Prison Dragon

Chapter 25

It can be said that Yang You would be inclined to the fourth prince, which is unexpected and reasonable.

He had made up his mind early on not to participate in the battle for the throne, but from the perspective of a bystander, Yang You could see the pros and cons of the princes more clearly.

The fourth prince can be regarded as the second strange thing in the palace besides Yang You.

Yang Youzhi is strange, because he lives the life of a hermit every day, with favors and disgraces, like farting, and it will be gone after a while.

The fourth prince, Yang Shizhi, is strange because he is different since he was a child.

The eldest prince Yang Jian thinks he is the eldest son and grandson, and everyone looks like his chin is upturned.

The second prince, Yang Ti, has an outstanding literary talent, and he has become a favorite of literati all over the world, and most of the people around him are literati.

The third prince, Yang Ren, is scheming and actively wins people's hearts. He takes black and white both inside and outside the palace.

It can be said that the battle for succession revolved around the three princes from the beginning.

The remaining princes can only choose their own methods to protect themselves wisely.

Yang You was living a life of idlers, Yang Xiuzhou went around flattering the princes, and Yang Lun became a transparent person.

The fourth prince stood out from the crowd like a chicken, and did not follow the usual path at all.

His grandfather was the envoy of Longxi Jiedu, but his mother died early, and no one in the family was an official in the capital. Although his relatives were powerful, they were controlled by others everywhere.

He is very talented, he is good at archery, and his physical strength is extraordinary. He often fights fierce beasts when hunting in Spring and Autumn. Although his Fu is not as good as Yang Ti, he is still well-known, at least much better than half-baked people like Yang You.

Yang Shi made no secret of his talent, even if it would attract the attention of the prince and imperial concubine, he still had to show himself.

Although Taifu Zhang didn't like him being good at martial arts, he rarely praised him. He often said: "Your Majesty the Fourth Highness doesn't read books, doesn't admire saints, but likes to ride horses and fencing swords, which is like Cao's yellow beard."

No matter how good Huang Xuer was, he was still Cao Pi's courtier after all.

When Yang Shi was 15 years old, he was sent by the emperor to the Northwest, relying on his grandfather's Longxi territory, to fight against the Turks.In the northwest, Guangwuguan was used to resist the enemy, and was granted the title of King of Guangwu.

In the past, the northwest frontier defense was based on its own, and the information was not clear, so it was impossible to cooperate.The local eunuchs only want to protect their own territory. If they can't fight, they will lead the enemy to other counties and use their neighbors as beggars in order to protect themselves.

Coupled with the fact that the emperor sends imperial envoys to search every year, all parts of the Northwest have long since become a mess.Every time the Turks went south, countless people fled and fled. They could only rely on the Great Wall to guard to the death.

However, the northwest frontier defense is a major event in the world, and the emperor would rather delay it than hand it over to outsiders. Fortunately, there is Yang Shi among the princes, who seems to be doing great things, so he let Yang Shi go with the military talisman and imperial decree.

Nothing was given to him, only a cheap act.

When Yang Shi took office, the first thing he did was to convene the generals from all over the country to unify the defense.

The generals from all over the country have their own little Jiujiu in their hearts, and they respect Yang Shi on the surface, but they don't pay attention to this 15-year-old kid.

Who is not the old fritters who hang out at the border all the year round?Can the little prince be honestly played by them?

So for the first time, Yang Shi rectified the affairs of border defense without making any noise.

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Yang Shi quickly convened the second meeting, not only invited the chief soldiers from all over the country, but also the county magistrates. Killed three soldiers.

The public was in an uproar, and these officials who had been dawdling all the year round finally realized that Yang Shi was not a little white rabbit who came to take up a temporary post, and returned to the capital after earning some political capital at the border.

He's a real tough guy.

And his greater advantage is that he is the emperor's son, as long as the emperor doesn't care about him, no one in the world can control him.

Since he was stationed in the northwest, the emperor has never sent an imperial envoy.

That is to say, even the emperor didn't care about him.

Yang Shi didn't have any constraints, and no one dared to control him walking sideways. Anyone who opposed him would be killed. As long as the matter was not serious, the emperor could solve it with a simple word.

In fact, some officials wrote a letter to return to Beijing, but the emperor just wrote a letter to scold him in silence, and fined him a salary of three months at most.

This kind of punishment is nothing at all.

In this way, the Northwest Defense gradually took shape under Yang Shi's iron and blood wrists.

Regarding the war in the northwest, Yang You didn't hear much about it in the palace, but there was only one thing that impressed him deeply on the Fourth Prince.

After Yang Shi established the Northwest Frontier Defense, the Turkic people fought several battles with him one after another, and they all knew that he was a tough nut to crack, so they rarely violated his jurisdiction.

Last winter, spies reported that the Turks were planning to go south.When Yang Shi asked, the spies said that the Turks were still a hundred miles away.That night, Yang Shi led his men and horses and ran for hundreds of miles overnight, broke into the Turkic camp, beat them up and ran around with their heads in their arms.

It can be said that the treacherous art of war has been used to the extreme. If you dare to be a man, you dare not do it, and if you dare to be a man, you dare not be a man.

The eldest prince has been established as the crown prince, but the battle for the heir apparent is far from over.

Yang You couldn't explain clearly either, he had a strong intuition that the Fourth Prince Yang Shi could fight his way out of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood.

Firstly, he has no intention of competing for the throne, and secondly, he has to reserve a way out, so he might as well turn to others early.

Yang Shi is powerful now, and judging by the way he guards the border, he can be regarded as a man with a family and country in his heart. Yang You can accept him as the emperor.

It seems to be a good choice for the country, the family and the private, but the difficulty is that Yang Shi does not necessarily trust him.

There can only be one winner at the gambling table, and there are all gamblers. It is nothing more than that Yang Shi has a lot of chips and Yang You has a small chip. Why should he trust competitors with the same qualifications as himself?

After much deliberation, Yang You finally chose King Jiaodong. The emperor communicated with the Ministry of Rites and changed Yang You's original title to Liujing.

Jiaodong is a rich place, with more taxes than other places. If you want to fight, you must have money and power ready.

According to the selected titles, the sixth prince Yang Xiu was named King Rui, and the seventh prince Yang Lun was named King An.

Of the eight princes, seven of them stayed in the capital in the end. Excluding Yang Ni, who was still young, there were six adult princes.

The ceremony for the three princes to become kings was successfully held after the Beginning of Autumn.

The hottest season in Lidu is finally coming to an end, seeing the end of summer, the weather is cooling down bit by bit.

Once the king is sealed, the princes have to move out of the palace.

In order to be closer to the palace, Yang You chose an abandoned house near the palace, and had someone reorganize it, making it the Jiaodong Palace.

Ao Chen specially came to Qingfang Palace for several days to laugh at his shabby palace.

Yang You is about to leave the palace soon, he will be a foreigner when he leaves the palace, and he can no longer enter the palace at will, so he found a time to clean up Ao Chen's temple first.After all, only he can enter Ao Chen's territory, and he has to do everything.

As for Ao Chen...

Ao Chen said that he is a god and should enjoy the service of believers, and supervised the work with empty hands.

Yang You could only bring his own tools to clean the temple. He lay down on the ground and swept the dust under the altar, wiped the ground clean, and said while working, "After leaving the palace, I won't be able to visit you all the time."

Ao Chen gnawed at the apple, sat on the recliner and swayed back and forth, crossing his legs, "Are you still worried about me? Think about what you will do if you become a king."

"The emperor's seven sons are crowned kings. Only you are the king of Jiaodong with three characters. Although the king of Guangwu has three characters, he has soldiers and is far away from the emperor Tiangao in the capital. You stay at the feet of the emperor, and you are not afraid of others joining forces to bully you." You?"

"Yang You!" He suddenly called out, "Come here!"

Yang You sighed, crawled out from under the table, patted the ashes on his head, and walked to Ao Chen, "What's wrong?"

Ao Chen held an apple core in his hand, "Throw it outside."

He pointed to the woods at the door, "Over there."

Yang You raised his hand and threw the core directly into the woods, rolling to nowhere.

"You're too lazy! I'm cleaning, don't bother me!"

Ao Chen clicked his tongue and kicked his calf lightly, "What attitude?"

Yang You made a face at him, turned around and continued to sweep the floor.

Ao Chen hummed a ditty, and started to crack the melon seeds. Fortunately, he still had a conscience, so he wrapped the melon seed shells with a handkerchief—of course, Yang You's handkerchief.

Yang You was ashamed under the table, and after a while, the sound of cracking melon seeds stopped, and the table above his head let out a cry of overwhelm.

Yang You looked up, Ao Chen was standing on the altar, climbing up the statue.

Yang You quickly reached out to support the table, his worried eyes moved with his steps, "Be careful!"

Ao Chen easily climbed onto the entrenched dragon statue, he had no feelings for his own statue, sat directly on the dragon head, raised his chin and said to Yang You, "Come here."

Yang You put the rag on the altar and walked to Ao Chen's feet.

The statue of the dragon god is very tall, making the person very small, not to mention that Ao Chen is sitting on the dragon's head, Yang You's neck is almost at a right angle, so you can see the soles of his feet.

Ao Chen also seemed to feel that it was inconvenient to see Yang You at this height, so he jumped down and sat on the platform under the dragon statue, with a gentle smile without irony on his face for the first time, like a spring breeze blowing, melting ice and snow.

Yang You walked in front of him, looked at his rare smile, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously, and immediately felt trembling, "What do you want to do again?"

"How do you talk?" Ao Chen glared at him, and opened his right hand in front of his eyes. There was a black circle lying in the palm of his hand. Ao Chen said, "This is my dragon scale."

Ao Chen handed Yang You his hand.

Yang You stared wide-eyed, looking at him in bewilderment.

Ao Chen handed the scales forward, and signaled Yang You to reach out with his eyes.

Yang You held it in both hands, and Ao Chen put the scales in Yang You's palm.

The black scales seemed to absorb all the light, dark and deep black, with the same temperature as Ao Chen, cold and hard, the purest black in the world, able to attract everyone's attention.

"Is there a rope?" Ao Chen asked.

Yang You still stared blankly at the scales, and said slowly, "Huh?"

Ao Chen sighed, another black rope came out of nowhere, he pulled the rope away with both hands, and said to Yang You, "Come closer."

Subconsciously, Yang You walked closer according to his words, and pressed his belly against Ao Chen's knee.

Ao Chen picked up the dragon scale, touched it with his fingertips, drilled a hole in it, and hung it with a rope around Yang You's neck.

Yang You stretched his neck forward in cooperation with him, Ao Chen's cold hands wrapped around the back of his neck, he pulled Yang You closer, and poked his head to look.

The neck is the most sensitive part of the human body, Ao Chen's cold hands and breath brushed over the skin indistinctly, Yang You shrank his shoulders, only felt his hairs stand on end, he still waited patiently for Ao Chen to tie the rope.

Ao Chen tied a knot, the dragon scales were hanging down on his chest, he lifted Yang You's collar, and stuffed the dragon scales down, Yang You screamed from the ice.

Ao Chen looked at him and smiled, wrapped his arms around the back of his neck, and touched the corner of his eyes with one hand, "In the future, you can use the dragon scale to summon me, just call my name to it, but it can only be used in the capital. After leaving the capital, I can no longer sense the dragon scales."

Yang You's eyes lit up, he took the dragon scale, brought it to his lips and said, "Ao Chen, Ao Chen, Ao Chen..."

Ao Chen knocked on his forehead, "Give me some respect!"

Yang You knew that he was stern and soft-hearted, so this bluff did not work at all.

"Ao Chen, get me a piece of ice!" He said to Longlin.

"Ice, right?"

Ao Chen clasped Yang You into his arms, his feet wrapped around his waist in a sitting position, his whole body was wrapped around Yang You like an octopus, and he felt cold all over his body.

"Is there enough ice?"

Although Ao Chen's body temperature is usually low, it is as low as the water temperature. At the beginning, he will feel a little uncomfortable, but it is not difficult to accept.He intentionally lowered his body temperature, and Yang You felt as if he was being hugged by ice cubes, his limbs were stiff and unable to move, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably, his tongue was tied and his mouth was still stiff: "No, no, no, not enough."

Ao Chen pressed his forehead against Yang You's, his body temperature slowly rose, and he lowered his eyelashes and said, "I will protect you."

Yang You's heart seemed to be held by an unknown hand, he tried to raise his hand to hug Ao Chen back, but Ao Chen didn't object, instead he hugged him tighter.

"How long will you protect me?" Yang You asked.

"If you're lucky, maybe it will be the day you die."

Hearing death suddenly, Yang You's heart skipped a beat. He smiled lightly and said, "Then I must live longer."

Ao Chen sighed, "It is said that good people don't live long, you have to change your temper."

"So I'm a good person in your heart?" Yang You was a little surprised.

Ao Chen's thumb and Yang You's eyes, "You are a good person in everyone's heart."

Ao Chen's body temperature slowly rose, Yang You squinted his eyes and sighed softly, "I hope I can be a good person for the rest of my life."

Ao Chen smiled lightly, noncommittal.

Yang You patted him on the back, "In return, what do you want?"

Ao Chen's voice was barely audible: "There is no need to return the gift, I gave it to you, just keep it."

Yang You said solemnly: "Then, if there is a suitable opportunity in the future, I will definitely give you back your freedom."

Ao Chen shook his head, the tremor of laughter passed from his chest to Yang You's chest, "I didn't even take this matter seriously."

When he promised to bless Yang You until his death, the status of the termination of the contract had already declined in his heart.

Perhaps this is also the best ending, Ao Chen thought, at least he was accompanied by a human being whom he still liked.

Yang You said to himself: "If you have nothing to do, you can go to the palace to find me. You should know where the palace is, otherwise you won't come to laugh at me. I will keep a lot of delicious and interesting things in the palace, and I will ensure that the decoration is perfect." It's a hundred times better than here."

"By the way," Yang You looked up from Ao Chen's shoulder and looked at the tall statue, "Do you think I should build a small temple and put your statue or memorial tablet?"

Ao Chen bit his shoulder, "I actually don't like people building temples for me."

"Why, isn't it a good thing to have incense?"

Ao Chen looked down at the dark patterns on his clothes, these patterns were similar to those hundreds of years ago.

"It's nothing, I just don't like it anyway, just don't do it."

It took Yang You two or three days to tidy up the top and bottom of the temple, and added a lot of sundries for him according to Ao Chen's request, and then he moved out of the palace with peace of mind.