins.

No matter how big or small the counterfeit currency is, it is extremely harmful. This involves a trust issue, because the currency itself has no value, and the reason why it can be used for transactions is entirely out of the approval of the central government.

The counterfeit currency is wearing away this trust. If the currency system collapses, the consequences will be extremely dire, and even a dynasty will be directly destroyed.

Emperor Wen was furious: "Check, let me check to the end, no matter who is behind this, I will never tolerate it!"

"No." Prime Minister Deng Yu also knew the seriousness of the matter.

"Qin Aiqing stay."

Just when Qin Hao was about to leave with the others, Emperor Wen stopped him.

Emperor Wen whispered: "Zihan thinks, where did the counterfeit money come from?"

After being furious, Emperor Wen also realized that those who were able to manufacture counterfeit coins and circulate them on a large scale were obviously not ordinary people. If some vassal kings were involved, the trouble would be too big, and it would inevitably be another bloody storm.

Qin Hao bowed slightly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, judging from the information about counterfeit money flowing out from various places, it should come from Shouchun."

"Shouchun? The Wang family?" The first thing Emperor Wen thought of was the Wang family. Wen Xiujun, the wife of Wang Chun, the owner of the Wang family, was still a cousin of him. He knew the woman's lawless character. , nine out of ten it came from the hands of Wen Xiujun.

"How does Zihan think he should deal with it?" Emperor Wen asked.

Qin Hao thought to himself, as the emperor who helped the Han Dynasty rejuvenate, Emperor Wen's ability would naturally not be troubled by such a trivial matter, it must be testing him.

"Weichen thinks that apart from collecting evidence, we should immediately mobilize troops to Shouchun to prevent accidents."

Emperor Wen nodded with satisfaction: "Well, not bad."

After he finished speaking, he stopped talking. Qin Hao returned to the Taiyuan Academy when he saw this. He thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, but before he got off work, the imperial decree came down, asking him to go to Shouchun with Ling Buyi Switch nearby.

When leaving the palace, Ling Buji was already waiting at the gate of the palace, and said to Qin Hao with a complicated expression, "I can fight side by side with Zihan again."

Qin Hao said indifferently: "It's just to suppress bandits. General Ling alone is enough. I'm just a foil."

Ling Buyi didn't speak, and there was a trace of loneliness in his eyes.

Qin Hao has already turned around and left. From the moment Ling Buyi threatened him with Cheng Shaoshang's mother and son, the friendship that was once in the same robes has been blown away with the wind. The family is Qin Hao's reverse scale, and no one can touch it.

When she got home, she was a little worried when she learned that Qin Hao was going to fight again. Qin Hao comforted her for a long time before dispelling her worries.

This time, besides him and Ling Buyi, Cheng Shi will also go to Tongniu County to transport a batch of copper mines, and it happens that he will go there, so he won't have to face Ling Buyi's face all the time.

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