After Mingcheng left, Yunchuan didn't bother to have breakfast and immediately went out to find Yang Qingyuan. He needed to tell him the news immediately.

As soon as he reached the place where the guests were resting, he found that Yang Qingyuan was already standing at the gate of the residence, and was stopped by several guards. Yunchuan waved to him and ran over quickly, saying: "He is a friend of this princess, please let him come over

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Several guards looked embarrassed and reported in a low voice: "Princess Yunchuan, King Yelu has asked the visiting guests not to move around at will. This..."

"I reported it to King Yelu, and this man was handed over to me. I will take him with me and will not let him move around." Yunchuan did not allow the guard to argue.

Seeing Yun Chuan's determined expression, the guard stopped embarrassing Yang Qingyuan and opened the gate to let him pass. Yun Chuan quickly pulled Yang Qingyun to a place where there were few guards and asked with concern: "Have you eaten in the morning? Last night?

They didn't make things difficult for you, right?"

Yang Qingyuan was a little unaccustomed to this sudden concern. She was startled and said, "Have eaten. How about the century-old snow lotus? We have to get the snow lotus back now?"

Yun Chuan put his index finger to his mouth, made a "shush" sound, and whispered: "Yesterday's hundred-year-old snow lotus is fake." Yun Chuan told Yang Qingyuan what he learned, and Yang Qingyuan's eyes gradually darkened, and his brows lightened.

Twitching slightly, "Are Mingcheng's words credible? Let's go to Shangdu Khan's yurt to get it now?" Yang Qingyuan interrupted Yunchuan and said.

"As for Mingcheng, we can only take a gamble now. Let's go to my uncle's yurt to get the small box back, and then find a chance to go to Shangdu Khan's yurt." Yunchuan said.

"It's not too late, let's go to your uncle's place." Yang Qingyuan learned last night that the entire century-old snow lotus plant was missing, so he guessed that there must be something else inside. He didn't expect that so many changes would happen overnight, but he knew that

The matter was urgent and there was no room for confusion. I nodded in agreement with Yunchuan's method.

Yunchuan knew that his uncle Helian Qiji had the habit of practicing martial arts every morning, and his uncle must not be in the room at this time. Yunchuan resumed his princess dress, and of course there was no need to hide, so he dismissed the guards at the door and led Yang Qingyuan in a swaggering manner.

Walked into uncle's room.

The layout of the room has not changed at all. The boxes are still in the same place. Yun Chuan stood guard at the door of the yurt. Yang Qingyuan opened the suitcase and rummaged through it for a long time. He didn't see the small box. Even the clothes the two of them wore last night were gone.

Fei and Yang Qingyuan thought to themselves, "Not good." They must have been abandoned and discovered by Helian. Maybe they were waiting for them in a corner to fall into their trap.

Yun Chuan turned around and saw Yang Qingyuan who had been overturned for a long time, and ran over quickly, "What's wrong? The things are gone?" Yun Chuan rummaged through the suitcase, becoming more and more anxious, "I obviously put it at the bottom, how could it be discovered?

Already?"

"Yunchuan, what are you looking for?" Just when Yunchuan was worried, a familiar voice sounded. Yunchuan felt like thunder in his ears, and there was a "bang" in his head, and he realized that he had been deceived and caught.

Just then, Yun Chuan raised his head helplessly, looked at his uncle with pleading eyes, and weakly called out: "Uncle, morning!"

At this time, Yang Qingyuan had already stood up straight, without any fear or nervousness, and looked intently at the Tusang general in front of him, Helian Qiji, who had been a hostage in Dawei for twenty years. In fact, he was not the same as him.

He was considered a stranger. When Helian Qiji was still in Dawei, in addition to meeting him a few times every year at several major banquets and sacrificial ceremonies in the court, Helian Qiji also gave him Yu Wenhan's brew several times.

He even stayed for a few sips of wine, and occasionally stayed for a few sips. Helian Qiji was also one of his rare confidants. Helian Qiji remembered that after a big party five years ago, he returned home from Yu Wenhan’s residence.

On the way, they met Helian Qiji, who was alone and sad in the heavy snow. That was the last time they saw and talked in five years.

"I heard that you will be able to return to Tusang in the next year, why are you still so sad?" Yang Qingyuan was already seventeen years old at the time and was already serving in the capital's guard camp.

"Twenty years have passed, things have changed, and I have become a superfluous person in this world." Helian Qiji held a pot of wine in his arms and took a swig.

"Do you hate them?" Yang Qingyuan understood Helian Qiji's loneliness and poverty in the palace for the past twenty years. He lived in the northwest corner of the palace, with three cabins and a small courtyard, and only two servants to take care of his daily life.

The summers are hot and the winters are cold. There are only two hours a day when you can leave the house and walk around in designated places in the palace. At other times, you are not allowed to leave the house without the emperor's permission. Although there are often letters from home to Tusang, the letters are not

It has to be seen by a specialized person before it can be handed over to the opponent. In the end, it becomes just a phrase and a formality. In this cold palace, most people think that he is just a chess piece lost by Tu Sang.

There is no value in meeting him by chance. There is no time to even look at him. There are only a handful of people who are willing to chat with him, and Yu Wenhan is one of them. After Yu Wenhan knew that he liked drinking, he had a new brew

Several bottles of wine were given to him for comfort, which also gave him a rare warmth in his life in the palace.

"Which one of them are you referring to? If I say I don't hate it, will anyone believe it?" Helian Qiji, who was nearly forty years old at the time, had spent his best years in the sky, and the years had ruthlessly covered him.

His hair has grown thin, and there are fine lines at the corners of his eyes. He is no longer the high-spirited young man he once was, riding a horse and shouting to his beloved girl: "I want everyone in the grassland to know that you are mine."

!" His elder brother, Weedon Khan, praised him for spending twenty years in exchange for the prosperity of the desert and living and working in peace and contentment. However, all he did in the past twenty years was just drink to the moon every day and waste his time. There will be no historical records.

He will not be in the hearts of the people, and even relatives and lovers will gradually forget about him.

Meeting again five years later gave Yang Qingyuan a glimmer of hope. Although it was just a cup of wine, there was finally someone he knew well.

"General Helian, you are well!" Yang Qingyuan took the initiative to salute, neither humble nor overbearing.

Yun Chuan's eyes widened and he looked at Yang Qingyuan in surprise. He tugged on his sleeves with his hands and didn't understand why he was so calm.

"I haven't seen you for five years, but you are getting older!" Helian Qiji smiled softly, found a seat to sit down, and waved to them, indicating that they were free to do as they pleased.

"Uncle, you guys know each other!" Yun Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief as he remembered that his uncle had been in Dawei for twenty years. Unexpectedly, he and Yang Qingyuan were old acquaintances.

"Tell me, what are you looking for when you come to me?" Helian Qiji's face suddenly turned serious, and the scar on his left cheek left when he was young and fighting immediately became more abrupt.

"We, we went to the wrong place." Yunchuan did not expect that Helian Qiji would change his face immediately, and was speechless for a moment.

"Where do you think this is?" Helian Qiji squinted his eyes and looked at Yun Chuan with murderous intent.

"Uncle, why are you so fierce?" Helian Qiji had such a fierce look. Yun Chuan had seen it in his training ground and when punishing soldiers, but he had never seen him look at him with such a look.

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Yang Qingyuan stood aside and thought carefully about the uncle-nephew relationship between the two. It didn't seem like "his uncle loved him very much" as Yunchuan himself said.

Helian stood up, picked up a package from the couch, and threw it in front of Yunchuan. Two sets of clothes of Yuezhi tribe guards fell to the ground, and some disguise props were scattered around. Yunchuan looked at it and was surprised.

Knowing this clearly, it seems that pretending to be stupid won't work.

"Let's talk, are you two the two guards who sneaked out last night?" Helian Qiji asked coldly.

"Uncle, you are so awesome, you can see it all. I just say that my uncle is the smartest person on this grassland!" He has been discovered, so he can only use sweet words to deal with it.

"Although the head guard of the Yuezhi tribe is stupid, he is not stupid enough to make up two people. I have been waiting all morning, but I didn't expect it to be you!" Helian said.

"I knew uncle loved me the most! Uncle, how did you find these clothes!" Yun Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that his uncle didn't want to punish him at all, so he came over and took Helian Qiji's arm with a smile.

She asked with her eyes closed. Although this uncle she only met five years ago, although he looked serious and had sharp eyes, he was never angry with the three siblings, or even Yun Xi, and even taught him archery himself. Yun Chuan mentioned that this uncle was also the same

He is extremely proud. He has returned to Tusang for five years and has been invincible in every battle. He has never taken anything by force, is not greedy for women, and is not tainted with viciousness. Yunchuan feels that this is actually a cold and righteous person.

Face "Scar Wolf".

Helian Qiji snorted, remembering that when he opened the box to get the jade buckle last night, he found that the box had been turned over by someone, and then glared at Yun Chuan: "If others don't know, don't do anything except yourself!"

Yun Chuan stuck out his tongue, spread the palm of his right hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle, do you want to return that thing to me?"

Helian abandoned Ji but ignored Yun Chuan, looked at Yang Qingyun who had been standing aside for a long time, and scolded: "Do you know what the consequences of stealing a century-old snow lotus will be? Qingyun, although you and I are not close friends, we still

After getting acquainted, if you want to provoke a conflict between Tu Sang and Huang Bei, there is no need to involve Yun Chuan."

"Uncle, this is none of his business! And we only took three petals." Yun Chuan pulled Helian Qiji's sleeve and explained hurriedly.

"You don't understand the conflict of interests between ethnic groups, doesn't Qingyuan understand?" Helian Qiji said angrily.

"General Helian, I have no intention of provoking any conflict, but I must get these three petals of snow lotus, no matter what method I use!" Yang Qingyuan looked at Helian Qiji without fear.

"What if there are no more century-old snow lotus in this world?" Two men, twenty years apart, have the same stern expressions. One has gray hair on his temples like cold light pouring down, and the other's eyes are as cold as a thousand-layer ice lake.

"What did you say?" Yang Qingyuan asked coldly, eyes flashing with cold light.

"Can't you see that what's in this box is an ordinary snow lotus? How could Huang Bei direct and perform such a good show in which a thief shouts to catch a thief?" Helian Qiji sneered and took out Yunchuan's small box from his body.

He opened the box and said.

The light in the yurt was bright, and the petals in the small box could be seen very clearly. These were indeed three common snow lotus petals. Yunchuan took the small box and took a look. The texture and color of the three petals were the same as those seen at Wei Xu's place last night.

The similarities between the ones received further confirmed his suspicion. Yun Chuan handed the box to Yang Qingyun and tentatively asked Helian Qiji: "Uncle, is it true that the hundred-year-old snow lotus is gone?"

"What do you want this snow lotus for?" Helian ignored Yunchuan's question, his sharp eyes swept across the two of them and fell on Yang Qingyun's face.

Yang Qingyuan held the box in his hand and kept silent, "Uncle, I just made a bet with Yang Qingyuan. If he can get the three-petal hundred-petal snow lotus, I can agree to his request. It's that simple!" Yunchuan couldn't explain the reason and prevaricates randomly.

road.

Although Helian Qiji had only known his niece for five years, he also knew Yunchuan's temperament. Because his appearance was very much like the queen's and her personality, he was regarded by his brother as the apple of his eye. He was not afraid of anything, nosy, and able to follow

It is not impossible for others to make this bet. But this Yang Qingyuan has a cold temperament. In his own impression, he has no other hobbies except protecting Prince Ping Yuwenhan. He can play such boring and troublesome tricks with Yunchuan.

It's impossible. Helian Qiji looked at Yang Qingyuan and was about to speak when the guard outside the door shouted: "General, I have something to report."

"Come in!" Helian said abandonedly.

The guard came in and reported: "Huang Bei sent a message not to investigate the theft of the century-old snow lotus. He said that everything is focused on the Yunshi Conference. The snow lotus issue will be postponed for the time being and will be dealt with after the Yunshi Conference is held."

Yun Chuan was secretly happy when he heard that Ming Guo had actually kept his word and had withdrawn the matter. So were the clues about Snow Lotus she said true? Yun Chuan was anxious, so he pulled Yang Qingyu and said "goodbye" before running out.

Helian Qiji stopped these two people and stopped talking. He paused for a while, looked at Yang Qingyun and waved his hands and said: "Forget it, I don't have the energy to mess around with you. I have to greet visitors from all walks of life at the south gate at noon.

, you go."

After walking out of the yurt that Helian abandoned Ji, Yang Qingyuan hurried forward. Yunchuan could only trot to follow, panting slightly and said: "Qingyuan, wait for me, we can't go in like this, we have to find a way to get Shang Du

Khan just needs to lure him away."

"I'm responsible for distracting them. Please go in and take out the snow lotus. If I can't get away, you must help me send the snow lotus to Xiayi." Yang Qingyuan replied without thinking. Yun Chuan looked at Yang Qingyuan's generous back, showing perseverance.

He was so persistent that he couldn't help but quicken his steps and follow behind. When he was approaching Huang Bei's residence, Yang Qingyun stopped Yunchuan: "I'll go there first, and you hide behind Huang Bei Khan's yurt and wait for an opportunity." After saying that, he handed the small box to him.

Yun Chuan ordered: "Please."

Just as Yang Qingyuan was about to leave, Yun Chuan grabbed Yang Qingyuan and asked in a low voice: "How do you lead him away? It's better for me to go, they don't dare to fight with me."

Yang Qingyuan shook his head and refused to argue: "No, we can't always let you take risks. Your uncle is right. Once something happens to the Centennial Snow Lotus, it will easily turn into a dispute between your ethnic groups. You'd better not do this.

It’s better to be in the light.”
To be continued...